Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Velodyne Subwooferstopped Working

presentation with Veltroni, Alemanno, Regina, Mondello, Pambianchi all'Aniene

I presented last night at the rowing club Aniene my book on Rome - the storming of Rome - with several people in this city do not necessarily think like me but which was really a pleasure to chat. There were Gianni Alemanno, Walter Veltroni, Aurelio Regina, Andrea Mondello, Pambianchi Cesare, Giovanni Malago and Luis Costamagna. We talked about different topics in my book and said some things I think deserve to be told. The three speakers more closely linked to the business world Roman (Mondello, who is president della Camera di Commercio, Pambianchi, che è numero uno dei commercianti di Roma, e Regina, numero uno degli industriali romani) erano sostanzialmente d’accordo con una cosa che dico in maniera chiara nel mio libro. Lo hanno detto loro stessi: la presa di Roma è avvenuta perché gli amministratori (di sinistra) della Capitale hanno privilegiato troppo un piccolo gruppo di imprenditori della città; e gli altri, loro compresi, si sono ribellati. Alemanno è stato cortese e critico nei confronti del mio libro. Ha letto il finale del libro, in cui spiego come il sindaco di Roma ha tutte le carte per potersi presentare alla fine del suo mandato come candidato alla presidenza del consiglio, e sfottendomi un po’ ha detto che pensare a una cosa del genere porta Jella, “guardate – ha detto con Veltroni che lo guardava sconcertato – come sono finiti gli altri sindaci di Roma che hanno provato a fare i presidenti del consiglio”.

Una cosa che il sindaco di Roma non ha invece ben compreso del mio libro riguarda il tipo di descrizione che faccio della città. Alemanno sostiene che la Presa di Roma sia un romanzo storico in cui Roma viene descritta come un insieme di gente senza scrupoli e di malaffare che scorazza per la città, “quasi come se fosse una Chicago degli anni Trenta”. Io ho cercato di spiegare al sindaco che descrivere la meccanica della conquista della città comporta anche il dover mostrare i volti delle persone di potere che tentano every day to influence the choices of the directors of the Capital, these people are there and in Rome. Nothing wrong with that: the men of power, especially those who are making a lot of money in the city, are important because if they are involved with intelligence in the affairs of the city are able to produce wealth for the city. A bill, however, is working with them, another is to follow their agenda. I did then to note that Alemanno Rome is a city that has the advantage of being in constant evolution for several years. Roma, who lives there knows, is a city where you live where you live fine but certainly better than a few years ago. Security, whatever people may say in the election campaign, è un problema che riguarda più la percezione che altro: dal 2007 a oggi il trend dei reati segna un calo continuo e il merito è di tutti: sia del sindaco precedente sia di quello attuale. Veltroni – che parlando con Giovanni Malagò, presidente del Circolo Aniene, ha lanciato un messaggio piuttosto chiaro a Bersani: “Caro Giovanni, in Italia funziona che quando si amministra qualcosa o si governa qualcosa chi viene dopo di te tende sempre a voler azzerare tutto quello che tu hai fatto spiegando sempre, in modo davvero bizzarro, che bisogna ricominciare da zero” – ha invece contestato in modo garbato una dei temi secondo me più delicati che esamino nella prima parte del libro. Io sostengo che la sinistra a Roma, specie in the last election, has revealed in a one of its most glaring deficit in its current policies: zero attention to the suburbs. What the book calls the Model field of flowers is an example of a political scheme which devotes much attention to the center of the city and finds himself forced to neglect the outlying areas.

Veltroni said that the left has failed to argue that the suburbs is a nonsense. Carefully, however, concerns not only the data that Rutelli Alemanno defeated in 2008 (two thirds of the votes came from the suburbs, and is not much) but also the last regional elections (in Lazio, the center has lost because he lost all peripheral provinces) and even the latest national results (the center in Italy, let us case, can not be a majority in any of the outlying Italian) data that the left no longer knows how to interpret local needs of his constituents, unfortunately, it seems a matter of fact . Another thing that I pointed out then my reply to the last two mayors of Rome. You can think what you want to Veltroni and Rutelli Alemanno and even, but there is an undeniable fact that must be taken into consideration when it comes to the leadership of Rome. There is no other Italian city - or Milan, Turin or Naples, or Palermo: none - that it was capable of producing negli ultimi anni una nuova classe dirigente come quella romana. Veltroni, Rutelli e secondo me anche Alemanno, rappresentano, o in certi casi hanno rappresentato, tre modelli di leadership nazionale che possono piacere o non piacere ma che non sono passate inosservate. Alemanno dice che non ha intenzione di candidarsi tra tre anni a Palazzo Chigi. Bene, vedremo se manterrà la promessa.

