The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, 99 South Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States is currently hosting, among others, the exhibition “Alicia Alonso’s Giselle”, in celebration of the 75th anniversary since Cuba’s prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso first performed Giselle, the Romantic ballet which she staged on companies around the world, including her own Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Photo © The National Museum of Dance.
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Málaga, Spain: Women are helped to disembark from a migrant rescue vessel. The Spanish Maritime Rescue Service saved 183 people from dinghies and brought them to the harbour, where they were assisted by the Cruz Roja Española (Spanish Red Cross). Photo: Jesús Mérida/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock.
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Another week is passing by quickly, so keep in mind and make sure to be on time for your classical and Fischerandom chess class at Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” next Saturday, starting at 16,00 as usual.
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Theresa May intimated Jeremy Corbyn to immediately join cross-party Brexit talks, as his demand that she rule out a no-deal scenario is “an impossible condition”. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
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Armed police patrol 汉口站 (Hànkǒu railway station) in 武汉 (Wǔhàn), 湖北省 (Húběi province), China. China is increasing the number of officers at stations, airports and other transportation hubs in preparation for the upcoming 春节 (Spring Festival) travel rush. Photo: Imaginechina/Rex/Shutterstock.
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Hawaii, United States: A swimmer gets close to a great white shark said to be “Deep Blue”, one of the largest recorded individuals. Photo: Reuters.
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Haedina tibi pelle contegenti
nudae tempora verticemque calvae, festive tibi, Phoebe, dixit ille, qui dixit caput esse calceatum. When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cap of black neats’ leather; He was very wag, who to you said, “Why do you wear your slippers on your head?”. |
劉勃麟 (Liú Bólín), Hiding In The City No. 16 – People’s Policeman, 2006. Credit: Eli Klein Gallery.
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From next February 5–16, 2019 the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will host for the first time in its history the Cairns Cup, an élite women’s chess super-tournament named after co-founder Jeanne Sinquefield (nee Cairns). The event boasts one of the richest prize fund in women’s chess history, with the not unfounded hope of actually involving the top ten female players in the world. For further details please visit: https://www.uschesschamps.com/.
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De cathedra quotiens surgis — iam saepe notavi —
pedicant miserae, Lesbia, te tunicae. Quas cum conata es dextra, conata sinistra Vellere, cum lacrimis eximis et gemitu: sic constringuntur gemina Symplegade culi et nimias intrant cyaneasque natis. Emendare cupis vitium deforme? docebo: Lesbia, nec surgas censeo, nec sedeas. Yours is a classic dilemma, Lesbia; Whenever you get up from your chair Your clothes treat you most indecently. Tugging and talking, with right hand and left You try to free the yards of cloth swept Up your fundament. Tears and groans Are raised to Heaven as the imperilled Threads are pulled to safety from Those deadly straits: the huge Symplegades Of your buttocks grip all that pass. What should you do to avoid Such terrible embarrassment? Ask Uncle Val — Don’t get up, girl, and don’t sit down! |
Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat), 1941. Credit: Wikipedia.
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Theresa May has lost the vote on her crucial Brexit deal by 432 votes to 202 in what is the heaviest parliamentary defeat of any British Prime Minister in the democratic era. As a result Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a vote of no confidence, which will be debated in the House on Wednesday.
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After serving as President of Interpol for two years — indeed a fact of unprecedented gravity — 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngwěi) resigned in absentia in October 2018 via Chinese officials, in consequence of he being detained and accused of taking bribes by Chinese anti-corruption authorities. His unwilling disappearance, if nothing else, may actually have helped his fellow collaborators — not necessarily Chinese — to hide and bury their role and responsibilities in the filthy war for equating the international law to the “law with Chinese characteristics”. Apparently, under 孟宏伟 (Mèng Hóngwěi)’s Presidency, Interpol has issued an avalanche of “red notices” against any kind of “disobedient” people — not only Chinese — so one may think that plenty of Arcovazzis in the global family of the “law and order” gang have lost a meticulous technocrat, a zealous executor of orders, a reference point, and, hopefully (but not too likely), also the “extrajudicial licence” to perpetrate abuses worldwide. The last one was probably against him himself, so as to represent a mystic nemesis. In the end, he knocked on his own door — and, like in Kafka’s Trial, he was not given a fair trial.
He probably saw no other choice to give his family a future. |
Since her husband’s disappearance at the end of September 2018, 格蕾絲‧孟 (Grace Mèng) (pictured above) and her two young sons kept living in France under 24-hour police protection. Photo: Bruno Amsellem/Divergence for Le Monde.
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Poznań, Poland: People gather during a protest against violence. Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz died of wounds inflicted by a knife attack on Sunday evening during a nationwide charity gala in Gdańsk. Adamowicz, a frequent target of right-wing hate, was well-known as a high-profile critic of the ruling far-right Polish government. Photo: Jakub Kaczmarczyk/EPA.
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The Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” will participate in the fourth edition of the ballet festival “Le ali della danza”, which will be staged at the Teatro Aurora, Via San Bartolo in Tuto, 1, 50018 Scandicci, Florence, on Friday, January 25, 2019, starting at 20,45 as usual.
The event is organised by Lions Club Fiesole under the patronage of the Comune di Scandicci. The proceeds will be donated to support a school of massotherapy for hypo-blind. |
