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Original to the bone: 1963 Abarth 1000 Bialbero

History comes at a price, especially when associated with beautiful and rare cars like this Abarth 1000 Bialbero. No introduction is needed for this model, which, along with its factory siblings bearing the scorpion logo (Karl Abarth’s zodiac sign, to be precise), played a leading role in road racing during the 1960s and 1970s, securing victories in both overall and category competitions…

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Abarth 1300OT Periscopica Coupé

In 1958, the American Chrysler Corporation pursued an entry into the European motor manufacturing market by buying 15 per cent of the French Simca company's stock from Ford. At that time, however, the dominant shareholder remained Fiat of Turin, and their influence remained distinctively apparent in the engineering and design of Simca cars for several years into the early 1960s. However, in 1963 Chrysler increased its Simca stake to a controlling 64 per cent by purchasing stock from Fiat, subsequently extending that holding to 77 per cent.

Chrysler had no interest in any continuation of the previously successful Simca Abarth and Abarth Simca high-performance car collaboration, which came to a juddering halt. In Turin Carlo Abarth found himself left more or less high and dry, but the supply of basically Simca 1000 chassis floor pans, upon which the sleek and superfast Abarth Simca 1600s and 2000s had been based, left quite a number in stock, as yet unused. The popular legend is that it was upon these unused Simca platforms that Abarth then founded his 1300cc class Gran Turismo design for 1965 – the OT 1300. Abarth's technical team under Mario Colucci had developed a boxed pressed-steel chassis structure on the modified Simca 1000 floor pan to which allindependent suspension was attached with componentry drawn from the Fiat 850 shelves. The Abarth OT 1300 then emerged, to race for the first time as a prototype in the September, 1965, Nurburgring 500-Kilometre classic.

Driver Klaus Steinmetz hammered the new Coupé home to a fine third-place finish overall and the OT 1300 was up and running into the record books, becoming one of the most successful – and also one of the most distinctive – models that Abarth & C ever produced. The OT 1300's rear-mounted all-Abarth engine was overhung – in best Carlo Abarth-approved style. It was a 4-cylinder unit with twin overhead camshaft cylinder head, using a block with cylinder bore and stroke dimensions of 86mm x 55.5mm to displace 1289cc.

With two valves per cylinder and a 10.5:1 compression ratio, the engine breathed through two twin-choke Weber 45DCOE9 carburettors. Ignition was by two plugs per cylinder, fired by single distributor. Dry-sump lubrication was adopted and the power unit produced a reliable 147bhp at 8,800rpm. This lusty engine, perfected by Abarth's power-unit specialist Luciano Fochi with five main-bearing crankshaft, drove via a five-speed and reverse Abarth transaxle.

Wheelbase length of the OT 1300 was nominally 2015mm, front track 1296mm and rear track 1340mm. It featured moulded glassfibre clamshell-style opening front and rear body sections moulded by Sibona & Basano in Turin, and this pert-nosed Coupé became a familiar sight dominating its class for three consecutive years. Production of the OT 1300 began on May 15 1966 and ended on March 30, 1966, by which time the minimum production number of 50 required by the FIA for homologation as a Gran Turismo model had (allegedly) been achieved. The most distinctive single characteristic of the OT 1300 Coupé, apart from its huge International success within its class, was its adoption of the Periscopica air-cooling intake on the rear of the cabin roof. Casual onlookers would assume that the periscopelike intake fed intake air into the rear-mounted engine, but this is absolutely not the case. Instead, the water and oil-cooling pipe runs through the cockpit area heated-up the cabin to what was generally considered to be an unacceptable level for endurance racing, and the periscope intake merely blasted cold air down into the cabin to cool the driver himself...

From the OT 1300 Mario Colucci developed the OT 2000 Coupé using the 1946cc 4-cylinder power unit perfected by his colleague Luciano Fochi and with some 215bhp at 7,600rpm that largerengined model was capable of exceeding 165mph in a straight line. In fact all these Abarths with their sleek aerodynamic bodies and light weight really were exceedingly rapid by the standards of the time and within their respective capacity classes.

