Saturday 24 December 2011

No ambition for Youngers during the Italian crisis

Opening the Italian newspaper is a nightmare.

I left my country three months ago and I have moved to London, being happy on my decision to change my life and working hard to fulfil my desire to become a good Journalist.
I have just gone to Italy for Christmas time to see my family and spend time with them.
I have found my country struggling with a deeper depression. 
It is everywhere.
The things are going worst and the new technical government is trying to change the difficult situation, the high unemployment and relieve the stagnant economy.  

The main Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera" has reported today a shocking news about Youngers and jobs. 
According to the Unioncamere-Excelsior's study, taken to the Ministry and EU Commission fews days ago, the job's offers to Youngers is still  alive but concerns are about the level of education required. 

This years Italian market employed around 208m of young people. However most of them have not a degree. 

Italian productivity has been stable for 10 years, as the salary average. 

The report said the industries seek mainly professional skills, and in many cases a basic qualification at College is ok. 
The Under 30 employed with a degree is just 14,8%, compared to 48,4% without any qualification. 

Nowadays the market doesn't need high prepared people. 
The only sector is still hire qualify workers is Finance, IT and Telecommunication. 

The unemployment rises alarming point: 27,8% for younger aged between 15-24 years old and 14,7% for aged 25-29. 

It seems really a dramatic scenario. 
Young people are not stimulate to study and get more qualification because the market doesn't need them.

Many bright students  are escaping abroad, doing a MA in England or in America. They believe the possibility exists, but not here. 
They are aware that Italy now is not the place to fight for your future and get satisfaction for your high goals and ambitions. 

Monday 19 December 2011

The Independent shows why England should dispose of the hangover

According to the Independent on Sunday, these are the alarming figures on Britain's alcohol crisis in 2010-11: 

1.2 million people in England needed inpatient hospital treatment- it is a 9 % rise on the previous year

9,700 people were killed or injured in accidents involving drivers who were over the limit of alcohol. 

400,000 crimes linked to alcohol. 6,700 involve sexual offences. 

up to 17 million working days are lost because of sickness post alcohol, as headache and less concentration. The cost to employers of these sick days is estimated at £1.7bl.

The alcohol industry is worth £36 bn, and 15bn are paid in tax (Wine and Spirit Trade Association).

People used to drink are younger with the aim to socialize. Most of them are women, drinking on the popular Black Friday.
Britain awarns the fist position for binge drinking culture.
The consequences of excessive consumption of alcohol are cancers, liver desease and poisoning. Also drinking to much influences your behaviour and lifestyle.

It is a problem that should be addressed.

Loving yourself is the first step to succeed

When you are building your life as you are setting up anything, you have to start from the scratch. 
The fist brick is  self-esteem. 
You do have to love you. 
Accepting your weakness and being proud of your strong points. 
Never undervalue your potential or subject events or situations. 

A look in your family first. 
If you ever had problems and difficulties when you were young, you can suffer from affective disorder in the future. 
Divorced families, abuse, violence, parents with mental or physical  illness can be a risk factor for depression and low self-esteem in the childhood. 

However it's not just a matter of evidence. 
Sometimes children with a perfect and lovely families, are not happy at all and struggle later for development challenges.

I have a friend, Silvia.  
She is studying in Paris Pharmacy, and she alway lives in a stressful environment because she doesn't love herself. Her parent apparently are nice but they have never stayed back her in any decision and always judging her and making her thinking she was wrong.
 
She feels as a black goat wanting to come out. She lives over limits, seeking new experience. Sometimes dangerous.
She relies too much on people she knows and she is often in wrong relationship. 
Her dad never have  approved her choices and always allow her to do what she want to do with lots of effort and complains. 

Silvia grew up insecure, fragile and  unbalance. "I can't speak normally with him. Also now. I just start to cry at some point. I hate me because of this. " 

Outside she pretends to be strong, but inside she is so vulnerable and weak. 
How she behaves is a reaction of his father's opposition. 
She need a balance and a proactive way to approach her life.

Building your life is hard and implies lots of energies on basis of your love. 
Life is a choice and you can make it very special just believe you can do what you like and follow your inclinations and desire. 
It's  important to be determinate, assertive and relaxed to face any difficulties that will come. 

Lisa Firth in her book "Body Image and Self-Esteme" stresses on a positive self-image, self-respect and confidence to succeed in any field of your life. Relationship, studies, work and friends.
She also points out the importance of the media in how they influence our mind and relationship with our bodies, related a certain body shape and the rise of cosmetic surgery.

All media advertise a model of human being, particularly in appearance. Television, cinema, magazines are full of icons: perfect bodies with luxury accessories and clothes. 
They are selling a image, offering products and lifestyle that people can buy.
But it's a fake world and everyone has to remember it.  

At the end  building your life is hard and the key world is love.
Loving yourself as you are. 
Love is accepting your past and your family. 
Love is be happy with you. 

Love is not a matter of change but a continue tension to improve and be better. 

Friday 9 December 2011

Top UK sprinter on eBay

He is the third fastest 200m runner in the UK.

He came second in the national trials in July and fourth in the quarter finals of the World Championships.


He is used to working hard and strongly believe in "Achieving Excellence by Endeavour".

His name is James Ellington.

His dream is the medal-winning at the London 2012 Olympics.

He is the only British top sprinter without a sponsor.

