http://news.ladysilvia.it http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/12194/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/12194/cronaca/0/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:36:46 +0200 by Elaine Hunter, Apr 15, 2008 - Rate of Spontaneous Fission Neutrons From Uranium is 59.5+3 neutrons/g/hr According to one reference: http://iop.org/EJ/abstract/0370-1298/65/3/307 from Proc. Phys. Soc., D.J. Littler, 1952: "A Determination of the Rate of Emission of Spontaneous Fission Neutrons in Natural Uranium"] the rate of emission of spontaneous fission neutrons from natural uranium is computed to be 59.5+3 neutrons/g/hr of uranium. According to another reference: www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/rr_darksun.html Uranium-238 undergoes spontaneous fission at a rate 35 times that of Uranium-235. Though U-238 is not fissile, which means it does not sustain chain reactions, it is indeed fissionable, spontaneously so. Neutrons produced by spontaneous fission may experience: ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/11142/cronaca/1/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/11142/cronaca/1/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:04:56 +0100 AREZZO, Italy, Nov 15 (Reuters) - An Italian prosecutor said on Thursday he would prepare a murder case against a policeman who shot dead a soccer fan last weekend and triggered riots. Police had said the shooting on Sunday of Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri by policeman Luigi Spaccarotella had been a "tragic accident". "It's an unforgivable act because the gun is a last resort," said chief prosecutor Ennio Di Cicco, adding there was no question that Spaccarotella fired at shoulder height. Asked whether he would accuse Spaccarotella of murder instead of manslaughter, Di Cicco said: "It's a given". The shooting sparked riots by hundreds of fans, who set cars on fire and attacked police barracks. The violence forced Italy, the country that took home last year's World Cup, to cancel this ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/flashsport/10992/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/flashsport/10992/cronaca/0/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:52:26 +0200 New Delhi:  In a spirited performance the Indian youngsters rose to the challenge by beating the mighty South Americans in a four set thriller. Brazil started well leading in the first set by a good margin. However, the Indians were fighting tooth and nail. The Brazilians were matched by the Indian youngsters point by point. However they lost the first set which Brazil took 25-23 taking 1-0 lead. Not taking it easy the Indians took the early lead in the second set and went on to take the set 25-17. A jeering crowd present in large numbers at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Stadium danced and cheered Indian team to the tune of ‘Chak De India'. In the third set the roar from the crowd started reaching a higher level as India took an 8-4 lead. Indians were putting the ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/10633/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/10633/cronaca/0/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:33:15 +0200 Opera's most famous name, Luciano Pavarotti, has died. The 71-year-old Italian singer who brought classical music to the masses lost his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer in the early hours of today. The larger-than-life star always acknowledged that the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod changed his life. He sang at the eisteddfod with his father's Modena choir in 1955 and on winning the eisteddfod decided to leave his teaching job for a career in music. more: www.shropshirestar.co.uk Italian Opera Star Pavarotti Dies Of Pancreatic Cancer It's sad news from the world of opera, as fans around the world learn of the death of a superstar. Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, 71, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer Wednesday night. The face is ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/9005/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/9005/cronaca/0/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:06:07 +0100 There is a growing body of evidence indicating Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and its high-affinity receptor TrkA as important mediators in inflammatory pain states: NGF levels increase in inflammed tissue and NGF neutralization prevents inflammation-related hyperalgesia. MNAC13 is a humanized anti-TrkA antibody with function neutralising properties which make it a unique tool to contrast pathological situation characterized by hyperfunction of the NGF/TrkA system. MNAC13 displays remarkable analgesic properties in several animal models of persistent pain. It has a surprising long-lasting effect in the CCI model, in which two phases can be distinguished in the action of MNAC13: the first one (including the treatment period and the first week following the end of treatment itself) ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/6681/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/6681/cronaca/0/ Wed, 03 May 2006 17:11:45 +0200 AS IF Italy's election was not providing enough drama, the day the results came out also saw the arrest of the country's most wanted man: Bernardo Provenzano. Mr Provenzano has long been fingered as the boss of the Sicilian Mafia: the capo di tutti i capi. After chasing him for over 42 years, the police finally arrested him in a tumbledown farm building just outside Corleone, the Sicilian hill town made famous in "The Godfather" books and movies. It was there that Mr Provenzano was born 73 years ago, and there that he rose up the ranks of Sicily's Cosa Nostra. In the process he won the chilling nickname of "the tractor", because of the ease with which he mowed down anybody who got in his way. Several things seem to have helped him to stay on the run for so long. The last known photograph ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/6289/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/6289/cronaca/0/ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:38:22 +0100 A 15th minute effort from midfielder Simone Perrotta