Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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OpportuniTAV

Here's how the TAV could officially impact at Quarto d'Altino: two concrete viaducts 2 km from the one ...


Oh well ', in short:
the train is always the train, eh!
(Renato Pozzetto)

"On the morning of December 22, 2010 Italian Rail Network has delivered to the regional offices of the Directorate Infrastructure cards of the preliminary draft of the High-speed train from Venice to Trieste." So begins the post published on the pages of the site in the northeast Railways, the permanent observatory (and independent nothing to do with Trenitalia, RFI, trade unions ...) on the mobility of the macro-region railway in which we live.

This means that we can finally know what will be - to be here in twenty years - the likely fate of our country , since - despite the assurances of local politics - the infamous "track down" developed by RFI on clear direction of the Veneto Region (Proceedings of the Regional No 1816 of 13 June 2006 and No 1083 of April 17, 2007 ) cross in the middle of our common between the capital and Trepalade - crosses zero, the Sile and the Via Claudia Augusta - and I will touch again on the border with Musile - crossing the Fossetta Triestina and then travels parallel to the "Jesolo" - as you can see from the map below.


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But not all. In both cases the degree of landscape impact will be the maximum that can occur in open country, because, having to cross from one side two rivers (Sile and Zero) and an archaeological site (the Claudia Augusta), on the other channel (the Fossetta) and road (Triestina), the plan is that these two points, the line runs over two viaducts to between 2.6 and 2 km .

In blue the route of the TAV, in red the two viaducts Altino
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The reason I will explain the words of Michele Pinardi, specializes in surveying and cartographic processing:

The new lines will not have the same gradients present on existing railway tracks. To overcome a river or a highway not just more of a simple bridge that connects the two sides, the slope would be too dangerous for the new trains. With the rise in the share of TAV is in a binary gradualissima otherwise at certain speeds there is a risk of derailment of wagons.

Here are some photos taken along the viaduct over the river Panaro in European high-speed Bologna-Verona "to understand this and try to make visible the full extent of this work" - concludes Pinardi.

Here are the most eloquent. The other can be found on its website . Hard to think provided that the bridges along the Venice-Trieste will be different from these ...

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But during the council 8 November 2010, in response to the oral question tabled by Councillor Simionato ( Request TAV information on the track in the territory of Quarto d'Altino ) marcasite the mayor said:

I spoke today with the Deputy Mayor Councillor Chisso it is the only interested in this because beyond that has been published there is nothing in the papers. [...] Chisso told me that within about ten days brings us together. Quarto d'Altino tells me I do not know if you summon because you're not interested, seems to go beyond , I said, though the path through the Quarto d'Altino you. [source: Full Transcript of session advice November 8, 2010]


In those same days the commissioner Chisso was responding to a reporter who asked him what he thought of ' Proposed route released by railways in the Northeast ( rebuilt on official statements of the Deputy Minister Castelli) more or less in these words: "is nothing but a sign on a piece of paper" . Compare for yourself the possibility of railways in the Northeast with the preliminary draft RFI: are identical.

will not go into the merits of possible alternative routes or on ' usefulness and economic viability of a hypothetical future high-speed line. They've already done with an objective eye and a wealth of detail, the editors of the said railway in the northeast, which Insights section of their site have written a truly enlightening (which I recommend you read) not only in the motorways, an alternative to the "low" , but also about the absolute alternative to TAV , making further clarity on two key issues: the meaning of two concepts of high speed and high capacity , and the possibility / convenience of the run freight trains on a line for high-speed .

one on which I wish to focus attention is the question total confusion that has arisen since popped up on the track casus belli "low", about mid-October. A chaos that politics - and above all Regional Councillor transport - in no way tried to contain and that, indeed, has helped fuel continuing to plead ignorance of the RFI was planning. Just take a look at the quantity of articles published in local newspapers last month and a half and those who are coming out these days, and contradictions that will be read.

It seems now that everything revolves around the so-called "stop the beaches" , notably absent of the preliminary draft. Now, aside from the addresses of the Region in 2006 and 2007 not included (or at least not explicitly), possible that in the meantime no one has given a blind eye to the design of RFI , given the media chaos that was developing? Or maybe that would stop further compromise the quality of the project in the eyes of the European Commission? (And if the project does not pass the Schei ... no shore.)

Why do we have to say that already as it appears now, the route could turn up their nose to the committee, because of many curves, known high-speed enemy. They knew the Romans when they built the Claudia Augusta, designers knew the Austro-Hungarian empire in the mid nineteenth century have designed the rail from Trieste to Venice, and so did those who, after World War II, he designed and built the motorway Venice-Trieste .

Some will say: Yes, they did not have to struggle with cramped the so-called "city read" that we find ourselves now, nor with the recent establishment environmentalist of "land conservation" . But Italy (and especially the Po Valley) is not Spain, France, Germany, where between one city and one can also run dozens of miles of nothing, and what little land is left intact will well in the coming decades we keep him close ...

