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SOS, aka the wonderful world of scanlations.

How many of you, coming into comics, I was disappointed to find yet another supercool-strafighissima-e-deluxe-reissue-of-most perfect "Dragon Ball" ? (Just as an example). To those of you happen to want to read a manga at all costs that you have heard much good in the reviews, but you do not have the opportunity because they must first be published titles like "Virgin Crisis" or "I love you baby"? Well, it happened to me many times and let him say, is something that in its small way is very frustrating.
frustrating because I am perfectly aware that publishers have to meet the needs dictated by a myriad of factors (including an audience largely composed of bimbiminkia) of which I will not go on, but I also know for a fact that There are a multitude of titles and authors (manga), which, it being the case, I can never understand or appreciate.
Luckily this is where IRC comes into play and, above all, the scanlations.

The last word is a contraction of two English words: scansion (scanning) and translation (translation). This is what makes the number of working groups ( scanlators ) around the world: take comic original license, which is in the Western publishing houses have not bought the rights, scan them, make the translation from Japanese ( but also from the Korean or Chinese) to the language (usually English) and then scans and cleans balloon the texts translated and adapted ( editing). The work of these people is great if you think that derive from all this, economically speaking, absolutely nothing. All of them and all those who support them are tied together by a single interest: the comics and their spread, and last true purpose of the various groups.

Well sure, their action is at the limits of legality and some of them, disseminating comic license, do the actual theft, but groups of serious scanlators not want to substitute in publishing. In each of their site or at the beginning of each chapter scanned There are clear warnings and as big as houses, explaining that the work will be discontinued and withdrawn from the network as soon as they are purchased the rights in the West and that urged readers to buy the comic once in sales, to support the ' author and all the people who worked there.
This, from the fans, it may seem a clever way to do their own comfortable and protected in some way, but on balance it is not. The authors and publishers in particular have got to stamp out this phenomenon at birth, but this did not happen, because thanks to scanlations the world of manga (and similar) is expanded. People have the opportunity to know and love more manga, more fond of characters (who often become real gods) and who derives income from this sector took the opportunity to focus its efforts in that direction. Important, therefore, is to maintain this balance between fans and experts, and are essentially two ways to do this: Do not support groups that disseminate material license and buy the manga that are being made available (so the price of "Beck" I do not squirts from 4.50 € to 6.50 €, say!).

So far we have only been rumors, but where are the scanlations in question?
Obviously the means of communication is the internet groups and refer everyone to your site, blog, livejournal, etc.. However, not all groups allow you to download the manga translated directly from the list of their projects, but prefer to use IRC channels ... and at this point that the pain begin! Few, in fact, to chat about this and even fewer are those who know how to use to exchange files. Surfing the net does not take much effort to find a site entirely devoted to IRC, but often use language very technical and are certainly too large for our purpose.
In this regard, I allowed myself to create a small guide for beginners, which carry the essential steps useful enable mIRC (one of the most popular IRC client) and download files from users who provide them with the hope of making more accessible the wonderful world of scanlations .

Links:

MangaUpdate
Manganews

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Bartiméus (because he is!)

Jonathan Stroud - The Original Trilogy of Bartiméus: The Amulet of Samarkand, L ' Golem's Eye, The Gate of Ptolemy, ed. Salani.

Warning: This rant / review / what you will contain some spoilers on the books. Nothing serious, but before going ahead fatevene a reason.

Every year I spend an amount that is close to madness in the library. And because sometimes I like to read in English, and then I pay more, and because I like to read up and stop. Of the various legends, epics and series that I followed and I am following in time, one in particular I want to drag for a moment at the center of the stage.
It is a fantasy story, starring a young boy struggling with English magic.
Sound familiar? Sounds of seven books that are a few bricks and five box office movies to break the bank? Well, think again.
because the story of which we speak today is Trilogy of Bartiméus , the first protagonist, the boy mentioned above, is so irritating and annoying the first time it appeared not even deserve the title of the frieze. He, the protagonist, is said Nathaniel Nat. The other, the jinn mentioned as a challenge and pride, a being whose cynical sarcasm oozes from every note at the bottom of the page, you Bartiméus (no diminutives, and thank you very much). A wheel
follow Kitty, rebellious girl and not at all inclined to magic, various spirits and entities magic magicians and politicians (or both) more or less corrupt and more.
But let's step back.

