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November 17

5th Anniversary of Matthew

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In late October we had a mini cruise with your cousins.
It 'was hard to follow you "real Aunt Dani?" looked like four young sailors who ran forward and aft, forward and back without ever getting We

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Martina thinking "but this ship will remain afloat so big?"

this is our bed?

quiet if there is a rough sea I'll keep you!

always Simo you were looking for ... He was always trying
you

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Ready for the evening Gala

I wonder what you were thinking!

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Dad and Matthew landed in Venice

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on 2 October as my brother says I have a "task" 20 months! They just become a little lady! Mom says I'm beautiful but very, very smart and above all, that my head is hard as a rock, which are capricious and stubborn, but they are a solar and cuddly baby! With this little face that I find myself, let me know how to love and conquer all! Baci Baci

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October 5 ... a year ago we have become your parents!

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today Martina

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One year ago .......

Exactly one year ago Thursday, October 1, 2009 .....
The cases were almost closed, remove and replace, you have my little love in danger of being closed in your suitcase! Everything was ready, the day after we left to come and finally take! Me, Dad and your brother dying to meet you and embrace Thee ... scricciolina sweet and sly!
It 's been a year already .............!

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Giappolandia - Part 3: Food

very interesting section of this restaurant. Issue could in fact be making the decision to go to Japan considering what we hear around the Japanese cuisine: fried the fish, the fish raw, these broths ... That

fried fish, the fish raw, and all those other things are great!! The sushi
Western fashion is not just a pale imitation of the original Japanese cuisine.

But let's order. I will speak before the dishes I tasted it and then the "systems" of Japanese restaurants, some very special and interesting.


Rice: Rice is the almost inevitable element in every dish. It is important, so much so that there are shops that sell only rice. It is almost always cooked by steaming, resulting in slightly sticky for easy handling with chopsticks.

Sashimi: Raw fish filleted and served with soy sauce and turnip. The prized fatty tuna. Prepared with fresh fish (ie Tzukiji around the area where there is the fish market) is divine, it literally melts in your mouth.

Sushi: sashimi together with the balls of rice and a tocchettino (if not escape the finger to cook) Wasabi, spicy sauce. Be careful not to eat it directly (the wasabi say), the effects can be unpleasant. The sushi is delicious ' unagi, eel lightly grilled with soy sauce. My favorite dish!

Okonomiaki : the closest thing to this dish is an omelet. Can be made with fish, meat and vegetables, bound together by an egg and cooked on a hot plate at the center of the table. It literally means "the way you want kitchen." In fact you can find many restaurants where it is left to the free choice customer on how to compose the dish to taste, choosing from a wide variety of ingredients such as meat, seafood and vegetables, then dipped nell'ingrediente main, consisting of a batter of cabbage and other vegetables, thus forming a kind of pancake to be cooked on the plate. It is seasoned with a sauce for okonomiyaki and can be coated with soy sauce, mayonnaise, ao-nori (dried seaweed), fish scales and anything else to suggest your own personal taste

Soba are of brown buckwheat noodles. They are eaten hot and cold or as a soup. Particularly good (at least in my opinion) is the version -aki soba by adding a bit 'spicy, with bits of meat and other spices.

Tempura: fish or vegetables fried in batter. Served with the sauce for the tempura (do not know exactly what it is made)

Mishiru: miso soup, fermented soybean paste. The call always miso soup, but in reality there are a thousand versions of this soup always taste good and gentle but sometimes it's a bit 'way to eat what's inside.

Tea: Tea is served at any time of day, is the symbol of hospitality and has therefore a very important significance in cooking and Japanese culture. The Japanese tea is green because it generally does not undergo fermentation, it is very refreshing and thirst-quenching. It has a bitter taste and is drunk during meals, instead of water.

These are some of the dishes I tried. But we envision a little 'how the restaurant.
It starts from the fact that the Japanese hardly leave you hungry. In fact, every 2 / 3 meters is a restaurant. There are whole buildings of 8 floors of restaurants. In any mall is at least one floor dedicated to food. And is not that the mall is eating less well. The food is good everywhere. But sometimes you can eat better. But the lower limit is more than satisfactory.
Details of the various restaurants is monotematicità: single restaurant specializes in one type of food and nothing else. You must first decide what you eat. Side effect is if you go to dinner with friends and two people want different dishes. For the choice of eating
Just take a stroll in a floor of a shopping center. Out of the individual restaurants, there is a supper table plates (plastic or wax) that show what you can find inside. Although made of plastic sometimes look very appetizing.

come in and pick the dish you will be greeted by a thunderous "Irasshaimase" (Welcome). They make you sit and you are now tea-towel rods and hot sterilized to wash your hands (I think that feeling in the winter must be beautiful:))
The rest works like all the restaurants in this world except for the thanksgiving mass of all the cooks and waiters when you are about to leave the room: Arigato gozaemaaaaaaaas.

