Thursday, December 27, 2007

Long Does Take Temazepam Take Effect



for once were not the "pale faces" to declare "waste paper" over 150 treaties since 1868 have always tried to adjust the difficult relations between the U.S. government and people of Native America: just before Christmas, a delegation of Lakota Indians, the same as in 1876, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull inflicted in mitica battaglia di Little Big Horn all'esercito americano una delle più clamorose sconfitte della sua storia, ha presentato al Dipartimento di Stato Americano una dichiarazione in cui si annuncia in maniera unilaterale la recessione da tutti gli accordi e la rinuncia alla cittadinanza americana. Non solo: fra qualche giorno cominceranno a rilasciare patenti e passaporti, non pagheranno più le tasse e intraprenderanno relazioni diplomatiche con diversi Paesi.
Il perchè di una simile decisione non credo richieda eccessive spiegazioni: sin dall'inizio gli stessi "visi pallidi" hanno sempre considerato quei trattati una pura formalità e non hanno mai esitato a violarli ogniqualvolta nei territori assigned to the Indians were discovered rich new deposits of gold, silver, copper and lead or the "land hunger" of more and more white settlers called for a redefinition of the boundaries of "reserves".
always been the history of Indians in relation to "civilization" has been a history of derportazioni, massacres, marginalization, dispossession, betrayal and cultural dispossession.

The latest insult to the Native Americans was consumed in 1926, when the federal government granted them U.S. citizenship: from that moment all their former right enshrined in the treaties also formally declined the same time because the government said he did not to recognize no treaty enshrined con i propri cittadini ma solo con altri Stati.

Quello dei Lakota è sicuramente destinato a rimanere poco più che un gesto simbolico ma non posso fare a meno di esprimere tutta la mia simpatia per questi pochi "pazzi" temerari che osano, in nome della propria dignità e del proprio orgoglio di popolo libero, sfidare ancora una volta il "gigante" (e che gigante!).

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Copper Volleyball Nets

Kodak Easyshare C743: a good digital camera


Posseggo questa fotocamera digitale già da qualche mese.
L'ho acquistata attraverso una serie di combinazioni favorevoli: attivando Conto Arancio (versando 1 solo euro) attraverso il sito di Media World online ho ricevuto un buono di 80 euro da spendere sul sito stesso. Quindi ho aspettato a few weeks until I found this digital offering "below cost" price of 99 €, in practice, I paid 26 euro (19 euro difference on good + 7 € shipping). Not bad!
obviously I do not pretend to have purchased a "jewel" of technology with this machine, nor can hope to match the performance of an SLR, but for my needs is just fine!

But let's start from the beginning and calmly.
The camera was handed to me by courier two days after the order in a box complete with a USB cord to download photos, an AV cable for video, a CD to install the software on your computer, 2 AA alkaline batteries, a wrist strap and an instruction manual.

The installation of the software (version 6.0) on your computer is not difficult and is quite fast. E 'is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, and requires minimum benefits: ProcessPro 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 200 MB of available hard disk space, CD ROM, a USB port, color monitor with a resolution of 800 X 600 .
From aesthetic point of view the camera is really nice: all silver in color and extremely compact and manageable. Weighing only 145 g (without batteries and SD memory card) and is 92.2 mm long, 65.7 high mm and 32.4 mm thick.

We come to the performance: 7.4 total megapixels (3152x2342), 7.1 megapixel (3072x2304), respectable performance in absolute terms for a compact camera, but especially for this price range.

With the maximum resolution you will get prints of the category "good" up to size 50 x 76 cm.
Regarding the power you can indulge: in addition to AA alkaline batteries included, you can use rechargeable Ni-Mh, ossi.alcaline batteries, lithium batteries, or even wanting a 3-volt AC adapter.

In Photo mode you can select different functions: manual, automatic, portrait, sports and children (moving images), landscape, night, snow, beach, fireworks, close-up, backlight timer, and so on.

the self-timer mode, you can choose the shutter speed 2 to 10 seconds to 2 shots.
In the photos between a normal shot and the other there must be an interval of less than 1.8 seconds.

The camera has autofocus and auto exposure that you set pressing the shutter button halfway, then, before you press the shutter button for shooting, you should turn on the light green light "ready".
Le foto vengono eseguite in formato JPEG/EXIF formato 2.21 e in relazione al colore possono essere selezionate le modalità colore, seppia e bianco e nero.
La funzione video/audio si ottiene selezionando la modalità video e premendo completamente il pulsante dell'otturatore e rilasciandolo; un'ulteriore pressione del pulsante interrompe la ripresa.La ripresa avviene in formato QUICKTIME MOV (JPEG-4) con qualità VGA (640 x 480 pixel) o QVGA (320 x24 pixel). La durata del video è ovviamente in relazione alla capacità disponibile della memoria.

Anche nella funzione video è possibile selezionare le diverse funzioni di ripresa previste per le foto.
We see the goal.
The unit is equipped with an optical zoom (protected by a built-in lens cover activates the camera is turned off) to 3X, which starts from 37 mm (f/2.7 af/4.8) to 111 mm (f/4.9 af/8.5), as if to say semigrandangolare a lens to a telephoto lens. Starting from the optical zoom is possibile 5X digital zoom (with preview screen) by holding down the button to the maximum telephoto, release and then press it again. In this way you can multiply the potential for 5 optical zoom, although of course the image quality fell. In any case a red light warns when the quality potential of the photo shoot is that it does not get a decent 10x15 print.
the shutter speed to the target range from 1 / 400 of a second to 4 seconds.

