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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 100
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 100
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Using Explainable Scheduling For The Mars 2022 Rover Mission
October 23, 2022 Uncategorized
The solar, Earth and the moon are aligned, but because the moon’s orbit shouldn’t be exactly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit around the sun, they rarely kind an ideal line. Satellites are now used as properly, however they endure from lots of the identical problems. The planets HR8799 b,c,d had been imaged by HST in 1998; post-processing speckle subtraction now accessible provides greater than an order of magnitude distinction enchancment over what the cutting-edge had been when knowledge had been taken in 1998 (Soummer et al. Between January and September 2016, there have been over 33.7 million queries, and 255 TB downloaded. One thousand TB); there are more than one hundred twenty billion rows of catalogs. It’s the primary hub for multi-wavelength research on extragalactic science as a result of it merges data from catalogs and literature. As of September 2016, it contains 215 million objects with 256 million cross-identifications created from greater than 102,000 articles and catalogs. As of 2014, 10% of all refereed journal articles use knowledge that in the end come from IRSA (this consists of 2MASS, Wise, and Spitzer). IRSA datasets are cited in about 10% of astronomical refereed journal articles.
It has full protection of more than a hundred years of astronomy and refereed physics literature. NASA believes that an astronomy archive’s job consists of the next major duties. Following Press et al. The Committee on NASA Astronomy Science Centers (2007) concluded that a sustainable archive gives data discovery and evaluation tools; facilitates new science; accommodates high-high quality, dependable data; gives simple and useful instruments to a broad group; supplies user help to the novice as well as to the facility person; and adapts and evolves in response to community input. Photocells are one widespread software of the photoelectric impact, the emission of electrons by certain materials in response to sure frequencies of light. Allow slicing-edge analysis. NASA does this by supporting utility programming interfaces (API) and supporting the Virtual Observatory (VO) protocols; by offering expert user assist; by developing new and enhanced providers; and by enabling multi-wavelength projects. The archive’s mission is changing from “search-and-retrieve” for a consumer to research domestically (on their own machine), to doing no less than some analysis in situ, in the archive, previous to downloading. NASA regards information handling and archiving as an integral part of space missions, and has a robust track file of serving astrophysics information to the public, starting with the the IRAS satellite in 1983. Archives enable a serious science return on the numerous investment required to develop an area mission.
For comets 1P/Halley (Emerich et al., 1988), 9P/Tempel 1 (Groussin et al., 2007), 19P/Borrelly (Soderblom et al., 2004) and 103P/Hartley 2 (Groussin et al., 2013), temperature data had been measured, but only for restricted intervals in time, because of the fly-by nature of the respective house missions. This effect is not just restricted to infrared missions; the bottom panel of Fig. 1 reveals Hubble papers as a operate of time. Early in the Spitzer mission, all papers were written by program PIs; this makes sense, since the folks most outfitted to course of data and write papers initially are those related to the instrument groups and/or the mission itself. However, the reality is that science archives lengthen the useful life of NASA’s mission knowledge indefinitely, as new results can proceed to be gleaned from the info in context with new observations and contemporary analyses. Some scientists think that one other moon of Jupiter, Europa, might have liquid water able to supporting life beneath a thick layer of surface ice. Here, particular person nights of observations have barely totally different continuum emission profiles throughout the disk of the planet, suggesting that the clouds are localised in longitude.
Despite 15.Four hours of integrating throughout the disk of the planet, masking all longitudes, we’re unable to make a positive detection. POSTSUPERSCRIPT column built-in density by dividing the observed intensity of the four lines added to make Figure 5 by the calculated intensity per molecule of the identical four traces at a sure temperature. By these graphs, we can determine that Staff 2 constructed a more consistent algorithm with respect to the place of the flight at the same time for every simulation. Known as NGTS-1b, the alien world orbits a star around 600 mild-years from Earth and has been measured to be roughly the identical size as Jupiter but 20 % less massive. POSTSUPERSCRIPT auroral emission. However, there stays significant uncertainty in modelling the propagation of these photo voltaic wind options noticed at Earth out to the orbit of Neptune at 39 AU. POSTSUPERSCRIPT at Neptune can be used to probe the extent of the vertical mixing within the upper stratosphere. POSTSUPERSCRIPT present in the atmosphere of Neptune could be strongly dependent on the vertical profile of the polyatomic neutrals, which in flip depends on the vertical mixing course of in the stratosphere (de Pater et al., 2014; Fletcher et al., 2014); with out rigorous vertical mixing, the extended presence of these species into the upper stratosphere and thermopshere cannot be maintained.
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My hubby's radio show recently signed a deal with a local television news program to do some sort of cross-broadcasting promotional whatnot. I'm pretty fuzzy on the details. All I know is that because of this deal, my hubby is in a tv commericial, a fact that delights my children to no end, and now he has to watch Dancing With The Stars, a show which, up until this point, we've treated with the sort of enthusiasm usually reserved for finding spiders in your shower or science experiments lurking in the veggie drawer.
My hubby is on his second week of watching DWTS (No, no, that doesn't stand for Dimwits...). I stayed with him the first week, out of a wifely obligation to mitigate his suffering as much as possible. This week I decided he had a husbandly obligation to soldier through it alone while I stayed upstairs and read books with the kids.
Not watching with him, however, does not excuse me from a blow by blow of his brief excursion into ballroom hell and so after the show finished, he found me upstairs and began telling me the dramatic highlight of the evening. Apparently, near the end of their routine, one couple was unable to truly finish because the man injured his arm and was unable to fully extend, much less lift with it.
Immediately following their botched ending, the host cut to a commercial break and medics swooped in to ascertain the extent of the injury. When the commercials ended, the host gravely informed the viewing audience that the man (now swathed in bandages) was experiencing a severe muscle cramp.
Well ouch. No wonder he couldn't lift and separate. I nodded my head in token sympathy but my hubby wasn't done.
Once this announcement was made, the judges swiftly invoked their deepest sympathies for the pair's unfortunate piece of luck and then, when the dancers went backstage to recieve their scores, all of the other dancers stood and gave them a standing O.
Umm, okay. I guess. I don't really get it, though. Aren't standing O's reserved for incredible, once-in-a-lifetime performances or acts of sheer bravery in the face of nearly insurmountable odds? Since when are standing O's handed out to make someone feel better about a reality tv show? It's not like he's Kerri Strug running, vaulting, and freakin' nailing the landing on a broken ankle to push the U.S. team into gymnastic gold. Now that deserved a standing O and still makes me a little choked up to remember it.
But whatever, right? I don't really care about any of this. Until my hubby informs me that after the next duo performs their dance, the judges congratulate them on being able to pull it together and perform after what just happened.
So, just to recap: A man gets a muscle cramp in his arm, thus hampering his efforts in a show designed to breathe stale life into an already flagging B-list career, and because of it he earns sympathy, a standing O, a trip to the hospital for observation and care, and those who must perform in his wake are given kudos for being able to shove aside their emotional reaction.
Well now DWTS (hmm, maybe it does stand for Dimwits...) earns an emotional reaction from me. Cramps are painful beasts, there's no denying. Any woman over the age of 14 knows that. In fact, we bear cramps every 3 to 4 weeks that make a solitary arm cramp look like child's play. We endure agony twisting through our lower abdomen, piercing our ovaries, radiating up our spine, and setting up camp like a rowdy troop of Boy Scouts in our posteriors. We cramp so hard, some days we can barely walk, much less dance. We pop Midol way beyond the recommended dosage and chase it down with brownies and cheap wine. We stifle road rage, pits of depression, and sketchy plans to waltz into over-stuffed Walmarts with Mace and a yen to bring down anyone thinner or happier than ourselves. And we do this every single month.
I must admit that no one has ever given me a standing O for that.
So, DWTS, you'll forgive me (and the thousands of other women watching your show) if I cannot summon up deep wells of sympathy and admiration for a man having to deal with a cramp in his arm. However, let him take on the female version of cramping for just one hour and successfully finish his ballet routine and I'll be the first one on my feet.
Labels: rants
Kim Leslie April 29, 2008 at 8:14 AM
OMG! Seriously. While your books are as brilliant as you are, you SO need to write a daily column!
C.J. Redwine April 29, 2008 at 8:23 AM
Lol. Perhaps one day, when my name is familiar enough to sell a book like that, I'll compile all my entertaining blog entries into a book of Stilettos and Snark.
It has a certain ring to it...
LMAO. Tears running down my face...
And here I thought I was the only one wandering Walmart with a full canister of Mace.
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The Snake that Declined to Eat His Next Meal (Three Stories)
A Young Hippo Keeps Pace with His Tortoise Elder
An Atmosphere of Love Turns Nature's Foes into Friends
Cat’s Parental Love for a Weasel (Three Stories)
Pig Mother Raises Abandoned Tiger Cubs
By Gary and Karen, Tokyo, Japan
Owen and Mzee resting side by side in comfortable friendship
[Mombasa] Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004, a young hippopotamus in Kenya was separated from his herd and washed out to a coral reef some distance from the ocean shore. Standing alone, he was forced to fend for himself on the reef until local villagers used fishing nets to help catch and transport him to safety. Concerned that introduction to a new herd would cause him to be killed by its dominant male, the villagers decided to relocate the baby hippo they now called “Owen” to an animal sanctuary.
Perhaps because Owen was looking for the closest match to his huge gray mother, or perhaps because he sensed the love of the tortoise whose name means “wise elder” in Swahili, the hippo quickly singled out 130-year-old Mzee. As soon as Owen saw the tortoise, he charged to Mzee’s side. At first Mzee ignored his young admirer, but ultimately he was unable to resist Owen’s enthusiastic pursuit and the pair became inseparable.
Owen in enthusiastic pursuit of his admired elder Mzee
A year later, this odd couple still sleeps side by side every night (see photo). Owen has even adopted the tortoise’s preference for eating vegetables instead of the hippo’s usual fare of grass. These two enjoy each others’ company immensely, often frolicking in the pond like children and going for walks together. Moreover, the two friends have been observed communicating in a new language. Neither of them utters sounds typical of their species, but instead they emit high-pitched notes to each other in a code that experts have not yet figured out.
Please refer to:
http://www.npr.org/documents/2005/jul/owen%26mzee_ebook.pdf
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Posts tagged ‘HBO’
Thank God for Proxy Servers
Apparently, despite the fact that I spend a high monthly fee to HBO to be able to stream all their content, I cannot get the content I paid for when in France. I have an account with Express VPN and it has always served me well. I was able to log in via this VPN and was able to stream the most recent Game of Thrones episode. I could have probably waited until I got home but the Internet seems to be filled with like 6 million spoilers.
BTW, unlike much of the most vocal Internet, I was totally fine with how the major character deaths were handled in the last episode. I thought they were symbolically consistent with how those characters got to where they are.
At home I almost always surf through a proxy server, even though that means I have to endure endless identity confirmation tests from websites as they don't recognize my IP.
Tags: BTW, HBO, IP, VPN
Category: Blogging, Computers & the Internet | Comments Off on Thank God for Proxy Servers
Brief Reviews: Theranos and Michael Jackson Documentaries on HBO
Last weekend I watched both the Leaving Neverland documentary about Michael Jackson and the Out for Blood documentary on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.
The Theranos documentary was fine -- Theranos is an amazing story and any documentary on it is naturally going to be engaging. My only issue with it was that it was very spare compared to the depth of the Bad Blood book. The documentary worked a bit too hard trying to be too stylized. I would have rather a faster-paced, harder hitting approach. But if you have not read the book, it is definitely worth your time.
On the other hand, the Michael Jackson documentary was simply riveting. I really had zero desire to sit and watch 4 hours on child molesting, but I was totally engrossed. The individuals telling the story were so articulate and honest that I just got sucked in to the story. The whole thing was simply devastating. And as an aside, the B-reel footage used in cut scenes and such was simply beautiful.
Tags: Bad Blood, Elizabeth Holmes, HBO, Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson
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Bill Maher, Living in an Echo Chamber
I refuse to assume (contrary to the modern practice) that someone who disagrees with me is either stupid or ill-intentioned or both [OK, I did call people idiots here -- sorry, I was ranting]. Intelligent people of goodwill can disagree with each other, and the world would be a better place if more people embraced that simple notion.
Anyway, I won't blame lack of intelligence or bad motivations for the following statement from Bill Maher. He seems to be a smart guy who is honestly motivated by what he says motivates him. But this statement is just so ignorant and provably false that it must be the result of living in a very powerful echo chamber where no voices other than ones that agree with him are allowed.
HBO’s Bill Maher complained that comparing climate change skepticism to vaccine skepticism was unfair to vaccine skeptics before attacking GMOs on Friday’s “Real Time.”
“The analogy that I see all the time is that if you ask any questions [about vaccines], you are the same thing as a global warming denier. I think this is a very bad analogy, because I don’t think all science is alike. I think climate science is rather straightforward because you’re dealing with the earth, it’s a rock…climate scientists, from the very beginning, have pretty much said the same thing, and their predictions have pretty much come true. It’s atmospherics, and it’s geology, and chemistry. That’s not true of the medical industry. I mean, they’ve had to retract a million things because the human body is infinitely more mysterious” he stated.
Climate science is astoundingly complex with thousands or millions of variables interacting chaotically. Separating cause and effect is a nightmare, because controlled experiments are impossible. It is stupendously laughable that he could think this task somehow straightforward, or easier than running a double-blind medical study (By the way, this is one reason for the retractions in medicine vs. climate -- medical studies are straightforward enough they can be easily replicated... or not, and thus retracted. Proving cause and effect in climate is so hard that studies may be of low quality, but they are also hard to absolutely disprove).
