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When I visited the Arby’s at 5900 W. Broad St. in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2021, I was stunned to see it was still there. Richmond BizSense had reported in October 2019 that the ever-expanding Wawa convenience store chain had filed plans to build a shop there. I assumed, when I stopped by on a whim, that the Arby’s would be long gone. But as the pandemic raged in its earliest stages, the Arby’s stayed open.

Okay, so, my wife does not read my newsletter all the time (why would she? She LIVES with a walking, talking, hunky version of the newsletter!), but we went for drinks with Kagan McLeod and his wife on the weekend and he brought up my newsletter last week about how she only knows two things about Batman. She was displeased and insisted that she knows more than two things about Batman.

It was no secret that beauty pageants could be a fast track into movies in post-war Italy. But few rose with the speed of Claudia Cardinale. Within four years, ‘The Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia,’ would be both a cineaste’s darling and a pin-up to rival Bardot (BB vs CC). Her distinctive voice, caught between a whisper and a rasp, smile like a Sicilian summer and prodigious work ethic - she has made almost 150 films – saw her outdistance early comparisons to Lollobrigida and Loren and forge a distinguished, still-thriving international career.

Welcome to Decrypting a Defense, the monthly newsletter of the Legal Aid Society’s Digital Forensics Unit. In this issue, Benjamin Burger highlights a new book on facial recognition technology. Shane Ferro looks into the NYPD’s purchase of a “crime-fighting” robot. Diane Akerman discusses the newly enacted prohibition on the use of facial recognition in schools in New York State. Finally, Chris Pelletier explains how AirTags work and their forensic significance. The Digital Forensics Unit of the Legal Aid Society was created in 2013 in recognition of the growing use of digital evidence in the criminal legal system.

G/GS: 39 IP: 55 ERA/FIP: 3.11/2.50 K/BB: 84/18 K%/BB%: 36.1%/7.7% WHIP: 1.13 Fastball: 70 Sinker: 55 Slider: 55 Command: 45 Overall: 45 Risk: High ETA: 2024 Big, powerful frame with lank arms and legs. High waisted. Frame filled out. Lots of strength in lower and upper half. Big, mid near chest-high leg kick with moderate hip turn in delivery. Long arm swing, high 3/4 arm slot. Aleman was signed for $175K after Cleveland drafted him from Florida in the 10th round of the 2021 draft.

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Célio Pompeu personifies the grit required in Bradley Carnell’s system, but it hasn’t always been that way, making his contract extension through 2027 a point of pride for the CITY SC player pathway. Pompeu’s effervescent play down the wing jumps off the screen but it’s his work away from the play that has earned his movement from CITY 2 to important de… ncG1vNJzZmiskaG4qrrSqJqcnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omp6kmaR6sbvMqZyuZZWtwaa6w6xksKGknXq0wIylpq6how%3D%3D

I spoke with Clémence on Writers on Writing last month and while we ran out of time, she agreed to respond in writing to a couple more questions. I loved her novel and her. Such a gracious, generous writer. Thank you, Clémence, for taking the time. What advice would you give a writer who has their fingers in a bunch of pots and can’t decide what to work on? How do you know when an idea has traction?

NAPA VALLEY, Calif. — My daughter gave me a wonderful scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) for Mother’s Day several years ago. It flourishes on my side porch, and I repot it regularly. I like it so much that I have rooted sprigs of the plant and given them as gifts. These new plants are clones of the parent geranium, genetically identical to it. I do my homestyle cloning the lazy way. I snip off a leafy stem, stick it into a jar of water and wait for roots to appear.