A bright opening apart, the Crusaders were woeful for the first half-hour, making a host of basic errors and struggling to contain a Wigan side that looked visibly sharper than last year, despite fielding only one change to their line-up from 2009's play-off defeat by St Helens.
The books and his Scala opening apart, two other recent events in which he has been involved have forced him to look back on his life and the city in which he was brought up - the memorial service for his fellow Florentine, the controversial journalist and author Oriana Fallaci, and the anniversary of the flood that devastated the city in 1966.
They have been smashed open, kicked apart and mercilessly looted.
The visitors' centre is open daily (apart from 24-26 December) and, of course, the iconic basalt columns and coastal path are open all year around.
In Tarantino's films, human bodies are shown as meat bags with blood inside — which, soullessly, they are — blown open, burst apart, exploded by bullets.
Watch celebrities on the red carpet, or models on a runway, and you'll undoubtedly see the classic stop-for-the-flashing-cameras stance: chest open, legs apart, head level, usually with a hand on the hip.
The offices and shops along a main street, ripped open, ripped apart, ripped in two.
Furthermore, Daheim and Uerz mention additional characteristics of Open Foresight apart from a multi-stakeholder approach: transdisciplinarity and goal-state flexibility.