Qui tutte le cose che sono uscite sulla serata di ieri

RIFORME: ALEMANNO, IL FEDERALISMO FISCALE? MAGARI ARRIVASSE SUBITO (ASCA) - Roma, 26 apr - ''Magari arrivasse presto il federalismo fiscale''. A dirlo il sindaco di Roma Gianni Alemanno nel corso della presentazione del libro di Claudio Cerasa ''La presa di Roma'' are still in progress at the rowing club Aniene the presence, among others, Walter Veltroni and the President of the Industrial Union, Aurelio Regina. Alemanno said that''the fact that capital and 'we carry a boulder on his shoulders''and this has stressed the need' to deliver quickly to fiscal federalism. Alemanno also explained that from 1870 onwards in this country have never come to terms with the fact that Rome and 'the capital and not any policy. bet / sam / lv 262042 April 10 NNNN

ROME: ALEMANNO, PD IS FREE OF SHOCK AND FACE OPPOSITION AWARE Rome, April 26 (Adnkronos) - "The Democratic Party is free from shock and trauma accumulated as the City of Rome and the Region and face opposition more 'composed and aware'. It is said that the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno speaking today at the Rowing Club Aniene the presentation of the book by Claudio Cerasa, 'The fall of Rome', in response to the former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, who accused the opposition to have a little Anglo-Saxon aplomb. Rome mayor also said to have frequently problems "to find partners with which to address the problems the Romans." (Cap / Gs / Adnkronos) 26-APR-10 21:00 NNNN

TOWNS: LONDON; VELTRONI, NEVER BETTINI INTERVENTION IN OUR CHOICES (ANSA) - ROMA, 26 APR -''I want to clear up any doubt: Goffredo Bettini it 's never intervened in the choices we made in Rome, so' as Gianni Letta, I have always defined the human face of the enemy camp, I called when there were short-circuiting.'' He said the former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, now deputy, during the presentation of the book by Claudio Cerasa, editor of Il Foglio, 'The fall of Rome', which was also attended by the mayor Gianni Alemanno. Veltroni stressed that he is back to talk of Rome, except for some specific occasions, after two years. ''When you change jobs - he added - they change jobs and should not hinder those who come after you. Verra 'time for a review on Alemanno but this is not' the place.'' The former mayor also spoke of Italy as a country where''those who are 'elected must show to begin from scratch. It 's a country that so'''.( ANSA). TAG / IMP 26-APR-10 21:16 NNN

TOWNS: LONDON; ALEMANNO Veltroni, the mayor FORMULA 1 (ANSA) - ROMA, 26 APR -''When you will end your mandate will be considered the mayor of the city 'of Formula 1, as some have spoken of me as the mayor of the Festa del Cinema, living God, we have done well to achieve.'' He said the former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, now deputy, during the presentation of the book by Claudio Cerasa, editor of Il Foglio, 'The fall of Rome', which was also attended by the mayor Gianni Alemanno. (ANSA). TAG / IMP 26-APR-10 21:22 NNN

TOWNS: LONDON, Alemanno, Mayor for a straight? DOOR Ielli (ANSA) - ROMA, 26 APR -''In the book I read that I would be trying to do what 'they have done previously Rutelli and Veltroni, Rome using to make a national scale. But they did not succeed and now, according Cerasa, we'd be trying it myself. There 'nothing that brings more' bad luck to think such a thing.'' He said the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, during the presentation of the book by Claudio Cerasa, 'The fall of Rome'. What Cerasa''- he added - 'a book in which Rome is described as a series of bands sympathetic villains. Fortunately, things are not so '. I would not call a book of record but a good historical novel.''(ANSA). TAG / SCN 26-APR-10 21:23 NNNù

PDL: VELTRONI, GIANNI READ THE HUMAN FACE OF THE ENEMY LINE-UP EVER MADE AS OF THE REST Goffredo Bettini Rome, April 26 (Adnkronos) - "Goffredo Bettini it 's never intervened in any administrative choice, but even Gianni Letta. The' human face 'of the line opponent. I called only when short circuits were to be resolved, like the one on the house." It 'as said the former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, speaking today next to the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno Aniene Rowing Club at the presentation of the book by Claudio Cerasa,' The fall of Rome '. (Cap / Opr / Adnkronos) 26-APR-10 21:23 NNNN

