Naples Tango – News!!!

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Master the art of “Permission Seduction™”!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Hola, Nancy!

At last Thursday’s Practilonga I announced Jeremias and Mariela’s workshop next Thursday. Our usual Sunday Tango Brunch with them is suspended for June and July.

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Before I tell you about the workshop, I have other great news for everyone in the SWFL tango community!:

We’re starting a Monday night Guided Practica, next Monday, July 11, from 7:30 to 10:00 PM. This will be in addition to the Thursday Practilonga.  Monday’s encounter will be a no-frills, working practica (no wine, no buffet, but spring water on the house).  I will be available to answer any questions about your tango, to help you with any issues, or to let you practice freely if you don’t want help.

Each Monday session will start with 30 minutes (7:30-8) of unstructured warm-up time, followed by 30 minutes (8-8:30) in which I’ll review a figure with you, or we’ll practice an exercise together, or learn a milonga step.  Then you’ll still have 90 minutes to practice freely, and ask for help if you like. Sound good?

- The price of the 2.5-hour Monday Guided Practica is $20*/person.
Or if you combine it with the Practilonga (normally $10), it’s $25 for both evenings (requires Monday payment).

Introductory offer (July and August 2011):
- Prepay both Practica and Practilonga for a month (July 11-August 5, August 8-Setp. 1) and pay $75 – get one week free.  Couples $130 (life partners OR practice partners).

- Prepay the Guided Practica only – $60/month.

* Note: For students enrolled in private and semi-private lessons as of July 1, the Guided Practica in addition to your program package is $15, or $45 for the month.

Contact me with questions or to enroll at 239-776-6535 or helaine@naplestango.com.

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Jeremias and Mariela return!!

Thursday, July 7, 2011
6:00-7:30 PM
Intermediate Tango Workshop
with Jeremias Massera & Mariela Barufaldi
Register by Wed. 7/6 and save!

Followed by our regular Practilonga, 8:00-10:30 PM
News!  Jeremias will be our musicalizador (dj) this Thursday!
(While, tangueros, you can invite Mariela to dance!)

Location:
The Naples Tango Club
5650 Yahl St. (off Pine Ridge), Naples, 34109

- Practilonga – $10 (Free to my students currently enrolled in lesson programs, and to curious new observers after 8PM)
- Workshop (Intermediate/Pre-intermediate level) $30 at the door.
- Workshop with pre-registration/advance payment by Wednesday July 6: $25
Some advanced beginners may attend, with advance permission.

Please pre-register online or in-person for the workshop (you’ll pay $5 less)!   Contact me with questions at 239-776-6535 or helaine@naplestango.com.

Register directly at http://naplestango.com.
Scroll down to “Thursday Workshop and Practilonga”.

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Looking forward to seeing you Thursday night with Jeremias and Mariela!  Remember too: Jeremias is putting on the music at the Practilonga!

Abrazos,

Helaine

P.S.  Intermediates (Advanced friends welcome too) remember to enroll early for your workshop with J&M, to save $5!  Wednesday’s the deadline for the discount.
P.P.S. Do take advantage of the new, 2.5 hour no-frills Monday practica.  You’ll get some serious practicing done, and can ask me for help!

–
Master the art of “Permission Seduction™”!

http://NaplesTango.com

The Naples Tango Club, 5650 Yahl St. #2, Naples, FL 34109
239-776-6535  239-236-0984 (fax)

Download Helaine’s FREE Report: “Permission Seduction™ Secret #1″ at: http://NaplesTango.com

TANGUEROS!  To watch the “Permission Seduction™” VIDEO and receive FREE 1-month e-course:  “9 Surprising Tango Tips for Men” sign up at http://permissionseduction.com.

- “Una Noche de Tango”, Practilonga every Thursday night at The Naples Tango Club
- Sunday Tango Brunch, third Sunday of every month!
Check http://NaplesTango.com for details and directions.

Schedule your lesson appointments with Helaine online at http://naplestango.genbook.com.

Watch the 6-minute video on Helaine and her tango school in Italy, UmbriaTango:

10 ways not to be a travel writer by Lonely Planet

Straight from the keyboards of the Lonely Planet team

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10 ways not to be a travel writer

Vivek WagleLonely Planet author

It’s the dream: travelling around the world and getting paid for it. Every day, thousands of aspiring travel journalists start up blogs, pitch pieces to editors and put pen to paper (at least metaphorically) in the hopes of making travel a full-time job.

