Olympiacos repeats as Euroleague champion! - Πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης ο Ολυμπιακός

Olympiacos repeats as Euroleague champion!

Source: http://www.euroleague.net/final-four/london-2013/main-page

For the second year in a row, Olympiacos Piraeus roared back from a double-digit deficit to become the Turkish Airlines Euroleague champion. The Reds bested Real Madrid 100-88 at The O2 in London after trailing by 17 at the end of the opening quarter and in doing so became just the fourth team to win back-to-back Euroleague titles in the Final Four era. In something that has become characteristic of the Reds, they got tremendous contributions from their second unit, led by Kyle Hines and Pero Antic, to climb back. Then Euroleague MVP Vassilis Spanoulis heated up in the third quarter and Olympiacos dominated the final 10 minutes as thousands of red-clad fans sang and clapped the night away. Euroleague MVP Vassilis Spanoulis led the charge with 21 points – all in the second half! – as six Olympiacos players scored in double figures. Acie Law collected 20 points and dished 5 assists, Hines added 12 points, Kostas Sloukas 11 and Stratos Perperoglou and Antic scored 10 apiece. The title is the third continental crown in Olympiacos’s illustrious history. Before beating CSKA Moscow last season in Istanbul, it defeated FC Barcelona in the 1997 title game in Rome. Rudy Fernandez led Madrid with 21 points, Sergio Rodriguez scored 17 and Sergio Llull finished with 14. Madrid lost its first final since it defeated the Reds in the 1995 Euroleague final in Zaragoza, Spain, but remains European basketball’s winningest team with eight Euroleague titles.

Toronto Film Festival Heads To Athens For Fifth City-To-City Program / Η Αθήνα τιμώμενη πόλη στο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου του Τορόντο

Toronto Film Festival Heads To Athens For Fifth City-To-City Program

Source: http://www.indiewire.com/article/toronto-film-festival-heads-to-athens-for-fifth-city-to-city-program   

The Toronto International Film Festival is going to Athens this year in the fifth edition of the festival's City to City program.

Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Festival, and Dimitri Eipides, International Programmer for the Festival, announced today that the Greek city will be the focus of the 2013 program.

“City to City looks for cinematic hot spots around the world," said Bailey. “We want to introduce our audience to new generations of filmmakers unafraid to rewrite the rules. When we started thinking about the startlingly original films emerging recently from this ancient and contemporary city, the perfect choice for us this year was Athens."

“After a long period of hibernation, Greek cinema has finally found its way back to the forefront. A number of young filmmakers — most of them fresh out of film school or, at best, with a couple of shorts to their name — turned things around. Where others saw devastation, they saw inspiration,” said Eipides. “Working with minimal means, often exchanging services on each other’s productions, they churned out films which gained attention around the world. Hopefully this new wave of international exposure will give Greek cinema the confidence to communicate its message from a position where national boundaries will no longer matter.”

The City to City series "showcases filmmakers living and working in a selected city, regardless of where their films are set." Cities featured in past programmes include Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and Mumbai.

The announcement of the City to City lineup will be made in July.  The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 to 15, 2013.

Satire and laughs at World Press Cartoon / Έλληνας ο νικητής στον Παγκόσμιο Διαγωνισμό Γελοιογραφίας

Satire and laughs at World Press Cartoon

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/19/satire-and-laughs-at-world-press-cartoon/

The World Press Cartoon 2013 carries the scars of the financial crisis – not in quality but in the themes chosen.

Sponsorship was also hit by the crisis this year with some companies abandoning the annual event in Sintra in Portugal. So it wasn’t surprising that the Grand Prix, the first prize, in the editorial category went to a crisis-themed cartoon by Greek artist Kountouris.

He said: “I dedicate it to the victims of the crisis and I wish that very soon we can have the Europe we all want, the Europe which cares about the people and not the banks.”

More than 500 press cartoons published in 63 countries were shown in Sintra.

