BIFUNESTO YEAR 2008 TO THE ELECTION OF OBAMA. THE NEW YEAR IS the opposite!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Where Can I Buy A Racquetball Strap
wishes !!!!!!!!!!!!!
BIFUNESTO YEAR 2008 TO THE ELECTION OF OBAMA. THE NEW YEAR IS the opposite!
BIFUNESTO YEAR 2008 TO THE ELECTION OF OBAMA. THE NEW YEAR IS the opposite!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Cablevision Daily Guide
Baader UHC-S Filter
Here I am today, after various trials, groped to write a satisfactory review of the Baader filter in question. I waited a bit before deciding to write a post, because I had not got to try it on a large number of objects deep and could not provide adequate feedback, but now, after using it on various subjects can say to be fully satisfied.
We start from the beginning, however, just open the plastic bag and examined the filter a bit, the first impression I had was reliable and well executed. Even comparing it eye and look toward the lights of home, you can indeed appreciate the quality. A defect that could possibly annoy those who use it do not screw the filter on the eyepiece, but positioned between the lens and the eye is that if you have behind you a strong source of light, the surface of the filter becomes similar to a mirror ... but in a place of observation, this is a condition hard to find, so ... Now to the actual test in the field. The first observing session after receiving the filter has been paid, as expected, to M42, the Great Nebula of Orion. Without the filter, in a wide-field eyepiece, the nebula was clearly visible with a color that it seemed to me green (some say it actually gray, but green and it seems to me enough! ) As usual, is easily noticeable even M43. With the filter on the other hand, the sky background was much, much darker, while the nebula was visible in a more extensive and M43 are also well noted, all clearly separated from the pitch black of the sky provided by the Baader UHC-S ( and as you can see from the chart above, it is quite generous).
The second test was always performed that evening, at the M1 and M78, respectively in Taurus and Orion. Both subjects were difficult to see without a filter, and passed almost unnoticed, if not done carefully, while looking with the filter, were both clearly visible and contrasted by a black sky, that resembled that seen in the mountains (although unfortunately it was just an illusion). The third test was conducted today on M57, the Ring Nebula in Andromeda and M31. The first, escaping without a filter, of course, was visible with the Baader UHC-S, even at high magnifications, even if more is going on with them, the more the image loses its brightness, especially with the filter, the observation of the second subject Instead, the Andromeda galaxy, has not undergone improvements (nor deterioration) , excluding the darkening of the sky background, with the UHC-S, as expected.
In conclusion, I think it's a good filter, and if your interest is in the deep sky, you definitely have it in your briefcase. The resulting image as you can see from the tests is excellent, you can see otherwise hidden details, see well and sometimes you have to watch something that no filter in averted vision. The only drawback is the low light loss, which is contraindicated due to go up a lot with the magnification, but miracles do not exist in this world ....
Here I am today, after various trials, groped to write a satisfactory review of the Baader filter in question. I waited a bit before deciding to write a post, because I had not got to try it on a large number of objects deep and could not provide adequate feedback, but now, after using it on various subjects can say to be fully satisfied.
We start from the beginning, however, just open the plastic bag and examined the filter a bit, the first impression I had was reliable and well executed. Even comparing it eye and look toward the lights of home, you can indeed appreciate the quality. A defect that could possibly annoy those who use it do not screw the filter on the eyepiece, but positioned between the lens and the eye is that if you have behind you a strong source of light, the surface of the filter becomes similar to a mirror ... but in a place of observation, this is a condition hard to find, so ... Now to the actual test in the field. The first observing session after receiving the filter has been paid, as expected, to M42, the Great Nebula of Orion. Without the filter, in a wide-field eyepiece, the nebula was clearly visible with a color that it seemed to me green (some say it actually gray, but green and it seems to me enough! ) As usual, is easily noticeable even M43. With the filter on the other hand, the sky background was much, much darker, while the nebula was visible in a more extensive and M43 are also well noted, all clearly separated from the pitch black of the sky provided by the Baader UHC-S ( and as you can see from the chart above, it is quite generous).
The second test was always performed that evening, at the M1 and M78, respectively in Taurus and Orion. Both subjects were difficult to see without a filter, and passed almost unnoticed, if not done carefully, while looking with the filter, were both clearly visible and contrasted by a black sky, that resembled that seen in the mountains (although unfortunately it was just an illusion). The third test was conducted today on M57, the Ring Nebula in Andromeda and M31. The first, escaping without a filter, of course, was visible with the Baader UHC-S, even at high magnifications, even if more is going on with them, the more the image loses its brightness, especially with the filter, the observation of the second subject Instead, the Andromeda galaxy, has not undergone improvements (nor deterioration) , excluding the darkening of the sky background, with the UHC-S, as expected.
In conclusion, I think it's a good filter, and if your interest is in the deep sky, you definitely have it in your briefcase. The resulting image as you can see from the tests is excellent, you can see otherwise hidden details, see well and sometimes you have to watch something that no filter in averted vision. The only drawback is the low light loss, which is contraindicated due to go up a lot with the magnification, but miracles do not exist in this world ....
Monday, December 15, 2008
Electric Saving Box Circuit
Homemade
As the wise, when it rains, the amateur goes shopping ... or invents and builds!
Propio of the latter talk about today: the self-construction of a Frame altazimuth made simply with hydraulic hose and fittings without the use of various other components and welds. Before continuing with the article, may I say that without the help, expertise and especially the ideas of a friend amateur astronomer named John Bruno, this beautiful frame would never be born! Well, having said that then begin to explain in detail all the components used, starting from the base:
- Three 90 ° fittings for the construction of the foot of the mount;
- Two "T" for use as joints between tubes;
- Four short tubes (You can choose the length) to achieve and the base itself;
- A long tube to make the column of the frame (again, you decide the length);
- A connection to 90 ° or "T "to realize the heart of the mount, that will give the movement in azimuth;
- A screw cap, to be connected to the heart of the mount, which will give the movement in height;
- A bar of iron or other metal made by a locksmith or hardware bought in for connection of the rings of the telescope.
Everything here, through these few components (and especially cheap, even better if you have a plumber friend! ) Is possible as you can see from the photos, a robust, secure and stable altazimuth mount. I used tubes are not too large, but depending on your needs, you can choose the diameter of the various components, but even with those chosen by me, the frame holds egreggiamente is my Celestron 114, Celestron is a 150/750 to a friend , the vibration of the blows on the pipe will soften in a few seconds and the movements are smooth but controlled. As you can see from the photos there are no welds, since all components of the frame are connected by interlocking threads, the only component on which I had to make was the metal bar on which the rings are connected to the telescope .. . make sure I could pay the bar the screw cap, but I did not want to go out with the rain, and then I used a two-component adhesive (found in hardware stores) that I had available at home, and that hardened becomes harder and stronger than concrete!
So ... who wants to compare the field with a EQ5? : D
As the wise, when it rains, the amateur goes shopping ... or invents and builds!
Propio of the latter talk about today: the self-construction of a Frame altazimuth made simply with hydraulic hose and fittings without the use of various other components and welds. Before continuing with the article, may I say that without the help, expertise and especially the ideas of a friend amateur astronomer named John Bruno, this beautiful frame would never be born! Well, having said that then begin to explain in detail all the components used, starting from the base:
- Three 90 ° fittings for the construction of the foot of the mount;
- Two "T" for use as joints between tubes;
- Four short tubes (You can choose the length) to achieve and the base itself;
- A long tube to make the column of the frame (again, you decide the length);
- A connection to 90 ° or "T "to realize the heart of the mount, that will give the movement in azimuth;
- A screw cap, to be connected to the heart of the mount, which will give the movement in height;
- A bar of iron or other metal made by a locksmith or hardware bought in for connection of the rings of the telescope.
