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malina {una typa qualunque} [/ma'lina/ /pa'rɛntezi/]
"[...] anche in alcune guide piuttosto eccellenti [...]" ma. come. cazzo. scrivi.
"piuttosto eccellenti". "piuttosto eccellenti". - ((°}
dopo l'editoriale di Scalfari con "do you can?" ci meritiamo il ciappuzzo del "piuttosto eccellenti" - ((°}
Fast money: the battle against the high frequency traders http://www.theguardian.com/busines...
ho fatto il latte di mandorle *.* :3 ( e anche la marmellata di fichi)
se non fosse stato per voi avrei continuato a comprare schifezze commerciali (è davvero facilissimo da fare!) - ((°}
viene buonissima! poi le mandorle danno quel gradevole crunch crunch, dato che di suo è una marmellata piuttosto liquida - ((°}
RT @HistoricalPics: Kermit, Jim Henson & John Cleese, 1977 https://twitter.com/Histori...
no, ma li mortacci del thunderstorm, ma falli due lampi e duecento decibel di tuoni (Lutero, comunque eri una mammoletta)
RT @HistoryInPics: Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour at a Led Zeppelin concert, in the 70's. https://twitter.com/History...
first pseudo-macro in aaaaaages (the green thingie is about 9mm long) https://twitter.com/_malina...
sono sbocciati puntuali col solstizio e profumano ancora oggi #estate https://twitter.com/_malina...
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Lego Style - http://miss-malina.tumblr.com/post...
Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK | Global development | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/global-...
"Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal. A six-month investigation has established that large numbers of men bought and sold like animals and held against their will on fishing boats off Thailand are integral to the production of prawns (commonly called shrimp in the US) sold in leading supermarkets around the world, including the top four global retailers: Walmart, Carrefour, Costco and Tesco. The investigation found that the world's largest prawn farmer, the Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, buys fishmeal, which it feeds to its farmed prawns, from some suppliers that own, operate or buy from fishing boats manned with slaves. Men who have managed to escape from boats supplying CP Foods and other companies like it told the Guardian of horrific conditions, including 20-hour shifts, regular beatings, torture and execution-style killings. Some were at sea for years; some were regularly offered methamphetamines to keep them going. Some had seen fellow slaves murdered in front of them. Fifteen migrant workers from Burma and Cambodia also told how they had been enslaved. They said they had paid brokers to help them find work in Thailand in factories or on building sites. But they had been sold instead to boat captains, sometimes for as little as £250. "I thought I was going to die," said Vuthy, a former monk from Cambodia who was sold from captain to captain. "They kept me chained up, they didn't care about me or give me any food … They sold us like animals, but we are not animals – we are human beings." Another trafficking victim said he had seen as many as 20 fellow slaves killed in front of him, one of whom was tied, limb by limb, to the bows of four boats and pulled apart at sea. "We'd get beaten even if we worked hard," said another. "All the Burmese, [even] on all the other boats, were trafficked. There were so many of us [slaves] it would be impossible to count them all." CP Foods – a company with an annual turnover of $33bn (£20bn) that brands itself as "the kitchen of the world" – sells its own-brand prawn feed to other farms, and supplies international supermarkets, as well as food manufacturers and food retailers, with frozen or cooked prawns and ready-made meals. It also sells raw prawn materials for food distributors. In addition to Walmart, Carrefour, Costco and Tesco, the Guardian has identified Aldi, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Iceland as customers of CP Foods. They all sell frozen or cooked prawns, or ready meals such as prawn stir fry, supplied by CP Foods and its subsidiaries. CP Foods admits that slave labour is part of its supply chain. "We're not here to defend what is going on," said Bob Miller, CP Foods' UK managing director. "We know there's issues with regard to the [raw] material that comes in [to port], but to what extent that is, we just don't have visibility." The supply chain works in this way: Slave ships plying international waters off Thailand scoop up huge quantities of "trash fish", infant or inedible fish. The Guardian traced this fish on landing to factories where it is ground down into fishmeal for onward sale to CP Foods. The company uses this