ROME: ALEMANNO, OPPOSITION OVERCOME TRAUMA LOSS CAPITOL (AGI) - Rome, April 26 - "The opposition and Pd of Rome to be freed from the traumas accumulated in these two years and try to make opposition more 'composed and aware. Often I have difficulty 'in finding partners. "Said the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, speaking in the evening the presentation of the book" The capture of Rome, "the journalist Claudio Cerasa. The event was attended by former mayor Walter Veltroni who had denounced "that national costume, a little Anglo-Saxon, so who comes to power negatively judge the work of those and 'came first." However, Alemanno controversy than in past administrations can not be attributed only to the attitude of the majority but also to the opposition, "which did not have the maturity ' understand that we have inherited problems that were not heavy caused by a few months of our government. "(AGI) Cli / About / DMA / Between April 10 NNNN 262134

ROME: VELTRONI, LEFT FOR LOST suburbs? E 'A Baggiani ( AGI) - Rome, April 26. - "It 'a nonsense to say that the suburbs have condemned the Centre" at the last municipal elections won by the mayor Gianni Alemanno, and that might have been the main driver of a shift in the political balance City ''. It is claimed that the former mayor of the capital, Walter Veltroni, who spoke in the evening the presentation of the book 'The fall of Rome' journalist Claudio Cerasa. Also present was the mayor Alemanno, however, that ' has a different interpretation of what happened two years ago: "in the central areas has won the center-left, but we won in the suburbs everywhere." A reconstruction that, according to Veltroni, would instead be contradicted by the data, "the suburbs have voted for us in both 2006 and in 2008 - he concluded - and this could not have happened if we had governed badly." (AGI) Cli / STP 262152 April 10 NNNN

Church Contribution Letter Sample

La Presa di Roma su Repubblica/2

"The term 'capture of Rome" as if to make the mayor meant for me to follow in the footsteps of Rutelli and Veltroni to use the Capitol and then groped for the bang to national power. I do not care, because there's nothing that brings more bad luck. " Joked the mayor Gianni Alemanno on its possible future as a premier and clear up doubts about a climb at Palazzo Chigi in 2013.
The intervention of the mayor comes during the debate on the book's editor in chief of Il Foglio "Claudio Cerasa note entitled" La Presa di Roma "(Rizzoli), which recounts the evolution of a city from the model Rutelli and Veltroni Rome its deus ex machina Goffredo Bettini to the capital "captured" by the center and to eighteen months in office Alemanno.
A presentation which was also attended by former mayor Walter Veltroni. "After two years, except for special occasions when I was asked, I'll be talking about Rome - said Veltroni in a great shape - When you change jobs, change and we must not impede those who come after you. "
Then when you start talking about his city, Rome, is a river in flood. "We have tried to undermine the prejudices of Rome: he was lazy, that no one works here, a city without soul and ministries where the economic powers are the masters - said the lawmaker - Before there were the commissioners who were Rutelli taken away by police because they also stole the plates, then the image is changed even implementing the Auditorium, the new car, the new Fiera di Roma, the yards for the meter. We had an idea of \u200b\u200bthe city that we have made in the field, right or wrong it is, but without spirit and soul does not govern.
And again: "They remind me of the Film Festival and thank goodness we did because it has boosted the tourism, but you'll be the mayor of the Formula 1 '. The book analyzes the defeat of his center-left from the suburbs and Veltroni stresses: "It is there that we have done the bulk of our work, we have not lost, it is a nonsense because we took 40% of the votes." Aleman denies admitting to dedicate his victory thanks to the suburbs.
"In the central areas of the left has won, but we in the suburbs anywhere. And thanks to the precision and the rules that we want to give to Rome. Now the city is safer, given the data on the reduction of crime ' states and the mayor adds, "The Power of Rome is a beautiful novel about Rome, but unhitched from reality." Replication stopped Claudio Cerasa: "A book written in a fictional course, but describing the city with many many interviews and data. It is an attempt to describe the leadership of Rome and the mechanisms of capture of a city. "
April 27, 2010

Laura Serlo

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Cat In The Hat Party Plates

Dandelion crust of bread

Larissa, in expat land in Albion and strong withdrawal symptoms from spring vegetables that are not broccoli and peas, sends me moving recipes with nettles, which goes to find the fields value generation and luckily the loaf as a cave woman. I have come to mind while reading the other herbs in this season are in the fields, and have been trained to recognize a child, when I lived in the country. The most common and easy to find and recognize is the dandelion; for which, Larissa looks good figure here, and unleashed nose to the ground. Then sappimi say.


