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WTF (The Fall of Athens by Swiss artist Dave)
Performers during a performance at Filopapou hill in Athens
Picture: REUTERS
via www.telegraph.co.uk
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Cool Spinning Light over Norway
via the Boston Globe's "The Big Picture"
!!!
Daily Mail Aricle
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Positive Ladies Soccer Club
Joanna (she recently came back from Zimbabwe where she was a Field Communications Officer for MSF), has directed a film.
It's called "The Positive Ladies Soccer Club" (link goes to the movie's site).
Joanna's film offers a message of hope.
It's about IHV positive women who, despite barely knowing how to play football, not only decided to form a team but set themselves the goal to win the local tournament's championship. They go on to the final ...
David Williams of Sky News Online has written an article about it (be sure to watch the video of her interview).
Excerpt:
"... The action plays out across a rich palette of colours and to a soundtrack of African communal singing performed by the women themselves.
'When I met them, the first thing they did was sing to me," Joanna recalled. "They sang a song about being strong and having hope.'
Filmed on a shoestring budget, the project was blessed by generosity: from the unpaid players whose heart-rendering interviews carry the film's emotional message, to the end of production when film giant Technicolor waived a fee for its services.
Joanna said the filming - which was welcomed by the country's authorities due to MSF's apolitical role - has had a dramatic effect on attitudes among the community.
"People would previously shout at our women. If they were on a bus they wouldn't sit next to them," she said.
"Now, after they saw them playing in this football team and winning, people would come up to the women as if they were movie stars..."
Trailer:
Screened on the 15th of November at the Bath Film Festival , it will be shown on World AIDS Day, 1st December 2009 in Athens, at the Hellenic American Union (22 Massalias st., Athens).
(Update: it was also featured on CNN)
It's called "The Positive Ladies Soccer Club" (link goes to the movie's site).
Joanna's film offers a message of hope.
It's about IHV positive women who, despite barely knowing how to play football, not only decided to form a team but set themselves the goal to win the local tournament's championship. They go on to the final ...
David Williams of Sky News Online has written an article about it (be sure to watch the video of her interview).
Excerpt:
"... The action plays out across a rich palette of colours and to a soundtrack of African communal singing performed by the women themselves.
'When I met them, the first thing they did was sing to me," Joanna recalled. "They sang a song about being strong and having hope.'
Filmed on a shoestring budget, the project was blessed by generosity: from the unpaid players whose heart-rendering interviews carry the film's emotional message, to the end of production when film giant Technicolor waived a fee for its services.
Joanna said the filming - which was welcomed by the country's authorities due to MSF's apolitical role - has had a dramatic effect on attitudes among the community.
"People would previously shout at our women. If they were on a bus they wouldn't sit next to them," she said.
"Now, after they saw them playing in this football team and winning, people would come up to the women as if they were movie stars..."
Trailer:
Screened on the 15th of November at the Bath Film Festival , it will be shown on World AIDS Day, 1st December 2009 in Athens, at the Hellenic American Union (22 Massalias st., Athens).
(Update: it was also featured on CNN)
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Loic "Flying Dude" Jean-Albert Wingsuit Flying
"...so we play around!"
Loic Jean-Albert
www.loicjeanalbert.com
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Democracy: The European Parliament Elections
"From Strasbourg with indifference
Jun 4th 2009
From The Economist print edition
The European Parliament has failed to win legitimacy with voters. Look to Denmark for a solution
The rich world’s biggest election, with 375m potential voters, ought to be both exciting and uplifting. Yet campaigning ahead of this weekend’s election (June 07, 2009) to the European Parliament has been neither. Almost everywhere it has focused exclusively on national issues, not European ones. In several countries a ragbag of extremists, nutcases and xenophobes look set to win seats. And the turnout, which has fallen in every European election since 1979, may yet sink to a new low.
The fact is that Europe’s electors do not care about their parliament. Most do not bother to vote. Those who do take the excuse to cock a snook at their national governments and boost fringe parties. In so far as they have any view about the European Parliament, they see it as a talking-shop with no influence—a place that lavishes its unknown members with pay, pensions and expenses and wastes oodles of euros every month on a ludicrous commute from Brussels to Strasbourg.
Some (but not all) of this is either unfair or plain wrong. The European Parliament has real power—and will become still more powerful if the European Union’s Lisbon treaty is ratified (see article). In many ways MEPs have more say over legislation than do most of their national counterparts. "
Complete article at the Ecomomist.com
Jun 4th 2009
From The Economist print edition
The European Parliament has failed to win legitimacy with voters. Look to Denmark for a solution
The rich world’s biggest election, with 375m potential voters, ought to be both exciting and uplifting. Yet campaigning ahead of this weekend’s election (June 07, 2009) to the European Parliament has been neither. Almost everywhere it has focused exclusively on national issues, not European ones. In several countries a ragbag of extremists, nutcases and xenophobes look set to win seats. And the turnout, which has fallen in every European election since 1979, may yet sink to a new low.
The fact is that Europe’s electors do not care about their parliament. Most do not bother to vote. Those who do take the excuse to cock a snook at their national governments and boost fringe parties. In so far as they have any view about the European Parliament, they see it as a talking-shop with no influence—a place that lavishes its unknown members with pay, pensions and expenses and wastes oodles of euros every month on a ludicrous commute from Brussels to Strasbourg.
Some (but not all) of this is either unfair or plain wrong. The European Parliament has real power—and will become still more powerful if the European Union’s Lisbon treaty is ratified (see article). In many ways MEPs have more say over legislation than do most of their national counterparts. "
Complete article at the Ecomomist.com
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