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From the archives of the Staten Island Advance
I just searched for my name through the archives of the Staten Island Advance (the local Staten Island newspaper), and I found some gems. This post is purely self-promotional, and I doubt anyone other than my parents will appreciate it, but too bad.
February 19, 1994- STUDENTS' SECESSION PRIORITY: TREES
In 4th Grade I participated in a debate discussing whether Staten Island should secede from New York City. Knowing what I know now, I would have just given it to Jersey, but back then I was in favor of secession. But take note that I was always a champion of a Republican form of government, stressing the importance of equalrepresentation. I note the irony that even at the age of 10, I was *shrugging.*
Never before has the preservation of trees become such a secession priority. But when Lucille Tannis' fourth-grade class discussed the topic yesterday, saving trees was issue one.
Joshua Blackman pointed out that an Island city would be broken into 15 districts "to make sure every neighborhood is represented."
"But what are you going to do about the dump?" said one student, challenging him during the question-and-answer portion of his speech.
"I might try to recycle or something," said Joshua with a shrug of his shoulders a response not unlike those seen from some bureaucrats confronting the issue.
August 26, 1996 GEOFFREYS TO JOSH IN JEWISH JEOPARDY
I was the Jewpardy Chapmion at JCC Summer Camp 2 years running. They would not let me participate a 3rd year. Would've probably three-peated. The prize? Sweet $200 worth of Geoffrey Bucks. Quite the prize for a 12 year old. If I recall, I purchased a copy of NBA Live '96 for the PC. Shaq was on the cover, still in a Magic Jersey. Ah, the memories.
And, in an odd twist of fate, the final question in 1996 was "What was the Balfour Declaration?" I nailed that question.
In 2010, a question on Judge Boggs's Judicial Knowledge Quiz was "What was the Balfour Declaration?" Nailed it again.
At stake was $200 in Geoffrey Bucks in what had been an unusual activity for a day camp — an intellectual challenge called Jewish Jeopardy.
Six semi-finalists among seventh and eighth-graders at the Jewish Community Center's Lillian Schwartz Day Camp, Sea View, squared off last week, having survived eight weekly rounds of competition.
And the winner is a lad by the name of Josh Blackman.
Although color wars is the usual way to cap a summer of softball, swimming and other physical activities, the JCC decided this year to add a cultural-educational aspect to the agenda and it proved so popular that it's sure to become a fixture, reports Ruth Lasser, JCC's director of communication.
Each week, the contestants were given packets with information about Jewish holidays, Jerusalem or Israel and quizzed Jeopardy style. In other words, they would be given an answer and would have to provide the right question. While the preliminaries dealt with that week's packet, the finals covered all eight weeks of material.
Oh — what, you ask, are Geoffrey Bucks? They are bills redeemable dollarfor- dollar at Toys R' Us and Kids R' Us stores. Geoffrey is a giraffe whose picture appears on each bill.
March 20, 1998 EGBERT, PAULO TEAMS ARE DEBATE WINNERS STUDENTS WILL GO ON TO CHALLENGE BROOKLYN SQUADS NEXT
The picture was not reproduced, but there was this photo of me looking pensively at my teammates
Caption: Mapping a debate strategy are, from left, Eric Hoff, Adam McCauley, Jeffrey Orlowski and Joshua Blackman, all members of the debate team at Bernstein Intermediate School, Huguenot.
March 29, 1998 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES DOMINATE SCIENCE FAIR MORE THAN 100 STUDENTS PURSUE TOPICS SUCH AS THE FRESH KILLS LANDFILL, POLLUTION AND RECYCLING IN THE BOROUGHWIDE COMPETITION
First Prize in the Staten Island science fair for 8th Graders. Natch. I think I made ice cream using Liquid Nitrogen.
May 2, 1999 Students share their research at Social Studies Fair
First Prize in the Staten Island Social Studies fair for 9th Graders. Natch.
August 11, 1999 SI Tech students vie in robotics competition
I participated in a Summer Research program at High School and we worked on building robots and the like.
Caption:Students Stephen Milone, left, James Lee, J.T. Quadrino and Joshua Blackman prepare to launch their "Scrambler" vehicle.
March 6, 2000 Science fair held at CSI
Only second prize in the 9th and 10th grade category for Staten Island. Letdown.
April 25, 2000 Tech student takes top prize
Even though I only took 2nd Prize (and no cash prize) at the Staten Island fair, I won a $200 Prize at the annual New York City Science Math and Technology Expo. I basically froze crap with Liquid Nitrogen and observed what happened.
And Joshua Blackman, a sophomore, received $200 for his project called "To Freeze or Not to Freeze? That is the Question."
March 3, 2002 Students compete in science
First Prize, again, in the Staten Island Science Fair.
There are more memories, I'm sure. But these are fun.


