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Pinned Welcome
Mar 14 2012 08:30 AM | admin in Your Region
Welcome to Puglia Life - The Puglia lifestyle site. To purchase goods or advertise in the classified section you must be a member. If you would like to contribute articles, stories or recommendations to help others enjoy their Puglia lifestyle plea...
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Pinned Discount for members of Puglialife
Mar 14 2012 08:25 AM | Claudio in San Vito Dei Normanni
We have started negotiating special discounts for members of puglialife.com and I am pleased to announce that we have agreed a discount of 10% off all purchases over a certain price bracket with some of our local suppliers. We will keep the forum updat...
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Pinned Puglialife launch NEW service
Mar 12 2012 05:12 PM | Claudio in This is Puglia
We are proud to announce a NEW service to our members........"Tipica Pugliese" "Tipica Pugliese" brings you the taste of typical Pugliese food right to your table. This is how it works..............email me your required date and the...
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Myth of Margarine
May 21 2013 07:03 AM | Claudio in Health Matters
Margarine has its origins in France. In 1866 the French Government launched a competition that called for research into the development of a reasonably priced nutritive fat to be used as an alternative to butter. In 1869, a French chemist named Hippol...
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When going green goes wrong
Apr 05 2013 07:16 AM | Claudio in Your Region
This isn't intended to be a rant or a moan......this is just an article stating some simple facts that have affected our lives here in Puglia. Before, in the good old days........when there were those lovely BIG silver bins......recycling bottles,...
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The Primary Surplus Means Italy Can Leave The Euro
Mar 19 2013 01:42 PM | Claudio in Your Region
I’m sure you’ll have seen the results of the Italian elections: no real winner but we most definitely have a loser, the outgoing Prime Minister. What’s making the markets gyrate like a yo yo though is that there’s now a combination of two things. First...
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Italy brain-drain sparks debate
Italy is facing a "brain-drain", as large numbers of educated professionals continue to leave the country in search of better pay. The number of emigrating Italians, who hold a bachelor degree or above, rose from 11.9 percent in 2002 to 27.6 p...
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New Passenger Rights
New rights for airline passengers have been unveiled by the European Commission.
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Teddy does a runner
Mar 06 2013 11:34 AM | Claudio in Animal Stories
As more stories break on Teddy we follow his recent history and applaud his abilities....... Young Teddy, apparently, was in a gang of 5 or 6 running riot around our area.......not that they ever bothered us.......anyway.......somebody (whose name wil...
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Does anyone know this little one?
Feb 08 2013 12:48 PM | Eternal Plodder in Animal Stories
We have 20 dogs and this little one has turned up and has decided he is going nowhere! He is cute and has been well trained by someone. He was great with cats until one of ours decided to swipe him across the nose and now it is war! :angry: He...
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Berlusconi Pledges to Pay Back IMU Property Tax
You have just got to love this guy...................
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Man flu really DOES exist
Jan 24 2013 01:32 PM | Claudio in Health Matters
The way men's brains are wired means their symptoms really are worse.
Neuroscientist Dr Amanda Ellison has argued that men really do suffer more with coughs and colds .
Says they have more temperature receptors in the brain which means they get more acute symptoms.
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A Stray Dog
Jan 24 2013 09:25 AM | Eternal Plodder in Animal Stories
As the people that know me are aware animals are my passion and cruelty to animals is something I find hard to understand. If I get a chance to talk about the dogs, cats, goats, chickens, ducks and donkey that we have I will :D so I did, on Facebook, y...
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The Truth About Balsamico
One of Italy's most recognized products, balsamic vinegar is also one of its most misunderstood. by Brette Jackson
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Dog turns up to dead owner's church every day
Jan 21 2013 12:10 PM | Claudio in Animal Stories
Two months after his owner died, a dog in Italy keeps turning up each day at the church she used to attend. Ciccio, a 12-year-old German shepherd, waits in vain in front of the altar of the Santa Maria Assunta church in the village of San Donaci in th...
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Big Brother is watching you
The Italian authorities have been accused of resorting to police state-style tactics with the introduction of a new weapon to hunt down the nation's many tax dodgers.
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Scientists discover intact 2,000 year old medic...
Two thousand years ago, a Roman merchant ship containing medicinal supplies sank off the coast of the Tuscany region of modern-day Italy. Among the treasures that have been recovered are six pill-like tablets, stored in tin containers. Now, chemical a...
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Sunshine test to stop expats claiming £16millio...
- European Court Ruling will increase the number of Brits abroad who can claim winter fuel allowance
- Government condemns 'crazy' idea as officials consider average temperature test so only those in UK are eligible
- Ken Clarke admits slashing pensioner benefits will be an 'agenda item' for next Tory manifesto
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Revealed: The 'end of history' illusion...
Jan 08 2013 05:00 PM | Claudio in Health Matters
- The phenomenon means people always think they are the finished article
- End of history illusion prevents people from seeing themselves differently in the future
- Researchers at Harvard University quizzed 19,000 people on ageing
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Energy Performance for UK Property
June 2012. If you own property in the UK then don't forget that as from 6th April 2012 changes to the legislation on energy performance certificates (EPCs) have been introduced. This means that if you plan to sell your property at any point you wil...
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Was margherita pizza really named after Italy...
Loved around the world for its simplicity, margherita pizza is commonly believed to be named after an Italian queen. But Zachary Nowak, the assistant director of Food Studies at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy, questions the provenance of this po...
