Porti & ambiente — le notizie raccolte

Un plauso all’iniziativa della Guardia Costiera di Taranto per il rafforzamento delle misure di prevenzione e contenimento delle emissioni odorigene e dei composti organici volatili (VOC) provenienti dalle navi cisterna. A esprimerlo è il consigliere regionale di Fratelli d’Italia, Giampaolo Vietri, che sottolinea l’importanza del provvedimento per il territorio ionico. “Si tratta di un passo fondamentale e importantissimo – afferma – perché per la prima volta si interviene in maniera mirata su un problema molto sentito dai cittadini: i miasmi che spesso rendono l’aria irrespirabile nei quartieri vicini al porto”. Secondo Vietri, l’iniziativa rappresenta un segnale concreto di attenzione verso una comunità che da anni chiede interventi sulla qualità dell’aria. “Il minimo che si possa dire è grazie. Non è un atto burocratico, ma una risposta reale a un’esigenza diffusa”. Il consigliere regionale evidenzia anche il ruolo della Capitaneria di Porto, riconoscendone la capacità di ascolto e l’approccio operativo. “È giusto dare merito a chi ha raccolto le segnalazioni della comunità e ha messo in campo un’azione efficace, che richiede competenza e anche coraggio”. Infine, l’auspicio è che questo metodo possa diventare un modello. “Vorremmo che tutte le problematiche ambientali venissero affrontate con lo stesso spirito di collaborazione istituzionale e con interventi concreti”, conclude Vietri. About Author

Washington state startup Panthalassa is building self-propelled floating platforms that generate electricity from ocean waves and use it to power AI data centers at sea. The platform, dubbed Ocean-3, has devices that have no anchor, need no fuel, and have no cables connecting them to shore. Each platform rises and falls with the waves, forcing water through an internal turbine to generate electricity. The generated power then runs onboard computing hardware that processes AI tasks on the spot, with results sent back via satellite. "The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available," said Garth Sheldon-Coulson, CEO and co-founder of Panthalassa. "It will really be the cheapest energy on the planet." The Ocean-3 works more like a floating hydroelectric dam. As waves lift the platform, water inside a tube is forced upward into a ballast tank. This water then flows into a spinning turbine, which generates electricity. The system is self-propelled, moving like a large Roomba rather than being tethered to the ocean floor. Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Multiple units deployed together can function as a single floatingdata center, with no carbon emissions and no strain on local power grids. "When you deploy many of our systems, they work together basically as a data center," Sheldon-Coulson said. "So, we think of it as a really good alternative to data centers on land." Due to high electricity consumption, which drives up carbon emissions and household utility bills, the industry has been looking for an alternative to land-based AI data centers. There have been discussions aboutunderwater data centersas well asdata centers in space, but none of these seem to be short-term plans. As the demand for compute grows and traditional power grids collapse, Panthalassa offers an alternative that bypasses land acquisition and fossil fuel dependence. Construction of the Ocean-3 units is already underway, and Sheldon-Coulson expects them to be operating offshore by August of this year. The company eventually hopes to deploy thousands of these platforms far out at sea. Panthalassa has all of the private funding it needs because AI companies are eager for quicker, cleaner ways to get power than building data centers on land. "It is really exciting that we're working on something that is coming along right at the right time," Sheldon-Coulson said, "in a way that's much cleaner, much more sustainable, and quite scalable." Although the concept is elegant, there is one uncertainty: the ocean. It has a way of breaking things that work perfectly in testing. Saltwater corrosion, biofouling, and storm damage are not hypothetical problems for marine equipment; they are daily realities. The Ocean-3 platforms will need to survive hurricanes, salt spray, and years of continuous motion without mechanical failure. Satellite links also introduce latency that may not suit all AI workloads, and the cost of repairing a broken generator in the middle of the ocean will be huge. Panthalassa has proven that wave energy can power a floating platform, but proving it can do so reliably for years is a much harder challenge. Still, for an industry desperate for power and willing to try almost anything, the ocean offers something that no data center on land can match: unlimited space and a power source that never stops moving. ViaCBS News Follow TechRadar on Google Newsandadd us as a preferred sourceto get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in analytical thinking. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.

Sign up forInside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Cannons fired.Fifes and drums played “Yankee Doodle.” A quartet of F-35s flew overhead, and dozens of military service members held American and British flags. It was about as much pomp as the United States can muster. This 250th anniversary of America, for the Brits, can be … a bit awkward. It’s like celebrating a divorce with your ex, decades after the breakup. But here was King Charles III, ready to toast the land that his great-grandfather five times over allowed to get away. And here, too, was President Trump—who has long admired, complimented, and envied the Royal Family—doing little to tamp down suspicions that he strives to become a monarch in his own right. Charles’s visit to Washington was part of the celebrations for an anniversary Trump is eager to mark, and the president was keen to impress the King who’d come across the Atlantic. As Trump took the stage yesterday on a dreary morning filled with spitting rain (“What a beautiful British day this is!” he said), he also reveled in the unlikeliness of the onetime subjects welcoming the monarch. “In the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence,” Trump said. “But in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate.” He spoke of how far America had come since a ragtag crew of rebels threw off control by their imperial masters. All around him, however, was evidence of his desire to make the nation’s capital a little more, well, regal. Gilded flourishes now predominate at the White House. Outside the gates, Lafayette Park remains a construction site. The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall is closed off as Trump has it painted a bright blue. During the welcoming ceremony, cranes swung back and forth above the site where Trump last year tore down the East Wing—and now hopes a monumental ballroom will rise. Throughout the day it was clear how much Trump admired, and wanted to emulate, Charles. In Britain, when one monarch dies, they quickly update the currency with an image of the new king or queen. In America, a gold coin with Trump’s image is in the works, as are National Park passes and passports that will bear his likeness. In Britain, there are elaborate shrines marking the history of an empire. In America, Trump plans a giant triumphal arch outside Arlington National Cemetery that’s been dubbed the Arc de Trump. Over the past year, Democrats and other Trump opponents have staged “No Kings” rallies throughout the country. On this day, Trump, however tongue in cheek, formally declared himself one. As Charles was giving a speech at the Capitol, delivering a none-too-subtle paean to the importance of checks and balances in constitutional government, the official White House social-media account blasted out a photo of the two men. “TWO KINGS,” it read, with an emoji of a crown. In mid-September,I arrived with President Trump for a two-day festival in the United Kingdom. A few days before arriving, other members of the press corps and I were invited to a special tour of Windsor Castle, the setting for a state banquet in Trump’s honor. A small group of us were shuttled to the property. Television cameras from around the world were broadcasting from outside the walls. As our van drove through the lush grounds, the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force display team, flew overhead with red, white, and blue streamers behind. It’s impossible to overstate how elaborate it all was, how meticulous the planning for it was, how grand—and, yes, over-the-top—it all appeared. Inside, each table setting featured five glasses. All told, 1,452 pieces of cutlery were spread around the table where more than 100 staff would be serving. The table itself took a week to lay together and assemble. We were instructed not to take photos, but people sneaked them anyway. Read: What we learn about Trump in his rare moments of self-reflection The dinner was held in St. George’s Hall, with wooden arches and crests, pikes and shields. At one end of the room was an armored figure on horseback known as “The King’s Champion.” It references a historical figure who would ride into a banquet, throw his gauntlet down, and then challenge anyone to deny the authority of the new sovereign. At the time, it seemed a fitting metaphor for how Trump viewed himself, and his presidency. He was stretching the bounds of what it could do, and he was largely unrestrained. The president was clearly giddy about the whole experience. “This is truly one of the highest honors of my life,” he said. “Such respect for you and such respect for your country.” Trump has alwayshad a soft spot for the Royal Family. He wrote to then-Prince Charles in 1994, offering him an honorary membership to Mar-a-Lago. He also received a letter from Princess Diana in 1997, just weeks before her death, in which she thanked him for sending flowers on her birthday. His mother was Scottish and, by his account, sat for an entire day in front of the television watching Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, in 1953. “She was just enthralled by the pomp and circumstance, the whole idea of royalty and glamour,” he wrote in his bookThe Art of the Deal. His dad, he wrote, was less enthralled, pacing and telling her, “Enough is enough, turn it off. They’re all a bunch of con artists.” Looking out onto the South Lawn yesterday, he recalled his mother’s affection for the royals generally, and for Charles specifically. “She really did love the family, but I also remember her saying, very clearly, ‘Charles—look, young Charles. He’s so cute,’” he said. “My mother had a crush on Charles. Can you believe it?” This visit came at a dicey moment, with the Epstein files lingering, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s job in peril, and a war that the United States launched without British help or consultation still upending the global economy. British officials have said they hoped their king, who has tried to cozy up to Trump, would help shore up a “special relationship” that has seen better days. In his most high-profile remarks of the visit, the King was invited to address a joint session of Congress. The event had the feel of a State of the Union, with Charles walking down the center aisle and greeting politicians, the vice president and the House speaker sitting behind him as he spoke. At moments it seemed like a stand-up routine. He joked that he was there to celebrate what transpired 250 years ago, then paused a beat. “Or, as we say in the United Kingdom, ‘just the other day.’” He quoted from Oscar Wilde (“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language”), and he mentioned a “tale of two Georges” (“the first president, George Washington, and my five-times great-grandfather, King George III”). In what wasn’t meant as a joke but could be interpreted as one, he also called Congress, which has been mired in unusually severe bouts of dysfunction, a “renowned chamber of debate and deliberation.” He also said some things that, coming from anyone else, Trump might have interpreted as unforgivable slights. He talked about military cooperation in the world wars and in Afghanistan, adding that “that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine”—a pointed reminder that Trump has been anything but steadfast in his support for Kyiv. He spoke of environmentalism and the need to “safeguard nature, our most precious and irreplaceable asset,” at a moment when the Trump administration has been busy undoing one environmental protection after another. One of his most rousing lines came as he referenced the Magna Carta and the legal framework that both countries share, including “the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.” Democrats were particularly enthusiastic, but Republicans also rose from their seats. Read: Is the end of NATO near? Rather than be offended, Trump appeared charmed, and more than a little envious. At a dinner that evening—ornate by White House standards, but nothing compared with the one in Windsor Castle last fall—Trump repeatedly complimented the King on his speech (“I was very jealous!” he said as he welcomed him outside). He marveled at how Charles was able to get the Democrats to stand and applaud him (“I couldn’t believe it!”). As much as Trump craves the partisan combat that has been such a feature of his presidency, it was hard not to think that he’d be just fine with the near-universal adoration of a monarch.