James missed out on regular sponsorship opportunities after four years of injury problems and time out of competitions. Now he needs to find un alternative way to finance his project.

His talent and and strong hard working are demostrated by the qualification for the Games without a sponsor, lottery support, kit deal, or any kind of endorsements.
He he has achieved what he has "...after simple hard graft, dedication, and determination..."said his coach.


But he is optimistic and never gives up.

The solution is on eBay.

James put himself on the best shopping website asking a sponsorship for the minimum £30,000 of funds. This includes a £15,000 wage and £15,000 for expenses,which covers everything from travel and accommodation to nutritional support and kit.

He needs to quit his job as an athletics coach and focus on training full-time to be enable to run the fastest times before the Olympics and secure himself a place in Team GB.

Seeking a sponsorship on eBay is quite unsual and can seem quite sad.

James is so talented and won more medals and titles than any other British sprinter in Athletics between 1999 and 2006.
It's a shame that no one gives him a sponsorship and he has to put himself up for auctionon a website.

It's a wired situation that there are athletes stuggling to make end meets, running on the brink to lose their opportunity to compete, when lot's of money are daily spent and sometime waste in sport.

However eBay can be a good advertising for James.
We don't have to forget that the famous website is now also a brand.

A popular brand and people are looking for it.
The proof is that the Internet shopping site has grown very fast and for the first time this month had opened a shop in Soho, just a short walk from Oxford Street.

The "eBay boutique" had stayed open just for four days, offering 350 eBay bestsellers.
The range was a mix of high- and low-end brands, from £12 bottles of Sarah Jessica Parker's Endless perfume to more expensive gifts such as digital cameras and flatscreen TVs.

Maybe James has found the best brainwave to raising fundind and fullfil his dream.

Everyone can help him, deciding to run together at the Olympics.

Thursday 8 December 2011

Furious Winter

Winter has definitively come.

It is arrived suddenly and without notice. 

This year the Summer lasted until October with the hottest temperatures in more than a century. 
The 1st October hit the record with 30c. People were lying in the sun in the Brighton's beach, sunbathing. In London, outdoor swimming pool and parks such as Hyde Park and St. James Park were packed. Some tourists jumped in the fountain in Trafalgar square. 

Everyone enjoyed the unusual Indian Summer. 

November was warm, causing us to forget we still were in the Autumn season.

December has started angry and nasty.  
Mild and cold weather have suprised us with freezing wind and now with strong gusts. 


In Scotland  is on "red-alert", expecting gusts of up 50-60 mph. 
The Met Office warned a "damaging stormfor a winds" of at least 75mph from the Atlantic and advised people, particularly motorists, to not drive.
From midday on Thursday "travel conditions will be exstremely poor" and motorist could face "significant delays" because of the hurricane-force winds.


"This advice to avoid travel is not given lightly but is based on the clearest information yet from weather forecasters that there will be high winds with gusts of up to 90 miles per hour," said Allan Moffat, assistant chief constable of Central Scotland police. (Guardian)

England, Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to be hit by wind and rain in the nexts days.
The police's warning is also on heavy snow in the north that could put travelling at risk and heavy rain that can caused fooding. Smany schools are closed today and people advided to stay indoor.

The Hurricane-Winter comes not just dropping the temperature but with a dangerous winds that can damage houses, blow over cars and make caos in the fight lines.

Today in London the cold air and high wind are freezing everything.
The wind is so powerful that seems it is shouting, saying "the Winter is arrived".

People are closed in ther warm coats, running in the coffee shops and buildings to recovering from the weather.

The best advices are to  pay attention on the road.

It can be better staying at home.




Wednesday 7 December 2011

David Cameron is struggling to deal with the Eurozone

David Cameron said he would not sign any treaty that doesn’t safeguard Britain's financial services, particularly the position of the City of London. 
This has left him under pressure from European partners and from Conservative collegues.

The French President Nicola Sarkozy and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel are pushing for a new EU treaty to rescue the single currency. The solution to the EURO debt crisis is a change in the financial and political union.

Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to wield Britain's veto to block a revision of the Lisbon treaty if fellow European leaders refuse to protect UK national interests, such as the importance of the single market and financial services.

He said he would be there "to defend and promote British interests", but stressed that the most important thing for Britain right now was to resolve the eurozone crisis.

Tory Eurosceptics claim that the EU summit, which is designed to deal with the eurozone crisis, allows more intrusive controls of national budgetary policies by the EU".

Kenneth Clarke, the veteran pro-European justice secretary, warned Tories not to expect "any transfers of powers " to the UK from the EU.

Europeans leader are going to discuss plans at a summit in Brussels this week.

Monday 5 December 2011

The value of the local community

City doesn't mean individualistic loneliness. 
Tourists, commercial high streets and shopping centers  are always the same and make every place the same. But the ordinary people that live in a city want to feel at home and not under a Christmas's tree. 

London suffers from this kind of depersonalization.  
How do you describe London? 
Three word are enough: multicultural, busy, overwhelming. 

People come from all over the world to work, to study, to visit.

The city is the business work heart of UK. 

London is full of everything. To many people on the tube, in the hight streets, in the shops.
To many things to do everyday. People miss the time. 
A lots of clubs, restaurants, any kind of entertainment, hobby, workshop, any job. Here you can find everything you looking for. 

What's about the typical londoner? 

Is a person or just and individual? He seems to be it. But not at all.

