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a suppository stuck in between the buildings of Barcelona

The Torre Agbar is 145 meters high and has 38 floors, four of which are underground, but it is not the tallest skyscraper in Barcelona, or better still it not even seem to be a skyscraper to judge from the shape.

The (French) architect who conceived the shape of the tower tried to explain that he was inspired by the image of a rising water geyser and that, with all the stuff Gaudí left all around the city, the Agbar Tower was absolutely serious in his opinion. Now, for sure the architect is not entirely wrong, but this time the Barcelonans have been at least backstabbed.

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are we sure the Rambla is a tourist attraction?

La Rambla of Barcelona is the long street that from Plaça de Catalunya , center of the city, leads to a few meters from the sea, where there is the Christopher Columbus Monument, el Mirador de Colón . According to someone Barcelona without the Rambla would be nothing because many people think the spirit of the city is concentrated there; according to others this street is considered as the best place where you can indulge in the English ritual of paseo , or passeig as they call it in Catalunya.

In reality the Rambla is nothing else but a cauldron in which every day mimes from the doubtful abilities and distasteful living statues, buskers, caricaturists, sellers that try to saddle you with everything, ad-libbed fortune tellers take service. In short, you will find on this street anyone who has had to invent a job somehow or other. The only merit of these people? Not choosing to become pickpockets. Perhaps they would find much more fierce competition.

I do not think these are the characteristics of a place that wants to be a symbol of a city and letter of introduction for tourists. Have you seen that one in the picture? I leave you decide if he makes crying or laughing. In any case, I would not get a photo with him.

Furthermore all the streets that constitute the district of El Raval flow onto the Rambla. We are talking about the old Barri Xino (namely the old Barcelonan 'Chinatown'), today a popular district essentially populated by plenty of Pakistanis, Moroccans, Filipinos and Romanians immigrants many of them living on the edge of society. A den of pickpockets at any time of day and night offering live performances of robbery both in the streets of the Raval and on the Rambla, gypsies who sell flowers under the pretext of trying to take off your wallets and cheats inviting you to play the game of three bells.

You will realize you were talking with a snatcher only when, on leaving, you will find your pockets lighter. So, watch out to unknown people who try to chat up with you, seeming nice and trying not let you go until they have finished their job. Probably they will ask you questions about where you bought your trousers or about how much you paid for your belt to start to get their hands on and take off something from your pockets, provided that they have not done it before in the confusion of the crowd.

The market of prostitution deserves a separate mention. Especially overnight, but also during the day, in the innermost streets of the neighbourhood it offers bad taste scenes in Barcelona. Would you have a good time walking at night in the surroundings of what should be one of the greatest market in Europe (we are talking about the market of Boqueria ) and find condoms thrown all over to be shifted with your feet, if not even shameless sexual performances offered by young girls kneeling or bending ahead to their clients between the columns of the market?

If this should be the symbol of a city, then so much better to live in the desert.

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IPad, how it changes our lives

For the past couple of months I'm using the 'iPad this new tool created by Apple.

remember the comments of his early detractors who question the actual need for a "tool" of this type in their opinion, virtually useless.

For the benefit of those who still do not know it, the iPad is a sort of cross between an iPhone (mobile phone with a large display capable of performing many functions including the main one is that of ensuring easy accessibility to internet) and a small laptop. Its exact dimensions are 18.9 cm x 24.3 cm, weight about 700 gr. Thanks

we iPad easily combine virtually all the functions of a standard personal computer and a smartphone, except telephone.

leveraging its large display and its great speed you can read a newspaper or a novel, we can download movies or music files, can be used as a small portable playstation and of course we can sail in internet, write, send emails, prepare working papers have programs equivalent (and much better!) to the common office suite. And all this thanks to the 3G option that allows you to connect to the internet anywhere, we can do at any time of day and wherever we are: train, car, boat, home, on an island in the sea, on top of a mountain!

In a few months after its release, it is estimated that the world they have already sold over 3.5 million pieces !

course, the iPad has limitations and defects (size and weight considered excessive by some, the price - starting from € 499.00 for the base model - still high, an audio system limited , the inability to use it as a phone, make an object still imperfect) that Apple's main competitors are rushing to solve proposing alternative models, perhaps even more complete if less aesthetically beautiful and still come "after" the invention of Steve Jobs.

I have no doubt that within a short time, the market will offer alternatives to this tool. The fact remains that this "invention" like that of the computer and the phone is set to change our way of life and mostly for the better.

am an omnivorous reader and assiduous over twenty years and my first action in the morning is to direct the newsstand to buy a newspaper. Summer, winter, city, the sea, in the period work or on vacation I run to buy the newspaper often even before having breakfast. I consider him one of the finest pleasures of a hot drink berm day flipping through the pages of a newspaper.

It is said that Italy should read a little, but for me this action is so mild that in those few days a year (August 16, December 26, January 2, Easter Monday) in which the newspapers do not come in That morning I feel a bit 'lost, I miss something ...

my iPad Since I've stopped going on sale.

course I still read the newspaper every day, but I downloaded via the internet on this extraordinary small tablet which also allows me to see all the various local editions of the newspaper no matter where I go.

The experience of reading with the iPad, and particularly that of a newspaper, is beautiful but hard to describe. Simply be tested.

I had already tried reading the newspaper from my home computer. But that iPad is really something else. The ability to turn the pages simply by tapping the screen to zoom in on selected item with the touch of a finger, the ability to watch films related the news we are reading, increase further, if possible, the pleasure of reading.

