{"id": "en_ewt-ud-test", "source": "UD_English-EWT/en_ewt-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "en", "text": "What if Google Morphed Into GoogleOS? What if Google expanded on its\nsearch-engine (and now e-mail) wares into a full-fledged operating system? [via\nMicrosoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley ] \n\n(And, by the way, is anybody else just a little nostalgic for the days when that\nwas a good thing?) This BuzzMachine post argues that Google's rush toward\nubiquity might backfire -- which we've all heard before, but it's particularly\nwell-put in this post. Google is a nice search engine. Does anybody use it for\nanything else? They own blogger, of course. Is that a money maker? \n\nI'm staying away from the stock. \n\nI doubt the very few who actually read my blog have not come across this yet,\nbut I figured I would put it out there anyways. John Donovan from Argghhh! has\nput out a excellent slide show on what was actually found and fought for in\nFallujah. Click here To view it. \n\nHe makes some good observations on a few of the pic's. One of the pictures shows\na flag that was found in Fallujah. On the next two pictures he took screenshots\nof two beheading video's. Compare the flags to the Fallujah one. \n\nYou have to see these slides....they are amazing. This Fallujah operation my\nturn out to be the most important operation done by the US Military since the\nend of the war. \n\nLet me join the chorus of annoyance over Google's new toolbar , which, as noted\nin the linked article, commits just about every sin an online marketer could\ncommit, and makes up a few new ones besides. I'm not fond of the\nGoogle-hates-privacy argument (You don't need to use their site, you can opt-out\nof sharing your information, you don't need to send stuff to anyone with a Gmail\naccount, and if -- wonder of wonders -- you're worried that you might send\nsomething to someone who would forward an excerpt to someone who would then\nstore it on a Gmail account... you have far, far too much time on your hands).\nHowever, this toolbar is really bad news. On the other hand, it looks pretty\ncool. \n\nIran says it is creating nuclear energy without wanting nuclear weapons. The\nUnited States doesn't believe the Iranian Government. One can suspect the\nIranian Government. But there is no proof . I read an Article in Time magazine\naccusing the Iranian Government of being willing to start a nuclear war and I\nsympathise with the Article. They are certainly being nasty to the United\nNations Security Council in connection with the anti-proliferation treaty. The\nPresident has also said he would like to see Israel wiped off the map which he\ncouldn't even begin to try without nuclear weapons. But he has insisted that he\nwants nuclear power for peaceful purposes. Many people want to use diplomacy\nwith Iran rather than military pressure. But will diplomacy work? And can anyone\nuse military pressure without proof? One reader pointed out that the President\nwatched the Americans in the embassy when they took them hostage. He has denied\nthis. We don't have to believe him. But we can't prove it. It does seem that\nIranians frequently make statements and then hide behind lack of proof. \n\nAngry crowds chanted anti-American slogans in the western city of Falluja (pop.\n256,000) as the security police killed in a friendly fire incident by US troops\nwere buried on Saturday. Reuters reported that \"Sunni clerics in the town issued\na 'Declaration by the people of Fallujah' condemning the deaths of the security\nguards and police, announcing three days of mourning, and calling for a general\nstrike today.\" It read, \"The people of Fallujah condemn the massacre which was\ncommitted on Friday against people dedicated to the protection of Fallujah. Let\naggressive (American) leaders and soldiers know that we are capable of\nprotecting the city's security and safety, and ask them to lift their hands from\nthe city.\" The clerics demanded talks with local US commanders. Falluja has long\nbeen roiled by tense relations with the US soldiers there, since local Sunnis\neither remain committed to Arab nationalism or have become Sunni fundamentalists\nor even radicals. Cities such as Falluja received special treatment from Saddam\nand enjoyed a disproportionate share of the country's wealth and power. They\nknow that the American advent implies for them a demotion, and an elevation of\nthe Shiites and Kurds, and they refuse to go quietly. See\nhttp://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=97508 \n\nThe Supreme Court announced its ruling today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld divided along\nidelogical lines with John Roberts abstaining due to his involvement at the D.C.\nCircuit level and Anthony Kennedy joining the liberals in a 5-3 decision that is\n185 pages long. The actual vote is a little confusing. Stay with me now: John\nPaul STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I through\nIV, VI through VI-D-iii, VI-D-v, and VII, in which KENNEDY, SOUTER, GINSBURG,\nand BREYER joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts V and VI-D-iv, in which\nSOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined. BREYER filed a concurring opinion, in which\nKENNEDY, SOUTER, and GINSBURG joined. KENNEDY filed an opinion concurring in\npart, in which SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined as to Parts I and II. SCALIA\nfiled a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO joined. THOMAS filed a\ndissenting opinion, in which SCALIA joined, and in which ALITO joined as to all\nbut Parts I, II-C-1, and III-B-2. ALITO filed a dissenting opinion, in which\nSCALIA and THOMAS joined as to Parts I through III. It will take me a little\nwhile to read the whole thing, but I rarely agree with a John Paul Stevens\nopinion. I'll post highlights from the opinion and dissents when I'm finished. \n\nImportant news such as President Bush's miniscule calibrations on his marriage\namendment/anti-gay (update: he's not against gays in the bedroom, just at the\naltar, where of course their relationships should not only be frowned upon but\nshould be constitutionally excluded) has pushed Sudan not just off the front\npages, or the A section, but out of the NY Times and Washington Post completely.\nI had to go to the BBC for this report . It's symptomatic, I suppose, of our\nfast-paced, 24 hour news-cycle lives, that the biggest short-term humanitarian\ncrisis in the world would quickly be eclipsed, once our Secretary of State was\nfinished with his whirlwind tour, from the newspapers. It's just disappointing.\nMost troubling, however, is the fact that the political will to end the crisis\nexpressed a few short weeks ago seems to have ebbed. At that time, UN Secretary\nGeneral Kofi Annan demanded steps be taken to end the ethnic violence in Darfur\nwithin 48 hours. Two weeks later, and the violence continues. The African Union\nis clearly not up to the task of keeping the peace, pledging 300 troops to an\narea that will need 15,000, according to analysts. And international donors have\ngiven only half of the relief aid that Darfur needs, according to the local UN\nofficials. So hear we are, two weeks later, after that dazzling PR display two\nweeks ago by Powell and Annan, and the situation on the ground in Darfur appears\nbasically unchanged. \n\nWarren Buffett is giving away 85% of his wealth , mostly to the Bill and Melinda\nGates Foundation. It's a move that really worries me; Buffett's usual\njustification for keeping most of his money was that he was still compounding\nthe value of his fortune at a pretty high rate, so any gifts now would mean\nsignificantly less money for the foundation later. It's a little hard to parse,\nbut at this point his ostensible view is that the Gateses are very good\nmoney-redistributors, and he wants them to have the money as soon as possible.\nWhich essentially sounds like he's worried that Bill or Melinda are going to die\nsoon. I assume his actual reason is that he's worried that Berkshire Hathaway\njust can't grow quickly enough to justify his usual charity policy. I'm not sure\nhow the market will react. It doesn't change the company's intrinsic worth, and\nas the article notes, the company might be added to a major index once the\nshares get more liquid. On the other hand, this is essentially a statement that\nthe company is overpriced from the guy who knows it best -- and happens to be\nthe best investor of the last century. em ... no ... the Gates foundation mainly\ninvests in medical research and education, that means donating now adds a\ntremendous value compared to donating in ten years. Because the 10.000.000\npeople dying from malaria will otherwise be dead. i.e. \n\nHe's not giving 85% away, he's giving a number of shares each year that decrease\nin number at the rate of 5% a year (until gone?). He mentions his wife's death\nhaving an effect on him. It sounds pretty rational that he's saying that Bill\nand Melinda are at a prime spot, so starting the money hose now is a good idea,\nbut Buffet is still keeping most of his donation inside of Berkshire where it\nwill compound. \n\nBill over at The Fourth Rail has an excellent essay on how the MSM and the UN,\neven the leftist countries in Europe, are basically accepting terrorist\norganizations as legitimate forms of a political party: On the same day\nPalestinians protest in support of Hezbollah and Syria , the terrorist group\nHamas has indicated it will participate in the scheduled upcoming Parliamentary\nelections . To the north in Lebanon, there is serious debate within Hezbollah\nabout entering the Lebanese political process in light of Syria's promised\nwithdrawal. Syria has agreed to withdraw under the conditions set forth in UNSC\nResolution 1559 , which has already begun . UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has\nindicated it is time to \"recognize Hezbollah\" after easily being duped by \"the\nmessage on the placards they are using\". This acceptance of blatantly terrorist\ngroups as legitimate freedom movements is a cancerous tumor on the United\nNations and the media. Over three years after 9-11, the United Nations, despite\ntheir attempts to project strength in fighting terrorism , still cannot properly\ndefine the word \"terrorist\" , waffling over the issue of whether the murder of\ninnocent civilians are terrorist acts. The media routinely obscures the lines\nbetween terrorism and legitimate resistance, as the recent article by Daniel\nOkrent of The New York Times demonstrates . ... \n\nThe decision to sidestep the obvious to satisfy the need to avoid confrontation\ndoes not bring peace, but only delays the eventual conflict as the predators of\nHamas and Hezbollah exploit the inherent weakness of the internationals and the\nmedia. I've been fuming over this fact for a few weeks now, ever since some\norganizations and governments suggested we need to accept the fact that\nHezbollah will get involved in running Lebanon. Wtf is this? This is a terrorist\norganization plain and simple. This is the organization that bombed our Marine\nbarracks in 1983, took Americans hostage throughout the 80's and now they should\nbe considered a legitimate organization? This is just another reason to never\ntrust the MSM, and certainly not the Europeans. \n\nThe Iraqi Islamic Party lead by Muhsin Abdul Hamid, has been among the few Sunni\nMuslim groups willing to cooperate (even if rather lukewarmly) with the\nAmericans. It is now threatening to pull out of the Allawi caretaker government.\nThe IIP had also been the main force urging Sunni Arabs to participate in the\nelections scheduled for January, and had been opposed in this stance by the\nAssociation of Muslim Scholars. That the Iraqi Islamic Party is now\ncontemplating leaving the Allawi government raises the question of whether a\nmass Sunni Arab boycott of the elections is in the offing, thus fatally\nweakening the legitimacy of any new government. Az-Zaman : The Association of\nMuslim Scholars forbade Iraqis to participate in the attack on Fallujah with the\nAmericans. In a communique, the AMS said that for Iraqis to take part with\n\"raiding forces\" in the assault on a city, the population of which is Muslim\n(such as Fallujah) would be considered the most mortal of mortal sins. The Sunni\nAMS told Iraqis, \"You sinned when you participated with occupation forces in the\nassault on Najaf, and beware lest you repeat this same sin in Fallujah. Remember\nthat the Occupation is emphemeral.\" \n\nThe radical Shiite Sadr movement issued a statement forbidding the participation\nof Iraqi troops in the attack on Fallujah, as well. The statement said, \"We\ndirect an appeal at the men in the Iraqi forces, whether national guards or\nothers, the majority of whom are Muslim, calling upon them to refrain for\ncommiting this enormous sin under the banner of forces that do not respect our\nreligion or any principles of basic humanity, and we ask them to view this war\nas illegal.\" It called a \"ploy\" the assertaion that the attack was merely on\nforeign fighters at Fallujah. The convergence of views among the more militant\nSunni Muslim clerics of AMS and the radical Shiites of the Sadr movement has\nbeen seen before, last spring during the initial US assault on Fallujah and\nduring the US attack on Mahdi Army militiamen in Najaf. Most Shiites, however,\nare still reluctant to take major risks to support the Sunnis of Fallujah, many\nof whom had supported Saddam and his anti-Shiite pogroms. \n\nPresident Bush pinched a few nerves yesterday with his choice of words:\nWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President Bush on Thursday\nfor calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a \"war with Islamic\nfascists,\" saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions. U.S. officials\nhave said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the\nAtlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda. \"We believe this is an\nill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islam\nor Muslims with fascism,\" said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on\nAmerican-Islamic Relations advocacy group. Which is why he didn't say we're at\nwar with Islamic people. We're at war with Islamic fascists. By using the word\n\"Islamic\" as an adjective Bush was purposely not associating Muslims with\nfascism, hence the qualifier. And if you haven't heard by now, the roster of\nsuspected terrorists has not a Tom, Dick or Harry among them: Umir Hussain, 24,\nLondon E14 \n\nMuhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 \n\nWaheed Zaman, 22, London E17 \n\nAssan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17 \n\nWaseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe \n\nWaheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17 \n\nCossor Ali, 24, London E17 \n\nTayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham \n\nIbrahim Savant, 26, London E17 \n\nOsman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17 \n\nShamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington \n\nAmin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17 \n\nShazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe \n\nTanvir Hussain, 24, London E10 \n\nUmar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe \n\nAssad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe \n\nAbdullah Ali, 26, London E17 \n\nAbdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5 \n\nNabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest Lest you be confused with the suspects from\nan earlier plot foiled in Canada a few months ago: Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto;\nZakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.; \n\nAsad Ansari, 21, Mississauga; \n\nShareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga; \n\nQayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga; \n\nMohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.; \n\nYasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston; \n\nJahmaal James, 23, Toronto; \n\nAmin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto; \n\nSteven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto; \n\nAhmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga; \n\nSaad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga. We've got a Steven, the one\nword that didn't crash my spell-check, despite it being followed by a Vikash\nChand Abdul Shakur. Folks, if it's Islamic, and fascist, it's an Islamic\nfascist. But because we don't want to sound hateful we must pretend everyone's a\npossible suspect and make airline travel more miserable than it's ever been. \n\nOn the internet site of Monotheism and Holy War (al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad) , the\ngroup allegedly declared, \"We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its\nprince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen\nOsama bin Laden.\" This pledge is a new development. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his\ngroup are said to have been bitter rivals of al-Qaeda during the Afghan\nresistance days. One witness at the Moutasaddiq trial in Germany alleged that\nZarqawi had not allowed Monotheism and Holy War to share resources with al-Qaeda\nin the early zeroes of the 21st century. If the statement is true, it is a\nworrying sign that even the divided small radical guerrilla groups are being\n\"picked up\" by al-Qaeda. This consolidation is obviously a result of Bush's\naggressive invasion of Iraq and of the botching of the aftermath. It is a\nsetback for the war on terror. \n\nAl-Qaeda in Afghanistan was a group of only a few hundred \"Afghan Arabs\" who\npledged personal loyalty to Usamah Bin Laden. It could notionally be expanded to\nencompass the 5,000-strong \"55th Brigade\" of the Taliban regime, though this is\nnot the technical definition. Because Usamah is Saudi, my guess is that they\nwere especially influenced by an extremist form of the Wahhabi school of Islam\nthat predominates among Saudia's some 15 million citizens. In 1998 they were\njoined by Egyptians from the al-Jihad al-Islami group of Ayman al-Zawahiri (many\nof these were from Upper Egypt, especially Asyut and environs). After that\npoint, al-Qaeda was a joint enterprise between the Egyptian extremists and the\npolyglot Arabs around Bin Laden, only some of whom were Saudi. Zarqawi is a\nJordanian, and his Monotheism and Holy War group in Afghanistan probably had a\ndistinctive coloration as mainly Jordanian, Palestinian and Syrian. They also\nhad a special connection to some extremists in Jordan and Germany. They are\nprobably especially oriented toward the Salafi school of modern Islamic thought,\nwhich has a Protestant-like emphasis on going back to the original practice of\nthe early companions of the Prophet Muhammad. (Most Salafis are not militant or\nviolent, though they tend to be rather narrow-minded in my experience, on the\norder of Protestant Pietists). Monotheism and Holy War obviously does have a\nviolent interpretation of Salafism, rather as the the leaders of the so-called\nGerman Peasant Rebellion among early Protestants did. Another worrisome sign is\nthat local Iraqi Sunni fundamentalists opposed to the US presence in Iraq have\nbegun joining Monotheism and Holy War, and wearing its distinctive orange and\nblack insignia. These have been sighted among Iraqi crowds on Haifa Street in\nBaghdad and in Samarra. So now there are hundreds of al-Qaeda members in Iraq\nwhere there had been none before. The consolidation of smaller local radical\nfundamentalist groups with al-Qaeda can also be seen in the case of the Fizazi\ngroup in Tangiers that morphed into the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group , had\nmembers who met with September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta, and ultimately was\nin part responsible for the Madrid train bombings. \n\nThe September 11 Panel will issue its findings on Thursday. It notes 10 points\nat which the US made key mistakes that might have stopped Bin Laden's plot. Four\nof these were under Clinton and 6 under Bush. \n\nBush came out today and said that if he had known what was coming, he would have\nexpended every effort to stop it, and that so would have Clinton. This statement\nis, despite its facade of fair-mindedness, so many weasel words. Of course Bush\nwould have tried to stop 9/11 if he had known it was coming. The question is,\n\"Should he have known it was coming?\" \n\nThe answer is, \"Yes!\" \n\nWe now know that Bush and his administration came into office obsessed with\nIraq. Cheney was looking at maps of Iraq oil fields and muttering about\nopportunities for US companies there, already in January or February of 2001.\nWolfowitz contradicted counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke when the latter\nspoke of the al-Qaeda threat, insisting that the preeminent threat of terrorism\nagainst the US came from Iraq, and indicating he accepted Laurie Mylroie's\ncrackpot conspiracy theory that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Towers\nbombing. If you believe crackpot theories instead of focusing on the\nreality--that was an al-Qaeda operation mainly carried out by al-Gamaa\nal-Islamiyyah, an Egyptian terrorist component allied with Bin Laden-- then you\nwill concentrate on the wrong threat. Even after the attacks on September 11,\nBush was obsessing about Iraq. Wolfowitz lied to him and said that there was a\n10 to 50% chance that Iraq was behind them. (On what evidence? The hijackers\nwere obviously al-Qaeda, and no operational links between al-Qaeda and Iraq had\never been found). Rumsfeld initially rejected an attack on al-Qaeda bases in\nAfghanistan, saying there were \"no good targets\" in Afghanistan. (What about 40\nal-Qaeda bases that had trained the 9/11 hijackers and other terrorists gunning\nfor the United States??) The Pentagon did not even have a plan for dealing with\nAfghanistan or al-Qaeda that it could pull off the shelf, according to Bob\nWoodward. Bush did not have his eye on the ball. Neither did Cheney, Rumsfeld,\nor Wolfowitz. They were playing Captain Ahab to Saddam's great white whale.\nImperial Hubris makes the case that lots of people in the CIA and\ncounter-terrorism divisions elsewhere in the US government knew all about Bin\nLaden and the threat he posed. They were from all accounts marginalized and not\nlistened to. Bush demoted Dick Clarke, among the most vocal and focused of the\nal-Qaeda experts, from his cabinet. Dick could never thereafter get any real\ncooperation from the cabinet officers, who outranked him, and he could not\nconvince them to go to battle stations in the summer of 2001 when George Tenet's\nhair was \"on fire\" about the excited chatter the CIA was picking up from radical\nIslamist terrorists. As for the Clinton administration, let me say one thing in\nits defense. Clinton had worked out a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz\nSharif in summer of 1999 that would have allowed the US to send a Special Ops\nteam in after Bin Laden in Qandahar, based from Pakistan. I presume you need the\nPakistan base for rescue operations in case anything went wrong. You also need\nPakistani air space. The plan was all set and could have succeeded. But in fall\nof 1999, Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a coup against Nawaz Sharif. The Pakistani\narmy was rife with elements protective of the Taliban, and the new military\ngovernment reneged on the deal. Musharraf told Clinton he couldn't use Pakistani\nsoil or air space to send the team in against Bin Laden. Look at a map and you\ntry to figure out how, in fall of 1999, you could possibly pull off such an\noperation without Pakistani facilities. Of course, you could just go in by main\nforce. But for those of you tempted in that direction, please look up Carter's\nTabas operation. It should be easily googled. Clinton tried, and tried hard. The\ngods weren't with us on that one. \n\nthat is how i want you to refer to me as \"the king\" \n\ni don't think so. \n\ni'm the king \n\nyeah \n\nsounds exciting. want to go to dinner with me before you have your 'matt time'?\nprobablyl gonna just kick it \n\nyou know, whatever. i will let you know later. what are you doing tonight. \n\nlike what? \n\ni can think of a few things \n\nyour retarded. i used to have one. they are great dogs. \n\ncockerspaniels are retarded. why do you think i should get one of those? \n\ncan't believe you left last night. \n\nnice sarcasm. that's fine, i don't want to see you either, i just need to make a\ncd. i can't wait \n\ni was thinking somewhere that requires a jacket, like tony's. someplace that is\nlike $30 an entree. \n\nyeah, i was thinking somewhere like mcdonald's. that may be too nice though.\nwhat do you think? \n\nwe can go somewhere nice. real nice. \n\noh. my bad. i must have had you messed up with some other girl i made the bet\nwith. bet? really, i have no idea what you're talking about. you must be\nthinking of someone else. i don't even like a&m, i wouldn't bet on them. \n\ncolorado beat texas a&m. i know you remember the bet. \n\nno. i got her number though. i want to hook up with that girl paige in the brown\nleather jacket. what happened to you? i had a blast that night. \n\ndid you hook up with that blonde chick saturday night? \n\nno i am not lying. i flew here last night. are you lying? \n\ni am out of town. i am in portland. you can buy me dinner when we get back. \n\ni am sure they are. houston won't be too affected b/c most of the layoffs affect\nsatelite offices. economy should be good here. \n\nhopefully she doesn't hose you. \n\nI'll probably start looking next weekend. I heard that more may be going up for\nsale in the next month or do. Someone told me that Chase is planning a shitload\nof layoffs. I am not sure how reliable that is, though. \n\nshe is waiting to see if she can get financing. \n\nMike McConnell 07/06/2000 14:57 John, \n\nHello from South America. I just got your email and I certainly concur with Jeff\nmaking the call. He has maintained a good relationship with Mulva. This was a\nrisk that we had but we did have assurances from Phillips regarding performance.\nI don't know how much it will help however. Richard Harper and Mary Nell\nBrowning may have some ideas here but I am sure you've already gone through it\nwith them. I am amazed how the details get fuzzy on an old project. When you\ndiscussed it, i was trying to think back to our remedies and discussions but the\n3 years have made it difficult. I don't know if there is anything I can do but\nI'm always willing to help. \n\nGood luck, Mike \n\nThese guys tried the Ken Lay route. Now they are part of your working group. \n\nHilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory Phone:\n212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com Dear Mr.\nLavorato: \n\nFollowing up on your and Ken Lay's conversation with Gary Cohn, I would like to\nforward the following proposal, acting for each of Goldman Sachs Capital Markets\nand J.Aron. Hilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory\nPhone: 212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com Not going\nwell \n\nHello Louise, \n\nI know you must be going nuts with all the events, so I have not called. \n\nHope you will be sorted. Call me if you have time. \n\nM \n\nPlease update daily \n\nLouise, There are only two counterparties at this time who have overdue margin:\n\nOriginal Margin Call Margin Due Today Kinder Morgan $ 3,500,000 $ 1,250,000 AEP\n$19,250,000 $38,750,000 ------------------------------ Totals $22,750,000\n$40,000,000 Please let us know if you need any additional information. Stephanie\n\nnot sure, but i assume that the bluegrass songbook is mine. is it for guitar?\nI'll need to ponder. I'll try to get back to you pronto. \n\nFYI. We have this report? \n\nHi David: Thought that you might be interested. \n\nBest, Jeff \n\nWell, he launched today. Have you seen the materials from the press conference\nthat he launched today? I think this is actually a good thing--makes our\nproposal look like a much more preferable alternative by comparison, makes our\nsupport in the process more important, and sets Harvey up as the Ralph Nader\nequivalent in the election to fix California's broken system---a potential\nspoiler. Hi. Well, wouldn't you know it. I'm not driving tonite, but I bet that\nwe could hitch a ride back with Anil. I'm not sure, but I think that he's got\nclass tonite, too. I'll search him out before class or after that break and see\nif I can set it up. \n\ndaily dose on enron - we are finished. i need to now get a job at house of pies\nb/c that is the only way to pay the bills. the economy is down and when enron\ncollapses, the energy industry is going to be in a world of hurt. not to mention\nthe market is going to be flooded with enron folks . can't go to anymore lsu\ngames unless i get a free ticket. Since work has gone to hell, I am hoping to\nfind some excitement in the possibility that LSU may play in the Cotton Bowl (if\nRohan \"Alabama\" Davey shows up for the next 3 games.) However, do not purchase\ntickets until it is a done deal - a lesson I learned following the Ark game last\nseason. \n\nhttp://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16473\nhttp://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16475\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsunotes08.html\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/secnotes08.html\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsufoe08.html \n\ni have stronger will than you think. house of pies here i come. \n\ni am sure i could have persuaded you to give me some action. why is enron\nblowing up? i didn't want you to go. i was just going to sleep anyway. i was too\ntired to give you any action. enron is blowing up. \n\nVince, We are still trying to work the PSE swap transaction, now that the forex\ndesk has been able to find a fix for CPI in the market. Further to my voicemail,\nour colleagues in credit are calculating the reserve on the PSE swap. They are\ncurrently using 9.5% fixed based on the 1 year implied volatility. Volatility of\nUSD/DM has been in the range of between 7% and 11%. Can one of your research\nstaff justify a suitable 20 year volalatility number for USD/Euro. Ideally, we\nwould like a fast turnaround. In addition, is there someone who could consider\nthe correlation between US CPI and the $/euro exchange rate. The credit guys are\ncurrently assuming that there is no correlation and may consequently be double\ndipping the credit reserve on this basis too. Grateful for any help or\nsuggestions you could provide. Sid Vincent, \n\nI met you at the Risk conference last week in Houston. I enjoyed your\npresentations very much. I was wondering if you could give me some references\nregarding the calculation of correlation coefficients from a GARCH model. Thank\nyou. \n\nMagali Van Belle Consultant PHB Hagler Bailly MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC\nCONSULTANTS PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc. (202) 828-3933 direct dial 1776 Eye Street,\nN.W. (202) 296-3858 facsimile Washington, D.C. 20006-3700\nmvanbell@haglerbailly.com e-mail \n\nAndrew Edison@ENRON 06/02/2001 10:53 AM I have settled the Ecogas/Enron/Randy\nMaffett lawsuit. No need to thank me,just send me gifts. Seriously, I talked\nthis morning with Tom Hall and we agreed that Ecogas would pay him $53,000. Hall\nhas agreed to release Enron, Ecogas, Maffett and every affiliate, related party\nand subsidiary. He will also release any and all patent issues. The goal is for\nhim to move on with his life and for us to move on as well. I have asked Doug\nDaniels to prepare the settlement papers reflecting such an agreement. Please\nhandle. Becky Stephens@ENRON 06/12/2000 10:20 AM Richard, below is a list of oc\ninvoices sent to you for approval on 5/30/00. Please verify receipt at your\nearliest convenience. Thank you for your help in tracking these invoices.\nHolland & Hart, LLP; #432785 dated 4/14/00 Michael L. Beatty & Associates, PC;\n#10461, #10469 & #10468 dated 5/28/00. \n\nBecky A. Stephens Litigation Unit, Enron Corp. 713/853-5025 EB4809 I am on\nboard. If the PX comes back again, I will call their in-house attys. \n\nChristian Yoder/ENRON@enronXgate 06/04/2001 05:54 PM Can you pass this along to\nElizabeth to ensure Sanders is on board as well? We are renewing our L/C's on a\nmonth to month basis for the PX per Sanders. However, the request below is to\n\"replenish\" the CASH that was drawn down...please advise. I agree with Steve's\nposition stated in his separate e'mail. Don't give these guys a penny.----cgy \n\nTracy, Do we have concerns here. We pointed out to the PX that there was excess\ncredit. By using collateral to pay these bills are we not keeping required\nlevels available? \n\nSara, \n\nAttached below is Davis Thames' presentation regarding the proposed Project\nBruin. I will forward the draft Bear Stearns term sheet separately. \n\nPaul \n\nTeam, sorry for the delay on getting this around. Please advise when you can\nmeet to discuss issues related to your area. Thanks - Davis Clint: I spoke with\nMike Collins [203-719-8385 (phone) and 203-719-7031 (fax)] who conrfirmed to me\nthat the cap included the remaining 2.5+million remaining shares. \n\nPlease return an executed copy of confirm to me. \n\nThanks. sara \n\nMy assistant Joanne Rozycki has cell, car numbers to reach me. I'll be back on\nMonday. \n\nSara Shackleton Enron Wholesale Services 1400 Smith Street, EB3801a Houston, TX\n77002 Ph: (713) 853-5620 Fax: (713) 646-3490 Thanks. SS \n\nSara, \n\nCurrently we have a blank \"sample\" for our Paragraph 13s which are attached to\nour sample ISDAs for (a) US Corporate, (b) Hedge Funds, (c) Municipal. I will\nextract the one for the US corporate Paragraph 13 and email to your contact @\nFirst Union Securities. \n\nThe sample includes our \"caveat\", so it should be fine. \n\nSusan Susan: While Tanya is reviewing credit, can you please send a \"blank form\nParagraph 13\" for this master. Just our standard. Caveat: subject to credit\nreview even though there are blanks. Thanks. Sara First Union Securities, Inc. \n\nHi Sara, \n\nI just wanted to follow up on whether you will have a chance to send a draft\nCredit Support Annex (similar in form to the one previously executed with ENA).\nI understand you may not have credit approval yet so perhaps we can leave the\nappropriate sections blank in the meantime. Thanks and regards, \n\nVijay K. Suchdev Vice President Equity Derivatives First Union Securities, Inc.\nTelephone: (212) 909-0951 Facsimile: (212) 891-5042 email:\nvijay.suchdev@funb.com <mailto:vijay.suchdev@funb.com> \n\nMichael Olsen@ENRON 12/07/2000 02:29 PM Daren, \n\nI was wondering if it would be OK for me to sit in with you one day to get a\ngeneral feel of your end of the process. Pat had told me before he left that it\nwould help me better grasp the process as a whole. I understand the imminent\ncold weather is making things crazy, so now may not be the best time to be in\nyour way. But let me know if I can spend a day, morning, or even just an\nafternoon down there with you whenever it is a good time. I think it will help\nme very much in my role. \n\nThanks. \n\nMike \n\nThe new fixed price deal with Equistar is #365013. \n\nD \n\nDaren \n\nWe just did a deal for the rest of the month for 10,000/d at meter # 1552 QE-1 @\n$4.355 .... can you let me and Robert Lloyd know what the sitara # is? Thanks \n\nMelissa, I show that we also had 20.000 at LS HPL for the 13th. \n\nDaren \n\nAugust 11,2000 \n\nTeco Tap 108.333 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron\nAugust 12, 2000 \n\nTeco Tap 85.000 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron August\n13, 2000 \n\nTeco Tap 32.500 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron I'm working hard for you! Now at\n83.5. I need a new lawnmower, so I'll try to bump it up a little more. Hope\nyou're doing good. \n\nD \n\n??? KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. ? WE AT HOME LOVE IT AT $80+++ ? KEN \n\nThese have been sold. \n\nGeoff, \n\nThanks for the pictures. Looks like the kids had a great time! \n\nI hope you don't mind, but I've taken liberty to turn them into a web photo\nalbum at http://24.27.98.30/pictures/08-05_Garrett_Gayle_Bday. If you want to\npass this web site address along to other folks, feel free. If you want a CD\ncopy of this web site, give me a yell. \n\nThanks, \n\nRam Tackett, (mailto:rtackett@abacustech.net) Owner, Abacus Technologies 17611\nLoring Lane, Spring, TX 77388-5746 (281)651-7106;Fax(281)528-8636 Web:\nhttp://www.abacustech.net - Ram Tackett (E-mail).vcf 4222 \n\nDebra Perlingiere \n\nPlease give me a call to discuss Nov transaction. \n\nDebra Perlingiere \n\nAre you free for lunch some day this week? Also, I have an extra ticket for the\nComets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go? The game is at 12:Sat @ Compaq\nCenter. Would love for you to join us. I am bringing two of my girlfriends from\nLJ. Debra Perlingiere \n\nStacey here is the Master draft we discussed. I am sending you a version with\ncomments. \n\ndp \n\nCould one of you please email me a copy of the standard template you use for\nEnfolio gas purchase agreements? As we're getting more and more of those\nagreements, I'd like to add a template in Global Contracts. Thanks! \n\nStacey Barclay Richardson Enron Net Works, LLC - Global Contracts\nStacey.Richardson@enron.com (713) 853-0569 Office (713) 646-2495 Fax (713)\n710-6084 Pager Today is good 12:30 ? Cafeteria is fine. \n\nI'm free any day but Tuesday. I better pass on the Comets game. My weekends seem\nto be taken up with condo matters, house hunting. Thank you though. Are you free\nfor lunch today. I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables. Let me know if\nyou are interested. Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal,\nEB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address:\njanette.elbertson@enron.com Are you free for lunch some day this week? Also, I\nhave an extra ticket for the Comets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go? The\ngame is at 12:Sat @ Compaq Center. Would love for you to join us. I am bringing\ntwo of my girlfriends from LJ. Debra Perlingiere \n\nok call me \n\nMaybe 12:15? \n\nJanette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal, EB3326 Telephone: (713)\n853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address: janette.elbertson@enron.com\nToday is good 12:30 ? Cafeteria is fine. \n\nI'm free any day but Tuesday. I better pass on the Comets game. My weekends seem\nto be taken up with condo matters, house hunting. Thank you though. Are you free\nfor lunch today. I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables. Let me know if\nyou are interested. Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal,\nEB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address:\njanette.elbertson@enron.com \n\nMove-Team@ENRON 09/20/2000 03:22 PM Sent by: John Salinardo@ENRON it is to late\nfor me to add changes. We will have to correct them after the churn. Thank you\nfor you patience. \n\nThe Dow topped out in February of 1966 at 995. By September of that year the Dow\nhad tumbled to 744. The Dow then rallied to a high of 943 in September of '67.\nBy March of '68 the Dow had fallen to 825, only to climb to a highly speculative\npeak of 985 in December of '68. The Dow then sank to 631 in December of '70. By\nApril of '71 the Dow had climbed back to 950, only to fall to 869 in February of\n'72. A big rally then took the Dow (unconfirmed) to a record high of 1051 in\nJanuary of '73, turning everyone bullish. But by December of '73 the Dow had\ncollapsed to 788. Think that was bad - by December of '74 the Dow had sunk to a\nbear market low of 577. At that time, the gurus and geniuses of Wall Street were\npredicting a 250 Dow and many were talking openly about the end of capitalism.\nOf course, that was the bottom \n\nAnd that's the way the greatest bear market since the Depression worked its way\ndown. By late 1974 investors were dizzy, they were desperate, they were\nwrung-out, they had left Wall Street, many for good. great, we look forward to\nseeing you. \n\nDEBRA PERLINGIERE 09/20/2000 09:32 AM I will not be there at 7:30, but will see\nyou arond 9:30 on Tuesday. \n\nMany thanks! \n\nDebra Perlingiere \n\nEdward Terry 09/08/2000 09:55 AM FYI, \n\nPer the memo, ENA's storage account will be REDUCED by 420,588 mmbtu!!!!!! \n\nRobert D Morgan 09/08/2000 09:36 AM The results of the February 26th PVT test\nconducted on Nville have been discussed with each of you over the last three\nmonths. As we have discussed....effective Sep 13th, Anita will make the\nadjustments to Enron's inventory and pad gas to reflect the February 26th\nresults. I talked with Gary Wilson, and he confirmed that the revised values are\ncorrect. Attached is a spreadsheet that contains the values. \n\nThe correction to the working gas includes TWO corrections. The results of the\nFebruary 26th test reduces the working gas by 398,487MMBTU. In addition, there\nis a reduction of 22,101MMBTU which is the difference between the SCADA values\n(Best Available) that Anita showed on the February 29th Storage Sheet and the\n\"official\" February 29th values that Gary Wilson received from MIPS. To\nsummarize: Enron's pad gas will now be 3,993,310MMBTU, instead of\n4,223,000MMBTU. Enron's working gas will be reduced by 420,588MMBTU. \n\nCall me if there are any questions. \n\nfyi \n\nyeah i got yelled at also. i tried to say i wasn't that drunk but z wasn't\nhaving any of that conversation. she told me that after friday and saturday she\nfelt i was slowly regressing. then i told her i felt i should be able to screw\nmissy just once. she said that was ok. \n\nDid you get in as much trouble as I did this weekend - Lori seems to think I\nneed to get help - I told her it's normal to drink all day at a bar, then go to\ndinner where you don't know half the people there and proceed to get extremely\nfucked up *******************Internet Email Confidentiality\nFooter******************* \n\nPrivileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are\nnot the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the\nmessage to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. 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Company: Marvel Consultants,\nInc. 28601 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44122 USA Email:\nrecruiters@marvelconsultants.com <mailto:recruiters@marvelconsultants.com>\nPhone: 216-292-2855 Fax: 216-292-7207 thanks I've thought about you a few times\nin the last few months, didn't want to intrude upon an already bad situation\nwith my bullshit questions. I'm hearing some pretty depressing stuff from the\npeople I know at ENE. I wish I had the capital to open my own shop?there will be\ntalent and opportunity a plenty on the market soon. I'll ask around?I've got\nsome friends at Duke and Dynegy from B-school, the Gianoucous (spelling??)\nbrothers (John and Dimitri?from elementary school) started their own outfit a\nwhile back, and my old man is at Schlumberger and has good contacts in general\n(if you aren't married to a trading environment). Give me a few days, and I'll\nbe in touch. Michael you guys have any job opening for ex natural gas traders\nthat made their now almost defunctc ompany over 40 million in the last two\nyears? not sure how much longer ene is going to be around and i'm checking out\nmy options! \n\nRodgers As we discussed, here is a first effort at a revised TVA offer letter. I\ndrafted the Into TVA Option as a series of calls tied to the MOPA delivery term\nand quantity - not sure if this anything close to what you all had in mind.\nPlease let me know what shape you all think the offer ought to take and we can\nrevise accordingly. Thanks Elizabeth 36349 \n\nsee you there at 4:00 unless I call you \n\nMark E Haedicke Sent by: Janette Elbertson 02/28/2001 03:16 PM Please use the\nform attached when preparing the top ten risks for your businesses. Please be\nbrief! \n\nMark E Haedicke Sent by: Janette Elbertson 02/28/2001 04:41 PM Please update the\nattached Legal Risk Report. Send the revised report by e-mail. Thank you. \n\nMike Curry 11/14/2000 11:37 AM With Elizabeth's comments added to summary... \n\nyuk. so sorry to have to cancel that deal is making like it wants to close and\nthe traders scheduled a 430 call to wrap it up don't they know we have better\nthings to do here is to getting back on track after thanksgiving sorry again \n\nper my vm John Lamb@ENRON 11/15/2000 11:58 AM Attached are clean and blacklined\ndrafts of the Enron guaranties to be made in support of EPMI's obligations under\nthe Indian Mesa II Renewable Energy Purchase Agreement (\"PPA\") and Green Premium\nSharing Agreement (\"GSPA\").? The guaranty for the PPA is blacklined against the\nEnron EPC Contract guaranty in favor of the banks which was granted in\nconnection with our Cabazon Wind Power Project (the project most recently\nfinanced by EWC) and the GPSA guaranty is blacklined against the PPA guaranty.\nAs we discussed last week, since the Enron guaranties will need to be in a form\nthat will acceptable to our project lenders and equity participants, we thought\nthat we should start with a form that was used in our last financing and that\nwas negotiated by Enron and the banks. We plan to use the same basic form for\nthe Enron guaranty that will be made in favor of EPMI with respect to the\nseller's obligations under the PPA. We will forward the draft of that guaranty\nto you later today. Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions\nconcerning the attached guaranties. Thank you. \n\n- PPA Guaranty.doc - GPSA Guaranty.doc - REDLINE GPSA Guaranty.doc - REDLINE PPA\nGuaranty.doc \n\n? \n\nSheila Tweed 03/26/2001 08:58 PM Mary Hain 03/23/2001 12:24 PM I am going to be\nthe Senior Regulatory Counsel at ISO New England starting on April 9, 2001. My\nlast day in the Portland area will be March 31, 2001. I enjoyed working with you\nand wish you the best of everything. My new address will be: Mary Hain Senior\nRegulatory Counsel ISO New England Inc.One Sullivan Road Holyoke, MA 01040-2841\n(413) 535-4000 mhain@ISO-NE.com Mark \n\nHere is a revised draft of the CDWR risk memo. Events change everyday. This\nmorning's paper reports that a rate increase of 40% may be imposed by the CDWR\nas early as today and the new bond issue amount is purported to be 16 billion\n(rather than the 10 initially discussed) Mark As we discussed, here is a copy of\nthe draft memo. Thanks Elizabeth 36349 see you there on court 10 ps I may have\nto come back to work for a 615 call \n\nHere is latest draft of risk memo (STILL IN DRAFT FORM). I faxed comments to you\non dash. Do you have any current info on deal status? \n\nThanks Elizabeth 36349 \n\nVince, Are you going to be able to make the power VAR meeting on Thursday? \n\nFrank \n\nSheridan, \n\nI have just checked with RAC (David Gorte) and we have a green light to go ahead\nwith the project. I shall you tomorrow to discuss the details. \n\nVince \n\nSheridan Titman <titman@mail.utexas.edu> on 01/24/2001 02:45:50 PM Vince: \n\nI just wanted to check with you regarding the consulting arrangement we\ndiscussed a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps, we should start with just a 1 or 2 day\ncontract where I give some thoughts to the kind of issues that we discussed and\ncome to Houston to present my preliminary thoughts and possible avenues for\nadditional work. regards, \n\nSheridan Sheridan Titman Department of Finance College of Business\nAdministration University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712-1179 512-232-2787 (phone)\n512-471-5073 (fax) titman@mail.utexas.edu Bryan, \n\nDid you have a chance to take a look at the resume I sent you? He looked like a\ngreat guy for your group. \n\nVince \n\nDavid, A reminder. We discussed a few days ago a consulting arrangement with\nProf. Sheridan Titman from UT. Any feedback from Rick Buy? Please, let me know.\n42299 Vince \n\nKevin Kindall@ENRON 01/24/2001 03:51 PM Per our conversation yesterday... \n\nHi Kevin, \n\nFurther to your call attached is a presentation I gave at the Canadian Risk\nManagers Conference in Edmonton in the fall of 2000. I'll try and send one of\nPeter Cox' as well but may have some problems due to file size. In any event, my\npresentation should give you a starting point. \n\nMike \n\n- Cfoforum.ppt \n\nDarrell, \n\nThanks a lot. A quick question: we haven't received your invoice for the last\nfew model / paper reviews. Please, make sure that we are billed. \n\nClewlow/Strickland book is out. I shall send you a copy today. \n\nVince \n\nDarrell Duffie <duffie@Stanford.EDU> on 01/24/2001 03:17:01 PM Please respond to\nDarrell Duffie <duffie@Stanford.EDU> Vince/ Taiichi \n\nIn case you are interested, I attach this paper on gas Storage value modeling.\nBest, Darrell \n\n_____________________________________________ Darrell Duffie mail GSB Stanford\nCA 94305-5015 USA phone 650 723 1976 fax 650 725 7979 email duffie@stanford.edu\nweb http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie/\n_____________________________________________ - Paper4.pdf \n\nAl, \n\nI have spoken with Mark Lay and he is interested. Even if we cannot help you\nhere in Enron, he may be able to put you in touch with other CV groups in town.\nPlease, call him directly and give my name as a reference. (713) 853-7408 \n\nGood luck. \n\nVince \n\nVince J Kaminski 01/24/2001 11:21 AM Al, \n\nI have called Mark Lay and left a message on his voice mail. \n\nVince \n\nAl Arfsten <arfsten@bflassociates.com> on 01/24/2001 11:16:25 AM Vince: Your\nsuggestion to introduce the concept discussed with one of the Lays is welcomed.\nI hope that this would mean that you would remain involved at some level. The\ndesign of the model and its potential economics could be key to how worthy the\neffort might be. Enron could be an ideal environment from which to the concept\nenhancement through to commercialization could be successfully accomplished.\nPlease confidentially share matters as you think best and advise me of the\ninterest generated. \n\nI am ready to meet there at your building or elsewhere that is appropriate. Best\nregards, Al Arfsten 713 965 2158 \n\nMartin, \n\nNo problem. Please, ask Stinson as well. \n\nVince \n\nI thought that since Chonawee has an optimization background, he would be good\nto have him go to dinner with Dr. Lasdon on Thrusday as well. Would this be\nfine? Thanks, Martin \n\nWe are still trying to figure out some of the cash traders. Once we get the word\nfrom Lavo we'll let you know. Thanks \n\nKK \n\nKam, \n\nAre there any new developments in the trader world? We still have the traders\nand books that you provided last week, but need to know if there are any changes\nto this. Please let us know if you need a change so that the deals will bridge\nwith the correct books. \n\nThanks, Dawn \n\nHey, \n\nI am going to have to miss your wedding. Unfortunately, I will be in Plano that\nweekend. I wish I could make it. \n\nWhat's going on with the UBS weather position? Has that gone anywhere or are the\nother possibilities you had better? \n\nTalk to you soon, \n\nKam \n\nHey guys, \n\nI am being told by my better half that we need to get an accurate head count of\nwho will be attending our wedding. If you would be so kind, could you possibly\nlet me know of your status over the next couple of days? For those of you who\nalready sent us an RSVP response recently, please disregard. Thanks for your\nhelp! \n\nJeff \n\nWT Cal has been added. Could you run those additional post-id's? There are deals\nin the Aruba book so I'm not sure why you aren't picking those up. The deals are\nlisted below. Thanks \n\nEY4096.1 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 6,363,217 -$ 250,393 EY4096.3 PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P 202,989 $ 195,610 EY4096.4 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 F 0 $ 31,180\nEY4096.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -6,363,217 -$ 55,678 EY4106.6 PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P -1,993,045 -$ 32,387 EY4106.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 1,993,045 -$\n43,548 EY4106.9 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 27,886 $ 27,361 EY4108.E PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P 12,514,373 -$ 265,932 EY4108.F PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 112,610 $\n110,555 EY4108.H PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -2,239,879 -$ 36,398 EY4108.I\nPERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -10,274,494 -$ 166,960 Thanks \n\nAs seen below, Please start using the ENA DPR 0102 file rather than the EWS DPR\n2002 file to send to Chris. The positions needed to be divided to reflect BCF's.\nThanks Kam could you also CC me the first few times you send it? While our\nestablished schedules of Tuesday and Friday DPR's would have us reporting\ntomorrow's activity on Monday, we will change that for month end. Please email\nthe January 31st DPR information for your respective groups to my attention by\nnoon on Friday. You should use the same spreadsheet format used for the 1/29/02\nDPR. All p&l and PRMA numbers should be in $'000's. Starting in February, you\nwill be able to export the data, as opposed to using the spreadsheets. Thanks,\nChris Abel Manager, Risk Controls Global Risk Operations chris.abel@enron.com\n<mailto:chris.abel@enron.com> 713.853.3102 Kristen, \n\nAttached are all live financial deals by risk type. As you can see, the price\ndata is too large to fit into one tab. After tomorrow, I will no longer have\naccess to the estate files. Greg Couch will be taking over the responsibility\nfor the estate risk group and will be able to assist you with your requests\ngoing forward. Thanks \n\nKam \n\nEd, Here is a list of the risk people that will be with the estate. After this\nweekend, we will no longer have access to the estate files, these people will be\nable to help you with any of your questions. We will still be around to assist\nthem if needed. \n\nThanks \n\nKK \n\nHere you go... \n\nAC Sanjeev, \n\nI should have a list of post-id's for you by 4:30 today. After friday, I will no\nlonger have access to the estate, so if you could shoot this off over night so I\ncould have something in the morning to work with I would appreciate it. Let me\nknow if that doesn't seem possible. Thanks \n\nKam \n\nHi I´m from Brazil and I want to know of book 06.Is good or bad?what's your\nopinion?kisses leli \n\nits good. u must read it. pairing up of harry and ginny is cool \n\nIts awesome- better than book 5 \n\nAn orphaned, two-month old African elephant named Olly received an extremely\nuplifting Christmas present this year: an airplane ride just for him, courtesy\nof the International Fund for Animal Welfare and their friends 'The Bateleurs'.\nAnimal News Center Webmaster \n\nHello, \n\nWe have started a new forum for an interactive and absorbing discussion on\nAstrology & Palmistry and everything in between including Gemology, Feng\nShui/Vaastu Shastra. We look forward to your active participation to make this\nforum an exciting meeting place for like minded individuals. 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The story had brillant battle scenes,\nlovable heroes and villians, a compelling story line, and it left me dying for\nthe next part of the series:) go to taleofterra.com to learn more aboout it \n\nEmail: Roving Mouse <s...@tack.net> Groups: alt.animals, alt.animals.cat,\nalt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, talk.politics.animals Followup-To: alt.animals \n\nYou will always find fascinating links at: Extreme Web Surfs\nhttp://extremewebsurfs.blogspot.com/ (nice urban wildlife post today) & Me and\nthe Web http://maartenvt.blogspot.com/ Arts, History,Animals, Music,Games\n,Politics,Technology, Fun and more! .. \n\nEmail: franz371...@gmail.com WE HAVE A DATE FOR THE RELEASE OF RAGNAROK ONLINE 2\n(beta anyway)September 16-18, this was announced by Gravity CEO Kim Jung-Ryool\non either 16th or 17th of july and as i don't want to take someone's credit's i\ngot it here^^GameSpot By the way we now have a \"forum\" in the post link Reply \n\nEmail: \"Ian\"<ian.gilb...@btinternet.com> Groups: alt.animals.cat \n\nWe have updated our site to include a LOST and FOUND page and you can now join\nour branch and make a secure on-line donation to the charity. Please do visit us\nand feel free to browse the site at www.southbhamcats.org.uk PS - we also have\nmore cats coming in for re-homing see our 'Homes Wanted' page Thanks for looking\n\nIan - Webmaster www.southbhamcats.org.uk \n\nKey Delhi blast suspect arrested \n\nPolice in the Indian capital Delhi say they have arrested the suspected\nco-ordinator and financier of last month's deadly bomb blasts in the city. Delhi\npolice chief KK Paul named the man as Tariq Ahmed Dar, and said police were\nhunting for four accomplices. He said Mr Dar, 33, was arrested in\nIndian-administered Kashmir and belonged to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba\nmilitant group. \n\nThe India Diaries \n\nI like the way Otto Jespersen (in 'Language: Its Nature, Development and\nOrigin') aptly summarised the nature of language changes by comparing it with\none of the theories of the Manchester School of Economics: 'Everything is for\nthe best in the best of all possible worlds if only no artificial hindrances are\nput in the way of free exchange, for demand and supply will regulate everything\nbetter than any Government would be able to.' Portia \n\nThis is a beautiful site and a wonderful idea. And a portion of each package or\nmemorial purchased goes to a charity on their database. \n\nSo be sure to get your pet's memorial on the site and if you have a charity /\nrescue, make sure it is listed on their database so you can receive some of the\nprofits from the site. \n\nBest, Cindy \n\n\"...there is no companion quite so devoted, so communicative, so loving and so\nmesmerizing as a rat.\" ~CGoehring \n\nEmail: Anthony Beavers <CognitiveScienceN...@gmail.com> Inhibitory Systems\nControl the Pattern of Activity in the Cortex \n\n\"Inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the\ncortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical\noperation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.... The\nfindings demonstrate the inhibitory network is central to controlling not only\nthe amplitude, extent and duration of activation of recurrent excitatory\ncortical networks, but also the precise timing of action potentials, and, thus,\nnetwork synchronization...\" \n\n-- Posted by Anthony Beavers to Cognitive Science News at 8/28/2005 07:18:20 AM\n\nEmail: \"engin i. erdem\"<erdemen...@gmail.com> ** *Worldwatch Projects\nCatastrophe Will Be Most Costly Weather-Related Disaster in History*\n*Washington, D.C.-* The overwhelming human and financial impacts of Hurricane\nKatrina are powerful evidence that political and economic decisions made in the\nUnited States and other countries have failed to account for our dependence on a\nhealthy resource base, according to an assessment released today by the\nWorldwatch Institute. Alteration of the Mississippi River and the destruction of\nwetlands at its mouth have left the area around New Orleans abnormally\nvulnerable to the forces of nature. According to many scientists, the early\nresults of global warming—90 degree Fahrenheit water temperatures in the Gulf\nand rising sea levels—may have exacerbated the destructive power of Katrina.\n*...* \n\nhttp://reflectioncafe.blogspot.com/2005/09/unnatural-disasterthe-less... \n\nEmail: n3td3v <xploita...@gmail.com> n3td3v saw this story on BBC News Online\nand thought you should see it. ** Google defies US over search data ** Web giant\nGoogle is resisting an attempt by the US to force it to reveal what users are\nsearching for. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4630694.stm>\n** BBC Daily E-mail ** Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you\nwant them, all in one daily e-mail < http://www.bbc.co.uk/dailyemail/> **\nDisclaimer ** The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and\nanything written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or\nopinions. Please note that neither the e-mail address nor name of the sender\nhave been verified. \n\nIf you do not wish to receive such e-mails in the future or want to know more\nabout the BBC's Email a Friend service, please read our frequently asked\nquestions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4162471.stm \n\n[http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=624569&section=news]\nWith protests going on in the Chilean capital of Santiago (from the economic\nsummit), President Bush visited Chinese President Hu Jintao and other key allies\nin Santiago. The talk of the day besides a more level playing field with China\nwas North Korea. China has been a great help at getting North Korea to the table\nand Bush is hoping that with their cooperation Korea can become a nuclear free\npeninsula. \n\nREUTERS/Jason Reed U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Chinese\nPresident Hu Jintao in a bilateral meeting in Santiago. Bush is in Santiago for\nthe annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting. Hopefully\nPresident Bush can accomplish these goals which will not only help strengthen\nour Chinese allies, but will also help fight the war on terror. Selah! \n\n-- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 11/20/2004 03:10:35 PM \n\nEmail: BlackBayou <BlackBa...@excite.com> Groups: alt.animals.cat \n\nI started this page to help with my boredom. I have Chronic Lyme disease, so I'm\nstuck at home. I started collecting animations & jokes just to help with my\nboredom and depression. \n\nI enjoyed the animations and wanted to share them with my friends. So I started\na small mailing list and added their addresses to it. Along with an area on the\npage for those to join the mailing list. I started with 21 email addresses. We\nnow have over 5000 addresses. My wife and I would love for you to come and visit\nour page \n\nhttp://www.myshutter.com/flash.htm our collection of comedy\nhttp://www.myshutter.com Before becoming disabled, I was an AVID amateur\nphotographer.. come and visit and sign our guestbook -----= Posted via\nNewsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1\nNewsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different\nServers! =----- \n\nHandcrafted Furry Animals Wholesale, Call for a Catalog NOW! 732-657-3416 \n\nhas life like animal wholesale figurines made from rabbit and goat fur, feathers\nand sheeps wool. Dogs, cats, rabbits, wolves, moose, horses, you name it, we\nhave it. People love to buy these cute cuddly little animals for gifts and\ncollectables. They are very well made and realistic. Attention Retail Stores &\nVendors: We are looking to expand our Wholesale Clients across the Nation. 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His artworks were selected and\nexhibited in British Museum in 2002. \"Wei has given some virtuoso performances\nwith brush and ink, often incorporating several different techniques into a\nsingle work,\" said Gordon S. Barrass, curator of the exhibition. In the world of\n\"Wei's magic cubes,\" all seem to be ingeniously planned and tricky. All are\nmathematical, all are linguistic. In Wei's art, a logician could see\nmathematical logic, a cellist could see a ripple of nine bass notes, a country\ngirl could see straw, and Harry Potter could see two accompanied green blazes.\n\"...to gaze at Wei's art is like entering a floating world of dreams.\" --- The\nArt of Calligraphy in Modern China (British Museum Press, 2002) \n\n[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39187928,00.htm] \n\nPhoto from Technology News Wiki Media Foundation, the group behind the Wikipedia\nonline encyclopedia project, said Friday that search giant Google has\nvolunteered to host some of its content on company servers. (ZD Net) It looks\nlike the war between Microsoft and Google is quickly brewing on the horizon.\nMicrosoft is 4-0 (they took down Netscape, Suns Systems, MAC and IBM) and Google\nmay be their next target. Google is probably making this move to counter\nMicrosoft Search using Encarta (it's online dictionary). More below. \n\nBut it looks like Google isn't opening it's mouth about the reason behind the\noffer as Linux News reports: \"While we don't have anything specific to announce\ntoday, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively evaluating\ncreative ways to support Wikipedia.org and its community.\" Sure Google, although\nthis would put it on coarse for global domination of the internet by 2014. It\nwill be interesting to see whether or not Google will finally slay the Microsoft\nGoliath, who has known no major defeat and seeks to vanquish all competition.\nSelah! \n\n-- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/14/2005 07:03:00 PM \n\nEmail: \"Ruth\"<ruth.penyc...@bbc.co.uk> Hello there \n\nAction Network is a BBC website for people who are taking action on issues that\nconcern them. I'm getting in touch because I think it could be useful to people\ncampaigning about hospital closures. We've got a page dedicated to issues around\nhospitals ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C55153 ) and a group called\nNHS SOS have already put up a campaign about ward closures in Cumbria. I'm\nhoping to build this up to be a hub for all the campaigners - a place where\npeople can exchange ideas and advice. It would be great if the person from CHANT\nwho started this page would put up a short description of the campaign and a\nlist to this group page on the Action Network site. Action Network is also a\ngood place to post details of events, or try to rally together a group if you\nwant to take action in your area. You can attach anything you write to pages for\nyour local area, as well as to the 'issue' pages. I'm more than happy to help\npeople with the site or answer any questions about Action Network - just drop me\na message. Otherwise, hope to see you there! Kind regards Ruth Penycate\nwww.bbc.co.uk/actionnetwork \n\nWinston Peters is visiting a school. \n\nIn one class, he asks the students if anyone can give him an example of a\n\"tragedy\". One little boy stands up and offersthat, \"if my best friend who lives\nnext door was playing in the street when a car came along and killed him, that\nwould be a tragedy\". \"No,\" Winston says, \"That would be an ACCIDENT.\" A girl\nraises her hand. \"If a school bus carrying fifty children drove off a cliff,\nkilling everyone involved... that would be a tragedy\". \"I'm afraid not,\n\"explains Winston, \"that is what we would call a GREAT LOSS.\" The room is\nsilent, none of the other children volunteer. \"What?\" asks Winston, \"isn't there\nany one here who can give me an example of a tragedy?\" Finally, a boy in the\nback raises his hand. In a timid voice, he says: \"If an airplane carrying\nWinston Peters was blown up by a bomb, THAT would be a tragedy\". \"Wonderful!\"\nWinston beams. \"Marvelous! And can you tell me WHY that would be a\ntragedy?\"\"Well,\" says the boy, \"because it wouldn't be an accident, and it\ncertainly wouldn't be a great loss!\" \n\n[http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html] \n\nPhoto from Space.com (Space.com) It looks like The Lunar Transportation Systems,\nInc. is visualizing a \"space highway\" going from the moon to Earth (and back\nagain). \"Our new lunar transportation system utilizes a unique architecture that\nwill establish the equivalent of a two-way highway between the Earth and the\nMoon,\" Kistler told SPACE.com. \"Our plans include raising private capital to\ndevelop, build, flight test, and operate this Earth-Moon highway for the benefit\nof the country and the benefit of our investors.\" Wise decision to go through\nthe private sector--NASA's budget may be kinda tight to fund a project like\nthis. \n\nThis group does sound pretty interesting though. The Lunar Transporatation\nSystems (LTS) is actually being funded by two space businessmen, Walter Kistler\nand Bob Citron. Both of these men are heavily involved in the private sector of\nthe space industry, and both are also involved with another space company called\nSPACEHAB . They want to use LTS to tie into NASA's vision for Space Exploration,\nand seem pleased that the White House is moving in that direction. \"We are so\nexcited that the White House and the recent new government space policy\nunderscores the need to involve the private sector in assisting NASA develop its\nplans for the new Vision for Space Exploration,\" said Walter Kistler, LTS\nco-founder and Chairman. With their proposal of a \"Earth-Moon\" highway, it looks\nlike space tourism may become a reality sooner than we think. Selah! \n\n-- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/15/2005 05:12:00 PM \n\n[http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_050829_ksc_spacefuture.html] \n\n(Space.com) U.S. astronauts will launch to the moon on sleek, single, shuttle\nbooster rockets and the first new upper-stage rocket this country has developed\nin more than a decade, NASA and the Pentagon have told the White House. \n\nLunar landers and other gear needed for extended visits to the moon will be\nlofted by gargantuan launchers as big as the Apollo-era Saturn 5, the most\npowerful rockets ever flown. It looks as if NASA is transitioning away from the\nshuttle model, as in the past they have proven to be quite dangerous as Columbia\nhas recently proved. Although these new rockets are probably more expensive,\nthey will be able to go at a much greater range than it's shuttle cousins, as\nthey can not only break free from the atmosphere but reach the moon as well. \n\n\"NASA will initiate development of a Crew Launch Vehicle derived from space\nshuttle solid rocket boosters with a new upper stage for human spaceflight,\"\nsaid the letter, signed by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and the Pentagon's\ntop space official, ex-astronaut Ron Sega... \n\n\"NASA then plans to develop a new 100-metric-ton-class launch vehicle derived\nfrom existing capabilities with the space shuttle external tanks and solid\nrocket boosters for future missions to the moon,\" the letter said. NASA is\nplanning on using these new shuttles to replace the current models, with\nindustry forecasters predicting a launch as early as 2014. The new rocket design\nwill differ slightly from it's predecessors, in the fact that the crew and cargo\nwould launch separately from two different rockets each and join up in space\nlater on. Launching this way will hopefully avoid future disasters, giving more\nsupport towards NASA revisiting the stars. \n\n-- Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 8/30/2005 09:36:00 PM \n\nGeorge and Lynne \n\nimage001.jpg 51K Download Funny stuff \n\nlifted from another list \n\nAmy:-) \n\n------ \n\nWe could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through\nCongress. \n\n- Will Rogers \n\nI had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to\nread the description in the catalog: \"No good in a bed, but fine against a\nwall.\" - Eleanor Roosevelt \n\n------ \n\nSanta Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. \n\n- Victor Borge \n\n------ \n\n\"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a\nbad one, you'll become a philosopher. \n\n- Socrates \n\n------ \n\nI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. \n\n- Groucho Marx \n\n------ \n\nMy wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to\nbreathe. \n\n- Jimmy Durante \n\n------ \n\nI have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. \n\n- Zsa Zsa Gabor \n\n------ \n\nOnly Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:\nalcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. \n\n- Alex Levine \n\n------ \n\nMoney can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of\nmisery. \n\n- Spike Milligan \n\n------ \n\nUntil I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up. \n\n- Joe Namath \n\n------ \n\nYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. \n\n- Herbert Henry Asquith \n\n------ \n\nI don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. \n\n- Bob Hope \n\n------ \n\nDon't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you. \n\n- Winston Churchill \n\n------ \n\nMaybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear\nout, fall out, or spread out. \n\n- Phyllis Diller \n\n------ \n\nBy the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.\n\n- Billy Crystal \n\n__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?\nYahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around \n\nimage_jpg_part 52K Download \n\nWhat language is talked in Iguazu? \n\nportuguese spanish \n\nGreen Tea Or White Tea? \n\nGreen \n\nGreen Tea. \n\nGreen tea \n\nWhat is this Miramar? \n\nIt is a place in Argentina lol \n\nDoes anyone know any good restaurants in cordoba? \n\nNot me sorry. \n\nDoes anyone know of any good food in iguazu? \n\nNot me sorry. \n\nWhich wonderful contact of mine is thumbs upping all my best answers ^^? \n\n=) \n\nWhat are some Major land forms in Ireland? \n\nMountains, cliffs, peat bogs, valleys \n\nDo you know the online streaming link for Red FM 93.5 delhi ? any format url ? \n\nΥes. \n\nhow fare of kolkatta? \n\nkolkatta is an Indian State. \n\nlol... Kolkata is not for sale!!!!!! roflmao \n\nWhich do you prefer Crab or Shrimp? \n\nI like shrimp,fried,grilled,or steamed. \n\ncrab \n\nshrimp \n\nhow much does it cost to join world resorts international? \n\ncould not find any info online email them at address below E-mail:\nmemberservices@worldresortsinternational.com m \n\nWho is artist Gunther Uecker;explain? \n\nhttp://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/GuntherUecker-1930.shtml His work\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&q=gunther+uecker+biography&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=484l484l0l5093l1l1l0l0l0l0l328l328l3-1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1221&bih=756&sei=XVG5TqrrGoXK2AXG0ry-Bw#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=gunther+uecker+artist&pbx=1&oq=gunther+uecker+&aq=1S&aqi=g1g-S3&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=10219l10219l0l13797l1l1l0l0l0l0l125l125l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=13ddcdc64cbf5fd&biw=1221&bih=756\n\nHow much does it cost to buy a Big Mac meal in your area? \n\nHere in Indiana I think it's like $3 or $4 for a meal. \n\nin n out of the chicago area? \n\nwhich burger chain do you think is as good as in n out or better in the chicago\narea besides five guys and smashburger? \n\nWhere to buy bodybuilding supplements in Delhi? \n\nAny particular shop that you know of AND their number. \n\nAtal Pharmacy, Karol Bag. \n\nkindly contact laxmi nagar zim in delhi.. \n\nDo you think there are any koreans in Miramar? \n\nHeck there must be at least 1 korean. \n\nNo, but I do believe some Koreans reside in the country of HA-ha! \n\nCan you use the 'find my phone' feature to track someone else's phone? \n\nYou'd need their Apple ID and password, if you had that then yes you can track\nany iPhone. \n\nBesides eating good foods, what else do people do in Miramar? \n\nWell, they have a variety of sports that they play like basketball, soccer, etc.\n\nWell they play the Wii like me :) \n\nIs Hank Green Awesome? \n\nThe Hank Green I know is hardly awesome. He needs a shower, and he picks his\nnose all the time. He is at his best when he is doing his Nerd impression... \n\nweather in december in Tremblant? \n\nTypically it's cold. There may or may not be snow, depending on local weather\nconditions. In the ski resort areas, there will likely be man-made snow on the\nslopes. \n\njay is it necessary to varnish my oil paintings or just leave them be ? thx for\nyour ans.? \n\nAs in the old days, varnish is often used as a protective film against years of\ndirt, grease, smoke, etc. \n\nFun picture websites (:? \n\nI'm looking for websites like flickr.com tumblr.com and autocorrects.com but\nones that aren't very common and have a variety of funny pictures! Please give\nme lots of links and places to look! Thank you (: \n\nIfunny.com \n\nhow do you mold silicone or rubber into a mermaid tail? \n\nCarve one in your chosen medium. Make a mold. Cast. Depending on scale, just buy\na fish and make a mold from that They sell these kits in most hobby and craft\nstores. \n\nDo you prefer ham, bacon or sausages with your breakfast? \n\nWithout a doubt..... bacon! :) \n\nthick cut bacon or really good sausages \n\nwith my breakfast I like bacon and sausage when I having a big breakfast like a\ngrand slam with pancakes and the works. \n\nCan police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off? \n\nCan police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off? \n\nYeah you gotta burn it..thats the only way \n\nYes , they all have secret locator chips , just like gps \n\nYes. \n\nmazzoni's deli best italian food in phila pa? \n\nis mazzoni's deli at 3901 conshocken ave in phila pa really the best italian\nfood in the country??? because all of the food blogs Ive read say so and I will\ntravel from maryland if thats true \n\nyep \n\nDinner and dancing in Chicago? \n\nI'm under 21+ and looking for a nice place to take my boyfriend out for dinner\nwhere they play music and there is a dance floor. It's okay if it's a little\npricier. Any good suggestions would really be appreciated. \n\nRumba Room \n\nCourage the cowardly dog? \n\nIn the Episode \"So in Louvre Are We Two\", How many diffrent painting/scupltures\nare their and who are the artists? Link to video:\nhttp://www.livevideo.com/video/C8F5BBEC570C4A4DBC326F694D79942A/courage-the-cowardly-dog-so-.aspx\n\nYou should really ask this in the art section. Theyre probably just drawn for\nthe show anyways. \n\nName something you find at a carnival that comes on a stick? \n\nCotton Candy Corn Dog Candy Apple Meat Kabob \n\nShip on a Stick (Prize at various trivia type contests on board.) \n\nAll of those ;D \n\nMonkey Brain. What country are we talking about? I like my Monkey Brain on a\nstick for sure. \n\nHow come no one bothers to ask any questions in this section? \n\nI mean besides me of course. \n\nBecause obviously most people have never even heard of this section. \n\nSomeone had to be first. I have never been there. \n\nwell, I don't ask questions here because I have no clue what \"Iguazu\" is... \n\nWhat do you think of Air France? \n\nI love Air France! Their service is top-notch and I especially love the free\nFrench champagne served even in Economy. I also find their food way better than\nmany other airlines. Plus you land in a preferential terminal... I go out of my\nway to use Air France. \n\nexpensive \n\nWhat's the difference between Indian and African ringnecks and alexandrine\nparrots? ? \n\nI was fixing to buy an indian ringneck, did a bunch of research, (I'm a very\nexperienced bird owner, macaws, cockatoos, amazons), And noticed two other\nbreeds that look a lot alike. So does anyone know what the difference is? Thanks\n\nif i preorder a game at gamestop can someone else pick it up for me? \n\ni put $5 bucks down for it too. \n\nno they wont be able to some gamestops dont check ID for the pre-order so some\nppl can get away with doing this but alot of store want to see your id and/or\nyour reciept of the pre-order \n\nHas anyone ever worked for steiner leisure cruises? \n\nI'm considering taking a job with Steiner and noticed I have to pay for all my\ntravel. Was wondering if anyone knew a rough estimate of how much it costs with\ntravel and training \n\nI haven't personally but I know a couple of people who have. Wendi has worked\nfor them have a look at her blog. \n\nBest POS system in Philadelphia ? \n\nWhat is the best pos system I can buy in philadelphia pa? I need something\nreliable and good looking. \n\nProsperity POS makes the best pos systems. I use them for my restaurant and\nalways get compliments on the sleek look of the mac system not to mention how\ngood the support is. Do yourself a favor and give them a call.\nhttp://www.prosperitypos.com?p=ya \n\nWhat are \"good\" speakers? \n\nI've been looking at the bose sound dock 10 ive currently got a jvc mini hifi\nsystem, i was wondering what would be a good set of speakers. I like music very\nloud and with a lot of bass. also i was wondering, is it true that the bigger\nthe speakers are the better. thanks \n\nB&w. Bose is not good \n\nUSPS Delivery in Auckland,NZ? \n\nI have ordered Bose Headfones worth 300USD. They have been shipped using USPS\nPriority Mail International Parcels. will i have to pay customs in NZ. its a\ngift from my brother. why will hav to pay customs if it is a gift...?? i always\nthought theres no custom charges for gifts. \n\nYup. \n\nYes,you must pay customs duties. \n\n24 hour fast resturants near by? \n\nWell theres Mc.Donalds,Taco Bell,Burger King.....But my resturant is way better\nthan all of them...and it's quite close. It's just up the highway and right\naround the corner.... \n\nNearby what? Loop, North Side, South Side, near suburbs, far suburbs? Chicago's\na big area. \n\nPORTILLO'S OR WHITE CASTLE! :D \n\nNZers: Have you decided who you're going to vote for? \n\nAnd has this changed from previous years? I'm just curious. Bay of Plenty- Are\nyou even old enough to vote? hahaha \n\nnot sure yet \n\nJohn Key, and no \n\nMaybe Labour. John Key is too busy looking after his rich mates, while the rest\nof us pay. Yes, I have usually voted National. I do see myself as a conservative\n\nArriving in Auckland on a direct flight from Canada.? \n\nWill we be allowed to take duty free bottles onto our connecting flight to\nChristchurch? In our hand luggage or do we have to put it into our checked\nluggage? \n\nYes. I don't think it matters \n\nWe'll see you on 'Border Patrol' \n\nYes you can carry your duty free bottles, and liquids onto your connection as it\nis only a domestic flight :-) \n\nStudying in Quebec,Canada? \n\nIf I went into the \"pre-university\" direction with business administration in\nmind. Say after I finished those 2 years and I found a job. would I be able to\ngo back to school after a year break at a university to get a Bachelors degree\nin business administration? Any information would help. Thank you \n\nYou should be able to no problem. Universities will take you whatever age you\nare. \n\nWhat would you call the device that hold up your photography backdrop? \n\nand where can I find them? \n\nBackground support systems. Or background stands buy them in any good\nphotography supplies shop. \n\nframe thumbs down??? odd considering this is a search on the net:\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=backdrop+frame&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&sout=1\n\nBackdrop stand. Google the term or find photography supplies websites and put it\nin the search box (or look for studio equipment supplies). \n\nout of carnival, royal caribbean, and norweigan (cruises) which is the best and\nwhy? \n\nI prefer Royal Caribbean out of all these. There is so much to do onboard. The\nnew NCL Epic does sound amazing, although I haven't sailed on her yet. \n\nNone of the above. \n\nOf THESE three, it's a toss-up between Royal and Carnival. NCL is a notch below\neither, in terms of quality and service. \n\nWill USB cell phone chargers still charge even if they're hooked up to a\ncomputer that is turned off? \n\nMine does. I have the HTC Evo. \n\ndepends on the computer if the computer is completely shut off, the USB ports\naren't getting power, so they won't charge your phone many PCs have sleep &\ncharge now, that allow the PC to go into sleep mode, and still allow the USB\nports to charge things like phones. \n\nwhat is a good slogan for an Argentinian restaurant? \n\n\"In Argentina, beef is revered, respected, and praised. Come see how we continue\nthis tradition.\" \n\nA taste of Argentina. Here are some articles that discuss the details of slogan\nwriting. Why certain slogans work and why some don't. You will find these\nhelpful in writing a new slogan. A Look at Slogans -\nhttp://www.small-business-software.net/look-at-slogans.htm Unique Selling\nProposition -\nhttp://www.small-business-software.net/unique-selling-proposition.htm Goodluck!\n\nNo Mad Cow --- Guaranteed! \n\nWhich Compact System Camera Should I Get...? \n\nI'm looking for a camera that has really good zoom during a video and pictures;\nand good quality pictures /videos I'm planning on buying a compact system camera\nat best buy ; so please list the one(s) I should purchase. Also how much do\ncompact system cameras drop on boxing day? **and i can upload my pictures and\nvideos on the computer (facebook) \n\nhave a look at sony wx10 \n\nI need creative art ideas? \n\nWhat are some cool ideas for making a postor usint the word MAD on a white paper\nin a weird or artsy way? The actual word \"MAD\" has to be on the cover and\nincorporated into the image. \n\nMAD means crazy, or angry, so you do a lot with it, i would put a gorrilla\nscreaming , just the face, and just throw in a lot of brushes fifferent colors,\nmake it look artistic. use photoshop. \n\ntttthhhhh Madonna! \n\nwhat is the fall of hanoi? \n\ncan anyone tell me exactly what it is and what took place? I cant find any\ninformation about it \n\nWhen the French returned to Indochina at the end of WW II the Viet Minh were in\ncontrol of the Red River Delta. They chased the Communists out of the capital\n(Hanoi) and retook control. Is that what you are referring to? You need to check\nout the French Indochina War (1946-1954) not the Vietnam War (1957-1975). \n\nDoes a pacman absolutely need a uv lamp? \n\nOr maybe something humid or heat? \n\nI assume you are talking about a pacman frog. No, technically they do not need a\nUVB light; they are nocturnal. However, it certainly wouldn't hurt if you wanted\nto provide one. A pacman frog will need a heat source that creates a basking\ntemp in the upper 80's F for at least 10 - 12 hours a day. don't forget to use a\ncalcium supplement twice a week; captive reptiles are prone to calcium\ndeficiency. \n\nsurprise romantic cheap date night san francisco? \n\nlooking for a surprise spot to take my bf. a bar would be nice but also\nsomething extremely unique. i would like to have one of those super random\nsurprisingly nice nights out...suggestions? o and the cheaper the better (we are\ntrying to save money now, sooo..thatd b helpful) thanks \n\nWhy not put together a bottle of champagne, a picnic and have a date on Treasure\nIsland. Cheap, great view, time together. \n\nThere are plenty of cheap restaurants. Try SanFranGuide.com \n\nmy lhasa apso hind legs are not working? \n\nfor the past few days she has been shivering and wont eat but she could walk now\nher hid legs are not working but she is back to her self .. what should i do .?\n\njust pray for her ad=nd try to hlep your dog and do some physical therapy on the\nhind legs and take her to the vet and ig it costs a whole lot ask hlep from you\nfriends and family adn since shes not eating feed her by hand \n\nTake her to the vet. \n\nobviously take her to the vet \n\nHow much would it cost for me to take me and three friends to Andiamos\nrestaurant for dinner? \n\nHi, i'm looking to take myself and my best friend and his girl friend and this\ngirl i really like out to dinner for my birthday. I really want to go to\nandiamos for my birthday and i was just wondering how much it would cost for the\nfour of us to eat there \n\nHave no idea what kind of restaurant this is or where it is. Best count on $50\nper person no matter what. Or more if you have drinks. \n\nI need suggestions for San Francisco restaurants with good food and good\ncatering service.? \n\nI need suggestions on restaurants in San Francisco with good food and good\ncatering service. I have two upcoming events one is for 200 and another is for\n21. American Food, Soul Food, Mexican, Italian, and Chinese are the options.\nHere is a great list of different restaurants in San Francisco\nhttp://sanfranguide.com/restaurants/ \n\nwell since i dont know your budget, i recommend Hakka Restaurant for chinese\nfood its cheap and its good! prime ribs have very good food but its super\nexpensive try yelp.com \n\nhow many ounces in a pint in ireland? \n\nDepends of what. Ounces measure weight, pints measure volume. If you mean fluid\nounces, 20, as opposed to the 16 in America. An Irish pint is larger than a US\none. \n\n20 fluid ounces in a Pint in Ireland as R-G said, there are only 16 in an\nAmerican one. Know this well because I remember an 'irish' pub in the town in\ncanada i grew up in used to advertise the cheapest pints of guinness in town,\nbut they served them in american sized pints. That place didn't stay open too\nlong :D \n\nneed help finding irish music? \n\ni love The Script and know there from iraland. i would like more bands like them\npleasseee \n\nThe thing about The Script is they do not sound that Irish, I was surprised to\nhear they were from Dublin. Well if you are interested, I suggest you have a\nlook at General Fiasco, Two Door Cinema Club and Wallis Bird. I think you will\nbe pleased. \n\nI doubt you will get a sensible answer in the \"TRAVEL\" section. \n\n*Ireland And there's nothing distinctly Irish about them. You'd find similar\nbands to them that are from the UK and US. \n\nWomen's rain coat...where can I find one? \n\nI'm going on a trip to Europe soon, and I need to find a good, quality raincoat.\nI've looked and looked, but cannot find one anywhere! I would prefer a simple,\nfitted black one. It actually needs to be relatively waterproof - the last one I\nbought had me soaked in anything more than light/moderate rain. I'll pay up to\n200-250 for it if I have to. \n\nLook on the debenhams website in the craghoppers section they do some good\nwaterproof raincoats heres the link:\nhttp://www.debenhams.com/women/craghoppers#catalogId=10001&lid=//productsuniverse/en_GB/product_online0Y/categories%3C0productsuniverse_186610/brand_description0.000000E+000craghoppers0/categories%3C0productsuniverse_18661_186820&ps=default&sfn=Categories&sfv=Coats+%26amp0+jackets&storeId=10001\n\nI have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I\npause it while recording? \n\nI have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I\npause it while recording? \n\nYou don't... there's no such thing as \"pause\" in digital recording. That's\nbecause of the buffer that holds the data until it's ready to be recorded to the\nmemory card. When you press the button to stop recording the data is moved from\nthe buffer to the memory card - no pause. All you can do is take each section\n(individual video) and edit them together on software. \n\nI have a Nacho Libre question.? \n\nWhen nacho is driving to cure the influenza guy does he say to the man with the\ncow i like your blouse or I like your cow because my friend thinks he says I\nlike your blouse, but that wouldn't make sense. I know its in the wrong\ncatagory, but still, I wrote this question for a reason, not for you to\ncritisize me. \n\nOkay, FIRST, you have posted a question about an American movie, set in Mexico,\nin the Dining Out in Argentina category. Do you get what's wrong with this\npicture? No...that's all. No second. \n\nNacho Libre is suppose to be inspired in Mexicans, not in Argentineans. \n\nis there any good places to get an ice-cream sundae from in Invercargill New\nZealand? \n\nso i live in Invercargill New Zealand and i want to know if there are any good\nplaces to buy an ice-cream sundae from other than mc donalds lol Fast food\nchains, supermarkets, dairies \n\nyou live in NZ and you eat McDonalds ice cream? you're mad! Any of the tip-top\nplaces have great ice-cream, get them to mix it up. \n\nany Ice Cream In NZ no matter where as New Zealand has the best bl**dy ice cream\nin the world I was in NZ for a few weeks had some Ice Cream and really enjoyed\nit I will go back just to eat some Ice Cream \n\nbest burger chain in the Chicago area? \n\nwhich is the best burger chain in the chicago metro area like for example burger\nking portillos white castle which one do like the best? Red Robin. Onion Rings\nare great and the fries are endless. Fudruckers. \n\nidk ur choice \n\nChain? Does 5 make a chain? Hackney's has a great burger formula that started\nabout 80 years ago. There are currently 5 locations: http://www.hackneys.net/\nThe latest spot for a real Hackney's is Printers' Row:\nhttp://www.hackneysprintersrow.net/ See what DD&D showed at the original place\non Harms Rd in Glenview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lDF0XU3NI Along with\nthe great burger try a brick of onion rings if you are with someone. Otherwise a\n1/2 brick will be fine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellybeanjill13/532522805/\n\nMy dog has threw up yellow bile for two days but does not have dhirea. What\nshould I do? \n\nI've tried bland white rice but he wont eat anything. What could it be? Should I\nbe concerned? \n\nCall a vet would be a good idea with a sick dog \n\nVERY CONCERNED!!! plz bring your dog to the vet ASAP!!! esp if not eating - if\nit had only happened once and could get him to eat right away - it could have\nbeen you missed his meal time and he needed to eat - since it sounds like it has\nhappened several times over two days - then he may have gotten int to something\nthat needs to be attended to RIGHT AWAY!!! or has acquired some type of disease\nand that too needs to be attended to... \n\nwhy are there two statues of David? \n\ni doing a research paper on donatello and i notice that there are two statues of\nDavid, a bronze one and marble one. Michelangelo made the marble one but why did\nhe do another if Donatello had already made one? so im a little confused , why\nis there two statues of David? \n\ndifferent generations , the donatello is of a boy david as a young sheep Herder,\nthe Michelangelo is the grown up man david as slayer and king \n\nBecause he liked making statues of David! :D \n\nObviously, he should have been arrested and jailed - imagine making a statue or\npainting on the same subject as another artist - clearly insulting and\ndisrespecting - wasted time that could have been used making a statue with\nclothes on. \n\nName of specific Hibachi restaurant in Chicago? \n\nI have a friend out in Chicago this week, and I am trying to remember the name\nof an awesome hibachi style restaurant i visited while out there a couple years\nago. I think it was in the Lincoln Square area but don't quote me on that. It's\n'gimmick' was that you fill your bowl cafeteria-style from raw ingredients and\nleave it on the counter with a chopstick listing your table number on it. Four\nguys around a large square open hibachi cook your food, and when it's finished a\nserver brings it to your table. All-you can-eat style deal. It was pretty epic\nas I remember and would love to send my friend there. Any help? \n\nThat is Flat Top Grill \n\nWhat's the best time to start a trip around the world? \n\nWell,I'm about to graduate in less then a year,and I'm planning to study medical\nschool.But since in my country it lasts for minimum 6 years,and I want to go\naground the world,what do you think,should I do it before or after medical\nschool? \n\nIf you can afford to go before, then by all means, GO. If you have to wait, due\nto financial reasons, then wait. I would much rather put it off until I can\nafford to have the vacation of a lifetime as I'm sure this trip is intended to\nbe. Airfare alone will be incredibly expensive so make sure you have the money\nand of course free time to take your time and have a great time. \n\ncanon t2i stops working? \n\nMy canon t2i stops working at times as in the power bottom is switched to \"on\"\nbut the camera does not respond to any function. the camera only begins to work\nagain when i take out the battery and put it back in. did anyone have this\nissue? is it worthy to send in for warranty repair? thanks! \n\nSounds simple enough to me . Your camera isn't acting normally, you got\nwarranty, let Canon deal with it. \n\nI would agree. I shoot a t1i and haven't had such an issue. I also agree it's\nunder warranty so get in touch with Canon. It sounds like a firmware issue and\nthe camera requires a re-boot just like what happens in a computer - needs a\nre-start from time to time but it shouldn't be happening in a camera. Call Canon\n\nCheapest airline ticket from Raleigh to Philippines? \n\nI'm going on a vacation to the Philippines in May 2012, and I'm starting from\nRaleigh, NC (RDU Airport). Which airlines should I look into and when should I\nbuy my ticket? \n\nThe sooner the better but I'd probably wait until after the holidays. Use\nTravelocity or Expedia and see what you come up with. My friend goes to the\nPhils every 6 months or so and she has found that Korean Air has had the\ncheapest fares lately. Raleigh to Chicago, Chicago to Seoul and then Seoul to\nManila. Compare compare compare - that's the key to getting the best deal. \n\nAsk a travel agent! \n\nOn my last 6 trips here from the states I used \"Fly genesis\" based in Seattle,\nWa. They gave the best service & rates I could find. \n\nWhat is the best place to get discounts for San Francisco restaurants? \n\nI just moved into the city, and I'm wondering if there's a place I can get good\ndeals on restaurants here. I don't want to have to deal with those deal-a-day\nwebsites like Groupon. I just want a simple way to get a good deal to whatever\nRestaurant I want, whenever I want. Any suggestions would be really helpful,\nthanks! \n\nI usually use ZebraKlub. They basically buy daily deals from Groupon, Living\nSocial, and all sorts of other places. So you can pretty much get whatever deal\nyou want anytime. Most of the deals let you eat for 500ff, and some of the deals\nare even free. If you want to eat cheaply without worrying about all those daily\ndeal emails every day, ZebraKlub should be perfect for you. \n\nWhere can I go on a first date (adults)? \n\nLooking for something on the casual side and we want it to be fun. \n\nMay seem a little silly, but, taking a long ride on the Metra system or the \"L\"\nsystem is a great way to see the city and sites without spending a fortune. Or\nhow about visiting the Chicago Botanical Gardens and see the change of colors\nand enjoy the air, They also have many inside exhibits you might enjoy, food is\npretty good to. \n\ngo 2 starbucks dont spend more than 20 bucks :) \n\nBike ride in the park, followed by coffee. You are busy, you don't have to sit\nface to face to try to make convo, it's short, so if things go great, you can\nextend, and if you want to end it, you just say bye, gotta go. \n\nI decided to get a 150 gal aquarium, what can I fill it with? \n\nI was thinking cichlids? Possibly a freshwater tank with a ton of different\nspecies in there. I've never kept cichlids though. I know saltwater is a\npossibility, can you give me a possible stocking option for that too? I'll\nchoose the one that sounds the best after looking into all the fish :) \n\nHere is the stocking for my 150 gallon tank i upgraded it to 200 at the weekend\nbecause of the clownloach A 200 gallon with 6 pairs of Breeding Angel fish fire\nmouth honey Gouramis 5 8 inch clownloach a Krib and 5 1 inch clown loach with 16\ncory cats 5 Australian Rainbows If you took out the clown loach it would make a\nnice 150 gallon tank. \n\nfill it with water :) lol \n\nfor a tank that size i would suggest oscars or piranha every time awesome fish!!\n\nnever response the phone call \n\nGreat deals, great pizza! \n\nGreat gym and great services. \n\nDr. White is the best! \n\nGood clean store nice car wash \n\nIt's well cool. :) \n\nAwesome service with a smile :) \n\nWHAT A GREAT DEAL THANK YOU \n\nThe pancakes are to die for. \n\nBest fried shrimp in the state! \n\nFast and great service on pool covers \n\nFriendliest place I have ever stayed! \n\nThe best pilates on the Gold Coast! \n\nIt taste better than In and Out.... \n\nGood local steakhouse, I recommend it! \n\nDessert was good. Rest was too oily. \n\nit was a little to high dollar for me \n\nVery Informative website with alot of good work \n\nwow wow wow. the bast cab in minneapolis \n\nGreat food and nice people very pleasant experience. \n\nTire Gooroo \n\nDavid Bundren is the Tire GooRoo. \n\ngood \n\nit is a cute little nice and quiet library \n\nthey recovered the pics geeksquad deleted. many thanks \n\nlocal crew!!! home team - thanks 4 playin!!! \n\nGreat Service, Thanks Don. Nice Top Lights. \n\nBest ceviche that I'd had so far! :) \n\nA very nice park. The architecture is simplz splendid. \n\nthe service is quick. and the people are sweet :) \n\nYeah they ruined some shirts I had too. Horrible! \n\nvery reasonable prices. quick in & out. Friendly service. \n\nThis is my favorite coffee store. Just ask American Express \n\nToo many kids, too many knifings, too many taserings. \n\nThank you for fixing the leak on my bathroom! Thanks! \n\nthis is the worst Sams club I've ever been to \n\nGot to love this place. Everyone is relaxed and having fun!!! \n\nFriendly service. Attentive to the needs of customer. Thanks again! \n\nThis place is awesome \n\nGreat work, good price. Definetely going back \n\nGreat product, great service!!! \n\nInstalled Biometrics and Got Excellent Service. \n\nFeels like you are in Brooklyn, but people watching is entertaining. \n\ngreen curry and red curry is awesome! remember to ask for extra vege \n\nUsually very quick and timely. Doctor Bogomilsky knows her stuff too. \n\nThe best Supermarket in Bay Ridge have everything what a customer needs. \n\nWonderful Wonderful People! \n\nI refer to VNHH often and love you guys. \n\nDid a great job of removing my tree in Conyers. Thanks Southland. \n\nNice little locally owned greek bar and grill. Good food. Great wings! \n\nDon't bother. It's impossible to understand how this place has survived. \n\nThe finest German bedding and linens store. Quality and service come first here.\n\nPlace is legit. We got upgraded to a corner suite! Room was amazing. \n\nhard to forgive such an awful margarita and steep prices but the food can be\ngood \n\nLinda \n\nI would highly recommend Landscape by Hiro. Excellent customer service and\nquality work. \n\nI love this place lots of people to talk to and school is across the street! \n\nDrove all the way over from the highway... closed at 7. Who does that?! \n\nYou are the only one auto glass repair shop in the area I would count on. \n\nGreat job on my roof and the pricing was fair. Will use again in the future. \n\nKyle with Bullwark \n\nGreat job! Listened to my problem and took care of it. Thanks! \n\nAWESOME food! Make sure to put OILY sauces on your food to make it moist! YUM \n\nThis is a Ralph's \n\nI just called this number and it is a Ralph's Market. \n\nHospitality.! \n\nVery good hospitality offered.! Keep it up. - Shree Ghatkopar Bhatia Mitra\nMandal \n\nClose to my house, this is the only reason I would go to this particular QT. \n\nMens and Boys Barbers, on the number 9 Bus route. Ladies room, Open Sundays \n\nThis is a great place to get a permit \n\nI had to get a permit here, it was cool \n\nbest Best pedi mani Ive ever had. Darla is amazing, I would recoment her to\nanyone. \n\nYou guys do everything wonderful! We honestly cannot think of even 1 thing we\ndidn't like! \n\nkudos to Allentown Post Office staff \n\nThe staff in Allentown are friendly, helpful and a delight to know.. \n\namazing, fun, great beers. service could be a little better but its an all round\ngood place \n\nAmazing service! \n\nI just had the best experience at this Kal Tire location. Courteous, fast and\nfriendly. \n\nQuality has fallen over the years, but still the best go-to burger place on the\nEast Bay. \n\nSTAY AWAY \n\nHorrible service. Absolutely rude. Did services I asked them NOTto do and was\nstill charged. \n\nHighly recommended \n\nMy 8 year old daughter loves this place. The best climbing club around. Hooray\nfor Craggy. \n\nThe food is excellent, but very overpriced. How do you run a cafe, with no\nrefills on coffee-? \n\ntelephone number \n\nthe telephone number is incorrect - our new mobile number is 07551310002 or\nlandline 01634 710033. thank you \n\nthe team at barton car wash was very friendly . and did great job . i was very\npleased with the service. \n\nI appreciate the quick, good service and the reasonable prices and will\ndefinitely use American Pride Irrigation & Landscaping again. \n\nI like I Move CA - Los Angeles Movers, they moved me before, but this time they\nwere awesome :) \n\nPoor Taste \n\nThere is no lower rating for Noonan's Liquor, owners and employees. A negative\nnumber is not available. CLH \n\nVery friendly people offering a brilliant service. Sent scented flowers home\ninstead of postcards. Recommend you call in for a look. \n\nWorst experience ever like a sardine can and the bartender downstairs is the\nrudest person I have ever met. DONt Go here \n\nRestaurant on top was renovated, food was decent, price was way to high for\nDuluth for quality, new decor seems tacky \n\nRude and Untrustworthy \n\nThese guys took Customer Service 101 from a Neanderthal. They are especially\nrude to women. Do not trust them! \n\nGood food, good location, and good prices. But the servers don't pay attention\nto you whether it's busy or not. \n\nOne of the better vegetarian sandwiches I've had in Seattle. And from a place\nthat specializes in high quality meat, too. \n\nOld time grocery, best steaks I have ever had! Great meats that are already\ncooked, easy to take home for dinner. \n\nInford Media \n\nMedia, Software, Fun and Games, Website design, Web Promotion, B2B, Business\nPromotion, Search Engine Optimization. \n\nRelish \n\nA Top Quality Sandwich made to artistic standards. The best darlington has to\noffer in contemporary sandwicheering. Drum and bass as standard. \n\nWill never use again. Very rude and unprofessional. The workers sped up and down\nthe street with no mind to the small children playing. \n\nipad reiew \n\nthey are the best orthodontics in the world. i went there since i was four. now\ni will have really straight teeth. \n\nPam the Pom \n\nFantastic couple of days. Breathtaking views and fabulous accommodation. Nothing\ntoo much trouble for Ian, thanks for a great stay. \n\nDaniel and his assistant both did a great job. Very professional and great\nresults. Many thanks from myself and all of our wedding guests! \n\nwhat a mindblowing servicing \n\nThey treat there employees with respect and concern and expect that they will\nextend the same politeness to there customers. \n\nabsolutely fantastic experience getting my iphone upgraded at Zion ... Sheer\ncontrast to getting it done at karol bagh which is done under the wooden plank \n\nDecent place to stay, I would stay there again. Rooms were clean, plenty of\nthings to do near hotel, and safe part of town. \n\nBest Electrician in Florence \n\nI have been using Steele Electric for years. They have always done a great job\nat a reasonable price. Highly recommended. \n\nNot impressed. Overpriced and the doctor acted arrogant and rushed at a time\nwhen there was very few clients in the facility. I won't return. \n\nA thoroughly comprehensive service; excellent communication and best of they are\ntransparent with their fee (ie nothing is simply implied or assumed). \n\nI gave Dr. Rohatgi 2 stars because her assistant was very pleasant. However, I\ndid not find her very helpful and her receptionist was rude. \n\nExtremely greasy. Hit or miss on the service. My fries weren't fully cooked last\ntime I went there. Pretty spendy for really not great quality \n\nThe management and staff are superb. I worked with Sam Mones who took great care\nof me. This is by far the best run dealership in Miami. \n\nThe company gets busy but you never have to wait long because they ARE\norginizied, so you are in, out, and paid well for your scrap \n\nWinning Attorney! \n\nThe only 10.0 \"Perfect Score\" AVVO Rated Attorney I Have Ever Met. I Highly\nRecommend, The Law Offices Of Dale Gribow!! \n\nSanctuary is amazing! \n\nSanctuary serves delicious, somewhat healthy food in a great restaurant/fast\nfood style. The employees are really friendly. And they deliver! \n\nWhat a Preschool! \n\nIf you want the best for your child, don't hesitate in visiting this wornderful\nschool. This is the very best in the Gables. \n\nWhat a Dump! \n\nThe food is terrible. The place smells and the owner is very very rude! I could\ngo on and on! Just don't go there. \n\nhouse closing \n\nMrs. Tolchin provided us with excellent service and came with a great deal of\nknowledge and professionalism! Her flexibility and accessibility made for an\neasy closing. \n\nFood is often expired so check the dates every time! Also more often than not\nyou end up with a healthy dose of nasty rude attitude from the employees! \n\nNo complaints \n\nI have no complaints about the service I received.This man was polite,\nprofessional, clean and quick. I never felt worried and walked away satisfied. \n\nTHE TEACHING THERE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL OF THE\nTEACHERS THERE ARE SO MEAN THEY GET MAD AT YOU FOR NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nTHIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL IVE BEEN TO!!!!!! \n\nStaten Island Computers \n\nSuperior work - always comes through when we need him. We have tried many\ndifferent computer people until now - we will stick with Qualitech Computers!!!\n\nnot impressive enough \n\nIt's a fine place, I'm just a little mystified about the Michelin star. Nothing\nwrong with it, just better options at this price point. \n\nexelent Job \"Thank you so much for the superior job well done. We love\neverything about the fence. You company and services will be recommended by us\nto everyone.\" \n\nAn Hour Of Prego Bliss! \n\nI schedule my weekly appointment here just to get a chance to lie comfortably on\nmy tummy. And the massages are heavenly! Very friendly place. \n\nLove Hop City \n\nThis place is great! Craig and Nate are wonderful. I know now where to get all\nof my wine and beer. No need to go to a grocer again. \n\nExcellent energy efficiency \n\nCompact's Corona dryers remove at least twice as much water as the previous\ndryers, allowing a production increase of over 10% and a significant energy\nsaving. \n\nWe would like to thank our emergency plumbers who visted our shop in Morningside\nRoad today. A fast service, saved a bad situation getting alot worse. many\nthanks 2scompany... \n\nThe best Thai food I've ever had in Australia, very fresh and so much favor of\nauthentic Thai . The restaurant is the most beautiful thai restaurant in\nGeelong... just love it \n\nFresh and unic! \n\nVery professional, talented, unic and fresh work. Paula has an amazing gift for\ncreativity, vision and the ability to combine art to / with commercial purpose.\nBravo! \n\nOK Food, Slow service \n\nThe food was incredibly bland. Their Thali was not brought out as described (no\nsaag). Expensive for the level of food and the quality of service. \n\nFantastic professional service - These guys really know their stuff .. they have\nalmost anything you could want in terms of spy and surviellance equipment. Truly\njames bond style stuff ... would recommend \n\nSo delightful. What a group! I wouldn't want any other company in my time of\nneed. Great people! So professional! These guys know what they're doing! Way to\ngo! \n\nTerrible customer service \n\nFried rice has NO flavor, it literally taste like water. When I tried to return\nit they refused, so I had to leave without a refund and still hungry. \n\nwow, the representative went way above and beyond in helping me with my account\nset up. i wish the other utilities i had to set up had people to work with like\nthis.. \n\nBad Service \n\nDefinately won't be returning. Travelled 40mins after calling to see if a\nproduct was in stock. Told that they had plenty. Get there and there was\nnothing. Not impressed!!! \n\nWould not recommend I Was in a fair amount of pain for several weeks. his clinic\nis very very dirty he is a real disaster to go totally not organized for every\nstep he take . \n\nBest Limo Limousine service in all of Dallas \n\nGreat Limos company int he DFW fort Worth Metro area. I use their limo services\nfor all of my airport car services and airport transportation needs \n\nVery knowledgeable and friendly design build firm. They specialize in financial\ninstitutions, medical, and retail projects. These guys know what they're doing\nand helped me in all phases of our project. \n\nThe waiting staff is really friendly, its like every one knows each other, the\nmanager is really sweet and the food..well no complaints from me. Yes, its that\ngood. \n\nThey have fresh flowers, lasted a long while in the vase, and the two ladies at\nthe shop know the business well. I had no problem with my delivery. I will go\nthere again. \n\nOut of business? \n\nI think this location is no longer in business. If you check RecWarehouse.com,\nthey don't list this as a location. You'll have to drive 10 miles down 75 to\nAllen. \n\nAwesome Landscaping Job \n\nMFJ Inc transformed our run down back yard into a place of beauty. The work was\ncompleted within one week, and everything was cleaned up on completion. Highly\nrecommended landscaper!!! \n\nspot on \n\nthis kebab shop is one of the best around the meat is good and fresh and the\nchilly sauce is the best, keep them lovely kebabs coming and a happy new year to\nall the staff \n\nFeel good \n\nI just wanted to try your clinic because I was not totally happy with my current\ntherapist I regularly see. Now I've found someone who can manage to do what I\nreally want. \n\nWorst Tasting Pizza \n\nThis place had the worst tasting pizza I have ever tasted it was possible the\nworst food I've ever eaten. I don't recommend this place to anyone or even\nanything to eat. \n\nNot so good \n\nNot worth the money. Bland and over cooked. I felt as if I was in an over priced\nOlive Garden. I was hoping to have found a regular place to eat. But not so. \n\nI have used Bright Futures for the last 7 years. I have 3 children there and\nthey are the Best. They are like family. Your children will be taken care of and\nloved by a professional staff. \n\nGreat Service Great People \n\nBisconti wanted over $300 to fix my laptop and these guys fixed it for $90! Call\nthem today! Had it fixed within a few days (had to order a part). \n\nGreat Manicure \n\nThis place offers a great manicure and pedicure. My nails looked great for the\nbetter part of 2 weeks! Also very friendly and the stylists are not in the \"been\nthere/done that\" mood! \n\nFast Service Called them one hour ago and they just left my house five minutes\nago. My house already feels fresh and good thanks to the Battery Park Pest I'm\nenjoying my time indoors much better. \n\nno feathers in stock!!!! I was very upset when I went to Mother Plucker, they\nhad NO FEATHERS and the quality is TERRIBLE. I had to dig in a bag to find one\nnice feather, what a joke! \n\nGets the Job Done \n\nWe have utilized Mr. Pozza and his firm twice now in our family and both times\nhave been very pleased. I would not hesitate to use him again or refer him to my\nfamily or friends. \n\nFarrell Electric is a very good electrical contractor. I'm pleased that someone\nreferred me to them for my commercial business. I own a property management firm\nand need a contractor with the credentials that Farrell Electric has. \n\nCleanest guesthouse i have been to \n\nStayed here for 2 nights. The owner was very friendly and helpful. The rooms\nwere very clean and the breakfast was excellent. Good location and off road\nparking made our stay very convenient. \n\nThese guys do great work at VERY reasonable prices. I have use them four times\nfor fixing items from pushing out a dent in a bumper to fixing the fender on my\nbeloved Miata. I have never been disappointed. \n\nDon't waste your money on the jukebox \n\nThe bartender is a douchebag and he has a little console behind the bar where he\ncan delete songs he doesn't like, and you end up paying for it. Not enough\nseating. \n\nspoken english rushi \n\ncan ever & never forget the training undergone here which made my life step onto\nthe successful job without any hurdles. The staff, material provided, infra\nstructure, environment &low fees totally above the satisfactory mark \n\nRubbish \n\nTook 1+ hour to deliver to Chatham, hair in food, driver didn't know area.\nNoticed a few of these Cookie cutter places opening in Summit and New\nProvidence. Stick to Hop Hing, 20 year+ resident. \n\nGreat place \n\nReally great service and kind staff. The haircut was inexpensive and so were the\nsalon services (eyebrows were cheap!). It's a nice, relaxed place to get stuff\ndone and relax. I plan on going again. \n\nAmazing customer service \n\nI think the women at this salon know that their business is based primarily from\nreferrals. :) They were amazingly hospitable. Edit was the best massage\ntherapist I've ever had and I would HIGHLY recommend her! \n\ngood outside, bad inside \n\nthe apartment only looks good outsize, inside is too bad. too many bugs some you\neven never seen before. the attitude of some staff is terrible, did not solve\nanything only say i can do nothing. \n\ngreat tmobile service \n\nI was with verizon and I checked my service with tmobile and it was great so I\nthought I would try tmobile. It turned out being very good quality tmobile\nservice and I was happy with the new tmobile phone. \n\nWalgreens on University \n\nMy pharmacy order is always correct and promptly delivered but the pharmacy\nstaff are always very short with me and don't seem to like answering questions.\nClean store, friendly check-out staff up front. Good selection. \n\nGreat Place! \n\nLove this place!! Has another store in the st. charles mall. Place is next to\ncarval and walmart. Dont go to the one by pepco, I got confused!!! Bad place. Go\nto ATLANTIC WIRELESS!! I love them!!! \n\nBEST DENTIST EVER - \n\nVery fast and efficient service. I have had several dentists in my life, but Dr.\nDeters is by far my favorite. I never wait in the waiting room more than two\nminutes and the cleanings are quick and painless. \n\nThis is a great place to shop. I've been a regular customer at this store since\nit opened, and love the fact that all of the employees are friendly locals.\nParticularly the lady who operates the front register, she's very kind! \n\nAMAZING \n\nAbsoul is the greatest donair man on the planet. Highly recommended. If you\nenjoy amazing things, you must go to World's Finest Donair. Lest you be lame!!!\nI give this place 11/10. 3 thumbs up. Bon appetit! \n\nGreat quality doors and great quality people! The door is easy to use and it\nkeeps the cold out during the winter. The sales staff and the installation staff\nwere all easy to get along with. I highly recommend Garage Pros to my friends. \n\numm... \n\nokay, I dont have a review, but why in the hell would you name your business\nsomething that has the initials KKK....is there something behind the scenes at\nthis place? Like I'm legitimately concerned at this point...lol \n\nFresh and Excellent Quality \n\nWe order take out from here all the time and we are never disappointed. The food\nis always fresh and delicious. It can be a little on the spicy side but just ask\nthem exactly what you want and they are very helpful. \n\nI really want to like this place since I work right around the corner.\nUnfortunately, I've given it a couple of tries at different times and decided to\nstop going. The employees don't really seem to enjoy what they are doing and it\nshows. \n\nClass act. It was late in the day and I was worried I would get charged an arm\nand a leg and have to wait forever. They picked my car up in Yarmouth and towed\nto Bath for a great price. Would do business with them again. \n\nGreat service \n\nWe at R&L Plumbing Services are pleased with your professionalism and the extra\nmile you went to get out computers working correctly, you will be our first call\nif anything happens again and we will refer you to other people with computer\nissues. \n\nDon't judge a book by its cover \n\nFrom the outside Ichiban looks like it will be terrible. This couldn't be\nfarther from the truth. The food is amazing, and the prices cannot be beat. The\nsushi is great, and they have a great selection. \n\nGreat work! \n\nThe people at Gulf Coast Siding were very easy and clear to work with. They\nwalked me through all the steps involved in the the installation project so that\nthere were no surprises. I found them extremely professional and would highly\nrecommend them. Thanks \n\nNatasha \n\nA real pleasure training with Natasha. Always professional and reliable,\nsessions are good fun and suitably challenging. She really listens to what it is\nyou would like to achieve, and I am very happy with my results. I would highly\nrecommend her services. \n\nslow service \n\nI used to take my cars there all thetime, but management changes hands too\nfrequently, the service has been slow, and they often try to \"add on\" extra\nservices, which sometimes is not needed. I dont go there anymore \n\nGreat service \n\nThese people were so helpful this week and did everything to sort out my\nwindscreen and insurance. It was all sorted with no hassle at all and I'm really\ngrateful - they were fab. The best customer service I've come across for long\ntime. \n\nAbsolutely amazing job! \n\nSusanna is the best dress maker/tailor I've ever come across in my whole life!\nShe makes every item fit you perfectly. She is always so busy, too, which is a\ngood indication of her talent. She's the best! \n\nteeth \n\nthis dentist want to pull the tooth out always.. always wants to do the cheapest\nfor his benefit.. not unless he knows you. and hopefully you do not know the\nsame people because he tells others about you payment status. Which should be a\nprivate issue \n\nI hired this company to unlock my car. The price they gave was good so I said\nhey this seems great. After they showed up there was a little trouble to get my\ncar unlocked, it took quite a bit of time but the job was well done. \n\nBulwark regarding service by Eric \n\nJust wanted you to know that Eric came by as scheduled today and sprayed our\nhouse for scorpions. He seemed to understand how important it was for us to make\nsure the whole house was sprayed so he took his time. Thank you! \n\nA TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE! I remain unhappy. I still have noticeable scarring. I\nstill have surgically induced hair loss. My results were just AWFUL. My post-op\ntreatment was TERRIBLE. I wouldn't recommend this place last year, and I\ncertainly wouldn't recommend them this year. \n\nHidden Treasure. Strip mall asian it is not! Go in and you will not think you\nare in Chesapeake. The setting feels like a Sushi bar in NYC; small, cozy, but\nwith flair. Get great service, fantastic menu, and relax. Best in HR so far! \n\nExcellent medical care!!!!!! Highly recommend \n\nI went to this urgent care center and was blown away with their service. Finally\na convenient place close to home. Wonderful staff and physician. Clean and\nsuperb. Thanks for the great care!!!! Will definitely go back when I need\nmedical care. \n\nexcellence in glasgow \n\nIv just had my bmw z3 rear window replaced by the guys at kelvin trimmers. The\nteam who work there are helpfull, friendly and extremely knowledgeable and will\nhelp you as much as they can with thier years of hands on practice. Highly\nrecomended. \n\nMy favorite place... \n\nMy daughter and I stayed here again from the 7th to the 14th of December.yet\nagain it was a great stay from begiinning to end.Okay our room was at times\nnoisy but we were in a mega busy city at an extremely busy time of year. \n\nA Definite No \n\nIncompetent servers, kitchen and management. Expect either undercooked or mushy\nfood and lackluster service. The investors put big bucks into the building but\nare clueless about what makes a good dining or bar experience. Even the least\ndiscriminating diner would know not to eat at Sprecher's. \n\nWonderful Atmosphere \n\nI have been going there since I was a little girl and love the friendly and\nrelaxing atmosphere. Dr. Stiefvater has always been very professional and\nhelpful. I would recommend Bayside Chiropractic to anyone who is in need of a\nregular adjustment or is suffering from a chronic condition. \n\nChannel Guide \n\nBelieve it or not, but the channel guide has been most helpful to my family\nmembers that visit and don't know where to start when it comes to watching\nsatellite tv. I just give them guide and they can find anything they need.\nThanks again, Directv. \n\nMichael helped shoot the majority of my firm's website and we could not have\nbeen happier. We went through six photographers to find the right photographers\nthat would represent our firm in the light we wished to and Michael and his team\nmade that happen. He's worth every penny. \n\nAverage food and deathly slow service \n\nI have eaten here several times and everytime the service is slower than slow.\nOne time we even left after sitting at the table for 20 minutes and not being\ngreeted with a drink order. Ridiculous. There must be a better mexican place in\nRockland. \n\nI am in love with the giant plate of nachos! Last time I went however, my beer\nwas warm and the service was so-so. I get that careless teenager kind of\ntreatment from some of their staff...perhaps they should hire more serious\nadults to help serve/cook. \n\nnice friendly local bagel place \n\nthere might be bigger and more well known bagel places in the area but Family\nBagels are nice people, small shop and incredibly friendly. While other may be\nok waiting in line at Town Bagel we are happy with the quality and service we\nget at Family Bagels \n\nVery Mediocre donuts! \n\nThe Donuts were very over proofed, making them stale and bready. The service was\nfriendly and fast, but this just doesnt make up for the lack-luster product. We\ntried 4 different style of donuts, they were all the same when it came to\nquality. \n\na staple! \n\nI live in the neighborhood and this place is one of my favorites for a tasty,\nquick and inexpensive meal. Branch out and try something other than the Pad\nThai, the curries are fantastic. Fast and friendly service, they know my order\nwhen I walk in the door! \n\nOn time, Clean and very nice \n\nI called over the weekend due to clogged kitchen sink. Scheduled appointment for\n8:30 Monday morning. Rich was here before the scheduled time. He was very clean,\nvery nice to work with and gave a very reasonable price. HIGHLY recommend.\nthanks Rich Seth K. \n\nDeep tissue massage helps with pain in neck and shoulders \n\nSeth provides deep tissue massage which has significantly reduced the pain in my\nneck and shoulders and added flexibility and movement back to the area. 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125742, 125773, 125830, 125877, 125918, 125994, 126012, 126024, 126032, 126092, 126247, 126369], "gold_sentences": ["What if Google Morphed Into GoogleOS?", " What if Google expanded on its\nsearch-engine (and now e-mail) wares into a full-fledged operating system?", " [via\nMicrosoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley ]", " \n\n(And, by the way, is anybody else just a little nostalgic for the days when that\nwas a good thing?)", " This BuzzMachine post argues that Google's rush toward\nubiquity might backfire -- which we've all heard before, but it's particularly\nwell-put in this post.", " Google is a nice search engine.", " Does anybody use it for\nanything else?", " They own blogger, of course.", " Is that a money maker?", " \n\nI'm staying away from the stock.", " \n\nI doubt the very few who actually read my blog have not come across this yet,\nbut I figured I would put it out there anyways.", " John Donovan from Argghhh! has\nput out a excellent slide show on what was actually found and fought for in\nFallujah.", " Click here To view it.", " \n\nHe makes some good observations on a few of the pic's.", " One of the pictures shows\na flag that was found in Fallujah.", " On the next two pictures he took screenshots\nof two beheading video's.", " Compare the flags to the Fallujah one.", " \n\nYou have to see these slides....they are amazing.", " This Fallujah operation my\nturn out to be the most important operation done by the US Military since the\nend of the war.", " \n\nLet me join the chorus of annoyance over Google's new toolbar , which, as noted\nin the linked article, commits just about every sin an online marketer could\ncommit, and makes up a few new ones besides.", " I'm not fond of the\nGoogle-hates-privacy argument", " (You don't need to use their site, you can opt-out\nof sharing your information, you don't need to send stuff to anyone with a Gmail\naccount, and if -- wonder of wonders -- you're worried that you might send\nsomething to someone who would forward an excerpt to someone who would then\nstore it on a Gmail account... you have far, far too much time on your hands).", "\nHowever, this toolbar is really bad news.", " On the other hand, it looks pretty\ncool.", " \n\nIran says it is creating nuclear energy without wanting nuclear weapons.", " The\nUnited States doesn't believe the Iranian Government.", " One can suspect the\nIranian Government.", " But there is no proof .", " I read an Article in Time magazine\naccusing the Iranian Government of being willing to start a nuclear war and I\nsympathise with the Article.", " They are certainly being nasty to the United\nNations Security Council in connection with the anti-proliferation treaty.", " The\nPresident has also said he would like to see Israel wiped off the map which he\ncouldn't even begin to try without nuclear weapons.", " But he has insisted that he\nwants nuclear power for peaceful purposes.", " Many people want to use diplomacy\nwith Iran rather than military pressure.", " But will diplomacy work?", " And can anyone\nuse military pressure without proof?", " One reader pointed out that the President\nwatched the Americans in the embassy when they took them hostage.", " He has denied\nthis.", " We don't have to believe him.", " But we can't prove it.", " It does seem that\nIranians frequently make statements and then hide behind lack of proof.", " \n\nAngry crowds chanted anti-American slogans in the western city of Falluja (pop.\n256,000) as the security police killed in a friendly fire incident by US troops\nwere buried on Saturday.", " Reuters reported that \"Sunni clerics in the town issued\na 'Declaration by the people of Fallujah' condemning the deaths of the security\nguards and police, announcing three days of mourning, and calling for a general\nstrike today.\"", " It read, \"The people of Fallujah condemn the massacre which was\ncommitted on Friday against people dedicated to the protection of Fallujah.", " Let\naggressive (American) leaders and soldiers know that we are capable of\nprotecting the city's security and safety, and ask them to lift their hands from\nthe city.\"", " The clerics demanded talks with local US commanders.", " Falluja has long\nbeen roiled by tense relations with the US soldiers there, since local Sunnis\neither remain committed to Arab nationalism or have become Sunni fundamentalists\nor even radicals.", " Cities such as Falluja received special treatment from Saddam\nand enjoyed a disproportionate share of the country's wealth and power.", " They\nknow that the American advent implies for them a demotion, and an elevation of\nthe Shiites and Kurds, and they refuse to go quietly.", " See\nhttp://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=97508", " \n\nThe Supreme Court announced its ruling today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld divided along\nidelogical lines with John Roberts abstaining due to his involvement at the D.C.\nCircuit level and Anthony Kennedy joining the liberals in a 5-3 decision that is\n185 pages long.", " The actual vote is a little confusing.", " Stay with me now: John\nPaul STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I through\nIV, VI through VI-D-iii, VI-D-v, and VII, in which KENNEDY, SOUTER, GINSBURG,\nand BREYER joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts V and VI-D-iv, in which\nSOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined.", " BREYER filed a concurring opinion, in which\nKENNEDY, SOUTER, and GINSBURG joined.", " KENNEDY filed an opinion concurring in\npart, in which SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER joined as to Parts I and II.", " SCALIA\nfiled a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO joined.", " THOMAS filed a\ndissenting opinion, in which SCALIA joined, and in which ALITO joined as to all\nbut Parts I, II-C-1, and III-B-2.", " ALITO filed a dissenting opinion, in which\nSCALIA and THOMAS joined as to Parts I through III.", " It will take me a little\nwhile to read the whole thing, but I rarely agree with a John Paul Stevens\nopinion.", " I'll post highlights from the opinion and dissents when I'm finished.", " \n\nImportant news such as President Bush's miniscule calibrations on his marriage\namendment/anti-gay (update: he's not against gays in the bedroom, just at the\naltar, where of course their relationships should not only be frowned upon but\nshould be constitutionally excluded) has pushed Sudan not just off the front\npages, or the A section, but out of the NY Times and Washington Post completely.", "\nI had to go to the BBC for this report .", " It's symptomatic, I suppose, of our\nfast-paced, 24 hour news-cycle lives, that the biggest short-term humanitarian\ncrisis in the world would quickly be eclipsed, once our Secretary of State was\nfinished with his whirlwind tour, from the newspapers.", " It's just disappointing.", "\nMost troubling, however, is the fact that the political will to end the crisis\nexpressed a few short weeks ago seems to have ebbed.", " At that time, UN Secretary\nGeneral Kofi Annan demanded steps be taken to end the ethnic violence in Darfur\nwithin 48 hours.", " Two weeks later, and the violence continues.", " The African Union\nis clearly not up to the task of keeping the peace, pledging 300 troops to an\narea that will need 15,000, according to analysts.", " And international donors have\ngiven only half of the relief aid that Darfur needs, according to the local UN\nofficials.", " So hear we are, two weeks later, after that dazzling PR display two\nweeks ago by Powell and Annan, and the situation on the ground in Darfur appears\nbasically unchanged.", " \n\nWarren Buffett is giving away 85% of his wealth , mostly to the Bill and Melinda\nGates Foundation.", " It's a move that really worries me; Buffett's usual\njustification for keeping most of his money was that he was still compounding\nthe value of his fortune at a pretty high rate, so any gifts now would mean\nsignificantly less money for the foundation later.", " It's a little hard to parse,\nbut at this point his ostensible view is that the Gateses are very good\nmoney-redistributors, and he wants them to have the money as soon as possible.", "\nWhich essentially sounds like he's worried that Bill or Melinda are going to die\nsoon.", " I assume his actual reason is that he's worried that Berkshire Hathaway\njust can't grow quickly enough to justify his usual charity policy.", " I'm not sure\nhow the market will react.", " It doesn't change the company's intrinsic worth, and\nas the article notes, the company might be added to a major index once the\nshares get more liquid.", " On the other hand, this is essentially a statement that\nthe company is overpriced from the guy who knows it best -- and happens to be\nthe best investor of the last century.", " em ... no ... the Gates foundation mainly\ninvests in medical research and education, that means donating now adds a\ntremendous value compared to donating in ten years.", " Because the 10.000.000\npeople dying from malaria will otherwise be dead.", " i.e.", " \n\nHe's not giving 85% away, he's giving a number of shares each year that decrease\nin number at the rate of 5% a year (until gone?).", " He mentions his wife's death\nhaving an effect on him.", " It sounds pretty rational that he's saying that Bill\nand Melinda are at a prime spot, so starting the money hose now is a good idea,\nbut Buffet is still keeping most of his donation inside of Berkshire where it\nwill compound.", " \n\nBill over at The Fourth Rail has an excellent essay on how the MSM and the UN,\neven the leftist countries in Europe, are basically accepting terrorist\norganizations as legitimate forms of a political party:", " On the same day\nPalestinians protest in support of Hezbollah and Syria , the terrorist group\nHamas has indicated it will participate in the scheduled upcoming Parliamentary\nelections .", " To the north in Lebanon, there is serious debate within Hezbollah\nabout entering the Lebanese political process in light of Syria's promised\nwithdrawal.", " Syria has agreed to withdraw under the conditions set forth in UNSC\nResolution 1559 , which has already begun .", " UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has\nindicated it is time to \"recognize Hezbollah\" after easily being duped by \"the\nmessage on the placards they are using\".", " This acceptance of blatantly terrorist\ngroups as legitimate freedom movements is a cancerous tumor on the United\nNations and the media.", " Over three years after 9-11, the United Nations, despite\ntheir attempts to project strength in fighting terrorism , still cannot properly\ndefine the word \"terrorist\" , waffling over the issue of whether the murder of\ninnocent civilians are terrorist acts.", " The media routinely obscures the lines\nbetween terrorism and legitimate resistance, as the recent article by Daniel\nOkrent of The New York Times demonstrates .", " ...", " \n\nThe decision to sidestep the obvious to satisfy the need to avoid confrontation\ndoes not bring peace, but only delays the eventual conflict as the predators of\nHamas and Hezbollah exploit the inherent weakness of the internationals and the\nmedia.", " I've been fuming over this fact for a few weeks now, ever since some\norganizations and governments suggested we need to accept the fact that\nHezbollah will get involved in running Lebanon.", " Wtf is this?", " This is a terrorist\norganization plain and simple.", " This is the organization that bombed our Marine\nbarracks in 1983, took Americans hostage throughout the 80's and now they should\nbe considered a legitimate organization?", " This is just another reason to never\ntrust the MSM, and certainly not the Europeans.", " \n\nThe Iraqi Islamic Party lead by Muhsin Abdul Hamid, has been among the few Sunni\nMuslim groups willing to cooperate (even if rather lukewarmly) with the\nAmericans.", " It is now threatening to pull out of the Allawi caretaker government.", "\nThe IIP had also been the main force urging Sunni Arabs to participate in the\nelections scheduled for January, and had been opposed in this stance by the\nAssociation of Muslim Scholars.", " That the Iraqi Islamic Party is now\ncontemplating leaving the Allawi government raises the question of whether a\nmass Sunni Arab boycott of the elections is in the offing, thus fatally\nweakening the legitimacy of any new government.", " Az-Zaman : The Association of\nMuslim Scholars forbade Iraqis to participate in the attack on Fallujah with the\nAmericans.", " In a communique, the AMS said that for Iraqis to take part with\n\"raiding forces\" in the assault on a city, the population of which is Muslim\n(such as Fallujah) would be considered the most mortal of mortal sins.", " The Sunni\nAMS told Iraqis, \"You sinned when you participated with occupation forces in the\nassault on Najaf, and beware lest you repeat this same sin in Fallujah.", " Remember\nthat the Occupation is emphemeral.\"", " \n\nThe radical Shiite Sadr movement issued a statement forbidding the participation\nof Iraqi troops in the attack on Fallujah, as well.", " The statement said, \"We\ndirect an appeal at the men in the Iraqi forces, whether national guards or\nothers, the majority of whom are Muslim, calling upon them to refrain for\ncommiting this enormous sin under the banner of forces that do not respect our\nreligion or any principles of basic humanity, and we ask them to view this war\nas illegal.\"", " It called a \"ploy\" the assertaion that the attack was merely on\nforeign fighters at Fallujah.", " The convergence of views among the more militant\nSunni Muslim clerics of AMS and the radical Shiites of the Sadr movement has\nbeen seen before, last spring during the initial US assault on Fallujah and\nduring the US attack on Mahdi Army militiamen in Najaf.", " Most Shiites, however,\nare still reluctant to take major risks to support the Sunnis of Fallujah, many\nof whom had supported Saddam and his anti-Shiite pogroms.", " \n\nPresident Bush pinched a few nerves yesterday with his choice of words:", "\nWASHINGTON (Reuters) -", " U.S. Muslim groups criticized President Bush on Thursday\nfor calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a \"war with Islamic\nfascists,\" saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.", " U.S. officials\nhave said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the\nAtlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda.", " \"We believe this is an\nill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islam\nor Muslims with fascism,\" said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on\nAmerican-Islamic Relations advocacy group.", " Which is why he didn't say we're at\nwar with Islamic people.", " We're at war with Islamic fascists.", " By using the word\n\"Islamic\" as an adjective Bush was purposely not associating Muslims with\nfascism, hence the qualifier.", " And if you haven't heard by now, the roster of\nsuspected terrorists has not a Tom, Dick or Harry among them:", " Umir Hussain, 24,\nLondon E14", " \n\nMuhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17", " \n\nWaheed Zaman, 22, London E17", " \n\nAssan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17", " \n\nWaseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe", " \n\nWaheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17", " \n\nCossor Ali, 24, London E17", " \n\nTayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham", " \n\nIbrahim Savant, 26, London E17", " \n\nOsman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17", " \n\nShamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington", " \n\nAmin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17", " \n\nShazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe", " \n\nTanvir Hussain, 24, London E10", " \n\nUmar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe", " \n\nAssad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe", " \n\nAbdullah Ali, 26, London E17", " \n\nAbdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5", " \n\nNabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest Lest you be confused with the suspects from\nan earlier plot foiled in Canada a few months ago: Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto;", "\nZakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.;", " \n\nAsad Ansari, 21, Mississauga;", " \n\nShareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga;", " \n\nQayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga;", " \n\nMohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.;", " \n\nYasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston;", " \n\nJahmaal James, 23, Toronto;", " \n\nAmin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto;", " \n\nSteven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto;", " \n\nAhmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga;", " \n\nSaad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga.", " We've got a Steven, the one\nword that didn't crash my spell-check, despite it being followed by a Vikash\nChand Abdul Shakur.", " Folks, if it's Islamic, and fascist, it's an Islamic\nfascist.", " But because we don't want to sound hateful we must pretend everyone's a\npossible suspect and make airline travel more miserable than it's ever been.", " \n\nOn the internet site of Monotheism and Holy War (al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad) , the\ngroup allegedly declared, \"We announce that the Tawhid and Jihad Group, its\nprince and soldiers, have pledged allegiance to the sheikh of the mujahideen\nOsama bin Laden.\"", " This pledge is a new development.", " Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his\ngroup are said to have been bitter rivals of al-Qaeda during the Afghan\nresistance days.", " One witness at the Moutasaddiq trial in Germany alleged that\nZarqawi had not allowed Monotheism and Holy War to share resources with al-Qaeda\nin the early zeroes of the 21st century.", " If the statement is true, it is a\nworrying sign that even the divided small radical guerrilla groups are being\n\"picked up\" by al-Qaeda.", " This consolidation is obviously a result of Bush's\naggressive invasion of Iraq and of the botching of the aftermath.", " It is a\nsetback for the war on terror.", " \n\nAl-Qaeda in Afghanistan was a group of only a few hundred \"Afghan Arabs\" who\npledged personal loyalty to Usamah Bin Laden.", " It could notionally be expanded to\nencompass the 5,000-strong \"55th Brigade\" of the Taliban regime, though this is\nnot the technical definition.", " Because Usamah is Saudi, my guess is that they\nwere especially influenced by an extremist form of the Wahhabi school of Islam\nthat predominates among Saudia's some 15 million citizens.", " In 1998 they were\njoined by Egyptians from the al-Jihad al-Islami group of Ayman al-Zawahiri (many\nof these were from Upper Egypt, especially Asyut and environs).", " After that\npoint, al-Qaeda was a joint enterprise between the Egyptian extremists and the\npolyglot Arabs around Bin Laden, only some of whom were Saudi.", " Zarqawi is a\nJordanian, and his Monotheism and Holy War group in Afghanistan probably had a\ndistinctive coloration as mainly Jordanian, Palestinian and Syrian.", " They also\nhad a special connection to some extremists in Jordan and Germany.", " They are\nprobably especially oriented toward the Salafi school of modern Islamic thought,\nwhich has a Protestant-like emphasis on going back to the original practice of\nthe early companions of the Prophet Muhammad.", " (Most Salafis are not militant or\nviolent, though they tend to be rather narrow-minded in my experience, on the\norder of Protestant Pietists).", " Monotheism and Holy War obviously does have a\nviolent interpretation of Salafism, rather as the the leaders of the so-called\nGerman Peasant Rebellion among early Protestants did.", " Another worrisome sign is\nthat local Iraqi Sunni fundamentalists opposed to the US presence in Iraq have\nbegun joining Monotheism and Holy War, and wearing its distinctive orange and\nblack insignia.", " These have been sighted among Iraqi crowds on Haifa Street in\nBaghdad and in Samarra.", " So now there are hundreds of al-Qaeda members in Iraq\nwhere there had been none before.", " The consolidation of smaller local radical\nfundamentalist groups with al-Qaeda can also be seen in the case of the Fizazi\ngroup in Tangiers that morphed into the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group , had\nmembers who met with September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta, and ultimately was\nin part responsible for the Madrid train bombings.", " \n\nThe September 11 Panel will issue its findings on Thursday.", " It notes 10 points\nat which the US made key mistakes that might have stopped Bin Laden's plot.", " Four\nof these were under Clinton and 6 under Bush.", " \n\nBush came out today and said that if he had known what was coming, he would have\nexpended every effort to stop it, and that so would have Clinton.", " This statement\nis, despite its facade of fair-mindedness, so many weasel words.", " Of course Bush\nwould have tried to stop 9/11 if he had known it was coming.", " The question is,\n\"Should he have known it was coming?\"", " \n\nThe answer is, \"Yes!\"", " \n\nWe now know that Bush and his administration came into office obsessed with\nIraq.", " Cheney was looking at maps of Iraq oil fields and muttering about\nopportunities for US companies there, already in January or February of 2001.", "\nWolfowitz contradicted counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke when the latter\nspoke of the al-Qaeda threat, insisting that the preeminent threat of terrorism\nagainst the US came from Iraq, and indicating he accepted Laurie Mylroie's\ncrackpot conspiracy theory that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Towers\nbombing.", " If you believe crackpot theories instead of focusing on the\nreality--that was an al-Qaeda operation mainly carried out by al-Gamaa\nal-Islamiyyah, an Egyptian terrorist component allied with Bin Laden-- then you\nwill concentrate on the wrong threat.", " Even after the attacks on September 11,\nBush was obsessing about Iraq.", " Wolfowitz lied to him and said that there was a\n10 to 50% chance that Iraq was behind them.", " (On what evidence?", " The hijackers\nwere obviously al-Qaeda, and no operational links between al-Qaeda and Iraq had\never been found).", " Rumsfeld initially rejected an attack on al-Qaeda bases in\nAfghanistan, saying there were \"no good targets\" in Afghanistan.", " (What about 40\nal-Qaeda bases that had trained the 9/11 hijackers and other terrorists gunning\nfor the United States??)", " The Pentagon did not even have a plan for dealing with\nAfghanistan or al-Qaeda that it could pull off the shelf, according to Bob\nWoodward.", " Bush did not have his eye on the ball.", " Neither did Cheney, Rumsfeld,\nor Wolfowitz.", " They were playing Captain Ahab to Saddam's great white whale.", "\nImperial Hubris makes the case that lots of people in the CIA and\ncounter-terrorism divisions elsewhere in the US government knew all about Bin\nLaden and the threat he posed.", " They were from all accounts marginalized and not\nlistened to.", " Bush demoted Dick Clarke, among the most vocal and focused of the\nal-Qaeda experts, from his cabinet.", " Dick could never thereafter get any real\ncooperation from the cabinet officers, who outranked him, and he could not\nconvince them to go to battle stations in the summer of 2001 when George Tenet's\nhair was \"on fire\" about the excited chatter the CIA was picking up from radical\nIslamist terrorists.", " As for the Clinton administration, let me say one thing in\nits defense.", " Clinton had worked out a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz\nSharif in summer of 1999 that would have allowed the US to send a Special Ops\nteam in after Bin Laden in Qandahar, based from Pakistan.", " I presume you need the\nPakistan base for rescue operations in case anything went wrong.", " You also need\nPakistani air space.", " The plan was all set and could have succeeded.", " But in fall\nof 1999, Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a coup against Nawaz Sharif.", " The Pakistani\narmy was rife with elements protective of the Taliban, and the new military\ngovernment reneged on the deal.", " Musharraf told Clinton he couldn't use Pakistani\nsoil or air space to send the team in against Bin Laden.", " Look at a map and you\ntry to figure out how, in fall of 1999, you could possibly pull off such an\noperation without Pakistani facilities.", " Of course, you could just go in by main\nforce.", " But for those of you tempted in that direction, please look up Carter's\nTabas operation.", " It should be easily googled.", " Clinton tried, and tried hard.", " The\ngods weren't with us on that one.", " \n\nthat is how i want you to refer to me as \"the king\"", " \n\ni don't think so.", " \n\ni'm the king", " \n\nyeah", " \n\nsounds exciting.", " want to go to dinner with me before you have your 'matt time'?", "\nprobablyl gonna just kick it", " \n\nyou know, whatever.", " i will let you know later.", " what are you doing tonight.", " \n\nlike what?", " \n\ni can think of a few things", " \n\nyour retarded.", " i used to have one.", " they are great dogs.", " \n\ncockerspaniels are retarded.", " why do you think i should get one of those?", " \n\ncan't believe you left last night.", " \n\nnice sarcasm.", " that's fine, i don't want to see you either, i just need to make a\ncd.", " i can't wait", " \n\ni was thinking somewhere that requires a jacket, like tony's.", " someplace that is\nlike $30 an entree.", " \n\nyeah, i was thinking somewhere like mcdonald's.", " that may be too nice though.", "\nwhat do you think?", " \n\nwe can go somewhere nice.", " real nice.", " \n\noh.", " my bad.", " i must have had you messed up with some other girl i made the bet\nwith.", " bet?", " really, i have no idea what you're talking about.", " you must be\nthinking of someone else.", " i don't even like a&m, i wouldn't bet on them.", " \n\ncolorado beat texas a&m.", " i know you remember the bet.", " \n\nno.", " i got her number though.", " i want to hook up with that girl paige in the brown\nleather jacket.", " what happened to you?", " i had a blast that night.", " \n\ndid you hook up with that blonde chick saturday night?", " \n\nno i am not lying.", " i flew here last night.", " are you lying?", " \n\ni am out of town.", " i am in portland.", " you can buy me dinner when we get back.", " \n\ni am sure they are.", " houston won't be too affected b/c most of the layoffs affect\nsatelite offices.", " economy should be good here.", " \n\nhopefully she doesn't hose you.", " \n\nI'll probably start looking next weekend.", " I heard that more may be going up for\nsale in the next month or do.", " Someone told me that Chase is planning a shitload\nof layoffs.", " I am not sure how reliable that is, though.", " \n\nshe is waiting to see if she can get financing.", " \n\nMike McConnell", " 07/06/2000 14:57", " John,", " \n\nHello from South America.", " I just got your email and I certainly concur with Jeff\nmaking the call.", " He has maintained a good relationship with Mulva.", " This was a\nrisk that we had but we did have assurances from Phillips regarding performance.", "\nI don't know how much it will help however.", " Richard Harper and Mary Nell\nBrowning may have some ideas here but I am sure you've already gone through it\nwith them.", " I am amazed how the details get fuzzy on an old project.", " When you\ndiscussed it, i was trying to think back to our remedies and discussions but the\n3 years have made it difficult.", " I don't know if there is anything I can do but\nI'm always willing to help.", " \n\nGood luck,", " Mike", " \n\nThese guys tried the Ken Lay route.", " Now they are part of your working group.", " \n\nHilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory Phone:\n212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com", " Dear Mr.\nLavorato:", " \n\nFollowing up on your and Ken Lay's conversation with Gary Cohn, I would like to\nforward the following proposal, acting for each of Goldman Sachs Capital Markets\nand J.Aron.", " Hilary E. Ackermann Goldman Sachs Credit Risk Management & Advisory\nPhone: 212-902-3724 Fax: 212-428-1181 E-Mail: hilary.ackermann@gs.com", " Not going\nwell", " \n\nHello Louise,", " \n\nI know you must be going nuts with all the events, so I have not called.", " \n\nHope you will be sorted.", " Call me if you have time.", " \n\nM", " \n\nPlease update daily", " \n\nLouise,", " There are only two counterparties at this time who have overdue margin:", "\n\nOriginal Margin Call Margin Due Today", " Kinder Morgan $ 3,500,000 $ 1,250,000", " AEP\n$19,250,000 $38,750,000", " ------------------------------", " Totals $22,750,000\n$40,000,000", " Please let us know if you need any additional information.", " Stephanie", "\n\nnot sure, but i assume that the bluegrass songbook is mine.", " is it for guitar?", "\nI'll need to ponder.", " I'll try to get back to you pronto.", " \n\nFYI.", " We have this report?", " \n\nHi David:", " Thought that you might be interested.", " \n\nBest,", " Jeff", " \n\nWell, he launched today.", " Have you seen the materials from the press conference\nthat he launched today?", " I think this is actually a good thing--makes our\nproposal look like a much more preferable alternative by comparison, makes our\nsupport in the process more important, and sets Harvey up as the Ralph Nader\nequivalent in the election to fix California's broken system---a potential\nspoiler.", " Hi.", " Well, wouldn't you know it.", " I'm not driving tonite, but I bet that\nwe could hitch a ride back with Anil.", " I'm not sure, but I think that he's got\nclass tonite, too.", " I'll search him out before class or after that break and see\nif I can set it up.", " \n\ndaily dose on enron -", " we are finished.", " i need to now get a job at house of pies\nb/c that is the only way to pay the bills.", " the economy is down and when enron\ncollapses, the energy industry is going to be in a world of hurt.", " not to mention\nthe market is going to be flooded with enron folks .", " can't go to anymore lsu\ngames unless i get a free ticket.", " Since work has gone to hell, I am hoping to\nfind some excitement in the possibility that LSU may play in the Cotton Bowl (if\nRohan \"Alabama\" Davey shows up for the next 3 games.)", " However, do not purchase\ntickets until it is a done deal - a lesson I learned following the Ark game last\nseason.", " \n\nhttp://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16473", "\nhttp://www.theadvocate.com/sports/story.asp?StoryID=16475", "\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsunotes08.html", "\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/secnotes08.html", "\nhttp://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/lsustory/lsufoe08.html", " \n\ni have stronger will than you think.", " house of pies here i come.", " \n\ni am sure i could have persuaded you to give me some action.", " why is enron\nblowing up?", " i didn't want you to go.", " i was just going to sleep anyway.", " i was too\ntired to give you any action.", " enron is blowing up.", " \n\nVince,", " We are still trying to work the PSE swap transaction, now that the forex\ndesk has been able to find a fix for CPI in the market.", " Further to my voicemail,\nour colleagues in credit are calculating the reserve on the PSE swap.", " They are\ncurrently using 9.5% fixed based on the 1 year implied volatility.", " Volatility of\nUSD/DM has been in the range of between 7% and 11%.", " Can one of your research\nstaff justify a suitable 20 year volalatility number for USD/Euro.", " Ideally, we\nwould like a fast turnaround.", " In addition, is there someone who could consider\nthe correlation between US CPI and the $/euro exchange rate.", " The credit guys are\ncurrently assuming that there is no correlation and may consequently be double\ndipping the credit reserve on this basis too.", " Grateful for any help or\nsuggestions you could provide.", " Sid", " Vincent,", " \n\nI met you at the Risk conference last week in Houston.", " I enjoyed your\npresentations very much.", " I was wondering if you could give me some references\nregarding the calculation of correlation coefficients from a GARCH model.", " Thank\nyou.", " \n\nMagali Van Belle Consultant PHB Hagler Bailly MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC\nCONSULTANTS PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc. (202) 828-3933 direct dial 1776 Eye Street,\nN.W. (202) 296-3858 facsimile Washington, D.C. 20006-3700\nmvanbell@haglerbailly.com e-mail", " \n\nAndrew Edison@ENRON", " 06/02/2001 10:53 AM", " I have settled the Ecogas/Enron/Randy\nMaffett lawsuit.", " No need to thank me,just send me gifts.", " Seriously, I talked\nthis morning with Tom Hall and we agreed that Ecogas would pay him $53,000.", " Hall\nhas agreed to release Enron, Ecogas, Maffett and every affiliate, related party\nand subsidiary.", " He will also release any and all patent issues.", " The goal is for\nhim to move on with his life and for us to move on as well.", " I have asked Doug\nDaniels to prepare the settlement papers reflecting such an agreement.", " Please\nhandle.", " Becky Stephens@ENRON", " 06/12/2000 10:20 AM", " Richard, below is a list of oc\ninvoices sent to you for approval on 5/30/00.", " Please verify receipt at your\nearliest convenience.", " Thank you for your help in tracking these invoices.", "\nHolland & Hart, LLP; #432785 dated 4/14/00", " Michael L. Beatty & Associates, PC;\n#10461, #10469 & #10468 dated 5/28/00.", " \n\nBecky A. Stephens Litigation Unit, Enron Corp. 713/853-5025 EB4809", " I am on\nboard.", " If the PX comes back again, I will call their in-house attys.", " \n\nChristian Yoder/ENRON@enronXgate", " 06/04/2001 05:54 PM", " Can you pass this along to\nElizabeth to ensure Sanders is on board as well?", " We are renewing our L/C's on a\nmonth to month basis for the PX per Sanders.", " However, the request below is to\n\"replenish\" the CASH that was drawn down...please advise.", " I agree with Steve's\nposition stated in his separate e'mail.", " Don't give these guys a penny.", "----cgy", " \n\nTracy, Do we have concerns here.", " We pointed out to the PX that there was excess\ncredit.", " By using collateral to pay these bills are we not keeping required\nlevels available?", " \n\nSara,", " \n\nAttached below is Davis Thames' presentation regarding the proposed Project\nBruin.", " I will forward the draft Bear Stearns term sheet separately.", " \n\nPaul", " \n\nTeam, sorry for the delay on getting this around.", " Please advise when you can\nmeet to discuss issues related to your area.", " Thanks -", " Davis", " Clint:", " I spoke with\nMike Collins [203-719-8385 (phone) and 203-719-7031 (fax)] who conrfirmed to me\nthat the cap included the remaining 2.5+million remaining shares.", " \n\nPlease return an executed copy of confirm to me.", " \n\nThanks.", " sara", " \n\nMy assistant Joanne Rozycki has cell, car numbers to reach me.", " I'll be back on\nMonday.", " \n\nSara Shackleton Enron Wholesale Services 1400 Smith Street, EB3801a Houston, TX\n77002 Ph: (713) 853-5620 Fax: (713) 646-3490", " Thanks.", " SS", " \n\nSara,", " \n\nCurrently we have a blank \"sample\" for our Paragraph 13s which are attached to\nour sample ISDAs for (a) US Corporate, (b) Hedge Funds, (c) Municipal.", " I will\nextract the one for the US corporate Paragraph 13 and email to your contact @\nFirst Union Securities.", " \n\nThe sample includes our \"caveat\", so it should be fine.", " \n\nSusan", " Susan:", " While Tanya is reviewing credit, can you please send a \"blank form\nParagraph 13\" for this master.", " Just our standard.", " Caveat: subject to credit\nreview even though there are blanks.", " Thanks.", " Sara", " First Union Securities, Inc.", " \n\nHi Sara,", " \n\nI just wanted to follow up on whether you will have a chance to send a draft\nCredit Support Annex (similar in form to the one previously executed with ENA).", "\nI understand you may not have credit approval yet so perhaps we can leave the\nappropriate sections blank in the meantime.", " Thanks and regards,", " \n\nVijay K. Suchdev Vice President Equity Derivatives First Union Securities, Inc.\nTelephone: (212) 909-0951 Facsimile: (212) 891-5042 email:\nvijay.suchdev@funb.com <mailto:vijay.suchdev@funb.com>", " \n\nMichael Olsen@ENRON", " 12/07/2000 02:29 PM", " Daren,", " \n\nI was wondering if it would be OK for me to sit in with you one day to get a\ngeneral feel of your end of the process.", " Pat had told me before he left that it\nwould help me better grasp the process as a whole.", " I understand the imminent\ncold weather is making things crazy, so now may not be the best time to be in\nyour way.", " But let me know if I can spend a day, morning, or even just an\nafternoon down there with you whenever it is a good time.", " I think it will help\nme very much in my role.", " \n\nThanks.", " \n\nMike", " \n\nThe new fixed price deal with Equistar is #365013.", " \n\nD", " \n\nDaren", " \n\nWe just did a deal for the rest of the month for 10,000/d at meter # 1552 QE-1 @\n$4.355 .... can you let me and Robert Lloyd know what the sitara # is?", " Thanks", " \n\nMelissa,", " I show that we also had 20.000 at LS HPL for the 13th.", " \n\nDaren", " \n\nAugust 11,2000", " \n\nTeco Tap 108.333 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron", " LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron", "\nAugust 12, 2000", " \n\nTeco Tap 85.000 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron", " LS HPL LSK IC 20.000 / Enron", " August\n13, 2000", " \n\nTeco Tap 32.500 / HPL IFERC ; 20.000 / Enron", " I'm working hard for you!", " Now at\n83.5.", " I need a new lawnmower, so I'll try to bump it up a little more.", " Hope\nyou're doing good.", " \n\nD", " \n\n???", " KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.", " ?", " WE AT HOME LOVE IT AT $80+++", " ?", " KEN", " \n\nThese have been sold.", " \n\nGeoff,", " \n\nThanks for the pictures.", " Looks like the kids had a great time!", " \n\nI hope you don't mind, but I've taken liberty to turn them into a web photo\nalbum at http://24.27.98.30/pictures/08-05_Garrett_Gayle_Bday.", " If you want to\npass this web site address along to other folks, feel free.", " If you want a CD\ncopy of this web site, give me a yell.", " \n\nThanks,", " \n\nRam Tackett, (mailto:rtackett@abacustech.net) Owner, Abacus Technologies 17611\nLoring Lane, Spring, TX 77388-5746 (281)651-7106;Fax(281)528-8636 Web:\nhttp://www.abacustech.net", " - Ram Tackett (E-mail).vcf 4222", " \n\nDebra Perlingiere", " \n\nPlease give me a call to discuss Nov transaction.", " \n\nDebra Perlingiere", " \n\nAre you free for lunch some day this week?", " Also, I have an extra ticket for the\nComets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go?", " The game is at 12:Sat @ Compaq\nCenter.", " Would love for you to join us.", " I am bringing two of my girlfriends from\nLJ.", " Debra Perlingiere", " \n\nStacey here is the Master draft we discussed.", " I am sending you a version with\ncomments.", " \n\ndp", " \n\nCould one of you please email me a copy of the standard template you use for\nEnfolio gas purchase agreements?", " As we're getting more and more of those\nagreements, I'd like to add a template in Global Contracts.", " Thanks!", " \n\nStacey Barclay Richardson Enron Net Works, LLC - Global Contracts\nStacey.Richardson@enron.com (713) 853-0569 Office (713) 646-2495 Fax (713)\n710-6084 Pager", " Today is good 12:30 ?", " Cafeteria is fine.", " \n\nI'm free any day but Tuesday.", " I better pass on the Comets game.", " My weekends seem\nto be taken up with condo matters, house hunting.", " Thank you though.", " Are you free\nfor lunch today.", " I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables.", " Let me know if\nyou are interested.", " Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal,\nEB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address:\njanette.elbertson@enron.com", " Are you free for lunch some day this week?", " Also, I\nhave an extra ticket for the Comets game on Sat. you said you wanted to go?", " The\ngame is at 12:Sat @ Compaq Center.", " Would love for you to join us.", " I am bringing\ntwo of my girlfriends from LJ.", " Debra Perlingiere", " \n\nok call me", " \n\nMaybe 12:15?", " \n\nJanette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal, EB3326 Telephone: (713)\n853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address: janette.elbertson@enron.com", "\nToday is good 12:30 ?", " Cafeteria is fine.", " \n\nI'm free any day but Tuesday.", " I better pass on the Comets game.", " My weekends seem\nto be taken up with condo matters, house hunting.", " Thank you though.", " Are you free\nfor lunch today.", " I want to go to the cafeteria for vegetables.", " Let me know if\nyou are interested.", " Janette Elbertson Administrative Coordinator EWS Legal,\nEB3326 Telephone: (713) 853-7906 Facsimile: (713) 646-2600 e-mail address:\njanette.elbertson@enron.com", " \n\nMove-Team@ENRON", " 09/20/2000 03:22 PM", " Sent by: John Salinardo@ENRON", " it is to late\nfor me to add changes.", " We will have to correct them after the churn.", " Thank you\nfor you patience.", " \n\nThe Dow topped out in February of 1966 at 995.", " By September of that year the Dow\nhad tumbled to 744.", " The Dow then rallied to a high of 943 in September of '67.", "\nBy March of '68 the Dow had fallen to 825, only to climb to a highly speculative\npeak of 985 in December of '68.", " The Dow then sank to 631 in December of '70.", " By\nApril of '71 the Dow had climbed back to 950, only to fall to 869 in February of\n'72.", " A big rally then took the Dow (unconfirmed) to a record high of 1051 in\nJanuary of '73, turning everyone bullish.", " But by December of '73 the Dow had\ncollapsed to 788.", " Think that was bad - by December of '74 the Dow had sunk to a\nbear market low of 577.", " At that time, the gurus and geniuses of Wall Street were\npredicting a 250 Dow and many were talking openly about the end of capitalism.", "\nOf course, that was the bottom", " \n\nAnd that's the way the greatest bear market since the Depression worked its way\ndown.", " By late 1974 investors were dizzy, they were desperate, they were\nwrung-out, they had left Wall Street, many for good.", " great, we look forward to\nseeing you.", " \n\nDEBRA PERLINGIERE", " 09/20/2000 09:32 AM", " I will not be there at 7:30, but will see\nyou arond 9:30 on Tuesday.", " \n\nMany thanks!", " \n\nDebra Perlingiere", " \n\nEdward Terry", " 09/08/2000 09:55 AM", " FYI,", " \n\nPer the memo, ENA's storage account will be REDUCED by 420,588 mmbtu!!!!!!", " \n\nRobert D Morgan", " 09/08/2000 09:36 AM", " The results of the February 26th PVT test\nconducted on Nville have been discussed with each of you over the last three\nmonths.", " As we have discussed....effective Sep 13th, Anita will make the\nadjustments to Enron's inventory and pad gas to reflect the February 26th\nresults.", " I talked with Gary Wilson, and he confirmed that the revised values are\ncorrect.", " Attached is a spreadsheet that contains the values.", " \n\nThe correction to the working gas includes TWO corrections.", " The results of the\nFebruary 26th test reduces the working gas by 398,487MMBTU.", " In addition, there\nis a reduction of 22,101MMBTU which is the difference between the SCADA values\n(Best Available) that Anita showed on the February 29th Storage Sheet and the\n\"official\" February 29th values that Gary Wilson received from MIPS.", " To\nsummarize: Enron's pad gas will now be 3,993,310MMBTU, instead of\n4,223,000MMBTU.", " Enron's working gas will be reduced by 420,588MMBTU.", " \n\nCall me if there are any questions.", " \n\nfyi", " \n\nyeah i got yelled at also.", " i tried to say i wasn't that drunk but z wasn't\nhaving any of that conversation.", " she told me that after friday and saturday she\nfelt i was slowly regressing.", " then i told her i felt i should be able to screw\nmissy just once.", " she said that was ok.", " \n\nDid you get in as much trouble as I did this weekend - Lori seems to think I\nneed to get help - I told her it's normal to drink all day at a bar, then go to\ndinner where you don't know half the people there and proceed to get extremely\nfucked up", " *******************Internet Email Confidentiality\nFooter*******************", " \n\nPrivileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message.", " If you are\nnot the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the\nmessage to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone.", " In\nsuch case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply\nemail.", " Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to\nInternet email for messages of this kind.", " Opinions, conclusions and other\ninformation in this message that do not relate to the official business of my\nfirm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.", " Job ID: J12746KM", "\nJob Title: Attorney", " Location: Houston, Texas USA", " Compensation: $60000 - 70000", "\nDescription:", " Our client is a small law firm that is looking for an individual to\njoin their team handling toxic tort with some minor PI defense.", " They offer an\nexceptional compensation package including a healthy salary, comprehensive\nbenefits program, and ample room for associates to grow within the firm.", " KM", "\nRequirements:", " You'll be able to use your 1-4 years of experience with Toxic Tort\nto complement your desire to stay with the firm.", " Company:", " Marvel Consultants,\nInc. 28601 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44122 USA Email:\nrecruiters@marvelconsultants.com <mailto:recruiters@marvelconsultants.com>\nPhone: 216-292-2855 Fax: 216-292-7207", " thanks", " I've thought about you a few times\nin the last few months, didn't want to intrude upon an already bad situation\nwith my bullshit questions.", " I'm hearing some pretty depressing stuff from the\npeople I know at ENE.", " I wish I had the capital to open my own shop?", "there will be\ntalent and opportunity a plenty on the market soon.", " I'll ask around?", "I've got\nsome friends at Duke and Dynegy from B-school, the Gianoucous (spelling??)