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nesday in a telephone interview it s not a hoax it s high school physics yet unfortunately for him another nobel laureate ivar giaever resigned last week from the american physical society in protest of the group s insistence on that very thing in an email message to kate kirby executive officer of the aps giaever wrote in the aps it is ok to discuss whether the mass of a proton changes over time and how a multi universe behaves but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible the claim how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year is that the temperature has changed from 288 0 to 288 8 degree kelvin in about 150 years which if true means to me that the temperature has been amazingly stable and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this warming period and again unfortunately for al gore and the aps public perception of climate change has steadily fallen since late 2009 according to a rasmussen reports public opinion poll released on august 31 57 percent of adults believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming up five points from late 2009 posted by s r piccoli a 6 30 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette climate science us politics september 16 2011 stelutis alpinis alpine edelweiss edelweiss the flower of the alps it s what might be called a modern madrigal more precisely a modern villotta in fact it has most of the characteristics of the rustic song form which first became current in the early 16 th century in northern italy but most of all this song is a cornerstone of the alpini choral repertoire and a sort of national anthem for the friulian people in whose dialect or language as my friends from friuli would say it was written by arturo zardini a primary school teacher back in 1920 stelutis alpinis meaning edelweiss the flower which symbolizes the alps tells the story of a dead soldier of wwi who asks his wife to pick up an edelweiss from the place where he was buried somewhere over the mountains pick one of those edelweiss it will remind you of our love that s why when someone dies on the mountains friulans sing this song at the funeral while in the other italian alpine regions they usually sing signore delle cime yet another sad but very beautiful song of the alpini stelutis alpinis is such a beautiful song that it has been adapted and performed in many different ways in both choral and solo modes here are a couple of examples the first is a traditional version performed by the choir of the brigata alpina julia subtitled in english the latter is a wonderful rendition and adaptation by the italian singer songwriter francesco de gregori the song is included in the album prendere o lasciare 1996 p s needless to say this post is especially dedicated to italian legendary climber walter bonatti r i p whose funeral will be held tomorrow in lecco posted by s r piccoli a 7 51 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette italians music september 15 2011 in memoriam walter bonatti italian legendary climber walter bonatti has died at age 81 his record was impressive and amazing at 18 he made the fourth ascent of the north face of the pointe walker on the grandes jorasses in the mont blanc range at 21 he made the first ascent of the grand capucin rock pinnacle at 24 he was the youngest man to be chosen to join the italian k2 expedition a long track record of successes and achievements see here here here and here to get an idea and yet to be honest what amazes me most is the fact that unlike most of his fellow mountaineers at least as far as i know he had not followed in his father s footsteps nor he was in his early years a mountain man having grown up on the banks of the po river in the flatlands of lombardy and emilia he was an outsider my character and personality were already beginning to form in my childhood home by the river po the great river was like an ocean for me the sandy river banks like deserts and the alpine foothills on the horizon the highest mountains in the world he said in a 2010 interview but he used to spend his holidays by his uncles in the mountains of bergamo and thus it happened that he decided to become a mountain guide and to move to courmayeur below the mighty mont blanc group and that s where the real life of bonatti started the life of a man who reached out for the uttermost difficulty the unexplored he cobbled a philosophy from his passion pursuit of the impossible he called it his was a story of independence and freedom of spirit there is no such thing as the destiny man is the master of his own destiny he was among the greatest of all time without a shadow of a doubt the british mountaineer sir chris bonington nineteen expeditions to the himalayas including four to mount everest and the first ascent of the south face of annapurna told the guardian and doug scott one of the first two britons to conquer everest called bonatti perhaps the finest alpinist there has ever been his memoir the mountains of my life which was republished in english in 2010 to celebrate his 80th birthday is certainly one of the best books in mountaineering literature rest in peace man of the impossible posted by s r piccoli a 4 41 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette italians somewhere in italy september 14 2011 nobody is biting on obama s bait anymore cartoon credit the looking spoon jared h mcandersen posted by s r piccoli a 10 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette humor us politics september 11 2011 never ever forget posted by s r piccoli a 4 07 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette america september 10 2011 fiat lux yeah let there be light posted by s r piccoli a 11 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world heavenly splendor raphael madonna di foligno the two sisters probably last saw each other in raphael s workshop during the brief moment of their more or less simultaneous creation i m talking of two of the most celebrated works the great urbinate dedicated to the blessed virgin mary the madonna di foligno which normally hangs in the pinacoteca vaticana vatican picture gallery and the sistine madonna relocated to dresden from 1754 and hanging in the gemäldegalerie alte meister well now the two are together again in an exhibition currently taking place september 6 2011 through january 8 2012 at the staatliche kunstsammlungen of dresden the exhibition is called heavenly splendor raphael dürer and grünewald paint the madonna and is held on the occasion of the apostolic visit to germany of pope benedict xvi thus once again the holy father is the bearer of an important cultural and artistic event just as last year during his visit to london when he made possible for the first time in nearly 500 years the display of four tapestries of raphael next to the urbinate s original cartoons in a major exhibition in the british capital s victoria and albert museum needless to say the sistine madonna besides being one of raphael s best loved masterpieces is one of the most beautiful paintings ever take the two little angels reproduced in countless postcards t shirts and souvenirs with the mischievous air or the divine child with those strange far away looking eyes that even in babyhood seem reading the future in the mother s arms