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New Licence for Mopeds
New, stricter regulations are on their way for all motorbikes, from mopeds to the highest-powered models. To obtain an unrestricted A licence for all bikes, applicants will have to be at least twenty-one years old, to have ridden for at least two years...
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The Christmas Crib
One of the most important ways of celebrating Christmas in Italy is the Nativity crib scene. Using a crib to help tell the Christmas story was made very popular by St. Francis of Assisi in 1223. The previous year he had visited Bethlehem and saw where...
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The LAST King of Italy
Officially the last King of Italy and last reigning member of the venerable royal house of Savoy, Umberto II occupied the throne for so short a time that he has gone down in popular memory as the “King of May”. His life was one of great early promise a...
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Phonetics
More and more now I am having to spell out words (surnames) to the likes of Sky, ENEL and the beloved staff of A. PERRINO hospital......and for the life of me I cannot recall Italian cities to help me tell them what letter I mean......I thought it migh...
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New Taxes Give Buy-to-Rent Homes a Boost
When and how investing in property is still a bargain, despite IMU and TARSU taxes
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Berlusconi Launches Election Campaign with Prom...
“A first home is sacred. You don’t touch homes. They are the pillar of security for the future of the family so our election campaign pledge is to repeal the IMU municipal tax. Never again will there be a tax on the home”. Silvio Berlusconi was speakin...
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Vandals waste 80,000 litres of top Brunello di...
One of Tuscany's finest and priciest red wines is now a lot harder to find after vandals broke into the producer's cellar and emptied 80,000 litres' worth on to the floor. Gianfranco Soldera, whose bottles of Brunello di Montalcino sell fo...
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Mario Monti's success in calming Italy was...
Mario Monti is off, and Silvio Berlusconi hopes to return. This news was bound to rattle markets, even if it only means elections will come a couple of months earlier than previously planned and even if Berlusconi's chances of winning are slight....
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BASILICA DI SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO
The Basilica of St John Lateran (Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano) is the cathedral church of Rome and the official seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. (Not St Peter's in the Vatican as most tourist believe, although the Pope does resi...
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The History of Caesar Salad
Myth:- Caesar Salad was named after the Roman Emperor Caesar Cardini was born near Lago Maggiore Italy. As a chef he immigrated to the United States after World War I with his brother Alex. Despite having a home in San Diego, the Cardini family opera...
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Did Italians invent Football?
To try and put a date on the introduction of Harpastum is hard but we can consider that the Romans conquered Greece in 146 BCE so it is fair to estimate that the Romans discovered the Greek versions of the games shortly after that date. Harpastum was...
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Crossing the Rubicon
The Rubicon is a relatively minor waterway in northern Italy. It could easily be crossed on foot by generals traveling with a Roman army. But since ancient times, the Rubicon River had marked the northernmost boundary of Rome proper. Across the boundar...
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History of the Violin
The violin has a long history, which can be traced back hundreds of years. Various types of 2,3 and 4 string fiddles exist in many different cultures all over the world, and many scholars believe the predecessors to the 4-string violins, violas, and ce...
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Large tornado strikes Taranto
Nov 30 2012 10:04 AM | Claudio in Your Region
A violent storm hit a troubled ILVA steel plant in southern Italy, injuring around 20 workers, leaving one missing and adding to disruption at the huge site, which is already caught up in a widening pollution scandal. The tornado rolled off the sea...
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Ryanair adds credit card handling on top of adm...
The budget airline already levies a £6 per person “administration fee” on booking made with most plastic payments
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The Moka. The "real" Italian coffee pot
As it sits on the hob merrily bubbling and hissing away to make your coffee, who would have thought that this classic piece of Italian design was inspired by a washing machine? The story of the stove-top espresso maker begins in 1918 when Alfonso Bial...
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Britons arrested with heroin hidden in bread st...
Nov 28 2012 12:06 PM | Claudio in Regional News
**UPDATED**
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Stay flu-free all winter
Nov 28 2012 10:56 AM | Claudio in Health Matters
Winter isn’t just the season of crunchy, golden leaves – it’s the time when the dreaded flu virus takes hold.
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Beware the cash trap!
Claw-like devices inserted into ATM slots can steal notes in latest hole-in-the-wall scam
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Its No yolk: eating the whole egg as dangerous...
Nov 27 2012 10:40 AM | Claudio in Health Matters
Egg yolks were found to contribute to the build up of plaques in the arteries
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Why is Christmas Day on the 25th December?
No one knows the real birthday of Jesus! No date is given in the Bible, so why do we celebrate it on the 25th December? The early Christians certainly had many arguments as to when it should be celebrated! Also, the birth of Jesus probably didn...
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The Black Death, 1348
The Black Death killed 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population. The disastrous mortal disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in the years 1346-53. The frightening name, however, only came sever...
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Heart-healthy diet
Nov 21 2012 12:15 PM | Claudio in Health Matters
Changing your eating habits can be tough. Start with these eight strategies to kick-start your way toward a heart-healthy diet.
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Self Check Breast Exam
Nov 21 2012 12:01 PM | Claudio in Health Matters
In this article we will examine how to do a self check breast exam......its never to early or too late to start this......your health matters.......... Breast awareness and self-exam Beginning in their 20s, women should be told about the benefits and...
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