'The Sochi Project' Is a Reminder of the Olympics' Dark Legacy. Dima, a child whose legs were burned at a wild barbecue party hosted by his parents.
For six minutes, three times a day, he places his legs under running sulfurous water. Photos © Rob Hornstra / Flatland Gallery. With the Olympic Games now over, reports from journalists about lobby-less hotels, rooms without water, and a host of other Sochi problems are now fading to the back of our collective consciousness. As countries bask in the glow of being so good at sports that they get to collect shiny metal discs, the dark legacy of the 2014 Olympics lingers on: Russian families kicked out their homes with no where to go; construction workers still without pay, and a generation of Russians left with figuring out how to pay the 50 billion dollar price tag.
Back in 2011, VICE followed photographer Rob Hornstra to Russia on a shoot for part of his, and writer/filmaker Arnold van Bruggen’s project, about the context in which the 2014 Sochi Games were to be built. VICE: Hi Rob. No, I didn’t. @kjrwall. #manif3avril. Facebook Might Just Tweak Itself To Death. Un compromis patriarcal. Publicité japonaise, 1969 — Joan Holloway : Tu parles de prostitution. — Pete Campbell : Je parle de business de très haut niveau.
Est-ce que tu considères Cléopâtre comme une prostituée? — Joan Holloway : Où es-tu allé chercher ça? — Pete Campbell : C’était une reine. Qu’est-ce qu’il faudrait pour te faire reine? Pour une femme sur le marché du travail vers la fin des années 60, Joan Holloway jouit d’une position enviable. Dans l’épisode 11 de la cinquième saison de la série Mad Men, Holloway se trouve face à un choix déchirant : son collègue Pete Campbell lui annonce que la compagnie pour laquelle elle a tout sacrifié depuis 13 ans pourrait obtenir un gros contrat avec Jaguar. The Illuminati Explained - A MUST SEE - Explains the Conspiracy and the Evidence. La DPJ n'est plus la bienvenue à Lac-Simon, en Abitibi. Des manifestants bloquent l'entrée de la communauté de Lac-Simon.
Photo : Émélie Rivard-Boudreau Des manifestants empêchaient les employés du Centre jeunesse de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue d'entrer dans la réserve amérindienne de Lac-Simon pour une troisième journée d'affilée, mercredi matin. Une quinzaine de grands-parents manifestaient ainsi leur insatisfaction face à la qualité des services sociaux fournis à la communauté. Il a été décidé qu'un plan d'action serait établi par le Centre jeunesse afin de satisfaire la demande des aînés de Lac-Simon, suite à une rencontre, mercredi.
Or, le barrage ne sera pas levé tant que le plan n'aura pas été présenté aux membres de la communauté. Pour améliorer les relations avec leurs interlocuteurs, les manifestants ont aussi constitué un comité de travail de quatre femmes et deux hommes de la communauté pour suivre le dossier. How Feminism Hurts Men. The Man Who Lives Without Money. Think you couldn’t live without money?
Irishman Mark Boyle challenged this notion and here’s how he finds life with no financial income, bank balance, and no spending. “If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I’d now be living without money, I’d have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal.” According to Boyle, the plan back then was to ‘get a good job’, make as much money as possible, and buy the stuff that would show society he was successful. Like most individuals raised in a consumer-driven society, he never second guessed those goals. For a while he had a fantastic job managing a big organic food company and even had a yacht in the harbor. The change in life path came one evening on the yacht while philosophizing with a friend over a glass of Merlot. That evening, though, a revelation came through: “These issues weren’t as unrelated as I had previously thought – they had a common root cause.
The next concern was shelter. A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths - James Hamblin. In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans.
Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion. Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual. "This one for world births/deaths is certainly more overwhelming than the one for the U.S. ," Lyon told me, "and the rate at which they must be occurring gives another glimpse into how big the world is. " That is to say, watch this and everything you're worried about today becomes nothing. "What got me interested initially," Lyon said, "was simply curiosity about what the pattern of births and deaths might be like, based on the current rates, coupled with the desire to learn more about some of the newer technologies for the web.
" In this case, that technology is primarily d3.js, a javascript library by New York Times graphics editor Michael Bostock.