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Pasta4u! The delicious ... iphone app
Pasta4u! is the iphone app that teaches you how to cook Italian pasta! Easy and fun, each recipe consists in a slideshow that guides you, step by step, in the preparation of a unique and tasty dish! All recipes and photos are original creations of the author, an Italian student (coming from Vicenza) living in the US .
Pasta4u! è la app per iPhone che ti guida nella creazione di ottimi primi piatti! Pensata per un pubblico internazionale (ma anche per gli Italiani), facile e divertente. Ogni ricetta è una creazione originale dall'autore (uno studente italiano di Vicenza che vive negli Stati Uniti) ed è presentata con una sequenza di immagini!
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The GDV has dedicated much space this week to the vexed question of Dal Molin. First of all the curious puddles emerging in the Peace Park due to a lack of foresight in planning. A harbinger of worse to come, as some fear real damage to our town's water supply. It is not impossible that they could have been avoided if the environmental checks sought by Variati, and refused by ‘Commissario' Costa had been carried out.
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The human dilemma
The GDV has dedicated much space this week to the vexed question of Dal Molin. First of all the curious puddles emerging in the Peace Park due to a lack of foresight in planning. A harbinger of worse to come, as some fear real damage to our town's water supply. It is not impossible that they could have been avoided if the environmental checks sought by Variati, and refused by ‘Commissario' Costa had been carried out.
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Always on the lookout for freebies - and I'm sorry, Coviello, but Città , the free offshoot of the GDV is my source (Coviello's note: «Don't worry, Bob, I'm for free...dom press»)- I cycled frenetically across town from Ferrovieri to the Conservatory in order to pick up a complimentary ticket to listen to the Sound of Poetry in the foyer of Dr. Hullweck's Mausoleum. Freebies usually attract the same faces, including my own, so I was surprised not to recognise any of the other guests. This was a sort of promotion of a nascent department of the Conservatory dedicated to contemporary music, as far as I could understand. Music by Billy Strayhorn and Federico Benedetti accompanied poems by Shakespeare, Petrarca and a certain Elio Pagliarini.
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Vicenza freebies
Always on the lookout for freebies - and I'm sorry, Coviello, but Città , the free offshoot of the GDV is my source (Coviello's note: «Don't worry, Bob, I'm for free...dom press»)- I cycled frenetically across town from Ferrovieri to the Conservatory in order to pick up a complimentary ticket to listen to the Sound of Poetry in the foyer of Dr. Hullweck's Mausoleum. Freebies usually attract the same faces, including my own, so I was surprised not to recognise any of the other guests. This was a sort of promotion of a nascent department of the Conservatory dedicated to contemporary music, as far as I could understand. Music by Billy Strayhorn and Federico Benedetti accompanied poems by Shakespeare, Petrarca and a certain Elio Pagliarini.
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The race for mayor of London, my native city, is hotting up. Two top candidates are Boris Johnson, incumbent Tory, and the former maverick Labour mayor he replaced, Ken Livingstone. As befits a capital city, both are colourful, though not coloured. Livingstone's best remembered, and now generally accepted, change was the introduction of a tax for cars entering central London. Of course it's not a magic solution, but within limits it works. Money to spend on public transport and slightly fresher air.
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Fresh air
The race for mayor of London, my native city, is hotting up. Two top candidates are Boris Johnson, incumbent Tory, and the former maverick Labour mayor he replaced, Ken Livingstone. As befits a capital city, both are colourful, though not coloured. Livingstone's best remembered, and now generally accepted, change was the introduction of a tax for cars entering central London. Of course it's not a magic solution, but within limits it works. Money to spend on public transport and slightly fresher air.
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A friend of mine from the Deep South near Naples assures me that his part of Italy was better off under the Bourbons. A thriving economy and a trade surplus. There seems to be a lingering discontent with the Italian state in these parts too. A discontent that is often distorted by hypocrisy, shrill and vulgar language bordering on hate talk, with a particular vehemence towards immigrant communities.
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A question worth asking
A friend of mine from the Deep South near Naples assures me that his part of Italy was better off under the Bourbons. A thriving economy and a trade surplus. There seems to be a lingering discontent with the Italian state in these parts too. A discontent that is often distorted by hypocrisy, shrill and vulgar language bordering on hate talk, with a particular vehemence towards immigrant communities.It was therefore with some scepticism that I saw a stand vaunting a banner with the words ‘Stato Veneto' in one of the little alleys connecting Piazza dei Signori to Corso Palladio. Continua a leggere
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Last week, I left you with the vista of Piazza dei Signori from the top of Contrà del Monte. In the Monte del Pietà itself there is a fascinating exhibition throwing perspective onto the history of local craftsmanship. This is an exemplary way of using our monuments to underline the continuity of artistry, or craftsmanship perhaps, which defines Vicenza's heritage. As I have written elsewhere, Palladio seems to me Vicenza's glitzy wrapping, whereas craftsmanship expresses her soul. Are there any real artisans left in Venice? Certainly, most of the lace placed enticingly next to a loom in Burano comes from Taiwan. Ok, the Murano glass at its best is still worth a look.
