BEIRUT ARAB SPRING (WITH ALL HIS SE)
front of the hostel where I stationed these days there is a skeleton of the house, half of which shows off the scars of various wars that do not even remember the name. Metal cables that run away from the concrete without a precise figure delineates the boundaries of the building. The other half, that remained habitable, the house is a funny old Lebanese mustache caricatures, which lives with her grandson.
Together, they repainted the walls, put some flowers at the door and the fake windows designed by bright tones which restore a soul to the rectangle of cement paste.
"Habibi, this city breathes the future. And 'tired of the past, and our own way and with our time we're leaving," he told me a couple of mornings ago and offered me a cup of tea, smiling cheerfully.
Initially I did not know whether to believe, especially for reasons of timing: in the two days preceding the main city of Lebanon (Beirut included) had dealt with riots and demonstrations, and the streets still hovered over the strong smell of burnt tires and anger.
The new prime minister - newly appointed - did not meet the Christian wing of the parliament, but unlike what the Western media reported chauvinistic (even the Italian ones, with little professional translation copy and paste from the U.S. agency launches) was not even a man of Hezbollah. Najib Mikati is indeed perhaps the best possible mediation between the interests of the various parts of a country undeniably divided, but in search of compromise.
And if today I were to respond to the nice old man mustache, I'd say that certainly we breathe today in Beirut are infinite particles of "If." How to secretly invisible threads that connect the whole city, the thousands of this country if they create a plot complex evolutions.
If in fact the government will be adequately split the Lebanese population, perhaps the country will fall into chaos, as here the disorder is a form of protest canonized.
If the United States, Iran and Israel have accepted the popular legitimacy of a state that basically does not require that the freedom of self-determination (may not like, but Hezbollah has for days using constitutional methods to balance the power, and while urging a peaceful transition in condemning the riots), maybe I'll keep you updated in the coming months on my newborn beiruttina life.
If the maintenance of a status quo relatively quiet (relatively, because here the adrenaline is part of everyday life: since I arrived I was forbidden to visit the Islamic part of town, and now speaks more frequently with the embassy with my own) will allow me to do My part in the rebirth of Alpha - the Lebanese NGO with which I am now working - the experience has the potential to emerge as one of the most stimulating and enriching ever had.
If, if, if. Lebanon is the land of uncertainty, the Lebanese people improvisation.
used to walking on rickety bridges in their present, do not care about nothing more than to live as fully as possible, and this makes it very lively and active Beirut, the capital of 'hic et nunc .
A city to fall in love madly, without denying or ignoring all his faults that if the wind blows around the streets.
Rudyard Kipling, son of the settler convinced that his time but with pen in hand, we could certainly do, if he had understood the dangers and opportunities, dedicated to the most intriguing of the conjunctions a powerful poem. That, on the sidelines of this post, I give you to feel closer to my Middle East.
Big hugs repainted,
Tommy
IF - Rudyard Kipling
If you can not lose your head when all
the lost around you, dandotene blame;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but
Whereas for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
if maligned, not waste time on lies, or if
, hated, do not you take hate,
not look too good or too wise
If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
if you can meet with success and failure
treat those two impostors just the same
If you can hear the truth you express
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch
down the things you gave your life
and stoop to put them back together with a fallback means;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all in one go head-and-cross,
to lose and start all over again,
never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and muscle, although
exhausted for some time, to serve your turn,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
except that you will repeat: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your honesty,
Or walk with kings without forgetting that after all are men,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
if you can a riempire l'attimo inesorabile
e a dar valore ad ognuno dei suoi sessanta secondi,
il mondo sarà tuo allora, con quanto contiene,
e - quel che più conta, tu sarai un Uomo, figlio mio!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Mucus 2 Days Before Af
Stair crawler details
The stair crawler is used in a very simple and quick. Is in fact related to the structure of the stair lift track with the carriage of the disabled or wheelchair.
