Regionally, his wide range of theatre & composition credits include ROMEO AND JULIET at The Guthrie, NOISES OFF and THE HEIRESS at South Coast Repertory, GUARDS AT THE TAJ and BARCELONA at The Geffen Playhouse, JITNEY at The Pasadena Playhouse, LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, JITNEY, and TIGERS BE STILL (for which he won a League of Cincinnati Theatres Award) with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, RADIO GOLF and RABBIT HOLE at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, HAY FEVER and PERMANENT COLLECTION at Baltimore's Center Stage, CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS and HAY FEVER at Yale Repertory Theatre, GEM OF THE OCEAN at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, VENUS IN FUR, THE UNDERSTUDY, SHAKESPEARE'S R&J, and DRIVING MISS DAISY at Theatreworks Hartford, WONDER OF THE WORLD, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, and FULLY COMMITTED at Barrington Stage Company, INTIMATE APPAREL and JITNEY at Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage, INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY at Berkshire Theatre Festival & Theatre Alliance, ELEVADA at The Chance, SPLITTIN' THE RAFT at People's Light and Theatre Company in Philadelphia, AS YOU LIKE IT and HAMLET at Opera House Arts, DELIRIUM FOR TWO with Theatre Novi Most, THE TEMPEST at New Swan Shakespeare Company, and TREASURE ISLAND and KING LEAR: THE STORM AT HOME at Virginia Stage Company.
Vincent worked for three years as the Resident Sound Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he designed and composed for the regular season and for Actors Theatre's world-renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays. While at Actors Theatre, his Humana credits included the world premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's AFTER ASHLEY, Kirsten Greenidge's SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, Jerome Hairston's A. M. SUNDAY, Melanie Marnich's TALLGRASS GOTHIC, Charles L. Mee's LIMONADE TOUS LES JOURS, Adam Rapp's FINER NOBLE GASES, and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros and Theresa Rebeck's OMNIUM-GATHERUM. His work on The Humana Festival's production of Russell Davis's THE SECOND DEATH OF PRISCILLA was selected to be exhibited at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition.
Internationally, Vincent's work has been heard in Romania at The National Theatre of Romania (Cluj), Italy at the Arezzo Festival (Arezzo), China at the Asian Pacific Theatre Expo (Shanghai), the Prague Quadrennial, and South Korea with the Tuida Performance Group.
Vincent has a particular interest in new work development, and in addition to his work at the Humana Festival, he has created designs and scores for many new plays, including Matthew Lombardo's HIGH at Theatreworks Hartford (subsequent productions at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and on Broadway), Neil LaBute's adapation of MISS JULIE, Anna Ziegler's ACTUALLY, Rachel Bonds' FIVE MILE LAKE, Michael Golamco's BUILD, Keith Josef Adkins' SAFE HOUSE, Tira Palmquist's AND THEN THEY FELL, David Wiener's EXTRAORDINARY CHAMBERS, Howard Korder's IN A GARDEN, Sarah Treem's FEMININE ENDING, and Lauren Gunderson's EMILIE at South Coast Repertory Theatre, THE OLDEST STORY IN THE WORLD at Theatre Novi Most, THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION at The Juilliard School, Len Jenkins' THE BIRDS at Yale Repertory Theatre, and THIRTY GHOSTS at Ensemble Theatre Company in Cincinnati (for which he won a CEA Award). He co-designed and co-scored the premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's THE VELVET SKY at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington DC. His music was heard in The New York Public's production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's THE BROTHERS SIZE. With The Clownzilla Theatre Troupe, he developed A HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA, ILLEGAL ALIENS, CLOWN PLANET, and READY SET DEAD. He created the sound design and score for RAZBOIUL CLOVNILOR (WAR OF THE CLOWNS) and the musical CLOVNI EXTRATERESTRI (CLOWN ALIENS) at Teatrul National Cluj in Cluj, Romania. He has workshopped new plays for The New York Theatre Workshop and New York Stage & Film. In 2005, Vincent created the sound design and original music for the world premiere of RADIO GOLF, the last play in August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the African-American experience in the twentieth century.
With sound designer Brad Berridge, Vincent performs as one-half of THE NIGHT I FOUND OUT I WAS ADOPTED, an experimental improvisatory duo performing entirely on mobile computing devices. With Berridge and designer/engineer Davin Huston, Vincent is a founding member of PUSH THE BUTTON, a sound-art collective focused on using the audience as a variable factor in the creation of corporeal sound art. Their piece HELL'S HALF ACRE is currently available online as a streaming sound walk.
Outside of the theatrical field, Vincent conducts research and creative work in sound for Virtual Reality.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCI, he taught, lectured, led workshops, or served as a guest artist at many colleges and universities including Auburn University, Barnard College, Bellarmine College, The Juilliard School, UMass-Amherst, and Yale University. He is an active member of the Sound Commission of USITT and a regular contributor to freesound.org. He has written a number of articles for trade magazines including Stage Directions and Lighting and Sound America.


text:
Micro Cap Stocks and Penny Stocks
Selection Criteria for Penny Stock Brokers
OTC Penny Stocks
NASDAQ Penny Stocks and NYSE Penny Stocks
Is Microsoft Among the Best Penny Stocks in History?
Home / Reviews / Review of Zynga a NASDAQ Penny Stock is Now the Time to Buy?
Review of Zynga a NASDAQ Penny Stock is Now the Time to Buy?
Pros: Zynga has over $1 Billion in the bank or about $1.25 in cash for a stock trading at around $4. A new management team has replaced the controversy surrounding the company's founder. Zynga is listed on the NASDAQ, a major exchange and provides shareholders with timely and plentiful information.
Cons: The future prospects of Zynga are a little hazy given the competitive nature of online gaming and its dependence on Facebook. The stock price tends to gyrate more than the average stock and is well below its IPO price but up substantially from the low reached in 2013.
Zynga Inc. is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol ZNGA and provides timely and trustworthy financial information. The ZNGA stock is a penny stock as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, trading under $5 per share. The stock is currently hovering around the $4 mark as of April 16, 2014. The company has a multi-billion dollar market capitalization making it one of the largest penny stocks. The company develops social games that are enjoyed by over 100 million monthly customers across the world. Zynga's popular game titles include FarmVille, Words With Friends and Zynga Casino. Over 1 billion consumers have played Zynga games on a plethora of platforms like Facebook, Google Android and Apple's iOS. The company's headquarters is in San Francisco, California.
A Financially Stable Penny Stock
According to Yahoo Finance, Zynga has solid financial footing as the company is sitting on over $1 billion in cash. Yet the company has not recorded an annual profit. Zynga currently has a market capitalization of 3.52 billion, a PEG ratio (5 year) of 13.37 and a forward P/E of 80.20. Its profit margin is -4.24% and its operating margin is -6.35%. Annual revenues are $873.27 million and the company's net income is -$36.98 million. Analysts rate Zynga with a mean recommendation of 3.0. They have a median target of 4 while pessimistic analysts have set a low target $3. The most optimistic analyst has set a high target of $7.
While investors point to the fact that Zynga holds $1 billion in cash, critics point out that the company's fourth quarter revenue in 2013 dropped by 43% to $176 million. The daily active users and monthly active users are also significantly declining (51% and 62% respectively, compared to the previous year). However, revenues are projected to increase this year as well as in 2015. There is hope that Zynga will record a profit in 2014. It is important to note that many tech companies fail to record profits in their initial years, so the fact that Zynga has yet to get in the black is no reason to panic.
Stock Price Volatility
In 2012, Zynga's stock sold at over $14. Many analysts are swooping in to buy now, at the very low $4 level because the company produces incredibly popular games and has a gigantic user base. Hedge fund billionaire, Steve Cohen, has led SAC Capital to boost its ownership of Zynga stock to 5.1%. The analyst firm Wedbush recently affirmed its "Buy" rating on Zynga and established a price target of $7. Morgan Stanley also upgraded the stock to "equal weight" status.
The past month has been a tumultuous one as the stock has dropped a little over 25% but analysts are fairly optimistic for the company's long term outlook. The recent drop in the stock price is partly due to investors moving money to Zynga's primary competitor, King Digital Entertainment (KING), which makes the uber popular Candy Crush game.
The stock has stabilized since new CEO Don Mattrick took over in July of 2013. Since then several executive suite personnel have been replaced. This has led to Wall Street having more confidence in management and the questions regarding the founder's (Mark Pincus) ability to lead Zynga are a now in the rear view mirror.
Growth Prospects
There is hope that Zynga's new titles FarmVille 2, Country Escape, New Zynga Poker and New Words With Friends will lead the company into the black. Yet the public is very fickle when it comes to gaming. FarmVille and Words With Friends were monumental hits but Candy Crush emerged and took much of the market share. Analysts are neither overly optimistic or pessimistic on the stock. Their opinions are as follows: 18 hold recommendations, 1 strong buy, 1 buy and 4 underperforms. So, investors hold mixed opinions as to whether Zynga will be able to rebound and reclaim the attention of social gamers.
Zynga makes its money predominately from in-game purchases. Yet these revenues come from only about 2% of each month's unique players. Critics argue that the company has to reform its business model to become profitable. Suggestions include charging users fees to play the games and selling in-game advertising space. Yet Zynga's games are incredibly popular on Facebook and initiating such fees and advertising through the Facebook platform would likely be challenging.
Stock market analysts point to Zynga's potential for growth due to its social casino games, especially Zynga Poker. Casino oriented mobile games are very lucrative and Zynga's top competitor, KING, doesn't have a foothold in that niche. Zynga is hard at work to make its Zynga Poker game as mobile friendly as possible. It currently brings in 10 million active users. Zynga Poker accounted for 21% of the company's fourth quarter revenues in 2013. Overall, three fifths of the fourth quarter revenue is attributed to only three games: Zynga Poker, Farmville and Farmville 2. As long as Zynga maintains a high customer retention rate with these hit titles, the company's stock has the potential to move towards the $7 mark.
Zynga's acquisition of NaturalMotion, a mobile game developer based in Oxford, England, has also been deemed to be a success. It cost $527 million but it allowed Zynga to inherit NaturalMotion's breakthrough animation engine technology as well as the wildly popular CSR Racing and Clumsy Ninja titles. The manner in which Zynga builds on this technology will be a primary factor in the company's future successes or failures. If the technology allows Zynga to expand its operations into the video game console market, then there is the potential for exponential growth. If Zynga decides to stick primarily to Facebook and social platforms then the sock might continue to stagnate.
Zynga's stock is a NASDAQ penny stock and therefore has many of the attributes which provide financial stability and company information transparency. However, it currently trades under $5 and well below its IPO price. Questions about growth, increasing competition and dependency on Facebook remain. However, this may be a good time to buy a financially stable penny stock.
Penny Stocks to Watch: Ascent Solar Technologies
NYSE Penny Stocks: Radio Shack
Extreme Networks a Penny Stock on the Rise?
Newsletter & Stock Alerts
StemCells Inc A Biotech Penny Stock to Buy? StemCells Inc. is a biotechnology penny stock that performs
Penny Stocks to Watch: Ascent Solar Technologies Ascent Solar Technologies (ASTI) produces solar powered electronics for
NYSE Penny Stocks: Radio Shack The definition of a penny stock varies from trader
Extreme Networks a Penny Stock on the Rise? If you believe all the hype on the internet
Review of Zynga a NASDAQ Penny Stock is Now the Time to Buy? Zynga Inc. is traded on the NASDAQ under the
Developing Your List of Penny Stocks on Nasdaq NYSE and OTC Markets
Awesome Penny Stocks: The Biggest Pump and Dump Scheme?
Profitly Penny Stock Newsletters and Website
Penny Stock Investing Resources
Preparing Your List of Penny Stocks to Watch
Penny Stocks Buyers Guide © 2013-2014. All Rights Reserved. | About Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use |