Beginning with his first job in the Reagan Justice Department, the chief justice has been hell-bent on dismantling the Voting Rights Act. US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts at Donald Trump’s 2025 address to both chambers of Congress. On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court essentially eviscerated the Voting Rights Act (VRA) inCallais v. Louisiana.The 6–3 party-line decision effectively ends any protection against racial gerrymandering and vote dilution, and opens the doors to redistricting across the South that will likely decimate Black and Latino representation in Congress, as well as state legislatures and municipal governments. The central question in this case has a long history—and it begins with John Roberts’s very first days in Washington, DC, as a young aide in Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice. When Roberts first arrived at the DOJ in 1981, fresh off a clerkship for William Rehnquist at the Supreme Court, he was assigned two important portfolios: prepping Sandra Day O’Connor for her confirmation hearings before Congress, and drastically curbing voting rights. O’Connor sailed through the Senate. The VRA would be more contentious: A 1980 Supreme Court decision inMobile v. Alabamahad required plaintiffs pursuing a Section 2 claim to prove that lawmakers had racial intent. That’s difficult to demonstrate, and brought nearly all Section 2 litigation to a halt. Civil rights groups, Democrats, and moderate Republicans wanted to use the VRA reauthorization to clarify that Section 2 of the VRA prohibited election laws and procedures that had a racially discriminatory effect, not just those passed with clear racially discriminatory intent. Congress intended to remedy all racially discriminatoryeffects. John Roberts had a different idea. The Reagan administration was divided. Moderate Reaganites did not want to battle over something popular and historic. But ideological conservatives within the DOJ were spoiling for the fight. They were content to extend the act, just so long as it was impossible to use. Roberts led the way. Roberts’s papers from this era,housed at the National Archives, show his determination and dedication. They include memos and talking points, draft op-eds, scripted answers for bosses to deliver in meetings and before Congress, and presentations for senators and Hill staff. His files show how Roberts devised the messaging strategies that made it possible for the administration to claim that it supported reauthorization, while actually helping neuter the VRA—a skill he would go on to master as chief justice. Before Congress two decades later, however, Roberts obscured this role. When Roberts was asked in his confirmation hearings by Democratic Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin why he then “want[ed] to make Section 2 cases so difficult to prove,” he distorted the 1982 political debate, rewrote its history, and downplayed his own leadership. One could even make the case that he misled Congress under oath. “Senator,” Roberts replied, “you keep referring to what I supported and what I wanted to do. I was a 26-year-old staff lawyer. It was my first job as a lawyer after my clerkships. I was not shaping administration policy. The administration policy was shaped by the attorney general on whose staff I served. It was the policy of President Reagan. It was to extend the Voting Rights Act without change for the longest period in history at that point, and it was my job to promote the attorney general’s view and the president’s view on that issue. And that’s what I was doing.” But it was not the policy of President Reagan. It was not the president’s view. And as Roberts’s own papers would show, he was doing far more than that. US Attorney General William French Smith might have been the figurehead. But as Michael Carvin, who worked alongside Roberts as part of a group of ideological warriors in the DOJ known as the “band of brothers,” told me: “Voting—that was John’s fight. Always John’s fight.… I do think our strong feelings about all this comes from the fact that we were dealing with these arguments in 1982 and 1983.” Roberts started at the DOJ as a special assistant in the civil rights division on August 14, 1981. Voting rights became his focus. The DOJ was the hub of opposition to the effects test in section 2 of the VRA. Bruce Fein, a Roberts DOJ colleague, remembers Roberts as the architect. “He was intimately involved in that. Definitely, intimately involved,” he says. “John, more than anyone, was very familiar with the voting rights stuff.” Roberts started from a difficult position. Before he arrived, the pragmatic White House aides who wanted to avoid the messiness of a voting rights fight appeared to hold the winning hand. A lopsided House vote embraced the effects test. And during the summer of 1981, Reagan moved toward that position. That August, the president toldThe Washington Starthat he would back a 10-year reauthorization. Roberts drove reconsideration of this policy at the highest level. That fall, when Reagan seemed convinced on the effects test, the DOJ pushed back, hard. After the White House released a November statement that Reagan would support whatever compromise Congress reached, Roberts and his boss, Attorney General Smith, fumed. Smith demanded a meeting with Reagan. Roberts armed him with talking points. Reagan embraced two of Smith’s proposals: maintaining the intent standard, and making it easier for Southern localities to escape preclearance–the provision under the VRA mandating that districts with a history of racial discrimination submit planned maps to the DOJ for certification. Reagan now declared the effects standard “new and untested”—a position that hewed almost word for word to Roberts’s talking points. In his end-of-the-year news conference, Reagan channeled Roberts again. “The effect rule could lead to the type of thing in which effect could be judged if there was some disproportion in the number of officials who were elected at any governmental level,” Reagan said. “You could come down to where all of society had to have an actual quota system.” This is almost exactly what Roberts wrote in his December 1981 memo, “Why Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Should Remain Unchanged.” “Incorporations of an effects test in Section 2,” he argued, “would establish essentially a quota system for electoral politics.” Then he wrote the line that could be seen as defining decades of future jurisprudence: “Violations of Section 2 should not be made too easy to prove, since they provide a basis for the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.” Roberts orchestrated Reagan’s shift. He scripted the president’s statements. He placed the administration into an intent-vs.-effects fight that Reagan’s political counselors thought unnecessary. The next battle would be before the US Senate. Roberts would script that too—as his memos and communications at the National Archives clearly show. The Roberts files amount to hundreds of pages. They reveal the deep roots of his quarrels with the VRA as well as the outsize role he played in 1982, despite his disingenuous avowals before Feingold and other congressional Democrats in his 2005 confirmation hearings. They provide a portrait of a young ideologue who has spent decades hiding his ideology. And in the John Roberts who battled to immobilize the VRA in 1982 can be heard an eerie echo of the chief justice who would have the final word. When Roberts opened his newspaper on November 16, 1981, he discovered a column by Vernon Jordan, head of the National Urban League, titled “Diluting Voting Rights.” Roberts could not have liked what he read. Jordan opened his argument sounding much like pragmatic Reagan aides. Reagan’s endorsement of the intent standard “was not only a political mistake,” Jordan wrote, but a “disservice” to conservatism. Then the civil rights leader lowered the boom. Intent to discriminate, he wrote, is impossible to prove. “Local officials don’t wallpaper their offices with memos about how to restrict minority-group members’ access to the polling booth,” Jordan wrote. “Discriminatory effects are clear to all.” Proving intent, he argued, shifted and required the burden of proof and required evidence that “would be virtually impossible to assemble.” “The President’s endorsement of the Voting Rights Act,” he concluded, “is a sham.” Jordan’s op-ed sent the Department of Justice into a tizzy. The following morning, Roberts drafted a response and circulated it to DOJ higher-ups. His pugnacious response insisted that the intent test would make a “radical change” to the Voting Rights Act and slammed the congressional version that included the effects test as an “untested piece of legislation” and a “radical experiment.” Roberts conceded that local officials might not wallpaper racist memos in their offices, but insisted that “circumstantial evidence” would still suffice, “as Mr. Jordan presumably knows.” Roberts reached for an old saw in his conclusion: “As the old saying goes, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” It’s hard to believe that this argument even convinced its author. As Roberts presumably knew, in blithely asserting that intent was readily provable, he ignored how the lawyers seeking to preserve the VRA’s standards in a key test case in Mobile, Alabama, had presented decades of historical evidence, circumstantial evidence, and firsthand testimonials of widespread and devastating racist rigging of the city’s civic and political life, all of which lower federal courts found convincing. The Supreme Court, and Roberts’ anti–voting rights mentor William Rehnquist, brushed it all aside. “The only ones who could be disappointed by the President’s actions,” Roberts held, “are not those truly concerned about the right to vote but rather those who, for whatever reason, were simply spoiling for a fight.” Thus did a 26-year-old Justice official who launched his career in conditions of segregated privilege dismiss Jordan’s long-established integrity as an advocate for racial justice. Roberts would pen almost two dozen additional memos urging the DOJ to stand firm behind Mobile’s intent standard. Meanwhile, while the future chief justice simmered, his legislative foes were quietly reconstituting a majority in the US Senate. Decades later, when Roberts used his influence as chief justice to unravel much of Section 2 and freeze Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, he only needed to command a majority of five. The Senate had a higher magic number: 60, the amount necessary to stave off a filibuster to block the VRA’s reauthorization in 1982. Strom Thurmond chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. Opponents of the VRA’s effects provision felt confident that they could engineer a host of obstructionist feints and amendments to block its passage. So it meant something when Senators Ted Kennedy and Charles Mathias, the bipartisan cosponsors of reauthorization in the Senate, filed their bill—including the effects test—with 61 cosponsors. If the coalition of 40 Democrats and 21 Republicans held, not only would the reauthorization pass easily; it would also overcome any filibuster. Thurmond, the old South Carolina segregationist, sputtered in disbelief when informed that 61 senators introduced the reauthorization together. “They must not have read the bill!” An equally stunned Roberts prepared to fight on. “Do not be fooled by the House vote or the 61 Senate sponsors of the House bill into believing that the President cannot win on this issue,” Roberts wrote in a January 1982 memo to the attorney general. Roberts’s allies were segregationists, his math was bad, and his political instincts worse—but he urged his troops onward, confident in his own assessment of Congress. “Many members of the House did not know they were doing more than simply extending the Act, and several of the 61 Senators have already indicated that they only intended to support simple extension,” he wrote. “Once the senators are educated on the differences between the President’s position and the House bill, and the serious dangers in the House bill,” Roberts insisted, “solid support will emerge for the President’s position.” That education was to begin with the Senate Judiciary Committee, The day before it began holding hearings, the administration abruptly asked to delay the attorney general’s testimony. Roberts remained focused. On January 21, 1982, he sent Smith six pages of draft questions and answers to help guide his remarks. In his behind-the-scenes brief to his boss, it’s clear that there was simply no improvement to the VRA that Roberts was willing to countenance. When he detailed his objections to the effects test, Roberts supplied a tendentious account of supposed open-minded inquiry that pointedly ignored the testimony of experts and misrepresented the words of civil rights leaders. He counseled Smith to tell Congress, “In reviewing the Voting Rights Act last summer in the course of preparing recommendations to the President, I met personally with scores of civil rights leaders.” Roberts wrote, “The one theme from these discussions was clear: the Act has been the most successful civil rights legislation ever enacted and it should be extended unchanged. As the old saying goes, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” Here Roberts was merely parroting an earlier talking point he’d circulated during the House debate; it had nothing to do with the actual views of civil rights leaders who, in fact, were determined at all costs to repair the defective 1980Mobiledecision. His memos encouraged Smith to double down on loose talk of racial quotas before Thurmond’s committee, contending without any empirical backing that the effects test “would establish aquota systemfor electoral politics”—here he underlined “quota system”—which “we believe is fundamentally inconsistent with democratic principles.” Five days later, on January 26, Roberts again urged Smith to stiffen his resolve on the effects question as the attorney general prepared to begin his testimony the next day. The same day, Roberts also attended a crucial meeting at the White House where DOJ officials sought to shore up Reagan’s opposition to the effects test—“once and for all,” a seemingly frustrated Roberts wrote. Elie Mystal Jeet Heer Column/Sasha Abramsky Gregg Gonsalves In this final prehearing memo, the young aide exhorted his boss as follows: “I recommend taking a very positive and aggressive stance.” Roberts followed the same counsel in the White House meeting; he had clearly grown weary of all the bureaucratic skirmishing with Reagan’s political team, and demanded that the White House “actively work” to enact the DOJ’s policy. He insisted that his position could be sold politically. “The President’s opinion is a very positive one,” Roberts wrote, repeating his pet mantra. “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” In the meeting and his memos, Roberts maintained that the effects test would “throw into litigation existing electoral systems at every level of government nationwide when there is no evidence of voting abuses nationwide supporting the need for such a change.” Roberts also again sought to tie opposition to the effects test to the administration’s overall stance on race and affirmative action. “Just as we oppose quotas in employment and education, so too we oppose them in elections.” “It is very important that the fight be won, and the President is fully committed to this effort,” Roberts concluded, imperiously. “His staff should be as well.” No one could question Roberts’s commitment. That day he sent Smith yet another memo, a two-page response to an editorial inThe Washington Postthat endorsed the effects test. Then, in an early February 1982 memo to his immediate DOJ boss, Brad Reynolds, Roberts offered extensive handwritten edits on a draft op-ed that he thought needed to strike a more aggressive tone. “I do not agree with the Attorney General that it is necessary to ‘talk down’ to the audience,” Roberts proclaimed. “The frequent writings in this area by our adversaries have gone unanswered for too long.” Roberts remained hopeful that his position would prevail in the Senate, either by putting the filibuster back in play, enabling a presidential veto, or slowing things down and hoping to gain a negotiating cudgel as the VRA neared expiration. Whatever obstructionist vision beguiled him most, Roberts worked the Senate hard. He assembled clip packages of anti–results test op-eds. He sent friendly offices his “Why Section Two of the Voting Rights Should Be Retained Unchanged” essay. He ran this offensive by Ken Starr, then a counselor to the attorney general before investigating President Clinton as the nation’s leading sex cop (alongside future justice Brett Kavanaugh), with a handwritten note on the attorney general’s letterhead: “Ken, possibilities to distribute to senators. John.” Recalcitrant senators hit the brakes. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who chaired the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, reversed course after six weeks of hearings focused almost entirely on intent versus effects—and restored the original language on intent. The bill then moved to Thurmond’s kingdom, the Judiciary Committee. By then, Kansas GOP Senator Bob Dole had seen enough. Dole was determined that the GOP be the party of Lincoln, not Thurmond. He quietly forged a compromise. Section 2 would carry a results standard. The language of the accompanying Senate report could not have been clearer. Racial effects would be enough. Dole informed Reagan that the DOJ could continue the fight—but it was fated to lose. He had 80 votes. Back at Justice, Roberts’s band of brothers didn’t seethe so much as they threw up their hands in resignation. “The Reagan administration took the principled view over the politically advantageous,” says Michael Carvin, who worked alongside Roberts at the DOJ and would become a prominent conservative Supreme Court litigator, “and then they eventually caved.” The lesson was simple: If you want to change the law, change the judges. When Roberts and and his fellow George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito arrived at the Supreme Court, the same arguments would carry the day—not because things had actually changed in the South, but because the theater of battle had now shifted to the judiciary. You didn’t need 60 senators or 218 representatives. Five like-minded conservatives would be enough—and now they would have six. Feingold, who posed the question that Roberts answered in such a misleading manner, now looks back in disbelief. “I don’t think any of us felt that he was really going to try and undermine the Voting Rights Act,” he told me, “which is of course one of the worst things he could have possibly done. Then he did.” John Roberts lost in 1982. He never stopped trying to turn back the clock. On Wednesday he succeeded. You might say that was the plan all along. From illegal war on Iran to an inhumane fuel blockade of Cuba, from AI weapons to crypto corruption, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence. Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations,The Nationpublishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media—stories like the one you’ve just read. 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El astillero moañés Aister ha sido adjudicataria de la construcción del Jeune France II, un avanzado catamarán de pasajeros que será fabricado íntegramente en aluminio y está valorado en cerca de cuatro millones de euros. Su entrega está prevista para septiembre del 2027, cuando comenzará a operar para la Colectividad Territorial de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, sustituyendo al actual Jeune France en la ruta que conecta el puerto de Saint-Pierre con la isla de Langlade, célebre por sus acantilados abruptos y conocida popularmente como el Pequeño Miquelon. El nuevo buque destaca por un diseño adaptado a las necesidades del archipiélago, especialmente por la ausencia de infraestructuras portuarias en Langlade. Con 22,5 metros de eslora, 7,5 metros de manga y capacidad para 100 pasajeros, el Jeune France II está pensado para realizar varadas directas en playa gracias a un asiento estructural reforzado que permite apoyar la proa sobre el lecho marino con total seguridad. Además, incorpora una rampa hidráulica de proa que facilita el desembarco de pasajeros y la carga de vehículos de hasta 3,5 toneladas, convirtiéndose en una solución logística esencial para la movilidad local. En materia de sostenibilidad, Aister apuesta por un sistema de propulsión híbrida paralela que combina dos motores diésel de última generación —368 kW cada uno y certificados bajo la normativa IMO Tier III— con un sistema de propulsión eléctrica destinado a maniobras y navegación a baja velocidad. Esta configuración permitirá operar de forma silenciosa y sin emisiones en determinados tramos, manteniendo una velocidad de servicio de 12 nudos y reduciendo la huella ambiental del buque. La construcción y armamento del Jeune France II se llevará a cabo íntegramente en las instalaciones de la empresa en la ría de Vigo, reforzando el papel del astillero gallego como referente internacional en la fabricación de barcos de aluminio. Este material, cada vez más demandado en la náutica profesional, ofrece ventajas clave como mayor ligereza, durabilidad y eficiencia energética frente al acero tradicional.

Sarà operativo fino a fine anno – precisamente fino al 31 dicembre 2026 – il nuovo quadro temporaneo per gli aiuti di Stato adottato oggi dalla Commissione Europea con lo scopo di sostenere i settori colpiti dalla crisi in Medio Oriente (Middle East Crisis Temporary State Aid Framework). Tra i settori trattati dal Metsaf, spiega la stessa Commissione, ci sono anche quelli dei trasporti stradali, ferroviari, per vie d’acqua interne e di short sea su tratte intraeuropee, al fianco di quelli di agricoltura e pesca, i quali potranno ricevere sostegni a coprire fino il 70% degli extracosti dovuti per il carburante e per i fertilizzanti. In generale, l’aumento di prezzo sarà determinato da ciascuno Stato membro esaminando la differenza tra il prezzo di mercato pertinente e un prezzo di riferimento storico applicabile. Per questi settori, un’opzione semplificata renderà più facile per i beneficiari essere ammissibili all’aiuto, consentendo agli Stati membri di calibrare gli importi dei singoli sostegni su elementi quali le dimensioni e il tipo di attività dei beneficiari, una stima generale del consumo di combustibile nel settore o altri parametri pertinenti, consentendo a ciascun beneficiario di ricevere un contributo fino a 50mila euro. Per quel che riguarda nello specifico i trasporti marittimi, il framework appena varato include i collegamenti short sea intraeuropei, spiegando che questi potranno beneficiare della misura dato che “un sostegno temporaneo potrebbe attenuare le conseguenze di aumenti eccezionalmente marcati del prezzo del combustibile causati dalla crisi”. Per essere ammissibili – chiarisce il documento – tali aiuti dovranno essere concessi in forma di “sovvenzioni dirette, agevolazioni fiscali e di pagamento o in altre forme, quali garanzie, prestiti e capitale proprio”, a condizione che il loro valore nominale totale non superi l’intensità di aiuto e i massimali di aiuto applicabili”. I valori utilizzati dovranno essere “al lordo di qualsiasi imposta o altri oneri” e potranno coprire “fino al 70 % dei costi supplementari per il combustibile causati dalla crisi in Medio Oriente”. Il periodo ammissibile, prosegue il testo, decorrerà “dal 1° marzo 2026 al 31 dicembre 2026 al più tardi”. Da rilevare che il documento chiarisce esplicitamente che gli aiuti “non coprono direttamente i costi dell’Ets, né usano i prezzi Ets come parametri per determinare la compensazione, mantenendo quindi gli obblighi e gli incentivi dell’Ets”. Tra le condizioni poste, c’è quella secondo cui i sostegni non possono essere concessi a imprese che si trovavano già in difficoltà, con l’eccezione delle piccole e microimprese che già lo erano prima del 28 febbraio 2026, e purché non soggette a procedure concorsuali per insolvenza e non abbiano ricevuto aiuti per il salvataggio o la ristrutturazione. “Conseguire un’economia pulita – ha chiosato Teresa Ribera, Vicepresidente esecutiva per una Transizione pulita, giusta e competitiva – è ciò che ci proteggerà dalle crisi energetiche del futuro. La transizione energetica rimane la strategia più efficace per l’autonomia, la crescita e la resilienza dell’Europa. Tuttavia le recenti impennate dei prezzi dell’energia richiedono una risposta immediata. Il quadro temporaneo introduce soluzioni facilmente applicabili che attenueranno gli effetti della crisi e sosterranno così il continuo sviluppo di settori fondamentali dell’Ue quali l’agricoltura, la pesca e i trasporti”. ISCRIVITI ALLA NEWSLETTER QUOTIDIANA GRATUITA DI SHIPPING ITALY SHIPPING ITALY E’ ANCHE SU WHATSAPP: BASTA CLICCARE QUI PER ISCRIVERSI AL CANALE ED ESSERE SEMPRE AGGIORNATI

