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- The blab is familiar. "They are all so talented.... Difficult to choose ... a great future ahead for all of them..." The apprentice confirmed that it is easy to make money in field of low-q persons. |
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- Subject: FW: Senator Kerry's remark at fundraiser about foreign leaders wanting him to beat Bush Poolers, Given the growing attention to Senator Kerry's remark at the Fla. fundraiser about foreign leaders wanting him to beat Bush, and Kerry's subsequent statements that he'd merely "heard from" leaders, I went back to my recording of the event to re-confirm his remarks and put them in context. I wanted to provide that for all of you as well as CORRECT the record on a... |
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- More words less content. "... sort of an industrial section of ..." "... basically use the minarets to locate the marines ... |
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- Our willingness to overwork a shrinking vocabulary. Another example from our KSA file. "It's definitely a threat to Google, but it's also a threat to anybody who sells keyword-linked advertising - including Overture and eBay," said Danny Sullivan, editor of the online newsletter Search Engine Watch. Otherwise he would have had to say "It's kind of a threat to Google..." Overqualified comments. |
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- [Apr 25, 2004] On our webserver logs -as Photo Matt, Matthew Gifford and dsandler.org experience-... |
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- Day two is over, and I'm beat. I ended up skipping the "networking dinner" because I didn't have the energy to schmooze any more after breakfast, lunch and nine half-hour one-on-one meetings with vendors, along with the plenary sessions. While exhausting, it wasn't as bad as I feared it would be; a few of the one-on-one sessions were a complete bust, but a couple of them were promising. I also met someone else from the Department of State at lunch, and we had a great conversation, and may try to pull together a joint pilot project. |
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- Day two is over, and I'm beat. I ended up skipping the "networking dinner" because I didn't have the energy to schmooze any more after breakfast, lunch and nine half-hour one-on-one meetings with vendors, along with the plenary sessions. While exhausting, it wasn't as bad as I feared it would be; a few of the one-on-one sessions were a complete bust, but a couple of them were promising. I also met someone else from the Department of State at lunch, and we had a great conversation, and may try to pull together a joint pilot project. |
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- I heard an interesting story on NPR today while I was off running errands in my car at lunchtime. A reporter from Austin was talking about "landslide" counties. About how recently, people have been choosing... |
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- Thanks to readers Beau Dure and Jim McCarthy for the pointer to the Mark Cuban chat session over at USA... |
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- BY RAFAEL LAM | Special for Granma International | www.granma.cu HIGHLY attentive to Cuban popular music, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), recently organized the 1st Havana Danzón Festival, replete with a competition and a colloquium. Danzón began in Matanzas with the opening on January 1, 1879 of Las alturas de Simpson (Simpson’s Heights), a work by Miguel Failde. |
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- By Marc Frank | Reuters HAVANA - Cuba is meeting restructured short-term debt payments to some governments, diplomats said on Monday, apparently using increased tourism and nickel revenues, as well as cash gleaned from recently imposed hard currency controls. But the same sources cautioned the effort was not sufficient to free the Communist nation from its status as one of the world's worst credit risks. A Japanese diplomat said Cuba had paid on time $50 million in principal under... |
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- www.dtcuba.com Havana.- Cuba's recording industry published the list of 72 nominees in 19 categories for the 8th edition of CUBADISCO'2004. Among the nominees for the awards, to be granted in late May, are renowned artists and groups such as Chucho Valdés, Amaury Pérez, Carlos Varela, Teresa García Caturla, Adalberto Alvarez, Frank Fernández, Polito Ibañez, Ars Longa and Cubanitos 20-02, among others. |
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- www.dtcuba.com Havana.- Companies from 15 countries participated in the 9th International Fair on Food, Containers, Packing and Graphic Arts (ALIMEXPO), held at EXPOCUBA exhibition hall this month. Some 230 firms participated in the event, aimed at boosting commercial ties and cooperation agreements among companies in the food sector. |
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- www.dtcuba.com Havana.- Eastern Granma province is expected to receive 60,000 foreign vacationers this year. According to sources from the leisure industry, results during the first few months of 2004 show that there is a chance to achieve that goal. |