fishmeal to feed its farmed prawns, which it then ships to international customers. The alarm over slavery in the Thai fishing industry has been sounded before by non-governmental organisations and in UN reports. But now, for the first time, the Guardian has established how the pieces of the long, complex supply chains connect slavery to leading producers and retailers. "If you buy prawns or shrimp from Thailand, you will be buying the produce of slave labour," said Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery International. The Guardian conducted dozens of interviews with fishermen, boat captains, boat managers, factory owners and Thai officials in and around various ports in Thailand.Thailand enjoys a prime position as the world's largest prawn exporter in a vast seafood-export industry estimated to be worth some $7.3bn. Through multinationals such as CP Foods, Thailand ships out roughly 500,000 tonnes of prawns every year – nearly 10% of which is farmed by CP Foods alone. Although slavery is illegal in every country in the world, including Thailand, some 21 million men, women and children are enslaved globally, according to the International Labour Organisation. These people may have been sold like property, forced to work under mental or physical threat, or find themselves controlled by their "employers". Thailand is considered a major source, transit and destination country for slavery, and nearly half a million people are believed to be currently enslaved within Thailand's borders. There is no official record of how many men are enslaved on fishing boats. But the Thai government estimates that up to 300,000 people work in its fishing industry, 90% of whom are migrants vulnerable to being duped, trafficked and sold to the sea. Rights groups have long pointed to Thailand's massive labour shortage in its fishing sector, which – along with an increased demand from the US and Europe for cheap prawns – has driven the need for cheap labour. "We'd like to solve the problem of Thailand because there's no doubt commercial interests have created much of this problem," admits CP Foods' Miller.The Guardian's findings come at a crucial moment. After being warned for four consecutive years that it was not doing enough to tackle slavery, Thailand risks being given the lowest ranking on the US state department's human trafficking index, which grades 188 nations according to how well they combat and prevent human trafficking. Relegation to tier 3 would put Thailand, which is grappling with the aftermath of a coup, on a par with North Korea and Iran, and could result in a downgrade of Thailand's trading status with the US. "Thailand is committed to combatting human trafficking," said the Thai ambassador to the US, Vijavat Isarabhakdi. "We know a lot more needs to be done but we also have made very significant progress to address the problem." Although the Thai government has told the Guardian that "combating human trafficking is a national priority", our undercover investigation unearthed a lawless and unregulated industry run by criminals and the Thai mafia – facilitated by Thai officials and sustained by the brokers who supply cheap migrant labour to boat owners. "The Thai authorities could get rid of the brokers and arrange [legal] employment," one high-ranking Thai official, who is tasked with investigating human trafficking cases, said on condition of anonymity. "But the government doesn't want to do that, it doesn't want to take action. As long as [boat] owners still depend on brokers – and not the government – to supply workers, then the problem will never go away." Human rights activists believe that Thailand's seafood-export industry would probably collapse without slavery. They say, there is little incentive for the Thai government to act and have called for consumers and international retailers to demand action. "Global brands and retailers can do so much good without bringing too much risk upon themselves by simply enforcing their supplier standards, which typically prohibit forced labour and child labour," said Lisa Rende Taylor of Anti-Slavery International. "And if local businesses realise that non-compliance results in loss of business, it has the potential to bring about huge positive change in the lives of migrant workers and trafficking victims."The Guardian asked the supermarkets to comment on our finding of slavery in their supply chains. All said they condemned slavery and human trafficking for labour. They all also pointed to systems of auditing they have in place to check labour conditions. Several retailers have joined a new initiative called Project Issara (Project Freedom) to discuss how they should respond and several attended a meeting in with the major producers in Bangkok at the end of last month at which slavery was discussed. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, said: "We are actively engaged in this issue and playing an important role in bringing together stakeholders to help eradicate human trafficking from Thailand's seafood export sector." Carrefour said it conducts social audits of all suppliers, including the CP factory that supplies it with some prawns. It tightened up the process after alerts in 2012. It admitted that it did not check right to the end of its complex chains. Costco told us it would require its suppliers of Thai prawn "to take corrective action to police their feedstock sources". A Tesco spokesperson said: "We regard slavery as completely unacceptable. We are working with CP Foods to ensure the supply chain is slavery-free, and are also working in partnership with the International Labour Organisation [ILO] and Ethical Trading Initiative to achieve broader change across the Thai fishing industry." Morrisons said it would take the matter up with CP urgently. "We are concerned by the findings of the investigation. Our ethical trading policy forbids the use of forced labour by suppliers and their suppliers." The Co-operative was among those saying it was already working to understand "working conditions beyond the processing level". "The serious issue of human trafficking on fishing boats is challenging to address and requires a partnership" in which it is actively engaged." The managing director of corporate buying at Aldi UK, Tony Baines, said: "Our supplier standards, which form part of Aldi's contractual terms and conditions, stipulate that our suppliers must comply with applicable national laws, industry minimum standards and ILO and United Nations conventions of human rights, whichever standard is more stringent. "These standards also require that suppliers do not engage in any form of forced labour and related practices. Aldi will not tolerate workplace practices and conditions which violate basic human rights." Iceland said it only sourced one line containing prawns from a CP subsidiary but it was pleased to note that CP was "at the forefront of efforts to raise standards in the Thai fishing industry". CP said in a statement that it believed the right thing was to use its commercial weight to try to influence the Thai government to act rather than walk away from the Thai fishing industry, although it is putting in place plans to use alternative proteins in its feed so that it can eliminate Thai fishmeal by 2021 if necessary. It said it had already tightened controls over the way its fishmeal is procured. While it recognises that workers on boats are exploited, it added that the Thai department of fisheries continues to deny that unregistered boats are a problem. "We can do nothing, and witness these social and environmental issues destroy the seas around Thailand, or we can help drive improvement plans. We are making good progress," it said. - ((°}
che poi Tesco è sempre in mezzo a ste troiate, guarda un po' - Craiv
e mica solo loro (e ora non mangerò mai più gamberi in vita mia) - ((°}
[non mangerò mai più gamberi in vita mia] Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets http://www.theguardian.com/global-... via @guardian
minchia. fa decisamente paura. - tostoini
è orribile, sì - ((°}
#LastLife, il test sul senso civico degli Italiani. Il mio profilo è di cittadino UNIVERSALISTA. Scopri il tuo: http://t.co/6C1rBFqVgD
gne gne gne :P - ((°}
RT @MiSsonPersa: Voto 10 al Comune di Ravenna che piazza due altalene per bimbi in carrozzina nei Giardini Pubblici. http://t.co/lASNXgeBWL
[*.* stupendo] Italy: a World Cup history – video animation http://t.co/hJ4UJOTtPZ via @guardian
[l'ugnone tarda a volte serve a qualcosa] ma la webcam che fa la diretta dal nido urbano dei gheppi (con baby gheppietti) di Pitz''e Serra? http://www.videolina.it/webtv...
più bella della fioriera di licio gelli c'è solo la fioriera col nido di gheppi - ((°}
(comunque <3) - lapitzi
RT @openculture: James Joyce’s Dublin Captured in Vintage Photos from 1897 to 1904: http://www.openculture.com/2013... https://twitter.com/opencul...
*.* - ((°}
spiegatemi un secondo come mai all'autolavaggio ci son sempre e quasi esclusivamente uomini
perché a noi di lavare l'auto non frega un cazzo - Karin
che poi questo fatto non si spiega: le donne son campionesse di strexio e tzeraccaggio acrobatico, ma nelle ditte di pulizie auto son solo uomini. - ((°}
cucù
sìììì ti piace la mia nuova pettinatura? - ((°}
(ne ho uno OBESO che s'è chiuso nella compostiera stile adinolfi dentro eataly) - ((°}
appearance of the Moon as seen on Earth, hour by hour, for 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch...