This is a country pie, strictly spring: the dandelion has a single, short harvest season in April, and it is worthwhile to take advantage. It is also the market, if you do not have fields (like me, and it saddens me) available. Carasau bread is light, delicious, versatile and too little used outside of the traditional recipes sardines. It's perfect instead to wrap and contain fillings of all kinds.
Ingredients for 2 servings
  • 500 gr (circa) di tarassaco (detto anche pisacan, o soffione, cicoria matta)
  • 2 o 3 fogli di pane carasau
  • 1 caprino (o un po' di caprino e un po' di ricotta di pecora)
  • 1 cucchiaio di parmigiano grattugiato
  • 1 uovo piccolo
Mondare e lessare il tarassaco.
Strizzarlo bene, e tritarlo grossolanamente con il coltello.
Mescolarlo bene all'uovo e ai formaggi, salare e pepare.
Passare sotto l'acqua fredda i fogli di pane e lasciarli riposare qualche minuto, finché diventano soft.
Lightly grease a baking dish lined with sheets of bread, overlapping them a bit 'and letting sbordino abundantly from the container, fill with the mixture and fold the edges to cover everything well.
Sprinkle with a little 'oil, and bake at (about) 200 ° (approximately) 20 minutes, then grill and brown until the surface is pretty crisp.
Who is on a diet, sacrifice and save the egg (about) 80 calories without serious damage.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Where To Cruise Long Island Gay

I giorni della felpa a righe


No, lo prometto, non è che ho indossato la citata felpa a righe per giorni e notte e giorno consecutivamente senza cambiarmi mai.. però sì, il calore in cui è riuscita ad avvolgermi non si è interrotto un momento, e mi ha energizzato vigorosamente, tanto da risentirlo tutt'ora sul sorriso che è quello che è bello vedere.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Steam Vs Dry Cleaning Clothes

