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Sal A. Giunta: Medal of Honor Recipient and Author, Living with Honor
No full textBorn in Clinton, Iowa, in 1985, Salvatore Sal Augustine Giunta decided to enlist at age 17, while working in a Subway sandwich shop. He joined the Army in November 2003. He attended Infantry One Station Unit Training and the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Ga., before being assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy, in 2004. Promoted to the rank of staff sergeant in 2009, Giunta completed two combat tours to Afghanistan totaling 27 months of deployment. On Oct. 25, 2007, while conducting a patrol as team leader, Giunta and his team were navigating through the treacherous terrain of Afghanistan\u27s Korengal Valley when they were ambushed by a well-armed and well-coordinated insurgent force. While under heavy enemy fire, Giunta immediately sprinted toward cover and engaged the enemy. Seeing that his squad leader had fallen and believing that he had been injured, Giunta exposed himself to withering enemy fire and raced toward his squad leader, helped him to cover and administered medical aid. While administering first aid, Giunta\u27s body armor was struck by enemy fire. Without regard to the ongoing fire, he engaged the enemy before prepping and throwing grenades, using the explosions for cover in order to conceal his position. Attempting to reach additional wounded fellow soldiers who were separated from the squad, Giunta and his team encountered a barrage of enemy fire that forced them to the ground. The team continued forward and upon reaching the wounded soldiers, Giunta realized that another soldier was still separated from the element. Giunta then advanced on his own initiative. As he crested the top of a hill, he observed two insurgents carrying away an American soldier. He immediately engaged the enemy, killing one and wounding the other. Upon reaching the wounded soldier, he began to provide medical aid as his squad caught up and provided security. For his extraordinary gallantry, Giunta was awarded the Medal of Honor, making him the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor for service in Iraq or Afghanistan, the first living service member to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War and the eighth service member to receive the nation\u27s highest military decoration for valor in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giunta\u27s other military decorations include the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, two Army Good Conduct Medals and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. Giunta retired from the Army in June 2011, and in 2012 authored Living with Honor. He currently lives in Colorado with his wife, Jennifer, and daughter
Beatrice, Victoria, and Sara Giunta Rametta Oral History Interview
No full textThe Giunta sisters describe the changes that have occurred in Ybor City since the middle of the 20th century, the influence of Sicilian and other immigrants on Ybor, the mingling of cultures and its effect on food, and the landscape’s evolution from farmland to a metropolitan area. At an early age, the Giuntas were taught the importance of education by their father, Domenic Giunta, a schoolteacher, and their mother, Sara, a homemaker, and they discuss their own schooling in detail. The sisters also explain their efforts to preserve the family homestead as a historic landmark
Declaration of Intention for Domenico Giunta
No full textDeclaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by Domenico Giunta. Applicant lists himself as a 29 year old glass cutter residing in Hammonton, New Jersey, born in Messina, Italy on 8 May 1887, who sailed on the US bound vessel [unknown]. Declaration submitted and sworn June 1, 1905
Beatrice, Victoria, and Sara Giunta Rametta oral history interview
No full textThe Giunta sisters describe the changes that have occurred in Ybor City since the middle of the 20th century, the influence of Sicilian and other immigrants on Ybor, the mingling of cultures and its effect on food, and the landscape’s evolution from farmland to a metropolitan area. At an early age, the Giuntas were taught the importance of education by their father, Domenic Giunta, a schoolteacher, and their mother, Sara, a homemaker, and they discuss their own schooling in detail. The sisters also explain their efforts to preserve the family homestead as a historic landmark
Mechanical ventilation as a mediator of multisistem organ failure in acute respiratory distress syndrome
No full textL'istinto della bellezza. Carlo Scarpa a Palermo: studi sullo Steri, 1972-1978
No full textIl volume indaga l’istinto di Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) verso la bellezza. Da progettista, Santo Giunta si pone l’obiettivo di comprendere come il maestro veneziano, ritornando a Palermo agli inizi degli anni ‘70, sia riuscito a catturare, nella fisicità dello spazio costruito di palazzo Chiaromonte, detto Steri (Hosterium, palazzo fortificato), le relazioni essenziali tra questa architettura, opera trecentesca, e la città contemporanea. La chiave che l’autore ci offre per decifrare quest’opera di Scarpa è il cammino, l’immergersi passo dopo passo nell’architettura, in un percorso-discorso peripatetico. Il maestro veneziano, per lo Steri, ha innescato un processo di rivitalizzazione basato sulla qualità degli spazi interni, concorrendo a disvelare, giusto nelle preesistenze, nuove strutture narrative capaci di guardare ai tratti del nostro tempo. Riuscirà il fare scarpiano a costituirsi, ancora una volta, come occasione per riflettere e ragionare attorno al tema degli interni? Riuscirà a esserlo, se osservato dall’osservatorio privilegiato della didattica del progetto? All’interno di questa realtà edificata, in un contesto ancora oggi difficile ma pieno di stimoli come il quartiere Kalsa di Palermo, riuscirà lo studente/visitatore a trovare stimoli e riscontri oggettivi per il proprio fare progettuale?