\nbrothers (John and Dimitri?from elementary school) started their own outfit a\nwhile back, and my old man is at Schlumberger and has good contacts in general\n(if you aren't married to a trading environment).", " Give me a few days, and I'll\nbe in touch.", " Michael", " you guys have any job opening for ex natural gas traders\nthat made their now almost defunctc ompany over 40 million in the last two\nyears?", " not sure how much longer ene is going to be around and i'm checking out\nmy options!", " \n\nRodgers", " As we discussed, here is a first effort at a revised TVA offer letter.", " I\ndrafted the Into TVA Option as a series of calls tied to the MOPA delivery term\nand quantity - not sure if this anything close to what you all had in mind.", "\nPlease let me know what shape you all think the offer ought to take and we can\nrevise accordingly.", " Thanks", " Elizabeth 36349", " \n\nsee you there at 4:00 unless I call you", " \n\nMark E Haedicke", " Sent by: Janette Elbertson", " 02/28/2001 03:16 PM", " Please use the\nform attached when preparing the top ten risks for your businesses.", " Please be\nbrief!", " \n\nMark E Haedicke", " Sent by: Janette Elbertson", " 02/28/2001 04:41 PM", " Please update the\nattached Legal Risk Report.", " Send the revised report by e-mail.", " Thank you.", " \n\nMike Curry", " 11/14/2000 11:37 AM", " With Elizabeth's comments added to summary...", " \n\nyuk.", " so sorry to have to cancel", " that deal is making like it wants to close and\nthe traders scheduled a 430 call to wrap it up", " don't they know we have better\nthings to do", " here is to getting back on track after thanksgiving", " sorry again", " \n\nper my vm", " John Lamb@ENRON", " 11/15/2000 11:58 AM", " Attached are clean and blacklined\ndrafts of the Enron guaranties to be made in support of EPMI's obligations under\nthe Indian Mesa II Renewable Energy Purchase Agreement (\"PPA\") and Green Premium\nSharing Agreement (\"GSPA\").?", " The guaranty for the PPA is blacklined against the\nEnron EPC Contract guaranty in favor of the banks which was granted in\nconnection with our Cabazon Wind Power Project (the project most recently\nfinanced by EWC) and the GPSA guaranty is blacklined against the PPA guaranty.", "\nAs we discussed last week, since the Enron guaranties will need to be in a form\nthat will acceptable to our project lenders and equity participants, we thought\nthat we should start with a form that was used in our last financing and that\nwas negotiated by Enron and the banks.", " We plan to use the same basic form for\nthe Enron guaranty that will be made in favor of EPMI with respect to the\nseller's obligations under the PPA.", " We will forward the draft of that guaranty\nto you later today.", " Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions\nconcerning the attached guaranties.", " Thank you.", " \n\n- PPA Guaranty.doc", " - GPSA Guaranty.doc", " - REDLINE GPSA Guaranty.doc", " - REDLINE PPA\nGuaranty.doc", " \n\n?", " \n\nSheila Tweed", " 03/26/2001 08:58 PM", " Mary Hain", " 03/23/2001 12:24 PM", " I am going to be\nthe Senior Regulatory Counsel at ISO New England starting on April 9, 2001.", " My\nlast day in the Portland area will be March 31, 2001.", " I enjoyed working with you\nand wish you the best of everything.", " My new address will be: Mary Hain Senior\nRegulatory Counsel ISO New England Inc.One Sullivan Road Holyoke, MA 01040-2841\n(413) 535-4000 mhain@ISO-NE.com", " Mark", " \n\nHere is a revised draft of the CDWR risk memo.", " Events change everyday.", " This\nmorning's paper reports that a rate increase of 40% may be imposed by the CDWR\nas early as today and the new bond issue amount is purported to be 16 billion\n(rather than the 10 initially discussed)", " Mark", " As we discussed, here is a copy of\nthe draft memo.", " Thanks", " Elizabeth 36349", " see you there on court 10", " ps I may have\nto come back to work for a 615 call", " \n\nHere is latest draft of risk memo (STILL IN DRAFT FORM).", " I faxed comments to you\non dash.", " Do you have any current info on deal status?", " \n\nThanks", " Elizabeth 36349", " \n\nVince,", " Are you going to be able to make the power VAR meeting on Thursday?", " \n\nFrank", " \n\nSheridan,", " \n\nI have just checked with RAC (David Gorte) and we have a green light to go ahead\nwith the project.", " I shall you tomorrow to discuss the details.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nSheridan Titman <titman@mail.utexas.edu> on 01/24/2001 02:45:50 PM", " Vince:", " \n\nI just wanted to check with you regarding the consulting arrangement we\ndiscussed a couple of weeks ago.", " Perhaps, we should start with just a 1 or 2 day\ncontract where I give some thoughts to the kind of issues that we discussed and\ncome to Houston to present my preliminary thoughts and possible avenues for\nadditional work.", " regards,", " \n\nSheridan", " Sheridan Titman Department of Finance College of Business\nAdministration University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712-1179 512-232-2787 (phone)\n512-471-5073 (fax) titman@mail.utexas.edu", " Bryan,", " \n\nDid you have a chance to take a look at the resume I sent you?", " He looked like a\ngreat guy for your group.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nDavid,", " A reminder.", " We discussed a few days ago a consulting arrangement with\nProf. Sheridan Titman from UT.", " Any feedback from Rick Buy?", " Please, let me know.", "\n42299", " Vince", " \n\nKevin Kindall@ENRON", " 01/24/2001 03:51 PM", " Per our conversation yesterday...", " \n\nHi Kevin,", " \n\nFurther to your call attached is a presentation I gave at the Canadian Risk\nManagers Conference in Edmonton in the fall of 2000.", " I'll try and send one of\nPeter Cox' as well but may have some problems due to file size.", " In any event, my\npresentation should give you a starting point.", " \n\nMike", " \n\n- Cfoforum.ppt", " \n\nDarrell,", " \n\nThanks a lot.", " A quick question: we haven't received your invoice for the last\nfew model / paper reviews.", " Please, make sure that we are billed.", " \n\nClewlow/Strickland book is out.", " I shall send you a copy today.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nDarrell Duffie <duffie@Stanford.EDU> on 01/24/2001 03:17:01 PM", " Please respond to\nDarrell Duffie <duffie@Stanford.EDU>", " Vince/ Taiichi", " \n\nIn case you are interested, I attach this paper on gas Storage value modeling.", "\nBest,", " Darrell", " \n\n_____________________________________________", " Darrell Duffie mail GSB Stanford\nCA 94305-5015 USA phone 650 723 1976 fax 650 725 7979 email duffie@stanford.edu\nweb http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie/", "\n_____________________________________________", " - Paper4.pdf", " \n\nAl,", " \n\nI have spoken with Mark Lay and he is interested.", " Even if we cannot help you\nhere in Enron, he may be able to put you in touch with other CV groups in town.", "\nPlease, call him directly and give my name as a reference.", " (713) 853-7408", " \n\nGood luck.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nVince J Kaminski", " 01/24/2001 11:21 AM", " Al,", " \n\nI have called Mark Lay and left a message on his voice mail.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nAl Arfsten <arfsten@bflassociates.com> on 01/24/2001 11:16:25 AM", " Vince:", " Your\nsuggestion to introduce the concept discussed with one of the Lays is welcomed.", "\nI hope that this would mean that you would remain involved at some level.", " The\ndesign of the model and its potential economics could be key to how worthy the\neffort might be.", " Enron could be an ideal environment from which to the concept\nenhancement through to commercialization could be successfully accomplished.", "\nPlease confidentially share matters as you think best and advise me of the\ninterest generated.", " \n\nI am ready to meet there at your building or elsewhere that is appropriate.", " Best\nregards,", " Al Arfsten 713 965 2158", " \n\nMartin,", " \n\nNo problem.", " Please, ask Stinson as well.", " \n\nVince", " \n\nI thought that since Chonawee has an optimization background, he would be good\nto have him go to dinner with Dr. Lasdon on Thrusday as well.", " Would this be\nfine?", " Thanks,", " Martin", " \n\nWe are still trying to figure out some of the cash traders.", " Once we get the word\nfrom Lavo we'll let you know.", " Thanks", " \n\nKK", " \n\nKam,", " \n\nAre there any new developments in the trader world?", " We still have the traders\nand books that you provided last week, but need to know if there are any changes\nto this.", " Please let us know if you need a change so that the deals will bridge\nwith the correct books.", " \n\nThanks,", " Dawn", " \n\nHey,", " \n\nI am going to have to miss your wedding.", " Unfortunately, I will be in Plano that\nweekend.", " I wish I could make it.", " \n\nWhat's going on with the UBS weather position?", " Has that gone anywhere or are the\nother possibilities you had better?", " \n\nTalk to you soon,", " \n\nKam", " \n\nHey guys,", " \n\nI am being told by my better half that we need to get an accurate head count of\nwho will be attending our wedding.", " If you would be so kind, could you possibly\nlet me know of your status over the next couple of days?", " For those of you who\nalready sent us an RSVP response recently, please disregard.", " Thanks for your\nhelp!", " \n\nJeff", " \n\nWT Cal has been added.", " Could you run those additional post-id's?", " There are deals\nin the Aruba book so I'm not sure why you aren't picking those up.", " The deals are\nlisted below.", " Thanks", " \n\nEY4096.1 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 6,363,217 -$ 250,393", " EY4096.3 PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P 202,989 $ 195,610", " EY4096.4 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 F 0 $ 31,180", "\nEY4096.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -6,363,217 -$ 55,678", " EY4106.6 PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P -1,993,045 -$ 32,387", " EY4106.7 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 1,993,045 -$\n43,548", " EY4106.9 PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 27,886 $ 27,361", " EY4108.E PERFORMANCE\n01-Feb-02 P 12,514,373 -$ 265,932", " EY4108.F PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P 112,610 $\n110,555", " EY4108.H PERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -2,239,879 -$ 36,398", " EY4108.I\nPERFORMANCE 01-Feb-02 P -10,274,494 -$ 166,960", " Thanks", " \n\nAs seen below,", " Please start using the ENA DPR 0102 file rather than the EWS DPR\n2002 file to send to Chris.", " The positions needed to be divided to reflect BCF's.", "\nThanks", " Kam", " could you also CC me the first few times you send it?", " While our\nestablished schedules of Tuesday and Friday DPR's would have us reporting\ntomorrow's activity on Monday, we will change that for month end.", " Please email\nthe January 31st DPR information for your respective groups to my attention by\nnoon on Friday.", " You should use the same spreadsheet format used for the 1/29/02\nDPR.", " All p&l and PRMA numbers should be in $'000's.", " Starting in February, you\nwill be able to export the data, as opposed to using the spreadsheets.", " Thanks,", "\nChris Abel Manager, Risk Controls Global Risk Operations chris.abel@enron.com\n<mailto:chris.abel@enron.com> 713.853.3102", " Kristen,", " \n\nAttached are all live financial deals by risk type.", " As you can see, the price\ndata is too large to fit into one tab.", " After tomorrow, I will no longer have\naccess to the estate files.", " Greg Couch will be taking over the responsibility\nfor the estate risk group and will be able to assist you with your requests\ngoing forward.", " Thanks", " \n\nKam", " \n\nEd,", " Here is a list of the risk people that will be with the estate.", " After this\nweekend, we will no longer have access to the estate files, these people will be\nable to help you with any of your questions.", " We will still be around to assist\nthem if needed.", " \n\nThanks", " \n\nKK", " \n\nHere you go...", " \n\nAC", " Sanjeev,", " \n\nI should have a list of post-id's for you by 4:30 today.", " After friday, I will no\nlonger have access to the estate, so if you could shoot this off over night so I\ncould have something in the morning to work with I would appreciate it.", " Let me\nknow if that doesn't seem possible.", " Thanks", " \n\nKam", " \n\nHi I´m from Brazil and I want to know of book 06.", "Is good or bad?", "what's your\nopinion?", "kisses", " leli", " \n\nits good.", " u must read it.", " pairing up of harry and ginny is cool", " \n\nIts awesome- better than book 5", " \n\nAn orphaned, two-month old African elephant named Olly received an extremely\nuplifting Christmas present this year: an airplane ride just for him, courtesy\nof the International Fund for Animal Welfare and their friends 'The Bateleurs'.", "\nAnimal News Center Webmaster", " \n\nHello,", " \n\nWe have started a new forum for an interactive and absorbing discussion on\nAstrology & Palmistry and everything in between including Gemology, Feng\nShui/Vaastu Shastra.", " We look forward to your active participation to make this\nforum an exciting meeting place for like minded individuals.", " Regards", " \n\nSwetha", " \n\nPlay your CD's, 8-tracks, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl 33/45's, and shellac\n78's through this little integrated amp, you'll get a big eye opener !", " complete\nwith original Magnavox tubes- all tubes have been tested they are all good-\nstereo amp", " \n\nHeterosexuals increasingly back gay marriage", " \n\nBy Deb Price / The Detroit News", " Deb Price", " When Baptist Pastor Stephen Jones\ntalks about what makes for a happy marriage with Janice, his wife of 35 years,\none special ingredient might surprise you: Double-dating with coupled friends\nwho happen to be gay.", " \n\n*", " \n\nTwinkle Twinkle lazy star Kitna soyega uthja yaar, up above the world so high,\nsun has risen in the sky, uthke jaldi pee le chai, then call me up and say \"HI\"", "\n**", " \n\nGood Morning* *", " Have a Nice Day* **", " **", " --", " Thanks and Regard", " Rajendra", "\nrajendra.o...@gmail.com", " image_gif_part", " 81K Download", " \n\nI just finish reading a really good book (it was actually a ebook) from some new\nseries called the The Tale of Terra.", " The story had brillant battle scenes,\nlovable heroes and villians, a compelling story line, and it left me dying for\nthe next part of the series:) go to taleofterra.com to learn more aboout it", " \n\nEmail: Roving Mouse <s...@tack.net>", " Groups: alt.animals, alt.animals.cat,\nalt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, talk.politics.animals", " Followup-To: alt.animals", " \n\nYou will always find fascinating links at: Extreme Web Surfs\nhttp://extremewebsurfs.blogspot.com/ (nice urban wildlife post today) & Me and\nthe Web http://maartenvt.blogspot.com/ Arts, History,Animals, Music,Games\n,Politics,Technology, Fun and more!", " ..", " \n\nEmail: franz371...@gmail.com", " WE HAVE A DATE FOR THE RELEASE OF RAGNAROK ONLINE 2\n(beta anyway)September 16-18, this was announced by Gravity CEO Kim Jung-Ryool\non either 16th or 17th of july and as i don't want to take someone's credit's i\ngot it here^^GameSpot", " By the way we now have a \"forum\" in the post link", " Reply", " \n\nEmail: \"Ian\"<ian.gilb...@btinternet.com>", " Groups: alt.animals.cat", " \n\nWe have updated our site to include a LOST and FOUND page and you can now join\nour branch and make a secure on-line donation to the charity.", " Please do visit us\nand feel free to browse the site at www.southbhamcats.org.uk", " PS - we also have\nmore cats coming in for re-homing see our 'Homes Wanted' page", " Thanks for looking", "\n\nIan - Webmaster www.southbhamcats.org.uk", " \n\nKey Delhi blast suspect arrested", " \n\nPolice in the Indian capital Delhi say they have arrested the suspected\nco-ordinator and financier of last month's deadly bomb blasts in the city.", " Delhi\npolice chief KK Paul named the man as Tariq Ahmed Dar, and said police were\nhunting for four accomplices.", " He said Mr Dar, 33, was arrested in\nIndian-administered Kashmir and belonged to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba\nmilitant group.", " \n\nThe India Diaries", " \n\nI like the way Otto Jespersen (in 'Language: Its Nature, Development and\nOrigin') aptly summarised the nature of language changes by comparing it with\none of the theories of the Manchester School of Economics:", " 'Everything is for\nthe best in the best of all possible worlds if only no artificial hindrances are\nput in the way of free exchange, for demand and supply will regulate everything\nbetter than any Government would be able to.'", " Portia", " \n\nThis is a beautiful site and a wonderful idea.", " And a portion of each package or\nmemorial purchased goes to a charity on their database.", " \n\nSo be sure to get your pet's memorial on the site and if you have a charity /\nrescue, make sure it is listed on their database so you can receive some of the\nprofits from the site.", " \n\nBest,", " Cindy", " \n\n\"...there is no companion quite so devoted, so communicative, so loving and so\nmesmerizing as a rat.\"", " ~CGoehring", " \n\nEmail: Anthony Beavers <CognitiveScienceN...@gmail.com>", " Inhibitory Systems\nControl the Pattern of Activity in the Cortex", " \n\n\"Inhibitory systems are essential for controlling the pattern of activity in the\ncortex, which has important implications for the mechanisms of cortical\noperation, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron....", " The\nfindings demonstrate the inhibitory network is central to controlling not only\nthe amplitude, extent and duration of activation of recurrent excitatory\ncortical networks, but also the precise timing of action potentials, and, thus,\nnetwork synchronization...\"", " \n\n--", " Posted by Anthony Beavers to Cognitive Science News at 8/28/2005 07:18:20 AM", "\n\nEmail: \"engin i. erdem\"<erdemen...@gmail.com>", " **", " *Worldwatch Projects\nCatastrophe Will Be Most Costly Weather-Related Disaster in History*", "\n*Washington, D.C.-*", " The overwhelming human and financial impacts of Hurricane\nKatrina are powerful evidence that political and economic decisions made in the\nUnited States and other countries have failed to account for our dependence on a\nhealthy resource base, according to an assessment released today by the\nWorldwatch Institute.", " Alteration of the Mississippi River and the destruction of\nwetlands at its mouth have left the area around New Orleans abnormally\nvulnerable to the forces of nature.", " According to many scientists, the early\nresults of global warming—90 degree Fahrenheit water temperatures in the Gulf\nand rising sea levels—may have exacerbated the destructive power of Katrina.", "\n*...*", " \n\nhttp://reflectioncafe.blogspot.com/2005/09/unnatural-disasterthe-less...", " \n\nEmail: n3td3v <xploita...@gmail.com>", " n3td3v saw this story on BBC News Online\nand thought you should see it.", " ** Google defies US over search data **", " Web giant\nGoogle is resisting an attempt by the US to force it to reveal what users are\nsearching for.", " < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4630694.stm>", "\n** BBC Daily E-mail **", " Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you\nwant them, all in one daily e-mail", " < http://www.bbc.co.uk/dailyemail/>", " **\nDisclaimer **", " The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and\nanything written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or\nopinions.", " Please note that neither the e-mail address nor name of the sender\nhave been verified.", " \n\nIf you do not wish to receive such e-mails in the future or want to know more\nabout the BBC's Email a Friend service, please read our frequently asked\nquestions.", " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4162471.stm", " \n\n[http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=624569&section=news]", "\nWith protests going on in the Chilean capital of Santiago (from the economic\nsummit), President Bush visited Chinese President Hu Jintao and other key allies\nin Santiago.", " The talk of the day besides a more level playing field with China\nwas North Korea.", " China has been a great help at getting North Korea to the table\nand Bush is hoping that with their cooperation Korea can become a nuclear free\npeninsula.", " \n\nREUTERS/Jason Reed", " U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Chinese\nPresident Hu Jintao in a bilateral meeting in Santiago.", " Bush is in Santiago for\nthe annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting.", " Hopefully\nPresident Bush can accomplish these goals which will not only help strengthen\nour Chinese allies, but will also help fight the war on terror.", " Selah!", " \n\n--", " Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 11/20/2004 03:10:35 PM", " \n\nEmail: BlackBayou <BlackBa...@excite.com>", " Groups: alt.animals.cat", " \n\nI started this page to help with my boredom.", " I have Chronic Lyme disease, so I'm\nstuck at home.", " I started collecting animations & jokes just to help with my\nboredom and depression.", " \n\nI enjoyed the animations and wanted to share them with my friends.", " So I started\na small mailing list and added their addresses to it.", " Along with an area on the\npage for those to join the mailing list.", " I started with 21 email addresses.", " We\nnow have over 5000 addresses.", " My wife and I would love for you to come and visit\nour page", " \n\nhttp://www.myshutter.com/flash.htm our collection of comedy", "\nhttp://www.myshutter.com Before becoming disabled, I was an AVID amateur\nphotographer.. come and visit and sign our guestbook", " -----= Posted via\nNewsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----", " http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1\nNewsgroup Service in the World!", " -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different\nServers! =-----", " \n\nHandcrafted Furry Animals Wholesale, Call for a Catalog NOW!", " 732-657-3416", " \n\nhas life like animal wholesale figurines made from rabbit and goat fur, feathers\nand sheeps wool.", " Dogs, cats, rabbits, wolves, moose, horses, you name it, we\nhave it.", " People love to buy these cute cuddly little animals for gifts and\ncollectables.", " They are very well made and realistic.", " Attention Retail Stores &\nVendors:", " We are looking to expand our Wholesale Clients across the Nation.", " If\nyou own a Retail Store or are a Professional Vendor who exhibits at Sport,\nHunting, or Craft Shows and are interested in selling our products,please give\nus a call!", " 732-657-3416", " We have a Full Color Catalog and Wholesale Price List\nready to mail to you today!", " No minimum order amount.", " Any orders at or over\n$500.00 an additional 10% off the total order.", " We accecpt: Visa, MasterCard,\nAmex, Dinners Club/Carte Blanche, & Personal Checks/Money Orders.", " Animals R\nUs.Net Bill Schmidt animalsr...@aol.com 732-657-3416 1027 Jolson Court\nManchester, N.J. 08759", " \n\nWei's Magic Cubes", " \n\nWei Ligang, a rising star of modern art in China, just had an exhibition in\nmid-July, 2005 in Hong Kong.", " He is now lecturing in USA.", " His art perfectly\ncombines painting and Chinese calligraphy.", " He is regarded as one of the leading\nAvant-Garde artist of modern calligraphy.", " His artworks were selected and\nexhibited in British Museum in 2002.", " \"Wei has given some virtuoso performances\nwith brush and ink, often incorporating several different techniques into a\nsingle work,\" said Gordon S. Barrass, curator of the exhibition.", " In the world of\n\"Wei's magic cubes,\" all seem to be ingeniously planned and tricky.", " All are\nmathematical, all are linguistic.", " In Wei's art, a logician could see\nmathematical logic, a cellist could see a ripple of nine bass notes, a country\ngirl could see straw, and Harry Potter could see two accompanied green blazes.", "\n\"...to gaze at Wei's art is like entering a floating world of dreams.\"", " --- The\nArt of Calligraphy in Modern China (British Museum Press, 2002)", " \n\n[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39187928,00.htm]", " \n\nPhoto from Technology News", " Wiki Media Foundation, the group behind the Wikipedia\nonline encyclopedia project, said Friday that search giant Google has\nvolunteered to host some of its content on company servers.", " (ZD Net)", " It looks\nlike the war between Microsoft and Google is quickly brewing on the horizon.", "\nMicrosoft is 4-0 (they took down Netscape, Suns Systems, MAC and IBM) and Google\nmay be their next target.", " Google is probably making this move to counter\nMicrosoft Search using Encarta (it's online dictionary).", " More below.", " \n\nBut it looks like Google isn't opening it's mouth about the reason behind the\noffer as Linux News reports:", " \"While we don't have anything specific to announce\ntoday, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively evaluating\ncreative ways to support Wikipedia.org and its community.\"", " Sure Google, although\nthis would put it on coarse for global domination of the internet by 2014.", " It\nwill be interesting to see whether or not Google will finally slay the Microsoft\nGoliath, who has known no major defeat and seeks to vanquish all competition.", "\nSelah!", " \n\n--", " Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/14/2005 07:03:00 PM", " \n\nEmail: \"Ruth\"<ruth.penyc...@bbc.co.uk>", " Hello there", " \n\nAction Network is a BBC website for people who are taking action on issues that\nconcern them.", " I'm getting in touch because I think it could be useful to people\ncampaigning about hospital closures.", " We've got a page dedicated to issues around\nhospitals ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C55153 ) and a group called\nNHS SOS have already put up a campaign about ward closures in Cumbria.", " I'm\nhoping to build this up to be a hub for all the campaigners - a place where\npeople can exchange ideas and advice.", " It would be great if the person from CHANT\nwho started this page would put up a short description of the campaign and a\nlist to this group page on the Action Network site.", " Action Network is also a\ngood place to post details of events, or try to rally together a group if you\nwant to take action in your area.", " You can attach anything you write to pages for\nyour local area, as well as to the 'issue' pages.", " I'm more than happy to help\npeople with the site or answer any questions about Action Network - just drop me\na message.", " Otherwise, hope to see you there!", " Kind regards", " Ruth Penycate\nwww.bbc.co.uk/actionnetwork", " \n\nWinston Peters is visiting a school.", " \n\nIn one class, he asks the students if anyone can give him an example of a\n\"tragedy\".", " One little boy stands up and offersthat, \"if my best friend who lives\nnext door was playing in the street when a car came along and killed him, that\nwould be a tragedy\".", " \"No,\" Winston says, \"That would be an ACCIDENT.\"", " A girl\nraises her hand.", " \"If a school bus carrying fifty children drove off a cliff,\nkilling everyone involved... that would be a tragedy\".", " \"I'm afraid not,\n\"explains Winston, \"that is what we would call a GREAT LOSS.\"", " The room is\nsilent, none of the other children volunteer.", " \"What?\" asks Winston, \"isn't there\nany one here who can give me an example of a tragedy?\"", " Finally, a boy in the\nback raises his hand.", " In a timid voice, he says: \"If an airplane carrying\nWinston Peters was blown up by a bomb, THAT would be a tragedy\".", " \"Wonderful!\"\nWinston beams.", " \"Marvelous!", " And can you tell me WHY that would be a\ntragedy?\"", "\"Well,\" says the boy, \"because it wouldn't be an accident, and it\ncertainly wouldn't be a great loss!\"", " \n\n[http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html]", " \n\nPhoto from Space.com", " (Space.com)", " It looks like The Lunar Transportation Systems,\nInc. is visualizing a \"space highway\" going from the moon to Earth (and back\nagain).", " \"Our new lunar transportation system utilizes a unique architecture that\nwill establish the equivalent of a two-way highway between the Earth and the\nMoon,\" Kistler told SPACE.com.", " \"Our plans include raising private capital to\ndevelop, build, flight test, and operate this Earth-Moon highway for the benefit\nof the country and the benefit of our investors.\"", " Wise decision to go through\nthe private sector--NASA's budget may be kinda tight to fund a project like\nthis.", " \n\nThis group does sound pretty interesting though.", " The Lunar Transporatation\nSystems (LTS) is actually being funded by two space businessmen, Walter Kistler\nand Bob Citron.", " Both of these men are heavily involved in the private sector of\nthe space industry, and both are also involved with another space company called\nSPACEHAB .", " They want to use LTS to tie into NASA's vision for Space Exploration,\nand seem pleased that the White House is moving in that direction.", " \"We are so\nexcited that the White House and the recent new government space policy\nunderscores the need to involve the private sector in assisting NASA develop its\nplans for the new Vision for Space Exploration,\" said Walter Kistler, LTS\nco-founder and Chairman.", " With their proposal of a \"Earth-Moon\" highway, it looks\nlike space tourism may become a reality sooner than we think.", " Selah!", " \n\n--", " Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 2/15/2005 05:12:00 PM", " \n\n[http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_050829_ksc_spacefuture.html]", " \n\n(Space.com)", " U.S. astronauts will launch to the moon on sleek, single, shuttle\nbooster rockets and the first new upper-stage rocket this country has developed\nin more than a decade, NASA and the Pentagon have told the White House.", " \n\nLunar landers and other gear needed for extended visits to the moon will be\nlofted by gargantuan launchers as big as the Apollo-era Saturn 5, the most\npowerful rockets ever flown.", " It looks as if NASA is transitioning away from the\nshuttle model, as in the past they have proven to be quite dangerous as Columbia\nhas recently proved.", " Although these new rockets are probably more expensive,\nthey will be able to go at a much greater range than it's shuttle cousins, as\nthey can not only break free from the atmosphere but reach the moon as well.", " \n\n\"NASA will initiate development of a Crew Launch Vehicle derived from space\nshuttle solid rocket boosters with a new upper stage for human spaceflight,\"\nsaid the letter, signed by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and the Pentagon's\ntop space official, ex-astronaut Ron Sega...", " \n\n\"NASA then plans to develop a new 100-metric-ton-class launch vehicle derived\nfrom existing capabilities with the space shuttle external tanks and solid\nrocket boosters for future missions to the moon,\" the letter said.", " NASA is\nplanning on using these new shuttles to replace the current models, with\nindustry forecasters predicting a launch as early as 2014.", " The new rocket design\nwill differ slightly from it's predecessors, in the fact that the crew and cargo\nwould launch separately from two different rockets each and join up in space\nlater on.", " Launching this way will hopefully avoid future disasters, giving more\nsupport towards NASA revisiting the stars.", " \n\n--", " Posted by Hidden Nook to Hidden Nook at 8/30/2005 09:36:00 PM", " \n\nGeorge and Lynne", " \n\nimage001.jpg", " 51K Download", " Funny stuff", " \n\nlifted from another list", " \n\nAmy:-)", " \n\n------", " \n\nWe could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through\nCongress.", " \n\n- Will Rogers", " \n\nI had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.", " But I was not pleased to\nread the description in the catalog: \"No good in a bed, but fine against a\nwall.\"", " - Eleanor Roosevelt", " \n\n------", " \n\nSanta Claus has the right idea.", " Visit people only once a year.", " \n\n- Victor Borge", " \n\n------", " \n\n\"By all means, marry.", " If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a\nbad one, you'll become a philosopher.", " \n\n- Socrates", " \n\n------", " \n\nI was married by a judge.", " I should have asked for a jury.", " \n\n- Groucho Marx", " \n\n------", " \n\nMy wife has a slight impediment in her speech.", " Every now and then she stops to\nbreathe.", " \n\n- Jimmy Durante", " \n\n------", " \n\nI have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.", " \n\n- Zsa Zsa Gabor", " \n\n------", " \n\nOnly Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:\nalcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.", " \n\n- Alex Levine", " \n\n------", " \n\nMoney can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of\nmisery.", " \n\n- Spike Milligan", " \n\n------", " \n\nUntil I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up.", " \n\n- Joe Namath", " \n\n------", " \n\nYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.", " \n\n- Herbert Henry Asquith", " \n\n------", " \n\nI don't feel old.", " I don't feel anything until noon.", " Then it's time for my nap.", " \n\n- Bob Hope", " \n\n------", " \n\nDon't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you.", " \n\n- Winston Churchill", " \n\n------", " \n\nMaybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear\nout, fall out, or spread out.", " \n\n- Phyllis Diller", " \n\n------", " \n\nBy the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.", "\n\n- Billy Crystal", " \n\n__________________________________________________", " Do You Yahoo!?", " Tired of spam?", "\nYahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around", " \n\nimage_jpg_part", " 52K Download", " \n\nWhat language is talked in Iguazu?", " \n\nportuguese", " spanish", " \n\nGreen Tea Or White Tea?", " \n\nGreen", " \n\nGreen Tea.", " \n\nGreen tea", " \n\nWhat is this Miramar?", " \n\nIt is a place in Argentina lol", " \n\nDoes anyone know any good restaurants in cordoba?", " \n\nNot me sorry.", " \n\nDoes anyone know of any good food in iguazu?", " \n\nNot me sorry.", " \n\nWhich wonderful contact of mine is thumbs upping all my best answers ^^?", " \n\n=)", " \n\nWhat are some Major land forms in Ireland?", " \n\nMountains, cliffs, peat bogs, valleys", " \n\nDo you know the online streaming link for Red FM 93.5 delhi ?", " any format url ?", " \n\nΥes.", " \n\nhow fare of kolkatta?", " \n\nkolkatta is an Indian State.", " \n\nlol... Kolkata is not for sale!!!!!!", " roflmao", " \n\nWhich do you prefer Crab or Shrimp?", " \n\nI like shrimp,fried,grilled,or steamed.", " \n\ncrab", " \n\nshrimp", " \n\nhow much does it cost to join world resorts international?", " \n\ncould not find any info online", " email them at address below", " E-mail:\nmemberservices@worldresortsinternational.com", " m", " \n\nWho is artist Gunther Uecker;explain?", " \n\nhttp://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/GuntherUecker-1930.shtml", " His work", "\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&q=gunther+uecker+biography&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=484l484l0l5093l1l1l0l0l0l0l328l328l3-1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1221&bih=756&sei=XVG5TqrrGoXK2AXG0ry-Bw#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=gunther+uecker+artist&pbx=1&oq=gunther+uecker+&aq=1S&aqi=g1g-S3&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=10219l10219l0l13797l1l1l0l0l0l0l125l125l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=13ddcdc64cbf5fd&biw=1221&bih=756", "\n\nHow much does it cost to buy a Big Mac meal in your area?", " \n\nHere in Indiana I think it's like $3 or $4 for a meal.", " \n\nin n out of the chicago area?", " \n\nwhich burger chain do you think is as good as in n out or better in the chicago\narea besides five guys and smashburger?", " \n\nWhere to buy bodybuilding supplements in Delhi?", " \n\nAny particular shop that you know of AND their number.", " \n\nAtal Pharmacy, Karol Bag.", " \n\nkindly contact laxmi nagar zim in delhi..", " \n\nDo you think there are any koreans in Miramar?", " \n\nHeck there must be at least 1 korean.", " \n\nNo, but I do believe some Koreans reside in the country of HA-ha!", " \n\nCan you use the 'find my phone' feature to track someone else's phone?", " \n\nYou'd need their Apple ID and password, if you had that then yes you can track\nany iPhone.", " \n\nBesides eating good foods, what else do people do in Miramar?", " \n\nWell, they have a variety of sports that they play like basketball, soccer, etc.", "\n\nWell they play the Wii like me :)", " \n\nIs Hank Green Awesome?", " \n\nThe Hank Green I know is hardly awesome.", " He needs a shower, and he picks his\nnose all the time.", " He is at his best when he is doing his Nerd impression...", " \n\nweather in december in Tremblant?", " \n\nTypically it's cold.", " There may or may not be snow, depending on local weather\nconditions.", " In the ski resort areas, there will likely be man-made snow on the\nslopes.", " \n\njay is it necessary to varnish my oil paintings or just leave them be ?", " thx for\nyour ans.?", " \n\nAs in the old days, varnish is often used as a protective film against years of\ndirt, grease, smoke, etc.", " \n\nFun picture websites (:?", " \n\nI'm looking for websites like flickr.com tumblr.com and autocorrects.com but\nones that aren't very common and have a variety of funny pictures!", " Please give\nme lots of links and places to look!", " Thank you (:", " \n\nIfunny.com", " \n\nhow do you mold silicone or rubber into a mermaid tail?", " \n\nCarve one in your chosen medium.", " Make a mold.", " Cast.", " Depending on scale, just buy\na fish and make a mold from that", " They sell these kits in most hobby and craft\nstores.", " \n\nDo you prefer ham, bacon or sausages with your breakfast?", " \n\nWithout a doubt..... bacon! :)", " \n\nthick cut bacon or really good sausages", " \n\nwith my breakfast I like bacon and sausage when I having a big breakfast like a\ngrand slam with pancakes and the works.", " \n\nCan police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off?", " \n\nCan police trace a cell phone even if it is switched off?", " \n\nYeah you gotta burn it..thats the only way", " \n\nYes , they all have secret locator chips , just like gps", " \n\nYes.", " \n\nmazzoni's deli best italian food in phila pa?", " \n\nis mazzoni's deli at 3901 conshocken ave in phila pa really the best italian\nfood in the country???", " because all of the food blogs Ive read say so and I will\ntravel from maryland if thats true", " \n\nyep", " \n\nDinner and dancing in Chicago?", " \n\nI'm under 21+ and looking for a nice place to take my boyfriend out for dinner\nwhere they play music and there is a dance floor.", " It's okay if it's a little\npricier.", " Any good suggestions would really be appreciated.", " \n\nRumba Room", " \n\nCourage the cowardly dog?", " \n\nIn the Episode \"So in Louvre Are We Two\", How many diffrent painting/scupltures\nare their and who are the artists?", " Link to video:\nhttp://www.livevideo.com/video/C8F5BBEC570C4A4DBC326F694D79942A/courage-the-cowardly-dog-so-.aspx", "\n\nYou should really ask this in the art section.", " Theyre probably just drawn for\nthe show anyways.", " \n\nName something you find at a carnival that comes on a stick?", " \n\nCotton Candy", " Corn Dog", " Candy Apple", " Meat Kabob", " \n\nShip on a Stick (Prize at various trivia type contests on board.)", " \n\nAll of those ;D", " \n\nMonkey Brain.", " What country are we talking about?", " I like my Monkey Brain on a\nstick for sure.", " \n\nHow come no one bothers to ask any questions in this section?", " \n\nI mean besides me of course.", " \n\nBecause obviously most people have never even heard of this section.", " \n\nSomeone had to be first.", " I have never been there.", " \n\nwell, I don't ask questions here because I have no clue what \"Iguazu\" is...", " \n\nWhat do you think of Air France?", " \n\nI love Air France!", " Their service is top-notch and I especially love the free\nFrench champagne served even in Economy.", " I also find their food way better than\nmany other airlines.", " Plus you land in a preferential terminal...", " I go out of my\nway to use Air France.", " \n\nexpensive", " \n\nWhat's the difference between Indian and African ringnecks and alexandrine\nparrots? ?", " \n\nI was fixing to buy an indian ringneck, did a bunch of research, (I'm a very\nexperienced bird owner, macaws, cockatoos, amazons),", " And noticed two other\nbreeds that look a lot alike.", " So does anyone know what the difference is?", " Thanks", "\n\nif i preorder a game at gamestop can someone else pick it up for me?", " \n\ni put $5 bucks down for it too.", " \n\nno they wont be able to some gamestops dont check ID for the pre-order so some\nppl can get away with doing this but alot of store want to see your id and/or\nyour reciept of the pre-order", " \n\nHas anyone ever worked for steiner leisure cruises?", " \n\nI'm considering taking a job with Steiner and noticed I have to pay for all my\ntravel.", " Was wondering if anyone knew a rough estimate of how much it costs with\ntravel and training", " \n\nI haven't personally but I know a couple of people who have.", " Wendi has worked\nfor them have a look at her blog.", " \n\nBest POS system in Philadelphia ?", " \n\nWhat is the best pos system I can buy in philadelphia pa?", " I need something\nreliable and good looking.", " \n\nProsperity POS makes the best pos systems.", " I use them for my restaurant and\nalways get compliments on the sleek look of the mac system not to mention how\ngood the support is.", " Do yourself a favor and give them a call.", "\nhttp://www.prosperitypos.com?p=ya", " \n\nWhat are \"good\" speakers?", " \n\nI've been looking at the bose sound dock 10 ive currently got a jvc mini hifi\nsystem, i was wondering what would be a good set of speakers.", " I like music very\nloud and with a lot of bass.", " also i was wondering, is it true that the bigger\nthe speakers are the better.", " thanks", " \n\nB&w.", " Bose is not good", " \n\nUSPS Delivery in Auckland,NZ?", " \n\nI have ordered Bose Headfones worth 300USD.", " They have been shipped using USPS\nPriority Mail International Parcels.", " will i have to pay customs in NZ.", " its a\ngift from my brother.", " why will hav to pay customs if it is a gift...??", " i always\nthought theres no custom charges for gifts.", " \n\nYup.", " \n\nYes,you must pay customs duties.", " \n\n24 hour fast resturants near by?", " \n\nWell theres Mc.Donalds,Taco Bell,Burger King.....", "But my resturant is way better\nthan all of them...and it's quite close.", " It's just up the highway and right\naround the corner....", " \n\nNearby what?", " Loop, North Side, South Side, near suburbs, far suburbs?", " Chicago's\na big area.", " \n\nPORTILLO'S OR WHITE CASTLE! :D", " \n\nNZers: Have you decided who you're going to vote for?", " \n\nAnd has this changed from previous years?", " I'm just curious.", " Bay of Plenty- Are\nyou even old enough to vote?", " hahaha", " \n\nnot sure yet", " \n\nJohn Key, and no", " \n\nMaybe Labour.", " John Key is too busy looking after his rich mates, while the rest\nof us pay.", " Yes, I have usually voted National.", " I do see myself as a conservative", "\n\nArriving in Auckland on a direct flight from Canada.?", " \n\nWill we be allowed to take duty free bottles onto our connecting flight to\nChristchurch?", " In our hand luggage or do we have to put it into our checked\nluggage?", " \n\nYes.", " I don't think it matters", " \n\nWe'll see you on 'Border Patrol'", " \n\nYes you can carry your duty free bottles, and liquids onto your connection as it\nis only a domestic flight :-)", " \n\nStudying in Quebec,Canada?", " \n\nIf I went into the \"pre-university\" direction with business administration in\nmind.", " Say after I finished those 2 years and I found a job.", " would I be able to\ngo back to school after a year break at a university to get a Bachelors degree\nin business administration?", " Any information would help.", " Thank you", " \n\nYou should be able to no problem.", " Universities will take you whatever age you\nare.", " \n\nWhat would you call the device that hold up your photography backdrop?", " \n\nand where can I find them?", " \n\nBackground support systems.", " Or background stands", " buy them in any good\nphotography supplies shop.", " \n\nframe", " thumbs down???", " odd considering this is a search on the net:", "\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=backdrop+frame&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&sout=1", "\n\nBackdrop stand.", " Google the term or find photography supplies websites and put it\nin the search box (or look for studio equipment supplies).", " \n\nout of carnival, royal caribbean, and norweigan (cruises) which is the best and\nwhy?", " \n\nI prefer Royal Caribbean out of all these.", " There is so much to do onboard.", " The\nnew NCL Epic does sound amazing, although I haven't sailed on her yet.", " \n\nNone of the above.", " \n\nOf THESE three, it's a toss-up between Royal and Carnival.", " NCL is a notch below\neither, in terms of quality and service.", " \n\nWill USB cell phone chargers still charge even if they're hooked up to a\ncomputer that is turned off?", " \n\nMine does.", " I have the HTC Evo.", " \n\ndepends on the computer", " if the computer is completely shut off, the USB ports\naren't getting power, so they won't charge your phone", " many PCs have sleep &\ncharge now, that allow the PC to go into sleep mode, and still allow the USB\nports to charge things like phones.", " \n\nwhat is a good slogan for an Argentinian restaurant?", " \n\n\"In Argentina, beef is revered, respected, and praised.", " Come see how we continue\nthis tradition.\"", " \n\nA taste of Argentina.", " Here are some articles that discuss the details of slogan\nwriting.", " Why certain slogans work and why some don't.", " You will find these\nhelpful in writing a new slogan.", " A Look at Slogans -\nhttp://www.small-business-software.net/look-at-slogans.htm", " Unique Selling\nProposition -\nhttp://www.small-business-software.net/unique-selling-proposition.htm", " Goodluck!", "\n\nNo Mad Cow --- Guaranteed!", " \n\nWhich Compact System Camera Should I Get...?", " \n\nI'm looking for a camera that has really good zoom during a video and pictures;\nand good quality pictures /videos", " I'm planning on buying a compact system camera\nat best buy ; so please list the one(s) I should purchase.", " Also how much do\ncompact system cameras drop on boxing day?", " **and i can upload my pictures and\nvideos on the computer (facebook)", " \n\nhave a look at sony wx10", " \n\nI need creative art ideas?", " \n\nWhat are some cool ideas for making a postor usint the word MAD on a white paper\nin a weird or artsy way?", " The actual word \"MAD\" has to be on the cover and\nincorporated into the image.", " \n\nMAD means crazy, or angry, so you do a lot with it, i would put a gorrilla\nscreaming , just the face, and just throw in a lot of brushes fifferent colors,\nmake it look artistic.", " use photoshop.", " \n\ntttthhhhh Madonna!", " \n\nwhat is the fall of hanoi?", " \n\ncan anyone tell me exactly what it is and what took place?", " I cant find any\ninformation about it", " \n\nWhen the French returned to Indochina at the end of WW II the Viet Minh were in\ncontrol of the Red River Delta.", " They chased the Communists out of the capital\n(Hanoi) and retook control.", " Is that what you are referring to?", " You need to check\nout the French Indochina War (1946-1954) not the Vietnam War (1957-1975).", " \n\nDoes a pacman absolutely need a uv lamp?", " \n\nOr maybe something humid or heat?", " \n\nI assume you are talking about a pacman frog.", " No, technically they do not need a\nUVB light; they are nocturnal.", " However, it certainly wouldn't hurt if you wanted\nto provide one.", " A pacman frog will need a heat source that creates a basking\ntemp in the upper 80's F for at least 10 - 12 hours a day.", " don't forget to use a\ncalcium supplement twice a week; captive reptiles are prone to calcium\ndeficiency.", " \n\nsurprise romantic cheap date night san francisco?", " \n\nlooking for a surprise spot to take my bf.", " a bar would be nice but also\nsomething extremely unique.", " i would like to have one of those super random\nsurprisingly nice nights out...suggestions?", " o and the cheaper the better (we are\ntrying to save money now, sooo..thatd b helpful) thanks", " \n\nWhy not put together a bottle of champagne, a picnic and have a date on Treasure\nIsland.", " Cheap, great view, time together.", " \n\nThere are plenty of cheap restaurants.", " Try SanFranGuide.com", " \n\nmy lhasa apso hind legs are not working?", " \n\nfor the past few days she has been shivering and wont eat but she could walk now\nher hid legs are not working but she is back to her self .. what should i do .?", "\n\njust pray for her ad=nd try to hlep your dog and do some physical therapy on the\nhind legs and take her to the vet and ig it costs a whole lot ask hlep from you\nfriends and family adn since shes not eating feed her by hand", " \n\nTake her to the vet.", " \n\nobviously take her to the vet", " \n\nHow much would it cost for me to take me and three friends to Andiamos\nrestaurant for dinner?", " \n\nHi, i'm looking to take myself and my best friend and his girl friend and this\ngirl i really like out to dinner for my birthday.", " I really want to go to\nandiamos for my birthday and i was just wondering how much it would cost for the\nfour of us to eat there", " \n\nHave no idea what kind of restaurant this is or where it is.", " Best count on $50\nper person no matter what.", " Or more if you have drinks.", " \n\nI need suggestions for San Francisco restaurants with good food and good\ncatering service.?", " \n\nI need suggestions on restaurants in San Francisco with good food and good\ncatering service.", " I have two upcoming events one is for 200 and another is for\n21.", " American Food, Soul Food, Mexican, Italian, and Chinese are the options.", "\nHere is a great list of different restaurants in San Francisco", "\nhttp://sanfranguide.com/restaurants/", " \n\nwell since i dont know your budget, i recommend Hakka Restaurant for chinese\nfood", " its cheap and its good!", " prime ribs have very good food but its super\nexpensive", " try yelp.com", " \n\nhow many ounces in a pint in ireland?", " \n\nDepends of what.", " Ounces measure weight, pints measure volume.", " If you mean fluid\nounces, 20, as opposed to the 16 in America.", " An Irish pint is larger than a US\none.", " \n\n20 fluid ounces in a Pint in Ireland", " as R-G said, there are only 16 in an\nAmerican one.", " Know this well because I remember an 'irish' pub in the town in\ncanada i grew up in used to advertise the cheapest pints of guinness in town,\nbut they served them in american sized pints.", " That place didn't stay open too\nlong :D", " \n\nneed help finding irish music?", " \n\ni love The Script and know there from iraland.", " i would like more bands like them\npleasseee", " \n\nThe thing about The Script is they do not sound that Irish, I was surprised to\nhear they were from Dublin.", " Well if you are interested, I suggest you have a\nlook at General Fiasco, Two Door Cinema Club and Wallis Bird.", " I think you will\nbe pleased.", " \n\nI doubt you will get a sensible answer in the \"TRAVEL\" section.", " \n\n*Ireland", " And there's nothing distinctly Irish about them.", " You'd find similar\nbands to them that are from the UK and US.", " \n\nWomen's rain coat...where can I find one?", " \n\nI'm going on a trip to Europe soon, and I need to find a good, quality raincoat.", "\nI've looked and looked, but cannot find one anywhere!", " I would prefer a simple,\nfitted black one.", " It actually needs to be relatively waterproof - the last one I\nbought had me soaked in anything more than light/moderate rain.", " I'll pay up to\n200-250 for it if I have to.", " \n\nLook on the debenhams website", " in the craghoppers section", " they do some good\nwaterproof raincoats", " heres the link:", "\nhttp://www.debenhams.com/women/craghoppers#catalogId=10001&lid=//productsuniverse/en_GB/product_online0Y/categories%3C0productsuniverse_186610/brand_description0.000000E+000craghoppers0/categories%3C0productsuniverse_18661_186820&ps=default&sfn=Categories&sfv=Coats+%26amp0+jackets&storeId=10001", "\n\nI have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I\npause it while recording?", " \n\nI have a Kodak Camera (10.2 Megapixels)... Kodak AF 5x OPTICAL LENS... how do I\npause it while recording?", " \n\nYou don't... there's no such thing as \"pause\" in digital recording.", " That's\nbecause of the buffer that holds the data until it's ready to be recorded to the\nmemory card.", " When you press the button to stop recording the data is moved from\nthe buffer to the memory card - no pause.", " All you can do is take each section\n(individual video) and edit them together on software.", " \n\nI have a Nacho Libre question.?", " \n\nWhen nacho is driving to cure the influenza guy does he say to the man with the\ncow i like your blouse or I like your cow because my friend thinks he says I\nlike your blouse, but that wouldn't make sense.", " I know its in the wrong\ncatagory, but still, I wrote this question for a reason, not for you to\ncritisize me.", " \n\nOkay, FIRST, you have posted a question about an American movie, set in Mexico,\nin the Dining Out in Argentina category.", " Do you get what's wrong with this\npicture?", " No...that's all.", " No second.", " \n\nNacho Libre is suppose to be inspired in Mexicans, not in Argentineans.", " \n\nis there any good places to get an ice-cream sundae from in Invercargill New\nZealand?", " \n\nso i live in Invercargill New Zealand and i want to know if there are any good\nplaces to buy an ice-cream sundae from other than mc donalds lol", " Fast food\nchains, supermarkets, dairies", " \n\nyou live in NZ and you eat McDonalds ice cream?", " you're mad!", " Any of the tip-top\nplaces have great ice-cream, get them to mix it up.", " \n\nany Ice Cream In NZ no matter where as New Zealand has the best bl**dy ice cream\nin the world I was in NZ for a few weeks had some Ice Cream and really enjoyed\nit I will go back just to eat some Ice Cream", " \n\nbest burger chain in the Chicago area?", " \n\nwhich is the best burger chain in the chicago metro area like for example burger\nking portillos white castle which one do like the best?", " Red Robin.", " Onion Rings\nare great and the fries are endless.", " Fudruckers.", " \n\nidk ur choice", " \n\nChain?", " Does 5 make a chain?", " Hackney's has a great burger formula that started\nabout 80 years ago.", " There are currently 5 locations:", " http://www.hackneys.net/", "\nThe latest spot for a real Hackney's is Printers' Row:", "\nhttp://www.hackneysprintersrow.net/", " See what DD&D showed at the original place\non Harms Rd in Glenview:", " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lDF0XU3NI", " Along with\nthe great burger try a brick of onion rings if you are with someone.", " Otherwise a\n1/2 brick will be fine:", " http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellybeanjill13/532522805/", "\n\nMy dog has threw up yellow bile for two days but does not have dhirea.", " What\nshould I do?", " \n\nI've tried bland white rice but he wont eat anything.", " What could it be?", " Should I\nbe concerned?", " \n\nCall a vet would be a good idea with a sick dog", " \n\nVERY CONCERNED!!!", " plz bring your dog to the vet ASAP!!!", " esp if not eating - if\nit had only happened once and could get him to eat right away - it could have\nbeen you missed his meal time and he needed to eat - since it sounds like it has\nhappened several times over two days - then he may have gotten int to something\nthat needs to be attended to RIGHT AWAY!!!", " or has acquired some type of disease\nand that too needs to be attended to...", " \n\nwhy are there two statues of David?", " \n\ni doing a research paper on donatello and i notice that there are two statues of\nDavid, a bronze one and marble one.", " Michelangelo made the marble one but why did\nhe do another if Donatello had already made one?", " so im a little confused , why\nis there two statues of David?", " \n\ndifferent generations , the donatello is of a boy david as a young sheep Herder,\nthe Michelangelo is the grown up man david as slayer and king", " \n\nBecause he liked making statues of David! :D", " \n\nObviously, he should have been arrested and jailed - imagine making a statue or\npainting on the same subject as another artist - clearly insulting and\ndisrespecting - wasted time that could have been used making a statue with\nclothes on.", " \n\nName of specific Hibachi restaurant in Chicago?", " \n\nI have a friend out in Chicago this week, and I am trying to remember the name\nof an awesome hibachi style restaurant i visited while out there a couple years\nago.", " I think it was in the Lincoln Square area but don't quote me on that.", " It's\n'gimmick' was that you fill your bowl cafeteria-style from raw ingredients and\nleave it on the counter with a chopstick listing your table number on it.", " Four\nguys around a large square open hibachi cook your food, and when it's finished a\nserver brings it to your table.", " All-you can-eat style deal.", " It was pretty epic\nas I remember and would love to send my friend there.", " Any help?", " \n\nThat is Flat Top Grill", " \n\nWhat's the best time to start a trip around the world?", " \n\nWell,I'm about to graduate in less then a year,and I'm planning to study medical\nschool.", "But since in my country it lasts for minimum 6 years,and I want to go\naground the world,what do you think,should I do it before or after medical\nschool?", " \n\nIf you can afford to go before, then by all means, GO.", " If you have to wait, due\nto financial reasons, then wait.", " I would much rather put it off until I can\nafford to have the vacation of a lifetime as I'm sure this trip is intended to\nbe.", " Airfare alone will be incredibly expensive so make sure you have the money\nand of course free time to take your time and have a great time.", " \n\ncanon t2i stops working?", " \n\nMy canon t2i stops working at times as in the power bottom is switched to \"on\"\nbut the camera does not respond to any function.", " the camera only begins to work\nagain when i take out the battery and put it back in.", " did anyone have this\nissue?", " is it worthy to send in for warranty repair?", " thanks!", " \n\nSounds simple enough to me .", " Your camera isn't acting normally, you got\nwarranty, let Canon deal with it.", " \n\nI would agree.", " I shoot a t1i and haven't had such an issue.", " I also agree it's\nunder warranty so get in touch with Canon.", " It sounds like a firmware issue and\nthe camera requires a re-boot just like what happens in a computer - needs a\nre-start from time to time but it shouldn't be happening in a camera.", " Call Canon", "\n\nCheapest airline ticket from Raleigh to Philippines?", " \n\nI'm going on a vacation to the Philippines in May 2012, and I'm starting from\nRaleigh, NC (RDU Airport).", " Which airlines should I look into and when should I\nbuy my ticket?", " \n\nThe sooner the better but I'd probably wait until after the holidays.", " Use\nTravelocity or Expedia and see what you come up with.", " My friend goes to the\nPhils every 6 months or so and she has found that Korean Air has had the\ncheapest fares lately.", " Raleigh to Chicago, Chicago to Seoul and then Seoul to\nManila.", " Compare compare compare - that's the key to getting the best deal.", " \n\nAsk a travel agent!", " \n\nOn my last 6 trips here from the states I used \"Fly genesis\" based in Seattle,\nWa.", " They gave the best service & rates I could find.", " \n\nWhat is the best place to get discounts for San Francisco restaurants?", " \n\nI just moved into the city, and I'm wondering if there's a place I can get good\ndeals on restaurants here.", " I don't want to have to deal with those deal-a-day\nwebsites like Groupon.", " I just want a simple way to get a good deal to whatever\nRestaurant I want, whenever I want.", " Any suggestions would be really helpful,\nthanks!", " \n\nI usually use ZebraKlub.", " They basically buy daily deals from Groupon, Living\nSocial, and all sorts of other places.", " So you can pretty much get whatever deal\nyou want anytime.", " Most of the deals let you eat for 500ff, and some of the deals\nare even free.", " If you want to eat cheaply without worrying about all those daily\ndeal emails every day, ZebraKlub should be perfect for you.", " \n\nWhere can I go on a first date (adults)?", " \n\nLooking for something on the casual side and we want it to be fun.", " \n\nMay seem a little silly, but, taking a long ride on the Metra system or the \"L\"\nsystem is a great way to see the city and sites without spending a fortune.", " Or\nhow about visiting the Chicago Botanical Gardens and see the change of colors\nand enjoy the air, They also have many inside exhibits you might enjoy, food is\npretty good to.", " \n\ngo 2 starbucks dont spend more than 20 bucks :)", " \n\nBike ride in the park, followed by coffee.", " You are busy, you don't have to sit\nface to face to try", " to make convo, it's short, so if things go great, you can", "\nextend, and if you want to end it, you just say bye,", " gotta go.", " \n\nI decided to get a 150 gal aquarium, what can I fill it with?", " \n\nI was thinking cichlids?", " Possibly a freshwater tank with a ton of different\nspecies in there.", " I've never kept cichlids though.", " I know saltwater is a\npossibility, can you give me a possible stocking option for that too?", " I'll\nchoose the one that sounds the best after looking into all the fish :)", " \n\nHere is the stocking for my 150 gallon tank i upgraded it to 200 at the weekend\nbecause of the clownloach A 200 gallon with 6 pairs of Breeding Angel fish fire\nmouth honey Gouramis 5 8 inch clownloach a Krib and 5 1 inch clown loach with 16\ncory cats 5 Australian Rainbows", " If you took out the clown loach it would make a\nnice 150 gallon tank.", " \n\nfill it with water :) lol", " \n\nfor a tank that size i would suggest oscars or piranha every time awesome fish!!", "\n\nnever response the phone call", " \n\nGreat deals, great pizza!", " \n\nGreat gym and great services.", " \n\nDr. White is the best!", " \n\nGood clean store nice car wash", " \n\nIt's well cool. :)", " \n\nAwesome service with a smile :)", " \n\nWHAT A GREAT DEAL THANK YOU", " \n\nThe pancakes are to die for.", " \n\nBest fried shrimp in the state!", " \n\nFast and great service on pool covers", " \n\nFriendliest place I have ever stayed!", " \n\nThe best pilates on the Gold Coast!", " \n\nIt taste better than In and Out....", " \n\nGood local steakhouse, I recommend it!", " \n\nDessert was good.", " Rest was too oily.", " \n\nit was a little to high dollar for me", " \n\nVery Informative website with alot of good work", " \n\nwow wow wow.", " the bast cab in minneapolis", " \n\nGreat food and nice people very pleasant experience.", " \n\nTire Gooroo", " \n\nDavid Bundren is the Tire GooRoo.", " \n\ngood", " \n\nit is a cute little nice and quiet library", " \n\nthey recovered the pics geeksquad deleted.", " many thanks", " \n\nlocal crew!!!", " home team - thanks 4 playin!!!", " \n\nGreat Service, Thanks Don.", " Nice Top Lights.", " \n\nBest ceviche that I'd had so far! :)", " \n\nA very nice park.", " The architecture is simplz splendid.", " \n\nthe service is quick.", " and the people are sweet :)", " \n\nYeah they ruined some shirts I had too.", " Horrible!", " \n\nvery reasonable prices.", " quick in & out.", " Friendly service.", " \n\nThis is my favorite coffee store.", " Just ask American Express", " \n\nToo many kids, too many knifings, too many taserings.", " \n\nThank you for fixing the leak on my bathroom!", " Thanks!", " \n\nthis is the worst Sams club I've ever been to", " \n\nGot to love this place.", " Everyone is relaxed and having fun!!!", " \n\nFriendly service.", " Attentive to the needs of customer.", " Thanks again!", " \n\nThis place is awesome", " \n\nGreat work, good price.", " Definetely going back", " \n\nGreat product, great service!!!", " \n\nInstalled Biometrics and Got Excellent Service.", " \n\nFeels like you are in Brooklyn, but people watching is entertaining.", " \n\ngreen curry and red curry is awesome!", " remember to ask for extra vege", " \n\nUsually very quick and timely.", " Doctor Bogomilsky knows her stuff too.", " \n\nThe best Supermarket in Bay Ridge have everything what a customer needs.", " \n\nWonderful Wonderful People!", " \n\nI refer to VNHH often and love you guys.", " \n\nDid a great job of removing my tree in Conyers.", " Thanks Southland.", " \n\nNice little locally owned greek bar and grill.", " Good food.", " Great wings!", " \n\nDon't bother.", " It's impossible to understand how this place has survived.", " \n\nThe finest German bedding and linens store.", " Quality and service come first here.", "\n\nPlace is legit.", " We got upgraded to a corner suite!", " Room was amazing.", " \n\nhard to forgive such an awful margarita and steep prices but the food can be\ngood", " \n\nLinda", " \n\nI would highly recommend Landscape by Hiro.", " Excellent customer service and\nquality work.", " \n\nI love this place lots of people to talk to and school is across the street!", " \n\nDrove all the way over from the highway... closed at 7.", " Who does that?!", " \n\nYou are the only one auto glass repair shop in the area I would count on.", " \n\nGreat job on my roof and the pricing was fair.", " Will use again in the future.", " \n\nKyle with Bullwark", " \n\nGreat job!", " Listened to my problem and took care of it.", " Thanks!", " \n\nAWESOME food!", " Make sure to put OILY sauces on your food to make it moist!", " YUM", " \n\nThis is a Ralph's", " \n\nI just called this number and it is a Ralph's Market.", " \n\nHospitality.!", " \n\nVery good hospitality offered.!", " Keep it up.", " - Shree Ghatkopar Bhatia Mitra\nMandal", " \n\nClose to my house, this is the only reason I would go to this particular QT.", " \n\nMens and Boys Barbers, on the number 9 Bus route.", " Ladies room, Open Sundays", " \n\nThis is a great place to get a permit", " \n\nI had to get a permit here, it was cool", " \n\nbest", " Best pedi mani Ive ever had.", " Darla is amazing, I would recoment her to\nanyone.", " \n\nYou guys do everything wonderful!", " We honestly cannot think of even 1 thing we\ndidn't like!", " \n\nkudos to Allentown Post Office staff", " \n\nThe staff in Allentown are friendly, helpful and a delight to know..", " \n\namazing, fun, great beers.", " service could be a little better but its an all round\ngood place", " \n\nAmazing service!", " \n\nI just had the best experience at this Kal Tire location.", " Courteous, fast and\nfriendly.", " \n\nQuality has fallen over the years, but still the best go-to burger place on the\nEast Bay.", " \n\nSTAY AWAY", " \n\nHorrible service.", " Absolutely rude.", " Did services I asked them NOTto do and was\nstill charged.", " \n\nHighly recommended", " \n\nMy 8 year old daughter loves this place.", " The best climbing club around.", " Hooray\nfor Craggy.", " \n\nThe food is excellent, but very overpriced.", " How do you run a cafe, with no\nrefills on coffee-?", " \n\ntelephone number", " \n\nthe telephone number is incorrect - our new mobile number is 07551310002 or\nlandline 01634 710033.", " thank you", " \n\nthe team at barton car wash was very friendly .", " and did great job .", " i was very\npleased with the service.", " \n\nI appreciate the quick, good service and the reasonable prices and will\ndefinitely use American Pride Irrigation & Landscaping again.", " \n\nI like I Move CA - Los Angeles Movers, they moved me before, but this time they\nwere awesome :)", " \n\nPoor Taste", " \n\nThere is no lower rating for Noonan's Liquor, owners and employees.", " A negative\nnumber is not available.", " CLH", " \n\nVery friendly people offering a brilliant service.", " Sent scented flowers home\ninstead of postcards.", " Recommend you call in for a look.", " \n\nWorst experience ever like a sardine can and the bartender downstairs is the\nrudest person I have ever met.", " DONt Go here", " \n\nRestaurant on top was renovated, food was decent, price was way to high for\nDuluth for quality, new decor seems tacky", " \n\nRude and Untrustworthy", " \n\nThese guys took Customer Service 101 from a Neanderthal.", " They are especially\nrude to women.", " Do not trust them!", " \n\nGood food, good location, and good prices.", " But the servers don't pay attention\nto you whether it's busy or not.", " \n\nOne of the better vegetarian sandwiches I've had in Seattle.", " And from a place\nthat specializes in high quality meat, too.", " \n\nOld time grocery, best steaks I have ever had!", " Great meats that are already\ncooked, easy to take home for dinner.", " \n\nInford Media", " \n\nMedia, Software, Fun and Games, Website design, Web Promotion, B2B, Business\nPromotion, Search Engine Optimization.", " \n\nRelish", " \n\nA Top Quality Sandwich made to artistic standards.", " The best darlington has to\noffer in contemporary sandwicheering.", " Drum and bass as standard.", " \n\nWill never use again.", " Very rude and unprofessional.", " The workers sped up and down\nthe street with no mind to the small children playing.", " \n\nipad reiew", " \n\nthey are the best orthodontics in the world.", " i went there since i was four.", " now\ni will have really straight teeth.", " \n\nPam the Pom", " \n\nFantastic couple of days.", " Breathtaking views and fabulous accommodation.", " Nothing\ntoo much trouble for Ian, thanks for a great stay.", " \n\nDaniel and his assistant both did a great job.", " Very professional and great\nresults.", " Many thanks from myself and all of our wedding guests!", " \n\nwhat a mindblowing servicing", " \n\nThey treat there employees with respect and concern and expect that they will\nextend the same politeness to there customers.", " \n\nabsolutely fantastic experience getting my iphone upgraded at Zion ...", " Sheer\ncontrast to getting it done at karol bagh which is done under the wooden plank", " \n\nDecent place to stay, I would stay there again.", " Rooms were clean, plenty of\nthings to do near hotel, and safe part of town.", " \n\nBest Electrician in Florence", " \n\nI have been using Steele Electric for years.", " They have always done a great job\nat a reasonable price.", " Highly recommended.", " \n\nNot impressed.", " Overpriced and the doctor acted arrogant and rushed at a time\nwhen there was very few clients in the facility.", " I won't return.", " \n\nA thoroughly comprehensive service; excellent communication and best of they are\ntransparent with their fee (ie nothing is simply implied or assumed).", " \n\nI gave Dr. Rohatgi 2 stars because her assistant was very pleasant.", " However, I\ndid not find her very helpful and her receptionist was rude.", " \n\nExtremely greasy.", " Hit or miss on the service.", " My fries weren't fully cooked last\ntime I went there.", " Pretty spendy for really not great quality", " \n\nThe management and staff are superb.", " I worked with Sam Mones who took great care\nof me.", " This is by far the best run dealership in Miami.", " \n\nThe company gets busy but you never have to wait long because they ARE\norginizied, so you are in, out, and paid well for your scrap", " \n\nWinning Attorney!", " \n\nThe only 10.0 \"Perfect Score\" AVVO Rated Attorney I Have Ever Met.", " I Highly\nRecommend, The Law Offices Of Dale Gribow!!", " \n\nSanctuary is amazing!", " \n\nSanctuary serves delicious, somewhat healthy food in a great restaurant/fast\nfood style.", " The employees are really friendly.", " And they deliver!", " \n\nWhat a Preschool!", " \n\nIf you want the best for your child, don't hesitate in visiting this wornderful\nschool.", " This is the very best in the Gables.", " \n\nWhat a Dump!", " \n\nThe food is terrible.", " The place smells and the owner is very very rude!", " I could\ngo on and on!", " Just don't go there.", " \n\nhouse closing", " \n\nMrs. Tolchin provided us with excellent service and came with a great deal of\nknowledge and professionalism!", " Her flexibility and accessibility made for an\neasy closing.", " \n\nFood is often expired so check the dates every time!", " Also more often than not\nyou end up with a healthy dose of nasty rude attitude from the employees!", " \n\nNo complaints", " \n\nI have no complaints about the service I received.", "This man was polite,\nprofessional, clean and quick.", " I never felt worried and walked away satisfied.", " \n\nTHE TEACHING THERE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", " ALL OF THE\nTEACHERS THERE ARE SO MEAN THEY GET MAD AT YOU FOR NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "\nTHIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL IVE BEEN TO!!!!!!", " \n\nStaten Island Computers", " \n\nSuperior work - always comes through when we need him.", " We have tried many\ndifferent computer people until now - we will stick with Qualitech Computers!!!", "\n\nnot impressive enough", " \n\nIt's a fine place, I'm just a little mystified about the Michelin star.", " Nothing\nwrong with it, just better options at this price point.", " \n\nexelent Job", " \"Thank you so much for the superior job well done.", " We love\neverything about the fence.", " You company and services will be recommended by us\nto everyone.\"", " \n\nAn Hour Of Prego Bliss!", " \n\nI schedule my weekly appointment here just to get a chance to lie comfortably on\nmy tummy.", " And the massages are heavenly!", " Very friendly place.", " \n\nLove Hop City", " \n\nThis place is great!", " Craig and Nate are wonderful.", " I know now where to get all\nof my wine and beer.", " No need to go to a grocer again.", " \n\nExcellent energy efficiency", " \n\nCompact's Corona dryers remove at least twice as much water as the previous\ndryers, allowing a production increase of over 10% and a significant energy\nsaving.", " \n\nWe would like to thank our emergency plumbers who visted our shop in Morningside\nRoad today.", " A fast service, saved a bad situation getting alot worse.", " many\nthanks 2scompany...", " \n\nThe best Thai food I've ever had in Australia, very fresh and so much favor of\nauthentic Thai .", " The restaurant is the most beautiful thai restaurant in\nGeelong... just love it", " \n\nFresh and unic!", " \n\nVery professional, talented, unic and fresh work.", " Paula has an amazing gift for\ncreativity, vision and the ability to combine art to / with commercial purpose.", "\nBravo!", " \n\nOK Food, Slow service", " \n\nThe food was incredibly bland.", " Their Thali was not brought out as described (no\nsaag).", " Expensive for the level of food and the quality of service.", " \n\nFantastic professional service -", " These guys really know their stuff .. they have\nalmost anything you could want in terms of spy and surviellance equipment.", " Truly\njames bond style stuff ... would recommend", " \n\nSo delightful.", " What a group!", " I wouldn't want any other company in my time of\nneed.", " Great people!", " So professional!", " These guys know what they're doing!", " Way to\ngo!", " \n\nTerrible customer service", " \n\nFried rice has NO flavor, it literally taste like water.", " When I tried to return\nit they refused, so I had to leave without a refund and still hungry.", " \n\nwow, the representative went way above and beyond in helping me with my account\nset up.", " i wish the other utilities i had to set up had people to work with like\nthis..", " \n\nBad Service", " \n\nDefinately won't be returning.", " Travelled 40mins after calling to see if a\nproduct was in stock.", " Told that they had plenty.", " Get there and there was\nnothing.", " Not impressed!!!", " \n\nWould not recommend I Was in a fair amount of pain for several weeks.", " his clinic\nis very very dirty he is a real disaster to go totally not organized for every\nstep he take .", " \n\nBest Limo Limousine service in all of Dallas", " \n\nGreat Limos company int he DFW fort Worth Metro area.", " I use their limo services\nfor all of my airport car services and airport transportation needs", " \n\nVery knowledgeable and friendly design build firm.", " They specialize in financial\ninstitutions, medical, and retail projects.", " These guys know what they're doing\nand helped me in all phases of our project.", " \n\nThe waiting staff is really friendly, its like every one knows each other, the\nmanager is really sweet and the food..well no complaints from me.", " Yes, its that\ngood.", " \n\nThey have fresh flowers, lasted a long while in the vase, and the two ladies at\nthe shop know the business well.", " I had no problem with my delivery.", " I will go\nthere again.", " \n\nOut of business?", " \n\nI think this location is no longer in business.", " If you check RecWarehouse.com,\nthey don't list this as a location.", " You'll have to drive 10 miles down 75 to\nAllen.", " \n\nAwesome Landscaping Job", " \n\nMFJ Inc transformed our run down back yard into a place of beauty.", " The work was\ncompleted within one week, and everything was cleaned up on completion.", " Highly\nrecommended landscaper!!!", " \n\nspot on", " \n\nthis kebab shop is one of the best around the meat is good and fresh and the\nchilly sauce is the best, keep them lovely kebabs coming and a happy new year to\nall the staff", " \n\nFeel good", " \n\nI just wanted to try your clinic because I was not totally happy with my current\ntherapist I regularly see.", " Now I've found someone who can manage to do what I\nreally want.", " \n\nWorst Tasting Pizza", " \n\nThis place had the worst tasting pizza I have ever tasted it was possible the\nworst food I've ever eaten.", " I don't recommend this place to anyone or even\nanything to eat.", " \n\nNot so good", " \n\nNot worth the money.", " Bland and over cooked.", " I felt as if I was in an over priced\nOlive Garden.", " I was hoping to have found a regular place to eat.", " But not so.", " \n\nI have used Bright Futures for the last 7 years.", " I have 3 children there and\nthey are the Best.", " They are like family.", " Your children will be taken care of and\nloved by a professional staff.", " \n\nGreat Service Great People", " \n\nBisconti wanted over $300 to fix my laptop and these guys fixed it for $90!", " Call\nthem today!", " Had it fixed within a few days (had to order a part).", " \n\nGreat Manicure", " \n\nThis place offers a great manicure and pedicure.", " My nails looked great for the\nbetter part of 2 weeks!", " Also very friendly and the stylists are not in the \"been\nthere/done that\" mood!", " \n\nFast Service Called them one hour ago and they just left my house five minutes\nago.", " My house already feels fresh and good thanks to the Battery Park Pest I'm\nenjoying my time indoors much better.", " \n\nno feathers in stock!!!!", " I was very upset when I went to Mother Plucker, they\nhad NO FEATHERS and the quality is TERRIBLE.", " I had to dig in a bag to find one\nnice feather, what a joke!", " \n\nGets the Job Done", " \n\nWe have utilized Mr. Pozza and his firm twice now in our family and both times\nhave been very pleased.", " I would not hesitate to use him again or refer him to my\nfamily or friends.", " \n\nFarrell Electric is a very good electrical contractor.", " I'm pleased that someone\nreferred me to them for my commercial business.", " I own a property management firm\nand need a contractor with the credentials that Farrell Electric has.", " \n\nCleanest guesthouse i have been to", " \n\nStayed here for 2 nights.", " The owner was very friendly and helpful.", " The rooms\nwere very clean and the breakfast was excellent.", " Good location and off road\nparking made our stay very convenient.", " \n\nThese guys do great work at VERY reasonable prices.", " I have use them four times\nfor fixing items from pushing out a dent in a bumper to fixing the fender on my\nbeloved Miata.", " I have never been disappointed.", " \n\nDon't waste your money on the jukebox", " \n\nThe bartender is a douchebag and he has a little console behind the bar where he\ncan delete songs he doesn't like, and you end up paying for it.", " Not enough\nseating.", " \n\nspoken english rushi", " \n\ncan ever & never forget the training undergone here which made my life step onto\nthe successful job without any hurdles.", " The staff, material provided, infra\nstructure, environment &low fees totally above the satisfactory mark", " \n\nRubbish", " \n\nTook 1+ hour to deliver to Chatham, hair in food, driver didn't know area.", "\nNoticed a few of these Cookie cutter places opening in Summit and New\nProvidence.", " Stick to Hop Hing, 20 year+ resident.", " \n\nGreat place", " \n\nReally great service and kind staff.", " The haircut was inexpensive and so were the\nsalon services (eyebrows were cheap!).", " It's a nice, relaxed place to get stuff\ndone and relax.", " I plan on going again.", " \n\nAmazing customer service", " \n\nI think the women at this salon know that their business is based primarily from\nreferrals. :)", " They were amazingly hospitable.", " Edit was the best massage\ntherapist I've ever had and I would HIGHLY recommend her!", " \n\ngood outside, bad inside", " \n\nthe apartment only looks good outsize, inside is too bad.", " too many bugs some you\neven never seen before.", " the attitude of some staff is terrible, did not solve\nanything only say i can do nothing.", " \n\ngreat tmobile service", " \n\nI was with verizon and I checked my service with tmobile and it was great so I\nthought I would try tmobile.", " It turned out being very good quality tmobile\nservice and I was happy with the new tmobile phone.", " \n\nWalgreens on University", " \n\nMy pharmacy order is always correct and promptly delivered but the pharmacy\nstaff are always very short with me and don't seem to like answering questions.", "\nClean store, friendly check-out staff up front.", " Good selection.", " \n\nGreat Place!", " \n\nLove this place!!", " Has another store in the st. charles mall.", " Place is next to\ncarval and walmart.", " Dont go to the one by pepco, I got confused!!!", " Bad place.", " Go\nto ATLANTIC WIRELESS!!", " I love them!!!", " \n\nBEST DENTIST EVER -", " \n\nVery fast and efficient service.", " I have had several dentists in my life, but Dr.\nDeters is by far my favorite.", " I never wait in the waiting room more than two\nminutes and the cleanings are quick and painless.", " \n\nThis is a great place to shop.", " I've been a regular customer at this store since\nit opened, and love the fact that all of the employees are friendly locals.", "\nParticularly the lady who operates the front register, she's very kind!", " \n\nAMAZING", " \n\nAbsoul is the greatest donair man on the planet.", " Highly recommended.", " If you\nenjoy amazing things, you must go to World's Finest Donair.", " Lest you be lame!!!", "\nI give this place 11/10.", " 3 thumbs up.", " Bon appetit!", " \n\nGreat quality doors and great quality people!", " The door is easy to use and it\nkeeps the cold out during the winter.", " The sales staff and the installation staff\nwere all easy to get along with.", " I highly recommend Garage Pros to my friends.", " \n\numm...", " \n\nokay, I dont have a review, but why in the hell would you name your business\nsomething that has the initials KKK....is there something behind the scenes at\nthis place?", " Like I'm legitimately concerned at this point...lol", " \n\nFresh and Excellent Quality", " \n\nWe order take out from here all the time and we are never disappointed.", " The food\nis always fresh and delicious.", " It can be a little on the spicy side but just ask\nthem exactly what you want and they are very helpful.", " \n\nI really want to like this place since I work right around the corner.", "\nUnfortunately, I've given it a couple of tries at different times and decided to\nstop going.", " The employees don't really seem to enjoy what they are doing and it\nshows.", " \n\nClass act.", " It was late in the day and I was worried I would get charged an arm\nand a leg and have to wait forever.", " They picked my car up in Yarmouth and towed\nto Bath for a great price.", " Would do business with them again.", " \n\nGreat service", " \n\nWe at R&L Plumbing Services are pleased with your professionalism and the extra\nmile you went to get out computers working correctly, you will be our first call\nif anything happens again and we will refer you to other people with computer\nissues.", " \n\nDon't judge a book by its cover", " \n\nFrom the outside Ichiban looks like it will be terrible.", " This couldn't be\nfarther from the truth.", " The food is amazing, and the prices cannot be beat.", " The\nsushi is great, and they have a great selection.", " \n\nGreat work!", " \n\nThe people at Gulf Coast Siding were very easy and clear to work with.", " They\nwalked me through all the steps involved in the the installation project so that\nthere were no surprises.", " I found them extremely professional and would highly\nrecommend them.", " Thanks", " \n\nNatasha", " \n\nA real pleasure training with Natasha.", " Always professional and reliable,\nsessions are good fun and suitably challenging.", " She really listens to what it is\nyou would like to achieve, and I am very happy with my results.", " I would highly\nrecommend her services.", " \n\nslow service", " \n\nI used to take my cars there all thetime, but management changes hands too\nfrequently, the service has been slow, and they often try to \"add on\" extra\nservices, which sometimes is not needed.", " I dont go there anymore", " \n\nGreat service", " \n\nThese people were so helpful this week and did everything to sort out my\nwindscreen and insurance.", " It was all sorted with no hassle at all and I'm really\ngrateful - they were fab.", " The best customer service I've come across for long\ntime.", " \n\nAbsolutely amazing job!", " \n\nSusanna is the best dress maker/tailor I've ever come across in my whole life!", "\nShe makes every item fit you perfectly.", " She is always so busy, too, which is a\ngood indication of her talent.", " She's the best!", " \n\nteeth", " \n\nthis dentist want to pull the tooth out always.. always wants to do the cheapest\nfor his benefit.. not unless he knows you.", " and hopefully you do not know the\nsame people because he tells others about you payment status.", " Which should be a\nprivate issue", " \n\nI hired this company to unlock my car.", " The price they gave was good so I said\nhey this seems great.", " After they showed up there was a little trouble to get my\ncar unlocked, it took quite a bit of time but the job was well done.", " \n\nBulwark regarding service by Eric", " \n\nJust wanted you to know that Eric came by as scheduled today and sprayed our\nhouse for scorpions.", " He seemed to understand how important it was for us to make\nsure the whole house was sprayed so he took his time.", " Thank you!", " \n\nA TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE!", " I remain unhappy.", " I still have noticeable scarring.", " I\nstill have surgically induced hair loss.", " My results were just AWFUL.", " My post-op\ntreatment was TERRIBLE.", " I wouldn't recommend this place last year, and I\ncertainly wouldn't recommend them this year.", " \n\nHidden Treasure.", " Strip mall asian it is not!", " Go in and you will not think you\nare in Chesapeake.", " The setting feels like a Sushi bar in NYC; small, cozy, but\nwith flair.", " Get great service, fantastic menu, and relax.", " Best in HR so far!", " \n\nExcellent medical care!!!!!!", " Highly recommend", " \n\nI went to this urgent care center and was blown away with their service.", " Finally\na convenient place close to home.", " Wonderful staff and physician.", " Clean and\nsuperb.", " Thanks for the great care!!!!", " Will definitely go back when I need\nmedical care.", " \n\nexcellence in glasgow", " \n\nIv just had my bmw z3 rear window replaced by the guys at kelvin trimmers.", " The\nteam who work there are helpfull, friendly and extremely knowledgeable and will\nhelp you as much as they can with thier years of hands on practice.", " Highly\nrecomended.", " \n\nMy favorite place...", " \n\nMy daughter and I stayed here again from the 7th to the 14th of December.", "yet\nagain it was a great stay from begiinning to end.", "Okay our room was at times\nnoisy but we were in a mega busy city at an extremely busy time of year.", " \n\nA Definite No", " \n\nIncompetent servers, kitchen and management.", " Expect either undercooked or mushy\nfood and lackluster service.", " The investors put big bucks into the building but\nare clueless about what makes a good dining or bar experience.", " Even the least\ndiscriminating diner would know not to eat at Sprecher's.", " \n\nWonderful Atmosphere", " \n\nI have been going there since I was a little girl and love the friendly and\nrelaxing atmosphere.", " Dr. Stiefvater has always been very professional and\nhelpful.", " I would recommend Bayside Chiropractic to anyone who is in need of a\nregular adjustment or is suffering from a chronic condition.", " \n\nChannel Guide", " \n\nBelieve it or not, but the channel guide has been most helpful to my family\nmembers that visit and don't know where to start when it comes to watching\nsatellite tv.", " I just give them guide and they can find anything they need.", "\nThanks again, Directv.", " \n\nMichael helped shoot the majority of my firm's website and we could not have\nbeen happier.", " We went through six photographers to find the right photographers\nthat would represent our firm in the light we wished to and Michael and his team\nmade that happen.", " He's worth every penny.", " \n\nAverage food and deathly slow service", " \n\nI have eaten here several times and everytime the service is slower than slow.", "\nOne time we even left after sitting at the table for 20 minutes and not being\ngreeted with a drink order.", " Ridiculous.", " There must be a better mexican place in\nRockland.", " \n\nI am in love with the giant plate of nachos!", " Last time I went however, my beer\nwas warm and the service was so-so.", " I get that careless teenager kind of\ntreatment from some of their staff...perhaps they should hire more serious\nadults to help serve/cook.", " \n\nnice friendly local bagel place", " \n\nthere might be bigger and more well known bagel places in the area but Family\nBagels are nice people, small shop and incredibly friendly.", " While other may be\nok waiting in line at Town Bagel we are happy with the quality and service we\nget at Family Bagels", " \n\nVery Mediocre donuts!", " \n\nThe Donuts were very over proofed, making them stale and bready.", " The service was\nfriendly and fast, but this just doesnt make up for the lack-luster product.", " We\ntried 4 different style of donuts, they were all the same when it came to\nquality.", " \n\na staple!", " \n\nI live in the neighborhood and this place is one of my favorites for a tasty,\nquick and inexpensive meal.", " Branch out and try something other than the Pad\nThai, the curries are fantastic.", " Fast and friendly service, they know my order\nwhen I walk in the door!", " \n\nOn time, Clean and very nice", " \n\nI called over the weekend due to clogged kitchen sink.", " Scheduled appointment for\n8:30 Monday morning.", " Rich was here before the scheduled time.", " He was very clean,\nvery nice to work with and gave a very reasonable price.", " HIGHLY recommend.", "\nthanks Rich", " Seth K.", " \n\nDeep tissue massage helps with pain in neck and shoulders", " \n\nSeth provides deep tissue massage which has significantly reduced the pain in my\nneck and shoulders and added flexibility and movement back to the area.", " He\nlistens and is excellent in diagnosing, addressing and explaining the specific\nissues and suggesting exercises to use."]}
{"id": "en_gum-ud-test", "source": "UD_English-GUM/en_gum-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "en", "text": "The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America:\nResults from a nationally representative sample of adults \n\nIntroduction. \n\nPersonal experiences of discrimination and bias have been the focus of much\nsocial science research. [1 - 3] Sociologists have explored the adverse\nconsequences of discrimination [3 – 5]; psychologists have examined the mental\nprocesses that underpin conscious and unconscious biases [6]; neuroscientists\nhave examined the neurobiological underpinnings of discrimination [7 – 9]; and\nevolutionary theorists have explored the various ways that in-group / out-group\nbiases emerged across the history of our species. [10] In many respects,\nresearchers already possess a wealth of knowledge concerning the origins and\nconsequences of discrimination and bias. [11] \n\nWhat also should not be lost in discussion of discrimination is the growing push\nto implement social policy aimed at reducing the occurrence of discriminatory\npractices. Mandatory diversity trainings in professional settings, for example,\nare intended to reduce bias in the workplace by increasing the awareness of\nemployees regarding the challenges facing minority group members. [12] Indeed,\nthe implementation of certain policies is rooted in the assumption that\ndiscrimination and biases are, at least to some appreciable amount, present in\nmodern society. \n\nEven so, estimates of the prevalence of perceived discrimination remains rare\n(see [13 – 14]). At least one prior study by Kessler and colleagues [15],\nhowever, using measures of perceived discrimination in a large American sample,\nreported that approximately 33% of respondents reported some form of\ndiscrimination (see also, Gibbons et al. [4]). The current study seeks to build\non this research by estimating the prevalence of discrimination experiences\namong a large, nationally representative sample of adults from the United\nStates. Additionally, the analysis address the perceived reasons for reported\ndiscrimination experiences. \n\nReason for discrimination. \n\nAll respondents who indicated they were discriminated against — specifically,\nthose who responded with sometimes or often to the perceived discrimination\nmeasure described above — were asked the following question: \n\n“What do you think was the main reason for these experiences?” Respondents were\nallowed to choose one response from 11 categories. For the present analysis,\nthese responses were recoded into nine mutually exclusive categories capturing\nthe following options: \n\nrace / ancestry / skin color; \n\ngender; \n\nage; \n\nreligion; \n\nheight or weight; \n\nsexual orientation; \n\neducation or income; \n\nphysical disability; \n\nand other. \n\nThe following categories from the original questionnaire were collapsed into one\ncategory for the analysis: race; ancestry or national origin; and shade of skin\ncolor. Additionally, because this question was only asked of respondents who\nreported prior discrimination experiences, the built-in skip pattern resulted in\na large number of cases scored as missing (legitimate skip). \n\nRespondent race. \n\nBecause a race variable is not available from the Wave 4 interviews, we use the\nracial category reported by the respondent during the Wave 1 interview. Wave 1\nrace — rather than, say, Wave 3 race — was used to preserve case counts. The\nlogic is that (nearly) all Wave 4 respondents appeared in the Wave 1 sample, but\nnot all would have been interviewed at Wave 3 due to differential patterns of\ntemporary attrition. Respondents were asked to indicate their race from among\nthe following categories: White; Black or African American; Hispanic; American\nIndian or Native American; and Asian or Pacific Islander. Respondents were\nprovided the opportunity to select more than one race, and those who did were\nasked a follow-up question regarding which category best described their racial\nbackground. In the current study, those respondents who indicated more than one\nrace were coded as “mixed race”. \n\nDemographic variables. \n\nTo provide information on the analytical sample as a whole, two additional\ndemographic variables are included. First, age is a continuous measure created\nby subtracting the year of the respondents' birth (obtained from Wave 1) from\nthe year of the interview at Wave 4. Second, sex was dichotomously coded based\non the self-reported sex of the respondent at Wave 4 (0 = female and 1 = male).\n\nAnalytical plan. \n\nOur exploratory study included three basic steps. First, summary statistics of\nthe study variables and racial categories were produced. Second, we examined the\nrelative proportions of the two discrimination experience measures across each\nracial category. Finally, we assessed the distribution of reported reasons for\ndiscrimination across the racial categories. In order to examine potential\nbivariate associations, the adjusted F statistic (design-based F) was employed\nas it corrects for a complex sample design such as that used in the Add Health.\n[21] More specifically, when analyzing weighted sample data employing the svy\nsuite of commands in Stata the conventional Pearson χ2 statistic test of\nindependence is converted into “an Fstatistic with noninteger degrees of freedom\nby using a second-order Rao and Scott (1981 [22], 1984 [23]) correction”. [24]\nThe p-value associated with the design-based F is thus more accurate (than the\nassociated with the χ2 statistic) given the adjustments and calculations take\ninto account the weighted nature of the data. This final step also included an\nexamination of the relative distribution of racial categories across the various\nreported reasons for discrimination. As noted earlier, all analyses were\nweighted according to the survey weight provided by the Add Health research\nstaff and standard errors were corrected for the clustering and stratification\nthat defined the sampling strategy. Thus, all estimates reported here can be\nconsidered nationally representative of the United States. \n\n2. GUJJOLAAY EEGIMAA, ITS SPEAKERS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS \n\nThis section briefly presents the Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Eegimaa for short;\nEthnologue code: ISO 639-3: bqj), its speakers and its varieties. We also\ndiscuss aspects of the contact situation of the Eegimaa language. This is\nimportant, because as we will show in § 6 below, some of the Eegimaa death\nprevention names and child-bearing names are given to Eegimaa people from other\ncommunities. \n\nEegimaa is a Jóola language spoken in the Basse Casamance area of Southern\nSenegal by a population estimated to be between 7,000 (Bassène, 2007) and 11,200\nspeakers (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, 2014). Jóola languages are classified as\nmembers of Sapir’s (1971) BAK group of Atlantic languages of the Niger Congo\nlanguage phylum. Speakers of these languages are found in the Gambia, in the\nformer Casamance region of Southern Senegal and in Guinea Bissau. The map in\nFigure 1, taken from Ethnologue, presents the languages of Senegal. The arrow on\nthe map points to the Eegimaa speaking area (Bandial is the name used by\nEthnologue for Eegimaa). Eegimaa is mainly spoken in Mof-Ávvi, a former kingdom\nof 10 villages located to the west of Ziguinchor, the capital city of the former\nadministrative region of Casamance in the south of Senegal. Mof-Ávvi is a\npeninsula bordered by the Casamance River to the north, which separates it from\nthe Jóola Búluf and Jóola Fogny areas, and to the east by the villages Brin and\nDjibonker, where the speakers of Kujireray and Baïnounk Gubëeher live. In the\nsouth, the river known as Kamobeul Bolon separates Mof-Ávvi from the Bayot\nspeaking area, while the west side of Mof-Ávvi coincides with the homeland of\nthe Jóola Kaasa Húluf and Jóola Kaasa Ésuulaaluʔ. The map in Figure 2 below,\nadapted from Palmeri and Gazio (1995), shows a very approximate location of\nMof-Ávvi in relation to other neighbouring speech communities. Some of these\ncommunities will be referred to in our discussion of death prevention names in §\n6. The Eegimaa spoken in Mof-Ávvi is known by several names given by speakers of\nneighbouring languages. For example, the name Kusiilay 1 ‘the language of\nEssil’, is the name given by speakers of Kujireray to the Eegimaa language,\nbecause Essil, of which Bajjat was a district, is the village which has a border\nwith their village. Endungo is the name given by Bayot speakers, but its meaning\nis not known. Kúlaakiay, ‘the language of village of Seleki/Sállagi’, is the\nname given by Jóola Kaasa speakers who are more familiar with the village of\nSeleki/Sállagi’ than all other villages of Mof-Ávvi. Finally, Banjal/Bandial\n‘the language of the village of Banjal’, the most popular of all those names, is\nthe name given by the Jóola Búluf and Jóola Fogny speakers to Eegimaa people and\ntheir language, because people from the village of Banjal were the first to be\nin contact with them. \n\nFigure 1. Map of Senegal (courtesy of Google maps) \n\nFigure 2. Map of the Eegimaa speaking area \n\nVillage names are written using their usual spelling. The Ethnologue language\ncodes are provided for language varieties that have them. Language names are\nwritten following the recommendation for the transcription of national languages\nof Senegal, Decree 2005-981. Names of the villages of Mof-Ávvi are written using\nthe Eegimaa orthography and following the pronunciation of village names by\nnative speakers. \n\nJóola language varieties which are closely related to Eegimaa include\nKujireray/Kuluunaay (from the village of Brin with 76% lexical similarity) and\nGufiñamay (from the village of Afiniam with 74% lexical similarity (based on\nLewis et al., 2014 eds.)). Gútaamay (from the village of Butam), Gulapaoray\n(from the village Djilapaor) and Gusiilay (ISO 639-3: bsl) from the village of\nThionk Essil are also other languages related to Eegimaa. They are located north\nof the Casamance River in the Jóola Búluf area. There are also small migrant\nEegimaa communities in villages like Djifanghor (east of Ziguinchor) and in\nBourofaye (south of Ziguinchor), where they cohabit with speakers of Baïnounk\nlanguages. Nowadays most Eegimaa speakers from Mof-Ávvi live outside their\nhomeland, generally in urban areas like Ziguinchor and Dakar. Speakers of\nEegimaa use the term Gújjolaay (meaning Jóola) to refer to their language when\nthey speak to each other, but Eegimaa to distinguish their Jóola variety from\nthat of other Jóola peoples. Eegimaa is an endangered language whose\ntransmission to new generations has been declining significantly in the last\ndecades. \n\nIt is important to understand the contact situation of Eegimaa, because some of\nthe ritual names analysed in this paper come from other languages or from\nneighbouring communities. These names are given either in Eegimaa or in a\ndifferent language. \n\nAntonín Dvořák \n\nAntonín Leopold Dvořák (/ d(ə)ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, -ʒæk / d(ə)-VOR-zha(h)k; Czech:\n[ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk]; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech\ncomposer. After Bedřich Smetana, he was the next Czech Romantic-era composer to\nachieve worldwide recognition. Following Smetana's nationalist example, Dvořák\nfrequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms, of the folk music of Moravia\nand his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as \"the fullest\nrecreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing\nfolk influences and finding effective ways of using them\". [1] \n\nAntonín Dvořák \n\nDvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student\nfrom age six. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872\nand, with special success, in 1873, when he was aged 31. Seeking recognition\nbeyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his First Symphony to a prize\ncompetition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost\nuntil rediscovered many decades later. In 1874 he made a submission to the\nAustrian State Prize for Composition, including scores of two further symphonies\nand other works. Although Dvořák was not aware of it, Johannes Brahms was the\nleading member of the jury and was highly impressed. The prize was awarded to\nDvořák in 1874 [a] and again in 1876 and in 1877, when Brahms and the prominent\ncritic Eduard Hanslick, also a member of the jury, made themselves known to him.\nBrahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who soon afterward\ncommissioned what became the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46. These were highly praised\nby the Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert in 1878, the sheet music (of the\noriginal piano 4-hands version) had excellent sales, and Dvořák's international\nreputation was launched at last. \n\nDvořák's first piece of a religious nature, his setting of Stabat Mater, was\npremiered in Prague in 1880. It was very successfully performed in London in\n1883, leading to many other performances in the United Kingdom and United\nStates. [2] In his career, Dvořák made nine invited visits to England, often\nconducting performances of his own works. His Seventh Symphony was written for\nLondon. Visiting Russia in March 1890, he conducted concerts of his own music in\nMoscow and Saint Petersburg. [3] In 1891 Dvořák was appointed as a professor at\nthe Prague Conservatory. In 1890 – 91, he wrote his Dumky Trio, one of his most\nsuccessful chamber music pieces. In 1892, Dvořák moved to the United States and\nbecame the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York\nCity. While in the United States, Dvořák wrote his two most successful\norchestral works: the Symphony From the New World, which spread his reputation\nworldwide, [4] and his Cello Concerto, one of the most highly regarded of all\ncello concerti. He also wrote his most appreciated piece of chamber music, the\nAmerican String Quartet, during this time. But shortfalls in payment of his\nsalary, along with increasing recognition in Europe and an onset of\nhomesickness, led him to leave the United States and return to Bohemia in 1895.\n\nAll of Dvořák's nine operas but his first have librettos in Czech and were\nintended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works. By\nfar the most successful of the operas is Rusalka. Among his smaller works, the\nseventh Humoresque and the song \"Songs My Mother Taught Me\" are also widely\nperformed and recorded. He has been described as \"arguably the most versatile\n... composer of his time\". [5] \n\nOtto Jespersen \n\nJens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (Danish: [ʌtˢo ˈjɛsb̥ɐsn̩]; 16 July\n1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of\nthe English language. \n\nEarly life \n\nOtto Jespersen was born in Randers in Jutland. He was inspired by the work of\nDanish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars\ntaught himself some Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish. He entered the University\nof Copenhagen in 1877 when he was 17, initially studying law but not forgetting\nhis language studies. In 1881 he shifted his focus completely to languages, and\nin 1887 earned his master's degree in French, with English and Latin as his\nsecondary languages. He supported himself during his studies through part-time\nwork as a schoolteacher and as a shorthand reporter in the Danish parliament. In\n1887 – 1888, he traveled to England, Germany and France, meeting linguists like\nHenry Sweet and Paul Passy and attending lectures at institutions like Oxford\nUniversity. Following the advice of his mentor Vilhelm Thomsen, he returned to\nCopenhagen in August 1888 and began work on his doctoral dissertation on the\nEnglish case system. He successfully defended his dissertation in 1891. \n\nAcademic life and work \n\nJespersen was a professor of English at the University of Copenhagen from 1893\nto 1925, and served as Rector of the university in 1920 – 21. His early work\nfocused primarily on language teaching reform and on phonetics, but he is best\nknown for his later work on syntax and on language development. \n\nHe advanced the theories of Rank and Nexus in Danish in two papers: Sprogets\nlogik (1913) and De to hovedarter af grammatiske forbindelser (1921). Jespersen\nin this theory of ranks removes the parts of speech from the syntax, and\ndifferentiates between primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries; e.g. in \"well\nhoned phrase,\" \"phrase\" is a primary, this being defined by a secondary,\n\"honed\", which again is defined by a tertiary \"well\". The term Nexus is applied\nto sentences, structures similar to sentences and sentences in formation, in\nwhich two concepts are expressed in one unit; e.g., it rained, he ran indoors.\nThis term is qualified by a further concept called a junction which represents\none idea, expressed by means of two or more elements, whereas a nexus combines\ntwo ideas. Junction and nexus proved valuable in bringing the concept of context\nto the forefront of the attention of the world of linguistics. \n\nHe was most widely recognized for some of his books. Language: Its Nature,\nDevelopment and Origin (1922) is considered by many to be his masterpiece.\nModern English Grammar on Historical Principles (1909 – 1949), concentrated on\nmorphology and syntax, and Growth and Structure of the English Language (1905)\nis a comprehensive view of English by someone with another native language, and\nstill in print, over 70 years after his death and more than 100 years after\npublication. Late in his life he published Analytic Syntax (1937), in which he\npresents his views on syntactic structure using an idiosyncratic shorthand\nnotation. In The Philosophy of Grammar (1924) he challenged the accepted views\nof common concepts in Grammar and proposed corrections to the basic definitions\nof grammatical case, pronoun, object, voice etc., and developed further his\nnotions of Rank and Nexus. In the 21st century this book is still used as one of\nthe basic texts in modern Structural linguistics. Mankind, Nation and\nIndividual: from a linguistic point of view (1925) is one of the pioneering\nworks on Sociolinguistics. \n\nJespersen visited the United States twice: he lectured at the Congress of Arts\nand Sciences in St. Louis in 1904, and in 1909 – 1910 he visited both the\nUniversity of California and Columbia University. While in the U.S., he took\noccasion to study the country's educational system. His autobiography (see\nbelow) was published in English translation as recently as 1995. \n\nJespersen was a proponent of phonosemanticism and wrote: \n\n“Is there really much more logic in the opposite extreme which denies any kind\nof sound symbolism (apart from the small class of evident echoisms and\n‘onomatopoeia’) and sees in our words only a collection of accidental and\nirrational associations of sound and meaning? ... There is no denying that there\nare words which we feel instinctively to be adequate to express the ideas they\nstand for.” \n\nAfter his retirement in 1925, Jespersen remained active in the international\nlinguistic community. In addition to continuing to write, he convened and\nchaired the first International Meeting on Linguistic Research in Geneva in\n1930, and acted as president of the Fourth International Congress of Linguists\nin Copenhagen in 1936. \n\nJespersen was an important figure in the international language movement. He was\nan early supporter of the Esperanto offshoot Ido and in 1927 published his own\nproject Novial. He also worked with the International Auxiliary Language\nAssociation. \n\nJespersen received honorary degrees from Columbia University in New York (1910),\nSt. Andrews University in Scotland (1925), and the Sorbonne in Paris (1927). He\nwas one of the first six international scholars to be elected as honorary\nmembers of the Linguistic Society of America. \n\nAre you — do they still teach at Bahia on Sunday? Night? \n\nOh yeah. In fact I would have gone today, if it wasn't for my back. Well I\nfinally found some people there I can dance with. So that helps. \n\nDo you need a partner? \n\nTo go there? \n\nYeah. \n\nNo. Besides, you, I mean if you're a guy, if — If you're a woman, I mean, those\nguys'll be all over you. I swear it. \n\nDon't say that, Harold's in the room. \n\nRun along now, dear. \n\nYou could come too. \n\nWell I don't necessarily mean, in a bad way, even though I'm sure there are a\nfew there, I'm not dancing with guys. All I can say is, the women aren't all\nover me. Darn. \n\nOoh. \n\nBut, but I remember, like I went there with this person, it's kind of funny. Th-\nthis person did not want to dance. So she's just gonna watch. So, every once in\na while I'd get up and dance, and it's like, when I'd come back, I mean there\nwas some guy there, sitting in my chair. Every time I got up. I'm thinking, God\nthese guys don't waste any time. I mean, you turn your back and there's somebody\nmoving in. I mean I don't know if they — \n\nMaybe Harold you should come with me. \n\nWhy? \n\nLearn some lam- lambada. \n\nSo I can find — find some girls with empty chairs next to em? Maybe I should go\nwith Miles. \n\nOh did — \n\nYeah, you guys could be partners. \n\nDid — \n\nWhat? \n\nWell I don't know if I told you, told you that story about that woman, who uh,\nwent after that guy there? I told you that story, right? I was there Sunday\nthree four weeks ago? Uh, after the class is over w- over with, I'm sitting down\nat a table, there's a woman from — who was in the class, and two men, sitting to\nmy right, is a table with two women there. They had apparently just come from\nOba Oba. On the last night — \n\nOh I think you told me. \n\nThe last night — \n\nYeah. \n\nAnd like, well they were attractive women, the one had on a real real short\nskirt. Anyway, there was this guy in his fifties, out there dancing, by himself.\nAnd the woman was just looking at him, making eyes, then she went out there, got\non her knees, in front of him, in this skirt that's this short, takes her hands,\nand goes along his toes, and then up, and is just doing like that. \n\nOoh. \n\nI figured, oh, they must know each other. \n\nOoh. \n\nVery well, in fact. \n\nMhm. \n\nGross. \n\nThat's what I assumed. And, they did that for the whole dance, and I mean, she\nwas d- all kind of suggestive stuff, and touching him and everything, people\nwould like cheering, and clapping, \"go for it\". And all this kind of thing? The\n– the song ended, the guy set down, at another table. And she set down — \n\nAt a — \n\nAt the table with her woman friend. They never danced again the rest of the\nevening. \n\nHm. \n\nThis is like — so I was thinking, this woman's sitting about as far away from me\nas Jamie is. And I was thinking, hm, this is interesting. I wonder how long it\nwas gonna take the guys in this club to move in on her. No sooner did I think\nthis thought, guys were over there. \n\nWhat, you didn't ask her to dance? \n\nNot Miles, he's just in daze. \n\nWell I was still trying to figure out, surely they must know each other, I mean,\nwhy wasn't he sitting at her table? \n\nYou mean, you were still thinking about it. \n\nAnyway, this guy, I mean he comes over there, immediately afterwards — \n\nThe same guy who got his — the same guy who's — \n\nNo, it's just some random guy. \n\nOr just some random guy. \n\nNo, a random guy, who was like sitting about where you are. \n\nYeah. \n\nHe was sitting there, there were two guys sitting at a table right where you\nare. And then these two women are sitting here. So uh, he comes over there, and\nis talking with that woman I don't know about what, but then like ten minutes\nlater, she and her friend are over at their table. And then, twenty minutes\nlater, they were kinda like all over each other. You know, kissing, et cetera,\net cetera. And I was thinking, it looks like these people aren't going home\nalone tonight. \n\nGosh. \n\nBut I just thought that — \n\nNo wonder they forbid this dance. \n\nSo — \n\nOh my God, what a story. Well, maybe I shouldn't go there then. \n\nYeah, maybe you shouldn't. \n\nSam has been, has taken such an interest in this retirement bit that it — it\nreally surprises me. \n\nWell she's begun to listen. \n\nYes she has. \n\nYou know. \n\nShe has. \n\nUh, she used to go over and read a book or something. \n\nYeah, or turn a deaf ear. That was for sure. \n\nBut uh, once you understand it, you know, you, you're interested in getting\nright in, and going after it. \n\nYeah. I really oughta call, at least Reg Barr, and ask if uh, he's still\nspeaking to me. \n\nWell now, he was the one that was up on the left, up there. \n\nYeah. Yeah. Yes. \n\nWell, he came over to you all smiles, I noticed. \n\nYes. Well, we've known each other for thirty-some years, why wouldn't he? But a-\nanyway, um, I was so glad that he opened up on this disclosure bit. Because it\nwas Burns that's been objecting to our having it. \n\nOh? \n\nAnd I knew this. So when he opened up on that, and she followed through, and\ntold about her husband, you know? \n\nNot necessarily that she would approve of it, but at least she wasn't\ndisapproving. \n\nYeah. \n\nOf it. \n\nYeah. \n\nAnd uh, course Duvall might – And I – I cannot get over this. That man. I really\ncannot. And you know, he must have been thinking, when he said he wasn't a\npolitical appointee, he must have been associating his relationship with\nSteitler. \n\nOh. \n\nI really do believe that. \n\nMhm. \n\nIn his thinking. I don't know how else he could have done it. That topples over.\nUm, but he didn't say that. \n\nOh? \n\nHe said, I loved your hum- humor, uh, and I love you, but, I am not a political\nappointee. And his eyes were just snapping. \n\nAnd I said, Oh? How did you get on the board? \n\nWell he said, I got a letter from the governor, asking. \n\nEverybody on there is an app- political appointee, that wasn't the point. The\npoint was, I could have mentioned what was in the paper about him, that he was\nrelated and, you know, had business with Steitler, and I just said, and there's\nDoctor Duvall, you know? \n\nAnd then I went to Rotus, who's a seasoned politician, if there ever was one. \n\nYeah. \n\nHe just would flare. And I said, well, I – alright. I said, I'll apologize next\ntime, and I'm gonna make hay out of it, don't you worry. I wanna know how you\nbirds got on that board, if you're not political appointees. \n\nMm. \n\nOh my. \n\nCan I grow some basil? From seed? \n\nYes, that's how I've – I don't have any this year, but I've grown it other\nyears. \n\nWell – \n\nThere's no proble-. It will not take any frost. Soon as the b- \n\nYeah I – \n\nA little bit of frost, it's gone. \n\nI l- I learned that one time the – \n\nI learned it just went down. \n\nThe hard way. Hm? Uh-huh. \n\nYes? \n\nWell, I think it was Barbara that has some seeds. \n\nJust – No problem. It comes right up. \n\nYeah. Yeah. \n\nI – \n\nIsn't that what you gave the neighbor one time? You gave him some kind of herb.\n\nDid I give him some? I gave him a red pepper. \n\nI think you – I think you gave him some herb of some kind. \n\nI may have given – given him some basil, yes. \n\nYeah. \n\nI don't have any this year, I forgot to plant it. I have oregano. \n\nYeah. \n\nA good stand of it, if you want any. \n\nYeah. I have a lot of dried or- oregano. \n\nMm. \n\nIs your cigarette out, everybody's? \n\nYeah, it's out. \n\nYou smoked it down into the cork, didn't you? \n\nPardon? \n\nYou smoked it down into the cork. \n\nWell, yeah, you don't like that, do you, but – \n\nNo, it chokes me to death. \n\nIt's – it's there, might as well smoke it. \n\nOh. \n\nNo good. \n\nNo good. \n\nMr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court: In September 1975 the Petitioner was\narrested when he tried to steal a coat from a department store. Six months later\nhe was brought to trial on a charge of attempted petty larceny. Had Petitioner\npled guilty to that offense or been convicted of it after trial, he could have\nreceived a maximum sentence of one year in jail. He would have been released, at\nthe very latest, in September of 1976. He would now long since have been a free\nman. But Petitioner did not plead guilty and was not convicted. Instead, he\nraised an insanity defense, claiming that because he was mentally ill at the\ntime he tried to steal the coat he should not be blamed for his act. The\nGovernment did not contest this claim and the trial court found, after a\nstipulated trial, that the Petitioner was not guilty by reason of insanity. On\nthe basis of this acquittal and on this basis alone, the Petitier was --\nPetitioner was ordered committed indefinitely to a mental hospital. That is, he\nwas ordered confined until he could prove that he was not mentally ill and\ndangerous. P- Petitioner still remains confined in the hospital on the basis of\nthat commitment, even though more than seven years have now passed since his\ninitial incarceration and more than six years have passed since the time he\nwould have necessarily been released had he been convicted rather than\nacquitted. Conceivably, he will remain committed in the hospital for the rest of\nhis life. Petitioner contends that whatever the validity of his kinitial\ncommitment to the hospital, once he had been confined there for longer than he\ncould have been incarcerated upon conviction, his commitment became an\nindefinite one. And thus, the Government was constitutionally required to prove\nthe need for his commitment by clear and convincing evidence, something which\nthe Government has yet to do with respect to Mr. Jones. If it cannot do so now,\nPetitioner submits, he is entitled to release. \n\nMr. Wasserstrom, you're not challenging, as I understand it, the -- the initial\ncommitment. The only question, if I understand your position correctly, that you\nraise is whether he must be released at the time that the sentence period would\nhave expired under the criminal statute, is that right? \n\nOur position is, Your Honor, that he has to be released at that time unless the\nGovernment can at that time prove his commitability by the standards required. \n\nAnd you are not challenging, then, the, uh, standard or burden of proof at the\ntime of his commitment? \n\nIt's our position that that question is not raised in this case. Um, there are\narguable justifications for that initial commitment, and we don't discuss one\nway or another whether those justifications are sufficient to validate that\ninitial commitment and we don't think the Court need reach that question.\nWhatever reasons there are that might have init- -- have vali- -- have justified\nhis initial commitment, those reasons would have justified only a commitment\nthat could have lasted, without the Government meeting a burden of proof, for as\nlong as he could have been incarcerated upon conviction -- \n\nIf his initial commitment is not punitive, then how is the statutory period of,\nuh, time that he could serve on the criminal charge relevant? \n\nWell, we think the only justifications that could, the only justifications that\ncould, um, that could countenance that initial commitment are punitive in\nnature, that is, are a kind of punitive rationale. \n\nAnd so, to -- for us to agree with your position we would have to conclude that\nhis initial commitment was punitive? \n\nWell, Your Honor, I don't think that it's terribly important whether the word\n\"punitive\" is used, but I do think that any kinds of justifications which would\njustify the initial commitment are what I would call backward looking\njustifications, that is, justifications that do turn on the fact that he, it --\nwas found to have committed a criminal act beyond a reasonable doubt. And\nwhether they're treated as purely punitive or not doesn't seem to me is, is, is,\nis important, or the label that we attach to them it doesn't seem to me is\nimportant. The point is, though, those rationales all do turn on the nature of\nhis act, and his act is one which, we submit, justifies confinement only for a\nyear. \n\nBut hasn't this Court, as well as the United States Court of Appeals in the D.C.\nCircuit, said there's no rational connection between the possible sentence and\nthe possible length of stay after an acquittal, not guilty by reason of\ninsanity? \n\nI believe that the law in the United States Court of Appeals in Brown against\nthe United States and in Wade v. Jacobs, in both of those cases the Court\nsuggested that there is a relationship between the sentence that might have been\nimposed and the length that the commitment can persist without the Government\nproving, uh, proving commitability under civil commitment standards. I don't\nthink that this Court has, has uh, has addressed that question, and I then think\nthis is the first case that raises it. \n\nOh, the Court has said expressly that there's no connection, in one case some\ntime ago. Well, excuse me. \n\nWell, it is true in Lynch v. Overholser this Court suggested certain, uh,\nrationales for a commitment, but it didn't then go on to say whether those\nrationales were ones which would justify an indefinite commitment or simply one\nthat would persist as long as the sentence that might have been imposed. And\nit's our view that those rationales, whether you call them punitive or not, are,\nare all ones which evaporate once the accou- -- once the insanity acquittee has\nbeen confined for as long as he could have been confined if he had been\nconvicted. \n\nDoes your position depend at all on whether or not the initial crime was a crime\nof violence? Uh, suppose this had been a street mugging, for example? \n\nWell, of course, the more serious the crime, the longer the maximum sentence\nthat could have been imposed and the more distant, uh, the rights that we're\ntalking about, the more distant in time the rights we're talking about would\nbecome available. \n\nChief Justice Kennedy and may it please the Court. My name is Eric Levi and I'm\narguing for appellant Darnell Hurt. Uh, attorney John Martin will be arguing the\nrebuttal, and we'd reserve five minutes of time. Your honors, if I may, I'd like\nto start by addressing proposition of law number three. In proposition of law\nnumber three, we have an ultimate finding of fact which was resolved in favor of\nDarnell Hurt. This finding of fact was in regard to a provocation mitigator, um,\non the voluntary manslaughter charge. Darnell Hurt had asked for the provocation\nmitiger- mitigator to apply to all offenses which he was charged, which includes\nthe felonious assault, and indirectly then he also requested it, um, for the\nfelony murder charge as well. The provocation mitigator is identical for the\nvoluntary manslaughter as well as the felonious assaults and felony murder. We\nbelieve that on retrial, collateral estoppel would prevent retrial without\nregard for the jury's prior finding in Hurt's favor, that ther- that the\nprovocation mitigator existed, that he was acting under serious provocation. In\nfact, at the trial, the State, and it can be found in the transcript at pages\n774 and 775, admitted as much and conceded so in its closing argument by stating\nto the jury that the victim was coming into this apartment. He was coming in hot\nand he pulled out his firearm. And here comes Melvin Dobson arriving at the\nscene to the rescue of his daughter. And that incenses him, Hurt, to the point\nwhere he uses deadly force. And then they said, if you apply all the factors,\nthat's voluntary manslaughter. That's where this count applies. The State of\nOhio had then directed the jury to find these provocation mitigators, which it\ndid. In looking at Green versus United States and the courts, the high court out\nof the state of Texas and the federal circuits in Kennedy versus Washington on\nthis constitutional issue, I believe that the authority uh exists to find that\ncollateral estoppel would preclude the defendant from having to prove these\nmitigators a second time to a different jury because he preserved the issue by\nrequesting the jury instruction for the mitigators on all of the applicable\ncounts, and he didn't request that the jury -- or concede to permit the jury to\nbe discharged without considering those mitigators, when the jury didn't\nconsider them and the additional counts, it acted almost as an applied acquittal\nor an applied um finding towards this affirmative defense. The high court in\nTexas in ex parte Jimmy Dean Watkins agreed with that. And it indicated that in\nany additional trial, once a jury finds those provocation mitigators, that it\ncan't be required to find them again. Additionally, in the Kennedy versus\nWashington uh matter, the Federal Circuit Court stated that the Green versus\nUnited States implied acquittal would generally apply in cases where the\nprovocation mitigator was at issue. It was addressed and argued by both sides,\nand the jury was asked to make a finding. Here the jury made the finding. It\nmade a specific finding for the provocation mitigator. And while it didn't find\nit on each and every specific count, that was solely because the instruction\nwasn't given even though requested. \n\nCounsel, um, shouldn't the arguments related to Proposition three B, are they\nripe for for ruling? Shouldn't these arguments be made at the -- at the trial\ncourt, given the fact that this was remanded? \n\nSo, Your Honor, this was remanded for a retrial and it's remanded on the grounds\nof double jeopardy through the prong of collateral estoppel. And under double\njeopardy, not only is an individual precluded from being convicted twice, or to\nstand trial twice for an offense, he was already acquitted of, he's also\nprecluded from having to actually stand trial to go back to trial for a second\ntime when the acquittal was already made. In this case, it's a finding of fact\nunder collateral estoppel, but it amounts to an affirmative defense to acquit\nhim of the murder, essentially. Um, so where the murderer was already negated by\nthe findings for the -- the mitigators, we believe that it is ripe at this point\num prior to new trial, that this court rule on this and preclude um the trial\ncourt from requiring that he face the murder charges again. \n\nWhat about the other issues? I mean, how can they be ripe? \n\nThe proble-, uh, excuse me, the uh -- the self defense issues uh we believe are\nripe first and foremost in proposition. \n\n41: The Politics of Fear: How It Manipulates Us to Tribalism (Javanbakht) \n\nBy Arash Javanbakht \n\nPresident Barack Obama walks away from the lectern with Vice President Joe Biden\nafter making a statement about the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., June 16,\n2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Public Domain \n\nThe cruel murder of 50 people in New Zealand was another tragic reminder of how\nhumans are capable of heartlessly killing their own kind just based on what they\nbelieve, how they worship, and what race or nationality they belong to. There is\na longstanding history of the fear of “the others” turning humans into illogical\nruthless weapons, in service to an ideology. Fear is arguably as old as life. It\nis deeply ingrained in the living organisms that have survived extinction\nthrough billions of years of evolution. Its roots are deep in our core\npsychological and biological being, and it is one of our most intimate feelings.\nDanger and war are as old as human history, and so are politics and religion. \n\nDemagogues have always used fear for intimidation of the subordinates or\nenemies, and shepherding the tribe by the leaders. Fear is a very strong tool\nthat can blur humans’ logic and change their behavior. \n\nI am a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in fear and trauma, and I\nhave some evidence-based thoughts on how fear is abused in politics. \n\nWe learn fear from tribe mates \n\nLike other animals, we humans can learn fear from experience, such as being\nattacked by a predator. We also learn from observation, such as witnessing a\npredator attacking another human. And, we learn by instructions, such as being\ntold there is a predator nearby. \n\nLearning from our conspecifics – members of the same species – is an\nevolutionary advantage that has prevented us from repeating dangerous\nexperiences of other humans. We have a tendency to trust our tribe mates and\nauthorities, especially when it comes to danger. It is adaptive: Parents and\nwise old men told us not to eat a special plant, or not to go to an area in the\nwoods, or we would be hurt. By trusting them, we would not die like a\ngreat-grandfather who died eating that plant. This way we accumulated knowledge.\n\nTribalism has been an inherent part of the human history. There has always been\ncompetition between groups of humans in different ways and with different faces,\nfrom brutal wartime nationalism to a strong loyalty to a football team. Evidence\nfrom cultural neuroscience shows that our brains even respond differently at an\nunconscious level simply to the view of faces from other races or cultures. \n\nAt a tribal level, people are more emotional and consequently less logical: Fans\nof both teams pray for their team to win, hoping God will take sides in a game.\nOn the other hand, we regress to tribalism when afraid. This is an evolutionary\nadvantage that would lead to the group cohesion and help us fight the other\ntribes to survive. \n\nTribalism is the biological loophole that many politicians have banked on for a\nlong time: tapping into our fears and tribal instincts. Some examples are\nNazism, the Ku Klux Klan, religious wars and the Dark Ages. The typical pattern\nis to give the other humans a different label than us, and say they are going to\nharm us or our resources, and to turn the other group into a concept. It does\nnot have to necessarily be race or nationality, which are used very often. It\ncan be any real or imaginary difference: liberals, conservatives, Middle\nEasterners, white men, the right, the left, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs.\nThe list goes on and on. \n\nWhen building tribal boundaries between “us” and “them,” some politicians have\nmanaged very well to create virtual groups of people that do not communicate and\nhate without even knowing each other: This is the human animal in action! \n\nFear is illogical and often dumb \n\nVery often my patients with phobias start with: “I know it is stupid, but I am\nafraid of spiders.” Or it may be dogs or cats, or something else. And I always\nreply: “It is not stupid, it is illogical.” We humans have different functions\nin the brain, and fear oftentimes bypasses logic. There are several reasons. One\nis that logic is slow; fear is fast. In situations of danger, we ought to be\nfast: First run or kill, then think. \n\nSome people are afraid of spiders, others of snakes or even cats and dogs. \n\nPoliticians and the media very often use fear to circumvent our logic. I always\nsay the U.S. media are disaster pornographers – they work too much on triggering\ntheir audiences’ emotions. They are kind of political reality shows, surprising\nto many from outside the U.S. \n\nWhen one person kills a few others in a city of millions, which is of course a\ntragedy, major networks’ coverage could lead one to perceive the whole city is\nunder siege and unsafe. If one undocumented illegal immigrant murders a U.S.\ncitizen, some politicians use fear with the hope that few will ask: “This is\nterrible, but how many people were murdered in this country by U.S. citizens\njust today?” Or: “I know several murders happen every week in this town, but why\nam I so scared now that this one is being showcased by the media?” \n\nWe do not ask these questions, because fear bypasses logic. \n\nFear can turn violent \n\nThere is a reason that the response to fear is called the “fight or flight”\nresponse. That response has helped us survive the predators and other tribes\nthat have wanted to kill us. But again, it is another loophole in our biology to\nbe abused to turn on our aggression toward “the others,” whether in the form of\nvandalizing their temples or harassing them on the social media. \n\n“Desecrated Graves in the Old Jewish Section of the Cemetery, Vienna” by Scott\nRettberg is licensed under CC BY 2.0 \n\nWhen ideologies manage to get hold of our fear circuitry, we often regress to\nillogical, tribal and aggressive human animals, becoming weapons ourselves –\nweapons that politicians use for their own agenda. \n\nArash Javanbakht is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University.\nThis essay originally appeared in The Conversation. The Politics of Fear: How It\nManipulates Us to Tribalism by Arash Javanbakht is licensed under a Creative\nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. \n\nFix the Machine, Not the Person (Swartz) \n\nBy Aaron Swartz \n\n#systemanalysis, #proposal, #technology, #automotiveindustry, #logos, #research,\n#sharedvalues #cognitivebias \n\n“Photo” is in the Public Domain, CC0 \n\nThis post is part seven of the series Raw Nerve. \n\nThe General Motors plant in Fremont was a disaster. “Everything was a fight,”\nthe head of the union admits. \n\n“They spent more time on grievances and on things like that than they did on\nproducing cars. They had strikes all the time. It was just chaos constantly. ...\nIt was considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United\nStates.” \n\n“One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in the GM plant in\nFremont,” adds Jeffrey Liker, a professor who studied the plant. \n\n“If you want sex, if you want drugs, if you want alcohol, it's there. During\nbreaks, during lunch time, if you want to gamble illegally—any illegal activity\nwas available for the asking within that plant.” Absenteeism was so bad that\nsome mornings they didn’t have enough employees to start the assembly line; they\nhad to go across the street and drag people out of the bar. \n\nWhen management tried to punish workers, workers tried to punish them right\nback: scratching cars, loosening parts in hard-to-reach places, filing union\ngrievances, sometimes even building cars unsafely. It was war. \n\nIn 1982, GM finally closed the plant. But the very next year, when Toyota was\nplanning to start its first plant in the US, it decided to partner with GM to\nreopen it, hiring back the same old disastrous workers into the very same jobs.\nAnd so began the most fascinating experiment in management history. \n\nToyota flew this rowdy crew to Japan, to see an entirely different way of\nworking: The Toyota Way. At Toyota, labor and management considered themselves\non the same team; when workers got stuck, managers didn’t yell at them, but\nasked how they could help and solicited suggestions. It was a revelation. “You\nhad union workers—grizzled old folks that had worked on the plant floor for 30\nyears, and they were hugging their Japanese counterparts, just absolutely in\ntears,” recalls their Toyota trainer. \n\n“And it might sound flowery to say 25 years later, but they had had such a\npowerful emotional experience of learning a new way of working, a way that\npeople could actually work together collaboratively — as a team. \n\nThree months after they got back to the US and reopened the plant, everything\nhad changed. Grievances and absenteeism fell away and workers started saying\nthey actually enjoyed coming to work. The Fremont factory, once one of the worst\nin the US, had skyrocketed to become the best. The cars they made got\nnear-perfect quality ratings. And the cost to make them had plummeted. It wasn’t\nthe workers who were the problem; it was the system. \n\nAn organization is not just a pile of people, it's also a set of structures.\nIt's almost like a machine made of men and women. Think of an assembly line. If\nyou just took a bunch of people and threw them in a warehouse with a bunch of\ncar parts and a manual, it’d probably be a disaster. Instead, a careful\nstructure has been built: car parts roll down on a conveyor belt, each worker\ndoes one step of the process, everything is carefully designed and routinized.\nOrder out of chaos. \n\nAnd when the system isn’t working, it doesn’t make sense to just yell at the\npeople in it—any more than you’d try to fix a machine by yelling at the gears.\nTrue, sometimes you have the wrong gears and need to replace them, but more\noften you’re just using them in the wrong way. When there’s a problem, you\nshouldn’t get angry with the gears—you should fix the machine. \n\nIf you have goals in life, you’re probably going to need some sort of\norganization. Even if it’s an organization of just you, it’s still helpful to\nthink of it as a kind of machine. You don’t need to do every part of the process\nyourself—you just need to set up the machine so that the right outcomes happen.\n\nFor example, let’s say you want to build a treehouse in the backyard. You’re\ngreat at sawing and hammering, but architecture is not your forte. You build and\nbuild, but the treehouses keep falling down. Sure, you can try to get better at\narchitecture, develop a better design, but you can also step back, look at the\nmachine as a whole, and decide to fire yourself as the architect. Instead, you\nfind a friend who loves that sort of thing to design the treehouse for you and\nyou stick to actually building it. After all, your goal was to build a treehouse\nwhose design you like—does it really matter whether you’re the one who actually\ndesigned it? \n\nOr let’s say you really want to get in shape, but never remember to exercise.\nYou can keep beating yourself up for your forgetfulness, or you can put a system\nin place. Maybe you have your roommate check to see that you exercise before you\nleave your house in the morning or you set a regular time to consistently go to\nthe gym together. Life isn’t a high school exam; you don’t have to solve your\nproblems on your own. \n\nIn 1967, Edward Jones and Victor Harris gathered a group of college students and\nasked them to judge another student’s exam (the student was a fictional\ncharacter, but let’s call him Jim). The exam always had one question, asking Jim\nto write an essay on Fidel Castro “as if [he] were giving the opening statement\nin a debate.” \n\nFalling \n\nYou’re on the 236th-level Kaiserstrasse moving sidewalk when you see her. You’re\nleaning on the railing, waiting to ask Derya about a job, watching the\nglittering stream of mites that arc over half the sky — flying up to rewind\ntheir nanosprings in the stratospheric sunlight, flying down to make Frankfurt\nrun. You never get tired of watching them. \n\nShe’s on the Holbeinsteg bridge. Someone’s hung it up here — a hundred meters of\nclean gray and green twentieth-century modernism, plucked up from the river Main\nand suspended in the chilly air 2,360 meters up, between a lump of wooded\nparkland and a cluster of antique subway cars. She’s wearing a 1950s sundress\nand a broad-brimmed hat, and it’s like an essay on the last century — the\naustere steel bridge, the bright blobs of subway graffiti, and her yellow dress,\nflapping against her legs as she climbs over the bridge’s rail. A picture of\nelegance and style from the age of money, violence, and simplicity. \n\nShe’s a strawberry blonde, slim, her skin blank and virginal as new butter.\nShe’s beyond the rail now, hanging out over the mountain - high drop. Thin\ntranslucent shadows move across her — the shadows of the neosilk-and-nanotube\nfilaments that hang the city from the hundreds of five-kilometer-high towers\nthat encircle it. (A civic agent notices you noticing, and attaches itself to\nyour infospace, whispering statistics — \n\n“Each object’s suspension must weather a class 5 hurricane and the destruction\nof 80% of the towers” — “Frankfurt’s current population is stable at 53 million”\n— “Average age 62, birth rate 0.22, net immigration of half a million a year” —\n“Current personal squatright: 311 cubic meters per resident” — until you brush\nit away.) \n\nYou’re watching her lean out. The wind whips her hair, ruffles the skirt around\nher knees. She must be a tourist. You remember your first trip to the upper\nlevels: leaning over the edge into the angry swarm of mites, whirring and\nbuzzing warnings and shoving you back like a million mosquito chaperones.\nEveryone tries it once — Except that there aren’t any mites around her. \n\nYou clutch the railing. Hot, animal fear surges in your chest. \n\nShe looks up at you and, across the gap of forty meters, smiles a brilliant,\nheartbreaking smile. \n\nThen she lets go and falls. \n\nYou scream. \n\n“Fucking airsurfers,” says Derya. He steps off the moving sidewalk near you:\ntall, hook-nosed, the fashionable whorls of pox and acne making constellations\nof his cheeks and chest; the glowing, formal tattoos of his committees and\nlifebrands adorning his massive triceps. You swallow on a dry throat. Derya, of\nall people, hearing you scream! \n\nHe gives you a hooded look. \n\n“They infect themselves with some designer virus - it lets them hack the city’s\nperson-recognition systems. So the mites don’t see them when they jump. Watch —”\n\nShe’s swept past the whalelike oval of the public pool on the 202nd, past the\nsloping mandala of the Google of offices on the 164th. At the 131st, below her,\nis the old Stock Exchange, hung upside-down now as a hipster den. \n\nNow the mites are finally closing in. A silver swarm coalesces around the 164th,\nand she vanishes into it, like a snip of scallion into cloudy miso soup. When\nthe cloud disperses, she’s standing on one of the Stock Exchange’s upside-down\noverhangs. She waves, antlike, then crawls through a dormer window. \n\n“It’s not funny,” Derya says. \n\n“They’re a huge drain on emergency preparedness. Ripple effects are causing\nproject slowdowns ...” \n\n“Freeloaders drive systemic evolution,” you find yourself saying. \n\n“Don’t you quote the founders at me,” Derya snaps. \n\n“The Free Society is fragile. The minute enough people find anticontributive\nbehavior cool, the party’s over — it’s back to capitalist competition or state\ncontrol.” He stares until you meet his eye. \n\n“You even talk to those people - are you paying attention? — you even talk to\nthem, your rep will be trashed on all the major servers. You won’t work, you\nwon’t party, you’ll be defriended by every one of your tribes. Got it?” \n\nHer broad-brimmed hat is still sailing on the wind. The mites missed it. It cuts\nbetween the towers of the 50th. \n\nThe upside-down trading floor is deserted. There are heaps of yellowed euros and\ndeutschmarks dumped here, like snowdrifts. Wood panel, marble. Silence. And the\nair is strangely clear. You realize: no mites. The city has no eyes or ears\nhere. You walk through empty, miteless rooms, stepping around light fixtures. \n\nThen she’s there, in a doorway. Her eyes, bright blue, radiant. Her smile, with\nthat chaste yellow dress, so bashful. She comes to you. “You want it?” she says.\n\n“You want to be infected? You want to fly?” \n\nYou nod. \n\nEyes closing, she leans in for the kiss. \n\nPerfect Teeth \n\nSteven wanted to be a dentist. It was pretty much the first thing he told us\nwhen, as first years, we were all bunched together in the unfamiliar dusty\nclassroom. When, a couple of weeks later we were invited over to his house we\nsaw that this was not an idle remark. \n\nWhere our bedroom walls were decorated with posters of pop stars and\nfootballers, Steven had diagrams setting out tooth implementations, anatomical\ndrawings of the jaw with brightly coloured nerves, muscle, blood vessels, bones,\nand, of course, teeth. Where we had shelves of plastic dinosaurs and superhero\nfigurines from cornflake boxes, Steven had plaster casts of jawbones, gums and\nteeth grinning down at us. The instruments were locked away in glass cabinets\nand only his parents had the key. \n\n“They don’t exactly encourage my interest,” he shrugged. \n\n“They sort of tolerate it. But Dad says they’re a sort of collection, and too\nexpensive for me to play with.” \n\nOf course, we tried to pick the locks, but the spikes and saws and drillheads\nremained — tantalisingly — out of reach. \n\nWe didn’t see Steven’s interest as strange, well, not that much. We all had our\nown interests — drawing, electronics, collecting beer caps — that each appeared\nobscure to anyone else. DIY Dentistry was just something that had never crossed\nour horizon before. And if Steven didn’t see it as weird, or no weirder than\nAndy showing us his Eastern-Block beer caps all laid out neatly on cork boards\nwith little hand-written labels, why should it bother us? \n\nI suppose that, in our own way, we were all collectively strange. The bunch that\nno one picked for their side at football or hockey, and that was the glue that\nheld us together. Besides, Steven had some really good stuff: sweets that\nstained your teeth bright red — well, technically, not your teeth, just the\nplaque, but the result was often the same. It took a few days good brushing to\nget it off. Well, most of it anyway. He had effervescent tablets that turned the\ncanteen drinking water into that exact same pink mixture that the dentist gave\nyou to rinse your mouth out after scraping around inside, and guaranteed to make\nthe other kids splutter and spit it out when the taste slowly percolated through\nand met the memory of their last checkup. \n\nThen there was the event that became the rite of passage into our group of\nmisfits and outcasts: making a mould of your teeth. \n\nIt was inevitable that one of us, seeing the plaster casts on the shelf by\nSteven’s bed would ask how they were done. It was just as inevitable that a few\nminutes later, Steven would be mixing up various powders and liquids, and\npouring them into a horse-shoe shaped contraption. \n\nIt wasn’t dangerous. At least, I suppose so. It was vaguely uncomfortable, and\nappeared sufficiently disturbing that we all volunteered each other in turn\nuntil, at last, Andy said he was game. And we were off. \n\nThe hardest part was probably to overcome the gagging reflex that set in when\nyou bit down into the acrid resin jelly and it flowed out and up and around,\nover teeth, gums and tongue. Your nose filled with what you imagined were fumes\nfrom the warm paste. And you seemed to be suddenly drowning in your own saliva.\n\nThings generally got better when Steven reminded you that you could actually\nbreathe, and swallow, normally. \n\nHe watched the second hand trotting round the dial of his watch mouthing the\nquarters, before poking the setting goo to check its consistency. Then, when he\ngave you the nod, you tried to prise your jaws apart. \n\nAs the seal around your gums and teeth was pretty solid, you thought it would\nnever come off, as the others giggled at your expressions and grimaces. Steven\njiggled the handle that stuck out beyond your front teeth like some metallic\nduck’s bill, turning and twisting it most professionally and murmuring\nencouragements. And, then, with an awful sucking slurp, it came free. \n\nThe initiated then revelled in retelling the gross sensation of having this\nevil-smelling plastic slug invade your mouth, while the others waited their turn\nwith mixed trepidation and excitement. Raucous laughter greeted the suggestions\nof the other body parts that could receive the same treatment. \n\nThe next part of the proceedings was less thrilling. Steven measured and mixed\nthe plaster of Paris and prepared for the cast by using a bright blue putty to\nbuild up the form of the jaw, and shoring up gaps and holes. It get even less\nexciting when he said we’d have to wait an hour while the plaster set real\nsolid. But the next time we visited his room we got to marvel at our toothy\ngrins labelled and lined up on the shelf. We were all perfectly happy with the\nresult, even wanting one as a trophy until Steven passed an expert eye over\nthem, pointing out here a gap, here a filling, and there a completely misaligned\nincisor. We were, he told us, mediocre specimens for his collection. \n\nIt didn’t matter. We were all friends, a group bonded by the common experience\nof being able to see our teeth on Steven’s shelf. \n\nWikinews interviews Christopher Hill, U.S. Republican Party presidential\ncandidate \n\nInterview \n\nWhat qualifications do you have that will assist you in executing the duties of\npresident? \n\nMy Presidential qualifications are rooted in my service as an Officer in the\nUnited States Air Force. I took the Oath to our Constitution at 22 years old. I\nunderstood it was an Oath to ALL of our people. Politicians profess an Oath to\nthis nation but once in office pursue their party agenda and reward their\nvoters. As President, I will serve ALL of the people in America, guided by the\nConstitution. \n\nWhy run for president? Why not run for a lower office that you would be more\nlikely to win and effect change? \n\nWhen I was a young man in Air Force ROTC I was chosen to attend a unique Pilot\nTraining Program called Euro- NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training. The Air Force only\nselected 180 Officers a year from the Academy, Squadron Officer School and ROTC\nto attend. I volunteered for that program because I knew I wanted to be a\nFighter Pilot and at the \"Top of the Spear.\" In those days it was all or\nnothing. If you graduated you were assigned a fighter, if you were not quite\nfighter pilot material you had no response to fly another aircraft, you were\nwashed out. Congress has proven itself ineffective as a body. To make a\ndifference in America you must have the \"Bully Pulpit\" and speak to the People.\nThe President has that pulpit. All or nothing. I never wanted to make politics a\ncareer. \n\nWhy did you choose to run in the Republican Party? \n\nMy ties to the Republican party date back to 1979, when I volunteered for Ronald\nReagan and his campaign in New Hampshire. In those days I believed there was a\ndifference in the parties. Today, like many Americans, I am skeptical. I\nunderstand third party candidates have no success. I hope to lead the Republican\nparty in a new direction for working class Americans. \n\nHow do you plan to get into the Republican debates and make an impact on polls?\n\nIn order to be invited to the debates, we must raise money and poll nationally.\nThis is an effort that is underway. Recently we were listed in New Hampshire and\nnationally with Politics1. \n\nIf you do not receive the Republican nomination, would you consider running as a\nthird party candidate? \n\nNo, I will back the nominee of the Republican party in 2016. After that, I may\nreconsider. \n\nOther than yourself, which candidates have you supported for president in\nprevious campaigns? \n\nReagan in 80 and 84, [George H. W.] Bush in 88 and 92, [Phil] Gramm in 96,\n[George W.] Bush in 2000 and, Romney in 08. \n\nWhat are your thoughts on the job Barack Obama has done as president?\nSpecifically, what would you have done differently? \n\nPresident Obama has an agenda that represents the far left wing of his party.\nHis use of the Presidency to further this agenda has in many ways been\nunconstitutional. Specifically, altering law once it is passed to accommodate\nhis voting blocs. His direction to Eric Holder to enforce some laws and not\nothers is another example. \n\nHill at the Lesser-known candidates forum in 2011 \n\nIf elected, what would constitute a successful presidency for you? \n\nAchieving four goals: Term Limits for Congress and the Courts returning\ngovernment to the People. Implementing a Tax System that allows working\nAmericans making under $ 250,000 to keep all of their money. Closing Loopholes\nand putting in place a system that is transparent and works. Passing a Living\nWage program lifting people out of poverty. Returning America to a state of\nPeace and Security. \n\nWhat individuals would you like to see in a Hill administration? \n\nI would like to bring People from the heartland of America that make this nation\nwork. We have had too many decades of Ivy League elites and Professors immersed\nin theory. \n\nHill (right) with fellow 2012 presidential candidate Buddy Roemer. \n\nAnything else you would like to add? \n\nA final thought. America is a nation that will endure. I believe it is our\nresponsibility to pass on the same opportunities to future generations that were\npromised to us. As President, I intend to keep that promise! \n\nWikinews interviews Robert Sarvis, Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of\nVirginia Saturday, October 19, 2013 \n\nAttorney Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian Party's nominee for Governor of\nVirginia, answered five questions submitted via e-mail by accredited Wikinews\nreporter William Saturn. \n\nSarvis has garnered double digits in opinion polls for the 2013 Virginia\ngubernatorial election, an unusual feat for a third party candidate. The latest\nNewsmax / Zogby poll from late September placed him at 13 percent, 14 points\nbehind Republican Party nominee Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's Attorney General, and\n19 points behind Democratic Party nominee Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic\nNational Committee chairman, with 24 percent undecided. Whoever wins election on\nNovember 5, 2013, would replace outgoing governor Bob McDonnell. \n\nOn his campaign website, Sarvis notes he favors parental school choice through\nstudent vouchers, simplification of Virginia's Tax Code, US Second Amendment -\ngun - rights, same-sex marriage, and reform of the state's drug laws. With\nWikinews, Sarvis discusses his background, views on McDonnell's tenure, keys to\ncampaign success, plan to implement his agenda, and the former Virginia governor\nhe most admires. \n\nInterview \n\nWhat is the most important aspect of your background that voters should know\nabout? \n\nI am the only candidate born and raised in Virginia, but also the only candidate\nwho embodies both physically and philosophically the growing diversity of the\ncommonwealth. (I am mixed-race (half-Chinese) and in an interracial marriage.) I\nam the only candidate who has studied both economics and law, and the only\ncandidate with a background in technology entrepreneurship. Because of my\nacademic and professional background, I understand the issues and challenges\nfacing Virginia much better than the other candidates, and I am offering real\nsolutions that can be appreciated across the political spectrum. I am the only\ncandidate who believes in both economic freedom and personal liberty and the\nonly candidate who stands on principle against cronyism and corporatism and in\nfavor of the rule of law. \n\nWhat are your thoughts on the job Bob McDonnell has done as Governor of\nVirginia? What would you have done differently than him? \n\nMcDonnell did well early in his term pushing back against Senate Democrats who\nwanted huge tax increases in response to major revenue shortfalls during the\nrecession. Those early budget efforts are his highest achievements as Governor.\nMore recently, he erred in accepting a transportation bill that had huge flaws\nand huge tax increases, rather than prioritizing spending and seeking more\nrational, efficient, decentralized transportation decision-making. He could have\nshown much greater leadership in pushing for tax reform, regulatory reform, and\nschool choice. Of course, he showed ethical lapses in judgment. \n\nCompared to previous third party candidates at the gubernatorial level, you have\ndone exceptionally well in opinion polling. What do you attribute that success\nto? \n\nVoters see the two-party system for the sham it has become. They are sick of the\npartisanship and nonsense and the total lack of substance in modern campaigns.\nVoters see the two major party nominees as exemplifying what is worst about\ntheir respective parties, and they want something better. Voters who meet me and\nhear me speak know that I am sincere, know that I understand the issues deeply\nand have workable solutions, and know that I stand on principle against cronyism\nand corporatism and in favor of the rule of law and the public interest. People\nlike the fact that I stand for a Virginia that is both Open-minded and Open for\nBusiness. \n\nIf elected governor, how will you be able to implement your agenda while dealing\nwith a hostile legislature? \n\nThere are precedents of independent governors dealing effectively with the\nlegislature, and indeed a wise third-party governor can have greater\neffectiveness than a major party governor. Libertarians share many policy\npositions with each of the major parties. Working together with both Republicans\nand Democrats, we can get the good aspects of each party while rejecting the bad\nparts of both. Moreover, electing a third-party governor represents a\nrepudiation of politics as usual, and the major party legislators will face\nchanged constraints and incentives, meaning that much more is possible than many\npeople assume, especially with strong leadership. \n\nWhich previous Virginia Governor(s) do you most admire and why? \n\nThomas Jefferson. He was incredibly learned and was a strong advocate for\nfreedom and the rule of law. He would be a Libertarian today. \n\nRobert Sarvis. Image: Sarvis for Governor. \n\nVirginia, highlighted in red. Image: Huebi. \n\nGenoa City, Wis. \n\nAugust 6th 1964 \n\nJohn K. Bartram, Esquire \n\nAttorney at Law \n\nBartram Building East Center Street \n\nMarion, Ohio \n\nDear John; \n\nThank you for your call of this afternoon. \n\nIt was a surprise for us to learn that apparently a decision was reached,\nperhaps by the judge that the letters are the property of Isabelle. Michel\nadvised her on May 25th as follows: \"There is a grave legal question involved as\nto whether or not these letters are the property of your mother's estate and an\nappropriate legal action is contemplated to determine such question.\" \n\nIt is our considered opinion: Williamson should have sent them to the owner's\ndaughter as a very personal matter or auctioned them off when he sold Mrs.\nPhillips's things on the auction block. He did neither. He sat on them 'til some\nreporter's warned him that they were hot merchandise. Then with the idea of\nseeking cover made a judge (apparently ignorant of the law) appoint an\nadministrator for Mrs. Phillips's estate for stolen merchandise held in\nposession of acourt appointed guardian of Mrs. Phillips. To cap it all he\npermitted publication of these stolen letters by the press, although they were\nordered by him to be under lock and key. \n\nNow it appears that Williamson is trying to defend himself to the public. A\nreporter from the Cleveland Press phoned on Monday last. He said that he wanted\nto check on a statement made by Williamson, since he claimed that while he was\nMrs. P's guardian he had never heard from Isabelle. We said; \"No comment\".\nIsabelle was not advised that her mother had a guardian. On Dec. 6th 1954 she\nhad a power of attorney duly executed and witnessed by our attorney in Recine,\nWis. in favor of Maud Gorham of Marion, Ohio especially to deal in all matters\npertaining to Carrie Fulton Phillips. \n\nWe have not seen the Press article of this week, nor one the Marion Star or any\nColumbus paper might have had, covering an interview with Williamson. If he does\nnot leave Isabelle out of all of this he will have to suffer the consequences.\nPerhaps you can warn him for me. We will brand him with a libel iron, he won't\nforget. \n\nThe mental and heart suffering caused by this S.O.B to Isabelle is very deep, I\ncan assure you, John. She is sick & in doctor's continual observation and care.\n\nIf there are no live debts to be satisfied and if the only assets in the\nreopened estate administrated by Michel are these stolen letters, now apparently\ndetermined to be the property of Isabelle, why on that decision alone, cannot\nthese letters be surrendered and the estate be closed because of lack of assets.\n\nIn that event, if you can succeed in getting that done, we would like to have\nthe letters surrendered to you for destruction or surrender to the Harding\nfamily, as a possible value in checking the accuracy of any published stuff in\nthe future. \n\nIf the Court insists on these letters being an asset and refuses to close the\nestate and insists that they be appraised and sold by the administrator at\nhighest value offered, we would want to be sure that the sales price received\ncovers the expenditures and that any trans-action in connection with such a sale\nremain entirely free from press and publication abuse. \n\nJohn, as to the question of appraisers. In our business of antiques, that of\nantiquarians, we have and must have in certain states, licensed appraisers. All\nof them own their own respective businesses and sell. Among them is Ralph\nNewman, who is also a historian. Then of course there seem to be in this\npicture, so called historians, like the man you mentioned over the phone, Ed. K.\nGross etc. We even had inquiries from the Wisconsin State College, D. F.\nCostello, Prof. A historian from Minneapolis wrote: would we sell the letters?\nThese kind of historians want something for nothing and could not appraise\nanything of this kind, since they do not know corresponding values. But all\nwould want to take a look and see. \n\nJohn, Isabelle does not want to sell the letters unless we are forced to do so\nby the judge and his court under the auspices of estate jurisdiction. She has\nnever seen them, knew nothing of their existence and does not care to see them\nnow or ever. \n\nThere are to ways out: 1) according to Paragraph 1 & 2 of this page and the\npreceeding paragraph, as we see it. In the first instance we would want to pay\nyou your bill on conclusion or before as you like. In the second instance we\nwonder if you might take for a third of the net or how you would like to be\ncompensated. \n\nIn the meanrime with all best regards from the both of us, \n\nSincerely, [William Helmuth Mathée] \n\nSir de Villiers Graaff, \n\nLeader of the Opposition, House of Assembly, \n\nCAPE TOWN \n\nSir, \n\nIn one week's time, the Verwoerd Government intends to inaugurate its Republic.\nIt is unnecessary to state that this intention has never been endorsed by the\nnon-white majority of this country. The decision has been taken by little over\nhalf of the White community; it is opposed by every articulate group amongst the\nAfrican, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the majority of this\ncountry. \n\nThe Government's intentions to proceed, under these circumstances, has created\nconditions bordering on crisis. We have been excluded from the Commonwealth, and\ncondemned 95 to 1 at the United Nations. Our trade is being boycotted, and\nforeign capital is being withdrawn. The country is becoming an armed camp, the\nGovernment preparing for civil war with increasingly heavy police and military\napparatus, the non-white population for a general strike and long-term\nnon-cooperation with the Government. \n\nNone of us can draw any satisfaction from this developing crisis. We, on our\npart, in the name of the African people - a majority of South Africans - and on\nthe authority given us by 1 400 elected African representatives at the\nPietermaritzburg Conference of 25 and 26 March, have put forward serious\nproposals for a way out of the crisis. We have called on the Government to\nconvene an elected National Convention of representatives of all races without\ndelay, and to charge that Convention with the task of drawing up a new\nConstitution for this country which would be acceptable to all racial groups. \n\nWe can see no workable alternative to this proposal, except that the Nationalist\nGovernment proceeds to enforce a minority decision on all of us, with the\ncertain consequence of still deeper crisis, and a continuing period of strife\nand disaster ahead. Stated bluntly, the alternatives appear to be these: talk it\nout, or shoot it out. Outside of the Nationalist Party, most of the important\nand influential bodies of public opinion have clearly decided to talk it out.