Sunday, December 18, 2005
How Many Days Before Af Is Implantation Bleeding
from National Geographic Italy, December 2005, page 107, page 110
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To prove the adaptability of Buddhism, the same meditation technique that I follow has become the strength of an innovative program of prison reform that is taking place across India .
<< I'm not serving a sentence, I'm doing vipassana >> says the inmate Udegbe Hyginus. For four and a half years has been abducted in the Nigerian Hyginus Tihar prison complex in New Delhi, awaiting trial for possession of cocaine. And 'one of the largest prisons in Asia and is home to nearly 13 thousand detainees, more than double its capacity . Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions and a staff that at times overwhelms the prisoners by treating them in an inhumane way, make it a living hell .
But Hyginus and thousands of other Indian prisoners, the practice of vipassana turned the prison into an oasis of reflection and rehabilitation . In a section of the Prison No. 4, for a place of retreat, every two weeks a session takes place every ten days. Prisoners may be repeated every three months, and many do .
<< [...] After my first retreat here >> Says Hyginus, << I dropped the pressure, and I slept ten hours. I was irritable, and now I feel calm and peaceful as a dove. I'm much happier >>.
strikes me even more what he says a man who makes the jailer to Tihar for 14 years, and has made three withdrawals here, all volunteers. << I just wanted to prove that this person that I had heard about vipassana >> says. << Before going into retreat beat prisoners, the stress made me a monster. After, I felt more human >>. Now the prisoners turn to him for advice.
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<< We are all prisoners of our mind >> says the Burmese meditation teacher (and former businessman) Satya Narayan Goenka, octogenarian, promoter of the return of vipassana in India. << What better place to understand that here behind bars? >>. So, meditation group will meet regularly in prisons around the world. Studies show that these practices with the prisoners suffer less, and not inflict suffering on others.
<< I do not teach Buddhism >> says Goenka baritone voice when I visit him at his home in Mumbai. [...] << Vipassana means "seeing things as they really are." After holding his breath under observation for a few days, you begin to pay more attention to your feelings. And soon you realize to be haunted by the desire for food, heat, all sorts of desires, and aversion to unpleasant things. Then you realize that all this is transient. Everything changes. By understanding these simple things that every person, beginning with the Buddha, he finds himself, then follows a whole doctrine >>.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Valerian Root Tea Vs Chamomile Tea
The House of Legality (Genova) for help
I get the following appeal:
now ask for help.
did not think threats and intimidation to clear mafia had thus taken on the communities where we live. We did not think
take the road of building an open civil commitment for legality and social giutizia in contrast to the Mafia, for the promotion of civic consciousness and culture, with activities always free to play and it was clean fun so fraught with conflict and leaner of organized crime in this part of this historical city.
We were wrong assessment, I think that responds to threats and intimidation would find support and support in the population. Not so, the threat will we close "followed the practice: people do not enter, they are afraid. Only when there are initiatives coming from outside the district
people, sometimes does not reach anyone.
We have resisted stubbornly resist and try to give because it would mean" have won them. " why, with the decisive support of the Fondazione Antonio Caponnetto have enabled the Centre to the crime and the mafia , we launched both within, and through leaflets, or through the Web, an information the presence of organized crime of the different mafias in Genoa, on their fields of activity on the old and new means of action. We as the wall starts crumbling and those with knowledge of facts and names begin to speak and bear witness to cooperate formally with the relevant authorities.
We found a great help from the boys, young and old, the Toy Library Labyrinth who decided to come here to respond to threats
mafia and get people to come and enjoy the game as a channel of learning, meeting and fun and not as a gambling or betting.
We had support from friends and artists who came and will come back to play for the boys as adults are invited to enter.
But, minus the occasional appunatamenti, people do not enter. It becomes impossible to source to the few (500 € per month), but indispensable, to keep open the space costs (electricity, heating, water, telephone).