Nel testo emerge la figura di Carlo Scarpa che ha rappresentato, nel panorama architettonico nazionale e internazionale, un punto di riferimento sul quale poter misurare, in modo concreto e diretto, una serie di questioni teoriche e di pratiche “funzionali” alla progettazione. Il significato della bellezza è fondamentale per comprendere il senso della vita nella sua forza progettuale, nella disponibilità ad aprirsi al futuro e nella sua capacità di mettersi in relazione con l’altro.The volume investigates the instinct of Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) towards beauty. As a designer, Santo Giunta aims to understand how the Venetian master, returning to Palermo in the early 1970s, managed to capture, in the physicality of the built space of Palazzo Chiaromonte, called Steri (Hosterium, fortified palace), the essential relationships between this architecture, a fourteenth-century work, and the contemporary city. The key that the author offers us to decipher this Scarpa's work is the path, the step by step immersion in architecture, in a peripatetic path-discourse. The Venetian master, for the Steri, has triggered a process of revitalization based on the quality of the interior spaces, helping to unveil, right in the pre-existing buildings, new narrative structures capable of looking at the features of our time. Will making Scarpiano succeed in constituting itself, once again, as an opportunity to reflect and reason around the theme of interiors? Will it be able to be, if observed by the privileged observatory of the project's teaching? Within this built environment, in a context that is still difficult today but full of stimuli such as the Kalsa district of Palermo, will the student / visitor be able to find stimuli and objective feedback for their own design?
In the text, the figure of Carlo Scarpa emerges who represented, within the national and international architectural panorama, a point of reference on which to measure, in a concrete and direct way, a series of theoretical and practical issues "functional" to design . The meaning of beauty is essential for understanding the meaning of life in its design strength, in its willingness to open up to the future and in its ability to relate to others
¿Arte argentino? A conversation about (geo)political and aesthetic challenges : Part 2/2: A conversation with the art historian Prof. Dr. Andrea Giunta
No full textIn the second part of the interview Andrea Giunta talks about La Menesunda as an immersive experience and why art that cannot be collected, involves certain politics
New forms for urban space: utopia? Creative leisure time in an experience for the 10th Biennial of architecture of Venice: Living at Vema
No full textQuesto saggio riflette, a 10 anni della “10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura - Biennale di Venezia”, sulla ricerca e la sperimentazione architettonica inerenti alle nuove forma di spazio urbano, come il progetto, Gli orti dell’ozio creativo, di Santo Giunta redatto per VEMA (2006). In questa città futura – masterplan di Franco Purini, curatore del Padiglione Italiano, ipotizzata sull’asse tra Verona e Mantova e nei pressi del crocevia dei corridoi ferroviari Lisbona-Kiev e Berlino-Palermo – gli spazi ed i luoghi sono stati studiati da 20 gruppi di architetti. «Il gruppo guidato da Santo Giunta – come scrivono François Burckhardt e Burghart Schmidt – ha proposto strategie di attenzione alle esigenze culturali degli abitanti, con nuove idee per gli spazi di intrattenimento. Si tratta di un progetto diretto al tempo libero creativo, una condizione che in prospettiva dovrebbe interessare nella società futura un ampio strato della popolazione, a seguito del nuovo assetto nella distribuzione fra il tempo lavorativo e il tempo libero che il progresso dell’automazione porterà inevitabilmente con sé» (Burckhardt, F., Schmidt, B., 2010. Utopia nell’architettura XXI Secolo, «Treccani online» : http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/utopia-nell-architettura_%28XXI-Secolo%29/).
