New City Solicitor Attorney Stephen Buoniconti sat down with Mayor Domenic J Chief Administrative and Financial Officer (CAFO) and Human Resource and Labor Relations Director Attorney Bill Mahoney today Solicitor Buoniconti is looking forward to taking the helm of the City of Springfield’s Law Department and joining the Sarno Administration “As we begin the transition for Attorney Buoniconti to take over as City Solicitor it is important for him to sit down and continue to meet with our Law Department staff HR and Labor Relations Director Attorney Bill Mahoney and my Chief of Staff Bill Baker.  I am looking forward to bringing Attorney Buoniconti on board and working with him in this new role.  Again his legal acumen and public service experience make him an ideal fit to serve in this important position - he is ready to hit the ground running.” son of the late Robert Calvi and Catherine (Tippett) Porter He graduated from Iron Mountain High School before earning a bachelor’s degree in business from Northern Michigan University Terry worked as a mail handler for the U.S Postal Service for 25 years before retiring Terry loved sports and enjoyed bowling as well as playing baseball Terry loved gardening and took great pride in his vegetable and flower gardens His favorite time of the year was Christmas and he enjoyed everything about it and being with his family were among his favorite things Tyler Calvi of Kingsford; three grandchildren Sally Hampton and Patricia (Galen) Steffel; several nieces and nephews; many friends and his dog Terry was also preceded in death by his step-father at the Evangelical Covenant Church in Norway Burial will be in Iron Mountain Cemetery Park Condolences may be expressed to the family of Terry R The family has entrusted the Erickson-Rochon & Nash Funeral Home of Iron Mountain with the arrangements Copyright © 2025 Ogden News Publishing of Michigan | https://www.ironmountaindailynews.com | 215 E Everyone loves the feeling of a minty-fresh mouth but some children would rather have their teeth pulled than pick up a toothbrush Gabriele Calvi achieved the seemingly impossible How Fresh I Am,” made oral hygiene cool for Italy’s youth and helped his client The cheerful film also made Calvi the 2024 Adobe MAX Creativity Award honoree for Animation and was nominated as Best Music Video by the Motionographer Motion Awards. Created with the help of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects How Fresh I Am” is a reminder that great storytelling doesn’t have to be serious to make an impact It’s also a testament to Calvi’s sense of humor and the creative possibilities that can be unlocked when artists don’t take themselves too seriously https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/3434878/ Gabriele Calvi makes brushing teeth fun through the power of animation Calvi fell in love with creativity at an early age It was during college that he was first exposed to digital design and began nurturing his talents as a designer he found himself working with major advertising agencies like BBDO and TBWA and has since built an impressive roster of clients https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2SJlPFtw9/?hl=en Motion graphics for the iconic Italian brand Barilla Now more than 10 years into his freelance career Calvi reflects on how keeping an open mind and building a diverse portfolio have contributed to his success While many artists develop a signature style and creative niche Calvi thrives on uncertainty and the prospect of learning something new with every project he takes on For instance, while the designs he developed for “Mom, How Fresh I Am” are silly and joyful, Calvi is equally proud of the dark and moody music video he created for Copenhagen-based band, TownPortal. A long-time fan of TownPortal’s music, and a musician himself, Calvi had the opportunity to create a music video for their new song “Vanitas.” The result was not only a hit with TownPortal but it was also chosen as a Staff Pick on Vimeo and won a Motionographer Motion Award for Best Music Video putting Calvi’s talent in the spotlight and propelling his career to new heights Calvi’s love of music comes through in all of his work and makes projects like “Vanitas” and “Mom “The rhythm and flow of creating music videos and the sense of freedom I felt working on the projects is similar to what I feel when writing an original song with my band,” he says https://www.instagram.com/p/CHN4g8vnxcg/?hl=en&img_index=3 “Vanitas:” a dark and moody passion project for the band TownPortal Calvi recalls the mix of joy and anxiety he felt when he first received the brief for the project With just the music and lyrics (by Mastermaind and Barf) provided and a request from his client to create “something crazy,” Calvi was given free rein to develop the characters How Fresh I Am” based entirely on his creative instincts he moved all of his vector illustrations into After Effects to animate and create the final film Calvi is a long-time user of Adobe creative tools and continues to embrace new features and capabilities that enhance his artistic process the Create Nulls from Paths panel in After Effects has been a gamechanger for Calvi The feature allows him to import multiple shapes into After Effects from Illustrator then link them to points that can be modified independently That’s given him more control than ever over his animations while cutting hours from his video workflows How Fresh I Am.” Image source: Gabriele Calvi In addition to relying on Adobe technologies to create his art, Calvi is a long-time user and proponent of Behance to showcase his work he would spend hours on the platform scrolling through other artists’ creations and dreaming about the day one of his own projects would be showcased on the site Success finally came with “Vanitas,” gaining Calvi widespread attention that helped him expand his client base from Italy to the rest of the world “Behance has played a huge role in helping me build my career thinking about the GIFs and illustrations that will go up on a project’s profile has become an integral part of my process,” he says Calvi’s experiences have made him appreciate the importance of self-promotion for artists and designers even if it goes against the instinct of creators who prefer to keep their heads down and focus on their work is to combine the joy of creating and the financial realities of professional life Learn more about Gabriele Calvi, the award-winning “Mom, How Fresh I Am,” and other favorite projects on Instagram To see the full list of Adobe MAX 2024 Creativity Award honorees, visit the Awards webpage https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/15/announcing-2024-adobe-max-creativity-awards-honorees https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/09/03/television-academy-honors-adobe-two-engineering-emmy-awards https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/12/09/behind-scenes-how-paramount-used-adobe-firefly-generative-ai-social-media-campaign-movie-if North Adams Regional Hospital is North Berkshire's choice for healthcare services - 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Nick played quarterback at the University of Indiana There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here William Cox debriefs the descendants of Army Air Corps Bernard Calvi whose remains were found in September Calvi died in a prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 North Adams Veterans Agent Mitchell Keil and Jennifer Belisle William Cox and Massachusetts Army National Guard Staff Sgt Patrick Merced debrief the descendants of Army Air Corps shows her daughter Camryn a book created by the military with all of her great uncle's information about his remains The family had a military debriefing at Bruce and Joan Calvi's home in Clarksburg on Thursday listens during a military debriefing at her parent's home in Clarksburg on Thursday Her brother facilitated a search for their great uncle's remains giving DNA samples Belisle remembers hearing stories about her great uncle when she was a child Bernard Calvi and named after his great uncle spearheaded the search for his great uncle's remains holds a catcher's glove used by Calvi when he was a catcher on the Drury High School baseball team Bernard Calvi's remains were positively identified in September more than 82 years after he died as a prisoner of war He's among hundreds of POWs at Cabatatuan whose remains could not be identified immediately after World War II CLARKSBURG — Though Bruce Calvi never met his uncle who died serving his country in World War II his memory remains a constant family presence Bruce grew up hearing stories about his uncle, Army Air Corps Pfc and passed those stories along to his children And he still has the catcher's mitt Bernard used as a baseball player at Drury.  his uncles and his grandparents loved Bernard a star athlete at Drury High School in the 1930s Bernard’s photo remained front and center in Raymond and Pauline Calvi’s home on East Avenue in North Adams “My father missed him every day,” Bruce said of Bernard who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines in July of 1942 He's among hundreds of POWs at Cabanatuan whose remains could not be identified immediately after World War II given the way they were buried and the limitations of the era But advances in DNA have allowed a Department of Defense agency to finally identify those soldiers and bring them home.    