Not to leave again this time with a bitter taste, and following on the title of the post ("OpportuniTAV", the high-speed line as one of the development opportunities that our area - which one? the Northeast, the Veneto and Quarto d'Altino? - should not be missing, at least according to the assertions of those who govern us, or as he said during a recent public meeting the former mayor of Fourth Francis Borgia), especially early epigraphy, I invite you to see this scene from a cult films of the 80s, I was reminded while reading a comment of his friend Luke to the claims of those who say that the track "Low" with the elusive 'stop the beaches "is enhanced and Caorle Eraclea: "What, are also a station there? or tourists will be in droves to see the train pass? .

Monday, December 27, 2010

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"I like Chopin ..."

The Gazebo sang in 1983, we reiterated last Thursday - with more tones - along with four young pianists ...


Alessandra Signoretto plays Chopin (photo by P. Formisano)

A quick guide 's tribute to the Romantic piano held Thursday, December 23 at the center services Quarto d'Altino. Very good

the four young interpreters ( Elisa Buso, Signoretto Alessandra, Valentina Pellico , Giulia Toniolo ) who took turns on stage, facing more or less well-known songs (and more or less simple ...) of the four composers who have made the piano instrument par excellence of the Romantic period : Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Mendelssohn.

Although the weather was not the best (out of the incessant rain, inside the heating programmed to shut down too soon), as soon as the lights went out and started playing the piano, the atmosphere became very intimate, and the evening took a turn very "romantic" ... A new

we wanted to introduce than in years past - and from what I heard was much appreciated by the public - was element "didactic" and "theatrical" .

In fact, besides my own - hopefully not boring ... - Introduction to Romanticism as a cultural movement that, between the '20s and '60s of the nineteenth century, found their music the most fertile ground on which to develop every piece of the concert was accompanied by a video projection on the background of a musical note - written by Stephen Brentel - on track, or to its author, in turn accompanied by an image that somehow or to interpret its meaning.

Finally, Maurizio Santamaria actor friend (who had already had occasion to appreciate monologue in "I-Tigi - Stories for Ustica" , February 27 last year) has given voice to an enthusiastic review that Liszt made of a Chopin concert held in Paris in the spring of 1841.

short: another evening of music (and music ...) which we will respond with the same performers, the same "format", but with a different theme.

Here are photos of the event taken by Paul Formisano:

(click on a photo to enlarge and open the photo gallery)











Monday, December 6, 2010

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"I have a dream ..." What

A POEM FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR "COUNTRY" - THE "BIG", but above "small" ...


"I HAVE A DREAM ..." (Voria)
(tribute to Martin Luther King)

Voria
that and stuff and a FIA ndasse otherwise
Voria that suit, how much to suit Zenti
to drilling if svejasse finally

Voria
poder assarghe omeneto
me one day at a FIA world a more just, and beo neto:
no ghe xe day no GHEO Prometo

Voria
formed that if one day a
Zenti de nova movement, honest, de taento
propose that a real change

Voria
- but more than a desire el xe need -
svejarme one day I dream brute,
svejarme a day inside my dream
de

[I / things to go otherwise, / I want it all, all the people / you realize, at last / / I / you can leave one day to my "little man" / the world a bit 'more just, nice and clean: / not a day goes by that I promise / / I / day, which was formed a movement / of new people, honest, talented / propose that a real change / / I / - but more than a desire and a need - / wake a day from this bad dream / wake up one day in the mine, a dream]


dedicate this poem to all those who feel alive need for change and renewal of a real , from our little country .

And I dedicate it especially to those who - among the few present at the meeting of Condiglio City on Monday, November 29 - has left the Council Chamber with my own deep sense of distrust of institutions .

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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notes that night ...

CHRONICLE OF A CULTURAL EVENT ANNOUNCED, BUT THE UNEXPECTED RESULTS. OR: HOW TO DO WELL WITH LITTLE.





What a night, what a night that night!
If you think I feel the broken bones

(Fred Hammond)


say that Notes to the museum - an event organized by the cultural Diapason & Naima and the Museum of Altino, which took place Saturday, November 20 - it went very well is limited, or at least does not make the idea of \u200b\u200bthe value "moral" behind this success.

Although carry 400 people in a summer evening on the excavation of Altino for a tribute concert Fabrizio De André may have seemed to most a result of "easy" (because it was summer, because in 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of the great "Faber," but there must also be said that the concert began at 22, which was Sunday and the next day the people worked, and that it had rained almost all day ...), so easy we did not feel able to encourage people to participate in large numbers at a concert to be held at the museum closed on a cold evening the end of November.

But so decided, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture: November 20 "Museums in music": special opening of the museums and free from 20 pm to 2 am, and music for everyone. Never mind if in Rome will be a warm autumn evening while at Altino there will be 5 degrees and a mist to finish in Silone. It is in Rome that the greatest concentration of national museums in Italy, so ... the boss.

It is with this concern - but not with these words ... - Beginning in October that calls me Dr. Tirelli, Director of the Museum of Altino, asking for our help.


The idea to invite a reference to the name immediately discard: the ministry has no money to put on, not even the town I'm missing, the association has to think to put on home soon ... So?

We decide to play teachers in music classes : A precious resource, which as an association we are fortunate to be able to count not only as excellent teachers, but also as musicians navigated, with numerous musical projects and concerts behind. Fast

round of phone calls and organizing machine starts up. Valerio launched the idea (given the small size of the place) set of the concert in the form of duets "voice + instrument" , alternating on stage a dozen musicians and singers.

