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Museum entrance
What can I say about this huge complex?
It's just been made a UNESCO World Heritage site, for its magnificent convent and the two churches within...San Salvatore and Santa Giulia.
It contains the civic museum as well as those two churches, stuffed with fascinating local artefacts from prehistoric times right through to the late Medieval period.
It contains the excavated remains of two Roman houses (large ones) with their beautiful floor mosaics and even some of their wall-paintings still in place.
It contains the superbly-frescoed(1400s) 'Nuns' Choir' of San Salvatore and the serene space of the much older, square, 12th-century Santa Maria in Solario.
It has a space for modern exhibitions and an excellent cafe with an outside terrace and lovely views.
You follow a designated route, which can be annoying if there is a loud party around you. Hopefully you will find the time to slow your pace and 'lose' them (I couldn't).
There is simply so much to see here. I spent 2 hours, and should have allowed myself at least 3. The artefacts are almost all labelled in English as well as Italian and there is so much to find out.
From Etruscan helmets through Roman milestones and truly superb bronzes, from Roman glass and gravestones through tools and jewellery, from Medieval swords to wooden carvings to the most intricate stonework....
The Museo Civico is a jewel in the crown of the ancient convent complex. Absolutely unmissable (and do allow plenty of time for your visit).
Entrance (2015) is 10 euro.
Opening Times:
1st October – 15th June
Tuesday – Sunday 0930 – 1730 (last entry 1630)
16th June – 30th September
Tuesday – Sunday 1030 – 1900 (last entry 1800)
Closed on non-holiday Mondays
Address: Via dei Musei
Directions: Keep an eye open for the museum entrance on the left (as you walk from the Forum), through a fairly small doorway. The convent walls are high and pretty much blank (tiny windows, high up). See photo.
Phone: 0039(0)302977833
Website: http://www.bresciamusei.com/Pages/en_santa_giulia_city_museum.aspx
Torre dell'Orologio
I din't really pay as much attention to this as I should have done. It looked too modern. Since returning home and researching further, it turns out that the Torre dell'Orlologio is really pretty old.
Venice has a similar clock tower, and the good citizens of late-Medieval Brescia decided they would like one as well. So, between 1540 and 1550, they built the one in the photo.
The clock itself dates from 1544-1546 and can mark moon phases and zodiacal signs as well as the hours. On top of the tower are two mechanical men (installed in 1581), made of bronze and linked to the clock mechanism. They strike the hours.
The tower itself is incorporated into a long, white-stone arcade dating from 1595.
Address: Piazza dell Loggia
Directions: Directly opposite the Palazzo della Loggia, on the eastern side of the piazza.
Theatre 1
You'll have to keep your eyes open for the narrow 'street' which leads to Brixia's theatre. Walk a little further east from the Forum, along Via dei Musei, and you'll find Vicolo Fontanone leading off Via Giovanni Piamarta on your right. Follow it and, all of a sudden, the vast 1st century amphitheatre is in front of you.
Yes, it's weedy. Yes, much of it is only partially-excavated, or is a confusing mix of rubble and standing architecture....but you wouldn't be in very good condition after 2000 years!
And yes, it is very difficult to photograph so my offerings do not do it justice.
So allow your mind to wander. Imagine the theatre filled with thousands of citizens of Brixia, from the poorest to the most wealthy...it could hold 15000!...roaring their approval of the latest play, or the most popular gladiator, or the poetry readings. Imagine the smell of incense and perfumes, of street-foods (and their sellers!). Imagine the excitement of visiting.....of simply seeing and being seen, of doing business, of casting coy glances at a sweetheart, of meeting best friends and getting drunk afterwards, perhaps of casting longing eyes over the most expensive of Brixia's 'ladies of the night'...Roman theatres provided all those opportunities and more!
Address: Vicolo Fontanone
Tempio Capitolino
Via dei Musei leads from the Broletto on Piazza Paolo toward the Roman centre of Brixia (Brecia's name at that time). It tuns along the same route as the Roman decumanus maximus, the main east-west street of any Roman town (the Romans built to a grid pattern).
Folliwing it will eventually bring you to the heart of Brixia; the Forum, where all business was conducted. Now it lies buried under much more modern buildings and cobblestones, with only a very tiny area excavated to one side (see photo). My photo of the forum area may give you an impression of just how deeply much of Roman Brescia underneath its modern surface.
But the magnificent temples at one end of the Forum, being raised up, still stand.
Brixia's forum was remarkably narrow for the time but the elongated view it gives of what remains of those temples makes it very clear indeed what a hugely impressive sight this city centre must have been 2000 years ago.