The flash is set to automatic, which means that begins operation when the lighting conditions require it. E 'can change this by choosing for example the "fill" that activates the flash regardless of lighting conditions (with the subject being photographed in shadow or lit), the "red eye" with the double flash of light (although if your camera has, regardless of an automatic red-eye correction) or finally the "off" which disables the tutto il flash (consigliato per foto in notturna nelle quali si vogliono evidenziare gli effetti di luce reale). Ogni modalità selezionata viene evidenziata nello schermo LCD.

E veniamo quindi al display LCD da 2.4" (61mm e 112.000 pixel).
Sarà che non sono ancora avvezzo ad utilizzare fotocamere digitali, ma a me sembra enorme!
Si utilizza ovviamente in primo luogo per avere una anteprima della foto che si intende scattare. Sulla parte superiore e sul lato destro vengono indicate con delle icone tutte le impostazioni prescelte e le informazioni relative allo stato della macchinetta (come ad esempio il livello di carica delle batterie ed il numero di foto rimanenti).

After taking a photo, you can review it or see it again immediately afterwards. The call of the photos can be stored in single-mode to full screen mode and multiple simultaneous images with nine (3 x 3).
E 'can enlarge a picture on the screen has just been taken up to 8 times. Similarly, you can "crop" a picture is keeping in mind the larger picture originale.Le photo blunders can be deleted immediately or later from memory. The accidental deletion can be undone and then retrieve the photo as long as you proceed promptly.
The memory inside the camera is 32MB values \u200b\u200bmore or less in line with the cameras offer a similar level or higher.

especially in relation to the number of pixels you have, with only the internal memory can be made very few shots, so it is a must in possession of an external memory card, SD or MMC card. Again we are talking about fairly low cost: a 1 gig SD card can be purchased at a price of 12-13 €.

copying from internal memory to external or vice versa is done manually.

Very interesting is the online service provided by Kodak: connecting at www.kodak.com / go / easysharecenter it is possible to register and receive information on performance tuning of the camera, download software updates (currently available version 6.4) and get help on solving any problems encountered.
The camera is also compatible with the use of the Kodak EasyShare dock printers that print 10 x 15 simply by placing the machine in a special chamber and at the same time recharging the batteries (if using rechargeable batteries).

The instruction manual is easy reading and reference. The machine is still designed for intuitive use.
The warranty is valid according to European standards.
What can I say more? In recent months that have the camera at home I made several experiments in different light and movement: portraits, landscapes, people moving, outdoors, indoors, day and night and the results have always been extremely satisfactory. In particular, I was very impressed by the flash function in "red-eye": perfect results!

A little 'different is the discourse of the video shoot.
In this field I have no way to make comparisons with the performance of other cameras, but I can not be disappointed. Obviously for riprese video non si può pretendere la qualità offerta dalle videocamere, allo stesso modo in cui dalle videocamere in funzione foto non si può pretendere la qualità delle fotocamere.
L'uso delle riprese video con una fotocamera penso che sia una funzione secondaria da utilizzare per situazioni, come dire?, di "emergenza": se si vogliono fare dei video è bene ovviamente dotarsi di una apparecchiatura specifica.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Lady Sonia Free Movie

Open a blog with Blogger

Ho trovato per caso questo video su YouTube e l'ho voluto postare perchè spero possa essere utile a chi, volendo aprire un blog, non sa come fare.
Non si rivolge ovviamente al popolo dei blogger, ma ai principianti ai quali spiega con parole semplici ed powerful images all the essential steps to activate its own URL in google.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Sims 2 Installations Kod

The homemade yogurt

Relatively few years that yogurt (from turkish "yoggurt," that is thick milk) became so heavily in our diets and our food culture (of course refers to the relatively the years that I have .....).
Indeed, until about the mid-60s, the yogurt has been for the most part, as it seems now, a niche product: the food industry only began to discover and then present it to small groups of consumers, while only in big cities could enjoy, for those who appreciated the typically sour taste (they were only "white", which is strongly decreasing in the public's taste), yogurt and handmade from "dairies" fashion that brought in glass jars (strictly with the "empty to make "), with no label and produced daily with the simple name of" youg URT Bulgarian. "
The commercial success of this product is present in everyone's eyes: millions of people consume it every day, some to breakfast, some for the break in the morning or afternoon, some as dessert, who then uses it as a meal replacement for reasons diet.

