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For those who have believed: Influenza H1N1, peak end

ROME, Aug 10 - The worst of the pandemic influenza H1N1 is over, and the alert went from level 6, the highest, to 'post-pandemic'. This was announced by the Director-General Margaret Chan after a meeting in which they reviewed the latest data on the spread of the virus.

"The virus has not disappeared - said the Director-General Margaret Chan, who has accepted the advice of a panel of experts from WHO - but is behaving like a nomal seasonal viruses. During the press conference on the influence Chan said that in countries where the virus has been this season that did not substitute, "but has given rise to a 'mix viral', a typical behavior of normal influenza viruses. "" The behavior of the virus is unpredictable - he added - in this case a pandemic appears to have been 'lucky'. "
Source: Ansa.it

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" If a despotic power settles in democratic countries, it would certainly have different characteristics from the past: it would be larger but more bearable, and degrade men without torment. A system that might seem paternal, but instead would try to set the men to their childhood, preferring to be having fun rather than thinking. I see a huge crowd of men like, running endlessly on themselves to obtain the minutes and vulgar pleasures of which nourish the soul. Each of them is in itself considered as a stranger to the fate of all other ... As for the rest of their fellow citizens, does not see them: touch them, but not feel them. And if the family still has some meaning for him, is the company not having any. "

Alexis de Tocqueville, La démocratie en Amerique , 1840.

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Point Hon. Zacchera the Mark of the PDL

No 331, July 31, 2010

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IS BROKEN AND THE PDL
'difficult to summarize in a few lines of my deep sadness at the goings on of the "divorce" between Fini and Berlusconi.
They won the hawks on both sides with the two leaders who perhaps are not aware of how the choice of not wanting to compare the content, rather than give breath to the controversy, will - I fear - not only today but many divisions other future disasters. The mutual dislike has prevailed on the personal duty to seek a minimum of agreement focused on practical things and the principles that unite them, however.
Perhaps the "advisors" of both are not really of such great political strategists if they have not considered the risks they now expose the entire ruling coalition.
Who asks me "Which Side Are You?" I say that I continue to be a rightist who has worked all his life to make it credible and insert it fully and proudly in the context of Italian politics. I was skeptical - see "The Point" of recent years - the confluence of AN accelerated in the first PDL without a deeper explanation programmatic, political and internal relations. But Fini insisted that step (as he chose to make the Speaker of the House), and only a few months after it clears what is the point? Maybe he did not know the first merits and defects of Berlusconi, his character and his way of doing? So - I have written him and repeated - Fini does not seem to realize that to lose most of all is our human world is shattered, our voters - especially the North, where the League gloats - which were of AN, the community people who had confidence in him. Rest
Member of PDL in this list because I was elected (or better "appointed") and would not be consistent and fair go, but I can only stress that the party lacks a real internal dialogue, a willingness and ability to discuss a report peaceful between the different members of the PDL. Above all else it is either the right strategic political choice to finally have a big party in Italy's center-right in itself but has several faces and in this perspective, the failure of today is absurd.
It 's true that Fini was led for months on some magazines, a newspaper attack sometimes instrumental and demagogy that has only mounted resentment, exasperation and hostility, but he also - before and after the attacks - has often taken contradictory positions (from ethical principles to vote for immigrants, citizenship) without ever confronting the party, as well as some of his friends were often better to shut up.
And if by some confusion the "revelations" for the apartment in Monaco remain large and unresolved problems of transparency in the PDL, where the "moral issue" has become important and can not be hidden or minimized because it threatens to undermine the credibility of the whole party. Berlusconi meditate on these things, because otherwise I fear that others will go away and eventually will fall even his electoral support.
It 's a dark moment when you need calmer, more willingness to talk to each other at least, more awareness that millions of Italians are watching us worried after having confidence in us and are completely baffled by this turn of events, because close to other problems .
reflect the same days as when the government launches a bold economic reform to save the country from the brink, while undertaking the reform of the university, a new highway code, fiscal federalism and other important decisions are at stake for the economy, jobs and the future of the whole nation is lost and everything falls apart in mutual insults.

