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The Nintendo Download – 2/14/13
Despite all the great news to come out of Nintendo Direct, this week's Nintendo Download feels a little thin. Even so, there's some free fun to be had through new apps and demos, and that's never a bad thing.
The highlight of the night has to be the new Wii Street U application, which is powered by Google Maps. By entering where you want to go, you can use the Wii U GamePad controller's screen as a sort of window to that location, allowing you to look around as if you were there. Best of all, it's free, though only for an unspecified limited time.
Also free is a demo of the retail title Naruto: Powerful Shippuden in the Nintendo 3DS eShop. This 3DS-exclusive sidescroller features a more cartoony style, and is designed to be easy for fans of all ages to pick up and play.
On Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS is the NES version of Namco's arcade classic, Dig Dug. For $3.99, you can journey underground and use your pump to eliminate the vicious Pookas and Fygars which dwell beneath. And remember to grab vegetables for extra points!
Two retail titles from Ubisoft have been added to the Nintendo 3DS eShop. In PETZ Fantasy 3D, you have the opportunity to discover and care for 20 magical creatures. Rabbids Travel in Time 3D, on the other hand, is a platforming adventure which takes the mischievous bunnies to key points in time… where they proceed to rewrite/ruin (or maybe improve?) history.
Moke Moke is available on both the Nintendo 3DS eShop ($1.99) and Nintendo DSiWare (200 DSi Points), and is an arcade action platformer for up to four players to see who can collect the most treasure scattered throughout the forest.
Finally, the Wii Virtual Console sees a little more love from SNK courtesy of D4 Enterprises by way of 1994's World Heroes 2 Jet. for 900 Wii Points, get in on some arcade-style fighting action with 16 characters, two game modes, plus the addition of some new moves and techniques added since the previous versions.
And that's everything for today. For more information, screens, and video on each title, just click the corresponding links above.
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Сент-Обе́н-ла-Плен () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Пеї-де-ла-Луар, департамент Вандея. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 370 км на південний захід від Парижа, 90 км на південний схід від Нанта, 33 км на південний схід від Ла-Рош-сюр-Іона.

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The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League (SVFAL) has new members and new artwork at its second annual New Members Showcase beginning Friday, February 10, and running through the end of April.
New members participating in the show include Ana Blanton, Alison Curtin, Nora Mosrie, Elise Orkend, Mac Read, Victoria Schell and Marcia Smith. Each artist's photo and biography is displayed with the artwork, providing a glimpse into each one's individual journey.
"We've welcomed over 15 new artists since our last Showcase and we are excited to invite everyone to see their excellent work," says Ana Blanton, exhibit co-curator along with Donna Davis.
The opening of this show coincides with an all-members show entitled Moonlight Becomes You; both shows have opening receptions on Friday, February 10, from 5–7 p.m. at the Red House Studios and Gallery. Hours for viewing both shows are Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through March 31. Beginning April 1, hours change to Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1–4 p.m.
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Sevilla FC first team set to tour Tanzania
ONE-TIME La Liga Champions and Five-time UEFA Europa League Champions, Sevilla FC, are set to make history twice in a pre-season tour to Tanzania where they will play an international friendly with either Simba SC or Yanga in Dar es Salaam on May 23.
This will be a co-organized event by La Liga and gaming firm SportPesa Tanzania.
Sevilla FC will be the first ever club from the Spanish top league to visit Tanzania courtesy of SportPesa Tanzania and La Liga.
The Spanish side will play with one of SportPesa's local partners, Simba SC or Yanga, at the National Stadium.
Addressing the press in Dodoma yesterday, the SportPesa Tanzania's Director of Administration and Compliance, Tarimba Abbas, said the visit is part of the company's commitment to football development in the country.
"SportPesa Tanzania is leveraging on its continuing partnership with La Liga, regarded as the best football league in the world, to showcase local talent and grow the level of football in the region," Abbas said.
Last time the world saw English soccer giants Everton FC visit Tanzania for the first time in history and the experience was breathtaking.
"Since we are partnering with some of most decorated football institutions in the world, we saw the need to bring another experience of such magnitude to Tanzania this time leveraging on our esteemed partnership with La Liga to bring one of the most iconic football clubs in Europe, Sevilla FC, to continue what we already started," Abbas revealed.
"It is with this in mind that SportPesa Tanzania saw an opportunity to host Sevilla FC after reaching an agreement with our SportPesa Global office to bring a La Liga team here."
"Our aim is for the football world to appreciate Tanzania as one of the best pre-season destinations besides the countless number of talents that we want to showcase to the international scouting teams," Abbas asserted.
Sevilla FC will become the second European soccer team to visit Tanzania as part of SportPesa Global plan of spreading football excitement to the company's African markets by leveraging on its international partners.
Everton FC was the first English Premier League and European club to visit Tanzania in July 2017, a visit where renowned striker Wayne Rooney scored his first goal for his childhood club, soon after completing his move from Manchester United.
Unpaid fees prevents Dar from participating in international tourneys
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Chestnuts are grown across the globe, from Japan to Minnesota to Florida to The Canary Islands to Turkey. Take a moment to appreciate how diverse those climates are. We at Propagate Ventures are focused on the cold, humid climates of the Northeast and Midwest United States, frankly because this is our home. The salad economy produces large amounts of nutritious greens, but if we only ate kale, we would be very thin. Consequently, we must ask, "Where do our calories come from?" Does the cultivation of our carbohydrates, proteins, and fats improve or degrade the land? Chestnuts are a calorie-dense, carbohydrate-rich nut, the production of which improves soil and sequesters carbon. Today, we'd like to discuss chestnut cultivation in Chile. While our own climate and that of central Chile are not identical, they are indeed similar. More importantly, the story, context, and success of a group of Chilean chestnut growers is most interesting to us.
Vivero Austral is Chile's chestnut and walnut incubator. In the year 2000, entrepreneur Edmundo Valderrama and agronomist Pedro Halcartegaray set out to pioneer the growing, processing, and marketing of chestnuts to satisfy the Northern Hemisphere's off-season demand. Their information, that we present here, is available in Spanish and is cited throughout. First, we'll walk through the background information of the Chilean Chestnut industry. We'll then go into technical details for aspiring growers and farm designers. Finally we will present implications and next steps for cultivation in the United States. We'd like you to walk away with the idea that we can grow chestnut trees and other crops, namely cereal grains or pastured livestock, on the same piece of land.
Chestnuts do well in Chile, and have been in South America for a very long time. They first arrived in the pockets of European Immigrants. This is not atypical: Chestnuts have been spread by humans for millennia. They can be found in all corners of the Holy Roman Empire, and that is not a coincidence. Those with organized foresight have always promoted this tree. At that, while home cultivation is fantastic, commercial cultivation is what we're after. Chile presents climates analogous to those Baja California, Southern Alaska, and everything in between. Castanea sativa can grow as far north as Santiago, and as far south as Puerto Montt, but finds its sweet spot at 36-39 degrees south latitude in the region's deep volcanic soils and good precipitation. This is to be expected, however: proverbially, anything would enjoy growing in these conditions.
Chestnut pollen map, 570 AD: production is still significant in Galicia, Italy, and Turkey.
Given this comparative advantage, the Chilean chestnut associates set out to establish chestnuts as an agricultural and commercial cornerstone in the country. Vivero Austral grew the number of plantations and propagated vast amounts of nursery stock to supply that growth. In 2013, they could not keep up the demand for trees, and had to postpone their own plantings.
Vivero Austral also helps growers with site election, orchard design, plantation management, and employee training. No one in the region has global experience with chestnuts, and as innovators, they must bring all that is needed, from the trees themselves to the knowledge of how to prune for maximum yields. At the moment, their biggest constraint is processing. Added value chestnut products are the next frontier. We should ready ourselves for a chestnut craze within the next decade, and we should do so by planting trees now.
Yields and pruning: Technical Information.
What does profitability look like? How many pounds of chestnuts can we produce per acre? Quantity, quality, and consistency of management, like with any business, dictate profitability. If you plant a few trees and leave them alone, you'll eventually get some nuts. If you plant trees at the correct spacing, mulch them, and prune them correctly, you'll get more nuts, sooner. If you're looking for a quick figure, 800 hectares of trees in Chile are on track to produce 4,400 tons of nuts. That amounts to 4,800 lbs. per acre. At a U.S. wholesale price of $3.40 per pound, this would result in $16,320 per acre. Retail prices are at $10 per pound, inferring a gross revenue of $48,000 per acre.
Let us discuss the drivers of yield. First and foremost, take a moment to understand the following concept: trees produce nuts on the ends of their branches, and if we optimize the shape and surface area of the tree, we maximize nut production. The following photos from castanea.cl clarify this concept.
If you'd like to see additional photos, click through the slide show at the bottom of this linked webpage.
Consequently, we must optimize tree shape and the distance between tree centers (the trunk). Shape is discussed visually, above. Distance between tree trunks must correspond with management. If we plant a chestnut system at a very wide spacing of 50 ft. between trees and 60 ft. between rows of trees, we can take a slightly more hands-off approach to management, because the trees are unlikely to ever crowd each other out, in that they will not compete for light, resulting in the death of lower branches due to shade. In spite of this, low-density systems do not reach peak production for at least 20 years: fewer large trees will produce similar nut quantities to a greater number of smaller trees, but it will take less time for a decidedly small tree to reach full size. Wide spacing would seem to be a good option for a silvopasture, where the landowner's context does not suggest intensive nut production.
Moderate-density systems, planted at 25 feet between trees and 35 feet between rows will reach peak production sooner, but production will then rapidly decline as the trees compete for light and crowd each other out. Corrective, proactive pruning corrects for this, but neglect will nullify years of effort. Orchards can be planted at a spacing of 16-ft. between trees and 22 feet between rows, but intensive pruning and management are required. Systems like these are popular in China, where labor is less expensive. In short, the more time a manager contributes to a system, the greater yields he or she can achieve. Finding that point of equilibrium, based on a manager's context and goals, is paramount.
Commercial production in the United States, at sites we at Propagate Ventures visited in Iowa and Ohio, for all intents and purposes aligned with a moderate spacing of 20 feet between centers. At our current level of information gathering, this is what we would recommend aspiring producers base their assumptions on.
Young trees in the foreground, and mature trees in the background at Red Fern Farm in Wapello, Iowa.
Jeremy next to a mature chestnut tree, loaded with nuts, also at Red Fern Farm in Wapello, Iowa.
Additional technical data that we've found useful from the Chilean literature is as follows. At about 20 hectares, or 50 acres of cultivation, mechanized harvesting and peeling in Chile become economical. Labor may be less expensive in Chile, shrinking the corresponding acreage in the United States. At 600,000 lbs. of yield, chestnut flour production and other processing started to make economic sense, in Chile.
The greatest threat to chestnut production in Chile and across the globe, is the Chestnut blight. The blight is a parasitic fungus that is known for wiping out the American Chestnut. It is currently ravaging europe, and cutting yields in half. The trees in Chile are European chestnuts, Castanea sativa, and they are not blight-resistant. Chile is currently blight-free, but if we can learn anything from the bad choices of human history, namely the anthropogenic spread of the chestnut blight throughout the northern hemisphere, we would suggest that global chestnut breeders prioritize a blight-resistant European chestnut variety for Chile, Italy, Spain, the U.S., and the rest of the world.
In addition to the information and analysis that we've walked you through thus far, we'd like you to take a moment with the following two photos.
Rows of chestnut trees in Chile, intercropped with pasture. Source.
The biggest hurdle in establishing a chestnut orchard is the lack of early-year cash-flow from the trees themselves. If Americans thought on 10-year time horizons, we would plant a lot more fruit and nut trees. Unfortunately, we must compensate for this age of instant-gratification with monetary yields from in between the rows.
The net present value of a chestnut system, over 30 years, presents a fantastic IRR of around 20%. However, we aren't blind to the fact that financiers don't operate on that kind of time scale, given the uncertainty of a crop that is not currently mainstream. Chestnuts trees can be intercropped with organic soybeans or other small grains, vegetables, or pastured livestock. If we only expect the chestnut annuity (future yields) to account for the land that the physical tree occupies, and not the spaces in between the rows, our job becomes much easier. The photo below is poplar, alley cropped with wheat in Southern France. The system exhibits a myriad of benefits that we need not go into right now.
Chestnuts have enormous potential: from conventional corn farmers to chemical-averse grass-fed beef farmers, we've seen keen interest in incorporating rows of chestnuts into existing operations. Let us mimic the Chileans, produce regenerative, healthy carbohydrates, and create something that may very well outlive ourselves.


