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Tune in to the DMZ America Podcast as hosts Ted Rall from the left and Scott Stantis check in with groundbreaking animated political cartoonist Mark Fiore.Mark Fiore, born 1970, is an acclaimed American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorials. Shaped by California upbringing and Idaho wilderness, he majored in political science at Colorado College, graduating in 1991 amid Dick Cheney's speech.Starting in print for The Washington Post and LA Times, Fiore joined San Jose Mercury News before pioneering online animation in the late 1990s. His cartoons appear on SFGate.com, NPR, Mother Jones, and KQED.Hailed as "the undisputed guru" by The Wall Street Journal, he won the 2010 Pulitzer—the first for non-print work—plus a 2016 Herblock Prize, 2004 RFK Award, and multiple Online Journalism honors. From San Francisco, Fiore satirizes politics via markfiore.com.Support the showThe DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis. Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrallWeb: Rall.com

In this episode of Gangland Wire, Mafia Genealogist Justin Cascio joins Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins to explore one of the most remarkable—and overlooked—figures of the Prohibition era: Pasqualina Albano Siniscalchi, the so-called Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts. At the dawn of Prohibition in 1921, Pasqualina was a young widow living in Springfield's South End when she inherited her late husband's powerful bootlegging operation—one of the largest in western Massachusetts. Rather than step aside, she took control. Pasqualina ruled a crew of toughs and bootleggers, oversaw liquor distribution, and launched a relentless campaign of vengeance against rivals who challenged her authority. Newspapers dubbed her The Bootleg Queen, but her fight went far beyond rival gangs. She clashed with lawmakers, battled competing bootleggers, and even faced resistance from within her own family—all while operating in service of a secret society that would never fully accept her because she was a woman. Her story exposes the contradictions of organized crime: loyalty demanded without equality, power wielded without recognition. Cascio draws from years of meticulous research and family histories to bring Pasqualina's story to life, revealing her pivotal role in early Mafia expansion in New England and the hidden influence women could wield behind the scenes. His book, Pasqualina: The True Story of the Bootleg Queen of Springfield, challenges long-held assumptions about gender, power, and the Mafia during Prohibition. If you're interested in Prohibition-era crime, New England Mafia history, or the untold stories of women who shaped organized crime from the shadows, this episode is one you won't want to miss. Learn more about Justin and his work on Mafia Geneology by clicking this sentence. Get Justin’s book, Pasqualina: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts Listen now on Gangland Wire — available on all major podcast platforms and YouTube. 0:02 Introduction to Mafia Genealogy 1:16 Pasqualina Albano’s Story 2:30 Family Reunion Revelations 4:56 The Impact of Prohibition 7:45 Prejudice and Organized Crime 10:50 Connecting the Genovese Family 12:34 Views from Sicily 13:50 Cultural Differences in Dress 16:37 Encounters with Modern Gangsters 18:36 Gina’s Documentary and Art 23:53 The Romance of the Gangster 27:24 The Nature of Risk 28:46 The Evolution of Organized Crime 33:16 Closing Thoughts and Future Plans Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. I’ve got on tap here a repeat guest. He’s been on before. I had a little technical glitch this morning with the internet, and I had to scurry around and do something different. I totally forgot about what I was going to talk about with Justin, but I knew Justin’s been on there before. I knew he does mafia genealogy, and I knew he knows his stuff, and so he doesn’t really need a lot of help from me. So this is Justin Cascio from the website and some books, some mafia genealogies. Welcome, Justin. Thanks so much, Gary. Great to be here. Really. And you’re from the Springfield, Massachusetts area. And so that’s been some of your emphasis has been on that area. But you’ve done a lot of other mob genealogy, correct? Yes. On my website, on mafiagenealogy.com, I write about a whole lot of different places that the mafia has been in the United States. In fact, coming up, I’m going to be writing about Kansas City. But for the last 25 years or so, I’ve lived in New England. I live about 20 miles away from Springfield, Massachusetts, which if you’ve heard of Anthony Aralata or Bruno or the Shabelli brothers, then you know the Springfield crew of the Genovese crime family. [1:12] And I’ve been following them pretty closely since I’ve lived here. A few years ago, I got into the story of Pasqualina Albano, who was a bootlegger in Springfield during Prohibition. [1:25] That’s what my new book is about. Yeah. Oh, that’s a new book, right? I’m sorry. I didn’t pick up real quick there. And she’s done a documentary recently that hasn’t been seen by very many people. And they really, she was a woman. They do use the A at the end. Those of us that know about romance languages would know as probably a woman, but she’s a woman. And she was running a certain segment of bootlegging back during the 30s and late 20s, exactly when it was, which is really unusual. She must have been a powerful individual. I think that she was a very remarkable person, so I couldn’t find out enough about her. I really needed to understand how it was possible that somebody who the Mafia would never have accepted as a member allowed her to lead this crew for so long, even into the years when it was associated with Vito Genovese and that crime family. Yeah. Don’t you imagine it was, she must have been making money for them. [2:24] She was making money for her family, for sure. Got a few people probably pretty comfortable, yeah. [2:30] So that family, you went to a family reunion recently and learned quite a little bit. You want to tell your experiences about that? Yes. So, Pasqualea Albano, that bootlegger, has a nephew who is now 101 years old. His name is Mario Fiore. And when he turned 100, I was invited to his birthday party. And it was an enormous scene. It was tremendous. In fact, it’s a cliche, but the opening scene of The Godfather, if you imagine that wedding scene, it’s what it looks like. There’s a guy singing live on a PA system. There’s a pizza oven parked over here. There’s kids in the pool. There’s so many people, so much food, and this great big lawn and incredible view. Just an amazing scene to be at. And I met so many different people who were in Mario’s family. I met people who came over from Italy to come celebrate his birthday and talked with them as much as I could. I have no Italian, by the way. So we did the best we could. But I also talked to her American relative. She has all these grand nieces and nephews, and nieces and nephews who are still living, who were at this party and told me stories and drew little family trees for me. And what I was able to get a real good sense of is how the family feels about this legacy. Because not just Pasqualina, who was in organized crime, so many of her relatives were involved as well and continued to be up until the 80s, at least. [4:00] So the name, was it Albano? Was it got on in the modern times? The last name, was it still Albano? Was there another name? There are a few. Let’s see. I want some more modern names. There’s Mario Fiore. So he is one of her nephews. And then there’s Rex Cunningham Jr., who is one of her grandnephews. There’s the Sentinellos. So Jimmy Sentinello, who owns the Mardi Gras, or he did anyway. It’s a nude club, you know, a gentleman’s club, as they say. A gentleman’s club. We use that term loosely. Oh, boy, do we? Another old term that I picked up from the newspapers that I just love and like to bring back is sporting figure. Yeah, even sporting man. They don’t play sports. They’re not athletes. They’re sporting figures. I know. I heard that when I was a kid. Somebody was a sporting man. Yep. [4:57] This has been a family tradition. It’s something that has been passed down through the generations, and it’s something that I talk about in the book. But mostly what I’m focused on in the plot of the story is about Pasqualea’s time during Prohibition when this gang was turning into something bigger, turning into a part of this American mafia. Yeah. Interesting. And so tell us a little bit about how that developed. You had a Genovese family that moved in and she got hooked up with them. How did that develop? Yeah. More end of modern times. Early on, so 1920, beginning of Prohibition, Pasqualea Albana was newly married to this sporting figure, we’ll call him, Carlo Sinascocci. And I’m probably pronouncing that last name as wrong as well. He also came from a family of notable people who were involved in organized crime, getting into scrapes in Little Italy, New York City. There’s a whole separate side story about his cousins and all the things that they were getting into before Carlo even got on the scene. So by the time he arrived in New York City, he had a bit of a reputation preceding him because of these relatives of his. [6:06] And Pascalina was a young woman in Springfield. And the first question I even had writing about her is, how did she meet this guy? He was a Brooklyn saloon keeper. She was the daughter of a grocer in Springfield, three and a half hours away on the train. Like, why do they even know each other? And so trying to piece all that together, how that was reasonable for them to know one another and move in the same circles, and then for him to immediately, when he moved to Springfield, start picking up with vice because it was before Prohibition. So he was involved in gambling and police violence. And you could see some of the beginnings of the corruption already happening where he’s getting police protection before prohibition even begins. And then once it starts, he is the king of Water Street, which was the main drag of Little Italy. He was the guy you went to if you wanted to buy wholesale. [6:57] Justin, I have a question here. I was just discussing this with who’s half Italian, I guess, FBI agent that worked the mob here in Kansas City. We were talking about this, the prejudice that Italian people felt when they first got here, especially. And Bill’s about 90, and so he said his father told him. His father worked at a bank in New York, and he was told that with that last name, he had a different last name than Bill does. And with that last name, he said, you’re owning and go so high in the bank. And so talk a little bit about the prejudice that those early people felt. And that’s what drove people into the dark side, if you will, to make money. You had these bright guys that came over from Sicily looking for opportunity. And then us English and Irish Germans kept them out. [7:45] And so can you talk about that a little bit? Did they talk about any of that or have you looked into any of that? [7:52] I have. And it’s a theme that comes up again and again. Whenever I look at organized crime in any city, I’m seeing things like that ethnic succession of organized crime that you’re alluding to, how the Irish were controlling, say, the machine in Kansas City Hall or what have you. And they had that same kind of control over politics in other cities, too. And the way that they were getting a leg up and finally getting that first protection of their rackets was from outside of their ethnicity. It was Irish politicians protecting Italian criminals. And then eventually the Italians were getting naturalized where they were born here. And so then they move into politics themselves. [8:31] And that is one of the theories about how organized crime develops in American cities. It’s because you’re poor and ethnic and you’re closed out of other opportunities. And so the bright kids get channeled into organized crime where maybe in a better situation, they would have gone to college. Right. And then Prohibition came along, and there was such a huge amount of money that you can make in Prohibition. And it was illegal. That’s why you made money. But there was opportunity there for these young guys. Yes. And you really start to see a lot of new names in the papers after Prohibition begins. You have your established vice criminals who you’re already seeing in the newspapers through the 19-teens. Once Prohibition begins, now they have all these other guys getting into the game because there’s so much money there. And it’s such a big pie. Everybody feels like they can get a slice. [9:21] Yeah, interesting. Carry on. I’ve distracted you, Azai, but you were talking about Pasqualina and her husband. Of course, I’m not even going to try that. When you talk about discrimination against Italians, one of the things that makes my job really hard is trying to find news about a guy with a name like Carlos Siniscalchi. First of all, I’m probably saying it wrong. I think the Italian pronunciation is… So I’m getting all of the consonant clusters wrong, but I do it with my own name too. We’ve Americanized Cassio. That’s not the right name. How do you pronounce it? It’s Cassio. But we’re Cassio. That’s my grandfather said it. So how do I find Carlos Nescalci in the newspaper when every reporter mangles that name? And spells it differently. Yeah. Everybody spells it differently. How am I going to guess how all these different English speaking reporters were going to mess up Carlos’ name? And so I find it every which way. And sometimes I’ve just had to plain stumble over news about him and his relatives. It just happens by chance. I’m looking for general crime, and then I find him specifically. So yeah, it’s a little hard to find the Italians sometimes because their names are unfamiliar and they get written wrong in censuses and in the news. So we lose a little bit of their history that way. And that’s what you might call, I don’t know, a microaggression because they can’t get that name. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, yeah. You don’t care enough to spell it. I just, I know the thought process, I have to admit. I’ll just spell it anyway. I understand that thought process. [10:51] So you were asking earlier, I don’t know if you want me to continue this, but how the Genovese family were able to get involved in this thing going on in Springfield. Yeah, connected. Because of her second husband. Okay. Pascalina lost her first husband in 1921. He was killed by a fellow bootlegger. He takes over the gang. She conducts a war of vengeance against the guy who kills her husband and his whole family because they’re gangsters. And that takes years. She’s also pursuing her through the courts. And when that all finally gets settled a few years later, she has a quiet little second marriage to a guy that nobody had ever heard of called Antonio Miranda. [11:28] Now, Antonio Miranda is a small time gangster from Little Italy, New York City, and his brother is Mike Miranda, who is very close to Vito Genovese, and he became this conciliator eventually. So that old connections, going back to the days before the Castello-Moraisi War, when it was Lucky Luciano bootlegging with some of his pals, that’s the time frame in which she formed this alliance by marrying Tony Miranda. And that’s when it starts. That’s the relationship’s beginning between Genovese crime family having, before it was even the Genovese crime family, when it was the Luciano family. And so they’ve had that relationship with the Springfield crew ever since. A little bit like old world feudalism in a way, where one member of a royal family marries a member of another royal family. And I know in Kansas City, we’ve got our underboss, his sister, is married to our boss’s nephew. So, bring those two families together, the Lunas and the Savellas together, yes, very well, like noble families. Exactly. Interesting. Absolutely. [12:31] So that’s how they got together. I remembered that, but I’d forgotten it. So, you went to this reunion with people from Sicily there. So, tell us a little bit about that. How? [12:43] How do people in Sicily view the people in the United States? And they didn’t talk about the mafia. I’m sure there’s no doubt that they’re not going to really talk about that unless you got to find somebody that’s really lucky. But kind of care about the sociological impact and the old world and the new world, and the new world people that, you know, established here. Okay, so Pasqualea and his family are from outside of Naples, and they maintain really close ties to their family back in Italy. Like I am the third generation born in America. I don’t speak Italian. Neither does my father. Neither of us has ever been to Italy. We don’t have, we’re not Italians. We’re Americans. Okay. And the Italians will remind you of that if you forget. We’re not Italian. And like spaghetti and meatballs, not Italian. Chicken Parmesan, not Italian. These are things that we invented here out of a sense of, out of homesickness and a sudden influx of middle-class wealth. We were like, let’s have the spaghetti and the meatballs. I had separate courses anymore where the meatballs are, where they’re both a special treat and I’m going to take two treats with chicken and waffles. [13:50] So being around them, they’re formal. You know, I was meeting like Pasquena’s relatives from Mercado San Sivarino, where they’re from in Italy, they own a funeral home. They own the biggest funeral home business in the town, and they also own some other sort of associated businesses, like a florist and things like that. So I would expect a certain sort of decorum and conservatism of tone from somebody who works in the funeral business and from Italy. But they were also among the only people there in suits, because it was a summer day, we’re outside. Most of us were dressed a little less formally. Yeah. Old school, 1950s stuff. He does those old 1950s photographs, and everybody, every man’s wearing a suit. And there were women’s hat on. Also, that ongoing thing where people in Europe just dress better. Yeah, they dress more formal. I see a little bit in New York City. I noticed it when I moved up from the South. In the South, you go to a funeral and flip-flops, okay? It’s very casual because the weather absolutely demands it. I moved that back up North, and I’m like, wow, everybody’s just wearing the same black coat, aren’t we? And you go into New York. People are dressed a little better, even. You go to Europe, and it’s just another level is what I hear. People, they dress better. They’re not like us where we would roll out of bed and put on pajama pants and some crocs and go to the grocery store. They would never do something. Yes. [15:10] I was in a restaurant several years ago, and there’s a guy sitting at a table, and another young guy comes in. And the guy at the table says, dude, you wore your pajama bottoms in the restaurant. [15:22] People need to be sold. And I’ll have to admit, at the time, I hadn’t seen that before. And since then, I see it all the time now. I live in a college town. I see it a lot. Yeah. So i’ll carry on a little more about that reunion there uh okay so how to describe this so much of it was very surreal to me just being in this place like very fancy house the longest driveway i’ve ever seen like more than a mile i finally like when i parked my car because the track you know you can the parked cars are starting i parked and i get out of the car. And I’ve got this big present with me that I’m going to give to Mario. It’s unwieldy. And I’m like, oh man, this is going to be quite a schlep. And I’m wearing my good shoes and everything. And these two young fellas come up on a golf cart and bring me a ride. So I get in the golf cart and we get up to the house and my friend Gina was trying to point people out to me. Oh, he’s somebody that was in my documentary and you got to talk to this guy. And there was a lot of that. you’ve got to talk to this guy and you’ve got to talk to this woman and dragging me around to meet people. And one of the groups of people that I was, that I found myself standing in, [16:35] I’m talking to gangsters this time. Okay. This is not cousins who won a funeral home. These are gangsters. And I’m standing with them and they’re having the absolute filthiest conversation that I’ve heard since high school. [16:48] And, but the difference is boys in high school are just talking. These guys have done all the things they’re talking about. Wow. What a life is. The lives you would have led. Bye. I’m just trying to keep it. Are these American gangsters or are these? Americans. Okay, yeah. Current gangsters, they’re in the Springfield area with Anthony Arilada there. They’ve