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39. Pen, ink and ink

Daniela years ago, I asked, "But what I've heard in ink in a television broadcast? "

Wow, I said to myself, how do you not know that this tool was, until 1959, the daily bread for millions of children who attended elementary schools all over the world? But Daniel was born after the '70s and this little bottle full of ink, which dipped the pen to write, he never used, as they have not used all those who entered first grade after 1960.

to declare the death of the ink (along with pen and ink pen) was the BIC .

the fantastic short ballpoint pen that was never to be dipped in ink to write, that was no longer stains when placed on paper, not dirt exercise books, hands, aprons and classmates of some mischievous child who loved to spray them with ink, was born in 1953.

was the French baron Bich to release thousands of children from the slavery of the ink. The noble French did not invent the pen, because this had already been invented in 1938 by two Hungarian brothers, Lazlo and Georg Biro who had taken refuge in Argentina during the fascist period, but he developed an industrial manufacturing process that allowed him to dramatically lower the cost of the ballpoint pen and then selling it at a price defying any competition. The BIC began to be sold across Europe since the mid 50s. Do you think that still today are sold for more than 15 million copies per day.

The children still remember the first school desk in two places at the right side of each pupil or in between, there was a hole to let the ink, a glass bottle that was filled with ink.

torture use the pen and the nib is almost always sticking, staining and puncturing the paper just written. The student, when he returned home had always the right thumb stained blue, as blue was a corner of his mouth where he supported the end of the pen while he was absorbed in deep reflection.

The gesture was to dip to write with the pen nib in the ink, then gave two taps to remove excess ink (which often would end up back in front of the pupil) and, via the paper to write what he dictated to the teacher.

The other important tool for use with the pen and ink blotter was: without the stain that was spreading and invaded half sheet. So everyone had a good supply. In desperate cases was also used as talc, an old towel and efficiently. Another was the indispensable basis of which pens for those who had the heavy hand like mine, sticking them all the time.

We scholars of "pen, ink and ink" we went to the pen without even realizing it, even if the difference between before and after it was huge. Merci Monsieur Bic!

Barbara Bertolini

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Isa: brief instructions for use in hunting wild

This post is linked to the previous " Habit horror." Today I want to explain it (to the layman, as I have already specified) which are the cornerstones of the movement Isa and, more generally, of the animal. Maybe someone will find it useful.

The Isa is a cultural and philosophical which has its roots in critical quell'antropocentrismo underlying the relationship between man and animal - as well as the relationship between man and environment - in most human societies. According to the anthropocentric approach
Nature (including the animal world) would be totally subservient to man, who may use it to your liking, tame, influencing and oppressing: speciesism attitude is deeply rooted in the human race.

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From site EticoEtica

Isa The states in the 60s, in Anglo-Saxon environment. However, it has a more distant roots: with no trouble all thinkers the past (Pythagoras, Plutarch, Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few) that deprecated the use of animals for food, just think of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832), the first proponent of a theory of rights animals.
Among the major theorists is the Australian philosopher Peter Singer songwriter Animal Liberation and Great Ape Project. According
Singer:

1) pain is always a bad thing, whatever that proves the creature;
2) the ability to feel physical pain and mental suffering are not just the human species, but of all living creatures : for this action to cause suffering in animals to avoid and condemn
3) the inherent gravity of the act must take the life regardless of species, race and sex;
4) each of us is responsible not only for what he has done, but also miss the action, which could avoid wrong and unjust.

The Isa does not condemn humanity as such, nor does it give it a unique negative feedback: the man, if he wishes, can in fact improve, abandoning their own preconceived ideas generated by the desire for progress (obtained at any cost ) habit and (not least) by determining religious beliefs.

Anyone who persists in supporting that anyone involved in animal rights you forget the more important (!) human rights would do well to remember that Isa is the closest relative of the anti-racist movement: it is a natural and logical evolution.
Not surprisingly, the personal website of Singer already mentioned, you can read the list of "things to do" to change (or at least try ...) the world in positive: 1. do something for the poorest people, 2. do something for animals, 3. do something for the environment.
Love of neighbor, compassion for animals and the environment are significantly placed at the same level of importance.
Moreover, history teaches us what might seem extravagant to their early struggles for the rights of blacks, women, ethnic minorities and social life in general at first, they were accepted by the majority hegemony with shock and disapproval - the same attitude today that reserves to the battle Isa / animals.
In fact, among the main enemies dell'antispecismo habit is the horror that I wrote a couple of days ago that made us lose the capacity for indignation and react to the injustices perpetuated against animals so as to everything that is "other" or away from us. Which is negative in many respects.
espouse the cause does not mean Isa lost behind frivolous issues, but the statement is a more evolved and far-sighted way of thinking.

Links:
• Manifesto Isa
• Personal site of Peter Singer

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No: victory! The habit

Maybe you have already read in the newspapers and on the websites of the various animal welfare organizations: the blitz hunting wild was rejected !

