#chris guglielmo

[tomsmusictaste]

Bayside // Heaven + The Good Place (2016 — 2020)

[thrice-owns-my-ass]

Please listen to this absolute banger. And when you're done, listen to it again.

And listen to the other 10 bangers on this album while you're at it.

You're welcome ☺️

[good--merits-accumulated]

More Dead Poets headcanons: historical (Belle Époque) edition

Is this just fully self-indulgence now? Yes. (Insert Starship Troopers gif: "I'M DOING MY PART!")

- Todd is the second son of a couturier who prefers writing fairytales about the dresses instead of doing business with them. He often slips away to go play in string quarters in little riverside bistros and sit in on writers' salons. Strictly speaking he doesn't need to sneak as nobody outside his family really knows who he is, but he does it anyway

- Neil is the contrastingly very high-profile son of a government minister who has seen Todd looking uncomfortable at various balls and recognises him one evening playing violin in the corner of a dingy little cafe, because HE'S also been sneaking out

- Charlie is a dilettante and hangs about with artists (to the dismay of his parents) and keeps the gossip rags well stocked. Neil became friends with him at fourteen out of spite for his parents then discovered that they got on extremely well and that was, as they say, that

- Meeks is a student at the newly-formed University of Paris, unfortunately dating these headcanons exactly to 1896. He spends his time working feverishly on investigating radio waves + using them in communication, a discovery he is unfortunately eventually beaten to by Guglielmo Marconi (yeah, the real guy). Meeks keeps up a significant correspondence both with scientific luminaries (on a first name basis with Max Planck somehow???) and the large amount of siblings he's left behind in a village near Drôme, spending all his allowance on ink and foolscap. (Yes, he speaks fluent Provençal!) Pitts is an American classmate (courtesy of his father working in the embassy), and does mysterious things with aniline dyes after classes in the shed at the bottom of his garden. They prudently don't ask

- Chris is one of Todd's father's clients who befriends him after he very succinctly tells her exactly what's wrong with the fabric and colour and silhouette of the dress her fiance ordered for her. Said fiance is Knox, who Chris is marrying not particularly out of anything more than a very lukewarm platonic affection, but more out of a desire to get out, now, and to decide on something, Now. Knox knows this but he's still convinced it will work out (?????). Ginny is Chris' best friend very explicitly disapproving about it the whole time, and half in love with her as well

- Cameron meanwhile is a pencil-pusher at the American embassy (he's French, though, not American) and befriends Knox and then Charlie and then everyone else through strange twists of fate. Secretly reads a lot of dime novels on the sly. Insists he doesn't

- For at least one glorious summer they all get out and go free. Meeks takes them all down to see his family and Neil goes careening down country back lanes on his (new, very handsome) bicycle, with Todd sitting precariously on the handlebars and laughing the whole way. Knox gets a barge ("Where from?" "Well, I came across it tethered, abandoned, just... over there." "Over THERE?" "Yes. What's the problem?" [DISTANT, EXTREMELY HEATED SHOUTING] "Ah, Christ.") and they all end up in the river one way or another. When they get back to Paris the quiet of the countryside has sharpened everything to even harsher brilliance and Charlie pulls them all to visit his artist acquaintances and they go to the bars out of the way where men can be seen with men and the air is thick with smoke enough that nobody can really see each other's faces, and Neil pulls Todd into a clumsy waltz and thinks, this is how it should always have been from the moment that I was born.

[ulkaralakbarova]