diGloria Quaranta·29 Aprile 2026 Nuove iniziative per la tutela ambientale nel porto di Taranto. La Capitaneria di Porto – Guardia Costiera ha introdotto un protocollo operativo per prevenire e contenere le emissioni odorigene e i composti organici volatili (VOC) prodotti dalle navi cisterna. Il provvedimento, realizzato in collaborazione con Arpa Puglia, Autorità Portuale, tecnici specializzati ed Eni, punta a rafforzare i controlli in uno scalo caratterizzato da un’intensa movimentazione di idrocarburi, soprattutto nei mesi estivi quando il rischio di emissioni aumenta. Le nuove disposizioni prevedono l’obbligo per le navi di mantenere efficienti i sistemi di controllo, monitorare costantemente pressione e temperatura del carico e registrare i dati per eventuali verifiche. In caso di anomalie, scatteranno interventi immediati. Sull’iniziativa è intervenuto il deputato di Fratelli d’Italia Dario Iaia, che ha espresso “sinceri complimenti” alla Guardia Costiera di Taranto, sottolineando l’importanza delle misure per la tutela dell’ambiente e della salute pubblica. “La sicurezza e la protezione del territorio sono priorità imprescindibili – ha dichiarato – e queste azioni rappresentano un passo significativo verso uno sviluppo portuale più sostenibile”. La Guardia Costiera continuerà a garantire monitoraggi costanti per verificare il rispetto delle nuove norme.

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Il provvedimento è finalizzato a una maggiore trasparenza, apertura del mercato e qualità dei servizi per i passeggeri L’Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti ha annunciato che il proprio Consiglio ha “approvato la delibera n. 59/2026 riguardante le misure regolatorie relative agli affidamenti di servizi di cabotaggio marittimo e alle attività a essi propedeutiche. Le misure adottate introducono elementi di novità nelle procedure di affidamento del servizio e rafforzano le attività di monitoraggio e vigilanza da parte dell’Autorità su tutto il processo”. L’Art spiega che il provvedimento recepisce anche le osservazioni formulate dagli stakeholder in sede di consultazione pubblica conclusasi a gennaio 2026, e completa la revisione del quadro regolatorio di settore avviato nel 2025 (delibera n.169/2025). L’intervento è finalizzato a “incrementare la contendibilità delle gare per l’affidamento dei servizi di trasporto marittimo da e verso le isole (collegamenti terraferma–isole e interinsulari), a garantire maggiore trasparenza degli affidamenti attraverso una più ampia disponibilità dei dati relativi alle concessioni e a rendere il settore più attrattivo per gli operatori di mercato”. Queste le parole in proposito di Nicola Zaccheo, presidente di Art: “Gare trasparenti e ben strutturate favoriscono l’apertura del mercato, l’innalzamento della qualità dei servizi offerti ai passeggeri e una più efficace tutela dei loro diritti”. ISCRIVITI ALLA NEWSLETTER QUOTIDIANA GRATUITA DI SHIPPING ITALY SHIPPING ITALY E’ ANCHE SU WHATSAPP: BASTA CLICCARE QUI PER ISCRIVERSI AL CANALE ED ESSERE SEMPRE AGGIORNATI

Riceviamo e pubblichiamo dall’Ufficio Stampa della Regione Lazio. Oggi, presso il Comando regionale della Capitaneria di Porto di Civitavecchia, ho avuto modo di tenere un importante momento di confronto istituzionale con il Comandante della Capitaneria di Porto di Civitavecchia e Direttore Marittimo del Lazio, Cosimo Nicastro. L’incontro si è sviluppato nella logica di avviare una più intensa attività di collaborazione e un confronto istituzionale su tematiche centrali per la nostra Regione, come la tutela e la sicurezza delle coste e lo sviluppo di attività di promozione e salvaguardia dei siti portuali. Spesso nel corso di questi anni ci siamo trovati a dialogare con la Capitaneria di Porto territorialmente competente davanti a diverse problematiche che hanno interessato e interessano porti di competenza regionale. Lo ha dichiarato Pasquale Ciacciarelli, Assessore alle Politiche abitative, alle Case popolari, alle Politiche del Mare e alla Protezione Civile della Regione Lazio. Pasquale Ciacciarelli, Assessore regionale del Lazio, ha aggiunto: Da qui la consapevolezza dell’importanza di rafforzare il dialogo istituzionale, al fine di rendere automatica e diretta la cooperazione tra i due organismi, così da garantire una celere risoluzione delle problematiche esistenti. Grazie al Comandante della Capitaneria di Porto di Civitavecchia e Direttore marittimo del Lazio Cosimo Nicastro per l’accoglienza, al Comandante della Capitaneria di Porto di Gaeta Felice Monetti, al Consigliere metropolitano di Roma Capitale Antonio Giammusso, alla Dottoressa Erika Iovannone Santoni e a tutte le autorità e gli operatori della Capitaneria di Porto per il grande lavoro di coordinamento e sorveglianza marittima che svolgono.

EasyJetyRolls-Royceanunciaron este miércoles que han completado con éxito un importante hito en pruebas con hidrógeno como combustible de aviación, marcando un paso significativo en los esfuerzos por reducir las emisiones del sector. Por primera vez en la industria, las compañías han probado unmotor aeronáutico Rolls-Royce Pearl 15modificado, alcanzando la potencia máxima de despegue mientras funcionaba con hidrógeno al 100%, en elStennis Space Center de la NASA, cerca de Bay St. Louis (Misisipi). Este importante logro es el resultado de unprograma de cuatro añosentre Rolls-Royce,easyJety socios globales para explorar elhidrógeno como posible combustible de aviacióny generar conocimiento técnico para futuras aplicaciones de propulsión. EasyJet explicó que ha desempeñado un papel clave apoyando el desarrollo de latecnología deturbinas de gas de hidrógenocomo parte de sus ambiciones dedescarbonización a largo plazo. La ampliación de la colaboración de Rolls-Royce con Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) ha acelerado el progreso hacia sus objetivos tecnológicos, aportando capacidades adicionales en áreas clave de ingeniería. Durante esta fase del programa, los ingenieros demostraron que unmotor a reacción moderno, adaptable para aviones de pasillo único, puede funcionar de forma segura conhidrógeno gaseosoa lo largo de todo el ciclo de vuelo simulado, incluyendo el arranque, despegue, la fase de crucero y el aterrizaje. El programa de Rolls-Royce siguió un enfoque incremental basado en la tecnología para demostrar los fundamentos. Desde las primeras pruebas de motor en Boscombe Down (Reino Unido) en 2022,la tecnología se amplió y desarrolló mediante un programa en Reino Unido y Europade ensayos de componentes y sistemas, incluyendo la creación de unainstalación de pruebas de hidrógeno a escala real en el HSE, antes de su integración completa en un motor demostrador alimentado por hidrógeno. Las modificaciones iniciales también se centraron en adaptar el motor para sustituir el combustible convencional por hidrógeno, teniendo en cuenta tanto las emisiones de carbono como las no relacionadas con CO₂ mediante un amplio programa de combustión. David Morgan, director de operaciones en easyJet, afirma: "Este hito pionero en la industria es una prueba clara del progreso logrado en nuestra colaboración con Rolls-Royce, llevando el hidrógeno desde un concepto inicial hasta un motor completo y pruebas exitosas en tan solo unos años.Demostrar el funcionamiento con hidrógeno al 100% a gran escalaes un logro muy significativo y supone un paso importante hacia la ambición de easyJet de alcanzar lascero emisiones netas, apoyando la transición a largo plazo hacia una aviación más sostenible". El programa ha aportado valiosos conocimientos sobre lacombustión del hidrógeno, lossistemas de combustibley laintegración del motor, respaldando el potencial de futuros aviones propulsados por hidrógeno para reducir significativamente las emisiones de carbono en la aviación europea y británica, complementando además el uso decombustibles sostenibles de aviación (SAF)para apoyar el crecimiento futuro, tal y como se recoge en el informe Enabling Hydrogen in the European Aviation Market. Adam Newman, responsable de ingeniería delprograma demostrador de hidrógenode Rolls-Royce, comenta: "Este programa nos ha proporcionado la comprensión más clara de la industria sobre cómo se comporta el hidrógeno en unaturbina de gasaeronáutica moderna. Mediante un enfoque de pruebas colaborativo y por fases, hemos validado tecnologías de combustión, combustible y sistemas de control, y demostrado el uso seguro del hidrógeno desde el diseño hasta la puesta en marcha, mantenimiento y pruebas". "Hemos explorado una amplia gama de condiciones operativas, incluidos escenarios de fallo, lo que ha permitido operar a máxima potencia y durante todo el ciclo de vuelo. La rapidez en la ejecución ha sido clave, y los conocimientos adquiridos, muchos de ellos aplicables adistintos combustibles, se utilizarán en futuros programas, incluidoUltraFan, reforzando nuestra confianza en que la turbina de gas seguirá siendo clave en el futuro de la aviación sostenible", añadió. Anupam Singhal, presidente de fabricación de Tata Consultancy Services, señala: "Este hito refleja lo que es posible cuandolaingeniería avanzadase combina con capacidades digitalesy una profunda colaboración en el ecosistema para acercar lainnovación disruptivaa la realidad. En TCS, estamos orgullosos de apoyar a Rolls-Royce en la aceleración de lapropulsión con hidrógenomediante nuestra experiencia en ingeniería, sistemas y software. Este logro marca unavance significativo, demostrando no solo la viabilidad del hidrógeno, sino también la preparación del sector para convertir la ambición en ejecución". Eldoctor Nigel Moss, responsable del sector aeroespacial en el centro científico delHealth and Safety Executive(Reino Unido), afirma: "Durante más de dos décadas, nuestro centro ha desarrollado unaexperiencia líder mundial en la manipulación segura del hidrógeno, y nuestro trabajo en este proyecto incluyó la construcción y prueba de infraestructuras de hidrógeno presurizado para cumplir exigentes requisitos de seguridad y rendimiento. Como siempre en el sector aeroespacial, la seguridad ha sido una prioridad absoluta en este trabajo innovador". Christine Powell,directora interinadel centroNASA Stennis, añade: "La NASA Stennis ha demostrado ser unlugar de referenciaque permite a la industria realizar pruebas especializadas necesarias para sus misiones. Este hito es un gran ejemplo de cómo nuestra infraestructura y experiencia pueden aprovecharse para avanzar en tecnologías futuras y resolver desafíos más amplios". EasyJetyRolls-Royceanunciaron este miércoles que han completado con éxito un importante hito en pruebas con hidrógeno como combustible de aviación, marcando un paso significativo en los esfuerzos por reducir las emisiones del sector.

