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The notion of locked and unlocked, or voice or data SIM, don't seem to be issues here in Italy. The only thing about these mifis (most of them are Huwawei) is that in my experience they don't pick up a weak cell signal at all well, so it's important to be using the operator who has the best coverage where you are. I've been in places where my Smartphone gets a perfectly decent signal and data trasfer speeds, but the mifi on the same operator is struggling.

I do think that alan h is onto something with his idea of dowsing. I used to have a house with a very reliable well, which was located in a vaguely marshy bit of land, and as far as I could understand it, somebody many moons ago had simply dug a 120cm diameter 'shaft' about five metres deep, lined it with plastered brick only on the sides (not at the bottom) and water simply appeared as if by magic. We threw a bit of tube attached to a surface mounted pump (with remote autoclave) into this hole and never bothered about water. I suspect that the exact positioning of the shaft was determined by somebody with a twitchy stick. Then, having decided to do some serious irrigation and maintain a pool, we supplemented this old well with a geologist approved borehole - 100m deep. Guess which water supply dried up in 2011. Yup - you got it right. In your situation I'd drain the existing cement well, give it a good poke about with a big stick, and hope that it recovers. 2012/2013 has been pretty wet, so there should be some pressure underneath.

Well, I'm pleased you feel comfortable aligning yourself with Steinbruek. I'm surprised you are so clearly not cut out for a career as a diplomat.

The idea that M5S voters were all yoof is not correct (though of course it suits the Italian press to promulgate this myth). There is a reasonably authoritative research crew, from Britain, called DEMOS, and they identified the M5S voters as predominantly mature (over 30), male, and highly educated. Just the sort of people who are likely to have thought through the consequences of their voting preference. Other than that I agree with most of what Penny has said.

To suggest that Berlusconi was even approaching 'okayish' until "Wall Street needed to attack the Euro" is a most bizarre reading of the biography of this self-serving criminal! I'm a great fan of all conspiracy theories, but what you are suggesting is so far out of left-field that I can't imagine where you plucked it from.  

I rather hope you are right Ram: my reading is that Grillo will do spectacularly well, and Berlusconi will do better than expected. Bersani might be able to cobble together a short-lived coalition - but I don't see him vacating top spot of the PD, so if I were Renzi I'd decide my political future lay elsewhere. It's a mess. 

From what you quote, it isn't crystal clear whether the oneri cover both the costs of the stone and the labour for fixing it. You are presumably reading an estimate for the work, rather than a computo metrico, and I would take it that the price quoted does include the material - but it would be worth checking with the builder.

Oneri (costs) for sticking onto your staircase 5cm thick treads in stone named Gorgoglione, together with covering your landing with the same stone. Both the stone for the treads, and for the landing, are to be rounded over on the edges which you will see - in other words finished as you would expect a tread or a landing to be (con toro). It is normal for the lavorazione con toro to be priced separately from the per sq m cost of the stone. In the item which you quote there is no provision for cladding the risers (the vertical bits between each step) of the staircase.

I'm sure kitten milk will be okay for a day or two, but surely a young hare is more akin to a rabbit than a kitten, so when you get round to weaning it I'd guess it will want lettuce rather than fish! They are regularly raised, commercially, to stock hunting reserves, so no doubt a google.it search on alimenti per lepre will trawl up something useful. Good luck, it might make a nice pet - or a big dinner for a cat.  

I dunno - it is a long time ago that I specced radiators in the UK, but I never had to deal with minimum cost rads, but I doubt they'd be more expensive here. I was fairly keen on the Tubor range here in Italy (for aesthetics and efficiency) - but then there was la vicenda Tubor which kind of knocked them out of contention! I'd suggest a google.it search on termosifoni - if you are concerned about the aesthetic, choose a model you fancy, but then defer to your plumber (unless you have a good architect on board) for sizes. Although, it isn't rocket science (there are plenty of online apps) for you to calculate how much heat you want to push into a room, and thus how big a radiator you need. Your opinion might not accord with the plumber's opinion. They tend to average stuiff out over the whole house, and get fixated on zona notte and zona giorno - nothing wrong with that calculation - but if you want to design in a "snug" they probably won't grasp that concept.