Catherine Fox is one of Australia's leading commentators on women and the workforce. An award-winning journalist, an author and presenter, she is regularly invited to address audiences around Australia and often appears in the media.
During a long career with the Australian Financial Review, she edited several sections of the newspaper and wrote the weekly Corporate Woman column.
She has published four books, including her latest Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth).
In 2012 Fox helped establish the annual Westpac/Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards and she is a member of the Australian Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board.
She was awarded the 2017 Walkley Award for Women's Leadership in Media.
Catherine Fox will speak at the 2018 Women in Media National Conference.


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Faried leads Nuggets' surge past winless Lakers
Sports | November 4, 2015
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Denver Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay, center, shoots as Los Angeles Lakers guard sJordan Clarkson, left, and D'Angelo Russell defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried dunks as Los Angeles Lakers guard Lou Williams defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Denver Nuggets guard Gary Harris goes up for a dunk as Los Angeles Lakers forward Julius Randle watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Denver Nuggets forward J.J. Hickson, below, grabs a rebound away from Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Bass during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, center, shoots as Denver Nuggets forward Darrell Arthur, left, and forward Kenneth Faried defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, right, and guard D'Angelo Russell, center, wait to come into the game as Lakers coach Byron Scott, left, watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
LOS ANGELES — Kenneth Faried had 28 points and 15 rebounds, and Danilo Gallinari got 14 of his 21 points in the second half of the Denver Nuggets' 120-109 victory over the winless Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
J.J. Hickson scored 17 points in the Nuggets' fifth consecutive victory over the Lakers at Staples Center since November 2012. Faried dominated the low post, went 10 for 13 and hit all eight of his free throws in Denver's 10th win over Los Angeles in the clubs' last 11 meetings.
Jordan Clarkson matched his career high with 30 points, and Lou Williams added 14 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter for the Lakers, who started 0-4 for the second straight year.
Kobe Bryant had 11 points on 4-of-11 shooting, doing little to end his slump.
The 20-year veteran bemoaned his play two days ago after a loss to Dallas, and he took Monday off practice to clear his mind.
Julius Randle had 16 points for the Lakers, who opened last season 0-5 before finishing with the worst record in the 16-time champion franchise's history.
The game featured the first meeting between teenage point guards D'Angelo Russell and Emmanuel Mudiay, respectively the second and seventh picks in last summer's draft. Russell had seven points and six assists before sitting on the Lakers' bench down the stretch, and Mudiay made a late surge to finish with 12 points and 10 assists.
Mudiay missed his first eight shots before hitting a 3-pointer while getting fouled by Russell in the third quarter, leading to a four-point play.
Denver took control midway through that quarter, scoring 15 points in 2:45 while hitting 11 of its last 15 shots in the period to turn a six-point deficit into a 10-point lead.
Nuggets: C Joffrey Lauvergne and F Nikola Jokic both sat out to rest back injuries. … Wilson Chandler still hasn't played this season due to a hip injury.
Lakers: Randle played the second half in safety goggles after getting poked in the eye late in the first half. … Big man Tarik Black made his season debut, getting seven points and eight rebounds. … Brandon Bass played despite a corneal abrasion.
Nuggets: Host Utah on Thursday.
Lakers: At Brooklyn on Friday.


