Monday, April 26, 2010

Are Soft Dog Crates Easy To Destroy




... and finally I succeed. 1600 pages in 7 months.

A novel long and sometimes slow. But what has this slow and took the opportunity to penetrate inside and no more out. As a TV series, beginning not at all appreciate the cadence of the stakes, you want everything at once, then, slowly, I disorders and condescends to the rhythm ...

Everything revolves around the search for the right suitor for Lata, the youngest daughter of the family Mehra.
The first episode opens on the wedding of Savita, the eldest daughter of Mehra, fair-skinned and therefore more "sposabile" than the child.
Lata, on that special day, it shows very naive and inexperienced feelings and passions that love can turn. He derogatory views the feelings.
During the festival, wonders how her sister will get to grips with the man who had never seen and does not understand how this will not only love him, but share with him their moments, intimate, just like they do with her and her mother. ..

Pran Her husband is the eldest son of Kappor and poor, and here you could open up the individual subjects of the portraits of the family: the head of household, Manesh Kapoor, who will lead us in the nerve center of the state, as Minister of State Federal, his wife, which is never even mentioned the name, anonymous solid column of his life, his brother Maan "daredevil" boyfriend in Benares, Veena, only daughter Kapoor, wife of the Kedarnath pain that we bring with melancholy in the plays of the partition.

... but the bride's family steals the scene immediately and shows protagonist is her, "Mom," the "puppeteer" of marriage, Rupa Mehra, widow bears all the responsibility to find good "parties" for their daughters. Mom, how do you call all, try to be omnipresent, to know every detail and to dramatize as much as possible. There his father, Dr.. Kishen Chand Seth, the young married Parvati, rustic and intolerant man. There is Savita, almost disturbing to her constant calm and for its just measure everything. Is counterbalanced da suo fratello maggiore, Arun, arrogante e presuntuoso nel suo stato sociale di Sahib indiano, o come lo chiamano. Mentre l'indecisione è fatta uomo in Varun, il fratello maschio più piccolo e insicuro, ancora alla ricerca del suo domani.

E con questo si chiude la breve carrellata su alcuni dei personaggio. La possiamo allargare sulla casa dei Kapoor dove si svolge il matrimonio e poi sulla città.

Brahmpur, con il Gange, i suoi gath per la cremazione, i barcaioli, il forte e il college, i campi da cricket e il club.
Ma c'è anche Calcutta e il Bengala, con la sua propria identità. Qui risiedono i Chatterji, la famiglia della moglie di Arun Mehra, la frivola Meenakshi, con la sua risata argentina.
... and here I must express my support to them, an unusual and original family: Judge Chatterji, condescends to the character of children, including less traditional, the woman, her proper husband, the eldest son, poet, my favorite among the suitors of Lata, Amit!, but we also have a mystical, Dipankar, the second daughter, Kakoli, Tapan and small, and there is a dog, not at all pleasant.

may suffice true, but it is not. We also have family

Khan, Muslim, powerful landowners in the rural district of Rudra: Nawab of Baita Saib and his two sons, Imtiaz doctor and the lawyer Firoz, then his daughter, Zainab, who follows the lives in the house dedicated to women because it follows the purdah.

Now that we have all the pieces we can weave their stories. And there are several.

There is love Lata's impossible to Kabir Durani, a fellow Muslim college. There is the friendship between Maan and Firoz, which overcomes the problems of religious conflict is not to run aground in the turbulent events of the past said the Nawab Sahib and Saeeda Bai, the "courtly" in Maan falls in love ...
There is the "shoemaker" Haresh who legitimately become the right guy, but that first morning after the wedding seems to vanish. There's the Apple
Pula and the slaughter of innocents, there Baskar and his passion for mathematics fed Dr. Durani father Kabir on which hangs the shadow of insanity of the mother ... There is
Prahna, czech shoe factory where he works Haresh, there is the interior minister LN Agarwal and his hard-fisted policy, there is the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru down beside Manesh Kapoor during the campaign election. There
rural life and its cruel caste traditions. There is no law on Zamindari, and his controversial result.
There is a very intense and varied. Like a mirror without a cross-section of society in a particular political moment.

I can not imagine what will follow.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Community Hours Confirmed Letter

Che fine ha fatto l'architettura? Boeri, forse ti è sfuggito qualcosa?!

Fragments and Effects
de La Maddalena,

a story of good architecture




The Moralist. A figure in Italy is mocked and sometimes hated, that he forces himself to fasting healthy opportunism and selfishness, a heretic for daring to cast the first stone, however stupid because after all it is "so that all fans." Almost a profession, but respected nasty, dangerous, but supported by a culture where the sense of guilt and justice mix. A profession that everyone, more or less practice because of an education that leads to a strong evangelical responsibility of the individual. Is that all that distinguishes one country from one that works is putting the gear back!

