"Why would anyone beat a folk singer?" That was the question that started it all. Joel and Ethan Coen had hitherto vague idea of ​​making another music movie, but it lacked a story. During the search they came across the biography of the now almost forgotten singer Dave Van Ronk – and were electrified. Van Ronk (1936 – 2002) was the late fifties, an archetypal figure in the folk revival scene in New York's Greenwich Village. In his book, "The [...]

Italians Giovanni Visconti and Vincenzo Nibali, both Sicilians, shared the honors in the snowfields of the Galibier where came the 15th stage of the Giro Visconti, from Palermo Sunday, has won a prestigious stage success close to the monument dedicated to the Italian climber Marco Pantani, who had attacked this place, 4.2 kilometers from the summit of the pass, to go win the Tour de France in 1998, that of the Festina affair. Nibali, a native of Messina, has provided [...]

Assad's troops are reported to have penetrated from the south into the city. Their onslaught was accompanied by air attacks, it said. At the battle and fighters of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah to have been involved, which is in Syria-Hezbollah conflict on the side of Assad's regime. The uprising against Assad has escalated into a bloody civil war in Syria since March 2011. Tens of thousands of people were killed according to the UN and human rights organizations in [...]

ROME – The gold star of the cones will be given to the Prefect of Pisa, and former superintendent of Rome, Francesco Sharp. The award ceremony will happen on Tuesday 'on May 21 at the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with the prize by the CONI president Giovanni Malag. The prefect will come Sharp celebrated in the presence of the vertices of the sporting world during the awarding of the trophy Assi Giglio Rosso, promotional event in [...]

How to put the new information technologies and communication technologies for agricultural know-how to allow French farmers live their digital revolution? That is the whole purpose of Neotic a software publisher established in 2011 by four students in Montpellier. SMEs than fifty employees and has developed Agreo, a platform that has seven different IT solutions accessible via the Internet and to meet the technical challenges of managing different sectors: farmers / ranchers, wine and spirits, agricultural suppliers, collectors, seed companies, [...]

La vie en rose? This Thursday, May 16th was inaugurated the first European Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin. Point rides in this space, but a house of 2500 square meters supposed to be one of the famous doll. But the Barbie universe raises long-standing controversy about the image of women conveyed. And the Dreamhouse is no exception. So, feminist groups (FEMEN among others) and associations for the protection of women stood against the site. The threats are numerous, the city had [...]

Twenty years ago the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani led the principle of "Zero Tolerance" a: Each discarded piece of paper, every careless discarded soda can, any damage to a park bench led indiscriminately for immediate punishment of the offender. $ 100 for a dog poop – that was then already a strong argument for future loszugehen with the plastic bags. The theory was based on "Zero Tolerance" was simple, but plausible, because on a clean sidewalk nobody throws [...]

The Irish province of Leinster will not defend his title of European champion but not intend to let slip the opportunity to win the European Challenge Cup, the "small" European Cup in his stage Friday against Stade French . It was the surprise of the first half of the season: Leinster, the ogre from Dublin triple European champion (2009, 2011, 2012), eliminated in the group stage! The dream of a new consecration in the Irish capital at Lansdowne Road where [...]

It is intended to re-ignite the debate on wiretapping. Enrico Costa, leader of the PDL Committee for Justice has in fact filed a bill identical to the text Alfano which aimed to close the investigative tool. A move through which the party of the Knight asked to give "priority" to the matter. And that is likely to go to trim down inflame the controversy of earlier days to the judgments of the Court of Milan and the demonstration in the [...]

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised the dynamic development of relations with Vietnam in all fields. "In recent years, our relations develop successfully both in the military and in the economic and cultural exchange area," Medvedev said in Moscow on Tuesday receiving his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung. After recalling that Moscow and Hanoi had ties to strategic partnership, the head of the Russian government hoped that the visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister would give them a "new impetus". Mr. [...]