Upon learning Thursday how Bernard had been positively identified through DNA and after signing the papers arranging for the U.S Bruce felt that deep emotional connection once more The family learned that the Army will transport Calvi and will reimburse up to $9,000 for the funeral service — an amount set by Congress Calvi will be accompanied home by Army personnel who will not leave his side during transport The services have tentatively been set for early December with full military honors to be conferred at Southview Cemetery It’s the second such World War II homecoming for North County this year; in a remarkable coincidence the Calvi family learned Bernard was coming home on the same day that hundreds of residents turned out to honor Marine Pfc The Calvi family — including Bruce and Joan Calvi; their son B.J Calvi; daughter Jennifer Belisle; and granddaughter Camryn Belisle a nursing student at MCLA who wrote about Bernard for high school projects — offered a warm welcome to Army repatriation expert William “Shorty” Cox and Massachusetts Army National Guard Staff Sgt and the family sat in the living room as Cox explained the DNA and anthropology science that helped the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identify Pfc of the Army’s Past Conflicts Repatriations Branch Ky.; the Southern flavor in his voice gives that away But the story he told centered on the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines where Calvi’s remains await the journey back home to a hero’s welcome and burial in the family plot at Southview Cemetery Much like a teacher, Cox stood before the seated family members and explained how a team of genealogy and anthropology experts tackled the challenge of identifying remains from communal graves from what is now the Cabanatuan American Memorial "It's important to do this," he told the family "because that obviously had a big impact on your life So now you're able to close this chapter for your dad He's home where he belongs.' And that's the main thing," Cox said "I know what it did to my father," Bruce replied.  Calvi and Gilman enlisted in the Army Air Corps on Sept Both men were assigned to the 17th Pursuit Squadron military installations in the Philippines from the air Both men were hospitalized after the attack in Manila but wired home to tell their families they were OK and Corregidor surrendered on May 6.  More than 2,700 American servicemen died at Cabanatuan They were captured on the Bataan Peninsula which Japanese forces took after a four-month siege; and the rocky island of Corregidor Both were forced to surrender due to overwhelming odds and a lack of supplies Soldiers captured at Bataan faced yet another hardship: a 65-mile march through tropical heat to one of two prison camps in what is known as the Bataan Death March one of the most notorious war crimes in modern world history Thousands of soldiers were murdered or died along the way The deaths at Cabanatuan came at such a heartbreaking pace that every day American POWs dug graves for brothers in arms who had passed in the previous 24 hours According to DPAA, the poor conditions — namely, a lack of food, clean water, shelter and medical attention — led to a high death rate through the summer of 1942 with 799 prisoners perishing in July alone Calvi and Gilman were among those victims — Calvi Calvi was admitted to the Cabanatuan camp hospital on 8 July 1942 while suffering from dysentery and malnutrition." He died at about 4 a.m returned after the war to recover the fallen they were able to identify about 1,000 of the 2,700 U.S But the communal graves and sheer volume of casualties led to misidentifications and the co-mingling of remains The DNA science that would eventually help identify the war dead did not yet exist the American Graves Registration Service initially recovered what it believed to be 27 sets of remains leaving 17 unresolved identities — Calvi among them The effort at the time was massive and labor-intensive Some 100,000 people were working at identifying and repatriating Americans up to 10 years after World War II ended Cox explained that Calvi was identified through multiple types of DNA — mitochondrial DNA The historical record also lined up: The remains suggested a male individual of probable European ancestry with an estimated living stature of 5 feet Fifteen of those remains are still unidentified And Cox hopes stories like Calvi’s will lead to more discoveries — perhaps by distant relatives who took the initiative to request his great-uncle’s case be reopened and arranged for family members to provide DNA samples Calvi said he started the process about 11 years ago as unaccounted for and no active case," said B.J. was able to track down in which mass grave he was likely buried then provided DNA samples so DPAA could compare that DNA against DNA from the remains.  said he has a photo of his great-uncle on his desk at Springfield Fire Department headquarters my grandfather always talked about his brother And I can remember him telling me that he woke up the day that his brother died and said so it'll pay the respect and gratitude that the nation has for the greatest generation who paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend the country," he added returning soldiers to their homes has been a career he spent 21 years in Army mortuary affairs which included informing families that a loved one had died for their country.  Bruce has waited his entire life for this moment now I get to help Bruce bring Bernard home Reach Greg Sukiennik at gsukiennik@berkshireeagle.com or at 413-496-6249. Descendants of John G. Barnard gathered on Veterans Day with dignitaries for the dedication of a stretch of Route 7 to be named Brig. Gen. John G. Barnard Highway.  Visiting hours and a funeral for Pfc Bernard J. Calvi of North Adams will be held Dec. 10 at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish, at 70 Marshall St. Army Air Corps Pfc. Bernard Joseph Calvi who died during World War II, returned home to North Adams and was laid to rest beside his brothers on Tuesday afternoon. Tony Salatino, 102, has been tending his family, friends and country since shortly after he stepped off the SS Conte di Savoia on April 22, 1937. Two brick Victorian mansions that were condemned in 2017 now belong to the city. Sadie Jean Sworzen is not your average toddler. She's a champion. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience WORDS Kirsty Thatcher    PUBLISHED Mon So when I started noticing a growing number of people reverting to a different, more traditional means of memory-collecting, I took note. ‘Junk journaling,’ as it’s been aptly dubbed, is exactly as it sounds: somewhere in between scrapbooking and traditional journaling it involves collecting ephemera from your life – wristbands you name it – and preserving them in a notebook Leading the charge on the junk journaling renaissance is author Martina Calvi junk journaling embraces imperfection and expression,” she tells RUSSH “It’s about combining the scraps of your everyday life [...] into something meaningful A post shared by Martina Calvi (@martinamartian) it’s a response to how fast everything moves in the digital world,” says Calvi While scrapbooking in its original form was premised on a polished finished product junk journaling is inherently a little freer – a bit like whipping out a notebook and unleashing your thoughts in a stream of consciousness it’s “less about creating something beautiful and more about finding beauty in the act of creating itself.” Much like the ritual of traditional journaling, there's a certain catharsis to the tactile crafts like scrapbooking junk journaling. Not only are they a welcome divergence from doom-scrolling TikTok and other tech-related hobbies "It helps you slow down and notice things—small joys and ordinary moments—and gives them a permanent place to exist," Calvi says "Incorporating a weekly junk journaling ritual into your life—dedicated time for pure creative play and reflection—can be deeply transformative." For those looking to dip their toes into the world of junk journaling Calvi's biggest piece of advice is to put the pursuit of perfection aside and junk journaling isn’t something to be ‘good’ at It’s not about perfection or a finished product—it’s about being expression," she says "Don’t wait to collect “special” things to get started Use what’s around you right now— Your first pages might feel messy or unpolished The important thing is you are taking the time to slow down And that’s a beautiful thing to do for yourself!" You can read more about junk journaling in Calvi's craft coffee table book, The Art of Memory Collecting Enter your details below to receive 30% off Amber Sceats jewellery The steps of NYC’s Met Museum are the focus of a lot of eyes today “There are a few books that I have to keep on buying because I always end up impulsively giving them to friends.” +61 2 9293 0999 RUSSH.com is published by RUSSH Media Pty Ltd — Private First Class Bernard Joseph Calvi at the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines where he was interned as a prisoner of war by Japanese forces during World War II son of the late Joseph and Lena (Cantone) Calvi he attended North Adams schools and graduated from Drury High School with the Class of 1936 he was a standout member of the baseball and football teams and was serving with the 17th Pursuit Squadron 24th Pursuit Group of the Army Air Forces in the Philippines when the United States entered World War II he was wounded at least once but returned to full duty as an infantryman as no airplanes were left operational When Bataan fell to Japanese forces in 1942 he was taken prisoner and forced to take part in the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March into captivity After four months of captivity in deplorable conditions Following the efforts of his family and the Army over many decades and with advances in identification technology including Springfield Fire Commissioner Bernard J Conn.; and great-grandnephew and -nieces Elijah Calvi He was predeceased by brothers and sisters-in-law FUNERAL NOTICE: A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday Burial with full military honors will follow in the family lot in Southview Cemetery A calling hour will be held at the church on Tuesday from 10:30 until 11:30 a.m. The PACIOREK FUNERAL HOME, Adams, is assisting with arrangements. To leave a message for the Calvi family, please go to www.paciorekfuneral.com shown in the 1936 Drury High School yearbook enlisted in the Army Air Corps four years later and died as a prisoner of war on July 16 His remains have been identified and will be returned to North Adams Calvi is among the World War II veterans honored at the North Adams Veterans Memorial at Eagle Street and the Mohawk Trail Calvi was among thousands of US servicemen who died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines His remains were positively identified earlier this week were friends and star athletes at Drury High School served together during World War II and died at the same Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines within 40 days of each other.  