"Faust", a Russian movie at the London Film Festival

By "The Voice Of Russia"
The October 12, 2011

 

Alexandre Sokourov, the director of "Faust" with his prize.

Abstract :

Presents the film "Faust", one of  the audience's favorite movies at The London Film Festival in best film categorie. This film has already won the golden lion in Venice.

Extract :

"The London festival, with its thoroughly balanced program, will feature a total of 204 works from 55 countries. Among the audience’s favorite movies presented in the Best Film nomination is Faust, the final chapter in Aleksandr Sokurov’s tetralogy. In September, this intellectual film triumphed at the Venice Film Festival and was awarded its top prize. Having straight away become a sensation, it is now sold like hot cakes."

Index terms :

 Russian movies / Faust / London Film Festival / Alexandre Sokourov.

Found with :

Google Alerts

URL :

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/12/58610114.html


O.L

French Cheese

TAIT, Karen, French Cheese, The Telegraph, October 7, 2011.

Abstract : This article presents a national symbol of France, Cheese. There are 246 varieties of cheese in this country, and they represent each region. A lot of people think that french cheese is the best.

Quotation :

“Brie, camembert, roquefort… just three fromages that are known and loved by cheese aficionados this side of the Channel too. But how many other French cheeses can you name? There are certainly plenty to choose from; it’s said that there’s a different variety for every day of the year — now that’s a challenge worth taking!

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?” asked General de Gaulle. Cheese as a metaphor for the French people? After all, how can you compare comté with St Nectaire?

While fromage is nothing less than a national symbol of France, the individual cheeses themselves have become regional symbols. Every area has its specialities, of which its is rightly proud, as well as dishes that have grown from them. The cheesiest of all has to be fondue savoyarde; melted comté, emmental and gruyère, into which chunks of bread or meat are dipped.

The huge choice of cheese on offer reflects the varied terrain – France has everything from rugged mountains to vast plateaux, vine-clad hillsides to patchwork pastures, and craggy cliffs to sandy beaches.

No wonder its cheeses are so varied. Like wine, they absorb the flavours of their terroir. They are often made by small independent producers and a single type of cheese can have hundreds of makers, each creating a slightly different product. How long the cheese is aged for also influences the taste and texture – affinage is the word used to refer to this maturating period.

Cheese is an essential part of most French meals, and unlike in the UK, it is served before dessert, not after. Generally speaking, you can split it into three camps: soft, hard/pressed and blue cheese, made from cow’s, ewe’s or goat’s milk. Many come under the appellation controllée (AOC) label, as used on wine, which strictly controls the origin and way it is made. Roquefort was the first cheese to receive AOC status in 1925.

Soft cheeses are what we tend to think of as typically French, such as brie, camembert, Epoisses, Munster, Pont l’Eveque and St Nectaire. Hard cheeses are made from cow’s milk, like many British varieties, and include two types: “cooked”, where the whey is heated (this cheese can usually be kept for quite a while), and “uncooked”. It is often made in mountainous regions and includes cantal, comté, tomme and reblochon. Well-known blue cheeses include roquefort, bleu d’Auvergne, fourme d’Ambert and St Agur. There is also fromage frais, fresh cheese, which includes Boursin.

And we mustn’t forget that other beloved French cheese, la vache qui rit… the laughing cow!”

 

Index Terms : French gastronomy, cheese, symbols.

Found with : RSS Feeds “The Telegraph”.

URL : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/france_show/8808843/French-cheese.html 

MP

Return from Burma

Written by Foto8

Article published the 14 Oct 2011

"A former All Burma Students' Democratic Front soldier greets his son on the housing estate where they live in Sheffield. On the Thailand/Burma frontier, he had been detained by Burma Army soldiers who repeatedly tortured him, forced him to dig his own grave, and would have executed him had orders not come through from a higher authority that they needed to further interrogate him. The family was resettled in the UK by the UN. "

© Dean Chapman

Index term : Burma / Soldiers / Burma Army / UN

Source found with followed by page : http://www.foto8.com/new/online/news/1-grants--competitions/1485-side-gallery-announces-homelands-commissions 

Dean Chapman : http://www.deanchapmanphotos.com/projects.php?GroupID=1

FT

Anonymous to Hack Facebook on November 5th. Really?

By Ravi Mandalia

10 August, 2011

 
Abstract: Hacker collective Anonymous has vowed to ‘destroy’ social networking platform Facebook on November 5th
 

Quotation : "In a video, the group declared open war against the platform, accusing it of abusing people’s privacy and allow governments to spy on its users"

 

Index terms : Anonymous, Hackers, facebook
 

Source : ITPROPORTAL
 

URL http://www.itproportal.com/2011/08/10/anonymous-hack-facebook-november-5th-really/

Found of "Google Actualité"
 

JD

Mexico captures alleged N° 3 leader of Los Zetas cartel

By: Tim Johnson
Date: october 13, 2011

Abstract:

Carlos Olivia Castillo, or " La Rana", N°3 leader of "Los Zetas" cartel have been arrested in Saltillo.
Tim Johnson deals about the reputation of Los Zetas, "one of the two largest crime groups in Mexico" and the fact that rival crimes organization have joined forces to combat them, creating a vengeance group, the "Zeta Killers".

Extract:


"In a major blow to the vicious crime group known as Los Zetas, the Mexican army said Thursday that it had captured the group's No. 3 leader, who the army said gave the order to firebomb a crowded casino this summer in Monterrey, Mexico. Fifty-two people died in the resulting blaze.


" Rival crime gangs despise Los Zetas and have joined forces in some regions to combat them. A new vengeance group, “Zeta killers,” also has risen up in Veracruz state, on the Gulf Coast.
Unlike rival crime groups, which stick largely to drug trafficking, Los Zetas have branched into numerous criminal enterprises — including extortion, human trafficking, pirating of goods, gunrunning and kidnapping — and occupy territory, buying off or killing local authorities."


Index Terms:


Los Zetas - leaders  - Drug trafficking - Mexico - Cartels

Found with: RSS Tim Johnson mcclatchy

URL: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/10/13/127132/mexico-captures-alleged-no-3-leader.html


R.M