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Gail Harris: Michelle Williams Jean Paul Getty: Christopher Plummer Fletcher Chase: Mark Wahlberg Cinquanta: Romain Duris Oswald Hinge: Timothy Hutton John Paul Getty III: Charlie Plummer John Paul Getty III (Age 7): Charlie Shotwell John Paul Getty II: Andrew Buchan Saverio Mammoliti: Marco Leonardi Giovanni Iacovoni: Giuseppe Bonifati Il Tamia ‘Chipmunk’: Nicolas Vaporidis Corvo: Andrea Piedimonte Bodini Piccolino: Guglielmo Favilla Maria: Adele Tirante Nancy: Stacy Martin Aileen Getty (Age 6): Maya Kelly Aileen Getty (Age 15): Anna Devlin Mark Getty (Age 4): Kit Cranston Mark Getty (Age 13): Stanley Treshansky Ariadne Getty (Age 2): Ginevra Migliore Ariadne Getty (Age 11): Josie Sayers Millicent: Olivia Grant Annie: Charlotte Beckett Attorney: Roy McCrerey Coroner: Giulio Base Kidnap Van Driver: Nicola Di Chio Prostitue #1: Alessandra Roca Prostitute #2: Francesca Inaudi Rome Hotel Butler: Francesco Bomenuto Arab Sheikh: Ghassan Massoud Bullimore: Clive Wood Conservator: Jonathan Aris BBC Reporter: Oliver Ryan Secretary Getty Oil: Cherise Silvestri Barn Man: Enzo Attanasio Barn Woman: Monica Nappo Villager #1: Gino Nardella Villager #2: Chantal Ughi Carabinieri Captain: Riccardo De Torrebruna Film Crew: Stand In: Lucy Scarfe Unit Production Manager: Francesca Cingolani First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk First Assistant Director: Roy Bava Second Assistant Director: Edoardo Petti “A” Camera Operator: Daniele Massaccesi First Assistant “A” Camera: Alberto Torrecilla Second Assistant “A” Camera: Riccardo Pau “B” Camera Operator: Marco Sacerdoti First Assistant “B” Camera: Francisco Pintore Second Assistant “B” Camera: Irene Chiappa “C” Camera Operator: Andrea Arnone First Assistant “C” Camera: Emiliano Topai Second Assistant “C” Camera: Esther Venanzi Original Music Composer: Daniel Pemberton Script Supervisor: Annie Penn Gaffer: Francesco Zaccaria Key Grip: Massimiliano Dessena Best Boy Grip: Giorgio Pezzotti Producer: Ridley Scott Producer: Dan Friedkin Production Assistant: Ivan Janakat Producer: Chris Clark Producer: Quentin Curtis Producer: Mark Huffam Producer: Bradley Thomas Producer: Kevin J. Walsh Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski Editor: Claire Simpson Production Design: Arthur Max Art Direction: Samy Keilani Art Direction: Andrew Munro Supervising Art Director: Cristina Onori Art Direction: Massimo Pauletto Art Direction: Gianpaolo Rifino Set Decoration: Letizia Santucci Costume Design: Janty Yates Makeup Artist: Sleiman Tadros Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gilbert Lake Supervising Sound Editor: Oliver Tarney Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Taylor Health and Safety: Daniel Rogers Set Decoration: Richard Roberts Casting: Carmen Cuba Co-Producer: Aidan Elliott Co-Producer: Marco Valerio Pugini Co-Producer: Teresa Kelly Book: John Pearson Writer: David Scarpa Stunt Double: Jdanov Andrei Stunt Coordinator: Franco Maria Salamon Foley Artist: Jack Stew Dialogue Editor: Rachael Tate ADR Mixer: Mark DeSimone Makeup Artist: Louise Young Makeup Artist: Laura Lilley Makeup Artist: Raffaella Iorio Makeup Artist: Jana Carboni Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Liz Barlow Casting: Lara Atalla Casting: Teresa Razzauti Casting: Kate Ringsell Movie Reviews:

[thefootballobserver]

Tottenham Hotspur vs Nottingham Forest: Match Preview

Should Spurs get the three points, they’ll go forth in the table.

Spurs play Forest in what is a must-win fixture before a run of tricky fixtures, including the North London Derby, Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea away, and possibly a yet-to-be-rescheduled Manchester City home game. With Aston Villa dropping points against Brentford on Saturday in a dramatic 3-3 draw, a win would put Spurs in the Champions League qualification zone thanks to goal difference with a game in hand.

Spurs’ form has been inconsistent recently like most of the season has been for them, winning their last three out of five games (including the 0-4 Villa game) but also lost poorly to Fulham and drew to West Ham in the previous game. However, they have won four out of their last five home games - only losing to Wolves - and are heavy favourites for this game, picking up an average of 2.20 points at home this season.