RT @LucianoBlini: zip war airganon is proudly sponsored by wind.
Dissesto idrogeologico - http://www.lastampa.it/mediala...
infografica (?) su la stampa. a voi piace? - ((°}
(poi magari lo riscrivo in italiano)
il tempismo di twitter e l'umorismo involontario (#wind e l'indimenticabile #FF di questo venerdì molto tredici) https://twitter.com/_malina...
ahaha lo vedo pure io uguale - Craiv
il danno, la beffa - ((°}
è la nuova tendenza: il #FollowFix - ironicmoka
madonna che brutta giornata che staranno passando - ((°}
A Long-Ago Ancestor: A Little Fish, With Jaws to Come - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
"Metaspriggina swam the oceans more than 500 million years ago. Now its fossils are helping scientists understand how our own biology developed. This two-inch, 505-million-year-old creature belonged to the lineage that would later produce sharks, eels and other fish — along with birds, reptiles and mammals like us. This early vertebrate, known as Metaspriggina, was something of a mystery for years, known only from a pair of ambiguous fossils. But recently, scientists unearthed a trove of much more complete Metaspriggina fossils. As they report today in the journal Nature, the new fossils offer a remarkably detailed understanding of the first vertebrates, helping scientists understand how major parts of our own anatomy — from eyes to jaws to our muscles — evolved. “It’s clearly a benchmark early vertebrate, which we haven’t had before,” said Thurston Lacalli of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, who was not involved in the research. Discovering the origins of vertebrates has occupied biologists for decades. A few living invertebrates, such as worm-like animals called lancelets, are closely related to vertebrates, but our ancestors split off from theirs more than 600 million years ago. To discover how vertebrates emerged, paleontologists have hunted for fossils. But the earliest vertebrates lacked hard bones, and their soft, cartilage-based bodies rarely fossilized well. In China, paleontologists have found several species of early vertebrates dating back about 515 million years, yet their rarity and poor condition has left many unanswered questions. In 2012, Jean-Bernard Caron, a paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and his colleagues discovered an astonishingly dense collection of fossils in the Canadian Rockies. In two weeks, they found 3,000 fossils from 55 species, all dating back 505 million years ago. This extraordinary cache included 40 fossils of Metaspriggina. To study them, Dr. Caron invited the top expert on the creature, Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge, to join him in Toronto. Dr. Conway Morris first laid eyes on the two known Metaspriggina fossils in the 1970s. In 2008, he published a study suggesting the animal was either an early vertebrate or a close relative. But the fossils were too incomplete for him to be more certain than that. Last April, he flew to Toronto, where he and Dr. Caron inspected the new fossils, which were still partly embedded in rock. Day after day, they carefully chipped away at the rocks to uncover more anatomical details. “The material is fiendishly difficult to prepare,” said Dr. Conway Morris. Their patience paid off. Dr. Caron and Dr. Conway Morris discovered that some of the fossils were in extraordinary shape. For the first time, the scientists could see well-preserved parts of Metaspriggina’s body, including its muscles, its liver, its gills and even its eyes. Now that Dr. Caron could see Metaspriggina in its entirety, he realized that he had seen the animal before. Over the years, he had examined unidentified fossils in various museum collections that were actually parts of Metaspriggina. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story “The brain suddenly connects the dots,” he said. Later, Dr. Caron inspected those mysterious fossils and confirmed that they were indeed left by Metaspriggina. All told, he and Dr. Conway Morris have now examined about 100 specimens. Together, the fossils add up to an extraordinarily detailed picture. The scientists could see, for example, that Metaspriggina had a series of W-shaped blocks of muscle running the length of its body, the kind fish today contract when swimming. “It’s what you’d see in your favorite salmon steak,” said Dr. Caron. At 505 million years old, Metaspriggina offers the oldest, clear evidence of these vertebrate muscles, which allowed fish to move quickly. While Metaspriggina didn’t have any hard bones in its skeleton, it did grow a rod of cartilage from head to tail, called a notochord, to keep its body stiff. Human embryos develop a notochord, too, but it later turns into the disks of cartilage between the vertebrae in our spine. Photo A view of Marble Canyon in the Canadian Rockies, where the multitude of Metaspriggina fossils were discovered. Credit Jean-Bernard Caron Dr. Caron and Dr. Conway Morris also discovered exquisitely well-preserved eyes on Metaspriggina. The eyes appear to have had lenses, meaning that Metaspriggina could see complex images. Its eyes sit atop its head, bulging upward, suggesting that Metaspriggina kept watch on other animals overhead. Vision was not the only sense that Metaspriggina had. Along with powerful eyes, the scientists found what appears to be a nose at the front of its head. A living shark uses its nose and eyes to detect prey, and then uses its muscle blocks to chase it. But Dr. Caron doubts that the first fish were predators. He notes that Metaspriggina’s mouth was a just tiny opening, without jaws or teeth. “We think it was filtering particles at the bottom of the sea,” he said. Early vertebrates may have evolved powerful vision and smell, along with fast swimming muscles, for another purpose. Instead of chasing prey, Metaspriggina was the prey. Paleontologists have found fossils of large predators from the same age, which were distantly related to today’s lobsters and insects. Once Metaspriggina sensed these predators nearby, it may have used its powerful muscle blocks to swim away. “It probably looked juicy and nice to eat with all that muscle,” said Dr. Caron. Jon M. Mallatt of Washington State University, who was not part of the study, agreed with Dr. Caron’s interpretation. “These were the super-escape artists,” he said. Metaspriggina fueled those escapes with gills, which extracted oxygen from the water. Dr. Caron and Dr. Conway Morris found that it grew six pairs of gills, each supported by bars of cartilage. Metaspriggina probably also used its gills to trap the particles it sucked into its mouth. But Dr. Caron and Dr. Conway Morris also found a surprise. In front of its gills, Metaspriggina grew an extra pair of cartilage bars that were bigger than the others but did not support any gills. Dr. Caron speculates that they may have been the precursors to our jaws. Millions of years later, the bars may have become even bigger and more flexible. Fish could then use them to grab prey, rather than just suck up bits of food. “Then they became rulers of the seas,” Dr. Caron suggested. Philip Donoghue, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, is cautious about drawing too many conclusions at this point. “The fossils are really nice,” he said, but noted that it was hard to make out the body wall on them. As a result, the precise anatomy of its head is still ambiguous, making it hard to determine if it fed on particles or on other types of food. “I can’t personally interpret its ecology.” Dr. Morris said that he still expected to learn much more about Metaspriggina from fossils. After all, it only took two weeks for Dr. Caron and his colleagues to find dozens of them, and they’re planning to dig more at the site this summer. “One’s fingers tingle at the prospect,” Dr. Conway Morris said." - ((°}
è una bestiola molto awww - ((°}
Internet machine – Timo Arnall - http://www.elasticspace.com/2014...
