Children of
Gibran And a woman carrying a baby her bosom said, Speak to us of
Figli.E he said
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for life.
They come through you but not for you.
And although 'they are with you they do not belong to you.
You can give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
you can store their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell
homes of tomorrow, you can not visit, not even in dreams.
can be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
As life goes on and does not stop yesterday.
You are the bows of your children are living arrows body away.
The archer sees the mark on the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with force if its appearance
arrows may go swift and far.
Bend in the hands of the arch with joy: As
as he loves the arrow that flies,
He so loves the balance of the arc
[from "The Prophet" by Gibran Kalil Gibran
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Can I Run With A Herniated Disc?
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How To Congratulate Someone Having
We have not completely abandoned our blog,
and we are all fine, Martina is a doll that grows very eyes and it fills the days
but we have a problem with your computer is being repaired and probably will stay there for a month.
Happy holidays to all.
Monday, July 14, 2008
What Each Zodiac Would Be Doing
a child, my grandmother, I often spoiled with various sizes of kinder or Galak and the mythical adventures of the dolphin, but I probably have exaggerated because now I hate white chocolate;
other times I took the single dose containers of Nutella that was necessary to clean them good swipe, or
Boeri, where according to the number that was inside of the card if they could win more ,
or banana-shaped chocolates filled with golden foil.
All things that I do not know if there are more on the market not because they eat more chocolate but because now I take cues directly from 250 g with the excuse that I need for sweets, but in reality then, I'll eat a square after another.
To celebrate the third month of Martina (I know, now is the finish of the fourth) I was inspired by his old banana and chocolate tart that I made this really remember much flavor.
Hazelnut Base:
hazelnut flour 100 g flour
00 140 g Granulated sugar 50 g butter 115 g
Egg 1 Salt
cold water Mix flour with sugar and a pinch,
add the butter and work until consistency in crumbs.
Combine the egg and a tablespoon of water to obtain a smooth and firm.
Let it rest in refrigerator for at least half an hour.
out the dough and line a tart mold with a diameter of 20-22 cm.
Prick the bottom with a fork.
Bake at 190 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Cool.
Filling:
1 Banana 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 150 g dark chocolate
Fresh cream 150 g
Slice bananas, add sugar and stir vigorously with a fork to get a cream.
spread on bottom of tart.
Heat the cream and pour the chopped chocolate
stir to melt completely, possibly to put a little 'fire.
Allow to cool. With a slightly
whips mount the ganache. Cover
to taste the pie.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Free Engraved Gerber Baby Spoon
Another recipe of fish with simplicity,
is done with very few ingredients and very little time,
the particular flavor of lemon thyme is given by
which has a pleasant, fresh aroma of citrus.
Clean squid emptying the inside and wash them well.
Cut the tentacles into small pieces and season them in a pan with a splash of white wine, black pepper, oregano, lemon thyme and salt.
Add a little 'bread crumbs and fill the bags for squid,
close them with a toothpick and grill.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
How To Get Pikachu Leaf Green Early
Summer is finally here, and
you the urge to light meals and fresh
our preferences are geared mainly towards the fish, though not
We are living in an area of \u200b\u200bsea, we find good quality to the market in the home, thanks to our fishmonger comes directly from Chioggia every Saturday and over the years has been able to advise on how best to enhance each dish.
SKEWERS WITH VEGETABLE OF PERSIAN
Cut the fillet of perch into cubes and put them
marinated with soy sauce and sprigs of thyme in the fridge for half an hour.
Cut the peppers and tomatoes into small pieces of similar size to that of the fish. Dial
the skewers alternating with vegetables like fish.
Preheat the grill and boil quickly on all sides.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Dune Buggy Plans Prints
We are in full season of cherries, and my mother-in-law often comes with a gift box full of his clients, because here, who has some 'ground easily has some cherry trees.
But I'm allergic to raw fruit, and after I cooked give no trouble, sifting through the site Coquinaria I found this easy recipe to get Private Message sour cherries or similar to the famous Blacksmith's good on ice cream and roll in this last year.
rattle off a kilo of cherries or sour cherries;
Let them soak for 1 hour in a low, wide pot with 700 g of sugar and juice of 1 lemon;
Put the pot on the stove and boil for 2 minutes;
Turn off the heat and let it all rest for 12 hours;
Remove the cherries and boil the remaining liquid over high heat for 15 minutes so that is reduced significantly to almost caramelize;
Add the cherries and, to taste, a glass of cherry liqueur, and simmer everything together for 2 minutes;
immediately put into the pots cleaned well and turn upside down to create the vacuum.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Music For Little Tikes Xylophone
The cake I wanted was to enhance the flavor with the right proportion between dough and apples, as well as allow me to divide the more preparation time, if necessary ;-).
