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This is our second rendezvous: C’est la vie in France but this time (our first post was about Films Open French Wounds From Algeria) we have selected an article about food. As prood members of the Sama (formerly Epicurean) Fraternal Society, we enjoy good food and we were happy to read on the Huffington Post: Try Raclette For A Warming Winter Dinner by Regina Varolli. Some of you may wonder what is ‘raclette’, so here is an introduction by ...
You must all remember the car chase on the streets of San Francisco with Steve McQueen at the wheel of a Mustang in ‘Bullitt‘. Peter Yates, four-time Oscar Nominee, has passed away at age 82 in London on Sunday. The British director started out as an actor before becoming an assistant director. He made his directorial debut with Summer Holiday and then directed Robbery, John and Mary, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Krull, The Dresser and the ...
Last October we launched ‘En Route To Sudan’, a section on the Sama Gazette dedicated to Sudan and the upcoming South Sudan (and Abyei) referendums. This special page is was updated every day with news from Sudan, featured articles, RSS feeds from organizations, links to websites, video, books we recommend… We also created a Twitter list @samagazette/en-route-to-sudan. Three months later, ‘En Route To Sudan’ is a success ...
This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...
This is a new rendezvous on the Sama Gazette : each Wednesday, we will give you some news from… France! Once a week we will select a news concerning France and that we think is worth to be mentioned. As some of you may recall, the idea of bringing you news from France started last year with Why France is best place to live in world; now this is an ‘official’ rendezvous on the Sama Gazette. So for this first C’est la vie in France, ...
We wanted to start this new year with a post that made us both laugh (first paragraph) but also think about important things (the fate of Sudan). On Saturday, Max Dana posted on her blog an article quoting several tweets people sent on Twitteron December 31. The result gives an interesting way to analyze some meaningless and some other meaningful 140 character-long sentences. Many readers already commented on Max’s Blog, especially about the Sudan ...
For four weeks now, a member of the Sama Team has been supporting the EHHR Barefoot Campaign by wearing one pair of shoes every day for a month. First week was all about snow, second week was about freezing and a homeless man, last week was about Christmas and this fourth and last week of the challenge is about sharing Jessica’s experience and wishes for the new year. “I did it, eventually! When I took up the ‘One pair of shoes for ...
This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...
Since December 2, a member of the Sama Team is supporting the EHHR Barefoot Campaign by wearing one pair of shoes every day for a month. First week was all about snow, last week it was about freezing and a homeless man. This third week is about Christmas. “My third week wearing the same pair of shoes has ended. And like the first two weeks, it has been a real challenge. I wish the weather was not so cold it would make this challenge much easier, ...
This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...
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