Calvi’s surviving relatives were notified of the discovery on Monday and Tuesday according to city veterans agent Mitchell Keil NORTH ADAMS — Hours before celebrating the life of a missing North Berkshire veteran this city learned another hero from the fight in the South Pacific has been identified and is coming home Army Air Corps Pfc. Bernard Joseph Calvi died as a prisoner of war in Japanese captivity on July 16 according to his obituary on the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency website He died in the same POW camp as his best friend “A friend of someone who works at City Hall told [Mayor Jennifer Macksey] 'You’re not going to believe this,'" Keil said.  The news arrived just hours before Marine Pfc whose remains had been missing for nearly 80 years was laid to rest in Southview Cemetery in a plot next to his late parents It was the 82nd anniversary of his combat death on Guadalcanal during World War II.  Keil said Calvi’s descendants submitted DNA samples to the military 10 years ago in the effort to positively identify his remains.  “Now we know the community is capable of that Bernard Calvi was the son of Joseph and Lena Calvi of Quincy Street in North Adams The couple were Italian immigrants; he was a shoemaker she was a seamstress at The Boston Store.  was a quality manager at Sprague Electric Co and coordinated that company's work for NASA; Julius was an attorney who served mayor of North Adams from 1956-58.  said he learned of the discovery on Tuesday who is Springfield's Fire Commissioner and was named after the great uncle he never met "started the whole ball rolling to get his remains identified" by having family members provide DNA samples.    woke up from a sound sleep on the day his brother died a world away and said his brother was dead The family was not formally informed of Bernard Calvi's death until May 6 the senior vice commander of American Legion North Adams Post 125 said the post stands ready to help Calvi’s family welcome him home He agreed with Keil: “Lightning really does strike twice,” both men said from his homecoming motorcade to his military funeral was marked with small and large gestures of gratitude and respect and U.S Students from Drury High School and McCann Technical School attended the graveside service as did representatives of multiple area veteran organizations Online newspaper archives from the North Adams Transcript and an obituary from the POW/MIA Accounting Agency tell the story of how Bernard Calvi and Gilman graduated from Drury High School in 1936 The men enlisted in the Army Air Corps together on Sept 15 months before the attack on Pearl Harbor drew the U.S and stationed near Manila in the Philippines where Bernard Calvi and Gilman were stationed A ground offensive followed two days later along with an air assault on the Cavite Navy Yard And on April 13, the newspaper further reported that a photo of Bernard Calvi at the time nursing an apparent leg injury the rocky island fortress at the mouth of Manila harbor The worst was still ahead: What began as a disaster for American forces in the Philippines was about to become a catastrophe with casualties rising and supplies running low amid a siege by Imperial Japanese Army troops 75,000 Allied soldiers — 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos — were left no choice but unconditional surrender Gilman and Bernard Calvi were among about 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners captured and marched to Cabanatuan Prison Camp The remaining captives were marched to Camp O'Donnell in what has become known as the Bataan Death March.  The remaining troops on Corregidor were forced to surrender about a month later Bernard Calvi died of malaria and dysentery on July 16 and was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other American prisoners of war Gilman also died of dysentery and malaria on Aug was buried in a communal grave.   The agency says its efforts to find and positively identify Gilman’s remains is active leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery,” read the DPAA accounts of both men's deaths “By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945 "identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war,” the agency said.  Bruce Calvi said funeral arrangements will be made following a visit by Army personnel in October.  but Bruce was able to reach him and tell him that his efforts to bring his great uncle home were successful.  Quality local journalism needs your support Access this story and all of our stories with 24/7 unlimited access Subscribe now for 99¢ Subscriber Sign In | Return Home Reach Greg Sukiennik at gsukiennik@berkshireeagle.com or at 413-496-6249 Bernard Joseph Calvi who died during World War II returned home to North Adams and was laid to rest beside his brothers on Tuesday afternoon Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later working as a messenger across wartime Europe. ”I’m very happy that I had the experiences that I did." Two brick Victorian mansions that were condemned in 2017 now belong to the city Sadie Jean Sworzen is not your average toddler Two new billboards from local nonprofit Hoosic River Revival seek public input on the flood chute modification effort and HRR announces it has brought on an outside engineering firm to help parse the U.S Savoy has postponed its annual town meeting from May 8 until sometime in June as the town's finances are not yet in order The annual town election will still be held on May 14 the state Department of Conservation and Recreation could soon expand its Savoy Mountain State Forest reach into Adams Seeking his sixth term on the Select Board incumbent Joe Nowak is being challenged by Jay Meczywor and Jerome Socolof Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Attorney Nicolo Majnoni reconnects with an old friend who has been fixated for decades on the murder of Vatican banker Roberto Calvi What starts as a conversation sparks Nicolo’s obsession leading him to abandon his law firm and dive into one of history’s most notorious unsolved crimes Hear this episode in Italian by subscribing to Il Banchiere di Dio wherever you get your podcasts Nicolo Majnoni: Friends of the Pod subscribers can listen to the full season of Shadow Kingdom right now Join Friends of the Pod at Crooked.com/friends or on Apple podcasts Nicolo Majnoni: There’s a scene that I have been obsessed with for the past several years It took place on a cool summer night in Austria in 1982 it was a rare moment of stillness in what had been a full week on the run There were sweat stains on his once crisp button-up shirt and the precious item that hadn’t left his sight since Calvi picked up a book of matches and struck igniting the small cavern of the brick fireplace he pulled the documents from the briefcase Were these paper trails of illegal wire transfers maybe blackmail materials on his rich and powerful clients Maybe he could use them to cut a deal and save himself or perhaps one of those powerful clients might protect him in order to protect their secrets Among the papers he decided to save was a copy of a letter he’d written just a few weeks earlier It was written to one of his most important Calvi had done so much work for the Vatican But now the Italian financier was in trouble I have concluded that you are my last hope Calvi wrote that he’d secretly moved money for the Vatican around the world and that he’d willingly taken on its quote “Mistakes and faults.” But now I am betrayed and abandoned by the Vatican I read this letter as both a cry for help and vaguely threatening hanging from a rope over the Thames River in London [music plays] I’m Nicolo Majnoni and this is episode 1 [news clip]: 62-year-old Signor Calvi was found dangling here just a few days before he was due to appear in Italian court— Nicolo Majnoni: I stumbled on the story of Calvi’s death while working as a corporate lawyer a couple of years ago I was having coffee with my friend Mario Platero he told me about the story he’d always wish he could pursue There was some longing in his voice that just drew me in and I started researching this mysterious banker reading everything I could find about the case And then I did something relatively misguided I also wrangled Mario into a recording studio to talk about why this story had captured us both Nicolo Majnoni: We only had about 20 minutes and he was on his cell with the foreign minister of an undisclosed country we’re in a studio because I usually just talk to you face-to-face It’s not that I know every—first of all It’s how he earned our family nickname for him Mario sits on various boards and is more banker than anything else But during the Cold War