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Piedmont—Piemonte in Italian—usually isn’t the first place people visit when they travel to Italy. When I went for the first time in 2018, it had already been on my radar for some time, but considering the fact that my first trip to Italy was in 2008, it took me a good long while to get there. I’ve been back twice since that first trip, most recently in September, and I can’t get enough.

There are a few fundamental things about me you should know: I collect clown memorabilia, I have celiac disease, and I'm a huge fan of Last Podcast on the Left. I mean, there's more than just that, but for the sake of this article, I'm just going to cover those three things — or, r… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeurbvNnaanZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9aima2ZXay8trjDZqBmmpViwamxjJqaq6eerrputcU%3D

This review is free for everyone. Please consider supporting Film Yap with a modest subscription to enjoy all our premium content plus exclusive givewaways and opportunities! Get 30% off forever “Wife of a Spy” is an interesting movie, and sometimes it’s better to be interesting than good. It’s a Japanese World War II film about Satoko (Yū Aoi), a young, affluent wife who begins to suspect that her husband, Yūsaku (Issey Takahashi), is a spy.

Hello, dear history buffs! In our previous post, we discussed the story of Siegfried Sassoon as the first part of our series exploring the lives of three WW1 poets. Today, we shift our attention to another one of these, who also happens to be my personal favorite: Wilfred Owen. This series is building up to my upcoming adventure with Leger Holidays (stay tuned for more details at the end!)

Quantum computing is a paradigm of computation that harnesses the power of quantum physics to perform tasks that are beyond the reach of classical computers. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, that can exist in superpositions of two states, such as 0 and 1, and can exploit quantum phenomena such as entanglement and interference to process information in parallel and with high speed and accuracy. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize various fields, such as cryptography, artificial intelligence, optimization, simulation, and machine learning, by solving problems that are intractable or impractical for classical computers.

After covering developments in distant Southern California and Central Florida in my last two posts today I write about something happening in my back yard: Extending Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor onto Long Island: more specifically through service between Washington and Ronkonkoma. Never heard of Ronkonkoma? It is a hamlet approximately 50 miles east of New York Penn Station with a population of just under 19,000. It is also the terminus of an eponymous Long Island Rail Road line.

‘Twas nearly the holiday season, and all through Hollywood, many creatures are stirring – especially media and entertainment investment bankers who can’t sleep, as visions of year-end big ticket M&A dance in their heads. Specifically, will they (Disney) or won’t they sell? Bob Iger’s recent pronouncements that he will double theme park spending to about $60 billion in the next 10 years certainly runs counter to any notion that Apple would buy out the entire Magic Kingdom.

     On his next birthday, LeBron James will turn 40, without another championship and no postseason experience beyond a possible play-in event. When he says the Lakers “just suck right now,” he senses it’s a season-long plague. His warnings are focused on his coach, Darvin Ham, who only last month won a punchline called the In-Season Tournament but suddenly is on LeBron’s diminished-means list.      That includes Frank Vogel, who won an NBA title in 2020, and before him, Luke Walton, and before him, David Blatt in Cleveland, and before that, Erik Spoelstra in Miami, who had to be saved by Pat Riley before he was jettisoned.

A few historically great clubs. Some plucky upstarts with sleek marketing. Reserve teams. Mexico’s second division is a strange mix. Every few weeks rumors pop up that changes are coming to the Liga Expansion. Again. The latest indicates the second tier could be made up of six independent clubs and 18 reserve squads. That’s after significant changes made at the start of the pandemic in 2020, designed to last until the 2026 World Cup.