all hated him, probably. I’m sorry? I said Anthony Arilada when he’s there, and they all hated him. You probably didn’t bring his name up. Yeah, really. There are different factions in Springfield, it feels like to me, still. bill. And I haven’t got them all sorted. There are people who are still very loyal to the old regime and they have their figure, their person that they follow. And sometimes they can live with the rest of them and sometimes the rest of them are a bunch of lowlives and they want everybody to know about it. Yeah. [17:45] I’ve heard that conversation before. Interesting. Now, whose house was this? Somebody made it well in America. Yes. And I think it was one of his nephews. I don’t know exactly whose house it was. I was invited by Gina’s brother. He texted me and invited me to the party. And people just accepted me right in. The close family members who have seen Gina’s documentary, who have heard her talk about Pastelina and the research and meeting me, they think of me as the family a genealogist. And so I have a title in the family and belong there. Oh yeah, it’s here to document us. As you do, because we’re an important family. And so they didn’t really question my presence there at all. And you were able to ask questions from that standpoint too. That’s what was nice. Yeah. [18:37] And a lot of times it was just standing still and listening because there was so much going on, That was enough. Interesting. Now, her documentary, you’ve seen it, so tell us a little bit about it. Folks, it’s not out there streaming yet. She’s trying to get something going, I would assume. [18:58] Explain her just a little bit, too, in her book. Talk about her and her book and her documentary. Yeah. Okay. Gina’s a part of this big family that has got some wealth still and goes back to bootleggers in Prohibition and has gangsters in it, including her brother, Rex Cunningham Jr. So Cunningham is the name you don’t expect to hear in the mafia. Yeah, yeah. Done by Marietta Beckerwood. I don’t know if he was a member or associate, but at any rate, he was a known figure around here. Sportsbook and that kind of thing. Sportsbook, yeah. Yeah. She grew up with a little bit of wealth and privilege, but also feeling a little bit outsider because her family was half Irish. So among the Italians, it was a, you go to the wrong church, you go to the wrong school kind of vibe. And she grew up into more of a countercultural person. Her family is very conservative politically, religiously. I don’t know if you would expect that of a gangster family, but that’s what I’ve noticed is pretty common, actually. No, it’s pretty, that’s the way it is here. Yeah, real conservative, yeah. Yeah. You have to be socially for the whole thing to work. I can get into that, but And they keep going to the same church and school and everything, and you maintain these close ties with the neighborhood and local businesses and so forth. But she really was like, I’m going my own way. And so she became this free spirit as a young woman. And Gina’s, I don’t know how old she is. I want to say in her late 60s, around 70, about there. [20:23] That’s Gina Albano Cunningham. Cunningham. Oh, Gina. Okay, Gina Cunningham. See, I’m getting mixed up with the names. And Cunningham was… Ask Elena Albanos. Her sister married and became a Fiore. Okay. All right. That’s a little bit confusing. People have to go to your website to get this straightened out. Or maybe you have this, a picture, an image of this family tree on your website. In the book, you can find multiple family trees because I’m working with all these different branches. I’ll take a look if I can’t put an image in here for everybody to get this straight. But the modern woman that did the book and the movie, she’s in her 70s now. [21:04] Yeah. Yeah, and she’s a grandniece of Pasqualina, and her brother and her cousins were in organized crime in this room. Okay, all right, all right. Go ahead, go ahead. She’s absolutely immersed in this life, but she did not want any part of it, and so she left. And there are other people in her family that you can point to that did the same thing, like some of Pasqualina’s children just did not want to have anything to do with the family. Well, they left. They went and moved to another state. They stayed in another place. They didn’t come back. And she did the same thing, but she’s not cut ties. She keeps coming back and she has good relationships with her family members, even though she’s not aligned with them politically and so forth. [21:42] And she’s an artist. I’ve seen her work on a couple of different mediums. I don’t want to really try and explain what her art is, but she’s a feminist artist. And she’s also really been pointing the camera at her family quite a bit. And it seems like film might be a newer medium for her. She’s used to do more painting and sculpture and stuff kind of thing. How’d the family take that? A lot of these people, I’ve talked to some relatives here, and one of them come on to talk to me, but I said, your Uncle Vince, he said, yeah, I know. But then he never would get back to me all of a sudden. So a lot of pressure to not say anything about it. Oh, yeah. Sometimes I will get started talking to somebody and then it’ll reach a certain point where they’re like oh no we can’t don’t be recording this don’t put my yeah anything so yeah news to that but gina was like no this is going to be part of my, political art. I’m going to point the camera at my family. I’m going to expose, some of the hypocrisy that I see there, the things I disagree with. [22:41] It’s a short documentary, and I find it very powerful because it’s a family video. One of the first people she’s aiming the camera at is, I think, one of her nieces. Talking to this young woman who is leaning on her car, maybe in her late teens, early 20s, and this young woman is saying, oh, yeah, I would marry a gangster if I had the chance. And I’m just like, do you not know your family? Do you not know the heart? And later on in the video, you get to hear some of the really just like gut wrenching stories of what pain people in her family have brought upon themselves through their involvement in organized crime and all the things that it entails. And this young woman is, I don’t know, she’s acting because she doesn’t even know this other uncle or this other cousin that she’s got that can tell her these stories. Or is it, I don’t know, it doesn’t matter or something. And that to me was shocking. That’s the kind of thing that needs, that’s somebody who needs their mind changed. And I was like, I hope she watches this video she’s in and changes her mind about how she feels about that life and wanting to be a part of it. But that’s what mafia culture creates more of, is people who want to be a part of that. [23:53] There’s a certain romance to it that started out with Robin Hood, if you will. You get a romance of the gangster, the criminal that maybe is good to some people, good to support people, good to their family. And it continues on to this day to John Gotti. He’s the most recent iteration of Robin Hood and Jesse James here in the Midwest. People love Jesse James. When I grew up, everybody, every family had a story about how a couple of guys came by their house back in the 1800s and they gave them a place to stay and a meal. And they left them like a $20 gold piece, which was like $500 or something. And they said, it was Jesse James. I know it was. It’s the romance of the gangster continues. Yes. We all would love to imagine that we’re on the gangster side and that the gangster agrees. Yeah. As long as we don’t have to go to jail or pay that price. Because to me, I’ve got a friend today that he spent about 12 years and he would give all that gangster life back to get that 12 years back for these kids growing up. He’s turned over a new life today. I had lunch with him and his son not too long ago. And it’s just his son has told him, he said, every time I had to walk away from you in the penitentiary and come back home after our visit, he said, I was just crushed. It’s a huge price to pay for that. But there’s still that romance continues. [25:13] That terrible price, I think, is part of what feeds the romance. If there was no risk, there wouldn’t be that allure. Yeah, that’s true. You met that risk and overcame it and went on, came out on top. It’s what they always like to claim that came out on top of it. So I understand that thought process. I take a lot of risk in my life just from the other side. I said, live to fight another day. Yeah, there really are different kinds of risks that you can take. I was writing about a contract killer in Texas, and one of his targets was a guy who was a grain dealer. And I was like, that’s a really weird target for murder, right? Like, why would you kill a grain dealer from rural Texas? And it was because his old partner had an insurance policy out on him and decided to cash in on it. That was Charles Harrison, wasn’t it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sad story. Charles Harrison. Yeah. It was like, these were two guys that took very different kinds of risks, right? You got Charles Harrelson, who kills people for money. That’s a certain kind of risk you’re definitely taking. And then there’s the guy who buys grain and then sells it. So he’s taking these risks for his community of farmers. [26:27] And I was like, that’s really wholesome. And that’s, I don’t know, I feel like it’s a really positive example of masculinity. That’s the kind of risk we’re supposed to take for the safety and well-being of our neighbors? Yeah. Even the farmers, they risk everything every year. Smaller farmer, I grew up in those families and a smaller farmer practically risk everything every year, being in on the weather. That’s why I didn’t stay on the farm. And the markets, you don’t know what the markets are going to do. It’s a gamble every year. That Charles Harrelson, that’s Woody Harrelson’s dad who killed the Judds, famous murder down in El Paso. And he had a business. He carried a card that said he was a hitman. It was his story. [27:10] Bold. He was a crazy bold dude. I did a whole three-part series on that whole Jimmy Chagra marijuana business [27:20] down there on the border. and his connection to it and the killing of Judge Wood. So it’s just a business in these guys. Hey, it’s not personal. It’s just business. Yikes. It’s crazy. But Justin, you got anything else you want to tell us about? Anything you’re working on? And remind guys your website and what you can find there. He has some really interesting stuff about the old early days in Chicago. I know that. I referred to some of that several years ago when I was doing something on Chicago. So give guys a little walk through on your website. It’s really interesting. Okay, so John Gotti is one name I don’t think you’re ever going to find on my website. Yeah, good. [27:59] I’m really addicted to origin stories. I like to find out how the Mafia was already present before that point when we say it started. Yeah, in the 20s. But gangsters don’t come out of nowhere. Gangs don’t come out of nowhere. They evolve. They grow. There are forces to create them. And so that’s what I’m interested in. I like to go around. And I spent a lot of my early career writing about one place and its effect on the United States, Corleone, where my family’s from in Sicily. And that was my first book, In Our Blood. And some of my first posts on mafia genealogy are in that thread. They’re about my family and the Corleonesi. But then I started to get into other [28:42] places and wanting to know about their stories and getting into other parts of Italy as well. So if you go to my website, you’re going to find stories like Charles Harrelson and the two guys that he killed before the judge, or in Chicago about the different little Italys that existed before Capone consolidated everything, or Kansas City I’m writing about, Nick Fatsuno and the Passantino brothers. I don’t even know if you know those guys, but I thought their further stories were amazing. [29:09] Passantino had a funeral home today, but the other names I don’t really know back then. I don’t know much about that or those early days. Did they seem to come from the same little town, the same general area? They didn’t, actually. A lot of them were Sicilian, and they come from Palermo province, but not all from the same town. Not from okay. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn’t able to put—there’s not a strong current there in Kansas City like I’ve found in other places where everybody is from one town. Yeah. [29:37] But not so much in Kansas City. A little more varied. Interesting. So that’s what you’ll find on my website. And then Pasqualina is my second book, and you can buy both of my books at Amazon. Got them behind me here, Airblood, Pasqualina. And Pasqualina is about that prohibition era, and if you like to understand where big-nosed Sam Koufari got his start, it’s in there. And the Shabelli brothers show up. It’s about those origins. I was talking to a friend of mine about this name, Skeeball or Skeebelly. Yes. Who had some relationship back in Springfield, and he just really knew Skeeball when he was young. [30:17] Yep, because it was the spelling of his name. I’m not even sure how they pronounced it. I think it’s Skeebelly. Skeebelly. That probably was. Yeah, Skeebelly. I know somebody named Skeebelly, so probably was. That’s like the name of the body shop here in Kansas City, and it’s P-A-C-E. But really it’s Pache. We’ve got to do it right. And that’s probably short for Pache. I don’t know. I wonder if the family pronounces it Pache or Pace. I think business-wise, but then the person who was talking was close to the family and they said, oh no, it’s Pache. So I thought, okay. [30:53] Interesting. The immigrant experience in this country is really always interesting. There’s always conflict and the interest is in the conflict. And as people try to make their way, and stopping with, oh God, it was an author, T.J. did the Westies. You guys know T.J. that did the Westies. And he said, yeah, he said, and he really was articulate about, as we’ve discussed this, that people come here want an opportunity, because they didn’t have any opportunity in the old country, whether it be Naples or southern Italy or Sicily. They came here, they really just wanted opportunity. And then the opportunity, you have to start fighting for opportunity. That’s the nature of the beast in this country. In any kind, any society, you’ve got to fight for opportunity when you’re an outsider and you come in. And so that was the early development. These people just wanting a little slice of this American pie that they’d heard so much about. The streets are paved with gold over here, but found out you’ve got to dig that old man. [31:52] Some people probably came over here thinking they were going to make an honest living and found themselves, by one step and another, involved in organized crime. And then there were other men who came here from Italy for whom the opportunity was to be a criminal here. Richer pickings. Yeah. And they started restaurants and had your typical immigrant, all the immigrant restaurants, all these Chinese, whatever kind of ethnic food is, they start out with an immigrant who then puts his kids and his cousins and his nephews and sisters and grandmas in the back room kitchen, start those restaurants. And people, us people that are already here like that food and they run them, they do a really good job at it. And so that’s a way to get started in grocery stores for their other fellow paisans. And those were the ways that they made it here, at least now, probably the same way in every city where there’s a large Italian population. Got to feed the other Italians. And so an Italian restaurant is natural. Yeah. And also owning your own business is just really smart for a lot of people. If you’re an organized crime, it’s a great way to hide what you’re doing. [32:59] And if you’re trying to get a naturalization status, especially now, being a business owner is really advantageous. Yeah, I bet. I was talking about that on getting a naturalization process that showed that you’re an entrepreneur and you believe in the system and you’re doing well. Yeah, interesting. [33:17] All right, Justin Cascio, and the website is Mafia Genealogy. He’s got a couple books on there in this documentary. I don’t know. Keep us up on that. Maybe if it comes out, I’ll make sure to get it out on something where people know that they can go out and see it. It sounds really interesting. Thanks, YOL. All right. Thanks, Justin. I’ll do that no more. Thank you, Justin. It’s really a pleasure to talk to you again. Always a pleasure being on your show. Thank you. Great. [33:44] Justin, see, I was going to ask you about something. What? Are you going through a publisher? You got a publisher? No, I’m self-published. You’re self-published? Okay. Yeah. See, I self-published several books, and I’m doing probably my last ones, a story of my life, kind of more of a memoir, my struggles and my moral dilemmas and all that during when I worked intelligence. And then I’ll explain all about the big civil mob war we had here during those years. And I don’t know. I started poking around. I thought, well, maybe I’ll try to get a regular publisher. But boy, it’s hard. You’ve got to get an agent. You can’t get attention of an agent because there’s hundreds and thousands of people out there writing books wanting to do all this. So thank God for Amazon. Yeah. I think if you already have your audience. Yeah. And you know who they are and you’re already talking to them. You don’t need to pay somebody else to do that for you. Yeah. Yeah. I’m paying an editor to go over to… That’s different. That’s no other strengths. But to get it sold out there. Out here making videos every day. The good thing about getting a publisher is you can get, and then you got a chance of getting it into Barnes & Noble and into libraries. [34:59] See, libraries. You might into libraries anyway. How’d you do that? How’d you figure that out? The local library has an interest in the book, so they bought it. Yeah, they did. But I’m talking about other libraries. Yeah, they can all buy the book the same way. Yeah, but how do they find the library buy books? [35:18] I think buy them from the publishers normally. And if your book is self-published and they want to carry that book, because, for instance, about local history, then they’ll buy it. Yeah. I’m thinking about how do they get it out in other New York or Chicago or some other city that will be looking for nonfiction books. Publishers. You have to do every step yourself instead of being massive. Yeah. And then like Barnes & Noble and places like that to get it in, that’s hard too. You can do that locally. Those places carry my books on the website. Who does? They’re buying it from Amazon. Oh, okay. Interesting. Oh, really? Yeah. Because that’s the only place you can get it. I think I sell a couple of my, I’ve seen some people from, I think it’s through at Brafta Digital, I think’s the name of it. That’s another thing that this thing went up on that Barnes & Noble did sell a few copies of it. As a matter of fact, now that you mention it. [36:21] But it’s interesting. It’s fun. How are you ever going to get a screenplay sold if you don’t get their attention? [36:30] That’s why most people I talk to, they’re trying to figure out how to get a movie made from their book. Gangsters ask me that question. They’re like, you figure I know the answer to how to get a movie made from YouTube? and I do not have that answer. Nobody knows that. It’s hard work. Yeah, I tell them nobody knows that, the answer. It’s God. A divine being that strikes you, whether it be the Apollo or the God of Abraham, or Jesus or some higher power reaches out and touches you and says, okay, I bless you, and now you’re going to have a movie made and Robert De Niro is going to play your part. Although anymore, they don’t want De Niro to play him because they hate him now, and they want somebody else. Oh, my God. It’s always a pleasure to talk to you, Justin. Likewise, Gary. Thanks so much. If I can do anything for you here in Kansas City, and as you’re going through your thing, if you’ve got any question or anything, I’ve got that one friend, that FBI agent, that he could maybe help you with if you’re looking for a connection or something. He knows quite a little bit. And somebody else was just talking about that, looking into that, those early days. But if you do have any questions or anything that you’re stumbled about here in Kansas City, be sure and give me a call, and I’ll see if I can’t steer you to somebody. I don’t know myself. I don’t really ever look at it. Okay. Okay. Stay safe. Thank you. You too.