This has me really happy, very similar to a dough crust, rustic at the right point that, thanks to the stuffing moist, it is very soft (try also stuffed with lemon cream), not too sweet to leave room for the flavor the filling is also good cold, which in the heat of these days is not bad.
Dough:
00 300 g flour 100 g butter
120 g granulated sugar vanilla 2 teaspoons yeast
Rum 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon
Salt Filling: 1 kg apples
Zest of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg yolk
Prepare the filling:
peel and cut apples into small pieces,
cook with lemon zest and sugar until they are reduced in cream,
Prepare the dough:
sift flour with baking powder,
Knead until a smooth dough, let rest a couple of hours to cool.
With 2 / 3 of the dough and line the bottom edges of a cake pan with a diameter of 24 cm.
Fill with apple filling.
Spread the remaining pastry into a circle the same diameter and cover the cake.
Brush with beaten egg yolk with a fork and draw the decorations as desired, and then perforated in several places to release steam.
Bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Cinderella Dresses At Tk Max
return to be more present, for now we are literally kidnapped by the owner of that hand that you see them below, but now has become much more chubby then.
To celebrate the arrival of Martin with friends we had a nice garden party on a beautiful sunny day where the older babies had fun running and making soap bubbles.
the buffet was responsible for my mother-in-law, the only thing that I have dedicated myself I was the cake, was bound to be special, and after days of consultations between books, magazines and books I put the pieces together and came out this hedgehog is a bit 'special but absolutely gorgeous.
sponge
diameter 26 cm
flour 125 g sugar 4 eggs 125
starch 25 g
Sale
vanilla extract Lemon peel
Beat eggs with sugar , a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and grated rind of half a lemon.
Sift the flour with the starch and add gently to the mounted eggs.
Pour the mixture into greased and floured cake pan.
Bake at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
Chantilly Cream Hazelnut Latte
yolks 650 g sugar 165 4
Maize starch 60
Sale
vanilla extract Lemon peel
hazelnut cream 2 tablespoons Fresh cream ½ liters
In a glass bowl, mix flour with sugar, add egg yolks, a pinch of salt, vanilla Cucchini and lemon peel. Add a little 'cold milk at a time.
Cook in microwave for 8-10 minutes, stirring every 2-3 minutes.
When warm add cream and hazelnuts.
Whip cream not too stiff. Add it to
hazelnut cream.
Marsala sabayon
125 g sugar 50 g flour 12 g
yolks 2
Heat Marsala without boiling,
Meanwhile, mix the sugar with the flour and add egg yolks.
Add the Marsala and cook a few minutes in a water bath.
Shape the cake dome, cut it in half,
wet both sides with a wet rum.
stuff it with half of hazelnut cream, a layer of zabaglione
,
and finally the remaining whipped hazelnut.
Cover with the top of the cake pan and refrigerate at least a couple of hours to compact.
Decoration:
whipped cream 200 g dark chocolate curls
Hazelnuts
Friday, May 9, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Wisconsin Licence Template
Risotto is one of those preparations that usually we have to give
because the lunch break is not long enough to savor the pleasure
to the point we have lost the habit of doing so on other occasions if not sporadically.
This risotto is a bit 'out of classical but very good and fresh,
addition to being a good way to empty the drawer of the refrigerator by the remains of the salad, because it lends itself to being made with what you have at home , the ideal would be lettuce, but now I
dell'insalatina cutting to which I added to enhance the flavor of the arugula.
rice soup and arugula salad
400 g 50/60 g
Robiola 1 cube 100g
walnut butter 1 onion white wine ½
Fry finely chopped onion in butter.
Add the rice and toast it for a couple of minutes.
Blend with a splash of white wine and let evaporate.
Add the hot broth a bit 'at a time, until the rice is cooked, it will take 16 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut julienne salad.
When cooked, turn off the heat, add the salad and robiola rice, stir for a few minutes
leave.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Ap 2 Versus Callaway Tour
These days the time to write down the recipes here that I feel is very little and thus also to participate in various initiatives and bloggosfera meme,
run all day between work, swimming pool and hospital
as if all this were not enough, last week passed away one of my grandmothers who almost failed to become a grandmother for the first time, and also the health of other family gives me a lot to think about, but I
effort to stay as calm as possible in these last weeks of pregnancy trying to carve out a little 'room for rest because of all this stress begins to be felt.