Everything here, through these few components (and especially cheap, even better if you have a plumber friend! ) Is possible as you can see from the photos, a robust, secure and stable altazimuth mount. I used tubes are not too large, but depending on your needs, you can choose the diameter of the various components, but even with those chosen by me, the frame holds egreggiamente is my Celestron 114, Celestron is a 150/750 to a friend , the vibration of the blows on the pipe will soften in a few seconds and the movements are smooth but controlled. As you can see from the photos there are no welds, since all components of the frame are connected by interlocking threads, the only component on which I had to make was the metal bar on which the rings are connected to the telescope .. . make sure I could pay the bar the screw cap, but I did not want to go out with the rain, and then I used a two-component adhesive (found in hardware stores) that I had available at home, and that hardened becomes harder and stronger than concrete!
So ... who wants to compare the field with a EQ5? : D
Friday, December 5, 2008
Htt://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/ra
altazimuth mount 20mm wide angle eyepiece TS 70 °
Today, I am writing to review my new eyes, as the title:
TS 20mm Wide-Angle and 70 ° apparent field.
eye on this there is little to say, in my opinion seplicemente excellent, especially when in relation to its nominal price. The 70 ° field are very comfortable, Perseus twice saying it was fully visible in the eyepiece, so much so that because of the convenience and good workmanship of the latter, I have avoided using other eye to focus more on observation.
Same for M42 which, although (with Baader UHC-s filter) very extensive, was completely centered in the eyepiece.
The difference with a single eyepiece 52 ° field is so apparent and it shows, in fact the same magnification, the vision in one eye wide field is much better! (In the picture below you can compare the difference between two eyes, with different visual field).
Putting aside the wide field of view for now, we talk about the optical quality of the eyepiece TS; is correct up to almost 90% of the field, and the resulting image is sharp and well contrasted . Compared with the resulting image from my Celestron 25mm eyepiece, the vision is clearer, but with more contrast and is generally better. It must be said that you can see similarities between this eyepiece, and identical but more expensive than other known brands. Ultimately, if you want an eyepiece with good optics and a field of apparent good, for a ridiculous price for an eye, do not hesitate and buy it, you will not regret!
Today, I am writing to review my new eyes, as the title:
TS 20mm Wide-Angle and 70 ° apparent field.
eye on this there is little to say, in my opinion seplicemente excellent, especially when in relation to its nominal price. The 70 ° field are very comfortable, Perseus twice saying it was fully visible in the eyepiece, so much so that because of the convenience and good workmanship of the latter, I have avoided using other eye to focus more on observation.
Same for M42 which, although (with Baader UHC-s filter) very extensive, was completely centered in the eyepiece.
The difference with a single eyepiece 52 ° field is so apparent and it shows, in fact the same magnification, the vision in one eye wide field is much better! (In the picture below you can compare the difference between two eyes, with different visual field).
Putting aside the wide field of view for now, we talk about the optical quality of the eyepiece TS; is correct up to almost 90% of the field, and the resulting image is sharp and well contrasted . Compared with the resulting image from my Celestron 25mm eyepiece, the vision is clearer, but with more contrast and is generally better. It must be said that you can see similarities between this eyepiece, and identical but more expensive than other known brands. Ultimately, if you want an eyepiece with good optics and a field of apparent good, for a ridiculous price for an eye, do not hesitate and buy it, you will not regret!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
How Can I Fake A Kidney Stone
Planetarium PDA
I am here today to talk about, and try to briefly describe the duties of a planetarium program for Palm: Planetarium, which I started using just recently and I found very useful , with the help of the many functions offered, and the ability to customize it in various ways and for different uses. Planetarium is available for PDAs, but you can run it on Windows Mobile handhelds and smartphones through an emulator application for PDA operating systems of this type: StyleTap.
certainly see a planetarium on a handheld from the small screen may have different disadvantages, but in my humble opinion, the advantages are several.
First, being able to eliminate at once the star maps, sheets for notes and other things that slow down in some way the night vision of heaven. But let's see briefly what are the main features of the program, just started first thing, of course you have to enter data for your location of observation, you can enter a number for all uses! Without this you just need to start using it, with a view available in two versions: the first is a screen on the compass, which shows the objects in azimuth and in height, the second is the normal vision of the night sky from your location. The various items are grouped (and selected) through the pull-down menu above, and once you select appears on the screen surrounded by circles of Telrad (useful function in my opinion).
If you need to update or you can of course Replaces the database objects, asteroids, comets, etc., etc., directly from the manufacturer's website, where you can download different types of databases and file extensions (such as plug-ins to check for new motorized telescopes through this program.) If you want to at this point you can press the icon with the "i" to get detailed information on the object that you have framed, while pressing the icon of the field of view, you can increase or decrease zoom to suit your needs. While pressing the clock icon, you can see the sky will look like in the future, is used to schedule future observational outputs (you can do the same thing with the moon phases for example, through the display mode socket) . One last interesting feature is the diary of observations incorporated Planetarium, accessible through the dedicated icon, where you can quickly write down an object just observed, then transfer everything when you are home more comfortable!
The program can be downloaded from "http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/" in the demo version, if you like you buy it ... otherwise you can continue to use the demo ... that never expires and has no limitations! The only trouble is that you keep the warning that appears every now and remind you that you are using the demo version.
I am here today to talk about, and try to briefly describe the duties of a planetarium program for Palm: Planetarium, which I started using just recently and I found very useful , with the help of the many functions offered, and the ability to customize it in various ways and for different uses. Planetarium is available for PDAs, but you can run it on Windows Mobile handhelds and smartphones through an emulator application for PDA operating systems of this type: StyleTap.
certainly see a planetarium on a handheld from the small screen may have different disadvantages, but in my humble opinion, the advantages are several.
First, being able to eliminate at once the star maps, sheets for notes and other things that slow down in some way the night vision of heaven. But let's see briefly what are the main features of the program, just started first thing, of course you have to enter data for your location of observation, you can enter a number for all uses! Without this you just need to start using it, with a view available in two versions: the first is a screen on the compass, which shows the objects in azimuth and in height, the second is the normal vision of the night sky from your location. The various items are grouped (and selected) through the pull-down menu above, and once you select appears on the screen surrounded by circles of Telrad (useful function in my opinion).
If you need to update or you can of course Replaces the database objects, asteroids, comets, etc., etc., directly from the manufacturer's website, where you can download different types of databases and file extensions (such as plug-ins to check for new motorized telescopes through this program.) If you want to at this point you can press the icon with the "i" to get detailed information on the object that you have framed, while pressing the icon of the field of view, you can increase or decrease zoom to suit your needs. While pressing the clock icon, you can see the sky will look like in the future, is used to schedule future observational outputs (you can do the same thing with the moon phases for example, through the display mode socket) . One last interesting feature is the diary of observations incorporated Planetarium, accessible through the dedicated icon, where you can quickly write down an object just observed, then transfer everything when you are home more comfortable!
The program can be downloaded from "http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/" in the demo version, if you like you buy it ... otherwise you can continue to use the demo ... that never expires and has no limitations! The only trouble is that you keep the warning that appears every now and remind you that you are using the demo version.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Stage Ivb Pancreatic Cancer Life Expectancy
Zoom Eyepiece 7-21 TS
the maximum usable focal zoom TS, the image is good, contrast and sharp, like the Celestron Plossl in my possession.
A strange thing I noticed is that unlike the other eye in my possession, if you get too close to the eye lens (almost tacked on, as is my habit to do during the observation) can be seen shading surface, which disappear if you look a short distance into the eye (vision in this case is not the slightest preguidicata, so do not consider it a problem). The resulting image has not changed in any case evident at the edges (at least in this first test). Decreasing the focal length of the zoom magnification and thereby increasing the contrast, the image loses its brightness, not very clear to 12/10mm. The only negative is the field of view, very tight, even compared to a 25mm Plossl 52 °. The last known good to do eyepiece TS, is that it is almost parfocal, movements to do with the fact focuser are very mild. Finally, a good eye, rather than optically decent, comfortable to use but with a narrower field of view ... but taking into account the price, I believe we can satisfy : D
I'm not an expert in some reviews, but still I try to write at least a first impression on this to zoom eyepiece Telescope-Service I have recently received ! Is not sold in a box, but in a cylinder, with screw-cap, the first thing I noticed was discarded after the "heaviness" and "robustness" of the eyepiece, which I then felt almost immediately, even if the weather is not serious test! Just added in my Celestron focuser I tried to focus on a road sign, the movements are fluid and the zoom is easy to adjust.
