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		<title>Fuga dall&#8217;Italia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the letter sent by Rita Clementi, an outstanding italian researcher, to the President of Italy, on the day she leaves the country for good. Best of luck, Rita! I am sure we will hear again about your new discoveries. Caro presidente Napolitano, chi le scrive è una non più giovane ricercatrice precaria che [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=30&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the letter sent by Rita Clementi, an outstanding italian researcher, to the President of Italy, on the day she leaves the country for good. Best of luck, Rita! I am sure we will hear again about your new discoveries.</p>
<blockquote><p>Caro presidente Napolitano, chi le scrive è una non più giovane ricercatrice precaria che ha deciso di andarsene dal suo Paese portando con sé tre figli nella speranza che un’altra nazione possa garantire loro una vita migliore di quanto lo Stato italiano abbia garantito al­la loro madre. Vado via con rab­bia,<br />
con la sensazione che la mia abnegazione e la mia dedi­zione non siano servite a nulla. Vado via con l’intento di chie­dere la cittadinanza dello Stato che vorrà ospitarmi, rinuncian­do ad essere italiana.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Signor presidente, la ricerca in questo Paese è ammalata. La cronaca parla chiaro, ma oltre alla cronaca ci sono tantissime realtà che non vengono denun­ciate per paura di ritorsione perché, spesso, chi fa ricerca da precario, se denuncia è auto­maticamente espulso dal «siste­ma » indipendentemente dai ri­sultati ottenuti. Chi fa ricerca da precario non può «solo» contare sui risultati che ottie­ne, poiché in Italia la benevo­lenza dei propri referenti è una variabile indipendente dalla qualità del lavoro. Chi fa ricer­ca da precario deve fare i conti con il rinnovo della borsa o del contratto che gli consentirà di mantenersi senza pesare sulla propria famiglia. Non può per­mettersi ricorsi costosi e che molto spesso finiscono nel nul­la. E poi, perché dovrebbe adi­re le vie legali se docenti dichia­rati colpevoli sino all’ultimo grado di giudizio per aver con­dotto concorsi universitari vio­lando le norme non sono mai<br />
stati rimossi e hanno continua­to a essere eletti (dai loro colle­ghi!) commissari in nuovi con­corsi?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Io, laureata nel 1990 in Medi­cina e Chirurgia all’Università di Pavia, con due specialità, in Pediatria e in Genetica medica, conseguite nella medesima Uni­versità, nel 2004 ho avuto l’onore di pubblicare con pri­mo nome un articolo sul New England Journal of Medicine i risultati della mia scoperta e cioè che alcune forme di linfo­ma maligno possono avere un’origine genetica e che è dun­que possibile ereditare dai geni­tori la predisposizione a svilup­pare questa forma tumorale. Ta­le scoperta è stata fatta oggetto di brevetto poi lasciato decade­re non essendo stato ritenuto abbastanza interessante dalle istituzioni presso cui lavoravo. Di contro, illustri gruppi di ri­cerca stranieri hanno conferma­to la mia tesi che è diventata ora parte integrante dei loro progetti: ma, si sa, nemo profe­ta in Patria.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Ottenere questi risultati mi è costato impegno e sacrifici: mettevo i bambini a dormire e di notte tornavo in laboratorio, non c’erano sabati o domeni­che&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Lavoravo, come tutti i precari, senza versamenti pen­sionistici, ferie, malattia. Ho avuto contratti di tutti i tipi: borse di studio, co-co-co, con­tratti di consulenza&#8230; Come ul­timo un contratto a progetto presso l’Istituto di Genetica me­dica dell’Università di Pavia, fi­nanziato dal Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Sia chiaro: nessuno mi imponeva questi orari. Ero spinta dal mio senso del dovere e dalla forte motivazione di aiutare chi era ammalato. Nel febbraio 2005 mi sono vista costretta a interrompere la ricerca: mi era stato detto che non avrei avuto un futuro. Ho interrotto una ricerca che molti hanno giudicato promettente, e che avrebbe potuto aggiungere una tessera al puzzle che in tutto il mondo si sta cercando di completare e che potrebbe aiutarci a sconfiggere il cancro.