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CELEBRATING 60 YEARS

AICR NEWS Special Anniversay Edition - Fall 2013The American International Club of Rome

SPRING 2013

The American International Club of Rome www.aicrome.org | [email protected] | Tel. 06-45447625 | Fax 06-97254122

AICR NEWS

contents

3 Editor’s Letter

5 Club News

5 New Members

6 Upcoming Events

7 Finance: Florida Housing Market

8 Member Profile: Chris Curry

10 AICR Past & Present Photos

12 Club History: Events from 1953

13 Club History: Memorable Dates for AICR

14 Club History: Document From the Past

15 Club History: Club Logos in Time

17 Autumn Wine Selection

18 Proust Questionnaire: Massimo Di Capua

20 Short List: What’s hot now!

22 Discounts

23 AICR Business Members

Board of Directors 2013/2014

Honorary President

John R. PhillipsU.S. Ambassador to Italy and to the

Republic of San Marino

Honorary Vice President

David J. LaneAmbassador of the United States to the

UN Agencies in Rome

officers

President: Debra BiaginiVice President: Franco Spicciariello

Treasurer: Carol MarkinoSecretary: Kathy Araco

Board MeMBers

Alexia Maria di FabioL. Chris CurryLoretta Dusini

Marco ElserScotti Rhodes

Martha Scherr

aicr LegaL adVisor

Argia Bignami

aicr news editor

Kathy Araco

aicr news Production

Alessandro Carafa Jacobini

cLuB Manager and coMMunications

Nina Farrell

All articles are based on the information obtained at the time of their writing. Please contact us if you would like to add anything from your experience with AICR.

editor’s letter

With the end of the year right around the corner, our Club’s 60th Anniversary celebrations will soon be over. 2013 has really been a spectacular year for AICR. This 1953-2013 commemorative edition will be the last of the An-niversary series, which I hope you’ve enjoyed. Its focus moves continuously from past to present emphasizing lo scorrere del tempo and the importance of reconnecting with our Club’s roots by recalling its history, commemorating its founding and acknowledging the loyalty of all its members, in particular the longstanding members who have contributed in making the Club successful throughout the years.

Members like Chris Curry, actively involved in our Club since 2002, profiled by Danielle DeVine, who’s back with yet another superb piece for her new column Delizie, presenting an Autumn Wine Selection that will certainly tickle your taste buds. Talking about tickling, the comedians highlighted in the Short List (Robin Williams and Duo Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis) are bound to make you laugh, however if you prefer to be empowered and motivated be sure to check out Gary Quinn’s latest book and listen to Katy Perry’s new album. Read our Proust to get to know Massimo Di Capua better and what makes him tick. Dealing with some more pressing issues at hand in the financial field, qualified contributing writer Jason Jones is also back addressing some serious matters like how is this economy going to pan out and what’s the best investment option at the moment.In conclusion, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed in making this issue so special. Thus I’ve said enough, for I don’t want to spoil all the surprises in store for you in the next pages, so get comfy, keep reading and get ready to be dazzled!

Kathy AracoAICR News Editor

club news

Honorary PresidentWe are thrilled to announce John R. Phillips, U.S. Ambassador to Italy and to the Re-public of San Marino, has accepted the role of AICR’s Honorary President.

Board ResignationsGiacomo Catalano has resigned from the AICR Board of Directors. If you are interested in taking a more active part in the Club, please contact the office. The Board of Directors is considering having a board observer, for possible board appointment.

AAC Conference in RomeAICR held the 11th Annual Conference of Presidents of the American Clubs (COPAC) for the Association of American Clubs (AAC). Ten delegates from 5 American Clubs joined in for the conference and weekend activities. Representatives from Madrid, Hamburg, the Riviera and Lucerne attended and the conference was a success. AICR would like to thank Nina Farrell for organizing the conference, Franco Spicciariello for hosting the conference meeting at his Open Gate Offices, and Carol Markino for providing assistance during the weekend.

AICR Community Service: Casa di Kim Christmas Party will be Saturday, December 7th at 2 p.m. We urge you to make a donation towards the party. With your monetary donations, we’ll provide gifts for the children and their mothers, food, beverages, crafts, games and a festive atmosphere for these ill children, their families and the staff that support them. Contact us to make a donation today.