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


This is a book that will stay with me for a long time. Ms. Conlin genuinely has a way with words and makes you feel every emotion that her characters are going through. It might only be April but this is certainly a contender for book of the year. Oh and that final chapter was genius.
Sounds like a great read. I like fiction with historical elements. Might check this out.
Fantastic in depth review. Thanks for sharing.
This is beautiful. Another added to my TBR list. Thanks for your review.
I agree it is. I hope you enjoy the book too.
It is an amazing read.
They are hit and miss for me too but this one is superb.
I really like historical fiction so this might work for me. Your review is lovely and really sounds like an emotional read.
Thank you. The book is so wonderful and yes at times emotional too.
Brilliant I hope you read it and enjoy it too.
It really is. It is such a wonderful book.


7 Night Cruise sailing from Bernkastel to Nuremberg aboard an Emerald Star Ship.
NOTE: Evergreen feature a fleet of ships that cruise Europe. The ships alternate itineraries and sailing dates, therefore please check at time of booking which ship you will be on.
Board your Emerald Waterways luxury river cruise ship where you will be welcomed by your Captain and crew. This evening, enjoy your first dinner on board with your fellow travellers.
After breakfast it is time to farewell your fellow passengers and disembark the ship.


Review of available options for post c-section pain relief. Reasonable pain management.
What are current problems in OB anesthesia now?
Why labor epidural causes fever and why Lidocaine burns on injection ? Role of TRPV 1 receptor in hyperthermia .Possible explanation of mechanism of hyperthermia during labor epidural and burning sensation on injection of local anesthetics.
Significant research advances were made in the last 18 months around the topic of epidural-related fever, but major gaps in knowledge persist especially with understanding the precise mechanism. The most pressing area of research is the development of well tolerated and effective prophylactic interventions to prevent maternal and fetal exposure to hyperthermia and inflammation.
Elevation in maternal body temperature can be seen in a subset of laboring women in as little as 1 hour after administration of epidural analgesia. However, it is estimated that intrapartum temperature elevation usually begins 4 to 6 hours after epidural placement and rises at a rate of 0.08 to 0.14°C per hour. Although this rise in temperature is considered idiopathic, researchers have proposed several mechanisms that might explain the phenomenon. These include an inflammatory response, oxidative stress, an alteration in sympathetic stimulation and thermoregulatory mechanisms, and subclinical chorioamnionitis.
Recent research has focused on the inflammation and oxidative stress seen in women who develop intrapartum fever. Earlier work revealed that levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a proinflammatory cytokine, are elevated in women who receive epidural analgesia and become febrile.A longer duration of epidural infusion is associated with higher levels of IL-6, whereas this elevation is not seen with longer duration of labor without epidural. This suggests that the epidural itself induces an inflammatory response; the response is not a physiologic process of labor. Similar findings with additional proinflammatory mediators and reactive oxygen species seem to support this theory.
Epidural analgesia also appears to affect the body's thermoregulatory mechanisms. That epidurals cause an increase in shivering has been well-documented, but epidural analgesia also seems to be associated with a decrease in heat dissipation via sweating and hyperventilation, most likely due to a blockade of sympathetic stimulation. . However, because epidurals have been reliably shown to diminish thermoregulatory capacity, it is probable that these factors contribute to the development of the associated fever.
Finally, there remains the possibility that a subclinical chorioamnionitis might underlie a subset of maternal intrapartum fevers. Women may be more likely to request an epidural if they are experiencing symptoms of subclinical chorioamnionitis, such as uterine tenderness.
Role of TRPV1 receptor was not mentioned in Obstetric Anesthesia literature known to us.
Action of Local Anesthetics on TRPV 1 Receptor .
C fibers are found in the nerves of the somatic sensory system. They are afferent fibers, conveying input signals from the periphery to the central nervous system.
C fibres are unmyelinated unlike most other fibers in the nervous system.
The vanilloid receptor (VR-1, TRPV1) is a receptor that is found on the free nerve endings of both C and Aδ fibers that responds to elevated levels of heat (>43°C) and the chemical capsaicin. Capsaicin activates C fibers by opening a ligand-gated ion channel and causing an action potential to occur. Because this receptor responds to both capsaicin and heat, chili peppers are sensed as hot. VR-1 is also able to respond to extracellular acidification and can integrate simultaneous exposure to all three sensory stimuli. VR1 is essential for the inflammatory sensitization to noxious thermal stimuli.The transient receptor potential (TRP) family comprises a diverse group of cation channels that regulate a variety of intracellular signaling pathways. The TRPV1 (vanilloid 1) channel is best known for its role in nociception and sensory transmission. First studied in the dorsal root ganglia as the receptor for capsaicin, TRPV1 is now recog- nized to have a broader distribution and function within the central nervous system (CNS)(8). TRPV1 regulates vasomotor tone and metabolic heat production(4).Blocking this receptor elicits marked hyperthermia in humans(4).
Based on available literature , we propose that Local Anesthetics work as agonist / antagonist on TPRV1 receptors. Antagonist action may cause hyperthermia through modifying thermoregulation(4), agonist action may cause hyperthermia thru release of IL-6 and other mediators of inflammation(5-11,17,18). Agonist action may explain burning sensation on injection of Local Anesthetics.Burning sensation can be diminished by increasing pH of Local Anesthetic solution, because vanillin receptors are stimulated by acidification through lower pH (19,20). We hope that this review will bring more attention of our colleagues in Obstetric anesthesia to role of TRPV1 receptor, missing link between labor epidural and hyperthermia.
1) Anesth Analg. 2010 Dec;111(6):1467-75. Epub 2010 Sep 22.
Labor epidural analgesia and maternal fever.
2) Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2012 Jun;25(3):292-9.
Epidural analgesia and maternal fever: a clinical and research update.
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
3) .J Midwifery Womens Health. 2012 Jan-Feb;57(1):82-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1542-2011.2011.00105.x.
Epidural Fever and its implications for mothers and neonates: taking the heat.
Shatken S, Greenough K, McPherson C.
4) .Pain. 2008 May;136(1-2):202-10. Epub 2008 Mar 11.
Pharmacological blockade of the vanilloid receptor TRPV1 elicits marked hyperthermia in humans.
Gavva NR, Treanor JJ, Garami A, Fang L, Surapaneni S, Akrami A, Alvarez F, Bak A, Darling M, Gore A, Jang GR, Kesslak JP, Ni L, Norman MH, Palluconi G, Rose MJ, Salfi M, Tan E, Romanovsky AA, Banfield C, Davar G.
5) Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Jul;49(7):3004-17. Epub 2008 Mar 24.
Contribution of TRPV1 to microglia-derived IL-6 and NFkappaB translocation with elevated hydrostatic pressure.
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0654, USA.
.From the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37205, USA.
2Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
3Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
13) Coapplication of lidocaine and the permanently charged sodium channel blocker QX-314 produces a long-lasting nociceptive blockade in rodents.
Binshtok AM, Gerner P, Oh SB, Puopolo M, Suzuki S, Roberson DP, Herbert T, Wang CF, Kim D, Chung G, Mitani AA, Wang GK, Bean BP, Woolf CJ.
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.
14) ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:607938. Epub 2012 May 1.
Maternal and cord serum cytokine changes with continuous and intermittent labor epidural analgesia: a randomized study.
Mantha VR, Vallejo MC, Ramesh V, Jones BL, Ramanathan S.
Department of Anesthesiology, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
15) Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Mar;117(3):588-95.
Association of epidural-related fever and noninfectious inflammation in term labor.
Riley LE, Celi AC, Onderdonk AB, Roberts DJ, Johnson LC, Tsen LC, Leffert L, Pian-Smith MC, Heffner LJ, Haas ST, Lieberman ES.
17) J Clin Invest. 2008 Feb;118(2):763-76.
The vanilloid receptor TRPV1 is activated and sensitized by local anesthetics in rodent sensory neurons.
Leffler A, Fischer MJ, Rehner D, Kienel S, Kistner K, Sauer SK, Gavva NR, Reeh PW, Nau C.
Department of Anesthesiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
18) Mol Pain. 2011 Aug 23;7:62.
Activation of TRPA1 by membrane permeable local anesthetics.
Leffler A, Lattrell A, Kronewald S, Niedermirtl F, Nau C.
Department of Anesthesiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Krankenhausstrasse 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
19) Purves, Dale; et.al (2004). Neuroscience. Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc.. ISBN 0-87893-725-0.
20) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1992;23(3):585-91.
Reduction of pain and local complications when buffered lidocaine solution is used as a local anesthetic in conjunction with hyperthermia treatments: results of a randomized trial.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.
How fast should i inject spinal hyperbaric solution ?


