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☆ Letter from Franz Kafka complaining of writer’s block up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. This means it would have been written while Kafka was undergoing treatment for tuberculosis, with which he was diagnosed three years earlier. Ehrenstein made the request after seeing a newly published work by Kafka – probably the 1919 short story collection “Ein Landarzt” (“A Country Doctor”). We can also all be thankful that Kafka would continue to pick up his pen despite his crippling writer’s block,” he added. At the time the letter was written, Kafka had also begun an intense love affair with Czech journalist and writer Milena Jesenská.

Persons: Franz Kafka’s, Franz Kafka, Kafka, Sotheby's, what’s, ” Kafka, Albert Ehrenstein, “, Sotheby’s, Ehrenstein, Kafka –, Landarzt, Gabriel Heaton, Milena Jesenská, – Organizations: London CNN, Pictorial Press Locations: Prague, Bohemia, Sotheby’s, London, Vienna, Austrian, Czech, ”, Germany, Austria

☆ A Brooklyn D.I.Y. Landmark Changes With the Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just before midnight on Saturday, hard techno began pulsating from the Market Hotel, a D.I.Y. music venue located beside the elevated tracks of a Myrtle Avenue subway station in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The party, “Market Hotel Sweet Sixteen,” was meant to commemorate the venue’s legacy as a D.I.Y. Over a decade ago, the Market Hotel nurtured a middle-class bohemia, providing a stage to punk and indie bands like Real Estate, Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus and the So So Glos. If you knew, you knew.

Persons: fanny, ”, Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus Locations: Myrtle, Bushwick , Brooklyn, bohemia

☆ Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie set for mediation in emotional distress lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Christopher and Roberta Laundrie denied being told by their son that he killed Petito, though Roberta Laundrie said the thought “probably went through my mind.”Petito’s family reported the 22-year-old missing on September 11, 2021, 10 days after Brian Laundrie returned to his parents’ home in North Port, Florida. He vanished soon after, igniting a weekslong manhunt that ended with the discovery of his remains in a Florida nature reserve. The latest lawsuit names Christopher and Roberta Laundrie and their attorney, Steven Bertolino, as defendants, claiming the trio’s actions during the search for Petito caused her parents severe emotional distress. Nichole Schmidt, mother of Gabby Petito, speaks alongside, from left, Tara Petito, Petito's stepmother; Joseph Petito, her father; Richard Stafford, the family's attorney; and Jim Schmidt, her stepfather; during a news conference in September 2021 in Bohemia, New York. Their statements were not intended to cause emotional distress but to “express” their “sincere wishes,” they argue.

Persons: Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, Petito, Petito’s, Wyoming’s, Roberta Laundrie, “, ”, ’, Brian Laundrie’s, Christopher, Steven Bertolino, Joseph Petito, Nichole Schmidt, Tara Petito, Petito's, Richard Stafford, Jim Schmidt, John Minchillo, Miss Petito, Bertolino “, CNN’s Jean Casarez, Elizabeth Wolfe Organizations: CNN, Wednesday’s, Bertolino, Miss, ” Locations: Wyoming’s Bridger, Teton, Forest, North Port , Florida, Florida, Bohemia , New York

☆ ‘No Beginners Allowed’: A Midwestern Paradise for Skiers Who Dare
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Tim Neville | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Feathery flakes had fallen the last 16 hours, luring every powderhound in a 100-mile radius. Given how remote this place is, that means maybe 300 skiers and snowboarders. With no wind the snow crystals had stacked up along the spindly hardwood limbs in lines as delicate as a haiku. Indeed, Hokkaido, Japan, might be the only other place I’ve ever skied that could match these conditions. To those in the know, this ski area, seven-hours from the closest major airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul, is legendary.

Persons: Paul Locations: Hokkaido, Japan, Bohemia, Michigan, Minneapolis, St

☆ Torah Scrolls That Survived the Nazis Now Fuel Faith Around the World
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Milton Esterow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Since the Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colo., was founded in 1981, one of its several Torahs has been taken from the ark each Sabbath, and on other holy days, and read to members of the congregation. In August, another, particularly special Torah arrived at the temple, one of some 1,400 scrolls whose survival during the Holocaust has inspired Jewish congregations around the world. Confiscated by the Nazis as they purged synagogues and communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia, the Torah scrolls were shipped to the Jewish Museum in Prague. The scrolls were rescued from Prague years after World War II and have become part of a sprawling inventory of faith administered by a London trust that loans the Torahs out to synagogues, universities, hospitals and other institutions in 25 countries.