The Tempio Capitolino was built around 73AD and is now partially reconstructed with red brick. It is easy to see which is reconstruction and which is original, as it should be...archaeological reconstruction is not about tricking people.
Behind the main temple lie three smaller ones, dedicated to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. When I visited the site was undergoing further preservation (hence the scaffolding in the photos) and further excavation, so access to the smaller temples was impossible.
Even if the preservation and excavation work is still going on when you visit you really must see this area of Brescia, if only to give you an idea of the power of the Roman Empire at a time when most northern Europe buildings were made from organic materials such as wood.
Address: Piazza del Foro
Directions: To the east of Piazza della Loggia/Piazza Paolo. Follow the Via dei Musei.
The monumental Post Office
When I emerged from the arcades eading from Piazza Paolo Vl this piazza was a bit of a shock.
I had not expected such a very 'modern' setting. But it's is impressive in its own way, although its regimented style is not to my personal taste.
Designed by the architect Piacenini, most of the piazza and its biuding facades is in shades of poliched marble. The Post Office building is particularly impressive, with alternate contrasting bands of colour.
I don't know what the tall chunky building is, but it certainly made an impression on me.
Worth a look if only for the total contrast between Piazza della Vittoria and the Adjoining Medieval Piazza della Loggia.
Address: Central Brescia; easy to find.
Directions: To the SW of Piazza Paolo Vl, to the S of Piazza della Loggia.
Duomo Vecchio exterior
The Duomo Vecchio (Rotonda) is such an ancient church (1100s, but built over an earlier church probably dating from the 7th century) that its entrance now lies some way beneath the modern surface of Piazza Paolo Vl. You now enter through what was originally the women's gallery.
The Duomo is round...the original Romanesque style. It is one of the most important examples of this style in Italy. Its crypt...the Crypt of San Filastrio...dates from the time of the earlier church, probably the 800s, and is filled with chunks of roman masonry, its roof held up by recycled Roman columns.
Inside the main church you can see frescoes from the 1300s and 1400s (with a very little surviving from the 1200s). What remains of the frescoes in the Crypt of San Filastrio dates from even earlier...probably the 1100.
There are also works of art within the Duomo, including paintings by Romanino and Moretto, and the huge red marble sarcophagus of Berado Maggi, Bishop of Brescia in the 1200s.
Near the altar you'll find chunks of floor have been removed and replaced by glass panels. These allow you to see fragments of the Roman bath house which lies beneath the structure, with its mosaic floors and walls, as well as parts of the earlier church.
Definitely worth a visit.
Address: Piazza Paolo V1
Directions: Unmissable once you find the Piazza. Open Tues-Sun, 9-12 and 3-7 in summer, 10-12 and 3-6 in winter.
Monte di Pieta, with balcony
This building fascinated me.
Set on the southern side of the piazza it dates from the 1400s. Originally shops, in 1480 the city authorities decided to add various bits of Roman masonry to the facade. There are two loggias (colonnaded spaces) which allow access to the much-more-modern Piazza della Vittoria and, above these, a balcony from which, it is thought, speeches may once have been made
The building was later used by the Monte di Pieta, a type of city-run pawnbrokers.
There are Roman inscriptions galore to be sought out on the facade and it is this which fascinated me. Some are memorial stones, some are simply reliefs, some are...well, my Latin is no longer up to the challenge!
Definitely a must-see. Be warned: centuries of pollution have worn away the inscriptions so you will have to look closely. Most of them are not at all obvious.
Address: Piazza della Loggia
Directions: The long white building on the left as you stand with the Loggia behind you.
Palazzo della Loggia
Piazza della Loggia is Brescia's main square and a pretty one, with Medieval buildings on all sides.
The Loggia in the name is placed at the western end of the square...the Palazzo della Loggia, to be accurate, started in 1494. The lower part was completed in 1501, the upper in 1548.
Built by the city, its was originally intended for hearings by various civic authorities including those of Venice, for Brescia at that time was under the protection of powerful Medieval Venice.
At one time there was a room with paintings by Titian, but this was destroyed by fire in 1575.
I didn't go inside (the building still houses municipal authorities) but believe that on the first floor there is an octagonal 'salon' with a wooden ceiling and frescoes.
Address: Piazza della Loggia
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Well just finished watching this movie and it was ok. I give it a B... My wife would give it a C. Very interesting but hard to follow at times. Just fyi
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Or sometimes I'll go into another room (usually the kitchen) and forget what I went there for.
Is it age? I'm terrified of developing Alzheimer's even though nobody on either side of my family has ever had anything like it.
