Monday, July 26, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
'Game Changers' Contest
By Stephanie Murg on Jun 10, 2010 02:50 PMOur friends at Design 21, the UNESCO-sponsored, globe-spanning social design network, have announced the results of their latest competition. "Game Changers" challenged Design 21 members to devise "a game that aims to create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors." After reviewing 90 entries from 29 countries, jurors Emily Pilloton and Richard Hutten awarded first place (and $2,000) to Brooklyn-based Danielle Pecora for her..... Clickhere to see the full article
FIFA WC Evictions- thing people dont' know....
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 10 (UPI) -- South Africa has evicted thousands from areas around soccer stadiums to project a good visual image of the country during the World Cup, rights groups claim.
Human rights advocates say poor South Africans living near stadiums built by the government at a cost of billions of dollars are being forcibly moved out and into settlements, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
President Jacob Zuma's government says the billions spent on stadiums and improving infrastructure will create jobs and improve the standard of living, the newspaper reported.
Many poor citizens being moved into settlements of corrugated iron shacks behind concrete walls say the impact has been the opposite.
"Why can't they take the money they spent on the stadiums and use it to build houses, not the doll houses we now live in, but proper houses?" Margaret Bennet, 45, who shares a one-room settlement shack with eight people, said. "The World Cup may be important for the high-powered people, but it means nothing for us on the streets."
"We are living in a concentration camp," said Padru Morris, 47, another settlement resident.
Evictions have a historical resonance in South Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people of mixed race were forcibly displaced from their homes under white rule to racially separate the society, the Post reported.
Natasha Flores says she was driven from her squatter's quarters near a $450 million stadium in Cape Town.
"They want to get everybody out of sight of the Western tourists," Flores said. "They don't want the world to know that South Africans are living like this."
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Human rights advocates say poor South Africans living near stadiums built by the government at a cost of billions of dollars are being forcibly moved out and into settlements, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
President Jacob Zuma's government says the billions spent on stadiums and improving infrastructure will create jobs and improve the standard of living, the newspaper reported.
Many poor citizens being moved into settlements of corrugated iron shacks behind concrete walls say the impact has been the opposite.
"Why can't they take the money they spent on the stadiums and use it to build houses, not the doll houses we now live in, but proper houses?" Margaret Bennet, 45, who shares a one-room settlement shack with eight people, said. "The World Cup may be important for the high-powered people, but it means nothing for us on the streets."
"We are living in a concentration camp," said Padru Morris, 47, another settlement resident.
Evictions have a historical resonance in South Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people of mixed race were forcibly displaced from their homes under white rule to racially separate the society, the Post reported.
Natasha Flores says she was driven from her squatter's quarters near a $450 million stadium in Cape Town.
"They want to get everybody out of sight of the Western tourists," Flores said. "They don't want the world to know that South Africans are living like this."
See the Link below for more!!!
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Today is GIFT - A FIFA World Cup Special!
Dear Diary,
The Opening Ceremony for the FIFA WC South Africa was amazing.
It started aroung 5:30 pm GMT 5:30+ (India Time. I was siting there waiting for my buiides to show up. So far, Shakira came on and now the africans were literally dances their way around the stadium. If you don't already know, they have developed their own Diski Dance. How much these people love to dance I smiled. Thankfully, Zoe, Diana, Dave and Rhett rang up front. " That's for me!" I called out as I sprang to get the door. "It's about time!" i said, as if I were in a TV Commercial. they nodded and plopped themselves on the couch. " Did we miss anything?!" Dave asked, "Yea! you came 45 mins. late" I asid dryly. " Johannesbugh looks pretty nice. too bad we didn't win the tickets." that was Rhett. He always commented somthing like this. this is just soo him, I thought. Dave tried to win tickets for 5 of us over the net....but um.. lost to a Ukrainian girl :P Rhett was such a girl somtimes, bringing up "sentimental" issues. "Rhett, we're already past that. Stop talking about it!" dave muttered and burried his face in a pillow. Rhett saw his oportunity. "That Ukrainian girl must be here somewhere...Dave can you spot her?!" "Would you guys quit it!" Zoe said sheepishly. Zoe. Dave could never stand him, cause he never liked football. Dave always tried to get him to. But it never worked. He tried to prove that he was just lazy to play or even watch. But that didn't work out either! Now, he tring to prove he's gay! There's no way a Guy would never like Soccer. well,No Comments. We spent the rest of the evening talking about different stuff, like all friends do when they've met after a while.