Image by swimparallel, Flickr

 

The good news is that it’s achievable. While only a select few attain the high life of sipping margaritas by the pool while churning out leisurely prose on their Macbooks, travel writing for a living is a real possibility for those who have the talent and are willing to put in some really, really hard work.

However, we’ve noticed that there is a subclass of potential travel writers, photographers and video journalists who don’t really seem to have their heart in it. For some reason, they do their best to sabotage any chance of success. We believe you can learn a lot from them, so we’ve put together a list of their most common traits. Engage in these behaviours and you’re pretty much guaranteed to lock yourself out of a career in travel journalism.

10. Be sloppy

Whether you’re pitching a 500-word essay to the New Yorker or dashing off a quick blog entry, you’re presenting your professional face to the world. Is it the best face possible?

No one is perfect, and everyone except the stodgiest subeditor will forgive the occasional typo. But when you’re an aspiring content creator, any form of communication you produce becomes part of your portfolio. If your work is amateurish in quality, don’t expect to be paid for it.

9. Treat your pieces as personal journals

If you’ve started up a blog to keep your friends and family informed about your travels, go crazy! But all too often, we see works that are all about the creator and not at all about providing real value to the audience. They have the stink of those WhatWeDidOnOurFamilyVacation slideshows that everyone used to dread.

Use Facebook or personal blogs to reassure your mother and make your friends jealous. Use the avenue from which you hope to derive income to inform, educate, entertain or otherwise improve the lives of your audience.

8. Be flaky

Have you promised an editor that you’ll have that sample in for next week? Have you told your blogging audience, ‘Stay tuned for a big post tomorrow?’ Then please deliver. Nothing alienates people more than broken promises. Editors have tight, busy schedules and they are primarily concerned with getting great content out on time. Your audience has a ton of options vying for their attention, and if you fail to earn their trust they will go elsewhere.

7. Act like a jerk

You’d think this one would be obvious. But we’re constantly surprised by content creators who appear to lack any respect for those who are there to help them.

Here are a few simple tips:

• Don’t call your editors names or make bombastic demands from them. (Any reasonable editor will listen to calm, professionally delivered opinion, but no one wants to be yelled at.)
• Don’t belittle the people who comment on your website.
• Don’t be rude in any form of communication with anyone who might have anything to do with your getting your work published. These people are here to help you live your dream. Don’t ruin it for yourself.

6. Stay shallow and general rather than building expertise

Bill Bryson may be able to say anything he likes about whatever he likes (no matter how general), but you can’t just go out and make observations about ‘stuff’. Build your niche and establish your credibility in it – this is crucial to earning trust. Are you THE authority on hiking in northern Spain? Are you an incredible wildlife photographer? Are your videos mordantly funny? Figure out what it is you’re amazing at, and go after that. Once you’ve established your area of expertise, you can begin branching out. But start focused.

5. Demand respect without earning it

Not too long ago, having your words on a printed page provided an instant credibility boost. But nowadays, anyone can self-publish – to the web, to ebook readers and even to print-on-demand machines. What this means is that you need to provide better evidence for your claims to expertise than being a published writer. Have you won any credible awards? Can you demonstrate having a large following? Have you produced something truly meaningful? If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then let people know! And if you can’t, get to work on it. We’d all love to be paid $5 per word, but before you get there you need to demonstrate your value for more realistic returns.

4. Lack voice and personality

Most travel writing is insanely boring. If you can make someone smile, cry or act, you’re well ahead of the game. Gimmicks and tricks can help, but it will come down to how authentic you are. If you don’t put enough of yourself in your work, your travel content will be as woeful as the rest of the dross that pollutes the travel-blogging universe, and even the Travel Literature section of your local bookstore. Please be interesting.

3. Act without integrity

Trading unverified links with others to bolster your search-engine juice? Made deals with the devil (eg sketchy ‘advertisers’ who put malware on people’s machines)? Lied about your accomplishments – such as where you’ve been? Making promises you can’t keep to your editors and audience?

Sorry – there’s just no room in the travel-content community for you. Get out.