A strange thing I noticed is that unlike the other eye in my possession, if you get too close to the eye lens (almost tacked on, as is my habit to do during the observation) can be seen shading surface, which disappear if you look a short distance into the eye (vision in this case is not the slightest preguidicata, so do not consider it a problem). The resulting image has not changed in any case evident at the edges (at least in this first test). Decreasing the focal length of the zoom magnification and thereby increasing the contrast, the image loses its brightness, not very clear to 12/10mm. The only negative is the field of view, very tight, even compared to a 25mm Plossl 52 °. The last known good to do eyepiece TS, is that it is almost parfocal, movements to do with the fact focuser are very mild. Finally, a good eye, rather than optically decent, comfortable to use but with a narrower field of view ... but taking into account the price, I believe we can satisfy : D
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Bluetrek G2 Bluetooth Headset With Ps3
Astronomy polluted skies
E 'possible to make observations of deep sky from a site with moderate light pollution?
What can be observed from a location like this?
These are the questions that I often did, and like me, many others.
Then I discovered with the help of a fellow amateur astronomer this file, which is actually an article in Sky & Telescope "which is precisely to" ASTRONOMY URBANA ", then judge for yourself what can be achieved in these cases!
E 'possible to make observations of deep sky from a site with moderate light pollution?
What can be observed from a location like this?
These are the questions that I often did, and like me, many others.
Then I discovered with the help of a fellow amateur astronomer this file, which is actually an article in Sky & Telescope "which is precisely to" ASTRONOMY URBANA ", then judge for yourself what can be achieved in these cases!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Cellulitis Lab Results
Barlow Meade 5000 series Telextender
I am also here today to introduce my new Barlow:
Meade Series 5000 2x Ultra Telextender
I arrived this morning! I purchased this model because reading the reviews, or more generally what is being said around me seemed a good model, judge for yourself:
"The brand new 5000 Series TeleXtenders are considered the best among the currently teleconverters on the market. Thanks to 4-unit building, they have a visual field plan, and provide maximum resolution across the visual field that is at the center to the sides. Their performance surpasses even that of the 2x apochromatic Barlow lenses. The multi-layer Lens makes them free of any chromatic aberration. They are ideal for short focal length refractor with ep er observation of planetary details.
- Field of View Flat
- Optical Premium Work and treated individually allow maximum light transmission and a high resolution and higher contrast
- The sides of the lens and the metal parts are blackened to maximize the contrast
- Despite the proliferation of 'magnification can maintain an excellent black eye relief, even if used with eyepieces with longer focal lengths. "
The impression just opened the box (well done, too), was" solid " and good construction, in fact the least touch barlow looks solid and well built, I expect the smaller, but I was just surprised by his "tonnage." Now I'm waiting just a good time to go try it on the field, then will update the 'article with the visual impression of the bar low!
UPDATE:
Tonight I did the test on the field of barlow Meade, (unfortunately too high because the moon on the horizon and the presence of clouds, the test was short) and I must say that I was fully satisfied! In fact, even with a 25mm focal length eyepiece magnification of the difference is obvious compared to observation without barlow; past to an eyepiece of 10mm focal length the greater surprise was, in fact I noticed that even if the image was significantly larger (I could easily see even those small "mountains" in the center of the craters, which only dreamed of without the use of barlow) compared to observation without barlow, the quality is not totally changed! The contrast is sharp, and the image has no aberrations of any kind, even when I used the eyepiece 9mm focal length, thus arriving at well-222x (my telescope is a 114 opening ...) in an evening with just seeing a suboptimal judgments ... You! 
I am also here today to introduce my new Barlow:
Meade Series 5000 2x Ultra Telextender
I arrived this morning! I purchased this model because reading the reviews, or more generally what is being said around me seemed a good model, judge for yourself:
"The brand new 5000 Series TeleXtenders are considered the best among the currently teleconverters on the market. Thanks to 4-unit building, they have a visual field plan, and provide maximum resolution across the visual field that is at the center to the sides. Their performance surpasses even that of the 2x apochromatic Barlow lenses. The multi-layer Lens makes them free of any chromatic aberration. They are ideal for short focal length refractor with ep er observation of planetary details.
- Field of View Flat
- Optical Premium Work and treated individually allow maximum light transmission and a high resolution and higher contrast
- The sides of the lens and the metal parts are blackened to maximize the contrast
- Despite the proliferation of 'magnification can maintain an excellent black eye relief, even if used with eyepieces with longer focal lengths. "
The impression just opened the box (well done, too), was" solid " and good construction, in fact the least touch barlow looks solid and well built, I expect the smaller, but I was just surprised by his "tonnage." Now I'm waiting just a good time to go try it on the field, then will update the 'article with the visual impression of the bar low!
UPDATE:
Tonight I did the test on the field of barlow Meade, (unfortunately too high because the moon on the horizon and the presence of clouds, the test was short) and I must say that I was fully satisfied! In fact, even with a 25mm focal length eyepiece magnification of the difference is obvious compared to observation without barlow; past to an eyepiece of 10mm focal length the greater surprise was, in fact I noticed that even if the image was significantly larger (I could easily see even those small "mountains" in the center of the craters, which only dreamed of without the use of barlow) compared to observation without barlow, the quality is not totally changed! The contrast is sharp, and the image has no aberrations of any kind, even when I used the eyepiece 9mm focal length, thus arriving at well-222x (my telescope is a 114 opening ...) in an evening with just seeing a suboptimal judgments ... You!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
What Are Some Cute Quotes?
A great mobile planetarium Astronomers
few days ago I decided to take the endless search for a global mobile software that was compatible with my PDA (BlackBerry) and now my search finally ended! After several attempts and after trying various software that did not fit because they had a limited compatibility with various mobile devices, I found a good planetarium, quite customizable, and compatible with most devices that support Java applications. This is Mobile StarChart:
http:/ / mobilestarchart.sourceforge.net
The program, once downloaded and installed (you have to pay attention only to the version of your device - MIDP 1 or 2) shows a white screen where you can start the sky map or customize the software with the inclusion of coordinates geographical and various display options for the map (magnetudine limit lines of the constellations, planets and more).
The sky map also shows intuitive controls, like zoom and increased magnetudine limit that are controlled using the numeric keypad. Also interesting is the search for objects (Messier, constellations, planets) which can be accessed via the menu on the map. It also emphasizes the ability to update and add additional catalogs. Of course, the view is not the best, but the utility of having a planetarium at hand when we look at night, overcome all the difficulties!
could well replace the PC or custom star charts with this handy program to be put directly on our PDA / phone.
few days ago I decided to take the endless search for a global mobile software that was compatible with my PDA (BlackBerry) and now my search finally ended! After several attempts and after trying various software that did not fit because they had a limited compatibility with various mobile devices, I found a good planetarium, quite customizable, and compatible with most devices that support Java applications. This is Mobile StarChart:
http:/ / mobilestarchart.sourceforge.net
The program, once downloaded and installed (you have to pay attention only to the version of your device - MIDP 1 or 2) shows a white screen where you can start the sky map or customize the software with the inclusion of coordinates geographical and various display options for the map (magnetudine limit lines of the constellations, planets and more).
The sky map also shows intuitive controls, like zoom and increased magnetudine limit that are controlled using the numeric keypad. Also interesting is the search for objects (Messier, constellations, planets) which can be accessed via the menu on the map. It also emphasizes the ability to update and add additional catalogs. Of course, the view is not the best, but the utility of having a planetarium at hand when we look at night, overcome all the difficulties!
could well replace the PC or custom star charts with this handy program to be put directly on our PDA / phone.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Causes Irregular Heartbeat Omcron
passion for
Astronomers passion for
The book in question can be found from apogee. but we start talking about content, it is suitable for both novices as amateurs to experts who can find the most interesting ideas. Trafficking of Astronomy practice in all its aspects, from how to choose a telescope how to choose and how they work different eyepieces and accessories, how to surf the sky at how to make a good observation, how to take care of our equipment to how to optimize best results, use as a planetary programs for PC and PDA so profitable! In short, everything an amateur could want! For me it is a book that I would recommend to everyone and is a purchase that would do thousands and thousands of other times!