but how not to love the madonna di foligno s sacra conversazione in which st francis of assisi st john the baptist sigismonde de conti st jerome and the little angel seem to converse and draw the viewer into their conversation raphael the sistine madonna first written for the metaphysical peregrine posted by s r piccoli a 4 09 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette arts religion september 8 2011 how kind of you mr trichet ecb president jean claude trichet and finally they almost got their homework done in fact after its approval by the italian senate yesterday the much revised corrected enlarged and improved package of austerity measures goes to the lower house where the vote is expected on monday the plan includes a controversial previously approved and then categorically denied increase in the value added tax rate to 21 from 20 the introduction of a 3 solidarity tax on people who earn more than eur300 000 a year after stating on tuesday that the threshold would be eur500 000 and surprise surprise an increase in the retirement age for women working in the private sector to 65 from 60 as of 2014 the package also includes a significant and much debated change aimed to make the economy more flexible to italian labor law making it easier to hire and fire workers and makes some forms of tax evasion a criminal offense last but not least the government will seek to amend the constitution to introduce the principle of a balanced budget and to eliminate a tier of local government at the provincial level see here here and here for details will that be enough to tackle italy s deep rooted economic and financial problems debt and lack of growth of course according to the opposition the package doesn t address those obstacles in any concrete way but the european commission welcomed on tuesday night the amendments calling for their rapid adoption and today the impeccable mr trichet said how kind of him we have confirmation that there is implementation of what was said in terms of overall results and that of course is of extreme importance can we trust him well i think so but i am a naturally optimistic person what is fairly certain however is that the italian government s flip flopping on which measures to include in the final plan has not done anyone a service other perhaps than the stock speculators ok ok i know they are not of this world they are aliens but why rattle their cage posted by s r piccoli a 10 58 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette economy europa italy s politics somewhere in italy september 5 2011 american labor day and our anti jobs president letters from america by the metaphysical peregrine this weekend is a holiday weekend labor day created to recognize working people s accomplishments moving from an agricultural economy to an industrial one in the late 1800 s created a clash between people doing the work and management unions were formed and battles between police and workers were violent and there were a lot of people killed president grover cleveland sought to reduce the conflict with the creation of labor day this is an oversimplified history since it s not the point of this post more on the particulars here the big discussion this weekend is a president whose marxist economic policies have been not only a failure but a disaster so much so his leftist supporters are voicing buyers remorse the jobs news released this past friday showed zero job growth polls show about two thirds of citizens disapprove of his handling of the economy even his own administration released a report stating they expected the economy to grow at a rate of 1 7 through next year with an unemployment rate of 9 other economists think the 1 7 is optimistic obama and the democrats controlled congress and the executive branch for the first two years of his administration meaning they controlled the purse strings congress is required by law to pass a budget and didn t do so for two years when the republicans were elected to gain control of the house of representatives last year they proposed several budgets all rejected by the administration and democrats the senate still controlled by democrats still have not passed let alone proposed a budget as required by law going on to two and a half years the media and leftist meme is republicans are obstructionists go figure democrats reject everything and refuse to negotiate ignore the law and the republicans are the obstructionists the bad guys we have had troubled asset relief program tarp at the end of the bush administration that obama voted for and conservatives were against that had no effect other than lining the pockets of wall street fat cats and ceo s with taxpayer money when obama came to office he forced through a stimulus package of about a tillion and most of it went to state workers most of whom belong to unions and little went to the private sector most of the private sector companies were green and most have failed since after blowing through millions with no accountability the money going to state union workers found its way back to the unions that in turn funneled the money back to obama s campaign war chest estimated to be approaching a billion and funding the democrat party that s nothing short of a money laundering operation using taxpayer dollars then another trillion in a second stimulus package was passed again without republican support and the same thing was done now obama and the democrats are advocating for a third stimulus package it s doubtful this one will pass because the democrats no longer control both houses of congress this will be reported as the republicans are obstructionists that want to increase unemployment starve old people put children on the street create more homeless cause more pollution and all the rest nevermind that three times infusion of taxpayer money into the economy has failed we haven t decided whether obama is deliberately destroying the economy he campaigned on fundamentally transforming america or he s just stupid we do know he s a leftist ideologue and truly believes confiscating the earnings of producers and giving to non producers 47 of americans don t pay income tax is the way to go despite the empirical evidence of a 100 failure rate 100 of the time the idea has been applied all throughout history where we can t drill for oil this is an anti jobs president he has illegally shut down drilling in the gulf since the spill there throwing thousands out of work he s had his environmental agency pass such restrictive regulations that coal mines are shutting down because they can t meet the costs throwing more thousands out of work he shut down all coastal oil drilling all new conventional drilling and all oil shale production denying jobs to thousands of people it has also driven up the cost of energy causing a massive budget crunch for citizens nearly all taxpayer paid for green jobs have gone out of business or moved overseas billions have been lost and yet more workers are unemployed the obamacare health plan is causing additional massive disruptions of employment and costs to citizens and it s not even fully implemented yet he will be addressing congress this coming week about job creation guaranteed he ll talk about the need to raise taxes the need for another 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