It is funny of course that he would also say that all of climate scientists predictions have come true. Pretty much none have come true. They expected rapidly rising temperatures and they have in fact risen only modestly, if at all, over the last 20 years or so. They expected more hurricanes and there have been fewer. They called for more tornadoes and there have been fewer. The only reason any have been right at all is that climate scientists have separately forecasts opposite occurrences (e.g. more snow / less snow) so someone has to be right, though this state of affairs hardly argues for the certainty of climate predictions.
By the way, the assumption that Bill Maher is an intelligent person of goodwill who simply disagrees with me on things like climate and vaccines and GMO's is apparently not one he is willing to make himself about his critics. e.g.:
Weekly Standard Senior Writer John McCormack then pointed out that there are legitimate scientists, such as Dr. Richard Lindzen, who are skeptical of man-made climate change theories, but that there were no serious vaccine-skeptic professors, to which Maher rebutted “the ones who are skeptics [on climate change], usually are paid off by the oil industry.”
I will point out to you that the Left's positions on climate, vaccines, and GMO's have many things in common, as I wrote in a long article on evaluating risks here.
Tags: Bill Maher, climate change, climate science, global warming, GMO, HBO, oil, Real Time, risks, running
Category: Climate, Environment | 30 Comments
No Surprise To Anyone Who Is a Fan of "The Wire"
One of the recurring themes in HBO's fabulous series "the Wire" was how well-intentioned government officials could be led astray by perverse incentives, and, tied to this, the overwhelming pressure that can build up in government to fix the metrics rather than the problem.
In Charleston, they apparently thought they had a real public school success story on their hands:
Sanders-Clyde is a school in downtown Charleston that serves some of
the poorest students in the county. Most of its children come from the
nearby homeless shelter or public housing apartments. Its test scores
once were the worst in the county, and its future was so bleak that the
county board planned to close it.
Then MiShawna Moore became
the school's principal in 2003. She tailored lessons for students,
helped their parents pay bills, washed students' clothes and opened the
school building on weekends. The school's test scores began to rise.
2007, the school outscored state and district averages, far exceeding
the progress of schools with students from similar backgrounds.
Educators hailed Moore as a model for other principals, the community
showered her school with praise, and federal and state awards went to
the school in recognition of its achievement. Moore was so successful
that she was asked to lead a second downtown school, Fraser Elementary,
to duplicate her accomplishments.
But suddenly, the bottom dropped out:
This year, the school's PACT results fell sharply in every subject and at every grade level.
So what changed? The curriculum? The students? No, what changed was who was in charge of compiling the scores. For the first time, they took the measurement process out of the hands of the person being rewarded for the measure:
This was the first time that the school district monitored the school's
testing. District officials took tests away from the school each night
and put monitors in classrooms daily. Janet Rose, the district's
executive director of assessment and accountability, told The Post and
Courier in May that the extra scrutiny would validate the school's
Oops. It seems the former high-flying principal suddenly needs to spend more time with her family
A few weeks after the tests this spring, in a move that surprised
parents and officials, Moore announced that she was leaving Charleston
Hat tip to Andrew Coulson
Tags: Andrew Coulson, Andrew Coulson One, Charleston County, Fraser Elementary, HBO, Janet Rose, PACT, Sanders Clyde
Category: Government | 3 Comments
Interesting Story on Housing and Crime
A reader sent me a link to what was a pretty interesting story on housing programs and crime in the most recent issue of the Atlantic. In short, federal housing policy over the last 20-30 years has been to blow up central housing projects (fans of the Wire on HBO will have a good idea of this type of place) that tended to concentrate poverty in a few neighborhoods in favor of voucher programs that would spread the very poor around. The idea was to get the poor into middle class neighborhoods, with the hope that middle class schools, support networks, and values might be infused in the poor.
Some now seem to be worried that exactly the opposite is happening. As the article relates, city centers are being revitalized by sending the poor and associated criminal elements outwards. But in turn, certain here-to-fore quiet suburbs are seeing crime spikes, and these crime waves seem to line up well with where the housing vouchers are being used.
A couple of thoughts:
[insert libertarian rant on government playing god with poor people's lives, drug prohibition, government schools, etc.]
The people of Houston would not be at all surprised by this, and might call it the Katrina effect. It may well be that the dispersion of poor families will eventually result in reductions in total crime (say in the next generation or two), but hardened criminals of today don't stop being criminals just because they move to new neighborhoods -- certainly Houston has found this having inherited many criminals from New Orleans.
I still think that if we are going to give out subsidized housing, that this in the long-run is a better approach. The authors of the article seem to fear that the poor, having been dispersed, lost their support networks. But it strikes me that it was this same network that reinforced all the worst cultural aspects of the old projects, and long-term I think fewer new criminals and poorly motivated kids will exist in the next generation if we can break some of this critical mass up.
The article is an interesting example of how new attitudes about race can get in the way of discussion as much as the old ones. Stories about increasing crime in the suburbs after an influx of black poor is just too similar to the old integration fears held by whites in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tags: HBO, Housing, New Orleans, race, suburbs, vouchers
I really like the HBO series "the Wire" about the Baltimore police force and the pursuit of various drug gangs, which I have been catching up on via DVD. While season 2 and 3 were not quite as good as 1, they still are quite good.
In many respects, this is a very libertarian series in outlook. A central part of the show is that government officials nearly universally do wrong and wasteful things. However, only a few of them are overtly corrupt. The vast majority are regular folks responding rationally to the types of incentives government employees are given and which result in really bad outcomes.
In fact, I may just be screwed up from too many years in a past life working on corporate performance metrics, but at some level the show is all about incentives. Even within the drug gangs, there is an interesting interplay between Avon and Stringer due mainly to the fact that though they face roughly the same circumstances and inputs, one has a goal of making money while the other has a goal of reputation and street cred. I can see now why the Freakonomics blog discusses the show so often.
Oh, and the season 3 experiment with effective drug legalization is also interesting.
Tags: drug legalization, DVD, HBO, police
Category: Movies & Entertainment | 5 Comments
Politically Correct Medicine
I am always floored by the number of progressives who embrace all kinds of wacky non-scientific health theories. These are the same folks who criticize creationists as being anti-scientific. I am not a creationist, but I might be able to embrace it faster than I could, say, the insanity that is homeopathic medicine**.
Unfortunately, these are the same folks who will likely make up the backbone of the socialized medicine bureaucracy when and if the US finally decides to hand health care over to a consortium of the Post Office and Walther Reed. So here is a preview of what we will get:
Tom and Donna (not their real names) are professional
shamen. They teach classes in shamanism at a "foundation", where you
can learn "soul retrieval healing", help the dead "continue their
journey into the Hereafter", and investigate "the Fairy Kingdom". These
soul retrievers and Fairy Kingdom investigators also work for the NHS "”
where, according to Tom's foundation profile, they "use complementary
therapies to help those with mental health difficulties". Shaman
therapies are not the only unorthodox treatments for which the NHS will
gladly pay.
Taxpayers are also subsidising Emotional
Freedom Technique (EFT) "therapy", in which, according to one NHS
trust, "subtle energies" are reordered via "tapping with the fingertips
to stimulate certain meridian energy points while the client is "˜tuned
in' to the problem". "¦If EFT doesn't do the job, an NHS foot massage
might help. Reflexologists believe that each part of the foot maps to a
different organ, and that massaging a particular point can treat that
organ. Medical doctors think it's absurd. "¦Most depressing of all for
the rational taxpayer is the NHS Directory for Alternative and
Complementary Medicine, which aims to promote "dowsers", "flower
therapists" and "crystal healers". We've just learnt that some
hospitals are removing every third light bulb to save money, and that
nurses are being paid half the minimum wage "” or being asked to work
for nothing "” at others. That's how bad the financial crisis has
become. Meanwhile, the National Health Service is employing shaman
fairy enthusiasts as psychological counsellors, enthusiastically
providing treatments invented by "an ordained minister and a personal
performance coach" who thinks tapping your body can cure diabetes,
promoting dowsers and crystal healers and spending vast amounts on
therapies that can't be scientifically supported.
Just as with the Walther Reed mess, the left wants to write off this stuff as just bad management, as an exception. But unfortunately, this is the rule for government management. It always goes bad. Mismatched incentives + lack of individual choice + strong unionized bureaucracy most concerned with its own job security + impossibly complex information flows = mess. Always. I get very tired of the excuse, as I wrote here, that "if only we were in charge, everything would work great."
Throughout these years, libertarians like myself argued that there
were at least three problems with all of this technocratic statism:
You don't have the right to make decisions for other people.
Period. No matter how high-minded and idealistic you want to portray
it, at the end of the day you are proposing to use force to coerce
another man into doing your will. You may stop them from using force
or fraud against others, but an adult may make decisions for
themselves, even if they are bad. I am reminded of a great line from
the HBO show Deadwood, "Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?"
You can't make better decisions for other people, even if you
are smarter, because every person has different wants, needs, values,
etc., and thus make trade-offs differently. Tedy Bruschi of the
Patriots is willing to take post-stroke risks by playing pro football again I would never take, but that doesn't mean its a incorrect decision for him.
Technocratic idealists ALWAYS lose control of the game. It may
feel good at first when the trains start running on time, but the
technocrats are soon swept away by the thugs, and the patina of
idealism is swept away, and only fascism is left. Interestingly, the
technocrats always cry "our only mistake was letting those other guys
take control". No, the mistake was accepting the right to use force on
another man. Everything after that was inevitable.
Everyone has had a turn running the place (except libertarians, I might observe) and everyone has screwed things up.
** I am amazed I have not posted a rant on homeopathic medicine, but searching through my archives, I don't find anything. If you don't know, here is the fast answer why homeopathy is silly. Advocates of homeopathy argue that they can make certain substances more effective by diluting them, and the more they dilute them, the more effective they are. Go to one of their web sites, and you will see dilution rations that translate into having less than one molecule of the active ingredient in a mass of water the volume of all the world's oceans. Advocates argue that even though the molecules are gone, some sort of resonance remains. Uhh, right.
Tags: ALWAYS, EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, Fairy Kingdom, HBO, National Health Service, NHS, technocrats, US, Walther Reed
Category: Health Care | 2 Comments
Repeat After Me ... Its Not Just One Party
Kevin Drum opines:
What happens when you combine "fast track" procurement, minimal
oversight, pork-based contracting, and a comprehensive lack of
responsibility for results? Well, you get the Bush administration, of
course. More specifically, you get the Coast Guard's disastrous
Deepwater program. Nadezhda runs through the grim details.
This is perhaps the single greatest fallacy that props up big government. Specifically, the notion that corruption, inefficiency, and stupidity are failures in government related to certain individuals. The implication is that if only "our party" was in control, big government would be great. Except that both parties have had their chances in alternating fashion for 70 years (what I would call the era of really big government) and government has been a mess regardless of who has been in control.
People like Hayek and Friedman have written who books about it, so I want try to elucidate the whole theory, except to summarize that the nature of incentives in government, particularly the big sacrifice-one-group-for-another government we have today, will ALWAYS lead to massive failures. Period.
I wrote over a year ago that statism always comes back to bite its creators, because no matter how beautiful the machinery of government control, you can never control for the human beings who get behind the levers. At that time I pointed to three fallacies, of which the third is particularly relevant to this post:
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Over the past fifty years, a powerful driving force for statism in this country has come from technocrats, mainly on the left, who felt that the country would be better off if a few smart people (ie them) made the important decisions and imposed them on the public at large, who were too dumb to make quality decision for themselves. People aren't smart enough,they felt, to make medication risk trade-off decision for themselves, so the FDA was created to tell them what procedures and compounds they could and could not have access to. People couldn't be trusted to teach their kids the right things, so technocrats in the left defended government-run schools and fought school choice at every juncture. People can't be trusted to save for their own retirement, so the government takes control with Social Security and the left fights giving any control back to individuals. The technocrats told us what safety equipment our car had to have, what gas mileage it should get, when we needed to where a helmet, what foods to eat, when we could smoke, what wages we could and could not accept, what was and was not acceptable speech on public college campuses, etc. etc.
Throughout these years, libertarians like myself argued that there were at least three problems with all of this technocratic statism:
You don't have the right to make decisions for other people. Period. No matter how high-minded and idealistic you want to portray
it, at the end of the day you are proposing to use force to coerce another man into doing your will. You may stop them from using force or fraud against others, but an adult may make decisions for themselves, even if they are bad. I am reminded of a great line from the HBO show Deadwood, "Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?"
You can't make better decisions for other people, even if you are smarter, because every person has different wants, needs, values, etc., and thus make trade-offs differently. Tedy Bruschi of the Patriots is willing to take post-stroke risks by playing pro football again I would never take, but that doesn't mean its a incorrect decision for him.
Technocratic idealists ALWAYS lose control of the game. It may feel good at first when the trains start running on time, but the technocrats are soon swept away by the thugs, and the patina of idealism is swept away, and only fascism is left. Interestingly, the technocrats always cry "our only mistake was letting those other guys take control". No, the mistake was accepting the right to use force on another man. Everything after that was inevitable.
I am reminded of all this because the technocrats that built our regulatory state are starting to see the danger of what they created. A public school system was great as long as it was teaching the right things and its indoctrinational excesses were in a leftish direction. Now, however, we can see the panic. The left is freaked that some red state school districts may start teaching creationism or intelligent design. And you can hear the lament - how did we let Bush and these conservative idiots take control of the beautiful machine we built? My answer is that you shouldn't have built the machine in the first place - it always falls into the wrong hands. Maybe its time for me to again invite the left to reconsider school choice.
