Clocks went back an hour overnight (3:00 became 2:00). Enjoy the extra hour.

Sun 25 Oct · today

• Nothing timed.

Mon 26 Oct

• 08:00–15:00 · ShiftPanda meetings with Luca · no place listed
• 19:00–21:00 · Dinner with Luca · no place listed

Tue 27 Oct

• Nothing timed.

• Intimissimi orders 2003989496 and 2003989511 · ready in store · Intimissimi SC Palladium, Náměstí Republiky 1 (Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00) · show the email at the till · collect by about Wed 28 Oct (23 Oct reminder said 5 days left)
• JP-KONTAKT desk (order 20/2026/4730) · no delivery date yet · no new mail from JP since the order confirmation

Starlink satellite trails over the night sky (M. Lewinsky, CC BY 4.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Starlink back to full speed. Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield links are restored after more than a week of throttling that hampered drone operations; Musk then said SpaceX had restricted it, citing terms of service. Al Jazeera
• Abu Dhabi talks in November; Oleshky ceasefire. US-Ukraine-Russia talks are expected in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November (Kremlin confirmed). A local ceasefire in occupied Oleshky (Kherson) starts 27 Oct, with a humanitarian operation planned for 29 Oct. AP
• Fighting goes on. 117 clashes on 24 Oct per Ukraine's General Staff, heaviest around Pokrovsk; deadly Russian strikes in Lozova and Dnipropetrovsk region; Ukrainian hits on a Togliatti petrochemical plant.
• Iran: no US warships in the Gulf. Iran says they will never be allowed in; the US ambassador to Turkey said strikes could come "as soon as this weekend", while the White House says no new attacks before the 3 Nov midterms. CBS
• Strike plans for after the election. Israeli sources tell ABC that joint US-Israel plans against petrochemical and nuclear targets are drawn up for after the vote. ABC
• Tehran still open to talks. Iran's envoy in Islamabad says talks under the June Pakistan-brokered deal remain possible, and Hormuz would reopen if the US lifts its naval blockade. AP

Garlasco, the castle tower (Awd, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Quiet in court. Nothing new from the court or prosecutors today; the week's news is defence consultancies and TV.
• The shoe test. Sempio's team shows video of him unable to fit Frau shoes sizes 40–43 (he says he's always been a 44). Stasi's lawyer Giada Bocellari rejects the defence report and maintains the print points to a 43–44. La Capitale News · Libero on Quarto Grado, 23 Oct
• Ferri inquiry reopened? TG4 (24 Oct) reports Pavia has reopened the inquiry into the 2010 death of mechanic Giovanni Ferri, now treated as possibly not a suicide and linked to the Poggi case. TV report only, no official statement seen. TG4
• Sempio on TV. He told Storie Italiane he is afraid of being convicted.

• Bitwig. No new release since 6.1.4 (13 Oct), which added rekordbox library integration; stem separation is coming this winter. Bitwig
• Traktor. Still on Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul). 4.6 is reportedly in beta, unconfirmed by NI. NI status thread
• Tutorials. No worthwhile new Bitwig or Traktor tutorial on YouTube in the last two days.
• Ubuntu tip: check the clock change. timedatectl shows local time, time zone and whether "System clock synchronized: yes" is on. Fix a wrong zone with sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Prague.
• Package: pdfgrep. sudo apt install pdfgrep greps inside PDFs, e.g. pdfgrep -ri "faktura" $HOME/Documents to find which invoice mentions something.

Channels live in the agent's info pane. If a channel connector is available for an agent, its info pane (click the agent's name in the chat header, or Cmd+Shift+I) shows a Channels section under the Routines list. Connect a channel or check one that's already connected there. If you don't see it, no channel connector is available for that agent yet.

Coral fragments growing on an underwater nursery tree (NOAA, public domain). Wikimedia Commons

• Indonesian reef nearly doubles. Coral cover at a restored site at Pulo Panjang rose from 32.8% to 60.5% in six years through community transplant work. The Fourth Plate
• Turtles back on Nu'utele. Sea turtles are nesting again on the Samoan island after rats and pigs were removed, and native plants and birds are recovering too. The Good News Daily

The clock change began as a wartime measure. Germany and Austria-Hungary were the first countries to adopt daylight saving time nationwide, on 30 April 1916, to save coal for the war effort.

Image: Wikimedia Commons

Correggio, Assunzione della Vergine (1526–1530) · dome of the Duomo di Parma

The whole dome of Parma Cathedral is one fresco. Looking straight up, you see the Virgin carried into heaven through rings of clouds packed with angels, saints and twisting bodies, all foreshortened from below so the roof seems to open into a spiralling sky of golden light. Nobody had painted a dome like this before: it's the first fully illusionistic "sky" ceiling, and the model that Baroque painters like Lanfranco followed a century later.

«Correggio intende la cupola come un cielo che sta nell'architettura, uno sfondamento verso il cielo con dei punti di vista straordinari, dei punti di ribaltamento dei corpi sorprendente e quindi un'immagine che è così compiuta da apparire insuperabile. Tutti i pittori del Seicento che faranno le cupole partendo dal modello del cielo di Correggio non andranno più in là di lui.»

Vittorio Sgarbi, "Il fuoco della bellezza", I Borghi più belli d'Italia, March 2020. PDF

mellifluous (meh-LIF-loo-us): of a voice or sound, sweet, smooth and pleasant to hear, as if flowing with honey.

• Her mellifluous Italian made even the train announcements sound like poetry.
• He has a mellifluous radio voice that could sell you anything.

• hodiny (HO-dyi-nyi): clock; also "hours". V noci jsme posunuli hodiny o hodinu zpět. (Last night we put the clocks back an hour.)
• posunout (PO-soo-nowt): to move, to shift, to postpone. Můžeme schůzku posunout na úterý? (Can we move the meeting to Tuesday?)

Mikhail Bulgakov, Il Maestro e Margherita

The Devil and his entourage (including a giant talking cat) turn Stalin's Moscow upside down, alongside a love story and a retelling of Pontius Pilate. If you love Hašek's deadpan absurdity against bureaucracy, this is its wilder Russian cousin.

Get it: Amazon.it · Italian edition, Il Maestro e Margherita, Einaudi (ET Classici, 2014), translated by Vera Dridso

Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)

Harvey Keitel as a small-time collector in Little Italy torn between the Church and the mob, with De Niro's reckless Johnny Boy dragging him down. Raw, loose and full of rock'n'roll; it's where Scorsese found his voice.

Trailer: original theatrical trailer, Warner Bros. Rewind on YouTube

Where to stream: Czechia (Špinavé ulice): not streaming right now. Italy: not streaming right now. Neither country lists any streaming, rental or purchase offer on JustWatch. JustWatch CZ · JustWatch IT

None of the four films is on Flora's programme yet (Flora's programme shows only the current week).

• Artificial · not listed · Czech release around late January, after the 25 Dec US release. Novinky
• You Can See Everything · not listed · no Czech date turned up today.
• The Social Reckoning · not listed · no Czech date turned up today.
• Musk (Elon Musk documentary) · not listed · no Czech date turned up today.