Fluent Fiction - Italian: Finding Firenze: A Writer's Journey from Block to Brilliance Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2026-01-11-08-38-20-it Story Transcript:It: A Firenze, in una fredda mattina d'inverno, Luca entrò nel Freelancer's Home Café.En: In Firenze, on a cold winter morning, Luca entered the Freelancer's Home Café.It: Era un luogo speciale.En: It was a special place.It: Le luci calde illuminavano l'ambiente, contrastando con l'aria gelida dell'esterno.En: The warm lights illuminated the space, contrasting with the freezing air outside.It: L'odore del caffè appena fatto riempiva l'aria, creando un'atmosfera accogliente.En: The smell of freshly made coffee filled the air, creating a welcoming atmosphere.It: Luca si sedette a un tavolo vicino alla finestra.En: Luca sat at a table near the window.It: Guardava le strade fiorentine, cariche di storia e bellezza.En: He gazed at the fiorentine streets, filled with history and beauty.It: Doveva scrivere un articolo su Firenze per un importante rivista.En: He had to write an article about Firenze for an important magazine.It: Ma c'era un problema: non sapeva da dove iniziare.En: But there was a problem: he didn't know where to begin.It: La paura di deludere se stesso e gli altri lo paralizzava.En: The fear of disappointing himself and others paralyzed him.It: Aveva bisogno di ispirazione, e presto.En: He needed inspiration, and soon.It: Giulia, una sua amica e collega, entrò nel caffè e si avvicinò.En: Giulia, a friend and colleague, entered the café and approached.It: "Ciao, Luca," disse con un sorriso incoraggiante.En: "Hi, Luca," she said with an encouraging smile.It: "Come va l'articolo?"En: "How's the article going?"It: Luca sospirò.En: Luca sighed.It: "Ho un blocco.En: "I have a block.It: Non so da dove partire."En: I don't know where to start."It: Marco, un vecchio amico, era già lì con il suo portatile.En: Marco, an old friend, was already there with his laptop.It: Stava lavorando a un progetto di design.En: He was working on a design project.It: Sentendo la conversazione, si unì: "Parla del cuore di Firenze.En: Hearing the conversation, he joined in: "Talk about the heart of Firenze.It: Aneddoti personali.En: Personal anecdotes.It: Pensa ai momenti che ti legano a questa città."En: Think of the moments that connect you to this city."It: Luca rifletteva, mentre osservava le persone fuori dalla finestra.En: Luca reflected, while observing the people outside the window.It: Ricordava le passeggiate lungo l'Arno, le notti estive in Piazza della Signoria, il profumo delle librerie antiche.En: He recalled the walks along the Arno, the summer nights in Piazza della Signoria, the scent of old bookstores.It: Poi gli venne un'idea.En: Then an idea came to him.It: Scrivere di come Firenze influenzasse ogni visitatore con la sua bellezza senza tempo.En: Write about how Firenze influences every visitor with its timeless beauty.It: Improvvisamente, le parole fluirono.En: Suddenly, the words flowed.It: Scriveva del fascino dei vicoli stretti, del suono delle campane di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: He wrote about the charm of the narrow alleys, the sound of the bells of Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Metteva in risalto storie di incontri straordinari, momenti catturati in un battito di ciglia.En: He highlighted stories of extraordinary encounters, moments captured in the blink of an eye.It: Il caffè si riempiva e svuotava, il tempo volava.En: The café filled and emptied, time flew by.It: Giulia e Marco lo incoraggiavano, l'ambiente viveva di creatività e risate.En: Giulia and Marco encouraged him, the environment buzzed with creativity and laughter.It: Luca sentiva l'energia del luogo, sentiva finalmente fiducia nelle sue capacità.En: Luca felt the energy of the place, finally feeling confident in his abilities.It: Quando il sole si abbassò e le luci del caffè presero un tono intimo, Luca terminò il suo articolo.En: When the sun lowered and the café lights took on an intimate tone, Luca finished his article.It: Lo rilesse, sorrise, lo inviò.En: He reread it, smiled, and sent it.It: Giusto in tempo.En: Just in time.It: Chiudeva il laptop, il cuore colmo di soddisfazione.En: He closed the laptop, his heart filled with satisfaction.It: Uscendo, ringraziò silenziosamente il caffè, le sue amichevoli mura, le conversazioni che l'avevano liberato.En: As he left, he silently thanked the café, its friendly walls, the conversations that had freed him.It: Aveva superato il suo dubbio.En: He had overcome his doubt.It: Sapeva che poteva farcela, che doveva solo fidarsi del suo istinto.En: He knew he could do it, that he just needed to trust his instincts.It: Firenze brillava nella notte, e Luca si ritrovava a camminare con un nuovo senso di pace.En: Firenze shone in the night, and Luca found himself walking with a new sense of peace.It: Aveva superato il blocco, riscoperto l'essenza di un luogo amato, ricordando che il vero viaggio non è solo visibile agli occhi ma anche al cuore.En: He had overcome the block, rediscovered the essence of a beloved place, remembering that the true journey is not only visible to the eyes but also to the heart. Vocabulary Words:the freelancer: il freelancerthe morning: la mattinathe atmosphere: l'atmosferato illuminate: illuminarefreezing: gelidathe smell: l'odorewelcoming: accoglientethe window: la finestrato gaze: guardarethe history: la storiathe beauty: la bellezzato disappoint: deludereto paralyze: paralizzarethe inspiration: l'ispirazioneencouraging: incoraggianteto sigh: sospirarethe block: il bloccothe design: il designthe project: il progettoto reflect: riflettereto influence: influenzarethe charm: il fascinothe alley: il vicolothe bell: la campanato highlight: mettere in risaltoextraordinary: straordinariothe encounter: l'incontroto capture: catturareto encourage: incoraggiarethe creativity: la creatività