The Lilywhites won 0-2 in the reverse fixture, with goals from Richarlison from a Kulusevski cross and the Swede scoring later, taking advantage of a Turner mistake. There will be no Matt Turner for tonight’s game, though, as Forest now has a new number 1 in Sels. Bissouma also received a red card for a silly challenge, resulting in a four-game ban, although he didn’t miss any games through suspension due to his unavailability from AFCON. Veliz also had a great cameo, getting one zero touches of the ball as he was subbed on at the last minute to run down the time (my apologies, but this was too funny not to point out). Before all that, Johnson - on his return to the City ground after his summer transfer - received a nasty cut above his eyebrow, whose scar is still visible today. Spurs were still suffering an injury crisis with van de Ven and Maddison still injured (they ended the game with a midfield of Hojbjerg, Skipp, and Sarr), with Davies and Kulusevski replacing them, respectively.

In terms of head-to-head records, Spurs have won the last four out of their previous five games against Forest, only losing 2-0 in the EFL Cup in 2022 due to goals from Lodi and Lingard (I just saw the back five of Sess, Lenglet, Dier, Sanchez, and Doherty and shuttered). Spurs won this fixture last season 3-1, with Kane scoring a brace and Son adding to the tally (Richarlison had a goal disallowed), Worrall scoring a late consolation goal, and Ayew missing an even later penalty for the visitors.

Forest come into this game with one win in seven matches, although the win was a resounding one against Fulham in the midweek. Before that, they lost four and then drew two. They’re currently 17th in the table, only above Luton Town on goal difference, following the Hatters’ win against Bournemouth on Saturday. Forest have an abysmal away record, only picking up 10 points on the road, with a record of 2-4-9. Their 29-point haul this season includes their four-point deduction for PSR breaches, which are currently under appeal (which ironically revolves around the sale of Johnson).

Tottenham Hotspur News

Sarr should be returning back into the starting lineup.

Predicted Lineup

Guglielmo Vicario: Clean sheets have been rare for all his good performances. This game may be one of the best chances he has before the end of the season.

Destiny Udogie: He’s impressed this season but must be wary of Elanga during this game.

Micky van de Ven: Chris Wood is not known for his speed, but Micky’s pace will be helpful should Forest counter (which they will).

Cristian Romero: The vice-captain will have to keep Wood in check, and like the rest of the defenders, a clean sheet would be welcome.

Pedro Porro: He hasn’t been as free-flowing these days but remains everpresent

Pape Matar Sarr: He was benched the last game, presumably for rotation or injury concerns, but should start.

Yves Bissouma: He performed well against West Ham and was complimented by Ange. Despite inconsistencies in his games, his position is not at risk.

James Maddison: He hasn’t quite hit the heights before his injury, but his spot is secure.

Timo Werner: Although he has the right profile for this team, his goalscoring instincts still need to be improved.

Son Heungmin: With Richarlison injured for this match, Son should lead the frontline, and a goal would be great following his 400th appearance.

Brennan Johnson: The Forest Academy graduate will play against his former teammates again, hoping to last longer on the pitch and leave unscathed.

Players Dropped

Rodrigo Bentancur: He performed fine and has been for most of his appearances following his ankle injury, but Sarr should take his spot for this game.

Dejan Kulusevski: He hasn’t been dropped as he was benched in the last game, but his performances have waned after an otherwise consistent run, and Johnson should be starting, although Kulusevski will no doubt make a cameo at some point.

Players Absent

Fraser Forster (injury): Out for the rest of the season with a foot injury.

Manor Solomon (injury): Out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

Richarlison (injury): He has a knee niggle, according to Postecoglou, but could return to the squad for the Newcastle game.

Ryan Sessegnon (injury): Out for the rest of the season with a thigh injury.

Nottingham Forest News

Gibbs-White has been Forest’s star player this season.

Predicted Lineup

Sels; Aina, Murillo, Omobamidele, Williams; Danilo, Yates; Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White, Elanga; Wood

It appears unlikely that Nuno will change the lineup that started against Fulham in midweek on his return to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Players Absent

Nuno Tavares (injury): He has had a thigh injury since February, and this game will be too soon for the defender.

Taiwo Awoniyi (injury): His injury has been a blow for Forest, although Wood has done well in his absence.

