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LA PALLA DESTRA DI GIOVE : strange object in the solar system

Scientists say Haumea spins faster than anything else in the solar system, which causes its strange elongated shape. The Hubble Space Telescope will soon take a close look at the dwarf planet and its satellites, Hi'iaka and Namaka.

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NON VI POSSO LASCIARE SOLI PER PER UN PO' DI GIORNI CHE VI APPICCICATE COME BAMBINI - FATE I BRAVI SU CHE IO HO LA BANANA BUONA PER TUTTI ANCHE LA SCIMMIETTA DI FIORELLA AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAH COME VEDETE SONO OCCUPATO FATE I BRAVI LOL

About Il Duce

Ei fu, siccome immobile.... NAPOLEONE? IN UN CERTO QUAL MODO... SI MA IL NOSTRO NAPOLEONE.... IL DUCE IL ,PADRINO DEL FASCISMO ITALIANO... IL CONDOTTIERO CHE EBBE I COGLIONI DI PRENDERE UNA NAZIONE CHIAMATA ITALIA CHE SI ILLUDEVA DI AVER VINTO UNA GUERRA PUR ESSENDO DISPREZZATA DAI SUOI ALLEATI OLTRE CHE DAI SUOI NEMICI, UN'ITALIA A CUI IN PREMIO PER AVER COMBATTUTO VALOROSAMENTE AL FIANCO DEGLI INGLESI E DEI FRANCESI......NELL'ORA DELLA VITTORIA FU DERISA E SCARTATA DAI SUOI BORIOSI ALLEATI: GLI INGLESI... I FRANCESI E GLI AMERICANI. NATO IN POVERTA, IL FIGLIO DI UN FABBRO DI IDEE SOCIALISTE E DI UNA DEVOTA INSEGNANTE CATTOLICA MUSSOLINI PUE ESSENDO DI NATURA UN SOLITARIO ED UN RIBELLE INDOMABILE ,FIN DA PRINCIPIO ESIBI' UNA MAESTRIA FANTASTICA NELL'ORATORIA E CONOSCENZA DI LINGUE NONCHE' UN DONO PER LA COMPRENSIONE DELLA NATURA UMANA. EGLI DIVENNE PRIMA UN BRILLANTE EDITORE DI UN GIORNALE LETTO IN TUTTA ITALIA E SUCCESSIVAMENTE UN CARISMATICO CAPO DEL PARTITO SOCIALISTA CHE EVENTUALMENTE PRESE LE REDINI DEL GOVERNO D'ITALIA E CREO' L'IMPERO D'ITALIA FACENDONE UNO DEGLI STATI PIU ACCLAMATI DEL MONDO. MUSSOLINI RICOSTRUI' L'ITALIA SOLLEVANDOLA DALLA POVERTA' E LA DISTRUZIONE SEMINATA DALLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE, E FACENDOLA DIVENTARE UNA DELLE GRANDI POTENZE DEL MONDO E RESTAURANTO L'IMPERO ROMANO.....................ILMEDITERRANETO FU.. SOTTO LA SUA GUIDA "MARE NOSTRUM" DI NUOVO.......... IL NOSTRO LEGITTIMO IMPERO. MUSSOLINI DISPREZZAVA HITLER... NON SI FIDAVA DI LUI E LO CONSIDERAVA PIU' O MENO UN BUFFONE TEDESCO IGNORANTE E PRESUNTUOSO. SOMMARIZZANDO...............MUSSOLINI, L'IDOLO DELLE MASSE, L'UOMO IDEALE CHE FACEVA SOGNARE TUTTE LE DONNE ITALIANE ,L'UOMO AMMIRATO ED INVIDIATO L'UOMO CHE GANDHI CHIAMO "A SUPER MAN" ED ' 'UNO DEI PIU GRANDI STATISTI DI TUTTI I TEMPI'' L'UOMO CHE THOMAS EDISON DEFINI' "IL PIU GRANDE GENIO DEI TEMPI MODERNI" CAPI DI STATO COME WOODROW WILSON E WINSTON CHURCHILL VENIVANO A ROMA... A ROMA CAPITE, AD OFFRIRE OMAGGIO AL DUCE.... BENITO MUSSOLINI. CHURCHILL DISSE , DURANTE UNA SEDUTA AL PARLAMENTO BRITANNICO...''SE IO FOSSI ITALIANO IO SAREI FASCISTA" ZUM ZUM..... PUNTO E BASTA (QUESTO ARTICOLO FU GENTILMENTE RICHIESTO DA MRS KRAP WHOM I ADORE. GABRIELE