During a meeting with the director of the museum and Frank, his new assistant, I propose (with input from Stephen) not to restrict the event to after dinner, but starting in the late afternoon with a free guided tour to museum followed by a musical aperitif , and then continue the evening with a concert fatter, and then followed by a guided tour a night . The idea like the director, and Francesca offers to act as Cicero (it's appropriate to say ...).

To complete the puzzle missing a piece that would combine the afternoon program in the evening. What better idea to ask Renata and Marisa, which operates the restaurant "the Street" (which is just behind the museum) on one side if he wanted to organize a themed dinner be included in the program of the evening, by ' much to offer and arrange a drink in the museum? No sooner said than done.

Now, to do all that we'll put you and not 4 hours, including two "travel" to Altino. More or less the same I'll put us to make flyers and posters, which were distributed throughout the fourth with the help of a couple of students and Henry. Advertising for which the association has paid about 200 € (just anything) . In parallel, taking advantage of some hole and the other between classes, teachers have organized themselves to try the pieces to be performed, coordinated by Valerio.

On the other side, the museum - among others - has asked the chairs to the municipality, has complied with the practices with the Ministry of SIAE, promoted the event in the press and the network of provincial museums, and Renata and Marisa have been organized for drinks and dinner.

Meanwhile began to arrive for dinner reservations (seats spent five days of the ...), requests for information about the concert and on tour.

short, arriving 17.30 on Saturday and the outside the museum there will be a hundred people (99 to be exact, attest to the torn ticket) ready to start the tour. Francesca does not know whether to be happier with the outcome of the action or more concerned about the management of a too large number of visitors to a museum spaces unfortunately still so tight, so much so that she is forced to be felt by all, to use the microphone ... During the aperitif

Music (open to the sound of jazz from the Manor Frederick and Andrew Flowers and closed with the duet "guitar and voice," composed by Gian Paolo Todaro and Monica Tavarner) begins to animate the exterior (in the meantime has also opened the center of the bar "in the Street") and the museum becomes one with the square of Altino . The evening is pleasant, despite a few drops of rain, and lighting along the horseshoe-shaped porch that closes the square makes the atmosphere even more magical ...

In perfect time with the program, we move to 19.30 in the restaurant, where we will have a delicious dinner based deleted, polenta, radicchio, cream of pumpkin and gorgonzola risotto with red radicchio and homemade strudel. Here too, the atmosphere is very nice and warm (aided by the fireplace ...): seems to be in family ...

The evening concert starts at 21.45 with the museum full : 117 people against 70 seats ... Unfortunately, many are forced to remain standing, but for now it seems to be a problem.

begin Vaiarelli Valerio and Barbara Belloni, with a version for piano and voice (and what a voice ...) of Back to Black Amy Winehouse and an even more original bass and voice True colors Cindy Lauper. Here are three new songs by Valerio (who has meanwhile bracing the guitar, which is like a good multi-instrumentalist) played and sung with Anthony Zaccaria on electric guitar (the first two) and Francesco Clergy on percussion (the last). Thanks to an experimental use of the loop station (a system that allows you to record live and send in "loop" in constant repetition, the instruments and microphones connected) and Luisa Pasinetti introduce Stella Mauro - between the moon and knocked , and a tribute to the dance of the '80s and '90s - the electronic music duo formed by brothers Henry and Nicole Lucchese, accompanied on guitar (the second song, Its nature ) by Dario Candelù. Finally Gian Paolo and Chiara Todaro Maccatrozzo (guitar and vocals) closed the evening with three songs from the Italian repertoire for female voice as an unreleased Clare ( Sola).

Two hours of continuous music, applauded until the last . One will say a quarter to midnight, at the concert ended, people will be gone home. No: least a dozen people stopped for a tour "at night" , certainly more peaceful and enjoyable for the afternoon. People more than anything else "outside" (Mestre, but not only), who have seized the opportunity to become acquainted with the gem that 50 years we find ourselves at home: the National Archaeological Museum of Altino, precisely ...

Morale (as I mentioned at the beginning of value "moral "...): everything went perfectly because each has played its part too without slamming. maximum results with minimum effort and minimum expense . And thanks to the synergy between reality in the area without going to bother capital (human and financial) external.

turn their ... blades when who holds the purse strings that the national states people do not eat culture, or when our mayor said in the press that the cutting 137mila € imposed by our common financial maneuver game will fall under the Associations and culture (New Venice 29/6/2010: cuts € 137 000, Fourth, diminish the contributions to associations ), but if in these years was been done a different job with the associations on the territory, instead of weaving sfasciatura , events such as last Saturday to Altino be the rule, not one of the few exceptions to that - fortunately - are still there.

Why is true that the culture does not feeds his stomach, but feeds the spirit and - most importantly - locally feeds the need for recovery a concept that underlies the sense of community and identity: the social .

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Portegrandi: past, present, future ...

A meeting to discuss "identity and new scenarios for Portegrandi. But now let's see how the fourth largest population of 6 years from the approval of the recovery plan of the Basin, which was to revive it ...



Painted in these banks are human people

the magnificent and progressive.

