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Zidane: "Testata a Materazzi? Benedico la moviola"
L'ex fuoriclasse della Francia torna a parlare dell'espulsione nella finale di Berlino: "Giusto che si andata così; non so come avrei potuto vivere con questo peso sulla coscienza, se i Bleus fossero diventati campioni del mondo "
PARIGI, 22 dicembre 2009 - Giusta l'espulsione e determinante in quegli attimi concitati l'intervento del quarto uomo che aveva visto tutto sul monitor. A distanza di quasi quattro anni dalla finalissima di Germania 2006, Zinedine Zidane torna sull'episodio della testata a Marco Materazzi, neo nella sua carriera di campione proprio nel giorno del suo addio al calcio.
- La foto sequenza della testata a Marco Materazzi. Epa
giusto cosi' — L'ex fuoriclasse francese lo fa dicendo di aver approvato l'uso, seppure improprio, della moviola che aveva rivelato il suo brutto gesto. "È stato un bene che sia andata così - dice l'ex centrocampista francese in un'intervista al settimanale France Football -. È stato giusto che Buffon abbia avvisato l'arbitro per segnalargli quello che avevo fatto, perché non era carino". Insomma è stato meglio ai fini della correttezza e del risultato che quel gesto contro il difensore azzurro sia venuto alla luce. "Onestamente non so come avrei potuto vivere con questo peso sulla coscienza, se i Bleus fossero diventati campioni del mondo e io fossi rimasto in campo. Avrei vissuto male, questo è certo. Soprattutto perché quella sarebbe stata la mia ultima immagine da calciatore in attività.
henry — Che non è il caso di "Titì" aggiunge Zidane, alludendo a Thierry Henry, protagonista del fallo di mano non sanzionato dall'arbitro che ha permesso alla Francia di qualificarsi ai mondiali del prossimo anno, eliminando nello spareggio l'Irlanda di Trapattoni, con conseguente coda di polemiche. "Sarebbe stato molto difficile vivere con un titolo da campione del mondo ottenuto dopo un simile gesto!", conclude Zidane.
lunedì 21 dicembre 2009
Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon
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- LEGAZPI, Philippines — Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.
Tens of thousands of people have already been evacuated from the foothills of Mayon, which on Monday emitted lava fountains, powerful booming noises and other signs of an approaching eruption. But authorities are having trouble keeping villagers away from their homes and farms, said Gov. Joey Salceda.
"There are people who have been evacuated three times, and we sigh: 'You again?' " said Salceda of central Albay province. "We've been playing cat and mouse with them."
After a week of puffing out ash and sending bursts of lava trickling down its steep slopes, the 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) mountain overlooking the Gulf of Albay and Legazpi city shook with nearly 2,000 volcanic earthquakes and tremors between Sunday and Monday, state volcanologists said.
The emission of sulfur dioxide — an indication of magma rising inside the volcano — jumped to 6,000 tons per day from the normal 500, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. It also reported "audible booming and rumbling sounds" in the eastern flank of the volcano, accompanied by intensified crater glow at night.
Lava fountains bursting from the cone-shaped volcano overnight rose 650 feet (200 meters) in the air, the institute said.
Scientists raised the alert level Sunday to one step below a hazardous eruption, saying one was possible within days. The only higher level is when a major eruption is already in progress.
Army troops and police added more patrols to enforce a five-mile (eight-kilometer) exclusion zone around the mountain, Salceda said. The area is about 210 miles (340 kilometers) southeast of Manila.
More than 44,000 residents were given sleeping mats and food inside school buildings, gyms and other emergency shelters, but some have still been spotted checking on their farms in the prohibited zone.
About 3,000 more villagers have held out, staying behind on the fringes of the danger zone out of concern for their homes and belongings. Many have been evacuated only to come back to tend to farms and property.
Army troops have been deployed to persuade them to move to safety, said Jukes Nunez, a disaster management official.
"We won't bodily carry them away because that will violate their rights," Nunez told The Associated Press. "But we've sent troops to persuade and nag them nonstop to move to safer areas."
Scientists said red hot lava flows had reached three miles (five kilometers) from the crater.
A major eruption could trigger pyroclastic flows — superheated gas and volcanic debris that race down the slopes at very high speeds, vaporizing everything in their path. More extensive explosions of ash could drift toward nearby towns and cities. The provincial capital of Legazpi is about nine miles (15 kilometers) away.
In Mayon's other eruptions in recent years, pyroclastic flows had reached up to four miles (six kilometers) from the crater, Salceda said.
"The probability of survival in an eruption is zero if you're in the danger area. The solution is obviously distance," he told the AP.
Mayon last erupted in 2006, when about 30,000 people were moved. Another eruption in 1993 killed 79 people.
The first recorded eruption was in 1616 but the most destructive came in 1814, killing more than 1,200 people and burying a town in volcanic mud. The ruins of the church in Cagsawa have become an iconic tourist spot.