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- www.dtcuba.com Havana.- The 24th Tourism Convention, to be held in the beach resort of Varadero, will be dedicated to Jardines del Rey. According to sources from the organizing committee, the new offers and facilities of Jardines del Rey (Gardens of the King), located in eastern Ciego de Avila province, will be presented at the Varadero convention. |
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- www.dtcuba.com Tourist management in Cuba in 2003, a year characterized by a complex international economic situation, revealed the potential of hotel groups, travel agencies and tour operators to improve efficiency. Within that context, the Pyramid Awards - established by GRUPO VACACIONAR - is an acknowledgement of the quality, professionalism and dedication to doing business in the leisure industry by the group's service providers in Cuba. With more than ten years of experience... |
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- Delirium Books reports that the hardcover edition of Grave Markings has shipped today, so if you ordered a copy, it's on the way! The sold-out leatherbound edition will ship in about a month. I'm told there are only twelve... |
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- This is the virtual library of Colombia's Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, offering online texts (both full and extracts) and links to external sites related to all fields within the arts and humanities (natural and social sciences are also covered). The user may browse the database by subject, such as history, literature, philosophy or art, or conduct more detailed searches. Each subject is divided into sub-sections. For example, literature is divided into literature by country (predominantly Latin American countries, and Colombia in particular, although Spain is well represented, as is North America and the UK). Browsing through these sub-sections is recommended and could yield interesting results: |
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- The online literary magazine, La Habana Elegante (ISSN 1528-3712), was first published on the Web in 1998, although the magazine's origins date back to 1883. The original version was an important forum for Spanish-American modernism, publishing stories, narratives, poems and prose by some of Cuba's most celebrated writers. The new electronic version strives to live up to its predecessor's legacy. Published four times a year, the user will find in La Habana Elegante articles and essays related to Cuban literature, culture and the arts. The magazine also reproduces in digital form pieces of prose by notable writers: |
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- This is the online version of the peer-reviewed journal, Literatura y linguística (online ISSN 0717-621X / print ISSN 0716-5811), an annual publication from the Universidad Católica Cardenal Raúl Henrique in Chile. The journal's focus is the study of language and literature from Chile in particular, and from Spanish-America and Spain in general. The user may access issues of the journal that date back to 1997, and a search facility allows for easy location of material. Articles are written in either Spanish, English or Portuguese, and abstracts are available for each contribution. Each issue is divided into: |
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- This Web site, while primarily facilitating the sale of English translations of works by Spanish playwright, Alejandro Casona, offers the student of modern Spanish drama some useful supplementary information about Casona and his plays. The site offers a brief overview of Casona's life and thought, and a 'biography' which is compiled from a number of statements made by Casona in various interviews, talks and press articles. The translated works for sale are divided into three volumes: dramas, comedies, and history and fable plays, and a brief synopsis is available online for each play. This provides the user with a convenient reference guide to Casona's works. |
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- Part of the ThinkQuest online library, 'Imperium Romanum' offers a series of resources on the history and culture of the Roman empire from the Etruscans to Late Antiquity and is a useful source of information and images for students of classics, ancient history and archaeology at school and undergraduate level. The website, which is an ongoing project which will increase in size over time, offers a potted history of the development of Rome from a small community dominated by its Etruscan neighbours to a world dominating empire which declined in the 5th century AD. Short biographies of Roman emperors and writers are accompanied by accounts of the provinces (browseable with an interactive map) and of the development of ancient Etruscan and Roman painting and sculpture. The latter has some impressive interactive video plugins. Latin texts are also featured, though without translation or notes at the moment, and weblinks to Latin grammar sites and other pages of Roman interest. |