All’arrivo a Port-Cros il primo rumore che si nota è il fruscio degli alberi, non dei motori: sull’isola non circolano auto né biciclette, e il ritmo lo dettano i passi sui sentieri e il rumore dell’acqua contro il molo. Il porticciolo è minuscolo, le case color pastello si raccolgono intorno alla baia e il profumo di macchia mediterranea arriva fino alle terrazze dei caffè. In una giornata si può assaggiare l’essenza di questo parco nazionale sul mare, tra escursioni, nuotate con i pesci e una manciata di indirizzi dove fermarsi a tavola senza perdere tempo a cercare. Preferisci ascoltare il riassunto audio? Nell'articolo Dove si trova Port-Cros e come arrivare Port Cros Port-Cros fa parte dell’arcipelago delle Isole di Hyères, al largo della costa del Var, nel sud della Francia. È l’isola più selvaggia e collinare del gruppo, molto diversa dalla più grande Porquerolles: qui non ci sono strade trafficate, né hotel disseminati ovunque, ma una rete di sentieri sterrati che tagliano il bosco e scendono verso piccole baie. Per raggiungerla si parte dalla costa tra Tolone e Saint-Tropez, dove diversi porti imbarcano per le “Isole d’Oro”. Una delle opzioni più usate per organizzare una giornata a Port-Cros è l’imbarco da La Londe-les-Maures, con la compagnia Les Bateliers de la Côte d’Azur, che effettua collegamenti in barca verso l’isola. Nelle stagioni di punta è fondamentale prenotare in anticipo e scegliere una partenza del mattino, così da avere ore sufficienti per esplorare l’isola a piedi e in mare. In alternativa, le barche per Port-Cros partono anche da altri porti della zona, come Le Lavandou o Hyères, collegati alla rete stradale del Var e serviti da stazioni ferroviarie nei dintorni e dall’aeroporto di Tolone-Hyères. Una volta sbarcati, non esistono mezzi motorizzati per spostarsi: l’intera visita si svolge esclusivamente a piedi o in acqua. SCOPRI: LE ISOLE PIÙ BELLE DEL MEDITERRANEO Una giornata tipo a Port-Cros: dal caffè alla traversata di rientro Port Cros Per sfruttare al massimo un solo giorno, conviene impostare la giornata come un percorso a tappe che alterna camminate, soste al mare e pause gourmet. Appena arrivati al porticciolo, la colazione in uno dei caffè affacciati sul mare è il modo più semplice per orientarsi. Al Café des Hérons si punta su croissant ancora caldi e caffè dall’aroma intenso, da gustare guardando le barche ormeggiate. Il locale Le Pêcheur Gourmand è un’altra opzione per iniziare con un pain au chocolat fragrante e un bicchiere di succo d’arancia spremuta, carburante perfetto per affrontare i sentieri che partono alle spalle del villaggio. La mattina è il momento migliore per mettersi in marcia, quando la luce è ancora morbida e il caldo meno intenso. Uno dei percorsi più accessibili è il sentiero costiero verso le spiagge, spesso indicato come Beach Trail: si cammina tra pini, corbezzoli e rocce chiare, con aperture improvvise sul mare color smeraldo. Il terreno è sterrato, perciò servono scarpe comode da trekking o da cammino, non semplici infradito. Il pomeriggio a Port-Cros scorre più lentamente e invita a entrare in acqua. La zona di La Palud, raggiungibile a piedi, è uno dei punti più noti per lo snorkeling: l’acqua è limpida e, con maschera e boccaglio, si nuota tra banchi di pesci e praterie di posidonia. L’attrezzatura per lo snorkeling si può noleggiare sul posto oppure portare da casa in una sacca leggera, soluzione pratica per chi vuole risparmiare tempo e costi aggiuntivi. Verso la fine della giornata ci si ritrova di nuovo al porto di Port-Cros per la traversata di rientro. Le navette di Les Bateliers de la Côte d’Azur effettuano partenze nel pomeriggio; tra queste, è indicata una corsa con partenza alle 16:15, utile come riferimento per organizzare gli orari delle escursioni. È sempre consigliabile verificare in anticipo gli orari aggiornati, che possono variare in base alla stagione e alle condizioni meteo. SCOPRI: COSA VEDERE NEL SUD DELLA FRANCIA Sentieri, fortezze e fondali: cosa scoprirai in un giorno Port Cros Port-Cros è ufficialmente Parco Nazionale, sia a terra sia in mare. Questo significa regole chiare e un ambiente particolarmente ben conservato. I sentieri sono circa 30 chilometri in totale, interamente segnalati, con percorsi che vanno da brevi passeggiate di mezz’ora a camminate più impegnative di diverse ore. Tra le esperienze più interessanti in una giornata ci sono: Il Sentier des Plantes, un itinerario di circa tre quarti d’ora che permette di riconoscere le principali specie della macchia mediterranea. Lungo il percorso si incontrano pannelli che descrivono piante e arbusti, dal lentisco al mirto, e si percepiscono i diversi profumi resinosi che cambiano con l’umidità e con l’ora del giorno. Il Vallon de la Solitude, un tragitto di circa un’ora durante il quale emergono tracce di antiche attività umane sull’isola: piccoli terrazzamenti, resti di muretti e segni discreti di coltivazioni passate, oggi riconquistati dalla vegetazione. Per chi ha gambe allenate, il Circuit des Crêtes impegna per alcune ore e regala punti panoramici in quota, ideali per capire la morfologia dell’isola, con la dorsale collinare che scende verso il mare su entrambi i versanti. Sul versante marino, l’attrazione simbolo è il sentiero sottomarino della spiaggia della Palud. Si tratta di un percorso guidato in acqua, da seguire con maschera e boccaglio, che consente di osservare da vicino la flora e la fauna protette. L’immersione dura in genere tra mezz’ora e quaranta minuti, il tempo necessario per nuotare da una boa all’altra leggendo le indicazioni presenti e riconoscendo pesci, alghe e formazioni del fondale. Chi preferisce non bagnarsi può optare per l’Aquascope, un’imbarcazione con fondo vetrato che permette di osservare il fondale marino restando all’asciutto. È una soluzione comoda per chi viaggia con bambini piccoli o non si sente a proprio agio in acqua aperta. Sulla terraferma, una delle strutture che dominano il paesaggio è il Forte de l’Estissac, che sorge su una collina alle spalle del porto. Risale al XVII secolo e faceva parte del sistema difensivo contro le incursioni via mare. La salita richiede scarpe stabili perché il sentiero è in pendenza, ma dall’alto lo sguardo abbraccia l’isola, il villaggio e, nelle giornate limpide, i profili della costa del Var. Molti visitatori scelgono anche di percorrere un tratto del Sentier du Littoral, il lungo itinerario costiero che segue il bordo dell’isola. Lungo il cammino si incontrano punti panoramici come il Balcon du Méridien e la Pointe de la Croisette, dove è naturale fermarsi, respirare l’aria salmastra e scattare qualche foto. Per una porzione tranquilla del sentiero, con soste per fotografie, conviene mettere in conto almeno due ore. LEGGI ANCHE: ISOLE SENZA AUTO Consigli pratici, periodo migliore e sostenibilità Un giorno a Port-Cros funziona se è organizzato con un minimo di strategia pratica. L’isola è un’area protetta e fuori dal villaggio non ci sono bar o ristoranti: prima di inoltrarsi sui sentieri è importante riempire le borracce e, se si prevede un’escursione lunga, acquistare qualcosa da mangiare nel porticciolo. Una borraccia riutilizzabile evita plastica inutile ed è più comoda da portare nello zaino. Il terreno è vario, con tratti in salita, gradoni naturali e pietre: servono scarpe chiuse, traspiranti, adatte sia a camminare che a muoversi su rocce vicino all’acqua. Chi viaggia con bambini molto piccoli deve sapere che molti tratti non sono adatti ai passeggini; un marsupio porta bebè è una soluzione molto più pratica. Per quanto riguarda il periodo, Port-Cros dà il meglio di sé nei mesi con clima stabile e mare piacevole. In estate l’acqua è calda e il mare calmo facilita le escursioni alla Palud, ma la richiesta di posti sui traghetti è elevata e va gestita con prenotazioni anticipate. La primavera e l’inizio dell’autunno offrono temperature più miti per camminare, vegetazione verde e sentieri meno affollati, anche se l’acqua può essere leggermente più fresca. Essendo Parco Nazionale, Port-Cros è regolata da norme precise. È obbligatorio rimanere sui sentieri segnalati, sia per sicurezza sia per proteggere la vegetazione. In mare, durante lo snorkeling o le immersioni, non si devono toccare coralli, raccogliere conchiglie o disturbare la fauna. Tutti i rifiuti vanno riportati indietro fino ai punti di raccolta nel villaggio: non ci sono cestini lungo i percorsi.

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The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language. That was the striking message I took away from a talk by translation studies scholar Professor Susan Bassnett at the British Shakespeare Conference in Hull in 2016. Her point was simple but powerful:Shakespeare’s worksare likely to survive and flourish not only in English, but through translation, adaptation and reinvention across the world. Inspired by this, I asked six of my colleagues around the globe to share some Shakespeare adaptations in other languages that you might enjoy. Hindi, based on Romeo and Juliet Ram‑Leela is as heady a mix asShakespeare’s own play, in equal parts comic and tragic, tender and flamboyant. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali relocates the action of Verona to an Indian town riven by two criminal clans: Rajadis and Sanedas. Violence saturates daily life. Bullets spill from spice jars and a Rajadi child urinating on Saneda territory ignites a vicious brawl. In such a world, can love bring peace? The leads’ scorching chemistry makes us hope. My students practically swooned during a screening. At the end, soulful lyrics such as “Tera naam ishq/Mera naam ishq” (“Your name is love / My name is love”) frame the film’s Romeo and Juliet – Ram and Leela – through love rather than their hate-fuelled lineage. The film also gives depth to its Lady Capulet and nurse figures, while Leela is sensual, witty and brave. Juliet exactly as Shakespeare imagined her. Varsha Panjwani teaches at New York University, London, and is the creator and host of the podcastWomen and Shakespeare. Catalan, based on Othello An award-winning work ofCatalan cinema, Otel·lo transposesShakespeare’s playto a contemporary film studio. Such a meta-narrative approach feels in line with the play’s focus on the enticing power of storytelling – famously embodied in the character of Iago as its arch-villain. Blending documentary, mockumentary and thriller aesthetics, the film turns Iago into an unscrupulous filmmaker willing to cross every boundary in the name of art. With his role played by the actual director of the film (Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font), the adaptation skilfully integrates form and content. We are, like Othello, manipulated into thinking that the fiction he has created is reality. The film asks: To what extent are the images we absorb real? What purpose do they serve? And how do theyaffect our views on gendered and racialised minorities? Inma Sánchez García is a lecturer in European languages and culture at the University of Edinburgh. Japanese, based on Macbeth The genius of Throne of Blood is that despite being set in 16th century Japan and changing almost everything about the original, it is immediately recognisable asthe Scottish play. It’s considered by many to be the greatest Shakespeare film ever made. The mist-swirled locations, the screeching flute and ominous drumbeats, the spooky old lady in the forest, and above all the samurai, barking orders and getting lost on their horses, can mean only that “Macbeth doth come”. The final scene when Washizu’s (Macbeth’s) soldiers turn on him with a hail of arrows may even represent an improvement on Shakespeare. Meanwhile his poker-faced lady clearly wears the kimono-trousers in their marriage. Daniel Gallimore is a professor of literature and linguistics at Kwansei Gakuin University Bengali, based on Comedy of Errors If you asked me to pick a favourite Shakespeare film, I’d probably surprise people by saying Bhrantibilas. It’s one of the earliest filmed Shakespeare adaptations in Indian cinema. It was also the inspiration for the globally popular film Angoor (1982). What I love about it is how confidently it relocatesShakespeare’s farceinto a Bengali urban world without ever feeling like a dutiful “literary” exercise. A huge part of its lasting appeal is Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar. It’s pure pleasure watching him play the twin roles – Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus, identical twins separated at birth, whose accidental reunion causes chaos. His comic timing is razor-sharp, and there’s also an ease and charm that makes the confusion feel human, never mechanical. Decades on, audiences still return to Bhrantibilas, often knowing every gag by heart, which says a lot about its cultural afterlife. For me, it’s a perfect example of how Shakespeare survives not through reverence but through reinvention – absorbed into popular cinema and kept alive by star power, humour and sheer re-watchability. Koel Chatterjee is a lecturer in English at Regent College, and the creator and host ofThe Shakespop PodcastandThe Shakesfic Podcast. Urdu, based on Measure for Measure Measure for Measurehas long been regarded as a“problem play”. Disfavoured among Shakespeare’s works for centuries, it hit stages again in the 20th-century and reached new audiences through its resonances with the #MeToo movement. A local leader tells a devout woman that if she loses her virginity to him, he will spare her imprisoned brother’s life. This film shifts the action from early modern, Catholic Vienna to an ambiguous period in Islamic Lahore. Moderate and extremist versions of faith contend, against the backdrop of the city. This film’s billing as a thriller, and status as the only big screen version of the play, help raise it from obscurity. Sarah Olive is a senior lecturer in English literature at Aston University. Arabic, based on Sonnet 116 Thisfreely availableshort film expands on one of Shakespeare’s shortest forms:the sonnet. It riffs onSonnet 116, heard at countless weddings: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds … admit impediments.” Here, its Arabic translation provides both the back story to – and future hope for – an asylum-seeking couple in a same-sex relationship, Falah (Amir Boutrous) and Hayder (Waleed Elgadi). The story of their journey by sea, and shots of a tossed-about paper boat reference the poem’s sea-voyage imagery. Over 12 tense minutes, we hold our breath to see whether the Iraqi poet and his childhood beloved will overcome the impediments of religious conservatism, on one shore, and an apparently hostile asylum system on the other. Sarah Olive is a senior lecturer in English literature at Aston University. This article features references to books that have been included for editorial reasons, and may contain links to bookshop.org. If you click on one of the links and go on to buy something from bookshop.org The Conversation UK may earn a commission.