Today, via Instapundit, comes this story about the GAO audit of the decision by the FDA to not allow the plan B morning after pill to be sold over the counter. And, knock me over with a feather, it appears that the decision was political, based on a conservative administration's opposition to abortion. And again the technocrats on the left are freaked. Well, what did you expect? You applauded the Clinton FDA's politically motivated ban on breast implants as a sop to NOW and the trial lawyers. In establishing the FDA, it was you on the left that established the principal, contradictory to the left's own stand on abortion, that the government does indeed trump the individual on decision making for their own body (other thoughts here). Again we hear the lament that the game was great until these conservative yahoos took over. No, it wasn't. It was unjust to scheme to control other people's lives, and just plain stupid to expect that the machinery of control you created would never fall into your political enemy's hands.
OK, rant over. No one wants to hear "you asked for it", but that is indeed my answer to many of the left's laments today about conservatives taking over their treasured instruments of state control. I hate to be a geek here, but even Star Trek figured out this whole technocrat losing control of the fascist state thing 40 years ago.
Update: Wow, I am not that skilled with reading academix-speak, but I am pretty sure that Ed Glaeser via Margina Revolution is saying the same thing:
Soft paternalism requires a government bureaucracy that is skilled in
manipulating beliefs. A persuasive government bureaucracy is inherently
dangerous because that apparatus can be used in contexts far away from the
initial paternalistic domain. Political leaders have a number of goals, only
some of which relate to improving individual well-being. Investing in the tools
of persuasion enables the government to change perceptions of many things, not
only the behavior in question. There is great potential for abuse.
Update: Cafe Hayek discusses how the FDA is failing even technocratic objectives and this is an amazing data-rich in-depth analysis of the FDA vs. markets in managing drug risk/reward choices:
The debate over off-label prescribing is not about perfect safety; it is about
whether unavoidable trade-offs are best made for everyone by a centralized authority
such as the FDA or whether those decisions are best made by patients and doctors
acting independently. Whoever makes a decision to try (patient), prescribe (doctor),
or approve (FDA) a drug must face the trade-off between the costs of prescribing a
potentially unsafe medicine (a type II cost) and the costs of not prescribing a drug
that could have saved a life (a type I cost)....
The FDA tends to overemphasize the cost of using a potentially unsafe medicine,
because type II costs are highly visible and result in punishment of the FDA, whereas
type I costs are invisible and do not result in punishment.
If the FDA approved a drug that killed thousands of people, that story would make
the front page of every newspaper in the nation. Congressional hearings would certainly he held, the head of the FDA would probably lose his or her job, and the agency would be reorganized. But if the FDA rejected a drug that could save thousands of people, who would complain? When a drug kills a patient, that person is identifiable, and family and friends may learn the cause of the death. In contrast, the patient who would have lived, had new drugs been available, is identifiable only in a statistical sense. Family and friends will never know whether their loved one could have survived had the FDA not delayed the introduction of a new drug. In some cases the drug that could have saved the patient's life is never created, because the costs of the FDA's testing procedures make the necessary research and development appear unprofitable...
Patients and doctors do not face the same biased incentives as the FDA and thus
tend to pay more attention to the costs of not using a drug that could save a life.
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My Favorite Howard Hughes Story
Given the recent fascination with the upcoming Howard Hughes biopic, as well as any number of other articles on his life (this article covers some of the more eccentric parts left out of the movie) I remembered my favorite Hughes story.
Howard Hughes loved watching movies at night. Now, this won't seem too odd to most of us, since many people, myself included, have spent a few late nights watching an old movie on cable or on the DVD player. However, Hughes had a problem. He liked to watch movies of his choosing in his own room on top of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas before anyone had dreamed up HBO or the VCR.
Hughes was not daunted by this small problem. This is the man that bought the Desert Inn when they threatened to evict him. So, Hughes bought a local TV station. Each week, the TV station would publish its weekly schedule, including the movies it planned to show each evening; however, it seldom followed this schedule, because each evening Howard Hughes would call his station and tell them what movie he wanted to see, and that would be what they broadcast. So, in a sense, Howard Hughes invented pay per view TV, though his version was kind of expensive. Also, the TV station apparently got a lot of complaints for never showing the movie listed in the TV guide.
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Palak Bhatt Art Appreciation Tuesday, 31 January 2023
The Kala Foundation
There has long been a global market for Indian paintings, but interest in Indian art has lagged in the US. To bring awareness about different styles of Indian Folk Paintings, The Kala Foundation is established as a new platform to showcase the paintings and make them more accessible to an international market. The foundation consists of a website, mobile app, exhibit with editorial books, and products that help bridge the gap and connect these paintings to a larger audience.
Lu Zhao Physical Health Information Design Monday, 30 January 2023
Daily Regimen In 12 Dual Hours
The unexpected pandemic has exerted a great impact on the daily lives of everyone, forcing them to rethink their life. "Staying healthy" has undoubtedly become the hottest topic at present. As one of the disciplines that are most pertinent to life, how will design reconstruct the lifestyle in an exploratory way? The designer believes the answer lies in the work of "Daily Regimen in Twelve Dual Hours".
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Alishan Forest
The Aesthetic Proposal for Seasonal Forest dismisses local government's stereotypes of forest management. People start to explore the forest with three new concepts: Respect – The Harmony of Human and Nature, Aesthetics – The Balm of Art and Forest, and "Coexistence – The Reciprocity of Species and Forest.
Salvita Bingelyte Visual Identity Saturday, 28 January 2023
The logo design showcases the flags of Lithuania and Germany, conveyed through the symbol of check marks. The red check marks are combined, representing friendship and unity between the two countries. The overall design reflects the moment when two countries diplomatically unite, moving forward together into the future. The colorful marks are multifaceted, expressing the dynamic and tight relationship between Lithuania and Germany.
Anamarija Leljak Brand Identity Friday, 27 January 2023
Happetsy
The Brand Identity is built in a specific way to evoke positive feelings in the customers. The visual concept is based on simplicity and in the playful game of the old-school retro style with elements of modern. Retro style is embodied in the color palette, handwritten typeface, and polka dot patterns. On the other hand, the clean layouts, and sans serif typeface are framing the retro brand look with a professional, modern touch. This unique approach creates a functional design that resonates with the target audience and represents the company's values - trust, commitment, and happiness.
Dennis Furniss Identity System Thursday, 26 January 2023
PepsiCo Foundation
The objective of the project was to build an engaging, powerful and attractive identity system that captures the pillars of PepsiCo Foundation and celebrates the positive impact its work has in people and the world and reflects the human power behind it. The foundation demonstrates with acts the commitment to add the best of PepsiCo employees to make a difference to be a foundation that fuels change by empowering their communities to strengthen the elements of a system sustainable food food security, access to water and economic resilience.
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League of Light: The Gatherer Collector's Edition, Dansk
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Transparent Straw Men In California Freedom
Tom Sipos was very careful in January to invest LPCA newsletter space in a picture of multi-decade LP activist/leader Aaron Starr with a Hitler mustache, but CF readers saw absolutely nothing there about the eight most serious charges against Sipos's hero Angela Keaton (to each of which I give a paragraph at http://more.libertarianintelligence.com/2008/12/apology-angela-should-offer.html). Now Sipos claims he was practicing "glasnost" and "transparency" in his "reporting" about e.g. an LNC meeting he didn't even attend (though held only a couple hours from where he lives). My own blog posting about the San Diego meeting (http://libertarianintelligence.com/2008/12/lnc-tightens-belt-defuses-keaton-bomb.html) was much more balanced and accurate than Sipos's editorial, and I wasn't even using LPCA paper/postage or drawing an LPCA paycheck.
Nobody has told Sipos he "shouldn’t discuss America’s foreign interventions". During Bruce Cohen's two-year tenure, CF ran five pieces featuring opposition to intervention, and zero pieces in defense of libervention in general or the Iraq invasion in particular. Sipos in his first three issues ran six anti-intervention pieces, and the two opposing pieces he ran were accompanied by two instant Sipos rebuttals -- thus totaling 8 antiwar pieces in those 3 issues. His pace has continued unabated since then, and he has proudly said that this internally controversial subject will continue to be his editorial focus.
Nobody has Told Sipos he should "only print material that 'all libertarians agree on'" or that "party leaders may not be questioned". It's even sillier to pretend that advice against emphasizing party schisms is somehow a ban on covering normal party business like conventions. These are all straw men crafted by somebody who never has to worry about the same-page instant-rebuttal that in CF he reserves for himself -- sometimes taking even more space than what he is answering. (Don't be surprised that if this message appears in CF it is accompanied by yet another same-page Sipos rebuttal of some sort. That's the sort of "last word" I said he reserves for himself, and he cannot name anyone else who has ever enjoyed such same-issue rebutting privileges.)
Sipos selectively takes one sentence out of context from one of an entire series of LPHQ communications, and pronounces Donny Ferguson a "Demopublican". Donny Ferguson is in fact a dedicated and talented young political operative who could be even more personally successful if he weren't so principled and selective in his employment. Read the entire paragraph that Sipos butchers in order to smear Donny:
"Here’s the beautiful thing about having political power. It’s a zero-sum game. If you’re in office, even if you don’t have the votes to repeal anything, the high-tax Democrat or the deficit-spending Republican aren’t there to vote for more government. There is nothing more noble and principled than winning an election."
Thus while Donny is in fact saying that the most principled thing is to stop Demopublican growers of government, Sipos wants you to think that Donny himself is no better than a Demopublican.
Mr. Sipos, let us not assassinate this lad further. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Citizens For A Better Veterans Home said...
This kind of stuff, and non payment of activists debts, happens continually in the the Deform Party/ Reform Party dysfunctional movement!
Have you [like the national greens] had illogical Pro Israel propaganda /pressure from the shaddowy Jewish Zionist mafia?
In 2005, John Blare, John Coffey, Valli Sharpe Geisler, and John Bambey killed the Reform Party USA national blog and the monthly print news letter just to block a well known tale of IDF murder of non combatant sailors on the USS Liberty.
My experiences with the San Diego County Libs and the state wide Liberty movement leave me unsurprised..........
Starchild said...
Donny Ferguson wrote in an official LP communication that "the most important principle is winning." Brian Holtz's complaint about Thomas Sipos attacking a strawman notwithstanding, my reading of Donny's piece is that he wasn't being sarcastic, but was actually trying to convince Libertarian Party members that winning elections is more "noble" than advocating libertarian principles.
As far as I'm concerned, that is totally unacceptable coming from an LP leader. It is tantamount to advocating the destruction of the party as a vehicle for liberty.
Therefore I strongly applaud Thomas for covering the issue, especially since no one at national with the power to do anything about it seems to be minding the store, and since Ferguson is apparently unwilling to publish dissenting views in LP News.
While I would encourage Thomas to air dissenting views regarding extra-national military actions (ENMAs) by government, the Libertarian Party platform currently opposes such interventions. This opposition seems to be derived from a sincere (if mistaken, in my view) interpretation of the Non-Aggression Principle.
By contrast, Donny's argument seems to have neither libertarian philosophy nor LP policy to support it. So I think Thomas's editorial stance, biased though it may be, is much more justified. Furthermore, he does at least publish responses disagreeing with him, even if not in as great a proportion as Brian would like, which seems to be more than Donny is willing to do for those who disagree with him.
If anyone believes I am mistaken, and Donny is willing to publish an op-ed in LP News critical of his outrageous Monday Message comments on winning, please let me know. I haven't gotten the impression that he is, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Despite my disagreement with him on this point, I do want to thank Brian for his generally well-written and informative coverage of the California LP convention.
His reports on LPC Executive Committee doings will likewise be missed now that he is no longer on that committee. Hopefully the newly constituted body will vote to make the ExCom's secret email list public, instead of prohibiting ordinary members from even viewing messages to that list, as is currently the policy. LPC members deserve the chance to learn the details of what is going on without having to rely on second-hand gossip and rumors or the usually inadequate and delayed summaries that appear in the official minutes of the meetings.
I submitted a proposal for a bylaws change to allow LPC members to read and post to the ExCom list, but as usual the clock ran out on bylaws debate before any proposals from the floor could be debated. It has been the case for many years now that few if any bylaws proposals written by delegates not on the committee get a chance to be heard by the convention. For the record, I made members of the ExCom aware of my interest in being appointed to the Bylaws Committee, as I often have in the past, but they declined to appoint me.
B. Kalafut said...
It's as though Donny Ferguson offered an intelligence test for libertarians. Nolan failed, and now Sipos, too.
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Goldman cuts growth forecast to 6.7%
Last updated on: November 10, 2008 12:44 IST
Goldman Sachs cut its growth forecast for India citing 'larger-than-expected shock' to the financial sector over the last couple of months, and its knock-on effects on both domestic and external demand.
The brokerage lowered its gross domestic product growth numbers for FY09 to 6.7 per cent from 7.5 per cent and for FY10 to 5.8 per cent from 7 per cent, Goldman said in a research note on Monday.
"We believe there is little fiscal room for additional stimulus in FY10. We expect growth to trough at a quarterly pace of 5.0 per cent in the April-June quarter of FY10, before recovering to 6.6 per cent by end-FY10. The slowdown, in our view, is very much cyclical in nature," the brokerage said.
Goldman Sachs said the gathering financial crisis over the past several weeks has affected India's financial sector significantly, with both domestic and external liquidity drying up. This has impacted the financing for corporates, loans for households, and trade credit for exporters.
"The real economy is already beginning to feel the effects of the liquidity crunch despite the Reserve Bank of India and the government's massive liquidity infusion efforts," the research note said.