To take your mind these days I only made a few interesting little things that I never stopped to photograph them so I can just repeat the sbloggherò, meanwhile, believe the word that I had a great pizza soft as those cut from a bakery, a simple chocolate dessert in imitation of the famous Danette, a lot 'of breadsticks, a delicious carrot cake with Adrenalina, an avalanche of crostoli and candied orange peel.
This plum cake dates back to a fortnight ago, had long been teased me that this torment the good of Valeria Coquinaria and now that I have some organic oranges come directly from Sicily could not miss the chance to try it though with some adjustments to make it lighter and more palatable to my taste, thanks to a hint of chocolate.
Orange 1 large or 2 small
00 300 g flour 180 g Sugar
seed oil ½ cup
eggs 1 whole egg + 2 or 3 whole
yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 pinch
Dark chocolate
Place oranges in a blender, with the skin, washed and cut into pieces and blend until creamy.
Add the egg, sugar and half cup of vegetable oil and continue blending for a few minutes.
Pour into a bowl and slowly incorporate the flour and baking powder sifted previously.
Whip the egg whites with a pinch of salt and gently incorporate.
Pour into greased and floured loaf pan (the dough should ultimately cover just over half of the mold.) Bake 160 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
Garnish with thin threads of melted dark chocolate.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tailbone Injury How Long To Heal
from the "manifesto" of January 18, 2008 - article by Stefano Milani
Digital Playground The Subsitiue Stream
The Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda, author novels as "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories" and "Patagonia Express", has supported the protests of students and professors of the University 'La Sapienza Rome against the Pope's visit, writing from Gijon (city of Asturias, in Spain), a Chilean article published in "Le monde diplomatique. The article can be read in their original language at this address:
http://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/Eppur-si-muove.html
Here is the translation from English:
yet it moves (in Italian in the text)
We know that older people have mental regression that take them, sometimes, to happier times, full and intense
of their lives. Something similar must have happened to Ratzinger when he said that at the time of Galileo, the church was more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Sometimes
back to the happy years inquisitor during which raged, for example, against the advocates of liberation theology, that the mere exercise of reason that said to put next to the poor.
Or, worse yet, it is possible that his mental regressions bring back the days of the Hitler Youth when he accepted the right of Catholicism and took for the good fairy tale on which the Nazis, "by God to the king, the king the people and the people to the Führer. "
The University of Rome, in a 'perfect demonstration of force that can and should be civil and secular society, has forced the Vatican to terminate a Papal visit inexplicable, because if there is a place in the world which must remain free from lies, dogma and superstition, this is the University.
[...] The
example of what has happened in Rome should pave the way for a series of answers to questions that are in the air for a long time but which, or electoral calculations or lower his head for a politically correct , do not express aloud.
Some of these questions to which there can be no answer "until we can tolerate hordes of superstitious the dignity of women by attacking the clinics where abortion is practiced with diligence and make the exercise of legal right?
And until we allow a miserable with her skirt allow you to compare homosexuality with pedophilia?
And as long as we tolerate that the clergy describes itself champion of human rights and assert that secularism, the essence of democracy, puts them in danger? "
We can not grant authority and we can not give you much listening, when it comes to sex, persons who have renounced it and see it only as a reproductive function.
We can not allow human rights are invoked by those who not only closed their eyes when they were violated, but opened them very good to see the evil they were criminals, and to secure from them a reward in exchange of silence.
This made the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain, this did Pius XII during the Nazi era, so did the Catholic Church blesses the bombing in Vietnam, this was the behavior of the Catholic Church in Argentina, where he performed before and during the torturers " purifying mission "in secret prisons.
By her example, the 'University of Rome tells us that the defense of the state and non-denominational lay back d be an urgent task, because secularism is the last thing left to preserve this erie of achievements that are called Rights Rights and Freedoms.
The steady weakening of the state, due to globalization and the consequent politicization of the economy is yielding functions (so you do privatization) ultinazionali to companies that do not tolerate neither moral nor ethical, because their only purpose is profit, and leaves the company ndifesa in hand with superstition. It is no coincidence the delirium of Ratzinger in despising the reason for Galileo. And it was not even the videoconferencing ua participation in the first act of the election campaign of the English right, arties by the bishops. Nothing that makes the Catholic church, on this gigantic multinational headquarters in the Vatican, including banks, including Mafia connections, is random, and certainly does not obey divine aspirations.
