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“My Father” is a beautiful three-minute documentary short film by the German filmmaker Christine Schmitthenner, who presently works as a television camerawoman for Crete TV in Greece. The documentary is a wordless short film about caring for an aging father, an elegantly visual poem saying so much through exquisitely detailed photography that captures the depths of great human emotion. The musical soundtrack is “After the Fall”, composed by Pete Calandra.
This piece includes a number of stunning color photographs and the very touching HD documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/my-father-the-visual-poetry-of-loving-care/“My Father” is a beautiful three-minute documentary short film by the... more
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A Red Arrows pilot has been taken to hospital after a mid-air crash between two planes during a training exercise in Crete.
The pilot ejected from the aircraft following the collision over Hellenic Air Force Base in Kastelli during a pre-season exercise.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed the pilot had been taken to hospital.
Another member of the RAF aerobatic team, based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, landed safely.
The RAF said an investigation into the cause of the crash would be carried out.
A spokesman said: "We can confirm that an incident has occurred involving the Red Arrows whilst undertaking pre-season training at Hellenic Air Force Base Kastelli in Crete.
"A service inquiry will be convened to identify the cause of the crash."
The Red Arrows was formed in 1965 and carries out displays around the world.
http://www.ukwirednews.com/articles.php/46559-Red-Arrows-pilot-in-hospital-after-mid-air-crashA Red Arrows pilot has been taken to hospital after a mid-air crash between two planes... more
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Stuart Feltham had his meat-and-two-veg set alight by a Greek woman after he supposedly showed them off to the in a Crete bar.
Feltham, 20, from Swindon certainly felt 'em hurt as he was rushed to hospital with second degree burns.
The woman, Marina Fanouraki, 26, doused the Brit's bits in Sambuca before igniting them with a lighter. She claims Feltham had groped and pestered her.Stuart Feltham had his meat-and-two-veg set alight by a Greek woman after he... more
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17 Brits on holiday in Crete have been arrested for paraded around "in nun attire and naughty lingerie".
The police force in the resort of Malia were having *nun* of it, arresting the religiously dressed rascals for insulting the Catholic church.
Bad habit?
(Picture is just a reminder of what nuns look like, I don't believe these ones were involved!)17 Brits on holiday in Crete have been arrested for paraded around "in nun attire... more
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Two olive branches buried by a Minoan-era eruption of the volcano on the island of Thera (modern-day Santorini, Greece) have enabled precise radiocarbon dating of the catastrophe to 1613 BCE, with an error margin of plus or minus 10 years, according to two researchers who presented conclusions of their previously published research during an event at the Danish Archaeological Institute of Athens.
The researchers said both olive tree branches were found near a Bronze Age man-made wall, giving the impression that they were part of an olive grove situated near a settlement very close to the edge of Santorini's current world-famous Caldera. The two trees were found standing when unearthed, and apparently had been covered by the Theran pumice immediately after the volcano's eruption.
The radiocarbon dating places the cataclysmic eruption, blamed for heralding the end to the Minoan civilisation, a century earlier than previous scientific finds.Two olive branches buried by a Minoan-era eruption of the volcano on the island of... more
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ATHENS, Greece - Hundreds of youths angered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager rampaged through Greece's two largest cities for a second day Sunday in some of the worst rioting the country has seen in years.
Gangs smashed stores, torched cars and erected burning barricades in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki. Riot police clashed with groups of mostly self-styled anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air, sending passers-by scurrying for cover.
Rioting in several cities, including Hania in Crete and cities in northern Greece, began within hours of the death Saturday night of a 15-year-old shot by police in Exarchia. The downtown Athens district of bars, music clubs and restaurants is seen as the anarchists' home base.
A blurry video shot by a bystander that purportedly shows the shooting Saturday has been aired on Greek television and posted on the Internet. Two sounds that could be gunshots can be heard, but the image is too blurry and distant to show the events clearly.
Greece has seen frequent and sometimes violent demonstrations recently against the increasingly unpopular conservative government of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. The opposition Socialists are now consistently ahead in opinion polls.
Dozens of stores in central Athens went up in flames or saw their storefronts smashed. At least two buildings were destroyed by fire, as was a Ford car dealership. Streets were littered with chunks of paving stones and rocks thrown at riot police, as well as shattered glass from storefronts and banks.
Violence often breaks out between riot police and anarchists during demonstrations in Greece. Anarchist groups are also blamed for late-night firebombings of targets such as banks and diplomatic vehicles.
The self-styled anarchist movement partly has its roots in the resistance to Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship. The youths tend to espouse general anti-capitalist and antiestablishment principles, and have long-running animosity toward the police.ATHENS, Greece - Hundreds of youths angered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager... more
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A student from London has been charged with choking her third child to death seconds after giving birth to him. Leah Andrews, 20, (pictured above) was on holiday in Crete with two friends from whom she had kept her pregnancy secret. After a night out in Malia, the pair found Ms Andrews in her hotel room with the baby's body. Malia's police chief said her friends found "blood everywhere, and the woman cleaning the floor and tables with a towel with the baby's body in it".
A hotel receptionist described scenes of "utter panic", telling reporters that Andrews' sister "rushed down screaming. She was in a state of shock. She had no idea her sister was even pregnant."
Officers searched the room and found the dead baby with sheets wrapped around his neck and covering his face. Andrews told the police the baby had been stillborn, but coroners refuted the claim, saying, "the baby was alive. There was air in his lungs and his stomach. The child met a violent death."
Andrews was taken to a medical centre yesterday morning after her sister phoned the police, and is now being treated for "a great loss of blood". She was put under police guard at the hospital in nearby Iraklio. The maximum sentence for child murder in Greece is 20 years.
The question remains, should Andrews be imprisoned for this crime, or treated for what is clearly a mental illness?A student from London has been charged with choking her third child to death seconds... more
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