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Once upon a time in America

May 22, 2013

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America yesterday retains its power of seduction and interrogation. After Baz Luhrmann and "Gatsby", James Franco, a fool of literature went through Yale, tackles a monument of literature deemed inadaptable: "… As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner. "As I Lay Dying" tells the pitiful odyssey of a family of yokels from Mississippi who share in a wagon pulled by mules bury their wife and mother in a cemetery located in town a few dozen miles from their farm . The epic turns into a nightmare because of the stubbornness and stupidity of the chieftain. Her five children pay a high price unconsciousness while the elements rage – swollen rivers, fires … James Franco overcomes the pitfalls of adaptation with an intelligence that commands admiration. Powerful film, moving, "As I Lay Dying," which contributes to the Un Certain Regard selection, would make a great great price.

Move forward in time. For "Jimmy P. , Psychotherapy an Indian plains, "Arnaud Desplechin seized cult book of Georges Devereux, published for the first time in the United States in 1951 by a ethnopsychiatrist the bad reputation. Jew of Hungarian origin, settled in Paris in the 1920s, he spent two years at the Mohave Indians when the military hospital in Topeka called to deal with a rather special case. Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Montana, wounded during the Second World War, suffering from headaches, dizziness, blindness and temporary loss of vision. Radios did not reveal any trauma to the brain. Faced with deep knowledge of Devereux to the world of Indian Jimmy Picard agrees to talk, to deliver his dreams, drawing and little by little, get to the bottom of the repressed unconscious images. An exciting face-to-face, often humorous, supported by a massive Benicio Del Toro and poetic, and Mathieu Amalric vibrionnant.

With Guillaume Canet, is immersed in the New York of the 1970s, for a period of admiration towards Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese. "Blood Ties" Oedipal drama in which the leg of James Gray is recognized, depicts the rivalry between two brothers. Chris spent several years in prison for murder and his younger brother, Frank, perfect policeman, the expected output. Frank hopes that Chris will make amends, but he plunges. During a robbery gone wrong, Frank acknowledges his brother but he managed to escape.

The reconstruction of New York in the 1970s is compelling, like shirts scoop neck pie, pants legs eph and the original hot band as a Manhattan street in the heart of summer. It is breathless, intense, thanks to the quality of the duo Clive Owen and Billy Crudup, assisted by Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana and the great James Caan, who plays the role of a father torn between her son. The film lasts two and twenty-four minutes hours and passes the speed of a solo Alvin Lee …

FOOTBALL. Real: Mourinho thanked soon?

May 19, 2013

José Mourinho could stay at Real Madrid thanks to €20m penalty ...

José Mourinho saw it his last hours at the head of Real Madrid? To believe the Spanish press on Sunday, almost unanimous about it, the answer is yes, while Carlo Ancelotti announced at the same time the leaders of PSG's intention to respond positively to requests from the Madrid club. "The sack Mourinho wants Real" and says El Mundo, the largest mainstream daily thinks that "leaders do not want it to sit on the bench this season." Announced the departure end of the season for many weeks, the Portuguese coach has precipitated his fate with the conceded defeat Friday in the final of the King's Cup against Atletico Madrid (2-1) and his behavior on the edge of field.

"Real Madrid could formalize his departure next week," abounds Marca, the Madrid daily which sees Chelsea next destination of Portuguese after three seasons in the Spanish capital. Dauphin Barca in the league semi-finals of the Champions League finalist and then the King's Cup, Mourinho would not win any title this season and would be about to find a Chelsea club he led between 2004 and 2007.