La Presa di Roma su Sette

The good news was announced in January 2001 on the 'Espresso'. Farewell circles of yore, those with togethers once a month, with members bound together by strong habits, easy harmonies that were translated into talks which could dipendere il mondo, o, almeno la parte del medesimo più a portata di mano. No, d'ora in poi nessun bisogno di maggiordomi assidui, regole sconvolgenti come il divieto ai telefonini e, tantomeno, di appuntamenti inevitabilmente difficili da rispettare. Tutto in rete. A distanza. A qualunque ora. Era nato Retronet: «L'ultimo club vip della new economy. Quindici soci fondatori, una sede più virtuale che reale... L'obiettivo di unire in un solo gruppo i primi animatori del web italiano». Nove anni dopo, di Retronet si sono perse le tracce.È l'epoca dei social network, dall'universale Facebook a Odnoklassniki che pare funzioni solo in Azerbaijan, tutti impegnati a infrangere la barriera del numero di Dunbar, quella che fisserebbe a 150 persone il massimo possibile di una rete sociale. Ma, ai livelli più alti della società, non accenna a decadere l'importanza dei cenacoli, degli 'inner circle', delle confraternite. Con sedi in palazzi antichi, poltrone in cuoio un po' usurate, foresterie dove impera l'etichetta o, almeno, appuntamenti fissi in alberghi e ristoranti dal consolidato buon nome. Proliferano, anzi. Luoghi d'eccellenza di quello che oggi si chiama "capitalismo di relazioni".I circoli cosiddetti "sociali" sono i più esclusivi, origini spesso ottocentesche e albo dei soci denso di blasoni aristocratici. Sono 18 in Italia - quelli dell'Unione in varie città, gli Scacchi e la Caccia a Roma, il Clubino a Milano e il Whist a Torino, per citare i più known - and have just updated their yearbook with a new elite membership, the Teatro di Brescia. In Genoa, the tunnel is called "Art Club", had to solve problems here - you are transferring in the Doria Palace - but there still decide the important roles of owners and industrial citizens. The entrance to the Milan club is a dangerous adventure where you gain prestige, but you can also burn with unexpected waste. And in sports clubs are calibrated Roman's most important assets of SOEs, from the presidency Rai, identified in the locker room Rowers Rome, where much has benefited from the proximity of lockers Gianni Letta and Paul Garimberti. The circle as mortgage
Aid - The sports clubs of the capital are special case. Focus on the banks of the Tiber River upstream of the city have deserved a chapter - 'The gold circles' - in the book by Claudio Cerasa, 'The fall of Rome' (Rizzoli): "There was political and not bothered how to manage and how to possibly exploit the potential that lies behind the sports clubs, and especially dell'Aniene. "With good continuity between the First and Second Republic. The film, in this case is evidence of truth. With the sketch of Andreotti - in 'The Divo'di Sorrentino - when analyzing the situation coolly and is not accused of mafia to worry but the smallest of matters, "I've been discouraged removed from the chairmanship of the musical circles. " And with the apotheosis of the Roman sports club painted by Christian De Sica in 'likes and dislikes' (where Cesare Previti is embodied to perfection by Gianfranco Funari). From his observatory Dagospia, Roberto D'Agostino said: "What was left to Roman GENERON once taken over from the economic point of view? Be part of the rich son who saves the patrician palace. And become a member of the circle, next to the ones you've saved from rovina.Sono mutual aid that work very well. "Antico Tiro a Volo - on top of the Parioli - collects a high percentage of the legal personality of the Authority and, until the Constitutional Court. Presided over by Advocate Anastasio Michael Pugliese, counts among its members Domenico Fisichella, Antonio Catricalà, Luigi Mazzella, Franco Frattini, Lino Denise, Corrado Calabro. Salvatore says Taverna, former columnist of the 'Messenger', "the poet of the night" as he called Fellini: "In summer there is the most beautiful holiday clubs. Very traditional and very elegant. " Rowing to Rome he was president until 2008 Gianni Battistoni (now the role is covered by Andrea Tinarelli, manager dell'Unicredit). That's where the film was shot by De Sica. Battistoni he's sorry - "I seccai much later. Why tease the Lazio Rowing "- and that scales the power is concentrated in the circle: "Certainly, members have important, but the amalgam remains the sport. Maybe the American model is where you would get, with lobbying, trade opportunities and major agreements. But here we can not succeed because the student spirit and is never serious. And I know from friends who by definition do not get anything. We are twinned with the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame is there, the tombstone of the fallen for their country, their jackets at the club. Imagine. Maybe elsewhere ...». Elsewhere means Rowing Aniene, with President John Malago, said even maliciously megaliths. "Expensive. But as you redo them, "he said referring to the entry around. Malaga is on track dopo un salutare massaggio alle nove di mattina, memore delle lezioni dell'avvocato Agnelli che lo trattava da proconsole nella capitale: «Le nostre regole? Come la Costituzione che recita "promuovere lo sport". Ridicolo pensare ad altre cose, a un centro alternativo alle situazioni esistenti di potere. C'è spirito sociale. Una cosa diversa dal lobbying. Nel senso che il socio medico ti indica dove andare a curarti se ne hai bisogno». Altre volte Malagò è meno decoubertiniano. Nel libro di Cerasa dichiara: «Da un lato ci sono le medaglie olimpiche... Dall'altro c'è tutto quello che riguarda la vita di imprenditori, manager, professionisti, banchieri, giornalisti e costruttori romani, il clima che si crea nella nostra struttura provided an opportunity to give life to mergers between banks, encouraging many strategic agreements for the city to sign alliances between entrepreneurs and policies designed to find important. It happened often that illustrious members have concluded dell'Aniene great deals in our circle, but this happens in a non-intentional. Let's just say random: here you can eat, play tennis, you smoke a cigar, they talk, I do not know, of the Rome football, Alitalia, triggered mechanisms of complicity, solve problems and concluding agreements. " With the same Malagò often personally involved (Air One, Technimont, Unicredit, Auditorium ...). In fact, the President likes to tell the internal rivalries