Corona Software

[Ardelle Abdullah]

Ahand-harvested crop straight from Europe into your pantry. Giant, fat, white runner beans that are creamier and more luxurious than Greek and Spanish gigandes and a little denser than traditional Italian coronas. Royal Corona beans can replace any white bean, but be prepared to be astounded by how big they are when cooked. Fully cooked, they can be a little starchy but you can also keep cooking until they reach the creamy point.

This is our first venture outside of the Americas (although this bean's origins are clearly in Mexico) and we are happy to offer you this giant legume, created in Mesoamerica, bred in Italy, and grown in Poland.

Check beans for debris, and rinse thoroughly. In a large pot, saut aromatic vegetables (onions, garlic, celery, carrot, etc.) in olive oil. Add beans and enough water to cover by about 2 inches. Bring to a full boil for 10 to 15 minutes. Reduce heat to a gentle simmer, using a lid to help regulate the heat, and gently cook until done, 1 to 3 hours. Salt when the beans start to soften. A pre-soak of 2 to 6 hours will lessen the cooking time.

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I was shopping one August for tomatoes and, despite Napa being one of the world's most magnificent agricultural regions, all the tomatoes were from a hothouse in Holland! Worse, they were hard and pale pink instead of the ripe tomatoes I was craving. I started to grow my own tomatoes and this eventually led to beans.

My first harvested heirloom bean was Rio Zape. They were pretty and easy to grow but I had no idea what to expect when I cooked them. They were similar to the pintos I liked but there was so much more going on. Hints of chocolate and coffee mixed with an earthy texture made my head spin. I was blown away by Rio Zape and the other heirloom beans I was growing, but also really confused why they were such a big secret. I took the beans to the farmers market, organizing things on my kitchen table. Soon there was a warehouse, followed by more markets and mail order. It seems we had struck a nerve. People agreed that heirloom beans were worth saving, growing and cooking. Currently our warehouse, a retail shop, and offices are in Napa, California, and a stop here is part of many tours of the wine country.

All of my agricultural pursuits have been based on being someone who likes to cook but gets frustrated by the lack of ingredients, especially those that are native to the Americas. One of the things that originally drew me to beans was the fact that they are indigenous to the Americas. It seems to me these indigenous ingredients should be familiar, if not common. American cuisine is re-inventing itself and I'd love to include ingredients, traditions and recipes from north and south of the border as part of the equation. I love the concept of The Americas. I feel as if it's just as important as the European heritage many of us share.

Above the surface, the corona extends for millions of miles and roils with plasma, gases superheated so much that they separate into an electric flow of ions and free electrons. Eventually, it continues outward as the solar wind, a supersonic stream of plasma permeating the entire solar system. And so, it is that humans live well within the extended atmosphere of our Sun. To fully understand the corona and all its secrets is to understand not only the star that powers life on Earth, but also, the very space around us.

Studying this homogenous soup of plasma for clues to coronal heating is like trying to study the geology of a mountain, by sifting through sediment in a river delta thousands of miles downstream. By traveling to the corona, Parker Solar Probe will sample just-heated particles, removing the uncertainties of a 93-million-mile journey and sending back to Earth the most pristine measurements of the corona ever recorded.

Once Parker Solar Probe arrives at the corona, how will it help scientists distinguish whether waves or nanoflares drive heating? While the spacecraft carries four instrument suites for a variety of types of research, two in particular will obtain data useful for solving the coronal heating mystery: the FIELDS experiment and SWEAP.

Surveyor of invisible forces, FIELDS, led by the University of California, Berkeley, directly measures electric and magnetic fields, in order to understand the shocks, waves and magnetic reconnection events that heat the solar wind.

Together, the two instrument suites paint a picture of the electromagnetic fields thought to be responsible for heating, as well as the just-heated solar particles swirling through the corona. Key to their success are high-resolution measurements, capable of resolving interactions between waves and particles at mere fractions of a second.