The process ensures maximum safety for the disabled and a moderate speed to go up and down stairs. They can be increased or decreased 15 steps in less than 1 minute.
The stair crawler can be used in all types of stairs, external stairs and internal stairs and the lightness of everything, combined with the small size, can carry it in the car, even in cars with small engines.
In this manner the lift crawler is an excellent tool that can also be used outside of private property.
STAIR LIFT PRICES OF TRACK
The prices are quite content and able to be fully funded.
Starting from a minimum grant of € 80 per month.
Our consultant will be able to concern himself with all matters relating to the documents required for financing.
FOR MORE INFORMATION STAIR LIFT ON TRACK
For more information and details and to provide information on the retailer to Track Stairlift closer to home see the section stairlift, track sales the site www. aids-to-disabili.it
Stair crawler |
The process ensures maximum safety for the disabled and a moderate speed to go up and down stairs. They can be increased or decreased 15 steps in less than 1 minute.
The stair crawler can be used in all types of stairs, external stairs and internal stairs and the lightness of everything, combined with the small size, can carry it in the car, even in cars with small engines.
In this manner the lift crawler is an excellent tool that can also be used outside of private property.
STAIR LIFT PRICES OF TRACK
The prices are quite content and able to be fully funded.
Starting from a minimum grant of € 80 per month.
Our consultant will be able to concern himself with all matters relating to the documents required for financing.
FOR MORE INFORMATION STAIR LIFT ON TRACK
For more information and details and to provide information on the retailer to Track Stairlift closer to home see the section stairlift, track sales the site www. aids-to-disabili.it
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Inspector Garbget Hentia
Classic Kitchens sales by emotion Tregima
Source: classic kitchens Tregima
Source: classic kitchens Tregima
Memories mingle in the scent of the built in masonry, wood, or who sees the country style lord it with the structure of a classic cuisine that is solid and strong: a history of furniture that comes from afar, that found in classic kitchens , able to dress both urban apartments magnificent villas in the countryside.
Authenticity at the cost of a return to naturalness (see the derivations in rustic kitchens in poor art) or baroque Liberty, Imperial, overflowing all the finishing details that go from the top drawer of the oven woodwork! And yet
Authenticity at the cost of a return to naturalness (see the derivations in rustic kitchens in poor art) or baroque Liberty, Imperial, overflowing all the finishing details that go from the top drawer of the oven woodwork! And yet
shelves, cupboards and beliefs that are restored and returned to live permanently as if by magic in our kitchen! Yet
return to the classic certainly does not mean a return to conditions of life pre-electricity: you will have your perfect and stable places on appliances classic wooden furniture or set like jewels that you do not see the modern structure of the kitchen.
Even hoods blend perfectly in this kitchen classic and will continue to draw smoke and odors, without altering the aesthetic line of your space, space that you've chosen to take a dip in the past, but remain contemporary .
Think of the taste that communicates with a kitchen classic furniture: imagine the grain of cherry wood, antiqued or painted, blending kitchen tops maybe marble or granite to report in today's life the pleasure of the tradition that we relive our memories, makes us rethink our grandmothers busy preparing breakfast one thousand and shouting "It's late, come or not?".
The provisions are the current fashions and trends, not only linear but at an angle, or living and open space, with vanity units and sinks ultrafunzionali and ultra modern!
For more information:
TREGIMA MOBILE
Web Site: www.tregima.it
Think of the taste that communicates with a kitchen classic furniture: imagine the grain of cherry wood, antiqued or painted, blending kitchen tops maybe marble or granite to report in today's life the pleasure of the tradition that we relive our memories, makes us rethink our grandmothers busy preparing breakfast one thousand and shouting "It's late, come or not?".
The provisions are the current fashions and trends, not only linear but at an angle, or living and open space, with vanity units and sinks ultrafunzionali and ultra modern!
