The semifinals of the Italian Blind Baseball League (LIBCI) are scheduled for Saturday Lampi Milan and Umbria Redskins will compete at the Kennedy Sports Center in Milan at 10.30 local time Fortitudo Bologna White Sox will face Patrini Malnate at 3 pm local time at the Pietro Leoni Stadium in Bologna The semifinalists earned their right at the end of a 10-game regular season at 3 pm local time at the Kennedy Sports Center the Italian Blind Baseball Association (AIBxC a WBSC Associate Member) and the Italian Baseball Softball Federation (FIBS) will present the 2022 individual awards You may also be interested in:-Italy wins firs-ever WBSC International Blind Baseball Cup Sitemap Media Data Protection Contacts Avenue Général-Guisan, 45 CH-1009 Pully | Switzerland The WBSC is recognised as the sole competent authority in Baseball and Softball by the International Olympic Committee Profound passion and anguished terror collide in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis As the film screens at the UK Jewish film festival death and tennis: the forgotten Italian masterpiece about the horror of fascismThis article is more than 4 years oldProfound passion and anguished terror collide in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis while there’s time to recover and live again.” The speaker is a middle-aged Italian Jewish businessman of Ferrara Giorgio – who has been rejected by a young woman But these words are to have a terrible ironic significance who is destined to be taken away by the fascists accompanied by a Zoom discussion in which the film’s French star The tennis shall go on ... The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis/Getty ImagesDirected by the same director who made Bicycle Thieves, the film is adapted from the 1962 novel by Giorgio Bassani about a 20-year-old man who is fascinated by the Finzi-Continis: a Jewish family of enormous sophistication and prestige and the possessors of a magnificent house with a sumptuous walled garden While all the other Jews are increasingly harassed and persecuted by the fascists the Finzi-Continis are apparently unconcerned and when Jews are excluded from the city’s tennis club who invite young people to play tennis on the court in their garden – Jews This invitation comes from the family’s beautiful daughter Micòl (played by Sanda) and her delicate similarly beautiful brother (played by the Austrian actor Helmut Berger) opinionated manner appears to annoy Micòl – or is she secretly attracted to him Poor Giorgio is of course deeply in love with Micòl and her whole family – rather like Charles Ryder with the Marchmain family in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited He is obsessed with his childhood encounters with Micòl when they were both 10 and she impishly beckoned him into this Garden of Eden rendered as delicate flashbacks in De Sica’s film are what consecrate the purity and intensity of his feelings for her they make him seem like nothing more than a sweet kid brother and his anguish and despair unfold in ironic parallel to the horrifying advance of Nazism – a giant historical force that should render these feelings irrelevant but somehow amplifies his banal heartbreak Meanwhile, the garden and its arcadian games of tennis are like the Weimar Berlin cabaret of Bob Fosse’s movie – a place of supposed respite from the horrors encircling it or even Prince Prospero’s masquerade ball in The Masque of the Red Death They are places where you are supposed not to think about the sickness closing in Herded … Dominique Sanda in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Photograph: Ronald GrantDe Sica’s film makes changes from the novel Bassani was not descriptively explicit about the Finzi Contini family’s terrible fate whereas De Sica shows them being taken away by the trenchcoated secret police and even briefly herded into the local schoolroom where Micòl studied as a girl – the scene of another flashback The novel only implies that there is a sexual connection between Micòl and Malnate; the film makes it explicit and Bassani implies that there is a gay frisson between Alberto and Malnate Bassani has a superb passage in which Giorgio discusses the issue with Malnate who “like a true goy” thought that “homosexuals were only ‘poor bastards’ … I maintained that love justifies and sanctifies everything Read moreThe real star is the garden itself photographed in that plangent glow that marks so much European cinema of the time with its exotic palm trees adored by Micòl ancient plane tree that she claims was planted by Lucrezia Borgia It is here that Giorgio is to kiss Micòl and where his own terrible sadness is planted The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and panel discussion is showing online at the UK Jewish film festival on Sunday 8 November, 4:30pm Team Italy U15 manager Giuseppe Mazzanti put together the following lineup for the Azzurrini U15 Baseball World Cup Placement Round against the Kingdom of the Netherlands on Thursday Cristian Severino (CF) and Takuma Lupo (P) When the teams last met in the U15 European Baseball Championship in Trnava, Slovakia on July 22, 2023, the Dutch won via mercy