Willy Boly (injury): Got injured during AFCON and probably won’t play a role in this game.

Players to Watch Out For

Brennan Johnson (TOT): He’s hit an upturn of form in recent weeks and might look to get a goal against his boyhood club as he goes up against Nigerian international Aina.

Son Heungmin (TOT): He may only have one goal in three matches against Forest, but he’s Spurs’ leading man and has the most goal contributions this season, even if he was unavailable during the Asian Cup.

Morgan Gibbs-White (NFO): He orchestrated the defeat of Fulham in midweek and is Forest’s brightest spark and chief creator. He’s also been linked with a move to Tottenham in recent weeks.

Chris Wood (NFO): Forest’s top scorer with 11 goals has been on fire, scoring thrice in their last three games, with 0.82 goals every 90 minutes this season. His aerial prowess will have to be kept in check by Spurs.

Anthony Elanga (NFO): The Swedish international equals Gibbs-White’s assist numbers at seven and will relish the space in Spurs’ high line, particularly when Udogie drifts inside.

Prediction

On paper, this should be a routine win for Spurs, but Spurs tend to hold possession of the ball and need to do more with it. Forest will be looking to capitalise on any Spurs mistakes and lapses in concentration to catch them on the counter, likely through their speedy wingers. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the home side concede first, but the visitors' poor away record should result in Spurs winning.

Prediction: Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Nottingham Forest

[zhobanage]

Tech Blogs - Your Gateway to Technological Advancements

Having a tech blog can be a great way to share your knowledge of technology and help others. It can also help you become an expert in your niche.

You can even make money from your blog if you do it well enough. However, there are a few things you should keep in mind before you start a tech blog.

Wired

The American magazine Wired covers technology and its impact on culture worldwide. The magazine first appeared in 1993 and gained notoriety as an expression of the emerging digital revolution. Cofounder Louis Rossetto proclaimed in the first issue that it was "whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon." Wired quickly established itself as a leading voice for technology in both print journalism and design. Its articles and illustrations on topics such as Internet sex, cell phone hacking, military simulations, and Japanese otaku were groundbreaking for their time.

The magazine's editorial stance became more mainstream after the dot-com bust and was edited by Chris Anderson from 2001 to present. The magazine also has a number of spin-offs including Wired UK, Wired Italy, and Wired Germany.

CNET

CNET is a tech website that specializes in product reviews and breaking technology news. It also offers a search engine that has lightning-fast autosuggestions based on natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

The site is a great resource for anyone interested in technology. It features unbiased and brutally honest product reviews, as well as top-notch news coverage. It is also known for breaking the latest tech news as fast as, if not faster than, most major news sites.

However, former staffers have complained that traditional guardrails keeping editorial content independent, like a separation between revenue teams and journalists, were repeatedly breached following the Red Ventures acquisition. This appears to be largely due to Guglielmo’s hands-on approach. Your triumphs await - site web for Tech Blogs .

Gizmodo

Gizmodo (pronounced giz-moh-duh) is a design, technology and science website. It was launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton, and it runs on the Kinja platform. It also includes the subsite io9, which covers science fiction and futurism. Gizmodo is currently owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

Gizmodo’s editorial staff didn’t have any advance notice or input into the error-filled article that was written by a robot and published on its site this week. The article, titled “A Chronological List of Star Wars Movies and TV Shows,” was riddled with a number of factual mistakes.

AllSides’s media bias rating for Gizmodo is Lean Left. This means that the website often publishes stories with a slight Left-leaning slant.

Ryan Schultz

Tech blogs are a great way to stay updated with the latest technological advances. They can offer a wide range of content, from news to tutorials. However, it’s important to understand your audience before writing a technology blog. The best tech blogs keep readers engaged by using their interests to drive topics and make them feel like they’re gaining something from reading the blog.

The Next Web (TNW) is a popular tech blog that covers everything from business technology trends to gadget reviews. The site is constantly updating its homepage feed with breaking news, making it an excellent source for staying up-to-date on the latest tech innovations. It also features a variety of cultural commentary and analysis.