Goldman believes the large global and domestic financial sector shock will continue to slow activity across the board, in capex plans, exports growth, and consumption demand.
According to the note, corporates will be hurt. This will in turn impact investment and external demands, and slow down consumption. On the production side, a significant slowdown in construction and real estate, and in industry is expected.
However, the brokerage sees a silver lining. "A large monetary policy stimulus, prospects of a good agricultural crop supporting rural demand, lower commodity prices, and ongoing infrastructure spending would limit further downside to growth," it said.
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Buckeye of the Beholder: Alabama Goes Down, Ohio State Moves On
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We should pause now, before the trumpets really start to sound, and the luxury suites begin to ring with barely disguised corporate corruption and plutocratic deceit, and before the entire shiny new circus of the College Football Playoff (presented by Gigantocorp, a Monstro company) descends on Jerry Jones’s monument to Freudian overcompensation in the vast real estate desert outside of Dallas. We should pause and listen for the small, human things, because you can find them even in the master class in hysteria like the one thrown across the Superdome by Alabama and Ohio State — which ended far later than it should have, and which took the Buckeyes longer to put away, at 42-35, than the rest of us had any right to expect. It’s easy to overlook the really good stuff that lies buried under the hype and the confetti.
Take, for example, the fact that the unquestioned MVP for Alabama was its punter, JK Scott, a high-pocketed 6-4 freshman out of Denver, who kept Ohio State pinned inside its own 10-yard line all night long. Scott punted seven times for a 55-yard average, including one towering 73-yarder from his own 17-yard line. Five of his seven kicks landed inside the OSU 20-yard line, and none of them found the end zone. Scott was an authentic weapon the way a punter has not been a weapon in a Sugar Bowl since the days when invites went sailing off from New Orleans to exotic locales like Carnegie Tech, Fordham, and Santa Clara. JK Scott is a little bit of the oldest school of football there is, unstuck in time. He’s more than worth watching.
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There was also Cardale Jones, fearlessly attacking Alabama’s championship-quality defense in just his second career start. With eight minutes left in the first half, Alabama had pushed its lead to 21-6 and appeared to be rolling downhill and picking up speed. There was no indication at that point that Ohio State would be any competition at all. Jones’s brain was on scan. Suddenly, though, it found a station and locked in.
He completed five of his next seven passes, including two clutch third-down throws to Jalin Marshall, and Ohio State found itself on the Alabama 3-yard line. Ezekiel Elliott — the game’s unquestioned MVP with 230 rushing yards on 20 carries — scored to cut the lead to 21-13. Then, with a little more than a minute until halftime, and after a 59-yard punt from Scott, Jones brought the Buckeyes deep into Alabama territory almost single-handedly. He hit on three passes in a row, and then ran for 27 yards. That left Ohio State on the Alabama 13-yard line with 19 seconds left in the half.
And then there’s Evan Spencer, a wide receiver for Ohio State, and Evan Spencer had a night for himself.
“I haven’t thrown a touchdown pass since high school,” Spencer said. “I think I might have thrown a pick or two, too, but this one worked out.”
Jones flipped the ball to Spencer and Spencer pulled up and lofted a pass toward the left pylon, where Michael Thomas went up and grabbed it, coming down with just a sliver of green between his foot and the white of the sideline. “I just needed the ref to throw his hands up, and then I started celebrating,” Spencer said. That sent Ohio State into halftime trailing only 21-20.
Spencer’s second big moment came on the game’s most crucial play. Jones had continued to be superb, pushing Ohio State to a 34-21 lead. However, by the middle of the fourth quarter, the Alabama defense had reasserted itself, and Ohio State was leading by only a touchdown, 34-28, when it got the ball back on its own 5-yard line. Shortly thereafter, on a first-down play from his own 15-yard line, Spencer heard Jones call a check at the line of scrimmage. It gets to be something of a blur after that.
“We had it called, and Cardale made a check,” Spencer said. “I was kinda like trying to look at the defense, and then the ball was snapped, and I started stressing, and I thought, Oh, man, I gotta get in there!”
You can see it on the replay if you watch very carefully. (Todd Blackledge may still be talking about it.) Starting from somewhere on the far shores of Lake Pontchartrain, Spencer came roaring down the line of scrimmage and positively buried an Alabama linebacker. Behind him, Elliott suddenly discovered that an airport runway had opened up in front of him, and he cruised 85 yards for the touchdown that sent Ohio State off to play Oregon — with the spectral figure of Phil Knight haunting the sidelines — for the first genuine national championship playoff game.
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It was Ohio State that caused most of the griping when the four participating teams in this inaugural hootenanny were announced. It was Ohio State to which Baylor partisans took greatest offense. It was Ohio State that likely drove TCU to do such terrible things to Ole Miss on New Year’s Eve in Atlanta. The statement in most of the “statement” games that were played this week generally was about why Ohio State should have been teeing it up outside the brackets. And they knew it too.
“We play pissed off,” said Spencer. “From the first whistle until there are three zeroes on that clock.”
The College Football Playoff already is the event that its corporate partners dreamed of, especially in the minds of the players who are taking part. All week, there was talk about how everyone was thrilled to be part of something new and important. A few days before the game, Ohio State cornerback Doran Grant talked about matching up against Alabama’s star wideout Amari Cooper, but he talked about it in the context of the new order of things. Even the usual clichés rang with a deeper resonance.
“I know we’ll have some matchups against each other,” Grant said. “That’s what I’m looking forward to, especially on a big stage like this. That’s what this whole playoff thing is about, anyway. This is a historical moment, and I’m looking forward to being part of it.”
There never was a chance that the four teams picked for the first one of these were going to come from anywhere except from among the sport’s most prominent brands. Ohio State would have had to have lost to Michigan and then fallen into a lake before it would have been excluded. Truth be told, and all things being equal, which they never are, TCU and Baylor lost their chance in a boardroom somewhere long before anything happened on the field. The format may be new, but the calculations of the people who organize college sports haven’t changed at all.
But there is no question that the idea of a playoff has triumphed among the players themselves. They already sound like basketball players who are between the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament. (And if you think the field is going to stay at four teams, I have a used Mercedes-Benz Superdome I’d like to sell you.) The old days of one, two, heck many national champions and an offseason full of entertaining, if unhinged, acrimony are long gone already. The players and the coaches already talk differently, as if there is something more substantial on the line than the top spot in the last AP poll. A kind of polished history, all shined up and sporting a brand-new logo, has been draped on the end of the college football season forever now.
“Obviously, we’re really thankful for the playoff system,” Elliott said. “They gave us a chance to go out there and show that we’re one of the better teams in the nation and we deserve to be in the national championship.”
“I think it’s good for college football. Once again, we’re part of history. And we also don’t want to swing and miss,” said Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. “My concern, and I think I’m probably going to address it again, is … are we going to get [the players’] families to Dallas? We should. That should happen immediately. There should be an immediate committee meeting somewhere say these families, ‘Let’s get them to Dallas and watch their sons play in college football history.’ And I hope you all write that. That’s more important than anything else being said today.”
That, of course, is a nod toward the great issue of compensating the people who do the real work, the indefensible system that is threatened still in several venues. What we have here is yet another example of the kind of revenue you can generate with largely unpaid labor and, within two years, the revenues will be nothing short of staggering. You can hear it in their voices, in the way the players have adjusted in their own minds to playing for greater stakes. Which is why the human moments still matter, while we can still see them. Watch a wide receiver throw a touchdown pass, and then throw a crucial block. Watch a punter put on an amazing show within the show. Listen for everything that is drowned out by the trumpets. Look carefully for what’s obscured by the circus parade.
Filed Under: College Football Playoff, College Football, 2014 College Football Playoff, College Football Playoff Semifinals, Alabama Crimson Tide, Ohio State Buckeyes, JK Scott, Evan Spencer, Cardale Jones, Jalin Marshall, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas, Amari Cooper
Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for Grantland and the author of Idiot America. He writes regularly for Esquire, is the lead writer for Esquire.com’s Politics blog, and is a frequent guest on NPR.
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Suzuki Jimny 4Sport limited edition revealed: All you need to know about this SUV
The international market has now witnessed the unveiling of the Suzuki Jimny 4Sport, which is an upgraded version of the SUV with more off-road focused additions to the car.
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The Suzuki Jimny 4Sport gets cosmetic upgrades
There are major changes in the exterior of the SUV
The interiors of the SUV also get multiple new upgrades
The Indian car market has been eyeing the Maruti Suzuki Jimny for quite some time now. However, the launch of the car for the country still is not officially confirmed yet. But the international version of the car has received a new off-road focused version of the Suzuki Jimny 4-Sport. The new off-road version of the small SUV will be a limited edition with only 100 examples of the car to be sold in the market. The new SUV comes with multiple new upgrades in terms of looks, although the powertrain remains largely unchanged.
Suzuki Jimny Sierra 4-Sport: Design, equipment
The new Suzuki Jimny 4Sport gets very apparent changes in its appearance, highlighted by a snorkel, which benefits the SUV by improving its water-wading capacity and increasing it to 600mm. Being the off-road-focused version, the car gets a matte black rock slider to protect the body of the SUV. Furthermore, the SUV gets multiple enhancements in the form of a black roof with a carrier and four tow hooks. The new version also gets better angles with a reduced approach angle of 31 degrees and a departure angle of 40 degrees. Moreover, it now gets a better grip on the ground with Pirelli MTR off-road tires.
Cosmetic changes in the SUV include new side moulding, and black 4Sport badging on the doors with blue graphics on the good of the car. The same updates affect the interiors of the car, with AC vents and gear shifter getting blue highlights. In addition, the front seats get blue stitching and accents with the 4Sport logos on them.
Meanwhile, the launch of the Jimny in the Indian market still remains unsure. However, based on the ongoing rumours, the five-door version of the SUV will be launched in the Indian market soon. The Indian version of the car is expected to have a 1.5-litre K15C petrol engine with mild-hybrid technology working with a 5-speed manual or a 6-speed automatic gearbox. In India, the Maruti Suzuki Jimny will be competing against rivals like Mahindra Thar and Force Gurkha.
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Argelsried - the new business park
There’s just as much going on now – mid-December 2020 – as there was at the beginning of August.
When there’s a high-pressure area around here in winter, it’s either awful weather with fog or high fog, or it’s wonderful with clear blue skies. And in either case pretty cold. On the day I took this video the fog had lifted. I took these clips between a quarter to four and four just as the sun was going down.
Most of the buildings on the south-east side of Ferdinand-Porsche-Straße have been finished; just the one on the corner of Römer Straße is still only foundations. There’s been a lot more work done on the production and office space building of the Vision Innovation Park 96 GmbH & Co. KGO using the BOB (Balanced Office Building) concept on the north-west side of the road.
I had never intended to use the original soundtrack because I found this wonderful version of “Silent Night” from Justin Johnson on YouTube. I do hope he’ll forgive me for using it as a soundtrack to this business park. I’ve included the links to his video and channel below.
Music: Relaxing Christmas Blues Guitar • “Silent Night”, Justin Johnson. On YouTube
Length: 5:05.
Justin Johnson’s channel on YouTube
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Dual-mechanism antibiotic kills Gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance
Drugs and antibiotics, Research
Poison is lethal all on its own — as are arrows — but their combination is greater than the sum of their parts. A weapon that simultaneously attacks from within and without can take down even the strongest opponents, from E. coli to MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
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A team of Princeton researchers reported today in the journal Cell that they have found a compound, SCH-79797, that can simultaneously puncture bacterial walls and destroy folate within their cells — while being immune to antibiotic resistance.
Bacterial infections come in two flavors — Gram-positive and Gram-negative — named for the scientist who discovered how to distinguish them. The key difference is that Gram-negative bacteria are armored with an outer layer that shrugs off most antibiotics. In fact, no new classes of Gram-negative-killing drugs have come to market in nearly 30 years.
“This is the first antibiotic that can target Gram-positives and Gram-negatives without resistance,” said Zemer Gitai, Princeton’s Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology and the senior author on the paper. “From a ‘Why it’s useful’ perspective, that’s the crux. But what we’re most excited about as scientists is something we’ve discovered about how this antibiotic works — attacking via two different mechanisms within one molecule — that we are hoping is generalizable, leading to better antibiotics — and new types of antibiotics — in the future.”
The greatest weakness of antibiotics is that bacteria evolve quickly to resist them, but the Princeton team found that even with extraordinary effort, they were unable to generate any resistance to this compound. “This is really promising, which is why we call the compound’s derivatives ‘Irresistin,'” Gitai said.
It’s the holy grail of antibiotics research: an antibiotic that is effective against diseases and immune to resistance while being safe in humans (unlike rubbing alcohol or bleach, which are irresistibly fatal to human cells and bacterial cells alike).
For an antibiotics researcher, this is like discovering the formula to convert lead to gold, or riding a unicorn — something everyone wants but no one really believes exists, said James Martin, a 2019 Ph.D. graduate who spent most of his graduate career working on this compound. “My first challenge was convincing the lab that it was true,” he said.
But irresistibility is a double-edged sword. Typical antibiotics research involves finding a molecule that can kill bacteria, breeding multiple generations until the bacteria evolve resistance to it, looking at how exactly that resistance operates, and using that to reverse-engineer how the molecule works in the first place.
But since SCH-79797 is irresistible, the researchers had nothing to reverse engineer from.
“This was a real technical feat,” said Gitai. “No resistance is a plus from the usage side, but a challenge from the scientific side.”