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Desidero evidenziare pro­prio questo: il sistema antimeri­tocratico danneggia non solo il singolo ricercatore precario, ma soprattutto le persone che vivono in questa Nazione. Una «buona ricerca» può solo aiutare a crescere; per questo moti­vo numerosi Stati europei ed extraeuropei, pur in periodo di profonda crisi economica, han­no ritenuto di aumentare i fi­nanziamenti per la ricerca.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>È sufficiente, anche in Italia, incrementare gli stanziamenti? Purtroppo no. Se il malcostu­me non verrà interrotto, se chi è colpevole non sarà rimosso, se non si faranno emergere i migliori, gli onesti, dare più soldi avrebbe come unica con­seguenza quella di potenziare le lobby che usano le Universi­tà e gli enti di ricerca come feu­do privato e che così facendo distruggono la ricerca.  Con molta amarezza, signor presidente, la saluto.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Rita Clementi</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Another mystery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the causes of the accident at Barajas airport were never cleared (at least not that I am aware of), it seems like another mystery is lining up, with an Air France plane &#8220;disappearing&#8221; today in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. According to this article it is strange that all communications from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=21&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just as the causes of the accident at Barajas airport were never cleared (at least not that I am aware of), it seems like another mystery is lining up, with an <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8076848.stm">Air France plane &#8220;disappearing&#8221;</a> today in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. According to <a href="http://www.corriere.it/esteri/09_giugno_01/airbus_air_france_brasile_adefbee8-4e91-11de-be80-00144f02aabc.shtml">this article</a> it is strange that all communications from the aircraft were interrupted so suddenly, and that the plane simply disappeared from the brazilian radars without entering into the area covered by Senegal&#8217;s or Morocco&#8217;s aviation authorities. A <a href="">CNN article</a> has more details on this issue: &#8220;much of the route is out of radar contact&#8221;, Brazilian Air Force Col. Henry Munhoz told TV Globo. However, Airbus A330 is &#8220;capable of communicating in several different ways over quite long distances even if they are out of radar coverage&#8221;, said Kieran Daly of the online aviation news service Air Transport Intelligence. <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/air-france-af-447-crash-mystery_100199619.html">This article</a> does not hesitate &#8211; correctly, in my opinion &#8211; to call the accident a &#8220;crash mystery&#8221;. Let us hope it will not remain so!</p>
<p>Digging a little deeper, we learn that Air France received an automated message at around 3:14 am that indicated electric system failure (see e.g. <a href="http://www.webhush.com/air-france-flight-af-447-crashed-confirmed/">here</a>). Corriere della Sera reports that last march the plane was grounded for several days in Bangalore. This is a mistake, as it was the same type of plane, not the same plane (i.e. same Airbus model, but different registration number). And yes, the electric system was damaged.</p>
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		<title>grml</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[grml, a live Linux distribution, is very useful if one needs to use LaTeX on a computer that is not his own, so, most likely, LaTeX won&#8217;t be installed. I recently tried to start grml64 2008.11 on a machine with an ATI Radeon video card and a Dell 2009W monitor. Everything worked fine, except for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=16&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://grml.org">grml</a>, a live Linux distribution, is very useful if one needs to use LaTeX on a computer that is not his own, so, most likely, LaTeX won&#8217;t be installed. I recently tried to start grml64 2008.11 on a machine with an ATI Radeon video card and a Dell 2009W monitor. Everything worked fine, except for X, that didn&#8217;t want to run in 1680&#215;1050. After playing around with xorg.conf for while, without success, I found this very simple solution:</p>
<p>grml-x -module ati -mode 1680&#215;1050 wm-ng</p>
