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December 08, 2009

Dogs in the City, aka Urban Dogs

I've spent a few days early October 2009in Sanremo and Nice on the coast,
and recorded what is just a little number of the dogs I've seen all around the
streets !
Looks like there would be 1 dog per 30 inhabitants or so...

Music: Ricky North, The Entertainer, Cascades.
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December 07, 2009

Copenhagen Summit, the Biggest Deal


Climate change global editorial
on
56 newspaper front pages,

from
45 countries,

in 20 different languages.

"'Fourteen days to seal
history's judgment
on this generation"


* The Project
*
Global Guardian's editorial


"Newspapers have never done anything like this before - but they have never
had
to cover a story like this before." (Alan Rusbridger, Guardian editor-in-chief).
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- ASIA: 16 PAPERS/13 COUNTRIES and REGIONS

Economic Observer, China Chinese, Southern Metropolitan, China Chinese,

CommonWealth Magazine, Taiwan English, Joongang Ilbo, South Korea

Korean, Tuoitre, Vietnam Vietnamese, Brunei Times, Brunei English,

Jakarta Globe, Indonesia English, Cambodia Daily, Cambodia English,

The Hindu, India English, The Daily Star, Bangladesh English, The News,

Pakistan English, Daily Times, Pakistan English, Gulf News, Dubai English,

An Nahar, Lebanon Arabic, Gulf Times, Qatar English, Maariv, Israel Hebrew.

- EUROPE – 20 PAPERS/17 COUNTRIES

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany German, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland Polish,

Der Standard, Austria German, Delo, Slovenia Slovene, Vecer, Slovenia

Slovene, Dagbladet Information, Denmark Danish, Politiken, Denmark

Danish, Dagbladet, Norway Norwegian, The Guardian, UK English,

Le Monde, France French, Libération, France French, La Repubblica, Italy

Italian, El Pais, Spain Spanish, De Volkskrant, Netherlands Dutch,

Kathimerini, Greece Greek, Publico, Portugal Portuguese, Hurriyet, Turkey

Turkish, Novaya Gazeta, Russia Russian, Irish Times, Ireland English,

Le Temps, Switzerland French.

- AFRICA - 11 PAPERS/8 COUNTRIES

The Star, Kenya English, Daily Monitor, Uganda English, The New Vision,

Uganda English, Zimbabwe Independent, Zimbabwe English, The New Times,

Rwanda English, The Citizen, Tanzania English, Al Shorouk, Egypt Arabic,

Botswana Guardian, Botswana English, Mail & Guardian, South Africa

English, Business Day, South Africa English, Cape Argus, South Africa

English.

- NORTH and CENTRAL AMERICA - 6 PAPERS/5 COUNTRIES

Toronto Star, Canada English, Miami Herald, USA English, El Nuevo Herald,

USA Spanish, Jamaica Observer, Jamaica English, La Brujula Semanal,

Nicaragua Spanish, El Universal, Mexico Spanish.

- SOUTH AMERICA – 3 PAPERS/2 COUNTRIES

Zero Hora, Brazil Portuguese, Diario Catarinense, Brazil Portuguese,

Diario Clarin, Argentina Spanish.

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- and G@ttoGialloNews, (Europe #57)...

with his personal message to Copenhagen :
"Turn the gas taps off, this time" !

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November 30, 2009

In the middle of a stupid controversy about minarets...

... spreading from Switzerland.
Well, let's have a look instead to the good side,
the wonderful Paris Great
Mosque - minaret included - and, a few steps away, to the Arab World
Institute...
[Check this video podcast in 2 parts, forecasted by The Guardian].


(oclandestin)

The Grand Mosque of Paris is an old idea from the time of the colonial France.
Since 1533 - at the time of King Francois I and Caliph Suleiman the Magnificent,
they wanted to build a mosque in Paris for Muslim people.
It's a long story and you had to wait until 1917, when they created an association
in Algiers - at that time Algeria was part of the French territory.
They started to build it in 1922, and it was opened in 1926, so it's an old mosque,
more than 80 years old, and it's a bit of a symbol of French Islam (more).


(oclandestin)

The Institut du Monde Arabe is a centre for Arabic arts and culture.
The building was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and intended to be
a dialogue between cultures. It reflects a modern interpretation of traditional
Islamic art and architecture
(more).

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November 28, 2009

Who's on Le Mur on October 28th...

Don't ask, here he is :



RCF1 is # 60 on the wall story.
(on MySpace)


In the meantime, Zoo Project is suggestively spreading his work
in my fief walls,
as well as in Flickr pages.
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November 27, 2009

Hard times for the Berlufioso...