In recent years the marketing industry produttrici, in genere tutte grandi multinazionali, si è ovviamente molto raffinato: oggi nei grandi magazzini non solo troviamo una varietà di marche impressionante, ma troviamo prodotti per tutte le esigenze: confezioni singole e doppie, confezioni scorte-famiglia da 6 o 8 barattolini, barattoloni, ecc..
Ma non solo: yogurt bianchi al latte intero o light, alla frutta frullata o a pezzetti, al cioccolato o alla vaniglia, ai cereali o al muesli. Ultimamente persino alle verdure.
Con o senza l'aggiunta di appositi integratori o di altre tipologie di fermenti, alcune industrie poi propongono i loro prodotti (che possegono realmente queste ed altre proprietà terapeutiche) come coadiuvanti nella cura dei disordini della pelle, per il rafforzamento delle difese immunitarie, come disintossicante e per migliorare la regolarità intestinale o per tenere sotto controllo il livello di colesterolo nel sangue.
Da sempre goloso di yogurt ed estremamente convinto delle sue benefiche proprietà nutritive, ho veramente molto gradito ricevere in regalo qualche mese fa una yogurtiera: l'idea di poter produrre da solo un prodotto a me tanto gradito, potendo anche scegliere personalmente gli ingredienti da usare, mi piace veramente molto!
Non che abbia qualcosa contro le industrie alimentari che producono yogurt: so che seguono rigide procedure per il controllo dell'igiene ambientale ed alimentare e non mi risulta, almeno per i prodotti dei quali ho avuto modo di analizzare l'etichetta degli ingredienti, che utilizzino consevanti o coloranti o altri pastrocchi del genere.
In realtà alcune marche indicano la presenza nei loro prodotti di non ben specifiacati edulcoranti e addensanti: intendiamoci, niente di particolarmente significativo, ma se ne possiamo fare a meno....... .
E poi, in ogni caso: vuoi mettere la soddisfazione di mangiare una cosa che hai fatto tu?

Dunque veniamo al prodotto.
Prima però devo fare un'ultima doverosa premessa.
In realtà la produzione di yogurt non richiede l'ausilio di alcun apparecchio ma avviene per un semplice processo di fermentazione del latte ad opera di alcuni microrganismi (come avrebbero fatto altrimenti i popoli dell'Europa orientale e del Medio oriente they consume this product since ancient times?). I remember very well, for example, that a friend when in college, usually in the evening was very well in a bowl, mix a certain amount of fresh milk with a small amount of yogurt and place the container covered with a cloth on a radiatotore radiator in the morning for his breakfast of yogurt was ready.
The use of yogurt makes it only more rapid, orderly and hygienically safe product preparation.
The device is even disarming in its simplicity, both aesthetically and functionally.
E 'consists of two parts:
- a white base and shaped vaguely cylindrical a base circumference of 24 cm, or it is at the bottom of the electrical part, the top of the container jars.
- a transparent plastic cover which also acts as a handle adjustable timer function of time in which you want to prolong the process of fermentation.
enough, so the total space is very limited.
In this unit are provided seven glass jars (with lid on) each capable of holding 15 cl.

To prepare yogurt takes 1 liter of milk and 1 cup of yogurt. You can also use dehydrated and freeze-dried lactic acid bacteria, but these require more time to prepare the finished product. Using yogurt instead of self, you should renew it every 10-15 days.
can be used any type of cow's milk (fresh, long-life or powder). Fresh milk should be boiled and then brought to room temperature before use.
yogurt be used to form the base must be rather like "white" (I, for example, use the greek).
is then mixing well well the basic herbal ingredients with a whisk until they are well blended, then pour the mixture into jars, these are placed in the apparatus without its lid, you put the lid , pulls the plug in the socket and ... expect 8 / 10 hours (depending on the desired consistency).
It 's important not to move the device during its operation and place it on the basis that vibrate or exposed to drafts.

After the time required for fermentation, remove the jars from the unit (be careful when removing the cover not to fall into the water jars of any condensation!), Close them with their lids and put them in the refrigerator at least for one hour before eating.
The yogurt will keep in refrigerator for 8 / 10 days.
The jars can be washed safely in the dishwasher.

does not show the energy class of the unit, but the presumption that power consumption is really ridiculous.
The instruction is very clear and also gives some recipes for using yogurt after their preparation.

addition to being used in the traditional way, the yogurt lends itself well to salads, sauces, ice creams and cakes do (even in place of cream or mascarpone, for example, for the tiramisu), prepare pasta dishes and meals of meat or fish, etc.. Some people use it as a beauty mask!
Important: yogurt can also be safely consumed by those suffering from lactose intollerenza (thus taking advantage of the proteins, vitamins and minerals contained in milk, calcium, phosphorus and iron in the first place) because during fermentation, the lactose is transformed into lactic acid.
Similarly, it can be consumed by those who have difficulty digesting milk protein because yogurt is three times more digestible. Let

, then the yogurt in the house and consumiamone much: maybe not everyone will live 150 years, as has been believed for some time in the last century, but surely we will gain something in taste and in health.
the way: did you know that Metchniko Ilyich, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in 1908 in signing the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery and isolation of the Lactobacillus bulgaricus, one substance that causes the milk to ferment into yogurt ?