My response to Controinfo

Contro your message is directed to me and few others. Let me try to spill my guts or my brains if you like We are not a a real magazine a newspaper, we have no competence for that, nor can we go around interviewing famous people, do scoops and so on. The best we can do is finding issues on the web that may interest our community, on pain of being reported for violation of rights. On the other hand we are not politicians, or journalists forced to stay within limits and follow political or ethical rules, you made this clear when you invited me. Your plea to President Obama is an example of what I am saying here: you asked the President to refrain from talking n the name of US because Us has no moral authority. But he must follow a certain code, he is the President and is forced to say what he says and pretend that Us is the prime defender of human rights in the world. That said, the only thing that is left for us to do is writing whatever comes in our mind, provided that we do not insult anybody and I have not done that! Just a little sarcasm, irony Good Day Mister Contro

messaggio al blog

www.Napoli.com MY DEAR FRIENDS: I KNOW SOME OF YOU IN PERSON AND MANY ONLINE BUT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN MY HEART BECAUSE LOVE IS OFTEN INDEPENDENT OF PHYSICAL CONTACT: I LOVE ALL OF YOU INDISCRIMINATELY. I ENJOYED GOING TO ITALIAN CHAT FOR A WHILE THEN IT BECAME A NUISANCE FOR THE FEW CRIMINALS THAT FREQUENT IT AND KEPT GOING THERE TO HELP FRIENDS, I WOULD NEVER GO BACK THERE AND THEREFORE THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPLOIT THIS INCREDIBLE TOOL THAT SHORTENS DISTANCES AND DIFFERENCES OF ALL KINDS IS THIS BLOG. PLEASE DO NOT FORCE ME TO DELETE IT AS I WOULD NOT START A NEW ONE OR FIND ANY OTHER FORM OF CONTACT. IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM PICKING ON ONE ANOTHER, LET'S ALL ENJOY IT AND IF YOU DO NOT LIKE A PERSON JUST IGNORE HIM/HER THANKS BRUNO

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Paleoantropologia

La paleoantropologia (dal greco παλαιός, palaiòs = "antico", άνθρωπος, àntropos = "uomo" e λόγος, lògos = nel senso di "studio") o paleontologia umana è una disciplina dell'antropologia nata dallo studio dei resti fossili dell'uomo e dei tipi umani ormai estinti. Oggi tale disciplina si integra anche con lo studio del clima, della flora, della fauna, della cultura materiale ed delle credenze magico-religiose delle popolazioni scomparse.

Specie di ominidi

La frammentarietà dei ritrovamenti fossili, le condizioni di lavoro dei paleoantropologi e le dispute sulla validità delle varie datazioni, rendono l'elenco, consultabile nell'approfondimento, estremamente sensibile a frequenti e radicali cambiamenti. Tutte le date sono da intendersi con le approssimazioni relative ai diversi contesti di studio.

message to Mrs krap crop krup

Dear lady I have nothing against you, from what I gather on the blog you must be a very lonely person and you live on the blog, don't you have anything else to do? Let's see ..you must be unmarried, a zitella because you post a picture of yourself every five minutes and if you had a husband, a boyfriend, or a lover, I am sure they wouldn't like it unless he was a lover and a pimp ... A smart pimp however would not permit you to post your picture so often he would arrange for blind dates to make sure nobody sees you before paying him lol Ok I am just joking don't take it personally, read me I am a gay type and like to make jokes have a nice day and put a pic of your behind so by then we know every inch of your body Love Senza Tette... sigh

DINO RISI

Dino Risi contribuì anche al successo di attori come Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi. Nel 2002 aveva ricevuto alla 59ma Mostra del Cinema di Venezia il Leone d’oro alla carriera. Lascia la moglie Claudia, i figli d’arte Marco e Claudio, il primo regista, il secondo produttore

Il cinema italiano perde uno dei suoi grandi protagonisti Dino Risi, aveva 91 anni. Fra i padri della commedia all’italiana assieme a Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy e Ettore Scola, il regista fu artefice di alcune delle pagine più significative nella storia della cinematografia nostrana. Sue delle vere e proprie pellicole di culto come Poveri ma belli (1957), Il sorpasso (1962), I mostri (1963), Profumo di donna (1974), grazie a questa pellicola riceve un David di Donatello per la miglior regia, mentre il protagonista Vittorio Gassman viene premiato a Cannes come miglior attore.