The clergy know that the deepening freedoms of society, the achievement of civil rights, education
growth based on values \u200b\u200band not on folkloric traditions, as the fruit gives companies itelligenti, curious, able to accept the future as a collective challenge and not as a fatality. Ratzinger and the Vatican will be able to order the young University of Rome (already did the cowardly Prodi in his own way), women who abort exercising their right to be master of his own body, the guys who study citizenship education the judges who marry each other same-sex, scientists doing research with stem cells, but it is clear that, just as Galileo said: moves yet.
Luis Sepúlveda
Gijón, 16 de enero de 2008
(translation by L. Pasqualini)
Frozen Margarita Mix In A Bucket
article is about Stephen Milani from "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
"Out of the pope from the university." The slogan has become a symbol of these days, yesterday, a certainty. Increased from just five in the afternoon when the news reached the ears of the Pope's about-face students. I'm in the midst of an assembly of the collective locked inside a classroom of Political Science. It is to organize work, plan events, coordinate meetings of the network of "anti-clerical week" against the arrival of the host side. Suddenly a phone rings. Then another. And another. There is talk of rumors, rumors, rumors simple yet to be confirmed. But just take a round of phone calls to some friends, get someone who's in front of a computer and an Internet connection to confirm that you want. "The pope is no more." A scoop is all George Sestili, coordination of the collective wisdom, which almost does not believe it when he pronounces the sentence. 'It's true, it is true, say it also Internet sites, "confirming others. "So it's official?". "Yes, yes we won." The joy at this point is uncontrolled. Applause, shouts, slaps on the back. "Out of the pope from the University": the chorus part instantly. The first hot comments are euphoric. "He won the living body of the university." The "victory of secularism lla against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue," adds George. Francesco Raparelli, the Network for the self, goes further, calling the day yesterday, "an indication of policy for the country against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue. "To enjoy and understand this" historic victory "(as some call it 'all) but you must start from the beginning. From one day to the collective started at nine. The appointment is in front of the Physics Department. The day's program includes discussions, film screenings, meetings, meetings. There are those who prepare the sandwiches for lunch anticlerical, always based on pork and Piquette, who takes care of covering the lane inside the campus of leaflets and posters in which the effigy of Pope Ratzinger is crazy in all salse.Tutti damage to the waiting 12. At the stroke of half a wave is just a protest from the corridors the faculty moved into the heart of the academic institution: the rectory. Employment is too simple. Go up one floor and you enter into the hall of the Senate. Nobody expected it. Not even the janitor, took place in the ornamental plants have just arrived to make the entrance more welcoming Pope in Aula Magna. Angry are angry, but the tone remains peaceful. Without clear and the reasons: "For knowledge, a science and a secular university. So that learning needs neither priests nor masters. " And again: "Because the university is a community of scholars belonging to different cultural orientations, schools of thought, addresses scientific, religious beliefs policies and accessions, all equally recognized no privilege. " They want a meeting with Renato Guarini, the chancellor in person, so give them permission to be able to display to coincide with the pope's arrival at the university. A tug-of two hours, then finally the encounter with the "magnificent" which may receive the promised freedom of expression. Sure, you can not do it freely, but must remain within a given area, including the statue of Minerva and the Faculty of Arts, but students must be good with it. Just look at their smiles while leaving the offices of the rector. Smiles can not be compared to those who will be there a few hours with the announcement of the Holy See that for boys is a liberazione.E now? No pope no party? No way, the fight continues. With or without Ratzinger. But now the targets of student protests change perspectives. They crossed the Tiber and the Vatican go directly to the buildings policy. Now the "warm" reception will be for the Minister Mussi University and the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni. "And 'a scandal - says Francesco - who are given billions of public funding for Catholic institutions that deal with care, support and training. Mussi and Veltroni above we will still have to explain why in two years there have been significant steps in terms of funding for public universities and research. "also confirmed all the appointments of the" anti-clerical week ". "Frocessione" included. The march will start Thursday at 12 from Piazzale Aldo Moro and parade through the streets of San Lorenzo to "lay bare" say the organizers, "the Vatican's homophobia and misogyny." Because "not enough, the Pope out of Wisdom, we want out of our lives."