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IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 27 DE MARZO DE 2023

Día Mundial del Teatro, Semana Mundial del Dinero, Semana de solidaridad con los pueblos que luchan contra el racismo y la discriminación racial, Año Internacional del Mijo y Año Internacional del Diálogo como Garantía de Paz.

San Narses y San Ruperto.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1721: Se firma una alianza entre Francia y España para pactar que miembros de ambas casas reales se casen.

En 1802: Se firma la Paz de Amiens, entre Francia e Inglaterra, en la que España recupera la isla de Menorca pero cede la isla Trinidad (en el Caribe).

En 1899: Guglielmo Marconi realiza la primera conexión mediante telegrafía sin hilos entre Inglaterra y Francia. Enviando un mensaje entre Dover (Inglaterra) y Boulougne (Francia), a una distancia de 48 kilómetros. Aunque años después (1943) la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos reconoció a Nikola Tesla como el inventor de la radio.

En 1934: El gobierno de España restablece la pena de muerte, con el objetivo de frenar el terrorismo.

En 1964: Sucede un fuerte terremoto de 9,2 grados en Alaska, a una profundidad de 35 kilómetros, y provoca un gran tsunami. Es considerado el terremoto más poderoso registrado en Norteamérica hasta la fecha. Causó la muerte de 190 personas (130 el tsunami, y terremoto 60), y la segunda ola más alta registrada por un tsunami, con 67 metros.

En 1977: Ocurre el accidente del aeropuerto de Los Rodeos, en Tenerife (España), el más grave de la historia de la aviación. Murieron 583 personas en la colisión entre dos aviones Boeing 747.

En 1989: En Washington (Estados Unidos), se anuncia la realización del primer trasplante conjunto de páncreas y corazón, a un paciente diabético de 45 años de edad.

En 2022: Durante la ceremonia de los Oscar 2022, en Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos) el actor Will Smith propina un bofetón a Chris Rock, quien presentaba el evento, como reacción a un mal chiste sobre la mujer de Will Smith, Jada Pinkett.

[tiffanyfrybarger]

Bayside - “Rumspringa (Return To Heartbreak Road)” This song is off of Bayside’s new album, Vacancy, out now on Hopeless Records. @hopelessrecords

[n3v3rm1n1nd]

I think it's funny you've been quiet for so long. When you're quiet no one proves you wrong.

Bayside. "Dear Your Holiness". The Walking Wounded. 2007

[thebladedtechshow]

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Review

In Henry Dunham's directorial debut, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek creates this generation's version of 12 Angry Men, but backwards.

This may sound like a bold claim, but Henry Dunham’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek might have just made my generation’s version of 12 Angry Men.

Like the 1957 film (don’t @ me about the 1997 version), the vast majority of the story takes place in the same location, but this film works backward from where 12 Angry Men starts. Instead of having a suspect ready to stand trial, all we know is that…

[tomsmusictaste]

Bayside // Castaway

[mafiablogg]

Roy Albert DeMeo,September 7, 1940[– January 10, 1983) was an Italian-American mobster in the Gambino crime family of New York City. He headed the a group referred to as the "DeMeo crew", which became notorious for the large number of alleged murders they committed and for the grisly way they disposed of the bodies, which became known as "the Gemini Method".The crew committed a very large amount of murders, with the majority of them committed by DeMeo himself. Roy Albert DeMeo was born in 1940 in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, to a working class Italian immigrant family of Neapolitan origin. Anthony Gaggi, a soldier in the Gambino crime family, noticed DeMeo and told him that he could make even more money with his successful business if he came to work directly for the Gambinos. Through the late 1960s, DeMeo's organized crime prospects increased on two fronts. He continued in the loansharking business with Gaggi, and began developing a crew of young men involved in car theft. It was this collective of criminals that would become known both in the underworld and in law enforcement circles as the DeMeo crew.