If you go out the zone 1, the city centre, you will discover that your view changes. 

Life is built on local communities. 

People know each other very well, are use to go in the same place, meeting during the same events and meeting. 
There is the local church, the primary school, the child centre, the supermarkets, the most popular coffee shops and restaurants and the nearest  shopping centre. 
It is like an independent town with local services. Also there is the newspaper that runs the local news.

Hampstead is a good example, but I can say also Swiss Cottage, Camden, Harrow and many others. 

Amy is a mother with two children that live in Finchley Road. She says: "I never go to the city centre, if I don't have to go. It's always crowded of people and this annoys  me. I can't stand it anymore." She adds: "Here I have all I need. The school for the children, the swimming pool, Waitrose. Also O2 centre is so big that you can get everything there. I 'm use to go with my children there on Sundays for watching a movie".

Living in London is not too different that living in a small town. The only thing is that with tube you can be in the caos of the city centre in a short time. 

The vital life of the local community shows that London need identity, not made by the foreign globalization. 
The City is the people that live in and they need to feel person, with relationships, social activities and common projects. 

Each single local community is the heart of London. 

Sunday 4 December 2011

Happy church


In his commandments the Lord remembers to keep holy the Sunday's and all the religious holiday.  

The adults who believe are used to go the church, pray together, listening  the Words and the Lessons of the God . The mass is an important duty and many people belive that throught the weekly function they show the constant and stronghold faith.

In the Sunday's all the mothers go to the nearest church with their kids, teaching them the value of the tradition.

However sometimes taking children to the chuch is not  easy because they get immediatly bored and starting to make noise. They are too young to understand the meaning and most of the time thy consider the services as an awaful constriction.  

But there is a solution.

Today I was walking in Finchley road and in front of the tube station I saw a particular church and I went inside to have a look. There was engaging songs and a team of musicians was playing piano, drums and guitar.
In the middle of the stage two young people sang. 
Around lot's of children singing with a little dancing moments.

I was so surprise!

Everyone enjoyed the function and seemed to be involved in it. The mothers felt relaxed and looked their children having fun. Men, old chic ladies, young people from different countries shared the experience to pray together in an unconventional way.

Later they met  in the nice café at the front of the buiding, taking a coffee and cakes.  
The Red Sky Café is part of the parish church and it hosts themed evenings, such as open mic night, art display, book clubs, wine tasting.

The Holy trinity of Swiss Cottage is not a conventional church.

It is also a centre with many activities for the local community.
The big space has a front stage for music and during the the functions some chairs are putting in front of the stage, taking out later.

During the week the Trinity healing rooms is a place to pray together, exploring the Bible.
On Thursday evening a group meets to blossom in their walk with Jesus.
Friday morning it’s Bloom, the mothers shift to pray .
The informal church community runs also the Alpha corse and many others social programmes to develop relationship between people, holding together the World of the God revealed in the Scriptures.

I stayed for the 11.30 service and I was ashonished by the enthusiasm and the spirit in the community.  Five screen on the walls showing the song’s words so the people can partecipate better.

The Sunday service is quite unsual compared to the traditional mass, the ministers are charismatic leaders, ordinary dressed and able to create a confidential and familiar atmophere.

One girl said me the Holy Trinity is the place to recovering the smile, sending the sadness away  and keeping the optimistic mind as being the son of the Father.
Christian is the feeling to be a Kindom of God community with the aim to helping each other, praying for the needed people, carrying out the big Lord’s instruction: LOVE.
Spreading love required happy attitude and mind, and today who wants pray different can find a place.  

Saturday 3 December 2011

The big mirror of British women

Telegraph
Today I was waiting in a shop selling clothes and two women over-weight were talking about diet. They are saying that nowadays is very difficult losing weight.

One said: "Everything is against you. Seems you have to stay fat. Look out in the street, the majority of women is fat. Few are fit and there are some who are skinny just because they are sick."

This strong comment made me thinking about that.
 I went out and I started paying more attention how the women look like and I realized that the woman was not totally wrong.

Walking in the street I saw lots of overweight people, mainly  young girls.

In Italy I have never thought about this issue because there is quite a balance between slim  and fatty women.
The weight depends on your diet, lifestyle and health. Maybe it's because of Mediterranean cousin, maybe because in Italy people live more relaxed and have more fun in the beautiful south's beaches, anyway the point is that in my country be fat is not so popular.

In England seems to be different.

A recent Eurostat study found that nearly a quarter (23.9%) of British women are obese.
 The proportion was the highest out of 19 European countries surveyed and most of that women are just girls.
The obesity problem, defined as a BMI of over 30, is more serious among the younger generation in UK : 16.6% of the 18-24 age group showing as obese, with the other countries showing less than 11%.
The figures suggested that a reduction when the educational level rises.

Which are the reason of this social problem?

Manly is because not all the people are educated in healthy nutrition, expecially in childhood. Most of them just eat what they find or someone give them. They drink and eat too much, particularly rubbish food.

However I think one of the main causes is the lifestyle.

Britons are so busy and stressed for many reason as money, work, family.
And do remember that be busy and stressed make you fat .
At work many jobs required you sitting at a desk for several hours.
At home the relax time is watching tv and surfing  internet, chatting on facebook or twitter.

The environmental and social factors has a strong influence in your lifestyle.