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Please join us in welcoming the following new members:

aicr new members

Maricla AmorielloDirectorKoiné - Italian Language Centre in Rome

Patricia BaertschConsulEmbassy of Switzerland

Valerie Mackey-Rose

Marisa Piccoli

Victoria Bonadonna

Diana CastagnaEnglish teacher/Cam-bridge examinerBritish School

Gloria Dal Forno-PalermoMD, PhDPrivate Practice

Maria Rosaria FrallicciardiPartner Bellezza Totale

Dalila Iacobino

Elise O’Donnell-TixonIndependent Financial Consultant, P&P Finan-cial Consulting

Margaret Reichel

Pio VillaniPartnerBellezza Totale

James DunnDirector of Develop-ment, Marketing, and Alumni RelationsMarymount Interna-tional School

Nancy Bryant University RelationsConsulting Director of CommunicationsPantheon Institute

Maria CastelluccioHead of SchoolMarymount Interna-tional School

Denise Schembri Wismayer Anestesiologist

Francesa FloreOwnerLa Luna nel Piatto

Tania GobenaCommunications OfficerRome International School

Lori-Ann TouchetteCo-founder and DirectorCreta Rome

upcoming events

AICR First Friday Happy Hour Boscolo Hotel Palace Roma, via Veneto 70December 6th, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.10euro members with card; 12euro guests.

AICR Community Service: Christmas Party at Associazione KimCasa di Kim, Via di Villa Troili, 46. December 7th, 2 to 5 p.m.AICR is organizing a Christmas party for the ill children at the Casa di Kim, please volunteer or make a donation!

AICR Christmas Cocktail PartyLevel II, Vicolo del Fico, 3Tuesday, December 10th 6:30 to 9 p.m.Advance purchase necessary: 20euro mem-bers, 25euro guests.A festive holiday celebration, complete with Christmas Carols sung live by AICR member Jeanne Mardock on her guitar!

AICR “Second” Friday Happy Hour January 10th 2014Location to be determined.

AICR Black Tie Dinner Party Friday, January 17th 2014Location: Exclusive Venue in RomeFurther details coming soon.


finance

Huge Potential for Buyers in Florida Housing Market?by Jason Jones

As house prices continue to steadily rise, Florida is becoming a key focal point for in-vestors looking for lucrative buying options.

So how is this market going to pan out over the next few years, and what are the best strategies in order to turn a profit in this re-gion? As a real estate specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the industry, I’d like to tell you about the current market trends and areas of opportunity in regard to the housing market and how to take advantage of them.From 2010 – 2011 California was in a similar situation as Florida is in today, with undervalued properties showing a slow but steady increase in their prices. Those who were wise enough to invest in real estate dur-ing this period are now reaping the benefits of the current boom that California is experi-encing – soaring prices and stiff competition for homes means that it is now a clear seller’s market. Now Florida is in a very similar situation to the one California was in three years ago. It has presently become an extremely attrac-tive prospect for investors with their finger on the pulse, looking to make substantial gains within the coming years.The important thing is to get your foot in the door before every man and his dog realizes what’s happening, for the value of properties is expected to steadily increase over the next 2-3 years. It won’t remain a buyer’s market for very long.

What’s the difference between Florida and states like California, Arizona and Nevada, who have had a much faster recovery?

One of the key factors in the sluggish re-

covery of the Florida housing market is the length of time it takes for foreclosures. The bank is required to file a lawsuit in or-der to repossess a home in Florida, so this process takes longer. This presents an under-valued market opportunity for those who are looking to make significant profits over a pe-riod of 3-5 years.

Housing market boost set to have stimula-tive effect on economy

With interest rates at such low levels, it is easier for people to borrow money in order to pay for things like homes. As the housing market in Florida continues to grow, this will have a knock-on effect in other areas, stimu-lating growth and boosting the economy. As the demand for homebuilding increases, so does the demand for furniture, tiles, floor-ing, lumber, concrete, furnishings, paint and household appliances of all kinds. All this extra demand creates more jobs, fuelling the recovery even further. As a direct result of the increase in homebuilding, there is expected to be around 500,000 extra jobs created this year in Florida alone and another 700,000 created in 2014. Since interest rates are ex-pected to rise significantly in 2014, now is the perfect time to make investments in prop-erties, especially in undervalued markets such as Florida.I always say: “A well-placed and timely transaction can mean the difference between financial struggles and resounding success. These lucrative opportunities will not be around forever, so the time to act is now.”

