A gentleman's agreement
"Driving away from the inn I knew about Every man or woman who'd Been Told the job filled Was When It Was, Every youngster who'd Been Turned down by a college or a summer camp. I knew The Rage That pitches through you When you see your own child shaken and dazed. From that moment, I saw an unending attack by adults on kids of seven and eight and ten and twelve, on adolescents trying to get a job or an education or into medical school. And I knew that they had somehow known it, too. They, those patient stubborn men who argued and wrote and fought and came up with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They knew the tree is known by its fruit and that injustice corrupts a tree; that its fruit withers and shrivels and falls at last to that dark ground of History where other great hopes have rotted and died; where equality and freedom remain still the only choice for wholeness and soundness in a man or a nation."
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Letter To Daughter Confirmation
The Black Sheep - Italo Calvino
C'era un paese dove erano tutti ladri.
La notte ogni abitante emerged, with pick and lantern, and went to burgle the house of a neighbor. Came home at dawn, loading, and found the house burglarized.
So everyone lived in harmony and without damage, because the one stealing the other, and this in another, and so on, until you steal one who stole the last one first. The trade in that country are engaged only in the form of cheating and by those who sold and bought by those. The government was a criminal at the expense of his subjects, and subjects for their part only paid attention to defraud the government. So life went on without stumbling, and there were neither rich nor poor.
Now, do not know how it happened that the country was deemed to be a honest man. At night, rather than come up with a sack and a lantern, sat at home smoking and reading novels.
the robbers came, they saw the light on and not going up.
This fact lasted for a bit, then you make him understand that if he wanted to live and do nothing, it was not a good reason not to leave it to others. Every night he went home, had a family that did not eat the next day.
Given these reasons, the honest man could not resist. He also took him to go out at night to return at dawn, but there was a steal. Was honest, there was nothing to do. He went to the bridge and was about to go see the water below. He returned home and was robbed.
In less than a week man honest, he found himself penniless, without anything to eat, with the house empty. But so far not bad, because it was his fault, it was unfortunate that in this way he was born to do it all change. Why did he steal everything and meanwhile did not steal anybody, so there was always someone coming home at dawn, the house was intact: the house that would rob him. The fact is that after a while those that were robbed were found to be richer than the others and not want to steal. And, moreover, those who came to steal honest man's house they found it always empty, so they became poor.
Meanwhile, those become rich also got into the habit of going the night on their toes, to see the water that went under. This increased the confusion, because there were many others who became rich and many others who became poor.
Now, the rich saw that night to go upon the deck, after a while 'would become poor. And they thought: - We pay the poor going to steal our behalf -. He did the contracts, wages were set, the percentages: of course they always thieves, and try to fool each other. But, as it happens, the rich got richer and the poor get poorer.
There were the rich so rich that they no longer need to steal to continue to be rich. But if you stop stealing became poor because the poor robbed them. Then they paid the poorest of the poor to defend their stuff from other poor, and so established the police, and they built prisons.
Thus, already a few years after the advent of the honest man, no longer spoke to rob or be robbed only the rich and poor, yet they were always all thieves.
of honest there was only this man, suffered and died of hunger.
C'era un paese dove erano tutti ladri.
La notte ogni abitante emerged, with pick and lantern, and went to burgle the house of a neighbor. Came home at dawn, loading, and found the house burglarized.
So everyone lived in harmony and without damage, because the one stealing the other, and this in another, and so on, until you steal one who stole the last one first. The trade in that country are engaged only in the form of cheating and by those who sold and bought by those. The government was a criminal at the expense of his subjects, and subjects for their part only paid attention to defraud the government. So life went on without stumbling, and there were neither rich nor poor.
Now, do not know how it happened that the country was deemed to be a honest man. At night, rather than come up with a sack and a lantern, sat at home smoking and reading novels.
the robbers came, they saw the light on and not going up.
This fact lasted for a bit, then you make him understand that if he wanted to live and do nothing, it was not a good reason not to leave it to others. Every night he went home, had a family that did not eat the next day.
Given these reasons, the honest man could not resist. He also took him to go out at night to return at dawn, but there was a steal. Was honest, there was nothing to do. He went to the bridge and was about to go see the water below. He returned home and was robbed.
In less than a week man honest, he found himself penniless, without anything to eat, with the house empty. But so far not bad, because it was his fault, it was unfortunate that in this way he was born to do it all change. Why did he steal everything and meanwhile did not steal anybody, so there was always someone coming home at dawn, the house was intact: the house that would rob him. The fact is that after a while those that were robbed were found to be richer than the others and not want to steal. And, moreover, those who came to steal honest man's house they found it always empty, so they became poor.