"Internet machine is a multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet. The film reveals the hidden materiality of our data by exploring some of the machines through which ‘the cloud’ is transmitted and transformed. Internet machine (showing now at Big Bang Data or watch the trailer) documents one of the largest, most secure and ‘fault-tolerant’ data-centres in the world, run by Telefonica in Alcalá, Spain. The film explores these hidden architectures with a wide, slowly moving camera. The subtle changes in perspective encourage contemplative reflection on the spaces where internet data and connectivity are being managed. In this film I wanted to look beyond the childish myth of ‘the cloud’, to investigate what the infrastructures of the internet actually look like. It felt important to be able to see and hear the energy that goes into powering these machines, and the associated systems for securing, cooling and maintaining them. What we find, after being led through layers of identification and security far higher than any airport, are deafeningly noisy rooms cocooning racks of servers and routers. In these spaces you are buffeted by hot and cold air that blusters through everything. Server rooms are kept cool through quiet, airy ‘plenary’ corridors that divide the overall space. There are fibre optic connections routed through multiple, redundant, paths across the building. In the labyrinthine corridors of the basement, these cables connect to the wider internet through holes in rough concrete walls. Power is supplied not only through the mains, but backed up with warm caverns of lead batteries, managed by gently buzzing cabinets of relays and switches. These are backed up in turn by rows of yellow generators, supplied by diesel storage tanks and contracts with fuel supply companies so that the data centre can run indefinitely until power returns. The outside of the building is a facade of enormous stainless steel water tanks, containing tens of thousands of litres of cool water, sitting there in case of fire. And up on the roof, to the sound of birdsong, is a football-pitch sized array of shiny aluminium ‘chillers’ that filter and cool the air going into the building. In experiencing these machines at work, we start to understand that the internet is not a weightless, immaterial, invisible cloud, and instead to appreciate it as a very distinct physical, architectural and material system. This was a particularly exciting project, a chance for an ambitious and experimental location shoot in a complex environment. Telefónica were particularly accommodating and allowed unprecedented access to shoot across the entire building, not just in the ‘spectacular’ server rooms. Thirty two locations were shot inside the data centre over the course of two days, followed by five weeks of post-production. I had to invent some new production methods to create a three-screen installation, based on some techniques I developed over ten years ago. The film was shot using both video and stills, using a panoramic head and a Canon 5D mkIII. The video was shot using the Magic Lantern RAW module on the 5D, while the RAW stills were processed in Lightroom and stitched together using Photoshop and Hugin. The footage was then converted into 3D scenes using camera calibration techniques, so that entirely new camera movements could be created with a virtual three-camera rig. The final multi-screen installation is played out in 4K projected across three screens." - ((°}
Il massimo che ho potuto vedere in vita mia è stato il datacenter di telecom italia a Bologna. Mai vista tanta concentrazione di hardware di alto livello. Spero di andare a vedere quello di Lepida, dove stiamo per spostare un po' di VM - Cristian Conti
lampus e tronus!
il sudovest è stato abbondantemente annaffiato - ((°}
Globalised slavery: how big supermarkets are selling prawns in supply chain fed by slave labour – video http://www.theguardian.com/global-... via @guardian
Riforme, scoppia al Senato il "Caso Mineo": 13 senatori si autosospendono dal gruppo Pd http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art... via @sole24ore
[#sardolicesimo dissidente] A Portoscuso la catena alimentare è ormai irrimediabilmente compromessa http://gruppodinterventogiurid... via @GRIG_ONLUS
A Portoscuso la catena alimentare è ormai irrimediabilmente compromessa? | Gruppo d'Intervento Giuridico onlus - http://gruppodinterventogiurid...