Note: I just noticed that the peak selling it at a discount, so it's a good time to replenish our library;) 
I'm back here to post my personal review on a book which I think is better from every point of view :
Astronomers passion for
The book in question can be found from apogee. but we start talking about content, it is suitable for both novices as amateurs to experts who can find the most interesting ideas. Trafficking of Astronomy practice in all its aspects, from how to choose a telescope how to choose and how they work different eyepieces and accessories, how to surf the sky at how to make a good observation, how to take care of our equipment to how to optimize best results, use as a planetary programs for PC and PDA so profitable! In short, everything an amateur could want! For me it is a book that I would recommend to everyone and is a purchase that would do thousands and thousands of other times!
Note: I just noticed that the peak selling it at a discount, so it's a good time to replenish our library;)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Ph 7 Phosphate Buffer Calculator
A journal of our observations
Often the best thing to do to keep track of our astronomical observations, is to Take note of all the important details (but also less important ones) that can be used for example to find differences between two or more different views of a single item, a diary, which we call "diary astronomical observations."
is often better to make this journal on paper, but since the card is subject to various factors which could be affected, it is always convenient to create even in an electronic format, to keep safe on our PC.
I know that many are lazy and have no desire to do these jobs to the PC, so I did, creating a spreadsheet with cells dedicated for this purpose!
Now you have to do is download and use the spreadsheet by entering data!
Download:
http://www.divshare.com/i/5689000-ac7 
Often the best thing to do to keep track of our astronomical observations, is to Take note of all the important details (but also less important ones) that can be used for example to find differences between two or more different views of a single item, a diary, which we call "diary astronomical observations."
is often better to make this journal on paper, but since the card is subject to various factors which could be affected, it is always convenient to create even in an electronic format, to keep safe on our PC.
I know that many are lazy and have no desire to do these jobs to the PC, so I did, creating a spreadsheet with cells dedicated for this purpose!
Now you have to do is download and use the spreadsheet by entering data!
Download:
http://www.divshare.com/i/5689000-ac7
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Pirate Kinda Songs Chords
Second DIY - Part 2 Second
This is the second and final part of the post on the construction of the second Dobsonian mount, this time more seplice.
photos explain everything, so do not get lost in useless chatter.
This is the second and final part of the post on the construction of the second Dobsonian mount, this time more seplice.
photos explain everything, so do not get lost in useless chatter.
Friday, October 24, 2008
What Is The Price Of Scandium Per Gram
DIY - Part 1
Two days ago, just finished my first autocostruzion 
and new Dobsonian mount, We decided with a friend, taking a project to create another one seen on the net (as low as references!) that had to be more functional, less cluttered and basic, without too much slamming. In fact, at least so it seems from the preview! The two bases are connected by a washer with their nut, and movement is guaranteed three pads attached table on the bottom, as you can see the top of the rocker box there are two square pieces (four counting the ones on the other side) that will covered the top with some strips of felt.
While the exterior of two sides of the support for the telescope, there are two discontinuous, punched and attacked in this way to the wood, obtained by gluing together 8 CD, which will be used for the movement of the tube, going to put on the handles in Rockerbox. The heads of the screws used to puncture the cd will be covered with pieces of felt to make the right point sliding movement of the support. Among some time post the photos of the finished ... 
and new Dobsonian mount, We decided with a friend, taking a project to create another one seen on the net (as low as references!) that had to be more functional, less cluttered and basic, without too much slamming. In fact, at least so it seems from the preview! The two bases are connected by a washer with their nut, and movement is guaranteed three pads attached table on the bottom, as you can see the top of the rocker box there are two square pieces (four counting the ones on the other side) that will covered the top with some strips of felt. Thursday, October 23, 2008
Water In Respirometer
Frankly I find it worthy of the best traditions in the wake of the glorious "Evil" 
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Foot Stepped By Stilletto
Frame DIY - Part 2
I'm back here, this time with pictures of the Dobsonian mount table completed and finished. .. what to say, everything worked perfectly! : D
Certainly not the best, however, performs its task egreggiamente! 
I'm back here, this time with pictures of the Dobsonian mount table completed and finished. .. what to say, everything worked perfectly! : D
Certainly not the best, however, performs its task egreggiamente!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Maya Sansa - Desnudos
Frame DIY - Part 1 Welcome to My
few days ago, my passion for astronomy has been undermined by the unexpected failure of the panel of my Celestron Nexstar 114.
So, waiting for the new panel, since the telescope so it is impossible to move properly, and when they have at home some unused plywood, I decided to build itself a fabrication Dobson "table"! What you see below are pictures of the work begins ... waiting for the update! 
few days ago, my passion for astronomy has been undermined by the unexpected failure of the panel of my Celestron Nexstar 114.
So, waiting for the new panel, since the telescope so it is impossible to move properly, and when they have at home some unused plywood, I decided to build itself a fabrication Dobson "table"! What you see below are pictures of the work begins ... waiting for the update!
Sun Church In Zeeland
first blog!
Hello everyone! Until a few
days ago I never thought to create me a blog ... but now here I am writing my first post! Well what about this blog ... I'll put all my passions, astronomy, DIY, technology (I am a fanatic of anything that has an electrical component inside !)...
Happy reading! 
Hello everyone! Until a few
days ago I never thought to create me a blog ... but now here I am writing my first post! Well what about this blog ... I'll put all my passions, astronomy, DIY, technology (I am a fanatic of anything that has an electrical component inside !)...
Happy reading!
Monday, October 6, 2008
93 Mustang Subwoofer Box
the cartoon has caused a scandal.
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Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life
is a lonely place, this, there is no one left 
to torture Give me control absolute
Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life is a lonely place, this, there is no one left
to torture Give me control absolute And every living soul lying next to me, baby;
is an order!
Give me crack and anal sex Take the only tree left
and store them on the hole
of your culture Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
is a mess.
Things are about to escape in any direction
There will be nothing more nothing you can measure
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and overthrew
the order of the soul When they said REPENT I wonder
what do you mean I do not distinguish
wind you never will, you have not I have never done
the little jew who wrote the bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I have heard their stories, I heard all
but love is the only engine of survival Your servant
Here, they ordered
to say it clearly, to put it bluntly:
And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the whip of the devil
Prepare for the future: it is a mess.
Things are about to escape in any direction
ancient western code Your private life suddenly explode
There will be ghosts
there will be fireworks and dancing on the road
white man
'll see your woman hanging upside down
scribbler from all that exertion
ringalluzziranno and try to write like Charlie Manson
Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We do not like at all
children
I've seen the future, baby:
is a mess .
Things are about to escape in any direction
There will be nothing more nothing you can measure
The blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold and
overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT
I wonder what they meant
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Melina Velba New Gallery
Earth ... my .... Without words
Those responsible have names. They have faces. They even have a soul. Or maybe not. Joseph Brisson, Alessandro Cirillo, Oreste Spagnuolo, Giovanni Letizia, Emilio Catherine, Peter Vargas are waging a violent military strategy. They are authorized by the fugitive boss Michele Zagaria and hide around Lago Patria. Among them will feel lonely fighters, warriors who are trying to get back at all, avenging last one of the most vicious and unfortunate lands of Europe. If the recount case.
But Joseph Brisson, Alessandro Cirillo, Oreste Spagnuolo, Giovanni Letizia, Emilio di Caterino and Peter Vargas are cowards, actually: killers without any kind of military skill. To kill indiscriminately empty cartridge for loading to strafanno of cocaine and swell of Fernet Branca and vodka. They shot unarmed people, suddenly seized or taken from behind. They never compared with other armed men. Faced with this tremendous, and yet you feel strong and safe by killing unarmed, often elderly or young children. Deceiving them and taking them behind.
