Hellas

A legendary live recording. On January of 1991, George Dalaras (Γιώργος Νταλάρας) and Vassilis Papakonstantinou (Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου), two top greek singers have decided to give a series of live performances together at Attikon, a cetral theatre in Athens. In their multi-year (more than 40 each) careers, this is the only time they performed together. A live recording that is considered as a masterpiece of the whole greek discography. Enjoy wonderful greek music and nice scans of the included booklet.

Making Grids Work includes selected articles from the CoreGRID Workshop on Grid Programming Models, Grid and P2P Systems Architecture, Grid Systems, Tools and Environments held at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas in Crete, Greece, June 2007. This workshop brought together representatives of the academic and industrial communities performing Grid research in Europe.

One of cinema's greatest provocateurs, Jean-Luc Godard, presents another barbed but thoughtful meditation on culture, politics and cinema in this experimental drama. Shot using high definition video equipment and a consumer-grade cell phone, with the crisp images of the former playing off the grain and distortion of the latter, Film Socialisme is divided into three segments. The first takes place on a luxury liner cruising the Mediterranean, as tourists from different lands attempt to communicate in their different languages. In the second, a French family calls a private tribunal, as the children challenge their parents on the issues of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity while the media watches from outside. And finally, Godard and his crew visit six different places – Barcelona, Egypt, Naples Odessa, Palestine and "Hellas" (the latter could be Greece or France) as he confronts issues of truth versus myth and where the global community is headed….