The research team had two huge technical challenges: Trying to prove the negative — that nothing can resist SCH-79797 — and then figuring out how the compound works.
To prove its resistance to resistance, Martin tried endless different assays and methods, none of which revealed a particle of resistance to the SCH compound. Finally, he tried brute force: for 25 days, he “serially passaged” it, meaning that he exposed bacteria to the drug over and over and over again. Since bacteria take about 20 minutes per generation, the germs had millions of chances to evolve resistance — but they didn’t. To check their methods, the team also serially passaged other antibiotics (novobiocin, trimethoprim, nisin and gentamicin) and quickly bred resistance to them.
Proving a negative is technically impossible, so the researchers use phrases like “undetectably-low resistance frequencies” and “no detectable resistance,” but the upshot is that SCH-79797 is irresistible — hence the name they gave to its derivative compounds, Irresistin.
They also tried using it against bacterial species that are known for their antibiotic resistance, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is on the top 5 list of urgent threats published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Gonorrhea poses a huge problem with respect to multidrug resistance,” said Gitai. “We’ve run out of drugs for gonorrhea. With most common infections, the old-school generic drugs still work. When I got strep throat two years ago, I was given penicillin-G — the penicillin discovered in 1928! But for N. gonorrhoeae, the standard strains that are circulating on college campuses are super drug resistant. What used to be the last line of defense, the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency drug for Neisseria, is now the front-line standard of care, and there really is no break-glass backup anymore. That’s why this one is a particularly important and exciting one that we could cure.”
The researchers even got a sample of the most resistant strain of N. gonorrhoeae from the vaults of the World Health Organization — a strain that is resistant to every known antibiotic — and “Joe showed that our guy still killed this strain,” Gitai said, referring to Joseph Sheehan, a co-first-author on the paper and the lab manager for the Gitai Lab. “We’re pretty excited about that.”
The poison-tipped arrow
Without resistance to reverse engineer from, the researchers spent years trying to determine how the molecule kills bacteria, using a huge array of approaches, from classical techniques that have been around since the discovery of penicillin through to cutting-edge technology.
Martin called it the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach, and it eventually revealed that SCH-79797 uses two distinct mechanisms within one molecule, like an arrow coated in poison.
“The arrow has to be sharp to get the poison in, but the poison has to kill on its own, too,” said Benjamin Bratton, an associate research scholar in molecular biology and a lecturer in the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, who is the other co-first-author.
The arrow targets the outer membrane — piercing through even the thick armor of Gram-negative bacteria — while the poison shreds folate, a fundamental building block of RNA and DNA. The researchers were surprised to discover that the two mechanisms operate synergistically, combining into more than a sum of their parts.
“If you just take those two halves — there are commercially available drugs that can attack either of those two pathways — and you just dump them into the same pot, that doesn’t kill as effectively as our molecule, which has them joined together on the same body,” Bratton said.
There was one problem: The original SCH-79797 killed human cells and bacterial cells at roughly similar levels, meaning that as a medicine, it ran the risk of killing the patient before it killed the infection. The derivative Irresistin-16 fixed that. It is nearly 1,000 times more potent against bacteria than human cells, making it a promising antibiotic. As a final confirmation, the researchers demonstrated that they could use Irresistin-16 to cure mice infected with N. gonorrhoeae.
This poisoned arrow paradigm could revolutionize antibiotic development, said KC Huang, a professor of bioengineering and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University who was not involved in this research.
“The thing that can’t be overstated is that antibiotic research has stalled over a period of many decades,” Huang said. “It’s rare to find a scientific field which is so well studied and yet so in need of a jolt of new energy.”
The poisoned arrow, the synergy between two mechanisms of attacking bacteria, “can provide exactly that,” said Huang, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton from 2004 to 2008. “This compound is already so useful by itself, but also, people can start designing new compounds that are inspired by this. That’s what has made this work so exciting.”
In particular, each of the two mechanisms — the arrow and the poison — target processes that are present in both bacteria and in mammalian cells. Folate is vital to mammals (which is why pregnant women are told to take folic acid), and of course both bacteria and mammalian cells have membranes. “This gives us a lot of hope, because there’s a whole class of targets that people have largely neglected because they thought, ‘Oh, I can’t target that, because then I would just kill the human as well,'” Gitai said.
“A study like this says that we can go back and revisit what we thought were the limitations on our development of new antibiotics,” Huang said. “From a societal point of view, it’s fantastic to have new hope for the future.”
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Southampton vs West Brom – Pre Match Stats
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Southampton FC vs West Brom – Pre Match Stats
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During the last 19 meetings, Southampton have won 6 times, there have been 8 draws while West Bromwich Albion have won 5 times. The goal difference is 17-17 in favour of Southampton.
West Bromwich Albion haven’t scored in 1 of their 4 away matches in Premier League this season.
Average number of goals in the first half in meetings between Southampton and West Bromwich Albion is 1.2.
Southampton have played 4 home matches in a row without winning.
When Southampton leads 1-0 at home, they win in 72% of their matches.
When West Bromwich Albion is down 1-0 away, they win 7% of their matches.
When Southampton is down 0-1 home, they win 15% of their matches.
Southampton scores 1 goals in a match against West Bromwich Albion and West Bromwich Albion scores 0.6 goals against Southampton (in average).
Southampton haven’t scored in 3 of their 5 home matches in Premier League this season.
When West Bromwich Albion leads 0-1 away, they win in 38% of their matches.
In the last 5 meetings Southampton won 2, West Bromwich Albion won 2, 1 draws.
During the last 10 meetings with Southampton playing at home, Southampton have won 4 times, there have been 4 draws while West Bromwich Albion have won 2 times. The goal difference is 13-11 in favour of Southampton.
Southampton scores 0.83 goals when playing at home and West Bromwich Albion scores 0.96 goals when playing away (in average).
West Bromwich Albion haven’t won in their last 7 games.
Average number of goals in meetings between Southampton and West Bromwich Albion is 1.6.
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Home Google Google is going to Release a USB-C Titan Security Key
Google Launches News
Google is going to Release a USB-C Titan Security Key
Last August, Google discharged its initial two Titan security keys, which can be utilized as ultra-secure techniques for two-factor validation for some online administrations over USB-A, NFC, or Bluetooth. Presently, Google says it’s including another USB-C key to the lineup, which will be accessible tomorrow from the Google Store for $40.
The USB-C key seems to have comparative usefulness to Google’s USB-A key and Bluetooth keys, which are all worked to the FIDO standard. A representative affirmed to The Verge that the USB-C model comes up short on the NFC capacities that its other two keys have. This may not be an over the top misfortune, however, as you’ll all the more effectively have the option to plug the USB-C key legitimately into ongoing telephones and PCs without utilizing a cumbersome USB connector or depending on Bluetooth.
Google’s new USB-C key is perfect with Android, Chrome OS, macOS, and Windows gadgets, as per the organization. (Just the Bluetooth key works with iOS, and it requires the establishment of Google’s Smart Lock application.) Like its past keys, Google says the USB-C key’s firmware is for all time fixed into a safe component equipment chip, making the key progressively impervious to physical assaults.
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Google says it joined forces with security key-producer Yubico to make its new USB-C key, and it appears: Google’s key looks a great deal like Yubico’s YubiKey 5C. The two keys are truly comparative, yet Google’s key doesn’t bolster the total of the FIDO2 spec (it just supports WebAuthn for two-factor validation), so Yubikey may be the better choice, contingent upon what you need.
Google’s other two Titan security keys were beforehand just accessible as a $50 pack, however, Google says you’ll have the option to get them separately beginning tomorrow. The USB-A/NFC key will cost $25, while the Bluetooth key, which can likewise be connected over Micro USB, will cost $35.
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Home Entertainment Vikings Valhalla Season 2: When Will The Second Season Premiere? Find Out Here
Vikings Valhalla Season 2: When Will The Second Season Premiere? Find Out Here
Netflix’s Vikings have been one of the most popular and intriguing historical dramas on Television. The show ran for six seasons. But, now the successor of the show Vikings Valhalla won hearts with its first season. Since then, fans have been waiting for Vikings Valhalla Season 2.
Vikings Valhalla is a historical action drama series created by Jeb Stuart for Netflix. The story takes place almost a century after the events of the original Vikings series. The show depicts a fresh chapter in the brutal and terrible conflict between the Saxons and the inhabitants of the North.
What Will Viking Valhalla Season 2?
Due to the timely arrival of Sweyn Forkbeard’s fleet, Kre and Olaf’s armies are eventually crushed in the first season of Vikings: Valhalla. Season 2 will, however, handle several topics and character arcs. Freydis rescued Harald, implying that their religiously entwined relationship will be explored in Valhalla season 2. There’s also his ambition to become King of Norway. As well as Freydis’ voyage as “The Last Daughter of Uppsala,” and greater exploration of what that means. After losing control at season one’s finale, Leif will appear to be on his own adventure.
Vikings Valhalla Season 2 would undoubtedly feature more of this angrier, Erik the Red-like version of Leif, maybe making him more of an antihero. King Canute should also make an appearance in the Valhalla season 2 plot, having vanished midway through the first season as he seeks to consolidate and extend his northern dominion.
Cast Details!
The main cast of Netflix’s ‘Vikings Valhalla’ features Sam Corlett in the role Leif Eriksson, Frida Gustavsson as Freydis Eriksdotter. And Leo Suter as Harald Sigurdsson. Meanwhile, the series also stars Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Olaf Haraldsson, and David Oakes stars as Earl Godwin. In addition, there is Caroline Henderson as Jarl Haakon, Soren Pilmark as Sweyn Forkbeard, and Asbjørn Krogh Nissen playing Jarl Kåre.
Moreover, the cast also includes Pollyanna McIntosh as Queen Ælfgifu and Laura Berlin as Emma. Furthermore, Louis Davison as Prince Edmund, Gavin Drea as Eadric Streona, and Lujza Richter as Liv. When the show returns with Vikings Valhalla Season 2, most of these main cast members will be back in their roles. At the same time, we may also see some new additions to the cast in the next season.
Vikings Valhalla Season 2: Release Date
The first season of Netflix’s historical drama premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022. Now, talking about the future of the series, we have amazing news. Netflix originally ordered the 24 episodes, which means the second season is confirmed. Talking about the Viking Valhalla Season 2, Michael Hirst said, “I am beyond excited that we are announcing the continuation of our Vikings saga. I know that the millions of our fans across the globe will be thrilled by the belief being shown in our show by MGM and Netflix.” Moreover, season 3 of the series has also been renewed. The release date has not been confirmed yet, but we expect it to release around early 2023.
Also, read Vikings Valhalla Season 2: Will The Historical Drama Return? Will Leif Discover Boy’s Original Identity?
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No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Kim Richards; Brad Savage; Barbara Feldon; Don Knotts; Darren McGavin
Comedy, Family, Crime
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Safe Men (1998)
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
Dom Hemingway (2013)
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Double Danger (1938)
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Ghanchakkar (2013)
When Sanju a master safe cracker teams up with two dangerous criminals to commit one last heist. The robbery is successful and Sanju is given the task of hiding the money till things cool down and the booty can be split. Three months later, the associates return to collect their share of the loot, but Sanju refuses to even recognize them! They realize he enrolled into an accident and is suffering from strong amnesia and decide to stay with Sanju and his wife Neetu until Sanju remembers where he hid the money. What dangerous game is Sanju playing?
Crackerjack (1938)
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
D.C. Cab (1983)
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
Eat the Rich (1987)
Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Love, Gloria (2012)
Washed up child star Gloria Green thinks her life can't get any worse when she finds herself kidnapped by a deranged stalker and held captive with her biggest fan, Dawnee, who seems intent on making Gloria relive the past she's tried to forget. As the two hostages butt heads, Gloria's hapless assistant, Cheryl, tries to track down her missing boss, enlisting the help of the incompetent and dismissive police force.
Office Space (1999)
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet (1977)
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
The Hard Way (1991)
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.
Marrying the Mafia (2002)
The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Big Fat Liar (2002)
Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd (Muniz) has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) steals his class paper and turns it into a smash movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale! On a cross-country adventure to set the record straight, Jason and best friend Kaylee (Bynes) devise a high-tech plan to squeeze the truth out of Wolf.
Christmas Caper (2007)
A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown in Connecticut after a con goes bad and gets stuck baby-sitting her niece and nephew until their parents can make it home for Christmas. She spends most of her time devising ways to even the score with Clive, her partner in crime, until the spirit of the holidays can help put her priorities back on track.
Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998)
Barricade the doors. Lock the windows. Because he's baaaack. That one-boy wrecking crew, Dennis the Menace, returns for more mischief and mayhem. Based on the comic strip and TV show about a mischievous little boy with a gift for the potentially lethal prank.
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum (2013)
The film tackles social issues in Kuttanad, through the tale of a hapless youth.
Bad News Bears (2005)
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
License to Drive (1988)
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to lift his family's prize luxury car for the occasion. Unfortunately, Mercedes sneaks some booze along and passes out drunk, and a confused Les makes the bad decision of enlisting his rebellious friend, Dean, to help.
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..
The Borrowers (1997)
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
Chicken Run (2000)
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the american rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.
Escape from Planet Earth (2013)
Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.
Passport to Paris (1999)
Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
The Littlest Rebel (1937)
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)
During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the match. When they arrive in Japan, they must use all their powers to defend him against his ancient enemy, who has returned to exact revenge.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Cheats (2002)
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
A Simple Wish (1997)
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Freaky Friday (1976)
School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.
The Perfect Man (2005)
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.
The Court Jester (1955)
A 12th century court jester in England becomes involved with a desperate band of outlaws who are attempting to overthrow the king.