And I wonder, in your land, our land are now many months that a handful of killer hovers above undisturbed massacring innocent people. Five, six, always the same. How is it possible? I wonder, but this land as we see, as it represents itself, as we imagine? How are you you imagine your earth, your country? How do you feel when you go to work, walking, making love? We put the problem, or you just say, 'it is always been and always will be so '?
there really enough to believe that anything that happens depends on your commitment or your indignation? That after all have something to live so we should live their daily lives and nothing else. There are enough answers to make this go on? You just say 'do not do anything wrong, they are an honest person' to make you feel innocent? Let them pass the news on the skin and soul. So it always has been, or not? Or delegate to associations, church activists, journalists and others to denounce makes you worry? A calm that makes you go to bed happy, but maybe not in peace? There really is enough? This
focus group has killed mostly innocent. In any other country in the freedom of action of such a bunch of murderers would have generated debates and political battles, reflections. But here it is only crimes inherent to an area considered one of the provinces of Italy asshole. And then the investigators, the police and police officers, the four reporters who follow the events, they are alone. Even those in the rest of the country reads a newspaper knows that these killers are always using the same strategy: pretend to be policemen. They have a flashing blade, or the DIA said they had to do a check of documents. Employing a two-penny trick to kill more easily. And they live like animals: buffalo between farms, suburban houses, garage.
They killed sixteen people. The massacre began on May 2 at about six o'clock in the morning in a buffalo farm gate to Arnold. Kill the father of Domenico Bidognetti sorry, cousin and former loyalist Cicciotto and 'midnight.
Umberto Bidognetti was 69 years old and in general was also accompanied by the son of Mimi, who just that morning he could not pull himself out of bed to help his grandfather. On May 15, killing at Green Bay, a hamlet of Castel Volturno, the sixty-five Domenico Noviello, owner of a driving school. Domenico Noviello was opposed to the racket eight years earlier. He had been under guard, but then the protection cycle was over. He could not be targeted, not expected. The discharge on 20 shots while his Panda is going to make a stop at the bar before opening the driving school. His execution was also a message to the police that he was about to celebrate his own festival in Casal di Principe, three days later, and even more of a clear statement: it can go almost a decade but do not forget the Casalesi.
Before that, May 13, with a fire destroyed the mattress factory of Peter Russell in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. It is the only one of their targets to have an escort. Why was the only one with Tano Grasso, tried to organize a united front against the racket on the ground Casale. Then, on May 30, to strike the belly Villaricca Francesca Carrino, a girl, twenty-five year-old nephew of Anna Carrino, the former wife of Francesco Bidognetti, sorry. He was at home with his mother and grandmother, but she had been to open the door to the killer that is claiming to be agents of Dia.
not pass even a day in Casal di Principe, and after lunch is to go to the 'Roxy bar', kill Michele Orsi, a businessman waste close to the clan who was arrested the year before, had begun to cooperate with the judiciary revealing the intrigues waste-political mafia. It is a murder that makes excellent stir, raise controversies, raise your voice does to representatives of the State. But it does not stop the killer.
July 11, killing at Lido 'The Flourishing' to Varcaturo Raffaele Granata, 70, manager of the bathhouse and the father of the mayor of Calverley. He also pays for the first year have not yielded to the will of the clan. On August 4 massacre in Castel Volturno Ziber Dani Kazan and Arthur were sitting on the terrace of the 'Bar Kuban', and probably Ramis Doda August 21, twenty-five years before the 'Bar Freedom' San Marcellino. The victims were Albanians who rounded up the shop, but were allowed to stay and work on construction sites as masons and painters.
Then on Aug. 18 opened fire indiscriminately against the house of Teddy Egonwman, president of Nigerians in Campania, which has been fighting for years against the prostitution of his own people, wounding seriously he, his wife Alice and three other friends. They return to San Marcellino
September 12 to kill and Ernesto Antonio Ciardullo Fabozzi, killed while they were doing maintenance on truck transport firm which was the first holder. Although he had not obeyed, and those who stood by was killed because he witnessed.
Finally, on September 18, the first jig Celiento Antonio, owner of an amusement arcade in Green Bay, and a quarter of an hour after opening a fire of 130 rounds of Kalashnikov guns and against the Africans gathered in front of the workshop and 'Ob Ob Exotic Fashion 'of Castel Volturno. Die Samuel Kwaku, 26, and Alaj Ababa, Togo, Christopher Adams and Alex Geemes, 28, Liberians; Kwame Julius Francis, 31, and Eric Yeboah, 25, Ghanaian, and is hospitalized with serious injuries Ayimbora Joseph, 34, also from Ghana. Only one or perhaps two of them had to do with drugs, others were there by chance, worked hard on building sites or where it happened, and also in tailoring.
Sixteen victims in less than six months. Any democratic country with such a situation would have faltered. Here, despite everything, he's not even mentioned. Neither was aware from Rome on this trail of blood and terror of this, who does not speak Arabic, which has five-pointed stars, but controls and rules without enforcement.
They kill anyone who opposes. They kill anyone who happens under fire, without regard for anyone. The list of dead could be longer, much longer. And for all these months, no one informed the public that turned this 'fishing boat fire'. Mediterranean fish, like the boats that go out to fish in the high seas. No one has revealed the names until they have made slaughter in Castel Volturno. But
are always the same, always use the same weapons, even if they try to adjust them to mislead the scientific, a sign that they have few available. Do not come in contact with families, are strictly between them. Every time someone sees them in the bars of some paesone, where they stop to take in alcohol. And six months nobody can catch them.
Castel Volturno, a territory where most of the killings occurred, is not any place. It is not a slum, a ghetto for outcasts and exploited as if they can also be found elsewhere, even if now some of his areas of Africa that are more like the hometown to the place of seaside tourism for which its houses were built. Castel Volturno is where the Coppola built the largest citadel of unfair world, the famous Village Coppola.
Ottocentosessantatremila area occupied with concrete. Who illegally took the place of one of the largest pine forests in the Mediterranean Sea. Abuse the hospital, the police station abusive, illegal items. All abusive. We went to live the families of the NATO soldiers. When they left, the area fell more than total abandonment and became a fief by Francesco Bidognetti all at the same time the territory of the Nigerian mafia.
The Nigerians have a powerful Mafia with whom the defendant to Casalesi, their country has become a hub in the international trafficking of cocaine and Nigerian organizations are powerful, able to invest primarily in money transfer, the points through which all World immigrants send money home. Through these, the Nigerian money and control people. Castel Volturno African direct cocaine transit, especially in England. The congestion charges so that the clan forces are not only the lace on the retail store, but agreements on a sort of joint venture. Now, however, Nigerians are powerful, powerful. So is the Albanian mafia, by which the Casalesi are in business.
And the clan is gaping, fear of not being recognized as one who commands the first and last in the area. And here are creeping in the indentations of men fishing boat. Albanians kill small fish such as demonstration projects, are the slaughter of Africans - and among these none is from Nigeria - strike the last links of the chain of criminal and ethnic hierarchies. Honest guys die, but as always, in this land, there must be a reason to die. It does not take much to be vilified.
The African children were killed immediately all 'dealers' as they were 'Camorra' Reversal Giuseppe and Vincenzo Natale, killed in Villa Literno September 23, 2003 because they had stopped to get a beer near Frank Gallop, a member of the clan Bidognetti. They too were soon baptized as criminals.
is not the first time that takes place in those parts a massacre of immigrants. In 1990, Augusto La Torre, boss of Mondragone, left with his loyalists at a time of a bar which, although run by Italians, had become a meeting point for the trafficking of Africans. All took place along the highway always Domitiana in Pescopagano, a few miles north of Castel Volturno, but already in the territory mondragonese. They killed six people, including the operator, and wounded many others. That, too, was the culmination of a series of actions against foreigners, but also approved Casalesi that the intimidation did not like the massacre. The tower had to collect heavy criticism by Francesco 'Sandokan' Schiavone. But now times have changed and allow the exercise of indiscriminate violence to allow a group of armed cocaine.
I call back to my land that has self-image. I ask this in all those groups of men and women who work here in the great silence and are committed. In those few politicians who manage to remain credible, resisting the temptations of collusion or of the withdrawal of combat power of the clan. A all those who are doing their job, to all those who seek to live honestly, as in any other part of the world. To all these people. Which are more and more, but they are increasingly alone.