Meanwhile, those become rich also got into the habit of going the night on their toes, to see the water that went under. This increased the confusion, because there were many others who became rich and many others who became poor.
Now, the rich saw that night to go upon the deck, after a while 'would become poor. And they thought: - We pay the poor going to steal our behalf -. He did the contracts, wages were set, the percentages: of course they always thieves, and try to fool each other. But, as it happens, the rich got richer and the poor get poorer.
There were the rich so rich that they no longer need to steal to continue to be rich. But if you stop stealing became poor because the poor robbed them. Then they paid the poorest of the poor to defend their stuff from other poor, and so established the police, and they built prisons.
Thus, already a few years after the advent of the honest man, no longer spoke to rob or be robbed only the rich and poor, yet they were always all thieves.
of honest there was only this man, suffered and died of hunger.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Athletics Spikes Toronto
March 1 - Strike of foreigners in Italy Souvenir from Italy
1) those who are foreign nationals residing in Italy [1]
At 1 January 2010, the Italian population reaches 60 million 387 thousand residents
Foreigners are
7 4279000 , 1% of the population
total (6.2% EU average)
2) The increased presence of foreign citizens in the last 20 years?
In 1990, 781,138 were foreigners.
In 20 years the number of foreign citizens has increased by 3,487,862 units, increased fivefold.
3) How many women than men?
Slightly more than half: 50.8% [2]
4) How many foreign children? And the students?
In Italy more than a fifth of the foreign population consists of children:
862,453 foreign children, on 1 January 2009, 22% of the foreign population tot. [3]
628,937 foreign students in the school year 2008/2009 with an average incidence of 7% [4]
31.5 years: mean age foreign nationals
44.2 years: mean age of Italian
5) those who are EU citizens and non? [5]
EU citizens
29.1% 70.9% foreigners
6) What are the first countries of origin [6]
Romania 953 000 472 000
Albania
Morocco 433 000 181 000
China
Ukraine 172 000
53.6% of foreigners are citizens of the European continent [7]
Romanians represent 22% of the "foreigners"
The first three communities cover 43%
7) Who makes children in Italy? [8]
In 2009, approximately 570,000 children were born. (Per woman: 1.41 children on average)
Approximately 94 000 births, 16.5% of the total, are attributable to foreign mothers, of which 3.4%
with Italian partner and the remaining 13% with foreign partners.
10 years ago there were 29 000, 5.4%
8) How much would diminish the Italian population every year without immigrants?
The birth rate in Italy is 0.95% in 2009 to 1,000 people, there were 9.5 new births and 9.8 deaths:
with foreigners is the natural balance of - 0.3% no foreigners would be -1.6%
9) In work areas that foreigners [9]
Agriculture 7.7% Industry 33.6% Construction 14.2
in
Services 54.5% 11.5%
families
services business services hotels and restaurants 12.2%
other 10.1% 20.7% 4.2% Not determined
10) What contribution leads to national wealth? (GDP)
- GDP: 9.7% incidence of € 134 billion in 2007 (Unioncamere)
- Contributions INPS 2008: € 6.5 billion to 4% of tot (voice)
- Tax revenue : € 3.2 billion (Dossier Immigration)
11) How much and what they receive
Social spending for immigrants
- 2.5% of total expenditure, amounting to about half of the proceeds from their insured Bank (Italy).
12) What are the religions professed by foreign nationals? What is the most common? [10]
Christians 50% Muslims 33%
13) How many foreign nationals settling in Italy every year? Why?
In 2009, the net balance of migration of foreign nationals is + 384 000 units [11]
in 2008 was 454,000 + 493,000 + in 2007 was
types of inputs:
- worker 0 in 2009 (295,000 requests for legalization but)
150,000 in 2008 - 3000 Self-employment in 2008
- Seasonal Work 80,000 in 2009 (circular migration)
- family reunification:
124,000 in 2008 - 12,857 January to international protection week. 2009 [12]
31,097 in 2008 [13]
- 11,500 new registrations in university study in 2008 [14]
Types of residence permits, [15]
- Labour 59%
- Family reasons 33%
- Studio 2%
- International protection, humanitarian reasons
2% - 1% of the elective estate
- Religion
1% - 1% Other
SOURCES:
http://valigiedicartone.blogspot.com
[1] Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[2] Source: Dossier Immigration Statistics, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes on Istat
2009 [3] Source: ISTAT, "The foreign population resident in Italy on 1 January 2009", October 8, 2009, cit.