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member profile

Member Profile: Chris Curryby Danielle De Vine

Chris Curry is 6 foot 1 inches of distilled Southern charm. With a gentle lilt in his Louisiana drawl and a kind word for all, he epitomizes the ideal Southern gentleman, and has put his considerable social talents to good use for AICR as one of its longest standing members since 2002, former Trea-surer, Vice President, President and current Board Member.What originally brought him to Italy was a stint in the U.S. Air Force at the controver-sial Comiso U.S. Air Base in Sicily. On his first day at the base, he decided to take Ital-ian lessons from a young Sicilian lady with a degree in Modern Languages. That was in May, and by December Chris and his language instructor were married, making national headlines and appearing on maga-zine covers for their “Love in the Shadow of Missiles.” Thirty years later, and several transatlantic moves behind them, Chris and Corrada Curry are as devoted to each other as ever.

Shortly after their marriage, they relocated to Louisiana, to be near the Curry family as well as to continue their respective studies. After fourteen years in Louisiana, having completed his Masters degree in Modern European History, with his thesis on a revolt in Palermo in 1647, Chris came to Rome to work on his PhD dissertation at the Vatican Archive. His focus was on the Sicily of the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Spanish ruled Sicily through governors and viceroys, and he was enthusiastically doing further re-search about that period in Sicily when he was offered a job at John Cabot University, where he wound up working for the next eight years.Long time member Dr. Nico Naumann was responsible for bringing the existence of AICR to Chris’s attention, mentioning that the club was looking for a Treasurer. Chris ran successfully for that position and along with then Club Manager Wendy Holloway, re-instituted the regular monthly financial

checkups, a practice that continues today. After two years as Treasurer, he was elected Vice President for three years, served as Club President for four years until 2010, and to this day continues his work for the club as a Board Officer. Chris attributes both the club’s appeal, as well as his own satisfaction in contributing to it, to its diverse range of


member profile

members and activities; “we do everything from hamburgers and hot dogs to the Black tie [dinner] at the Caccia and in between.”His favorite club initiative has been Casa di Kim. “It wasn’t my initiative, Roberto Mela-ragno was instrumental in that event, but it was so impressive to see those children and seeing they had life threatening illnesses and being able to give them presents. We were tired and didn’t have the energy to go to the first AICR event at the Casa di Kim, but we dragged ourselves out. It was so moving and so memorable to see people from all differ-ent countries and religions there.”Some of his proudest achievements during his long terms of service are that “the club is in such good hands. We are better off finan-cially. We had some lean years because we changed the membership rules to preserve the American essence of the club.” He was also responsible for adding the U.S. Ambas-sador to the United Nations Agencies in Rome as the Honorary Vice President, along with the US Ambassador to the Holy See; and in addition to the longstanding tradition of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy as the club’s Honorary President.His other joy during his service has been the people working alongside him. Marco Elser is “the backbone of the club. He is the rea-son we get to do the Circolo Della Caccia dinner and the Polo club event, and I’m very thankful to him. He’s so busy and gives so much of his resources. His generosity to the club has meant so much.” Community Ser-vice Chair Carol Markino “has done a great job with the community service initiatives” and club manager Nina Farrell “has done a great job over the years of making AICR also a place to cultivate business contacts.”Regarding the club’s history and its mem-bers, Chris states: “The way I see it, in the 1950’s we were the American Men’s Club, in the 70’s, women came in, and then in

the 90’s we became the American Interna-tional Club. And all this reflects society... I remember at one of the always wonderful AICR dinners at Anne Tasca’s, in her lovely garden, as I looked at this beautiful group of people, it came into my mind: this is a very unique, important group of people. Because this is not a club that looks back and tries to hold on to the past; it’s a club that looks forward, with the idea of friendship and be-nevolence. And who knows what the group will be like 50 years from now?”After 14 years in the Eternal City, does Chris see himself making Rome his permanent home? “Who knows. I didn’t think I would be here for more than one year, and that was 14 years ago. I’ve been Romanized, romanizzato. I have an Italian citizenship, Italian driving license, and I’ve been voting since 1995,” then with a chuckle he adds “and I’ve always made a mistake every time.”His advice to fellow expatriates and new arrivals to the Eternal City is perhaps not unsurprising: join AICR. “I think the club be-longs to the future, because it has adjusted for the needs of American and others, not just expats. I don’t like the term ex-anything, and our club is not just American, not just international or whoever, it’s like minded people with a smorgasbord of opportunities for people to connect.” Newcomers should “join AICR and use the AICR network to feel at home in Rome.”

