2011-07-06
London 2012 volunteer selection programme arrives in the Midlands
Between now and 7 August 2011, the University of Warwick's Sports Centre in Coventry will welcome an estimated 7,000 applicants, all looking to secure one of the 70,000 Games-time roles.
A number of these roles will be based at the City of Coventry Stadium, which will be hosting the Olympic Football tournament.
Budding volunteers will be able to explore an exhibition about the Games and meet London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) staff before their 30-minute interview.
The interviews are the second stage in the process to be a London 2012 volunteer. In September 2010, the public were invited to apply to become part of the London 2012 Games Maker programme, with over 250,000 people signing up.
Jean Tomlin, LOCOG's HR Director, said: ‘London 2012 volunteers will be the face of the Games – every role counts, from collecting tickets to welcoming athletes at the airport. It’s vital we find the right people for these roles, and we are delighted to bring the search to Coventry today.
'The Games are for the whole of the UK and it’s great that people across the nation have volunteered their time so willingly.’
A final selection event will take place in Plymouth from 11–17 August 2011. The flagship interview centre at London’s ExCeL Centre, which opened on 1 February this year, will remain active until March 2012.
Familiar Grounds won the Grand Prize of Taipei Film Festival 2011
A splendid dark comedy, with themes and visuals which are equally inventive, which says that you can outwit fate (and even buck the treacherous Canadian winter weather) if you find a way to work out your domestic and familial problems. The jury loved the way the humor accrues from small and precise details, and the skillful knitting together of disparate motifs and images.
The most anticipated awards of the Taipei Film Festival 2011, the Audience’s Choice Award, Special Mentions, the Special Jury Prize and the Grand Prize of the International New Talent Competition were announced today after long deliberations made by the five jury members, chaired by Tony Rayns. The jury members were CHUNG Mong-Hong from Taiwan, Tony RAYNS from Britain, XIE Fei from China, YEH Jufeng from Taiwan and ZEZE Takahisa from Japan.
You Are The Apple Of My Eye, directed by Giddens from Taiwan, won the Audience’s Choice Award this year. You Are the Apple of My Eye is an adaptation of Giddens's autobiography, about his high school life devoted to romantic pursuits of girls in the campus, joined by his four best pals. Besides making movies, Giddens is a renowned author who published his first best selling book online and kept publishing books in amazing speed ever since.
Outbound, directed by Bogdan George Apetri from Romania, was one of the winners of the Special Mentions. This very powerful film from the Romanian New Wave marks the arrival of a director of exceptional talent. Outbound describes a cruel and brutal situation, but with a special sensitivity to its woman protagonist, with real emotion, and with a knockout ending. FATHER, directed by José María de Orbe from Spain, shared the honor with Outbound in the same category. Compared to usual narrative films, the story of this film lies not in the film but within the audience's mind.
The Special Jury Prize with a cash award of NT$300000 went to LIVE! , directed by Yury Bykov from Russia. The multi-talented young director (he not only wrote and directed but also composed the music) gives us an existential fable about life and death which is fully grounded in real people and places … and in real and immediate moral choices. Made with limited resources, the film transcends all limitations to deliver a concise and very powerful vision of humanity at its extreme.
2011-03-03
STFG promote Ma Response CCE help poverty students removed "Whirlpool of Poverty"
PeopleDailyNews Press Center-Reported by Michael D.Lin,March 3, 2011
Taiwan will break away Whirlpool of Poverty!
TAIPEI, Taiwan--Convener of STFG(See The Future Group)- Perter Li said,The idea of "Poor!Can't be Hereditary Anymore." should be broken.Li called, should be greater use of broadband networks with Chunghwa Telecom, to improve education in low-income families that benefit from education opportunities. STFG through NCA(Net Consumer Associations/tw) and other units, donated 2,000 ebooks, 2,000 video teaching network account, the total resources value of year about NT 20 million,to the Government of Taipei City and New Taipei City that Bureau of Social Affairs, CIP(Council of Indigenous Peoples-Executive Yuan)and other disadvantaged groups.
STFG active integration of Internet resources, digital content with cloud services technology, and expand the scope of application services, the introduction of junior secondary textbooks online video lessons, so that disadvantaged poverty students, through STFG provided by the network Video of the academic counseling services, across the threshold of low-income families to study, and then break away the "Whirlpool of Poverty."
Convener - Li says,to coordinate President Ma's New Year's Day Message, speed up to promote "High-Definition TV / Broadband Internet / Reducing Digital Divide / Reach Affluent Society" and to implement Executive Yuan of President Wu Den-yih, "CPE-Common People Economy". At first, STFG to promote the Common People of class secondary education.
STFG, while, according to Ministry of Education about community resources, and ways to share school resources, called on all parts of Taiwan, recognizing the concept of school Principals, Teachers, and Community Volunteers, from STFG to provide relevant software and hardware resources, The community college classes,are willing to be trained as Seeds Volunteers, joined the STFG, to jointly promote the Common People services with CCE(Cloud Computing Education), to give low-income families receiving national education, competition, fair starting point for disadvantaged groups,that more opportunities to learn the knowledge, Common to Taiwan oriented "Egalitarian Society" that towards international competitiveness.
STFG by the Chunghwa Telecom, III(Institute for Information Industry),COLCCMA(Chinese Oral & Literary Copyright Collective Management Association), and other dozens of companies as well as technology, information, STFG mediaformed a year ago.
President Ma want educational reforms that provide a lasting solution in New Year's Day Message.
2010-10-13
The Forbes 400: A Demographic Breakdown
Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans is out today, with Jay-Z and Warren Buffett on the cover. Funny, since there's only one black person on the list, and it's not Jay-Z. Who is on the list? A breakdown, below.
The Forbes 400 is a well-established brand that gets automatic coverage every year, with annual emerging storylines; last year, obviously, "the rich get poorer" led the headlines. But even with this guaranteed pickup, it's clear that Forbes is trying to drum up some public interest in a fairly cynical way: Not only did they put Jay-Z on the cover, but they also include a story on a sit-down chat between he and Buffett, a video, and another separate story on Jay-Z, all on the alleged premise that Jay-Z "will earn a spot on the Forbes 400" one day—as soon as he doubles his wealth.
The real premise: Jay-Z's face on the cover sells magazines. If there's one thing the Forbes 400 is not, it's hip hop. Here's a breakdown of the actual face of the list.
2010-06-25
G8 summit opens in Canada's Muskoka
The annual Group of Eight (G8) summit opened on Friday in Huntsville, Canada's Muskoka region, with leaders of the world's eight major industrialized countries set to discuss key challenges related to development and international peace and security.
The Muskoka 2010 G8 summit, with the theme of "Recovery and New Beginnings," gathered British Prime Minister David Cameron, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and US President Barack Obama.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy also joined the meeting, representing the European Union which has enjoyed observer status since 1977.
Heads of state or government from Algeria, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa were also invited to participate in the meeting.
At around 12:30 p.m. local time Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Harper, whose country holds the rotating G8 presidency, appeared at the entrance of the summit venue, the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, to greet the G8 and EU leaders on red carpet one by one. They shook hands and posed for pictures before entering the venue for a working lunch.
Key topics to be discussed during the summit include the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), maternal, newborn and child health, food security, aid to Africa, and accountability of international forums including the G8 itself.
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