[4] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[5] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[6] In this section: Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[7] On this figure, Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[8] In this section: Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[9] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[10] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[11] Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[12] Source: Ministry of the Interior.
to Istat would instead about 7,500. V. ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[13] SOURCE: National Commission asylum
[14] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[15] Source: Internal Min 2006
1) those who are foreign nationals residing in Italy [1]
At 1 January 2010, the Italian population reaches 60 million 387 thousand residents
Foreigners are
7 4279000 , 1% of the population
total (6.2% EU average)
2) The increased presence of foreign citizens in the last 20 years?
In 1990, 781,138 were foreigners.
In 20 years the number of foreign citizens has increased by 3,487,862 units, increased fivefold.
3) How many women than men?
Slightly more than half: 50.8% [2]
4) How many foreign children? And the students?
In Italy more than a fifth of the foreign population consists of children:
862,453 foreign children, on 1 January 2009, 22% of the foreign population tot. [3]
628,937 foreign students in the school year 2008/2009 with an average incidence of 7% [4]
31.5 years: mean age foreign nationals
44.2 years: mean age of Italian
5) those who are EU citizens and non? [5]
EU citizens
29.1% 70.9% foreigners
6) What are the first countries of origin [6]
Romania 953 000 472 000
Albania
Morocco 433 000 181 000
China
Ukraine 172 000
53.6% of foreigners are citizens of the European continent [7]
Romanians represent 22% of the "foreigners"
The first three communities cover 43%
7) Who makes children in Italy? [8]
In 2009, approximately 570,000 children were born. (Per woman: 1.41 children on average)
Approximately 94 000 births, 16.5% of the total, are attributable to foreign mothers, of which 3.4%
with Italian partner and the remaining 13% with foreign partners.
10 years ago there were 29 000, 5.4%
8) How much would diminish the Italian population every year without immigrants?
The birth rate in Italy is 0.95% in 2009 to 1,000 people, there were 9.5 new births and 9.8 deaths:
with foreigners is the natural balance of - 0.3% no foreigners would be -1.6%
9) In work areas that foreigners [9]
Agriculture 7.7% Industry 33.6% Construction 14.2
in
Services 54.5% 11.5%
families
services business services hotels and restaurants 12.2%
other 10.1% 20.7% 4.2% Not determined
10) What contribution leads to national wealth? (GDP)
- GDP: 9.7% incidence of € 134 billion in 2007 (Unioncamere)
- Contributions INPS 2008: € 6.5 billion to 4% of tot (voice)
- Tax revenue : € 3.2 billion (Dossier Immigration)
11) How much and what they receive
Social spending for immigrants
- 2.5% of total expenditure, amounting to about half of the proceeds from their insured Bank (Italy).
12) What are the religions professed by foreign nationals? What is the most common? [10]
Christians 50% Muslims 33%
13) How many foreign nationals settling in Italy every year? Why?
In 2009, the net balance of migration of foreign nationals is + 384 000 units [11]
in 2008 was 454,000 + 493,000 + in 2007 was
types of inputs:
- worker 0 in 2009 (295,000 requests for legalization but)
150,000 in 2008 - 3000 Self-employment in 2008
- Seasonal Work 80,000 in 2009 (circular migration)
- family reunification:
124,000 in 2008 - 12,857 January to international protection week. 2009 [12]
31,097 in 2008 [13]
- 11,500 new registrations in university study in 2008 [14]
Types of residence permits, [15]
- Labour 59%
- Family reasons 33%
- Studio 2%
- International protection, humanitarian reasons
2% - 1% of the elective estate
- Religion
1% - 1% Other
SOURCES:
http://valigiedicartone.blogspot.com
[1] Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[2] Source: Dossier Immigration Statistics, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes on Istat
2009 [3] Source: ISTAT, "The foreign population resident in Italy on 1 January 2009", October 8, 2009, cit.
[4] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[5] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[6] In this section: Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[7] On this figure, Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[8] In this section: Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[9] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[10] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[11] Source: ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[12] Source: Ministry of the Interior.
to Istat would instead about 7,500. V. ISTAT Demographic Indicators 2009, February 18, 2010
[13] SOURCE: National Commission asylum
[14] Source: Statistical Dossier on Immigration, 2009, Caritas-Migrantes.
[15] Source: Internal Min 2006
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