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-210-from-homeschool-to-author-with-amos-wilson  To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Amos Christian Wilson is an independent Christian author, poet and musician. He is also a home school graduate and third born of 12 who loves reading, the outdoors, theology and history. He went from high school to a wide range of trade jobs, from carpentry to piano tuning to horse shoeing. He seeks to write books which centre around religious characters and immersive world building. In our conversation we talk about growing up as one of 12 and being homeschooled, and how a picture book about arms and armour sparked Amos's love of swords, followed by a Fiore manual from a homeschool organisation's catalogue of “toys for growing men”. We talk about some of the different jobs Amos has done over the years to support his true career as a writer. He describes his four-book Gwambi series as Treasure Island meets Chronicles of Narnia, with maybe a little bit of Charles Dickens thrown in there. You can find Amos on Substack and download a free ebook there. Or find out more on his website, https://www.acwilson.net.  As Amos isn't a historical martial artist, he has a different idea of what he would do with $1 million, and it's one that Guy is fascinated by.

Farida Studio proudly celebrated the grand opening of its beautiful new location at 120 Bloomingdale Road in White Plains on Thursday, December 18th, 2025, welcoming the community to an elegant, thoughtfully designed space dedicated to self-care and confidence. The celebration introduced guests to Farida's fantastic new studio and the personalized services it offers, from advanced skin care and rejuvenating body treatments to expertly delivered beauty treatments. Westchester Talk Radio was on hand for the event, capturing the excitement and highlighting the studio's mission and vision. At Farida Studio, the philosophy is simple and powerful: it's not about us — it's about you. With therapists recognized among the best in the industry, every service is centered on helping clients achieve, maintain, and truly enjoy their healthiest, most radiant skin.Joan Franzino of Westchester Talk Radio spoke with Anthony Fiore of Capri Cosmetology Learning Center, who highlighted the importance of education, training, and professional development in the beauty industry, and expressed enthusiasm for Farida Studio's commitment to excellence and elevated standards of care.

Pasquale e Giacinto raccontano in modo semplice e concreto quali saranno i principali trend dell'Intelligenza Artificiale nel 2026, partendo da una recente analisi della Stanford University e spiegando cosa cambierà davvero per persone, aziende e professionisti.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

KVC-Arts first welcomed Joe Di Fiore about 3 1/2 years ago when he released "Out of the Woods," a wonderful combination of jazz and orchestral works. David Fleming speaks with Joe now about an original Christmas tune, "Cuter Than Christmas," with Anna Crumley providing beautiful vocals - very fitting for this tune. Anna will also be the vocalist for a holiday concert coming up in the very near future in Newport Beach. Annnnnnd - another original Christmas tune… A favorite of David's and it's another original! One by CW Thayer!

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Da una truffa milionaria ai danni dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (onlus che si occupa della gestione della Cattedrale, del Campanile di Giotto e del Battistero di Firenze) la Squadra Mobile di Brescia ha svelato un giro d'affari illegale che in sei mesi avrebbe prodotto un trasferimento illegale di denaro, attraverso cartiere, per 30 milioni di euro. Al centro, due fratelli bergamaschi. Sequestri e perquisizioni e arresti di cittadini cinesi nel Vicentino