We offer our clients the resources of a structured and highly specialized team of lawyers who bring a deep understanding of the Brazilian market, its business sectors and industry-specific issues to bear on offerings.
Our clients include commercial and investment banks as well as Brazilian and foreign companies in a variety of industries. They rely on our experience and ability to furnish pro-active, solution-focused advice, especially on complex and challenging matters.
· Structuring of transactions in derivatives.


text:
The Tale of Honour
Barliman's Chat
TORn Live
About TORn
TORn Archive
FanFilm: 'The Hunt For Gollum' Online May 3rd
February 2nd, 2009 by xoanon
Chris Bouchard writes: Just wanted to give you advanced notice that The Hunt For Gollum will be released on May 3rd 2009 for online free streaming in HD. Thanks for supporting this ambitious fan film!
Press Release: 30th January 2009
Independent Online Cinema presents: 'THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM'
Coming soon FREE on the 3RD MAY 2009
Exclusive World Premiere on DAILYMOTION.COM and THE LONDON SCI-FI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
'The Hunt For Gollum' is a 'Lord Of The Rings' Fan Film made by fans for fans. Inspired by notes in the appendices from 'The Lord of the Rings' book, 'The Hunt For Gollum' follows Aragon as he sets out to find the creature Gollum and discover the truth about the Ring…
'The Hunt For Gollum' will achieve a notable milestone for Fan Films when it becomes the first Fan Film to be simultaneously released online at Dailymotion.com and screened at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival on May 3rd this year. The first ever LOTR Fan Film with serious production values, Independent Online Cinema aims to bring a unique high quality HD cinema experience to the internet. The film is 40 minutes and a purely non-profit venture, with the download and festival screening being free for new and old fans alike.
Writer/Director Chris Brouchard started the project over 2 years ago with a small dedicated number of talented cast and crew, which steadily built momentum as more and more enthusiastic filmmakers, volunteers and supporters took up the challenge to finally culminate in an amazing team effort that has had over a 100 volunteers contributing to the project, worldwide.
Made with a minuscule budget, the high production values of the project would not have been possible without the commitment and resources of experienced prop makers, costume makers, prosthetics and make-up specialists, fight coordinators and special effects artists. However, this production has been open to everyone for collaboration, and as a result, the passion for this project has drawn together a diverse blend of working professionals, students and youth from every walk of life.
'The Hunt For Gollum' has generated considerable online buzz amongst fans already and the filmmakers are therefore delighted to see their efforts have also started to get real world publicity.
"epic fantasy story…very professional" SFX Magazine
"cut above the standard fan film" Metro Online
For further information regarding the project, please contact:
Press at info@hunt4gollum.com
And visit our website for more trailers, updates and fan reactions here.
A trailer can also be viewed at youtube.com here.
Film Screenings
This site is maintained and updated by fans of The Lord of the Rings and the name and mark ONE RING is used under license from The Saul Zaentz Company, which hold the title thereto. We in no way claim rights in the artwork displayed herein. Copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, articles, merchandise and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and our limited use of these materials is done by permission or is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Act.
Original content and photography are copyright © 1999-2020 TheOneRing.net.
Website design and development by Garry Aylott.


The Read-A- Thon, held each November, is a successful fundraiser organized and sponsored by Parent Club. This event allows the Parent Club to sponsor many activities including a school movie at the theater, staff appreciation gifts and student enrichment. Parent Club also helps to aide teachers in classroom setting, holds fundraisers for supplemental educational materials and experiences, supports school and family social interaction, and provides a non-biased forum for sharing information on issues that impact our children.
PC board member positions include a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. They may also include various specialty positions, such as hospitality or programs. The board typically governs PC by creating and voting on meeting dates, general meeting programs, etc.
PC encourages parent, teacher and community involvement by providing programs that facilitate so. These activities may include bicycle safety, drug awareness, energy conservation, reading programs, science programs, math programs and pedestrian safety.
PC parents get involved by supporting their students, teachers and staff. Parents can volunteer to be room parents to assist with class parties or field trips. They can help set up at a carnival or health fair. They can help teachers and staff by making copies for the class.
Teachers and staff may become involved by helping to plan events that encourage the education of the students. These may include workshops, tutoring or special family nights (math, science, reading).
The students reap the benefits by the involvement and support of all the adults involved in the PC. The PC supports the educational goals of the school, thus extending those goals to the students.
PC meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm in the Library.


The Summer 2017 delivery of Jetty Clothing has arrived in stores across Canada.
Watch the video below to catch a glimpse.
We are the Canadian wholesale distributor for Jetty Clothing.
Check out www.jettylife.com for more info.
To order for our Summer shipment #2 email your Platform Distribution Sales Rep.
You can see the summer 2017 catalog here.
Jetty Clothing's Spring/Summer 2017 catalog is available for download now.
Check out the latest from this grass roots Surf/Skate inspired company.


Some vegetarians consider that you may solely placed on weight in case you eat meat, fish, rooster, and different non-vegetarian meals. Sadly, that is an incorrect assumption. There are easy, however efficient vegetarian weight-reduction plan plans to realize weight naturally.
The vegan weight-reduction plan which excludes all meat and animal merchandise.
The vegetarian weight-reduction plan which incorporates plant meals, and dairy merchandise.
The much less strict vegetarian weight-reduction plan which incorporates plant meals, dairy, and eggs.
Whether or not you're a vegetarian or vegan, the basics of gaining weight are precisely the identical. To placed on weight, it's essential to eat extra energy than you burn. You also needs to plan to get sufficient proteins and wholesome fat to advertise muscle progress.
Eat extra protein. Vegetarian-friendly protein, akin to avocados, beans, nuts, seeds, are all good selections. Should you eat dairy, then milk, yogurt, eggs, and cottage cheese, additionally supply high-quality protein.
Vegetarian people have discovered that oatmeal is among the finest methods to realize weight quickly and simply. Oatmeal is wealthy in energy and wholesome proteins, and is among the identified methods to construct muscle mass and eradicate flabby fats.
Soy beans are a excessive protein supply, and moreover, include all of the amino acids the physique wants making soy a whole protein.
Lentils are additionally very efficient and may be added to soups and stews. The soluble fiber content material reduces intestinal fuel and retains the colon clear and wholesome. Cheese can be mixed with lentil or bean recipes to make a whole protein.
Improve your carbohydrate consumption. Meals which are wealthy in carbs can increase your calorie consumption, and supply vitality. Including carbohydrates akin to pasta, rice, and whole-grain breads or rolls in your weight-reduction plan, can definitely aid you add some meat to your bones.
Growing calorie consumption. To determine what number of energy you might be presently consuming, together along with your stage of exercise, you should use a web-based calculator to work this out. Relying on the outcomes, you may often add between 250 to 500 energy to provoke some weight acquire.
Including a little bit of cheese or a pat of butter to baked potatoes will add to energy, and potatoes are a very good supply of carbs as properly.
Happily there's a pretty extensive alternative of meals for vegetarians of both persuasion. True vegans, nevertheless, have to make sure that they receive the required amino acids and proteins from the meals they eat.


text:
Why this work is so important
HADR reduces immediate large-scale human suffering, sets the stage for long term recovery, and strengthens regional security cooperation. Illicit trafficking networks move drugs, weapons, counterfeit items, money, and people. This threatens citizen security, undermines basic human rights, and hinders economic development. Countering illicit trafficking networks reduces threats to the stability of the region, as well as to U.S. public health and national security.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Support Team to SOUTHCOM provides analytic capabilities that support these operations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. SOUTHCOM's most pressing analytic concerns for HADR and countering illicit trafficking include change detection of disaster-affected areas and indications of illicit air travel. CrowdAI will deploy components of its end-to-end AI platform and assist NGA and other SOUTHCOM personnel with creating and deploying advanced computer vision models that assess building and road damage, as well as identify illicit airfields from various imagery sources. The resulting analyses will not only enable rapid decision-making, but can be shared freely with regional partners.
This award builds upon the successful work CrowdAI has conducted with the AF and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) since 2019 to create custom computer vision models for use cases as varied as building maintenance at AF bases to natural disaster response.
"We're excited to expand our previous work with the Air Force to help people in need after disaster strikes and reduce threats posed by illicit trafficking," Devaki Raj, CEO of CrowdAI, said of the award. "We're especially excited not only to deploy models for these missions, but also to deploy components of our end-to-end AI platform, enabling SOUTHCOM to be actively engaged in the creation of these models."
About AFWERX
Established in 2017 by the Secretary of the Air Force and reporting to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, AFWERX is a catalyst for agile Air Force engagement across industry, academia and non-traditional contributors to create transformative opportunities and foster an Air Force culture of innovation. The ultimate aim is to solve problems and enhance the effectiveness of the Air Force.
About U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
SOUTHCOM, located in Doral, Fla., is one of 11 unified Combatant Commands in the Department of Defense. SOUTHCOM is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, security cooperation, and U.S. force protection in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean (except U.S. commonwealths, territories, and possessions). SOUTHCOM is also responsible for ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal.
About the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The NGA Support Team to SOUTHCOM provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis to support command mission objectives. NGA, a combat support agency of the Department of Defense and member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, is the GEOINT functional manager with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing intelligence products in support of national security objectives.
Using AI to help after Hurricane Michael
The aftermath of a hurricane is a disorienting time for families and businesses alike. Given the strong links between rising sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and hurricane frequency and power.
AI and Wildfire Damage
The extent of the damage from Camp Fire in Northern California is unimaginable. It's difficult to wrap your head around it without walking around each affected neighborhood.
Making Sense of Imagery After Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Dorian formed on August 24, 2019, wreaking havoc on hundreds of thousands of people—from the Carribean all the way to Canada.
Devaki Raj


text:
Q: Identity BlueTooth BLE device connection in multiple devices having same services and characteristics? I have multiple BLE devices which have same services and characteristics. I can scan and connect  multiple devices. After connections, tried to distinguish each one by sending command but it does not work. It works perfectly with a single device.   Is it something like socket connection ? Like A server spawns child threads and each client can maintain a connection through threads.  Please provide some tips on how to identity each device.
CBCentralManager instance I created is singleton.
+ (id) sharedInstance
{
    static BLEConnectionManager *this   = nil;

    if (!this)  {
        this = [[BLEConnectionManager alloc] init];
    }
    else  {
        [this scanDevice];
    }

    return this;
}

-(void) scanDevice {
    [centralManager scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil options:0];
}

- (id) init
{
    centralManager = [[CBCentralManager alloc] initWithDelegate:self queue:nil];
    peripherals = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    [centralManager scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil options:0];
    return self;
}

===
EDIT
Is this going to work?  After establishing a connection per a device,  I am going to create an instance handling service and characteristics in didConnectPeripheral delegation method like temperatureSensor example Apple provide. So each device maintains a connection separately.
- (void) centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didConnectPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral
{
    service = [[[LeTemperatureAlarmService alloc] initWithPeripheral:peripheral  controller:peripheralDelegate] autorelease];
[service start];
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


As another year comes to a close, it only makes sense to reflect on the highlights of 2013 before reaching for the many new moons in the coming new year. Of course, to kick off the year in review it makes sense that our readers' favorite feature article was our "Best Books of 2013." Our best book selections include 9 board books, 10 picture books, 9 elementary and middle grade novels, 11 young adult novels and 10 very entertaining series. However, it turns out that you guys had a favorite of your own, one that wasn't included in our "Best Books" list: our review of The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen, was our most visited individual review of 2013.
Now here is something that we were incredibly excited and honored to be a solid part of during the holiday season, we partnered with the wonderful Chronicle Books to help spread the word and inspire people to Give Books for the holidays by participating in their #GiveBooks campaign. For every #GiveBooks tweet, pin, and online pledge, Chronicle Books will donate a children's book to First Book, a non-profit organization that provides access to new books for children in need. It feels good to give back and grow readers all at the same time. Kudos to Chronicle Books.
Our most popular monthly column was our "Five Family Favorites" in which an author or illustrator contributes a list of 5 books that are special to their family. From the classic and nostalgic to the quirky and rare find, this column always produces an excellent assortment of reading material. Our "Best Young Adult Books" followed "Five Family Favorites" closely. In this column we feature top picks from YA bloggers in the know. The bloggers that contribute to this column always provide a great line-up of new releases and coming soon titles.
Thank you to every single person that contributed to The Children's Book Review in 2013; you have helped me create a resource that helps parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers grow readers! Thank you to every single writer and illustrator that put pen to paper, fingers to a keyboard, paintbrush to canvas…. When we create readers, we create thinkers and learners and inspire creativity. Here's to 2014 and the wonderful books it will bring!


