The key to paradise, a white Buick,
the Blue Marlin, and a pink submarine.
The stars of my summer of 1958.
Hot pink is the color of tropical Key West.
From the garish bougainvillea spilling over every fence
and wall, to the petunias and hibiscus in its lush gardens,
to the houses and buildings themselves,
gaily painted in every shade of pink.
Conch shells, flamingos, and pink fish motifs abound.
Even the taxi cabs are hot pink.
Half Caribbean island, half New Orleans,
Key West is not like any place else on earth.
Welcome to the Conch Republic, says its airport sign,
and you'll see their flags flying all over town,
from the backs of bicycles, to flag poles,
proclaiming personal freedom, happiness,
individuality, fun, love, and romance.
But there was certainly none of that going on
in the big, white tail finned Buick that my father
drove grimly into Key West on my first, and most memorable
visit to the island in 1958.
In fact, my parents were not speaking to each other,
and they had not been talking much to me, either,
for the endless trip down the eastern seaboard,
except for Mama saying things like, "Lee, will you please
"tell your daddy to stop for more cigarettes?"
Which I would dutifully repeat, even though he was
sitting right there.
Or me screaming, "Can't we stop at Weeki Wachee Springs?
"Please, please, please!" as the billboard flashed past,
for I planned to be a mermaid when I grew up.
Nothing doing.
We pressed on south in the smoke-filled car.
This was a far cry from the way they had acted
all of my life.
In fact, as a child, I was horribly embarrassed
by the technicolor movie style
of my parents' passionate marriage.
My mother, Virginia Marshall Smith, nicknamed Jeej,
was a beauty whose flapper looks had exactly fit
the ideal of her youth.
My father was sometimes mistaken for F. Scott Fitzgerald,
the jazz age icon whom he resembled, but whose life
was the exact opposite, just as Key West
was the exact opposite of Grundy, Virginia,
the coal mining town where we lived.
We traveled to Key West because Daddy had been
stationed there in the Navy, and now he was recovering
from a nervous breakdown, as they called it then.
He was much better, but his months in the hospital
had somehow caused trouble in the marriage, as I was told.
So his doctor prescribed this geographical cure.
So far, the cure wasn't working.
Each night, in a series of little tourist cottages
was gloomy, with Mama and me in one bed,
while Daddy took the other.
Several times I'd awaken to see his bent shadow
outside the window pacing back and forth.
What if he had another nervous breakdown?
What if the marriage couldn't be cured?
But I loved that final part of the long drive
with the shimmering sea and sky surrounding us,
and the Florida Keys with their wonderful names:
Key Largo, Cudjoe, Sugar Loaf, Saddlebunch,
Raccoon, Stock Island.
"We're almost there," Daddy said.
Mama reapplied her lipstick.
And finally, we arrived in Key West,
the scruffiest, wildest town I had every seen.
A bright buzz of noise and color.
We turned left off Truman Avenue onto Duval Street,
and I caught a glimpse of a glistening patch
of ocean just ahead.
Daddy pulled into a placed name the Blue Marlin Motel
with a huge fish on its sign.
Mama and I waited in the car as he headed for the office.
The motel was made of blue concrete, two stories,
in a U shape, around a good-sized pool with a diving board
and a slide perfect for a mermaid.
"Wow, this is nice, isn't it?" I said to Mama,
who didn't answer.
Still, I was hopeful.
The Blue Marlin Motel was nice,
but was it nice enough to cure a marriage?
Mama smoked a cigarette while I watched a green lizard
zip up a wall.
Finally, Daddy got back in the car with a funny look
on his face.
"Girls, you are not gonna believe this," he said slowly.
"What? What is it?
"Is it bad news from home?" Mama asked.
Her pretty face was an instant mask of alarm.
"Oh no, nothing like that," Daddy said,
really smiling for the first time on the trip.
"It appears that this entire motel has been taken over
"by the cast and crew of a movie that is shooting
"on location right now in Key West over at the Navy Yard.