rule in five innings by a score of 14-4. Matteo Chinello, Ivan Larice, Patrick Silva and Federico Magalotti were on Team Italy at the time and sought revenge against the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the U15 Baseball World Cup The Kingdom of the Netherlands took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning Team Italy answered with one run to tie the game after Francesco Carlini walked stole second base and crossed the plate on an RBI single by Ivan Larice The Dutch broke the deadlock 1-1 tie in the top of the fourth inning when scoring twice to take a short-lived 3-1 advantage The Italians put up five runs in the bottom half of the inning to get out in front 6-3 moved on to third base on an infield single by Francesco Carlini and scored on an RBI ground rule double from Pablo Suarez An ensuing wild pitch allowed Francesco Carlini to cross the plate and Pablo Suarez to reach third base He eventually scored on an RBI single by Alessio Casasanta after Patrick Silva walked Then Ivan Larice reached first base on fielder’s choice and Patrick Silva scored on an infield error An RBI single from Michael Moronta gave the Italians a commanding 6-3 lead The Dutch scored one run in the top of the fifth inning but the Italians added two insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.Pablo Suarez led off with a walk and eventually scored on two wild pitches.An RBI single by Mattia Angelucci made it a 8-4 game NETHERLANDS-ITALY BOX SCORE Team Italy returns to Cartagena de Indias on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 10:30 am (local time) for a battle against South Africa. A win would guarantee at least a ninth-place finish at the U15 Baseball World Cup SCHEDULE, RESULTS AND PLAY-BY-PLAY GAMETIME LIVESTREAM STANDINGS STATS TEAM ITALY ROSTER (Photo of Team Italy pitcher Takuma Lupo at Youth Rotterdam Baseball Week 2024 by Catalin Dacian Ciubotaru) Reserved area Transparent Federation Privacy policy Copyright © 2022 FIBS (Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball) - Viale Tiziano 74 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial - Share with same attribution 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA) which is available on the Internet but the cozy knit hasn’t lost its luxurious edge you know that the good stuff comes from smaller batches and Proper Cloth’s new knit ties are made from fabric in Biella Italy and meticulously assembled in nearby Malnate Each tie is 58" long and 2.5" at the widest point which places them firmly between the worlds of classic and modern tastes—it’s neither too wide or too skinny Lampi Milano and Fortitudo Bologna White Sox will compete in the Italian Blind Baseball League (LIBCI) final on Saturday The final is scheduled at 3 pm local time (CEST) and will be streamed live on the Italian Blind Baseball Association (AIBxC) Facebook page Milan earned their right to be in the final defeating Umbria Redskins in a hard-fought semifinal They took the final lead scoring three runs in the bottom of the eighth Fortitudo Bologna beat Patrini Malnate in the other semifinal Bologna scored in the bottom of the first and never needed to look back Driss Sahli homered in the bottom of the fourth to open the score It all started on a hot August morning 16 years ago On the desk of the engineer Susanna Capogna who is the Head of the Environmental Protection Department of the Province of Varese was left a photocopy with a full-page newspaper title: “The never-born dyke.” inquire and let me know.” The voice of Marco Reguzzoni who was the then President of the Provincial Authority resounded in the office of the director who began the search in the archives of the authority Engineer Capogna asked all those colleagues who could be aware of it There was only one way to get some information about it: to ask the only source that had a say in that work decided to make a trip to Parma to ask the magistrate of the Po who was in charge of that work The dyke had already been financed entirely and was planned in the locality of Mills of Gurone where a bridge over a rivulet and a small part of the ring had already been built the works had long been blocked due to a problem with the contract together with Rossana Magni and Marco Montalbetti who are two other engineers of the Province This scepticism was amply justified by the fact that the project had been blocked for years Bernabei confirmed to the officials of the Province that the work had been entirely financed but that in the meantime the supporting wall of the orbital road which was not included in the initial project The total cost amounted to 23 million euros which were almost entirely financed by the Province of Varese allocated by the Ministry of the Environment received thanks to the interest of the then chairman of the V Commission after the provincial authority had become a contracting authority Such an important work could not be done without the involvement of all the local stakeholders especially the industrialists whose warehouses south of the Olona ended up underwater on flood days with drawings and floor plans under their arms presented themselves to the entrepreneurs of