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Military and Energy: The Convoy Drivers
Scott Tong Aug 29, 2011
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week Marketplace airs a special series on the U.S. military and energy, and the
to "unleash us from the tether of fuel."
Among the most vulnerable Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan: truckers delivering petroleum to the troops. By one measure, U.S. forces and contractors took one casualty every 24 convoys in Afghanistan.
Robert Rowe drove 18 missions in Iraq, on behalf of military contractor KBR, before getting shot in the knee and returning to the U.S. On every single mission, Rowe says, his convoy was attacked, by insurgents or roadside bombs.
On the threat in Iraq. LISTEN TO THE EXCERPT
"We are considered
a soft target. And we were. Cause we didn't carry no weapons. We didn't have no armor on our
vehicles. We had to fabricate our own protection in our trucks. And the body armor: we had a really inexpensive, cheap helmet and a vest that really didn't cover the body."
On roadside bombs. LISTEN TO THE EXCERPT
"You're in their playground. So they used every method. They would even commandeer the Bedouin people's livestock — sheep and camel — and attach explosives to these animals and then herd the animals in front of our vehicles and blow them up."
On deadly games of chicken. LISTEN TO THE EXCERPT
"The golden rule of drivers over there — among all the training we had — was you never stop. You stop, you die, especially in the city. And these boys wanted you to stop. And if you stop, they would mob you. They would either shoot you in the vehicle, they would you out and beat you, or capture you. Plus if you stop, any vehicle behind you is gonna have to stop. That's when your morality comes into play. You know, you don't want to hurt these kids. And you're moving your hand, you know 'Get out of there!' And you just close your eyes and you hear a 'thump thump.' You ran over them. Oh man."
Fellow KBR driver Cindy Morgan served with Rowe in Iraq. She chronicled her experiences in the book Cindy in Iraq.
From her interview with Marketplace:
"We were taking gunfire, and I knew if we stopped, we're dead. So I pretty much grabbed a gear and started plowing cars. I didn't know, I had to ask how many cars I hit, because the first car I had had two kids in the back and I could see their little faces. You don't want to hurt children. I did my best to sideswipe them so that maybe I wouldn't hurt them. But after that I didn't look at any more cars."
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We did it! 2020 has come to an end!
When I wrote my last monthly update, I wrote that we were leaving lockdown in Prague. And we did…for two weeks. Now, we're back in the situation that dominated November: restaurants are closed, cafes serve coffee out their front doors, non-essential shops are closed, and we have a 9:00 PM curfew.
It's fine. We're at the beginning of the end of this nightmare. Vaccinations have begun. Keep holding tight and we'll be in a much better position come summer.
A staycation in Vinohrady. Yes, we did a staycation a 15-minute walk from our apartment! We had to get our apartment painted and there was no way that could happen with kittens running around, so we rented an apartment in the Vinohrady neighborhood for three nights.
Vinohrady is a very sexy neighborhood in Prague. It felt a lot like the Upper East Side and a lot like the West Village — long-established as one of the prettiest, most desirable neighborhoods in the city. Lots of beautiful architecture, parks aplenty, and many of the best restaurants and cafes in town.
I was shocked at how invigorating it was to just be somewhere NEW, even if it was just 15 minutes away. Traveling again! If you're planning a trip to Prague, this apartment is where we stayed, and I recommend it. The mattress wasn't the greatest, but that was the only flaw in a well-located, comfortable, and well-priced apartment.
We loved exploring Vinohrady, and our cats, Lewis and Murray, took well to their new home for a few days. I hope that bodes well for future trips!
Best of all was coming home to a freshly painted apartment. The salmon pink of the living room is now a brilliant white, and our pale yellow-green bedroom has been painted a pale, warm gray.
Two weeks of non-lockdown! Yep, that's all we got before everything shut down again, and that's okay. We visited a few restaurants, and dining at off-peak times often meant we were the only customers. Cà Phê Cổ, a brand new Vietnamese restaurant, was delicious, and I finally got to try Vietnamese egg coffee! And El Camino, a superb tapas restaurant and wine bar, may be my new favorite restaurant in Prague. Every dish, every wine was stupendous.
A low-key Christmas at home. No stress! Just hanging out, making food, listening to Christmas music, watching Christmas movies, Zooming with the families throughout the day. Good times.
A low-key New Year's at home. We got takeout sushi, drank cocktails, and comforted the cats through the boom booms.
Kittens. They are the light of my life. They are some of the funniest and most adorable beings around these days. This crazy cat lady was always inside me!
COVID vaccinations have begun in the Czech Republic. Vaccinations began on December 26, with healthcare workers and the elderly first in line. I'm happy to see it and will be getting my vaccine at the earliest possible opportunity, hopefully sometime in the spring.
Lewis is a brave kitty facing a serious illness.
Lewis's illness. Our kitten Lewis was sick for most of the month, and we couldn't figure out what was wrong. After several rounds of antibiotics not working, we found out that he has a very serious illness.
I'm not ready to go into the details here (though I wrote about it on my Patreon — my patrons know everything about the situation). I will in the future once we have more to share.
The good news is that we found treatment for this illness and Lewis is responding to the medication OUTSTANDINGLY. He's like a completely new kitten. Every day he does something he hasn't done in weeks — playing with his feather stick, trying to climb on the dining table, running around with Murray, eating voraciously. He went from 1.7 kg to 2 kg in just a few days!
Taking care of Lewis is our biggest focus now — not just giving him his meds, but observing and documenting his behavior. He will be taking his medication for a few months, them we will enter an observation period for a few more months while continuing to monitor his health. We also got a new vet who is more experienced with this illness and has been very helpful to us.
Please keep Lewis in your thoughts. He's past the worst part, but he has a long road ahead.
I messed up cinnamon buns not once but twice. First time, the yeast wouldn't bloom; second time, the dough was sticky and weird and wouldn't roll, it just stuck to the table. We actually went to a nearby mall to grab a Cinnabon and bring them home. They're…not as good as I remember from my teenage years.
I got scammed! I thought I was buying a self-cleaning litter box for $29.95 plus $10 shipping, from a weird and random website based in China. (The best ones sell for more than $500.) I bought it on a credit card so I could easily dispute the purchase if necessary.
What arrived? A floor mat shaped like a paw. I went to the website, prepared to dispute with my credit card, but then I realized the website was worded so carefully (and the picture of the litter box INCLUDED the paw-shaped mat in the photo!) that I wouldn't have a case.
Oh, well. Lesson learned.
I cannot believe I got scammed and ended up with a floor mat.
Top Post of the Month
My Favorite New Destinations of 2020 — My two favorite destinations that I visited for the first time in 2020 were Bacalar, Mexico, and Vis, Croatia. Find out why, and see what else made the list!
My Favorite Books of 2020 — I narrowed my list of 50+ down to the 12 best books of the year.
My Best Travel Moments of 2020 — The most wonderful moments from Mexico to Croatia to the Czech Republic, plus some recommendations of favorite experiences that you guys can replicate yourselves!
My Worst Travel Moments of 2020 — It was 2020. There were a LOT of them. A very pandemic-flavored list!
9 Reasons Why I Can't Wait to Return to Riga, Latvia — Looking back at some of my favorite memories in a city I can't wait to revisit.
Spotted in Prague: the Christmas tram!
This Month on Patreon
On the Adventurous Kate Patreon, I publish exclusive essays that you can read for $6 per month. I use this as a place to publish a lot more of my special, personal writing, and we have a private Facebook group for the 180+ of us to network and share travel stories!
This month, I published two big essays: one was the full story of Lewis's health challenges and how we found an underground community that operates in the shadows and cures cats, quasi-legally, around the world!
I also wrote one called "What happens when something goes wrong?" about what happens when you're being sponsored by a brand and something does not go well, including five examples of disasters that happened on press trips and campaigns.
Book Club This Month
Our next book club meeting is on Sunday, January 10, at 1:00 PM ET. We are discussing Mexican Gothic by Mexican author Silvia Moreno-Garcia — a huge bestseller this year that I'm sure some of you have already read. It even has its own playlist on Spotify by the author!
"After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside…There are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family's once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind."
If you want to join, it's not too late! The book reads surprisingly quickly and I blew through 25% of it in an hour while sitting on my couch this morning.
You can sign up here for our meeting on January 10. It's pay-what-you-wish and I suggest $5. Adventurous Kate Patreon subscribers get in for free.
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It's a gif! Charlie and I took a Christmas card photo with the kitties and ended up with this awesome gif.
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What I Baked This Month
I've been really getting into baking lately! Nothing crazy or revolutionary, and I'm still a beginner, but it's a nice quarantine hobby.
The absolute best thing I made this month were these soft and chewy snickerdoodles from Sally's Baking Addiction. They were FUCKING AWESOME, perfect flavor, perfect texture, and a good alternative for when cinnamon buns didn't turn out correctly!
Another highlight was Joanne Chang's lemon bars. A bit more time-consuming than regular lemon bars, but a nice, tart, mature version of a treat that is often made too sweet. From my favorite Boston baker.
What I Watched This Month
I forgot to do this category last month! I enjoyedThe Undoing (yay evil Hugh Grant! Boo Nicole Kidman's shifting accent!), as ridiculous and unrealistic as it was. I mean, no wealthy Upper East Side woman dresses like it's a Renaissance Faire seven days a week. It made me miss New York a lot, even though Crazy Rich New York was never my New York…or was it?
(Charlie: "Did you go to fancy parties like that fundraiser?" Me: "No…well, actually, I did go to a gala for Qatar Airways…and I went to a gala for The Points Guy…I guess I DID go to fancy parties like that fundraiser!")