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Car Spot: 1963 Studebaker Sceptre

The futuristic concept you probably never knew existed … Being an AMC geek, I love the story of underdogs, which is also why I like Studebakers. Born in South Bend, Indiana in 1852 as a coachbuilder (think wagons of all sorts) like other companies at the time entered the automotive business in 1902. The 1920’s were booming years for the company. Its South Bend plant was huge, 225 acres, spread…

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The 1963 Studebaker Sceptre concept, a Brooks Stevens design, built by Italian coachworks shop Sibona & Bassano carrozzeria of Turin. The parallel universe of the ‘60s in which Studebaker survived would have been rad. (Petersen Museum)

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Un professor sord imparteix anglès en llengua de senyals a Argentina: la seva inspiradora història i els seus alumnes

Yanina Sibona / tn.com.ar Nicolás González / tn.com.ar Pablo Pomeranec ensenya anglès a nois i noies sords. Molts dels alumnes que arriben a la seva classe ho fan amb l’esperança d’adquirir una eina que avui és clau per a aconseguir treball. Les barreres que encara existeixen en la comunicació entre persones sordes i oïdores es reflecteixen a l’aula. Aprendre anglès resulta molt complex quan no…

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Animals + Safari

inja 🐶

inkomo 🐄

encane - small

emhlophe - white

emnyama - black

imvu 🐏 sheep

ekhuluphele - fat

ensundu - brown

inkunzi 🐂 bull

ingulube 🐷

inyoka 🐍

enhle - beautiful

○ USarah uthanda inkomo emnyama - Sarah likes the black cow

○ inja encane

○ Uthanda imvu ensundu - She likes the brown sheep

○ ngithanda enhle inja - He likes the beautiful dog

indlovu 🐘

inyoni 🐦

inyathi 🐃 buffalo

enkulu - big

laphaya - over there

ingwenya 🐊

enejubane- fast

sibona- we see

enamandla- strong

indlulamithi 🦒

ilala - it sleeps

idla - it eats

utsheni - grass

inkawu 🐒

endala - old

impisi - hyena

unogwaja 🐇

intshe - ostrich

babona - they see

imbuzi 🐐

○ iyoni emnyama

○ sibona ensundu inyathi laphaya

○ babona unogwaja laphaya

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2024/2025 Sibona Ilanga Trust Bursary Application Form Portal

Sibona Ilanga Trust Bursary 2024… Are you looking for a way to apply for the Sibona Ilanga Trust Bursary 2024? If yes, then this informative article is for you. You will be given detailed information about Sibona Ilanga Trust Bursary 2024, Qualifications and How To Apply. The Sibona Ilanga Trust is offering students and young people out of school an opportunity to study further at South African…

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DPRD Medan Sambut Positif Kebijakan Penyaluran BLT Sibonas

DPRD Medan Sambut Positif Kebijakan Penyaluran BLT Sibonas

Medan – Wakil Ketua Komisi IV DPRD Medan Rudiawan Sitorus, menyambut positif kebijakan yang dilakukan Pemko Medan dalam mengatasi permasalahan masyarakat pasca kenaikan harga BBM bersubsidi, dengan menyalurkan bantuan langsung tunai (BLT) Sibonas (Subsidi Betor, Ojol, dan Angkutan Sudako). Dikatakannya, bantuan tersebut sangat berguna bagi masyarakat, di tengah kenaikan harga kebutuhan pokok.…

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Studebaker Sceptre Concept, 1963, by Brooks Stevens. A stylish coupe designed to compete with the Ford Thunderbird in the rapidly expanding Personal Luxury market. The prototype was built in Italy by Sibona-Bassano of Turin and featured a full-width front lightbar with a redesigned Studebaker emblem mounted in the centre of the bonnet. Inside there were gauges covered in transparent bubbles and a slide-rule speedometer floating above the dash. A glovebox with a large mirror could slide toward the front passenger. Facing imminent bankruptcy Studebaker lacked the resources to put the Sceptre into production.