Happily N'Ever After (2006)
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
Mild-mannered Paul Blart (Kevin James) has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
Once Upon a Crime (1992)
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
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A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (1998)
After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his only hope is to find professor Keenbean and the wishing machine so he can wish things back to normal. Written by Peter Huiskes
Bailey's Billion$ (2005)
Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billion-dollar fortune. Bailey is lucky, that is, until he becomes the target of an elaborately-designed dognap scheme hatched by Constance's nasty nephew Caspar and his money-hungry wife Dolores. The despicable duo's wicked plan is to ultimately gain custody of the canine so they can get their greedy paws on his inheritance. Unfortunately for them, there's a thing or two they don't know about Bailey. Not only does he have great street smarts, he has great pals too. Bailey's loyal guardian Ted, kind-hearted animal advocate Marge, her daughter Sam, and a clever border collie named Tessa set out on a hilarious madcap adventure to free their four-legged friend and put the nasty dognappers out of business-for good!
Planes (2013)
Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.
James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, James and Mike suddenly find that kids are not to be afraid of and they uncover a conspiracy that could threaten all children across the world.
3 Ninjas (1992)
Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori Shintaro whom the boys affectionately refer to as Grandpa, for the summer. Mori is a highly skilled in the fields of Martial arts and Ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques. After an organized crime ring proves to be too much for the FBI, it's time for the 3 brother NINJAS! To use their martial arts skills, they team up to battle the crime ring and outwit some very persistent kidnappers!
Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Seventeen-year-old Alexia Wheaton hasn't been herself lately. Neighter has her 15-year-old sister Hayley. In fact they've been each other. Alexia becomes fashion-challenged Hayley and she in turn becomes styling Alexia and the complications come fast furious and funny.
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, the person who both Dorothy and the citizens of Oz believe can help make her dream come true.
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)
Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High. Unfortunately for them, the book is ruined, and with incomplete advice, the Bible leads them on a hilarious journey to lose their virginity.
Me and Orson Welles (2009)
Me and Orson Welles is a period-drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar, where he becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Blond Cheat (1938)
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, is the chief assistant to Rufus Trent, wealthy London loan broker. He has allowed himself to become engaged to the Rufus' daughter, Roberta, the match engineered primarily by socially-ambitious Mrs. Trent. As Michael is closing the shop in the late afternoon, a man named Douglas takes out a large loan, using his niece's (Julie Evans) earring as a deposit. He scurries right off with the money but, to his dismay, Michael finds that the earrings are fastened to Julie's ears and can not be removed. Much to his socially-prominent position he is very disgusted as he must now keep a guard of her. Soon, he finds himself in jail and Julie has his flat keys.
Best Man Down (2012)
A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
No Problem (2010)
Sanjay and Akshaye, childhood friends and small time crooks rob a bank managed by Paresh. The two of them specially, Akshaye, on and off contemplates changing tracks and leaving the world of crime. Sanjay on the other hand almost every time manages to do something which closes all doors for Akshaye to change his life. This bank robbery also does the same. Akshaye is back where he belongs. Paresh is accused as an accomplice of Sanjay and Akshaye since the two had stayed in his house the night before the robbery.Paresh swears he will not return without the proof of his innocence.
The Balkan Spy (1984)
Balkanski Å¡pijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija ÄvoroviÄ (Bata StojkoviÄ), a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov JakovljeviÄ (Bora TodoroviÄ), a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his tenant might be a spy. As the movie goes on, his paranoia increases and more people gets involved: his wife, his daughter, his brother, Jakovljevic's friends.
Now You Know (2002)
On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Penny Pinchers (2011)
Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job so he lies to his mom for money, but his mom abruptly cuts him off one day, and he becomes homeless. But that same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who's extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash.
Some Say No (2011)
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.
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Promoting Asbestos, a Corporate Crime
andhra pradesh: protests
The Silicate Murderees
A proposed asbestos unit faces spirited opposition
Madhavi Tata, Outlook, May 16, 2011
Serving Krishna Poison
Proposal to set up an 1.8 lakh tonne per annum asbestos making unit in Andhra’s Krishna district (its third, if it comes up) attracts widespread criticism
Asbestos is carcinogenic
Fifty-five countries have banned its mining and use
India has been phasing out asbestos mining since 1986
It was called a magic mineral till it was found to be carcinogenic. Asbestos, which is used mostly in the construction industry and is known for its durable, fire-resistant quality and cheap price, is now primarily associated with lung cancer, mesothelioma (cancer that develops from the protective lining covering internal organs) and ‘asbestosis’. Such is its toxicity as a human carcinogen that 55 nations have banned its mining and usage entirely. India, however, continues to use it in various sectors despite its proven threat.
The gamut of emotions and issues involved in the use of asbestos in India was played out recently in Andhra Pradesh, where a proposal to allot a factory site to Pune-based Sahyadri Ltd in Narasimharaopalem village of Krishna district to set up an asbestos sheet and accessories manufacturing unit led to a massive public outcry. The extent of disapproval was seen during an environmental public hearing on April 21. The proposed plant, with a capacity of 1.8 lakh tonne per annum, is opposed by environmentalists and occupational health hazard researchers, Ban Asbestos Network of India, Jana Vignana Vedika, Human Rights Forum and Rythu Coolie Sangham. With big players like Ramco Industries, Bhagyanagar Woodplast, Hyderabad Industries and Visakha Industries, Andhra Pradesh is considered the asbestos capital of the country. Both Hyderabad Industries and Visakha Industries are owned by G. Vivek, Congress MP from Peddapalli constituency. Hyderabad Industries (Kondapalli) and Visakha Industries (Jujjuru) are both located in Krishna district. If allowed, the Sahyadri asbestos plant would be the third in the district.
India has been phasing out mining of asbestos since 1986. The central government has stopped granting new asbestos mining leases or renewing old ones. But official estimates state that seven mines are operational in the country. It is still mined in some parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra, asbestos is mined in the Saraswati-Brahmanpalli mines in Kadapa district by a company owned by Y.S. Prakash Reddy, a cousin of the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
For the complete story visit: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?271694
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MIRIAM ACOCELLA – DEVIL IN THE FLESH
11 July 2020 11 July 2020 / By Alberto Corrado / LOKE PROJECT
Seduction begins with the petticoat, worn as daywear. Miriam Acocella, the Campana-based designer, tells us how this symbol of sensuality became a project with Pinkmemories.
Denim and lace, diametrically opposite fabrics representing two opposite souls harmoniously alternating to define a rebel femininity through the rediscovered sensuality of the petticoat. Over the years this particular item of feminine lingerie has become an object of cult to the point of being the centrepiece of classic images burned into our ancestral memories, from the simple black petticoat worn by Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s film “Bellissima” to Gina Lollobrigida’s black and lace number in Luigi Zampa’s “La Romana”. Or the lace-trimmed white petticoat Liz Taylor seduced the public of the time with in Richard Brooks’ film “Cat on a hot tin roof”, based on the eponymous stage play by Tennessee Williams, and on to the celebrated ‘sixties with the Claudia Cardinale’s bourgeois femininity in Francesco Maselli’s film “Time of indifference”, based on the eponymous novel by Alberto Moravia, up to the clingy number worn by Monica Bellucci in “Malena” directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, aAdrian Lyne’s 9 ½ Weeks.
For all these reasons, we from LOKE decided to take up this veiled sensuality, reinterpreting it as a new item of wardrobe to be worn on a far wider range of occasions.
Along with PinkMemories, who’ve made this garment its collection’s must-have, we’ve conceived a petticoat in two fabrics: denim and lace, in an ambitious project to offer every woman the highest expression of a multiform item to wear throughout the day, to the night where its seductive power conquers all, when the superfluous slip away leaving just a few drops of perfume.
We met up with Miriam Acocella, winner of this second tutorial, at her studio in Calitri immersed in nature and folklore, like the story of a little elf Scazzamauriegghij with his red beret and power of invisibility. She’s a strong woman, but very human at the same time. She loves the women she designs for, and animals too, never using fur in any of her collections. Acocella is the demonstration of a woman who never gives up, even when times get tough.
This is your first time in a marketing contest. What do you think about this kind of thing?
M.A.: After this brief experience, I’d define it as a direct bridge from dream and reality. We students, and especially the designers and artists among us, often feel disoriented, distant and insignificant in the world of work. Now I can confidently say that with passion and the desire to make something happen, that world seems more accessible somehow. The main thing is knowing how to seize your chances and use them to the best!
What was your first contact with fashion?
M.A.: Fashion to me is a feeling. It’s a feeling deep inside I’ve had since the day I was born: when I was two I was already deciding what I wanted to wear and by age 8 I’d designed my first formal tailleur.
It was a jacket with a red balloon skirt, I’ll never forget it!
This feeling began to take form when I went to the Naples Fashion Academy. From then on I’ve always been sure of my choice of vocation.
What kind of woman wears Miriam Acocella? Even though we’re living in a time where femininity is a bit “singled out” sometimes?
M.A.: The woman who chooses to wear my clothes is one looking for the right content to express herself and the way she feels to the full.
She has no fear of provoking the mediocre mentalities and prejudices society is full of. A woman who affirms herself with intelligence and personality.
What’s been the hardest thing you’ve had to face up to now, as a female designer?
M.A.: The hardest thing I’ve had to face up to so far has been myself.
It’s been a constant struggle to supress that feeling of not being up to the job, always a step behind the rest.
The fear of not being capable of giving 100% of myself, the fear of being misunderstood and worrying about not managing to arouse emotions, whether good or bad.
This is probably what happens when you’ve got high expectations, of yourself.
Is nature important to you?
M.A.: I was born with nature. It’s where I keep my light-heartedness, childhood and adolescence, it’s my refuge from reality. I lived 19 years in a village inhabited by nature until I moved to Naples to study.It’s fundamental for me to know that when I come home I can always find my refuge and detach myself from everything.
I love nature for its vastness, and its simplicity gives me such unique feelings. More than anything I love flowers, their scents and colours. During the lockdown they were a real inspiration for my creations!
Where did the inspiration for the PinkMemories petticoat come from?
M.A.: I knew the theme was “mine” right from the start. I love mixing opposites, and after carefully analysing the brand I imagined the iconic Courtney Love, irreverent and aggressive, in the guise of a more elegant, sophisticated woman, closer to the PinkMemories brand.
What kind of women do you admire?
M.A.: I don’t like perfect women. I love the rebels, strong but not afraid to show their weaknesses. I love women who have something to say about themselves and the world. Women who are beautiful and rich inside, with no fear of declaring their ideals and fighting for their dreams.
What’s your dream?
M.A.: My dream is to never stop creating and discovering things, places and people. I want to experience every aspect of the fashion world and feel good about what I’m doing with my life. Then let destiny lead me to my place.
Is there anything you’d say is Miriam Acocella by definition?
M.A.: Miriam Acocella is culture, contamination, fluidity and fascination.
You can see that you’re a strong, dynamic woman straight away. Are you a romantic too?
M.A.: I’m a mix of emotions and contradictions. How could I not be romantic? Being romantic means being transported by feelings and fantasies, and that’s fundamental in my profession. If you haven’t got the right dose of romanticism, how can you possibly be creative?
What is Loke for you?
M.A.: Loke to me is love, love for us guys.
We need someone who really believes in us and doesn’t just give us false hope. I’ll never stop thanking you for the help you’ve given!
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DAVIDE MARCIANO - ELEGANCE IS IN KINDNESS OF SOUL.
SUSTAINABLE FASHION - AN INTERVIEW WITH RAFFAELLA PETRACCARO
SUSTAINABLE FASHION - UPCYCLING BY LUCA DI FUSCO
BENEDETTA LANZIONE - INTERVIEW WITH A YOUNG DESIGNER LIVING AMIDST DREAMS AND REALITY
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Naturalistic elements
A - Preparatory Actions
C - Conservation Actions
D - Monitoring
E - Dissemination
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Life Lagoon Refresh for the World Ocean Day
Partecipation at the 28° European Congress of SETAC
Presentation LIFE LAGOON REFRESH PROJECT at the LIFE REDUNE conference
Public presentation at Quarto d'Altino Municipality
Partecipation at the SER Europe Conference 2018 – Restoration in the Era of Climate Change
Life Lagoon Refresh presented at the 2nd International Conference “COWM- CITIZEN OBSERVATORIES FOR NATURAL HAZARDS AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Life Lagoon Refresh presented at the LIFE CONVIVE Seminar
The First results of Bird Monitoring at the 20th Italian Ornithology Conference
NEWSLETTER no.2 LIFE LAGOON REFRESH
Course of recognition and monitoring of aquatic birds
Life Lagoon Refresh presented at Wetlands International Europe
NEWSLETTER no. 3 LIFE LAGOON REFRESH
Life Lagoon Refresh presented to the students and researchers of the IUAV of Venice (IT)
On line the second project video: the phases of the works
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Call for interest: the results of selection
Call for Interest: Italian winners visited the Life Lagoon Refresh site
NEWSLETTER n.6 LIFE LAGOON REFRESH (Italian Language only)
The LIFE Lagoon Refresh celebrates the 30th anniversary of the European Natura 2000 Network and the LIFE programme
Celebrations of the 30th birday of LIFE programme and Natura 2000 Network with High School Students from Chioggia (Venice)
Transferring and replication of the project to other places: the European winners of Call for Interest visited the LIFE Lagoon Refresh site
The Documentary of the project is On line
The Final Conference: Five years of Project, Up to One thousand liters per second of freshwater in Venice Lagoon and first positive effects in the lagoon environment
Transferability and replicability of the project: life lagoon refresh's staff visited Italian and European winner sites
Layman's report: project results in a nutshell
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After workshops and surveys of the project site by Italian and European winners of the Call for Interest , the LIFE Lagoon Refresh’s staff visited the selected sites to acquire information needed to share possible intervention strategies. Visits were held in the Italian sites (Sacca of Scardovari in the Delta Po river of Veneto, some lagoons near Ravenna, and the Apulian Acquatina di Frigole) in autumn 2021, while European sites (the Spanish lagoon of l’Albufera de Valencia, the French salt marshes of Hyeres, the Greek Nestos Delta lagoons and Porto Lagos) were visited in summer of 2022. All surveys were excellent opportunities for deepening common themes and sharing experiences and different points of view. Now, we are looking forward to seeing LIFE Lagoon Refresh’s strategies, actions and methods been transferred and replicated to the selected sites.