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New book 'On the Porch' examines the 'Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas'
The Porch is a 100-year-old ruin dating back to the city's mining era and "has since become a spot for informal music making — jamming."
By Leah Scarpelli & Kristen CabreraOctober 7, 2021 8:34 amArts & Culture, Books, Music, Texas Standard Original
Courtesy Chase Peeler
Sunday afternoon jam session on the Terlingua Porch, 2018.
When you imagine a town built around music, Austin and Nashville might come to mind. But in out in far West Texas, along the Rio Grande, Terlingua might make you rethink. Built as a mercury mining camp in the late 1890s, then abandoned when that market collapsed after World War II, Terlingua went nearly uninhabited for the next three decades — and was even listed as a Ghost Town in the National Register of Historic Places.
You might know it best these days for the area's chili cookoff, but author W. Chase Peeler writes that music has breathed new life into Terlingua — in fact, it's become something of an oasis for musicians big and small. Peeler's new book is called "On the Porch: Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas."
He says the Porch is actually a 100-year-old ruin dating back to the city's mining era and "has since become a spot for informal music making — jamming."
Growing up in Midland, Peeler was unaware the town had people who lived there year-round, much less of its musical nature. He says that though amateur musicians are really the heart of the city, there are more musicians moving to Terlingua because they found it easier to make a living than in bigger-named music cities like Austin — but that's making it harder on local Terlingua musicians.
Peeler writes in his book:
"Living in Terlingua, where music was more prevalent than anywhere I had ever been, gave me a vision of what might be possible if Americans were encouraged to rethink the role of music in their daily lives. Terlingua is an uncommonly musical town, but its residents are no more genetically predisposed toward music than are the residents of any other town. Terlingua is musical because Terlinguans have chosen music. That choice is what I wanted to understand most of all."
Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below to learn more about the Porch and its significance.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: What is this porch exactly?
W. Chase Peeler: So the porch is a ruin that's about 100 years old. It is the location of the old Chisos Mining Company store and has since become a hotspot for informal music making, jamming.
Porch jams are spontaneous. They do not occur at any particular time or day. Sometimes you could go days without hearing one and other times you could have 12 musicians playing music from sunup to sundown.
How did you become interested in Terlingua's musical history?
So I grew up in Midland, about four hours from the Big Bend, and I had no idea that Terlingua was a town where people actually lived full time until the spring of 2013, when I went back for a visit and sat on the porch. And, as luck would have it, started meeting musicians, started passing a guitar around and, before I knew it, a dozen people had contributed to this spontaneous jam. And from then on, I was just captivated.
Tell us a little bit about how music came to breathe new life into this town. Has music always been a part of life in Terlingua?
It has been a part of life in Terlingua since the first river guides moved there in the late 1970s, who saw an opportunity to offer commercial rafting trips on the Rio Grande and the Big Bend area. As one of them told me when they moved there, they increased the population of the ghost town by 200% from one to three. And there was nothing down there. You were lucky if you could get an AM radio station from Chihuahua City, there was really no other source of entertainment when the sun went down. And so what people did was gather around campfires and pass guitars around.
Are we talking about professional musicians? Are we talking about mostly amateur musicians — people who just love to pick up a guitar and strum?
Yeah, it's mostly amateur musicians, and I would say that amateur musicians really are the heartbeat of music in the town. However, curiously, there have been some musicians moving to Terlingua because, and this sounds outrageous to say, because they found it easier to make a living from music in Terlingua than they did in Austin, which just flies in the faces of, you know, all conventional wisdom.
I guess the cost of living is considerably cheaper than Austin today.
And that is a big part of the equation for people.
Some people have started talking about the Austin effect. Could you say more?
So that was a term that was coined by a local musician named Trevor Reichman, who was one of those people who moved from Austin to Terlingua. It has become increasingly difficult for musicians in Austin to find good paying gigs, and we have seen in Terlingua over the last 10 years, especially an influx of Austin artists who have come to perform in Terlingua. And that, in turn, has made it more difficult for local artists in Terlingua to get those paying gigs because there's more competition for them now. And so what Terlingua is experiencing is similar to what Austin has gone through over the last several decades, just on a much smaller scale.
Despite having a rich musical tradition, you note that the town might have farther to go in terms of gender and race. Could you say a little bit more about that?
Well, you know, as one of these musicians described to me, she she put it really eloquently. I'm paraphrasing here… Terlingua, while it's often portrayed as kind of a desert paradise that somehow apart from American society, it still struggles with many of the societal ills that the rest of the country does. There are plenty of talented women musicians who are playing on the scene, but they've had to work a lot harder for their opportunities to perform. It wasn't my goal to cast shade on Terlingua or say even that they had more work to do than anywhere else. It's simply to point out that despite everything that it's doing right from a musical perspective, that it is not perfect, that the experience of inclusion in the local music scene is not identical for every person.
Would you describe it as somewhat monocultural in terms of the musical sound and experience?
I would say so, yes. And I would say, based on my interviews with people who have lived there for a long time, it's more monocultural now than it had been when the border was still open.
Do you think that people are open to new sounds, to new influences, to new voices?
I think they are. Of course it depends on who you ask, but I think, yeah, I think they are.
One side effect of putting out a book about Terlingua as a musical magnet is that you might wind up with a whole lot more people there in Terlingua. Is that going to be good for the scene, do you think?
You know, that's something that I've spent a lot of time thinking about. And, after speaking with a lot of musicians in Terlingua about this subject, I think the music scene and the population is going to continue to grow. And so what the book can do is provide Terlingua residents with an opportunity to speak about what matters in their town. And I would hope that if anyone does read this book and decide to to visit Terlingua, whether they're a musician or someone who just wants to see the town or experience the Big Bend, I would hope that they would go there with an awareness of the elements of life in Terlingua that are cherished by the people who do live there.
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Der Palazzo Grossi ist ein befestigter Palast aus dem 16. Jahrhundert in Castiglione di Ravenna, einem Stadtteil von Ravenna in der italienischen Region Emilia-Romagna.

Geschichte
In einem Dokument, das der Notar Girolamo da Porto ausgefertigt hat, kann man lesen, dass mit der Fertigstellung dieses Palastes der Maestro Giovanni di Iacopo da Canobio von Pietro Grossi beauftragt wurde, einem vom Kaiser Friedrich III. ernannten Grafen und Konstabler der Miliz von Papst Julius III. Die Komplettierungsarbeiten an dem Palast dauerten von 1560 bis 1565 und es scheint, dass er im Auftrag von Battista Grossi 1461 auf den Grundmauern eines früheren, befestigten Gebäudes zusammen mit dem heutigen Stadtteil Castiglione di Ravenna und der Siedlung Savio an dieser Stelle errichtet wurde, die von den Venezianern von der Familie Da Polenta konfisziert und vom Bischof von Cervia dem Condottiere Pietro Grossi, dem Familienoberhaupt im Gebiet Ravennas, zugeeignet wurde. Nach dem Aussterben der Familie Grossi ging der Palast durch verschiedene Hände und wurde in dieser Zeit auch für andere als Wohnzwecke genutzt und umgebaut.