\nThe South African Indian Congress, the only substantial Indian community\norganisation, has welcomed and endorsed the call for a National Convention. So,\ntoo have the Coloured people, through the Coloured Convention movement which has\nthe backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion. A substantial European body\nof opinion, represented by both the Progressive and the Liberal Parties, has\nendorsed our call. Support for a National Convention has come also from the bulk\nof the English language press, from several national church organisations, and\nfrom many others. \n\nBut where, Sir, does the United Party stand? We have yet to hear from this most\nimportant organisation - the main organisation in fact of anti-Nationalist\nopinion amongst the European community. Or from you, its leader. If the\ncountry's leading statesmen fail to lead at this moment, then the worst is\ninevitable. It is time for you, Sir, and your Party, to speak out. Are you for a\ndemocratic and peaceable solution to our problems? Are you, therefore, for a\nNational Convention? We in South Africa, and the world outside expect an answer.\nSilence at this time enables, Dr. Verwoerd to lead us onwards towards the brink\nof disaster. \n\nWe realise that aspects of our proposal raise complicated problems. What shall\nbe the basis of representation at the Convention? How shall the representatives\nbe elected? But these are not the issues now at stake. The issue now is a simple\none. Are all groups to be consulted before a constitutional change is made? Or\nonly the White minority? A decision on this matter cannot be delayed. Once that\ndecision is taken, then all other matters, of how, when and where, can be\ndiscussed, and agreement on them can be reached. On our part the door to such\ndiscussion has always been open. We have approached you and your Party before,\nand suggested that matters of difference be discussed. To date we have had no\nreply: Nevertheless we still hold the door open. But the need now is not for\ndebate about differences of detail, but for clarity of principle and purpose.\nFor a National Convention of all races? Or against? \n\nIt is still not too late to turn the tide against the Nationalist-created\ncrisis. A call for a National Convention from you now could well be the\nturning-point in our country's history. It would unite the overwhelming majority\nof our people, White, Coloured, Indian and African, for a single\npurpose-round-table talks for a new constitution. It would isolate the\nNationalist Government, and reveal for all time that it is a minority\nGovernment, clinging tenaciously to power against the popular will, driving\nrecklessly onward to a disaster for itself and us. Your call for a National\nConvention now would add such strength to the already powerful call for it that\nthe Government would be chary of ignoring it further. \n\nAnd if they nevertheless ignore the call for a Convention, the inter-racial\nunity thus cemented by your call would lay the basis for the replacement of this\nGovernment of national disaster by one more acceptable to the people, one\nprepared to follow the democratic path of consulting all the people in order to\nresolve the crisis. \n\nWe urge you strongly to speak out now. It is ten days to 31 May. \n\nYours faithfully \n\n[Signed] Nelson Mandela \n\nNELSON MANDELA \n\nAll-In African National Action Council \n\nNASA celebrates 30th anniversary of first shuttle launch; announces new homes\nfor retired shuttles \n\nWednesday, April 13, 2011 \n\nNASA Administrator Charles Bolden announces where four space shuttle orbiters\nwill be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program\nduring an event commemorating the 30th anniversay of the first shuttle launch on\nApril 12, 2011. Image: NASA Bill Ingalls. \n\nNASA celebrated the launch of the first space shuttle Tuesday at an event at the\nKennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. On April 12, 1981, Space\nShuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-1, the first\nspace shuttle mission. \n\nNASA held a ceremony commemorating the date outside the hangar, known as Orbiter\nProcessing Facility-1, for Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is being prepped for\nits final mission which will be STS-135, which will be the last Space Shuttle\nmission. \n\nAt the ceremony, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the locations that\nwould be given the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters following the end of\nthe Space Shuttle program. The prototype orbiter, Space Shuttle Enterprise would\nbe relocated from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F.\nUdvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport to the Intrepid\nSea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. \n\nSpace Shuttle Discovery will take the place of Enterprise at the Udvar-Hazy\nCenter. Discovery has already been retired following the completion of STS-133\nlast month, its 39th mission. Discovery is undergoing decommissioning and\ncurrently being prepped for display by removing toxic materials from the\norbiter. \n\nLooking back: Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on STS-1 from Launch Pad 39A at\nthe Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1981. Image: NASA. \n\nSpace Shuttle Endeavour, which will launch on STS-134 at the end of the month on\nApril 29, will be sent to the California Science Center in Los Angeles,\nCalifornia following its retirement. Finally, Atlantis will go on display at the\nKennedy Space Center Visitor Complex following the orbiter's last flight which\nlaunches June 28. \n\nColumbia was lost tragically back on February 1, 2003 when it disintegrated\nduring re-entry killing all seven astronauts aboard. Space Shuttle Challenger\nwas lost when it exploded 73 seconds after liftoff back on January 28, 1986\nkilling all six aboard. \n\n\"We want to thank all of the locations that expressed an interest in one of\nthese national treasures,\" said Bolden to the gathered crowd which contained\nmany KSC employees. \"This was a very difficult decision, but one that was made\nwith the American public in mind. In the end, these choices provide the greatest\nnumber of people with the best opportunity to share in the history and\naccomplishments of NASA's remarkable Space Shuttle Program. These facilities\nwe've chosen have a noteworthy legacy of preserving space artifacts and\nproviding outstanding access to U.S. and international visitors.\" \n\nThis was a very difficult decision, but one that was made with the American\npublic in mind. In the end, these choices provide the greatest number of people\nwith the best opportunity to share in the history and accomplishments of NASA's\nremarkable Space Shuttle Program. Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator \n\nFile image of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifting off, which approaches its last\nmission before retirement. Image: NASA. \n\nNot all were pleased with the final choice of locations. U.S. Senator John\nCornyn, Republican from Texas, issued a statement regarding the rejection of\nJohnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas as a location. \"Like many Texans, I\nam disappointed with NASA's decision to slight the Johnson Space Center as a\npermanent home for one of the Space Shuttle Orbiters. Houston has played a\ncritical role throughout the life of the space shuttle, but it is clear\npolitical favors trumped common sense and fairness in the selection of the final\nlocations for the orbiter fleet.\" \n\nCornyn's statement added, \"There is no question Houston should have been\nselected as a final home for one of the orbiters — even Administrator Bolden\nstated as much. Today's announcement is an affront to the thousands of dedicated\nmen and women at Johnson Space Center, the greater Houston community and the\nState of Texas, and I’m deeply disappointed with the Administration's misguided\ndecision.“ However, the JSC will recieve pilot and commander seats from the\nflight deck. \n\nThe Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington was also proposed as another\nlocation for a shuttle, going so far as to build a new building to house an\norbiter. In a statement, Governor of Washington Chris Gregoire said, \"The Museum\nof Flight put a tremendous amount of effort into landing a retired shuttle in\nthe Pacific Northwest. As the home of modern day air travel and the 747, which\nhas gracefully transported shuttles for the last 30 years, Seattle would have\nbeen a perfect fit. While the Museum of Flight was in the top running, I’m\ndisappointed that NASA did not choose them. \n\nIn 2008, Endeavour and Atlantis await a journey on their respective launchpads.\nImage: NASA. \n\n\"However, the full fuselage trainer, that every astronaut including [former\nMuseum of Flight CEO] Bonnie Dunbar has been trained on, will soon call the\nMuseum of Flight home. The largest of the trainers, this addition will allow\nvisitors to actually climb aboard the trainer and experience the hands-on\ntraining that astronauts get. Visitors will not be allowed in the other shuttles\nand this trainer is a true win for our dynamic museum. It will help inspire\nyoung people to the adventure of space and to the excitement of a career in\nscience, technology, engineering and math.\" \n\nToday's announcement is an affront to the thousands of dedicated men and women\nat Johnson Space Center, the greater Houston community and the State of Texas,\nand I’m deeply disappointed with the Administration's misguided decision. John\nCornyn, U.S. Senator (R-Texas) \n\nOther items include various shuttle simulators which will be given to the Adler\nPlanetarium in Chicago, Illinois, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum of\nMcMinnville, Oregon, and Texas A&M's Aerospace Engineering Department. The nose\ncap assembly and crew compartment trainer for the National Museum of the U.S.\nAir Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and orbital maneuvering\nsystem engines for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the\nNational Air and Space Museum, and the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. \n\nNASA is also offering shuttle heat shield tiles to schools and universities that\nwant to share technology and a piece of space history with their students. \n\nThe 30th anniversary of the first shuttle mission coincided with the 50th\nanniversary of the first manned space flight when Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard\nVostok 1 into space. \n\nSensitive Canadian document found on rainy streets \n\nFriday, August 15, 2008 \n\nA sensitive Environment Canada document was found wet on an Ottawa street by\nsomeone who gave it to the CBC today. \n\nThe 131-page document was found on Castlefrank Road in Kanata, Ontario in a\nrain-stained, tire-marked brown envelope by a passerby. \n\nThe document which had the stamp Protected B on every page detailed various\nsecurity vulnerabilities of the NEMISIS database which is used by officers to\ntrack and prosecute environmental law-breakers. If someone were able to shut the\nsystem down, or hack inside and delete or corrupt the information, it could\naffect the prosecution of the lawbreakers. \n\nThe database was unveiled in 1999 as the National Enforcement Management\nInformation System and Intelligence System. However, on the document, it\nreferred to the database as National Enforcement and Emergency Management\nInformation System and Intelligence System, adding the words \"and Emergency\" to\nthe name. \n\nProtection B documents are the second lowest grade of classified government\ndocuments. Environment Canada spokesperson Julie Hahn said they apply to letters\nof complaint, criticism or injury, research or scientific notes and findings\nthat don`t have any conclusion, and Treasury Board letters, agendas and minutes\nthat don`t deal with subjects of national interest. \n\nEnvironment Minister John Baird has asked government officials how such\ndocuments that are supposed to be stored in \"approved security cabinets\" wound\nup on the street. \n\n\"I'm told two things: that it's neither classified nor secret and that it's\nstuff that could be available under access to information,\" Baird said. \n\nEnvironment Canada spokeswoman Sujata Raisinghani told CBC News the department\nwill look into the incident. \n\n\"We take document security seriously,\" she said, but refused to give any more\ndetails about how the papers came to be on a road. \n\nPaul Dewar, an Ottawa New Democrat MP, said the combined security lapses raise\nserious questions about the government's ability to secure sensitive documents.\n\nDewar says that bureaucrats of the Conservative government have complained to\nhim about document security to the point that they can`t share the information\nwith their own colleagues. However, when a government document has been found on\nthe streets, the government then says it wasn't particularly sensitive. \n\n\"This government is so consumed with control of information and secrecy yet they\ndon't seem to be able to get the fundamentals right,\" Dewar said. \n\nThe incident is a reminiscent of two other incidents. \n\nIn March, a bundle of blueprints for a new headquarters for the military's\ncounterterrorism unit were found stuffed in the trash on a downtown street. \n\nIn May, Maxime Bernier was forced to resign as Foreign Affairs minister after it\nbecame known that he left sensitive documents at the apartment of his\nthen-girlfriend Julie Couillard who had ties to the Hells Angels biker gang. \n\nSources \n\n\"Sensitive government document found on rainy Ottawa street\" — CBC.ca, August\n15, 2008 \n\n\"Document found on street not secret, say feds\" — The Canadian Press, August 15,\n2008 \n\n\"Environment Canada security report found on street\" — Toronto Star, August 15,\n2008 \n\nPeter Zimonjic. \"MP calls for probe into misplaced documents\" — Edmonton Sun,\nAugust 16, 2008 \n\nCategories: August 15, 2008 Canada Published North America Politics and\nconflicts Environment Canada Archived \n\nAs the Western United States burns up with over seventy forest fires in thirteen\nstates and Germany deals with the aftermath of devastating floods, the world's\nrichest man, not counting Vladimir Putin, rocketed himself up to outer space for\nten minutes at a cost of two point five million dollars every 60 seconds. A\nDemocracy Now! Segment on Thursday looked at the irony and dangers of\nbillionaires fighting to privatize and monopolize space infrastructure while the\nEarth burns due to the man made climate catastrophe. As an example of his utter\nlack of self-awareness, Bezos's own comments, after returning from his space\nadventure, admitted that his wealth is created by not only his customers, but\nhis workers. This, of course, reminds readers and listeners of the ProPublica\nstory that exposed how little he and the billionaire class pay in taxes. They\nare all the undeserving recipients of corporate socialism, making their space\ntours. I'm looking at you, Richard Branson. Just another taxpayer funded\ngiveaway to the richest men among us. And so I reluctantly thank the goddess of\nirony. We live in a country where a living wage for all working men and women is\nsomehow not affordable. But a man who pays almost nothing in taxes is free to go\nto outer space at the taxpayers' expense. Yes, that's on us, the little people.\n\nJohn's up first out of Clifton Park, New York, and independent John, good\nmorning. You're on with David McIntosh of the Club for Growth. \n\nYes, good morning. Thank you. For what C-Span does. Mr. McIntosh, my question to\nyou is, how does the space programs by these various millionaire -- billionaires\n-- It shows the failure of trickle down economics upon which you base a lot of\nyour, you know, your stances and everything. How is -- how is that putting these\nbillions into space instead of improving the conditions of the workers that make\nthese people the richest men on Earth? You know, I'd like a better understanding\non, you know, you're talking about welfare and everything else. Yet at the same\ntoken, you ignore these stances where these billionaires are pouring money into\n-- all this money into space. The only people who are able to fly with them are\nalso billionaires and millionaires. \n\nWell, first of all, I'm actually really happy that it's not a government program\nwhere they're forcing taxpayers to spend the billions of dollars on something\nlike that. You know, my view, honestly, is if somebody's been successful in\ncreating a business and making money and the customers have rewarded them, so\nthey've become a billionaire, if they want to spend it on building a rocket to\nouter space, that's their choice. If they want to spend it on building mansions,\nthey can do that. I -- I don't think it's the right role of government to tell\npeople how to spend their money. \n\nDavid McIntosh, the Club for Growth, can kid himself with his self-assurance, as\nhe did on Washington Journal last Friday, July sixteenth, by believing that the\nspace exploration Bezos partook in was privately funded. But everyone in my\nneighborhood pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes than he pays on\nthe beyond exorbitant and exceedingly gratuitous wealth that he lives off of.\nNot to mention, The Hill Online newspaper reported in late May that a US\ncompetitiveness bill, then being debated on the Senate floor, included ten\nbillion for Bezos's own space exploration company, Blue Origin. This was also\naround the time Bezos had bought MGM for nine billion. So we're expected to\nforklift over, as a simple dinner fork won't cut it, the billions needed for\nhim, again, arguably the richest man on Earth, to acquire more wealth, and as\nthe cherry on top, deliver him one billion more. According to the report\npublished by ProPublica last month, the median American household brings in\naround seventy thousand a year and pays fourteen percent in federal income\ntaxes. In short, Americans subsidized the fruits of Jeff Bezos' midlife crisis.\nCredit to UK journalist Peter Ward for that spot on descriptor. I worry that we\nare getting closer and closer to the experience of the little people in the\nsci-fi film Elysium, starring Matt Damon. In the film, the rich, after\nexploiting the world to the point that it's practically uninhabitable, have\nmoved on to an artificial world, Elysium that might as well be on our moon. And\nthose that remain on Earth, the rest of us, continue working in what could\nrealistically be a future Amazon warehouse. Later in the Democracy Now! segment,\nthe broadcast aired parts of an MSNBC interview with Bezos, who, in completely\nout of touch fashion, adamantly expressed that we should preserve our, quote,\nbeautiful gem, end quote, also known as Earth, by transporting polluting\nindustries to outer space, something he acknowledged would take, quote, decades\nto achieve, end quote. \n\nStrayer knows much of what he knows because of the experiments he runs at his\nApplied Cognition Laboratory in Salt Lake City. Often, he measures how people\nperform one task once they are given a second task. \n\nWe think about multitasking as trying to do two separate, cognitively based\ntasks at the same time. A classic example, one that just about everybody\nattempts to do, is drive a car and talk on a cell phone. We don’t do that well,\nand more and more people have these gadgets in the car they bring with them, or\nthe car itself becomes a platform for multitasking, and we don’t do it well. So,\nit’s probably a big source for the injuries and fatalities and crashes on the\nroad. \n\nNow, it would seem obvious — at least to me, maybe I’m wrong — that not all\nmultitasking is either difficult, and certainly not as dangerous, as driving in\na car and trying to do something else that’s cognitively and/or physically\ndemanding. Can you give me some examples of what you see as benign or, in fact,\nproductive multitasking? \n\nI would actually just say that even the simplest things, like walking and\ntalking, which you’d think would be pretty automatic, turn out to be tasks that\ncompete. So, if you’re walking without talking, as soon as you start talking,\nyou’ll see that the pace of your walk changes, and you may be more likely to\ntrip. Anything that is depending on attention to be able to process the world is\nsusceptible to dual-task interference, or problems associated with multitasking.\nA simple example we give is saying the letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E,\nor counting, one, two, three, four, five. Those are easy. But if you try and\ncombine them and do something like, A1, B2, C3, D4, you’ll quickly find that\nthat becomes difficult, you start to forget where you are. And those are two\nsuper-well-learned tasks that you can do by themselves. But when you try and mix\nthem together, you get all jumbled. As soon as you start to multitask,\nperformance on both of the tasks start to degrade. \n\nNow, how much of that is a function of attempting to multitask versus the fact\nthat we learn habits and patterns and memorize things that become rote, that we\ndon’t need to engage our cognitive process at all? \n\nYou can become automatic at certain aspects of performance. When your\nperformance is habitual or automatic, it is less dependent on attention. So, a\nlot of things kind of just happen without consciously thinking about them. But\nnew things, new activities or new environments, demand you to pay attention, to\nallocate the prefrontal cortex to process some of that information that’s new\nand novel. That’s the real problem, is that if you’re always in a situation\nwhere everything’s exactly routine, you’re not stressing the parts of the brain\nthat are responsible for multitasking. But as soon as you have some novel\nactivity — like talking, like driving a car, riding a bicycle — you have to pay\nattention to what you’re doing. You have to engage the prefrontal executive\nattentional networks. \n\nDo you know anything, or think much about, multitasking and multitasking\nfailures in other high-stakes settings beyond driving, whether it’s military\ndecisions or political decisions, business decisions? \n\nSo we’ve looked in the medical domain, medical human factors: you can see it in\nterms of, say, delivery of medicine at a pharmacy. If the pharmacist is\nconstantly being interrupted with calls, they’re going to fill the prescription\nincorrectly. If an anesthesiologist or a surgeon is distracted by the technology\nin the operating room, that can create a problem. In the operating room, it’s\nnot just the phone, although that’s sometimes present, but you have all the\ndisplays and technology. Each one of those are creating alarms that creates this\nwhirl of noise, and alerts and distractions that compete for the\nanesthesiologist’s and the surgeon’s attention. \n\nSo I’ve been reading about how the modern worker, let’s say in the U.S. — they\ncould be in marketing, they could be at a nonprofit, could be in finance,\nwhatever — that if you’re working with a computer, which describes many, many,\nmany, many of us now obviously, that one big change in the last 15 or 20 years\nis how many pieces of software and how many platforms are — I don’t want to say\nfighting for your attention necessarily, that sounds a little a little more\npejorative than I mean it to be, but how in the course of your workday, you need\nto switch and switch and switch and switch. We all may have multiple pieces of\ncommunication software, multiple pieces of productivity software, and so on. Can\nyou talk about that, what seems to be a relatively low-stakes environment — the\nworkplace in a marketing firm or whatever — but how our attention is being\ncarved up during the course of the day? \n\nI mean, the research shows that you have a loss of productivity when you’re\ntrying to multitask — just the opposite of what you think. So you may think “If\nI’m multitasking, I’m going to get a lot more things done.” But what happens is,\na big chunk of our day is lost as we’re switching from one task to the other to\nthe other. What they find is that the best way to be productive in the office is\nto try and focus on one task at a time, focus on just sending that memo out,\nwriting that email, doing whatever that operation is for a short period of time,\nthen take a break and then come back to it. Don’t try and juggle back and forth\nbecause you’ll get confused, you’ll get lost, you’ll be this — “Where was I?”\nkind of switch cost. \n\nThis year has once again confirmed the importance of the United Nations as the\ntruly indispensable multilateral forum for addressing today’s global problems.\nThe humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, ecological disasters such as\nFukushima, political developments like the Arab Spring and terrorist attacks\nsuch as the assault on the United Nations building in Abuja last August require\nconcerted action by the United Nations and its Member States. Ten years after\n9/11, joint action in the fight against terrorism continues to remain central on\nthe multilateral agenda. \n\nIn the past nine months, we have witnessed momentous changes in the Arab world\nthat nobody expected when we met one year ago. Pressure for change is driven by\nthe wish of women and men to choose their own fate and to improve their chances\nfor a better life. These are legitimate demands. An overwhelming number of young\npeople were at the forefront of this enormous tide, which started in Tunisia and\nEgypt. We should pay tribute to their courage. \n\nIn Libya, thousands lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and democracy.\nIn Syria, and to some extent in Yemen, the suppression is ongoing. Austria\nstrongly condemns the systematic human rights violations and the violence\nagainst peaceful demonstrators. We strongly urge those responsible to\nimmediately stop the bloodshed and to engage in meaningful dialogue and reforms.\n\nAustria supports the Libyan people in its struggle for freedom. Over € 150\nmillion blocked in Austrian bank accounts has been de-frozen for humanitarian\nuse. Both the Austrian Government and private sector have provided medicine,\nrelief supplies and desperately needed fuel to Libya. \n\nThe international community and the United Nations have to support and assist\nthe transition process in the Arab world as the United Nations does now in\nLibya. This period of change may last for some time and will be full of\nchallenges. Austria welcomes all efforts undertaken by Governments in the region\nfor peaceful and credible change. We encourage the newly empowered authorities\nto create a constitutional framework based on democracy and human rights, in\norder to fulfil their mandate for democratic change responsibly and peacefully.\n\nThe events in the Arab world notwithstanding, we must continue to focus on the\nMiddle East peace process. The Middle East took centre stage this week here at\nthe General Assembly — and rightly so. We must build trust and we have to foster\nthe belief among Israelis and Palestinians that a negotiated settlement can be\nachieved — a sustainable solution based on two States living side by side in a\nsecure and peaceful neighbourhood within mutually recognized borders. We have no\nchoice but to return to direct negotiations between the two parties. The\nQuartet, in its statement yesterday, has shown a way to do that and has also\nproposed concrete timelines. Austria fully supports the Quartet statement. There\nis no time to lose. \n\nAustria welcomes President Al-Nasser’s choice of theme for this year’s general\ndebate. We appreciate Qatar’s strong track record in that regard. Last year’s\ntenth anniversary of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on\nwomen, peace and security reminded us that the promise of women’s full and equal\nparticipation in all efforts of maintaining peace and security, including in\nmediation processes, has not yet come true and that we all need to intensify our\nefforts. \n\nIn that context, let me also mention an Austrian contribution to international\nmediation efforts. By inviting political decision-makers from both Khartoum and\nJuba to Vienna in recent years, Austria has managed to offer the two sides a\nplatform for discussion. We are ready to continue to do so. The Sudan and South\nSudan have a shared past and must resolve their remaining problems peacefully.\nThe United Nations headquarters in Vienna serves as a dynamic hub for the\npromotion of peace, security and sustainable development. I am proud to announce\nthat a liaison office of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs will\nopen in Vienna soon. Over the past year, the International Anti-Corruption\nAcademy set up its headquarters near Vienna, and the Vienna Centre for\nDisarmament and Non-Proliferation and an office of the International Peace\nInstitute were established. \n\nAustria fully stands behind the campaign launched by the Secretary-General on\nMonday to achieve universal access to modern energy services. We support\ndoubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and the share of renewable\nenergy in the global energy mix by 2030. \n\nAustria provides substantial support to the energy and environment efforts\nundertaken by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Last June,\nwe hosted the Vienna Energy Forum, where about 1,400 participants discussed\nalternative energy concepts to reach the energy goals of the United Nations. \n\nThe Fukushima nuclear catastrophe should become a turning point in our approach\nto nuclear safety. We owe it to future generations to make safety concerns come\nfirst when using nuclear power. Austria decided, in 1978, to forgo the use of\nnuclear energy. Some countries have recently adopted a similar course, which we\nwelcome. \n\nI wish to make a ministerial statement about the first confirmed case of\nCOVID-19 in New Zealand. \n\nOn Friday, 28 February, New Zealand recorded its first case of the COVID-19\ncoronavirus, becoming the 48th country to have a confirmed case. The individual\nhad entered the country two days earlier after spending some weeks in Iran,\nwhich is currently experiencing a sizable outbreak of the disease. I can report\nto the House that they are currently in a stable and improving condition at\nAuckland Hospital. The good news in this instance is that the individual had\nlimited contact with people upon their return to the country, and their family\ntook all the appropriate measures when presenting at the emergency department. \n\nAs you would expect, our public health service is working hard to contain this\nfirst case and limit the risk of any spread of the disease. Contact tracing\nbegan immediately and has gone to plan. All 15 people who were seated nearby the\nindividual on their flight into New Zealand have been traced and are being told\nto self-isolate. Public health staff will remain in touch with individuals to\nmonitor the situation and give ongoing advice. All but 10 of the remaining\npassengers on the flight, who are not considered to be close contacts, have also\nbeen contacted to provide reassurance and answer any questions they might have;\nthose 10 that haven't been contacted did not provide accurate contact\ninformation. I'm advised that as a result of our decisive response, the chance\nof an outbreak from our first case is low. \n\nInternationally, the situation with COVID-19 continues to develop at pace.\nHowever, the Director-General of the World Health Organization said, this\nmorning, containment … is feasible and must remain the top priority for all\ncountries. This is exactly the approach that New Zealand is taking, using three\nmain tools: border controls; self-isolation; and good public health practices,\nincluding highlighting the importance of basic hygiene. \n\nAt every step, the Government has taken decisions in the interests of health and\nsafety of the wider public, and so far we have been among the best at keeping\nCOVID-19 at bay. Just yesterday, Cabinet decided to extend for another week the\ntravel restrictions that have been in place for China since 3 February and for\nIran since last Friday. These restrictions have played a key role in keeping\nCOVID-19 out of New Zealand for so long and have given us time to better\nunderstand the disease and ramp up our preparations. \n\nOf course, members will be aware that there are outbreaks in other regions as\nwell. So, as a further precaution, we have decided that anyone arriving in New\nZealand who has been in northern Italy or South Korea who has been there in the\nlast 14 days will be registered for self-isolation. This is based on an expert\nassessment of risk. It recognises that while there are outbreaks in both\ncountries, they also have well-developed health systems and the outbreaks are\nlargely located in specific regions. \n\nWe know self-isolation works. It is a longstanding and successful approach to\nmanaging infectious diseases and has proven its worth again in recent weeks. We\nhave also stepped up the health presence at our airports. All airlines flying\ninto New Zealand have been requested to read a health message upon landing, and\nall arrivals into New Zealand will receive health information cards alongside\nthe standard customs declaration form. \n\nAs a result of decisions taken on Friday, health staff are meeting all direct\ninternational flights landing in New Zealand airports from Hong Kong, Japan,\nSouth Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. Our border response is further ramping up\nto have health staff available for all international flights into New Zealand.\nAll these decisions and actions are designed to limit the spread of any sporadic\nCOVID-19 cases that might arrive in New Zealand. \n\nAt the same time, our health system continues its preparations in line with our\ncomprehensive pandemic plan. I want to thank our DHBs, public health staff, and\nprimary care and health officials for the work they are doing to protect the\npublic. I have high confidence in our medical professionals. We have a strong\npublic health system. We continue to work to keep COVID-19 out, but we are ready\nif it arrives in our community. \n\n2.1 Early Ideas in Atomic Theory \n\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to: \n\nState the postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory \n\nUse postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory to explain the laws of definite and\nmultiple proportions \n\nThe earliest recorded discussion of the basic structure of matter comes from\nancient Greek philosophers, the scientists of their day. In the fifth century\nBC, Leucippus and Democritus argued that all matter was composed of small,\nfinite particles that they called atomos, a term derived from the Greek word for\n“indivisible.” They thought of atoms as moving particles that differed in shape\nand size, and which could join together. Later, Aristotle and others came to the\nconclusion that matter consisted of various combinations of the four “elements”\n—fire, earth, air, and water—and could be infinitely divided. Interestingly,\nthese philosophers thought about atoms and “elements” as philosophical concepts,\nbut apparently never considered performing experiments to test their ideas. \n\nThe Aristotelian view of the composition of matter held sway for over two\nthousand years, until English schoolteacher John Dalton helped to revolutionize\nchemistry with his hypothesis that the behavior of matter could be explained\nusing an atomic theory. First published in 1807, many of Dalton’s hypotheses\nabout the microscopic features of matter are still valid in modern atomic\ntheory. Here are the postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory. \n\n1. Matter is composed of exceedingly small particles called atoms. An atom is\nthe smallest unit of an element that can participate in a chemical change. \n\n2. An element consists of only one type of atom, which has a mass that is\ncharacteristic of the element and is the same for all atoms of that element\n(Figure 2.2). A macroscopic sample of an element contains an incredibly large\nnumber of atoms, all of which have identical chemical properties. \n\nFigure 2.2 A pre-1982 copper penny (left) contains approximately 3 ×× 1022\ncopper atoms (several dozen are represented as brown spheres at the right), each\nof which has the same chemical properties. (credit: modification of work by\n“slgckgc” / Flickr) \n\n3. Atoms of one element differ in properties from atoms of all other elements. \n\n4. A compound consists of atoms of two or more elements combined in a small,\nwhole-number ratio. In a given compound, the numbers of atoms of each of its\nelements are always present in the same ratio (Figure 2.3). \n\nFigure 2.3 Copper(II) oxide, a powdery, black compound, results from the\ncombination of two types of atoms—copper (brown spheres) and oxygen (red\nspheres)—in a 1:1 ratio. (credit: modification of work by\n“Chemicalinterest”/Wikimedia Commons) \n\n5. Atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a chemical change, but are\ninstead rearranged to yield substances that are different from those present\nbefore the change (Figure 2.4). \n\nFigure 2.4 When the elements copper (a shiny, red-brown solid, shown here as\nbrown spheres) and oxygen (a clear and colorless gas, shown here as red spheres)\nreact, their atoms rearrange to form a compound containing copper and oxygen (a\npowdery, black solid). (credit copper: modification of work by\nhttp://images-of-elements.com/copper.php) \n\nDalton’s atomic theory provides a microscopic explanation of the many\nmacroscopic properties of matter that you’ve learned about. For example, if an\nelement such as copper consists of only one kind of atom, then it cannot be\nbroken down into simpler substances, that is, into substances composed of fewer\ntypes of atoms. And if atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a chemical\nchange, then the total mass of matter present when matter changes from one type\nto another will remain constant (the law of conservation of matter). \n\nEXAMPLE 2.1 \n\nTesting Dalton’s Atomic Theory \n\nIn the following drawing, the green spheres represent atoms of a certain\nelement. The purple spheres represent atoms of another element. If the spheres\ntouch, they are part of a single unit of a compound. Does the following chemical\nchange represented by these symbols violate any of the ideas of Dalton’s atomic\ntheory? If so, which one? \n\nSolution \n\nThe starting materials consist of two green spheres and two purple spheres. The\nproducts consist of only one green sphere and one purple sphere. This violates\nDalton’s postulate that atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a\nchemical change, but are merely redistributed. (In this case, atoms appear to\nhave been destroyed.) \n\nCheck Your Learning \n\nIn the following drawing, the green spheres represent atoms of a certain\nelement. The purple spheres represent atoms of another element. If the spheres\ntouch, they are part of a single unit of a compound. Does the following chemical\nchange represented by these symbols violate any of the ideas of Dalton’s atomic\ntheory? If so, which one? \n\nANSWER: \n\nThe starting materials consist of four green spheres and two purple spheres. The\nproducts consist of four green spheres and two purple spheres. This does not\nviolate any of Dalton’s postulates: Atoms are neither created nor destroyed, but\nare redistributed in small, whole-number ratios. \n\n15.4 The Union Triumphant \n\nLearning Objectives \n\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to: \n\nDescribe the reasons why many Americans doubted that Abraham Lincoln would be\nreelected \n\nExplain how the Union forces overpowered the Confederacy \n\nDescribe the contributions and experiences of African Americans serving in the\nCivil War \n\nBy the outset of 1864, after three years of war, the Union had mobilized its\nresources for the ongoing struggle on a massive scale. The government had\noverseen the construction of new railroad lines and for the first time used\nstandardized rail tracks that allowed the North to move men and materials with\ngreater ease. The North’s economy had shifted to a wartime model. The\nConfederacy also mobilized, perhaps to a greater degree than the Union, its\nefforts to secure independence and maintain slavery. Yet the Confederacy\nexperienced ever - greater hardships after years of war. Without the population\nof the North, it faced a shortage of manpower. The lack of industry, compared to\nthe North, undercut the ability to sustain and wage war. Rampant inflation as\nwell as food shortages in the South lowered morale. \n\nTHE RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPE \n\nFrom the beginning of the war, the Confederacy placed great hope in being\nrecognized and supported by Great Britain and France. European intervention in\nthe conflict remained a strong possibility, but when it did occur, it was not in\na way anticipated by either the Confederacy or the Union. \n\nNapoleon III of France believed the Civil War presented an opportunity for him\nto restore a French empire in the Americas. With the United States preoccupied,\nthe time seemed ripe for action. Napoleon’s target was Mexico, and in 1861, a\nlarge French fleet took Veracruz. The French then moved to capture Mexico City,\nbut the advance came to an end when Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862.\nDespite this setback, France eventually did conquer Mexico, establishing a\nregime that lasted until 1867. Rather than coming to the aid of the Confederacy,\nFrance used the Civil War to provide a pretext for efforts to reestablish its\nformer eighteenth - century colonial holdings. \n\nStill, the Confederacy had great confidence that it would find an ally in Great\nBritain despite the antislavery sentiment there. Southerners hoped Britain’s\ndependence on cotton for its textile mills would keep the country on their side.\nThe fact that the British proved willing to build and sell ironclad ships\nintended to smash through the Union naval blockade further raised Southern\nhopes. The Confederacy purchased two of these armored blockade runners, the CSS\nFlorida and the CSS Alabama. Both were destroyed during the war. \n\nThe Confederacy’s staunch commitment to slavery eventually worked against\nBritish recognition and support, since Great Britain had abolished slavery in\n1833. The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation ended any doubts the British had about\nthe goals of the Union cause. In the aftermath of the proclamation, many in\nGreat Britain cheered for a Union victory. Ultimately, Great Britain, like\nFrance, disappointed the Confederacy’s hope of an alliance, leaving the\noutnumbered and out - resourced states that had left the Union to fend for\nthemselves. \n\nAFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS \n\nAt the beginning of the war, in 1861 and 1862, Union forces had used\ncontrabands, or escaped enslaved people, for manual labor. The Emancipation\nProclamation, however, led to the enrollment of African American men as Union\nsoldiers. Huge numbers of formerly enslaved as well as free Black people from\nthe North enlisted, and by the end of the war in 1865, their numbers had swelled\nto over 190,000. Racism among White people in the Union army ran deep, however,\nfueling the belief that Black soldiers could never be effective or trustworthy.\nThe Union also feared for the fate of captured Black soldiers. Although many\nBlack soldiers saw combat duty, these factors affected the types of tasks\nassigned to them. Many Black regiments were limited to hauling supplies, serving\nas cooks, digging trenches, and doing other types of labor, rather than serving\non the battlefield (Figure 15.16). \n\nFigure 15.16 This 1865 daguerreotype illustrates three of the Union’s distinct\nadvantages: African American soldiers, a stream of cannons and supplies, and an\nextensive railroad grid. (credit: Library of Congress) \n\nAfrican American soldiers also received lower wages than their White\ncounterparts: ten dollars per month, with three dollars deducted for clothing.\nWhite soldiers, in contrast, received thirteen dollars monthly, with no\ndeductions. Abolitionists and their Republican supporters in Congress worked to\ncorrect this discriminatory practice, and in 1864, Black soldiers began to\nreceive the same pay as White soldiers plus retroactive pay to 1863 (Figure\n15.17). \n\nFigure 15.17 African American and White soldiers of the Union army pose together\nin this photograph, although in reality, Black soldiers were often kept separate\nand given only menial jobs. \n\nFor their part, African American soldiers welcomed the opportunity to prove\nthemselves. Some 85 percent were formerly enslaved people who were fighting for\nthe liberation of all of the enslaved and the end of slavery. When given the\nopportunity to serve, many Black regiments did so heroically. One such regiment,\nthe Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, distinguished itself at\nFort Wagner in South Carolina by fighting valiantly against an entrenched\nConfederate position. They willingly gave their lives for the cause. \n\nThe Confederacy, not surprisingly, showed no mercy to African American troops.\nIn April 1864, Southern forces attempted to take Fort Pillow in Tennessee from\nthe Union forces that had captured it in 1862. Confederate troops under Major\nGeneral Nathan Bedford Forrest, the future founder of the Ku Klux Klan, quickly\noverran the fort, and the Union defenders surrendered. Instead of taking the\nAfrican American soldiers prisoner, as they did the White soldiers, the\nConfederates executed them. The massacre outraged the North, and the Union\nrefused to engage in any future exchanges of prisoners with the Confederacy. \n\nWhat is up guys? Kharma Medic here and welcome back to another dose. So in\ntoday's video, I'm finally gonna be doing a room tour. I know this is something\nthat you guys have requested for a very long time, and after two and a half\nyears of living here, I finally feel like I've made it my own and decorated it\nhow I want, and I'm ready to show it to you guys. Alright so let's start off\nwith the bed and the couch area. Honestly, if I was redoing this from the\nbeginning, I would have really liked to have a double bed in this room, but,\nunfortunately, with the space as you can probably see from that wall there till\nthe door, it's basically just enough to fit a bed and a couch, and this is my\ncouch over here. I've recently changed it, and if you've been following my\nchannel for a long time, then you'll know I'm really proud of how I color match\nthe pictures on the wall over here with sort of the gray and yellow vibe, the\ngray and yellow cushions. This couch is also quite big, it fits three people\nquite comfortably, and if I have family or friends staying over, it opens up\ninto a full double bed. This coffee table over here, it's glass and has two\nlevels, so it's really good when we have multiple friends over, and we have lots\nof food to put on the table, or if we're playing board games, we can have people\nsit around it, and still have a lot of space to lay everything out. So there's\nnothing too special about the bed itself, but it does have a very important\nfunction, which, it has a lot of storage. So down here is basically where I keep\neverything that I can't really keep in my room, because there's not enough\nspace. I've got an ironing board, all of my suitcases, socks, clothes that I\ndon't wear that often, anything that I need for fixing the house like\nscrewdrivers, drills, nails, all these things that I definitely wouldn't want to\nhave laid out in my room, but I still need somewhere in the house. I love that\nthis room has floor-to-ceiling windows as well, it really lets the light come\nin, especially in the summer time. I know London doesn't have that much light,\nbut I'll take as much as I can, and there's also a small balcony out here, which\nis fairly rare for London. We have two chairs where we can sit down and sort of\nenjoy the weather when it is a little bit better, um but now it's really cold so\njust gonna close it. And then a little behind the scenes that you probably will\nnever see again in a video is that down here I keep all of the filming gear that\ndoesn't really fit anywhere else in the room: two sets of tripods, I also have a\nc-stand. Okay next to my bed, I've got the radio alarm clock, and this has\nactually changed my life. It makes waking up in the morning and getting out of\nbed at 6:00 a.m. when it's pitch black outside so much easier when you're waking\nup really early. It's so much better to wake up to the sound of somebody talking\nto you: your favorite radio station, some music, whatever, instead of that\nclassic iPhone alarm, \"ba, ba, ba.\" Over here on the wall, these are posters\nthat I actually bought back in 2013 in my first year of university in Toronto,\nand I really really liked them so I've kept them around. Also I'm really proud\nthat I managed to put them up all by myself, they look quite neat, and I feel\nlike they're equally spaced, so I'm really proud of how they turned out. \n\nHey what's up guys? Welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. Today\nI'm doing another college day in my life. And I just left Starbucks, don't mind\nwhat I look like. I literally just pretty much woke up and left this morning.\nI'm starting the review for all the chapters for my final exam, and it is a lot\nof information so I already planned on getting up early today and going. And\nthen I'm gonna do the same thing tomorrow. I basically like created a digital\ncalendar where I'm gonna go over each of the chapters, just because I only have\none week left to study. I'm back home now, and I basically just typed up a\nlittle calendar laying out the chapters that I have left to review before\nTuesday. That's my final list and I hate that, like, this week is our\nThanksgiving break and then we literally come back Tuesday and take our final.\nSo I'm gonna be studying on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and the whole\nweekend even though we're going getting our Christmas tree I think on Saturday,\nand I I'm not decorating I'm not doing anything fun, like I have to study. I\nthought I would show you guys kind of how I'm mapping this out, because it's a\nreally good tip if you have like a lot to do. So today I'm doing female\nreproductive system, male reproductive system tomorrow. I work on Wednesday, I'm\ngoing to go over chapter 29 fluid balance, chapter 28 so urinary system on the\n29th. The 30th, Chapters 17 through 22 - yes that's like six chapters or\nsomething. And then on Sunday, I'll be doing chapters 23 through 27 and I just\nmade this on my iPad and then printed it. I did not include my schedule for\ncollege algebra because I have a final on Thursday of next week for that. So I'm\ngoing to go in with like a different color and add in the chapters I'm gonna be\nstudying for that, but I'm super stressed. I bought these Vans from DSW. They\nare really cute. You guys know I have the white ones and I wear them all the\ntime and these ones are just like black perforated Vans. I love them and they\nare definitely the right size because I have two other pairs of Vans that are\nthis size, but one of these ones is like messed up or something. I think it's\nlike this part on the left foot because my foot feels super tight in only the\nleft side, so something's up because they're both the right size but I don't\nknow. So I'm gonna exchange them for another pair because something's not right\nabout that. Hey guys. So I just got finished at the library. I just sat in there\nfor like an hour and a half straight and studied. I'm really proud of myself and\nnow I'm about to go get some lunch, and go to DSW and see if I can exchange\nthose Vans. So while I was in the library one of you guys came up to me, and\nsaid hi. I feel so bad because I was so in the zone that I didn't even get her\nname. But if you're watching this, hi thank you so much for coming and saying hi\nto me you actually made my whole day. She said she watches my videos and loves\nthem. And you guys are so sweet, I love making videos and it's so nice to have\nthat support. So if you do go to FGCU and you ever see me on campus, like feel\nfree to say hi because you'll make my day. I just got out of DSW, and I spent\nlike 30 minutes in there because it was just such a process for them to do an\nexchange. And then she had to scan and go get the shoes and then she said they\ndidn't have the size. So I ended up having to order them, but she said there was\nno way to do a direct exchange. So she had to give me a return and then re-ring\nit up. And oh my gosh I was literally in there for like 25 minutes all to just\ndo a simple exchange for the exact same shoe. But it's over now and they're\ngonna send them to me in the mail. Hopefully they'll be here in about a week.\nI'm just kind of sad that they didn't have them in stock, so now I have to wait.\nBut oh well it's over with now, we're gonna go get lunch. \n\nUnderstand \n\nSome of the distinctive skyline of Downtown, including the Kaiser Building and\nthe Cathedral of Christ the Light. \n\nOften overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor lying directly to the\nwest, Oakland has in recent years began to step out from under the shadows,\nplaying upon the beautiful highlights of its own and its rise as the\nmulticultural \"hipster' city of the Bay Area. \n\nSince the 1960s, Oakland has been a hub of radical culture, and is the\nbirthplace of both the Black Panther Party and the Hell's Angels. Oakland's\nhistory in the arts and entertainment arena is notable as well, as Oakland has\nnurtured or been a second home to novelists Gertrude Stein, Jack London, Amy\nTan, and Maya Angelou; actors Meryl Streep, Mark Hamill, Bruce Lee, and Tom\nHanks; architect Julia \"Butterfly\" Hill; classical conductor Calvin Simmons;\nrappers MC Hammer, 2Pac, Messy Marv, and several other notables in the liberal\narts and sciences. \n\nOakland as a city reflects the amazing diversity of its residents and long\nhistory. For many visitors, the first place they are likely to visit is\nDowntown, especially if they are in town on business, or simply do not know\nwhere to start. The center of transportation by BART and by bus is there, if one\nwants to branch out. And it is as simple as walking in a direction from there,\nfor the first few neighborhoods, since Old Oakland is along 10th Street, just\nwest of Broadway. Just east of Broadway and continuing north and south is\nOakland's famous Chinatown, and that to get the real essence of \"Chinatown,\"\nOakland rather than San Francisco is your best bet. Many of the buildings and\nstreets of Chinatown reflect the diverse nature of its history, in architecture\nand in the bilingual signs seen throughout the neighborhood. \n\nThe curious traveler can venture to take a bus southwards along Broadway, and\ncome to Jack London Square. The unlikely mixture of warehouses and very\nexpensive restaurants and posh atmosphere alongside some of the landmarks of the\ncity's waterfront makes the Square an interesting place to visit and explore,\neven for locals. It's the home of the USS Potomac and the site of the namesake\nauthor's residence, still preserved and humbly standing not far from a saloon\nfrom the same era. \n\nJust west of Downtown and slightly north of the Financial District is Uptown. In\nthe evening it buzzes with art galleries, theaters and residents and Bay Area\nvisitors coming into the area to see concerts. A popular area on the weekend\nwith a mixed vibe of hipster and hip hop. It's a burgeoning neighborhood of\nperforming arts ranging from nightclubs to music halls, avant-garde performance\nart, and even an improv theater company. Uptown also has some of the best in the\ncity's vintage architecture, like the Gothic Revival Cathedral Building and the\nArt Deco Fox and Paramount Theaters, as well as several restaurants. \n\nNorth Oakland is a sweeping term, referring to just about everywhere north of\nUptown and Lake Merritt. Many of the neighborhoods are commercial centers and\nabsolute heaven for foodies or those who seek quieter surroundings than the\nhustle and bustle of Downtown and Chinatown. Temescal is a neighborhood that\nlies north-northwest from Downtown, centered along the reach of Telegraph\nAvenue, at and near 51st Street. Until the 1960s, a dominantly Italian-American\nneighborhood, it is now a much more diversified neighborhood, home to many\nrestaurants, including some of the city's best Korean and Ethiopian\nestablishments. Northeast of Temescal and near the Berkeley border lies\nRockridge, a neighborhood mixed with family friendly and artistic vibes. It has\nlots of local boutiques and a diverse range of food at all prices and styles.\nOpen-air markets, bookstores, and a BART station all its own make Rockridge\nanother of many pleasant stops in North Oakland. South of Rockridge, and\nsoutheast of Temescal lies Piedmont Avenue, a street extending from Broadway\nnear 34th and Hawthorne and an area with a group of hospitals on a hill (Pill\nHill) up and through a neighborhood bordered on both sides by picturesque hills,\nhouses and trees. Another of North Oakland's group of foodie spots, home to the\ncity's single Michelin-rated restaurant and many others; cafes, ice cream,\ncoffee shops and pleasant walks complete the vision of this interesting and\nquiet neighborhood. East along I-580 and not far from Piedmont Avenue are two\nneighborhoods separated by a couple of blocks. Grand Lake and Lakeshore both\nshare a friendly, suburban sort of feel. The Grand Lake Theater stands at the\nentrance to the neighborhood that bears its name, a matter of a few hundred feet\nfrom Lakeshore Avenue – both are diverse neighborhoods no matter what your\nbudget, be it burgers or sandwiches or a full romantic evening, either of these\ntwin-sister neighborhoods will make a pleasant time, by day or night. \n\nWest Oakland was once a burgeoning working-class neighborhood with its roots\ntracing as far back as the opening decades of the 19th century. It has seen a\nperiod of decline between the 1960s and the more recent past. Strangely, twice\nin its history the neighborhood has seen benefits from major earthquakes. After\nthe 1906 earthquake, many San Franciscans relocated there, and the industrial\ndevelopment of the 20s and 30s saw its population in the hundreds of thousands.\nWith Loma Prieta in 1989, the effective barrier of the Cypress Street Overpass\nwas destroyed, and the decades since have seen the rebuilding and refurbishing\nof many of the neighborhood's original Victorian houses, and there is a\nburgeoning performing arts community growing near the center of the\nneighborhood. Though there are a few draws for the traveler, West Oakland is\ndominantly a very poor working-class residential neighborhood with a less than\nspectacular reputation. \n\nVava’u is a group of more than 50 islands in Tonga, about 150 miles north of\nTongatapu. They are either raised coral limestone or coral atolls. The beautiful\nharbour opposite the main town of Neiafu (known as the Port of Refuge Harbour)\nis a common destination for yachties sailing the South Pacific. The waters of\nthe islands are known for their clarity, it being said that you can see the\nbottom at 40 metres. The area attracts many humpback whales between June and\nNovember and there are lots of companies organising tours to see them. There are\nnumerous places to stay to suit most budgets. \n\nUnderstand \n\nFindings of Lapita pottery suggest that early-Polynesians were on these islands\nclose to 3000 years ago. These days there are around 20000 people living in the\nGroup. Neiafu and surrounding villages are home to about a third of the Group’s\noverall population of around 20000, with the majority of the population living\nin small villages on the other islands. Neiafu is the official port of entry for\nyachts coming to Vava'u, which attracts over 500 yachts every winter sailing\nseason between June and October. A string of islands and reefs along the eastern\nedge of the Group shelters the area from strong winds and ocean swellS and\nhumpback whales come to these protected waters to give birth. This is the high\nseason for tourism; between December and April few people visit and many tour\ncompanies and restaurants close down. Neiafu town is the centre of activity. It\nis on the southern point of the main island of Utu Vava'u and has an attractive\nsetting on one of the world's most beautiful harbours. Neiafu offers all the\nusual amenities including banks, schools, tour companies, restaurants, cafes and\nbars, supermarkets, a market and a hospital. It doesn't have a beach but boats\nto one of the nearby coral atolls with superb sandy beaches are easily\navailable. \n\nClimate \n\nVava'u has a tropical climate with average temperatures up to 29 ºC in January\nand down to 24º C in June. It is sunny throughout the year. Between November and\nApril, it is more humid and thunderstorms and cyclones do occur. From May to\nSeptember there are southeast trade winds but during the summer months the winds\nare from the northeast. \n\nPort of Refuge Harbor at Neiafu \n\nOrientation \n\nThe main islands are: Utu Vava'u. \n\nThis is the largest island, where Neiafu is found. It is a limestone island with\nheights up to 213 m in the west. The island provides a home to eleven indigenous\nbird species and contains Mt. Talau national park, with some of the limited\nremaining native vegetation. Tropical vegetation includes the pandanus or screw\npine, the casuarina, and the mulberry tree, the bark of which is used to make\ntapa cloth. \n\nPangaimotu. \n\nThis is the second largest island in the Group. It can be seen across the water\nfrom Neiafu and is connected by land bridge at the most southern point of ‘Utu\nVava’u. \n\nThere are some good beaches and plenty of secluded cove beaches and protected\nbays with good snorkelling. Avai'o'vuna Swamp is a small coastal wetland on the\nisland. \n\nHunga Island. \n\nThis is some 35 minutes from Neiafu Harbour and provides the main concentration\nof humpback whales. The island lies in deep water and has sheltered waters and\nbays which provide a resting place for humpbacks with calves. \n\nHow to Grow Beavertail Cactus \n\nThe Beavertail Cactus (Opunitia basilares), found primarily in the Mojave Desert\nand northwest Mexico; can grow to be about 24 inches (60 cm) high; has pads that\nlook like beavertails; and yields red or purple flowers from spring to early\nsummer. Growing Beavertail can be done at any time of year by scattering seeds\nin a shady bed or, for faster results, planting cuttings in a mix of soil and\nsand and ensuring that they have a bit of water and plenty of sun. Read the\nfollowing steps to find out how to grow Beavertail cactus. \n\nMethod 1 of 2: From Seeds \n\nPurchase Beavertail cactus seeds. These can be bought at garden centers or\npurchased online. \n\nScatter the seeds. \n\nIn a shady garden bed, simply scatter the seeds on the soil. There's no need to\ncover them, unless you want to use netting to keep the birds off. Keep the soil\nmoist until the seeds germinate. \n\nMake sure that the garden bed is in the shade. Beavertail cacti seeds need shade\nto grow, whereas cuttings need plenty of direct sunlight. \n\nBe aware that growing Beavertail cactus from seeds takes much longer than\ngrowing one from a cutting. It can take as long as 4 to 4 years before you get\nflowers. \n\nMethod 2 of 2: From Cuttings \n\nObtain Beavertail cuttings. \n\nYou can purchase them online or at a local garden center. \n\nIf you already own a Beavertail cactus, you can make your own cuttings. To do\nthis, choose pads (the flat, oval-shaped sections that make up a cactus) that\nare 6 months old or older and cut them at the base. In order to form a callous\nand prevent rot, cure the cuttings by sitting the pad upright in a dry, dark\nplace for 10 to 14 days. \n\nPlant the cuttings. \n\nPrepare a potting mix that is equal parts soil and rough pumice or sand and fill\nthe appropriate number of pots with it. Make sure there are holes in the center\nof the base of each pot to allow for good drainage. \n\nSet the cuttings upright in the potting mix about an inch (2.5 cm.) deep. If you\nplant the cuttings too deep, they might rot. \n\nPut some rocks around the pad to anchor it in place. \n\nChoose a spot for your Beavertail cactus cuttings. \n\nIf you live in an area with strong summer sun, position the cuttings so that the\nbroad sides of the cuttings face east and west while the slim sides face north\nand south. This will prevent the cuttings from burning during the hottest part\nof the day. \n\nMake sure the spot is sheltered from any cold winter winds. \n\nWait for a month. \n\nDo not water the cutting for the first month. The moisture in the pad will\nprovide enough nutrients for roots to grow. Too much water might cause rot. \n\nAfter 1 month, roots will have sprouted and you can water the cutting for the\nfirst time. \n\nAlways let the soil dry before you water the cuttings. Once fully rooted, they\nare extremely drought resistant. \n\nFertilize the plants. \n\nDuring the spring, summer, and fall, the Beavertail cactus grows and will\nbenefit from a balanced fertilizer. \n\nLet the cuttings grow. \n\nFrom the first pad, many more will form. The second or third pad will bear some\nflowers, but wait before harvesting them or you might affect the size of future\nharvests. \n\nHow to Get Rid of Mice Naturally \n\nHaving mice in your home is both a nuisance and a health hazard. They can cause\nproperty damage, create a mess, and produce unpleasant smells. In addition,\nrepelling and removing rodents from your home can be a hassle if you don't know\nwhat you are doing. It can also be dangerous if you use toxic chemicals and\npoisons. It's a good thing, then, that there are some simple ways to effectively\nget mice out of your home without the use of toxic chemicals and poisons. \n\nMethod 1 Discouraging Mice Naturally \n\nKeep your home clean. Many times mice are drawn into homes on the search for\nfood. If there is nothing to eat, mice will be less likely to stay. Keep all\nfood stored properly in airtight containers or in places that are safe from\nmouse attack. [1] \n\nApply peppermint oil. Peppermint oil is a natural deterrent. The smell is simply\ntoo intense for rodents and they will not try to go near it. It also helps to\nmask the scent of any tasty morsels that have been missed when cleaning. It also\ngives the house a lovely smell, and is not toxic, unlike many synthetic chemical\ntreatments. You can get peppermint oil in most health food stores and even some\nmajor grocery stores. [2] \n\nPlace a drop or two on a cotton ball. \n\nPlace a cotton ball under or near your garbage can to deter mice from getting\ninto it. \n\nPlace the cotton balls in areas where mice are likely to enter your house, by\ndoorways, or heat vents, etc. \n\nPeppermint oil cotton balls need to be replaced after 5 - 7 days, depending upon\nthe quantity of oil you put on it. \n\nTry growing peppermint plants near the entryways. You can use the mint in\ncooking, as well as it serving a deterrent purpose. \n\nUse dried snake feces. Visit a local reptile center, zoo, or pet store and ask\nfor some dried snake poo. You can also sometimes find someone who owns a pet\nsnake. Place near entrances and in places where mice seem to go. This will keep\nmice away. [3] \n\nBe sure to keep the feces out of the reach of children and pets. \n\nZap mice with ultrasonic sounds. There are electronic units sold that emit an\nultrasonic beeping sound that rodents hate. They should be available at your\nlocal home improvement store or online. \n\nThese work only on a single line of sight, so you need to know the exact path\nthe mice are taking. \n\nThe units may only work for a short time because mice can become used to them.\n[4] \n\nUse a commercial, organic deterrent. Many companies that specialize in organic\ngarden and home products make mice repellents that are better for the\nenvironment than traditional poisons. Many of these products use natural\ningredients, such as peppermint, that are known to be disagreeable to mice. They\nwill not kill mice but they should keep them out of areas where the product is\napplied. \n\nThese products should be available at your local gardening or home improvement\ncenter. If you want a specific product, try doing a online search to see where\nit is available locally. \n\nGet a cat. A house cat can take care of the problem. Cats that spend time\noutdoors are more likely to hunt to find their own food and may track down that\nmouse. Just be aware, not all cats have enough energy, interest or training to\nhunt mice. Kittens typically have to be taught by the mother to easily become a\nmouser. Well-food indoor kitties might just see the mouse as a toy, and grow\nquickly bored of it after scaring it half witless. \n\nShelters and adoption agencies often do not know if a cat is a good mouse\nhunter, and generally do not test for this. Sometimes this information is\navailable, but usually not. \n\nWhile many mousers are great pets as well, not all are. \"Barn cats\" may not be\nsocialized well with humans, although used to hunting mice for food. \n\nEven if you do not have a cat, you can use used kitty litter to deter mice.\nPlace tubs of used kitty litter around entrances of the house. The mice will\nsniff the smell of cat urine and clear off in a jiffy. \n\nIf you have a large infestation, a cat may not be enough to totally get rid of\nit. However, once you eliminate the infestation, a cat will probably prevent\nreinfestation. [5] \n\nPut your trash cans far from your home. Mice smell garbage and get attracted to\nyour house. If you keep the cans away from the house, they are less likely to\ntake up residence in your home. \n\nPromote the nesting of birds of prey in your yard. Build a shelter box in your\ngarden to attract some onto your property. This may take some time, but it's\nworth the effort if you can attract a wild mouse eater to your yard. [6] \n\nMake sure the shelter box has no nails or safety hazards. \n\nA barn owl is the best. 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been the focus of much\nsocial science research. [1 - 3]", " Sociologists have explored the adverse\nconsequences of discrimination [3 – 5];", " psychologists have examined the mental\nprocesses that underpin conscious and unconscious biases [6];", " neuroscientists\nhave examined the neurobiological underpinnings of discrimination [7 – 9];", " and\nevolutionary theorists have explored the various ways that in-group / out-group\nbiases emerged across the history of our species. [10]", " In many respects,\nresearchers already possess a wealth of knowledge concerning the origins and\nconsequences of discrimination and bias. [11]", " \n\nWhat also should not be lost in discussion of discrimination is the growing push\nto implement social policy aimed at reducing the occurrence of discriminatory\npractices.", " Mandatory diversity trainings in professional settings, for example,\nare intended to reduce bias in the workplace by increasing the awareness of\nemployees regarding the challenges facing minority group members. [12]", " Indeed,\nthe implementation of certain policies is rooted in the assumption that\ndiscrimination and biases are, at least to some appreciable amount, present in\nmodern society.", " \n\nEven so, estimates of the prevalence of perceived discrimination remains rare\n(see [13 – 14]).", " At least one prior study by Kessler and colleagues [15],\nhowever, using measures of perceived discrimination in a large American sample,\nreported that approximately 33% of respondents reported some form of\ndiscrimination (see also, Gibbons et al. [4]).", " The current study seeks to build\non this research by estimating the prevalence of discrimination experiences\namong a large, nationally representative sample of adults from the United\nStates.", " Additionally, the analysis address the perceived reasons for reported\ndiscrimination experiences.", " \n\nReason for discrimination.", " \n\nAll respondents who indicated they were discriminated against — specifically,\nthose who responded with sometimes or often to the perceived discrimination\nmeasure described above — were asked the following question:", " \n\n“What do you think was the main reason for these experiences?”", " Respondents were\nallowed to choose one response from 11 categories.", " For the present analysis,\nthese responses were recoded into nine mutually exclusive categories capturing\nthe following options:", " \n\nrace / ancestry / skin color;", " \n\ngender;", " \n\nage;", " \n\nreligion;", " \n\nheight or weight;", " \n\nsexual orientation;", " \n\neducation or income;", " \n\nphysical disability;", " \n\nand other.", " \n\nThe following categories from the original questionnaire were collapsed into one\ncategory for the analysis: race; ancestry or national origin; and shade of skin\ncolor.", " Additionally, because this question was only asked of respondents who\nreported prior discrimination experiences, the built-in skip pattern resulted in\na large number of cases scored as missing (legitimate skip).", " \n\nRespondent race.", " \n\nBecause a race variable is not available from the Wave 4 interviews, we use the\nracial category reported by the respondent during the Wave 1 interview.", " Wave 1\nrace — rather than, say, Wave 3 race — was used to preserve case counts.", " The\nlogic is that (nearly) all Wave 4 respondents appeared in the Wave 1 sample, but\nnot all would have been interviewed at Wave 3 due to differential patterns of\ntemporary attrition.", " Respondents were asked to indicate their race from among\nthe following categories: White; Black or African American; Hispanic; American\nIndian or Native American; and Asian or Pacific Islander.", " Respondents were\nprovided the opportunity to select more than one race, and those who did were\nasked a follow-up question regarding which category best described their racial\nbackground.", " In the current study, those respondents who indicated more than one\nrace were coded as “mixed race”.", " \n\nDemographic variables.", " \n\nTo provide information on the analytical sample as a whole, two additional\ndemographic variables are included.", " First, age is a continuous measure created\nby subtracting the year of the respondents' birth (obtained from Wave 1) from\nthe year of the interview at Wave 4.", " Second, sex was dichotomously coded based\non the self-reported sex of the respondent at Wave 4 (0 = female and 1 = male).", "\n\nAnalytical plan.", " \n\nOur exploratory study included three basic steps.", " First, summary statistics of\nthe study variables and racial categories were produced.", " Second, we examined the\nrelative proportions of the two discrimination experience measures across each\nracial category.", " Finally, we assessed the distribution of reported reasons for\ndiscrimination across the racial categories.", " In order to examine potential\nbivariate associations, the adjusted F statistic (design-based F) was employed\nas it corrects for a complex sample design such as that used in the Add Health.\n[21]", " More specifically, when analyzing weighted sample data employing the svy\nsuite of commands in Stata the conventional Pearson χ2 statistic test of\nindependence is converted into “an Fstatistic with noninteger degrees of freedom\nby using a second-order Rao and Scott (1981 [22], 1984 [23]) correction”. [24]", "\nThe p-value associated with the design-based F is thus more accurate (than the\nassociated with the χ2 statistic) given the adjustments and calculations take\ninto account the weighted nature of the data.", " This final step also included an\nexamination of the relative distribution of racial categories across the various\nreported reasons for discrimination.", " As noted earlier, all analyses were\nweighted according to the survey weight provided by the Add Health research\nstaff and standard errors were corrected for the clustering and stratification\nthat defined the sampling strategy.", " Thus, all estimates reported here can be\nconsidered nationally representative of the United States.", " \n\n2. GUJJOLAAY EEGIMAA, ITS SPEAKERS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS", " \n\nThis section briefly presents the Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Eegimaa for short;\nEthnologue code: ISO 639-3: bqj), its speakers and its varieties.", " We also\ndiscuss aspects of the contact situation of the Eegimaa language.", " This is\nimportant, because as we will show in § 6 below, some of the Eegimaa death\nprevention names and child-bearing names are given to Eegimaa people from other\ncommunities.", " \n\nEegimaa is a Jóola language spoken in the Basse Casamance area of Southern\nSenegal by a population estimated to be between 7,000 (Bassène, 2007) and 11,200\nspeakers (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, 2014).", " Jóola languages are classified as\nmembers of Sapir’s (1971) BAK group of Atlantic languages of the Niger Congo\nlanguage phylum.", " Speakers of these languages are found in the Gambia, in the\nformer Casamance region of Southern Senegal and in Guinea Bissau.", " The map in\nFigure 1, taken from Ethnologue, presents the languages of Senegal.", " The arrow on\nthe map points to the Eegimaa speaking area (Bandial is the name used by\nEthnologue for Eegimaa).", " Eegimaa is mainly spoken in Mof-Ávvi, a former kingdom\nof 10 villages located to the west of Ziguinchor, the capital city of the former\nadministrative region of Casamance in the south of Senegal.", " Mof-Ávvi is a\npeninsula bordered by the Casamance River to the north, which separates it from\nthe Jóola Búluf and Jóola Fogny areas, and to the east by the villages Brin and\nDjibonker, where the speakers of Kujireray and Baïnounk Gubëeher live.", " In the\nsouth, the river known as Kamobeul Bolon separates Mof-Ávvi from the Bayot\nspeaking area, while the west side of Mof-Ávvi coincides with the homeland of\nthe Jóola Kaasa Húluf and Jóola Kaasa Ésuulaaluʔ.", " The map in Figure 2 below,\nadapted from Palmeri and Gazio (1995), shows a very approximate location of\nMof-Ávvi in relation to other neighbouring speech communities.", " Some of these\ncommunities will be referred to in our discussion of death prevention names in §\n6.", " The Eegimaa spoken in Mof-Ávvi is known by several names given by speakers of\nneighbouring languages.", " For example, the name Kusiilay 1 ‘the language of\nEssil’, is the name given by speakers of Kujireray to the Eegimaa language,\nbecause Essil, of which Bajjat was a district, is the village which has a border\nwith their village.", " Endungo is the name given by Bayot speakers, but its meaning\nis not known.", " Kúlaakiay, ‘the language of village of Seleki/Sállagi’, is the\nname given by Jóola Kaasa speakers who are more familiar with the village of\nSeleki/Sállagi’ than all other villages of Mof-Ávvi.", " Finally, Banjal/Bandial\n‘the language of the village of Banjal’, the most popular of all those names, is\nthe name given by the Jóola Búluf and Jóola Fogny speakers to Eegimaa people and\ntheir language, because people from the village of Banjal were the first to be\nin contact with them.", " \n\nFigure 1.", " Map of Senegal (courtesy of Google maps)", " \n\nFigure 2.", " Map of the Eegimaa speaking area", " \n\nVillage names are written using their usual spelling.", " The Ethnologue language\ncodes are provided for language varieties that have them.", " Language names are\nwritten following the recommendation for the transcription of national languages\nof Senegal, Decree 2005-981.", " Names of the villages of Mof-Ávvi are written using\nthe Eegimaa orthography and following the pronunciation of village names by\nnative speakers.", " \n\nJóola language varieties which are closely related to Eegimaa include\nKujireray/Kuluunaay (from the village of Brin with 76% lexical similarity) and\nGufiñamay (from the village of Afiniam with 74% lexical similarity (based on\nLewis et al., 2014 eds.)).", " Gútaamay (from the village of Butam), Gulapaoray\n(from the village Djilapaor) and Gusiilay (ISO 639-3: bsl) from the village of\nThionk Essil are also other languages related to Eegimaa.", " They are located north\nof the Casamance River in the Jóola Búluf area.", " There are also small migrant\nEegimaa communities in villages like Djifanghor (east of Ziguinchor) and in\nBourofaye (south of Ziguinchor), where they cohabit with speakers of Baïnounk\nlanguages.", " Nowadays most Eegimaa speakers from Mof-Ávvi live outside their\nhomeland, generally in urban areas like Ziguinchor and Dakar.", " Speakers of\nEegimaa use the term Gújjolaay (meaning Jóola) to refer to their language when\nthey speak to each other, but Eegimaa to distinguish their Jóola variety from\nthat of other Jóola peoples.", " Eegimaa is an endangered language whose\ntransmission to new generations has been declining significantly in the last\ndecades.", " \n\nIt is important to understand the contact situation of Eegimaa, because some of\nthe ritual names analysed in this paper come from other languages or from\nneighbouring communities.", " These names are given either in Eegimaa or in a\ndifferent language.", " \n\nAntonín Dvořák", " \n\nAntonín Leopold Dvořák (/ d(ə)ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, -ʒæk / d(ə)-VOR-zha(h)k; Czech:\n[ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk]; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech\ncomposer.", " After Bedřich Smetana, he was the next Czech Romantic-era composer to\nachieve worldwide recognition.", " Following Smetana's nationalist example, Dvořák\nfrequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms, of the folk music of Moravia\nand his native Bohemia.", " Dvořák's own style has been described as \"the fullest\nrecreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing\nfolk influences and finding effective ways of using them\". [1]", " \n\nAntonín Dvořák", " \n\nDvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student\nfrom age six.", " The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872\nand, with special success, in 1873, when he was aged 31.", " Seeking recognition\nbeyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his First Symphony to a prize\ncompetition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost\nuntil rediscovered many decades later.", " In 1874 he made a submission to the\nAustrian State Prize for Composition, including scores of two further symphonies\nand other works.", " Although Dvořák was not aware of it, Johannes Brahms was the\nleading member of the jury and was highly impressed.", " The prize was awarded to\nDvořák in 1874 [a] and again in 1876 and in 1877, when Brahms and the prominent\ncritic Eduard Hanslick, also a member of the jury, made themselves known to him.", "\nBrahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who soon afterward\ncommissioned what became the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46.", " These were highly praised\nby the Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert in 1878, the sheet music (of the\noriginal piano 4-hands version) had excellent sales, and Dvořák's international\nreputation was launched at last.", " \n\nDvořák's first piece of a religious nature, his setting of Stabat Mater, was\npremiered in Prague in 1880.", " It was very successfully performed in London in\n1883, leading to many other performances in the United Kingdom and United\nStates. [2]", " In his career, Dvořák made nine invited visits to England, often\nconducting performances of his own works.", " His Seventh Symphony was written for\nLondon.", " Visiting Russia in March 1890, he conducted concerts of his own music in\nMoscow and Saint Petersburg. [3]", " In 1891 Dvořák was appointed as a professor at\nthe Prague Conservatory.", " In 1890 – 91, he wrote his Dumky Trio, one of his most\nsuccessful chamber music pieces.", " In 1892, Dvořák moved to the United States and\nbecame the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York\nCity.", " While in the United States, Dvořák wrote his two most successful\norchestral works: the Symphony From the New World, which spread his reputation\nworldwide, [4] and his Cello Concerto, one of the most highly regarded of all\ncello concerti.", " He also wrote his most appreciated piece of chamber music, the\nAmerican String Quartet, during this time.", " But shortfalls in payment of his\nsalary, along with increasing recognition in Europe and an onset of\nhomesickness, led him to leave the United States and return to Bohemia in 1895.", "\n\nAll of Dvořák's nine operas but his first have librettos in Czech and were\nintended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works.", " By\nfar the most successful of the operas is Rusalka.", " Among his smaller works, the\nseventh Humoresque and the song \"Songs My Mother Taught Me\" are also widely\nperformed and recorded.", " He has been described as \"arguably the most versatile\n... composer of his time\". [5]", " \n\nOtto Jespersen", " \n\nJens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (Danish: [ʌtˢo ˈjɛsb̥ɐsn̩]; 16 July\n1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of\nthe English language.", " \n\nEarly life", " \n\nOtto Jespersen was born in Randers in Jutland.", " He was inspired by the work of\nDanish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars\ntaught himself some Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish.", " He entered the University\nof Copenhagen in 1877 when he was 17, initially studying law but not forgetting\nhis language studies.", " In 1881 he shifted his focus completely to languages, and\nin 1887 earned his master's degree in French, with English and Latin as his\nsecondary languages.", " He supported himself during his studies through part-time\nwork as a schoolteacher and as a shorthand reporter in the Danish parliament.", " In\n1887 – 1888, he traveled to England, Germany and France, meeting linguists like\nHenry Sweet and Paul Passy and attending lectures at institutions like Oxford\nUniversity.", " Following the advice of his mentor Vilhelm Thomsen, he returned to\nCopenhagen in August 1888 and began work on his doctoral dissertation on the\nEnglish case system.", " He successfully defended his dissertation in 1891.", " \n\nAcademic life and work", " \n\nJespersen was a professor of English at the University of Copenhagen from 1893\nto 1925, and served as Rector of the university in 1920 – 21.", " His early work\nfocused primarily on language teaching reform and on phonetics, but he is best\nknown for his later work on syntax and on language development.", " \n\nHe advanced the theories of Rank and Nexus in Danish in two papers: Sprogets\nlogik (1913) and De to hovedarter af grammatiske forbindelser (1921).", " Jespersen\nin this theory of ranks removes the parts of speech from the syntax, and\ndifferentiates between primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries; e.g. in \"well\nhoned phrase,\" \"phrase\" is a primary, this being defined by a secondary,\n\"honed\", which again is defined by a tertiary \"well\".", " The term Nexus is applied\nto sentences, structures similar to sentences and sentences in formation, in\nwhich two concepts are expressed in one unit; e.g., it rained, he ran indoors.", "\nThis term is qualified by a further concept called a junction which represents\none idea, expressed by means of two or more elements, whereas a nexus combines\ntwo ideas.", " Junction and nexus proved valuable in bringing the concept of context\nto the forefront of the attention of the world of linguistics.", " \n\nHe was most widely recognized for some of his books.", " Language: Its Nature,\nDevelopment and Origin (1922) is considered by many to be his masterpiece.", "\nModern English Grammar on Historical Principles (1909 – 1949), concentrated on\nmorphology and syntax, and Growth and Structure of the English Language (1905)\nis a comprehensive view of English by someone with another native language, and\nstill in print, over 70 years after his death and more than 100 years after\npublication.", " Late in his life he published Analytic Syntax (1937), in which he\npresents his views on syntactic structure using an idiosyncratic shorthand\nnotation.", " In The Philosophy of Grammar (1924) he challenged the accepted views\nof common concepts in Grammar and proposed corrections to the basic definitions\nof grammatical case, pronoun, object, voice etc., and developed further his\nnotions of Rank and Nexus.", " In the 21st century this book is still used as one of\nthe basic texts in modern Structural linguistics.", " Mankind, Nation and\nIndividual: from a linguistic point of view (1925) is one of the pioneering\nworks on Sociolinguistics.", " \n\nJespersen visited the United States twice:", " he lectured at the Congress of Arts\nand Sciences in St. Louis in 1904, and in 1909 – 1910 he visited both the\nUniversity of California and Columbia University.", " While in the U.S., he took\noccasion to study the country's educational system.", " His autobiography (see\nbelow) was published in English translation as recently as 1995.", " \n\nJespersen was a proponent of phonosemanticism and wrote:", " \n\n“Is there really much more logic in the opposite extreme which denies any kind\nof sound symbolism (apart from the small class of evident echoisms and\n‘onomatopoeia’) and sees in our words only a collection of accidental and\nirrational associations of sound and meaning? ...", " There is no denying that there\nare words which we feel instinctively to be adequate to express the ideas they\nstand for.”", " \n\nAfter his retirement in 1925, Jespersen remained active in the international\nlinguistic community.", " In addition to continuing to write, he convened and\nchaired the first International Meeting on Linguistic Research in Geneva in\n1930, and acted as president of the Fourth International Congress of Linguists\nin Copenhagen in 1936.", " \n\nJespersen was an important figure in the international language movement.", " He was\nan early supporter of the Esperanto offshoot Ido and in 1927 published his own\nproject Novial.", " He also worked with the International Auxiliary Language\nAssociation.", " \n\nJespersen received honorary degrees from Columbia University in New York (1910),\nSt. Andrews University in Scotland (1925), and the Sorbonne in Paris (1927).", " He\nwas one of the first six international scholars to be elected as honorary\nmembers of the Linguistic Society of America.", " \n\nAre you — do they still teach at Bahia on Sunday?", " Night?", " \n\nOh yeah.", " In fact I would have gone today, if it wasn't for my back.", " Well I\nfinally found some people there I can dance with.", " So that helps.", " \n\nDo you need a partner?", " \n\nTo go there?", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nNo.", " Besides, you, I mean if you're a guy, if —", " If you're a woman, I mean, those\nguys'll be all over you.", " I swear it.", " \n\nDon't say that, Harold's in the room.", " \n\nRun along now, dear.", " \n\nYou could come too.", " \n\nWell I don't necessarily mean, in a bad way, even though I'm sure there are a\nfew there, I'm not dancing with guys.", " All I can say is, the women aren't all\nover me.", " Darn.", " \n\nOoh.", " \n\nBut, but I remember, like I went there with this person, it's kind of funny.", " Th-\nthis person did not want to dance.", " So she's just gonna watch.", " So, every once in\na while I'd get up and dance, and it's like, when I'd come back, I mean there\nwas some guy there, sitting in my chair.", " Every time I got up.", " I'm thinking, God\nthese guys don't waste any time.", " I mean, you turn your back and there's somebody\nmoving in.", " I mean I don't know if they —", " \n\nMaybe Harold you should come with me.", " \n\nWhy?", " \n\nLearn some lam- lambada.", " \n\nSo I can find — find some girls with empty chairs next to em?", " Maybe I should go\nwith Miles.", " \n\nOh did —", " \n\nYeah, you guys could be partners.", " \n\nDid —", " \n\nWhat?", " \n\nWell I don't know if I told you, told you that story about that woman, who uh,\nwent after that guy there?", " I told you that story, right?", " I was there Sunday\nthree four weeks ago?", " Uh, after the class is over w- over with, I'm sitting down\nat a table, there's a woman from — who was in the class, and two men, sitting to\nmy right, is a table with two women there.", " They had apparently just come from\nOba Oba.", " On the last night —", " \n\nOh I think you told me.", " \n\nThe last night —", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nAnd like, well they were attractive women, the one had on a real real short\nskirt.", " Anyway, there was this guy in his fifties, out there dancing, by himself.", "\nAnd the woman was just looking at him, making eyes, then she went out there, got\non her knees, in front of him, in this skirt that's this short, takes her hands,\nand goes along his toes, and then up, and is just doing like that.", " \n\nOoh.", " \n\nI figured, oh, they must know each other.", " \n\nOoh.", " \n\nVery well, in fact.", " \n\nMhm.", " \n\nGross.", " \n\nThat's what I assumed.", " And, they did that for the whole dance, and I mean, she\nwas d- all kind of suggestive stuff, and touching him and everything, people\nwould like cheering, and clapping, \"go for it\".", " And all this kind of thing?", " The\n– the song ended, the guy set down, at another table.", " And she set down —", " \n\nAt a —", " \n\nAt the table with her woman friend.", " They never danced again the rest of the\nevening.", " \n\nHm.", " \n\nThis is like — so I was thinking, this woman's sitting about as far away from me\nas Jamie is.", " And I was thinking, hm, this is interesting.", " I wonder how long it\nwas gonna take the guys in this club to move in on her.", " No sooner did I think\nthis thought, guys were over there.", " \n\nWhat, you didn't ask her to dance?", " \n\nNot Miles, he's just in daze.", " \n\nWell I was still trying to figure out, surely they must know each other, I mean,\nwhy wasn't he sitting at her table?", " \n\nYou mean, you were still thinking about it.", " \n\nAnyway, this guy, I mean he comes over there, immediately afterwards —", " \n\nThe same guy who got his — the same guy who's —", " \n\nNo, it's just some random guy.", " \n\nOr just some random guy.", " \n\nNo, a random guy, who was like sitting about where you are.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nHe was sitting there, there were two guys sitting at a table right where you\nare.", " And then these two women are sitting here.", " So uh, he comes over there, and\nis talking with that woman I don't know about what, but then like ten minutes\nlater, she and her friend are over at their table.", " And then, twenty minutes\nlater, they were kinda like all over each other.", " You know, kissing, et cetera,\net cetera.", " And I was thinking, it looks like these people aren't going home\nalone tonight.", " \n\nGosh.", " \n\nBut I just thought that —", " \n\nNo wonder they forbid this dance.", " \n\nSo —", " \n\nOh my God, what a story.", " Well, maybe I shouldn't go there then.", " \n\nYeah, maybe you shouldn't.", " \n\nSam has been, has taken such an interest in this retirement bit that it — it\nreally surprises me.", " \n\nWell she's begun to listen.", " \n\nYes she has.", " \n\nYou know.", " \n\nShe has.", " \n\nUh, she used to go over and read a book or something.", " \n\nYeah, or turn a deaf ear.", " That was for sure.", " \n\nBut uh, once you understand it, you know, you, you're interested in getting\nright in, and going after it.", " \n\nYeah.", " I really oughta call, at least Reg Barr, and ask if uh, he's still\nspeaking to me.", " \n\nWell now, he was the one that was up on the left, up there.", " \n\nYeah.", " Yeah.", " Yes.", " \n\nWell, he came over to you all smiles, I noticed.", " \n\nYes.", " Well, we've known each other for thirty-some years, why wouldn't he?", " But a-\nanyway, um, I was so glad that he opened up on this disclosure bit.", " Because it\nwas Burns that's been objecting to our having it.", " \n\nOh?", " \n\nAnd I knew this.", " So when he opened up on that, and she followed through, and\ntold about her husband, you know?", " \n\nNot necessarily that she would approve of it, but at least she wasn't\ndisapproving.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nOf it.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nAnd uh, course Duvall might –", " And I – I cannot get over this.", " That man.", " I really\ncannot.", " And you know, he must have been thinking, when he said he wasn't a\npolitical appointee, he must have been associating his relationship with\nSteitler.", " \n\nOh.", " \n\nI really do believe that.", " \n\nMhm.", " \n\nIn his thinking.", " I don't know how else he could have done it.", " That topples over.", "\nUm, but he didn't say that.", " \n\nOh?", " \n\nHe said, I loved your hum- humor, uh, and I love you, but, I am not a political\nappointee.", " And his eyes were just snapping.", " \n\nAnd I said, Oh? How did you get on the board?", " \n\nWell he said, I got a letter from the governor, asking.", " \n\nEverybody on there is an app- political appointee, that wasn't the point.", " The\npoint was, I could have mentioned what was in the paper about him, that he was\nrelated and, you know, had business with Steitler, and I just said, and there's\nDoctor Duvall, you know?", " \n\nAnd then I went to Rotus, who's a seasoned politician, if there ever was one.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nHe just would flare.", " And I said, well, I – alright.", " I said, I'll apologize next\ntime, and I'm gonna make hay out of it, don't you worry.", " I wanna know how you\nbirds got on that board, if you're not political appointees.", " \n\nMm.", " \n\nOh my.", " \n\nCan I grow some basil?", " From seed?", " \n\nYes, that's how I've –", " I don't have any this year, but I've grown it other\nyears.", " \n\nWell –", " \n\nThere's no proble-.", " It will not take any frost.", " Soon as the b-", " \n\nYeah I –", " \n\nA little bit of frost, it's gone.", " \n\nI l- I learned that one time the –", " \n\nI learned it just went down.", " \n\nThe hard way.", " Hm?", " Uh-huh.", " \n\nYes?", " \n\nWell, I think it was Barbara that has some seeds.", " \n\nJust –", " No problem.", " It comes right up.", " \n\nYeah.", " Yeah.", " \n\nI –", " \n\nIsn't that what you gave the neighbor one time?", " You gave him some kind of herb.", "\n\nDid I give him some?", " I gave him a red pepper.", " \n\nI think you – I think you gave him some herb of some kind.", " \n\nI may have given – given him some basil, yes.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nI don't have any this year, I forgot to plant it.", " I have oregano.", " \n\nYeah.", " \n\nA good stand of it, if you want any.", " \n\nYeah.", " I have a lot of dried or- oregano.", " \n\nMm.", " \n\nIs your cigarette out, everybody's?", " \n\nYeah, it's out.", " \n\nYou smoked it down into the cork, didn't you?", " \n\nPardon?", " \n\nYou smoked it down into the cork.", " \n\nWell, yeah, you don't like that, do you, but –", " \n\nNo, it chokes me to death.", " \n\nIt's – it's there, might as well smoke it.", " \n\nOh.", " \n\nNo good.", " \n\nNo good.", " \n\nMr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court:", " In September 1975 the Petitioner was\narrested when he tried to steal a coat from a department store.", " Six months later\nhe was brought to trial on a charge of attempted petty larceny.", " Had Petitioner\npled guilty to that offense or been convicted of it after trial, he could have\nreceived a maximum sentence of one year in jail.", " He would have been released, at\nthe very latest, in September of 1976.", " He would now long since have been a free\nman.", " But Petitioner did not plead guilty and was not convicted.", " Instead, he\nraised an insanity defense, claiming that because he was mentally ill at the\ntime he tried to steal the coat he should not be blamed for his act.", " The\nGovernment did not contest this claim and the trial court found, after a\nstipulated trial, that the Petitioner was not guilty by reason of insanity.", " On\nthe basis of this acquittal and on this basis alone, the Petitier was --\nPetitioner was ordered committed indefinitely to a mental hospital.", " That is, he\nwas ordered confined until he could prove that he was not mentally ill and\ndangerous.", " P- Petitioner still remains confined in the hospital on the basis of\nthat commitment, even though more than seven years have now passed since his\ninitial incarceration and more than six years have passed since the time he\nwould have necessarily been released had he been convicted rather than\nacquitted.", " Conceivably, he will remain committed in the hospital for the rest of\nhis life.", " Petitioner contends that whatever the validity of his kinitial\ncommitment to the hospital, once he had been confined there for longer than he\ncould have been incarcerated upon conviction, his commitment became an\nindefinite one.", " And thus, the Government was constitutionally required to prove\nthe need for his commitment by clear and convincing evidence, something which\nthe Government has yet to do with respect to Mr. Jones.", " If it cannot do so now,\nPetitioner submits, he is entitled to release.", " \n\nMr. Wasserstrom, you're not challenging, as I understand it, the -- the initial\ncommitment.", " The only question, if I understand your position correctly, that you\nraise is whether he must be released at the time that the sentence period would\nhave expired under the criminal statute, is that right?", " \n\nOur position is, Your Honor, that he has to be released at that time unless the\nGovernment can at that time prove his commitability by the standards required.", " \n\nAnd you are not challenging, then, the, uh, standard or burden of proof at the\ntime of his commitment?", " \n\nIt's our position that that question is not raised in this case.", " Um, there are\narguable justifications for that initial commitment, and we don't discuss one\nway or another whether those justifications are sufficient to validate that\ninitial commitment and we don't think the Court need reach that question.", "\nWhatever reasons there are that might have init- -- have vali- -- have justified\nhis initial commitment, those reasons would have justified only a commitment\nthat could have lasted, without the Government meeting a burden of proof, for as\nlong as he could have been incarcerated upon conviction --", " \n\nIf his initial commitment is not punitive, then how is the statutory period of,\nuh, time that he could serve on the criminal charge relevant?", " \n\nWell, we think the only justifications that could, the only justifications that\ncould, um, that could countenance that initial commitment are punitive in\nnature, that is, are a kind of punitive rationale.", " \n\nAnd so, to -- for us to agree with your position we would have to conclude that\nhis initial commitment was punitive?", " \n\nWell, Your Honor, I don't think that it's terribly important whether the word\n\"punitive\" is used, but I do think that any kinds of justifications which would\njustify the initial commitment are what I would call backward looking\njustifications, that is, justifications that do turn on the fact that he, it --\nwas found to have committed a criminal act beyond a reasonable doubt.", " And\nwhether they're treated as purely punitive or not doesn't seem to me is, is, is,\nis important, or the label that we attach to them it doesn't seem to me is\nimportant.", " The point is, though, those rationales all do turn on the nature of\nhis act, and his act is one which, we submit, justifies confinement only for a\nyear.", " \n\nBut hasn't this Court, as well as the United States Court of Appeals in the D.C.\nCircuit, said there's no rational connection between the possible sentence and\nthe possible length of stay after an acquittal, not guilty by reason of\ninsanity?", " \n\nI believe that the law in the United States Court of Appeals in Brown against\nthe United States and in Wade v. Jacobs, in both of those cases the Court\nsuggested that there is a relationship between the sentence that might have been\nimposed and the length that the commitment can persist without the Government\nproving, uh, proving commitability under civil commitment standards.", " I don't\nthink that this Court has, has uh, has addressed that question, and I then think\nthis is the first case that raises it.", " \n\nOh, the Court has said expressly that there's no connection, in one case some\ntime ago.", " Well, excuse me.", " \n\nWell, it is true in Lynch v. Overholser this Court suggested certain, uh,\nrationales for a commitment, but it didn't then go on to say whether those\nrationales were ones which would justify an indefinite commitment or simply one\nthat would persist as long as the sentence that might have been imposed.", " And\nit's our view that those rationales, whether you call them punitive or not, are,\nare all ones which evaporate once the accou- -- once the insanity acquittee has\nbeen confined for as long as he could have been confined if he had been\nconvicted.", " \n\nDoes your position depend at all on whether or not the initial crime was a crime\nof violence?", " Uh, suppose this had been a street mugging, for example?", " \n\nWell, of course, the more serious the crime, the longer the maximum sentence\nthat could have been imposed and the more distant, uh, the rights that we're\ntalking about, the more distant in time the rights we're talking about would\nbecome available.", " \n\nChief Justice Kennedy and may it please the Court.", " My name is Eric Levi and I'm\narguing for appellant Darnell Hurt.", " Uh, attorney John Martin will be arguing the\nrebuttal, and we'd reserve five minutes of time.", " Your honors, if I may, I'd like\nto start by addressing proposition of law number three.", " In proposition of law\nnumber three, we have an ultimate finding of fact which was resolved in favor of\nDarnell Hurt.", " This finding of fact was in regard to a provocation mitigator, um,\non the voluntary manslaughter charge.", " Darnell Hurt had asked for the provocation\nmitiger- mitigator to apply to all offenses which he was charged, which includes\nthe felonious assault, and indirectly then he also requested it, um, for the\nfelony murder charge as well.", " The provocation mitigator is identical for the\nvoluntary manslaughter as well as the felonious assaults and felony murder.", " We\nbelieve that on retrial, collateral estoppel would prevent retrial without\nregard for the jury's prior finding in Hurt's favor, that ther- that the\nprovocation mitigator existed, that he was acting under serious provocation.", " In\nfact, at the trial, the State, and it can be found in the transcript at pages\n774 and 775, admitted as much and conceded so in its closing argument by stating\nto the jury that the victim was coming into this apartment.", " He was coming in hot\nand he pulled out his firearm.", " And here comes Melvin Dobson arriving at the\nscene to the rescue of his daughter.", " And that incenses him, Hurt, to the point\nwhere he uses deadly force.", " And then they said, if you apply all the factors,\nthat's voluntary manslaughter.", " That's where this count applies.", " The State of\nOhio had then directed the jury to find these provocation mitigators, which it\ndid.", " In looking at Green versus United States and the courts, the high court out\nof the state of Texas and the federal circuits in Kennedy versus Washington on\nthis constitutional issue, I believe that the authority uh exists to find that\ncollateral estoppel would preclude the defendant from having to prove these\nmitigators a second time to a different jury because he preserved the issue by\nrequesting the jury instruction for the mitigators on all of the applicable\ncounts, and he didn't request that the jury -- or concede to permit the jury to\nbe discharged without considering those mitigators, when the jury didn't\nconsider them and the additional counts, it acted almost as an applied acquittal\nor an applied um finding towards this affirmative defense.", " The high court in\nTexas in ex parte Jimmy Dean Watkins agreed with that.", " And it indicated that in\nany additional trial, once a jury finds those provocation mitigators, that it\ncan't be required to find them again.", " Additionally, in the Kennedy versus\nWashington uh matter, the Federal Circuit Court stated that the Green versus\nUnited States implied acquittal would generally apply in cases where the\nprovocation mitigator was at issue.", " It was addressed and argued by both sides,\nand the jury was asked to make a finding.", " Here the jury made the finding.", " It\nmade a specific finding for the provocation mitigator.", " And while it didn't find\nit on each and every specific count, that was solely because the instruction\nwasn't given even though requested.", " \n\nCounsel, um, shouldn't the arguments related to Proposition three B, are they\nripe for for ruling?", " Shouldn't these arguments be made at the -- at the trial\ncourt, given the fact that this was remanded?", " \n\nSo, Your Honor, this was remanded for a retrial and it's remanded on the grounds\nof double jeopardy through the prong of collateral estoppel.", " And under double\njeopardy, not only is an individual precluded from being convicted twice, or to\nstand trial twice for an offense, he was already acquitted of, he's also\nprecluded from having to actually stand trial to go back to trial for a second\ntime when the acquittal was already made.", " In this case, it's a finding of fact\nunder collateral estoppel, but it amounts to an affirmative defense to acquit\nhim of the murder, essentially.", " Um, so where the murderer was already negated by\nthe findings for the -- the mitigators, we believe that it is ripe at this point\num prior to new trial, that this court rule on this and preclude um the trial\ncourt from requiring that he face the murder charges again.", " \n\nWhat about the other issues?", " I mean, how can they be ripe?", " \n\nThe proble-, uh, excuse me, the uh -- the self defense issues uh we believe are\nripe first and foremost in proposition.", " \n\n41: The Politics of Fear: How It Manipulates Us to Tribalism (Javanbakht)", " \n\nBy Arash Javanbakht", " \n\nPresident Barack Obama walks away from the lectern with Vice President Joe Biden\nafter making a statement about the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., June 16,\n2016.", " (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Public Domain", " \n\nThe cruel murder of 50 people in New Zealand was another tragic reminder of how\nhumans are capable of heartlessly killing their own kind just based on what they\nbelieve, how they worship, and what race or nationality they belong to.", " There is\na longstanding history of the fear of “the others” turning humans into illogical\nruthless weapons, in service to an ideology.", " Fear is arguably as old as life.", " It\nis deeply ingrained in the living organisms that have survived extinction\nthrough billions of years of evolution.", " Its roots are deep in our core\npsychological and biological being, and it is one of our most intimate feelings.", "\nDanger and war are as old as human history, and so are politics and religion.", " \n\nDemagogues have always used fear for intimidation of the subordinates or\nenemies, and shepherding the tribe by the leaders.", " Fear is a very strong tool\nthat can blur humans’ logic and change their behavior.", " \n\nI am a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in fear and trauma, and I\nhave some evidence-based thoughts on how fear is abused in politics.", " \n\nWe learn fear from tribe mates", " \n\nLike other animals, we humans can learn fear from experience, such as being\nattacked by a predator.", " We also learn from observation, such as witnessing a\npredator attacking another human.", " And, we learn by instructions, such as being\ntold there is a predator nearby.", " \n\nLearning from our conspecifics – members of the same species – is an\nevolutionary advantage that has prevented us from repeating dangerous\nexperiences of other humans.", " We have a tendency to trust our tribe mates and\nauthorities, especially when it comes to danger.", " It is adaptive: Parents and\nwise old men told us not to eat a special plant, or not to go to an area in the\nwoods, or we would be hurt.", " By trusting them, we would not die like a\ngreat-grandfather who died eating that plant.", " This way we accumulated knowledge.", "\n\nTribalism has been an inherent part of the human history.", " There has always been\ncompetition between groups of humans in different ways and with different faces,\nfrom brutal wartime nationalism to a strong loyalty to a football team.", " Evidence\nfrom cultural neuroscience shows that our brains even respond differently at an\nunconscious level simply to the view of faces from other races or cultures.", " \n\nAt a tribal level, people are more emotional and consequently less logical: Fans\nof both teams pray for their team to win, hoping God will take sides in a game.", "\nOn the other hand, we regress to tribalism when afraid.", " This is an evolutionary\nadvantage that would lead to the group cohesion and help us fight the other\ntribes to survive.", " \n\nTribalism is the biological loophole that many politicians have banked on for a\nlong time: tapping into our fears and tribal instincts.", " Some examples are\nNazism, the Ku Klux Klan, religious wars and the Dark Ages.", " The typical pattern\nis to give the other humans a different label than us, and say they are going to\nharm us or our resources, and to turn the other group into a concept.", " It does\nnot have to necessarily be race or nationality, which are used very often.", " It\ncan be any real or imaginary difference: liberals, conservatives, Middle\nEasterners, white men, the right, the left, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs.", "\nThe list goes on and on.", " \n\nWhen building tribal boundaries between “us” and “them,” some politicians have\nmanaged very well to create virtual groups of people that do not communicate and\nhate without even knowing each other: This is the human animal in action!", " \n\nFear is illogical and often dumb", " \n\nVery often my patients with phobias start with: “I know it is stupid, but I am\nafraid of spiders.”", " Or it may be dogs or cats, or something else.", " And I always\nreply: “It is not stupid, it is illogical.”", " We humans have different functions\nin the brain, and fear oftentimes bypasses logic.", " There are several reasons.", " One\nis that logic is slow; fear is fast.", " In situations of danger, we ought to be\nfast: First run or kill, then think.", " \n\nSome people are afraid of spiders, others of snakes or even cats and dogs.", " \n\nPoliticians and the media very often use fear to circumvent our logic.", " I always\nsay the U.S. media are disaster pornographers – they work too much on triggering\ntheir audiences’ emotions.", " They are kind of political reality shows, surprising\nto many from outside the U.S.", " \n\nWhen one person kills a few others in a city of millions, which is of course a\ntragedy, major networks’ coverage could lead one to perceive the whole city is\nunder siege and unsafe.", " If one undocumented illegal immigrant murders a U.S.\ncitizen, some politicians use fear with the hope that few will ask: “This is\nterrible, but how many people were murdered in this country by U.S. citizens\njust today?”", " Or: “I know several murders happen every week in this town, but why\nam I so scared now that this one is being showcased by the media?”", " \n\nWe do not ask these questions, because fear bypasses logic.", " \n\nFear can turn violent", " \n\nThere is a reason that the response to fear is called the “fight or flight”\nresponse.", " That response has helped us survive the predators and other tribes\nthat have wanted to kill us.", " But again, it is another loophole in our biology to\nbe abused to turn on our aggression toward “the others,” whether in the form of\nvandalizing their temples or harassing them on the social media.", " \n\n“Desecrated Graves in the Old Jewish Section of the Cemetery, Vienna” by Scott\nRettberg is licensed under CC BY 2.0", " \n\nWhen ideologies manage to get hold of our fear circuitry, we often regress to\nillogical, tribal and aggressive human animals, becoming weapons ourselves –\nweapons that politicians use for their own agenda.", " \n\nArash Javanbakht is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University.", "\nThis essay originally appeared in The Conversation.", " The Politics of Fear: How It\nManipulates Us to Tribalism by Arash Javanbakht is licensed under a Creative\nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.", " \n\nFix the Machine, Not the Person (Swartz)", " \n\nBy Aaron Swartz", " \n\n#systemanalysis, #proposal, #technology, #automotiveindustry, #logos, #research,\n#sharedvalues #cognitivebias", " \n\n“Photo” is in the Public Domain, CC0", " \n\nThis post is part seven of the series Raw Nerve.", " \n\nThe General Motors plant in Fremont was a disaster.", " “Everything was a fight,”\nthe head of the union admits.", " \n\n“They spent more time on grievances and on things like that than they did on\nproducing cars.", " They had strikes all the time.", " It was just chaos constantly. ...", "\nIt was considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United\nStates.”", " \n\n“One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in the GM plant in\nFremont,” adds Jeffrey Liker, a professor who studied the plant.", " \n\n“If you want sex, if you want drugs, if you want alcohol, it's there.", " During\nbreaks, during lunch time, if you want to gamble illegally—any illegal activity\nwas available for the asking within that plant.”", " Absenteeism was so bad that\nsome mornings they didn’t have enough employees to start the assembly line; they\nhad to go across the street and drag people out of the bar.", " \n\nWhen management tried to punish workers, workers tried to punish them right\nback: scratching cars, loosening parts in hard-to-reach places, filing union\ngrievances, sometimes even building cars unsafely.", " It was war.", " \n\nIn 1982, GM finally closed the plant.", " But the very next year, when Toyota was\nplanning to start its first plant in the US, it decided to partner with GM to\nreopen it, hiring back the same old disastrous workers into the very same jobs.", "\nAnd so began the most fascinating experiment in management history.", " \n\nToyota flew this rowdy crew to Japan, to see an entirely different way of\nworking: The Toyota Way.", " At Toyota, labor and management considered themselves\non the same team; when workers got stuck, managers didn’t yell at them, but\nasked how they could help and solicited suggestions.", " It was a revelation.", " “You\nhad union workers—grizzled old folks that had worked on the plant floor for 30\nyears, and they were hugging their Japanese counterparts, just absolutely in\ntears,” recalls their Toyota trainer.", " \n\n“And it might sound flowery to say 25 years later, but they had had such a\npowerful emotional experience of learning a new way of working, a way that\npeople could actually work together collaboratively — as a team.", " \n\nThree months after they got back to the US and reopened the plant, everything\nhad changed.", " Grievances and absenteeism fell away and workers started saying\nthey actually enjoyed coming to work.", " The Fremont factory, once one of the worst\nin the US, had skyrocketed to become the best.", " The cars they made got\nnear-perfect quality ratings.", " And the cost to make them had plummeted.", " It wasn’t\nthe workers who were the problem; it was the system.", " \n\nAn organization is not just a pile of people, it's also a set of structures.", "\nIt's almost like a machine made of men and women.", " Think of an assembly line.", " If\nyou just took a bunch of people and threw them in a warehouse with a bunch of\ncar parts and a manual, it’d probably be a disaster.", " Instead, a careful\nstructure has been built: car parts roll down on a conveyor belt, each worker\ndoes one step of the process, everything is carefully designed and routinized.", "\nOrder out of chaos.", " \n\nAnd when the system isn’t working, it doesn’t make sense to just yell at the\npeople in it—any more than you’d try to fix a machine by yelling at the gears.", "\nTrue, sometimes you have the wrong gears and need to replace them, but more\noften you’re just using them in the wrong way.", " When there’s a problem, you\nshouldn’t get angry with the gears—you should fix the machine.", " \n\nIf you have goals in life, you’re probably going to need some sort of\norganization.", " Even if it’s an organization of just you, it’s still helpful to\nthink of it as a kind of machine.", " You don’t need to do every part of the process\nyourself—you just need to set up the machine so that the right outcomes happen.", "\n\nFor example, let’s say you want to build a treehouse in the backyard.", " You’re\ngreat at sawing and hammering, but architecture is not your forte.", " You build and\nbuild, but the treehouses keep falling down.", " Sure, you can try to get better at\narchitecture, develop a better design, but you can also step back, look at the\nmachine as a whole, and decide to fire yourself as the architect.", " Instead, you\nfind a friend who loves that sort of thing to design the treehouse for you and\nyou stick to actually building it.", " After all, your goal was to build a treehouse\nwhose design you like—does it really matter whether you’re the one who actually\ndesigned it?", " \n\nOr let’s say you really want to get in shape, but never remember to exercise.", "\nYou can keep beating yourself up for your forgetfulness, or you can put a system\nin place.", " Maybe you have your roommate check to see that you exercise before you\nleave your house in the morning or you set a regular time to consistently go to\nthe gym together.", " Life isn’t a high school exam; you don’t have to solve your\nproblems on your own.", " \n\nIn 1967, Edward Jones and Victor Harris gathered a group of college students and\nasked them to judge another student’s exam (the student was a fictional\ncharacter, but let’s call him Jim).", " The exam always had one question, asking Jim\nto write an essay on Fidel Castro “as if [he] were giving the opening statement\nin a debate.”", " \n\nFalling", " \n\nYou’re on the 236th-level Kaiserstrasse moving sidewalk when you see her.", " You’re\nleaning on the railing, waiting to ask Derya about a job, watching the\nglittering stream of mites that arc over half the sky — flying up to rewind\ntheir nanosprings in the stratospheric sunlight, flying down to make Frankfurt\nrun.", " You never get tired of watching them.", " \n\nShe’s on the Holbeinsteg bridge.", " Someone’s hung it up here — a hundred meters of\nclean gray and green twentieth-century modernism, plucked up from the river Main\nand suspended in the chilly air 2,360 meters up, between a lump of wooded\nparkland and a cluster of antique subway cars.", " She’s wearing a 1950s sundress\nand a broad-brimmed hat, and it’s like an essay on the last century — the\naustere steel bridge, the bright blobs of subway graffiti, and her yellow dress,\nflapping against her legs as she climbs over the bridge’s rail.", " A picture of\nelegance and style from the age of money, violence, and simplicity.", " \n\nShe’s a strawberry blonde, slim, her skin blank and virginal as new butter.", "\nShe’s beyond the rail now, hanging out over the mountain - high drop.", " Thin\ntranslucent shadows move across her — the shadows of the neosilk-and-nanotube\nfilaments that hang the city from the hundreds of five-kilometer-high towers\nthat encircle it.", " (A civic agent notices you noticing, and attaches itself to\nyour infospace, whispering statistics —", " \n\n“Each object’s suspension must weather a class 5 hurricane and the destruction\nof 80% of the towers” —", " “Frankfurt’s current population is stable at 53 million”\n—", " “Average age 62, birth rate 0.22, net immigration of half a million a year” —", "\n“Current personal squatright: 311 cubic meters per resident” —", " until you brush\nit away.)", " \n\nYou’re watching her lean out.", " The wind whips her hair, ruffles the skirt around\nher knees.", " She must be a tourist.", " You remember your first trip to the upper\nlevels: leaning over the edge into the angry swarm of mites, whirring and\nbuzzing warnings and shoving you back like a million mosquito chaperones.", "\nEveryone tries it once — Except that there aren’t any mites around her.", " \n\nYou clutch the railing.", " Hot, animal fear surges in your chest.", " \n\nShe looks up at you and, across the gap of forty meters, smiles a brilliant,\nheartbreaking smile.", " \n\nThen she lets go and falls.", " \n\nYou scream.", " \n\n“Fucking airsurfers,” says Derya.", " He steps off the moving sidewalk near you:\ntall, hook-nosed, the fashionable whorls of pox and acne making constellations\nof his cheeks and chest; the glowing, formal tattoos of his committees and\nlifebrands adorning his massive triceps.", " You swallow on a dry throat.", " Derya, of\nall people, hearing you scream!", " \n\nHe gives you a hooded look.", " \n\n“They infect themselves with some designer virus -", " it lets them hack the city’s\nperson-recognition systems.", " So the mites don’t see them when they jump.", " Watch —”", "\n\nShe’s swept past the whalelike oval of the public pool on the 202nd, past the\nsloping mandala of the Google of offices on the 164th.", " At the 131st, below her,\nis the old Stock Exchange, hung upside-down now as a hipster den.", " \n\nNow the mites are finally closing in.", " A silver swarm coalesces around the 164th,\nand she vanishes into it, like a snip of scallion into cloudy miso soup.", " When\nthe cloud disperses, she’s standing on one of the Stock Exchange’s upside-down\noverhangs.", " She waves, antlike, then crawls through a dormer window.", " \n\n“It’s not funny,” Derya says.", " \n\n“They’re a huge drain on emergency preparedness.", " Ripple effects are causing\nproject slowdowns ...”", " \n\n“Freeloaders drive systemic evolution,” you find yourself saying.", " \n\n“Don’t you quote the founders at me,” Derya snaps.", " \n\n“The Free Society is fragile.", " The minute enough people find anticontributive\nbehavior cool, the party’s over —", " it’s back to capitalist competition or state\ncontrol.”", " He stares until you meet his eye.", " \n\n“You even talk to those people -", " are you paying attention? —", " you even talk to\nthem, your rep will be trashed on all the major servers.", " You won’t work, you\nwon’t party, you’ll be defriended by every one of your tribes.", " Got it?”", " \n\nHer broad-brimmed hat is still sailing on the wind.", " The mites missed it.", " It cuts\nbetween the towers of the 50th.", " \n\nThe upside-down trading floor is deserted.", " There are heaps of yellowed euros and\ndeutschmarks dumped here, like snowdrifts.", " Wood panel, marble.", " Silence.", " And the\nair is strangely clear.", " You realize: no mites.", " The city has no eyes or ears\nhere.", " You walk through empty, miteless rooms, stepping around light fixtures.", " \n\nThen she’s there, in a doorway.", " Her eyes, bright blue, radiant.", " Her smile, with\nthat chaste yellow dress, so bashful.", " She comes to you.", " “You want it?” she says.", "\n\n“You want to be infected?", " You want to fly?”", " \n\nYou nod.", " \n\nEyes closing, she leans in for the kiss.", " \n\nPerfect Teeth", " \n\nSteven wanted to be a dentist.", " It was pretty much the first thing he told us\nwhen, as first years, we were all bunched together in the unfamiliar dusty\nclassroom.", " When, a couple of weeks later we were invited over to his house we\nsaw that this was not an idle remark.", " \n\nWhere our bedroom walls were decorated with posters of pop stars and\nfootballers, Steven had diagrams setting out tooth implementations, anatomical\ndrawings of the jaw with brightly coloured nerves, muscle, blood vessels, bones,\nand, of course, teeth.", " Where we had shelves of plastic dinosaurs and superhero\nfigurines from cornflake boxes, Steven had plaster casts of jawbones, gums and\nteeth grinning down at us.", " The instruments were locked away in glass cabinets\nand only his parents had the key.", " \n\n“They don’t exactly encourage my interest,” he shrugged.", " \n\n“They sort of tolerate it.", " But Dad says they’re a sort of collection, and too\nexpensive for me to play with.”", " \n\nOf course, we tried to pick the locks, but the spikes and saws and drillheads\nremained — tantalisingly — out of reach.", " \n\nWe didn’t see Steven’s interest as strange, well, not that much.", " We all had our\nown interests — drawing, electronics, collecting beer caps — that each appeared\nobscure to anyone else.", " DIY Dentistry was just something that had never crossed\nour horizon before.", " And if Steven didn’t see it as weird, or no weirder than\nAndy showing us his Eastern-Block beer caps all laid out neatly on cork boards\nwith little hand-written labels, why should it bother us?", " \n\nI suppose that, in our own way, we were all collectively strange.", " The bunch that\nno one picked for their side at football or hockey, and that was the glue that\nheld us together.", " Besides, Steven had some really good stuff: sweets that\nstained your teeth bright red — well, technically, not your teeth, just the\nplaque, but the result was often the same.", " It took a few days good brushing to\nget it off.", " Well, most of it anyway.", " He had effervescent tablets that turned the\ncanteen drinking water into that exact same pink mixture that the dentist gave\nyou to rinse your mouth out after scraping around inside, and guaranteed to make\nthe other kids splutter and spit it out when the taste slowly percolated through\nand met the memory of their last checkup.", " \n\nThen there was the event that became the rite of passage into our group of\nmisfits and outcasts: making a mould of your teeth.", " \n\nIt was inevitable that one of us, seeing the plaster casts on the shelf by\nSteven’s bed would ask how they were done.", " It was just as inevitable that a few\nminutes later, Steven would be mixing up various powders and liquids, and\npouring them into a horse-shoe shaped contraption.", " \n\nIt wasn’t dangerous.", " At least, I suppose so.", " It was vaguely uncomfortable, and\nappeared sufficiently disturbing that we all volunteered each other in turn\nuntil, at last, Andy said he was game.", " And we were off.", " \n\nThe hardest part was probably to overcome the gagging reflex that set in when\nyou bit down into the acrid resin jelly and it flowed out and up and around,\nover teeth, gums and tongue.", " Your nose filled with what you imagined were fumes\nfrom the warm paste.", " And you seemed to be suddenly drowning in your own saliva.", "\n\nThings generally got better when Steven reminded you that you could actually\nbreathe, and swallow, normally.", " \n\nHe watched the second hand trotting round the dial of his watch mouthing the\nquarters, before poking the setting goo to check its consistency.", " Then, when he\ngave you the nod, you tried to prise your jaws apart.", " \n\nAs the seal around your gums and teeth was pretty solid, you thought it would\nnever come off, as the others giggled at your expressions and grimaces.", " Steven\njiggled the handle that stuck out beyond your front teeth like some metallic\nduck’s bill, turning and twisting it most professionally and murmuring\nencouragements.", " And, then, with an awful sucking slurp, it came free.", " \n\nThe initiated then revelled in retelling the gross sensation of having this\nevil-smelling plastic slug invade your mouth, while the others waited their turn\nwith mixed trepidation and excitement.", " Raucous laughter greeted the suggestions\nof the other body parts that could receive the same treatment.", " \n\nThe next part of the proceedings was less thrilling.", " Steven measured and mixed\nthe plaster of Paris and prepared for the cast by using a bright blue putty to\nbuild up the form of the jaw, and shoring up gaps and holes.", " It get even less\nexciting when he said we’d have to wait an hour while the plaster set real\nsolid.", " But the next time we visited his room we got to marvel at our toothy\ngrins labelled and lined up on the shelf.", " We were all perfectly happy with the\nresult, even wanting one as a trophy until Steven passed an expert eye over\nthem, pointing out here a gap, here a filling, and there a completely misaligned\nincisor.", " We were, he told us, mediocre specimens for his collection.", " \n\nIt didn’t matter.", " We were all friends, a group bonded by the common experience\nof being able to see our teeth on Steven’s shelf.", " \n\nWikinews interviews Christopher Hill, U.S. Republican Party presidential\ncandidate", " \n\nInterview", " \n\nWhat qualifications do you have that will assist you in executing the duties of\npresident?", " \n\nMy Presidential qualifications are rooted in my service as an Officer in the\nUnited States Air Force.", " I took the Oath to our Constitution at 22 years old.", " I\nunderstood it was an Oath to ALL of our people.", " Politicians profess an Oath to\nthis nation but once in office pursue their party agenda and reward their\nvoters.", " As President, I will serve ALL of the people in America, guided by the\nConstitution.", " \n\nWhy run for president?", " Why not run for a lower office that you would be more\nlikely to win and effect change?", " \n\nWhen I was a young man in Air Force ROTC I was chosen to attend a unique Pilot\nTraining Program called Euro- NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training.", " The Air Force only\nselected 180 Officers a year from the Academy, Squadron Officer School and ROTC\nto attend.", " I volunteered for that program because I knew I wanted to be a\nFighter Pilot and at the \"Top of the Spear.\"", " In those days it was all or\nnothing.", " If you graduated you were assigned a fighter, if you were not quite\nfighter pilot material you had no response to fly another aircraft, you were\nwashed out.", " Congress has proven itself ineffective as a body.", " To make a\ndifference in America you must have the \"Bully Pulpit\" and speak to the People.", "\nThe President has that pulpit.", " All or nothing.", " I never wanted to make politics a\ncareer.", " \n\nWhy did you choose to run in the Republican Party?", " \n\nMy ties to the Republican party date back to 1979, when I volunteered for Ronald\nReagan and his campaign in New Hampshire.", " In those days I believed there was a\ndifference in the parties.", " Today, like many Americans, I am skeptical.", " I\nunderstand third party candidates have no success.", " I hope to lead the Republican\nparty in a new direction for working class Americans.", " \n\nHow do you plan to get into the Republican debates and make an impact on polls?", "\n\nIn order to be invited to the debates, we must raise money and poll nationally.", "\nThis is an effort that is underway.", " Recently we were listed in New Hampshire and\nnationally with Politics1.", " \n\nIf you do not receive the Republican nomination, would you consider running as a\nthird party candidate?", " \n\nNo, I will back the nominee of the Republican party in 2016.", " After that, I may\nreconsider.", " \n\nOther than yourself, which candidates have you supported for president in\nprevious campaigns?", " \n\nReagan in 80 and 84, [George H. W.] Bush in 88 and 92, [Phil] Gramm in 96,\n[George W.] Bush in 2000 and, Romney in 08.", " \n\nWhat are your thoughts on the job Barack Obama has done as president?", "\nSpecifically, what would you have done differently?", " \n\nPresident Obama has an agenda that represents the far left wing of his party.", "\nHis use of the Presidency to further this agenda has in many ways been\nunconstitutional.", " Specifically, altering law once it is passed to accommodate\nhis voting blocs.", " His direction to Eric Holder to enforce some laws and not\nothers is another example.", " \n\nHill at the Lesser-known candidates forum in 2011", " \n\nIf elected, what would constitute a successful presidency for you?", " \n\nAchieving four goals:", " Term Limits for Congress and the Courts returning\ngovernment to the People.", " Implementing a Tax System that allows working\nAmericans making under $ 250,000 to keep all of their money.", " Closing Loopholes\nand putting in place a system that is transparent and works.", " Passing a Living\nWage program lifting people out of poverty.", " Returning America to a state of\nPeace and Security.", " \n\nWhat individuals would you like to see in a Hill administration?", " \n\nI would like to bring People from the heartland of America that make this nation\nwork.", " We have had too many decades of Ivy League elites and Professors immersed\nin theory.", " \n\nHill (right) with fellow 2012 presidential candidate Buddy Roemer.", " \n\nAnything else you would like to add?", " \n\nA final thought.", " America is a nation that will endure.", " I believe it is our\nresponsibility to pass on the same opportunities to future generations that were\npromised to us.", " As President, I intend to keep that promise!", " \n\nWikinews interviews Robert Sarvis, Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of\nVirginia", " Saturday, October 19, 2013", " \n\nAttorney Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian Party's nominee for Governor of\nVirginia, answered five questions submitted via e-mail by accredited Wikinews\nreporter William Saturn.", " \n\nSarvis has garnered double digits in opinion polls for the 2013 Virginia\ngubernatorial election, an unusual feat for a third party candidate.", " The latest\nNewsmax / Zogby poll from late September placed him at 13 percent, 14 points\nbehind Republican Party nominee Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's Attorney General, and\n19 points behind Democratic Party nominee Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic\nNational Committee chairman, with 24 percent undecided.", " Whoever wins election on\nNovember 5, 2013, would replace outgoing governor Bob McDonnell.", " \n\nOn his campaign website, Sarvis notes he favors parental school choice through\nstudent vouchers, simplification of Virginia's Tax Code, US Second Amendment -\ngun - rights, same-sex marriage, and reform of the state's drug laws.", " With\nWikinews, Sarvis discusses his background, views on McDonnell's tenure, keys to\ncampaign success, plan to implement his agenda, and the former Virginia governor\nhe most admires.", " \n\nInterview", " \n\nWhat is the most important aspect of your background that voters should know\nabout?", " \n\nI am the only candidate born and raised in Virginia, but also the only candidate\nwho embodies both physically and philosophically the growing diversity of the\ncommonwealth.", " (I am mixed-race (half-Chinese) and in an interracial marriage.)", " I\nam the only candidate who has studied both economics and law, and the only\ncandidate with a background in technology entrepreneurship.", " Because of my\nacademic and professional background, I understand the issues and challenges\nfacing Virginia much better than the other candidates, and I am offering real\nsolutions that can be appreciated across the political spectrum.", " I am the only\ncandidate who believes in both economic freedom and personal liberty and the\nonly candidate who stands on principle against cronyism and corporatism and in\nfavor of the rule of law.", " \n\nWhat are your thoughts on the job Bob McDonnell has done as Governor of\nVirginia?", " What would you have done differently than him?", " \n\nMcDonnell did well early in his term pushing back against Senate Democrats who\nwanted huge tax increases in response to major revenue shortfalls during the\nrecession.", " Those early budget efforts are his highest achievements as Governor.", "\nMore recently, he erred in accepting a transportation bill that had huge flaws\nand huge tax increases, rather than prioritizing spending and seeking more\nrational, efficient, decentralized transportation decision-making.", " He could have\nshown much greater leadership in pushing for tax reform, regulatory reform, and\nschool choice.", " Of course, he showed ethical lapses in judgment.", " \n\nCompared to previous third party candidates at the gubernatorial level, you have\ndone exceptionally well in opinion polling.", " What do you attribute that success\nto?", " \n\nVoters see the two-party system for the sham it has become.", " They are sick of the\npartisanship and nonsense and the total lack of substance in modern campaigns.", "\nVoters see the two major party nominees as exemplifying what is worst about\ntheir respective parties, and they want something better.", " Voters who meet me and\nhear me speak know that I am sincere, know that I understand the issues deeply\nand have workable solutions, and know that I stand on principle against cronyism\nand corporatism and in favor of the rule of law and the public interest.", " People\nlike the fact that I stand for a Virginia that is both Open-minded and Open for\nBusiness.", " \n\nIf elected governor, how will you be able to implement your agenda while dealing\nwith a hostile legislature?", " \n\nThere are precedents of independent governors dealing effectively with the\nlegislature, and indeed a wise third-party governor can have greater\neffectiveness than a major party governor.", " Libertarians share many policy\npositions with each of the major parties.", " Working together with both Republicans\nand Democrats, we can get the good aspects of each party while rejecting the bad\nparts of both.", " Moreover, electing a third-party governor represents a\nrepudiation of politics as usual, and the major party legislators will face\nchanged constraints and incentives, meaning that much more is possible than many\npeople assume, especially with strong leadership.", " \n\nWhich previous Virginia Governor(s) do you most admire and why?", " \n\nThomas Jefferson.", " He was incredibly learned and was a strong advocate for\nfreedom and the rule of law.", " He would be a Libertarian today.", " \n\nRobert Sarvis.", " Image: Sarvis for Governor.", " \n\nVirginia, highlighted in red.", " Image: Huebi.", " \n\nGenoa City, Wis.", " \n\nAugust 6th 1964", " \n\nJohn K. Bartram, Esquire", " \n\nAttorney at Law", " \n\nBartram Building East Center Street", " \n\nMarion, Ohio", " \n\nDear John;", " \n\nThank you for your call of this afternoon.", " \n\nIt was a surprise for us to learn that apparently a decision was reached,\nperhaps by the judge that the letters are the property of Isabelle.", " Michel\nadvised her on May 25th as follows: \"There is a grave legal question involved as\nto whether or not these letters are the property of your mother's estate and an\nappropriate legal action is contemplated to determine such question.\"", " \n\nIt is our considered opinion: Williamson should have sent them to the owner's\ndaughter as a very personal matter or auctioned them off when he sold Mrs.\nPhillips's things on the auction block.", " He did neither.", " He sat on them 'til some\nreporter's warned him that they were hot merchandise.", " Then with the idea of\nseeking cover made a judge (apparently ignorant of the law) appoint an\nadministrator for Mrs. Phillips's estate for stolen merchandise held in\nposession of acourt appointed guardian of Mrs. Phillips.", " To cap it all he\npermitted publication of these stolen letters by the press, although they were\nordered by him to be under lock and key.", " \n\nNow it appears that Williamson is trying to defend himself to the public.", " A\nreporter from the Cleveland Press phoned on Monday last.", " He said that he wanted\nto check on a statement made by Williamson, since he claimed that while he was\nMrs. P's guardian he had never heard from Isabelle.", " We said; \"No comment\".", "\nIsabelle was not advised that her mother had a guardian.", " On Dec. 6th 1954 she\nhad a power of attorney duly executed and witnessed by our attorney in Recine,\nWis. in favor of Maud Gorham of Marion, Ohio especially to deal in all matters\npertaining to Carrie Fulton Phillips.", " \n\nWe have not seen the Press article of this week, nor one the Marion Star or any\nColumbus paper might have had, covering an interview with Williamson.", " If he does\nnot leave Isabelle out of all of this he will have to suffer the consequences.", "\nPerhaps you can warn him for me.", " We will brand him with a libel iron, he won't\nforget.", " \n\nThe mental and heart suffering caused by this S.O.B to Isabelle is very deep, I\ncan assure you, John.", " She is sick & in doctor's continual observation and care.", "\n\nIf there are no live debts to be satisfied and if the only assets in the\nreopened estate administrated by Michel are these stolen letters, now apparently\ndetermined to be the property of Isabelle, why on that decision alone, cannot\nthese letters be surrendered and the estate be closed because of lack of assets.", "\n\nIn that event, if you can succeed in getting that done, we would like to have\nthe letters surrendered to you for destruction or surrender to the Harding\nfamily, as a possible value in checking the accuracy of any published stuff in\nthe future.", " \n\nIf the Court insists on these letters being an asset and refuses to close the\nestate and insists that they be appraised and sold by the administrator at\nhighest value offered, we would want to be sure that the sales price received\ncovers the expenditures and that any trans-action in connection with such a sale\nremain entirely free from press and publication abuse.", " \n\nJohn, as to the question of appraisers.", " In our business of antiques, that of\nantiquarians, we have and must have in certain states, licensed appraisers.", " All\nof them own their own respective businesses and sell.", " Among them is Ralph\nNewman, who is also a historian.", " Then of course there seem to be in this\npicture, so called historians, like the man you mentioned over the phone, Ed. K.\nGross etc.", " We even had inquiries from the Wisconsin State College, D. F.\nCostello, Prof.", " A historian from Minneapolis wrote: would we sell the letters?", "\nThese kind of historians want something for nothing and could not appraise\nanything of this kind, since they do not know corresponding values.", " But all\nwould want to take a look and see.", " \n\nJohn, Isabelle does not want to sell the letters unless we are forced to do so\nby the judge and his court under the auspices of estate jurisdiction.", " She has\nnever seen them, knew nothing of their existence and does not care to see them\nnow or ever.", " \n\nThere are to ways out: 1) according to Paragraph 1 & 2 of this page and the\npreceeding paragraph, as we see it.", " In the first instance we would want to pay\nyou your bill on conclusion or before as you like.", " In the second instance we\nwonder if you might take for a third of the net or how you would like to be\ncompensated.", " \n\nIn the meanrime with all best regards from the both of us,", " \n\nSincerely, [William Helmuth Mathée]", " \n\nSir de Villiers Graaff,", " \n\nLeader of the Opposition, House of Assembly,", " \n\nCAPE TOWN", " \n\nSir,", " \n\nIn one week's time, the Verwoerd Government intends to inaugurate its Republic.", "\nIt is unnecessary to state that this intention has never been endorsed by the\nnon-white majority of this country.", " The decision has been taken by little over\nhalf of the White community; it is opposed by every articulate group amongst the\nAfrican, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the majority of this\ncountry.", " \n\nThe Government's intentions to proceed, under these circumstances, has created\nconditions bordering on crisis.", " We have been excluded from the Commonwealth, and\ncondemned 95 to 1 at the United Nations.", " Our trade is being boycotted, and\nforeign capital is being withdrawn.", " The country is becoming an armed camp, the\nGovernment preparing for civil war with increasingly heavy police and military\napparatus, the non-white population for a general strike and long-term\nnon-cooperation with the Government.", " \n\nNone of us can draw any satisfaction from this developing crisis.", " We, on our\npart, in the name of the African people - a majority of South Africans - and on\nthe authority given us by 1 400 elected African representatives at the\nPietermaritzburg Conference of 25 and 26 March, have put forward serious\nproposals for a way out of the crisis.", " We have called on the Government to\nconvene an elected National Convention of representatives of all races without\ndelay, and to charge that Convention with the task of drawing up a new\nConstitution for this country which would be acceptable to all racial groups.", " \n\nWe can see no workable alternative to this proposal, except that the Nationalist\nGovernment proceeds to enforce a minority decision on all of us, with the\ncertain consequence of still deeper crisis, and a continuing period of strife\nand disaster ahead.", " Stated bluntly, the alternatives appear to be these: talk it\nout, or shoot it out.", " Outside of the Nationalist Party, most of the important\nand influential bodies of public opinion have clearly decided to talk it out.", "\nThe South African Indian Congress, the only substantial Indian community\norganisation, has welcomed and endorsed the call for a National Convention.", " So,\ntoo have the Coloured people, through the Coloured Convention movement which has\nthe backing of the main bodies of Coloured opinion.", " A substantial European body\nof opinion, represented by both the Progressive and the Liberal Parties, has\nendorsed our call.", " Support for a National Convention has come also from the bulk\nof the English language press, from several national church organisations, and\nfrom many others.", " \n\nBut where, Sir, does the United Party stand?", " We have yet to hear from this most\nimportant organisation - the main organisation in fact of anti-Nationalist\nopinion amongst the European community.", " Or from you, its leader.", " If the\ncountry's leading statesmen fail to lead at this moment, then the worst is\ninevitable.", " It is time for you, Sir, and your Party, to speak out.", " Are you for a\ndemocratic and peaceable solution to our problems?", " Are you, therefore, for a\nNational Convention?", " We in South Africa, and the world outside expect an answer.", "\nSilence at this time enables, Dr. Verwoerd to lead us onwards towards the brink\nof disaster.", " \n\nWe realise that aspects of our proposal raise complicated problems.", " What shall\nbe the basis of representation at the Convention?", " How shall the representatives\nbe elected?", " But these are not the issues now at stake.", " The issue now is a simple\none.", " Are all groups to be consulted before a constitutional change is made?", " Or\nonly the White minority?", " A decision on this matter cannot be delayed.", " Once that\ndecision is taken, then all other matters, of how, when and where, can be\ndiscussed, and agreement on them can be reached.", " On our part the door to such\ndiscussion has always been open.", " We have approached you and your Party before,\nand suggested that matters of difference be discussed.", " To date we have had no\nreply: Nevertheless we still hold the door open.", " But the need now is not for\ndebate about differences of detail, but for clarity of principle and purpose.", "\nFor a National Convention of all races?", " Or against?", " \n\nIt is still not too late to turn the tide against the Nationalist-created\ncrisis.", " A call for a National Convention from you now could well be the\nturning-point in our country's history.", " It would unite the overwhelming majority\nof our people, White, Coloured, Indian and African, for a single\npurpose-round-table talks for a new constitution.", " It would isolate the\nNationalist Government, and reveal for all time that it is a minority\nGovernment, clinging tenaciously to power against the popular will, driving\nrecklessly onward to a disaster for itself and us.", " Your call for a National\nConvention now would add such strength to the already powerful call for it that\nthe Government would be chary of ignoring it further.", " \n\nAnd if they nevertheless ignore the call for a Convention, the inter-racial\nunity thus cemented by your call would lay the basis for the replacement of this\nGovernment of national disaster by one more acceptable to the people, one\nprepared to follow the democratic path of consulting all the people in order to\nresolve the crisis.", " \n\nWe urge you strongly to speak out now.", " It is ten days to 31 May.", " \n\nYours faithfully", " \n\n[Signed]", " Nelson Mandela", " \n\nNELSON MANDELA", " \n\nAll-In African National Action Council", " \n\nNASA celebrates 30th anniversary of first shuttle launch; announces new homes\nfor retired shuttles", " \n\nWednesday, April 13, 2011", " \n\nNASA Administrator Charles Bolden announces where four space shuttle orbiters\nwill be permanently displayed at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program\nduring an event commemorating the 30th anniversay of the first shuttle launch on\nApril 12, 2011.", " Image: NASA Bill Ingalls.", " \n\nNASA celebrated the launch of the first space shuttle Tuesday at an event at the\nKennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida.", " On April 12, 1981, Space\nShuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-1, the first\nspace shuttle mission.", " \n\nNASA held a ceremony commemorating the date outside the hangar, known as Orbiter\nProcessing Facility-1, for Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is being prepped for\nits final mission which will be STS-135, which will be the last Space Shuttle\nmission.", " \n\nAt the ceremony, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the locations that\nwould be given the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters following the end of\nthe Space Shuttle program.", " The prototype orbiter, Space Shuttle Enterprise would\nbe relocated from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F.\nUdvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport to the Intrepid\nSea-Air-Space Museum in New York City.", " \n\nSpace Shuttle Discovery will take the place of Enterprise at the Udvar-Hazy\nCenter.", " Discovery has already been retired following the completion of STS-133\nlast month, its 39th mission.", " Discovery is undergoing decommissioning and\ncurrently being prepped for display by removing toxic materials from the\norbiter.", " \n\nLooking back: Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on STS-1 from Launch Pad 39A at\nthe Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1981.", " Image: NASA.", " \n\nSpace Shuttle Endeavour, which will launch on STS-134 at the end of the month on\nApril 29, will be sent to the California Science Center in Los Angeles,\nCalifornia following its retirement.", " Finally, Atlantis will go on display at the\nKennedy Space Center Visitor Complex following the orbiter's last flight which\nlaunches June 28.", " \n\nColumbia was lost tragically back on February 1, 2003 when it disintegrated\nduring re-entry killing all seven astronauts aboard.", " Space Shuttle Challenger\nwas lost when it exploded 73 seconds after liftoff back on January 28, 1986\nkilling all six aboard.", " \n\n\"We want to thank all of the locations that expressed an interest in one of\nthese national treasures,\" said Bolden to the gathered crowd which contained\nmany KSC employees.", " \"This was a very difficult decision, but one that was made\nwith the American public in mind.", " In the end, these choices provide the greatest\nnumber of people with the best opportunity to share in the history and\naccomplishments of NASA's remarkable Space Shuttle Program.", " These facilities\nwe've chosen have a noteworthy legacy of preserving space artifacts and\nproviding outstanding access to U.S. and international visitors.\"", " \n\nThis was a very difficult decision, but one that was made with the American\npublic in mind.", " In the end, these choices provide the greatest number of people\nwith the best opportunity to share in the history and accomplishments of NASA's\nremarkable Space Shuttle Program.", " Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator", " \n\nFile image of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifting off, which approaches its last\nmission before retirement.", " Image: NASA.", " \n\nNot all were pleased with the final choice of locations.", " U.S. Senator John\nCornyn, Republican from Texas, issued a statement regarding the rejection of\nJohnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas as a location.", " \"Like many Texans, I\nam disappointed with NASA's decision to slight the Johnson Space Center as a\npermanent home for one of the Space Shuttle Orbiters.", " Houston has played a\ncritical role throughout the life of the space shuttle, but it is clear\npolitical favors trumped common sense and fairness in the selection of the final\nlocations for the orbiter fleet.\"", " \n\nCornyn's statement added, \"There is no question Houston should have been\nselected as a final home for one of the orbiters — even Administrator Bolden\nstated as much.", " Today's announcement is an affront to the thousands of dedicated\nmen and women at Johnson Space Center, the greater Houston community and the\nState of Texas, and I’m deeply disappointed with the Administration's misguided\ndecision.“", " However, the JSC will recieve pilot and commander seats from the\nflight deck.", " \n\nThe Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington was also proposed as another\nlocation for a shuttle, going so far as to build a new building to house an\norbiter.", " In a statement, Governor of Washington Chris Gregoire said, \"The Museum\nof Flight put a tremendous amount of effort into landing a retired shuttle in\nthe Pacific Northwest.", " As the home of modern day air travel and the 747, which\nhas gracefully transported shuttles for the last 30 years, Seattle would have\nbeen a perfect fit.", " While the Museum of Flight was in the top running, I’m\ndisappointed that NASA did not choose them.", " \n\nIn 2008, Endeavour and Atlantis await a journey on their respective launchpads.", "\nImage: NASA.", " \n\n\"However, the full fuselage trainer, that every astronaut including [former\nMuseum of Flight CEO] Bonnie Dunbar has been trained on, will soon call the\nMuseum of Flight home.", " The largest of the trainers, this addition will allow\nvisitors to actually climb aboard the trainer and experience the hands-on\ntraining that astronauts get.", " Visitors will not be allowed in the other shuttles\nand this trainer is a true win for our dynamic museum.", " It will help inspire\nyoung people to the adventure of space and to the excitement of a career in\nscience, technology, engineering and math.\"", " \n\nToday's announcement is an affront to the thousands of dedicated men and women\nat Johnson Space Center, the greater Houston community and the State of Texas,\nand I’m deeply disappointed with the Administration's misguided decision.", " John\nCornyn, U.S. Senator (R-Texas)", " \n\nOther items include various shuttle simulators which will be given to the Adler\nPlanetarium in Chicago, Illinois, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum of\nMcMinnville, Oregon, and Texas A&M's Aerospace Engineering Department.", " The nose\ncap assembly and crew compartment trainer for the National Museum of the U.S.\nAir Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and orbital maneuvering\nsystem engines for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the\nNational Air and Space Museum, and the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.", " \n\nNASA is also offering shuttle heat shield tiles to schools and universities that\nwant to share technology and a piece of space history with their students.", " \n\nThe 30th anniversary of the first shuttle mission coincided with the 50th\nanniversary of the first manned space flight when Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard\nVostok 1 into space.", " \n\nSensitive Canadian document found on rainy streets", " \n\nFriday, August 15, 2008", " \n\nA sensitive Environment Canada document was found wet on an Ottawa street by\nsomeone who gave it to the CBC today.", " \n\nThe 131-page document was found on Castlefrank Road in Kanata, Ontario in a\nrain-stained, tire-marked brown envelope by a passerby.", " \n\nThe document which had the stamp Protected B on every page detailed various\nsecurity vulnerabilities of the NEMISIS database which is used by officers to\ntrack and prosecute environmental law-breakers.", " If someone were able to shut the\nsystem down, or hack inside and delete or corrupt the information, it could\naffect the prosecution of the lawbreakers.", " \n\nThe database was unveiled in 1999 as the National Enforcement Management\nInformation System and Intelligence System.", " However, on the document, it\nreferred to the database as National Enforcement and Emergency Management\nInformation System and Intelligence System, adding the words \"and Emergency\" to\nthe name.", " \n\nProtection B documents are the second lowest grade of classified government\ndocuments.", " Environment Canada spokesperson Julie Hahn said they apply to letters\nof complaint, criticism or injury, research or scientific notes and findings\nthat don`t have any conclusion, and Treasury Board letters, agendas and minutes\nthat don`t deal with subjects of national interest.", " \n\nEnvironment Minister John Baird has asked government officials how such\ndocuments that are supposed to be stored in \"approved security cabinets\" wound\nup on the street.", " \n\n\"I'm told two things: that it's neither classified nor secret and that it's\nstuff that could be available under access to information,\" Baird said.", " \n\nEnvironment Canada spokeswoman Sujata Raisinghani told CBC News the department\nwill look into the incident.", " \n\n\"We take document security seriously,\" she said, but refused to give any more\ndetails about how the papers came to be on a road.", " \n\nPaul Dewar, an Ottawa New Democrat MP, said the combined security lapses raise\nserious questions about the government's ability to secure sensitive documents.", "\n\nDewar says that bureaucrats of the Conservative government have complained to\nhim about document security to the point that they can`t share the information\nwith their own colleagues.", " However, when a government document has been found on\nthe streets, the government then says it wasn't particularly sensitive.", " \n\n\"This government is so consumed with control of information and secrecy yet they\ndon't seem to be able to get the fundamentals right,\" Dewar said.", " \n\nThe incident is a reminiscent of two other incidents.", " \n\nIn March, a bundle of blueprints for a new headquarters for the military's\ncounterterrorism unit were found stuffed in the trash on a downtown street.", " \n\nIn May, Maxime Bernier was forced to resign as Foreign Affairs minister after it\nbecame known that he left sensitive documents at the apartment of his\nthen-girlfriend Julie Couillard who had ties to the Hells Angels biker gang.", " \n\nSources", " \n\n\"Sensitive government document found on rainy Ottawa street\" — CBC.ca, August\n15, 2008", " \n\n\"Document found on street not secret, say feds\" — The Canadian Press, August 15,\n2008", " \n\n\"Environment Canada security report found on street\" — Toronto Star, August 15,\n2008", " \n\nPeter Zimonjic.", " \"MP calls for probe into misplaced documents\" — Edmonton Sun,\nAugust 16, 2008", " \n\nCategories:", " August 15, 2008", " Canada", " Published", " North America", " Politics and\nconflicts", " Environment Canada", " Archived", " \n\nAs the Western United States burns up with over seventy forest fires in thirteen\nstates and Germany deals with the aftermath of devastating floods, the world's\nrichest man, not counting Vladimir Putin, rocketed himself up to outer space for\nten minutes at a cost of two point five million dollars every 60 seconds.", " A\nDemocracy Now! Segment on Thursday looked at the irony and dangers of\nbillionaires fighting to privatize and monopolize space infrastructure while the\nEarth burns due to the man made climate catastrophe.", " As an example of his utter\nlack of self-awareness, Bezos's own comments, after returning from his space\nadventure, admitted that his wealth is created by not only his customers, but\nhis workers.", " This, of course, reminds readers and listeners of the ProPublica\nstory that exposed how little he and the billionaire class pay in taxes.", " They\nare all the undeserving recipients of corporate socialism, making their space\ntours.", " I'm looking at you, Richard Branson.", " Just another taxpayer funded\ngiveaway to the richest men among us.", " And so I reluctantly thank the goddess of\nirony.", " We live in a country where a living wage for all working men and women is\nsomehow not affordable.", " But a man who pays almost nothing in taxes is free to go\nto outer space at the taxpayers' expense.", " Yes, that's on us, the little people.", "\n\nJohn's up first out of Clifton Park, New York, and independent John, good\nmorning.", " You're on with David McIntosh of the Club for Growth.", " \n\nYes, good morning.", " Thank you.", " For what C-Span does.", " Mr. McIntosh, my question to\nyou is, how does the space programs by these various millionaire -- billionaires\n--", " It shows the failure of trickle down economics upon which you base a lot of\nyour, you know, your stances and everything.", " How is -- how is that putting these\nbillions into space instead of improving the conditions of the workers that make\nthese people the richest men on Earth?", " You know, I'd like a better understanding\non, you know, you're talking about welfare and everything else.", " Yet at the same\ntoken, you ignore these stances where these billionaires are pouring money into\n-- all this money into space.", " The only people who are able to fly with them are\nalso billionaires and millionaires.", " \n\nWell, first of all, I'm actually really happy that it's not a government program\nwhere they're forcing taxpayers to spend the billions of dollars on something\nlike that.", " You know, my view, honestly, is if somebody's been successful in\ncreating a business and making money and the customers have rewarded them, so\nthey've become a billionaire, if they want to spend it on building a rocket to\nouter space, that's their choice.", " If they want to spend it on building mansions,\nthey can do that.", " I -- I don't think it's the right role of government to tell\npeople how to spend their money.", " \n\nDavid McIntosh, the Club for Growth, can kid himself with his self-assurance, as\nhe did on Washington Journal last Friday, July sixteenth, by believing that the\nspace exploration Bezos partook in was privately funded.", " But everyone in my\nneighborhood pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes than he pays on\nthe beyond exorbitant and exceedingly gratuitous wealth that he lives off of.", "\nNot to mention, The Hill Online newspaper reported in late May that a US\ncompetitiveness bill, then being debated on the Senate floor, included ten\nbillion for Bezos's own space exploration company, Blue Origin.", " This was also\naround the time Bezos had bought MGM for nine billion.", " So we're expected to\nforklift over, as a simple dinner fork won't cut it, the billions needed for\nhim, again, arguably the richest man on Earth, to acquire more wealth, and as\nthe cherry on top, deliver him one billion more.", " According to the report\npublished by ProPublica last month, the median American household brings in\naround seventy thousand a year and pays fourteen percent in federal income\ntaxes.", " In short, Americans subsidized the fruits of Jeff Bezos' midlife crisis.", "\nCredit to UK journalist Peter Ward for that spot on descriptor.", " I worry that we\nare getting closer and closer to the experience of the little people in the\nsci-fi film Elysium, starring Matt Damon.", " In the film, the rich, after\nexploiting the world to the point that it's practically uninhabitable, have\nmoved on to an artificial world, Elysium that might as well be on our moon.", " And\nthose that remain on Earth, the rest of us, continue working in what could\nrealistically be a future Amazon warehouse.", " Later in the Democracy Now! segment,\nthe broadcast aired parts of an MSNBC interview with Bezos, who, in completely\nout of touch fashion, adamantly expressed that we should preserve our, quote,\nbeautiful gem, end quote, also known as Earth, by transporting polluting\nindustries to outer space, something he acknowledged would take, quote, decades\nto achieve, end quote.", " \n\nStrayer knows much of what he knows because of the experiments he runs at his\nApplied Cognition Laboratory in Salt Lake City.", " Often, he measures how people\nperform one task once they are given a second task.", " \n\nWe think about multitasking as trying to do two separate, cognitively based\ntasks at the same time.", " A classic example, one that just about everybody\nattempts to do, is drive a car and talk on a cell phone.", " We don’t do that well,\nand more and more people have these gadgets in the car they bring with them, or\nthe car itself becomes a platform for multitasking, and we don’t do it well.", " So,\nit’s probably a big source for the injuries and fatalities and crashes on the\nroad.", " \n\nNow, it would seem obvious — at least to me, maybe I’m wrong — that not all\nmultitasking is either difficult, and certainly not as dangerous, as driving in\na car and trying to do something else that’s cognitively and/or physically\ndemanding.", " Can you give me some examples of what you see as benign or, in fact,\nproductive multitasking?", " \n\nI would actually just say that even the simplest things, like walking and\ntalking, which you’d think would be pretty automatic, turn out to be tasks that\ncompete.", " So, if you’re walking without talking, as soon as you start talking,\nyou’ll see that the pace of your walk changes, and you may be more likely to\ntrip.", " Anything that is depending on attention to be able to process the world is\nsusceptible to dual-task interference, or problems associated with multitasking.", "\nA simple example we give is saying the letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E,\nor counting, one, two, three, four, five.", " Those are easy.", " But if you try and\ncombine them and do something like, A1, B2, C3, D4, you’ll quickly find that\nthat becomes difficult, you start to forget where you are.", " And those are two\nsuper-well-learned tasks that you can do by themselves.", " But when you try and mix\nthem together, you get all jumbled.", " As soon as you start to multitask,\nperformance on both of the tasks start to degrade.", " \n\nNow, how much of that is a function of attempting to multitask versus the fact\nthat we learn habits and patterns and memorize things that become rote, that we\ndon’t need to engage our cognitive process at all?", " \n\nYou can become automatic at certain aspects of performance.", " When your\nperformance is habitual or automatic, it is less dependent on attention.", " So, a\nlot of things kind of just happen without consciously thinking about them.", " But\nnew things, new activities or new environments, demand you to pay attention, to\nallocate the prefrontal cortex to process some of that information that’s new\nand novel.", " That’s the real problem, is that if you’re always in a situation\nwhere everything’s exactly routine, you’re not stressing the parts of the brain\nthat are responsible for multitasking.", " But as soon as you have some novel\nactivity — like talking, like driving a car, riding a bicycle — you have to pay\nattention to what you’re doing.", " You have to engage the prefrontal executive\nattentional networks.", " \n\nDo you know anything, or think much about, multitasking and multitasking\nfailures in other high-stakes settings beyond driving, whether it’s military\ndecisions or political decisions, business decisions?", " \n\nSo we’ve looked in the medical domain, medical human factors: you can see it in\nterms of, say, delivery of medicine at a pharmacy.", " If the pharmacist is\nconstantly being interrupted with calls, they’re going to fill the prescription\nincorrectly.", " If an anesthesiologist or a surgeon is distracted by the technology\nin the operating room, that can create a problem.", " In the operating room, it’s\nnot just the phone, although that’s sometimes present, but you have all the\ndisplays and technology.", " Each one of those are creating alarms that creates this\nwhirl of noise, and alerts and distractions that compete for the\nanesthesiologist’s and the surgeon’s attention.", " \n\nSo I’ve been reading about how the modern worker, let’s say in the U.S. — they\ncould be in marketing, they could be at a nonprofit, could be in finance,\nwhatever — that if you’re working with a computer, which describes many, many,\nmany, many of us now obviously, that one big change in the last 15 or 20 years\nis how many pieces of software and how many platforms are — I don’t want to say\nfighting for your attention necessarily, that sounds a little a little more\npejorative than I mean it to be, but how in the course of your workday, you need\nto switch and switch and switch and switch.", " We all may have multiple pieces of\ncommunication software, multiple pieces of productivity software, and so on.", " Can\nyou talk about that, what seems to be a relatively low-stakes environment — the\nworkplace in a marketing firm or whatever — but how our attention is being\ncarved up during the course of the day?", " \n\nI mean, the research shows that you have a loss of productivity when you’re\ntrying to multitask — just the opposite of what you think.", " So you may think “If\nI’m multitasking, I’m going to get a lot more things done.”", " But what happens is,\na big chunk of our day is lost as we’re switching from one task to the other to\nthe other.", " What they find is that the best way to be productive in the office is\nto try and focus on one task at a time, focus on just sending that memo out,\nwriting that email, doing whatever that operation is for a short period of time,\nthen take a break and then come back to it.", " Don’t try and juggle back and forth\nbecause you’ll get confused, you’ll get lost, you’ll be this — “Where was I?”