Ottawa, April 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --Growing industrial automation, expanding manufacturing activities, and increasing demand for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies are collectively driving strong growth in the industrial distribution market worldwide. What is the Industrial Distribution Market Size in 2026? The globalindustrial distribution market sizeis valued at USD 9.17 trillion in 2026 and is expected to be worth USD 13.46 trillion by 2035, with a robust CAGR of 4.37% from 2026 to 2035. Industrial distribution market is driven by expanding manufacturing output, rapid e-commerce adoption, and digital procurement system and inventory optimization is further strengthening distributor networks across global industries. The Complete Study is Now Available for Immediate Access | Download the Sample Pages of this Report@https://www.precedenceresearch.com/sample/2450 Dietary Supplements Market Key Takeaways Industrial Distribution Market Revenue, By Product, 2022 to 2024 (USD Billion) Industrial Distribution Market Revenue, By Application, 2022 to 2024 (USD Billion) ➡️Become a valued research partner with us☎https://www.precedenceresearch.com/schedule-meeting What Influence Does the Digital Age Have on Distribution's Growth? The speed at which the industrial distribution market is changing through digital technologies, expanding logistics infrastructure and growing industrial output is significant.e-Commerceand B2B websites will provide methods for procuring goods faster and tracking inventories in real time, contributing to improved efficiencies in operations. Governments are supporting logistics improvements and growing infrastructure, which will lead to even greater growth as an example, in India, its logistics industry, has gone from being worth $300 billion to $300 billion and is expected to show continued growth as a result of policies that encourage trade. Currently, a development that will provide significant growth for distributors is the 63% growth that occurred in industrial and warehouse leasing during 2025, driven mainly by e-commerce distributors and third party logistics companies, creating a stronger distribution network. Other investments being made in automation, computerized inventory systems driven by AI and resilient supply chains will result in faster delivery cycles and fewer disruptions in operational processes, making industrial distribution a vital part of the new manufacturing and global trade ecosystem. Market Opportunity The industrial distribution market is experiencing tremendous growth opportunities due to new infrastructure investments, favorable federal government policy, and increased adoption of technology. Because of initiatives launched under the National Logistics Policy and PM Gati Shakti, India is building new, integrated road, rail, port and air cargo networks using digital technologies to reduce delay in transit time and increase visibility of freight as it moves through these networks. The Commerce and Industry Ministry estimates that by reducinglogisticscosts to approximately 8% of GDP, there will be significant benefits to the Industrial Distribution industry in terms of increased productivity and reduced cost of doing business. In addition, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade indicates that there is growing demand to create new warehousing clusters in tier-2 cities because of the construction of new industrial corridors. Likewise, between 2025, the industrial warehousing sector experienced explosive growth, largely due to the increase in e-commerce and the rapid increase in the scale of the manufacturing sector. Furthermore, by leveraging new robotic andartificial intelligencebased inventory management systems andInternet of Things(IoT) enabledfleet managementsystems, companies will have the ability to deliver products faster, more reliably and expand their regional trade network with greater ease. Built for leaders who move markets. Access live, actionable intelligence with Precedence Q.https://www.precedenceresearch.com/precedenceq/ How Big is the Size of U.S. Industrial Distribution Market in 2026? According to Precedence Research, the U.S. industrial distribution market size is valued at USD 3.17 trillion in 2026 and is predicted to reach around USD 4.38 trillion by 2035, growing at a significant CAGR of 3.69% from 2026 to 2035. Note:This report is readily available for immediate delivery. We can review it with you in a meeting to ensure data reliability and quality for decision-making.Try Before You Buy – Get the Sample Report@https://www.precedenceresearch.com/sample/2450 Regional Insights Why Is the North America Region the Dominating the Industrial Distribution? The industrial distribution market is primarily dominated by North America as a result of its manufacturers, logistics infrastructure, and organized distribution networks fully formed to support industrial growth and development in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Other reasons North America continues to succeed as a leader in the industrial distribution market include the widespread use of automation, digital procurement platforms, and inventory management systems across all supply chains, which collectively contribute to greater efficiency. Furthermore, industrial distributors continue to use data analytics and implement e-commerce for smoother and more efficient industrial distribution operations while enhancing the customer experience. Lastly, all three countries of North America consistently demonstrate strong manufacturing and industrial activity in major industries such as construction, automotive, and energy, which creates constant demand across all industrial manufacturers and their supply chains. Why Is Europe is the Fastest-Growing Region in the Industrial Distribution Market? Europe is quickly becoming the most rapidly expanding region of the industrial distribution market due to the rapiddigital transformationand sustainability initiatives currently taking place across the European continent. Advanced technology (i.e., AI, automated logistics, etc.) continues to be adopted to enhance operational efficiencies across several manufacturing/industrial sectors. The emphasis placed on sustainability focuses on green supply chains and energy-efficient distribution practices, which has driven continued innovation in the region. With the increased demand for industrial distribution networks has come the growth of e-commerce and international trade across Europe. In addition, the continued support of local and national governments through regulatory measures and with increased capital investment in the modernization of industrial facilities will bring about an increased rate of adoption in Europe of advanced distribution solutions by all industrial sectors to continue creating value. Get informed with deep-dive intelligence on AI’s market impacthttps://www.precedenceresearch.com/ai-precedence Industrial Distribution Market Insights ➤Access the Full Dietary Supplements Market Study @https://www.precedenceresearch.com/dietary-supplements-market Segmental Insights Product Insights Why is MRO Supplies the leading subsegment? Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies held dominant share of the industrial distribution market because of their ongoing use in manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure. They are used regularly to keep operations running smoothly and on time. The increased importance of preventive maintenance and asset lifecycle management has also contributed to the need for MRO supplies as an always-needed, high-volume category. OEM supplies represent the fastest growing segment of the industrial distribution market. This is due to thegrowing use of industrial automationand the growth in manufacturing. As industries buy large quantity of higher-quality machines and equipment, the demand for original parts increases. In addition, as industries move toward producing customized products, the demand for OEM parts to accommodate these new production systems and precision engineering continues to grow across all industries. Application Insights Which Application Segment Dominates the Industrial Distribution Market? Offline industrial distribution market segment is expected to have the largest market share. While many industries are adopting digital procurement platforms for ease and efficiency; offline distribution will continue to dominate the market because of the strong relationships between distributors and businesses, as well as the need for the physical inspection and immediate availability of products. In-person transactions for bulk purchases and technical validation will continue to be the pr eferred method of transacting business for many industrial sectors because offline channels continue to have established dealer networks, warehouses and on-site support services. E-commerce is expected to be the fastest growing segment of the procurement industry due to the growing trend of businesses moving to electronic procurement platforms for ease and efficiency. Some of the key benefits of online channels include ease of product comparisons, price transparency, and delivery speed. In addition, companies that are using artificial intelligence to search for products are able to enhance the usability of the e-commerce experience for their customers and quickly source products online for their organizations through e-commerce channels. ✚Related Topics You May Find Useful: ➡️Power Distribution Unit Market: Explore rising demand for efficient power management in data centers and IT infrastructure ➡️Japan’s Pharmaceutical Distribution Market: Understand evolving healthcare logistics and drug supply chain modernization in Japan ➡️Chemical Distribution Market: Analyze global supply chain expansion and growing demand across industrial chemical sectors ➡️Distribution Transformer Market: Track increasing investments in electricity infrastructure and grid modernization projects ➡️Power Distribution Component Market: Discover rising adoption of advanced components for reliable and efficient power delivery systems ➡️Power Transmission and Distribution Market: Examine global expansion of smart grids and large-scale energy infrastructure development ➡️Distribution Automation Market: Gain insights into digital transformation and automation trends improving power distribution efficiency Industrial Distribution Market Companies What are the Major Developments in the Industrial Distribution Market? 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L a laguna di Venezia è fatta di silenzi d’acqua, campanili lontani e barene che cambiano colore con la marea. Basta allontanarsi di pochi minuti dai flussi di San Marco per ritrovarsi in isole dove si sente ancora l’odore delle fornaci, del pesce appena scaricato, dei campi coltivati. Otto luoghi diversi, tutti legati da uno stesso filo: l’acqua salmastra della Laguna Veneta, un paesaggio culturale unico che merita di essere esplorato con calma e con mezzi leggeri, dal vaporetto alla bicicletta. Preferisci ascoltare il riassunto audio? Nell'articolo Come muoversi in laguna e quando andarci La laguna Veneta si estende per centinaia di chilometri quadrati e conta decine di isole, grandi e piccole. L’errore più comune è pensare “faccio tutto in un giorno”: le distanze sull’acqua sono diverse da quelle su strada, i tempi si dilatano e la bellezza sta proprio lì. Per raggiungere Murano, Burano, Torcello, Sant’Erasmo, Lido, Pellestrina, Giudecca e San Francesco del Deserto si usano quasi sempre vaporetti o barche: il trasporto pubblico collega i principali approdi, mentre per le isole più appartate o per itinerari personalizzati conviene affidarsi a tour in barca o imbarcazioni tradizionali come il bragozzo, che permettono anche di avvicinarsi meglio alle barene e agli scorci meno frequentati. Il periodo più interessante per esplorare la laguna va dalla primavera all’autunno, quando giornate lunghe e temperature miti invitano a restare all’aperto, tra fornaci, orti e spiagge. L’estate porta più folla ma regala il Lido nella sua piena vita balneare e le serate lunghe sulle fondamenta. In autunno e in inverno la luce si fa più bassa, le nebbie ridisegnano il paesaggio e le isole si svuotano: perfetto per chi cerca tranquillità e ritmi lenti. Un soggiorno di almeno tre o quattro giorni consente di affiancare la visita alla città di Venezia a una piccola “odissea lagunare”: un giorno nel nord tra Murano, Burano e Torcello, un altro tra Lido e Pellestrina, un terzo dedicato a Sant’Erasmo, Giudecca e, se organizzata in anticipo, San Francesco del Deserto. Le isole dell’arte e delle case colorate: Murano, Burano, Torcello Murano Murano Murano è la Venezia “artigiana”: un’isola attraversata da un canale centrale che ricorda, in versione ridotta, il Canal Grande. Qui l’aria profuma di vetro caldo e fumo di fornaci. Alle finestre dei laboratori si intravedono maestri vetrai che modellano una pasta incandescente trasformandola in vasi, perle, lampadari. Le botteghe espongono opere in vetro di ogni forma, mentre il museo del vetro racconta come la Repubblica abbia concentrato qui le fornaci per proteggere la città dagli incendi e custodire i segreti delle proprie lavorazioni. Visitare Murano ha senso se si entra almeno in un laboratorio, osservando da vicino il passaggio dalla massa informe al pezzo finito. Burano Burano Più a nord, Burano è il contrario della monocromia: una fila di case dalle facciate vivaci, ognuna di un colore diverso, che si riflettono nei canali stretti. L’isola è legata da secoli alla pesca e al merletto: nel museo dedicato si scopre come le trame fossero tramandate di madre in figlia, con pazienza quasi infinita. In pasticceria si assaggiano i bussolai o buranelli, biscotti a base di burro e uova, dalla consistenza compatta e dal profumo di vaniglia o agrumi, nati come dolce “di scorta” per i pescatori. In alcune calli meno battute si notano ancora le antiche barche a remi, memoria di una laguna in cui la voga era l’unico motore. Torcello Torcello Torcello, poco distante, è l’opposto della Burano animata: un’isola ampia, con orti, giardini privati, campi e pochissimi residenti. Camminando lungo il sentiero principale il rumore diventa ovattato e l’attenzione si sposta sui dettagli: un muretto di mattoni, una vite che sale su un pergolato, qualche trattoria sparsa dove ci si può fermare per pranzo. È un luogo che racconta la fase più antica della storia lagunare: qui sorsero alcuni dei primi insediamenti, oggi riconoscibili nelle sue chiese e nei resti monumentali. Una visita guidata aiuta a leggere ciò che a un primo sguardo sfugge: stratificazioni, leggende, collegamenti con la storia della Serenissima. Torcello è facilmente abbinabile a Burano grazie ai collegamenti frequenti in barca, meglio se inserita in un’unica escursione per ottimizzare gli spostamenti. Tra orti, conventi e litorali: Sant’Erasmo, San Francesco del Deserto, Lido, Pellestrina Venezia Lido Sant’Erasmo è la laguna agricola. Qui lo sguardo incontra campi coltivati, filari, piccoli casolari e strade che si prestano alla bicicletta. La Serenissima si riforniva da quest’isola per frutta e verdura, e ancora oggi gran parte dell’orto lagunare nasce qui. Tra le produzioni più note c’è il carciofo violetto, compatto, con foglie violacee che spuntano ordinatamente dai filari: un prodotto che finisce nei mercati veneziani e nei menu dei ristoranti. Una giornata a Sant’Erasmo può alternare un giro in bici tra i campi, qualche sosta in azienda agricola e un passaggio in spiaggia, lontano dal rumore cittadino. Esistono anche alloggi diffusi che permettono di fermarsi la notte, dormendo in laguna ma fuori dalla confusione urbana. Poco distante, in posizione più raccolta, l’isola di San Francesco del Deserto appare come una macchia verde in mezzo all’acqua, fatta di cipressi alti e mura di convento. Il suo nome ricorda il passaggio di San Francesco, e ancora oggi vi risiedono frati francescani che scandiscono la giornata con i ritmi della vita monastica. L’isola non è servita da trasporto pubblico regolare: per visitarla è necessario prenotare un’escursione abbinata al collegamento da Burano o utilizzare un mezzo proprio. Durante le visite guidate si accede al convento e al chiostro, spazi sobri, con pietre consumate e cortili interni silenziosi. È una sosta perfetta per chi cerca luoghi di raccoglimento e ha voglia di uscire completamente dalle rotte più affollate. Sul margine esterno della laguna, il Lido di Venezia separa l’acqua interna dal Mare Adriatico. È un’isola lunga, attraversata da viali alberati, ville in stile Liberty e spiagge sabbiose attrezzate. I veneziani hanno con il Lido un rapporto quasi rituale: la capanna in spiaggia per tutta la stagione è una tradizione di famiglia. In settembre arriva la Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, che porta tappeti rossi e proiezioni, ma per il resto dell’anno il Lido è un luogo da vivere in modo semplice: piedi nudi sulla sabbia, bici noleggiate vicino agli approdi, pedalate verso i Murazzi, le lunghe protezioni in pietra d’Istria che difendono l’isola dalle mareggiate e dall’acqua alta. Qui il suono costante è quello delle onde che si infrangono contro le difese, con il profumo di salsedine forte nell’aria. Più a sud, Pellestrina è una striscia di terra sottile, con la laguna da un lato e il mare dall’altro. I borghi di pescatori hanno case basse, barche tirate in secca, reti appese ad asciugare, e una vita quotidiana scandita ancora dalla pesca. La spiaggia è ampia e, proprio perché lontana dai circuiti più frequentati, resta spesso poco affollata. Verso l’estremità si trova l’oasi di Ca’ Roman, area di grande valore naturalistico, con dune e vegetazione costiera. Un modo coerente per esplorare Pellestrina è la bicicletta, percorrendo l’isola da nord a sud fino alla bocca di porto di Chioggia e fermandosi dove va l’istinto: un molo, una chiesetta, un bar di paese. Giudecca e consigli pratici per un viaggio sostenibile Giudecca La Giudecca è un caso particolare: geograficamente isola, amministrativamente parte del centro storico di Venezia, all’interno del sestiere di Dorsoduro. Si allunga di fronte alle Zattere e al Bacino di San Marco, collegata da linee frequenti di vaporetto. L’atmosfera è quella di un quartiere vissuto: panni stesi alle finestre, chiacchiere in campo, studenti universitari che animano calli e fondamenta. Passeggiando lungo il fronte che guarda verso San Marco si ha una vista ampia sulla città storica, con campanili e facciate che cambiano colore durante la giornata. Sul lato opposto, lo sguardo corre verso la laguna sud, aperta e ampia. Per gli spostamenti preferire mezzi pubblici, barche ecologiche, bici e voga alla veneta rispetto ai motoscafi veloci; pianificare gli itinerari in modo da ridurre gli spostamenti a vuoto tra un’isola e l’altra; scegliere alloggi diffusi su isole come Sant’Erasmo, Pellestrina o Giudecca per distribuire la pressione turistica fuori dalle zone più congestionate. Sul fronte gastronomico, la laguna è un laboratorio di cucina di pesce e ortaggi locali. Nei ristoranti e osterie si trovano piatti legati alla pesca di Burano e Pellestrina, verdure provenienti da Sant’Erasmo e dai terreni lagunari, ricette storiche veneziane reinterpretate. Assaggiare prodotti come il carciofo violetto, i biscotti buranelli, il pesce azzurro fritto o in saor significa comprendere quanto la vita quotidiana degli abitanti sia intrecciata con questo ambiente d’acqua.