between rowers (Alberto Tripi, Enrico Vanzina) and runner (Matteo Montezemolo, Giampaolo Letta, Salvatore Rebecchini), but there are jitters less ephemeral. Those of a partner for half a century, for example, Maurizio Clerici, former Olympic rowing: "The problem is that you do business Aniene first and then does the rest. When you're in charge of thirty thousand euro entrance fee to be part of this lobby is as if you entered into a great company of shares which, of course, demand to get something. "Wealth and nobility - If the sports clubs on wake of the Roman ones, seem hard to take care of business, offices and alliances, the social stressing the difference in style delighting in loving diasporas. So the oldest club in Turin and the Accademia Filarmonica Whist - in Piazza San Carlo, founded in 1841, Camillo di Cavour - is divided into companies with names mischievous: the "mandrills," the "butterflies", the "gianduiotti", the "grapefruit "(born as a caricature of another group, the" mandarins ", but in the sense of China). "The mandrills were the brightest. But now they are extinct for age reasons, "says the president of Alexander Sclopis Saleano, stating that the Whist you are not hostile to the subgroups within the circle, others, if anything, are the things to avoid:" We share the cultural . Those who speak of business would be looked at very bad eye. " Moreover, there have never been - nor hanno fatto domanda - tanti nomi importanti della Torino industriale come Romiti, De Benedetti e, oggi, Marchionne. Apolitico e aconfessionale, l'aristocratico club registrò un terremoto nel dopoguerra, ovvero l'epurazione degli ufficiali che avevano giurato per Salò: «Perché non si giura due volte. E loro avevano già giurato per il Re».Vicende di corti e dinastie hanno turbato anche la vita dei due circoli romani più aristocratrici, la Caccia e gli Scacchi. Col primo nato liberaleggiante, nel 1870, visto che fece subito presidente onorario Umberto I suscitando l'ostilità della Segreteria di Stato in Vaticano. E il secondo che se ne separò come costola della nobiltà nera. Oggi le parti si sono invertite: la Caccia remains almost exclusively noble and Chess' are open to the modern world, we seek the aristocracy of our times: men of culture, institutions, major state offices. People like Giulio Tremonti. It is completely right when he later sat at a table always gets up: "You here is my president, '" says Don Giulio Patrizi of Ripacandida, nine years as president. What has its work cut out anyway in Rondanini Palace, Via del Corso, the eighth Clubhouse of the foundation. Faces external competition - "Now there is a tendency to attend Aniene that attracts more to the type of meetings, there is a round of business" - and, in of the club members more closely linked to the past. Those who grumble in front of the decision to open the second floor "Sala salad rich", a dedicated environment where you can receive the lunch guests, attended daily by about fifty people, especially the younger members. "The members room on the third floor, closed to outsiders, ended up being used only by older people. Li, the ceremony is also hard if not written: Do not you get up if the president does not get up, and its chair should remain empty, if not then he comes and we have many members waiting, the place is assigned, then if President arrives, those who have occupied his chair has to offer champagne to everyone. " On the third floor, now finds himself a ten elderly gentlemen who are a bit 'of opposition in the upcoming elections in November: "I understand that they feel a bit' blocks. But I can not ignore the young people who represent the future of the club to promote the exclusivity. " The British-inspired circles grows in northern Italy. Discretion and confidentiality are unbreakable passwords to the Society of Garden or Clubin in Milan. Among the six hundred members Clubin, since 1901, there are all upper-class Milanese family, along with a fee at the time fled aristocratic dall'ingessatissima Union in search of greater vitality. But it remains in force notice of John Sforza, president in the early eighties: "If you think I came here to do business with the members you are mistaken. " So it is kindly advised to bring pen and paper work in the dining room, and does raise many eyebrows, the ringing of a mobile phone. Explain today's president, Gian Giacomo Attolico Trivulzio: "Here is how it was in a private home. Circles of this kind, it must be remembered, are not public places. " To avoid, then, customs and restricted the formation of subgroups (discouraged, here, unlike elsewhere), access to tables is strictly in order of arrival. And an atmosphere not too far (although there are mini-groups: barbers, peasants, baccalaioli ...) in Naples we breathe, the Circolo del Remo and Vela Italia che custodisce la passione marinaresca dell'alta borghesia partenopea: «È difficile si facciano affari, qui. Ci conosciamo tutti fra noi, da anni. È così che arrivano anche le otto, dieci nuove iscrizioni ogni anno», ragiona il vicepresidente Giuseppe "Picchio" Milone.
M'iscrivo anch'io? No, tu no - Il capitolo delle bocciature e delle esclusioni è il più delicato, spesso segreto. Fece scalpore, al Clubino di Milano, quella di Alessandro Benetton nel 2007 (pare che, anni prima, fosse andata male anche a Gianmarco Moratti): un terremoto, anche perché la proposta e la presentazione aveva coinvolto soci eminenti come Gerardo Braggiotti, Cario Bonomi e Gaddo della Gherardesca. Un altro Gherardesca, Instead, he had been involved in the long fight that marked the entrance of Roberto Gucci nell'assai aristocratic Union of Florence. The most illustrious families lined up on one side or the other. Against the brothers Pucci, Emilio Pucci and: Gucci is a name without a history. And Gherardesca of Guelph, the enemy camp, Emily froze with a memorable line: "Watch out, there are listed in the phone a couple of pages of Pucci. Gherardesca of us just me and my brother. " Instead, in front of the hall suffered long to get to the same circle, the Pontello, powerful manufacturers, they found a drastic response: You made a club on his own, the Florence (in more recent years, then, the veto has been dropped). In Rome, the 'elsewhere triumphant Malagò Hunt was unsuccessful, and he fell on the entry to the circle of Giovanni Maria Flick Chess: sponsoring as a prominent member Leopoldo Elia but his record of Minister Prodi disturb any member who expects the vote to impallinarlo. In Turin, the leaders of the Accademia Filarmonica