Shakespeare's Globe taking 'Hamlet' around world

FILE - An Aug. 1, 2007, photo from files showing a general view of The Globe Theatre, central London. Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally ? "All the world's a stage." The London theater says it plans to tour a production of "Hamlet" to every country in the world, 205 nations in all. The small-scale production, performed by a cast of eight, will tour the world between April 2014 and April 23, 2016 ? the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. (AP Photo/PA, Stephen Kelly, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

FILE - An Aug. 1, 2007, photo from files showing a general view of The Globe Theatre, central London. Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally ? "All the world's a stage." The London theater says it plans to tour a production of "Hamlet" to every country in the world, 205 nations in all. The small-scale production, performed by a cast of eight, will tour the world between April 2014 and April 23, 2016 ? the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. (AP Photo/PA, Stephen Kelly, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

LONDON (AP) ? Shakespeare's Globe theater is about to take the Bard's words literally ? "All the world's a stage."

The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a production of "Hamlet" to every country in the world, some 205 nations and territories in all.

The small-scale production, performed by a cast of eight, will tour the world between April 2014 and April 23, 2016 ? the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

"By train, coach, plane and boat, we aim to take this wonderful, iconic, multifarious play to as many fresh ears as we possibly can," said artistic director Dominic Dromgoole.

The target of 205 nations and territories could vary a little, and exactly what constitutes a country is in some cases contested. The United Nations has 193 member states, while there were 204 teams in the London Olympics.

"We are aware that it is insanely ambitious," said Globe spokeswoman Emma Draper. But she said the company ? and the British Council, a government-backed agency that will support the tour ? believed it was possible.

Venues have yet to be determined, but will include Helsingor in Denmark ? also known as Elsinore, where Shakespeare's tragedy is set ? and Kenya's Rift Valley. The tour will start and end at Shakespeare's Globe, a replica Elizabethan playhouse on the south bank of the River Thames in London.

The tour is the flipside of last year's Globe to Globe festival, which brought troupes from around the world to London to perform Shakespeare's plays in 37 languages.

Theater director Peter Brook said "Hamlet" was "the most all-encompassing" and universal of Shakespeare's plays.

"The six simplest words in the English language are 'to be or not to be,'" he said. "There is hardly a corner of the planet where these words have not been translated.

"To take 'Hamlet' in its original language around the world is a bold and dynamic project," he said.

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State TV won't show Miss Italia; pageant unhappy

ROME (AP) ? The organizer of Italy's Miss Italia beauty pageant is criticizing the state-run television network's decision not to broadcast this year's contest, a step that comes as audiences for the show have dwindled and amid pressure to improve how women are portrayed in the Italian media.

Miss Italia's finals have been shown on RAI in September for 25 years. But the broadcaster's general director, Luigi Gubitosi, was quoted as saying Tuesday by the Italian news agency ANSA that "the format by now has become outdated."

Scantily-clad women are a mainstay of much of Italian TV, with everything from quiz shows to talk shows featuring leggy showgirls on state channels as well as on private networks. The formula was championed by media mogul Silvio Berlusconi on the nation's three main private networks before he became a political leader.

On Monday, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, hailed the decision to abandon the traditional transmission of the contest finals as a "civilized and modern choice."

"I hope that Italian young women will have the chance to be appreciated, even on television, in a different way than by parading with numbers on them," she told a conference on violence against women.

But Patrizia Mirigliani, the organizer of the contest, blasted RAI's decision, saying the broadcaster, which is funded partially by taxpayers, should instead try to modernize the show's format. She insisted that the pageant doesn't degrade women.

"In the past years, I've worked hard to change the competition, keeping it up-to-date," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Miss Italia is about a woman who is beautiful, but also complete and eager for challenges. But this idea hasn't come through" on TV, she contended.

For example, Mirigliani said, TV emcees have clung to the format of asking the contestants what she called "silly questions."

Francesca Giammaria, a Roman, applauded the decision by RAI as a first step toward changing how young women like her are viewed.

"It's true that there are more serious problems" surrounding the image of women in Italy, "but let's start from the small things," she said as she enjoyed a quick meal with friends near the Pantheon.