(Giacomo Leopardi)


Friday evening (November 19th) at 20:45 at the Civic Center Portegrandi will hold a public meeting entitled "Portegrandi: Identity and new scenarios ". Guest Professor of the evening. Ivano Sartor, former mayor of Roncade, currently director of the Archives of Contemporary Cassamarca Foundation, and author of several books on the history of the Venetian and Marca, including two fine books on our region: medieval and modern Altino and Gates Department of Sile . For there will be interviewing Silvia Conte, an expert on the tourism economy.

The evening is organized by 'cultural association Gate Parks : association I've heard for the first time on this occasion, although he is based in Quarto d'Altino. The address and telephone numbers in the letterhead refer to those of the company's headquarters in Marina Portegrandi - Vivaldi Srl, which owns the area of \u200b\u200bthe new dock and a large portion of the "Conca", and in 2004 the promoter PIRUEA targeted to deliver in the name and on behalf of all owners of the affected areas [...] the urban renewal of the Basin of Portegrandi.

be honest: that the promoters of the project "Marine Portegrandi" will return today to propose talk about "new scenario" (and even more "identity") for Portegrandi, seen as the recovery plan is progressing of the "Conca" in almost three years of existence, it seems to me bizarre.

To understand what I'm talking about, just visit the site of the Marina Portegrandi, starting from PIRUEA on the page, where you can view and download an interesting layout of the area with the final draft



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by comparing the current situation ...

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of the operations covered by the project (dock, residence, club house, shopping centers, facilities Sports, recovery of the island "Conca") were produced only the dock, the residence and recovered a pair of residential buildings near the closed .

No hotel, no "mall", no "club house" (multi-purpose center with offices, fitness center, showroom, restaurant-pizzeria marina views, swimming pool, lounge bar with outdoor terrace), no sports facilities , not one of 'at least 250 new housing units that will give life to three other villages in addition to the historical village on the island. "

But the legacy that for now the project has left on the village of Portegrandi I think extends far beyond the borders of the "Conca" . Just do a tour in the area and overlap with an ideal scenario this photograph taken ten - or even less - years ago.

It is as if this time something has drained the lifeblood of population, especially in terms of small businesses, which - you know - are the basis of sociability and sense of community in particularly in small towns.

Take the Conca: until a few years ago there was still a restaurant and "el casoin" (the "casoin" from which the whole history of the beautiful novel Mala Air - Veneto famine Antonella Benvenuti), and this meant life. Then, the building that housed the two secular activities was included in the recovery plan e. .. Go and see how taken: abandoned after a first draft of restoration, while the church of the late '600 'which consists of 6 apartments of 70 sqm ground floor and first floor with terraces overlooking the marina and gardens relevance of which overlook the marina berth with direct access to "increasingly falls to pieces (although the site of the Navy, talk like a done deal" were obtained ...»). Once through the locks then, the only certainty that with you during the walk to the bank of the Sile is that it is cutting "denied access" , obsessively repeated with signs of all sizes, something that until at least 10 years ago did not happen, so much so that every altinate doc has been able to penetrate the atmosphere of the island of Marzi, reaching as far north embankment overlooking the lagoon.

other side Triestina the situation is not the best: the only venue left is the bar-pizzeria and B & B "Al vecio mold, and the only businesses that resist (if we exclude the bank and mail, that given the ridiculous rents they pay to the municipality have no reason to leave: in 2009 the bank paid € 10,890 a year, the post office - has long been privatized and become in turn a bank ... - € 3098.76 per year) is a pharmacy and a hairdresser, after in the last five years have ended the food, the butcher, the hardware, the haberdasher and the inn . A

Carafa (just beyond the overpass Triestina) things go a bit 'better, in proportion to the size of the settlement, given that resists the bakery and bar / tobacconist / newsagent, a hairdresser and another' beautician, but where those ' unfinished building and seized by the Court of Venice , built on the ashes of the pizzeria "Mario," hangs over the town like a sad omen ...

think that the mega-project of the "marina" has not played a role in all this is to underestimate the reality, since the revival of the village of Portegrandi had to pass because of "this" project: a project, in addition to the urban renewal area of \u200b\u200bdegraded, but still alive and busy just for being still so characteristic (I mean wing "Conca", or "pot" if you prefer), promised jobs .

In a kind of "plant" (as we say) with an activity would have meant giving each in the foot, as happened in the past to most of those who opened a business in one of the many new countries immersed in the network of shopping malls that imprisons our territory. Even so, according to information found at the site of the Marina Portegrandi, is not very clear which activities and services will be carried out precisely , especially as may be unexpended by the citizens non-proprietary or non-customers (hotel, of residence, etc. of the dock.). If we consider a project that just passed was turned over to the village a questionnaire in which he asked the citizens what kind of services and activities would wanted to be born in the dock, it is clear that anyone, before risking money and time, we have thought over and over again, until I decided that it was not worth the effort.

In short, the impression I have is that Portegrandi fact, in this situation, it is sitting on the riverbank waiting for it to pass not the corpse of his enemy - as the Chinese proverb - but his Saviour, who, however - because of delays, the economic crisis or simply a very ambitious project - we have been waiting for too long , to the point that the country not only has not been raised, but - as we have seen - in some ways is also regressed .

This in my opinion should make us reflect on a fundamental concept: when the solutions are not from the top and bottom (not from a need for concrete and localized, but ideal and packaged by a need to have more "appeal ") can bring more harm than good , even if made - total or partial - good faith.

