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DELUXE FILM FESTIVAL 2023

Best actor Gianni Rosato

Cape Town Art Fair

Journey throug art from Africa and the world

“Film di notte”

Rediscovering Cannes short film by Roberto Sironi

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Aldo Moro

Marco Bellocchio’s series about the ghost of assassinated Italian Prime Minister

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Through the hands of artists, history splashes across canvases, songs echo the experiences of generations before us, and statues breathe life into forgotten stories. Art enables us to witness the evolution of mankind throughout the centuries, encapsulating our collective joys, struggles, and triumphs.

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Art as a Timeless Reflection of Humanity As noted art critic John Berger articulated, “For once, the history of art is only the history of what art used to be.” Art immerses us in our past, providing a glimpse into the complexities of human existence

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CONTENTS 56 ITALY In October final 12 months, Italy elected its first feminine prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, chief of the far-right Brotherhood of Italy. Now, the left-wing opposition Democratic Social gathering has elected its personal feminine chief for the primary time, Elly Schlein.

The 11th edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Africa’s largest art fair,

took place on 16 -18 February 2024 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.This edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair sees the city of Cape Town play a far more significant role in foregrounding the Art Fair’s activities and artists for its local and international audience of collectors and institutions.

58 ITALY The Aldo Moro incident is among the darkest chapters in Italian historical past and continues to be being re-examined.

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former Italian prime minister stepped up when the Bush administration wanted him to help promote the invasion of Iraq. It is possible that the previous businessman could use his global stature to convey the USA closer to Italy.

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By Roberto Sironi “…they say that making a film takes a lot of money: it’s a lie! To make a film you have to go to hell and stay there for a while!

Making war would seem to be the last stage for a solution that would then lead to peace!

Martians live alongside Roman Emperors and mermaids.

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By Marianna Vazzana ( www.ilgiorno.it) For 8 years he has continued to collect “expired” public transport coupons which go from waste to small works of art...

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By F.Guzzardi In A world full of constant change, it is essential to remind ourselves that nothing is permanent. The ancient practice of creating mandalas provides a beautiful perspective on impermanence and encourages us to embrace the transient of life.

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CONTENTS 42 Performance Poetry

By Teresa Cusano

The performative poetry project Crow J & Neptune Mak (M0 Marco Alonzi, Alessia Lombardi) grafts its original proposal of live performance into the dimension of a poetic concert with two voices ...

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arguments with people who are not nice

By IM Italian team A simple tip can help you come out of your argument with a narcissist. It includes figuring out the manipulation happening and arguing about the particulars of the subject material.

This method works when you have excessive emotional intelligence, and can regulate your feelings, and acknowledge the conditions of emotional manipulation.

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Politics USA

The Florida Supreme Court ruled in December that police departments could not invoke Marsy’s Law, a crime victims’ rights law that was adopted by Florida voters in the year 2000. Privacy protections for civilian crime victims were stripped as well.

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Susanna Casubolo interview with Gianni Rosato

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Editorial

By Fabrizio Catalfamo

IM Italian magazine ( ISSN 2688-0601 - online 2688061X) is published quartetly by Hoffmann & Hoffmann Inc, 32082 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. © 2021 HOFFMANN & HOFFMANN Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited.

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The world of art has long been celebrated for its capacity to captivate, inspire, and challenge our perceptions. However, the art world remains haunted by the specter of exclusivity, depriving countless artists of diverse backgrounds an opportunity to showcase their talent. Embracing diversity in art is not merely an act of political correctness; it is an acknowledgment that different perspectives and experiences hold immense value. By doing so, we can harness art as a powerful catalyst for social change, inclusivity, and bridge-building, enriching our collective consciousness in the process.

Art as a Mirror of Society: Art serves as a reflection of the times we live in, portraying societal issues, and echoing the cultural fabric of our communities. Allowing diverse voices into the art world ensures that not only the stories of a select few are told. Artists from marginalized backgrounds bring forth unique perspectives and narratives, challenging societal norms and opening dialogue on issues that may otherwise be overlooked.