We've been watching a lot of Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience, and Grand Designs as our casual shows.
And I finally got Charlie to watch Tommy Boy and The Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time!
What I Listened To This Month
Spotify is amazing, isn't it? They always know what I want before I want it. I've been listening to a lot of jazz lately.
Because I love a good genre mash-up, I'm a huge fan of saxophonist Mike Casey's cover of "No Church in the Wild" by Jay-Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean. I never would have thought to cover this song with a jazz trio, but it's wild and funky and dazzling in all the right ways.
The inside of Spižírna 1902, one of the trendy cafes of Vinohrady.
What I Read This Month
It was a big month for reading. I ended up finishing 58 books total for 2020. Much lower than usual. This was a strange year and I didn't have nearly as much of my usual reading time (like long subway rides and nights alone in my apartment), but I'm getting better at carving out time for reading here in Prague.
The tough thing about December is that I publish my Best Books of the Year post before the month is over, so inevitably there are a few that slip through the cracks for consideration. There is only one that should be on that list: The Best We Could Do, a graphic memoir. I expect to read many more graphic books in 2021!
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (2018) — Thi Bui escaped Vietnam with her parents and siblings as a toddler and eventually ended up in the United States. This graphic memoir tells the life stories of each of her parents, who came from two different worlds but each faced shockingly sad circumstances. It illustrates her family's escape to Malaysia, resettlement in the United States, and growing up as a bicultural refugee.
OH, THIS BOOK. If you've ever turned your nose up at graphic novels, stop, because this book shows just how good they can be. This book is engrossing and heartbreaking, and it clearly illustrates how trauma can be compounded and compounded over generations. Her parents' life stories will make your heart hurt. It's also a good reminder to Americans that the war may have ended for them, but most Vietnamese were living in terrible circumstances long after.
Caste: The Origin Of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (2020) — In a year when books about antiracism dominated the bestsellers list, this book turns every other antiracism book on its head. It takes all of the information you know about American racism and reorganizes it into a new taxonomy: America is a caste system. White people are the upper or dominant caste. Black people are the lowest caste, not unlike how the Dalits, or Untouchables, are treated in India.
It's not about treating people based on the color of their skin, the way it was explained to us as children, nor is it simply the compounding horrors of 400 years of disenfranchisement. A caste system instantly assigns each person a role in the system, and that decides how people interact with each other.
This book compares America's caste system to the Indian caste system and the caste system of Nazi Germany (and the Nazis based their system largely on how Black people are treated in the United States — and they used this as a legal discrimination system for the Jews).
This is the single most impactful book that I read in 2020, and I wish that all of you would read it, too. I feel like I see American racism in an entirely new light, and this has given me additional resources to continue the fight for justice.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020) — Presidential memoirs read as defensive. And yet a presidential memoir is fascinating because it shows you the inner workings at the White House, all the initiatives, all the bills, all the backstage drama. I was here for it all. And while I was an early supporter and volunteer for Obama and I followed his presidency closely, there was so much that I had no idea was going on.
The book is more than 700 pages of detailed political work, and some of it is a bit much, like everything about the financial crisis. But there are parts that absolutely draw you in. I loved reading about his dinner at Medvedev's dacha in Russia. And the climate summit in Copenhagen, where he pulled "some gangster shit" to get China to cooperate, as one of his colleagues said. But especially the process that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, which is the end of the book. Yep, this is only volume one!
It's Obama's work, so of course it's going to read beautifully. His writing is like Murakami's — it instantly makes me feel calm, like the words are a babbling brook in the middle of the forest. (Murakami minus the weird sex stuff, anyway.) It was so nice to return to his voice, feel calm, and feel like adults are in charge.
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020) — Camino is a teenage girl living in the Dominican Republic. Yahaira is a teenage girl living in Manhattan. Neither knows that the other exists until their father is killed in a plane crash. This tragedy brings the two girls together, trying to figure out how to live without a father they adored, a father who kept his two families hidden from each other.
I loved this novel in verse — beautiful, sad, poignant, and perfectly spare writing. Elizabeth Acevedo is actually from my Dominican neighborhood in Manhattan, and her writing reminds me of the neighbors in my building. I felt so deeply for both Camino and Yahaira, and I loved how she centered a queer character without making their queerness part of the plot. Without giving anything away, it has a very satisfying ending.
New Kid by Jerry Craft (2019) — In this award-winning graphic novel, Jordan is a middle schooler from Washington Heights in Manhattan who begins attending the prestigious Riverdale Academy. This book is about his first year in school: the disorientation of being a brown kid from a working-class background among his white, wealthy classmates; the nonstop microaggressions he faces on a daily basis; and his struggle to exist in two worlds and not quite fit into each one.
Wow, I adored this book! It may be about a middle schooler, but there is a lot of wit that adults will appreciate. It shows the defenses that you need to have as a brown kid in a white environment — there's never a moment you can turn it off, and if you do, you'll be branded as a troublemaker, even among the well-meaning liberal teachers. Some of the characters (especially the teachers) are hilarious in their stereotypes.
And at the end, I was swept into Jordan's story and intensely curious about how his life would turn out. You can't ask to connect with a character more than that.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (2016) — In this day and age, it's possible to lose your entire reputation with a single tweet. Ask Justine Sacco, who tweeted, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding, I'm white!" and by the time she landed in Cape Town, she had lost her job and permanently damaged her reputation. In this book Jon Ronson examines public shaming on the internet, compares it to historic shaming practices, and tries to figure out how a person can be immune to public shaming.
Well, if nothing else, this book will encourage you to think twice about EVERYTHING you post online, ever! I felt like it was an interesting dive into this subject, and included lots of current examples. Yet somehow the book left me wanting. I felt like it could have gone a lot further. It also notably didn't mention anything from an intersectional perspective — pretty much nothing about how privilege can play into shaming.
Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg (2020) — Trust is the backbone of American democracy, yet it's a quality that we've been losing in recent years. This collection of essays is a mix of memoirs from the campaign and essays on how America has frayed the trust it has with its allies and the trust its citizens have in government. If we're going to move forward, one of our biggest priorities will be to replace the trust that's been lost over the years.
There's a lot I like about Pete, and I also recognize his flaws, but I always enjoy hearing what he has to say. That said, this was clearly a book written and released at lightning speed — and as a result, it doesn't seem to have a solid focus. I don't begrudge him for it — if I were in his position (and had the six-figure student debt he mentioned he and Chasten have), I would have done the same! But I think it could have been a lot better if he and his team had spent more time on this.
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (2006) — When Ruth Reichl accepted the position of the New York Times restaurant critic, she realized that she would be recognized everywhere she went. This book is about her process of putting together disguises and new identities so she wouldn't receive the all-star treatment in restaurants.
What a strange book. On one level, I loved her writing style and all the descriptions of her work as a restaurant critic (I can't get enough about memoirs about work!). It was an interesting time capsule of mid-90s New York City, seen through the eyes of a white woman so privileged she actually has an elevator attendant in her building.
On the other hand, Reichl seemed to be incredibly judgmental of everyone within her line of vision. Unmarried women are to be pitied, as are women without children. Asian women serve as nameless exotic muses. A younger attractive woman with an older man is clearly a sex worker who doesn't belong in a nice restaurant. And even though Reichl is Jewish, her description of a Jewish couple as ferret-faced cheapskates struck me as borderline anti-Semitic!
This book left a bad taste in my mouth. It was interesting stuff…but I did not enjoy spending time in her head.
I love this photo of Murray and Lewis — like they're pretending to be tough!
Coming Up in January 2021
We have just about nothing planned for January — other than celebrating Biden's inauguration, of course! We're still under the strictest lockdown with restaurants closed, nonessential shops closed, and a 9:00 PM curfew each night, with no end in sight.
This month will be all about taking care of Lewis and Murray — and most importantly, nursing Lewis back to health.
Starting January 1, my trade license becomes active. Not only will I be paying Czech taxes, due each June and December — I will officially be on the Czech public healthcare system, paying about $110 per month and zero copays. In your first year as a self-employed person, you pay the minimum; in the second year, each month you pay a rate equivalent to 6.25% of your average monthly net income of the previous year.
I am hoping that my family reunification visa will be finalized this month (a different category of paperwork unrelated to the trade license), but with COVID scrambling everything, it may get pushed out into February. If it takes longer than that, I'll be able to renew my bridge visa until the process is finished.
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Il Museo d'arte contemporanea Masedu è un museo d'arte contemporanea con sede a Sassari nel quartiere di Monte Rosello.

