Menace though it may be, the black widow spider is something of a has-been. For potency of venom, a little-known spider called the brown recluse is now No. 1. Also called the fiddler be cause of a violin-shaped mark on its head, this species is spreading across the Central and Southern states. A closely related species in South America has been known for 80 years to cause severe and sometimes gangrenous bites, but the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusd) was not believed to have such a potential until the late 1950s, when doctors at the University of Missouri identified it as the cause of bites that stubbornly refused to heal.

This week holds two major Civil War anniversaries: America’s deadliest war started on April 12, 1861, when Southerners who seceded from the Union fired shots at the federal government’s Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, and came to an unofficial end on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to future president Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, Va. But, though more than 150 years have passed since those days, the war’s story continues to play out.

According to the epidemiological surveillance service of the Veneto region, the outbreak was discovered in the farm at the outskirts of the town of Mira in Venice province on Saturday. “Preventative seizure of the farm was adopted immediately to avoid the spread of the disease, and the presence of the highly contagious H5N8 virus was confirmed by health authorities. “Of the 20,500 turkeys overall at risk in the commercial farm, some 6,000 were infected, and 600 died of the virus,’’ the Italian health authority for animal health and food safety said.

Temps de lecture : 3 minutes    Le CSN avait déjà labellisé, le 2 avril 2020, la legaltech Quai des Notaires,  devenant ainsi la première plateforme labellisée par le CSN au regard de sa technologie.  Cette plateforme digitale vise à dynamiser et simplifier le processus notarial, via par exemple l’usage de la visio-signature certifiée, qui permet de signer et certifier une procuration ou un acte sous seing privé avec un Notaire, en quelques minutes et à distance.

Publié le 25 janvier 2011par  Sylvie Luneau / Victoires-Editions Environnement, Energie, Développement économique, Commande publique Attendu depuis des mois, l'appel d'offres pour la construction d'éoliennes en mer a été lancé le 25 janvier par Nicolas Sarkozy. D'une capacité de 3.000 mégawatts (3 gigawatts), ce premier appel d'offres vise l'implantation de 600 éoliennes en mer, pour un investissement de l'ordre de 10 milliards d'euros. Cinq sites sont actuellement retenus, uniquement dans le Nord-Ouest, au-dessus de la Loire : Dieppe et Fécamp en Seine-Maritime, Courseulles-sur-Mer dans le Calvados, Saint-Brieuc dans les Côtes-d'Armor et Saint-Nazaire en Loire-Atlantique.