The problem in England is that people have missed time.  Most of them come back home at night and they don't have time to cook properly.
 They  eat  pre-packaged food, junk food and soft drinks, which are often high in calories, saturated fat, salt and sugar and they gain weight. They can't take 30-40 minutes to boil or grill chicken breast or fish and vegetables

Having a good alimentation needs self control, personal choice to take more attention about your health, eating more vegetables, seeds, nuts, fish and fresh fruit. If you eat healthy, you would have more energies during the day to work and study.

It's also important to do regular sport: running or swimming that make your body active and less lazy. Trying to walk wherever you can insted using cars and public transport.

Good foods
Our body looks like our mind and can be educated by simple rules and more attentions on bad habits.

A good diet is a  lifestyle choice.

 It's not just a matter of apparence and look, it is also how do you feel, physiologically and  physically.  It is  the key to feel more active and full of energy.

Loving cappuccino everywhere.

Raccolta di video Latte art. Blog Daniele Votta
I come from Italy where cappuccino is a sweet "good morning" must.
Every morning  lot's of people up and down the country line up to the bars, how we call coffee shop, having a cappuccino with croissant.
I love it.

When I moved to London, I realize how cappuccino has become famous also abroad. Every restaurant, cafè makes it and in the coffee shops you can find a big range of variety of it. Starbucks, Caffè Nero and Costa offer frappuccino, iced-cappuccino, mocha..you can get crazy!

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However the cappuccino made in UK is totally different from the original Italian one.

First here it's a super-size cappuccino.
In Italy is smaller, with a traditional squirt of steamed milk over a shot of expresso, usually served in a ceramic cup.

Cappuccino is a popular drink of gastronomic Italian culture, as pasta and pizza are as food.
The great success abroad not always guarantee the same product.


How describe the international cappuccino?

It can be compared to the Italian variant caffelatte, that has extra added milk, or to the big American coffee mixed with milk.

The difference is not only the size.

Here it's common to put chocolate on the top. I hate this! It spoils the taste of your drink.   Every time I have to remember to lift it, instead my cappuccino comes out alway with the chocolate dusting.

Another point is that here it contains more caffeine. The reason is that the classic one has only on 25ml shot coffee. When I take a cappuccino here they usually put 2 or 3 shots of expresso and it becomes so strong that I could not drink it.

A recent analysis  from Glasgow University has tested caffeine levels in espressos bought from 20 High Street coffee shops and  has found that one was six times stronger than others.

Alan Crozier, senior research fellow who lead the analysis, said: "The analysis that we did showed the amount of caffeine ranged from 50mg per cup from Starbucks, up to over 300mg per cup from another coffee house, Patisserie Francoise. I was very surprised by this."

You have to pay attention how many cappuccino you are taking because too much caffeine in your body is not healthy.

Finally cappuccino in UK is much more expensive. In Italy drink standing up costs between 1-1,40 euro. Here you pay usually more than £2.

However I like drinking  my big cappuccino.
I just ask for one shot and no chocolate.

Wednesday 30 November 2011

The real love of Marilyn Monroe

Biografieonline.it
Her real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson.
But everyone calls her Marily Monroe.

She was the most popular hollywood actress, successful models and beauty icon of the twentieth century and still now she is considered one of the most attractive and sexy woman. She has become history, a legend.

Her platinum shade of blonde and her curvy body have become a trademark for beauty.

Her breathy and blonde bombshell appeal combined with her light comic approach to acting taught to women how using the glamour and charm to get men falling in love.

She used her body as a key of female power.
She alway smiled: winking smile and innocent glancing. And any man could not resist.

What was the secret hidden behind her behaviour? Who was the real Marilyn?


She described her with this words: “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

Marylin was a real mess. Behind the glittered apparence, she was weak and unstable most of the time. A volatile nature and frail personality was her secret.

The reason of her insecurity is hidden in her chilhood.
She went from orphanages to friend's family who looked after her until she was in the age to got married.

At thas moment started his tourbulence time with man, because she wanted to be protected and kept safe in every of her relationship.

She was unable to give love but live as a bloodsucker on the skin to steal all your energies.
She was angry of love.

She was always scared to be left.
Her father died and her mother had never been present in her life because of her mental health problems.

Her reaction was underpinned the way she behave.  
The result of her lack of stability in childhood pointed out  her feeling of being unwanted. 
She tried to replace the father and mother, the family she never really had, through her marriages. 

However she just absorbed her husbands's energies and wanted them to recove her sick personality. What she really desired was to be loved, to fell LOVE.

She said : “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

Marilyn Monroe had got all the love and popularity from the people but  was not the feeling she was looking for.
It was just FAME, REPUTATION.

The point was she was too sick to get real love because she didn't love herself and she was unable to give love.

Marilyn was a sensible person and  while suffering she experienced the real sadness of the world.
The face of the  world made of image and apparence.

Her energy was as an hurraicane. She was an hurraicane.

This below is one of her tip for the life.

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

Saturday 26 November 2011

How the people change

This is me.
This was me in October 2010. Coud you believe?

I was blond, light blond and short hair. I look fake and I was fake.
This was a mask I had put over my fragile being. Something to cover my unstable and precarious situation. I was shaking my life, my feelings, my decision. My mental heath was in danger and my reaction was to find a way to show to the people I was ok. But it wasn't.

My life was a mess, just wrong decisions, big mistakes. And unhappiness.