One striking example is the renowned Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. Through her heartfelt and deeply personal self-portraits, Kahlo broke the mold of conventional beauty standards while simultaneously addressing subjects like pain, identity, and gender roles. By embracing her own diversity, Kahlo spurred conversations about body positivity, mental health, and gender equality, ultimately shaping societal perceptions and encouraging acceptance.

Promoting Inclusivity and Understanding: The power of art lies in its ability to bridge gaps and facilitate understanding between individuals from diverse backgrounds. By infusing art with diversity, we create platforms that amplify underrepresented voices and initiate conversations that transcend cultural, racial, and socioeconomic boundaries.

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The Cruciality of Embracing Diversity in the Art World Kara Walker, an African-American artist, is renowned for her provocative and visually striking installations that tackle race, sexuality, and power dynamics. Her work forces viewers to confront issues of historical racism and systemic oppression head-on. By challenging societal norms, Walker encourages self-reflection and fosters a greater understanding of the complexities of race relations, ultimately promoting inclusivity and tolerance.

Overcoming Criticisms and Drawbacks: Critics may argue that embracing diversity dilutes the purity and authenticity of art. However, diversity enhances rather than detracts from artistic expressions. It fuels innovation, encourages experimentation, and dismantles outdated structures that confine artistic potential. Moreover, art should not be seen as a finite commodity; rather, it should be celebrated as a limitless source of creativity that thrives on diverse perspectives.

The art world must actively challenge its historically exclusive nature and embrace diversity as a catalyst for social change and inclusivity. The works of Frida Kahlo, Kara Walker, and countless other artists highlight the transformative power of diverse perspectives. By allowing artists from all backgrounds to be seen, heard, and valued, we create opportunities for empathy, understanding, and a deeper appreciation of the human experience.

Let us recognize the value of diversity in art, not only for the sake of representation but also for the richness and depth it brings to our artistic encounters. Together, we can champion artistic endeavors that amplify diverse voices, foster acceptance, and navigate the path towards a more harmonious and inclusive society.

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Investec Cape Town ArtFair 2024 | Unbound

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he 11th edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Africa’s largest art fair, took place on 16 -18 February 2024 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.This edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair sees the city of Cape Town play a far more significant role in foregrounding the Art Fair’s activities and artists for its local and international audience of collectors and institutions.

As Fair director Laura Vincenti puts it, “The city’s geography is an integral part of Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s success. Cape Town is a vibrant cultural hub, with a supportive community. It is very attractive to international collectors, with the great combination of diverse, cutting-edge art and a favourable exchange rate. This year the Fair continues its work of providing an annual platform for artists, galleries, curators, museums, cultural institutions, collectors, and art enthusiasts to connect and interact in the name of art.

The Fair is also becoming known for facilitating meaningful dialogue, education and far-reaching interaction around contemporary African (and global) art.”

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Growing a contemporary art ecosystem

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aving celebrated its first decade this year, Investec Cape Town Art Fair is now well established as one of Cape Town’s key international attractions. The Fair is strategically positioned as the leading art event on the African continent, connecting contemporary art from Africa to the markets in Europe, the US, and the rest of the world. This means that the Fair offers a unique platform for emerging contemporary galleries, artists and ideas from markets outside of the traditional centres of art power and those from the African continent, to interact on an equal footing.

With significant and growing international participation, the Fair is an important forum for setting curatorial and collecting trends to understand the African art market’s direction and growth.

The 2024 edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair will again bring together Africa’s leading galleries as well as cutting-edge galleries from Europe and the USA, offering an unparalleled opportunity to view and acquire high-quality, contemporary artworks. Visitors to the Fair can expect an extensive public programme both at the Fair as well as in and around the City of Cape Town.