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Listen to Delaire the Liar new song "Halloween"

Band: Delaire the LiarSong: “Halloween”Director: Luigi SibonaAlbum: “Halloween” – singleRelease Date: July 19th, 2021Label: Rude Records Speaking of the single, the group offered: “The song itself is about exhausted options, desperation and sacrifice. What would you give if you’re at the end of your rope? What cost is too high to regain something you’ve lost? How far can grief push you to spend…

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Unrestored: 1965 Abarth 1000 Bialbero "Long Nose"

This Abarth 1000 Bialbero chassis Tipo 129 is said to be the last of the 15 “long nose” made, designed by Mario Colucci for the Sibona & Basano body shop in Turin. The engine is said to be the Type 229 B “wet sump right rotation”, the latest evolution of the 1000 twin cam engine powered by two huge double throat carburettors, the engine that drives this rare car sold new in France to the Abarth…

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Kuwait receives second pair of Eurofighters

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 03/30/22 - 7:52 PM in Military

The Eurofighter Consortium delivered the third and fourth Eurofighter Typhoons to the Kuwait Air Force, with the aircraft landing in the country on March 29.

The transfer flight of the new Kuwaiti Eurofighters was made possible by the support of the Italian Air Force, which provided air-to-air refueling with a KC-767A tanker of the 14th Wing, from Pratica di Mare.

The delivery is part of the framework of a broader order for a total of 28 aircraft that will be delivered to the Kuwait Air Force.

"I was very proud last month to see Eurofighters flying over Kuwait City during the celebration of the national day, as today increasing as planned the fleet. The Eurofighter Typhoons that we develop and produce for the Kuwait Air Force are the most advanced in the entire European program. In cooperation with the Italian Air Force, we are providing the country with impressive air defense capability and have built state-of-the-art infrastructure to support and maintain a fleet of 28 aircraft," said Guido Sibona, vice president of Leonardo's Eurofighter program.

The Eurofighter Kuwait program is part of a broader and deeper collaboration between the Italian Air Force and the Kuwait Air Force, covering operations, pilot training and support. The Italian Air Force is ensuring the initial training of engineers and technicians in Italy, who will later support the Typhoon fleet in the country.

The Eurofighter program is administered by the Eurofighter GmbH consortium, a company based in Munich (Germany) owned by Leonardo, BAE Systems and Airbus Defence & Space for Germany and Spain. On the government side, the program is administered by the NATO Eurofighter & Tornado Management Agency (NETMA), which was created to meet the purchasing needs of the air forces of the four participating countries, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.

Although the program headlines have focused on the new Kuwait customer, the vice president of Eurofighter Kuwait & P3Eb Maurizio Fornaiolo pointed out that it is not a pure export program. It is qualified and certified under the umbrella of four Eurofighter nations (Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain) because the P3Eb (the formal name of the program) is a NETMA contract.

Fornaiolo says that this new standard will form the baseline for the nation's central program. “We have now established a weapons system capability and this is a fundamental first step in Eurofighter's 10-year plan. All future programs will use this as a baseline for the introduction of new features. In fact, even while we were delivering the initial aircraft, we were also working to advance future authorizations to upgrade the capabilities of the weapons system to the customer. So, the show goes on."

Tags: Military AviationEurofighter TyphoonKAF - Kuwait Air Force/Kuwait Air Force

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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1963 Studebaker Sceptre Concept, by Brooks Stevens. A stylish coupe designed to compete with the Ford Thunderbird in the rapidly expanding Personal Luxury market. The prototype was built in Italy by Sibona-Bassano of Turin and featured a full-width front lightbar with a redesigned Studebaker emblem mounted in the centre of the bonnet. Inside there were gauges covered in transparent bubbles and a slide-rule speedometer floating above the dash. A glovebox with a large mirror could slide toward the front passenger. Facing imminent bankruptcy Studebaker lacked the resources to put the Sceptre into production.

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1962 Studebaker Sceptre concept by Steve Brown Via Flickr: Visit to the Studebaker National Museum on April 25, 2012. This is a fantastic museum with a wonderful collection of classics. A concept car I never before knew existed. Designed by Brooks Stevens and built by the Italian firm Sibona-Bassano. View my collections on flickr here: Collections Press "L" for a larger image on black.

