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As you may already know, we are currently working on our website redesign. The Sama Gazette has been less updated than usual this week but everything will be back to normal (and far beyond normal!) pretty soon. Meanwhile, there won’t be any update until the new version is online. The Sama Gazette is online since July 2009 and we thought it was time to upgrade the website as you are more and more to visit us everyday. We hope you will appreciate ...

 Peter Graveswas great actor. Many of us knew him best for his role of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in TV’s “Mission: Impossible“. Some others also remember him staring in”Fury“, Billy Wilder’s “Stalag 17“, Charles Laughton’s “The Night of the Hunter“, Otto Preminger’s “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell” and ...

 SXSWeek 2010: March 12-21. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals in Austin, Texas, have started and offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. CNN says SXSW is ‘home to ‘nerd’ networking’ and Dennis Crowley, a co-founder of Foursquare says ‘It’s spring break for nerds’;  we see it as an event where everything can be shared, mixed up and ...

Paris Fashion Week 2010 (3 – 11 March 2010) was great, we loved the Chanel (a Scandinavian ice floe in the Grand Palais) and Hermès (Jean-Paul Gauthier is so creative) collections very much. But what we were waiting for was the late designer Alexander McQueen‘s Autumn Winter 2010 collection, which has been unveiled at Paris fashion week. It’s the collection McQueen was working on when he committed suicide last month… We knew it ...

Last Sunday, we shared with you our Favorites Tweets @womenforwomenUK and @WomenforWomen. Today we decided to share our Favorites Tweets from another organization: CARE. Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and we think it’s important to support organizations helping women like CARE who is doing a amazing work empowering women and supporting events around the world. As you may have noticed, we put online a new section on the Sama Gazette ...

  MSF report published on February 18, 2010 calls for end to violence, increased protection for highly vulnerable population. ‘A violent crackdown on unrecognized Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh has driven thousands from their homes, into a makeshift camp in Kutupalong, where MSF has been providing medical care.’ From the article published on MSF’s Website: “More than 6,000 people have arrived at the makeshift camp since ...

A quick news about a wrist watch that may interest many of our Sama Readers: Bell & Ross dashboard and wrist watch for Peugeot SR1 car. Bell & Ross will launch this month at the Geneva Motor Show, a dashboard and a wrist watch for the Peugeot concept car. The idea sounds great: ‘ The watch and its band fit neatly into the dashboard to become a temporary on-board timepiece. Easily removable, the instrument immediately turns back into a ...

Our Twitter Sunday of today is about Women for Women International. The organization is helping women, and changes their fate: ‘From Victim to Survivor… to Active Citizen’. International Women’s Day is on March 8 and this year we mark the 100 year anniversary of International Women’s Day. On this occasion, Women for Women International will celebrate the strengths and achievements of women by taking part in Women for Women ...

We love creative minds. We like when people are inspired. But we were baffled by the last Nonsmokers’ Rights organization campaign created by French ad agency BDDP&Fils. We all know how hard it is to quit smoking, and how harmful can be the addiction (about 30% of all cancer deaths are directly related to habitual smoking). But comparing smoking to performing oral sex is unexpected and most of all, illustrated in a very inappropriate way. As ...

    Twitter Sunday is back! Last Sunday was Valentine’s Dayso we replaced our weekly Twitter Sunday with a special news: Valentine’s Day: (RED)Kisses & products, eCards… Back to normal with today our Favorites Tweets @oxfamamerica. We follow and support Oxfam‘s work for a long time now, and Max Dana mentioned them in several of her posts on her blog (‘Darfur: a World Wide Role Playing Game‘ in 2008, and ‘Darfur, ...