"E’ pervenuta la risposta (nota prot. n. PG/201416911 dell’11 giugno 2014) da parte della Direzione generale dell’Azienda USL n. 7 di Carbonia riguardo la richiesta di informazioni a carattere ambientale e di adozione degli opportuni interventi inoltrata (30 aprile 2014) dall’associazione ecologista Gruppo d’Intervento Giuridico onlus  concernente la predisposizione e lo svolgimento di un adeguato monitoraggio della qualità delle sostanze destinate al consumo alimentare prodotte nel territorio comunale portoscusese (regolamento CE n. 466/2001). Erano stati coinvolti anche il Ministero dell’ambiente, gli Assessorati regionali della difesa dell’ambiente e della sanità, il Comune di Portoscuso, l’A.R.P.A.S., la Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Cagliari e la Commissione europea. La situazione esposta dalla Direzione generale dell’Azienda USL n. 7 di Carbonia, frutto di analisi e monitoraggi che si protraggono da lunghi anni, appare decisamente orientata verso gli scenari peggiori: forse la stessa catena alimentare è ormai compromessa. Infatti, “gli esiti” dei monitoraggi condotti con la stretta collaborazione dell’I.S.P.R.A. e dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità hanno portato alla “richiesta al Sindaco del Comune di Portoscuso di adozione di provvedimenti contingibili e urgenti che al momento consistono in: * divieto di commercializzazione/conferimento del latte ovicaprino prodotto da sette allevamenti operanti sul territorio comunale con avvio a distruzione presso impianto autorizzato; *  divieto di movimentazione in vita e di avvio a macellazione dei capi allevati presso le attività produttive del territorio, nelle more della effettuazione di verifiche  mirate sulla eventuale presenza di diossina nelle carni; * permane il divieto di raccolta dei mitili e dei granchi nel bacino di Boi Cerbus; *  permane divieto di commercializzazione e raccomandazione di limitazione del consumo di prodotti ortofrutticoli e vitivinicoli prodotti nel territorio”. Portoscuso, polo industriale di Portovesme In poche parole,  a Portoscuso non si può vendere il latte ovicaprino né fare allevamento ovicaprino, non si possono raccogliere mitili e crostacei, non si possono vendere frutta, verdura e vino, chi li consuma lo fa a rischio e pericolo. Quanto accaduto negli ultimi anni è emblematico. Nel gennaio 2012 l’Azienda sanitaria locale n. 7 di Carbonia, dopo aver acquisito i dati di una recente relazione dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità e del Ministero dell’ambiente, così aveva ammonito: “…si ritiene necessario informare la popolazione di Portoscuso di fare in modo di differenziare la provenienza dei prodotti ortofrutticoli da consumare per la fascia di età dei bambini da 0 a 3 anni. Occorre perciò fare in modo che in questa fascia di età non siano consumati esclusivamente prodotti ortofrutticoli provenienti dai terreni ubicati nel Comune di Portoscuso”. In precedenza, nel dicembre 2009 era – ancora una volta – il turno dell’inquinamento da piombo nel vino (16 campioni su 60 superavano del doppio il limite massimo di 0.2 mg/kg di piombo) e nei molluschi bivalvi: i risultati delle analisi svolte sul mosto dall’A.R.P.A.S. erano giunte da un mese, ma nessun’autorità competente aveva preso provvedimenti, mentre il Sindaco di Portoscuso emetteva un’ordinanza contenente il divieto di raccolta e consumo dei molluschi bivalvi. In questi ultimi mesi è stato è il turno del latte di pecora, troppo ricco di piombo, e del latte di capra, troppo ricco di diossina. Insomma, non ci vuol molto a supporre una compromissione della stessa catena alimentare. In base al regolamento CE n. 466/2001 sono prescritti limiti di tollerabilità degli inquinanti nelle sostanze destinate all’uso alimentare e precisi monitoraggi degli alimenti: in varie occasioni le associazioni ecologiste Amici della Terra e Gruppo d’Intervento Giuridico ne hanno richiesto lo svolgimento alle amministrazioni pubbliche competenti, sempre con risposte tranquillizzanti. Ora non più. Facussa Eppure la situazione dovrebbe esser ben diversa. Ilpiano di disinquinamento per il