In London, at a time unspecified, but roughly a twentieth century different from what we know, the wizards are a sort of caste well integrated into society, with the most important of its members to manage government facilities. The magic is not based so much on supernatural powers or other live sticks, but rather on individual will and the ability to summon "from another place" spirits and the like (please note that there are various types of spirits, many of which will remove the head without even thought to be only equate to the most infinitesimally small representatives of the class, then I have not written and you have not read) which enforce their will, standing still to comply with certain rules.
Three among all, never reveal your name - so much so that it was common for wizards to change it as soon as possible, never leave the pentacle while you are calling the entity in question (which, understandably, will never be satisfied in ' be torn from their environment to go to serve a omuncoletto) and, reasonably, never summon spirits that you do not know how to handle.
goes without saying that this leads to a kind of hierarchy in the magicians, the most powerful can control dozens of jinn, afrit Marid and no effort to trafficoni arrabattano you every day with those 2:00 to 3:00 Foliot that fate has granted almost out of spite.
It goes without saying that when one of these, a pompous old man, is given in the little Nat expectations in order to educate him and make him grow as an apprentice, that things can not end badly.
The beginning of the end is when Nat, from cute little boy, curious and looking for affection (and still funny, it must be said), he receives from his teacher a "life lesson" is intended to mark it.
The anger and the desire for revenge will take him first to take advantage of his thirst for knowledge to summon the jinn Bartiméus (for the reader, the starting point) for him to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, then find themselves in a series of adventures that will gradually committed to fight against forces greater than himself, to come to face with intrigues politicians and powerful wizards, to know the life of the poor wretch, "common" and the rebels aimed at subverting the dominance of the wizards.
And by the rebels in check Kitty second book, the third main character, pure and delicate as a slap in the face and ready to overcome all boundaries in the name of his ideals, with which both Nat Bartiméus will be meeting in over- confrontation, and more than one unresolved tension.
Crescendo adolescent Nat, raised among the adults in the vision for which the magicians are right and everyone else wrong, it will show all its candor, its rigidity, the meanness and the thirst for power to which man is capable, never succeeding However, to completely hide the player - who by virtue of what is brought to bear to the end - the grain of good that is brought in, until the final all'exploit that is certainly not to ruin me.

In the three books that follow without losing the thread, by the action moves from time to time to follow the protagonists, unchallenged in the eyes of readers, however, is the millennial Bartiméus, which presents itself as "the one who rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak and Prague, who spoke with Solomon, who ran along with the fathers of the plains buffalo, which oversaw the Old Zimbabwe until the stones fell and the Jackals feasted with his men, "etc., that narrates the events from a particular viewpoint (his), without neglecting children wandering and conceited comments that are inserted as footnotes page (a reason enough to read the books), we never, ever makes a display of humility or repentance but then, having to choose a human form in which to incarnate, to prefer a boy no bigger than that Nathaniel knew three thousand years before (a kind of fourth protagonist, but for more on the third book is needed) and whose relationship with Nat and Kitty develops and narrows with the progression of events. A fun character, whose twisted logic does not admit mistakes on the part of the command, the answers are double if not triple-cut, whose jokes and displace the nostalgia which almost touched, that you can not appreciate.

And now, while I need to lashes for being unable to make the right on the books that I have passion, you spun to read!

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colors and music of a land yet to be discovered ...

"I remember Dublin City, in a rare old time " - Irish folk song



Ireland ... The first feeling that comes to mind hearing this name is nostalgia, longing for those wonderful emerald moors and lonely, for the cliffs overlooking the ocean, talkative and friendly to people, to the ruined castles on top of a cliff by the damp wind caressed the Atlantic, for those fantastic colors, shining so bright, but constantly to the incessant rain for the music coming out from every corner of the road ... And yet, before leaving, the word associated with this name was another, more simple and immediate: Beer! (Guinness or if you prefer).

The idea of \u200b\u200bstarting for Ireland whipped us in the lead for quite some time. Eventually it was decided as a destination for well-deserved (?) Post-holiday state exam. Four fearless young men were determined to celebrate the fact of maturity in the best way: two weeks for a stroll on the picturesque island of Erin, with stops still to make food supply but, especially, drink. The idea was crazy, for once we would not be looking to us for the pub, but it was the pub that he would find us ...
In fact things went so very different ...

