Metamorphosis

Award-Winning Veronese Winery, Pasqua Wines, To Support Metamorphosis: Innovation In Eco Photography & Film At Saatchi Gallery

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

LONDON, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pasqua Wines, leading winery and ambassador for Amarone della Valpolicella and Veneto wines around the world, has announced its support of 'Metamorphosis: Innovation in Eco Photography & Film', a group show of eco and sustainable artists at London's iconic Saatchi Gallery, opening 26th May to 28th July, 2024.

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  • Riccardo Pasqua, CEO of Pasqua Wines, said: "As we approach our centennial year, we are delighted to be supporting Saatchi Gallery to instigate this show, underscoring our cross-generational commitment to innovation, creativity and unconventional approaches.
  • Metamorphosis will showcase four artists whose work highlights how experimentation, process innovation and relentlessly pushing boundaries can unlock eco-consciousness and impact.
  • Riccardo Pasqua, CEO of Pasqua Wines, said: "As we approach our centennial year, we are delighted to be supporting Saatchi Gallery to instigate this show, underscoring our cross-generational commitment to innovation, creativity and unconventional approaches.
  • Pasqua has spent almost a century innovating the future of wine production – and we couldn't be more delighted with this pairing."

Why retranslate the literary classics?

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Which version of the Metamorphosis or Crime and Punishment should you choose?

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  • Which version of the Metamorphosis or Crime and Punishment should you choose?
  • Because in a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, you could find more than ten different English translations of these two literary classics.

The art of choosing a translation

  • And yet, very few English speakers today read Dante, Cervantes or Rabelais in a century-old English translation, not to say older.
  • Because a classic is a text that we never stop retranslating, one might say, reversing the terms of the question.
  • The phenomenon of retranslation is both paradoxical and inherent in every culture, to the point that an historian of translation, Michel Ballard, has identified it as one of the few constant features in the history of translation.

Censorship, inaccuracies and ageing

  • Because of some forms of ideological or moral censorship, for instance, which may have deprived its readers of certain aspects of the book.
  • In other cases, the sense of dissatisfaction may be due to errors or inaccuracies, originated by human fallibility or limited resources.
  • Take one of the most famous so-called “errors” in the history of translation, the horns on the head of Michelangelo’s Moses (1515).
  • They age too, of course, but not quite in the same way.
  • They seem to ripen with age, whereas translations often turn grotesque.
  • Divine temptations, however, proved much more controversial and destabilising, as shown by the reactions stirred by the reform of the Lord’s prayer.
  • Retranslations can be disturbing because they introduce relativism into an interpretation which we thought of as definitive and unique.

Can we anticipate the path of a translation series?

  • Can we anticipate when and how often a classic will be retranslated?
  • Several case studies exist, but still no exhaustive studies providing reliable, large-scale statistics for a given period, genre or country.
  • In 1994, Isabelle Collombat, professor at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, predicted that the 21st century would be the age of retranslation.
  • It is the perfect antidote to the idea of a unique translation, and it reminds us that every single translation relies on a peculiar process of interpreting and rewriting.


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Tecnotree Reports Record Order Book Backed by Strong Deliveries, Promises Stable Growth

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Friday, October 27, 2023

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231027241013/en/
    Tecnotree Reports Record Order Book Backed By Strong Deliveries, Promises Stable Growth (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Key highlights of the third quarter financial results:
    Net sales in the third quarter were EUR 21.4 million, showing 7.4% growth compared to last year
    Commenting on the results for the third quarter of 2023, Padma Ravichander, CEO of Tecnotree Corporation, said, “We are pleased with our performance this quarter as we maintain an ongoing momentum of consistent growth despite challenging market conditions.
  • Tecnotree signed a multi-million Euro, 5-year agreement with Telenor Group, to supply Tecnotree Voice Mail System (VMS) for Norway, Denmark and Sweden operations in the Nordic region.
  • Under this new agreement, Tecnotree will provide support to Telikom through its BSS-Edge platform, with products like mobile & fixed line business integration.
  • Additionally, Tecnotree continues its investments in new initiatives – Tecnotree Sensa Fabric AI/ML platform, Tecnotree Moments, Tecnotree DiWa (Digital Wallet), and SaaS; and had successful participation in many global technology events this quarter.

MTN and Tecnotree Redefine Digital Customer Experience with Their Launch of Metamorphose on Tecnotree D-Stack

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Tecnotree, a global digital platform and services leader for 5G and cloud-native technology, proudly unveils the launch of MTN D-Stack, under the transformation program MTN Metamorphose powered by Tecnotree.