Pope descends from the chair: canceled visit to La Sapienza
article Eleonora Martini taken from the "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
Rome. "Following the well-known events of recent days in connection with the Holy Father's visit to the University of Rome La Sapienza, who at the invitation of the Rector would have to occur Thursday, January 17, it was decided to postpone the event. The Holy Father will send, however, the planned intervention. " It is the bare statement of the Vatican press office, but the effect is explosive in the Italian political world. And inevitably the telluric waves propagate inside the campus of Rome, by investing in particular the 67 teachers of the Physics Department who had criticized the invitation of the Rector but never support the protests students. But the decision has been taken Ratzinger seems more a problem of image and personal security, at least according to Interior Minister Amato. The Pope was "the subject of a gravissi mo rejection that occurs close cultural intolerance and undemocratic," charged in a statement Cei. Besides, how could the Holy Father appear in front of television around the world as one that raged outside the Great Hall of the Italian bishops call the "ideological violence and brawling a few"? The hope of the Presidency of the CEI is that the university can get back to normal "by restoring the cultural and educational function of the University." A blow to the Rector Renato Guarini who had hoped until the last, despite rumors that they were running for a couple of days and took it for possible twist. Then all day yesterday, Guarini was brokered with the students, meeting spaces and promising them so as not to see amplified and politicized their protest. Useless. When he learns to night "with regret" the news gives way to the temptation to point the finger at "some teachers who I call" bad teachers "." "The meeting with the Pope - reads the note from the Rector - could represent an important moment of reflection for believers and nonbelievers on ethical issues and civil rights, such as commitment to the abolition of the death penalty." The "Bad teachers" but do not rejoice even though many people consider "wise" decision of the Pope in particular, Marcello Cini, argued that the columns of the first manifesto of dissent with Guarini.
" I know that we have been branded as intolerant and we will be branded as extremists - says Cini - but I can only reiterate that the university is a community of scholars based on their gender debate of the issues more varied. Whoever owned this place for dialogue industry has every right to also support the thesis of the Pope and all my respect. But I have always been opposed to a monologue delivered by an external authority that proclaims itself the repository of absolute truth .
"The misconduct was invited - adds Giorgio Parisi, one of the 67 signatories - what happened next is the result of what we defined a" visit incongruous "." "Incredible though - Parisi claims - that the Vatican discovered only two days before the visit of Pope dissent and protest." "Very happy," the Pope's decision to waive the inauguration of the academic year is also the physical Andrea Frova, author of "Word of Galileo," which, translated into several languages, addresses the issue of relations between science and religion. Frova is among those who had "Agree with the arguments of Cini but not his ideological positions" and is keen to point out that politically far from obvious. "By expressing our point of view we have not done anything but respond to one of our civic duty. We were then exploited by politicians, the media and also by students. I find it unworthy of a democratic country occupations and protests that bring the university to the climate of the '70s. " But it is not repentant, Frova, "It does not matter now if the Pope's speech will be distributed and read by someone, it is important to demonstrate that the Italians are not all equal. Some people do not bow before the Pope IPS dixit. "
Wisdom: the "no pope" did not give up
(article by Stefano Milani - taken from the "manifesto" of January 15, 2008)
"Fra 'Giordano is burned, Galileo recanted. We will remain against the Papacy! No Pope. " The huge banner hoisted at the entrance of Wisdom is the personal "welcome" that academics have prepared a Roman Benedict XVI during his visit Thursday. And this is just the appetizer. For the rest Just take a ride inside the campus, all carpeted for the opportunity to playbills, posters and stickers against the uninvited guest. Was not spared even the Minerva statue, symbol of the Roman, covered by another sign which reads: "Knowledge needs neither fathers nor priests for knowledge, a science and a secular university." We read not for long, probably. The square is in transformation. Within two days the entire area will be off-limits to students and curious. And the reclamation work is well advanced. The tapes already surround the entire perimeter and signs warn "zone closed to parking on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17. The workers are to work from the early hours of yesterday so that everything runs smoothly. New asphalt, whitewashed walls, sidewalks, stucco, elbow grease to remove the black from the steps that lead straight to an assembly hall. "Which is all the pope must shine," says a scavenger ridendo.Gli students, for now, observe distant busy to develop the organizers of the "anti-clerical week" officially started yesterday with a lot of room "anti-pope" of bread, pork and wine. Alongside the students, even some teachers and almost all representatives of the collectives and associations of left Udu, Cobas, Action, Left critical Uaar, coordinating collective network for self-protection, coordination "Let's breakthrough," the collective of feminists' Sui generis', 'The apple of Eve, "" The ribelulle. But the membership increased from hour to ora.Il billboard of events is very dense. There will be projections on the life of Galileo, a mixture of student-teachers meetings, debates about evolution and creationism. All Thursday and waiting for the arrival of the pontiff. That day will begin early, 9 am, with flyers and principals in all faculties. Then comes the turn of 'the chapel sbattesimo university' students in clerical garb bless the audience with liters of vin santo. At noon, the protest will move out by the University where the volume will rise to the maximum for the 'siege sound. " At 14 and will suffer the "frocessione against the rights denied," march organized by the LGBT collective protest against a Pope "the bearer of dogma against the freedom of scientific thought and against the free circulation of knowledge ', which will cross the nearby district of San Lorenzo to return to the square of the Minerva, where the comedian Andrea Rivera will give its personal keynote. "We organized this day of protest in a very peaceful, creative and communicative," says George of the collective of Physics, one of the organizers of the protest, ensuring that "there will be moments of tension." Only 'complaints Minutes "at the pope, but also to the Minister for Universities and Research Mussi (" against the selection mechanisms for a real right to study) and from Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni ("for the security package and its security policies. ") At the university chapel air we breathe but completely different. Some guys are busy cleaning the interior of the church in view of the papal blessing. With them the activists of "Militia Christi" and "Communion and Liberation who are organizing a counter-protest on Thursday, the protesters .