Inaugurato nel 1999 recuperando gli spazi dell'ex-saponificio Masedu, da cui il nome, viene gestito dalla Provincia di Sassari ed è stato recentemente rinnovato nel 2011.

Mostre temporanee
 faber FABER ,l'Accademia incontra DeAndre' -29 aprile 30 giugno 2016 Sassari
54ª Esposizione della Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia. Padiglione Sardegna (10 giugno - 27 novembre 2011)
 Ciad. Dalla Savana al Sahara attraverso il Sahel (12 - 16 ottobre 2005)
 Marilena Sini - Don Chisciotte, lode alla follia (5 - 16 luglio 2005)
 Jean-André Bertozzi/Leonardo Boscani - L'umana ambizione (10 giugno - 3 luglio 2005)
 Viaggio in Sardegna (23 aprile - 31 maggio 2005)
 Daniele Montis - I Giardini di legno. Metamorfosi di una vecchia miniera (25 marzo - 14 aprile 2005)
 Media.comm(unity)/comm.medium (28 febbraio - 28 maggio 2004)
 noBody - David Farrell/Pietrolio (19 dicembre 2003 - 8 gennaio 2004)
 L'isola al di là dal mare - Francesco Cito (22 novembre - 30 dicembre 2003)
 Antonio Marras - Il racconto della forma (31 maggio - 30 giugno 2003)
  Salvatore Ligios - Padri e figli. Sulle tracce di Amsicora (4 aprile - 4 maggio 2003)
 L'Istituto d'arte di Sassari 1935-2002. Una scuola d'arte per la Sardegna (18 gennaio - 19 maggio 2003)
 Stanis Dessy (31 maggio - 3 novembre 2002)
 Mario Delitala - L'opera completa (16 novembre 1999 - 16 gennaio 2000)
 Vincenzo Satta - L'impalpabile luce della pittura (17 giugno - 18 luglio 1999)
 Atlante: geografia e storia della giovane arte italiana (23 aprile - 23 maggio 1999)

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In January this year , The New York Times, having been the victim of persistent attacks, experienced a breach which lasted four months.
A sophisticated Chinese hacking team slipped past security systems in order to deploy 45 custom malware pieces and access the computers of 53 employees -- before moving on to a domain controller, breaching the system, and gaining the hashed password of every member of staff on The New York Times payroll. Eventually, once the breach was discovered, the hackers were dispelled.
"Turning on only the signature-based anti-virus components of endpoint solutions alone are not enough in a world that is changing daily from attacks and threats. We encourage customers to be very aggressive in deploying solutions that offer a combined approach to security.
Anti-virus software alone is not enough."
The Wall Street Journal then came forward, stating that the U.S. publication too had been a victim of attacks designed to monitor reports concerning China, and cyberattacks spanned several years. The WSJ said that "journal sources on occasion have become hard to reach after information identifying them was included in emails," and suggested that information gained by the attackers has worked its way to Chinese authorities, who then took action to silence whistleblowers.
In February this year , the Federal Reserve acknowledged that hacktivist collective Anonymous had broken in to a number of government websites as part of "Operation Last Resort" -- and managed to both steal and post the sensitive credentials of 4,600 banking executives.
The compromised and exposed database belongs to The St. Louis Federal Emergency Communications System, the communication system used by seventeen states in a time of crisis, allowing financial institutions and government officials to talk through two-way channels.
The hacktivists posted both the login details and private information -- such as IP addresses and contact information -- in to a public dump, all the while demanding U.S. computer crime law reform. Just to further twist the knife, Anonymous used the government website itself to post the spreadsheet containing the stolen data.
In February this year , the world's largest social network suffered a sophisticated attack caused by a zero day vulnerability.
Facebook said there was "no evidence" that user data was compromised by the cyberattack, which was caused when a number of the social network's employees visited a mobile developer website infected with malicious code. Malware was then installed on these employee's laptops, and the Java-based zero day exploit was able to bypass security systems that keep applets away from system files. As a result, hackers may have been able to access the internal Facebook corporate network.
Law enforcement was notified and the hack investigation is ongoing.
However, this wasn't the end for Facebook's year of being a cyberattack target. Facebook said in a blog post on June 21 that as part of its White Hat scheme -- which rewards notices of system vulnerabilities -- a bug that may have allowed some of a person's contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them. Approximately 6 million Facebook users had email addresses or telephone numbers shared without their consent before the bug was fixed.
In February, Apple experienced a breach on its corporate servers after employee computers were hit with malware, funnelled through a vulnerability in the Java Web plug-in. This attack took place only a week after Facebook was hit with a similar attack.
"Apple has identified malware which infected a limited number of Mac systems through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers. The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers. We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network."
A Java malware removal tool was released the same day to prevent Mac users from being hit with the same cyberattack, and Oracle subsequently patched the exploit.
Yet another attack in February took place, this time against popular microblogging platform Twitter.
In a blog post, Twitter said "unusual access patterns" allowed the company to discover attacks on Twitter data. The subsequent investigation found that the usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted versions of passwords for 250,000 users were potentially placed at risk.
The firm said that the cyberattack "was not the work of amateurs," and was unlikely to be an isolated scenario.
As a result, Twitter reset passwords for these accounts, notifying those impacted via email. In addition, the social network suggested that Java be disabled on user browsers.
Following the breach, Twitter rolled out support for two-factor authentication to bolster security.
In March this year , the popular note-taking platform's master website was hacked, and account information of its users accessed.
Evernote, known for its mobile device applications, detected the attack early on, but the hacker or group responsible were still able to access user information including names, email addresses and encrypted passwords -- the latter luckily both hashed and salted.
As a precaution, Evernote required all of its users to change their passwords.
"At this time we believe we have blocked any unauthorized access, however security is Evernote's first priority. This is why, in an abundance of caution, we are requiring all users to reset their Evernote account passwords before their next Evernote account log-in. We are actively communicating to our users about this attack through our blog, direct e-mails, social media, and support. This simple step of users creating strong, new passwords will help ensure that user accounts remain secure."
In April this year , LivingSocial confirmed it was another major outlet to be the victim of cyberattack.
The daily deals website discovered its database systems were breached, while unknown hackers made off with the names, emails, birthdays and encrypted passwords of the vast majority of users -- roughly 50 million accounts in total out of 70 million worldwide.
However, credit card and banking information was not accessed.
The Washington, D.C.-based site is owned in part by online retailer Amazon, and has divisions internationally. Only Thailand, Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines were not affected, as their data systems are different.
In May this year, almost one million accounts were compromised and passwords were forced to be reset after hackers infiltrated Drupal.org's systems.
"Upon discovering the files during a security audit, we shut down the association.drupal.org website to mitigate any possible ongoing security issues related to the files. The Drupal Security Team then began forensic evaluations and discovered that user account information had been accessed via this vulnerability."
As a precaution, users of Drupal had to reset their login information. In addition, Drupal rebuilt its security systems, enhanced many servers with new security patches, and added antivirus to scanning routines.
According to Drupal's website, 1,012,335 people in 229 countries currently use the system.
In May this year, Washington State Court systems were infiltrated by hackers, exposing up to 160,000 Social security numbers.
The agency found that the website of the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) was accessed unlawfully through third-party software installed on the network. Up to 160,000 social security numbers and the details of one million driver's licenses may have been downloaded and accessed, although only 94 Social security numbers were confirmed as stolen.
"The access occurred through a 'back door' part of a commercial software product we were using, and it is patched now. We found specific (hacker) footprints in the area where those 94 Social Security numbers were located, so that's why we're reasonably sure that the data was accessed."
Government officials said that Social security numbers and of those booked into a city or county jail in the state from September 2011 to December 2012, and those who received a DUI from 1989 to 2011 were potentially at risk.
In May, Yahoo! Japan detected unauthorized access in the administrative panel of the Yahoo! Japan web portal, and suspected up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen as a result.
"We don't know if the file (of 22 million user IDs) was leaked or not, but we can't deny the possibility given the volume of traffic between our server and external" terminals."
Yahoo! has a 35 percent stake in the company.
May seemed to be a popular time for cyberattacks. The Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) found itself on the receiving end this year after third-party software used on its network contained vulnerabilities that were exploited, exposing a number of employees' personal data.
" At the direction of DHS, the vulnerability was immediately addressed. While there is no evidence that any unauthorized user accessed any personally identifiable information, out of abundance of caution, DHS is alerting employees and individuals who received a DHS clearance, of the potential vulnerability and outlining ways that they can protect themselves."
In June, the most high-profile data breach occured: catastrophic for the agency involved, and a catalyst for the subsequent media frenzy and outrage of the U.S. general public. Edward Snowden, a former contractor of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), leaked confidential documents to The Guardian and Washington Post, before going on the run and eventually entering Russian territory.
The contractor quietly, over time, saved copies of confidential documents that documented the NSA's monitoring and spying activities at home and abroad. Documents are still steadily being released in to the public sphere, and as a result, the debate over governmental reach has been brought into the spotlight. Not only this, but the NSA revelations have impacted on international relationships between the U.S. and other countries.
In June, LinkedIn, Last.fm, and eHarmony were all subject to user passwords being leaked online, where a hacker posted the files on forums asking for help in cracking them.
The eight million hashed passwords posted appear to belong to the professional social network, music streaming site and dating service.
All posted over several days, the biggest list of 6.46 million passwords was believed to belong to LinkedIn, and were not 'salted' -- which makes cracking hash lists faster and easier. In a blog post, LinkedIn later confirmed that some of the data did relate to user passwords -- and emails were then sent asking users to reset their details.
EHarmony confirmed the data breach, saying that a 'small fraction' of its users were affected. Last.fm soon followed suit, conducting an investigation and suggesting that passwords by changed.
In October this year , Adobe admitted that 2.9 million user accounts were compromised in an attack which stole names, financial data and customer orders information.
Brad Arkin, senior director of security for Adobe products and services, explained in a blog post that "one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today" was cyberattacks, and unfortunately Adobe's security team discovered sophisticated attacks on the company's networks, although the culprits were not discovered.
In addition to the theft of customer data, Adobe said that illegal access to source code for products including Acrobat, ColdFusion, and the ColdFusion Builder was also discovered, although this was not a risk for customers.
Arkin said that while sensitive data and encrypted credit or debit card numbers were taken, federal investigators did not believe unencrypted numbers were removed from servers.
After the data breach, Adobe reset the passwords on breached Adobe customer IDs and notified customers if their financial details were exposed. In addition, the company offered these customers to enrol in complimentary credit monitoring services for a year.
In November this year, the MacRumors forum was breached by hackers who probably gained access to names, passwords and emails of its users.
In a blog post, administrators said that all of its 860,000 users were affected.
"In situations like this, it's best to assume that your MacRumors Forum username, email address and (hashed) password is now known," Editorial Director Arnold Kim said. "While the passwords are "hashed" (which is a one-way conversion from your actual password to a scrambled version), given computing power these days, if your password isn't very complex, they could brute force figure it out by trying lots of combinations."
The hack involved a hacker gaining control of a moderator account, who then boosted their privileges in order to steal the data.
From Facebook to Adobe, 2013 has been a tough year for companies looking to defend against cybercrime.