Architectural and conceptual design for the Fair layout The physical layout of the Fair takes advantage of Fair Director’s Laura Vincenti’s experience and expertise as an architect. It is laid out in blocks related to the curatorial concepts and thematics of the Fair and the artists being showcased, rather than in the more conventional rows of exhibiting booths. Each curated section that is of interest to visitors will therefore be in the same space for ease of access.

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atch out too for Investec Cape Town Art Fair-related programming from all the leading Cape Town-based galleries, museums and institutions, who will open thought-provoking shows and host engaging programmes throughout the city over the period of the Fair. Among other events, there will be a major public art and urban intervention in the scenic inner-city area of the BoKaap, as the city truly becomes one of the most attractive and interesting art destinations anywhere in the world. ● The MAIN section comprises exhibiting galleries from around the world, many from the rest of the African continent. Exhibitor numbers are steadily increasing year-on-year, and international exhibitors are now getting back to pre-pandemic levels. ● Tomorrows/ Today is a curated section that has grown exponentially and expanded to twelve exhibitors. Renowned Spanish curator for this section, Dr. Mariella Franzoni, provides a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists and acts as a forecast of future relevant practices and ideas. The section will feature twelve selected solo show projects, with a cash prize going to the artist with the highest quality presentation. Titled Inhabiting the Wild, the 2024 edition explores and reimagines the concept of wildness through artistic imagination. The concept extends the idea of liberation by seeking to bring together diverse voices through this renewed sense of the wild, inspired by queer, feminist, decolonial and materialist studies, and embracing both overt and subtle forms of political dissidence. ● The SOLO section is curated by Cape Town based writer, critic and curator Sean O’Toole. Titled Loopholes in the Walls of Darkness, it focuses on painting. Notwithstanding astonishing advances in digital art, painting, though a solitary practice, continues to set the pace, in galleries and museums, as well as at market. The ten most expensive artworks sold anywhere in 2022 were all paintings. Figurative painting remains the medium du jour of commerce and a hallmark of the zeitgeist circa now.

O’Toole states “But painting has rubbed up against disinterest and neglect so many times, and so is a medium aware of its own obsolescence and mortality. This might account for painting’s elastic form and unravelling edges, its infiltration into adjacent media of sculpture and photography, as well as spill over into performance, film and digital practices’. ● GENERATIONS is the fair’s newest section curated by Natasha Becker from the United States and South African curator Amogelang Maledu, an intergenerational curatorial conversation between the two. The project celebrates artists who are at different stages in their careers and instigates cross-generational conversations among them. The project is intended to foreground artists who address the flaws of the past and reconstruct a future that utilises the talents and creativity of all generations. ● An expanded ALT section returns this year. The section is dedicated to projects that reflect the many ways in which the art world must adapt to circumstance. Young, non-traditional art project spaces can showcase their artists in a non-conventional way through an installation that offers a fresh interpretation of the anti-booth. The section invites dialogue around unconventional, non-traditional modes of practice and thinking and intends to break away from the usual art fair environment, bringing in a diversity of emerging voices

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ut also Pinocchio and Geppetto transformed into cyclists. It’s possible In a fantasy world where every character lives inside a tram ticket. Mute, but full of color. «I have at least 5 thousand notes in bills. from 2015 to today, and I still have more than 1,000,000 to color”, says Roberto Sironi, a self-taught artist, 69 years old, from Milan, resident in the Giambellino-Lorenleggio district.

He picked up the first one from the ground. Cancelled, expired. “ I took it and thought that the paper was perfect for drawing.” And so he made his debut by inaugurating the project “A tram ticket - Artistic obliterations”, within exhibitions in Municipality 6 and beyond. For 8 years he has continued to collect “expired” public transport coupons which go from waste to small works of art.

The characters have the soul of acrylic colors, which I spread with Mason’s spatulas or rags.

I never use brushes.” Now he knows that soon those mini paintings will become the only paper tickets in circulation because the ATM ticket will gradually leave room for magnetic cards: electronic travel tickets, to be recharged, to be kept in your pocket, and be used to get on public transport.