Whist and admit some excellent but woe to refuse to name names and surnames. You do not go beyond a "still need to go back to the nineties", suggesting that the mechanism works well to filter and verify the behavior towards those who already iscritto.Stoppati in Naples, at the Circolo del Remo Italy and Vela, Antonio D ' Amato Corrado Ferlaino, while the no to an urban legend Diego Della Valle: "It's just that his secretary is not informed about the procedures then those after registration. But we would be glad to welcome him. And then the sea means, "states the exclusion Milone.Ma most tormented of all, was that of Francesco Cossiga. Also because it covered both historical circles in the capital. First, the "pickaxe" tried it with the Hunt. Met at the Vatican Giulio Sacchetti, the president, and expressed his desire to join the club. Bags probed the moods of the members present and made a Cossiga was that the passage of the balls not just assume black or white for acceptance. The answer was withering: "I do not even think to be voted. I shall appoint as if I were a prince real. " Indignantly withdrawn before the inability to reverse the regulation. Some time later, the attempt was repeated with chess. Here, the poll had him a partner, the State Accountant Andrea Monorchio. He spoke to the president Patrizi and that he felt the mood of the members. CBE is far from conducive warmly. Thus, in the risk of rejection, the second application was dissolved. The circles itinerantiMa there is another face in the galaxy of clubs, this one inspired by Anglo-Saxon habits, where the pleasure of being together is not necessarily linked to the custom of the same place, a building where he was recognized at from the port and where we know that is the most comfortable chair. These are called circles pitches, where members meet at regular intervals, and not always in the same place, even in hotels, restaurants, historic homes, other clubs hospitable. Two examples in Milan are chasing very name. They are the Friends of the Friends of the Thursday and Friday. The first - President Joseph Diana - shall meet twice a week, now the Society of the Garden after a long period to Savini. Impossible to ascertain whether, as someone noted the existing shareholders, Silvio Berlusconi was among the founders, along with Mario and Giuseppe Prisco Talamona. From the six or seven of the beginning, however, members are now forty. Corrado Passera as between their bankers and Pietro Gori, professors such as Henry De Mita, lawyers as Enzo Paladino, industrial as Giordano Zucchi, Federico Falck, Mario Boselli, Giuseppe Gaetano Marzotto and Stefanel. Gian Galeazzo Biazzi Vergani, chairman of the editorial of the "Journal" is instead a Friend Friday: "For membership we have two criteria: be good friends or acquaintances of someone who already has a partner, and enjoy a certain prestige" . So included in the club, that it meets frequently to the Society of Garden, Umberto Veronesi, Cesare Romiti, Riccardo Chailly, Monsignor Buzzi (which took the place of Gianfranco Ravasi after having inherited the job at the helm of the Ambrosiana) Sergio Romano, Bruno Ermolli. The last co-option is to Remo Cantoni. Born after the war, the Friends have never been more than thirty, twenty today. They meet the last Friday of the month, one member calls and then take a report. In February, the event was held at the Ambrosiana invited by Monsignor Buzzi who then talked about Leonardo da Vinci. There is one aspect in which this club is no different from social circles, "Inviting the Lord is not forbidden, but when I tried to accept them as members, the proposal was rejected by a majority," says Biazzi Vergani. The genesis of the Magician, is a bit 'different, built on the union of friends and professional people still in contention. The Magician is the group of one hundred members, Turin for three quarters and the rest of Milan: "He was born 27 years ago. The master's students are two to three high schools in Turin, then a graduate in law and economics, sharing a moderate worldview. But there is the idea of \u200b\u200ba sort of room riprofilare corporations. It is an occasion for serious meeting to exchange professional experience, "says the president Giulio Bencini, financial adviser:" We meet a couple of times a month at Villa Rey, although the last meeting we moved to Venaria. And when the meeting takes place in Milan we rely on Manfredo Camper Club. " In Rome, such an idea is declined in the Upper Room, created by journalist Marco Antonellis, five years ago with a group colleagues. Today brings together some thirty people who meet once a month in the private room of a restaurant (at Bagutta, the last time) often inviting people with whom to discuss freely. From the Upper Room have passed Pippo Corigliano Opus Dei, Giancario Elia Valori, Monsignor Paglia and Gianni Letta, and - with the utmost discretion - apparently Cesare Geronzi. In club circles, finally, we can not neglect those of the former alumni, who recall the tradition of the confraternities and sororities in American universities, when they are not directly related to those. The former preppy hold a meeting each month, along with lunches in the morning. Former McKinsey meet 300-400 people (there captain Corrado Passera and Vittorio Colao) once a year, a week before Christmas. At Normale di Pisa as Cesare Alfieri in Florence trying to revive the tradition. In Pisa, moving the annual meeting in June and re-establish communication with alumni. In Florence, scratch, since the veterans today are united only by specially designed by Pucci tie. An example that works are the alumni of law from Milan arrived at the 15 th anniversary, 3-4 events a year, about fifty people for happy hour Jolly President Francesco Sketch Franzi, the outgoing president, said: "I do not we are a club monoprofessionale. From the right people that start out in different areas: avvocati, notai, giornalisti, banchieri d'impresa. Così questo è un network di persone che hanno in comune l'attenzione al diritto. Poi, io ho lavorato perché ci si potesse incontrare qui anche fra laureati di ieri e signori coi capelli bianchi». Scambi di opportunità?: «Mi viene in mente un caso. Avevamo deciso di dare un contributo a studenti per un corso di tre settimane in Cina. L'abbiamo annunciato sulla newsletter e ci ha risposto un socio, Marco Leporati, rappresentante a Shanghai della Savino Del Bene. Ci ha aiutato a organizzare lì una riunione con i dirigenti della Camera di Commercio italocinese».