Cricket vs Ditto: “A canoeist the government is stupid”

There's' EVEN FOR THE POPE-Former comedian then attaches blame bipartisan affair of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena and the State-Mafia negotiations. It has even neopapà for Francis, so far spared by his barbs: "Even the Pope has lately become indifferent and a little 'populist, says to think about the past and not to the banks that are right or left." And concludepro domo: "The ideology, the ideology still do not believe that there is a screen is to fuck people. The movement is above and beyond and speaks Italians, not to piddini or berlusconian. "

REACTIONS – The Paraphrase gaberiana operated by Grillo immediately arouses immediate reactions, especially the 'liquidation' of the Same. The PDL, by the mouth of Baldelli, vice president of Deputies: "Disturbing democratic illiteracy, arrogant and offensive to parties and voters." Ditto for the now silent, while the Democratic Party speaks Senator Marcucci, president of the Culture Committee: "The insults of the comic trying to hide the scary emptiness of his political movement." And the criticism comes even from those who the government does not see Maroni. Who writes on Twitter «« Ditto Rossi and represent the values ​​of sport, cricket is now from TSO. " Mandatory medical treatment, that given to those who give in outburst.

Chinese exchange students in Taiwan: “How do we, just different”

The first impression? Kathy does not take long. "We landed I looked out the window and next to us saw an aircraft by Eva Air The whole plane was painted with Hello Kitty kitten.." Thomas: "The terminal had come down like us somewhere in the back country, I was only once sober. "Peter:" I thought incredible: Taipei has not so many skyscrapers as our cities Actually, it looks at first glance like a town near us.. "Thomas:" And then you realize soon, it is not the hardware, the most important as ours., it is the software.'s life in this city. "

Kathy, Thomas and Peter called something else. They are 20 and 21 years old, studying Economics and Environmental Engineering and have selected the name because they were told before leaving for China, they should not be there in Taiwan speak with journalists. There were also other things they said: Keep away but you practiced freely by "evil cult" Falun Gong sect, which is banned in China, Taiwan. Vertretet unswervingly take the position of one, indivisible China, whose eternal part is Taiwan. When they return after six months, then they need for their home authorities write a "Sixiang Baodao" a "protocol thoughts" about their experiences and impressions.

It's a small miracle that they are here: 1949 ended the civil war in China. Mao Zedong's communists took power in Beijing, Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang inferior (KMT) fled to the island of Taiwan. Since there are two Chinas: Here in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. There, the Republic of China on Taiwan in Europe only recognized by the Vatican, but a de facto state. More than half a century as was mainland Chinese step on the island of Taiwan denied, but since the election of KMT-man Ma Ying-jeou as president in 2008, there Thaw: Ma allowed direct flights, he opened the border for tourists from the mainland and soon also for students.

And now they are here. 10th 000 have come so far. First, the young exchange students like Kathy, Thomas and Peter, who only stay for half a year. For two years, the elders must come here to do an MA or PhD. People like 25-year-old psychology student Hue from Guangdong, to be Taiwanese professor greeted with the words. "When you stay here, you will nurmehr heavy in your old life can return" Now, two years later, says Hue: "In fact, I have become someone else. "It is an exciting experiment. Young Chinese people travel to the other studies in China, that China, which opened on the path to democracy a quarter of a century.

It also tens of thousands of Chinese studying in the democratic countries of the West. "But Taiwan is different," says Hue. "Here, people speak our language, our culture, and they live their society has to say something. Previously they were like us we had the red terror of Mao, they have the white terror of the KMT Taiwanese worked hard for.. what they have now, "Ma Jun, a 26 year old student of management sciences from Xiamen says if he had learned anything in the past two years, it is that." the myth of the Chinese who is not good for democracy, is nonsense. "Chinese who freely and directly elect their president – Ma Jun has experienced in 2012 in Taiwan. "And what I saw was a mature company that meet their conflicts peacefully. Was no sign of the chaos, as the propaganda Taiwan always hinstellt our democracy."

ESC Knut Cherin Krista – “This is the sex revenge on my friend!”

