http://www.ladysilvia.biz http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/11289/release/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/11289/release/0/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:36:41 +0100 The Amity Foundation is celebrating the production of 50 million Bibles by the Amity Printing Company (APC). The celebration will be held in Nanjing on 8 December to commemorate this landmark of Bible printing in China. Representatives of churches in China, the United Bible Societies, ecumenical partners and representatives of government departments will attend the event. The celebration is highlighted by the signing of an agreement between the Amity Printing Company and the United Bible Societies (UBS) to extend their close cooperation as a joint venture for another ten years. The current agreement runs out in June 2008. A joint venture between APC and UBS started in 1987. The 50 millionth Bible rolled off the press on 11 September. (By this time, an additional 9 million New Testaments ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9458/release/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9458/release/0/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:05:51 +0200 A feast for the eyes with literally thousands of vivid, high-resolution screen shots, this book provides a comprehensive visual tour through the world of PC and video gaming. Sorted by genre, 150 of the most exciting current software titles are reviewed with information of interest to players, parents, and industry professionals. Each game is featured in a two-page spread that includes detailed game summary, analysis, and strategy, nine representative in-game screen shots, games with similar skill and strategy requirements, appropriate age range, ESRB content ratings, complete technological specifications, and more. Feature stories are included throughout the book, covering game-related topics such as multiplayer online gaming, games in movies, and the future of gaming. The book ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9457/release/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9457/release/0/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:57:07 +0200 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of conversion narrative as a unique form of spiritualautobiography in early modern England. After outlining the emergence of the genre in the seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly different formsof narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and others. Attentive to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men, Western and ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9456/release/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9456/release/0/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:16:30 +0200 The concept of fusing the Latin sounds of the Buena Vista Social Club and Western musicians came out of a discussion my colleagues, Ron Oehl and the Berman Brothers, and I had at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. The previous year I was writing music with a friend at his beachfront house in a little fishing village on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka. A few months later that little village and many of its' inhabitants were almost totally obliterated by the Tsunami. I was extremely moved and upset by the tragedy of so many lives being lost or altered forever. The village had to be completely rebuilt as well as the livelihood of countless fishermen and shopkeepers. This was the event that sparked off this project. I knew I had to do something for those villagers. But ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/3311/release/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/3311/release/0/ Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:55:36 +0200 Primo concerto di luglio, a Rifo! Una serata che ci farà conoscere quanto di meglio ha da offrirci in questo periodo una regione come la Puglia, che si sta confermando fucina di talenti e sperimentazioni. A ‘dimostrarcelo', un' interessantissima realtà che attinge influenze dal Salento alla Francia, gli Après La Classe, una rock band e soprattutto l'artista che si può considerare la vera rivelazione del 2004, con il suo hip hop contaminato, impegnato e scanzonato insieme: signore e signori Mr. CAPAREZZA!!! CapaRezza - alias Michele Salvemini, alias Miki Mix. Da Molfetta a SanRemo (nel '97 con "E la notte se ne va") e ritorno a Molfetta. Ma con un'attitudine musicale completamente rinnovata: mette in piedi uno studio di registrazione che offre la possibilità ai giovani rapper della zona ]]>