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Nutritional Value Duck Chow Mein

Democracy


L’energia è il principio vitale di ogni essere: l’uomo, a differenza dei vegetali e degli altri animali, non solo è in grado di attingere dall’ambiente in maniera passiva l’energia di cui ha bisogno per il proprio metabolismo, ma ha sempre necessitato di produrre energia anche attraverso processi tecnologici di trasformazione sia di elementi quali acqua, vento, ecc., sia di altre risorse disponibili in natura (legno, carbone, gas, petrolio, ecc.).
A partire soprattutto dagli inizi del ‘900 i processi economici e sociali di crescita di una parte del mondo hanno fatto sì che il fabbisogno di energia abbia subito un incremento vertiginoso: si calcola that in the last century, this demand has increased tenfold and continues to grow at a rate of 2-2.5% per year. And what if there is a situation of great inequality that sees large shares of the world's population still in a state of extreme marginalization from the access and use the energy produced, and legitimately claim the right to greater participation in the development and growth.
The energy needs are currently met for three quarters of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) account for 7% from nuclear, the rest from renewable sources in different forms (biomass, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar). Leaving aside the devastating effects
which air, water and earth and increasing overall global temperature increased the release of an unsustainable amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a result of reckless use of fossil resources as well, now we are in a situation in which over 90 years of little more than conventional sources of energy will be practically empty: beyond the issue of rising costs that the extraction of these resources will lead in years, experts predict that in fact the current rate of growth in energy consumption we have more oil between 40.45 years, gas and uranium between 65-70 years from 70 years. Only for coal forecasts are more optimistic It is estimated that we will have declining stocks and increasingly prohibitive costs for another 200 years.
Regarding uranium, recently re-evaluated by many especially in view of the environmental damage caused by other resources, whether it was used to cover the entire world's energy needs, its reserves would last less than 5 years!
What can be done before the environmental impact and climate pollution from traditional energy reaches a point of no return and that the limited natural resources, exacerbate social tensions, economic and political, which is already dangerously present and operating in the international arena, to control energy sources?
In a medium-term vision that still need to see a rethinking of the concept of "growth" only ever measured in quantitative terms, and cultural patterns related to how to "consume", the only way forward now seems to turn in a context of a more equitable distribution of resources, based on two basic choices:

- energy saving
- the use of renewable energy.

Saving energy involves radically change lifestyles, perhaps mainly based on the false belief that the current energy model is infinitely expandable, in order to reduce waste and increase efficient energy production. Very important I think the campaign recently launched by Eni (called Eni 30%) through which you intend to sensitize the public to take a few simple measures can save up to 30% of energy currently consumed.
an efficient energy produced and used instead requires broader decisions that involve major economic investment, legal, political choices seriously focused on research and scientific innovation.
In this sector, Italy once again pay a big delay: Just think, for example, the heating of homes, whose energy needs in Germany (by law, but above all as houses are built) will not normally exceed 70 kWh per square meter per year (the so-called "passive houses" in fact no more than 15 kWh/m2anno) while in Italy, with a much milder climate, you can reach easily the kWh/m2anno 150-200.
The production of energy from renewable sources and in particular through the PV system is painfully in recent years by significant but still insufficient, progress.
The experiences in countries such as Spain and, once again, Germany, indicate that an efficient model based on the use of renewable resources through the creation of a production system diffuse and localized energy that is based on the principles of micro-and-handling.
for today I will only bring the problem in a future post I will explain my views on possible solutions to the energy problem of the opportunities within existing legislation.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Best Brand Of Concealer



It 's always difficult to find news on Birmania.Sto saying the obvious, I realize, but often the most obvious things are true.
why are some days that I write nn.
I only old news, or calls of solidarity, like ours.
What's happening?
any of you know something?
Today I wrote per rinnovare la solidarietà nei loro confronti,perchè nn si deve spegnere mai la speranza,visto che l'informazione oramai non se ne occupa più.Ci sono delle difficoltà,ovvie anche quelle.Ma fin dove si tratta di questo e fin dove di mancanza di interesse?

Sunday, December 2, 2007

What Was Your Cm Like Before Your Period?

Cars ecological energy. Why not successful?