The first member of the DeMeo crew was 16-year-old Chris Rosenberg, who met DeMeo in 1966 when he was dealing marijuana at a Canarsie gas station. DeMeo helped Rosenberg increase his business and profits by loaning him money so that he could deal in larger amounts. By 1972, Rosenberg had introduced his friends to DeMeo and they began working for him as well. The members of the crew included Joseph "Dracula" Guglielmo (DeMeo's cousin), Joseph and Patrick Testa, and Anthony Senter. DeMeo joined a Brooklyn credit union that same year, gaining a position on the board of directors shortly afterward. He utilized his position to launder money earned through his illegal ventures. He also introduced colleagues at the credit union to a lucrative side-business, laundering the money of drug dealers he had become acquainted with. DeMeo also built up his loansharking business with funds stolen from credit union reserves.

DeMeo's collection of loanshark customers, while still primarily those in the car industry, soon included other businesses such as a dentist's office, an abortion clinic, restaurants and flea markets. He was also listed as an employee for a Brooklyn company named S & C Sportswear Corporation, and frequently told his neighbors he worked in construction, food retailing and the used car business.

In late 1974, a conflict that had erupted between the DeMeo crew and Andrei Katz, a young auto repair shop owner who was partners with DeMeo in a stolen car ring, had continued to escalate. In May 1975, DeMeo was informed by a police officer that, as a result of this conflict, Katz was cooperating with authorities. In June Katz was lured to a place where he could be confronted. After being abducted, he was stabbed to death and then dismembered. An accomplice who helped bait Katz confessed her role, and Joseph Testa and Henry Borelli were both arrested. They would secure an acquittal at trial in January 1976.

This was the first known murder committed by the DeMeo crew, and for years it was thought to have been the first occasion where DeMeo or members of his crew had dismembered a body for disposal. In 2003, however, new information was provided to the FBI by Bonanno underboss Salvatore Vitale, who claimed that in 1974 he was ordered to deliver the corpse of a man who had just been murdered to a garage in Queens so that it could be disposed of by DeMeo. As the 1970s continued, DeMeo cultivated his followers into a crew experienced with the process of murdering and dismembering victims. With the exception of killings intended to send a message to any who would hinder their criminal activities, or murders that presented no other alternative, a set method of execution was established by DeMeo and crew to ensure that victims would be dispatched quickly and then made to disappear. The style of execution was dubbed the "Gemini Method", after the Gemini Lounge, the primary hangout of the DeMeo crew, as well as the site where most of the crew's victims were killed.

The process of the Gemini Method, as revealed by multiple crew members and associates who became government witnesses in the early 1980s, was to lure the victim through the side door of the lounge and into the apartment in the back portion of the building. At this point, a crew member (almost always DeMeo according to crew-member-turned-government-witness Frederick DiNome) would approach with a silenced pistol in one hand and a towel in the other, shooting the victim in the head then wrapping the towel around the victim's head wound like a turban to stanch the blood flow. Immediately after, another member of the crew (originally Chris Rosenberg, up until his 1979 murder, according to government witness testimony) would stab the victim in the heart to prevent more blood from pumping out of the gunshot wound. By then, the victim would be dead, at which point the body would be stripped of clothing and dragged into the bathroom, where the remaining blood drained out or congealed within the body. This was to eliminate the messiness of the next step, when crew members would place the body onto plastic sheets laid out in the main room and proceed to dismember it, cutting off the arms, legs and head.

The body parts would then be put into bags, placed in cardboard boxes and sent to the Fountain Avenue Dump in Brooklyn, where so many tons of garbage were dropped each day that it would be nearly impossible for the bodies to be discovered. During the initial stages of an early 1980s federal/state task force targeting the DeMeo crew, a plan by authorities to excavate sections of the dump to locate remains of victims was aborted when it was deemed too costly and unlikely to locate any meaningful evidence. The landfill, opposite the Starrett City Apartment Complex on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heavily African-American East New York section of Brooklyn, across the Belt Parkway, was shut down in 1985, and capped over since, all signs (and odors) that a landfill had existed gone, replaced by a parkland.

