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WK interact(s) on last Le Mur of 2009

2009-12-14T23:56:00.006+01:00

and Association Le Mur announces a Jean Faucheur poster
to be cut&pasted on January 2nd, 2010.

# 61 by WK Interact - December 14th.

(WKI's site)
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Old Pic breaks the News

2009-12-14T17:22:00.006+01:00

NO COMMENT

Yours faithful G@tto.
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Recycling & eco-lighting in Paris for Xmas

2009-12-10T14:33:00.001+01:00

Below, the place of the French Comedy in Paris
this year decorated with 4 Christmas trees
made of very green plastic bottles...

(December 4 to January 15)

(XinhuaNet)

(Designpack Gallery)

(FabricePeltier)
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Dogs in the City, aka Urban Dogs

2009-12-08T00:22:00.007+01:00

I've spent a few days early October 2009 in Sanremo and Nice,
on the mediterranian coast, and recorded but a little number
of the dogs I've seen all around the streets !
Looks like there would be 1 dog per 30 inhabitants or so...

Citizen Dog.

(GattoGiallo).

Music: Ricky North, The Entertainer, Cascades.
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Copenhagen Summit, the Biggest Deal

2009-12-07T15:10:00.004+01:00

Climate change global editorial
on 56 newspaper front pages,
from 45 countries,
in 20 different languages.

"'Fourteen days to seal
history's judgment
on this generation"

* The Project
* Global Guardian's editorial

"Newspapers have never done anything like this before - but they have never
had to cover a story like this before." (Alan Rusbridger, Guardian editor-in-chief).
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- ASIA: 16 PAPERS/13 COUNTRIES and REGIONS

Economic Observer, China Chinese, Southern Metropolitan, China Chinese,

CommonWealth Magazine, Taiwan English, Joongang Ilbo, South Korea

Korean, Tuoitre, Vietnam Vietnamese, Brunei Times, Brunei English,

Jakarta Globe, Indonesia English, Cambodia Daily, Cambodia English,

The Hindu, India English, The Daily Star, Bangladesh English, The News,

Pakistan English, Daily Times, Pakistan English, Gulf News, Dubai English,

An Nahar, Lebanon Arabic, Gulf Times, Qatar English, Maariv, Israel Hebrew.

- EUROPE – 20 PAPERS/17 COUNTRIES

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany German, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland Polish,

Der Standard, Austria German, Delo, Slovenia Slovene, Vecer, Slovenia

Slovene, Dagbladet Information, Denmark Danish, Politiken, Denmark

Danish, Dagbladet, Norway Norwegian, The Guardian, UK English,

Le Monde, France French, Libération, France French, La Repubblica, Italy

Italian, El Pais, Spain Spanish, De Volkskrant, Netherlands Dutch,

Kathimerini, Greece Greek, Publico, Portugal Portuguese, Hurriyet, Turkey

Turkish, Novaya Gazeta, Russia Russian, Irish Times, Ireland English,

Le Temps, Switzerland French.

- AFRICA - 11 PAPERS/8 COUNTRIES

The Star, Kenya English, Daily Monitor, Uganda English, The New Vision,

Uganda English, Zimbabwe Independent, Zimbabwe English, The New Times,

Rwanda English, The Citizen, Tanzania English, Al Shorouk, Egypt Arabic,

Botswana Guardian, Botswana English, Mail & Guardian, South Africa

English, Business Day, South Africa English, Cape Argus, South Africa

English.

- NORTH and CENTRAL AMERICA - 6 PAPERS/5 COUNTRIES

Toronto Star, Canada English, Miami Herald, USA English, El Nuevo Herald,

USA Spanish, Jamaica Observer, Jamaica English, La Brujula Semanal,

Nicaragua Spanish, El Universal, Mexico Spanish.

- SOUTH AMERICA – 3 PAPERS/2 COUNTRIES

Zero Hora, Brazil Portuguese, Diario Catarinense, Brazil Portuguese,

Diario Clarin, Argentina Spanish.

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- and G@ttoGialloNews, (Europe #57)...

with his personal message to Copenhagen :
"Turn the gas taps off, this time" !

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In the middle of a stupid controversy about minarets...

2009-11-30T21:51:00.006+01:00

spreading from Switzerland, well, let's have a look instead
on the good side, like the wonderful Paris Great Mosque
- minaret included - and, a few steps away, the Arab World
Institute...
(Thanks to a UK Muslim video podcast in 2 parts, presented by The Guardian
journalist Riazat Butt).

(oclandestin)

The Grand Mosque of Paris is an old idea from the time of the colonial
French. Since 1533, at the time of King Francois I and Caliph Suleiman
the Magnificent, they wanted to build a mosque for Muslim people.
It's a long story but you have to wait until 1917 when they created an
association in Algiers. Then, Algeria was part of French territory.
They created this mosque, starting to build it in 1922, and it was opened
in 1926, so it's an old mosque, more than 80 years, and it's a bit of a
symbol of French Islam.
(more)

(oclandestin)

The Institut du Monde Arabe is a centre for Arabic arts and culture.
The building was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to be
a dialogue between cultures and it reflects a modern interpretation
of traditional Islamic art and architecture.
(more)

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Who's on Le Mur on October 28th...

2009-11-28T00:58:00.007+01:00

Don't ask, here he is :

RCF1 is # 60 on the wall story.
(on MySpace)

In the meantime, Zoo Project is suggestively spreading his work
in my fief walls, as well as in Flickr pages.
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Hard times for the Berlufioso...

2009-11-27T02:16:00.007+01:00

... as the Cosa Nostra's "pentiti" decided to break the silence.

La Repubblica > Mafia, perchè i pentiti accusano Berlusconi
... Nella convinzione di essere stata venduta dopo le trattative degli anni Novanta, la cosca di
Brancaccio ha deciso di aggredire - in pubblico e servendosi di un processo - chi non ha
mantenuto gli impegni.
... La campana suona per Silvio Berlusconi perché è evidente che il 4 dicembre, quando Gaspare
Spatuzza, mafioso di Brancaccio, testimonierà nel processo di appello contro Marcello Dell'Utri,
avrà inizio la resa dei conti della famiglia dei fratelli Graviano contro il capo del governo.
... Berlusconi ha paura perchè quegli uomini non conoscono soltanto la verità sulle stragi (del
1993), ma soprattutto le origini oscure della sua avventura imprenditoriale...
(more)...
BBC News > Mafia trial judges quizz Berlusconi
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared before judges on Tuesday in the trial
of a close associate (Mr Dell'Utri) accused of Mafia money-laundering.
... Judges suspect that money used to create the firms might have come from Mafia sources
via Mr Dell'Utri, although Fininvest insists it can account for all the cash.
... Most of the evidence against Mr Dell'Utri comes from Mafia informants.
(more)...
TIMES online > Berlusconi faces new bribery trial hearing
A trial in which Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, is accused of paying a $600,000
bribe to David Mills, his former British tax adviser, will resume next week.
... (But) Mr Berlusconi is more alarmed by another hearing, also to be held next Friday. at which
Marcello Dell’Utri is appealing against a nine-year sentence for “Mafia association”.
(more)...
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The Berlufioso according to : Enzo Biagi, Marco Travaglio, Sabina and
Corrado Guzzanti, Daniele Luttazzi, Piero Ricca and neurologist-analist
Mauro Mancia...

(Konserva June 2009)
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Great> TwitterVision> Tweets in Real Time !

2009-11-25T18:50:00.008+01:00

A still attractive oldie...
(click)

And...

- G@tto isn't dead
- G@tto isn't so lazy
- G@tto has more than 100 followers
- G@tto isn't a loud mouth
nor a G@ttobot

And that's all folks - G@tto is busy now with some sushis.
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Now, you just follow G@tto on La Pigna Hill...

2009-11-21T20:00:00.006+01:00

in Sanremo, Italy.

This is a tough slideshow, so put on your most comfortable shoes
and watch your steps because this is a long way up and down a steep hill.
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Great Tour on a Great Wall...

2009-11-19T16:24:00.010+01:00

US President in Asia
Special Report

Libération relates
the American Press
reactions...

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
Washington Post

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The sexual behaviour of...

2009-11-13T00:31:00.005+01:00

... SPIDERS (and many other creatures) following
Mrs Isabella Rossellini's latest "observations".

(Manchestercrazzy0512)

and so on with fly, bee, firefly, praying mantis, dragonfly, snail and earthworm...

Mrs Rossellini's Green Porno is a series of experimental short films on animal
sexual behaviour.

The series began in 2008 with the mating habits of insects and was aired
on The Sundance Channel which, from April, broadcasts the second season
focusing on the sex lives of marine animals :
shrimp, squid, barnacle, limpet, elephant seal, starfish and right whale.
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Der Fall der Berliner Mauer

2009-11-09T06:11:00.023+01:00

20 years ago, the Wall collapsed and History took off.

*

(rosaryfilms)

(turnbeutelvergesserB)

Now, is a planet with no walls possible ? and when ?

The walls anti-migration are specific of the XI century.
They have emerged in recent years and are intended to
ward off the fear of others.
(more/fr).

*
Another 1989 historic event :

Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the WEB was
a new way of using the Internet to store text, images,
sound and video... but just two years later, it was
hailing the web as a roaring success. This year marks
the 40th anniversary of the technologies that led to
the Internet.

*
... and your faithful G@tto is now on the BerlinTwitterWall !

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Feline Fashion on Le Mur Oberkampf...

2009-11-06T14:29:00.007+01:00

Nov. 05th - # 59 - by CHATNOIR 1980.

Sorry, I couldn't find a possible "chatnoir 1980" on the web...
This one exists, anymay.
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In Memoriam - C. Lévy-Strauss

2009-11-03T13:08:00.001+01:00

Claude Lévy-Strauss
(Brussels 1908/Paris 2009).
The father of modern anthropology.

(europeimages)
Return to the Amazon.
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Back on La Pigna hill in Sanremo...

2009-10-31T22:48:00.017+01:00

I've already reported a first visit up to the Sanremo ancient area in
a previous post. I was recently back there and up the hill to enjoy
its particular atmosphere and take a closer look to the huge fig trees
that thrust their roots into the crevices of that rocky ground.

The Ficus macrophilla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig is a
large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family, subsection of the
Malvantherae.

Its specific epithet macrophylla is derived from the ancient Greek makro
(large) and phyllon (leaf) and refers to the size of the leaves.

The characteristic "melting" appearance of the Ficus macrophylla is due
to its habit of dropping aerial roots from its branches which on reaching
the ground thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the
great weight of its crown.

The trunk can be massive, with thick, prominent structure and a rough
grey-brown bark. Some trees can reach heights of 60 m.

Currently the tallest Moreton Bay Fig (49 m) is found near Egg Rock, in
Queensland, Australia, but even Europe exhibits some sizeable
naturalized specimen.
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(More on > Wikipedia).

Female Nephila komaci, the hugest webweaving spider.

2009-10-28T15:45:00.011+01:00

The Nephila komaci can be found in Madagascar and South Africa.
They can be up to three feet (one meter) wide and are a member
of the orbweavingb spiders' group.

"In the PLoS ONE paper, Kuntner and Coddington described Nephila komaci
as a new species, now the largest web-spinning species known, and placed
it on the evolutionary tree of Nephila". (EurekAlert)

(Photos M. Kuntner)
1) a giant golden orb-web exceeding 1 meter in diameter: Nephila inaurata,
Rodrigues, Indian Ocean.
2) extreme sexual size dimorphism in Nephila spiders: Small male and large
female, Nephila pilipes, Singapore.
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Rampini the ChIndian

2009-10-27T23:44:00.005+01:00

A brilliant journalist and writer I discovered reading "The ChIndia Empire".

Listen to March 2007 CDT interview here (en).

EuroTopics > Federico Rampini, 10 articles cited in the European Press
Review.

At Harry Kreisler's "Conversations with history".

(UCtelevision)

Born in Genoa in 1956, Federico Rampini has been a student of the liberal
French sociologist Raymond Aron at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, in Paris and of the economist Mario Monti at the Bocconi University
in Milan. As a journalist, he first worked for "Città Futura" in 1977, the weekly
magazine of the FGEI, when the general secretary was Massimo D'Alema
and for weekly "Rinascita" in 1979, the PCI weekly of Enrico Berlinguer.
Federico Rampini is a columnist, correspondent and editor for European affairs
of La Repubblica, since 1997.
He is a consultant at Institut Français des Relations internationales, member
of the Scientific board of the journal Critique Internationale, published in Paris
by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques and member the Italian
magazine of geopolitics Limes.
He also contributed as a columnist to Le Figaro, L'Express, Politique étrangère,
in France. (more).
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Bibliography...

Which future for our planet ?

2009-10-24T22:07:00.017+02:00

(click)

Tens of thousands of climate change activists have been out in force
all over the world to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming.

As many as 4,000 protests have been taking place in 170
countries around the globe to mark World Climate Day.

The coordinated campaign was designed to highlight ecological
concerns in the run-up to the international climate conference
to be held in Copenhagen next month.

(Ultimatum-climatique)

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The usual Oberkampf wall...

2009-10-23T10:04:00.001+02:00

October 22nd - # 58 by NP77

October 8th - # 57 by Poch

GRAFFITI TODAY
The Fondation Cartier has asked ten artists from different countries to create works and ephemeral
installations specifically for the exhibition.
Chosen for the singularity of their approach and the force of their artistic vision, Basco Vazko, Cripta,
JonOne, Olivier Kosta, Théfaine, Barry McGee, Nug, Evan Roth, Boris Tellegen-Delta, Vitché and
Gérard Zlotykamien present their work within the Fondation Cartier’s gallery spaces as well as on its
glass façade.
In collaboration with the Association le M.U.R., the Fondation Cartier has also invited artists to create
large-scale posters, in the presence of the public, every first weekend of the month.
These posters are exhibited at the Fondation Cartier for one month before being moved to the billboard
of the association, located at the intersection of the Saint-Maur and Oberkampf streets in Paris.
The artists participating in the project include Alexöne, the Collectif 1980, Fancie, Jean Faucheur and
WK Interact, Honet, NP 77, Poch, RCF 1, Sun7 and Tom Tom.
In addition, L’Atlas, DTagno and Yseult have been invited to create unique and temporary works for the
garden of the Fondation Cartier.
From São Paulo to Amsterdam, San Francisco to Paris, graffiti today continues to evolve, adopting new
forms and modes of expression.
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Born in the Streets - GRAFFITI
from July/7 to Nov/29, 2009

Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain

261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris - France

http://Fondation Cartier

Hallelujah ! G@tto is back...

2009-10-22T01:11:00.004+02:00

Orly airport personnel still on strike ? EasyJet flight cancelled ?
Let's go back by train !
... and G@tto got the Nice/Paris TGV.

(click to shake more)

. . .

Yay ! Camilleri, "La Rizzagliata" and...

2009-10-15T03:58:00.006+02:00

La vicenda ruota attorno alla redazione della RAI siciliana.

Il direttore, Michele Caruso, tralascia di dare la notizia dell’avviso
di garanzia a Manlio Caputo, figlio del leader della sinistra siciliana,
accusato dell’omicidio della sua fidanzata, Amalia Sacerdote, anche
lei un cognome importante perché suo padre è il segretario generale
dell’Assemblea Regionale Siciliana.
La ragazza è stata trovata morta a casa sua con il cranio fracassato
da un pesante portacenere e quel cadavere crea non pochi problemi,
per le rivalità politiche dei genitori dei due giovani e per le evidenti connessioni con
i poteri economico, giudiziario, giornalistico e politico dell’isola, una rete così solida
- rizzaglio è una rete a forma di campana - cui è difficile sfuggire perché i piombini che
girano tutt’intorno la portano a fondo e poi una corda la serra e dentro ci restano i pesci.

Publisher: Sellerio (La memoria, 795)
Pub date: Oct, 2009

La Rizzagliata, oggi in libreria, ha una storia curiosa : arriva in Italia, nell’inconfondibile
impasto linguistico, un anno dopo l’uscita in Spagna.
Il primo problema è già nel titolo, che contiene un riferimento al «rizzaglio», una rete
in cui restano impigliati «i pesci cchiù stùpiti o i cchiù lenti, pirchì quelli cchiù sperti,
videnno le reti calare, si scansano ‘n tempo».

Come renderlo in spagnolo ?
L’editore Rba, e il traduttore Juan Carlos Gentile Vitale, hanno aggirato l’ostacolo,
titolando con un meno immaginifico "La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote".
Ma in generale è il modo di trasporre il «vigatese» che crea difficoltà, come ben sanno
i traduttori che giorni fa hanno confessato i loro tormenti nel convegno* «La sfida di
Camilleri» che si è tenuto a Milano, promosso dalla Fondazione Mondadori.

* "La sfida di Camilleri", convegno internazionale dedicato a uno degli autori italiani più tradotti, in cui
Mauro Novelli animerà il confronto tra alcuni traduttori dello scrittore siciliano come Serge Quadruppani,
Moshe Kahn, Barbro Andersson e Stephen Sartarelli.
(8 ottobre, Salone d’Onore della Triennale di Milano, viale Alemagna, 6)
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AND (sorry, it's in Italian)
here is the wise man's opinion on the "Berlusconi anomaly"...

(by 884C25)

... and G@tto went south !

2009-10-08T23:42:00.009+02:00

See what I mean ?

The Promenade, then the Cour Saleya and then... yum yum !
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Running after the sun...

2009-10-07T20:26:00.001+02:00

Well, it's definitely time to go south !

The weather forecast and these pictures speak by themselves.

Paris > and Nice >

And a tanned G@tto will be back to you around October 20th.
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When Lady Justice Hits...

2009-10-07T19:12:00.003+02:00

"La Corte costituzionale, giudicando sulle questioni di legittimità costituzionale
poste con le ordinanze n. 397/08 e n. 398/08 del Tribunale di Milano e n. 9/09
del GIP del Tribunale di Roma, ha dichiarato l'illegittimità costituzionale dell'art
1 della legge 23 luglio 2008, n. 124 per violazione degli articoli 3 e 138 della
Costituzione. Ha altresì dichiarato inammissibili le questioni di legittimità
costituzionale della stessa disposizione proposte dal GIP del Tribunale di Roma".

La Repubblica - (it)
- La Consulta: lodo Alfano illegittimo - Berlusconi: "Vado avanti, giudici di sinistra".
Times on Line - (en)
- Silvio Berlusconi faces fight for career as top Italian court strips PM of immunity.
Le Monde - (fr)
- La Cour constitutionnelle italienne invalide la loi d'immunité protégeant Berlusconi.

(ItalianSpot)

Lodo Alfano > Wikipedia.it,
Lodo's Text (it) pdf >
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