Agatha Bârsescu – A World Class Tragedian

Following closely the lifetime theatrical vocation of the Romanian actress Agatha Bârsescu, the present article sheds light upon her love for theatre and her international carrier. After spending her childhood in Bucharest and after studying at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art, Agatha was encouraged to try her chance abroad, which she did when, at the age of twenty‐two, she passed her admission exam at the Vienna Conservatory School of Drama. Years of brilliant roles and extraordinary meetings followed with an enthusiastic audience in Austria, Germany, and later on, in the United States of America. She was loved, highly appreciated, as an artist and as a teacher, when she came back to Romania, at the Conservatory of Iassy where she instructed young actresses. A model of elegance and professionalism, she left behind a volume of beautiful Memoirs, an important correspondence (at the Vienna Museum of Art) and a large number of precious photographs and articles that critics consecrated to her work and lif

A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE UPON THE ROMANIAN AUDIOVISUAL LANDSCAPE

L'article décrit le paysage audiovisuel dans l'espace roumain. Dans l’étude sont présentés les moments de l'apparition de la télévision en Roumanie par rapport à l'année d'apparition dans le monde, ainsi que l’impact de son introduction et l'expérimentation dans notre pays comme principal moyen de communication. L’analyse continue avec une description des principales chaînes de télévision au niveau national et les dimensions publiques et commerciales du système dans le contexte européen. L’analyse de la couverture du territoire de l’audiovisuel occupe une place importante dans l’étude. L’analyse présentée fait partie d'une étude geodémographique plus détaillée qui se présente à la fin comme une contribution à l'enrichissement de la future recherche sur les facteurs socio-culturels non-spécifiques (ex. la télévision) dans le domaine de la géographie culturelle

Asymptotic invariants of base loci

The purpose of this paper is to define and study systematically some asymptotic invariants associated to base loci of line bundles on smooth projective varieties. We distinguish an open dense subset of the real big cone, called the stable locus, consisting of the set of classes on which the asymptotic base locus is locally constant. The asymptotic invariants define continuous functions on the big cone, whose vanishing characterizes, roughly speaking, the unstable locus. We show that for toric varieties at least, there exists a polyhedral decomposition of the big cone on which these functions are polynomial.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure; shorter version with more efficient exposition and more general version of asymptotic invariants; notation changed, references added, minor mistakes correcte