past & present photos

Remembering the past...

past & present photos

...enjoying the present.


events from 1953

What was happening in the world in 1953 when our Club was being founded?by Kathy Araco

As our Club celebrates its 60th Anniversary a question comes to mind...What was happening in the world in 1953 when The American Club of Rome was being founded? Many of us were not even born yet or were too young to remember, so let’s reminisce a little. Dusting off my history books, I gathered a few fun facts and some of the chief events which occurred in politics, economics, science but also in literature, cinema, and sports in order to have a better idea of what was happening at the time in the US, Italy and around the world. So sit down, relax and let the journey begin by turning back the pages of time and taking a quantum leap directly to 1953 where in the US unemployment was only 3%, a gallon of gas was just 20 cents, the first color tv set was sold for about $1,175, the New York Yankees won the 5th World Series in a row and Dean Martin sang the hit song That’s Amore. Abroad Churchill won Nobel Prize for Literature and Magritte painted the Golconda. Read about other interesting facts and events below.

Jan 20 Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th President of the United States of America. Feb 5 Walt Disney film Peter Pan premieres and I Love Lucy wins best sit comedy category at Emmy Awards.Feb 28 J.D.Watson & F.Crick announce their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Mar 5 Russia: Joseph Stalin dies and is succeeded by Malenkov.Mar 26 Jonas Salk announces his polo vaccine and 4 days later Einstein announces revised unified field theory.Apr 16 President Eisenhower delivers “Chance for Peace” speech and 11 days later signs an executive order which defined controversial hiring and firing rules for Government Employment.Apr 22 Clare Boothe Luce, newly appointed US Ambassa-dor to Italy, arrives in Naples on board of the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria. May 4 Ernest Hemingway is awarded Pulitzer prize for The Old Man and the Sea.May 17 Rome, Italy: Inauguration of the Centomila Sta-dium (thus called for its capacity to sit 100,000 people and better known today as Stadio Olimpico) with a soccer match between Italy and Hungary. May 29 Nepal: Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.Jun 7 Italian general elections are won by the Christian Democracy party with a plurality in both legislative houses.

Jun 17 East Berliners rise against Russia’s communist rule and are quelled by tanks.Jun 30 The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michi-gan.Jul 27 The Korean War ends after 3 years. An armistice is signed by which the North remains communist and the South capitalist. Aug 13 France: 4 million workers go on strike for 12 days against austerity measures.Aug 20 Moscow announces explosion of hydrogen bomb.Set 4 Researchers Eugene Aserinsky & Nathaniel Kleitman first publish the discovery of REM sleep.Set 17 First successful separation of Siamese twins.Oct The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.Oct 12 US & Greece sign peace treaty.Oct 22 Laos gains full independence from France and 18 days later the Civil War between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao begins.Nov 9 Cambodia becomes independent from France.Nov 25 Japan: Earthquake and tsunami strikes Honshu. Dec 6 With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs live for the last time his favorite Beethoven symphony Eroica, which is broadcast nation-wide on radio.Dec 25 The Amami Islands are returned to Japan after 8 years of United States Military occupation.

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memorable club history dates

1953

2013, a spectacular year for AICR as it continues to celebrates its 60th Anniversary

Boy thus far 2013 has been an amazing year for AICR starting from the exclusive black-tie dinner at Circolo della Caccia in January, our trendy Birthday Party at Shari Vari in April and 4th of July Picnic at Marymount. And the fun doesn’t stop – there will be many more upcoming events. To commemorate our 60th Anniversary and new logo, I put together a short timeline from 1953 to the present recalling some of our Club’s most memorable dates and adding a few fun facts in between as well.