he was a journalist Mario Platero: Yes I interviewed Reagan in the White House in fact and I was in Moscow when Nicolo Majnoni: I was looking for stories and you said I don’t know that I knew almost anything about God’s Banker except for that the name sounded cool and strange it might have sounded a lot like a conspiracy theory very close to this man that dealt a lot with the Vatican Mario was working full time for an Italian bank in New York and moonlighting as a reporter Calvi’s bank was crashing and Calvi was a fugitive Big newspapers were all scrambling to figure out where Calvi was hiding It’s at this moment that Mario got a call from one of those papers Mario Platero: So the editor-in-chief calls me up and says we heard rumors that Calvi may be in New York We would like to have an interview with him Nicolo Majnoni: Mario held a beige receiver in his hand But his head wasn’t in banking right now The moon-lighting journalist side of him took over Mario Platero: The excitement of finding Calvi at that moment became passionate So my attention was totally diverted to that I have a secondhand connection to Calvi’s son So why don’t I get Carlo’s phone number in Canada and just try him let’s go for the full monty as they say my degree of excitement and nervousness and tension at that point was at its height Nicolo Majnoni: Mario was doing his best to act natural Had this housekeeper really just offered up an itinerary of one of the biggest fugitives in the world She’d given Mario Calvi’s address in the Bahamas Probably no other reporter on the planet had that Mario Platero: And I went to sleep with this excitement of pursuing my scoop He just needs to swing by the office first and they had this piece of paper in their hands Nicolo Majnoni: His colleagues were huddled around a Telex machine a 1980s version of Twitter that printed news on this never-ending sheet of paper Someone had just ripped the sheet of paper from the machine Mario Platero: The wire said Calvi found dead in London under the Blackfriars Bridge Nicolo Majnoni: As the morning turned into a hot New York afternoon young analysts chomped nervously on pencils He was replaying that headline in his head over and over but the kind of evidence I had was not leaning in that direction Nicolo Majnoni: Mario stared at the wire printout and Calvi had two pairs of underwear on and two watches Calvi had lost over a billion dollars for his bank And Calvi was rumored to have partnered with a lot of shady characters characters who may well have wanted revenge Mario Platero: I think that this was a murder That was the result of events that were incredibly complicated that involved the Vatican Mario’s saying they’re all involved in Calvi’s death they’re all at war in the existential fight of their lives [news clip]: Which was once ruled by a fascist dictator and now has the largest communist party in Western Europe / The loss in man-hours in Italy because of strikes and absenteeism is astronomical Major plants are operating at three-quarters capacity Italy has the lowest growth rate in Western Europe the Communist Party in Italy was very strong It had nearly 35 % of the national vote by 1976 had a rather unlikely partner in this fight against communism in Italy The Vatican hated communism because communism hated God Most communist regimes shut down all churches the Vatican and the CIA joined forces to send secret cash to anti-communist fighters in the Soviet Union Mario Platero: There was also the mafia involved so the Vatican using a bank as a money laundering operation to fight the Cold War with the U.S.—[both speaking] Nicolo Majnoni: If you can sense a dismissive tone in my voice there I almost got mad at Mario while we were in the studio because I am an Italian But my body and soul are very much tied to my strange country shaped like a boot I moved back to Italy in my 20s to get an Italian law degree because I dreamt of being a prosecutor that would fight the mafia so I practiced corporate law in the US and the UK instead I was always hearing Italians telling these wild stories always taking some benign event and turning it into a big conspiracy Mario actually told me there’s a word in Italian for this It basically means that Italians never accept the given explanation for something They always suspect there’s some darker truth lurking behind I’ve had to fight this stereotype of the passionate And so I was immediately skeptical of Mario’s theories about Calvi Mario Platero: Let me point out that I’m on your side with this but what I’m saying is that you come to me and you tell me a man was killed because he was using the Vatican bank via mafia laundered money to fight the Cold War with the backing of the CIA this is so silly and it’s the typical Italian story that is fake Mario Platero: You’re implying you didn’t believe me but then I didn’t have the time and I never pursued it so I’m very glad you’re doing it Nicolo Majnoni: So the 25-year-old Mario who wanted to interview Calvi and never did I give you the baton so that you can do a nice story about it that now it’s much more complete in a way well it all sounded very fake and I wanted to prove you wrong and that this season is that effort I wanted to find out who had killed Roberto Calvi But I wasn’t buying his whole Vatican Maybe even that Roberto Calvi had very simply killed himself Just as the no-nonsense British police believed at the time of death So find out what happened to Roberto Calvi That’s what I set out to do more than two years ago I’ve traveled to the scene of the crime in London and made multiple trips to Italy I’ve sat in a mafioso’s living room choking on cigar smoke and tracked down a smuggler who was the last person to see Calvi alive I’ve worried about my own personal safety more than once which I’m gonna share with you at the end of this is completely and wildly different than I could have ever imagined at the start of this investigation [AD BREAK] I started my research with something obvious the official records of Calvi’s death the British police said Calvi committed suicide I’ve lived both in Italy and in England My instinct here is to trust the British side of my brain The Brits had no real skin in the game and so much less bias I feel like they’re much more likely to see a conspiracy where there isn’t one So if I’m going with the British side of my brain Calvi’s body was found hanging over the River Thames in London’s business district overworked bankers that can’t take it anymore Calvi was facing some grim prospects in the coming days with the international media following his every move Nicolo Majnoni: Calvi had recently been convicted of illegally sneaking millions of dollars outside Italy I also found out that Calvi had actually attempted suicide when he was facing similar legal issues just a year before [news clip]: The British coroner’s jury ruled that he had committed suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed Nicolo Majnoni: And probably most damning to Mario’s murder thesis was that when British police examined Calvi’s body [news clip]: All the evidence pointed towards suicide who carried out a post-mortem examination on Signor Calvi I would have expected to have found some marks of resistance no one hit Calvi over the head and then deceptively propped him under a bridge There were also no signs of chemical injections or stuff that might have knocked him out more peacefully as he’d been in the past when he tried to kill himself And he ended his life in a place where many other bankers do And so ends the tale of God’s banker Although I would like the British part of my brain to completely take over the Italian side poked me in the middle of the night It poked me and invited me to listen to the Italians Why didn’t they like the British suicide theory Calvi was hanging in a place that was really hard to reach that a team of young British cops could barely get to How could he have filled his pockets with bricks and climbed up to hang himself Italian investigators would also note that Calvi’s body was both soaked and then dry in ways that couldn’t really be explained And the dirt all over his pants wasn’t from the area around the bridge at all It was almost like Calvi had levitated to his final hanging place Italians would also point out that Calvi had a boatload of medications at his disposal which leads me to think that he could have overdosed and died peacefully in his sleep the one with the secrets from half the world a British voice assuring me it was suicide and then Mario’s Italian accent urging me to see this as a gruesome murder But it’s kind of terrifying to entertain Mario’s challenge And out of that box would come conspiracy theories that tied the mafia to the pope to secret fascist societies bent on overthrowing the state and hovering over all of this If I truly entertain Mario’s challenge I would have to admit that there’s something to Dietrolegia that there’s something behind the curtain something that those in power want to stay hidden I didn’t wanna be the wild-eyed Italian conspiracist I wanted to be the mild-mannered English lawyer to follow the question from the Italian side of my brain [music plays] Coming up on this season of Shadow Kingdom [unidentified speaker]: The system is completely rotten therefore it’s okay to blow up this entire building / They’ve got every conspiracy they’re / [speaking Italian] / He tells me you need to leave with Calvi / He is wanted in Italy for political espionage and possession of state secrets / [speaking Italian] / Banking experts began to unravel the story of a big Italian bank scandal that reads like good fiction Nicolo Majnoni: Shadow Kingdom is a production of Crooked Media and Campside Media with additional reporting by Simona Zecchi and Joe Hawthorne and