Saturday, April 10, 2010

Will An Initial Herpes Outbreak Bleed?

eaters mountains *



of Sarah White **




The cultivation of the slots is adjusted the general lines of the European regulations "indicative" (1985, 1997, 2002). In Italy we refer to Royal Decree 1443 of 1927 updated with a few odd laws and decrees , since 1977 the powers belong to the regional governments. Campania has covered the excavation with two laws (1985, 1995), the first of which was not provided for the environmental restoration of the site. These laws provide for development instead of a quarry which is present in an environmental impact assessment (EIA) the commencement or continuation of quarrying is subject to authorization by the Region, and the recovery should be contextual to the cultivation : you can not design a single year of recovery after twenty years of extraction. There will also rules for the environmental rehabilitation of abandoned quarries and unfair, but so far no quarry of those cultivated and abandoned the first 85, was recovered. There is also a fee in € per cubic meter to pay for the extraction. In the Italian regions will pay an average of four percent of the selling price of aggregates in some regions (Valle D'Aosta, Puglia, Calabria, Basilicata, Sicily, Sardinia) is even free slot, in Campania, the price is 0.22 euro/m3: while the concessions are sold off or given away, the miners obtained a billion and seven hundred thirty-five million euro per year, the Regions fifty-three million euro. The Czech Republic has introduced the concept of land use also taxing the area occupied by quarries. In the UK license fee is six times that required in Italy. But there are alternatives to the extraction, one of them is the recovery of the aggregates from demolition in construction, which creates more jobs work and that in many European countries are replacing the quarrying activity. In Denmark today, recourse is made to ninety percent of recycled aggregates rather than the quarry.

In Campania most of the material taken is directed to the construction industry. Among others, the limestone, consumer product in the construction industry. Today, the limestone is mainly extracted to produce lime and cement, which stem from the fact clinker, limestone and clay mixture of other materials with which they are added up and deployment of energy production of polluting fumes, so that the factories must be located away from population centers.

Our country stands in Europe (second only to Spain) for the production of cement, of which seventy percent for construction. One of the main producers and cementing Spa, founded in 1947 and IRI sold in '92 to Caltagirone Spa for four hundred billion lire . The company has developed an extensive network of factories and commercial offices. In 2001, publicly traded and is now the fourth largest cement producer in Italy and Turkey and the leading producer of white cement and concrete in Scandinavia. It currently has more than a hundred plants around the world.

In 1968 he built the cement of Maddaloni, started operations in 1975 and is still challenged by citizen groups and committees. La Cava Victoria, falling in the towns of Caserta and Maddaloni, provides the calcium necessary for the production of clinker of cement, which lies close to the deposit of limestone of Monte San Michele, near many towns. Since 2007 an on-going conflict between citizens who for years fighting for land conservation and health and the law, and the owner of the Caltagirone Group Cementir, who wants a permit for a draft "environmental restoration and cultivation of completion of the Quarry Victory" (already approved) and the "cultivation and environmental restoration as an extension (on the eastern side of Mount St. Michael).

In particular, the ace up the sleeve of Cement is the RD 3267, 1923, which speaks of how a forest area can be transformed into "quality of other crops" in Following authorization by the Forest Service. But ordinarily we speak of pastures and vineyards, not mining, among others in area subjected to geological constraint. Looking then the mapping Plan Excerpt Basin Authority of the North West Campania evident the many other constraints of the subject area concerned the extension and the area already excavated the quarry Victoria. Both are located in Areas of Crisis AC and ZC critical area in the immediate vicinity of ZAC, Highly Critical Area, and landscape protection area. The area expansion was also covered by fire and you could not use it for fifteen years from the date of the fire (L.353/2000), there is the constraint for reforestation and reclamation montana (L.11/96 ) and then it is moderate landslide risk areas, medium and high (R1, R2, R3).

should be specified that are subject to the constraint hydrogeological "the nature and purpose of any land which may be public denudation with damage, loss of stability or undermining the system of waters", and our case we are in extreme conditions of groundwater resources of the massif of the mountains Tifatini, without a system for monitoring water levels and water quality, sentenced to a process of desiccation and desertification now thoroughly started.

The presence of cement and cement Moccia is also incompatible with the very near urbanized centers, where according to recent statistics are the sharp increase in cancer, asthma and skin diseases, due to the large amounts of fine particles in the atmosphere. For the same reason, the University Hospital coveted by the city of Caserta will never open as long persist emissions from the two factories. And the university has not yet ruled on ...


also play an important role workers, supported by the CGIL, defend their place of work, location of course Opificio same defense. A job that has caused the death but in the past of some of their colleagues. The Committees argue that the problem does not arise because the same job you have relocated in the cement works and the naturalization of abandoned quarries (three hundred only in the province of Caserta), and in the recovery of the aggregates from demolition.