Marcello Cini's letter to the Chancellor
This is the letter sent by Marcello Cini during the month of November 2007 to the Rector Renato Guarini, on the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at the University, the visit had been arranged for January 17, 2008. Later, dozens of other professors have signed (the end of the article you can 'read the letter of support to Cini that they wrote) and in January about 700 professors have endorsed the content.
* If Wisdom calls the Pope to leave home *
Mussi Marcello Cini
Mr. Rector, I learn from a memorandum dated November 1 AGI news agency that says, "is changed program of the inauguration 705esimo the Academic Year University of Rome La Sapienza, which initially included the presence of minister Mussi LectioMagistralis to listen to Pope Benedict XVI. " The pope "will be, but after the opening ceremony, and the Minister Fabio Mussi University instead there will be no more." As a professor emeritus of the University La Sapienza - resort in recent days fifty years after my call to join the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the suggestion of physical Edoardo Amaldi, Giorgio Salvini, Enrico Persico - I can not esprimerepubblicamente my indignation at your proposal, communicated to the Senate on October 23, clumsily repaired later with a patch that tries to hide the hole and at the same time it bears the majority of the political objective and the media. Not comment on the sad fact that you have been elected with the decisive contribution of a secular electorate. A Catholic Democrat - all represented by the example of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro nelcorso of his seven-year presidency of the Republic - would never dream of forgetting that since September 20, 1870 Rome is no longer the capital of the Papal States. I shall focus instead on the incredible breach of the traditional autonomy of universities - more than 705 years incarnated in the world by His Wisdom iniziativa.Sul formal plan, first of all. Although in the first centuries after the founding of universities theology has been taught alongside the humanities, philosophy, mathematics and natural, is not yesterday that this discipline is no more trace in the modern universities, at least in those states' public non-denominational. I do not know the status of the University of Regensburg, where Professor Ratzinger gave the keynote note which I shall discuss later, but I insist that as a rule it is only part of the religious instruction given in universities.