1830 kauften ihn die Grafen Rasponi; nach dem Tod des Grafen Cesare Rasponi Bonanzi kaufte eine landwirtschaftliche Kooperative den Palast und behielt ihn bis Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dann kam er in den Besitz der Gebrüder Sama, die dorthin ihre Tabakproduktion verlegten. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erwarb ihn erst die landwirtschaftliche Genossenschaft unter der Leitung von Castiglione di Ravenna, später die CEM (Consorzio Esercizio Macchine, dt.: Maschinenring) und schließlich 1986 die Stadt Ravenna, die ihn heute noch besitzt.

Beschreibung
Der Palast, der vollständig aus Mauerziegeln erbaut wurde, hat einen quadratischen Grundriss mit 28,5 Metern Seitenlänge und seine Hauptfassaden sind nach Südosten und Nordwesten ausgerichtet. An den Ecken ist er mit vorspringenden Türmen mit ebenfalls quadratischem Grundriss ausgestattet. Die beiden oberen Stockwerke, die durch ein Gesims getrennt sind, sind durch vorspringenden Konsolen mit kleinen Bögen darüber gekrönt. Darüber ruht der Dachboden mit kleinen, ovalen Fensteraugen. Über den beiden Eingängen kann man noch Spuren der Gleitrillen von Bolzen zu sehen, was deutlich bezeugt, dass dort ursprünglich Zugbrücken angebracht waren und somit auch ein Burggraben das Gebäude umgeben haben muss.

Im Inneren befindet sich ein Tiefparterre mit Kellerräumen, deren Decken Korbbogengewölbe besitzen. Es folgen zwei Geschosse mit weiten Korridoren in der Mitte, die die beiden Hauptfassaden miteinander verbinden und denen entlang die Säle aufgereiht sind. Schließlich gibt es noch den Dachboden.

Eine Kuriosität findet sich auf dem Dachboden, an dem man deutlich sehen kann, dass die ursprüngliche Burg nach oben mit Zinnen abschloss. Dieser Anblick lässt vermuten, dass man, kaum dass der zinnenbewehrte Bau abgeschlossen war, beschloss, ihn so zu verändern, wie man ihn heute sehen kann.

Aus architektonischen Gesichtspunkten stellt der Palazzo Grossi ein für die Provinz Ravenna unübliches Hybrid zwischen der Harmonie der Renaissance und der Kraft und Robustheit mittelalterlicher Burgen dar. Während der quadratische Grundriss, die Ecktürme, die angeschrägten Grundmauern und die vorspringende Gebäudekrone mit Konsolen den militärischen Charakter des Palastes unterstreichen, sind die ausgeprägten Triglyphen, die Stäbe aus Mauerwerk und die kleinen, ovalen Fenster auf dem Dachboden Elemente, die das Gebäude vom Gesichtspunkt der zivilen Architektur qualifizieren.

Heute zeigt sich das Gebäude nach zahlreichen Restaurierungskampagnen, deren letzte, 1996, am Dach durchgeführt wurde, von außen in fast intaktem Erhaltungszustand, aber im Inneren verfällt es wegen der langen Zeit der Vernachlässigung und der skrupellosen Nutzung (insbesondere der Lagerung feuchter Materialien in seinem Inneren) zusehends.

Heute dient der Park, der den Palast umgibt, der Abhaltung von Theateraufführungen, Konzerten und anderen Veranstaltungen.

Quellen
 Umberto Foschi: Il castello o palazzo Grossi a Castiglione di Ravenna in Libro aperto. 1998. S. 56–58.
 Elisa Amadei: I Grossi e i loro palazzi in Il Romagnolo. 2005. S. 1096–1098.