"There are only four rooms here that they're not occupying,
"and now we're got two of them.
"They asked me a lot of questions.
"I had to swear we aren't journalists or photographers
"in order to stay.
"And Lee," he added in a no-nonsense voice,
"I promised that you would not bother the stars.
"Do you hear me, or the crew, or anybody else?"
"Which stars?" Mama asked, hardly breathing.
She was already in heaven.
"Well, there's Dina Merrill," Daddy said,
"and Tony Curtis."
"Tony Curtis!" Mama and I squealed together.
We pored over the National Enquirer every week,
also Photoplay, and countless other movie magazines
which we read from cover to cover.
"And that's not all," Daddy said.
"Who?" we shrieked.
"Carey Grant."
Daddy was trying to sound offhand.
Carey Grant?
We couldn't believe it.
The most gorgeous, the most elegant,
the biggest star in Hollywood.
"The man at the desk says he's a real gentleman,"
Daddy said.
I was not so sure of that, thinking of his recent
love affair with Sophia Loren.
Mama and I new everything.
We were on the second floor of the Blue Marlin
where I had the smaller, adjoining room to myself.
I put on my bathing suit first thing while Daddy
fixed gin and tonics for himself and Mama,
and they went outside on the balcony together.
I ran down the stairs two at a time
and took a running dive into the pool.
The movie, which was named Operation Petticoat,
featured a real pink submarine that was anchored
in the ocean off Key West.
Its flimsy plot involved a Navy lieutenant commander,
Carey Grant, and his con man executive officer,
Tony Curtis who had to take a damaged submarine
into a seedy dockyard for repair during World War II
picking up a crew of stranded Army nurses on the way.
The only available paints were red and white,
hence its pink color, and the only available bunks
for the nurses were down in the submarine's tight quarters.
The geographical cure worked.
Mama and Daddy would go home to Virginia refreshed
and stay married for the rest of their lives.
He would run his dime store for 30 more years.
Surrounded by the stars in Key West,
Mama pepped right up, and was soon wearing high-heeled
sandals and a pink hibiscus flower in her hair.
Daddy went deep sea fishing with a guy named Captain Tony
and played poker with the film crew.
Every evening around 7:00, Mama and I seated ourselves
on a rattan loveseat in the lobby of the Blue Marlin
pretending to read newspapers while we eavesdropped
on Tony Curtis' daily call from the public telephone
to Janet Lee back in Hollywood.
It always ended with Curtis' words,
"God bless you, my darling."
Mom and I rattled our newspapers emotionally.
One day at the pool, Curtis offered me a package
of cheese crackers.
I saved it for decades.
Toward the end of our second week there,
one of the directors asked if we'd like to be
in the movie.
"You bet!" I cried out.
"Oh brother," Daddy said.
But there we were, and there we are in the film
to this day in the giant crowd on the Key West dock
cheering and waving hello when the pink submarine
comes into port at the end of the movie.
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7 of Australia's Most Terrifying Inhabitants - Duration: 11:18.
Between the funnel web spiders that can hide in your boots and the snakes that can slither
into your house, Australia can be a pretty scary place.
Well, you don't even know the half of it.
Because odds are, you're not going to stumble across an inland taipan or a saltie on your
bike ride to work, while you're relaxing at the beach, or when you're out hiking
with your friends.
And that's exactly where you'll find the terrors on this list.
Turns out there are plenty of horrifying plants and animals living in Australia, even when
the usual suspects are excluded.
So we've rounded up seven that you might want to keep in mind if you're going to
spend a lot of time down under.
♪
If you hang out in the suburbs along the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, or southern
Western Australia during spring, you might meet an Australian magpie.
You could be just walking or biking along, minding your own business, when one of these
40 centimeter long black and white birds swoops in out of nowhere.
It might even grab onto your shirt with its sharp claws and start stabbing rapidly at
your eyes like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds.