\nkind of switch cost.", " \n\nThis year has once again confirmed the importance of the United Nations as the\ntruly indispensable multilateral forum for addressing today’s global problems.", "\nThe humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, ecological disasters such as\nFukushima, political developments like the Arab Spring and terrorist attacks\nsuch as the assault on the United Nations building in Abuja last August require\nconcerted action by the United Nations and its Member States.", " Ten years after\n9/11, joint action in the fight against terrorism continues to remain central on\nthe multilateral agenda.", " \n\nIn the past nine months, we have witnessed momentous changes in the Arab world\nthat nobody expected when we met one year ago.", " Pressure for change is driven by\nthe wish of women and men to choose their own fate and to improve their chances\nfor a better life.", " These are legitimate demands.", " An overwhelming number of young\npeople were at the forefront of this enormous tide, which started in Tunisia and\nEgypt.", " We should pay tribute to their courage.", " \n\nIn Libya, thousands lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and democracy.", "\nIn Syria, and to some extent in Yemen, the suppression is ongoing.", " Austria\nstrongly condemns the systematic human rights violations and the violence\nagainst peaceful demonstrators.", " We strongly urge those responsible to\nimmediately stop the bloodshed and to engage in meaningful dialogue and reforms.", "\n\nAustria supports the Libyan people in its struggle for freedom.", " Over € 150\nmillion blocked in Austrian bank accounts has been de-frozen for humanitarian\nuse.", " Both the Austrian Government and private sector have provided medicine,\nrelief supplies and desperately needed fuel to Libya.", " \n\nThe international community and the United Nations have to support and assist\nthe transition process in the Arab world as the United Nations does now in\nLibya.", " This period of change may last for some time and will be full of\nchallenges.", " Austria welcomes all efforts undertaken by Governments in the region\nfor peaceful and credible change.", " We encourage the newly empowered authorities\nto create a constitutional framework based on democracy and human rights, in\norder to fulfil their mandate for democratic change responsibly and peacefully.", "\n\nThe events in the Arab world notwithstanding, we must continue to focus on the\nMiddle East peace process.", " The Middle East took centre stage this week here at\nthe General Assembly — and rightly so.", " We must build trust and we have to foster\nthe belief among Israelis and Palestinians that a negotiated settlement can be\nachieved — a sustainable solution based on two States living side by side in a\nsecure and peaceful neighbourhood within mutually recognized borders.", " We have no\nchoice but to return to direct negotiations between the two parties.", " The\nQuartet, in its statement yesterday, has shown a way to do that and has also\nproposed concrete timelines.", " Austria fully supports the Quartet statement.", " There\nis no time to lose.", " \n\nAustria welcomes President Al-Nasser’s choice of theme for this year’s general\ndebate.", " We appreciate Qatar’s strong track record in that regard.", " Last year’s\ntenth anniversary of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on\nwomen, peace and security reminded us that the promise of women’s full and equal\nparticipation in all efforts of maintaining peace and security, including in\nmediation processes, has not yet come true and that we all need to intensify our\nefforts.", " \n\nIn that context, let me also mention an Austrian contribution to international\nmediation efforts.", " By inviting political decision-makers from both Khartoum and\nJuba to Vienna in recent years, Austria has managed to offer the two sides a\nplatform for discussion.", " We are ready to continue to do so.", " The Sudan and South\nSudan have a shared past and must resolve their remaining problems peacefully.", "\nThe United Nations headquarters in Vienna serves as a dynamic hub for the\npromotion of peace, security and sustainable development.", " I am proud to announce\nthat a liaison office of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs will\nopen in Vienna soon.", " Over the past year, the International Anti-Corruption\nAcademy set up its headquarters near Vienna, and the Vienna Centre for\nDisarmament and Non-Proliferation and an office of the International Peace\nInstitute were established.", " \n\nAustria fully stands behind the campaign launched by the Secretary-General on\nMonday to achieve universal access to modern energy services.", " We support\ndoubling the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and the share of renewable\nenergy in the global energy mix by 2030.", " \n\nAustria provides substantial support to the energy and environment efforts\nundertaken by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.", " Last June,\nwe hosted the Vienna Energy Forum, where about 1,400 participants discussed\nalternative energy concepts to reach the energy goals of the United Nations.", " \n\nThe Fukushima nuclear catastrophe should become a turning point in our approach\nto nuclear safety.", " We owe it to future generations to make safety concerns come\nfirst when using nuclear power.", " Austria decided, in 1978, to forgo the use of\nnuclear energy.", " Some countries have recently adopted a similar course, which we\nwelcome.", " \n\nI wish to make a ministerial statement about the first confirmed case of\nCOVID-19 in New Zealand.", " \n\nOn Friday, 28 February, New Zealand recorded its first case of the COVID-19\ncoronavirus, becoming the 48th country to have a confirmed case.", " The individual\nhad entered the country two days earlier after spending some weeks in Iran,\nwhich is currently experiencing a sizable outbreak of the disease.", " I can report\nto the House that they are currently in a stable and improving condition at\nAuckland Hospital.", " The good news in this instance is that the individual had\nlimited contact with people upon their return to the country, and their family\ntook all the appropriate measures when presenting at the emergency department.", " \n\nAs you would expect, our public health service is working hard to contain this\nfirst case and limit the risk of any spread of the disease.", " Contact tracing\nbegan immediately and has gone to plan.", " All 15 people who were seated nearby the\nindividual on their flight into New Zealand have been traced and are being told\nto self-isolate.", " Public health staff will remain in touch with individuals to\nmonitor the situation and give ongoing advice.", " All but 10 of the remaining\npassengers on the flight, who are not considered to be close contacts, have also\nbeen contacted to provide reassurance and answer any questions they might have;\nthose 10 that haven't been contacted did not provide accurate contact\ninformation.", " I'm advised that as a result of our decisive response, the chance\nof an outbreak from our first case is low.", " \n\nInternationally, the situation with COVID-19 continues to develop at pace.", "\nHowever, the Director-General of the World Health Organization said, this\nmorning, containment … is feasible and must remain the top priority for all\ncountries.", " This is exactly the approach that New Zealand is taking, using three\nmain tools: border controls; self-isolation; and good public health practices,\nincluding highlighting the importance of basic hygiene.", " \n\nAt every step, the Government has taken decisions in the interests of health and\nsafety of the wider public, and so far we have been among the best at keeping\nCOVID-19 at bay.", " Just yesterday, Cabinet decided to extend for another week the\ntravel restrictions that have been in place for China since 3 February and for\nIran since last Friday.", " These restrictions have played a key role in keeping\nCOVID-19 out of New Zealand for so long and have given us time to better\nunderstand the disease and ramp up our preparations.", " \n\nOf course, members will be aware that there are outbreaks in other regions as\nwell.", " So, as a further precaution, we have decided that anyone arriving in New\nZealand who has been in northern Italy or South Korea who has been there in the\nlast 14 days will be registered for self-isolation.", " This is based on an expert\nassessment of risk.", " It recognises that while there are outbreaks in both\ncountries, they also have well-developed health systems and the outbreaks are\nlargely located in specific regions.", " \n\nWe know self-isolation works.", " It is a longstanding and successful approach to\nmanaging infectious diseases and has proven its worth again in recent weeks.", " We\nhave also stepped up the health presence at our airports.", " All airlines flying\ninto New Zealand have been requested to read a health message upon landing, and\nall arrivals into New Zealand will receive health information cards alongside\nthe standard customs declaration form.", " \n\nAs a result of decisions taken on Friday, health staff are meeting all direct\ninternational flights landing in New Zealand airports from Hong Kong, Japan,\nSouth Korea, Singapore, and Thailand.", " Our border response is further ramping up\nto have health staff available for all international flights into New Zealand.", "\nAll these decisions and actions are designed to limit the spread of any sporadic\nCOVID-19 cases that might arrive in New Zealand.", " \n\nAt the same time, our health system continues its preparations in line with our\ncomprehensive pandemic plan.", " I want to thank our DHBs, public health staff, and\nprimary care and health officials for the work they are doing to protect the\npublic.", " I have high confidence in our medical professionals.", " We have a strong\npublic health system.", " We continue to work to keep COVID-19 out, but we are ready\nif it arrives in our community.", " \n\n2.1 Early Ideas in Atomic Theory", " \n\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to:", " \n\nState the postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory", " \n\nUse postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory to explain the laws of definite and\nmultiple proportions", " \n\nThe earliest recorded discussion of the basic structure of matter comes from\nancient Greek philosophers, the scientists of their day.", " In the fifth century\nBC, Leucippus and Democritus argued that all matter was composed of small,\nfinite particles that they called atomos, a term derived from the Greek word for\n“indivisible.”", " They thought of atoms as moving particles that differed in shape\nand size, and which could join together.", " Later, Aristotle and others came to the\nconclusion that matter consisted of various combinations of the four “elements”\n—fire, earth, air, and water—and could be infinitely divided.", " Interestingly,\nthese philosophers thought about atoms and “elements” as philosophical concepts,\nbut apparently never considered performing experiments to test their ideas.", " \n\nThe Aristotelian view of the composition of matter held sway for over two\nthousand years, until English schoolteacher John Dalton helped to revolutionize\nchemistry with his hypothesis that the behavior of matter could be explained\nusing an atomic theory.", " First published in 1807, many of Dalton’s hypotheses\nabout the microscopic features of matter are still valid in modern atomic\ntheory.", " Here are the postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory.", " \n\n1. Matter is composed of exceedingly small particles called atoms.", " An atom is\nthe smallest unit of an element that can participate in a chemical change.", " \n\n2. An element consists of only one type of atom, which has a mass that is\ncharacteristic of the element and is the same for all atoms of that element\n(Figure 2.2).", " A macroscopic sample of an element contains an incredibly large\nnumber of atoms, all of which have identical chemical properties.", " \n\nFigure 2.2", " A pre-1982 copper penny (left) contains approximately 3 ×× 1022\ncopper atoms (several dozen are represented as brown spheres at the right), each\nof which has the same chemical properties.", " (credit: modification of work by\n“slgckgc” / Flickr)", " \n\n3. Atoms of one element differ in properties from atoms of all other elements.", " \n\n4. A compound consists of atoms of two or more elements combined in a small,\nwhole-number ratio.", " In a given compound, the numbers of atoms of each of its\nelements are always present in the same ratio (Figure 2.3).", " \n\nFigure 2.3", " Copper(II) oxide, a powdery, black compound, results from the\ncombination of two types of atoms—copper (brown spheres) and oxygen (red\nspheres)—in a 1:1 ratio.", " (credit: modification of work by\n“Chemicalinterest”/Wikimedia Commons)", " \n\n5. Atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a chemical change, but are\ninstead rearranged to yield substances that are different from those present\nbefore the change (Figure 2.4).", " \n\nFigure 2.4", " When the elements copper (a shiny, red-brown solid, shown here as\nbrown spheres) and oxygen (a clear and colorless gas, shown here as red spheres)\nreact, their atoms rearrange to form a compound containing copper and oxygen (a\npowdery, black solid).", " (credit copper: modification of work by\nhttp://images-of-elements.com/copper.php)", " \n\nDalton’s atomic theory provides a microscopic explanation of the many\nmacroscopic properties of matter that you’ve learned about.", " For example, if an\nelement such as copper consists of only one kind of atom, then it cannot be\nbroken down into simpler substances, that is, into substances composed of fewer\ntypes of atoms.", " And if atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a chemical\nchange, then the total mass of matter present when matter changes from one type\nto another will remain constant (the law of conservation of matter).", " \n\nEXAMPLE 2.1", " \n\nTesting Dalton’s Atomic Theory", " \n\nIn the following drawing, the green spheres represent atoms of a certain\nelement.", " The purple spheres represent atoms of another element.", " If the spheres\ntouch, they are part of a single unit of a compound.", " Does the following chemical\nchange represented by these symbols violate any of the ideas of Dalton’s atomic\ntheory?", " If so, which one?", " \n\nSolution", " \n\nThe starting materials consist of two green spheres and two purple spheres.", " The\nproducts consist of only one green sphere and one purple sphere.", " This violates\nDalton’s postulate that atoms are neither created nor destroyed during a\nchemical change, but are merely redistributed.", " (In this case, atoms appear to\nhave been destroyed.)", " \n\nCheck Your Learning", " \n\nIn the following drawing, the green spheres represent atoms of a certain\nelement.", " The purple spheres represent atoms of another element.", " If the spheres\ntouch, they are part of a single unit of a compound.", " Does the following chemical\nchange represented by these symbols violate any of the ideas of Dalton’s atomic\ntheory?", " If so, which one?", " \n\nANSWER:", " \n\nThe starting materials consist of four green spheres and two purple spheres.", " The\nproducts consist of four green spheres and two purple spheres.", " This does not\nviolate any of Dalton’s postulates:", " Atoms are neither created nor destroyed, but\nare redistributed in small, whole-number ratios.", " \n\n15.4 The Union Triumphant", " \n\nLearning Objectives", " \n\nBy the end of this section, you will be able to:", " \n\nDescribe the reasons why many Americans doubted that Abraham Lincoln would be\nreelected", " \n\nExplain how the Union forces overpowered the Confederacy", " \n\nDescribe the contributions and experiences of African Americans serving in the\nCivil War", " \n\nBy the outset of 1864, after three years of war, the Union had mobilized its\nresources for the ongoing struggle on a massive scale.", " The government had\noverseen the construction of new railroad lines and for the first time used\nstandardized rail tracks that allowed the North to move men and materials with\ngreater ease.", " The North’s economy had shifted to a wartime model.", " The\nConfederacy also mobilized, perhaps to a greater degree than the Union, its\nefforts to secure independence and maintain slavery.", " Yet the Confederacy\nexperienced ever - greater hardships after years of war.", " Without the population\nof the North, it faced a shortage of manpower.", " The lack of industry, compared to\nthe North, undercut the ability to sustain and wage war.", " Rampant inflation as\nwell as food shortages in the South lowered morale.", " \n\nTHE RELATIONSHIP WITH EUROPE", " \n\nFrom the beginning of the war, the Confederacy placed great hope in being\nrecognized and supported by Great Britain and France.", " European intervention in\nthe conflict remained a strong possibility, but when it did occur, it was not in\na way anticipated by either the Confederacy or the Union.", " \n\nNapoleon III of France believed the Civil War presented an opportunity for him\nto restore a French empire in the Americas.", " With the United States preoccupied,\nthe time seemed ripe for action.", " Napoleon’s target was Mexico, and in 1861, a\nlarge French fleet took Veracruz.", " The French then moved to capture Mexico City,\nbut the advance came to an end when Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862.", "\nDespite this setback, France eventually did conquer Mexico, establishing a\nregime that lasted until 1867.", " Rather than coming to the aid of the Confederacy,\nFrance used the Civil War to provide a pretext for efforts to reestablish its\nformer eighteenth - century colonial holdings.", " \n\nStill, the Confederacy had great confidence that it would find an ally in Great\nBritain despite the antislavery sentiment there.", " Southerners hoped Britain’s\ndependence on cotton for its textile mills would keep the country on their side.", "\nThe fact that the British proved willing to build and sell ironclad ships\nintended to smash through the Union naval blockade further raised Southern\nhopes.", " The Confederacy purchased two of these armored blockade runners, the CSS\nFlorida and the CSS Alabama.", " Both were destroyed during the war.", " \n\nThe Confederacy’s staunch commitment to slavery eventually worked against\nBritish recognition and support, since Great Britain had abolished slavery in\n1833.", " The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation ended any doubts the British had about\nthe goals of the Union cause.", " In the aftermath of the proclamation, many in\nGreat Britain cheered for a Union victory.", " Ultimately, Great Britain, like\nFrance, disappointed the Confederacy’s hope of an alliance, leaving the\noutnumbered and out - resourced states that had left the Union to fend for\nthemselves.", " \n\nAFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS", " \n\nAt the beginning of the war, in 1861 and 1862, Union forces had used\ncontrabands, or escaped enslaved people, for manual labor.", " The Emancipation\nProclamation, however, led to the enrollment of African American men as Union\nsoldiers.", " Huge numbers of formerly enslaved as well as free Black people from\nthe North enlisted, and by the end of the war in 1865, their numbers had swelled\nto over 190,000.", " Racism among White people in the Union army ran deep, however,\nfueling the belief that Black soldiers could never be effective or trustworthy.", "\nThe Union also feared for the fate of captured Black soldiers.", " Although many\nBlack soldiers saw combat duty, these factors affected the types of tasks\nassigned to them.", " Many Black regiments were limited to hauling supplies, serving\nas cooks, digging trenches, and doing other types of labor, rather than serving\non the battlefield (Figure 15.16).", " \n\nFigure 15.16", " This 1865 daguerreotype illustrates three of the Union’s distinct\nadvantages: African American soldiers, a stream of cannons and supplies, and an\nextensive railroad grid. (credit: Library of Congress)", " \n\nAfrican American soldiers also received lower wages than their White\ncounterparts: ten dollars per month, with three dollars deducted for clothing.", "\nWhite soldiers, in contrast, received thirteen dollars monthly, with no\ndeductions.", " Abolitionists and their Republican supporters in Congress worked to\ncorrect this discriminatory practice, and in 1864, Black soldiers began to\nreceive the same pay as White soldiers plus retroactive pay to 1863 (Figure\n15.17).", " \n\nFigure 15.17", " African American and White soldiers of the Union army pose together\nin this photograph, although in reality, Black soldiers were often kept separate\nand given only menial jobs.", " \n\nFor their part, African American soldiers welcomed the opportunity to prove\nthemselves.", " Some 85 percent were formerly enslaved people who were fighting for\nthe liberation of all of the enslaved and the end of slavery.", " When given the\nopportunity to serve, many Black regiments did so heroically.", " One such regiment,\nthe Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, distinguished itself at\nFort Wagner in South Carolina by fighting valiantly against an entrenched\nConfederate position.", " They willingly gave their lives for the cause.", " \n\nThe Confederacy, not surprisingly, showed no mercy to African American troops.", "\nIn April 1864, Southern forces attempted to take Fort Pillow in Tennessee from\nthe Union forces that had captured it in 1862.", " Confederate troops under Major\nGeneral Nathan Bedford Forrest, the future founder of the Ku Klux Klan, quickly\noverran the fort, and the Union defenders surrendered.", " Instead of taking the\nAfrican American soldiers prisoner, as they did the White soldiers, the\nConfederates executed them.", " The massacre outraged the North, and the Union\nrefused to engage in any future exchanges of prisoners with the Confederacy.", " \n\nWhat is up guys?", " Kharma Medic here and welcome back to another dose.", " So in\ntoday's video, I'm finally gonna be doing a room tour.", " I know this is something\nthat you guys have requested for a very long time, and after two and a half\nyears of living here, I finally feel like I've made it my own and decorated it\nhow I want, and I'm ready to show it to you guys.", " Alright so let's start off\nwith the bed and the couch area.", " Honestly, if I was redoing this from the\nbeginning, I would have really liked to have a double bed in this room, but,\nunfortunately, with the space as you can probably see from that wall there till\nthe door, it's basically just enough to fit a bed and a couch, and this is my\ncouch over here.", " I've recently changed it, and if you've been following my\nchannel for a long time, then you'll know I'm really proud of how I color match\nthe pictures on the wall over here with sort of the gray and yellow vibe, the\ngray and yellow cushions.", " This couch is also quite big, it fits three people\nquite comfortably, and if I have family or friends staying over, it opens up\ninto a full double bed.", " This coffee table over here, it's glass and has two\nlevels, so it's really good when we have multiple friends over, and we have lots\nof food to put on the table, or if we're playing board games, we can have people\nsit around it, and still have a lot of space to lay everything out.", " So there's\nnothing too special about the bed itself, but it does have a very important\nfunction, which, it has a lot of storage.", " So down here is basically where I keep\neverything that I can't really keep in my room, because there's not enough\nspace.", " I've got an ironing board, all of my suitcases, socks, clothes that I\ndon't wear that often, anything that I need for fixing the house like\nscrewdrivers, drills, nails, all these things that I definitely wouldn't want to\nhave laid out in my room, but I still need somewhere in the house.", " I love that\nthis room has floor-to-ceiling windows as well, it really lets the light come\nin, especially in the summer time.", " I know London doesn't have that much light,\nbut I'll take as much as I can, and there's also a small balcony out here, which\nis fairly rare for London.", " We have two chairs where we can sit down and sort of\nenjoy the weather when it is a little bit better, um but now it's really cold so\njust gonna close it.", " And then a little behind the scenes that you probably will\nnever see again in a video is that down here I keep all of the filming gear that\ndoesn't really fit anywhere else in the room: two sets of tripods, I also have a\nc-stand.", " Okay next to my bed, I've got the radio alarm clock, and this has\nactually changed my life.", " It makes waking up in the morning and getting out of\nbed at 6:00 a.m. when it's pitch black outside so much easier when you're waking\nup really early.", " It's so much better to wake up to the sound of somebody talking\nto you: your favorite radio station, some music, whatever, instead of that\nclassic iPhone alarm, \"ba, ba, ba.\"", " Over here on the wall, these are posters\nthat I actually bought back in 2013 in my first year of university in Toronto,\nand I really really liked them so I've kept them around.", " Also I'm really proud\nthat I managed to put them up all by myself, they look quite neat, and I feel\nlike they're equally spaced, so I'm really proud of how they turned out.", " \n\nHey what's up guys?", " Welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new.", " Today\nI'm doing another college day in my life.", " And I just left Starbucks, don't mind\nwhat I look like.", " I literally just pretty much woke up and left this morning.", "\nI'm starting the review for all the chapters for my final exam, and it is a lot\nof information so I already planned on getting up early today and going.", " And\nthen I'm gonna do the same thing tomorrow.", " I basically like created a digital\ncalendar where I'm gonna go over each of the chapters, just because I only have\none week left to study.", " I'm back home now, and I basically just typed up a\nlittle calendar laying out the chapters that I have left to review before\nTuesday.", " That's my final list and I hate that, like, this week is our\nThanksgiving break and then we literally come back Tuesday and take our final.", "\nSo I'm gonna be studying on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and the whole\nweekend even though we're going getting our Christmas tree I think on Saturday,\nand I I'm not decorating I'm not doing anything fun, like I have to study.", " I\nthought I would show you guys kind of how I'm mapping this out, because it's a\nreally good tip if you have like a lot to do.", " So today I'm doing female\nreproductive system, male reproductive system tomorrow.", " I work on Wednesday, I'm\ngoing to go over chapter 29 fluid balance, chapter 28 so urinary system on the\n29th.", " The 30th, Chapters 17 through 22 - yes that's like six chapters or\nsomething.", " And then on Sunday, I'll be doing chapters 23 through 27 and I just\nmade this on my iPad and then printed it.", " I did not include my schedule for\ncollege algebra because I have a final on Thursday of next week for that.", " So I'm\ngoing to go in with like a different color and add in the chapters I'm gonna be\nstudying for that, but I'm super stressed.", " I bought these Vans from DSW.", " They\nare really cute.", " You guys know I have the white ones and I wear them all the\ntime and these ones are just like black perforated Vans.", " I love them and they\nare definitely the right size because I have two other pairs of Vans that are\nthis size, but one of these ones is like messed up or something.", " I think it's\nlike this part on the left foot because my foot feels super tight in only the\nleft side, so something's up because they're both the right size but I don't\nknow.", " So I'm gonna exchange them for another pair because something's not right\nabout that.", " Hey guys.", " So I just got finished at the library.", " I just sat in there\nfor like an hour and a half straight and studied.", " I'm really proud of myself and\nnow I'm about to go get some lunch, and go to DSW and see if I can exchange\nthose Vans.", " So while I was in the library one of you guys came up to me, and\nsaid hi.", " I feel so bad because I was so in the zone that I didn't even get her\nname.", " But if you're watching this, hi thank you so much for coming and saying hi\nto me you actually made my whole day.", " She said she watches my videos and loves\nthem.", " And you guys are so sweet, I love making videos and it's so nice to have\nthat support.", " So if you do go to FGCU and you ever see me on campus, like feel\nfree to say hi because you'll make my day.", " I just got out of DSW, and I spent\nlike 30 minutes in there because it was just such a process for them to do an\nexchange.", " And then she had to scan and go get the shoes and then she said they\ndidn't have the size.", " So I ended up having to order them, but she said there was\nno way to do a direct exchange.", " So she had to give me a return and then re-ring\nit up.", " And oh my gosh I was literally in there for like 25 minutes all to just\ndo a simple exchange for the exact same shoe.", " But it's over now and they're\ngonna send them to me in the mail.", " Hopefully they'll be here in about a week.", "\nI'm just kind of sad that they didn't have them in stock, so now I have to wait.", "\nBut oh well it's over with now, we're gonna go get lunch.", " \n\nUnderstand", " \n\nSome of the distinctive skyline of Downtown, including the Kaiser Building and\nthe Cathedral of Christ the Light.", " \n\nOften overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor lying directly to the\nwest, Oakland has in recent years began to step out from under the shadows,\nplaying upon the beautiful highlights of its own and its rise as the\nmulticultural \"hipster' city of the Bay Area.", " \n\nSince the 1960s, Oakland has been a hub of radical culture, and is the\nbirthplace of both the Black Panther Party and the Hell's Angels.", " Oakland's\nhistory in the arts and entertainment arena is notable as well, as Oakland has\nnurtured or been a second home to novelists Gertrude Stein, Jack London, Amy\nTan, and Maya Angelou; actors Meryl Streep, Mark Hamill, Bruce Lee, and Tom\nHanks; architect Julia \"Butterfly\" Hill; classical conductor Calvin Simmons;\nrappers MC Hammer, 2Pac, Messy Marv, and several other notables in the liberal\narts and sciences.", " \n\nOakland as a city reflects the amazing diversity of its residents and long\nhistory.", " For many visitors, the first place they are likely to visit is\nDowntown, especially if they are in town on business, or simply do not know\nwhere to start.", " The center of transportation by BART and by bus is there, if one\nwants to branch out.", " And it is as simple as walking in a direction from there,\nfor the first few neighborhoods, since Old Oakland is along 10th Street, just\nwest of Broadway.", " Just east of Broadway and continuing north and south is\nOakland's famous Chinatown, and that to get the real essence of \"Chinatown,\"\nOakland rather than San Francisco is your best bet.", " Many of the buildings and\nstreets of Chinatown reflect the diverse nature of its history, in architecture\nand in the bilingual signs seen throughout the neighborhood.", " \n\nThe curious traveler can venture to take a bus southwards along Broadway, and\ncome to Jack London Square.", " The unlikely mixture of warehouses and very\nexpensive restaurants and posh atmosphere alongside some of the landmarks of the\ncity's waterfront makes the Square an interesting place to visit and explore,\neven for locals.", " It's the home of the USS Potomac and the site of the namesake\nauthor's residence, still preserved and humbly standing not far from a saloon\nfrom the same era.", " \n\nJust west of Downtown and slightly north of the Financial District is Uptown.", " In\nthe evening it buzzes with art galleries, theaters and residents and Bay Area\nvisitors coming into the area to see concerts.", " A popular area on the weekend\nwith a mixed vibe of hipster and hip hop.", " It's a burgeoning neighborhood of\nperforming arts ranging from nightclubs to music halls, avant-garde performance\nart, and even an improv theater company.", " Uptown also has some of the best in the\ncity's vintage architecture, like the Gothic Revival Cathedral Building and the\nArt Deco Fox and Paramount Theaters, as well as several restaurants.", " \n\nNorth Oakland is a sweeping term, referring to just about everywhere north of\nUptown and Lake Merritt.", " Many of the neighborhoods are commercial centers and\nabsolute heaven for foodies or those who seek quieter surroundings than the\nhustle and bustle of Downtown and Chinatown.", " Temescal is a neighborhood that\nlies north-northwest from Downtown, centered along the reach of Telegraph\nAvenue, at and near 51st Street.", " Until the 1960s, a dominantly Italian-American\nneighborhood, it is now a much more diversified neighborhood, home to many\nrestaurants, including some of the city's best Korean and Ethiopian\nestablishments.", " Northeast of Temescal and near the Berkeley border lies\nRockridge, a neighborhood mixed with family friendly and artistic vibes.", " It has\nlots of local boutiques and a diverse range of food at all prices and styles.", "\nOpen-air markets, bookstores, and a BART station all its own make Rockridge\nanother of many pleasant stops in North Oakland.", " South of Rockridge, and\nsoutheast of Temescal lies Piedmont Avenue, a street extending from Broadway\nnear 34th and Hawthorne and an area with a group of hospitals on a hill (Pill\nHill) up and through a neighborhood bordered on both sides by picturesque hills,\nhouses and trees.", " Another of North Oakland's group of foodie spots, home to the\ncity's single Michelin-rated restaurant and many others; cafes, ice cream,\ncoffee shops and pleasant walks complete the vision of this interesting and\nquiet neighborhood.", " East along I-580 and not far from Piedmont Avenue are two\nneighborhoods separated by a couple of blocks.", " Grand Lake and Lakeshore both\nshare a friendly, suburban sort of feel.", " The Grand Lake Theater stands at the\nentrance to the neighborhood that bears its name, a matter of a few hundred feet\nfrom Lakeshore Avenue – both are diverse neighborhoods no matter what your\nbudget, be it burgers or sandwiches or a full romantic evening, either of these\ntwin-sister neighborhoods will make a pleasant time, by day or night.", " \n\nWest Oakland was once a burgeoning working-class neighborhood with its roots\ntracing as far back as the opening decades of the 19th century.", " It has seen a\nperiod of decline between the 1960s and the more recent past.", " Strangely, twice\nin its history the neighborhood has seen benefits from major earthquakes.", " After\nthe 1906 earthquake, many San Franciscans relocated there, and the industrial\ndevelopment of the 20s and 30s saw its population in the hundreds of thousands.", "\nWith Loma Prieta in 1989, the effective barrier of the Cypress Street Overpass\nwas destroyed, and the decades since have seen the rebuilding and refurbishing\nof many of the neighborhood's original Victorian houses, and there is a\nburgeoning performing arts community growing near the center of the\nneighborhood.", " Though there are a few draws for the traveler, West Oakland is\ndominantly a very poor working-class residential neighborhood with a less than\nspectacular reputation.", " \n\nVava’u is a group of more than 50 islands in Tonga, about 150 miles north of\nTongatapu.", " They are either raised coral limestone or coral atolls.", " The beautiful\nharbour opposite the main town of Neiafu (known as the Port of Refuge Harbour)\nis a common destination for yachties sailing the South Pacific.", " The waters of\nthe islands are known for their clarity, it being said that you can see the\nbottom at 40 metres.", " The area attracts many humpback whales between June and\nNovember and there are lots of companies organising tours to see them.", " There are\nnumerous places to stay to suit most budgets.", " \n\nUnderstand", " \n\nFindings of Lapita pottery suggest that early-Polynesians were on these islands\nclose to 3000 years ago.", " These days there are around 20000 people living in the\nGroup.", " Neiafu and surrounding villages are home to about a third of the Group’s\noverall population of around 20000, with the majority of the population living\nin small villages on the other islands.", " Neiafu is the official port of entry for\nyachts coming to Vava'u, which attracts over 500 yachts every winter sailing\nseason between June and October.", " A string of islands and reefs along the eastern\nedge of the Group shelters the area from strong winds and ocean swellS and\nhumpback whales come to these protected waters to give birth.", " This is the high\nseason for tourism;", " between December and April few people visit and many tour\ncompanies and restaurants close down.", " Neiafu town is the centre of activity.", " It\nis on the southern point of the main island of Utu Vava'u and has an attractive\nsetting on one of the world's most beautiful harbours.", " Neiafu offers all the\nusual amenities including banks, schools, tour companies, restaurants, cafes and\nbars, supermarkets, a market and a hospital.", " It doesn't have a beach but boats\nto one of the nearby coral atolls with superb sandy beaches are easily\navailable.", " \n\nClimate", " \n\nVava'u has a tropical climate with average temperatures up to 29 ºC in January\nand down to 24º C in June.", " It is sunny throughout the year.", " Between November and\nApril, it is more humid and thunderstorms and cyclones do occur.", " From May to\nSeptember there are southeast trade winds but during the summer months the winds\nare from the northeast.", " \n\nPort of Refuge Harbor at Neiafu", " \n\nOrientation", " \n\nThe main islands are: Utu Vava'u.", " \n\nThis is the largest island, where Neiafu is found.", " It is a limestone island with\nheights up to 213 m in the west.", " The island provides a home to eleven indigenous\nbird species and contains Mt. Talau national park, with some of the limited\nremaining native vegetation.", " Tropical vegetation includes the pandanus or screw\npine, the casuarina, and the mulberry tree, the bark of which is used to make\ntapa cloth.", " \n\nPangaimotu.", " \n\nThis is the second largest island in the Group.", " It can be seen across the water\nfrom Neiafu and is connected by land bridge at the most southern point of ‘Utu\nVava’u.", " \n\nThere are some good beaches and plenty of secluded cove beaches and protected\nbays with good snorkelling.", " Avai'o'vuna Swamp is a small coastal wetland on the\nisland.", " \n\nHunga Island.", " \n\nThis is some 35 minutes from Neiafu Harbour and provides the main concentration\nof humpback whales.", " The island lies in deep water and has sheltered waters and\nbays which provide a resting place for humpbacks with calves.", " \n\nHow to Grow Beavertail Cactus", " \n\nThe Beavertail Cactus (Opunitia basilares), found primarily in the Mojave Desert\nand northwest Mexico; can grow to be about 24 inches (60 cm) high; has pads that\nlook like beavertails; and yields red or purple flowers from spring to early\nsummer.", " Growing Beavertail can be done at any time of year by scattering seeds\nin a shady bed or, for faster results, planting cuttings in a mix of soil and\nsand and ensuring that they have a bit of water and plenty of sun.", " Read the\nfollowing steps to find out how to grow Beavertail cactus.", " \n\nMethod 1 of 2: From Seeds", " \n\nPurchase Beavertail cactus seeds.", " These can be bought at garden centers or\npurchased online.", " \n\nScatter the seeds.", " \n\nIn a shady garden bed, simply scatter the seeds on the soil.", " There's no need to\ncover them, unless you want to use netting to keep the birds off.", " Keep the soil\nmoist until the seeds germinate.", " \n\nMake sure that the garden bed is in the shade.", " Beavertail cacti seeds need shade\nto grow, whereas cuttings need plenty of direct sunlight.", " \n\nBe aware that growing Beavertail cactus from seeds takes much longer than\ngrowing one from a cutting.", " It can take as long as 4 to 4 years before you get\nflowers.", " \n\nMethod 2 of 2: From Cuttings", " \n\nObtain Beavertail cuttings.", " \n\nYou can purchase them online or at a local garden center.", " \n\nIf you already own a Beavertail cactus, you can make your own cuttings.", " To do\nthis, choose pads (the flat, oval-shaped sections that make up a cactus) that\nare 6 months old or older and cut them at the base.", " In order to form a callous\nand prevent rot, cure the cuttings by sitting the pad upright in a dry, dark\nplace for 10 to 14 days.", " \n\nPlant the cuttings.", " \n\nPrepare a potting mix that is equal parts soil and rough pumice or sand and fill\nthe appropriate number of pots with it.", " Make sure there are holes in the center\nof the base of each pot to allow for good drainage.", " \n\nSet the cuttings upright in the potting mix about an inch (2.5 cm.) deep.", " If you\nplant the cuttings too deep, they might rot.", " \n\nPut some rocks around the pad to anchor it in place.", " \n\nChoose a spot for your Beavertail cactus cuttings.", " \n\nIf you live in an area with strong summer sun, position the cuttings so that the\nbroad sides of the cuttings face east and west while the slim sides face north\nand south.", " This will prevent the cuttings from burning during the hottest part\nof the day.", " \n\nMake sure the spot is sheltered from any cold winter winds.", " \n\nWait for a month.", " \n\nDo not water the cutting for the first month.", " The moisture in the pad will\nprovide enough nutrients for roots to grow.", " Too much water might cause rot.", " \n\nAfter 1 month, roots will have sprouted and you can water the cutting for the\nfirst time.", " \n\nAlways let the soil dry before you water the cuttings.", " Once fully rooted, they\nare extremely drought resistant.", " \n\nFertilize the plants.", " \n\nDuring the spring, summer, and fall, the Beavertail cactus grows and will\nbenefit from a balanced fertilizer.", " \n\nLet the cuttings grow.", " \n\nFrom the first pad, many more will form.", " The second or third pad will bear some\nflowers, but wait before harvesting them or you might affect the size of future\nharvests.", " \n\nHow to Get Rid of Mice Naturally", " \n\nHaving mice in your home is both a nuisance and a health hazard.", " They can cause\nproperty damage, create a mess, and produce unpleasant smells.", " In addition,\nrepelling and removing rodents from your home can be a hassle if you don't know\nwhat you are doing.", " It can also be dangerous if you use toxic chemicals and\npoisons.", " It's a good thing, then, that there are some simple ways to effectively\nget mice out of your home without the use of toxic chemicals and poisons.", " \n\nMethod 1 Discouraging Mice Naturally", " \n\nKeep your home clean.", " Many times mice are drawn into homes on the search for\nfood.", " If there is nothing to eat, mice will be less likely to stay.", " Keep all\nfood stored properly in airtight containers or in places that are safe from\nmouse attack. [1]", " \n\nApply peppermint oil.", " Peppermint oil is a natural deterrent.", " The smell is simply\ntoo intense for rodents and they will not try to go near it.", " It also helps to\nmask the scent of any tasty morsels that have been missed when cleaning.", " It also\ngives the house a lovely smell, and is not toxic, unlike many synthetic chemical\ntreatments.", " You can get peppermint oil in most health food stores and even some\nmajor grocery stores. [2]", " \n\nPlace a drop or two on a cotton ball.", " \n\nPlace a cotton ball under or near your garbage can to deter mice from getting\ninto it.", " \n\nPlace the cotton balls in areas where mice are likely to enter your house, by\ndoorways, or heat vents, etc.", " \n\nPeppermint oil cotton balls need to be replaced after 5 - 7 days, depending upon\nthe quantity of oil you put on it.", " \n\nTry growing peppermint plants near the entryways.", " You can use the mint in\ncooking, as well as it serving a deterrent purpose.", " \n\nUse dried snake feces.", " Visit a local reptile center, zoo, or pet store and ask\nfor some dried snake poo.", " You can also sometimes find someone who owns a pet\nsnake.", " Place near entrances and in places where mice seem to go.", " This will keep\nmice away. [3]", " \n\nBe sure to keep the feces out of the reach of children and pets.", " \n\nZap mice with ultrasonic sounds.", " There are electronic units sold that emit an\nultrasonic beeping sound that rodents hate.", " They should be available at your\nlocal home improvement store or online.", " \n\nThese work only on a single line of sight, so you need to know the exact path\nthe mice are taking.", " \n\nThe units may only work for a short time because mice can become used to them.\n[4]", " \n\nUse a commercial, organic deterrent.", " Many companies that specialize in organic\ngarden and home products make mice repellents that are better for the\nenvironment than traditional poisons.", " Many of these products use natural\ningredients, such as peppermint, that are known to be disagreeable to mice.", " They\nwill not kill mice but they should keep them out of areas where the product is\napplied.", " \n\nThese products should be available at your local gardening or home improvement\ncenter.", " If you want a specific product, try doing a online search to see where\nit is available locally.", " \n\nGet a cat.", " A house cat can take care of the problem.", " Cats that spend time\noutdoors are more likely to hunt to find their own food and may track down that\nmouse.", " Just be aware, not all cats have enough energy, interest or training to\nhunt mice.", " Kittens typically have to be taught by the mother to easily become a\nmouser.", " Well-food indoor kitties might just see the mouse as a toy, and grow\nquickly bored of it after scaring it half witless.", " \n\nShelters and adoption agencies often do not know if a cat is a good mouse\nhunter, and generally do not test for this.", " Sometimes this information is\navailable, but usually not.", " \n\nWhile many mousers are great pets as well, not all are.", " \"Barn cats\" may not be\nsocialized well with humans, although used to hunting mice for food.", " \n\nEven if you do not have a cat, you can use used kitty litter to deter mice.", "\nPlace tubs of used kitty litter around entrances of the house.", " The mice will\nsniff the smell of cat urine and clear off in a jiffy.", " \n\nIf you have a large infestation, a cat may not be enough to totally get rid of\nit.", " However, once you eliminate the infestation, a cat will probably prevent\nreinfestation. [5]", " \n\nPut your trash cans far from your home.", " Mice smell garbage and get attracted to\nyour house.", " If you keep the cans away from the house, they are less likely to\ntake up residence in your home.", " \n\nPromote the nesting of birds of prey in your yard.", " Build a shelter box in your\ngarden to attract some onto your property.", " This may take some time, but it's\nworth the effort if you can attract a wild mouse eater to your yard. [6]", " \n\nMake sure the shelter box has no nails or safety hazards.", " \n\nA barn owl is the best.", " A family of barn owls can eat many mice in a night!", "\nHowever, you might attract other types of owls or birds of prey with your\nnesting box."]}
{"id": "en_partut-ud-test", "source": "UD_English-ParTUT/en_partut-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "en", "text": "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Any use of the work other than as authorized under\nthis license or copyright law is prohibited. UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED TO BY THE\nPARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS\nOR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MATERIALS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY\nOR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE,\nMERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE\nABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF\nERRORS, WHETHER OR not DISCOVERABLE. Creative Commons is not a party to this\nLicense, and makes no warranty whatsoever in connection with the Work. Yes, Mr\nEvans, I feel an initiative of the type you have just suggested would be\nentirely appropriate. I would ask that they reconsider, since this is not the\ncase. Transport safety has sadly been in the news recently: Needless to say,\nsafety on roads, railways and inland waterways is of key importance and, given\nthe international nature of these types of transport, training for safety\nadvisors should also be harmonised, therefore, as well as the requirements of\nthe new ADR, for example, which is under way. This is not just the fault of the\nCommission, but I believe that we need to take action more quickly so as to\nachieve harmonisation in this area as well. I can live with these minimum\nstandards, but I would ask the Commission to monitor the situation very\ncarefully. But I believe that we should do all we can to keep the transport of\ndangerous goods to a minimum, in all countries, whether they are transit\ncountries or not. I hope my proposal will be taken into consideration in\ntomorrow's vote. I would like to ask the Vice-President if she is in a position\nto tell us today what the state of play is with regard to the efforts towards\nharmonisation being made by these two organisations, and whether the EU is in a\nposition to hasten these harmonisation efforts, in accordance with principles\nthat are as simple as possible. Mr President, I would very much like to thank\nMrs Schroedter for the work she has done on this and to explain to colleagues\nthat I am speaking for my colleague, Mrs Flautre, who followed this for the\nCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs but who is unfortunately ill. But the\nlack of specific guidelines here is particularly to be regretted, as the idea of\nlinking Social Fund assistance to the employment strategy will be put into\neffect for the first time during the 2000-2006 programme. The truth of the\nmatter though is that we believe - and this is also shown in the way the\nconclusions have been drafted - that the Commission must take account of what is\nadopted by this Parliament, particularly in the face of an interim revision of\nthese Directives. Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank Mrs\nSchroedter for an excellent report. She has gone into the issue in some depth\nand in the committee debate she took account of many of the amendments that have\nbeen tabled regarding this report. It contained details and issues that had\nalready been raised in previous reports. This has been an ongoing concern for\nthe five years that I have been a Member of this Parliament, and I have raised\nthe issue time and time again. Consequently, I feel we must look to the future\nand establish guidelines for the mid-term review in 2003, and thus have an\ninfluence on the second phase of programming set to follow 2003. Its\nimplementation would certainly require extending the scope of redistribution\ninstruments such as the Structural Funds. Mr President, I too would like to\ncongratulate the rapporteur on her excellent work. I will conclude, Mr\nPresident, by saying that the failure of the Commission's communication to focus\non territorial pacts and, especially, methods of combating unemployment among\nwomen and young people, is cause for serious concern. ANA used a creative\ngrouping of keywords to target advertising to users specifically interested in\ntraveling and Japanese culture and developed advert creative that resonated with\ntheir audience. Now you can hear from people you're interested in, even if\nyou're not friends. If you don't see the button, you can't subscribe. Do you\nhave a Facebook Page? (14) As a general principle, the energy consumption of\nEUPs in stand-by or off-mode should be reduced to the minimum necessary for\ntheir proper functioning. - The programme should continue for a further 4 years\nat least with the same budget (1 million euro per year) and with the same\nmeasures and target groups. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country,\nincluding his own, and to return to his country. (1) Men and women of full age,\nwithout any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to\nmarry and to found a family. (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to\npublic service in his country. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and\nfavourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy\nof human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social\nprotection. If momma ain't happy, nobody ain't happy. The Republic of Bulgaria\nand Romania hereby become members of the European Union. The conditions and\narrangements for admission are set out in the Protocol annexed to this Treaty.\nThe provisions of that Protocol shall form an integral part of this Treaty. The\nprovisions of that Act shall form an integral part of this Treaty. This Treaty\nshall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their\nrespective constitutional requirements. The instruments of ratification shall be\ndeposited with the Government of the Italian Republic by 31 December 2006 at the\nlatest. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 2007 provided that all\nthe instruments of ratification have been deposited before that date. If such a\ndecision is taken with respect to only one of the acceding States this Treaty\nshall enter into force for that State on 1 January 2008. These measures shall\nenter into force only subject to and on the date of the entry into force of this\nTreaty. The text of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe drawn up\nin the Bulgarian and Romanian languages shall be annexed to this Treaty.\nProtocol Concerning the conditions and arrangements for admission of the\nrepublic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union. Bulgaria and Romania\naccede to the decisions and agreements adopted by the Representatives of the\nGovernments of the Member States meeting within the Council. The particular\ninstruments mentioned in this Article include those referred to in Article\nIV-438 of the Constitution. It shall submit a draft of the protocols for\nconclusion to the Council. The Council shall act unanimously after consulting\nthe European Parliament. The application of the Constitution and acts adopted by\nthe institutions shall, as a transitional measure, be subject to the derogations\nprovided for in this Protocol. Notwithstanding this, public procurement\nprocedures initiated after accession shall be carried out in accordance with the\nrelevant Union provisions. The last programming exercise for the pre-accession\nassistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall take place in the last year\npreceding accession. Actions under these programmes will have to be contracted\nwithin the following two years. No extensions shall be granted for the\ncontracting period. Exceptionally and in duly justified cases, limited\nextensions in terms of duration may be granted for execution of contracts. For\naudit and evaluation costs, pre-accession funds may be committed up to five\nyears after accession. However, the provisions contained in Article 165 of the\nFinancial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European\nCommunities shall not apply. The Commission may adopt rules for implementation\nof the assistance referred to in paragraph 2. To this end, the Commission shall\nbe assisted by a committee. The committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.\nThis assistance shall fund institution-building projects and limited small-scale\ninvestments ancillary thereto. The appropriations shall be authorised by the\nbudgetary authority within the limits of the financial perspective. One twelfth\nof each annual amount shall be payable to Bulgaria and Romania on the first\nworking day of each month in the corresponding year. The lump-sum payments shall\nbe used within three years from the first payment. Any unused or unjustifiably\nspent funds shall be recovered by the Commission. The Commission may adopt any\ntechnical provisions necessary for the operation of the temporary Cash-flow and\nSchengen Facility. The measures thus decided on shall be applicable forthwith,\nshall take account of the interest of all parties concerned and shall not entail\nfrontier controls. Priority shall be given to such measures as will least\ndisturb the functioning of the internal market. Such safeguard measures shall\nnot be invoked as a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction\non trade between Member States. The measures shall be maintained no longer than\nstrictly necessary and, in any case, shall be lifted when the relevant\ncommitment is implemented. They may however be applied beyond the period\nspecified in the first paragraph as long as the relevant commitments have not\nbeen fulfilled. In response to progress made by the new Member State concerned\nin fulfilling its commitments, the Commission may adapt the measures as\nappropriate. The measures shall be maintained no longer than strictly necessary\nand, in any case, shall be lifted when the shortcomings are remedied. They may\nhowever be applied beyond the period specified in the first paragraph as long as\nthese shortcomings persist. A European law of the Council may extend this\nperiod. These measures shall be taken during a period of three years following\nthe date of accession and their application shall be limited to that period. The\nEuropean Parliament shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are\nrendered necessary by accession. The Council shall make such adaptations to its\nRules of Procedure as are rendered necessary by accession. A national of each\nnew Member State shall be appointed to the Commission as from the date of\naccession. The terms of office of the Members thus appointed shall expire at the\nsame time as those of the Members in office at the time of accession. Two Judges\nshall be appointed to the Court of Justice and two Judges shall be appointed to\nthe General Court. The term of office of one of the Judges of the Court of\nJustice appointed in accordance with paragraph 1 shall expire on 6 October 2009.\nThis Judge shall be chosen by lot. The term of office of the other Judge shall\nexpire on 6 October 2012. The term of office of one of the Judges of the General\nCourt appointed in accordance with paragraph 1 shall expire on 31 August 2007.\nThe term of office of the other Judge shall expire on 31 August 2010. The Court\nof Justice shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are rendered\nnecessary by accession. The General Court, in agreement with the Court of\nJustice, shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are rendered\nnecessary by accession. The Rules of Procedure as adapted shall require the\nconsent of the Council. A national of each new Member State shall be appointed\nto the Court of Auditors as from the date of accession for a term of office of\nsix years. The terms of office of the members thus appointed shall expire at the\nsame time as those of the members in office at the time of accession. The terms\nof office of the newly appointed members shall expire at the same time as those\nof the members in office at the time of accession. They shall communicate those\nmeasures to the Commission by the date of accession or, where later, by the time\nlimit provided for in this Protocol. The measures shall be adopted according to\nthe voting rules governing the adoption of the act from which a temporary\nderogation is sought. Where these derogations are adopted after accession they\nmay be applied as from the date of accession. Where these adaptations are\nadopted after accession they may be applied as from the date of accession. They\nshall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union if the texts in\nthe present languages were so published. Annexes I to IX and the Appendices\nthereto shall form an integral part of this Protocol. The text of that Treaty,\ndrawn up in the Bulgarian and Romanian languages, shall be annexed to this\nProtocol. Those texts shall be authentic under the same conditions as the texts\nof the Treaty referred to in the first paragraph, drawn up in the present\nlanguages. As long as this Agreement is not yet concluded, insofar as it applies\nprovisionally. A national base area for each producing Member State is hereby\nestablished. However, for France two base areas are established. A maximum\nguaranteed area of 829229 ha is hereby established. If such a decision is taken\nbefore the date of accession, the decision will only come into effect upon the\ndate of accession. the aid measures shall be communicated to the Commission\nwithin four months of the date of accession. This communication shall include\ninformation on the legal basis for each measure. After that date, any aid found\nto be incompatible with those guidelines shall be considered as new aid. The\nstocks referred to in paragraph 1 shall be deducted from the quantity exceeding\nthe normal carryover of stocks. Such companies bring technologically advanced\nimports and new management techniques that foster growth in domestic firms,\nwhile spurring industrial modernization. Medicine, however affordable, is of no\nvalue if no one is available to prescribe or administer it. Here, too, Germany\nshould take the lead. And China relied heavily on the US dollar to anchor its\nundervalued currency, allowing it to boost its export competitiveness. In the\nend, however, this codependency was a marriage of convenience, not of love. If\nAmerica remains stuck in its under-saving ways but finds itself without Chinese\ngoods and capital, it will suffer higher inflation, rising interest rates, and a\nweaker dollar. Though the likely answer is yes, the downside risks seem higher\nthan they did a few decades ago. All of these problems have solutions, at least\nin the short to medium run. Or perhaps this innovation is less significant than\nits enthusiasts believe. It is telling that most of the symposium's 47\nparticipants – influential public- and private-sector figures from around the\nworld – were unaware of the extent to which a mother's nutrition affects her\noffspring's wellbeing. This reflects a fundamental failing on the part of the\nscientific community to relay relevant data to decision-makers. In South Korea,\nJapan, and elsewhere, developing and maximizing women's potential will require\ncomprehensive education and labor-market reforms, as well as structural change,\nparticularly on the services side of the economy. In the realm of international\neconomics, being perceived as boring confers power to the extent that it allows\nmajor decisions to be made without a great deal of external scrutiny. Nothing\ngood would ever happen – and certainly not for the US. These countries' global\neconomic and financial significance has grown rapidly, yet they have relatively\nlittle representation at the Fund. A package of reforms has been agreed. In\neffect, the administration tried to make the IMF more interesting, particularly\nto encourage Republicans in the House of Representatives to support the reforms.\nThe latest indications are that the Republicans will not be so enticed. Not an\ninch. And yet, as Ukrainians work to rebuild our country after Viktor\nYanukovych's predatory rule, we are facing a new threat, in the form of a \"peace\noffensive\" – that old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to undermine Western\nresolve. If there is no oppression of Russian speakers in Ukraine, there is no\nreason to change the country's political structure. When it comes to genetic\nengineering, however, science seems to matter less than politics. After all,\nestablishing a genuine fiscal union would require strong political commitment –\nand considerable legwork. His time at Vendôme is reflected in Louis Lambert, his\n1832 novel about a young boy studying at an Oratorian grammar school at Vendôme.\nas Robb explained: A symbolic inheritance. In the end, his health fails and he\nis consumed by his own confusion. Their length was not predetermined. His\npreferred method was to eat a light meal at five or six in the afternoon, then\nsleep until midnight. Although Balzac was \"by turns a hermit and a vagrant\", he\nmanaged to stay connected to the social world which nourished his writing. His\nhealth deteriorated on the way, and Ewelina wrote to her daughter about Balzac\nbeing \"in a state of extreme weakness\" and \"sweating profusely\". Balzac sought\nto present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but\nfully human. As he did with the people around him, Balzac studied these places\nin depth, traveling to remote locations and surveying notes that he had made on\nprevious visits. \"The artist of the Comédie Humaine,\" he wrote, \"is half\nsmothered by the historian. \"Balzac has received high praise from critics as\ndiverse as Walter Benjamin and Camille Paglia. It is not known exactly when\nShakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of\nperformances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.\nShakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after\nhis death. The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a\ncurse against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during restoration\nof the church in 2008. Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays,\nHenry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, probably with John Fletcher. After Hamlet,\nShakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional\npassages of the late tragedies. In Shakespeare's late romances, he deliberately\nreturned to a more artificial style, which emphasised the illusion of theatre.\nIn the 18th and 19th centuries, his reputation also spread abroad. Only a small\nminority of academics believe there is reason to question the traditional\nattribution, but interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory of\nShakespeare authorship, continues into the 21st century. \n", "gold_boundaries": [26, 122, 570, 681, 784, 846, 900, 1194, 1348, 1461, 1620, 1692, 2023, 2296, 2518, 2786, 2876, 3034, 3116, 3263, 3451, 3574, 3659, 3892, 4088, 4167, 4217, 4246, 4403, 4559, 4657, 4796, 4873, 5089, 5131, 5213, 5311, 5387, 5458, 5585, 5715, 5856, 6001, 6111, 6255, 6384, 6543, 6661, 6733, 6809, 6977, 7126, 7271, 7361, 7420, 7546, 7649, 7804, 7900, 7962, 8012, 8124, 8238, 8379, 8458, 8536, 8664, 8824, 8927, 9070, 9216, 9356, 9504, 9641, 9759, 9813, 9961, 10079, 10185, 10289, 10429, 10539, 10676, 10711, 10781, 10915, 10985, 11100, 11253, 11329, 11474, 11614, 11755, 11902, 12041, 12144, 12247, 12374, 12463, 12573, 12728, 12813, 12889, 12941, 13003, 13129, 13231, 13313, 13417, 13533, 13696, 13795, 13836, 13963, 14046, 14225, 14322, 14397, 14474, 14698, 14817, 15042, 15222, 15285, 15424, 15462, 15626, 15698, 15711, 15944, 16066, 16157, 16274, 16410, 16429, 16453, 16523, 16559, 16664, 16797, 16945, 17053, 17216, 17300, 17396, 17572, 17663, 17834, 17958, 18084, 18211, 18278, 18501], "gold_sentences": ["Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.", " Any use of the work other than as authorized under\nthis license or copyright law is prohibited.", " UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED TO BY THE\nPARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS\nOR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MATERIALS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY\nOR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE,\nMERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE\nABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF\nERRORS, WHETHER OR not DISCOVERABLE.", " Creative Commons is not a party to this\nLicense, and makes no warranty whatsoever in connection with the Work.", " Yes, Mr\nEvans, I feel an initiative of the type you have just suggested would be\nentirely appropriate.", " I would ask that they reconsider, since this is not the\ncase.", " Transport safety has sadly been in the news recently:", " Needless to say,\nsafety on roads, railways and inland waterways is of key importance and, given\nthe international nature of these types of transport, training for safety\nadvisors should also be harmonised, therefore, as well as the requirements of\nthe new ADR, for example, which is under way.", " This is not just the fault of the\nCommission, but I believe that we need to take action more quickly so as to\nachieve harmonisation in this area as well.", " I can live with these minimum\nstandards, but I would ask the Commission to monitor the situation very\ncarefully.", " But I believe that we should do all we can to keep the transport of\ndangerous goods to a minimum, in all countries, whether they are transit\ncountries or not.", " I hope my proposal will be taken into consideration in\ntomorrow's vote.", " I would like to ask the Vice-President if she is in a position\nto tell us today what the state of play is with regard to the efforts towards\nharmonisation being made by these two organisations, and whether the EU is in a\nposition to hasten these harmonisation efforts, in accordance with principles\nthat are as simple as possible.", " Mr President, I would very much like to thank\nMrs Schroedter for the work she has done on this and to explain to colleagues\nthat I am speaking for my colleague, Mrs Flautre, who followed this for the\nCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs but who is unfortunately ill.", " But the\nlack of specific guidelines here is particularly to be regretted, as the idea of\nlinking Social Fund assistance to the employment strategy will be put into\neffect for the first time during the 2000-2006 programme.", " The truth of the\nmatter though is that we believe - and this is also shown in the way the\nconclusions have been drafted - that the Commission must take account of what is\nadopted by this Parliament, particularly in the face of an interim revision of\nthese Directives.", " Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank Mrs\nSchroedter for an excellent report.", " She has gone into the issue in some depth\nand in the committee debate she took account of many of the amendments that have\nbeen tabled regarding this report.", " It contained details and issues that had\nalready been raised in previous reports.", " This has been an ongoing concern for\nthe five years that I have been a Member of this Parliament, and I have raised\nthe issue time and time again.", " Consequently, I feel we must look to the future\nand establish guidelines for the mid-term review in 2003, and thus have an\ninfluence on the second phase of programming set to follow 2003.", " Its\nimplementation would certainly require extending the scope of redistribution\ninstruments such as the Structural Funds.", " Mr President, I too would like to\ncongratulate the rapporteur on her excellent work.", " I will conclude, Mr\nPresident, by saying that the failure of the Commission's communication to focus\non territorial pacts and, especially, methods of combating unemployment among\nwomen and young people, is cause for serious concern.", " ANA used a creative\ngrouping of keywords to target advertising to users specifically interested in\ntraveling and Japanese culture and developed advert creative that resonated with\ntheir audience.", " Now you can hear from people you're interested in, even if\nyou're not friends.", " If you don't see the button, you can't subscribe.", " Do you\nhave a Facebook Page?", " (14) As a general principle, the energy consumption of\nEUPs in stand-by or off-mode should be reduced to the minimum necessary for\ntheir proper functioning.", " - The programme should continue for a further 4 years\nat least with the same budget (1 million euro per year) and with the same\nmeasures and target groups.", " (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country,\nincluding his own, and to return to his country.", " (1) Men and women of full age,\nwithout any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to\nmarry and to found a family.", " (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to\npublic service in his country.", " (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and\nfavourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy\nof human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social\nprotection.", " If momma ain't happy, nobody ain't happy.", " The Republic of Bulgaria\nand Romania hereby become members of the European Union.", " The conditions and\narrangements for admission are set out in the Protocol annexed to this Treaty.", "\nThe provisions of that Protocol shall form an integral part of this Treaty.", " The\nprovisions of that Act shall form an integral part of this Treaty.", " This Treaty\nshall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their\nrespective constitutional requirements.", " The instruments of ratification shall be\ndeposited with the Government of the Italian Republic by 31 December 2006 at the\nlatest.", " This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 2007 provided that all\nthe instruments of ratification have been deposited before that date.", " If such a\ndecision is taken with respect to only one of the acceding States this Treaty\nshall enter into force for that State on 1 January 2008.", " These measures shall\nenter into force only subject to and on the date of the entry into force of this\nTreaty.", " The text of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe drawn up\nin the Bulgarian and Romanian languages shall be annexed to this Treaty.", "\nProtocol Concerning the conditions and arrangements for admission of the\nrepublic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.", " Bulgaria and Romania\naccede to the decisions and agreements adopted by the Representatives of the\nGovernments of the Member States meeting within the Council.", " The particular\ninstruments mentioned in this Article include those referred to in Article\nIV-438 of the Constitution.", " It shall submit a draft of the protocols for\nconclusion to the Council.", " The Council shall act unanimously after consulting\nthe European Parliament.", " The application of the Constitution and acts adopted by\nthe institutions shall, as a transitional measure, be subject to the derogations\nprovided for in this Protocol.", " Notwithstanding this, public procurement\nprocedures initiated after accession shall be carried out in accordance with the\nrelevant Union provisions.", " The last programming exercise for the pre-accession\nassistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall take place in the last year\npreceding accession.", " Actions under these programmes will have to be contracted\nwithin the following two years.", " No extensions shall be granted for the\ncontracting period.", " Exceptionally and in duly justified cases, limited\nextensions in terms of duration may be granted for execution of contracts.", " For\naudit and evaluation costs, pre-accession funds may be committed up to five\nyears after accession.", " However, the provisions contained in Article 165 of the\nFinancial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European\nCommunities shall not apply.", " The Commission may adopt rules for implementation\nof the assistance referred to in paragraph 2.", " To this end, the Commission shall\nbe assisted by a committee.", " The committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.", "\nThis assistance shall fund institution-building projects and limited small-scale\ninvestments ancillary thereto.", " The appropriations shall be authorised by the\nbudgetary authority within the limits of the financial perspective.", " One twelfth\nof each annual amount shall be payable to Bulgaria and Romania on the first\nworking day of each month in the corresponding year.", " The lump-sum payments shall\nbe used within three years from the first payment.", " Any unused or unjustifiably\nspent funds shall be recovered by the Commission.", " The Commission may adopt any\ntechnical provisions necessary for the operation of the temporary Cash-flow and\nSchengen Facility.", " The measures thus decided on shall be applicable forthwith,\nshall take account of the interest of all parties concerned and shall not entail\nfrontier controls.", " Priority shall be given to such measures as will least\ndisturb the functioning of the internal market.", " Such safeguard measures shall\nnot be invoked as a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction\non trade between Member States.", " The measures shall be maintained no longer than\nstrictly necessary and, in any case, shall be lifted when the relevant\ncommitment is implemented.", " They may however be applied beyond the period\nspecified in the first paragraph as long as the relevant commitments have not\nbeen fulfilled.", " In response to progress made by the new Member State concerned\nin fulfilling its commitments, the Commission may adapt the measures as\nappropriate.", " The measures shall be maintained no longer than strictly necessary\nand, in any case, shall be lifted when the shortcomings are remedied.", " They may\nhowever be applied beyond the period specified in the first paragraph as long as\nthese shortcomings persist.", " A European law of the Council may extend this\nperiod.", " These measures shall be taken during a period of three years following\nthe date of accession and their application shall be limited to that period.", " The\nEuropean Parliament shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are\nrendered necessary by accession.", " The Council shall make such adaptations to its\nRules of Procedure as are rendered necessary by accession.", " A national of each\nnew Member State shall be appointed to the Commission as from the date of\naccession.", " The terms of office of the Members thus appointed shall expire at the\nsame time as those of the Members in office at the time of accession.", " Two Judges\nshall be appointed to the Court of Justice and two Judges shall be appointed to\nthe General Court.", " The term of office of one of the Judges of the Court of\nJustice appointed in accordance with paragraph 1 shall expire on 6 October 2009.", "\nThis Judge shall be chosen by lot.", " The term of office of the other Judge shall\nexpire on 6 October 2012.", " The term of office of one of the Judges of the General\nCourt appointed in accordance with paragraph 1 shall expire on 31 August 2007.", "\nThe term of office of the other Judge shall expire on 31 August 2010.", " The Court\nof Justice shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are rendered\nnecessary by accession.", " The General Court, in agreement with the Court of\nJustice, shall make such adaptations to its Rules of Procedure as are rendered\nnecessary by accession.", " The Rules of Procedure as adapted shall require the\nconsent of the Council.", " A national of each new Member State shall be appointed\nto the Court of Auditors as from the date of accession for a term of office of\nsix years.", " The terms of office of the members thus appointed shall expire at the\nsame time as those of the members in office at the time of accession.", " The terms\nof office of the newly appointed members shall expire at the same time as those\nof the members in office at the time of accession.", " They shall communicate those\nmeasures to the Commission by the date of accession or, where later, by the time\nlimit provided for in this Protocol.", " The measures shall be adopted according to\nthe voting rules governing the adoption of the act from which a temporary\nderogation is sought.", " Where these derogations are adopted after accession they\nmay be applied as from the date of accession.", " Where these adaptations are\nadopted after accession they may be applied as from the date of accession.", " They\nshall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union if the texts in\nthe present languages were so published.", " Annexes I to IX and the Appendices\nthereto shall form an integral part of this Protocol.", " The text of that Treaty,\ndrawn up in the Bulgarian and Romanian languages, shall be annexed to this\nProtocol.", " Those texts shall be authentic under the same conditions as the texts\nof the Treaty referred to in the first paragraph, drawn up in the present\nlanguages.", " As long as this Agreement is not yet concluded, insofar as it applies\nprovisionally.", " A national base area for each producing Member State is hereby\nestablished.", " However, for France two base areas are established.", " A maximum\nguaranteed area of 829229 ha is hereby established.", " If such a decision is taken\nbefore the date of accession, the decision will only come into effect upon the\ndate of accession.", " the aid measures shall be communicated to the Commission\nwithin four months of the date of accession.", " This communication shall include\ninformation on the legal basis for each measure.", " After that date, any aid found\nto be incompatible with those guidelines shall be considered as new aid.", " The\nstocks referred to in paragraph 1 shall be deducted from the quantity exceeding\nthe normal carryover of stocks.", " Such companies bring technologically advanced\nimports and new management techniques that foster growth in domestic firms,\nwhile spurring industrial modernization.", " Medicine, however affordable, is of no\nvalue if no one is available to prescribe or administer it.", " Here, too, Germany\nshould take the lead.", " And China relied heavily on the US dollar to anchor its\nundervalued currency, allowing it to boost its export competitiveness.", " In the\nend, however, this codependency was a marriage of convenience, not of love.", " If\nAmerica remains stuck in its under-saving ways but finds itself without Chinese\ngoods and capital, it will suffer higher inflation, rising interest rates, and a\nweaker dollar.", " Though the likely answer is yes, the downside risks seem higher\nthan they did a few decades ago.", " All of these problems have solutions, at least\nin the short to medium run.", " Or perhaps this innovation is less significant than\nits enthusiasts believe.", " It is telling that most of the symposium's 47\nparticipants – influential public- and private-sector figures from around the\nworld – were unaware of the extent to which a mother's nutrition affects her\noffspring's wellbeing.", " This reflects a fundamental failing on the part of the\nscientific community to relay relevant data to decision-makers.", " In South Korea,\nJapan, and elsewhere, developing and maximizing women's potential will require\ncomprehensive education and labor-market reforms, as well as structural change,\nparticularly on the services side of the economy.", " In the realm of international\neconomics, being perceived as boring confers power to the extent that it allows\nmajor decisions to be made without a great deal of external scrutiny.", " Nothing\ngood would ever happen – and certainly not for the US.", " These countries' global\neconomic and financial significance has grown rapidly, yet they have relatively\nlittle representation at the Fund.", " A package of reforms has been agreed.", " In\neffect, the administration tried to make the IMF more interesting, particularly\nto encourage Republicans in the House of Representatives to support the reforms.", "\nThe latest indications are that the Republicans will not be so enticed.", " Not an\ninch.", " And yet, as Ukrainians work to rebuild our country after Viktor\nYanukovych's predatory rule, we are facing a new threat, in the form of a \"peace\noffensive\" – that old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to undermine Western\nresolve.", " If there is no oppression of Russian speakers in Ukraine, there is no\nreason to change the country's political structure.", " When it comes to genetic\nengineering, however, science seems to matter less than politics.", " After all,\nestablishing a genuine fiscal union would require strong political commitment –\nand considerable legwork.", " His time at Vendôme is reflected in Louis Lambert, his\n1832 novel about a young boy studying at an Oratorian grammar school at Vendôme.", "\nas Robb explained:", " A symbolic inheritance.", " In the end, his health fails and he\nis consumed by his own confusion.", " Their length was not predetermined.", " His\npreferred method was to eat a light meal at five or six in the afternoon, then\nsleep until midnight.", " Although Balzac was \"by turns a hermit and a vagrant\", he\nmanaged to stay connected to the social world which nourished his writing.", " His\nhealth deteriorated on the way, and Ewelina wrote to her daughter about Balzac\nbeing \"in a state of extreme weakness\" and \"sweating profusely\".", " Balzac sought\nto present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but\nfully human.", " As he did with the people around him, Balzac studied these places\nin depth, traveling to remote locations and surveying notes that he had made on\nprevious visits.", " \"The artist of the Comédie Humaine,\" he wrote, \"is half\nsmothered by the historian.", " \"Balzac has received high praise from critics as\ndiverse as Walter Benjamin and Camille Paglia.", " It is not known exactly when\nShakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of\nperformances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.", "\nShakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after\nhis death.", " The epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a\ncurse against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during restoration\nof the church in 2008.", " Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays,\nHenry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, probably with John Fletcher.", " After Hamlet,\nShakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional\npassages of the late tragedies.", " In Shakespeare's late romances, he deliberately\nreturned to a more artificial style, which emphasised the illusion of theatre.", "\nIn the 18th and 19th centuries, his reputation also spread abroad.", " Only a small\nminority of academics believe there is reason to question the traditional\nattribution, but interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory of\nShakespeare authorship, continues into the 21st century."]}
{"id": "en_pud-ud-test", "source": "UD_English-PUD/en_pud-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "en", "text": "“While much of the digital transition is unprecedented in the United States, the\npeaceful transition of power is not,” Obama special assistant Kori Schulman\nwrote in a blog post Monday. For those who follow social media transitions on\nCapitol Hill, this will be a little different. \n\nBut in a break from his past rhetoric about curtailing immigration, the GOP\nnominee proclaimed that as president he would allow “tremendous numbers” of\nlegal immigrants based on a “merit system.” “So I hate to put a little pressure\non you, but the fate of the republic rests on your shoulders,” he told the crowd\ngathered on a sports field at the University of North Carolina. The new spending\nis fueled by Clinton’s large bank account. What she’s saying and what she’s\ndoing, it — actually, it’s unbelievable. \n\n$5,000 per person, the maximum allowed. In early October, the transition team\nused the same venue to meet with technology lobbyists, inviting representatives\nfrom Uber, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Consumer Technology\nAssociation and other groups. The gathering was originally slated for\nWashington’s private Metropolitan Club on H Street a few blocks away. Maybe the\ndress code was too stuffy. \n\nRather than teaching the scientific method as a separate unit, for example,\nstudents learn science content by applying it. They are at the national average\nin grade 4 and better than national average in grade 8. \n\nBy comparison, it cost $103.7 million to build the NoMa infill Metro station,\nwhich opened in 2004. “We face a lot of competition, and we think transit can\nhelp,” said Joe Sternlieb, president of the Georgetown BID. The feasibility\nstudy estimates that it would take passengers about four minutes to cross the\nPotomac River on the gondola. \n\nA witness told police that the victim had attacked the suspect in April. \n\nThere are parallels to draw here between games and our everyday lives. \n\nThat share has been rising steadily over the years — only 11 percent of the\ntotal vote was cast before Election Day in 1996, according to the Census Bureau\n-- and seems likely to jump again this year. \n\nToday, Khanzir may be a lonely pig, but he isn’t always alone. “We’ve requested\nother nations to help us populate the zoo with different species of animals,\nincluding a pig,” Saqib said. \n\nThere was a time, Mr Panvalkar said, when he felt that they should leave the\nbuilding. \n\nShe has also been charged with trying to kill her two-year-old daughter. She\nkilled Andre Price III by pressing his face into an air mattress in her sitting\nroom before trying to do the same to her daughter, Angel, police said. \"I'm\ngoing to jail either way, hope it was worth it.\" \n\nFirst one of the Yazidi women started crying, then one of her friends. \n\nMr Osborne signed up with a US speakers agency after being sacked in July. \n\nMichael Fallon said the date for cutting the first steel would help secure new\ninvestment and safeguard hundreds of skilled jobs until 2035. The promise of new\nRoyal Navy orders to secure the Clyde shipbuilding industry was made before the\nScottish independence referendum in 2014. \n\nIt's most obvious when a celebrity's name is initially quite rare. And by 2007,\nat the height of its popularity (and, perhaps, Knightley's) it was a top 50\nname, with three times more babies named Keira than Kiera. \n\nThe South Korean company initially thought a battery fault was to blame, and\nswitched its own component for a third-party power cell. Several analysts have\nsuggested Huawei is best placed to benefit from Samsung's setback. The Mate 9\nphones lack an artificial intelligence interface, like the Google Assistant or\nApple's Siri. \n\nBut one travel expert warned in-flight internet was often unreliable and was\nunlikely to influence travellers' airline choices. \"But it may be that BA and\nIAG have cracked it and can offer something vaguely reliable.\" The company told\nthe BBC it would be the responsibility of each airline brand to decide whether\nto charge passengers an access fee. \"Most people would find airport wi-fi more\nuseful than being able to send emails on a plane.\" \n\nIt's like a super power sometimes. The scheme makes money through sponsorship\nand advertising. \n\nThe 10-week course has been \"certified\" by UK spy agency GCHQ. But some security\nexperts raised questions about the need for the course and the intent behind it.\n\nPreviously the jets had only been seen by bloggers. Naturally China will be\npresenting plenty of other military hardware this week from attack helicopters\nto seaplanes. And with China set to become the world's biggest aviation market\nin the next decade, the show is an opportunity for Beijing to demonstrate its\nambitions in civil aviation as well as defence. \n\n\"Unfortunately once again the few ruin it for the many,\" wrote Jesse LaBrocca,\nfounder of Hack Forums, in a message explaining why the section was being\nclosed. The \"recent events\" are likely to be the attacks of 21 October that\nbriefly took down popular websites such as Reddit, Twitter and Spotify as well\nas many others. Analysis revealed that historic amounts of data had been used to\ncause the disruption. \n\nA UN review of national plans to cut carbon says they are well short of the\nlevels needed to keep the rise in global temperatures under 2C. Many scientists\nsay that technology to remove carbon from the air will now be needed to meet the\nParis targets. \"We are moving in the right direction: the Paris Agreement will\nslow climate change, as will the recent Kigali Amendment to reduce HFCs,\" said\nErik Solheim, head of UN Environment. Investments in this area were up by 6% in\n2015 to $221bn. It's fantastic that they got the Paris Agreement but their\ncontributions at the moment are nowhere near the 1.5-degree target. \n\nIt was conducted just off the Mexican coast from April to June. This will put\nnew limits on the nature of the environmental changes that overtook the Earth\nand sent so many species - not just the dinosaurs - into oblivion. A telltale of\nthis meteoritic material will likely be high levels of the element iridium. \n\nJust over 70% of the plants grown from Earth seeds were alive after 17 days -\njust slightly more than the plants grown from space seeds - just over 66%. The\nresults from this experiment provides further support that rocket seeds can be\nflown and stored on the International Space Station for six months without\nhaving any significant impacts on their ability to germinate and grow on Earth.\nThe RHS collected comments sent in by schoolchildren and teachers involved in\nthe experiment. \n\n\"There is still a 'yuk' factor to the whole idea of buying and wearing other\npeople's body parts,\" she says. In China the hair is typically put in a chemical\nbath to remove the cuticle completely, Tarlo explains. Throughout history, the\ninternational hair market has always had a political dimension, says Tarlo. \n\n\"Tonight we are carrying out punishments using a high beam,\" the post reads.\nShenzhen's traffic police have opted for unconventional penalties before. \n\nWho are they? Much of the debate, from the Democratic side this year, has been\nabout white male identity. I asked her afterwards if she understood why people\nmight vote for Trump. Not everyone can rise above it. \n\n\"Luckily, someone in Sony Australia was like, 'Hey, by the way, did you guys\nnotice this?'\" says Pall. \n\nSeagal made headlines when he described Russia's actions in Crimea, which it\nannexed in 2014, as \"very reasonable\". A keen guitarist, he played a concert\nthere the same year. Seagal, whose grandmother was from Vladivostok in Russia's\nfar east, has made frequent trips to Russia in recent years and visited\nKamchatka and Sakhalin in September. Earlier this year Seagal was given Serbian\nnationality after offering to set up a martial arts school in the capital\nBelgrade. \n\nA police spokesman told the Associated Press there was \"an exchange of words\"\nfollowed by an \"altercation\" but that no injuries had been reported. Cuaron,\nwhose last film was the Oscar-winning Gravity, was reportedly not on set at the\ntime of the incident. According to the city's police department, a fight broke\nout after \"a large group of people... who identified themselves as district\nauthorities\" arrived on set on Tuesday. \n\nResearchers have been investigating potential for male hormonal contraceptives\nfor around 20 years. He added: \"This has been one step in a long journey of\nfinding the right combination for male hormonal contraception.\" \n\nHowever there are many MLAs with deeply-held religious beliefs who oppose any\nnew legislation. \n\nResearchers say analysing tumour DNA may help explain the underlying causes of\nother cancers. The analysis shows a direct link between the number of cigarettes\nsmoked in a lifetime and the number of mutations in tumour DNA. However, they\ncould not find this same pattern in tissues such as the bladder, which are not\ndirectly exposed. Ms Pugh has received treatment at Papworth and Addenbrooke's\nHospitals in Cambridgeshire. But a scan has shown the tumour in Ms Pugh's right\nlung is growing, and she has had to leave the trial. \n\n\"If Donald Trump becomes president, the government here will still have to work\nwith him to advance whatever shared agenda there is, to ensure that Canadian\nbusinesses and interests are represented in Washington.\" Trudeau will extend\nthat invitation to the 45th president of the United States, whoever he or she\nmay be. \n\nDespite the release of a photo this morning, police in B.C. say they have more\nquestions than answers about an apparently homeless man charged in the fatal\nstabbing of a teen girl at her Abbotsford high school. Police in B.C. said\nearlier Klein did not appear to have a criminal history and released vague\ndetails about his recent whereabouts. \"We do not believe the suspect has ties to\nthis school, or to the two girls, or specifically to the Abbotsford area,\" she\nsaid. He also said Klein was uncommunicative, uncooperative and unwilling to\nwalk up from cells under the courthouse to attend his hearing. \n\nThe association that represents real estate agents in Ontario says more needs to\nbe done to protect consumers and punish agents found to have engaged in\nunethical behaviour. He'd also like to see greater enforcement and investigative\npowers for the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), which regulates agents in\nthe province. Currently, the maximum fine RECO can levy against an agent is\n$25,000. \n\nBut China's growing middle class has been unusually vocal in its complaints\nabout toxic air in cities like Beijing, which can see day after day of\nlung-choking smog. \n\n\"We are seeing many, many countries and especially large new emitters like\nBrazil, South Africa, India and China stepping up to the plate in terms of\nplaying a role in reducing emissions,\" said Guilbeault. He could also wait until\nthe end of his first term to use a provision in the Paris agreement to pull out\nof the pact. \n\nClinton and allies, meanwhile, are seeking to keep the spotlight on Trump,\ncharging that his disparaging comments about women and minorities, and his\ntemperament make him unfit for office. That's not what we need in our country,\nfolks. Trump's wife, Melania Trump, made her first appearance on the trail since\nthe Republican convention in July. \n\nStudents like Rai have been meeting with counsellors at the school to talk about\nwhat happened, but she said the biggest comfort has come from seeing her\nfriends. \n\n\"This is a disaster for pain patients,\" Mailis said in an interview Thursday\nwith CBC News. \"Physicians don't have these tools, they have only a prescription\npad and an injection,\" Mailis said. \n\nThe Ontario Independent Police Review Director, Gerry McNeilly, set the terms\nfor his review this week after \"alarming questions\" were raised about how\nofficers interact with Indigenous peoples. The review is also investigating\ninflammatory Facebook posts from September, alleged to come from police officers\nin the northern Ontario city. \n\nThe executives also received so-called \"performance pay\" for succeeding or\nsurpassing expectations, sharing a pot of $1.5 million among them, or an\nestimated $15,000 each on average. Its annual budget is more than $1.4 billion,\nand it employs more than 6,000 people. The federal government proactively\nreports on aggregate performance pay and bonus levels for each department, but\nthe latest web posting is for 2013-2014 — or two years out of date. The total\nfor performance pay and bonus that year was $1.5 million, about the same level\nas for 2015-2016. \n\nGomery, who led the commission of inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal\nbetween 2004 and 2006, said such bodies are essential to help restore public\nconfidence in the rule of law. That led to revelations over the last two days\nthat at least six other Quebec journalists were targeted by provincial police\nsurveillance operations. \n\n\"There should be no preferential access to government, or appearance of\npreferential access, accorded to individuals or organizations because they have\nmade financial contributions to politicians and political parties,\" the\nguidelines read. The judge in Duffy's fraud and breach of trust trial ultimately\nruled they were within the Senate's rules when he cleared Duffy of all charges.\n\nOur cellphones are so much more than phones these days. \"It is amazing,\"\nreported SaskTel unlimited data customer Lindsay Gay last month. He also pointed\nout that Rogers recently introduced a new app tool that helps customers monitor\ntheir data usage. \n\nThat's what keeps us coming back for more. \n\n\"These estimates coincide with the percentages of new condos entering the rental\nmarket upon completion, indicating the important role (domestic) investors play\nin the GTA housing market.\" \n\n\"This strain helps with back pain, this strain helps with nausea, this product\nmakes you sleep at night,\" says Dietrich from the company's headquarters in\nDenver, Colorado, where pot is sold legally. But without a legislative\nframework, and with the grassroots origins of pot as a mood-altering folk\nremedy, companies are left guessing. \n\nIron is an essential element the body requires to produce hemoglobin, the\nprotein found in red blood cells that's responsible for transporting oxygen to\ntissues in the body. The current waiting period is eight weeks. It's possible to\nhave normal hemoglobin levels, but to have low iron stores overall, says\nCanadian Blood Services (CBS). The new iron guidelines mean more donors are\nneeded. \n\nWhat started as a routine ultrasound became complicated when expectant mother\nMargaret Boemer, of Plano, Texas, was told her unborn child had a rare condition\nand needed surgery to survive. A sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumour that\ndevelops before birth and grows from a baby's tailbone. It is the most common\ntumour found in babies, occurring in one of every 35,000 births. \n\nShe was 84 years old. He described her as a \"remarkable\" and \"loving and\nwonderful\" woman who left her mark in the literary world with her stories. \n\n\"Some men get it and Bono is one of those guys,\" Leive said in a recent\ninterview. At just 20, she is a strong voice against bullying and a positive one\nin helping girls embrace their own standards of beauty. \"Her voice literally\nwent around the world,\" Leive said. \n\nAs soon as the official party photos were released, social media lit up with\ncomments — and they were less than favourable. Many people, including Indigenous\ngroups, argue they trivialize First Nations culture. \n\nThe purpose of these CRTC hearings is to field responses from industry\nstakeholders and the public. This would not only apply to entertainment content,\nbut equally to education, to scientific research and, perhaps most importantly,\nto political discourse. After all, the internet is not a luxury; it is an\nessential tool. \n\nThe debris formed a ring around the Earth's equator and was eventually drawn\ntogether by gravity to form the moon. Still, there are questions left\nunanswered. \n\nIn the town of Hillsborough, just outside Chapel Hill, someone firebombed the\nRepublican Party headquarters last month. After North Carolina passed its\nrestrictive voting-rights bill in 2013, Campbell went around to churches\nteaching people how to deal with challenges to their registration. He could\ndetect the effects of the election around him, in the bursts of conflict and the\ncurious intersection of new ideas with old ones. \n\nThis discordance between economic data and political rhetoric is familiar, or\nshould be. Republican economists caution against taking this data as proof that\ntheir party is lousy at economic policy. “I don’t know what G.D.P. growth was\nduring the Washington and Lincoln Administrations, but the institutional\ndevelopments in those terms had large and long-lasting effects.” There are more\ndifferences between Sulla and Trump, Rome and the U.S., than there are\nsimilarities, but that doesn’t discredit the resemblances. \n\nAnd, she granted, “you have to look at where she has acknowledged that we need\nto do something different—we can do better—and where she has expressed regret.”\n\nBut, as the criticism of Clinton as First Lady became more caustic, Karel became\nmore empathetic. “When I’m playing him, I feel powerful,” the Donald Trump\nimpersonator John Di Domenico explained to Slate last year. As the hysteria of\nthe 2016 Presidential election intensifies, a more troubling threat than\nbullshit preoccupies Karel. \n\nThey’re usually artists who want to do a bunch of stuff. Then the commercial\nends. \n\nMiami Bass producers were clinical in the art of moving butts—their main\nconcern. In a recent interview, Zay and Zayion described recording their version\nof “Knuck If You Buck” on a home laptop. But challenges, and the songs that\nscore them, add a connective, traceable nervous system to the writhing mass of\ngrainy video loops. Their revivals underscore the appeal of a good challenge,\nartistic or otherwise: discomfort, growth, and a meaningful connection. \n\nIt would be much safer, Plato thought, to entrust power to carefully educated\nguardians. Like many people I know, I’ve spent recent months staying up late,\nreading polls in terror. Caplan dismisses retrospective voting, quoting a pair\nof scholars who call it “no more rational than killing the pharaoh when the Nile\ndoes not flood.” \n\nBut there was nothing else obviously artistic about her or in her behavior with\nother people. \n\nIn 2010, the foundation released a typeset edition of “Zettel’s Traum,” removing\nthe bar to entry for those who balked at the draft-like feel of the\nphoto-offset. Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering\nan etym. “Complete neglect of his own health,” his wife, Alice, reported. \n\nEach map in the exhibition tells its own story, not all factual. Also being\nexhibited for the first time are British Ministry of Defence maps which imagine\ncold war battles and which were used in military college exams. \n\nThe constituency is in the council area of North Kesteven, where 62% of voters\nbacked leaving the EU. His skill in getting answers for taxpayers will be sorely\nmissed. \n\nChristian Wolmar, who has written a number of books on railway history, will\nstand in the contest on 1 December. The Liberal Democrats, who represented the\naffluent suburb until 2010, are hoping to snatch it back with their candidate\nSarah Olney. Meanwhile, the estranged wife of a government whip has launched her\ncampaign to take the seat. He was utterly gracious and took it like a man, I am\nbeyond furious. \n\nMore than 330 crew are onboard the ship. Vega suggested that, because of their\nage, many would be unaware of its history. People got killed there. \n\nA coal-fired power station in Badarpur, south-east Delhi, will stop operating\nfor 10 days, along with diesel generators in the city. \n\nHe then spent four years with BBC World Service radio at Bush House. He worked\nfor the BBC for a decade. One of their many grieving Facebook posts has a line\nwhich would have delighted Chris: “More African than you, I have not known.” \n\nWho can stop this Australia side? Was their divine right to the mantle as the\nworld’s best no longer warranted? \n\nThey have one crack at redemption, beating England. South Africa are almost at\nthe point of no return and we have to be able to match their desire. He has got\nthat hard edge to his game but also the soft hands. We have a great squad and it\nis an opportunity for us to take the ship forward. You have to stand up to that\nand I would rather someone ran at me rather than round me. \n\nIt was as though he was flicking the ball back and forth underneath three\nupturned cups. Australia, hardened by their recent games in the Rugby\nChampionship, were in a higher gear. \n\nA Donald Trump victory would immediately make the world more worrying and\nunsettled than it already is. Mrs Clinton has a reputation for a hawkish\noutlook, but this will be tempered by war-weary public opinion in the US. He’s\nspoken in favour of torture. \n\nI also struggle with passwords. Then there are the so-called true stories that\nget posted in a series of meaningful pictures with text running underneath. \n\nOf course, I do understand that modern-day Germany must be separated from the\nNazi regime. \n\nIn the corner is a girl in a headscarf and jeans who looks so unassuming I think\nit’s another assistant. Artists reach people at their heart; it’s the only time\nwe meet in one place and put our differences aside. His more unusual accolades\ninclude global ambassador for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation,\nand a place at Harvard Business School. \n\nI can just do that with my life. I wanted to watch it with them, but they\ndecided they’d rather watch it without me in the end. \n\nWe can’t let the presidency go to Donald Trump, someone so racist, sexist and\nincredibly unqualified to be commander-in-chief. \n\n“More people are turning to credit … While this borrowing might be manageable\nnow, a sudden change in circumstances could lead to debt problems.” \n\nHer reason is that it provides insufficient protection to American workers whose\njobs and living standards it might harm. In this context, railing against trade\nmakes sense. \n\nTheoretically, a couple could open four Tesco accounts and earn 3% on £12,000 –\n£360. Meanwhile, Bank of Scotland customers earn 3% on balances of £3,000-£5,000\nwhen they add the free Vantage option to their account. With this, in theory,\nyou are able to access your money whenever you like. That 3% rate also applies\nto Nectar cardholders looking to borrow from £15,001-£19,999 over a period of\nbetween two and three years. \n\nSulphur is a key plant nutrient vital to healthy growth, but UK soils are\nnaturally deficient in this essential mineral. Fast forward to 2016 and this is\nincreasingly worthy of attention. Surprising as it may seem, even acid rain\nclouds can have a silver lining. \n\nThe world may be enraging and absurd – yet at least someone has the self-respect\nto keep protesting against that fact. You end up listening more acutely for the\nnext noise and getting more irritated when it comes. That’s just legitimately\nhorrendous. \n\nIt’s fair to say that Rocco Catalano works, lives and breathes retro. I think\nthat’s why they immersed themselves in pattern and colour. Catalano moved back\nto the area after living in London and then Glasgow, where he had studied\njewellery design at Glasgow School of Art. “I loved the tropical colours,” he\nsays. “I visit the degree shows at Northampton University to spot new talent,”\nhe says. \n\nBut, when I suggest that she get Frank to model for her, she laughs. \n\nNaturally, the office landscape features many clothes and little in the way of\nfood. Wintour herself appears briefly, and is filmed putting her sunglasses on\nbefore being interviewed. \n\nI looked at motocross and the more I looked, this one woman’s face kept coming\nup, in photographs that looked as if they were from the 1970s. I love to play\nwith that and I am always looking for muses that fit that bill because it is so\ninteresting making a collection when I find one. \n\nAt best it is naive and at worst it would yet again let the shooting lobby off\nthe hook. Their head of nature policy, Jeff Knott, stated: “I’d be amazed if\neither a ban or licensing was introduced off the back of it”. The RSPB’s stance\nhas also brought it into conflict with many leading conservationists, from the\nauthor of the petition, Mark Avery, to the TV presenter Chris Packham. \n\nLet’s just say he’s wrong. And what about Australia’s position? On this, one\ndiary point in Morocco will be the middle Saturday, when developed countries get\nto publicly question each other about their plans and ambitions. “We are\nactively thinking of possible ways to limit the scope of litigation to only\nthose with a real standing in a project,” he was quoted as saying. \n\n“Celtic Sea cod could collapse,” without the proposed limits, one EU official\nsaid. But big reductions have also been pencilled in for cod, sole, plaice,\nmegrim and pollack in the Celtic and Irish Seas. Conservationists welcomed the\ncommission’s announcement. \n\nOnly 50 were marketplaces. “Agora was invitation-only but many of these\nmarketplaces are easily accessible if you know how to search,” Dr Lee adds. \n\nThey didn’t have them in our day, and people without children express through\ntheir disapproval all their hatred of modern parenting. I don’t call it a beast\nlightly. Day three, I was back on the EMicro. \n\nThe world – and by extension the UK – is facing a shortage of people with the\nskills needed to mount an effective defence. Companies may try to set up a\nfirewall between sensitive systems and foreign powers, but it does not always\nwork. But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept\nknown as “active defence”. \n\nAfter I discovered a rich seam of internet discussion on the subject, my list\nhad grown inordinately long and covered almost every state in the union. I\nspotted a few. My next stop was Bellingham, right up near the Canadian border. \n\nBack on the train, we continue southwards. A small town with two minarets glides\nby. At each station, a red-capped guard presides over the platform and a\nwheel-tapper walks along the train with a hammer, gently knocking the\nundercarriage. \n\nAfterwards, browse at the morning market (6.30-10am): rice lollipops, wasp\ncocoons (the pupae are considered a delicacy), buffalo lung, betel-nut bark and\nleaves, live toads and catfish. \n\nThe intervention is potentially the most far-reaching by Beijing since the 1997\nhandover of Hong Kong from the UK. The oath involves lawmakers swearing\nallegiance to Hong Kong as part of the People’s Republic of China. The Hong Kong\ngovernment, which is led by pro-Beijing lawmakers, have argued that the pair\nshould not take office. “Beijing believes its intervention is necessary to\nprevent a continued legislative paralysis in the city,” he said. Hong Kong,\nmeanwhile, appears to be bracing for a wave of protests. \n\nHe told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “A general election is frankly the last\nthing that the Government wants.” \n\nIt is his dream to end his career here. \n\nTo draw a game you have dominated is easy to brush off, but to do so three times\nis a row suggests a weakness. We are so disappointed because we have dropped six\npoints playing at home. \n\nThat was definitely the case for Andy when he played Benoît Paire in Monte Carlo\nin April. But right now everything is out of kilter and he seems to be seeking\nanswers all the time. I also wonder whether the Davis Cup played a part. \n\nThe annual survey also revealed that worries about taking on fresh financial\nburdens has rocketed. Ms Hopley added: “The spike in political risk should not\ngo unnoticed.” \n\nNews of the company’s deceit - which had run for years - wiped tens of billions\nof euros from VW's value and cost chief executive Martin Winterkorn his job. It\nhas also opened VW up to huge compensation claims, legal action and has seen it\ntake more than €16bn of provisions. The probe began in June, focusing on Mr\nWinterkorn and brand chief Herbert Diess, who remains at the car maker. He was\npromoted to chairman in October 2015, the month after the scandal was unearthed.\n\nBusinesses had expected to start contracting in July, immediately after the\nBrexit vote, but instead have managed to keep growing steadily. Retail and\nwholesale businesses expanded as shoppers remained upbeat, and consumer services\ncompanies also grew. There will be limits to his ability to spend, however, as\nthe Government is still running a substantial budget deficit. \n\nThe cost will change monthly and the price is expected to rise in winter as\nusage increases. Eon’s fixed rate tariff costs £760 and Avro Energy customers\nwould pay around £760 for its Simple and Select tariff. Or is it an expensive\nstandard or prepayment tariff? \n\nAn investor with average luck and £10,000 in bonds could expect to receive £125\nin prizes per year. If they did, Premium Bonds would be indistinguishable from\nordinary savings accounts. The money invested in Premium Bonds, and in other\nNational Savings & Investments accounts, is used to help fund Government\nspending. \n\nThis has not stopped investors flocking to put their money in the funds. It was\nfollowed by the Aviva Investors Multi Strategy Target Return and Income funds,\ninto which investors put £2bn and £1.4bn respectively. This means that they have\nnot benefited from the uplift that the fall in sterling has given to overseas\nassets. \n\nAdidas is helping to clean up the Earth's oceans by using the waste floating\naround the world to make shoes. The consumer can boost the demand for change. A\nmajor report in January said oceans would contain more plastic than fish by 2050\nunless the world took radical action to stop rubbish leaking into the seas. \n\nAfter some genius surgery and a lot of very tough rehab, I have made a full\nrecovery. \n\nWarning that the NHS was now under \"enormous pressure,\" he urged the public to\ntake more responsibility for their own health. Four in 10 adults have been\ninjured due to bad weather while nine in 10 underestimate how chilly Britain can\nget in the winter time. \n\nThey will play on Saturday, 10 June. Last year was an incredible year and I’m\nready for us to come back even better in 2017. \n\nShe started out at the RSC in the mid-Sixties playing an asylum-inmate in\nMarat/Sade. The dress is contemporary. Where does all her energy come from? Or\nthat voice, which can blast out with a force to induce shockwaves? Her neck\npushes forward in vein-accentuating confrontation, her hands shake. But having\nallowed Glenda to score such a blinder, who can blame it? \n\nHe worked on the news and current affairs side of radio and TV for decades. In\ntheory, if done right, it’s un-detectable. \n\nDrop the mic. According to the director's own count, to date he has made eight\nfeature films. \"Cinema had changed so drastically that Hollywood had alienated\nthe family audience.\" \n\nFrom the director's point of view, the film is a precarious balancing act,\nbetween cheery family hijinks and hard-hitting social drama. On one level, it\nworks as an amiable, unpretentious heartwarmer that seems tailor-made for Sunday\nafternoon viewing. And, of course, there's Bob, a constant source of\nentertainment. The result, then, is hardly the cat's pyjamas. \n\nTo modern audiences, most of whom will have little experience of frontline\nconflict, Doss’s feats belong to the realm of the unimaginable. Doss’s story\nalso has an unlikely quality to it that makes it all the more appealing. All the\nmedics were armed, except me. \n\nWhen Millican died, we assumed that was the last we’d see of glitchy, twitchy\nOdi too. Is series two working so far? \n\n“Superheroes are outside of human experience and so is this, so I treated it\nlike a drama,” Zimmer says. \n\nBut Cotton’s dark deeds did not occur due to some sort of compulsion to kill.\nCotton was born on October 31, 1832, in a village near Sunderland. Perhaps it\nwon’t matter as I won’t be troubled long. \n\nNo longer a throwback to the Seventies, flock – or coating a surface is material\n– is flying again. London’s landmark South Bank Tower commissioned interior\ndesigner Rachel Winham to design the show apartment. Of course, the tactile\ntrend is closely linked to our growing obsession with making things. \n\nTwo years later, Jutting, now 31, is on trial at Hong Kong's High Court, charged\nwith two counts of murder and one of preventing lawful burial. I don't know why\nI chose her ... In Hong Kong's High Court, two years later, Jutting appeared\nlargely composed. \n\nAfter all, our organizational performance is seldom measured in terms of how\nsafe we are or how many rules we follow. As a result, many people quickly open\nemails or mindlessly click on links and attachments with nary a thought of its\nconsequences. First, we must educate people on how to protect themselves better\nonline. Finally, we must make it easy for people to report suspected breaches\nand malicious emails. \n\nVoting has, in the vernacular of terror, become the new soft target. This is a\nhomeland security issue of the most existential kind. Tuesday is all about\ngetting out the vote, but it means nothing if a registered voter isn't on the\nlist. Enough of those, in a highly contested area, will lead to chaos election\nday. \n\nNorth Carolina is ground zero in this election. Donald Trump is a pompous,\narrogant, entitled person that cares about himself, and his temperament is toxic\nto the United States. \n\nMore than 5.7 million Floridians have already hit the polls after about two\nweeks of in-person early voting. The GOP lead was carried by strong numbers in\nabsentee voting, and their overall edge stood at about 16,500 earlier this week.\n\nIt's the election, of course, not \"Game of Thrones.\" Martin has yet to finish\ntwo of the remaining books in his acclaimed series, currently billed as \"The\nWinds of Winter\" and \"A Dream of Spring.\" \n\nThe Dutch students have yet to decide if they will be commercializing their\nelectric motorcycle. A Harley-Davidson spokeswoman said timelines that have been\nfloated in the media -- 2017 or 2020 -- aren't accurate. \n\nU.S. stock futures are surging by more than 1%, alongside European markets.\nInvestors are selling out of government bonds, with U.S. and Australian bonds\nfeeling the biggest impact. He is credited with helping efforts to tackle the\nmountain of debt accumulated by local governments in China. But it only came\nforward after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alerted the world to the\nissue. \n\nChina's insatiable appetite for fried chicken used to be a big reason why\ninvestors loved KFC-parent Yum Brands. \n\nWith help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they eventually challenged\nthe state, in a case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the\nmovie makes clear, the Lovings -- and Richard in particular -- were reluctant\nparticipants in history. \"Loving\" opens with Richard and Mildred already a\ncouple, eliding over a courtship that would have been interesting to see, if\nonly in brief. \n\nCelebrities, fans and even CNN reporters are dressing up like \"Stranger Things\"\ncharacters this holiday. I hadn't seen a lot of the episodes and then my phone\nstarted lighting up. \n\nAs one of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) top guys, he's afforded certain\nfreedoms. \"Norman is one of my good buddies, so it totally sucked to see him in\nthat emotional state.\" New episodes are followed by after show, \"The Talking\nDead.\" \n\n\"In the cities where we've launched or are under construction, our work will\ncontinue,\" Barratt said. The Internet effort was said to be the main driver of\ncapital expenditures for the unit. For now, analysts are hesitant to write off\nthe service for dead. \n\nIn the Netherlands, authorities have taken a lower-tech approach to tracking\ndrones. \n\nMicrosoft announced on Wednesday a new workplace chat tool poised to take on\nindustry darling Slack. There's also an option to send emoji, GIFs, custom memes\nand stickers via the platform, and connect your Twitter feed. The move\nhighlighted the company's desire for users to start thinking of its products as\nmore than just productivity tools. But its latest effort into the workplace chat\ngame is a part of a larger trend from tech companies. \n\nIsner, who produced some of his best tennis as he leveled at one set all and\nforced a decider, also paid his tribute. \"I have to congratulate Andy -- to get\nto No. 1 in the world that's an incredible achievement,\" the American said. \n\n\"Pair prank their way into North Korean golf tournament,\" read Brisbane's Nine\nNews. Two Australians, who by their own admission are terrible golfers, bluffed\ntheir way into a premier golf tournament in North Korea. \n\nSnowman would jump the high fencing that separated the two properties and always\nreturn to where he felt was home. He kept on turning up at my barn and I joked\nto the guy that clearly he didn't want to be sold. \"Snowman didn't think\nanything of Johnny Carson getting a step ladder and sitting back to front on\nhim,\" he adds. I was just a boy with muddy shoes. \n\nThere is no parade and there never has been. It's an event Mexico hopes will\neventually rival the Carnival of Brazil. Alejandra González Anaya, one of the\nparade's creative directors, explained to CNN why Mexico have decided now is the\ntime to put on such a show. \"There are 1200 volunteers working for the parade\nalone,\" González Anaya says. So it's wonderful to be able to rescue that and\nbring it to a new format and a new tradition for Mexicans. \n\nBy completing this maglev line, I think the government is expecting bigger\neconomical development in Japan. \n\nAn F1 ticket grants access to the concert on the same day. The Yas Marina\nCircuit website has exact timings. For anyone who wants to see the capital in\nall its glory, November's a great time to go. \n\nIt's also fuelled the emergence of modern high-rises -- like the visionary\nMahaNakhon, Bangkok's tallest building. Not all transformations in the region\nhave been successful. \n\nBuried 100 meters (328 feet) underground, the Pyongyang Metro is one of the\ndeepest commuter systems in the world. She spoke to CNN Style about the\nexperience. In Pyongyang I did see some people on their smartphones, but far\nfewer. \n\n\"But architecture can build a bridge between the living and the dead and, to\nsome extent, blur the boundaries.\" When people die of old age in India, it is\nsupposed to be a celebration. Designed by Juan Carlos Salas, the award-winning\nbuilding has a sculptural appearance and every detail carries meaning.\n\"Architecture won't help deceased people, but it helps to keep their memories\nalive among the living,\" he says. \n\nThe charter allowed for the creation of a merchants' guild, run by the town's\nburgesses to tax people passing through the borough. \n\nIt is exceptionally rich in minerals, containing large deposits of gold,\ndiamonds, and ores of manganese, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt and molybdenum.\nOutside the extreme northwest, the taiga is dominant, covering a significant\nfraction of the entirety of Siberia. The 2019 Winter Universiade will be hosted\nby Krasnoyarsk. \n\nExamples are the Line Islands in the Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian\nOcean. Granite islands include Seychelles and Tioman and volcanic islands such\nas Saint Helena. An example of a desert island would be the small islands off\nthe coast of Baja California, Mexico. \n\nThe Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on\ngrain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which\ncontrolled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium. \n\nDarius's highly regarded commander Megabazus was responsible to fulfill the\nconquers in the Balkans. The Achaemenid troops conquered Thrace, the coastal\nGreek cities, and the Paeonians. Eventually, in about 512-511 BC, the Macedonian\nking Amyntas I accepted the Achaemenid domination and surrendered his country as\na vassal state to the Achaemenid Persia. The multi-ethnic Achaemenid army\npossessed many soldiers from the Balkans. Moreover, many of the Macedonian and\nPersian elite intermarried. \n\nIn 1912 was founded the first film company (Athina Film) and in 1916 the Asty\nFilm. In 2007 the most successful film was El Greco, directed by Yannis\nSmaragdis. \n\nIn July 1918, the Franco-Monegasque Treaty was signed, providing for limited\nFrench protection over Monaco. The executive branch consists of a Minister of\nState as the head of government, who presides over a five-member Council of\nGovernment. Its police includes a special unit which operates patrol and\nsurveillance boats. Current land reclamation projects include extending the\ndistrict of Fontvieille. \n\nHowever, there are important differences in law and procedure between Northern\nIreland and England and Wales. \n\nThe Bergeron classification is the most widely accepted form of air mass\nclassification. While air mass identification was originally used in weather\nforecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic\nclimatologies based on this idea in 1973. A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing\nwind which lasts for several months, ushering in a region's rainy season. \n\nA variety of Germanic and major Slavic tribes crossed through Moravia during the\nMigration Period before Slavs established themselves in the 6th century AD. At\nthe end of the 8th century, the Moravian Principality came into being in\npresent-day south-eastern Moravia, Záhorie in south-western Slovakia and parts\nof Lower Austria. In 833 AD, this became the state of Great Moravia with the\nconquest of the Principality of Nitra (present-day Slovakia). Their first king\nwas Mojmír I (ruled 830–846). Louis the German invaded Moravia and replaced\nMojmír I with his nephew Rastiz who became St. Rastislav. \n\nIn addition, statute determines the election of assembly of regions, and\nmetropolitan districts. \n\nAlthough Iceland was under the political control of Denmark until a much later\ndate (1918), very little influence and borrowing from Danish has occurred in the\nIcelandic language. There are also languages derived from Finnish, having\nevolved separately, known as Meänkieli in Sweden and Kven in Norway. Consonant\ngradation is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sami dialects, but it is not\npresent in south Sami, which is considered to have a different language history.\n\nThe northern portion of the Caucasus is known as the Ciscaucasus and the\nsouthern portion as the Transcaucasus. \n\nThe atmosphere is a chaotic system, so small changes to one part of the system\ncan grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. During rains\nprecipitation, the water droplets absorb and dissolve carbon dioxide from the\nsurrounding air. A recent example of weather control was China's preparation for\nthe 2008 Summer Olympic Games. \n\nShaped by global plate tectonic forces that have created the East African Rift,\nEast Africa is the site of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, the two tallest\npeaks in Africa. The latter also spread Islam to the coastal belt, but most\nBantu never had contact with Islam and remained African Traditional Religion\nadherents. \n\nFrance integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the\ninfrastructure with capital investments and skilled workers, modifying the\nsystem of forced labour. On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern\nCameroons united with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.\nDepartment of Labor Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor reported that 56%\nof children aged 5 to 14 were working children and that almost 53% of children\naged 7 to 14 combined work and school. \n\nThe Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the\nSahara desert located just to the north. In June to August 2010 famine struck\nthe Sahel. \n\nSeveral ancient civilisations were located around the Mediterranean shores, and\nwere greatly influenced by their proximity to the sea. It provided routes for\ntrade, colonisation, and war, as well as food (from fishing and the gathering of\nother seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages. Due to the shared\nclimate, geology, and access to the sea, cultures centered on the Mediterranean\ntended to have some extent of intertwined culture and history. Two of the most\nnotable Mediterranean civilisations in classical antiquity were the Greek city\nstates and the Phoenicians, both of which extensively colonised the coastlines\nof the Mediterranean. Later, when Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Romans\nreferred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum (\"Our Sea\"). \n\nThe Blindleia is a skerry-protected waterway that starts near Kristiansand in\nsouthern Norway, and continues past Lillesand. In Danish, the word may even\napply to shallow lagoons. Like fjords, freshwater lakes are often deep. \n\nAlcoholic drinks like beer, mead, bjórr (a strong fruit wine) and, for the rich,\nimported wine, were served. Whatever the rules were, the fights often resulted\nin the death of one of the stallions. \n\nThe Schlei and the wetlands between the Danevirke and Husum had frozen solid in\na hard winter, and the territory immediately south of the Danevirke had been\nconquered by the advancing German army. This retreat came as a surprise to the\nAustro-Prussian army, and almost all of the Danish army succeeded in completing\nthe evacuation. It resulted, however, in the abandonment of important pieces of\nheavy artillery, and it remains a matter of historical debate why the railway to\nFlensburg was never properly used for the evacuation. News of the retreat came\nas a great shock to Danish public opinion which had considered the Danevirke to\nbe impregnable, and General de Meza was promptly relieved of his command. The\nDanevirke has remained in German possession ever since. \n\nThe amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million\ntons in 1987. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea\ncounty), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is\nsituated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). \n\nThe climate is so dry that these plains are sometimes thought of as part of the\nSahara. It differs from the western portion of the country in that its prominent\ntopographic features do not parallel the coast. Northern Algeria is in the\ntemperate zone and enjoys a mild, Mediterranean climate. \n\nThe first and foremost was the Ohio River, which flowed into the Mississippi\nRiver. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would\nenter the Union as a free state or slave state. National reaction to the events\nin Kansas demonstrated how deeply divided the country had become. \n\nIn color, the leaves show a great variety of greens, ranging from yellowish to\nbluish. Native Americans across the Americas relied on it as a staple of their\nmedical treatments. Christian churches in northwestern Europe and Ukraine often\nused willow branches in place of palms in the ceremonies on Palm Sunday. \n\nThe Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and\nhydroelectric power. Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface\narea of Europe, the Alps provide up to 90 percent of water to lowland Europe,\nparticularly to arid areas and during the summer months. Cities such as Milan\ndepend on 80 percent of water from Alpine runoff. Water from the rivers is used\nin over 500 hydroelectricity power plants, generating as much as 2900 kilowatts\nof electricity. Major European rivers flow from Switzerland, such as the Rhine,\nthe Rhône, the Inn, the Ticino and the Po, all of which have headwaters in the\nAlps and flow into neighbouring countries, finally emptying into the North Sea,\nthe Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. \n\nThe study of volcanoes is called volcanology, sometimes spelled vulcanology.\nThis magma tends to be very viscous due to its high silica content, so it often\ndoes not reach the surface but cools at depth. They generally do not explode\ncatastrophically. \n\nGlobal warming has caused a change in the pattern of the rainy seasons. \n\nIt contains a tiny lagoon, which has all but dried up. It was declared a\nwildlife sanctuary in 1975. Investigation and expeditions to the island\ncontinue. Such settlements probably began around 1000 BC, when eastern\nMelanesians travelled north. \n\nDuring the family's years in Kentucky and Indiana, Thomas Lincoln worked as a\nfarmer, cabinetmaker, and carpenter. \n\nHabitat destruction vastly increases an area's vulnerability to natural\ndisasters like flood and drought, crop failure, spread of disease, and water\ncontamination. On the other hand, a healthy ecosystem with good management\npractices will reduce the chance of these events happening, or will at least\nmitigate adverse impacts. Agricultural land can actually suffer from the\ndestruction of the surrounding landscape. Over the past 50 years, the\ndestruction of habitat surrounding agricultural land has degraded approximately\n40% of agricultural land worldwide via erosion, salinization, compaction,\nnutrient depletion, pollution, and urbanization. Humans also lose direct uses of\nnatural habitat when habitat is destroyed. \n\nPapua New Guinea is often labelled as potentially the worst place in the world\nfor gender violence. These plant families are still present in Papua New Guinea.\n\nNorth America and South America are treated as separate continents in the\nseven-continent model. Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to\nthe West Indies in 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the\nAmericas. \n\nThese are not very popular due to the often remote and roadless locations.\nVarious private interests own the remaining land, totaling about one percent of\nthe state. This is also the only region in Alaska in which the average daytime\nhigh temperature is above freezing during the winter months. Numerous indigenous\npeoples occupied Alaska for thousands of years before the arrival of European\npeoples to the area. \n\nIt was here they stole a small canoe left by the Australian Aborigines of the\nregion. As Brisbane grew, the condition of the river worsened until at its worst\nit was no more than an open sewer and waste dump. 1987 was proclaimed the \"Year\nof the River\" by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane at the time, Sallyanne Atkinson. \n\nSand and dust storms are natural events that occur in arid regions where the\nland is not protected by a covering of vegetation. Dust storms usually start in\ndesert margins rather than the deserts themselves where the finer materials have\nalready been blown away. As a steady wind begins to blow, fine particles lying\non the exposed ground begin to vibrate. At greater wind speeds, some particles\nare lifted into the air stream. When they land, they strike other particles\nwhich may be jerked into the air in their turn, starting a chain reaction. \n\nHowever, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in\nproblems such as obesity. \n\nThunderstorms are rare, as the city reports thunder on just seven days per year.\n\nBy 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the\nlargest city west of China. Meanwhile, additional controls of the Nile fostered\ndevelopment within Gezira Island and along the city's waterfront. \n\nNevada's industrial outputs are tourism, mining, machinery, printing and\npublishing, food processing, and electric equipment. \n\nThe name \"Caribbean\" derives from the Caribs, one of the dominant Native\nAmerican groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late\n15th century. After the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492,\nthe Spanish term Antillas applied to the lands; stemming from this, \"Sea of the\nAntilles\" became a common alternative name for \"Caribbean Sea\" in various\nEuropean languages. During the first century of development, Spanish dominance\nin the region remained undisputed. From the 16th century, Europeans visiting the\nCaribbean region identified the \"South Sea\" (the Pacific Ocean, to the south of\nthe isthmus of Panama) as opposed to the \"North Sea\" (the Caribbean Sea, to the\nnorth of the same isthmus). The Caribbean Sea had been unknown to the\npopulations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into\nCaribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia. \n\nUnfortunately, rapid population growth and urban sprawl has covered much of\nthese ecosystems with development. Cape Town's local government is the City of\nCape Town, which is a metropolitan municipality. \n\nThe essay, published as Undersea, was a vivid narrative of a journey along the\nocean floor. She also took advantage of her personal connections with many\ngovernment scientists, who supplied her with confidential information. By\nmid-1962, Brooks and Carson had largely finished the editing, and were laying\nthe groundwork for promoting the book by sending the manuscript out to select\nindividuals for final suggestions. This brought the book to the attention of the\nchemical industry and its lobbyists, as well as a wide swath of the American\npopulace. \n\nIn the 1350s, King Gongmin was free at last to reform the Goryeo government when\nthe Yuan dynasty began to crumble. Since the 1960s, the South Korean economy has\ngrown enormously and the economic structure was radically transformed. \n\nIt usually involves a low level of development, such as rustic picnic areas,\nbenches and trails. Australia's Royal National Park, established in 1879, was\nthe world's second officially established national park. First and foremost was\nthe provision of open space for the benefit of townspeople and local residents\nwithin an area that was being rapidly built up. \n\nWith the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia under the Bogd Khaan\ndeclared independence. But, the newly established Republic of China considered\nMongolia to be part of its own territory. Yuan Shikai, the President of the\nRepublic of China, considered the new republic to be the successor of the Qing.\nBogd Khaan said that both Mongolia and China had been administered by the Manchu\nduring the Qing, and after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the contract of\nMongolian submission to the Manchu had become invalid. The area controlled by\nthe Bogd Khaan was approximately that of the former Outer Mongolia during the\nQing period. \n\nIn his haste to capture Kadesh, Ramesses II committed a major tactical error.\nIndeed, the first scholarly report on the battle, by James Henry Breasted in\n1903, praised the sources that allowed the reconstruction the battle with\ncertainty. \n\nRamesses, logistically unable to sustain a long siege, returned to Egypt. The\nEgyptian pharaoh thus found himself in northern Amurru, well past Kadesh, in\nTunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III\nalmost 120 years earlier. This time he claimed to have fought the battle without\neven bothering to put on his corslet until two hours after the fighting began. \n\nThe exact year of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias is subject to\ndebate among scholars. Given that Herod was in Jerusalem at that time, Pilate\ndecided to send Jesus to Herod to be tried. According to the New Testament, Paul\nspent eighteen months in Corinth, approximately seventeen years after his\nconversion. The latter date can only have fallen on a Friday if an exceptional\nleap month had been introduced that year, but this was favoured by Newton. It is\npossible to establish the phase of the moon on a particular day two thousand\nyears ago but not whether it was obscured by clouds or haze. \n\nForts were also built in the older portions of New France that had not yet been\nsettled. \n\nIt set the basis for integration where the economic and judicial mechanisms of\nthe state could be applied throughout the Mediterranean as was once done from\nLatium into all Italy. \n\nEach poem narrates only a part of the war. In later ages playwrights,\nhistorians, and other intellectuals would create works inspired by the Trojan\nWar. It was foretold that he would either die of old age after an uneventful\nlife, or die young in a battlefield and gain immortality through poetry. \n\nHowever this was reversed when Julian was killed in battle in 363. The last\nOlympic Games are believed to have been held in 393. \n\nShen Kuo soon impressed Wang Anshi with his skills and abilities as an\nadministrator and government agent. In 1072, Shen was sent to supervise Wang's\nprogram of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the\ncapital city. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredged the canal\nand demonstrated the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer. He\ngained further reputation at court once he was dispatched as an envoy to the\nKhitan Liao Dynasty in the summer of 1075. The Khitans had made several\naggressive negotiations of pushing their borders south, while manipulating\nseveral incompetent Chinese ambassadors who conceded to the Liao Kingdom's\ndemands. \n\nMedicine was also studied, especially in southern Italy, where Islamic medicine\ninfluenced the school at Salerno. \n\nTiberius reportedly regretted his departure and requested to return to Rome\nseveral times, but each time Augustus refused his requests. He seems to have\nwished for the Senate and the state to simply act without him and his direct\norders were rather vague, inspiring debate more on what he actually meant than\non passing his legislation. \n\nThe gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and they were\nscrupulously accorded the rites and offerings considered proper. \n\nThis was by boat from continental Europe. \n\nCultic remains discovered at the site were a row of ten large standing stones,\nknown as massebot, oriented north-south, the tallest of which was 3 meters high,\nwith an altar-type structure in the middle, and a large, square, stone basin.\nThe exact purpose of these megaliths is still debated, but they may have\nconstituted a Canaanite \"high place\" from the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1600 B.C.E.\nThe Canaanite city was destroyed in a fire, presumably in the wake of a campaign\nby the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III. The oldest known historical reference to\nthe city is to be found on an inscription of conquered sites at Thutmose's\ntemple at Karnak. The Tell Amarna letters, dating from the 14th century BCE,\ninclude ten letters from the kings of Gezer swearing loyalty to the Egyptian\npharaoh. \n\nThai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by\nthe day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name. Her\nzodiacal animal is the Monkey and her traditionally significant sixtieth\nanniversary year was 1992. Thai auspicious colours of the day are given in the\ntable of weekdays, followed below it by a link to the Buddha images for each day\nof the week. Chinese New Year and other feasts observed by Thai Chinese vary\nwith respect to both, as these are calculated according to the Chinese calendar.\n\nIn addition, he strengthened defenses between Egypt and Asia, building the Walls\nof the Ruler in the East Delta region. He reigned only fifteen years, which is\nevidenced by the incomplete nature of many of his constructions. Despite this,\nthey both seem to have held at least parts of lower Egypt. \n\nOn September 9, 2002, Aldrin was lured to a Beverly Hills hotel on the pretext\nof being interviewed for a Japanese children's television show on the subject of\nspace. Aldrin has been married three times. \n\nIn 1519, he became ruler of the Habsburg empire, and he gained the title Holy\nRoman Emperor in 1530. Charles, despite his harsh actions, had been seen as a\nruler empathetic to the needs of the Netherlands. In 1566, a league of about 400\nmembers of the nobility presented a petition to the governor Margaret of Parma,\nto suspend persecution until the rest had returned. Its struggle against the\nOttoman Empire in the Mediterranean Sea put serious limits on the military power\nit could deploy against the rebels in the Netherlands. \n\nA Bronze Age astronomical observatory was constructed there around 1900 BC and\ncontinuously served the nearby community that lived there until about 700 BC.\nThe central space was used to observe the rising of the sun and full moon. Three\nmarkings locate sunrise at the summer and winter solstices and at the two\nequinoxes. Four more give the minimum and maximum declinations of the full moon:\nin summer, and in winter. Two measure the lengths of lunar months. \n\nIts importance resides in two facts. During the Post-Classic period in Yucatán a\nthird system was in use. \n\nThe origin of the word Hispania is much disputed and the evidence for the\nvarious speculations are based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances,\nlikely to be accidental, and suspect supporting evidence. But the impact of\nHispania in the newcomers was also big. During the first stages of Romanization,\nthe peninsula was divided in two by the Romans for administrative purposes. By\nthe 3rd century the emperor Caracalla made a new division which lasted only a\nshort time. \n\nThey had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that when their\nfirst child was born they referenced it when naming him. During his time there,\nKipling also met and fell in love with Florence Garrard who was boarding with\nTrix at Southsea (to which Trix had returned). Stephen Wheeler, the editor,\nworked Kipling hard, but Kipling's need to write was unstoppable. Back in\nLahore, some thirty-nine stories appeared in the Gazette between November 1886\nand June 1887. By this time, he had been increasingly thinking about the future.\n\nJin Ping Mei, published in 1610, although incorporating earlier material, marks\nthe trend toward independent composition and concern with psychology. \n\nHigher male secondary school enrollment, per capita income and economic growth\nrate all had significant effects on reducing the chance of civil war.\nSpecifically, a male secondary school enrollment 10% above the average reduced\nthe chance of a conflict by about 3%, while a growth rate 1% higher than the\nstudy average resulted in a decline in the chance of a civil war of about 1%.\nThe study interpreted these three factors as proxies for earnings forgone by\nrebellion, and therefore that lower forgone earnings encourage rebellion.\nPhrased another way: young males (who make up the vast majority of combatants in\ncivil wars) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education\nor have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper\nin the future. Low per capita income has been proposed as a cause for grievance,\nprompting armed rebellion. \n\nIts guarantee of liberties promised to dissolve inter-communal tensions and\ntransform the empire into a more harmonious place. The Arab Revolt which began\nin 1916 turned the tide against the Ottomans on the Middle Eastern front, where\nthey initially seemed to have the upper hand during the first two years of the\nwar. \n\nIt specifically discusses in several passages the socially and culturally\ndegenerative effects of war on humanity itself. \n\nDominican priest Heinrich Kramer was assistant to the Archbishop of Salzburg. In\n1538 the Spanish Inquisition cautioned its members not to believe everything the\nMalleus said. Forced baptism was contrary to the law of the Catholic Church, and\ntheoretically anybody who had been forcibly baptized could legally return to\nJudaism. Spain had expelled its Sephardic population in 1492; many of these\nSpanish Jews left Spain for Portugal but eventually were targeted there as well.\n\nThe Macedonian eastern border with Thrace was now secured at the river Nestus\n(Mesta). Philip next marched against his southern enemies. In Thessaly he\ndefeated his enemies and by 352, he was firmly in control of this region. The\nMacedonian army advanced as far as the pass of Thermopylae which divides Greece\nin two parts, but it did not attempt to take it because it was strongly guarded\nby a joint force of Athenians, Spartans, and Achaeans. Having secured the\nbordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and\nmarched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign. \n\nCatherine of Russia was also very satisfied. \n\nThroughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda. \n\nThis idealized vision of the Romanov monarchy blinded him to the actual state of\nhis country. The Russian Empire was an agglomeration of diverse ethnicities that\nhad shown significant signs of disunity in the years before the First World War.\n\nThis city-state emerged in the same period as Sukhothai. This contact with the\nWest during the 16th century lead to a period of profound economic growth as\nlucrative trade routes were established. \n\nThe Army performed well in combat in Cuba. However, it was too oriented to small\nposts in the West and not as well-prepared for an overseas conflict. It relied\non volunteers and state militia units, which faced logistical, training and food\nproblems in the staging areas in Florida. The United States freed Cuba (after an\noccupation by the U.S. Army). By the peace treaty Spain ceded to the United\nStates its colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. \n\nThe offensive against the huge army enlisted by Venice was launched from France.\nBy 1563, the population of Venice had dropped to about 168,000 people. \n\nEducation during the Renaissance was mainly composed of ancient literature and\nhistory as it was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an\nintensive understanding of human behavior. \n\nThere has, however, been extensive statistical analysis of demographic and\npopulation data which includes women, especially in their childbearing roles. \n\nMost of the information about the period comes from burial sites and the grave\ngoods contained within them. At this time there were only around forty families\nliving there with plenty of good farming land and grazing for cattle. As Greece\nsent out colonies west towards Sicily and Italy (Pithekoussae, Cumae), the\ninfluence of their new alphabet extended further. \n\nBananas and plantains, which were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, most\nlikely Papua New Guinea, were re-domesticated in Africa possibly as early as\n5,000 years ago. Besides being a direct source of food, certain animals could\nprovide leather, wool, hides, and fertilizer. \n\nA fundamental change in working principles was brought about by Scotsman James\nWatt. The Industrial Revolution created a demand for metal parts used in\nmachinery. \n\nIn the Second Messenian War, Sparta established itself as a local power in\nPeloponnesus and the rest of Greece. \n\nFord T was proclaimed as the most influential car of the 20th century in the\ninternational Car of the Century awards. The success American Motors'\ncompact-sized Rambler models spurred GM and Ford to introduce their own\ndownsized cars in 1960. \n\nThis convention is only slightly relaxed in modern age and now it is still\nunadvisable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is\nstill common. In the case of the imperial family, it is considered extremely\ninappropriate to use the given name. Since Emperor Meiji, it has been customary\nto have one era per Emperor and to rename each Emperor after his death using the\nname of the era over which he presided. Prior to Emperor Meiji, the names of the\neras were changed more frequently, and the posthumous names of the Emperors were\nchosen in a different manner. Outside Japan, beginning with Emperor Shōwa, the\nEmperors are often referred to by their given names, both whilst alive and\nposthumously. \n\nIn Asia and the Pacific, between 3 million and more than 10 million civilians,\nmostly Chinese (estimated at 7.5 million), were killed by the Japanese\noccupation forces. In Europe, before the outbreak of the war, the Allies had\nsignificant advantages in both population and economics. Land warfare changed\nfrom the static front lines of World War I to increased mobility and combined\narms. \n\nBritish cavalry troopers also received excellent mounted swordsmanship training.\nSome historians, such as Chandler and Weller, assert that the British heavy\ncavalry were destroyed as a viable force following their first, epic charge. \n\nAccording to a genetic study on autosomal data on Roma the source of Southasian\nAncestry in Roma is North-West India. \n\nExplanations of the origin of music depend on how music is defined. Among humans\nboth males and females are ardent singers, and making music is mostly a communal\nactivity. \n\nIn 1839, China found itself fighting the First Opium War with Great Britain\nafter the Governor-General of Hunan and Hubei, Lin Zexu, banned the foreign\ntrade of opium. China was defeated, and in 1842 agreed to the provisions of the\nTreaty of Nanking. Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain, and certain ports,\nincluding Shanghai and Guangzhou, were opened to British trade and residence. In\n1856, the Second Opium War broke out; the Chinese were again defeated and forced\nto the terms of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin and the 1860 Convention of Peking.\nThe treaty opened new ports to trade and allowed foreigners to travel in the\ninterior. \n\nLamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings where he conferred with scientists\nand other professionals involved in military technology. Lamarr's earliest\ninventions include an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would\ndissolve in water to create a carbonated drink. She was offered several scripts,\ntelevision commercials, and stage projects, but none piqued her interest. \n\nJoseph Darnand, who became an SS officer and led the Milice paramilitaries who\nhunted down members of the Resistance, was executed in October 1945. De Gaulle\nhad instructed that there be no excessive displays of public affection towards\nChurchill and no official awards without his prior agreement. \n\nThe film chronicles the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of\nher addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. \n\nIt was completed rather late in the war; although a number of B-29s were\nequipped with Eagle and it worked well, it came too late to make much\ndifference. The radar system for which Alvarez is best known and which has\nplayed a major role in aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin\nairlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA). Using Alvarez's dipole antenna to\nachieve a very high angular resolution, GCA allows ground-based radar operators\nwatching special precision displays to guide a landing airplane to the runway by\ntransmitting verbal commands to the pilot. The system was simple, direct, and\nworked well, even with previously untrained pilots. It was so successful that\nthe military continued to use it for many years after the war, and it was still\nin use in some countries in the 1980s. \n\nWith population growth, new indigenous quarters were created. The Alliance of\nDemocratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo rebels captured Lubumbashi in\nApril 1997. The high altitude serves to cool the climate, which would otherwise\nbe very hot. \n\nFailing health reduced Hitchcock's output during the last two decades of his\nlife. Hitchcock's films sometimes feature characters struggling in their\nrelationships with their mothers. Hitchcock preferred to work with the best\ntalent of his day—film poster designers such as Bill Gold and Saul Bass—who\nwould produce posters that accurately represented his films. \n\nA mental clash gripped Herzl, between the craving for literary success and a\ndesire to act as a public figure. On March 10, 1896, Herzl was visited by\nReverend William Hechler, the Anglican minister to the British Embassy. \n\nDuring one episode, he is shown to be an adept guitar player. Lenny is a\npersistent bachelor who has poor luck with women. On one occasion, it is implied\nhe is an undercover agent whose target is Homer. \n\nDeciding to pursue drama, Winstone enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in\nHammersmith. Winstone met his wife, Elaine, while filming That Summer in 1979.\nWinstone was declared bankrupt on 4 October 1988 and again on 19 March 1993. \n\nDisney also found out that Universal owned the intellectual property rights to\nOswald. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one\nfull-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes. \n\nThis card gives an allowance that can be withdrawn from ATMs in order to buy\nschool needs such as books and uniforms. He also built and renovated five\ntraditional markets in 2013 and four traditional markets in 2014. However, his\nrival Prabowo Subianto also declared victory, leaving Indonesian citizens\nconfused. Prior to taking office Jokowi sought for outgoing President Yudhoyono\nto take responsibility for the decision to further increase fuel prices by\nfurther removing subsidies. \n\nHis official biography also claims that Kim composed six operas and enjoys\nstaging elaborate musicals. \n\nWith advice from Alexander, he was able to work out a compromise: he would\nattend a university, but would study literature. Barrie enrolled at the\nUniversity of Edinburgh where he wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening\nCourant. He graduated and obtained an M.A. on 21 April 1882. Following a job\nadvertisement found by his sister in The Scotsman, he worked for a year and a\nhalf as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal. He then returned to\nKirriemuir. \n\nOnly 3000 copies were published of the first edition. By 2009, total sales of\nThe Power of Now and A New Earth in North America had been estimated at three\nmillion and five million copies respectively. Some Christian scholars criticize\nTolle's teachings, while others praise them. \n\nBetween 1991 and 1997, she ran a school for children with learning disabilities.\nHer latest non-fiction is about Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. She found\nthe transition to fiction easy, explaining, \"Every book is a learning curve, and\nyou have to keep an open mind.\" \n\nTo avoid experiencing a similar dilemma with Jasmine, the filmmakers ultimately\ndecided to have the princess animated entirely at one studio. With her\nappearance finalized, Jasmine became Disney's first non-white princess as\nopposed to being of European heritage. Thematically, Jasmine also represents\ncivil rights, racial tolerance, social hierarchy, as well as life, liberty and\nthe pursuit of happiness. \n\nHowever, there was no further public recognition of her wartime resistance and\nhumanitarian work until after the end of communist rule in Poland. \n\nReally Really Love You was released in August and reach the top 50; \"Shaky\nGround\", the related single, appeared in September but Geyer was already in the\nUS. Having enjoyed a career peak at home in Australia, Geyer returned to live in\nLos Angeles in 1984 to concentrate on breaking into the musical scene there. \n\nAfter its progress had stalled in the Billboard 200 at No. 96, Thought 'Ya Knew\nclimbed to No. 31 in the UK, but the album charted for only two weeks in the UK.\nFollowing her dismissal, Peniston took playing as Glinda the Good Witch in a\ntheatrical production of musical play The Wiz. \n\nWilkes was re-elected and expelled twice more, before the House of Commons\nresolved that his candidature was invalid and declared the runner-up as the\nvictor. Grafton's government disintegrated in 1770, allowing the Tories led by\nLord North to return to power. George was deeply devout and spent hours in\nprayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers. George was appalled by\nwhat he saw as their loose morals. In 1770, his brother Prince Henry, Duke of\nCumberland and Strathearn, was exposed as an adulterer, and the following year\nCumberland married a young widow, Anne Horton. \n\nHer 1981 album Wild West was one of her biggest sellers. By this time,\nextravagant spending and a string of bad investments by her investors had left\nher nearly broke. \n\nIn June 2012, the Icelandic band Sigur Rós released a video for the song \"Fjögur\nPíanó\", starring LaBeouf, in which he appears nude. Louis Post Dispatch called\nit one of LaBeouf's best performances. \n\nThe car burst into flames, and Kenseth walked away. Elliott was attending his\nfather's funeral on the day of the race. In 2003, he dominated in the points\nstandings and leading the last 33 of 36 races and became the 2003 NASCAR Winston\nCup champion, the last driver to ever hold that title. \n\nRafferty released two further albums in the 1990s in what musician Tom Robinson\nlater described as \"a major return to form\". On a Wing and a Prayer (1992)\nreunited him with his Stealers Wheel partner Egan on several tracks. It included\nthree tracks cowritten with Rafferty's brother Jim, also a singer-songwriter,\nwho had been signed to Decca Records in the 1970s. Rafferty recorded a new\nversion of his Humblebums song \"Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway\" on the album\nOver My Head (1994). These were the last two records Rafferty produced with Hugh\nMurphy, who died in 1998. \n\nAt least 330,000 people, including 10,000 technicians, were involved. Stalin had\nbegun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter\nBeria's dominance of the power ministries. \n\nThe patterns presented by the data from the Petén region and Uaxactun allowed\nfor these sites to fit within the cultural development of the Maya lowlands. The\narticle by Thompson assumes that the Maya were ultimately “peaceful” people\nsince they lacked apparent defenses. Sails are not represented in prehistoric\nMesoamerican iconography or texts, instead, it is theorized that canoes were\nused as a primary mode of water transportation for the ancient Maya. \n\nStarlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an\nelaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a\nnumber of Marvel titles. Concurrently in the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a\ncache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star\nReach. \n\nThrough his grandmother, Mishima was a direct descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In\n1955, Mishima took up weight training and his workout regimen of three sessions\nper week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life. Mishima espoused\na very individual brand of nationalism towards the end of his life. \n\nIn 2011, Blunt was named the ambassadress of the new Yves Saint Laurent\nfragrance, Opium. Blunt starred in the 2011 British comedy film Salmon Fishing\nin the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström and co-starring Ewan McGregor and\nKristin Scott Thomas. Also that year, she briefly appeared in Disney's The\nMuppets, as Miss Piggy's receptionist. She starred in the 2012 film The\nFive-Year Engagement, directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel.\nIn January 2011, Blunt began filming an American science-fiction film, Looper,\ndirected by Rian Johnson and co-starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt;\nthe film was released in September 2012. \n\nValentino tried to distance the character from a stereotypical portrayal of an\nArab man. Joseph Schenck was interested in casting his wife, Norma Talmadge,\nopposite Valentino in a version of Romeo and Juliet. \n\nLord Halifax, the Lord President of the Council, visited Germany privately in\nNovember and met Hitler and other German officials. In addressing the Cabinet\nshortly after German forces crossed the border, Chamberlain placed blame on both\nGermany and Austria. In May, Czech border guards shot two Sudeten German farmers\nwho were trying to cross the border into Czechoslovakia without stopping for\nborder controls. \n\nDuring this time, Marcelle was often left alone in the room while Piaf and\nMômone were out on the streets or at the club singing. \n\nThese were almost completely forgotten until after Smith's death. Another theme\nof the Skylark novels involves precursors of modern information technology. \n\nAs early as 1926, Meyer had written to Irène Joliot-Curie suggesting that Rona\nwork with her to learn how his laboratory could make their own polonium samples.\nOnce Hans Pettersson was able to secure funds to pay Rona's expenses,\nJoliot-Curie allowed her to come and study polonium separation at the Curie\nInstitute in Paris. Rona developed an enhanced method of preparing polonium\nsources and producing alpha-emissions. Gaining recognition as an expert in the\nfield, she took those skills back to the Radium Institute along with a small\ndisc of polonium. This disc allowed Rona to create lab specimens of polonium,\nwhich were used in much of the Institute's subsequent research. \n\nDuring the 2013 off-season she appeared on CTV Montreal as a guest weather\nanchor. She next faced defending champion and top seed Sara Errani, but was\ndefeated. Bouchard suffered a shocking three-set loss. \n\nWhen their daughter Cecily married Richard Plantagenet, the 3rd Duke of York,\nand had several offspring, including Edward IV and Richard III, Joan became the\ngrandmother of two York kings of England. John of Gaunt died in 1399. The knight\nLyvet was released and his follower thrown into the Tower. \n\nNot long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the\ntorch after the marital rift. He co-starred as Humphrey Bogart's younger\nbrother, a carefree playboy, in Sabrina (1954), played by Audrey Hepburn. \n\nHe chose not to seek a third term in the following election cycle. The 1980\npresidential campaign between Reagan and incumbent President Jimmy Carter was\nconducted during domestic concerns and the ongoing Iran hostage crisis.\nRepublicans captured the Senate for the first time since 1952, and gained 34\nHouse seats, but the Democrats retained a majority. He recovered and was\nreleased from the hospital on April 11, becoming the first serving U.S.\npresident to survive being shot in an assassination attempt. Reagan believed\nthat God had spared his life so that he might go on to fulfill a greater\npurpose. \n\nBloch is concerned to establish hope as the guiding principle of his Marxism and\nstresses the implied humanism inherent in mystical tradition. A proper theology\nwould therefore have to be constructed in the light of its future goal. \n\nPebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 after securing a new\npublishing deal for her songwriting. Kesha and Pebe co-wrote the song \"Stephen\"\ntogether when Kesha was 16, Kesha then tracked down David Gamson, a producer\nthat she admired, from Scritti Politti who agreed to produce the song. As of\nAugust 2015, Kesha has released little information about her upcoming third\nstudio album. \n\nThis time it reached him, but he refused to believe that she no longer wanted to\nbe married to him. \n\nWright was born in Poole, Dorset, but grew up predominantly in Wells, Somerset.\nWright has a brother, Oscar, who is a comic book artist, contributing\nstoryboards, conceptual art and promotional pictures for Edgar's films. Wright\nis a friend of fellow director Garth Jennings, and made cameos in his films The\nHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow. \n\nThe Great Powers did not fulfill the requests for recognition of Albania. At the\nbeginning of the London conference in December 1912 the ambassadors of all six\nGreat Powers rejected the plan for establishing an independent Albania. Instead,\nthey decided that Albania would be under Ottoman suzerainty but with an\nautonomous government. After it became obvious that Ottoman Empire would lose\nall of Macedonia and its territorial connection with Albania, the Great Powers\nrealized they had to change their decision. The Treaty of London, signed on 30\nMay 1913, partitioned significant part of territory claimed by Albania,\nregardless its ethnic composition, between the Balkan allies reducing the\nterritory of Albania to its central regions. \n\nThe officers were able to subdue the 53 year old during the act on Sunday\nmorning. \n\nKing Salaman replaced the political veteran with the head of financial\noversight, Mohammed al-Jadaan. \n\nOil, gold or food products, such as wheat, are natural resources, in which\ninvestors invest billions worldwide. \n\nWith 71 goals in 137 international matches, he has shot a record number of goals\nfor the DFB. \n\nWith the help of debit card data, the Essen police are investigating four people\nwho stood by and watched while a retiree died in a bank. The spokesman did not\nrule out the possibility that others would also be investigated. \n\nBecause series 1 is no longer the old one, many users can save 100 euros. \n\nThe photo clearly shows the narrow touch display bar above the keyboard that has\nbeen anticipated in rumors. \n\nOne doesn't know in which way both dramatists would have worked together. \n\nA Swedish study has shown that animals seldom, if at all, land after the 2 month\nbreeding period. \n\nAccording to Parker, Russian Secret Service agents are active in large numbers\nin Great Britain. Russia announced a suspension of the contract at the beginning\nof October. The law delineates a number of conditions whose fulfillment could\nbring the agreement back into effect: the USA would have to withdraw all of its\ntroops from countries who joined NATO after 2000, rescind all of the sanctions\nagainst Russia as well as reimburse the costs that have been incurred as a\nresult of the sanctions. \n\nIt is a political process and I have decided not to be present, so it was said.\n\nIf a Turkish employee quits, then the Turkish work councils come. \n\nFrom this point of view, stale structures and a self-satisfied elite are the\nreason why the health system, education and foreign trade in the USA is in such\nbad shape. \n\nKühn can only shake his head. The newspaper \"Die ZEIT\" first inquired with the\nreal estate business about its dubious cash flows and the threat of insolvency\nin July. \n\nThe witching hour starts up at least by the time the scary organ is played, such\nas in the 60s hit Monster Mash. \n\nVon Beust justified the cost increases as lack of detailed planning. \n\nSimon Krätschmer gropes around alone through the dilapidated, sinister barrack.\n\nThat is because each and every miracle and each specialized district occupies an\nentire field. \n\nProduction of the smartphone model was completely discontinued. \n\nIt was August 30, 2015, as an army of ducks conquered the internet. The\nsmartphone generation received an app it deserved, where, in the best case\nscenario, the most idiotic situation received an audience of millions. On the\nother hand, Vine was art in six seconds. \n\nAnd now he is also world champion. \n\nFor Kerber, the season finale nevertheless marks the end of an unbelievable\nyear. After the sensation at the Australian Open, the 28 year-old lost for the\nfirst time in the final game against Serena Williams. \n\nIt is now only unclear, in which one. \n\nDo you argue with your alarm clock? \n\nIt's clear: Men could have more responsibility in matters of contraception. \n\nAccording to Christian belief, a grave which had been embedded in the chalkstone\nwas the last resting place of Jesus. \n\nThe reason for advertising the video in Germany is unclear. \n\nI was asked by the officers, in their inimitably dumb way, whether I knew the\nwriter Günter de Bruyn and whether we are intellectual relatives. \n\nThe Canadian investigator of the plane crash Larry Vance told SPIEGEL that he is\nconvinced that one of the pilots had intended to land the machine on the ocean\nsurface - so that it would sink. The Australian experts drew new conclusions\nfrom the investigation of a landing flap from Boeing that had washed up in\nTanzania in East Africa. \n\nThe issue might not be over for Barroso. The exchange of Barrosos caused a big\nstir. \n\nThe current arrests are \"a continuation of the shenanigans against us,\" said\nDündar. \n\nFor the time being, the deal between Aoun and Hariri has brought the two enemy\nfactions closer together. \n\nThe husband of the current candidate for the White House, Hillary Clinton,\npardoned a number of people, also including Rich, on the last day of his\npresidency, January 20, 2001. \n\nDündar warned Europe about having too much understanding for Erdogan's course. \n\nAdnan Z. Amin, General Director of the International Organization for Renewable\nEnergies (IRENA) is certain: \"Offshore wind power can become the top power\ngenerator in a global economy that is free of coal-based energy.\" \n\nThe good numbers in Asia promptly pushed the stock markets up. One expects a\nbump from the booming real estate market and increasing federal expenditures. \n\nThe two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on display are especially\neye-catching. \n\nTherefore the irksome signs will not completely disappear: According to\ninformation from the news agency dpa, they will only be activated if, for\ninstance, the artist or record label is not a member of GEMA and does not have\nan agreement with YouTube. \n\nThe contaminants not only attack the undeveloped lungs of the little ones; they\ncan also lead to long-term impairment in the development of the adolescent\nbrain. \n\nIt is no surprise that the federal and state governments have classified the\nNational Natural Heritage as a nation-wide endeavor of the highest priority and\nhave documented it starting in 2005 in a coalition contract. \n\nUnlike that of the 28th of October, Mr. Comey's letter has hardly been commented\nupon. If his Democrat opponent were to be elected, he assured that she would be\n'under investigation for years'. \"If somebody can't handle a Twitter account,\nthey can't handle the nuclear codes,\" Obama mocked. According to the programme,\nshe will speak at 23.45. \n\nOn Tuesday, the United States of America could elect the first female president\nin its history. On the other hand, Ms. Clinton's relations with the continent\nover the past twenty years leave much to be desired. \n\nThe AKP's Islamic conservatives have taken this refusal as justification for the\nquestionings. A third-party majority is needed, specifically the votes of 367\nMPs (out of 550), whereas 330 votes are required in order to trigger a\nreferendum. \n\nOn Thursday, the 3rd of November, the mayor of Saint-Gaudens (in the\nHaute-Garonne region) decided to suspend the urban development agreement with\nthe government formed in 2014. \n\nThe latter is overseeing the Republican primaries, in which Rachida Dati\nsupports Nicolas Sarkozy's candidacy. In the message, the former Minister for\nJustice accused Brice Hortefeux of being a 'fascist', 'Minister (moron) of the\nInterior' and a 'thug'. \n\nWhat are the limits that could inhibit the expression of religious beliefs in\nprivate companies? Even if the majority of situations that arise in the\nworkplace can be resolved without conflict. Are workers allowed to keep\nreligious objects on their desks? The Force Ouvrière union regrets that its\nremarks on the content of the guide were not included: \"There wasn't really any\nconsultation,\" said Ms. Gillard. The guide is problematic, firstly because it\nhas been developed \"in the context of a state of emergency\". \n\nThis clause included the time taken to travel to clients' homes in working\nhours. The two organisations launched an appeal which was thrown out by the\nCourt of Cassation on the 12th of October. It aims to take the journey time into\naccount after deducting this from the working hours actually completed, without\nbeing able to measure the real journey time. The working time undertaken in this\nfirst hour is more or less equal to 45 minutes. \n\n\"ETA is on its way out,\" the French contingent revealed. \n\nHe also remarked that \"the existence of such a document could lead to\nconsequences that are as likely as they are unacceptable\". The French Digital\nCouncil, which advises on bills in line with questions of digital technology,\ncould also scrutinise it. \n\nAccording to Le Figaro, this government plan could free up 42 million euros, of\nwhich 15.5 million would go towards security. France doesn't have a good\nreputation. \n\nTina Anselmi was born on the 25th of March, 1927 in Castelfranco Veneto; she\ngrew up in an anti-fascist Catholic family, which was marked by the persecution\nof her militant socialist father. Having always been close to the Catholic\nUnion, Tina Anselmi attended particularly to the rights of textile workers and\nteachers. \n\nIt is difficult to think that Italy has fewer km of underground line than\nMadrid. It has been emphasised that we absolutely cannot continue with those who\nare completely against Italy. We will evaluate whether and how to continue onto\nthe next section. \n\nThe hit song is \"Geronimo\" by Sheppard. \n\nThose of age will be offered 500 euros by the state, to be spent by 31st\nDecember 2017. A voucher is generated that can be saved on your smartphone, or\npresented at the till. \n\nFrom the 1st of January there will be an increase in petrol and diesel. The CGI\nMestre have stated in a note, that there will be no rise in VAT, for 2017 at\nleast. A level that in both cases is at the top of the EU. The latest figures\nrelate to the 24th of October last year, and tell us that our diesel costs 1,335\neuros per litre, compared with the eurozone average of 1,165 euros. A\nsignificantly higher cost which clearly exceeds the average of the countries\nthat adopt the single currency, which is equal to 1,365 euros per litre. \n\nCorrado Passera withdraws the offer for Mps due to \"the attitude of total\nclosure that the Bank has shown to us\". As stated, the decision is the\nprerogative of the ECB and would appear inappropriate for the Bank to speak on\nits behalf by excluding the possibility of looking at other alternatives. This\nis what has been written in a note to Mps after the decision of the ex-minister\nto leave the party. It will go for assessment. \n\nStudents at LUISS University were told during the course of a meeting which took\nplace in Rome. This morning, Pope Francis met Mark Zuckerberg and his wife at\nCasa Santa Marta. \n\nFour students at Roma Tre University have developed a motorcycle helmet that can\n'read thoughts' by helping to anticipate drivers' actions. One of the examples\nof research applied under safety measures has also produced a humanoid robot to\ncompete with Valentino Rossi. \n\nIn return, Uber will receive a billion dollar investment and a seat on the board\nof directors of the Chinese company. More and more tech companies are calling\nthe shots more than ever before on Wall Street, even more than in Silicon\nValley. Amazon has become the fourth American company with the largest market\ncapitalisation, surpassing ExxonMobil. Leaders of companies such as Spotify,\nTesla, Uber and Snapchat will attend a private event in addition to the Mountain\nView Summit. \n\nThe president of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, represents the\nmost conservative, while leaders of the party, such as the Sectorial\nUnder-Secretary, Javier Maroto, represent the most progressive. Durán acts as\nspokesman and Ángel Pintado as treasurer. \n\nFor the first time in the last six years the rate of unemployment has dropped\nbelow 20%, and there are already 600,000 more people employed than there were a\nyear ago. Its management, however, hasn't been devoid of criticism. The unions\nhave been very combative and on several occasions have called for the repeal of\nthe legislation that Fátima Báñez is proudest of. This department now faces new\nchallenges. Furthermore, the Government will have to deal with another \"hot\npotato\". \n\nThe Minister of Defense has allowed her to remain General Secretary of the party\nfor now. The consulted sources have said that it is \"100% Cospedal\". In spite of\nthem, not everyone in the party understood the messages that the president tried\nto send to them yesterday. Barón de Claret, the only one in Government with a\nnoble title. \n\nPedro Sánchez, like many other socialists, said in the programme Évole that\nSpain is a nation of nations. And what about the parties in what, in historical\nrights? \n\nFederico Fellini once said: \"The clown is to humanity as the shadow is to man\".\nHe stands alone in front of the audience and, ultimately, he has to bring out\nthe best of himself in order to make the audience laugh. \n\nIn the war films or cowboy and Indian films the battles, fights and beatings\nwere out of this world. Emphasis, fine irony, blunt innuendos and other well\nused verbal devices fit into parliamentary oratory, but flicking at each other\nand slapstick comedy do not. \n\nHe believes that nobody waiting for us waits for us. Perhaps that's why a surge\nof tears clouds his pupils while the syllable of time unearths his crop and\nsurrenders his mystery to the bound waters. And they must be greeted with an\nopen spirit and clear mind because they form the new generation of beauty and\nhope. \n\nAs a result, Trump isn't very worried about the Latin American vote at a\nnational level. The early voting suggests that this time the Latin Americans\nwill come out to vote in greater numbers, but it is unclear whether the increase\nwill have an impact. \n\n\"There will be protests and other things, it's all already planned,\" the\nopposition told El Mundo. Dozens of FSLN followers are already celebrating the\nvictory in the Plaza de las Victorias. \n\nMay has received great criticism for avoiding and not responding openly to the\nmedia after the judicial ruling on Brexit. \n\nFounded in 1925 as games for everyman, the open air theater on the great steps\nin front of St. Michael still attracts a diverse public. The festive dedication\ntook place on April 30, 1955. \n\nIn 1882, a telegraphic system equipped with 34 fire alarm signals was put in\noperation. In 1992, grounds of the former puppet theater, which had been left to\nthe commune, were taken over by players and employees. This has to do with one\nof the few buildings in the city center that was spared from destruction by the\nend of the Second World War. \n\nIn 1832, the former cloister was sold to the manufacturer Georg Reichenbach by\nthe state of Württemberg with the stipulation to establish a cotton factory\nthere. The Islamic citizens who have settled since the beginning of the 1960s\nemigrated primarily from Turkey. \n\nAmong them is the former cloister from the abbey church of St. Peter and Paul.\nThe historical city hall in Obermarsberg originates from the 13th century and\nwas refurbished after the Thirty Years' War. There are different theories about\nthe reasons for leaving the place. \n\nGolden Gate Park, which is over four kilometers in length, offers a botanical\ngarden, planetarium, Japanese garden and an aquarium. It serves as a local place\nof rest and relaxation for San Franciscans. The Yerba Buena Garden was built at\nthe beginning of the 1990s on the roof of the Moscone North Convention Center.\nIt contains a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. \n\nSince the 1960s, the city's economy has been in steep decline. During the 2010\ngeneral election, the Labor Party was able to win all seven voting districts. \n\nBoth the time and the sequence of events of this incident were vigorously\ndiscussed. In April 2012, the Turkish Minister President Erdogan announced his\ngovernment's plans to free Bosphorus by building the Istanbul Canal parallel to\nit. The Ottomans wanted to prevent grain from being further transported because\nthey had a great need for it. The Ottoman Empire and Russia were denied\npermission to keep their war fleet in the Black Sea. \n\nIn its scope it belongs to the most far-reaching cultures of the time, in which\nmany sites are known. Like the majority of sites in southern Europe, the finding\ndates back to the early 5th century BC. Likely the most well-known person from\nthe Copper Age is Ötzi, the frozen mummy who lived during 3300 BC. They were\nprimarily on hills. In addition, its process of gilding copper is\ntechnologically noteworthy. \n\nThe severity and the presence of the revolution in the countryside alarmed the\nCourt and National Assembly in Versailles. The event was known about in Paris\nand caused more upset in a mood which was already charged by the persistently\nhigh price of bread and lack of provisions. The king did not take special\nprecautions during his escape and was recognized multiple times during his\nstays. \n\nThe hymn was well received and the audience demanded an encore. I declare the\nfirst international Olympic games over. \n\nThe First World War brought about shifts and new developments in colonial\npolitics. \n\nThe Industrial Revolution took place in Great Britain earlier than in any other\ncountry. The Suez Crisis showed the limits of the old colonial powers such as\nGreat Britain and France in a changing world. After the seizure of power by the\nNational Socialists in 1933 there were dispersed attempts to win back the old\ncolonies. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, some countries, such as Finland,\nPoland and the Baltic States, won their independence. \n\nOne of his last means of placing pressure on Hungary was the threat of imposing\ngeneral and free elections. After the Compromise, Emperor and King Franz Joseph\nI took great care to treat both of his monarchies equally. \n\nThe Disibodenberg cloister was disbanded and fell into ruin as a result of the\nReformation. Today, expansive ruins can be viewed there. The Rupertsberg\ncloister was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War in 1632 by Swedish troops.\nThe displaced nuns were moved to the Eibingen cloister. The ruins were later\nbuilt over. \n\nAfter these successes, he signed a contract with Team Telekom and moved in with\nhis girlfriend in Merdingen in Südbaden, where he lived until 2002. At the\nOlympic Games in 2004 in Athens, Ulrich, as winner of the street race, pursued\nthe goal of winning his second gold medal. \n\nThe censorship disposed of all undesirable opinions; participation in public\nlife had become practically impossible. The traces of blood on the clothes were\nin the shape that they were reported to have by the news reports on the day of\nthe murder. \n\nWeiss was honored with the literature prizes from the cities of Cologne and\nBremen. \n\nPrivately as well as publicly, Springer vigorously pursued reconciliation with\nthe Jewish people and took many trips to Israel. The chalet burned completely\ndown. In the following year, 1977, he received the distinction of the American\nFriendship Medal for the friendly position of his press toward the USA. \n\nThe Viguier and La Conte districts contain the majority of the city's social\nhousing, where the population is mainly made up of immigrants or those of\nimmigrant origin. The history of Carcassonne is directly linked to that of its\nfortified city. \n\nIn the early 2000s, there were five doctors per 100,000 inhabitants. Amnesty\nInternational cites newspaper articles from 2008 describing the murder of fifty\npeople accused of witchcraft. \n\nVon Bellingshausen sighted Antarctica on the 27th of January 1820, three days\nbefore Bransfield sighted land, and ten months before Palmer did so in November\n1820. In the Endurance expedition in 1914, the British ship Endurance, captained\nby Sir Ernest Shackleton, set sail with twenty eight men to cross the Antarctic.\n\nThis drawing up was the founding act of Roman law, the institutions of the Roman\nRepublic and the mos maiorum. However, Pyrrhus was forced to leave Sicily in\norder to attend to business in southern Italy. \n\nIn the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed\nthe fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean\nscript forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it\nto create the Greek alphabet. From the 9th century BC, the first Greek texts\nbegan to appear. Greece was divided into many small, self-governing communities,\na pattern largely dictated by Greek geography: every island, valley and plain is\ncut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. From about the 8th\ncentury BC city states began to appear: small, self-governing territories with\ntheir own political systems. \n\nIn the Middle Ages, most Christians did not have access to the Bible in their\nmother tongue. \n\nHowever, they did not expand until ships big enough to cross seas were built.\nTrade was developed by establishing commercial outposts throughout the\nMediterranean, a technique that had not been used until then. \n\nThis affair can be seen as the starting point for his career as a radical\nrevolutionary. In Pluviose year III (January-February 1794), easing off the\npressure of the Reign of Terror, he took various measures to liberate the\nsuspects. \n\nFinanced entirely with Bernard Tapie's own money, these schools were closed in\n1994 when he was declared bankrupt. Despite being the number one distributor of\nequipment and textiles worldwide, the German company was in financial trouble. \n\nTo get away from it all, the Remis resided in Switzerland for most of summer\n1947. On their return, they entertained the idea of living in South America, far\naway from the problems of postwar Belgium. In spring 1948, in hopes of adapting\nTintin for the cinema, the Belgian artist wrote a letter to Walt Disney, asking\nin vain for his support. In the summer, Georges and his wife returned to\nSwitzerland, accompanied by Rosane, an 18 year old who was the daughter of one\nof Germaine's friends. During the holiday, he began an extra-marital affair with\nthe young girl, which he admitted shortly after. \n\nIn the lower part, there are three palm trees overlooking the sea, which\nrepresent the love that the people of this Island have for their land.\nFurthermore, the occurrence of hurricanes on the island is possible during the\nsummer. The islands are located at the Indo-Australian Fault; the Fault arose\ndue to the collision of the Indian and Australian plates. \n\nAn element supporting this hypothesis would be the intense royal livestock of\nhorses that took place at Villa Pelucca, in Sesto San Giovanni. In 1928, a\n90-hectare golf course was built in the north-eastern part of the park, next to\nthe racetrack. In 1976, the racecourse was no longer used; in 1990, a fire\ndestroyed what remained of the wooden grandstands, which were later demolished\nalong with the stables. \n\nIn August 1969, Pope Paul VI removed the death penalty from the Vatican law and\nrevoked it from all offences. The issuing of coinage is predominantly numismatic\nin nature, with the intention of being sold mainly to collectors. \n\nThe inner part of the region is flat and hilly, with no clear distinction\nbetween one area to the next. There are many prehistoric artifacts, including\nseveral different menhirs and dolmens. The second Apulian and Calabrian Royal\nRegion was then established, also including Samnium, parts of Molise and the\noriental Basilicata. During the thirteenth century, the name Apulia was used by\nsome authors to signify the southern part of the Italian peninsula. \n\nHistorian David Crouch suggests that Stephen abandoned from the challenge around\nthis time to focus on other issues. Only a handful of them (earldoms) had\nexisted under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic. \n\nDuring the War of the First Coalition, light quickly began to be shed upon a\nyoung Corsican artillery officer, following the French Revolution: Napoleon\nBonaparte. Although not a resolver of the conflict, the French victory at the\nBattle of Marengo forced the Austrians to give Italy up for the second time. The\nblockage of Villeneuve's fleet resulted in giving up the invasion plan of the\nBritish Isles, also because new developments were taking place in the continent.\nNapoleon was confident that the clear success of Austerlitz could lead to a\ngeneral peace treaty, but his hopes were soon dashed: the new British Prime\nMinister Lord Grenville refused any agreement, and so did Tsar Alexander. \n\nWith regards to religious practices, Fiorello was educated within the Episcopal\nChurch, and remained a member of the Protestant Church throughout his life. \n\nThe man told him that a war between the two universes is coming, as he and\nWalter had predicted; it is for this reason that Olivia, among others, was\ntrained as a child. \n\nBoth students of Goffredo Petrassi, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai met at the\nSanta (Saint) Cecelia conservatory. Between them bloomed a long professional and\namicable relationship that lasted for years. Nicolai collaborates on various\ncinematic scores by Morricone as Metti, one night at dinner; some of them were\nwritten by both together. However, the friendship has fallen apart due to\nunofficial collaborations between the two, which has given rise to legal\ndisputes. During their various collaborations, it is not clear who between the\ntwo conceived of some stylistic solutions in the arrangements that later on\ncharacterised both artists' style. \n\nIn the 20th century, between 1904 and 1914, Antonio Gaudí brought about a reform\nthat lasted ten years. It has three parallel chapels at the apse and many\nlateral chapels between the buttresses. Tradition has it that the theme was\nselected intentionally because of the great number of converted Jews who lived\nin Palma. \n\nBefore the Andes were formed, the western margin of South America had already\nbeen the site of several orogenies. The central Andes belong to the so-called\n'Andes de tipo andino' which were formed by the subduction of the oceanic crust.\n\nHowever, the breakdown between him and Linares and the discontinuation of the\nprogressive line provoked the Revolution of Vindication which overthrew him in\n1879. Under his administration, the female vote was approved, political parties\nwere legalised, all of the exiled were allowed to return and the remaining\npolitical prisoners were freed. The collapse of and intervention in dozens of\nbanks lead to a flight of capital, causing businesses to go bankrupt. \n\nIt is the portion from this second boundary up to the outer boundary, the\nimaginary line that connects the lighthouse landmark at Punta del Este to the\nlighthouse landmark at Punta Rasa. \n\nThings started to change in October 1777 when British forces under the command\nof General John Burgoyne surrendered in Saratoga in the north of the state of\nNew York. This was the coup de grâce and encouragement the settlers needed to\nget their independence. Indians arrived from Canada, led by Joseph Brant; they\nsupported the British because the colonists were expropriating more and more of\ntheir lands. The expedition was led by General Joseph Burgoyne who intended to\nreach Albany. However, they were intercepted and had to do battle in Freeman,\nclose to the Hudson River. \n\nGolden Age Spanish or Early Modern Spanish is the variant of the language that\nconstitutes the transition from Medieval Spanish to Modern Spanish. On the other\nhand, external history contains references to the history of Spanish speakers,\ntheir historical vicissitudes and the social use of the language. \n\nNonetheless, if the English law had been accepted, the daughters of Luis X,\nFelipe V and Carlos IV would have had more of a claim to the throne, above their\naunt Isabella of France. The attempts at making peace finally ended in spring of\n1415 and Enrique decided to execute his plan: an invasion of the entire Kingdom\nof France. \n\nHe also discussed the federalization of the City of Buenos Aires, the extension\nof the commercial code and the appointment of new generals to the army. \n\nIn 1976 he met with a friend who worked with his record label The Rocket Record\nCompany, Kiki Dee, to record what would be another remarkable success for him:\n\"Don't Go Breaking My Heart\". \n\nPompey took command of two legions in Capua and began to raise levies illegally,\nan act that, as was predictable, took advantage of the Caesarians who were in\nhis favor. César was personally informed of Pompey's actions by Curio, who at\nthat time had finished his term in office. Meanwhile, his place in tribune was\noccupied by Marco Antonio, who held the position until December. But when the\nSenate answered him definitively by prohibiting him from competing at the\nconsolate and giving him the option of either withdrawing his troops or becoming\na public enemy, he understood that, whatever alternative he chose, he would\nsurrender unarmed into the hands of his political enemies. 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" \n\n$5,000 per person, the maximum allowed.", " In early October, the transition team\nused the same venue to meet with technology lobbyists, inviting representatives\nfrom Uber, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Consumer Technology\nAssociation and other groups.", " The gathering was originally slated for\nWashington’s private Metropolitan Club on H Street a few blocks away.", " Maybe the\ndress code was too stuffy.", " \n\nRather than teaching the scientific method as a separate unit, for example,\nstudents learn science content by applying it.", " They are at the national average\nin grade 4 and better than national average in grade 8.", " \n\nBy comparison, it cost $103.7 million to build the NoMa infill Metro station,\nwhich opened in 2004.", " “We face a lot of competition, and we think transit can\nhelp,” said Joe Sternlieb, president of the Georgetown BID.", " The feasibility\nstudy estimates that it would take passengers about four minutes to cross the\nPotomac River on the gondola.", " \n\nA witness told police that the victim had attacked the suspect in April.", " \n\nThere are parallels to draw here between games and our everyday lives.", " \n\nThat share has been rising steadily over the years — only 11 percent of the\ntotal vote was cast before Election Day in 1996, according to the Census Bureau\n-- and seems likely to jump again this year.", " \n\nToday, Khanzir may be a lonely pig, but he isn’t always alone.", " “We’ve requested\nother nations to help us populate the zoo with different species of animals,\nincluding a pig,” Saqib said.", " \n\nThere was a time, Mr Panvalkar said, when he felt that they should leave the\nbuilding.", " \n\nShe has also been charged with trying to kill her two-year-old daughter.", " She\nkilled Andre Price III by pressing his face into an air mattress in her sitting\nroom before trying to do the same to her daughter, Angel, police said.", " \"I'm\ngoing to jail either way, hope it was worth it.\"", " \n\nFirst one of the Yazidi women started crying, then one of her friends.", " \n\nMr Osborne signed up with a US speakers agency after being sacked in July.", " \n\nMichael Fallon said the date for cutting the first steel would help secure new\ninvestment and safeguard hundreds of skilled jobs until 2035.", " The promise of new\nRoyal Navy orders to secure the Clyde shipbuilding industry was made before the\nScottish independence referendum in 2014.", " \n\nIt's most obvious when a celebrity's name is initially quite rare.", " And by 2007,\nat the height of its popularity (and, perhaps, Knightley's) it was a top 50\nname, with three times more babies named Keira than Kiera.", " \n\nThe South Korean company initially thought a battery fault was to blame, and\nswitched its own component for a third-party power cell.", " Several analysts have\nsuggested Huawei is best placed to benefit from Samsung's setback.", " The Mate 9\nphones lack an artificial intelligence interface, like the Google Assistant or\nApple's Siri.", " \n\nBut one travel expert warned in-flight internet was often unreliable and was\nunlikely to influence travellers' airline choices.", " \"But it may be that BA and\nIAG have cracked it and can offer something vaguely reliable.\"", " The company told\nthe BBC it would be the responsibility of each airline brand to decide whether\nto charge passengers an access fee.", " \"Most people would find airport wi-fi more\nuseful than being able to send emails on a plane.\"", " \n\nIt's like a super power sometimes.", " The scheme makes money through sponsorship\nand advertising.", " \n\nThe 10-week course has been \"certified\" by UK spy agency GCHQ.", " But some security\nexperts raised questions about the need for the course and the intent behind it.", "\n\nPreviously the jets had only been seen by bloggers.", " Naturally China will be\npresenting plenty of other military hardware this week from attack helicopters\nto seaplanes.", " And with China set to become the world's biggest aviation market\nin the next decade, the show is an opportunity for Beijing to demonstrate its\nambitions in civil aviation as well as defence.", " \n\n\"Unfortunately once again the few ruin it for the many,\" wrote Jesse LaBrocca,\nfounder of Hack Forums, in a message explaining why the section was being\nclosed.", " The \"recent events\" are likely to be the attacks of 21 October that\nbriefly took down popular websites such as Reddit, Twitter and Spotify as well\nas many others.", " Analysis revealed that historic amounts of data had been used to\ncause the disruption.", " \n\nA UN review of national plans to cut carbon says they are well short of the\nlevels needed to keep the rise in global temperatures under 2C.", " Many scientists\nsay that technology to remove carbon from the air will now be needed to meet the\nParis targets.", " \"We are moving in the right direction: the Paris Agreement will\nslow climate change, as will the recent Kigali Amendment to reduce HFCs,\" said\nErik Solheim, head of UN Environment.", " Investments in this area were up by 6% in\n2015 to $221bn.", " It's fantastic that they got the Paris Agreement but their\ncontributions at the moment are nowhere near the 1.5-degree target.", " \n\nIt was conducted just off the Mexican coast from April to June.", " This will put\nnew limits on the nature of the environmental changes that overtook the Earth\nand sent so many species - not just the dinosaurs - into oblivion.", " A telltale of\nthis meteoritic material will likely be high levels of the element iridium.", " \n\nJust over 70% of the plants grown from Earth seeds were alive after 17 days -\njust slightly more than the plants grown from space seeds - just over 66%.", " The\nresults from this experiment provides further support that rocket seeds can be\nflown and stored on the International Space Station for six months without\nhaving any significant impacts on their ability to germinate and grow on Earth.", "\nThe RHS collected comments sent in by schoolchildren and teachers involved in\nthe experiment.", " \n\n\"There is still a 'yuk' factor to the whole idea of buying and wearing other\npeople's body parts,\" she says.", " In China the hair is typically put in a chemical\nbath to remove the cuticle completely, Tarlo explains.", " Throughout history, the\ninternational hair market has always had a political dimension, says Tarlo.", " \n\n\"Tonight we are carrying out punishments using a high beam,\" the post reads.", "\nShenzhen's traffic police have opted for unconventional penalties before.", " \n\nWho are they?", " Much of the debate, from the Democratic side this year, has been\nabout white male identity.", " I asked her afterwards if she understood why people\nmight vote for Trump.", " Not everyone can rise above it.", " \n\n\"Luckily, someone in Sony Australia was like, 'Hey, by the way, did you guys\nnotice this?'\" says Pall.", " \n\nSeagal made headlines when he described Russia's actions in Crimea, which it\nannexed in 2014, as \"very reasonable\".", " A keen guitarist, he played a concert\nthere the same year.", " Seagal, whose grandmother was from Vladivostok in Russia's\nfar east, has made frequent trips to Russia in recent years and visited\nKamchatka and Sakhalin in September.", " Earlier this year Seagal was given Serbian\nnationality after offering to set up a martial arts school in the capital\nBelgrade.", " \n\nA police spokesman told the Associated Press there was \"an exchange of words\"\nfollowed by an \"altercation\" but that no injuries had been reported.", " Cuaron,\nwhose last film was the Oscar-winning Gravity, was reportedly not on set at the\ntime of the incident.", " According to the city's police department, a fight broke\nout after \"a large group of people... who identified themselves as district\nauthorities\" arrived on set on Tuesday.", " \n\nResearchers have been investigating potential for male hormonal contraceptives\nfor around 20 years.", " He added: \"This has been one step in a long journey of\nfinding the right combination for male hormonal contraception.\"", " \n\nHowever there are many MLAs with deeply-held religious beliefs who oppose any\nnew legislation.", " \n\nResearchers say analysing tumour DNA may help explain the underlying causes of\nother cancers.", " The analysis shows a direct link between the number of cigarettes\nsmoked in a lifetime and the number of mutations in tumour DNA.", " However, they\ncould not find this same pattern in tissues such as the bladder, which are not\ndirectly exposed.", " Ms Pugh has received treatment at Papworth and Addenbrooke's\nHospitals in Cambridgeshire.", " But a scan has shown the tumour in Ms Pugh's right\nlung is growing, and she has had to leave the trial.", " \n\n\"If Donald Trump becomes president, the government here will still have to work\nwith him to advance whatever shared agenda there is, to ensure that Canadian\nbusinesses and interests are represented in Washington.\"", " Trudeau will extend\nthat invitation to the 45th president of the United States, whoever he or she\nmay be.", " \n\nDespite the release of a photo this morning, police in B.C. say they have more\nquestions than answers about an apparently homeless man charged in the fatal\nstabbing of a teen girl at her Abbotsford high school.", " Police in B.C. said\nearlier Klein did not appear to have a criminal history and released vague\ndetails about his recent whereabouts.", " \"We do not believe the suspect has ties to\nthis school, or to the two girls, or specifically to the Abbotsford area,\" she\nsaid.", " He also said Klein was uncommunicative, uncooperative and unwilling to\nwalk up from cells under the courthouse to attend his hearing.", " \n\nThe association that represents real estate agents in Ontario says more needs to\nbe done to protect consumers and punish agents found to have engaged in\nunethical behaviour.", " He'd also like to see greater enforcement and investigative\npowers for the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), which regulates agents in\nthe province.", " Currently, the maximum fine RECO can levy against an agent is\n$25,000.", " \n\nBut China's growing middle class has been unusually vocal in its complaints\nabout toxic air in cities like Beijing, which can see day after day of\nlung-choking smog.", " \n\n\"We are seeing many, many countries and especially large new emitters like\nBrazil, South Africa, India and China stepping up to the plate in terms of\nplaying a role in reducing emissions,\" said Guilbeault.", " He could also wait until\nthe end of his first term to use a provision in the Paris agreement to pull out\nof the pact.", " \n\nClinton and allies, meanwhile, are seeking to keep the spotlight on Trump,\ncharging that his disparaging comments about women and minorities, and his\ntemperament make him unfit for office.", " That's not what we need in our country,\nfolks.", " Trump's wife, Melania Trump, made her first appearance on the trail since\nthe Republican convention in July.", " \n\nStudents like Rai have been meeting with counsellors at the school to talk about\nwhat happened, but she said the biggest comfort has come from seeing her\nfriends.", " \n\n\"This is a disaster for pain patients,\" Mailis said in an interview Thursday\nwith CBC News.", " \"Physicians don't have these tools, they have only a prescription\npad and an injection,\" Mailis said.", " \n\nThe Ontario Independent Police Review Director, Gerry McNeilly, set the terms\nfor his review this week after \"alarming questions\" were raised about how\nofficers interact with Indigenous peoples.", " The review is also investigating\ninflammatory Facebook posts from September, alleged to come from police officers\nin the northern Ontario city.", " \n\nThe executives also received so-called \"performance pay\" for succeeding or\nsurpassing expectations, sharing a pot of $1.5 million among them, or an\nestimated $15,000 each on average.", " Its annual budget is more than $1.4 billion,\nand it employs more than 6,000 people.", " The federal government proactively\nreports on aggregate performance pay and bonus levels for each department, but\nthe latest web posting is for 2013-2014 — or two years out of date.", " The total\nfor performance pay and bonus that year was $1.5 million, about the same level\nas for 2015-2016.", " \n\nGomery, who led the commission of inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal\nbetween 2004 and 2006, said such bodies are essential to help restore public\nconfidence in the rule of law.", " That led to revelations over the last two days\nthat at least six other Quebec journalists were targeted by provincial police\nsurveillance operations.", " \n\n\"There should be no preferential access to government, or appearance of\npreferential access, accorded to individuals or organizations because they have\nmade financial contributions to politicians and political parties,\" the\nguidelines read.", " The judge in Duffy's fraud and breach of trust trial ultimately\nruled they were within the Senate's rules when he cleared Duffy of all charges.", "\n\nOur cellphones are so much more than phones these days.", " \"It is amazing,\"\nreported SaskTel unlimited data customer Lindsay Gay last month.", " He also pointed\nout that Rogers recently introduced a new app tool that helps customers monitor\ntheir data usage.", " \n\nThat's what keeps us coming back for more.", " \n\n\"These estimates coincide with the percentages of new condos entering the rental\nmarket upon completion, indicating the important role (domestic) investors play\nin the GTA housing market.\"", " \n\n\"This strain helps with back pain, this strain helps with nausea, this product\nmakes you sleep at night,\" says Dietrich from the company's headquarters in\nDenver, Colorado, where pot is sold legally.", " But without a legislative\nframework, and with the grassroots origins of pot as a mood-altering folk\nremedy, companies are left guessing.", " \n\nIron is an essential element the body requires to produce hemoglobin, the\nprotein found in red blood cells that's responsible for transporting oxygen to\ntissues in the body.", " The current waiting period is eight weeks.", " It's possible to\nhave normal hemoglobin levels, but to have low iron stores overall, says\nCanadian Blood Services (CBS).", " The new iron guidelines mean more donors are\nneeded.", " \n\nWhat started as a routine ultrasound became complicated when expectant mother\nMargaret Boemer, of Plano, Texas, was told her unborn child had a rare condition\nand needed surgery to survive.", " A sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumour that\ndevelops before birth and grows from a baby's tailbone.", " It is the most common\ntumour found in babies, occurring in one of every 35,000 births.", " \n\nShe was 84 years old.", " He described her as a \"remarkable\" and \"loving and\nwonderful\" woman who left her mark in the literary world with her stories.", " \n\n\"Some men get it and Bono is one of those guys,\" Leive said in a recent\ninterview.", " At just 20, she is a strong voice against bullying and a positive one\nin helping girls embrace their own standards of beauty.", " \"Her voice literally\nwent around the world,\" Leive said.", " \n\nAs soon as the official party photos were released, social media lit up with\ncomments — and they were less than favourable.", " Many people, including Indigenous\ngroups, argue they trivialize First Nations culture.", " \n\nThe purpose of these CRTC hearings is to field responses from industry\nstakeholders and the public.", " This would not only apply to entertainment content,\nbut equally to education, to scientific research and, perhaps most importantly,\nto political discourse.", " After all, the internet is not a luxury; it is an\nessential tool.", " \n\nThe debris formed a ring around the Earth's equator and was eventually drawn\ntogether by gravity to form the moon.", " Still, there are questions left\nunanswered.", " \n\nIn the town of Hillsborough, just outside Chapel Hill, someone firebombed the\nRepublican Party headquarters last month.", " After North Carolina passed its\nrestrictive voting-rights bill in 2013, Campbell went around to churches\nteaching people how to deal with challenges to their registration.", " He could\ndetect the effects of the election around him, in the bursts of conflict and the\ncurious intersection of new ideas with old ones.", " \n\nThis discordance between economic data and political rhetoric is familiar, or\nshould be.", " Republican economists caution against taking this data as proof that\ntheir party is lousy at economic policy.", " “I don’t know what G.D.P. growth was\nduring the Washington and Lincoln Administrations, but the institutional\ndevelopments in those terms had large and long-lasting effects.”", " There are more\ndifferences between Sulla and Trump, Rome and the U.S., than there are\nsimilarities, but that doesn’t discredit the resemblances.", " \n\nAnd, she granted, “you have to look at where she has acknowledged that we need\nto do something different—we can do better—and where she has expressed regret.”", "\n\nBut, as the criticism of Clinton as First Lady became more caustic, Karel became\nmore empathetic.", " “When I’m playing him, I feel powerful,” the Donald Trump\nimpersonator John Di Domenico explained to Slate last year.", " As the hysteria of\nthe 2016 Presidential election intensifies, a more troubling threat than\nbullshit preoccupies Karel.", " \n\nThey’re usually artists who want to do a bunch of stuff.", " Then the commercial\nends.", " \n\nMiami Bass producers were clinical in the art of moving butts—their main\nconcern.", " In a recent interview, Zay and Zayion described recording their version\nof “Knuck If You Buck” on a home laptop.", " But challenges, and the songs that\nscore them, add a connective, traceable nervous system to the writhing mass of\ngrainy video loops.", " Their revivals underscore the appeal of a good challenge,\nartistic or otherwise: discomfort, growth, and a meaningful connection.", " \n\nIt would be much safer, Plato thought, to entrust power to carefully educated\nguardians.", " Like many people I know, I’ve spent recent months staying up late,\nreading polls in terror.", " Caplan dismisses retrospective voting, quoting a pair\nof scholars who call it “no more rational than killing the pharaoh when the Nile\ndoes not flood.”", " \n\nBut there was nothing else obviously artistic about her or in her behavior with\nother people.", " \n\nIn 2010, the foundation released a typeset edition of “Zettel’s Traum,” removing\nthe bar to entry for those who balked at the draft-like feel of the\nphoto-offset.", " Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering\nan etym.", " “Complete neglect of his own health,” his wife, Alice, reported.", " \n\nEach map in the exhibition tells its own story, not all factual.", " Also being\nexhibited for the first time are British Ministry of Defence maps which imagine\ncold war battles and which were used in military college exams.", " \n\nThe constituency is in the council area of North Kesteven, where 62% of voters\nbacked leaving the EU.", " His skill in getting answers for taxpayers will be sorely\nmissed.", " \n\nChristian Wolmar, who has written a number of books on railway history, will\nstand in the contest on 1 December.", " The Liberal Democrats, who represented the\naffluent suburb until 2010, are hoping to snatch it back with their candidate\nSarah Olney.", " Meanwhile, the estranged wife of a government whip has launched her\ncampaign to take the seat.", " He was utterly gracious and took it like a man, I am\nbeyond furious.", " \n\nMore than 330 crew are onboard the ship.", " Vega suggested that, because of their\nage, many would be unaware of its history.", " People got killed there.", " \n\nA coal-fired power station in Badarpur, south-east Delhi, will stop operating\nfor 10 days, along with diesel generators in the city.", " \n\nHe then spent four years with BBC World Service radio at Bush House.", " He worked\nfor the BBC for a decade.", " One of their many grieving Facebook posts has a line\nwhich would have delighted Chris: “More African than you, I have not known.”", " \n\nWho can stop this Australia side?", " Was their divine right to the mantle as the\nworld’s best no longer warranted?", " \n\nThey have one crack at redemption, beating England.", " South Africa are almost at\nthe point of no return and we have to be able to match their desire.", " He has got\nthat hard edge to his game but also the soft hands.", " We have a great squad and it\nis an opportunity for us to take the ship forward.", " You have to stand up to that\nand I would rather someone ran at me rather than round me.", " \n\nIt was as though he was flicking the ball back and forth underneath three\nupturned cups.", " Australia, hardened by their recent games in the Rugby\nChampionship, were in a higher gear.", " \n\nA Donald Trump victory would immediately make the world more worrying and\nunsettled than it already is.", " Mrs Clinton has a reputation for a hawkish\noutlook, but this will be tempered by war-weary public opinion in the US.", " He’s\nspoken in favour of torture.", " \n\nI also struggle with passwords.", " Then there are the so-called true stories that\nget posted in a series of meaningful pictures with text running underneath.", " \n\nOf course, I do understand that modern-day Germany must be separated from the\nNazi regime.", " \n\nIn the corner is a girl in a headscarf and jeans who looks so unassuming I think\nit’s another assistant.", " Artists reach people at their heart; it’s the only time\nwe meet in one place and put our differences aside.", " His more unusual accolades\ninclude global ambassador for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation,\nand a place at Harvard Business School.", " \n\nI can just do that with my life.", " I wanted to watch it with them, but they\ndecided they’d rather watch it without me in the end.", " \n\nWe can’t let the presidency go to Donald Trump, someone so racist, sexist and\nincredibly unqualified to be commander-in-chief.", " \n\n“More people are turning to credit … While this borrowing might be manageable\nnow, a sudden change in circumstances could lead to debt problems.”", " \n\nHer reason is that it provides insufficient protection to American workers whose\njobs and living standards it might harm.", " In this context, railing against trade\nmakes sense.", " \n\nTheoretically, a couple could open four Tesco accounts and earn 3% on £12,000 –\n£360.", " Meanwhile, Bank of Scotland customers earn 3% on balances of £3,000-£5,000\nwhen they add the free Vantage option to their account.", " With this, in theory,\nyou are able to access your money whenever you like.", " That 3% rate also applies\nto Nectar cardholders looking to borrow from £15,001-£19,999 over a period of\nbetween two and three years.", " \n\nSulphur is a key plant nutrient vital to healthy growth, but UK soils are\nnaturally deficient in this essential mineral.", " Fast forward to 2016 and this is\nincreasingly worthy of attention.", " Surprising as it may seem, even acid rain\nclouds can have a silver lining.", " \n\nThe world may be enraging and absurd – yet at least someone has the self-respect\nto keep protesting against that fact.", " You end up listening more acutely for the\nnext noise and getting more irritated when it comes.", " That’s just legitimately\nhorrendous.", " \n\nIt’s fair to say that Rocco Catalano works, lives and breathes retro.", " I think\nthat’s why they immersed themselves in pattern and colour.", " Catalano moved back\nto the area after living in London and then Glasgow, where he had studied\njewellery design at Glasgow School of Art.", " “I loved the tropical colours,” he\nsays.", " “I visit the degree shows at Northampton University to spot new talent,”\nhe says.", " \n\nBut, when I suggest that she get Frank to model for her, she laughs.", " \n\nNaturally, the office landscape features many clothes and little in the way of\nfood.", " Wintour herself appears briefly, and is filmed putting her sunglasses on\nbefore being interviewed.", " \n\nI looked at motocross and the more I looked, this one woman’s face kept coming\nup, in photographs that looked as if they were from the 1970s.", " I love to play\nwith that and I am always looking for muses that fit that bill because it is so\ninteresting making a collection when I find one.", " \n\nAt best it is naive and at worst it would yet again let the shooting lobby off\nthe hook.", " Their head of nature policy, Jeff Knott, stated: “I’d be amazed if\neither a ban or licensing was introduced off the back of it”.", " The RSPB’s stance\nhas also brought it into conflict with many leading conservationists, from the\nauthor of the petition, Mark Avery, to the TV presenter Chris Packham.", " \n\nLet’s just say he’s wrong.", " And what about Australia’s position?", " On this, one\ndiary point in Morocco will be the middle Saturday, when developed countries get\nto publicly question each other about their plans and ambitions.", " “We are\nactively thinking of possible ways to limit the scope of litigation to only\nthose with a real standing in a project,” he was quoted as saying.", " \n\n“Celtic Sea cod could collapse,” without the proposed limits, one EU official\nsaid.", " But big reductions have also been pencilled in for cod, sole, plaice,\nmegrim and pollack in the Celtic and Irish Seas.", " Conservationists welcomed the\ncommission’s announcement.", " \n\nOnly 50 were marketplaces.", " “Agora was invitation-only but many of these\nmarketplaces are easily accessible if you know how to search,” Dr Lee adds.", " \n\nThey didn’t have them in our day, and people without children express through\ntheir disapproval all their hatred of modern parenting.", " I don’t call it a beast\nlightly.", " Day three, I was back on the EMicro.", " \n\nThe world – and by extension the UK – is facing a shortage of people with the\nskills needed to mount an effective defence.", " Companies may try to set up a\nfirewall between sensitive systems and foreign powers, but it does not always\nwork.", " But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept\nknown as “active defence”.", " \n\nAfter I discovered a rich seam of internet discussion on the subject, my list\nhad grown inordinately long and covered almost every state in the union.", " I\nspotted a few.", " My next stop was Bellingham, right up near the Canadian border.", " \n\nBack on the train, we continue southwards.", " A small town with two minarets glides\nby.", " At each station, a red-capped guard presides over the platform and a\nwheel-tapper walks along the train with a hammer, gently knocking the\nundercarriage.", " \n\nAfterwards, browse at the morning market (6.30-10am): rice lollipops, wasp\ncocoons (the pupae are considered a delicacy), buffalo lung, betel-nut bark and\nleaves, live toads and catfish.", " \n\nThe intervention is potentially the most far-reaching by Beijing since the 1997\nhandover of Hong Kong from the UK.", " The oath involves lawmakers swearing\nallegiance to Hong Kong as part of the People’s Republic of China.", " The Hong Kong\ngovernment, which is led by pro-Beijing lawmakers, have argued that the pair\nshould not take office.", " “Beijing believes its intervention is necessary to\nprevent a continued legislative paralysis in the city,” he said.", " Hong Kong,\nmeanwhile, appears to be bracing for a wave of protests.", " \n\nHe told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “A general election is frankly the last\nthing that the Government wants.”", " \n\nIt is his dream to end his career here.", " \n\nTo draw a game you have dominated is easy to brush off, but to do so three times\nis a row suggests a weakness.", " We are so disappointed because we have dropped six\npoints playing at home.", " \n\nThat was definitely the case for Andy when he played Benoît Paire in Monte Carlo\nin April.", " But right now everything is out of kilter and he seems to be seeking\nanswers all the time.", " I also wonder whether the Davis Cup played a part.", " \n\nThe annual survey also revealed that worries about taking on fresh financial\nburdens has rocketed.", " Ms Hopley added: “The spike in political risk should not\ngo unnoticed.”", " \n\nNews of the company’s deceit - which had run for years - wiped tens of billions\nof euros from VW's value and cost chief executive Martin Winterkorn his job.", " It\nhas also opened VW up to huge compensation claims, legal action and has seen it\ntake more than €16bn of provisions.", " The probe began in June, focusing on Mr\nWinterkorn and brand chief Herbert Diess, who remains at the car maker.", " He was\npromoted to chairman in October 2015, the month after the scandal was unearthed.", "\n\nBusinesses had expected to start contracting in July, immediately after the\nBrexit vote, but instead have managed to keep growing steadily.", " Retail and\nwholesale businesses expanded as shoppers remained upbeat, and consumer services\ncompanies also grew.", " There will be limits to his ability to spend, however, as\nthe Government is still running a substantial budget deficit.", " \n\nThe cost will change monthly and the price is expected to rise in winter as\nusage increases.", " Eon’s fixed rate tariff costs £760 and Avro Energy customers\nwould pay around £760 for its Simple and Select tariff.", " Or is it an expensive\nstandard or prepayment tariff?", " \n\nAn investor with average luck and £10,000 in bonds could expect to receive £125\nin prizes per year.", " If they did, Premium Bonds would be indistinguishable from\nordinary savings accounts.", " The money invested in Premium Bonds, and in other\nNational Savings & Investments accounts, is used to help fund Government\nspending.", " \n\nThis has not stopped investors flocking to put their money in the funds.", " It was\nfollowed by the Aviva Investors Multi Strategy Target Return and Income funds,\ninto which investors put £2bn and £1.4bn respectively.", " This means that they have\nnot benefited from the uplift that the fall in sterling has given to overseas\nassets.", " \n\nAdidas is helping to clean up the Earth's oceans by using the waste floating\naround the world to make shoes.", " The consumer can boost the demand for change.", " A\nmajor report in January said oceans would contain more plastic than fish by 2050\nunless the world took radical action to stop rubbish leaking into the seas.", " \n\nAfter some genius surgery and a lot of very tough rehab, I have made a full\nrecovery.", " \n\nWarning that the NHS was now under \"enormous pressure,\" he urged the public to\ntake more responsibility for their own health.", " Four in 10 adults have been\ninjured due to bad weather while nine in 10 underestimate how chilly Britain can\nget in the winter time.", " \n\nThey will play on Saturday, 10 June.", " Last year was an incredible year and I’m\nready for us to come back even better in 2017.", " \n\nShe started out at the RSC in the mid-Sixties playing an asylum-inmate in\nMarat/Sade.", " The dress is contemporary.", " Where does all her energy come from? Or\nthat voice, which can blast out with a force to induce shockwaves?", " Her neck\npushes forward in vein-accentuating confrontation, her hands shake.", " But having\nallowed Glenda to score such a blinder, who can blame it?", " \n\nHe worked on the news and current affairs side of radio and TV for decades.", " In\ntheory, if done right, it’s un-detectable.", " \n\nDrop the mic.", " According to the director's own count, to date he has made eight\nfeature films.", " \"Cinema had changed so drastically that Hollywood had alienated\nthe family audience.\"", " \n\nFrom the director's point of view, the film is a precarious balancing act,\nbetween cheery family hijinks and hard-hitting social drama.", " On one level, it\nworks as an amiable, unpretentious heartwarmer that seems tailor-made for Sunday\nafternoon viewing.", " And, of course, there's Bob, a constant source of\nentertainment.", " The result, then, is hardly the cat's pyjamas.", " \n\nTo modern audiences, most of whom will have little experience of frontline\nconflict, Doss’s feats belong to the realm of the unimaginable.", " Doss’s story\nalso has an unlikely quality to it that makes it all the more appealing.", " All the\nmedics were armed, except me.", " \n\nWhen Millican died, we assumed that was the last we’d see of glitchy, twitchy\nOdi too.", " Is series two working so far?", " \n\n“Superheroes are outside of human experience and so is this, so I treated it\nlike a drama,” Zimmer says.", " \n\nBut Cotton’s dark deeds did not occur due to some sort of compulsion to kill.", "\nCotton was born on October 31, 1832, in a village near Sunderland.", " Perhaps it\nwon’t matter as I won’t be troubled long.", " \n\nNo longer a throwback to the Seventies, flock – or coating a surface is material\n– is flying again.", " London’s landmark South Bank Tower commissioned interior\ndesigner Rachel Winham to design the show apartment.", " Of course, the tactile\ntrend is closely linked to our growing obsession with making things.", " \n\nTwo years later, Jutting, now 31, is on trial at Hong Kong's High Court, charged\nwith two counts of murder and one of preventing lawful burial.", " I don't know why\nI chose her ...", " In Hong Kong's High Court, two years later, Jutting appeared\nlargely composed.", " \n\nAfter all, our organizational performance is seldom measured in terms of how\nsafe we are or how many rules we follow.", " As a result, many people quickly open\nemails or mindlessly click on links and attachments with nary a thought of its\nconsequences.", " First, we must educate people on how to protect themselves better\nonline.", " Finally, we must make it easy for people to report suspected breaches\nand malicious emails.", " \n\nVoting has, in the vernacular of terror, become the new soft target.", " This is a\nhomeland security issue of the most existential kind.", " Tuesday is all about\ngetting out the vote, but it means nothing if a registered voter isn't on the\nlist.", " Enough of those, in a highly contested area, will lead to chaos election\nday.", " \n\nNorth Carolina is ground zero in this election.", " Donald Trump is a pompous,\narrogant, entitled person that cares about himself, and his temperament is toxic\nto the United States.", " \n\nMore than 5.7 million Floridians have already hit the polls after about two\nweeks of in-person early voting.", " The GOP lead was carried by strong numbers in\nabsentee voting, and their overall edge stood at about 16,500 earlier this week.", "\n\nIt's the election, of course, not \"Game of Thrones.\"", " Martin has yet to finish\ntwo of the remaining books in his acclaimed series, currently billed as \"The\nWinds of Winter\" and \"A Dream of Spring.\"", " \n\nThe Dutch students have yet to decide if they will be commercializing their\nelectric motorcycle.", " A Harley-Davidson spokeswoman said timelines that have been\nfloated in the media -- 2017 or 2020 -- aren't accurate.", " \n\nU.S. stock futures are surging by more than 1%, alongside European markets.", "\nInvestors are selling out of government bonds, with U.S. and Australian bonds\nfeeling the biggest impact.", " He is credited with helping efforts to tackle the\nmountain of debt accumulated by local governments in China.", " But it only came\nforward after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alerted the world to the\nissue.", " \n\nChina's insatiable appetite for fried chicken used to be a big reason why\ninvestors loved KFC-parent Yum Brands.", " \n\nWith help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they eventually challenged\nthe state, in a case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court.", " As the\nmovie makes clear, the Lovings -- and Richard in particular -- were reluctant\nparticipants in history.", " \"Loving\" opens with Richard and Mildred already a\ncouple, eliding over a courtship that would have been interesting to see, if\nonly in brief.", " \n\nCelebrities, fans and even CNN reporters are dressing up like \"Stranger Things\"\ncharacters this holiday.", " I hadn't seen a lot of the episodes and then my phone\nstarted lighting up.", " \n\nAs one of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) top guys, he's afforded certain\nfreedoms.", " \"Norman is one of my good buddies, so it totally sucked to see him in\nthat emotional state.\"", " New episodes are followed by after show, \"The Talking\nDead.\"", " \n\n\"In the cities where we've launched or are under construction, our work will\ncontinue,\" Barratt said.", " The Internet effort was said to be the main driver of\ncapital expenditures for the unit.", " For now, analysts are hesitant to write off\nthe service for dead.", " \n\nIn the Netherlands, authorities have taken a lower-tech approach to tracking\ndrones.", " \n\nMicrosoft announced on Wednesday a new workplace chat tool poised to take on\nindustry darling Slack.", " There's also an option to send emoji, GIFs, custom memes\nand stickers via the platform, and connect your Twitter feed.", " The move\nhighlighted the company's desire for users to start thinking of its products as\nmore than just productivity tools.", " But its latest effort into the workplace chat\ngame is a part of a larger trend from tech companies.", " \n\nIsner, who produced some of his best tennis as he leveled at one set all and\nforced a decider, also paid his tribute.", " \"I have to congratulate Andy -- to get\nto No. 1 in the world that's an incredible achievement,\" the American said.", " \n\n\"Pair prank their way into North Korean golf tournament,\" read Brisbane's Nine\nNews.", " Two Australians, who by their own admission are terrible golfers, bluffed\ntheir way into a premier golf tournament in North Korea.", " \n\nSnowman would jump the high fencing that separated the two properties and always\nreturn to where he felt was home.", " He kept on turning up at my barn and I joked\nto the guy that clearly he didn't want to be sold.", " \"Snowman didn't think\nanything of Johnny Carson getting a step ladder and sitting back to front on\nhim,\" he adds.", " I was just a boy with muddy shoes.", " \n\nThere is no parade and there never has been.", " It's an event Mexico hopes will\neventually rival the Carnival of Brazil.", " Alejandra González Anaya, one of the\nparade's creative directors, explained to CNN why Mexico have decided now is the\ntime to put on such a show.", " \"There are 1200 volunteers working for the parade\nalone,\" González Anaya says.", " So it's wonderful to be able to rescue that and\nbring it to a new format and a new tradition for Mexicans.", " \n\nBy completing this maglev line, I think the government is expecting bigger\neconomical development in Japan.", " \n\nAn F1 ticket grants access to the concert on the same day.", " The Yas Marina\nCircuit website has exact timings.", " For anyone who wants to see the capital in\nall its glory, November's a great time to go.", " \n\nIt's also fuelled the emergence of modern high-rises -- like the visionary\nMahaNakhon, Bangkok's tallest building.", " Not all transformations in the region\nhave been successful.", " \n\nBuried 100 meters (328 feet) underground, the Pyongyang Metro is one of the\ndeepest commuter systems in the world.", " She spoke to CNN Style about the\nexperience.", " In Pyongyang I did see some people on their smartphones, but far\nfewer.", " \n\n\"But architecture can build a bridge between the living and the dead and, to\nsome extent, blur the boundaries.\"", " When people die of old age in India, it is\nsupposed to be a celebration.", " Designed by Juan Carlos Salas, the award-winning\nbuilding has a sculptural appearance and every detail carries meaning.", "\n\"Architecture won't help deceased people, but it helps to keep their memories\nalive among the living,\" he says.", " \n\nThe charter allowed for the creation of a merchants' guild, run by the town's\nburgesses to tax people passing through the borough.", " \n\nIt is exceptionally rich in minerals, containing large deposits of gold,\ndiamonds, and ores of manganese, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt and molybdenum.", "\nOutside the extreme northwest, the taiga is dominant, covering a significant\nfraction of the entirety of Siberia.", " The 2019 Winter Universiade will be hosted\nby Krasnoyarsk.", " \n\nExamples are the Line Islands in the Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian\nOcean.", " Granite islands include Seychelles and Tioman and volcanic islands such\nas Saint Helena.", " An example of a desert island would be the small islands off\nthe coast of Baja California, Mexico.", " \n\nThe Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on\ngrain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which\ncontrolled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium.", " \n\nDarius's highly regarded commander Megabazus was responsible to fulfill the\nconquers in the Balkans.", " The Achaemenid troops conquered Thrace, the coastal\nGreek cities, and the Paeonians.", " Eventually, in about 512-511 BC, the Macedonian\nking Amyntas I accepted the Achaemenid domination and surrendered his country as\na vassal state to the Achaemenid Persia.", " The multi-ethnic Achaemenid army\npossessed many soldiers from the Balkans.", " Moreover, many of the Macedonian and\nPersian elite intermarried.", " \n\nIn 1912 was founded the first film company (Athina Film) and in 1916 the Asty\nFilm.", " In 2007 the most successful film was El Greco, directed by Yannis\nSmaragdis.", " \n\nIn July 1918, the Franco-Monegasque Treaty was signed, providing for limited\nFrench protection over Monaco.", " The executive branch consists of a Minister of\nState as the head of government, who presides over a five-member Council of\nGovernment.", " Its police includes a special unit which operates patrol and\nsurveillance boats.", " Current land reclamation projects include extending the\ndistrict of Fontvieille.", " \n\nHowever, there are important differences in law and procedure between Northern\nIreland and England and Wales.", " \n\nThe Bergeron classification is the most widely accepted form of air mass\nclassification.", " While air mass identification was originally used in weather\nforecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic\nclimatologies based on this idea in 1973.", " A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing\nwind which lasts for several months, ushering in a region's rainy season.", " \n\nA variety of Germanic and major Slavic tribes crossed through Moravia during the\nMigration Period before Slavs established themselves in the 6th century AD.", " At\nthe end of the 8th century, the Moravian Principality came into being in\npresent-day south-eastern Moravia, Záhorie in south-western Slovakia and parts\nof Lower Austria.", " In 833 AD, this became the state of Great Moravia with the\nconquest of the Principality of Nitra (present-day Slovakia).", " Their first king\nwas Mojmír I (ruled 830–846).", " Louis the German invaded Moravia and replaced\nMojmír I with his nephew Rastiz who became St. Rastislav.", " \n\nIn addition, statute determines the election of assembly of regions, and\nmetropolitan districts.", " \n\nAlthough Iceland was under the political control of Denmark until a much later\ndate (1918), very little influence and borrowing from Danish has occurred in the\nIcelandic language.", " There are also languages derived from Finnish, having\nevolved separately, known as Meänkieli in Sweden and Kven in Norway.", " Consonant\ngradation is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sami dialects, but it is not\npresent in south Sami, which is considered to have a different language history.", "\n\nThe northern portion of the Caucasus is known as the Ciscaucasus and the\nsouthern portion as the Transcaucasus.", " \n\nThe atmosphere is a chaotic system, so small changes to one part of the system\ncan grow to have large effects on the system as a whole.", " During rains\nprecipitation, the water droplets absorb and dissolve carbon dioxide from the\nsurrounding air.", " A recent example of weather control was China's preparation for\nthe 2008 Summer Olympic Games.", " \n\nShaped by global plate tectonic forces that have created the East African Rift,\nEast Africa is the site of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, the two tallest\npeaks in Africa.", " The latter also spread Islam to the coastal belt, but most\nBantu never had contact with Islam and remained African Traditional Religion\nadherents.", " \n\nFrance integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the\ninfrastructure with capital investments and skilled workers, modifying the\nsystem of forced labour.", " On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern\nCameroons united with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.", "\nDepartment of Labor Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor reported that 56%\nof children aged 5 to 14 were working children and that almost 53% of children\naged 7 to 14 combined work and school.", " \n\nThe Sahel's climate is similar to, but less extreme than, the climate of the\nSahara desert located just to the north.", " In June to August 2010 famine struck\nthe Sahel.", " \n\nSeveral ancient civilisations were located around the Mediterranean shores, and\nwere greatly influenced by their proximity to the sea.", " It provided routes for\ntrade, colonisation, and war, as well as food (from fishing and the gathering of\nother seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages.", " Due to the shared\nclimate, geology, and access to the sea, cultures centered on the Mediterranean\ntended to have some extent of intertwined culture and history.", " Two of the most\nnotable Mediterranean civilisations in classical antiquity were the Greek city\nstates and the Phoenicians, both of which extensively colonised the coastlines\nof the Mediterranean.", " Later, when Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Romans\nreferred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum (\"Our Sea\").", " \n\nThe Blindleia is a skerry-protected waterway that starts near Kristiansand in\nsouthern Norway, and continues past Lillesand.", " In Danish, the word may even\napply to shallow lagoons.", " Like fjords, freshwater lakes are often deep.", " \n\nAlcoholic drinks like beer, mead, bjórr (a strong fruit wine) and, for the rich,\nimported wine, were served.", " Whatever the rules were, the fights often resulted\nin the death of one of the stallions.", " \n\nThe Schlei and the wetlands between the Danevirke and Husum had frozen solid in\na hard winter, and the territory immediately south of the Danevirke had been\nconquered by the advancing German army.", " This retreat came as a surprise to the\nAustro-Prussian army, and almost all of the Danish army succeeded in completing\nthe evacuation.", " It resulted, however, in the abandonment of important pieces of\nheavy artillery, and it remains a matter of historical debate why the railway to\nFlensburg was never properly used for the evacuation.", " News of the retreat came\nas a great shock to Danish public opinion which had considered the Danevirke to\nbe impregnable, and General de Meza was promptly relieved of his command.", " The\nDanevirke has remained in German possession ever since.", " \n\nThe amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million\ntons in 1987.", " The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea\ncounty), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is\nsituated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast).", " \n\nThe climate is so dry that these plains are sometimes thought of as part of the\nSahara.", " It differs from the western portion of the country in that its prominent\ntopographic features do not parallel the coast.", " Northern Algeria is in the\ntemperate zone and enjoys a mild, Mediterranean climate.", " \n\nThe first and foremost was the Ohio River, which flowed into the Mississippi\nRiver.", " At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would\nenter the Union as a free state or slave state.", " National reaction to the events\nin Kansas demonstrated how deeply divided the country had become.", " \n\nIn color, the leaves show a great variety of greens, ranging from yellowish to\nbluish.", " Native Americans across the Americas relied on it as a staple of their\nmedical treatments.", " Christian churches in northwestern Europe and Ukraine often\nused willow branches in place of palms in the ceremonies on Palm Sunday.", " \n\nThe Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and\nhydroelectric power.", " Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface\narea of Europe, the Alps provide up to 90 percent of water to lowland Europe,\nparticularly to arid areas and during the summer months.", " Cities such as Milan\ndepend on 80 percent of water from Alpine runoff.", " Water from the rivers is used\nin over 500 hydroelectricity power plants, generating as much as 2900 kilowatts\nof electricity.", " Major European rivers flow from Switzerland, such as the Rhine,\nthe Rhône, the Inn, the Ticino and the Po, all of which have headwaters in the\nAlps and flow into neighbouring countries, finally emptying into the North Sea,\nthe Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea.", " \n\nThe study of volcanoes is called volcanology, sometimes spelled vulcanology.", "\nThis magma tends to be very viscous due to its high silica content, so it often\ndoes not reach the surface but cools at depth.", " They generally do not explode\ncatastrophically.", " \n\nGlobal warming has caused a change in the pattern of the rainy seasons.", " \n\nIt contains a tiny lagoon, which has all but dried up.", " It was declared a\nwildlife sanctuary in 1975.", " Investigation and expeditions to the island\ncontinue.", " Such settlements probably began around 1000 BC, when eastern\nMelanesians travelled north.", " \n\nDuring the family's years in Kentucky and Indiana, Thomas Lincoln worked as a\nfarmer, cabinetmaker, and carpenter.", " \n\nHabitat destruction vastly increases an area's vulnerability to natural\ndisasters like flood and drought, crop failure, spread of disease, and water\ncontamination.", " On the other hand, a healthy ecosystem with good management\npractices will reduce the chance of these events happening, or will at least\nmitigate adverse impacts.", " Agricultural land can actually suffer from the\ndestruction of the surrounding landscape.", " Over the past 50 years, the\ndestruction of habitat surrounding agricultural land has degraded approximately\n40% of agricultural land worldwide via erosion, salinization, compaction,\nnutrient depletion, pollution, and urbanization.", " Humans also lose direct uses of\nnatural habitat when habitat is destroyed.", " \n\nPapua New Guinea is often labelled as potentially the worst place in the world\nfor gender violence.", " These plant families are still present in Papua New Guinea.", "\n\nNorth America and South America are treated as separate continents in the\nseven-continent model.", " Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to\nthe West Indies in 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the\nAmericas.", " \n\nThese are not very popular due to the often remote and roadless locations.", "\nVarious private interests own the remaining land, totaling about one percent of\nthe state.", " This is also the only region in Alaska in which the average daytime\nhigh temperature is above freezing during the winter months.", " Numerous indigenous\npeoples occupied Alaska for thousands of years before the arrival of European\npeoples to the area.", " \n\nIt was here they stole a small canoe left by the Australian Aborigines of the\nregion.", " As Brisbane grew, the condition of the river worsened until at its worst\nit was no more than an open sewer and waste dump.", " 1987 was proclaimed the \"Year\nof the River\" by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane at the time, Sallyanne Atkinson.", " \n\nSand and dust storms are natural events that occur in arid regions where the\nland is not protected by a covering of vegetation.", " Dust storms usually start in\ndesert margins rather than the deserts themselves where the finer materials have\nalready been blown away.", " As a steady wind begins to blow, fine particles lying\non the exposed ground begin to vibrate.", " At greater wind speeds, some particles\nare lifted into the air stream.", " When they land, they strike other particles\nwhich may be jerked into the air in their turn, starting a chain reaction.", " \n\nHowever, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in\nproblems such as obesity.", " \n\nThunderstorms are rare, as the city reports thunder on just seven days per year.", "\n\nBy 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the\nlargest city west of China.", " Meanwhile, additional controls of the Nile fostered\ndevelopment within Gezira Island and along the city's waterfront.", " \n\nNevada's industrial outputs are tourism, mining, machinery, printing and\npublishing, food processing, and electric equipment.", " \n\nThe name \"Caribbean\" derives from the Caribs, one of the dominant Native\nAmerican groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late\n15th century.", " After the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492,\nthe Spanish term Antillas applied to the lands; stemming from this, \"Sea of the\nAntilles\" became a common alternative name for \"Caribbean Sea\" in various\nEuropean languages.", " During the first century of development, Spanish dominance\nin the region remained undisputed.", " From the 16th century, Europeans visiting the\nCaribbean region identified the \"South Sea\" (the Pacific Ocean, to the south of\nthe isthmus of Panama) as opposed to the \"North Sea\" (the Caribbean Sea, to the\nnorth of the same isthmus).", " The Caribbean Sea had been unknown to the\npopulations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into\nCaribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.", " \n\nUnfortunately, rapid population growth and urban sprawl has covered much of\nthese ecosystems with development.", " Cape Town's local government is the City of\nCape Town, which is a metropolitan municipality.", " \n\nThe essay, published as Undersea, was a vivid narrative of a journey along the\nocean floor.", " She also took advantage of her personal connections with many\ngovernment scientists, who supplied her with confidential information.", " By\nmid-1962, Brooks and Carson had largely finished the editing, and were laying\nthe groundwork for promoting the book by sending the manuscript out to select\nindividuals for final suggestions.", " This brought the book to the attention of the\nchemical industry and its lobbyists, as well as a wide swath of the American\npopulace.", " \n\nIn the 1350s, King Gongmin was free at last to reform the Goryeo government when\nthe Yuan dynasty began to crumble.", " Since the 1960s, the South Korean economy has\ngrown enormously and the economic structure was radically transformed.", " \n\nIt usually involves a low level of development, such as rustic picnic areas,\nbenches and trails.", " Australia's Royal National Park, established in 1879, was\nthe world's second officially established national park.", " First and foremost was\nthe provision of open space for the benefit of townspeople and local residents\nwithin an area that was being rapidly built up.", " \n\nWith the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia under the Bogd Khaan\ndeclared independence.", " But, the newly established Republic of China considered\nMongolia to be part of its own territory.", " Yuan Shikai, the President of the\nRepublic of China, considered the new republic to be the successor of the Qing.", "\nBogd Khaan said that both Mongolia and China had been administered by the Manchu\nduring the Qing, and after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the contract of\nMongolian submission to the Manchu had become invalid.", " The area controlled by\nthe Bogd Khaan was approximately that of the former Outer Mongolia during the\nQing period.", " \n\nIn his haste to capture Kadesh, Ramesses II committed a major tactical error.", "\nIndeed, the first scholarly report on the battle, by James Henry Breasted in\n1903, praised the sources that allowed the reconstruction the battle with\ncertainty.", " \n\nRamesses, logistically unable to sustain a long siege, returned to Egypt.", " The\nEgyptian pharaoh thus found himself in northern Amurru, well past Kadesh, in\nTunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III\nalmost 120 years earlier.", " This time he claimed to have fought the battle without\neven bothering to put on his corslet until two hours after the fighting began.", " \n\nThe exact year of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias is subject to\ndebate among scholars.", " Given that Herod was in Jerusalem at that time, Pilate\ndecided to send Jesus to Herod to be tried.", " According to the New Testament, Paul\nspent eighteen months in Corinth, approximately seventeen years after his\nconversion.", " The latter date can only have fallen on a Friday if an exceptional\nleap month had been introduced that year, but this was favoured by Newton.", " It is\npossible to establish the phase of the moon on a particular day two thousand\nyears ago but not whether it was obscured by clouds or haze.", " \n\nForts were also built in the older portions of New France that had not yet been\nsettled.", " \n\nIt set the basis for integration where the economic and judicial mechanisms of\nthe state could be applied throughout the Mediterranean as was once done from\nLatium into all Italy.", " \n\nEach poem narrates only a part of the war.", " In later ages playwrights,\nhistorians, and other intellectuals would create works inspired by the Trojan\nWar.", " It was foretold that he would either die of old age after an uneventful\nlife, or die young in a battlefield and gain immortality through poetry.", " \n\nHowever this was reversed when Julian was killed in battle in 363.", " The last\nOlympic Games are believed to have been held in 393.", " \n\nShen Kuo soon impressed Wang Anshi with his skills and abilities as an\nadministrator and government agent.", " In 1072, Shen was sent to supervise Wang's\nprogram of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the\ncapital city.", " Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredged the canal\nand demonstrated the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer.", " He\ngained further reputation at court once he was dispatched as an envoy to the\nKhitan Liao Dynasty in the summer of 1075.", " The Khitans had made several\naggressive negotiations of pushing their borders south, while manipulating\nseveral incompetent Chinese ambassadors who conceded to the Liao Kingdom's\ndemands.", " \n\nMedicine was also studied, especially in southern Italy, where Islamic medicine\ninfluenced the school at Salerno.", " \n\nTiberius reportedly regretted his departure and requested to return to Rome\nseveral times, but each time Augustus refused his requests.", " He seems to have\nwished for the Senate and the state to simply act without him and his direct\norders were rather vague, inspiring debate more on what he actually meant than\non passing his legislation.", " \n\nThe gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and they were\nscrupulously accorded the rites and offerings considered proper.", " \n\nThis was by boat from continental Europe.", " \n\nCultic remains discovered at the site were a row of ten large standing stones,\nknown as massebot, oriented north-south, the tallest of which was 3 meters high,\nwith an altar-type structure in the middle, and a large, square, stone basin.", "\nThe exact purpose of these megaliths is still debated, but they may have\nconstituted a Canaanite \"high place\" from the Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1600 B.C.E.", "\nThe Canaanite city was destroyed in a fire, presumably in the wake of a campaign\nby the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III.", " The oldest known historical reference to\nthe city is to be found on an inscription of conquered sites at Thutmose's\ntemple at Karnak.", " The Tell Amarna letters, dating from the 14th century BCE,\ninclude ten letters from the kings of Gezer swearing loyalty to the Egyptian\npharaoh.", " \n\nThai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by\nthe day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name.", " Her\nzodiacal animal is the Monkey and her traditionally significant sixtieth\nanniversary year was 1992.", " Thai auspicious colours of the day are given in the\ntable of weekdays, followed below it by a link to the Buddha images for each day\nof the week.", " Chinese New Year and other feasts observed by Thai Chinese vary\nwith respect to both, as these are calculated according to the Chinese calendar.", "\n\nIn addition, he strengthened defenses between Egypt and Asia, building the Walls\nof the Ruler in the East Delta region.", " He reigned only fifteen years, which is\nevidenced by the incomplete nature of many of his constructions.", " Despite this,\nthey both seem to have held at least parts of lower Egypt.", " \n\nOn September 9, 2002, Aldrin was lured to a Beverly Hills hotel on the pretext\nof being interviewed for a Japanese children's television show on the subject of\nspace.", " Aldrin has been married three times.", " \n\nIn 1519, he became ruler of the Habsburg empire, and he gained the title Holy\nRoman Emperor in 1530.", " Charles, despite his harsh actions, had been seen as a\nruler empathetic to the needs of the Netherlands.", " In 1566, a league of about 400\nmembers of the nobility presented a petition to the governor Margaret of Parma,\nto suspend persecution until the rest had returned.", " Its struggle against the\nOttoman Empire in the Mediterranean Sea put serious limits on the military power\nit could deploy against the rebels in the Netherlands.", " \n\nA Bronze Age astronomical observatory was constructed there around 1900 BC and\ncontinuously served the nearby community that lived there until about 700 BC.", "\nThe central space was used to observe the rising of the sun and full moon.", " Three\nmarkings locate sunrise at the summer and winter solstices and at the two\nequinoxes.", " Four more give the minimum and maximum declinations of the full moon:\nin summer, and in winter.", " Two measure the lengths of lunar months.", " \n\nIts importance resides in two facts.", " During the Post-Classic period in Yucatán a\nthird system was in use.", " \n\nThe origin of the word Hispania is much disputed and the evidence for the\nvarious speculations are based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances,\nlikely to be accidental, and suspect supporting evidence.", " But the impact of\nHispania in the newcomers was also big.", " During the first stages of Romanization,\nthe peninsula was divided in two by the Romans for administrative purposes.", " By\nthe 3rd century the emperor Caracalla made a new division which lasted only a\nshort time.", " \n\nThey had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that when their\nfirst child was born they referenced it when naming him.", " During his time there,\nKipling also met and fell in love with Florence Garrard who was boarding with\nTrix at Southsea (to which Trix had returned).", " Stephen Wheeler, the editor,\nworked Kipling hard, but Kipling's need to write was unstoppable.", " Back in\nLahore, some thirty-nine stories appeared in the Gazette between November 1886\nand June 1887.", " By this time, he had been increasingly thinking about the future.", "\n\nJin Ping Mei, published in 1610, although incorporating earlier material, marks\nthe trend toward independent composition and concern with psychology.", " \n\nHigher male secondary school enrollment, per capita income and economic growth\nrate all had significant effects on reducing the chance of civil war.", "\nSpecifically, a male secondary school enrollment 10% above the average reduced\nthe chance of a conflict by about 3%, while a growth rate 1% higher than the\nstudy average resulted in a decline in the chance of a civil war of about 1%.", "\nThe study interpreted these three factors as proxies for earnings forgone by\nrebellion, and therefore that lower forgone earnings encourage rebellion.", "\nPhrased another way: young males (who make up the vast majority of combatants in\ncivil wars) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education\nor have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper\nin the future.", " Low per capita income has been proposed as a cause for grievance,\nprompting armed rebellion.", " \n\nIts guarantee of liberties promised to dissolve inter-communal tensions and\ntransform the empire into a more harmonious place.", " The Arab Revolt which began\nin 1916 turned the tide against the Ottomans on the Middle Eastern front, where\nthey initially seemed to have the upper hand during the first two years of the\nwar.", " \n\nIt specifically discusses in several passages the socially and culturally\ndegenerative effects of war on humanity itself.", " \n\nDominican priest Heinrich Kramer was assistant to the Archbishop of Salzburg.", " In\n1538 the Spanish Inquisition cautioned its members not to believe everything the\nMalleus said.", " Forced baptism was contrary to the law of the Catholic Church, and\ntheoretically anybody who had been forcibly baptized could legally return to\nJudaism.", " Spain had expelled its Sephardic population in 1492; many of these\nSpanish Jews left Spain for Portugal but eventually were targeted there as well.", "\n\nThe Macedonian eastern border with Thrace was now secured at the river Nestus\n(Mesta).", " Philip next marched against his southern enemies.", " In Thessaly he\ndefeated his enemies and by 352, he was firmly in control of this region.", " The\nMacedonian army advanced as far as the pass of Thermopylae which divides Greece\nin two parts, but it did not attempt to take it because it was strongly guarded\nby a joint force of Athenians, Spartans, and Achaeans.", " Having secured the\nbordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and\nmarched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign.", " \n\nCatherine of Russia was also very satisfied.", " \n\nThroughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda.", " \n\nThis idealized vision of the Romanov monarchy blinded him to the actual state of\nhis country.", " The Russian Empire was an agglomeration of diverse ethnicities that\nhad shown significant signs of disunity in the years before the First World War.", "\n\nThis city-state emerged in the same period as Sukhothai.", " This contact with the\nWest during the 16th century lead to a period of profound economic growth as\nlucrative trade routes were established.", " \n\nThe Army performed well in combat in Cuba.", " However, it was too oriented to small\nposts in the West and not as well-prepared for an overseas conflict.", " It relied\non volunteers and state militia units, which faced logistical, training and food\nproblems in the staging areas in Florida.", " The United States freed Cuba (after an\noccupation by the U.S. Army).", " By the peace treaty Spain ceded to the United\nStates its colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.", " \n\nThe offensive against the huge army enlisted by Venice was launched from France.", "\nBy 1563, the population of Venice had dropped to about 168,000 people.", " \n\nEducation during the Renaissance was mainly composed of ancient literature and\nhistory as it was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an\nintensive understanding of human behavior.", " \n\nThere has, however, been extensive statistical analysis of demographic and\npopulation data which includes women, especially in their childbearing roles.", " \n\nMost of the information about the period comes from burial sites and the grave\ngoods contained within them.", " At this time there were only around forty families\nliving there with plenty of good farming land and grazing for cattle.", " As Greece\nsent out colonies west towards Sicily and Italy (Pithekoussae, Cumae), the\ninfluence of their new alphabet extended further.", " \n\nBananas and plantains, which were first domesticated in Southeast Asia, most\nlikely Papua New Guinea, were re-domesticated in Africa possibly as early as\n5,000 years ago.", " Besides being a direct source of food, certain animals could\nprovide leather, wool, hides, and fertilizer.", " \n\nA fundamental change in working principles was brought about by Scotsman James\nWatt.", " The Industrial Revolution created a demand for metal parts used in\nmachinery.", " \n\nIn the Second Messenian War, Sparta established itself as a local power in\nPeloponnesus and the rest of Greece.", " \n\nFord T was proclaimed as the most influential car of the 20th century in the\ninternational Car of the Century awards.", " The success American Motors'\ncompact-sized Rambler models spurred GM and Ford to introduce their own\ndownsized cars in 1960.", " \n\nThis convention is only slightly relaxed in modern age and now it is still\nunadvisable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is\nstill common.", " In the case of the imperial family, it is considered extremely\ninappropriate to use the given name.", " Since Emperor Meiji, it has been customary\nto have one era per Emperor and to rename each Emperor after his death using the\nname of the era over which he presided.", " Prior to Emperor Meiji, the names of the\neras were changed more frequently, and the posthumous names of the Emperors were\nchosen in a different manner.", " Outside Japan, beginning with Emperor Shōwa, the\nEmperors are often referred to by their given names, both whilst alive and\nposthumously.", " \n\nIn Asia and the Pacific, between 3 million and more than 10 million civilians,\nmostly Chinese (estimated at 7.5 million), were killed by the Japanese\noccupation forces.", " In Europe, before the outbreak of the war, the Allies had\nsignificant advantages in both population and economics.", " Land warfare changed\nfrom the static front lines of World War I to increased mobility and combined\narms.", " \n\nBritish cavalry troopers also received excellent mounted swordsmanship training.", "\nSome historians, such as Chandler and Weller, assert that the British heavy\ncavalry were destroyed as a viable force following their first, epic charge.", " \n\nAccording to a genetic study on autosomal data on Roma the source of Southasian\nAncestry in Roma is North-West India.", " \n\nExplanations of the origin of music depend on how music is defined.", " Among humans\nboth males and females are ardent singers, and making music is mostly a communal\nactivity.", " \n\nIn 1839, China found itself fighting the First Opium War with Great Britain\nafter the Governor-General of Hunan and Hubei, Lin Zexu, banned the foreign\ntrade of opium.", " China was defeated, and in 1842 agreed to the provisions of the\nTreaty of Nanking.", " Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain, and certain ports,\nincluding Shanghai and Guangzhou, were opened to British trade and residence.", " In\n1856, the Second Opium War broke out; the Chinese were again defeated and forced\nto the terms of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin and the 1860 Convention of Peking.", "\nThe treaty opened new ports to trade and allowed foreigners to travel in the\ninterior.", " \n\nLamarr accompanied Mandl to business meetings where he conferred with scientists\nand other professionals involved in military technology.", " Lamarr's earliest\ninventions include an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would\ndissolve in water to create a carbonated drink.", " She was offered several scripts,\ntelevision commercials, and stage projects, but none piqued her interest.", " \n\nJoseph Darnand, who became an SS officer and led the Milice paramilitaries who\nhunted down members of the Resistance, was executed in October 1945.", " De Gaulle\nhad instructed that there be no excessive displays of public affection towards\nChurchill and no official awards without his prior agreement.", " \n\nThe film chronicles the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of\nher addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s.", " \n\nIt was completed rather late in the war; although a number of B-29s were\nequipped with Eagle and it worked well, it came too late to make much\ndifference.", " The radar system for which Alvarez is best known and which has\nplayed a major role in aviation, most particularly in the post war Berlin\nairlift, was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA).", " Using Alvarez's dipole antenna to\nachieve a very high angular resolution, GCA allows ground-based radar operators\nwatching special precision displays to guide a landing airplane to the runway by\ntransmitting verbal commands to the pilot.", " The system was simple, direct, and\nworked well, even with previously untrained pilots.", " It was so successful that\nthe military continued to use it for many years after the war, and it was still\nin use in some countries in the 1980s.", " \n\nWith population growth, new indigenous quarters were created.", " The Alliance of\nDemocratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo rebels captured Lubumbashi in\nApril 1997.", " The high altitude serves to cool the climate, which would otherwise\nbe very hot.", " \n\nFailing health reduced Hitchcock's output during the last two decades of his\nlife.", " Hitchcock's films sometimes feature characters struggling in their\nrelationships with their mothers.", " Hitchcock preferred to work with the best\ntalent of his day—film poster designers such as Bill Gold and Saul Bass—who\nwould produce posters that accurately represented his films.", " \n\nA mental clash gripped Herzl, between the craving for literary success and a\ndesire to act as a public figure.", " On March 10, 1896, Herzl was visited by\nReverend William Hechler, the Anglican minister to the British Embassy.", " \n\nDuring one episode, he is shown to be an adept guitar player.", " Lenny is a\npersistent bachelor who has poor luck with women.", " On one occasion, it is implied\nhe is an undercover agent whose target is Homer.", " \n\nDeciding to pursue drama, Winstone enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in\nHammersmith.", " Winstone met his wife, Elaine, while filming That Summer in 1979.", "\nWinstone was declared bankrupt on 4 October 1988 and again on 19 March 1993.", " \n\nDisney also found out that Universal owned the intellectual property rights to\nOswald.", " Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one\nfull-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes.", " \n\nThis card gives an allowance that can be withdrawn from ATMs in order to buy\nschool needs such as books and uniforms.", " He also built and renovated five\ntraditional markets in 2013 and four traditional markets in 2014.", " However, his\nrival Prabowo Subianto also declared victory, leaving Indonesian citizens\nconfused.", " Prior to taking office Jokowi sought for outgoing President Yudhoyono\nto take responsibility for the decision to further increase fuel prices by\nfurther removing subsidies.", " \n\nHis official biography also claims that Kim composed six operas and enjoys\nstaging elaborate musicals.", " \n\nWith advice from Alexander, he was able to work out a compromise: he would\nattend a university, but would study literature.", " Barrie enrolled at the\nUniversity of Edinburgh where he wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening\nCourant.", " He graduated and obtained an M.A. on 21 April 1882.", " Following a job\nadvertisement found by his sister in The Scotsman, he worked for a year and a\nhalf as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal.", " He then returned to\nKirriemuir.", " \n\nOnly 3000 copies were published of the first edition.", " By 2009, total sales of\nThe Power of Now and A New Earth in North America had been estimated at three\nmillion and five million copies respectively.", " Some Christian scholars criticize\nTolle's teachings, while others praise them.", " \n\nBetween 1991 and 1997, she ran a school for children with learning disabilities.", "\nHer latest non-fiction is about Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox.", " She found\nthe transition to fiction easy, explaining, \"Every book is a learning curve, and\nyou have to keep an open mind.\"", " \n\nTo avoid experiencing a similar dilemma with Jasmine, the filmmakers ultimately\ndecided to have the princess animated entirely at one studio.", " With her\nappearance finalized, Jasmine became Disney's first non-white princess as\nopposed to being of European heritage.", " Thematically, Jasmine also represents\ncivil rights, racial tolerance, social hierarchy, as well as life, liberty and\nthe pursuit of happiness.", " \n\nHowever, there was no further public recognition of her wartime resistance and\nhumanitarian work until after the end of communist rule in Poland.", " \n\nReally Really Love You was released in August and reach the top 50; \"Shaky\nGround\", the related single, appeared in September but Geyer was already in the\nUS.", " Having enjoyed a career peak at home in Australia, Geyer returned to live in\nLos Angeles in 1984 to concentrate on breaking into the musical scene there.", " \n\nAfter its progress had stalled in the Billboard 200 at No. 96, Thought 'Ya Knew\nclimbed to No. 31 in the UK, but the album charted for only two weeks in the UK.", "\nFollowing her dismissal, Peniston took playing as Glinda the Good Witch in a\ntheatrical production of musical play The Wiz.", " \n\nWilkes was re-elected and expelled twice more, before the House of Commons\nresolved that his candidature was invalid and declared the runner-up as the\nvictor.", " Grafton's government disintegrated in 1770, allowing the Tories led by\nLord North to return to power.", " George was deeply devout and spent hours in\nprayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers.", " George was appalled by\nwhat he saw as their loose morals.", " In 1770, his brother Prince Henry, Duke of\nCumberland and Strathearn, was exposed as an adulterer, and the following year\nCumberland married a young widow, Anne Horton.", " \n\nHer 1981 album Wild West was one of her biggest sellers.", " By this time,\nextravagant spending and a string of bad investments by her investors had left\nher nearly broke.", " \n\nIn June 2012, the Icelandic band Sigur Rós released a video for the song \"Fjögur\nPíanó\", starring LaBeouf, in which he appears nude.", " Louis Post Dispatch called\nit one of LaBeouf's best performances.", " \n\nThe car burst into flames, and Kenseth walked away.", " Elliott was attending his\nfather's funeral on the day of the race.", " In 2003, he dominated in the points\nstandings and leading the last 33 of 36 races and became the 2003 NASCAR Winston\nCup champion, the last driver to ever hold that title.", " \n\nRafferty released two further albums in the 1990s in what musician Tom Robinson\nlater described as \"a major return to form\".", " On a Wing and a Prayer (1992)\nreunited him with his Stealers Wheel partner Egan on several tracks.", " It included\nthree tracks cowritten with Rafferty's brother Jim, also a singer-songwriter,\nwho had been signed to Decca Records in the 1970s.", " Rafferty recorded a new\nversion of his Humblebums song \"Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway\" on the album\nOver My Head (1994).", " These were the last two records Rafferty produced with Hugh\nMurphy, who died in 1998.", " \n\nAt least 330,000 people, including 10,000 technicians, were involved.", " Stalin had\nbegun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter\nBeria's dominance of the power ministries.", " \n\nThe patterns presented by the data from the Petén region and Uaxactun allowed\nfor these sites to fit within the cultural development of the Maya lowlands.", " The\narticle by Thompson assumes that the Maya were ultimately “peaceful” people\nsince they lacked apparent defenses.", " Sails are not represented in prehistoric\nMesoamerican iconography or texts, instead, it is theorized that canoes were\nused as a primary mode of water transportation for the ancient Maya.", " \n\nStarlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an\nelaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a\nnumber of Marvel titles.", " Concurrently in the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a\ncache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star\nReach.", " \n\nThrough his grandmother, Mishima was a direct descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu.", " In\n1955, Mishima took up weight training and his workout regimen of three sessions\nper week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life.", " Mishima espoused\na very individual brand of nationalism towards the end of his life.", " \n\nIn 2011, Blunt was named the ambassadress of the new Yves Saint Laurent\nfragrance, Opium.", " Blunt starred in the 2011 British comedy film Salmon Fishing\nin the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström and co-starring Ewan McGregor and\nKristin Scott Thomas.", " Also that year, she briefly appeared in Disney's The\nMuppets, as Miss Piggy's receptionist.", " She starred in the 2012 film The\nFive-Year Engagement, directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel.", "\nIn January 2011, Blunt began filming an American science-fiction film, Looper,\ndirected by Rian Johnson and co-starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt;\nthe film was released in September 2012.", " \n\nValentino tried to distance the character from a stereotypical portrayal of an\nArab man.", " Joseph Schenck was interested in casting his wife, Norma Talmadge,\nopposite Valentino in a version of Romeo and Juliet.", " \n\nLord Halifax, the Lord President of the Council, visited Germany privately in\nNovember and met Hitler and other German officials.", " In addressing the Cabinet\nshortly after German forces crossed the border, Chamberlain placed blame on both\nGermany and Austria.", " In May, Czech border guards shot two Sudeten German farmers\nwho were trying to cross the border into Czechoslovakia without stopping for\nborder controls.", " \n\nDuring this time, Marcelle was often left alone in the room while Piaf and\nMômone were out on the streets or at the club singing.", " \n\nThese were almost completely forgotten until after Smith's death.", " Another theme\nof the Skylark novels involves precursors of modern information technology.", " \n\nAs early as 1926, Meyer had written to Irène Joliot-Curie suggesting that Rona\nwork with her to learn how his laboratory could make their own polonium samples.", "\nOnce Hans Pettersson was able to secure funds to pay Rona's expenses,\nJoliot-Curie allowed her to come and study polonium separation at the Curie\nInstitute in Paris.", " Rona developed an enhanced method of preparing polonium\nsources and producing alpha-emissions.", " Gaining recognition as an expert in the\nfield, she took those skills back to the Radium Institute along with a small\ndisc of polonium.", " This disc allowed Rona to create lab specimens of polonium,\nwhich were used in much of the Institute's subsequent research.", " \n\nDuring the 2013 off-season she appeared on CTV Montreal as a guest weather\nanchor.", " She next faced defending champion and top seed Sara Errani, but was\ndefeated.", " Bouchard suffered a shocking three-set loss.", " \n\nWhen their daughter Cecily married Richard Plantagenet, the 3rd Duke of York,\nand had several offspring, including Edward IV and Richard III, Joan became the\ngrandmother of two York kings of England.", " John of Gaunt died in 1399.", " The knight\nLyvet was released and his follower thrown into the Tower.", " \n\nNot long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the\ntorch after the marital rift.", " He co-starred as Humphrey Bogart's younger\nbrother, a carefree playboy, in Sabrina (1954), played by Audrey Hepburn.", " \n\nHe chose not to seek a third term in the following election cycle.", " The 1980\npresidential campaign between Reagan and incumbent President Jimmy Carter was\nconducted during domestic concerns and the ongoing Iran hostage crisis.", "\nRepublicans captured the Senate for the first time since 1952, and gained 34\nHouse seats, but the Democrats retained a majority.", " He recovered and was\nreleased from the hospital on April 11, becoming the first serving U.S.\npresident to survive being shot in an assassination attempt.", " Reagan believed\nthat God had spared his life so that he might go on to fulfill a greater\npurpose.", " \n\nBloch is concerned to establish hope as the guiding principle of his Marxism and\nstresses the implied humanism inherent in mystical tradition.", " A proper theology\nwould therefore have to be constructed in the light of its future goal.", " \n\nPebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 after securing a new\npublishing deal for her songwriting.", " Kesha and Pebe co-wrote the song \"Stephen\"\ntogether when Kesha was 16, Kesha then tracked down David Gamson, a producer\nthat she admired, from Scritti Politti who agreed to produce the song.", " As of\nAugust 2015, Kesha has released little information about her upcoming third\nstudio album.", " \n\nThis time it reached him, but he refused to believe that she no longer wanted to\nbe married to him.", " \n\nWright was born in Poole, Dorset, but grew up predominantly in Wells, Somerset.", "\nWright has a brother, Oscar, who is a comic book artist, contributing\nstoryboards, conceptual art and promotional pictures for Edgar's films.", " Wright\nis a friend of fellow director Garth Jennings, and made cameos in his films The\nHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow.", " \n\nThe Great Powers did not fulfill the requests for recognition of Albania.", " At the\nbeginning of the London conference in December 1912 the ambassadors of all six\nGreat Powers rejected the plan for establishing an independent Albania.", " Instead,\nthey decided that Albania would be under Ottoman suzerainty but with an\nautonomous government.", " After it became obvious that Ottoman Empire would lose\nall of Macedonia and its territorial connection with Albania, the Great Powers\nrealized they had to change their decision.", " The Treaty of London, signed on 30\nMay 1913, partitioned significant part of territory claimed by Albania,\nregardless its ethnic composition, between the Balkan allies reducing the\nterritory of Albania to its central regions.", " \n\nThe officers were able to subdue the 53 year old during the act on Sunday\nmorning.", " \n\nKing Salaman replaced the political veteran with the head of financial\noversight, Mohammed al-Jadaan.", " \n\nOil, gold or food products, such as wheat, are natural resources, in which\ninvestors invest billions worldwide.", " \n\nWith 71 goals in 137 international matches, he has shot a record number of goals\nfor the DFB.", " \n\nWith the help of debit card data, the Essen police are investigating four people\nwho stood by and watched while a retiree died in a bank.", " The spokesman did not\nrule out the possibility that others would also be investigated.", " \n\nBecause series 1 is no longer the old one, many users can save 100 euros.", " \n\nThe photo clearly shows the narrow touch display bar above the keyboard that has\nbeen anticipated in rumors.", " \n\nOne doesn't know in which way both dramatists would have worked together.", " \n\nA Swedish study has shown that animals seldom, if at all, land after the 2 month\nbreeding period.", " \n\nAccording to Parker, Russian Secret Service agents are active in large numbers\nin Great Britain.", " Russia announced a suspension of the contract at the beginning\nof October.", " The law delineates a number of conditions whose fulfillment could\nbring the agreement back into effect: the USA would have to withdraw all of its\ntroops from countries who joined NATO after 2000, rescind all of the sanctions\nagainst Russia as well as reimburse the costs that have been incurred as a\nresult of the sanctions.", " \n\nIt is a political process and I have decided not to be present, so it was said.", "\n\nIf a Turkish employee quits, then the Turkish work councils come.", " \n\nFrom this point of view, stale structures and a self-satisfied elite are the\nreason why the health system, education and foreign trade in the USA is in such\nbad shape.", " \n\nKühn can only shake his head.", " The newspaper \"Die ZEIT\" first inquired with the\nreal estate business about its dubious cash flows and the threat of insolvency\nin July.", " \n\nThe witching hour starts up at least by the time the scary organ is played, such\nas in the 60s hit Monster Mash.", " \n\nVon Beust justified the cost increases as lack of detailed planning.", " \n\nSimon Krätschmer gropes around alone through the dilapidated, sinister barrack.", "\n\nThat is because each and every miracle and each specialized district occupies an\nentire field.", " \n\nProduction of the smartphone model was completely discontinued.", " \n\nIt was August 30, 2015, as an army of ducks conquered the internet.", " The\nsmartphone generation received an app it deserved, where, in the best case\nscenario, the most idiotic situation received an audience of millions.", " On the\nother hand, Vine was art in six seconds.", " \n\nAnd now he is also world champion.", " \n\nFor Kerber, the season finale nevertheless marks the end of an unbelievable\nyear.", " After the sensation at the Australian Open, the 28 year-old lost for the\nfirst time in the final game against Serena Williams.", " \n\nIt is now only unclear, in which one.", " \n\nDo you argue with your alarm clock?", " \n\nIt's clear: Men could have more responsibility in matters of contraception.", " \n\nAccording to Christian belief, a grave which had been embedded in the chalkstone\nwas the last resting place of Jesus.", " \n\nThe reason for advertising the video in Germany is unclear.", " \n\nI was asked by the officers, in their inimitably dumb way, whether I knew the\nwriter Günter de Bruyn and whether we are intellectual relatives.", " \n\nThe Canadian investigator of the plane crash Larry Vance told SPIEGEL that he is\nconvinced that one of the pilots had intended to land the machine on the ocean\nsurface - so that it would sink.", " The Australian experts drew new conclusions\nfrom the investigation of a landing flap from Boeing that had washed up in\nTanzania in East Africa.", " \n\nThe issue might not be over for Barroso.", " The exchange of Barrosos caused a big\nstir.", " \n\nThe current arrests are \"a continuation of the shenanigans against us,\" said\nDündar.", " \n\nFor the time being, the deal between Aoun and Hariri has brought the two enemy\nfactions closer together.", " \n\nThe husband of the current candidate for the White House, Hillary Clinton,\npardoned a number of people, also including Rich, on the last day of his\npresidency, January 20, 2001.", " \n\nDündar warned Europe about having too much understanding for Erdogan's course.", " \n\nAdnan Z. Amin, General Director of the International Organization for Renewable\nEnergies (IRENA) is certain: \"Offshore wind power can become the top power\ngenerator in a global economy that is free of coal-based energy.\"", " \n\nThe good numbers in Asia promptly pushed the stock markets up.", " One expects a\nbump from the booming real estate market and increasing federal expenditures.", " \n\nThe two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on display are especially\neye-catching.", " \n\nTherefore the irksome signs will not completely disappear: According to\ninformation from the news agency dpa, they will only be activated if, for\ninstance, the artist or record label is not a member of GEMA and does not have\nan agreement with YouTube.", " \n\nThe contaminants not only attack the undeveloped lungs of the little ones; they\ncan also lead to long-term impairment in the development of the adolescent\nbrain.", " \n\nIt is no surprise that the federal and state governments have classified the\nNational Natural Heritage as a nation-wide endeavor of the highest priority and\nhave documented it starting in 2005 in a coalition contract.", " \n\nUnlike that of the 28th of October, Mr. Comey's letter has hardly been commented\nupon.", " If his Democrat opponent were to be elected, he assured that she would be\n'under investigation for years'.", " \"If somebody can't handle a Twitter account,\nthey can't handle the nuclear codes,\" Obama mocked.", " According to the programme,\nshe will speak at 23.45.", " \n\nOn Tuesday, the United States of America could elect the first female president\nin its history.", " On the other hand, Ms. Clinton's relations with the continent\nover the past twenty years leave much to be desired.", " \n\nThe AKP's Islamic conservatives have taken this refusal as justification for the\nquestionings.", " A third-party majority is needed, specifically the votes of 367\nMPs (out of 550), whereas 330 votes are required in order to trigger a\nreferendum.", " \n\nOn Thursday, the 3rd of November, the mayor of Saint-Gaudens (in the\nHaute-Garonne region) decided to suspend the urban development agreement with\nthe government formed in 2014.", " \n\nThe latter is overseeing the Republican primaries, in which Rachida Dati\nsupports Nicolas Sarkozy's candidacy.", " In the message, the former Minister for\nJustice accused Brice Hortefeux of being a 'fascist', 'Minister (moron) of the\nInterior' and a 'thug'.", " \n\nWhat are the limits that could inhibit the expression of religious beliefs in\nprivate companies?", " Even if the majority of situations that arise in the\nworkplace can be resolved without conflict.", " Are workers allowed to keep\nreligious objects on their desks?", " The Force Ouvrière union regrets that its\nremarks on the content of the guide were not included: \"There wasn't really any\nconsultation,\" said Ms. Gillard.", " The guide is problematic, firstly because it\nhas been developed \"in the context of a state of emergency\".", " \n\nThis clause included the time taken to travel to clients' homes in working\nhours.", " The two organisations launched an appeal which was thrown out by the\nCourt of Cassation on the 12th of October.", " It aims to take the journey time into\naccount after deducting this from the working hours actually completed, without\nbeing able to measure the real journey time.", " The working time undertaken in this\nfirst hour is more or less equal to 45 minutes.", " \n\n\"ETA is on its way out,\" the French contingent revealed.", " \n\nHe also remarked that \"the existence of such a document could lead to\nconsequences that are as likely as they are unacceptable\".", " The French Digital\nCouncil, which advises on bills in line with questions of digital technology,\ncould also scrutinise it.", " \n\nAccording to Le Figaro, this government plan could free up 42 million euros, of\nwhich 15.5 million would go towards security.", " France doesn't have a good\nreputation.", " \n\nTina Anselmi was born on the 25th of March, 1927 in Castelfranco Veneto; she\ngrew up in an anti-fascist Catholic family, which was marked by the persecution\nof her militant socialist father.", " Having always been close to the Catholic\nUnion, Tina Anselmi attended particularly to the rights of textile workers and\nteachers.", " \n\nIt is difficult to think that Italy has fewer km of underground line than\nMadrid.", " It has been emphasised that we absolutely cannot continue with those who\nare completely against Italy.", " We will evaluate whether and how to continue onto\nthe next section.", " \n\nThe hit song is \"Geronimo\" by Sheppard.", " \n\nThose of age will be offered 500 euros by the state, to be spent by 31st\nDecember 2017.", " A voucher is generated that can be saved on your smartphone, or\npresented at the till.", " \n\nFrom the 1st of January there will be an increase in petrol and diesel.", " The CGI\nMestre have stated in a note, that there will be no rise in VAT, for 2017 at\nleast.", " A level that in both cases is at the top of the EU.", " The latest figures\nrelate to the 24th of October last year, and tell us that our diesel costs 1,335\neuros per litre, compared with the eurozone average of 1,165 euros.", " A\nsignificantly higher cost which clearly exceeds the average of the countries\nthat adopt the single currency, which is equal to 1,365 euros per litre.", " \n\nCorrado Passera withdraws the offer for Mps due to \"the attitude of total\nclosure that the Bank has shown to us\".", " As stated, the decision is the\nprerogative of the ECB and would appear inappropriate for the Bank to speak on\nits behalf by excluding the possibility of looking at other alternatives.", " This\nis what has been written in a note to Mps after the decision of the ex-minister\nto leave the party.", " It will go for assessment.", " \n\nStudents at LUISS University were told during the course of a meeting which took\nplace in Rome.", " This morning, Pope Francis met Mark Zuckerberg and his wife at\nCasa Santa Marta.", " \n\nFour students at Roma Tre University have developed a motorcycle helmet that can\n'read thoughts' by helping to anticipate drivers' actions.", " One of the examples\nof research applied under safety measures has also produced a humanoid robot to\ncompete with Valentino Rossi.", " \n\nIn return, Uber will receive a billion dollar investment and a seat on the board\nof directors of the Chinese company.", " More and more tech companies are calling\nthe shots more than ever before on Wall Street, even more than in Silicon\nValley.", " Amazon has become the fourth American company with the largest market\ncapitalisation, surpassing ExxonMobil.", " Leaders of companies such as Spotify,\nTesla, Uber and Snapchat will attend a private event in addition to the Mountain\nView Summit.", " \n\nThe president of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, represents the\nmost conservative, while leaders of the party, such as the Sectorial\nUnder-Secretary, Javier Maroto, represent the most progressive.", " Durán acts as\nspokesman and Ángel Pintado as treasurer.", " \n\nFor the first time in the last six years the rate of unemployment has dropped\nbelow 20%, and there are already 600,000 more people employed than there were a\nyear ago.", " Its management, however, hasn't been devoid of criticism.", " The unions\nhave been very combative and on several occasions have called for the repeal of\nthe legislation that Fátima Báñez is proudest of.", " This department now faces new\nchallenges.", " Furthermore, the Government will have to deal with another \"hot\npotato\".", " \n\nThe Minister of Defense has allowed her to remain General Secretary of the party\nfor now.", " The consulted sources have said that it is \"100% Cospedal\".", " In spite of\nthem, not everyone in the party understood the messages that the president tried\nto send to them yesterday.", " Barón de Claret, the only one in Government with a\nnoble title.", " \n\nPedro Sánchez, like many other socialists, said in the programme Évole that\nSpain is a nation of nations.", " And what about the parties in what, in historical\nrights?", " \n\nFederico Fellini once said: \"The clown is to humanity as the shadow is to man\".", "\nHe stands alone in front of the audience and, ultimately, he has to bring out\nthe best of himself in order to make the audience laugh.", " \n\nIn the war films or cowboy and Indian films the battles, fights and beatings\nwere out of this world.", " Emphasis, fine irony, blunt innuendos and other well\nused verbal devices fit into parliamentary oratory, but flicking at each other\nand slapstick comedy do not.", " \n\nHe believes that nobody waiting for us waits for us.", " Perhaps that's why a surge\nof tears clouds his pupils while the syllable of time unearths his crop and\nsurrenders his mystery to the bound waters.", " And they must be greeted with an\nopen spirit and clear mind because they form the new generation of beauty and\nhope.", " \n\nAs a result, Trump isn't very worried about the Latin American vote at a\nnational level.", " The early voting suggests that this time the Latin Americans\nwill come out to vote in greater numbers, but it is unclear whether the increase\nwill have an impact.", " \n\n\"There will be protests and other things, it's all already planned,\" the\nopposition told El Mundo.", " Dozens of FSLN followers are already celebrating the\nvictory in the Plaza de las Victorias.", " \n\nMay has received great criticism for avoiding and not responding openly to the\nmedia after the judicial ruling on Brexit.", " \n\nFounded in 1925 as games for everyman, the open air theater on the great steps\nin front of St. Michael still attracts a diverse public.", " The festive dedication\ntook place on April 30, 1955.", " \n\nIn 1882, a telegraphic system equipped with 34 fire alarm signals was put in\noperation.", " In 1992, grounds of the former puppet theater, which had been left to\nthe commune, were taken over by players and employees.", " This has to do with one\nof the few buildings in the city center that was spared from destruction by the\nend of the Second World War.", " \n\nIn 1832, the former cloister was sold to the manufacturer Georg Reichenbach by\nthe state of Württemberg with the stipulation to establish a cotton factory\nthere.", " The Islamic citizens who have settled since the beginning of the 1960s\nemigrated primarily from Turkey.", " \n\nAmong them is the former cloister from the abbey church of St. Peter and Paul.", "\nThe historical city hall in Obermarsberg originates from the 13th century and\nwas refurbished after the Thirty Years' War.", " There are different theories about\nthe reasons for leaving the place.", " \n\nGolden Gate Park, which is over four kilometers in length, offers a botanical\ngarden, planetarium, Japanese garden and an aquarium.", " It serves as a local place\nof rest and relaxation for San Franciscans.", " The Yerba Buena Garden was built at\nthe beginning of the 1990s on the roof of the Moscone North Convention Center.", "\nIt contains a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr.", " \n\nSince the 1960s, the city's economy has been in steep decline.", " During the 2010\ngeneral election, the Labor Party was able to win all seven voting districts.", " \n\nBoth the time and the sequence of events of this incident were vigorously\ndiscussed.", " In April 2012, the Turkish Minister President Erdogan announced his\ngovernment's plans to free Bosphorus by building the Istanbul Canal parallel to\nit.", " The Ottomans wanted to prevent grain from being further transported because\nthey had a great need for it.", " The Ottoman Empire and Russia were denied\npermission to keep their war fleet in the Black Sea.", " \n\nIn its scope it belongs to the most far-reaching cultures of the time, in which\nmany sites are known.", " Like the majority of sites in southern Europe, the finding\ndates back to the early 5th century BC.", " Likely the most well-known person from\nthe Copper Age is Ötzi, the frozen mummy who lived during 3300 BC.", " They were\nprimarily on hills.", " In addition, its process of gilding copper is\ntechnologically noteworthy.", " \n\nThe severity and the presence of the revolution in the countryside alarmed the\nCourt and National Assembly in Versailles.", " The event was known about in Paris\nand caused more upset in a mood which was already charged by the persistently\nhigh price of bread and lack of provisions.", " The king did not take special\nprecautions during his escape and was recognized multiple times during his\nstays.", " \n\nThe hymn was well received and the audience demanded an encore.", " I declare the\nfirst international Olympic games over.", " \n\nThe First World War brought about shifts and new developments in colonial\npolitics.", " \n\nThe Industrial Revolution took place in Great Britain earlier than in any other\ncountry.", " The Suez Crisis showed the limits of the old colonial powers such as\nGreat Britain and France in a changing world.", " After the seizure of power by the\nNational Socialists in 1933 there were dispersed attempts to win back the old\ncolonies.", " After the Russian Revolution in 1917, some countries, such as Finland,\nPoland and the Baltic States, won their independence.", " \n\nOne of his last means of placing pressure on Hungary was the threat of imposing\ngeneral and free elections.", " After the Compromise, Emperor and King Franz Joseph\nI took great care to treat both of his monarchies equally.", " \n\nThe Disibodenberg cloister was disbanded and fell into ruin as a result of the\nReformation.", " Today, expansive ruins can be viewed there.", " The Rupertsberg\ncloister was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War in 1632 by Swedish troops.", "\nThe displaced nuns were moved to the Eibingen cloister.", " The ruins were later\nbuilt over.", " \n\nAfter these successes, he signed a contract with Team Telekom and moved in with\nhis girlfriend in Merdingen in Südbaden, where he lived until 2002.", " At the\nOlympic Games in 2004 in Athens, Ulrich, as winner of the street race, pursued\nthe goal of winning his second gold medal.", " \n\nThe censorship disposed of all undesirable opinions; participation in public\nlife had become practically impossible.", " The traces of blood on the clothes were\nin the shape that they were reported to have by the news reports on the day of\nthe murder.", " \n\nWeiss was honored with the literature prizes from the cities of Cologne and\nBremen.", " \n\nPrivately as well as publicly, Springer vigorously pursued reconciliation with\nthe Jewish people and took many trips to Israel.", " The chalet burned completely\ndown.", " In the following year, 1977, he received the distinction of the American\nFriendship Medal for the friendly position of his press toward the USA.", " \n\nThe Viguier and La Conte districts contain the majority of the city's social\nhousing, where the population is mainly made up of immigrants or those of\nimmigrant origin.", " The history of Carcassonne is directly linked to that of its\nfortified city.", " \n\nIn the early 2000s, there were five doctors per 100,000 inhabitants.", " Amnesty\nInternational cites newspaper articles from 2008 describing the murder of fifty\npeople accused of witchcraft.", " \n\nVon Bellingshausen sighted Antarctica on the 27th of January 1820, three days\nbefore Bransfield sighted land, and ten months before Palmer did so in November\n1820.", " In the Endurance expedition in 1914, the British ship Endurance, captained\nby Sir Ernest Shackleton, set sail with twenty eight men to cross the Antarctic.", "\n\nThis drawing up was the founding act of Roman law, the institutions of the Roman\nRepublic and the mos maiorum.", " However, Pyrrhus was forced to leave Sicily in\norder to attend to business in southern Italy.", " \n\nIn the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed\nthe fall of the Mycenaean civilization.", " Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean\nscript forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it\nto create the Greek alphabet.", " From the 9th century BC, the first Greek texts\nbegan to appear.", " Greece was divided into many small, self-governing communities,\na pattern largely dictated by Greek geography: every island, valley and plain is\ncut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges.", " From about the 8th\ncentury BC city states began to appear: small, self-governing territories with\ntheir own political systems.", " \n\nIn the Middle Ages, most Christians did not have access to the Bible in their\nmother tongue.", " \n\nHowever, they did not expand until ships big enough to cross seas were built.", "\nTrade was developed by establishing commercial outposts throughout the\nMediterranean, a technique that had not been used until then.", " \n\nThis affair can be seen as the starting point for his career as a radical\nrevolutionary.", " In Pluviose year III (January-February 1794), easing off the\npressure of the Reign of Terror, he took various measures to liberate the\nsuspects.", " \n\nFinanced entirely with Bernard Tapie's own money, these schools were closed in\n1994 when he was declared bankrupt.", " Despite being the number one distributor of\nequipment and textiles worldwide, the German company was in financial trouble.", " \n\nTo get away from it all, the Remis resided in Switzerland for most of summer\n1947.", " On their return, they entertained the idea of living in South America, far\naway from the problems of postwar Belgium.", " In spring 1948, in hopes of adapting\nTintin for the cinema, the Belgian artist wrote a letter to Walt Disney, asking\nin vain for his support.", " In the summer, Georges and his wife returned to\nSwitzerland, accompanied by Rosane, an 18 year old who was the daughter of one\nof Germaine's friends.", " During the holiday, he began an extra-marital affair with\nthe young girl, which he admitted shortly after.", " \n\nIn the lower part, there are three palm trees overlooking the sea, which\nrepresent the love that the people of this Island have for their land.", "\nFurthermore, the occurrence of hurricanes on the island is possible during the\nsummer.", " The islands are located at the Indo-Australian Fault; the Fault arose\ndue to the collision of the Indian and Australian plates.", " \n\nAn element supporting this hypothesis would be the intense royal livestock of\nhorses that took place at Villa Pelucca, in Sesto San Giovanni.", " In 1928, a\n90-hectare golf course was built in the north-eastern part of the park, next to\nthe racetrack.", " In 1976, the racecourse was no longer used; in 1990, a fire\ndestroyed what remained of the wooden grandstands, which were later demolished\nalong with the stables.", " \n\nIn August 1969, Pope Paul VI removed the death penalty from the Vatican law and\nrevoked it from all offences.", " The issuing of coinage is predominantly numismatic\nin nature, with the intention of being sold mainly to collectors.", " \n\nThe inner part of the region is flat and hilly, with no clear distinction\nbetween one area to the next.", " There are many prehistoric artifacts, including\nseveral different menhirs and dolmens.", " The second Apulian and Calabrian Royal\nRegion was then established, also including Samnium, parts of Molise and the\noriental Basilicata.", " During the thirteenth century, the name Apulia was used by\nsome authors to signify the southern part of the Italian peninsula.", " \n\nHistorian David Crouch suggests that Stephen abandoned from the challenge around\nthis time to focus on other issues.", " Only a handful of them (earldoms) had\nexisted under Henry I and these had been largely symbolic.", " \n\nDuring the War of the First Coalition, light quickly began to be shed upon a\nyoung Corsican artillery officer, following the French Revolution: Napoleon\nBonaparte.", " Although not a resolver of the conflict, the French victory at the\nBattle of Marengo forced the Austrians to give Italy up for the second time.", " The\nblockage of Villeneuve's fleet resulted in giving up the invasion plan of the\nBritish Isles, also because new developments were taking place in the continent.", "\nNapoleon was confident that the clear success of Austerlitz could lead to a\ngeneral peace treaty, but his hopes were soon dashed: the new British Prime\nMinister Lord Grenville refused any agreement, and so did Tsar Alexander.", " \n\nWith regards to religious practices, Fiorello was educated within the Episcopal\nChurch, and remained a member of the Protestant Church throughout his life.", " \n\nThe man told him that a war between the two universes is coming, as he and\nWalter had predicted; it is for this reason that Olivia, among others, was\ntrained as a child.", " \n\nBoth students of Goffredo Petrassi, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai met at the\nSanta (Saint) Cecelia conservatory.", " Between them bloomed a long professional and\namicable relationship that lasted for years.", " Nicolai collaborates on various\ncinematic scores by Morricone as Metti, one night at dinner; some of them were\nwritten by both together.", " However, the friendship has fallen apart due to\nunofficial collaborations between the two, which has given rise to legal\ndisputes.", " During their various collaborations, it is not clear who between the\ntwo conceived of some stylistic solutions in the arrangements that later on\ncharacterised both artists' style.", " \n\nIn the 20th century, between 1904 and 1914, Antonio Gaudí brought about a reform\nthat lasted ten years.", " It has three parallel chapels at the apse and many\nlateral chapels between the buttresses.", " Tradition has it that the theme was\nselected intentionally because of the great number of converted Jews who lived\nin Palma.", " \n\nBefore the Andes were formed, the western margin of South America had already\nbeen the site of several orogenies.", " The central Andes belong to the so-called\n'Andes de tipo andino' which were formed by the subduction of the oceanic crust.", "\n\nHowever, the breakdown between him and Linares and the discontinuation of the\nprogressive line provoked the Revolution of Vindication which overthrew him in\n1879.", " Under his administration, the female vote was approved, political parties\nwere legalised, all of the exiled were allowed to return and the remaining\npolitical prisoners were freed.", " The collapse of and intervention in dozens of\nbanks lead to a flight of capital, causing businesses to go bankrupt.", " \n\nIt is the portion from this second boundary up to the outer boundary, the\nimaginary line that connects the lighthouse landmark at Punta del Este to the\nlighthouse landmark at Punta Rasa.", " \n\nThings started to change in October 1777 when British forces under the command\nof General John Burgoyne surrendered in Saratoga in the north of the state of\nNew York.", " This was the coup de grâce and encouragement the settlers needed to\nget their independence.", " Indians arrived from Canada, led by Joseph Brant; they\nsupported the British because the colonists were expropriating more and more of\ntheir lands.", " The expedition was led by General Joseph Burgoyne who intended to\nreach Albany.", " However, they were intercepted and had to do battle in Freeman,\nclose to the Hudson River.", " \n\nGolden Age Spanish or Early Modern Spanish is the variant of the language that\nconstitutes the transition from Medieval Spanish to Modern Spanish.", " On the other\nhand, external history contains references to the history of Spanish speakers,\ntheir historical vicissitudes and the social use of the language.", " \n\nNonetheless, if the English law had been accepted, the daughters of Luis X,\nFelipe V and Carlos IV would have had more of a claim to the throne, above their\naunt Isabella of France.", " The attempts at making peace finally ended in spring of\n1415 and Enrique decided to execute his plan: an invasion of the entire Kingdom\nof France.", " \n\nHe also discussed the federalization of the City of Buenos Aires, the extension\nof the commercial code and the appointment of new generals to the army.", " \n\nIn 1976 he met with a friend who worked with his record label The Rocket Record\nCompany, Kiki Dee, to record what would be another remarkable success for him:\n\"Don't Go Breaking My Heart\".", " \n\nPompey took command of two legions in Capua and began to raise levies illegally,\nan act that, as was predictable, took advantage of the Caesarians who were in\nhis favor.", " César was personally informed of Pompey's actions by Curio, who at\nthat time had finished his term in office.", " Meanwhile, his place in tribune was\noccupied by Marco Antonio, who held the position until December.", " But when the\nSenate answered him definitively by prohibiting him from competing at the\nconsolate and giving him the option of either withdrawing his troops or becoming\na public enemy, he understood that, whatever alternative he chose, he would\nsurrender unarmed into the hands of his political enemies.", " On the 1st January 49\nBC, Marco Antonio read a declaration from Caesar in which the proconsul declared\nhimself a friend of peace."]}