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  • Tecnotree, a global digital platform and services leader for 5G and cloud-native technology, proudly unveils the launch of MTN D-Stack, under the transformation program MTN Metamorphose powered by Tecnotree.
  • This ground-breaking project, driven by Tecnotree’s digital suite, marks a significant milestone in enhancing MTN presence for both consumers and enterprises, promising a new era of unparalleled digital service excellence.
  • Tecnotree BSS Suite will enable extraordinary transformation for MTN with capabilities that are in line with their goals and forge more powerful experiences that deliver greater customer loyalty.
  • The D-Stack go-live will enable dynamic and improved user experience with enhanced 360-degree customer view and omnichannel engagement.

Spector Records Announces the Release of Mike Pinera's Anti-War Anthem 'Fool's Game'

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

This single demonstrates all the refined talents of Pinera's spanning career over many decades in the music industry.

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  • This single demonstrates all the refined talents of Pinera's spanning career over many decades in the music industry.
  • Fool's Game features the artist's powerful vocals and his guitar work that's made him a legend in the rock scene.
  • Fool's Game's accompanying music video powerfully visualizes this message, taking footage from conflicts and major political events from across the world.
  • Fool's Game's music video shows the reality of global warfare and the toll it takes on innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.

Maisy Kay Releases Second Single "After Midnight" In Anticipation of Her Upcoming EP

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Friday, August 25, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Maisy Kay, a new and show-stopping voice on the rise to pop stardom, has released her second single "After Midnight," as she continues to build hype around her upcoming EP "Metamorphosis" hitting streaming platforms this November. The song is a true electronic pop hit, portraying a tale of chemistry when you lock eyes with that captivating person across the bar. The next thing you know, you're falling for their behavior and temptation and in the words of Maisy Kay, "everything is better after midnight." Last month, the popstar also released her lead single titled "First Time" and fans can see her songs come to life in her last few shows on the JVKE "What Tour Feels Like" tour. To find out the rest of the dates Maisy Kay will be touring with JVKE, visit www.maisykay.com.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Maisy Kay , a new and show-stopping voice on the rise to pop stardom, has released her second single " After Midnight ," as she continues to build hype around her upcoming EP "Metamorphosis" hitting streaming platforms this November.
  • The next thing you know, you're falling for their behavior and temptation and in the words of Maisy Kay, "everything is better after midnight."
  • To find out the rest of the dates Maisy Kay will be touring with JVKE, visit www.maisykay.com .
  • "'After Midnight' is a song that I personally love and is one of my favorites off my upcoming EP.

Maisy Kay Releases Lead Single "First Time" From Upcoming Sophomore EP

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Friday, July 28, 2023

LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Maisy Kay, a rising singer and songwriter in pop music, has released her newest single titled "First Time" off her upcoming EP "Metamorphosis" debuting this November. The song takes listeners on a journey sharing how there is nothing like the first time you fell in love, that first rush and unexplainable, thrilling feeling, when everything is perfect as a teenager in love until you hit your first heartbreak. "First Time" is an enchanting pop ballad that captivates listeners with enthralling beats that are sure to take you back to your first love. To show fans her newest hits in live performances, the pop phenomenon is accompanying JVKE's "What Tour Feels Like" summer tour starting on August 3. To find out all of the dates Maisy Kay will be touring with JVKE, visit www.maisykay.com.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Maisy Kay, a rising singer and songwriter in pop music, has released her newest single titled " First Time " off her upcoming EP "Metamorphosis" debuting this November.
  • To find out all of the dates Maisy Kay will be touring with JVKE, visit www.maisykay.com .
  • "I couldn't be happier and prouder to have 'First Time' as the first single released off my upcoming EP, 'Metamorphosis.'
  • I wrote this song at a time when my first love was everything to me and nothing else in this world mattered," says songstress Maisy Kay.

Friday essay: 'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever.

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  • It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever.
  • A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.
  • The convention of the day would require him to lay out his credentials and his family’s pedigree for the match to proceed agreeably.
  • The decision to put his thoughts in a letter was entirely consistent with the epistolary nature of his relationship with Felice.

Uncanny writing

    • As his dairies repeatedly show, Kafka’s life, his existence, was literature, and that existence was not shareable as a “lived experience”.
    • Each of these things he saw as challenges, counter forces, to his writing.
    • His existence was entirely directed towards what was, for him, both the necessary and the uncanny nature of writing.
    • For Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.