Oracle’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble? If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.See our ethics statement. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.See our ethics statement. If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there’s only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That’s right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or Anthropic, obviously. It’s not quite a neocloud, though it has entered the same bare-metal businessas CoreWeave. It is a software-as-a-service company that has made an audacious bet on a very specific future version of AI as Oracle’s traditional business has gracefully declined. It is significantly older than any of its AI competitors, save Microsoft, and it has decided its future involvesan enormous compute dealwith OpenAI, a company that does not make money. Whether OpenAI is good for its commitments to Oracle depends a lot on how much money it can raise and how quickly it can become profitable. The risk for Oracle is that it may be sinking a lot of money into building data centers for OpenAI, only for OpenAI to be unable to pay Oracle the $300 billion it agreed to in their contract. Oracle and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment. But the OpenAI play — and the pivot to AI generally — suggests a specific vision: The key place to make money isn’t training foundation models. The real money is inference, or using AI models to output results on data that isn’t in the training set. So the company has looked at some startups’ businesses and decided that they are actually just features that can be added to Oracle’s existing capabilities — which is pretty much what Oracle has been up to for the entirety of its existence. Oracle, of course, is already an enterprise business, so it has the existing relationships and large salesforce to go out there and sell its vision, one that suggests there isn’t much room for the AI stack to fragment. Rather, it will consolidate under existing players. Oracle intends to be the dominant player in that game. Wall Street wants to bet on AI, and it can’t bet on OpenAI because it’s not public yet. So the best way to do it now is through Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft has a more complicated business, so it’s not a pure AI bet. Oracle, on the other hand, is cleaner. That means you can take the temperature of the entire AI boom by checking in on how many people are betting Oracle won’t repay its loans on time — those are the credit default swaps. Oracle’s stock price also reacts to assorted and sundry industry events, providing a bellwether about the AI revolution — or the AI bubble, depending on how you view it. But there’s always a tremendous gap between vision and execution, as Oracle’s history shows. “The orthodox company is low-growth and high-margin and makes him feel old and uncool.” Let’s get it out of the way: Oracle founder Larry “Bad Doggy” Ellison is out of his fucking mind. He has a short attention span, a willingness to promise things his engineers have not yet built, a tremendous ego, and a competitive drive that could power every AI data center on Earth and then some. Ellison is nominally the chief technology officer and executive chairman of Oracle, and Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia are nominally the co-CEOs. But Oracle has always been the Larry show, starring Larry, even when he’s busycheating at yacht racesor whatever. Oracle’s move to focus on AI means leaving behind the high-margin, low-growth, low-capital-expenditure database business that is Oracle’s bread and butter to jump to the low-margin, high-growth, high-capex neocloud business that Oracle has taken out $43 billion in debt to build injustfiscal 2026. Why do that? Well, according to Paul Kedrosky, a longtime VC at SK Ventures, Larry got bored. “This is the story of Larry forever,” says Kedrosky. “Whenever he left to go sailing, he’d say, ‘This company’s not as much fun as it used to be.’ The high-level take is that the orthodox company is low-growth and high-margin and makes him feel old and uncool.” In the 1990s, one of the reasons that Oracle became a hot property was Ellison. He was among the various futurists making predictions about what the internet would do to society. In 1996, Ellison appeared onThe Oprah Winfrey Showto hype what he called “the network computer.” (As part of the appearance, Oracle promised togive a network computer to each of almost 300 kidsat a primary school in Menlo Park.) This was a lightweight device, even one that could be treated as a throwaway, that would connect to applications stored online. If you are thinking,Boy, that sure sounds like a modern phone, you’re right. If you are also thinking,Boy, that sure sounds like the cloud, you’re also right. The network computer flopped. The iPhone, which kicked off the modern era of lightweight, disposable computing devices, was introduced more than a decade later, in 2007. Oracle veered away from its bold vision of the cloud, while a true believer peeled off to form his own company: Marc Benioff, who founded Salesforce in 1999. Amazon’s AWS venture into cloud computing was in 2006, a decade after Ellison had predicted that people wouldn’t need to keep software on their own computers. So why didn’t Oracle lead both of those revolutions, if Ellison saw them coming a decade out? Well, the iPhone was a consumer product, and Oracle made primarily enterprise databases. Oracle knew how to sell to businesses — it’s why they’d so thoroughly stomped competition such as Relational Technology Inc. andCullinetin the first place — but Ellison didn’t know how to make consumerschooseto buy things rather than get forced to use it by their employer. The failure of the network computer also made Ellison weirdly recalcitrant about the cloud. He refused to take a second crack at the ideauntil 2011, even mocking it as “complete gibberish.” Oracle never really recovered from its lost lead. Despite its strong enterprise software business,it lags Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba in market share, and is barely ahead of Salesforce. Given Ellison’s competitive streak —one of his biographies is titledEveryone Else Must Fail— this has to sting. The worst part might have been losing to one of Oracle’s biggest rivals, Microsoft. Still, the majority of Oracle’s business, as of its most recent earnings results, is “cloud and software.” The category represented 88 percent of the company’s revenue in the three months ended February 28th, which is the third quarter in Oracle’s 2026 fiscal year. (There are also hardware and services businesses, but for our purposes, they are negligible.) The majority ofthatis software support, which “substantially all” customers renew every year “in order to continue to benefit from technical support services and the periodic issuance of unspecified updates and enhancements” to the applications and infrastructure they also use. That brought in a shade under $5 billion in Oracle’s third quarter. The next biggest was “cloud infrastructure,” which had revenue of about $4.9 billion. The customer support business had zero percent growth in the third quarter. Its database and applications businesses, though very profitable, aren’t growing and may even be declining, says analyst Gil Luria of DA Davidson. The cloud business, on the other hand, is growing. It’s an “okay business, very fast-growing with low profitability,” says Luria. “Oracle cloud has single-digit margins, maybe at best teens. But they’ve been growing it very fast.” So when ChatGPT launched the modern era of AI hype in Silicon Valley, it was inevitable that Ellison would take an interest. By February 2025,Ellison was telling former UK Prime Minister Tony Blairthat AI was “a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before.” In September, Oracle “shocked the markets” with a $300 billion deal with OpenAI to build data centers, one of the largest cloud deals ever. Oracle’s move into the bare-metal business — renting out servers to AI companies — can be thought of as an extension of the cloud business. Having missed the initial run on the cloud, it seems that Ellison has decided Oracle can’t be left out this time. When ChatGPT launched the modern era of AI hype, it was inevitable Ellison would take an interest In some ways, Oracle was an obvious partner for OpenAI. It’s one of the few Big Boys that isn’t trying to compete with Nvidia by building its own chips — though it does have a very close relationship with AMD. But there’s one other benefit that probably tickled Ellison,a longtime Microsoft haterwho even resorted to sending private detectives tosort through Microsoft’s trash: OpenAI’s biggest partner for computeused to beMicrosoft. The deal was pure, flashy, competitive Ellison — and propelled Oracle’s shares to an all-time high. But with the deal came another big personality: Sam Altman, who hasa reputation in Silicon Valleyas a sociopathic liar with a people-pleasing streak. OpenAI is the Sam Altman show, as becameveryclear in 2023when he was briefly deposed as OpenAI’s philosopher-king. Tying Oracle so closely to OpenAI meant that Oracle was no longer the arbiter of its own fate. And indeed, as OpenAI soon announced a series of other massive deals, Oracle’s shares fell. Now, Oracle serves essentially as apublic market proxy for betting on OpenAI’s future— for better and for worse. This time when Ellison predicted the future, he wasn’t the sole true believer, points out Nick Patience, the AI lead at the Futurum group. “It’s a more grounded bet” than the network computer, Patience says. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Google’s Sundar Pichai have basically the same vision. On the other hand, Ellison is “piggybacking on Sam Altman, which is probably a dangerous place to be,” Patience notes. Oracle’s OpenAI deal was basically kismet after Musk left it in the lurch Oracle’s OpenAI deal was basically kismet. Oracle had been working on a data center in Texas for Elon Musk, a friend of Ellison’s, who made an abrupt about-face when he decided his company xAI could build his own data center faster. Just as Musk left Oracle in the lurch, a LinkedIn message from OpenAI infrastructure chief Peter Hoeschele arrived in the inbox of a sales leader at Oracle,Bloombergreported. The resulting deal was significantly larger than the one Oracle had been discussing with Musk,with options to expand it further. To fulfill the deal, Oracle will build fivevery largedata centers. “All told, they’ll require millions of chips and consume 4.5 gigawatts of power — more than all the homes in Chicago,”Bloombergwrote of the deal. Oracle is planning to build them with an initial completion date in 2027, though according toBloomberg, that has already slipped to 2028. It’s a more aggressive bet than any other major company has made on AI, and one that the less reckless — or perhaps, less desperate — Microsoft shied away from. Oracle’s previous chief executive officer, Safra Catz, was skeptical of the financial benefits of the cloud. It had lower margins and required costly data centers,Bloombergreported, citing employees who’d heard Catz’s reservations. She was replaced last year, shortly after the OpenAI deal, by Magouyrk and Sicilia, who previously ran Oracle’s cloud business and applications. In the announcement, Ellison, unsubtly, is quoted saying that “Clay and Mike committed Oracle’s Infrastructure and Applications businesses to AI.” Oracle had burned the boats. OpenAI, for its part, needs Oracle for its investment-grade credit rating, notes Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a professor at Columbia Business School. OpenAI doesn’t have one, and couldn’t support the necessary compute buildout on its own. Effectively, OpenAI is renting Oracle’s creditworthiness. Of the hyperscalers, however, Oracle has the lowest credit rating. It also has the greatest debt load, even before the infrastructure buildout came into play. What’s more, when I say “Oracle is building data centers,” I am doing a little sleight of hand. Unlike Google and Meta, Oracle doesn’t actually build its own data centers. It’s leasing data centers that other companies are building on its behalf. In Abilene, Texas, that’s Crusoe, with whom Oracle has signed a 15-year lease; Oracle committed to paying more than a billion dollars a year despite Crusoe’s relative lack of experience, according toSemiAnalysis.,an industry newsletter. Crusoe’s inexperience is a relatively minor risk compared to the much larger one Oracle is taking on OpenAI, which is by far the biggest customer represented in Oracle’s remaining performance obligations (RPOs), which represent how much money Oracle is slated to earn from its existing contracts. Of the $553 billion in RPOs that Oracle reported in its most recent earnings release, more than $300 billion is OpenAI. So how’s OpenAI doing? In November 2025, Sam Altman sent a memo to OpenAI in which he wrote, “I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit.” The vibes had been rough for a bit before the memo, actually. There was the whole thing whereAltman got booted and then reinstated. Metaraided OpenAI for talent; several key OpenAI players such asIlya Sutskever,Bob McGrew, andMira Muratiwent on to found their own companies. Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s biggest competitors, isalsocomposedofformer OpenAI talent. The executive reshuffling is basically constant. That’s not all on the corporate chaos front. Because OpenAI is trying to go public, it had to repeatedly renegotiate its deal with Microsoft. Not only is Microsoft freed up to partner with other companies,like Anthropic— therevenue-sharing agreement between the two companiesends in 2030 (rather than whenever OpenAI hits a development milestone) and the total payments are capped. “OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities,” Microsoft announced. But OpenAI can now partner with other cloud providers to try to build its enterprise business. OpenAI’s approach to AI is decidedly unfocused, especially in comparison to Anthropic. There’s something of a profit panic as the company tries to figure out how to make money from its scattershot AI enterprises, while Claude Code and Cowork from Anthropic emerged as the winners for enterprise AI spending. Anthropic doesn’t have image generation or video generation products. It has instead stayed laser-focused on the enterprise market. OpenAI has, by contrast, chased the consumer market, exposing itself to other kinds of risk in the process. The company is facing multiple lawsuits frompeoplewhosay ChatGPTencouraged loved onestokill themselves— and,in some cases, others. This has, perhaps predictably,resulted in political pressure. Also there’sa lawsuit from Elon Muskover OpenAI’s for-profit arm that — if Musk wins —may threaten its public offering. OpenAI’s chaos does not inspire confidence in Altman’s management skills This degree of chaos does not inspire confidence in Altman’s management skills. And OpenAI, like all AI labs, is a money furnace. Recently, OpenAI projected that it will spend$665 billion by 2030— $111 billion more in cash burn than it previously predicted. That’s not all. Its gross profit margins last year were lower than the company predicted, as it had to buy last-minute compute to meet demand. OpenAI projects it will be cash-flow positive in 2030, two years later than its rival Anthropic. Both companies are threatening to go public this year. The thing that’s driving up OpenAI’s costs is inference, the very thing Ellison is betting on. This is probably a positive sign for Ellison’s intuitions about AI use, but it might not be the best thing for his partner. OpenAI haspromised $1.4 trillion in its contracts. OpenAI recently raised$122 billion. “That could last them a few years,” Luria says. “I am 100 percent sure they can get to $1.4 trillion? Probably not, but they do have money now, and that makes a difference for Oracle.” Luria’s skepticism is understandable. Take Stargate, the flashy data center project that OpenAI announced, Altman standing shoulder to shoulder with Ellison and Donald Trump. The joint venture hasn’t hired staff and isn’t developing any data centers for OpenAI,The Informationreported in February, describing Stargate as a “shelved idea.” Earlier this month,The Informationdiscovered severalStargate leaders, including Hoeschele, ditched OpenAI; theywashed ashore at Meta. OpenAI didn’t get its planned 10GW of data center capacity from Oracle and SoftBank last year, either. Part of the problem for OpenAI is that its credit wasn’t as good as Oracle’s — so OpenAI just made its deal with Oracle directly. The two companies also made an unusual arrangement where if there was a delay or the project came in over budget, OpenAI and Oracle would share costs. (They also both benefit if things are under budget.) As for the other member of the project, SoftBank has its own OpenAI agreement, which has led to slapfights over who controls the 1GW facility in Milam County, Texas. OpenAI has signed a long-term lease with subsidiary SoftBank Energy, which would develop and own the data center. Between the complications with Oracle and SoftBank, it seems likely that OpenAI doesn’t have the money or the compute to achieve all of its ambitious goals. Despite all that, Altman is targeting a public offering by the end of 2026,The Wall Street Journalreported in January. That may be in doubt now, after theJournalalso reported OpenAImissed revenue and user growth targets. “Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told other company leaders that she is worried the company might not be able to pay for future computing contracts if revenue doesn’t grow fast enough,” theJournalwrote, citing anonymous sources. In response,Dealbookanalyst Harrison Rolfes issued a note explaining that OpenAI likely won’t go public this year. OpenAI is racing to beat Anthropic and Musk’s xAI, which has been subsumed by SpaceX andis trying to IPO this summer.SpaceX is seekinga valuation of $1 trillion or more. OpenAI’s most recent funding round gave it a valuation of more than $850 billion. Granted, valuations are more art than science, but it’s also the case that if OpenAI were to IPO with that valuation, it would bevalued at 28 times its projected 2026 revenue. By way of comparison, Nvidia — a company that is making an actual profit from the AI boom — is valued at 12 times its projected 2026 revenue. OpenAI’s rich valuation, the company’s long way to profitability, and its aim at consumers rather than enterprises may lead some investors to sit out the IPO,The Informationreported. If and when the mandatory paperwork associated with an IPO filing is made public, we’ll get a sense of exactly how challenging the environment is for OpenAI — but it seems that OpenAI doesn’t have an easy road to do everything it’s trying to do and still stay solvent. OpenAI is racing to beat Anthropic and xAI, and it’s got a long path to profit OpenAI is a flaky partner for Oracle. While that’s the largest challenge for Oracle’s data center buildout, it’s not the only risk. Payments on both Oracle’s bonds and its data center leases will occur on a fixed timeline. Anything that slows the buildout threatens Oracle — money will be flowing out on schedule, but if the build doesn’t happen on time, there may not be enough money flowing in. There are a lot of things that could potentially slow Oracle’s mad dash to build data centers: increasing objections from communities near data centers, supply chain risks from Trump’s war on Iran, and energy risks for the same. What’s more, Oracle has data centers in the now-destabilized Middle East, which could lead to surprise costs that have nothing to do with OpenAI, but nonetheless make it harder for Oracle to pay its bills. Increasingly, communities are objecting to the mad rush to build AI data centers, so much so that11 states are considering moratoriums. In the case of one of Oracle’s attempted data centers in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, the attempt to quickly build a data center bybuttering up local officials— without even really consulting the community the facility would be built in — is nowfacing several lawsuitsfrom a local environmental group. The data center, dubbed Project Jupiter, would emit more greenhouse gases than the state’s two largest cities, Albuquerque and Las Cruces, combined. The state’s land commissionerhas rejected an application for a segment of gas pipeline to powerthe data center. Though construction has already started, it’s still awaiting two air quality permits — and the decision, with an original deadline of April 22nd, has beendelayed several monthsto allow for a public hearing as opposition to the data center has mounted. Another Oracle-OpenAI data center, in Port Washington, Wisconsin, has similarly drawnpushback from locals. Several protesters were arrested at a city council meeting in December, and one was dragged out for chanting “Recall” at the mayor. Construction on this data center is also underway. Among the people who oppose the data center is thecomedian Charlie Berens, who has 3 million subscribers to his YouTube channel of mostly Midwestern humor. This data center project alsofaces lawsuitsfrom locals, includinga challenge to tax incentives for the projectworth nearly half a billion dollars. An investigation is now taking place about whether meetings that pushed the data center development forwardviolated open records laws; Port Washington has also been accused ofnot turning over public records in response to a request. The construction itself, going around the clock to avoid delays,has also irritated neighbors;new rules limit construction time. There are signs that the OpenAI and Oracle alliance could be getting shaky There are other signs that the OpenAI alliance may be shaky.OpenAI declined to expand the Abilene, Texas, data centerit partners with Oracle on, possiblybecause it doesn’t have the newest clusters of Nvidia chips. It wasn’t just OpenAI who didn’t want to work with Oracle on this; lenders didn’t want to finance an expansion with Oracle as the tenant, according toThe Wall Street Journal.Banks havereportedly grown wary of Oracle debtas private credit investors havegotten anxious about their funds. Should Oracle require more money, it may be harder to find. And now that Ellison’s pal Donald Trump has started a war in Iran with no end in sight, new risks are stacking up for data centers broadly — including Oracle’s. The New York Fed has said thatsupply chains are facing mounting pressure. In particular, Iran’s blockade on the Strait of Hormuz isa threat to the global helium supply; helium is used inmanufacturing semiconductors, and there isnothing that can replace it. There is alsoan aluminum crisis; the material is used in data center server racks and cooling units.Data centers had already driven up the price of aluminum, while also making it more difficult to manufacture aluminum in the US by increasing energy prices. Speaking of energy prices, there is one more obvious problem that has been created by the Iran war: more expensive energy. Infrastructure damage from the war, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has sent prices upwithout spurring new drilling. That may mean increases in the price of other kinds of energy as people seek out alternatives. Expensive energy could turbocharge objections to data center buildouts, as well as making those builds more pricey. It may also force purveyors of compute to raise their prices, which could make AI even more expensive than it already is. On top of all of that, Oracle’s existing data centers are also in greater jeopardy than before Trump went to war. A Dubai data centerhas been hit by debrisalready. Iran claims to be proactively targeting data centers from US companies, including Oracle, and has struck several Amazon facilities. Should Iran take out more Oracle hubs, the company may be forced to rebuild those at the same time as it attempts to build its AI centers — leading to a cash crunch. It may also limit revenue. An increase in the cost of construction and energy, a decrease in revenue, or both could make it much harder for Oracle to meet its lease and debt obligations, which are fixed. Repayment of the $43 billion Oracle raised in fiscal 2026 is split up over a series of years, starting in 2029 and ending in 2066, with a total effective interest rate of 4.9 percent. Now, on top of everything else, there’s the war in Iran In the next five years, Oracle will have to repay the $9.5 billion it borrowed in fixed-rate notes, plus another $500 million in floating-rate notes, plus interest. This suggests an aggressive view of what the company can accomplish in five years, since we know Oracle isn’t making enough cash right now to cover its operating expensesandcapital expenditures. To turn that around, Oracle has to build data centers, fast, to turn its theoretical future revenue into actual money. The bond market has reflected uncertainty about Oracle’s plans. In December, Oracle’s investment-grade notes were trading like junk bonds, becauseinvestors feared data centers would be delayed, according toBloomberg. Also in December, Oracle’s credit default swaps (CDS) — a kind of insurance in the case of a default —got expensive. But by February, investors werefeeling betterafter newly announced financing plans suggested that Oracle would avoid having its credit downgraded. After Oracle’s strong earnings were announced in March, the five-year CDS got cheaper — then, later that month,hit an all-time high, suggesting investors were nervous again. “Oracle’s CDS has become the credit market’s proxy for AI risk,” John Lloyd, global head of multisector credit and a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors, toldBloomberg. In April, another$14 billion of bonds for an Oracle data center were issuedin a special purpose vehicle, keepingthe debt off Oracle’s balance sheet. Investors have reason to be nervous. More than half of the data centers scheduled to be built this yearmay be delayed by equipment shortages— or even canceled. While some builders — like Oracle’s partner Crusoe — are refurbishing old transformers or relying on other strategies, uncertainty around the AI buildout has been rising. It’s not all bad news for Oracle. For instance, ByteDance has been renting chips from Oracle to circumvent export prohibitions of Nvidia’s most advanced chips. According toThe Information,ByteDance has become one of Oracle’s largest cloud customers. Oracle also has a$2 billion stake in TikTok’s newly spun-off US operationsand hosts all of the company’s user data. What’s more,SemiAnalysishas suggested that in addition to deals in Northern Virginia, ByteDance is a major customer of Oracle’s in Southeast Asia. As ByteDance is planning to grow in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Oracle will benefit, according toSemiAnalysis. “The scale of the Oracle and Bytedance partnership remains under the radar,”SemiAnalysisnoted, rating Oracle’s GPU service as Gold onits most recent ranking chart. Oracle had strong results in its most recent earnings, too. The company did better than expected at keeping its costs low. It also showed strong growth in its cloud infrastructure business, and 90 percent of its database projects were on or ahead of schedule. “A strong record of on-time delivery is evidence of solid execution,”wrote Luke Yang, an analyst with the financial firm Morningstar. Still, Yang said that there was a lot of uncertainty around Oracle, since the AI landscape changes quickly. But more significant than the bare-metal business may be Ellison’s vision of private AI, deployed within databases Oracle already runs. Sure, Oracle has talked about efficiencies from using AI coding tools. That’s not really the big play, though. Oracle already has sensitive data for a number of businesses, including healthcare records. Having an AI software stack means being able to deploy AI agents into that data to better organize it — with fewer concerns about leakage than there would be with general-purpose third-party LLMs. “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history,” Ellison saidin December, on an earnings call. “AI models reasoning on private data will be an even larger and more valuable business. Oracle databases contain most of the world’s high-value private data.” “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history.” There’s reason to believe that training is no longer going to be the same kind of growth industry for AI bare-metal providers; inference will be. After all, one line of thinking goes, the big LLMs have already scraped everything available on the web. But that doesn’t really matter for the application of AI to businesses — inference is what they’d want anyway. Maybe they don’t have everything a business might need yet, says Patience, the analyst with Futurum. But it’s clearly where Ellison is heading. “I don’t think he’s early this time,” Patience said, suggesting this moment was unlike the network phone. “A lot of people would have to be completely wrong, so he’s more protected.” Oracle is also a go-to vendor for the Trump administration, Patience points out. Oracle has, for instance, justwon a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicesto modernize the agency’s data. It also justwon a similar contract with the Air Force. And now US government customers can use a number of Oracle services,including its generative AI. This has, perhaps understandably,freaked people out. Oracle has a history of unauthorized data collection — in 2024,it settled a class-action lawsuitclaiming that the company illegally compiled “digital dossiers” including where people browsed online, bought gas, banked, and ate, and sold the information to marketers. The same year, Ellison alsosuggested, in an analyst meeting, that AI and surveillance will make sure that “citizens will be on their best behaviorbecause we’re constantly recording everything that’s going on.” He described a world in which police officers, wearing Oracle body cams, tell their cameras they need two minutes to go to the bathroom. “We’ll turn it off,” Ellison says. “The truth is, we don’t really turn it off. What we do is, we record it so no one can see it. No one can get into that recording without a court order.” And an AI is always watching, Ellison says. “These are the kind of next-generation systems we can build using AI.” And of course, databases are central to the vision. “We need to unify all the national data, put it into a database where it’s easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like,” Ellison said inanother speech at the World Governments Summit. “Right now, countries’ data is fragmented.” Ellison’s prophecy is, effectively, government by database. AI tools and government contracts may make it competitive with Palantir, the current AI standard-bearer in assembling government dataso the secret police can stalk their victims. This vision is, obviously, bad news for democracy, but it’s great news for Oracle! I find myself curious about whether the company will simply use its private enterprise data to help add, hmmm,efficienciesto its government efforts, making it easier for surveillance-minded authoritarians to track citizens. Oracle has been wooing authoritarian governments, includingChina, and has suggested that “pretty much every governmentis going to want a sovereign cloud and a dedicated region for that government.” And because Oracle is so boring, most people may not even recognize it as a threat. Oh, and there’s one more thing. Besides the risk of Oracle snooping into your business, there’s also the possibility of regulatory capture — that is, because Ellison is so tight with the Trumps, what remains of the government watchdogs won’t stop it. That means there’s no one to prevent Oracle doing assorted dirty deeds — but presumably not dirt cheap. This may create some downside risk if, say, Democrats ever win back power, but perhaps Ellison is betting that if he deploys his technology correctly, that simply won’t happen. Which brings me, finally, to Oracle’s core competency: lock-in. A lot of companies remain on Oracle databases because it is difficult and expensive to relocate. If Oracle’s inference is good enough, the company basically becomes Hotel California for anyone who’s put data there — because to leave is to leave the inference behind. There’s bad news for democracy here, but good news for Oracle Despite some fairly serious risks to Oracle — largely from its OpenAI deal, and to a lesser extent from the war in Iran — the company may be positioned to succeed. The degree to which you have faith in Ellison’s vision is also the degree to which that vision is disquieting. Oracle’s AI buildout doesn’t necessarily make a lot of financial sense; Ellison may royally piss off his shareholders by the time this is all through. But making financial sense has never been Ellison’s strong point. And besides, what’s he going to do, letMicrosoftbeat him to the hot new technology? In Oracle’s most recent earnings, the AI buildout shows up on the balance sheet as capital expenditures. Its most recent earnings were for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended in February. Oracle spent $39 billion on capital expenditures, more than three times as much as in the previous fiscal year. As a result, the company now has negative free cash flow. Oracle also told investors that it expected to spend a total of $50 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, and that it was forecasting $67 billion in revenue. In fiscal 2027, Oracle expects $90 billion in revenue. The company did not say how much it forecast in capital expenditures. Morgan Stanley analysts suggest Oracle will need “$100 billion or more for 2027 and the first half of 2028,”according toThe Wall Street Journal. “Oracle is about execution right now,” says Luria. “The number one thing is the ability to build data centers and deploy capital to create data centers.” The thing to watch for is whether Oracle can get financing. But even if everything goes smoothly on the building front, Ellison still has to deal with Sam Altman. If OpenAI’s chaos gets too out of hand, it may suck in Oracle, too. What happens to Oracle if OpenAI shits the bed? One possibility is that it sacrifices its software stock premium and gets priced like a utility, which is effectively what the bare-metal business is. Like the telecoms from the ’90s internet boom, it (and its bellwether status) fades in significance as the AI-native companies that survive an AI bubble bursting eventually emerge from the wreckage to reshape our society however that may go. It’s not impossible that the company goes bankrupt, if enough things go wrong at the same time. Because for Oracle to be the dastardly surveillance company of Larry Ellison’s dreams, it has to nail the timing. And that’s never been his strong suit. A free daily digest of the news that matters most. This is the title for the native ad

