Thursday, February 25, 2010

Nadine Jansen Straming

an Oscar for the red house for the future of Inuit art or craft


"Every time I see an Inukshuk Arctic, the Inuit know you were here before me for many, many thousands of years, and survived by hunting and fishing."

good fight. The points, with these words, Peter Irniq , professor of Inuit culture in Ottawa. Fight difficult to survive, which today has become even more uphill.

An Inukshuk, figure made with stones that the people of Arctic Canada served as a milestone, or to report a direction, has become popular in these Winter Olympics, which chose her as their symbol. These are the same Olympics in which a boy of twenty-one died falling from a sledge, and the next morning they called "guilty" because the show went on, after the necessary adjustments to a track that was a danger only to look at. Another story, bad story.

Inuit. They also have a bad history. Alcohol, despair, lack of future. A Tasillaq on the island of Angmassalik, Greenland, the beer flows freely on Saturday afternoon. Alcoholism is a scourge, for this ancient people that now, throughout the vast island, has a population of 56 thousand souls. And even suicide. Knows Robert Peroni, Bolzano, once a scout in those lands, which now has stopped. "Sometimes in a village of hundred people you count six or seven suicides in one year, all young people between 18 and 20 years. If these levels are interested in a big city, it would be a social emergency."

Peroni does not just observe. Fa Tasillaq invented "Red House" , the Red House where he began to save the Inuit. Especially young people, scattered and without a future, because of hunting and fishing, to which they lived their fathers, can no longer live, not even there. A service center. "But you could not live on welfare alone. We had to go further, offering an economic perspective" . From home office, the Red House has become a guesthouse for tourists, followed by the Inuit themselves during their excursions. Robert Peroni has chosen this path in order to keep these people in his environment, and give hope for the future. One way to go. That of a responsible tourism in which these people can still feel in control of their destiny in their homeland.

is not a story from Olympics and basically not even an Italian story. It 's the story of an Italian that the Olympics have, side, back in the spotlight. Also, thanks to an Inukshuk. At its millennial history.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Wording For Engagement Card

grumpy


In my craft or sullen art practiced in the silence of the night
when only the moon rages
and lovers lie in bed
with all their sorrows in the arms,

I labored in a light that sings
not for ambition or bread
or struts and charm
sell ivory on the stage, but the town
salary
their innermost heart.

not for the superb s'apparta
that the raging moon I write on these pages
foam
or for the towering dead with their
their nightingales and psalms, but
lovers,
arms around the anxieties of the ages,
who pay no praise or wages
and do not care about my craft or art

Dylan Thomas Marlais
1914 -1953


Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ubrides I Bought From

A year without Bulgarian


Mark Taron


She was seventeen, and a talent to Serie A. And Civ, aka Gianfranco Civolani, which has seen all the calcium rossoblù the war, I immediately noticed the boy "so and so Fighine Bravin. One way that he could have it, if only he had done in a hurry to understand the world. Giacomo Bulgarelli made in frettissima. Weaning lasted an amen, and the rest was history. No one could tell it like Civ better these days, a full year after the farewell to the world of this huge flag of Bologna yesterday, today, as always. Yes, it's exactly a year that Bulgarian has left us, on tiptoe, in pain and pride, in his own way. To say that we are lacking is an understatement. We miss what was before and after the football field, we lack the championship last symbol of the epic rossoblù and voice gentle and quirky commented on the football on TV with an unrivaled knowledge. We miss the man, because the sample is delivered to the legend.

the books, too. Like this "Mr Jack" , coming out for the types of Minerva Editions, now in fact the publisher rossoblù. Civolani him precious colorful anecdotes, those of an era in which " with the players they were able to really be friends, to talk about football and of life, without filters. I do not know if better or worse time, however, a different era. " And with a long "impossible interview" to those to which we had the Civil pleasantly accustomed several years ago, the columns of Guerino. "I made two weeks ago and said it sounds strange. The fact is that I do not know if Jack is "above", as they say, whether right, left, front or rear. I know that we are talking about and he is always here. "

A book to remember, to feel emotion, to be moved. What about a soccer player who was able to take discrete samples in life. Of a man who believed in the band, in real passion for his city and the team that represented, to the point of denying the North squad. Explaining the "great refusal" to AC Milan and friend of Rocco Rivera in simple and sweet. "My wife Carla said, and there we go to Milan, we are fine here. was right. " Other times, other stories, other humanity.