But this isn't a movie—this is a real thing that happens, in real life to real people,
and it happens a lot.
In 2017, there were more than 3200 attacks and 520 injuries from magpies in Australia.
These birds are highly territorial, and their aggressive swoops are their way of defending
their chicks.
But less than 15% of magpies attack people, usually ones with nests close to cycling paths.
And that's because human attacks are actually a learned behavior—the product of a sharp
mind that likely arose because the birds are really social.
Scientists have found that magpies who live in big groups do better on problem solving
tests and have more of their eggs hatch, showing that brain power is linked to their reproductive
success.
And that might be because that brainpower allows them to learn things like how to hurt
a human!
Magpies can even remember faces and attack the same people over and over again each season—and
these are birds that can live for 20 plus years.
So just expect... decades... of this!
Human attacks do seem to be on the rise, too, which is probably because they work!
People avoid the areas where attacks happen, which reinforces the idea that this behavior
lets them raise their chicks in peace.
If you want to try your luck around Australia's magpies anyway, locals recommend turning a
helmet into a porcupine with a bunch of zip ties.
Ticks are found all over the world, and they're not exactly anyone's favorite animal since
the whole thing that they do is attach to your body and suck your blood.
But along Australia's eastern shores, one species of tick—the paralysis tick—can
do something much creepier: it can make you allergic to meat.
Like pretty much all ticks, these spider-like creatures leap off blades of grass onto mammals
like ourselves in search of a tasty blood meal.
They'll plunge their sharp mouth parts or chelicerae into flesh and inject a concoction
that ensures they can slurp up blood without interruption.
And that's where it all goes wrong.
Along with the toxins that prevent blood from clotting, the tick injects a cocktail of other
chemicals and anything else hanging out in its saliva.
That can include the pathogens behind things like Q fever and an Australian version of
typhus.
And it also includes neurotoxins, which normally just numb the area, but in extreme cases,
can slowly paralyze you completely if the tick isn't removed.
Hence the name "paralysis tick".
But strangest of all is that this tick's saliva contains galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose
-- a carbohydrate also found in many red meats.
Get too many tick bites, and you can become sensitive to this carbohydrate.
And that means you can develop what's known as tick-induced mammalian meat allergy, even
though it extends to all mammal products, including milk.
So your time down under could make it so you can never enjoy Aussie cheese fries or a juicy
steak from Outback ever again.
The giant centipede is so fearsome it's even known to take on some of Australia's
scariest snakes.
These 16 cm long centipedes are found pretty much everywhere Australia but also in parts
of the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
Like other centipedes, they've turned their two front legs into menacing hunting tools
called forcipules that not only pack a powerful bite but also inject venom into their victims.
That venom contains dozens of toxins, and is so powerful that it can easily bring down
small lizard or snake.
It's not clear what all the different components do, but researchers have found that the venom
contains cystatin, a protein which fights against our immune defenses.
And it contains glycoside hydrolase, an enzyme which helps it spread throughout the body.
Bites from these centipedes aren't usually lethal to beasts our size, but they do hurt.
A lot.
Sometimes for days.
And that's likely due to special pore-forming toxins which mess with neurons and can even
kill cells.
The biggest danger, though, is that some venom components are similar to ones in bees and
wasps, so people with allergies to those animals can go into anaphylaxis if bitten.
Thankfully they're nocturnal and pretty easy to spot, so bites aren't too common.
But you do want to know they're there so you can watch out for them!
The strychnine tree found in Australia's southeastern temperate forests might look
pretty harmless with its beautiful, fragrant, white flowers and small, orange-like fruit.
But those alluring flowers and appetizing fruit house the dangerous, nitrogen-rich compound
that gives the tree its name.
Strychnine is an alkaloid like caffeine and nicotine, and it had been used in traditional
medicines for centuries.
But it's also the key ingredient in some kinds of rat poison and many Agatha Christie's
murder mysteries.
Strychnine acts on the central nervous system by binding to glycine and acetylcholine receptors,
particularly those on motor nerves in the spinal cord.