Some victims would be killed in other ways for varying reasons. At times, suspected informants or those who committed an act of disrespect against a member of the crew or their superiors had their bodies left in the streets of New York to serve as a message and warning. There were also occasions where it would not be possible to lure the intended victim into the Gemini Lounge, in which case other locations would have to be used. A cabin cruiser owned by Richard DiNome was used on at least one occasion to dispose of bodies. In the latter half of 1975, DeMeo became a silent partner in a peep show/prostitution establishment in Bricktown, New Jersey after the owner of the business became unable to pay his loansharking debts. DeMeo also began dealing in bestiality and child pornography, which he sold to his New Jersey establishment as well as connections he had in Rhode Island. When Gaggi found out about DeMeo's involvement in such taboo films, he ordered DeMeo to stop under the threat of death. However, DeMeo defied Gaggi and continued the practice. Gaggi did not retaliate, and, according to his nephew, Dominick Montiglio, the subject was never mentioned again as long as DeMeo continued making payments to Gaggi. DeMeo also dealt in narcotics despite the Gambino family strictly forbidding such activity. In 2011, former Gambino associate Greg Bucceroni alleged that during the late 1970s and early 1980s, DeMeo utilized his henchman Richard Kuklinski on behalf of Robert "DB" DiBernardo and the Gambino family's pornography establishments in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Here, Kuklinski would traffic illegal pornography, collect debts, and carry out contract killings.

As 1975 drew to a close, DeMeo was the subject of IRS investigations into his income. Months earlier, the Borrough of Brooklyn Credit Union had been pushed into insolvency as a result of DeMeo and his colleagues' plundering of its finances. As a result, DeMeo quit the Credit Union. Before an indictment could be handed down against him, he utilized false affidavits from businesses owned by friends and acquaintances claiming he was on their payrolls as an employee. These affidavits served to account for some of his income, allowing him to reach a settlement with the IRS.

DeMeo's sources of income, as well as his crew, continued to grow. By July 1976, DeMeo added an automobile firm by the name of Team Auto Wholesalers to his loanshark customers. The owner of Team Auto, Matthew Rega, also purchased stolen vehicles from the crew and sold them off at a New Jersey car lot that he owned. He also involved himself with hijacking delivery trucks from John F. Kennedy International Airport. His crew now included Danny Grillo, a hijacker who had just been released from prison.

In the fall of 1976, the Gambino family went through a massive change when its boss Carlo Gambino died of natural causes. Paul Castellano was named the boss, with Aniello Dellacroce retaining the position of underboss. The implications of this were twofold for DeMeo. Gaggi was elevated to the position of caporegime, taking over the crew of men Castellano previously headed. This promotion was beneficial for DeMeo, whose mentor was now even closer to the family leadership. Another advantage was that with Gambino deceased, new associates would be eligible for membership into the family. Castellano did not immediately "open the books" for new members, opting instead to promote existing members and shuffle around the crews' leaders. He also allegedly opposed the idea of DeMeo being made. Castellano involved himself in white-collar crime and looked down on street-level members such as DeMeo. Additionally, Castellano felt DeMeo was uncontrollable. Gaggi's attempts at persuading Castellano to make DeMeo were continually rejected. By 1977, DeMeo became distraught by this situation and searched for opportunities that would ensure larger returns for his superiors. By 1982, the FBI was investigating the enormous number of missing and murdered persons who were linked to DeMeo or who had last been seen entering the Gemini Lounge. It is around this time that an FBI bug in the home of Gambino family capo Angelo Ruggiero picked up a conversation between Ruggiero and Gene Gotti, a brother of John Gotti.