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo exploded in the northern Philippines in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century, killing about 800 people.
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It is a recurrent event that I find out about people only after they die, I didn't know this one was ever alive
LOS ANGELES - The unexpected death of 32-year-old Brittany Murphy, who gained fame in such movies as "8 Mile" and "Just Married," appeared to be from natural causes but police are investigating, officials said.
Murphy died about 10 a.m. Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the hospital.
She was transported to the medical center after the Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. at the home she shared with her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, in the Hollywood Hills.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Murphy apparently collapsed in the bathroom, and authorities were looking into her medical history.
An official cause of death may not be determined for some time, since toxicology tests will be required, but "it appears to be natural," Winter said. He said an autopsy was planned for Monday or Tuesday.
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into Murphy's death, Officer Norma Eisenman said. Detectives and coroner's officials were at Murphy and Monjack's home Sunday afternoon but did not talk to reporters. Paparazzi were camped outside the multistory home, located above the Sunset Strip.
Neighbor Clare Staples said she saw firefighters working to resuscitate the actress Sunday morning. She said Murphy was on a stretcher.
Murphy's husband, wearing pajama bottoms and no shoes, appeared "dazed" as firefighters tried to save her, Staples said. "It's just tragic," she added.
Murphy's publicist, Nicole Perna, said in a statement: "In this time of sadness, the family thanks you for your love and support. It is their wish that you respect their privacy."
Messages left for Murphy's manager and agent by The Associated Press were not immediately returned.
Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, said he learned of her death from his son, the actress's brother, and was stunned.
"She was just an absolute doll since she was born," Bertolotti said from his Branford, Fla., home. "Her personality was always outward. Everybody loved her — people that made movies with her, people on a cruise — they all loved her. She was just a regular gal."
He said he hadn't heard much about the circumstances of Murphy's death. Bertolotti divorced her mother when Murphy was young and hadn't seen Murphy in the past few years.
"She was just talented," Bertolotti said. "And I loved her very much."
Born Nov. 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Murphy grew up in New Jersey and later moved with her mother to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Her career started in the early 1990s with small roles in television series, commercials and movies. She is best known for parts in "Girl, Interrupted," "Clueless" and "8 Mile."
Her on-screen work had lessened of late, but Murphy's voice gave life to numerous animated characters, including Luanne Platter on more than 200 episodes of Fox's "King of the Hill" and Gloria the penguin in the 2006 feature "Happy Feet."
She is due to appear in Sylvester Stallone's upcoming film, "The Expendables," set for release next year.
Her role in "8 Mile" led to more recognition, Murphy told AP in 2003. "That changed a lot," she said. "That was the difference between people knowing my first and last name as opposed to not."
Murphy credited her mother, Sharon, with being a key to her success.
"When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold everything and moved out here for me," Murphy said. "I was really grateful to have grown up in an environment that was conducive to creating and didn't stifle any of that. She always believed in me."
She dated Ashton Kutcher, who costarred with Murphy in 2003's romantic comedy "Just Married."
Kutcher sent a message on Twitter Sunday morning about Murphy's death: "2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine," Kutcher wrote. "My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon."
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
Health Care bill clears key Senate test
WASHINGTON — Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas.
"Let's make history," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, shortly before the bill's supporters demonstrated their command of the Senate floor in an extraordinary holiday season showdown.
The bill would extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans who now lack it, while banning insurance company practices such as denial of benefits on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.
The atmosphere was intensely partisan, but the outcome preordained as senators cast their votes from their desks, a practice reserved for issues of particular importance. Administration officials who have worked intensely on the issue watched from the visitor's gallery despite the hour. So, too, Vicki Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who championed health care across a Senate career that spanned more than 40 years.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's announcement Saturday that he had decided to support the bill — in exchange for a variety of concessions — cemented the Democrats' 60-vote majority behind a bill assembled at the direction of Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Republicans conceded Democrats had the votes, but said they hadn't heard the end of it.
"One can stop it, or everyone will own it," said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, a thinly disguised warning that his party will use the issue in the 2010 midterm elections.
In a strong attack on Obama, he said, "a president who was voted into office on the promise of change said he wanted lower premiums. That changed. He said he wouldn't raise taxes. That changed. He said he wanted lower costs. That changed. He said he wouldn't cut Medicare benefits. That changed."
But Reid countered with a list of Nevadans whom he said have suffered at the hands of insurance companies. "On average, an American dies from lack of health insurance every 10 minutes. That means that in the short time I have been speaking, our broken system has claimed another life."
Still, McConnell called the vote the culmination of a long debate, an acknowledgment that it was the single most important vote. Democrats must post 60 votes twice more, and Republicans can delay final passage until Christmas, but not prevent it.