Glycine and acetylcholine calm neurons down, making them harder to trigger.
Since strychnine lessens that calming ability, the neurons fire more easily.
Symptoms start with muscle soreness and stiffness, but can escalate quickly to convulsions and
seizures.
If the toxin affects your heart or lungs, then your odds of survival go down fast.
And you only need to ingest 60 to 100 milligrams of the stuff to meet your unpleasant end—roughly
the amount in the seeds from a single fruit.
So yeah, you can't trust Australian trees any more than you can trust Australian animals,
apparently.
Speaking of pretty things that are way more dangerous than you'd think.
If you're snorkelling on one Australia's many beautiful reefs, don't touch any pretty
conical snail shells you see.
If you get too close, these predatory snails can spear you with their venomous harpoons!
The Queen Victoria Cone is endemic to Australia, meaning its the only place in the world you'll
find these gastly gastropods.
Although it is similar to the equally-scary and more widespread Geography Cone, which
is also found in Australia's northern waters.
Both subdue their prey by stabbing them with venom-delivering, tooth-like things called
radulas.
Cone snail venoms contain dozens of different conotoxins—short chains of amino acids that
can mess with neuronal signaling in different ways, ultimately paralyzing their victims.
Those potent venoms allow these snails—which, as you would expect, aren't exactly known
for their speed—to feed on animals that might otherwise outpace them.
Some species even take down fish!
If you're unfortunate enough to tread on one of them, you might just feel a bee-like
sting at first.
Then, the stung area may go numb and turn blue due to the lack of blood flow.
The limb could become temporarily paralyzed, and you could even experience blurry vision,
feel faint or have trouble breathing as the venom spreads.
And big geography cones have killed people, though deaths are super rare.
So... maybe think twice before picking up that souvenir from the ocean floor.
If you already know not to eat suspicious looking fruit or pick up unknown objects from
the sea, great.
But to be wracked with agony for months, all you have to do is brush up against the wrong
plant on a hike in the tropical forests of northern Australia, particularly the beautiful
Tablelands near Cairns.
The Gympie Gympie tree is infamous for causing some of the most excruciating pains imaginable.
One researcher described it as burning like acid while being electrocuted at the same
time.
And it packs such a painful punch because its stem, purple raspberry-like fruits, and
heart-shaped leaves are all covered with tiny, silica-tipped hairs — the same stuff that
makes up quartz.
These easily pierce your skin then break open, releasing toxins stored inside.
The main pain-inducing compound is a linked bundle of eight amino acids called moroidin—though
how it causes such agony is not known.
The hairs are so delicate and fine that your skin can quickly heal over them, trapping
them inside you.
There, the hairs take years to break down, and every time you move, they can release
more of the very stable, very painful chemical.
People have reported continuing pains for up to a year after being stung.
What's more, the Gympie Gympie regularly sheds its hairs, making them airborne where
they can drift into your nose and cause nosebleeds.
And while, compared to other toxins on this list, moroidin isn't that deadly, people
have died from Gympie Gympie stings—either from shock, or just because the pain became
too much to bear.
Curiously, some native Aussie animals have learned to tolerate the toxin and can eat
the leaves and fruit without having those silica tipped spines explode in their mouth
and cause excruciating pain!
No such luck for us though!
Last on our list is probably the most terrifying creature Australia has to offer—and I'm
counting the snakes and such when I say that.
It's tiny — only about 5 millimeters wide — and practically invisible.
But its stings are so painful, that it feels like your insides are crumbling.
The common kingslayer is one of the smallest jellies known to harm people.
So far, its range is restricted to northern Queensland, but scientists are concerned that
climate change will allow them to move south to Australia's more popular beaches.
It's tiny size and colorless body are what make it so dangerous, because it's hard
to see even in daylight, which makes its meter long tentacles that much more difficult to
avoid.
Unlike most jellyfish that only have stingers or nematocysts on their tentacles, these jellies
have them all over their bodies.