By Marianna Vazzana ( www.ilgiorno.it) Not to be thrown away. And they cannot be artists’ canvases. A “revolution” that will start next month. «And then anyone who wants a paper ticket can just come to me», smiles Sironi. In the boxes in the living room, he still has hundreds of them, all travel tickets already stamped and ready to be colored. “I will continue to collect them and have them donated to me as long as they are still in circulation.” And when the paper cards are just a memory, his works will be even more precious. Testimony of a vanished time. “The tickets themselves are already precious like this because they close a story, that of the journey and of whoever made it. The art continues the story thanks to the characters that on the tickets seem to emerge from the black stripe printed vertically as if it were the back of a theatre.”

But the prospect of the paper’s disappearance makes him sad. «Because it is another step forward for digital at the expense of the human, in a world where there is less and less space for artists, where artificial intelligence is increasingly replacing the person.

Will art, which is a continuous challenge with matter, also disappear? Or will the true artist who creates with matter be the only one to preserve humanity?”

While he reflects, he shows his latest idea: the ticket that becomes the “La Scala ticket”. with the opera poster painted on one side. “I will continue as long as I have tickets.” I am now retired but I have always lived on art and will continue to do so. First as a guitarist and, since 2004. as a painter, even though I never studied in academies. I also wrote plays and books.”

Among the works that he exhibits and places In grand, dimensions. At his side is his wife Elizabeth Boudjema, French, violinist. «We work together: we organize events, with her playing and me painting at the same time» On tram tickets.

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Tattooed roses F. Guzzardi ( Rose Tatuate)

The Branches of Yggdrasil In unknown realms, and unspeakable mysteries the echoes of our souls begin to unfold.

Between the realms of matter and the realms of eternity, lies the riddle of our eternal kingdoms.

The seeds of karma flow like a cosmic stream, as beings traverse the wheel of time.

Their actions propagate according to divine patterns, like the branches of Yggdrasil tall and wise, we sail through realms beyond the mortal skies.

Rebirth awaits at the end of every branch, with stories to learn, to share, to mend.

“Tattooed Roses” is not just a collection of poems, but also a “collection” of life, a set of thoughts, an anthology of feelings “tattooed” on the infinite passage of time.

This collection of words that are never random and always of great literary effect accompanies us on a journey through the melancholy of a “déjàvu” as if the world were in front of a mirror and that mirror was its author!

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The audition, today accompanied, if not even replaced, by the self-tape, is a delicate, fundamental moment for actors.

What mistakes should be avoided and what aspects should be given priority? How to give your best? How to prepare a scene?

These questions to which “exceptional teachers” and established, esteemed directors will give concrete answers, with an authorial outlook that makes a difference in the Italian film market and beyond.

They will discuss with the participants in the classroom, in search of a common language.

The methodology of practical work will focus on training in front of the camera, through study and experimentation on scenes taken from films or series, which will be delivered in good time to the students, who are required to memorize the lines of the chosen/assigned character.

This methodology will allow us to identify any critical issues and propose a series of tools aimed at increasingly improving communication between director and actors, in the context of character work.

The perception of what is expressed, compared to the interpretative image transmitted on the monitor, represents an important moment of awareness for personal artistic improvement and growth.

Working directly with a director, becoming a flexible and proactive instrument, and grasping the uniqueness of his particular vision, represents an added value both for the professional actor, with the constant desire to improve and face the auditions with greater confidence, and for the novice actor who must forge a still formless creative material and channel his potential.

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Actress (theatre, cinema, TV) and author, of Sicilian origins, Cinzia, after graduating, moved to Rome to study acting with renowned professionals in the sector. After a theater workshop directed by the historic couple of the Italian avant-garde theatres, Remondi and Caporossi, she attended a film acting course taught by Giulio Scarpati. Below, are several workshops directed, among others, by Emma Dante, Massimiliano Bruno, Alexis Sweet, Sergio Rubini, Michele Placido, and Elio Germano...