text:
ANTHONY NEWLEY CD, DVD, BLU-RAY lemez, ajándék tárgyak (póló, baseball sapka)
Keresés: ANTHONY NEWLEY ( 15 találat )
Anthony Newley's Greatest Hits
Anthony Newley
Stop The World - I Want to Get off (60) / Tony (61) (180 gr 2LP)
The Best of Anthony Newley
The Very Best of Anthony Newley
Bowler Hat & Leather Boots, Personalities Goes Pop Art
Anthony Newley, Anthony Perkins, Beyond The Fringe (London Cast), David Niven, Dirk Bogarde, Dudley Moore Trio, Elke Sommer, Frankie Howerd, George Melly, George Sanders, Hayley Mills, Ian Carmichael, John Betjeman, Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Malcolm Arnold, Max Harris, Norman Wisdom, Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, Quentin Crisp, Robert Mitchum, Salvador Dalí, Sophia Loren, Tom Courtenay, Vincent Price
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (3CD)
Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Anthony Newley, Buddy Greco, Cab Calloway And His Cotton Club Orchestra, Chris Montez, Cilla Black, Clifford Brown, Dave Brubeck, Dean Martin, Della Reese, Dionne Warwick, Doris Day, Eddy Arnold, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Georgie Fame, Glenn Miller, Harry Belafonte, Harry Nilsson, Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus, Jerry Keller, Jim Reeves, John Barry, John Denver, Johnny Mathis, Liza Minnelli, Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, Mario Lanza, Matt Monro, Mel Tormé, Mongo Santamaria, Neil Sedaka, Nina Simone, Paul Weston And His Music From Hollywood, Percy Faith and His Orchestra, Perez Prado & His Orchestra, Perry Como, Peter Grant, Petula Clark, Ray Conniff & His Orchestra & Chorus, Ray Peterson, Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Bassey, Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra, The 5th Dimension, The Tokens, Tom Jones, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone
Consider Yourself - The Highs of Lionel Bart (5CD)
1962 London Studio Cast feat. Tony Osborne Orchestra, Adam Faith, Alma Cogan, Amelia Bayntun, Andy Williams, Anna Tzelniker, Annie Ross, Anthony Newley, Barbara Windsor, Barry Humphries, Bernard Stone, Bob Grant, Brendan Barry, Bruce Forsyth, Chorus (Lock up Your Daughters), Cliff Richard, Company (Blitz!), Company (Lock up Your Daughters), Danny Sewell, Dave Samson & The Hunters, Diane Gray, Edward Caddick, Evacuees & Mums, Frankie Vaughan, Frederick Jaeger, Friends (from Blitz!), Georgia Brown, Glynn Edwards, Grazina Frame, Hope Jackman, Hy Hazel, Jack Jones, James Booth, James Dark, James Graham, Joe Brown And His Bruvvers, John Barry, John Sharp, Keith Hampshire, Keith Marsh, Kids (from Blitz!), Laurie Johnson Orchestra, Lionel Bart, Madeleine Newbury, Margaret Russell, Mark Wynter, Martin Horsey, Marty Wilde, Mary Sheen, Max Bygraves, Miriam Karlin, Norman Gunn, Orchestra (Lock up Your Daughters), Orchestra of The Blitz! Show, Paddy Joyce, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Richard Wordsworth, Robin Wentworth, Ron Moody, Russ Conway, Shane Fenton, Shirley Bassey, Sonia Fraser, Stanley Holloway, Stephanie Voss, Tamba, Terence Cooper, The Drifters, The Limeliters, Thomas Kempinski, Tom Chatto, Tommy Steele, Toni Palmer, Vera Lynn, Wallas Eaton, Yootha Joyce
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Newley, Antonio Banderas, Chris Pine, Daisy Ridley, Hugh Jackman, Jamie Foxx, Melissa McCarthy, Patrick Wilson, Seth MacFarlane
*BAKELIT*
Essential - Easy Listening (3CD)
Alison Moyet, Andy Williams, Anthony Newley, Art Garfunkel, Barbara Dickson, Bill Withers, Billy Paul, Bobby Vinton, Candy Dulfer, Carmen McRae, Champaign, Charlie Rich, Dan Fogelberg, David A. Stewart, Dolly Parton, Doris Day, Eartha Kitt, Elvis Presley, Frankie Laine, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Georgie Fame, Guy Mitchell, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Harry Nilsson, Heatwave, Henry Mancini, James & Bobby Purify, James Galway, John Barry, Johnnie Ray, Johnny Cash, Johnny Logan, José Feliciano, Lou Reed, Love Affair, Manhattans, Mario Lanza, Marty Robbins, Michael Ball, Neil Sedaka, Nina Simone, Paul Anka, Paul Young, Percy Faith, Percy Faith and His Orchestra, Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Rosemary Clooney, Roy Orbison, Sad Cafe, Scott McKenzie, Shakin' Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Skeeter Davis, Sly & The Family Stone, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Isley Brothers, The Three Degrees, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone
Greatest Ever Memories - The Definitive Collection (3CD)
Anthony Newley, Astrud Gilberto, Beverley Sisters, Big Bopper, Bobby Vinton, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Connie Francis, Danny Kaye, David Whitfield, Dickie Valentine & The Skyrockets, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Fisher, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Ifield, Frankie Laine, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Harry Belafonte, Henry Mancini & His Orchestra, Huey "Piano" Smith, Jerry Butler & the Impressions, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Mathis, Johnston Brothers, Lita Roza, Lonnie Donegan, Mantovani & His Orchestra, Mario Lanza, Mel Tormé, Neil Sedaka, Pat Boone, Patsy Cline, Perry Como, Ray Charles, Ray Peterson, Rosemary Clooney, Roy Orbison, Stargazers, Szabó Gábor, Teresa Brewer, The Champs, The Chordettes, The Crickets, The Everly Brothers, The Olympics, The Platters, The Steelmen, Tom Jones, Tommy Steele
Pop Goes The Easel - The Start of The Swinging Sixties (2CD)
Anthony Newley, Barbara Windsor, Billy Fury, Bobby Timmons, Bobby Vee, Brigitte Bardot, Buddy Holly, Carmen Miranda, Charles Mingus, Chubby Checker, Clay Cole, Craig Douglas, Dave Brubeck, Del Shannon, Four Preps, Gene McDaniels, Gene Vincent, Helen Shapiro, James Darren, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, Jimmy Crawford, John Dankworth, John Leyton, Johnny Dankworth and His Orchestra, Mr. Acker Bilk, Ottilie Patterson, Shane Fenton & The Fentones, Spotnicks, Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen, The John Barry Seven, The Paris Sisters, The Temperance Seven, The Wayfarers, Tubby Hayes
Pure... Crooners (4CD)
Andy Williams, Anthony Newley, Barry Manilow, Billy Paul, Bing Crosby, Bobby Vinton, Brook Benton, Buster Poindexter, Charlie Rich, Curtis Stigers, Eddie Fisher, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Georgie Fame, Guy Mitchell, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Harry Belafonte, Il Divo, Jerry Vale, Jim Reeves, John Gary, Johnnie Ray, Johnny Cash, Johnny Logan, Johnny Mathis, José Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, Louis Armstrong, Luther Vandross, Mac Davis, Mario Lanza, Marty Robbins, Marvin Gaye, Mel Tormé, Michael Ball, Michael Bolton, Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka, Percy Faith and His Orchestra, Perry Como, Ray Price, Rick Astley, Roger Whittaker, Shakin' Stevens, Steve Tyrell, The Browns, Tony Bennett, Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Walker Brothers, Willie Nelson
The End of Innocence - Here Come The '60s (The Greatest Hits of 1960 And 1961) (2CD)
Acker Bilk, Adam Faith, Anthony Newley, Bobby Vee, Brenda Lee, Cliff Richard, Connie Francis, Danny Williams, Del Shannon, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Eden Kane, Elvis Presley, Emile Ford, Frankie Vaughan, Helen Shapiro, Jimmy Jones, John Leyton, Johnny Preston, Johnny Tillotson, Lonnie Donegan, Michael Holiday, Petula Clark, Ricky Valance, Roy Orbison, The Allisons, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers, The Highwaymen, The Marcels, The Shadows, The Temperence Seven, Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers
The Young Prisoner's Handbook - Selections from The Original Film Soundtrack... Plus
Anthony Newley, Arthur Greenslade & The Gee-Men, Billy Fury, Chris Youlden, Craig Douglas, Curved Air, East of Eden, Eddie Hardin, Jack Good presents Lord Rockingham's XI, Jane Birkin, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, Junior Campbell, Karl Denver, Ken Barrie, Louise Cordet, Mantovani & His Orchestra, Serge Gainsbourg, The Big Three, The Munich Symphony Orchestra, The Vernons Girls, Tom Jones, White Plains