And when they touch you, they can fire a thin tubule into your skin that injects the animals'
potent venom.
Like other jellies, their stings can burn.
But they can also cause Irukandji syndrome, where your body releases dangerous levels
of catecholamines.
These compounds, like epinephrine, ramp up your sympathetic nervous system, causing rapid
heart rate, nausea, and an overall impending sense of doom.
And that sense isn't necessarily wrong—the jelly was named after Robert King, an American
tourist who died from its sting.
Luckily, stings are rarely fatal, as doctors are usually able to manage the syndrome's
more dangerous symptoms.
In fact, before you cross Australia off your list of desirable holiday destinations, you
can take solace in the fact that none of these horrifying things actually cause that many
deaths.
Neither do Australia's snakes or spiders, for that matter.
You're much more likely to die from falling off a horse or being kicked by a cow than
you are being pecked, bitten, or stung by one of the terrors on this list.
Will it hurt?
Will it be excruciatingly painful?
Absolutely.
But you'll probably survive!
And now that you know what to look out for, you'll be even better at avoiding them!
Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow.
If you liked this list of horrifying living things, you might like our episode on 8 creepy
animals that are actually harmless.
♪
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Black Mother and Daughter Harassed About 'Diseases' by Poolside Racist - Duration: 1:50.
For Complex News, I'm Hanuman Welch
A white man harassed a black family at the pool of a Westin hotel in Pasadena, California,
going on a rant about "diseases" and asking whether a 5-year-old girl was clean enough
to swim in the pool.
The girl's mother, Carle Wheeler, filmed the man's rant and posted it on Facebook.
According to Wheeler, the man approached the family "under the pretense" that he worked
for the health department.
He says in the video Wheeler posted:
"I simply asked them if they'd showered.
I'm sorry.
I'm tired of getting in pools people consider baths.
No hotel security or staff was around to stop his verbal harassment," Wheeler wrote.
At that point I called BS and I confronted him on what appeared to be blatant racism.
I let him know that being black is not a disease and showering would not wash the BLACK off
our skin."
The situation escalated further when Wheeler's mother, a female hotel manager, and the hotel's
general manager got involved.
The female hotel manager initially began telling the man he was behaving inappropriately.
However, once the hotel's general manager arrived, he "immediately let the white man
leave and told [the Wheeler family] to step to the side with him."
Wheeler added that white bystanders corroborated her story, and as a result he told other managers
to review the security tapes.
Of course, the man remains unidentified.
Wheeler adds that no follow-up has been made by anyone from the hotel since."
Wheeler wrote.
"It's sad that I had to explain to my beautiful little five year old brown skinned
girl why in 2018 a white man would think it's OK to ask a little girl and her mom if we
showered our presumably dirty black skin before entering a swimming pool.I have to teach my
innocent child that…there are still people in this world who will not like us just because
of the color of our skin and even worse there are people in this world in positions of power
and authority that will not stand up for us when they know it's wrong that we are treated
that way."
That's all for now, for everything else subscribe to Complex on YouTube.
For Complex News, I'm Hanuman Welch.
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What's up guys it's Everything Kodi back with another video
so many of you are looking for a build with lot of different add-ons
and lot of different sources for content then you might want to check the LAMBENT BUILD
I've also tested on my fire TV and two other fire sticks the build works great
You will enjoy this kodi build on your amazon fire stick or nvidia shield or android tv box
now I'm gonna give you guys an overview of what it has to offer
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so let's go ahead and jump into the overview of the build.
Now once you install it the first section you're gonna run into is the movies section
so you have the widget here at the top
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TV-TWO | Deadpool 2 Campaign - Duration: 1:41.
I am Markus Schneider. I am the
German CFO for 20th Century Fox. We invited today our good friends from TV-TWO.
After their tremendous test campaign for our Deadpool 2 movie and in celebration of
that you can see I'm even wearing our newest Deadpool merchandise for you.