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Cassano Arianamenzi | The First Of The Cassano

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Cassano Arianamenzi: The clever Court Archivist who would become Consul

I have mentioned in a couple of places, but particularly in this post, that the Cassano (and the Radošević-Cassano by extension) aren’t nobles, and they only ended up with the Consulship through a scheme, and no one quite knows how they did it.

Well, that’s not entirely true. This is Cassano Arianamenzi, the woman who would change the history of the Vesuvian Consulship forever.

Name: Cassano Gizem Arianamenzi.

Meaning of the name: ‘Cassano’ is the name of a series of towns, while ‘Gizem’ means ‘mystery’ in Turkish.

Nicknames: Cas, Ari, Arianamenzi

Family: She is the eldest of five children, and the daughter of a Philosopher who earned a Court Position as a scholar (Father) and an artisan who made instruments (Mother). They had her while fairly young so she was raised by her grandparents and great aunts for a portion of her life. This never brought her problems with her parents, who were very present, but taught her the importance of community. The Arianamenzi all raised their children that way and lived in a multi-generational household.

They lived in the edge between Goldgrave and Centre City. They were never particularly well off, though they had enough. All of her siblings studied through apprenticeships, and she did so on a scholarship on the account of being the daughter of her father. She often said rich people and aristocrats mistake education for class (for a reason), but once they learnt you had had an education without being like them, they suddenly praised you through romanticising your position in life, thinking anyone who wasn’t like them must’ve starved to be able to spell their names, because naturally everyone who wasn’t like them was stupid.

Clearly, these people got on her nerves.

Their siblings were: Riparte (she/her), Flavius (they/she), Eziz (he/him) and Nora (he him).

Favourite Food: Spicy Mussel stew.

Favourite Drink: Kvass

Favourite Flower: Cherry Blossoms

Birthday: September 7th

Age: 37 for the relevant events in her timeline, but she was born 377 years before the events of the game.

Zodiac: Virgo sun, Aquarius Moon, Aries Rising

Patron Arcana: The Devil (always reversed) and the Page of Pentacles

Devil, Reserved: freedom, release, restoring control.

Upright: ambition, desire, diligence; Reversed: lack of commitment, greediness, laziness

 Pronouns: She/Her

Languages Spoken: Vesuvian (common tongue and old dialect),Firentian, Prakran, Galbradan Bulani.

Magic: Language magic and language manipulation — she can tell the intention and honesty of people through their words, both spoken and written. She is able to perform different kinds of incantation, manipulate glyphs, and temporary and limited alteration of the world around her through words.

Being a ‘language manipulator’ is one of the few magical traits the Cassano possess. She wasn’t the first language manipulator in her family, and the Arianamenzi don’t know who was, nor they care. It skips generations, however.

There’s a couple of them between her and the current generation of the R-C, but the last language manipulators of the Cassano have been Vitale Cassano, Consul of Vesuvia, Aelius Anatole Radošević and Artemisia Cassano.

Familiar: A mongoose (Egyptian mongoose) called Pearl.

Song: Centuries, Fall Out Boy

The Poison Plot of The Vesuvian Court & Facts about Cas Arianamenzi.

Cassano began working as an archivist, handling the paperwork of the Court and the Consul, when she was 27. By the time she was 33 she was working directly with the Consul, though she mostly worked in the archives department, and the old Palace’s library. A year after she landed the position the Poison Plot began.

In the span of three years, three Consuls and two temporary placeholders were poisoned in the Vesuvian Court, as well as five other officials and a diplomatic envoy.

Cassano had began putting the pieces together on her own, mostly thanks to her magic and her job as an archivist, but she was able to win a new perspective on this when the Count of the time, a magician named Sibona, began venting to her, trying to escape both the Vesuvian summer and late spring heat, and her Court.

After the last of murdered Consuls was poisoned, Sibona, who had already figured out Cassano was also a magician, asked her why didn’t she solve it. If she did, Sibona would make her the Consul.