Persons: Bonai Organizations: Jewish Museum Locations: Boulder, Colo, Bohemia, Moravia, Prague, London

☆ Fact Check: Clip shows Arma 3 gameplay, not Israel’s laser weapon system
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

“History : First video of the Israeli Iron Beam, new laser air defense system, intercepting enemy rockets, from today”, reads the caption of a Facebook post sharing the gameplay footage. The video was also misrepresented on X social media, by an account impersonating Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Pavel Krizka, public relations manager at Bohemia Interactive, which developed the Arma 3 game, said in an email that the miscaptioned video online contains footage from Arma 3. Reuters Fact Check has previously reported on Arma 3 gameplay footage being misrepresented as authentic war imagery after violence between Hamas and Israel broke out on Oct 7. The video shows gameplay footage from Arma 3, not Israel’s "Iron Beam" intercepting rockets amidst the Israel-Hamas war in 2023.

Persons: Pavel Krizka, Marek Spanel, Israel, Read Organizations: Hamas, Reuters, Bohemia Interactive, Bohemia, Thomson Locations: Israel, Arma

☆ Fact Check: Clip shows Arma 3 gameplay, not downed Israeli helicopters
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A clip of downed helicopters taken from a computer game is circulating with the false claim that it shows authentic footage of Israeli helicopters shot down by Hamas forces. The clip circulated after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza on Oct 7, with Israel responding with air strikes on the Palestinian enclave. The video shows two helicopters flying in a countryside location before being hit with missiles and crashing to the ground. The company listed ways to detect gameplay footage, including low-resolution clips and unnatural particle effects, like smoke or dust. The video shows Arma 3 video game footage.

Persons: ”, Read Organizations: Hamas, ” Reuters, Bohemia Interactive, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Ukraine

☆ Fact Check-Video shows Arma 3 game, not Russian and Ukrainian planes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of fighter jets shows a modified version of the Arma 3 video game, according to the game’s creator, not a Russian SU-57 shooting down NATO F-16 fighters in Ukraine, as claimed in online posts. Comments on the post suggest that some viewers recognize the video from the Arma 3 game, while others respond as though the footage shows real combat, including: “I didn’t know NATO was engaged in a fight . The company’s gameplay footage is often shared online by users as if it shows real altercations. At the end of 2022, Bohemia Interactive published a statement and video outlining how to detect Arma 3 video game footage shared online, including unnatural particle effects and poor resolution quality. The video shows modified video from the Arma 3 game.

Persons: ”, ” Pavel Krizka, Read Organizations: NATO, Fighters, Bohemia Interactive, Reuters Locations: Russian, Ukraine, NATO, Bohemia

☆ Inside Prague's Institute of Crypto Anarchy — where they're plotting to bring down the dollar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

Today, that union of minds finds refuge in Prague in a retrofitted factory building called Paralelní Polis, or "parallel world." The dark stucco of Polis' Prague headquarters is an outlier among the ornate, brightly-colored buildings that tower over it. ETHPrague 2023 was held at Paralelní Polis in the Czech Republic Pavel SinaglThe 'parallel world' concept is sticky. The Vienna branch goes so far as to self-describe as a living example of how "the Paralelní Polis cryptoliberation virus is spreading." The most popular Czech bitcoin YouTuber boasts 90k subscribers, while the annual Czech-only bitcoin conference called Chaincamp attracts around 2000 visitors, even during the bear market."

Persons: Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl, Ztohoven —, Ztohoven, provocateurs, Václav Benda, Dan Ligocký, Ligocký, William Lobkowicz, ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum, Pavel Sinagl, Prague MacKenzie Sigalos, Holy, William, Ileana Lobkowicz, Josef Tětek, Tětek, isn't, biohacking, —, Carl Menger, Friedrich Hayek, BTCPrague, Michael Saylor, Satoshi cryptographer, Adam Back, Saifedean Ammous, bitcoin, Gary Gensler, bitcoin maximalist, Vaclav, — Matěj Žák, Jan Čapek, Christoph Kassas, YouTuber Jakub Vejmola, Jameson Lopp, Stephan Livera, Robert Breedlove, Stani Kulechov, Ondrej Polak, Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl Ligocky Organizations: Paralelní, CNBC, European Union, Polis, of Cryptoanarchy, Austrian, Securities, Exchange, Czech Craft, U.S, Treasury, Casa, Ethereum Foundation, Czech Blockchain Association, optimist Locations: Paralelní Polis, Czech Republic, Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl PRAGUE, Czech, Bohemian, Prague, It's, Polis, Polis —, Lobkowicz, Nazi, Vienna, Barcelona, Bratislava, Slovakia, Košice, Austrian, ., Alza, Bohemia, Europe, Old Town, Holešovice

