Monica Jackson's Blog, page 121
April 13, 2022
French tech mobilizes for Ukraine with NFT sale – Frenchly Morning US
The Ensemble Ukraine association is launching a massive charity sale of 25,000 NFT created by well-known artists. under the name #TogetherUkrThe event opens on Friday, April 15 at 11:00 PST, 2:00 PM EST. It will end when the works are sold. The goal ? It raises several million euros to support humanitarian actions in Ukraine and Ukrainian artists.
At the forefront of this action: Jérôme Lecat, co-president of the association Together Ukraine and CEO of scale, a company specializing in d...
Russian pilot who gave the Nazi salute was stripped of his license
Russian kart driver Artem Severyukhin, who is under investigation for a Nazi salute on the podium, has been stripped of his Italian license. The young man fled under Italian banners to circumvent sanctions imposed on Russian athletes because of the war in Ukraine.
The first penalty falls and it’s probably not over yet. Even before the end of the investigation of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the Italian federation decided to revoke the license that Artem Severyukhin used t...
The era of the Franco-American series
Marseilles. Lupine on the other hand, adaptation funded by American platform but done by French studio Gaumont, a complete hit. In 28 days, more than 70 million viewers enjoyed the new adventures of this lord-thief, a French hero, filmed in Paris and Normandy. This is well understood by Netflix: in October 2021, after he received the Golden Rose for show of the year for his role in LUPINE, the platform has signed a mega multi-year contract with actor Omar Sy, flooded executive producer. ...
“NATO must launch an offensive against Russia”
France-America : Are we living in a kind of Enlightenment reversal, with the rise of authoritarian states and xenophobic ideologies that deny freedom and equality?
Jean-Marie Guéhenno: After the Enlightenment, there was the romantic reaction, the search for the particular and the difference, as a reaction to a universalism that claimed to eradicate them. We are at the same time. We are fighting less and less for a social project and more and more for a more or less believed identity: the R...
The forgotten river of Paris
“Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine…” Almost everyone knows Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem in honor of the famous river, played to the music of Léo Ferré. But how many of us know that beneath the streets of Paris also flows (or even more so) a river flows? Buried for over a century, this waterway, the Bièvre, which flows into the Seine slightly up the river from the Pont d’Austerlitz, will soon float and beautify the Paris landscape.
Taking its source at Guyancourt, in the Yvelines, a...
French diaspora: Tiphaine talks digital nomadism with family
Tiphaine has a blog Smile to France, formerly called French in CaliAfter leaving California, the French woman lived in Austin, Texas, and after a few months in Mexico and El Salvador, is now in Parede, Portugal, not far from Lisbon.
Amid a pandemic in the spring of 2020, Tiffin and her family decided to pack up and leave the San Francisco Bay. where to go? Originally to try out a Texas adventure. But in the end, Tiphaine, her husband, and their daughter discovered a new way of life: digital ...
race director warns of formidable Trouée d’Aramberg – zimo news
RMC Sport followed the director of Paris-Roubaix to the presentation of the 2022 season route this Sunday. A dry-weather race “that will favor the riders” according to Thierry Gouvin, who also points out a place where some might lose everything.
Hell of the North is fast approaching. This Tuesday, five days before the 2022 edition Paris-Roubaix, which starts on Sunday late in the morning, RMC Sport followed the race director during the reconnaissance of the track. In front of the press...
Special Florence – Drink with Matteo di Ienno
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Returning to his hometown after practicing in London, this master beverage mixologist successfully visited the art of cocktails at the Locale bar-restaurant.
Matteo di Ienno, at the helm of the Locale bar-restaurant, in Florence.
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April 12, 2022
Brun doesn’t believe the Nets will make it to the regular season playoffs
With the end of the NBA regular season, the playoffs will begin in a few days. However, for the first time in a long time, no franchise stands out. All objections are open. It’s perfect? Does it bring suspense to life? Also focus on the game. Are the Nets necessarily the team to avoid in the rest of the playoffs? And finally, in the historical part, the Basket Time team will return to the best individual performances during the playoff campaign!
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French expat: Charlotte (Los Angeles), expecting a child away from their families – Frenchly Morning US
If spring is slowly appearing throughout the northern hemisphere, it is on a frigid January morning that we find Anne-Fleur in this new episode of French Expat le Podcast.
On his way to a small cafe in the western suburbs of Boston, he goes to find Charlotte, a French woman who moved to Los Angeles 3 years ago. It was after a really rocky start that she finally settled into her Californian life with her newly extended family.
Expecting a child, giving birth in a country closed to the world ...