Finally the match begun, and we always draw slots for the tema to win. this time we got South Africa. Okay, RSA work you're magic!!! But to our horros, RSA dnt seem to be stepping up to anything. They were like school children playing for fun. I looked at Dave, he crossed his fingers. God! This was begining to look liek a Friendly...Mexico has most of teh possession till 30 mins into the game or so. Damn I really hoped we would win this, otherwise it was free dinner for Diana, Zoe and Rhett..from us. Nothing happened till Half time. This was terrible. I'm gonna go outside Zoe told us. Which immediately sparked a conversation between Dave and Rhett about how they once spent and entire 4 days watching marathon movies @ Rhett's DVD center at home, without even getting a shower. Yea, cool talk we girls always get impressed with the amazing feats the boys compete. "It's not easy!" Rhett tried to flirt Diana. " oh! yea right. I'm so attracted to you right now!!" she said sarcasticly.
Finally, Zoe was inside with us again and the match continued. "Popcorn" rhett passed the bowl over to Zoe. He was alseep. "hey! we can use him as a popcorn stand!" Rhett shouted out! " He doesn't move much" he explained, answering our puzzled and "are-you-completely-wacked" look. The finally at 54:48 South Africa had scored a Goal. He was clear out of any defenders and was approaching a defenceless Gollie. as the RSA Player flew down the field, Dave was so excited that he would score, "It's Open! It's Open!!" he kept shouting. lol. "Yea! Atta go! braided hair guy!!" When tashabalala ( hope I got that right! lol ) veered the football in the top right corner. Dave and I sprang up. High Fives. YEAH. You can imagine the rest of the faces, except Zoey's who was now um...awake. But still no emotion there.
From then on the game just Fired up..ike lightning. RSA was quick and light on the feet. Midfield was tight and the number of Free kicks and Offsides were mounting ( usually Mexico doing the offside blunders). Dave and I were now relaxed. Dave and I actually did the dance along with the RSA players after their First Goal. 
Rhett tried to act indiffernt. but Dave kept teasing him untill.. 64:06 when Mexico too secured a goal! :O Now the socre was 1-1...nothing changed after that, sure there was tons of opportunities and yes they all slipped past 'em. The game had gone into overtime before the close of the first half and did again. But that dnt help change anything. The score was 1-1...and that meant a split dinner bill between us all. " Off to yoko's Maa!" I said. "Ok, take ur sister with you!". I did. At the end of the day,to sum it all up, I met up with good friends of mine, which I hadn't in a long time. At dinner, when we all spoke, it seemed like we were never apart, that's the funny thing about Friendship. You feel it, even thoguh sometimes it isn't there! I couldn't even remember why we had a fall out last year, and I didn't want to remember anything. But it's funny how I remebered this one thing at that particular time, Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a mystery...Today is GIFT..that's why it's called the present.
Good Night Sweet Dreams,
The Opening Ceremony for the FIFA WC South Africa was amazing.