... as the Cosa Nostra's "pentiti" decided to break the silence.



La Repubblica > Mafia, perchè i pentiti accusano Berlusconi
... Nella convinzione di essere stata venduta dopo le trattative degli anni Novanta, la cosca di
Brancaccio ha deciso di aggredire - in pubblico e servendosi di un processo - chi non ha
mantenuto gli impegni.

... La campana suona per Silvio Berlusconi perché è evidente che il 4 dicembre, quando Gaspare
Spatuzza, mafioso di Brancaccio, testimonierà nel processo di appello contro Marcello Dell'Utri,
avrà inizio la resa dei conti della famiglia dei fratelli Graviano contro il capo del governo.
... Berlusconi ha paura perchè quegli uomini non conoscono soltanto la verità sulle stragi (del
1993), ma soprattutto le origini oscure della sua avventura imprenditoriale...

(more)...
BBC News > Mafia trial judges quizz Berlusconi
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared before judges on Tuesday in the trial
of a close associate (Mr
Dell'Utri) accused of Mafia money-laundering.
... Judges suspect that money used to create the firms might have come from Mafia sources
via Mr Dell'Utri, although Fininvest insists it can account for all the cash.
... Most of the evidence against Mr Dell'Utri comes from Mafia informants.
(more)...
TIMES online > Berlusconi faces new bribery trial hearing
A trial in which Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, is accused of paying a $600,000
bribe to David Mills, his former British tax adviser, will resume next week.

... (But) Mr Berlusconi is more alarmed by another hearing, also to be held next Friday. at which
Marcello Dell’Utri is appealing against a nine-year sentence for “Mafia association”.
(more)...
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The Berlufioso according to :
Enzo Biagi, Marco Travaglio, Sabina and
Corrado Guzzanti, Daniele Luttazzi, Piero Ricca and neurologist-analist
Mauro Mancia...


(Konserva June 2009)
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November 25, 2009

Great> TwitterVision> Tweets in Real Time !

A still attractive oldie...
(click)

And...

- G@tto isn't dead
- G@tto isn't so lazy
- G@tto has more than 100 followers
- G@tto isn't a loud mouth
nor a G@ttobot

And that's all folks - G@tto is busy now with some sushis.
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November 21, 2009

Now, you just follow G@tto on La Pigna Hill...

in Sanremo, Italy.

When in Sanremo, if you ever go there, you'll see this map near the gates leading up
the hill.

Here are two recommended routes :

- the red one :
1 Palazzo Borea d'Olmo, 2 Chiesa Santo Stefano, 3 Piazza Nota & Palazzo del Commissario,
4 Porta Santo Stefano & i Vailai, 5 Porta Bugiarda & Porta del Roglio, 6 Via Rivolte, 7 Oratorio
San Costanzo,
8 Giardini Regina Elena, 9 Santuario Madonna della Costa.
- and the blue one :
1 Chiesa Concattedrale Collegiata San Siro, 2 Piazza San Siro, 3 Le Canoniche, 4 Torre Ciapèla,
5 Porta Montù, 6 Palazzo Manara, 7 Porta Palma, 8 Chiesa San Giuseppe, 9 Porta San Giuseppe
& Via dei Mille,
10 Piazza della Cisterna, 11 Porte Santa Maria, 12 Piazza del Capitolo, 13 Chiesa
Santa Brigida,
14 Piazza dei Dolori, 15 Oratorio San Sebastiano
.




This is a tough slideshow, so put on your most comfortable virtual shoes and
watch your steps because this is a long way up and down a steep hill.

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Strangely, YouTube offers very little on La Pigna medieval area...


[repez]
This video was made by a class of the local Cassini high school.
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November 19, 2009

Great Tour on a Great Wall...


US President in Asia
Special Report



Libération relates
the American Press
reactions...

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
Washington Post


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November 13, 2009

The sexual behaviour of...

... SPIDERS (and many other creatures) following
Mrs Isabella Rossellini's latest "observations".


(Manchestercrazzy0512)

and so on with
fly,
bee, firefly, praying mantis, dragonfly, snail and earthworm...

Mrs Rossellini's
Green Porno is a series of experimental short films on animal
sexual behaviour.


The series began
in 2008 with the mating habits of insects and was aired
on
The Sundance Channel which, from April, broadcasts the second season
focusing
on the sex lives of marine animals :
shrimp, squid, barnacle, limpet, elephant seal, starfish and right whale.