1953-1956

1970

1979

1990’s

1989-1996

1999

2001

2007

2013

Founding of the American Club of Rome by Henry Luce (husband of Clare Boothe Luce) and a group of Americans during a luncheon at the Grand Hotel.

Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. Ambassador to Italy at the time, is Honorary President to the Club, initiating a practice which still continues today with each U.S. Ambassa-dor to Italy serving as Honorary President.

Our Club’s longest standing member and Past President Bill Barsanti first joins.

Women are allowed membership to the Club. The first two women members to be accepted in April were Patricia Ann Luz-zato, a loyal member still to this very day, and Monica Kraczkiewicz. Hotel Boston was were the first meetings were held.

Office of Secretary is held by Andrea Lorenzetti, who recalls it was a great time.

The Club becames international.

Marilyn De Leo, first woman President of the Club is elected for a mandate.

The Club’s logo and name changed from the American Club of Rome to the pres-ent American International Club of Rome under Todd Dockum, general manager of Ford Italy and President of the Club at the time. Commemorating the founding, this event also took place at the Grand Ho-tel, today known as the St. Regis Grand.

The 51% majority American policy is established.

AICR’s new logo is unveiled on April 11, 2013 at the Club’s Birthday Party after win-ning Membership Contest for Best Logo.

document from the past


club logos in time

2001 - 2013

Provided by Todd Atwood

1997 - 2000 unknown - 1996

April 2013

Created by Alessandro Carafa Jacobini

delizie enogastronomiche lazio


Autumn Wine Selectionby Danielle DeVine

Autumn brings both a rich palette in foliage as well as the opportunity to pair wines with the structure and character strong enough to complement the heartier fare of the season.

DE’ NOTARI CRIO 12, from the prize wining 2011 vintage, is an ideal white wine for this time of the year. Produced by Frascati based Cantine San Marco, whose aim is to produce quality wine using modern technology while still respecting the territory, De’ Notari is a luminous straw colored white perfect for fish and white meats such as chicken and turkey. It has an excellent bouquet, with fruity notes in equilibrium with aro-matic herbs, and its actual taste does not disappoint. Using well-known national grapes Malvasia del Lazio, Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia di Candia, Bellone and Grechetto, De’ Notari Crio 12 boasts the perfect contrast between velvety softness and sapidità as the Italians term the quality of the aftertaste, almond-like in this case.ALAGNA (DOCG Cesanese del Piglio), from its award winning 2011 vintage, is an elegant red wine worth trying. It’s produced by Azienda Agricola Giuliani Marcella on a 40 hectare estate founded in 1870, and re-founded in 2002 by Marcella Giuliani, who established specialized organic farming and guided production methods for grow-ing vineyards and olive groves. Her main goal is to use quality production to bring out the best in the two typical local grape varieties, the Cesanese and the Passerina, famous during the Middle Ages and Medieval Papal courts. She certainly succeeds with Alagna, made from 100% Cesanese d’Affile and certified organic. Alagna has a strong aroma, with notes of both sweet and sour cherries and a subtle hint of wet earth and ink. Possessing a dense and robust ruby red color, Alagna also has an intense bou-quet and structure. It is quite tannic, but not unpleasantly so, leaving a tingling sensation on the palette that mingles nicely with a fruity aftertaste.COLLE DEL TURCHETTO (IGT Lazio Rosso), from the prize winning vintage of 2011, is a superb red wine highly suitable and bound to enhance any autumnal meal. Produced by the internationally known multi-generational winemaking family enterprise Dino Limi-ti, Colle Turchetto uses two grape varieties that are certainly not typical of Lazio: Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Its rich bouquet has hints of blackberry and blueberry, cardamom, aromatic herbs, and a delicate whisper of coffee. Colle del Turchetto has a noteworthy concentrated ruby red color, an excellent structure, and leaves a lovely persistent after-taste, but its most striking feature is its extremely velvety softness. SESTO 21 (IGP Lazio Syrah), award-winning 2010 vintage, is a final recommenda-tion for a red. Produced by Alma Vini s.r.l. - Casata Mergè, Sesto 21 fulfills the Mergè winemaking family’s stated intent to “create a wine that respects the inherited traditions as handed down by my grandfather and revives his love for the land.” Blackberry and blueberry dominate the bouquet, while cinnamon and nutmeg are discreetly present as well. The wine has a dark ruby hue tinged with purple and is made from the inter-nationally used 100% Sirah grape variety. With a fairly high alcohol content, it has a warm quality and is quite persistent in its pleasant aftertaste. It is more acidic than the previously mentioned wines, but without being in any way abrasive, and it has an ac-claimed structure and much lauded body. A wine that is both smooth and pleasant and warm and persistent, Sesto 21 is an excellent choice to bridge the passing autumn and the forthcoming winter.


proust questionnaire

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being in perfect communion with every-thing that surrounds you. One can be born with this sensitivity or it is a state of mind that takes a lot of work to reach.