Everyone knows what the feeling is in these moment. Maybe it's a drastic event that hurts you, maybe a relevant change in your life that you do not expect, maybe is just a chain of bad decisions made without considering the consequences.

In my case was a mix of all: difficulties in my ex-relationship, misunderstanding with my family and lack of concentration and interest in my studies.
I felt so depressed that I coudn't find a reason to be happy and I always try to find new and different stimulous and attractions outside, from other people.

I used to change myself, my routine and my hobbies, searching what can give me a new input and energies to live.
Anxiety and stress kept me in a viciuos circle and I was permanent sad. I has put on a lot of stress that has gone with me for a long long time.

I was blond to attract attention from the people. I dressed sexy and short skirt because I was insecure.
I went to the club and I never enjoyed myself.
I has a False and dummy friends, showing off what they have got.

My life was a mock mirror of sadness...

In these moments you need the help of someone that love you to open your eyes and see that you can change the course of the things. Life is a process that you can make different.

My mum was my angel.

I transform my present and I believe in a wonderful future.
I left my country, I said goodbye to my gloomy past.
I have got diffent eyes and I am just what I am. No mask. No baubles.

In my future I want to help the people less lucky than me with my job, with my possibilities. I believe in the social relevance of the journalist work for the society.
Being a Journalist is awkward job with the hard mission to tell about the word, giving a meaning to what's happen.

Friday 25 November 2011

The decline of society


Sometimes society is so cruel that it makes you ashamed to be a human being. 

The Equality and Human Right Commission has revealed a sad portrait of Council-founded homecare across the UK. The report Commission’s report, “Close to Home”, claims the “systematic failure”  in  the services of the employed carers.
According to the  inquiry, around half of the 1.254 elderly people, friends and family members are not satisfied with care at home.

Shocking stories of old people being robbed by the people employed to look after them, or being left, unwashed and with no food made.
The care services offered from the Council is supposed to offer slot of hours of personal help, but the people paid are not doing their job properly. They are charged for less care, negligent and incompetent work.

The report points out around 500.000 people receiving care at home are insulted and many suffer from physical and financial abuse.


 Some cases are really unpleasant and an outrage to human dignity.
"Most of the girls [from the agency] were nasty. They were rough. Rather than say 'Sit in the chair', they'd push me back into the chair, that sort of thing, and I didn't like that.
"I couldn't do anything about it. I can't even walk and I think they know this, you see. They know you're vulnerable" told the commission a 78-year-old woman who leave alone. 

Another woman pleaded for help  and was ignored by her carer.
"I had a lady who was on the toilet when the carer came. She shouted 'I'm stuck, I need some help'. The carer shouted up: 'Can't do that, but I've made you a butty and I'm going now.'"

Many Elderly are reluctant to complain because they are afraid to get less care and just accept the situation.

However it is not fair. It is ethically and morally unacceptable.

Everyone knows that the number of old people is increasing year by year because the better conditions in life, improvements in medicinals and health treatments.
The problem now is how to manage the Elderly people.

Some of them are placed in residencial care homes where they have fix time for family and friends visits. These places can be nice with lots of activities and social programmes, involving music, cinema and arts. Most of them are unhappy and quite depressing places where the patients feel more alone and close to die soon.

They would like to stay with their family, with someone that can give them love.

However in many cases the people can' t manage the care of elderly people in his home,  they have their family, children, work and no time to look after a grandhmother or grandfather.
The Elderly need a big help for everything.
Someone told when you becomes old you are like a child. And it's true.
The old people do need  real support in basic need like washing, eating, taking medicinals, and company to speak with and don't feel alone.
They love need to feel loved.

My grandmother  enjoyed  telling stories maybe to me and my sister. She liked singing stupid song she had made about his husband and she used to repeat the same things many times, complaining about his husband.

"I bought the farm...  your grandfather didn't realise how much important I was... I usually woke up every single morning at 4 am. to look after the pigs and the pregnant cows. He was still sleeping..."


But she was happy to do that.
You can see in her eyes.

Now she is dead and I miss her so much.

Others consider the Old as a problem and just want to address them to someone else. It happen fights between sons about who has to take the duty to look after the parents. 


But they still are the parents and they need to be protected and assisted, as they did in the past for the children.

Everyone have to think about this.

Tuesday 22 November 2011

Top Tip for girls to tackle the crisis: looking for a Sugar Daddy

Picture source: Israeli Food Blog

The life is hard and everyone knows it.
At the present the  situation is getting worse amid the economic crisis widespread over all the Europe.

How can survive without problem?

If you are a girl you can use your  sex appeal  and glamour to find an alternative route to the economical stability, and maybe be happy. 


Find a Sugar Daddy.

The word is so sweet that many girls can fall into temptation. It's quite easy catching your chicken. What you do need is just to be enought charming and smart to make him falling in love with you. 

The weapons of seduction are variuos, but each man need the right shot to be killed. It's essencial to know him better to go over the fist attraction. 
Men have to be cooked well to get real interest in a women, also if she is a young.

The beauty's power vanishs after one month and to keep the relationship going something elso have been used. 
The women know how to behave to reach their aim. 

At the end of the hunting, make sure to food the passion every day and in anyway to not give him any possibility to escape. Missing your honey pet is simple  because of the increasing in competition between young women.

It will be a waste of time if you not get what do you want.

Some girls hope to go foward until the marriage. But do you have to be persistant and patient.
For others it's different: they could want just some help for their educational or professional ambitions or  pumpering  theirselves with some shopping. 

