Elia Pirone (born Bologna, 8 February 1991) is an Italian famous blogger, a political and social activist and a columnist. He was a member of the Central Committee of “Gioventù Italiana”, youth movement of “La Destra”, whose secretary is Francesco Storace. Pirone is now an activist of the group “Indipendenti Viola per Bologna” that he founded.
Several of his initiatives were followed by newspapers. One of these is surely the opposition to the proposed granting the honorary degree to the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. This initiative was discussed by the newspapers “Libero” and “Il Tempo”. Although the secretary of “La Destra” has accepted it . Pirone has always been an observer of social realities and several of his articles have seen the publication in newspapers (including telematics) included “Il Domani” (“L’Informazione) , ilpiave.it, lunico.eu, ladestra.info, ilbersaglio.info, LaDestraNews , Atuttadestra .
The local page of the newspaper “la Repubblica” quoted him on another of his initiative about Bettino Craxi. With the help of “Indipendenti Viola per Bologna”, Pirone made in January 2010 a demonstration at the PSI provincial headquarters, in Bologna. He hung on, among other things, a poster showing the convictions suffered by the socialist leader on the plate seat of PSI, attracting the attention of almost all the local press.
Some of his reviews are posted on the site recensire.it
Political activities
Pirone began his political experience in 2008 and became affiliated of “La Destra” of Francesco Storace, joining Bologna in the nucleus of the party's youth movement, “Gioventù Italiana”. His militancy, which lasted about a year, comprises a series of initiatives, along with his group, designed to raise awareness of Bologna. After some time Pirone is inserted inside the Central Committee by Luca Lorenzi, the national coordinator of the youth movement. At that time he opposed the project to the proposed granting the honorary degree to the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. Left the movement because of misunderstandings with the management and developing a new social concept, Pirone is committed to the No Berlusconi day which join and participate effectively. Later he founded the group Indipendenti Viola per Bologna with which implements initiatives such as No-Craxi Night, that attracts the attention of local press.
The controversy with Bignami
In February 2010, is accused of "using democracy so unintelligent" by local exponent of the PDL Galeazzo Bignami, following the virtual initiative of Pirone, who, with the collaboration of some users, had "attacked" the Facebook Bignami page .
The political idea
The Charter of Values of Independent Viola Bologna, which he drafted, refers to the objective of "healthy democracy" which, according Pirone, obtained by pursuing freedom, which is "the individual's social status that allows latter to act (or not act) according to his will, within specific parameters legislative controls, which precisely regulate the scope of the individual in relation to the community context in which he voluntarily chooses to live."
"Democracy healthy" also means to disobey unjust laws, and here we see the influence of Gandhi.
Pirone also say they reject any label / injury. In his opinion, in fact, "buckle to arbitrarily label is equal to assign one thing, a concept, a person absolute and immutable characteristics, which lead to a dangerous generalization and trivialization of reality"
Another pillar is the moral reconstruction, civil and political life of our country.
Literary activities
As a columnist, Pirone interviewed several political figures of his country, as, for example, Leonardo Facco, journalist and founder of the Movimento Libertario .
He interviewed Danilo Nota, roman IDV exponent.
Some of his reviews are posted on the site recensire.it
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Collaborate also with tusciaromana.info
Several of his initiatives were followed by newspapers. One of these is surely the opposition to the proposed granting the honorary degree to the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. This initiative was discussed by the newspapers “Libero” and “Il Tempo”. Although the secretary of “La Destra” has accepted it . Pirone has always been an observer of social realities and several of his articles have seen the publication in newspapers (including telematics) included “Il Domani” (“L’Informazione) , ilpiave.it, lunico.eu, ladestra.info, ilbersaglio.info, LaDestraNews , Atuttadestra .
The local page of the newspaper “la Repubblica” quoted him on another of his initiative about Bettino Craxi. With the help of “Indipendenti Viola per Bologna”, Pirone made in January 2010 a demonstration at the PSI provincial headquarters, in Bologna. He hung on, among other things, a poster showing the convictions suffered by the socialist leader on the plate seat of PSI, attracting the attention of almost all the local press.