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Since 2004, where the Euro Football competition was held in Portugal, being Coimbra one of the proud venues, the city has been equipped with a top notch stadium and sports facilities: Olympic swimming-pool, multi-purpose pavilion, healthclub and gym.
The stadium is very accessible from the hotel, either by car or by bus. You'll be there in about 15 minutes.
Located in the small town of Montemor-o-Velho, this sports complex is about a 30 minutes drive away from the hotel.


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The façade is painted with Pureti, a water-based treatment that transforms contaminants in the air into oxidizing agents.
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Can I manage clockfaces bought in the TTMM app with the Fitbit app (or vice-versa)? You cannot manage purchases made in the TTMM app with the Fitbit app or vice-vesa. You cannot restore purchases from the TTMM app with the Fitbit app or vice vesa. The TTMM app uses the Fitbit app, but the interface is different and clockfaces cannot be swapped around. NOTE: K-PAY, Apple and Google operate three different e-commerce platforms. Each of them charges a fee for the transaction and makes the necessary VAT tax charges. These are the main reasons why moving clockfaces between platforms is not possible after the purchase.
How do I know what I have purchased? Where can I find the info about the products I have purchased? for TTMM app purchases: First of all, in the TTMM app the purchased products will now be unlocked and ready for upload. Secondly, you will get an invoice from the App Store or Google Play listing all of your purchases. for K-PAY purchases: After your purchase, K-PAY send you an e-mail containing more information about what you purchased. The e-mail will show all clockfaces/utilities with a download button next to each one of them. Use that download button to go to the Fitbit gallery and install the clockface/utility on your smartwatch. Note: These download links only work if you use them on the phone or tablet on which you have installed the Fitbit app. Alternatively, you can use the search functionality in the Fitbit gallery to find the clockface/utility.
How do I restore my purchases? for TTMM app purchases: If you purchased a TTMM clockface in the TTMM app please use RESTORE PURCHASE from main screen and upload the clockface directly from TTMM app. You cannot restore purchases from the TTMM app with the Fitbit app or vice vesa. for K-PAY purchases: You need to restore your purchase every time you upload a clockface onto your smartwatch. Find more about how K-PAY works.
I already paid for a clockface, why am I asked to pay (unlock) again? for K-PAY purchases only: Currently there is an issue in communication between the Fitbit platform and K-PAY, which causes this problem. Each time you upload a clockface that you have already paid for you will be asked to unlock your clockface again, free of charge. UNLOCK clockface. Please follow the instructions provided to start using your TTMM clockface.
What is the TAP-TO-CHANGE feature? The TAP-TO-CHANGE is a feature developed by TTMM which allow you to change your clockface setting with a tap on the screen. Please see the clockface user manuals (descriptions) for details about the available setting changes.
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Enlisted Mens Mess Hall circa 1929 is a Tybee landmark originally built as a soldiers' mess hall. It has been completely restored and preserved and it features beautiful, decorator touches by Kevin and Layla Palmer of The Lettered Cottage. This pet-friendly cottage is complete with a fenced-in yard, a wrap around screened porch and it's just two blocks from the beach. Located in the Ft. Screven Officer's Row, this charming cottage is full of history!
It's no wonder we're Fins Up for Girls Getaways when we get such a wonderful note of thanks. We're already looking forward to welcoming Donna and her friends for many more visits!


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Q: Crystal: multipart shard can't read from io delimeted I'm trying to write bytes to file from multipart's io, but for some reason the file is closed
  buffer = uninitialized UInt8[2048]

  File.open( "#{Config::Application::PUBLIC_DIR}/#{file_name}", "w+") do |_file|
    p "is closed?: #{uploaded_file_io.closed?}" #=> true
    if (read_bytes_length = uploaded_file_io.read(buffer.to_slice)) > 0
      _file.write( buffer.to_slice[0, read_bytes_length] )
    end
  end

Empty file is created, I can see it in directory, but as soon i try to write it raises that stream is closed (when reading from multiparts IO::Delimeted).
What do I do wrong?
And also if you know some guides on working with IO or files in Crystal , please share.
EDIT:
uploaded_file_io is IO::Delimeted from rx14/multipart, it is assigned in    HTTP::FormData.parse block that yields it like:
    HTTP::FormData.parse(request) do |field, io, meta, headers|

      #that class simply has properties, and is to store what's passed
      value_to_return[field] = MultipartFileWrapper.new(io: io, meta: meta, headers: headers)

    end

  #later:
  uploaded_file_io = value_to_return["file"].io

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What Are The Strangest Restaurants In The World?
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"AHHHHH! THIS STEAK IS DELICIOUS BUT—BUT…AHHHHHHH!" is the general reaction of those that eat at the traveling restaurant called Dinner in the Sky. Dinner in the Sky is one of the most absurd experiences one can have while eating, and perhaps the most terrifying as you and your party of up to 22 are no longer confined to the restrictions of a building.
The entire table is suspended via crane 165 feet in to the air with a server at the center making sure you are properly attended to. In terms of pricing, Dinner in the Sky is what one can consider "Are you insane?!" kind of money. $11,400 gets you their services for 8 hours, not including catering which is an independent cost that Dinner in the Sky has nothing to do with.
On top of that, the insurance fees are extremely high; thereby securing the fact that you will probably never be able to afford to do this. Of course, you can always just heat up a frozen TV dinner and then climb a tree…
Evidently, people in the Ukraine have a very morbid sense of humor. That or very morbid eating habits. Eternity is a death themed restaurant that was opened by the owners of a funeral parlor that wanted to give their customers some place to hang out before and after a funeral.
So, taking this whole dead theme several thousand steps too far, the constructed a restaurant in the shape of a massive coffin. In this massive coffin are yet more coffins; these line the walls along with various other pieces of death-related paraphernalia.
Their menu included such morbidly named salads such as the "Nine Day Salad" and "Forty Day Salad." These names are taken from local death rituals that are normally involved with a Ukrainian funeral.
Cannibalistic Sushi
The western peoples of the world (save for your more trendy cities like New York and LA) have, historically, had a hard time with the idea of eating raw fish. In a probable attempt to get more westerners on the raw fish bandwagon, restaurants with a very particularly theme began to sprout.
Nyotaimori is the serving of sushi and sashimi off of the naked body of a beautiful woman. Of course, once this concept made it to U.S. Shores, it became the hottest way for people to eat cold food. But then Nyotaimori underwent a bit of an evolution. In Japan, the restaurant called Cannibalistic Sushi decided to take this idea one step further...
Instead of eating food off of a human body, why not eat from inside a human body? When you sit down, a fake human body is wheeled out on a gurney. When you cut in to this fake body fake blood pours out and the internal organs are then exposed. Once you have dissected the body, you can then go to town on the organs which are made of sushi that has been cut in to the shape of kidneys, livers, and various other organs.
Buns and Guns
"Sandwiches Can Kill You" is the slogan of this Beirut located restaurant that serves some typical sandwich shop type of foods, but it wraps the typically boring sandwich eating experience in camouflage, hands it an automatic rifle, and tosses it head first in to a hellish battlefield where people are losing limbs and being blown apart by bombs.
In other words, its atmosphere is very cozy. "We wanted to create a new, attractive idea inspired from the events that our country went through," said the restaurant's general manager to the L.A. Times. By this he means that the restaurant was created in the aftermath of a 2006 bombing.
Why someone would want to commemorate such an event with a cool burger joint hangout is, arguably, a little strange, but, hey, Buns and Guns does it very well. All of the food has some kind of militaristic name attributed to it like the M16 Carbine meat sandwich, or the Mortar burger. This DMZ atmosphere is further perpetuated by the stacks of sandbags that line the outside of the restaurant and the constant aural barrage of helicopter and gunfire sound effects that blare throughout the place as you eat.
Holly Ramires answered
Modern Toilet
When you visit this Taiwanese restaurant you will be seated in a seat that is a toilet seat. A decorative toilet seat, of course.
The tables themselves are bathroom sinks, and the meals are served in mini-toilet bowls.
The drinks come served in (what else?) a plastic urinal. If the thought of eating noodles out of a toilet and drinking out of a urinal grosses you out, then do not order the ice cream because it comes served in a toilet bowl...and the ice cream itself is a delicious swirl of chocolate frozen yogurt.
John Chilberg answered
Mcdonalds! Its so greasy! How people can eat it is beyond me.
Christina Finch answered
Dinner at the sky is here as well, but the others make some pretty good choices for the weirdest restaurants. I mean, who WOULDN'T like his dish served in a toilet dish...
http://www.rd.com/advice/travel/weird-restaurants/
Karl Sagan answered
This would give me anxiety. Not sure if I will ever dine here. I prefer more calm places, this is why I love Russia. This country is huge and has not a lot of people here. If this is what you want as well then you should totally try it. Just use this service if you want to apply for a visa. Make sure to contact them if interested.
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For sale traditional, stone built a house of 110 sqm in Old Peritheia, on the northern part of the island. The property is in excellent condition. It consists of a large open plan space of 80 sqm, a kitchen, one bedroom, a bathroom and a covered veranda of 20 sqm.The open space can easily be converted into a spacious living room/ dining room and two bedrooms.
The property currently operates as a taverna with steady clientele throughout the year. The new owner can carry on operating it, or turn it into a lovely, traditional house.The village of Old Peritheia is one of the oldest villages on the island with a rich history. It is situated in a lush green landscape, with stunning views towards the Ionian Sea and Mount Pantokrator.
The beaches of Kassiopi, Apraos and Agios Spiridon are (approx) 9 km away.Corfu town and the airport are (approx) 34 km away.


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Q: Matrix in excel vba Can someone help me with finding an absolute sum of all the values above the main diagonal in a matrix?
 Sub Tee_Mass_1()
  Dim aa, bb, m, n, i, j, alg As Range, algaeg
  aa = InputBox("Minimaalne arv?", , -100)
  bb = InputBox("Maksimaalne arv?", , 100)
  m = InputBox("Mitu rida?", , 5)
  n = InputBox("Mitu veergu?", , 5)
  Randomize
  Set alg = Range("ralgA")
  For i = 1 To m
    For j = 1 To n
      alg.Cells(i, j) = Int(Rnd() * (bb - aa + 1)) + aa
    Next j
  Next i
End Sub