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Gianni Rosato He began his studies with the street theater in Lamezia Terme. He then graduated from Enzo Garinei’s “RIBALTE” Academy and immediately after attended several seminars at the Experimental Center of Cinematography.

It’s the turn of “ACTORS PLANET” where he conquers the entire teaching staff and in addition to acting, he also studies dubbing...

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Paolo Ricci Born in Pistoia in 1972, he is an Italian actor and character actor; His career in the world of entertainment began in 1986, frequenting television, theaters, and sets. In 1998 he graduated as a Prose Actor at the “Alessandra Galante Garrone” Theater School of Bologna and in 1999 he moved to Rome...

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(MOVIE AT NIGHT.) A film by Roberto Sironi

“…they say that making a film takes a lot of money: it’s a lie! To make a film you have to go to hell and stay there for a while!

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his is how my film begins, with an indication or, if you want, advice, perhaps humorous, perhaps sarcastic, perhaps provocative, but that’s exactly how it is! Making a film just takes a lot of courage when you don’t have the means to make it!

“Film at Night” is not a film to watch while eating popcorn! It’s a film to watch with a parachute! At any moment you could fall into a foggy visionary state, one of those smoky London fogs where even though you can’t see anything you always know where you are! This is why we need a parachute of “understanding” because watching the film, and I mean “vision” is a journey into artistic unconsciousness that I sincerely adore!...

The film is an Italian story that wallows hopelessly in a French puddle! The film was shot one night in Italy and five in France and is simply the adventures of four Italian actors and an actress in search of a fortune, and fortune! Between jokes, jokes, and gags, the four will find their solution to the problem despite never having understood the problem!

So being an “Italian-style French party” I needed a certain type of music and so throughout the film or almost manouche music reigns supreme! Among other things, I am also a lover of that music so it was easy for me to write pieces with the guitar that gave me that spirit and also the smell of that world!... It’s a metaphor for life and puts the lens under the magnifying the vanity! I found interesting the idea that the best came from hell, rather than from a false paradise or a useless limbo! And then

I am truly convinced that life in the end is a great film and each of us is exactly where we want to be, that is in our character!

And then the charm…

believe there are many ways to interpret life!

Some imagine that it is an infinite tunnel in which for better or worse one has to stay, those who think it is just a big carousel that will stop at a certain point, t h o s e who, like almost everyone, don’t think about it at all and rather than live they let themselves be lived by events, from things, from people!... The routine! Here, for example, routine is the antechamber of death, the corridor before the execution, the passageway in which to wait for something to finally happen, the passage to the unknown, or the passage to go to that place that so many people aspire to. call heaven!... The invisible puppeteer is often ourselves because we are so used to obeying laws that we don’t even know, we get overwhelmed by boredom, habit, terrible illness, and everyday life!...

Life is precisely because it is life, instead, it is movement, resourcefulness, change, risk, desire, passion, and curiosity, it is anything but the display of complete immobility! So what you say is true: we are always waiting for someone to change this blessed life for us, the director of our fears who should with who knows what magic wand transform those fears into courage, into new choices, and in short into a real future!

“Only those who are unique can attend the summit”, All roads are the same, the difference is made by the shoes! It’s just a question of charm!”

It’s always just a question of charm! Charm is everywhere, it is the engine of relationships! In a company, charm is what makes the difference!

There is everything in charm: there is charm, beauty, interest, culture, vision of the future, instinct, and intuition!

Charm is the father of all love battles, the ideal companion for a journey into fantasy as well as into reality!

Now is not the time or the opportunity to talk about the film...Now is the time for curiosity!

I’m just saying that this film is the result of a joke, an innocent lie! Even though it was made without money and with very few resources, it was screened twice in 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival as a collateral event in the Cannes Cinéphiles section!

Not bad for a first film!

It is certainly a comical, visionary film in its way, a film that has no claims of box office or even dreams of cinematic glory! One could say that it is just a tribute to the theater of the absurd or to dejà vu reminiscent of Fellini!