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.We're thrilled to introduce you to our new Executive Director, Linda Fiore. Listen to today's conversation about her journey to Creating a Family and where we're heading in this next chapter under her leadership.In this episode, we discuss:What first brought you into the world of adoption, foster care, and kinship care?When you started out, what was your “why”?What values or goals drove your work in those earliest years?What was your first introduction to Creating a Family?When presented with the opportunity to pursue the position of Executive Director, what was it about our mission or the organization's evolution that drew your interest?How did you know this was the right next step for you?What are the pivotal lessons or challenges that shaped your leadership approach?When you look at where Creating a Family stands today, what are our greatest strengths?Kinship care has become a growing focus area for us. Why do you think kinship support is so critical right now?What are some of the plans Creating a Family has to deepen our impact in this space?Our online education programs reach families and professionals across the country. From your experiences in the field, why is education so crucial in these spaces?As we continue to raise awareness of who we are and how we serve this community, what message do you want people to associate with Creating a Family?What stories or values do you hope will come through most clearly?Where do you think Creating a Family is heading in the next few years?Your “why” has probably evolved — what keeps you going now?What's one thing you've learned that you hope every family advocate carries with them from today's conversation?Finally, for those listening or reading who are inspired — individuals, professionals, or organizations — what can they do to join the mission of Creating a Family? Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: Weekly podcasts Weekly articles/blog posts Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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In questa puntata raccontiamo perché i progressi dell'AI di Google hanno spinto Sam Altman a dichiarare un “Codice Rosso” in OpenAI, sospendendo progetti come Pulse, gli agenti per shopping e salute e la pubblicità per concentrare tutte le risorse su un ChatGPT più veloce, affidabile e personalizzabile. Intanto Google accelera con l'adozione crescente dei suoi strumenti, il boom del modello visivo Nano Banana e i risultati di Gemini 3 nei benchmark, invertendo i ruoli del passato: dopo il “code red” di Google alla nascita di ChatGPT, ora è OpenAI a sentire la pressione.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Fluent Fiction - Italian: Finding Faith: Luca's Heartwarming Christmas Revelation Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2025-12-02-08-38-20-it Story Transcript:It: Il cielo sopra Firenze era un mare di stelle scintillanti, mentre la cattedrale si alzava maestosa con le sue guglie toccate dalla luce della luna.En: The sky above Firenze was a sea of sparkling stars, while the cathedral rose majestically with its spires touched by the moonlight.It: Un freddo pungente indicava l'arrivo delle festività, e le strade erano immerse nel profumo di caldarroste e spezie natalizie.En: A biting cold signaled the arrival of the holidays, and the streets were filled with the scent of roasted chestnuts and Christmas spices.It: Luca camminava al fianco di Giulia, la sua giovane sorella, mentre si dirigevano verso la Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: Luca walked beside Giulia, his young sister, as they made their way to the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Ogni Vigilia di Natale, la loro famiglia aveva la tradizione di assistere alla messa notturna, ma quest'anno Luca sentiva una strana inquietudine nel cuore.En: Every Christmas Eve, their family had the tradition of attending the midnight mass, but this year Luca felt a strange unease in his heart.It: La fede che un tempo lo aveva lasciato in pace sembrava lontana, come una vecchia amica che si era trasferita in una città distante.En: The faith that once gave him peace seemed distant, like an old friend who had moved to a faraway city.It: Giulia, con i suoi occhi sfavillanti e il sorriso a mille denti, chiacchierava allegra del presepio e delle decorazioni di Natale.En: Giulia, with her sparkling eyes and beaming smile, chatted cheerfully about the nativity scene and Christmas decorations.It: Amava questa tradizione più di ogni altra cosa, e si impegnava a tenere unita la famiglia, anche quando l'entusiasmo di Luca era vacillante.En: She loved this tradition more than anything else and was determined to keep the family united, even when Luca's enthusiasm was waning.It: "Luca, guarda che belle stelle!En: "Luca, look at those beautiful stars!"It: ", esclamò indicando il cielo.En: she exclaimed, pointing at the sky.It: Luca sorrise debolmente, ma dentro di lui il tumulto cresceva.En: Luca smiled weakly, but inside him, the turmoil was growing.It: Voleva tanto condividere i suoi pensieri con Giulia, ma temeva di deluderla.En: He wanted so much to share his thoughts with Giulia, but he feared letting her down.It: Arrivati di fronte alla grande porta della cattedrale, un coro di canti natalizi riempì l'aria, e il calore delle candele si percepiva attraverso le pareti spesse di marmo.En: Arriving in front of the great door of the cathedral, a choir of Christmas carols filled the air, and the warmth of the candles could be felt through the thick marble walls.It: Durante la messa, Luca ascoltava le parole del sacerdote, ma i suoi pensieri vagavano altrove.En: During the mass, Luca listened to the priest's words, but his thoughts wandered elsewhere.It: Osservava le espressioni serene delle persone intorno a lui e si chiedeva come potessero avere quella pace interiore.En: He observed the serene expressions of the people around him and wondered how they could have such inner peace.It: Giulia, seduta accanto a lui, avvertì la sua esitazione.En: Giulia, sitting next to him, sensed his hesitation.It: Dopo la messa, durante un momento di raccoglimento davanti al presepio, Giulia si girò verso di lui e sussurrò, "Sai, Luca, per me il Natale non è solo fede.En: After the mass, during a moment of reflection in front of the nativity scene, Giulia turned to him and whispered, "You know, Luca, for me, Christmas isn't just about faith.It: È stare insieme, sentire che siamo una famiglia.En: It's about being together, feeling that we are a family.It: Alla fine, quello che conta è volerci bene."En: In the end, what matters is that we care for each other."It: Quelle parole toccarono Luca profondamente.En: Those words touched Luca deeply.It: Realizzò che forse non era necessario abbracciare ogni aspetto della tradizione per trovare serenità.En: He realized that perhaps it wasn't necessary to embrace every aspect of the tradition to find serenity.It: La vera importanza era il legame che teneva uniti lui, Giulia e il resto della famiglia.En: The true importance was the bond that kept him, Giulia, and the rest of the family together.It: Mentre uscivano dalla cattedrale, con il cuore più leggero e un nuovo senso di pace, Luca strinse la mano di Giulia.En: As they exited the cathedral, with his heart lighter and a new sense of peace, Luca held Giulia's hand.It: Capì che il valore della tradizione non stava nel credo, ma nell'amore condiviso.En: He understood that the value of the tradition wasn't in the belief, but in the shared love.It: In quel momento di rivelazione, una nuova luce s'era accesa nel suo cuore e sembrava che persino le stelle brillassero di più.En: In that moment of revelation, a new light had been kindled in his heart, and it seemed as if even the stars shone more brightly.It: Forse, pensò, non era tanto lontano da quella vecchia amica, dopotutto.En: Perhaps, he thought, he wasn't so far from that old friend after all. Vocabulary Words:the cathedral: la cattedralethe spires: le gugliemajestically: maestosamoonlight: luce della lunabiting cold: freddo pungenteunease: inquietudinefaith: la fededistant: lontanaturmoil: tumultothe choir: il corocandles: candeleserene: serenepeace: pacehesitation: esitazionemoment of reflection: momento di raccoglimentobond: legameto care for: voler beneserenity: serenitàrevelation: rivelazionesparkling: scintillantithe streets: le stradetradition: la tradizionenativity scene: presepiodecorations: decorazionito whisper: sussurrarefestivities: festivitàold friend: vecchia amicaspices: spezieyoung sister: giovane sorellainner: interiore

In questa puntata speciale, Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore celebrano i tre anni di ChatGPT, ripercorrendo come questo strumento abbia cambiato radicalmente il nostro modo di lavorare, comunicare e innovare; analizzano inoltre il Progetto Genesis appena approvato da Donald Trump e le sue potenziali implicazioni geopolitiche e tecnologiche, commentando anche le novità rilasciate nelle ultime ore che confermano la velocità con cui l'AI continua a trasformare il mondo.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-207-the-perfectly-rational-fencer-with-martin-hoppner  To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr Martin Höppner has been involved in historical martial arts since joining a local reenactment club, “Berliner Rittergilde” in 2008 before getting into historical fencing in 2015 studying classical sabre and rapier at the University of Berlin club. He then moved into sword and buckler, inspired by Roland Warzecha's work (you can hear from Roland here) and Fiore's Art of Arms, before being seduced by Manciolino and Marozzo. In 2017 he co-founded Schildwache Potsdam as a collaboration between the Berliner Rittergilde and the University of Potsdam's Academic Sports Centre. In 2020 and 2021 he was on the DDHF national longsword first squad. And since 2022 he was on the Rapier national squad, where he is now head coach. He runs the Schildwache Potsdam YouTube channel, and is one of the organizers of one of my favourite events, Swords of the Renaissance. He is a research associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and has a PhD in economics and social sciences. Economics is very relevant to this episode, because Martin and I discuss how Game Theory relates to fencing. What is it rational to do when sparring and what do people actually do? What is the most rational way to react to an opponent who hits you increasingly hard or fast? Should you match them, or walk away? We also talk about rule sets in tournaments, and Martin's thoughts on how to devise them to stop people gaming the rules, and make the fencing cleaner and scoring fairer.   Links of interest: Schildwache Potsdam (Martin's club) and info on Swords of the Renaissance event: https://schildwache-potsdam.de/ The Schildwache Potsdam Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SchildwachePotsdam Schildwache Potsdam YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/schildwache-potsdam  

In questo spin-off AI Impact, Giacinto Fiore intervista Ivano Corradetti, che racconta come la sua professione sia cambiata radicalmente. Dalla faticosa ricerca manuale dei bandi su siti regionali e europei, è passato allo sviluppo di  "CambiaVerso Plus," una piattaforma che utilizza quattro motori di IA per il matching semantico delle opportunità. Questa soluzione ha permesso a Ivano e al suo team di scalare drasticamente il modello di business, gestendo centinaia di progetti mantenendo il 90% di successo.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Send us a textIt's all about indie horror on this episode as we welcome actors Brett Wagner (The Crazies) and John Fiore (Sopranos) along with producer Jeff Descoteaux to discuss the indie horror project Shiver: Slaying All Night which also stars Martin Klebba, Warrington Gillette, and Vincente DiSanti. This Christmas/winter themed horror is one that promises to bring some fun, 80's homage horror set in modern times.To get in on the action, check out the Kickstarter with tons of perks at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiver/shiver-slaying-all-night?ref=discovery&term=shiver&total_hits=105&category_id=297Follow us on Social Media: @pvdhorror Instagram, X, TikTok, FacebookWatch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@pvdhorrorSpecial thanks to John Brennan for the intro and outro music. Be sure to find his music on social media at @badtechno or the following:https://johnbrennan.bandcamp.com

(0:06:32): ESPN Bet gets divorce from Penn Gaming, ESPN makes new partnership with DraftKings.... (0:55:24): Ossi "Monarch" Ketola was banned from X and claims a rival casino company bribed them to do it.... (1:29:05): Report: Caesars will be phasing out the "Grand Bazaar Shops" behind Horseshoe, often used by WSOP players for quick meals on breaks.... (2:00:56): Wizard of Oz has saved the Las Vegas Sphere -- sort of.... (2:32:58): Do you live in an apartment/condo/townhome in Vegas? Then you might have been overcharged by NV Energy since 2002.... (2:47:15): Salt & Fin -- in the former Fiore location -- has closed at Harrah's Resort Southern California, and Druff talks about a battle he once had with that property which resulted in a major policy change.

Antonella Lattanzi"Chiara"Einaudi Editorewww.einaudi.itL'infanzia non è un tempo fuori dal pericolo, Marianna e Chiara lo sanno bene. Ci sono le feste di compleanno in salotto, mano nella mano, i panini con la frittata divisi a metà e nascosti in tasca fino all'intervallo. Ma c'è anche l'ombra lunga di due famiglie in apparenza diversissime, eppure uguali nella violenza con cui trafiggono. Per anni hanno creduto di essere sole, le uniche a vivere nell'oscurità, a dover affrontare i mostri. E invece scoprono che la salvezza può esistere in un patto in cui l'una per l'altra diventano il rifugio che il mondo non sa offrire. Ma cosa succede quando quel patto si rompe sotto i colpi della realtà, o forse solo della vita adulta? Dopo Cose che non si raccontano, Antonella Lattanzi torna a emozionarci e scuoterci con una storia potente, profondamente vera, che racconta di ogni volta che, nel mezzo del buio, qualcuno ha trovato il modo di tenerci viviAntonella Lattanzi è nata a Bari nel 1979 e vive a Roma. Scrittrice e sceneggiatrice, ha pubblicato i romanzi Devozione (Einaudi 2010 e 2023), Prima che tu mi tradisca (Einaudi 2013), Una storia nera (Mondadori 2017), Questo giorno che incombe (HarperCollins Italia 2021), Cose che non si raccontano (Einaudi 2023 e 2025), e Chiara (Einaudi 2025). Per il cinema ha scritto, tra le altre, le sceneggiature di Fiore di Claudio Giovannesi, Il campione e Una storia nera (tratto dal suo romanzo omonimo) di Leonardo D'Agostini. Collabora con il «Corriere della Sera». È tradotta in diverse lingue.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

