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“I have been a lot of times, just to be a part of what’s happening, it’s history that is being made here for us and, who knows, for Europe as well.�
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Greeks feel their lives are stalled and protest is the only way to release reservoirs of boiling emotion.
The protests, which began on 5 May 2010, were sparked by plans to cut public spending and raise taxes as austerity measures in exchange for a â‚Ź110 billion bail-out, aimed at solving the 2010–2011 Greek debt crisis. The memorandum signed between Greece and the IMF became largely unpopular in Greece, with some polls showing that 62% of the people asked believe it was a bad decision.. Amid accusations that the government has not achieved its goals according to the IMF memorandum, some countries in the European Union have stated that they will not be lending Greece any more money if the IMF does not do so, including the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.[56][57] Some EuroSHDQ RIĂ€FLDOV ZHQW VR IDU DV WR VD\ WKDW Greece should start selling away its assets to other European nations in order to receive loans, and the Dutch Minister of Finance said that the Greek parliament would not like this proposal and characterized the opinion of the Greek parliament as “a sensibilityâ€? that no one can consider .
“I vote, You vote, He votes, She votes, We vote, You vote, They stealâ€? A stun grenade exploded in the hand of D *UHHN ULRW SROLFHPDQ VHYHULQJ D Ă€Qger. Police and demonstrators ceased combat and scoured the debris-strewn street, uniting in a frantic search for the missing digit. 7KH\ IRXQG LW 7KH Ă€QJHU ZDV UXVKHG off in a wet towel to a hospital, where doctors reattached it to the injured man. The brief scene of solidarity, witnessed by an Associated Press photographer, was one of many twists in a wild drama on the stage of central Athens this week. On one hand, Greece delivered an image of rage and rift to the world with the battles around parliament, where lawmakers approved an austerity bill in an attempt to avert a default that could LQĂ LFW Ă€QDQFLDO PD\KHP DFURVV (XURSH and beyond. About 300 people were injured over two days.
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Meanwhile, unemployment exceeded 15%, while a big percentage of full-time workers were only awarded the minimum wage of 592 Euros, or even less. Rumours in regards to Greece’s exclusion from the Eurozone also added to the mounting frustration, but these were categorically rejected by the Greek government, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Greece and IMF-director nominee, and French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde. On 29 June 2011, amid violent protests, the second austerity package was passed with 155 votes in favor in the 300-seat SDUOLDPHQW 7KH QH[W GD\ WKH 2IĂ€FH RI WKH High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations reported an independent UN expert’s warning that the austerity measures could result in violations of the Greek people’s human rights, such as “rights to food, water, adequate housing and work under fair equitable contionsâ€?.
The vice-president of the Greek government, Theodoros Pangalos, adopted an ironic stance towards the movement, “movements without ideology and organization, that is to say movements based on anger, can only lead to either an ineffective release [of tension], which at the end of the day is of no interest to the political world, or pave the way for an undemocratic change of regime by organized minorities�.
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The London Short Film Festival. Hardcore Swedish feminist porn, the debut short of Garth Marenghi (known as Mathew Holness), Rhys Ifans getting surreal with the Chapman Brothers and London harpist 4FSBmOB 4UFFS QFSGPSNJOH MJWF UP BOJmation. London Short Film Festival, the NPTU EJWFSTF BOE FYDJUJOH mMN GFTUJWBM JO existence, kicks off this week for ten days of laughs, stomach churns, pant rumbles and drink and oustanding new directors.
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Innovation, Gliding Across the Generations
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oes inventiveness run in families? Is there a gene that awakens the entrepreneurial urge? A look at the Smith family offers at least anecdotal evidence that the answer is yes. Nick and Billy Smith, California-born brothers, grew up admiring the derring-do of their father’s father, a mechanical engineer and sometime SBDF DBS ESJWFS OBNFE ) 8 4NJUI +S — or Bill to his friends. “He was all about having a good time — still is,� says Nick, 22. That’s why, in 2006 on a visit to their grandfather’s ski cabin in Vail, Colo., the brothers were drawn to its dusty atUJD 5IFZ XFSF DFSUBJO UIFZ XPVME mOE TPNFUIJOH GVO UP EP UIFSF i8F XFSF MPPLJOH GPS TDIOBQQT PS mSFXPSLT one of the two,� Nick says. “I think it was both,� says Billy, 26. Instead, poking around, the Smith CSPUIFST GPVOE B DSBUF mMMFE XJUI cardboard boxes, each about the size of a travel umbrella. A drawing on every box showed a man on skis, a parachutelike sail attached to his wrists and legs. Ski-Klipper, the label said. The boys hurried downstairs, demanding to know what they had found. Capes? Kites?
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terials as a teenager while his brother shaped surfboards BOE TLBUFCPBSET i4FXJOH NBDIJOFT UP TDSFXESJWFST 8F IBE JU BMM 'JCFSHMBT ,FWMBS DBSCPO mCFS SVCCFS TDSBQT w �Nick says, “The garage was the think tank.� He graduated on Friday with a bachelor’s degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. The brothers’ mother, Brigitte Smith, is an architect, and their father, Bill Smith III, is a landscape architect. The sons credit their parents along with their grandfather with encouraging their creativity by setting an example. “Reinvent the descent� is the marketing slogan the brothers coined GPS UIFJS QSPEVDU XIJDI DPTUT and comes with a lifetime guarantee. But the principle that guides the company is best articulated in UIJT EFTDSJQUJPO PO UIFJS 8FC TJUF TQPSUJOH TBJMT DPN “A Downhill and Downwind Friend and Family Tradition.� 'SPN IJT IPNF JO VQTUBUF /FX :PSL ) 8 4NJUI +S now 83, says he based his Ski-Klipper on a contraption he saw while skiing in Europe in the ‘60s. “I love deep and steep, but sometimes it’s a little steeper than I’d
rather,� he says with his strong tone of voice. “But with the sail I could do some pretty darn steep places.� Mr. Smith, who signs his e-mail “Bill, the OLD OLD man,� has nevertheless already enjoyed 39 days of skiing this year. He says that growing up in Cooperstown, N.Y., he was always inventing things. “I had a science club I belonged to,� he says. “You couldn’t do this today, but we made bombs and huge hot-air balloons that you could let go.� Later, that tinkering spirit led him to be a co-founder of what is OPX .D-BSFO 1FSGPSNBODF 5FDInologies, a Detroit-area company that, among other things, builds engines and drive trains for automakers. He says his Ski-Klipper side venture, developed on a lark, stalled when one Vail ski resort prohibited the use of hang gliders and his product. “I thought we would try to sell a few, but I had a lot more to do, so I boxed them up and stowed them away,� he says. Asked about his grandsons’ reinvestment in the idea with an emphasis on skateboarding, he sounds tickled. “They’re good lads,� he says. “They’re staying out of trouble.
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ness to grow, they have big ambitions. They hope to develop Sukräfte into a lifestyle brand with many products. And to think it started because their pyrotechnic-loving grandfather had a yen for fun. “He’s mellowed out a little bit with the explosives, but when I was 8 years old, he’d be on the chairlift, lighting bottle rockets,â€? Nick recalls, laughing. Billy says: “He’d CF MJLF A'PMMPX NFĂž 8F SF TUJMM GPMMPXJOH IJN w In Laguna Beach -California, Chance Gaul cannot drive a car yet. He is only 14. But he is already the fastest thing on wheels around here. 8IJMF 1PSTDIFT BOE .FSDFEFT #FO[FT QSFDBSJPVTly descend the windy canyon roads here at 25 miles per hour, Chance bombs down at 40, sometimes even 60 m.p.h. on his skateboard, savoring the sea breeze on his face. But this may be his last ride here. The future of downhill skateboarding is in jeopardy in the region where the sport was born, with bans spreading across Southern California and lawmakers questioning whether people — teenagers mostly — should be barreling downhill at 60 m.p.h. with very little between them and the pavement. So what does it feel like to use a Sporting-Sail? Nick and Billy Smith liken it to the feeling you get on a roller coaster when you’re going over a hump. “As you’re on your way down a hill and you deploy this thing, you get instant stability,â€? says Billy, who received a bachelor’s EFHSFF JO BSU BOE CVTJOFTT GSPN UIF 6OJWFSTJUZ PG 1VHFU Sound. “As a result you can take a new line down the same old run.â€? /JDL SFDBMMT UIF mSTU UJNF IF UFTUFE UIF TBJM PO B TLBUFboard during a downhill run. He was just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, on a steep, closed road that heads into Fort Baker. He’d been there before, but this time, he was in control. “I could go straight — I didn’t have to put my hands down or wear out my shoes or slide,â€? he says. “I opened up the sail and it decelerated me,â€? he adds. “Then I tucked back up and got going again. By the time I was done with my third run, I had 30 people on the bridge watching me. It was a whole new approach to the downhill experience.â€? The Sporting-Sail is available at only a few retailers. "CPVU PG UIF TBJMT IBWF CFFO TPME TP GBS NPTUMZ POline. But while the brothers are in no hurry for the busi
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pressive range as an actress and even a singer. According to the imdb, co-star Meryl Streep has praised Blunt as, “˜the best young actress I’ve worked with in some time, perhaps ever�. Now the doe-eyed, porcelain-skinned, Londonborn brunette is appearing in a romantic drama XJUI B TDJ m UISJMMFS FEHF PQQPTJUF IVOLZ .BUU Damon, in The Adjustment Bureau. Damon plays a man who gains an unauthorized glimpse of the future Fate has planned for him, only to realise he wants something else. On the verge of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David (Damon) meets beautiful, contemporary ballerina Elise (Emily Blunt) and both are instantly smitten with each other. But mysterious men pop up and engineer events to keep the two apart.
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Gossip reporters are often complaining that there are few paparazzi shots of you doing anything naughty. Is there an art to staying off the tabloid radar? 1FPQMF BSF MJLF i8F XBOU UP TFF IFS GBMM PO IFS GBDF OPU wearing underwear.� That sounds just awful. They can clamor for those pictures, but I am determined not to reveal any of that. I did manage to smash the front of my 1SJVT UIF PUIFS EBZ * IJU B DVSC During shooting for The Devil Wears Prada, you had a habit of showing up on set whether you had a call time on that day or not. Is directing in your future? *U XBT NZ mSTU SFBMMZ CJH GFBUVSF 5P TFF UIJOHT NPWF MJLF a well-oiled machine is so interesting. But I was lonely as well. I knew no one [in the area] apart from people on the set—and it was a riot. I was in heaven every day working on that movie.
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I heard you once instructed a photographer not to airbrush you—that can’t be right, can it? I told him not to make me thinner. I hate when your legs are three times the length they actually are. I heard they could raise your nipples if you have a slightly see-through top, lift your bum—they can do everything. I can underTUBOE UIFSF BSF UIJOHT MJLF TIBEPXT UIFZ OFFE UP mY BGUFS B shoot, but it’s unfair to represent an image of yourself if it’s OPU USVF 5IFZ SF HPOOB TFF XIBU ZPV MPPL MJLF PO mMN BOZway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo? So many rising actresses lean on romantic comedies to build their rÊsumÊs. Your CV is so much more diverse. Tell me about your search process. *U T BCPVU USZJOH UP mOE UIPTF TDSJQUT UIBU TVSQSJTF NF UIBU have a fresh spirit. There really is a dearth of material out there, especially for women. Some romantic comedies
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Farmers that use agrochemicals have operations that are heavily subsidized by the government. Agrochemicals weren’t developed with taste, nutrition or the environment in mind, but they help to produce abundant amounts of food by allowing farmers to grow fruits and vegetables faster and cheaper. Organic foods are grown without using chemical fertilizers, which is considerably more labor intensive.
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