That said, I'm curious to hear, on Friday, as "new scenarios" that lie ahead for this village, with Altino Trepalade and San Michele Vecchio, is the "heart " historic, traditional and cultural heritage of our country (In this regard reference to Article El Quarto de vecio speech, published exactly 10 years ago in the pages of Al Suq, and for which I had used the gentle "advice" of prof. Sartor, then engaged in writing of "medieval and modern Altino).

Friday, October 29, 2010

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November: month full of meetings and events for Altino




The month of November promises to be full of events and initiatives related to the Museum of Altino, although not all "to" Altino.

fact, during the 50 years since the founding of the Museum, the Centro Culturale Candiani in Mestre dedication to "our" archaeological site a series of three meetings. Here's the schedule:

Tuesday, November 16, 18:00
Altino from heaven: the image of the buried city
Participants at the meeting and Silvia Cipriano Margherita Tirelli
[see also the article AUQ "Altino Edition": a memorable conference ]

Tuesday, November 23, 18:00
Altino. Glasses lagoon: an exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the Museum
Participants at the meeting and Margarita Rosa Barovier Tirelli

Tuesday, November 30, 18:00
The new headquarters of the National Archaeological Museum of Altino: work in progress
Participants meeting and Margherita Tirelli Stefano Filippi

(4th floor conference room. Free admission)

Then on the occasion of Museums Music - culture and entertainment event sponsored by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, scheduled for Saturday, November 20 - ; Association Diapason & Naima Quarto d'Altino Altino and Museum organized the event "Notes on the Museo : concert of music courses for teachers Diapason & Naima followed by a guided tour free to the museum and the exhibition glass in the lagoon. In addition, there is an afternoon tour with musical aperitif in museum and a themed dinner at "the Street" , and the entrance to the museum will be free between the hours of 20 pm to 2 am. Here is the detailed program

:

17:30
Free guided tour of the museum and the exhibition glass in the lagoon.

18:30
Music Bars with teachers of music courses Diapason & Naima.

19:30
Theme dinner at "the Street" (info and reservations: 329 4645230).

21:30
Notes to the museum - Concerto for teachers of music courses Diapason & Naima. Following a free guided tour of the museum and the glass shows in the lagoon.

Monday, October 18, 2010

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If I were mayor ...

According to "rumors" collected from the New Venice, I would be among the potential candidates for mayor at the next administrative Quarto. What makes you smile, but to think of it ...



If I 'was fire, arderei' the world;
if I 'was the wind, the tempestarei;
if I' were water, the 'drowning;
s' i 'was God, mandereil'en deep ...

(Cecco Angiolieri)


Even though I'd like for once, stop talking about literature, I have to talk about today Mayors: Mayors Past and future mayors (Mayor This, for once, leave him alone ...).

start with the past ... The newly formed association cultural Future Memory (a test of the probable listings show up for the upcoming elections, as everybody knows by now the more) it asks me to divulge who organized the event for Friday, October 22 , the 20.30, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Quarto d'Altino: "Three mayors in common: Mauro marcasite, Francis Borgia, Mauro Badalin" .

[ displays the poster ]

gladly publish and disseminate, and because I will definitely be attending an important opportunity to steal some "trade secret" and I say this mainly for myself because - and here come the future mayors - yesterday morning I learned that one of the candidates for mayor in the upcoming municipal elections .


I swear I did not know, but here it 's article in the New Venice, signed by Marta Arctic , full of inaccuracies and contradictions (highlighted in red, with personal comments in brackets).

Elections to the Fourth, parties choose candidates
New Venice - October 16, 2010 page 34 section: PROVINCE

Quarto d'Altino. Missing seven months in municipal elections that will elect the new mayor of Quarto d'Altino, the "rumors" are a lot even if the officer is still too early. What is certain is that the Democratic Party has already set in motion. A fortnight ago he presented a manifesto to the public and printed leaflets distributed these days, in which they outlined the program of the party and set out some key points. Michele Calzavara The Secretary met with the mayor, while on Monday evening to discuss the future of the Civic was Altinate, the group that the government and the expiry of the mandate [that is always them, Calzavara, the mayor and the other of the Civic Altinate .. .] . The name that comes back more insistent on pointed to the Democratic Party, is that of Silvio Conte, a young but determined, already within the circle of directors altinate and that in the last year has been at the forefront in the battle against ' Bonisolo incinerator. First name though - does the Secretary know - we want to find a large share of the project. "We believe it is fair to announce the first renewal - he explains - to make room for young people." top the list of priorities of the Democratic Party we are to develop sustainable, quality of life and tourism, motor capable of moving from the crisis. But the law, respect for rules and the concept that the policy should be in the hands of a few and not all [I got it right? the face of democracy!] . "We started a series of official and unofficial meetings with the various realities of the country (committees, organizations, political parties), suggesting a common table on which comforting [personally I would find more" comfortable "rather than a table and chairs, for more policy ...] , we are looking for a broader alliance and believe that the civil list is the solution that can help us win, but first we want to be shared our program [more democratic ...] , then define the people: we have not closed the door to anyone. " Even the league has adopted a candidate: it is likely that it will not be Fourthly, there are rumors of Marcon. Meanwhile, he asked for a room for meetings. In terms of administrative continuity, there Canonaco Franca, the current Minister for the Budget. The Democratic Party is open to proposals and well in the primaries, decided to launch [what? who? where? missing end of sentence ...] . The names there is in the center-center. There is the former deputy mayor Celestino Mazzon, now in opposition, for the PDL Cristina Baldoni. Returns the name of Mirko Toniolo, president of the sports club years, not tied to political parties but also to Mirko Visentin, President Diapason association and Naima, one of the founders of "Social Project" ["District Sociale, please ...] and editor of a blog. (Marta Arctic)