A: AS of my understanding to your question, you want to sum the absolute values of the elements above the main diagonal, excluding the diagonal itself.
The elements above the main diagonal have the property that j>i if the element is (i, j).
Hence, you can add the following code
AbsSum = 0
For i = 1 To m
    For j = 1 To n
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Training camp fights happen in every training camp. But the reactions to them can be more instructive than any of the punches thrown.
After a melee broke out in Jets practice this morning, quarterback Mark Sanchez stood up and said the team has to be smarter.
"Tempers flare, that stuff happens," Sanchez said, via Jenny Vrentas of the Newark Star-Ledger. "There's no excuse for it. There's no throwing a ball at a teammate. There's no shoving a guy out of bounds into the signs.
In a subtle way, taking control of the situation like he did speaks volumes about the job Sanchez is trying to do.
While Tim Tebow has generated all the attention, the Jets have made sure to say Sanchez was still the guy. Stepping up the way he did in the aftermath of what's frankly a routine camp event shows he's taking seriously the challenge of leading this dysfunctional bunch.
Honestly, Tebow's limitations as a passer will do more to secure Sanchez's spot than any speech he can give. But showing leadership (the not-so-subtle knock on Sanchez when people compare him to Tebow) is only going to help him down the line.
This team sorely needs leadership on offensive side of the ball.
Now if Mark Sanchez can just back up his words with strong QB play, hmmmm…. maybe we've got something good this year.
Spoken like a team leader. Of course if he really wants to be respected by his team his performance will have to rise to the next level. Then the Jets might have a fighting chance!
Non-story. But because its the Jets….
Fights during camp are really common. The heat is blistering, guys are not in game shape, roster spost are being fought for. It happens. Just so long as no one gets injured from the fight, the coaches don't mind it. They probably appreciate it at this point in the season.
It's a good thing if Sanchez' mouth utters accurate words. And it would be a much better thing if his arm started to launch more accurate passes (to fellow Jets, not the other guys).
If sanchez cuts down on the pics and fumbles, he will have a nice season ahead of him. Being a leader is just icing on the cake for him.
It's only "leadership" if the players buy into it. Otherwise, it's just the teacher's pet reciting the script.
I wonder how Tebow would have handled himself in this situation if he was given the chance.
This team is hilarious. From the top down to the bottom….cant wait til week 1 when they are exposed by Buff……Oh look! Jets cam on the oprah network!!!
….can't we all just get along???
Tebow was in the scrum looking out for his guys from the offense.
" There's no excuse for it,there's no throwing a ball or shoving a teammate, it doesn't look good, it sends the wrong message, I don't see how this makes us any better." Well…he seems to be a master of the obvious, or is it the oblivious? Where in the bleep have you been the last three years? You're just noticing your mate's highjinks NOW?!
@buffalobills2012 – you guys have lost 7 out of the last 8 to the Jets and haven't sniffed the playoffs in years, but go ahead -and talk trash, you've clearly earned it.
The Bills haven't exposed anybody since 1999, the last time they made the playoffs. If only Doug Flutie wasn't benched for Rob Johnson, what might have been during that last appearance.
I'm always the first one to blast Sanchez for just about everything, so I guess it is only right to give him props when he deserves it. That was a good job by Mark to step up. The Jets have absolutely no leadership in the locker room, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Sanchez is going into his 4th year & it's the right time for him to take a leadership role. However, he doesn't need to take a cue from his dumb head coach & talk to the media about what he does as a leader & what he is going to do; just do it! Instead, he should take a look at the leader of his team's big brother, Eli Manning. Eli doesn't talk about leading, he just does it. Eli leads by example & instills confidence in his teammates. Rex Ryan has gone so far out of his way to make it appear publicly that he is in control of his team & actually being a leader & a boss, not every player's best friend that it is getting funny. The prime example was the whole Cromartie-WR situation. Was there really a necessity for Rex to point out to the media that he was "going to take care of it" & that he had a "feel for the locker room"? Absolutely not. Address the player, keep your mouth shut, end of story. As for Sanchez, the biggest test of his leadership will be when, not if, Holmes starts acting like a teenage girl again. If he stands up to Holmes & puts him in his place then he can be called a leader. Publicly calling out your 3rd string RB & an undrafted rookie FA CB doesn't automatically make him a leader; it's a step in the right direction, but he needs to do more to put some function in the NFL's most dysfunctional locker room.


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His Wife's Husband è un cortometraggio muto del 1915 diretto da Al E. Christie (Al Christie).

Trama

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Nestor Film Company.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dall'Universal Film Manufacturing Company, il film - un cortometraggio in una bobina - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche USA il 12 marzo 1915.

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Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi commedia


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"Mainnet... Just Faster" DJ Rosenbaum on Hacking on SKALE at ETHNewYork
This week we had the opportunity to chat with DJ Rosenbaum about winning his first hackathon at ETHNewYork with his team's decentralized game submission, Collusion.
Ethereum, What's That?
DJ's story of getting involved in Ethereum is all too familiar. Working as a software engineer in New York, you can imagine that it'd be nigh impossible for him to avoid the buzz of cryptocurrency in the halls of workplaces. And eventually, after doing his own research, he decided to invest in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. But it didn't stop there — DJ was captivated by smart contracts and went further down the rabbit hole.
"There's just so much to the system — from the usage of gas for processing to the utilization of this network of nodes for security and verification, all the pieces combined are really, really impressive."
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So, when he heard about the upcoming hackathon in New York, DJ knew it as a great opportunity to show off some of his dApp development skills and go even deeper on some of the related technologies. And while it may have been his first Ethereum hackathon, DJ had no issues in assembling a team of four (Jacob Shiach, Brent Lagerman, Devavrat Kalam, and himself) to create a decentralized game inspired by Vitalik's opening ceremony speech covering cooperative game theory.
With a rough idea in hand, the team then proceeded to sketch out a "Capture the Flag" style board game. In this game, players work with or against one another to make it to the center of the board — the first player to do so is declared the winner and rewarded an NFT prize. For more on the mechanics of the game, check out their submission!
Well aware of the fact that dApps on the main chain don't provide for great usability, the team proceeded to a few sponsor workshops to try out some layer two solutions. To their disappointment, they were unable to get setup with State Channels as the workshop's Hello World demo was throwing an error for everyone. But then, they found SKALE.
"I attended SKALE's workshop and was super impressed with how fast the transactions were. I thought could be a very exciting prospect — a turn-based game with every turn being a transaction."
DJ and the team requested a sidechain from the SKALE team, got some testnet ETH from the faucet, deployed some test contracts, and then connected to the contracts with web3.js and Metamask.
"After my first transaction, I thought it was broken because it went through so quickly. That's when I thought to myself , 'This is the right tech to use…'"
From there, they just kind of ran with it — looking at the transactions on the block explorer and building out the game. Unfortunately, hackathons are short; while the team was able to get the foundation for the game completed, they simply didn't have enough time to finish building everything. And even though the team may not have finished everything, their efforts were recognized and rewarded with a 1,000 DAI bounty from SKALE!
After the event, DJ talked to a few of the teammates who were interested in continuing development of the game to see it through. And with this game and beyond, they now know that they can leverage SKALE on Ethereum to easily create decentralized games that are both fast, easy to use, and free for users.
DJ Presenting Collusion to SKALE team members Christine Perry and Chadwick Strange
This having been his first Ethereum event, DJ's opinions relating to the nascency of this space were hardened — with the main sticking point being that of network congestion and a need for scalability. But he thinks that SKALE is well on its way to solving that issue with layer two and reinforced that opinion with his experience of using sidechains:
"It felt like I was on mainnet, just that the transactions were going through so quickly."
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I am selling a lot of my loose figures, vehicles and fodder. This is not an "I'm quitting" sale, but just need to move some items to make room for other stuff. I have some Target Tanks and PTE stuff as well. The sale will take place this Saturday April 16th at my home from approx 8-12. PM me for more details.
Here is a sample of what I am selling. I am still going through boxes with more stuff in them. I should be home most of the day. The address is 1126 Melvin Dr in Murfreesboro. You can call me at 615-545-6417 for directions or questions. This is open to Tankers and collectors only. If you live in the area it may just be worth the drive for you.
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The is way to far of a drive for me to come to a yard sale..
Good luck with the sale. Wish i lived closer, I may have picked up some items.
Location: Behind you, looking over your shoulder.
Man If I had the money, I'd make a small roadtrip up ther (live in northern Alabama). Hope you sell out man.
Thanks guys. Got a ton of stuff. Too much to put in the BST threads.
Could you list the vehicles? I imagine you might make more on here from collectors than at a yard sale. Most folks at a yard sale really do define "cheap"
It is not a traditional "yard sale". I did that last weekend. I am just offering local area tankers the chance to come by and look at the Joe items I have for sale. I may try to put some of the items in the BST threads after Saturday.
I have a couple of friends around Knoxville and Nashville. Where are you located?