As I can not be upset if - in the same hours Thursday night was realized that the split - the Minister La Russa explained to the House as the sergeant Mauro Gigli has deliberately sacrificed in Afghanistan saving more lives of Italian soldiers. Comparing these two very different situations every other comment seems to me simply absurd. PIEDMONT RISK

I fear it is increasingly at risk the outcome of the recent regional elections in Piedmont and more seriously I wonder how it ever be possible - even if there had been irregularities in the presentation of some lists - do not consider, however, the votes cast by those same lists even for the president Cota. Who voted those lists - still accepted by a court! - He still intended to vote Cota, except those who explicitly wanted (and could) vote Bresso: how can you deny it? So we can not but note how, democratically, a majority of voters wanted to have the Piedmont Governor. In the same way I feel bad that the judges of the TAR convene conferences of Turin press to explain their thinking: the judges write judgments (sometimes questionable), but are not open to the media show the same or lose their credibility and independence. BARA
WHEN THE STATE TO PLAY
One of the most obvious absurdity that seems appropriate to point out is the relationship between pollution and the fever of the institutions of organized play.
On one hand, courses are organized to prevent dependence on machines, video poker and other dangerous game-addiction, the other is allowed to open anywhere in arcades that lead inevitably to the ruin of the people.
Nobody has an idea of \u200b\u200bhow many simple people, retirees, housewives burn in a few hours salaries and pensions of the machines bar causing a real pay social.
Not only that, if for decades have said no to the opening of new casinos - where at least the players are identified and controlled - it encourages and now the game is advertised through the web where no one checks anything (including the fact that minors do not play) and where players are regularly part of the chickens. Meanwhile
multiply not only lotteries but any sort of "scratch cards" where the relationship between prize money and play is ludicrous, to the detriment of the players.
many, buying a ticket (in euro, "Cuba" a little, but if its cost was still expressed in pounds would require compliance) realize that over 70% of their stake goes in taxes and duties and then the mathematical probability of winning is completely decoupled from the actual payout?
Why - I asked in vain for this government intervention - on every play, ticket, receipt of payment are not likely to win Record this and that actually paid? Because if on a package of cigarettes, writes that "smoking harms health" on a scratchcard (not) win does not write "In this game you only pay 28% payout to what is played" ... Maybe everyone would be more careful to throw away their money.
Instead the state is the gambler, cash sums impressive but you still blowing too much of a whole cake from the court of scammers, manipulators of machines, printers of fake games and when they finally (very rarely) you put your hands on the response of some mega-scam (like the recent seizure over 100,000 machines bootleg) at the end everything is cheating and the investigation essentially end in nothing. And these are not a game! THE CAT IN THE EVENING

signal the opening of Villa Olimpia (Verbania Pallanza) of a new evening and weekend catering "The Cat in the evening" that goes beyond the soup-kitchens and is intended to ease the plight of a group of unemployed by offering them a chance to come and work also to extend spaces aggregation of "jail", the canteen run by ex-prisoners and now has also become a useful social gathering. The evening menu is set at 10 euro as well as the holiday and is being implemented also a delivery service dinners at home. Villa Olimpia is a fine in the old town of Pallanza and during the summer you can dine outside in the garden or in the arcades.
ACTIVITIES 'PARLIAMENTARY
Segnalo many of my recent work in the classroom and the Foreign Affairs Committee with the presentation of questions, resolutions and orders of the day. These included approval by the Government of an agenda on Standard Cost in Local Authorities for better transfers redistribute national, the questions about "cuts" to the National Parks and the courts, on the situation in prisons (such as Asti) and for a more rational use of the School of Prison Police at Verbania. For a new foreign intervention in favor of Don Mario Bartolini, a missionary in Peru at risk of conviction, while the Committee for Italians in the world are examining proposals to reform the electoral system to vote abroad. More information on my site or that of the Chamber.
VERBANIA: FUN!
Verbania is a city with many problems, but it is also a corner of paradise if you think Local Councillor of the PRC Communist even find the time to submit three questions in the municipal council on many huge problems. The first on why on a stand of second-hand dealer has been exposed for sale a bust of the leader (we are in 2010!) Fearing the reconstitution of the dissolved National Fascist Party, the second about why a country festival in a snake (live) was - poor! - Preserved in a glass case and then to express its strong protest because they - want to pass on September 5 the Guinness Book of Records for a composition of sweets (candy ") - and whose income would contribute to the creation of cancer registry the VCO, has accepted the delivery (free) for those candies by Nestle, famous and sinister multinational ... "Alega"
GREETINGS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS! MARCO ZACCHERA

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Secrets of History: Bonaparte at Waterloo

Napoleon and the "saddle sore" that afoot in Waterloo. The pain prevented him from riding and the Emperor did not see the battle (which, as is known, ended in defeat).

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An attack of hemorrhoids and the lack of a few pounds of nails. You can lose a battle (also) for two little trouble like that. It happened to Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. To avoid being shot by fans of the Little Corporal and the professional historians, it should say at once that the defeat that ended once and for all the First Empire was not caused only by such trivialities. But it had some influence, by going to add weight to elements of higher education as well, for example, the superb leadership of the Duke of Wellington, the tenacity of the British soldiers and the poor training of the French troops. To understand how and why, you should get on a hypothetical time machine and go back to June 18 of 195 years ago to look down on the battlefield. The dawn has risen recently. It rained all night, the ground is soft and muddy, so that the artillery, the formidable French artillery, will be less dangerous than usual because the ball sink instead of bouncing and stop, killing far fewer soldiers than normal. As the sun heats the air, however, the land dries out and begins to smoke. The wheat covers the fields that separate the French lines from those of the English opponents, which moreover are deployed largely behind the crest of the hills that stand in the way to Brussels and are therefore not very visible by their opponents. We
in June, the wheat harvest is ripe but not yet there: the farmers, with all those soldiers who will face in the area for days, have fled or hid, waiting to emerge out of a battle to go over at night to rob the dead and wounded. The rows of soldiers who come to the British, while the sound of drums and thundering guns already, they disappeared between the ears. Then, when the opposing infantry begin to fire, the smoke of gunpowder covers everything in every report of Napoleonic battles, it emphasizes the darkness that invades a few minutes later the battlefield (and the thirst that invariably haunts fighters with sore throats). In short, in Waterloo, including wheat, steam and smoke, soon is not seen nothing. Moreover almost always happened. And the generals of the time, in order to have a minimum visibility and control, you simply place a horse on a hill behind the grid and from there, as on a chessboard, moving their training, the reserves were to intervene, trying to find and exploit what the Germans call the Schwerpunkt, the focal point of the battle, where you decide the day. But Napoleon's hemorrhoids, is hardly in the saddle (on the other side Wellington tireless rides from one side of the grid), moves into the carriage and takes much of the battle from behind, seated on a chair in one point, the pains are so strong that the Emperor is forced to resort to the care of doctors, who apply compresses of lead acetate on the inflamed and filled with laudanum (tincture of opium).
The Napoleon of Austerlitz, that horse looked from the Pratzen the attack of the Austro-Russian and plans to defeat, is a distant memory. Waterloo to not "see" the battle, either physically or through the eyes of the mind throughout the day, his tactic seems to run slow and not always at the height of his fame, his grip on the situation seems far from firm. The strategic genius is always a time and shows the plane that brought him to Waterloo: the first to hold off the British and the Prussians beat (and we almost succeeded in Ligny, two days before), then put all the weight Army against Wellington and beating. But the field is losing shots. It would be a tragedy if his officers were those triumphs. But the chief of staff is no longer Berthier, the man who had the task of transforming the words of genius in the operational plans: died June 1 fell from her window, perhaps an accident, possibly suicide, possibly killed by the faithful Bourbon to stop to meet the emperor. Now in its place is the Marshal Soult, which its predecessor has neither the competence nor charisma. And to command the soldiers were on the field Marshal Ney, the "bravest of the brave" but not an eagle, and Grouchy, who is in pursuit of the Prussians. Or rather, he believes to chase them when in fact the bulk of their forces have done a tour and is returning to Waterloo to the French right wing.
So when, at about 15.30, Ney decided to use against the British, who have rejected all the attacks of the French infantry, five thousand cuirassiers of his heavy cavalry, the emperor is far away from piles bent in the rear, not knows, perhaps not aware of it and does not stop him. Why the move to Ney is idiotic: the infantry attacked by cavalry closed in square formation that bristled with bayonets, was virtually impenetrable. The squares were however very vulnerable to artillery. To be able to break through, then had to threaten them with artillery inmodo that the infantry was forced to open up and redeployed in line at which point it could attack with the cavalry. Ney's move had only one justification: to force the British to abandon their artillery pieces and take refuge in the squares, in order to win the guns, to deprive the British soldiers for their support of fire and carry out their artillery. And Ney, albeit at the cost of heavy losses, he can not.
But at this point in the dance nails, or rather the lack thereof. The Napoleonic guns were heavy and sturdy contraptions with primitive pointing devices, hard to damage. But a system to knock out there: they planted a nail hammered in Focone without heads, the hole that allowed to set fire to the office of launch. But Ney did not cuirassiers nails: maybe no one has thought to bring, perhaps the sacks containing them are hung on the saddle of the dead horses lying everywhere. So as soon as the horse moves away, the British gunners come out of square and resume shooting. The cuirassiers dismounting and mounting, but without concluding anything, if not bleed to death and deprive the emperor of all stocks of heavy cavalry. Meanwhile, the Prussians are coming. The British counter-attack. It's over. ( www.corriere.it )