While never reachingGame of ThronesSeason 8 levels of outrage,House of the Dragonhas come under (mostly) justified fire forthe sheer amount of liberties it takes with the source material that it’s based on, going so far at points as to upset the author of the original IP so badly that he broke NDAs and posted spoilers on his blog (before ultimately removing them). Fans initially thought the tide would turn when Miguel Sapochnik was removed as co-showrunner, leaving only Ryan Condal, who claimed to be a dear friend of George RR Martin, to pilot the ship. Instead, Condal made a different decision, taking the series full-throttle into fanfiction territory. And while the departure from the canon lore is one of the (many) reasons that the final few seasons ofGame of Throneswere so unpopular, paintingHouse of the Dragonwith the same broad brush is unfair. There is no nearly complete series of novels guidingHouse of the Dragonin the same way asGame of Thrones. Instead, the series is based on a segment from a book calledFire & Blood, which serves as a historical account of House Targaryen, presented as a maester’s compiled texts. There are no character points of view, inner monologues, or close looks into the character’s motivations. And while some choices made in the first and second seasons of the show were point-blank ridiculous, Season 3 is already shaping up to be the biggest and best that we’ve had from the show—both in terms of the battles and the interpersonal conflicts. It was certainly a choice to have a famousGame of Thronesline play over the trailer released on April 27th—one that both angered and confused fans ofFire & Blood. “They say every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin, and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.” The concept of Targaryen madness is one that was used flippantly by the showrunners ofGame of Thronesas a convenient excuse for Daenerys to go mad at the last second with no actual basis in the canon source material. And while it was a total failure there, it wouldn’t actually be entirely out of pocket in Rhaenyra’s case. She is a Targaryen character who would truly have earned madness, should that be the way this season goes for her. Born and raised as an afterthought to a brother who may or may not come along, Rhaenyra was taught never to feel secure in her place, not only in the line of succession but also in her parents’ affection. Then that baby brother is born, her father kills her mother to bring him into the world, and the baby dies only days later. Then her father, King Viserys, officially makes Rhaenyra his heir, though he does nothing to protect her from those who don’t want a woman ruling them. On top of that, he marries her childhood best friend, with whom she shared homoerotic tension, and goes on to produce a small army of male heirs whose sole purpose is to usurp her position. She’s then married off to a gay man with whom she can’t produce heirs, her affair with the only man who ever loved her produces dark-haired bastards that her homoerotic childhood friend makes it her mission to expose, and then said lover is set burned to death in his ancestral home before Rhaenyra finally makes the decision to shore up her power by marrying her war criminal uncle. She loses her daughter in the process of giving birth to her, just before discovering that her younger brother murdered her son. If anyone deserves to go crazy or be branded with “Targaryen madness,” it’s her. And despite certain fans being upset that there isn’t more focus on Aegon, the brother who has usurped her as ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, as Rhaenyra’s main foil, the show has made clear that this is the Rhaenyra and Alicent show—a dynamic that is going to get violently messy in the upcoming season. And while that show isn’t reminiscent of what George RR Martin initially created, and there are some genuine issues with the narrative that Ryan Condal has fostered, it has fully become its own thing, setting up a third season that will finally feel like the show has found its footing. It’s unfortunate that it took as long as it did, but the final product of this season seems to be fully committing to the bit, owning that it’s morphed into something apart from the book. It does take itself entirely too seriously in places, but that doesn’t mean that we have to—in fact, embracing the absurdity of the story is half the fun withHouse of the Dragon(the other half is ¼ dragon battles and ¼ how ridiculously talented the cast is). Season 3 will also be gracing us with one of the most brutal battles featured in the story, one which will lead to a devastating body count and the death of one of the most beloved characters in the series. It also brings back the ultimate baddie that is Aemond Targaryen and his uncle, Daemon, the world’s most morally gray man in a blonde wig. There will also be religious fanaticism, lions used as weapons, and sea battles. If this show has anything going for it, apart from the beyond incredible dragons that it’s brought to life, it’s the characters, despite how they may differ from the source material. And there can be no question that the actors who portray them have given the performance of a lifetime in the process. What are you looking forward to most in the next season ofHouse of the Dragon? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. And don’t forget to join in the conversation over at theComicBook forum.