How do you imagine this land? If it is true, as said by Danilo Dolci, which grows only if each is a dream, you dream about these places as them there? There's never been so much focus on your lands and all that has happened and will happen. Yet it seems to have changed much. The two bosses who rule continue to operate and to be free. Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria. Twelve years on the run. Even they know where they are. The first is in San Cipriano d'Aversa, the second Casapesenna. In an area the size of a piece of land, may not be able to find them?
ancient history is that of the wanted fugitives in the world and then found their own home. But it is new story that I have now spoken over and over newspapers and television, that politicians of all stripes have promised that they will stop. Meanwhile time passes and nothing happens. And are there. Walk, talk, meet people.
I saw that in my country have appeared written against me. Saviano shit. Saviano worm. And a huge coffin with my name. And then insults, constant denigration from the most common and banal: 'What has been done the money'. With my job as a writer and now I live, Fortunately, pay for my lawyers. What about them? That control their business empires and are building houses pharaonic in countries where there are not even paved roads?
them and for the disposal of toxic wastes are managed in a single operation to collect up to 500 million euro and have padded our land of poison to the point of pushing up to 24% certain cancers, congenital malformations and up 84% percent? Real money they generate, according to the Observatory epidemiological Campania, an average of 7172.5 cancer deaths a year in Campania. And to get rich on the misfortunes of this land would be me with my words, or the police and prosecutors, reporters and all others with books or movies or any other so continue to report? How can you create such a reversal of perspectives? How is it possible that even honest people to join this chorus? Although I know my ground in front of all this I am still in disbelief and shock and hurt to the point that even I struggle to find my voice. Why
leads to mute the pain, because the hostility leads to not know who to talk to. So who should I talk to, what I say? How do I say to my country to stop being crushed between the arrogance of the strong and the cowardice of the weak? Today here in this room where the guest of those who protect me, is my birthday. I think of all the birthdays in the past as well, since I cover, a bit 'nervous, a bit' sad and above only.
I think I can never pass a normal part of my land, that I will never set foot. I regret as a sick man without hope all birthdays neglected, snubbed because it's just any date, and another year there will be an equal. It has now opened a chasm in time and space, a wound that will never heal. And I think as well, and especially those who live in my own condition and did not like me the privilege to write and speak to many.
I think some other friends in the Commons, Raffaele, Rosa, Lirio, Tano, I think of Carmelina, the teacher of Mondragone who had denounced the killer of a Camorra and has since lived under police protection, far away, alone. Left by her boyfriend who was to marry, judged by the friends who feel oppressed by their courage and their mediocrity. Because there was no sympathy for his gesture, indeed, there has been criticism and abandonment. She has just followed a call of his conscience and had to get by with the meager salary that gives the state. What did
Carmelina, what did others like her to have life uprooted and destroyed, while the boss at large continue to be able to live protected and respected in their lands? And I call on my land, what we have left? Tell me. Float? Pretend nothing happened? Trampling scales hospitals cleaned by cleaning cooperatives them to receive the fuel in the tanks pulled from their petrol stations? Live in houses built by them, drinking coffee brand from their sets (each brand of coffee to be sold in bars must have permission of the clan), cooking in their pots (the clan Tablet managed production and sale of top brands pots)?
eat their bread, their cheese, their vegetables? They can vote for politicians who, like the repentant state, you get to the highest national? Working in their shopping malls, built to create jobs and due subjection to the workplace, but in the meantime there is no loss, because most of the shops are they? You proud to live in the territory with the largest malls in the world and with one of the highest rates of poverty? Spend time on the premises managed or approved by them? Sit at the bar near their children, the children of their lawyers, their white-collar? And find them cute and innocent, all in all nice people, because they are basically just guys who are guilty of their fathers.
In fact it is not apportioning blame, but to stop accepting and always be, stop thinking that at least there is order, that at least there is work, and that you do not scratch, do not lift the veil, to continue to go their own way. They just do this and in our land has already in the best of all possible worlds, or maybe not, but certainly in the only possible world.
How much more should we expect? As yet we see the best and resigned to emigrate to stay? Are you really sure that is fine? That the evenings you spend in court, laughing, arguing, cursing the stench of waste heat, to chat, be enough? You want a simple life, plain, made of small things, while all around you there is a real war, while those who undergo a complaint and talk and lose everything. How did we become so blind? So subservient and resigned, so bent? How is it that only the last of the last, the African Castel Volturno who suffer from exploitation and violence of the Italian mafia and other Africans have been able to pull out once more anger than fear and resignation? I can not believe that South is so rich in talent and strength can only truly be satisfied with that.
Calabria has the lowest GDP of Italy but 'something new', that is? Ndrangheta, invoice and more as a whole Italian financial maneuver. Alitalia is in crisis, but Grazzanise, in a territory marked by the Camorra, is to build the largest Italian airport, the largest in the Mediterranean. A land to pay enormous amounts of money to circulate without a shred of real development, and instead of money, profit, cement which has the flavor of the looting, not growth.
I can not believe are able to withstand only a few exceptional individuals. That complaint is now the only task of a few individuals, priests, teachers, doctors, the few honest politicians and groups that play the role of civil society. And the rest? The others are good and quiet, stunned by fear? Fear. The more excuses. It feels all right because it is in his name that they defend the family, loved ones, their innocent lives, their sacred right to live and build it.
But no longer afraid it would not be difficult. It would be enough to act, but not by yourself. The fear goes hand in hand with isolation. Every time someone pull back creates more fear, that creates even more fear in an exponential growth that immobilizes, eroding, slowly ruining.
'You can build the happiness of the world on the shoulders of one abused child?', Asks Ivan Karamazov to his brother Aljo? A. But you do not want a perfect world, you just want a quiet and simple life, an everyday acceptable, the warmth of a family. Be content to think that this puts you away from anxieties and pain. And maybe you can, can you find a dimension where you will find serenity. But at what price?
If your children were born sick or ill, if you should again turn to a politician in exchange for a vote will give you a job without which even your little dreams and projects end up in the air, when we will struggle to get a mortgage on your home while the directors of the banks themselves will always be available to those in power, when you see this maybe you will realize that there is no shelter, that there is no protected area, and the attitude that you think realistically and wisely disenchanted has polluted the soul of resentment and bitterness that takes away any taste to your life.
Because if this is the sad thing is even more sad is the habit. Getting used that there is nothing else to do but to resign, or make do go away. I call upon my land if I can still imagine to choose from. I ask if you can at least make that first gesture of freedom lies in being able to think differently, to think freely. Do not resign to accept as a natural destiny what is the work of men.
Those men can tear you to your land and your past, take away the serenity, to finding a home, write insults on the walls of your country, can make the desert around you. But they can not eradicate what remains a certainty and, therefore, also remains a hope. That is not right, it is not natural at all, to a territory subject to the rule of violence and exploitation, without limits. And that should not go on like this for so always has been. Although it is not true that everything is always the same, but it's getting worse.
Why the devastation grows in proportion with their business, because it is irreversible as the plague-stricken land once and for all, because no limits. Because out there are around six killer brutalized and stoned, with a license to kill and do not mandate, that does not stop in front of anyone. Because they are the image and likeness of that which prevails today in this land and what awaits them tomorrow, tomorrow, in the future. We must find the strength to change. Now or never.
Copyright 2008 by Roberto Saviano
Published by arrangement
of Roberto Santachiara Literary Agency
( September 22, 2008) 
words Saviano a living witness to the difficult period my land!
not close our eyes!!
not forget!
POINT GOMORRAH
Those responsible have names. They have faces. They even have a soul. Or maybe not. Joseph Brisson, Alessandro Cirillo, Oreste Spagnuolo, Giovanni Letizia, Emilio Catherine, Peter Vargas are waging a violent military strategy. They are authorized by the fugitive boss Michele Zagaria and hide around Lago Patria. Among them will feel lonely fighters, warriors who are trying to get back at all, avenging last one of the most vicious and unfortunate lands of Europe. If the recount case.
