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      22 Feb 2010

      Cold ironing: how to electrify (cruise) ships in port

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      link: Italians to Electrify Cruise Ships in Port - nytimes.com txt: Cold Ironing - From Wikipedia
      Cold Ironing (or AMP - Alternative Maritime Power) is the process of providing shore-side electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off. Cold ironing permits emergency equipment, refrigeration, cooling, heating, lighting, and other equipment to receive continuous electrical power while the ship loads or unloads its cargo. [...] As ships traditionally were not subject to emissions control, since the days of diesel powered ships, research was largely focused on using cheaper forms of fuel to run their engines. As a result, internationally, ships have been using Heavy Furnace Oil – residual petroleum – as the optimal choice of fuel. This fuel, the reverse of gas oils (which are derived through distillation of crude oil), is high on particulate matter and studies show that one ship can pollute as much as 50 million cars annually. The fuel used by ships is called bunker fuel. Further research indicates 60,000 of cardio-pulmonary mortalities due to Particulate Matter from ship emissions. These deaths have been detected far inland due to prevailing wind conditions from seaward. Total world trading fleet stands at 50,000+ merchant ships (Lloyds data as of Jan-2008). Each ship spends approximately 100 days in port in a year. For every kilowatt-hour (kW h) electricity, about 200 grams of bunker fuel is consumed. Each 1 kilo of bunker oil =3.125 kilos of Carbon dioxide. It is assessed that globally ships use 411,223,484 tonnes of fuel annually.
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      20 Feb 2010

      Through the eye of the other

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      Venice waiting for a high tide, taken with a camera from the perspective of a dog. Yes, this is essential to understand, to change: learning to see things through the eyes of others. Even those of other living species. We are too often disrespectful tenants of this planet. [it] Una Venezia che aspetta l'acqua alta, ripresa con una telecamera dal punto di vista di un cane. Sì, questo è essenziale per capire, per cambiare: imparare a guardare le cose attraverso gli occhi degli altri. Anche quelli di altre specie viventi. Siamo spesso affittuari irrispettosi di questo pianeta. JANA STERBAK "Through the eye of the other" project by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and Teatro La Fenice Teatro La Fenice, Venice video "Waiting For High Water" Preview 27 February 2010, then from 12 March - 24 March 2010 link: www.janasterbak.com video: Urban Abstract by Musuta on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/7681282]
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      19 Feb 2010

      The sweet and heavy joy of sound and life

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      Sono anni che seguo la musica dei Sigur Ros, ma è il loro modo di essere che mi incanta: islandesi, concludono i loro tour con concerti gratuiti nella loro terra, i loro video mostrano anziani e disabili sereni. La loro musica è il dolce e pesante suono della gioia e della vita. [en] I've enjoyed the music of Sigur Ros for years, but it's their way of being that fascinates me: Icelanders, they conclude their tour with free concerts in their homeland, their videos show elderly and disabled people. Their music is the sweet and heavy sound of joy and life. links: sigur-ros.co.uk - Sigur Rós on vimeo txt: FAQ from sigur-ros.co.uk
      there is a long silence in my copy of ( ), is this normal? yes, that's what it's supposed to be like. the abrupt end of track 4 is followed by 36 seconds of silence, which signifies the division of the album's two halves: the "sweet" half and the "heavy" half.
      video: Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla [vimeo http://vimeo.com/3986821]
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      15 Feb 2010

      Venice, cicheti, bacaro, spritz, ombra. Happy valentine's day!

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      txt: Cicchetti and Spritz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Cicchetti (pronounced chi-KET-tee) are small snacks or side dishes, typically served in cicchetti bars [bacaro] in Venice, Italy. Common cicchetti include small servings of fish, tiny sandwiches, plates of olives, and very small servings of typical full-course plates. Like Spanish tapas, one can also make a meal of cicchetti by ordering many different plates. Venice's many cicchetti bars are quite active during the day, as Venetians (and tourists) typically eat cicchetti in the late morning, for lunch, or as afternoon snacks. Cicchetti is usually accompanied by a small glass of white wine, which the locals refer to as an "ombra" (shadow).
      The Spritz is a wine-based cocktail commonly served as an aperitif in northern Italy, especially in the Veneto region and surrounding areas. The drink is prepared with white wine or Prosecco wine, a dash of some bitter liqueur such as Aperol, Campari, Select or Cynar. The glass is then topped off with sparkling mineral water. It is usually served over ice in a lowball glass (or sometimes a martini glass or wine glass) and garnished a slice of orange, or sometimes an olive, depending on the liqueur. The drink originated in Venice while it was part of the Austrian Empire, and is based on the Austrian Spritzer, a combination of equal parts white wine and soda water.
      img: A coffee please - oddtag on flickr
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      14 Feb 2010

      Venice Carnival: sensation cicheti!

