(SPD neolib Peer Steinbrück is hard at work saving capitalism; yesterday he presented an eight-point plan of rule changes to prevent a similar crash as the present one in the future -- involving new regulation requiring greater banker responsibility.) *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Though in hindsight, selling Vin&Sprit to Pernod Ricard for like €7 billion looks like the deal of the decade. :) Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Author Le Clezio wins Nobel prize
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The 68-year-old has been honoured with the 10m kronor (£820,810) award for his distinguished life's work. The Swedish Academy describes him as "an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy." It goes on to call him "an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." British author Doris Lessing won last year's prize. Le Clezio's breakthrough as a novelist came in 1980 with Desert, a work the Swedish academy praised for its "magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert."
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
The 68-year-old has been honoured with the 10m kronor (£820,810) award for his distinguished life's work.
The Swedish Academy describes him as "an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy."
It goes on to call him "an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." British author Doris Lessing won last year's prize.
Le Clezio's breakthrough as a novelist came in 1980 with Desert, a work the Swedish academy praised for its "magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert."
British author Doris Lessing won last year's prize.
No American has won since Toni Morrison in 1993 and no American was expected to win. Le Clézio did put in a plug yesterday for Philip Roth.
No surprise, I suppose, given that most of the bookstores these days are huge chains full of bad writing by the likes of Nicholas Sparks.
So, what can you tell me about Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio? Titles? I'm willing to try reading him in French, but it would go a lot faster if I could do so in English.
Seems like very few of his novels have been translated to English; maybe this will change after the Nobel...
His Wikipedia entry is quite complete, although it's missing its latest novel "Ritournelle de la faim", published earlier this year. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Because the titles are often changed when a translation is published, I couldn't tell for sure if one of the two I was looking for was already in English.
I'll keep looking. Perhaps I can get two copies, one in French and another in English to help me along.
I know a tiny bit about Mauritius, so that one might be an interesting read.
The Prospector (Le chercheur d'or) is on powells.com, but on backorder. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
JMG Le Clezio first breakthrough in France was as early as 1963 when he was awarded the Renaudot prize. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Captains of industry Haven't been seen since the times of Veblen :-) A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
How long until they mention Marx? *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Finance Minister: [This meeting] must take-up the tax.
Groucho: I think we should take-up the carpet.
Finance Minister: I insist we take-up the tax.
Groucho's Secretary: He's right. We have to take-up the tacks before we take-up the carpet. A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." "Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut
A seven-course chocolate tasting menu? Including fish? - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent
Located in the fashionable streets of north London, Almeida restaurant and bar is exactly the sort of establishment you'd expect to offer trendy one-off menus and exciting, fresh ingredients. Squab pigeon... yes. Smoked eel and oysters... almost certainly. Butternut squash velouté... a must. Fine chocolate in every course... really? To mark National Chocolate Week, which begins on Monday, Almeida's head chef Alan Jones and award-winning chocolatier Paul A Young are doing just that by joining forces to create an indulgent seven-course chocolate-tasting menu. For one week only, diners will be able to feast on butternut squash velouté with a Venezuelan chocolate and cumin stirrer, smoked eel and oyster in chocolate vinaigrette and brill with a hazelnut and coco crust. The £60 meal continues with roast pigeon and candied carrots and an Amedei Toscano black chocolate jus. Dessert of poached figs with white, milk and dark chocolate comes after a cheese-and-(yes)-chocolate course and a kitsch pre-dessert of chocolate ice cream, almonds, fudge, cacao nibs, hundreds and thousands and marshmallows.
Located in the fashionable streets of north London, Almeida restaurant and bar is exactly the sort of establishment you'd expect to offer trendy one-off menus and exciting, fresh ingredients. Squab pigeon... yes. Smoked eel and oysters... almost certainly. Butternut squash velouté... a must. Fine chocolate in every course... really?
To mark National Chocolate Week, which begins on Monday, Almeida's head chef Alan Jones and award-winning chocolatier Paul A Young are doing just that by joining forces to create an indulgent seven-course chocolate-tasting menu.
For one week only, diners will be able to feast on butternut squash velouté with a Venezuelan chocolate and cumin stirrer, smoked eel and oyster in chocolate vinaigrette and brill with a hazelnut and coco crust. The £60 meal continues with roast pigeon and candied carrots and an Amedei Toscano black chocolate jus. Dessert of poached figs with white, milk and dark chocolate comes after a cheese-and-(yes)-chocolate course and a kitsch pre-dessert of chocolate ice cream, almonds, fudge, cacao nibs, hundreds and thousands and marshmallows.
Back home, we've grown used to seeing factories shut down.
But yesterday, we got some good news. An Italian wind turbine manufacturer announced that it's building a plant in my hometown.
MUNCIE, Ind. - An Italian company that manufactures wind turbines plans to bring more than 450 jobs to the Muncie area, officials announced Wednesday. Brevini USA will move its U.S. headquarters to a business park near Interstate 69 in western Delaware County and build its first U.S. factory at the site, state and company officials announced at a news conference...... The Muncie-area business development group Energize-ECI Inc. said Brevini would invest more than $60 million and create about 450 jobs with annual pay averaging more than $46,000.
Brevini USA will move its U.S. headquarters to a business park near Interstate 69 in western Delaware County and build its first U.S. factory at the site, state and company officials announced at a news conference......
The Muncie-area business development group Energize-ECI Inc. said Brevini would invest more than $60 million and create about 450 jobs with annual pay averaging more than $46,000.
I think that there's a (lamentable) lack of understanding of industrial cluster theory as a an economic development strategy back home, but I think that this could be the start of something big. Wind turbines are large, and it makes a lot of sense to cluster manufacturing process to avoid shipping tons of metal around the country.
And the location of Muncie is ideal, because it's on a major interstate, and there's going to be a rail spur to the site.
Reading this was a pleasant surprise. I know what getting in early did for Pamplona and Vittoria when the boom in Spanish wind came. It can be a huge growth industry. My only concern is that the "demand destruction" being wrought by the market crisis will put backward pressure on green energy projects like windpower and the push for plug in hybrids like the Volt. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Polymarin will move into the former Levi Strauss distribution center on I 530. Both Polymarin and LM Glasfiber value the inland water shipping capability that the Port of Little Rock provides via the Arkansas River and its connections to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
Unfortunately, it's also the home of Mordor-like entrenched lobbies and their media slaves. Al Gore isn't powerful enough to get his paid ad played after the last debate, but the oilers and coalers were OK.
Readers here can't imagine what it's like to see your entire life's work finally being vindicated, yet knowing the biggest battles are yet to come. (Or can they?) Skennah Kowa
And that doesn't include the expansion of component suppliers, whose ramp-up is not calculated as yet.
hell, even Deutsche WindGuard has a north american presence, and is looking for qualified techs. Skennah Kowa
Or the onsite construction workers?
What have i left out? (Ohh, the lawyers and dealmakers.) Skennah Kowa
[Drew's WHEEEEE™ Technology]
Damned French. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