Erbaut im 16. Jahrhundert
Ravenna - Grossi, Palazzo
Bauwerk in Ravenna


Picture the following scenario. You want a new camera, so you do your research, go to the store or search online, and select the best option for your budget. The camera store clerk might give you a few suggestions depending on what type of photography you're interested in.. and you buy your shiny new camera being confident that you made the right choice.
And more often than not, the default camera package will include the "kit lens". Typically it's a 18-55mm zoom lens that's meant to be a good overall solution for everyone's needs. The problem is that it's usually also the cheapest lens you can buy. And because it's meant to suit everyone, it's probably not great for the specific thing you might want - in fact, if you want to focus on learning Manual Mode on your camera, it's probably the worst possible choice.
Know what type of photography you want to be doing, know your budget, and know what lenses actually do. If terms like focal length, wide angle, and telephoto sound completely unfamiliar, read on!
* PLEASE NOTE: Typically, I share my Studio/professional work on my Blog, but lucky you! this one contains some of my personal photos.
As far as photography is concerned, the lens is often more important than the camera you're using. How can that be? The camera's main function is to record the scene, while the lens is the actual thing that defines what that scene looks like.
In terms of zooms, many of the cheaper options have variable aperture settings, which is a big problem if you're using the Manual Mode on your camera. This means that when you zoom with your lens, the aperture (and therefore the exposure) changes - and while automatic modes will adjust things automatically, in manual, you have to compensate by adjusting things yourself.
Those mm numbers on the lens refer to the focal length. So a 50mm lens will have a focal length of 50. A zoom 24-55mm lens will go from 24mm focal length all the way to 55mm focal length. And the focal length is important because it essentially defines the way your camera will see the world. Lower numbers means you'll get more in the shot (like the whole room at 24mm), while higher numbers means you'll zoom closer to the subject and make the background blurrier (a 200mm lens will make the entire background a wash of colors). And you'll definitely want to use different focal length lenses for different purposes (more on that below).
If you're on Nikon, you will see FX or DX in the lens description. For Canon, you'll see Full-Frame or APS-C format. These designations have to do with which camera body those lenses are made to work best with. DX and APS-C are for crop-sensor camera bodies - these are the lower cost cameras and you will see "DX-Format" listed in the description. FX or Full-Frame cameras are typically designed to be used by professionals (as in, they're much more expensive). The sensor is bigger and quality of images is better in terms of color/dynamic range and low-light ability. And without going into details, you will want to purchase a DX lens for a DX camera body.. and an FX lens for a Full-Frame camera.. which is why if you ever upgrade for a Full-Frame, you will also need to upgrade your lens(es).
Creative portrait taken with a 20mm lens.
These lenses are perfect for interior shots, landscapes, and street photography.. because you can get a wide area of view into the shot (get it?). The biggest issue with the wide focal length, let's say 24mm, is that it distorts the scene and whatever is on the sides is going to look wider than the stuff in the middle.
One tip for when you're in an iPhone group photo (which uses a 35mm lens) is to shuffle over to the middle of the pack, because the people on the sides are going to look fatter than they really are. These lenses will also make noses look longer and faces look slimmer (which is a telltale trait of selfies) and that you need to get really really close to an item in order to get it to be big in the photo.. which is why these are rarely ideal for portraits. BUT! There are plenty of street and lifestyle photographers who use wider-angle lenses to create stunning and unique portraits, so really the key is to know what you're doing and using your knowledge with intention (like the photo above!).
Indoor portrait taken with a 50mm lens.
There's a reason why the 50mm lens has been a great starting point for many photographers. The 50mm focal length is considered great for portraits, can be purchased fairly cheaply, and it gives you all the features you'd want in a fantastic lens (like sharpness, fast focusing, and the ability to blur the background). In fact, this is the lens I use most in the Studio, because I know it will perform perfectly, every time.
Taken with the 85mm lens.. note the pretty blurry background! And the fact that' it's outdoors.
Starting with the 70mm and going all the way to 300mm or even 500mm, telephoto lenses allow you to get close to the action without having to move your feet. These are the HUGE lenses you see people use to capture their kids playing sports, or for wildlife photography. But the way these lenses work is also quite fascinating. By zooming closer to the action, the background becomes blurrier and also appears larger in the photo (this is because of the distance between your camera, your subject, and your background). They product beautiful results, but you'll also need plenty of space in order to capture full-body shots or a group of people, which is why these are best suited for outdoors.
But there are also smaller options, fixed lenses like the 85mm (the "perfect portrait lens") and the 105mm (with macro capabilities, for capturing those fine details).. which are amazing. Most of all, telephoto lenses have a specific use and their limitations are mainly the requirement for distance, which means they're not the best for indoor photography or tight spaces.
A fun backyard portrait of my 8-year old.. taken with a 20mm lens.
In many ways, the lenses you use are going to be a very personal choice. Many people love their mid-range zooms that cover almost everything one could ever want. But for someone who loves precision and sharp images (that's me!), a fixed/prime lens will be the most useful.
I will always suggest investing in a good 50mm f/2.8 lens (or better.. like f/1.4 on Nikon or f/1.2 for Cannon) as a starting off point. It will do pretty much everything you need and won't cost as much as a fancy zoom. It will get you used to composing your shots by moving your body closer or further away from your subject. It will allow you to be fully creative. It will take beautiful portraits and will perform well when adjusting focus on moving children. It's perfect for learning how to use Manual Mode on your camera and unleashing your creativity for most types of photography you'd want to try, too (like food photography and travel). So go for it. Try it out. And capture those amazing, fun, and beautiful memories for your family!
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Sports Car Racing in Camera 1960 - 1969 (Volume One, Paul Parker)
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In this updated edition of the original In Camera volume covering the 1960s the world of sports-car racing springs to life through stunning full-colour period photography. From the harsh concrete of Sebring, the treacherous Sicilian country roads of the Targa Florio, the infinite corners, hidden apexes and never-ending crests of the Nurburgring, the banked Daytona and frightening Monza bowl and the aircraft velocities of Spa, Le Mans and Reims, all had to be overcome.
The evocative era portrayed in this beautifully presented, full-color photographic book belonged to Ferrari, Ford and Porsche, with occasional intervention from Maserati, Aston Martin, Chaparral, Lola, Alfa Romeo, Matra and Gulf Mirage.
Sports-car racing in the 1960s was a grand adventure involving very powerful and relatively crude cars racing at challenging circuits. The period started with the iconic Ferrari Testa Rossas and the unique 'Birdcage' Maseratis, and also saw the dying days of Aston Martin and Jaguar. Ferrari, partly due to their extensive experience of sports-car racing, dominated the races until the mid-1960s, when Ford appeared and upset the status quo – although Ford was more concerned with winning Le Mans rather than championships. The smaller sports-car class was virtually a monopoly for Porsche, who occasionally beat all comers in the slower races. With the advent of rule changes for 1968, Porsche would become the fastest and most persistent winners (after taking an unexpected beating from the John Wyer Ford GT40s), and the German manufacturer unleashed the fearsome 917 at the close of the decade.
The 1960s also featured a multitudinous cast of non-factory teams and professional privateers in a huge selection of machinery. Even more numerous were the legions of drivers of all nationalities who graced a typical grid.
This book captures every aspect of the period. Its carefully researched period photographs – many of them previously unpublished – are brought to life through the author's detailed and atmospheric commentary to create a visually stunning, highly nostalgic record of this dramatic decade.
Paul Parker is the author of Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1950–59, Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1960–69 (Volumes 1 & 2), Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1970–79 and Sports Car Racing in Camera, 1980–89 along with sister titles covering Formula 1 racing in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Additionally he has written Sixties Motor Racing with Michael Cooper, Jaguar at Le Mans 1950–95, Races, Faces, Places and Klemantaski: Master Motorsports Photographer. He is a freelance writer and a superb photo researcher, with work published in Octane, Motor Sport, Classic Cars, Forza!, Jaguar World Monthly and The Daily Telegraph. He also track tests historic cars and has raced a Lister Jaguar.
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Scientists say monster penguin once swam New Zealand oceans
Unusual Stories
by: NICK PERRY, Associated Press
Dr. Paul Scofield, senior curator natural history at Canterbury Museum, holds the fossil, a tibiotarsus, top, next to a similar bone of an Emperor Penguin in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. Scientists in New Zealand say they've found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of a human and swam the oceans some 60 million years ago. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Scientists in New Zealand said Wednesday they've found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million years ago.
They said the previously undiscovered species is believed to have stood about 1.6 meters (5 feet 2 inches) tall and weighed up to 80 kilograms (176 pounds). It's believed to have been one of several species of giant penguins that thrived soon after dinosaurs died out.
The findings were published this week in "Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology."
Paul Scofield, a co-author of the paper and senior curator at the Canterbury Museum, said the discovery is significant because the species is similar to another giant penguin found in Antarctica in 2000 and helps show a connection between the two regions during the Paleocene Epoch.
He said that following the extinction of dinosaurs, marine reptiles and gigantic fish, it seemed there was an evolutionary opportunity for penguins to thrive and grow in size.
"The oceans were ripe for the picking with the lack of mega predators," Scofield said. "It looks like what was going on was that penguins were just starting to exploit that niche."
But he said the giant penguins themselves became extinct within 30 million years as large marine mammals began ruling the waters.
The monster penguins, named Crossvallia waiparensis, would have been about twice the weight and 30 centimeters (1 foot) taller than the largest type of penguins alive today, emperor penguins.
Scofield said the leg bones indicated the monster penguin's feet may have played a bigger role in swimming than is the case with penguins today.
New Zealand is believed to have been the site of many gigantic birds that later became extinct, including the world's largest parrot, a giant eagle and an emu-like bird called the moa. Scientists say the lack of predators allowed such birds to thrive.
The monster penguin's bones, from its legs and feet, were found by amateur enthusiast Leigh Love about 18 months ago in the Waipara River bed near the South Island city of Christchurch.
Love said he spotted the fragments in an eroding bank.
"It wasn't until I got the fossils home and did a little preparation that I realized I had something completely different than what had been found before," he said.
Love said his passion for collecting fossils began about 14 years ago after chronic fatigue syndrome prevented him from working for several years.
"It inspires me to go out and look for more," he said.
Massey University Professor John Cockrem, a penguin expert who wasn't involved in the research, said the discovery was significant in adding to knowledge about giant penguins and cementing New Zealand's place as the penguin center of the world.
Ewan Fordyce, a paleontology professor from the University of Otago who also wasn't involved in the research, said the penguin was among the oldest ever found. He said one challenge was trying to determine the overall size of the birds from skeleton fragments, but added that it was a challenge everybody in the field faced.
The monster penguin's bones were analyzed by Scofield and Vanesa De Pietri, another Canterbury Museum curator, along with German paleontologist Gerald Mayr. The scientists say they have discovered other new penguin species at the remarkable site, which they haven't yet finished researching.
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The 20-million-year-old burrow was recently discovered by scientists, who published their findings Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Wearing mittens made out of recycled materials and a warm winter jacket, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled off a casual inauguration outfit — and vibe — that only he could.
Many people quickly highlighted the 79-year-old independent Vermont senator's look, and created endless memes, from Wednesday's inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, which he said was more about keeping warm than fashion.