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      SENSATION CICHETI - Venice Carnival 2010 Santa Croce - Sunday 14 February 2010 - hour 09:00 SENSATION CICHETI: with tipical Venetian food. From 6 to 16 february, Campo San Rocco, h 11.00am - 9.00pm - From 12 to 14 february h 9.00am – 1.00am img: Spritz - Katia.G on flickr
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      14 Feb 2010

      It's time to rethink the purpose of art, and not only

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      txt: Art's lost subject - Antony Gormley on www.guardian.co.uk
      The carbon crisis calls for a re-­examination of our faith in the technological basis of western progress. A change in belief is a cultural change; art and artists are implicated. As Paul ­Ehrlich and others have pointed out, human evolution has been driven by cultural rather than biological change; our brain size, synaptic activity, physical characteristics have not changed much in the last million or so years. What has changed is the material culture that we have made and which has in turn made us, from stone tool-making, farming, printing, the industrial revolution, the information revolution and now, maybe, the most critical and difficult revolution of all: a complete reversal of many of the values that we have held dear. We can no longer assume that more is better. Technology that was in some senses made to make life better has now become the problem. But art is not technology; it is useless but vital. It is through art that we communicate what it feels like to be alive. When you ask "what is the point of art?" you could reformulate the question to "what is the point of ­human beings?"
      link: www.juliesbicycle.com Julie’s Bicycle is a not-for-profit company helping the music industry cut its greenhouse gas emissions and create a low carbon creative future.
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      13 Feb 2010

      The known universe

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      link: www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/ txt: The Known Universe by AMNH - AMNHorg on youtube
      The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
      video: The Known Universe by AMNH - AMNHorg on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U]
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      7 Feb 2010

      Question: how has the internet transformed our lives for the worse?

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      txt: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto - A Q&A with Author Jaron Lanier - amazon.com
      Question: You argue the web isn’t living up to its initial promise. How has the internet transformed our lives for the worse? Jaron Lanier: The problem is not inherent in the Internet or the Web. Deterioration only began around the turn of the century with the rise of so-called "Web 2.0" designs. These designs valued the information content of the web over individuals. It became fashionable to aggregate the expressions of people into dehumanized data. There are so many things wrong with this that it takes a whole book to summarize them. Here’s just one problem: It screws the middle class. Only the aggregator (like Google, for instance) gets rich, while the actual producers of content get poor. This is why newspapers are dying. It might sound like it is only a problem for creative people, like musicians or writers, but eventually it will be a problem for everyone. When robots can repair roads someday, will people have jobs programming those robots, or will the human programmers be so aggregated that they essentially work for free, like today’s recording musicians? Web 2.0 is a formula to kill the middle class and undo centuries of social progress.
      link: www.jaronlanier.com
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      6 Feb 2010

      The roots of the future

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      Vò di Brendola: un borgo nel mezzo delle zone industriali, che trattiene la grazia e la fatica della campagna veneta e le sue ville. Una sala gestita da persone per le persone, duecento posti. Una rassegna di musica internazionale e di teatro. Una gioia inaspettata di questo Veneto così piccolo e così globale. Come Marco Polo. Da sentire e vedere. [en] Vò di Brendola: a village in the middle of industrial areas, which retains the grace and the fatigue of the Venetian countryside and its villas. A hall run by people for people, two hundred seats. A review of international music and theater. An unexpected joy of this Veneto so small and so global. Like Marco Polo.

      To hear and see. Vo’ on the Folks - 15a edizione 2010 - “Musica-rito-danza fra le radici ed il futuro” AMINE ET HAMZA (Tunisia) video: Amine & Hamza M'raihi on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXX7U4dmwnQ] link: www.amine-hamza.com

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      2 Feb 2010

      An adventure of the eye and mind

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      Nelle osservazioni di Jonathan Jones sul telescopio Hubble come avventura dell'occhio e del pensiero ritrovo un filo con quello che pensavo girando per Venezia questa estate. L'arte contemporanea mi interessa se è un modo di vedere per conoscere. Internet mi interessa se - oltre ad essere aiuto nella vita quotidiana - allarga il pensiero. L'arte contemporanea, internet per sè non mi entusiasmano più. Mi sa che sto invecchiando. Va assolutamente bene così. txt: Art: the final frontier - guardian.co.uk
      The Hubble space telescope has brought about a visual revolution, more significant than any recent work of art in transforming the way we see ourselves and the cosmos. And shouldn't we be starting to admit that it was more important than Apollo? The moon missions were based on Newtonian science and confirmed a Newtonian model of the universe (planets in orbit, trajectories, everything very mechanical). The Hubble has revealed to the eye a cosmos that is far more poetic, mysterious, and fluid.
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      Source: Hubblesite.org
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