2. Ignore or disrespect your audience

Your audience is by far the most important factor in your success as a travel journalist. And yet we so often come across people who have no idea whom they’re writing, photographing or making videos for. If you don’t know who is going to consume your content, you haven’t targeted it appropriately. And you’ve demonstrated that your priorities are all wrong.

If you’re pitching or creating a piece, make sure you know exactly whom it’s intended for. (Case in point: if you’ve read this far down this list, then this list is DEFINITELY intended for you.)

1. Never try

Of all the mistakes aspiring travel writers make, none is more catastrophic than failing to enter the game.

It’s not an easy life. It requires a lot of talent, determination, perseverance and resilience. But the world is full of people who turn their travels into a living – through blogging, professional writing, video journalism and beyond. There are more resources than ever available to those who wish to travel for a living. If it’s what you want to do, then go for it.

What do you think?

Naples Tango News of the Week By Helaine !

Friday, May 13, 2011

Three days ago my brother left Naples to go abroad for an undetermined amount of time for his work and to reconnect with friends and colleagues.  He’s gone to an environment very different from that of SW Florida.  I miss him already, but I feel excited for him, and I can already imagine the “vibrational effervescence” (I made that up) that can fill one’s life when traveling and when living in another country.

A new vibrational effervescence can occur when one goes away on vacation or on a business trip, which is why traveling can be so exciting and stimulating. But what I’m calling “vibrational effervescence” (what would YOU call it?) can take on even greater meaning when we are not a tourist, a short-term house guest, or a hotel guest on business, but when we  become a temporary or occasional resident who seeks to integrate into the everyday life of the place.  When we take an apartment in another country with its different language, customs, and products, where the air in the street smells different, where the people have a different way of composing their facial muscles when at rest or when they talk, where they keep a different degree of closeness or distance when they speak with each other, where idioms in their everyday talk reveal the deep values of a people  . . . in our experience changing location for an extended period of time, for us, whether we’re a newcomer to the place or one who returns, the new quotidian can either be exotic or a familiar recollection brought back to life.

I wanted to share with you my excitement for the creative opportunities opening up to my brother now just because he got up and moved to another part of the world for a while.

It dawned on me as I was writing this message that I am particularly excited about my brother’s decision to relocate and integrate into a different culture for a chunk of time because it foreshadows my own establishing a seasonal residence in Buenos Aires at the end of the year!  And it reminds me of the creative life that this will make possible for me, and for some of my now and future North American students.  I chose to work with Nancy Landi, a porteña – a Buenos Aires native, to help me and later my students with the logistics of living in Buenos Aires, and thereby minimize the touristic aspect of the experience and maximize the vibrational effervescence that will come from our authentically participating in another culture, specifically the culture that over 100 years ago gave birth to Tango.

Nancy wrote me in an email this week:
“. . .  you must know and live the road and the motor of Buenos Aires if you are dancing tango. Same for your pupils. To be in contact with the real culture (kind of glasses, plates, services at the apartments, maid service, neighbors, door man: all of them from BA) is not to be in an American hotel where everything (employees too) are Americans.  So, for sure I recomend an apartment to drink the culture and show it in your dance because the culture is in your skin . . . ”

Nancy, for starters I’d like a sunny kitchen and a balcony with a view, please, close to a great produce market.

I just found this delightful blog by a young Asian, relocated to Buenos Aires, who calls herself “Buenos Aires Foodie”, and shares her discoveries of the culinary world of this city.  If you’re wondering about life in BsAs and want to see gorgeous photos of mouth-watering foods, accompanied by witty comments, please go here:  http://aayudame.wordpress.com/category/the-piglet-oinking/eating-out/.  I suggest you visit all the sections of her blog.

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To go directly to today’s feature article,  “The Second Tango Sin . . . and its antidote”, please scroll down toward the bottom of this page!

For my readers who are fascinated by tango but don’t have patience to scroll down to read the “Second Sin” article, here’s the video I chose as today’s example:

Have fun, but to find out who they are, you’ll have to scroll down to the article.
I also give our men a fun assignment.