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Their COVID-19 Response Shows Israelis Are Ready for Victory
by Alex Selsky
https://www.meforum.org/60615/israelis-understand-that-victory-requires-sacrifice
Excerpts of article originally published under the title "The Public's Resilience in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic."
Israelis have been resilient in the face of an invisible and deadly enemy.
... When the coronavirus leaves us and life returns to some semblance of normalcy, it will only be a matter of time before our terrorist enemies once again test us with a barrage of rockets and missiles targeting our civilian population centers.
Our responses in recent years to this have been minimal, to say the least.
More often than not, our political decision-makers decide to bomb a few empty buildings and then seek a truce with the offending party, whether Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad.
When one asks political and security officials intimately involved why the response is so extremely limited, many argue that the public does not have the stomach for lengthy wars with large casualty figures.
They are mistaken, and now we have some evidence.
It's only be a matter of time before Israel's enemies again bombard its civilian population.
Israelis are showing every day that they are prepared to suffer in the short-term for a long-term good.
The public trusts its officials to make the right decisions and balance the possible loss of life with national security interests. They understand that sometimes ultimate victory comes with pain.
... We still vaunt the Battle of Tel Hai a century ago, and speak with reverence about the actions of Sgt. Roi Klein, killed in 2006 in the Battle of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon after he jumped on a grenade to save his fellow IDF soldiers.
Israel is perhaps unique in these characteristics and this is perhaps the foundation about why we are acting the way we are in the face of this epidemic.
Israel's decision-makers should draw upon the public's fortitude in reacting to its enemies.
Israeli decision-makers should look at this fortitude and resilience which can free up their hand about how to react to its enemies, who are starting to see large cracks forming in its deterrence.
Our southern residents, who bear the greatest brunt of the Gaza terrorist menace, are usually the one's calling for the most robust approach. They know that if Israel reacts forcefully, perhaps more aggressively than ever before, they are likely to spend many weeks and even months in and out of their bomb shelters and safe rooms.
Nevertheless, they support an Israeli victory over its enemies, regardless of the costs.
Our response to the coronavirus pandemic should demonstrate to the country's politicians and security officials that Israelis are prepared to suffer until total victory over the contagion.
If, when we emerge from our restrictions with all of the carnage and damage, economic and physical, we know that our enemy, in this case the virus, is completely vanquished, we will accept the suffering.
However, if it is only a partial defeat and the enemy continues attacking us every few months, then our sacrifice will have been in vain.
This is the lesson of the Israeli public's reaction to coronavirus. Hopefully our politicians and decision-makers are listening as they strategize for the next terrorist attack.
Alex Selsky is a member of the board of directors of and adviser to the Middle East Forum-Israel, which leads the Israel Victory Project, and a former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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MLS 2020 Top Games of the Week Expert Analysis Nov. 3
Written by Eric Williams on November 3, 2020
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Okay MyBookie soccer betting faithful, with the 2020 MLS regular season steamrolling toward its Sunday, Nov. 8 conclusion and the start of the playoffs getting underway almost two weeks later on Nov. 20, it's time to take a look at three intriguing matchups on the final week of regular season action so you can make your bets against their MLS odds.
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Orlando City SC (10-3-8) Vs Columbus Crew (11-5-5) at 7:30 PM ET
Where: Exploria Stadium, Orlando, FL
When: Wednesday, November 4
Orlando City is in fourth place in the eastern conference standings while Columbus is one spot ahead in third place. Orlando has gone 5-0-3 at home this season while Columbus has gone a winless 0-4-5 on the road. Orlando has won two straight including a 1-0 win over Montreal on Sunday night. Columbus has gone 2-0-1 over their last four, but picked up a hue win by beating eastern conference leading Philadelphia 2-1 on Sunday. Orlando City has won three straight in this rivalry including a 1-0 win in July of 2019.
Portland Timbers (11-5-5) Vs Colorado Rapids at 10:00 PM ET
Where: Providence Park, Portland, OR
Portland sits atop the western conference standings and the Timbers have gone 5-3-2 at home this season. Colorado is in seventh place out west and the Rapids have gone a decent 3-3-1 on the road this season. Portland has won two straight including a 1-0 win over Vancouver on Sunday. Colorado snapped a two-game skid by knocking Seattle out of first place in Sunday's stunning 3-1 win over the defending champion Sounders. Portland had won three straight in this series, but the two have played to a pair of draws in their last two meetings including a 2-2 finish in July of 2019.
Philadelphia Union (13-4-5) Vs New England Revolution at 3:30 PM ET
Where: Subaru Park, Philadelphia, PA
When: Sunday, November 8
Philadelphia sits atop the eastern conference standings and has gone a perfect 8-0-0 at home this season. New England is in sixth place in the eastern conference while going a solid 5-3-1 on the road. The Union had their three-game winning streak snapped in their narrow 2-1 loss against Columbus on Sunday. New England has gone 1-0-2 over their last four games, but managed to pick up a thrilling 4-3 win over D.C. United on Sunday. Philly has won three of the last four meetings in this rivalry including a 2-1 road win on October 19, following an identical 2-1 home win on September 12.
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Recently purchased a Clarke tank to replace my old cracked tank.
problem, the petcock does not seal properly against the tank. I have purchased a new o ring but still no proper seal, I can only assume it's not level.
Can I stack multiple orings on top of each other to get a better fit?
I stupidly used a silastic out of desperation to get it back on the road but I know that's not a great solution.
whats the easiest way to get this sealing permanently?
Very disappointed with the quality of this tank, the moulding just in general is very average for a au $400 tank.
did the petcock come with the tank - or is it off your old tank ?
It's off my old tank, Clarke advise to reuse your old gear.
Ok managed to fix it using 2 orings and a washer to clamp it all down. The tank is pathetically badly made.
Spoke too soon still leaking. Think I'll get my money back and buy something else.
what year model is it ?
Yep. I have been using Clarke since '73, never had a quality issue. Have a new one on my XR4. That $400 sounds ridiculous, where did you pay that? I would bet Clarke or the seller will make it right. Lots of liability involved.
Same issue with mine. Clarke sent me some Vinton gaskets. I used the thickest one. I'm pretty sure I left the O-Ring in there even though it was leaking if only to take up some of the space. They wanted me to do modifications to the tank, but I didn't want to go that route.
You know those rubber washers that go in the end of a garden hose? I used one of those. Its been leak free.
Thanks for the suggestions, if I can't get my money back I'll try the suggested solutions.
looking at it closely the left screw hole is very raised and the plastic flexes out even more when trying to tighten it.
And yes they are $400 in Australia.
Wow, that would hurt. Good luck.
Make sure the bolts aren't too long and bottoming out in the insert.
Nah they are all good. Re-fitted my old tank with the same oring etc and no leaks. Might just try and plastic weld the cracks in the old tank and forget about using the new one. Still waiting to hear back regarding a refund or anything.
Ask them to send you some of the Vinton gaskets I showed you earlier.. Super simple fix.
I'll try but i'm having to deal with the Australian Distributor I cant go via Clarkes direct.