We have presented several projects and others will present next week to ask the local institutions to support projects and activities of the Education Law and Social Justice, to promote civic consciousness and culture in the wake of our Constitution and tackle the roots of the mafia culture, for boys and girls offer practical solutions to the shortage of space and that leaves the field of social degradation and deviancy. We hope the answers are positive, but they may be too late.
The visible and tangible support for the House asked the Legality of Genoa Caponnetto Elizabeth and Rita Borsellino with the open letter in September, seems to be falling on deaf ears.
We are at a crossroads: either quit and give up admitting defeat and nipped in the bud the awakening of civic consciousness in contrast to
widespread lawlessness and full of gangs, or stand still, but this requires your help, we need that helps us to this resistance.
We ask a contribution, however small, and to disseminate this request for help to all those willing and able to extend our appeal.
Thanks, however, and soon.
the House of Legality of Genoa
Christian Abundance
Simonetta Castiglion
for subscriptions and 'active bank account of
"LEGALITY OF THE HOUSE' AND CULTURE
Banco di Sardegna - The Genoa Branch
account n ° 70032649 - ABI 01015 - CAB 01401 - CIN X
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Not Sure Ifbaby Swallowed A Safety Pin?
An epizootic is an "organism that lives on an animal without being parasitic (cited dictionary De Mauro, Pearson). epizootic is also the name of an exoskeleton worn by the English Marcel.lì Antunez Roca in a performance of 1994. It consists of a series of mechatronic devices placed on areas considered "erogenous" (the mouth, ears, nose, chest, and buttocks), controlled remotely via a graphical interface. Roca takes the stage and the audience is given the opportunity to decide which mechanism operated simply with the touch of a mouse.
In the globalized world of our surroundings there is much lower (local) with respect to the reasons and consequences of our life (global): wear shoes manufactured in Taiwan, encouraging the exploitation of workers without union protections, we declare ourselves in favor of a war thousands of miles away, ignoring what it means to sleep lulled by the bombs and express our opinions on public forums, exposing maieutic comparisons more or less for the people. To think of it, is not something new: they are instead modes. Step onto the pitch 's artifice, the construct of technology, which increases the scope of our actions and at the same time makes them less explicit As you move away from the source.
Friday, December 2, 2005
Church Visitors Welcome Letter
among companies registered at the Chamber of Commerce of Naples, in September 2005 were 216,130. This means that victims of racketeering are 108,065 businesses.
among companies registered at the Chamber of Commerce of Palermo in September 2005 were 76,170. This means that are 60,936 victims of the racketeering enterprise .
In a nutshell, how heavy the extortion activities of the enterprises in the South? According to a survey Censis Foundation BNC-2003, , non-value added growth of southern firms caused by the pervasive presence of organized crime is estimated at 7.5 billion € per year . The estimate covered only companies under 250 employees, refers to a half, roughly, the southern economic activities and therefore constitutes a conservative measure of the overall phenomenon .
But there's more.
The shadow of crime on business is not only manifested in terms of lack of growth economic but also costs in setting up safety systems, and these amount to no less than
4.3 billion euro, or 3.1% of the total turnover of the undertakings concerned in the search . In addition, failure to value added could generate at least 180,000 units of regular work each year or 5.6% of those currently used by companies up to 250 workers in the South .
Taking a quick sum, the gangs of South cost to companies of € 11.8 billion a year . This, not counting the social costs .
We take the balls, in fact.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Sponser Letter To Cousin
E 'was born, hosted by the portal tigiemmeonline (famous Italian gaming magazine), a forum dedicated to the Italian mafia. The area is just pointing your browser at the following url: http://forum.tgmonline.it/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=267733&start=0&rid=322
citing its manifesto.
Observatory on organized crime
A man known regional politician, a sunny Sunday morning south goes to the polls to put into practice a fundamental practice in any democratic country: to exercise their vote. It remains to chat with old friends in front of the seat. A young man with a quick pace, intabarrato and hooded so as to become unrecognizable, he is approaching, and without a word or give hesitation pulled the trigger five times. The execution takes place in public, in broad daylight, between stunned onlookers from the air and the dazed look at the inhumanity of the act.
