S Pesso starting to read a book again, I am in need of dotarmi a bookmark, the most frequently improvised, anything to avoid the odious "ears" at the corner of the page and use it the first thing at hand . These are the ones left inside some books and found casually browse through them. In the case of Italian bank notes, were placed between the pages to preserve the freshness of the press, and in the meantime have come out of legal tender. The U.S. bill was used as a bookmark for the unusual quirk of its nominal value.
course of unusual things, I also found many real bookmarks, the classic leather, fabric, fit those ads that publishers in the books for sale, that of a famous restaurant in Frascati, but then also a historic invitation of the Federation of Roman PCI for a recital of Yevtushenko (it's reported on the day and time, but the year should be 1964!), a sticker for a political campaign (perhaps policies' 68?), an absolutely innovative Piktoland, and then postcards from places unusual, photos, simple depliand.
Among the many traditional symbols related to Christmas, now mostly forgotten, there is a bound the constellation Cygnus. For those who know a little starry sky, this constellation is usually associated with the summer period: in fact, its brightest star, Deneb - which is one of the stars with the highest absolute luminosity, if compared to its enormous distance from Earth - along with Altair (the brightest star in the constellation of 'Aquila ) and Vega (the brightest of Lira) form the so-called Summer Triangle , very visible from our latitudes more or less the zenith (the area of \u200b\u200bthe sky perpendicular to the observer) in precisely summer. Well, as I said, but there is also another important association was made between this constellation in the Middle Ages and Christmas. Part of the Swan is identified with the Northern Cross , so named to distinguish it from the equally famous Southern Cross . The first is visible only from the northern hemisphere, the second one from the southern hemisphere. The first takes the form of a Latin cross , the other Greek cross. Because in these days of year end, the constellation of Cygnus shines conspicuously in the early evening in the West, in medieval times was recognized in the presence of this cross in the sky so clear as another of the unmistakable signs of the coming of Jesus to the world To be sure, however, a symbolism that he wanted to correct the cross was placed to the east (as in summer), the cardinal point of the "birth" of the heavenly bodies par excellence .
In any case, the swan and its constellation symbols are also linked to a much more complex. First we must consider that the source of this figure in the heavens is very ancient: the civilizations that lived in Mesopotamia and sees a group of stars in the form of a bird in flight, which the Greeks later called initially "Ornis" (ie, "bird"). In addition, pre-Christian Northern Europe, The swans were considered a symbol of the sun god: for the Celts were leading the solar boat in the ocean blue. The Greek mythological tradition, however, tells us a myth in which Zeus, to win the reluctant nemesis, Aphrodite forced to turn into an eagle that would have followed in an attempt to predict, after he had transformed itself into a swan. Pretending to escape from this rapacious predator, the Swan that took refuge from Nemesis, softened and protected, if they pressed it to his chest. It was so quiet that she fell asleep holding it carelessly in his arms, and so Zeus-swan abused her and then run away. The men saw this swan flying so high in the sky and idly talk live in firmament. Zeus then took advantage and to avoid finding out the truth in heaven decided to put the figure of the swan with its wings spread, and close to chasing him, that of an accomplice eagle.
emblem of purity of conscience and moral integrity - because its plumage has a candor that is unique among birds and loves to attend only because the water is very clear - but also of courage, because it fears a clash (a bird is actually relatively "aggressive", especially when it is appropriate to defend itself or its territory), has been widely used in coats of arms in, as it represents the courage united beauty. sometimes in coats of arms are two swans, facing each other with their necks entwined: they represent the loyalty (another important gift of a knight against his sovereign ...) because the swan is monogamous.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PATO 'by Andrea Camilleri - Oscar Mondadori - 2010 Christmas with the Kranks
Andrea Camilleri This is perhaps the most "stranu" stories, reading it feels "Stramm" : the story takes place through newspaper articles, reports, public safety, Police reports, letters, and also written on the walls of the town of Vigata, 1890.
What happened? During the passion play on Good Friday Accountant Antonio Pato, director of the local branch of Bank of Trinacria, an official reproach, the husband and loving father integgerimo not only appreciated "Judas" in the above representation, disappears into thin air. Where did he go? E 'is dead or is he hiding? Public Safety and Police are on alert, the newspapers are in turmoil: should shed light on the mystery before the scandal extends to the whole island kingdom.
can all be successful, perhaps a murderer obsessed with lunatic ravings religious? A mess of the Bank of Trinacria? A memory leak? An escape? The shadow of the mafia? Or, as some suggest, the reason it has been swallowed by a rift in space-time continuum?
Written in the form of hilarious dossier, prodigious repertoire of nineteenth-century and contemporary costumes and malpractice, Pato's disappearance is a fine tale that delves into the depths of our past and our present. (from 4 cover)
The question is to what reader Camilleri thought, if the empirical player or the player model, which as defined in by Eco Lector in fabula , (Simon and Schuster, 1979).
Surely it is of a more suitable model to player, the less lazy, with curiosity and even willing to mentally reconstruct the story that the documents provide a glimpse.
A delicious read, intelligent, entertaining and fun, for the language that changes its depending on the medium: the curia, police station, police station or local newspaper and with a surprise ending worthy of a great mystery writer and an astute observer of the Italian situation.
This fun little book that a friend gave me a few years ago, it seems appropriate to read these days obsessed with Christmas themes.
