I’m back to you with a call for action:
Steluta needs an urgent surgery operation.
Please go in the blog Salveaza Steluta, get informed and donate!
Thanks to all.
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venerdì 6 novembre 2009
venerdì 7 agosto 2009
36 lessons and an introduction
I want you to have your homework done by the time I'll come back, September 1, 2009.
giovedì 6 agosto 2009
Learn one thing (An ecology of worktime)
No matter what you are doing right now in your professional life, you gotta set this simple rule:
Learn at least one thing each day
Don't pose yourself limits on what you can learn although you got to be realist and not go beyond you capacity (of learning, of time, of healthy boundaries in the work-life balance). Set a lower limit and that as simple as that: one thing a day.
If you learn one thing each day, you'll be able to learn hundreds of new things in a year. If you apply this on a very specific target (e.g. your particular profession) you'll be able to master your work and be reliable to others, client, colleagues, friends looking for advice.
This target goes well when you're approaching new subjects (like in new projects or when they give you new responsibilities) but you should set this target also in the ordinary workday.
That's the target I'm working on by now.
mercoledì 5 agosto 2009
The quest for happiness
( via TED, Ricard’s talk )
Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
So how do we proceed in our quest for happiness? Very often we look outside. We think that if we could gather this and that, all the conditions, something that we say, everything to be happy. To have everything, to be happy. That very sentence already reveals the doom of destruction of happiness. To have everything. If we miss something, it collapses. And also, when things go wrong we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. So now, look at inner conditions. Aren't they stronger? Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? And isn't that stronger? We know, by experience, that we can be what we call in little paradise and yet, be completely unhappy within.
The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere. So one evening he said, "Look, you are doing all these things, but isn't it nice, also, to build something within?"
And he said, "Unless that -- even you get high-tech flat on the 100th floor of a super-modern and comfortable building, if you are deeply unhappy within, all you are going to look for is a window from which to jump."
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martedì 4 agosto 2009
An ecology of perspective
There is a moment when all you need becomes crystal clear.
All I needed was a little time to "get behind this sun and cast my weight", really.
All I need was a peace of mind, before my weight would have gone too inconsistent and I finally got caught by the shadow of myself.
But - in an antithetical way - my need was also to nullify my weight, to remove obsolete and useless components.
To get a proper tabula rasa out of myself and to restart from where I stopped.
lunedì 3 agosto 2009
Do I still heart NY? (by J.Franzen)
venerdì 31 luglio 2009
"In our hearts we are explorers" (An ecology of mankind)
Things that we should remember every day on Earth.
giovedì 30 luglio 2009
Is Ignazio Marino enough to bring Partito Democratico out of the swamp?
Ignazio Marino is an italian democratic senator who's proposing himself as a candidate for the leadership of Partito Democratico, in the primary elections to be held October, 25, 2009.
The Partito Democratico (Democratic Party) is the center-left party that was created in October 2007 in the long wave of the convergence between the Left (15 years after the dissolution of Italian Communist Party but not the dissolution of related oligarchies) and some Center Catholic-democrats. Marino is referred as “the Third man”, after his decision to propose himself in alternative to Dario Franceschini (old Democrazia Cristiana's school) and Gianni Bersani (Left wing, old Communist Party).
His candidature is to a certain grade against the old way to do politics. Ignazio Marino proposes a pragmatic and dynamic leadership, with the following program keywords: Openness, Courage, Meritocracy, Protection, Freedom.
Out of the old “nomenklatura” power play conducted by D’Alema (supporting Gianni Bersani) and Veltroni (ex leader and supporting Dario Franceschini), Ignazio Marino could be the right man in the right place at the right time.
(Marino’s Youtube Channel, in italian)
Short biography (translation by me from Bio in his website)
Born in Genua, Italy 54 years ago, Ignazio Marino is a surgeon specialized in organ transplants and actual senator fro the Partito Democratico. He studied in England Cambridge and in USA University of Pittsburgh. Despite the working activity abroad he followed with passion the italian politics and has been elected in the Parliament in 2006 for the first time (then re-elected in 2008).
An interview (in italian) with Ignazio Marino
The FED is out of control?
(via KingWorldNews)
A two-part interview with Alan Grayson, the congressman who is posing tough questions to Bernanke, chairman of FED. The Grayson's point of view here is: In all times, transparency. In tough times, America first.
"In this incredible interview Congressman Grayson discusses corruption at the Federal Reserve, the SEC and his tough questioning of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke this week, we also discuss his take on Bernankes responses and much more. Congressman Alan Grayson was the first President of IDT Corp., a telecom/internet company. It grew to be a $2 billion-a-year business, on the Fortune 1000 list, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In short, Alan has lived the American Dream, starting a successful business and seeing it grow."
martedì 28 luglio 2009
Too big to fail? Wall Street, we have a problem (the Wealth of the Nations are that wealthy?)
( via ICN - Informed Citizen News )
"Too big to fail? Wall Street, we have a problem" (Story #3)
[ But take a look also at Story #2 (again Alan Grayson grilling Bernanke and Kohn) with his many link. ]
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"Burp!" and keep food fresh
"...but the stuff wasn’t exactly flying off the shelves..."
"It was a polyethylene bowl with an airtight, watertight cover: Just lift the top a tad, “burp” out some air, and push down to seal. Tupper got the idea from the metal lids used on paint cans."
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"The company sells his products in more than 100 countries."
( via Wired )
lunedì 27 luglio 2009
Laugh in your face (An ecology of spending)
Listen to this...
During his questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke before the House Financial Services Committee, U.S. congressman Alan Grayson (D), representing Florida's 8th congressional district (Orlando, Ocala, Eustis), burst out laughing at Bernanke's hubris. (21 July 2009)
Grayson: "So who got the money?"
Bernanke: "Financial institutions in Europe and other counries."
Grayson: "Which ones?"
Bernanke: "I don't know."
Gryson: "Half a trillion dollars and you don't know who got the money?"
Bernanke: "Financial institutions in Europe and other counries."
Grayson: "Which ones?"
Bernanke: "I don't know."
Gryson: "Half a trillion dollars and you don't know who got the money?"
Hammer Off Topic: A man with an hammer / Uno con un martello
“To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail“
“Ad un uomo con martello tutto sembra un chiodo“
(Mark Twain)
venerdì 24 luglio 2009
Twitter Off Topic: Kevin and Dave on Late Show
mercoledì 22 luglio 2009
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
(via Wired.com)
"[...]There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten[...]"
Sections
1. Audio Visual Entertainment
1. Audio Visual Entertainment
2. Computers and Video Gaming
3. The Internet
4. Gadgets
5. Everything else
Additivi chimici (in italian)
lunedì 20 luglio 2009
Salviamo il Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano
La prima volta che ho visto il Triceratops, a cinque anni, sono scappato a gambe levate e mio padre è venuto a riprendermi nel giardino antistante il Museo.
Online petition: Save the Natural History of Milan, Italy!
It's the Museum where I escaped a big Triceratops, when I was five...
It's the Museum where I escaped a big Triceratops, when I was five...
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giovedì 16 luglio 2009
An ecology of mind
Be ready to accept the worst case scenario. Too often I'm complaining of outcomes that do not match what I expected.
( Via ZenHabits.net )
lunedì 13 luglio 2009
Grillo168 - Spiagge semi-libere (in italian)
Spiagge semi-libere. Partiti semi-liberi (penzolanti da uno statuto approvato, manco fosse la Magna Charta). Paese semi-libero.
Perchè le regole sono sacre.
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Grillo168 - Spiagge semi-libere (in italian)
Spiagge semi-libere. partiti semi-liberi (attaccati ad uno statuto appena approvato), paese semi-libero.
Perchè le regole sono sacre.
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Social condition in Italy (An ecology of society)
A flickr presentation of Density Design group of Politecnico di Milano visualizing the italian social conditions.
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venerdì 10 luglio 2009
University goes green with the adoption of Ipv6 (An ecology of addresses)
(via NetworkWorld )
IPv6 is the new Internet protocol version, substituting the version 4. IPv6's got his reasons to be in place.
"Every air handler, thermostat, C02 sensor, circuit breaker, float meter and smoke detector is on the network," Mehaffey* says. "It all runs on my Cisco network. We have all Cisco routers and Cisco PIX firewalls."
*Bryan Mehaffey, vice president for technology, systems and engineering at Ave Maria University, Naples, FLA
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Major Economies Forum - Friends of the Earth reaction
( via Friends of the Earth )
Responding to the Major Economies Forum announcement of targets to aim for a ceiling of a two degree C rise in global temperatures, Tom Picken, International Climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said:
"Despite their pledge to limit global warming to 2 degrees C, the Major Economies Forum has one arm tied behind its back because rich countries meeting at the G8 this week failed to show leadership by slashing their own emissions first and fastest.
"Rich countries bear responsibility for climate change and developing countries are right to demand that they provide new money now to enable them to develop cleanly and adapt to the effects of climate change, which is already putting millions of lives at risk.
"The science demands that rich nations cut their emissions by 40 per cent by 2020 at home, not by buying offsets from abroad."
Friends of the Earth is demanding that the Government changes its approach to climate change with its Demand Climate Change campaign. The green campaign group is asking everyone to sign its international petition to world leaders at http://www.demandclimatechange.org/.
( 9th July 2009 )
giovedì 9 luglio 2009
Twitter Statistics ( An ecology of Communication ) and a commentary on Google OS
TweetStats is an agile tool to have a look to the tweets on Twitter.
From there you can trace your tweets, see the trendy topics an the distribution of tweets over the applications or the users. You can also access directly to the tweet flow you're interested in.
You can follow TweetStats directly on Twitter.
"It is what we think we know already that prevents us from learning" (Claude Bernard)
Plus: Here a post about Google OS by Leo Babauta: what is really changing in Operating Systems. And here is the Google take on the same topic.
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Good Food Manifesto for America
( via ChangeThis )
"It is time and past time for this nation, this government, to react to the dangers inherent in its flawed farm and food policies and to reverse course from subsidizing wealth to subsidizing health"
ChangeThis Issue n°60.01
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mercoledì 8 luglio 2009
Circolo Magnolia, la svolta fotovoltaica
( via 02blog )
Circolo Magnolia: la svolta fotovoltaica. Ora si produce energia verde.
"Questo grazie a 100 pannelli solari da 200w l’uno, capaci di produrre in un anno 22.892.8 kw/h, una cifra che permetterà al Magnolia non solo di non avere più bisogno di energia elettrica per produrre i propri eventi, ma anche di vendere energia pulita ad altri."
venerdì 3 luglio 2009
Second reminder. G8 to be held at L'Aquila
4.1 Richter Scale, this time. Government, derailed.
Here the first reminder.
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giovedì 2 luglio 2009
Maschilismo di Stato Morte della democrazia (An ecology of morality)
I apologize with my english readers. This is a call for signatures in order to ask Berlusconi's resignation.
Care amiche e cari amici,
con l'appello che vi mandiamo, chiedendovi, se lo condividete, di firmarlo, abbiamo creduto di interpretare un sentimento diffuso di rabbia e impotenza da parte di molte e molti, consapevoli della gravità e complessità delle vicende che hanno al centro il Presidente del Consiglio, Silvio Berlusconi, ma anche della debolezza, inadeguatezza di chi vi si oppone a livello istituzionale, ciò che inevitabilmente comporta un grave deterioramento della nostra democrazia.
Chiedere le dimissioni di Silvio Berlusconi, e iniziative incisive a tale riguardo, sappiamo che non è risolutivo dei cambiamenti profondi che stanno attraversando la nostra società, ma lo consideriamo tuttavia un modo per uscire dall'acquiscenza generale, per mandare un chiaro segnale: che tutti saranno d'ora in poi sorvegliati da un'opinione attenta, e contrastati.
Se siete d'accordo, vi preghiamo di trasmettere la vostra adesione all'indirizzo mail sotto indicato e di inoltrare l'appello a chi di vostra conoscenza ritenete possa aderire.
Grazie e cari saluti
Grazie e cari saluti
Maria Grazia Campari
Floriana Lipparini
Lea Melandri
Per adesioni:
mariagrazia.campari@tiscali.it
oppure
lilianamoro@tiscali.it
è possibile verificare le adesioni e i messaggi alla pagina Maschilismo di Stato del sito www.universitadelledonne.it
Ecco il testo dell'appello:
Maschilismo di Stato, morte della democrazia: Berlusconi si dimetta
Con questo appello, intendiamo richiamare l’attenzione pubblica sulla spirale negativa innescata dai comportamenti del ceto politico al potere in Italia: dai gesti quotidiani di disvalore verso il genere femminile si sta arrivando ad un attacco di stampo maschilista contro la stessa integrità delle istituzioni democratiche.
In altre parole, si passa da una democrazia incompiuta alla cancellazione stessa della democrazia.
Il Presidente del Consiglio è stato colto, infatti, nell’atto di passare da un utilizzo mercificato di corpi femminili per propri svaghi privati, ma giocati in luoghi destinati a fini pubblici, alla attribuzione diretta di cariche ministeriali e parlamentari (italiane ed europee) elargite come riconoscimento al fascino fisico delle candidate.
Questo comportamento è stato, da ultimo, anche sostenuto da dichiarazioni pubbliche quali” Gli italiani mi vogliono così...Sono sostenuto da un gradimento al 61%...Porto con me le veline (sulla scena del futuro G8) altrimenti ci prendono tutti per gay..”, insomma, potendo. così fan tutti.
Riconoscere che l’ampio consenso di cui gode tuttora Berlusconi vada attribuito in gran parte al fatto di interpretare modi di pensare e di agire patriarcali, radicati nel senso comune di uomini – e purtroppo anche di donne- non deve diventare un alibi per lasciare in ombra il pericolo rappresentato dalla sua permanenza in una delle più alte cariche dello Stato.
Quindi, vogliamo dire all’“utilizzatore finale” di prestazioni femminili che “grandi quantitativi” di italiane e italiani intendono contrastare questo degrado, al medesimo tempo personale e politico- due sfere implicate da sempre, al di là di ogni contrapposizione astratta e funzionale al protagonismo storico del sesso maschile.
E' necessario fermare la pericolosa deriva autoritaria di una società che si presenta incardinata sulla esclusione femminile e sulla disuguaglianza (di sesso, di razza, di condizione) e che sta compiendo il passo fatale: dalla riduzione al potere oligarchico maschile alla completa erosione degli assetti democratici, violando la pari dignità umana di donne e uomini, la libera espressione del pensiero, la libera
informazione, la libera competizione nella rappresentanza.
Chiediamo a chi si riconosce in questo appello di dare avvio ad un movimento che, partendo dalla conoscenza dei fatti, elabori in forma partecipata azioni incisive tese ad ottenere, come atto primo indispensabile per il rispetto di elementari principi di democrazia e di civile convivenza fra i sessi, le dimissioni di Berlusconi e dei suoi fidi seguaci dalle cariche pubbliche.
Maria Grazia Campari
Floriana Lipparini
Lea Melandri
martedì 30 giugno 2009
Our veins (An ecology of maintenance)
( via NazioneIndiana:Le nostre vene )
by Simona Baldanzi
“We renew the toughest blame to the board of directors of Ferrovie (Ferrovie dello Stato, NdT) that diverted resources and technology in favour of the 'shining' rail service of Alta Velocità letting the rest of the Rail network, in particular freightliners and passenger trains, fade out in terms of quality and safety”.
I stop over these words, the declarations of the rail workers, the people who works there, the people who see things and who knows how they work and when they don't work, more than every manager sitting in the office with a salary of hundred of thousands of Euros.
I back up entirely each of these words with a sense of discouragement too. This because today in the morning I heard about the tragedy in Viareggio, after a moment of bewilderment and pain, my thought went to the other derailments in Prato back a few days ago, a unheard alarm bell; and then my thought went to Dante De Angelis, the engineer, RLS delegate, who has been denouncing for years the unsafety of our trains and who was fired instead of being heard, becoming a symbol of struggle among the workers, not only in the Railways.
About Alta Velocità in Italy, I don't know what to add after all these years, after the environmental damages in the Mugello area and the CAVET proceeding, after the work-related deaths, after the mafia's infiltrations in some subcontracts, after the financial catastrophe and the tax evasion too, denounced in the latter days.
I recommend, for whom hasn't see it yet, the video-documentary "Fratelli di TAV" thet reconstructs the history of the TAV in our Bel Paese.
I was shocked by hearing a journalist asking: "Is it the railway too close to buildings?"
Where is he living, 'though? Italy is like that: a narrow and mountainous land with thousands of municipalities, for which reason an efficient and capillar link is needed instead of big and lonely rail branches (like those of Alta velocità, NdT).
Railways are passing everywhere in the cities, amidst the buildings, along beaches and inside mountains. For that reason is necessary invest more attention and financial resources on every single line, invest in maintenance and safety, because railways are the veins of our body Italy. The blood flowing inside them are we all, every-morning commuters, simple citizens and consumers. All of us. We need to cure these veins, every capillary that breaks it's a signal of disease and we need to hear it otherwise soon we'll got sick. I would start with the railway workers. Today tha man who wants to understand Viareggio, who wants identify responsibilities and wants to work in order not to repeat it, who wants a safe and efficient italian railway, got to go and hear railway workers, provided that they aren't already fired.
(translation from italian text by Franz Amigoni)
Internet resources:
venerdì 26 giugno 2009
Tragic Italy ( an Ecology of Branding )
How to spend a barrel-load of money in order to create an awful logo. Made in Italy. The Design Fatherland ridiculized.
After the Rutelli's cetriolone, now we have the Eighties-style logo.
How much it costed? Millions and millions of Euros.
Is it possibile to do better? Yes, it is. For 10 (ten) Euros and in 5 (five) minutes. Italian people! Bring pen and pencil... or Paint and keyboard...
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giovedì 25 giugno 2009
Always to learn from extremophiles
mercoledì 24 giugno 2009
Be That Flint.
Michael Moore is from Flint, Michigan, home of General Motors. He wants Barack Obama to "Be that change" and to represent real Hope for the thousands of GM workers that will loose their job if the GM issues are not well addressed.
Michael wrote this very straightforward article that shows that there's a way to save the GM productive infrastructure and to use it for renewable energies, public transportation and high-speed trains.
(via The Daily Beast)
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martedì 23 giugno 2009
Just a reminder. G8 to be held at L'Aquila
4.5 Richter Scale, again. Government, absent.
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lunedì 22 giugno 2009
Iran, an Ecology of Communication
Despite the censorship, a free flow of Internet communications is coming from Iran, supported by a worldwide technical support.
Ahmadinejad warns the international community to stay out of internal problems of Iran, but he address the wrong audience. And maybe for Mahmud it could be too late: he could be the first dictator to be trown away by Geopolitics 2.0.
And Google translates.
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giovedì 18 giugno 2009
Always to learn from microbes
Interesting article on Networked Microbes by Yuri Gorby published on Wired.com
"Perhaps more importantly, understanding the strategies for efficient energy distribution and communication in the oldest organisms on the planet may serve as useful analogies of sustainability within our own species."
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mercoledì 17 giugno 2009
Hic et Nunc - Climate Change Hitting
“I really believe this report is a game changer. Much of the foot dragging is a reflection of the perception that climate change is way down the road” said Jane Lubchenko, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“From Sewage to Salmon, Climate Change Hitting Here and Now“ by Alexis Madrigal (wired.com)
Still we need acts on Climate Change in confirmation of the words of this report.
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venerdì 12 giugno 2009
A me ricorda il logo di una catena di fast food
«Questo accrocchio di luminescente barbarie grafica non ha né struttura, né status, né dignità di marchio: ci sembra scarsamente applicabile in qualsiasi contesto» (SocialDesignZine)
Ma, si potrebbe aggiungere, rappresenta esattamente lo stato in cui versa il sistema paese, irreversibilmente bloccato in una vetrina retro e senza uno sbocco vero di rinnovamento nei settori dell'economia e della cultura. Sembra quasi che si stia preparando a diventare una sorta di "paese-presepe" con statuine Capodimonte a prendere polvere tutto intorno. Un paese magico, da riporre nelle scatole finite le vacanze.
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mercoledì 10 giugno 2009
L'Italia da salvare
Ci sono case, paesi, ambienti, parchi e riserve naturali che meritano di rimanere come sono e di non finire nel tritatutto di deroghe, abusi e speculazioni edilizie. In alcuni casi perché sono un patrimonio dell’Italia, in altri semplicemente perché rappresentano un valore per il paesaggio, per gli esseri umani o gli animali, che abitano quei luoghi. Nel nostro paese sopravvive, nonostante tutto, un patrimonio naturale e architettonico a cui non si deve rinunciare.
Ci definiamo “Giardino d’Europa”, invitiamo i turisti di tutto il mondo a venirci a visitare. Ma, come per tutti i giardini, serve cura e manutenzione. Spesso, come in Abruzzo, è mancata.
Ecco la Mappa
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