Kafka’s literary legacy

    • Brod became Kafka’s literary executor.
    • Perhaps more than those of any other published writer, the diaries of Franz Kafka have a special value in providing insight into his modest but profound literary output.
    • It was the only literary honour Kafka would receive during his lifetime.
    • Meyer had a background in the business side of publishing; he showed little interest in cultivating relationships with authors or discussing the literary content of their work.
    • It thus fell to Brod to establish Kafka’s posthumous legacy as a literary genius.
    • But in doing so he tightly entwined his own literary reputation with that of his friend.

A forge for sentences

    • But this also meant Kafka’s reception was influenced too heavily by Brod’s concern with his own reputation.
    • Benjamin’s new translation of Kafka’s diaries, in their presentation and arrangement, enables English readers to see them, for the first time, as the forge of his craft.
    • We can now read in the diaries Kafka the writer rather than Kafka the author.
    • Restored are the frequently ungrammatical and sometimes half-legible sentences that Brod often completed or replaced with the syntax of High German.
    • Restored are the homoerotic observations, descriptions of visits to brothels, and negative comments about well-known people, including the odd barb directed at Brod himself.
    • The dairies require us to suspend our familiar habit of asking who is speaking and trying to place who is being referred to.

The law of the diary

    • This parallels the way we habitually think of the movement of a life and its recording in a journal.
    • Maurice Blanchot tells us the only “formidable law” of the diary is that it must respect the calendar.
    • Frequently, Kafka abides by this law:
      Wrote nothing […] Wrote almost nothing […] Awful.
    • And later still:
      It has become very necessary to keep a diary again.
    • As the notebooks start increasing, the dating falls away, transgressing Blanchot’s law completely.

A new literature

    • The diaries act not only as a forge for Kafka’s writing; they also forge a new possibility for the diary’s place within literature.
    • He also makes the allusive suggestion that diary-writing has its analogue in the literature being produced by his Jewish contemporaries in Warsaw and Prague.
    • This new literature, Kafka says, is united by a Hebrew mother tongue assimilated within the dominant German language culture.
    • It was a literature seeking modes of expression for the effects of that assimilation.
    • literature is less an affair of literary history than an affair of the people […] everyone must always be prepared to know, to defend the part of literature that falls to him and at least to defend it even if he doesn’t know or bear it.

How Elvis, Beethoven, Arthur Miller and Kafka narrated their own lives through art

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered what goes through the mind of an author, artist or composer when they create a certain work?

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  • Have you ever wondered what goes through the mind of an author, artist or composer when they create a certain work?
  • It could be defined as the efficient use of psychological theory to turn a subject’s life into a coherent and enlightening story.

Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and The Crucible

    • In his article The Psychology of Artistic Creativity: With Reference to Arthur Miller and The Crucible, he shared that the playwright was well aware of the personal burden he had placed in his work.
    • His famous work, The Crucible, tells a story that takes place during the 17th-century trials of women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
    • By that time, Miller, who was married, had already met Marilyn Monroe and was fascinated by the actress.

Kafka was also a son

    • In the story, a father harshly sentences his son to death by drowning, a wish that the son fulfils by throwing himself into the river.
    • In his Letter to his Father, published a few years later, Kafka reproaches him precisely for the emotional abuse he suffered, among other things.

Elvis’s loneliness

    • He usually did so by making mistakes in the lyrics or by laughing while singing it.
    • In other words, the mistakes Elvis made seemed to have a psychological explanation behind them: Elvis was protecting himself.
    • The singer was very afraid of loneliness throughout his life, and this made it difficult for him to sing the song.

Beethoven and death

    • In my psychobiographical research on the figure of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), it was very difficult to find an obvious transfer of his story to his work.
    • Beethoven suffered multiple illnesses, some more serious than others.
    • Although he treated all of these with a stoic attitude, on one occasion he did believe that he was dying.

Avison Young Completes 140,000 SF of Leasing in 18 Months at Newly Renovated Franklin Square in Washington, DC

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Monday, March 6, 2023

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avison Young announced today the closing of 140,000 square feet (SF) in lease transactions at 1300 Eye Street NW in Washington, DC over the last 18 months.

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  • WASHINGTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avison Young announced today the closing of 140,000 square feet (SF) in lease transactions at 1300 Eye Street NW in Washington, DC over the last 18 months.
  • The 485,000-SF historic building, commonly referred to as Franklin Square, recently underwent a stunning renovation to transform it into an iconic trophy office building.
  • Since the renovations delivered in early 2021, Nuveen and leasing partner Avison Young have executed five new leases totaling 112,000 SF, and two lease renewals totaling 28,000 SF.
  • "We are pleased to welcome these new tenants and continue the partnerships with existing tenants at Franklin Square," Stern said.