As the LIFE Lagoon Refresh project ended, a Layman's report was published. This bilingual (IT and ENG) report is for a "non-expert" audience and allows to know the project's objectives, actions and results in just a very few pages. It is easy to read, and has plenty of figures and illustrations depicting all the achievements of five years of project. The report starts with a very short description of the project, its objectives and conservative actions. Then it moves on to the main steps, such as the construction of hydraulic and morphological works, and finally it ends with a description of obtained results, such a saline gradient restoring, reedbed and submerged vegetation development, as well as avifauna and fish species repopulation. The Layman's report also concludes with a description of the several phases of the project’s replicability and transferability actions to other Italian and European sites, and it also includes an overview of actions aimed at the communication and dissemination of results to the public.
Please, download the Layman's report here or check it out the Download section of this website.
The eighth and last Newsletter is now available on the web site in the section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). As the previous Newsletters, this last one provides several sections concerning planning of works and their realization, monitoring and dissemination activities, and networking with updates after the Newsletter no. 7 (published in June 2022) until the end of the project.
This issue is dedicated to the results of habitat 1150* monitoring activities, and there are also two sections dedicated 1) to the After LIFE Conservation Plan and 2) to the environmental education activities for students, families and teachers.
In the final part of each Newsletter, you can find also a detailed sectiondescribing different issues related to the project. Previous newsletters dealt with Habitat 1150*- Coastal Lagoon, reedbed, historical diversion of rivers from the Venice lagoon, aquatic phanerogams, project’s target bird species, target species of reedbed, and fish fauna species. This brand new issue depicts the Natura 2000 Network and the LIFE funding program, both born 30 years ago.
The LIFE Lagoon Refresh project, which provides the return of a freshwater input from the Sile River to the Venice Lagoon, is going to be finished. After five years, on 7th July 2022, the Final Conference was held at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. During the conference, the project’s staff presented the conservative actions and results from monitoring actions. It was also an opportunity to talk about environmental quality and lagoon restoring with stakeholders , Water managers, Authorities and Institutions, which work in transitional waters.
Thanks to the hydraulic work, the Sile River is again flowing with its freshwater into the lagoon with an inflow of 1000 l/s, while the morphological structures of biodegradable materials ensure the maintenance of the salinity gradient created in the project area. Before interventions the area had values of more than 30 of salinity, while today values are lower than 5 in 5 ha, below 15 in 25 ha and below 25 in 70 ha.
Despite of several difficulties during the project, such as the “Acqua Granda” (high water in Venetian dialect) of November 2019 and COVID-19 pandemic since 2020, waters from Sile Rivers started to flow into the lagoon with their maximum flow since February 2021. Monitoring activities detected first signals and changes in all the biologic communities as responses to variation of salinity in the area.
During the four years of monitoring surveys, more than 32,637 birds were censed in the project area. One hundred and twenty-eight species were detected, and among these sixty-two were waterfowl. Ornithologists have observed changes in composition and abundances of several bird species since 2018. That is a clear signal of biological response to changes in salinity of waters.
Regarding fish fauna, with the freshwater inflow, researchers observed a quality change, mostly at sites closer to the Sile river input, such as the presence of typical species of brackish environments. We are now looking at a significant increase of Pomatoschistus canestrinii and Knipowitschia panizzae, which are species of Community interest, as well as an increase of juveniles of the commercial species Chelon ramada and C. auratus. These last two species usually enter the lagoon in late autumn and/or early spring, using brackish waters as a nursery area. Generally, the Ecological quality status of fish fauna has improved.
Transplant activities of reedbed and phanerogams occurred in the area, thanks to the involvement of stakeholders, such as fishermen, which were previously properly trained to became transplanters.
In the area next to freshwater input, vegetation has changed progressively in the saltmarshes, with advantages for reedbed. It is now slowly growing thanks both to transplantations and to seedling from plants themselves. Despite it is too early to assess well-developed populations, reedbed is growing quite well where salinity is suitable for it.
Halophytic vegetation showed a clear change on September-October 2021 with an extraordinary bloom of Aster tripolium. More recently on June 2022, Inula crithmoides increased colouring in yellow the edge of saltmarshes, where salinity is lowering. Other variations regarded an increase of Juncus and Spartina.
In addition, aquatic phanerogams (Zostera marina, Z. noltei, Ruppia cirrhosa) also showed very good results, with creation of areas of several meters of diameter as results of several clumps transplantations.
However, to assess quantitatively results, we need more time. Indeed, as observed in LIFE Seresto biological times are longer than 3-4 years from transplants to show evidences.
All beneficiary partners were involved in Transferability and Dissemination actions. By the former, 6 sites were involved through meetings and visits on field, with the aim of replicate what we have done in Venice lagoon to other transitional waters. We also organized two training courses to recognize avifauna and to take naturalistic pictures; we involved 1000 students from primary to high school, as well as students from universities of Padua and Venice, by seminars, webinars, field trips, and practical activities.
Actions of LIFE Lagoon Refresh are not at the end! Partners will hold activities also during the “After LIFE” period, managing the discharge of the fresh water input and continuing the monitoring of the area for the assessment of the good project effects.
At this link, enjoy the brand-new video: “LIFE Lagoon Refresh: a documentary of the project”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me7ErIJhiKs
The Life Lagoon Refresh project is almost finished and, during these five years, the Videogallery has been enriched of several videos telling about each one of the most relevant steps of the project.
The launching video has been on-line since November 2018, since July 2020, the video showing the activities for the hydraulic and morphological works has been online, since May 2021, it has been available that one about stakeholders involvement, and since February 2022 that one depicting monitoring activities to assess the impact of the interventions on the lagoon environment.
With the conclusion of the project, we realized the two final videos of the series, a short and a full documentary respectively. This last video reports the shoots and interviews of the entire project history, starting from the background focusing on issues in the Venice Lagoon, the realized conservation actions and results that the project has obtained up today, such as the first positive ecological responses of vegetation and fauna in the Lagoon.
The full playlist is available on the videogallery, following this link: http://www.lifelagoonrefresh.eu/media-1/videogallery?set_language=en
Among the activities planned to promote the transferability and replicability of the project, the LIFE Lagoon Refresh promoted a Call for Interest to select six sites where to transfer and replicate strategy, actions and methods of the Project, through a tight program of visits, preparations of scenarios and activities to follow in the After-LIFE of the LIFE Lagoon Refresh. The activity is specifically directed to Water Managers, Researchers, professional and technicians dealing with monitoring, assessment and conservation of EU lagoon and estuarine sites.
The Call for interest closed on 15th February 2020, and several application forms were sent, coming from all over Italy, as well as from Lithuania, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, France and Spain.
European sites who won the selections are the Spanish lagoon of Albufera, the French salt marshes of Hyeres, and the Greek Nestos Delta and Porto Lagos lagoon.
First, a workshop was held on 8th April 2022 to share conservation and monitoring actions, as well as the strategies for stakeholder involvements, which clearly characterized the LIFE Lagoon Refresh project. We also dealt about common issues that were also topics and key arguments during selection.
Then, on 31st May 2022, referents from European selected sites visited works and place of interventions of the LIFE Lagoon Refresh. During visit, it was very helpful to show the state of play, to improve knowledge about common issues, and to share different point of views.
The seventh Newsletter is now available on the web site in the section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletters provides several sections concerning planning of works and their realization, monitoring and dissemination activities, and networking with updates after the Newsletter no. 6 (published in March 2022) until today.
This issue is dedicated to the first signals received by fish fauna, and there is also a section dedicated to the description of the European sites, winners of the Call for Interest for the transferability and replicability of the project.
All Newsletters contain also a detailed section in the final part, describing different issues related to the project. Previous newsletters dealt with Habitat 1150*- Coastal Lagoon, reedbed, historical diversion of rivers from the Venice lagoon, aquatic phanerogams, project target bird species and target bird species of reedbed. This brand new issue depicts fish fauna species, such as Black-spotted goby, European Flounder and Mullets.
Events of LIFE Lagoon Refresh continue to celebrate the 30th birthday of both LIFE programme and Natura 2000 Network. This time, LIFE Lagoon Refresh’s staff brought, in the project area, High School Students coming from Chioggia and winners of the ISPRA call for PCTO 2021-2023.
After a series of classroom lessons dealing with transitional waters, monitoring of lagoon environment, as well as objectives and actions of LIFE Lagoon Refresh, students could actually see hydraulic and morphological works, but also try to be scientists for a day. Indeed, they sampled macrozoobenthos, mapped reedbed and assessed the salinity of water.
We hope they enjoyed the day and we are looking forward to seeing them as partners of future LIFE projects.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the European Natura 2000 Network and the LIFE programme (both born on 21st of May 1992), LIFE Lagoon Refresh was introduced during the event organized in collaboration with the University of Padua on 9th and 11th of May 2022. The activities included a seminar and a field trip with students of the Master’s Degree in Marine Biology coming from all around the world. Researchers form ISPRA explained the activities carried out for the restoration of the lagoon: hydraulic and morphological works, transplants of reedbed and aquatic phanerogams, as well as monitoring activities to assess the achievement of projects’ objectives
We would like to thank organizers and students for their considerable interest, really appreciation and positive feedbacks!
The sixth Newsletter is now available on the web site in the section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter provides several sections. This issue is dedicated to the first signals received by the reeds, after the restoration of the salinity gradient. There is also a section dedicated to the description of the Italian sites, winners of the Call for Interest for the transferability and replicability of the project, and to dissemination and networking events occurred, despite of restrictions due to COVID-19, with updates after the Newsletter no. 5 (published in September 2021).
Each Newsletter contains a general description of the project in the initial part and a detailed section in the final part, describing, each time, different issues related to the project. Previous newsletters dealt with Habitat 1150*-Coastal Lagoon, reedbed, historical diversion of rivers from the Venice lagoon, aquatic phanerogams and target bird species. This brand new issue depicts target bird species of reedbed, such as passerines.
Among the activities planned to promote the transferability and replicability of the project, the Life Lagoon Refresh promoted a Call for Interest to select six sites where to transfer and replicate strategy, actions and methods of the Project, through a busy program of visits, preparations of scenarios and activities to follow in the After-Life of the Life Lagoon Refresh. The activity is specifically directed at Water Managers, Researchers, professional and technicians dealing with monitoring, assessment and conservation of EU lagoon and estuarine sites.
Nationally, three selected Italian sites were: the Apulian Acquatina di Frigole, some lagoons of Delta Po River from the Veneto Region side, and Punta Alberete and Valle Mandriole in Emilia-Romagna.
After a workshop to study conservative and monitoring actions of our Project, on 15th September 2021 the Italian winners of the call came and visited the Project Area, both by land and by boat, seeing the hydraulic and morphological works, and attending the demonstration about transplanting techniques of reedbeds and seagrasses. University of Salento, Sagittaria, Municipality of Ravenna, Delta Po River Park from Emilia-Romagna, Genio Civile from Rovigo with Project Partners were present.
Next steps are visits to each site selected by Life Lagoon Refresh staffs to collect necessary information for sharing project strategy, actions and methods.
The fifth Newsletter is now available on the web site in the section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided into sections. This issue is dedicated to the milestone achievement of recovering the salt gradient in the Lagoon, to the first signals coming from “Avifauna” world, and to dissemination and networking events occurred, despite of restrictions due to COVID-19, with updates after the fourth Newsletter (published in March 2021).
Each Newsletter contains a general description of the project in the initial part and a detailed section in the final part, describing, each time, different issues related to the project. Previous newsletters dealt with Habitat 1150*-Coastal Lagoon, reedbed, historical diversion of rivers from the Venice lagoon, and aquatic phanerogams. This brand new issue depicts target bird species, such as Pygmy Cormorant, Eurasian Bittern, Purple Heron and Little Bittern.
The fourth Newsletter is now available on the web site; section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided into sections. This issue is dedicated to the starting of freshwater flow from Sile River into the Venice Lagoon, the transplant activities of aquatic phanerogams and reeds, and the Call for Interest to select Italian and European sites where transfer and replicate the Project, with updates after the third Newsletter (published in April 2020).
Each Newsletter contains a general description of the project in the initial part and a detailed section in the final part, describing, each time, different issues related to the project. This issue explores the theme of aquatic phanerogams.
Among the activities planned to promote the transferability and replicability of the project, on 1st December 2019 the Life Lagoon Refresh Called for Interest to select six sites where transfer and replicate strategy, actions and methods of the Project, through a busy program of visits, preparations of scenarios and activities to follow in the After-Life of the Life Lagoon Refresh. The activity is specifically directed at Water Managers, Researchers, professional and technicians dealing with monitoring, assessment and conservation of EU lagoon and estuarine sites.