The themes that were the subject of the studies of Professor Ratzinger, however, should not fall under the topics of a lesson, much less of a keynote, held in a university the Italian Republic. Especially if one considers that, since the time of Descartes, was reached to end the conflict between knowledge and faith culminated in the condemnation of Galileo by the Holy Office, a division of spheres of competence between the Academy and Church. His blatant violation of the academic year during the inauguration of La Sapienza was regarded in the world as a step back in time three hundred years and more. On the substantive
then the implications would be even more devastating. Consider them starting right from the text of the keynote of Professor Ratzinger in Regensburg, from which presumably would not have deviated much that of Rome. In it is it clear that the policy of the papacy of Benedict XVI is based on the thesis that the division of the respective spheres of competence between faith and knowledge is no longer valid. "Deep ... it is - I quote - the encounter between faith and reason, between genuine enlightenment and religione.Partendo the very heart of Christian faith and, at the same time, the nature of greek thought now joined to faith, Manuel II was able to say: Not to act "with logos" is contrary to God's nature. "Do not insist on the dangers of this program in terms of politics and culture: just think of the reaction in the Muslim world that there would dall'accenno the difference between the Christian God and Allah - attributed to supposed rationality of the first in comparison to the unpredictable irrationality of the second - which would in turn gave rise to the meekness of the Christian and Islamic violence. It takes a lot of courage to support this view and hide under the mat the Crusades, the pogroms against the Jews, the extermination of the natives of the Americas, the slave trade, the stakes of the Christians have given the world. Here I am interested, however, that this encounter between faith and reason, a conception of science as follows ambitiparziali a broader and more general rational knowledge which they should be subordinate. "The reason for its modern natural science - in fact, concluded the Pope - with the inherent his Platonic element bears within itself a question which transcends all the possibilities of its methodology. It simply has to accept the rational structure of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a matter of fact, which is based on its methodology. But the question (why this did datodi) exists and needs to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought - to philosophy and theology. For philosophy and, in a different way, for theology, listening to the grandiesperienze and beliefs of the religious traditions of humanity, especially that of the Christian faith is a source of knowledge, and to ignore it in would be an unacceptable restriction of our listening and responding. "
Beyond these circumlocutions design shows that in his new role, the former head of the Holy Office did not forget the task that traditionally compete in it. That's always been and continues to be the expropriation of the sphere of the sacred inherent in the depth of feelings and emotions of every human being by an institution claiming the exclusivity of mediation between the human and the divino.Un 'ownership that ignores and demeans the many different historical and geographical forms of this sphere so intimate and delicate without respect for personal dignity and integrity of each, however, changed individuo.Ha strategy. No longer able to use stakes and corporal punishment has learned from Ulysses. He used the effigy of the Goddess of Enlightenment Reason as a Trojan horse to enter the citadel of scientific knowledge and put it in line. I am not exaggerating. What is more, just as an example, the explicit support of the pope gave to the so-called theory of Intelligent Design but the attempt - led among others by a clumsy denial of the historical evidence, a gross distortion of the contents of internal disputes the scientific community and the old trick of caricature of the positions of the opponent - to bring the science under the pseudo-rational dogmas of the religion? And how they should react colleagues biologists and their students face a more or less indirect attack on the Darwinian theory of biological evolution that underlies all over the world of modern evolutionary biology? I can not understand, therefore, the reasons for your proposal so improvident and detrimental to the image of La Sapienza in the world. The result of his initiative, even in watered down form the Pope's visit (with "a salute to the university community) after an inauguration illegal inevitably will, however, that the newspapers of the day dopotitoleranno (you can not expect much going for the subtle ): "The Pope opens academic year at La Sapienza University." Congratulations, Mr. Rector. The His portrait will be next to those of his predecessors as a symbol of the autonomy of culture and progress of science.
The letter of support to Marcello Cini
Rome November 23, 2007
Rector, with these few lines wishes to note that we fully share the point of critical Mr Marcello Cini who addressed the press about the staggering initiative involving the intervention of Pope Benedict XVI at the inauguration of the Academic Sapienza.Nulla to add to the arguments of Cini, except for one thing. On March 15, 1990, still Cardinal, in a speech in the city of Parma, Joseph Ratzinger has taken a statement by Feyerabend: "At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Ilprocesso against Galileo was reasonable and fair. " These words, as scientists faithful to reason and as teachers who dedicate their lives to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, offend us and we umiliano.In name of secularism of science and culture and respect of our University open to teachers and students of all faiths and of all ideologies, we hope that the incongruous event can still be canceled. The dutiful
we send greetings,
Gabriella Augusti Tocco, Luciano M. Barone, Carlo Bernardini, Maria GraziaBetti, Enrico Bonatti, Maurizio Bonora, Federico Bordi, Bruno Borgia, VandaBouche ', Cacciani Marco, Francesco Calogero, Paolo Calvani, Paolo Camiz, Mario Capizzi, Antonio Capone, Sergio Caprara, Marzio Cassander, ClaudioCastellani, Flippo Cesi, Ciapetti Guido, Giovanni Ciccotti, Guido Corbo ', Cosmelli Carlo, Antonio Degasperis. Francesco De Luca, Francesco De Martini, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Carlo Di Castro, Carlo Doglioni, Massimo Falcioni, Favini Bernardo, Valeria Ferrari, Fernando Ferroni, Andrea Frova, MarcoGrilli, Maria Grazia Ianniello, Egidio Longo, Stefano Lupi, MaurizioLusignoli, Luciano Maiani, Carlo Mariani, Enzo Marinari, Paola Maselli, Enrico Massaro, Paolo Mataloni, Mario Mattioli, Giovanni Organtini, PaolaPaggi, Giorgio Parisi, Gianni I, Silvano Petrarca, Giancarlo Poiana, Tersenghi Federico Ricci, Giovanni Rosa, Enzo Scandurra, Massimo Testa, Brunello Tirozzi, Rita Vargas, Miguel A. Virasoro, Angelo Vulpiani, Lucia Zanello.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Studio 10 Quickstart Slow Motion
Another experiment I did for this New Year is based desserts Verduzzo Gold then it was not possible because we found ourselves in too many people and there was the risk of not being able to manage well plate, however the result was certainly pleasant and elegant even if you try to reduce the gelatin and increase the percentage of wine compared to that of the syrup.