In the view of what was my dad on the phone while I was busy washing the floor of the house (which no longer suits a candidate for mayor, I agree, but there you are ... ). I support the spazzettone, I turn on the iPod, read, and understand it all: this is the usual article in which Marta Arctic the pretext to mask a press release from the PD altinate political news story, put together a patchwork made of "rumors" (yes, like the iPhone ...), to unofficial reports, the "rumor" ... In short, all things that are not worth a check beforehand with the people involved .

The same thing had happened exactly six months ago, with the article "Fourth think the next mayor" only this time, having been called into question, I should at least ask me: "Who it to him ' He said 'What is the Arctic? ".

The first answer that I gave myself is that maybe some members of the "new PD , after several times of late tried to involve me in his plans - to no avail - thought I wanted to - to paraphrase Dante - "belong to myself," , and shared his thoughts with our reporter.

The other option is that Martin has spoken with his colleague from the "Corriere del Veneto" Alice D'Este, which for almost a year ago asking me to respond to an interview titled "If I were mayor .. . . Interview to which I replied with great enthusiasm, of course. Too bad that it was "inconceivable" the mayor of the fourth, but ... Venice!

The interview in the end it came out (ah, 'sti journalists ...), but we're on the subject I take this opportunity to publish it.


If I were mayor of Venice ...

If I were mayor, I would do a lot of things have already been published in the book "If I were mayor ...", for surely someone has offered to track down tax evaders and thus" make money "or moderation prices, or to promote tourism not hit and run and more aware, or resize the Carnival (which is no longer "in Venice, but sponsors and art directors), or to open the door to door collection, or to install photovoltaic systems in the uninhabited islands of the lagoon, or to create conditions to make the university the new citizens of Venice, or to expand the project "Business Incubators" throughout the city, paying special young people who want to start their own business, or even to grant independence to Mestre and "mainland", thus pointing to the primacy of "Venice City traffic automomobilistico zero", etc..

All things can be shared, in short, that any future mayor could not disregard.

But what could I add? Be ', if I were mayor ... let's see ... If I were mayor ... here: to establish a museum spread of typography, tracking where they operate the engravers, printers, publishers who made Venice the capital of the world in the last decades of the '400 to nearly all the 500. Return it to the forefront of German names such as John of Speyer, the first official printer in Venice, in 1469, or the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson, the best engraver of the early models of Roman character, as well as the first true "entrepreneur" typography of the city or German Erhard Ratdolt, pager expert and inventor of the first catalog of characters, or Lazio Aldus Manutius, the first publisher in the modern sense, or the engraver Francesco Griffo of Bologna, inventor of italics and one of the best Roman currently still in use (Bembo), which will draw inspiration from the Parisian Claude Garamond for the famous characters, or by Fossombrone Ottaviano Petrucci, inventor of the music press movable type, or Alessandro Paganini, first editor of the Arabic Quran with movable type.

same time, invite the two universities Venice (Ca 'Foscari and IUAV) to establish and promote education on the history of printing, the printing and publishing, design of typefaces (Type design), the publications, in to prepare professionals who can then find the place where the city to build on their knowledge and skills. In this way you would create a new "clean industry", made up of ideas, creativity, technology, and Venice may well go back to being a European capital of Printing and Graphics.


I find that to If I were mayor ... has been a very interesting experiment: an experiment in democracy really live (other than primary) and "open source" , I planned to repeat the elections in Quarto. Unfortunately, "rumors" and "rumor" I want involved in so many other ways, and frankly I do not know if I'll manage with all these commitments ... - And then as we do with the conflict of interest?


"They have no hope of death,
and their blind life is so low, that
'envious I am of every other fate.

Fame of them the world does not endure;
mercy and justice disdain them:
not speak of them, but look and pass. "

(Dante Alighieri, Inferno III, vv. 46-51)


x PS Marta Arctic is the third time in a month that you talk about me or things about me without first approached me ( see the "question of the music school Diapason & Naima" on the September 17 New and preview on the mayor's letter in response to the request of counsel "open" on the District of New Social on September 26 ). Next time, please, contact me. We are friends on Facebook, you have my email, you have my cell phone number .... Just also make me a phone call: I'll call you back .

Monday, September 13, 2010

Filipino To Bisaya Translation

District Social [Video-post]

Here's the video that sums up the first experiment in participatory planning in Quarto d'Altino.


publishing the video in 20 minutes summarizing the experience of the Social District.

was shown Friday, Sept. 10 at the presentation to the public and the administration of Quarto d'Altino the results of the participatory planning workshop (who would read them, find them for download from here: http://www.quartieresociale. it/2010/09/guardate-che-roba ).

