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Cornelious is senior VP of creative and strategy of The New York Times Advertising She was previously creative editor at Campaign US and also served as a writer and reporter at Sidekick by Morning Brew and PRWeek Scenery for the airports in the town of Itanhaem parking positions and buildings for both SDIM and SDCR airports Gets better if used with Project Mesh X installed View important Copyright © information related to freeware files here The archive rscen_sdimsdcr_v20.zip has 16 files and directories contained within it This list displays the first 500 files in the package Signing-up for PRO gives you super fast, unrestricted speed to the thousands of MSFS, FSX, P3D & X-Plane downloads which include aircraft, scenery, and more - click here to view the library for free or.. Sign-Up Now PRO membership payments go directly back into the website to pay for hosting It's what also enables us to offer a free download tier Join over 145,000 subscribers of our free dedicated flight simulation newsletter Are you using the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release Good Samaritans are being lauded on social media for saving the life of the "world's fastest shark" after it became stranded on a Brazilian beach A video of the daring rescue is presently trending on social media "The shark was pulled to the ocean and ended up swimming away," said videographer Rogerio Dos Santos Rodrigues of the event which happened last week on a beach in Itanhaém Beachgoers were wandering down the beach when they came upon the beached shortfin mako, the world's fastest shark capable of speeds of up to 45 miles per hour, as per the New York Post it may grow to be about 15 feet long and weigh up to 1,100 pounds claimed he was "frightened" when he first spotted the mako A lot of sharks have been popping up here lately." Even though they were amid a terrifying predator the "Jaws"-inspired pedestrians banded together to save the trapped marine beast A Samaritan can be seen carrying the blue mako which is believed to be around 5 feet long toward the water by the tail in the following video causing the onlooker to dump it on the sand where a brave woman takes it by the tail and drags it the rest of the way like a mako relay race Members of the Biopesca Institute arrived shortly after to investigate the incident but the fish had already swum away and did not "beach again," according to the organization Shortfin mako sharks are extremely migratory, with individuals making extended migrations each year, as per Oceana. The shortfin mako shark, like real tunas, great white sharks, and other fish, has a particular blood channel structure called a countercurrent exchanger that allows them to maintain a body temperature that is greater than the surrounding water. This modification gives them a significant edge while hunting in cold water since it allows them to move more rapidly and intelligently. This species consumes a wide range of prey. They are known to eat primarily bony fishes (including relatively large tunas) and squids, but they will also consume other sharks, small marine mammals, sea turtles, and even dead organic matter. Adult shortfin makos have no known natural predators and are at the top of the pelagic food web. Juveniles are most likely devoured by other sharks, as well as maybe by cannibalistic adults. Shortfin mako sharks mate internally and give birth to a limited number of quite a big offspring. Even though they give live birth, these sharks do not connect to their offspring via a placenta. Instead, during the gestation period, the mother feeds her young unfertilized eggs, which they actively consume for nutrition. While the shortfin mako shark is one of the few shark species known to have bitten and killed humans, such incidents are extremely rare and most likely unintentional (a case of mistaken identity). Shortfin mako sharks have a vast geographical range and may be found in all oceans from tropical to temperate latitudes. They are either commercially or unintentionally caught in fisheries aimed at other species anywhere they inhabit. The great quality of their fins and flesh makes these sharks valuable. Fishermen that use longline fishing gear to catch swordfish, yellowfin tuna, and other tunas sometimes catch and sell shortfin mako sharks. Other fisheries target these sharks with longline or gillnet fishing gear. The combination of these behaviors is reducing shortfin mako populations all across the world, and experts now feel they are on the verge of extinction. © 2025 NatureWorldNews.com All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Authorities said that as much as 683 mm of rain fell in Bertioga in a 24-hour period to 19 February 2023 Governor Tarcísio de Freitas declared a state of emergency for the cities of Ubatuba including 35 in São Sebastião – 31 in Barra do Sahy Flooding and landslides have damaged homes across the region and 566 people have been displaced or made homeless Civil Defense has distributed relief supplies in affected areas Drinking water infrastructure has been severely damaged in São Sebastião Caraguatatuba and the municipality of Ilhabela Drinking water is being delivered by tank trucks in areas of São Sebastião Dozens of roads have been washed out or blocked More than 130 teams from the Civil Defense Fire Department and the Brazilian Army have been delayed to the areas carrying out relief and search and rescue operations Much of the work is concentrated in the region of Barra do Sahy and Camburi in São Sebastião Around 80 more police officers are