To all this must be added that above all other considerations should be in the direction of greater respect for the environment.

One of the faults of 'careful reading of newspapers, as well as those who know me will buy them regularly, is the fact that 24 hours after the paper is old, it should be thrown away, that represents a rejection of usually forms a small heavy pile that periodically we must then dispose of it somehow.

Have you ever tried to weigh a newspaper? The average weight of a newspaper is between 200 and 250 gr ., Regardless of the weight of the inserts and the various attachments, the real tinsel required to be purchased at newsstands, which often would we do without.

Averaged over between newspaper and Annex also buy a single newspaper , a reader produces some 300-350 grams per day of paper and paperboard.

At the end of one year is about 120 kg. paper we accumulate!

About two months ago, gone the accumulation of newspapers, I realized you have almost reduced by two thirds the domestic production of paper!

Given the problems of overproduction of waste that characterize our era, I think this could be no doubt a good thing.

To this is added then the economic aspect.

The price of a newspaper kiosk varies from € 1.00 to € 1.20 without the famous (infamous in some cases!) Attachments at specific days of the week are forcing us to pay € 1.50.

»After a week on average we spend about € 8-9 always limited to purchasing just one newspaper. In a year we spend on average around 400.00 to 450.00 euro per day .

Buying a copy of a newspaper iPad (but also from a common computer via the internet) is around € 0.70 to copy that decrease, depending on the type of subscription you choose, and there's also about € 0.50 per copy if we decide to pay an annual subscription . This means that in a year, spending € 180.00 instead of 450.00, I can get a saving of € 270.00 always stopping to purchase a single newspaper.

Added to this is then also the savings in electricity. The reading on the iPad not need external light, so you can read in a dark room using the screen light my tablet whose consumption is equal to that of a large mobile phone (you charge the same way and the battery lasts - tested by me - about 9 hours ).

deliberately omit the reduction in emissions of CO 2 resulting from the choice of this new technology, by failing to provide certain information about it and why to be honest, the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent as falling outside ' environment through the use of 'iPad, we should add, however, emissions in the same environment as a manufacturing route.

The other major opportunity offered by this tool is linked to the possibility of buy, download and read books directly that for this reason they are now called "electronic books " or, in English, " e-book."

in Italy can be downloaded at the time, even on a totally free, just a few of these texts and those who belong to the Project Gutenberg on which copyrights have expired, but also from the month of October we will go on sale early and contemporary texts in Italian.

The reading experience of a long text on the iPad, while not offering the same opportunities of everyday life, it is extremely practical and easy. We can choose and change at any time the font and font size of the text we are reading, even change the background color, stop reading and start again from the same point when we want, thanks to a kind of electronic bookmark.

The iPad, as well as other similar electronic reading devices - today call themselves with the English terms of "e-reader " or "tablet " - you can download and store hundreds of texts available at any time and wherever we are. These

"tablet" are going to change radically in the future (and not so much the future!) Publishing market.

the United States, the country has always been one step ahead of others in some areas, this is already happening.

As stated earlier for newspapers, of course, also applies to books, both in terms of paper production as well as economic.

Industry experts contend that, regardless of the immediate launch of promotional offers, of course advantageous to the buyers, once fully operational the price of an e-book will wander around about half the cost of the book in print.

Signs are, therefore, that we have found a tool that can help (he and his ilk) to improve our quality of life while reducing our impact on the environment.

There will - there is no doubt - and the consequences on our lifestyles and the market economy.

About two months ago did not I go to newsstands and greeting over my newspaper.

The habit of meeting every morning early with the excuse of buying newspapers and stop a few minutes with him to comment on the events of the day, the weather, the last "business" of the Mayor Renzi, the victories and slips of Fiorentina, stops, and a little 'I'm sorry.

Those who claim that information technology is actually moving away people probably right.

This new technology is particularly suited to the use of what is distributed and has a very limited shelf life, over time. So in my opinion will be particularly suitable not only for newspapers but also for weekly and monthly magazines "disposable".

Just as the advent of mobile phones has caused the progressive disappearance of telephone booths, as well as the advent of the DVD and the Internet has gradually led to the disappearance of video rentals (Blockbuster U.S. chain has already closed and even in Italy it is slowly disappearing) I fear that the advent of e-book will bring in a few years a new small revolution.

course in the shoes of my newsagent I would not be too happy with this news ...

This probably will result in around a decade (maybe earlier?) A drastic reduction also purchase books on paper and therefore in the guise a bookseller would not be very enthusiastic.

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In the United States one of the most important book chains, Barnes & Noble the , is closing its doors seems to due to the advent of e-book.

Unlike the publishing industry but that certainly will have to adapt, and fast, yet will, I believe, however, the possibility of opening new trade routes.

regards the acquisition of books on paper I think we will end up with a probability to select only the text of a certain artistic and cultural value, instead dedicating to digital form books a season, the novel of the summer, the yellow of the moment everyone is talking about but after some time no longer reads (see the Dan Brown a few years ago , Stieg Larsson's now, and similar).

A paper copy of the Divine Comedy , perhaps with illustrations by Gustave Dore , I will still be present in any of our homes even though probably very few will have the curiosity to go and to open up from time to time ...

in any case - again in a few years - the nostalgic maybe you fainted to buy an old paper copy of the first edition of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" considered good right now as waste paper ...

Eventually, we may save the life of a tree and fall of a few tonnes of our waste. As a result, after all, not bad!

Michele Salvadori