some alarm among the public for the environmental emergency due to the significant increase in traffic would say that you can raise it again around the second half of the 70s (who knows why everything seems to be initiated in those years !).
before the "oil shock" due to sudden increase in the cost of decided by the crude oil producing countries, then the first reports on air quality, especially in big towns, on the formation of the hole in the ozone layer, on the melting of glaciers and finally on global warming have gradually created more concerns and doubts about the so-called "development model" so far below.
Since then, despite the development of a certain consciousness among the population ecologist (a little 'less probably one of our leaders), the agreements of Kyoto and dissemination of information and data ever more alarming about the future fate of our little planet has been done, even to some extent the environmental situation has worsened, so that for alcuni scienziati ci troviamo già in una situazione di "non ritorno".
L'inquinamento dovuto al traffico automobilistico rappresenta solo una quota, sia pure importante, dell'inquinamento complessivo (mi limito a parlare del solo inquinamento dell'aria, tralasciando quello acustico e luminoso), ma per quanto riguarda le città è il principale, se non unico, agente responsabile dell'emissione e della concentrazione del monossido di carbonio e di numerose altre sostanze nocive attualmente presenti nell'aria.Tutti ormai sappiamo, se non altro a livello olfattivo, che l'aria delle nostre città è diventata un pericolo per la nostra salute e, in particolare, per quella dei nostri bambini e dei nostri anziani.
Apart from the numerous heart and lung diseases that currently, at least for their escalation, are directly related to air quality, it is estimated that at least 80,000 deaths per year are attributable to air pollution in Europe and in particular the exposure particulate matter (PM10, the notorious soot) from traffic automobilistico.Si was necessary to constantly monitor the air quality in large cities and the values \u200b\u200brecorded are often above the permitted limits. Here then is the much-hated (by car) traffic blocks determined by the auditors in the hope of including the air quality parameters within the "right", get up here invocations so that the wind is stronger and move "elsewhere" the lethal powder, suddenly "rain dance" so that the precipitation of dust on the ground (but then where do they go?). What was in these years the attitude of the houses automobile manufacturers for the environment? For many decades, in my opinion, absolute indifference and denial of the problem.
But this must not surprise, is in the nature of things: the car companies, like companies in general, have, in a market economy, by their very nature and pace of the founders of liberal thought, the ethical purpose of promoting the common good than to produce profits e di conquistare quote di mercato sempre più importanti.Fin quando il consumatore non ha cominciato a domandare automobili con più bassi consumi e con un minore impatto per l'ambiente, fin quando la Comunità Europea e i singoli stati, sull'onda di questa richiesta, non hanno iniziato ad imporre parametri più restrittivi in favore di una maggiore salvaguardia dell'ambiente, che motivo avevano le case automobilistiche di modificare la propria politica aziendale?
Certo, una volta avviato il cambiamento nei gusti e nelle aspettative della gente, si è aperta la corsa!
Resta in me, però, un po' di rammarico per un certo ritardo con cui questa trasformazione si è avviata e per le scelte sempre unidirezionalmente addressed for a long, long time towards the use of petroleum as the main if not the only fuel for cars.
A concrete example of what is stated above and kerosene can be provided by the case of cars powered by natural gas or LPG.
In particular, CNG cars, perhaps wrongly assimilated to the category of "green", however, are the concrete benefits from the environmental point of view than petrol and diesel.
First, the methane is not produced from refinery processes for which there are no harmful effects on the environment instead of refined products petrolio.Il its use also does not discharge particulate matter in the air e produce il 14% in meno di emissioni di CO2 rispetto alla benzina e il 18% in meno rispetto al diesel.
Sin dagli anni '50 numerosi automobilisti, attratti probabilmente più dal risparmio in termini economici ottenuto dal minor costo del carburante che per motivazioni di carattere ecologico, hanno provveduto a proprie spese a far modificare il motore della propria auto in favore dell'alimentazione a metano, rinunciando ad un 10/15% di potenza del motore stesso.
Le case automobilistiche? Assolutamente niente: fin quando il fattore"ecologia" non è diventato nel mercato auto un potenziale business in funzione appunto dell'accresciuta coscienza ecologista della popolazione hanno assolutamente snobato il metano come fonte alternativa fuel, and only very recently started to produce cars powered by methane series.
Let us now take a short and necessarily limited overview of the so-called "clean cars". Those
electrically powered cars were among the first "alternative" to be explored.
Leaving aside the ways in which electricity is being produced (ie the way "not clean" that create no problems for the environment), the electrical auotomobili are emitting harmful "zero".
Even if you do not say, there is currently an offer impressive vehicles driven by electric motors, both in terms of the types of such vehicles, sia rispetto alle prestazioni che sono in grado di offrire.
Oltre ai classici automezzi elettrici da lavoro (carrelli elevatori, muletti, ecc.), oggi è possibile acquistare scooter, scooter a tre ruote (tipo le storiche "Ape"), quadricicli, citycar, furgoni commerciali, taxi, minibus, scuolabus, ambulanze, bus, ecc. tutti funzionanti unicamente con batterie ricaricabili elettricamente.
Ma non solo, modelli commerciali di case automobilistiche famose sono disponibili in versione elettrica: la Master della Renault, La Sprinter della Mercedes, la Panda van, la Berlingo, ecc.Numerose amministrazioni comunali, fra le quali Firenze, Roma e Milano hanno elaborato dei protocolli che prevedono forti incentivi purchase of electric cars: cash contributions, exemption from stamp duty for 5 years (then you pay 25% of the amount), half of the insurance costs, etc.. and they both proceeded to install at various points in their respective cities charging stations for the use of electric vehicles.
The average cost of a small city car is about € 10,000 and can move freely even in the LTZ and requests for help obtaining the license provided for ciclomotori.Il weak point of electric cars has always been the autonomy of batteries (and its recharge time).
This limit to some extent still remains: an electric car can travel on average with a charge from 60 to 200 km (depending on model and type of vehicle), reaching a maximum speed of 90 km / h. Therefore can not realistically propose to fully substitute the traditional car, but in my opinion can certainly find a much greater spread than it has today.
Just think how many petrol vehicles are now used exclusively in the urban cycle, as well as those of many ordinary citizens, school buses, cars and local administrations of public and private companies (postal services, gas, electricity, etc.), bus, and so away, and then how much less air unbreathable would with a larger vision on the part of those institutions!
Who is interested to know more about consiglio una visita al sito www.aae.it .
Un piccolo accenno vorrei farlo anche a proposito delle auto ad energia solare.
Finora non è ancora stato trovato un utilizzo convincente della tecnologia dei pannelli fotovoltaici applicata alle automobili.
E' vero che ogni anno (mi sembra nei deserti australiani) si svolge una kermesse per prototipi di auto alimentati ad energia solare, ma si tratta di modelli francamente poco proponibili sotto il profilo commerciale: super leggeri, con una superficie molto ampia per catturare energia sufficiente alla trazione, scomodissimi, eccetera.
Le cito solo per tributare tutta la mia simpatia ed ammirazione a quegli inventori della domenica, a quei "folli visionari" that with a few thousand euro investment and to shut their garage and their wineries that continue to fuel their dream of a cleaner world.