{"id": "it_isdt-ud-test", "source": "UD_Italian-ISDT/it_isdt-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "it", "text": "Evacuata la Tate Gallery. GOTEBORG - È stata la giornata del doppio oro italiano\nai Mondiali di atletica: Negli ambienti giudiziari si tende ad accreditare la\ntesi di una leggerezza, escludendo che il militare volesse veramente mettere in\npericolo l'incolumità del presidente Scalfaro. Nuovo appello del Papa: Un ottimo\nconservatorio un valido musicista. Fanno fatica ad ammettere che una mescolanza\nmisteriosa di fattori genetici, di educazione e di stimoli ambientali, possa\nprodurre individui che sanno fare cose che essi non potranno mai nemmeno\nimmaginare. Loro non ci sarebbero mai potuti arrivare, perché la loro mente\nseguiva le strade consuete, e l'altra no, l'altra lottava contro l'impossibile.\nlo storico, paternalistico disinteresse della chiesa cattolica verso il loro\n\"genio\" è alla fine. Anche Maria, ricorda Wojtyla, \"portò il peso\" di una\nstorica emarginazione ... eppure \"il figlio di Dio non esitò a mettersi alla sua\nscuola\". Un corazziere contro Scalfaro. Il nome del carabiniere (i corazzieri\nsono infatti un reparto speciale dell'Arma) è \"top secret\", ma la vicenda è\nstata denunciata alla magistratura e il procuratore militare Antonino Intelisano\nha aperto un'inchiesta per il reato di offesa all'onore del presidente della\nRepubblica. L'altro giorno mio figlio, che ha una casetta in affitto a Palù del\nFersina, in Trentino, voleva portarlo su al fresco, perché si riposasse qualche\ngiorno, ma lui non se l'è sentita di partire. Sergio Minetto, ex volontario\nnella Repubblica di Salò, riparatore di frigoriferi, tre figli (due dei quali\nimpegnati nella sinistra), era stato arrestato nella sua abitazione il 17\nmaggio, su ordine del giudice milanese Guido Salvini. La sperimentazione\ndell'atomica ha cambiato il mondo per sempre, si disse subito dopo Hiroshima. Il\ntutto avviene con la connivenza delle autorità costituite e così uno dei Paesi\npiù ricchi del mondo è stato gettato in uno stato di povertà assoluta. I\nCastiglioni li chiamavano per scherzo \"gli africani\" e, dal paesino comasco, in\ntanti erano andati a trovarli in questi anni, laggiù. Un mese in Africa,\nlasciando a casa i genitori (Lamberti) e moglie e due figli (Cattaneo). era\npartito solo qualche mese fa. MILANO - \"Carissimi, ho ricevuto con grande\npiacere la vostra lettera e con altrettanto sento che state bene. assassini e\nomicidi sono all'ordine del giorno tra i locali; Irene venga a lezione di\ntolleranza. E la fiducia è ritornata. A quel punto può coltivare la sua passione\nper la storia militante e di lì a poco sposa la linea dei nazionalisti. Poi ha\ndovuto seguire la Slovenia. È guerra con i nemici\". una volta per sempre Bossi\nva colpito secondo la legge\". È nel suo diritto. La sinistra l'ha attaccata\nperché Pivetti non si è adeguata. Prima ho dovuto lottare con una del mio stesso\npartito, Tina Lagostena Bassi. Ma se gliene avete fatte di tutti i colori, voi\ndi Forza Italia .... Il blitz è riuscito, \"dal punto di vista tattico\"\nl'operazione è considerata già conclusa. i serbi abbandonano in massa la Krajina\nespugnata dall'esercito di Zagabria, gli ultimi croati vengono espulsi dalla\nBosnia serba per vendetta e per far posto ai nuovi arrivi; Ma già si parla di\nepurazioni e di processi contro i vinti. Ci stavano sterminando\". Sabato Mladic\naveva spedito un fax dal suo quartier generale per definire \"illegale\" la\ndecisione del presidente e invocare il sostegno dei suoi soldati. I generali si\nsono anche appellati al \"parlamento\" di Pale. \"Lui le regalò un porcellino\nsalvadanaio\". il fusto in questione non è una sconosciuta guardia del corpo o un\ncavaliere dell'empireo aristocratico, ma un eroe dell'immaginario popolare. Qui\nsolo due anni fa dominava il coprifuoco imposto dai soldati israeliani. \"Venite\nal primo circo nella storia di Gaza\", avvisano le locandine. \"Chirac, ricordati\nHiroshima\". Per quanto se ne sa, il presidente non ha inviato un messaggio al\nprimo ministro giapponese Tomiichi Murayama per l'anniversario di Hiroshima. Tra\nloro, in silenzio, c'erano cinquemila \"hibakusha\", i superstiti dell'esplosione\ndi \"Little Boy\" e di \"Fat Man\", tali erano i nomi dei due ordigni, il primo\ndestinato a Hiroshima; il secondo, tre giorni dopo, a Nagasaki. Sono state\nliberate, come auspicio di pace, come per scacciare demoni di guerra ancora\nincombenti, venticinquemila colombe che hanno innalzato verso il cielo, nelle\nscene televisive, una specie di sinfonia alata. Ma gli accenti più forti sono\nstati quelli di Takako Doi, presidente della Camera dei rappresentanti della\nDieta: I coloni torneranno a compiere occupazioni simboliche delle alture\nprospicienti i loro insediamenti. O se in gruppo, cantare cose tipo \"Bella,\nbella, bella\". Un'operazione tutt'altro che facile dato che i tre non avevano\ndocumenti e date le condizioni dei cadaveri. Il padre di lei, spalleggiato forse\ndalla moglie, gli ha sparato contro numerosi colpi d'arma da fuoco. La sua\nidentità e la sua nazionalità non sono state ancora accertate. \"È successo un\nquarto d'ora fa. Parma conquista il premio da 200 milioni. Non sarà anche colpa\ndei giudici che danno retta a troppi pentiti? Ma il \"caro nemico\" non è lui,\nquell'aggettivo non può funzionare che per Nanni Moretti, contro cui, aggiunge,\n\"in fondo ho da dire anche molte cose che avrei da dire contro me stesso: Ad\nesempio, ammira ma trova terribile l'esattezza sociologica di Ecce Bombo, che\nper molti fans di Moretti si accompagna a una nostalgia generazionale: Ed eccoci\nricascati nel \"politicamente corretto\". Ma, come ammoniva il Vangelo, chi vuol\nsalvare la propria vita, la perderà\". una serata all'Elba per Mariateresa Di\nLascia. Diefenbach, il pittore nudo. mare, spruzzi d'acqua, fluire d'onde tra\ngli scogli intarsiati dal soffio furente del vento e della pioggia. Come non\nbastasse, l'ex commissario viene a conoscenza di altri particolari inquietanti.\nSi finirà per scoprire che, prima di dedicarsi alla terza età e di sfruttare le\nperversioni dei suoi anziani ospiti, Irma ha lavorato come prostituta in un\nbordello. Basti sapere che costui uccide memore delle vespe d'autunno (ecco il\ntitolo) che, quando il loro nido va in briciole e la bella stagione muore,\n\"diventano erratiche e aggressive\". Mi provo a ripetere con la variante le frasi\ndi poco fa: \"A me questa \"Traviata\" è piaciuta molto. Franca Rame è al lavoro,\nal computer, da quando l'ha scoperto non ne fa più a meno. E sul suo film\npresentato prima a Cannes e poi qui al Festival di Locarno: Le è simpatica\nNicole Kidman? Ma va da sè che io faccio parte di quella maggioranza di\ncondomini che non saprebbe da che parte cominciare. I tecnici del mestiere\ncomunque avranno capito quello che fate la domenica mattina, quando il palazzo\nancora dorme, con spazzole, cemento e gel e, se vorranno, potranno imitarvi. La\nStefi di Grazia Nidasio. Studiando con sapienza la sua strategia, Pasqualin\nmette in circolo la suggestione Juve. Attendiamo il ritorno di Galliani per le\nopportune valutazioni\". \"Ma quella medaglia è anche inglese?\". È nella natura\ndelle cose e degli uomini. Ed è quello che hanno fatto May e Bailey. E il sogno\ncontinua con la Sidoti. Oggi tocca alle donne sui 10 chilometri, che ai Mondiali\ndi Stoccarda, 14 agosto '93, videro Ileana Salvador conquistare l'argento alle\nspalle della finlandese Essayah. atleta che non nasconde lo sforzo ma lo rende\ntanto naturale che la sua rimonta, dopo una crisi al quindicesimo chilometro,\nsembra scritta negli occhi, sotto le due tettoie di sopracciglia scure che lo\nfanno più uomo di quanto Michele non sia, più avvezzo alle emozioni di quanto\nnon sembri. non ho finito il liceo artistico, mi sono ritirato alla maturità.\nMai nessuna azzurra aveva conquistato un titolo iridato. La gara di Goteborg è\nstata un passaggio di consegne: È una scena genuina perché Fiona sulle prime non\ncapisce che si tratta del marito. L'oro di Fiona, in pratica, è stato\nconquistato già al primo salto, con 6,93; Al 35'il pareggio di Agostini. Gli\narbitri non hanno gradito la linea di condotta tenuta dalla Federcalcio e\ndall'Aia nelle ultime vicende legate alle nomine delle commissioni (con il\nsiluramento di Baldas e Capelluti) e vogliono chiarimenti sul trattamento\neconomico riservato a chi dirige in serie A e B. Gianluca Vialli ama parlare\ndella gestione del calcio e non soltanto dei suoi aspetti tecnici. O\naccontentarsi così, perché per vincere non occorre essere per forza Lewis:\nEsiste poi un progetto di legge, al quale sta lavorando l'assessore Donato\nGiordano, per giungere a una diversa organizzazione della struttura, a partire\ndalla dirigenza e dalle competenze degli assessori; Mentre Luca osservava\ndall'alto, suo padre, in quel fosso profondo quasi quattro metri, largo due e\nlungo più di dieci, ha cominciato a lavorare per mettere in posa i tubi fognari.\nIl motoscafo, un \"Draco AS\", è partito da Fiumicino e sta dirigendosi verso\nAnzio. Cimini era uscito in mare, solo, a bordo di una piccola imbarcazione, la\nsera prima. Monsignor Grillo è stato molto sensibile a nominare due esorcisti.\nQuadri, oggetti ricordo dell'Africa, qualche monile regalato alla cognata, ma\nsoprattutto un grosso pacco di lettere: i ricordi di Luigi passano di mano in\nmano, dal fratello alla cognata, dal cugino ai nipoti. Affidava le lettere a\npersone di passaggio, in viaggio verso località dove fosse possibile imbucare\".\nAl momento di scendere, spesso si rischia di cadere perché gli autisti non fanno\nalcuna attenzione e ripartono senza guardare\". Per lui, che da quasi un lustro\naspetta la nuova divisa (in pieno agosto lavora con i pantaloni invernali e una\nmaglietta grigia portata da casa), si tratta di accuse ingiustificate: Una\nMilano al 35 per cento quella della prima, calda domenica d'agosto: La Roma si\nritroverà domani pomeriggio a Trigoria per la ripresa degli allenamenti, mentre\nè previsto per domenica prossima il test di Pescara prima della pausa di\nFerragosto. Si chiama Tiziano, è svizzero e fa lo \"svizzero\" al soldo del papa.\nCi facciamo delle gran sudate. Dal 1970 è l'unico corpo militare del Vaticano.\nIl più vistoso è quello situato davanti all'ingresso della Casa dell'Artista, il\npalazzo che fino al 12 giugno ospiterà la Mostra: Esce da un grande cilindro (a\nsua volta emblematico, perché ha la forma del copricapo dell'uomo comune\ndell'Ottocento) e con le sue volute colpisce una torre fatta di soldati (lo\nStato poliziesco) sulla balaustra che sovrasta l'edificio, e li inghiotte. Ama\nla casa, il lavoro, la musica, la letteratura edificante e idilliaca, la buona\nconversazione con gli amici, che incontra con una certa regolarità anche al\ncaffè. Si formano così gruppi di costruzioni in stretta connessione fra loro.\nl'albero di Natale, la prima Comunione, scene di riunioni borghesi in casa e\nall'aria aperta, la signora davanti alla toeletta, bambini teneri e rosei,\nblandi accenni alla povertà e al dolore. Boris Podrecca, però, si è rifiutato di\nporre l'accento per l'ennesima volta su questi aspetti ben noti. \"fili\" di\nottone luccicante, \"cocci\" di vetro di diversi colori, decisi o lievi, scaglie\ndi madreperla iridescente. Recentissima anche la creazione di \"Splatter\", un\ncomposto di marmo e quarzo con una superficie che luccica secondo il variare\ndella luce. Quando si parla di piastrelle a mano non si può non citare la\nproduzione di Vietri. la prima per la terracotta, la seconda per il colore.\nOltre alle tinte unite, esistono bordure di diversi tipi, anche con suggestivi\nmotivi a rilievo. Ha la stessa durezza del granito, è antigelivo e inassorbente\n(va bene anche all'esterno ma dove non esistano pericoli di formazione di\nghiaccio che renderebbe la superficie sdrucciolevole). Se sei un tipo preciso\ncompleta il trattamento con la spazzola speciale \"Brosse pour le sein\" di Jeanne\nPiaubert, che stimola la circolazione e l'assorbimento del prodotto. La\ncellulite, infatti, ha ben poco a che vedere col grasso anche se chi ha chili di\ntroppo è più predisposta ad \"accoglierla\". Chi ha la cellulite ha una\nmuscolatura debole e il massaggio violento provocherebbe ematomi e rilasciamenti\ndei tessuti. Chiedi al computer il tuo menù. È una signora ancor bella di quasi\nsessant'anni e che da più di dieci vive in esilio a Parigi. Adesso, comunque,\nche finalmente sembra essersi decisa a parlare, è scoppiato il finimondo. Ma\nconoscono bene Carmen Castillo, la signora cilena nella cui casa, a Parigi, è\navvenuto l'incontro tra Gaston Salvatore e la Payita, e che conferma punto per\npunto l'intervista. Il mercato dell'editoria elettronica personale o editoria da\ntavolo (in inglese desktop publishing) è molto giovane con i suoi soli tre anni\ndi vita, ma è considerato nel settore dell'informatica fra i più promettenti in\nassoluto: A parte personal computer e programmi di composizione, la diminuzione\nin particolare ha riguardato le stampanti (grazie ai minori costi delle memorie\ne dei microprocessori), soprattutto fra quelle che consentono di gestire testo e\ngrafica ad alta risoluzione. Care signore così onorevoli. tra gli incarcerati\nper reati contro l'ordine pubblico la percentuale di donne cresce notevolmente e\nper i reati connessi con la tossicodipendenza il numero delle donne detenute è\nmaggiore della media generale. Le ore libere - i viaggi. Ho cominciato con 3-4\nchilometri al giorno e sono arrivato alla fine a correrne anche 20. \"Con\nl'esempio di Saverio abbiamo voluto dare un'iniezione di fiducia a tutti i\ncardiopatici, dimostrare che la vita, grazie a una buona riabilitazione, può\nessere estremamente attiva, quasi del tutto normale anche dopo un incidente\ncardiaco. Significa che sono state tagliate le vie nervose attraverso le quali è\nnormalmente regolata l'attività cardiaca. Per questo un \"trapiantato\" non riesce\nad avvertire la sensazione di cardiopalmo, non ha controllo cosciente della\nfrequenza cardiaca. Tutti gli edifici sono collegati tra loro da gallerie,\npercorse in continuazione da medici, personale di servizio e pazienti. Inutile\nguardarli. Prende l'appuntamento più di un mese prima e ci arriva generalmente\nalla vigilia degli esami. La \"Guida del paziente\" consiglia una visita al museo\ndei Mayo, situato nell'antica clinica, proprio di fronte all'enorme edificio\nbianco in cui vengono effettuati gli esami. D'altronde è proprio questo che\nsorprende il visitatore che, alla sette di mattina, è qui per il suo check-up: A\nRochester, infatti, si può benissimo affittare un appartamento o una camera in\ncase private. Nella camera d'albergo il cameriere vi porterà, su semplice\nrichiesta, un clistere. l'essenzialità, in quanto delineano e definiscono il\ncontenuto del diritto stesso; stillicidio [v. 908]). L'espropriazione è\nrealizzata attraverso un atto amministrativo; La norma prevede una sottospecie\ndi espropriazione, fondata non sulla pubblica utilità del bene, ma sul cattivo\nuso di alcuni beni da parte del proprietario, e sul danno che il cattivo uso può\narrecare alla produzione nazionale, al decoro e all'igiene nelle città. 867.\nSistemazione e rimboschimento dei terreni vincolati. Le conseguenze di carattere\namministrativo della violazione delle norme indicate dall'articolo precedente\nsono stabilite da leggi speciali. Se il vicino vuole servirsi (1) del muro\nesistente sul confine solo per innestarvi un capo del proprio muro, non ha\nl'obbligo di renderlo comune a norma dell'articolo 874, ma deve pagare una\nindennità (2) per l'innesto. lo Stato può anche costruire edifici demaniali in\naderenza con quelli dei privati. La rinunzia (3) non libera il rinunziante\ndall'obbligo delle riparazioni e ricostruzioni a cui abbia dato causa col fatto\nproprio. Ogni comproprietario può (1) alzare il muro comune, ma sono a suo\ncarico tutte le spese di costruzione e conservazione (2) della parte\nsopraedificata [903]. 889. Distanze per pozzi, cisterne, fosse e tubi. 892.\nDistanze per gli alberi. Ogni fosso interposto tra due fondi si presume comune.\nQualora per esigenze della produzione si debba provvedere ad opere di\nsistemazione degli scoli, di soppressione di ristagni o di raccolta di acque,\nl'autorità amministrativa, su richiesta della maggioranza degli interessati o\nanche d'ufficio, può costituire un consorzio tra i proprietari dei fondi che\ntraggono beneficio dalle opere stesse [863, 865]. Il costruttore che senza\nmalizia costruisce sul fondo altrui vede in definitiva premiato il suo lavoro,\ncosì come il codice tutela il lavoro dello specificatore [v. 940]. Il\nproprietario può costituire il diritto di fare e mantenere al di sopra del suolo\nuna costruzione a favore di altri, che ne acquista la proprietà [934, 1350 n. 2,\n2643 n. 2, 2810 n. 3]. Pertanto, è configurabile un contratto ad effetti\nobbligatori, qualificabile come locazione [v. 1571], in cui al conduttore si\nconcede il godimento di un terreno con facoltà di farvi delle costruzioni di cui\ngodrà fino alla fine del rapporto. 954. Estinzione del diritto di superficie. Il\ndiritto dell'enfiteuta si prescrive per effetto del non uso protratto per venti\nanni (2934 e seguenti). L'usufruttuario ha il diritto di conseguire il possesso\ndella cosa di cui ha l'usufrutto, salvo quanto è disposto dall'art. 1002.\nL'usufruttuario ha diritto a un'indennità per i miglioramenti che sussistono al\nmomento della restituzione della cosa (att. 157). Se le addizioni non possono\nsepararsi senza nocumento della cosa e costituiscono miglioramento di essa si\napplicano le disposizioni relative ai miglioramenti (att. 157). L'usufruttuario\npuò servirsi di essi soltanto per le riparazioni che sono a suo carico.\nL'usufruttuario deve restituire le cose che formano oggetto del suo diritto, al\ntermine dell'usufrutto, salvo quanto è disposto dall'art. 995 (2930).\nL'usufruttuario di un'eredità o di una quota di eredità (588) è obbligato a\npagare per intero, o in proporzione della quota, le annualità e gli interessi\ndei debiti o dei legati da cui l'eredità stessa sia gravata. 1015. Abusi\ndell'usufruttuario. Se è perito un edificio e il proprietario intende di\nricostruirlo con la somma conseguita come indennità, l'usufruttuario non può\nopporsi. Se la cosa è requisita o espropriata per pubblico interesse,\nl'usufrutto si trasferisce sull'indennità relativa (1000). Delle\nservitu'prediali. La servitù prediale consiste nel peso imposto sopra un fondo\nper l'utilità di un altro fondo appartenente a diverso proprietario (1072,\n1100). 1038. Indennità per l'imposizione della servitù. 1039. Indennità per il\npassaggio temporaneo. Se l'indennità fu convenuta in annualità, la prestazione\ncessa dall'anno successivo. 1063. Norme regolatrici. Il termine decorre dal\ngiorno in cui si è cessato di esercitarla; Le servitù costituite dall'enfiteuta\nsul fondo enfiteutico cessano quando l'enfiteusi si estingue per decorso del\ntermine, per prescrizione o per devoluzione (958, 970, 972). Della servitù di\npresa o di derivazione di acqua. Se si tratta di cose destinate a servire i\ncondomini in misura diversa, le spese sono ripartite in proporzione dell'uso che\nciascuno può farne. La prestazione che forma oggetto dell'obbligazione deve\nessere suscettibile di valutazione economica e deve corrispondere a un\ninteresse, anche non patrimoniale del creditore. Nell'adempiere l'obbligazione\nil debitore deve usare la diligenza del buon padre di famiglia. In questo caso\nl'obbligazione si estingue quando la diversa prestazione è eseguita. Il\ncreditore è in mora quando, senza il motivo legittimo, non riceve il pagamento\noffertogli nei modi indicati dagli articoli seguenti o non compie quanto è\nnecessario affinché il debitore possa adempiere l'obbligazione. Nelle\nobbligazioni che hanno per oggetto una somma di danaro, sono dovuti dal giorno\ndella mora gli interessi legali, anche se non erano dovuti precedentemente e\nanche se il creditore non prova di aver sofferto alcun danno. La restituzione\nvolontaria del titolo originale del credito, fatta dal creditore al debitore,\ncostituisce prova della liberazione anche rispetto ai condebitori in solido.\nTuttavia se gli altri fideiussori hanno consentito la liberazione, essi\nrimangono obbligati per l'intero. La compensazione non si verifica in\npregiudizio dei terzi che hanno acquistato diritti di usufrutto o di pegno su\nuno dei crediti. La difesa è diritto inviolabile in ogni stato e grado del\nprocedimento. L'imputato non è considerato colpevole sino alla condanna\ndefinitiva. La Repubblica agevola con misure economiche e altre provvidenze la\nformazione della famiglia e l'adempimento dei compiti relativi, con particolare\nriguardo alle famiglie numerose. Gli inabili ed i minorati hanno diritto\nall'educazione e all'avviamento professionale. Il diritto di voto non può essere\nlimitato se non per incapacità civile o per effetto di sentenza penale\nirrevocabile o nei casi di indegnità morale indicati dalla legge. Con la legge\ndi approvazione del bilancio non si possono stabilire nuovi tributi e nuove\nspese. Gli atti che hanno valore legislativo e gli altri indicati dalla legge\nsono controfirmati anche dal Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri. Il\nPresidente della Repubblica, prima di assumere le sue funzioni, presta\ngiuramento di fedeltà alla Repubblica e di osservanza della Costituzione dinanzi\nal Parlamento in seduta comune. Il Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri e i\nministri, prima di assumere le funzioni, prestano giuramento nelle mani del\nPresidente della Repubblica. Nell'ordinamento degli uffici sono determinate le\nsfere di competenza, le attribuzioni e le responsabilità proprie dei funzionari.\nIl Consiglio di Stato e gli altri organi di giustizia amministrativa hanno\ngiurisdizione per la tutela nei confronti della pubblica amministrazione degli\ninteressi legittimi e, in particolari materie indicate dalla legge, anche dei\ndiritti soggettivi. La colpevolezza dell'imputato non può essere provata sulla\nbase di dichiarazioni rese da chi, per libera scelta, si è sempre\nvolontariamente sottratto all'interrogatorio da parte dell'imputato o del suo\ndifensore. Il Presidente eletto nomina e revoca i componenti della Giunta. Il\nGoverno della Repubblica può promuovere la questione di legittimità\ncostituzionale sugli statuti regionali dinanzi alla Corte costituzionale entro\ntrenta giorni dalla loro pubblicazione. Una legge costituzionale stabilisce le\ncondizioni, le forme, i termini di proponibilità dei giudizi di legittimità\ncostituzionale, e le garanzie d'indipendenza dei giudici della Corte. Con legge\nordinaria sono stabilite le altre norme necessarie per la costituzione e il\nfunzionamento della Corte. Alla Regione del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, di cui\nall'art. 116, si applicano provvisoriamente le norme generali del Titolo V della\nparte seconda, ferma restando la tutela delle minoranze linguistiche in\nconformità con l'art. 6. Con l'entrata in vigore della Costituzione si ha per\nconvertito in legge il decreto legislativo luogotenenziale 25 giugno 1944, n.\n151, sull'ordinamento provvisorio dello Stato. Fino al giorno delle elezioni\ndelle nuove Camere, l'Assemblea Costituente può essere convocata, quando vi sia\nnecessità di deliberare nelle materie attribuite alla sua competenza dagli\narticoli 2, primo e secondo comma, e 3, comma primo e secondo, del decreto\nlegislativo 16 marzo 1946, n. 98. La Costituzione dovrà essere fedelmente\nosservata come Legge fondamentale della Repubblica da tutti i cittadini e dagli\norgani dello Stato. (14) Come principio generale, il consumo energetico dei\nprodotti che consumano energia in stand-by o quando sono disattivati dovrebbe\nessere ridotto al minimo necessario per il loro adeguato funzionamento. - Il\nprogramma deve essere prorogato di almeno 4 anni con lo stesso importo di\nriferimento finanziario (1 milione di EUR all'anno) e gli stessi interventi e\ndestinatari. Il perimetro della concessione è costituito dagli archi di\nmeridiano e di parallelo che collegano successivamente i vertici qui di seguito\ndefiniti dalle rispettive coordinate geografiche. c) I rifiuti solidi\nradioattivi derivanti dalle operazioni di smantellamento saranno collocati in un\ndeposito esterno al sito. Anche gli italiani hanno assaggiato la reazione\nvelenosa di Valona che nel 1915 gli accordi segreti di Londra ci assegnarono\ninsieme alla base militare sull'Isola di Saseno. Si allunga l'ombra della mafia\nsullo scandalo delle finanziarie albanesi. Se venivi colto sul fatto, ti\naspettavano otto anni di carcere. Lei sostiene che c'è un aspetto inquietante\nnella rivolta di Valona e nel crack delle finanziarie. E i soldi delle piramidi\ndove sono finiti? Giancarlo Pagliarini ha difeso le ragioni economiche della\nsecessione. rispetto a gennaio è attesa una flessione dello 0,4 per cento.\nL'idea è emersa nella riunione alla Farnesina dei sottosegretari degli Esteri\ndella Trilaterale. Successivamente verrà il turno di chi ha un capitale\ninvestito di un massimo di 10 mila dollari e, infine, tra i 10 e i 20 mila\ndollari. Riesplode la questione albanese. Mentre Tirana si risveglia\nrecriminando con rabbia dal sogno drogato delle 'piramidi finanziarie', in uno\ndei cento caffè del boulevard principale della capitale albanese Mehemet, nome\ndi battaglia di un rappresentante dell'Esercito di liberazione del Kosovo (Uck),\nripete le stesse parole minacciose e le accompagna mostrando il giornale\nclandestino Clirimi (Liberazione) e i bollettini di rivendicazione di alcune\nrecenti sanguinose azioni terroristiche. Gli emigrati versano il 3% dello\nstipendio in un fondo speciale che va al Governo autoproclamato del Kosovo e\nanche a noi. Liri Avdekie, Libertà o Morte, è il motto in albanese dell'esercito\nkosovaro ma in Serbia i nazionalisti di Milosevic e anche l'opinione pubblica\nsono concordi. Una decina di morti, 30 feriti, il Sud nell'anarchia isolato dal\nresto del Paese. A Scutari c'era la più alta densità di benzinai d'Europa per\nchilometro quadrato che vendevano alla Federazione di Milosevic carburante\nquotato 20 marchi al litro sulle strade di Belgrado. Vi è andata bene, se\neravate inglesi o americani sapevamo noi come trattarvi. Valona, Saranda e il\nSud sono fuori controllo ma l'operazione militare per riconquistarle è già\niniziata, dichiara il ministro degli Esteri Tritan Sheu, che si fa intervistare\npoco dopo la scontata rielezione alla presidenza di Sali Berisha, confermato per\naltri cinque anni da un Parlamento freneticamente plaudente e dominato dal\nPartito democratico, vincitore delle contestate elezioni del maggio scorso. Dopo\ni calci e i pugni di domenica davanti al Parlamento, la sede del Club della\nstampa è stata devastata e incendiata. difficoltà a trovare partner locali\naffidabili; L'intera operazione, in pieno accordo con le autorità albanesi, è\ndurata un paio di ore. E di fronte al deteriorarsi della situazione in Albania,\nsi apprende che la Farnesina è tornata ieri a ribadire al neo eletto presidente\nSali Berisha l'importanza della costituzione, in tempi brevi, di un Governo\nampiamente rappresentativo delle forze politiche albanesi. Un altro messaggio è\nstato inviato al presidente del Consiglio dell'Unione, Hans Van Mierlo, per\nsollecitare la convocazione straordinaria del Comitato politico, che avrebbe\nluogo domani a Bruxelles. 'La causa degli albanesi è la mia'. Tempi duri a\nTirana per i partiti che dal maggio scorso contestano la larghissima vittoria\nelettorale del Centro-destra disertando il Parlamento. una manifestazione di\ncirca 200 persone, inscenata davanti al vecchio stadio dove domenica scorsa\nerano cominciati i disordini più violenti, ieri è stata facilmente dispersa\ndalla polizia, senza ricorrere a metodi pesanti. Alla vox populi Berisha\nrisponde adesso evocando lo spettro della Segurimi, la polizia segreta del\ndefunto regime comunista che al tempo dello stalinismo ferreo di Enver Hoxha\naveva al servizio 5.000 delatori su tre milioni di albanesi. Un crack\nfinanziario scatena l'opposizione. In 500 mila, un albanese su sette, hanno\nscommesso su questa pesca miracolosa con la promessa di rendimenti mensili sul\ncapitale versato dal 30% al 50%, in un Paese in cui l'inflazione ufficiale è del\n20% l'anno e il reddito medio pro capite non supera i 700 dollari. Le indagini,\ncondotte dal Comando carabinieri politiche agricole di Roma e dai Comandi\nprovinciali della Guardia di finanza di Catanzaro e Reggio Calabria sono state\ncoordinate dalla Procura della Repubblica di Palmi. Ci ha messo freddezza nel\nrealizzare il rigore del 2-1, tirandolo sulla sinistra del portiere Manninger,\npoi sulla destra, nella ripetizione imposta perché troppa gente era entrata in\narea. Ciascuno ne tragga il significato che crede sullo stato del pallone.\nSarebbe stata probabilmente un'altra storia se Negro avesse raddoppiato in avvio\ndi ripresa con un colpo di tacco nell'angolo basso, dove Julio Cesar arrivava\nmiracolosamente col piede come un portiere da calcetto. Nell'1 si troveranno lo\nstand del paese ospite, la Lituania, e, oltre alla Sala rossa, un'altra novità\ncreata in occasione delle venti candeline: Intanto il caso della pantera è\ndiventato un'emergenza. Il sindaco si è fatto promotore di una mini\ncampagna-stampa sulla pantera, dalla Rai regionale a Telestudio ai giornali.\nBonino e Pannella in campo per la sfida delle Regionali. Ma la novità di ieri\nsono i radicali, che dopo la rabbia per il taglio della Consulta ai loro\nreferendum sociali, rilanciano con 15 candidature «pesanti», nell'intento di\nrilanciare anche la battaglia referendaria. «Non ho preclusioni ideologiche»,\nspiega. E chi lo conosce da una vita non si rassegna all'assenza e si aspetta\nsempre di vederlo così come gli era apparso la prima volta a Bahia, luminoso in\nuna camicia fiorita, circondato dalla sua piccola corte di pittori popolari, di\nbaiane biancoridenti, di cantori di samba e di ieratici negri, padri e madri \"de\nsanto\" nei terreiros del candomblè. Durante i lavori si parlerà di riforme\neconomiche, di modifiche per la struttura del partito e del congresso\nstraordinario che il prossimo gennaio dovrà definire i mutamenti da apportare\nalla Costituzione in vista dell'introduzione di un sistema che rifletta le\ndemocrazie occidentali. Oggi a Torino Jackson il puro del rock Ci sono concerti\nche ti lasciano indifferente, altri che non vedi l'ora che finiscano, altri che\nquando finiscono si va via senza rimpianti. parla del suo nuovo film \"Ultima\nfermata Brooklyn\", tratto dal romanzo scandalo di Hubert Selby, come di una\ncreatura vivente, il frutto di un parto lungo e travagliato che oggi ha\nfinalmente visto la luce. E visto che come caratteristiche Bianchi è uomo di\nfascia ben più di Sordo, cioè nel suo naturale atteggiamento tattico in campo\nrassomiglia maggiormente a Policano, ecco che la sua candidatura prende quota.\nVede che strani corsi e ricorsi? Record di presenze al Lingotto per la mostra\nsull'arte russa e sovietica. All'interno della maggioranza rossoverde c'è una\nfaglia che non si chiama di Sant'Andrea, come quella di Los Angeles, ma\nSieroterapico. Fuoristrada con lo smoking di rigore. Dopo due settimane di\nprogrammazione, però, ha dovuto vedersela con «Lethal Weapon II», sempre della\nWarner Bros, che aveva totalizzato in 14 giorni 100 miliardi. Prima di farci\nvedere gli scaffali di libri preziosi della biblioteca e l'onesta chiara faccia\ndell'onorevole Tina Anselmi, ci mostra una catasta di legna su un terrazzo\nromano. sicchè un bel giorno si udì la notizia che nella notte erano arrivati i\ncompagni d'arme e ognuno poteva andare a vederli nello stallatico. Il 19\nnovembre i berlinesi saranno chiamati a manifestare per la libertà di stampa. E\nqui Baudo, chiamato a Raitre dal direttore Angelo Guglielmi non solo per fare\nascolto ma anche per convincere i più riottosi tra i teleutenti a comprare\nl'antenna supplementare indispensabile in alcune zone per ricevere il segnale\ndella rete e lasciarle quindi in eredità un cospicuo patrimonio aggiuntivo di\nspettatori tecnologicamente attrezzati, spiega la sua teoria. Il 7 settembre\n1439 è citato come allievo di Domenico Veneziano nella commissione degli\naffreschi, oggi perduti, per le Storie della Vergine nel coro della chiesa di\nSant'Egidio. i sei santi laterali e le sette tavolette che costituiscono la\npredella sono invece opera dello sconosciuto allievo. Nel 1467 a Perugia eseguì\nper conto delle suore terziarie del convento di Sant'Antonio un polittico, dove\nall'impostazione tardogotica voluta dalla committenza, si contrappone nella\ncimasa, un'annunciazione di chiaro stampo rinascimentale, che evidenzia il\nsapiente uso dell'arte prospettica nelle strutture architettoniche, palesando\nuna conoscenza delle opere e dei postulati architettonici formulati qualche anno\naddietro da Filippo Brunelleschi e Leon Battista Alberti. Si è ispirato alla\nlezione euclidea per l'ordine logico delle espressioni e per i riferimenti e per\nl'uso coordinato e complesso dei teoremi, mentre è stato vicino alle esigenze\ndei tecnici per la determinatezza delle figure trattate, solide e poliedriche, e\nper l'assenza di dimostrazioni classiche e per l'uso di regole aritmetiche e\nalgebriche applicate ai calcoli. Nel 1999 la band non volendo più essere\netichettata come una semplice \"melodic death metal band\" intraprende la via\ndella sperimentazione. Con Projector il gruppo approda a sonorità quasi\ntotalmente melodiche, alternando un metal energico e tagliente a parti più\nmeditate, atmosferiche, con anche vocals in canto pulito. L'album riscuote un\nalto successo, ma divide i fan, fra chi apprezza il nuovo corso e chi li accusa\ndi aver rinnegato le origini. una evoluzione di questa tecnica permetteva di far\napparire falsi bersagli multipli sugli schermi radar, allineati lungo la\nradiale. Tutti gli altri radar dello scenario continuano a funzionare\nregolarmente. La maggior parte dei dispositivi commercializzati con il nome di\n\"radar jammer\", in realtà non utilizza tecniche di accecamento del radar di\nmisura, ma si limita a disturbare il rilevamento, creando un errore che porta ad\nuna lettura corrispondente ad una velocità minore. Specchi progettò la fontana\nnel 1711, nelle immediate vicinanze del preesistente Santuario della Madonna\ndella Neve, per volere di Livio de Carolis, marchese di Prossedi e Generale\ndelle Poste pontificie. La sua prima comparsa viene generalmente identificata in\nun articolo del 1905, presentato a un convegno sulla salute pubblica. Lo smog\nfotochimico viene anche chiamato smog estivo o smog di Los Angeles perché più\ncomune nei climi caldi e asciutti, come accade tipicamente nella città di Los\nAngeles (i primi casi di smog fotochimico vennero segnalati intorno al 1940 a\nLos Angeles). Yamanote-sen è scritto ufficialmente senza kana \"no\" (の o ノ),\nrendendo la sua pronuncia ambigua. Infatti il tentativo di Broglio di continuare\nla collaborazione con la NASA per il lancio di altri satelliti dalla base in\nKenya si rivelò un successo solo parziale a causa del progressivo affermarsi del\nprogramma Space Shuttle e la riduzione d'interesse per il lancio di satelliti di\npiccole dimensioni. Le attività incluse nel primo progetto di elaborazione di\nimmagini satellitari sono il Global Monitoring for Security and Sustenaibility\n(GMOSS), il System for Fire Detection (SFIDE), le Southern Hemisphere Additional\nOzonesondes (SHADOZ) e il Central-East Africa Satellite Monitoring (CEASMO).\nL'insieme di tutte queste operazioni viene chiamato stigliatura. La lana che si\nricava si chiama lana di concia. è rivestita esternamente da squame e presenta\nnumerose ondulazioni elastiche, origine della caratteristica arricciatura. La\ntrasformazione, che comprende filatura, tessitura e le altre operazioni\ncollegate, è stata per secoli prerogativa europea, con Inghilterra e Italia in\ntesta. Il terzo originale è firmato dal vettore e da questo consegnato al\nmittente dopo aver preso in consegna la merce. considerando che un termine di\nprescrizione uniforme dell'azione di risarcimento è nell'interesse sia del\ndanneggiato sia del produttore; Quando è stato consegnato il premio Nobel per la\npace a Yasser Arafat? Dove si tiene il Motorshow? Chi è Jean-Bertrand Aristide?\nCome si forma l'ozono? In quale giorno cade il solstizio d'estate? Come funziona\nla risonanza magnetica? Di che cosa sono fatti i cavi in fibra ottica? Chi\ninterpreta il ruolo di una prostituta in \"Taxi Driver\"? Da quale paese viene il\ntango? Qual è la sigla per Amnesty International? Che cosa ha influenzato\nl'\"effetto Tequila\"? Cosa si può trovare al \"Chester Beatty\"? Che cosa ha\ninventato il Barone Marcel Bich? Che giorno è l'anniversario della scoperta\ndell'America? Chi era il presidente degli Stati Uniti nel 1994? In quale città\nitaliana si trova la fontana di Trevi? Chi è il fondatore del canale di notizie\nCNN? Qual è il titolo dell'autobiografia di Nelson Mandela? Come si chiama la\nvedova di Samora Machel, il defunto presidente del Mozambico? Dimmi il nome di\nuno dei fondatori di Greenpeace. Chi è Joao Havelange? Che cosa ha ritirato la\nSaab? Quale porzione del fatturato della HP viene realizzato in Europa? Come si\nsono leggermente ferite 22 persone nell'Empire State Building? Chi è\nl'architetto del museo Guggenheim di Bilbao? Come si chiama il partito di Silvio\nBerlusconi? Di quale paese Egor Gadar è stato primo ministro? Quanti film sono\nstati presentati al Festival mondiale del cinema di Montreal? Che lavoro faceva\nDanny Barker? Di quale squadra automobilistica è direttore Flavio Briatore? Chi\nera il marito di Vieira da Silva? Chi è il ministro dell'ambiente svedese?\nQuando morì Simon Bolivar? Quale importante fenomeno del Sud Pacifico influenza\nil clima mondiale? Quante persone, in tutta la UE, hanno diritto di voto per\neleggere il nuovo Parlamento Europeo? Chi è il capo del Sinn Fein? Chi è il\nfondatore dell'Ordine del Tempio Solare? Quando avvenne il disastro di\nChernobyl? Chi è il Ministro degli Esteri italiano? Quando Hong Kong passerà\nalla Cina? Quale Primo Ministro francese si suicidò negli anni 90? Dove vennero\nutilizzati i caccia Strike Eagles nel 1990? Quando è stato girato il film\n\"Giochi di Guerra\" (\"WarGames\")? Nomina una canzone dei Nirvana. Quante persone\nmorirono nell'incidente aereo del 1972 nelle Everglades? Quando l'Unione\nSovietica invase l'Afghanistan? Quanto è lungo il fiume Okavango? Quando ci fu\nla sparatoria a Columbine? Quanti stati erano ancora uniti dopo la secessione\ndegli stati del sud? Dove venne costruito il primo Mcdonalds? Il disastro di\nHindenburg avvenne nel 1937 in quale città del New Jersey? Dove si trova il\npunto più elevato della Terra? Qual è l'inno nazionale in Inghilterra? Quanto\nera alta Judy Garland? Qual è il paese col più alto numero di abitanti al mondo?\nIn che anno venne inventato il PC? Chi diede inizio alla Riforma Protestante?\nQual è la percentuale della popolazione mancina? Come si chiama la moneta usata\nin Bolivia? Quando ci fu l'invasione statunitense di Haiti? Qual è l'ingrediente\nattivo nel tilenolo? Come si chiama la famosa competizione di slitta trainata da\ncani che si tiene ogni anno in Alaska? Quanto si stima che costeranno le\nstazioni spaziali internazionali? Come dici \"patatine fritte\" in francese? Che\npremio vinse nel 1963 il libro di Sterling North \"Rascal\"? Come si dice \"maiale\"\nin spagnolo? Quanto è vecchio l'universo? Come viene chiamato un gruppo di\nantilopi? In quale anno venne costruito Ebbets Field, la sede dei Brooklin\nDodgers? Quale stato venne istituito nel 1948? Qual è il soprannome\ndell'Oklahoma? Dimmi dove si trova la compagnia DuPont. Chi è Alberto Tomba?\nQual è la popolazione dell'Islanda? Quale velocità può raggiungere un\nsottomarino nucleare? Quale membrana controlla la quantità di luce che entra\nnell'occhio? Come vengono chiamate le persone nate dal 1965 al 1980? Qual è il\nnome dello stadio dei Cav? Qual è lo stato con la minore popolazione? Elenca\ndelle cantanti che hanno recitato la parte di Donna Elvira in messe in scena del\n\"Don Giovanni\" di Mozart. Quale animale ha le impronte digitali simili a quelle\numane? Qual è il motto del \"New York Times\"? A quale azienda appartiene il\nmarchio di bevande non alcoliche \"Gatorade\"? Quali paesi ha visitato la first\nlady Hillary Clinton? In quale provincia canadese si trova il maggior numero di\npersone di origine francese? Da quale gas è composto il 78 percento\ndell'atmosfera terrestre? In quale giorno affondò il Lusitania? Che cos'è L'A?\nIn quale giorno avvenne l'attacco a Pearl Harbor? Quando Panama si vide\nrestituire il Canale di Panama? In che modo le Hawaii divennero uno stato? Da\nquale animale si ricava il \"veal\"? Quante fossette ha una pallina regolamentare\nda golf? Da quale paese proveniva Marco Polo? Chi è Niels Bohr? Da quante\nrepubbliche era composta l'Unione Sovietica? A quanto corrisponde uno \"stone\"\ninglese? Dove si trova il Monte Olimpo? Quale ingegnere progettò il Canale Erie?\nQuale attrice recitava il ruolo di Betsy nel \"Matrimonio di Betsy\"? Chi hanno\nincontrato i Rossi? Su chi puntano i Repubblicani per vincere? Che cosa ha\ncolpito la città? Cosa ha travolto gli alberi? Cosa viene prodotto dalla Oracle?\nChe cosa fanno gli antiossidanti? In quanti hanno risposto? Quando l'Austria ha\nfirmato il trattato? Con le accuse di peculato e abuso d'ufficio, il procuratore\ncapo di Cassino, Mario Mercone, ha chiesto il rinvio a giudizio dell'ex\nconsigliere regionale del Pdl Angelo D'Ovidio, sindaco di Pastena per oltre\nventi anni, in relazione all'incarico di commissario del Consorzio per il\npatrimonio speleologico delle grotte di Pastena e Collepardo, costituito tra i\ndue Comuni della Ciociaria. Tra gli indagati Francesco Rossi e Paolo Bianchi. Ma\nquei soldi, per i pm di Palermo, sono frutto di un reato, ed è per questo che\nMiranda Ratti, la moglie del politico siciliano, è stata iscritta nel registro\ndegli indagati dalla procura di Palermo per riciclaggio aggravato nell'ambito\ndell'inchiesta sulla presunta estorsione che il fondatore di Forza Italia\navrebbe fatto all'ex premier. Per l'ex ministro Scajola i pm napoletani\nipotizzano il reato di corruzione internazionale. è già avvenuto in Lombardia,\ndove la crisi ha spinto la Regione a liberalizzare le promozioni non solo a\ndicembre ma tutto l'anno. prima che l'inchiesta colpisse addirittura il vertice\ndi Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, indagato nell'ambito di un altro filone, poi\ntrasferito da Napoli a Busto Arstizio. E non dimentichiamo che secondo Borgogni\nè stata assunta anche la figlia di Massimo Ponzellini. Altre tre persone, tra\ncui Marco Tornatore, figlio di Gianfranco, sono indagate a piede libero.\nEmergono intercettazioni in cui il manager Pozzessere al telefono con una delle\nconsulenti di Finmeccanica, Debbie Castaneda, parla con disinvoltura di accordi\ne di quote. “Nell’incidente ha sbattuto la parte destra della testa. Non\npossiamo però speculare su eventuali lesioni permanenti o sulle sue chance di\nsopravvivenza. Certo, – ha sottolineato Bergoglio – chi è investito di autorità\nha maggiore responsabilità, ma ciascuno è corresponsabile, nel bene e nel male”.\nLe ricerche dei bambini, quindi, sono proseguite tutta la notte e, oltre ai cani\nmolecolari, sono stati utilizzati anche un elicottero della forestale e uno\ndella Guardia di finanza che hanno pattugliato la zona dall’alto. \n\nFiat acquisirà restante 41,46% di Chrysler per 3,6 miliardi. Dello stesso tenore\nil commento del sindaco di Torino Piero Fassino: Francamente vorrei cose più\nserie per iniziare il 2014 ″, aggiunge. Altri utenti, invece, si sono profusi in\nuna serie di apprezzamenti all’iniziativa di Grillo. \n\nAttribuzione - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.0 (Italia). Ogni utilizzazione\ndell'opera che non sia autorizzata ai sensi della presente licenza o del diritto\nd'autore è proibita. Compensi per la comunicazione al pubblico dell'opera\nmediante fonogrammi. Salvo che sia espressamente convenuto altrimenti per\niscritto fra le parti, il Licenziante offre l'opera in licenza \"così com'è\" e\nnon fornisce alcuna dichiarazione o garanzia di qualsiasi tipo con riguardo\nall'opera, sia essa espressa od implicita, di fonte legale o di altro tipo,\nessendo quindi escluse, fra le altre, le garanzie relative al titolo, alla\ncommerciabilità, all'idoneità per un fine specifico e alla non violazione di\ndiritti di terzi o alla mancanza di difetti latenti o di altro tipo,\nall'esattezza od alla presenza di errori, siano essi accertabili o meno.\nCreative Commons non è parte della presente licenza e non dà alcuna garanzia\nconnessa all'opera. Secondo me, questa seconda ipotesi significherebbe\nrinunciare alle nostre responsabilità di parlamento, oltre a introdurre una tesi\noriginale, un metodo finora sconosciuto che consiste nel distribuire per\niscritto ai gruppi politici il discorso programmatico della commissione una\nsettimana prima - e non il giorno prima, come era stato concordato. Come è noto,\nciascun presidente dispone di un numero di voti pari al numero dei deputati\niscritti al proprio gruppo politico. Ciò significa che tutti i gruppi politici,\nad eccezione dei non iscritti - che però non costituiscono un gruppo politico -,\nerano concordi e che un solo gruppo era del parere di procedere come proposto\ndal collega in questa sede. Di recente il tema della sicurezza dei trasporti è\nstato tristemente al centro dell'attenzione dei mass media con l'incidente\nferroviario alla stazione di Paddington a Londra, il terribile incidente\nferroviario in Norvegia, i due incidenti aerei in cui hanno perso la vita alcuni\ncittadini dell'unione e il disastro ecologico provocato dalla petroliera Erika\nal largo della costa bretone. Credo tuttavia che occorra fare tutto ciò che\nrientra nelle nostre possibilità per limitare il più possibile il trasporto di\nmerci pericolose in tutti i paesi, siano essi di transito o meno. Spero che la\nmia proposta venga presa in considerazione nel corso della votazione di domani.\nVorrei chiedere alla vicepresidente se oggi è in grado di dirci qualcosa sullo\nstato di avanzamento degli sforzi di armonizzazione da parte delle due\norganizzazioni summenzionate e se l'Unione Europea ha la possibilità di\naccelerare l'armonizzazione adottando principi il più possibile semplici. Sono\nstati inseriti numerosissimi dettagli, che erano emersi già nelle relazioni\nprecedenti. si tratta di una lunga storia, che si trascina almeno da quando sono\nstato eletto al parlamento, cinque anni fa, tant ' è vero che ho già trattato\nquesto argomento a più riprese. Signor presidente, anch'io mi voglio\ncomplimentare con il relatore per l'ottimo lavoro svolto. Ogni individuo ha\ndiritto di lasciare qualsiasi paese, incluso il proprio, e di ritornare nel\nproprio paese. Uomini e donne in età adatta hanno il diritto di sposarsi e di\nfondare una famiglia, senza alcuna limitazione di razza, cittadinanza o\nreligione. In questo modo sono aumentate le opportunità di diffusione e\nl'azienda ha sviluppato una campagna pubblicitaria vincente. Per rivolgersi ai\ndestinatari interessati, Ana ha usato un insieme di parole chiave che si\nrivolgeva agli amanti dei viaggi e della cultura giapponese, sviluppando poi\ncontenuti creativi adatti a catturare l'attenzione dei destinatari. Se non vedi\nil pulsante, non puoi attivare la ricezione degli aggiornamenti. Hai già una\nPagina Facebook? \"Era sicuramente consapevole in modo distaccato di essere stata\ndata a un vecchio marito come ricompensa per i servizi professionali di\nquest'ultimo a un amico della sua famiglia e che il capitale proveniva dalla sua\nparte. Pianificò di divenire lui stesso questo candidato, facendo appello\nsoprattutto alle classi più elevate di Chinon. Nonostante Balzac fosse \"talvolta\nun eremita e un girovago\", ha sempre provato a rimanere in contatto con la\nsocietà che forniva materiale per il suo lavoro. La salute di lui peggiorò lungo\nil cammino, e Ewelina scrisse a sua figlia che Balzac era \"in uno stato di\nestrema debolezza\" e \"sudava copiosamente\". Sua madre era la sola persona\npresente quando egli spirò; Come fece con la gente attorno a sè, Balzac studiò\nin profondità quei luoghi, viaggiando in luoghi remoti e prendendo nota di ciò\nche aveva fatto nelle visite precedenti. \"L'artista della Comédie Humaine\", egli\nscrisse, \"è semi-sommerso dallo storico. \"Balzac ricevette alti elogi da critici\ncosì diversi come Walter Benjamin e Camille Paglia. L'epitaffio inciso sulla\nlastra di roccia che copre la tomba racchiude una maledizione su chiunque oserà\nspostare le sue ossa, cosa che venne accuratamente evitata durante i lavori di\nrestauro della chiesa nel 2008. Shakespeare collaborò ad altre due opere ancora\noggi conosciute, Enrico VIII e i due nobili congiunti, probabilmente con John\nFletcher. mamma infelice, tutti infelici. Queste aziende introducono infatti\nnuove importazioni tecnologicamente avanzate e nuove tecniche gestionali che\nincoraggiano la crescita delle aziende nazionali, esortando dall'altra parte il\nprocesso di modernizzazione industriale. I farmaci, per quanto accessibili, non\nhanno alcun valore se non c'è nessuno a prescriverli o a somministrarli. Feb 26,\n2014. Anche in questo caso, la Germania dovrebbe prendere il comando. restando\nimpantanata nella carenza di risparmio ma ritrovandosi senza prodotti né\ncapitali cinesi, l'America rischia di andare incontro a un aumento\ndell'inflazione e dei tassi di interesse, e a un indebolimento del dollaro. È\nalquanto esplicativo che la maggior parte dei 47 partecipanti al simposio -\ninfluenti figure del settore pubblico e privato di tutto il mondo - non erano a\nconoscenza del grado in cui l'alimentazione di una madre influenza il benessere\ndella sua prole. La sua è una storia di successo che può, e anzi deve, essere\nreplicata in tutto il continente. In realtà, l'amministrazione ha cercato di\nrendere il Fmi più interessante, soprattutto per incoraggiare i repubblicani\ndella Camera dei rappresentanti a sostenere le riforme. La Germania apprezza\nquesto ruolo, ma non è in grado di esercitarlo. La repubblica di Bulgaria e la\nRomania diventano membri dell'Unione Europea. Le disposizioni di tale atto\ncostituiscono parte integrante del presente trattato. Il presente trattato è\nratificato dalle Alte parti contraenti secondo le rispettive norme\ncostituzionali. Gli strumenti di ratifica sono depositati presso il governo\ndella Repubblica italiana al più tardi il 31 dicembre 2006. Se tale decisione è\nadottata nei confronti di uno solo degli stati aderenti il presente trattato\nentra in vigore per tale stato il 1 ° gennaio 2008. Il testo del trattato che\nadotta una costituzione per l'Europa, redatto in lingua bulgara e rumena, è\naccluso al presente trattato. Essa presenta un progetto dei protocolli al\nconsiglio per la conclusione. Il consiglio delibera all'unanimità previa\nconsultazione del parlamento europeo. I contratti relativi alle azioni a titolo\ndi tali programmi dovranno essere assegnati entro i due anni successivi. Non è\nconcessa alcuna proroga del periodo per l'assegnazione dei contratti. Proroghe\nlimitate della durata possono essere concesse per l'esecuzione dei contratti, in\nvia eccezionale e in casi debitamente giustificati. Non si applicano tuttavia le\ndisposizioni previste all'articolo 165 del regolamento finanziario applicabile\nal bilancio generale delle comunità europee. Il comitato adotta il proprio\nregolamento interno. Il primo giorno lavorativo di ciascun mese del\ncorrispondente anno viene corrisposto alla Bulgaria e alla Romania un dodicesimo\ndi ciascun importo annuale. Tutti i fondi inutilizzati o spesi\ningiustificatamente sono recuperati dalla commissione. La commissione può\nadottare qualsiasi provvedimento tecnico necessario al funzionamento dello\nstrumento temporaneo per i flussi di tesoreria e strumento Schengen. Nella\nscelta di tali misure si dovrà accordare la precedenza a quelle che turbino il\nmeno possibile il funzionamento del mercato interno. Le misure non sono\nmantenute oltre il tempo strettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di\nessere applicate una volta attuato l'impegno pertinente. Esse possono tuttavia\nessere applicate oltre il periodo specificato nel primo comma fino a che non\nsiano adempiuti i pertinenti impegni. Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate\noltre il periodo specificato nel primo comma finché tali carenze persistono. Il\nparlamento europeo apporta al suo regolamento interno gli adattamenti resi\nnecessari dall'adesione. Un cittadino di ogni nuovo stato membro è nominato\nmembro della commissione a partire dalla data dell'adesione. Questo giudice è\nestratto a sorte. Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 6 ottobre 2012. Il\nmandato dell'altro giudice scade il 31 agosto 2010. Il tribunale, di concerto\ncon la corte di giustizia, apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli\nadattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione. I regolamenti di procedura così\nadattati sono sottoposti all'approvazione del consiglio. Il mandato dei membri\nrecentemente nominati scade contemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in\ncarica al momento dell'adesione. Le misure sono adottate in conformità delle\nregole di voto che disciplinano l'adozione dell'atto rispetto al quale si chiede\nuna deroga temporanea. Tali adattamenti, se adottati dopo l'adesione, sono\napplicabili dalla data di adesione. Il testo del suddetto trattato, redatto in\nlingua bulgara e rumena, è allegato al presente protocollo. È istituita una\nsuperficie di base nazionale per ciascuno stato membro produttore. Tuttavia, per\nla Francia sono istituite due superfici di base. È fissata una superficie\nmassima garantita, pari a 829229 ettari. 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nemmeno\nimmaginare.", " Loro non ci sarebbero mai potuti arrivare, perché la loro mente\nseguiva le strade consuete, e l'altra no, l'altra lottava contro l'impossibile.", "\nlo storico, paternalistico disinteresse della chiesa cattolica verso il loro\n\"genio\" è alla fine.", " Anche Maria, ricorda Wojtyla, \"portò il peso\" di una\nstorica emarginazione ... eppure \"il figlio di Dio non esitò a mettersi alla sua\nscuola\".", " Un corazziere contro Scalfaro.", " Il nome del carabiniere (i corazzieri\nsono infatti un reparto speciale dell'Arma) è \"top secret\", ma la vicenda è\nstata denunciata alla magistratura e il procuratore militare Antonino Intelisano\nha aperto un'inchiesta per il reato di offesa all'onore del presidente della\nRepubblica.", " L'altro giorno mio figlio, che ha una casetta in affitto a Palù del\nFersina, in Trentino, voleva portarlo su al fresco, perché si riposasse qualche\ngiorno, ma lui non se l'è sentita di partire.", " Sergio Minetto, ex volontario\nnella Repubblica di Salò, riparatore di frigoriferi, tre figli (due dei quali\nimpegnati nella sinistra), era stato arrestato nella sua abitazione il 17\nmaggio, su ordine del giudice milanese Guido Salvini.", " La sperimentazione\ndell'atomica ha cambiato il mondo per sempre, si disse subito dopo Hiroshima.", " Il\ntutto avviene con la connivenza delle autorità costituite e così uno dei Paesi\npiù ricchi del mondo è stato gettato in uno stato di povertà assoluta.", " I\nCastiglioni li chiamavano per scherzo \"gli africani\" e, dal paesino comasco, in\ntanti erano andati a trovarli in questi anni, laggiù.", " Un mese in Africa,\nlasciando a casa i genitori (Lamberti) e moglie e due figli (Cattaneo).", " era\npartito solo qualche mese fa.", " MILANO - \"Carissimi, ho ricevuto con grande\npiacere la vostra lettera e con altrettanto sento che state bene.", " assassini e\nomicidi sono all'ordine del giorno tra i locali;", " Irene venga a lezione di\ntolleranza.", " E la fiducia è ritornata.", " A quel punto può coltivare la sua passione\nper la storia militante e di lì a poco sposa la linea dei nazionalisti.", " Poi ha\ndovuto seguire la Slovenia.", " È guerra con i nemici\".", " una volta per sempre Bossi\nva colpito secondo la legge\".", " È nel suo diritto.", " La sinistra l'ha attaccata\nperché Pivetti non si è adeguata.", " Prima ho dovuto lottare con una del mio stesso\npartito, Tina Lagostena Bassi.", " Ma se gliene avete fatte di tutti i colori, voi\ndi Forza Italia ....", " Il blitz è riuscito, \"dal punto di vista tattico\"\nl'operazione è considerata già conclusa.", " i serbi abbandonano in massa la Krajina\nespugnata dall'esercito di Zagabria, gli ultimi croati vengono espulsi dalla\nBosnia serba per vendetta e per far posto ai nuovi arrivi;", " Ma già si parla di\nepurazioni e di processi contro i vinti.", " Ci stavano sterminando\".", " Sabato Mladic\naveva spedito un fax dal suo quartier generale per definire \"illegale\" la\ndecisione del presidente e invocare il sostegno dei suoi soldati.", " I generali si\nsono anche appellati al \"parlamento\" di Pale.", " \"Lui le regalò un porcellino\nsalvadanaio\".", " il fusto in questione non è una sconosciuta guardia del corpo o un\ncavaliere dell'empireo aristocratico, ma un eroe dell'immaginario popolare.", " Qui\nsolo due anni fa dominava il coprifuoco imposto dai soldati israeliani.", " \"Venite\nal primo circo nella storia di Gaza\", avvisano le locandine.", " \"Chirac, ricordati\nHiroshima\".", " Per quanto se ne sa, il presidente non ha inviato un messaggio al\nprimo ministro giapponese Tomiichi Murayama per l'anniversario di Hiroshima.", " Tra\nloro, in silenzio, c'erano cinquemila \"hibakusha\", i superstiti dell'esplosione\ndi \"Little Boy\" e di \"Fat Man\", tali erano i nomi dei due ordigni, il primo\ndestinato a Hiroshima; il secondo, tre giorni dopo, a Nagasaki.", " Sono state\nliberate, come auspicio di pace, come per scacciare demoni di guerra ancora\nincombenti, venticinquemila colombe che hanno innalzato verso il cielo, nelle\nscene televisive, una specie di sinfonia alata.", " Ma gli accenti più forti sono\nstati quelli di Takako Doi, presidente della Camera dei rappresentanti della\nDieta:", " I coloni torneranno a compiere occupazioni simboliche delle alture\nprospicienti i loro insediamenti.", " O se in gruppo, cantare cose tipo \"Bella,\nbella, bella\".", " Un'operazione tutt'altro che facile dato che i tre non avevano\ndocumenti e date le condizioni dei cadaveri.", " Il padre di lei, spalleggiato forse\ndalla moglie, gli ha sparato contro numerosi colpi d'arma da fuoco.", " La sua\nidentità e la sua nazionalità non sono state ancora accertate.", " \"È successo un\nquarto d'ora fa.", " Parma conquista il premio da 200 milioni.", " Non sarà anche colpa\ndei giudici che danno retta a troppi pentiti?", " Ma il \"caro nemico\" non è lui,\nquell'aggettivo non può funzionare che per Nanni Moretti, contro cui, aggiunge,\n\"in fondo ho da dire anche molte cose che avrei da dire contro me stesso:", " Ad\nesempio, ammira ma trova terribile l'esattezza sociologica di Ecce Bombo, che\nper molti fans di Moretti si accompagna a una nostalgia generazionale:", " Ed eccoci\nricascati nel \"politicamente corretto\".", " Ma, come ammoniva il Vangelo, chi vuol\nsalvare la propria vita, la perderà\".", " una serata all'Elba per Mariateresa Di\nLascia.", " Diefenbach, il pittore nudo.", " mare, spruzzi d'acqua, fluire d'onde tra\ngli scogli intarsiati dal soffio furente del vento e della pioggia.", " Come non\nbastasse, l'ex commissario viene a conoscenza di altri particolari inquietanti.", "\nSi finirà per scoprire che, prima di dedicarsi alla terza età e di sfruttare le\nperversioni dei suoi anziani ospiti, Irma ha lavorato come prostituta in un\nbordello.", " Basti sapere che costui uccide memore delle vespe d'autunno (ecco il\ntitolo) che, quando il loro nido va in briciole e la bella stagione muore,\n\"diventano erratiche e aggressive\".", " Mi provo a ripetere con la variante le frasi\ndi poco fa:", " \"A me questa \"Traviata\" è piaciuta molto.", " Franca Rame è al lavoro,\nal computer, da quando l'ha scoperto non ne fa più a meno.", " E sul suo film\npresentato prima a Cannes e poi qui al Festival di Locarno:", " Le è simpatica\nNicole Kidman?", " Ma va da sè che io faccio parte di quella maggioranza di\ncondomini che non saprebbe da che parte cominciare.", " I tecnici del mestiere\ncomunque avranno capito quello che fate la domenica mattina, quando il palazzo\nancora dorme, con spazzole, cemento e gel e, se vorranno, potranno imitarvi.", " La\nStefi di Grazia Nidasio.", " Studiando con sapienza la sua strategia, Pasqualin\nmette in circolo la suggestione Juve.", " Attendiamo il ritorno di Galliani per le\nopportune valutazioni\".", " \"Ma quella medaglia è anche inglese?\".", " È nella natura\ndelle cose e degli uomini.", " Ed è quello che hanno fatto May e Bailey.", " E il sogno\ncontinua con la Sidoti.", " Oggi tocca alle donne sui 10 chilometri, che ai Mondiali\ndi Stoccarda, 14 agosto '93, videro Ileana Salvador conquistare l'argento alle\nspalle della finlandese Essayah.", " atleta che non nasconde lo sforzo ma lo rende\ntanto naturale che la sua rimonta, dopo una crisi al quindicesimo chilometro,\nsembra scritta negli occhi, sotto le due tettoie di sopracciglia scure che lo\nfanno più uomo di quanto Michele non sia, più avvezzo alle emozioni di quanto\nnon sembri.", " non ho finito il liceo artistico, mi sono ritirato alla maturità.", "\nMai nessuna azzurra aveva conquistato un titolo iridato.", " La gara di Goteborg è\nstata un passaggio di consegne:", " È una scena genuina perché Fiona sulle prime non\ncapisce che si tratta del marito.", " L'oro di Fiona, in pratica, è stato\nconquistato già al primo salto, con 6,93;", " Al 35'il pareggio di Agostini.", " Gli\narbitri non hanno gradito la linea di condotta tenuta dalla Federcalcio e\ndall'Aia nelle ultime vicende legate alle nomine delle commissioni (con il\nsiluramento di Baldas e Capelluti) e vogliono chiarimenti sul trattamento\neconomico riservato a chi dirige in serie A e B.", " Gianluca Vialli ama parlare\ndella gestione del calcio e non soltanto dei suoi aspetti tecnici.", " O\naccontentarsi così, perché per vincere non occorre essere per forza Lewis:", "\nEsiste poi un progetto di legge, al quale sta lavorando l'assessore Donato\nGiordano, per giungere a una diversa organizzazione della struttura, a partire\ndalla dirigenza e dalle competenze degli assessori;", " Mentre Luca osservava\ndall'alto, suo padre, in quel fosso profondo quasi quattro metri, largo due e\nlungo più di dieci, ha cominciato a lavorare per mettere in posa i tubi fognari.", "\nIl motoscafo, un \"Draco AS\", è partito da Fiumicino e sta dirigendosi verso\nAnzio.", " Cimini era uscito in mare, solo, a bordo di una piccola imbarcazione, la\nsera prima.", " Monsignor Grillo è stato molto sensibile a nominare due esorcisti.", "\nQuadri, oggetti ricordo dell'Africa, qualche monile regalato alla cognata, ma\nsoprattutto un grosso pacco di lettere: i ricordi di Luigi passano di mano in\nmano, dal fratello alla cognata, dal cugino ai nipoti.", " Affidava le lettere a\npersone di passaggio, in viaggio verso località dove fosse possibile imbucare\".", "\nAl momento di scendere, spesso si rischia di cadere perché gli autisti non fanno\nalcuna attenzione e ripartono senza guardare\".", " Per lui, che da quasi un lustro\naspetta la nuova divisa (in pieno agosto lavora con i pantaloni invernali e una\nmaglietta grigia portata da casa), si tratta di accuse ingiustificate:", " Una\nMilano al 35 per cento quella della prima, calda domenica d'agosto:", " La Roma si\nritroverà domani pomeriggio a Trigoria per la ripresa degli allenamenti, mentre\nè previsto per domenica prossima il test di Pescara prima della pausa di\nFerragosto.", " Si chiama Tiziano, è svizzero e fa lo \"svizzero\" al soldo del papa.", "\nCi facciamo delle gran sudate.", " Dal 1970 è l'unico corpo militare del Vaticano.", "\nIl più vistoso è quello situato davanti all'ingresso della Casa dell'Artista, il\npalazzo che fino al 12 giugno ospiterà la Mostra:", " Esce da un grande cilindro (a\nsua volta emblematico, perché ha la forma del copricapo dell'uomo comune\ndell'Ottocento) e con le sue volute colpisce una torre fatta di soldati (lo\nStato poliziesco) sulla balaustra che sovrasta l'edificio, e li inghiotte.", " Ama\nla casa, il lavoro, la musica, la letteratura edificante e idilliaca, la buona\nconversazione con gli amici, che incontra con una certa regolarità anche al\ncaffè.", " Si formano così gruppi di costruzioni in stretta connessione fra loro.", "\nl'albero di Natale, la prima Comunione, scene di riunioni borghesi in casa e\nall'aria aperta, la signora davanti alla toeletta, bambini teneri e rosei,\nblandi accenni alla povertà e al dolore.", " Boris Podrecca, però, si è rifiutato di\nporre l'accento per l'ennesima volta su questi aspetti ben noti.", " \"fili\" di\nottone luccicante, \"cocci\" di vetro di diversi colori, decisi o lievi, scaglie\ndi madreperla iridescente.", " Recentissima anche la creazione di \"Splatter\", un\ncomposto di marmo e quarzo con una superficie che luccica secondo il variare\ndella luce.", " Quando si parla di piastrelle a mano non si può non citare la\nproduzione di Vietri.", " la prima per la terracotta, la seconda per il colore.", "\nOltre alle tinte unite, esistono bordure di diversi tipi, anche con suggestivi\nmotivi a rilievo.", " Ha la stessa durezza del granito, è antigelivo e inassorbente\n(va bene anche all'esterno ma dove non esistano pericoli di formazione di\nghiaccio che renderebbe la superficie sdrucciolevole).", " Se sei un tipo preciso\ncompleta il trattamento con la spazzola speciale \"Brosse pour le sein\" di Jeanne\nPiaubert, che stimola la circolazione e l'assorbimento del prodotto.", " La\ncellulite, infatti, ha ben poco a che vedere col grasso anche se chi ha chili di\ntroppo è più predisposta ad \"accoglierla\".", " Chi ha la cellulite ha una\nmuscolatura debole e il massaggio violento provocherebbe ematomi e rilasciamenti\ndei tessuti.", " Chiedi al computer il tuo menù.", " È una signora ancor bella di quasi\nsessant'anni e che da più di dieci vive in esilio a Parigi.", " Adesso, comunque,\nche finalmente sembra essersi decisa a parlare, è scoppiato il finimondo.", " Ma\nconoscono bene Carmen Castillo, la signora cilena nella cui casa, a Parigi, è\navvenuto l'incontro tra Gaston Salvatore e la Payita, e che conferma punto per\npunto l'intervista.", " Il mercato dell'editoria elettronica personale o editoria da\ntavolo (in inglese desktop publishing) è molto giovane con i suoi soli tre anni\ndi vita, ma è considerato nel settore dell'informatica fra i più promettenti in\nassoluto:", " A parte personal computer e programmi di composizione, la diminuzione\nin particolare ha riguardato le stampanti (grazie ai minori costi delle memorie\ne dei microprocessori), soprattutto fra quelle che consentono di gestire testo e\ngrafica ad alta risoluzione.", " Care signore così onorevoli.", " tra gli incarcerati\nper reati contro l'ordine pubblico la percentuale di donne cresce notevolmente e\nper i reati connessi con la tossicodipendenza il numero delle donne detenute è\nmaggiore della media generale.", " Le ore libere - i viaggi.", " Ho cominciato con 3-4\nchilometri al giorno e sono arrivato alla fine a correrne anche 20.", " \"Con\nl'esempio di Saverio abbiamo voluto dare un'iniezione di fiducia a tutti i\ncardiopatici, dimostrare che la vita, grazie a una buona riabilitazione, può\nessere estremamente attiva, quasi del tutto normale anche dopo un incidente\ncardiaco.", " Significa che sono state tagliate le vie nervose attraverso le quali è\nnormalmente regolata l'attività cardiaca.", " Per questo un \"trapiantato\" non riesce\nad avvertire la sensazione di cardiopalmo, non ha controllo cosciente della\nfrequenza cardiaca.", " Tutti gli edifici sono collegati tra loro da gallerie,\npercorse in continuazione da medici, personale di servizio e pazienti.", " Inutile\nguardarli.", " Prende l'appuntamento più di un mese prima e ci arriva generalmente\nalla vigilia degli esami.", " La \"Guida del paziente\" consiglia una visita al museo\ndei Mayo, situato nell'antica clinica, proprio di fronte all'enorme edificio\nbianco in cui vengono effettuati gli esami.", " D'altronde è proprio questo che\nsorprende il visitatore che, alla sette di mattina, è qui per il suo check-up:", " A\nRochester, infatti, si può benissimo affittare un appartamento o una camera in\ncase private.", " Nella camera d'albergo il cameriere vi porterà, su semplice\nrichiesta, un clistere.", " l'essenzialità, in quanto delineano e definiscono il\ncontenuto del diritto stesso;", " stillicidio [v. 908]).", " L'espropriazione è\nrealizzata attraverso un atto amministrativo;", " La norma prevede una sottospecie\ndi espropriazione, fondata non sulla pubblica utilità del bene, ma sul cattivo\nuso di alcuni beni da parte del proprietario, e sul danno che il cattivo uso può\narrecare alla produzione nazionale, al decoro e all'igiene nelle città.", " 867.\nSistemazione e rimboschimento dei terreni vincolati.", " Le conseguenze di carattere\namministrativo della violazione delle norme indicate dall'articolo precedente\nsono stabilite da leggi speciali.", " Se il vicino vuole servirsi (1) del muro\nesistente sul confine solo per innestarvi un capo del proprio muro, non ha\nl'obbligo di renderlo comune a norma dell'articolo 874, ma deve pagare una\nindennità (2) per l'innesto.", " lo Stato può anche costruire edifici demaniali in\naderenza con quelli dei privati.", " La rinunzia (3) non libera il rinunziante\ndall'obbligo delle riparazioni e ricostruzioni a cui abbia dato causa col fatto\nproprio.", " Ogni comproprietario può (1) alzare il muro comune, ma sono a suo\ncarico tutte le spese di costruzione e conservazione (2) della parte\nsopraedificata [903].", " 889. Distanze per pozzi, cisterne, fosse e tubi.", " 892.\nDistanze per gli alberi.", " Ogni fosso interposto tra due fondi si presume comune.", "\nQualora per esigenze della produzione si debba provvedere ad opere di\nsistemazione degli scoli, di soppressione di ristagni o di raccolta di acque,\nl'autorità amministrativa, su richiesta della maggioranza degli interessati o\nanche d'ufficio, può costituire un consorzio tra i proprietari dei fondi che\ntraggono beneficio dalle opere stesse [863, 865].", " Il costruttore che senza\nmalizia costruisce sul fondo altrui vede in definitiva premiato il suo lavoro,\ncosì come il codice tutela il lavoro dello specificatore [v. 940].", " Il\nproprietario può costituire il diritto di fare e mantenere al di sopra del suolo\nuna costruzione a favore di altri, che ne acquista la proprietà [934, 1350 n. 2,\n2643 n. 2, 2810 n. 3].", " Pertanto, è configurabile un contratto ad effetti\nobbligatori, qualificabile come locazione [v. 1571], in cui al conduttore si\nconcede il godimento di un terreno con facoltà di farvi delle costruzioni di cui\ngodrà fino alla fine del rapporto.", " 954. Estinzione del diritto di superficie.", " Il\ndiritto dell'enfiteuta si prescrive per effetto del non uso protratto per venti\nanni (2934 e seguenti).", " L'usufruttuario ha il diritto di conseguire il possesso\ndella cosa di cui ha l'usufrutto, salvo quanto è disposto dall'art. 1002.", "\nL'usufruttuario ha diritto a un'indennità per i miglioramenti che sussistono al\nmomento della restituzione della cosa (att. 157).", " Se le addizioni non possono\nsepararsi senza nocumento della cosa e costituiscono miglioramento di essa si\napplicano le disposizioni relative ai miglioramenti (att. 157).", " L'usufruttuario\npuò servirsi di essi soltanto per le riparazioni che sono a suo carico.", "\nL'usufruttuario deve restituire le cose che formano oggetto del suo diritto, al\ntermine dell'usufrutto, salvo quanto è disposto dall'art. 995 (2930).", "\nL'usufruttuario di un'eredità o di una quota di eredità (588) è obbligato a\npagare per intero, o in proporzione della quota, le annualità e gli interessi\ndei debiti o dei legati da cui l'eredità stessa sia gravata.", " 1015. Abusi\ndell'usufruttuario.", " Se è perito un edificio e il proprietario intende di\nricostruirlo con la somma conseguita come indennità, l'usufruttuario non può\nopporsi.", " Se la cosa è requisita o espropriata per pubblico interesse,\nl'usufrutto si trasferisce sull'indennità relativa (1000).", " Delle\nservitu'prediali.", " La servitù prediale consiste nel peso imposto sopra un fondo\nper l'utilità di un altro fondo appartenente a diverso proprietario (1072,\n1100).", " 1038. Indennità per l'imposizione della servitù.", " 1039. Indennità per il\npassaggio temporaneo.", " Se l'indennità fu convenuta in annualità, la prestazione\ncessa dall'anno successivo.", " 1063. Norme regolatrici.", " Il termine decorre dal\ngiorno in cui si è cessato di esercitarla;", " Le servitù costituite dall'enfiteuta\nsul fondo enfiteutico cessano quando l'enfiteusi si estingue per decorso del\ntermine, per prescrizione o per devoluzione (958, 970, 972).", " Della servitù di\npresa o di derivazione di acqua.", " Se si tratta di cose destinate a servire i\ncondomini in misura diversa, le spese sono ripartite in proporzione dell'uso che\nciascuno può farne.", " La prestazione che forma oggetto dell'obbligazione deve\nessere suscettibile di valutazione economica e deve corrispondere a un\ninteresse, anche non patrimoniale del creditore.", " Nell'adempiere l'obbligazione\nil debitore deve usare la diligenza del buon padre di famiglia.", " In questo caso\nl'obbligazione si estingue quando la diversa prestazione è eseguita.", " Il\ncreditore è in mora quando, senza il motivo legittimo, non riceve il pagamento\noffertogli nei modi indicati dagli articoli seguenti o non compie quanto è\nnecessario affinché il debitore possa adempiere l'obbligazione.", " Nelle\nobbligazioni che hanno per oggetto una somma di danaro, sono dovuti dal giorno\ndella mora gli interessi legali, anche se non erano dovuti precedentemente e\nanche se il creditore non prova di aver sofferto alcun danno.", " La restituzione\nvolontaria del titolo originale del credito, fatta dal creditore al debitore,\ncostituisce prova della liberazione anche rispetto ai condebitori in solido.", "\nTuttavia se gli altri fideiussori hanno consentito la liberazione, essi\nrimangono obbligati per l'intero.", " La compensazione non si verifica in\npregiudizio dei terzi che hanno acquistato diritti di usufrutto o di pegno su\nuno dei crediti.", " La difesa è diritto inviolabile in ogni stato e grado del\nprocedimento.", " L'imputato non è considerato colpevole sino alla condanna\ndefinitiva.", " La Repubblica agevola con misure economiche e altre provvidenze la\nformazione della famiglia e l'adempimento dei compiti relativi, con particolare\nriguardo alle famiglie numerose.", " Gli inabili ed i minorati hanno diritto\nall'educazione e all'avviamento professionale.", " Il diritto di voto non può essere\nlimitato se non per incapacità civile o per effetto di sentenza penale\nirrevocabile o nei casi di indegnità morale indicati dalla legge.", " Con la legge\ndi approvazione del bilancio non si possono stabilire nuovi tributi e nuove\nspese.", " Gli atti che hanno valore legislativo e gli altri indicati dalla legge\nsono controfirmati anche dal Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri.", " Il\nPresidente della Repubblica, prima di assumere le sue funzioni, presta\ngiuramento di fedeltà alla Repubblica e di osservanza della Costituzione dinanzi\nal Parlamento in seduta comune.", " Il Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri e i\nministri, prima di assumere le funzioni, prestano giuramento nelle mani del\nPresidente della Repubblica.", " Nell'ordinamento degli uffici sono determinate le\nsfere di competenza, le attribuzioni e le responsabilità proprie dei funzionari.", "\nIl Consiglio di Stato e gli altri organi di giustizia amministrativa hanno\ngiurisdizione per la tutela nei confronti della pubblica amministrazione degli\ninteressi legittimi e, in particolari materie indicate dalla legge, anche dei\ndiritti soggettivi.", " La colpevolezza dell'imputato non può essere provata sulla\nbase di dichiarazioni rese da chi, per libera scelta, si è sempre\nvolontariamente sottratto all'interrogatorio da parte dell'imputato o del suo\ndifensore.", " Il Presidente eletto nomina e revoca i componenti della Giunta.", " Il\nGoverno della Repubblica può promuovere la questione di legittimità\ncostituzionale sugli statuti regionali dinanzi alla Corte costituzionale entro\ntrenta giorni dalla loro pubblicazione.", " Una legge costituzionale stabilisce le\ncondizioni, le forme, i termini di proponibilità dei giudizi di legittimità\ncostituzionale, e le garanzie d'indipendenza dei giudici della Corte.", " Con legge\nordinaria sono stabilite le altre norme necessarie per la costituzione e il\nfunzionamento della Corte.", " Alla Regione del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, di cui\nall'art. 116, si applicano provvisoriamente le norme generali del Titolo V della\nparte seconda, ferma restando la tutela delle minoranze linguistiche in\nconformità con l'art. 6.", " Con l'entrata in vigore della Costituzione si ha per\nconvertito in legge il decreto legislativo luogotenenziale 25 giugno 1944, n.\n151, sull'ordinamento provvisorio dello Stato.", " Fino al giorno delle elezioni\ndelle nuove Camere, l'Assemblea Costituente può essere convocata, quando vi sia\nnecessità di deliberare nelle materie attribuite alla sua competenza dagli\narticoli 2, primo e secondo comma, e 3, comma primo e secondo, del decreto\nlegislativo 16 marzo 1946, n. 98.", " La Costituzione dovrà essere fedelmente\nosservata come Legge fondamentale della Repubblica da tutti i cittadini e dagli\norgani dello Stato.", " (14) Come principio generale, il consumo energetico dei\nprodotti che consumano energia in stand-by o quando sono disattivati dovrebbe\nessere ridotto al minimo necessario per il loro adeguato funzionamento.", " - Il\nprogramma deve essere prorogato di almeno 4 anni con lo stesso importo di\nriferimento finanziario (1 milione di EUR all'anno) e gli stessi interventi e\ndestinatari.", " Il perimetro della concessione è costituito dagli archi di\nmeridiano e di parallelo che collegano successivamente i vertici qui di seguito\ndefiniti dalle rispettive coordinate geografiche.", " c) I rifiuti solidi\nradioattivi derivanti dalle operazioni di smantellamento saranno collocati in un\ndeposito esterno al sito.", " Anche gli italiani hanno assaggiato la reazione\nvelenosa di Valona che nel 1915 gli accordi segreti di Londra ci assegnarono\ninsieme alla base militare sull'Isola di Saseno.", " Si allunga l'ombra della mafia\nsullo scandalo delle finanziarie albanesi.", " Se venivi colto sul fatto, ti\naspettavano otto anni di carcere.", " Lei sostiene che c'è un aspetto inquietante\nnella rivolta di Valona e nel crack delle finanziarie.", " E i soldi delle piramidi\ndove sono finiti?", " Giancarlo Pagliarini ha difeso le ragioni economiche della\nsecessione.", " rispetto a gennaio è attesa una flessione dello 0,4 per cento.", "\nL'idea è emersa nella riunione alla Farnesina dei sottosegretari degli Esteri\ndella Trilaterale.", " Successivamente verrà il turno di chi ha un capitale\ninvestito di un massimo di 10 mila dollari e, infine, tra i 10 e i 20 mila\ndollari.", " Riesplode la questione albanese.", " Mentre Tirana si risveglia\nrecriminando con rabbia dal sogno drogato delle 'piramidi finanziarie', in uno\ndei cento caffè del boulevard principale della capitale albanese Mehemet, nome\ndi battaglia di un rappresentante dell'Esercito di liberazione del Kosovo (Uck),\nripete le stesse parole minacciose e le accompagna mostrando il giornale\nclandestino Clirimi (Liberazione) e i bollettini di rivendicazione di alcune\nrecenti sanguinose azioni terroristiche.", " Gli emigrati versano il 3% dello\nstipendio in un fondo speciale che va al Governo autoproclamato del Kosovo e\nanche a noi.", " Liri Avdekie, Libertà o Morte, è il motto in albanese dell'esercito\nkosovaro ma in Serbia i nazionalisti di Milosevic e anche l'opinione pubblica\nsono concordi.", " Una decina di morti, 30 feriti, il Sud nell'anarchia isolato dal\nresto del Paese.", " A Scutari c'era la più alta densità di benzinai d'Europa per\nchilometro quadrato che vendevano alla Federazione di Milosevic carburante\nquotato 20 marchi al litro sulle strade di Belgrado.", " Vi è andata bene, se\neravate inglesi o americani sapevamo noi come trattarvi.", " Valona, Saranda e il\nSud sono fuori controllo ma l'operazione militare per riconquistarle è già\niniziata, dichiara il ministro degli Esteri Tritan Sheu, che si fa intervistare\npoco dopo la scontata rielezione alla presidenza di Sali Berisha, confermato per\naltri cinque anni da un Parlamento freneticamente plaudente e dominato dal\nPartito democratico, vincitore delle contestate elezioni del maggio scorso.", " Dopo\ni calci e i pugni di domenica davanti al Parlamento, la sede del Club della\nstampa è stata devastata e incendiata.", " difficoltà a trovare partner locali\naffidabili;", " L'intera operazione, in pieno accordo con le autorità albanesi, è\ndurata un paio di ore.", " E di fronte al deteriorarsi della situazione in Albania,\nsi apprende che la Farnesina è tornata ieri a ribadire al neo eletto presidente\nSali Berisha l'importanza della costituzione, in tempi brevi, di un Governo\nampiamente rappresentativo delle forze politiche albanesi.", " Un altro messaggio è\nstato inviato al presidente del Consiglio dell'Unione, Hans Van Mierlo, per\nsollecitare la convocazione straordinaria del Comitato politico, che avrebbe\nluogo domani a Bruxelles.", " 'La causa degli albanesi è la mia'.", " Tempi duri a\nTirana per i partiti che dal maggio scorso contestano la larghissima vittoria\nelettorale del Centro-destra disertando il Parlamento.", " una manifestazione di\ncirca 200 persone, inscenata davanti al vecchio stadio dove domenica scorsa\nerano cominciati i disordini più violenti, ieri è stata facilmente dispersa\ndalla polizia, senza ricorrere a metodi pesanti.", " Alla vox populi Berisha\nrisponde adesso evocando lo spettro della Segurimi, la polizia segreta del\ndefunto regime comunista che al tempo dello stalinismo ferreo di Enver Hoxha\naveva al servizio 5.000 delatori su tre milioni di albanesi.", " Un crack\nfinanziario scatena l'opposizione.", " In 500 mila, un albanese su sette, hanno\nscommesso su questa pesca miracolosa con la promessa di rendimenti mensili sul\ncapitale versato dal 30% al 50%, in un Paese in cui l'inflazione ufficiale è del\n20% l'anno e il reddito medio pro capite non supera i 700 dollari.", " Le indagini,\ncondotte dal Comando carabinieri politiche agricole di Roma e dai Comandi\nprovinciali della Guardia di finanza di Catanzaro e Reggio Calabria sono state\ncoordinate dalla Procura della Repubblica di Palmi.", " Ci ha messo freddezza nel\nrealizzare il rigore del 2-1, tirandolo sulla sinistra del portiere Manninger,\npoi sulla destra, nella ripetizione imposta perché troppa gente era entrata in\narea.", " Ciascuno ne tragga il significato che crede sullo stato del pallone.", "\nSarebbe stata probabilmente un'altra storia se Negro avesse raddoppiato in avvio\ndi ripresa con un colpo di tacco nell'angolo basso, dove Julio Cesar arrivava\nmiracolosamente col piede come un portiere da calcetto.", " Nell'1 si troveranno lo\nstand del paese ospite, la Lituania, e, oltre alla Sala rossa, un'altra novità\ncreata in occasione delle venti candeline:", " Intanto il caso della pantera è\ndiventato un'emergenza.", " Il sindaco si è fatto promotore di una mini\ncampagna-stampa sulla pantera, dalla Rai regionale a Telestudio ai giornali.", "\nBonino e Pannella in campo per la sfida delle Regionali.", " Ma la novità di ieri\nsono i radicali, che dopo la rabbia per il taglio della Consulta ai loro\nreferendum sociali, rilanciano con 15 candidature «pesanti», nell'intento di\nrilanciare anche la battaglia referendaria.", " «Non ho preclusioni ideologiche»,\nspiega.", " E chi lo conosce da una vita non si rassegna all'assenza e si aspetta\nsempre di vederlo così come gli era apparso la prima volta a Bahia, luminoso in\nuna camicia fiorita, circondato dalla sua piccola corte di pittori popolari, di\nbaiane biancoridenti, di cantori di samba e di ieratici negri, padri e madri \"de\nsanto\" nei terreiros del candomblè.", " Durante i lavori si parlerà di riforme\neconomiche, di modifiche per la struttura del partito e del congresso\nstraordinario che il prossimo gennaio dovrà definire i mutamenti da apportare\nalla Costituzione in vista dell'introduzione di un sistema che rifletta le\ndemocrazie occidentali.", " Oggi a Torino Jackson il puro del rock Ci sono concerti\nche ti lasciano indifferente, altri che non vedi l'ora che finiscano, altri che\nquando finiscono si va via senza rimpianti.", " parla del suo nuovo film \"Ultima\nfermata Brooklyn\", tratto dal romanzo scandalo di Hubert Selby, come di una\ncreatura vivente, il frutto di un parto lungo e travagliato che oggi ha\nfinalmente visto la luce.", " E visto che come caratteristiche Bianchi è uomo di\nfascia ben più di Sordo, cioè nel suo naturale atteggiamento tattico in campo\nrassomiglia maggiormente a Policano, ecco che la sua candidatura prende quota.", "\nVede che strani corsi e ricorsi?", " Record di presenze al Lingotto per la mostra\nsull'arte russa e sovietica.", " All'interno della maggioranza rossoverde c'è una\nfaglia che non si chiama di Sant'Andrea, come quella di Los Angeles, ma\nSieroterapico.", " Fuoristrada con lo smoking di rigore.", " Dopo due settimane di\nprogrammazione, però, ha dovuto vedersela con «Lethal Weapon II», sempre della\nWarner Bros, che aveva totalizzato in 14 giorni 100 miliardi.", " Prima di farci\nvedere gli scaffali di libri preziosi della biblioteca e l'onesta chiara faccia\ndell'onorevole Tina Anselmi, ci mostra una catasta di legna su un terrazzo\nromano.", " sicchè un bel giorno si udì la notizia che nella notte erano arrivati i\ncompagni d'arme e ognuno poteva andare a vederli nello stallatico.", " Il 19\nnovembre i berlinesi saranno chiamati a manifestare per la libertà di stampa.", " E\nqui Baudo, chiamato a Raitre dal direttore Angelo Guglielmi non solo per fare\nascolto ma anche per convincere i più riottosi tra i teleutenti a comprare\nl'antenna supplementare indispensabile in alcune zone per ricevere il segnale\ndella rete e lasciarle quindi in eredità un cospicuo patrimonio aggiuntivo di\nspettatori tecnologicamente attrezzati, spiega la sua teoria.", " Il 7 settembre\n1439 è citato come allievo di Domenico Veneziano nella commissione degli\naffreschi, oggi perduti, per le Storie della Vergine nel coro della chiesa di\nSant'Egidio.", " i sei santi laterali e le sette tavolette che costituiscono la\npredella sono invece opera dello sconosciuto allievo.", " Nel 1467 a Perugia eseguì\nper conto delle suore terziarie del convento di Sant'Antonio un polittico, dove\nall'impostazione tardogotica voluta dalla committenza, si contrappone nella\ncimasa, un'annunciazione di chiaro stampo rinascimentale, che evidenzia il\nsapiente uso dell'arte prospettica nelle strutture architettoniche, palesando\nuna conoscenza delle opere e dei postulati architettonici formulati qualche anno\naddietro da Filippo Brunelleschi e Leon Battista Alberti.", " Si è ispirato alla\nlezione euclidea per l'ordine logico delle espressioni e per i riferimenti e per\nl'uso coordinato e complesso dei teoremi, mentre è stato vicino alle esigenze\ndei tecnici per la determinatezza delle figure trattate, solide e poliedriche, e\nper l'assenza di dimostrazioni classiche e per l'uso di regole aritmetiche e\nalgebriche applicate ai calcoli.", " Nel 1999 la band non volendo più essere\netichettata come una semplice \"melodic death metal band\" intraprende la via\ndella sperimentazione.", " Con Projector il gruppo approda a sonorità quasi\ntotalmente melodiche, alternando un metal energico e tagliente a parti più\nmeditate, atmosferiche, con anche vocals in canto pulito.", " L'album riscuote un\nalto successo, ma divide i fan, fra chi apprezza il nuovo corso e chi li accusa\ndi aver rinnegato le origini.", " una evoluzione di questa tecnica permetteva di far\napparire falsi bersagli multipli sugli schermi radar, allineati lungo la\nradiale.", " Tutti gli altri radar dello scenario continuano a funzionare\nregolarmente.", " La maggior parte dei dispositivi commercializzati con il nome di\n\"radar jammer\", in realtà non utilizza tecniche di accecamento del radar di\nmisura, ma si limita a disturbare il rilevamento, creando un errore che porta ad\nuna lettura corrispondente ad una velocità minore.", " Specchi progettò la fontana\nnel 1711, nelle immediate vicinanze del preesistente Santuario della Madonna\ndella Neve, per volere di Livio de Carolis, marchese di Prossedi e Generale\ndelle Poste pontificie.", " La sua prima comparsa viene generalmente identificata in\nun articolo del 1905, presentato a un convegno sulla salute pubblica.", " Lo smog\nfotochimico viene anche chiamato smog estivo o smog di Los Angeles perché più\ncomune nei climi caldi e asciutti, come accade tipicamente nella città di Los\nAngeles (i primi casi di smog fotochimico vennero segnalati intorno al 1940 a\nLos Angeles).", " Yamanote-sen è scritto ufficialmente senza kana \"no\" (の o ノ),\nrendendo la sua pronuncia ambigua.", " Infatti il tentativo di Broglio di continuare\nla collaborazione con la NASA per il lancio di altri satelliti dalla base in\nKenya si rivelò un successo solo parziale a causa del progressivo affermarsi del\nprogramma Space Shuttle e la riduzione d'interesse per il lancio di satelliti di\npiccole dimensioni.", " Le attività incluse nel primo progetto di elaborazione di\nimmagini satellitari sono il Global Monitoring for Security and Sustenaibility\n(GMOSS), il System for Fire Detection (SFIDE), le Southern Hemisphere Additional\nOzonesondes (SHADOZ) e il Central-East Africa Satellite Monitoring (CEASMO).", "\nL'insieme di tutte queste operazioni viene chiamato stigliatura.", " La lana che si\nricava si chiama lana di concia.", " è rivestita esternamente da squame e presenta\nnumerose ondulazioni elastiche, origine della caratteristica arricciatura.", " La\ntrasformazione, che comprende filatura, tessitura e le altre operazioni\ncollegate, è stata per secoli prerogativa europea, con Inghilterra e Italia in\ntesta.", " Il terzo originale è firmato dal vettore e da questo consegnato al\nmittente dopo aver preso in consegna la merce.", " considerando che un termine di\nprescrizione uniforme dell'azione di risarcimento è nell'interesse sia del\ndanneggiato sia del produttore;", " Quando è stato consegnato il premio Nobel per la\npace a Yasser Arafat?", " Dove si tiene il Motorshow?", " Chi è Jean-Bertrand Aristide?", "\nCome si forma l'ozono?", " In quale giorno cade il solstizio d'estate?", " Come funziona\nla risonanza magnetica?", " Di che cosa sono fatti i cavi in fibra ottica?", " Chi\ninterpreta il ruolo di una prostituta in \"Taxi Driver\"?", " Da quale paese viene il\ntango?", " Qual è la sigla per Amnesty International?", " Che cosa ha influenzato\nl'\"effetto Tequila\"?", " Cosa si può trovare al \"Chester Beatty\"?", " Che cosa ha\ninventato il Barone Marcel Bich?", " Che giorno è l'anniversario della scoperta\ndell'America?", " Chi era il presidente degli Stati Uniti nel 1994?", " In quale città\nitaliana si trova la fontana di Trevi?", " Chi è il fondatore del canale di notizie\nCNN?", " Qual è il titolo dell'autobiografia di Nelson Mandela?", " Come si chiama la\nvedova di Samora Machel, il defunto presidente del Mozambico?", " Dimmi il nome di\nuno dei fondatori di Greenpeace.", " Chi è Joao Havelange?", " Che cosa ha ritirato la\nSaab?", " Quale porzione del fatturato della HP viene realizzato in Europa?", " Come si\nsono leggermente ferite 22 persone nell'Empire State Building?", " Chi è\nl'architetto del museo Guggenheim di Bilbao?", " Come si chiama il partito di Silvio\nBerlusconi?", " Di quale paese Egor Gadar è stato primo ministro?", " Quanti film sono\nstati presentati al Festival mondiale del cinema di Montreal?", " Che lavoro faceva\nDanny Barker?", " Di quale squadra automobilistica è direttore Flavio Briatore?", " Chi\nera il marito di Vieira da Silva?", " Chi è il ministro dell'ambiente svedese?", "\nQuando morì Simon Bolivar?", " Quale importante fenomeno del Sud Pacifico influenza\nil clima mondiale?", " Quante persone, in tutta la UE, hanno diritto di voto per\neleggere il nuovo Parlamento Europeo?", " Chi è il capo del Sinn Fein?", " Chi è il\nfondatore dell'Ordine del Tempio Solare?", " Quando avvenne il disastro di\nChernobyl?", " Chi è il Ministro degli Esteri italiano?", " Quando Hong Kong passerà\nalla Cina?", " Quale Primo Ministro francese si suicidò negli anni 90?", " Dove vennero\nutilizzati i caccia Strike Eagles nel 1990?", " Quando è stato girato il film\n\"Giochi di Guerra\" (\"WarGames\")?", " Nomina una canzone dei Nirvana.", " Quante persone\nmorirono nell'incidente aereo del 1972 nelle Everglades?", " Quando l'Unione\nSovietica invase l'Afghanistan?", " Quanto è lungo il fiume Okavango?", " Quando ci fu\nla sparatoria a Columbine?", " Quanti stati erano ancora uniti dopo la secessione\ndegli stati del sud?", " Dove venne costruito il primo Mcdonalds?", " Il disastro di\nHindenburg avvenne nel 1937 in quale città del New Jersey?", " Dove si trova il\npunto più elevato della Terra?", " Qual è l'inno nazionale in Inghilterra?", " Quanto\nera alta Judy Garland?", " Qual è il paese col più alto numero di abitanti al mondo?", "\nIn che anno venne inventato il PC?", " Chi diede inizio alla Riforma Protestante?", "\nQual è la percentuale della popolazione mancina?", " Come si chiama la moneta usata\nin Bolivia?", " Quando ci fu l'invasione statunitense di Haiti?", " Qual è l'ingrediente\nattivo nel tilenolo?", " Come si chiama la famosa competizione di slitta trainata da\ncani che si tiene ogni anno in Alaska?", " Quanto si stima che costeranno le\nstazioni spaziali internazionali?", " Come dici \"patatine fritte\" in francese?", " Che\npremio vinse nel 1963 il libro di Sterling North \"Rascal\"?", " Come si dice \"maiale\"\nin spagnolo?", " Quanto è vecchio l'universo?", " Come viene chiamato un gruppo di\nantilopi?", " In quale anno venne costruito Ebbets Field, la sede dei Brooklin\nDodgers?", " Quale stato venne istituito nel 1948?", " Qual è il soprannome\ndell'Oklahoma?", " Dimmi dove si trova la compagnia DuPont.", " Chi è Alberto Tomba?", "\nQual è la popolazione dell'Islanda?", " Quale velocità può raggiungere un\nsottomarino nucleare?", " Quale membrana controlla la quantità di luce che entra\nnell'occhio?", " Come vengono chiamate le persone nate dal 1965 al 1980?", " Qual è il\nnome dello stadio dei Cav?", " Qual è lo stato con la minore popolazione?", " Elenca\ndelle cantanti che hanno recitato la parte di Donna Elvira in messe in scena del\n\"Don Giovanni\" di Mozart.", " Quale animale ha le impronte digitali simili a quelle\numane?", " Qual è il motto del \"New York Times\"?", " A quale azienda appartiene il\nmarchio di bevande non alcoliche \"Gatorade\"?", " Quali paesi ha visitato la first\nlady Hillary Clinton?", " In quale provincia canadese si trova il maggior numero di\npersone di origine francese?", " Da quale gas è composto il 78 percento\ndell'atmosfera terrestre?", " In quale giorno affondò il Lusitania?", " Che cos'è L'A?", "\nIn quale giorno avvenne l'attacco a Pearl Harbor?", " Quando Panama si vide\nrestituire il Canale di Panama?", " In che modo le Hawaii divennero uno stato?", " Da\nquale animale si ricava il \"veal\"?", " Quante fossette ha una pallina regolamentare\nda golf?", " Da quale paese proveniva Marco Polo?", " Chi è Niels Bohr?", " Da quante\nrepubbliche era composta l'Unione Sovietica?", " A quanto corrisponde uno \"stone\"\ninglese?", " Dove si trova il Monte Olimpo?", " Quale ingegnere progettò il Canale Erie?", "\nQuale attrice recitava il ruolo di Betsy nel \"Matrimonio di Betsy\"?", " Chi hanno\nincontrato i Rossi?", " Su chi puntano i Repubblicani per vincere?", " Che cosa ha\ncolpito la città?", " Cosa ha travolto gli alberi?", " Cosa viene prodotto dalla Oracle?", "\nChe cosa fanno gli antiossidanti?", " In quanti hanno risposto?", " Quando l'Austria ha\nfirmato il trattato?", " Con le accuse di peculato e abuso d'ufficio, il procuratore\ncapo di Cassino, Mario Mercone, ha chiesto il rinvio a giudizio dell'ex\nconsigliere regionale del Pdl Angelo D'Ovidio, sindaco di Pastena per oltre\nventi anni, in relazione all'incarico di commissario del Consorzio per il\npatrimonio speleologico delle grotte di Pastena e Collepardo, costituito tra i\ndue Comuni della Ciociaria.", " Tra gli indagati Francesco Rossi e Paolo Bianchi.", " Ma\nquei soldi, per i pm di Palermo, sono frutto di un reato, ed è per questo che\nMiranda Ratti, la moglie del politico siciliano, è stata iscritta nel registro\ndegli indagati dalla procura di Palermo per riciclaggio aggravato nell'ambito\ndell'inchiesta sulla presunta estorsione che il fondatore di Forza Italia\navrebbe fatto all'ex premier.", " Per l'ex ministro Scajola i pm napoletani\nipotizzano il reato di corruzione internazionale.", " è già avvenuto in Lombardia,\ndove la crisi ha spinto la Regione a liberalizzare le promozioni non solo a\ndicembre ma tutto l'anno.", " prima che l'inchiesta colpisse addirittura il vertice\ndi Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, indagato nell'ambito di un altro filone, poi\ntrasferito da Napoli a Busto Arstizio.", " E non dimentichiamo che secondo Borgogni\nè stata assunta anche la figlia di Massimo Ponzellini.", " Altre tre persone, tra\ncui Marco Tornatore, figlio di Gianfranco, sono indagate a piede libero.", "\nEmergono intercettazioni in cui il manager Pozzessere al telefono con una delle\nconsulenti di Finmeccanica, Debbie Castaneda, parla con disinvoltura di accordi\ne di quote.", " “Nell’incidente ha sbattuto la parte destra della testa.", " Non\npossiamo però speculare su eventuali lesioni permanenti o sulle sue chance di\nsopravvivenza.", " Certo, – ha sottolineato Bergoglio – chi è investito di autorità\nha maggiore responsabilità, ma ciascuno è corresponsabile, nel bene e nel male”.", "\nLe ricerche dei bambini, quindi, sono proseguite tutta la notte e, oltre ai cani\nmolecolari, sono stati utilizzati anche un elicottero della forestale e uno\ndella Guardia di finanza che hanno pattugliato la zona dall’alto.", " \n\nFiat acquisirà restante 41,46% di Chrysler per 3,6 miliardi.", " Dello stesso tenore\nil commento del sindaco di Torino Piero Fassino:", " Francamente vorrei cose più\nserie per iniziare il 2014 ″, aggiunge.", " Altri utenti, invece, si sono profusi in\nuna serie di apprezzamenti all’iniziativa di Grillo.", " \n\nAttribuzione - Condividi allo stesso modo 2.0 (Italia).", " Ogni utilizzazione\ndell'opera che non sia autorizzata ai sensi della presente licenza o del diritto\nd'autore è proibita.", " Compensi per la comunicazione al pubblico dell'opera\nmediante fonogrammi.", " Salvo che sia espressamente convenuto altrimenti per\niscritto fra le parti, il Licenziante offre l'opera in licenza \"così com'è\" e\nnon fornisce alcuna dichiarazione o garanzia di qualsiasi tipo con riguardo\nall'opera, sia essa espressa od implicita, di fonte legale o di altro tipo,\nessendo quindi escluse, fra le altre, le garanzie relative al titolo, alla\ncommerciabilità, all'idoneità per un fine specifico e alla non violazione di\ndiritti di terzi o alla mancanza di difetti latenti o di altro tipo,\nall'esattezza od alla presenza di errori, siano essi accertabili o meno.", "\nCreative Commons non è parte della presente licenza e non dà alcuna garanzia\nconnessa all'opera.", " Secondo me, questa seconda ipotesi significherebbe\nrinunciare alle nostre responsabilità di parlamento, oltre a introdurre una tesi\noriginale, un metodo finora sconosciuto che consiste nel distribuire per\niscritto ai gruppi politici il discorso programmatico della commissione una\nsettimana prima - e non il giorno prima, come era stato concordato.", " Come è noto,\nciascun presidente dispone di un numero di voti pari al numero dei deputati\niscritti al proprio gruppo politico.", " Ciò significa che tutti i gruppi politici,\nad eccezione dei non iscritti - che però non costituiscono un gruppo politico -,\nerano concordi e che un solo gruppo era del parere di procedere come proposto\ndal collega in questa sede.", " Di recente il tema della sicurezza dei trasporti è\nstato tristemente al centro dell'attenzione dei mass media con l'incidente\nferroviario alla stazione di Paddington a Londra, il terribile incidente\nferroviario in Norvegia, i due incidenti aerei in cui hanno perso la vita alcuni\ncittadini dell'unione e il disastro ecologico provocato dalla petroliera Erika\nal largo della costa bretone.", " Credo tuttavia che occorra fare tutto ciò che\nrientra nelle nostre possibilità per limitare il più possibile il trasporto di\nmerci pericolose in tutti i paesi, siano essi di transito o meno.", " Spero che la\nmia proposta venga presa in considerazione nel corso della votazione di domani.", "\nVorrei chiedere alla vicepresidente se oggi è in grado di dirci qualcosa sullo\nstato di avanzamento degli sforzi di armonizzazione da parte delle due\norganizzazioni summenzionate e se l'Unione Europea ha la possibilità di\naccelerare l'armonizzazione adottando principi il più possibile semplici.", " Sono\nstati inseriti numerosissimi dettagli, che erano emersi già nelle relazioni\nprecedenti.", " si tratta di una lunga storia, che si trascina almeno da quando sono\nstato eletto al parlamento, cinque anni fa, tant ' è vero che ho già trattato\nquesto argomento a più riprese.", " Signor presidente, anch'io mi voglio\ncomplimentare con il relatore per l'ottimo lavoro svolto.", " Ogni individuo ha\ndiritto di lasciare qualsiasi paese, incluso il proprio, e di ritornare nel\nproprio paese.", " Uomini e donne in età adatta hanno il diritto di sposarsi e di\nfondare una famiglia, senza alcuna limitazione di razza, cittadinanza o\nreligione.", " In questo modo sono aumentate le opportunità di diffusione e\nl'azienda ha sviluppato una campagna pubblicitaria vincente.", " Per rivolgersi ai\ndestinatari interessati, Ana ha usato un insieme di parole chiave che si\nrivolgeva agli amanti dei viaggi e della cultura giapponese, sviluppando poi\ncontenuti creativi adatti a catturare l'attenzione dei destinatari.", " Se non vedi\nil pulsante, non puoi attivare la ricezione degli aggiornamenti.", " Hai già una\nPagina Facebook?", " \"Era sicuramente consapevole in modo distaccato di essere stata\ndata a un vecchio marito come ricompensa per i servizi professionali di\nquest'ultimo a un amico della sua famiglia e che il capitale proveniva dalla sua\nparte.", " Pianificò di divenire lui stesso questo candidato, facendo appello\nsoprattutto alle classi più elevate di Chinon.", " Nonostante Balzac fosse \"talvolta\nun eremita e un girovago\", ha sempre provato a rimanere in contatto con la\nsocietà che forniva materiale per il suo lavoro.", " La salute di lui peggiorò lungo\nil cammino, e Ewelina scrisse a sua figlia che Balzac era \"in uno stato di\nestrema debolezza\" e \"sudava copiosamente\".", " Sua madre era la sola persona\npresente quando egli spirò;", " Come fece con la gente attorno a sè, Balzac studiò\nin profondità quei luoghi, viaggiando in luoghi remoti e prendendo nota di ciò\nche aveva fatto nelle visite precedenti.", " \"L'artista della Comédie Humaine\", egli\nscrisse, \"è semi-sommerso dallo storico.", " \"Balzac ricevette alti elogi da critici\ncosì diversi come Walter Benjamin e Camille Paglia.", " L'epitaffio inciso sulla\nlastra di roccia che copre la tomba racchiude una maledizione su chiunque oserà\nspostare le sue ossa, cosa che venne accuratamente evitata durante i lavori di\nrestauro della chiesa nel 2008.", " Shakespeare collaborò ad altre due opere ancora\noggi conosciute, Enrico VIII e i due nobili congiunti, probabilmente con John\nFletcher.", " mamma infelice, tutti infelici.", " Queste aziende introducono infatti\nnuove importazioni tecnologicamente avanzate e nuove tecniche gestionali che\nincoraggiano la crescita delle aziende nazionali, esortando dall'altra parte il\nprocesso di modernizzazione industriale.", " I farmaci, per quanto accessibili, non\nhanno alcun valore se non c'è nessuno a prescriverli o a somministrarli.", " Feb 26,\n2014.", " Anche in questo caso, la Germania dovrebbe prendere il comando.", " restando\nimpantanata nella carenza di risparmio ma ritrovandosi senza prodotti né\ncapitali cinesi, l'America rischia di andare incontro a un aumento\ndell'inflazione e dei tassi di interesse, e a un indebolimento del dollaro.", " È\nalquanto esplicativo che la maggior parte dei 47 partecipanti al simposio -\ninfluenti figure del settore pubblico e privato di tutto il mondo - non erano a\nconoscenza del grado in cui l'alimentazione di una madre influenza il benessere\ndella sua prole.", " La sua è una storia di successo che può, e anzi deve, essere\nreplicata in tutto il continente.", " In realtà, l'amministrazione ha cercato di\nrendere il Fmi più interessante, soprattutto per incoraggiare i repubblicani\ndella Camera dei rappresentanti a sostenere le riforme.", " La Germania apprezza\nquesto ruolo, ma non è in grado di esercitarlo.", " La repubblica di Bulgaria e la\nRomania diventano membri dell'Unione Europea.", " Le disposizioni di tale atto\ncostituiscono parte integrante del presente trattato.", " Il presente trattato è\nratificato dalle Alte parti contraenti secondo le rispettive norme\ncostituzionali.", " Gli strumenti di ratifica sono depositati presso il governo\ndella Repubblica italiana al più tardi il 31 dicembre 2006.", " Se tale decisione è\nadottata nei confronti di uno solo degli stati aderenti il presente trattato\nentra in vigore per tale stato il 1 ° gennaio 2008.", " Il testo del trattato che\nadotta una costituzione per l'Europa, redatto in lingua bulgara e rumena, è\naccluso al presente trattato.", " Essa presenta un progetto dei protocolli al\nconsiglio per la conclusione.", " Il consiglio delibera all'unanimità previa\nconsultazione del parlamento europeo.", " I contratti relativi alle azioni a titolo\ndi tali programmi dovranno essere assegnati entro i due anni successivi.", " Non è\nconcessa alcuna proroga del periodo per l'assegnazione dei contratti.", " Proroghe\nlimitate della durata possono essere concesse per l'esecuzione dei contratti, in\nvia eccezionale e in casi debitamente giustificati.", " Non si applicano tuttavia le\ndisposizioni previste all'articolo 165 del regolamento finanziario applicabile\nal bilancio generale delle comunità europee.", " Il comitato adotta il proprio\nregolamento interno.", " Il primo giorno lavorativo di ciascun mese del\ncorrispondente anno viene corrisposto alla Bulgaria e alla Romania un dodicesimo\ndi ciascun importo annuale.", " Tutti i fondi inutilizzati o spesi\ningiustificatamente sono recuperati dalla commissione.", " La commissione può\nadottare qualsiasi provvedimento tecnico necessario al funzionamento dello\nstrumento temporaneo per i flussi di tesoreria e strumento Schengen.", " Nella\nscelta di tali misure si dovrà accordare la precedenza a quelle che turbino il\nmeno possibile il funzionamento del mercato interno.", " Le misure non sono\nmantenute oltre il tempo strettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di\nessere applicate una volta attuato l'impegno pertinente.", " Esse possono tuttavia\nessere applicate oltre il periodo specificato nel primo comma fino a che non\nsiano adempiuti i pertinenti impegni.", " Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate\noltre il periodo specificato nel primo comma finché tali carenze persistono.", " Il\nparlamento europeo apporta al suo regolamento interno gli adattamenti resi\nnecessari dall'adesione.", " Un cittadino di ogni nuovo stato membro è nominato\nmembro della commissione a partire dalla data dell'adesione.", " Questo giudice è\nestratto a sorte.", " Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 6 ottobre 2012.", " Il\nmandato dell'altro giudice scade il 31 agosto 2010.", " Il tribunale, di concerto\ncon la corte di giustizia, apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli\nadattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione.", " I regolamenti di procedura così\nadattati sono sottoposti all'approvazione del consiglio.", " Il mandato dei membri\nrecentemente nominati scade contemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in\ncarica al momento dell'adesione.", " Le misure sono adottate in conformità delle\nregole di voto che disciplinano l'adozione dell'atto rispetto al quale si chiede\nuna deroga temporanea.", " Tali adattamenti, se adottati dopo l'adesione, sono\napplicabili dalla data di adesione.", " Il testo del suddetto trattato, redatto in\nlingua bulgara e rumena, è allegato al presente protocollo.", " È istituita una\nsuperficie di base nazionale per ciascuno stato membro produttore.", " Tuttavia, per\nla Francia sono istituite due superfici di base.", " È fissata una superficie\nmassima garantita, pari a 829229 ettari.", " Se tale decisione è presa anteriormente\nalla data di adesione, essa entra in vigore solo dalla data di adesione."]}
{"id": "it_markit-ud-test", "source": "UD_Italian-MarkIT/it_markit-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "it", "text": "Franz Kafka è uno dei primi , nella \" Lettera al padre \" , a restituirci , con\nun' immagine alquanto inedita , questo tipo di rapporto . Il filosofo greco\nAristotele fu uno dei primi ad ideare una teoria sulla struttura dell' universo\n. La Russia fu la prima a spedire in orbita attorno alla terra un uomo ed a\nfarlo ritornare sano e salvo . Nel primo caso la scoperta di un organismo\nvissuto in precedenza e poi estinto servirà per capire l' evoluzione del pianeta\ne quali sono state le cause che lo hanno reso inospitale alla vita di quell'\norganismo . A tali domande ha cercato di dare una risposta Remo Bodei in un'\nintervista per \" il Mattino \" : È un fenomeno che ha preso sempre più piede\nattualmente . Un periodo così grigio e difficile per una nazione non va ad\ninteressare solamente il paese stesso , ma è un fenomeno che coinvolge il mondo\nintero . L' iniziativa prende il nome di \" human brain project \" ( HBP ) e l'\nobiettivo è quello di creare un clone hi-tech ( powered by High Technology ) del\ncervello umano : Si osservi infatti che il modello proposto dai mass media e\nvoluto dal potere , è un uomo che deve trovare la propria realizzazione nel\nconsumare e nel possedere beni materiali . Una vera e propria soluzione a tutto\nciò potrebbe essere quella di reintrodurre i principi dello stoicismo al fine di\nassegnare il governo del Paese ad un filosofo che cerchi il bene per la società\nche lo circonda . Ma c' è un altro tempo che , volente o nolente , l' uomo\ninteso come singolo individuo è costretto ad attraversare ed è il tempo dell'\nanimo . Lungo tutto il percorso della storia , l' uomo è venuto sempre più a\ncoscienza che per una buona convivenza è indispensabile la giustizia . \" Tra\ntutte le scuse che sentiamo accampare per giustificare il mancato tentativo di\nmettere fine a questa depressione , c' è il ritornello che viene ripetuto\ncostantemente dagli apologeti dell' iniziazione : L' omicidio politico o\nintimidatorio è un gesto forte , un gesto che desta scalpore , ed è ben per\nquesto che viene utilizzato per percuotere o ledere , non direttamente la\nvittima , ma chi le stava attorno , come per esempio un movimento politico .\nSuccessivamente grazie alla colonizzazione di altri luoghi e alla nascita di\nnuove civiltà si è giunti all' unificazione dell' impero romano . Questo porta a\nresistenze ad aprirsi verso l' esterno da parte dell' Europa ed è causa di\nvicende che ci colpiscono direttamente come il fenomeno dell' immigrazione . È\nmerito di queste tecnologie avanzate se si è raggiunto l' obiettivo di trovare\nl' acqua su un altro pianeta ed è grazie a questi studi se si riesce a mettere\nin atto spedizioni spaziali come quella che ha affrontato Samantha Cristoforetti\n. Proprio questi dovrebbero essere il motore che spinge l' Italia , paese ricco\ndi culture diverse , di una lunga storia , di artisti e scrittori di fama\nmondiale , dalla morfologia geologica molto ampia , partendo dalle Alpi e le\nmagnifiche Dolomiti che grazie alle abbondanti nevicate aumentano il turismo\ninvernale , fino ad arrivare ai Mari che circondano l' Italia , con il caldo e\nle spiagge , mete molto ambite dai turisti . L' Italia in questa operazione è in\npole position con l' Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ( Asi ) e può vantare nel suo\nequipaggio l' esperienza fresca e diretta sul campo di Samantha Cristoforetti ,\nuna dei protagonisti della missione Futura . Ciò che stupisce però è che tutto\nciò ai Paesi sviluppati d' Europa come Italia , Francia e Germania non desta\naltro che indifferenza o , nel caso contrario , rabbia . Ciò che è certo è che\nil Mediterraneo , oggi come oggi , non è più quello di un tempo ; Così come lo è\nil fenomeno dell' immigrazione che in questi ultimi anni ha visto come maggiori\nluoghi di approdo Mediterraneo e Sud Italia . Il prodotto interno lordo , meglio\nnoto come PIL , è il valore che dovrebbe servire a \" ... valutare il livello di\nbenessere ... \" di una nazione , tenendo conto sostanzialmente di tutto ciò che\nviene prodotto al suo interno . La prima è la psicologia sperimentale che spiega\ncome scrive Edoardo Boncinelli in \" La vita della nostra mente \" - : Nell'\ninteriorità quindi il Tempo è come se non esistesse . Studi e ricerche sopra\nquesto incredibile organo sono stati condotti soprattutto negli ultimi decenni e\nci hanno permesso di scoprire un elevatissimo numero di novità nel suo\nfunzionamento , dandoci la possibilità di apportare innovazioni in numerosi\ncampi , da quello scientifico-tecnologico a quello psicologico . Gabriele D'\nAnnunzio , uomo dotto , interventista , scrittore dal grande ingegno , è il\nletterato che compie la più accurata analisi dell' uomo esteta nell' epoca\nDecadente . Ricercare è un' attività che ha per fine un ritrovamento : È di\nalcuni mesi fa la notizia che il governo britannico , dopo anni di silenzio ,\nabbia aperto al pubblico i propri archivi riguardanti questi avvistamenti . Essa\nè lo strumento più importante che un essere vivente possa avere . Il giorno 20\nMaggio 2007 è stata inaugurata la mostra di arte e letteratura in sala Maier a\nPergine Valsugana , con la presenza del Sindaco del paese Renzo Anderle , il\nquale ha annunciato la presente esposizione . Nel testo \" Dal mondo del\npressappoco all' universo della precisione \" Koyrè afferma che \" È ridicolo\nvoler misurare con esattezza le dimensioni di un essere naturale ... è\nattraverso lo strumento di misura che l' idea di esattezza prende possesso di\nquesto mondo e che il mondo della precisione arriva a sostituirsi al mondo del \"\npressappoco \" . Il fatto di raggiungere l' universo , una dimensione che appare\ncosì ignota oscura e lontana , è certamente un' esperienza adrenalinica che può\nportare a conseguenze positive , come racconta Samantha Cristoforetti nell'\nintervista di Valesini . Proviamo a domandare ai napoletani , ai trentini , al\npopolo di Seattle cosa ne pensano della CE . essa , infatti , è un mezzo che\npermette a persone di tutte le età - soprattutto giovani - di stare insieme e di\ncondividere delle emozioni , in qualunque luogo e con qualsiasi genere musicale\n. mentre , secondo l' interpretazione di B. Pascal essi derivano dalla\nconsapevolezza che la ragione è limitata , infatti \" vi è un' infinità di cose\nche la sorpassano \" . \" Il supremo passo della ragione sta nel riconoscere che\nc' è un' infinità di cose che la sorpassano \" infatti questi fenomeni pongono\nalle generazioni presenti e future problemi finora sconosciuti . Il progetto di\nuna Costituzione Democratica per un' Europa Unita , è un passo fondamentale di\nun processo che ha indotto popoli e nazioni diverse ad unirsi . Forse per \"\nsillabare \" un' altra possibile risposta si dovrebbe riflettere su che cos' è l'\nuomo prima ancora che sull' essenza della filosofia . Quello che volevo far\nemergere è l' importanza che ha avuto la Costituzione dal 1948 , anno in cui\nentra in vigore , ad oggi . La prima di queste motivazioni , è una sensazione\nche , analizzando i testi che mi sono stati proposti , ognuno ritrova in forme\ndiverse . ma quello che accomuna queste diverse definizioni , è l' importanza\nche le viene attribuita . È molto diffusa nella società attuale l' idea che ,\nattraverso una misurazione sistematica della ricchezza di uno Stato , si possa\ndefinire anche il benessere comune . Questo è un dato sicuramente importante che\nesprime il bisogno delle persone di avere qualcuno a fianco che possa sempre\noffrire il proprio aiuto e che sia pronto a capire le varie situazioni e a\nrassicurare nei momenti difficili . Svoltesi nell' ultimo fine settimana le\nnuove elezioni per il parlamento , si può trarre a consuntivo la conclusione che\nl' atteggiamento più diffuso tra i cittadini facenti parte dei paesi aderenti\nall' Unione Europea è l' euroscetticismo . Ma dietro ai grandi incassi , c' è\nchi in modo illegale si diverte alle spalle di questo venerabile business .\nUscendo dall' Italia , è bene ricordare un altro evento molto importante in\nambito musicale . Sono molte le testimonianze che gli storici moderni hanno\npotuto ricavare dal passato : È stato riscontrato un incremento nella vendita di\narticoli d' abbigliamento di + 40 % rispetto alla media settimanale » . Il\nfuturo è come lo immaginiamo e come lo vogliamo fare e questa è una cosa che\nnessun supercalcolatore è capace di prevedere \" . Come per molti di noi , al\nproprio paese spesso si è molto legati perché è un luogo che si conosce e che ci\nha visti crescere , racchiude le prime esperienze di vita e dà un' idea di\nprotezione , soprattutto nei piccoli paesi più che nelle grandi città . La\npiazza è anche questo , sofferenza e solitudine , ma le persone che come noi si\ntrovano in quel luogo ci sono amiche e come noi abbiamo bisogno di loro , loro\nhanno bisogno di noi per creare e sviluppare la trama invisibile di esperienze ,\nopinioni , ricordi ed amore che costituiscono la vera essenza della storia e\ndella cultura : Questa è la vera cultura che un paese ci può offrire , una\ncultura ed una storia fatta di persone , di stati d' animo , di spontaneità , di\nsicurezze e di intimità , che al paragone tutto ciò che viene raccontato nei\nlibri di storia passa in secondo piano . Non tutti però siamo appassionati dello\nstesso genere di musica , c' è chi predilige il genere della Ciccone , di Eminem\no di Ricky Martin e c' è chi rimane affezionato alle dolci melodie del Festival\ndi Sanremo . Oppure c' è chi preferisce le sinfonie dei grandi musicisti\nclassici , tra questi spicca il nome di Verdi , in onore del suo anniversario ,\nche anche lui è da considerare un mito intramontabile . Visto il grande \"\nconsumo \" di musica c' è da chiedersi quanto elevato sia il profitto dei settori\nlegati ad esso . Questa è la via che deve seguire la moderna Unione Europea : la\nprima è il fatto che questa comunanza culturale non è sentita solo a livello\nistituzionale , ma si sta diffondendo anche tra la gente comune ; a scuola , al\nlavoro , in chiesa , in auto , alla televisione , non c' è buon film che non sia\naccompagnato da buona musica . Un uomo che , anche se , come dice Pascal , sa\nche la grandezza della ragione sta nel riconoscere i suoi limiti , ama come\ntutti essere lodato , ama verificarsi nel suo lavoro , ama essere giudicato\ndalla natura , che è il suo superiore , ma anche il suo antagonista più cattivo\n, più difficile da battere . Nonostante questo , i primi a opporsi all' utilizzo\neffettivo dell' arma , furono proprio gli scienziati che l' avevano costruita ,\na causa del proprio orrore dinanzi ai risultati ottenuti . Solo che l' uomo non\nè una macchina a cui si sostituisce il pezzo guasto , è un' entità psicofisica\ndove il più piccolo cambiamento sull' ambiente che lo circonda si ripercuote sul\ntutto . Certo è che ognuno può vederla in un modo come nell' altro ; sono in\npochi quelli che oggi uscirebbero la sera per andare in piazza , ancora meno\ncoloro che scriverebbero : Domani , 21 giugno , è il fatidico giorno che apre le\nporte ad una nuova stagione . Questa è una festa che dura ininterrottamente per\nben tre giorni e per questo motivo serve molta organizzazione . A conferma di\nciò è il fatto che agli MTV Europe Music Award di Stoccolma , grande evento\nmusicale internazionale che è stato seguito e documentato da Il Corriere della\nsera , hanno riscosso grande successo sia Madonna che Eminem , due personaggi\ndel tutto diversi , soprattutto per quanto riguarda la loro musica . una\nspiegazione più plausibile è che vi siano scarsissime probabilità che la vita si\nsviluppi su altri pianeti o che , sviluppatasi , diventi intelligente \" . C' è\nchi afferma di essere stato testimone del fenomeno dei \" cerchi nel grano \" ed è\npiù che convinto che siano manifestazioni degli UFO che vogliono renderci\ncoscienti della loro esistenza . Egli ritiene inoltre che ci siano scarsissime\nprobabilità che esistano altre forme di vita nell' universo o che queste almeno\nsviluppino l' intelletto . La persona altruista , generosa , che quando c' è\nbisogno non tituba neanche un solo momento a mettere gli altri davanti a se\nstesso , è felice , è contornato da persone che lo apprezzano e che hanno stima\ndi lui , a differenza dell' avaro . Questa organizzazione , come già detto all'\ninizio , rappresenta sicuramente un passo fondamentale per la completa\nunitarietà europea , ma a detta di molti , sono ancora numerose e complesse le\nproblematiche da affrontare , prima di poter dire , nel vero senso della parola\n, di vivere in un' \" Europa Unita \" . Questa è la definizione che troviamo\nsfogliando il dizionario . Bauman insiste con veemenza su quello che è l'\natteggiamento che siamo portati ad assumere , ovvero nella nostra naturale\ntendenza ad andare oltre , a scegliere \" obiettivi ben oltre la nostra portata \"\ne a mirare a condizioni superiori pressoché irraggiungibili . Ve n' è infatti\nuna parte che diffonde cultura e informazione . L' aspetto infine più nuovo , e\na parer mio anche più importante , è quello che riguarda i media e l'\ninformazione : In quegl' anni si era in piena Seconda Industrializzazione e fu\nregistrato un lieve aumento dei salari degli operai quindi un leggero aumento\ndel benessere diffuso . La folla è vista come un pericolo perché è in grado di\nimporre le sue scelte al singolo senza lasciargli il tempo di riflettere se\nsiano giuste o meno , cambia il suo modo di pensare e di essere senza dargli lo\nspazio per controbattere . L' opinione comune ci insegna che il diverso , colui\nche si distingue dagli altri , è da denigrare , è un errore del sistema perfetto\nche il \" Centro \" ha attuato per assimilare a sé l' intero paese \" . Il nostro\nvero io è l' unico che ci può rendere fieri e soddisfatti di ciò che abbiamo\ncreato , la nostra autentica singolarità . L' unico neo sta nel fatto che è una\nricerca molto lenta che produce conclusioni anche dopo decine di anni . Il\nsedici novembre duemila si sono svolti a Stoccolma gli MTV Europe Music Awards ,\ngli oscar della musica . rappresenta il popolo italiano ed era un importante\npasso verso la democrazia in un paese che era appena uscito da uno dei più gravi\nregimi , quello fascista . quanti sono gli immigrati extraeuropei che rischiano\nla vita in mare per venire nel nostro paese a cercar fortuna ! Si pensi ad\nesempio all' esilio , è un' esperienza dolorosa che lascia un segno profondo .\nCioè la loro richiesta , se esaudita , è considerata giusta perchè è un\ninteresse che è stato soddisfatto . È difficile da definire ora se è più giusto\nun cittadino che sa che una legge è ingiusta e la rispetta , o uno che per\nquesto evade la legge non rispettandola . L' umanità sta lentamente aprendosi ad\nuna multi etnicità che è elemento base per una convivenza civile che non sia\nlimitata ad aree geografiche definite , ma che si allarghi fino ad estendersi in\ndimensioni globali . la giustizia non era più \" calata dall' alto \" per\ndifendere degli interessi particolari ma era il frutto della ragione dell' uomo\nche riconosceva agli individui alcuni diritti inviolabili . Oltre alla\ndifficoltà della misurazione stessa c' era un problema ancora maggiore che l' ex\nsenatore statunitense Robert Kennedy espose nel suo discorso tenuto il 18 marzo\n1968 : Fino ad allora per me era come una nube nera che nessuno aveva mai avuto\nil coraggio di squarciare con i raggi della verità . Per un figlio non c' è\nrealizzazione più grande che vedere l' orgoglio dei genitori nei propri\nconfronti . O essendo l' universo un adesso ha quindi in sé stesso un prima (\novvero qualcosa che ha preceduto la sua esistenza ) e un dopo ? Scontri tra\nragioni filosofiche diverse però , erano anche fonte di violenti dibattiti che ,\ncome sosteneva lo stesso Socrate , potevano portare a dei rischi per la vita .\nIl primo , ed è il più famoso poeta che viene da porre sul banco dei testimoni è\nsicuramente Dante , che nella sua opera \" Le Rime \" , coglie la gioia più grande\nnel trascorrere il tempo in compagnia degli amici e delle rispettive donne amate\n. La filosofia inoltre tratta tematiche del quotidiano ( vita , morte , amore )\ninfatti il filosofo , prima di tutto , è un uomo che come ognuno di noi ,\nnascendo si trova in un mondo già fatto e in continua trasformazione , a causa\ndel passare del tempo e l' interagire di popoli e civiltà . Essa è sicuramente\nun tema che fa riflettere molto , si cerca infatti di capire perché sia così\nimportante la presenza di un amico e perché sia qualcosa che l' essere umano\ncerca fin dai primi anni di vita . In molti si chiedono però che cos' è questo\nsentimento che lega profondamente una persona ad un' altra . La disponibilità\nche un amico mette a nostra disposizione e che noi , naturalmente , ricambiamo è\nun fattore che gratifica molto . Il rapportarsi agli altri è un atteggiamento\nistintivo che ognuno di noi ha sin dall' infanzia . Ne è un esempio Rosso\nMalpelo che sacrificò dei soldi della sua paga e diede i suoi calzoni quasi\nnuovi all' amico Ranocchio gravemente malato . la piazza non è solo il luogo\ndove incontrare , andare al bar , chiacchierare con gli amici , ma è anche un\nluogo che vi potrà arricchire culturalmente e aiutarvi nel vostro futuro . Dico\nche la musica è un arte , perché è una cosa che ogni artista , cantante o\nmusicista che sia , crea scavando nella propria personalità , nelle proprie\nemozioni , ma questo è un dono che non tutti hanno . Il percorso della comunità\neuropea firmato a Roma nel 1957 , al quale aderirono inizialmente sei nazioni ,\nè ormai un processo che dura da quasi 40 anni durante i quali molti avvenimenti\nsi sono succeduti , tra i quali la trasformazione da C.E.E. in Unione Europea\nche raggruppa oggi 15 paesi . L' unica cosa certa è che noi viviamo nel tempo ,\nsenza sapere cos' è e perché . All' inizio può essere una delusione , si può\nsoffrire , ma anche questa è un' esperienza che ognuno di noi ha provato o\nproverà , ciò fa parte della vita che ci dà la possibilità di aprire gli occhi\nper un futuro migliore che dia sempre meno spazio a spiacevoli episodi . Ogni\ntanto mi incanto a guardare i miei compagni per qualche minuto , e questo è il\ntempo che rincorro perché mi piace osservare . La filosofia non porta alla\nfelicità , ma ad una grande consapevolezza del mondo che ci circonda , e quel\ndisagio che la accompagna è il segno che stiamo vivendo . Il tempo è un\nmutamento delle cose nello spazio , per meglio dire esso è l' unità di misura di\ntale cambiamento , è una grandezza che indica il susseguirsi di eventi ; Questa\nsecondo me è una frase stupenda , è la più grande manifestazione d' affetto che\nsi possa dire , perché dare la vita non è una cosa da tutti i giorni e non si fa\nper tutti . Ma la cosa che più mi fa pensare è che prima di tutto ciò , questi\nfatti non erano così diffusi . Questo sarà il periodo che sia lungo o breve ,\nche ti resterà per sempre nella mente perché comprende emozioni indescrivibili .\nBeh , certo sarebbe fantastico se ci cadesse tra le mani o trovassimo sotto al\ncuscino una guida , un manuale completo con le istruzioni per essere felici .\nSarebbe tutto più facile ! Questa è la domanda che si pongono miliardi di\npersone da molto tempo . Dopo tutte queste leggende come scrisse Stephen Hawking\nne \" L' universo in un guscio di noce \" c' è scarsissima probabilità che\nesistano altre forme di vita e se esistono ci lasciano nel nostro brodo\nprimitivo . Una famiglia normalissima , che vive in una casa altrettanto normale\n, con due figli , e un lavoro che gli permette di vivere rispettosamente . egli\nsarà sempre troppo occupato a rincorrere un desiderio di essere felice , non\ncapendo che questa è la prigione che limita la sua libertà . È con la filosofia\nche , i più , cercano di trovare una possibile spiegazione . Ed è proprio il\nraggiungimento di sfide che sembrano impossibili , che causa una maggiore\nfelicità . ma è proprio questa consapevolezza che spinge gli uomini a darsi\ndelle leggi . È proprio questo percorso di ricerca , più che il raggiungimento\ndell' obiettivo in sé che non riesce a provocare la felicità assoluta e duratura\n, che spesso ci fa assaporare un piccolo aspetto dell' infinito concetto teorico\nfelicità . Non è dunque l' ottica dell' utilità e del guadagno a guidare verso\nla felicità . È dalle relazioni interpersonali che l' uomo ricava quegli\ninsegnamenti e lezioni di vita che gli permettono di assaporare il gusto sublime\ndella felicità . Ma è soprattutto grazie alla televisione che il centro ha\npotuto assimilare a sé l' intero potere , acquisendone il monopolio . Come la\nscienza , anche la filosofia ha al suo interno diverse ambiguità , ma è proprio\ndi queste ambiguità che le persone hanno bisogno . È in questo momento che la\nfilosofia può rendersi utile avvicinandosi ai problemi delle persone e della\nsocietà , amplificando il raggio d' azione \" servendo \" la neuroscienza , le\nscienze sociali , l' etica economica , la bioetica . È lo stato che attraverso i\nsuoi invincibili mezzi , quali le televisioni , impone i suoi modelli e porta\navanti la sua missione di repressione di qualsiasi ideologia . Sarà un salto\nevolutivo che permetterà la scoperta di efficaci cure ? La verità è che\nattualmente la scienza non può formulare una spiegazione razionale ed è per\nquesto motivo che agli UFO non si può dare una spiegazione logica per il fatto\nche in questo campo il metodo scientifico è inefficiente . È per questo motivo\nche si vedono famiglie disagiate economicamente , ma felici , e uomini ricchi ma\ntristi . È proprio in questo che si distingue l' uomo dal regno animale , dalla\npossibilità di percepire il bene o il male , il giusto o l' ingiusto all'\ninterno della società . È quindi ingiusto che , all' interno del mondo , persone\nche hanno il privilegio dei soldi , riescano a scontare pene e clausole . È\nproprio in quest' epoca nella quale i mercati sono in grande espansione e i\ngoverni sono sempre più orientati a garantire una maggiore equità sociale\nattraverso un' equa distribuzione della ricchezza , che si trova il giusto\nbilanciamento tra mercato e democrazia , tra capitalismo e politica . È forse la\ndomanda che tutti si pongono , dai neolaureati agli imprenditori , al semplice\npensionato . Ed è così che ci fu lo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale , tutto\nquesto per un' omicidio ; È una società che si accontenta di poco . È proprio\nper questo motivo che , come scritto nell' articolo di Enrica Battifoglia su \"\nLa Repubblica \" , nel 2016 verrà attivata una nuova missione chiamata ExoMars ,\nche prevede proprio ricerche in questo ambito . Sappiamo tutti , che oggi chi ha\nil potere è il Dio denaro , a cui addirittura la legge si inginocchia , forse\ntroppo spesso . Questo progresso tecnologico ha dato la possibilità di accedere\nalle informazioni in maniera molto più rapida ed efficiente , ed è proprio a\ncausa di questo che si è avuta la sostituzione di enciclopedia e libri ,\narrivando ad un vocabolario sempre più scarso e incolto . È il meccanismo che\ncoordina la maggior parte delle nostre attività , azioni , scelte e decisioni ed\nè per questo che da secoli l' uomo è interessato a capire la sua importanza , ma\nsoprattutto il suo funzionamento all' interno del corpo . Ed è precisamente in\nquesto istante che il nostro \" coinquilino esistenziale \" , come lo chiama\nTabucchi , si fa percepire maggiormente : Una spiegazione più plausibile è che\nvi siano scarsissime probabilità che la vita si sviluppi su altri pianeti o che\n, sviluppatasi , diventi intelligente . ( Dichiarazione di indipendenza dei\ntredici Stati Uniti d' America , 4 luglio 1776 ) è proprio sull' ultimo punto\nche vorrei soffermarmi , analizzare il tema molto discusso della felicità . ma è\nproprio la società odierna che trasmette un messaggio davvero sbagliato . Ed è\nproprio questo stesso pensatore a presupporre con certezza l' esistenza della\nvita su altri mondi lontani , là , sullo sfondo del firmamento infinito . è\nquesta la domanda che l' uomo si pone da quando è conscio dell' immensità dell'\nUniverso che lo circonda , ed in particolare da quando egli ha maturato la\nconsapevolezza di non essere il nucleo vitale del creato , il figlio di Dio , il\ncentro pulsante attorno al quale ruotano i cieli ed i pianeti conosciuti . È\nquel piacere che nasce dalla brama , dall' affanno , ed è già molto . È una\nnatura maligna che pone nel cuore umano la felicità senza dare la possibilità di\nrealizzarla . È uno dei mille esempi che si potrebbero citare , ma che dimostra\nche tutto nasce dalle piccole cose e non dal tentare di mostrarsi per come non\nsi è . siamo noi , esseri umani , che produciamo la nostra felicità . La\nfelicità è sinonimo di benessere , gioia , letizia , soddisfazione e\ncompiacimento , è un sentimento che ci conduce ad uno stato armonico di salute ,\ndi forze fisiche e spirituali . Questa è la domanda che ci poniamo da intere\ngenerazioni . Ed è proprio sfogliando quel grande libro che è la natura e l'\nuniverso che l' uomo arriva a queste nuove conoscenze . È infatti grazie al\ncontinuo progresso della scienza che l' uomo entra in possesso di strumenti\nsempre nuovi e sempre più avanzati che gli permettono una conoscenza sempre più\nprecisa e profonda . Ma è proprio in questi momenti che tralasciamo l'\nimportanza della giustizia come valore universale : ma in fondo è nell' amicizia\nche l' affetto tra due persone trova la sua massima espressione . È un rapporto\ndavvero grande che spesso può diventare più importante della propria vita ;\nNonostante siano stati raggiunti tutti questi importanti traguardi , non si è\nancora arrivati alla stesura di una Costituzione comune a tutti gli stati membri\ndell' UE , ed è proprio su questo punto cruciale , che i capi di Stato e le\nautorità politiche stanno lavorando attivamente , nel tentativo di dare la \"\nsicurezza \" di poter contare su un documento fondamentale , unico e uguale per\ntutti i cittadini europei , affinché possano essere tutelati o giudicati , sulla\nbase di una legge unica e uguale per tutti . Domande come questa trovano\novviamente riscontri differenti perché , se da un lato ciò che distingue l' Homo\nSapiens dagli altri animali è la sua innata curiosità , che lo spinge verso\ntraguardi sempre più ambiziosi , dall' altro è un dato di fatto che sono\nscoperte scientifiche anche le armi nucleari o le sostanze inquinanti ,\nresponsabili dell' allarmante stato di salute del nostro pianeta . Fu appunto\nquesta frase che portò l' autore alla logica conclusione che \" ... lo scienziato\nha bisogno di sentirsi confermare da un giudice imparziale , dalla natura stessa\n, di aver compreso la sua struttura . È con questo spirito che si sta\nprogettando una nuova missione per raggiungere l' orbita marziana nei prossimi\ndecenni . È già da tempo che in Inghilterra si parla di \" eutanasia telematica \"\n, un particolare tipo di eutanasia che si basa sull' uso di un macchinario\nscientifico , costosissimo e quindi ancora poco utilizzato , per procurare la\nmorte ai pazienti desiderosi di porre fine alla propria vita . È la natura\nstessa che Dio , prima di creare il mondo aveva regalato all' uomo perché\ngiudicato un \" vir bonus \" , un uomo buono capace di interiorizzare i modelli\nculturali della società in cui vive , adatto ad acquisire nuove conoscenze e\ncompetenze per sviluppare le proprie capacità con lo scopo di far progredire la\nsocietà secondo le esigenze della propria vita . È un' esperienza di vitale\nimportanza che ha dato la possibilità di esprimere le proprie emozioni e\nsentimenti , soprattutto attraverso la poesia e la religione con l' aiuto del\ndivino . Come sostiene P. Calamandrei , nell' Assemblea Costituente non c' era \"\nuna sola volontà , ma centinaia di libere volontà \" , le quali dovevano mettersi\nd' accordo sul contenuto della Carta Costituzionale ed è per questo motivo che\nsi dice che essa è compromissoria . Secondo me , questo fu possibile proprio\nperché le norme contenute in esso , potevano essere facilmente \" valicate \" ed è\nper questo motivo che si dice che è \" un atto flessibile \" . Infatti nel mondo\ndell' immaginazione siamo noi che istituiamo le regole e creiamo le situazioni ;\nse l' animo nel mondo reale non trova pace , spesso è nell' immaginazione che si\nrifugia . spesso infatti è proprio ciò in cui abbiamo fede a darci sicurezza e\npace . Un altro autore che tratta la tematica del rapporto padre-figlio è F.\nKafka . Fu proprio in questo periodo che si iniziarono a compiere i primi passi\nconcreti verso l' Unione Europea . Nessuno può dire di non aver bisogno di un\namico , è una condizione dell' uomo che F. Uhlman , ne \" L' amico ritrovato \" ,\ntraduce in \" bisogno di fiducia , di lealtà e di abnegazione \" e che anche\nCicerone , in \" De amicitia \" , ha espresso con la frase \" Tutti sanno che la\nvita non è vita senza amicizia , se , almeno in parte , si vuole vivere da\nuomini liberi \" . Sicuramente no , ed è per questo motivo che ogni artista di\ncui abbiamo memoria ha cercato di rappresentare l' amicizia come meglio ha\npotuto , nelle sue opere . C' è chi li attribuisce ad uno scherzo umano e c' è\nchi reputa che siano proprio gli extraterrestri che vogliono lasciarci degli\nindizi o che vogliono comunicare con noi . È da anni ormai che siamo governati\nda criminali vestiti in giacca e cravatta con le mani macchiate di sangue . Ogni\nanno , forti sono le critiche fatte contro i presentatori , la giuria o l'\norganizzazione , che rendono la trasmissione sempre unica e alternata ; È da\nquesta situazione che i giovani d' oggi ripartono , affrontando sempre più la\nglobalizzazione del mercato , soprattutto in ambito musicale . Ed è proprio\nquesto centro pulsante d' attività il cuore dal quale partivano le arterie del\nnucleo urbano , una sorta di reticolato che può avere come unico denominatore\ncomune la piazza , punto di ritrovo di cultura , società , costume , tradizione\ne folklore di una cittadinanza o , addirittura , di un intero popolo . Fu in\nquesti precisi termini , infatti , che nacque la cosiddetta \" agorà \" , piazza\ncentrale della polis greca , dove si svolgeva la vita politica e commerciale\ndella città . Sono le piazze il topos letterario prediletto da cui partire per\nottenere uno zoom su quella che è la vita quotidiana di tutti gli abitanti ,\nricchi , poveri , belli o brutti , ma tutti accomunati dalla voglia di un\nincontro e dal non isolamento che la vita di periferia alle volte può creare . È\nin seguito a questo fenomeno che gli storici devono assumere per Hobsbawm un\nruolo di maggiore importanza . È proprio dalla storia infatti che l' uomo può\nricavare consigli utili per condurre al meglio la propria vita , cercando di\nevitare gli stessi errori in cui altri in passato sono già incorsi . sono le\nsole cose materiali , che soddisfano le nostre aspettative e ci rendono felici ?\nÈ qui che egli siede in tranquillità e dove i suoi pensieri vagano fino ad\nimpaurirsi di fronte all' eternità e alla morte . In particolare sono due le\ncaratteristiche di cui possiamo andare fieri : È questo uno dei più grandi pregi\ndella musica , quello di unire ; A dover cambiare è quindi la politica stessa\nche ponendosi come garante del buon utilizzo delle scoperte renderebbe senza\nsenso ogni dubbio o paura dello scienziato . Non l' abbiamo mai controllata , ne\nsiamo sempre rimasti sottomessi e condizionati , ed è proprio questo mancato\ncontrollo che causa dubbi e paure nello scienziato . È qualcosa che viene\npreparato a tavolino per meglio soddisfare le esigenze di mercato . Quindi è\nproprio dalla piazza di questa città che Saba rimane maggiormente colpito ; È\nproprio questa capacità di affascinare che può però portare a trascurare l'\neffettiva utilità della scienza . questo è un evento che più che per la musica\nin sé , affascina per la moda adottata dai cantanti , ( più preoccupati di come\napparire che di come cantare ) nel testo di D' Annunzio invece , nonostante\nqueste vadano scemando , è proprio dallo sforzo , dalla continuazione dell' atto\n, che il poeta vede il compimento dell' appagamento e dell' ulteriore riposo . è\nla mia amica che mi migliora il morale e che mi fa sfogare quando ne ho bisogno\n. Anche qui quindi sono sempre le grandi potenze a prevalere sull' opinione\ndegli scienziati , che sostengono che vi è stato un aumento di sostanze nocive\nnell' atmosfera e quindi un aumento dell' effetto serra e un assottigliamento\ndello strato d' ozono . Ed è proprio questo problema che si pone nel nostro\nsecolo , pieno di sospetti , di dubbi e di paure di fronte alle possibili\ncatastrofi che la scienza può causare . È forse dunque la continua ricerca che\nci porta lontani dall' obiettivo ? è il troppo pensare , che rende le persone\ninsoddisfatte . è nella direzione delle neuroscienze che si stanno spostando le\nnuove frontiere della scienza del XXI secolo . Ma , come nella storia , ogni\ntanto qualche notizia riguardo al mondo reale filtra attraverso le sbarre , ed è\na questo punto che la massa si risveglia , anche se solo per un momento , dal\nsuo sonno indotto . è quindi dall' unione dell' interesse per i particolari\nmateriali con una passione per le generalizzazioni astratte che scaturisce la\nnovità caratteristica della nostra attuale società ; è proprio questa che è al\ngiorno d' oggi la scienza moderna . È in questo modo che il sentimento amoroso\ndiventa attaccamento alla vita , la consapevolezza di possedere la capacità di\nprovare tale sensazione . Sono tanti gli elementi che ci rendono unici : È\nquando si capisce questo , quando si arriva a comprendere questo semplice quanto\nfondamentale principio che potremmo affermare il raggiungimento della convivenza\ncivile in una società che garantisce i nostri diritti con quella giustizia\npaladina di legalità . È qui che si svolgono le storie di Elmer , Herman , Bert\n, Tom e Charley . è qui che un Leopardi poco più che ventenne compone una delle\nliriche più toccanti della letteratura italiana : È questa la domanda che molti\nscienziati si pongono . È questo lo spirito che spinge a spendere così tanto\ndenaro per una missione : È proprio grazie a questi appaganti successi che le\nagenzie spaziali si impegnano a finanziare missioni per il raggiungimento dell'\nambito Pianeta Rosso . È stato solamente dopo aver trascorso un anno all' estero\nnegli Stati Uniti , un Paese per molti aspetti completamente diverso , che mi\nsono veramente resa conto di quanto fosse straordinario il paesaggio italiano .\nQuindi è l' uomo che sente di essere qualcuno e cerca di esprimerlo attraverso\nle sue opinioni , le sue idee e decisioni . è una qualità che come scrissero\nDarwin e Spencer è indispensabile per il miglioramento di una razza in quanto\nsolo il più forte e chi meglio si adatta sopravvive . nei \" Promessi Sposi \" di\nManzoni è proprio l' amicizia a dare sollievo a Renzo e al suo amico . È in\nquesto quadro sociale che Uhlman esprime il suo concetto di amicizia in \" L'\namico ritrovato \" , opera del 1971 . Ed è proprio con uno sguardo che Raffaello\nriesce a dimostrarci tutto il suo affetto per un suo amico . ed è proprio all'\ninterno di questa realtà che ci alieniamo , distogliendo il nostro interesse da\nquestioni più importanti . È importante mantenerlo e rispettarlo , il nostro e\nquello altrui , perché è in questo cuore che la vita , la volontà e la libertà\ndei cittadini viene presa in considerazione e viene ascoltata , anche se non\nsempre viene soddisfatta . È una domanda che la nostra rivista si è spesso posta\n. È in questo quadro che va collocata la politica aggressiva seguita dalla\nGermania . Sono proprio queste persone che pur di raggiungere i propri scopi\npersonali si fingono amici , usando le persone a loro piacimento facendogli\ncredere di essergli vicini . È il frutto di un attento esame di una persona ,\nche porta a capire se essa è degna di dare e ricevere amicizia . Il nulla , lo\nstare soli , l' indifferenza , sono queste le cose che fanno ammalare\nemotivamente le persone , è per questo che l' istinto umano ci porta alla\nricerca di compagnia , a non cadere nel malessere della solitudine , citata da\nLeopardi nel \" il passero solitario \" . affermando , nel primo , che è la nostra\nnatura che ci porta alla ricerca della compagnia e dell' aiuto reciproco . È un\ndesiderio che permane nel tempo , fino ai giorni nostri , e che già Dante scrive\nnella raccolta \" Le rime \" . \" Il cielo è blu , o siamo noi che lo vediamo blu ?\nSono parole che rendono in maniera molto chiara il significato ma bisogna tenere\nin considerazione che non sempre possiamo trovarci a fianco la persona giusta ,\ncome addirittura possiamo essere da soli e spesso questo è motivo di disagio ,\ndi stati di angoscia che fanno scatenare dentro di noi tante insicurezze . il\ntempo è un componente importante della nostra vita ed è lui che ci aiuta a\nmaturare e ad acquisire una visione oggettiva e attenta di ciò che ci circonda .\nEd è il tempo che ci fa crescere , che ci accompagna e che segue ogni nostro\nmovimento . Una persona che soffre perennemente perché troppo riflessiva , ha\nsicuramente vissuto nella maniera più pura , è una persona che non potrà mai\navere nessun clone o appartenere a degli stereotipi , e chi la amerà , la\napprezzerà proprio per quella sua unicità di persona vera . È proprio questo\nsentimento che l' arte ha sempre cercato d' esaltare e credo che il libro \" Il\npiccolo principe \" ne sia un esempio concreto . È un processo che non si può\nforzare ed è difficile , se non impossibile , da spiegare a parole . È per\nquesto che il tema dell' amicizia viene affrontato da vari punti di vista : E'\nproprio per i suoi mille modi di decifrarla che molti poeti , scrittori ,\ncantanti e artisti ne prendono l' ispirazione per comporre le proprie opere e\nrenderle appassionanti ed entusiasmanti . E' all' interno di quest' ultimo\ngruppo che dovranno essere viste le trasformazioni strutturali veramente\nimponenti della società ma anche la crescita civile attraverso la partecipazione\ndei cittadini . Tutti esperimenti che permettono il miglioramento delle scienze\ned è appunto per questo che vengono realizzati . È per questo motivo che\nriuscire ad avvicinarsi alla felicità autentica e totale è molto difficile .\nQuindi , secondo me è anche la tecnologia che ha alterato la nostra serenità . È\nper questo motivo che la \" felicità totale e autentica \" è distante da noi , si\nallontana ogni volta che cerchiamo di avvicinarci ad essa . Fu proprio negli\nStati Uniti d' America che vennero create le leggi antitrust , per impedire che\nnel mercato vi fosse la presenza di una sola impresa e per favorire la\nconcorrenza nel mercato tra più imprese . In questo periodo siamo nel mezzo di\nuna depressione dove tra le molte scuse vediamo spiccare quella del focalizzarsi\nsul lungo periodo e non su quello breve però facendo in questo modo si ignora\ncompletamente il presente dove appunto vi è la presenza di un' enorme sofferenza\nche attaccherà i progetti a lungo termine . Bisognerebbe invece fare il\ncontrario , perché è soltanto l' intervento immediato che impedirà al breve\ntermine di diventare lungo . È da tempo ormai che si cercano soluzioni per la\ncrisi economica che ha coinvolto ormai tutto il globo . Sono molti gli studi e i\nprogetti che sono in ballo , e come abbiamo visto prima c' è anche molta\nrivalità . In questo modo , risulta più facile allo Stato tenere sotto controllo\nil popolo . A causa di essa ne risentono , chi più e chi meno , tutte le classi\nsociali : Lo affermò anche , in un intervento , Vittorio Sgarbi : Se ai\nveneziani del XVI sec. si presentava impossibile il raggiungimento via mare\ndelle Indie , a noi oggi risulta altrettanto improbabile che l' uomo un giorno\ncolonizzi un pianeta diverso dal suo . E proprio di questo si tratta , del\ncrescere . Stanno già lavorando altri studenti per migliorarne le\ncaratteristiche . \" Ho vissuto un' infanzia tremenda , ma non mi sono mai arresa\n, con tutto il dolore che provavo dentro di me ci credevo ancora nella felicità\n. Intanto a questo festival girano miliardi , e se i soldi sono tanti un motivo\nci sarà . Di questa tesi si fece promotore lo stesso Heisenberg , che la\nraccolse nel libro \" La tradizione della scienza \" . Inoltre sorsero all'\ninterno della società vari problemi , come la disoccupazione , l' inflazione ,\nil reinserimento dei reduci nel lavoro e l' ascesa dei prezzi . Alcuni la\nritengono infatti un' impresa paradossale quella di voler applicare la geometria\nalla realtà , poiché nessun essere naturale ha dimensioni strettamente e\nrigidamente determinate . Si è esibito sul palco del Globen della capitale\nsvedese anche Eminem , un artista rap diventato famosissimo per le accuse di\nviolenza e per scrivere testi provocatori . Infiniti sono i luoghi dell' anima ,\ngli scenari percorribili dalla nostra immaginazione , un' infinità tale che al\nLeopardi \" sovvien l' eterno \" . Sempre più numerose saranno le ricerche e le\nscoperte nello spazio , che forse , un giorno ci daranno la possibilità di\nabitare un altro pianeta oltre al nostro Forme di massificazione se ne vedono\ndovunque . Un esempio è stato quello del presidente degli USA , Kennedy , il\nquale il 22 novembre 1963 venne ucciso a Dallas in un attentato mentre era in\nviaggio per la sua campagna elettorale in Texas . Di omicidi intimidatori se ne\nvidero molti anche in Italia , con l' avvento del fascismo ; Essendo il piacere\nuna sensazione fortemente soggettiva , alcuni letterati lo hanno inteso come\nunica conseguenza delle passioni amorose e dei rapporti carnali . Altro fattore\nche contribuisce al perseguimento della felicità è il guadagno . A questo evento\npartecipano soltanto artisti già noti e famosi ; Molto meno successo Eminem lo\nha avuto quest' anno a Sanremo , pur non potendo negare che il festival in\nquesti ultimi anni è molto meno sentito , per questo ogni motivo è valido per\nincolpare qualcuno per il \" fiasco \" del grande festival di Sanremo . Alla fine\nil disco lo si va a comprare comunque , se si vuole . Un esempio emblematico lo\nritroviamo negli adolescenti , che spesso sognano ad occhi aperti per fuggire\ndalla loro condizione . Un altro esempio lo si ritrova nella poesia ‘Infinito'\ndi Leopardi . Ciò che rimane sempre nell' animo e nel cuore di una persona è l'\nambiente . Il nostro con la scienza non è mai stato un rapporto oggettivo ,\nunivoco , ma si è sempre posto nell' ambito della ambiguità e dell' incoerenza .\nIl primo sentore dell' importanza di una piazza , lo si ha ascoltando i discorsi\ndei vecchi che , con fare dialettale , si riferiscono ad essa almeno tre o\nquattro volte in un discorso . Un esempio possiamo trovarlo anche piuttosto\nrecentemente alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale . Ma a rendere ancor più\ncaratteristiche le nostre città italiane , contribuiscono le piazze . Infatti\nnella società moderna vi è una netta differenza fra persone che vivono\nagiatamente e altre che non riescono a sfamare la propria famiglia . Loro stanno\nbene , ma a noi \" comuni mortali \" cosa ci aspetta ? Stanno lì sulle loro\npoltrone e non pensano al domani di una nazione che la crisi la sta sentendo\neccome . a fare questo ci pensò Sigmund Freud . È un pensiero abbastanza diffuso\n, confrontando la vita odierna con quella passata , quello di credere di aver\nfatto molti passi avanti in ogni campo . Altro chiaro esempio di \" matrimonio \"\nfra luogo e anima ce lo offre il siciliano Verga , che nel suo \" I Malavoglia \"\nracconta di una serata nel paesino di Aci Trezza . tuttavia dietro a questa\nspiegazione c' è ben altro ed il paesaggio italiano ne è la prova . Di come si\npassi da una situazione di totale indifferenza all' instaurarsi di un amicizia ,\nseppure in fase embrionale , ci viene in aiuto il dialogo fra il piccolo\nprincipe e la volpe , personaggi di Saint Exupery : Una complicità così profonda\ned unita , la si può avere solamente con un amico , raramente con due persone ,\nche conoscono a loro volta il profondo significato di amicizia . Un altro\nimportantissimo progetto intrapreso , è l' organizzazione di una missione da\nparte dell' Agenzia Spaziale Europea il cui fine è studiare le condizioni\nchimiche di Marte e ricercare possibili microorganismi capaci di sopravvivere in\nquesto ambiente estremo . Quando parliamo di amicizia soprattutto fra noi\ngiovani il termine può risultare forse troppo generico e talvolta usato nel\nlinguaggio comune in modo improprio perché il vero significato forse dobbiamo\nancora chiarirlo e per far sì che questo accada ci vuole solo tempo ; Conosce la\ncultura e a memoria , la Divina Commedia ci narra . Del tempo , prima della\nnascita dell' Uomo non se ne parlava , forse sì ma ci atteniamo solo alle\nesperienze umane di cui abbiamo testimonianza . Più che altro a seguire questa\nideologia sono i religiosi . Un bellissimo esempio di come dovrebbe essere l'\namicizia lo troviamo in Rosso Malpelo , una novella di Verga , che narra di\nquando Ranocchio stava male e Malpelo per aiutarlo prese dei soldi dalla paga e\ncomprò da bere e da mangiare per l' amico e gli diede dei calzoni nuovi . La\nCostituzione non dobbiamo vederla solo come un insieme di norme a cui noi\ndobbiamo attenerci , ma possiamo anche collaborare con la politica per rendere\nla Costituzione più vivibile in modo che diffonda in noi maggior sicurezza e\ntranquillità . Il bene della società lo forma proprio chi ne fa parte . Il\npaesaggio intorno al villaggio lo descrive con il cuore di uno figlio , una\nfamiliare di questi elementi naturali : L' attaccamento di questa città lo\nraccogliamo nel atto III scena III , quando il Frate Lorenzo annuncia il suo\nesilio da Verona , e Romeo fa una riflessione sulla sua sentenza : Si può\naffermare che la felicità la si può raggiungere sempre basta volerlo , infine\nesserlo vuol dire essere soddisfatti di se stessi e delle proprie scelte . In\npassato alcuni autori come Oscar Wilde e Gabriele d' Annunzio sostenevano , nei\nloro scritti , che il raggiungimento della felicità lo si sarebbe ottenuto solo\npuntando al bello , al sublime , al superfluo , facendo una vita senza regole ,\npiena di vizi e trasformando essa in un' opera d' arte . La felicità l' ho\nsempre paragonata alla scalata verso la cima di una montagna . Questo pensiero\nlo ritroviamo nell' articolo \" Alti e bassi dell' economia della felicità \"\npubblicato su \" La Stampa \" . Un altro riferimento lo ritroviamo nel film ,\nintitolato appunto \" La Ricerca della felicità \" , che tratta quest' argomento\nin modo eccellente e spettacolare , mostrando gli aspetti più spiacevoli che una\nfamiglia povera deve affrontare . Un giorno questa verità vorrei conoscerla e\nsapere se esistono altre forme di vita al di fuori del nostro pianeta . Io ,\nagli UFO ci credo , e a dirla tutta circa due settimane fa , ne ho avvistato uno\n. La cosa ancora più misteriosa , la si trova come sappiamo tutti , nei campi di\ngrano . Assurdo sarebbe pensare che al di fuori della nostra galassia non ci sia\nanima viva . In conclusione affermo che la ricerca della felicità è una cosa\nsoggettiva , una persona può apprezzare di più un piccolo gesto o una piccola\nparola e invece un' altra farà più fatica però un minimo di felicità anche\nquest' ultima la troverà . Come dice il testo sopra citato , tutto quello che\ndobbiamo fare è porci degli obiettivi credendo in noi stessi perché credo che la\nfelicità la si trovi solo credendo in noi stessi , attutendo i colpi ,\nrialzandoci ogni volta che cadiamo e andando comunque avanti per raggiungere i\npropri obiettivi . La crisi , quali fattori l' hanno creata ? Di questo però non\npossiamo esserne certi , l' importante è che lo stato , il mercato e la\ndemocrazia ritrovino l' equilibrio originario in modo tale da garantire una\nstabilità economica al paese permettendo così di riuscire a stilare nuovi\nprogrammi per lo sviluppo futuro . Questo valore è infatti solo la bella\ncopertina di un libro che probabilmente non sappiamo di cosa parla e magari\nnemmeno in che lingua è scritto , ma spesso per pigrizia quel libro non lo si\napre mai e continua comunque ad essere un buon libro solo grazie alla bella\ncopertina . La stessa situazione la possiamo trovare nel nostro Paese , che\nutilizzando come scusa il bisogno di focalizzarsi sul lungo termine e non sul\nbreve , accantona il mancato tentativo di mettere fine a questa depressione . La\nstraordinaria bellezza del nostro Paese non la si scopre di certo oggi è infatti\nstata fonte d' ispirazione per grandi artisti , Shakespeare ad esempio ha voluto\nambientare nella città di Verona il romanzo “ Romeo e Giulietta ” . Il paesaggio\n, infatti , lo si può considerare una parte fondamentale del nostro essere e\ndella nostra cultura . Posso solo dire che il tempo lo vivo ogni giorno\nconsapevole che prima o poi al posto mio ci sarà qualcun altro a viverlo . tutto\nciò lo poté fare perché lo Statuto Albertino era flessibile . molti pensano che\nla mondializzazione abbia attaccato il principio democratico e che abbia fatto\nsì che le multinazionali abbiano acquisito sempre più potere , economico e\npolitico , a discapito delle piccole imprese e dei più poveri , arrivando\naddirittura ad ottenere una importante influenza sugli Stati e sulle loro\npolitiche , ed alcuni pensano che un po' di \" colpa \" per l' avvento di questa\ncrisi e per la sua diffusione la si debba anche alla globalizzazione . Anche se\ndisponiamo di macchinari tecnologici molto avanzati c' è un fenomeno che ancora\nnon riusciamo a controllare , quello dell' apparizione dei cosiddetti UFO (\nUnidentified flying objects ) . C' è una canzone che mi ha fatto particolarmente\nriflettere da quando l' ho sentita : C' è una ragazza che piange su una panchina\ne noi che la vediamo ci chiediamo cosa le possa essere successo . In piazza c' è\nl' ubriacone che guarda barcollando la gente passare e c' è la gente che , con\npietà e sdegno , non lo vuole guardare . In Italia ci sarebbero moltissimi bravi\nricercatori che però sono costretti ad andare all' estero a compiere i loro\nesperimenti , proprio per la mancanza di fondi . Tra essi c' è la clonazione\numana che è vietata ma , personalmente , credo che in laboratori privati , all'\ninsaputa delle autorità , esperimenti di questo genere siano già stati fatti ,\nnon rispettando assolutamente l' uomo . vi erano persone più timorose che\naffermavano che tali scoperte avrebbero potuto rappresentare un pericolo se non\nfossero state usate con prudenza , erano scettiche , mentre v' erano persone che\ninvece erano affascinate da esse . al suo interno c' è una grande piazza che\nfungerà da collegamento fra visitatori , studenti e operatori del Museo . È\nsignificativo riconoscere che la scienza ha dei limiti , e il supremo passo\ndella ragione sta nel riconoscere che c' è un' infinità di cose che la\nsorpassano , e debole è la persona che non arriva a riconoscerlo . Nessun\nmusicista dicevamo , eppure Ricky Martin , come del resto Madonna , vende più di\n15 milioni di dischi all' anno . La condizione per la quale si genera una crisi\neconomica , è quando viene meno questo equilibrio . Concludendo , significativa\nè la dichiarazione dell' inventore della scienza moderna , Galileo Galilei , che\nper alcuni anni ebbe la forza di una pubblica autorità mettendo il suo sapere a\ndisposizione dei potenti : Altro genere che ha letteralmente sfondato in Italia\n, come all' Estero , è la musica latino-americana con artisti quali Ricky Martin\noppure Enrique Iglesias che con il loro fascino e la loro voce sensuale hanno\nconquistato un po' tutti , soprattutto le sale di fitness , visto lo sforzo\nnotevole di questi balli . Dal suffragio universale concesso in quegl' anni\nnegli stati europei nacquero i partiti di massa : Tutt' oggi alla Costituzione\nvengono apportate delle modifiche a favore dei cittadini ma principalmente\npersiste quella originaria del 1947 . In Italia , oltre all' aspirazione\nnaturalista , si è sviluppata una sensibilità diversa che ha assimilato il\npaesaggio alle opere d' arte , il cosiddetto \" paesaggismo \" . Molteplici sono\ngli esempi che si possono fare a proposito , uno molto significativo , anche se\nnon del tutto legato al campo della scienza , è quello dei motori a benzina i\nquali è vero che emettono gas inquinanti nell' atmosfera ma , senza di essi si\nritornerebbe all' età della pietra o quasi . Durante il 2016 si svolgerà la\nnuova missione ExoMars per la ricerca di forme di vita . Quindi non dobbiamo\nconcentrarci sul medio lungo termine perché significherebbe non interessarsi di\nciò che sta effettuando l' attuale depressione . Ecco , dunque , che riemerge la\nseconda parte della frase di Nietzsche : In realtà iniziano a manifestarsi le\nprime violenze nei confronti degli oppositori e il primo omicidio , quello di\nMatteotti , ucciso perché ha sostenuto che le elezioni sono avvenute in un clima\nintimidatorio . Non solo ha la musica la straordinaria facoltà di unire popoli e\npersone diverse . Trionfa Eminem come rapper bianco americano . Al di là di\nquesto , ciò che è fuori da ogni dubbio è l' immensa responsabilità che la\nscienza ha e che è , per una gran parte , in mano agli scienziati . Ciò che\nsicuramente accomuna le due posizioni è la necessità di riuscire a stabilire il\nlimite che separa l' utilità dal danno , cosa che risulta ed è risultata in\npassato difficile , quando la scienza è stata coinvolta in interessi di ordine\npolitico ed economico . Ciò che distingue gli ultimi due episodi rispetto ai\nprimi è il silenzio . Tutto ciò che ci circonda è un' armonia in continua\nevoluzione che nel suo insieme costituisce una bellezza quasi inconcepibile (\nconsiderata più storica che scientifica o estetica ) che solo in pochi sono in\ngrado di notare . \n", "gold_boundaries": [135, 235, 340, 553, 650, 708, 858, 1025, 1204, 1420, 1563, 1703, 1912, 2162, 2305, 2472, 2715, 3145, 3383, 3551, 3639, 3780, 4007, 4125, 4185, 4501, 4676, 4735, 4894, 4965, 5180, 5528, 5773, 5872, 6067, 6237, 6437, 6595, 6742, 6869, 7008, 7102, 7270, 7502, 7744, 7855, 7949, 8037, 8160, 8290, 8545, 8881, 9139, 9353, 9549, 9665, 9726, 9872, 9998, 10306, 10497, 10686, 10747, 10859, 10943, 11057, 11373, 11532, 11725, 11878, 12120, 12432, 12496, 12761, 12825, 12942, 13108, 13346, 13549, 13679, 13788, 13897, 14057, 14173, 14264, 14372, 14533, 14751, 14942, 15121, 15247, 15354, 15484, 15656, 15901, 16192, 16400, 16505, 16636, 16733, 16878, 17061, 17269, 17564, 17645, 17918, 18049, 18213, 18381, 18561, 18659, 18787, 18944, 18971, 19043, 19256, 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in precedenza e poi estinto servirà per capire l' evoluzione del pianeta\ne quali sono state le cause che lo hanno reso inospitale alla vita di quell'\norganismo .", " A tali domande ha cercato di dare una risposta Remo Bodei in un'\nintervista per \" il Mattino \" :", " È un fenomeno che ha preso sempre più piede\nattualmente .", " Un periodo così grigio e difficile per una nazione non va ad\ninteressare solamente il paese stesso , ma è un fenomeno che coinvolge il mondo\nintero .", " L' iniziativa prende il nome di \" human brain project \" ( HBP ) e l'\nobiettivo è quello di creare un clone hi-tech ( powered by High Technology ) del\ncervello umano :", " Si osservi infatti che il modello proposto dai mass media e\nvoluto dal potere , è un uomo che deve trovare la propria realizzazione nel\nconsumare e nel possedere beni materiali .", " Una vera e propria soluzione a tutto\nciò potrebbe essere quella di reintrodurre i principi dello stoicismo al fine di\nassegnare il governo del Paese ad un filosofo che cerchi il bene per la società\nche lo circonda .", " Ma c' è un altro tempo che , volente o nolente , l' uomo\ninteso come singolo individuo è costretto ad attraversare ed è il tempo dell'\nanimo .", " Lungo tutto il percorso della storia , l' uomo è venuto sempre più a\ncoscienza che per una buona convivenza è indispensabile la giustizia .", " \" Tra\ntutte le scuse che sentiamo accampare per giustificare il mancato tentativo di\nmettere fine a questa depressione , c' è il ritornello che viene ripetuto\ncostantemente dagli apologeti dell' iniziazione :", " L' omicidio politico o\nintimidatorio è un gesto forte , un gesto che desta scalpore , ed è ben per\nquesto che viene utilizzato per percuotere o ledere , non direttamente la\nvittima , ma chi le stava attorno , come per esempio un movimento politico .", "\nSuccessivamente grazie alla colonizzazione di altri luoghi e alla nascita di\nnuove civiltà si è giunti all' unificazione dell' impero romano .", " Questo porta a\nresistenze ad aprirsi verso l' esterno da parte dell' Europa ed è causa di\nvicende che ci colpiscono direttamente come il fenomeno dell' immigrazione .", " È\nmerito di queste tecnologie avanzate se si è raggiunto l' obiettivo di trovare\nl' acqua su un altro pianeta ed è grazie a questi studi se si riesce a mettere\nin atto spedizioni spaziali come quella che ha affrontato Samantha Cristoforetti\n.", " Proprio questi dovrebbero essere il motore che spinge l' Italia , paese ricco\ndi culture diverse , di una lunga storia , di artisti e scrittori di fama\nmondiale , dalla morfologia geologica molto ampia , partendo dalle Alpi e le\nmagnifiche Dolomiti che grazie alle abbondanti nevicate aumentano il turismo\ninvernale , fino ad arrivare ai Mari che circondano l' Italia , con il caldo e\nle spiagge , mete molto ambite dai turisti .", " L' Italia in questa operazione è in\npole position con l' Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ( Asi ) e può vantare nel suo\nequipaggio l' esperienza fresca e diretta sul campo di Samantha Cristoforetti ,\nuna dei protagonisti della missione Futura .", " Ciò che stupisce però è che tutto\nciò ai Paesi sviluppati d' Europa come Italia , Francia e Germania non desta\naltro che indifferenza o , nel caso contrario , rabbia .", " Ciò che è certo è che\nil Mediterraneo , oggi come oggi , non è più quello di un tempo ;", " Così come lo è\nil fenomeno dell' immigrazione che in questi ultimi anni ha visto come maggiori\nluoghi di approdo Mediterraneo e Sud Italia .", " Il prodotto interno lordo , meglio\nnoto come PIL , è il valore che dovrebbe servire a \" ... valutare il livello di\nbenessere ... \" di una nazione , tenendo conto sostanzialmente di tutto ciò che\nviene prodotto al suo interno .", " La prima è la psicologia sperimentale che spiega\ncome scrive Edoardo Boncinelli in \" La vita della nostra mente \" - :", " Nell'\ninteriorità quindi il Tempo è come se non esistesse .", " Studi e ricerche sopra\nquesto incredibile organo sono stati condotti soprattutto negli ultimi decenni e\nci hanno permesso di scoprire un elevatissimo numero di novità nel suo\nfunzionamento , dandoci la possibilità di apportare innovazioni in numerosi\ncampi , da quello scientifico-tecnologico a quello psicologico .", " Gabriele D'\nAnnunzio , uomo dotto , interventista , scrittore dal grande ingegno , è il\nletterato che compie la più accurata analisi dell' uomo esteta nell' epoca\nDecadente .", " Ricercare è un' attività che ha per fine un ritrovamento :", " È di\nalcuni mesi fa la notizia che il governo britannico , dopo anni di silenzio ,\nabbia aperto al pubblico i propri archivi riguardanti questi avvistamenti .", " Essa\nè lo strumento più importante che un essere vivente possa avere .", " Il giorno 20\nMaggio 2007 è stata inaugurata la mostra di arte e letteratura in sala Maier a\nPergine Valsugana , con la presenza del Sindaco del paese Renzo Anderle , il\nquale ha annunciato la presente esposizione .", " Nel testo \" Dal mondo del\npressappoco all' universo della precisione \" Koyrè afferma che \" È ridicolo\nvoler misurare con esattezza le dimensioni di un essere naturale ... è\nattraverso lo strumento di misura che l' idea di esattezza prende possesso di\nquesto mondo e che il mondo della precisione arriva a sostituirsi al mondo del \"\npressappoco \" .", " Il fatto di raggiungere l' universo , una dimensione che appare\ncosì ignota oscura e lontana , è certamente un' esperienza adrenalinica che può\nportare a conseguenze positive , come racconta Samantha Cristoforetti nell'\nintervista di Valesini .", " Proviamo a domandare ai napoletani , ai trentini , al\npopolo di Seattle cosa ne pensano della CE .", " essa , infatti , è un mezzo che\npermette a persone di tutte le età - soprattutto giovani - di stare insieme e di\ncondividere delle emozioni , in qualunque luogo e con qualsiasi genere musicale\n.", " mentre , secondo l' interpretazione di B. Pascal essi derivano dalla\nconsapevolezza che la ragione è limitata , infatti \" vi è un' infinità di cose\nche la sorpassano \" .", " \" Il supremo passo della ragione sta nel riconoscere che\nc' è un' infinità di cose che la sorpassano \" infatti questi fenomeni pongono\nalle generazioni presenti e future problemi finora sconosciuti .", " Il progetto di\nuna Costituzione Democratica per un' Europa Unita , è un passo fondamentale di\nun processo che ha indotto popoli e nazioni diverse ad unirsi .", " Forse per \"\nsillabare \" un' altra possibile risposta si dovrebbe riflettere su che cos' è l'\nuomo prima ancora che sull' essenza della filosofia .", " Quello che volevo far\nemergere è l' importanza che ha avuto la Costituzione dal 1948 , anno in cui\nentra in vigore , ad oggi .", " La prima di queste motivazioni , è una sensazione\nche , analizzando i testi che mi sono stati proposti , ognuno ritrova in forme\ndiverse .", " ma quello che accomuna queste diverse definizioni , è l' importanza\nche le viene attribuita .", " È molto diffusa nella società attuale l' idea che ,\nattraverso una misurazione sistematica della ricchezza di uno Stato , si possa\ndefinire anche il benessere comune .", " Questo è un dato sicuramente importante che\nesprime il bisogno delle persone di avere qualcuno a fianco che possa sempre\noffrire il proprio aiuto e che sia pronto a capire le varie situazioni e a\nrassicurare nei momenti difficili .", " Svoltesi nell' ultimo fine settimana le\nnuove elezioni per il parlamento , si può trarre a consuntivo la conclusione che\nl' atteggiamento più diffuso tra i cittadini facenti parte dei paesi aderenti\nall' Unione Europea è l' euroscetticismo .", " Ma dietro ai grandi incassi , c' è\nchi in modo illegale si diverte alle spalle di questo venerabile business .", "\nUscendo dall' Italia , è bene ricordare un altro evento molto importante in\nambito musicale .", " Sono molte le testimonianze che gli storici moderni hanno\npotuto ricavare dal passato :", " È stato riscontrato un incremento nella vendita di\narticoli d' abbigliamento di + 40 % rispetto alla media settimanale » .", " Il\nfuturo è come lo immaginiamo e come lo vogliamo fare e questa è una cosa che\nnessun supercalcolatore è capace di prevedere \" .", " Come per molti di noi , al\nproprio paese spesso si è molto legati perché è un luogo che si conosce e che ci\nha visti crescere , racchiude le prime esperienze di vita e dà un' idea di\nprotezione , soprattutto nei piccoli paesi più che nelle grandi città .", " La\npiazza è anche questo , sofferenza e solitudine , ma le persone che come noi si\ntrovano in quel luogo ci sono amiche e come noi abbiamo bisogno di loro , loro\nhanno bisogno di noi per creare e sviluppare la trama invisibile di esperienze ,\nopinioni , ricordi ed amore che costituiscono la vera essenza della storia e\ndella cultura :", " Questa è la vera cultura che un paese ci può offrire , una\ncultura ed una storia fatta di persone , di stati d' animo , di spontaneità , di\nsicurezze e di intimità , che al paragone tutto ciò che viene raccontato nei\nlibri di storia passa in secondo piano .", " Non tutti però siamo appassionati dello\nstesso genere di musica , c' è chi predilige il genere della Ciccone , di Eminem\no di Ricky Martin e c' è chi rimane affezionato alle dolci melodie del Festival\ndi Sanremo .", " Oppure c' è chi preferisce le sinfonie dei grandi musicisti\nclassici , tra questi spicca il nome di Verdi , in onore del suo anniversario ,\nche anche lui è da considerare un mito intramontabile .", " Visto il grande \"\nconsumo \" di musica c' è da chiedersi quanto elevato sia il profitto dei settori\nlegati ad esso .", " Questa è la via che deve seguire la moderna Unione Europea :", " la\nprima è il fatto che questa comunanza culturale non è sentita solo a livello\nistituzionale , ma si sta diffondendo anche tra la gente comune ;", " a scuola , al\nlavoro , in chiesa , in auto , alla televisione , non c' è buon film che non sia\naccompagnato da buona musica .", " Un uomo che , anche se , come dice Pascal , sa\nche la grandezza della ragione sta nel riconoscere i suoi limiti , ama come\ntutti essere lodato , ama verificarsi nel suo lavoro , ama essere giudicato\ndalla natura , che è il suo superiore , ma anche il suo antagonista più cattivo\n, più difficile da battere .", " Nonostante questo , i primi a opporsi all' utilizzo\neffettivo dell' arma , furono proprio gli scienziati che l' avevano costruita ,\na causa del proprio orrore dinanzi ai risultati ottenuti .", " Solo che l' uomo non\nè una macchina a cui si sostituisce il pezzo guasto , è un' entità psicofisica\ndove il più piccolo cambiamento sull' ambiente che lo circonda si ripercuote sul\ntutto .", " Certo è che ognuno può vederla in un modo come nell' altro ;", " sono in\npochi quelli che oggi uscirebbero la sera per andare in piazza , ancora meno\ncoloro che scriverebbero :", " Domani , 21 giugno , è il fatidico giorno che apre le\nporte ad una nuova stagione .", " Questa è una festa che dura ininterrottamente per\nben tre giorni e per questo motivo serve molta organizzazione .", " A conferma di\nciò è il fatto che agli MTV Europe Music Award di Stoccolma , grande evento\nmusicale internazionale che è stato seguito e documentato da Il Corriere della\nsera , hanno riscosso grande successo sia Madonna che Eminem , due personaggi\ndel tutto diversi , soprattutto per quanto riguarda la loro musica .", " una\nspiegazione più plausibile è che vi siano scarsissime probabilità che la vita si\nsviluppi su altri pianeti o che , sviluppatasi , diventi intelligente \" .", " C' è\nchi afferma di essere stato testimone del fenomeno dei \" cerchi nel grano \" ed è\npiù che convinto che siano manifestazioni degli UFO che vogliono renderci\ncoscienti della loro esistenza .", " Egli ritiene inoltre che ci siano scarsissime\nprobabilità che esistano altre forme di vita nell' universo o che queste almeno\nsviluppino l' intelletto .", " La persona altruista , generosa , che quando c' è\nbisogno non tituba neanche un solo momento a mettere gli altri davanti a se\nstesso , è felice , è contornato da persone che lo apprezzano e che hanno stima\ndi lui , a differenza dell' avaro .", " Questa organizzazione , come già detto all'\ninizio , rappresenta sicuramente un passo fondamentale per la completa\nunitarietà europea , ma a detta di molti , sono ancora numerose e complesse le\nproblematiche da affrontare , prima di poter dire , nel vero senso della parola\n, di vivere in un' \" Europa Unita \" .", " Questa è la definizione che troviamo\nsfogliando il dizionario .", " Bauman insiste con veemenza su quello che è l'\natteggiamento che siamo portati ad assumere , ovvero nella nostra naturale\ntendenza ad andare oltre , a scegliere \" obiettivi ben oltre la nostra portata \"\ne a mirare a condizioni superiori pressoché irraggiungibili .", " Ve n' è infatti\nuna parte che diffonde cultura e informazione .", " L' aspetto infine più nuovo , e\na parer mio anche più importante , è quello che riguarda i media e l'\ninformazione :", " In quegl' anni si era in piena Seconda Industrializzazione e fu\nregistrato un lieve aumento dei salari degli operai quindi un leggero aumento\ndel benessere diffuso .", " La folla è vista come un pericolo perché è in grado di\nimporre le sue scelte al singolo senza lasciargli il tempo di riflettere se\nsiano giuste o meno , cambia il suo modo di pensare e di essere senza dargli lo\nspazio per controbattere .", " L' opinione comune ci insegna che il diverso , colui\nche si distingue dagli altri , è da denigrare , è un errore del sistema perfetto\nche il \" Centro \" ha attuato per assimilare a sé l' intero paese \" .", " Il nostro\nvero io è l' unico che ci può rendere fieri e soddisfatti di ciò che abbiamo\ncreato , la nostra autentica singolarità .", " L' unico neo sta nel fatto che è una\nricerca molto lenta che produce conclusioni anche dopo decine di anni .", " Il\nsedici novembre duemila si sono svolti a Stoccolma gli MTV Europe Music Awards ,\ngli oscar della musica .", " rappresenta il popolo italiano ed era un importante\npasso verso la democrazia in un paese che era appena uscito da uno dei più gravi\nregimi , quello fascista .", " quanti sono gli immigrati extraeuropei che rischiano\nla vita in mare per venire nel nostro paese a cercar fortuna !", " Si pensi ad\nesempio all' esilio , è un' esperienza dolorosa che lascia un segno profondo .", "\nCioè la loro richiesta , se esaudita , è considerata giusta perchè è un\ninteresse che è stato soddisfatto .", " È difficile da definire ora se è più giusto\nun cittadino che sa che una legge è ingiusta e la rispetta , o uno che per\nquesto evade la legge non rispettandola .", " L' umanità sta lentamente aprendosi ad\nuna multi etnicità che è elemento base per una convivenza civile che non sia\nlimitata ad aree geografiche definite , ma che si allarghi fino ad estendersi in\ndimensioni globali .", " la giustizia non era più \" calata dall' alto \" per\ndifendere degli interessi particolari ma era il frutto della ragione dell' uomo\nche riconosceva agli individui alcuni diritti inviolabili .", " Oltre alla\ndifficoltà della misurazione stessa c' era un problema ancora maggiore che l' ex\nsenatore statunitense Robert Kennedy espose nel suo discorso tenuto il 18 marzo\n1968 :", " Fino ad allora per me era come una nube nera che nessuno aveva mai avuto\nil coraggio di squarciare con i raggi della verità .", " Per un figlio non c' è\nrealizzazione più grande che vedere l' orgoglio dei genitori nei propri\nconfronti .", " O essendo l' universo un adesso ha quindi in sé stesso un prima (\novvero qualcosa che ha preceduto la sua esistenza ) e un dopo ?", " Scontri tra\nragioni filosofiche diverse però , erano anche fonte di violenti dibattiti che ,\ncome sosteneva lo stesso Socrate , potevano portare a dei rischi per la vita .", "\nIl primo , ed è il più famoso poeta che viene da porre sul banco dei testimoni è\nsicuramente Dante , che nella sua opera \" Le Rime \" , coglie la gioia più grande\nnel trascorrere il tempo in compagnia degli amici e delle rispettive donne amate\n.", " La filosofia inoltre tratta tematiche del quotidiano ( vita , morte , amore )\ninfatti il filosofo , prima di tutto , è un uomo che come ognuno di noi ,\nnascendo si trova in un mondo già fatto e in continua trasformazione , a causa\ndel passare del tempo e l' interagire di popoli e civiltà .", " Essa è sicuramente\nun tema che fa riflettere molto , si cerca infatti di capire perché sia così\nimportante la presenza di un amico e perché sia qualcosa che l' essere umano\ncerca fin dai primi anni di vita .", " In molti si chiedono però che cos' è questo\nsentimento che lega profondamente una persona ad un' altra .", " La disponibilità\nche un amico mette a nostra disposizione e che noi , naturalmente , ricambiamo è\nun fattore che gratifica molto .", " Il rapportarsi agli altri è un atteggiamento\nistintivo che ognuno di noi ha sin dall' infanzia .", " Ne è un esempio Rosso\nMalpelo che sacrificò dei soldi della sua paga e diede i suoi calzoni quasi\nnuovi all' amico Ranocchio gravemente malato .", " la piazza non è solo il luogo\ndove incontrare , andare al bar , chiacchierare con gli amici , ma è anche un\nluogo che vi potrà arricchire culturalmente e aiutarvi nel vostro futuro .", " Dico\nche la musica è un arte , perché è una cosa che ogni artista , cantante o\nmusicista che sia , crea scavando nella propria personalità , nelle proprie\nemozioni , ma questo è un dono che non tutti hanno .", " Il percorso della comunità\neuropea firmato a Roma nel 1957 , al quale aderirono inizialmente sei nazioni ,\nè ormai un processo che dura da quasi 40 anni durante i quali molti avvenimenti\nsi sono succeduti , tra i quali la trasformazione da C.E.E. in Unione Europea\nche raggruppa oggi 15 paesi .", " L' unica cosa certa è che noi viviamo nel tempo ,\nsenza sapere cos' è e perché .", " All' inizio può essere una delusione , si può\nsoffrire , ma anche questa è un' esperienza che ognuno di noi ha provato o\nproverà , ciò fa parte della vita che ci dà la possibilità di aprire gli occhi\nper un futuro migliore che dia sempre meno spazio a spiacevoli episodi .", " Ogni\ntanto mi incanto a guardare i miei compagni per qualche minuto , e questo è il\ntempo che rincorro perché mi piace osservare .", " La filosofia non porta alla\nfelicità , ma ad una grande consapevolezza del mondo che ci circonda , e quel\ndisagio che la accompagna è il segno che stiamo vivendo .", " Il tempo è un\nmutamento delle cose nello spazio , per meglio dire esso è l' unità di misura di\ntale cambiamento , è una grandezza che indica il susseguirsi di eventi ;", " Questa\nsecondo me è una frase stupenda , è la più grande manifestazione d' affetto che\nsi possa dire , perché dare la vita non è una cosa da tutti i giorni e non si fa\nper tutti .", " Ma la cosa che più mi fa pensare è che prima di tutto ciò , questi\nfatti non erano così diffusi .", " Questo sarà il periodo che sia lungo o breve ,\nche ti resterà per sempre nella mente perché comprende emozioni indescrivibili .", "\nBeh , certo sarebbe fantastico se ci cadesse tra le mani o trovassimo sotto al\ncuscino una guida , un manuale completo con le istruzioni per essere felici .", "\nSarebbe tutto più facile !", " Questa è la domanda che si pongono miliardi di\npersone da molto tempo .", " Dopo tutte queste leggende come scrisse Stephen Hawking\nne \" L' universo in un guscio di noce \" c' è scarsissima probabilità che\nesistano altre forme di vita e se esistono ci lasciano nel nostro brodo\nprimitivo .", " Una famiglia normalissima , che vive in una casa altrettanto normale\n, con due figli , e un lavoro che gli permette di vivere rispettosamente .", " egli\nsarà sempre troppo occupato a rincorrere un desiderio di essere felice , non\ncapendo che questa è la prigione che limita la sua libertà .", " È con la filosofia\nche , i più , cercano di trovare una possibile spiegazione .", " Ed è proprio il\nraggiungimento di sfide che sembrano impossibili , che causa una maggiore\nfelicità .", " ma è proprio questa consapevolezza che spinge gli uomini a darsi\ndelle leggi .", " È proprio questo percorso di ricerca , più che il raggiungimento\ndell' obiettivo in sé che non riesce a provocare la felicità assoluta e duratura\n, che spesso ci fa assaporare un piccolo aspetto dell' infinito concetto teorico\nfelicità .", " Non è dunque l' ottica dell' utilità e del guadagno a guidare verso\nla felicità .", " È dalle relazioni interpersonali che l' uomo ricava quegli\ninsegnamenti e lezioni di vita che gli permettono di assaporare il gusto sublime\ndella felicità .", " Ma è soprattutto grazie alla televisione che il centro ha\npotuto assimilare a sé l' intero potere , acquisendone il monopolio .", " Come la\nscienza , anche la filosofia ha al suo interno diverse ambiguità , ma è proprio\ndi queste ambiguità che le persone hanno bisogno .", " È in questo momento che la\nfilosofia può rendersi utile avvicinandosi ai problemi delle persone e della\nsocietà , amplificando il raggio d' azione \" servendo \" la neuroscienza , le\nscienze sociali , l' etica economica , la bioetica .", " È lo stato che attraverso i\nsuoi invincibili mezzi , quali le televisioni , impone i suoi modelli e porta\navanti la sua missione di repressione di qualsiasi ideologia .", " Sarà un salto\nevolutivo che permetterà la scoperta di efficaci cure ?", " La verità è che\nattualmente la scienza non può formulare una spiegazione razionale ed è per\nquesto motivo che agli UFO non si può dare una spiegazione logica per il fatto\nche in questo campo il metodo scientifico è inefficiente .", " È per questo motivo\nche si vedono famiglie disagiate economicamente , ma felici , e uomini ricchi ma\ntristi .", " È proprio in questo che si distingue l' uomo dal regno animale , dalla\npossibilità di percepire il bene o il male , il giusto o l' ingiusto all'\ninterno della società .", " È quindi ingiusto che , all' interno del mondo , persone\nche hanno il privilegio dei soldi , riescano a scontare pene e clausole .", " È\nproprio in quest' epoca nella quale i mercati sono in grande espansione e i\ngoverni sono sempre più orientati a garantire una maggiore equità sociale\nattraverso un' equa distribuzione della ricchezza , che si trova il giusto\nbilanciamento tra mercato e democrazia , tra capitalismo e politica .", " È forse la\ndomanda che tutti si pongono , dai neolaureati agli imprenditori , al semplice\npensionato .", " Ed è così che ci fu lo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale , tutto\nquesto per un' omicidio ;", " È una società che si accontenta di poco .", " È proprio\nper questo motivo che , come scritto nell' articolo di Enrica Battifoglia su \"\nLa Repubblica \" , nel 2016 verrà attivata una nuova missione chiamata ExoMars ,\nche prevede proprio ricerche in questo ambito .", " Sappiamo tutti , che oggi chi ha\nil potere è il Dio denaro , a cui addirittura la legge si inginocchia , forse\ntroppo spesso .", " Questo progresso tecnologico ha dato la possibilità di accedere\nalle informazioni in maniera molto più rapida ed efficiente , ed è proprio a\ncausa di questo che si è avuta la sostituzione di enciclopedia e libri ,\narrivando ad un vocabolario sempre più scarso e incolto .", " È il meccanismo che\ncoordina la maggior parte delle nostre attività , azioni , scelte e decisioni ed\nè per questo che da secoli l' uomo è interessato a capire la sua importanza , ma\nsoprattutto il suo funzionamento all' interno del corpo .", " Ed è precisamente in\nquesto istante che il nostro \" coinquilino esistenziale \" , come lo chiama\nTabucchi , si fa percepire maggiormente :", " Una spiegazione più plausibile è che\nvi siano scarsissime probabilità che la vita si sviluppi su altri pianeti o che\n, sviluppatasi , diventi intelligente .", " ( Dichiarazione di indipendenza dei\ntredici Stati Uniti d' America , 4 luglio 1776 ) è proprio sull' ultimo punto\nche vorrei soffermarmi , analizzare il tema molto discusso della felicità .", " ma è\nproprio la società odierna che trasmette un messaggio davvero sbagliato .", " Ed è\nproprio questo stesso pensatore a presupporre con certezza l' esistenza della\nvita su altri mondi lontani , là , sullo sfondo del firmamento infinito .", " è\nquesta la domanda che l' uomo si pone da quando è conscio dell' immensità dell'\nUniverso che lo circonda , ed in particolare da quando egli ha maturato la\nconsapevolezza di non essere il nucleo vitale del creato , il figlio di Dio , il\ncentro pulsante attorno al quale ruotano i cieli ed i pianeti conosciuti .", " È\nquel piacere che nasce dalla brama , dall' affanno , ed è già molto .", " È una\nnatura maligna che pone nel cuore umano la felicità senza dare la possibilità di\nrealizzarla .", " È uno dei mille esempi che si potrebbero citare , ma che dimostra\nche tutto nasce dalle piccole cose e non dal tentare di mostrarsi per come non\nsi è .", " siamo noi , esseri umani , che produciamo la nostra felicità .", " La\nfelicità è sinonimo di benessere , gioia , letizia , soddisfazione e\ncompiacimento , è un sentimento che ci conduce ad uno stato armonico di salute ,\ndi forze fisiche e spirituali .", " Questa è la domanda che ci poniamo da intere\ngenerazioni .", " Ed è proprio sfogliando quel grande libro che è la natura e l'\nuniverso che l' uomo arriva a queste nuove conoscenze .", " È infatti grazie al\ncontinuo progresso della scienza che l' uomo entra in possesso di strumenti\nsempre nuovi e sempre più avanzati che gli permettono una conoscenza sempre più\nprecisa e profonda .", " Ma è proprio in questi momenti che tralasciamo l'\nimportanza della giustizia come valore universale :", " ma in fondo è nell' amicizia\nche l' affetto tra due persone trova la sua massima espressione .", " È un rapporto\ndavvero grande che spesso può diventare più importante della propria vita ;", "\nNonostante siano stati raggiunti tutti questi importanti traguardi , non si è\nancora arrivati alla stesura di una Costituzione comune a tutti gli stati membri\ndell' UE , ed è proprio su questo punto cruciale , che i capi di Stato e le\nautorità politiche stanno lavorando attivamente , nel tentativo di dare la \"\nsicurezza \" di poter contare su un documento fondamentale , unico e uguale per\ntutti i cittadini europei , affinché possano essere tutelati o giudicati , sulla\nbase di una legge unica e uguale per tutti .", " Domande come questa trovano\novviamente riscontri differenti perché , se da un lato ciò che distingue l' Homo\nSapiens dagli altri animali è la sua innata curiosità , che lo spinge verso\ntraguardi sempre più ambiziosi , dall' altro è un dato di fatto che sono\nscoperte scientifiche anche le armi nucleari o le sostanze inquinanti ,\nresponsabili dell' allarmante stato di salute del nostro pianeta .", " Fu appunto\nquesta frase che portò l' autore alla logica conclusione che \" ... lo scienziato\nha bisogno di sentirsi confermare da un giudice imparziale , dalla natura stessa\n, di aver compreso la sua struttura .", " È con questo spirito che si sta\nprogettando una nuova missione per raggiungere l' orbita marziana nei prossimi\ndecenni .", " È già da tempo che in Inghilterra si parla di \" eutanasia telematica \"\n, un particolare tipo di eutanasia che si basa sull' uso di un macchinario\nscientifico , costosissimo e quindi ancora poco utilizzato , per procurare la\nmorte ai pazienti desiderosi di porre fine alla propria vita .", " È la natura\nstessa che Dio , prima di creare il mondo aveva regalato all' uomo perché\ngiudicato un \" vir bonus \" , un uomo buono capace di interiorizzare i modelli\nculturali della società in cui vive , adatto ad acquisire nuove conoscenze e\ncompetenze per sviluppare le proprie capacità con lo scopo di far progredire la\nsocietà secondo le esigenze della propria vita .", " È un' esperienza di vitale\nimportanza che ha dato la possibilità di esprimere le proprie emozioni e\nsentimenti , soprattutto attraverso la poesia e la religione con l' aiuto del\ndivino .", " Come sostiene P. Calamandrei , nell' Assemblea Costituente non c' era \"\nuna sola volontà , ma centinaia di libere volontà \" , le quali dovevano mettersi\nd' accordo sul contenuto della Carta Costituzionale ed è per questo motivo che\nsi dice che essa è compromissoria .", " Secondo me , questo fu possibile proprio\nperché le norme contenute in esso , potevano essere facilmente \" valicate \" ed è\nper questo motivo che si dice che è \" un atto flessibile \" .", " Infatti nel mondo\ndell' immaginazione siamo noi che istituiamo le regole e creiamo le situazioni ;", "\nse l' animo nel mondo reale non trova pace , spesso è nell' immaginazione che si\nrifugia .", " spesso infatti è proprio ciò in cui abbiamo fede a darci sicurezza e\npace .", " Un altro autore che tratta la tematica del rapporto padre-figlio è F.