Friday, September 25, 2009

Cough Phlegm And Laboured Breathing Baby



According to ISTAT, retail sales in July 2009 decreased by 2.6% over the same month last year. The decrease was 0.4% compared to June 2009. Istat states that the decrease is the result of a decrease of 2.1% of food sales and 2.8% of those assets non-food. In terms of trend is the sixth consecutive drop. This
the news, but it will certainly be more than one asked how this data is collected, there will be those who expect that the people will bear with retailers to ask what they sold, then there will be those who expect to be interviewed families.
in reality the companies interviewed, that's what happens:
The survey of retail sales survey conducted monthly by Istat on a sample of commercial enterprises that use, for distribution of their products, shopping such as butchers, a supermarket and the fruit that we all find the house. The investigation included the resale of motor vehicles and fuels (dealerships and service stations) and workshops or shops that carry out repairs.
Businesses surveyed are asked
  • that was the value of sales by product sold, and how these have been sold, hypermarkets, supermarkets, discount grocery stores or other;
  • if compared to the corresponding month last year the sale was more or less;
  • total number of outlets open to the public
  • number of opening days in the month;
  • total area of \u200b\u200bretail outlets;
  • number of persons employed


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Why "Pareto 80/20"

Vilfredo Pareto (1848 - 1923) was one of the largest Italian economy has been as you can see why he died in 1923, but his ideas and in particular what is called the "80/20 law" or "Pareto Principle" is still valid and shows a clear key to understanding the reality.
Let me explain.
Pareto in 1897, studying the distribution of income, showed that in a given region only a few individuals possessed the most wealth.
This observation inspired the so-called "80/20 law", which possimao summarized as follows: " most of the effects is due to a small number of cases .

According to the "80/20 law" (values \u200b\u200b80% and 20% are obtained by empirical observations of many phenomena and are approximate), in typically 80% of the results depends on 20% of cases. This principle can have various practical applications in various fields, such as:

  • economy: 80% of the wealth is owned 20% of the population (but of course actual values \u200b\u200bvary between countries and periods). Or: 20% of the sellers is 80% of sales, and the remaining 80% of trade is only 20% of sales.
  • quality: the 20% of the possible types of failure in a production process generates 80% of total non-compliance. Or 80% of complaints come from 20% of customers.
  • information: 80% of the execution time is used by only 20% of the instructions of a program. Or 80% of user operations are due to 20% of the features available to an application. 80% of coding errors can be attributed to 20% of the modules. I want to add

  • everyday life : 80% of daily time (I keep MOOLTO below), is a dediacato things we need but we do not want to do, while we devote only the remaining 20% to our interests, and someone wants to denial?
That said, this blog is not dedicated to Pareto, Pareto but as attempts to describe the reality that there cinrconda explaining the numbers supplied to us, trying to translate them into something tangible.
Besides, I feel free, and so those who want to participate, to express opinions on the matter, without ever transcended by education and by the rules of civilized behavior.

[about Pareto taken from Wikipedia.it]

Monday, September 21, 2009

Knex Swing Building Instructions

Brothers of Italy ... Zambia-paratrooper paratroopers

Someone bring himself to say: "southerners in less than 6"? If someone is perceived, if not at least say to write on the walls, in Livorno and Milan. Someone (Roberto Saviano) his goodness, it was felt to defend them: in this movie but other than that ...
Every time the big show again the heroes who died for peace, no matter whether driven by the prospect of a good salary to say: "I swear." Each time, the sorrow and the tears of those who have decided to send them to die. Every time the show starts again: the poor people died because they believe killed in the state as a homeland, the rulers with the bright eyes because they believe in the state as a business, the common people confused because they do not believe that's all.
Every time I think: their poor and even more so because their families still living in a sharp set of totally unnecessary pain. Useless, as long as those who work in politics does not have the same sense of home to those who leave and dies. The value
military paratroopers to hear the interviews ... I look like men blinded in the intellect, voted the "body" to the mission, to the homeland. This - I say - it is necessary, otherwise a sensible person who has a family to support, not part to Kabul, or maybe yes because it is more decent to wait in line for job placement. I have sadness in my heart to see the dead, caught in a deception that is because their life. I would say, thanks but ... was not the case.
E 'mark to describe: died at work? After all, they do a professional ... at the end of a dead man for 130 € a day, it is not more than one death per 50. Thoughts than those who every day puts on a road to support his family and dies on the local news, without arrows tri-color and no tears of the Prime Minister. Whenever
with their lives hold high the name of Italy, while here in Italy we think about men crying at their funeral, to back down. These
died on the job have something more than the others: the deception of believing in a sense of country that does not no more, here at home.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Rubber Band Around Testicles Not Tight

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Zambia is an underdeveloped country and suffering, or is a country of great human civilization and smiling?
It 's a country that has a long road ahead to achieve prosperity, one that we passed, finding the gap further. For those who daily experience of this void, the Zambians I met, you have to close it, accepting with a smile and clasped hands - palms to the sky - the smallest, all aid donated from the heart.
here who believes in a god, has love for the "brothers" who simply believes in good people and let soak by the suffering of the past, can make same.
For those who do not offer more reality shows any emotion, is a journey that I recommend. It is like watching a documentary on TV, even if the pictures are those we are accustomed.
The emotion of the glance of a black boy who smiles at you while you line up to his plate of polenta and porridge (peanut), it passes through the glass of the TV.
did not go to Zambia to give anything (except a few clothes that I brought back) but to get your fill of excitement and satisfy curiosity, to understand what it is made poverty.
Now the desire is aimed to organize the best help possible to "wake up" friends and acquaintances from the torpor of this part of the world.