In the conversation, it is discussed that Paul Castellano had put out a hit on DeMeo, but was having difficulty finding someone willing to do the job. Gene Gotti mentions that his brother, John, was wary of taking the contract, as DeMeo had an "army of killers" around him. It is also mentioned in this same secretly recorded conversation that, at that time, John had killed fewer than 10 people, while DeMeo had killed at least 38. According to mob turncoat Sammy Gravano, eventually the contract was given to Frank DeCicco, but DeCicco and his crew could not get to DeMeo either. DeCicco allegedly handed the job to DeMeo's own men. DeMeo's son Albert wrote that in his final days, DeMeo was paranoid and knew that he would be killed soon. DeMeo considered faking his own death and leaving the country. However, instead he left the house one day and never returned. Albert DeMeo later found Roy's personal belongings such as his watch, wallet, and ring in his study room, and a Catholic pamphlet. In his final days, DeMeo was seen wearing a leather jacket, with a shotgun concealed underneath. On January 10, 1983, DeMeo went to crew member Patty Testa's house for a meeting with his men. That night, he failed to attend his daughter Dione's birthday party. As it was unusual for DeMeo to miss an important family occasion, his family suspected that something had happened to him. Ten days later, on January 20, DeMeo's Cadillac was discovered in the parking lot of the Veruna Boat Club in Brooklyn. DeMeo's partially frozen body was found in the trunk with a chandelier on top of it.[11] He had been shot multiple times in the head and had a bullet wound in his hand, assumed by law enforcement to be a reflexive defensive wound caused when his killers opened fire on him. There are several accounts of DeMeo's death. The task force investigating the DeMeo crew theorized that DeMeo was set up in a similar manner to how he set up Rosenberg, and that Gaggi, Testa and Senter were present when he was killed.[12] When Lucchese family underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso became an FBI informant in 1993, he said that Paul Castellano had ordered DeMeo's death, but due to the DeMeo crew's reputation as hardened killers, the Gotti and DeCicco crews had been unable or unwilling to carry out the hit. Therefore DeCicco passed the contract to Casso, who knew Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, and ordered them to kill DeMeo. In Casso's account, DeMeo was seated and about to receive coffee, when Testa and Senter suddenly opened fire on him. Nino Gaggi was not present. In April 1984, Colombo crime family soldier Ralph Scopo was overheard explaining to an associate that DeMeo had been killed by his own family because they merely suspected that he would not be able to stand up to legal charges that resulted from his stolen car ring. Albert DeMeo believed that his father was killed by Testa and Senter. The remainder of DeMeo's crew were soon rounded up and the core members, Henry Borelli, Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter were imprisoned for life after two trials that saw them convicted of a collective total of 25 murders, in addition to extortion, car theft and drug trafficking. The convictions were secured in large part by testimony of former members Frederick DiNome and Dominick Montiglio. Paul Castellano was indicted for ordering the murder of DeMeo, as well as a host of other crimes, but was killed in December 1985 while out on bail in the middle of the first trial. The murder was allegedly ordered by John Gotti, who thus became the new boss of the Gambino family.

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Bayside harness all of their strengths with ‘Interrobang’—review

For those unaware, the interrobang is a specialized punctuation device. The mutant hybrid of a question mark and exclamation point articulates a way of delivering a query in an abrupt, interjecting way, usually powered by a rhetorical subtext. By way of using an interrobang in practice, you could type, “They charge that much for drinks‽” or “Billie Eilish does thatmuch in nightly merch sales‽”…

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me talking about myself:

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me talking about Bayside:

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The first time I got to meet Bayside was at Vintage Vinyl on February 6th, 2007 (10 years ago today). Mind you, I never in a million years thought I would ever get the chance to meet them. I found out about the performance & signing, & I begged my mom to bring me. I got very lucky & she said yes. My dad works up in North Jersey, close to where the record store is so he preordered two albums for my brother & I & got our wrist bands. It was such a magical day. They were the most down to earth, raddest guys on the planet (& still are to this day). They all signed my copy of The Walking Wounded, a poster exclusive for the signing, & took pictures with me (I have one with each of them & a group shot from that day). & it was also the day my brother became a Bayside fan ☺ I have been lucky enough to meet them on multiple occasions since then, & I have since printed out the group picture & got them all to sign it for me. When they saw it, they remembered us. Bayside means the world to me. They are my favorite band (along with NFG) & they have helped me through my bipolar disorder through the years. They kept me sane whenever I was about to lose myself. They helped me vent out my frustrations & put a smile back on my face. Their music fit the rage I was feeling inside & Anthony's lyrics spelled out my emotions. A lot has changed since then, but Bayside will always be by my side. Thank you Anthony, Jack, Nick, & Chris for saving me & bringing me back to reality countless times. I wish I could repay you guys for all you've done. So thank you.

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Chris: Street People is a particularly crappy Roger Moore Italian made crime film from the 1970’s with Stacey Keach, the film quality is bad, it has most scenes filmed on the streets of San Francisco with many car chases interspersed with strange childhood flashback sequences with creepy children singing in the background, this is not a good film in any way, Avoid.