Italy’s Simplification Day? La Scala Opens: take the Othello jealousy quiz?New Encyclopedia portal knows it all? Berlusconi’s rebel daughter at Debutante ball

Simplification day
Italy’s intricate financial/tax system has long been the butt of many jokes and this effort by the government to boost simplicity isn’t likely to help matters. Crowned “simplification day” in English, the Italian explanation is: “Convegno sulla semplificazione degli adempimenti.”
www.tesoro.it

La Scala opens: Take the Othello jealousy quiz
The traditional opening of the Scala on Dec. 7 with Verdi’s "Othello" will no doubt be a memorable one–the historic opera house close will for three season spruce up and performances move to the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, in the Bicocca area of Milan. (The official web site www.teatroallascala.org will still function as a virtual ticket office..)
Seats for opening night are an endangered species, but get into the spirit with the special jealousy quiz which reveals your "Othello quotient."
http://news2000.iol.it/scala/index_test.jhtml

Berlusconi’s Rebel Daughter-Deb
Barbara Berlusconi made her official entrance into genteel society Saturday night at the debutante’s ball in Paris–making history as the first tulle-covered Cinderella with a pierced tongue.
www.tg5.it

New Encyclopedia portal knows it all
Art, medicine, geography, music and entertainment and science are the main categories for this new portal which pools together publisher DeAgostini’s considerable resources…On a concrete level, if you want to brush up on Italian soccer, but can’t tell Zoff from Zidane, this is a good starting point. In Italian only, it’s especially useful for definitions and historical explanations–the media section, for example, puts together basic industry terms in one place…The site also offers more comprehensive reference materials–for about a $100 a year subscription–but the free info on offer looks like plenty.
www.sapere.it

Roberto Baggio: the career anthology• Fashion: who’s who & dictionary •Host of non-chaste calendars• Job announcements: Zanichelli seeks EMT editorial consultants

Roberto Baggio: a Question of Karma
Recurring rumors about the Buddhist, ponytailed soccer star’s impending retirement make this a good time to take a look back at the highlights and haircuts of this Italian icon
www.clarence.com/contents/sport/speciali/011116baggio

Fashion: who’s who & dictionary
New site gives insight and info on today’s fashion stars and the latest trends as well as a helpful vocab section. In Italian.
www.dellamoda.it

Host of non-chaste calendars
Plenty of bare-all calendars featuring Italian starlets to make up for the chaste Pirelli offering…
http://notizie.virgilio.it/notizie/primopiano/0,1256,3022,00.html?cst=3022&at=13001

Job announcements:

Zanichelli seeks EMT editorial staff

Zanichelli editore cerca per le Redazioni lessicografiche giovani di madrelingua inglese, anche senza precedente esperienza redazionale, ma con buona cultura e ottima conoscenza della lingua inglese (meglio se anche con buona o discreta conoscenza dell’italiano). Si richiede una preparazione a livello universitario. Un’esperienza nell’insegnamento dell’inglese a studenti italiani e’ titolo preferenziale. E’ prevista una regolare assunzione con contratto a termine da subito fino a tutto il giugno 2002. La retribuzione sara’ commisurata alla preparazione del candidato.
La sede di lavoro e’ Bologna. E’ possibile fruire della mensa aziendale per i pasti di mezzogiorno nei giorni da lunedi’ a venerdi’.
l’invio del curriculum ne autorizza l’immisione in banca dati e la trasmissione all’interno della casa editrice ai sensi della legge sulla ‘privacy’. Contatteremo per un colloquio i candidati con le caratteristiche piu’ interessanti: a tal fine e’ utile indicare un recapito telefonico e/o e-mail.
Lorenzo Enriques
Redazioni lessicografiche
Zanichelli editore
via Irnerio 34, 40126 Bologna, Italy

www.zanichelli.it

Life-lesson portal for Learning Italian • Peek at Pompeii’s "Pleasure Spa" •Frances Ford Coppola: Java on the Set •Job announcements: sales manager, satellite network, English teachers, Italy wide

Italian portal teaches everyday practices
That’ll teach you! (così impari) is the cheeky slogan for Italian educational portal eudidia…The free lessons on management, computers, the home, personal life offer a heap of easy-to-read modules that are not only good for learning the language–but picking up on the customs…Where else are you going to find out what’s considered a proper Italian breakfast, how to prepare for a job interview or how to behave at a funeral?
www.eudida.it