I try to do as many crossword puzzles as I have time for...especially the "cryptic" (British-style) ones. That's supposed to keep the brain/memory tuned up, but I still forget names and technical words, and have to stop and try to dig them up.
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Monetary Policy and Commodity Futures
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This paper constructs daily measures of the real interest rate and expected inflation using commodity futures prices and the term structure of Treasury yields. We find that commodity futures markets respond to surprise increases in the federal funds rate target by raising the inflation rate expected over the next 3 to 9 months. There is no evidence that the real interest rate responds to surprises in the federal funds target. The data from the commodity futures markets are highly volatile; we show that one can substantially reduce the noise using limited information estimators such as the median change. Nevertheless, the basket of commodities actually traded daily is quite narrow and we do not know whether our observable rates are closely connected to the unobservable inflation and real rates that affect economywide consumption and investment decisions.
The Federal Reserve targets the interest rate on federal funds to implement monetary policy. The interest rate is composed of two unobservable factors, the real interest rate and a premium for expected inflation, which are important for understanding the appropriate setting of the target. Knowing how these two factors change in response to changes in the target is also important for implementing monetary policy. Empirical evidence about the level and changes in these factors is complicated by the lack of direct observations on them. (1) In this paper, we extract measures of the interest rate and expected inflation from commodity futures prices and use these measures to examine how interest rates and expected inflation respond to monetary policy shocks. Throughout this paper we use the terms inflation and real interest rate interchangeably with commodity price inflation and commodity own rate. Whether our results have important implications for monetary policy depends on how closely our measures derived from commodity markets are connected to the inflation rates and real interest rates that matter for consumption and investment decisions.
Since 1997, the United States has issued inflation-indexed bonds. By extracting observations about expected inflation and the real interest rate in this market, several studies have found evidence about how real and nominal interest rates react to monetary policy surprises. For example, Gurkaynak, Sack, and Swanson (2003) show that the implied forward 1-year rate at the 9-year horizon responds significantly to a surprise in the federal funds market. They find that the surprise is contained in the expected inflation premium and not in the implied forward real rate.
Kliesen and Schmid find a similar result for the 10-year rate (2004a) and for the real rate (2004b), but in their papers, it is not clear what part of the 10-year term structure is responding to the news. There is one drawback to these measures of the real rate and the expected inflation rate: The maturity of these investments is measured in years, and the analysis does not reveal information about the response of the real interest rate or expected inflation in the short end of the term structure.
Cornell and French (1986) provide indirect observations on the short end of the term structure by using a measure of the real interest rate extracted from commodity futures prices. They use this measure to gauge the reaction of real interest rates and expected inflation to surprises in the weekly money supply announcements between October 6, 1977, and March 23, 1984. Their results were somewhat surprising: They found that it was expected inflation in commodity prices and not real returns that went up when there was an unexpected increase in the money supply. These results were obtained using data after October 6, 1979, an era in which the Treasury bill (T-bill) rate responded strongly and positively to surprise increases in the money supply. Before this result, previous authors concluded that these increases in the T-bill rate were due to rising real interest rates--a liquidity effect, perhaps associated with sticky prices (Roley and Welsh, 1985) or with rationing in the market for borrowed reserves (Gavin and Karamouzis, 1985). …


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Debenhams paid €100m rent to Roche family
Debenhams has paid more than €100m in rent to the Roche family over the past decade, documents filed with the High Court reveal.
Debenhams has paid more than €100m in rent to the Roche family over the past decade, documents filed with the High Court reveal.
Seán Quinn's on-the-run nephew could be drafted in to "repair the damage" between his family and the American investors that own the former Quinn Group in Derrylin.
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The Roche family hit the headlines in 2006 after selling most of its empire to British giant Debenhams for €29m plus.
The state's forestry agency says it has half of all the land needed to hit Ireland's renewable energy targets by 2020.
Former Davy Stockbrokers senior executive David Smith, who was its head of institutional equities and left the role just last month, has established a new financial firm in Dublin.
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A PRIME office block in Dublin's IFSC that was bought three years ago by a fund controlled by Credit Suisse has doubled in value.
Irish medical firm Mainstay Medical has received the CE approval mark for its implantable system to treat disabling chronic back pain.
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International academics have expressed interest in joining the faculty at Trinity's new business school, but have been put off by the ceiling on professors' salaries and the high rate of personal income tax, the school's dean has said.
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When the opportunity came to head up Trinity's school of business, Andrew Burke thought he should effectively put up, or shut up. From his vantage point in Britain, the Dubliner had been harping on that Ireland lacked a truly world-class business school.