But others might miss the annual TV show. Silvana Contristano, a middle-aged Roman, said she "always watched Miss Italia. It didn't do any harm. It was a tradition."

Her husband, Ugo Nocentini, disagreed. "I totally understand the doubts about the program's value for public service. It's farcical," he said.

Boldrini suggested there was a clear connection between sexism on television and physical abuse against women. "If women are made into objects, the distance from there to violence is small," she said.

But Mirigliani called Miss Italia a "show for families" and noted that such pageants are shown on television around the world.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano jumped into the fray, with a commentary Tuesday praising RAI's decision to pull the plug on the program. It called the pageant a "miserable bandwagon" that has become "unsuitable for public service."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-wont-show-miss-italia-pageant-unhappy-211123516.html

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Small Animal General Practice in Lincoln Square Chicago seeks FT Veterinarian | Jewell Animal Hospital

Small Animal General Practice in Lincoln Square Chicago seeks FT Veterinarian

Jewell Animal Hospital

Established small animal general practice seeks permanent FT veterinarian to join our high-quality medical team in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago. We are a progressive, family friendly practice with an extremely high standard of care. We require our vets to maintain a positive and professional demeanor while multi-tasking. Qualified applicant is a self-motivated team player who communicates well with great attention all to detail and a focus on client communication and education. We are a state of the art facility and are well equipped with digital and dental radiology, in house lab, and complete dental and surgical suites. Submit cover letter and resume to careers@jewellanimalhospital.com.

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Clippy hits the road as Office 365 expands to 38 new countries

Almost five months after its debut, Office 365 is getting 38 new passport stamps. Clippy's hitting such exotic locales as Fiji, the Bahamas and Barbados, and it's even picking up new languages along the way. The subscription-based productivity suite now includes support for Vietnamese, Arabic and Malay. What's more, Redmond is happily accepting five new currencies for payment, too. Brazil, Hong Kong, Mexico, Malaysia and India can all use their native money to pay for the software as a service. Sadly, there's still no word from Microsoft about accepting Bitcoins.

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Factbox: Six-woman jury that acquitted George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin case

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A jury of six women acquitted neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman on Saturday of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.

The jurors declined to speak after the verdict was announced, according to a court official. A glimpse of the women - five of whom are white and one of whom is Hispanic - who reached the verdict in the racially fraught case follows.

Juror B29 was the sole Hispanic member on the jury panel. The mother of eight children, all but one younger than 18, works the overnight shift at a nursing home that cares for Alzheimer's patients. Before recently moving to Florida, she lived in Chicago, where she saw vendors selling T-shirts bearing an image of Martin's face.

Juror B37 is a mother of two who grew up in a military family and used to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. She thinks most gun training is inadequate and when asked her thoughts during jury selection on the right to bear arms, she told the judge, "I have an issue with what kind of arms they're allowed to bear."

Juror B76 is active in pet rescue and is the mother of two grown children. After working in a family construction business, she now manages family rental properties. She told the judge, "Our family's pretty open-minded. ... We like to base our judgment on the whole story."

Juror E40 has worked as a safety officer for 20 years. She is the mother of a grown son and recently moved to central Florida from Iowa. She told the judge she believed gun owners needed to realize "there's a responsibility attached to bear arms."

Juror E6 is a mother of two who told the judge she transformed news of the shooting into a "teaching moment" that enabled her to talk to her children about "behavior that was safe, not that you're doing anything wrong, but be proactive ... don't put yourself in harm's way." She worked for a short time in financial services but is currently unemployed and enjoys gardening.

Juror B51 is single and retired from her job as a business manager overseeing 1,200 employees at a call center. In her job, she became experienced with changing her mind when presented with new facts. She spends her free time visiting family. After initially hearing news of the shooting, she told the judge, she was surprised that a neighborhood watch program would have someone taking as active a role as Zimmerman. She said Zimmerman was in the wrong when he ignored a dispatcher's instruction not to follow Martin. "He didn't wait and the rest. We know what happened," she said.

(Reporting by Barbara Liston; Writing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Peter Cooney)

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