Nelson came in for strong criticism from Republicans in Washington, who complained that he had won favorable treatment for his home state's Medicaid program. In a bit of political theater, they sought to open the bill up to extend it to all 50 states, but Democrats objected.
Nelson's agreement to an abortion-related change in the bill drew criticism from Nebraska Right to Life, a longtime supporter, and the state's Catholic bishops, who issued a statement that they were "extremely disappointed" in him.
His rebuttal came in the form of his vote, as well as a statement. "Too many Nebraskans struggle more each year to pay rising health care costs," he said. "Too many fear or face bankruptcy and too many are left behind, unable to obtain basic health coverage for themselves and their families."
The House has already passed legislation, and attempts to work out a compromise are expected to begin in the days after Christmas.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the legislation would reduce deficits by about $132 billion over a decade, and possibly much more in the 10 years that follow. Republicans counter those figures are illusory, because they depend on cuts to Medicare that will never take place.
At its core, the legislation would create a new insurance exchange where consumers could shop for affordable coverage that complies with new federal guidelines. Most Americans would be required to purchase insurance, with subsidies available to help families making up to $88,000 in income afford the cost.
In a bow to Senate moderates, the measure lacks a government-run insurance option of the type that House Democrats placed in their bill. Instead, the estimated 26 million Americans purchasing coverage through new insurance exchanges would have the option of signing up for privately owned, nonprofit nationwide plans overseen by the same federal agency office that supervises the system used by federal employees and members of Congress.
The full extent of Reid's maneuvering was still unclear.
Nelson won numerous changes, including tougher restrictions on abortion coverage and an estimated $45 million in federal Medicaid funds, enough to completely cover his state's costs of complying with an expansion of the program mandated by the bill.
Vermont and Massachusetts also won additional Medicaid funds; plastic surgeons were persuasive in their bid to strip out a proposed tax on elective plastic surgery; hospitals in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana won additional Medicare funds; and there was more money for hospitals in Hawaii to treat the uninsured.
While Nelson's vote was the decisive one to fall into place for the Democrats, only an unpredictable series of events has left them with the ability to gain 60 without any help from Republicans.
They began the year with a caucus of 58, including 56 Democrats and two independents. Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter added to their ranks in April when he suddenly bolted from the Republican party, and Sen. Al Franken made it 60 when he was sworn into office in July after a long Minnesota recount.
It was only a few weeks before Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a longtime advocate of universal health care, succumbed after a long battle with brain cancer and Democrats reverted to 59 seats.
With a heavy push from Reid and the White House, and a request Kennedy wrote not long before his death, Democrats in the Massachusetts Legislature quickly changed state law so Gov. Deval Patrick could appoint a temporary replacement.
Paul Kirk, a longtime Kennedy associate and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was sworn in Sept. 25. "We're prepared to go to work," he said.
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L'ALBERO LUMINOSO Più GRANDE DEL MONDO Nell'attesa del celestial vagìto D'amore, pace e volontà fecondo Nasce a Gubbio, proteso all'infinito Il più bello e grand'albero del mondo. Albero luminoso che affratella, ai condottieri illumini le menti, doni vita serena quella stella e irradii pace in tutti i continenti. Brillan le luci su per l'erto Ingino Fervente omaggio a Ubaldo gran patrono Che a difesa del popolo eugubino sconfisse gli odi e seminò il perdono. Scorra da Gubbio e ovunque il pio messaggio germogli carità schiacciando il male dalle città al più piccolo villaggio… Da Gubbio a tutto il mondo… "Buon Natale". BIBLIOGRAFIA RADICCHI P. Misticanza…e…la morale de la favola, a cura delle "Cementerie A. Barbetti" - Tipografia Zebi - Gubbio 1988.
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L' Albero più Grande del Mondo
L'Albero ha stimolato anche la vena poetica del poeta dialettale eugubino Piero Radicchi che nella raccolta "Misticanza… e… la morale de la favola…" scrive:
L'ALBERO LUMINOSO Più GRANDE DEL MONDO Nell'attesa del celestial vagìto D'amore, pace e volontà fecondo Nasce a Gubbio, proteso all'infinito Il più bello e grand'albero del mondo. Albero luminoso che affratella, ai condottieri illumini le menti, doni vita serena quella stella e irradii pace in tutti i continenti. Brillan le luci su per l'erto Ingino Fervente omaggio a Ubaldo gran patrono Che a difesa del popolo eugubino sconfisse gli odi e seminò il perdono. Scorra da Gubbio e ovunque il pio messaggio germogli carità schiacciando il male dalle città al più piccolo villaggio… Da Gubbio a tutto il mondo… "Buon Natale". BIBLIOGRAFIA RADICCHI P. Misticanza…e…la morale de la favola, a cura delle "Cementerie A. Barbetti" - Tipografia Zebi - Gubbio 1988.
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