For more information:
TREGIMA MOBILE
Web Site: www.tregima.it
Friday, January 21, 2011
Writing A Letter Of Community Service
The Valentine's Day deserves to be remembered as a special day beyond what it is. .. Board a very interesting time, I'll give Elation, the leading site in Italy with regard to the emotions and the gift gift ideas for him and for her.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
A Humorous Complaint Towards Insurance
DADA-Inshallah
L'illogicità sta solo nell'apparenza. Ma inganna lo stesso.
Once upon a time, c'era un paese che i nostri nonni ricordano ancora come la Svizzera del Medioriente. Rarità geomorfologica per l'area, vantava delle belle montagne cosparse di infinite file di cedri proprio a ridosso di una linea costiera di ininterrotte acque cristalline.
green and blue, yellow in the dryness of the desert east of rock and sand.
For reasons too lengthy and complicated to summarize, this country is facing fifteen years of the most dirty and bloody of all wars, one between brothers.
Prince of oxymorons, the civil war.
cedar today there are unfortunately few, but the waters are swimming away from the mined areas of the South, while surviving high tensions and suspicions.
When I crossed the country this summer, a persistent feeling of alienation accompanied my every step: an almost Dadaist, who rejected the logic of principle, hovered in the dark corners of the earth where he was born the first alphabet.
Today, less than five months away, the logic is reversed again, before denying corrupt. The government has fallen for three days, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (appointed by the UN in 2007 to investigate the murder of Lebanese President Rafiq Hariri occurred in 2005) will publish tomorrow the official's indictment.
almost certainly will point 'the finger on the group responsible for this downfall of the government, the famous Party of God known as Hezbollah. Which is defended and argued that any accusation is nothing but a sophisticated American-Israeli plot to strike him to death.
short, a vibrant cauldron of bitterness and resentment, ready to create the most diverse scenarios in the short term. Certainly not a usual situation in which enter the scene: from the perspective of the theater, I can not complain.
For now, the minimum margins of safety to undertake an internship I have been guaranteed - for these words can make sense right now-So unless some big surprises me embark Tuesday 'to Riga, and from there to Beirut (mysteries of the airways, not what you do to save one hundred euro).
Assuming that Lebanon does not jump into the air before, we'll spend at least four months.
Assuming that I rimpatrino just got off the plane, I get full of dreams and energy.
Transylvania me it regenerated, stimulated thoughts and hopes, filled the eyes of landscapes and colors. The team capodannino worked great, and no one was indifferent to a surprising Romania and the even more surprising warmth of its people (who, perhaps rightly, are considered descendants of the Dacians that of the Romans, then the Latin character).
The follies of the communist Ceausescu impress in the capital (to build the Parliament Palace, now the largest civil building in the world, was razed to the ground one-sixth of the city), small flocks of friendly stray dogs wander the boulevards and large parks in their winter splendor at odds with the bohemian squalor of the old town.
The Carpathians instead keep their promises of a century Gothic literature and film: the dark charm of fir, the painted monasteries (wonderful to Snagov, where is the tomb of the historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes the Impaler) Austro-Hungarian-style mountain towns and sharp peaks of the castles perched on hills whitened can not fail to create such expectations will soon adopt a series of garlic (we had found one in the entire Transylvania ..). Particularly fascinating the fortified town of Sighisoara (nice and treated to look like the set of a film, but enough decadent to keep his soul) and the time gap made Viscri (Saxon village where horse-drawn carriage movement, sleep heated by wood stoves also to minus 20 degrees and you can enjoy the impressive fortified church was built seven hundred years ago to defend the town from the frequent Turkish invasions).
And then the student nightlife in Cluj-Napoca, cuisine which is enhanced in soups and cheeses, the satisfaction of starting the 2011 gypsy dance music in a smoky underground room.
adventure to remember, to frame a new year.
If this should be so 2011 is shaping up as a Dadaist, the only way to misurarvisi is what teaches us most people in the country in the Middle East Dada was born there: look up, deep breath, an audible and decided Inshallah.