Peek at Pompeii’s "Pleasure Spa"
Despite the quality of the photos, it’s not hard to figure out what Pompeii’s pleasure spa was all about– adornments of the unisex changing room are thought to show a sort of erotic menu. Discovered in the 1950s, the terme suburbane are not the only erotic images in the city, though the baths boast what was described by officials as Pompeii’s only "sapphic love scene." They’ll be open to the public from December on and will likely make up for two other areas (Il Lupanare and Casa dei Vettii) closed for restoration…
http://ricerca.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/11_Novembre/14/POMPEI.shtml

Italian Cinema + Espresso
What’s the connection? Boh….Frances Ford Coppola & Illy manage a cute send up on Fellini’s "White Sheik" with Valentina Cervi ("Portrait of a Lady")…Clip & backstage…
http://151.99.129.54/luxavideo/clienti/illy/back/illy.htm

Job announcements:

IT-LAZ-Rome-Sales Manager/Account Executive
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EXCITING Pre-IPO specializes in SATELLITE NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY that focuses on the "last mile" of network issues. Provide IT hardware and services to the "edge of the network"…Services include Corporate Data Networking, Internet Access, Content Delivery, and Event Services.
Position & Requirements:
The Sales Manager will be responsible for selling to the LARGEST customers (Global 2000) in Italy. (Virtual office)
Applicant must have:
* experience identifying and qualifying opportunities, building strong relationships, and closing prospective opportunities with both new and existing accounts.
* 5 – 15 years of either telecommunications or networking services sales in this territory.
* a strong understanding of data communications concepts, products, and services.
* ability and desire to work independently
* ability to work closely with customers
* ability to coordinate both technical and financial proposal strategies
* proven negotiation and presentation skills with Global 2000 accounts
VERY AGGRESSIVE compensation package: $80 – 90K (USD) base salary plus commissions = $180 – $200K (USD). PLUS excellent stock options and an extensive "Full" Benefits package.
Please forward "Word formatted" resumes in English to: KLB@SCNorthJersey.com

Graduate mother-language teachers of English
URGENTLY required
For innovative project starting mid-January 2002.
Teaching experience essential.
We are looking for people throughout Italy
Please, send your CV, allowing the treatment of your personal data (L.675/96 tutela della privacy) via e-mail, specifying in the RE: "Rif. 8035 English teacher", to:
SCS Selezione S.r.l.
e mail: corum@libero.it

The Cell-Phone Pocket Protector • New Sobriety: The Pirelli Calendar 2002l • The Georgofili Academy–online • Lucio Dalla discovers a "Luna Matana"

The Cell-Phone Pocket Protector
Unlike its low-tech cousin the plastic pocket protector, an Italian clothing manufacturer has designed a mobile phone protector for suit jackets, marketing it as "the intelligent look.” The ‘City Time with Cellular Protector’ jacket, modeled by sheepish-looking soccer player Angelo Di Livio, has an inside pocket with three layers, one with a “special fiber containing silver threads” which supposedly protects the wearer against harmful emissions…Seeing is believing
www.textura.it/cellularcity.htm

New Sobriety: The Pirelli Calendar 2002
Call it pulse, call it luck but one of the world’s most famous girlie calendars got dressed this year. Photog Peter Lindbergh shot 12 fiercely young and Armani-garbed actresses including "American Beauty" Mena Suvari and Charlie Chaplin’s great-granddaughter Kiera…The auto shop will never be the same…If you’re in Milan, check out the "Making Of" exhibit in the new Armani/Teatro space: via Bergognone, 59.
www.pirelli.it

The Georgofili Academy–online
Heavily damaged in the 1993 bombing of the Uffizi, the Georgofili Academy has come back to life–with a new web presence.
Founded in 1753, the academy houses a highly-specialized collection of agrarian texts–but there are frequent exhibits open to the general public…Online, take a look at the "fototeca" for historical photographic exhibits on women in agriculture, machinery and rural Italian life.
www.georgofili.it
In Italian & English.

Lucio Dalla discovers a "Luna Matana"
The somewhat melancholy singer-songwriter is back–take a listen to hit "Siciliano" and sample tracks from his new record which takes its name after the Tremiti Islands.
Lyrics & MP3 downloads–free from his official site…..
www.pressingline.it/dalla/luna_matana/testi_mp3.htm

The Lambretta, rivisited ? Free Italian spell check ?Local Markets & Oil Tastings? Biagio Antonacci’s New Single & Old Faves

Ogle the New Lambretta
A team of designers have revisited one of the cornerstones of Italian design..This new version may look a bit more industrial than the orginal—but it’s a silent, electric version..Christmas, anyone?
www.designboom.com/shop/lambretta.html