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Feast Your Eyes On The First Trailer For Making A Murderer Part 2
By James Shackell
Post-conviction legal processes don't usually make for riveting television, but we'll make an exception for Making A Murderer Part 2.
Yep, Netflix just dropped the first trailer for the hotly anticipated second season of the true crime phenomenon. Let's not beat about the bush:
So what can we learn from this? Not a whole lot. Unsurprisingly, Netflix isn't giving away which direction the case might go.
We do get to meet Stephen Avery's post-conviction lawyer, Kathleen Zellner (one of the most famous defence attorneys in America). "If this case is solid if he's guilty, I'll fail," Zellner says. That's the sort of confidence you want from your lawyer.
Netflix has already announced this season will focus on not only Avery's case, but the fallout for his nephew Brendan Dassey, and their families as well. It's been three years since filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos launched the original series, so we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Don't know about you guys, but we can't wait.
Making A Murderer Season 2 lands on Netflix on 19 October.
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Where to sample the most traditional of Easter ingredients – salt-cod ( bacalhau ).
Brazil inherited more than just a language from its portuguese colonial masters. In the runup to Easter, supermarket shelves will be laden with stacks of one of the most popular – and most pungent – of Portuguese imports: bacalhau, or salt-cod.
The importance of bacalhau in both the diets and economy of Portugal date back as far as the late-1400s, when the Portuguese, along with the Basques and the Vikings, are thought to have been fishing for cod as far away as Canada. Salting the cod was a convenient way to preserve the fish, but it has since become a major part of both portuguese and Brazilian culinary heritage.
Good Friday, a traditionally meat-free day for Catholics, sees the culmination of this national obsession, with families tucking in to regional variations such as Espirito Santo's torta capixaba – a salt-cod and seafood egg pie.
Prices often soar in the runup to Easter as shoppers rush to get their hands on a chunk of this expensive, and increasingly rare luxury – it's no secret that overfishing has put cod on the WWF endangered species list, as of 2000; so if you're ever going to eat a morsel of it, the easter weekend is as good a time as any. Here are a few suggestions on where to find it.
For a traditional Portuguese take on bacalhau, Ora Pois (Rua Fidalga 408, Vila Madalena, 3815 8224, orapoisrestaurante.com.br) in Vila Madalena, with more than five different cod dishes on its à la carte menu, and Adega Santiago (Rua Sampaio Vidal 1072, Jardim Paulista, 3081 5211, adegasantiago.com.br) are both good bets, the latter serving a delicious bacalhau com broa – roasted cod with a crunchy breaded topping.
The most popular dish at Mediterranean restaurant O Pote do Rei (Rua Joaquim Antunes 224, Pinheiros, 3068 9888, opotedorei.com) is bacalhau a moura encantada, where cod cosies up to mashed potato and caramelised onions.
On Easter Sunday, Serafina (Alameda Lorena 1705, Jardim Paulista, 3081 3702, serafinarestaurante.com.br), with tables filling its large outside terrace, will be serving homemade fresh squid-ink taglioni with strips of cod, green olives and tomatoes.
For an oriental twist, Marakuthai (Alameda Itu 1618, Jardim Paulista, 3062 7556, marakuthai.com.br) will be serving cod with sweet potato and a Thai basil and coconut milk sauce.
For something a bit more informal, head for Bar Léo (Rua Aurora 100, Santa Ifigênia, 3221 0247, barleo.com.br) for the delicious deep-fried salty cod balls – bolinhos de bacalhau – a firm boteco favourite.
And if you're feeling inspired to attempt to make your own bacalhau dish at home, stock up on the raw ingredient any time of year, at the Mercadão.


Educated, well-travelled and confident about his place in the world, Ishmael finds himself drawn into a town that seems to exist on the edge of everything he's ever known. Confronted with completely new perspectives on life and the world around him; over tea and in silence, it seems, he may have found exactly what he never knew he was looking for.
Full of pithy dialogue and set in places that exist just as profoundly in fantasy as they do in reality, here is one of those books that will capture your attention, just when you need it. Whether taking in the complete narrative, or simply finding meaning in a randomly opened page, in Ishmael you will discover torches being lit, and the illumination of a path that leads to what you've always known, but never knew that you knew. Here, in Ishmael, is no less than an exceptional illustration of what other ways we can each redefine our place in the world(s) around us.
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Every Girl Crazy 'Bout a Sharp-Dressed Man
By Scott Tipton on April 23, 2013 in Comics 101
We're only days away from the release of IRON MAN 3, and from the looks of the trailer, one of the major themes of this newest IRON MAN movies has to do with Tony Stark building lots of suits of armor. With this in mind, let's take a look at a few of my personal favorites of Iron Man's man, many different outfits over the years.
This one, to me, will always be the gold standard, if you'll pardon the pun.
It's slick, it's streamlined, and it looks intimidating. The color mix works really well , and it still probably holds the record for the longest-lasting set of armor, as it appeared from the 1960s through well into the 1980s, and still shows up again from time to time.
The only time it didn't look cool? When Stark would occasionally add on the accessory roller skates…
And to be honest, that brief window in the 1970s when Stark added a nose to the faceplate didn't really work for me either:
For a while in the 1980s, Tony was big on building specific-duty armored suits. My favorites were the Hydro-Armor for undersea work (mostly because I'm just a sucker for the retro-looking bubble helmet):
The Stealth Armor, which was really just "The Classic" with a new paint job, but man, did it look slick:
And the Deep-Space Armor, which didn't quite have the styling panache of the others, but there was something about the mouthless faceplate that always looked cool to me.
Every now and then Tony would take his "base" suit in a whole new direction, as in the "Silver Centurion" suit of the mid-1980s:
At the time, I hated this suit, thinking it looked clunky and awkward, with the big "Dynasty"-style shoulder pads and the bullet-shaped helmet. Today, I have to admit to a slight fondness for it, although that may just be nostalgia talking.
They can't all be winners, of course. The Jim Lee-designed model for HEROES REBORN, with its mysterious "shoulder-bugles," never made much sense to me:
And the Extremis armor always looked a little too slender and dainty to really do much damage:
But my favorite armors were always the ones designed for the express purpose of kicking someone's ass. Such as the Asgardian armor, just in case you have to show a Thunder God who's boss.
And the granddaddy of them all, the Hulkbuster Armor. Even though it never actually seems to work against the Hulk, I'm always happy to see this one come out of mothballs and back into action:
Will we see any of these in IRON MAN 3? From the looks of the trailer, we may just see all of them. Can't wait.
Scott Tipton still wants to see MODOK on the big screen. There's always IRON MAN 4…
About Scott Tipton
Scott Tipton is a New York Times Best-Selling author and comic-book historian with a wide variety of both graphic novel and prose works to his credit. Readers looking for Scott's latest ruminations on comics past and present need only tune into his weekly column Comics 101, posted every Wednesday without fail.
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Manchester appoints the Rt Hon John Bercow MP as an Honorary Professor
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The Right Honourable John Bercow MP has been appointed as an Honorary Professor of Politics by The University of Manchester's School of Social Sciences.
John has been the Member of Parliament for Buckingham for almost 20 years, and in 2009 was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons. Following the general election in 2015, where he retained his constituency, he was re-elected as Speaker, unopposed.
The Speaker of the House of Commons chairs debates in the Commons chamber and must therefore remain politically impartial at all times. On becoming Speaker, John resigned from the Conservative party in 2009. However, he continues to represents his constituents in the usual way.
In 2008, John carried out a review of children and families affected by speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Following its publication in 2009 the government pledged £52 million to raise the profile of SLCN within the education field. In 2010 he won the Stonewall award for Politician of the Year for his work to support equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
I am delighted that the Right Honourable John Bercow has joined our School as an Honorary Professor of Politics.
Professor Francesca Gains, School of Social Sciences
"The Politics Department invited John Bercow to give our 'Sammy Finer Lecture' this year on 'The Making of a Modern Parliament'. It was clear that our students relished the chance to engage with such an approachable politician who is at the centre of British politics and who has a reforming passion to improve the working of democracy."
"With the 100th anniversary of female suffrage coming up next year, and the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre in 2019, it will be marvellous to have more opportunities for students, staff and the public to continue the conversation about how to improve the workings of democracy in the 21 Century."
John wrote a blog for Policy@Manchester during Parliament Week in November, on how he has sought to use his time as the Speaker of the House of Commons to bring about Parliamentary reform. You can read it here.