And so we took our trip. Departure from Pisa, with a stopover in London, hurried return air, and then off to Dublin (exactly one year after it was opened a direct flight flights Dublin-Pisa, the usual bad luck). Journey
two weeks. To facilitate the display of the route that we made I made use of our powerful means (and a good dose of patience!), Coloring the different stages of our journey described in the next post in a different way.
In red: the Dublin area (including Glendalought and Powerscourt)
In blue: Kilkenny, Limerick and Rock Of Cashel
In green: Galway and the Aran Islands
In yellow: Cliff Of Moher and Connemara
In rock: see a couple of More posts down!
Of course I do not think that this order will be fulfilled: on one side of things to say because there are very many (one post would be too simplistic to Dublin!), the other because I had thought to add some curiosity, especially as regards music and its history.
The only advice I can give you before you travel is as follows: buy a bell'impermiabile, you really need it!

PS Since we are on the subject, I wanted to say a few lines to wish my dear friend Mark's a good trip and a pleasant stay for your stay in Australia, with a little advice: Watch out for kangaroos!
Bonji

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Rory Gallagher
Polydor 1974
1. Cradle Rock
2. I Wonder Who
3. Tattoo'd Lady
4. Too Much Alcohol
5. As the Crow Flies
6. A Million Miles Away
7. Walk on Hot Coals
8. Who's That Coming?
9. (Back on My) Stompin' Ground
11. Maritime

Premetto subito che non are a great connoisseur of the blues, in fact, we can say that I do not understand anything, it's a genre that I really respect, like jazz and classical music, but for now I can not listen to fully appreciate the content. But when comes out Stratocaster Rory Gallagher completely changes the conversation for me, because it takes less than a blink of an eye to become hard rock, blues and then go back and become more psychedelic rock than folk, following the passion unbridled his executor.

The technique is certainly not flawless Irish guitarist, his solos are not fancy or scholars, and is perhaps why it has never reached the fame of the sacred cows of his contemporaries, but in my ignorance if you will allow me to express an opinion, having the possibility to choose between a concert and a Jimi Hendrix I would not doubt to choose Gallagher, even at the risk of sounding blasphemous crazy . The reason is very simple: the first solo Hendrix makes you cry in disbelief, the second stun you, but the third you are a man or a woman dead and if by chance a neuron has survived the massacre, is unwilling to perceive sounds at least a week (if only to remember the excitement of the premiere). Gallagher's interpretation is almost the opposite: a solo after a long life I want another and then another because they never get tired, his enthusiasm is the enthusiasm of his audience and dedication it takes to vibrate the strings of his guitar is transmitted to the public without any obstacle. Precisely for this reason, the album that best express the overwhelming ability to live Rory Gallagher are, first of all Irish Tour.

The disc opens with Cradle Rock, blues rock a fast and loud where Lou Martin on keyboards, Rod De'Ath on drums and percussion, Gerry McAvoy on bass and of course Rory, voice and guitar, are at their best to inflame the minds of listeners. The atmosphere is so hot ready to welcome I Wonder Who , one hundred percent blues song that 7'e 52''makes us understand why Eric Clapton Gallagher said: "The man who got me back to the blues." Even a beginner like me can appreciate the beauty of execution of this piece. Below Tattoo'd Lady, a classic hard rock of the discography, Too Much Alcohol covers from JB Hutto, and As the Crow Flies, other cover performed with skill by the artist with his National Resonator of 1932 ("mistreated" by the heavy bottleneck) and harmonica in his mouth. After hearing the song is the turn of A Million Miles Away, what I think The song is by Rory Gallagher, absolutely complete both vocally and instrumental, where the guitar is accompanied by an electric organ that is definitely their presence felt. The level remains high even in Walk on Hot Coals ; with this song we move towards the psychedelic, but I advise you to check out the link that took me to understand what I said on the passion of Rory: all the duration of the piece does not say a word, but it is practically his Stratocaster to sing for him. Who's That Coming? and again bring the sounds of bottleneck blues to rock, but this does not allow us to pull the breath even for a moment because all elements of the group returned to lash out and to provoke their listeners. For Back On My Stompin 'Ground it's still rock and blues Maritime concludes the album (judged by Melody Maker best live album of the year) with a rock'n 'roll back when Martin becomes the protagonist, this time with a decent piano solo.

Irish Tour was compiled by recording the concert Dublin (Carlton Cinema), Cork (City Hall) and Belfast (Ulster Hall). Now I want you to notice a thing, we are in 1974, one of the more blacks to the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants (unionists and nationalists, call them what you think!) In Belfast all had a good excuse to trigger violence and why almost all artists avoided the capital of Northern Ireland like the plague.
Rory Gallagher and colleagues, however, the Ulster Hall gave birth to one of the greatest concerts in rock history and thanks to the filming of director Tony Palmer can enjoy a small part too.