La Renaissance, ce renouveau artistique, intellectuel et scientifique qui transforma l'Europe à partir du XVe siècle, ne naquit pas par hasard à Florence. Cette cité toscane réunissait alors des conditions politiques, économiques et culturelles uniques qui en firent le berceau d'un mouvement sans équivalent dans l'histoire occidentale.D'abord, Florence était une république riche et indépendante. Sa prospérité reposait sur le commerce et surtout sur la banque. La puissante famille Médicis, à la tête d'un empire financier, finançait non seulement les États d'Europe, mais aussi les artistes, les architectes et les penseurs. Cosme de Médicis puis Laurent le Magnifique comprirent que la gloire artistique pouvait servir la gloire politique. En soutenant des figures comme Botticelli, Léonard de Vinci ou Michel-Ange, ils firent de Florence une vitrine éclatante de leur influence et un centre culturel de premier plan.La structure politique de la cité joua aussi un rôle majeur. Florence n'était pas une monarchie mais une république oligarchique, où la liberté de pensée et le débat intellectuel avaient plus de place qu'ailleurs. Les humanistes florentins, inspirés par la redécouverte des textes grecs et latins, replacèrent l'homme au centre de la réflexion — une rupture avec la vision médiévale dominée par la religion. Des penseurs comme Marsile Ficin ou Pic de la Mirandole défendirent l'idée d'un être humain libre, doué de raison et capable de s'élever par le savoir.Florence bénéficiait aussi d'un héritage artistique exceptionnel. La proximité avec les ruines romaines, la maîtrise artisanale des ateliers et la tradition gothique italienne fournirent une base solide à l'innovation. Les artistes florentins expérimentèrent de nouvelles techniques : la perspective, la peinture à l'huile, l'étude du corps humain. Brunelleschi révolutionna l'architecture avec la coupole de Santa Maria del Fiore, symbole éclatant du génie florentin.Enfin, la concurrence entre les cités italiennes – Venise, Milan, Rome – stimula l'émulation. Chaque ville voulait attirer les meilleurs artistes pour affirmer sa puissance. Mais Florence garda une avance intellectuelle : elle ne se contenta pas de produire des œuvres, elle inventa une nouvelle manière de penser l'art et le savoir.Ainsi, la Renaissance florentine fut bien plus qu'une explosion de beauté : elle fut le fruit d'une société ouverte, prospère et avide de connaissance, où l'art devint le miroir d'une nouvelle idée de l'homme et du monde. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In questa puntata Giacinto Fiore incontra Giovanni Giamminola, manager con 25 anni di esperienza in aziende complesse e autore del bestseller “Il manager potenziato”.Insieme esplorano come l'Intelligenza Artificiale generativa (come ChatGPT) stia trasformando il modo di pensare e agire dei manager: da semplice strumento operativo a vero cambio di paradigma nella strategia, nella creatività e nella leadership.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

In questa puntata ti portiamo dentro la sede di Google, nel cuore pulsante della Silicon Valley. Ti raccontiamo cosa abbiamo visto, respirato e imparato durante la nostra visita, e ascolterai l'intervista esclusiva a Ivan Nardini, Google Developer Advocate, che ci ha svelato come l'intelligenza artificiale sta cambiando il modo in cui Google innova ogni giorno.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

In questa quarta tappa del nostro viaggio nella Silicon Valley incontriamo Danilo Costa, CEO e Founder di Coderblock. Da Palermo alla California, Danilo ci racconta come è passato da un'idea e uno zaino a giornate piene di pitch, incontri e notti corte, spinto dall'energia della Valley.Ne esce un racconto autentico, fatto di entusiasmo, dubbi e disciplina quotidiana. Aprire negli Stati Uniti, imparare una lingua fatta di pitch da 30 secondi, costruire una rete che crede in te. Un episodio che mostra che il sogno americano non è una cartolina, ma un lavoro costante, reale e possibile.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvInviaci le tue domande e curiosità sull'Intelligenza Artificiale all'email: info@iaspiegatasemplice.it Pasquale e Giacinto risponderanno in una puntata speciale un sabato al mese.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

In this episode, I speak with Adam Fiore from the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy about the deeper connection between trauma and healing. Adam shares how a serious illness at sixteen led him to homeopathy and shaped his understanding of what true recovery means. We explore how trauma shows up in a person's life and why a trauma-informed approach is essential in homeopathic practice. Adam also talks about the importance of creating a safe space for clients to share their stories and how bird remedies reflect themes of freedom, growth, and emotional release. Episode Highlights: 04:37 - How Adam became interested in trauma work 07:23 - Trauma-informed approach in homeopathy 12:55 - Adjunct therapies for trauma 16:08 - Approaching trauma cases in the clinic 21:45 - Using different homeopathic modalities 24:43 - Defining trauma-informed practice 30:12 - Benefits of homeopathy for trauma 34:57 - Discussion of bird remedies 39:04 - Case example using bird remedy 41:20 - Understanding Human Striving 44:37 - Linking Cygnus remedies with elements like sulfur 47:57 - Value of patient commitment 53:24 - Honoring teachers and lineage in homeopathy About my Guests: Adam Fiore has been teaching homeopathy and mindfulness practices for over ten years.  As a professional Homeopath, registered with the College of Homeopaths of Ontario (Canada), Adam has vast hands on experience both in private practice and as a facilitator and teacher.  He has taught and facilitated thousands of people and currently teaches at the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy (MICH).   With a focus on facilitating awareness and inner transformation, through hearing what is really behind the presenting challenge, Adam is committed to dialogue and collaborations that invite learning and heart centered action. He is known for his dedication, insight, patience and compassion. Find out more about Adam Website: https://www.adamfiorehomeopathy.com/ To learn more about the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy (MICH) https://www.michmontreal.com/ If you would like to support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast, please consider making a donation by visiting www.EugenieKruger.com and click the DONATE button at the top of the site. Every donation about $10 will receive a shout-out on a future episode. Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/ Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom                              

Confira os destaques do Jornal da Manhã desta quinta-feira (16): O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) criticou duramente o Congresso Nacional, afirmando que o Legislativo “nunca teve a qualidade de baixo nível que tem agora”. A declaração, direcionada à extrema-direita eleita em 2022, gerou forte reação da oposição e aumentou o desgaste na relação entre os Poderes. Enquanto aliados tentam conter a crise, o presidente da Câmara preferiu evitar polêmicas, mas saiu em defesa dos parlamentares. Reportagem: Paulo Édson Fiore. O Tribunal de Contas da União aceitou o recurso da Advocacia-Geral da União e suspendeu a exigência de que o governo federal busque o déficit zero em 2025. A decisão monocrática do ministro Benjamin Zymler representa alívio para o Executivo, evitando, ao menos temporariamente, o risco de bloqueio adicional de até R$ 31 bilhões no Orçamento deste ano. Reportagem: Igor Damasceno. O deputado federal Eduardo Bolsonaro criticou a senadora Tereza Cristina em suas redes sociais, afirmando que ela atua em prol dos “interesses dos grandes capitais”. As declarações foram feitas em resposta a comentários da congressista sobre a disputa presidencial de 2026. Reportagem: Beatriz Manfredini. O presidente venezuelano Nicolás Maduro acusou os Estados Unidos de promoverem “golpes de Estado da CIA” após Donald Trump confirmar que autorizou operações secretas da agência na Venezuela. Segundo o New York Times, as missões incluíam ações letais contra o governo venezuelano. Trump confirmou que havia dado autorizações para missões na Venezuela, mas se recusou a responder a uma pergunta sobre se os agentes de inteligência receberam permissão para eliminar Maduro. Reportagem: Pedro Tritto. O secretário do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos, Scott Bessent, sugeriu uma pausa mais longa nas altas tarifas sobre produtos chineses, em troca de Pequim adiar seu plano recentemente anunciado de impor limites mais rígidos às terras-raras. Reportagem: Eliseu Caetano. Essas e outras notícias você acompanha no Jornal da Manhã. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Italian: An Autumn Night in Firenze: The Awakening of an Artist Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2025-10-12-22-34-02-it Story Transcript:It: Il sole autunnale splendeva sulla Piazza del Duomo.En: The autumn sun shone over the Piazza del Duomo.It: L'aria era frizzante e i colori delle foglie cadevano dolcemente lungo le strade di Firenze.En: The air was crisp, and the colors of the leaves gently fell along the streets of Firenze.It: Tra la folla di turisti e artisti di strada, Luca si fermava, osservando la maestosa Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: Among the crowd of tourists and street artists, Luca paused, observing the majestic Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Quel giorno era speciale.En: That day was special.It: Era il giorno precedente alla sua prima esposizione artistica.En: It was the day before his first art exhibition.It: Accanto a lui c'era Alessandra, con lo sguardo attento.En: Beside him was Alessandra, with an attentive gaze.It: "Luca, sei sicuro di voler includere quel nuovo quadro?"En: "Luca, are you sure you want to include that new painting?"It: chiese, cercando di non mostrarsi troppo preoccupata.En: she asked, trying not to seem too worried.It: "Sì, Ale," rispose Luca, incrociando le braccia sul petto.En: "Yes, Ale," replied Luca, crossing his arms over his chest.It: "Questo quadro rappresenta la mia visione.En: "This painting represents my vision.It: Voglio che Marco lo veda."En: I want Marco to see it."It: Alessandra sospirò.En: Alessandra sighed.It: Lei amava Luca e sosteneva il suo sogno, ma era anche pragmatica.En: She loved Luca and supported his dream, but she was also pragmatic.It: A volte, lottava per vedere un futuro stabile nella carriera artistica di Luca.En: At times, she struggled to envision a stable future in Luca's artistic career.It: Nel frattempo, Marco, il proprietario della galleria, li stava aspettando vicino all'entrata.En: Meanwhile, Marco, the gallery owner, was waiting for them near the entrance.It: Era un uomo appassionato di arte, sempre alla ricerca di nuovi talenti.En: He was a man passionate about art, always on the lookout for new talents.It: "Luca, sei pronto per domani?"En: "Luca, are you ready for tomorrow?"It: chiese con un sorriso incoraggiante.En: he asked with an encouraging smile.It: "Sì, Marco.En: "Yes, Marco.It: Non vedo l'ora," rispose Luca con un entusiasmo un po' nervoso.En: I can't wait," replied Luca with slightly nervous enthusiasm.It: La sera arrivò presto, portando con sé l'atmosfera mistica delle luci delle case e il profumo delle castagne arrostite.En: Evening came early, bringing with it the mystical atmosphere of the house lights and the scent of roasted chestnuts.It: Luca trascorse la notte a mettere a punto gli ultimi dettagli.En: Luca spent the night fine-tuning the final details.It: Alla galleria, l'arte prendeva vita.En: At the gallery, the art came to life.It: Il giorno dell'esposizione, la sala si riempì di curiosi, artisti e critici.En: On the day of the exhibition, the hall filled with curious onlookers, artists, and critics.It: Ogni quadro di Luca rifletteva una parte di lui, ma era il nuovo pezzo a catturare l'attenzione di tutti.En: Every painting of Luca's reflected a part of him, but it was the new piece that captured everyone's attention.It: Alcuni mormoravano, incerti; altri erano affascinati.En: Some murmured, uncertain; others were fascinated.It: "Questo è diverso da tutto," disse una signora che osservava attentamente.En: "This is different from everything," said a woman observing carefully.It: Luca, osservando la scena da lontano, sentì il nodo allo stomaco allentarsi leggermente.En: Luca, watching the scene from afar, felt the knot in his stomach ease slightly.It: "È unica," disse Marco, avvicinandosi.En: "It's unique," said Marco, approaching.It: "Voglio offrirti uno spazio per una mostra personale.En: "I want to offer you a space for a personal exhibition.It: Vedo qualcosa di speciale nel tuo lavoro."En: I see something special in your work."It: Gli occhi di Luca si illuminarono.En: Luca's eyes lit up.It: Marco era colpito!En: Marco was impressed!It: Alessandra si avvicinò a Luca e gli strinse la mano.En: Alessandra approached Luca and squeezed his hand.It: "Vedi?En: "See?It: Hai fatto colpo.En: You made an impression.It: Sono fiera di te," sussurrò dolcemente.En: I'm proud of you," she whispered softly.It: "Io devo ringraziarti, Ale.En: "I have to thank you, Ale.It: Per tutto il supporto," disse Luca con voce trepidante.En: For all the support," said Luca with a trembling voice.It: Quella sera, tornando a casa, Luca camminava più leggero, il cuore pieno di speranza e fiducia.En: That evening, returning home, Luca walked more lightly, his heart filled with hope and confidence.It: Aveva finalmente trovato la sua strada, sostenuto da chi amava.En: He had finally found his path, supported by those he loved.It: A Firenze, sotto il cielo stellato di autunno, Luca aveva compreso che il vero valore dell'arte sta nel rischiare e nel credere in sé stessi.En: In Firenze, under the starry autumn sky, Luca understood that the true value of art lies in taking risks and believing in oneself.It: E con quella nuova consapevolezza, iniziava un nuovo capitolo della sua vita artistica.En: And with that new awareness, he began a new chapter of his artistic life. Vocabulary Words:the autumn: l'autunnothe cathedral: la cattedralemajestic: maestosathe exhibition: l'esposizioneattentive: attentoto include: includereto cross: incrociareto represent: rappresentareto support: sostenerepragmatic: pragmaticato struggle: lottarethe gallery: la galleriapassionate: appassionatothe talent: il talentothe evening: la seramystical: misticaroasted: arrostiteto fine-tune: mettere a puntothe detail: il dettaglioto reflect: riflettereto murmur: mormorareuncertain: incertito be fascinated: essere affascinatiunique: unicato light up: illuminarsito impress: colpireto squeeze: stringeretrembling: trepidantehope: la speranzato understand: comprendere