\nKafka .", " Fu proprio in questo periodo che si iniziarono a compiere i primi passi\nconcreti verso l' Unione Europea .", " Nessuno può dire di non aver bisogno di un\namico , è una condizione dell' uomo che F. Uhlman , ne \" L' amico ritrovato \" ,\ntraduce in \" bisogno di fiducia , di lealtà e di abnegazione \" e che anche\nCicerone , in \" De amicitia \" , ha espresso con la frase \" Tutti sanno che la\nvita non è vita senza amicizia , se , almeno in parte , si vuole vivere da\nuomini liberi \" .", " Sicuramente no , ed è per questo motivo che ogni artista di\ncui abbiamo memoria ha cercato di rappresentare l' amicizia come meglio ha\npotuto , nelle sue opere .", " C' è chi li attribuisce ad uno scherzo umano e c' è\nchi reputa che siano proprio gli extraterrestri che vogliono lasciarci degli\nindizi o che vogliono comunicare con noi .", " È da anni ormai che siamo governati\nda criminali vestiti in giacca e cravatta con le mani macchiate di sangue .", " Ogni\nanno , forti sono le critiche fatte contro i presentatori , la giuria o l'\norganizzazione , che rendono la trasmissione sempre unica e alternata ;", " È da\nquesta situazione che i giovani d' oggi ripartono , affrontando sempre più la\nglobalizzazione del mercato , soprattutto in ambito musicale .", " Ed è proprio\nquesto centro pulsante d' attività il cuore dal quale partivano le arterie del\nnucleo urbano , una sorta di reticolato che può avere come unico denominatore\ncomune la piazza , punto di ritrovo di cultura , società , costume , tradizione\ne folklore di una cittadinanza o , addirittura , di un intero popolo .", " Fu in\nquesti precisi termini , infatti , che nacque la cosiddetta \" agorà \" , piazza\ncentrale della polis greca , dove si svolgeva la vita politica e commerciale\ndella città .", " Sono le piazze il topos letterario prediletto da cui partire per\nottenere uno zoom su quella che è la vita quotidiana di tutti gli abitanti ,\nricchi , poveri , belli o brutti , ma tutti accomunati dalla voglia di un\nincontro e dal non isolamento che la vita di periferia alle volte può creare .", " È\nin seguito a questo fenomeno che gli storici devono assumere per Hobsbawm un\nruolo di maggiore importanza .", " È proprio dalla storia infatti che l' uomo può\nricavare consigli utili per condurre al meglio la propria vita , cercando di\nevitare gli stessi errori in cui altri in passato sono già incorsi .", " sono le\nsole cose materiali , che soddisfano le nostre aspettative e ci rendono felici ?", "\nÈ qui che egli siede in tranquillità e dove i suoi pensieri vagano fino ad\nimpaurirsi di fronte all' eternità e alla morte .", " In particolare sono due le\ncaratteristiche di cui possiamo andare fieri :", " È questo uno dei più grandi pregi\ndella musica , quello di unire ;", " A dover cambiare è quindi la politica stessa\nche ponendosi come garante del buon utilizzo delle scoperte renderebbe senza\nsenso ogni dubbio o paura dello scienziato .", " Non l' abbiamo mai controllata , ne\nsiamo sempre rimasti sottomessi e condizionati , ed è proprio questo mancato\ncontrollo che causa dubbi e paure nello scienziato .", " È qualcosa che viene\npreparato a tavolino per meglio soddisfare le esigenze di mercato .", " Quindi è\nproprio dalla piazza di questa città che Saba rimane maggiormente colpito ;", " È\nproprio questa capacità di affascinare che può però portare a trascurare l'\neffettiva utilità della scienza .", " questo è un evento che più che per la musica\nin sé , affascina per la moda adottata dai cantanti , ( più preoccupati di come\napparire che di come cantare )", " nel testo di D' Annunzio invece , nonostante\nqueste vadano scemando , è proprio dallo sforzo , dalla continuazione dell' atto\n, che il poeta vede il compimento dell' appagamento e dell' ulteriore riposo .", " è\nla mia amica che mi migliora il morale e che mi fa sfogare quando ne ho bisogno\n.", " Anche qui quindi sono sempre le grandi potenze a prevalere sull' opinione\ndegli scienziati , che sostengono che vi è stato un aumento di sostanze nocive\nnell' atmosfera e quindi un aumento dell' effetto serra e un assottigliamento\ndello strato d' ozono .", " Ed è proprio questo problema che si pone nel nostro\nsecolo , pieno di sospetti , di dubbi e di paure di fronte alle possibili\ncatastrofi che la scienza può causare .", " È forse dunque la continua ricerca che\nci porta lontani dall' obiettivo ?", " è il troppo pensare , che rende le persone\ninsoddisfatte .", " è nella direzione delle neuroscienze che si stanno spostando le\nnuove frontiere della scienza del XXI secolo .", " Ma , come nella storia , ogni\ntanto qualche notizia riguardo al mondo reale filtra attraverso le sbarre , ed è\na questo punto che la massa si risveglia , anche se solo per un momento , dal\nsuo sonno indotto .", " è quindi dall' unione dell' interesse per i particolari\nmateriali con una passione per le generalizzazioni astratte che scaturisce la\nnovità caratteristica della nostra attuale società ;", " è proprio questa che è al\ngiorno d' oggi la scienza moderna .", " È in questo modo che il sentimento amoroso\ndiventa attaccamento alla vita , la consapevolezza di possedere la capacità di\nprovare tale sensazione .", " Sono tanti gli elementi che ci rendono unici :", " È\nquando si capisce questo , quando si arriva a comprendere questo semplice quanto\nfondamentale principio che potremmo affermare il raggiungimento della convivenza\ncivile in una società che garantisce i nostri diritti con quella giustizia\npaladina di legalità .", " È qui che si svolgono le storie di Elmer , Herman , Bert\n, Tom e Charley .", " è qui che un Leopardi poco più che ventenne compone una delle\nliriche più toccanti della letteratura italiana :", " È questa la domanda che molti\nscienziati si pongono .", " È questo lo spirito che spinge a spendere così tanto\ndenaro per una missione :", " È proprio grazie a questi appaganti successi che le\nagenzie spaziali si impegnano a finanziare missioni per il raggiungimento dell'\nambito Pianeta Rosso .", " È stato solamente dopo aver trascorso un anno all' estero\nnegli Stati Uniti , un Paese per molti aspetti completamente diverso , che mi\nsono veramente resa conto di quanto fosse straordinario il paesaggio italiano .", "\nQuindi è l' uomo che sente di essere qualcuno e cerca di esprimerlo attraverso\nle sue opinioni , le sue idee e decisioni .", " è una qualità che come scrissero\nDarwin e Spencer è indispensabile per il miglioramento di una razza in quanto\nsolo il più forte e chi meglio si adatta sopravvive .", " nei \" Promessi Sposi \" di\nManzoni è proprio l' amicizia a dare sollievo a Renzo e al suo amico .", " È in\nquesto quadro sociale che Uhlman esprime il suo concetto di amicizia in \" L'\namico ritrovato \" , opera del 1971 .", " Ed è proprio con uno sguardo che Raffaello\nriesce a dimostrarci tutto il suo affetto per un suo amico .", " ed è proprio all'\ninterno di questa realtà che ci alieniamo , distogliendo il nostro interesse da\nquestioni più importanti .", " È importante mantenerlo e rispettarlo , il nostro e\nquello altrui , perché è in questo cuore che la vita , la volontà e la libertà\ndei cittadini viene presa in considerazione e viene ascoltata , anche se non\nsempre viene soddisfatta .", " È una domanda che la nostra rivista si è spesso posta\n.", " È in questo quadro che va collocata la politica aggressiva seguita dalla\nGermania .", " Sono proprio queste persone che pur di raggiungere i propri scopi\npersonali si fingono amici , usando le persone a loro piacimento facendogli\ncredere di essergli vicini .", " È il frutto di un attento esame di una persona ,\nche porta a capire se essa è degna di dare e ricevere amicizia .", " Il nulla , lo\nstare soli , l' indifferenza , sono queste le cose che fanno ammalare\nemotivamente le persone , è per questo che l' istinto umano ci porta alla\nricerca di compagnia , a non cadere nel malessere della solitudine , citata da\nLeopardi nel \" il passero solitario \" .", " affermando , nel primo , che è la nostra\nnatura che ci porta alla ricerca della compagnia e dell' aiuto reciproco .", " È un\ndesiderio che permane nel tempo , fino ai giorni nostri , e che già Dante scrive\nnella raccolta \" Le rime \" .", " \" Il cielo è blu , o siamo noi che lo vediamo blu ?", "\nSono parole che rendono in maniera molto chiara il significato ma bisogna tenere\nin considerazione che non sempre possiamo trovarci a fianco la persona giusta ,\ncome addirittura possiamo essere da soli e spesso questo è motivo di disagio ,\ndi stati di angoscia che fanno scatenare dentro di noi tante insicurezze .", " il\ntempo è un componente importante della nostra vita ed è lui che ci aiuta a\nmaturare e ad acquisire una visione oggettiva e attenta di ciò che ci circonda .", "\nEd è il tempo che ci fa crescere , che ci accompagna e che segue ogni nostro\nmovimento .", " Una persona che soffre perennemente perché troppo riflessiva , ha\nsicuramente vissuto nella maniera più pura , è una persona che non potrà mai\navere nessun clone o appartenere a degli stereotipi , e chi la amerà , la\napprezzerà proprio per quella sua unicità di persona vera .", " È proprio questo\nsentimento che l' arte ha sempre cercato d' esaltare e credo che il libro \" Il\npiccolo principe \" ne sia un esempio concreto .", " È un processo che non si può\nforzare ed è difficile , se non impossibile , da spiegare a parole .", " È per\nquesto che il tema dell' amicizia viene affrontato da vari punti di vista :", " E'\nproprio per i suoi mille modi di decifrarla che molti poeti , scrittori ,\ncantanti e artisti ne prendono l' ispirazione per comporre le proprie opere e\nrenderle appassionanti ed entusiasmanti .", " E' all' interno di quest' ultimo\ngruppo che dovranno essere viste le trasformazioni strutturali veramente\nimponenti della società ma anche la crescita civile attraverso la partecipazione\ndei cittadini .", " Tutti esperimenti che permettono il miglioramento delle scienze\ned è appunto per questo che vengono realizzati .", " È per questo motivo che\nriuscire ad avvicinarsi alla felicità autentica e totale è molto difficile .", "\nQuindi , secondo me è anche la tecnologia che ha alterato la nostra serenità .", " È\nper questo motivo che la \" felicità totale e autentica \" è distante da noi , si\nallontana ogni volta che cerchiamo di avvicinarci ad essa .", " Fu proprio negli\nStati Uniti d' America che vennero create le leggi antitrust , per impedire che\nnel mercato vi fosse la presenza di una sola impresa e per favorire la\nconcorrenza nel mercato tra più imprese .", " In questo periodo siamo nel mezzo di\nuna depressione dove tra le molte scuse vediamo spiccare quella del focalizzarsi\nsul lungo periodo e non su quello breve però facendo in questo modo si ignora\ncompletamente il presente dove appunto vi è la presenza di un' enorme sofferenza\nche attaccherà i progetti a lungo termine .", " Bisognerebbe invece fare il\ncontrario , perché è soltanto l' intervento immediato che impedirà al breve\ntermine di diventare lungo .", " È da tempo ormai che si cercano soluzioni per la\ncrisi economica che ha coinvolto ormai tutto il globo .", " Sono molti gli studi e i\nprogetti che sono in ballo , e come abbiamo visto prima c' è anche molta\nrivalità .", " In questo modo , risulta più facile allo Stato tenere sotto controllo\nil popolo .", " A causa di essa ne risentono , chi più e chi meno , tutte le classi\nsociali :", " Lo affermò anche , in un intervento , Vittorio Sgarbi :", " Se ai\nveneziani del XVI sec. si presentava impossibile il raggiungimento via mare\ndelle Indie , a noi oggi risulta altrettanto improbabile che l' uomo un giorno\ncolonizzi un pianeta diverso dal suo .", " E proprio di questo si tratta , del\ncrescere .", " Stanno già lavorando altri studenti per migliorarne le\ncaratteristiche .", " \" Ho vissuto un' infanzia tremenda , ma non mi sono mai arresa\n, con tutto il dolore che provavo dentro di me ci credevo ancora nella felicità\n.", " Intanto a questo festival girano miliardi , e se i soldi sono tanti un motivo\nci sarà .", " Di questa tesi si fece promotore lo stesso Heisenberg , che la\nraccolse nel libro \" La tradizione della scienza \" .", " Inoltre sorsero all'\ninterno della società vari problemi , come la disoccupazione , l' inflazione ,\nil reinserimento dei reduci nel lavoro e l' ascesa dei prezzi .", " Alcuni la\nritengono infatti un' impresa paradossale quella di voler applicare la geometria\nalla realtà , poiché nessun essere naturale ha dimensioni strettamente e\nrigidamente determinate .", " Si è esibito sul palco del Globen della capitale\nsvedese anche Eminem , un artista rap diventato famosissimo per le accuse di\nviolenza e per scrivere testi provocatori .", " Infiniti sono i luoghi dell' anima ,\ngli scenari percorribili dalla nostra immaginazione , un' infinità tale che al\nLeopardi \" sovvien l' eterno \" .", " Sempre più numerose saranno le ricerche e le\nscoperte nello spazio , che forse , un giorno ci daranno la possibilità di\nabitare un altro pianeta oltre al nostro", " Forme di massificazione se ne vedono\ndovunque .", " Un esempio è stato quello del presidente degli USA , Kennedy , il\nquale il 22 novembre 1963 venne ucciso a Dallas in un attentato mentre era in\nviaggio per la sua campagna elettorale in Texas .", " Di omicidi intimidatori se ne\nvidero molti anche in Italia , con l' avvento del fascismo ;", " Essendo il piacere\nuna sensazione fortemente soggettiva , alcuni letterati lo hanno inteso come\nunica conseguenza delle passioni amorose e dei rapporti carnali .", " Altro fattore\nche contribuisce al perseguimento della felicità è il guadagno .", " A questo evento\npartecipano soltanto artisti già noti e famosi ;", " Molto meno successo Eminem lo\nha avuto quest' anno a Sanremo , pur non potendo negare che il festival in\nquesti ultimi anni è molto meno sentito , per questo ogni motivo è valido per\nincolpare qualcuno per il \" fiasco \" del grande festival di Sanremo .", " Alla fine\nil disco lo si va a comprare comunque , se si vuole .", " Un esempio emblematico lo\nritroviamo negli adolescenti , che spesso sognano ad occhi aperti per fuggire\ndalla loro condizione .", " Un altro esempio lo si ritrova nella poesia ‘Infinito'\ndi Leopardi .", " Ciò che rimane sempre nell' animo e nel cuore di una persona è l'\nambiente .", " Il nostro con la scienza non è mai stato un rapporto oggettivo ,\nunivoco , ma si è sempre posto nell' ambito della ambiguità e dell' incoerenza .", "\nIl primo sentore dell' importanza di una piazza , lo si ha ascoltando i discorsi\ndei vecchi che , con fare dialettale , si riferiscono ad essa almeno tre o\nquattro volte in un discorso .", " Un esempio possiamo trovarlo anche piuttosto\nrecentemente alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale .", " Ma a rendere ancor più\ncaratteristiche le nostre città italiane , contribuiscono le piazze .", " Infatti\nnella società moderna vi è una netta differenza fra persone che vivono\nagiatamente e altre che non riescono a sfamare la propria famiglia .", " Loro stanno\nbene , ma a noi \" comuni mortali \" cosa ci aspetta ?", " Stanno lì sulle loro\npoltrone e non pensano al domani di una nazione che la crisi la sta sentendo\neccome .", " a fare questo ci pensò Sigmund Freud .", " È un pensiero abbastanza diffuso\n, confrontando la vita odierna con quella passata , quello di credere di aver\nfatto molti passi avanti in ogni campo .", " Altro chiaro esempio di \" matrimonio \"\nfra luogo e anima ce lo offre il siciliano Verga , che nel suo \" I Malavoglia \"\nracconta di una serata nel paesino di Aci Trezza .", " tuttavia dietro a questa\nspiegazione c' è ben altro ed il paesaggio italiano ne è la prova .", " Di come si\npassi da una situazione di totale indifferenza all' instaurarsi di un amicizia ,\nseppure in fase embrionale , ci viene in aiuto il dialogo fra il piccolo\nprincipe e la volpe , personaggi di Saint Exupery :", " Una complicità così profonda\ned unita , la si può avere solamente con un amico , raramente con due persone ,\nche conoscono a loro volta il profondo significato di amicizia .", " Un altro\nimportantissimo progetto intrapreso , è l' organizzazione di una missione da\nparte dell' Agenzia Spaziale Europea il cui fine è studiare le condizioni\nchimiche di Marte e ricercare possibili microorganismi capaci di sopravvivere in\nquesto ambiente estremo .", " Quando parliamo di amicizia soprattutto fra noi\ngiovani il termine può risultare forse troppo generico e talvolta usato nel\nlinguaggio comune in modo improprio perché il vero significato forse dobbiamo\nancora chiarirlo e per far sì che questo accada ci vuole solo tempo ;", " Conosce la\ncultura e a memoria , la Divina Commedia ci narra .", " Del tempo , prima della\nnascita dell' Uomo non se ne parlava , forse sì ma ci atteniamo solo alle\nesperienze umane di cui abbiamo testimonianza .", " Più che altro a seguire questa\nideologia sono i religiosi .", " Un bellissimo esempio di come dovrebbe essere l'\namicizia lo troviamo in Rosso Malpelo , una novella di Verga , che narra di\nquando Ranocchio stava male e Malpelo per aiutarlo prese dei soldi dalla paga e\ncomprò da bere e da mangiare per l' amico e gli diede dei calzoni nuovi .", " La\nCostituzione non dobbiamo vederla solo come un insieme di norme a cui noi\ndobbiamo attenerci , ma possiamo anche collaborare con la politica per rendere\nla Costituzione più vivibile in modo che diffonda in noi maggior sicurezza e\ntranquillità .", " Il bene della società lo forma proprio chi ne fa parte .", " Il\npaesaggio intorno al villaggio lo descrive con il cuore di uno figlio , una\nfamiliare di questi elementi naturali :", " L' attaccamento di questa città lo\nraccogliamo nel atto III scena III , quando il Frate Lorenzo annuncia il suo\nesilio da Verona , e Romeo fa una riflessione sulla sua sentenza :", " Si può\naffermare che la felicità la si può raggiungere sempre basta volerlo , infine\nesserlo vuol dire essere soddisfatti di se stessi e delle proprie scelte .", " In\npassato alcuni autori come Oscar Wilde e Gabriele d' Annunzio sostenevano , nei\nloro scritti , che il raggiungimento della felicità lo si sarebbe ottenuto solo\npuntando al bello , al sublime , al superfluo , facendo una vita senza regole ,\npiena di vizi e trasformando essa in un' opera d' arte .", " La felicità l' ho\nsempre paragonata alla scalata verso la cima di una montagna .", " Questo pensiero\nlo ritroviamo nell' articolo \" Alti e bassi dell' economia della felicità \"\npubblicato su \" La Stampa \" .", " Un altro riferimento lo ritroviamo nel film ,\nintitolato appunto \" La Ricerca della felicità \" , che tratta quest' argomento\nin modo eccellente e spettacolare , mostrando gli aspetti più spiacevoli che una\nfamiglia povera deve affrontare .", " Un giorno questa verità vorrei conoscerla e\nsapere se esistono altre forme di vita al di fuori del nostro pianeta .", " Io ,\nagli UFO ci credo , e a dirla tutta circa due settimane fa , ne ho avvistato uno\n.", " La cosa ancora più misteriosa , la si trova come sappiamo tutti , nei campi di\ngrano .", " Assurdo sarebbe pensare che al di fuori della nostra galassia non ci sia\nanima viva .", " In conclusione affermo che la ricerca della felicità è una cosa\nsoggettiva , una persona può apprezzare di più un piccolo gesto o una piccola\nparola e invece un' altra farà più fatica però un minimo di felicità anche\nquest' ultima la troverà .", " Come dice il testo sopra citato , tutto quello che\ndobbiamo fare è porci degli obiettivi credendo in noi stessi perché credo che la\nfelicità la si trovi solo credendo in noi stessi , attutendo i colpi ,\nrialzandoci ogni volta che cadiamo e andando comunque avanti per raggiungere i\npropri obiettivi .", " La crisi , quali fattori l' hanno creata ?", " Di questo però non\npossiamo esserne certi , l' importante è che lo stato , il mercato e la\ndemocrazia ritrovino l' equilibrio originario in modo tale da garantire una\nstabilità economica al paese permettendo così di riuscire a stilare nuovi\nprogrammi per lo sviluppo futuro .", " Questo valore è infatti solo la bella\ncopertina di un libro che probabilmente non sappiamo di cosa parla e magari\nnemmeno in che lingua è scritto , ma spesso per pigrizia quel libro non lo si\napre mai e continua comunque ad essere un buon libro solo grazie alla bella\ncopertina .", " La stessa situazione la possiamo trovare nel nostro Paese , che\nutilizzando come scusa il bisogno di focalizzarsi sul lungo termine e non sul\nbreve , accantona il mancato tentativo di mettere fine a questa depressione .", " La\nstraordinaria bellezza del nostro Paese non la si scopre di certo oggi è infatti\nstata fonte d' ispirazione per grandi artisti , Shakespeare ad esempio ha voluto\nambientare nella città di Verona il romanzo “ Romeo e Giulietta ” .", " Il paesaggio\n, infatti , lo si può considerare una parte fondamentale del nostro essere e\ndella nostra cultura .", " Posso solo dire che il tempo lo vivo ogni giorno\nconsapevole che prima o poi al posto mio ci sarà qualcun altro a viverlo .", " tutto\nciò lo poté fare perché lo Statuto Albertino era flessibile .", " molti pensano che\nla mondializzazione abbia attaccato il principio democratico e che abbia fatto\nsì che le multinazionali abbiano acquisito sempre più potere , economico e\npolitico , a discapito delle piccole imprese e dei più poveri , arrivando\naddirittura ad ottenere una importante influenza sugli Stati e sulle loro\npolitiche , ed alcuni pensano che un po' di \" colpa \" per l' avvento di questa\ncrisi e per la sua diffusione la si debba anche alla globalizzazione .", " Anche se\ndisponiamo di macchinari tecnologici molto avanzati c' è un fenomeno che ancora\nnon riusciamo a controllare , quello dell' apparizione dei cosiddetti UFO (\nUnidentified flying objects ) .", " C' è una canzone che mi ha fatto particolarmente\nriflettere da quando l' ho sentita :", " C' è una ragazza che piange su una panchina\ne noi che la vediamo ci chiediamo cosa le possa essere successo .", " In piazza c' è\nl' ubriacone che guarda barcollando la gente passare e c' è la gente che , con\npietà e sdegno , non lo vuole guardare .", " In Italia ci sarebbero moltissimi bravi\nricercatori che però sono costretti ad andare all' estero a compiere i loro\nesperimenti , proprio per la mancanza di fondi .", " Tra essi c' è la clonazione\numana che è vietata ma , personalmente , credo che in laboratori privati , all'\ninsaputa delle autorità , esperimenti di questo genere siano già stati fatti ,\nnon rispettando assolutamente l' uomo .", " vi erano persone più timorose che\naffermavano che tali scoperte avrebbero potuto rappresentare un pericolo se non\nfossero state usate con prudenza , erano scettiche , mentre v' erano persone che\ninvece erano affascinate da esse .", " al suo interno c' è una grande piazza che\nfungerà da collegamento fra visitatori , studenti e operatori del Museo .", " È\nsignificativo riconoscere che la scienza ha dei limiti , e il supremo passo\ndella ragione sta nel riconoscere che c' è un' infinità di cose che la\nsorpassano , e debole è la persona che non arriva a riconoscerlo .", " Nessun\nmusicista dicevamo , eppure Ricky Martin , come del resto Madonna , vende più di\n15 milioni di dischi all' anno .", " La condizione per la quale si genera una crisi\neconomica , è quando viene meno questo equilibrio .", " Concludendo , significativa\nè la dichiarazione dell' inventore della scienza moderna , Galileo Galilei , che\nper alcuni anni ebbe la forza di una pubblica autorità mettendo il suo sapere a\ndisposizione dei potenti :", " Altro genere che ha letteralmente sfondato in Italia\n, come all' Estero , è la musica latino-americana con artisti quali Ricky Martin\noppure Enrique Iglesias che con il loro fascino e la loro voce sensuale hanno\nconquistato un po' tutti , soprattutto le sale di fitness , visto lo sforzo\nnotevole di questi balli .", " Dal suffragio universale concesso in quegl' anni\nnegli stati europei nacquero i partiti di massa :", " Tutt' oggi alla Costituzione\nvengono apportate delle modifiche a favore dei cittadini ma principalmente\npersiste quella originaria del 1947 .", " In Italia , oltre all' aspirazione\nnaturalista , si è sviluppata una sensibilità diversa che ha assimilato il\npaesaggio alle opere d' arte , il cosiddetto \" paesaggismo \" .", " Molteplici sono\ngli esempi che si possono fare a proposito , uno molto significativo , anche se\nnon del tutto legato al campo della scienza , è quello dei motori a benzina i\nquali è vero che emettono gas inquinanti nell' atmosfera ma , senza di essi si\nritornerebbe all' età della pietra o quasi .", " Durante il 2016 si svolgerà la\nnuova missione ExoMars per la ricerca di forme di vita .", " Quindi non dobbiamo\nconcentrarci sul medio lungo termine perché significherebbe non interessarsi di\nciò che sta effettuando l' attuale depressione .", " Ecco , dunque , che riemerge la\nseconda parte della frase di Nietzsche :", " In realtà iniziano a manifestarsi le\nprime violenze nei confronti degli oppositori e il primo omicidio , quello di\nMatteotti , ucciso perché ha sostenuto che le elezioni sono avvenute in un clima\nintimidatorio .", " Non solo ha la musica la straordinaria facoltà di unire popoli e\npersone diverse .", " Trionfa Eminem come rapper bianco americano .", " Al di là di\nquesto , ciò che è fuori da ogni dubbio è l' immensa responsabilità che la\nscienza ha e che è , per una gran parte , in mano agli scienziati .", " Ciò che\nsicuramente accomuna le due posizioni è la necessità di riuscire a stabilire il\nlimite che separa l' utilità dal danno , cosa che risulta ed è risultata in\npassato difficile , quando la scienza è stata coinvolta in interessi di ordine\npolitico ed economico .", " Ciò che distingue gli ultimi due episodi rispetto ai\nprimi è il silenzio .", " Tutto ciò che ci circonda è un' armonia in continua\nevoluzione che nel suo insieme costituisce una bellezza quasi inconcepibile (\nconsiderata più storica che scientifica o estetica ) che solo in pochi sono in\ngrado di notare ."]}
{"id": "it_partut-ud-test", "source": "UD_Italian-ParTUT/it_partut-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "it", "text": "Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 2.0 (Italia). Ogni utilizzazione\ndell'opera che non sia autorizzata ai sensi della presente licenza o del diritto\nd'autore è proibita. Salvo che sia espressamente convenuto altrimenti per\niscritto fra le parti, il Licenziante offre l'opera in licenza \"così com'è\" e\nnon fornisce alcuna dichiarazione o garanzia di qualsiasi tipo con riguardo\nall'opera, sia essa espressa od implicita, di fonte legale o di altro tipo,\nessendo quindi escluse, fra le altre, le garanzie relative al titolo, alla\ncommerciabilità, all'idoneità per un fine specifico e alla non violazione di\ndiritti di terzi o alla mancanza di difetti latenti o di altro tipo,\nall'esattezza od alla presenza di errori, siano essi accertabili o meno.\nCreative Commons non è parte della presente licenza e non dà alcuna garanzia\nconnessa all'opera. Sì, onorevole Evans, ritengo che un'iniziativa del tipo che\nlei propone sia assolutamente opportuna. Chiedo che venga riesaminata tale\ndecisione, in quanto non è così. Di recente il tema della sicurezza dei\ntrasporti è stato tristemente al centro dell'attenzione dei mass media con\nl'incidente ferroviario alla stazione di Paddington a Londra, il terribile\nincidente ferroviario in Norvegia, i due incidenti aerei in cui hanno perso la\nvita alcuni cittadini dell'Unione e il disastro ecologico provocato dalla\npetroliera Erika al largo della costa bretone. L'importanza della sicurezza dei\ntrasporti stradali, ferroviari e per vie navigabili interne è indubbia e dato il\ncarattere internazionale di questo tipo di trasporti, anche i corsi di\nformazione per i consulenti per la sicurezza devono essere armonizzati, come, ad\nesempio, per il prossimo nuovo ADR. Ciò non va imputato soltanto alla\ncommissione ma credo che dobbiamo attivarci più rapidamente per giungere a\nun'armonizzazione anche in questo ambito. Posso anche accettare queste norme\nminime, ma esorto la commissione a esercitare un'attenta sorveglianza. Credo\ntuttavia che occorra fare tutto ciò che rientra nelle nostre possibilità per\nlimitare il più possibile il trasporto di merci pericolose in tutti i paesi,\nsiano essi di transito o meno. Spero che la mia proposta venga presa in\nconsiderazione nel corso della votazione di domani. Vorrei chiedere alla\nvicepresidente se oggi è in grado di dirci qualcosa sullo stato di avanzamento\ndegli sforzi di armonizzazione da parte delle due organizzazioni summenzionate e\nse l' Unione Europea ha la possibilità di accelerare l' armonizzazione adottando\nprincipi il più possibile semplici . Signor presidente, i miei più vivi\nringraziamenti alla onorevole Schroedter per il lavoro svolto. La mancanza di\nlinee direttrici specifiche qui si fa sentire con particolare intensità, dato\nche l'idea di collegare gli aiuti del fondo sociale alla strategia per\nl'occupazione verrà realizzata per la prima volta durante il periodo di\nprogrammazione 2000-2006. La verità è che siamo convinti, e ciò si riflette\nanche nel testo delle conclusioni, che la commissione debba tenere conto delle\ndecisioni di questo parlamento, soprattutto in vista della revisione delle linee\ndirettrici a metà periodo. Signor presidente, signor commissario, onorevoli\ncolleghi, desidero prima di tutto ringraziare la onorevole Schroedter per\nl'ottima relazione. Ha svolto un'analisi dettagliata di questo argomento e ha\ninserito molti emendamenti proposti in sede di commissione. Sono stati inseriti\nnumerosissimi dettagli, che erano emersi già nelle relazioni precedenti. si\ntratta di una lunga storia, che si trascina almeno da quando sono stato eletto\nal parlamento, cinque anni fa, tant'è vero che ho già trattato questo argomento\na più riprese. Mi pare, pertanto, che la relazione debba invece anticipare e\ndelineare le linee direttrici della revisione intermedia del 2003 e addirittura\ninfluenzare la seconda fase di programmazione successiva al 2003. realizzarlo\ncomporterebbe indubbiamente estendere gli strumenti di ridistribuzione delle\nrisorse, quali appunto i fondi strutturali. Signor presidente, anch'io mi voglio\ncomplimentare con il relatore per l'ottimo lavoro svolto. Concludo, signor\npresidente, dicendo che è piuttosto grave che nella comunicazione della\ncommissione sia stata riservata una scarsa attenzione ai patti territoriali e\nsoprattutto alle modalità di lotta alla disoccupazione femminile e giovanile.\nPer rivolgersi ai destinatari interessati, ANA ha usato un insieme di parole\nchiave che si rivolgeva agli amanti dei viaggi e della cultura giapponese,\nsviluppando poi contenuti creativi adatti a catturare l'attenzione dei\ndestinatari. Ora puoi visualizzare gli aggiornamenti pubblicati dalle persone\nche ti interessano anche se non siete amici. Se non vedi il pulsante, non puoi\nattivare la ricezione degli aggiornamenti. Hai già una Pagina Facebook? (14)\nCome principio generale, il consumo energetico dei prodotti che consumano\nenergia in stand-by o quando sono disattivati dovrebbe essere ridotto al minimo\nnecessario per il loro adeguato funzionamento. - Il programma deve essere\nprorogato di almeno 4 anni con lo stesso importo di riferimento finanziario (1\nmilione di Eur all'anno) e gli stessi interventi e destinatari. Ogni individuo\nha diritto di lasciare qualsiasi paese, incluso il proprio, e di ritornare nel\nproprio paese. Uomini e donne in età adatta hanno il diritto di sposarsi e di\nfondare una famiglia, senza alcuna limitazione di razza, cittadinanza o\nreligione. Ogni individuo ha diritto di accedere in condizioni di eguaglianza ai\npubblici impieghi del proprio paese. Ogni individuo che lavora ha diritto ad una\nremunerazione equa e soddisfacente che assicuri a lui stesso e alla sua famiglia\nuna esistenza conforme alla dignità umana ed integrata, se necessario, da altri\nmezzi di protezione sociale. mamma infelice, tutti infelici. La repubblica di\nBulgaria e la Romania diventano membri dell'Unione Europea. Le condizioni e le\nmodalità di ammissione sono contenute nel protocollo allegato al presente\ntrattato. Le disposizioni di tale protocollo costituiscono parte integrante del\npresente trattato. Le disposizioni di tale atto costituiscono parte integrante\ndel presente trattato. Il presente trattato è ratificato dalle Alte parti\ncontraenti secondo le rispettive norme costituzionali. Gli strumenti di ratifica\nsono depositati presso il governo della Repubblica italiana al più tardi il 31\ndicembre 2006. Il presente trattato entra in vigore il 1° gennaio 2007, a\ncondizione che tutti gli strumenti di ratifica siano stati depositati prima di\ntale data. Se tale decisione è adottata nei confronti di uno solo degli stati\naderenti il presente trattato entra in vigore per tale stato il 1° gennaio 2008.\nQueste misure prendono effetto con riserva dell'entrata in vigore del presente\ntrattato 5 alla data di quest'ultima. Il testo del trattato che adotta una\ncostituzione per l'Europa, redatto in lingua bulgara e rumena, è accluso al\npresente trattato. Protocollo relativo alle condizioni e modalità d'ammissione\ndella repubblica di Bulgaria e della Romania all'Unione Europea. La Bulgaria e\nla Romania aderiscono alle decisioni ed agli accordi adottati dai rappresentanti\ndei governi degli stati membri riuniti in sede di Consiglio. Gli strumenti\nspecifici di cui al presente articolo includono quelli citati nell'articolo\nIv-438 della costituzione. Essa presenta un progetto dei protocolli al consiglio\nper la conclusione. Il consiglio delibera all'unanimità previa consultazione del\nparlamento europeo. L'applicazione della costituzione e degli atti adottati\ndalle istituzioni è soggetta, a titolo transitorio, alle deroghe previste dal\npresente protocollo. In deroga a quanto precede, le procedure relative ad\nappalti pubblici avviate dopo l'adesione sono espletate in conformità delle\npertinenti disposizioni dell'unione. L'ultima programmazione per l'assistenza di\npreadesione di cui al paragrafo 1 è effettuata nell'ultimo anno civile completo\nprecedente l'adesione. I contratti relativi alle azioni a titolo di tali\nprogrammi dovranno essere assegnati entro i due anni successivi. Non è concessa\nalcuna proroga del periodo per l'assegnazione dei contratti. Proroghe limitate\ndella durata possono essere concesse per l'esecuzione dei contratti, in via\neccezionale e in casi debitamente giustificati. Per i costi relativi alle\nrevisioni contabili e alle valutazioni, i fondi di preadesione possono essere\nimpegnati fino a cinque anni dopo l'adesione. Non si applicano tuttavia le\ndisposizioni previste all'articolo 165 del regolamento finanziario applicabile\nal bilancio generale delle comunità europee. La commissione può adottare\ndisposizioni relative all'attuazione dell'assistenza di cui al paragrafo 2. A\ntal fine, la commissione è assistita da un comitato. Il comitato adotta il\nproprio regolamento interno. L'assistenza è volta a finanziare progetti di\ncostruzione istituzionale e piccoli investimenti limitati accessori a questi.\nGli stanziamenti sono autorizzati dall'autorità di bilancio nei limiti delle\nprospettive finanziarie. Il primo giorno lavorativo di ciascun mese del\ncorrispondente anno viene corrisposto alla Bulgaria e alla Romania un dodicesimo\ndi ciascun importo annuale. I pagamenti forfettari sono utilizzati entro tre\nanni dal primo pagamento. Tutti i fondi inutilizzati o spesi ingiustificatamente\nsono recuperati dalla commissione. La commissione può adottare qualsiasi\nprovvedimento tecnico necessario al funzionamento dello strumento temporaneo per\ni flussi di tesoreria e strumento Schengen. Le misure così decise sono\napplicabili immediatamente, tengono conto degli interessi di tutte le parti\ninteressate e non comportano controlli alle frontiere. Nella scelta di tali\nmisure si dovrà accordare la precedenza a quelle che turbino il meno possibile\nil funzionamento del mercato interno. Tali misure di salvaguardia non possono\nessere invocate come mezzo di discriminazione arbitraria o di restrizione\ndissimulata agli scambi tra stati membri. Le misure non sono mantenute oltre il\ntempo strettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di essere applicate una\nvolta attuato l'impegno pertinente. Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate oltre\nil periodo specificato nel primo comma fino a che non siano adempiuti i\npertinenti impegni. In risposta ai progressi compiuti dal nuovo stato membro\ninteressato nell'adempimento dei propri impegni, la commissione può adeguare\nopportunamente le misure. Le misure non sono mantenute oltre il tempo\nstrettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di essere applicate una volta\nposto rimedio alle carenze. Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate oltre il\nperiodo specificato nel primo comma finché tali carenze persistono. Tale periodo\npuò essere prorogato da una legge europea del consiglio. Tali misure sono\nadottate per un periodo di tre anni a decorrere dalla data di adesione e la loro\napplicazione è limitata a tale periodo. Il parlamento europeo apporta al suo\nregolamento interno gli adattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione. Il consiglio\napporta al suo regolamento interno gli adattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione.\nUn cittadino di ogni nuovo stato membro è nominato membro della commissione a\npartire dalla data dell'adesione. Il mandato dei membri così nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione. Due giudici sono nominati alla corte di giustizia e due giudici\nsono nominati al tribunale. Il mandato di uno dei giudici della corte di\ngiustizia nominati conformemente al paragrafo 1 scade il 6 ottobre 2009. Questo\ngiudice è estratto a sorte. Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 6 ottobre\n2012. Il mandato di uno dei giudici del tribunale nominati conformemente al\nparagrafo 1 scade il 31 agosto 2007. Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 31\nagosto 2010. La corte di giustizia apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli\nadattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione. Il tribunale, di concerto con la corte\ndi giustizia, apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli adattamenti resi\nnecessari dall'adesione. I regolamenti di procedura così adattati sono\nsottoposti all'approvazione del consiglio. Un cittadino di ogni nuovo stato\nmembro è nominato alla corte dei conti a partire dalla data di adesione per un\nperiodo di sei anni. Il mandato dei membri così nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione. Il mandato dei membri recentemente nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione. Essi comunicano tali misure alla commissione entro la data di\nadesione o entro il termine previsto dal presente protocollo, se successivo. Le\nmisure sono adottate in conformità delle regole di voto che disciplinano\nl'adozione dell'atto rispetto al quale si chiede una deroga temporanea. Tali\nderoghe, se adottate dopo l'adesione, sono applicabili dalla data di adesione.\nTali adattamenti, se adottati dopo l'adesione, sono applicabili dalla data di\nadesione. Essi sono pubblicati nella gazzetta ufficiale delle comunità europee\nqualora i testi nelle lingue attuali siano stati oggetto di una tale\npubblicazione. Gli allegati I e IX e le relative appendici costituiscono parte\nintegrante del presente protocollo. Il testo del suddetto trattato, redatto in\nlingua bulgara e rumena, è allegato al presente protocollo. Tali testi fanno\nfede alle stesse condizioni dei testi dei trattati di cui al primo comma redatti\nnelle lingue attuali. Nella misura in cui l'accordo non sia ancora concluso e si\napplichi a titolo provvisorio. È istituita una superficie di base nazionale per\nciascuno stato membro produttore. Tuttavia, per la Francia sono istituite due\nsuperfici di base. È fissata una superficie massima garantita, pari a 829229\nettari. Se tale decisione è presa anteriormente alla data di adesione, essa\nentra in vigore solo dalla data di adesione. le misure di aiuto sono comunicate\nalla commissione entro quattro mesi dalla data di adesione. Tale comunicazione\ninclude le informazioni relative alla base giuridica di ciascuna misura. Dopo\ntale data, qualsiasi aiuto giudicato incompatibile con detti orientamenti è\nconsiderato nuovo aiuto. Le scorte di cui al paragrafo 1 sono detratte dalla\nquantità che supera le scorte normali di riporto. Queste aziende introducono\ninfatti nuove importazioni tecnologicamente avanzate e nuove tecniche gestionali\nche incoraggiano la crescita delle aziende nazionali, esortando dall'altra parte\nil processo di modernizzazione industriale. I farmaci, per quanto accessibili,\nnon hanno alcun valore se non c'è nessuno a prescriverli o a somministrarli.\nAnche in questo caso, la Germania dovrebbe prendere il comando. E, dal canto\nsuo, la Cina si è affidata al dollaro per ancorare la propria moneta deprezzata,\ndiventando così più competitiva nelle esportazioni. Alla fine, però, questa\ncodipendenza si è rivelata un matrimonio di convenienza più che d'amore.\nrestando impantanata nella carenza di risparmio ma ritrovandosi senza prodotti\nné capitali cinesi, l'America rischia di andare incontro a un aumento\ndell'inflazione e dei tassi di interesse, e a un indebolimento del dollaro.\nSebbene la risposta probabile sia sì, i rischi al ribasso sembrano più alti di\nquanto non fossero alcuni decenni fa. Tutti questi problemi hanno soluzioni,\nalmeno nel breve e medio termine. O forse questa innovazione è meno\nsignificativa di quanto credano gli entusiasti. È alquanto esplicativo che la\nmaggior parte dei 47 partecipanti al simposio - influenti figure del settore\npubblico e privato di tutto il mondo - non erano a conoscenza del grado in cui\nl'alimentazione di una madre influenza il benessere della sua prole . Ciò\nriflette una incapacità fondamentale della comunità scientifica a trasmettere\ndati significativi ai responsabili decisionali. In Corea del sud, Giappone e\naltrove, sviluppare e massimizzare il potenziale delle donne richiederà riforme\ndel sistema educativo e del mercato del lavoro, così come un cambiamento\nstrutturale, soprattutto sul versante dei servizi dell'economia. Nell'ambito\ndell'economia internazionale, essere percepiti come noiosi conferisce potere in\nquanto consente la possibilità di prendere importanti decisioni senza controlli\nrilevanti dall'esterno. Niente di buono sarebbe mai accaduto - e di certo non\nper merito loro. L'importanza economica e finanziaria globale di questi paesi è\ncresciuta rapidamente, tuttavia essi sono relativamente poco rappresentati\nall'interno del fondo. È stato concordato un pacchetto di riforme. In realtà,\nl'amministrazione ha cercato di rendere il FMI più interessante, soprattutto per\nincoraggiare i repubblicani della Camera dei rappresentanti a sostenere le\nriforme. Le ultime indicazioni sono che i repubblicani non ne saranno tanto\npersuasi. Non un centimetro. Eppure, mentre gli ucraini lavorano per ricostruire\nil nostro paese dopo il governo predatorio di Viktor Yanukovych, affrontiamo una\nnuova minaccia, sotto - forma di \"offensiva di pace\" - un vecchio fondamento\ndella diplomazia sovietica ideata per minare le decisioni dell'occidente. Se non\nc'è alcuna oppressione degli abitanti di lingua russa in Ucraina, non c'è alcun\nmotivo di cambiare la struttura politica del paese. Tuttavia, quando si tratta\ndi ingegneria genetica, la scienza sembra avere un peso minore rispetto alla\npolitica. Dopotutto, creare una vera unione fiscale richiederebbe un forte\nimpegno politico e un notevole lavoro di ricerca. Il suo periodo a Vendôme è\nriflesso in Louis Lambert, il suo romanzo del 1832 su un giovane studente della\nscuola di grammatica oratoriana di Vendôme. come spiega Robb: Una eredità\nsimbolica. Alla fine, perse la sanità di mente e cadde nella follia. La loro\nlunghezza non era prestabilita. Il suo metodo di lavoro preferito era mangiare\nun pasto leggero alle cinque o alle sei del pomeriggio e poi dormire fino a\nmezzanotte. Nonostante Balzac fosse \"talvolta un eremita e un girovago\", ha\nsempre provato a rimanere in contatto con la società che forniva materiale per\nil suo lavoro. La salute di lui peggiorò lungo il cammino, e Ewelina scrisse a\nsua figlia che Balzac era \"in uno stato di estrema debolezza\" e \"sudava\ncopiosamente\". Balzac cercava di presentare i suoi personaggi come persone\nreali, né troppo buone né troppo cattive, ma completamente umane. Come fece con\nla gente attorno a sè, Balzac studiò in profondità quei luoghi, viaggiando in\nluoghi remoti e prendendo nota di ciò che aveva fatto nelle visite precedenti.\n\"L'artista della Comédie Humaine\", egli scrisse, \"è semi-sommerso dallo storico.\n\"Balzac ricevette alti elogi da critici così diversi come Walter Benjamin e\nCamille Paglia. Non si sa con esattezza quando Shakespeare iniziò a scrivere, ma\nteorie contemporanee e gli archivi delle performance mostrano che molte delle\nsue opere venivano messe in scena sui palchi londinesi già dal 1592. Shakespeare\nfu sepolto nel presbiterio della chiesa della santa trinità due giorni dopo la\nsua morte. L'epitaffio inciso sulla lastra di roccia che copre la tomba\nracchiude una maledizione su chiunque oserà spostare le sue ossa, cosa che venne\naccuratamente evitata durante i lavori di restauro della chiesa nel 2008.\nShakespeare collaborò ad altre due opere ancora oggi conosciute, Enrico VIII e I\ndue nobili congiunti, probabilmente con John Fletcher. Dopo Amleto, Shakespeare\nmodificò ulteriormente il suo stile poetico, in particolare nei passaggi più\ncommoventi delle ultime tragedie. Negli ultimi romance di Shakespeare, egli è\ndeliberatamente tornato ad uno stile più artificiale, che enfatizzava\nl'illusione del teatro. Nel corso del diciottesimo e diciannovesimo secolo, la\nsua reputazione si è diffusa anche all'estero. Solo una piccola minoranza di\nricercatori crede che ci sia motivo di mettere in discussione l'attribuzione\ntradizionale delle opere, ma tale interesse, in particolare la teoria oxfordiana\nsulla paternità shakespeariana, continua nel ventunesimo secolo. \n", "gold_boundaries": [52, 173, 750, 847, 948, 1015, 1404, 1706, 1857, 1963, 2154, 2247, 2546, 2644, 2906, 3143, 3286, 3404, 3497, 3674, 3882, 4015, 4110, 4355, 4591, 4701, 4778, 4807, 5013, 5183, 5292, 5438, 5545, 5779, 5811, 5888, 5991, 6080, 6163, 6269, 6389, 6538, 6686, 6803, 6935, 7060, 7216, 7333, 7407, 7488, 7643, 7809, 7956, 8071, 8147, 8289, 8439, 8592, 8696, 8751, 8802, 8926, 9028, 9184, 9259, 9349, 9512, 9670, 9808, 9964, 10117, 10254, 10414, 10565, 10681, 10751, 10889, 10992, 11086, 11198, 11324, 11416, 11534, 11569, 11624, 11731, 11786, 11894, 12033, 12122, 12255, 12381, 12515, 12654, 12802, 12886, 12974, 13127, 13227, 13330, 13450, 13540, 13623, 13686, 13752, 13865, 13960, 14052, 14158, 14260, 14493, 14605, 14669, 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tipo,\nall'esattezza od alla presenza di errori, siano essi accertabili o meno.", "\nCreative Commons non è parte della presente licenza e non dà alcuna garanzia\nconnessa all'opera.", " Sì, onorevole Evans, ritengo che un'iniziativa del tipo che\nlei propone sia assolutamente opportuna.", " Chiedo che venga riesaminata tale\ndecisione, in quanto non è così.", " Di recente il tema della sicurezza dei\ntrasporti è stato tristemente al centro dell'attenzione dei mass media con\nl'incidente ferroviario alla stazione di Paddington a Londra, il terribile\nincidente ferroviario in Norvegia, i due incidenti aerei in cui hanno perso la\nvita alcuni cittadini dell'Unione e il disastro ecologico provocato dalla\npetroliera Erika al largo della costa bretone.", " L'importanza della sicurezza dei\ntrasporti stradali, ferroviari e per vie navigabili interne è indubbia e dato il\ncarattere internazionale di questo tipo di trasporti, anche i corsi di\nformazione per i consulenti per la sicurezza devono essere armonizzati, come, ad\nesempio, per il prossimo nuovo ADR.", " Ciò non va imputato soltanto alla\ncommissione ma credo che dobbiamo attivarci più rapidamente per giungere a\nun'armonizzazione anche in questo ambito.", " Posso anche accettare queste norme\nminime, ma esorto la commissione a esercitare un'attenta sorveglianza.", " Credo\ntuttavia che occorra fare tutto ciò che rientra nelle nostre possibilità per\nlimitare il più possibile il trasporto di merci pericolose in tutti i paesi,\nsiano essi di transito o meno.", " Spero che la mia proposta venga presa in\nconsiderazione nel corso della votazione di domani.", " Vorrei chiedere alla\nvicepresidente se oggi è in grado di dirci qualcosa sullo stato di avanzamento\ndegli sforzi di armonizzazione da parte delle due organizzazioni summenzionate e\nse l' Unione Europea ha la possibilità di accelerare l' armonizzazione adottando\nprincipi il più possibile semplici .", " Signor presidente, i miei più vivi\nringraziamenti alla onorevole Schroedter per il lavoro svolto.", " La mancanza di\nlinee direttrici specifiche qui si fa sentire con particolare intensità, dato\nche l'idea di collegare gli aiuti del fondo sociale alla strategia per\nl'occupazione verrà realizzata per la prima volta durante il periodo di\nprogrammazione 2000-2006.", " La verità è che siamo convinti, e ciò si riflette\nanche nel testo delle conclusioni, che la commissione debba tenere conto delle\ndecisioni di questo parlamento, soprattutto in vista della revisione delle linee\ndirettrici a metà periodo.", " Signor presidente, signor commissario, onorevoli\ncolleghi, desidero prima di tutto ringraziare la onorevole Schroedter per\nl'ottima relazione.", " Ha svolto un'analisi dettagliata di questo argomento e ha\ninserito molti emendamenti proposti in sede di commissione.", " Sono stati inseriti\nnumerosissimi dettagli, che erano emersi già nelle relazioni precedenti.", " si\ntratta di una lunga storia, che si trascina almeno da quando sono stato eletto\nal parlamento, cinque anni fa, tant'è vero che ho già trattato questo argomento\na più riprese.", " Mi pare, pertanto, che la relazione debba invece anticipare e\ndelineare le linee direttrici della revisione intermedia del 2003 e addirittura\ninfluenzare la seconda fase di programmazione successiva al 2003.", " realizzarlo\ncomporterebbe indubbiamente estendere gli strumenti di ridistribuzione delle\nrisorse, quali appunto i fondi strutturali.", " Signor presidente, anch'io mi voglio\ncomplimentare con il relatore per l'ottimo lavoro svolto.", " Concludo, signor\npresidente, dicendo che è piuttosto grave che nella comunicazione della\ncommissione sia stata riservata una scarsa attenzione ai patti territoriali e\nsoprattutto alle modalità di lotta alla disoccupazione femminile e giovanile.", "\nPer rivolgersi ai destinatari interessati, ANA ha usato un insieme di parole\nchiave che si rivolgeva agli amanti dei viaggi e della cultura giapponese,\nsviluppando poi contenuti creativi adatti a catturare l'attenzione dei\ndestinatari.", " Ora puoi visualizzare gli aggiornamenti pubblicati dalle persone\nche ti interessano anche se non siete amici.", " Se non vedi il pulsante, non puoi\nattivare la ricezione degli aggiornamenti.", " Hai già una Pagina Facebook?", " (14)\nCome principio generale, il consumo energetico dei prodotti che consumano\nenergia in stand-by o quando sono disattivati dovrebbe essere ridotto al minimo\nnecessario per il loro adeguato funzionamento.", " - Il programma deve essere\nprorogato di almeno 4 anni con lo stesso importo di riferimento finanziario (1\nmilione di Eur all'anno) e gli stessi interventi e destinatari.", " Ogni individuo\nha diritto di lasciare qualsiasi paese, incluso il proprio, e di ritornare nel\nproprio paese.", " Uomini e donne in età adatta hanno il diritto di sposarsi e di\nfondare una famiglia, senza alcuna limitazione di razza, cittadinanza o\nreligione.", " Ogni individuo ha diritto di accedere in condizioni di eguaglianza ai\npubblici impieghi del proprio paese.", " Ogni individuo che lavora ha diritto ad una\nremunerazione equa e soddisfacente che assicuri a lui stesso e alla sua famiglia\nuna esistenza conforme alla dignità umana ed integrata, se necessario, da altri\nmezzi di protezione sociale.", " mamma infelice, tutti infelici.", " La repubblica di\nBulgaria e la Romania diventano membri dell'Unione Europea.", " Le condizioni e le\nmodalità di ammissione sono contenute nel protocollo allegato al presente\ntrattato.", " Le disposizioni di tale protocollo costituiscono parte integrante del\npresente trattato.", " Le disposizioni di tale atto costituiscono parte integrante\ndel presente trattato.", " Il presente trattato è ratificato dalle Alte parti\ncontraenti secondo le rispettive norme costituzionali.", " Gli strumenti di ratifica\nsono depositati presso il governo della Repubblica italiana al più tardi il 31\ndicembre 2006.", " Il presente trattato entra in vigore il 1° gennaio 2007, a\ncondizione che tutti gli strumenti di ratifica siano stati depositati prima di\ntale data.", " Se tale decisione è adottata nei confronti di uno solo degli stati\naderenti il presente trattato entra in vigore per tale stato il 1° gennaio 2008.", "\nQueste misure prendono effetto con riserva dell'entrata in vigore del presente\ntrattato 5 alla data di quest'ultima.", " Il testo del trattato che adotta una\ncostituzione per l'Europa, redatto in lingua bulgara e rumena, è accluso al\npresente trattato.", " Protocollo relativo alle condizioni e modalità d'ammissione\ndella repubblica di Bulgaria e della Romania all'Unione Europea.", " La Bulgaria e\nla Romania aderiscono alle decisioni ed agli accordi adottati dai rappresentanti\ndei governi degli stati membri riuniti in sede di Consiglio.", " Gli strumenti\nspecifici di cui al presente articolo includono quelli citati nell'articolo\nIv-438 della costituzione.", " Essa presenta un progetto dei protocolli al consiglio\nper la conclusione.", " Il consiglio delibera all'unanimità previa consultazione del\nparlamento europeo.", " L'applicazione della costituzione e degli atti adottati\ndalle istituzioni è soggetta, a titolo transitorio, alle deroghe previste dal\npresente protocollo.", " In deroga a quanto precede, le procedure relative ad\nappalti pubblici avviate dopo l'adesione sono espletate in conformità delle\npertinenti disposizioni dell'unione.", " L'ultima programmazione per l'assistenza di\npreadesione di cui al paragrafo 1 è effettuata nell'ultimo anno civile completo\nprecedente l'adesione.", " I contratti relativi alle azioni a titolo di tali\nprogrammi dovranno essere assegnati entro i due anni successivi.", " Non è concessa\nalcuna proroga del periodo per l'assegnazione dei contratti.", " Proroghe limitate\ndella durata possono essere concesse per l'esecuzione dei contratti, in via\neccezionale e in casi debitamente giustificati.", " Per i costi relativi alle\nrevisioni contabili e alle valutazioni, i fondi di preadesione possono essere\nimpegnati fino a cinque anni dopo l'adesione.", " Non si applicano tuttavia le\ndisposizioni previste all'articolo 165 del regolamento finanziario applicabile\nal bilancio generale delle comunità europee.", " La commissione può adottare\ndisposizioni relative all'attuazione dell'assistenza di cui al paragrafo 2.", " A\ntal fine, la commissione è assistita da un comitato.", " Il comitato adotta il\nproprio regolamento interno.", " L'assistenza è volta a finanziare progetti di\ncostruzione istituzionale e piccoli investimenti limitati accessori a questi.", "\nGli stanziamenti sono autorizzati dall'autorità di bilancio nei limiti delle\nprospettive finanziarie.", " Il primo giorno lavorativo di ciascun mese del\ncorrispondente anno viene corrisposto alla Bulgaria e alla Romania un dodicesimo\ndi ciascun importo annuale.", " I pagamenti forfettari sono utilizzati entro tre\nanni dal primo pagamento.", " Tutti i fondi inutilizzati o spesi ingiustificatamente\nsono recuperati dalla commissione.", " La commissione può adottare qualsiasi\nprovvedimento tecnico necessario al funzionamento dello strumento temporaneo per\ni flussi di tesoreria e strumento Schengen.", " Le misure così decise sono\napplicabili immediatamente, tengono conto degli interessi di tutte le parti\ninteressate e non comportano controlli alle frontiere.", " Nella scelta di tali\nmisure si dovrà accordare la precedenza a quelle che turbino il meno possibile\nil funzionamento del mercato interno.", " Tali misure di salvaguardia non possono\nessere invocate come mezzo di discriminazione arbitraria o di restrizione\ndissimulata agli scambi tra stati membri.", " Le misure non sono mantenute oltre il\ntempo strettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di essere applicate una\nvolta attuato l'impegno pertinente.", " Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate oltre\nil periodo specificato nel primo comma fino a che non siano adempiuti i\npertinenti impegni.", " In risposta ai progressi compiuti dal nuovo stato membro\ninteressato nell'adempimento dei propri impegni, la commissione può adeguare\nopportunamente le misure.", " Le misure non sono mantenute oltre il tempo\nstrettamente necessario e, in ogni caso, cessano di essere applicate una volta\nposto rimedio alle carenze.", " Esse possono tuttavia essere applicate oltre il\nperiodo specificato nel primo comma finché tali carenze persistono.", " Tale periodo\npuò essere prorogato da una legge europea del consiglio.", " Tali misure sono\nadottate per un periodo di tre anni a decorrere dalla data di adesione e la loro\napplicazione è limitata a tale periodo.", " Il parlamento europeo apporta al suo\nregolamento interno gli adattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione.", " Il consiglio\napporta al suo regolamento interno gli adattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione.", "\nUn cittadino di ogni nuovo stato membro è nominato membro della commissione a\npartire dalla data dell'adesione.", " Il mandato dei membri così nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione.", " Due giudici sono nominati alla corte di giustizia e due giudici\nsono nominati al tribunale.", " Il mandato di uno dei giudici della corte di\ngiustizia nominati conformemente al paragrafo 1 scade il 6 ottobre 2009.", " Questo\ngiudice è estratto a sorte.", " Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 6 ottobre\n2012.", " Il mandato di uno dei giudici del tribunale nominati conformemente al\nparagrafo 1 scade il 31 agosto 2007.", " Il mandato dell'altro giudice scade il 31\nagosto 2010.", " La corte di giustizia apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli\nadattamenti resi necessari dall'adesione.", " Il tribunale, di concerto con la corte\ndi giustizia, apporta al suo regolamento di procedura gli adattamenti resi\nnecessari dall'adesione.", " I regolamenti di procedura così adattati sono\nsottoposti all'approvazione del consiglio.", " Un cittadino di ogni nuovo stato\nmembro è nominato alla corte dei conti a partire dalla data di adesione per un\nperiodo di sei anni.", " Il mandato dei membri così nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione.", " Il mandato dei membri recentemente nominati scade\ncontemporaneamente a quello dei membri che sono in carica al momento\ndell'adesione.", " Essi comunicano tali misure alla commissione entro la data di\nadesione o entro il termine previsto dal presente protocollo, se successivo.", " Le\nmisure sono adottate in conformità delle regole di voto che disciplinano\nl'adozione dell'atto rispetto al quale si chiede una deroga temporanea.", " Tali\nderoghe, se adottate dopo l'adesione, sono applicabili dalla data di adesione.", "\nTali adattamenti, se adottati dopo l'adesione, sono applicabili dalla data di\nadesione.", " Essi sono pubblicati nella gazzetta ufficiale delle comunità europee\nqualora i testi nelle lingue attuali siano stati oggetto di una tale\npubblicazione.", " Gli allegati I e IX e le relative appendici costituiscono parte\nintegrante del presente protocollo.", " Il testo del suddetto trattato, redatto in\nlingua bulgara e rumena, è allegato al presente protocollo.", " Tali testi fanno\nfede alle stesse condizioni dei testi dei trattati di cui al primo comma redatti\nnelle lingue attuali.", " Nella misura in cui l'accordo non sia ancora concluso e si\napplichi a titolo provvisorio.", " È istituita una superficie di base nazionale per\nciascuno stato membro produttore.", " Tuttavia, per la Francia sono istituite due\nsuperfici di base.", " È fissata una superficie massima garantita, pari a 829229\nettari.", " Se tale decisione è presa anteriormente alla data di adesione, essa\nentra in vigore solo dalla data di adesione.", " le misure di aiuto sono comunicate\nalla commissione entro quattro mesi dalla data di adesione.", " Tale comunicazione\ninclude le informazioni relative alla base giuridica di ciascuna misura.", " Dopo\ntale data, qualsiasi aiuto giudicato incompatibile con detti orientamenti è\nconsiderato nuovo aiuto.", " Le scorte di cui al paragrafo 1 sono detratte dalla\nquantità che supera le scorte normali di riporto.", " Queste aziende introducono\ninfatti nuove importazioni tecnologicamente avanzate e nuove tecniche gestionali\nche incoraggiano la crescita delle aziende nazionali, esortando dall'altra parte\nil processo di modernizzazione industriale.", " I farmaci, per quanto accessibili,\nnon hanno alcun valore se non c'è nessuno a prescriverli o a somministrarli.", "\nAnche in questo caso, la Germania dovrebbe prendere il comando.", " E, dal canto\nsuo, la Cina si è affidata al dollaro per ancorare la propria moneta deprezzata,\ndiventando così più competitiva nelle esportazioni.", " Alla fine, però, questa\ncodipendenza si è rivelata un matrimonio di convenienza più che d'amore.", "\nrestando impantanata nella carenza di risparmio ma ritrovandosi senza prodotti\nné capitali cinesi, l'America rischia di andare incontro a un aumento\ndell'inflazione e dei tassi di interesse, e a un indebolimento del dollaro.", "\nSebbene la risposta probabile sia sì, i rischi al ribasso sembrano più alti di\nquanto non fossero alcuni decenni fa.", " Tutti questi problemi hanno soluzioni,\nalmeno nel breve e medio termine.", " O forse questa innovazione è meno\nsignificativa di quanto credano gli entusiasti.", " È alquanto esplicativo che la\nmaggior parte dei 47 partecipanti al simposio - influenti figure del settore\npubblico e privato di tutto il mondo - non erano a conoscenza del grado in cui\nl'alimentazione di una madre influenza il benessere della sua prole .", " Ciò\nriflette una incapacità fondamentale della comunità scientifica a trasmettere\ndati significativi ai responsabili decisionali.", " In Corea del sud, Giappone e\naltrove, sviluppare e massimizzare il potenziale delle donne richiederà riforme\ndel sistema educativo e del mercato del lavoro, così come un cambiamento\nstrutturale, soprattutto sul versante dei servizi dell'economia.", " Nell'ambito\ndell'economia internazionale, essere percepiti come noiosi conferisce potere in\nquanto consente la possibilità di prendere importanti decisioni senza controlli\nrilevanti dall'esterno.", " Niente di buono sarebbe mai accaduto - e di certo non\nper merito loro.", " L'importanza economica e finanziaria globale di questi paesi è\ncresciuta rapidamente, tuttavia essi sono relativamente poco rappresentati\nall'interno del fondo.", " È stato concordato un pacchetto di riforme.", " In realtà,\nl'amministrazione ha cercato di rendere il FMI più interessante, soprattutto per\nincoraggiare i repubblicani della Camera dei rappresentanti a sostenere le\nriforme.", " Le ultime indicazioni sono che i repubblicani non ne saranno tanto\npersuasi.", " Non un centimetro.", " Eppure, mentre gli ucraini lavorano per ricostruire\nil nostro paese dopo il governo predatorio di Viktor Yanukovych, affrontiamo una\nnuova minaccia, sotto - forma di \"offensiva di pace\" - un vecchio fondamento\ndella diplomazia sovietica ideata per minare le decisioni dell'occidente.", " Se non\nc'è alcuna oppressione degli abitanti di lingua russa in Ucraina, non c'è alcun\nmotivo di cambiare la struttura politica del paese.", " Tuttavia, quando si tratta\ndi ingegneria genetica, la scienza sembra avere un peso minore rispetto alla\npolitica.", " Dopotutto, creare una vera unione fiscale richiederebbe un forte\nimpegno politico e un notevole lavoro di ricerca.", " Il suo periodo a Vendôme è\nriflesso in Louis Lambert, il suo romanzo del 1832 su un giovane studente della\nscuola di grammatica oratoriana di Vendôme.", " come spiega Robb:", " Una eredità\nsimbolica.", " Alla fine, perse la sanità di mente e cadde nella follia.", " La loro\nlunghezza non era prestabilita.", " Il suo metodo di lavoro preferito era mangiare\nun pasto leggero alle cinque o alle sei del pomeriggio e poi dormire fino a\nmezzanotte.", " Nonostante Balzac fosse \"talvolta un eremita e un girovago\", ha\nsempre provato a rimanere in contatto con la società che forniva materiale per\nil suo lavoro.", " La salute di lui peggiorò lungo il cammino, e Ewelina scrisse a\nsua figlia che Balzac era \"in uno stato di estrema debolezza\" e \"sudava\ncopiosamente\".", " Balzac cercava di presentare i suoi personaggi come persone\nreali, né troppo buone né troppo cattive, ma completamente umane.", " Come fece con\nla gente attorno a sè, Balzac studiò in profondità quei luoghi, viaggiando in\nluoghi remoti e prendendo nota di ciò che aveva fatto nelle visite precedenti.", "\n\"L'artista della Comédie Humaine\", egli scrisse, \"è semi-sommerso dallo storico.", "\n\"Balzac ricevette alti elogi da critici così diversi come Walter Benjamin e\nCamille Paglia.", " Non si sa con esattezza quando Shakespeare iniziò a scrivere, ma\nteorie contemporanee e gli archivi delle performance mostrano che molte delle\nsue opere venivano messe in scena sui palchi londinesi già dal 1592.", " Shakespeare\nfu sepolto nel presbiterio della chiesa della santa trinità due giorni dopo la\nsua morte.", " L'epitaffio inciso sulla lastra di roccia che copre la tomba\nracchiude una maledizione su chiunque oserà spostare le sue ossa, cosa che venne\naccuratamente evitata durante i lavori di restauro della chiesa nel 2008.", "\nShakespeare collaborò ad altre due opere ancora oggi conosciute, Enrico VIII e I\ndue nobili congiunti, probabilmente con John Fletcher.", " Dopo Amleto, Shakespeare\nmodificò ulteriormente il suo stile poetico, in particolare nei passaggi più\ncommoventi delle ultime tragedie.", " Negli ultimi romance di Shakespeare, egli è\ndeliberatamente tornato ad uno stile più artificiale, che enfatizzava\nl'illusione del teatro.", " Nel corso del diciottesimo e diciannovesimo secolo, la\nsua reputazione si è diffusa anche all'estero.", " Solo una piccola minoranza di\nricercatori crede che ci sia motivo di mettere in discussione l'attribuzione\ntradizionale delle opere, ma tale interesse, in particolare la teoria oxfordiana\nsulla paternità shakespeariana, continua nel ventunesimo secolo."]}
{"id": "it_vit-ud-test", "source": "UD_Italian-VIT/it_vit-ud-test.sent_split", "lang": "it", "text": "Non sono consentite assegnazioni provvisorie nell'ambito del comune di\ntitolarità. È consentita inoltre la partecipazione provvisoria sempre per una\nsola provincia e per non più di 20 preferenze, agli insegnanti che hanno titolo\na partecipare ai trasferimenti di cui alle precedenti II e III fase, sia che\nabbiano ottenuto il trasferimento, sia che non abbiano prodotto domanda di\ntrasferimento nei termini stabiliti dalla presente ordinanza, anche per\npreferenze diverse da quelle richieste per trasferimento, qualora siano\nsopraggiunti gravi motivi compresi, ovviamente, tra quelli previsti dall'art. 59\ndella legge n. 312 e di cui al precedente art. 70, che giustificano la\nrichiesta. I predetti motivi devono costituire oggetto di documentazione, che\ndeve essere presentata entro il termine che verrà stabilito per la presentazione\ndella domanda. In caso di ricongiungimento al familiare destinato a nuova sede\nper motivi di lavoro, si prescinde dall'iscrizione anagrafica. Ai fini della\npossibilità di presentazione della domanda di cui sopra, si considera motivo\nsopravvenuto la nascita di figli di epoca successiva al termine di presentazione\ndella domanda di trasferimento. Possono altresì chiedere l'assegnazione\nprovvisoria gli insegnanti individuati come perdenti posto che siano stati\ntrasferiti d'ufficio o che abbiano presentato con esito negativo domanda di\ntrasferimento non condizionata. Gli insegnanti di cui al presente articolo\npossono chiedere l'assegnazione provvisoria compilando il modulo domanda solo\nnelle sezioni a), b), c) quest'ultima solo per parte relativa alle esigenze di\nfamiglia, d) solo per le voci 15/17/18/19/20/21/22/29 e le sezioni e) ed f)\nsecondo le modalità di cui ai precedenti articoli in quanto applicabili. Le\ndomande devono essere indirizzate e spedite direttamente al provveditore agli\nstudi della provincia di titolarità entro il primo luglio. Si considerano\nprodotte in tempo utile le domande spedite a mezzo raccomandata con avviso di\nricevimento entro il termine di cui sopra. Alla domanda devono essere allegati i\ndocumenti, redatti in bollo, attestanti i requisiti richiesti dalla apposita\ntabella allegato c. Si richiama per le dichiarazioni personali sostitutive della\ncertificazione quanto stabilito dall'art. 16. Il provveditore agli studi,\nscaduto il termine di cui al precedente art. 71, respinge le domande prodotte\ndagli insegnanti che ai sensi degli articoli precedenti non hanno titolo o che\nsiano pervenute oltre il termine prescritto o alle quali non risultino allegati\ni richiesti documenti. Gli insegnanti che aspirano all'assegnazione provvisoria\nverranno graduati sulla base dei punteggi previsti dall'apposita tabella all c),\nle Esigenze di famiglia di cui alla predetta tabella di valutazione,\nverificatesi si in termini successivi al termine per la presentazione delle\ndomande di trasferimento, potranno essere valutate se rappresentate, con istanza\ndocumentate al provveditore agli studi della provincia richiesta, entro il\nmedesimo termine di cui all'art. 71. Le assegnazioni provvisorie nell'ambito\ndella provincia sono disposte con precedenza rispetto a quelle dall'una\nall'altra provincia. Gli insegnanti che nell'ultimo triennio siano stati\ntrasferiti d'ufficio per soppressione di posti in altro comune hanno la\nprecedenza sugli altri aspiranti nell'assegnazione provvisoria ai plessi\ncompresi nel comune nel quale il loro posto fu soppresso. In ogni graduatoria,\nsarà data la precedenza, a prescindere dal punteggio conseguito alle seguenti\ncategorie: Insegnanti non vedenti, insegnanti non autosufficienti con protesi\nagli arti inferiori. Nel caso di protesi agli arti inferiori, la deambulazione\ndeve essere gravemente compromessa. La certificazione da allegare è quella\nprevista dal precedente art. 16; Lavoratrici madri i cui figli, alla data del 10\nsettembre dell'anno in corso, non abbiano compiuto il primo anno di età, sempre\nche abbiano titolo ad ottenere l'assegnazione provvisoria. L'età è documentata\ncon certificato anagrafico. Il Provveditore agli studi entro il 5 agosto\ndetermina, con proprio decreto, le graduatorie e le pubblica all'albo\ndell'ufficio scolastico, indicando il punteggio complessivo attribuito, nonché\nle eventuali Precedenze assolute di cui all'art. 73. Entro cinque giorni dalla\npubblicazione, gli insegnanti interessati potranno presentare motivato reclamo\nal provveditore, il quale decide in merito entro i cinque giorni successivi.\nsono utilizzabili per le assegnazioni provvisorie tutti i posti vacanti per\nl'intero anno a seguito di eventuali provvedimenti di utilizzazione dei titolari\naventi durata annuale. Ovviamente non sono disponibili a tali fini i posti delle\ndotazioni organiche aggiuntive. Il provveditore agli studi pubblicherà l'elenco\ndegli insegnanti ai quali è stata concessa l'assegnazione provvisoria e la sede\nassegnata, con l'indicazione per ciascuno di essi delle sedi di titolarità, del\npunteggio complessivo conseguito, nonché le indicazioni relative ad eventuali\nprecedenze e preferenze entro il 30 agosto. Con le disposizioni di cui alla\npresente ordinanza sono disciplinati per tutte le classi di concorso i movimenti\nsottoelencati: 1) i trasferimenti dei docenti di ruolo con sede definitiva. Sono\ninoltre disciplinati i trasferimenti dei docenti di educazione fisica\nappartenenti al ruolo ad esaurimento previsto dal v comma dell'art. 16 della\nlegge n. 88/76; 2) i trasferimenti dei docenti di ruolo in attesa di sede\ndefinitiva art. 8 quartultimo comma; 3) passaggi di cattedra; 4) trasferimenti\ninterprovinciali per compensazione dei docenti di cui al punto 1; 5)\ntrasferimenti suppletivi interprovinciali dei docenti non di ruolo non\nlicenziabili ai sensi della legge n. 270/82; 6) assegnazioni provvisorie. sono\nutilizzabili ai fini dei trasferimenti provinciali le cattedre, ivi comprese le\ncattedre costituite totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento con classi\nfunzionanti a tempo prolungato e i posti d'insegnamento che risultino vacanti\nnelle dotazioni organiche della scuola media determinate dai provveditorati agli\nstudi. sono posti d'insegnamento quelli costituiti con: 1) attività di sostegno;\n2) corsi sperimentali per lavoratori; 3) dotazioni organiche aggiuntive. Ai fini\ndi cui al precedente primo comma non devono essere considerati disponibili: Le\ncattedre e posti d'insegnamento delle scuole medie che saranno istituite a\ndecorrere dall'inizio dell'anno scolastico; Le cattedre la cui vacanza non sia\naccertabile ed in ogni caso non sia stata trasmessa al centro elaborazione dati\nentro il 30 aprile; I posti istituiti con attività di sostegno dei docenti che\nottengono il trasferimento su classi di concorso; Le cattedre dei docenti di\neducazione fisica che ottengono il passaggio previsto dall'art. 16 della legge\n1-88/76; Le cattedre dei docenti che ottengono il trasferimento per\ncompensazione; I posti di insegnamento dei corsi sperimentali per lavoratori\nfunzionanti presso istituti di pena per adulti ovvero presso istituti penali\nminorili. Le cattedre e i posti disponibili nelle scuole medie speciali per\nciechi e sordomuti possono essere richieste per trasferimento da personale\nappartenente ai corrispondenti ruoli speciali previsti dal DPR 31 ottobre 1975\nn. 970. Ai fini del riassorbimento sulle dotazioni organiche aggiuntive e dei\ntrasferimenti interprovinciali si richiamano le disposizioni di cui al\nprecedente art. 13. I passaggi di cattedra, previsti dall'art. 75 del DPR numero\n417/74 e dalla tabella g ad esso allegata modificata e integrata dal dm 1\ndicembre 1983 saranno disposti, per ciascuna classe di concorso, in numero non\nsuperiore ad un quinto del numero complessivo delle cattedre e posti di\ninsegnamento disponibili per i trasferimenti interprovinciali di cui al\nprecedente articolo 13 e non utilizzabili per i trasferimenti interprovinciali\nmedesimi. Sui posti costituiti con attività di sostegno non si effettuano\npassaggi di cattedra, di conseguenza il numero di tali posti non è preso in\nconsiderazione ai fini della determinazione del numero dei passaggi di cattedra.\nSono depennati dal ruolo ad esaurimento previsto dal v comma dell'art. 16 della\ncitata legge n. 88/76 quei docenti di educazione fisica che, appartenendo a\ndetto ruolo, avranno chiesto ed ottenuto il trasferimento o il passaggio ai\nsensi del presente capo. Le Sezioni staccate, ai fini dei movimenti, vanno\nconsiderate come scuole autonome. Pertanto il movimento su tali sezioni verrà\ndisposto soltanto se l'aspirante ne avrà fatta richiesta con indicazione di\napposita preferenza, tenendo sempre presente che il numero complessivo delle\npreferenze non dovrà essere superiore a 15. Le Succursali, si precisa, vanno\nconsiderate come parte integrante della scuola da cui dipendono e pertanto non\nrisultano comprese negli elenchi ufficiali delle scuole. I Trasferimenti\nnell'ambito della stessa scuola dal corso diurno al corso serale e viceversa\nsaranno disposti secondo l'ordine e la precedenza di cui all'art. 86. I\nmovimenti su cattedre per le quali è previsto il completamento in una o due\nscuole della medesima sede o di altra sede saranno disposti soltanto se gli\ninteressati ne avranno fatta esplicita richiesta nel modulo domanda. Tale\nrichiesta non è differenziabile a livello delle singole preferenze e vale\npertanto per tutte le preferenze sia in ordine alla tipologia dei posti che agli\nambiti territoriali. Il docente trasferito su cattedra costituita tra scuole\ndiverse sarà tenuto a completare l'orario di insegnamento nella seconda delle\ndue scuole ed anche nella terza eventuale scuola così come verrà indicato negli\nelenchi per personale trasferito. Tale completamento potrà essere conferito per\ntutte le scuole comprese quelle che abbiano richiesto il tempo prolungato. Il\ndocente dovrà intendersi titolare nella prima delle scuole indicate; Per cui se\nsi libererà o si costituirà una cattedra nella scuola di titolarità\nl'interessato sarà automaticamente assorbito in tale scuola anche se tale\ncattedra funzionerà totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi\na tempo prolungato. Parimenti il Docente titolare su cattedra articolata su\nscuole di comuni diversi, ove nella prima delle scuole si liberi una cattedra\narticolata con scuole dello stesso comune, sarà automaticamente ed\nimmediatamente assorbito su questa ultima cattedra. Tali assorbimenti avverranno\na condizione che la cattedra, prevista nell'organico, sia priva di titolare. Non\nsono necessari a tal fine ulteriori provvedimenti da parte del provveditore agli\nstudi. I Docenti che siano titolari di cattedra costituita su scuole diverse,\nqualora intendano essere trasferiti nella scuola di completamento dovranno,\nviceversa, farne apposita domanda. Si avverte che le cattedre costituite su più\nscuole, possono essere modificate negli anni scolastici successivi per quanto\nriguarda gli abbonamenti qualora non si verifichi più disponibilità di ore nella\nscuola assegnata per completamento d'orario. Pertanto, i docenti trasferiti su\ntali cattedre sono tenuti a completare l'orario d'obbligo nelle scuole nelle\nquali il nuovo organico prevede il completamento d'orario. L'o m che disciplina\nla determinazione delle dotazioni organiche per la scuola media, prevede che le\nore di lac e quelle di studio sussidiario non avranno più autonoma rilevanza in\nquanto ai fini della formazione dell'organico di diritto, dovranno confluire\ninteramente nel nuovo modello a tempo prolungato anche se di fatto per le\nseconde e le terze classi le ore eccedenti quelle curricolari potranno essere\nutilizzate secondo i moduli organizzativi corrispondenti al doposcuola. Pertanto\ni trasferimenti da disporre a partire dall'a s 1984/85 riguarderanno anche le\ncattedre formate totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi a\ntempo prolungato. di conseguenza il docente che ottiene il trasferimento in\nscuole medie con classi a tempo prolungato o che conserva la titolarità potrà\nessere assegnato anche a tali classi. La richiesta per cattedre a tempo\nprolungato non può essere espressa autonomamente prescindendo, cioè, dalla\nrichiesta di cattedre costituite esclusivamente con ore curricolari ed è\nriferita a tutte le preferenze territoriali. La richiesta in esame ai fini della\nassegnazione della scuola di titolarità riguarda tutte le preferenze relative\nalle scuole che attuano il tempo prolungato anche in una sola classe. La\nrichiesta di cattedre articolate su più scuole può determinare l'assegnazione a\nscuole di completamento che effettuano il tempo prolungato anche ai docenti che\nhanno chiesto il tempo prolungato. A puro titolo indicativo, al fine di fornire\nagli interessati informazioni utili per la compilazione delle domande di\ntrasferimento, nel b u contenente l'elenco delle scuole medie sono evidenziate\nle scuole che si prevede attueranno anche in una sola classe, il tempo\nprolungato. Le operazioni di trasferimento e di passaggio saranno disposte nel\nseguente ordine: 1) i trasferimenti all'interno della stessa tipologia di\nsostegno e i trasferimenti dalle classi di concorso al sostegno art. 89); 2)\nlimitatamente all'anno scolastico 1984/85 trasferimenti alla domanda nell'ambito\ndella scuola da posto lac a cattedra; 3) trasferimenti a domanda dal corso\ndiurno al corso serale e viceversa; 4) trasferimenti a domanda dei docenti,\ntrasferiti dall'inizio dell'anno scolastico in corso in quanto soprannumerari,\nnelle scuole dove erano titolari nell'a s precedente; 5) trasferimenti a domanda\nin sede; 6) trasferimenti d'ufficio dei docenti soprannumerari, compresi i\nsoprannumerari sui corsi sperimentali per lavoratori funzionanti in comuni\ncomprendenti più distretti, che non hanno prodotto domanda o che, pur avendola\nprodotta non sono stati soddisfatti per le preferenze espresse nel modulo\ndomanda; 7) trasferimenti a domanda dei docenti, trasferiti dall'inizio\ndell'anno scolastico in corso, in quanto soprannumerari, nei comuni dove erano\ntitolari nell'a s precedente; 8) trasferimenti d'ufficio da fuori sede dei\ndocenti soprannumerari titolari sulle DOA di cui al successivo punto 10) che non\nhanno prodotto domanda o che pur avendola prodotta, non sono stati soddisfatti\nper le preferenze espresse nel modulo domanda e non sono stati sistemati nel\ncorso delle operazioni di cui al precedente punto 6); 9) trasferimenti a domanda\nda fuori sede nell'ambito della provincia docenti di ruolo con sede definitiva,\ntrasferiti per compensazione per l'a s in corso, titolari sulle DOA della\nprovincia; 10) trasferimenti d'ufficio di docenti titolari sulle DOA in\nsoprannumero non soddisfatti al precedente punto 9; 11) trasferimenti a domanda\nnell'ambito della provincia da posti di sostegno alle classi di concorso; 12)\ntrasferimenti a domanda di aspiranti provenienti da altra provincia docenti di\nruolo con sede definitiva ivi compresi i titolari sulle DOA e su posti di\nsostegno; 13) passaggi di cattedra; 14) trasferimenti interprovinciali per\ncompensazione. Nell'ambito di ciascuna delle fasi sopraindicate i movimenti\nverranno effettuati rispettando rigorosamente l'ordine di graduatoria di tutti\ngli aspiranti inclusi e le Preferenze nel modulo domanda. La Precedenza a parità\ndi punteggio è determinata dalla età. Le disposizioni di cui al presente\narticolo si applicano ai docenti soprannumerari che non presentino domanda di\ntrasferimento ovvero che, pur avendola presentata non sono trasferiti nel\nmovimento a domanda. I trasferimenti d'ufficio dei docenti in soprannumero sono\ndisposti su cattedre, ivi comprese le cattedre costituite totalmente o\nparzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi a tempo prolungato, su corsi\nsperimentali per lavoratori e dotazioni organiche aggiuntive della provincia. I\ntrasferimenti d'ufficio non sono disposti da classi di concorso a posti\ncostituiti con l'attività di sostegno per i docenti titolari su classi di\nconcorso, atteso che l'assegnazione \"ex novo\" su detti posti presuppone\nnecessariamente la disponibilità del docente. Al fine di assicurare al docente\nuna sede di titolarità che risponda a criteri obiettivi di viciniorità rispetto\nalla sede di provenienza, i trasferimenti d'ufficio sono disposti sulla base di\napposita tabella dei \"comuni viciniori\". Ai fini dell'identificazione del comune\nda cui procedere per l'eventuale applicazione della citata tabella, sede di\nprovenienza dei docenti titolari su posti di insegnamento dei corsi sperimentali\nper lavoratori sarà considerato il comune sede del distretto di titolarità,\nquando tale distretto comprenda più comuni. Nel caso di distretti\ninterprovinciali qualora la sede del distretto si trovi in una provincia diversa\nda quella di titolarità, sarà considerato come sede di provenienza il primo\ncomune incluso nella parte provinciale del distretto della provincia di\ntitolarità, secondo l'ordine pubblicato nel b u delle scuole. I trasferimenti\nd'ufficio sono disposti nel seguente ordine di successione: 1) in scuole del\ncomune di titolarità; 2) in scuole di comune viciniore secondo la tabella di\nviciniorità di cui al precedente comma III; 3) su posti costituiti con i corsi\nsperimentali per lavoratori nel distretto di titolarità e successive negli altri\ndistretti secondo l'ordine pubblicato nel b u delle scuole medie; 4) su posti\ndelle dotazioni organiche aggiuntive della provincia, anche in eccedenza al\nrelativo contingente assegnato, fermo restando, in quest'ultima ipotesi, lo\nstatus di docente in soprannumero rispetto alla complessiva dotazione organica\ndella provincia. Relativamente ai punti 1 e 2 per ogni comune e per i comuni che\ncomprendono più distretti per ogni distretto), lo scorrimento delle scuole per\nl'assegnazione delle cattedre avviene nel seguente ordine: 1) scuole a tempo\nnormale cattedre interne alla scuola 2) scuole a tempo prolungato cattedre\ninterne alla scuola 3) scuole a tempo normale cattedre orario esterne stessa\nsede 4) scuole a tempo prolungato cattedre orario esterne stessa sede 5) scuole\na tempo normale cattedre orario esterne fuori sede 6) scuole a tempo prolungato\ncattedre orario esterne fuori sede. Ai fini predetti si considerano a tempo\nprolungato le scuole che hanno anche una sola classe a tempo prolungato. I\ntrasferimenti d'ufficio degli insegnanti in soprannumero saranno disposti\nsecondo l'ordine delle operazioni stabilito nel precedente art. 86. Il primo\nriguarda l'esperimento Nusex diretto dal fisico milanese Ettore Fiorini sotto il\nMonte Bianco: \"lo abbiamo proposto alla giunta dell'Infn nel settembre del\nsettantanove\", ricorda Fiorini. \"è stato approvato in dicembre e nel gennaio\n1980 avevamo già ricevuto i primi fondi. Un record che ci è stato riconosciuto\ncon invidia anche dai colleghi americani\". Il secondo esempio viene citato da\nRoberto Fieschi e si riferisce al progetto finalizzato per l'elettronica dello\nstato solido, un tema che riveste un'enorme importanza anche per le sue notevoli\nricadute industriali: Proposto dai fisici del gruppo di struttura della materia\nben otto anni fa, è stato approvato dal Cnr solo quest'anno. Insomma, a scavare\nbene nella compatta testuggine della fisica italiana, qualche incrinatura si\nriesce a trovarla. \"qualcuno\", dice con tono serafico Ettore Fiorini, \"ha detto\nche si spende troppo per la fisica delle alte energie. Sarebbe più corretto dire\nche in realtà si spende poco per gli altri: Anche ammettendo di diminuire i\nnostri finanziamenti a favore delle altre specializzazioni, non si farebbe un\ngrande guadagno, perché senza la ricerca di punta che si fa nei nostri\nlaboratori, tutto il resto crolla\". Sembra di sentire un'eco dell'apologo di un\ncerto Menenio Agrippa. Ma Renato Angelo Ricci, presidente della società di\nfisica e anche responsabile del progetto tandem ai laboratori nazionali Infn di\nLegnaro (Padova), uno strumento molto avanzato per la fisica nucleare, costato\ncomplessivamente 14 miliardi, sembra mettere tutti d'accordo con una visione\necumenica della fisica: \"la fisica italiana gode oggi di un grande credito,\nlegato al settore di punta della fisica subnucleare, ma ha dietro di sé altri\nsettori ormai competitivi a livello internazionale. Ne citerei almeno tre: La\nstruttura della materia (fisica dello stato solido e degli stati aggregati,\norganizzata nell'ambito del gruppo nazionale struttura della materia del Cnr),\nla fisica nucleare propriamente detta che si fa a Legnaro, a Catania (dove\nl'acceleratore lineare tipo tandem verrà presto integrato con un nuovissimo\nciclotrone superconduttore attualmente in costruzione a Milano) e con\nacceleratore Adone di Frascati, e la fisica al limite fra la fisica cosmica e\nl'astrofisica, cioè la cosiddetta fisica sotterranea, che ha una tradizione ben\nprecedente al progetto Gran Sasso. A questo si aggiunga la tendenza della fisica\nmoderna all'unificazione delle forze fondamentali, che porta anche un\navvicinamento dei vari settori. Il tentativo di trovare le forze primordiali\ntende a ricostruire le condizioni in cui era l'universo nelle prime frazioni di\nsecondo: È lì che vivevano certi oggetti di cui oggi si cercano le tracce con\ngli acceleratori o nelle caverne come quella del Gran Sasso, come i monopoli, o\ni bosoni di Higgs; Questo significa innanzitutto che la fisica delle particelle\nva ad accoppiarsi con l'astrofisica. Inoltre in questa ricerca ci si trova a\nconfronto con gli eventi che hanno portato alla costituzione della materia che\nconosciamo oggi, la sintesi dei nuclei degli elementi che costituiscono il 99\nper cento della materia. In conclusione, tutto un nuovo avvicinamento fra\nl'astrofisica, la fisica delle particelle e la fisica dei nuclei e della\nmateria. Una visione ottimistica che riaffida alla fisica, come avevano sperato\ndi fare i positivisti oltre un secolo fa, il compito di rispondere ai grandi\nquesiti dell'uomo. sono davvero lontani, per questa nuova generazione di fisici\ntrionfanti, i tempi dei complessi di colpa che avevano profondamente turbato i\nloro maestri, i reduci di Hiroshima. È giovedì 6 giugno. Alle 9 di mattina,\nnella sala Enrico Fermi del Cnr, in Piazza Aldo Moro, entra il presidente Luigi\nRossi Bernardi e saluta i presidenti dei \"comitati\", seduti nervosamente intorno\nal grande tavolo ovale. non è una giornata qualunque. È il giorno in cui si\ndovrà decidere la distribuzione del 50 per cento dei fondi destinati, per il\n1985, ai circa 300 organi del Cnr sparsi per la penisola. È una giornata\ndecisiva, come tutti gli anni, essendo la spartizione dei finanziamenti un\nmomento cruciale nella vita dell'ente. Ma quest'anno è diverso. La posta in\ngioco è ancora più alta del solito. C'è qualcosa di nuovo nella sala riunioni.\nUn gigantesco carrello carico di documenti che è stato collocato, bene in vista,\nproprio alla sinistra del presidente. È una presenza minacciosa, per alcuni. Sul\ncarrello ci sono i dati relativi a tutti gli istituti e i centri ricerca del\nCnr. Si tratta di una sorta di maxipagella della scienza italiana elaborata\ndalla segreteria personale del presidente, dopo uno \"scrutinio\" durato mesi. È\nproprio su quel carrello che si concentra l'imbarazzato interesse dei presenti.\nDavvero i fondi ottantacinque saranno distribuiti secondo i \"voti\" assegnati e\nscritti su quei fogli? Ma facciamo un passo indietro. La vicenda era nata sei\nmesi prima, esattamente il 31 ottobre 1984 quando Luigi Rossi Bernardi,\ncinquantaduenne direttore scientifico del San Raffaele e dell'ospedale maggiore\ndi Milano, aveva assunto ufficialmente la presidenza del Cnr e aveva pronunciato\nl'atteso discorso della corona. Lo aveva fatto con una discreta abilità\npropagandistica, secondo l'opinione generale, perché, dopo anni di malcontento\nper lo stato dell'ente, era riuscito a far vibrare le \"corde\" giuste degli\nspettatori e a far gridare al rinnovamento. La nota sulla quale aveva\nmaggiormente insistito era stata quella della valutazione del lavoro degli\nscienziati, un tema delicato ma importantissimo sul quale aveva assunto una\nposizione assai decisa. Si sta svolgendo in questi giorni a Roma \"libri in\ncampo\", una manifestazione dedicata all'editoria. Oggi, alle ore 21:30,\nnell'ambito di questa iniziativa, la casa editrice edizioni associate editrice\ninternazionale presenta il libro di Marina Galletti su Georges Bataille\ncontre-attaques. Gli anni della militanza antifascista. Corrispondenza inedita\ncon Pierre Kaan e Jean Rollin. 38 Spoleto festival. Sarà la messa da requiem di\nGiuseppe Verdi a chiudere, domani sera alle 19:45 nella piazza Duomo di Spoleto,\nla 38-ma edizione del festival dei due mondi. Il Requiem, per l'imponenza della\nmusica, delle masse orchestrale e corale che richiede, è una composizione che\npare fatta apposta per il concerto di chiusura. E non a caso, nella storia del\nfestival, è stata fra le più eseguite. La Spoleto Festival Orchestra sarà\ndiretta dall'americano James Conlon, direttore musicale dell'opera di Colonia,\nche proprio a Spoleto ha mosso i primi passi sul podio. Il coro di Santa Cecilia\nsarà diretto da Norbert Balatsch. Bianca nera. Al processo di Torvajanica\nsmentito Said. Miloud Belkhaoua, 14 anni, si guadagna da vivere facendo il\nlavavetri ai semafori di Casalpalocco. Per difendere il fratello, Said, accusato\ndi aver investito e ucciso Sara Folino a Torvajanica, riesce a contraddire sé\nstesso e le parole dell'imputato. nel momento in cui la Bx ha investito la\nragazza quindicenne molestata poco prima, Miloud dice di aver \"chiuso gli occhi\nper paura\". Invece l'imputato ha dichiarato: \"il mio fratellino mi disse di\nstare attento. C'era la ragazza. da me vista troppo tardi\". In aula viene\nstritolata la tesi del perito della difesa, Italo Fainelli: \"l'auto prima è\nfinita contro un albero, poi, sbandando, ha colpito la ragazza\". Il presidente\nSeverino Santiapichi ribatte: \"se così fosse stato, la Bx con l'urto avrebbe\nsubìto una decelerazione. Invece ha investito Sara procedendo a 70 all'ora\".\nProssima udienza, lunedì. Sarà ascoltato il dottor Lombardi, il primo medico ad\nintervenire dopo la tragedia. Processo per la morta di Folino, la ragazza\ninvestita a Torvaianica. Veloso ricorda i rapporti con il nostro paese e\ndichiara il suo amore per il cinema di Fellini. \"la prima notte in Italia chiuso\nin cella\". Dal nostro inviato Giacomo Pellicciotti Perugia - passeggiando di\nsera per corso Vannucci, Caetano Veloso si ritrova a casa sua, nel natio borgo\ndi Santo Amaro, un paesino nello stato di Bahia. Va sottobraccio alla bella\nmoglie Paola, con Gilda l'ex compagna di Vinicius De Moraes al fianco, incrocia\naffettuosamente l'amico Gilberto Gil e abbraccia poi tutta la famiglia di\nAntonio Carlos Jobim, moglie e bambini, in vacanza in Umbria. Caetano si ferma\nanche a parlare in italiano cogli italiani che lo salutano, mai fastidiosamente,\ncome un vecchio e caro amico. Caetano Veloso è tornato per la terza volta a\nUmbria Jazz, ed è lui, senza dubbio, il trionfatore incontrastato del festival.\nTre recital di straordinaria malia al teatro morlacchi, neanche uno strapuntino\nlibero, e tante persone rimaste fuori. Ha vinto anche il \"premio Heineken\" della\ncritica ed è l'ultimo segnale di un amore reciproco tra il cantautore di Bahia e\ngli italiani più sensibili, con Lucio Dalla, Fiorella Mannoia, Renzo Arbore e lo\nstilista Romeo Gigli promotori di un immaginario fanclub. \"l'Italia è un\nsentimento che è stato sempre presente nella mia vita, fin da bambino\". Caetano\nparla con quella sua voce lieve, sussurrata, che è già musica, e rifà la storia\ndella sua lunga assiduità con la cultura e la gente del nostro paese. \"mi\nricordo che mia sorella più grande parlava sempre dei film italiani, soprattutto\ndi ladri di biciclette. Io, poi, li ho visti tutti questi film, ne ho visti\ntanti fino all'ossessione nei tre cinema di Santo Amaro. Oggi non ce n'è rimasto\npiù nessuno. Potrei dire che quel po' d'italiano che so, l'ho imparato al\ncinema, ascoltando i dialoghi dei film di Fellini, De Sica e compagni. Posso\ndire che l'italiano me l'hanno insegnato Pinelli, Flaiano, Zavattini e tutti gli\nsceneggiatori di quei film indimenticabili. Il regista favorito resta comunque\nFederico Fellini, che è stato molto importante nella mia storia personale. A 15\nanni, quando ho visto la strada, ho pianto e non ho potuto mangiare per un\ngiorno intero. Le notti di Cabiria è una delle cose più belle che abbia mai\nvisto. L'unico grosso dolore è di non aver mai potuto incontrare Fellini e\nGiulietta Masina. Quando ho scritto la canzone Giulietta Masina, a Bari per la\nrassegna \"Time Zones\", mi è capitato di cantare all'auditorio Nino Rota. Un\nsegno del destino. E mentre dormivo in hotel, mia moglie Paolinha ha risposto al\ntelefono. Una Voce di donna per conto della Masina chiedeva una copia del mio\ndisco con la canzone a lei dedicata. Le ho fatto recapitare il disco a casa da\nun amico, ma poi silenzio. Forse non le era piaciuto, chissà. Era stato anche\nproibito alla radio brasiliana perché parlava delle passeggiatrici di Cabiria,\nmagari Giulietta non ha gradito\". Ma la musica italiana Caetano come l'ha\nscoperta? Sorride ricordando: \"quando ero piccolo, mia madre mi cantava le\ncanzoni napoletane in portoghese. Ma la mia canzone preferita è Luna Rossa,\nperché è stata la prima che ho sentito in dialetto napoletano. Alla fine degli\nanni cinquanta, circolava in Brasile la versione di una cantante, credo\nnapoletana, un'interpretazione molto calda, sensuale. Poi ho sentito Roberto\nMurolo ed è stato tutto più chiaro, ho letto i testi sul disco e ho capito che\nnon era italiano, ma napoletano. Così ho potuto imparare a memoria le parole.\nPer questo oggi la canto qui da voi, prima a Napoli nello show di Lucio Dalla e\nora al morlacchi, perché la sento una canzone totalmente mia\". Curioso e\ntragicomico il racconto che Caetano fa del suo primo giorno in Italia, a Roma 24\nanni fa: \"era, penso, il 1971 e vivevo esule a Londra. Avevo già fatto un disco\ninglese e stava per uscire Transa, quando il boss della compagnia discografica\nParamount, anche produttore cinematografico, decise che dovevo assolutamente\nessere io il San Francesco del film di Zeffirelli, cosa che non è mai avvenuta.\nCosì partimmo tutti. Arrivammo nel tardo pomeriggio all'Excelsior di Via Veneto.\nEravamo solo da un paio d'ore in Italia, e la polizia ci chiese i documenti, ma\ni passaporti erano rimasti all'Excelsior. I poliziotti risero, non ci credettero\ne ci schiaffarono in cella. Ci misero fuori alle sei del mattino, per\nl'intervento provvidenziale di un amico leader studentesco. Quest'anno è il\ncoronamento del mio rapporto davvero speciale con l'Italia: Lucio Dalla mi ha\ninvitato a Napoli per il suo show televisivo, vorrebbe anche produrre un mio\nalbum per il mercato italiano, e adesso vivo l'incanto di Perugia. sono come in\ncielo. O meglio, davanti a questi stupendi palazzi medioevali, ritorno bambino a\nSanto Amaro. Forse le vecchie chiese di Bahia non sono proprio così maestose, ma\nla nostalgia scatta lo stesso\". Il musicista testimonia del suo grande amore per\nl'Italia e per la sua cultura. Cecchi Paone conferma le trattative con\nRetequattro, ma smentisce l'accordo. \"non ho firmato\". \"ma non andrò al Tg 4,\nnon voglio pestare i piedi a nessuno\". Incerto il futuro di Funari. Enrica\nBonaccorti andrà a Raidue. Di Fausto Gianì \"macché, non ho firmato nessun\ncontratto, non sono stato a Milano nei giorni scorsi né mi sono mai mosso da\nqui\". Il \"qui\" di cui parla, al telefono, Alessandro Cecchi Paone, è un albergo\ndiscreto di Porto Cervo, in Sardegna, dove il conduttore televisivo si trova da\nmartedì scorso \"e fino a lunedì prossimo, per festeggiare il mio secondo\nanniversario di matrimonio\". Cecchi Paone smentisce dunque quanto pubblicato\nieri dal Corriere della Sera e cioè di aver firmato il passaggio alla Fininvest,\ncon la carica di vicedirettore del Tg 4 ma senz'obbligo di frequenza, vale a\ndire che il suo diretto superiore non sarà Emilio Fede e che in sua assenza non\nsarà lui a dialogare con Paolo Brosio in diretta e il tribunale di Milano come\nsfondo. Sottratto per qualche momento al mare e al sole della Sardegna (e alla\nmoglie), Cecchi Paone conferma che le trattative sono effettivamente in corso,\nma che di qui alla firma ce ne corre, del resto il suo Avvocato Francesco\nAssumma su queste cose ci va con i piedi di piombo. \"in ogni caso\" puntualizza\nlui, \"comincerò ad occuparmene dalla settimana prossima. E se si arriva alla\nfirma, la rai sarà la prima a saperlo: la seconda rete, la direzione generale,\nla direzione del personale, tutti quelli con cui ho lavorato in tutti questi\nanni\". Certo: una Fama da bravo ragazzo, costruita in vent'anni di carriera, non\nsi brucia neppure sull'altare di un contratto Fininvest. Quella fama spera di\nportarsela dietro anche nel caso passi al Biscione. E infatti conferma\nindirettamente le voci che lo vogliono conduttore di programmi di\napprofondimento giornalistico, praticamente una nuova versione della \"cronaca in\ndiretta\": \"non andrei mai al Tg 4\" dice lui, \"né vorrei pestare i piedi a\nnessuno\". O quasi: perché il timore di infastidire Gianfranco Funari un pò ce\nl'ha, nonostante la grande diversità fra i due personaggi e i rispettivi\nprogrammi: \"questa mia trattativa con la Fininvest\" dice Cecchi Paone, \"ha\nscatenato voci, Boatos e notizie esagerate o appunto inventate come quella del\ncontratto già siglato\". E dietro queste voci ci sono le voci di chi gli vuol\nbene (come Pippo Baudo), o di chi avrebbe da temere dal suo salto di sponda.\nCome Funari, l'unico che finora ha avuto a che fare con l'informazione su rete 4\n(a parte il Tg di Fede, ovviamente). Il \"giornalaio\" non conferma né smentisce.\nAlmeno pubblicamente, tace: \"parlerà dopo il 21 luglio\" dice la sua addetta\nstampa. Cioè dopo aver mandato in onda l'ultimo \"punto di svolta\". E per quella\ndata, Funari spera anche di aver discusso i suoi futuri destini con i vertici di\nrete 4, e di poter quindi dire la sua con distacco o fuor dai denti a seconda di\ncome saranno andate le proprie trattative: Non ha mai fatto mistero che la\nfascia preserale, schiacciata dai Tg, la lascerebbe volentieri ad altri - Cecchi\nPaone, per dirne una. O potrebbe seguire il suo esempio e passare ad altri lidi\ntelevisivi - Cecchi Gori, per dirne una. A Raidue, intanto, è come se il\ntrasloco del conduttore bravo ragazzo sia cosa fatta: il direttore Gabriele la\nPorta conferma che sono pronti a far scendere in pista Enrica Bonaccorti, ma che\nprima vuol sentire gli autori di \"cronaca in diretta\" perché con lei il\nprogramma prenderà tutt'altra piega, diventerà altra cosa. In sostanza: oltre\nalla Bonaccorti - che, dicono a Raidue, è raggiante per questa opportunità - ci\nsono altri candidati e nelle prossime settimane si vedrà. Il giornalista\nconferma le trattative con la rete commerciale, ma smentisce l'accordo. Tutti i\nmovimenti tra le televisioni. Intervista alle televisioni danese e svedese.\nParietti: difendo le donne che si spogliano in tv. Copenaghen - Alba Parietti ha\ndifeso, in una intervista trasmessa giovedì sera dalla tv danese, e ieri da\nquella svedese, la libertà delle donne italiane di denudarsi davanti ai\ntelespettatori. \"chi non vuole vedere, può cambiare canale\", ha detto la\nsoubrette. La Parietti, che si definisce ex femminista, ha accusato le donne\nitaliane di non essersi evolute sul piano della solidarietà, di non aver ancora\nsviluppato un sentimento comune \"di categoria\". Davanti alla divertita\nintervistatrice, la giornalista danese Lisbet Davidsen, Alba Parietti ha anche\naffermato che l'uomo italiano non è cambiato: \"è ancora maschilista e mammone\".\nIn un'intervista a una tv danese, la soubrette ha difeso la libertà delle donne\nitaliane di denudarsi davanti ai telespettatori. Interrogazione su \"generale per\nuna sera\". \"cinici e diseducativi\" i film - Wargames di rai 1. Roma -\nun'iniziativa \"cinica e diseducativa\": questo il giudizio dei deputati\nprogressisti, Boghetta, Rizzo, De Murtas e Vendola, in una interrogazione al\nministro delle poste contro \"generale per una sera\", la trasmissione che Raiuno\nmanda in onda da ieri. Il programma propone un ciclo di film dedicati alle\ngrandi battaglie degli ultimi due secoli, al termine dei quali ospiti noti al\npubblico, rileggono gli episodi storici con un gioco di simulazione.\nNell'interrogazione si ricordano le recenti immagini di Srebenica e si sostiene\nche il programma \"in questo drammatico contesto presuppone una adesione ad una\ncultura della guerra, tale da poterci giocare come se niente fosse\". Una\ninterrogazione parlamentare per denunciare il cinismo della trasmissione\n\"generale per una sera\", che esalta la cultura della guerra. Le richieste\ndell'accusa per il sequestro e la morte del duca: il corpo non fu mai trovato.\n\"ai rapitori 10 ergastoli\". Processo Grazioli, sconto al pentito Abbatino. Dieci\nergastoli per i componenti della banda che il 7 novembre del settantasette, rapì\nil duca Massimiliano Grazioli Lante. Otto anni e sei mesi per il pentito\nMaurizio Abbatino, che con le sue confessioni ha consentito di stabilire che la\nbanda, dopo il rapimento, uccise il nobile romano. Il corpo non è stato mai\nritrovato. sono queste le richieste fatte ieri, a conclusione della\nrequisitoria, dal pm Andrea De Gasperis al processo che si è svolto in corte di\nassise. La condanna a vita è stata chiesta per Antonio Montegrande, Giorgio\nParadisi, Marcello Colafigli, Emidio Castelletti (tutti della banda della\nMagliana), Enrico Mariotti, Tobia Stefano, Francesco De Gennaro, Franco\nCatracchi, Renzo Danesi e Giovanni Piconi (gli ultimi tre, esponenti della banda\ndi Montespaccato). per Abbatino, che prima di essere arrestato e di decidere di\ncollaborare con l'autorità giudiziaria era uno dei più noti malviventi della\ncapitale, il pm ha chiesto la condanna a otto anni e sei mesi di reclusione. È\nstato lui, infatti, a rivelare tutti i retroscena della vicenda, a cominciare\ndall'organizzazione del sequestro, avvenuto lungo la Via Salaria, alle porte di\nRoma. Sostenendo davanti ai giudici della seconda corte di assise la\nresponsabilità degli imputati, il pm ha dato ampio credito alle dichiarazioni di\nAbbatino, che ritiene pienamente affidabile, visto che ha anche ammesso la sua\nposizione nella banda. Abbatino, che ha dato tutta una serie di indicazioni\nsulla base delle quali è stata sostenuta l'accusa, per il pm è \"pienamente\naffidabile\", anche se nel corso del dibattimento sono state messe in luce alcune\ndiscordanze per quanto riguarda le telefonate fatte alla famiglia del rapito per\ntenere i contatti e alla fine ottenere il riscatto. Il processo proseguirà il 17\nluglio prossimo con l'intervento dei difensori. Sono stati condannati a dieci\nergastoli i componenti della banda che rapì e uccise nel 1977 il duca\nMassimiliano Grazioli Lante. La tragedia in riva al mare. \"qui non c'è neanche\nil Pronto Soccorso\". Polemiche e accuse. Ma ieri sera sfilata di moda sui bordi\ndella vasca. \"bambini, lontani dalla piscina\". Paura, lutto, rabbia Fregene\nsotto choc. Di Corrado Zunino tacconi di sughero da dieci centimetri sulle\nstesse piastrelle dove Sofia, 4 anni e mezzo, camminò il giorno prima per mano a\nDworak, bambinaia di 24. E lunghi abiti da sera, alta moda costosa ed elegante,\nche sfiorano gli angoli di quella piscina maledetta, profonda un metro e venti\nai bordi, tre metri là dove sono annegate la bimba e la sua baby-sitter polacca.\n\"l'avevamo organizzata da tempo questa serata, per noi è lavoro\", si giustifica\nSusanna Santerini, la padrona del \"miraggio\". Avevano organizzato da tempo la\nsfilata sotto le stelle, a cinquanta metri dalle onde del mare, a due passi\ndalla vasca della morte. Sì, \"e adesso non si può fermare, questi sono contratti\nvecchi. Li hanno firmati nostri collaboratori, neppure noi\". Lo show deve andare\navanti, anche perché \"quest'anno Fregene è morta\", inciampa la signora nel\nverbo, \"è morta perché non viene più nessuno. Qualche romano nel week-end,\nqualche famiglia con villetta qui dietro. Niente di niente\". Già, il giorno dopo\nla morte di quella bimba bionda e alta, figlia di una critica d'arte bulgara e\ndi un professore del liceo \"De Amicis\", la piscina resta lontana dai percorsi\ndei clienti. Luogo tabù. Ma, la \"sera dopo\", la stessa piscina si trasforma nel\nteatro dell'ultima Kermessina litoral estiva: super model of the world\". Dalle\nundici in poi, ieri sera, spettacolo tra la discoteca Heaven, cogestita dai\nproprietari del \"miraggio\", e la piscina più grande: \"la prima sera abbiamo\nchiuso tutto, ma dobbiamo lavorare\", ancora la titolare. Poco più in là, ecco la\nvasca piccola: \"lì la ragazza polacca non andava mai\", racconta Alberto\nFranchellucci, bagnino manager del \"miraggio\", 134 cabine, 13 dipendenti.\nAppoggiava l'asciugamano \"sotto quella palma, tutti i giorni, e portava la\nbimbetta nella piscina grande. Si calava da quella scala ... Me la ricordo\nl'altra mattina, la coca-cola in mano, un quarto d'ora prima della morte. È\nstata quella ad ammazzarla, ne ha sputata fuori tanta. Quella ragazza dell'Est,\nvolto pallido, da due anni almeno si vedeva allo stabilimento: \"credo che\nvivesse nella villa dei Pietroiusti anche d'inverno. Giovane e affidabile, la\nsignora l'aveva scelta per questo\". Attorno al bagnino, alle due del pomeriggio,\nsolo una coppia di stranieri. Arrivano cinque spagnoli, ignari. Più tardi anche\ndue bambini, ma le madri fermano tutti gli altri: \"dove vai, oggi niente ...\nDomani vediamo\". Niente piscina, che nei giorni di fine settimana ospita anche\n200 persone. Prova a ricostruire quegli istanti: \"la piccola non ha gridato, non\nha sbattuto le braccia. Se n'è accorta una sua coetanea, era sul fondo della\nvasca. Poi è intervenuto il collega. No, adesso non c'è, è in caserma ... Sembra\nincredibile, questa storia, eppure l'ho vista tutta. E c'erano anche tre\nistruttori di nuoto, maledizione\". Qui, ristorante medio caro, bar con scontrino\nraro, un ingresso a 5 mila lire, 28 mila per una cabina con acqua calda, un\ngruppetto di ragazzi urla davanti al videogioco. E pochi Bagnanti, sotto gli\nombrelloni a righe blu, alternano critiche al cuoco a rivelazioni sulla morte di\nSofia Pietroiusti: \"una bibita ghiacciata? Ma con tutti quei bagnini, possibile\nnon si siano accorti di nulla ... Contrattacca Pietro, bagnino in servizio:\n\"quando le abbiamo tirate fuori erano vive tutte e due. La piccola reagiva alla\nrianimazione, il cuore le batteva ancora\". Cuoco e barista insieme: \"i soccorsi\nsono arrivati tardi. Qui a Fregene, da due anni, non c'è più un presidio di\npronto soccorso. Siamo completamente abbandonati\". Tra uno spot idiota e\nl'\"attimino\" del dee jay che deve dare la linea a suor Paola inviata in Bosnia,\nla polemica sui soccorsi a Fregene rimbalza anche via radio. Il medico che\ncoordina gli interventi allo stadio olimpico rivela da radio Roma: \"allo stadio\nci sono più ambulanze e dottori che al policlinico, possibile che su un litorale\naffollato come dieci stadi non ci sia nessun servizio? In spiaggia ascoltano, e\ns'infuriano: \"l'ambulanza arrivata da Maccarese aveva solo due portantini a\nbordo, completamente inesperti nella rianimazione\". Ma il responsabile del primo\ndistretto sanitario, Gioacchino Capoferro, respinge tutto: \"l'intervento è stato\ntempestivo, quattro minuti scarsi. La pratica di respirazione è stata fatta\nsecondo scuola\". Venerdì pomeriggio, vuoto il parco giochi in miniatura, ferma\nl'altalena. Al \"miraggio\", sabbia fine fine, un rigore elegante, l'anno scorso\nveniva Zibì Boniek. E vent'anni fa il giornalista manager Alberto Ronchey, il\npresidente di Federmeccanica Fabiano Fabiani. Allora, però, non c'era piscina:\n\"l'abbiamo dovuta costruire nel settantacinque perché il mare era diventato\nsporco\", spiegano gli attuali gestori, proprietari di una pizzeria a Trastevere:\n\"adesso il mare è tornato pulito\". Polemiche e accuse per la tragedia avvenuta\nnella piscina di Fregene, dove sono affogate una bambinaia polacca e una bimba\ndi quattro anni. L'esperienza del campione del mondo di nuoto in apnea Stefano\nMakula: il soccorso immediato è più importante dell'ambulanza\". \"quattro minuti\nper non morire\". Stefano Makula, 40 anni, romano, l'acqua delle piscine la\nconosce bene. Il 3 giugno, un mese e mezzo fa, al Foro Italico ha nuotato in\napnea per 152 metri con le pinne: record del mondo. Ha letto sui giornali della\npiccola Sofia morta affogata insieme con la baby-sitter nella piscina del\nMiraggio. Anche lui un giorno rischiò di morire sott acqua. \"non so com'è andata\na Fregene - premette - posso solo parlare in astratto. Certo, però, che quello\nche è accaduto mi sorprende. Perché in casi come questi conta soprattutto il\nprimo soccorso, quello del bagnino. che dev'essere immediato, tempestivo. Il\nbagnino dev'essere lì per legge, si chiama infatti assistente ai bagnanti. Cioè\ndev essere vigile, sempre pronto ad intervenire. Io non so se il bagnino di\nFregene era distratto, so solo che il soccorso sicuramente non è stato\nimmediato. Bastano, infatti, 20/30 secondi per tirar su una persona che sta per\nannegare, c'è tutto il tempo per salvarla\". Quanto tempo? \"se la persona,\nandando giù, non ha bevuto, la trachea resta chiusa per circa un minuto, un\nminuto e mezzo. E passano almeno quattro minuti prima che si producano danni\nirreversibili al cervello. Nel caso di un bambino, poi, è ancora meglio perché\nil suo organismo è più efficiente, più valido, di quello di un adulto. Se la\npersona, invece, ha bevuto, cioè se è entrata acqua nei polmoni, la cosa è più\ncomplicata. La persona va recuperata entro un minuto, un minuto e mezzo. in\nquesto modo con la respirazione artificiale e il massaggio cardiaco si riesce a\nfarle espellere tutto il liquido. Comunque, il termine di quattro minuti rimane\ninderogabile\". Forse la baby-sitter ha avuto una sincope ... \"e allora i\nsoccorsi non contano. La sincope da idrocuzione non perdona. L'azione combinata\ndel sole e di una bibita ghiacciata causa il blocco del cuore. Può prenderti\nanche fuori dall'acqua, non c'è rimedio. non c'è bagnino, non c'è ambulanza o\nelicottero che ti possa salvare. Però non credo che la bambina sia stata colta\nanche lei da sincope. Perciò ... \"perciò è inutile prendersela con l'ambulanza\nche ha ritardato. Se passano quei quattro minuti fatali da quando la persona è\nin acqua, non conta nulla che dopo venga portata nel miglior ospedale al mondo.\nQuella persona muore\". Il campione del mondo di nuoto in apnea, Stefano Makula,\nspiega come, nei casi di annegamento, il soccorso immediato sia più importante\ndell'ambulanza. Party per la trasmissione estiva. Uno Mattina scenda al Gilda.\nFregene continua a sfornare occasioni mondane. Ospiti d'onore, i due\npresentatori del programma, Maria Teresa Ruta e Amedeo Goria. Più tardi, nel\ncorso della serata gli arrivi di Elisabetta Cragnotti (figlia del presidente\ndella Lazio), e il consorte Filippo Fucile, Antonellina Interleghi, Liana Orfei,\nMichele Mirabella. L'ultima giovedì notte in occasione del party per la\ntrasmissione Uno Mattina Estate. Giovedì notte si è svolto a Fregene il party\nper la trasmissione Uno Mattina Estate. Domani gara di regolarità. Auto storiche\na Caracalla. Anteprima di \"una corsa per la vita\", il giro nazionale di auto\nstoriche. Domani, nel circuito delle terme di Caracalla, trenta vetture\nomologate Asi saranno ammesse ad una gara di regolarità abbinata alla lotteria\nideata dalla M V Team in collaborazione con la fondazione italiana per il\nvolontariato. Saranno esposte anche la Williams - Renault campione di Formula 1\ne una Renault 6 cavalli del 1923. da Harlem a Tor Bella Monaca \"Quartieri\",\nlaboratori di cultura giovanile. Usa o Italia, \"hip hop\" è la lingua del ghetto.\ndi Rita Celi rap per comunicare. Graffiti per colorare il grigio delle\nmetropoli, per riempire il vuoto di quartieri di cemento. Nuovi linguaggi del\ndisagio giovanile in cui immergersi a Tor Bella Monaca che si trasformerà, da\ndomani, in un cantiere di creatività internazionale. Uno spazio di incontro e\nconfronto fra le varie espressioni in cui sessanta ragazzi italiani, americani e\nsudafricani daranno vita in tempo reale alla loro produzione di musica e arte\ncontemporanea. \"non si può restare indifferenti alla violenza che dilaga tra i\ngiovani\" spiega Nicoletta Gaida, ideatrice dell'iniziativa \"è troppo facile\netichettarli come \"delinquenti\". Bisogna agire, e la prima cosa da fare è\ntrovare il linguaggio più diretto per parlare con loro, ma per farlo bisogna\nprima conoscerlo\". Questa prima edizione di \"Quartieri\" coinvolge ragazzi\nprovenienti dai ghetti degli Stati Uniti, paese esemplare per la diffusione\ndelle culture giovanili e per i livelli preoccupanti di violenza, dal Sud\nAfrica, nuovo laboratorio culturale e politico, e dall'Italia, con la sua\npotenzialità di politicizzazione. I ragazzi saranno assistiti da persone\nimpegnate nel recupero dei giovani emarginati come Luis Rodriguez o John Bess.\n\"parliamo hip hop, la lingua dell'università delle diversità\" dichiara\nenergicamente John Bess, a capo del centro The Valley, a Harlem \"i giovani sono\ncapaci di fantasia e originalità assolute e saranno insieme per fondere le\nproprie energie in un'esplosione di creatività\". Dal Sudafrica, identico\nmessaggio. \"veniamo da un paese giovane, stiamo cercando la ricetta per fermare\nla violenza, e la cultura sembra essere la possibile soluzione. non dobbiamo\nalzarci e camminare, ma prima andare a quattro zampe, è quello che stiamo\nfacendo\". Dagli stessi paesi provengono studiosi, operatori, autori di diverse\nespressioni: Rap, graffiti, teatro di strada, Grunge. Saranno questi i temi dei\nlaboratori che impegneranno per una settimana i ragazzi, guidati da artisti e\nesperti, operando attivamente nei campi prescelti: Teatro (da San Francisco il\nCultural Odyssey che da anni coinvolge ragazzi emarginati e a rischio e dal Sud\nAfrica l'amajica performing arts project), musica e danza, in particolare\nl'applicazione dell'hip hop alle altre forme d'arte con i Prophets of the City,\nKrs 1, Havoc & Prodeje Common Sense, e altri gruppi che si alterneranno sul\npalco nella serata finale: Alta tensione, Otr, la Pina, fotografia (con Martha\nCooper), moda (con Carla Coffee che realizzerà i costumi per gli spettacoli e\ngli abiti per la sfilata finale), arti visive (che creeranno pannelli e tele che\ncomporranno la scenografia degli spettacoli e concerti della manifestazione). Il\ncantiere sarà coordinato dai \"costruttori telematici\", squadre di montatori che\nrealizzeranno con qualsiasi materiale scene e situazioni. Inoltre un convegno\n(giovedì 20), proiezioni, la mostra dei Murales, delle opere eseguite, e molto\naltro ancora. Quartieri è stato realizzato dall'associazione culturale Dionysia\ncon l'Eti e il dipartimento dello spettacolo. Laboratori e spettacoli si\nsvolgeranno a Tor Bella Monaca in Viale Cambellotti 11, ingresso gratuito con\ncontributo libero (devoluto alla Lega Italiana Lotta Aids). A Tor Bella Monaca\nsi svolge la rassegna \"quartieri\", a cui partecipano giovani provenienti anche\ndagli Usa e dal Sudafrica, dove sarà analizzato il fenomeno della violenza\ngiovanile. Il comitato di bioetica: no all'eutanasia. Confronto\nsull'elettroshock. \"lo stato deve imporre i vaccini\". Roma - lo stato ha il\ndiritto dovere di favorire, anche con misure coercitive, le vaccinazioni dei\nbambini e delle categorie a rischio. È la posizione unanime del comitato\nnazionale di bioetica (Cnb). Un capitolo riassume la sperimentazione sul vaccino\ncontro la pertosse, che ha fatto passare la protezione di questa malattia dal 30\nal 90%. L'elettroshock è ritornato nella terapia medico psichiatrica. Suscita\nallarmi e contrasti. Il comitato nazionale di bioetica lo ha preso per la prima\nvolta in esame, ieri. I bioetici sembrerebbero orientati a riconoscere la\nvalidità della terapia, purché praticata con rigorosi controlli, e con il\nconsenso del malato e dei suoi familiari, portando a conoscenza di un comitato\netico tempi e Modi della terapia. Ieri è stato inoltre approvato il documento su\n\"la fine della vita umana\". Viene esclusa ogni forma di eutanasia diretta o di\n\"eutanasia genetica\", neanche se vi sia l'assenso del paziente. Vanno invece\nattivate la terapia palliativa e la terapia del dolore, in modo che il malato\npossa accostarsi con serenità agli ultimi momenti della sua vita. In sostanza,\nessere accompagnato alla \"buona morte\". La posizione del comitato nazionale di\nbioetica in merito alle vaccinazioni dei bambini, alla terapia dell'elettroshock\ne all'eutanasia. Monreale, i pm vogliono Cassisa alla sbarra. \"processate il\nvescovo\". Palermo - deve finire in tribunale l'arcivescovo di Monreale monsignor\nSalvatore Cassisa. A chiederlo è la procura di Palermo che vuole il rinvio a\ngiudizio del prelato con le pesantissime accuse di concussione, corruzione,\nfalso ideologico e truffa. Monsignor Cassisa, secondo l'accusa, avrebbe\nintascato tangenti milionarie per i lavori di restauro del duomo arabo normanno\ndi Monreale e truffato la comunità economica europea (per la valutazione\ngonfiata di un terreno). La procura palermitana accusa l'arcivescovo di tangenti\nper i lavori di restauro del duomo arabo normanno di Monreale. Auto proibite\nnelle isole del sole. Scatta lo stop anti ingorgo. Capri, Procida, Ischia,\nGiglio, Eolie e Ponza off limits per i turisti con la macchina. Centotrentamila\nin partenza da Milano. E a Cortina una frana ostruisce la statale di Alemagna.\nRoma - la Pace, almeno nelle piccole isole del Belpaese, arriva per decreto\nministeriale. Firma il responsabile dell'ambiente e dei lavori pubblici, Paolo\nBaratta, e le vacanze di italiani e stranieri si trasformano in giornate senza\nil quotidiano rombo dei motori. Non che la tranquillità dello spirito e delle\nnostre martoriate orecchie sia garantita per tutti. Godranno di qualche boccata\nd'ossigeno in più soltanto quelli che hanno scelto di trascorrere le proprie\nferie in lembi di terra che si chiamano Giglio, Eolie, Ustica, Capri, Ischia,\nProcida e Ponza. Amene località dove le auto, le moto e i ciclomotori di gitanti\ne turisti sono banditi se non per sempre quantomeno per qualche giorno.\nRegolamenta il ministro. E il Giglio - dove l'afflusso dei veicoli a motore dei\nnon residenti è vietato dal 24 luglio al 25 agosto - ritorna alla dimensione\ndell'oasi così come le più canicolari Eolie, interdette al traffico dal 4 al 24\nagosto, e l'isola di Ustica \"proibita\" dal primo al 31 agosto. Regolamenta il\nministro, ma senza penalizzare il vivere civile. Le isole in questione non\ndiventeranno certo aree pedonali: possono circolare i veicoli dei residenti, di\ncoloro che vi trascorrono almeno sette giorni (tre nel caso delle Eolie), le\nauto con targa estera, quelle per il trasporto merci e di pubblica utilità e le\nmacchine utilizzate da invalidi. E se il divieto, così \"ammorbidito\", non\nconvince ancora i più pigri c'è il sacrosanto diritto di scegliere vacanze più\nmovimentate. Ma c'è da giurare che Capri - off limits per i \"motorizzati\" dal 10\nmarzo al 31 ottobre, non subirà alcun calo di presenze. Assicura il sindaco\nCostantino Federico (e c'è da credergli) che in piazzetta si vede sempre un bel\npò di gente e Via Krupp, resa più agibile dopo il restauro, è frequentata come\nmai. Dimenticate le polemiche e messe da parte le idee di ferree ordinanze come\nquella dell'estate scorsa (mai passata) che intendeva proibire ai cani di\npasseggiare o sostare in piazzetta, il sindaco si è dato ai servizi di pubblica\nutilità. \"la proposta dell'anno passato suscitò un vespaio, se la presero tutti\na male, primo tra tutti Emilio Fede - commenta ridendo -. E allora ho deciso: da\nieri abbiamo cominciato a installare delle macchinette che distribuiscono\nsacchetti di plastica e paletta per raccogliere gli escrementi dei cani. Presto\navremo anche contenitori automatici per la segatura\". Pulizia e tranquillità. E\ncosì se i cellulari non smettono di trillare neppure in spiaggia si sono placati\nalmeno i clacson dei turisti che a Ischia e Procida, già dal 14 aprile e fino al\n30 settembre, si sono rassegnati a muoversi in minitaxi (avete presente quelle\nstrane vetturette a tre ruote trasformate in cabriolet) o in autobus. Sebbene\nqui siano esclusi dal divieto di sbarco e di transito anche i veicoli (uno per\nnucleo familiare) di persone che pur non essendo residenti pagano la tassa per\nla nettezza urbana. Nessun caso a parte, invece, a Ponza dove la proibizione per\nauto, moto e motorini resta valida dal primo luglio al 31 agosto. E per chi\nviola il divieto ci saranno multe, addirittura \"salate\". La Contravvenzione -\nsecondo il decreto del ministro - potrà oscillare da un minimo di 540 mila lire\nai due milioni e 160 mila. A voi il calcolo del numero di cene al ristorante o\ndi pernottamenti in albergo da depennare sul budget vacanze. E non contate sulla\nprobabilità di farla franca: l'esecuzione dei decreti e la sorveglianza per il\nperiodo di divieto di sbarco è assicurato dai prefetti. Vacanze controllate,\nvacanze a tutti i costi. Conferma il popolare ritornello \"tutti al mare, tutti\nal mare\", l'analisi svolta dall'osservatorio di Milano. Per il momento sono solo\nstime, ma gli esperti ci dicono che 130 mila milanesi partiranno senz'altro per\nle ferie mentre altri 70 mila lasceranno la città soltanto nel week end. Un\nesodo annunciato con dovizia di cifre, tanto che l'osservatorio prevede un\naumento del 6 per cento nel traffico ai caselli intorno al capoluogo lombardo:\nDovrebbero transitare più o meno 290 mila vetture, tra cui 40 mila di stranieri\ndiretti al Sud. E non basta. È previsto un 5 per cento d'incremento dei\npasseggeri sui treni mentre a Linate e Malpensa si aspettano, tra oggi e domani,\n80 mila partenze e 70 mila arrivi. Cattive notizie, infine, per chi ha scelto\nCortina per questo fine settimana: una frana, causata dalle violente piogge, è\ncaduta ieri pomeriggio sulla statale 51 di Alemagna isolandola. L'interruzione\ndella principale arteria della zona montana bellunese comporterà forti disagi\nagli automobilisti. Con il nuovo regolamento del Ministero dell'Ambiente,\nvengono vietati ai turisti i mezzi a motore nelle isole di Capri, Procida,\nIschia, Giglio, Eolie. da oggi in Giappone, pochi rinforzi. Signori ottimista,\nZeman velenoso: assurdo, Balbo italiano\". \"stessa Lazio, che fortuna\"! Di\nCorrado Sannucci Roma - dopo una rivoluzione mancata la Lazio si è ritrovata\nuguale a sé stessa, avendo mantenuto solo il progetto più bizzarro, quello della\npreparazione in Giappone: e, cercando di dimenticare i cortei dei tifosi che\nfermarono la mano di Cragnotti, si propone di vederne i lati positivi. È una\nfortuna che non ci siamo smembrati: ricominciamo a lavorare con un allenatore\nche ora conosciamo, sappiamo i nostri pregi e difetti. Dobbiamo fare un\nulteriore salto di qualità, entrare in una nuova mentalità\". A dirlo è Giuseppe\nSignori, che porterà sulle spalle gran parte della responsabilità degli sviluppi\ndel mancato rinnovamento. Però il secondo posto ottenuto nell'ultima giornata è\nstato offuscato dalla buriana che ne è seguita. non solo, mentre le altre\nsquadre di vertice si sono accaparrate Stoichkov, Baggio, Lombardo eccetera, la\nLazio si è limitata a macerarsi su chi dovesse vendere, per poi prendere alcuni\natleti non di primo piano (Esposito, Piovanelli, Gottardi, Cacciapuoti, Romano).\nE ora si interroga, tipo volpe all'uva, se \"cambiare sia davvero migliorare\"\ncome dicono i giocatori all'unisono. Lo stesso per Zdenek Zeman, che si dice\nsoddisfatto per la rosa di 25 che si porta dietro a Kiroro: di questi molti sono\nragazzi della primavera che il tecnico vuole osservare da vicino. Chamot, che è\nin Uruguay per la coppa America, li raggiungerà solo in Italia. Il boemo sente\nche c'è una curiosità maliziosa, se non una vera e propria pressione (erano solo\nun centinaio i tifosi a salutare la partenza, quando invece per contestare\narrivano in tanti di più): ma io non mi sento né condannato né costretto a\nvincere quest'anno. E, anche se non abbiamo fatto acquisti di grande richiamo,\nsecondo me i valori non sono cambiati molto. Siamo una delle quattro - cinque\nsquadre che possono competere per lo scudetto: e ritengo che Signori sia più\nforte di Stoichkov. Scala si sbaglia: il bulgaro ha vinto il pallone d'oro ma lo\nmeritava di più Beppe\". Anche per Zeman il torneo che arriva ha delle novità:\nper la prima volta si ritrova a lavorare su un gruppo di calciatori che non si è\nrinnovato. In silenzio, il tecnico ha fatto numerose autocritiche sul proprio\nmetodo di lavoro, essendosi trovato di fronte a situazioni per lui inedite e\navendo riconosciuto alcuni errori di programmazione nella stagione, causa non\nultima delle pause della squadra nel campionato. È un problema rispetto al quale\npossiamo migliorare. Ma non è stato un problema solo nostro, tanto è vero che\nsiamo arrivati secondi. Possiamo vincere se riusciremo a giocare il nostro\ncalcio ogni domenica\". Zeman non ritiene influente la cessione di Baggio \"dal\nmomento che la Juventus ha vinto anche senza di lui\". È contrariato invece dalla\nvicenda Balbo. non è giusto che sia diventato italiano. Premesso che ogni\nfederazione ha i suoi regolamenti, non sono d'accordo sulla decisione presa. È\ncontraddittorio che sia italiano e giochi per l'Argentina\". Negro intanto ha\nrinnovato il contratto fino al novantanove, Winter ha fatto sapere che non ha\nmai voluto andarsene nonostante le offerte da due club inglesi. La Squadra, che\nparte questa mattina da Fiumicino, tornerà in Italia dopo l'amichevole del 3\nagosto contro l'Iwata. Calcio - dichiarazioni varie del giocatore e del Ct della\nLazio in merito al mancato rinnovamento della squadra, al prossimo torneo in\nGiappone, alla cessione di Roberto Baggio. Ferlaino e il ricordo di Maradona:\nl'ho incatenato per sette anni. E io non riesco a lasciare il Napoli\". \"Diego\nperso nella coca\". Napoli - il passato: \"Maradona è stato l'elemento di rottura\nche ci ha permesso di vincere lo scudetto. Ma era anche un tossicodipendente\nperso, non raccontava la verità neppure a sé stesso\". Il presente: \"servono nove\nmiliardi, ma prima il tribunale potrebbe cancellare il Napoli\". Il futuro:\n\"essere presidente di questa società è la cosa più difficile del mondo. È come\ncavalcare una tigre: vuoi scendere ma sai che potresti essere sbranato\". La\nPresentazione di un libro Home Video (quello curato dal giornalista rai\nSalvatore Biazzo) è stata l'occasione per Ferlaino di affrontare 25 anni di\nNapoli. \"abbiamo vinto due scudetti - ha detto l'ingegnere - contro la logica\ndei numeri. Il secondo è stato più bello perché, come si dice a Napoli,\nl'abbiamo vinto a schiatto: cioè quando gli altri erano vicini al traguardo. Ma\npoi abbiamo pagato. Nel novantuno il calcio cambiò le sue regole contro il\nNapoli: via lo 0/2, via il designatore (Gussoni, ndr) che era una persona al di\nsopra di ogni sospetto. Maradona è stato il contropotere: per questo l'hanno\nbuttato giù agli ultimi mondiali, dove l'Argentina avrebbe sicuramente vinto. Ma\nparlare con Diego era come parlare con due persone diverse: la cocaina lo\ntrasformava. Ricordo quando il Napoli doveva andare a giocare a Mosca, in coppa\ncampioni: il giorno prima caricò i compagni, poi disse che sarebbe passato per\ncasa a prendere una valigia e non lo vide più nessuno. non era nemmeno in grado\ndi riconoscere i suoi amici ... Io sono stato il suo carceriere, l'ho incatenato\nper sette anni. Il futuro. Non so se ci sarà un Napoli nel futuro. Gallo -\ncontinua - mi ha lasciato una società disastrata: qui non c'è nemmeno uno che\nstabilisca i prezzi degli abbonamenti, il nostro fatturato è da serie b.\nPuntiamo però su un attaccante straniero. Per quanto mi riguarda, non sono\nobbligatorio. E la presidenza del Napoli porta pure sfortuna. Ma se a Milano va\nvia Pellegrini, arriva Moratti. Qui, invece, uno che se ne vuole andare è\ncostretto a restare per 25 anni\". Calcio - nell'ambito della presentazione di un\nlibro Home Video, il presidente del Napoli ricorda 25 anni del club. Due anni al\npugile positivo per amfetamine, ma il giudice ammette: non fu doping volontario.\nRosi, squalifica e beffa. \"verdetto casareccio\". di Mattia Chiusano Roma -\ncolpevole, ma innocente. che strano modo di salutare Gianfranco Rosi, questa\nsentenza! Che ambiguità, una squalifica di due anni accompagnata dalla\nconclusione che non ci fu dolo, che ogni ipotesi di illecito è esclusa! Il\nprocesso al pugile più famoso d'Italia si conclude così, con una squalifica che\nsa tanto di benservito per un trentottenne, e con una riabilitazione che non fa\nche complicare il caso. Rosi ora è furioso, promette vendetta, vuole riprendersi\nil titolo mondiale che la squalifica gli ha tolto. I suoi legali stanno per\nricorrere al Tar, invece che alla commissione federale presieduta da un\nmagistrato illustre: Vito Giampietro, pm nel processo sul massacro del Circeo.\nMa alla riunione romana dove ha combattuto Parisi, Rosi ha per ora smentito la\nvoce di una sua denuncia alla Federboxe. Colpevole, ma innocente. Colpevole di\nesser risultato positivo al controllo antidoping per uso di amfetamine e\nmetilamfetamine, al termine del match mondiale Wbo contro Verno Phillips il 17\nmaggio 95 a Perugia. Innocente, per aver assunto la sostanza dopante senza \"la\ncoscienza e la volontà di compiere un'azione illecita\". Ruggisce Rosi da\nPerugia: \"verdetti alla casereccia come questo mi fan venire voglia di\ncontinuare. La mia carriera non è finita. Ci vuole ben altro per mettermi ko.\nnon mi sono dopato per conquistare un mondiale\". Ma come nasce una sentenza\ncosì? Dalla testimonianza del primario di neurotraumatologia di Perugia,\nAlessandro Casotto, medico di Rosi fino al match con Phillips. Casotto, che ora\ngiura che non si occuperà mai più di boxe, sostiene una teoria che, se\naccettata, potrebbe modificare l'antidoping in Italia. Riconoscendo che alcuni\nfarmaci, che fanno scattare la positività, salvaguardano in realtà dai\nmicrotraumi encefalici i pugili con tanti combattimenti sulle spalle. Prevenendo\nle tragiche conseguenze che talvolta funestano la boxe. L'utilità dell'Egibren,\ncosì si chiama il farmaco prescritto da Casotto e assunto da Rosi, è stata una\ndelle colonne dell'impianto difensivo durante il processo. Il giudice sportivo\nMario Mendicini ha accolto questo principio, così come ha accettato che\nl'Egibren non è stato consumato per migliorare la prestazione di Rosi quella\nsera a Perugia. \"sono l'unico responsabile, sono l'unico ad aver consigliato\nl'Egibren - conferma Casotto - Rosi sapeva del farmaco che gli somministravo, ma\nnon era al corrente che liberasse amfetamine come prodotto di scarto. Nessun\ncollega mi ha consigliato quel trattamento: sono arrivato io alla conclusione\nche potesse far bene ad un pugile \"anziano\", ed escludo che l'uso dell'Egibren\nsia diffuso nel mondo della boxe\". Rosi vittima quindi, anche se, come recita la\nsentenza della Federboxe, per la squalifica \"è sufficiente la mera assunzione\"\ndella sostanza proibita. E allora perché celebrare un processo che avrebbe\naccolto in pieno la linea difensiva e nonostante ciò avrebbe condannato\nl'imputato? Questa storia di doping non ha mai convinto Rosi, dal giorno in cui\nil presidente del Coni Mario Pescante ha annunciato la positività del pugile\ndopo la prima analisi (e non dopo le controanalisi, come prescrive il\nregolamento). E questo primo verdetto della giustizia sportiva non fa che\naumentare la voglia di rivalsa di Rosi, che ora addirittura fa progetti sul suo\nritorno sul ring: \"se la Wbo riterrà opportuno che io disputi di nuovo il\nmondiale, allora sarò pronto a riconquistare il titolo che mi appartiene.\nAltrimenti mi dedicherò al mondiale Wba, l'unico che ancora mi manca\". Anche\nRosi, conosciuto per la sua serietà e la sua capacità di sacrificio, cade nella\ntentazione del complotto: \"sono stato punito per aver riconquistato il titolo\nmondiale. C'è stata una grande forzatura a livello federale. La verità è che\ndavo fastidio ad un sistema. È una sentenza ingiusta, questo è il paese in cui\nuno che ruba una mela va in galera, mentre chi ruba miliardi si vede concedere\nla libertà provvisoria. Dovrebbe essere la gente a giudicarmi: la gente che mi\nstringe la mano ogni giorno, che mi fa coraggio, che mi dimostra il suo\naffetto\". Conclusione: \"non sarà un pugile o una federazione ad obbligarmi a\nlasciare il pugilato\". Pugilato - la vicenda del pugile squalificato per due\nanni per doping il medico che gli prescrisse il farmaco prende le sue difese.\nCarlo Rognoni, Pds, parla dell'intreccio tra le nuove regole e le trattative di\nBerlusconi. \"chi compra oggi le tv Fininvest lo fa a suo rischio\". Milano -\nrapporto difficile, tra Berlusconi e le regole. Nei giorni \"caldi\" delle\ntrattative tra la Fininvest e interlocutori internazionali e italiani per\nvendere una quota di Mediaset (la holding delle sue tv), continuano le polemiche\nsul \"progetto Bogi\" di Antitrust. E alla Camera arriverà nei prossimi giorni il\ndisegno sul conflitto d'interessi varato giovedì dal senato. Commenta Carlo\nRognoni, Pds, vicepresidente del senato e grande esperto di media: \"i\nprovvedimenti in discussione in parlamento cercano di definire delle regole su\nquestioni cruciali per la democrazia. Non prendono di mira, com'è naturale, casi\npersonali ma tendono a risolvere vecchie questioni (l'oligopolio tv) e problemi\nnati negli ultimi tempi, come l'impegno di governo di chi ha in mano leve\nfondamentali del potere economico. Sarebbe sbagliato leggere tutto pro o contro\nBerlusconi. Molto meglio, pensare con intelligenza al futuro del Paese, secondo\nvalori democratici generali su cui trovare un accordo\". Generali per quanto\nsiano, le regole investono adesso proprio le tv Fininvest. L'ingresso in\nMediaset di nuovi azionisti risolverebbe il problema dell'Antitrust? \"no. Sulla\nbase della sentenza della corte costituzionale che ha cassato parte della legge\nMammì, è necessario evitare che ci siano, nelle mani di un unico soggetto, tre\nreti. E non importa se quel soggetto è la Fininvest o una cordata d'operatori\ninternazionali, arabi o australiani che siano. secondo la corte, per le tv via\netere, è necessario un vero pluralismo. E a mio giudizio, tale pluralismo è\ngarantito da tanti soggetti, di cui nessuno abbia più di una rete\". Dopo la\nsentenza della corte, però, c'è stato il referendum. E la maggioranza dei\nvotanti ha riconosciuto che la Fininvest può tenersi tre reti. \"bisognerà\nimpegnarsi per una legge che disciplini il mondo sempre più complesso delle tv\ntenendo conto sia della corte costituzionale, sia dell'esito dei referendum sia\ninfine delle reali condizioni del mercato, che già non è in grado di assicurare\nrisorse finanziarie indispensabili alla vita delle attuali 12 reti, figuriamoci\nse potrà farlo per 15. in questo quadro, si può studiare una regola che dica,\ncome suggerisce il \"progetto Bogi\", che un soggetto non possa avere più di due\nreti via etere\". Le trattative avviate dalla Fininvest per Mediaset, però, vanno\navanti sulla base di partecipazioni di nuovi azionisti in tre reti ... \"chi\ncompra in questo momento reti tv lo fa a suo rischio, in attesa d'una nuova\nlegge che ridefinisca tutto il settore televisivo\". Parliamo di conflitto\nd'interessi. L'acquisto di parte di Mediaset da una cordata di operatori\ninternazionali e di investitori finanziari lo risolverebbe? \"no. Quell'ipotesi\nattenua ma non risolve affatto il problema, nella misura in cui Berlusconi resta\nazionista di riferimento, con una forte quota azionaria e la possibilità di\nincidere sulle scelte del management e dei direttori dei Tg. in Italia,\nl'esperienza insegna che basta assai meno del 50,1% per continuare a controllare\nuna società\". Che dovrebbe fare, allora, Berlusconi? \"se il disegno di legge\napprovato dal senato sarà ratificato senza sostanziali variazioni dalla Camera,\ndalla prossima legislatura Berlusconi dovrà scegliere davvero se fare l'uomo di\ngoverno o mantenere il controllo delle sue tv. Il disegno di legge, infatti,\nprevede che chi ha partecipazioni di rilievo, superiori al 5%, in aziende in\nsettori strategici, dalle comunicazioni all'auto, dall'energia ai computer, non\npossa essere membro del governo e a meno che non si liberi entro un anno\ndall'assunzione della carica delle sue partecipazioni. Può essere, certo, eletto\nin parlamento, fare politica da segretario di partito, ma non stare al governo\".\nIl vicepresidente del senato commenta il disegno di legge Antitrust che regola\nil sistema televisivo e le trattative avviate dal presidente della Fininvest per\nvendere una quota della holding delle sue tivù. L'Italia che soffre. È la\nricetta della commissione Carniti. Un \"minimo vitale\" per aiutare i poveri. Di\nRoberto Petrini Roma - è l'inferno dell'Italia, è il luogo dove l'economia\ndiventa soltanto la \"triste scienza\", dove arriva l'eco lontana del rutilante\nmondo dei consumi e la parola d'ordine è una sola: sopravvivere. Qui, nel girone\ndei dannati, vivono 6 milioni e 458 mila poveri per un totale di 2 milioni e 38\nmila famiglie. Non sono pochi: rappresentano l'11,5 per cento dei nostri\nconnazionali e il 10,2 per cento dei nuclei italiani. sono poveri perché\nciascuno di loro vive con un livello di reddito inferiore alle 500 mila lire al\nmese, cioè meno della metà di quanto spende in consumi nell'arco di trenta\ngiorni l'italiano medio. È questo il drammatico quadro contenuto nel rapporto\n1994 della commissione sulla povertà presieduta da Pierre Carniti e presentato\nieri dal ministro della famiglia e della solidarietà sociale Adriano Ossicini e\ndal direttore generale del dicastero Guido Bolaffi. Disastrosa la situazione nel\nMezzogiorno dove una famiglia su cinque vive in condizioni di disagio economico.\nMigliore al Nord dove resta nell'indigenza un nucleo ogni venti. Il rapporto\nconsegna la triste ripartizione per aree geografiche dell'indigenza: in termini\npercentuali al Sud risiede il 66 per cento delle famiglie povere, al Centro il\n13 per cento e il 21 per cento al Nord. Segnano la differenza nella mesta\nclassifica di coloro che non riescono a sbarcare il lunario le condizioni\nsociali. sono le famiglie più numerose le più colpite: l'incidenza della povertà\nè infatti aumentata nei nuclei con più di cinque componenti. Stanno peggio le\nfamiglie dove il \"capo\" è una donna o una persona anziana. Penalizzati anche i\nnuclei dove è minore l'istruzione: i laureati poveri sono soltanto l'1 per\ncento, quelli senza alcun titolo di studio sono il 27 per cento. Il rapporto di\nCarniti presenta un consuntivo inquietante per la coscienza collettiva: in\nItalia un bambino su sette vive in povertà: in termini assoluti si tratta di un\nmilione di bambini. L'altro anello debole della catena sono gli anziani: un\naltro milione di poveri ha più di 65 anni. Rispetto all'indagine del 1993 il\nnumero dei poveri complessivamente presenti in Italia è rimasto stabile. Un dato\nconfortante del quale non ci si può rallegrare perché l'intensità della povertà\nsta crescendo, insomma la maggioranza dei poveri sta andando sempre più sotto\nrispetto alle fatidiche 500 mila lire mensili. È il frutto della recessione\neconomica del biennio 1992/1993 che lascia le sue tracce. Senza contare che il\nrischio di cadere nel baratro della povertà si agita come uno spettro per un\nnumero sempre maggiore di famiglie. Il rapporto fa il seguente ragionamento: se\nsi elevasse la soglia di povertà dalle 500 alle 600 mila lire il numero dei\npoveri aumenterebbe notevolmente al Nord e al Centro addirittura raddoppierebbe.\nInsomma molti non sono poveri ufficialmente ma vivono assai vicino alla\ndrammatica soglia. Come affrontare il problema? La ricetta della commissione\nCarniti si chiama \"minimo vitale\". Si tratta di un assegno pensato per sostenere\neconomicamente i cittadini indigenti sulla scia del \"reddito minimo di\ninserimento\" francese e dell'\"aiuto sociale\" tedesco. La commissione suggerisce\nanche di modificare l'attuale sistema degli assegni familiari: saranno intestati\nnon più al genitore ma direttamente ai figli e ne potranno beneficiare anche i\nlavoratori autonomi. Il governo potrebbe presentare un disegno di legge per\nintrodurre i due nuovi strumenti: il ministro per la famiglia, Adriano Ossicini,\nieri nel corso della conferenza stampa, ha sottolineato la necessità di\n\"profonde modifiche migliorative dell'attuale sistema\". Come funzioneranno i due\nnuovi strumenti di intervento? Il sussidio \"minimo vitale\" dovrebbe essere di\nimporto pari a quello della pensione sociale (che sostituirebbe) e quindi di\nquasi 5,5 milioni di lire annui. Scomparirebbero anche le pensioni di\ninvalidità. L'assegno potrebbe essere integrato a livello locale: regioni e\ncomuni, con fondi propri, potrebbero cioè offrire altre misure di sostegno per\naffitto, riscaldamento, vestiario e alimentazione. L'assegno di \"minimo vitale\"\nsarebbe a carico della fiscalità generale: attraverso un fondo nazionale,\nanalogo a quello sanitario, si trasferirebbero annualmente i fondi necessari\ndallo stato alle regioni e quindi ai comuni. L'assegno per i figli dovrebbe\nrappresentare una compensazione parziale del costo di allevare la prole.\nL'importo base mensile potrebbe collocarsi tra le 70 e le 90 mila lire per\nciascun figlio ed essere riservato ai redditi sotto i 100 milioni. Quadro del\nrapporto 1994 della commissione sulla povertà presieduta da Pierre Carniti\ngrafico: quanto si spende per la sicurezza sociale - dove si concentrano le\nfamiglie povere - su cento italiani residenti quanti sono i poveri? I tempi del\ngoverno. Fini: gli abbiamo rimesso il cerino acceso in mano. E i nostri amici si\nscotteranno le dita ... \"colloquio Berlusconi - D'Alema. Melina tra Polo e Olivo\ne il voto è più vicino. di Riccardo Luna Roma - \"gli abbiamo rimesso il cerino\nacceso in mano. Solo che il cerino si fa ogni giorno più corto e credo che\nstavolta i nostri amici della sinistra si scotteranno le dita ... Parlando con\nun amico, subito dopo la fine del vertice del polo, Gianfranco Fini ha\nsintetizzato così il senso della risposta del Centro Destra all'Olivo. La\nsintesi del presidente di AN accredita la sensazione che ieri a Montecitorio sia\nandato in scena un classico del poker: al \"rilancio\" dell'Olivo, il Polo ha\nrisposto \"vedo\". E così quando martedì le due delegazioni torneranno ad\nincontrarsi, non ci sarà più spazio per i bluff. Riassunto delle puntate\nprecedenti: all'Olivo che proponeva una riforma elettorale (a doppio turno), il\nPolo aveva replicato reclamando una riforma istituzionale (presidenziale).\nAllora l'altro ieri l'Olivo ha proposto l'apertura di una fase costituente che\nmolti hanno erroneamente interpretato come una apertura sul presidenzialismo. E\nieri su questo equivoco il Polo ha cercato di chiudere i giochi. Forzatura,\ndistinguo e bacchettata. Il Comunicato diramato dopo quasi tre ore di\ndiscussione tra i leader del Centro Destra, dietro l'apparente \"soddisfazione\"\nper la proposta dell'Olivo, contiene infatti una forzatura, un distinguo ed una\nbacchettata che non lasciano ben sperare per l'andamento delle trattative. La\nforzatura, che per semplicità potremmo attribuire alla penna (e ai desideri) dei\ncristiano democratici Casini, Mastella, D'Onofrio e del popolare Sanza, è l'aver\nfatto passare l'intera coalizione dell'Olivo per presidenzialista, mentre è il\nsolo Segni ad aver sposato questa opzione (\"tutti gli altri\", ha ricordato ieri\nil segretario dei popolari Bianco, \"hanno enormi perplessità\"). \"è di grande\nrilievo politico\", inizia infatti il comunicato, \"che l'Olivo abbia accettato la\nproposta del Polo di varare profonde riforme istituzionali che creino un nuovo\nmodello di stato in senso presidenzialista e federalista. Attendiamo di\nconoscere fin dalla prossima riunione del tavolo delle regole le concrete\nproposte del centro-sinistra\". Il distinguo tra regole e governo, risente invece\ndel punto di vista di AN (quindi di Fini e Tatarella). \"al tavolo non può\ntrovare spazio\", prosegue il comunicato, \"l'individuazione della maggioranza a\nsostegno del futuro governo e men che meno la durata del medesimo, essendo\ncompito esclusivo del parlamento, dopo le dimissioni del governo Dini, fornire\nal capo dello stato tutti gli elementi necessari per decidere se sussistano o\nmeno le condizioni per il prosieguo della legislatura\". Perciò all'Olivo che\npropone un \"governo di garanzia\" per gestire una fase costituente di due anni,\nil Polo risponde che la questione del governo non si dibatte al tavolo delle\nregole. Infine, la bacchettata, che è tutta berlusconiana e riflette\nl'irritazione del proprietario della Fininvest per l'approvazione al senato\ndella legge sul conflitto di interessi e per la paventata approvazione alla\nCamera di un antitrust per le tv. \"il Polo rileva la profonda contraddizione\ndell'Olivo di partecipare al tavolo delle regole e contemporaneamente di varare\nin parlamento sugli stessi argomenti norme punitive e anticostituzionali\".\nQuesto il testo del documento che, con tutta evidenza, è il risultato di una\nmediazione fra le diverse anime del polo. Mediazione particolarmente faticosa se\npersino Gianni Letta, il soave capo della delegazione del polo al tavolo delle\nregole, ha riferito di una discussione \"non di maniera e non all'acqua di rose\"\nfra i Cristiano Democratici e i Popolari da una parte e il resto del polo\ndall'altra. Martedì tutti attorno al tavolo. Quando infatti nella \"sala delle\nfirme\" è iniziato il vertice, Berlusconi era già convinto che l'apertura\ndell'Olivo fosse solo un modo per prendere tempo. Eppure all'ora di pranzo, il\nleader di Forza Italia era meno diffidente. \"credo che il dialogo possa\ncontinuare\", aveva detto entrando al ristorante della Camera. Poi un breve\ncolloquio con il segretario del Pds Massimo D'Alema deve avergli fatto cambiare\nidea. È stato poco prima dell'inizio della discussione sulla fiducia al governo.\nBerlusconi ha chiamato D'Alema e i due si sono appartati per una decina di\nminuti nell'emiciclo sinistro dell'aula. A quell'ora D'Alema aveva già concesso\nun'intervista in cui precisava di non aver affatto abbracciato il\npresidenzialismo e spiegava di vedere all'orizzonte due sole alternative: o un\naccordo sulle grandi riforme o un'intesa sulle garanzie per votare subito (par\ncondicio e statuto delle minoranze). Perché allora rimettere il cerino nelle\nmani dell'Olivo? Spiega il popolare Sanza: \"perché adesso o quelli del\ncentro-sinistra diventano tutti presidenzialisti, oppure si perdono per strada\nun alleato come segni ... Ora si attende l'incontro tra le due delegazioni\nfissato per martedì. Al tavolo si aggregherà anche il leghista Petrini che\nfinora aveva l'incarico di \"osservatore\". Le elezioni sono più vicine? \"a questo\npunto la data\", ha detto D'Alema ieri sera, \"dipende da Berlusconi\". Sviluppi\ndelle trattative in atto tra polo di destra e coalizione di Centro Sinistra\ndell'Olivo per il raggiungimento di regole e riforme istituzionali comuni prima\ndelle prossime elezioni senza par condicio niente elezioni. Tatarella: i trucchi\nsono vietati\". \"è stato tutto un equivoco ... di Antonello Caporale Roma - \"cosa\nle posso dire, sarà stato un equivoco. abbiamo aperto i giornali, abbiamo letto\ni titoli, abbiamo capito che l'Olivo voleva fare il presidenzialismo e abbiamo\nrisposto a tema\". Onorevole Tatarella, qualcuno di voi sta giocando con carte\ntruccate su questo tavolo ... \"e perché mai, e chi lo dice? \"l'Olivo vi accusa\ndi fare come i pesci in barile: loro parlano di patto costituente e voi\nrispondete col presidenzialismo. \"e che colpa abbiamo se la loro proposta è\ninterpretata dalla stampa come un'apertura al presidenzialismo? Noi non abbiamo\navuto la fortuna di conoscere direttamente le loro idee. Ci siamo basati sui\ntitoli ... \"state proseguendo nel cosiddetto gioco del cerino: il cerino passa\ndi mano, nell'attesa di vedere quale dito brucia, chi provoca il voto. \"se fossi\nin malafede direi che la loro proposta è stata una provocazione inaccettabile\".\nMa dal momento che anche lei si iscrive nel registro dei buoni, diciamo che\n...che è stato un incidente di percorso. La verità è che io la penso esattamente\ncome D'Alema, questo tavolo può decidere le cose che realisticamente si possono\nfare ma con un patto: vietato truccare\". D'Alema è doppiogiochista? \"mi sono già\nscottato una volta nel fare i nomi e i cognomi. Si ricorda dei poteri forti? Li\nelencai, tutti mi bacchettarono. Ho imparato la lezione. E dunque dico che\nabbiamo già fatto un buon lavoro comune: ci siamo intesi e abbiamo concordato i\ncriteri di garanzia, il potere di controllo democratico che eserciterà lo\nschieramento sconfitto dalla prossima prova elettorale. Criteri che regoleranno\nla vita della prossima legislatura. Sembra poco? A me pare proprio di no, è un\ngrande passo avanti, e dobbiamo imparare a giudicare le cose dandogli il valore\nche hanno\". Null'altro da fare prima del voto. \"la par condicio\". Finalmente si\nfa capire: ma perché avete iniziato questo balletto sulle riforme costituzionali\nse nessuno di voi ci ha mai creduto? \"mettiamola la così: noi crediamo al\npresidenzialismo e siamo disposti a tracciare una modifica costituzionale\npartendo da questo assunto. Loro vogliono altro, anche se non hanno capito\nancora cosa\". Quindi martedì prossimo aprirete questo tavolo per l'ultima volta?\n\"no, il confronto può proseguire, il tavolo va bene. Ma il voto non si decide\nlà, questo è chiaro. Il giorno in cui Dini si dimetterà, tutti saranno costretti\na dire in parlamento se e in che modo intendono proseguire la legislatura\". Voi\ndirete elezioni. \"e aspetteremo al varco il Pds\". Dichiarazioni dell'onorevole\ndi Alleanza Nazionale sugli sviluppi delle trattative in atto con la coalizione\ndi Centro Sinistra dell'Olivo su riforme e regole istituzionali comuni a tutela\ndelle prossime elezioni. The Washington Post. Italia, democrazia in tilt. Dal\n1992 l'Italia ha avuto quattro governi di cui solo uno, quello guidato dal\nmagnate televisivo Silvio Berlusconi, uscito da elezioni generali ... Il governo\nDini ha superato in durata quello di Berlusconi ... che cosa ci sarebbe di male\nse durasse indefinitamente? Niente, se la maggiore preoccupazione è la\nstabilità. L'Italia sta vivendo un nuovo boom economico e la crescita del suo\npil è la più alta del mondo occidentale. E il paese è in pace con sé stesso\nnonostante la continua incertezza politica. Ma se si considera il funzionamento\ndella democrazia, allora c'è spazio per qualche preoccupazione. Se si esclude la\nlista delle priorità fissata dal governo, nessun altro provvedimento viene preso\ndal parlamento. Tutta una serie di problemi (privatizzazioni, leggi\nsull'ambiente, riforma fiscale) vengono del tutto trascurati ... L'Italia\nattuale ha le forme della democrazia senza il funzionamento di una democrazia.\n(dal \"Washington Post\", 13 luglio 1995) estratto brano dell'articolo pubblicato\ndal giornale quotidiano americano sulla democrazia italiana, il governo\nBerlusconi e il governo Dini successivo. Lettere. L'olocausto bosniaco. sono una\npiccola imprenditrice di 29 anni, pacifista convinta, odio anche solo l'idea\ndella guerra, della violenza e della distruzione che essa porta con sé. Credo\nnei diritti inviolabili dell'essere umano e, soprattutto, nel diritto alla vita\ndi ogni essere, umano e no. Ma ci sono momenti in cui combattere è l'unica\nsoluzione, perché non si ha davanti a sé nessun altra scelta. Che cosa sarebbe\naccaduto se, cinquant anni fa, nessuno avesse combattuto il nazismo perché si\nconsiderava \"pacifista\", se si fosse perseguita solo la via della mediazione (ma\nchi avrebbe potuto pensare di \"mediare\" con Hitler) e della diplomazia? in che\nrazza di mondo sarei nata? E ora mi domando: in che razza di mondo nasceranno i\nmiei figli se l'Europa, in nome di una \"pace\" (ma la pace di chi e per chi)? -\negoista e vigliacca, continuerà a cercare mediazioni impossibili con i nuovi,\npiccoli, meschini, Hitler di questa fine secolo, senza rendersi conto che, come\nil loro predecessore, non importa loro null'altro che perseguire i loro assurdi\ne folli scopi di pulizia etnica e che l'unico linguaggio che parlano è quello\ndella violenza e della morte? Forse è venuto il momento (e probabilmente è già\ntardi) di porsi la stessa domanda che gli stati, europei e no, si posero alla\nvigilia della seconda guerra mondiale, e decidere se ci costerebbe più caro\nintervenire militarmente contro questi criminali o stare a guardare mentre si\nconsuma un altro olocausto e l'intero popolo bosniaco viene distrutto. Io la\nrisposta non ce l'ho, ma quei morti per le strade e quei campi di concentramento\nmi fanno male al cuore e, soprattutto, sono un problema anche mio. Monica\nFerretti Genova - Sestri P pacifismo \"mascalzone\". non so se sia legittimo\nscrivere a un quotidiano per gridare il proprio dolore. Mi si è stretto il cuore\nleggendo nella cronaca dell'\"Assalto a Palazzo Farnese\" di Marina Ripa Di Meana\nil commento di Marco Taradash. Quest'Uomo che una volta, a fianco di Marco\nPannella, si batteva contro tutte le guerre, contro le armi e contro il nucleare\nha osato, sottolineo \"osato\", dire che la protesta contro gli esperimenti\nnucleari francesi non è altro che \"l'ipocrisia di un certo pacifismo inetto e\nnel suo ruolo storico quasi sempre mascalzone\". E Pannella che si unisce a\nFerrara, Sgarbi, Previti e Andreotti per festeggiare un grande anniversario\nfrancese non ha pensato che, ieri, proprio la sua assenza avrebbe potuto avere\nun significato? Mio dio, che tristezza! Clara Finetto Giovanni Lupatoto (Vr)\nBastiglia e termidoro. Io non credo che il \"termidoro\" sia alle porte, per il\nsemplice motivo che la \"Bastiglia\", qui da noi, non mi risulta sia stata mai\noccupata. Il nostro \"Robespierre\" è stato costretto a dare forfait prima ancora\nche ciò potesse accadere. Si tratta, semmai, di stabilire se (volendo rimanere\nnella metafora) la presa della \"Bastiglia\" sia ancora possibile o se non sia\nstato un progetto bocciato sul nascere. Che si tratti di un progetto bocciato\nsul nascere sono molti i fatti che lo dimostrano: Ne fanno testo i lacci e\nlacciuoli in cui si è cercato e si cerca di irretire i presìdi (leggi procure)\naddetti alla pulizia ambientale (nulla da eccepire sulla necessità di vigilare\nperché codesti presìdi non debordino dalle loro funzioni, come, peraltro,\naccadde in passato, ma qui mi pare li si voglia murare per consentire a lupi,\nvolpi e topi di fogna di circolare liberamente). Ne fa testo il temerario\nringhiare di Craxi che minaccia di regolare personalmente i conti con i\nmagistrati di \"mani pulite\" che egli, latitante, si permette di chiamare\nfuorilegge, non senza redarguire chi in Italia (evidentemente a lui obbligato)\nnon lo imita. Ne fa testo l'irrequietezza di Bossi, il quale non è un uomo di\nstato: ma che ha dimostrato di essere un ottimo cane da tartufi. Ne fa testo il\ndott Di Pietro il quale, anziché riprendere il proprio posto in seno ai\n\"presidi\", si difende dai lanciatori di fango, scappando. Ne fa testo la stampa\npiuttosto tiepida nello stigmatizzare le piccole e grandi manovre che preludono,\nquanto, all'affermazione che la \"Bastiglia\" è inviolabile. Se sbaglio\ncorreggetemi mi. Pasquale Iacopino Roma il parco del Giglio. Quello\ndell'arcipelago toscano non sarà un parco \"blindato\", \"mummificato\", dove sarà\nvietato pescare, andare in barca, accedere alle riserve naturali e svolgere\nattività agricole, come invece hanno scritto gli inviati de \"La Repubblica\",\nnegli articoli apparsi il 12 e 13 luglio scorso. Ci dispiace smentirli, ma\nnell'arcipelago non sono previsti ulteriori parchi marini e le attività del\ntempo libero legate al turismo potranno svolgersi in piena libertà,\nregolamentate con giudizio e con equilibrio come in tutti i parchi naturali. In\nparticolare, nel caso del Giglio, non vi saranno quindi altri vincoli rispetto a\nquelli esistenti, ma solo più turismo e ricchezza. Finiamola la di considerare i\nparchi un freno allo sviluppo. Le aree protette si integrano perfettamente con\nlo sviluppo, quando questo sia naturalmente \"sostenibile\". E anche \"La\nRepubblica\" ci sembrava fosse su questa posizione. Siate perciò coerenti.\nRiccardo Canesi e Piero Baronti al caffè con Prodi. La sera precedente avevo\nseguito in televisione la registrazione del suo intervento al congresso\nnazionale del Pds e, quindi, domenica mattina (9 luglio novantacinque), durante\nla messa delle ore 9:30, non pensavo certo di incontrare il professor Romano\nProdi. Il mio paese, Bovalino, è un piccolo Centro della provincia di Reggio\nCalabria travagliato da una molteplicità di problemi (disoccupazione,\ncriminalità organizzata, ecc) che certamente non poteva costituire per il leader\ndell'ulivo un palcoscenico importante. dopo la messa mi sono avvicinato e l'ho\nsalutato. Mi ha risposto cordialmente e mi ha chiesto di indicargli un'edicola\n(si trovava in Calabria in compagnia della moglie per partecipare, in un paese\nvicino, alle nozze di una sua parente). L'ho accompagnato di persona e\nsuccessivamente siamo andati a bere il caffè in un bar. Non c'erano telecamere e\ngiornalisti, ma soltanto tante, tante persone comuni che si avvicinavano per\nstringergli la mano ed incitarlo a proseguire nel suo progetto: dare all'Italia\nun governo stabile, rispettoso delle esigenze del mondo dell'imprenditoria, ma\nanche molto attento verso i soggetti che vivono una vita disagiata. \"professore\n- gli ho chiesto - per lei questo dev essere un periodo molto stressante? \"no -\nmi ha risposto -, a me piace stare in mezzo alla gente. E poi è utile, poiché\nsoltanto parlando con le persone comuni si possono capire i loro problemi\".\n\"professore - gli ha chiesto un signore mentre eravamo nel bar -, se vincerà le\nelezioni, nel suo governo inserirà tecnici o politici? \"guardi, io voglio fare\nun governo che duri 5 anni e non due mesi. Pertanto, vanno bene i tecnici a\npatto che si sottopongano, attraverso le elezioni, al giudizio politico degli\nelettori\". Di quell'uomo mi ha colpito il nuovo e diverso approccio alla vita\npubblica, che poggia sulle piccole cose, sul contatto diretto con la gente e,\nsoprattutto, su un comportamento rispettoso ed attento ai problemi delle persone\npiù umili. Insomma, un metodo lontano anni luce dalla politica fatta di immagini\nstudiate nei \"particolari\", musiche assordanti e promesse ingannevoli che hanno\ncaratterizzato le ultime elezioni politiche. Giuseppe Iaconis Bovalino (r c)\ncommento critico sulla guerra tra serbi e bosniaci, decisione di genocidio,\npulizia etnica e nazismo da parte dei serbi aggressori. \"tasse più care per\nstudiare meglio\". Il ministro Salvini: si può sforare il tetto del milione e 200\nmila lire l'anno. E la pantera torna ad affilare gli artigli. Di Elvira Naselli\nRoma - anche quest'anno il governo ha reiterato il decreto che prevede che i\nsingoli atenei possano sforare il tetto del milione e duecentomila lire previsto\ndalla legge come importo massimo per le tasse universitarie. L'anno scorso in\nmolte città il tetto fu abbondantemente superato. Il caso più eclatante quello\ndella statale di Milano dove iscriversi costava per i più ricchi oltre due\nmilioni. Ma i primi dati di quest'anno - precisano al Ministero dell'Università\n- per esempio quelli di Perugia e della Federico II di Napoli, suggerirebbero\nuna tendenza al ribasso. in alcuni casi addirittura dentro il tetto. Ministro\nSalvini, non crede che comunque anche un milione e duecentomila lire siano un\nbel po' di quattrini? Giorgio Salvini, responsabile del Ministero Per\nl'Università E la Ricerca Scientifica, 75 anni ben portati, ha l'aria di chi\ndeve spiegare per la centesima volta una cosa che per lui dovrebbe essere fin\ntroppo evidente. \"certo - ammette - in un certo senso sono troppi, sono\nd'accordo, ma non pensate che l'università si basi su questi soldi per vivere:\nogni studente costa molto di più allo stato, tra i dieci e i venti milioni\nall'anno. Il criterio è di far pagare di più a chi più guadagna in modo da poter\nutilizzare il denaro per far studiare senza problemi i meno abbienti e i\nmeritevoli, aumentando per esempio le borse di studio\". Ma non le pare che\nalcuni atenei siano andati ben oltre il tetto del milione e duecentomila lire?\nnon c'è il rischio di discriminazioni? \"sono d'accordo, bisogna stare attenti\nche non ci siano abusi e che non si profitti del denaro in più per iniziative\nche non siano per gli studenti. Il ministero sta facendo una verifica\".\nL'aumento delle tasse va di pari passo con un effettivo miglioramento della\nqualità? \"credo si cominci a vedere qualche risultato ma non posso garantirlo.\nRiparliamone tra un anno, direi\". Tasse più alte per i più ricchi: avete pensato\nall'evasione fiscale? \"voglio procedere come se i mascalzoni fossero pochi\".\nMinistro, prevede che la pantera si arrabbi? Da più parti cominciano ad arrivare\ni mugugni degli studenti. \"la pantera ha il diritto di essere dura ma deve\nessere anche responsabile. Io sono disposto a incontrare gli studenti e a\nparlare con loro perché sono sicuro che facciamo degli errori e discuterne ne è\nbene. non sono a disposizione invece per gli improperi\". Al Sud le università in\nmedia costano molto meno che al Nord: ci saranno atenei a diverse velocità,\nsecondo lei? Correremo il rischio che una laurea in fisica a Catania valga meno\nche quella al politecnico di Milano? \"ah, lei dice Catania e io penso a\nMaiorana. No, direi che tra Nord e Sud non c'è una differenza culturale. Ci\nsono, invece, ed è un problema grave e che mi tormenta, enormi differenze\neconomiche, con una disoccupazione che nel Meridione è altissima. Al sud\nl'università costa meno e non credo possa costare di più: certo, può essere\npeggiore la qualità dei servizi - almeno in alcuni campi - ma non quella degli\ninsegnanti. Il problema è che noi siamo un paese povero, con un debito pubblico\nspaventoso e che mentre la Francia destina il 2 per cento del pil per la ricerca\ne la Germania tra il 2,3 e il 2,5 noi siamo solo all'1,4. Se avessimo più soldi\nle università non sarebbero così scalcinate\". Il ministro dell'università e\ndella ricerca scientifica parla delle prospettive di aumento, crescita delle\ntasse universitarie, tasse d'iscrizione per finanziare il miglioramento\ndidattico universitario giurisprudenza medicina. Fregene, la tragedia in piscina\nil dolore e le accuse della madre. \"gli stabilimenti, solo macchine per fare\nsoldi\" dice Carolyn Christov Bakargev, giornalista e critica. \"ma perché nessuno\nle ha viste? La morte della bimba e della baby sitter polacca: aperta\nun'inchiesta per omicidio colposo. di Massimo Lugli Roma - parla piangendo. È\nuna madre che ha perso la figlia di 4 anni, annegata in una piscina insieme alla\nsua baby sitter: \"ha avuto una vita bellissima, è stata molto amata, è stata un\ndono meraviglioso ma è durata così poco ... Una donna che racconta sé stessa e\nil suo dramma con una forza incrollabile, con una dignità che spezza il cuore.\nCarolyn Christov Bakargiev siede sul divano bianco del suo appartamento di\nPiazza del Monte di Pietà. Occhiali tondi, piedi nudi. Anche l'accappatoio di\nspugna che indossa è bianco, così come l'unico quadro moderno, un Mauri che\nricorda uno schermo televisivo appeso a una parete. Libri e cataloghi d'arte\ndappertutto. Dalle altre stanze, la voce di Lucia, 10 anni, la sorellina di\nSofia. \"certo che ha capito cos'è successo. Anzi, una sua amichetta le ha detto\ndi essere stata lei ad avvertire il bagnino. Quindi non è vero che se ne sono\naccorti loro\". Un particolare, questo, che potrebbe avere un peso non\nindifferente nell'inchiesta per omicidio colposo (contro ignoti) aperta dal pm\nDelia Cardia. E per oggi, forse, un nuovo spiraglio sulla tragedia di Fregene, i\nrisultati dell'autopsia che verrà effettuata al \"Gemelli\" dal medico legale,\nDalila Ranalletta. Cesare Pietroiusti, il padre di Sofia, è un uomo alto,\nsnello, scuro, un pò mediorientale nei lineamenti. Ha quarant'anni ma sembra un\nragazzo, nonostante il viso solcato e i cerchi neri attorno agli occhi. Apre la\nporta, stringe la mano e scompare. Resta Carolyn. È una nostra collega, ha\niniziato a scrivere per \"reporter\", dieci anni fa, collabora a \"Flash Art\" e il\n\"Sole 24 Ore\" ma non è per questo che accetta di incontrare il cronista. Alle\nspalle ha una vita movimentata, quasi avventurosa: il padre medico bulgaro sposa\nuna piemontese ma per motivi burocratici non può esercitare in Italia. Così un\nbel giorno butta in aria una moneta: testa andiamo a vivere in Brasile, croce in\nUsa. Viene croce e Carolyn nascerà nel New Jersey. Giovanissima, s'innamora di\nun matematico e lo segue in Italia. Dura 6 mesi. \"io ero troppo giovane, lui\ntroppo intelligente, troppo paterno, troppo tutto\". Lavora sodo, si fa strada\nnel mondo dell'arte e nel giornalismo, organizza convegni, incontri, mostre,\nnell'indifferenza generale. \"e questo è uno dei motivi per cui desidero parlare\ncon voi. Perché mi è successa una cosa personale, una cosa terribile e sono\nfinita in prima pagina. E tutto il Lavoro che ho fatto, non solo io ma tanti\naltri nel nostro campo, va sempre sotto silenzio, non si trova nemmeno un\ntrafiletto. Mi ricorda Turcato, ormai vecchio. Un uomo meraviglioso, mi ha\ninsegnato tante cose sul colore. Tutti si sono accorti di lui solo quando è\nmorto\". Poi l'incontro con Cesare \"lui non è un artista molto noto come avete\nscritto. È bravissimo ma non è molto conosciuto\". Il matrimonio. \"così bella.