It started aroung 5:30 pm GMT 5:30+ (India Time. I was siting there waiting for my buiides to show up. So far, Shakira came on and now the africans were literally dances their way around the stadium. If you don't already know, they have developed their own Diski Dance. How much these people love to dance I smiled. Thankfully, Zoe, Diana, Dave and Rhett rang up front. " That's for me!" I called out as I sprang to get the door. "It's about time!" i said, as if I were in a TV Commercial. they nodded and plopped themselves on the couch. " Did we miss anything?!" Dave asked, "Yea! you came 45 mins. late" I asid dryly. " Johannesbugh looks pretty nice. too bad we didn't win the tickets." that was Rhett. He always commented somthing like this. this is just soo him, I thought. Dave tried to win tickets for 5 of us over the net....but um.. lost to a Ukrainian girl :P Rhett was such a girl somtimes, bringing up "sentimental" issues. "Rhett, we're already past that. Stop talking about it!" dave muttered and burried his face in a pillow. Rhett saw his oportunity. "That Ukrainian girl must be here somewhere...Dave can you spot her?!" "Would you guys quit it!" Zoe said sheepishly. Zoe. Dave could never stand him, cause he never liked football. Dave always tried to get him to. But it never worked. He tried to prove that he was just lazy to play or even watch. But that didn't work out either! Now, he tring to prove he's gay! There's no way a Guy would never like Soccer. well,No Comments. We spent the rest of the evening talking about different stuff, like all friends do when they've met after a while. Finally the match begun, and we always draw slots for the tema to win. this time we got South Africa. Okay, RSA work you're magic!!! But to our horros, RSA dnt seem to be stepping up to anything. They were like school children playing for fun. I looked at Dave, he crossed his fingers. God! This was begining to look liek a Friendly...Mexico has most of teh possession till 30 mins into the game or so. Damn I really hoped we would win this, otherwise it was free dinner for Diana, Zoe and Rhett..from us. Nothing happened till Half time. This was terrible. I'm gonna go outside Zoe told us. Which immediately sparked a conversation between Dave and Rhett about how they once spent and entire 4 days watching marathon movies @ Rhett's DVD center at home, without even getting a shower. Yea, cool talk we girls always get impressed with the amazing feats the boys compete. "It's not easy!" Rhett tried to flirt Diana. " oh! yea right. I'm so attracted to you right now!!" she said sarcasticly.
Finally, Zoe was inside with us again and the match continued. "Popcorn" rhett passed the bowl over to Zoe. He was alseep. "hey! we can use him as a popcorn stand!" Rhett shouted out! " He doesn't move much" he explained, answering our puzzled and "are-you-completely-wacked" look. The finally at 54:48 South Africa had scored a Goal. He was clear out of any defenders and was approaching a defenceless Gollie. as the RSA Player flew down the field, Dave was so excited that he would score, "It's Open! It's Open!!" he kept shouting. lol. "Yea! Atta go! braided hair guy!!" When tashabalala ( hope I got that right! lol ) veered the football in the top right corner. Dave and I sprang up. High Fives. YEAH. You can imagine the rest of the faces, except Zoey's who was now um...awake. But still no emotion there.
From then on the game just Fired up..ike lightning. RSA was quick and light on the feet. Midfield was tight and the number of Free kicks and Offsides were mounting ( usually Mexico doing the offside blunders). Dave and I were now relaxed. Dave and I actually did the dance along with the RSA players after their First Goal. Rhett tried to act indiffernt. but Dave kept teasing him untill.. 64:06 when Mexico too secured a goal! :O Now the socre was 1-1...nothing changed after that, sure there was tons of opportunities and yes they all slipped past 'em. The game had gone into overtime before the close of the first half and did again. But that dnt help change anything. The score was 1-1...and that meant a split dinner bill between us all. " Off to yoko's Maa!" I said. "Ok, take ur sister with you!". I did. At the end of the day,to sum it all up, I met up with good friends of mine, which I hadn't in a long time. At dinner, when we all spoke, it seemed like we were never apart, that's the funny thing about Friendship. You feel it, even thoguh sometimes it isn't there! I couldn't even remember why we had a fall out last year, and I didn't want to remember anything. But it's funny how I remebered this one thing at that particular time, Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a mystery...Today is GIFT..that's why it's called the present. Good Night Sweet Dreams,
Friday, June 11, 2010
FIFA World Cup is here!!!!!
YES!! After months
of waiting while we all ( most of us) literally stroke the day off the calendar as we began the count down to the world's most awaited events.
Twitter tweets were filled with words of cnthusiasm and excitement ( which could also be termed as slightly eccentric for a few ppl) and it wasn't long before the "Trending List" widget at the side changed to " FIFA Wrold Cup" with regular tweets from FIFAcom last tweeted "FIFAcom - Kofi Annan has spoken to us, describing the FWC as 'a tremendous opportunity for Africa.' Watch out for the full ITW later."20 minutes ago via PULSE ers a visual of the excitement at event.
Even twitter has made their own page of the World Cup with a side bar on the left with releated tweets.