This premise to a story without bias, as ours, which seems to bring out an Italian cross-section immersed in the sleep of reason, a moral amorality, conformism and intellectual culture of doing that smacks of culture dell’affare o dell’arraffare. La domanda di fondo che ci poniamo è: ma dove va l’Architettura e l’Architetto, la pianificazione territtoriale e l’Urbanista? Di quale economia e modello di sviluppo stiamo parlando?!

Involontario attore del racconto è l’architetto Stefano Boeri e… Se il segno dell’epoca è la confusione, io vedo alla base di tale confusione una rottura tra le cose e le parole, le idee, i segni che le rappresentano… Il teatro della vita, che non risiede in niente di specifico, ma si serve di tutti i linguaggi (gesti, suoni, parole, fuoco, grida) si ritrova esattamente al punto in cui lo spirito ha bisogno di un linguaggio per manifestarsi - words are not mine but of Antonin Artaud. ( Marseille, September 4, 1896 - Ivry, March 4, 1948. He was a playwright, actor, writer and theater director French)

Who is Stefano Boeri
architect and urban planner, teaches urban design at the Politecnico di Milano and visiting professor at Harvard's GSD - Harvard University Graduate School of Design . From 2004 to April 2007 he was director of international magazine Domus. Since September 2007, heads the International Living magazine. He is the founder of the research Multiplicity ( multiplicity.it ) with which he made in 2002, "USE Uncertain states of Europe”, una ricerca sul futuro dell’Europa. Tra i progetti di rilievo svolti con Boeri Studio: la nuova sede del Policlinico di Milano, la nuova sede di Siemens a Milano, le torri di edilizia residenziale sostenibile del quartiere Isola, la Villa a Marsiglia. Le sue riflessioni sulla sostenibilità come diverse forme di riconciliazione tra cultura urbana e natura, tradotta con l’installazione Sostenibili Distopie, sono state presentate alla 11a edizione, nel 2008, della Biennale di Architettura di Venezia.

Perché parliamo di Stefano Boeri
G8 2009 - Expo 2015, le emergenze italiane. A lui e al suo studio è affidato l’incarico di progettare la riqualificazione dell’area de La Maddalena in Sardegna sede del G8 2009. Lui, l’architetto italiano membro della Consulta architettonica che ha redatto il Conceptual Master Plan per l’Esposizione Universale di Milano del 2015.

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Bmi For Females Aged 2-20

I politici: sì alle archistar, riempiono le pagine dei giornali

Non bisogna costruire grattacieli solo perché sono espressioni di potere. In Italia non ha senso parlare di città verticali, siamo un Paese che non cresce

È un’archistar?
No! Credo che i problemi siano due: da una parte il bisogno mediatico che ha un architetto quando realizza opere that create debate, but also testifies to this part of the crisis communication. The work of surveyors is more civil these architects have the same role in many important people such as doctors or lawyers. Behind the superstars have to be people of culture, but not always the case: the mediated image and then you lose the contents. The architect is an important person, because it works within society, in culture, it is a figure that emerges. Our local superstars, Italian, have received international recognition: it shows that those who make good his work is appreciated because it marks a moment in history. But then he becomes a star mechanism because the media turns it into an object of communication glamorous, but it is part of the game, no?

Why not define un'archistar?
I do not like this trend that pushes more content on the image, it seems more interesting to talk about my work, a reference point for young people, who want to design the architecture. I feel a bit 'like a doctor who works with an open heart, but when you leave the hospital is not always photographed. My role is more normal .

About the only superstars?
Renzo Piano no doubt, a person known by all, and Massimiliano Fuksas. These architetti stanno segnando il nostro tempo, li possiamo chiamare archistar perché sono uomini di cultura.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Southmead Maternity Tours

Comi mastica fiele

In relazione alle dichiarazioni rilasciate da F. Comi al Resto del
Carlino (edizione del 31.03.2010) si inoltra il seguente
Press Release:

Comi * * chews gall

sorry to intervene on the statements, the daughters of
verbal incontinence, appalesanti impatient, angry and
inability to adopt a correct political style, those who,
reconfirmed in the Regional Council, while considering a "big"
of local politics has to deal with an election result
obviously lower than expected, which sees him ranked in the province
behind Sara Giannini, now in pole position
for a place in the county council and the city
behind Mr Francesco Massi.

As for me, without even wanting to mention that the
Massimo Rossi's candidacy and the formation of a coalition in its support
has taken place just a month before the elections and yet
Tolentino scored
among the best performances of the entire region, without wanting to mention that
the most brilliant election results are affected
to those political forces that have greater visibility in the media (which
the PD should know very well!), I prefer to call
Comi and the other candidates in a transparent operation that I consider essential for the proper assessment

their election results. Colleagues declare that they have spent on the campaign
election, if they have the courage and sincerity to do
. Then the people sort it out.

For the rest, nothing new under the sun: Comi spreading poison on
who does not take orders from him and he does before, during and after the
election campaign, confirming a real, huge disappointment for those expecting
left a representative of "height".

Anna Cimarelli