Forse il film piu bello girato da lui :IL SORPASSO

Dino Risi, who passed away this June to little fanfare, helmed nearly 80 features over a career spanning seven decades, the most celebrated of them being this road comedy, one of the early influencers of the genre. A mild-mannered student (Jean-Louis Trintignant, more buttoned-up than usual) has his eyes opened to the excitements and vices of booming 60s Italy when he’s taken for a ride by a braggadocio businessman (Vittorio Gassman, whose last name fits his character in terms of his talking and driving). The garrulous script is co-written by Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much, A Special Day), and it shows in the story’s reliance on broad social types who require a full story arc to acquire dimension and pathos. Trintignant never overcomes the flat naivete of his character, basically a prop for Gassman’s blowhard hedonism, which borders on belligerence (not surprisingly, Risi also wrote and directed the original version of Scent of a Woman). But when Gassman points out a family secret to his protege’s unbelieving eyes, he gains credibility as a social critic who’s not so much an asshole as too smart for his own good, earning the film a rib-jabbing cynicism worthy of Billy Wilder. The sudden, tragic ending feels as arbitrary as the one in Easy Rider [TSPDT #331], a film it allegedly inspired, while other sardonic moments are undercut by the film’s essential ambivalence towards its own social critique: a fete full of gum-chewing teenyboppers eager to lose their virginity brims with leering undertones of adult envy; a sun-baked beach party exceeds tourist ad levels of brain-fried fun. The Easy Life’s ambivalent worldview may lack the singular formal curiosity of Antonioni (whose L’Eclisse is the target of the film’s biggest punch lines) or the carnivalesque lyricism of Fellini, but the way it mixes equal parts hipper-than-thou wisecracks, mainstream morality and tasty dollops of la dolce vita may account for its mass appeal.

Vittorio Gasmann una leggenda del cinema italiano

Vittorio Gassman Date of Birth: 01 September, 1922 Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria , Italy Biography: Vittorio Gassman (September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions...

Biography Vittorio Gassman (September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which made him greatly popular). He was born in Genoa to a father from a wealthy family of German origins and a Pisan mother. While very young he moved to Rome, where he attended the studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica where some of the most important figures of Italian theatre and cinema also studied, such as Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Adolfo Celi, Luigi Squarzina, Elio Pandolfi, Rossella Falk, Lea Padovani and, later, with Paolo Panelli, Nino Manfredi, Tino Buazzelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Monica Vitti, Luca Ronconi and many others. Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's Nemica (theatre), he then moved to Rome and the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to the sophisticated intellectual theatre, with no apparent difficulty in the sudden changes. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, the year after he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in in Riso amaro. It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played a vigorous Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio, then emphatic in Shakespeare's Rosalinda or in Vittorio Alfieri's Oreste. He then joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà, for a successful Peer Gynt (Ibsen). With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes or Aeschylus's The Persians. In 1956, a key year in his career, Gassman played a memorable Othello with the great actor Salvo Randone, exchanging with him the roles of the Moor and Iago. A little later, in the television series entitled Il Mattatore (spotlight chaser) he obtained unexpected success and Il Mattatore soon became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. That year Gassman also directed and starred in a movie dedicated to theatre: it was a version of Kean. Gassman's debut in the commedia all'italiana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958). He was dubious of the results, as he had been so far known only as a dramatic actor, not a comic one. His role was however so successful that subsequently Gassman become considered one of the mainstays of the genre, together with Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Nino Manfredi and Ugo Tognazzi. Famous movies featuring Gassman include: Il sorpasso (1962), La Grande Guerra (1962), I mostri (1963), L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Profumo di donna (1974) and C'eravamo tanto amati (1974). A true perfectionist, he always hated imperfect diction, and "dialectal corruptions" (but he was also able to render, perfectly and when needed, most of almost all Italian dialects and inflections). Quite bravely, he accepted the challenge of directing Adelchi, one of the less known and more difficult works by Alessandro Manzoni. He toured his production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante (a newer edition of the famous Carro di Tespi). His productions include most of the famous authors of the 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of Shakespeare, Dostoevskij and the Greeks. He also founded a theatre school in Florence, which formed many of the more talented actors of the current generations. In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood; it was during an early stint there that he met and married Shelley Winters, whom he divorced to return to Italy. However, according to David Shipman's book The Great Movie Stars: The International Years, Gassman considered his 1950's Hollywood films among the worst he had made in his career. So, despite his success in films, Gassman never left theatre. In the latter part of his career, he added poetry to his repertoire, helping to bring to Italy foreign works. Gassman married three actresses: Nora Ricci (with whom he had Paola, an actress and wife of Ugo Pagliai); Shelley Winters (mother of his daughter Vittoria); and Diletta D'Andrea who gave him his younger son Jacopo. In addition, he had an affair with actress Juliette Maynel (who gave him Alessandro, also an actor.) Gassman was a man of intense emotions and intellectual honesty; his notable sense of humour and self-irony led him in the 1990s to take part in the popular TV show Tunnel in which he very formally and "seriously"' recited documents such as utility bills, yellow pages and similar trivial texts, such as washing instructions for a woollen sweater or cookies ingredients. He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy. Gassman was also discussed as a person on account of his private life - his divorces (a noted scandal in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s) and his initial atheism. Also, in his public appearances on TV, he often made original or unconventional comments, sometimes with the clear intention of "shaking things up"; he also gained many enemies in show business for similarly frank judgments . In his late years he was a victim of depression. He died of a heart attack in his Roman home.