text:
Cuba, Portugal
Cuba (disambiguation)
In North American English, the term "resort" is used for a self-contained commercial establishment which attempts to provide for most of a vacationer's wants while remaining on the premises, such as food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping. The term may be used to identify a hotel property that provides an array of amenities and typically includes entertainment and recreational activities. A hotel is frequently a central feature of a resort, such as the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Some resorts are also timeshare or fractionally owned, or wholly owned condominium complexes. A resort is not always a commercial establishment operated by a single company, although in the late twentieth century this sort of facility became more common.
Resort towns
Towns which are resorts — or where tourism or vacationing is a major part of the local activity — are sometimes called resort towns. If they are by the sea they are called seaside resorts. Inland resorts include ski resorts, mountain resorts and spa towns. Towns such as Sochi in Russia, Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, Barizo in Spain, Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Druskininkai in Lithuania, Cancún in Mexico, Newport, Rhode Island and Key West, Florida in the USA, Ischgl in Austria, St. Moritz in Switzerland, Blackpool in England and Malam Jabba in Pakistan are well-known resorts.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -	https://wn.com/Resort
Coordinates: 21°30′N 80°00′W / 21.500°N 80.000°W / 21.500; -80.000
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba ), is a country comprising the islands of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest city Havana is 365 km (227 mi) from Miami, Florida. Geographically, Cuba is considered part of North America. Culturally, it is considered part of Latin America.
Prior to Spanish colonization in the late 15th century, Cuba was inhabited by Amerindian tribes. It remained a colony of Spain until the Spanish–American War of 1898, which led to nominal independence as a de facto U.S. protectorate in 1902. As a fragile republic, Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system, but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1952. Further unrest and instability led to Batista's ousting in January 1959 by the July 26 movement, which afterwards established a government under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Since 1965, the country has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -	https://wn.com/Cuba
Cuba (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkuβɐ]) is a town and municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,878, in an area of 172.09 km².
It is historically known in Portugal as being the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. (In: Mascarenhas Barreto "Colombo Português: Provas Documentais"), and a statue honouring him can be seen on the city centre.
The current mayor (since 2013) is João Português. The municipal holiday is Monday after Easter.
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (freguesias):
Faro do Alentejo
Vila Alva
Vila Ruiva
Town Hall official website
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -	https://wn.com/Cuba,_Portugal
Cuba is a Caribbean island country.
Cuba may also refer to:
The Cuba, Palermo, a palace in the Sicilian city of Palermo
Cuba (Wellington), a street and a quarter in the Central Business District of Wellington, New Zealand
Cuba, Portugal, a municipality and town in the district of Beja
La Cuba, a municipality in the province of Teruel, autonomous community of Aragon
Avon (county), a defunct county in the west of England, where CUBA is an acronym for the "County that Used to Be Avon"
Cuba, Alabama
Cuba, California:
Cuba, Lassen County, California
Cuba, Merced County, California
Cuba, former name of Iceland, California
Cuba, Illinois
Cuba, Indiana
Cuba, Kansas
Cuba, Kentucky
Cuba, Minnesota
Cuba, Missouri
Cuba, New Mexico
Cuba (town), New York
Cuba (village), New York, in the town of Cuba
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -	https://wn.com/Cuba_(disambiguation)
Radio Stations - Havana
Radio Progreso Latin Hits,World Tropical,Discussion Cuba
Radio Habana 1 (Español) Varied Cuba
Radio Rebelde World Caribbean,Latin Hits,Discussion Cuba
Radio Musical Nacional Classical Cuba
Radio Habana 2 (Idiomas) Varied Cuba
Radio Reloj Varied Cuba
Radio Enciclopedia Jazz,Classical,Discussion Cuba
Radio Taino News Talk,World Caribbean,Latin Hits Cuba
Habana Radio Folk Cuba
C.U.B.A.
Area 52 released: 2012
Master Maqui
Diablo Rojo
Juan Loco
Tamacun
Epilogue released: 2007
Sounds Like a Story released: 2006
In Between Things
Second Thoughts
Things Are Gonna Change
For the Sake of the Cause
We Never Cared
Thirty Days
Beneath the Lights
Sounds Like a Story
Helps to Know Someone Who Knows
Good Start to a Bad End
Notice Me
Marley's Song
Leap of Faith released: 1999
Devil's Rock
King of Kelty
Starshiney
Winter Hill
Urban Light
Foxy's Den
Fiery Cross
floridaholidayresort.com
cubaholidays.com
singaporeholidayresort.com
cubaholidayresort.com
holidaygraphics.com
balticholidayresort.com
holidayvillasresort.com
offshoreholidayresort.com
virtualholidayresort.com
niceholidayresort.com
horizonholidayresort.com
franceholidayresort.com
holidayresortvacation.com
caymanislandsholiday.com
jamaicaholidayresort.com
swissholidayresort.com
nigeriaresorts.com
resortsholiday.com
cubaiptv.com
Latest News for: Cuba holiday resort
Looters prey on Quebec schooner awaiting salvage on a Cuban beach: owner
Canada Dot Com 08 Apr 2019
His son has since left Cuba, but Epars remains "in custody" — albeit at a holiday resort run by the Cuban military. The Maria La Gorda resort is close to his ship, which he monitors from a distance when he can. There is a military base next to the resort, which is in a national park in a remote part of Cuba....
Last Quebec schooner of its kind threatened after grounding in Cuba
Canada Dot Com 06 Mar 2019
His son has since left Cuba, but Epars remains "in custody" — albeit at a holiday resort that he said is actually run by the Cuban military. The resort is close to his ship, which he monitors from a distance when he can....
Resorts in Jamaica are facing a 'historic' sexual assault problem
Herald Mail 02 Nov 2018
Behind the door, her friend was being gang-raped by three resort lifeguards ... "You're supposed to feel safe at the resort," Amber said ... They stayed at the all-inclusive Holiday Inn Sun Spree resort in Montego Bay. During their trip, Cuba's national soccer team was staying at the same resort, in town for an international friendly match with Jamaica....
Jamaica resorts facing a 'historic' sexual assault problem
Chicago Sun-Times 31 Oct 2018
Behind the door, her friend was being gang-raped by three resort lifeguards ... "The resort industry knows it ... They stayed at the all-inclusive Holiday Inn Sun Spree resort in Montego Bay. During their trip, Cuba's national soccer team was staying at the same resort, in town for an international friendly match with Jamaica....
British tourists in Cuba are treated on IV drips after 'food poisoning' bug at ANOTHER Thomas Cook resort - just weeks after UK couple died at Egyptian hotel
This is Money 01 Sep 2018
Guests at another Thomas Cook hotel have been put on IV drips after being hit by suspected food poisoning, just days after a couple died from the disease at another of the package holiday company's resorts ... Leigh Hall fell ill at the same resort in Cuba....
British Airways 'mistake fares' debacle shows airlines prize the bottom line over good PR
The Independent 21 Jun 2018
... premier holiday resort, Varadero, the cheapest flight I have ever taken cost one penny....
Ireland's Grand Slam stars and WAGs take the party to Dubai
Belfast Telegraph 26 Mar 2018
They have also been double dating while on holiday, with snaps of them smoking shisha and enjoying cocktails being uploaded to social media. The lavish holiday ... They all went to Asia De Cuba restaurant in the holiday resort, with Ben describing the dinner date as a "great evening"....
Why Cuba's colourful capital Havana should be your next city break
Metro UK 19 Mar 2018
Live Holidays Ltd). Most people coming to Cuba head to the resort of Varadero to get in some beach time before they return home, but Playa De Este, just a 30-minute bus ride from Havana, is just as beautiful ... Live Holidays Ltd) ... I travelled to Havana and Vinales with Cuba Direct, an experienced tour operator which offers tailor-made holidays....
Man sues airline over 'champagne' that was sparkling wine
AOL 19 Oct 2017
A Canadian man is suing an airline for serving sparkling wine rather than champagne on a flight to Cuba. Daniel Macduff booked a holiday flying from Quebec to the Cuban island resort of Cayo Coco with Sunwing Airlines, which promised 'champagne service' on board....
'All You Can Eat Buddha': Film Review | TIFF 2017
The Hollywood Reporter 18 Sep 2017
The French-Canadian film All You Can Eat Buddha (All You Can Eat Bouddha), shot in Cuba, will do nothing to dispel the notion that there's something slightly outlandish about all-inclusive holiday resorts ... Even when the resort empties out as a "change of administration" (read....
Thomas Cook to evacuate more than 2,000 UK holidaymakers from Cuba after Irma
More than 2,000 UK holidaymakers are to be evacuated from Cuba by Thomas Cook following Hurricane Irma ... A spokeswoman for Thomson said tourists arriving in Cuba will "continue their holidays as planned with the support of our resort teams" as the hurricane has moved away ... "Reps in resort will advise customers once details have been confirmed."....