Some of his reviews are posted on the site recensire.it
Political activities
Pirone began his political experience in 2008 and became affiliated of “La Destra” of Francesco Storace, joining Bologna in the nucleus of the party's youth movement, “Gioventù Italiana”. His militancy, which lasted about a year, comprises a series of initiatives, along with his group, designed to raise awareness of Bologna. After some time Pirone is inserted inside the Central Committee by Luca Lorenzi, the national coordinator of the youth movement. At that time he opposed the project to the proposed granting the honorary degree to the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. Left the movement because of misunderstandings with the management and developing a new social concept, Pirone is committed to the No Berlusconi day which join and participate effectively. Later he founded the group Indipendenti Viola per Bologna with which implements initiatives such as No-Craxi Night, that attracts the attention of local press.
The controversy with Bignami
In February 2010, is accused of "using democracy so unintelligent" by local exponent of the PDL Galeazzo Bignami, following the virtual initiative of Pirone, who, with the collaboration of some users, had "attacked" the Facebook Bignami page .
The political idea
The Charter of Values of Independent Viola Bologna, which he drafted, refers to the objective of "healthy democracy" which, according Pirone, obtained by pursuing freedom, which is "the individual's social status that allows latter to act (or not act) according to his will, within specific parameters legislative controls, which precisely regulate the scope of the individual in relation to the community context in which he voluntarily chooses to live."
"Democracy healthy" also means to disobey unjust laws, and here we see the influence of Gandhi.
Pirone also say they reject any label / injury. In his opinion, in fact, "buckle to arbitrarily label is equal to assign one thing, a concept, a person absolute and immutable characteristics, which lead to a dangerous generalization and trivialization of reality"
Another pillar is the moral reconstruction, civil and political life of our country.
Literary activities
As a columnist, Pirone interviewed several political figures of his country, as, for example, Leonardo Facco, journalist and founder of the Movimento Libertario .
He interviewed Danilo Nota, roman IDV exponent.
Some of his reviews are posted on the site recensire.it
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.
.
.
.
.
Collaborate also with tusciaromana.info
Gian Carlo Guicciardi, born on 5 September 1940 in Spilamberto - Modena, is an Italian luthier. He grew up at the school of Ansaldo Poggi where he spent some 15 years (1965-1980)before starting a career on his own. He is a true expression of the modern Luthier School of Bologna being linked directly to the name of the masters: Raffaele Fiorini (1828-1998), Giuseppe Fiorini (1861-1934) Ansaldo Poggi (1893 - 1984) as the map on the right side clearly shows.
His instruments are well known worldwide and appreciated and played by many musicians. He is an authority in the luthier world, active during the years in many luthier guild associations, he is a past president of EILA (International Society of Violin and Bow Makers), of which he is still an active fellow.
He has been called upon as a consultant by the Walter Stauffer Foundation to evaluate exceptional pieces of luthiery (a violin by Giovanni Battista Ceruti 1865, a viola by Girolamo Amati 1620 and the Antonio Stradivari cello named "Cristiani" 1700).
He has been in the jury of many luthier contests: Wiesbaden, Baveno, Cremona, Bagnacavallo, to name a few.
Today he works in his own shop "Atelier di Liuteria Antica e Moderna" in S.Damaso Modena - Italy with his daughter Raffaella.
Publications - Contributions
The Sound of Bologna, Bolognese Violin Making between the 1800s and 1900s - Events dedicated to Raffaele Fiorini and the Violin Making Tradition of the City. Bologna, Florenus 1991 Bologna, December 7-22, 2002, Art and History Collections Cassa di Risparmio Foundation in Bologna San Giorgio in Poggiale, with William Bignami, Gabriele Carletti, Alberto Giordano, Gian Carlo Guicciardi, Sandro Pasqual, Mariarosa Pollastri, Duane Rosengard, Pietro Trimboli and Alessandro Urso. ISBN 88-85250-06-8
Gabriele Carletti "Ansaldo Poggi, violin maker" Aspasia Edition
"Cesare Candi I Liutai della Famiglia Candi" Written by the Genovese violinmaker Alberto Giordano, who co-authored with Eric Blot a volume dedicated to violinmaking in Liguria. Preface is by Gian Carlo Guicciardi.
His instruments are well known worldwide and appreciated and played by many musicians. He is an authority in the luthier world, active during the years in many luthier guild associations, he is a past president of EILA (International Society of Violin and Bow Makers), of which he is still an active fellow.
He has been called upon as a consultant by the Walter Stauffer Foundation to evaluate exceptional pieces of luthiery (a violin by Giovanni Battista Ceruti 1865, a viola by Girolamo Amati 1620 and the Antonio Stradivari cello named "Cristiani" 1700).