What is your greatest fear? Loosing lucidity.

Which living person do you most admire? My wife. She’s like the sun, shining bright all the time and bringing joy to the people around her in a warm and thoughtful way.

Who are your favorite writers? Dante Alighieri and Giacomo Leopardi.

Which talent would you most like to have? I already have plenty of talents, I would just like to improve them all as l am do-ing. It’s an amazing endless journey that nourishes my soul!!

Born in the Venetian city of Abano Terme, Massimo Di Capua has been living in Rome for four years. Embracing his passion, in 2000 he began experi-menting in the field of photography by combining his experience and skills in cinematography with a marked taste for image and formal research, which has defined his original stylistic expressive form. His works have been exhibited in Venice, Florence, at the American Embassy in Rome and Tri-Mission Art Gallery.

AICR Proust Questionnaire with Massimo Di Capua

proust questionnaire

What is your most treasured possession? My sensibility.

When and where were you happiest? In my mind every time I achieve the fruit of my efforts.

What is your most marked characteristic? Being introspective.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Meeting my wife. Nothing happens by chance, you must be aware and recognize what is in front of you, otherwise you may loose the chance of a lifetime. It’s just a matter of consciousness; you must work it out!

Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Martin Mystere.

Painting by M. Di Capua


short list

Short List - What’s hot now!by Kathy Araco

Movie: Nuclear Nation. This eye-opening documen-tary films the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear di-saster that hit Japan following a major earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Revealing an infinitively worse situation than reported by the world media, more than a year later the population still remains without a home due to the persistence of nuclear contamina-tion. Suggesting that by striking a Faustian bargain with nuclear power, we might be responsible for these con-sequences and disasters. Surely something to ponder on and urge us to find better, safer alternative energy power sources that cannot backfire and harm us or our beautiful planet because our survival depends on it.

Album: Prism. Youth, beauty, talent and success. Singer and songwriter Katy Perry seems to have it all and more. With thirteen new tracks plus three extra songs available with the deluxe edition, her fourth album has a more introspective vibe to it and seems to be fruit of a deeper awareness. Starting from the title – like white light passing through a prism cre-ates a rainbow spectrum, likewise according to Katy “letting the light in” was a transformational process which inspired all her songs. She’s conscious about communicating mostly up-

lifting, encouraging and inspirational messages through her music, which is really admirable. Like Roar, she emphasizes is “about self-reflection and self-empowerment and learning to deal with the curve balls that life throws you every single day”. So if someone’s holding you down, follow the lyrics, get up and just ROAR-OR them away!

Website: Goodnoows.com is listed among Times’ 50 Best Websites 2013. If you’re a news junkie, you’ll love it! You can pick all your favorite news sources and topics to be displayed in a catchy newspaper layout and share them. To stay in the loop, an auto-refresh every 15 minutes can be set. Cool right? And did I mention it’s free?


short list

TV Show: The Crazy Ones. Who says crazy is bad? Some-times it’s good, especially if you’re Robin Williams, one of the craziest, funniest comedians ever who’s made a living out of making people laugh for more than three decades. Since Mork and Mindy last aired 32 years ago and tons of films in between, he’s now back on tv as Simon Roberts, executive at an advertising agency in Chicago. At his side the young Sarah Michelle Gellar, popular since Buffy, the Vampire Slay-er, who plays his antagonistic daughter and protégé. Sounds promising enough to view?

