~~April 25, 2014~~

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

~~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring~~

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
~~Martin Luther King Jr., Testament of Hope: Essential Writings and Speeches~~

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” 
~~Plato~~

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” 
~~Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man~~

“Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains…

Ghana’s Janet Amponsah wrote her name into the history books after producing a massive 200m outdoor personal best running 23.05 secs (+1.0) to win the WTAMU Open in Texas, 12th April to extend her #1 African ranking in the event.

Amponsah, who is currently schooling at Western Texas College on a Ghana Athletics Association sourced academic scholarship, blitzed to her personal new best followed by Strickland Libby of West Texas A&M with 23.7 and Marissa Western Texas College in a time of 24.35.

The last time a Ghanaian woman ran faster than Janet’s time was in 2006. Sprinter Vida Nsiah holds the current national 200m record of 22.80 (+0.9 m/s) which she set at a meet in Clemson, USA on 17th May, 1997.

Meanwhile, Janet followed her dominant display in the 200m event by running an equally fast of 11.31secs (+2.1) to win the 100m.

The former Kumasi Girls Secondary…

The loud invocation for foreign (or domestic) investors in Croatia, whose arrival, as politicians and business high-rollers claim, would solve all the problems in the country, has been a daily occurrence in the economic-political circles. It’s been said over and over again that favourable conditions need to be created for investors to come, to bring their money and invest unsparingly.Mouthfuls of rhetoric such as “we need to accelerate the investment procedures, cut red tape, which chased investors away to other more flexible countries…”, ring in the ears of every city, town, village; they all wait – like a frozen figure waiting impatiently in the sun to defrost – for direct investments that would get the economy going and create new jobs.

Investors are seen as saviours that will shake up the stumbling, plummeting economy and lead the country out of the recession.
In this mad rush to see a meaningful…

This is the incredible invisible film.

It’s as though acknowledging it means we have to admit we let our politicians, their cronies and yes men run our countries into the ground and we should do something.

A dark comedy with a magnificent cast to match. 

Amazing work by:

Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, John Michael Higgins, Suzie Plakson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Belson,Suzanne Cryer, Jason Cottle, David Koechner, Craig T. Nelson (uncredited).

Directed by Barry Levinson.

Produced by Barry Levinson and Robert De Niro. Screenplay by Hilary Henkin, David Mamet and based on ‘AmericanHero’ by Larry Beinhart.

This is about how politicians and their spin doctors distract the electorate from scandals, poor performance, and sometimes general incompetence.

It’s rather macabre and quite disturbing and sadly, these sorts of things happen…