Women like to be spoiled, particularly when is the society to dictated it. 
Today the new values are a perfect body, expensive clothes, accessorizes,  luxuriuos hotels and holidays, beautiful cars. All is related to the apparence to showing off. 

If you are not born very rich, how can be possible to have this kind of life in your twenties?
It's impossible. 
However being young and nice can make up your mind to get the Sugar Daddy-answer. 

Below there are the advantages that you can have from this relationship:
  1. absolute and great shopping
  2. fantastic holiday around the world
  3. good dinners in the most expensive restaurants
  4. many other possibilities connected with what you would like
It's sounds perfect for a girl. You can have everything you want and live your a perfect life without any difficulties and concern about the future.


At the end, the Sugar Daddy is the best solution specially today with the crisis. 

Monday 21 November 2011

Gloomy Christmas

Economical crisis dictates the rules at this time.

On the Hight streets, in retail shops and shopping centres less shoppers buy things and Christmas stuff.
Just one month before the Christianity's festivity and the shops sales still struggling to survive.

According to the Guardian the retailer's sales are 3.2% lower than last year in the week to Saturday, amid the 2011 UK trend to minimize the Cristmas's shopping.

The shop windows show mid-season sale and amazing discounts by up to 40% to encourage people to buy. (BBC)

However the population tighten their belts because of the crisis. The average wage at low level, the mounting inflation and unemployment make difficult for the people to spash the cash and buy the surplus. They tend to care about the essential and think about their savings.

The situation is not easy for the average of the families. They have less disponibility and try to cut wherever is not necessary. It's not a matter if is Christmas time.

Otavia is one of mine friend who live in London, sharing a small appartment and doing a part-time job in a  studio design. Her parents help her with the rent from Brazil but the cost of the life is still high. She has to pay big attetion about her economical management.

"Everything is so expensive: the food, the transport, the daily life. I can't image to do any shopping now. I think I will wait the sales in December to buy something." she said, and added: "And for Christmass little present. I will buy something online. It's cheaper. Or maybe I can cook some little cakes, why not?"

The shopping on internet is definitively on rise. 
Britons are expected to spend more than £7.75billion online during December, according to e-tailing trade association IMRG.

Today Amazon and Comet, the two of Britain's biggest retail have launched a week of bargains, offering items up to 50 per cent discounts. (The Telegraph)


 Everyone agree that it's hard time in sales. Some shops in High Streets have to shut up because of the cost they had to pay is unsuistanable. (Metro)

If you ask on the street to the people why they are not buying, you can have a curios but real answer. "It's warm enough. I don't need to buy now." a girl said. This is true. the weather is  helping our financial and not the market.

The mild and unseasonal weather don't require the usual warmer clothes and hits drammatically the sales. (The Guardian)

Faux, coats, cashmire and sharves seems not be needed this year. They still unsold.
The climate's change has put foward the winter time or simply increases the normal temperatures.

The shops have to be patient, trusting in bad weather and economic recovery. It will be better if happen before Christmas.



Sunday 20 November 2011

The Winch believes in your future

Today the atmosphere in the Winch was exiting. The children had fun during the day, helping Jonathan and Joni to make a short film.
The aim of the short documentary is fund raising, amid the goverment's cuts. It will be shown in a local event on the 1th of December, taking place in the centre in Swiss Cottage.

The Winchester Project, now know as the Winch, is a charity established in 1973, working in the local community of Swiss Cottage and Camden Town.

It provides a variety of programmes and valuable activities for children and young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged and single- parent.

The sevices offered include afterschool club, play schemes, festivals, workshops and initiatives giving a real support to the families and the Youngers.

At the moment the Winch is facing a big challange of funding.

Because of the economic crisis the local goverment is cutting on education and social care and less companies do investments. Also the number of donations and contributions are going down.

The charity is trying to find alternative solutions to get money to fund the centre. One of these is pushing the advertising campain to get the people known and use various material to promote the Winch and its amazing work in the local community.

The staff working in the charity has the hard job to listen the children, their needs and problems, focusing on their potential in a creative way. There are many volunteers in the team who decide to believe in the Winchester Project.

"I like going to the Winch because it is like my home. It's a family. This is a place that make things happen. Makes things possibile. It wasn't for the Winch, I woudn't be where I am now. I'd be out on the street."
There words come from a young boy who has found a place helping him to feel better and to change his life.

The Winch's motto states the centre is a big family for every children, in a regime of freedom, racial and sexual equality.

The young people grow up being aware of the differences in the society but in the same time to integrate these, going over the stigma made by the society.

Those of them who are disadvantages suffer from problems in their families, maybe because of single-parent or because the parents are sick, unemployment, poor, etc..
They are called "lost generation", feral children without prosepective, judged for their mischance.
If they get angry, violent they will be marginalized from stigmatized as a people prone to crime and abusive behavior when they will be adults.

The Winch has taken the mission to cope with these assumption and harassment, bringing the children together in a happy community. Those who behave antisocial are involved in many activities.

The Winchester Project is giving a relevant contribute to the society and its work have to be recognized and supported. The charity needs the money to fund news project to improve their programmes, refurbish and renew the building.

The Winch believes in a better future for our children and with our help can make it possible. The goverment and every people have the responsibility to keep the centre alive.