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November 09, 2009

Der Fall der Berliner Mauer

20 years ago, the Wall collapsed and History took off.







*



(rosaryfilms)


(
turnbeutelvergesserB)

Now, is a planet with no walls possible ? and when ?

The walls anti-migration are specific of the XI century. They have emerged in recent
years and are intended to
ward off the fear of others. (more/fr).

*
Another 1989 historic event :

Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the WEB was
a new way of using the Internet to store text, images,
sound and video... but
just two years later, it was
hailing the web as a roaring success.
This year marks
the 40th anniversary of the technologies that
led to
the Internet.

*
... and your faithful G@tto is now on the TwitterBerlinWall !

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November 06, 2009

Feline Fashion on Le Mur Oberkampf...


Nov. 05th - # 59 - by CHATNOIR 1980.

Sorry, I couldn't find a possible "chatnoir 1980" on the web...
This one exists, anymay.
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November 03, 2009

In Memoriam - C. Lévy-Strauss

Claude Lévy-Strauss
(Brussels 1908/Paris 2009).
The father of modern anthropology.





(europeimages)
Return to the Amazon.

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October 31, 2009

Back on La Pigna hill in Sanremo...

I've already reported a first visit up to the Sanremo ancient area in
a previous post
. I was recently back there and up the hill to enjoy
its particular atmosphere and take a closer look to the huge fig trees
that thrust their roots into the crevices of that rocky ground.


The Ficus macrophilla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig is a
large
evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family, subsection of the
Malvantherae.



Its specific epithet macrophylla is derived from the ancient Greek makro
(large) and phyllon (leaf) and refers to the size of the leaves.






The characteristic "melting" appearance of the Ficus macrophylla is due
to its habit of dropping aerial roots from its branches which on reaching
the ground thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the
great weight of its crown.



The trunk can be massive, with thick, prominent structure and a rough
grey-brown bark.
Some trees can reach heights of 60 m.


Currently the tallest Moreton Bay Fig (49 m) is found near Egg Rock, in
Queensland, Australia, but even Europe exhibits some sizeable
naturalized specimen.
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(More on > Wikipedia).

October 28, 2009

Female Nephila komaci, the hugest webweaving spider.

The Nephila komaci can be found in Madagascar and South Africa.
They can be up to three feet (one meter) wide and are a member
of
the orbweaving spiders' group.

"In the PLoS ONE paper, Kuntner and Coddington described Nephila komaci
as a new species, now the largest web-spinning species known, and placed
it on the evolutionary tree of
Nephila". (EurekAlert)


(Photos M. Kuntner)
1) a giant golden orb-web exceeding 1 meter in diameter:
Nephila inaurata,
Rodrigues, Indian Ocean.

2) extreme sexual size dimorphism in Nephila spiders: Small male and large
female,
Nephila pilipes, Singapore.
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Jumping now to another site, EarthTouch, for a beautiful video, taken early
in the morning, when the sun rays make the web's threads shine like gold,
which explains the spider's name.

Golden orb-web spider - Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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* Previous post on Golden orb spider.

October 27, 2009

Rampini the ChIndian

A brilliant journalist and writer I discovered reading "The ChIndia Empire".

Listen to March 2007 CDT interview here (en).



EuroTopics > Federico Rampini, 10 articles cited in the European Press
Review.


At Harry Kreisler's "Conversations with history".


(UCtelevision)


Born in Genoa in 1956, Federico Rampini has been a student of the liberal French
sociologist Raymond Aron at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris
and of the economist Mario Monti at the Bocconi University in Milan.

As a journalist, he first worked for "Città Futura" in 1977, the weekly magazine of the
FGEI, when the general secretary was Massimo D'Alema and for weekly "Rinascita"
in 1979, the PCI weekly of Enrico Berlinguer.

Federico Rampini is a columnist, correspondent and editor for European affairs of La
Repubblica,
since 1997.
He is a consultant at Institut Français des Relations internationales, member of the
Scientific board of the journal Critique Internationale, published in Paris by the Fondation
Nationale des Sciences Politiques and member the Italian magazine of geopolitics Limes.

He also contributed as a columnist to Le Figaro, L'Express, Politique étrangère, in France.
(more).
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Bibliography...

October 24, 2009

Which future for our planet ?


(click)

Tens of thousands of climate change activists have been out in force
all over the world to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming.



As many as 4,000 protests have been taking place in 170
countries
around the globe to mark World Climate Day.

The coordinated campaign was designed to highlight ecological
concerns in the run-up to the international climate conference
to be held in Copenhagen next month.


(Ultimatum-climatique)



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