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Touring a Vision of the South Bronx – “The Provenance of Beauty” by Foundry Theater

Posted in "Art", NYC, anecdotes on Oct 25th, 2009

At the urging and direction of Karen I drove down to the city Saturday (10/24/09) to attend this event, “The Provenance of Beauty” by Foundry Theater. It proved to be interesting as a performance piece though at times too tendentious in content.1
Click here for a video provided by the Foundry Theatre.
Karen will go on this [...]

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Hudson in the NY Times

Posted in Hudson, history on Jun 15th, 2009

Peter Applebome penned an interesting piece in today’s New York Times about two Hudsons, the Hudson River and the City of Hudson:
June 15, 2009
OUR TOWNS
Two Rebirths, Miraculous but Unfinished
All week long, the grand flotilla, led by a replica of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon, has made its way up the river. It sailed under the Rip [...]

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A New Thought on Terrorism

Posted in politics on Dec 6th, 2008

An article in today’s NYTimes about cyber crime, malware, etc. suggests to me that another line of attack may be through the Internet against our utilities, telecoms, or financial institutions.
There have already been massive attacks against whole countries with successful breakdowns that lasted for hours and days. Ukraine, Lithuania, and Georgia were targets over the [...]

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