Arriva online il sito ufficiale di Ugo Tognazzi http://www.ugotognazzi.com/.

Gian Marco Tognazzi ha spiegato con il suo Web designer e l'aiuto di uno schermo, i contenuti e le particolarità delle 250 pagine che formano il sito, on-line da ieri sera, ma ancora da terminare. Una “casa virtuale” per ricordare il grande attore Ugo Tognazzi scomparso diciannove anni fa. Il figlio Gian Marco Tognazzi ha voluto realizzare un sito che raccogliesse attraverso informazioni e curiosità la vita artistica del padre Ugo. Ci sono voluti tre anni di lavoro per mettere in piedi http://www.ugotognazzi.com/, con il supporto dell’Imae del web designer Fabrizio Scianaro (Norman Klasser). Sul sito si potranno trovare pagine sulla vita privata di Ugo Tognazzi e la famiglia, sul suo lavoro, in cinema e televisione, la cucina e le sue ricette. Curiosità varie, oltre a video e foto inedite con aggiornamenti sulle iniziative a lui intitolate, le programmazioni dei suoi film tv e tanto altro, in modo da diventare così uno strumento di approfondimento per tutti coloro che lo stimano. Il sito è stato presentato alla stampa in occasione dell’86° anniversario della nascita dell’attore, ancora vivo nella memoria di milioni di affezionati. E Gian Marco Tognazzi di questo progetto ne va fiero: “Sono orgoglioso di aver realizzato questa iniziativa. E’ un progetto a cui tenevo molto. Ci ho lavorato tanto, insieme agli esperti. E ora che è in rete sono davvero soddisfatto, è un omaggio ai tanti estimatori e fans di mio padre”. Alla serata di presentazione, dove il Prime era allestito con i manifesti di alcuni film di Ugo Tognazzi, alcune pagine del suo ricettario, album fotografici ed un documentario proiettato sul muro, tra gli ospiti presenti: Valeria, la moglie di Gian Marco Tognazzi, con la figlia Andrea, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Simona Izzo, Francesco Venditti, Pierluigi Diaco, Eros Galbiati, Elda Alvigini, Luca Lionello, Antonia Liskova, Giorgio Pasotti, il produttore Alessandro Jacchia, il regista Massimiliano D'Epiro, Marco Minetti, Ivan Cotroneo, Fabio Ferzetti, e molti altri.

Music from Matt- Hiromi

So this artist's name is Hiromi Uehara. She is a Japanese piano player who sounds like she was classically trained then switched to jazz. I gave her some listens and actually didn't really dig her sound, but maybe you guys will. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fKuTD52gQ- Return of the Kung Fu Champion This track is a little over the top with snyth/effects and such. If you dont like that one, try some of these ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lviFjwS5Vr0- Love and Laughter part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69E1v-FWtSc- Deja Vu (with Chick Corea) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdqAiRe7JLw- Spiral part 1 Alrighty there she is. It's pretty cool stuff, she's very good at piano of course. If you dig her, remember her name is Hiromi Uehara. Go crazy! Keep on groovin~

One more thing Mister President

We know your heart and we praise it as the most noble thing that could happen to US, but please do not address the Iranians in the name of America and tell them what to do and how to respect the rights of their citizens as by so doing you put a weapon in the mouth of the ayatollah Think of Sacco e Vanzetti innocent people killed by the government only because of their political beliefs think of Noam Chomsky, Hilary Putnam, in Nixon black book, only because they marched against the Vietnam War and spoke openly about Israeli's abuses committed against the Palestinians From the beginnings of the 20th century, the United States has forged its national unity based upon the denunciation of an internal enemy. The communists occupy a privileged place among the targets of this witch hunt, which also include anarchists, citizens of Japanese descent, homosexuals and atheists. The U.S. Federal Government created gigantic structures of repression coordinated with employer militias Think of what US has done to freely elected leaders like Allende in Chile... and i could go on for pages Think of Us collusion with dictators like the Shah of Persia and many others ... Just say that what the regime in Iran is doing is repugnant to every civilized human being don't give them the opportunity to turn the accusations against you!