A mature married couple Americans, accompanying her daughter leaving for a humanitarian mission in Peru, decided to spend a different Christmas, for a leisure cruise in the Caribbean.
Nothing easier to achieve, "but Christmas, with its extraordinary power of consumerism, with its cumbersome presence moralistic, is about to take the most scathing and hilarious revenge on the poor and Mrs Krank.
A classic tale of modern times, an ironic provocation to enjoy moments of fun and makes us discover John Grisham brilliant writer of comedy and humor disenchanted observer of a tradition that we can not do without. " (from 2nd cover)
The real beast - Animal Videos Community is dedicated to animals who have been killed by greed, selfishness and lust for blood of humans. At present and future generations of innocent beings to suffer and die because of human brutality. To all our creatures like that, because of the abuse of human beings, have been mutilated, slaughtered, burned, poisoned, strangled, gassed, shot, electrocuted, cooked, invest, skinned, eaten, enslaved and domesticated -
Many men deny their feelings toward animal suffering, building giusticare alibis for their abusive behavior. People soon learn to stifle what they really feel when they see animals suffer. Separate thoughts from feelings of alienation is part of the process that afigge humanity. Many others lie somewhere in between. They believe that animals should be treated well, but they still put on a throne of the human species. Torn between empathy for other creatures and the need to control them, playing the role of the moderates. They try to quell the animosity of extremist animal defenders, trying to increase the sensitivity on the part of the exploiters of animals, suggesting larger cages and slaughtering "more human". They feel that animals should be free to live their lives, but then I think that freedom would be unreasonable in conflict with their lifestyle. They want to use drugs and eat meat and other products of animal exploitation, but they are wrong when they become aware of what the animals suffer for their production. That's why slaughterhouses are built away from the eyes of the public and the doors of research laboratories are kept tightly closed. This helps people keep their heads in the sand, closing his eyes to the cruelty around them. Today, it is time for moderation and compromise, when it comes to moral principles concerning the life and death -
There is a reason why so many people become defenders of the animals and looking for love in them are in non-human honesty. The animals do not act. They are directed. And they are never deliberately cruel. Once , hunting, slaughtering, skinning animals and beating was part of the daily life of ordinary people. That people today are more sensitive to the cruel past, is an illusion in contemporary society. In fact, people simply no longer used to kill animals with their own hands. This dirty work is left to the specialists, such as butchers, hunters, vivisection or employees of certain kennels. Although some people currently remain disrupted to view photos of mistreatment of animals, the importance they attach to the products of such abuse leads to simply reused the view of those images, or to accept that these actions against animals are a "necessary evil".
Today, the world has been dened for men by men themselves. Putting people at the center of the world is dened anthropocentrism. Anthropocentrism allows humans to treat animals as "natural resources", objects for human use and consumption. These have often been created by man Denition gloricate from religious scripture, which impregnates many violent practices of an alleged divine acceptance, and isolated from any possible riessione around them by erecting impenetrable walls of faith. The men, thirsting for blood, do not have much need giusticazioni for the massacre of the kind they make, but also armed with faith, becomes an unstoppable holocaust that feeds on itself. This anthropocentric view of the world, also led to environmental destruction. Mountains, moisture, and do not post entire rain forests are considered nothing more than objects, used to satisfy the human craving for material possessions and power. The subjugate the world and its inhabitants to human desires has not stopped people from killing each other too. This is because the connection between non-human and human is irrefutable: we are all animals. If the animals do not Humans can exploit and sacricare, the same can be done with humans. Anthropocentrism alien humans from the rest of the natural world -
anthropocentric When people feel affection for animals or nature, their feelings are always contaminated by their anthropocentrism. When you claim to love animals, they mean to them like animals for what they have to offer to people. Usually, they prefer pets. Domestication is a process by which the animals were bred to be controlled and manipulated by man. Dogs, cats and other "pets" are very often loved by people who think in relation to animal life human needs. The anthropocentric approach also makes up the animal and the environmental issue as they were two separate issues. It is not surprising. Alienated people, who are themselves outside of nature, also see animals as not related to their environment. But the whole planet is a single system. And the entire planet is greater than the sum of its parts plant, animal and mineral. Separate from the animals is a human mental construct. It has nothing to do with reality.