Cassano declined originally, telling she had no Courtly aspirations nor wished to end up dead, but eventually agreed. Count Sibona realised she knew more about politics than what she gave away, and decided to trust her gut about her.

She wasn’t wrong. Cassano was able to solve the plot and restructure some of the Court functioning, including the basic functioning of the Consulship as related to the City and working with a seven people integrated council (which you can read about here).

One of the reasons she was able to solve it was because Aristocrats dismissed her for not being one of them. Court Archivists and Court Staff were seen as invisible and she took advantage of it, as she did of her magic.

The Palazzo, however, wasn’t endowed to her. It belonged to the one of the murdered Consul’s who had no open succession. Whether Sibona let her get away with manipulating who it would pass to, or she never realised, Cassano didn’t know, but given how her magic worked, it was extremely hard to prove she had forged anything to begin with.

That Consul didn’t really use the building. Up to her, the Consuls lived in the Palace with the Count. She refused this because she couldn’t leave her family alone. Her family and friends were also the reason why she tried to procure the Palazzo in the first place. It was less about the status symbol and more about “these goddamn Aristocrats have entire empty buildings and for what, for fucking what.” She was able to safely house her entire extended family along with more than one friend.

She is the entire reason why the Cassano have the tradition of having the Palazzo opened to the people — the Arianamenzi realised that with this building, they could now help their community in an even bigger scale. While she “inherited” (aka took as a squatter) the Palazzo with everything in it, most of the collections have been donations from friends. The space is supposed to be communally kept. A lot of the paintings in it, and some of the oldest murals are there because she gave the opportunity to friends of her family by commissioning them, so she could show rich people their work.

They did try to poison her. She was able to anticipate it through her scheming and was, in fact, waiting for it, to the point she contacted one of her friends, an alchemist who was an expert in poisons from South End, to help her with a preventive antidote.

Most of it was to show Aristocrats what a little fraternity between people can do.

She firmly believed she had more in common with people in the street than the rest of the Court. A lot of what she believed and how she carried herself as the Consul is the origin of a lot of ways to be that the Radošević-Cassano as a family now have. She is also responsible for the saying “nothing mortal can kill a Cassano” (because the poison didn’t kill her).

When asked about how rulers should be, this was her reply: “A ruler shouldn’t be feared, nor loved. A ruler should be competent. Discussions of punishment or morality only detract a ruler from their one true command: to do their goddamned job.”

Count Sibona liked her because she thought Cas was weird.

It wasn’t Cassano who came up with the Consul ascension ceremony, it was Count Sibona who most likely came up with it to be a shit about Cassano taking an entire Palazzo without asking.

Her wife’s name was Caterina.

Because I believe Arcanaverse rapiers to be an invention of at least 150 years after she was alive, her sword was not a rapier. She learnt while she was studying and apprenticing under a scholar because she was bored.

She wrote two books in her lifetime: a book about political philosophy, and a book in the old Vesuvian Dialect about the origins, secrets and magic of Vesuvia. It is not, however, a history book. Instead is mostly about language magic and Cassano’s own theories about how to interject with the magic of the Canals if needed. It also has the knowledge passed down from Count to Count, because the Consul has always been supposed to be privy of it, because the Consul has always been supposed to rule in absence or incapacitation of the Count or their heirs.

This book has never left the hands of the Cassano family, except for a brief period during the life of Vitale Cassano (Anatole’s great great grandfather). In the Janiverse (@apprenticealec​‘s and my Arcanaverses combined) the book is stolen by the Scholars of the Sea Palace, but Amparo Mediavilla, wife of Vitale intercepts the middle man before it’s too late. In my regular Arcanaverse, it is taken for similar reasons, and Amparo still retrieves it.

Count Sibona also described her as a mongoose with the skin of a woman.

Her name became a surname with her brother Nora (the youngest), who takes after her as the Consul for around ten years before a niece replaces him. Nora introduced himself as “Nora, Brother of Cassano” which got constricted to Nora Cassano. Kin of Cassano was also very normal to refer to both her family and friends by Aristocrats so it stuck