expected to be delayed on 20 February The government of São Paulo state said that heavy rain began on 18 February Below are some of the highest accumulations for a 24-hour period to 19 February: This is the second severe flood event in the state in the last two weeks Flooding affected the Greater São Paulo Region on 07 February State news agency Agência Brasil reported one person died in flood waters in Osasco Another person was reported missing and later found dead in floods in Parque São Lucas Heavy rain also has caused flooding and landslides in other areas of the state state Civil Protection provided an update for the period 01 December 2022 to 13 February 2023 Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList Once a week for five summers, César Cestari rode his bike up and down the beautiful beaches of Itanhaém and Peruíbe in southern Brazil Cestari hadn’t come to exercise or to enjoy the sun and salty air he was there to watch as two very different kinds of tourists fought over the future of the cities’ sandy shores Some of the tourists Cestari saw from 2009 to 2013 were those you’d expect: surfers and families building sandcastles and were looking for a bite to eat and a place to relax Despite being in one of the most rapidly developing countries in the world these visitors wouldn’t find what they were after These out-of-towners were scared by the crowds and flew off shorebirds such as the American golden plover and white-rumped sandpiper fly thousands of kilometers from the Arctic to South America Brazil’s São Paulo state is the most populous part of South America and its beaches are also important for migrating shorebirds Yet as São Paulo’s coastal areas urbanize and tourism increases visiting birds are finding their stopover sites increasingly crowded In 2012, the Brazilian government developed a national conservation plan to increase and protect this critical habitat—the first shorebird management program in South America Over the past few years the project has seen some success yet many programs have failed to get off the ground having been held back by operational or financial difficulties Standing out are the government institute for biodiversity conservation’s efforts to engage tourists directly with environmental education programs and social marketing campaigns Last year the department held two festivals to draw attention to the beaches’ migrant visitors and to get local governments and the public involved in conservation efforts One of these was the Brazilian Migratory Bird Festival held in Lagoa do Peixe National Park a critical stopover site for thousands of birds The festival included lectures and workshops on bird ecology and conservation Some of the institute’s collaborators are planning other outreach projects that focus on the country’s rural indigenous and traditional communities Among the plan’s other successes are new protocols for licensing the development of wind-power plants in areas important to migratory birds These protocols mandate the completion of environmental impact assessments and public hearings for proposed wind power projects along the birds’ regular migratory routes and in areas they use for feeding and breeding Brazil is a country in a state of radical transformation Since recovering from the late 2000s global financial crisis its coastal areas have seen significant development and urban growth driven by growing tourism and wind-power industries and a rush to exploit recently discovered offshore oil reserves Yet the country is hoping to avoid some of the growing pains that other industrialized nations have experienced especially in regard to the effects on wildlife “We live in Brazil in a time of development of many new economic projects and activities, mainly related to power generation, that can affect important sites if no care is taken,” says Danielle Paludo, the plan’s coordinator and an environmental analyst at a national center for wild bird conservation and research “The joint efforts promoted by the conservation plan are very important for optimizing and directing efforts in Brazil birds spent less time feeding and resting and more time moving around looking for places where they won’t be bothered the birds lose out on storing energy for their long-distance flights urbanized beaches and throngs of vacationers have caused migratory birds to all but abandon areas further north up the Brazilian coast Without the current plans to protect the beaches in the south these birds may be left with no rest stops to visit Part of the Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute family From skateparks in Malmö and Geneva to the contested Southbank undercroft you shared your stories of where is best to skateboard in cities As cities around the world begin to embrace the culture and social value of skateboarding we asked our readers to share stories of the best parks and other urban areas to skate in From the streets of Barcelona to a converted house in the Brazilian city of Itanhaém, these examples show how even in a DIY way – or after the victory of grassroots campaigns – some cities are becoming more skateboard-friendly The skaters seem very content at the bottom as they have just skated down one of the steepest They kick the boards up and move off again straight away The Cultural Quarter, Guildhall Square, Southampton seems to be popular with skateboarders @guardian @guardiancities pic.twitter.com/PlgV9T4hTu This particular night the place was invaded by bikers doing their tricks Any skateboarder would like the answer to be: “My own house made it happen for him and his local community