A girl, fourteen expression smiling, speaking with any mates on a Saturday night near the gate of his house. Nearby, gunmen ambushed a nineteen prepared as part of a family prominent in the area. Fate has it that at the time of the shooting, the prey will face shield with the little teenager, responding to fire, and, in turmoil at the time, shot to death the unfortunate. At trial, three key witnesses to retract during the deposition: the culprit can not be nailed, justice could not be done.
Stories abound as the two mentioned above in that part of Italy held hostage by organized crime. Mafia, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita : different names for institutions which do not pursue other end of the enrichment and subdue anyone. Mali sometimes as old as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, so deeply rooted in certain social strata to have replaced the Italian State, the law, to civilization. Mali that infiltrate the nerve to eat less protected the community from within. The economic
and social issues are very heavy, many experts agree that without the yoke of bosses, the South would fill its financing gap with the rest of the peninsula in a little two decades, the only 'Ndrangheta, the most powerful among the gangs of today, runs a annual turnover of 35 billion euro: Consider that the Finance Act 2006 is a ploy by 20 billion €, and you do the math, whole generations of people do not know what it means to live within the law because they do not They never had to deal only with the handcuffs, everywhere, at best, exists disillusionment and bewilderment: at worst, you choose to do the sentinel for 400 € per week, and if "'and gguardie" I not have to worry about banging into your family, keep it thinks the clan.
For these and a thousand other reasons should be taken into serious consideration the issue. I would like a forum in which to flourish further information on the subject. Aware of the phenomenon means to know a significant part of our nation, our culture, our history. It means the voters be aware of certain social dynamics, or more simply, it means to be informed.
Friday, November 18, 2005
Cream Of Tomato And Cheddar Soup
by www.miur.it
The teaching of the Catholic religion is not compulsory
The response of the Ministry's document of the CGIL II cycle
In Further to the press on the legislative decree of the second round and signed by the Secretary General of the Federation of knowledge workers CGIL, the Italian Ministry of University and Research states:
Catholic education - is not true that "what is optional become mandatory." Nothing has changed, in fact, with regard to Catholic education and alternative activities. The teaching of the Catholic religion, however, becomes mandatory when the student has made the choice in this direction, as they were before the reform .
Failure to use the teaching of religion, as in the past, is not considered absent from classes for those who do not intend to use them. The roof of the 25% absence of the compulsory hours yearly, in this case, therefore, independent of the share is expected to religion is, in case of exemption for physical education and sports.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Baitbus Movies For Sale
Definition of general and basic levels of performance on the second
cycle of the Education and training under the Act on March 28
2003 n.53.
[...]
Article 3
(teaching activities)
1. In order to ensure the exercise of the right and duty under Article 1, paragraph 1, the annual teaching time in high school courses, including the proportion allocated to regions, autonomous schools and the teaching of Catholic religion in Compliance Agreement that makes changes to the Lateran Concordat and its Additional Protocol with enforced Law of 25 March 1985, n. 121, and the following agreements, comprises compulsory courses and activities for all students, activities and address of compulsory courses, compulsory courses and activities chosen by the student , except as provided in paragraph 4 and activities and electives, as enshrined in Articles 4 to 11.
Article 18
(Levels of essential paths)
1. In order to achieve the educational profile, cultural and professional competence referred to in Article 1, paragraph 5 Regions provide such basic levels of courses:
[...]
c) the teaching of the Catholic religion as foreseen by making changes to the Lateran Concordat and its Protocol Additional implemented by law March 25, 1985, n. 121, and subsequent agreements, and activities and physical mobility;
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Small Claims Apartment Complex
Subject: I do not know who to cast my vote next election. But I know where to turn my attention: towards the center left. Let me explain why.
CDL. The deployment that would revolutionize Italy, projected into a healthy liberalism has failed many of its goals. There are many reasons of contrast, the first of a mild sensitivity to the law.