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Imagine ...
Last week, I left you with the vista of Piazza dei Signori from the top of Contrà del Monte. In the Monte del Pietà itself there is a fascinating exhibition throwing perspective onto the history of local craftsmanship. This is an exemplary way of using our monuments to underline the continuity of artistry, or craftsmanship perhaps, which defines Vicenza's heritage. As I have written elsewhere, Palladio seems to me Vicenza's glitzy wrapping, whereas craftsmanship expresses her soul. Are there any real artisans left in Venice? Certainly, most of the lace placed enticingly next to a loom in Burano comes from Taiwan. Ok, the Murano glass at its best is still worth a look.
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Welcome to our new reader, Ms. Lazzari, boss of the council's Culture Department, who has complained about my last article. Italian speakers can read her complaint and my answer in the Italian part of the site. I confess to feeling flattered at being read and complained about in the corridors of power! If such they be ...
These corridors were unable to stop the Dal Molin military base, and, despite depriving beggars of what alms we choose to give them, seem unable to provide basic law and order in Campo Marzo, judging by the GDV posters I see on my way to the library in the morning. Continua a leggere
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Welcome to our new reader, Ms. Lazzari, boss of the council's Culture Department, who has complained about my last article. Italian speakers can read her complaint and my answer in the Italian part of the site. I confess to feeling flattered at being read and complained about in the corridors of power! If such they be ... These corridors were unable to stop the Dal Molin military base, and, despite depriving beggars of what alms we choose to give them, seem unable to provide basic law and order in Campo Marzo, judging by the GDV posters I see on my way to the library in the morning. Continua a leggere
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Well Carnival is over, at least for the moment for the notorious Diego Fontana, now suspended from his duties as Baron of the Vicenza districts, who at the stroke of a pen cancelled fifteen years of hard work by the librarian and teachers in District 7 (Circoscrizione 7) who provided modestly priced courses in music and languages to an enthusiastic local populace. As already stated in an earlier article, Fontana's decision was brought to the notice of Variati, through his sidekick Bulgarini, and to Ms. Lazzari, neither of whom deigned to reply.
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Two little boys
Well Carnival is over, at least for the moment for the notorious Diego Fontana, now suspended from his duties as Baron of the Vicenza districts, who at the stroke of a pen cancelled fifteen years of hard work by the librarian and teachers in District 7 (Circoscrizione 7) who provided modestly priced courses in music and languages to an enthusiastic local populace. As already stated in an earlier article, Fontana's decision was brought to the notice of Variati, through his sidekick Bulgarini, and to Ms. Lazzari, neither of whom deigned to reply.
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Well, on Friday I was cycling across Piazza dei Signori, when to my surprise, I saw a large balloon with AIM written on it. Readers will know that AIM managers are under judicial investigation for their role in managing the polluting platform in Marghera, so I was surprised to see that they have turned over a new leaf. They were informing us that AIM is working for a cleaner Vicenza, with an exhibition to show little groups of school children what they are doing. I was a bit mesmerised - after all, after the long cold spell, the air was almost balmy.
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Enjoy the end of Carnival!
Well, on Friday I was cycling across Piazza dei Signori, when to my surprise, I saw a large balloon with AIM written on it. Readers will know that AIM managers are under judicial investigation for their role in managing the polluting platform in Marghera, so I was surprised to see that they have turned over a new leaf. They were informing us that AIM is working for a cleaner Vicenza, with an exhibition to show little groups of school children what they are doing. I was a bit mesmerised - after all, after the long cold spell, the air was almost balmy.
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As the cold spell continues, you might feel like giving a beggar a euro to have a coffee in a bar in order to thaw out. Well, think again. In Vicenza, not only is it illegal to beg, but the local police boast of their prowess at enforcing the anti-begging law allowing them to confiscate the money a beggar has in his or her pocket. Indeed, Councillor Dalla Pozza declares himself proud of their actions.
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Scrooge is alive and kicking
As the cold spell continues, you might feel like giving a beggar a euro to have a coffee in a bar in order to thaw out. Well, think again. In Vicenza, not only is it illegal to beg, but the local police boast of their prowess at enforcing the anti-begging law allowing them to confiscate the money a beggar has in his or her pocket. Indeed, Councillor Dalla Pozza declares himself proud of their actions.
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