After announcing that it lacked adequate funding to stay open after the end of the year, Safe Haven, a Porchlight Inc. transitional shelter for homeless individuals with mental illness, received a donation from CUNA Mutual Group that will allow it to remain open through March of next year.
Inspired by other small business donors, CUNA Mutual Group donated $100,000 to Safehaven earlier this week, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
This donation means that the shelter will be able to keep vulnerable people off of the streets for the duration of the cold winter, providing them with laundry, shower facilities and temporary places to stay.
At the very least, Safe Haven will try to keep its doors open during the spring, Safe Haven's manager Marjorie Lewis said.
Lewis said Safe Haven knew it was not going to be funded by the federal government. The system by which funding is awarded prioritizes permanent shelters, and Safe Haven only provides a place to stay for a limited amount of time, she said.
The purpose of transitional shelters is to provide services for those in need for up to two years and to offer services that promote self sufficiency such as assistance with job applications, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"Unfortunately, many of the people who seek shelter at Safe Haven are mentally ill and 60 percent of the population are also struggling with substance abuse," Lewis said.
The difficulty of keeping these people housed makes appear Safe Haven less effective than it could be, Lewis said, which in turn makes it hard for transitional shelters like these to get funding.
But, without Safe Haven, Lewis said many people in need of these resources would be forced to live on the streets, creating more issues for the city of Madison.
"We as a community need to come together to care for citizens," Lewis said.
Lewis suggested donations to Safe Haven and places like it are a feasible solution to the problems that inadequate funding create.
Fortunately, donors such as CUNA Mutual and A1 Furniture have donated substantially to keep Safe Haven open, especially during the cold winter months, according to WSJ.
In the meantime, Lewis said the shelter will be working on securing another source of long term grant funding.
She added that if the community doesn't take responsibility, people will be paying higher taxes for solutions that more expensive than Safe Haven.
"We bear the cost of caring for our community in one way or another," Lewis said.


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Duct cleaning is the process of cleaning the various pieces of a standard HVAC unit, including the duct system, fans, grills, motors, and the air handling unit. According to the NADCA, the air in your home is re-circulated 5-7 times a day. Over time, these components become dusty from cycling the same air consistently. Other indoor factors can contribute to dirty ducts, such as smoking, cooking, and cleaning.
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SSSC : Street Sweeper Social Club [Album Review]
This album is, simply, made for rocking with your c*ck out. Well, I don't have one, but you get what I mean.
Street Sweeper Social Club (SSSC) might not require a lengthy introduction for many people as it is a new collaboration from Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave / Nightwatchman guitarist extraordinaire Tom Morello. This time, he joins up with The Coup's 'Boots' Riley, a man with a gift for the rap, a powerful lyricist.
From the first track, 'Fight! Smash! Win!', SSSC annihilates with powerful riffs and switchblade lyrics. Tom's musical stamp is written all over these tracks, and there is in parts a strong resemblance to Rage Against the Machine (RATM). Let's just get THAT closet monster right out there to start with, because the comparisons are inevitable. Tom was a profound part of RATM so of course his prints are going to be all over SSSC.
However, Boots' vocals and lyrics add a new dimension to SSSC's music: grass roots activism. Boots' lyrics go "rat-a-tat-tat!" into your brain and stay there, creating ideas and empowering the listener with his "this is where it's at" attitude. He's like a switched on, funky John Lennon. Listening to these tracks is like the animation in those old Batman episodes: "BAM!", "POW!". Yes, it's that freaking good.
By now, you've probably seen the music video for '100 Little Curses', a track with some 'sock it in the kisser' lines for corporate America; those wealthy hounds who suck on the blood of the people. 'The Oath' grooves it up with some distinctly Hendrix overtones; many of Tom's fans say he's Hendrix re-born. 'The Squeeze' has got a driving rhythm that just prances along and teases throughout the track. 'Clap for the Killers' is a predatory, snake-like groove that stalks those corporate gangsters:
"Well I wrote this for criminals
But they the ones who wrote the laws
They ain't on TV gettin arrested all up in their draws
They stick their hands up politicians
Make em move their jaws
And they be starving folks for bread
Until their breath pause."
One of my favourite tracks on the album is the next one, 'Somewhere in the world it's midnight'. The intonation of Boots' lyrics creates a fantastic syncopation that rides on top of Tom's purring guitar. "Somewhere in the world it's 3 o'clock, time to get out of school and think": so ridiculously catchy. I can see in my head thousands of people at live gigs dancing and singing along to this song. Tom plays guitar and bass on the album and the similar styles create this pounding rhythm that your butt really can't resist. So as well as intelligent lyrics, powerful vocals, we've got the arse wiggle ingredient. Ah, it's absolutely irresistible!
Stanton Moore played drums and percussion on the album, and contributed to the writing process on 'Shock you Again' and 'Megablast'. 'Shock you Again' reminds me of the best of early-style Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Next track, 'Good Morning Mrs Smith', honestly gets right down in there...to the sweet spot. Boots' raps and grunts glide like honey over the raunchy bass line; this song is sex on a track. The lyrics, of course, have nothing to do with getting down and dirty:
"You said your life was something like the inquisition
All you could do was lay there in prone position
I said there's love inside the people connectin
and interactin
strugglin
finding direction
That's why you see insurrection."
'Megablast' displays the reasoning for the explicit lingo tag (whatever you do, don't get a 'cleaned up' version of the album; it's best a dish served with extras, the expletives are the hand grenades):
"Stockbrokers pace the floor and do some
State fellatio and ooh um
Ay man fuck them Federallies."
I totally dig 'Promenade', the next track, with its jaunty square dance rap. Part Saturday Night Fever, part Oklahoma. It's kind of bizarre, the combination of funk, rap and western, but it works. 'Nobody moves til we say go' is my personal favourite; the bass line in this digs in deeeep.
Rarely do I review an album which is 100% fabulous from start to finish but SSSC has done it. This is the perfect album. Unfortunately for the band, this always sets up a nasty precedent, but it feels like they have a lot more to say so I'm not too concerned about the follow-up meeting expectations. In the current musical environment, where older musicians with strong opinions are throwing in the towel and other musicians in the top 40 don't have a hell of a lot to say that's worth listening to, SSSC is a breath of fresh, luscious, ripe air. Take a deep breath and let something inside you bloom.
If you'd like to learn more about what drives SSSC, read my interview with Boots Riley here.
Visit the SSSC official website.
distaudio said...
Fight! Smash! Win! seems that it could be used as a three word blurb for this album.
It is so fitting as a title track for the whole album.
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