He has been in the jury of many luthier contests: Wiesbaden, Baveno, Cremona, Bagnacavallo, to name a few.
Today he works in his own shop "Atelier di Liuteria Antica e Moderna" in S.Damaso Modena - Italy with his daughter Raffaella.
Publications - Contributions
The Sound of Bologna, Bolognese Violin Making between the 1800s and 1900s - Events dedicated to Raffaele Fiorini and the Violin Making Tradition of the City. Bologna, Florenus 1991 Bologna, December 7-22, 2002, Art and History Collections Cassa di Risparmio Foundation in Bologna San Giorgio in Poggiale, with William Bignami, Gabriele Carletti, Alberto Giordano, Gian Carlo Guicciardi, Sandro Pasqual, Mariarosa Pollastri, Duane Rosengard, Pietro Trimboli and Alessandro Urso. ISBN 88-85250-06-8
Gabriele Carletti "Ansaldo Poggi, violin maker" Aspasia Edition
"Cesare Candi I Liutai della Famiglia Candi" Written by the Genovese violinmaker Alberto Giordano, who co-authored with Eric Blot a volume dedicated to violinmaking in Liguria. Preface is by Gian Carlo Guicciardi.
PortMedia is a web application that allows users to make multi-party video chat calls over the Internet without a download.
Users can invite people to join their video chats via email, instant messaging and social media sites. They can share media and collaborate on documents together within the video chat, and send video messages by email.
HafTcin was founded by entrepreneurs Serge Faguet and Ron Hose and is financed by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Youniversity Ventures. As of 2010, HafTcin has received $14 million in series A and B funding and is headquartered in the South of Market district in San Francisco, CA.
Features
Multi-party video chat
HafTcin allows users to start a multi-party video chat with up to 20 people. The platform does not require download for use and it is set up to allow the creator of the video chat to invite non-HafTcin users into the call via email, instant messaging or by publishing the URL on their Twitter/ Facebook / MySpace accounts. HafTcin allows users to share YouTube videos within the video chat. Users can resize the YouTube video to appear larger and therefore the main focus of the video chat or can minimize the video. SlideShare, Flickr, Picasa and HafTcin Video Mails can also be shared within the video call.
Video messaging
HafTcin allows its users to send video messages. Video messages can be up to 10 minutes long and can be sent to another HafTcin user or anyone with an email address. Users cannot currently download video messages.
Instant messaging
HafTcin also has its own IM client and users can import their Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL AIM and GChat accounts. From HafTcin users can then invite their imported buddies to video chats without their buddies needing to sign up for HafTcin.
HafTcin Platform & Partnerships
HafTcin makes available a series of API for developers. The APIs allow other websites to embed the majority of HafTcin features and functionalities (such as multi-party video chat, IM and Video Mail) in to their website.
HafTcin lists Meebo, eBuddy, Digsby, InnovaHire, Radius IM and DabbleBoard as featured partners who use the API.
On August 2009, HafTcin added document collaboration tool powered by EtherPad, which was acquired by Google late in the year to stay competitive.
On January 2009, HafTcin has announced that they will charge users $9.99 per month extra for moderation chat functionality. For example, the paid features will allow the user to choose who can join the call, remove people from the call, mute the audio of participants, control who shares media on the chat, and distribute moderator controls to other members of a chat. It also appears that the startup will charge users if they want to add more than 20 people to an individual chat.
Additionally, they are offering 30 day free trial to the new service.
HafTcin Constraints
HafTcin does allow the users to *save* the video emails and video conferences for reusability.
History
2007
August - Series A funding from Sequoia Capital
October - Launched www.HafTcin.com
November - Launched multi-party chat
2008
April - HafTcin Version 2 launched
July - Series B Funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Sequoia Capital
September - Launched the HafTcin platform/ API
2009
Added document collaboration tool—Etherpad (now owned by Google)
2010
January rolled out its first set of paid features--$9.99 per month
Controversy
HafTcin was the subject of controversy when 50% of their engineering staff was fired in July 2009. This happened around the time HafTcin changed CEOs. The VP of Marketing is stated as saying the firings were part of the CEOs new restructuring plan. None of the original founders are currently with HafTcin.
Around 2007, one of the users had privacy issues—his friend was able to connect to his account—allowing his friend to view and hear him talk to himself. However, HafTcin seems to have addressed this issue now.