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Naples Tango News of the Week

New elite study programs with Helaine in Naples/Buenos Aires
Starting June 2011

As you surely know by now, in my new Naples/Buenos Aires VIP program, I will teach  my entire 9-module “Permission Seduction™ Tango Learning System”, normally a 2- or 3-year course of study, in just 6-8 months, with the final month in Buenos Aires!  You can read more about it at http://naplesbavipprogram.blogspot.com/

This program is for people who would like to visit Buenos Aires and participate in its authentic tango world, not as a tourist or a shy beginner, but as a competent dancer of social tango who will feel comfortable on the dance floor in the midst of the locals.  I’m sure you’ve had some experiences of visiting a city as a tourist, and other experiences of visiting a place as guests of a local person or family who led you to experience the best of their town as only an “insider” can do.  I’m offering the latter kind of experience, including some intimate dinners and other private time with my own friends and teachers who are world class tango artists.

Nancy Landi, http://www.nancylandi.com/, a native of Buenos Aires who lives in Naples and specializes in Buenos Aires apartments, is helping me put together a special infrastructure in Buenos Aires to support every aspect of the local travel and daily living needs of my VIP students.

To learn even more about what this unique program can do for you, please go to http://naplestango.genbook.com,  or click on the “Book now” button anywhere on my website, to set up a free, 15-20 minute telephone or in-person session with me, to discuss your needs and desires, and get answers to all your questions about how my program can help you fulfill them!  I can only accept up to three individuals or couples this year for my intensive VIP Program, but I have decided to also offer the month in Buenos Aires to 3 more from my Diamond Accelerated Program, which is somewhat less intensive than the VIP program.

If this program is not for you, but you know someone who may be interested, you may enjoy a generous Referral Reward as my thanks for your helping me find one of the right people or couples for this very special program!  To make a referral or to find out more about how the Referral Rewards program works, please go to  contact me at 239-776-6535 or at helaine@naplestango.com.

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PLEASE VOTE FOR THE NAPLES TANGO CLUB

as your favorite dance studio!

Southwest Florida’s Choice Awards 2011:

http://www.naplesnews.com/choice-awards/

You can only vote once on that page.  Please spread the word.  Wouldn’t it be cool if we won?  Thank you!!

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                                                                   Buenos Aires – Palermo – Dancing in the night!

Alzheimer ´s Association 2011

Time is running out – register today for AAICAD!
On May 13, discounted registration for the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease 2011 (AAICAD) will end, and with it, your chance to take advantage of reduced registration rates.
Visit alz.org/ICAD now to make all of your travel arrangements in one stop. Register, select a hotel and purchase a flight to get on your way to Paris. We have negotiated rates to help you save on your travel arrangements.

New! Physician and Clinician Preconference.
AAICAD is proud to introduce a new preconference on Saturday, July 16. Designed for practicing physicians, it will include information on:

Research, including new diagnostic criteria, diagnostic process and disease-modifying drugs.
Early identification, including screening.
Medical treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ongoing care management.
Research opportunities for general practitioners.

Hot Topics submission closes today!
If you are working on late-breaking, up-to-the-minute research, Hot Topics is the place to share it for the first time. The deadline for submission is today, May 9, at 11:59 p.m. CT.
Submit now.

Other upcoming dates
June 10 – Deadline for refund requests

June 14 – AAICAD housing deadline to make new reservations or changes

For more information about AAICAD 2011, please visit the AAICAD website.

VIP Program – Naples Tango VIP Program in Buenos Aires with Helaine

April 30, 2011

Helaine Treitman talks about her new Naples/Buenos Aires VIP program

The new Naples Tango VIP Program (for individuals or couples) is
comprised of 150 hours of private tango study with me, roughly six
months in Naples, followed by one month with me in Buenos Aires, with
the option of extending your stay or further traveling in Argentina.
This is surely the most exciting and enriching program I’ve ever
offered in more than 10 years of teaching tango!   I will only accept
3 individuals or couples to this “VIP” program, which should ideally
begin for each one by the first week of June.

This is truly an accelerated program, for those who choose to waste no
time in fulfilling their dream of going to Buenos Aires and dancing
with and among the locals!  I first fulfilled that dream in 1998 after
3 years of study and practice, and I did so without the benefit of the
meticulous training that I am offering you today.

I will commit to thoroughly preparing you for this exhilarating dance
experience, regardless of your current level of dance skills, even if
you have never danced at all.  After your program, you will have the
skills to enjoy tango for the rest of your life!