President I supported you, leave my sigarettes alone!

Obama to sign anti-smoking bill in Rose Garden President Barack Obama leaves the White House for a Father's Day golf outing at Fort Belvoir, Va., south of Washington, Sunday, June 21, 2009. (WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco. Obama is scheduled to sign the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act during an event Monday in the Rose Garden. The law allows the FDA to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large graphic warnings. The law won't let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco outright, but the agency will be able to regulate what goes into tobacco products, make public the ingredients and prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children. Anti-smoking advocates looked forward to the bill after years of attempts to control an industry so fundamental to the U.S. that carved tobacco leaves adorn some parts of the Capitol. Opponents from tobacco-growing states like top-producing North Carolina argued that the FDA has proved through a series of food safety failures that it's not up to the job. They also said that instead of unrealistically trying to get smokers to quit or to prevent others from starting, lawmakers should ensure that people have other options, like smokeless tobacco. As president, George W. Bush opposed the legislation and threatened a veto after it passed the House last year. The Obama administration, by contrast, issued a statement declaring strong support for the measure. Obama has spoken publicly of his own struggles to quit cigarettes

PRIMO TEMPO>> brasile 3- Italia 0

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SPORT:Lippi lancia Dossena Italia-Brasile e ...poi tutti al mare

www.Napoli.com Nella rifinitura il c.t. azzurro ha schierato il terzino del Liverpool al posto di Grosso, mentre il tridente d'attacco vede Camoranesi-Iaquinta ai fianchi dell'attaccante del Bayern, punta centrale. Difende Cannavaro e Gattuso e avverte: "Comunque vada la Confederations Cup, a cominciare dalla sfida di questa sera contro il Brasile, nessuna rivoluzione per l'Italia" JOHANNESBURG (Sud Africa), 10 giugno 2009 - Quattro novità. A questo sta pensando Marcello Lippi che, dopo l'inattesa sconfitta con l'Egitto, ha intenzione di cambiare in tutti i reparti l'Italia nella gara contro il Brasile, da vincere a tutti i costi (e con un ampio scarto) per garantirsi il passaggio alle semifinali della Confederations Cup. Il c.t. azzurro nella rifinitura ha provato Dossena in difesa al posto di Grosso, per il terzino sinistro del Liverpool sarebbe l'esordio assoluto in questa competizione. A centrocampo Montolivo dovrebbe essere preferito a Gattuso, in questo caso per il giocatore della Fiorentina si tratterebbe dell'esordio da titolare. Stesso discorso vale per Luca Toni, che sembra in vantaggio su Gilardino nel tridente offensivo. Ai suoi lati Iaquinta e Camoranesi, quest'ultimo tenuto fuori contro l'Egitto. questo e' il meglio — Ma le novità non sono il trampolino di lancio di un ribaltone azzurro. "Comunque vada la Confederations Cup, a cominciare dalla sfida di questa sera contro il Brasile, nessuna rivoluzione per l'Italia": lo ha detto Marcello Lippi nella consueta intervista pre-partita a RaiSport. "Nessuno pensi - ha spiegato con forza Lippi - e lo dico ancor prima di giocare, che se per caso le cose non dovessero andar bene, qua ci sia chissà cosa. Sento parlare di rinnovamenti, gente che sta a casa: questi qui sono i migliori giocatori che in questo momento Italia può dare alla Nazionale. Ci sono altri giovani, che sono già venuti con noi e che saranno inseriti gradatamente. Ma possono fare quello che vogliono, scrivere quello che vogliono: checchè ne dicano, il progetto è questo, sia chiaro". createEmbed("2570_5a5e5fe6-5e6d-11de-a55f-00144f02aabc", "ConfCup_News", "88e48109-905b-4db2-92d2-a347736faf3c"); totem — Lippi ha avuto parole di grande elogio per Cannavaro ("uno che gioca 125 volte in Nazionale, e lo fa con quella serietà, quella brillantezza e con l'immagine che ha, non può che fare bene anche la 126ª") e di Gattuso ("è fondamentale per la nostra crescita, l'avrei portato anche se fosse stato al 50 per cento"), ha risposto alle critiche di chi lo ha rimproverato di non aver usato la Confederations come test per i giovani: "Pensate - ha detto - che se avessi portato 6 o 7 giovani, e una Nazionale sperimentale, e poi avessimo perso, non avrebbero detto tutti 'ma perchè siamo venuti con questa nazionale?'". Stamane nel ritiro sono arrivati il presidente della Federcalcio Giancarlo Abete, il vicepresidente Demetrio Albertini e il direttore generale Antonello Valentini. Gli azzurri, prima di trasferirsi al Southdowns College per la rifinitura, sono stati accompagnati da un canto zulu augurale da parte del personale dell'albergo. dal nostro inviato Riccardo Pratesi