The facts seem clear at this point of the game. We expect more big surprises. The conclusion is probably already written and is not optimistic those who fight for a better city. And if we already arrived at the fifteenth services conference, held March 2 (which by law should be "void for violation of Law 241/90, which sets the period for its termination within ninety days have not been decided where different terms), there is little to be optimistic.


: This article has already appeared in the March issue of the magazine's investigation monitor.

** Photographs by Alessandro De Filippo

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Baggerfarm For Pigs In Ga

begins with the double "bang" the season of Juniors





Seregno - If you see a good day from morning ... Salus the season of cycling will Seregno glittering success. They are in fact the two victories that have adorned the season debut of "puppy" of society Gialloblu. Monday, April 5 in the province of Novara has officially taken the 2010 racing season. Double success for Luke Buttini in G2 and G5 in Lorenzo Barbato have won the first official release on the road. G2 brilliant victory of the young, who last season showed 18 / 1 seats. Push power to Luke Buttini: two on the run literally burned his opponent in the final sprint through the first under the banner of arrival.
debut with the jersey of Salus also Toninato Frederick, 4th after a race always on the attack. To hold high the flag of the G3 has thought Luca Fumagalli you square in seventh place despite the short training in these early weeks. The best results came from the G5. Marika Premoli just missed the win with a 2nd place ranking in women. Better than she did Lorenzo Barbato who triumphed in his trial. My compliments go directly to the athlete by the coach Gabriele Buttini who praised the technical act of promising young yellow and blue, "After race and above all a great sprint speed "was the flattering comments of Ds. Dry premier class victories this season but the opportunities are not missed. To be recorded, however, the good race and Davide Mariani Dario Di Blasi. For both race as protagonists: they spent too much during the first few laps in a sprint finish and failed to enter 5. The only regret and Francis Barnes, son of art, which debuted in G2 has fallen to second lap. The great start to the season has brought home the third place Salus for the cup of society.
season debut Sunday for two of the four Gialloblu Beginners. Alzate Brianza first exit to the season for Lorenzo Ferri and Riccardo Zappa both of 1 Year. Continue the search for a better shape for the two students Salus. Sunday, March 28 at the onset Pugin. At Easter the traditional way in a Closed Cup Sovico. Limited a little 'from inclement weather and especially cold Christian Brambilla (1st Year) and Marco Cazzaniga (2nd Year) finished the race in groups.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Kojic Acid, Side Effects

The Students the way to Pugin. At Easter it is up to Easter debut for Beginners and Teenagers


Seregno - They are ready to defend the yellow and blue colors of the Students Salus, Christian Brambilla (1st Year) and Marco Cazzaniga (2nd Year) on Sunday for the official debut season on the road. The official is scheduled for Sunday, March 28 to Pugin. The following Sunday, April 4, instead debuted the Beginners Richard Albonico, Lorenzo Ferri, Riccardo Zappa Mattia Santambrogio and all their first experience in the category. For their first effort of the season is scheduled to Alzate Brianza. The next day, Easter Monday, also will be the turn of the Juniors. From G2 to G6 are 17 young athletes this year who will repeat the Gialloblu over twenty victories and 102 markers scored in last season. At the start of the first test will be: in G2 Buttini Luke, Matthew Talia, Francesca Tonini, Francesco Barni and Anastasia Tilotta. In G3 Luca Fumagalli, Luca Mariani, Luca Davoli. In G4 Simone Cazzaniga, Michael Chunga and Benedetta Ferri. In G5 Lorenzo Barbato, James Citterio, Alessandro Villa and Marika Premoli and class Queen of the G6 and Davide Mariani Dario Di Blasi. With the official presentation of the calendars were also formalized the three races this year will be organized by the company Seregnesi. To open the dance, May 30, the youngest with the classic test given to six groups involved in the walking tour organized for the celebration of Don Orione. Just days after then will be the turn of Beginners, June 13, the Trophy Meroni. Commitments to close the season with the trophy Students Massimo Elli on 19 September.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

What Does The Dots On Facebook Mean

Caserta and its quarries *

Caserta Roads have always ended with these backgrounds, cave-like glimpses of mountain gorges, the landscape in which you have used for too long. It should not be always so, but for those who are younger than that age and quarrying, for people born and raised here in the last twenty-five years, that view has slowly eroded the measure of things to think about until it was always so.

The young have no memory of different landscapes as well as it has become difficult to imagine different futures. The memories made intrasmettibili image of older people were slowly excavated, stone by stone, leaving only twenty-five years, without identity or territory.

Scavo after excavation, Caserta and municipalities are now Tifatini the hills flanking the image of the massacre: "In 1954 the quarry areas in the chain of mountains were just Tifatini eighty-seven hectares out of a ' extension of nearly fifteen thousand. Today, in the city of Caserta, the areas affected by mining activities amounted to about one thousand acres, thirty-six football fields destroyed and removed from the community each year. " Environmental NGOs Caserta remembered him as early as 2005, a proposal document for the establishment of the urban park the "hills Tifatini. He breathed optimism aftermath of an investigation which the Olympic projects initiated by the Judiciary in 2004 and ended in the first degree in 2008 with the "crime does not exist."