But Joseph Brisson, Alessandro Cirillo, Oreste Spagnuolo, Giovanni Letizia, Emilio di Caterino and Peter Vargas are cowards, actually: killers without any kind of military skill. To kill indiscriminately empty cartridge for loading to strafanno of cocaine and swell of Fernet Branca and vodka. They shot unarmed people, suddenly seized or taken from behind. They never compared with other armed men. Faced with this tremendous, and yet you feel strong and safe by killing unarmed, often elderly or young children. Deceiving them and taking them behind.
And I wonder, in your land, our land are now many months that a handful of killer hovers above undisturbed massacring innocent people. Five, six, always the same. How is it possible? I wonder, but this land as we see, as it represents itself, as we imagine? How are you you imagine your earth, your country? How do you feel when you go to work, walking, making love? We put the problem, or you just say, 'it is always been and always will be so '?
there really enough to believe that anything that happens depends on your commitment or your indignation? That after all have something to live so we should live their daily lives and nothing else. There are enough answers to make this go on? You just say 'do not do anything wrong, they are an honest person' to make you feel innocent? Let them pass the news on the skin and soul. So it always has been, or not? Or delegate to associations, church activists, journalists and others to denounce makes you worry? A calm that makes you go to bed happy, but maybe not in peace? There really is enough? This
focus group has killed mostly innocent. In any other country in the freedom of action of such a bunch of murderers would have generated debates and political battles, reflections. But here it is only crimes inherent to an area considered one of the provinces of Italy asshole. And then the investigators, the police and police officers, the four reporters who follow the events, they are alone. Even those in the rest of the country reads a newspaper knows that these killers are always using the same strategy: pretend to be policemen. They have a flashing blade, or the DIA said they had to do a check of documents. Employing a two-penny trick to kill more easily. And they live like animals: buffalo between farms, suburban houses, garage.
They killed sixteen people. The massacre began on May 2 at about six o'clock in the morning in a buffalo farm gate to Arnold. Kill the father of Domenico Bidognetti sorry, cousin and former loyalist Cicciotto and 'midnight.
Umberto Bidognetti was 69 years old and in general was also accompanied by the son of Mimi, who just that morning he could not pull himself out of bed to help his grandfather. On May 15, killing at Green Bay, a hamlet of Castel Volturno, the sixty-five Domenico Noviello, owner of a driving school. Domenico Noviello was opposed to the racket eight years earlier. He had been under guard, but then the protection cycle was over. He could not be targeted, not expected. The discharge on 20 shots while his Panda is going to make a stop at the bar before opening the driving school. His execution was also a message to the police that he was about to celebrate his own festival in Casal di Principe, three days later, and even more of a clear statement: it can go almost a decade but do not forget the Casalesi.
Before that, May 13, with a fire destroyed the mattress factory of Peter Russell in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. It is the only one of their targets to have an escort. Why was the only one with Tano Grasso, tried to organize a united front against the racket on the ground Casale. Then, on May 30, to strike the belly Villaricca Francesca Carrino, a girl, twenty-five year-old nephew of Anna Carrino, the former wife of Francesco Bidognetti, sorry. He was at home with his mother and grandmother, but she had been to open the door to the killer that is claiming to be agents of Dia.
not pass even a day in Casal di Principe, and after lunch is to go to the 'Roxy bar', kill Michele Orsi, a businessman waste close to the clan who was arrested the year before, had begun to cooperate with the judiciary revealing the intrigues waste-political mafia. It is a murder that makes excellent stir, raise controversies, raise your voice does to representatives of the State. But it does not stop the killer.
July 11, killing at Lido 'The Flourishing' to Varcaturo Raffaele Granata, 70, manager of the bathhouse and the father of the mayor of Calverley. He also pays for the first year have not yielded to the will of the clan. On August 4 massacre in Castel Volturno Ziber Dani Kazan and Arthur were sitting on the terrace of the 'Bar Kuban', and probably Ramis Doda August 21, twenty-five years before the 'Bar Freedom' San Marcellino. The victims were Albanians who rounded up the shop, but were allowed to stay and work on construction sites as masons and painters.
Then on Aug. 18 opened fire indiscriminately against the house of Teddy Egonwman, president of Nigerians in Campania, which has been fighting for years against the prostitution of his own people, wounding seriously he, his wife Alice and three other friends. They return to San Marcellino
September 12 to kill and Ernesto Antonio Ciardullo Fabozzi, killed while they were doing maintenance on truck transport firm which was the first holder. Although he had not obeyed, and those who stood by was killed because he witnessed.
Finally, on September 18, the first jig Celiento Antonio, owner of an amusement arcade in Green Bay, and a quarter of an hour after opening a fire of 130 rounds of Kalashnikov guns and against the Africans gathered in front of the workshop and 'Ob Ob Exotic Fashion 'of Castel Volturno. Die Samuel Kwaku, 26, and Alaj Ababa, Togo, Christopher Adams and Alex Geemes, 28, Liberians; Kwame Julius Francis, 31, and Eric Yeboah, 25, Ghanaian, and is hospitalized with serious injuries Ayimbora Joseph, 34, also from Ghana. Only one or perhaps two of them had to do with drugs, others were there by chance, worked hard on building sites or where it happened, and also in tailoring.
Sixteen victims in less than six months. Any democratic country with such a situation would have faltered. Here, despite everything, he's not even mentioned. Neither was aware from Rome on this trail of blood and terror of this, who does not speak Arabic, which has five-pointed stars, but controls and rules without enforcement.
They kill anyone who opposes. They kill anyone who happens under fire, without regard for anyone. The list of dead could be longer, much longer. And for all these months, no one informed the public that turned this 'fishing boat fire'. Mediterranean fish, like the boats that go out to fish in the high seas. No one has revealed the names until they have made slaughter in Castel Volturno. But
are always the same, always use the same weapons, even if they try to adjust them to mislead the scientific, a sign that they have few available. Do not come in contact with families, are strictly between them. Every time someone sees them in the bars of some paesone, where they stop to take in alcohol. And six months nobody can catch them.
Castel Volturno, a territory where most of the killings occurred, is not any place. It is not a slum, a ghetto for outcasts and exploited as if they can also be found elsewhere, even if now some of his areas of Africa that are more like the hometown to the place of seaside tourism for which its houses were built. Castel Volturno is where the Coppola built the largest citadel of unfair world, the famous Village Coppola.
Ottocentosessantatremila area occupied with concrete. Who illegally took the place of one of the largest pine forests in the Mediterranean Sea. Abuse the hospital, the police station abusive, illegal items. All abusive. We went to live the families of the NATO soldiers. When they left, the area fell more than total abandonment and became a fief by Francesco Bidognetti all at the same time the territory of the Nigerian mafia.
The Nigerians have a powerful Mafia with whom the defendant to Casalesi, their country has become a hub in the international trafficking of cocaine and Nigerian organizations are powerful, able to invest primarily in money transfer, the points through which all World immigrants send money home. Through these, the Nigerian money and control people. Castel Volturno African direct cocaine transit, especially in England. The congestion charges so that the clan forces are not only the lace on the retail store, but agreements on a sort of joint venture. Now, however, Nigerians are powerful, powerful. So is the Albanian mafia, by which the Casalesi are in business.
And the clan is gaping, fear of not being recognized as one who commands the first and last in the area. And here are creeping in the indentations of men fishing boat. Albanians kill small fish such as demonstration projects, are the slaughter of Africans - and among these none is from Nigeria - strike the last links of the chain of criminal and ethnic hierarchies. Honest guys die, but as always, in this land, there must be a reason to die. It does not take much to be vilified.
The African children were killed immediately all 'dealers' as they were 'Camorra' Reversal Giuseppe and Vincenzo Natale, killed in Villa Literno September 23, 2003 because they had stopped to get a beer near Frank Gallop, a member of the clan Bidognetti. They too were soon baptized as criminals.
is not the first time that takes place in those parts a massacre of immigrants. In 1990, Augusto La Torre, boss of Mondragone, left with his loyalists at a time of a bar which, although run by Italians, had become a meeting point for the trafficking of Africans. All took place along the highway always Domitiana in Pescopagano, a few miles north of Castel Volturno, but already in the territory mondragonese. They killed six people, including the operator, and wounded many others. That, too, was the culmination of a series of actions against foreigners, but also approved Casalesi that the intimidation did not like the massacre. The tower had to collect heavy criticism by Francesco 'Sandokan' Schiavone. But now times have changed and allow the exercise of indiscriminate violence to allow a group of armed cocaine.