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El Nino and Human Health
Kovats, R. Sari, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Voir page 1133 le resume en francais. En la pagina 1134 figura un resumen en espanol.
El Nino is a complex climatic phenomenon that is, perhaps unfairly, associated with death and destruction. It increases the risk of extreme weather but also has more subtle effects on human health. This article reviews those studies that have examined the relationship between the quasi-periodic climate pattern and disease risk. The attribution of any single epidemic to El Nino is difficult since the climate phenomenon is not the same as extreme weather. The relationships between extreme weather and deaths, injuries and subsequent outbreaks of disease have been well described. Particularly during disasters, initial outbreaks may be compounded by the displacement of populations and failures in health infrastructures. Many recent events have shown how easily health services are overwhelmed by atypical weather conditions. Between October 1999 and March 2000 there were major disasters associated with La Nina conditions in India, Mozambique, and Venezuela. Given the context of global climate change, which poses an increasingly certain threat (1), a better understanding of the relationships between weather, climate and human health is necessary.
Climate variability and ENSO
El Nino refers to the exceptionally marked and prolonged warm periods that occur in the Pacific Ocean around the equator (2, 3). They are linked to weather changes all over the world. The cycle of warming and cooling of the East Pacific is closely mirrored by air pressure deviations over the East and West Pacific, called the Southern Oscillation. When pressure rises in the East Pacific it usually falls in the West. Walker pioneered the use of statistical methods to link weather anomalies with the Southern Oscillation, including the Asian monsoon, and was one of the first to explore the possibility of seasonal forecasting (4). In the 1960s the link was made between the atmospheric Southern Oscillation and the oceanic El Nino, now referred to as the El Nino -- Southern Oscillation (ENSO) (see Box 1). The broader definition of El Nino has sometimes been used interchangeably with ENSO because the latter term is less well known. The two extremes of ENSO are El Nino (a warm event) and La Nina (a cold event). Global weather patterns associated with La Nina are generally less pronounced and, in some areas, tend to be the opposite of those associated with El Nino.
Box 1. The discovery and investigation of El Nino
1860s First recorded use of the term "El Nino" in Peru to describe periodic warming of coastal waters 1910-1930s Gilbert Walker documents the Southern Oscillation and its linkages with the Asian monsoon 1960s Jacob Bjerknes links El Nino in the Pacific Ocean with the Southern Oscillation in the atmosphere 1981-1982 First international efforts to reduce the impact of El Nino and improve forecasting 1985-1987 First global climate models to simulate ENSO 1997 United Nations Interagency Task Force on El Nino established 1997 Many models successfully forecast the onset of El Nino but fail to forecast its magnitude
El Nino begins when the prevailing easterly winds weaken over the Pacific. The major rain zone is shifted eastwards towards the central Pacific, causing a prolonged dry period in northern Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Pacific Ocean is warmer along the western coast of South America and during El Nino the upwelling along this coast is reduced, i.e. the nutrient-rich cold waters from the deep ocean no longer appear at the surface. Because of this there is a decline in the production of plankton, which has repercussions for populations of fish and sea birds. Sea levels on either side of the Pacific are also affected. The behaviour of the ocean and that of the atmosphere reinforce each other until El Nino is fully established. …


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This was really good--I used mostly wheat flour and doubled the recipe. USed oregano and garlic powder, as well as a little minced garlic, AND the sun-dried tomatoes called for in the recipe. I have made this twice now and both times I thought it was very good. I topped one pizza (since I doubled it I had two pizzas) with pesto and tomatoes and mozzarella cheese, and the other pizza with plain pizza sauce, tomatoes and yellow squash. Thanks for the great recipe Evangelia!
OOPS!! I also made pizza sauce tonight and combined my reveiw for that...the shiraz has nothing to do with this recipe! pardon my air-headed-ness. (thats how good this dough is)
This turned out to be a very tender and crispy pizza dough. We wanted a dough that would work for pizzas on the grill...as seen on a food network show...these worked great! They didnt stick to the grill and were the perfect texture for any style of cooking. A few changes...I didnt have bread flour.only regular..soo rising time took a tad longer (no worries though cause I knew what was up) and we didnt do the sun dried tomatoes. We will deffinately be repeating this recipe. Note...texture was not initially what I expected but that may be why it was a nice crisp dough.
This turned out wonderful and tasted outstanding! Really full of flavor and crusty on the outside and chewy inside. I cooked it in my convection oven at 400F and it couldn't of turned out more perfect. Thanks for posting an excellent recipe LikeItLoveIt....
This really good and pretty healthy too. I used ordinary spaghettie sauce and mozarella cheese on it.


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Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
Here's the question.