The investigating judge of the court in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Antonio Pepe, sent home the eleven defendants in the trial of the deputy prosecutor born Donato Ceglie investigation that led to several arrests among the Cavaiola and total blockade of the quarries that surround the area between Caserta and Maddaloni. Destruction of entire mountains, unpaid royalties, land reclamation miss, forgery, corruption, damage to health, environmental disaster, but "the fact there is."

"an offense to the intelligence" was the reaction hot pressing pm, Donato Ceglie and Paul Albano, now on appeal. The same strategy is repeated now as then: to systematically apply laws are not written in exact opposition to the provisions for land reclamation, landscape conservation, hydro-geological risks, the health of citizens, protection of the territory. A judge who does not want to hear, a territory that pretends not to see, but who knowingly suffers: the script you are playing is well established in the last twenty years that has literally disappeared in the mountains due to a 'mining perpetrated grossly falsifying authorizations, orders of service, explosives, maps, plans in order to get illegally. The actors past and present politicians are Cavaiola and represented by the Mayor of Maddaloni Michele Farina, from Province and Municipality of Caserta, from Civil Engineers, on ' Forestry Authority, the Authority Basin of north-western region of Campania and Cementir Caltagirone Group Ltd with his lawyers.

In November 2007 Cementir Ltd has made application to the Civil Engineers of Caserta for approval of a draft "environmental reclamation and cultivation in enlargement" , with a break, hanging on a site in the town on the eastern side of Maddaloni Mount St. Michele. The draft "environmental recovery in expansion" is divided into four lots for a total duration of twenty years.

After more than a year of service conferences managed by the same Civil Engineers of Caserta, who was described as "armed and illegally operated in the interests of controlled" by prosecutors delll'Operazione Olympus March 2 held its fifteenth Conference of services, and soon to be held next, to approve at all costs the continuation of mining activity for the group of Francesco Caltagirone, owner also Morning Caserta . The fanciful idea of \u200b\u200benvironmental restoration, to be made by extending the quarry will be realized in the opening of a further huge chasm on the east side of Hill St. Michele just behind the Bridge of the Valley, by engineering Vanvitelli who supplies water the Reggia di Caserta UNESCO World Heritage since 1997.

To become aware of the situation in the environment where the landscape you have to climb Caserta becomes the best visual synthesis of the territory. From the top of S. Michele the area is a great Gruyere hills literally ripped open by blows of dynamite, deep, up to show nerves of white rock that grinds his teeth. The slow erosion has become apparent immobility, leaving the viewer indifferent landscape from afar. We need to climb, touch the limestone cliffs, white pants get dirty with dust, get there at the top where you can view it all to turn the background into stark reality. In more than twenty years been an illegal war waged against the territory covering the municipalities of San Prisco, Casagiove, the villages of San Clemente, Thirteen, Garza, Centura, Park Cerasola of the town of Caserta, and numerous sites of the town of Maddaloni . 'S impressive extension of the quarries of white visible on Google maps , assumes the extension of reality when observed closely. The immense Cava Victoria, subject to enlargement "aimed at environmental restoration," above you no chance to reply.

I decide to climb on top of leaving behind the quarry and cement Moccia Cava Iuliano , through Park Cerasola known Cava of Saint Lucia, now converted into parking for the faithful of the church on Sunday rescued from the bulldozers. Through the valley of gauze and its quarries to "meteorite impact, between views of lush countryside and hills skinned, imagining what could have been, was not, until you reach the entrance to the sanctuary of St. Michael. This site pilgrimage now surrounded by quarries, literally on the brink of the precipice, is perhaps the last outpost of human civilization that still stands up here. It will remain perhaps a cross in memory of the mountain symbol of a civilization by now dug into.

Why not matter if there are a hydrogeological constraint, a constraint for a good landscape UNESCO and will not be respected, no matter if there is a constraint to reforestation and the trees will be killed, no matter if the area was covered by fire and could not carry out any activity for fifteen years, no matter if the clinic building will never function as long as in quarries and cement plants will be active if the Cavaiola has been ordered to relocate and do not, if the area has been adopted by the Regional Plan for the highly critical and Mining Activities you continue to dig, no matter if all are colluding to destroy even the last things left.


What matters today is that the Quarry Victoria has devoured the mountain, leaving huge steps that lap the way now tip of the mountain. A sign repeats threat of punishment does not exceed the reporting of offenders. What matters today is that looking at all the surrounding asks you to say enough to those who want to continue as before, as always, since I was born.



* This article first appeared in the journal Neapolitan Monitor