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		<title>Interesting quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until, eventually, he knows everything about nothing. Chi biasima la somma certezza delle matematiche si pasce di confusione, e mai porrà silenzio alle contradizioni delle sofistiche scienzie, colle quali s&#8217;impara uno eterno gridore. (Leonardo Da Vinci) Nissuna umana investigazione si pò dimandare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=11&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until, eventually, he knows everything about nothing.</p>
<p>Chi biasima la somma certezza delle matematiche si pasce di confusione, e mai porrà silenzio alle contradizioni delle sofistiche scienzie, colle quali s&#8217;impara uno eterno gridore. (Leonardo Da Vinci)</p>
<p>Nissuna umana investigazione si pò dimandare vera scienzia s&#8217;essa non passa per le matematiche dimostrazioni, e se tu dirai che le scienzie, che principiano e finiscono nella mente, abbiano verità, questo non si concede, ma si niega, per molte ragioni, e prima, che in tali discorsi mentali non accade esperienzia, sanza la quale nulla dà di sé certezza. (Leonardo Da Vinci)</p>
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		<title>Privatizing Alitalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reproduce an article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on August 30, 2008, which describes very accurately the current state of affairs. Berlusconis dreister Rettungsplan Von Tobias Piller, Rom Unbekümmert verletzt Italien mit seinen Hilfen für Alitalia die Regeln des EU-Binnenmarktes. Mit Selbstlob hat Italiens Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi nicht gespart, als er jetzt seinen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=8&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I reproduce an article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on August 30, 2008, which describes very accurately the current state of affairs.</p>
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<h3 class="doc">Berlusconis dreister Rettungsplan</h3>
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<h4 class="docNormal">Von Tobias Piller, Rom</h4>
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<p>Unbekümmert verletzt Italien mit seinen Hilfen für Alitalia die Regeln des EU-Binnenmarktes.</p>
<p>Mit Selbstlob hat Italiens Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi nicht gespart, als er jetzt seinen Rettungsplan für die marode Fluggesellschaft Alitalia vorgestellt hat. Doch Lob verdient diese Sanierung, die allen Regeln des Marktes hohnspricht, nicht. Mit der Maßgabe, ein großes Land brauche eine große, solide Fluglinie mit der Staatsflagge, ist Berlusconi zu Prinzipien der Staatswirtschaft zurückgekehrt, die aus einem Gewerkschaftsprogramm oder aus einem kommunistischen Lehrbuch der Wirtschaft stammen könnten.</p>
<p>Mit den sonst von Berlusconi hochgehaltenen Wettbewerbsprinzipien hat sein Alitalia-Plan nichts zu tun. Für die Konsumenten bedeutet er schlechteren Service zu höheren Preisen. Für Italiens europäische Konkurrenten, die früher ein unbarmherziger EU-Wettbewerbskommissar namens Mario Monti vor sich hergetrieben hat, wirkt es skandalös, wie unbekümmert Italiens Regierung im Fall Alitalia die Regeln des europäischen Binnenmarktes verletzt. Alitalia hat bis 2002 insgesamt 1,4 Milliarden Euro an staatlichen Subventionen erhalten. Es sollte seither nur noch von eigenen Erlösen leben. Dennoch erhielt die Fluggesellschaft auch 2005 und 2008 staatliche Überbrückungskredite, um das Überleben zu sichern &#8211; die am Schluss doch wieder als Eigenkapital verbucht wurden.</p>
<p>Der neue Rettungsplan ist noch viel dreister. Nun will Berlusconi die besseren Stücke der Fluggesellschaft abtrennen und sie zu einem Vorzugspreis an ein neues Konsortium von Unternehmern weiterreichen. Um die maroden Reste kümmert sich dann der italienische Staat: Die Aktionäre und die Inhaber von Obligationen sollen eine Abfindung erhalten. Für die überzähligen Mitarbeiter gibt es besondere Sozialprogramme. Ein von der Regierung ernannter Sonderkommissar soll sich um die Bezahlung der restlichen Schulden kümmern, zu Lasten der italienischen Staatskasse.</p>