Welcome back to Construct your life! In this week's special Business Live show, Brad and I sat down with Clint Fiore, founder of Dealonomy, to unpack one of the most innovative shifts happening in the business brokerage world right now.After a decade of helping entrepreneurs buy and sell companies, Clint decided to flip the model on its head. Instead of catering to sellers like every traditional brokerage, Dealonomy is designed to be the most buyer-friendly platform on the planet. Think of it as a curated, high-quality marketplace — no more messy listings, ghost brokers, or bait-and-switch deals.Clint breaks down how he raised $3 million, built a tech-driven team, and created a system that makes buying and selling businesses faster, smoother, and more transparent — all while keeping relationships at the center of the process. We talk about what buyers get wrong, how to stand out as a great buyer, and why empathy, patience, and listening skills are still the ultimate deal-closing tools.This one's for entrepreneurs, dealmakers, and searchers who are tired of the old-school M&A grind and ready to see how technology and heart can actually work together to change the game.Key Highlights:- How Clint flipped the traditional brokerage model — from sell-side to buy-side focused.- The $3M raise that built Dealonomy, and how he assembled an all-star investor and advisory team.- Why most business marketplaces fail — and how Dealonomy vets only “good deals for good people.”- The platform's AI-powered financial analysis that streamlines valuations and offers real-time insights.- The “freemium” membership model that aligns incentives with serious buyers.- How buyers can stand out by leading with empathy, clarity, and strong communication.- Why relationship skills are becoming more important than ever in a high-tech world.- The long-term vision: becoming the trusted, quality-first platform people think of before BizBuySell.If you're serious about buying or selling a business, or just curious where the future of small business acquisitions is headed, check out Dealonomy.com and connect with Clint on X and LinkedIn.And if you enjoyed this live breakdown, share it with someone who's in the deal game — it might just change how they look at buying and selling forever.

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Chris Fiore was one of my very first guests on the podcast and he returns to chat about his new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” which was part of the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA and earned him the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette. I just love talking to Chris and was very eager to see what was brewing in his 4 Questions all these years later. You can check out Chris's work at chrisfiore.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Discover Indie Film Links DIF Podcast Website - DIF Instagram - DIF BlueSky Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website Sherman Oaks Film Festival Film Invasion Los Angeles

Chris Fiore is back! This podcast holds a special place in my heart.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The journey that I have been on for a decade, running two film festivals per year and inviting those filmmakers onto this podcast, began with Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016 when Chris Fiore submitted his documentary “Goodwoman” to this first-year festival and took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary! Imagine my delight when Chris submitted a new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” to the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA!                                                                                                                                    Not only that, but Chris took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette this time. I had no idea until this podcast that this particular award for Directing meant the world to Chris, a professional editor. Call me crazy, but I could not have asked for a better Tenth Anniversary FI-LA story! You can check out Chris's work at chrisfiore.com and I hope you enjoy our conversation! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Discover Indie Film Podcast Links DIF Podcast Website - DIF Instagram - DIF BlueSky Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Links DIF Foundation - Sherman Oaks Film Festival - Film Invasion Los Angeles

For anyone who lived through the classic Volkswagen scene of the 1980s, the Raspberry Volkswagen Type 3 Fastback with the Targa Top is impossible to forget. This one-of-a-kind custom VW build captured the spirit of the era and became one of the most talked-about Type 3s of its time. In this episode of Let's Talk Dubs, I sit down with Eddie, the man behind this legendary Fastback, to hear the full story. From the moment a teenage enthusiast first stumbled onto the car, to the late nights in the neighborhood garage, this build represents the passion that fueled the VW hobby in the 80s. We cover how the custom Type 3 Fastback dominated the awards at Type 3 Day, went on to appear in Volkswagen magazines across the globe, and cemented its place in VW history. Whether you're into Type 3 restoration, 80s Volkswagen culture, or iconic show cars that changed the scene, this is an episode you won't want to miss.     www.letstalkdubs.com www.vwtrendsmagazine.com www.rosswulf.com  

Antonio Diurno"Fiore di marzo"Il delitto Nadia RocciaPrefazione di Francesca Romana CicolellaScatole Parlanti Edizioniwww.scatoleparlanti.itIl 14 marzo del 1998 la piccola comunità di Castelluccio dei Sauri, nel foggiano, viene sconvolta dall'uccisione della diciottenne Nadia Roccia. Un giallo a tinte luciferine, un crimine efferato avvolto da numerosi interrogativi. Le assassine sono le migliori amiche della ragazza, Annamaria e Mariena. A distanza di quasi tre decenni il movente appare ancora fumoso. Il protagonista di questo libro ripercorre i luoghi, ascolta le testimonianze di chi fu coinvolto nella vita quotidiana di Nadia e nei giorni terribili delle indagini e del processo. Fiore di marzo non è solo un saggio. In parallelo al viaggio nella follia del “caso Roccia” c'è un altro percorso da intraprendere. Un'altra storia rimasta in sospeso per tanto, troppo tempo. Per continuare a sperare nel bene, anche quando nelle tenebre si rischia di perdere l'orientamento.Antonio Diurno è nato a Foggia nel 1978. Criminologo AICIS (Associazione Italiana Criminologi per l'Investigazione e la Sicurezza), è laureato in Lettere moderne e in Criminologia. Nel 2024 ha pubblicato per Augh! Edizioni Cattive divise. La banda della Uno Bianca, dal quale è stato tratto il monologo true crime Storia nera della Uno Bianca col quale è attualmente in tour.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

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PHILIPPE LEÃO e MATHEUS FIORE são críticos de cinema. Eles vão bater um papo sobre filmes, séries e o atual momento do cinema brasileiro. O Vilela ainda lembra quando os filmes não falavam.

Welcome back! In this episode, I sit down with Clint Fiore, a business broker who's changing the game for buyers and sellers alike. Clint shares his journey from startup founder to building a brokerage he wished existed when he was trying to buy his first business. We talk about the rise of ETA, why authenticity beats credentials, and how his new platform, Dealonomy, is making business buying and selling faster, fairer, and way more transparent. If you've ever thought about buying or selling a business, this conversation will give you the insider's playbook.Key Highlights:- From Startup to Brokerage: Clint's background as an entrepreneur led him to build the kind of buyer-friendly brokerage he couldn't find when he started.- Industry Shift: The biggest change isn't in how deals are done—it's in the massive surge of buyers flooding the market.- Authenticity Wins: Forget acronyms and polished suits—buyers and sellers want real people they can trust.- How to Stand Out as a Buyer: To brokers, show you're a reliable closer. To sellers, show you care about their people, culture, and legacy.- The Surrogate Kid Effect: Sellers often want to hand their business to someone who feels like a younger version of themselves.- Dealonomy's Edge: A buyer-focused platform built on quality control, zero commissions for sellers, and a $10K guarantee—reimagining the deal process from the ground up.- The Future of Brokerage: Less mystery, more transparency, and a process that serves both sides without wasting time.Final Thoughts:Buying or selling a business doesn't have to feel like chasing a needle in a haystack. Clint's approach—and Dealonomy's model—proves that when you align incentives and focus on quality, everyone wins.If you found value in this episode, share it with a friend and leave us a quick review. Catch you on the next one!

Mystical Anarchism, Rosicrucianism, Josephin Peladan, Symbolism/Symbolist movement, subliminal Symbolist techniques, theurgy, Maurice Maeterlinck, The Blue Bird/Project Bluebird, Symbolism is Russia, Georgy Chulkov, Viacheslav Ivanov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Boris Savinkov, Merezhkovsky's Trinitarianism, Joachim of Fiore, the Joachim revival in France, the Status of Spirit/Third Testament/Eternal Gospel, Huysmans & La-Bas, Nikolai Fedorov, Cosmism, transhumanism, noosphere and how it relates to Joachim, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Iona Brikhnichev, Alexander Gorsky, the transformation of the God-seekers to God-builders, "The Tower," the Rites of Dionysus, Anna Mintslova, Andrei Bely. Rudolf Steiner, realia & realiora, a society based around the sobornost (cultic-theater), the cultic-theater as a replacement for government, acting as theurgy, acting as an act of possession, Japanese Noh theater and other traditions of possession in theater, audience participation, Mystical Anarchism's influence, role-laying games (RPGs), Dungeons and Dragons (D & D), the shift from passively observing narratives to co-creating them, MAGA as cultic-theaterMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

y en mitad del trayecto vuelven a ser la norma esta madrugada. Luca del Fiore. Hoy se ha visto suspendida la red de trenes de alta velocidad entre Majarabique y Sevilla. Se han visto afectados los trayectos entre Sevilla, Córdoba y Madrid. Algunos pasajeros han visto su viaje interrumpido a medio camino, mientras que muchos otros han tenido que esperar y siguen esperando en las estaciones para que salga su tren. Hemos podido hablar con algunas de las afectadas. Dentro del tren estaba completamente apagado, lo único que había era la luz, pero no había aire acondicionado. Entonces, sales fuera ...