Saturday 19 November 2011

Properties in London is going into Italian and Greek pockets



One of the most common solution to invest money in times of economical storm is buying houses. 
But where?

London is on the top of the list, not only for the requests but also for the prices. The UK's metropolis has pulled away New York, Paris and Hong Kong in the high prices and still been the main housing stock market. 

Nowadays the major of the richer investors are Italians and Greek. This years they are hitting the sales-ceiling. According to the Financial Time by far 2011 they spent an average of £ 406m in the housing market maket , compared to £ 245m last year, with an increase of 30% in numbers. 

The reason of this boom in spending on London bases is connected to the dramatic financial crisis in the Eurozone. Italy and Greece are the most affected countries. 
The Euro is falling down and the investors need to find a safe way to secure heir money. 

The Elite pockets is flying to London for many reasons:
  • The UK is safe in terms of rules and property's management
  • The pound is more strong valuable than the euro
  • The City is editing, younger and one of the most dynamics in Europe.
 
Buying in Italy or in Greece is not a good investment at all because the euro and the lack of credibility in the market. The value of houses in these countries is insecure and tends to go down and get more problems whether do you want to sell or rent. 

London is a free port, as Swizzerland years ago. The areas more requested by Greek and Italian buyers are always the same posher and richer: Kensington, Chelsea, Mayfair and Knightsbridge. They believe these are the best parts of the City. Also  Notting Hill and Holland Park are becoming quite popular.

The wealth heaven of Italian and Greek is expected to grow more (Financial Times).
The rise of sales implies that the price of the houses is still going up. 

However London is not a piggy-bank to store wealth. 
The normal people live in the City and they deal every day with inflation, high prices and unemployment. The City can't permit an overwhelming of forein investors invading the market. The result is so hight prices in the housing market despite the economical possibilities of the majority of the people. They will get crazy about the market and this is not fair. 

Afterwards there will be a divide between the richer and foreign people and the real London. 
This scenario will damage the reputation of the City and the daily life of the citizens. 
London will become a ghost town to commute in for work, to visit, to have for representation and a good storage for money savings.

Friday 18 November 2011

New Era for Italy


The new Prime Minister Mario Monti has formed the government with a mix of experts- academics and businessmen- and it’s now ready to push through the severe measures to tackle the economic crisis. The first newrule is the reintroduction of the property tax on the first home.
He decided to take no members of the current political ruling class in his cabinet. “No politicians, less embarrassment” he comment after reading out his new cabinet list.
Mario Monti’s team is due to solve the Italy’s financial debt and relive the stagnant economy by 2013. EU leaders trust in the new Italian government and believe this group of technocrats use their experience and knowledge to help the country to go out the alarming situation.
This is real time to change for Italy. Mr Monti underlined the determination to establish himself as a political innovator with the difficult challenge to fix the worst crisis since World War II.
"It will be a race." he said. (BBC)
The point is that is not just a matter of reforms and measures to take, but also it’s a challenge to turn in better the Italian system. New rules based on preparation, experience and meritocracy, against nepotism and favouritism.
The strange fact is that the population is suspicious about his administration. The evidence of that are the many protests across the country. Lots of students demonstrated in the main city, Milan, Turin, Rome and Palermo, protesting at austerity measures, that worth Euro 80bn (£ 68bn) They are afraid from the financial elite and condemned the new government as a dictatorship of bankers.(Guardian)
However Mr Monti declared he would want to make the economy more flexible, productive and change in the employment law, giving work to women and younger.
The students and all the citizens have to be with the new government, and work together with sacrifices to overcome the situation. It’s silly protest at something that you have to do anyway to solve the problem. This team is the best possibility we have to show we are not a fool, superficial and corrupt country.




Respect

Everyone know the power of the advertising and the importance to find out the best way to publicize a product. The aim of any advertinsing campain is to catch the attention immediatly with a strong image. Do you have to hit your custumer, to persuade him to buy.

The picture you choose is crucial.

The current trend in the media and marketing is to use shocking and provocative images to blow your mind, so you feel more interested in the what they are offering.
This is not a free zone, there are limits and implied rules, that have to be considered.

However the game is to break those rules and find any kind of revolutionary idea.

Sometimes the use of that image can be controversial and incorrect.

The example is the current worldwide "Unhate" advertising campaign of Benetton. The cloting Company has used a montage of world leaders kissing to get the most impact on the people. There is Chavez kissing Obama, Sarkò Kissing Angela Merkel and eventually the harmful kiss between Benedict XVI and Mohamed Ahmed al Tayeb.
The Vatican condemned the picture as an outrage  and started a legal action to withdraw the poster and prevent a further circulation.

The Press secretary Father Federico Lombardi commented: "It's unacceptable use of a manipulated image of the Holy Father, used as part of a publicity campaign with commercial ends. I's a serious lak of respect for the Pope, an affornt to the feelings of the faithful and an evident demonstration of how, in the field of advertising, the most elemental rules of respect for others can be broken in order to attract attention by provocation."(Guardian)

These words are so true it is impossibile to replay. The tendency to put everything can get audience and customers is become common and is evident in many TV programmes, adverts, movies, etc.
Bennetton immediatly apologised for the offence caused and said it have different intentions connected only to combat the culture of hatred in all its form. So no meaning underlined to hurt or insult anyone.