☆ A pig farm on the site of a Nazi 'Roma camp' is finally demolished. After decades of campaigning, Czech victims of Roma Holocaust are getting their memorial
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

He had spent decades campaigning for the pig farm to be torn down. Jana Kokyová is the chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic. “During communism and even long after the revolution, nobody wanted to admit there was such a thing as a Roma Holocaust, it was not something you would speak about openly.”Many of Rudolf Murka's ancestors perished in the Roma Holocaust. However, it took another two decades for the government to finally act on the most obvious symbol of anti-Roma discrimination, the Lety pig farm. Čeněk Růžička poses with a pick during the official start of the demolition of the industrial pig farm on the site of the Lety camp.

Persons: Czech Republic CNN — Čeněk, “, ”, Jana Kokyová, Růžička’s, Ivana Kottasova, Bětka, Bětka’s, grandma, ” Kokyová, Kokyová, Růžičková, Růžičková’s, Čeněk, ” Růžička, Rudolf Murka, ” Murka, Jana Horváthová, –, Horváthová, “ It’s, Sinti, Murka, “ We’d, we’d, Rudolf Murka's, Josef Serinek, Zdenek Serinek’s, Josef, Zdenek, Marie Zemanová, grandpa, ‘ White, ’ ” Zdenek, Tomas Novak, Andrej Babiš, ” Václav Klaus, ” Horváthová, Růžička, Tibor Danihel, Václav Havel, Tibor Berki, ’ ”, Berki’s, Petr Pavel, Havel’s Organizations: Czech Republic CNN, Nazi, Communist, Roma, Czech Committee, CNN, Moravian Roma, Czech, of Romani, Czech government’s, Roma Minority Affairs, Czechoslovak, Former, Czech Helsinki Committee, CNN Roma, Getty Locations: Czech Republic, Lety, Prague, Roma, Bohemia, Moravia, Europe, Auschwitz, Germany, Czech, German Nazi, Hodonín, Brno, Europe’s Roma, West Germany, Czechoslovak, Czech Helsinki, Písek, South Moravia, “

Charles III has commissioned new works for his coronation, adding to the rich tapestry of pieces composed for the occasion. The first coronation music was likely sung chants, which, starting in 1603 with the coronation of James I, were refashioned into coronation anthems now with English text. Both have since become staples in the coronation service. And at the most recent coronation, comparisons between Elizabeth II and Charles III are unsurprisingly being made. Charles III’s coronation is set to usher in the new Carolean era, in the hopes that it will reflect its namesake Charles II and his contributions to art and music.

☆ Picasso: Love Him or Hate Him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Deborah Solomon | April | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

It is not hugely cool to profess a love for Picasso these days. This is what Picasso’s detractors — like Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian and Picasso basher, who will help curate a Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum opening on June 2 — often miss. Picasso, by contrast, brought the weight of lived experience into his work, even when he was tethered to archetypal subjects. “The Mother” (1901), an early painting by Picasso, shows a view of motherhood purged of Renaissance idealization. The conventional view of the painting holds that the women are “dolled-up cocottes,” as John Richardson glibly put it in his biography of Picasso.

☆ Fact Check-Arma 3 gameplay falsely captioned as downed helicopter in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Computer game footage of a downed helicopter has been falsely captioned on social media as showing authentic footage from the frontlines in Ukraine. Users shared the clip via social media falsely claiming that it showed downed NATO helicopters inside Ukraine. Examples of the clip erroneously shared online can be viewed (here) and (here). A side-by-side comparison between the YouTube video (L) (timestamp: 39s) and the clip circulating online (R) (timestamp: 25s) can be viewed (ibb.co/rm4F4Gg). Reuters has previously addressed miscaptioned clips shared online purporting to show footage from the war in Ukraine (here), (here).