I remain convinced that even in the field of cars car powered by solar energy, a serious scientific research supported by the car manufacturers could and could still produce interesting results.
A quick mention also for the possibility of car driven by compressed air. The scientific research project that revolves around this option is based on a simple mechanical technology: compressed air enter the engine at a pressure of 300 atmospheres in a position to transform the electricity produced by decompression in his motion.
air is supplied and you expel the air! The air in the tanks could be placed either in special service stations (which may be electrically powered by solar or wind power) or through simple household compressors powered from the normal power supply.
I are, unfortunately, currently on the market based on this car tecnologia.In reality some time ago I read about an Italian company (the Aeolus Italy), which announced the impending sale of a car with compressed air and able to get in the loop urban autonomy of 200km and a top speed of 110 km / h.
few days ago I went to see the site of this producer and I only found an ad selling the domain: obviously, unless you like denials, the draft did not go over to port.
cars so-called "hybrid" but undoubtedly a very important segment of the industry and technologically advanced "green car".
speaking ecolologista represent something of a compromise: their pecurialità is in fact being equipped with a twin-engine, an electric motor, which operates up to a speed of 50 km / h (thus the whole path urban!) and a traditional combustion for high speed.
In some phases of driving the two engines work together to save on energy and also reduce the emission of CO2.Le batteries of the electric motor are recharged by the sun normally through a mechanism that conveys the energy produced by the braking system with batteries.
forerunner of this technology has been big news for a change, the car manufacturer Toyota has entered the market in 1997, the Toyota Prius and that in these days celebrated one million cars of this model sold around the world.
With the same technological concept, Toyota has also sold two other models: an SUV, the Lexus RX 400h, and coaches from 400 horses and 3500 6-cylinder engine, the FT-HS.
Another car that has followed the example of Toyota and Honda with the version The Civic Hybrid. The operating characteristics are identical to the Prius.
Absolutely fantastic and innovative device is the hand that turns off the engine at traffic lights and turn on by simply pressing on the accelerator, as when the screen saver on our computer monitors to enter the dark in a power saving mode and with a simple movement of the mouse or pressing any key on the riattiaviamo!
Absolutely out of this market, at least for the moment, European carmakers and nordamericane.Mettendo by the SUV and the Toyota GT (why such a choice of construction for two models of cars is absolutely not suitable for the urban cycle sincerely escapes me), the Prius is the Civic sedan with two very attractive characteristics: they are spacious and comfortable car, provide high performance, feature large vans and are equipped with the most innovative technological devices in terms of security and functionality.
Their price is about € 25,000 and, with government incentives and other incentives for the scrapping of the manufacturers, you can get a discount of 2,800 €.
So are two very good cars (I invite you to view the brochures or go to realize this from a dealer in person) at an affordable price and more respectful of our habitat (they can move easily even with the block Traffic absolute).
So why not have happened? This question
blend the mind without being able to give me answers and definitive.I convincing data are discouraging, at least for us Europeans (not to mention the data refer only to Italy): the percentage of sales of hybrid cars on our continent, both in absolute terms compared to the entire fleet, both in relative terms compared to the hybrid cars sold worldwide, they are absolutely laughable! Today to a hybrid car purchase is a "militant" means the purchase Beppe Grillo and a few others.
Even by our directors, which could give the good example, there is an absolute hiding, how many of the famous "Blue car" or park space available to civil servants are "green" cars of some kind?
But I also wonder: why this system is not marketed for hybrid cars of the car? There are technical impediments? If not, the marketing of cars with engine capacities lower (best selling!) With hybrid engines would not further lower production costs (the famous economies of scale) and therefore make it more palatable to the general public purchase eco-friendly car?
We come finally to 'hydrogen fuel, the "dream", perhaps more concrete with regard to automobile emissions zero harmful: Type in liquid hydrogen and expel water vapor! The first experiments on hydrogen
date back to 1959. Subsequently, NASA has developed considerably in the search function of space missions, so much so that the 60s started to use vectors for space fueled by hydrogen.
course discounts petrolofero U.S. interests in the field has led to research aimed to use such a "fuel" for the land transport moved very late and only after the "demand" for non-polluting fuels has reached levels interesting market.
Currently all the major car manufacturers have the know-how to build hydrogen cars or engines are experimenting in this field.
E 'has long known that in Monaco of Bavaria, for example, BMW uses an experimental basis for a while' time 15 cars in liquid hydrogen for the shuttle service of their executives from the company's headquarters. They are cars that take about ten minutes to fill up and have a range of about 400 km.
The problem with hydrogen cars is no longer so the engine technology rather than how to obtain pure hydrogen in a context of economic compatibility and without adverse environmental impacts.
Hydrogen, as riasaputo, non è presente in natura allo stato puro ma si trova contenuto in grosse quantità ad esempio nell'acqua.
Esso può essere estratto con un processo abbastanza semplice di ettrolisi, ma questo processo consuma molta elettricità: se questa a sua volta continua ad essere prodotta attraverso i metodi tradizionali che utilizzano risorse non rinnovabili ci troviamo di nuovo di fronte al famoso gatto che si morde la coda!
In questi termini la tecnologia dell'idrogeno risulta ancora troppo costosa e il suo rendimento complessivo ancora insoddisfacente.
E' proprio di questi giorni, comunque, l'annuncio clamoroso dato dalla GM che progetta di commercializzare auto a idrogeno entro il 2011. Se questa promessa sarà maintained this could mean quite a domino effect among all the other car!
we can do is cross our fingers and aspettare.Quale will be the future of our cars? Hard to say. What is highly likely (and I hope) is that in a few years the cars powered by petroleum derivatives are an endangered breed. To endorse my hope is the fact that in a few decades, the oil (as a source of non-renewable energy) will begin its downturn in terms of availability (I dare not think about the political and economic upheavals that this process will entail. ..) for which it will become uneconomical to use.
No one of those infused with blind faith and boundless against the inexorable progress of technology, but even I do not feel inspired by feelings of eighteenth-century Luddites memory, nor do I seem realistic for the solution of the problems that we face an environmental and generics ideological appeals of those who say "let's all go biking."
Italy holds the world record of cars per population in 2000, the latest data that I could access, there were 56 cars per 100 inhabitants and in the last 7 years there will be little things improved! Increase rail transport for large movements (especially of goods) and improve public services for the urban cycle is certainly objectives to be achieved as soon as possible to ease significantly the traffic problem, but make it immediately available and accessible non-polluting means of transport is the only possible solution to try to reverse the damage that we have produced in recent years on the air we breathe in our city!