The uppermost portion of the Sun's atmosphere is called the corona. It extends many thousands of kilometers above the visible surface of the Sun, gradually transforming into the solar wind that flows outward through our solar system. The solar wind is really just an extension of the Sun's atmosphere that engulfs all of the planets. Earth actually orbits within the atmosphere of a star!

We normally cannot see the corona. The surface of the Sun is far too bright to allow a glimpse of the much fainter solar atmosphere. During a total solar eclipse, the corona briefly comes into view as the Moon blocks out the light from the solar surface.

The corona is wispy, white streamers of plasma (charged gas) that radiate out from the surface of the Sun. It constantly changes shape and size.

Around this same time, Samuel Heinrich Schwabe discovered that the number of sunspots countable on the solar surface increased and decreased with a roughly 11-year cycle. Astronomers soon wondered whether the shape and character of the solar corona also changed with such a cadence. French astronomer Pierre Jules Csar Janssen was one of the first to recognize this correlation as he compared the eclipses of 1871 and 1878: At sunspot maximum, the corona is rounder; at sunspot minimum, the corona is more elliptical.

Although Janssen considered coronal changes within a sunspot cycle, the studies of coronal shapes and their changes from one cycle to the next continued with Russian astronomer Alexi Ganskiy in 1897 and later in 1902 with Indian astronomer Kavasji Naegamvala. The research by Russian solar astronomer A. G. Tlatov at the Central Astronomical Observatory in Pulkovo in 1989 used drawings and photos of all eclipses since 1870 to quantify how the shape of the corona changed from sunspot cycle 12 to 24. There were, indeed, changes that spanned many sunspot cycles suggesting a 100-year cadence for large-scale coronal changes.

During the eclipse of 1879, Charles Young and William Harkness used a spectroscope to independently discover a new element the spectrum of the Sun's corona: coronium. Sixty years later, Bengt Edlin deduced that coronium was actually just the element iron seen under very high temperatures having lost 13 of its 26 electrons by the process of ionization. It would take temperatures near a million degrees Celsius to make iron atoms behave this way, which itself was a confounding discovery not to be explained until the late-1900s.

So when all of the information is pulled together, the shape of the corona is determined by magnetic activity on the solar surface and the ways in which the hot plasma interacts with these magnetic lines of force. We can now create beautiful images of the corona that show its detail and how the magnetic lines of force combine to give its spectacular shapes, along with their changes in time. Amazingly, even by 2017 there is no available technology to map the magnetic field in the corona at resolutions comparable to those details seen during a total solar eclipse!

Corona has had a tricky year on the marketing front given that its brand name closely resembles that of the deadly virus that has kept many parts of the world shut down for months at a time. Previous marketing efforts that promoted the beverage maker's new Corona Hard Seltzer with the tagline "Coming Ashore Soon" faced backlash at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic.

At the time, the company said its consumers understood there wasn't a link between the novel coronavirus and its business, but some still complained that the brand was exploiting the health crisis. The new campaign nods to pandemic-related realities but pivots to a more positive message, which could resonate among people facing a surfeit of gloomy news.

To celebrate the finer things, the brand is working with Snoop Dogg, who has risen to become a prolific spokesperson. The rapper, who also appeared in a Dunkin' campaign earlier this year, embraced his role as brand ambassador around the turn of the millennium and helped to open a lane for artists to work with brands.

"You can't choose everything in life, but you can still choose to find the fine in life," Snoop Dogg said in a press statement. "And with everything going on in the world, that's a perspective people really might need to hear right now."

The inclusion of TV spots during the NBA playoffs comes as professional sports are ramping up again, providing another welcome diversion from the pandemic. Meanwhile, the social aspects of the campaign, including the Giphy library, could help Corona reach younger consumers who might not be watching sports on TV.

Along with some PR headaches stemming from the coronavirus, Corona's production came to a halt in April when the Mexican government shut down the country in a move to slow the virus' spread. Still, at-home beer sales increased during lockdowns as consumers focused on stocking their fridges. Constellation Brands reported that sales of Corona are up by more than 17% since March 2020.

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