Among the activities planned to promote the transferability and replicability of the project, on 1 st December 2019 the Life Lagoon Refresh Called for Interest to select six sites where transfer and replicate strategy, actions and methods of the Project, through a busy program of visits, preparations of scenarios and activities to follow in the After-Life of the Life Lagoon Refresh. The activity is specifically directed at Water Managers, Researchers, professional and technicians dealing with monitoring, assessment and conservation of EU lagoon and estuarine sites.
Fourteen applications responded to the call, closed on 15th February 2020. The proposals concern estuarine and lagoon sites, both Italian and European, and come from Universities, Local Authorities and environmental associations. The selection, managed by the Project Coordinator (ISPRA), was tough due to the quality applications. ISPRA provided positive feedback to all applicants. Three Italian sites were selected: the Apulian Acquatina di Frigole, some lagoons of Delta Po River from the Veneto Region side, and Punta Alberete and Valle Mandriole from Romagna. The European sites are the lagoon of Albufera in Spain, Hyeres salt marshes in France and the transitional waters of Nestos Delta and Porto Lagos in Greece. A specific initiative on transplantation of aquatic phanerogams will be organized for other participants to the call, specifically interested in the topic (e.g.: Lake Grevelingen - Netherlands, Curonian Lagoon - Lithuania, Berre Lagoon - France, Wolin and Uznam - Poland).
Networking activities have been activated with the Life projects (e.g.: Life Primed) that participated to the Call for Interest.
Congratulations to the winners with whom we have for now postponed visits to 2021, waiting for the health emergency to allow us a little more freedom of movement!
The Life Lagoon Refresh project has achieved an important goal: the connection between the Sile River and the Venice Lagoon was completed and modular biodegradables elements were installed in the lagoon in front of the hydraulic work. From May 20th, 2020 the fresh water is flowing from the Sile into the Lagoon. For the occasion, a new project video was published showing some images of the construction phase and the opening of the fresh water input in the lagoon. In the video gallery, the first video is also available, online since 19th November 2018.
The Lagoon Refresh area is ready to next steps that involve the planting of reeds and aquatic phanerogams. The fresh water flow rate will be gradually increased up to a maximum average value of 1000 l/s and a second front of biodegradable structures, which slows down the fresh water flow, will be placed. Monitoring activities restarted in June 2020, will verify the efficiency of the works and the effects on animal and plant communities within the project area. The conservation actions of the Life Lagoon Refresh aim to counteract the saline gradient loss, mainly due to the diversion of rivers, and to increase the biodiversity of fishes, birds, animals of mobile bottom and plants.
On 13th May 2020, the Life Lagoon Refresh was presented, together with the Life SERESTO and Life VIMINE projects, during the Online Conference “Laguna Scenari #3 - The Life projects in the Northern Lagoon”. Interreg Italy-Croatia CREW and the Venezia2021 Project organized the event, attended by about fifty researchers and students of the IUAV University of Venice. The occasion was an important and interesting opportunity to show the approach that all the three Life projects have in common: the restoration and conservation of the lagoon environment by means of small interventions and the integrated process of involvement of stakeholders like hunters, fishermen and enthusiastic visitors of the lagoon. The take-home message of the day was “Small interventions in a Big Plan”. We would like to thank the researchers of the “Cluster di ricerca City_Lab Laboratorio Laguna di Venezia” and, especially, Professor Maria Chiara Tosi and Dr. Marta De Marchi.
The third Newsletter is now available on the web site, section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided into sections. This issue is dedicated to updates on the state of progress of construction sites, salinity monitoring activities, training courses, communication and networking activities carried out until February 2020, with updates after the second Newsletter (published in October 2019).
Each Newsletter contains a general description of the project in the initial part and a detailed section in the final part, describing, each time, different issues related to the project. This issue explores the theme of the historical deviation of rivers flowing into the Lagoon of Venice and the consequences on the lagoon ecosystem.
On 9th December 2019, the Life Lagoon Refresh project was presented to members of Wetlands International Europe as an example of ecological restoration of wetlands in brackish environments.
On that occasion, the Call for Interest, which will expire on 31 January 2020, and which contains expressions of interest for anyone working on the assessment, conservation and restoration of Natura 2000 sites in transition environments, was also presented.
Thanks again to all the members of the partner associations of Wetlands International Europe for their great interest and hospitality!
On October and November 2019, the avifauna experts from ISPRA held a basic course on the monitoring of water birds within the framework of the Life Lagoon Refresh project. The course was offered free of charge by the Project and guested by the Veneto Region in Ve-Mestre (Venice).
The course aimed to introduce the Life Lagoon Project and its objectives and to transfer the basic knowledge on the themes and methodologies of the census activity and on how to recognize the water species more easily contactable in the Northern Adriatic Sea. During three intense afternoons (18th, 25th October and 8th November), the 38 participants, hosted by the Veneto Region, received notions about: the institutional resources that govern the censuses of birdlife, both globally and locally; the importance of the role of human resources; techniques and methods of counting. In addition, the participants had the opportunity to learn especially about the aquatic birds, going to deepen the differences between the various, more common and easily contactable species. Each of them received a certificate of participation and the “Guide of the birds of Europe”, 4th version published by Ricca Ed..
We are very proud of our students, very passionate and curious people, of various extraction, age and training, eager to learn and increase their knowledge on the issues related to water birds. The course aroused much interest by highlighting the desire to learn and the passion of the participants who, since the first exchanges, have shown great fervour and attention throughout the course.
Considering the broad consensus of the participants and the suggestions received during and after the course, we do not exclude the possibility of replicating the initiative.
For all those who are interested in participating in this kind of activities, please visit our website and social pages to remain updated. Actually, other events on the subject of birdlife are coming, for example… a photo hunt!
The second Newsletter is now available on the web site, section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided in macro arguments (sections). This issue is dedicated to the implementation of the interventions, the results of monitoring for the ante operam phase, the training courses and the communication and networking activities from where we presented with the first Newsletter (published on March 2019) until today (October 2019).
Each newsletter reports the Project general description as introduction, and a thematic detail sheet at the end, with the aim of addressing several issues strictly connected to the Project. The Newsletter no.2 delves into the Reedbed Habitat, that is one of the target habitats of the Project, whilst the Newsletter no.1 was about the Habitat 1150* - Coastal lagoons.
In this second year, many things have happened, among them the most important for the project: Conservation Actions have begun!
From 26th to 29th of September 2019 the avifauna experts from ISPRA Ozzano presented the results of the ante operam monitoring phase of the project Life Lagoon Refresh to the XX CIO (Italian Ornithology Conference) held in Naples, at the National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts, the Royal Mineralogical Museum, the Society of Naturalists and the beautiful monumental complex of Donnaregina.
The conference, organized by CISO, Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici, and by Ardea onlus, saw the participation of 230 registered ornithologists, coming from all over Italy and foreigners, curious and professionals.The conference was characterized by 3 lectio magistralis of authoritative international researchers, numerous high-level talks, as many symposia and round tables on the world of ornithology at 360 degrees. LIFE Lagoon Refresh was present at all three intense days of activity, also presenting a scientific contribution (downloadable here) in which the mission of the project, the objectives and, as regards birds, the target species and the first analysis of the data collected during the initial year of the project (2018) were explained.
For the first year of ante operam monitoring, there are more than 6000 records registered in 12 exits, among which 5400 are aquatic birds. There are 79 contacted species, of which 40 species belonging to the aquatic group: 16 species in Annex I to the Birds Directive, contacted at least once during exits, 7 target species for the project for both water birds and reed sparrows.
LIFE Lagoon Refresh provides, among the dissemination activities, some update seminars for middle and high school teachers, through which knowledge and information will be transfer from teachers to their students.
On September 9th, 2019 in Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del '700 the EDU DAY was held, an event organized by the Venice Civic Museums Foundation to present the activities to teachers of elementary and middle schools in Veneto Region. With more than 500 registered teachers, the Life Lagoon Refresh and workshops, offered for free with availability limit by our Project, were presented.
For further information about the workshops and activities, download the extract of the program offered by MUVE.
For more info on the event visit
The first Newsletter is now available on the web site, section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided in macro arguments (sections) concerning planning of works and their realization, monitoring and dissemination activities, and networking from the beginning of the project until today.
Each newsletter will report the Project general description as introduction, and a thematic detail sheets at the end, with the aim of addressing several issues strictly connect to the Project.
The Newsletter no.1 delves into the Coastal Lagoon Habitat 1150*, that is one of the target habitat of the Project.
The first Newsletter is now available on the web site, section Download-newsletter (Italian Language only). The Newsletter is divided in macro arguments (sections) concerning planning of works and their realization, monitoring and dissemination activities, and networking from the beginning of the project until today. Each newsletter will report the Project general description as introduction, and a thematic detail sheets at the end, with the aim of addressing several issues strictly connect to the Project. The Newsletter no.1 delves into the Coastal Lagoon Habitat 1150*, that is one of the target habitat of the Project.
On 25-26 October 2018, the seminar “GESTIÓN Y MANEJO DE HUMEDALES COSTEROS EN EL MARCO DE PROYECTOS LIFE” organized by LIFE CONVIVE, was held in Soano (Arnuero, Cantabria, Spain). The organizers from SEO/Bird LIFE kindly invited our Project Leader (dr. Rossella Boscolo Brusà, ISPRA) to perform an oral presentation entitled “Coastal lagoon habitat and species recovery by restoring the salt gradient increasing fresh water input”, describing the LIFE LAGOON REFRESH aims, objectives and actions.
During the seminar, several LIFE projects regarding wetlands were depicted by delegates from LIFE PALUDICOLA, LIFE ANILLO VERDE, LIFE MIERALIFE EBRO-ADMICLIM,LIFE ALBUFERA and obviously LIFE CONVIVE, the masters of the house.
For the occasion, LIFE CONVIVE also presented the Management Plan for the coastal lagoons of Tinamenor, Joyel and Victoria.
Interesting insights emerged during the Round Table "Will coastal wetlands survive without management
measures?"
A field visit to Joyel Marshes and the Victoria Lagoon completed the seminar. Thank to that participants could observe the actions implemented by the LIFE CONVIVE project to improve the conservation of these Natura 2000 sites.
Gracias de nuevo por la invitación y la maravillosa oportunidad de Networking!
The Life Lagoon Refresh participated at the 2nd International Conference “COWM- CITIZEN OBSERVATORIES FOR NATURAL HAZARDS AND WATER MANAGEMENT - 2018”, organized by Distretto Alpi Orientali, in Venice, 27-30 November 2018.
On 27 November 2018 the oral presention “LIFE LAGOON REFRESH. Ecological restoration in Venice Lagoon (Italy): concrete actions supported by numerical modeling and stakeholder involvement” was performed during the Session “Communities involvement in Environmental Management”, in the stunning baroque setting of Palazzo Labia.
The LIFE project Lagoon Refresh was presented at the SER Europe Conference 2018, held in Reykjavik (Iceland) from 9 to 13 September 2018. The oral presentation, performed by ISPRA, was “LIFE LAGOON REFRESH – Ecological restoration in Venice Lagon (Italy): concrete actions supported by numerical modelling” and it was exhibited during session 6 - Restoration Strategies.
For further information and details of the Conference, please visit https://sere2018.org/.
The abstract of the presentation is available on the webpage https://www.researchgate.net/project/Life-LAGOON-REFRESH
We thank all people who showed interest on our project! If you have any question, please contact us by website contacts and keep following our updates on our social channels!
On Wednesday 19th September, the Life LAGOON REFRESH project was presented at Quarto d'Altino Municipality as expected by Environmental Impact Assessment procedure.
Thanks all people for coming!
On the occasion of the World Oceans Day 2018 the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council, in cooperation with the Natural History Museum of Venice and the Life projects Lagoon Refresh, SeResto and Vimine, organized in the Arsenal of Venice a day of divulgation entitled "WOD: Nature, Science and History together in the lagoon".
The aim of the day was to make aware and inform citizens through the proposed activities on the contributions that Scientific Research can provide to the management and sustainable development of the Venice Lagoon.
We thank all the people who took part in our information stands!
From 13 to 17 May 2018, the 28th meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) was held in Rome at the Rome Convention Center La Nuvola.
The meeting was attended by scientists and institutions involved in the study of environmental issues related to stress factors, chemicals and technologies substances on the environment through the use of multidisciplinary approaches.
During the meeting ISPRA partecipated with a poster related to the project entitled "LIFE LAGOON REFRESH - Coastal lagoon habitat (1150 *) and species recovery by the salt gradient increasing fresh water input. Management measures in the northern Venice Lagoon (NE, Italy)”. The poster was presented in the section: Salt of the earth - causes, consequences and management of surface freshwaters, groundwaters and soils.
Further information and details https://rome.setac.org
The poster is available on the page https://www.researchgate.net/project/Life-LAGOON-REFRESH and will be soon possibile to DOWNLOAD FROM this web site. We thank all the people interested at the project that came to the corner #WE275 of the Exhibition Hall!
The LIFE REDUNE project aims to restore and maintain the ecological integrity of 5 dune habitats and of the Stipa veneta* populations in four sites of Natura 2000 along the Adriatic coast, using an ecosystem approach that considers all the involved components (human activities, habitats, species and physical processes).
On 23 February 2018 was held the conference to present the project, that took place at the Danilo Mainardi Auditorium in Ve-Mestre. On that occasion LIFE LAGOON REFRESH was invited to share the objectives and actions foreseen by the project.
Further information on LIFE REDUNE
http://www.liferedune.it/
Sixth and last monitoring visit from European Commission
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