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Important Tips for Securing Your House Before Going on Vacation

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Planning a vacation is always exciting, but ensuring your home is secure before you leave is crucial for peace of mind. With a few proactive measures, you can help deter potential intruders and prevent unfortunate incidents while you’re away. This guide provides essential tips that bridge simplicity with effectiveness, allowing you to focus on enjoying your vacation without worrying about your home’s security. Whether it’s setting up a reliable security system or taking practical steps like arranging for mail collection, these strategies will help you safeguard your residence.

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Laura Poitras, Astro Noise at The Whitney Museum

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ANARCHIST: Israeli Drone Video Signal, 2016, by Laura Poitras (All Photos By Gail)

Laura Poitras wants you to know that you are under surveillance at all times. At all times. The artist, journalist and documentary filmmaker, who won the 2015 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Citizenfour, the story of Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Scandal, has her first solo museum show opening at the Whitney Museum on Friday, February 5th, and it is an immersive, installation-based exhibit unlike anything I’ve seen previously. The show’s title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang, which is also the name that Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the NSA that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

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