Il deputato di Fratelli d’Italia Dario Iaia, segretario della commissione parlamentare Ecomafie, esprime apprezzamento per le nuove misure adottate dalla Capitaneria di Porto – Guardia Costiera di Taranto per il contenimento delle emissioni odorigene e dei composti organici volatili provenienti dalle navi cisterna operative nello scalo jonico. “Questa iniziativa, fondamentale per il nostro territorio, si propone di migliorare il sistema di controllo delle emissioni in un porto caratterizzato da un’intensa attività di movimentazione di idrocarburi. La sicurezza e la tutela dell’ambiente rappresentano priorità imprescindibili, e le misure adottate dalla Guardia Costiera mostrano un impegno concreto in questa direzione”. Nel suo intervento, Iaia sottolinea l’importanza delle attività di prevenzione e monitoraggio avviate nel porto di Taranto, evidenziando il ruolo delle istituzioni nella tutela dell’ambiente e della salute pubblica. “Congratulandomi con la Guardia Costiera di Taranto, voglio sottolineare l’importanza di queste misure per il nostro ambiente e per la salute dei cittadini. È fondamentale che le istituzioni lavorino insieme per garantire un porto sicuro e rispettoso delle norme ambientali. La vigilanza continua e la tracciabilità delle operazioni sono elementi chiave per la salvaguardia del territorio”. Il deputato manifesta inoltre sostegno per le future attività di controllo che saranno portate avanti dalla Guardia Costiera, finalizzate alla verifica del rispetto delle nuove prescrizioni da parte degli operatori portuali. “Queste azioni rappresentano un passo significativo verso un modello di sviluppo portuale più sostenibile, metendo al primo posto la sicurezza marittima e la protezione della comunità”. In conclusione, Iaia ribadisce l’impegno di Fratelli d’Italia nel sostenere iniziative legate alla sostenibilità ambientale e alla crescita responsabile del territorio. “Solo attraverso la collaborazione tra istituzioni e cittadini si possa costruire un futuro migliore per tutti”. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento...

Nuove disposizioni per limitare emissioni odorigene e composti organici volatili nel porto di Taranto. La Capitaneria di Porto – Guardia Costiera ha definito un nuovo percorso regolamentare destinato alle navi cisterna impegnate nel trasporto di idrocarburi e operative tra rada, approdi petroliferi e aree commerciali dello scalo. L’iniziativa nasce con l’obiettivo di rafforzare il sistema di prevenzione e controllo ambientale in un’area caratterizzata da intense attività petrolifere, soprattutto in vista della stagione estiva, quando l’aumento delle temperature può favorire la diffusione di fenomeni odorigeni. Il provvedimento è stato sviluppato in collaborazione con Arpa Puglia, il consulente chimico del porto, l’Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio ed Eni. Le nuove regole prevedono misure specifiche per il contenimento dei vapori di carico, dei gas e delle sostanze odorigene provenienti dalle navi cisterna, anche durante le soste in rada e le operazioni di ormeggio. Tra gli obblighi introdotti, il mantenimento in piena efficienza dei sistemi di bordo dedicati al controllo delle emissioni e il monitoraggio costante della pressione delle cisterne e, quando necessario, della temperatura del carico. I dati raccolti dovranno essere registrati per consentire eventuali verifiche successive e garantire la tracciabilità delle operazioni. “L’obiettivo — evidenzia la Guardia Costiera di Taranto — è rafforzare il sistema di prevenzione e controllo nell’ambito delle operazioni petrolifere portuali, attraverso misure chiare, verificabili e coerenti con gli standard internazionali. Si tratta di un intervento volto a prevenire i fenomeni odorigeni, gestire tempestivamente eventuali anomalie e garantire il giusto equilibrio tra operatività del porto, sicurezza marittima e tutela della collettività”. La Guardia Costiera ha inoltre annunciato che proseguiranno le attività di monitoraggio e verifica sul rispetto delle nuove prescrizioni da parte delle navi e degli operatori coinvolti, con eventuali ulteriori interventi a tutela dell’ambiente e della sicurezza portuale. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento...

The DJI Osmo Action 6 ($436) is the firstaction camerawith a square-format image sensor, ideal for content creators who want to shoot once and deliver video to both wide- and tall-screen devices. It records at up to 4K120 for slow-motion, at 8K30 for delivery to high-resolution displays, and uses a bright F2 aperture lens to improve video quality in dimly lit interiors. The camera captures pleasing video with saturated colors and smooth motion, gets excellent battery life, includes 50GB internal storage, and sports the tough, waterproof build you expect from an action cam. The Osmo Action 6 is a solid follow-up that offers enough upgrades over theAction 5 Pro(which is still available for $319) to justify spending a bit more, and earns our Editors' Choice award in the process. There's not a lot of variation in design among action cameras. Manufacturers have settled on a small, boxy design with front and rear displays and a wide-angle lens as the de facto standard for the category. The Osmo Action 6 colors within the lines; it's small enough to mount in a tight space (1.3 by 2.9 by 1.9 inches HWD), light enough to wear on a helmet (5.3 ounces), and built to survive rough-and-tumble handling. It can survive drops and work underwater to 65.6 feet without an external housing. The Osmo Action 6 drops the "Pro" designation from its predecessor, the Action 5 Pro, though I'm not sure what DJI's logic behind the name change is. The Action 6 is pretty much an Action 5 Pro with a few more recording modes and features. Maybe DJI just thinks the word Pro is overused in product names. I won't argue the point—if everything is referred to as 'Pro,' the meaning of the word is diluted. Names aside, the Action 6 is virtually identical to the 5 Pro on the outside. The camera uses an ultra-wide lens with fixed focus to capture action. It features DJI's RockSteady digital stabilization to smooth out handheld footage, and it works with the same magnetic mounting system as recent entries in the series to secure it to a helmet, vehicle, or the like. The Osmo has dual displays, one on the front and one on the rear, both with touch support. Likewise, it has only two buttons: a large Record control at the top and a mode switch on the left. It also supports voice control. The Action 6 uses the samebatteryas earlier models, dating back to theOsmo Action 3. That's good news for anyone upgrading or for creators who use multiple action cameras to capture a scene from different angles and don't want to keep track of which battery goes into which camera. The Action 6 has very good battery life among action cams. It gets 112 minutes of 16:9 4K60, 92 minutes of 4:3 4K60, or 84 minutes of 8K30 per charge, and didn't overheat at all during the rundown testing. The Action 5 Pro lasts a little longer, at 126 minutes at 4K60, while the GoPro Hero13 Black lags behind with just 80 minutes at 4K60. The camera includes 50GB of internal storage space, a slight increase from the Action 5 Pro (47GB), and it supportsmicroSDXC memory cards. It includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for pairing with the DJI Mimo smartphone app (available for Android and iOS) for file transfers, remote control, and over-the-air firmware updates, as well as a USB-C port for charging and wired data transfer. Mimo is useful and includes some templates to help you get started with editing, but DJI does not have an answer to GoPro's subscription service and its tight integration with the Quik mobile app. You'll have to pay for it, but GoPro subscribers get unlimited cloud storage with automatic uploads from the camera, plus an AI-powered Highlight edit that compiles your best shots from the day into a bite-sized clip. You can record audio with the built-in mic, or pair the Action 6 with one of DJI's wireless mic kits for clearer sound. TheMic MiniandMic 3are the latest, and the Osmo also works with theMic 2and USB-C microphones. DJI sells the Osmo Action 6 as a Standard Combo with a single battery, magnetic quick-release mount, and adhesive sticky mount for $436, or in an Adventure Combo with three batteries, a multi-charger, two magnetic quick-release mounts, an extension stick/tripod, and adhesive mount for $536. The Osmo's control scheme is typical among action cameras. It has only two buttons: a prominent Record button at the top to start and stop clips or take a still image, and a Quick Shift (QS) button on the left to cycle through capture modes. By default, QS only swaps between video and photo, but you can add others, including SuperNight, Portrait, Subject Tracking, Slow Motion, Time-lapse, Hyperlapse, and Playback. I'm glad you can pick and choose which modes you want to cycle through with Quick Shift, given the sheer number included in the Osmo—if anything, the camera hastoo manymodes. Because there are only two buttons, most of the changes you'll make to camera settings are done via its touch interface. The interface includes icons to switch to playback, change the capture mode, set resolution and frame rates, and adjust manual exposure settings on the main screen. There's also a full setup menu (swipe down to get to it). Both the 1.5-inch front and 2.5-inch rear displays use the same touch interface and OLED panels. The rear screen is roomier and easier to navigate, but the front screen is usable and convenient when you're self-recording. The camera supports voice commands, but they're pretty limited. You can say "start recording," "stop recording," "take a photo," and "shut down," and that's it. Voice control is most useful if you've got the camera mounted out of reach or you're wearing giant gloves for cold-weather sports. The Osmo Action 6 didn't launch with 8K recording; it was added in a post-release firmware update, but now offers 8K30 capture in addition to 4K120 and 1080p240. All modes support 10-bit color, either a standard color or a flat D-Log M profile, standard NTSC and PAL frame rates down to 24fps, and superb digital stabilization. The Osmo also supports time-lapse and hyperlapse, in-camera 4K slow motion, and 38MP stills in JPG or Raw DNG format. You may be enticed to record everything in 8K, a bleeding-edge feature with more pixelsthan most TVs. But there's not much, if any, actual improvement in detail at 8K versus 4K with the Action 6. I took a look at some frame grabs from different scenes recorded at both resolutions, viewing the 8K grab at full magnification versus the 4K zoomed into 200%, and, to quote a famousmeme from The Office, they're the same picture. This makes sense on a technical level—the Osmo uses a Quad Bayer sensor that reads out every pixel for 8K, but merges multiple pixels to create an oversampled picture at 4K, and encodes both resolutions at the same compression rate. Both 4K and 8K video looks great in moderate to bright light. The 4K capture mode supports frame rates and aspect ratios that you can't get from 8K, which is locked at 16:9. At 4K, the Osmo also supports 4:3 up to 120fps, and a 1:1 square aspect at up to 60fps. Both of the boxier looks get more picture height than 16:9 and are useful for creators who want to pull out 16:9 widescreen and 9:16 vertical video from the same footage. This is a feature that's missing from the Action 5 Pro but is something GoPro has already had for a few generations: theHero11,Hero12, andHero13 Blackall use 8:7 aspect-ratio sensors. Aside from the change in aspect ratio, the Action 6's sensor delivers very similar image quality when compared with the Action 5 Pro. There is a difference in low light, however. The Action 6 is the first action cam to use a variable aperture lens, an F2-4 design. At F2, it captures twice as much light as the Action 5 Pro's F2.8, so video recorded in dim light is brighter and shows better detail. Even so, the Action 6 isn't a killer camera for dark interiors. The 4K video from my aging iPhone 13 shows less noise and is better exposed, but the Action 6 handles early morning and evening twilight well. We'll have to wait and see if GoPro's forthcomingMission 1 Profinally breaks through and goes toe-to-toe with smartphones for darker interiors. On the other end of the spectrum, the Action 6 stops down to F4 to cut out incoming light, which is handy for scenes with very bright light. It's not enough to record footage with cinematic motion blur under the sun—you'll still want a strongneutral densityfilter for that look—but I won't knock DJI for including the option. The DJI Osmo Action 6 is one of the best small video cameras for action sports, and its square format recording is ideal for content creators and vloggers.

ATHENS, Greece, April 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), (the “Company”), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels, today announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Refined Success Limited, for one of its Capesize dry bulk vessels, the m/v New York. The gross charter rate is US$27,500 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties, for a period until minimum February 1, 2028 up to maximum March 31, 2028. The charter is expected to commence on May 1, 2026. The m/v New York is currently chartered, as previously announced, at a gross charter rate of US$17,600 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties. The “New York” is a 177,773 dwt Capesize dry bulk vessel built in 2010. The Company also announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Oldendorff GmbH & Co. KG, for one of its Ultramax dry bulk vessels, the m/v DSI Pyxis. The gross charter rate is US$16,000 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties, for a period until minimum June 15, 2027 up to maximum August 15, 2027. The charter is expected to commence on May 3, 2026. The m/v DSI Pyxis is currently chartered, as previously announced, at a gross charter rate of US$13,100 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties. The “DSI Pyxis” is a 60,362 dwt Ultramax dry bulk vessel built in 2018. The employments of “New York” and “DSI Pyxis” are anticipated to generate approximately US$23.76 million of gross revenue for the minimum scheduled period of the time charters. Diana Shipping Inc.’s fleet currently consists of 36 dry bulk vessels (4 Newcastlemax, 8 Capesize, 4 Post-Panamax, 6 Kamsarmax, 5 Panamax and 9 Ultramax). The Company also expects to take delivery of two methanol dual fuel new-building Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels by the second half of 2027 and the first half of 2028, respectively. As of today, the combined carrying capacity of the Company’s fleet, excluding the two vessels not yet delivered, is approximately 4.1 million dwt, with a weighted average age of 12.43 years. A table describing the current Diana Shipping Inc. fleet can be found on the Company’s website, www.dianashippinginc.com. Information contained on the Company’s website does not constitute part of this press release. About the Company Diana Shipping Inc. is a global provider of shipping transportation services through its ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels. The Company’s vessels are employed primarily on short to medium-term time charters and transport a range of dry bulk cargoes, including such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and other materials along worldwide shipping routes. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words “believe,” “anticipate,” “intends,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “plan,” “potential,” “may,” “should,” “expect,” “pending” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, Company management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in the Company’s records and other data available from third parties. Although the Company believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond the Company’s control, the Company cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in the Company’s view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in the Company’s operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for the Company’s vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, tariff policies and other trade restrictions, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, including risks associated with the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and related sanctions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, including the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors. Please see the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a more complete discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Corporate Contact:Margarita VeniouChief Corporate Development, Governance &Communications Officer and SecretaryTelephone: + 30-210-9470-100Email:mveniou@dianashippinginc.comWebsite:www.dianashippinginc.comX: @DianashipInvestor Relations/Media Contact:Nicolas Bornozis / Daniela GuerreroCapital Link, Inc.230 Park Avenue, Suite 1540New York, N.Y. 10169Tel.: (212) 661-7566Email:diana@capitallink.com