LA FERRARI PENSA AL 2010 in un campionato Foca? Massa solo 4* a Silverstone, Raikkonen 8*

Silverstone, trionfo Red BullVettel 1°, Ferrari a punti Il tedesco precede il compagno di squadra Webber e la BrawnGP di Barrichello. Felipe quarto con la prima rossa davanti a Rosberg, Button e Trulli. Raikkonen ottavo

Useful Information from Wikipedia

Amnesty International From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amnesty International Motto: It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Founded: July 1961 by Peter Benenson in the UK Location: GlobalGeneral secretariat in London Key people: Irene Khan, Seán MacBride, Martin Ennals, Peter Benenson, Thomas Hammarberg, Eric Baker, Ian Martin and Pierre Sané Fields: Protecting human rights Services: Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, lobbying Members: 2.2 million members and supporters Website: http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is an international non-governmental organisation which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Founded in London, England in 1961, AI draws its attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international standards. It works to mobilise public opinion which exerts pressure on individuals who perpetrate abuses.The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture" and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978. In the field of international human rights organisations (of which there were 300 in 1996 Amnesty has the longest history and broadest name recognition, and "is believed by many to set standards for the movement as a whole."[4]

History 1960s Amnesty International was founded in London in July 1961 by English labour lawyer Peter Benenson. According to his own account, he was travelling in the London Underground on 19 November 1960, when he read of two Portuguese students who had been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for having drunk a toast to liberty. In his famous newspaper article The Forgotten Prisoners, Benenson later described his reaction as follows: "Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a story from somewhere of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government [...] The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust could be united into common action, something effective could be done." Benenson worked with friend Eric Baker. Baker was a member of the Religious Society of Friends who had been involved in funding the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament as well as becoming head of Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and in his memoirs Benenson described him as "a partner in the launching of the project".In consultation with other writers, academics and lawyers and, in particular, Alec Digges, they wrote via Louis Blom-Cooper to David Astor, editor of The Observer newspaper, who, on May 28, 1961, published Benenson’s article The Forgotten Prisoners. The article brought the reader’s attention to those "imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government" or, put another way, to violations, by governments, of articles 18 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR). The article described these violations occurring, on a global scale, in the context of restrictions to press freedom, to political oppositions, to timely public trial before impartial courts, and to asylum. It marked the launch of "Appeal for Amnesty, 1961", the aim of which was to mobilise public opinion, quickly and widely, in defence of these individuals, who Benenson named "Prisoners of Conscience". The "Appeal for Amnesty" was reprinted by a large number of international newspapers. In the same year Benenson had a book published, Persecution 1961, which detailed the cases of several prisoners of conscience investigated and compiled by Benenson and Baker. In July 1961 the leadership had decided that the appeal would form the basis of a permanent organization, which on 30 September 1962 was officially named 'Amnesty International' (Between the 'Appeal for Amnesty, 1961' and September 1962 the organization had been known simply as 'Amnesty'.) What started as a short appeal soon became a permanent international movement working to protect those imprisoned for non-violent expression of their views and to secure worldwide recognition of Articles 18 and 19 of the UDHR. From the very beginning, research and campaigning were present in Amnesty International’s work. A library was established for information about prisoners of conscience and a network of local groups, called ‘THREES’ groups, was started. Each group worked on behalf of three prisoners, one from each of the then three main ideological regions of the world: communist, capitalist and developing. By the mid-1960s Amnesty International’s global presence was growing and an International Secretariat and International Executive Committee was established to manage Amnesty International’s national organizations, called ‘Sections’, which had appeared in several countries. The international movement was starting to agree on its core principles and techniques. For example, the issue of whether or not to adopt prisoners who had advocated violence, like Nelson Mandela, brought unanimous agreement that it could not give the name of 'Prisoner of Conscience' to such prisoners. Aside from the work of the library and groups, Amnesty International’s activities were expanding to helping prisoner’s families, sending observers to trials, making representations to governments, and finding asylum or overseas employment for prisoners. Its activity and influence was also increasing within intergovernmental organizations; it would be awarded consultative status by the United Nations, the Council of Europe and UNESCO before the decade ended. 1970s Leading Amnesty International in the 1970s were key figureheads Sean MacBride and Martin Ennals. While continuing to work for prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International’s purview widened to include "fair trial" and opposition to long detention without trial , and especially to the torture of prisoners Amnesty International believed that the reasons underlying torture of prisoners, by governments, were either to obtain information or to quell opposition by the use of terror, or both. Also of concern was the export of more sophisticated torture methods, equipment and teaching by the superpowers to "client states", for example by the United States through some activities of the CIA. Amnesty International drew together reports from countries where torture allegations seemed most persistent and organized an international conference on torture. It sought to influence public opinion in order to put pressure on national governments by organizing a campaign for the 'Abolition of Torture' which ran for several years. Amnesty International’s membership increased from 15,000 in 1969[11] to 200,000 by 1979. This growth in resources enabled an expansion of its program, ‘outside of the prison walls’, to include work on “disappearances”, the death penalty and the rights of refugees. A new technique, the 'Urgent Action’, aimed at mobilizing the membership into action rapidly was pioneered. The first was issued on March 19, 1973, on behalf of Luiz Basilio Rossi, a Brazilian academic, arrested for political reasons. At the intergovernmental level Amnesty International pressed for application of the UN’s Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and of existing humanitarian conventions; to secure ratifications of the two UN Covenants on Human Rights (which came into force in 1976); and was instrumental in obtaining United Nations General Assembly resolution 3059 which formally denounced torture and called on governments to adhere to existing international instruments and provisions forbidding its practice. Consultative status was granted at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 1972. In 1976 AI started a series of fund raising events informally known as The Secret Policeman's Balls. Initially they were staged in London primarily as comedy galas featuring popular British comedic performers such as members of Monty Python, later expanding to include leading musical performers. The series was created and developed by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and entertainment industry executive Martin Lewis working closely with Amnesty staff members Peter Luff (Assistant Director of Amnesty 1976-1977) and subsequently with Peter Walker (Fund-Raising Officer from 1978). Cleese, Lewis and Luff worked together on the first two shows (1976 and 1977). The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture"[3] and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978. 1980s 1986 Faroe postage stamp celebrating AI's 25th anniversary - Painting by 11 year old Rannvá Kunoy By 1980 Amnesty International was drawing more criticism from governments. The USSR alleged that Amnesty International conducted espionage, the Moroccan government denounced it as a defender of lawbreakers, and the Argentine government banned Amnesty International’s 1983 annual report.[14] Throughout the 1980s, Amnesty International continued to campaign for prisoners of conscience and torture. New issues emerged, including extrajudicial killings, military, security and police transfers, political killings; and disappearances. Towards the end of the decade, the growing numbers worldwide of refugees was a very visible area of Amnesty International’s concern. While many of the world’s refugees of the time had been displaced by war and famine, in adherence to its mandate, Amnesty International concentrated on those forced to flee, because of the human rights violations it was seeking to prevent. It argued that rather than focusing on new restrictions on entry for asylum-seekers, governments were to address the human rights violations which were forcing people into exile. Apart from a second campaign on torture during the first half of the decade, the major AI event of the 1980s was the 1988 Human Rights Now! tour. Designed to increase awareness of Amnesty and of human rights on the 40th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it featured some of the most famous musicians and bands of the day playing a series of concerts on five continents over six weeks. [edit] 1990s Throughout the 1990s, Amnesty International continued to grow, to a membership of over 2.2 million in over 150 countries and territories,[15] led by Senegalese Secretary General Pierre Sané. AI continued to work on a wide range of issues and world events. For example, South African groups joined in 1992 and hosted a visit by Pierre Sané to meet with the apartheid government to press for an investigation into allegations of police abuse, an end to arms sales to the African Great Lakes region and abolition of the death penalty. In particular, Amnesty International brought attention to violations committed on specific groups including: refugees, racial/ethnic/religious minorities, women and those executed or on Death Row. The death penalty report When the state kills (ISBN 0691102619) and the ‘Human Rights are Women's Rights’ campaign were key actions for the latter two issues and demonstrate that Amnesty International was still very much a reporting and campaigning organization. During the 1990s Amnesty International was forced to react to human rights violations occurring in the context of a proliferation of armed conflict in: Angola, East Timor, the Persian Gulf, Rwanda, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. Amnesty International took no position on whether to support or oppose external military interventions in these armed conflicts. It did not (and does not) reject the use of force, even lethal force, or ask those engaged to lay down their arms. Instead, it questioned the motives behind external intervention and selectivity of international action in relation to the strategic interests of those sending troops. It argued that action should be taken in time to prevent human rights problems becoming human rights catastrophes and that both intervention and inaction represented a failure of the international community. Amnesty International was proactive in pushing for recognition of the universality of human rights. The campaign ‘Get Up, Sign Up’ marked 50 years of the UDHR. Thirteen million pledges were collected in support of the Declaration and a music concert was held in Paris on December 10, 1998 (Human Rights Day). At the intergovernmental level, Amnesty International argued in favor of creating a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (established 1993) and an International Criminal Court (established 2002). After Senator Augusto Pinochet of Chile was arrested in London in 1998 by the Metropolitan Police, Amnesty International became involved in the legal battle of Senator Pinochet, a former Chilean President, who sought to avoid extradition to Spain to face charges relating to his rule of Chile in the 1970s and 80s. It emerged during this legal process that one of the judges in the English House of Lords, Lord Hoffman, had an indirect connection with Amnesty International and this led to an important test for the appearance of bias in legal proceedings in UK law.[16] Amnesty then sought a judicial review of the decision to release Senator Pinochet, taken by the then British Home Secretary Mr Jack Straw, before that decision had actually been taken, in an attempt to prevent the release of Senator Pinochet. The English High Court refused[17] the application and Senator Pinochet was released and returned to Chile. This legal challenge was a novel attempt to use legal process to challenge a decision before it was taken and could be seen as hard to reconcile with the rule of law, as it was predicated on a presumption that the Home Secretary had erred in law whatever the reasons were for the decision.[citation needed] [edit] 2000s After 2000, Amnesty International’s agenda turned to the challenges arising from globalization and the reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. The issue of globalization provoked a major shift in Amnesty International policy, as the scope of its work was widened to include economic, social and cultural rights, an area that it had declined to work on in the past. Amnesty International felt this shift was important, not just to give credence to its principle of the indivisibility of rights, but because of what it saw as the growing power of companies and the undermining of many nation states as a result of globalization.[citation needed] In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the new Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Khan, reported that a senior government official had said to Amnesty International delegates: "Your role collapsed with the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York".[18] In the years following the attacks, some of the gains made by human rights organizations over previous decades were eroded. Amnesty International argued that human rights were the basis for the security of all, not a barrier to it. Criticism came directly from the Bush administration and The Washington Post, when Khan, in 2005, likened the US government’s detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a Soviet Gulag.[19][20] During the first half of the new decade, Amnesty International turned its attention to violence against women, controls on the world arms trade and concerns surrounding the effectiveness of the UN. With its membership close to two million by 2005,[21] AI continued to work for prisoners of conscience. Amnesty International reported, concerning the Iraq war, on March 17, 2008, that despite claims the security situation in Iraq has improved in recent months, the human rights situation is disastrous, after the start of the war five years ago in 2003.[22] In 2008 Amnesty International launched a mobile donating campaign in the United States, which allows supporters to make $5 micro-donations by sending a text message to the short code 90999 with the keyword RIGHTS. Amnesty International’s mobile fund raising campaign was created in partnership with Mgive and the Mobile Giving Foundation.[23] Work “ Amnesty International’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, Amnesty International’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. ” —Statute of Amnesty International, 27th International Council meeting, 2005 Amnesty International primarily targets governments, but also reports on non-governmental bodies and private individuals ("non-state actors"). There are five key areas which Amnesty deals with:

Women's Rights, Children's Rights, Ending Torture and Execution, Rights of Refugees and Rights of Prisoners of Conscience. Some specific aims are to abolish the death penalty, end extra judicial executions and "disappearances", ensure prison conditions meet international human rights standards, ensure prompt and fair trial for all political prisoners, ensure free education to all children worldwide, decriminalize abortion[24], fight impunity from systems of justice, end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, free all prisoners of conscience, promote economic, social and cultural rights for marginalized communities, protect human rights defenders, promote religious tolerance, stop torture and ill-treatment, stop unlawful killings in armed conflict, and to uphold the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. To further these aims, Amnesty International has developed several techniques to publicize information and mobilize public opinion. The organization considers as one of its strengths the publication of impartial and accurate reports. Reports are researched by interviewing victims and officials, observing trials, working with local human rights activists and by monitoring the media. It aims to issue timely press releases and publishes information in newsletters and on web sites. It also sends official missions to countries to make courteous but insistent inquiries. Campaigns to mobilize public opinion can take the form of individual, country or thematic campaigns. Many techniques are deployed such as direct appeals (for example, letter writing), media and publicity work and public demonstrations. Often fund-raising is integrated with campaigning. In situations which require immediate attention, Amnesty International calls on existing urgent action networks or crisis response networks; for all other matters, it calls on its membership. It considers the large size of its human resources to be another one of its key strengths.