Since I will only accept 3 individuals or couples to this intensive,
accelerated program, I have the luxury of customizing the program to
each VIP students’ needs and preferences.

Nancy Landi, of Nancy Landi International Properties
http://www.nancylandi.com/, a native of Buenos Aires who lives in
Naples and specializes in Buenos Aires apartments, is helping me put
together a special infrastructure in Buenos Aires to support every
aspect of the local travel and daily living needs of my VIP students.

The Buenos Aires part of my VIP program will include completing your
program lessons with me over several weeks, during which I will also
introduce you to various Argentine maestros that I recommend, so you
have the option of taking additional private or group lessons with
them.  I will customize this part of the program to support your needs
and preferences.  Together we will enjoy occasional intimate, private
dinners or other social encounters with renowned Argentine tango
professionals – my own friends and teachers!

I will also accompany you to milongas (tango dance venues) for your
first week, after which you may very well choose to be autonomous in
attending milongas and visiting the city. However, should you continue
to prefer to have a tango guide, I will arrange for another expert to
be your milonga host. In module 9 of my “Permission Seduction™ Tango
Learning System” you will learn how to thrive in any milonga,
including mastering Buenos Aires milonga etiquette!

Additional options in the Naples phase of the VIP program include
Spanish language lessons at your home in or near Naples by my own
Argentine teacher, another native of Buenos Aries.

If you would like to learn more about the program, please schedule a
phone conversation with me, or a meeting at my studio on Yahl Street.
You can phone me for an appointment at 239-776-6535, or click the
“book now” button at http://naplestango.com, to schedule your
appointment on-line.

If this program is not for you, but you know someone who may be
interested, you may enjoy a generous Referral Reward (to you or to
your favorite charity) as my thanks for your helping me find one of
the 3 right people or couples for this very special program!

I am very excited about this new life-enhancing experience we can do
together, and I hope you are too!

Helaine
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Master the art of “Permission Seduction™”!

http://NaplesTango.com

The Naples Tango Club, 5650 Yahl St. #2, Naples, FL 34109
239-776-6535  239-236-0984 (fax)

Download Helaine’s FREE Report: “Permission Seduction™ Secret #1″ at:

http://www.NaplesTango.com

Tango and Wine News in Naples -FL !

For Tango novices!

“Transformational Introductory Tango Experience
and Argentine Wine Tasting!” (8-10 participants per session)
An intriguing, romantic, and unusual evening

Includes:
- A 2-hour Transformational Tango Lesson with Helaine
- Argentine Wine Tasting – enjoy fine wines from Mendoza, and other parts of Argentina, and cheese
- Free Gift CD of “Helaine’s Favorites” with 6 of her favorite tangos.
- 50%-off voucher for the next monthly Sunday Tango Brunch that includes
brunch buffet with mimosas, coffee, students dancing,
and a professional tango performance. (Normally $20 per person).
- FREE Thursday evening Guest Pass to Naples Tango Club “Practilonga” (Normally $10 per person)

Next session:
Wednesday, May 11, 2010, 6:00-8:30PM

At the Naples Tango Club, 5650 Yahl St. #2, Naples 34109

Note for both men and women: Please wear comfortable shoes in which you feel stable and can wiggle your toes, preferably with leather soles.

Now ONLY $75/person

(discounts for group bookings, 8 minimum)

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La Enfermedad de Alzheimer   |   El Alzheimer y el Cerebro   |   Factores De Riesgo   |   Etapas La investigación científica sobre el Alzheimer ya está dando resultados sobre el impacto de la enfermedad entre los hispanos/latinos. Según el informe Hechos y Estadísticas sobre la Enfermedad de Alzheimer 2010 de la Alzheimer’s Association, el riesgo de desarrollar el Alzheimer en los hispanos es 1,5 veces mayor que en los norteamericanos blancos no hispanos. Aunque hay una tasa mayor de hispanos/latinos que blancos no hispanos en los Estados Unidos que padecen del Alzheimer, hay menor probabilidad de que el hispano/latino tenga una diagnosis específica. Los hispanos/latinos enfrentan mayor riesgo de desarrollar la enfermedad de Alzheimer y otros tipos de demencia porque están viviendo a una edad más prolongada (como toda la población de los Estados Unidos) pero a la vez tienen índices más altos de problemas cardiovasculares. Los factores de riesgo de la enfermedad vascular (mayormente la diabetes, la presión alta y el colesterol alto) también pueden ser factores de riesgo para el desarrollo del Alzheimer y la demencia causada por los derrames cerebrales. Los hispanos son el grupo étnico más creciente en los Estados Unidos. Durante la primera mitad del siglo 21 el número de ancianos hispanos que sufren del Alzheimer u otro tipo de demencia puede incrementarse hasta seis veces, de menos de 200.000 personas afectadas actualmente hasta 1,3 millones para el año 2050. Para el año 2050, la expectativa de vida de los latinos sobrepasará la de todos los otros grupos étnicos en los Estados Unidos, llegando a los 87 años de edad. Lea el informe Hechos y Estadísticas 2010