Ashleyanne Krigbaum is our managing producer Our theme song and original score are composed by me and Mark McAdam Our studio engineer is Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan Katie Long and Alison Falzetta from Crooked Media Matt Shaer and Vanessa Grigoriadis are the executive producers at Campside Media You can also listen to Shadow Kingdom in Italian but it’s full of original reporting in Italian with 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You can click “OK” to accept these cookies and similar technologies or select “No Thanks” to opt out. You can learn more about our privacy practices by reviewing our Privacy Policy Calvi's 4th Grade Class - Lee Elementary We now know who will be taking part in the event They’ll be setting off soon! The fourth edition of The Crossing: Calvi – Monaco Water Bike Challenge race will be taking place on September 6 and 7 the participants will cross the 180 kilometres between Calvi Participants include the ‘Serenity’ team Slovakian cyclist Peter Sagan and Gareth Wittstock Princess Charlene’s brother and Secretary General of the Fondation Princess Charlène de Monaco Jean-Baptiste Pastor and Anthony Roustan are the ‘Rock to Rock’ team Noam Yaron forced to abandon Calvi-Monaco swim after 100 km The ‘Ferrari’ team will be made up in part of Italian drivers “I feel relieved”: Steph Claire Smith on being diagnosed with ADHD at 30 Why are all the girlies scrapbooking again bad and infected: What FJ readers wish they’d known before getting a nipple piercing PHOTOGRAPHY BY Petrina Tinslay “It’s about giving myself permission to enjoy cute little things again.” journalising and collecting are all having a moment (perhaps for some it’s not just young people jumping on board with the craft resurgence Interested to hear how others navigate the world? Head to our Life section I’ve long associated crafting with girlhood I relished in trips to Officeworks where I begged my mum for new gel pens and double-sided tape and I would devote hours to cutting out photos of my friends and carefully pasting them into my scrapbook Where my free time is now spent scrolling (a habit I’m desperately trying to shake) memory collecting in the digital age has mostly looked like screenshots and carefully curated photo dumps – until now A post shared by Martina Calvi (@martinamartian) From her scrapbooking videos to projects like ‘Snail Mail Swap’ they’re a modern alternative to preserving memories Martina first started scrapbooking when she was eight years old after her mother gave her her first travel journal “I was collecting bits and pieces and pasting them in a book long before I knew what scrapbooking actually was I still have that first journal,” Martina tells me Now, Martina has amassed over 300,000 followers on Instagram and 100,000 on TikTok where she shares videos of journal tours trinket collections and gift-wrapping guides A post shared by Martina Calvi (@martinamartian) When pausing to think about why things like scrapbooking and journaling resonate with so many people Martina says that it might have something to do with our craving for more offline there’s just something comforting and authentic about scrapbooking and handmade art,” she tells me the ability to slow down and engage in such thoughtful hobbies feels almost… unproductive “[I think] these slow hobbies remind us to take a breath and be present,” Martina tells me Rather than checking off our never-ending to-do lists, making mental notes to reply to people’s messages and spending even our downtime doing something, sitting on your bedroom floor cutting up magazine pictures or adorning your bag with charms might be a way of resisting the fast-paced nature of our day-to-day A post shared by Martina Calvi (@martinamartian) it’s about giving myself permission to enjoy cute little things again,” Martina adds “Collecting trinkets and stickers makes my inner child happy.” “I’ve spent so much of my twenties trying to come across like I have it all together so it’s freeing to admit I really am just a girl.” But it’s not just the act of slowing down – part of the appeal of crafting is the memory collecting itself Whether it’s something you proudly pore over in the aftermath or something that sits neatly on your bookshelf and rarely sees the light of day it’s a way to lean into your sentimental side and preserve your memories Martina’s journals include a range of tokens and mementos from each chapter of her life “These are all tangible memories,” she says it’s never too late to start memory collecting The Art of Memory Collecting is a way for people to get in touch with their crafty side through 15 different craft projects and tutorials “Start with that drawer or shoebox full of random bits you’ve been keeping – polaroids “Gather those pieces and start pasting them into a book Your life and memories deserve to be preserved in beautiful ways.” Keep up with Martina here What if your favourite cult beauty brand was actually a cult Australian authors share their practical advice for becoming a better writer Newcastle label Olga Joan makes clothing fit for work WIN: $500 to spend on jewellery from Black Finch Books to read as the weather cools for a ‘Gilmore Girls’ autumn This Byron Bay label makes lingerie from deadstock vintage lace Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" All the teams were welcomed to Monaco by a troupe of Polynesian singers and dancers “The Crossing: Calvi-Monaco” started off from the Quai d’Honneur in the port of Calvi with Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene in attendance five teams of four – 20 athletes in total – took it in turns to cover the 180 kilometres between Calvi and Monaco on water bikes On arrival at the Rose des Vents beach in Larvotto at around 9.30 am on Saturday the Prince and Princess were also there to welcome the winning team the Ferrari team and finally the U17 team 900 Monegasques join Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene for U Cavagnëtu picnic More than two years in the making and 14 thousand words long associate journalism professor Pablo Calvi’s latest journalistic work blends traditional shoe-leather reporting with the artistry of literary journalism The piece, “The Recollector,” was published this summer in The Believer magazine It explores the history and legacy of Japanese internment during the Second World War and the fight over a long-buried memorial on the survivors and descendants of the Topaz internment camp and the nearby “When I came across the museum and the controversy about the Wakasa stone allyship and appropriation were important ideas to discuss and revisit today in a world that has become more exposed and open to post-colonial notions,” said Calvi “But it was only at the time of writing that I fully understood that my story as an immigrant was also connected to those notions Argentina’s dictatorship tried to erase its wrongdoings by razing torture and detention centers and the fact that the United States government had done the same with the Japanese internment camps of the 1940s Calvi stumbled onto the story during a cross-country road trip during the height of the Covid pandemic He and his family drove through Delta and found the museum nuanced history that he felt compelled to understand and share Calvi interviewed more than 70 people and spoke to hundreds for the story Some had roots in Delta and Topaz or connections to the other U.S He spoke to a geologist about the memorial and a manager at the National Park Service as well as the director of the Auschwitz Museum in Poland He spent two years tracking people and their stories down learning their histories and seeking documents He ended up with nearly 19 GB of transcripts and interview recordings Not every interview made it into the printed piece but all informed his reporting and how he told the story and there are many layers of emotions and feelings on the part of those who feel wronged by the museum and on the part of those who side with the museum,” Calvi said that I had a point of view as soon as I did enough research and I tried to present it as clearly and fairly as possible hoping that the story would help foster better dialogue between the parts.” He spent many months writing the story, including at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Literary Arts Program for literary journalism during the summer of 2023 The Banff program is one of the most prestigious and selective programs of its kind in North America “I applaud Pablo and his dedication to telling this story the way it deserves to be told – with nuance respect and deep compassion for the pain and suffering these camps inflicted both during World War II and down through the years and generations to today,” said Laura Lindenfeld dean of the SoCJ and executive director of the Alda Center for Communicating Science “The depth of caring and incredible skill that Pablo brings to all of his reporting is so vital to the work of being a journalist and journalism educator.” and website in this browser for the next time I comment This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Communication and Journalism received a Stony Brook Excellence in Educational Effectiveness Award The award recognizes members of the university.. the Moscow correspondent of the Wall Street Journal is a free man after being released from jail in Russia Evan should never have been jailed in the first place While student reporters across the country have been covering on-campus protests a team of 10 journalism students and two recent graduates developed a toolkit about how to report on and build resilience during times of.. © 2024 Stony Brook University He swam almost 100 kilometres over two days Noam Yaron set off from Calvi on Friday 23 August with the aim of