People brave cold weather to play outdoor chess in central Sarajevo, Russia, February 20, 2009.
viernes, 20 de febrero de 2009
Ajedrez / Chess
People brave cold weather to play outdoor chess in central Sarajevo, Russia, February 20, 2009.
jueves, 19 de febrero de 2009
Carla Bruni / France
NEWS - FRANCE
French hail Carla Bruni as their own Princess Diana after she kisses children with AIDS on Africa trip
The French have hailed their First Lady Carla Bruni as 'the new Princess Diana' after she kissed infected children on her first trip to Africa as an AIDS ambassador.
Images of the former supermodel hugging AIDS victims in the poverty-stricken state of Burkina Faso have been splashed across the media in France.
And glossy magazine VSD said yesterday: 'She is Diana's natural heiress.
'She must surely be thinking she is following in the footsteps of the Princess as she visits a continent which is still devastated by AIDS.'
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Superglam Carla Bruni-Sarkozy shows Hollywood stars how it's done at Paris Fashion Week gala
France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy stole the show at a Paris Fashion Week gala in a traffic-stopping purple dress.
Showing her move into politics haven't dimmed her fashion roots, the 41-year-old singer was the epitome of Gallic chic as she arrived at the annual Gala Sidaction-Diner de la Mode in the French capital last night.
On a day when one million French workers took to the streets in protest at her husband Nicolas's handling of the economic crisis, Bruni-Sarkozy was partying in a Yves Saint Laurent column dress.
French hail Carla Bruni as their own Princess Diana after she kisses children with AIDS on Africa trip
The French have hailed their First Lady Carla Bruni as 'the new Princess Diana' after she kissed infected children on her first trip to Africa as an AIDS ambassador.Images of the former supermodel hugging AIDS victims in the poverty-stricken state of Burkina Faso have been splashed across the media in France.
And glossy magazine VSD said yesterday: 'She is Diana's natural heiress.
'She must surely be thinking she is following in the footsteps of the Princess as she visits a continent which is still devastated by AIDS.'
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Superglam Carla Bruni-Sarkozy shows Hollywood stars how it's done at Paris Fashion Week gala
France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy stole the show at a Paris Fashion Week gala in a traffic-stopping purple dress.
Showing her move into politics haven't dimmed her fashion roots, the 41-year-old singer was the epitome of Gallic chic as she arrived at the annual Gala Sidaction-Diner de la Mode in the French capital last night.
On a day when one million French workers took to the streets in protest at her husband Nicolas's handling of the economic crisis, Bruni-Sarkozy was partying in a Yves Saint Laurent column dress.
Eva Habeil Kirollous / Egypt
NEWS - EGYPT
Mohamed Allouba
February 2009
The Queen of Coum-BoohaEgypt’s only female mayor is too busy taking charge and solving crises to worry about what people have to say about her
By Ali El-Bahnasawy
Mayor Eva Habeil Kirollous with her guard Nageh.
Asked for directions to Coum-Booha village in Assiut governorate, an old man wearing a gray galabeyya and a traditional brown hat responds in a heavy Upper Egypt accent, “the village whose mayor is mara?”
Mara is a condescending Arabic word to describe a woman. He says it in a disgusted tone, points out directions and leaves in a hurry.
The village of Coum-Booha welcomes visitors with a fairly standard sight: a few small coffee shops scattered about the village’s main entrance.
The community won’t hold her back from her chance to help the people simply because she’s a woman, he says, adding that before her election she was the village lawyer who helped people for years even when they couldn’t pay.
Magdy’s uncle Gamal interjects, “We know her father too, and her grandfather. Both were mayors for Coum-Booha. We liked them because they were honest, down-to-earth people. We don’t want a mayor from outside this family.”
As the men offer their opinions, the mayor swiftly becomes the hot topic in the coffee shop, and all agree that a female mayor might be as good as a male one. Nevertheless, everyone wants his say on the matter. After staying silent a long time, the oldest man in the room nods his wrinkled head and proclaims, “I don’t mind having a female mayor, only if she is working like a man.”