text:
Dragon invasion
Several readers have inquired after the previous post about the identity of this crocodile swimming in such an absurd and nevertheless such a self-evidently natural way above the cobblestones of Brno and the field of sight of its passers-by like the monsters living in the other dimension in the Prague of Michal Ajvaz. This is the brněnský drak, the dragon of Brünn/Brno.
The dragon had come swimming on the river Svratka and terrorized the city by taking as prey the livestock and people coming down to the river. The city council offered a huge price for him who would kill it, but all who had attempted it perished. Finally a traveling journeyman won it by hiding a sack of unslaked lime in the body of a disembowelled ox and placing it on the river bank. The dragon devoured it, hide and hair, but when it retired to the river to digest, the lime began to boil in the water, and it was exploded in a thousand parts. The story of how it was pieced together by local artisans so that it could be hung up in the passage under the town hall's clock tower as a warning to any further dragons passing by, must belong to the golden pages of the chronicle of Brno's handicraft industry.
The talents of local artisans are also attested by the wheel on the wall of the same passage, which is not only a rustic decoration, but an important historical monument, and even a personality: it is the brněnské kolo, the wheel of Brno. It had been made in Lednice, some forty kilometers to Brno by wheelwright Jiří Birk for a bet in only twelve hours from the moment of chopping the tree to wheeling it in through the gate of Brno. He won the bet, but lost his clients, as from that time on he was considered to have made a pact with the devil. He died poverty-stricken.
This is the one version. Another is that the crocodile came to the town already stuffed in 1608. It was a gift of the Sultan to the Margrave of Brünn, who was none else than the younger brother of the alchymist emperor Rudolf, the later emperor Matthias. This is how the memorial table placed on the wall of the clock tower by the town council in 1749 announces it.
However, the council did not know enough the documents in their own archives. For these prove that the crocodile had been restored and cleansed of worms back in 1578-79. So it had to come to the city much earlier than that.
There is every indication that from the beginning of the 1500's an unparalleled invasion of crocodiles showered upon Europe. As far as the sporadic sources permit to see, a terrible struggle unrolled between the natives and the intruders, and finally the latter were overcome. However, the trophies of some of them have been preserved in memory of the victory.
The most famous among them is undoubtedly the lagarto de la Malena, "the lizard of Malena" whose legend (!) was proposed by Spain just in the last year on the list of the "immaterial heritage of the world". This dragon lived in a well in the Magdalena or Malena quarter of the southern Andalucian city of Jaén, taking as prey the people and sheep coming for water until a traveling journeyman did away with it. It is still debated how it was exactly killed. Some say that with the lime-stuffed bait prepared according to the Brno receipt, while the other party says that the winner completely covered himself with mirrors, thus blinding and then easily killing the beast. Its stuffed skin was preserved for a long time in the Church of San Ildefonso, but today it is only remembered by its statue set up at the well of Malena.
If the lime strategy came from Brünn, then the mirror tactics from Valencia. There a traveling Jew (!) killed in the same way the beast living in the river (which has dried up by today) and terrorizing the city. Its skin has been preserved on the wall of the atrium of the Collegio del Patriarca from which it has been called el dragón del Patriarca. What is more, its portrait was given a distinguished place in the decoration of the yearly Corpus Christi processions.
The skin of the lagarto de Calzadilla, the "lizard of Calzadilla" near to Cáceres has survived in the church of the Ermita del Cristo in very bad conditions. Its statue on the main square attests that it had devastated the flock until a shepherd did away with it. Unfortunately I could not clear how he did it, but the strange weapon in his hand refers to some new and cunning method.
The first crocodile in Europe we know about is so old that even its skin has already perished and now only a wooden portrait is hanging on its place. Its living original was sent by the Sultan of Egypt in 1260, after the Spanish conquest of Andalusia to King Alfons X as a first attempt to establish diplomatic contacts, together with an elephant tusk, a living giraffe and other exotic treasures. It was hung in front of the gate of the Cathedral of Seville to which it gave the name of Puerta del Lagarto, "the Gate of the Lizard".
To Mallorca everything gets later. The crocodile invasion slapped the island only with its tail at the end of the 18th century. This beast lived in the alleys of Palma and took its prey in the night, mainly children from their cradles, at least according to the legend. Finally it was killed in 1776 by the Captain of Alcúdia, Bartomeu Coc who in that night was giving a serenade to his lady and immediately offered the crocodile to her as a token of his love. This gesture absolutely swept the lady off her feet, and she gave her hand without hesitation to the brave captain. This is how the deceased monster got the name of drac de na Coca, "the dragon of Mrs. Coc". The trophy was preserved for long by her descendants, the Roselló family who exhibited it on ever 31 December. At the beginning of the 20th century they donated it to the Museu Diocesà where it is now on display. Its picture was published by one of our favorite daily readings, the excellent Mallorca Daily Photo Blog.
The heroic deed of Captain Coc also inspired a popular ballad, sung in the record below by the queen of the island's folk music Maria del Mar Bonet.
Maria del Mar Bonet: El drac de na Coca (The dragon of Mrs. Coc). From the album Bon viatge faci la cadernera (1990).
Pel carrer de Sa Portella,
quan la nit cau,
diuen que hi surt una bèstia;
valga'ns Déu, val!
S'engoleix les criatures
Les mares de Sa Portella
ploren d'espant.
Han dit que la nau
d'un vell mercader
que anava i venia
de Mallorca a Alger,
va dur d'un viatge
un ou venturer.
I va néixer el drac:
feroç carnisser.
Pel carrer de Sa Portella
valga'ns Déu, val!,
les nits fan olor de por,
d'algues i sal.
Bartomeu Coc, cavaller,
jove i galant,
diuen que arriba d'Alcúdia
quan la nit cau.
De nit ve d'Alcúdia,
–galant cavaller–,
per veure la dama:
rosa de febrer.
I allà ha de combatre
enmig del carrer
fins que en queda tros
del drac carnisser.
quan l'alba penja,
la pluja esborra la sang
color de menta. In the alley of Sa Portella
when the night falls
they say, a dragon rises:
Lord, have mercy on us!
It devours the children:
The mothers in Sa Portella
are crying in terror.
They say that the ship
of an old merchant
that went here and there
between Mallorca and Algiers
brought on an occasion
a strange egg:
and a dragon was born of it,
a bloody killer.
In the alley of Sa Portella
– Lord, have mercy on us! –
the nights smell of alga
and of salt and of terror.
Bartomeu Coc, a young
and brave knight,
they say, came from Alcúdia
when the night fell.
He came from Alcúdia in the night
that brave knigh,
to see the lady of his heart
the rose of February.
And they went into battle there
in the middle of the alley
until at the end the bloody
dragon was cut in pieces.
when the dawn rises
the rain washes away
the mint-colored blood
Archive photo of the drac de na Coca from the collection of the legends of Mallorca.
But some crocodiles also appeared in countries where in lack of a sea they could have not come by themselves: for example in Switzerland or, indeed, in Bohemia. As their presence could not be explained away with natural reasons, thus their true story has survived more in detail, and it perhaps helps to understand that of the other crocodile trophies as well. In fact, these crocodiles had been taken home by pilgrims from the Holy Land and Egypt in the 15th and 16th century. Like for example the crocodile of Sankt-Gallen being restored on the picture below, which was brought by Ulrich Kromm from his pilgrimage in Egypt, and donated in 1623 to the library of the town.
Or the other Czech crocodile, the "dragon of Budyně", brought alive from the Holy Land in 1522 by IV. Jan Zajíc z Hazmburka, that is John Rabbit of Rabbitburgh the Fourth.
The crocodile lived in the moat of the renaissance Budyňe castle of the von Rabbitburgh family until he died, and Jan IV loved to show up with it on festive occasions in the posture of a dragon-killer. This is how he had his portrait painted in the banquet hall of the castle.
The crocodile, as we have already mentioned when speaking about the 15th-century pilgrim guides, became an emblematic animal of the Holy Land, and an almost indispensable souvenir for better-off pilgrims. No wonder that every contemporary crocodile trophy with a known origin came to Europe in this way.
The wonders of the Holy Land from the 1486 Mainz edition of Breidenbach: These animals were
faithfully painted just as we saw them in the Holy Land. From top to bottom:
Giraffe. Crocodile. Indian goat. Unicorn. Camel. Salamander.
The name of this one is not known.
This situation gradually changed in the 17th century. The stuffed crocodiles remained favorite pieces of the cabinets de curiosités, but their emphasis shifted from their connections with the Holy Land to the a growing interest in natural history.
Later, with the establishment of special collections and scientific museums the hanging crocodiles were ousted from these sanctuaries of science, and gradually became the hallmark of old-fashioned antique shops and obscure scholars. As the text and illustration of Sir Terry Pratchett's popular fantasy series Discworld presents it in an emblematic way:
Like all wizard's workshops, the place looked as though a taxidermist had dropped his stock in a foundry and then had a fight with a maddened glassblower, braining a passing crocodile in the process (it hung from the rafters and smelt strongly of camphor).
Fortunately the dragon of Brno fell not on this sad, lonely and eccentric old age. It still stands in the center of the city's life, lending its name to the beer, football club and radio station of the city, its image to the stamp of the tourist information center of Brno, and its "copies" decorate the town hall of Brno's Husice district and the alternative theatre Husa na provázku, Goose on a string. What is more, even the emblem of this latter shows a crocodile performing as a lion, while in the reality it is only a little sea-horse.
It even inspired a jewel, displayed by janina on flickr with the comment: There are some stories about Brno, and many of them are shown on this dragon. "Where, where? lemme see!" says zmetok in excitement. Homework! replies janina. As you see, we are working on it.
Publicado por Studiolum en 11/30/2009 5 comentarios
Etiquetas: Ajvaz; Michal, Brno, Catalan, Czech, dragon, history sung, Holy Land, Mallorca, music, old book, Renaissance, Spanish, translation
For Liang Sheng on 23 November
I have bought the book Yiddish for fun in Brno, in the Academia bookshop, gallery and café where between two books you are served cakes, and from six in the evening the writers entertain their readers by words of mouth. Its author, Leo Rosten who had been born back in the Łódź of the czars, became popular in America – and, God knows why, also in Bohemia – with his books written on the encounters between the English and Yiddish language. The Hyman Kaplan series is the chronicle of the struggles of a Russian Jewish immigrant and his companions with the English language in the night school, while The Joys of Yinglish (1998) comments on the Yiddish words naturalized in English.
This book, in the original edition The Joys of Yiddish (1968) – whose enlarged edition, The New Joys of Yiddish was published in 2001 and also translated to Ceczh as Jidiš pro ještě větší radost, "Yiddish for even more fun" – is the explanatory dictionary of hundred and one Yiddish terms which illustrates their use not only with sample sentences but also with Jewish jokes. A genial feature of the dictionary is that it does not only interpret the most frequent Yiddish words – tsadik, mazel tov, rebe –, but it also lists with a special delight the various (up to fifteen or eighteen) shades of meaning of Yiddish interjections – aha! oyoyoy! feh! hoo-ha! nu! – which express a lot even with their changing emphasis: *
A term of several meanings, which formerly was frequently used in the Jewish conversation. Some of its meanings:
1. Understanding. "So you do not substract but add it? Ah-A!"
2. Realization. "AhA! That's why he declined the invitation to dinner!"
3. Surprise. "So the doctor was wrong? AHA!"
4. Instruction. "Go and ask her, then you will see how things are. Aha!"
5. Joy. "Ah – A! So I have won the bet!"
6. Triumph. "AhA!" (Unsaid: So you confess that you were wrong!)
Don't confuse "Aha" with the important interjection "Hoo-ha!" of which we will speak later.
Mr. Sokoloff has had dinner for twenty years in the same restaurant on the Second Avenue. This evening, as always, he orders bouillon. The waiter brings it, and wants to go back, but Mr. Sokoloff addresses him: "Waiter!" – "Yes, please?" – "Be so kind to taste this soup." – "But Mr. Sokoloff, you have come here for twenty years and you have never complained." – "Please", repeats Mr. Sokoloff obstinately, "taste this soup." – "But what is the matter, Mr. Sokoloff?" – "Please taste it." – "All right", the waiter says. "But… a moment. Where is the spoon?" – "Aha!", says Mr. Sokoloff.
I thought about translating the book into Hungarian, of course from the English original. But as soon as I began to check, I discovered that it already had a Hungarian clone: the 100+1 jiddis szó: zsidóságismeret új megközelítésben (100+1 Yiddish words: Jewish studies in a new approach, Budapest: Makkabi 1999) by Chief Rabbi of Budapest Tamás Raj.
At the first glance this book looks like an adaptation of The Joys of Yiddish. For both of them interpret 101 Yiddish terms, and a great part of them are also identical in the two books. And they also have the same structure. Each term is provided with a short definition and then illustrated with a number of Jewish jokes and anecdotes. Of course it would be a shame if the wise author did not know the book which has been the basic literature of this topic for more than thirty years. However, the 100+1 jiddis szó fails to refer to any antecedents. The name of Rosten or the title of The Joys of Yiddish does not occur a single time in it. On the contrary, Tamás Raj traces back the birth of his book to a personal inspiration:
The idea of this book was provided to me by a saying of Rabbi Lau. He has insisted that every Jew of Israel, even if perfectly speaking Hebrew, should learn a hundred words in Yiddish, the language of the European diaspora. Through these one hundred words everyone could recognize and feel the way of thinking of their ancestors as well as the peculiar atmosphere of the old ghettos and synagogues.
This multitude of random coincidences seems quite unlikely, but don't forget that the Septuagint was also translated from Hebrew to Greek by seventy wise rabbis working independently of each other, and nevertheless their results, when compared at the end, were identical to the letter.
But apart from the similarities in the basic idea and structure, the book of Tamás Raj is a quite original work. In contrast to his predecessor he is less interested in the shades of meaning of the terms and more in the rich historical tradition standing behind them, from which he quotes with delight one story after the other. Most of his stories does not come from the international stock of Jewish anecdotes, but from his own personal experiences, from the Hungarian Jewish lore, or from the fresh events of recent decades, like this example of the article Sheker-bilbul (confuse lie):
In the times of Soviet power an American journalist visited Moscow. The above mentioned Comrade Brezhnev gave him a display of the brilliant economic situation of the Soviet Union, telling him that for one ruble one can buy a suit and for two rubles a complete calf. The journalist listened to him doubtfully.
– If you do not believe me, I will call in someone whom you will certainly believe –, Brezhnev said. And they agreed that the Chief Rabbi of Moscow would decide the question.
– Well, Mr. Rabbi – the party leader asked in an awkward tone – the truth is that one can buy a calf for two rubles at us, isn't it?
The rabbi felt utterly embarrassed. If he tells the truth, he will be taken to the Gulag, and if he does not, he will lose his reputation all over the world. After a short consideration he answered to the journalist:
– But why do you insist on that calf? Do you know what? Add a hundred rubles to it, and then you can even buy a chicken.
The anecdotes, etymologies, historical analyses follow each other in an exuberant storytelling, and unexpected relationships are illuminated to the great delight of the reader. Se non è vero, è ben trovato. Like the following story about the Chinese Sassoon sisters in the article S'hoyre (wares).
And if we are here, we also have to tell about the Chinese Jews who settled there and used to live there in a large number because of the above mentioned Silk Road, to ensure the transport of the s'hoyre, especially around Kaifeng and in Shanghai. In the latter city there lived a rich Jewish businessman of Baghdadi origin from the famous Sassoon family, whose name was pronounced Sun by the Chinese. He had two daughters. The elder married a talented young Chinese whose education was financed by the businessman. The young man, in a sign of gratitude, adopted the family name Sun, and later he became the leader of the Chinese revolution: Sun Yat-sen. The other daughter also married a Chinese officer who later became famous as the leader of Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek. The two daughters lived for almost a hundred years, and it happened so that the great widows of the "two Chinas" competing with each other were sisters, and of course Jews…
This beautiful story recalls the well known joke about the Martian visiting the Earth who on the question "And does everyone carry a little cap like this over there?" replies: "No, only the Jews." One almost feels it painful to add some philological commentaries:
• The s'hoyre of the Silk Road used to be traditionally not in the hand of the Jews but of the Muslim Hui merchants playing a similar role in China.
• Although the history of the Jews of Shanghai is extremely interesting – I also want to write more about it later –, and Sir Victor Sassoon, the great developer of the cosmopolitan Shanghai of the 30's in fact played an outstanding role in it, nevertheless this history only started in the late 19th century with the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants.
• It would not be easy to establish the pre-war local Chinese pronounciation of Victor Sassoon's name, but today the Chinese Wikipedia transcribes it like 沙逊 Shā Xùn.
• On the other hand, the name of Sun Yat-sen was 孫 Sūn. And he inherited it from his ancestors, like any other Chinese.
• The education of Sun Yat-sen was not financed by Sassoon, but by his rich merchant brother Sun Mei living in Honolulu.
• And indeed, why should have Sassoon financed it? For they had absolutely no relationship. In fact, Sun Yat-sen did not marry the daughter of Sassoon,
• among other things also because Sassoon had no daughter: he died without children,
• but Soong Ching-ling, daughter of another rich Chinese of Shanghai. His father-in-law, who is better known as Charlie Soong because of his American education, came from a Hakka family just like Sun Yat-sen. But his Chinese family name was 宋 Sòng, which has nothing to do either with Xùn or with Sūn.
• Charlie Soong, being a Hakka, was obviously no Jew. But he was no Taoist or Buddhist either as one would expect it from a Chinese. But a Methodist Christian. Just like Sun Yat-sen. What is more, the two men met for the first time on a Sunday service. And what is even more, Charlie Soong himself was a Methodist missionary and preacher, who established his wealth with his Bible press.
• Logically enough, Soong's other daughter Soong May-ling was no Jew either, but another Methodist Christian. Her husband Chiang Kai-shek was baptized as a precondition of their marriage, and later he became a convinced Christian.
• And those two daughters were in fact three. They also had an elder sister, Soong Ai-ling. She married the richest man of contemporary China, H. H. Kung, a 75th generation descendant of Confucius, who was also Premier of China for a short time, and a Christian himself.
• All this said, the essence of Tamás Raj's story is basically true, although with some minor modifications. The wives of three – rather than two – of the main figures of the confronting post-war "two Chinas" were sisters indeed (and what is more, the widow of Sun Yat-sen was also Premier of the Communist China for a time). And they in fact were followers of the same religion. The only slight difference is that this religion was not the Israelite one.
A proverb widely known in China says about the three sisters: 一個愛錢、一個愛權、一個愛國, one loved money, the other loved power, the third loved China. The contraposition of "power" and "China" where the latter is identified with Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic, while the former with Chiang Kai-shek who had "torn off" Taiwan, refers to the saying's being coined after the Maoist takeover. And indeed: this is the motto of the film The Soong Sisters (1997), the most primitive Communist propaganda film I have ever seen, although life has provided me with no small experience in this genre.
But why should we demand historical fidelity here, if we had not pried into the truth of the Chief Rabbi of Moscow and Brezhnev's encounter? Indeed, the essence of this book is not this, but the convivial storytelling, the multitude of anecdotes, the evocation of once existing worlds. Read it with pleasure, although cum grano salis. And do not forget about The Joys of Yiddish either.
Publicado por Studiolum en 11/25/2009 14 comentarios
Etiquetas: book, brave old world, Brno, Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Jewish, phrasebook, travel
Zaraza
Bucureştiul interbelic este locul unde s-a întâmplat totul, pre-war Bucharest was the place where everything happened, announces the phrase by Ioana Pârvulescu that has became a proverb from her Întoarcere în Bucureştiul interbelic, "Return to pre-war Bucharest" (2002), a pioneering work of the recent Bucharest revival.
Pre-war Bucharest was micul Paris, a small Paris, the capital of a suddenly rounded out country promising unlimited chances, with an elit educated in France and with palaces built on French model, with clean streets and tramways, cafés and places of entertainment where the greatest stars, Jean Moscopol, Cristian Vasile, Titi Botez, Dorel Livianu, Maria Tanase, Zavaidoc, Petre Alexandru sang the most fashionable and most characteristic genre of contemporary Central Europe, the one expressing both the desperate will to live and the tragic atmosphere of the age: the tango.
The Oteleseanu House, once the place of the most celebrated balls and receptions. Its café was the center of the bohemian life of Bucharest. Now its place is occupied by the central post office.
After the war all that came to an end. As Budapest was cleared of its cafés by the new regime, so was Bucharest cleared of its places of entertainment. Jean Moscopol became a concierge in New York, Cristian Vasile died in indigence in Brăila. Bucharest sank into poverty and was denuded, so that its modern inhabitants look with incredulity at the old photos. And then the megalomaniac building activity of Ceauşescu wiped off a great part of the old city forever. The extent of this destruction is well demonstrated in the recent post of Dumneazu (it looks like in this month we keep writing about the same topics). When walking about in the Bucharest of the '80s, we watched in bewilderment the destroyed city while our local friend enumerated with melancholy the splendid buildings once standing here and there. The majority of great tango singers still were alive in the early '80s, but in contrast to the Buena Vista Social Club nobody discovered them. There remained only some vinyl disks left behind by them as well as some old people who still remembered their songs.
The palace of Regal Cinema, Café Corso and Columbia Records was built by Leonida Negrescu in 1900. It was demolished during the enlargement of Calea Victoriei.
It was these two sources that the Romanian singer of Berlin Oana Cătălina Chiţu drew on when at a distance of sixty years she revived this forgotten world on her CD Bucharest Tango published in the last year. She has complemented the songs heard from her father with the old 78 rpm records of their Bucharest relatives to create in 2007 together with Romanian and German musicians the show "Bukarester Tango". This CD displays the most popular tangos and chansons of pre-war Bucharest. Right the second one is the most famous Romanian song of all times: the Zaraza.
Când apari seniorita în parc pe-nserat
Curg în juru-ţi petale de crin
Ai în ochi patimi dulci şi luciri de păcat
Şi ai trupul de şarpe felin
Gura ta e-un poem de nebune dorinţi
Sânii tăi un tezaur sublim
Eşti un demon din vis care tulburi şi minţi
Dar ai zâmbetul de heruvim
Vreau să-mi spui frumoasă Zaraza
Cine te-a iubit
Câţi au plâns nebuni pentru tine
Şi câţi au murit
Vreau să-mi dai gura-ţi dulce Zaraza
Să mă-mbete mereu
De a ta sărutare Zaraza
vreau sa mor şi eu. When you appear in the park at sunset,
señorita, lily petals are falling around you,
sweet desire and sinful lights burn in your eyes
and your body is a curling serpent.
Your mouth is an ode to mad desires,
your breast a sublime treasure.
You're a demon of dreams that stir up and lie
but your smile is that of a cherub.
Tell me, beautiful Zaraza:
who has already loved you?
How many have crazily cried
and how many have died for you?
Give me your sweet lips, Zaraza,
poison me continuously!
From your kiss, Zaraza
I want to die, too.
Zaraza was the most famous song of Cristian Vasile called "the last troubadour", and Vasile was the most famous performer of this song. Their names have become inseparable in the memory of the golden years of Bucharest, so much that the writer Stelian Tănase could call with reason the pre-war city "the Bucharest of Zaraza".
Cristian Vasile: Zaraza
The song has created its myth. Mircea Cărtărescu, the apocryphal chronicler of the Bucharest revival first published the story of Cristian Vasile and his lover, the beautiful Gypsy girl Zaraza in his volume of short stories De ce iubim femeile (Why we love women) of 2004, the most successful book of post-1990 Romania. Of the two great singers Cristian Vasile and Zavaidoc, competing in the early '40s for the favors of the dancer of the bar "Vulpea Roşie"/Red Fox, the former won, but the latter revenged himself. Zaraza died, and Vasile disappeared from the theatre of Bucharest. Only the song continued to be sung
"all over the city: Zaraza became the Lili Marlene of Bucharest. It was sung in the bars, in the air raid shelters, in the trenches. The enchanting Gypsy girl became just as renowned as her famous lover."
Although this touching story, as the author confesses it in a footnote, is entirely the product of his imagination, nevertheless the public has received it with pleasure, and today it is already spreading over the web as a true story. A popular audio book version has just been published, and in 2008 even a Hollywood-style film was released of it. One of the most memorable scenes of this latter is exactly the one where Vasile sings Zaraza to the public of the Red Fox bar.
Although the name of the beautiful Gypsy girl sounds strange to Romanian ears, nevertheless Cărtărescu has his explanation at hand, further developed by the review of his book in an almost philological thoroughness: "Zaraza, or more exactly Zarada is a traditional Gypsy name, whose original Spanish meaning is «beautiful» or «shining»."
Although the Spanish language knows no such word, nevertheless the reference to the Spanish origin is quite revealing. In fact, this most Romanian tango is simply an adoption of a South American tango. The original song was written by the Argentine Benjamín Tagle Lara (1892-1932) likewise with the title Zaraza, and in 1929 it won the second price of the authoritative Concurso del Disco Nacional of Montevideo, organized by Max Glücksmann. In the same year it was recorded with three great singers: José Razzano, Ignacio Corsini and Charlo with the Canaro Francisco band. However, in the original song Zaraza is the name not of a beautiful Gypsy woman, but of another attractive being with a similarly black, deep and melancholic look. Of an ox.
Blanca huella que, todos los dias,
clavado en el yugo, me ves picanear;
compañera del largo camino
las horas enteras te veo blanquear.
Mientras que, bajo el peso del trigo,
los ejes cansados los siento quejar,
yo, anudando mi pena a esa queja,
con cantos y silbos te sé acompañar.
¡A la huella, huella, zaraza,
huella, huella, guay!
Volverá la ingrata a su casa
andará por ahí…
Que si yo la viera, zaraza,
la hablaré, velay…
Buey zaraza, tus ojos tristones
mirando la huella parecen buscar
el milagro de aquellos pasitos
que al irse la ingrata no supo dejar.
Compañero que, unido conmigo
a un mismo destino, tenemos que andar,
seguiremos rastreando la huella,
la misma que siempre la vemos blanquear. White path that see me every day
at the yoke, while pricking the ox:
my companion in the long walk,
I watch your white color for long hours.
And while I see the tired eyes complaining
under the weight of the wheat,
I join my pain to their complaint and
accompany you with singing and whistling.
Go ahead, go, zaraza,
go ahead, go, hey!
Will the ungrateful one come home
or is she rather wandering far away…
If I will see her, zaraza,
I will speak to her for sure…
Zaraza ox, your sorrowful eyes
watching the path seem to look for
those wonderful small footsteps
that the ungrateful one has failed to leave.
My companion, in union with me
and sharing the same fate, we have to go,
always following the path, always
the same that lays white ahead of us.
This song was made popular in Paris by the greatest tango singer Carlos Gardel, the already mentioned "Creole Thrush". Glücksmann tried to convince him to record this song too, but Gardel declined this honor by saying that he found it dishonest to compete with the record by Razzano. He recorded instead El carretero, "The coachman", which is an earlier version of the same song. One had to wait eleven years to the energetic record by Rodolfo Biagi which was probably the one to get to Bucharest.
Rodolfo Biagi: Zaraza (1940). From the album Campo Afuera y su Orquesta Típica 1939-1942.
Others say that this song was made popular in Europe by the film Rive gauche (1931) of the British producer of Hungarian origin Sir Alexander Korda, in which it was sung by Sofía Bozán who had performed in Paris together with Gardel. This film also inspired the Polish version of the song, performed by Wiera Gran and Albert Harris with the title Gdy gitara gra piosenkę, "When the guitar is playing a song" (1939). The change of the title was motivated by the fact that in Polish zaraza means – pestilence.
Anyway, in Bucharest the song became popular in the performance of Cristian Vasile and with the text of Nicolae Kiriţescu which preserved the call word zaraza! of the Spanish refrain, endowing it with a new meaning.
The exact meaning of this word in the original Spanish text which apparently uses it as the name of the ox but writes it in minuscule, is not that easy to clarify. According to the dictionary it means "calico" or "printed textile", but this does not seem to have any sense here. In the opinion of Río Wang's fellow Argentine author Julia nowadays it is used in the sense of "mumbo jumbo" (written sometimes "sarasa" and pronounced in the same way). Her mother even recalls that it might have been used for oxen of a certain color, and even as an ox name, as Gardel uses it in the above quoted El carretero.
Finally Julia has come across Malena's tango blog, whose Argentine author had faced the same problem in Zaraza, and her investigations had led to Isidra Solati's article Un lenguaje de púrpuras y zarazas. According to this essay, the zarazas were the occasional village feasts organized at the arrival of a wandering musician, where the only decoration was a hastily stretched out piece of textile: a zaraza. This word full of desires and festive atmosphere has later become the refrain of coachmen singing and urging their ox, and finally also a name for the ox.
View from the Kretzulescu Inn. Since then both the inn and the street has been demolished.
In spite of this meandering story, my favorite song on Oana Cătălina Chiţu's album is not Zaraza, but the once successful romance by Titi Botez: Sub balcon eu ţi-am cântat o serenadă, "I have serenaded under your balcon".
Titi Botez: Sub balcon eu ţi-am cântat o serenadă, original recording.
Its melody and especially its refrain suggests of having been also adopted from a foreign original, but the identity of this original is still a mystery even to our Argentine sources. The investigation is in process. As soon as we'll have some result, we will get in touch again.
The Athénée Palace. The source of the images of old Bucharest is Tudor Octavian: Bucureştiul interbelic: Calea Victoriei, Bucharest 2009.
Etiquetas: Argentina, Atlantis, brave old world, Bucharest, Gardel; Carlos, history sung, music, old photos, Romanian, Spanish, tango, video
Venice is one of those cities whose name – Venetia, and later Venezia, that is the land of the Veneti – was adjusted by most people to their own languages: Venice, Venecia, Veneza, Venecija, Wenecja, Venetië, ونیز Venīz, Venedig, Venedik, Benetke, Benátky, البندقية Al-Bunduqiyya, or in Hungarian Velence. Most versions are simply more or less approximative local transcriptions of the original pronounciation. However, several speakers prefer to reveal some kind of local etymology behind their own version, just as we saw in the case of demijohn. The Arabic version is thus often derived from bunduqiyya, rifle, while the Slovenian/Czech Benetke/Benátky from an alleged benátky meaning "swampy" and referring to the situation of Venice, similarly to the name Venezuola, little Venice, which was given by Amerigo Vespucci to the shores of later Venezuela because of their Indian pile-dwellings built on the water.
Whether the name of the Hungarian fishing (and lately resort) village of Velence, some thirty kilometers to SW from Budapest is in any connection with its Italian namesake, is debatable even in Hungary. According to King Matthias' court historian Antonio Bonfini (†1503) it was founded by Italian colonists coming from "Venetia", and thus it got its name after Venice just like Northern Czech Benátky nad Jizerou. But he does not say when it all happened, and Bonfini, who had all the antiquity at his fingertips, may well have intended here the Veneti of the antiquity, just as he considered the Romanians to be direct offsprings of the inhabitants of Rome and King Matthias himself a member of the ancient Roman Corvinus family. The Hungarian Dictionary of Etymology derives the name from the wind vane of local fishermen called velence, which perhaps can be reduced to an original Slavic velenice, the diminutive form of velenie, direction, guide. Finally, renowned Medieval historians György Györffy and György Székely date the foundation of the village to the great Northern Italian wave of immigration to Hungary between 1000 and 1300, similarly to a number of other (since then extinct, that is, destroyed by the Turks) Medieval villages called Venece, Venence, Velence etc., and an even larger number of still existing villages having the Medieval Hungarian term for "Italian" olasz in their names: Olaszliszka, Bodrogolaszi and the rest. One thing is sure that in 1516 it was mentioned as "Welencze aka Venecia", and in the first map of Hungary of 1522/28 it figures as Veneze.
Whatever the etymological connection between the two place names is, the ice cream parlour on the lake-shore has created a kinship between the two Venices with a generous gesture. The two prospettive and the bilingual sign-board bridge distances and cultures, and the role of the gondola is performed by the canoe transformed into flower-stand. And immediately beyond the garden there opens a live panorama of the lagoons of Velence.
Etiquetas: etymology, Hungarian, Italian, message on the wall, painting, travel
Cemetery visit
There is a city