swimming to the Monaco shore in three days His aim was to beat the world record for the longest crossing in a wetsuit without leaving the water He had to abandon the sporting feat in support of nature after covering almost 100 kilometres in two days and two nights in the water he couldn’t cope with the cross currents which would have considerably extended the total time scheduled for the crossing “There was no other option,” he said afterwards “Unexpected currents and headwinds came into play… making it increasingly difficult for me and the support vessels to make headway and being physically and mentally prepared to continue I had to accept reality and my team’s recommendations: with those currents I would potentially have had to swim for several more days and nights which would have made the challenge physiologically impossible given the sustained lack of sleep.” Noam Yaron does not intend to call it quits after this setback He undertook to promote the Mediterranean’s biodiversity and stress the importance of protecting it and he aims to complete the crossing from Calvi to Monaco in 2025 but we’ll be back next year,” said the young Swiss Especially since his unique challenge has brought environmental issues to the attention of nearly 7.6 million people It won’t ‘just’ be sporting and personal record Noam Yaron is also raising funds for the environment and the Mediterranean Sea the young Swiss will be heading to Corsica to take on a titanic challenge: swimming the 180 kilometres between Calvi and Monaco Noam will set off across the Mediterranean with the aim of covering the distance in under 3 days and 3 nights he will set a new world record for the longest distance ever swum in a wetsuit A world first that is ratified by the World Open Water Swimming Federation A far cry from the picture-postcard Mediterranean landscapes It is said to be the most polluted sea in the world exceeding even the amount of plastic found on the ‘plastic continent’ in the Pacific “It’s alarming…”  says the Swiss swimmer Noam Yaron has chosen to swim in a wetsuit despite record water temperatures in the Mediterranean over the last few days which is known to be harmful to marine ecosystems With almost 400,000 followers on social media Noam Yaron is determined to raise public awareness about the importance of nature conservation The money raised will be used to fund conservation projects in the Mediterranean each contributor will become joint holder of the record for the longest swim in the world in aid of nature The BioDivMed mission sets off from Monaco to map marine biodiversity Noam Yaron is now a regular in terms of sporting exploits in favour of the environment In 2021 he crossed Lake Geneva (80 km long) in under 20 hours he crossed the five largest lakes in Switzerland he did a 750km triathlon with 13,000m of altitude gain As Noam stresses:“Raising awareness is good €25.00Add to cart Princess Charlene and Prince Albert II signalled the start of the Crossing: Calvi – Monaco Water Bike Challenge for the benefit of the Princess Charlene Foundation Five teams of national and international athletes left Calvi at 10:30 am for the 24-hour-long race of 180 kilometres Mayor Ange Santini spoke about the special links between the City of Calvi and the Principality of Monaco Prince Albert II then thanked the many people present before a blessing by the Archpriest of Calvi Princess Charlene signalled the start the race to much applause The challenge concluded on Saturday 7 September at around 9:30 am on Larvotto Beach the teams were welcomed by Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco at the Rose des Vents “The Foundation warmly thanks and congratulates all the participants in this challenge and team spirit—you have shown that nothing can stop those who believe in themselves Congratulations!” said the Princess Charlene Foundation Prince Albert II visited the Ministry of State to inaugurate a new exhibition on 3 September In the company of Monaco’s new Minister of State the Sovereign took in the exceptional works pulled from the national archives the Monaco Media Library and even the Consulate of Monaco in Nantes which were all about the Principality’s liberation The exhibition focuses on other significant events such as communism in Monaco the return of France and Prince Rainier III many homes in the Principality were without water Maps point out where the bomb shelters were located and the exhibition ends with a video showing the retreat of the Nazis to the Place de Moulins The Prince then attended Didier Guillaume’s first public speech before signing a new stamp which pays tribute to General Robert Frederick who had received the order to liberate the south of France and Monaco accessible to all and runs until 31 January 2025 Commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Monaco took place on 3 September across the Principality Prince Albert II visited a reenacted military camp on the Place du Palais which displayed WWII vehicles and equipment with people dressed in authentic army uniforms The Sovereign was in the company of Bradford Hicks the general commanding the First Airborne Task Force who had parachuted into Var on 15 August 1944 The Prince was presented with a plan created by American troops for the liberation of Provence The Sovereign participated in the traditional ceremony at the Maison de France before speaking at the War Memorial which was attended by the United States Ambassador to France and Monaco From 15 August to 3 September and then throughout September 1944 the Prince said: “We were now fighting less than 80 kilometres away gutted buildings and corpses on street corners mines left by the Germans and blunders of the purge would cause significant damage and many victims Didier Guillaume took an oath before Prince Albert II and was appointed Minister of State of the Principality on 2 September 2024 The ceremony took place at the Prince’s Palace in the presence of Princess Charlene Members of the Government and the Prince’s Cabinet The Sovereign presented the new Minister of State with a roadmap which is structured around the following objectives: Continue the energy transition and implement a “renaturalization” (restoring the natural environment) of the city; Rethinking urban planning and mobility; Adapting public security policies to future challenges; Strengthening Monaco’s international position on major issues; Adapting economic and budgetary policy to future challenges in public finances Prince Albert II unveiled the bust of academic Gabriel Hanotaux who was honoured for his attachment to the town and its thousand-year-old olive tree academic and historian was France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs during the late 1800s The artist Romain Tiercin said that it was a great honour for him to pay tribute to the politician who was committed to the preservation of the local thousand-year-old olive tree Twelve works by Romain Tiercin are on display alongside the bust of Gabriel Hanotaux wood and an inventive and beautiful use of negative space she admitted to being stunned by the songwriting of Jeff Buckley’s Grace But if you’ve ever listened to Buckley for more than five minutes there’s hardly anything on his debut that isn’t capable of leaving you speechless A handful of moments aren’t as intense as before but his way of weaving his melody around every one of his guitar lines is the work of a mad genius whose time was cut way too short While that style isn’t exactly on the same level as Calvi’s art-rock stylings one of the foundations of her genre is about looking at every side of any songwriter And considering what he brought to the table Buckley felt like an art rocker trapped inside a rock star’s body half the time almost like if a band like Led Zeppelin got more in tune with strange prog-rock than blues and metal When talking about Grace to The Independent Calvi mentioned tracks like ‘Lilac Wine’ as some of her favourites from the whole project “I used to adore ‘Last Goodbye’ and the title track I find so much to listen to on ‘Lilac Wine’ in terms of Buckley’s delivery as though he’s wrapping his soul around it.” For those actually willing to listen further past his breathtaking cover of ‘Hallelujah’ ‘Lilac Wine’ might be one of the most unconventional rock songs to come out of the 1990s Even in a decade that was known for bringing bands like Butthole Surfers to the top of the charts hearing Buckley shake with emotion on ‘Lilac Wine’ is one of the most tender moments that any artist has ever attempted Whereas Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys managed to capture a voice that sounded like someone crying whenever he opened his mouth Buckley was the one who ushered in a different kind of rock and roll croon but this sounded like he was shouting from deep within his soul almost like an exorcism was taking place the minute he started singing It’s easy to see that kind of delivery rub off on Calvi as well While her voice has a distinctly different timbre than anything Buckley attempted during his lifetime the core thing she seemed to learn from him is fearlessness in art never being afraid to put her voice into different sonic spaces and see where it takes her rock and roll is about breaking the conventions of what has come before and even if Calvi’s end result did sound exactly like her idol she should be given props for using him as a model for what a human voice could produce Mary Calvi’s early path to become an award-winning news reporter and anchor is a familiar one: Calvi ’90 fell in love with journalism at a young age cultivated an intense curiosity and became determined to cover the news But it was that curiosity—combined with the confidence acquired through her broadcast journalism classes