enabled Roma to match the runs put together by Juventus in 1931-32 season, AC Milan in 1950-51 and Bologna in 1963-64. Totti was carried off in the 12th minute after a heavy challenge by Empoli defender Richard Vanigli. The Italy international is expected to be out of action for about two months. The win gave Roma 51 points from 26 matches and moved them up to fourth - Italy's final Champions League berth. They are one point ahead of Fiorentina, who slipped back to fifth after losing 2-1 at home to Lazio. Juventus lead the division on 67 points after a 2-2 draw with Messina on Saturday. Roma struggled to produce their usual fluent football and owed their 15th-minute winner to a howler by goalkeeper Sebastian Cejas, who ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/5808/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/5808/cronaca/0/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:59:05 +0200 Australia's Argosy Minerals is to restart the development of a new nickel mine in the war-torn East African nation of Burundi, two years after suspending operations over security fears. declaration in April 2000 of 'force majeure' which froze a feasibility study had been lifted at the Musongati nickel project, Argosy manager of corporate strategy David Russell said. A United Nations study of the site estimated the nickel deposit contained about 6% of the known global supply of the metal. Exploitation has been restricted due to the civil war between the ethnic Hutu majority and the army led by the Tutsi minority which has raged since 1993, killing at least 250,000 people, most of them civilians. Fighting continues Mr Russell said political changes in Burundi, initiated ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/4929/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/4929/cronaca/0/ Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:48:43 +0100 http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/4615/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/4615/cronaca/0/ Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:22:08 +0100 Italy's most popular cartoonist, Giorgio Forattini, was looking for a job yesterday after being controversially dropped by daily newspaper La Stampa in what is suspected to be a response to recent protests by readers incensed by the maestro's irreverent political sketches. A Forattini vignette depicting Jesus Christ in a Bethlehem stable manger faced by Israeli tanks, asking "Are they going to kill me again?" generated a storm of protests, according to rival daily Corriere della Sera. Signor Forattini conceded that the cartoon "touched rather a delicate chord, but on the other hand that is my job". The falling out set off speculation, strongly denied by the cartoonist, that he would join conservative Il Giornale, which is controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3965/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3965/cronaca/0/ Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:08:21 +0200 October 8, 2004, Indymedia has learned that the request to seize Indymedia servers hosted by a US company in the UK originated from government agencies in Italy and Switzerland. More than 20 Indymedia sites, several internet radio streams and other projects were hosted on the servers. They were taken offline on October 7th after an order was issued to Rackspace, Inc., one of Indymedia's web hosting providers. The reasons for the court order or who actually holds the servers now are still unknown to Indymedia. According to Italian news agency reports and an Agence France-Presse (AFP) interview with FBI spokesman Joe Parris, the FBI acted on Italian and Swiss requests. "It is not an FBI operation," Parris told AFP. "Through a legal assistance treaty, the subpoena was on behalf of a third ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3850/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3850/cronaca/0/ Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:35:30 +0200 ROME, Italy -- Two female Italian aid workers and two Iraqis kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago have been released, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told a delighted parliament. Berlusconi said Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, and the Iraqi men were handed over to the Red Cross in Iraq. "Finally a moment of joy," Berlusconi said. "The two girls are well and will be able to return to their loved ones tonight." CNN's Alessio Vinci said the women were expected to return to Rome as early as 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Tuesday. Torretta and Pari were working for a humanitarian group called Bridge to Baghdad when their office was raided by insurgents September 7 and they were taken hostage, police said. Berlusconi went before Parliament to give details of the release, with ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3652/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3652/cronaca/0/ Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:19:14 +0200 SUDAN: "Still no news of the Sudanese humanitarian workers (3 of the WFP and 5 of the Sudanese Red Crescent) missing since last Saturday in Darfur". This was the statement made to MISNA by Vichi de Marchi, press representative for Italy of the WFP (World Food Programme). Based on a reconstruction of events provided yesterday to MISNA by WFP sources, to be reiterated today in New York in a press conference, the two organisations lost all contacts with the convoy of the eight Sudanese aid workers last Saturday at around 3:p.m. The convoy was headed toward the village of Tongragra, 85km south of El Fasher (capital of northern Darfur), to evaluate the conditions of displaced living in a camp situated near the village. Due to bad weather conditions, the joint WFP-Red Crescent rescue team has ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3459/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3459/cronaca/0/ Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:28:15 +0200 The apparently motiveless killing took place over two years ago in a family chalet in the Alpine village of Cogne. It has gripped Italians from the day it was first reported. Shockingly for a country where the figure of La Mama is almost a sacred icon, Anna Maria Franzoni was the first and only murder suspect. She had alerted police to the killing after accompanying her elder child to the school bus stop on a winter's morning in 2002. She told investigators she had been out of the house for only minutes. When she returned the toddler was dying. 