☆ Designer Michael Kors celebrates power of women with new collection
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] A model presents a creation from the Michael Kors spring summer 2023 collection during New York Fashion Week in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 14, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin OchsNEW YORK, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Michael Kors celebrated women who inspired him at his New York Fashion Week show on Wednesday, designing his collection with Tina Turner, Jane Fonda and Yoko Ono in mind. Kors put a twist on evening wear by designing sleek jumpsuits and evening gowns with daring cut-outs. I fell in love with women who were very inspiring to me at the time," said Kors. I think it's a nice alternative to black and warm, and people look so great in it," Kors said.

☆ Bed Bath & Beyond just missed another debt payment. See the full list of stores it will close, including Harmon and Buybuy Baby locations.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

In addition to 87 more Bed Bath & Beyond stores, the company now says it will close all of its remaining Harmon health and beauty stores, and five Buybuy Baby stores. San Leandro: 15555 East 14th St., Suite 24015555 East 14th St., Suite 240 Burbank: 201 East Magnolia Blvd. Marina: 117 General Stilwell Drive117 General Stilwell Drive Vallejo: 105 Plaza Drive, Suite 107105 Plaza Drive, Suite 107 * Palm Desert: 72459 Highway 11172459 Highway 111 * Visalia: 3125 South Mooney Blvd. Arterial * Coralville: 2515 Corridor Way Suite 5Kansas:Lawrence: 3106 S. Iowa St., Suite 2153106 S. Iowa St., Suite 215 Manhattan: 425 3rd Place425 3rd Place * Olathe: 15335 W. 119th St.Kentucky:Elizabethtown: 1998 N. Dixie Ave.1998 N. Dixie Ave. New Hartford: 4805 Commercial Drive4805 Commercial Drive Kingston: 1187 Ulster Ave.1187 Ulster Ave. Plattsburgh: 73 Centre Drive, Suite 10073 Centre Drive, Suite 100 Farmingdale: 251 Airport Plaza Blvd.

☆ Fact Check-Clip shows Arma 3 video game footage, not gun fire in Mexico following Ovidio Guzman’s arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The clip circulating online shows rounds being fired from an aircraft, with bullets then seen aiming toward the aircraft. Examples of the miscaptioned clip shared by social media users online can be viewed (here), (here), (here). The clip is inauthentic, however, and shows footage from Arma 3 gameplays, as confirmed to Reuters by a spokesperson for Bohemia Interactive, the developer of the game. A side-by-side comparison between the clip circulating online (L) and the above YouTube link (R) can be seen (ibb.co/T1jmb16). Reuters has repeatedly addressed clips from Arma 3 gameplays shared online with claims that the footage shows authentic scenes from the Ukraine war (here), (here).

☆ ‘Young Bloomsbury’ Review: A Bohemia of Their Own
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Donna Rifkind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

It’s impossible to appreciate the context of Nino Strachey’s book “Young Bloomsbury” without a clear understanding of what Old Bloomsbury was. Unfortunately, that presents its own difficulties, since no one, not even the Bloomsbury Group’s original members, has ever agreed on how to define it. The achievements of the group took place in a variety of fields: literature (Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster), art history (Roger Fry and Clive Bell), biography (Lytton Strachey), painting and decorative arts (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant), international politics (Leonard Woolf) and economics (John Maynard Keynes). Among them, Virginia Woolf, Keynes and Fry were the farthest-reaching innovators. But if the others did not reach the same heights, their work nonetheless remains significant.

☆ Fact Check-A clip shows footage from Arma 3 video game, not authentic footage of a Ukrainian strike on Russian tanks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A clip circulating online purporting to show Ukrainian military striking Russian Army tanks is not legitimate footage from the war but a part of a video game Arma 3. Other examples of the footage shared online can be found (here), (here). A search through Arma 3 gameplays uploaded to YouTube reveals a clip uploaded in July 2022 by the account MILMAN (bit.ly/3eG8MU8). Reuters has previously addressed video game footage shared erroneously by users online as showing authentic footage from the war in Ukraine (here), (here). The clip shows footage taken from the videogame Arma 3, not authentic footage from the war in Ukraine.

Distilatul datează, conform fișelor tehnologice, din anii 1944 – 1946, fiind maturat în toată această perioadă, în beciurile combinatului Aroma. Este un singur butoi de stejar cu divinul septuagenar, a cărui valoare se ridică la o cifră de 51 750 de lei (circa 2 400 euro). Divinul este turnat în cristal de Bohemia, cu capsulă și etichetă gravată cu aur, cutie suvenir — 700 ml de aur pur. Fiecare sticlă din colecția limitată este formată manual.

Organizations: Divinul Locations: Bohemia

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