We want to talk a bit about how we see TV-TWO and what advantages we see and
how TV-TWO is helping us to reach our target groups in
advertising, which - as I said - is working
excellent, right from the start. We have a very tiny window, where we spend
quite a lot. Like 4 to 6 weeks in advance of the movie and we spend
already, compared to other companies who just throw tons of money on TV, we spend
it already very focused. Here we can pay right for the viewers, which are
watching our commercials and this is a tremendous advantage and especially for
us, which is a company, which is - as I said - focusing it's spend - this is a huge
advantage in those 4 to 6 weeks. We are looking forward to future
campaigns and additional cooperation
This is a great start, definitely.
So watch out for the next trailers and See you again at TV-TWO!
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Wemo Mini Review - Belkin Wemo Mini Smart Plug - Duration: 2:23.
I'll be reviewing the Wemo Mini Smart Plug, next.
Hi, I'm Chris. Here on
Chris Fry Tech Guy, you'll find tech tutorials and reviews, like this one, to
help make technology work for you. I'm excited to have you here with me today,
because I'll be reviewing a smart home favorite of mine: the Wemo Mini. Let's get
started. So, the Belkin Wemo Mini is a neat little Wi-Fi smart plug. It's a
slimmer version of the original Wemo that doesn't get in the way of other
outlets. We've had one for almost a year now and my wife recently gifted me a few
more. What does the Wemo Mini do? It controls the flow of power to an
attached electrical device. It's much like a light switch controlled outlet,
where the power is either switched on or off. Since the Wemo Mini uses Wi-Fi to
communicate, you don't need any additional equipment to use it. This
allows you to get started in the smart home world without a large initial
investment. You can control the Wemo Mini from a smartphone app or a voice
assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant. For Siri and HomeKit integration, the
Wemo bridge is required and is sold separately. Alexa and Google Assistant work out of
the box; it's just Siri and HomeKit integration that need the Wemo bridge. We
use our Amazon Echo to turn on our box fan. It's saved me from getting out of bed
many a time. Remember these outlet timers? Wemo Mini can run on schedules set in the
mobile app. It's pretty easy to setup. You can also remotely turn your devices on
and off when you're away from home. After a year of use I found the Wemo Mini to
be quite reliable. Here my takeaways: I love the slim profile of the Wemo Mini
that only covers up one outlet. Older Wemo units as well as a number of other
smart plugs are bulkier and cover up both outlets. Being able to control this
smart plug with Alexa is awesome and it's the primary way my family interacts
with it. We have been very satisfied with the reliability of the Wemo Mini with no
issues after a year. The shortcomings I found with this product are that Siri and
HomeKit require an additional bridge to interact with the Wemo mini. Also, it
lacks the energy use statistics. Aside from that, the Belkin Wemo Mini is an
overall solid choice in smart plugs. If you're interested in getting the Wemo
Mini, I'll place a link in the description. If you have questions about
the Wemo, let me know in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you.
It's been great having you here with me today. I'll see you next time.