in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a big break provided by Sandy Montag ’85 president of The Montag Group—that helped Calvi realize her childhood dreams while remaining appreciative of the powerful impact of the alumni network “I feel indebted to Syracuse University and the incredible alumni connections and the powerful reach of this network of alumni We’re all so open to connecting and sharing our advice and feedback with each other and there’s a tremendous camaraderie among the alumni,” says Calvi a 14-time New York Emmy-winning anchor on WCBS-TV in New York and anchor of “Inside Edition Weekend.” While her childhood friends were watching cartoons Calvi vividly remembers being enthralled with the local newscasts captivating and mesmerizing about how the on-air reporters delivered the news to Calvi Calvi first got her hands on a microphone and camera and started writing and producing her own newscasts for a small local community television station in her hometown talking about the upcoming festival or what was happening in and around town that weekend I was always curious about what was happening but also what was the reason behind what was happening.” Mary Calvi (right) reporting from the scene of a news story for WCBS-TV in New York While anyone who watches Calvi deliver the news today can’t help but see her as a natural it wasn’t until she arrived at Syracuse University to study broadcast journalism that Calvi discovered the confidence she would need to launch her on-air career “There was no better journalism school in the country and there was no other place I wanted to go But just because I knew this was what I wanted to do from an early age didn’t mean I actually thought I could do this It really took me having the real support and encouragement from my Newhouse professors that allowed me to become confident that I could go out and do this for a living,” Calvi says Calvi recalls one instance where Dona Hayes the former department chair and current associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism challenged her students to report on a breaking news scenario equipped only with a few tidbits of information and some video footage You have to go through the raw emotions of being live in the field to catapult yourself to that next level of reporting because it really forces you to fix any problems you might have with your on-air delivery or your writing,” Calvi says Calvi considers herself to be an adept researcher someone who is always prepared for that day’s story But nothing could have prepared her for the challenges of reporting on the tragic events of Sept On that fateful day when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 others in the worst attack against the homeland in our nation’s history Calvi was on the air for 18 consecutive hours delivering the latest updates to a terrified audience while fielding phone calls from scared citizens frantically searching for their loved ones “It’s very difficult to put into words what that day was like It was devastating and even hard for me now to go to that site We were just trying to deliver the news as it was happening There was the breaking news piece of it and it really doesn’t get much easier for the families,” Calvi says who also covered the World Trade Center bombing on Feb knowing there was a priority placed on providing viewers with the most up-to-date information Calvi was able to demonstrate great empathy while interviewing survivors and family members who had lost a loved one “It really hits you hard as a reporter when you talk to those who go through tragedies We talk about breaking news and getting the story in this industry have met families who are dealing with terrible tragedies The reporter must go to the family of that victim and talk to them It really changes your perspective about the news business You really get a true sense of the impact these stories are having that you’re reporting on,” Calvi says Relating to the pain of losing a family member or a friend is not a new feeling for Calvi who was a junior at Syracuse University when terrorists bombed Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec including 35 Syracuse students returning from a semester abroad Calvi’s storytelling skills aren’t limited to television. She has found success as a best-selling author relying on her talents as a reporter to shine a light on two stories of romance involving well-known American presidents “If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love,” features the actual love letters between Roosevelt and Alice Lee before George Washington met his eventual wife one of the richest women in America who was from Calvi’s hometown journal entries and publications from the time Calvi uncovered the facts that served as the basis for her novel deception and vengeance,” according to Calvi Those letters were long rumored to have been destroyed or lost to time but a persistent Calvi eventually discovered not only the letters but never-before-seen photos of the two lovebirds I wanted to share their stories and their voices with the world because I think they were both wronged in history for many reasons Mary was named a traitor during the American Revolution while Alice was marked as someone incapable of intellectual growth It was quite a thrill being able to share their voices and tell these long-forgotten stories,” Calvi says Another case of Calvi’s curiosity paying off A new collaboration with Advance Local will provide Newhouse School journalism students opportunities to write and report on investigative projects with local impact for newsrooms across the country The David Newhouse Investigative Reporting Fellowship program has received the Spring 2025 Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) First Book Subvention for her upcoming book on Russia’s migration policies on the Russia-China border Woodard’s book is titled “Ambiguous… The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has earned the No News & World Report Best Public Affairs Schools rankings This year’s top ranking follows Maxwell’s yearlong celebration of its founding 100… Richard Alexander L’82 has navigated his chosen profession (the law) and his chosen passion (Syracuse University and its law school) through incredibly challenging waters managing partner and chair of one of the nation’s most… Reuters won the 2025 Toner Prize for national political reporting for comprehensive stories published as part of the news organization’s “Politics of Menace” special report during the presidential campaign NJ Advance Media earned the 2025 Toner Prize for local political… If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu ‘Desire’ offered a perfect example of her talent It’s not just that her voice and guitar playing are incredible but it’s Calvi’s mind for composition that has earned her accolades It’s her ability to use all of the skill and technicality at her disposal and use it to serve the emotion of a song everything worked to harness the energy of lust It’s closer to longing but without the sombre edge that comes with yearning for something that you may not get and animalistic need combine into something empowered or even somewhat menacing a colour that seems to wash over all of Calvi’s music her backing screen is nothing but a solid block of vibrant red Every one of her album covers features bright scarlet it’s the ultimate shade of lust and desire So when it came to making the track ‘Desire’, it feels like Calvi’s magnum opus on the feeling and energy that powers so much of her work. But while other songs are sung through this lens, here, she turned her full attention to attempting to capture exactly what the feeling is and put it to tape like a soundtrack to the sensation. the lyrics capture the feeling perfectly through a mix of good and evil imagery that leads to a repeated refrain of “desire” as if concluding that this one feeling exists as its own unique thing But what’s so captivating about Calvi is that it’s not just her lyrics that tell a story Every element and every instrument on her tracks tells it she thinks it’s the instrumentation that is perhaps the most evocative of what she’s trying to say “I wanted to have a melodic motif that just keeps building and building and it’s kind of like a metaphor for desire,” she told NPC Always treating her songs with a big-picture mindset it’s important to her that the way the different instruments work together is also imbued with the feeling at hand her crafting of the song’s various builds and climaxes was all done with the experience of lust in mind: the tension She did that through the repetition of the same motif over and over and it just grows throughout the song as the desire grows stronger,” she explained “This melody is heard in more and more instruments until at the end Not only does it make ‘Desire’ an incredible and visceral song, but it’s truly representative of Calvi’s artistic ethos and talent it’s really important that the music is telling you half the story; it’s telling you as much about what the song is about as the lyrics are.” The fourth edition of The Calvi – Monaco Crossing Water Bike Challenge race will take place in a few weeks Five teams of four athletes are due to cross the 180 kilometres between Calvi they will cycle in a relay from the Quai d’Honneur in the port of Calvi to the finish line: Larvotto beach next to the Académie de la Mer The Mediterranean crossing is organised by the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation and aims to raise awareness about learning to swim Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation launches shock drowning prevention campaign Tennis - Retrouvez sur cette page les infos le suivi LIVE et les résultats du tournoi féminin ITF 75 prévu à Calvi du 14 au 20 