NEW BEDFORD — The superintendent search was once again a central theme Tuesday night in the third School Committee candidates forum.
According to moderator Jack Sbrega, the president of Bristol Community College, the forum's organizers wanted to probe the candidates' core values, beliefs and positions and were looking for specific answers that included actions and programs the candidates would implement if elected.
"We really want to move beyond generalities," said Dr. Sbrega in his opening remarks.
During the forum, which was organized by an alliance of SouthCoast community organizations, a three-person panel asked the candidates six questions that were developed based on community input.
All six candidates for School Committee participated in the forum, including incumbent Ramona Silva, who is waging a write-in campaign after missing the filing deadline.
The candidates were asked two questions related to the new superintendent: first, if the candidates would support any means necessary to find the best candidates for the position and if they would then vote to evaluate the superintendent against quantitative measures; second, if they put themselves in the new superintendent's shoes, what actions they would take, specifically to build community.
In response to the first question, all of the candidates stressed the need for the best possible candidate and said they would support search efforts to find that person, including looking outside New Bedford.
"I definitely think our kids deserve someone who is really going to roll up their sleeves and get to work and just be passionate about it," said candidate Dana Rebeiro.
Most candidates also said they would hold the new superintendent accountable through an evaluation process.
"We don't want to be easy graders," said candidate Marlene Pollock. "We want to be tough."
Most candidates emphasized the importance of opening and strengthening the school district's relationship with parents in response to the second question.
Candidate Michael Monteiro said he wants a trustworthy and dedicated superintendent who would look for parents to be more involved with their children's education.
Panelist Jill Yates, executive director of Our Sisters' School, asked the candidates to outline their vision for the future of New Bedford's schools.
Candidate Jill Ussach emphasized the importance of having a dynamic leader at the helm of the district.
Candidate Thomas Clark agreed that the new superintendent will have a critical effect on the direction of New Bedford schools, but also wants to focus on in-school suspensions and developing learning centers for students to receive extra help.
Creating a school system that truly educates students is critical, according to Ms. Silva, while Ms. Pollock wants every New Bedford student to have a post-secondary education plan.


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Abrasion resistance, the higher the number Martindale, the stronger the fabric.
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Brother Laser Printer Class Action Says Consumers Cheated Out of Useable Toner
September 20, 2018 By CAWClass Filed Under: Class Action Lawsuits, Class Action News 6 Comments
A class action lawsuit alleges that Brother laser printers are intentionally designed to stop printing before the toner runs out, causing consumers to pay for unnecessary cartridge replacement.
Plaintiff Zeev Friedman filed the class action lawsuit in Ohio federal court claiming that in order to maximize sales, Brother laser printers are set up to refuse to print once a laser toner cartridge has been used a certain number of times, although that cartridge in fact contains enough useable toner to print hundreds or thousands of additional pages of text.
Specifically, the complaint notes that a significant portion of Brother's profits from the sales of laser printers are actually generated, not by the sales of the actual printers, but by the sales of laser toner cartridges.
Freidman goes on to state that Brother laser printers are specifically programmed so as to prohibit consumers from overriding the printer programming that requires the replacement of a toner cartridge with a substantial amount of toner remaining. In fact, a district judge presiding over a similar Brother laser printer toner class action lawsuit, states that with most laser printers, "consumers will print until they can tell by degraded print quality that [toner] is running out. This is because they expect full use of their [toner cartridge]."
According to Brother laser printer class action lawsuit, Freidman owns a Brother HL-5370DW laser printer and uses the recommended TN620 laser toner cartridge. In 2014, he purchased 2 of these toner cartridges for a total of $127.48. But in 2017, both his Brother laser printer and cartridges stopped printing, even though the cartridge still had toner remaining. Freidman says he was forced to replace the toner cartridge, shelling out $109.99 to do so.
"Brother laser printers are all programmed to deprive users of access to significant portion of the toner in their cartridges. But for Brother design, which denied Plaintiff access to the toner in his toner cartridges, Plaintiff could have printed more pages before replacing his toner cartridges and ultimately spent less on replacement cartridges. Defendant designs its laser printers to deny purchasers the ability to use the full capacity of their toner cartridges," the Brother laser printer class action lawsuit contends.
Friedman is seeking to represent a proposed Class of Ohio residents and businesses who purchased a Brother laser toner cartridge. He is asking the court to award compensatory and punitive damages for Brother's alleged illegal actions in denying consumers access to all the useable toner in their cartridges and for exercising wrongful control over purchased cartridges.
Freidman is represented by Patrick J. Perotti, Nicole T. Fiorelli, and Frank A. Bartela of Dworken & Berstein Co. LPA.
The Brother Laser Printer Class Action Lawsuit is Zeev Freidman Esq. D/B/A The Friedman Law Firm v. Brother International Corporation, in the Court of Common Pleas Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The case number was unknown at the time of publication.
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Antifungal polyene macrolide antibiotics Amphotericin B (AmB) and Nystatin (NYS) were conjugated through the omega-amino acid linkers with diwalled "molecular umbrellas" composed of spermidine-linked deoxycholic or cholic acids. The presence of "umbrella" substituents modulated biological properties of the antibiotics, especially their selective toxicity. Some of the AmB-umbrella conjugates demonstrated antifungal in vitro activity comparable to that of the mother antibiotic but diminished mammalian toxicity, especially the hemolytic activity. In contrast, antifungal in vitro activity of NYS-umbrella conjugates was strongly reduced and all these conjugates demonstrated poorer than NYS selective toxicity. No correlation between the aggregation state and hemolytic activity of the novel conjugates was found.


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JUST IN: Pence Vows Space Force Will Become a Reality
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Vice President Mike Pence promised that the controversial proposal to create a separate but equal new branch of the military — a U.S. space force — will soon come to pass.
"We are working as we speak with Congress to stand up a sixth branch of our armed forces. The United States space force will soon be a reality," Pence said May 6 at the Satellite 2019 conference in Washington, D.C.
Pence cited renewed threats to U.S. dominance in space including adversaries such as China, Russia and North Korea jamming GPS signals and communication satellites as well as launching electronic attacks from the ground.
"And recently we have even seen nations bringing new weapons of war into space itself," he said.
The Trump administration has used existing authorities to announce a unified space command that would be similar to Special Operations Command. However, creating a new military branch will require Congress to pass legislation.
Prior to the conference, 43 former military and intelligence leaders sent an open letter to Congress expressing support for the space force, according to industry publication Space News. Signees included former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work and retired Gen. Larry Welch, former chief of staff of the Air Force.
"Our competitors and our adversaries have been aggressively deploying technologies that put our prosperity and our security at risk," Pence said. "We recognize that space is a warfighting domain just like the land, air and sea and America is going to be as dominant for our security in space as we are here on Earth," said Pence, who also chairs the National Space Council.
Pence touted the Trump administration's progress in improving space situational awareness, which benefits commercial providers and the government alike. It has brought space traffic management under the Department of Commerce.
"We know this policy will encourage companies like yours to develop data sharing systems, technical guidelines ands safety standards," he said. This will mitigate the possibility of accidents in space during launches and while satellites are in operation, he said.
"We are bringing the data together so companies just like yours have the best, real-time information to navigate space and give the engineers and entrepreneurs here today the tools you need to continue thriving," he said.
Pence said the Trump administration has worked hard to eliminate red tape and regulations while also streamlining launch licensing requirements that have gotten in the way of innovation in the space industry.
Pence also promised to free up scarce wireless spectrum as the world switches to 5G technology, which he said will revolutionize the way Americans work, run businesses and communicate. "President Trump has made it clear that the race to 5G is a race that America will win," Pence said.
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