Un grande italiano che, grazie al cinema, ha raccontato
la rinascita del Paese dopo la fine della Seconda guerra
mondiale. - Adnkronos
Dino De Laurentiis and John Houston
''Il cinema perde uno dei suoi grandi vecchi.''
"The cinema lost one of its grand old men," said Rome's Mayor
Walter Veltroni of the death of Dino De Laurentiis. Given the
name of this weblog, we must mark the
life of the Italian producer of
La Strada. While we once shared an office building with his
daughter Raffaella and her Mercedes that leaked oil, we only
knew Dino De Laurentiis through the myriad films
(clips) he produced and the press reports of his up and
down business dealings.
De Laurentiis played an essential role in building the
post-WWII, post-Mussolini Italian cinema, particularly that
known as neorealism
(htip Jack Riggs.) He will certainly be remembered, however,
for his
chutzpah.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yesterday's An Open Dialogue by
CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft Corporation at We're all in: Three
Screens and a Cloud was actually by invitation and
closed to
journalists.
By contrast, today's Government Open Source
Conference was streaming live.
I am Boston, and I am here to destroy the weak, weaken the
strong, and open everyone’s eyes to the reality of life on
“the street.’’
DEAR BOSTON,
I want you to know that you have gotten to me, my friends, and
my family. I can never forgive you for the times when you have
injured or killed the people I love. Why won’t you protect
instead of destroy?
We were so good until Dec. 22, 2007, Jan. 17, 2008, and June
18,2008, when you let someone brutally murder my friends
Emmanuel Benjamin Santil, Darrion L.J. Carrington and Qwamane
Williams. I still remember all the tears I shed, the burning
sensation I got in my heart whenever I heard their names or saw
a picture of one of them, and how a little thing such as a song
would break me down for hours.
I blame this all on you, Boston. Your nonchalant attitude for
someone taking the life of another is why I found no reason to
live to my fullest potential during my early years in high
school. That’s when I discovered that a person could be so
heartless as to take someone’s life, maybe even my own, with
just one bullet or one jab of a knife.
I never did my homework or studied; being alone in a room, I
saw only my friends’ faces on my walls, and I heard their
voices seeping in through cracks of the ceiling and windows. In
class, only they were on my mind, not how to annotate a
paragraph or how to solve (x + 8)2. I didn’t care, because I
knew that once 2:50 p.m. hit, I would be back to face my enemy
after a 45-minute bus ride.
After I failed biology and enrolled in summer school, I knew it
was time to take control and prove that you could no longer
affect my life and my decisions. Even if you hurt me, Boston, I
would not let it show. But you really opened my eyes the night
of that party at the Dorchester YMCA when you had someone open
fire at me and my friends as we started walking home. Still, I
wanted to live my life to its fullest potential, I wanted to be
successful. It was time to pull my act together for real and
not just speak about it.
During my junior year, you generally kept a low profile. I went
from a being a D and F student to an A and B — thanks for the
break, I guess. In March you tested me, but just like with my
school tests I passed, even though it cut me deep that you
would involve my friend with your madness. Now she sits in a
cell. Thanks for taking my best friend away from me. Regardless
of what you sent my way, though, I rose above your challenge
and even made honor roll for the first time.
Now it’s senior year, and I am determined to do my absolute
best, even though you have already sent another test my way by
having my friend Justin shot in the neck. And now you are
testing the entire city with yesterday’s killings of four
people, including a toddler.
I think it’s time for you to give up, Boston, because I will
no longer feed into your distractions. But I will promise you a
couple of things: I will end my last year in high school on
honor roll; and I will never leave you. My goal is to reform
you and make you a positive city. After 17 years I believe that
if no one else can, I will.
Sincerely,
Janel
Janel Lynch lives in Roxbury and is a student at Weston High
School. Her essay was published in the Boston Globe after it
was submitted by her high school English teacher.
Debian at 17. Happy Birthday and Thank You to Ian Murdock and
all the maintainers and contributors.
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software
packages released as free and open source software
especially under the GNU General Public License and other
free software licenses. Source: Wikipedia
Kudos to Bart Decrem who will become senior vice
president at Disney, in charge of all mobile games after they
bought Tapulous, the iPhone
game company he co-founded with Andrew Lacy. The
start-up, based in a storefront in Palo Alto, did not take
venture capital.
Because we were angel funded, we have been flexible and
have been forced to be scrappy. That has paid off nicely in
the middle of a recession. And with that comes a
capitalization table that is very friendly to investors and
the team.
Interview with Kara Swisher in 2009
Bart explained to Gamebeat
why he sold Tapulous to Disney.
Disney has music brands, Marvel Comics, Pixar, ABC, and
ESPN. They have great content and you will see a lot of
action around marrying great games, brands, and social
gaming mechanics. I use social to mean games that are
social.
A young man in Copenhagen walks up to a touch screen in a
department store. With his figure he clicks without emotion on
the display activating images of models wearing a high end
fashion brand. He can zoom in and out in viewing the models.
The models have no real expression. The images are disconnected
from their origin and are intended only to promote a brand, not
the nature of their manufacture or the circumstance of those
who assembled the clothes which are advertised.
We welcomed in the New Year with our very own Winter Classic of
pumpkin pancakes and Sumatra coffee inspired by last year's
Lucheonette performance (above) by Jeff Barnett
Winsby and Bowie Zunino.