For 4 hemispheres:
Sugar 70 g Water 100 g
vanilla
Verduzzo golden orange peel 100 g
Isinglass 10 g (2 sheets and a half)
Boil water with sugar, orange peel and the vanilla bean open.
Cover with foil and set aside for an hour.
Soak gelatin in cold water, then dissolve it with a little 'syrup.
Strain the syrup, add the wine and the gelatin dissolved.
Pour into molds and leave in the fridge.
For the zabaglione:
2 egg yolks 40 g sugar 40 g golden
Verduzzo
With a Whip the egg yolks with sugar work,
incorporate good wine and put on a pot in a water bath, stirring constantly,
when the cream begins to thicken remove from heat immediately and
mount with electric whisk until it is cool.
To assemble the dish with a bed of eggnog, the hemisphere of wine, zest
of candied orange peel for a few minutes on a
saucepan with a little 'sugar and water
cookie crumbs and butter.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Letter Requesting Cosigner
This year for Christmas dinner we chose the restaurant where we got married, the Alameda a place where we always be sure to taste the prepared dishes from our area with passion and served with due care and attention.
After a lunch to our expectations, came into the pastry room with a fabulous cake, measuring 1 meter by 3, which was very good then, a puff pastry with a soft cream with coffee and white chocolate flakes.
Of course when we got home, I did not wait to try to replicate it my way, and what better time of New Year's Eve dinner?
I had never had a puff pastry but with the help of the puff pastry ready I must say it was very easy, and it was delicious.
E 'much longer to describe than to do, because you can divide the work into two days, the first
prepare meringue disks of pastry and pastry cream,
the second you add the cream to the cream, then made the cake and put in the freezer a few hours before
decorates the dinner and storing in the refrigerator.
meringue disc :
egg whites 140 g sugar 280 g
lemon juice
Mount (but not completely) the egg whites with a little 'of lemon juice.
Add a bit 'at a time, half the sugar by filling the frame. Embed
hand the remaining sugar.
On a sheet of baking paper bag with a few print a hard, not too often, from the center and continuing to spiral to form a circle 26 cm in diameter. With the remaining meringue to make
of elements which are then crushed to cover the cake.
Bake valve open (ie with a pot holder that keeps it a bit 'open) at 120 ° until it begins to change color, it will take at least half an hour, then lower the temperature at 85-90 degrees and continue cooking until it is completely dry.
2 puff pastry: Cut the
2 rolls of pastry discs of 26 cm. in diameter and prick well with a fork so that not too swell.
Bake (including trimmings) at 180 ° for 10-15 minutes, until well browned.
cream coffee :
Milk 500 gr
3 Egg yolks 90 g sugar 45 g
Maizena
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Instant coffee 3 tablespoons
Fresh cream 400 gr
In a glass bowl mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt, then add the yolks
blending it all with a few spoonfuls of milk,
then add the remaining milk, stirring well.
Put it in the microwave at 750W and lead to boil, stirring well every 2 minutes.
soon removed from the oven to add at least 3 tablespoons of instant coffee (to be precise in everything I put 8 teaspoons).
Cool, then stir in the plane from the bottom up 400 g of whipped cream.
Mounts sweet :
is trimmed to bring the three discs the same diameter,
then, using a mobile circle and then starting from the bottom of the cake:
- meringue disk
- layer of coffee cream - disc of puff pastry - layer of coffee cream
-
disc of puff pastry - thin layer of coffee cream
I then put in freezer for half a day so it compacts well and facilitate the work of decoration. It decorates
:
I put the cake on serving plate and removed the metal rim,
I smeared the good little cream remaining on the edges of the cake.
well I crumbled pastry scraps and used them to cover the edge.
I cut the lines of getting the meringue crumbs I used to cover the surface of the cake.
dusted with ground coffee.
I had white chocolate, which otherwise would have been put in scales on each layer of cream.