May 18, 2013

Krista Siegfrids: "Oh, that's a little sexual revenge on my friend. He is a radio presenter and we have been together for eight years. I would really like to marry him, but he has not given me any request. Since I gave him an ultimatum: until the Grand Prix I want to marry him, otherwise I kiss a woman on stage. He has not made a request to me, so I can kiss whoever I want now. "

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Winner Title: "All Kinds Of Everything"

Winner Title: "Fly on the Wings of Love"

Winner Title: "Take Me To Your Heaven"

Winner Title: "Save Your Kisses For Me"

Winner Title: "All Kinds Of Everything"

Attack in Brindisi, asked for life imprisonment for the mass murderer Vantaggiato

May 17, 2013

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TOAST – Life imprisonment with daytime isolation for three years. He asked for the maximum sentence of Lecce for the anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Vantaggiato, self-confessed author of the attack at the school Morvillo-Falcone of Brindisi. The demand for punishment came a year after the attack, made May 19, 2012, in which the student was killed Melissa Bassi and nine people were injured between students and passers-by. Some of those injured students – Selena, Blue, Sabrina, Vanessa and Veronica – attended the indictment in the Assize Court, in Brindisi: wore a T-shirt with a picture of Melissa and with the words He knew the fate that we are more too strong for him, we do not forget; judiciary. A short distance away, the parents of the victim and the defendant sixteen. the prosecutor was William Cataldi to reconstruct the facts, trattendono emotion. By blowing with a remote control those bombs at 7. 42 am, in front of the crowded school, said the prosecutor, Vantaggiato has realized his dream. He pressed the button – said – then the state to enjoy the show and he left only when safe state that the event had been accomplished criminal. On the mental capacity of the accused the prosecution has no doubts: It was shiny. No doubt even the motive: He had economic difficulties and had a boat that we are selling 500 thousand euro. Doubts, however, the prosecutor's wife has them on Vantaggiato. His wife, by the images of the kiosk – said the prosecutor – perhaps would not have recognized her husband, but he recognized the clothes. The wife recognized him, but I can not tell aiding and challenging for the competition I have no evidence. I do not exclude that it could express the decision to carry out the massacre to his wife. I can not make my indictments on my impressions. The same goes for the driver Giovanni and other people close to Vantaggiato. The magistrate then rebuilt the phases of the attack. 1am. 27 work began placing the bomb said, referring to the night between 18 and 19 May 2012. Next, Vantaggiato back home to sleep. At 7. 03 reappears near the school and, after a wander around in his car, at 7. 31 Vantaggiato turn, park, approaching the kiosk in front of which approaches. very careful this time. In front of the school c 'a constant coming and going of people. Then someone passes, passes another person from the pedestrian passage of the school. At 7. 41 Vantaggiato presses the command the first time. Other people crossing the zebra. Then the explosion and he goes away soon after. The images of the CCTV cameras of the kiosk portray the scene. Cataldi pointed out that in that area there was always a human crowding. Vantaggiato knew that it was a flow of people uncontrollable. the proof – Thunders – who wanted to kill, not Melissa, Vanessa. But anyone. That on May 19, Vantaggiato – noted the prosecutor Motta – has resulted in a massacre that had the effect of intimidating the country. From here the aggravating circumstance of finalit terrorist offenses of murder and construction and possession of deadly weapon. Vantaggiato, therefore, colloc alone the bomb in front of the school because he just wanted to kill, no matter who the victim was. He had prepared another attack, concluded the prosecutor and this demonstrated by the 'discovery of three other explosive devices, two of which are identical.

The Supreme Court rejected the porcellum and refer the case to the View

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THE ACTION – The Supreme Court has declared "relevant and not manifestly unfounded," reads the order interlocutory, "the question of constitutionality raised by the lawyer Aldo Bozzi so has the immediate transmission of documents to the Constitutional Court." In particular, the First Criminal Chamber of Rome, allowing the application of 27 applicants, who have raised questions about the constitutionality of the "porcellum," says clearly that "it is doubtful that the option followed by the legislature is the culmination of a balanced and reasonable constitutionally acceptable between the different values ​​at stake. "