A book for James is also a helping hand to others. He reminded the presentation yesterday, before the children of the sample Anna and Andrew, and fellow Scudetto Pavinato and Perani, the President of Bologna Francesca Menarini. "The memory is also carried out by the Association which bears his name together contribute, even with this work, to raise funds for the project Goals, to build a pediatric hospital operating room Gozzadini ". A year later, the Honourable Jack lives. In our hearts, in our actions. He is right on Civ: It's never gone away.


(The Information, February 11, 2010)

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Morrowind Goty Deutsch Nocd

Goodbye, Ballero


One of the news that they cut off his legs. You do not expect that you would not want to hear. That make you realize how thin the thread that keeps you tied to earthly things, and how ironic fate. Franco Ballerini if \u200b\u200b I went early in the morning, a day with no commitments that he was having fun to grow one of his great passions. The rally, which has betrayed him around a bend cursed.

E 'was a talent in racing, and an intelligent man out. Just leaning the bike, with memories still fresh of two wins in the Roubaix legend, he immersed himself in the job of national coach transportation, and capacity outside the norm. The numbers in these cases are clear: from 2001 to 2009, under his leadership, arrived four world titles and an Olympic Games. On three occasions (2006 and 2007 World Championships, Olympic Games Athens 2004) signed by Paolo Bettini . A joint complicity, supported by a deep friendship. He had, dancers, a great ability to engage people, to make them feel important, to transmit to them his beliefs, to convince them to his cause.

And it was a person always kind, helpful, very gracefully. One of the past, in this respect. The right man to take up the legacy of another great Tuscan Alfredo Martini, who continued to accompany him and treated him like a son, as a family.

Without Ballero, everything is much more empty. Cycling, Sport. The death takes away another young plant, and once again comes out of time, incomprehensible.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Lightning's Hair Color?

Our one hundred rossoblù


Advertisements for Myself, I agree. And in truth, even for two friends, even before colleagues, with whom I have worked with enthusiasm to the nth publication Minerva Press. Oh, this is the fourth now, and adding the book on Steve "Pre" Prefontaine, published by AIS, are at a height of five. I have to help me calm down.

The two friends, then: are Giuliano Musi, next to whom I have worked for years in the drafting of Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, between 85 and '98, first as editorial secretary and then as a free-lance waiting to Article 1 (come on, thanks to Europress Marco Montanari and Charles Church, another story ...), and Michael Lazzari , I work side by side today in the drafting of The Information of Bologna.

together, and driven by the enthusiasm of Robert Mugavero , our publisher, we thought of a book on a century of life of Bologna. We have thought many, it is true, and in the centenary year came out extensive works, from the trilogy Charles Church and Lamberto Bertozzi team (Minerva), with a lot of encyclopedia rossoblù.

We had a different idea. The result was "100 stories for 100 years" . Agile book, almost pocket, which tells many stories as there are years of the Bologna FC 1909. Percent, course. There are anecdotes, often forgotten episodes, trivia, behind the scenes. " Starting from the beginning, from "madmen who ran after the ball" Prati di Caprara. A century that has passed through two world wars, and then inside there are tragedies, like the end of Arpad Weisz, deported to Auschwitz and then criminally forgotten, or Dino Fiorini, who had married a belief opposite He paid for his convictions. Or like that of Antaeus Zamboni, that an attempt on the life of Mussolini in the great day of the Littoriale.

But there is also smiling, reading this book. Speaking of men, passions, talents that are often from another kick, even one with its shadows, but somehow more human scale. We did not choose to voice samples, better: not only to them. There are, of course, but the catwalk also players who had less fiortuna, honest or supporting actors. We are the foundations of Bologna, and often the meteors. There is Presidentissimo, Renato Dall'Ara with a suitcase full of anecdotes, because he (not too unconsciously) know the anecdotes to create them.

There is our passion. We have our myths, which sometimes have not done the way we imagined for them. Somehow, there is also our children. My, that Giuliano and Michael. That probably is not over yet.


Side note: the Bologna and Minerva have made official the official rossoblù necklace, a way to keep alive the memory of a society that has spanned a century. "100 stories for 100 years" is the first number in the series. Which, of course, fills us with pride.