<p>Zugleich wird der Wettbewerb auf dem italienischen Flugmarkt per Regierungsdekret eingeschränkt. Um eine neue Alitalia vor den Unbilden des Marktes zu schützen, fusioniert sie mit dem einzigen namhaften privaten Konkurrenten namens &#8220;Air One&#8221;. Damit verbunden ist das Monopol auf der am meisten beflogenen inländischen Route Mailand-Rom. Und damit es keinem Mailänder einfällt, weiterhin mit der ausländischen Konkurrenz vom stadtnahen Flughafen Linate über Frankfurt oder London nach Amerika zu fliegen, will die Regierung solche Verbindungen einfach verbieten. Die Mailänder sollen alle zum entfernten Flughafen Malpensa gezwungen werden, wo Alitalia seine Direktflüge nach Amerika unterhält. Denn wer sich einmal durch die Staus zum Alitalia-Stützpunkt durchgeschlagen hat, so das Kalkül, der wird dann von dort aus keine Umwege mehr über andere Länder machen und wieder die &#8220;Fluglinie mit der Staatsflagge&#8221; benutzen.</p>
<p>Bisher hatten dagegen die Touristen aus dem Ausland wie auch die italienischen Unternehmer bei ihren Auslandsreisen fremde Fluggesellschaften vorgezogen. Kein Wunder angesichts von immer neuen Streikwellen, Unzuverlässigkeit, schlechtem Service, alten Flugzeugen und hohen Preisen. Deswegen hat aus Sicht von Berlusconis Regierung eine neue Alitalia nur eine Chance, wenn der (eigentlich europäische) Markt außer Kraft gesetzt wird. Schwerlich hätte Berlusconi sonst auch private Unternehmer dazu bewegen können, einige Millionen auf die Zukunft von Alitalia zu wetten. Schon jetzt fällt auf, dass viele der Investoren, etwa als Autobahnkonzessionär oder als Bauunternehmer, bei ihren anderen Aktivitäten von der Regierung abhängen. Die Familie Benetton etwa investiert nicht eigenes Geld, sondern Mittel des börsennotierten Autobahnkonzessionärs, damit auch dessen Kleinaktionäre das Alitalia-Risiko mittragen müssen.</p>
<p>Dass sich die Regierung Berlusconi mit ihrem Plan für einen neuen Flugmonopolisten in Italien juristisch in dünner Luft bewegt, verrät ein Detail des eben beschlossenen Gesetzesdekretes: Die bisherige Alitalia-Spitze und der neue Staatskommissar, der die besseren Teile der Fluglinie billig weitergeben soll, werden ausdrücklich von persönlicher Haftung freigestellt. Denn die ganze Aktion erinnert schließlich stark an eine Handlungsweise, die im Gesetzbuch als &#8220;betrügerischer Bankrott&#8221; beschrieben ist: Die werthaltigen Teile werden weitergegeben, die Schulden, die überzähligen Beschäftigten und andere Probleme bleiben zurück. Damit daraus kein Skandal entsteht, soll der italienische Staat am Schluss alle Rechnungen begleichen. Doch diese Zahlungen sind nichts anderes als eine riesige neue Subvention an die alte Alitalia oder den neuen italienischen Luftfahrtmonopolisten &#8211; ein Skandal anderer Art, in einer europäischen Dimension.</p>
<p>Solche Exzesse zu verhindern wäre eigentlich Aufgabe der Europäischen Kommission. Doch die war in den vergangenen Jahren zu langsam, um die italienischen Schlaumeier im Fall Alitalia in die Schranken zu weisen. Nun kann Berlusconi auf einen besonderen Trumpf hoffen: Nach Brüsseler Postengeschacher liegt nun das Amt des Transportkommissars in italienischen Händen &#8211; und zwar in denen von Antonio Tajani, Berlusconis früherem Regierungssprecher.</p></div>
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		<title>crontab and fah</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a simple bash script to make sure fah is running: #!/bin/bash NOW=`date` if [ ! "$(pidof fah6)" ] then echo &#8220;fah6 started -&#8221; $NOW &#62;&#62; /home/carlo/folding/FAHlog.txt; cd /home/carlo/folding; /home/carlo/folding/fah6; else echo &#8220;Alive &#8220; fi The corresponding crontab field is the following (change with crontab -e): 17 * * * * /home/carlo/folding/fah6_start.sh<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cm788.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2661832&amp;post=3&amp;subd=cm788&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a simple bash script to make sure fah is running:</p>
<p>#!/bin/bash</p>
<p>NOW=`date`</p>
<p>if [ ! "$(pidof fah6)" ]<br />
then<br />
echo &#8220;fah6 started -&#8221; $NOW &gt;&gt; /home/carlo/folding/FAHlog.txt;<br />
cd /home/carlo/folding;<br />
/home/carlo/folding/fah6;<br />
else<br />
echo &#8220;Alive <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8220;<br />
fi</p>
<p>The corresponding crontab field is the following (change with crontab -e):</p>
<p>17 * * * * /home/carlo/folding/fah6_start.sh</p>
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