Busto Arsizio to explain the project they were pretty incredulous,” says the director in particular the textile entrepreneur Attilio Tronconi president of the Association for the protection of the Olona River and its territory who promptly monitored the progress of the work and give reports to the two officials It was an “unforgettable” collaboration the Italian Register of Dams (Rid) was established with headquarters in Rome A rather strict regulation that forced the clients to go several times to committees where the project was nalysed in detail the continuation of the work as well as the feared stops also asked for the project to move the Valmorea railway which was completely interrupted by the construction of the dyke even if it had not been used for some time it was necessary to carry out an additional project that was punctually put pen to paper by the team of the Province an invitation to tender could finally be issued a temporary association of four companies that “It has been a difficult but exciting experience,” says Capogna “In the contracts you do not always have ‘luck’ in the sense that there are often appeals and failures We went straight to the target with the only exception of a flooding of the site in the first year two movements of the watercourse and the geological analyses were planned which were reworked at my request with a right intuition The rest was done by the great dedication and willingness of the workers who worked on August 15th and even under the snow because everything was urgent.” On the day of the inauguration of the work the director of the Province dedicated her speech to them “In two and a half years of work we have not had a single accident.” A medal to be worn with pride because that of Gurone is a gravity dyke More than two thousand poles were planted at a depth of twenty meters to strengthen the bottom “It has also been a great trial of administrative and bureaucratic efficiency started with a political will to achieve the goal and conducted by a group of a few determined officials A teamwork which involved the former Presidents of the Province Marco Reguzzoni and Dario Galli and the Councillor for the Environment Francesco Pintus” Susanna Capogna still keeps two bolts of the iron part of the river crossbeam and a fragment of a rock used for the construction of a riverbank defence prevention works are perceived as useless,” concludes the manager “but we must look and imagine beyond a mandate and decide whether to spend them in prevention And if today the companies along the Olona while the country is plagued by hydrogeological instability those who strongly wanted it and those who managed to build it on time” Accedi o registrati per commentare questo articolo L'email è richiesta ma non verrà mostrata ai visitatori Il contenuto di questo commento esprime il pensiero dell'autore e non rappresenta la linea editoriale di VareseNews.it I messaggi inclusi nei commenti non sono testi giornalistici ma post inviati dai singoli lettori che possono essere automaticamente pubblicati senza filtro preventivo I commenti che includano uno o più link a siti esterni verranno rimossi in automatico dal sistema Non sei registrato? Clicca qui Hai dimenticato la password? Clicca qui " + _localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + _localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Italy is the European country where baseball for the blind developed the most A selection of the eleven-team league dominated the International Mole’s Cup A beep baseball star in the USA thankful to the Orioles who included braille lettering in their uniforms Regenburg (Germany) hosted the eighth edition of the Mole’s Cup the European event dedicated to baseball for the blind Germany and a mixed squad (made by Italian and German players) participated Italy outscored the opponents 13-1 in the qualification round and then shut out The Italian team that won the Mole’s Cup (AIBxC) Italy is the European country where the modifield version of baseball for the visually impaired developed the most. The Italian League opened in 1997 and is organized by the Associazione Italiana Baseball per Ciechi (AIBxC) Italy developed an original version of baseball for the blind The Mole’s Cup is played according to the Italian rules Baseball for the blind received attention in the United States as the Baltimore Orioles (American League East MLB) decided to incorporate Braille lettering in their gameday uniforms on Tuesday The Orioles wanted to recognize the fortieth anniversary of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) moving its headquarters to Baltimore Tonight, the @Orioles became the first pro team to wear uniforms with Braille lettering Awesome. #BiggerThanBaseball pic.twitter.com/X57VttYxDd — MLB (@MLB) 19 settembre 2018 “They’re acknowledging that you’re there,” Erik Rodriguez told ABC News “Sometimes that’s the biggest step.” Beep baseball is the version of baseball for the blind that has been played in the USA since 1976 Erick Rodriguez plays shortstop for the Indy Thunder thre three times winners of the beep baseball World Series (abcnews.go.com) More on BASEBALL FOR THE BLIND on our website