I call back to my land that has self-image. I ask this in all those groups of men and women who work here in the great silence and are committed. In those few politicians who manage to remain credible, resisting the temptations of collusion or of the withdrawal of combat power of the clan. A all those who are doing their job, to all those who seek to live honestly, as in any other part of the world. To all these people. Which are more and more, but they are increasingly alone.
How do you imagine this land? If it is true, as said by Danilo Dolci, which grows only if each is a dream, you dream about these places as them there? There's never been so much focus on your lands and all that has happened and will happen. Yet it seems to have changed much. The two bosses who rule continue to operate and to be free. Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria. Twelve years on the run. Even they know where they are. The first is in San Cipriano d'Aversa, the second Casapesenna. In an area the size of a piece of land, may not be able to find them?
ancient history is that of the wanted fugitives in the world and then found their own home. But it is new story that I have now spoken over and over newspapers and television, that politicians of all stripes have promised that they will stop. Meanwhile time passes and nothing happens. And are there. Walk, talk, meet people.
I saw that in my country have appeared written against me. Saviano shit. Saviano worm. And a huge coffin with my name. And then insults, constant denigration from the most common and banal: 'What has been done the money'. With my job as a writer and now I live, Fortunately, pay for my lawyers. What about them? That control their business empires and are building houses pharaonic in countries where there are not even paved roads?
them and for the disposal of toxic wastes are managed in a single operation to collect up to 500 million euro and have padded our land of poison to the point of pushing up to 24% certain cancers, congenital malformations and up 84% percent? Real money they generate, according to the Observatory epidemiological Campania, an average of 7172.5 cancer deaths a year in Campania. And to get rich on the misfortunes of this land would be me with my words, or the police and prosecutors, reporters and all others with books or movies or any other so continue to report? How can you create such a reversal of perspectives? How is it possible that even honest people to join this chorus? Although I know my ground in front of all this I am still in disbelief and shock and hurt to the point that even I struggle to find my voice. Why
leads to mute the pain, because the hostility leads to not know who to talk to. So who should I talk to, what I say? How do I say to my country to stop being crushed between the arrogance of the strong and the cowardice of the weak? Today here in this room where the guest of those who protect me, is my birthday. I think of all the birthdays in the past as well, since I cover, a bit 'nervous, a bit' sad and above only.
I think I can never pass a normal part of my land, that I will never set foot. I regret as a sick man without hope all birthdays neglected, snubbed because it's just any date, and another year there will be an equal. It has now opened a chasm in time and space, a wound that will never heal. And I think as well, and especially those who live in my own condition and did not like me the privilege to write and speak to many.
I think some other friends in the Commons, Raffaele, Rosa, Lirio, Tano, I think of Carmelina, the teacher of Mondragone who had denounced the killer of a Camorra and has since lived under police protection, far away, alone. Left by her boyfriend who was to marry, judged by the friends who feel oppressed by their courage and their mediocrity. Because there was no sympathy for his gesture, indeed, there has been criticism and abandonment. She has just followed a call of his conscience and had to get by with the meager salary that gives the state. What did
Carmelina, what did others like her to have life uprooted and destroyed, while the boss at large continue to be able to live protected and respected in their lands? And I call on my land, what we have left? Tell me. Float? Pretend nothing happened? Trampling scales hospitals cleaned by cleaning cooperatives them to receive the fuel in the tanks pulled from their petrol stations? Live in houses built by them, drinking coffee brand from their sets (each brand of coffee to be sold in bars must have permission of the clan), cooking in their pots (the clan Tablet managed production and sale of top brands pots)?
eat their bread, their cheese, their vegetables? They can vote for politicians who, like the repentant state, you get to the highest national? Working in their shopping malls, built to create jobs and due subjection to the workplace, but in the meantime there is no loss, because most of the shops are they? You proud to live in the territory with the largest malls in the world and with one of the highest rates of poverty? Spend time on the premises managed or approved by them? Sit at the bar near their children, the children of their lawyers, their white-collar? And find them cute and innocent, all in all nice people, because they are basically just guys who are guilty of their fathers.
In fact it is not apportioning blame, but to stop accepting and always be, stop thinking that at least there is order, that at least there is work, and that you do not scratch, do not lift the veil, to continue to go their own way. They just do this and in our land has already in the best of all possible worlds, or maybe not, but certainly in the only possible world.
How much more should we expect? As yet we see the best and resigned to emigrate to stay? Are you really sure that is fine? That the evenings you spend in court, laughing, arguing, cursing the stench of waste heat, to chat, be enough? You want a simple life, plain, made of small things, while all around you there is a real war, while those who undergo a complaint and talk and lose everything. How did we become so blind? So subservient and resigned, so bent? How is it that only the last of the last, the African Castel Volturno who suffer from exploitation and violence of the Italian mafia and other Africans have been able to pull out once more anger than fear and resignation? I can not believe that South is so rich in talent and strength can only truly be satisfied with that.
Calabria has the lowest GDP of Italy but 'something new', that is? Ndrangheta, invoice and more as a whole Italian financial maneuver. Alitalia is in crisis, but Grazzanise, in a territory marked by the Camorra, is to build the largest Italian airport, the largest in the Mediterranean. A land to pay enormous amounts of money to circulate without a shred of real development, and instead of money, profit, cement which has the flavor of the looting, not growth.
I can not believe are able to withstand only a few exceptional individuals. That complaint is now the only task of a few individuals, priests, teachers, doctors, the few honest politicians and groups that play the role of civil society. And the rest? The others are good and quiet, stunned by fear? Fear. The more excuses. It feels all right because it is in his name that they defend the family, loved ones, their innocent lives, their sacred right to live and build it.
But no longer afraid it would not be difficult. It would be enough to act, but not by yourself. The fear goes hand in hand with isolation. Every time someone pull back creates more fear, that creates even more fear in an exponential growth that immobilizes, eroding, slowly ruining.
'You can build the happiness of the world on the shoulders of one abused child?', Asks Ivan Karamazov to his brother Aljo? A. But you do not want a perfect world, you just want a quiet and simple life, an everyday acceptable, the warmth of a family. Be content to think that this puts you away from anxieties and pain. And maybe you can, can you find a dimension where you will find serenity. But at what price?
If your children were born sick or ill, if you should again turn to a politician in exchange for a vote will give you a job without which even your little dreams and projects end up in the air, when we will struggle to get a mortgage on your home while the directors of the banks themselves will always be available to those in power, when you see this maybe you will realize that there is no shelter, that there is no protected area, and the attitude that you think realistically and wisely disenchanted has polluted the soul of resentment and bitterness that takes away any taste to your life.
Because if this is the sad thing is even more sad is the habit. Getting used that there is nothing else to do but to resign, or make do go away. I call upon my land if I can still imagine to choose from. I ask if you can at least make that first gesture of freedom lies in being able to think differently, to think freely. Do not resign to accept as a natural destiny what is the work of men.
Those men can tear you to your land and your past, take away the serenity, to finding a home, write insults on the walls of your country, can make the desert around you. But they can not eradicate what remains a certainty and, therefore, also remains a hope. That is not right, it is not natural at all, to a territory subject to the rule of violence and exploitation, without limits. And that should not go on like this for so always has been. Although it is not true that everything is always the same, but it's getting worse.
Why the devastation grows in proportion with their business, because it is irreversible as the plague-stricken land once and for all, because no limits. Because out there are around six killer brutalized and stoned, with a license to kill and do not mandate, that does not stop in front of anyone. Because they are the image and likeness of that which prevails today in this land and what awaits them tomorrow, tomorrow, in the future. We must find the strength to change. Now or never.
Copyright 2008 by Roberto Saviano
Published by arrangement
of Roberto Santachiara Literary Agency
( September 22, 2008)
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