Sometimes, there are films that stay with us, and A LITTLE FELLOW: The Legacy of A.P. Giannini, directed by Davide Fiore, is one of those films, and I'm pleased to present Davide today on our #LittleItalyPodcast.  Back in the day, banks were primarily for the wealthy, and the poor and working class immigrants often stashed their savings under a mattress. But at the turn of the 20th century, A.P. Giannini revolutionized the industry with his small bank in San Francisco. A first-generation Italian-American, his goal was to serve “the little fellow” and breed prosperity within his immigrant community. By building trust and giving loans on a simple handshake, he created one of the largest banks in the country – Bank of America. A LITTLE FELLOW tells his story, and it's remarkable. In addition, A.P. Giannini was also one of the first investors in Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Hewlett-Packard. His forward-thinking helped the country through two World Wars and the Great Depression.  Davide is a native of Torino, Italy, and has made a name for himself directing and editing in the Italian fashion and advertising industry. He eventually started filming music videos, working along side major Italian labels, singers, and DJ's, when he embarked on his first documentary, titled JUST US, about two Italian DJ's. That documentary gained worldwide distribution, and Davide went on to work in Germany, and London. His subsequent photo exhibition, I'VE ALREADY SEEN IT SOMEWHERE, showcased New York movie locations, and has been hosted in Torino, Rome, and Miami, and published by Vogue Italia.  His latest film, A LITTLE FELLOW, is blowing up for its incredible vision and artistic expression. I simply loved it, and had no idea about the story of A.P. Giannini. Please join me in welcoming Davide Fiore on all video and audio podcast platforms of #DeborahKobyltLIVE, #LittleItalyPodcast, & #LittleItalyOfLAPodcast. I'm your host, #DeborahZaraKobylt, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here.

We learn about the life and work of artist Joseph Fiore, whose paintings were influenced by his time in Maine—and about a film and exhibit honoring his legacy

Interview with Blaine Monaghan, President & CEO of Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/pacific-ridge-exploration-tsxvpex-tapping-into-bcs-copper-gold-amid-global-demand-surge-5754Recording date: 11th June 2025Pacific Ridge Exploration Limited (TSXV:PEX) has undergone a significant strategic transformation, joining the prestigious Fiore Group while pivoting from planned US expansion back to its core British Columbia copper-gold portfolio. Under CEO Blaine Monaghan's leadership, the company now controls 100% of five promising projects in BC's emerging critical minerals landscape.The partnership with the Fiore Group represents a major validation of Pacific Ridge's asset quality, bringing strategic advisors Rob McLeod and Ryan Waymark alongside crucial capital access and M&A expertise. "I think I found most gratifying over this past year where it's been really really hard to access capital in the market and you begin to question and wonder if your projects are as good as you think you are and that was really validation," Monaghan explained.The company's flagship Kliyul project has attracted significant investment, with over $14 million spent and 19,000 meters of drilling completed since 2021. Management targets an inaugural resource estimate of minimum 250 million tons, with recent geophysical surveys suggesting the majority of the system remains untested. Highlight intercepts exceed 300 meters of 0.8% copper equivalent, with mineralization extending to 600 meters depth.Pacific Ridge's RDP project presents exceptional high-grade potential, building on Antofagasta Minerals' discovery of 110 meters grading 1.4% copper equivalent - one of BC's best intervals in 2022. The upcoming $1.5 million drill program will test expansion potential from this discovery, with geological interpretation indicating a steeply dipping pipe system leading to deeper mineralization.The company's tight capital structure of only 19 million shares outstanding provides significant leverage to drilling success, particularly given the high-grade nature of targets in the increasingly active Stikine terrain. With regional momentum building around discoveries like Amarc's nearby Joy project and government support for critical minerals development, Pacific Ridge is positioned to capitalize on both local and global copper market dynamics.View Pacific Ridge Exploration's company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/pacific-ridge-explorationSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

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With World's Toughest Mudder coming up soon and it being both the first time the event is taking place in Europe as well as Katelyn's first time tackling the event herself, we figured it would be a good time to both selflessly and selfishly have an episode focused on first timer questions! Josh Fiore had been answering first timer questions on the WTM First Timer facebook group so we figured that he would be a great guest due to him being knowledgeable and has shown to take time out of his day to try to help those who are preparing to take on this ultra OCR! Josh shares his experinces and insights about training, race preparation, and how to stay positive during all 25.5 hours of World's Toughest Mudder!  Start – 4:02 – Intro 4:02 – 17:06 – Quick News 17:06 – 18:11 – Content Preface 18:11 – 1:20:15 - Josh Fiore Interview 1:20:15 – End – Outro Next weekend we aren't sure who we will have on the show yet but Mike has an idea that is proving to be pretty timely!  ____ News Stories: Jaleesa Himka Graduated Sara Korba Eye Surgery Jessika Poppe Engaged Jess O'Connell Had Baby Chainsaw Rick Has Cancer Ulrikke Evensen Injured Again World's Oldest Bodybuilder One World Canine OCR Clothing Optional 5K DEKA World Championship Location Spartan Ohio Ultra, Beast, and Super Podiums Tug Mud Dare Podiums Spartan Kyiv Sprint and Super Podiums Spartan Big Bear and Austin Trail Podiums Spartan Toronto Sprint and Super Podiums Tough Mudder Infinity Philadelphia Podiums Bear Crawl OCR Podiums Spartan UK National Series London West Super and Beast Podiums Spartan Chiba Super Podiums Spartan Ivory's Rock Ultra and Beast Podiums Spartan Zandvoort Beast Podiums ASCO Spartacus Dash Podiums Spartan Ivory Rock Sprint and Super Podiums Toughest Malmo Podiums Spartan Italy National Series Cesenatico Sprint and Super Podiums Rumble Fitness 3K Podiums Dog Poker Secret Link Dubstep Karaoke Secret Link Beer Solo Secret Link Money Lesson Secret Link Jeppson's Malort Secret Link ____ Related Episodes: 114. Spartan Greek Peak Winter Sprint with Elites! 194. Kismet Cliff Run with Coree Woltering, Tom Hooper, and More! 328. The Final FIT Challenge OCR with Elites, Ultras, and More! 358. World's Toughest Mudder 2023 (Part 1: Community Dinner and Race Day Interviews) 360. World's Toughest Mudder 2023! (Part 3: Bar Crawl Interviews and a Musical Performance) 382. New England OCR Expo! (Part 2: Athletes, Speeches, and Staff) 401. The Final BoldrDash with Racers, and Lynn Hall! 402. Josh Fiore on Winning Spartan Killington Ultra, and Unfinished Business at World's Toughest Mudder! 413. World's Toughest Mudder 2024! (Part 4: Bar Crawl Interviews) 433. New England OCR Expo 2025! (Part 2: Athletes, Speeches, and Awards) ____ The OCR Report Patreon Supporters: Jason Dupree, Kim DeVoss, Samantha Thompson, Matt Puntin, Brad Kiehl, Charlotte Engelman, Erin Grindstaff, Hank Stefano, Arlene Stefano, Laura Ritter, Steven Ritter, Sofia Harnedy, Kenny West, Cheryl Miller, Jessica Johnson, Scott "The Fayne" Knowles, Nick Ryker, Christopher Hoover, Kevin Gregory Jr., Evan Eirich, Ashley Reis, Brent George, Justin Manning, Wendell Lagosh, Logan Nagle, Angela Bowers, Asa Coddington, Thomas Petersen, Seth Rinderknecht, Bonnie Wilson, Steve Bacon from The New England OCR Expo, and Robert Landman. Sponsored Athletes: Javier Escobar, Kelly Sullivan, Ryan Brizzolara, Joshua Reid, and Kevin Gregory! Support us on Patreon for exclusive content and access to our Facebook group Check out our Threadless Shop Use coupon code "adventure" for 15% off MudGear products Use coupon code "ocrreport20" for 20% off Caterpy products Like us on Facebook: Obstacle Running Adventures Follow our podcast on Instagram: @ObstacleRunningAdventures Write us an email: obstaclerunningadventures@gmail.com Subscribe on Youtube: Obstacle Running Adventures Intro music - "Streaker" by: Straight Up Outro music - "Iron Paw" by: Dubbest

When ... the ... Card has a guy that looks like all of the guys, that's Fiore (that's Fiore)When the card of the day comes from Team U.S.A. that's Fiore (that's Fiore)Bells will ring for the Pope ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing "Vita bella"He's a Sox fan at heart, and to us that means he's quite a fella! * Card 38T on eBay* Induction video into College Baseball Hall of Fame and Mike's speech* Mike interviewed about his experiences in Omaha* Greatest 21 Days* University of Miami Hall of FameThis is the final episode of Season 5. Five years down, only 15 to go? New episodes return soon. Thank you for supporting the show! https://buymeacoffee.com/1988toppspd

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“How Can We Get More Product Content to the PDP Faster”? That question is top of mind every day for Carolan Di Fiore, Digital Content Deployment Manager at Hershey. Drawing from her prior experience in Ecommerce and digital roles at other global companies like Bimbo Bakeries, Carolan hit the ground running at Hershey a year and a half ago, and joins the podcast to describe the strategies that she and a cross-functional group of marketing, sales, data, and technology leaders are implementing to deliver answers to that core question. And in doing so, speed time to market, accelerate performance, and delight the consumer.

What if your success in business wasn't just about strategy, but also about *energy*?In this deeply transformative conversation, I'm joined by Talyn Fiore — intuitive Reiki master, energy healer, and ‘The Modern Alchemist' — to explore the powerful connection between spirituality and entrepreneurship, and how energetic practices can transform both your business and your life.Press play to discover: the best tools to align, protect, and replenish your energy, why your sense of worthiness determines *everything* you attract, the simple but powerful practices that bring more ease and flow into your business, the surprising truth about energy work, the biggest misconceptions about intuitive healing (and what's actually real), and how she built a thriving social media following while staying in complete alignment.If you're ready to unlock your highest potential, create a business that feels as good as it runs, and harness the power of energy, then press play now — this episode is for you!Join SheLaunch: www.shelaunch.comHead to www.melissaambrosini.com/645 for the show notes.Join my newsletter: www.melissaambrosini.com/newsletterGet my FREE ZenTone Meditation: www.melissaambrosini.com/zentoneFollow me on Instagram: @melissaambrosiniGet Time Magic: www.timemagic.me Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode is on Italian-British sculptor Fiore de Henriquez, whose art reflected her own complicated relationship with gender and sex as an intersex person. Join us to hear about Fiore distracting Nazis with crepes, seducing everyone around her whether she meant to or not, refounding a town, and ruminating on the gendered nature of clay. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky.