Thursday, November 15, 2007

Dry Mouth Before Period

after the battle" A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose "


rains for several days that have finally started to fall and the air flushed less than twenty African countries have allowed the stench of exhaust gases over on the resumption of canine faeces and garbage left to ferment in the corners where the sweeper does not fail to arrive, and so the big topic of the summer Molfettese was declassified theme of secondary importance, waiting for the early blossoming of almond trees near the nth messengers hurried spring, which in turn precede the heat of another summer century, the topical overs. ASM
structural inadequacy or lack of education of the citizens, the tragic decline the virtues or shortcomings of municipal staff, overtime is no longer paid or decline of a culture that loved the road as if it were an extension of the hearth, the fact is that, in the squares and not virtual, the molfettesi you are passionate about and divided into bottles beer and abandoned litter, cigarette butts and plastic bags fluttering in short, to waste.
An argument difficult to determine because in truth, perhaps it will seem strange, what a waste it's not an easy thing to say. The condition of waste is not an objective state like that of a rose is a rose because it is a rose. A rejection implies the cessation of desire to have an object that is so, in fact, "refused" to become a "thing exposed," res nullius, that would be a wreck at the mercy of currents and waves if there were no laws governing the matter and establish responsibilities and duties of a parent Act refusal.
course, the life of the objects is quite varied: not all objects are expected to become garbage and those who do it in time and become very different ways. Take a particular case but significant: a book can never become waste, or can do in a short time: the object itself does not depend on the quality of paper or binding, but its content, its value in short symbolic.
In a sense, the same goes for any object: the so-called "consumer society" claim that the symbolic value of objects declines rapidly, well before the use-value. "We live in a less materialistic society that has ever existed," he once said Raymond Williams: increasing speed, in fact, we devour symbols. The relentless decline of the complacency with which the mobile monster bought a few months ago means his gradual but inevitable turn into a waste long before the object stops working: it is the time to consume it desires accelerated fed commercials and lists of bag to keep up. But
even if the wear is only semantics, does not mean no impact on the portfolio. A car loses commercial value in a predictable and easily calculated by the insurance companies even when left unused in the garage. And his impairment does not stop when it becomes equal to zero: it can also be negative. Waste, once baptized these are exactly that: "negative assets" objects, that is, to get rid of them we are willing to pay.
In Italy there is a date, 1982, and a presidential decree, the 915, that form the watershed.
Before there was no difference between waste from the production or consumption, and the community shouldered the responsibility the cost of disposing of both. Once there was a dual system for municipal waste, the disposal of which remained the responsibility of municipalities, and for those special or industrial, that should be disposed of by those who produce them. "Polluter pays" principle is the right which was inspired by the law. This has created a market in which goods "rejected" are reborn as commodities, but as is the rule of reason and the market for each company tries to reduce costs, and sometimes it can happen that he who occupies the role that is called to pursue the savings can be induced by circumstances galeotte to avoid getting too many scruples, 1982 was also the date of birth dell'ecomafia.
But this is not the story I wanted to tell, at least not today. I wanted instead to talk about this wonderful ability that man has to give names to things and names to give them life and meaning. It seems magic, do not you agree? Close to the people of Nairobi dump Koroghoco renamed with new names and so the waste of the world survive. As a shaman Duchamp pronounced new names for things and instilled a different life in urinals and bicycle wheels. Stealing words to Erasmus advertisers convince us of the folly of what is reasonable self made love to dream of running fast imagine living in a less claustrophobic. Except that comes from tombs and cities buried under lava and ashes, what we expose in the caskets of our precious archaeological museums comes from landfills: Any object can be a future of redemption and rebirth. Baudelaire was right: truly "we will wander like ghosts in a forest of symbols".

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Cubefield Cheats And Glitches

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is the 25th of August that the thermometers hottest summer ever recorded no signs yet to finish, so hot that summer on July 2 the National Hydrocarbons Agency has Eni launched the initiative takes off his tie inviting their employees to Rome and to dress in San Donato Milanese way cooler.
On July 16 the minister Livia Turkish invited the Italians to do without the tie in the workplace in order to "produce an immediate drop in body temperature evaluated from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius, with the benefit of the organism and resulting in less need of relief allowing a more judicious use of artificial air conditioning, to the benefit of energy saving and environmental protection. " The next day it was the turn of Pecoraro Scanio: "I appreciate the invitation of Turkish Livia not to use the ties during heat waves like the one that is investing in our country these days: in addition to lowering the temperature body, with beneficial effects on health of non-use of the tie can "lift" the air conditioners a few degrees, with a considerable saving of energy and a consequent reduction of the share of CO ². I hope all my fellow ministers to adapt by giving an indication to staff of its ministries to remove his tie, for the welfare of employees and the environment. " Ben
two Ministers of the Republic have in fact felt the need to intervene to try to convince the Italians to draw the obvious conclusions from what they already know and that is that in summer, with the tie, it is hotter and, therefore, would make more sense without it.
Actually, it would other reasons, and equally valid, to invoke the abandonment of the accessory: trope knots tight and stiff shirt collars can cause an increase in intraocular pressure and increase the risk of glaucoma, the ties tend to dangerously entangled in mobile devices, in fan blades, for example, or the cooling fan on the car when trying to add oil to the engine is hot and, according to the British Medical Association, the tie is dangerous even for those not wearing it: coming soon washed over other clothing is a dangerous vehicle for pathogens waved for more doctors in the face of their patients.
And, on the other hand, what's the point? È singolare come una cosa così inutile e molte volte scomoda come la cravatta sia potuta diventare sinonimo di eleganza, mentre la natura stessa dell’eleganza vien spesso ricercata nella misura e nell’economicità funzionale dei gesti rispetto ai fini (è questo che si intende quando si definisce “elegante” una mossa nel gioco degli scacchi o una dimostrazioni matematica o un’azione calcistica). È singolare anche che la cravatta si sia affermata pienamente come oggetto di moda proprio dopo essere stata esibita come vessillo del dandismo, in opposizione alla moda di fin de siècle : la cravatta, di tutti gli elementi che formano la toeletta del dandy è il più significativo perché è "As close to nothing": a banner of freedom and rebellion became a symbol of ostentatious bourgeois conformism.
The transition to a market economy in China has been accompanied by the abandonment of the classical Maoist uniform and its replacement with a jacket and tie in the Senate can not be accessed without a tie (he remained a popular - decorated with drawings of Pigs - worn by the Spurs League) and the large openings of the Confraternity of St. Stephen's coat, which once served to show the shining armor of the nobility, reveal today jackets and ties. Koizumi
Two years ago, long before then the Turkish and Pecoraro Scanio, has invited the Japanese to togliersi la cravatta dal collo; diligenti gli abitanti del Sol Levante hanno ubbidito. Ma la cosa deve averli poco convinti se in quel paese un’azienda ha pensato bene di mettere in commercio un singolare oggetto: un plasticoso simulacro tecnologico che della cravatta ricorda la forma e che viene indossato nella stessa posizione a coprire i bottoni della camicia, ma che incorpora un ventilatore. Nessuna persona sana di mente penserebbe mai di indossare un oggetto simile se non per scherzo o sotto la spinta di una forte costrizione. E in effetti non v’è dubbio che spesso le cravatte siano vissute come oggetti transizionali, coperte di Linus, indispensabili punti fermi per cercare di dare un punto di stabilità alla propria personalità.
La parola “cravatta” deriva dalla francesizzazione della parola slava “krvat”, cioè “croato”. Il Royal Cravatte era un reggimento slavo che combatteva per Luigi XIII e che portava come segno di riconoscimento una fascia colorata intorno al collo. “Segnare” con corde o lacci colorati polsi, caviglie, parte inferiore del ginocchio, omeri, collo, fronte, è sempre stato un modo per affidare alla protezione divina i punti deboli.
Un ricordo di questa abitudine lo si ritrova durante la sagra della Madonna dei Martiri quando i devoti si lanciano in mare dalle barche con strisce di stoffa colorata legate intorno ai “restringimenti del corpo”. I croati, da secoli impegnati in guerra contro i turchi, asking God's protection over what they feared most to lose under the blows of the Muslim scimitars.
The next time you put on a tie, ricordatevene. But wait until the autumn.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

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Short history of starless sky


Zapp This number will still be on sale when, as every year, driven by the ritual calls Agostani print and television, will raise his eyes to the sky during the night of San Lorenzo in search of his rain of tears, and we realize, once again, that the stars are gone.
Human eyes can easily see stars fainter than magnitude 6, stars that is about one hundred times less bright Vega or forty times less than the North Star: about 2100 stars above the horizon 30 degrees. Today we have difficulty in Molfetta see stars of magnitude 3 and so we see no more than forty. If we move slightly away 'from the city will be able to see, with a little' luck, a couple of hundred, but also on the first Murge not be able to count many more than 400, is slow, even in the most serene nights, to distinguish the Milky Way.
What's worse is that the phenomenon is increasing: in 2025 our galaxy could be completely invisible in every part of Italy.
the City of Light was the first city in the world to experience what we call light pollution: the traveler who arrived in Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century was struck by his empty sky, bereft from the stars cleared from the street lighting was as if the heavens had been turned over and the stars fallen to earth.
It was not just lights, it seemed that the same supercelestial had been emptied of any god from a rational and materialistic civilization that no longer sought in the sky, the constellation diagrams in precise transits of the stars and the wires that tended those between humans and the reasons and the sense of what is happening.
"There is not one of you, dear colleagues, who did not see the moon, or at least that has not heard. " In From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne start communication so that the president Impey Barbicane held for the benefit of other members of the Gun Club is not only Anglo-Saxon humor could describe him as a French writer who needed to raise more head to scan the sky? Why interest in the Moon and its phases? He was here on this earth who now lived gods and myths, there just balls of incandescent gas. There was in those years of a nascent modernity growing disregard for the things of the sky that could be revived only by looking to space as a territory to conquer.
Gradually, the stars began to darken dappertutto. Lampione dopo lampione anche le città più piccole hanno cominciato a sfidare il cielo.
Oggi, secondo l’Organizations against light pollution in EU (
www.savethenight.eu ), il 99% della popolazione dell’Unione Europea vive in aree dove il cielo notturno è inquinato, il 90% vive sotto una luce artificiale perenne equivalente a quella emessa dalla luna piena, per più del 60% la “notte” non arriva veramente mai, quasi il 50% ha perso la possibilità di vedere la Via Lattea, galassia in cui viviamo, e circa il 15% non ha mai guardato il cielo con gli occhi adattati alla visione notturna a causa dell’alta luminosità del cielo.
Negli ultimi 40 anni c’è stato un aumento di luminosità di circa il 10% ogni 12 mesi e la notte risulta ormai almeno 10 volte più chiara di quanto dovrebbe essere naturalmente.
Circa il 30% della luce emessa dall’illuminazione stradale viene dispersa verso il cielo con un inutile spreco di energia che provoca il disorientamento degli animali migratori e disturbi nei cicli circadiani degli uomini.
Dopo l’ultimo forte terremoto che colpì la città di Los Angeles nel dicembre del 2003 i centralini telefonici degli Istituti scientifici locali furono presi d’assalto da cittadini che chiedevano che cosa fosse successo al cielo: la sospensione dell’energia elettrica in moltissime zone della città aveva reso see the starry sky remained hitherto practically unknown in a city that now barely at night you can see the full moon.
Yet there is perhaps someone who could blame the old mills in the Village of Dreams Kurosawa asks: "Who might want a sky without stars?" In 1992 UNESCO declared the starry sky "world heritage 'humanity'.
In Italy none of the various proposed laws against light pollution has been able to complete its process, on the other hand 13 regions, including Puglia since 2005, you are given the rules and regulations. Today, all new equipment for street lighting must have a zero emission level above the 90th and all the old equipment must be replaced within the next 5 years. In addition to allowing us to see some more star this alone will allow the city of Molfetta save at least € 250 000 per year.

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and environment Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon in 1865. He died in 1905, when my grandfather was seven. It was twelve when in January the city of Molfetta ordered to shut down for a few hours of the night street lighting, gas, allowing its citizens to enjoy the magnificent view of the great comet that took up almost half the sky. The view of that star and the other comet, that of Halley, whose tail a few months after it was crossed by the Earth sparking fears of all kinds, she passed on to my grandfather, although she was illiterate, a passion for astronomy that he did return from America, where he later emigrated, laden with books Flammarion.
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Postilla 05/12/2007
"Consider," cum sidera , that is put together to chart the stars and constellations, therefore, form and meaning and narratives. But also feel one with the sky and, because of that empathy, divination, wishes to draw.