Adopt a biocentric vision means to the contrary, humans do not like the center of the planet, but as a participant in a multitude of other beings. The elephants, otters, sea bass, sea spiders and vultures etc.. have the same right as humans to live on this planet -
Many people claim to love animals. The hunters say they love nature, even if they discharge their guns at anything that moves. Poachers also insist that they love animals and argue that the traps they use are not too painful for the unfortunate animals that are trapped. Pin vivisectors vaunted love of animals, insisting that the animals undergoing the tortures which are necessary for human health. Selfishness and anthropocentrism of the beliefs of hunters, poachers and should be obvious even to vivisection people are losing interest of the animals. This vision of some supposed "animal lovers", it is clearly ridiculous. For them, for example, torturing and killing animals in laboratories is giusticabile, if the research is "required", provided it is done in a compassionate way. Pin eating animals is acceptable, provided they are 'slaughtered in a humane "... The concept of "humane slaughter" - whatever signichi - is a perversion. Shows how humans are confused about what should be regarded humanitarian. "Humane slaughter" is an oxymoron, like "intelligence" military. Instead, I believe strongly that killing an innocent being, human or nonhuman, that will not die, never humanitarian. Can you consider humanitarian murder of your brother or your sister? What if the murderess apologized telling you who killed your sister with love, with an overdose of barbiturates, or electrocution? Smiling, humanitarian considerations and his assassination? It is clear that the real purpose, dene the "humane" slaughter, and make things easier for the killers. E 'be noted that each year in U.S. animal shelters are killed at least fifteen million animals. The public does not want to know that animals that have been discarded are killed with a blow on the head. It 'more humane, according to the people, kill animals in a more discreet - with an injection, for example. It does not matter that the animals are removed murdered solely because of human negligence and lack of will to change the system, such as preventing the sale of animals in stores, or by making it illegal to reproduce and compulsory sterilization. It 's totally incociliabile oppose the suffering of animals, but not to their murder -
Many people appear to be contrary to the farms, where animals are treated like machines and are connate in the dark, confined spaces and crowded. Still, do not move any objection to the killing of animals for human consumption, if these creatures were raised on traditional farms, family-run, before being slaughtered. Until the animals are treated well while alive, do not find anything wrong in killing. Death is natural for them, after all -
Some murderers of animals giusticano their actions by saying that humans are animals, and animals to kill each other. Humans are simply following the law of nature. But do not explain why, as animals, humans choose to behave as parasites and how aggressive carnivores. Also, do not explain how, as cruel beasts who kill and exploit other creatures, humans can behave in a respectful and compassionate towards other humans. When sdata to respond, they say, that humans are different from animals. Humans deserve more respect. This statement reveals a prejudice called speciesism, which involves the belief that nonhuman species are less than human, just like racism implies a belief that certain "races" are inferior to others. Treat animals as inferior beings and to a lesser degree than that of humans is a feature common to most human beings. Humans are not able to dene the value or quality of life of a dog or any creature. This view is strongly anthropocentric. Humans can not judge the quality and value of the life of another creature. What relevance has this view? The value or quality of life which we attribute to our neighbor are not the least important when it comes to respect her right to life. It makes no difference that our neighbor is a dog, a snail, a fly, a bat or a giraffe. Most people have difcoltà not to put the interests of humans above those of animals, rather than on the same floor -
Unfortunately, the human mind has a tremendous ability to shut down too often in front of any reasoning and to isolate itself from the moral arguments. To intellectual arguments about ethics, most people do not react at all. When you ask them why they eat animals, for example, will say: "I like the taste," "I've always eaten," "If you do not eat I eat someone else", "E 'nature', and so on. When, with the words, gets in trouble by showing them the inconsistency in the treatment of human and nonhuman, and that they are just speciesists, say, at best, "Okay, are speciesist I am inconsistent! The I accept. " Even after you show them how animals are treated on factory farms and slaughterhouses, and even after explaining to them that billions of animals are sent to death in that way each year keep to eat meat, even looking away when passing in front of a particularly grisly butcher's shop window. Of course, now their behavior is not due to ignorance, not their initial knowledge. However, almost always, your words fall on deaf ears. Why?
The arguments do not change people's behavior. Only a change in sentiment can lead to a transformation. As a simple demonstration of this truth, you look at the example of slaughterhouse workers. It 'clear that these people know what they're doing. Talk to them about the killing of animals does not make sense. It 's a living thing in person. Yet, they continue to slaughter animals. Why continue to do so? Why, even if they know what they're doing, just do not feel -
Then why some people respect animals and not others? To answer this question, it would be better to address a deeper question: What motivates a person to take into account the needs of others? The most obvious answer is that a person takes into account the other unless it inuisce about her feelings, more specifically, about his feelings of pain or pleasure. Empathy is what we feel when we believe we can prove what he's trying unaltro. It has nothing to do with the mind, but with the heart, so is real and powerful in its effects on our behavior. It 's the way it establishes our connection with others, and the way we uniquely identify with their reality. Without empathy, we can not feel affection for others. It 's the basis of friendship and love. It makes us feel good. We need it. Love, the highest form of empathy. We all need love and empathy because we feel alone in the world. Humans are an alien species, fundamentally insecure of their connection with the rest of nature. The world is scary when you do not have the faintest idea how to behave, no internal instinct to indicate what is healthy and what is harmful. If we had such knowledge, we would not need ethics and religions to decide how to behave. Both attempt to dene the behavior of human beings and our place in the world. Ever since man exists, there have been religious and moral codes that try to make sense of the chaos of the human condition. This basic existential uncertainty makes the lonely and scared. Friendship is a relief and, as such, it is appreciated. The other side of this coin is the existential need to exercise control over the world -