FOR RENT ! HISTORIC BUILDING BUILT IN 1940 IN RECOLETA WAS THE RESIDENCE OF THE MOST FAMOUS COUPLE OF ARGENTINA, PRESIDENT PERON AND HIS WIFE EVITA.

RECENTLY RESTORED WITH HISTORICAL PIECES AND ANTIQUES IT IS A UNIQUE PLACE TO STAY IN BUENOS AIRES TO REVIVE THE COUPLE GLAMOUR`S AND PERSONAL TASTE.

María Eva Duarte de Perón (commonly known by the affectionate diminutive Evita) (May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Though she was never an officially elected political figure, as First Lady she came to exercise more power and influence within the government than anyone but her own husband. Among the poor and working class of Argentina, she wielded a charismatic influence that has few historical parallels outside of hereditary monarca.
Evita was also a highly controversial figure during her life, and she remains so to this day. Though she was a part of Argentine political life for little more than six years, during that brief time she became the center of much gossip, conjecture, and myth making. In their book Evita: The Real Life of Eva Perón, authors Marysa Navarro and Nicholas Fraser claim that the myths and distortions surrounding Eva Perón are the most complicated of any modern political figure .

During her life, Evita was the most powerful woman in Argentina, and most historians agree that she remains the most powerful woman in the history of her nation and the entire South American continent. At the time of her death, she was arguably the most powerful woman in the entire world.
Eva Perón’s biography

LIVING:  elegant and bright living facing Posadas street.

DINING ROOM: Table and 8 chairs.

MAIN BEDROOM: with double bed.

SECOND BEDROOM: Also bright and with twin beds.

BATHROOMS: Two bathrooms with bath and shower.

KITCHEN: Complete and very well equipped with fridge with freezer, microwave, electric coffeemaker, toaster and complete tablevare for 6 persons. Washing machine and dryer.

Sorry, no  pets are allowed in this HOUSE

Amenities

·         Cleaning service twice a week .

·         Air conditioning (Split) hot/ cold in the living room

·         Cable TV

·         High Speed Internet (access only, no computer)

·         Audio System

·         Phone with voicemail, control line for limited local calls

·         Fridge with freezer. Microwave. Electric coffee maker.

·         Toaster. Tableware for 6

·         Washing machine

·         Dryer

·         Bed linens and towels

·         Hairdryer

·         Central service of heating and hot water

·         Iron and ironing table.

These rates are final in USD; they include: building expenses, local phone calls (control line for limited local calls), cable TV, electricity, water, gas, high-speed Internet access, cleaning service twice a week and taxes

HISTORIC BUILDING BUILT IN 1940 IN RECOLETA WAS THE RESIDENCE OF THE MOST FAMOUS COUPLE OF ARGENTINA, PRESIDENT PERON AND HIS WIFE EVITA.

BY

NANCY LANDI INTERNATIONAL PROPERTIES

Link :

http://www.nancylandi.com/vacation_rental/14564-NLI501-apartment-in-argentina-capital-federal-buenos-aires-recoleta

Buenos Aires : Adiós a María Elena Walsh

Murió María Elena Walsh

La autora de clásicos infantiles falleció a los 80 años en el sanatorio La Trinidad 

Lunes 10 de enero de 2011 | 12:42 (actualizado a las 18:26)

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La escritora, poetisa y compositora María Elena Walsh falleció hoy a los 80 años tras padecer una larga enfermedad, según confirmaron desde la Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores (Sadaic) a lanacion.com.

