the enthusiast, I am…

” Există, în fiecare din noi, o zonă inavuabilă de cruzime, curiozitate vicioasă, perversiune morală. A valorifica însă tocmai această zonă, a întărîta ce e mai rău în om, a face spectacol din mizerie, a convoca „publicul larg“ la o extatică bălăcire în lături e cinic, e iresponsabil, e ucigător. Sper că, din cînd în cînd măcar, Dan Diaconescu are mici insomnii, vagi nelinişti sufleteşti: în fond, e un periculos distribuitor de droguri, un instigator la disoluţie sufletească, la torpoare mentală, la sub-umanitate.”

http://www.dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/situatiunea/articol/romania-lui-dan-diaconescu

From Unimedia

to celebrate the year of Chopin, Chisinau goes out and paints the streets with piano keys! 1-0 to the Municipality!

http://unimedia.md/?mod=news&id=19183

from Huff post

an interesting experiment: non-profit restaurants: pay what you want… wonder if it will actually make it! keeping fingers crossed!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/nonprofit-panera-restaura_n_580316.html

Sanda Nicola on how Romanians should give up on victimizing themselves and should start working out their problems!

she basically says stop whining, it’s just as bad for everyone else; besides whining won’t get you anywhere!
stop demanding a better future, start working for it!

i almost feel like saying “Yes we can!”

http://www.sandanicola.ro/?p=792

it’s a clear and forseeable thing but i like some of the concuring ideas it highlights

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/20/the_threat_of_chronic_diseases/

to quote a bit:
“WHATEVER THE benefits it brings, rapid economic development is also causing an explosion of chronic diseases around the developing world. Researchers at an international conference here on chronic heart and lung disease, diabetes, stroke and preventable cancers fear that the trend is accelerating. Just four weeks ago, for example, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine doubled a previous estimate of the prevalence of diabetes in China. Ten percent of adults there have diabetes, and another 16 percent have pre-diabetic symptoms. In other words, China has nearly a quarter of a billion diabetics and pre-diabetics. India, meanwhile, has 50 million people with diabetes.”
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“Virtually overnight, China is now nearly tied with the United States in the rate of adults with diabetes. The wealthy contract diabetes with obesity, while the poor — even though they look thin — contract diabetes because dietary changes associated with “modernization,” such as switching from vegetables to oily, salty, sugary foods, are too sudden a shock for their bodies.”
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“Wealthy countries were the leading edge of chronic diseases with over-nutrition,” Yajnik said. “Now the developing countries are catching up dramatically, with a combination of under-nutrition and poverty, and switching diet and in many cases becoming sedentary so fast. It is happening so much even in rural areas that some of us call this the urbanization of poverty. You already have this in the United States with both rich and poor having diabetes. But the impact of having this happen in developing countries is something no one knows”

so much food for thought…

A short selection of interesting movies…

another Obama moment, great PR example: Obama playing the game
i love this guy, saying it one more time just in case i didnt say it one too many times:)

un comentariu de Cosmin Alexandru

“Filmul e, pe de o parte, despre imposibilitatea multora dintre noi de a duce la bun sfârşit o bună intenţie altruistă. Asta şi din cauză că nu ştim să o comunicăm altfel decât imperativ, dar şi din cauză că ceilalţi nu prea sunt dispuşi să o asculte sau să participe la ea. Ba chiar, adesea, sunt predispuşi să se opună. Din principiu. Sau din educaţie. Sau din obişnuinţă.”

intregul articol la:

http://voxpublica.realitatea.net/politica-societate/eu-cand-vreau-sa-fluier-ma-mai-gandesc-37469.html#comment-403860