And so, ready to jump into the fray.
Dada Big hugs and best wishes, mes amis
Tommy
L'illogicità sta solo nell'apparenza. Ma inganna lo stesso.
Once upon a time, c'era un paese che i nostri nonni ricordano ancora come la Svizzera del Medioriente. Rarità geomorfologica per l'area, vantava delle belle montagne cosparse di infinite file di cedri proprio a ridosso di una linea costiera di ininterrotte acque cristalline.
green and blue, yellow in the dryness of the desert east of rock and sand.
For reasons too lengthy and complicated to summarize, this country is facing fifteen years of the most dirty and bloody of all wars, one between brothers.
Prince of oxymorons, the civil war.
cedar today there are unfortunately few, but the waters are swimming away from the mined areas of the South, while surviving high tensions and suspicions.
When I crossed the country this summer, a persistent feeling of alienation accompanied my every step: an almost Dadaist, who rejected the logic of principle, hovered in the dark corners of the earth where he was born the first alphabet.
Today, less than five months away, the logic is reversed again, before denying corrupt. The government has fallen for three days, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (appointed by the UN in 2007 to investigate the murder of Lebanese President Rafiq Hariri occurred in 2005) will publish tomorrow the official's indictment.
almost certainly will point 'the finger on the group responsible for this downfall of the government, the famous Party of God known as Hezbollah. Which is defended and argued that any accusation is nothing but a sophisticated American-Israeli plot to strike him to death.
short, a vibrant cauldron of bitterness and resentment, ready to create the most diverse scenarios in the short term. Certainly not a usual situation in which enter the scene: from the perspective of the theater, I can not complain.
For now, the minimum margins of safety to undertake an internship I have been guaranteed - for these words can make sense right now-So unless some big surprises me embark Tuesday 'to Riga, and from there to Beirut (mysteries of the airways, not what you do to save one hundred euro).
Assuming that Lebanon does not jump into the air before, we'll spend at least four months.
Assuming that I rimpatrino just got off the plane, I get full of dreams and energy.
Transylvania me it regenerated, stimulated thoughts and hopes, filled the eyes of landscapes and colors. The team capodannino worked great, and no one was indifferent to a surprising Romania and the even more surprising warmth of its people (who, perhaps rightly, are considered descendants of the Dacians that of the Romans, then the Latin character).
The follies of the communist Ceausescu impress in the capital (to build the Parliament Palace, now the largest civil building in the world, was razed to the ground one-sixth of the city), small flocks of friendly stray dogs wander the boulevards and large parks in their winter splendor at odds with the bohemian squalor of the old town.
The Carpathians instead keep their promises of a century Gothic literature and film: the dark charm of fir, the painted monasteries (wonderful to Snagov, where is the tomb of the historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes the Impaler) Austro-Hungarian-style mountain towns and sharp peaks of the castles perched on hills whitened can not fail to create such expectations will soon adopt a series of garlic (we had found one in the entire Transylvania ..). Particularly fascinating the fortified town of Sighisoara (nice and treated to look like the set of a film, but enough decadent to keep his soul) and the time gap made Viscri (Saxon village where horse-drawn carriage movement, sleep heated by wood stoves also to minus 20 degrees and you can enjoy the impressive fortified church was built seven hundred years ago to defend the town from the frequent Turkish invasions).
And then the student nightlife in Cluj-Napoca, cuisine which is enhanced in soups and cheeses, the satisfaction of starting the 2011 gypsy dance music in a smoky underground room.
adventure to remember, to frame a new year.
If this should be so 2011 is shaping up as a Dadaist, the only way to misurarvisi is what teaches us most people in the country in the Middle East Dada was born there: look up, deep breath, an audible and decided Inshallah.
And so, ready to jump into the fray.
Dada Big hugs and best wishes, mes amis
Tommy
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