LegaNord , despite its 4% poor, in my opinion was able to satisfy his constituency better than others, taking home important maneuvers such as devolution (unless of plot twists to last place), changing institutional framework of country. The reason for not voting should be obvious: they are contrary to his populist attitude, that does not look beyond the neighborhood of its existence.
National Alliance not as it should have stood out in these years of government. He has excelled for more action personal information (such as those of Fisichella, always on the devolution, or how those purposes, for example about the vote in local elections to immigrants) and for an effective unified program. Remember the earthquake of June, which threatened to cause a huge schism.
be noted positively the investigation of waste and patronage of the regional bell.
The candidacy of Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini is certainly no reason to trust in a solid character and worthy of Italian politics. But not enough for me.
Forza Italy, the "base" of Berlusconi, was intended as a hotbed of men change. In fact it has been a recycling plant and / or parking lot of political hobbyists, and for that reason I discarded almost immediately.
L 'UDC brought down a government, is riding the wave of a vague and centrist Catholic revival, but raised in addition to "signs of instability" and a certain opportunism seems to me there is little substance.
Step to the other side of the fence.
UDEUR , the home of mastelliani. Voice of the South. Or, rather, the voice of the smart south. A party that stands up thanks to its customers and thanks to the greed of the Great Center, home of compromise and immobility. The
Margaret, who started in the middle between centripetal forces and desired reforms left-handed, stood out for an 'intransigent opposition, "reckless regard for what the opposition will only know the uncompromising Rutelli. I would save Parisi, a real strategist and horse race. I have not digested the turnout of the referendum, which to me is a wound still open. The Greens
, with their rhetoric that rarely brings in its concrete content, belong to the tradition of "a few ideas but very confused." Theoretically, it is very good reasons to put environmental policy, but the Greens, in my view, have not been able to translate this project on a practical level, basking in demagoguery.
Refoundation Communist, after the blow to primary Bertinotti, continues to talk of revolution, returning to the old ideology, the old parties. I trust the intelligence of Faustus, but the ambiguity as regards the facts of Bologna and dangerous blows to the head of which stood out (the most severe in 1998), as well as other facts of no less gravity (such as the proposed close CPT) does not lead me to give him confidence.
Who's left? SDI, the Italian Communists, Radicals, Democrats of the Left, and the project brave. Discarding
SDI and PDCI on the fly, remain the last three.
Ideologically I feel very close to the radical liberal, liberal, libertarian. Ie: no interference Catholic business executive, scientific research without ethical constraints irrational opposition to a sudden withdrawal of Italian troops in Iraq (rather a "scheduling", as it seems to want to understand even Prodi). I am hesitant, however, leaves the spasmodic demand for amnesty. And I perplime alliance with the Socialists. In addition, Marco Pannella and its often remain isolated in our national political landscape. A lone voice, with ideas and ideals not that much innovative.
So, should I trust the DS and Prodi. In fact, Prodi to the project, which involves not only the Democrats of the Left, but the entire center. On site, there is surely something great: a party Ten million votes. The triumph of bipolarity, in fact. A long and obstacle-strewn path (the same Prodi acknowledged that it would take at least 5 years of the first to see tangible results), I certainly interesting and exciting in my opinion. But even here there are the negative notes: born and if a coalition party hostage? And if you were back all'ingovernabilità?
What I hope is a "third way" Italian . A conscientious energy policy (read: more space for alternative and renewable sources in times compatible with the consumer, perhaps taking a cue from the famous "ordenanza solar" English), a serious reappraisal of nuclear power (and already here come the first by Professor disappointment: he confirmed his opposition to power), greater protection of employees; rehabilitation education and research, the fight against waste, to the clienteles, commissions, administrations mangiasoldi; statement of law through the persecution of tax evasion and organized crime, granting the right to vote in local elections to the immigrants, reducing the financial gap between north and south (with a progress of the South, of course: D). All with a (nice) po 'Zapatero, especially as regards the substance.
discuss this issue again in January.
Excuse for any partiality with which I dealt with the facts: this is a very subjective discussion.