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Price Chopper Name Change

Our Favourite Coltrane (John Coltrane)


"Jazz, ...., is a musical expression, and this music is for me an expression of the highest ideals. It calls for brotherhood, and I think with the brotherhood there would be no poverty. And the brotherhood there would be no war. "
John Coltrane

This disk does not belong, like many other albums by this musician, published in the last 30/40 years, the classic recordings of Coltrane.
Its title, in my opinion, very apt, referring to one of the cornerstones of jazz as a whole: "My favorite things", a classic of the same footage of Coltrane.
a business transaction, then, but also inherently a process with a certain cultural value that has for objective to propose a wider audience, possibly youth, listening to the best musical production of one of the biggest (for me the greatest) jazz musicians ever. And this kind
operations is particularly important as jazz, (and I mean a real fan of this genre) does not have an objectively good state of health.
are many and complex reasons for this crisis: I could cite, for example, an inadequate replacement generazionle musicians who interpret or "needs" of business that make it less attractive to record companies to promote the genre.
But these are nothing more than the fenomologia of this process: the root of the crisis, in my opinion, there are reasons "internal" to the jazz music, which historically has always been characterized as a style of music "alive" and able to continuously to innovate stylistically in relation to changing historical and social.
But first things first and make an argument a bit 'more analytical.
The history of jazz, at least in its most vital seasons, is an epic heroic and tragic at the same time, without suffering, racial discrimination, drug addiction and died young, yet steeped in happiness, joy of living, passion, spirituality, protest, riot, civil commitment and the political, social redemption, meeting of cultures and races.
Jazz, as in Europe symphonic music and opera of 700/800, was essentially "popular music" in the highest sense of the word, witness and mirror of enzymes, gusti e aspirazioni di un'epoca e di un popolo.
Nato ed evolutosi dall'incontro della tradizione afro dei neri d'America (blues, boogie, spiritual e poi rithim and blues) con la cultura musicale occidentale (nel senso della melodia, dell'armonia e dello strumentario), il jazz si caratterizza per tre elementi fondamentali:
- il tempo musicale, definito semplicemente con la parola "swing"
- la spontaneità della sua esecuzione, in cui l'improvvisazione ha un ruolo di primissimo piano
- il modo di fraseggiare e di formare il suono del tutto originali.
(Spero mi perdoneranno i cultori del jazz per questa estrema banalizzazione degli elementi principali di questo genere musicale).
All the stylistic evolution of jazz is based on mixing and the relationship of these three elements and put on different accents for each of them: the uncertain early days of ragtime, to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool down ' hard bop to free jazz, the fundamental characteristics of the bottom of the jazz style remain essentially unchanged while modifying markedly.
As with classical music at the beginning of the twentieth century, so for the jazz from the late '60s and early '70s the ties between American black people in this musical genre has gradually loosened, and perhaps permanently, and off.
Is this not the place to analyze the causes sociali e culturali di questo processo, ma in breve si può dire che si è verificato quello che i sociologi definiscono "il riflusso": giunto forse all'apice della propria evoluzione (ad un punto che molti definiscono di "non ritorno"), il jazz non ha saputo più evolversi e trovare nuovi stimoli ed innovazioni stilistiche (a meno di non considerare tali i tentativi di "fusion" che si sono alternati negli anni '70 e '80, con esiti obiettivamente "sterili"). Le nuove generazioni dei neri d'America hanno seguito nuove culture musicali: da un lato le tipiche strade del disimpegno, di cui la "disco music" degli anni ottanta è forse l'emblema musicale più significativo, dall'altro vie caratterizzate da ribellismo (se non proprio da comportamenti francamente antisociali), di cui il rap è solo una delle tante espressioni culturali.
Certo il jazz si esegue ancora, come del resto si eseguono ancora le opere e le sinfonie classiche dei musicisti del passato, ma ormai è un genere musicale del tutto slegato dai processi che percorrono la società contemporanea: come la musica classica, adesso è musica "colta", apprezzata e seguita da elites culturali europee e nordamericane.
Ci consola, rispetto agli appassionati di musica classica, il fatto che la tecnologia ci ha regalato la possibilità di poter ancora ascoltare i nostri brani preferiti direttamente eseguiti dai veri protagonastici di questa fantastica epopea.