The forum has been running for nine years. Portugal will hold municipal elections in the autumn. The current mayor of Sintra have said they will not stand again, but both he and the director of the cartoon forum are reluctant to contemplate the end of the World Press Cartoon forum.

Mayor Fernando Seara said: “I will continue to come to Sintra to visit future World Press Cartoons. I think they’ll be a good bet with more and more participants and a growing global interest.” Director Antonio Antunes added: “I think that World Press Cartoon is going to become a really strong event that is not over. The next mayor of Sintra will also want to continue with World Press Cartoon. At the least I would be moderately optimistic.”

Prizes are given in three categories – editorial, humorous drawing and caricature. The humour this year came from Iranian artist Saeed Sedeghi, who explained the premise: “It is a satire about civil law in which it says – compared to some individuals who do not observe the law – some animals seem to be more law-abiding.”

The Greek cartoonist who conquered NASA / Η σκιτσογράφος που κατέκτησε τη NASA

The Greek cartoonist who conquered NASA

2012 Humans in Space Youth Art Competition Awardees Lists

Source: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/humansinspaceart/awards/index.shtml.en

A human-robot sent by NASA in space to detect new planets, "friendly" to humans. The spacecraft passes through galactic wormholes ... and finally arrives on Mars. The news is not - for now - real. Nonetheless, the history of comics, designed by the young from Argos (Greece) and gave the first prize in the international competition of NASA.

Born in Tripoli, where she stayed with her parents and her younger sister up until about four years ago, when the family moved to Meru business in Argos.

Last summer, her mother read on the Internet about the competition conducted by the NASA, Humans in Space - Youth Art Competition. Children who participated had to make a work of art, piece of music or literary text to videos and comics, which would answer the question "How man can explore space, with which technologies and what you find?". Eventually, 2,076 children took place, aged 10-18, from 52 countries, which are considered a total of 220 judges. Angela was the only Greek who took part in the category of comics.

6th International Roman Law Moot 1st Prize for Athens Uni / 1η η Νομική Αθηνών στον 6ο Διεθνή Διαγωνισμό Δίκης Ρωμαϊκού Δικαίου

Sixth International Roman Law Moot

1st Prize for Athens Uni

Source: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/newsitem=581 

From 7 to 10 April 2013, students and academics from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Liège, Trier, Athens, Vienna, Tübingen and Naples gathered in Oxford for the Sixth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition – the first time this event has been held outside of Greece. Professor Tony Honoré, formerly Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford, graciously opened the event with some remarks connecting Roman law mooting with civil law litigation and instruction in Oxford.

At moots conducted in the St Cross Building (where the Cube particularly impressed the Tübingen delegation) and at All Souls College (where the Old Library impressed everyone), teams presented submissions in relation to an alleged servitude, the applicability of the interdictum de fonte and a damnum iniuria claim arising out of the blocking of an underground watercourse in factual circumstances strongly reminiscent of the plot of Marcel Pagnol’s Jean de Florette. The parties, Iohannes and Ugolinus, also contested contractual claims connected with the loan of a mule and a hypothec granted to secure a loan over the former’s now dried-out farming property.

Greek Scientist Eleni Antoniadou Woman of the Year in the 2013 FDM - Γυναίκα της Χρονιάς η ελληνίδα επιστήμων Ελένη Αντωνιάδου

See who won at the 2013 FDM everywoman Technology Awards

Winner of Woman of the Year: Eleni Antoniadou

Source: www.computerweekly.com
 

  Source: everywoman Ltd

Eleni Antoniadou, co-founder and chief of science, Transplants without Donors from London.
Pictured left to right: Maxine Benson co-founder of everywoman, Sheila Flavell, COO at FDM Group (sponsor of this category), Eleni Antoniadou, co-founder and chief of science, Transplants without Donors, Karen Gill, co-founder of everywoman, and compere for the day Angela Lamont, broadcaster and TV presenter.
The 2013 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards took place at The Savoy Hotel in London, 19 March.

 

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