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Giappolandia - Part 2: Respect for others

Concluded the first part on the description of transport in the city of Tokyo, we continue our story. I continue to treat people's behavior on several occasions and not only when it comes to transport. Resume on the cleanliness of the streets. Always candid and without even a cigarette butt on earth. How do you ask? Simple: you can not smoke on the street! Nothing less smoke no cigarettes around.

No smoking in any public place (train stations, beaches, roads ...). But because Japan does not discriminate against any sector, in the street (but also in the beaches and local) there is always an area for smokers.

is easy to see around the corners because of some special street where the smokers gather outside to smoke their cigarettes, ashtrays with cigarette butts and trash to the finite.

It remains strange street cleaning considering the fact that it gets really hard to find a basket. On the latter point is perhaps debatable, However, it is surprising that although there are, the streets remain tidy.

yet another demonstration of the sensitivity on the cleanliness of public spaces and roads in particular are the cleaning of the wheels of a truck in leaving a construction site. Since it is a fact difficult to believe, the document made with a photo

Incredible is not it?

Already we have entered a minimum in a car, we continue the traffic issue. If Tokyo were to keep the average person's car in Rome (706 cars per 1000 inhabitants) only center there would be something like 8 million and a half by car. Crazy! I could not find the number of cars per inhabitant, but I can assure you that the number is much lower. Most cars you see around are taxis and buses. The people in fact move or two media or with the very efficient metro. To discourage car use (to increase the traffic ... and the beauty of the streets) in the metropolis because you can not park on the roadside. No sir. No double / triple ... but not individual files. Do not you park and nothing else. Look there are paid parking lots located in areas of the city with good access and easy to reach. Moreover, these parks are "controlled" at least three brigades entry / exit into the parking lot so that does not require too much time (and hampering traffic). The three men are charged with: one to stop the traffic for a second one to stop the traffic of pedestrians in one direction, one for me to pedestrian traffic in the other direction. Time required to let the machine: 3 sec.
addition, if you want to own a car you must prove to have a place where staff able to park, otherwise no one can sell. I can understand that the system is a bit 'tricky, but you want to put a smooth road, and have a beauteous eyes on the road?

Within the topic respect to the other little details I conclude with another typical Japanese. Whenever you are given something, something that is given to you to put both hands to form a kind of shell and with a slight bow, be it money, the receipt and any other thing, thanks (although in reality you had to be to thank you) with a virgoroso: gozaemas arigato!

Part 1: The stations

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Giappolandia - Part 1: The stations

Here I am writing the post (s) so perhaps the whole blog is based (just see the graphic): Japan! Although I'd rather talk about Giappolandia since, Tokyo in particular seems to be a great playground in the eyes of tourists.

I have just returned from a ten days, intense, immersion in the culture well that giapponese.So hardly be able to use any words to explain what you feel in this new world, primarily because they are not able to write.

The question everybody asked me to return the trip was of course "as Japan?

I can tell you that the little I have seen it is impossible to give a dry answer. I try to wriggle out saying that there is no Japan, only in Tokyo but already we can talk about dozens of new worlds (as opposed to an average Italian). Each "neighborhood" of In fact, Tokyo is world unto itself: it can be completely different from another that is ten minutes away by subway. We pass the old city, the area hypermodern, the business district to the area for young people (but ggggiovani ggggiovani), etc ...

But let's go in order otherwise you may only make a conclusion. More than the natural beauty of Japan, I will focus on the beauty of civilization (in the broad sense) in Japan. Since there is much to say, I'll write the piece in several posts in which I'll try to describe a particular way of behaving.

On days when I was in Tokyo staying in a hotel in the Shiodome area (looking at the map of the metro is down slightly to the right, just below Shimbashi).

Tokyo subway map. Click to enlarge.

overpass from the station to Shimbashi and Shiodome

Shiodome is the area offices, and many apartment blocks, many lights. Within office hours and rarely see people around you constantly ask where are the 12 million people of which you speak. The answer is simple: I'm at work! If by chance you see one is definitely dressed in white shirt and trousers blacks. Is to see the impressive sight of hundreds of people dressed all alike take the metro to go to work. Net in this area (if one can speak of the district) the predominance of males. However, the Shiodome station is a little 'nerd, has a few lines of a meter (2). But the area is well connected with the rest of Tokyo's Shimbashi meters from the nearby, much larger. Every day so they would make the stretch to go from the station through a Shimashi overpass. The first thing that catches the eye of all is clean. In earth there is nothing, not even a speck. Everything is perfect, the glasses are polished all the time. Especially in an area around the station, one hardly expects such a high cleanliness. See all around the huge apartment blocks and several reflective green here and there.

The first destination is Tokyo, or expressed in complete form, "Tokyo Station" to start the tour the gardens of the emperor. Tokyo Station is not the center of Tokyo, because no serious person unbalanced to say that there is a "center." In taking the first few meters you see the facts. Tokyesi I am super-organized. Nothing is left to chance. There has never mess (maybe just at rush hour in the morning at some stations). People without touch and shoots without losing time. Every minute is crucial.

a "race" has the escalators who has just left in a hurry. For tickets there, in addition to the system known to all, a prepaid card that the only way (even within the portfolio) allows the opening of the doors that lead to various tracks. When you exit the destination station, you will be deducted the money from the card. The paper in question will not only serve the metro, but you can use in different contexts: metro, buses, kiosks, vending machines for drinks (ubiquitous) ... But you can also pay by placing some phones provided on the appropriate machine.

absolute novelty (at least for me) are the directions to the ground on all the tracks (both metro trains). On the ground shows the location where you will stop the doors of the metro, the number of the coach and the services you will find inside it.

On the right the signs that indicate the door of the car.

So if you happen to know exactly what disabled car is prepared for this occurrence and will be exactly where the door to enter, so as to avoid having to make some progress when the bus stop. Before mounting on the subway and then to blows with people who have to come down, it is in perfect single file and wait patiently for ALL passengers must have fallen down. Obviously I think goes without saying that the station was not only clean, but everything inside is clean. I have personally seen the little women come in and clean the various coaches during the stops to end.

The subway line is the largest Yamamoto Line. A line that forms a huge ring, which according to legend, said to contain within it all of Paris. Is it true? Big is definitely great. Suffice it to say that it alone carries the equivalent of the entire transport system in New York. Chills!

'd avoid going there at rush hour in the morning (around 8), although this time around there are meters every two minutes. The frequency and efficiency station are something that our city can not help but dream, represent the normal custom in Japan. If the start date of the meter is at least 16:52 to 16:52 ... a few seconds and arrive at the station. You download and charge in a very short time (since no one should be chasing the doors ...) and at 16:52 the underground part. Not sgarra. In 10 days spent with all the metro and trains that we took we had a delay of up to 1 min once.

The system is easy to use even those who do not understand one iota of Japanese, in fact the whole system is bilingual in both written and in the voices of the various alerts. In fact, I would say three languages \u200b\u200bas also the non-blind person can easily take a meter because the ground path is marked with various signs embossed on every street, entire Tokyo and all are written in Brail. A sign of civilization of a certain importance.

All the features described here can be seen in the following video:

We are now in the metro. In here is a new world. High above the door you can see two screens: with an indication of where you are, where you're going and when will it take from here to your destination station. All in two languages. In the other screen you will find the simple advertising. The walls are full of advertisements and written recall how we should behave with the use of numerous figures. First, the phone must be set to silent and second: not talking on the phone and if you have to talk to the phone you speak softly, with his hand in front. You must not disturb the next most likely is sleeping. It is customary to doze off between the station of departure and arrival times, even hung up with one hand to the handles. You know the rules before long you route and in any case you will be notified by a sweet music to the arrival of each station. There are also seats reserved for pregnant women, for elderly, disabled ... and for these places around the mobile phone must be switched off, if there are people with pacemakers, which can interfere with electromagnetic waves from mobile phones. Since you can not talk to the phone or otherwise out loud, most of the people or read a book or playing with the phone or sleeping. Given the prevalence of meter reading books, books in Japan are mostly sold in paperback version in different parts. So you can handle it easily with one hand and fits easily in your pocket and quickly.

There is enough of this past civilization? Do you want another? I wait for the next chapter in the saga.

Part 2: The respect for others

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Pentedattilo

motionless on a sandstone spur, Pentedattilo he stands before the sun-parched valleys of the rivers of Anne and of St. Elias. It can be reached by crossing the sea, in uniform and shapeless ugliness us assembled on the southernmost of the Ionian coast. Countries, paesucoli and towns that seem to conform to a single aesthetic and urban policy: employment.
Depopulation led the village out of time to hand it to the limbo of history geological erosion. The stasis in which Pentedattilo is dormant is combined with the ecstasy of the visitor, who was kidnapped by the virulence aesthetics of hand made red rocks of the cliff of Mount Calvary.

Bloodshed nell'eccidio of Alberti is the basis for mythical-legendary founding of abandoning the country on Easter night of April 16, 1686 the Baron de Montebello murdered and did slay the Marquis and Lorenzo Alberti his family, lords of the manor of Pentedattilo. Reasons for triggering the killings were the jealousy and the desire for revenge for the affront represented by the engagement of Antonia, sister of the Marquis Alberti, of which the Baron of Montebello was very much in love with Don Petrillo, son of the First Counsellor the Viceroy of Naples.


But it tells a story far more prosaic rather than from the end of the seventeenth century the dynasty of the Alberti, owner of the estate of Pentedattilo, facilitate movement of farmers into the flat area near the coast to expand the extent of cultivated land and increase the income of the estate. The pressures of economic policy were added to the ruinous consequences of a long series of natural disasters: the earthquake of 1783, then in 1908, the flood of 1951 resulted in the great exodus of the fifties and the declaration of the 1968 uninhabitable. And while
Pentedattilo died, Melito Porto Salvo, with its flourishing production of bergamot, stood.

Pentedattilo today "is a deceased person who disturbs the living," as he writes Vito Teti The sense of place, as evidence of the futility of living places. The pervasive nature
where it is located seems to want to suck the walls of the town. Still in her unflinching survival Pentedattilo was eventually transformed from a village inspired by men in an element of nature nestled in the foothills of the Aspromonte. This transition is marked involution of the sun that beats Pentedattilo stronger than in other places Calabrian.
In a counterpoint to the drama of abandonment is the aesthetic harmony of a village perfectly integrated into its landscape.

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How does a digital camera

Last night, I suddenly jumped on his head the idea of \u200b\u200bexplaining the operation of a digital camera (or at least the basics for beginners) that is used especially in this holiday season. Actually I can not even explain why I've come up with this idea, but so ...

A digital works basically the same way as an analog camera, with the main difference lies in the recording medium of photography itself: the film for the analog and the digital file in binary.

This difference obviously affects the construction of various devices within the machine.

As in the conventional machine, the camera records the image through the lens that focuses on a plan, called the focal plane . The focal plane is a film for traditional camera, while the digital is a grid of small boxes, called photodetectors, which "count" the number of photons, the particles that make up light, affecting the receiver . The greater the number of photons from the particular photodetector, the greater the electrical current generated. This current is then measured (the current is one of the few physical quantities that we know measure with high precision), thus obtaining a series of numbers, one for each grid point of the plan. At this point we know, in a way, how much light came in every point, enabling us to build an image that will be more faithful to the 'original', there will be many photodetectors in the grid.

However, as will have the most insightful, intuitive, with the information we have we can only reconstruct an image in black and white (or, rather, in "Grayscale"). In fact, following the procedures described, we can not distinguish the "color" of the individual photons that would enable us to reconstruct a full color image.

The problem is the fact that detectors are not able to distinguish colors. Or take all the photons without distinction of color or those who take a particular color (previously decided by the manufacturer). In both cases, however, we can not get the information needed to reconstruct the color image we want.

The first idea to make a color photo has been proposed by Maxwell (the same as the theory of ' electromagnetism). He made three identical black and white photographs in the three cases using three different filters: one red, one blue and one green.

overlay of three pictures (and then mixing various colors) Maxwell realized then the first color photos. Clearly, though, the inconvenience of the construction of a color photo.

Theoretically this process could be done mechanically: a series of three shots, where you change the filter every time. Basically the "change the filter every time" is the main problem. You can not instantly change the characteristics of individual photodetectors or apply a filter to quickly and mechanics. So what?

As you guessed, the system used in modern digital cameras use a filtering system similar to that proposed by Maxwell. There are actually several ways to achieve it, but the most common uses a so-called array of color filters, a pattern of filters (called Bayer ) shown:

With these filters we can produce distinct images, and incomplete, for the colors red, green and blue. The smartest have noticed that there is a predominance of green than the other two colors, and this follows in some way the sensitivity of the human eye: in fact our eyes are more sensitive to green than other colors.

We have almost finished our job. For now we only have 3 files incomplete for 3 colors. But we want a complete picture. How do we know how to complete the grid?

We pull to guess!

may seem a joke, but it works more or less like this.

Take, for example, only the green grid. We want to calculate how much green there is a pixel not covered by the grid. To do that we use a method called interpolation : exploit, ie, the information coming from the pixels adjacent to what we want to calculate. Then perform a sort of average intensity of light from the pixels that are re-washed in immediate vicinity of the particular pixel under study ... et voila, we have created a complete image for each color.

Obviously the system is considerably more complex interpolation, but it works more or less on the principle (called by some " demosaicing ") that I wrote.

We now show two examples of this process:

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Vie seemed all that complex system? And if I told you that the sight of the human being works in exactly the same way (including the system of interpolation)?

This was more or less what I was going to say on the subject. I avoided going down on details, is not to weigh the subject, both for my ignorance on the details.