Per chi come me, however, has had the good fortune in the 70s here in Italy to attend live concerts by artists such as Bill Evans, Cecil Taylor, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Mingus, Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Ornette Coleman (to name only the first names that come to mind), especially during the legendary "Umbria Jazz" (free concerts and traveling placed in the scenario of the most beautiful natural sites and art of this region), really crying my heart to see the day of 'now included in billboard events jazz names such as Astor Piazzola, Joan Baez, James Taylor and Burt Bacharach: for charity, artists of all respect and admire very much but have little or nothing objectively to do with jazz.
The phoenix has not been able to rise again from its ashes.
Trane (so called admirers Coltrane playing with the similarity of the word "train" like an unstoppable train that runs at full speed) is imposed on the music scene after a few years of paying dues in the minor band around the middle of 50s, during the period that is perhaps of greatest splendor of jazz, promoted to sublime completely unimaginable and leaving in a few years (he died in '67 at age of 41) and perhaps ultimately an indelible mark in the history of the genre .
Contemporary artists such as Miles, Coleman, Cherry, Taylor, Rollins, and Sheep tanti altri con molti dei quali suonò insieme in concerti ed in jam sessions, Coltrane è contemporaneo e testimone di un'America, tanto per cambiare, estremamente complessa e contraddittoria: l'America "bianca", intrisa delle paranoie maccartiste e del Khu Khux Klan, l'America degli armamenti nucleari, della guerra fredda e di quella "calda" di Corea; "l'altra" America bianca, quella della "beat generation" di Kerouac, Ginsberg e Ferlinghetti, che già preludeva ed in qualche modo anticipava la grande esplosione libertaria degli anni '60; l'America "nera", ancora sottoposta a leggi e consuetidini oggettivamente razziste, che cercava faticosamente di alzare la testa per affermare la propria dignità di uomini, dando rise to movements that would later be led by a non-violent protest in the side of Luther King, second in the revolutionary dream of Malcolm X and Black Panthers.
Jazz is the mirror of these enzymes: the experience of Cool jazz evolves into the hard aggressive musicality of modal free.Questo up to lead the drive, and this is a limit "objective" of any anthology, it can obviously give only partial account of the musical production of Coltrane.
It presents only seven performances (remember that the executions are inherently long jazz) in the case of this artist, none of which works, in my opinion, may be considered "minor" means any other selection was made at the same time would have been legitimate and arbitrary.
The songs on this album are: 1 My Favourite Things
Mr.PC
2 3 I Want To Talk About You
4 5 Naima
Stuff I'm Partial To
6 Traneing In
7 Man Made Miles
of this album I would like to show you three songs in particular because they represent symbolically as many "souls", among many, of Coltrane:
"My Favorite Things," the opening track, perhaps running Coltrane's most famous, certainly the one that has consecrated him definitively as one of the greatest jazz performers of all times. Performed for the first self-titled album of '60, this track has since been repeated in many other later albums and in almost all of the live concerts in a jazz musicista.Opportunamente upset, is inspired by a waltz that was very polite sung by Julie Andrews in the musical "The Sound of Music (remember the Italian version:" Three are the things that I like? "), and is composed primarily of long and hypnotic improvisations of his sax soprano.La choice of this instrument, which is the main instrument of Trane (who used to play the content) allows the musician to express himself clearly inspired by the musical sounds Arabic and Eastern (Indian in the first place). We can say that this piece begins with the search for the sound to Coltrane "modal", in the years to come, more openly and directly characterize his style.



The second song is "Mr.PC" album's closing track "Giant Steps" of '59, the disc of the "revelation" the song dedicated to the bassist Paul Chambers, referred to Coltrane has always had great respect and admiration (as, indeed, to dedicate a song), was described by critics "Blues supersonic." Here we find the Trane-train, amazing and unexpected notes in succession incredible, high-pitched sounds and low sounds that run with the same ease (or complexity) of a plan, the impression that at any moment to explode the saxophone.
The third song is "Naima", always from the album "Giant Steps". Here we find the so-called "gentle-side of John Coltrane" a ballad written by the same delicate and sweet and dedicated to Coltrane's Naima, the Arabic name of his first wife, in which the musical expressiveness and passion take the place of harmonic complexity.




A must-have album and enjoy: notes scream, scratch, stroke, passion. anger and spirituality magically fused into delirium, in trance music and ecstasy of a genius of jazz