'Bungled' inquiry Later, Anna Maria's blood-soaked pyjamas were found by police next to the body of her son. It was never established for certain whether she had been wearing them at the time of the murder. Vital forensic ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3307/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3307/cronaca/0/ Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:18:46 +0200 Dalle prime ore della mattina del 26 Giugno 2004, la Polizia Stradale del Compartimento per la Puglia, con l'ausilio del Reparto Prevenzione Crimine di Bari, sta eseguendo un'operazione nei confronti di un'associazione per delinquere dedita al furto ed alla ricettazione di merce di vario genere. Sono già 18 le persone arrestate, tutte ritenute responsabili di numerosi furti ai danni di autotrasportatori in sosta notturna nelle aree di servizio e di parcheggio. Le complesse ed articolate indagini eseguite dalla Squadra di Polizia Giudiziaria del Compartimento Polizia Stradale per la Puglia, effettuate anche con l'ausilio d'intercettazioni telefoniche e veicolari, hanno permesso di recuperare refurtiva per un valore di circa un milione di Euro. Polizia di Stato http://www.poliziadistato.it ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3293/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3293/cronaca/0/ Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:42:42 +0200 Continuerà ad oltranza la clamorosa protesta anti-rifiuti che da due giorni blocca i binari della ferrovia Napoli-Reggio Calabria in provincia di Salerno, e che sta praticamente isolando Calabria e Sicilia dal resto d'Italia, con decine di treni soppressi e 16.000 viaggiatori bloccati. Lo ha riferito una portavoce dei manifestanti. Intanto, annuncia Trenitalia, 6 treni collegheranno Torino, Milano e Venezia alla Calabria e alla Sicilia grazie alla linea ferroviaria adriatica e jonica, aggirando il versante tirrenico. A bloccare la stazione di Motecorvino Rovella sono circa 600 persone, provenienti da sei piccoli Comuni della zona, che chiedono di bloccare la riapertura della discarica di Parapoti (Salerno), decisa dal commissario straordinario per l'Emergenza rifiuti Corrado ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3147/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3147/cronaca/0/ Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:20:26 +0200 Eccovi alcuni episodi ad alta tensione accaduti durante la prigionia Il capo dell'Unità di crisi della Farnesina, Alessandro Cevese, ha raccontato: Hanno dormito per terra e in due occasioni sono stati rinchiusi tutti in un bagno di due metri per tre con l'obbligo di stare distesi per terra per circa tre giorni. Esclamando con sfida: "La fede non me la tolgo, piuttosto uccidetemi", questa è la sfida lanciato ai rapitori durante la prigionia di Salvatore Stefio. E poi Fabrizio Quattrocchi probabilmente è stato ucciso, perché in possesso della tessera del Cpa. Presto pubblicheremo maggiori dettagli ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3145/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/3145/cronaca/0/ Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:22:09 +0200 Three Italians held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months and a Polish citizen have been freed as a result of a military operation, according to the U.S.-led coalition. The operation, led by Polish and U.S. special forces, took place after an intensive intelligence investigation, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said. It took place in the southern part of Baghdad Tuesday morning, and Frattini said no ransom had been paid. Meanwhile, it emerged that two Turks and an Iraqi Turkoman driver who had been seized by gunmen in Iraq were also released Tuesday. Flanked by an Italian and a Polish diplomat, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, head of U.S. military forces in Iraq, told a news conference in Baghdad the military operation took place south of Baghdad and was conducted by a "combined" ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/2802/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/2802/cronaca/0/ Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:11:24 +0200 Alitalia ha cancellato tutti i voli fino alle 18. Lo si apprende dall'azienda. Ulteriori decisioni saranno prese in conseguenza dell'evolversi della situazione. ''A seguito delle proteste e di picchettaggi in corso presso lo scalo di Roma Fiumicino'', Alitalia informa, in una nota, ''di essere stata costretta alla cancellazione dell'intero operativo dei nazionali e internazionali fino alle ore 18.00 odierne''. La situazione per i passeggeri Alitalia nell'aeroporto di Fiumicino si e' andata pesantemente aggravando nel pomeriggio, dopo l'annuncio della cancellazione dei voli della compagnia. È stata aggiornata a venerdì mattina la trattativa fra Alitalia e le nove sigle sindacali presenti in azienda. Domani, secondo quanto si apprende di fonti sindacali, i rappresentanti dei lavoratori ]]> http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/2750/cronaca/0/ http://news.ladysilvia.it/ladysilvia/2750/cronaca/0/ Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:13:02 +0200 C'era anche Lucio Dalla a Bordo dell'MD80 dell'Alitalia che si é scontrato con un mezzo, nel parcheggio dell'aeroporto di Ronchi dei Legionari. «L'Md 80 (volo AZ 1375), con 91 passeggeri a bordo e sei persone di equipaggio, partito da Roma alle ore 9.25 e atterrato regolarmente a Trieste alle ore 10.43 ha imboccato a bassa velocità il raccordo Bravo, venendo a collisione con la parte terminale dell'ala destra con un mezzo di servizio». La punta dell'ala destra si è spezzata; il carburante ha invaso la pista. Pochi istanti: il comandante dell'aereo ha fatto scattare l'emergenza; gli scivoli sono spuntati fuori dall'aereo; i passeggeri, sorpresi e spaventati, sono scivolati giù a terra. Con una decina di contusioni (nessuna grave) e una clamorosa «culata», ammessa da Lucio Dalla. ]]>