The IQAC of SGS is organizing a four day faculty program on different topics on each day. The topic for Day is, General Session on "Health and Wellness" by Dr. Neetu Jain. Day two's topic is General Session on Social Networking and Media by Ms. Zinia Dutta Gupta, Digital Marketing Analyst, Basket Option Pvt. Ltd. The 3rd day will be addressed by Prof. Shailaja Shastri Head, PG Dept of Psychology, Jain (Deemed-to-be University) on the topic: Work life balance. The last day's discussion will be on General session on self-defense and Fitness by Sensei Mathews P. Raj Wakayama Karate Do India, Asst. Professor, Department of Life science.


text:
p27;Trp53
Lifespan changes: From wild type to p27;Trp53
Genetic mutants with p27, Trp53 alterations
p27(KO);Trp53(KO)
Double p27/p53 mutant lives much less compared to the single mutant p27, as well as compared to the p53 single mutant
Double mutant p27(KO);p53(KO) has a lifespan of 114.0 days, while single mutant p53(KO) has a lifespan of 145.0 days and single mutant p27(KO) has a lifespan of 259.0 days.
Damo LA et al., 2005, Tumorigenesis in p27/p53- and p18/p53-double null mice: functional collaboration between the pRb and p53 pathways. Mol Carcinog. 42(2):109-20 15584024 Click here to select all mutants from this PubMed ID in the graph
Mice lacking both p18(Ink4c) and p27(Kip1) develop a tumor spectrum similar to pRb(+/-) mice, and loss of p53 function accelerates tumorigenesis in pRb(+/-) mice. We hypothesized that codeletion of either p18 or p27 in conjunction with p53 deletion will also accelerate tumorigenesis. Mice lacking both p18 and p53 develop several tumors not reported in either single null genotype, including hepatocellular carcinoma, testicular choriocarcinoma, hemangiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, and osteosarcoma. Mice lacking both p27 and p53 exhibit a decreased lifespan and develop unique tumors, including papillary carcinoma of the colon, hemangiosarcoma, and leiomyosarcoma. In both p18/p53 and p27/p53 double null genotypes, the incidence and spectra of tissues that develop lymphoma are also increased, as compared to the single null genotypes. The development of p27/p53 double null colon tumors correlates with secondary changes in cell-cycle protein expression and CDK (cyclin-dependent kinase) activity, perhaps contributing to the progression of colorectal cancer. We concluded that p18 and p27 can, not only functionally collaborate with one another, but also can independently collaborate with p53 to modulate the cell cycle and suppress tumorigenesis in a tissue-specific manner.
Search genes: p27 Trp53
View on GenAge (p27)
No gene information for p27
MGI ID
Trp53
View on GenAge (Trp53)
MGI:98834
transformation related protein 53
Orthologs of p27;Trp53 in SynergyAge
Orthologs of p27 in SynergyAge
Orthologs of Trp53 in SynergyAge