Spell check in Italian: Free download
Make sure your doubles are doubled and your accents are in the right place–download this Italian spell checker for Word…
www.zjzmpop.co.yu

Local markets & Olive Oil Tastings
From early fall until March 2002, trip through the countryside tasting olive oils from local presses and specialties from markets….
www.cittadellolio.it/appuntamenti/frantoi/afm2001_2002.html

Biagio Antonacci: New Album "9/11/2001"
Sample old favorites ("Mi fai stare bene)" and new ("Ritorno ad amare") from one of Italy’s favorite adult contemporary artists for free from this special site…
http://kwmusica.play.kataweb.it

Funky reggae pick ? Umberto Eco’s tolerance manual ? Telecommute job offer ? Soccer Cinderella story

Radici nel Cemento: funky reggae music pick
A staff favorite, these "cement roots" from Rome have touched on themes like Albanian immigrants and unemployment, but they’re at their best with the crowd pleasers. They’ve just come out with a new album, Alla Rovescia, which you can check out for free here–lyrics (watch out for the Romanesco) & MP3 downloads..
www.radicinelcemento.it/CDCD1.htm

Chievo Verona: a soccer Cinderella story
Just 11 guys who don’t even represent a whole town, but a neighborhood in Verona–who also happen to be at the head of the series-A championship..Note the "Paluani" banner–the team’s owner is also a local Pandoro maker…We’re definitely pulling for them….
www.chievoverona.it

Umberto Eco’s Tolerance Manual
The title "tolerance" pretty well sums up man of letters Umberto Eco’s views on the current geopolitical configuration…With cronies Furio Colombo and Jacques Le Goff, Eco is working on this "interactive manual" on accepting diversity, aimed at helping teachers, that will cover topics like sex discrimination & disabilities.. The intro is online–the rest is to come… In Italian, English or French.
www.tolerance.it/ita

Telecommute English Teaching Job
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Tel. 348-3851770

eurochocolate?new Italian forum?Stefano Benni book excerpt?job offer Puma

Eurochocolate Fest
Catch the goings-on at the sweetest fair in Perugia–live or with web broadcasts from the 20-28th….Our favorites are the low-cal vintage trading card exhibit "Panini e chocolate", or the chocolate-scented stamps…
Just avoid the ill-timed gimmick about the “chocolate prisoners” which involves visitors becoming hostages “of chocolate during nine days of never-ending sweetness” and a Bonnie and Clyde pair who have committtted “armed robberies” of chocolate..
www.eurochocolate.perugia.it
In Italian or English…

Saltatempo: an excerpt from Stefano’ Benni’s new book
"Jumptime" (Saltatempo), crippled son of a communist woodworker, is the kind of protagonist only wordsmith Benni ("Bar Sport," "Ballate") could feasably come up with. For an interesting trip through the smalltown Italy of the 1950s-70s–listen to the reading (realaudio) along with the text
http://www.feltrinelli.it/default.asp?url=indiretta/88-07-01602-8.html

Job Tip: International Business Manager Puma
PUMA plans to evolve the organization through the fostering of unique and shared company values, all compatible with the personality of the brand. These can be best summarized in four words: Passion, Openness, Self-belief and Entrepreneurship.s our ideal candidate, you will possess an educational degree, an excellent professional track record and strong knowledge of technology and computers. Your English and Italian skills, both written and spoken, are outstanding. A knowledge of German is highly desirable. Additionally, you have a minum of 2-4 years experience in a similar role and environment.
As part of PUMA’s new product division, The Black Station, you will be the International Business Manager, responsible for our footwear, apparel and accessory collections. The Black Station represents luxury performance concepts including our Platinum, Nuala and Rudolf Dassier Schuhfabrik lines and cooperates with outside fashion designers, personalities and companies.
You will organize our internal and external research for identifying the relevant market, product and consumer trends and will understand how to both build and merchandise collections. You will coordinate product and sales input from the sales organization. According to the business objectives, you will guarantee a balanced effort between design and development. The Product Range Manager will be provided with all product related data you collect. To achieve all necessary business objectives, our candidate will be responsible for the briefing of product strategies.
The candidate’s task will be to plan and coordinate the international sample requirements with the different markets. You will support the creation of catalogues and marketing materials, as well as assisting with photo shoot arrangements. You will be responsible for the organization of International Sales launches, including the representation of products and providing the sales team with necessary sales and product information.
If you believe the above profile is a strong fit with your back-ground and experience and you are seeking a challenging position, please submit your full application in English.
PUMA AG human-resources@puma.com
www.pumabiz.com