ALTERATION OF INSTITUTIONAL BALANCE – In particular, the Supreme Court (Case 12060) wand majority of the premium: "It is – reads the sentence – a reward mechanism that, on the one hand, providing incentives (through a complex modulation of the threshold for access to two rooms) reaching agreements between the lists in order to access the premium, contradicts the need to ensure governance, given the possibility that, even immediately after the elections, the coalition receiving the award from melting or parties that were part of they come out (with the further consequence that the award of the prize, if it was served to encourage the formation of a government at the beginning of the legislature, could hinder rather with reference to the successive governments based a different coalitions), and second – writes even the Supreme Court – it causes an alteration of checks and balance, taking into account that the majority of the award recipient is able to elect the governing bodies of assurance that, among other things, remain in office for a longer time than the legislature. " Hence his shows "unreasonable" under Article. 3 of the Constitution as well as the lesion, "the principles of equality of voting and democratic representation."

Suicide in a school: “Do not aggravate the anxiety of children”

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First there was an immediate reaction. It will manifest itself in different ways: surprise, fear, horror, helplessness. . . It can also go through physical symptoms: pallor, sweating, urinary spasms … Anything is possible. Children may be taken logorrhée uninterrupted. More children will require the presence of their parents and want to sleep with them. Others do not want to go to school. Most to be feared, it is a state of indifference, as if nothing had happened.

Nightmares and night terrors come after. This is called post-traumatic phase, which occurs in the days following the incident. During the day, children will repeat the event in games, drawings or thoughts. This often alarm parents, but it is a way for them to control the situation. It was long believed that as they are personalities become children rebuild more easily. But they have a fantasy of the most violent and morbid adult death.

Parents are also very émotionnés by this tragedy. Their first instinct is often to their child in her arms and crying. But they should not aggravate the anxiety of children. It is to be present without being overly protective. Avoid the mirror effect: the children see the distress of parents and it's disconcerting.

Holland wants to stabilize the rate of compulsory levies on households

May 16, 2013

A stupid idea whose time had come | FT Alphaville

Asked at the press conference on the evolution of the tax imposed on households, while it is committed to stability on the business, Francois Hollande has embarked on a "rate stabilization levy" on households . In other words, the tax increases are not excluded, notably via the elimination of tax loopholes that will continue, but the ratio of taxes on households reported to the national wealth would not increase. Above all, the head of state seems to settle the debate on VAT rates will apply January 1, 2014. PS MPs voted last fall an increase in the standard rate, which increased from 19.6% to 20% to finance the tax credit to enterprises. But they planned to go further in this increase to fund a reduction in VAT on certain sectors (social housing ….). Francois Hollande has underlined its commitment to stick to the three VAT rates determined in the fall: 20% said the normal rate, 10% for intermediate (which affects both canteens as transport some products drugstore ..) and 5% for basic necessities (food). "We will stay here," said the President of the Republic.

Clermont-Ferrand's mother Fiona launched a “call for help”

Still no trace of the little Fiona, disappeared Sunday in the Park Montjuzet Clermont-Ferrand. The large green area of ​​26 hectares was even closed, Wednesday to be inspected and do the clearing despite the massive police sweep conducted since Sunday, unsuccessful again. Tuesday already, the prosecutor in Clermont-Ferrand, Pierre seines, indicated that despite the lack of evidence or simply convincing evidence, "the major assumption" used was that of kidnapping. In this sense, a judicial investigation for "kidnapping" was opened and two judges were seized of the case.

The two judges will now meet with the mother of the girl in his victim in this case. Indeed, the young woman, aged 25, has approached a tenor of Clermont bar, Gilles-Jean Portejoie, and a civil party, reported Thursday the newspaper La Montagne. A status which allows it to be associated with the conduct of the investigation. The woman will have the opportunity to request further investigations and have access to the file through his lawyer. Fiona's mother wants "actively participate in the truth," said Mr. Portejoie told AFP.

The child's mother, six months pregnant, quickly told investigators have dormant for 15 to 20 minutes in the park, while the girl was playing in the park with his little old two and a half year old sister. When he awoke, the eldest was gone. After having sought for long minutes, the mother does not have a cell phone, went to the police to report the disappearance. Several witnesses testified to the presence of small Fiona in the park, which led the prosecutor said there was "no reason to question the word of the mother."