Formisano Thanks again to Paul for the "hard work" ...

Monday, September 6, 2010

Dr Anil Shah Reviews Forum

District Social: The public meeting

Friday, September 10 last act of the participatory planning workshop Neighborhood Association.


Because I hope that these pages can happen every now and then altinate not receiving my newsletter or periodical that is not part of my contacts on Facebook, since the news of the official presentation to the citizens and administration Municipal "Proposal for enhancement of the city park and the area of \u200b\u200bthe Palace of the Fourth d'Altino " developed by citizens during the participatory planning workshop District Social , scheduled for Friday, September 10 at 21.30 at the Service Center of Quarto d'Altino (beginning of the industrial area).

During the evening you will find:

  • the district model of "enhanced" , with its proposals
  • a video on the experience of the laboratory
  • a document preservation area

will also be asked the administration to adopt a formal act laboratory results.

not arrive unprepared for the event, I recommend you take a walk on the project website: www.quartieresociale.it

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Peliculas De Incesto Gratis Italinas

One year Suq Al

50 posts and 680 unique visitors. Report of a year of counter-information. Happy Birthday Al Suq!


On 15 August last year came to life Suq Al, my "blog" civic "(as the subtitle mentions).

Exactly one year away, it seems only right to sum up an activity which, honestly, I did not think I would have committed so much (almost 50 articles in 12 months ...), spite of having given great satisfaction.

Unfortunately I do not have statistics Visiting for the whole period, having activated the Google Analytics service only towards the end of February. However, from that date to today site visits were 1750, of which 680 unique visitors , for a total of 4000 pageviews .

Though somewhat 'distorted by the delay in the activation of a serious service statistics, here is the "top five" most widely read articles .


1) A weekend of great music - 223 visits
2) Open Letter to the PD - 208 visits
3) No, thanks! - 146 visits
4) Altino from heaven: a memorable conference - 126 visits
5) Introducing the new district library - 116 visits

What the first place in the table there is an article that speaks of two events (the Tribute to Michael Jackson students of courses in music and the singing contest The Amphora ) organized by the association for almost eight years on ( Diapason & Naima ), can only make me happy - very happy.

Just as I am pleased that the "top five" has entered the post on the Venetian agree on Altino (of which, now that I think, there must be a kind of "replica" in the museum in May, during the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the museum - and yet I have not heard anything about it ...).

Interesting then that the second place obtained by the PD Open Letter sent to Regional Offices of the party by some citizens of the Fourth just days before the regional elections, and in Suq Al announced the text for the first ( fact: in truth was the only one, since no other news organization spoke ...).

In third place the last of a series of articles devoted to the story that, from summer 2009 to spring 2010, made perhaps the most debate in the country (along with to the traffic on Via Pascoli): l 'affaire Palace.

And here I have to open a parenthesis here, because the reflections on the theme Palace (on the social area and the lack of involvement of citizens in the decisions taken by the Administration) and the chance meeting with three beautiful girls ( Catherine Pagnin, Sara Rossi and Giorgio Tesser) the idea of \u200b\u200bSocial District, the participatory planning workshop that kept me busy for the entire month of May and June, forcing some to leave ' by Al Suq ...

Closes the quintet a mega post on Fourth new library (or "Citadel of Culture 'or' Cultural Pole ', whatever you want, so marketing is not that we are talking now): an article that had 4 months of gestation and that sums up well, not so much the purpose for which Al Suq was born, and the role a bit 'at a time "was taken, namely to make healthy, fair and documented counter-information (which means" information against someone "but Information completion ).

In fact already the first article ( as a forum for the associations? ) builds from a problem of information on the project build extension to the headquarters dell'Avis (in square Donor) a building for a new venue for groups, including - according to the administration, and "pen" of the journalist - the "school of music." The news that I - in part because - I had were very different, and I wrote them, then take the opportunity to do some 'clarity on that project, showing the designs and doing some' accounts on the cost of the operation. Of course, no answer to the doubts fielded .

Today is a day of discussion in recent examples of bad-information, to which the articles to follow counter-information (August is still August!). We think soon, from the last city council (that of June 29) and the last number of fourth information.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Car Battery Amp Hour Rating

Welcome to the jungle!

include theft and vandalism in our country, last month, has seen impressive escalation of acts of petty crime ...


"Welcome to the jungle," sang the Guns N 'Roses. In this case, however, there is a better "Welcome to the far-northeast," ...

fact I just learned that tonight, for the second time in the space of barely a week , "unknown" (but always the same, they have recognized those who are looking out the window after the bang) have broken From the window of the bar Mauro, opened a few months in the avenue of resistance. Last Friday night did not bring anything away, but tonight they took a video-poker machine (some say to throw off the rumors about hypothetical intimidation - vox populi ...).


Probably the same night last Friday (and probably the same people, since nobody would use their car to break a window in alley ...), Toscanini (a few tens of meters from the bar) have tried to steal the car of a friend of mine : they have bent the door in half, have a bit busy 'with the block, but fortunately the operation failed.