Mohamed Allouba
February 2009
The Queen of Coum-BoohaEgypt’s only female mayor is too busy taking charge and solving crises to worry about what people have to say about her
By Ali El-Bahnasawy
Mayor Eva Habeil Kirollous with her guard Nageh. Asked for directions to Coum-Booha village in Assiut governorate, an old man wearing a gray galabeyya and a traditional brown hat responds in a heavy Upper Egypt accent, “the village whose mayor is mara?”
Mara is a condescending Arabic word to describe a woman. He says it in a disgusted tone, points out directions and leaves in a hurry.
The village of Coum-Booha welcomes visitors with a fairly standard sight: a few small coffee shops scattered about the village’s main entrance.
Coum-Booha residents call this place El-Gesr, or The Bridge, where village men spend their early hours together before splitting up to go harvest their fields.
This is also where men spend their evenings smoking shisha and chatting about politics and women, their favorite subjects.
This sunny January morning, they are discussing both at the same time. More specifically, they’re discussing Eva Habeil Kirollous, the new mayor of Coum-Booha and the first female mayor in the nation.
“She is a woman, but she is better than 100 men,” says Bassem Magdy, a 28-year old farmer, confidently in one of the local coffee shops. Magdy says that gender is unimportant: Letting the best take charge is the most practical approach.This is also where men spend their evenings smoking shisha and chatting about politics and women, their favorite subjects.
This sunny January morning, they are discussing both at the same time. More specifically, they’re discussing Eva Habeil Kirollous, the new mayor of Coum-Booha and the first female mayor in the nation.
The community won’t hold her back from her chance to help the people simply because she’s a woman, he says, adding that before her election she was the village lawyer who helped people for years even when they couldn’t pay.
Magdy’s uncle Gamal interjects, “We know her father too, and her grandfather. Both were mayors for Coum-Booha. We liked them because they were honest, down-to-earth people. We don’t want a mayor from outside this family.”
As the men offer their opinions, the mayor swiftly becomes the hot topic in the coffee shop, and all agree that a female mayor might be as good as a male one. Nevertheless, everyone wants his say on the matter. After staying silent a long time, the oldest man in the room nods his wrinkled head and proclaims, “I don’t mind having a female mayor, only if she is working like a man.”
Museo Mamut / Chihuahua
Comunidad y cultura
Museo Mamut, un viaje al pasado remoto
El Heraldo de Chihuahua - 18 de febrero de 2009 - Chihuahua, Chihuahua.- En esta ocasión el recorrido por esta tricentenaria ciudad se sugiere en el tiempo, a épocas mucho más antiguas que su fundación (1709), e incluso más ancestrales al paso del adelantado Juan de Oñate y Cabeza de Vaca (1598 y 1534, respectivamente).
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Museo Mamut, un viaje al pasado remoto
El Heraldo de Chihuahua - 18 de febrero de 2009 - Chihuahua, Chihuahua.- En esta ocasión el recorrido por esta tricentenaria ciudad se sugiere en el tiempo, a épocas mucho más antiguas que su fundación (1709), e incluso más ancestrales al paso del adelantado Juan de Oñate y Cabeza de Vaca (1598 y 1534, respectivamente).
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No se habla siquiera de siglos, sino de eones, cuando éste era otro tiempo, otro territorio e incluso otro clima. La sugerencia es, pues, viajar hacia atrás a la época en que este terruño fue parte de un enorme océano, posteriormente de un gran lago y finalmente del paso semiglacial del último de los mastodontes de la era cuaternaria: El mamut.
LEER NOTICIA COMPLETA- PRESIONE AL INICIO EL TITULO ''Museo Mamut / Chihuahua''
LEER NOTICIA COMPLETA- PRESIONE AL INICIO EL TITULO ''Museo Mamut / Chihuahua''
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