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Che fosse un'edizione visionaria e proiettata al , nelle declinazioni dell'inquietudine come della speranza, lo si era già detto
E i vincitori del ventunesimo , il più importante festival italiano di film a tematica ambientale, non fanno che confermare la tendenza di quest'anno
Segno, forse, che questa fantomatica, temuta ed evocata entità, il , comincia ad essere considerata non più come un'eventualità astratta e lontana, ma come un'evoluzione già in atto, a cui è meglio partecipare
I tre premi principali sono dunque andati a film con un sguardo decisamente rivolto all'avvenire
A "" di Christian Frei e Maxim Arbugaev, un thriller quasi herzoghiano su ingegneria genetica e clonazione, è andato il Premio Asja
energy per il miglior documentario internazionale, assegnato non solo per la scelta dell'argomento, ma anche, come scrive la giuria, "per la qualità cinematografica e lo sviluppo dei personaggi"
(Do You Trust This Computer, premio del pubblico IREN) Il Premio del pubblico offerto da Iren è toccato invece a "" di Chris Paine: un viaggio vertiginoso nelle fin troppo prossime evoluzioni dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, dal patto faustiano con Google e Facebook alle armi autonome, fino ai software in grado di comprendere i sentimenti
Come miglior documentario della sezione One Hour (film di lunghezza non superiore ai 60 minuti), il premio offerto da Smat è stato poi assegnatoal finlandese "" di Petteri Saario, ritratto della giovane attivista lappone Riikka Karppinen, che lotta contro una potente industria mineraria per salvaguardare la sua terra
"Una storia di speranza – si legge nella motivazione - che mette in evidenza una verità importante: l'ambientalismo non è una questione partigiana, ma è una chiamata urgente per tutta l'umanità"
Per la stessa sezione, la giuria ha anche assegnato una menzione speciale a "The Last Honey Hunter" di Ben Knight, girato in un remota regione del Nepal
(Activist, premio SMAT One Hour) Il Premio CiAl al miglior documentario italiano è andato a "Il Monte delle formiche" di Riccardo Palladino, "un racconto – dicono i giurati - scritto dalla natura come solo lei sa fare, il mistero di un giorno che diventa epifania quando l'incontro di migliaia di formiche si unisce al gioco dei bambini in un paesaggio naturale reso sfumato da luci e ombre, con una musica cucita addosso alle immagini"
Menzione speciale, inoltre, al documentario di Andreas Pichler, "The Milk System", efficace "reportage di denuncia di una mostruosa macchina economica che calpesta uomini e animali, con pratiche che portano a gravi danni per l'ambiente"
Al film di Pichler va anche la menzione di Legambiente. Le altre menzioni speciali se le sono aggiudicate "" di Werner Boote (menzione "Ambiente e società" di Arcobaleno cooperativa sociale), che svela gli inganni del greenwashing, e "Kamchatka Bears
Life Begins" di Irina Žuravleva e Vladislav Grišin (menzione WWF per il miglior film sulla conservazione della biodiversità) (Il monte delle formiche, premio CiAl documentario italiano) Per la nuova sezione dedicata ai cortometraggi, il premio del Festival, assegnato dalla giuria di studenti del corso di laurea in Economia dell'Ambiente, della Cultura e del Territorio, è andato infine a "Ondes noires" di Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, sull'inquinamento elettromagnetico
Mentre i premi di Junior per i migliori cortometraggi realizzati dalle scuole sono andati a: "Alla ricerca di Madre natura" , realizzato dalla classe 5a D dell'Istituto Comprensivo Gramsci Rodari di Sestu – Cagliari (elementari); "Le avventure di Jennifer Water" , realizzato dalla Scuola Secondaria di I grado "G
Ungaretti" di Caerano San Marco (TV); "AL…si ricicla per amore" , realizzato della classe 3a Operatore grafico del Centro di formazione professionale ENDO-FAP "Don Orione" di Piacenza; menzione speciale a "Cambiamenti climatici" , realizzato dalla classe 3a A della Scuola Secondaria di I grado "G
Caprin" di Trieste. Un'edizione di conferma, questa ventunesima, che si chiude con un'affluenza ormai attestata attorno alle 15mila presenze
Ma, commenta il direttore Gaetano Capizzi, «ci sarebbero spazi per un'ulteriore crescita
Siamo arrivati al momento in cui azioni e iniziative di governance a favore di una maggiore, reale sostenibilità si pongono come improcrastinabili e andrebbero accompagnate a una parallela diffusione di nuovi modelli culturali e sociali
Manifestazioni come il Festival sono strumenti di sensibilizzazione importanti che ritengo meritino di essere valorizzati e incentivati, e non certo contenuti o ridimensionati
Il nostro obiettivo è un significativo aumento del budget, segno di scelte culturali e politiche coerenti con un impegno sistematico in materia di tutela e sostenibilità ambientale»
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