I myself have be tweeting about this all morning and liretally screaming it out to my friends on Facebook and Youtube. I'd love to know what team you're rooting for or to just hear a tweet from you about the world cup.
While I will be walking you thorough the FIFA WC 2010, South Africa. I'm also giving you a link for the Schedule The web user experience for this web site is fantastic, really neat work here ( the streaming is soo colse adn real, I almost cried). So, you'll get another post from me about the two matched today. Stay Tuned.
Tweet me, love to hear from you!
of waiting while we all ( most of us) literally stroke the day off the calendar as we began the count down to the world's most awaited events.
Twitter tweets were filled with words of cnthusiasm and excitement ( which could also be termed as slightly eccentric for a few ppl) and it wasn't long before the "Trending List" widget at the side changed to " FIFA Wrold Cup" with regular tweets from FIFAcom last tweeted "FIFAcom - Kofi Annan has spoken to us, describing the FWC as 'a tremendous opportunity for Africa.' Watch out for the full ITW later."20 minutes ago via PULSE ers a visual of the excitement at event. Even twitter has made their own page of the World Cup with a side bar on the left with releated tweets.
I myself have be tweeting about this all morning and liretally screaming it out to my friends on Facebook and Youtube. I'd love to know what team you're rooting for or to just hear a tweet from you about the world cup.
While I will be walking you thorough the FIFA WC 2010, South Africa. I'm also giving you a link for the Schedule The web user experience for this web site is fantastic, really neat work here ( the streaming is soo colse adn real, I almost cried). So, you'll get another post from me about the two matched today. Stay Tuned.
Tweet me, love to hear from you!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Inspired by Iceland!!!
Tweeting through my tweets was like any other usual day...until I was re-tweeted by Danish actor, Viggo Mortensen and British writer and comedian, Stephen Fry with tweets supporting the 700 million krona (450 million Euros) promotional campaign ‘Inspired by Iceland’ that was announced at a tourism conference earlier this month.
The new campaign is specifically intended to improve the image of Iceland after the negative media attention the country gained throughout the volcanic eruption at "Eyjafjallajokull", (don't bother if you can't say that!! hehe). The campaign will show that the real situation in Iceland is actually safe and will encourage people to come and visit the country.
The website can be found here
or on twitter
and have around 250 followers.
and is liked on facebook by 3,152 people.
Stephen Fry ‘Tweeted’ on his Twitter page through the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ Facebook page, which is part of the campaign, announcing to his readers that despite what some people may think of Iceland, the country is still exciting, beautiful and safe to travel around. This is great support for the campaign as Stephen Fry is one of the most famous British actors and a well respected journalist. On the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ website yesterday, an interview with Viggo Mortensen also saw him speak highly of Iceland, its beauty and its people.
According to Einar Karl Haraldsson, a representative of the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign, they intend to get more interviews and support from other well-known figures to support the campaign and promote the country in a positive light. “This of course will help show the world what the current situation in Iceland actually is,” commented Einar.
The ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign will be officially launched today at a dedicated ceremony in aircraft hangar 4 at Reykjavik Domestic Airport.
The new campaign is specifically intended to improve the image of Iceland after the negative media attention the country gained throughout the volcanic eruption at "Eyjafjallajokull", (don't bother if you can't say that!! hehe). The campaign will show that the real situation in Iceland is actually safe and will encourage people to come and visit the country.
The website can be found here
or on twitter
and have around 250 followers.
and is liked on facebook by 3,152 people.
Stephen Fry ‘Tweeted’ on his Twitter page through the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ Facebook page, which is part of the campaign, announcing to his readers that despite what some people may think of Iceland, the country is still exciting, beautiful and safe to travel around. This is great support for the campaign as Stephen Fry is one of the most famous British actors and a well respected journalist. On the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ website yesterday, an interview with Viggo Mortensen also saw him speak highly of Iceland, its beauty and its people.
According to Einar Karl Haraldsson, a representative of the ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign, they intend to get more interviews and support from other well-known figures to support the campaign and promote the country in a positive light. “This of course will help show the world what the current situation in Iceland actually is,” commented Einar.
The ‘Inspired by Iceland’ campaign will be officially launched today at a dedicated ceremony in aircraft hangar 4 at Reykjavik Domestic Airport.
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