La priorità data alle esigenze culturali dei residenti è stata la base del progetto, I giardini dell’Ozio creativo. Tenendo questo in mente, lo studio si basa sullo spazio in cui viviamo e sull’idea che possiamo organizzare la trasformazione della realtà in un dialogo necessario tra la libertà umana e la prefigurazione di una forma per caratterizzare nuovi paesaggi. I temi trattati in questo saggio, in cui si discute del disegno di una possibile città futura, sono strumenti per cogliere la complessità del fenomeno dello sprawl urbano. Ci sono fondamentalmente due temi in tutte le loro articolazioni e le variabili. Il primo riguarda la necessità di elaborare un nuovo progetto di attacco a terra, come si radicanoal suolo gli edifici, sia per le aree verdi, nonché quelle destinate per la mobilità e lo spazio pubblico; la seconda si occupa di conciliare le esigenze di sostenibilità ambientale e il ruolo degli spazi aperti urbani. In conclusione, nel disegno di Vema viene proposta una struttura, in un quadro tradizionale, che si basa su una visione di città orientata verso il futuro e forse un tentativo di un’utopia vera.This study is related to the utopia of a new town to be built in 2006 following the design of Franco Purini, who proposed a master plan for an ideal town between Verona and Mantova: Vema.
The group, led by Santo Giunta - as Francois Burckhardt and Burghart Schmidt write – proposed strategies concentrating on the cultural needs of the inhabitants, with new ideas for entertainment spaces. It is a project which addresses creative leisure time, a prospect which should affect a vast section of society in the future as a result of new structures in the distribution of work time and leisure time, being an inevitable consequence of the progress of automation (Burckhardt, F., Schmidt, B., 2010. Utopia nell’architettura XXI Secolo, «Treccani online» : http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/utopia-nell-architettura_%28XXI-Secolo%29/).
The priority given to the cultural needs of the residents was the basis for our project, The gartens of crative sloth. Bearing this in mind, the design study is based on the space we live in and on the idea that we can arrange the transformation of reality into a necessary dialogue between human freedom and the foreshadowing of a form to characterize new landscapes. The themes dealt with in this paper, which discuss the design for a possible new town, are tools for grasping the complexity of the phenomenon of urban sprawl. There are basically two themes in all their articulations and variables. The first one concerns the need to elaborate a new design for the land, the attaching to the ground of the buildings, both for the green areas as well as those intended for mobility and public space; the second one deals with reconciling the demands of environmental sustainability and the role of urban open space. In conclusion, in the design for Vema a structure is proposed, within a traditional framework, which is based on a vision of the city orientated towards the future and perhaps an attempt at a genuine utopia
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A thermal stress finite element analysis of isotropic and laminated beams via unified formulation
No full textIn this work the mechanical and thermal behaviour of three-dimensional isotropic and laminated beams is investigated. The beam-like three dimensional structure is modelled through refined 1D finite elements obtained via hierarchical expansion of the displacement field over the cross-section coordinates. The approximation order of the displacements is a free parameter that leads to the formulation of a family of several beam elements. Linear, quadratic and cubic one-dimensional finite elements are considered. The governing algebraic equations are obtained via the Principle of Virtual Displacements.The temperature field is obtained by exactly solving Fourier's heat conduction equation and it is treated as an external load within the mechanical analysis. Results in terms of displacements and stresses are validated towards three-dimensional FEM results as well as analytical solutions. Numerical investigations show that the proposed finite elements yield accurate yet computationally efficient solutions for the three-dimensional stress state generated by the thermal load
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