Grandfather of African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Dies Aged 82

Author:  Additional reporting by Belinda Goldsmith in London, and Pascal Fletcher and Jon Herskovitz in Johannesburg, Isaac Abrak in Kaduna and Anamesere Igboeroteonwu in Onitsha; Editing by Matthew Tostevin

Date of publication: March 22, 2013

Title : Grandfather of African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Dies Aged 82

Abstract: "LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. [...] Describing Achebe as a “colossus of African writing”, South African President Jacob Zuma expressed sadness at his death. [...] Nelson Mandela, who read Achebe’s work in jail, has called him a writer “in whose company the prison walls fell down.”

Index Terms :  Africa ;  featureds ; novelists ; litterature

Found with: AFRICALIA's facebook page

Web site: http://www.youngnation.co.zw

URL: http://www.youngnation.co.zw/grandfather-of-african-literature-chinua-achebe-dies-aged-82 

 

By S.C

Can Green Buildings Promote Green Behaviour?

Author:   Anthony Morales

Date: March 28, 2013 

Extract: “A study by UBC psychology students suggests that green architecture can actually prompt those in the building to act in a more environmentally friendly way."

Index Terms: architecture; recycle; 

Found with: Netvibes

Web site: designbuildsource

URL: http://designbuildsource.ca/2013/03/can-green-buildings-promote-green-behaviour/

 By C.R

Honda's New Smartphone App Could Ease Your Commute

Author : Richard Read

Date : March 22, 2013

Extract : « Last summer, Honda took the technology to Indonesia, where it slowed the onset of traffic congestion by about three minutes, smoothed out extremes in traffic speed by 60%, and improved fuel economy by 20%. »

Index terms : Honda, Cars, trafic jams, fuel economy.

Found with Netvibes. RSS Feeds of « Google Blog Search »

Site : The Car Connexion.com

URL : http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1083076_hondas-new-smartphone-app-could-ease-your-commute

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Les vins de la Champagne

Author: La rédaction de larvf.com

Date of publication: not available 

Title : Les vins de la Champagne 

Extract:  “With a little more than 34 000 hectares of vineyards, Champagne extends mainly over the departments of  Marne,  Aube  and Aisne. The region produces more than 300 million bottles a year, a big part of which is intended for the export to satisfy the numerous amateurs in every corner of the world. It is to note that Champagne also produces still wines of three colors under two naming (AOC)((PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN)): Coteaux-champenois and Rosé de Riceys.”

Index Terms: discovery, Wine, Champagne, variety

Found with:  Scoop.it

Web site:  larvf.com

URL:  http://www.larvf.com/,vin-vignoble-champagne-aoc-blanc-rose-pinot-noir-meunier-chardonnay-riceys,10355,4025407.asp

 By T.D.M

Interview : Jacques Attali nous parle de sa vision du vin, « la clé de notre identité nationale »

Author: Claudine  Abitbol

Contributor: Richard Vialeron

Date of publication: March 30, 2013 

Title : Interview : Jacques Attali nous parle de sa vision du vin, « la clé de notre identité nationale »

 Extract:  “What square really occupies wine in our society?

Wine settled down all around the world, subject to religious prohibition. Besides having acquired this international scale, it symbolizes one of the dimensions of the westernization of the planet. Native of the Mediterranean Sea, even if we find track at the big poets of East as Rûmi, it became a sign of the western culture, its rhythm, its tempo. It embodies the refinement of agriculture when it takes time of excellence. If the West knows a relative decline of its economic power today, its cultural and ideological influence is consolidated with the deployment of the personal freedom, the human rights, the markets and the democracy. France, which is one of the matrices, should not rather fall asleep on its pensions, in the wine as somewhere else...

Index Terms: writer, wine, social effect,

Found with:  Scoop.it

Web site:  avis-vin.lefigaro.fr

URL: http://avis-vin.lefigaro.fr/magazine-vin/o38546-interview-jacques-attali-nous-parle-de-sa-vision-du-vin-la-cle-de-notre-identite-nationale

 By T.D.M

Champagne : Cambriolé, Anselme Selosse craint l’ouverture d’un marché noir

Author:   Léo Dezeustre

Date: March 26, 2013 

Title : Champagne : Cambriole, Anselme Selosse craint l’ouverture d’un marché noir

Extract:  “At night of Thursday, March 21st, 3 900 bottles of champagne, the equivalent of 8 and a half pallets were stolen from the domain Jacques Selosse (to Avize, in Champagne). An apparently well informed group of individuals got by burglary into the old storerooms and the cellars of the domain, by forcing a door with a crowbar.”

Index Terms: robery, Champagne,   

Found with: Scoop.it

Web site: larvf.com

URL: http://www.larvf.com/,anselme-selosse-cambriole,2001117,4298949.asp

 By T.D.M

Clones of clones make clones

Author : Riken Center for developmental biology 

Date of publication : Monday, 01 April 2013

Extract : Since the first reports of successful cloning of mammals by somatic cell nuclear transfer, concerns have been raised about the efficiency and repeatability of cloning techniques, and the health of cloned offspring.

Index Terms : Cloning - Mouse - Labory - Multiplication

Found with : Google Alert

URL : http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20130104-24216.html 

 

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By A.P.