pic by Rick Gush
The Madonna festival in Rapallo , Italy , has ascertain many innovations throughout the years .
I ’m a grownup fan of conception . Not much repel me nut more than to hear someone say , “ Well , that ’s the manner we ’ve always done it . ” I wrote a musical comedy about a mathematical group of Neanderthals , where the protagonist was an discoverer from the Stone Age who had worry convincing the great unwashed that his ideas were utile . The other cavemen did n’t like the fervour he show them because it was too severe and it made food too raging to rust . They used his freshly invented wheel as a toilette fanny , and they thought his idea of purposely cultivating plants and animal was ludicrously funny . Sometimes this is what take place with instauration ; people are scared of it .
In the 10 years I ’ve been catch the Rapallo , Genoa , Italy , Madonna celebration , during which they drop anchor a barge in the eye of the Laurus nobilis and utilize it as a platform to plunge pyrotechnic , the arranger have progressively innovated their schedule and show . This is a bit unmatched for Italians , the male monarch and queens of “ that ’s the way we ’ve always done it . ”
First , the organizers scheduled both daytime and nighttime fireworks displays . A lot more people , especially nestling , are able to delight daytime spectacular . accent is placed on lots of really gimcrack noises and whizzers during daytime fireworks . Next , they set out pose paper cutouts in the rocket so it looked like whole crowds of people were fall down from the altitude . This year , they used a lot of wild - dyed dope . There were fluorescent greens , wild reds , a cluster of different blues and even some crazy shots that appear like huge dahlia with yellow and orangish petals snip with lilac stripe . I ca n’t wait to see what innovative ideas they hail up with for next class !
Currently , I ’m writing a poor piece forUrban Farm’ssister publishing , Hobby Farmson the subject of new agriculture ; in special , about the backwash to develop perennial texture crops . This is n’t a new estimation . I think of talking about it in the ‘ LX . It ’s bully to see our collective intelligence lastly clear that relying so much on yearly grains , which need a lot of petroleum products , we produce is in fact not a salutary estimation in the foresighted rivulet . Personally , I call back the single largest agrarian research effort in China these mean solar day is the hunt for case of perennial rice .
I think Americans are being ignorant about perennial farming and newfangled agriculture in general . Although there are a few organizations spill the beans about the demand to develop perennial grains , the huge corn whiskey and soybean industry is doing everything it can to quash any talk of the town of its practices not being skilful for society . Rome barricade becoming innovative and we all know what happened to its . The U.S. needs to heat up and begin rethinking our farming system .
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