But not all. Saturday, July 31 If we neglect that I left unattended - for 15 minutes at most - on the rides in via Tagliamento (near ASL) inside a bag with documents, money, credit cards, two mobile phones, a pair of eyeglasses ; that after 10 minutes the phones were turned off, and that after two weeks not turned out anything yet (patience for the money and phones, but the documents and glasses! [the day after the publication of this article I received an envelope containing the documents of the two phones and sim a shame that the paperwork for new documents had already been started ...] not be ignored instead of the Saturday night of that same "unknown vandals - I quote from the New Venice August 3 - presumably kids have climbed over the gate of the school complex [Asylum Peter Pan, ed] and apparently not knowing how kill time, have broken, split and made unusable all children plays (forty) 'this past summer after the other (or themselves) unknown had even led in the school food by raiding & Drink (source: The New Venice August 21, 2009).

It is not only the capital to have been victims of this escalating vandalism and crime. A Portegrandi fact, throughout the month of July there have been several burglary , as reported by The New Venice on July 30 last year.

One of the many police officers I spoke with in the past two weeks because of the loss or theft of documents etc. at one point makes me "Why do not you go live somewhere else?" . It was a challenge, of course, but in no case would follow such advice. The fact is that from the point of view of safety our country is not how many people would like. In fact, if you continue to pretend nothing happened, or minimize, to a question 'image' , which eventually will fall victims of the broken window theory , I mentioned in my last article .

The future, however, can be brighter than it is this. just have to want and work to change things.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Mike James Azimuth Design

The straw that breaks ... Second Day in the Park underpass

flooded the railway is only one of many symptoms of a station that is drifting ... The super


rain yesterday (Thursday, 29 July) made us realize how little has been sighted - under pressure from the metropolitan area and high speed, which have "forced" closure of the passages at the level of capital and the village of Le Crete - hold together the two parts of the country (de dee landed here and goddess' it was once) with well four underpasses and even a flyover .

Of these four subways, at least two yesterday afternoon I went under water : one in the center, at the municipal football field, and that of the train station.

The first is famous for its ease of flooding, and one would expect that those who manage the emergency has already all arranged if necessary . I mean, simply, barriers and detour signs clear, to be placed in at least four places in the country:

  1. height of 'ex out of the ring road to divert Coming from Casale, and must go to Portegrandi on the new road (Via Pascoli, by May Day, Boulevard of the Republic , a new subway, avenue of resistance);
  2. to "draft" of round front of the church to turn back to the former out of the ring road (and there because Pascoli etc.) who is from the town center must go beyond rail, or sending it over the Sile, and then to Bagaggiolo Portegrandi;
  3. the roundabout path of resistance for divert those coming from Marcon and wants to go downtown or to the Fourth Treviso on the new road (Viale della Repubblica, the new subway, etc..)
  4. the traffic light at the end of Viale Kennedy , to divert those coming from the residential area of avenue of resistance to go downtown via the Sun, and from there back to the roundabout path of resistance (and therefore Avenue of the Republic, a new subway, etc.)..

It is in this fourth point, however, the city police yesterday deflected all those who came from Avenue Kennedy (who also had the arrow on the left!) Via Marconi, a road that is dangerous any attempt to reverse the direction of gear, unless you expect to arrive at the roundabout in downtown Portegrandi. A bit 'too much for someone who wanted to just go all'IlD ... As for the

subway station last night at 21.30 was still flooded , committed to civil protection to clear the water. Nine and a half: four hours after the storm ! This means that all commuters between 18 and 20 have returned from Venice, Mestre and San Donà, or have been soaked, or had to cross the tracks (which is not easy and very dangerous after the modernization of the station). Today, then, clearly, both lifts were out of , pace of the disabled of good will, that trying to live a life as independent as possible, but are not even able to take public transport.

This, together with the tiles of the wall of the ramp side Crowne Plaza literally torn away by the wind last week (see article on the New July 20), was the straw that broke my staff. .. underpass.

so I decided to publish a bit 'of photos taken recently in his station, including subway, waiting room and parking. These are not people who are going to look with the lantern: just, finding every day to make a few steps on foot or by bike to the station, I have found them under the eyes and I have immortalized. This is demonstrated by the very quality of photos taken with a camera but not with the phone.

The SUV parked on the parking for the disabled without permission to do so (picture taken just last night), the Bartolini pickup trucks parked in reverse, with the bucket and a ladder hanging over the sidewalk, head height (if not to occlude the access ramp to the parking for the disabled!) snatched the bicycle wheels, seat and handlebar, and hurled down from the car park on the access ramp to the underpass, the ticket machines tickets gutted and left for days open, with electrical wires and sharp pieces of children's reach.

are all attributable to the famous examples of the broken window theory formulated in 1982 by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, according to which not punish small transgressions may generate emulation phenomena that lead to spirals of vandalism - if not violence - even more serious . In fact, if someone breaks a window of a building and this is not immediately adjusted, is spreading the idea that those who see the building is abandoned or left without care, "inviting" soon other thugs to break other windows and causing other phenomena of violence against property.

not wait for someone to break it with a stone embankment of a window of the station to be aware of prevailing in a pitiful state of the jewels of our country (at least according to "Theory of the proximity of public transport" applied in recent years by real estate operators to justify the rising cost of real estate in our country ...).

[click image to enlarge and scroll through the photos by clicking on the right or left of the picture itself]