avril.. Marine Szostak 🇫🇷 lost to Sofia Costoulas [8] 🇧🇪 : 3-6 Daria Snigur [1] 🇺🇦 (Retired) : 5/2 abandon Sofia Costoulas [8] 🇧🇪 vs Anna-Lena Friedsam 🇩🇪 : 6/2 6/3 Tessah Andrianjafitrimo [6] 🇫🇷 vs Valentina Ryser [4] 🇨🇭 : 6/2 6/3 Sofia Costoulas [8] 🇧🇪 vs Tessah Andrianjafitrimo [6] 🇫🇷 : 7/5 6/1 Classée 260e mondiale avant ce tournoi signe la semaine parfaite et s'impose en finale après deux sets très bien menés Costoulas grimpe au 202e rang à la WTA et sa rivale Tricolore Pablo Calvi, an associate professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) will go to Chile as a Fulbright Scholar in the fall He is the first SoCJ faculty member to receive the award Calvi will teach a version of his popular seminar “Comparative Latin American Literary Journalism,” and conduct further research and interviews about the literary journalists he has studied for years without ever being able to visit their country for a significant amount of time “I am delighted that Pablo will have this experience and this incredible opportunity to expand his work and our understanding of literary journalism in Latin America,” said Laura Lindenfeld “Understanding the different ways communities and cultures engage with the world around them Pablo’s work brings a more nuanced understanding of journalism not only to those of us at Stony Brook but to all who engage with his work as a journalist Calvi’s research primarily focuses on the development and impact of different forms of literary journalism across Latin America in the 19th and early 20th centuries he will expand his research to explore the work lives and lasting impact of Chilean literary journalists from the final decades of the 20th century to the present day He is particularly interested in how the strong traditions of this form of journalism had continued success despite the rise of the dictator Augusto Pinochet “We sometimes think of journalism as one universal continuous set of practices with a clear goal: to inform the public about the present the current developments in our town and world and how these different traditions develop and change all depends on the different historical conditions Calvi will teach his literary journalism course at the Universidad Diego Portales a private institution that is home to two of the most renowned journalism and communication research centers in Chile and Latin America He developed the course over several years and has taught it at Stony Brook and the Sorbonne in Paris Calvi’s Fulbright will build on his previous books Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (University of Pittsburgh Press and his forthcoming The Literary Journalist as a Naturalist (Palgrave The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S It is designed to forge lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries the Fulbright Program has enabled 400,000 dedicated and accomplished students teachers and professionals of all backgrounds to study and find solutions to shared international concerns The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S Stony Brook is shaping the future of STEM by providing high school women with hands-on experiences that could define their careers Kara Gerstein and Angela Reis believe in – and get to experience every day at work – the healing power of the arts Stony Brook University is leading the charge in clean energy education with Navigating the Clean Energy Transition a crucial drowning prevention event organised by the Princess Charlene Foundation The 4th edition of Water Safety Day took place on the beach at Calvi and drew over 80 participants aged 8-12 from Calvi’s Loviconi and Calenzana schools The children were able to take part in four land-based and four water-based workshops The workshops were led by Stéphanie Barneix the Foundation’s ambassador and world water rescue champion with the support of the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (National Sea Rescue Society – SNSM) and the Haute-Corse fire brigade Princess Charlene highlighted the importance of these prevention and awareness-raising actions on beaches The Princess also presented each participant with a diploma Operation Poseidon: Princess Charlene supports Pierre Frolla’s initiative “I gravitated towards things that were dramatic,” she once commented sharing how her musical fascination began with sprawling classical sonatas and developed into left-field rock picks Tom Waits is one of her most important influences looking to his wild and imaginative tracks as inspiration for her own It was a project that proved to be a perfect fit allowing her to fully indulge in the storytelling and adventurous music she’d always loved Waits emerged as an influence that tied her two loves together: dramatic songs and the guitar it seemed to Calvi that the instrument became a character or a tool for telling the tale When it came to making her second album, One Breath, Calvi wanted to push her playing into a new realm. “I wanted more texture and color to come from the guitar, almost as if it wasn’t a guitar,” she said “I wanted it to be almost this wild animal.” While still making music in the rock world Calvi wanted to take her sound further than that casting off the classic chords and limitations applied to the instrument to instead see it as a more experimental tool she wanted to forget how to play the guitar and start using the guitar “That’s why listening to an album like Rain Dogs came in handy,” she said considering Waits’ 1985 album to be one of the most influential works in her career he’d come a long way from the piano ballads that first introduced him he was borrowing from a vast array of influences taking the genre rule book and completely disregarding it The rule for the record was following the idea that “the sounds become your own.” He recounted moments where they totally abandoned instruments altogether “If we couldn’t get the right sound out of the drum set we’d get a chest of drawers in the bathroom and bang it real hard with a two-by-four.” The same approach was applied to the guitar, even though Waits called in Keith Richards The instruction left for the guitarists was “Play it like a midget’s bar mitzvah” as Waits wouldn’t let them rehearse and had Richards and his own guitarist playing on beaten up old acoustic guitars for an unorthodox sound and experience The sound that came out of that experience inspired Calvi to no end “What Tom Waits did with the guitar on that record was so full of unexpected treatments,” she said praising the record’s unique guitar lines and strange instrumental details that’s been an ethos Calvi has carried with her attempting to abandon technicality in favour of feel and energy Receive emails when new obituariesare published to our website When you have experienced the loss of a loved one you can trust us to guide you through the arrangements necessary 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The Calvi to Monaco Water Bike Challenge is back between 6th and 7th September 2024 Five teams will travel non-stop 180-kilometre from Calvi to the Principality for the benefit of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation A new anthology by Associate Professor Pablo Calvi from the School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) explores the role of literary journalism in telling the story of how humans interact with and influence nature compiles essays that examine different pieces of naturalist writing and literary journalism a form of reporting that blends observed facts and the writer’s perspective and emotions It seeks to answer the dual questions of why and how reporting that blends fact and emotion so often fails to influence public opinion our relationship with and to the natural world can help society understand and respond to the increasingly critical need to protect our planet,” said Laura Lindenfeld “I sincerely congratulate him on this latest achievement.” The book is the outgrowth of years of Calvi’s work and a conversation begun in 2018 at Stony Brook when the SoCJ hosted a conference he organized under the same name that same year the UN Secretary General suggested the world was entering an “era of global boiling.” In the six years since “Today we are witnessing the direct impact of climate change everywhere we look,” said Calvi “There is a clear connection between human activity and the alterations of our global ecosystems Both journalism and literary journalism have been discussing this connection for decades none of these journalistic forms have been able to modify a self-destructive pathway pushed by corporations It is important for us to understand what journalism has done right and what it has done wrong or insufficiently Why our actions in the journalistic field have not been able to render actionable pathways to climate remediation and restoration What has limited and even prevented journalism in its modern iteration from improving human interactions with nature Only when we are able to understand the limits of this type of journalism writers reflect on other writers and pieces of literary journalism including the legacy of people like David Thoreau David Attenborough and John Joseph Mathews The Literary Journalist as a Naturalist explores our relationships to places as varied as Latin America Australia and Florida’s Everglades; how what we eat further imperils endangered species; and industries like logging Read more about the book a series of events dedicated to recognizing and supporting first-generation students Three Stony Brook University computer science faculty are among 14 researchers from SUNY university centers to be awarded SUNY-IBM AI Research Alliance grants The Quantum Networks Town Hall was a component of Stony Brook University’s quantum science collaboration with Columbia