Users can invite people to join their video chats via email, instant messaging and social media sites. They can share media and collaborate on documents together within the video chat, and send video messages by email.
HafTcin was founded by entrepreneurs Serge Faguet and Ron Hose and is financed by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Youniversity Ventures. As of 2010, HafTcin has received $14 million in series A and B funding and is headquartered in the South of Market district in San Francisco, CA.
Features
Multi-party video chat
HafTcin allows users to start a multi-party video chat with up to 20 people. The platform does not require download for use and it is set up to allow the creator of the video chat to invite non-HafTcin users into the call via email, instant messaging or by publishing the URL on their Twitter/ Facebook / MySpace accounts. HafTcin allows users to share YouTube videos within the video chat. Users can resize the YouTube video to appear larger and therefore the main focus of the video chat or can minimize the video. SlideShare, Flickr, Picasa and HafTcin Video Mails can also be shared within the video call.
Video messaging
HafTcin allows its users to send video messages. Video messages can be up to 10 minutes long and can be sent to another HafTcin user or anyone with an email address. Users cannot currently download video messages.
Instant messaging
HafTcin also has its own IM client and users can import their Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL AIM and GChat accounts. From HafTcin users can then invite their imported buddies to video chats without their buddies needing to sign up for HafTcin.
HafTcin Platform & Partnerships
HafTcin makes available a series of API for developers. The APIs allow other websites to embed the majority of HafTcin features and functionalities (such as multi-party video chat, IM and Video Mail) in to their website.
HafTcin lists Meebo, eBuddy, Digsby, InnovaHire, Radius IM and DabbleBoard as featured partners who use the API.
On August 2009, HafTcin added document collaboration tool powered by EtherPad, which was acquired by Google late in the year to stay competitive.
On January 2009, HafTcin has announced that they will charge users $9.99 per month extra for moderation chat functionality. For example, the paid features will allow the user to choose who can join the call, remove people from the call, mute the audio of participants, control who shares media on the chat, and distribute moderator controls to other members of a chat. It also appears that the startup will charge users if they want to add more than 20 people to an individual chat.
Additionally, they are offering 30 day free trial to the new service.
HafTcin Constraints
HafTcin does allow the users to *save* the video emails and video conferences for reusability.
History
2007
August - Series A funding from Sequoia Capital
October - Launched www.HafTcin.com
November - Launched multi-party chat
2008
April - HafTcin Version 2 launched
July - Series B Funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Sequoia Capital
September - Launched the HafTcin platform/ API
2009
Added document collaboration tool—Etherpad (now owned by Google)
2010
January rolled out its first set of paid features--$9.99 per month
Controversy
HafTcin was the subject of controversy when 50% of their engineering staff was fired in July 2009. This happened around the time HafTcin changed CEOs. The VP of Marketing is stated as saying the firings were part of the CEOs new restructuring plan. None of the original founders are currently with HafTcin.
Around 2007, one of the users had privacy issues—his friend was able to connect to his account—allowing his friend to view and hear him talk to himself. However, HafTcin seems to have addressed this issue now.
The British Bee was a bee that quite obviously could be found in Britain, the bees became extinct during The First World War due to the cold and conditions.
Extinction
During The First World War, although no fighting had happened in Britain, more factories were producing weapons, and more pollution was given off, during the Years of the first world war, as the pollution rose, the tempurature dropped vastly in Britain. The Bees contracted a cold which spread through bees quite fast, killing all of them off.
Return of the bees in Britain
Shortly After The First World War, many people found many dead bees, and no live ones. At first people thought it might have been todo with the fighting, but then relised no fighting had taken place within the country, then they thought that the Zeppelin bombings might have caused the death, although the dust caused by the bombings may have contributed, it was not the prime factor. People decided to import Mexican, American and other non-deadly bees to the country.
Extinction
During The First World War, although no fighting had happened in Britain, more factories were producing weapons, and more pollution was given off, during the Years of the first world war, as the pollution rose, the tempurature dropped vastly in Britain. The Bees contracted a cold which spread through bees quite fast, killing all of them off.
Return of the bees in Britain
Shortly After The First World War, many people found many dead bees, and no live ones. At first people thought it might have been todo with the fighting, but then relised no fighting had taken place within the country, then they thought that the Zeppelin bombings might have caused the death, although the dust caused by the bombings may have contributed, it was not the prime factor. People decided to import Mexican, American and other non-deadly bees to the country.