When money and power run, most of the times the people don't think about that there are limits: respect is one of these. Do you can make joke about everthing but not about the faith because it's kind of holy to take care.
Today is possible to make any kind of photomontage and manipulated any images, showing everything you want the people see. We are in the no-limits era. Money is the God. It is important just buying the people and carry them to belive in what are you telling or selling.

However there is a borderline. And it is inside us, in our ethics and morality. We are human, before being objects of market. We are people with rules and dignity, we have a belivies and religions, which whom we can't jobe.
We need to remember the meaning of the word RESPECT!

Thursday 17 November 2011

The end of a relationship

There are many reason to end a relationship.

Fist I want to stress I'm talking about relations that last more than one year and they are  real life toghether, communion of interest and sharing of projects. You really loved each other, experienced many situation and important events, planned holidays, maybe even a new house to buy. Both of you got mutual support in your ambitions and personal achivements. You usually live very close and never think about that your love can have ending.

However, at some point happens that all your past comes under uncentanty. You don't know perfectly why, but a lot of doubts pass throungh your mind and you start thinking. After you point out many questions about your situation and your patner.
Maybe is a delicate time of your life, with many changes, maybe it's just a person that you just met and put you in chaos, maybe there are some circimstances or event that give you wired signals. The reasons of the change felling can be everything and nothing. It's life. Nothing is sure, unless your family and you.

Stop the relation is very easy . When you express your concern, the partner  already knows because you are at the point where nothing will be over. No more to say or justifify. It's just finished. In some cases the people try to solve the problems and cope with wheatever difficulties. But not at all.

Finally, you are alone and your important and big relationship is out. This is not referred just to your ex-boyfriend/girfriend,  but to your past. Now you do not have more behind you except your mistake with a wrong lover. It's miserable to think because maybe you have spent many years with him and put a lot of energies. I can understand that at this point you fill exhausted and totally shattered.

But it's time to renovate yourself and more exiting about built a new life in the right way. No regrets, but just enthusiastic willing to do better in different ways. The future is in front of you and you do have just to start walking.


What's about your past? It' s right to close with him/her totally? I don't belive you can do it without suffering. The best solution is  keeping  in touch again with your ex and become friends. I know it can be difficult but you have to see why you break up. If there was no cheating and no new lovers in the middle can be more relaxed and you can rethink about your relation.
Do you think your pattner is actually really important for your past and your life? If it is yes will be impossible to say good bye forever. It's sound weird and juvenile.
A mature behaviour teaches us to go over, to try to understand the reasons why everything happen and be aware that something have to change but not drammatically. Your past is your experience and can give you a lot of advices for your future, but also it is your history. The consequences of the past are in the present and it will be better make the change soft.

However, some people don't believe in any more contacts after the break up. They are so proud and touchy are just want to find a new situation and just forget you. They woul prefer to throw away everything without pain. But it is unreal. Do they suffer anyway.

The fututre is written from your past and in your present. The previous relationship is your life and if something has changed now, you have to follow your instixct, but your past will be back you. In another way it have to be with you.Without it you can feel lost.

Wednesday 16 November 2011

One more reason to stop smoking

If do you want quit smoking but you find it difficult, it’s a good idea moving to UK.
The British country will encourage you with an extension in the ban.

Today the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched a further prohibition on smoking in all private vehicles to protect drivers and passengers.
“We do not believe that legislation is the most effective way to encourage people to change their behaviour” a Department of Health spokesman said.

After the ban to smoke in public places introduced in 2007, now BMA is due to take more action to save the health of the people, in particularly the Youngers. The children are more affected than adults because they don’t have the choice and they have to accept the situation where they are.
The extension of the legislation maybe will meet some concern from the Government and from the population because it can be seen as a limitation of freedom.

The debate is if the decision to enforce the ban is the right solution to solve the problem and reduce the numbers of smokers.    
Some people can argue is good, but they can be no-smokers and campaigners against smoking anyway. Others don’t mind about the proposal.  At least, there are some people who believe this new step on banning smoking is just too much and it damages the personal freedom. They think that outlawing something in a strict way, like is, don’t give the result.
The prohibition is not the right process to approach a problem and tackle it.

However BMA is going to push through the legislation and the campaign to publicise the bad consequences of smoking and the high risks connected, particularly for the second-hand smokers.

UK seems want to throw away the cigarettes from the country.
In UK the price of a pack of cigarettes is around 7 £, one of the highest in Europe.  Northway is 10 Euro, but the average in EU is between 4 and 5 Euro. Italy for example is 4.5 Euro. According to the BBC, the price has risen up to 50 p a pack during this year.     

Moreover, if do you like smoking, you have to go outside any building because the ban in public places and the alarm in the houses. You have to fight with the cold weather and the freezing wind.
Now you will not allow smoking in your car. Seems you don’t have a comfortable place to smoke.
In the most of cases people smoke because they are bored, stressed or insecure. Mainly the Youngers smoke to show they are strong and adult.

Smoking is a really bad habit for many reasons:
1.      It annoys and bothers many people
2.      It’s dangerous for your health and anyone know it
3.      It’s harmful also for the others with you for toxins and chemicals
4.      It’s a serious  addiction and do you can cope with your stress and problems in a different way
5.      It’s expensive. Today with the economic crisis the cuts on cigarettes can help your savings
6.      Now it’s banned almost everywhere and the only safe place is outside in the cold chilly coming winter.

In the end stop poisoning your body and just quit smoking.
It’s time to change!