The vote on Monday and Tuesday it has "confirmed the ban on hunting during the breeding and migrating birds," as it is written in the press release of the LAV, who continued: "He has a sense of responsibility prevailed in Parliament and in government, who declined to extend the hunting season without some limitations and rejected a genuine deregulation hunting. [...] From the point of view of substance, the article introduces important changes in terms of nature conservation and wildlife, such as greater protection of natural habitats and the ban on hunting during the period of breeding and migration of birds.
just regret the undue concession to the doublets in the possibility of regional exception to the hunting calendar, albeit limited only to first week of February and submitted to the opinion ISPRA .

Related Items: Petition of
• LIPU against hunting wild
• Hunting: license to kill. indiscriminately.

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horror

Before you begin to tackle the topic of this post, I want to make a point: some time ago I was pointed out that Natividad provides no unreleased news for animals: "The things that write, who is already familiar with the animal. "
I'm sorry that the animals "DOC" are not appealing to my readers, but I remember that was never my intention to create a virtual newspaper for "insiders". I do not write for the animals, I am writing to all the others, to transmit basic knowledge to those who do not know (or know only in part) which and how many injustices are daily inflicted on animals. I am writing to disclose , because I feel useless and sterile any form of self-dialogue. End of explanation.

The numerous incidents of ill-treatment by shows such as "Striscia la Notizia", \u200b\u200bthe recent " Bigazzi case," the sorry spectacle of hungry stray dogs and cats and reduced pain (even in many large cities in the regions of Central South in Greece ...), the total indifference of trucks packed with animals to the slaughterhouse are just some examples of the different sensitivity with which they are considered the dignity and life of animals.

Can you see and understand his fear?

L ' horror habit is the daughter of the tendency of man (Western or "Westernized") to dominate nature (regard it as an inexhaustible source of raw materials from which to draw without restraint), to include all what he considers inferior to himself.
fact, if we portray us in the face of horror and injustice catostrofi that concerns us (our pain diminishes quickly, however, if it is distant populations or ethnic groups that somehow deem to be "underdeveloped" and potentially "dangerous"), however willingly accepted the torture inflicted on animals in the name of our prosperity.
Faced with cages full of unspeakable suffering of vivisection laboratories, to "camp" of factory farms and slaughterhouses (where cows and calves are violently dragged to his death - I remember in particular the case of Doris cow -, the chicks are crushed alive and rabbits remain suspended for hours to bleed to death) our rapidly changing parameters for evaluation: so are only animals. Their ability to feel pain in our eyes does not exist or is not relevant to the point of having to be taken into account.
The relationship of subordination "animal / man" comes from a anthropocentric conception of the universe (natural and social) and philosophical movements such as 'deep ecology el' Isa (which I'll discuss in a future article) are trying to subvert and Spotlight: beyond the cruelty (obvious) to animals, this mindset is dangerous for the man himself. The dividing line between lack of empathy towards animals and the total indifference to the fate of other human beings is thin and fragile and, if oltrapassata has led to a sterile spiral of violence and abuse. The habit
horror numbs us, inhibits our sym-pathéia , building a kind of waterproof film around our emotions.
The sense of a reference to Marguerite Youcenar I have chosen as "sentence launch" of this blog

"C the child martyrs would be less if there were fewer animals tortured, not sealed wagons carrying the victims to the death of any dictatorship, if we had not gotten used to agonizing vans where animals direct to slaughter. "

is just that. There spiritually enriching denying dignity to animals because we do not give them rights removing them from the human species. In contrast, benevolence with which a community treats its animals ("pet", "farm" ... as we usually define them with little magnanimous expression) is often a sign of moral and cultural progress. Perhaps be wrong, but I can not split the backwardness with which Italy in tackling issues such as hunting (what about the ' last amendment to Article 43 of the DDL Community ?) And the cruelty of factory farming permanent detention centers , of rejections at sea, the beatings of third country nationals, who were guilty only of being "more" than "we."
animals - it is well known - are the Other par excellence: in the past we have demonized them, turned into monsters, fought and hunted. We brought them, however, with respect, because we shared with them the difficulties of daily life.
Today, in the welfare of the consumer quickly and easily, we have ceased to fear them and began to manipulate them, without realizing that, get used to the horror and the commodification of the body (not just those of animals), we have introjected this horror, transforming it into a peculiar feature of our being.
It 's this the way that we want to go?

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38. Nell'Appenino cheese a nice Easter tradition

The egg, symbol of rebirth, is the pivot on which wheel one of the oldest traditions on Easter Emilian mountains.

" scussin E" (from the verb scusser , ie crashing) was practiced in almost all the villages on Monday.

A charge of the place he bought scores of 5-6 eggs and cooked color: green used for both the grass and nettle tout court; employed for the red, however, the dye itself. Where there was competition, the decoration could be more refined.

These eggs were sold in the town square. The game, and fun, was to beat your egg against that of an opponent. Who won the egg had been able to rival that of the first to break, so the person who had caught the egg harder, but he knew also use a special technique to crush competitors.

participated in this game everyone: men, women and children. The overall winner was the one who left with an egg, could raise as much as possible, because the egg "coconut" became his.

tells Mrs. Armentini that his record was seven eggs before being defeated by a much harder than her!

A tradition so friendly, nice, simple and cheap that continues today in the mountain villages as Castelnuovo Monti, Carpineti or Marola.

Barbara Bertolini