risanamento del territorio del Sulcis – Iglesiente(D.P.C.M. 23 aprile 1993), sulla base della dichiarazione di zona ad alto rischio ambientale (D.P.C.M. 30 novembre 1990, legge regionale n. 7/2002), ed il successivo accordo di programma attuativo (D.P.G.R. 3 maggio 1994, n. 144) hanno in gran partebeneficiato economicamentele medesime industrie responsabili dello stato di inquinamento dell’area. L’obiettivo era quello del disinquinamento e del risanamento ambientale. Obiettivo, a quanto pare, miseramente fallito, tant’è che sono risultate in seguito molto negative le caratteristiche qualitative del fondo naturale delle acque e dei suoli, come accertato (2009) dall’A.R.P.A.S. Di fatto è sempre peggiore la situazione ambientale e sanitaria di Portoscuso. In un ambiente ormai fortemente degradato e contaminato, tanto da vantare record poco lusinghieri, anche nel campo del deficit cognitivo infantilee della piomboemia: già nel 2008 l’Università di Cagliari (Dipartimento di sanità pubblica, Sezione Medicina del lavoro) nel corso di una ricerca (Plinio Carta, Costantino Flore) affermò chiaramente la sussistenza di deficit cognitivi in un campione di bambini di Portoscuso, dovuto a valori di piombo nel sangue superiori a 10 milligrammi per decilitro. La letteratura medica, infatti, indicaun’associazione inversa statisticamente significativa tra concentrazione di piombo ematico e riduzione di quoziente intellettivo, corrispondente a 1.29 punti di QI totale per ogni aumento di 1 µg/dl di piomboemia. A Portoscuso si va dai fumi di acciaieria, che vedono il centro suscitano diventarne la pattumiera d’Europa, al bacino dei fanghi rossi e al relativo inquinamento, dagli sversamenti in mare di inquinanti alle discariche illecite di rifiuti tossico-nocivi, alle nubi di fluoro, ai traffici illeciti di rifiuti industriali. Carloforte, centro storico visto dal mare E le preoccupazioni per la qualità dell’ambiente e della salute pubblica, giustamente, si estendono ai Comuni vicini, come Carloforte. Non è un caso che in Sardegna – nella mitica isola del sole, del mare e delle vacanze – vi sia la maggiore estensione nazionale di siti contaminati: complessivamente 447.144 ettari rientrano nei due siti di interesse nazionale (S.I.N.) per le bonifiche ambientali del Sulcis-Iglesiente-Guspinese (D.M. n. 468/2001) e di Sassari-Porto Torres (L.n. 179/2002). Recentemente (31 gennaio 2013) è stato riclassificato quale sito di interesse regionale (S.I.R.) l’Arcipelago della Maddalena (O.P.C.M. 19 novembre 2008). Evitiamo noi sardi una volta tanto vittimismo e ignavia, è necessario realizzare bonifiche ambientali, riconversioni economico-sociali e anche almeno un po’ di giustizia. Vogliamo voltare pagina una buona volta?  Forse siamo ancora in tempo." - ((°}
e vorrei ripetere: "Non è un caso che in Sardegna – nella mitica isola del sole, del mare e delle vacanze – vi sia la maggiore estensione nazionale di siti contaminati: complessivamente 447.144 ettari rientrano nei due siti di interesse nazionale (S.I.N.) per le bonifiche ambientali del Sulcis-Iglesiente-Guspinese (D.M. n. 468/2001) e di Sassari-Porto Torres (L.n. 179/2002). Recentemente (31 gennaio 2013) è stato riclassificato quale sito di interesse regionale (S.I.R.) l’Arcipelago della Maddalena (O.P.C.M. 19 novembre 2008). Evitiamo noi sardi una volta tanto vittimismo e ignavia, è necessario realizzare bonifiche ambientali, riconversioni economico-sociali e anche almeno un po’ di giustizia." - ((°}
[noi elmar burchia e mondo & del principe, loro i troll] il Guardian twitta "peek inside the luggage of a relief worker in Afghanistan": il genere di relief cercato dal worker sembra evidentemente ispirato a onan
https://twitter.com/Guardia... (il commento "lonely job?" è fantastico) - ((°}
lol - reloj
(apprezzabile il fatto che non abbiano cancellato) - ((°}
"Mabzy Hussain ‏@MabzyH 2h .@GuardianGDP Firstly it's "peek" and secondly one of the item is a masturbation toy! Unless that's what you mean by "relief worker" " - ((°}
Kurdish forces on high alert after collapse of Iraqi army in Mosul http://www.theguardian.com/world... via @guardian