Book: The Yes Frequency. In this uplifting and motivational book, international best-selling author, life coach & speak-er, Gary Quinn shares his skills and insights by revealing a series of practical and efficient techniques to release fear, become more successful in every area of life and fulfill your dreams. All this is possible – so say YES, take action and begin today by letting Gary take you on this transformation-al life changing journey. You’ll learn how to let go of limitat-ing negative beliefs, unblock the natural flow of prosperity and tap into the frequency of abundance to start living now the extraordinary rewarding life – with unlimited possibili-ties – you really deserve.

1953 Classics: The Comedy Duo Martin & Lewis. After their 1946 début in nightclubs, during the early ’50s Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis became the hottest act in America. By 1953 The Martin & Lewis Radio Show was a hit, like their tv appear-ances on The Colgate Comedy Hour, a popular variety show. Plus in 1953 the movies Scared Stiff, The Caddy and Money From Home were released; they won the Redbook Awards and hosted the MDA Telethon to help raise money. 60 years later, their sketches and gags are still guaranteed to make you laugh…so be sure to check them out.


aicr silver business members & discounts

Ciao Italia, Italian language and cultural center. Intensive/Non intensive courses. Day/Evening – Small groups CILS/CELI exam preparation. Courses at home/office. From Sept 16th, Extensive course (E2): Monday-Wednesday 6:30p.m.-8:20p.m. 150 euro per month + registration fee Tel. 064814084 Via Delle Frasche 5, (Via Nazionale) Metro B-Stop Cavour www.ciao-italia.it [email protected]

Order personalized floral designs by DebraFlower for that special touch and have them delivered free (Rome and within 5 km. outside Raccordo). Weddings! Events! Parties! [email protected], www.debraflower.com, www.debraflower.blogspot.com, www.debraflowerit.blogspot.com

10% Discount off Intensive Italian Courses (60 hours) Koiné - Italian Language Centre. Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, 48. [email protected], www.koinecentre.com

Catering services: International cuisine – Thai, Indonesian, Indian, Moroc-can, Middle Eastern, Mexican and European... Cooking classes for adults and children. Food tours. Contact Francesa Flore of La Luna nel Piatto Tel. 339 6230393 [email protected], www.lalunanelpiatto.com

C.R.E.T.A. rome: Ceramics, Residencies, Exhibitions, Teaching & the Arts: 10% discount on ceramic courses for children. 10% discount on creative, relaxed ceramic courses for adults.www.cretarome.com; www.cretarome.blogspot.it; via dei Delfini 17Tel. 347 8024581

Discounts and listings from our Silver Business Members. Take advantage of important discounts at many local businesses,

thanks to your AICR Membership.

aicr business membersAICR thanks our Business Members who provide benefits for

AICR members and support the Club.

Avis Autonoleggio - Rent a CarItalian Headquarters: Viale Carmelo Bene 70, 00139 [email protected] Reservations: www.avisautonoleggio.it/aicromeCall Center: 199 100 133 (Outside Italy + 39 06 45 21 08 391)Quote Avis Worldwide Discount (AWD) number W465200

Rome International SchoolTel. 06 84482650/1www.romeinternationalschool.itoffice@romeinternationalschool.itfacebook.com/romeinternationalschool

St. John’s UniversityVia Marcantonio Colonna, 21A Rome Italy 00192Tel. 06-393842 or Toll Free Number in Italy: 800 971736Fax: +39 06 39384200 US Tel: +1 (212) 815-9216 Ext. [email protected] www.stjohns.edu/rome

DIAMOND

Platinum

Bellezza TotaleTel. 06 6830 7238Via della Vite 21/B - 00187 [email protected]/bellezzatotale

Marymount International SchoolTel. 06 36 29 101 Fax: 06 36 30 1738Via di Villa Lauchli 180 - 00191 [email protected] www.marymountrome.org

Gold

Expatriate American Taxhttp://[email protected] Tel +1 212-777-0807 Italy: 347-328-4339US Fax +1 212-242-2820Via Leonina, 83 - Roma, IT 00184

Koiné - Italian Language CentrePiazza San Giovanni in Laterano, 48 - 00184 RomaPhone (+39) 06.96038365www.koinecentre.comwww.facebook.com/KoineItalianLanguageCentre

NOI SalonRome: Piazza del Popolo 3 - Tel. +39 06 3600 6284 - [email protected]

Naples: Vicoletto Belledonne 9 - Tel. +39 081 405 457 - [email protected]://noisalon.com

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