"Want", de sidera , turning away from the sky.
The desire of the lack of the desired thing, the breaking of the original: the loss of the ability to "consider" to feel at one with the stars.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Ratchet And Clank Complete Rhino V




"It's hard to explain something to someone whose salary depends on precisely because he does not understand what you try to explain." The Upton wrote Sinclair in his book more fortunate The Brass Check, which took its name from the brass coins, Americans still in use in the brothels until the Thirties, which were purchased from the tenants and delivered to prostitutes in exchange for their services.
"Brass Coin" was called by Sinclair that journalists receive the compensation in exchange for what we in Italy call "tricks" and that, according to Al Gore, vice president for eight years of Bill Clinton, are cause and effect of profound democratic crisis across the United States.
Information is controlled by the big economic powers whose interests mean that scientific truth dimostrate possano non trovare lo spazio e l’attenzione che sarebbe loro doveroso riservare. È stato così per gli effetti del fumo sulla salute, certezza scientifica per decenni nascosta da carrettate di dollari sborsate dalle multinazionali del tabacco. È così oggi per gli effetti delle immissioni di gas serra nell’atmosfera che le compagnie petrolifere e, in genere, un sistema produttivo interessato esclusivamente al profitto tendono a nascondere.
Nel suo documentario Una scomoda verità , per il quale ha ricevuto due premi Oscar, Gore dimostra che la verità è assai peggiore di quanto non ci si voglia far credere: lo sconvolgimento del clima in atto richiederà un prezzo assai salato in termini di lives and property damage. Above all, what is carefully avoided telling is the truth about the consequences of melting polar ice. In recent decades the sea has raised only a few inches and the consequences have been heard only on some small Pacific islands that had to be evacuated by the inhabitants. But those who broke up so far are almost exclusively sea ice, ice that is not based on land, which, melting, did not increase sea levels in the same way an ice cube floating in a drink leaves unchanged the level of the liquid and turns into water. When something else happens to melt saranno i ghiacci terrestri della Groenlandia e dell’Antartide. Anzi non c’è neanche bisogno che si sciolgano: sarà sufficiente che scivolino in mare, cosa che accadrà quando le barriere di ghiaccio marino che circondano le terre polari cederanno. Allora enormi iceberg cadranno in un mare sempre più caldo il cui livello comincerà a salire velocemente. Questo accelererà ulteriormente lo scioglimento delle barriere che lasceranno passare sempre più ghiaccio terrestre in mare.
Basterà un aumento medio della temperatura del pianeta di tre gradi per far sì che intorno alla metà del secolo tutto il ghiaccio si sarà sciolto o finito in mare.
Il livello delle acque si sarà allora sollevato di sei metri.
is hard to believe, I know. It is difficult to imagine the water rising inexorably, and he holds the Pier San Domenico, which is invading the village, which floods the Town Park. How do you imagine Corso Umberto that flows directly sea or submerged cathedral? It is difficult and painful for me to imagine my daughter forced to leave the house that belonged to my parents and my grandparents before them, and where in this moment I am writing these lines.
I more or less these things while, a few days ago, attended a public meeting whose theme was the future of the port of Molfetta. Everything that was said seemed rational and acceptable: Corridor 8, China, the new centrality of the Mediterranean, enlargement of the Suez Canal, and yet the need to seize the opportunity to create growth, to grow the GDP, create jobs ...
During the meeting, traders represented very well the logic where you have to move: markets, prices and infrastructure. The politicians then have done everything possible to show able to do their job, to spend public money that is in the best possible manner.
But what would have happened if someone had stood up and said that he wants to do everything that is likely to remain submerged in a few years and that as soon as conditions allow the melting of ice at the North Pole the big ships will desert Suez preferring the cheaper and quicker passage to the Northwest?
Even without provoking derisive laughter ed'incredulità, a response that such intervention would have hoped by politicians and economic operators if not, at best, an 'I understand, I agree but I can not do my work "?
There is a gap, an irreducible separation that divides the arguments of Al Gore from what we can do to improve our living conditions here and now. If we have another hot that we can do except turn on your air conditioner?
Even if we were on his shoulders the burden of the world, maybe we should not think first of our daily lives, from the mutual pay for their children's studies at the end of the month?
Maybe we can pretend to do something for the planet by reducing personal use of the machine, but if the cars we sell we can only hope to sell more. We fear the disappearance of the great rain forests, but if you want to sell more and sell more flooring planks of Iroko, Padouk or doussié.
Even when we try to adopt an environmentally friendly lifestyle as well as in her daily television and newspapers suggest, we can not help but wish that the economy continues to grow. And this leads us inexorably 6 meters under the sea.