Has anyone out there ever used a infra-red/thermal imager to check there hull, rudder and deck before? I don't believe i've ever heard of a surveyor using one.
I was walking thru the engineering department the other day and they had this cool looking gun/gizmo sitting there. It looks like a radar gun a cop would use.
After an inquiry they told me it was a special thermal imager that records a digital feed. They use it to scan walls and roofs for energy leaks. They then take it back to the office and download the feed and use it for anlysis to cut down on energy consumption. I thought this would be the perfect tool to check a boat out for any water absorbtion in the deck and hull!! I had used one years ago to look for roof leaks in flat/built up roofs but it was much, much bigger and quite expensive. Not that this one was cheap; about 10k. The one i used years ago was quite handy identifying where all the moisture/cracks/delamination was under the layers of built up.
They said they would train me up and let me take it for a weekend this spring to test it on the boat; Just don't break it! I think if i use it right at sunset or soon thereafter i could get an accurate reading on all the hot/cold spots on the whole boat.
Then again, i may not want to see the video once done!
Ssshhh; maybe i'm onto something. I'll scan every boat in the marina and charge them $100
Re: Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
A thermal imaging camera uses infrared radiation to compose an image. Surfaces at different temperature give off different levels of IR. A wet core wouldn't necessarily affect the surface temp of the deck.
A bucket of water will eventually attain the same temperature as the air around it.
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Likewise.. and not wishing to hijack; but.....
What about these inexpensive stud-finder?
If they beep when solid background (studs) are found; will they NOT beep when voids/blisters are found? Or are they not sensitive/calibrated close enuff?
I'll have to wait till Spring and uncover day ta find out ;)
Re: Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
When we had the survey done on Por Fin, the surveyor used a thermal camera to scan the hull and rudder while the boat was in the slings. Everything checked out A-OK.
Fast forward six months. When I stripped off all the bottom paint, I found (much to my surprise) many, many blisters -- some of which yielded a pretty significant amount of juice. Once it warmed up, the rudder also began to weep a surprising amount of fluid.
Based on my experience, I'd stay away from the thermal camera. About the only useful thing the surveyor found with the camera was a loose screw on one of the breakers on the panel (loose contact which was generating heat.)
When i had mine surveyed the guy used one of these. He also ran a moisture meter over it, which is what i was interested in. Neither device showed significant moisture so i can't say the thermal did or didn't work per se. There were a few places like the rudder where the meter jumped a little and the thermal device seemed to concur with a lower temp. My confidence in the vessel was based much more on the meter readings and visual inspection.
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Do you remember what the temperature was, these can all effect the scan.
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You would have to DO EVERY boat in the marina to pay for the gear ($50K and up).....hahaha
these systems, when used in the proper way by trained people, show quite a bit of information. But just like a moisture meter, improper use, calibration or cheap gear, will return poor results.
Just another tool in the box for people to assess condition of things that they can not see in to. Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) is an awesome career path, but in the case of recreational boats, You need to understand how wet stuff holds "heat" longer than dry stuff and how that parlays in to actionable information.
Re: Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
Some surveyors are using these guns. There's another thread about it if you search.
Re: Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
Why would a thermal imager detect water unless the water was at a diff temp than the surroundings?
OTOH, I have always wanted to try using microwaves the either measure water in a hull or to drive it out of a hull by heating it. One could use microwave backscatter from the water to measure it.
For very expensive composite materials, I have just written a proposal to use x-ray backscatter to image water intrusion in composites. Yes, it would work for boats too (It is intended for aircraft components). However, the detector alone costs well over $25,000, the x-ray source over $10,000, software needed, shielding etc.
Re: Thermal imaging cameras for checking decks and hulls for moisture
I'm with the others, above; I don't see how a thermal imaging camera would do anything for you. On a house, you heat it or cool it (internally) and after there is enough time for the interior to reach some approximation of stasis, you scan the outside to look for places where there are temperature differentials (this allows you to, for example, see where the insulation was left out of a wall). But on a boat, you a) don't have an internal, consistent heat source, and b) you aren't really concerned about heat loss. I'd be really curious to see what the guy with the gun sees. Is he looking at the exterior of the boat and looking for areas where the hull, having been heated by the sun, is different temperatures?
I would think an ultrasound imager, like they use on pregnant mothers, would be a better choice for nondestructive testing. It would "see" differences in density and allow you to visualize the problems inside the hull. Of course, you'd have to buy the ultrasound machine, train the operator, and then pay the operator to stand there and scan the entire hull. With the 6-8" wide transducers that I've seen, scanning a 30-40' boat's hull would be a LONG process!
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