E 'quite clear that the desire to exercise power and control are dominant in the life of most people. If people can not control their lives, try to control the lives of others. People are afraid of losing control, because it hurts to lose control. Let us pretend that we'll be good in the world, that the environment is not hostile and that we will meet our needs. For humans, exercise power over others is a way to reach an illusory peace of mind, a vision in which the world is a safe and controllable. Love for others and power over others are mutually exclusive. You can not love someone who uses, or make someone you love. The way people deal with this paradox is to love and some to control others. And since the control often leads to exploitation, try a little or no empathy for those who are screened, so as not to suffer with him, when it is exploited -
To illustrate this point, it can be shown the example of Nazi doctors who led atrocious experiments on Jews during the day, behaving then from loving fathers and husbands in the evening. Humans label a group with "other," using race, nationality, gender, or species as the basis for this distinction, and consider that group deserving of empathy and, therefore, a reasonable target for exploitation. As long as there is another group with whom they can Identicar and to find empathy and love, humans can satisfy their need for affection. Denendo groups in this way, people love giving pleasure to certain groups, thus reducing their suffering in exploiting other groups. The groups to which is kind consist of human beings, particularly those with a power equal to or greater. The exploited are typically powerless and unable to respond to aggression, like the animals -
If you have power over others, is not afraid of them. This signica that they can be treated in the manner that you prefer, which is based on exploitation or fairness. If exploited, can not help but suffer. If treated well, they can choose whether or not to return the courtesy. When people choose the groups to exploit the easiest target is of course the less powerful group. Nonhuman animals do not have the power to respond to aggression and human exploitation. The animals are forced to suffer human power over their lives. Since most humans consider animals as objects not worthy of empathy, do not recognize the suffering that they cause. They squalicato animals such as sentient beings capable of suffering and have their own interests. These people are so insensitive to their screams and their suffering. And 'what is this numbness allows exploiters to sleep at night and kill the day. Those who feel empathy for animals, respect them. Relish nell'identicarsi even with non-human beings, love to see them free, and they respect all beings as members of the family life since they have the right to live on the planet. Instead of seeing animals as objects to be checked, see them as individuals to love -
If you do not empathize, at least to some degree, to animals, it is understood never any arguments explaining how their autonomy must be respected. The animals are defenseless and easy prey of human exploitation, because they can not rebel. I know a breeder of pigs that they "love" until they end up at the butcher. It also takes the calf as "pets" for two years, and then they "put in the freezer." What these people have for animals, are driven by motives purely personal interests, in an attempt to maximize pleasure and minimize suffering. Love and empathy are very different feelings
There are two different schools of thought about those who think ec''è that we should not feed birds during the winter, not to interfere with the process of natural selection. Nowadays, however, the birds, as well as many other wild animals suffer from lack of food due to urbanization, intensive agriculture, which changes the landscape, pesticides and human interventions in general.
hunters are also a serious danger to any animal, wild or domestic. Every day except Tuesdays and Fridays, from September to January each year, shotguns - loaded with ammunition, in the case of birds, often weighing more than their targets - they shoot. In
winter, the weather also have their negative effects, inasmuch as they relate to natural selection on bird life. The intense cold and food shortages are causing many casualties, especially among young people, those who have fledged in the summer just passed. Each of us can actually help the birds in your area through the winter, providing food, energy, protein and energy system in their own garden or balcony a manger, to be filled with various seeds that you can buy in a shop or with those used in the kitchen, or by following the simple recipe given below. In preparing these cakes, as well as save the lives of many animals, we also bring them to our homes and be able to "look" reasonably in their lives.
Cakes for birds
Ingredients: 0.5 kg of wheat flour for cakes 1 kg of maize flour of yellow corn 0.5 kg of sugar 3 or 4 packs of 250 grams of margarine Ingredients Optional: a packet of sultanas
1 or 2 apples diced dried figs, cut into cubes or strips a pound of sunflower seeds 1 cup of uncooked rice
1 or 2 bags of pine nuts 2 or 3 ounces of puffed rice (the one used for dogs)
Procedure: In a bowl, mix in a homogeneous mixture, all ingredients except margarine. Meanwhile in a saucepan heat up the margarine over medium heat until completely melted. At this point, is poured into the bowl and, using a spoon or hands, is embedded with the other ingredients until the mixture is homogeneous. Finally with your hands shape the ball-shaped cakes, which are put aside to cool.
Administration: The cakes are fed to birds in places not accessible to dogs and cats, as it is very tempting for them! Possibly should be placed on windowsills, over rooftops, through the branches of trees, etc.. A recommendation: if you start feeding the birds this winter, you will need to take the commitment to do so until the end: they will pick up and return regularly. Abruptly stopping this "tank" on which they rely, endanger their lives.
Once arranged the food, get a pair of binoculars and with a little 'patience, in a short time you will see that some tit or robin, followed closely by Sparrows, Starlings and blackbirds, will realize the delicacy.
In spring, however, you should be suspended. Between April and September, the birds feed their young. During this time the food is abundant, especially insects are by far the ideal food for children.
could have been worse for Mario Pirani - Mondadori - 2010
There are times when I do not like fiction and I like to shrink in works of fiction or biography. This Mario Pirani, known Gornal Espresso Group is a full-bodied with a caption alluding autobiography, Half a century of reasonable illusions.
At the time of my childhood in Rome taxis were green lizard. As spacious lounges, also had two folding stools opposite the normal places. The meter, coupled out of the window of the driver, was then called chauffeur and wore a long beige apron, was in a black box with a red metal flag was lowered at the start of the race.
This incipit autobiography, developed since 1930, when the author had five years to 1986, through the Second World War, resistance , reconstruction, the political commitment in PCI, its release in 1961, working with Eni Mattei (at the time of the Algerian War), and then the next period of the ambiguous Cefis the head of ENI, the same commitment as the "Day "to the MEC (European Common Market), the adventure of the direction the newspaper" Globe ", a return to the drafting of the" Day "and calling for the nascent Scalfari" Republic ", still an adventure as editorial Director of the new "European" for Rizzoli and Tassan Din, caught in subversive plot of P2 and final return "home" that is, the drafting of the Republic, where even today, after 85 years, with an experience not common, writes interesting political and economic analysis.
Del dense volume, 420 pages full of characters and events in the history of Italy and the European Union, certainly I found most interesting during its period of communist militancy.
In September of 1945 is sent from the Federation of PCI in Naples, that the record:
I introduced myself to the provincial secretary, Salvatore Cacciapuoti, a rough character with a olive complexion and look bad, but had an extra derivatogli authorities not only by the discounted years in prison for his activism, but from a former factory worker and belong therefore to the class that we really authentically proclaimed representatives, despite the origins of the majority of managers were of a completely different extraction .... Cacciapuoti thought it well to allocate (then tried to save the hotel) with a companion who had a house large enough to offer hospitality. He made a phone call and then handed me a card with an address: Giorgio Napolitano, via Monte di Dio, in front of the Palazzo Serra di Cassano. "Go away, waiting for you," he added. I took a flight to truck that led me to Martyrs 'Square, a stone's throw away from Mount of God I rang the bell on the second floor and I opened a young man to be about my age (soon discovered that we were both born in 1925, twenty' years earlier), of medium height, a look intelligent and friendly, an innate kindness and unaffected, facilitated by a slow-spoken and warm, typical of the Neapolitan good race.
the impressive amount of great personalities from politics, culture, arts Pirani that he met in the course of his long very active and militant Communist and, later, of "ambassador" of ENI, and finally as a journalist said.
Another piece of the term "Neapolitan"
But in Naples I also first among all other knowledge (....) Giorgio Amendola who oversaw the party's fortunes in the South. Enjoyed great prestige and authority, which is strengthened by the considerable size, the expression that illuminated his face off, which followed one another, with equal credibility, a strict non-sectarian and non-compliant, but a genuine good nature, his deep voice powerful, orchestrated on bass, brass played with expression wise. The only thing a bit 'Stone was with the hair parted in the side and shiny hair and pulled by both sides, I do not know whether with water or grease. One feature will disappear in a few years when Giorgione cut crew cut and his big head appeared in all its majestic sculpture of a Roman emperor.
By Giorgio Amendola will be received by Benedetto Croce, who will submit an appeal to intellectuals for the sake of anti-Franco sentenced to death, receiving a polite refusal.
Following Pirani will address the organization of the Festival of Youth and Partisans of Peace , participating with hundreds of intellectuals, artists, musicians, Italian actors, the events in Prague, Paris, Vienna, Leningrad. The record of these journeys is passionate and funny.
In 1961, after having questioned the party line, Pirani leaves the PCI and accepts an offer made at the time by Mattei.
The following chapters reconstruct the political Eni Oil Algeria during the war of liberation, where Pirani was a kind of plenipotentiary of Matthew, but also gossip of colorful permanent European community in Algiers.
Overall a very interesting read, enjoyable and instructive , especially for the part about Italian politics of the time, and then ever.
With reporting by Gabriella, a loyal participant in the Sunday excursions to organize and loyal reader of the blog, I met on my way for the second time this book. The first time, even though I had just decided to read it I then went on to mind the second I caught the ball, I went to the library, I bought it and I read it in one breath.
Although the subtitle reveals that it is a natural introduction to agriculture, The revolution of straw of Masanobu Fukuoka is a book everyone should read and certainly should not be missing in the library of those working on environment, sustainability and preservation of natural ecosystems, environmental education. Because agriculture is natural (the real one) and its method of cultivation of the "don'ts" that is opposed to conventional farming today, even in the size of small peasant farm, takes on the characteristic of "industrial", is just one aspect Fukuoka, which deals with much larger than the live (real) harmony with nature, working with it and in return they receive everything you need to live. And not only, as is demonstrated by decades of his crops, agricultural production based on his principles was equivalent, if not more in some cases, production from intensive agriculture.
Humanity does not know the nature said Masanobu, because the world has become so specialized that it is impossible for people to grasp something in its entirety . Here then that the revolution can begin with this straw only that, in its simplicity holds immense power, to perpetuate life, the new generation through the establishment and the preservation of a natural balance when it returns to the ground, rather than subtracted, which has in turn generated. Everything should be left to its natural course but not remaining there to watch us but by supporting and facilitating these processes and avoiding unnecessary actions (here the "non-doing"). Instead the damage humans do not fix the error, and when the negative results accumulate, work with all our energy to correct them. Then, when corrective actions appear to be successful, they come to regard these measures as splendid achievements. People always stubbornly insists to do so. This will come then to a point where advanced techniques seem necessary because the natural balance was previously so upset because of those same techniques that the land has become that they can not do without them. He continues to completeness of vision and speech, saying that this logic applies not only to agriculture but also for other aspects of human society. Doctors and medicine become necessary when people create an environment ill. The institutional education and compulsory public school have no value in themselves but become necessary when humanity creates the conditions for which one must become "educated" to get by.
A text, then, that has more than 35 years but that touches issues which seem current, and in fact, as Larry Korn says in the introduction, the great contribution of Fukuoka is in having shown that the daily work of building a spiritual health can produce a practical and beneficial transformation of the world. thing, now more than ever, faced with the enormous environmental devastation which our civilization is concerned, we really needed. In conclusion then, if the attitude towards nature (and therefore to ourselves, that we are an inseparable part of this) is not correct, although the remedies may be a potential harm and the words of Masanobu in this case are clear : the extent that people move away from nature, turns increasingly away from the center. At the same time says a centripetal reaction and an increasing desire to get back to nature. But if people are taken only by the reaction, moving left or right depending on the circumstances, the result is only more active. (...) I believe that the activities of "return to nature" and against the pollution, however laudable, do not move toward a real solution only if they are carried out reactions such as hyper-development of the present age. One incentive to take responsibility for our every daily gesture.
is essential is invisible to the eye in the Park Fall
experience Sailing with a crew-trekking exceptional
[article I wrote for the magazine AmbienteInFormazione, quarterly magazine of the Italian environmental guides, released in September 2010 on No. 3 - Year 12, pp. 8-11]
[The Moored]
happens that takes one year to organize, in collaboration with the Lands of the Mistral, one of your new proposal: the sailing and trekking, which you have chosen the island of Elba as a place to establish the first absolute. A proposal to its year zero, you have not tested thoroughly, in fact you have not tested at all, but tickles the idea of \u200b\u200bcombining sea and mountains and move on them in the most natural way: using the elements and legs; inland excursions, and overnight trips around the island by boat sailing. happens that, to publicize the initiative, all your contacts to send the invitation to participate and the first to respond are a group of friends with a feature not common: they are three blind and three partially sighted people, their carers. The proposal attracts them: they love hiking and the outdoors and want to try for the first time the experience of sailing. They want to do a whole week, you've set program only for the weekend, but think back to when, when you put them in between the contacts list, you were sure, without any tangible reason, there it was they would take part. What happens is that, knew this, showing - through clenched teeth with ill-concealed fear to go really - the possibility to the skipper, Mario Bogo, your friend long time, hesitating only a moment and then says (with a wire voice, as not to feel to his own ears his words): "I'm." What happens is that the days fly, no time to rearrange ideas, to understand where we start with such a situation, and it's time to set sail. Think, looking for some reassurance, that after you have them together on a trip together once before, in fact, four of them were, the other two that have been added but do not know them. She had gone well, you had an idea that people, smart people, tough, accustomed to much greater difficulties than a long dirt road in the sun and a couple of easy fords. But you were two guides, and this time you will be alone on a trip with them all. What is more, know the location the last time, instead of the Elbe know any route you would have served, including official and alternative programs to cover the weekend. But now, to make a whole week, even according to the whims of the weather and the sea, forcing always more than a change of plans (and here, to tell you yesterday, the beauty of this type of proposal), with a group like this, you should know your pockets as the island ...
[Freedom: How else can name?]
What do you do then? Forget everything and send upstream losing the opportunity to perhaps one of the best, if not the most beautiful and intense human and professional experience since you started the business guide? happens one day in July that will decide that.
And before you run out of the routine of small boats and embark on adventures in particular, certainly more profitable in every respect, we try - beyond the necessary technical acquisitions - to understand who we are in relation to a group, what we want to be and what we are willing to sacrifice to get there. Inoltriamoci short in a serious reflection on the run .... [Mark Faction, before the coming of the wolf, Città di Castello, 2006, Mount Meru Publisher, The Notebooks dell'Aigae, p. 21; ed]
[... the importance of knowing the knots!]
are no definitive exit from the routine of conducting small boats - you can not get out of it if you want to live of this work - but this was certainly a special experience very rewarding from the human point of view, in which I embarked (the term is more than adequate in this case ...) without thinking too much about but with the sole objective to successfully complete the week by appealing to all that I learned in these six years of business and, most importantly, the desire to do so - as always - who also accompanied my had been a unique experience, probably unrepeatable. This experience was in many ways an 'limit' - but all in all if I am here to write it feasible - and was reflected randomly just a day after a meeting between Guide in which I participated and which was discussed on whether or not to lead excursions into territories unknown even to the Guide itself. Many guides are unwilling to lead groups in places where there has been no order to ensure its feasibility. E ', of course, a legitimate choice that depends on four factors is fundamental: first, the type of initiative in place (many of us are working only with day trips), the second by the knowledge one has of the group that is conducting (in the 'day', is almost nothing), the third, the presence or absence of a network of well-marked paths, clear the ground and in this paper (In central and southern Italy is a lottery), and the fourth - and most important, on which every one should think to himself - in short, the real responsibility that we want to assume the leadership of a group (see who we are in relation to a group, what we want to be and what we are willing to sacrifice to become). However, each chooses to operate in that area. I believe that, for many reasons, both good preparation to be able to choose a bit of 'adventure' from time to time with the group in tow. Quite the contrary, therefore, of acting with reckless. So here's my story 'special experience' - ignoring the many emotions felt during that week, as it is indescribable the sea who has never been able to see in his life - and, since we are on the organ of the Association of Information Guide, taking advantage of the space allotted to illustrate how I have personally dealt with the technical point of view the critical situation arising from the conduct of this type of group that might be useful to someone else in the future, too eager to take 'adventures' of this type.
["... feel the boat in full sail on the water slide would silently ..."]
Abstract: Although none of us 'blind' have any idea what it means to live a life without the possibility arising from the principal of our senses, the term 'blind' is clear to everyone. Not so that of 'low vision'. The category of low vision include a circle, unfortunately, very large people, that are not very shortsighted, as it would immediately think, but which have some important limitations in terms of field of vision, perception of contours and / or distinction of Lights and colors, situations often, unfortunately, degenerative over the years. Blind and Visually Impaired, as a group, are people for whom even that half a meter separating the catwalk, for the most unstable of the boat to the dock when the boat is moored, immediately becomes a major obstacle to get off the ground and, as such, requires a lot of attention for his passing and effort, but for us it is a simple jump: hop! That said, it is important however to say that this was a really great group, made up of people who will stop at nothing and that in many ways it was easier to accompany them that a group of 'Sunday tourists'!
[Vela-trekking to the beach to the mountains!]
Coming to the point: the first trip we've done is probably Elba one of the most challenging of the island not only for this particular type of use (trail is very steep and rough terrain with very slippery path, sometimes in counter-slope). And 'one of the routes that I already knew and we did it for his first as a test for all in anticipation of the next day. As I predicted, for conditions that are difficult, we can not bring it to conclusion: given the obvious difficulties of the group in some places, two thirds of the way, below the summit of Monte Castello, I opted for the waiver to continue. The group was in agreement with me that there are some constraints (and, I mean, not the 'limits', which is exceeded) in the lives of us all that there is no need to force and that sometimes makes us able to give the greatest wish to continue. In the most challenging I had set up training in order to put behind me the blind participant with less experience and, below, alternatively, a partially sighted and blind with, in the queue, the longer able to see the visually impaired. All in single file with one hand on the backpack, which preceded that and I marked it up with some sort of accompanying commentary to describe the myriad of obstacles, small and large, we were placed in front of "stone on the right ... Thorn left ... care: low branch, chiniamoci a bit '... riser ... Now a stretch from the bottom comfortable ... stone left ...». This has not however prevented the points really challenging, especially in descent, that I should do 'ferryman' of each other to overcome short distances. At the end of the day, you can imagine, I was upset, but imagine the feeling of profound joy that, together, we were doing. The critical certainly more evident to all who are reading, and therefore the greatest responsibility that I have set myself is that I was alone on a trip with them. Any failing of my ability to see, for example caused by head trauma with loss of consciousness for a fall, the entire group would have seriously difficulties. In such cases, I thought of putting (partially) addressed by a thorough initial illustration of what equipment was available to the group for emergencies in my backpack would find a well stocked first aid cabinet, the waist was carrying the radio (which have learned to use before you leave), with which we were in constant contact with the boat skipper, the latter was adequately informed by us daily on the route path and timing percu, if we had breached a certain threshold, would be allowed to alert the rescue, and, of course, I gave them all the useful phone numbers, from the skipper to the police. In our backpacks also always carried a quantity of water and food more able to comfort the group, need for several hours. And then ... I advised them to pray a lot, if such an eventuality ...
[Listening to the landscape]
For me, during excursions can not deny that I was given also to (few) special visual of the two 'not impaired' - are still people who live their autonomy in everyday life - and yet the thing that kept me in apprehension in those days was the possible need for rapid evacuation from an area due to fire. In fact, not be fully independent with 6 people in a Mediterranean forest, nearly a fuse that can flare up in a split second, during the week hottest year ever, is undoubtedly the greater risk that I ran. I assure you, however, that it was worth it.
["... the tactile recognition of the different types of plants ..."]
It would also still space to talk about the sensory experience of environmental interpretation made during the trips, as For example: the recognition Touch the different types of plants and rocks, listening to the call of the raptor in the distance and the identification of groups of wild sheep and wild goats depending on the origin of their bleating. Or, again, the perception of the surf to shore intensification of the scents of lush Mediterranean island and cut the air when the gulls flew near the boat ... Equally still much more to tell, all the life boat for example and their personal relationship with the sea: the thrill of diving in open sea for the first time, feeling the boat glides silently over the water to sail explained ... A weekend before us goodbye Thank you very much. We, for our part, we thanked a lot of them: they showed us in every circumstance what is the courage to live every day with joy, starting from their own, individual situation and really showed us what the Trust, with the capital letter "f , that is, faith, and therefore the expectations. I got a lot in that week and I am grateful for that. I put a lot at stake and I had an answer something of inestimable value. The real voyage of discovery is not visiting new lands but to look with new eyes Proust said. I agree.
[The northern coast of the island, the Mont Tabernacles]
Pig anywhere, medicine, body lotions x, shampoo, toothpaste, bullets and even in cigarette filters
The desserts are far from being the only product that contains gelatin pork are also found in beer, wines and fruit juices. In these products, pork gelatin is used to eliminate the turbidity of the beverage. He works as a clarifying agent in reaction with the tannins in the liquid absorbing opacity (translator's note: in the famous clear apple juice that you can not get home).
some ice cream, creme cream, yogurt and butter also contain gelatin , in what some foods Pet. More surprisingly, a number of medications also contain pork gelatin, such as painkillers, or the type of seals multivitamins.
Many products for personal care and beauty are also made with pork .
fatty acids extracted from the bones of pigs are used in shampoos and conditioners for the horses to give them shine. These acids can also be found in a series of body lotions, foundation creams and anti-wrinkle. The lard-based glycerin is also an ingredient in many toothpastes.
Christein, an investigator from Holland, found that while some companies were reluctant to cooperate in his research, others said they do not use products containing pig items because the men of the Middle East were involved in the deployment process. The confusion is facilitated by the fact that the labels of some articles do not mention what has come from products used in their manufacture.
According to the Food Standards Authority (Food Standards Authority), there is no legal requirement for manufacturers to specify whether to use the jelly comes from a pig or other animals. When specified, it is often called "gelatin".
According to Richard Lutwyche, a British pig farmer, with more than 60 years of experience, President of the "traditional breeds Meat Marketing Company (company marketing traditional beef breeds), and member of the British Pig Association, the confusion is largely the pig Duea agriculture: "In the UK, large businesses send their pigs to slaughterhouses large, and try to find all possible sub-markets to sell their products." Everything they sell can not be incinerated, so it is in their interest to sell as much as possible. "" There's an old expression English saying "everything is good in the pig, but their cry." Over the past 100 years, these practices have developed rapidly.
surprising that some products may include material from pigs are Among other things, photographic film, which uses the pork bone collagen, the shoes that use bone glue to improve the quality of pig skin and paintings that use fat to enhance their brilliance.
Some cigarette manufacturers are using the hemoglobin of pig's blood in their filters.
Apparently, this has the functions as a sort of "artificial lung" of the cigarette so, they say, "that the adverse reactions that take place before the chemicals reach the user."
The next time you buy a piece of bread, you'd be well advised to read the package . Some manufacturers use a compound called L-cysteine, which is a protein of pork or hair, which is used to soften the dough.
A product as "Tortilla Wraps" Tesco has this ingredient.
surprising that more use was found in Christein bullets and explosives. The gelatin of pig bones is used to help transport the cordite powder or ball. It 'hard not to be impressed by the versatility of this same animal and its parts.
The muzzle of fried pork has become a delicacy for dogs, and pig ears are sometimes used to test chemical weapons because of their similarity with human tissue. Similarly, some beginner tattoo artists to buy pieces of pig skin in order to practice their profession because of its similarity to human skin. The latter is sometimes used with patients with burns for the same reason.
Pigs have an enormous contribution to medicine, with insulin and heart valves from pigs, the essential elements. However, for vegetarians, Jews, Muslims, and all those who want to avoid pork products, this may not necessarily be good news.
The complex functioning of the global food processing industry have made it almost impossible to completely avoid pork.
products made from parts of animals, here's how to recognize them for boycott
Plastic bags, cosmetics, fabric softeners, toothpaste ... These and other products we use daily are more often made with materials and substances of animal origin. So let's see how to recognize them to avoid them.
The best way to save the animals is not just manifest in them, or eating only vegetables but also to beware of products that are used
more or less, we declare all animal lovers. If this is really not enough, however, become vegetarian or better still vegan. The best way to save the animals is not just manifest in them, or eating only vegetables but also to pay attention to the products you use. Usually
we think that only cosmetic and not much else comes from animals or from tests done on them, but there are some common objects with which we all have to do every day, who come from parts of animals, sometimes for all brands , others only by choice of some companies.
L ' Ontario Farm Animal Council says that, on average, uses 98% of an animal. Of that 98%, about 55% is used for food and the remaining 45% for non-food products.
Let's see what they are:
1. Plastic bags . Not only is there the oil train these terrible products, which thankfully are vanishing from our homes, but also animal fats are used as additives to "improve the material properties and / or to assist in the processing of polymers before," says the site Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News . The Tyson Foods is experimenting with plastic bags and stickers from the keratin protein found in chicken feathers, and the project is also to use it for disposable diapers and hospital gowns.
2. tires for cars and bicycles. Stearic acid helps the rubber tire to maintain the stable form despite the friction. And this acid has, in most cases, animal origins, although it can also be obtained from plants.
Colgate said not to use animals in their products, then visit the website of a company before buying the product
3. Glue for musical instruments. The animal glue (obtained from bone tissue and cognitive boiled) is apparently the best adhesive for the attachment of wooden musical instruments, like violins and pianos. Although sometimes used other synthetic glues, animal glue is readily available and widely used for corrections of the furniture and woodworking.
4. Biofuels . Sugarcane and corn are the raw materials that come to mind at first when we think of biofuels, but in recent years the use of animal fats (beef and chicken) is entered in the production of biodiesel.
5. Fireworks . Not only polluting, but some are made with the same component used in the tire sector, stearic acid, used to prevent oxidation of metals.
6. Softeners . Not everyone, but especially the Downy fabric softener (which in Italy is advertised as the Lenor ) contains ammonium chloride from dimethyl dihydrogen tallow that comes from cattle, sheep and horses.
7. Shampoo & Conditioner . How many cosmetic products, some shampoo and conditioner have ingredients of animal origin. According to PETA, there are more than 20 components from animals which might be in your shampoo and conditioner. When you read 'Panthenol', 'Amino Acids', or 'Vitamin B' in a bottle (just to name a few), it may be that they are animal or vegetable but there is no distinction on the label. Some companies have also removed the word 'animal' by some ingredients to avoid losing customers.
8. Toothpaste. Glycerin is found in animal and vegetable fats, which have a chemical composition containing from 7% to 13% glycerol. When separated, is used in a wide range of products, including toothpaste. Here too it is difficult to distinguish the source. There Vegan toothpaste (fitocose Lavera)
9. Sugar . Apparently it is one of the most plant that exist. Yet purified from the ashes from the bones of animals are used in filters to refine the sugar of some brands. Again, to be sure, visit the websites of the companies or sites specialized vegan.
Article from Ecologiae.com
The photo of the note certifies that products are free of animal ingredients.
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S Pesso starting to read a book again, I am in need of dotarmi a bookmark, the most frequently improvised, anything to avoid the odious "ears" at the corner of the page and use it the first thing at hand . These are the ones left inside some books and found casually browse through them. In the case of Italian bank notes, were placed between the pages to preserve the freshness of the press, and in the meantime have come out of legal tender. The U.S. bill was used as a bookmark for the unusual quirk of its nominal value. 