“El Sanatorio Trinidad Palermo informa del fallecimiento de la Sra. María Elena Walsh, luego de una prolongada internación y como epílogo de padecimientos crónicos que la aquejaban, contra los cuales luchó en los últimos tiempos”, informó el centro médico a través de un escueto comunicado.

Los restos de esta figura prominente de la cultura argentina serán velados hasta la medianoche en la sede de Sadaic, de la cual formaba la comisión directiva, en Lavalle 1547, y serán inhumados mañana desde las 11 en el Panteón que la entidad posee en el Cementerio de la Chacarita.

La autora de libros, obras y canciones infantiles que se convirtieron en clásicos como Manuelita, ¿dónde vas? , Canciones para mirar, y El reino del revés, nació en el barrio de Ramos Mejía, en Buenos Aires, el 1º de febrero de 1930. En 1981, le diagnosticaron cáncer óseo.

Su padre, irlandés, se casó en segundas nupcias con su madre, con quien tuvo dos hijas: Susana y María Elena. “En mi casa había un ambiente de clase media ilustrada. Gente con sensibilidad hacia el arte, la lectura, la música. Ese es un privilegio de cuna muy grande. Es como heredar una fortuna”, expresó la reconocida autora a LA NACION.

A los 13 años, la precoz artista dejó su Ramos Mejía natal para estudiar el secundario en Bellas Artes de la Capital. Cuatro años más tarde, publicó su primer libro, Otoño imperdonable, con el que recibió el segundo premio Municipal de Poesía. Además, Walsh escribió durante varios años para LA NACION.

“A partir de la muerte de Eva [Perón] se endureció mucho la censura. No quiero decir que me haya exiliado, pero preferí tomar distancia”, contó sobre su estadía en París entre 1952 y 1956. Fue allí donde comenzó a escribir libros para chicos, con Tutú Marambá.

María Elena dejó un legado indeleble en la literatura infantil con obras que fueron llevadas al teatro en diversas oportunidades e incluso llegó al cine con el film de Manuel García Ferré, Manuelita. Además, sus textos fueron traducidos al francés, al italiano, al inglés, al sueco y al hebreo, y le valieron premios literarios en el país y en el exterior.

Mirá las declaraciones más destacadas de la gran artista a LA NACION

“Creo que la gente sigue haciéndoles escuchar mis canciones a los chicos porque las consideran como una suerte de tesoro familiar”. Así, la compositora explicó a este medio la razón de su vigencia en 1997, cuando un conjunto de cantantes, entre ellos, Joan Manuel Serrat, Palito Ortega y León Gieco, grabaron un tributo en CD con sus canciones.

Además de ser un símbolo que marcó la infancia de muchas generaciones, Walsh también incursionó en diversos géneros, como el folklore (con el reconocido dúo que compartó con Leda Valladares en los años 50), composiciones para adultos ( Como la cigarra , Serenata para la tierra de uno ), poemas, ensayos, guiones para cine y TV, y memorias.

La mutifacética figura, que dejó su impronta en varias generaciones a través de sus textos y su música, murió hoy, a los 80 años. – Foto: Archivo

La mutifacética figura, que dejó su impronta en varias generaciones a través de sus textos y su música, murió hoy, a los 80 años – Foto: Archivo

Durante la presentación de tres libros que editó Alfaguara, 24 de octubre de 2008 – Foto: Archivo

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Fue nombrada ciudadana ilustre de Buenos Aires, Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, personalidad ilustre de Buenos Aires y, entre diversos reconocimientos, la escritora fue homenajeada por sus pares en 2008.

En 2008 publicó Fantasmas en el parque, una novela – autobiografía, en la que, con la lucidez y la ironía que constituyen dos de sus señas más reconocibles, la compositora instaló la vida en el Parque Las Heras, donde transcurrían personajes reales y fantasmagóricos, entre los que podemos reconocernos.

María Elena también estuvo relacionada con la política. Además de analizarla desde sus columnas de opinión, en 1985 fue designada por el entonces presidente Raúl Alfonsín como integrante del Consejo para la Consolidación de la Democracia, donde se desempeñó hasta 1989. También logró trascendencia su postura crítica a la instalación de la polémica “carpa blanca” de los docentes en 1997. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, la escritora decidió alejarse de la política hasta manifestarse “escéptica” en una entrevista con este medio, en 2005.

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