\nCosì vivace. Così amata. Ci ha portato tanta gioia. E adesso siamo di nuovo in\ntre, come prima. No, non mi dispiace tanto per lei, che adesso non c'è più e non\nsente niente. È morta tra le braccia della sua tata che amava così tanto. Vorrei\nche fossero sepolte assieme, Sofia e Margherita. La chiamavamo così. Ma lei deve\ntornare a casa sua, in Polonia\". È Margherita o meglio Malgorzata Dworak, 24\nanni, il secondo motivo di questa intervista così dolorosa, che paralizza sul\ndivano il cronista e il critico d'arte Ludovico Pratesi, amico da anni della\ncoppia. \"veniva in Italia per fare un pò di soldi e mandarli alla sua famiglia a\nCracovia. Una ragazza meravigliosa. Andava spesso con le bimbe in piscina e io\nmi sentivo tranquilla, così non le accompagnavo. Restavo a lavorare e adesso,\nper questo, mi sento in colpa. Margherita non sapeva nuotare e io credo che,\nforse, la bimba è caduta in acqua e lei si è buttata lo stesso per salvarla,\ntanto l'amava\". \"a volte Sofia voleva fare il bagno nella piscina dei grandi e\nla baby sitter la teneva nell'acqua bassa dove si tocca. Sì, può essere che\nMargherita abbia avuto un malore ma perché nessuno le ha viste? Comunque se mai\nci sarà una causa e un risarcimento non voglio una lira per me, darò tutto\nall'ospedale pediatrico di Cracovia. \"povera Margherita. Sono morte abbracciate\ne io sono sicura che mia figlia è morta felice, stretta alla sua tata, senza\nsoffrire e senza paura\". Il terzo motivo per cui il cronista è qui, davanti a\nquesta donna che affronta con tanto eroismo la prova più atroce che possa\ntoccare a un essere umano è lo stabilimento \"miraggio\", teatro della tragedia.\nnon lancia accuse, non chiede processi, Carolyn. Espone solo i fatti. \"gli\nstabilimenti non sono servizi. sono macchine per fare soldi. non ci sono le\nsedie alte, per tenere d'occhio le piscine. I Bagnini, spesso, sono più occupati\na controllare i biglietti e gli abbonamenti che a vigilare sulla sicurezza di\nchi nuota. Io non parlo per quel bagnino in particolare ma in genere è così\".\nFruga in una scatola piena di fotografie, Carolyn, sfoglia a occhi asciutti le\nfoto della figlioletta morta. \"è come quando fai una mostra, poi si cerca una\nbella immagine per il catalogo. Il funerale lo faremo a San Carlo Dei Catinari,\ndove c'è quella bella cappella di Antonio Gherardi. Noi non andavamo troppo in\nchiesa ma Sofia è stata battezzata e mi sembra giusto così. Vorrei quel\nsacerdote di Fregene, ci ho parlato per poco tempo ma è riuscito a dirmi delle\ncose bellissime, profonde. Cos'altro le devo dire? Cerchi di non fare un pezzo\ntroppo strappalacrime, se può\". L'inchiesta giudiziaria sulla morte della\nbambina e della baby sitter polacca annegate nella piscina dello stabilimento\nbalneare \"miraggio\". Il primo presidente della corte di cassazione: \"per fortuna\nc'è il capo dello stato\". Pecorella: \"appare inspiegabile quali possano essere\nle ragioni di incostituzionalità\". Ciampi boccia legge inappellabilità, \"è\npalesemente incostituzionale\". Le modifiche \"generano una mutazione delle\nfunzioni di corte di cassazione da giudice di legittimità a giudice di merito\" e\ncreano \"asimmetrie tra accusa e difesa\". Roma - il Presidente Della Repubblica,\nCarlo Azeglio Ciampi, ha chiesto alle Camere - a norma dell'articolo 74, primo\ncomma, della costituzione - una nuova deliberazione in ordine alla legge:\n\"modifiche al codice di procedura penale, in materia di inappellabilità delle\nsentenze di proscioglimento\". Lo rende noto un comunicato del Quirinale. Le\nmodifiche introdotte dalla legge sulla inappellabilità \"generano un'evidente\nmutazione delle funzioni di corte di Cassazione, da giudice di legittimità a\ngiudice di merito, in palese contrasto con quanto stabilito dall'art. 111 della\ncostituzione\", ha scritto Ciampi nel messaggio alle Camere con il quale ha\nrinviato la legge sulla inappellabilità. Inoltre la legge approvata, ha rilevato\nancora il presidente della repubblica, crea \"delle asimmetrie tra accusa e\ndifesa\" e le posizioni delle parti nel processo assumono \"una condizione di\ndisparità che supera quella compatibile con la diversità delle funzioni svolte\ndalle parti stesse nel processo\". Nel messaggio del presidente Ciampi si\nsottolinea anche che vi è disparità anche tra l'imputato e la parte lesa, cioè\n\"la vittima del reato costituitosi parte civile\" che è a tutti gli effetti\n\"parte del processo\". La Legge, rileva ancora il presidente, \"provocherà un\ninsostenibile aggravio di lavoro con allungamento certo dei tempi del processo\".\nE infine vi è rischio che la legge sull'inappellabilità possa recare \"un vulnus\nal precetto costituzionale del buon andamento dell'amministrazione applicabile,\nsecondo la giurisprudenza della corte costituzionale, anche agli organi\ndell'amministrazione della giustizia\". Il padre della legge, approvata\ndefinitivamente il 12 gennaio, il presidente della commissione giustizia della\nCamera, Gaetano Pecorella, ha commentato che \"appare inspiegabile quali possano\nessere le ragioni di incostituzionalità\". \"ovviamente - ha aggiunto Pecorella -\nbisognerà leggere le motivazioni, ma si può già dire da subito, però, che i\nprecedenti della corte costituzionale in materia di parità tra accusa e difesa,\nrispetto al diritto di impugnare, escludono radicalmente la violazione del\nprincipio di uguaglianza\". Anche secondo l'associazione nazionale magistrati,\n\"bisogna leggere le motivazioni del rinvio\", ma \"già ora si può dire che le\npreoccupazioni manifestate da noi, insieme alla gran parte della cultura\ngiuridica, erano fondate\". Il presidente dell'Anm, Ciro Riviezzo, commenta così\nla decisione di Carlo Azeglio Ciampi di rinviare alle Camere la legge\nsull'inappellabilità. \"vedremo - aggiunge Ciro Riviezzo, presidente del\nsindacato delle toghe - su quali aspetti della riforma il capo dello stato ha\npuntato la sua attenzione\". Lapidario ma significativo il commento del primo\npresidente della suprema corte di Cassazione, Nicola Marvulli: \"per fortuna, la\nmagistratura ha un presidente della repubblica come Carlo Azeglio Ciampi\". Ha\nespresso soddisfazione il vice presidente del consiglio superiore della\nmagistratura, Virginio Rognoni: \"il rinvio della cosiddetta Pecorella alle\nCamere, per una nuova deliberazione, decisa dal capo dello stato, è motivo di\nviva soddisfazione, visto il parere assai critico, anche sotto il profilo della\nconformità alla costituzione, che il c s m aveva espresso sulla nuova\nnormativa\", ha detto. L'auspicio del segretario Ds, Piero Fassino, è che \"almeno\nper una volta il governo sia capace di ascoltare il presidente della\nrepubblica\". Il leader della quercia commenta la decisione di Ciampi come \"una\nbuona notizia, visto che erano evidenti i profili di incostituzionalità di\nquesta legge, che se fosse stata promulgata nel testo attuale, avrebbe\nulteriormente dissestato l'amministrazione della giustizia, reso più lunghi e\nintensi i tempi dei processi e acuito ancora di più la crisi della giustizia\".\nParte martedì il corso \"missioni umane nello spazio\" con l'astronauta italiano,\nil primo passo del corso che sarà inaugurato alla sapienza. Con Vittori laurea\nin astronautica. \"una scommessa per i ragazzi\", di Elena Gianturco. La partenza\ndella missione Marco Polo. Roma - potrebbe diventare la Houston italiana.\nL'ambizioso progetto partirà martedì prossimo con il corso \"missioni umane nello\nspazio\", il primo del genere in Europa, che sarà tenuto dall'astronauta Roberto\nVittori, presso la \"scuola di ingegneria aerospaziale\" dell'università La\nSapienza e verrà istituzionalizzato con la laurea in astronautica già dal\nprossimo anno accademico. \"la mia laurea in astronautica è presa sul campo -\ncommenta il colonnello Vittori - ma i giovani che iniziano a lavorare per le\nagenzie spaziali hanno normalmente bisogno di altri due, tre anni per imparare\nil mestiere. Se fosse istituita la laurea in astronautica i ragazzi sarebbero\npronti per operare\". La Scuola, oltre alle lauree in ingegneria astronautica che\ngià conferisce, è pronta infatti per l'attivazione del corso di laurea in\nsinergia con la facoltà di medicina e con il supporto dell'aeronautica militare,\nin modo da preparare una nuova figura, quella del tecnico astronauta, da\naffiancare a quella di pilota astronauta. \"il tecnico astronauta - spiega\nVittori - sarà una figura con conoscenze variegate di tipo tecnico\ningegneristico, medico e operativo\". La sapienza vanterebbe così, se il prossimo\nfebbraio il senato accademico darà parere positivo, la prima facoltà europea a\npreparare degli astronauti. un'idea che Vittori, disposto a dedicarsi alla\ndocenza fino al prossimo \"invito\" sullo shuttle, non esita a definire\ncoraggiosa: \"perché lo spazio deve essere concepito come luogo di lavoro. Io\nsono stato fortunato, ma con determinazione, impegno e la possibilità offerta\ndall'università, che spero si concretizzi, diventare astronauta è un obiettivo\nche può essere conseguito da tutti\". Fino ad oggi in Europa esiste un solo\ncentro di addestramento Esa (Agenzia Spaziale Europea), a Colonia, \"che però non\nè fornito di laboratori - sottolinea Filippo Graziani, preside della scuola di\ningegneria aerospaziale de La Sapienza - gli astronauti devono poi concludere la\npreparazione a Houston o Mosca. Se il corso di laurea verrà istituito, i nostri\nstudenti potranno invece usufruire dei laboratori dell'aeronautica di Pratica di\nMare e naturalmente Vittori sarà uno dei docenti\". Gli stessi laboratori saranno\nvisitati, con stage di una giornata, anche dai 70 studenti iscritti al corso\ntrimestrale \"missioni umane nello spazio\" per il quale lo stesso astronauta ha\nideato un'immagine simbolo: una studentessa che indossa la tuta da lui usata\nnelle missioni spaziali. \"gli italiani possono ricoprire un importantissimo\nruolo nelle applicazioni spaziali per cultura, creatività, inventiva e\nadattabilità\", spiega Vittori, \"nel corso cercherò di illustrare una missione\nspaziale attraverso la mia personale esperienza sullo shuttle, sulla navicella\nSoyuz e la Iss (Stazione Spaziale Internazionale). E presentare alcuni\nsviluppatori tecnologici: lo Spem, per il lancio d'alta quota, il rilevatore dei\nbattiti cardiaci a distanza e il naso elettronico. È nell'università e ancor\nprima, nella scuola, che va stimolata la curiosità. A questo scopo il prossimo\n24 gennaio nel tempio di Adriano, a Roma, si terrà un'iniziativa simbolica\nindirizzata ai ragazzi delle superiori, sul tema\" spazio al tuo futuro \"\". La\nsolita storia della terra piatta. Della sfericità del nostro pianeta si parlava\nfin dai tempi di Aristotele. E le mappe medioevali non avevano funzioni\ngeografiche bensì simboliche. Sabato scorso, lo speciale superquark di Piero\nAngela sul viaggio di Cristoforo Colombo è stato come al solito avvincente e ben\ndocumentato. Siccome molta gente pensa ancora che Colombo sostenesse che la\nterra è tonda mentre tutti i sapienti del tempo la ritenevano ancora piatta,\ngiustamente Angela, nel dialogo con un consulente scientifico, ha spiegato che\ndi una terra tonda si parlava sin dai tempi di Aristotele e che nel terzo secolo\navanti Cristo Eratostene era riuscito persino a calcolare con stupefacente\napprossimazione la lunghezza dell'equatore. Salvo che subito dopo i due\ndialoganti hanno osservato che erano state perdute nel medioevo, tanto che le\nmappe dell'epoca rappresentavano la terra come un disco. non c'è da\nscandalizzarsi per questa imprecisione. Jeffrey Burton Russell nel suo Inventing\nThe Flat Earth (New York, 1991) ha mostrato come si ritrovi anche in serissime\nstorie della scienza e cita testi illustri in cui si ripete ancora oggi che le\nmappe di Tolomeo furono dimenticate in Occidente per mille anni, che la chiesa\nmedievale insegnava che la terra era un disco piatto con Gerusalemme al centro e\nche dal quattordicesimo secolo si era perduta la nozione della rotondità del\nglobo. Ma allora chi aveva detto sia a Colombo che ai suoi avversari che la\nterra era sferica? L'equivoco nasce dal fatto che, almeno sino a Copernico, sia\nil mondo greco che quello cristiano avevano ritenuto che la terra fosse\nimmobile. Ma immobile non voleva dire piatta. Burton ha spiegato che il pensiero\nlaico ottocentesco, per sostenere il darwinismo contro il fondamentalismo\nreligioso, voleva dimostrare che, come la chiesa si era sbagliata non solo sul\ngeocentrismo ma anche sulla sfericità, così si stava sbagliando\nsull'evoluzionismo. E si era tratto il massimo profitto da due autori cristiani\n(Lattanzio nel IV secolo e il bizantino Cosma Indicopleuste nel VI) i quali,\nsiccome un passo della bibbia descriveva la terra in forma di tabernacolo,\npolemizzavano con le teorie pagane sulla rotondità della terra e la\nrappresentavano in forma quadrangolare. Ma Cosma, che aveva scritto in greco,\nera rimasto ignoto al medioevo occidentale e Lattanzio non era stato preso\ntroppo sul serio neppure da Sant'Agostino. Agostino si era limitato a dire che\nnaturalmente la bibbia parla per metafore, che forse la terra era davvero\nsferica, ma siccome non è conoscendo la forma della terra che ci si salva\nl'anima, la questione gli appariva di scarso interesse. Che la terra fosse\nsferica lo sapevano non solo il geocentrico Tolomeo (che aveva diviso questa\nsfera in trecentosessanta gradi di meridiano) ed Eratostene, ma persino\nPitagora, Parmenide, Eudosso, Platone, Aristotele, Euclide, Aristarco, Archimede\n- e gli unici a non credervi erano stati solo Leucippo e Democrito. Quanto al\nmedioevo, nel vii secolo Isidoro di Siviglia (autorità indiscutibile per tutti i\nsecoli seguenti) aveva calcolato la lunghezza equatoriale in 80 mila stadi.\nPoteva pensare che la terra fosse piatta? Dante entra nell'imbuto infernale ed\nesce dall'altra parte vedendo stelle sconosciute ai piedi della montagna del\npurgatorio: Quindi sapeva benissimo che la terra era sferica. Ma della stessa\nopinione erano stati Origene e Ambrogio, e poi Alberto Magno e Tommaso D'Aquino,\nRuggiero Bacone, Giovanni Di Sacrobosco, Pietro D'Ailly, Egidio Romano, Nicola\nDi Oresme o Giovanni Buridano, tanto per citarne alcuni. Che poi queste cose le\nsapessero i dotti e i semplici no, guardate che in molte parti del globo c'è\nancora oggi gente che in materia ha idee confuse. Ma come è accaduto, si dirà,\nche tutte le rappresentazioni medievali mostrassero la terra piatta? Anzitutto\nquelle mappe non avevano funzioni geografiche bensì simboliche (con Gerusalemme\nal centro) e poi non rappresentavano la terra ma le terre note. E facevano la\nstessa cosa che fanno oggi i nostri atlanti, che ci vogliono dire quanto Roma\ndisti da Gerusalemme o da Atene, e se devono rappresentare l'Europa lo fanno su\nun foglio a due dimensioni. Se un nostro atlante cadesse tra mille anni tra le\nmani di un visitatore alieno, costui potrebbe credere che anche noi ritenevamo\nche la terra fosse piatta. Quale era allora la materia del contendere ai tempi\ndi Colombo? Era che - come ha mostrato bene la trasmissione di Angela - i suoi\navversari avevano fatto calcoli più precisi dei suoi, ritenevano che la sfera\nterrestre fosse più ampia di quanto il genovese sosteneva, e quindi fosse\npazzesco tentare di raggiungere il levante per la via del ponente. Naturalmente\nné Colombo né i suoi nemici sospettavano che tra l'Europa e l'Asia ci stesse un\naltro continente. La scoperta dell'America è un caso tipico di serendipità, dove\nsi va in cerca di una cosa e se ne trova un'altra. Ma per il resto i buoni\nmedievali ne sapevano tanto quanto Colombo. Salvo che lui, a differenza di\nAgostino, era disposto a far carte false e a giocarsi l'anima pur di partire.\nC'è un tesoro avvelenato che giace sul fondo dei canali di Venezia, i quali\nrisultano più inquinati persino di quelli della vicina zona industriale di Porto\nMarghera. È un \"tesoro\" tossico fatto di tonnellate di piombo, di zinco, di\nidrocarburi, e persino di arsenico e di pesticidi, che si sono depositati nel\ncorso degli anni. La conferma di un sospetto che alcuni Veneziani avevano da\ntempo è venuta da uno studio del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della\ndirezione ambiente del comune, i cui tecnici per dieci anni, dal 1994 al 2004,\nhanno scavato, analizzato e classificato i fanghi dei numerosi rii, grandi e\npiccoli, che attraversano il centro storico. Gli esperti del gruppo \"Insula\",\nche si occupa della sistemazione dei canali Veneziani attraverso un \"progetto\nintegrato rii\" confezionato d'intesa tra il comune, la regione e il Ministero\ndell'Ambiente, hanno scavato, sino alla fine dell'anno scorso, 295mila metri\ncubi di sedimenti, pari all'87 per cento del totale, e vi hanno trovato la\npresenza di ben 11 veleni diversi: 8.737 chili di nichel, 7.496 di cromo, 4.040\ndi arsenico, 1.606 di cadmio. E poi, 900 tonnellate di mercurio, 709 di\nidrocarburi, 216 di zinco, 145 di policlorobifenili, 59 di rame, 54 di piombo e\n26 di pesticidi. Un disastro ambientale. Ma le sorprese non finiscono qui.\nPerché, secondo i curatori dell'indagine, Roberto Zonta del Cnr e Mario\nScattolin del comune, l'avvelenamento dei canali Veneziani non deriverebbe tanto\ndagli scarichi delle industrie di Porto Marghera, come si potrebbe pensare,\nquanto da un inquinamento di tipo \"urbano\" del tutto simile a quello di altre\ncittà europee dotate di canali, come Amsterdam e Stoccolma e dal fatto che la\nstruttura urbana della città tende, anche con l'aiuto dell'acqua salmastra, a\nfacilitare l'accumulo dei sedimenti su una superficie sostanzialmente limitata\nqual'è quella del fondo dei rii, che rappresenta appena il dieci per cento\ndell'estensione totale della città. Per strano che possa apparire, l'accumulo di\nveleni deriverebbe quindi, secondo gli esperti, da una serie di fattori: i\nTecnici dunque, che promettono di togliere \"tutti i veleni restanti\" con la\nprosecuzione dello scavo dei rii, molti dei quali non venivano ripuliti da\ntrent'anni, assolvono le industrie di Porto Marghera e si mostrano ottimisti per\nil futuro. Perché, spiegano, gli studi sui sedimenti riguardano ormai il\npassato, mentre oggi l'inquinamento \"è inferiore a quello di trenta anni fa\".\nInfatti non c'è più il carbone e non c'è più il gasolio, i motori sono più\nefficienti, le benzine senza piombo, gli antivegetativi meno dannosi, i\ndetersivi quasi tutti biodegradabili e in molte zone della città si stanno\ninstallando delle fosse settiche. Sembra ancora lontano, comunque, il giorno in\ncui si potrà tornare a fare il bagno nei canali come quarant'anni fa, quando\nc'era persino una piscina con l'acqua di laguna sulla riva delle zattere e\nimpavidi nuotatori attraversavano il bacino con bracciate possenti, dal lido\nfino a San Marco, sulle orme di lord Byron. in media 230 mila euro per\nmantenerlo fino a 24 anni. E al crescere del reddito il conto sale. Lo rivela la\nricerca di un gruppo di studiosi di Firenze. Piena di sorprese. \"cari bambini\n...Si fa presto a dirlo, ma quanto esattamente sono \"cari\" i bambini? Quanto\ncosta mantenere un figlio, dall'acquisto dei primi pannolini fino alla laurea?\nBeh, se state programmando di mettere al mondo un erede, preparatevi a investire\nnella nuova avventura una cifra vicino a 210 mila euro, che salgono a 230 mila\nse dovrete affidarvi alla baby sitter. Una spesa media, per una famiglia\ndell'Italia centrale che guadagna 3.500 euro netti al mese. Naturalmente il\nconto sale con l'aumentare del reddito. Famiglia del Nord con entrate nette per\n5.200 euro? Almeno 300 mila euro di spesa per tirar su un figlio fino a 24 anni\nd'età. senza contare rette di università o il mantenimento fuori sede. Cifre\nimpressionanti, nate da un'indagine lunga e affidabile: grazie a una separazione\nmal digerita, a un professore di fisica e a una battaglia civile. Le stime sul\ncosto del mantenimento di un figlio che Panorama pubblica in queste pagine sono\nil frutto del lavoro di Marino Maglietta, 64 anni, docente di fisica\nall'università di Firenze, due figli. Dopo la separazione e la scoperta dei\nlimiti della legge sull'affidamento dei minorenni, nel 1993 Maglietta fondò\nl'associazione Crescere Insieme. Obiettivo: modificare la normativa e introdurre\nin Italia l'affidamento condiviso, in modo che entrambi i genitori, pur\nseparati, restino responsabili della cura e dell'educazione dei figli, anche se\ncon tempi e compiti diversi: proprio nel prossimo mese di marzo la sua proposta\ndi legge arriverà finalmente alla Camera. Ma in questo progetto diventa\nfondamentale stabilire quanto costa davvero crescere un bambino: una richiesta\navanzata anche dai magistrati, che devono quantificare il contributo dei\ngenitori al mantenimento dei figli. E un'esigenza sentita da tutti quelli che\nlavorano alla costruzione di accordi tra ex coniugi (mediatori, avvocati, i\ngenitori stessi) ai quali serve un punto di riferimento oggettivo e uniforme.\nMaglietta si mette al lavoro nel 2000 coinvolgendo colleghi della facoltà di\nstatistica dell'università di Firenze e la Regione Toscana, che finanzia il\nprogetto. Il team elabora i risultati dell'indagine Istat sulle spese degli\nitaliani, che coinvolge 40 mila famiglie. Aggiunge una prova sul campo su un\naltro campione di 3 mila famiglie. Confronta le proprie con analoghe tabelle\ncompilate in Germania, Svizzera, Danimarca. Applica vari correttivi statistici.\nE alla fine mette a punto un sistema basato su dati oggettivi che permette di\nstabilire il costo mensile del mantenimento di un figlio considerando età,\nreddito dei genitori, zona di residenza, numero di eventuali fratelli. Per\nesempio, per mantenere un bambino di 3 anni, una famiglia del Centro Italia che\nguadagna 3.500 euro netti deve spendere circa 580 euro al mese (baby sitter\nesclusa). La voce più pesante tra le spese dirette è l'alimentazione, mentre tra\ni costi indiretti al primo posto c'è la casa, che si presume debba essere più\ngrande per ospitare il nuovo membro della famiglia. Poi se c'è bisogno della\nbaby sitter, il conto sale di circa 130 euro al mese. E ovviamente, quando il\nfiglio cresce, anche la spesa di mantenimento aumenta: a 16 anni il conto\nmensile è di 200 euro in più rispetto a un bimbo di 3 anni. tra le spese che\ncrescono di più, istruzione, svaghi, vacanze. Le differenze tra Nord e Sud sono\ntutto sommato limitate: un figlio cresciuto al Nord costa mediamente appena il 6\nper cento in più rispetto al Mezzogiorno. Ma va ricordato che le spese\nconsiderate nell'indagine sono quelle comuni a tutte le famiglie italiane. Non\ntengono conto per esempio della mancanza cronica di posti negli asili nido\npubblici o della distanza dei nonni nelle grandi città: tutti fattori che fanno\nimpennare la bolletta figlio nelle metropoli. In particolare al Nord.\nNaturalmente con l'aumentare del reddito familiare cresce la spesa per i figli,\nma cambia di parecchio la sua composizione. Si spende solo un pò di più per dare\nda mangiare al bambino, mentre salgono rapidamente i costi dei trasporti, delle\nvacanze, dell'istruzione. Una famiglia che porta a casa 2 mila euro netti di\nstipendio spende in svaghi e vacanze per il figlio di 9 anni circa 60 euro al\nmese. Un'analoga famiglia che guadagna più del doppio (5.200 euro) ne spende\noltre 150 fin qui la fotografia, anzi il conto, di quanto sono cari i bambini.\nMa i genitori italiani hanno modificato nel tempo la spesa verso i loro figli?\nSecondo Enrico Finzi, sociologo e presidente della società Astra, è così. E per\nalmeno cinque buone ragioni: \"i bambini sono sempre meno. Ed essendo una risorsa\nscarsa i genitori vi investono di più. Poi aggiungete il senso di colpa: in un\nmondo dove si ripete che è bene vivere con i figli ma non ce la si fa perché si\nlavora tanto, la spesa per i bambini diventa riparatoria. Ancora e: siamo in una\ncultura del nuovo, l'usato non esiste più, non si riciclano le cose dei fratelli\ne dei cugini, che spesso non esistono neppure\". Altri due elementi giocano a\nfavore del dare troppo ai figli: il crescente conformismo sociale, che obbliga i\nfigli e i genitori a comprare \"quello che hanno anche gli altri\". E il potere\ncontrattuale più forte dei ragazzini: non solo godono di una situazione di\nmonopolio (spesso sono figli unici), ma hanno anche un livello di competenze\nspecifiche (videogiochi, telefonini) che i genitori non riescono a controllare.\nQuindi tenete duro, non spaventatevi, possibilmente non fermatevi a un figlio:\nil secondo, come provano le tabelle del professor Maglietta, costa il 30 per\ncento in meno del primo. E ricordatevi vi di quello che diceva Winston\nChurchill: \"non c'è per nessuna comunità investimento migliore del metter latte\ndentro ai bambini\". Un italiano vero. da vent'anni sapevo che, un giorno, avrei\ndovuto scrivere quest'articolo. Avrei preferito aspettare altri vent'anni: ma\nsono qui. Sto scrivendo in fretta, perché non mi è mai passato per la testa di\npreparare un \"coccodrillo\" su Montanelli. Se l'avesse saputo, la cosa l'avrebbe\ndivertito moltissimo, e io non volevo dargli questa soddisfazione. A pensarci\nbene, non ho mai scritto niente su Montanelli, da quando lo conosco. Lo faccio\nadesso, alle otto di sera di una domenica d'estate, su un tavolo bianco di\nfronte al mare. Lo faccio volentieri. I giornalisti sono infatti come i medici e\ni pompieri: darsi da fare è un buon modo per rimandare il dolore. Ricordo il\nnostro primo incontro, vent'anni fa, nella direzione del \"giornale\", al terzo\npiano di Via Gaetano Negri. Montanelli aveva letto alcuni corsivi che pubblicavo\nda studente, e aveva chiesto di conoscermi. Mi ha detto subito che se avevo\nscritto per due anni un articolo alla settimana su Crema, scrivere del mondo\nsarebbe stato uno scherzo: in fondo, c'erano più argomenti. Ricordo quando gli\nho portato il primo articolo: ha tolto cinquanta parole e l'articolo ha preso il\nvolo. È stata la prima di molte lezioni simili. Montanelli è stato il maestro\ndelle parole da non usare, dei libri da non scrivere, dei commenti crudeli da\nnon fare, della gente da non frequentare, delle tentazioni cui resistere. Era\nuno stoico pratico. Mi piaceva, ma - di nuovo - non potevo dirglielo. Volevo\ndimostrargli che i lombardi sanno essere poco sentimentali, proprio come i\ntoscani. non ci sono riuscito, ma non fa niente. Adesso che ci penso: anche lui\nera un pò sentimentale. Come gli inglesi e i gatti, non voleva darlo a vedere:\nma so che amava teneramente Marisa Rivolta, la sua compagna d'autunno; e aveva\npianto per Egisto Corradi e tutti gli amici che gli morivano intorno, e lo\nfacevano arrabbiare, perché lo lasciavano solo come un monumento. L'ho visto\nappassionarsi in difesa della sua assistente di sempre, Iside Frigerio, con cui\nper decenni ha condotto una battaglia silenziosa: gareggiavano a chi riusciva a\nmostrare più durezza scabra. È finita in parità. Perché, io lo so, si stimavano\ne si volevano bene. Ecco: se Montanelli sapesse che gli ho dato del\nsentimentale, si arrabbierebbe. Quindi, devo continuare. non era solo\nsentimentale, Indro: era buono. Spesso, negli ultimi anni, scoprivo gente che\naveva aiutato, incoraggiato, ricordato quando non se la ricordava più nessuno.\nEra sinceramente preoccupato che dall'avventura - e dallo spettacolare naufragio\n- della \"voce\" (1994) qualcuno dei suoi ragazzi affogasse (professionalmente).\nPer questo, ogni volta che andavamo a mangiare insieme - o meglio: io mangiavo,\nlui testava piccoli campioni alimentari - gli ricordavo che quella della \"voce\",\nper tutti noi, era una medaglia al valore. La medaglia di una battaglia perduta,\nancora quindi più cara. Questo, devo dire, gli piaceva. Gli piacevano molte\naltre cose. Dare ordini, per esempio, sapendo di non essere obbedito. Il più\ngrande giornalista che io abbia conosciuto è stato il capo più inefficiente che\nio abbia mai visto all'opera. Aveva troppa stima dell'indipendenza di giudizio e\ndell'iniziativa individuale, per essere un buon caposquadra. da \"Repubblica, 4\ngennaio 2002. Buon compleanno professore fenomenologia di Umberto Eco. Compie\ngli anni l'autore più famoso al mondo dal libro su Mike al successo del \"nome\ndella rosa\" di Stefano Bartezzaghi. Oggi può capitare di incontrarlo in una\nlibreria antiquaria, possibilmente in un interno, alla caccia di uno dei\npochissimi Athanasius Kircher che mancano alla sua stravagante collezione di\nlibri antichi. Oppure in una manifestazione pubblica, come la tavola rotonda sui\ngiochi letterari che si terrà al Piccolo di Milano il 21 gennaio, e in cui si\nconfronterà con vari scrittori francesi e con Douglas Hofstadter, il geniale\nfilosofo americano di Goedel, Escher, Bach. Ma non sono vezzi da intellettuale\naffermato. Per Umberto Eco sentirsi a proprio agio nelle situazioni culturali\npiù variegate e vivaci è un'abitudine antica. Dai suoi esordi negli anni\ncinquanta Eco è un intellettuale - puzzle: nessuna tessera, da sola, lo\ndefinisce. I suoi rimbalzi dall'erudizione alla vita quotidiana sono diventati\nin certi casi proverbiali: dal medioevo a Rita Pavone, da Mike Bongiorno a James\nJoyce, e, più recentemente, dall'informatica alla bibliofilia. È per questo che\nl'augusto compleanno del professore (settant anni!) sorprende tutti: perché\ntutti vedono in Eco un'intelligenza irrequieta e un'impazienza nei confronti di\nistituzioni e cariche onorifiche che sono meno consuete nei suoi coetanei.\nCerto, alcune tessere dell'Eco - puzzle hanno una rilevanza maggiore di altre.\nfra le prime cose che vanno dette di Eco è che si tratta di un semiologo. La\nsemiotica studia i modi in cui funzionano i segni e i modi in cui le persone\ncomunicano fra di loro. Per una serie di ragioni anche generazionali, alla fine\ndegli anni cinquanta Eco si è trovato nella posizione migliore per capire che al\ndibattito italiano mancavano gli strumenti analitici per cogliere gli effetti\nculturali e sociali del boom economico imminente. Con un lavoro su più piani -\ncome teorico e come autore televisivo, come giornalista e come consulente\neditoriale - ha portato in Italia quel che in Italia non c'era ancora: i primi\nvagiti dello strutturalismo e poi i fondamenti della nuova scienza semiologica,\nfino a imporre la significazione e la comunicazione come gli argomenti centrali\ndella fine del novecento. Lo spettro di Marley Marley. prima di tutto, era\nmorto. Niente dubbio su questo. Il registro mortuario portava le firme del\nprete, del chierico, dell'appaltatore delle pompe funebri e della persona che\naveva guidato il mortoro. Scrooge vi aveva apposto la sua: e il nome di Scrooge,\nsu qualunque fogliaccio fosse scritto, valeva tant oro. Il vecchio Marley era\nproprio morto per quanto è morto, come diciamo noi, un chiodo di porta. non\nvoglio mica dare ad intendere che io sappia molto bene che cosa ci sia di morto\nin un chiodo di porta. per conto mio, sarei stato disposto a pensare che il\npezzo più morto di tutta la ferrareccia fosse un chiodo di cataletto. Ma poiché\nla saggezza dei nostri nonni sfolgora nelle similitudini, non io vi toccherò con\nsacrilega mano; se no, il paese è bell'e ito. Lasciatemi mi dunque ripetere,\nsolennemente, che Marley era morto com'è morto un chiodo di porta. Sapeva\nScrooge di questa morte? Come avrebbe fatto a non saperlo? Scrooge e il morto\nerano stati soci per non so quanti anni. Scrooge era il suo unico esecutore\ntestamentario, unico amministratore, unico procuratore, unico legatario\nuniversale, unico amico, unico guidatore del mortoro. Anzi il nostro Scrooge,\nche per verità il triste evento non aveva fatto terribilmente spasimare, si\nmostrò sottile uomo d'affari il giorno stesso dei funerali e lo solennizzò con\nun negozio co fiocchi. Il ricordo dei funerali mi fa tornare al punto di\npartenza. Non c'è dunque dubbio che Marley era morto. 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più di 20 preferenze, agli insegnanti che hanno titolo\na partecipare ai trasferimenti di cui alle precedenti II e III fase, sia che\nabbiano ottenuto il trasferimento, sia che non abbiano prodotto domanda di\ntrasferimento nei termini stabiliti dalla presente ordinanza, anche per\npreferenze diverse da quelle richieste per trasferimento, qualora siano\nsopraggiunti gravi motivi compresi, ovviamente, tra quelli previsti dall'art. 59\ndella legge n. 312 e di cui al precedente art. 70, che giustificano la\nrichiesta.", " I predetti motivi devono costituire oggetto di documentazione, che\ndeve essere presentata entro il termine che verrà stabilito per la presentazione\ndella domanda.", " In caso di ricongiungimento al familiare destinato a nuova sede\nper motivi di lavoro, si prescinde dall'iscrizione anagrafica.", " Ai fini della\npossibilità di presentazione della domanda di cui sopra, si considera motivo\nsopravvenuto la nascita di figli di epoca successiva al termine di presentazione\ndella domanda di trasferimento.", " Possono altresì chiedere l'assegnazione\nprovvisoria gli insegnanti individuati come perdenti posto che siano stati\ntrasferiti d'ufficio o che abbiano presentato con esito negativo domanda di\ntrasferimento non condizionata.", " Gli insegnanti di cui al presente articolo\npossono chiedere l'assegnazione provvisoria compilando il modulo domanda solo\nnelle sezioni a), b), c) quest'ultima solo per parte relativa alle esigenze di\nfamiglia, d) solo per le voci 15/17/18/19/20/21/22/29 e le sezioni e) ed f)\nsecondo le modalità di cui ai precedenti articoli in quanto applicabili.", " Le\ndomande devono essere indirizzate e spedite direttamente al provveditore agli\nstudi della provincia di titolarità entro il primo luglio.", " Si considerano\nprodotte in tempo utile le domande spedite a mezzo raccomandata con avviso di\nricevimento entro il termine di cui sopra.", " Alla domanda devono essere allegati i\ndocumenti, redatti in bollo, attestanti i requisiti richiesti dalla apposita\ntabella allegato c.", " Si richiama per le dichiarazioni personali sostitutive della\ncertificazione quanto stabilito dall'art. 16.", " Il provveditore agli studi,\nscaduto il termine di cui al precedente art. 71, respinge le domande prodotte\ndagli insegnanti che ai sensi degli articoli precedenti non hanno titolo o che\nsiano pervenute oltre il termine prescritto o alle quali non risultino allegati\ni richiesti documenti.", " Gli insegnanti che aspirano all'assegnazione provvisoria\nverranno graduati sulla base dei punteggi previsti dall'apposita tabella all c),\nle Esigenze di famiglia di cui alla predetta tabella di valutazione,\nverificatesi si in termini successivi al termine per la presentazione delle\ndomande di trasferimento, potranno essere valutate se rappresentate, con istanza\ndocumentate al provveditore agli studi della provincia richiesta, entro il\nmedesimo termine di cui all'art. 71.", " Le assegnazioni provvisorie nell'ambito\ndella provincia sono disposte con precedenza rispetto a quelle dall'una\nall'altra provincia.", " Gli insegnanti che nell'ultimo triennio siano stati\ntrasferiti d'ufficio per soppressione di posti in altro comune hanno la\nprecedenza sugli altri aspiranti nell'assegnazione provvisoria ai plessi\ncompresi nel comune nel quale il loro posto fu soppresso.", " In ogni graduatoria,\nsarà data la precedenza, a prescindere dal punteggio conseguito alle seguenti\ncategorie:", " Insegnanti non vedenti, insegnanti non autosufficienti con protesi\nagli arti inferiori.", " Nel caso di protesi agli arti inferiori, la deambulazione\ndeve essere gravemente compromessa.", " La certificazione da allegare è quella\nprevista dal precedente art. 16;", " Lavoratrici madri i cui figli, alla data del 10\nsettembre dell'anno in corso, non abbiano compiuto il primo anno di età, sempre\nche abbiano titolo ad ottenere l'assegnazione provvisoria.", " L'età è documentata\ncon certificato anagrafico.", " Il Provveditore agli studi entro il 5 agosto\ndetermina, con proprio decreto, le graduatorie e le pubblica all'albo\ndell'ufficio scolastico, indicando il punteggio complessivo attribuito, nonché\nle eventuali Precedenze assolute di cui all'art. 73.", " Entro cinque giorni dalla\npubblicazione, gli insegnanti interessati potranno presentare motivato reclamo\nal provveditore, il quale decide in merito entro i cinque giorni successivi.", "\nsono utilizzabili per le assegnazioni provvisorie tutti i posti vacanti per\nl'intero anno a seguito di eventuali provvedimenti di utilizzazione dei titolari\naventi durata annuale.", " Ovviamente non sono disponibili a tali fini i posti delle\ndotazioni organiche aggiuntive.", " Il provveditore agli studi pubblicherà l'elenco\ndegli insegnanti ai quali è stata concessa l'assegnazione provvisoria e la sede\nassegnata, con l'indicazione per ciascuno di essi delle sedi di titolarità, del\npunteggio complessivo conseguito, nonché le indicazioni relative ad eventuali\nprecedenze e preferenze entro il 30 agosto.", " Con le disposizioni di cui alla\npresente ordinanza sono disciplinati per tutte le classi di concorso i movimenti\nsottoelencati:", " 1) i trasferimenti dei docenti di ruolo con sede definitiva.", " Sono\ninoltre disciplinati i trasferimenti dei docenti di educazione fisica\nappartenenti al ruolo ad esaurimento previsto dal v comma dell'art. 16 della\nlegge n. 88/76;", " 2) i trasferimenti dei docenti di ruolo in attesa di sede\ndefinitiva art. 8 quartultimo comma;", " 3) passaggi di cattedra;", " 4) trasferimenti\ninterprovinciali per compensazione dei docenti di cui al punto 1;", " 5)\ntrasferimenti suppletivi interprovinciali dei docenti non di ruolo non\nlicenziabili ai sensi della legge n. 270/82;", " 6) assegnazioni provvisorie.", " sono\nutilizzabili ai fini dei trasferimenti provinciali le cattedre, ivi comprese le\ncattedre costituite totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento con classi\nfunzionanti a tempo prolungato e i posti d'insegnamento che risultino vacanti\nnelle dotazioni organiche della scuola media determinate dai provveditorati agli\nstudi.", " sono posti d'insegnamento quelli costituiti con: 1) attività di sostegno;\n2) corsi sperimentali per lavoratori; 3) dotazioni organiche aggiuntive.", " Ai fini\ndi cui al precedente primo comma non devono essere considerati disponibili:", " Le\ncattedre e posti d'insegnamento delle scuole medie che saranno istituite a\ndecorrere dall'inizio dell'anno scolastico;", " Le cattedre la cui vacanza non sia\naccertabile ed in ogni caso non sia stata trasmessa al centro elaborazione dati\nentro il 30 aprile;", " I posti istituiti con attività di sostegno dei docenti che\nottengono il trasferimento su classi di concorso;", " Le cattedre dei docenti di\neducazione fisica che ottengono il passaggio previsto dall'art. 16 della legge\n1-88/76;", " Le cattedre dei docenti che ottengono il trasferimento per\ncompensazione;", " I posti di insegnamento dei corsi sperimentali per lavoratori\nfunzionanti presso istituti di pena per adulti ovvero presso istituti penali\nminorili.", " Le cattedre e i posti disponibili nelle scuole medie speciali per\nciechi e sordomuti possono essere richieste per trasferimento da personale\nappartenente ai corrispondenti ruoli speciali previsti dal DPR 31 ottobre 1975\nn. 970.", " Ai fini del riassorbimento sulle dotazioni organiche aggiuntive e dei\ntrasferimenti interprovinciali si richiamano le disposizioni di cui al\nprecedente art. 13.", " I passaggi di cattedra, previsti dall'art. 75 del DPR numero\n417/74 e dalla tabella g ad esso allegata modificata e integrata dal dm 1\ndicembre 1983 saranno disposti, per ciascuna classe di concorso, in numero non\nsuperiore ad un quinto del numero complessivo delle cattedre e posti di\ninsegnamento disponibili per i trasferimenti interprovinciali di cui al\nprecedente articolo 13 e non utilizzabili per i trasferimenti interprovinciali\nmedesimi.", " Sui posti costituiti con attività di sostegno non si effettuano\npassaggi di cattedra, di conseguenza il numero di tali posti non è preso in\nconsiderazione ai fini della determinazione del numero dei passaggi di cattedra.", "\nSono depennati dal ruolo ad esaurimento previsto dal v comma dell'art. 16 della\ncitata legge n. 88/76 quei docenti di educazione fisica che, appartenendo a\ndetto ruolo, avranno chiesto ed ottenuto il trasferimento o il passaggio ai\nsensi del presente capo.", " Le Sezioni staccate, ai fini dei movimenti, vanno\nconsiderate come scuole autonome.", " Pertanto il movimento su tali sezioni verrà\ndisposto soltanto se l'aspirante ne avrà fatta richiesta con indicazione di\napposita preferenza, tenendo sempre presente che il numero complessivo delle\npreferenze non dovrà essere superiore a 15.", " Le Succursali, si precisa, vanno\nconsiderate come parte integrante della scuola da cui dipendono e pertanto non\nrisultano comprese negli elenchi ufficiali delle scuole.", " I Trasferimenti\nnell'ambito della stessa scuola dal corso diurno al corso serale e viceversa\nsaranno disposti secondo l'ordine e la precedenza di cui all'art. 86.", " I\nmovimenti su cattedre per le quali è previsto il completamento in una o due\nscuole della medesima sede o di altra sede saranno disposti soltanto se gli\ninteressati ne avranno fatta esplicita richiesta nel modulo domanda.", " Tale\nrichiesta non è differenziabile a livello delle singole preferenze e vale\npertanto per tutte le preferenze sia in ordine alla tipologia dei posti che agli\nambiti territoriali.", " Il docente trasferito su cattedra costituita tra scuole\ndiverse sarà tenuto a completare l'orario di insegnamento nella seconda delle\ndue scuole ed anche nella terza eventuale scuola così come verrà indicato negli\nelenchi per personale trasferito.", " Tale completamento potrà essere conferito per\ntutte le scuole comprese quelle che abbiano richiesto il tempo prolungato.", " Il\ndocente dovrà intendersi titolare nella prima delle scuole indicate;", " Per cui se\nsi libererà o si costituirà una cattedra nella scuola di titolarità\nl'interessato sarà automaticamente assorbito in tale scuola anche se tale\ncattedra funzionerà totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi\na tempo prolungato.", " Parimenti il Docente titolare su cattedra articolata su\nscuole di comuni diversi, ove nella prima delle scuole si liberi una cattedra\narticolata con scuole dello stesso comune, sarà automaticamente ed\nimmediatamente assorbito su questa ultima cattedra.", " Tali assorbimenti avverranno\na condizione che la cattedra, prevista nell'organico, sia priva di titolare.", " Non\nsono necessari a tal fine ulteriori provvedimenti da parte del provveditore agli\nstudi.", " I Docenti che siano titolari di cattedra costituita su scuole diverse,\nqualora intendano essere trasferiti nella scuola di completamento dovranno,\nviceversa, farne apposita domanda.", " Si avverte che le cattedre costituite su più\nscuole, possono essere modificate negli anni scolastici successivi per quanto\nriguarda gli abbonamenti qualora non si verifichi più disponibilità di ore nella\nscuola assegnata per completamento d'orario.", " Pertanto, i docenti trasferiti su\ntali cattedre sono tenuti a completare l'orario d'obbligo nelle scuole nelle\nquali il nuovo organico prevede il completamento d'orario.", " L'o m che disciplina\nla determinazione delle dotazioni organiche per la scuola media, prevede che le\nore di lac e quelle di studio sussidiario non avranno più autonoma rilevanza in\nquanto ai fini della formazione dell'organico di diritto, dovranno confluire\ninteramente nel nuovo modello a tempo prolungato anche se di fatto per le\nseconde e le terze classi le ore eccedenti quelle curricolari potranno essere\nutilizzate secondo i moduli organizzativi corrispondenti al doposcuola.", " Pertanto\ni trasferimenti da disporre a partire dall'a s 1984/85 riguarderanno anche le\ncattedre formate totalmente o parzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi a\ntempo prolungato.", " di conseguenza il docente che ottiene il trasferimento in\nscuole medie con classi a tempo prolungato o che conserva la titolarità potrà\nessere assegnato anche a tali classi.", " La richiesta per cattedre a tempo\nprolungato non può essere espressa autonomamente prescindendo, cioè, dalla\nrichiesta di cattedre costituite esclusivamente con ore curricolari ed è\nriferita a tutte le preferenze territoriali.", " La richiesta in esame ai fini della\nassegnazione della scuola di titolarità riguarda tutte le preferenze relative\nalle scuole che attuano il tempo prolungato anche in una sola classe.", " La\nrichiesta di cattedre articolate su più scuole può determinare l'assegnazione a\nscuole di completamento che effettuano il tempo prolungato anche ai docenti che\nhanno chiesto il tempo prolungato.", " A puro titolo indicativo, al fine di fornire\nagli interessati informazioni utili per la compilazione delle domande di\ntrasferimento, nel b u contenente l'elenco delle scuole medie sono evidenziate\nle scuole che si prevede attueranno anche in una sola classe, il tempo\nprolungato.", " Le operazioni di trasferimento e di passaggio saranno disposte nel\nseguente ordine:", " 1) i trasferimenti all'interno della stessa tipologia di\nsostegno e i trasferimenti dalle classi di concorso al sostegno art. 89);", " 2)\nlimitatamente all'anno scolastico 1984/85 trasferimenti alla domanda nell'ambito\ndella scuola da posto lac a cattedra;", " 3) trasferimenti a domanda dal corso\ndiurno al corso serale e viceversa;", " 4) trasferimenti a domanda dei docenti,\ntrasferiti dall'inizio dell'anno scolastico in corso in quanto soprannumerari,\nnelle scuole dove erano titolari nell'a s precedente;", " 5) trasferimenti a domanda\nin sede;", " 6) trasferimenti d'ufficio dei docenti soprannumerari, compresi i\nsoprannumerari sui corsi sperimentali per lavoratori funzionanti in comuni\ncomprendenti più distretti, che non hanno prodotto domanda o che, pur avendola\nprodotta non sono stati soddisfatti per le preferenze espresse nel modulo\ndomanda;", " 7) trasferimenti a domanda dei docenti, trasferiti dall'inizio\ndell'anno scolastico in corso, in quanto soprannumerari, nei comuni dove erano\ntitolari nell'a s precedente;", " 8) trasferimenti d'ufficio da fuori sede dei\ndocenti soprannumerari titolari sulle DOA di cui al successivo punto 10) che non\nhanno prodotto domanda o che pur avendola prodotta, non sono stati soddisfatti\nper le preferenze espresse nel modulo domanda e non sono stati sistemati nel\ncorso delle operazioni di cui al precedente punto 6);", " 9) trasferimenti a domanda\nda fuori sede nell'ambito della provincia docenti di ruolo con sede definitiva,\ntrasferiti per compensazione per l'a s in corso, titolari sulle DOA della\nprovincia;", " 10) trasferimenti d'ufficio di docenti titolari sulle DOA in\nsoprannumero non soddisfatti al precedente punto 9;", " 11) trasferimenti a domanda\nnell'ambito della provincia da posti di sostegno alle classi di concorso;", " 12)\ntrasferimenti a domanda di aspiranti provenienti da altra provincia docenti di\nruolo con sede definitiva ivi compresi i titolari sulle DOA e su posti di\nsostegno;", " 13) passaggi di cattedra;", " 14) trasferimenti interprovinciali per\ncompensazione.", " Nell'ambito di ciascuna delle fasi sopraindicate i movimenti\nverranno effettuati rispettando rigorosamente l'ordine di graduatoria di tutti\ngli aspiranti inclusi e le Preferenze nel modulo domanda.", " La Precedenza a parità\ndi punteggio è determinata dalla età.", " Le disposizioni di cui al presente\narticolo si applicano ai docenti soprannumerari che non presentino domanda di\ntrasferimento ovvero che, pur avendola presentata non sono trasferiti nel\nmovimento a domanda.", " I trasferimenti d'ufficio dei docenti in soprannumero sono\ndisposti su cattedre, ivi comprese le cattedre costituite totalmente o\nparzialmente con ore di insegnamento in classi a tempo prolungato, su corsi\nsperimentali per lavoratori e dotazioni organiche aggiuntive della provincia.", " I\ntrasferimenti d'ufficio non sono disposti da classi di concorso a posti\ncostituiti con l'attività di sostegno per i docenti titolari su classi di\nconcorso, atteso che l'assegnazione \"ex novo\" su detti posti presuppone\nnecessariamente la disponibilità del docente.", " Al fine di assicurare al docente\nuna sede di titolarità che risponda a criteri obiettivi di viciniorità rispetto\nalla sede di provenienza, i trasferimenti d'ufficio sono disposti sulla base di\napposita tabella dei \"comuni viciniori\".", " Ai fini dell'identificazione del comune\nda cui procedere per l'eventuale applicazione della citata tabella, sede di\nprovenienza dei docenti titolari su posti di insegnamento dei corsi sperimentali\nper lavoratori sarà considerato il comune sede del distretto di titolarità,\nquando tale distretto comprenda più comuni.", " Nel caso di distretti\ninterprovinciali qualora la sede del distretto si trovi in una provincia diversa\nda quella di titolarità, sarà considerato come sede di provenienza il primo\ncomune incluso nella parte provinciale del distretto della provincia di\ntitolarità, secondo l'ordine pubblicato nel b u delle scuole.", " I trasferimenti\nd'ufficio sono disposti nel seguente ordine di successione:", " 1) in scuole del\ncomune di titolarità;", " 2) in scuole di comune viciniore secondo la tabella di\nviciniorità di cui al precedente comma III;", " 3) su posti costituiti con i corsi\nsperimentali per lavoratori nel distretto di titolarità e successive negli altri\ndistretti secondo l'ordine pubblicato nel b u delle scuole medie;", " 4) su posti\ndelle dotazioni organiche aggiuntive della provincia, anche in eccedenza al\nrelativo contingente assegnato, fermo restando, in quest'ultima ipotesi, lo\nstatus di docente in soprannumero rispetto alla complessiva dotazione organica\ndella provincia.", " Relativamente ai punti 1 e 2 per ogni comune e per i comuni che\ncomprendono più distretti per ogni distretto), lo scorrimento delle scuole per\nl'assegnazione delle cattedre avviene nel seguente ordine:", " 1) scuole a tempo\nnormale cattedre interne alla scuola 2) scuole a tempo prolungato cattedre\ninterne alla scuola 3) scuole a tempo normale cattedre orario esterne stessa\nsede 4) scuole a tempo prolungato cattedre orario esterne stessa sede 5) scuole\na tempo normale cattedre orario esterne fuori sede 6) scuole a tempo prolungato\ncattedre orario esterne fuori sede.", " Ai fini predetti si considerano a tempo\nprolungato le scuole che hanno anche una sola classe a tempo prolungato.", " I\ntrasferimenti d'ufficio degli insegnanti in soprannumero saranno disposti\nsecondo l'ordine delle operazioni stabilito nel precedente art. 86.", " Il primo\nriguarda l'esperimento Nusex diretto dal fisico milanese Ettore Fiorini sotto il\nMonte Bianco:", " \"lo abbiamo proposto alla giunta dell'Infn nel settembre del\nsettantanove\", ricorda Fiorini.", " \"è stato approvato in dicembre e nel gennaio\n1980 avevamo già ricevuto i primi fondi.", " Un record che ci è stato riconosciuto\ncon invidia anche dai colleghi americani\".", " Il secondo esempio viene citato da\nRoberto Fieschi e si riferisce al progetto finalizzato per l'elettronica dello\nstato solido, un tema che riveste un'enorme importanza anche per le sue notevoli\nricadute industriali:", " Proposto dai fisici del gruppo di struttura della materia\nben otto anni fa, è stato approvato dal Cnr solo quest'anno.", " Insomma, a scavare\nbene nella compatta testuggine della fisica italiana, qualche incrinatura si\nriesce a trovarla.", " \"qualcuno\", dice con tono serafico Ettore Fiorini, \"ha detto\nche si spende troppo per la fisica delle alte energie.", " Sarebbe più corretto dire\nche in realtà si spende poco per gli altri:", " Anche ammettendo di diminuire i\nnostri finanziamenti a favore delle altre specializzazioni, non si farebbe un\ngrande guadagno, perché senza la ricerca di punta che si fa nei nostri\nlaboratori, tutto il resto crolla\".", " Sembra di sentire un'eco dell'apologo di un\ncerto Menenio Agrippa.", " Ma Renato Angelo Ricci, presidente della società di\nfisica e anche responsabile del progetto tandem ai laboratori nazionali Infn di\nLegnaro (Padova), uno strumento molto avanzato per la fisica nucleare, costato\ncomplessivamente 14 miliardi, sembra mettere tutti d'accordo con una visione\necumenica della fisica:", " \"la fisica italiana gode oggi di un grande credito,\nlegato al settore di punta della fisica subnucleare, ma ha dietro di sé altri\nsettori ormai competitivi a livello internazionale.", " Ne citerei almeno tre:", " La\nstruttura della materia (fisica dello stato solido e degli stati aggregati,\norganizzata nell'ambito del gruppo nazionale struttura della materia del Cnr),\nla fisica nucleare propriamente detta che si fa a Legnaro, a Catania (dove\nl'acceleratore lineare tipo tandem verrà presto integrato con un nuovissimo\nciclotrone superconduttore attualmente in costruzione a Milano) e con\nacceleratore Adone di Frascati, e la fisica al limite fra la fisica cosmica e\nl'astrofisica, cioè la cosiddetta fisica sotterranea, che ha una tradizione ben\nprecedente al progetto Gran Sasso.", " A questo si aggiunga la tendenza della fisica\nmoderna all'unificazione delle forze fondamentali, che porta anche un\navvicinamento dei vari settori.", " Il tentativo di trovare le forze primordiali\ntende a ricostruire le condizioni in cui era l'universo nelle prime frazioni di\nsecondo:", " È lì che vivevano certi oggetti di cui oggi si cercano le tracce con\ngli acceleratori o nelle caverne come quella del Gran Sasso, come i monopoli, o\ni bosoni di Higgs;", " Questo significa innanzitutto che la fisica delle particelle\nva ad accoppiarsi con l'astrofisica.", " Inoltre in questa ricerca ci si trova a\nconfronto con gli eventi che hanno portato alla costituzione della materia che\nconosciamo oggi, la sintesi dei nuclei degli elementi che costituiscono il 99\nper cento della materia.", " In conclusione, tutto un nuovo avvicinamento fra\nl'astrofisica, la fisica delle particelle e la fisica dei nuclei e della\nmateria.", " Una visione ottimistica che riaffida alla fisica, come avevano sperato\ndi fare i positivisti oltre un secolo fa, il compito di rispondere ai grandi\nquesiti dell'uomo.", " sono davvero lontani, per questa nuova generazione di fisici\ntrionfanti, i tempi dei complessi di colpa che avevano profondamente turbato i\nloro maestri, i reduci di Hiroshima.", " È giovedì 6 giugno.", " Alle 9 di mattina,\nnella sala Enrico Fermi del Cnr, in Piazza Aldo Moro, entra il presidente Luigi\nRossi Bernardi e saluta i presidenti dei \"comitati\", seduti nervosamente intorno\nal grande tavolo ovale.", " non è una giornata qualunque.", " È il giorno in cui si\ndovrà decidere la distribuzione del 50 per cento dei fondi destinati, per il\n1985, ai circa 300 organi del Cnr sparsi per la penisola.", " È una giornata\ndecisiva, come tutti gli anni, essendo la spartizione dei finanziamenti un\nmomento cruciale nella vita dell'ente.", " Ma quest'anno è diverso.", " La posta in\ngioco è ancora più alta del solito.", " C'è qualcosa di nuovo nella sala riunioni.", "\nUn gigantesco carrello carico di documenti che è stato collocato, bene in vista,\nproprio alla sinistra del presidente.", " È una presenza minacciosa, per alcuni.", " Sul\ncarrello ci sono i dati relativi a tutti gli istituti e i centri ricerca del\nCnr.", " Si tratta di una sorta di maxipagella della scienza italiana elaborata\ndalla segreteria personale del presidente, dopo uno \"scrutinio\" durato mesi.", " È\nproprio su quel carrello che si concentra l'imbarazzato interesse dei presenti.", "\nDavvero i fondi ottantacinque saranno distribuiti secondo i \"voti\" assegnati e\nscritti su quei fogli?", " Ma facciamo un passo indietro.", " La vicenda era nata sei\nmesi prima, esattamente il 31 ottobre 1984 quando Luigi Rossi Bernardi,\ncinquantaduenne direttore scientifico del San Raffaele e dell'ospedale maggiore\ndi Milano, aveva assunto ufficialmente la presidenza del Cnr e aveva pronunciato\nl'atteso discorso della corona.", " Lo aveva fatto con una discreta abilità\npropagandistica, secondo l'opinione generale, perché, dopo anni di malcontento\nper lo stato dell'ente, era riuscito a far vibrare le \"corde\" giuste degli\nspettatori e a far gridare al rinnovamento.", " La nota sulla quale aveva\nmaggiormente insistito era stata quella della valutazione del lavoro degli\nscienziati, un tema delicato ma importantissimo sul quale aveva assunto una\nposizione assai decisa.", " Si sta svolgendo in questi giorni a Roma \"libri in\ncampo\", una manifestazione dedicata all'editoria.", " Oggi, alle ore 21:30,\nnell'ambito di questa iniziativa, la casa editrice edizioni associate editrice\ninternazionale presenta il libro di Marina Galletti su Georges Bataille\ncontre-attaques.", " Gli anni della militanza antifascista.", " Corrispondenza inedita\ncon Pierre Kaan e Jean Rollin.", " 38 Spoleto festival.", " Sarà la messa da requiem di\nGiuseppe Verdi a chiudere, domani sera alle 19:45 nella piazza Duomo di Spoleto,\nla 38-ma edizione del festival dei due mondi.", " Il Requiem, per l'imponenza della\nmusica, delle masse orchestrale e corale che richiede, è una composizione che\npare fatta apposta per il concerto di chiusura.", " E non a caso, nella storia del\nfestival, è stata fra le più eseguite.", " La Spoleto Festival Orchestra sarà\ndiretta dall'americano James Conlon, direttore musicale dell'opera di Colonia,\nche proprio a Spoleto ha mosso i primi passi sul podio.", " Il coro di Santa Cecilia\nsarà diretto da Norbert Balatsch.", " Bianca nera.", " Al processo di Torvajanica\nsmentito Said.", " Miloud Belkhaoua, 14 anni, si guadagna da vivere facendo il\nlavavetri ai semafori di Casalpalocco.", " Per difendere il fratello, Said, accusato\ndi aver investito e ucciso Sara Folino a Torvajanica, riesce a contraddire sé\nstesso e le parole dell'imputato.", " nel momento in cui la Bx ha investito la\nragazza quindicenne molestata poco prima, Miloud dice di aver \"chiuso gli occhi\nper paura\".", " Invece l'imputato ha dichiarato: \"il mio fratellino mi disse di\nstare attento.", " C'era la ragazza.", " da me vista troppo tardi\".", " In aula viene\nstritolata la tesi del perito della difesa, Italo Fainelli: \"l'auto prima è\nfinita contro un albero, poi, sbandando, ha colpito la ragazza\".", " Il presidente\nSeverino Santiapichi ribatte: \"se così fosse stato, la Bx con l'urto avrebbe\nsubìto una decelerazione.", " Invece ha investito Sara procedendo a 70 all'ora\".", "\nProssima udienza, lunedì.", " Sarà ascoltato il dottor Lombardi, il primo medico ad\nintervenire dopo la tragedia.", " Processo per la morta di Folino, la ragazza\ninvestita a Torvaianica.", " Veloso ricorda i rapporti con il nostro paese e\ndichiara il suo amore per il cinema di Fellini.", " \"la prima notte in Italia chiuso\nin cella\".", " Dal nostro inviato Giacomo Pellicciotti Perugia - passeggiando di\nsera per corso Vannucci, Caetano Veloso si ritrova a casa sua, nel natio borgo\ndi Santo Amaro, un paesino nello stato di Bahia.", " Va sottobraccio alla bella\nmoglie Paola, con Gilda l'ex compagna di Vinicius De Moraes al fianco, incrocia\naffettuosamente l'amico Gilberto Gil e abbraccia poi tutta la famiglia di\nAntonio Carlos Jobim, moglie e bambini, in vacanza in Umbria.", " Caetano si ferma\nanche a parlare in italiano cogli italiani che lo salutano, mai fastidiosamente,\ncome un vecchio e caro amico.", " Caetano Veloso è tornato per la terza volta a\nUmbria Jazz, ed è lui, senza dubbio, il trionfatore incontrastato del festival.", "\nTre recital di straordinaria malia al teatro morlacchi, neanche uno strapuntino\nlibero, e tante persone rimaste fuori.", " Ha vinto anche il \"premio Heineken\" della\ncritica ed è l'ultimo segnale di un amore reciproco tra il cantautore di Bahia e\ngli italiani più sensibili, con Lucio Dalla, Fiorella Mannoia, Renzo Arbore e lo\nstilista Romeo Gigli promotori di un immaginario fanclub.", " \"l'Italia è un\nsentimento che è stato sempre presente nella mia vita, fin da bambino\".", " Caetano\nparla con quella sua voce lieve, sussurrata, che è già musica, e rifà la storia\ndella sua lunga assiduità con la cultura e la gente del nostro paese.", " \"mi\nricordo che mia sorella più grande parlava sempre dei film italiani, soprattutto\ndi ladri di biciclette.", " Io, poi, li ho visti tutti questi film, ne ho visti\ntanti fino all'ossessione nei tre cinema di Santo Amaro.", " Oggi non ce n'è rimasto\npiù nessuno.", " Potrei dire che quel po' d'italiano che so, l'ho imparato al\ncinema, ascoltando i dialoghi dei film di Fellini, De Sica e compagni.", " Posso\ndire che l'italiano me l'hanno insegnato Pinelli, Flaiano, Zavattini e tutti gli\nsceneggiatori di quei film indimenticabili.", " Il regista favorito resta comunque\nFederico Fellini, che è stato molto importante nella mia storia personale.", " A 15\nanni, quando ho visto la strada, ho pianto e non ho potuto mangiare per un\ngiorno intero.", " Le notti di Cabiria è una delle cose più belle che abbia mai\nvisto.", " L'unico grosso dolore è di non aver mai potuto incontrare Fellini e\nGiulietta Masina.", " Quando ho scritto la canzone Giulietta Masina, a Bari per la\nrassegna \"Time Zones\", mi è capitato di cantare all'auditorio Nino Rota.", " Un\nsegno del destino.", " E mentre dormivo in hotel, mia moglie Paolinha ha risposto al\ntelefono.", " Una Voce di donna per conto della Masina chiedeva una copia del mio\ndisco con la canzone a lei dedicata.", " Le ho fatto recapitare il disco a casa da\nun amico, ma poi silenzio.", " Forse non le era piaciuto, chissà.", " Era stato anche\nproibito alla radio brasiliana perché parlava delle passeggiatrici di Cabiria,\nmagari Giulietta non ha gradito\".", " Ma la musica italiana Caetano come l'ha\nscoperta?", " Sorride ricordando: \"quando ero piccolo, mia madre mi cantava le\ncanzoni napoletane in portoghese.", " Ma la mia canzone preferita è Luna Rossa,\nperché è stata la prima che ho sentito in dialetto napoletano.", " Alla fine degli\nanni cinquanta, circolava in Brasile la versione di una cantante, credo\nnapoletana, un'interpretazione molto calda, sensuale.", " Poi ho sentito Roberto\nMurolo ed è stato tutto più chiaro, ho letto i testi sul disco e ho capito che\nnon era italiano, ma napoletano.", " Così ho potuto imparare a memoria le parole.", "\nPer questo oggi la canto qui da voi, prima a Napoli nello show di Lucio Dalla e\nora al morlacchi, perché la sento una canzone totalmente mia\".", " Curioso e\ntragicomico il racconto che Caetano fa del suo primo giorno in Italia, a Roma 24\nanni fa: \"era, penso, il 1971 e vivevo esule a Londra.", " Avevo già fatto un disco\ninglese e stava per uscire Transa, quando il boss della compagnia discografica\nParamount, anche produttore cinematografico, decise che dovevo assolutamente\nessere io il San Francesco del film di Zeffirelli, cosa che non è mai avvenuta.", "\nCosì partimmo tutti.", " Arrivammo nel tardo pomeriggio all'Excelsior di Via Veneto.", "\nEravamo solo da un paio d'ore in Italia, e la polizia ci chiese i documenti, ma\ni passaporti erano rimasti all'Excelsior.", " I poliziotti risero, non ci credettero\ne ci schiaffarono in cella.", " Ci misero fuori alle sei del mattino, per\nl'intervento provvidenziale di un amico leader studentesco.", " Quest'anno è il\ncoronamento del mio rapporto davvero speciale con l'Italia: Lucio Dalla mi ha\ninvitato a Napoli per il suo show televisivo, vorrebbe anche produrre un mio\nalbum per il mercato italiano, e adesso vivo l'incanto di Perugia.", " sono come in\ncielo.", " O meglio, davanti a questi stupendi palazzi medioevali, ritorno bambino a\nSanto Amaro.", " Forse le vecchie chiese di Bahia non sono proprio così maestose, ma\nla nostalgia scatta lo stesso\".", " Il musicista testimonia del suo grande amore per\nl'Italia e per la sua cultura.", " Cecchi Paone conferma le trattative con\nRetequattro, ma smentisce l'accordo.", " \"non ho firmato\".", " \"ma non andrò al Tg 4,\nnon voglio pestare i piedi a nessuno\".", " Incerto il futuro di Funari.", " Enrica\nBonaccorti andrà a Raidue.", " Di Fausto Gianì \"macché, non ho firmato nessun\ncontratto, non sono stato a Milano nei giorni scorsi né mi sono mai mosso da\nqui\".", " Il \"qui\" di cui parla, al telefono, Alessandro Cecchi Paone, è un albergo\ndiscreto di Porto Cervo, in Sardegna, dove il conduttore televisivo si trova da\nmartedì scorso \"e fino a lunedì prossimo, per festeggiare il mio secondo\nanniversario di matrimonio\".", " Cecchi Paone smentisce dunque quanto pubblicato\nieri dal Corriere della Sera e cioè di aver firmato il passaggio alla Fininvest,\ncon la carica di vicedirettore del Tg 4 ma senz'obbligo di frequenza, vale a\ndire che il suo diretto superiore non sarà Emilio Fede e che in sua assenza non\nsarà lui a dialogare con Paolo Brosio in diretta e il tribunale di Milano come\nsfondo.", " Sottratto per qualche momento al mare e al sole della Sardegna (e alla\nmoglie), Cecchi Paone conferma che le trattative sono effettivamente in corso,\nma che di qui alla firma ce ne corre, del resto il suo Avvocato Francesco\nAssumma su queste cose ci va con i piedi di piombo.", " \"in ogni caso\" puntualizza\nlui, \"comincerò ad occuparmene dalla settimana prossima.", " E se si arriva alla\nfirma, la rai sarà la prima a saperlo: la seconda rete, la direzione generale,\nla direzione del personale, tutti quelli con cui ho lavorato in tutti questi\nanni\".", " Certo: una Fama da bravo ragazzo, costruita in vent'anni di carriera, non\nsi brucia neppure sull'altare di un contratto Fininvest.", " Quella fama spera di\nportarsela dietro anche nel caso passi al Biscione.", " E infatti conferma\nindirettamente le voci che lo vogliono conduttore di programmi di\napprofondimento giornalistico, praticamente una nuova versione della \"cronaca in\ndiretta\": \"non andrei mai al Tg 4\" dice lui, \"né vorrei pestare i piedi a\nnessuno\".", " O quasi: perché il timore di infastidire Gianfranco Funari un pò ce\nl'ha, nonostante la grande diversità fra i due personaggi e i rispettivi\nprogrammi: \"questa mia trattativa con la Fininvest\" dice Cecchi Paone, \"ha\nscatenato voci, Boatos e notizie esagerate o appunto inventate come quella del\ncontratto già siglato\".", " E dietro queste voci ci sono le voci di chi gli vuol\nbene (come Pippo Baudo), o di chi avrebbe da temere dal suo salto di sponda.", "\nCome Funari, l'unico che finora ha avuto a che fare con l'informazione su rete 4\n(a parte il Tg di Fede, ovviamente).", " Il \"giornalaio\" non conferma né smentisce.", "\nAlmeno pubblicamente, tace: \"parlerà dopo il 21 luglio\" dice la sua addetta\nstampa.", " Cioè dopo aver mandato in onda l'ultimo \"punto di svolta\".", " E per quella\ndata, Funari spera anche di aver discusso i suoi futuri destini con i vertici di\nrete 4, e di poter quindi dire la sua con distacco o fuor dai denti a seconda di\ncome saranno andate le proprie trattative:", " Non ha mai fatto mistero che la\nfascia preserale, schiacciata dai Tg, la lascerebbe volentieri ad altri - Cecchi\nPaone, per dirne una.", " O potrebbe seguire il suo esempio e passare ad altri lidi\ntelevisivi - Cecchi Gori, per dirne una.", " A Raidue, intanto, è come se il\ntrasloco del conduttore bravo ragazzo sia cosa fatta: il direttore Gabriele la\nPorta conferma che sono pronti a far scendere in pista Enrica Bonaccorti, ma che\nprima vuol sentire gli autori di \"cronaca in diretta\" perché con lei il\nprogramma prenderà tutt'altra piega, diventerà altra cosa.", " In sostanza: oltre\nalla Bonaccorti - che, dicono a Raidue, è raggiante per questa opportunità - ci\nsono altri candidati e nelle prossime settimane si vedrà.", " Il giornalista\nconferma le trattative con la rete commerciale, ma smentisce l'accordo.", " Tutti i\nmovimenti tra le televisioni.", " Intervista alle televisioni danese e svedese.", "\nParietti: difendo le donne che si spogliano in tv.", " Copenaghen - Alba Parietti ha\ndifeso, in una intervista trasmessa giovedì sera dalla tv danese, e ieri da\nquella svedese, la libertà delle donne italiane di denudarsi davanti ai\ntelespettatori.", " \"chi non vuole vedere, può cambiare canale\", ha detto la\nsoubrette.", " La Parietti, che si definisce ex femminista, ha accusato le donne\nitaliane di non essersi evolute sul piano della solidarietà, di non aver ancora\nsviluppato un sentimento comune \"di categoria\".", " Davanti alla divertita\nintervistatrice, la giornalista danese Lisbet Davidsen, Alba Parietti ha anche\naffermato che l'uomo italiano non è cambiato: \"è ancora maschilista e mammone\".", "\nIn un'intervista a una tv danese, la soubrette ha difeso la libertà delle donne\nitaliane di denudarsi davanti ai telespettatori.", " Interrogazione su \"generale per\nuna sera\".", " \"cinici e diseducativi\" i film - Wargames di rai 1.", " Roma -\nun'iniziativa \"cinica e diseducativa\": questo il giudizio dei deputati\nprogressisti, Boghetta, Rizzo, De Murtas e Vendola, in una interrogazione al\nministro delle poste contro \"generale per una sera\", la trasmissione che Raiuno\nmanda in onda da ieri.", " Il programma propone un ciclo di film dedicati alle\ngrandi battaglie degli ultimi due secoli, al termine dei quali ospiti noti al\npubblico, rileggono gli episodi storici con un gioco di simulazione.", "\nNell'interrogazione si ricordano le recenti immagini di Srebenica e si sostiene\nche il programma \"in questo drammatico contesto presuppone una adesione ad una\ncultura della guerra, tale da poterci giocare come se niente fosse\".", " Una\ninterrogazione parlamentare per denunciare il cinismo della trasmissione\n\"generale per una sera\", che esalta la cultura della guerra.", " Le richieste\ndell'accusa per il sequestro e la morte del duca: il corpo non fu mai trovato.", "\n\"ai rapitori 10 ergastoli\".", " Processo Grazioli, sconto al pentito Abbatino.", " Dieci\nergastoli per i componenti della banda che il 7 novembre del settantasette, rapì\nil duca Massimiliano Grazioli Lante.", " Otto anni e sei mesi per il pentito\nMaurizio Abbatino, che con le sue confessioni ha consentito di stabilire che la\nbanda, dopo il rapimento, uccise il nobile romano.", " Il corpo non è stato mai\nritrovato.", " sono queste le richieste fatte ieri, a conclusione della\nrequisitoria, dal pm Andrea De Gasperis al processo che si è svolto in corte di\nassise.", " La condanna a vita è stata chiesta per Antonio Montegrande, Giorgio\nParadisi, Marcello Colafigli, Emidio Castelletti (tutti della banda della\nMagliana), Enrico Mariotti, Tobia Stefano, Francesco De Gennaro, Franco\nCatracchi, Renzo Danesi e Giovanni Piconi (gli ultimi tre, esponenti della banda\ndi Montespaccato).", " per Abbatino, che prima di essere arrestato e di decidere di\ncollaborare con l'autorità giudiziaria era uno dei più noti malviventi della\ncapitale, il pm ha chiesto la condanna a otto anni e sei mesi di reclusione.", " È\nstato lui, infatti, a rivelare tutti i retroscena della vicenda, a cominciare\ndall'organizzazione del sequestro, avvenuto lungo la Via Salaria, alle porte di\nRoma.", " Sostenendo davanti ai giudici della seconda corte di assise la\nresponsabilità degli imputati, il pm ha dato ampio credito alle dichiarazioni di\nAbbatino, che ritiene pienamente affidabile, visto che ha anche ammesso la sua\nposizione nella banda.", " Abbatino, che ha dato tutta una serie di indicazioni\nsulla base delle quali è stata sostenuta l'accusa, per il pm è \"pienamente\naffidabile\", anche se nel corso del dibattimento sono state messe in luce alcune\ndiscordanze per quanto riguarda le telefonate fatte alla famiglia del rapito per\ntenere i contatti e alla fine ottenere il riscatto.", " Il processo proseguirà il 17\nluglio prossimo con l'intervento dei difensori.", " Sono stati condannati a dieci\nergastoli i componenti della banda che rapì e uccise nel 1977 il duca\nMassimiliano Grazioli Lante.", " La tragedia in riva al mare.", " \"qui non c'è neanche\nil Pronto Soccorso\".", " Polemiche e accuse.", " Ma ieri sera sfilata di moda sui bordi\ndella vasca.", " \"bambini, lontani dalla piscina\".", " Paura, lutto, rabbia Fregene\nsotto choc.", " Di Corrado Zunino tacconi di sughero da dieci centimetri sulle\nstesse piastrelle dove Sofia, 4 anni e mezzo, camminò il giorno prima per mano a\nDworak, bambinaia di 24.", " E lunghi abiti da sera, alta moda costosa ed elegante,\nche sfiorano gli angoli di quella piscina maledetta, profonda un metro e venti\nai bordi, tre metri là dove sono annegate la bimba e la sua baby-sitter polacca.", "\n\"l'avevamo organizzata da tempo questa serata, per noi è lavoro\", si giustifica\nSusanna Santerini, la padrona del \"miraggio\".", " Avevano organizzato da tempo la\nsfilata sotto le stelle, a cinquanta metri dalle onde del mare, a due passi\ndalla vasca della morte.", " Sì, \"e adesso non si può fermare, questi sono contratti\nvecchi.", " Li hanno firmati nostri collaboratori, neppure noi\".", " Lo show deve andare\navanti, anche perché \"quest'anno Fregene è morta\", inciampa la signora nel\nverbo, \"è morta perché non viene più nessuno.", " Qualche romano nel week-end,\nqualche famiglia con villetta qui dietro.", " Niente di niente\".", " Già, il giorno dopo\nla morte di quella bimba bionda e alta, figlia di una critica d'arte bulgara e\ndi un professore del liceo \"De Amicis\", la piscina resta lontana dai percorsi\ndei clienti.", " Luogo tabù.", " Ma, la \"sera dopo\", la stessa piscina si trasforma nel\nteatro dell'ultima Kermessina litoral estiva: super model of the world\".", " Dalle\nundici in poi, ieri sera, spettacolo tra la discoteca Heaven, cogestita dai\nproprietari del \"miraggio\", e la piscina più grande:", " \"la prima sera abbiamo\nchiuso tutto, ma dobbiamo lavorare\", ancora la titolare.", " Poco più in là, ecco la\nvasca piccola: \"lì la ragazza polacca non andava mai\", racconta Alberto\nFranchellucci, bagnino manager del \"miraggio\", 134 cabine, 13 dipendenti.", "\nAppoggiava l'asciugamano \"sotto quella palma, tutti i giorni, e portava la\nbimbetta nella piscina grande.", " Si calava da quella scala ...", " Me la ricordo\nl'altra mattina, la coca-cola in mano, un quarto d'ora prima della morte.", " È\nstata quella ad ammazzarla, ne ha sputata fuori tanta.", " Quella ragazza dell'Est,\nvolto pallido, da due anni almeno si vedeva allo stabilimento: \"credo che\nvivesse nella villa dei Pietroiusti anche d'inverno.", " Giovane e affidabile, la\nsignora l'aveva scelta per questo\".", " Attorno al bagnino, alle due del pomeriggio,\nsolo una coppia di stranieri.", " Arrivano cinque spagnoli, ignari.", " Più tardi anche\ndue bambini, ma le madri fermano tutti gli altri: \"dove vai, oggi niente ...", "\nDomani vediamo\".", " Niente piscina, che nei giorni di fine settimana ospita anche\n200 persone.", " Prova a ricostruire quegli istanti: \"la piccola non ha gridato, non\nha sbattuto le braccia.", " Se n'è accorta una sua coetanea, era sul fondo della\nvasca.", " Poi è intervenuto il collega.", " No, adesso non c'è, è in caserma ...", " Sembra\nincredibile, questa storia, eppure l'ho vista tutta.", " E c'erano anche tre\nistruttori di nuoto, maledizione\".", " Qui, ristorante medio caro, bar con scontrino\nraro, un ingresso a 5 mila lire, 28 mila per una cabina con acqua calda, un\ngruppetto di ragazzi urla davanti al videogioco.", " E pochi Bagnanti, sotto gli\nombrelloni a righe blu, alternano critiche al cuoco a rivelazioni sulla morte di\nSofia Pietroiusti: \"una bibita ghiacciata?", " Ma con tutti quei bagnini, possibile\nnon si siano accorti di nulla ...", " Contrattacca Pietro, bagnino in servizio:\n\"quando le abbiamo tirate fuori erano vive tutte e due.", " La piccola reagiva alla\nrianimazione, il cuore le batteva ancora\".", " Cuoco e barista insieme: \"i soccorsi\nsono arrivati tardi.", " Qui a Fregene, da due anni, non c'è più un presidio di\npronto soccorso.", " Siamo completamente abbandonati\".", " Tra uno spot idiota e\nl'\"attimino\" del dee jay che deve dare la linea a suor Paola inviata in Bosnia,\nla polemica sui soccorsi a Fregene rimbalza anche via radio.", " Il medico che\ncoordina gli interventi allo stadio olimpico rivela da radio Roma: \"allo stadio\nci sono più ambulanze e dottori che al policlinico, possibile che su un litorale\naffollato come dieci stadi non ci sia nessun servizio?", " In spiaggia ascoltano, e\ns'infuriano: \"l'ambulanza arrivata da Maccarese aveva solo due portantini a\nbordo, completamente inesperti nella rianimazione\".", " Ma il responsabile del primo\ndistretto sanitario, Gioacchino Capoferro, respinge tutto: \"l'intervento è stato\ntempestivo, quattro minuti scarsi.", " La pratica di respirazione è stata fatta\nsecondo scuola\".", " Venerdì pomeriggio, vuoto il parco giochi in miniatura, ferma\nl'altalena.", " Al \"miraggio\", sabbia fine fine, un rigore elegante, l'anno scorso\nveniva Zibì Boniek.", " E vent'anni fa il giornalista manager Alberto Ronchey, il\npresidente di Federmeccanica Fabiano Fabiani.", " Allora, però, non c'era piscina:\n\"l'abbiamo dovuta costruire nel settantacinque perché il mare era diventato\nsporco\", spiegano gli attuali gestori, proprietari di una pizzeria a Trastevere:\n\"adesso il mare è tornato pulito\".", " Polemiche e accuse per la tragedia avvenuta\nnella piscina di Fregene, dove sono affogate una bambinaia polacca e una bimba\ndi quattro anni.", " L'esperienza del campione del mondo di nuoto in apnea Stefano\nMakula: il soccorso immediato è più importante dell'ambulanza\".", " \"quattro minuti\nper non morire\".", " Stefano Makula, 40 anni, romano, l'acqua delle piscine la\nconosce bene.", " Il 3 giugno, un mese e mezzo fa, al Foro Italico ha nuotato in\napnea per 152 metri con le pinne: record del mondo.", " Ha letto sui giornali della\npiccola Sofia morta affogata insieme con la baby-sitter nella piscina del\nMiraggio.", " Anche lui un giorno rischiò di morire sott acqua.", " \"non so com'è andata\na Fregene - premette - posso solo parlare in astratto.", " Certo, però, che quello\nche è accaduto mi sorprende.", " Perché in casi come questi conta soprattutto il\nprimo soccorso, quello del bagnino.", " che dev'essere immediato, tempestivo.", " Il\nbagnino dev'essere lì per legge, si chiama infatti assistente ai bagnanti.", " Cioè\ndev essere vigile, sempre pronto ad intervenire.", " Io non so se il bagnino di\nFregene era distratto, so solo che il soccorso sicuramente non è stato\nimmediato.", " Bastano, infatti, 20/30 secondi per tirar su una persona che sta per\nannegare, c'è tutto il tempo per salvarla\".", " Quanto tempo?", " \"se la persona,\nandando giù, non ha bevuto, la trachea resta chiusa per circa un minuto, un\nminuto e mezzo.", " E passano almeno quattro minuti prima che si producano danni\nirreversibili al cervello.", " Nel caso di un bambino, poi, è ancora meglio perché\nil suo organismo è più efficiente, più valido, di quello di un adulto.", " Se la\npersona, invece, ha bevuto, cioè se è entrata acqua nei polmoni, la cosa è più\ncomplicata.", " La persona va recuperata entro un minuto, un minuto e mezzo.", " in\nquesto modo con la respirazione artificiale e il massaggio cardiaco si riesce a\nfarle espellere tutto il liquido.", " Comunque, il termine di quattro minuti rimane\ninderogabile\".", " Forse la baby-sitter ha avuto una sincope ...", " \"e allora i\nsoccorsi non contano.", " La sincope da idrocuzione non perdona.", " L'azione combinata\ndel sole e di una bibita ghiacciata causa il blocco del cuore.", " Può prenderti\nanche fuori dall'acqua, non c'è rimedio.", " non c'è bagnino, non c'è ambulanza o\nelicottero che ti possa salvare.", " Però non credo che la bambina sia stata colta\nanche lei da sincope.", " Perciò ...", " \"perciò è inutile prendersela con l'ambulanza\nche ha ritardato.", " Se passano quei quattro minuti fatali da quando la persona è\nin acqua, non conta nulla che dopo venga portata nel miglior ospedale al mondo.", "\nQuella persona muore\".", " Il campione del mondo di nuoto in apnea, Stefano Makula,\nspiega come, nei casi di annegamento, il soccorso immediato sia più importante\ndell'ambulanza.", " Party per la trasmissione estiva.", " Uno Mattina scenda al Gilda.", "\nFregene continua a sfornare occasioni mondane.", " Ospiti d'onore, i due\npresentatori del programma, Maria Teresa Ruta e Amedeo Goria.", " Più tardi, nel\ncorso della serata gli arrivi di Elisabetta Cragnotti (figlia del presidente\ndella Lazio), e il consorte Filippo Fucile, Antonellina Interleghi, Liana Orfei,\nMichele Mirabella.", " L'ultima giovedì notte in occasione del party per la\ntrasmissione Uno Mattina Estate.", " Giovedì notte si è svolto a Fregene il party\nper la trasmissione Uno Mattina Estate.", " Domani gara di regolarità.", " Auto storiche\na Caracalla.", " Anteprima di \"una corsa per la vita\", il giro nazionale di auto\nstoriche.", " Domani, nel circuito delle terme di Caracalla, trenta vetture\nomologate Asi saranno ammesse ad una gara di regolarità abbinata alla lotteria\nideata dalla M V Team in collaborazione con la fondazione italiana per il\nvolontariato.", " Saranno esposte anche la Williams - Renault campione di Formula 1\ne una Renault 6 cavalli del 1923.", " da Harlem a Tor Bella Monaca \"Quartieri\",\nlaboratori di cultura giovanile.", " Usa o Italia, \"hip hop\" è la lingua del ghetto.", "\ndi Rita Celi rap per comunicare.", " Graffiti per colorare il grigio delle\nmetropoli, per riempire il vuoto di quartieri di cemento.", " Nuovi linguaggi del\ndisagio giovanile in cui immergersi a Tor Bella Monaca che si trasformerà, da\ndomani, in un cantiere di creatività internazionale.", " Uno spazio di incontro e\nconfronto fra le varie espressioni in cui sessanta ragazzi italiani, americani e\nsudafricani daranno vita in tempo reale alla loro produzione di musica e arte\ncontemporanea.", " \"non si può restare indifferenti alla violenza che dilaga tra i\ngiovani\" spiega Nicoletta Gaida, ideatrice dell'iniziativa \"è troppo facile\netichettarli come \"delinquenti\".", " Bisogna agire, e la prima cosa da fare è\ntrovare il linguaggio più diretto per parlare con loro, ma per farlo bisogna\nprima conoscerlo\".", " Questa prima edizione di \"Quartieri\" coinvolge ragazzi\nprovenienti dai ghetti degli Stati Uniti, paese esemplare per la diffusione\ndelle culture giovanili e per i livelli preoccupanti di violenza, dal Sud\nAfrica, nuovo laboratorio culturale e politico, e dall'Italia, con la sua\npotenzialità di politicizzazione.", " I ragazzi saranno assistiti da persone\nimpegnate nel recupero dei giovani emarginati come Luis Rodriguez o John Bess.", "\n\"parliamo hip hop, la lingua dell'università delle diversità\" dichiara\nenergicamente John Bess, a capo del centro The Valley, a Harlem \"i giovani sono\ncapaci di fantasia e originalità assolute e saranno insieme per fondere le\nproprie energie in un'esplosione di creatività\".", " Dal Sudafrica, identico\nmessaggio.", " \"veniamo da un paese giovane, stiamo cercando la ricetta per fermare\nla violenza, e la cultura sembra essere la possibile soluzione.", " non dobbiamo\nalzarci e camminare, ma prima andare a quattro zampe, è quello che stiamo\nfacendo\".", " Dagli stessi paesi provengono studiosi, operatori, autori di diverse\nespressioni: Rap, graffiti, teatro di strada, Grunge.", " Saranno questi i temi dei\nlaboratori che impegneranno per una settimana i ragazzi, guidati da artisti e\nesperti, operando attivamente nei campi prescelti:", " Teatro (da San Francisco il\nCultural Odyssey che da anni coinvolge ragazzi emarginati e a rischio e dal Sud\nAfrica l'amajica performing arts project), musica e danza, in particolare\nl'applicazione dell'hip hop alle altre forme d'arte con i Prophets of the City,\nKrs 1, Havoc & Prodeje Common Sense, e altri gruppi che si alterneranno sul\npalco nella serata finale:", " Alta tensione, Otr, la Pina, fotografia (con Martha\nCooper), moda (con Carla Coffee che realizzerà i costumi per gli spettacoli e\ngli abiti per la sfilata finale), arti visive (che creeranno pannelli e tele che\ncomporranno la scenografia degli spettacoli e concerti della manifestazione).", " Il\ncantiere sarà coordinato dai \"costruttori telematici\", squadre di montatori che\nrealizzeranno con qualsiasi materiale scene e situazioni.", " Inoltre un convegno\n(giovedì 20), proiezioni, la mostra dei Murales, delle opere eseguite, e molto\naltro ancora.", " Quartieri è stato realizzato dall'associazione culturale Dionysia\ncon l'Eti e il dipartimento dello spettacolo.", " Laboratori e spettacoli si\nsvolgeranno a Tor Bella Monaca in Viale Cambellotti 11, ingresso gratuito con\ncontributo libero (devoluto alla Lega Italiana Lotta Aids).", " A Tor Bella Monaca\nsi svolge la rassegna \"quartieri\", a cui partecipano giovani provenienti anche\ndagli Usa e dal Sudafrica, dove sarà analizzato il fenomeno della violenza\ngiovanile.", " Il comitato di bioetica: no all'eutanasia.", " Confronto\nsull'elettroshock.", " \"lo stato deve imporre i vaccini\".", " Roma - lo stato ha il\ndiritto dovere di favorire, anche con misure coercitive, le vaccinazioni dei\nbambini e delle categorie a rischio.", " È la posizione unanime del comitato\nnazionale di bioetica (Cnb).", " Un capitolo riassume la sperimentazione sul vaccino\ncontro la pertosse, che ha fatto passare la protezione di questa malattia dal 30\nal 90%.", " L'elettroshock è ritornato nella terapia medico psichiatrica.", " Suscita\nallarmi e contrasti.", " Il comitato nazionale di bioetica lo ha preso per la prima\nvolta in esame, ieri.", " I bioetici sembrerebbero orientati a riconoscere la\nvalidità della terapia, purché praticata con rigorosi controlli, e con il\nconsenso del malato e dei suoi familiari, portando a conoscenza di un comitato\netico tempi e Modi della terapia.", " Ieri è stato inoltre approvato il documento su\n\"la fine della vita umana\".", " Viene esclusa ogni forma di eutanasia diretta o di\n\"eutanasia genetica\", neanche se vi sia l'assenso del paziente.", " Vanno invece\nattivate la terapia palliativa e la terapia del dolore, in modo che il malato\npossa accostarsi con serenità agli ultimi momenti della sua vita.", " In sostanza,\nessere accompagnato alla \"buona morte\".", " La posizione del comitato nazionale di\nbioetica in merito alle vaccinazioni dei bambini, alla terapia dell'elettroshock\ne all'eutanasia.", " Monreale, i pm vogliono Cassisa alla sbarra.", " \"processate il\nvescovo\".", " Palermo - deve finire in tribunale l'arcivescovo di Monreale monsignor\nSalvatore Cassisa.", " A chiederlo è la procura di Palermo che vuole il rinvio a\ngiudizio del prelato con le pesantissime accuse di concussione, corruzione,\nfalso ideologico e truffa.", " Monsignor Cassisa, secondo l'accusa, avrebbe\nintascato tangenti milionarie per i lavori di restauro del duomo arabo normanno\ndi Monreale e truffato la comunità economica europea (per la valutazione\ngonfiata di un terreno).", " La procura palermitana accusa l'arcivescovo di tangenti\nper i lavori di restauro del duomo arabo normanno di Monreale.", " Auto proibite\nnelle isole del sole.", " Scatta lo stop anti ingorgo.", " Capri, Procida, Ischia,\nGiglio, Eolie e Ponza off limits per i turisti con la macchina.", " Centotrentamila\nin partenza da Milano.", " E a Cortina una frana ostruisce la statale di Alemagna.", "\nRoma - la Pace, almeno nelle piccole isole del Belpaese, arriva per decreto\nministeriale.", " Firma il responsabile dell'ambiente e dei lavori pubblici, Paolo\nBaratta, e le vacanze di italiani e stranieri si trasformano in giornate senza\nil quotidiano rombo dei motori.", " Non che la tranquillità dello spirito e delle\nnostre martoriate orecchie sia garantita per tutti.", " Godranno di qualche boccata\nd'ossigeno in più soltanto quelli che hanno scelto di trascorrere le proprie\nferie in lembi di terra che si chiamano Giglio, Eolie, Ustica, Capri, Ischia,\nProcida e Ponza.", " Amene località dove le auto, le moto e i ciclomotori di gitanti\ne turisti sono banditi se non per sempre quantomeno per qualche giorno.", "\nRegolamenta il ministro.", " E il Giglio - dove l'afflusso dei veicoli a motore dei\nnon residenti è vietato dal 24 luglio al 25 agosto - ritorna alla dimensione\ndell'oasi così come le più canicolari Eolie, interdette al traffico dal 4 al 24\nagosto, e l'isola di Ustica \"proibita\" dal primo al 31 agosto.", " Regolamenta il\nministro, ma senza penalizzare il vivere civile.", " Le isole in questione non\ndiventeranno certo aree pedonali: possono circolare i veicoli dei residenti, di\ncoloro che vi trascorrono almeno sette giorni (tre nel caso delle Eolie), le\nauto con targa estera, quelle per il trasporto merci e di pubblica utilità e le\nmacchine utilizzate da invalidi.", " E se il divieto, così \"ammorbidito\", non\nconvince ancora i più pigri c'è il sacrosanto diritto di scegliere vacanze più\nmovimentate.", " Ma c'è da giurare che Capri - off limits per i \"motorizzati\" dal 10\nmarzo al 31 ottobre, non subirà alcun calo di presenze.", " Assicura il sindaco\nCostantino Federico (e c'è da credergli) che in piazzetta si vede sempre un bel\npò di gente e Via Krupp, resa più agibile dopo il restauro, è frequentata come\nmai.", " Dimenticate le polemiche e messe da parte le idee di ferree ordinanze come\nquella dell'estate scorsa (mai passata) che intendeva proibire ai cani di\npasseggiare o sostare in piazzetta, il sindaco si è dato ai servizi di pubblica\nutilità.", " \"la proposta dell'anno passato suscitò un vespaio, se la presero tutti\na male, primo tra tutti Emilio Fede - commenta ridendo -.", " E allora ho deciso: da\nieri abbiamo cominciato a installare delle macchinette che distribuiscono\nsacchetti di plastica e paletta per raccogliere gli escrementi dei cani.", " Presto\navremo anche contenitori automatici per la segatura\".", " Pulizia e tranquillità.", " E\ncosì se i cellulari non smettono di trillare neppure in spiaggia si sono placati\nalmeno i clacson dei turisti che a Ischia e Procida, già dal 14 aprile e fino al\n30 settembre, si sono rassegnati a muoversi in minitaxi (avete presente quelle\nstrane vetturette a tre ruote trasformate in cabriolet) o in autobus.", " Sebbene\nqui siano esclusi dal divieto di sbarco e di transito anche i veicoli (uno per\nnucleo familiare) di persone che pur non essendo residenti pagano la tassa per\nla nettezza urbana.", " Nessun caso a parte, invece, a Ponza dove la proibizione per\nauto, moto e motorini resta valida dal primo luglio al 31 agosto.", " E per chi\nviola il divieto ci saranno multe, addirittura \"salate\".", " La Contravvenzione -\nsecondo il decreto del ministro - potrà oscillare da un minimo di 540 mila lire\nai due milioni e 160 mila.", " A voi il calcolo del numero di cene al ristorante o\ndi pernottamenti in albergo da depennare sul budget vacanze.", " E non contate sulla\nprobabilità di farla franca: l'esecuzione dei decreti e la sorveglianza per il\nperiodo di divieto di sbarco è assicurato dai prefetti.", " Vacanze controllate,\nvacanze a tutti i costi.", " Conferma il popolare ritornello \"tutti al mare, tutti\nal mare\", l'analisi svolta dall'osservatorio di Milano.", " Per il momento sono solo\nstime, ma gli esperti ci dicono che 130 mila milanesi partiranno senz'altro per\nle ferie mentre altri 70 mila lasceranno la città soltanto nel week end.", " Un\nesodo annunciato con dovizia di cifre, tanto che l'osservatorio prevede un\naumento del 6 per cento nel traffico ai caselli intorno al capoluogo lombardo:", "\nDovrebbero transitare più o meno 290 mila vetture, tra cui 40 mila di stranieri\ndiretti al Sud.", " E non basta.", " È previsto un 5 per cento d'incremento dei\npasseggeri sui treni mentre a Linate e Malpensa si aspettano, tra oggi e domani,\n80 mila partenze e 70 mila arrivi.", " Cattive notizie, infine, per chi ha scelto\nCortina per questo fine settimana: una frana, causata dalle violente piogge, è\ncaduta ieri pomeriggio sulla statale 51 di Alemagna isolandola.", " L'interruzione\ndella principale arteria della zona montana bellunese comporterà forti disagi\nagli automobilisti.", " Con il nuovo regolamento del Ministero dell'Ambiente,\nvengono vietati ai turisti i mezzi a motore nelle isole di Capri, Procida,\nIschia, Giglio, Eolie.", " da oggi in Giappone, pochi rinforzi.", " Signori ottimista,\nZeman velenoso: assurdo, Balbo italiano\".", " \"stessa Lazio, che fortuna\"!", " Di\nCorrado Sannucci Roma - dopo una rivoluzione mancata la Lazio si è ritrovata\nuguale a sé stessa, avendo mantenuto solo il progetto più bizzarro, quello della\npreparazione in Giappone: e, cercando di dimenticare i cortei dei tifosi che\nfermarono la mano di Cragnotti, si propone di vederne i lati positivi.", " È una\nfortuna che non ci siamo smembrati: ricominciamo a lavorare con un allenatore\nche ora conosciamo, sappiamo i nostri pregi e difetti.", " Dobbiamo fare un\nulteriore salto di qualità, entrare in una nuova mentalità\".", " A dirlo è Giuseppe\nSignori, che porterà sulle spalle gran parte della responsabilità degli sviluppi\ndel mancato rinnovamento.", " Però il secondo posto ottenuto nell'ultima giornata è\nstato offuscato dalla buriana che ne è seguita.", " non solo, mentre le altre\nsquadre di vertice si sono accaparrate Stoichkov, Baggio, Lombardo eccetera, la\nLazio si è limitata a macerarsi su chi dovesse vendere, per poi prendere alcuni\natleti non di primo piano (Esposito, Piovanelli, Gottardi, Cacciapuoti, Romano).", "\nE ora si interroga, tipo volpe all'uva, se \"cambiare sia davvero migliorare\"\ncome dicono i giocatori all'unisono.", " Lo stesso per Zdenek Zeman, che si dice\nsoddisfatto per la rosa di 25 che si porta dietro a Kiroro: di questi molti sono\nragazzi della primavera che il tecnico vuole osservare da vicino.", " Chamot, che è\nin Uruguay per la coppa America, li raggiungerà solo in Italia.", " Il boemo sente\nche c'è una curiosità maliziosa, se non una vera e propria pressione (erano solo\nun centinaio i tifosi a salutare la partenza, quando invece per contestare\narrivano in tanti di più): ma io non mi sento né condannato né costretto a\nvincere quest'anno.", " E, anche se non abbiamo fatto acquisti di grande richiamo,\nsecondo me i valori non sono cambiati molto.", " Siamo una delle quattro - cinque\nsquadre che possono competere per lo scudetto: e ritengo che Signori sia più\nforte di Stoichkov.", " Scala si sbaglia: il bulgaro ha vinto il pallone d'oro ma lo\nmeritava di più Beppe\".", " Anche per Zeman il torneo che arriva ha delle novità:\nper la prima volta si ritrova a lavorare su un gruppo di calciatori che non si è\nrinnovato.", " In silenzio, il tecnico ha fatto numerose autocritiche sul proprio\nmetodo di lavoro, essendosi trovato di fronte a situazioni per lui inedite e\navendo riconosciuto alcuni errori di programmazione nella stagione, causa non\nultima delle pause della squadra nel campionato.", " È un problema rispetto al quale\npossiamo migliorare.", " Ma non è stato un problema solo nostro, tanto è vero che\nsiamo arrivati secondi.", " Possiamo vincere se riusciremo a giocare il nostro\ncalcio ogni domenica\".", " Zeman non ritiene influente la cessione di Baggio \"dal\nmomento che la Juventus ha vinto anche senza di lui\".", " È contrariato invece dalla\nvicenda Balbo.", " non è giusto che sia diventato italiano.", " Premesso che ogni\nfederazione ha i suoi regolamenti, non sono d'accordo sulla decisione presa.", " È\ncontraddittorio che sia italiano e giochi per l'Argentina\".", " Negro intanto ha\nrinnovato il contratto fino al novantanove, Winter ha fatto sapere che non ha\nmai voluto andarsene nonostante le offerte da due club inglesi.", " La Squadra, che\nparte questa mattina da Fiumicino, tornerà in Italia dopo l'amichevole del 3\nagosto contro l'Iwata.", " Calcio - dichiarazioni varie del giocatore e del Ct della\nLazio in merito al mancato rinnovamento della squadra, al prossimo torneo in\nGiappone, alla cessione di Roberto Baggio.", " Ferlaino e il ricordo di Maradona:\nl'ho incatenato per sette anni.", " E io non riesco a lasciare il Napoli\".", " \"Diego\nperso nella coca\".", " Napoli - il passato: \"Maradona è stato l'elemento di rottura\nche ci ha permesso di vincere lo scudetto.", " Ma era anche un tossicodipendente\nperso, non raccontava la verità neppure a sé stesso\".", " Il presente: \"servono nove\nmiliardi, ma prima il tribunale potrebbe cancellare il Napoli\".", " Il futuro:\n\"essere presidente di questa società è la cosa più difficile del mondo.", " È come\ncavalcare una tigre: vuoi scendere ma sai che potresti essere sbranato\".", " La\nPresentazione di un libro Home Video (quello curato dal giornalista rai\nSalvatore Biazzo) è stata l'occasione per Ferlaino di affrontare 25 anni di\nNapoli.", " \"abbiamo vinto due scudetti - ha detto l'ingegnere - contro la logica\ndei numeri.", " Il secondo è stato più bello perché, come si dice a Napoli,\nl'abbiamo vinto a schiatto: cioè quando gli altri erano vicini al traguardo.", " Ma\npoi abbiamo pagato.", " Nel novantuno il calcio cambiò le sue regole contro il\nNapoli: via lo 0/2, via il designatore (Gussoni, ndr) che era una persona al di\nsopra di ogni sospetto.", " Maradona è stato il contropotere: per questo l'hanno\nbuttato giù agli ultimi mondiali, dove l'Argentina avrebbe sicuramente vinto.", " Ma\nparlare con Diego era come parlare con due persone diverse: la cocaina lo\ntrasformava.", " Ricordo quando il Napoli doveva andare a giocare a Mosca, in coppa\ncampioni: il giorno prima caricò i compagni, poi disse che sarebbe passato per\ncasa a prendere una valigia e non lo vide più nessuno.", " non era nemmeno in grado\ndi riconoscere i suoi amici ...", " Io sono stato il suo carceriere, l'ho incatenato\nper sette anni.", " Il futuro.", " Non so se ci sarà un Napoli nel futuro.", " Gallo -\ncontinua - mi ha lasciato una società disastrata: qui non c'è nemmeno uno che\nstabilisca i prezzi degli abbonamenti, il nostro fatturato è da serie b.", "\nPuntiamo però su un attaccante straniero.", " Per quanto mi riguarda, non sono\nobbligatorio.", " E la presidenza del Napoli porta pure sfortuna.", " Ma se a Milano va\nvia Pellegrini, arriva Moratti.", " Qui, invece, uno che se ne vuole andare è\ncostretto a restare per 25 anni\".", " Calcio - nell'ambito della presentazione di un\nlibro Home Video, il presidente del Napoli ricorda 25 anni del club.", " Due anni al\npugile positivo per amfetamine, ma il giudice ammette: non fu doping volontario.", "\nRosi, squalifica e beffa.", " \"verdetto casareccio\".", " di Mattia Chiusano Roma -\ncolpevole, ma innocente.", " che strano modo di salutare Gianfranco Rosi, questa\nsentenza!", " Che ambiguità, una squalifica di due anni accompagnata dalla\nconclusione che non ci fu dolo, che ogni ipotesi di illecito è esclusa!", " Il\nprocesso al pugile più famoso d'Italia si conclude così, con una squalifica che\nsa tanto di benservito per un trentottenne, e con una riabilitazione che non fa\nche complicare il caso.", " Rosi ora è furioso, promette vendetta, vuole riprendersi\nil titolo mondiale che la squalifica gli ha tolto.", " I suoi legali stanno per\nricorrere al Tar, invece che alla commissione federale presieduta da un\nmagistrato illustre: Vito Giampietro, pm nel processo sul massacro del Circeo.", "\nMa alla riunione romana dove ha combattuto Parisi, Rosi ha per ora smentito la\nvoce di una sua denuncia alla Federboxe.", " Colpevole, ma innocente.", " Colpevole di\nesser risultato positivo al controllo antidoping per uso di amfetamine e\nmetilamfetamine, al termine del match mondiale Wbo contro Verno Phillips il 17\nmaggio 95 a Perugia.", " Innocente, per aver assunto la sostanza dopante senza \"la\ncoscienza e la volontà di compiere un'azione illecita\".", " Ruggisce Rosi da\nPerugia: \"verdetti alla casereccia come questo mi fan venire voglia di\ncontinuare.", " La mia carriera non è finita.", " Ci vuole ben altro per mettermi ko.", "\nnon mi sono dopato per conquistare un mondiale\".", " Ma come nasce una sentenza\ncosì?", " Dalla testimonianza del primario di neurotraumatologia di Perugia,\nAlessandro Casotto, medico di Rosi fino al match con Phillips.", " Casotto, che ora\ngiura che non si occuperà mai più di boxe, sostiene una teoria che, se\naccettata, potrebbe modificare l'antidoping in Italia.", " Riconoscendo che alcuni\nfarmaci, che fanno scattare la positività, salvaguardano in realtà dai\nmicrotraumi encefalici i pugili con tanti combattimenti sulle spalle.", " Prevenendo\nle tragiche conseguenze che talvolta funestano la boxe.", " L'utilità dell'Egibren,\ncosì si chiama il farmaco prescritto da Casotto e assunto da Rosi, è stata una\ndelle colonne dell'impianto difensivo durante il processo.", " Il giudice sportivo\nMario Mendicini ha accolto questo principio, così come ha accettato che\nl'Egibren non è stato consumato per migliorare la prestazione di Rosi quella\nsera a Perugia.", " \"sono l'unico responsabile, sono l'unico ad aver consigliato\nl'Egibren - conferma Casotto - Rosi sapeva del farmaco che gli somministravo, ma\nnon era al corrente che liberasse amfetamine come prodotto di scarto.", " Nessun\ncollega mi ha consigliato quel trattamento: sono arrivato io alla conclusione\nche potesse far bene ad un pugile \"anziano\", ed escludo che l'uso dell'Egibren\nsia diffuso nel mondo della boxe\".", " Rosi vittima quindi, anche se, come recita la\nsentenza della Federboxe, per la squalifica \"è sufficiente la mera assunzione\"\ndella sostanza proibita.", " E allora perché celebrare un processo che avrebbe\naccolto in pieno la linea difensiva e nonostante ciò avrebbe condannato\nl'imputato?", " Questa storia di doping non ha mai convinto Rosi, dal giorno in cui\nil presidente del Coni Mario Pescante ha annunciato la positività del pugile\ndopo la prima analisi (e non dopo le controanalisi, come prescrive il\nregolamento).", " E questo primo verdetto della giustizia sportiva non fa che\naumentare la voglia di rivalsa di Rosi, che ora addirittura fa progetti sul suo\nritorno sul ring: \"se la Wbo riterrà opportuno che io disputi di nuovo il\nmondiale, allora sarò pronto a riconquistare il titolo che mi appartiene.", "\nAltrimenti mi dedicherò al mondiale Wba, l'unico che ancora mi manca\".", " Anche\nRosi, conosciuto per la sua serietà e la sua capacità di sacrificio, cade nella\ntentazione del complotto: \"sono stato punito per aver riconquistato il titolo\nmondiale.", " C'è stata una grande forzatura a livello federale.", " La verità è che\ndavo fastidio ad un sistema.", " È una sentenza ingiusta, questo è il paese in cui\nuno che ruba una mela va in galera, mentre chi ruba miliardi si vede concedere\nla libertà provvisoria.", " Dovrebbe essere la gente a giudicarmi: la gente che mi\nstringe la mano ogni giorno, che mi fa coraggio, che mi dimostra il suo\naffetto\".", " Conclusione: \"non sarà un pugile o una federazione ad obbligarmi a\nlasciare il pugilato\".", " Pugilato - la vicenda del pugile squalificato per due\nanni per doping il medico che gli prescrisse il farmaco prende le sue difese.", "\nCarlo Rognoni, Pds, parla dell'intreccio tra le nuove regole e le trattative di\nBerlusconi.", " \"chi compra oggi le tv Fininvest lo fa a suo rischio\".", " Milano -\nrapporto difficile, tra Berlusconi e le regole.", " Nei giorni \"caldi\" delle\ntrattative tra la Fininvest e interlocutori internazionali e italiani per\nvendere una quota di Mediaset (la holding delle sue tv), continuano le polemiche\nsul \"progetto Bogi\" di Antitrust.", " E alla Camera arriverà nei prossimi giorni il\ndisegno sul conflitto d'interessi varato giovedì dal senato.", " Commenta Carlo\nRognoni, Pds, vicepresidente del senato e grande esperto di media: \"i\nprovvedimenti in discussione in parlamento cercano di definire delle regole su\nquestioni cruciali per la democrazia.", " Non prendono di mira, com'è naturale, casi\npersonali ma tendono a risolvere vecchie questioni (l'oligopolio tv) e problemi\nnati negli ultimi tempi, come l'impegno di governo di chi ha in mano leve\nfondamentali del potere economico.", " Sarebbe sbagliato leggere tutto pro o contro\nBerlusconi.", " Molto meglio, pensare con intelligenza al futuro del Paese, secondo\nvalori democratici generali su cui trovare un accordo\".", " Generali per quanto\nsiano, le regole investono adesso proprio le tv Fininvest.", " L'ingresso in\nMediaset di nuovi azionisti risolverebbe il problema dell'Antitrust?", " \"no.", " Sulla\nbase della sentenza della corte costituzionale che ha cassato parte della legge\nMammì, è necessario evitare che ci siano, nelle mani di un unico soggetto, tre\nreti.", " E non importa se quel soggetto è la Fininvest o una cordata d'operatori\ninternazionali, arabi o australiani che siano.", " secondo la corte, per le tv via\netere, è necessario un vero pluralismo.", " E a mio giudizio, tale pluralismo è\ngarantito da tanti soggetti, di cui nessuno abbia più di una rete\".", " Dopo la\nsentenza della corte, però, c'è stato il referendum.", " E la maggioranza dei\nvotanti ha riconosciuto che la Fininvest può tenersi tre reti.", " \"bisognerà\nimpegnarsi per una legge che disciplini il mondo sempre più complesso delle tv\ntenendo conto sia della corte costituzionale, sia dell'esito dei referendum sia\ninfine delle reali condizioni del mercato, che già non è in grado di assicurare\nrisorse finanziarie indispensabili alla vita delle attuali 12 reti, figuriamoci\nse potrà farlo per 15.", " in questo quadro, si può studiare una regola che dica,\ncome suggerisce il \"progetto Bogi\", che un soggetto non possa avere più di due\nreti via etere\".", " Le trattative avviate dalla Fininvest per Mediaset, però, vanno\navanti sulla base di partecipazioni di nuovi azionisti in tre reti ...", " \"chi\ncompra in questo momento reti tv lo fa a suo rischio, in attesa d'una nuova\nlegge che ridefinisca tutto il settore televisivo\".", " Parliamo di conflitto\nd'interessi.", " L'acquisto di parte di Mediaset da una cordata di operatori\ninternazionali e di investitori finanziari lo risolverebbe?", " \"no.", " Quell'ipotesi\nattenua ma non risolve affatto il problema, nella misura in cui Berlusconi resta\nazionista di riferimento, con una forte quota azionaria e la possibilità di\nincidere sulle scelte del management e dei direttori dei Tg.", " in Italia,\nl'esperienza insegna che basta assai meno del 50,1% per continuare a controllare\nuna società\".", " Che dovrebbe fare, allora, Berlusconi?", " \"se il disegno di legge\napprovato dal senato sarà ratificato senza sostanziali variazioni dalla Camera,\ndalla prossima legislatura Berlusconi dovrà scegliere davvero se fare l'uomo di\ngoverno o mantenere il controllo delle sue tv.", " Il disegno di legge, infatti,\nprevede che chi ha partecipazioni di rilievo, superiori al 5%, in aziende in\nsettori strategici, dalle comunicazioni all'auto, dall'energia ai computer, non\npossa essere membro del governo e a meno che non si liberi entro un anno\ndall'assunzione della carica delle sue partecipazioni.", " Può essere, certo, eletto\nin parlamento, fare politica da segretario di partito, ma non stare al governo\".", "\nIl vicepresidente del senato commenta il disegno di legge Antitrust che regola\nil sistema televisivo e le trattative avviate dal presidente della Fininvest per\nvendere una quota della holding delle sue tivù.", " L'Italia che soffre.", " È la\nricetta della commissione Carniti.", " Un \"minimo vitale\" per aiutare i poveri.", " Di\nRoberto Petrini Roma - è l'inferno dell'Italia, è il luogo dove l'economia\ndiventa soltanto la \"triste scienza\", dove arriva l'eco lontana del rutilante\nmondo dei consumi e la parola d'ordine è una sola: sopravvivere.", " Qui, nel girone\ndei dannati, vivono 6 milioni e 458 mila poveri per un totale di 2 milioni e 38\nmila famiglie.", " Non sono pochi: rappresentano l'11,5 per cento dei nostri\nconnazionali e il 10,2 per cento dei nuclei italiani.", " sono poveri perché\nciascuno di loro vive con un livello di reddito inferiore alle 500 mila lire al\nmese, cioè meno della metà di quanto spende in consumi nell'arco di trenta\ngiorni l'italiano medio.", " È questo il drammatico quadro contenuto nel rapporto\n1994 della commissione sulla povertà presieduta da Pierre Carniti e presentato\nieri dal ministro della famiglia e della solidarietà sociale Adriano Ossicini e\ndal direttore generale del dicastero Guido Bolaffi.", " Disastrosa la situazione nel\nMezzogiorno dove una famiglia su cinque vive in condizioni di disagio economico.", "\nMigliore al Nord dove resta nell'indigenza un nucleo ogni venti.", " Il rapporto\nconsegna la triste ripartizione per aree geografiche dell'indigenza: in termini\npercentuali al Sud risiede il 66 per cento delle famiglie povere, al Centro il\n13 per cento e il 21 per cento al Nord.", " Segnano la differenza nella mesta\nclassifica di coloro che non riescono a sbarcare il lunario le condizioni\nsociali.", " sono le famiglie più numerose le più colpite: l'incidenza della povertà\nè infatti aumentata nei nuclei con più di cinque componenti.", " Stanno peggio le\nfamiglie dove il \"capo\" è una donna o una persona anziana.", " Penalizzati anche i\nnuclei dove è minore l'istruzione: i laureati poveri sono soltanto l'1 per\ncento, quelli senza alcun titolo di studio sono il 27 per cento.", " Il rapporto di\nCarniti presenta un consuntivo inquietante per la coscienza collettiva: in\nItalia un bambino su sette vive in povertà: in termini assoluti si tratta di un\nmilione di bambini.", " L'altro anello debole della catena sono gli anziani: un\naltro milione di poveri ha più di 65 anni.", " Rispetto all'indagine del 1993 il\nnumero dei poveri complessivamente presenti in Italia è rimasto stabile.", " Un dato\nconfortante del quale non ci si può rallegrare perché l'intensità della povertà\nsta crescendo, insomma la maggioranza dei poveri sta andando sempre più sotto\nrispetto alle fatidiche 500 mila lire mensili.", " È il frutto della recessione\neconomica del biennio 1992/1993 che lascia le sue tracce.", " Senza contare che il\nrischio di cadere nel baratro della povertà si agita come uno spettro per un\nnumero sempre maggiore di famiglie.", " Il rapporto fa il seguente ragionamento: se\nsi elevasse la soglia di povertà dalle 500 alle 600 mila lire il numero dei\npoveri aumenterebbe notevolmente al Nord e al Centro addirittura raddoppierebbe.", "\nInsomma molti non sono poveri ufficialmente ma vivono assai vicino alla\ndrammatica soglia.", " Come affrontare il problema?", " La ricetta della commissione\nCarniti si chiama \"minimo vitale\".", " Si tratta di un assegno pensato per sostenere\neconomicamente i cittadini indigenti sulla scia del \"reddito minimo di\ninserimento\" francese e dell'\"aiuto sociale\" tedesco.", " La commissione suggerisce\nanche di modificare l'attuale sistema degli assegni familiari: saranno intestati\nnon più al genitore ma direttamente ai figli e ne potranno beneficiare anche i\nlavoratori autonomi.", " Il governo potrebbe presentare un disegno di legge per\nintrodurre i due nuovi strumenti: il ministro per la famiglia, Adriano Ossicini,\nieri nel corso della conferenza stampa, ha sottolineato la necessità di\n\"profonde modifiche migliorative dell'attuale sistema\".", " Come funzioneranno i due\nnuovi strumenti di intervento?", " Il sussidio \"minimo vitale\" dovrebbe essere di\nimporto pari a quello della pensione sociale (che sostituirebbe) e quindi di\nquasi 5,5 milioni di lire annui.", " Scomparirebbero anche le pensioni di\ninvalidità.", " L'assegno potrebbe essere integrato a livello locale: regioni e\ncomuni, con fondi propri, potrebbero cioè offrire altre misure di sostegno per\naffitto, riscaldamento, vestiario e alimentazione.", " L'assegno di \"minimo vitale\"\nsarebbe a carico della fiscalità generale: attraverso un fondo nazionale,\nanalogo a quello sanitario, si trasferirebbero annualmente i fondi necessari\ndallo stato alle regioni e quindi ai comuni.", " L'assegno per i figli dovrebbe\nrappresentare una compensazione parziale del costo di allevare la prole.", "\nL'importo base mensile potrebbe collocarsi tra le 70 e le 90 mila lire per\nciascun figlio ed essere riservato ai redditi sotto i 100 milioni.", " Quadro del\nrapporto 1994 della commissione sulla povertà presieduta da Pierre Carniti\ngrafico: quanto si spende per la sicurezza sociale - dove si concentrano le\nfamiglie povere - su cento italiani residenti quanti sono i poveri?", " I tempi del\ngoverno.", " Fini: gli abbiamo rimesso il cerino acceso in mano.", " E i nostri amici si\nscotteranno le dita ...", " \"colloquio Berlusconi - D'Alema.", " Melina tra Polo e Olivo\ne il voto è più vicino.", " di Riccardo Luna Roma - \"gli abbiamo rimesso il cerino\nacceso in mano.", " Solo che il cerino si fa ogni giorno più corto e credo che\nstavolta i nostri amici della sinistra si scotteranno le dita ...", " Parlando con\nun amico, subito dopo la fine del vertice del polo, Gianfranco Fini ha\nsintetizzato così il senso della risposta del Centro Destra all'Olivo.", " La\nsintesi del presidente di AN accredita la sensazione che ieri a Montecitorio sia\nandato in scena un classico del poker: al \"rilancio\" dell'Olivo, il Polo ha\nrisposto \"vedo\".", " E così quando martedì le due delegazioni torneranno ad\nincontrarsi, non ci sarà più spazio per i bluff.", " Riassunto delle puntate\nprecedenti: all'Olivo che proponeva una riforma elettorale (a doppio turno), il\nPolo aveva replicato reclamando una riforma istituzionale (presidenziale).", "\nAllora l'altro ieri l'Olivo ha proposto l'apertura di una fase costituente che\nmolti hanno erroneamente interpretato come una apertura sul presidenzialismo.", " E\nieri su questo equivoco il Polo ha cercato di chiudere i giochi.", " Forzatura,\ndistinguo e bacchettata.", " Il Comunicato diramato dopo quasi tre ore di\ndiscussione tra i leader del Centro Destra, dietro l'apparente \"soddisfazione\"\nper la proposta dell'Olivo, contiene infatti una forzatura, un distinguo ed una\nbacchettata che non lasciano ben sperare per l'andamento delle trattative.", " La\nforzatura, che per semplicità potremmo attribuire alla penna (e ai desideri) dei\ncristiano democratici Casini, Mastella, D'Onofrio e del popolare Sanza, è l'aver\nfatto passare l'intera coalizione dell'Olivo per presidenzialista, mentre è il\nsolo Segni ad aver sposato questa opzione (\"tutti gli altri\", ha ricordato ieri\nil segretario dei popolari Bianco, \"hanno enormi perplessità\").", " \"è di grande\nrilievo politico\", inizia infatti il comunicato, \"che l'Olivo abbia accettato la\nproposta del Polo di varare profonde riforme istituzionali che creino un nuovo\nmodello di stato in senso presidenzialista e federalista.", " Attendiamo di\nconoscere fin dalla prossima riunione del tavolo delle regole le concrete\nproposte del centro-sinistra\".", " Il distinguo tra regole e governo, risente invece\ndel punto di vista di AN (quindi di Fini e Tatarella).", " \"al tavolo non può\ntrovare spazio\", prosegue il comunicato, \"l'individuazione della maggioranza a\nsostegno del futuro governo e men che meno la durata del medesimo, essendo\ncompito esclusivo del parlamento, dopo le dimissioni del governo Dini, fornire\nal capo dello stato tutti gli elementi necessari per decidere se sussistano o\nmeno le condizioni per il prosieguo della legislatura\".", " Perciò all'Olivo che\npropone un \"governo di garanzia\" per gestire una fase costituente di due anni,\nil Polo risponde che la questione del governo non si dibatte al tavolo delle\nregole.", " Infine, la bacchettata, che è tutta berlusconiana e riflette\nl'irritazione del proprietario della Fininvest per l'approvazione al senato\ndella legge sul conflitto di interessi e per la paventata approvazione alla\nCamera di un antitrust per le tv.", " \"il Polo rileva la profonda contraddizione\ndell'Olivo di partecipare al tavolo delle regole e contemporaneamente di varare\nin parlamento sugli stessi argomenti norme punitive e anticostituzionali\".", "\nQuesto il testo del documento che, con tutta evidenza, è il risultato di una\nmediazione fra le diverse anime del polo.", " Mediazione particolarmente faticosa se\npersino Gianni Letta, il soave capo della delegazione del polo al tavolo delle\nregole, ha riferito di una discussione \"non di maniera e non all'acqua di rose\"\nfra i Cristiano Democratici e i Popolari da una parte e il resto del polo\ndall'altra.", " Martedì tutti attorno al tavolo.", " Quando infatti nella \"sala delle\nfirme\" è iniziato il vertice, Berlusconi era già convinto che l'apertura\ndell'Olivo fosse solo un modo per prendere tempo.", " Eppure all'ora di pranzo, il\nleader di Forza Italia era meno diffidente.", " \"credo che il dialogo possa\ncontinuare\", aveva detto entrando al ristorante della Camera.", " Poi un breve\ncolloquio con il segretario del Pds Massimo D'Alema deve avergli fatto cambiare\nidea.", " È stato poco prima dell'inizio della discussione sulla fiducia al governo.", "\nBerlusconi ha chiamato D'Alema e i due si sono appartati per una decina di\nminuti nell'emiciclo sinistro dell'aula.", " A quell'ora D'Alema aveva già concesso\nun'intervista in cui precisava di non aver affatto abbracciato il\npresidenzialismo e spiegava di vedere all'orizzonte due sole alternative: o un\naccordo sulle grandi riforme o un'intesa sulle garanzie per votare subito (par\ncondicio e statuto delle minoranze).", " Perché allora rimettere il cerino nelle\nmani dell'Olivo?", " Spiega il popolare Sanza: \"perché adesso o quelli del\ncentro-sinistra diventano tutti presidenzialisti, oppure si perdono per strada\nun alleato come segni ...", " Ora si attende l'incontro tra le due delegazioni\nfissato per martedì.", " Al tavolo si aggregherà anche il leghista Petrini che\nfinora aveva l'incarico di \"osservatore\".", " Le elezioni sono più vicine?", " \"a questo\npunto la data\", ha detto D'Alema ieri sera, \"dipende da Berlusconi\".", " Sviluppi\ndelle trattative in atto tra polo di destra e coalizione di Centro Sinistra\ndell'Olivo per il raggiungimento di regole e riforme istituzionali comuni prima\ndelle prossime elezioni senza par condicio niente elezioni.", " Tatarella: i trucchi\nsono vietati\".", " \"è stato tutto un equivoco ...", " di Antonello Caporale Roma - \"cosa\nle posso dire, sarà stato un equivoco.", " abbiamo aperto i giornali, abbiamo letto\ni titoli, abbiamo capito che l'Olivo voleva fare il presidenzialismo e abbiamo\nrisposto a tema\".", " Onorevole Tatarella, qualcuno di voi sta giocando con carte\ntruccate su questo tavolo ...", " \"e perché mai, e chi lo dice?", " \"l'Olivo vi accusa\ndi fare come i pesci in barile: loro parlano di patto costituente e voi\nrispondete col presidenzialismo.", " \"e che colpa abbiamo se la loro proposta è\ninterpretata dalla stampa come un'apertura al presidenzialismo?", " Noi non abbiamo\navuto la fortuna di conoscere direttamente le loro idee.", " Ci siamo basati sui\ntitoli ...", " \"state proseguendo nel cosiddetto gioco del cerino: il cerino passa\ndi mano, nell'attesa di vedere quale dito brucia, chi provoca il voto.", " \"se fossi\nin malafede direi che la loro proposta è stata una provocazione inaccettabile\".", "\nMa dal momento che anche lei si iscrive nel registro dei buoni, diciamo che\n...", "che è stato un incidente di percorso.", " La verità è che io la penso esattamente\ncome D'Alema, questo tavolo può decidere le cose che realisticamente si possono\nfare ma con un patto: vietato truccare\".", " D'Alema è doppiogiochista?", " \"mi sono già\nscottato una volta nel fare i nomi e i cognomi.", " Si ricorda dei poteri forti?", " Li\nelencai, tutti mi bacchettarono.", " Ho imparato la lezione.", " E dunque dico che\nabbiamo già fatto un buon lavoro comune: ci siamo intesi e abbiamo concordato i\ncriteri di garanzia, il potere di controllo democratico che eserciterà lo\nschieramento sconfitto dalla prossima prova elettorale.", " Criteri che regoleranno\nla vita della prossima legislatura.", " Sembra poco?", " A me pare proprio di no, è un\ngrande passo avanti, e dobbiamo imparare a giudicare le cose dandogli il valore\nche hanno\".", " Null'altro da fare prima del voto.", " \"la par condicio\".", " Finalmente si\nfa capire: ma perché avete iniziato questo balletto sulle riforme costituzionali\nse nessuno di voi ci ha mai creduto?", " \"mettiamola la così: noi crediamo al\npresidenzialismo e siamo disposti a tracciare una modifica costituzionale\npartendo da questo assunto.", " Loro vogliono altro, anche se non hanno capito\nancora cosa\".", " Quindi martedì prossimo aprirete questo tavolo per l'ultima volta?", "\n\"no, il confronto può proseguire, il tavolo va bene.", " Ma il voto non si decide\nlà, questo è chiaro.", " Il giorno in cui Dini si dimetterà, tutti saranno costretti\na dire in parlamento se e in che modo intendono proseguire la legislatura\".", " Voi\ndirete elezioni.", " \"e aspetteremo al varco il Pds\".", " Dichiarazioni dell'onorevole\ndi Alleanza Nazionale sugli sviluppi delle trattative in atto con la coalizione\ndi Centro Sinistra dell'Olivo su riforme e regole istituzionali comuni a tutela\ndelle prossime elezioni.", " The Washington Post.", " Italia, democrazia in tilt.", " Dal\n1992 l'Italia ha avuto quattro governi di cui solo uno, quello guidato dal\nmagnate televisivo Silvio Berlusconi, uscito da elezioni generali ...", " Il governo\nDini ha superato in durata quello di Berlusconi ...", " che cosa ci sarebbe di male\nse durasse indefinitamente?", " Niente, se la maggiore preoccupazione è la\nstabilità.", " L'Italia sta vivendo un nuovo boom economico e la crescita del suo\npil è la più alta del mondo occidentale.", " E il paese è in pace con sé stesso\nnonostante la continua incertezza politica.", " Ma se si considera il funzionamento\ndella democrazia, allora c'è spazio per qualche preoccupazione.", " Se si esclude la\nlista delle priorità fissata dal governo, nessun altro provvedimento viene preso\ndal parlamento.", " Tutta una serie di problemi (privatizzazioni, leggi\nsull'ambiente, riforma fiscale) vengono del tutto trascurati ...", " L'Italia\nattuale ha le forme della democrazia senza il funzionamento di una democrazia.", "\n(dal \"Washington Post\", 13 luglio 1995) estratto brano dell'articolo pubblicato\ndal giornale quotidiano americano sulla democrazia italiana, il governo\nBerlusconi e il governo Dini successivo.", " Lettere.", " L'olocausto bosniaco.", " sono una\npiccola imprenditrice di 29 anni, pacifista convinta, odio anche solo l'idea\ndella guerra, della violenza e della distruzione che essa porta con sé.", " Credo\nnei diritti inviolabili dell'essere umano e, soprattutto, nel diritto alla vita\ndi ogni essere, umano e no.", " Ma ci sono momenti in cui combattere è l'unica\nsoluzione, perché non si ha davanti a sé nessun altra scelta.", " Che cosa sarebbe\naccaduto se, cinquant anni fa, nessuno avesse combattuto il nazismo perché si\nconsiderava \"pacifista\", se si fosse perseguita solo la via della mediazione (ma\nchi avrebbe potuto pensare di \"mediare\" con Hitler) e della diplomazia?", " in che\nrazza di mondo sarei nata?", " E ora mi domando: in che razza di mondo nasceranno i\nmiei figli se l'Europa, in nome di una \"pace\" (ma la pace di chi e per chi)?", " -\negoista e vigliacca, continuerà a cercare mediazioni impossibili con i nuovi,\npiccoli, meschini, Hitler di questa fine secolo, senza rendersi conto che, come\nil loro predecessore, non importa loro null'altro che perseguire i loro assurdi\ne folli scopi di pulizia etnica e che l'unico linguaggio che parlano è quello\ndella violenza e della morte?", " Forse è venuto il momento (e probabilmente è già\ntardi) di porsi la stessa domanda che gli stati, europei e no, si posero alla\nvigilia della seconda guerra mondiale, e decidere se ci costerebbe più caro\nintervenire militarmente contro questi criminali o stare a guardare mentre si\nconsuma un altro olocausto e l'intero popolo bosniaco viene distrutto.", " Io la\nrisposta non ce l'ho, ma quei morti per le strade e quei campi di concentramento\nmi fanno male al cuore e, soprattutto, sono un problema anche mio.", " Monica\nFerretti Genova - Sestri P pacifismo \"mascalzone\".", " non so se sia legittimo\nscrivere a un quotidiano per gridare il proprio dolore.", " Mi si è stretto il cuore\nleggendo nella cronaca dell'\"Assalto a Palazzo Farnese\" di Marina Ripa Di Meana\nil commento di Marco Taradash.", " Quest'Uomo che una volta, a fianco di Marco\nPannella, si batteva contro tutte le guerre, contro le armi e contro il nucleare\nha osato, sottolineo \"osato\", dire che la protesta contro gli esperimenti\nnucleari francesi non è altro che \"l'ipocrisia di un certo pacifismo inetto e\nnel suo ruolo storico quasi sempre mascalzone\".", " E Pannella che si unisce a\nFerrara, Sgarbi, Previti e Andreotti per festeggiare un grande anniversario\nfrancese non ha pensato che, ieri, proprio la sua assenza avrebbe potuto avere\nun significato?", " Mio dio, che tristezza!", " Clara Finetto Giovanni Lupatoto (Vr)\nBastiglia e termidoro.", " Io non credo che il \"termidoro\" sia alle porte, per il\nsemplice motivo che la \"Bastiglia\", qui da noi, non mi risulta sia stata mai\noccupata.", " Il nostro \"Robespierre\" è stato costretto a dare forfait prima ancora\nche ciò potesse accadere.", " Si tratta, semmai, di stabilire se (volendo rimanere\nnella metafora) la presa della \"Bastiglia\" sia ancora possibile o se non sia\nstato un progetto bocciato sul nascere.", " Che si tratti di un progetto bocciato\nsul nascere sono molti i fatti che lo dimostrano:", " Ne fanno testo i lacci e\nlacciuoli in cui si è cercato e si cerca di irretire i presìdi (leggi procure)\naddetti alla pulizia ambientale (nulla da eccepire sulla necessità di vigilare\nperché codesti presìdi non debordino dalle loro funzioni, come, peraltro,\naccadde in passato, ma qui mi pare li si voglia murare per consentire a lupi,\nvolpi e topi di fogna di circolare liberamente).", " Ne fa testo il temerario\nringhiare di Craxi che minaccia di regolare personalmente i conti con i\nmagistrati di \"mani pulite\" che egli, latitante, si permette di chiamare\nfuorilegge, non senza redarguire chi in Italia (evidentemente a lui obbligato)\nnon lo imita.", " Ne fa testo l'irrequietezza di Bossi, il quale non è un uomo di\nstato: ma che ha dimostrato di essere un ottimo cane da tartufi.", " Ne fa testo il\ndott Di Pietro il quale, anziché riprendere il proprio posto in seno ai\n\"presidi\", si difende dai lanciatori di fango, scappando.", " Ne fa testo la stampa\npiuttosto tiepida nello stigmatizzare le piccole e grandi manovre che preludono,\nquanto, all'affermazione che la \"Bastiglia\" è inviolabile.", " Se sbaglio\ncorreggetemi mi.", " Pasquale Iacopino Roma il parco del Giglio.", " Quello\ndell'arcipelago toscano non sarà un parco \"blindato\", \"mummificato\", dove sarà\nvietato pescare, andare in barca, accedere alle riserve naturali e svolgere\nattività agricole, come invece hanno scritto gli inviati de \"La Repubblica\",\nnegli articoli apparsi il 12 e 13 luglio scorso.", " Ci dispiace smentirli, ma\nnell'arcipelago non sono previsti ulteriori parchi marini e le attività del\ntempo libero legate al turismo potranno svolgersi in piena libertà,\nregolamentate con giudizio e con equilibrio come in tutti i parchi naturali.", " In\nparticolare, nel caso del Giglio, non vi saranno quindi altri vincoli rispetto a\nquelli esistenti, ma solo più turismo e ricchezza.", " Finiamola la di considerare i\nparchi un freno allo sviluppo.", " Le aree protette si integrano perfettamente con\nlo sviluppo, quando questo sia naturalmente \"sostenibile\".", " E anche \"La\nRepubblica\" ci sembrava fosse su questa posizione.", " Siate perciò coerenti.", "\nRiccardo Canesi e Piero Baronti al caffè con Prodi.", " La sera precedente avevo\nseguito in televisione la registrazione del suo intervento al congresso\nnazionale del Pds e, quindi, domenica mattina (9 luglio novantacinque), durante\nla messa delle ore 9:30, non pensavo certo di incontrare il professor Romano\nProdi.", " Il mio paese, Bovalino, è un piccolo Centro della provincia di Reggio\nCalabria travagliato da una molteplicità di problemi (disoccupazione,\ncriminalità organizzata, ecc) che certamente non poteva costituire per il leader\ndell'ulivo un palcoscenico importante.", " dopo la messa mi sono avvicinato e l'ho\nsalutato.", " Mi ha risposto cordialmente e mi ha chiesto di indicargli un'edicola\n(si trovava in Calabria in compagnia della moglie per partecipare, in un paese\nvicino, alle nozze di una sua parente).", " L'ho accompagnato di persona e\nsuccessivamente siamo andati a bere il caffè in un bar.", " Non c'erano telecamere e\ngiornalisti, ma soltanto tante, tante persone comuni che si avvicinavano per\nstringergli la mano ed incitarlo a proseguire nel suo progetto: dare all'Italia\nun governo stabile, rispettoso delle esigenze del mondo dell'imprenditoria, ma\nanche molto attento verso i soggetti che vivono una vita disagiata.", " \"professore\n- gli ho chiesto - per lei questo dev essere un periodo molto stressante?", " \"no -\nmi ha risposto -, a me piace stare in mezzo alla gente.", " E poi è utile, poiché\nsoltanto parlando con le persone comuni si possono capire i loro problemi\".", "\n\"professore - gli ha chiesto un signore mentre eravamo nel bar -, se vincerà le\nelezioni, nel suo governo inserirà tecnici o politici?", " \"guardi, io voglio fare\nun governo che duri 5 anni e non due mesi.", " Pertanto, vanno bene i tecnici a\npatto che si sottopongano, attraverso le elezioni, al giudizio politico degli\nelettori\".", " Di quell'uomo mi ha colpito il nuovo e diverso approccio alla vita\npubblica, che poggia sulle piccole cose, sul contatto diretto con la gente e,\nsoprattutto, su un comportamento rispettoso ed attento ai problemi delle persone\npiù umili.", " Insomma, un metodo lontano anni luce dalla politica fatta di immagini\nstudiate nei \"particolari\", musiche assordanti e promesse ingannevoli che hanno\ncaratterizzato le ultime elezioni politiche.", " Giuseppe Iaconis Bovalino (r c)\ncommento critico sulla guerra tra serbi e bosniaci, decisione di genocidio,\npulizia etnica e nazismo da parte dei serbi aggressori.", " \"tasse più care per\nstudiare meglio\".", " Il ministro Salvini: si può sforare il tetto del milione e 200\nmila lire l'anno.", " E la pantera torna ad affilare gli artigli.", " Di Elvira Naselli\nRoma - anche quest'anno il governo ha reiterato il decreto che prevede che i\nsingoli atenei possano sforare il tetto del milione e duecentomila lire previsto\ndalla legge come importo massimo per le tasse universitarie.", " L'anno scorso in\nmolte città il tetto fu abbondantemente superato.", " Il caso più eclatante quello\ndella statale di Milano dove iscriversi costava per i più ricchi oltre due\nmilioni.", " Ma i primi dati di quest'anno - precisano al Ministero dell'Università\n- per esempio quelli di Perugia e della Federico II di Napoli, suggerirebbero\nuna tendenza al ribasso.", " in alcuni casi addirittura dentro il tetto.", " Ministro\nSalvini, non crede che comunque anche un milione e duecentomila lire siano un\nbel po' di quattrini?", " Giorgio Salvini, responsabile del Ministero Per\nl'Università E la Ricerca Scientifica, 75 anni ben portati, ha l'aria di chi\ndeve spiegare per la centesima volta una cosa che per lui dovrebbe essere fin\ntroppo evidente.", " \"certo - ammette - in un certo senso sono troppi, sono\nd'accordo, ma non pensate che l'università si basi su questi soldi per vivere:\nogni studente costa molto di più allo stato, tra i dieci e i venti milioni\nall'anno.", " Il criterio è di far pagare di più a chi più guadagna in modo da poter\nutilizzare il denaro per far studiare senza problemi i meno abbienti e i\nmeritevoli, aumentando per esempio le borse di studio\".", " Ma non le pare che\nalcuni atenei siano andati ben oltre il tetto del milione e duecentomila lire?", "\nnon c'è il rischio di discriminazioni?", " \"sono d'accordo, bisogna stare attenti\nche non ci siano abusi e che non si profitti del denaro in più per iniziative\nche non siano per gli studenti.", " Il ministero sta facendo una verifica\".", "\nL'aumento delle tasse va di pari passo con un effettivo miglioramento della\nqualità?", " \"credo si cominci a vedere qualche risultato ma non posso garantirlo.", "\nRiparliamone tra un anno, direi\".", " Tasse più alte per i più ricchi: avete pensato\nall'evasione fiscale?", " \"voglio procedere come se i mascalzoni fossero pochi\".", "\nMinistro, prevede che la pantera si arrabbi?", " Da più parti cominciano ad arrivare\ni mugugni degli studenti.", " \"la pantera ha il diritto di essere dura ma deve\nessere anche responsabile.", " Io sono disposto a incontrare gli studenti e a\nparlare con loro perché sono sicuro che facciamo degli errori e discuterne ne è\nbene.", " non sono a disposizione invece per gli improperi\".", " Al Sud le università in\nmedia costano molto meno che al Nord: ci saranno atenei a diverse velocità,\nsecondo lei?", " Correremo il rischio che una laurea in fisica a Catania valga meno\nche quella al politecnico di Milano?", " \"ah, lei dice Catania e io penso a\nMaiorana.", " No, direi che tra Nord e Sud non c'è una differenza culturale.", " Ci\nsono, invece, ed è un problema grave e che mi tormenta, enormi differenze\neconomiche, con una disoccupazione che nel Meridione è altissima.", " Al sud\nl'università costa meno e non credo possa costare di più: certo, può essere\npeggiore la qualità dei servizi - almeno in alcuni campi - ma non quella degli\ninsegnanti.", " Il problema è che noi siamo un paese povero, con un debito pubblico\nspaventoso e che mentre la Francia destina il 2 per cento del pil per la ricerca\ne la Germania tra il 2,3 e il 2,5 noi siamo solo all'1,4.", " Se avessimo più soldi\nle università non sarebbero così scalcinate\".", " Il ministro dell'università e\ndella ricerca scientifica parla delle prospettive di aumento, crescita delle\ntasse universitarie, tasse d'iscrizione per finanziare il miglioramento\ndidattico universitario giurisprudenza medicina.", " Fregene, la tragedia in piscina\nil dolore e le accuse della madre.", " \"gli stabilimenti, solo macchine per fare\nsoldi\" dice Carolyn Christov Bakargev, giornalista e critica.", " \"ma perché nessuno\nle ha viste?", " La morte della bimba e della baby sitter polacca: aperta\nun'inchiesta per omicidio colposo.", " di Massimo Lugli Roma - parla piangendo.", " È\nuna madre che ha perso la figlia di 4 anni, annegata in una piscina insieme alla\nsua baby sitter: \"ha avuto una vita bellissima, è stata molto amata, è stata un\ndono meraviglioso ma è durata così poco ...", " Una donna che racconta sé stessa e\nil suo dramma con una forza incrollabile, con una dignità che spezza il cuore.", "\nCarolyn Christov Bakargiev siede sul divano bianco del suo appartamento di\nPiazza del Monte di Pietà.", " Occhiali tondi, piedi nudi.", " Anche l'accappatoio di\nspugna che indossa è bianco, così come l'unico quadro moderno, un Mauri che\nricorda uno schermo televisivo appeso a una parete.", " Libri e cataloghi d'arte\ndappertutto.", " Dalle altre stanze, la voce di Lucia, 10 anni, la sorellina di\nSofia.", " \"certo che ha capito cos'è successo.", " Anzi, una sua amichetta le ha detto\ndi essere stata lei ad avvertire il bagnino.", " Quindi non è vero che se ne sono\naccorti loro\".", " Un particolare, questo, che potrebbe avere un peso non\nindifferente nell'inchiesta per omicidio colposo (contro ignoti) aperta dal pm\nDelia Cardia.", " E per oggi, forse, un nuovo spiraglio sulla tragedia di Fregene, i\nrisultati dell'autopsia che verrà effettuata al \"Gemelli\" dal medico legale,\nDalila Ranalletta.", " Cesare Pietroiusti, il padre di Sofia, è un uomo alto,\nsnello, scuro, un pò mediorientale nei lineamenti.", " Ha quarant'anni ma sembra un\nragazzo, nonostante il viso solcato e i cerchi neri attorno agli occhi.", " Apre la\nporta, stringe la mano e scompare.", " Resta Carolyn.", " È una nostra collega, ha\niniziato a scrivere per \"reporter\", dieci anni fa, collabora a \"Flash Art\" e il\n\"Sole 24 Ore\" ma non è per questo che accetta di incontrare il cronista.", " Alle\nspalle ha una vita movimentata, quasi avventurosa: il padre medico bulgaro sposa\nuna piemontese ma per motivi burocratici non può esercitare in Italia.", " Così un\nbel giorno butta in aria una moneta: testa andiamo a vivere in Brasile, croce in\nUsa.", " Viene croce e Carolyn nascerà nel New Jersey.", " Giovanissima, s'innamora di\nun matematico e lo segue in Italia.", " Dura 6 mesi.", " \"io ero troppo giovane, lui\ntroppo intelligente, troppo paterno, troppo tutto\".", " Lavora sodo, si fa strada\nnel mondo dell'arte e nel giornalismo, organizza convegni, incontri, mostre,\nnell'indifferenza generale.", " \"e questo è uno dei motivi per cui desidero parlare\ncon voi.", " Perché mi è successa una cosa personale, una cosa terribile e sono\nfinita in prima pagina.", " E tutto il Lavoro che ho fatto, non solo io ma tanti\naltri nel nostro campo, va sempre sotto silenzio, non si trova nemmeno un\ntrafiletto.", " Mi ricorda Turcato, ormai vecchio.", " Un uomo meraviglioso, mi ha\ninsegnato tante cose sul colore.", " Tutti si sono accorti di lui solo quando è\nmorto\".", " Poi l'incontro con Cesare \"lui non è un artista molto noto come avete\nscritto.", " È bravissimo ma non è molto conosciuto\".", " Il matrimonio.", " \"così bella.", "\nCosì vivace.", " Così amata.", " Ci ha portato tanta gioia.", " E adesso siamo di nuovo in\ntre, come prima.", " No, non mi dispiace tanto per lei, che adesso non c'è più e non\nsente niente.", " È morta tra le braccia della sua tata che amava così tanto.", " Vorrei\nche fossero sepolte assieme, Sofia e Margherita.", " La chiamavamo così.", " Ma lei deve\ntornare a casa sua, in Polonia\".", " È Margherita o meglio Malgorzata Dworak, 24\nanni, il secondo motivo di questa intervista così dolorosa, che paralizza sul\ndivano il cronista e il critico d'arte Ludovico Pratesi, amico da anni della\ncoppia.", " \"veniva in Italia per fare un pò di soldi e mandarli alla sua famiglia a\nCracovia.", " Una ragazza meravigliosa.", " Andava spesso con le bimbe in piscina e io\nmi sentivo tranquilla, così non le accompagnavo.", " Restavo a lavorare e adesso,\nper questo, mi sento in colpa.", " Margherita non sapeva nuotare e io credo che,\nforse, la bimba è caduta in acqua e lei si è buttata lo stesso per salvarla,\ntanto l'amava\".", " \"a volte Sofia voleva fare il bagno nella piscina dei grandi e\nla baby sitter la teneva nell'acqua bassa dove si tocca.", " Sì, può essere che\nMargherita abbia avuto un malore ma perché nessuno le ha viste?", " Comunque se mai\nci sarà una causa e un risarcimento non voglio una lira per me, darò tutto\nall'ospedale pediatrico di Cracovia.", " \"povera Margherita.", " Sono morte abbracciate\ne io sono sicura che mia figlia è morta felice, stretta alla sua tata, senza\nsoffrire e senza paura\".", " Il terzo motivo per cui il cronista è qui, davanti a\nquesta donna che affronta con tanto eroismo la prova più atroce che possa\ntoccare a un essere umano è lo stabilimento \"miraggio\", teatro della tragedia.", "\nnon lancia accuse, non chiede processi, Carolyn.", " Espone solo i fatti.", " \"gli\nstabilimenti non sono servizi.", " sono macchine per fare soldi.", " non ci sono le\nsedie alte, per tenere d'occhio le piscine.", " I Bagnini, spesso, sono più occupati\na controllare i biglietti e gli abbonamenti che a vigilare sulla sicurezza di\nchi nuota.", " Io non parlo per quel bagnino in particolare ma in genere è così\".", "\nFruga in una scatola piena di fotografie, Carolyn, sfoglia a occhi asciutti le\nfoto della figlioletta morta.", " \"è come quando fai una mostra, poi si cerca una\nbella immagine per il catalogo.", " Il funerale lo faremo a San Carlo Dei Catinari,\ndove c'è quella bella cappella di Antonio Gherardi.", " Noi non andavamo troppo in\nchiesa ma Sofia è stata battezzata e mi sembra giusto così.", " Vorrei quel\nsacerdote di Fregene, ci ho parlato per poco tempo ma è riuscito a dirmi delle\ncose bellissime, profonde.", " Cos'altro le devo dire?", " Cerchi di non fare un pezzo\ntroppo strappalacrime, se può\".", " L'inchiesta giudiziaria sulla morte della\nbambina e della baby sitter polacca annegate nella piscina dello stabilimento\nbalneare \"miraggio\".", " Il primo presidente della corte di cassazione: \"per fortuna\nc'è il capo dello stato\".", " Pecorella: \"appare inspiegabile quali possano essere\nle ragioni di incostituzionalità\".", " Ciampi boccia legge inappellabilità, \"è\npalesemente incostituzionale\".", " Le modifiche \"generano una mutazione delle\nfunzioni di corte di cassazione da giudice di legittimità a giudice di merito\" e\ncreano \"asimmetrie tra accusa e difesa\".", " Roma - il Presidente Della Repubblica,\nCarlo Azeglio Ciampi, ha chiesto alle Camere - a norma dell'articolo 74, primo\ncomma, della costituzione - una nuova deliberazione in ordine alla legge:\n\"modifiche al codice di procedura penale, in materia di inappellabilità delle\nsentenze di proscioglimento\".", " Lo rende noto un comunicato del Quirinale.", " Le\nmodifiche introdotte dalla legge sulla inappellabilità \"generano un'evidente\nmutazione delle funzioni di corte di Cassazione, da giudice di legittimità a\ngiudice di merito, in palese contrasto con quanto stabilito dall'art. 111 della\ncostituzione\", ha scritto Ciampi nel messaggio alle Camere con il quale ha\nrinviato la legge sulla inappellabilità.", " Inoltre la legge approvata, ha rilevato\nancora il presidente della repubblica, crea \"delle asimmetrie tra accusa e\ndifesa\" e le posizioni delle parti nel processo assumono \"una condizione di\ndisparità che supera quella compatibile con la diversità delle funzioni svolte\ndalle parti stesse nel processo\".", " Nel messaggio del presidente Ciampi si\nsottolinea anche che vi è disparità anche tra l'imputato e la parte lesa, cioè\n\"la vittima del reato costituitosi parte civile\" che è a tutti gli effetti\n\"parte del processo\".", " La Legge, rileva ancora il presidente, \"provocherà un\ninsostenibile aggravio di lavoro con allungamento certo dei tempi del processo\".", "\nE infine vi è rischio che la legge sull'inappellabilità possa recare \"un vulnus\nal precetto costituzionale del buon andamento dell'amministrazione applicabile,\nsecondo la giurisprudenza della corte costituzionale, anche agli organi\ndell'amministrazione della giustizia\".", " Il padre della legge, approvata\ndefinitivamente il 12 gennaio, il presidente della commissione giustizia della\nCamera, Gaetano Pecorella, ha commentato che \"appare inspiegabile quali possano\nessere le ragioni di incostituzionalità\".", " \"ovviamente - ha aggiunto Pecorella -\nbisognerà leggere le motivazioni, ma si può già dire da subito, però, che i\nprecedenti della corte costituzionale in materia di parità tra accusa e difesa,\nrispetto al diritto di impugnare, escludono radicalmente la violazione del\nprincipio di uguaglianza\".", " Anche secondo l'associazione nazionale magistrati,\n\"bisogna leggere le motivazioni del rinvio\", ma \"già ora si può dire che le\npreoccupazioni manifestate da noi, insieme alla gran parte della cultura\ngiuridica, erano fondate\".", " Il presidente dell'Anm, Ciro Riviezzo, commenta così\nla decisione di Carlo Azeglio Ciampi di rinviare alle Camere la legge\nsull'inappellabilità.", " \"vedremo - aggiunge Ciro Riviezzo, presidente del\nsindacato delle toghe - su quali aspetti della riforma il capo dello stato ha\npuntato la sua attenzione\".", " Lapidario ma significativo il commento del primo\npresidente della suprema corte di Cassazione, Nicola Marvulli: \"per fortuna, la\nmagistratura ha un presidente della repubblica come Carlo Azeglio Ciampi\".", " Ha\nespresso soddisfazione il vice presidente del consiglio superiore della\nmagistratura, Virginio Rognoni:", " \"il rinvio della cosiddetta Pecorella alle\nCamere, per una nuova deliberazione, decisa dal capo dello stato, è motivo di\nviva soddisfazione, visto il parere assai critico, anche sotto il profilo della\nconformità alla costituzione, che il c s m aveva espresso sulla nuova\nnormativa\", ha detto.", " L'auspicio del segretario Ds, Piero Fassino, è che \"almeno\nper una volta il governo sia capace di ascoltare il presidente della\nrepubblica\".", " Il leader della quercia commenta la decisione di Ciampi come \"una\nbuona notizia, visto che erano evidenti i profili di incostituzionalità di\nquesta legge, che se fosse stata promulgata nel testo attuale, avrebbe\nulteriormente dissestato l'amministrazione della giustizia, reso più lunghi e\nintensi i tempi dei processi e acuito ancora di più la crisi della giustizia\".", "\nParte martedì il corso \"missioni umane nello spazio\" con l'astronauta italiano,\nil primo passo del corso che sarà inaugurato alla sapienza.", " Con Vittori laurea\nin astronautica.", " \"una scommessa per i ragazzi\", di Elena Gianturco.", " La partenza\ndella missione Marco Polo.", " Roma - potrebbe diventare la Houston italiana.", "\nL'ambizioso progetto partirà martedì prossimo con il corso \"missioni umane nello\nspazio\", il primo del genere in Europa, che sarà tenuto dall'astronauta Roberto\nVittori, presso la \"scuola di ingegneria aerospaziale\" dell'università La\nSapienza e verrà istituzionalizzato con la laurea in astronautica già dal\nprossimo anno accademico.", " \"la mia laurea in astronautica è presa sul campo -\ncommenta il colonnello Vittori - ma i giovani che iniziano a lavorare per le\nagenzie spaziali hanno normalmente bisogno di altri due, tre anni per imparare\nil mestiere.", " Se fosse istituita la laurea in astronautica i ragazzi sarebbero\npronti per operare\".", " La Scuola, oltre alle lauree in ingegneria astronautica che\ngià conferisce, è pronta infatti per l'attivazione del corso di laurea in\nsinergia con la facoltà di medicina e con il supporto dell'aeronautica militare,\nin modo da preparare una nuova figura, quella del tecnico astronauta, da\naffiancare a quella di pilota astronauta.", " \"il tecnico astronauta - spiega\nVittori - sarà una figura con conoscenze variegate di tipo tecnico\ningegneristico, medico e operativo\".", " La sapienza vanterebbe così, se il prossimo\nfebbraio il senato accademico darà parere positivo, la prima facoltà europea a\npreparare degli astronauti.", " un'idea che Vittori, disposto a dedicarsi alla\ndocenza fino al prossimo \"invito\" sullo shuttle, non esita a definire\ncoraggiosa: \"perché lo spazio deve essere concepito come luogo di lavoro.", " Io\nsono stato fortunato, ma con determinazione, impegno e la possibilità offerta\ndall'università, che spero si concretizzi, diventare astronauta è un obiettivo\nche può essere conseguito da tutti\".", " Fino ad oggi in Europa esiste un solo\ncentro di addestramento Esa (Agenzia Spaziale Europea), a Colonia, \"che però non\nè fornito di laboratori - sottolinea Filippo Graziani, preside della scuola di\ningegneria aerospaziale de La Sapienza - gli astronauti devono poi concludere la\npreparazione a Houston o Mosca.", " Se il corso di laurea verrà istituito, i nostri\nstudenti potranno invece usufruire dei laboratori dell'aeronautica di Pratica di\nMare e naturalmente Vittori sarà uno dei docenti\".", " Gli stessi laboratori saranno\nvisitati, con stage di una giornata, anche dai 70 studenti iscritti al corso\ntrimestrale \"missioni umane nello spazio\" per il quale lo stesso astronauta ha\nideato un'immagine simbolo: una studentessa che indossa la tuta da lui usata\nnelle missioni spaziali.", " \"gli italiani possono ricoprire un importantissimo\nruolo nelle applicazioni spaziali per cultura, creatività, inventiva e\nadattabilità\", spiega Vittori, \"nel corso cercherò di illustrare una missione\nspaziale attraverso la mia personale esperienza sullo shuttle, sulla navicella\nSoyuz e la Iss (Stazione Spaziale Internazionale).", " E presentare alcuni\nsviluppatori tecnologici: lo Spem, per il lancio d'alta quota, il rilevatore dei\nbattiti cardiaci a distanza e il naso elettronico.", " È nell'università e ancor\nprima, nella scuola, che va stimolata la curiosità.", " A questo scopo il prossimo\n24 gennaio nel tempio di Adriano, a Roma, si terrà un'iniziativa simbolica\nindirizzata ai ragazzi delle superiori, sul tema\" spazio al tuo futuro \"\".", " La\nsolita storia della terra piatta.", " Della sfericità del nostro pianeta si parlava\nfin dai tempi di Aristotele.", " E le mappe medioevali non avevano funzioni\ngeografiche bensì simboliche.", " Sabato scorso, lo speciale superquark di Piero\nAngela sul viaggio di Cristoforo Colombo è stato come al solito avvincente e ben\ndocumentato.", " Siccome molta gente pensa ancora che Colombo sostenesse che la\nterra è tonda mentre tutti i sapienti del tempo la ritenevano ancora piatta,\ngiustamente Angela, nel dialogo con un consulente scientifico, ha spiegato che\ndi una terra tonda si parlava sin dai tempi di Aristotele e che nel terzo secolo\navanti Cristo Eratostene era riuscito persino a calcolare con stupefacente\napprossimazione la lunghezza dell'equatore.", " Salvo che subito dopo i due\ndialoganti hanno osservato che erano state perdute nel medioevo, tanto che le\nmappe dell'epoca rappresentavano la terra come un disco.", " non c'è da\nscandalizzarsi per questa imprecisione.", " Jeffrey Burton Russell nel suo Inventing\nThe Flat Earth (New York, 1991) ha mostrato come si ritrovi anche in serissime\nstorie della scienza e cita testi illustri in cui si ripete ancora oggi che le\nmappe di Tolomeo furono dimenticate in Occidente per mille anni, che la chiesa\nmedievale insegnava che la terra era un disco piatto con Gerusalemme al centro e\nche dal quattordicesimo secolo si era perduta la nozione della rotondità del\nglobo.", " Ma allora chi aveva detto sia a Colombo che ai suoi avversari che la\nterra era sferica?", " L'equivoco nasce dal fatto che, almeno sino a Copernico, sia\nil mondo greco che quello cristiano avevano ritenuto che la terra fosse\nimmobile.", " Ma immobile non voleva dire piatta.", " Burton ha spiegato che il pensiero\nlaico ottocentesco, per sostenere il darwinismo contro il fondamentalismo\nreligioso, voleva dimostrare che, come la chiesa si era sbagliata non solo sul\ngeocentrismo ma anche sulla sfericità, così si stava sbagliando\nsull'evoluzionismo.", " E si era tratto il massimo profitto da due autori cristiani\n(Lattanzio nel IV secolo e il bizantino Cosma Indicopleuste nel VI) i quali,\nsiccome un passo della bibbia descriveva la terra in forma di tabernacolo,\npolemizzavano con le teorie pagane sulla rotondità della terra e la\nrappresentavano in forma quadrangolare.", " Ma Cosma, che aveva scritto in greco,\nera rimasto ignoto al medioevo occidentale e Lattanzio non era stato preso\ntroppo sul serio neppure da Sant'Agostino.", " Agostino si era limitato a dire che\nnaturalmente la bibbia parla per metafore, che forse la terra era davvero\nsferica, ma siccome non è conoscendo la forma della terra che ci si salva\nl'anima, la questione gli appariva di scarso interesse.", " Che la terra fosse\nsferica lo sapevano non solo il geocentrico Tolomeo (che aveva diviso questa\nsfera in trecentosessanta gradi di meridiano) ed Eratostene, ma persino\nPitagora, Parmenide, Eudosso, Platone, Aristotele, Euclide, Aristarco, Archimede\n- e gli unici a non credervi erano stati solo Leucippo e Democrito.", " Quanto al\nmedioevo, nel vii secolo Isidoro di Siviglia (autorità indiscutibile per tutti i\nsecoli seguenti) aveva calcolato la lunghezza equatoriale in 80 mila stadi.", "\nPoteva pensare che la terra fosse piatta?", " Dante entra nell'imbuto infernale ed\nesce dall'altra parte vedendo stelle sconosciute ai piedi della montagna del\npurgatorio:", " Quindi sapeva benissimo che la terra era sferica.", " Ma della stessa\nopinione erano stati Origene e Ambrogio, e poi Alberto Magno e Tommaso D'Aquino,\nRuggiero Bacone, Giovanni Di Sacrobosco, Pietro D'Ailly, Egidio Romano, Nicola\nDi Oresme o Giovanni Buridano, tanto per citarne alcuni.", " Che poi queste cose le\nsapessero i dotti e i semplici no, guardate che in molte parti del globo c'è\nancora oggi gente che in materia ha idee confuse.", " Ma come è accaduto, si dirà,\nche tutte le rappresentazioni medievali mostrassero la terra piatta?", " Anzitutto\nquelle mappe non avevano funzioni geografiche bensì simboliche (con Gerusalemme\nal centro) e poi non rappresentavano la terra ma le terre note.", " E facevano la\nstessa cosa che fanno oggi i nostri atlanti, che ci vogliono dire quanto Roma\ndisti da Gerusalemme o da Atene, e se devono rappresentare l'Europa lo fanno su\nun foglio a due dimensioni.", " Se un nostro atlante cadesse tra mille anni tra le\nmani di un visitatore alieno, costui potrebbe credere che anche noi ritenevamo\nche la terra fosse piatta.", " Quale era allora la materia del contendere ai tempi\ndi Colombo?", " Era che - come ha mostrato bene la trasmissione di Angela - i suoi\navversari avevano fatto calcoli più precisi dei suoi, ritenevano che la sfera\nterrestre fosse più ampia di quanto il genovese sosteneva, e quindi fosse\npazzesco tentare di raggiungere il levante per la via del ponente.", " Naturalmente\nné Colombo né i suoi nemici sospettavano che tra l'Europa e l'Asia ci stesse un\naltro continente.", " La scoperta dell'America è un caso tipico di serendipità, dove\nsi va in cerca di una cosa e se ne trova un'altra.", " Ma per il resto i buoni\nmedievali ne sapevano tanto quanto Colombo.", " Salvo che lui, a differenza di\nAgostino, era disposto a far carte false e a giocarsi l'anima pur di partire.", "\nC'è un tesoro avvelenato che giace sul fondo dei canali di Venezia, i quali\nrisultano più inquinati persino di quelli della vicina zona industriale di Porto\nMarghera.", " È un \"tesoro\" tossico fatto di tonnellate di piombo, di zinco, di\nidrocarburi, e persino di arsenico e di pesticidi, che si sono depositati nel\ncorso degli anni.", " La conferma di un sospetto che alcuni Veneziani avevano da\ntempo è venuta da uno studio del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e della\ndirezione ambiente del comune, i cui tecnici per dieci anni, dal 1994 al 2004,\nhanno scavato, analizzato e classificato i fanghi dei numerosi rii, grandi e\npiccoli, che attraversano il centro storico.", " Gli esperti del gruppo \"Insula\",\nche si occupa della sistemazione dei canali Veneziani attraverso un \"progetto\nintegrato rii\" confezionato d'intesa tra il comune, la regione e il Ministero\ndell'Ambiente, hanno scavato, sino alla fine dell'anno scorso, 295mila metri\ncubi di sedimenti, pari all'87 per cento del totale, e vi hanno trovato la\npresenza di ben 11 veleni diversi: 8.737 chili di nichel, 7.496 di cromo, 4.040\ndi arsenico, 1.606 di cadmio.", " E poi, 900 tonnellate di mercurio, 709 di\nidrocarburi, 216 di zinco, 145 di policlorobifenili, 59 di rame, 54 di piombo e\n26 di pesticidi.", " Un disastro ambientale.", " Ma le sorprese non finiscono qui.", "\nPerché, secondo i curatori dell'indagine, Roberto Zonta del Cnr e Mario\nScattolin del comune, l'avvelenamento dei canali Veneziani non deriverebbe tanto\ndagli scarichi delle industrie di Porto Marghera, come si potrebbe pensare,\nquanto da un inquinamento di tipo \"urbano\" del tutto simile a quello di altre\ncittà europee dotate di canali, come Amsterdam e Stoccolma e dal fatto che la\nstruttura urbana della città tende, anche con l'aiuto dell'acqua salmastra, a\nfacilitare l'accumulo dei sedimenti su una superficie sostanzialmente limitata\nqual'è quella del fondo dei rii, che rappresenta appena il dieci per cento\ndell'estensione totale della città.", " Per strano che possa apparire, l'accumulo di\nveleni deriverebbe quindi, secondo gli esperti, da una serie di fattori: i\nTecnici dunque, che promettono di togliere \"tutti i veleni restanti\" con la\nprosecuzione dello scavo dei rii, molti dei quali non venivano ripuliti da\ntrent'anni, assolvono le industrie di Porto Marghera e si mostrano ottimisti per\nil futuro.", " Perché, spiegano, gli studi sui sedimenti riguardano ormai il\npassato, mentre oggi l'inquinamento \"è inferiore a quello di trenta anni fa\".", "\nInfatti non c'è più il carbone e non c'è più il gasolio, i motori sono più\nefficienti, le benzine senza piombo, gli antivegetativi meno dannosi, i\ndetersivi quasi tutti biodegradabili e in molte zone della città si stanno\ninstallando delle fosse settiche.", " Sembra ancora lontano, comunque, il giorno in\ncui si potrà tornare a fare il bagno nei canali come quarant'anni fa, quando\nc'era persino una piscina con l'acqua di laguna sulla riva delle zattere e\nimpavidi nuotatori attraversavano il bacino con bracciate possenti, dal lido\nfino a San Marco, sulle orme di lord Byron.", " in media 230 mila euro per\nmantenerlo fino a 24 anni.", " E al crescere del reddito il conto sale.", " Lo rivela la\nricerca di un gruppo di studiosi di Firenze.", " Piena di sorprese.", " \"cari bambini\n...", "Si fa presto a dirlo, ma quanto esattamente sono \"cari\" i bambini?", " Quanto\ncosta mantenere un figlio, dall'acquisto dei primi pannolini fino alla laurea?", "\nBeh, se state programmando di mettere al mondo un erede, preparatevi a investire\nnella nuova avventura una cifra vicino a 210 mila euro, che salgono a 230 mila\nse dovrete affidarvi alla baby sitter.", " Una spesa media, per una famiglia\ndell'Italia centrale che guadagna 3.500 euro netti al mese.", " Naturalmente il\nconto sale con l'aumentare del reddito.", " Famiglia del Nord con entrate nette per\n5.200 euro?", " Almeno 300 mila euro di spesa per tirar su un figlio fino a 24 anni\nd'età.", " senza contare rette di università o il mantenimento fuori sede.", " Cifre\nimpressionanti, nate da un'indagine lunga e affidabile: grazie a una separazione\nmal digerita, a un professore di fisica e a una battaglia civile.", " Le stime sul\ncosto del mantenimento di un figlio che Panorama pubblica in queste pagine sono\nil frutto del lavoro di Marino Maglietta, 64 anni, docente di fisica\nall'università di Firenze, due figli.", " Dopo la separazione e la scoperta dei\nlimiti della legge sull'affidamento dei minorenni, nel 1993 Maglietta fondò\nl'associazione Crescere Insieme.", " Obiettivo: modificare la normativa e introdurre\nin Italia l'affidamento condiviso, in modo che entrambi i genitori, pur\nseparati, restino responsabili della cura e dell'educazione dei figli, anche se\ncon tempi e compiti diversi: proprio nel prossimo mese di marzo la sua proposta\ndi legge arriverà finalmente alla Camera.", " Ma in questo progetto diventa\nfondamentale stabilire quanto costa davvero crescere un bambino: una richiesta\navanzata anche dai magistrati, che devono quantificare il contributo dei\ngenitori al mantenimento dei figli.", " E un'esigenza sentita da tutti quelli che\nlavorano alla costruzione di accordi tra ex coniugi (mediatori, avvocati, i\ngenitori stessi) ai quali serve un punto di riferimento oggettivo e uniforme.", "\nMaglietta si mette al lavoro nel 2000 coinvolgendo colleghi della facoltà di\nstatistica dell'università di Firenze e la Regione Toscana, che finanzia il\nprogetto.", " Il team elabora i risultati dell'indagine Istat sulle spese degli\nitaliani, che coinvolge 40 mila famiglie.", " Aggiunge una prova sul campo su un\naltro campione di 3 mila famiglie.", " Confronta le proprie con analoghe tabelle\ncompilate in Germania, Svizzera, Danimarca.", " Applica vari correttivi statistici.", "\nE alla fine mette a punto un sistema basato su dati oggettivi che permette di\nstabilire il costo mensile del mantenimento di un figlio considerando età,\nreddito dei genitori, zona di residenza, numero di eventuali fratelli.", " Per\nesempio, per mantenere un bambino di 3 anni, una famiglia del Centro Italia che\nguadagna 3.500 euro netti deve spendere circa 580 euro al mese (baby sitter\nesclusa).", " La voce più pesante tra le spese dirette è l'alimentazione, mentre tra\ni costi indiretti al primo posto c'è la casa, che si presume debba essere più\ngrande per ospitare il nuovo membro della famiglia.", " Poi se c'è bisogno della\nbaby sitter, il conto sale di circa 130 euro al mese.", " E ovviamente, quando il\nfiglio cresce, anche la spesa di mantenimento aumenta: a 16 anni il conto\nmensile è di 200 euro in più rispetto a un bimbo di 3 anni.", " tra le spese che\ncrescono di più, istruzione, svaghi, vacanze.", " Le differenze tra Nord e Sud sono\ntutto sommato limitate: un figlio cresciuto al Nord costa mediamente appena il 6\nper cento in più rispetto al Mezzogiorno.", " Ma va ricordato che le spese\nconsiderate nell'indagine sono quelle comuni a tutte le famiglie italiane.", " Non\ntengono conto per esempio della mancanza cronica di posti negli asili nido\npubblici o della distanza dei nonni nelle grandi città: tutti fattori che fanno\nimpennare la bolletta figlio nelle metropoli.", " In particolare al Nord.", "\nNaturalmente con l'aumentare del reddito familiare cresce la spesa per i figli,\nma cambia di parecchio la sua composizione.", " Si spende solo un pò di più per dare\nda mangiare al bambino, mentre salgono rapidamente i costi dei trasporti, delle\nvacanze, dell'istruzione.", " Una famiglia che porta a casa 2 mila euro netti di\nstipendio spende in svaghi e vacanze per il figlio di 9 anni circa 60 euro al\nmese.", " Un'analoga famiglia che guadagna più del doppio (5.200 euro) ne spende\noltre 150 fin qui la fotografia, anzi il conto, di quanto sono cari i bambini.", "\nMa i genitori italiani hanno modificato nel tempo la spesa verso i loro figli?", "\nSecondo Enrico Finzi, sociologo e presidente della società Astra, è così.", " E per\nalmeno cinque buone ragioni: \"i bambini sono sempre meno.", " Ed essendo una risorsa\nscarsa i genitori vi investono di più.", " Poi aggiungete il senso di colpa: in un\nmondo dove si ripete che è bene vivere con i figli ma non ce la si fa perché si\nlavora tanto, la spesa per i bambini diventa riparatoria.", " Ancora e: siamo in una\ncultura del nuovo, l'usato non esiste più, non si riciclano le cose dei fratelli\ne dei cugini, che spesso non esistono neppure\".", " Altri due elementi giocano a\nfavore del dare troppo ai figli: il crescente conformismo sociale, che obbliga i\nfigli e i genitori a comprare \"quello che hanno anche gli altri\".", " E il potere\ncontrattuale più forte dei ragazzini: non solo godono di una situazione di\nmonopolio (spesso sono figli unici), ma hanno anche un livello di competenze\nspecifiche (videogiochi, telefonini) che i genitori non riescono a controllare.", "\nQuindi tenete duro, non spaventatevi, possibilmente non fermatevi a un figlio:\nil secondo, come provano le tabelle del professor Maglietta, costa il 30 per\ncento in meno del primo.", " E ricordatevi vi di quello che diceva Winston\nChurchill: \"non c'è per nessuna comunità investimento migliore del metter latte\ndentro ai bambini\".", " Un italiano vero.", " da vent'anni sapevo che, un giorno, avrei\ndovuto scrivere quest'articolo.", " Avrei preferito aspettare altri vent'anni: ma\nsono qui.", " Sto scrivendo in fretta, perché non mi è mai passato per la testa di\npreparare un \"coccodrillo\" su Montanelli.", " Se l'avesse saputo, la cosa l'avrebbe\ndivertito moltissimo, e io non volevo dargli questa soddisfazione.", " A pensarci\nbene, non ho mai scritto niente su Montanelli, da quando lo conosco.", " Lo faccio\nadesso, alle otto di sera di una domenica d'estate, su un tavolo bianco di\nfronte al mare.", " Lo faccio volentieri.", " I giornalisti sono infatti come i medici e\ni pompieri: darsi da fare è un buon modo per rimandare il dolore.", " Ricordo il\nnostro primo incontro, vent'anni fa, nella direzione del \"giornale\", al terzo\npiano di Via Gaetano Negri.", " Montanelli aveva letto alcuni corsivi che pubblicavo\nda studente, e aveva chiesto di conoscermi.", " Mi ha detto subito che se avevo\nscritto per due anni un articolo alla settimana su Crema, scrivere del mondo\nsarebbe stato uno scherzo: in fondo, c'erano più argomenti.", " Ricordo quando gli\nho portato il primo articolo: ha tolto cinquanta parole e l'articolo ha preso il\nvolo.", " È stata la prima di molte lezioni simili.", " Montanelli è stato il maestro\ndelle parole da non usare, dei libri da non scrivere, dei commenti crudeli da\nnon fare, della gente da non frequentare, delle tentazioni cui resistere.", " Era\nuno stoico pratico.", " Mi piaceva, ma - di nuovo - non potevo dirglielo.", " Volevo\ndimostrargli che i lombardi sanno essere poco sentimentali, proprio come i\ntoscani.", " non ci sono riuscito, ma non fa niente.", " Adesso che ci penso: anche lui\nera un pò sentimentale.", " Come gli inglesi e i gatti, non voleva darlo a vedere:\nma so che amava teneramente Marisa Rivolta, la sua compagna d'autunno; e aveva\npianto per Egisto Corradi e tutti gli amici che gli morivano intorno, e lo\nfacevano arrabbiare, perché lo lasciavano solo come un monumento.", " L'ho visto\nappassionarsi in difesa della sua assistente di sempre, Iside Frigerio, con cui\nper decenni ha condotto una battaglia silenziosa: gareggiavano a chi riusciva a\nmostrare più durezza scabra.", " È finita in parità.", " Perché, io lo so, si stimavano\ne si volevano bene.", " Ecco: se Montanelli sapesse che gli ho dato del\nsentimentale, si arrabbierebbe.", " Quindi, devo continuare.", " non era solo\nsentimentale, Indro: era buono.", " Spesso, negli ultimi anni, scoprivo gente che\naveva aiutato, incoraggiato, ricordato quando non se la ricordava più nessuno.", "\nEra sinceramente preoccupato che dall'avventura - e dallo spettacolare naufragio\n- della \"voce\" (1994) qualcuno dei suoi ragazzi affogasse (professionalmente).", "\nPer questo, ogni volta che andavamo a mangiare insieme - o meglio: io mangiavo,\nlui testava piccoli campioni alimentari - gli ricordavo che quella della \"voce\",\nper tutti noi, era una medaglia al valore.", " La medaglia di una battaglia perduta,\nancora quindi più cara.", " Questo, devo dire, gli piaceva.", " Gli piacevano molte\naltre cose.", " Dare ordini, per esempio, sapendo di non essere obbedito.", " Il più\ngrande giornalista che io abbia conosciuto è stato il capo più inefficiente che\nio abbia mai visto all'opera.", " Aveva troppa stima dell'indipendenza di giudizio e\ndell'iniziativa individuale, per essere un buon caposquadra.", " da \"Repubblica, 4\ngennaio 2002.", " Buon compleanno professore fenomenologia di Umberto Eco.", " Compie\ngli anni l'autore più famoso al mondo dal libro su Mike al successo del \"nome\ndella rosa\" di Stefano Bartezzaghi.", " Oggi può capitare di incontrarlo in una\nlibreria antiquaria, possibilmente in un interno, alla caccia di uno dei\npochissimi Athanasius Kircher che mancano alla sua stravagante collezione di\nlibri antichi.", " Oppure in una manifestazione pubblica, come la tavola rotonda sui\ngiochi letterari che si terrà al Piccolo di Milano il 21 gennaio, e in cui si\nconfronterà con vari scrittori francesi e con Douglas Hofstadter, il geniale\nfilosofo americano di Goedel, Escher, Bach.", " Ma non sono vezzi da intellettuale\naffermato.", " Per Umberto Eco sentirsi a proprio agio nelle situazioni culturali\npiù variegate e vivaci è un'abitudine antica.", " Dai suoi esordi negli anni\ncinquanta Eco è un intellettuale - puzzle: nessuna tessera, da sola, lo\ndefinisce.", " I suoi rimbalzi dall'erudizione alla vita quotidiana sono diventati\nin certi casi proverbiali: dal medioevo a Rita Pavone, da Mike Bongiorno a James\nJoyce, e, più recentemente, dall'informatica alla bibliofilia.", " È per questo che\nl'augusto compleanno del professore (settant anni!) sorprende tutti: perché\ntutti vedono in Eco un'intelligenza irrequieta e un'impazienza nei confronti di\nistituzioni e cariche onorifiche che sono meno consuete nei suoi coetanei.", "\nCerto, alcune tessere dell'Eco - puzzle hanno una rilevanza maggiore di altre.", "\nfra le prime cose che vanno dette di Eco è che si tratta di un semiologo.", " La\nsemiotica studia i modi in cui funzionano i segni e i modi in cui le persone\ncomunicano fra di loro.", " Per una serie di ragioni anche generazionali, alla fine\ndegli anni cinquanta Eco si è trovato nella posizione migliore per capire che al\ndibattito italiano mancavano gli strumenti analitici per cogliere gli effetti\nculturali e sociali del boom economico imminente.", " Con un lavoro su più piani -\ncome teorico e come autore televisivo, come giornalista e come consulente\neditoriale - ha portato in Italia quel che in Italia non c'era ancora: i primi\nvagiti dello strutturalismo e poi i fondamenti della nuova scienza semiologica,\nfino a imporre la significazione e la comunicazione come gli argomenti centrali\ndella fine del novecento.", " Lo spettro di Marley Marley.", " prima di tutto, era\nmorto.", " Niente dubbio su questo.", " Il registro mortuario portava le firme del\nprete, del chierico, dell'appaltatore delle pompe funebri e della persona che\naveva guidato il mortoro.", " Scrooge vi aveva apposto la sua: e il nome di Scrooge,\nsu qualunque fogliaccio fosse scritto, valeva tant oro.", " Il vecchio Marley era\nproprio morto per quanto è morto, come diciamo noi, un chiodo di porta.", " non\nvoglio mica dare ad intendere che io sappia molto bene che cosa ci sia di morto\nin un chiodo di porta.", " per conto mio, sarei stato disposto a pensare che il\npezzo più morto di tutta la ferrareccia fosse un chiodo di cataletto.", " Ma poiché\nla saggezza dei nostri nonni sfolgora nelle similitudini, non io vi toccherò con\nsacrilega mano; se no, il paese è bell'e ito.", " Lasciatemi mi dunque ripetere,\nsolennemente, che Marley era morto com'è morto un chiodo di porta.", " Sapeva\nScrooge di questa morte?", " Come avrebbe fatto a non saperlo?", " Scrooge e il morto\nerano stati soci per non so quanti anni.", " Scrooge era il suo unico esecutore\ntestamentario, unico amministratore, unico procuratore, unico legatario\nuniversale, unico amico, unico guidatore del mortoro.", " Anzi il nostro Scrooge,\nche per verità il triste evento non aveva fatto terribilmente spasimare, si\nmostrò sottile uomo d'affari il giorno stesso dei funerali e lo solennizzò con\nun negozio co fiocchi.", " Il ricordo dei funerali mi fa tornare al punto di\npartenza.", " Non c'è dunque dubbio che Marley era morto.", " Questo mettiamolo bene in\nsodo, se no niente di maraviglioso potrà scaturire dalla storia che son per\nnarrarvi."]}