Thursday, April 8, 2010

C Section And Brazilian Wax

Bossi, la chiesa e il sogno non realizzato del Pd

Il modo in cui si sta comportando la Lega nord, e soprattutto le due sfere of influence on which hinges the location of the Carracci, offer an interesting food for thought for me. You can think what we want to Bossi's party but the fact that the League have pointed, sometimes successfully, to win two different electorates such as post-and post-communist Democrat - that in many parts (see under Pd) is not can be with great agility - indicates that if you look carefully the first real experiment is not too confrontational historic compromise made at the premises and not in the organization of political parties but rather the territory may be just what the League. Other links

The Cav. Bossi and the last buffalo on League

The League, the Communists and the Pd

"The League is the new Christian democracy"


Friday, April 2, 2010

Where Can I Watch Live Cricket

I disastri del Pd spiegati dai disastri di Roma

Lazio is once again an emblem of the problems that afflict the Italian center. Renata Polverini's victory brings with it a series of phenomena which I have already spoken here in my book but that may be useful to return to explain . First thing. The left (because the PD is now: the center is a noun which should start to disappear from the lexicon of political party Bersani) lost as always in the peripheral (Latina, Frosinone, Rieti, Viterbo, and the same thing happened two years ago with the villages: in all Alemanno): where do some political initiative will not allow you to have so many headlines in the newspapers but guarantees the citizen to prove that you are not interested only to have your big face in the opening shot of the news. The center, once again, believed to be, you do not understand why, genetically superior, but forgetting that for some years now in the region where he was born in the Democratic Party (Lazio, in fact) not only is there a party, coordination, a pivot around which I'll just make the engine run the machine flooded the party but was not yet even seen a only sign of recovery from the electoral defeat of 2008. After the capture of Rome Alemanno would be natural to expect that the center would be reborn Roman Empire around this or that figure. That he would find the strength to build an alternative to Alemanno not say (so that there is: Zinger in 2013) but a new ruling class capable of doing politics and not precipitate total irrelevance. It did not happen, and today the Democratic Party looks like a car with an engine that runs only for inertial force to look good but it lacks one thing: the driver.

(1. Continued)