he inherited the family house he grew up in and did what most skaters would do: build something you can skate at your own place he threw away his furniture to make space for the DIY ramps and ledges knocked down the living room and kitchen walls to free the corridors to roll around and invited local street artists to graffiti every blank space left in the house so the Itanhaem community gave birth to the Caverna House His idea was not only to make the entire house skateable but Anselmo also wanted to transform the house he grew up in into a community resource and give to the disadvantaged youth of his town by providing skateboarding - MMFD23 if you knocked your walls down and don't know what to do with the door Real Skateboards team member Robbie Brockel jumps the bar at Southbank Places like the Southbank undercroft should always be there for the new generation of skateboarders It reminds us that skateboarding is a creative outlet not just another sport you train to compete Southbank captures all the creative art energy from skateboarding it forces skaters to reinvent the way to skate every time you go there you have to look at it differently to how you looked the day before to fully appreciate the space and it was never designed to be a skatepark in the first place so replacing it with a modern skate plaza would be the worst mistake Skateboarding park in the semi rural idyll of North London that is Tottenham RT @guardiancities: Where's best #skateparks? Share pics @GuardianWitness http://t.co/awTdGU2gic Mine #Malmo Sweden: http://t.co/g3gUKdGpkf the city centre park includes a skaters area freely accessible to all Under the Whittle archway is a popular spot for skateboarders to show off their skills The entire city seems accidentally custom built for skateboarding Most experienced skateboarders accept that Barcelona is skateboarding’s European cultural Mecca - william burns 'permission' of Edinburgh University Used not just by skateboarders but by countless Now sadly shut down as of April 2015 for redevelopment to change it into a souless void that probably no-one will want to spend any time in except passing through on their way somewhere else ShareAlfredo Volpi: a collector’s guideWhy the Brazilian modernist behind the Bandeirinhas (‘Flags’) and Fachadas (‘Façades’) series is considered one of his country’s most important 20th-century artists Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s Brazilian artist Alfredo Volpi in his studio Photo: Courtesy of Instituto Alfredo Volpi de Arte Moderna Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) was among the most important Brazilian painters of the 20th century achieving a synthesis of figuration and abstraction as well as fine and popular art he helped forge a new path between European tradition and Brazilian modernism including the Best National Painter prize at 1953’s São Paulo Biennial but during his lifetime was feted predominantly in Brazil Only in the past 15 years or so has his fame spread internationally Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988), Untitled (Bandeirinhas com Mastros no Azul) — Untitled (Flags with Masts in Blue), circa 1960s Sold for £383,250 on 4 October 2019 at Christie’s in London Volpi emigrated with his family to Brazil while he was still a baby The Volpis settled in a working-class district of São Paulo called Cambuci where Alfredo would spend most of his life His early jobs saw him working as a woodcarver and a painter-decorator for São Paulo’s upper class and bourgeoisie As an artist, he was entirely self-taught, though his initial work shows that he managed to absorb the influence of both Impressionism and Expressionism he formed part of a collective called the Grupo Santa Helena a set of São Paulo-based artists loosely united by imagery with proletarian themes he made regular visits to the coastal town of Itanhaém where he became friends with the seascape painter Emidio de Souza Volpi produced several scenes of Itanhaém and his art — under de Souza’s influence — underwent a marked stylistic shift as he began to simplify his forms considerably Volpi had his first solo exhibition — at Galeria Itá in São Paulo — and was one of 70 artists who contributed to that year’s Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings held at the Royal Academy in London and several other venues across the UK A total of 100,000 people visited the events with picture sales raising more than £1,200 for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988), Fachada, 1959 Sold for $545,000 on 28 May 2014 at Christie’s in New York In 1958, Volpi was invited to paint the frescoes for Igrejinha Nossa Senhora de Fátima, one of the first churches in Brasilia, a city then being constructed from scratch specifically to become Brazil’s capital. The church is considered one of architect Oscar Niemeyer’s landmark buildings. Some critics suggest that the geometrical compositions Volpi saw by the early Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca would influence the geometric patterning in his own work from later that decade onwards. The artist’s most famous paintings, made between the late 1950s and the 1970s, featured two motifs in particular: Bandeirinhas (festival flags) and Fachadas (building façades). To some extent, these were an evolution of his early street scenes, although his art was now characterised by exuberant colour and — more crucially — simple geometric forms (oblongs, semi-circles, chevrons, etc). The façades and flags themselves were distilled to the point of abstraction. Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988), Bandeirinhas estruturadas, 1966 Sold for $842,500 on 16 November 2011 at Christie’s in New York In 2011, one of Volpi’s flag paintings, Bandeirinhas estruturadas, fetched $842,500 at Christie’s in New York, setting a world auction record for the artist that stills stands. The second-highest price achieved at auction was for a façade work: $783,750 at Christie’s in New York for Fachada (No. 1331) a weekly newsletter delivering our top stories and art market insights to your inbox Penguin deaths worry scientistsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSSAO PAULO – Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still inves­tigating what’s causing them to die. About 500 of the black-and-white birds have been found in the last 10 days on Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state, said Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at the Peruibe Aquarium. Most were Magellan penguins migrating north from Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands in search of food in warmer waters. Many are not finding it: Autopsies done on several birds revealed their stomachs were entirely empty – indi­cating they likely starved to death, Nascimento said. Scientists are investigating whether strong currents and colder-than-nor­mal waters have hurt populations of the species that make up the penguins’ diet, or whether human activity may be playing a role. “Overfishing may have made the fish and squid scarcer,”Nascimento said. Nascimento said it’s common for penguins to swim north this time of year. Inevitably, some get lost along the way or die from hunger or exhaus­tion, and end up on the Brazilian coast far from home. But not in such numbers – Nasci­mento said about 100 to 150 live pen­guins show up on the beach in an aver­age year, and only 10 or so are dead. “What worries us this year,”he said, “is the absurdly high number of pen­guins that have appeared dead in a short period of time.” Sorry, the page you were looking for could not be found. The page might have been removed, had its name changed, or become temporarily unavailable. The latest engineering, electronics and technology advances The most comprehensive sci-tech news coverage on the web These shocking photos show the aftermath of painful encounters with catfish that two tourists experienced at a popular beach resort in Brazil. One fish became lodged in the stomach of one swimmer, while another was dragged from the sea with a catfish dangling from her arm.  Ambulance workers took the picture of the fish impaled in the tourist's stomach as they took the woman to hospital to have the creature removed.  They cut the fish from her body at the scene in the resort of Itanhaem in the state of Sao Paulo.  But the serrated spine in its fin had to be taken out with microsurgery to avoid her flesh being ripped out. Marcelo Araujo, who posted the picture on his Facebook page, joked: 'A rare occurrence. A swimmer is hit by a fish.' He added: 'We were alerted to an incident where an object had penetrated a swimmer's stomach and when we got there, discovered it was a fish. 'She was in a lot of pain. We didn't remove the spine because only a doctor can do this. We took her to hospital so she could have microsurgery. 'Generally we deal with people who have stood on fish or have cut a finger touching one, but I've never seen a catfish stuck to someone's stomach. It was definitely a first.' Less than 48 hours later a second swimmer was dragged out of the sea at the same resort with a catfish attached to her arm.  The woman victim looked to be in agony as she was attended on the beach at Itanhaem. A fellow tourist filmed first-aiders comforting her as the fish dangled from her left arm with its serrated spines stuck deep into her skin. She appeared at times to be semi-conscious and needed help to keep her head from rolling forwards as crowds gathered round to see the bizarre scenario for themselves.  Witness Cristian Fernandes, who videoed the latest scare and posted footage on YouTube, said: 'She was shouting a lot and asking for the fish to be removed because it was hurting her a lot.' Like the first victim, she was taken to hospital for microsurgery to remove the spine. A spokesman for the local Maritime Firefighters Group which dealt with the incident, said: 'We don't recommend removing the spines for the safety of the victims. 'You never know if they've reached important arteries and if pulling them out on the spot can cause even more damage.' Paramedic Marcelo Araujo, who was called to the earlier incident involving a catfish in Itanhaem, called it a 'first.' One of the firefighters involved in the new drama, said: 'They're atypical cases because generally we see people who been injured by accidentally standing on fish. 'To see them causing harm to other parts of the body is really surprising. 'Our recommendation is to remain calm and wait for proper medical attention.' Last September a shocking video went viral of a sunbather getting stabbed in the leg with a catfish while messing around with a friend on a beach. One of the bikini-clad women chased the other around with the dead fish before the prank backfired and it accidentally attached itself to her. The injured woman, called Tina, grew increasingly worried and told friends in the footage she was concerned she would get a disease. The clip ended with someone in the crowd that had gathered round suggesting putting 'pure vodka' on the wound to release the fish.  Tourists attacked by catfish in popular Brazil beach resortCommenting on this article has endedNewest{{#isModerationStatus}}{{moderationStatus}}