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- The Society for American Archaeology, with over 6,000 members, is one of the largest and broadly based organizations dedicated to promoting the study, teaching and protection of archaeological heritage from the Americas. The website, aimed at academics and students, as well as heritage professionals working in museums, private institutions and government agencies around the world, provides an outline of the society's aims and objectives and of its research and educational projects. It also offers practical advice for career and employment opportunities in American archaeology while the 'current research' page provides a précis of various archaeological projects in North, Central and South America and invites contributions from fieldworkers. The SAA also publishes numerous journals such as 'American Antiquity', 'Latin American Antiquity' and 'Archaeology and Public Education', whose contents and abstracts are provided from the mid-1990s onwards. While the on-line E-tiquity and SAA archaeological record are provided free in PDF format though some parts of the site require user registration and/or subscription for full access. |
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- The homepage for the Journal of Field Archaeology, one of the leading periodicals for landscape archaeology, field techniques and intellectual issues related to the theory and practice of applied fieldwork. The website includes abstracts for all published articles, which are searchable by either topic or author, from 1974 onwards, with more detailed information on the most recent volumes. Guidelines for submission, editorial policy and subscription information are also provided, including several reproduced essays on the wider intellectual and practical issues of book reviews and graphic illustration in journals. The areas in which the journal publishes includes: field reports and technical and methodological studies that relate to actual archaeological data, both of which are selected on the basis of broader intellectual interest rather than specific regional significance; |
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Linguaweb (Apr 27 2004 02:57 GMT) - The Web site, Linguaweb, is a collection of resources for language learners of all ages and levels. Currently, the site provides materials for the study of French, German, Spanish and Italian, although it promises to cater for other languages soon. For each language, Linguaweb offers a series of different types of activities: tutorials focusing on particular language, such as asking for directions; grammar tutorials; |
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- An excellent online study guide to classical Greek and Roman culture through its key literary, historical and philosophical writers, by Roger Dunkle of the Classics Department of Brooklyn College. The study guide, which is intended for undergraduates taking classics options, combines historical, critical and literary material with practical excercises and questions in reading, comprehension and interpretation. The authors featured are Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Plato, Lucretius and Virgil and each literary genre is accompanied by sections providing cultural and intelectual background. The entries are hypertexted to Perseus for easy reference as is the excellent glossary of personal names, technical terms and placenames, though there is no bibliography. This resource provides a clear and reliable learning resource for classics and ancient history students at school and undergraduate level. |
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Numismatics (Apr 27 2004 02:57 GMT) - An amateur website with interesting essays, images and weblinks on the subject of ancient coins, including digital reprints of classic numismatic works such as a complete illustrated edition of Barclay Head's Historia Numorum, first published in 1886 and one of the seminal works on Greek and Roman coinages. Also included are some 70 plates from his guide to the coin collection of the British Museum (with the preface to the 1895 edition) and some high resolution maps of the ancient world (though being out of copyright they are also somewhat dated). The project aims to provide on-line all the illustrations from the the more comprehensive British Museum catalogue, of which the plates from a few volumes are already available. The edition of 'Historia Numorum' is hypertexted for easy browsing and is accompanied by a review of the 1911 revised edition. The author's own contributions include articles on the Greek alphabet, the coins of Apollonia Pontika and the gorgon issues of Parion, as some illustrated comments on counterfeits. |
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- A useful collection of original essays, articles reproduced from academic and popular journals, maps and archive photographs, weblinks and news stories on the archaeology of the Levant, part of the umbrella site Al Mashriq, which provides on-line information on many aspects of culture in the Middle East. A large part of the site deals with the Lebanon but Jordan is also featured along with links to other websites of archaeological interest. Interesting archive photographs of crusader castles nestle beside fascinating aerial shots of the submerged harbours of Saida, Tyre and Rouad. The political instability of the Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s caused terrible damage to the archaeological heritage of the country but, ironically, the reconstruction programme has also made available for excavation large tracts of urban space which have been built over for millennia. One of the key interests in this website is the difficult relationship between the needs of archaeological conservation on the one hand and economic reconstruction on another as well as raising the wider issues of the role of archaeology and heritage in post-conflict regions. |
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