Daydreaming! Maybe the reason for this movie is in this sentence! I am a dreamer so I always try to go beyond what I see because I

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anity is a poison that leaves no escape! Indeed, more than a poison it is a very powerful virus and when the virus has entered your veins it’s over!... Vanity is the number one enemy of talent and it takes no prisoners!

With vanity, we forget that this is the artist’s job and it is very hard, where every day you learn something and every day you have to be available for it!...

Skill does not need vanity, but vanity always needs skill! Without this, vanity becomes exactly what it should be, an unusable tendency toward the useless, the superfluous, and the vain!

Of course it is not an attitude exclusive to artists, but it always puts on a show and perhaps, for this reason, it has become, especially today in our era where the image is important, decisive, I would say “covering”, a virus!...

I tried in my little cinematic world to put seduction in the foreground! To seduce you must have a good supply of reasons and an important selection of options... you must have the numbers to seduce and the numbers are never wrong!

To woo the top you have to be unique! It’s inexorable! I understand that it may be a harsh concept but that’s exactly how it is!

I know it may seem cruel but the tip of that pyramid is very sharp and to stay in balance you need a sense of uniqueness! I’m implacable, I confess, but I’m not

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With this film, I only tried to make the strength of the dream unique, and in a certain sense, I succeeded! You can make a film with everything you have, even if that everything is almost nothing!

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The Seventh Art!

by Roberto Sironi

What is the origin word of cinema?

Somewhere I read that the word cinema or cinematography has origins from the ancient Greek κίνημα, -τος “movement” and γραφή, graphḗ, “writing” today the set of arts, techniques and industrial and distribution activities that produce as a result commercial a film!

The combination of movement and writing in a single idea is brilliant!

Therefore, the movement can be considered a description of a writing and the writing a component of the movement as long as the two souls merge, magically, in an external form perceivable through the sense of sight called: image!

A movie…

This term is interesting and apparently, it would be difficult to understand when compared to the word “cinema” and instead... Instead, this term of only four letters brings together an immense world made of images, sounds, stories, faces, colors...

“Film” is a loanword from the English language that indicates a membrane or a thin layer of material; it is, therefore, a synonym of film, the most authoritative synonym, and what is very interesting and somewhat astonishing, until the 1930s it was used in the feminine form and then transformed over time into a masculine noun!

History tells us that the first example of film was made by the Lumière brothers on 28 December 1895 in Paris, about ten very short documentaries attended by a large and selected group of spectators!

But history aside… Dream and reality mix in a present in which the future and the past are no longer a temporal representation of before, after, and during, but of a “here and now” that leaves no time for any reflection: time in a film, therefore in the cinema it no longer has its natural sense, everything proceeds at an almost incomprehensible speed, a speed that has to do with light in a unit of time which, as happens in a dream, considers everything except the weather!

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echnically it is the scrolling of a film in which there are many fragments of moments that one after another pass before our eyes, a visual work that simulates experiences and communicates sensations, feelings, stories, ideas, and beauty in different ways. . , perceptions, stories and atmospheres through the use of images and sounds that make a hypothetical dream an authentic reality!

The dream, indeed!

Cinema, through a film, becomes the natural and human place to live in a dream, frequent it, absorb it, and pursue it to the purest boundaries of fantasy! In front of a film, despite knowing that the impossible is unattainable, we are forced to make possible what a moment of incredible, unimaginable, and unlikely reality! Our thought which is certainly the fastest thing that man can imagine and have, makes a film a constant magic while still having before our eyes the obvious, manifest, sensational, and obvious solution, a geometrically rectangular solution that takes the name of screen!

In this sense, a film is the only trick that can do without a solution, even the most remote, implicit, or enigmatic one it may be!

In the world of art, it often happens that miracles are not interventions due to supernatural events, but only human actions made of great intuitions and incalculable talents: in the seventh art it is exactly like that!

Therefore, the Seventh Art! After Architecture, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Poetry, and Dance, here is Cinema, the seventh and last art in chronological order, defined thus in 1921 by the critic Ricciotto Canudo, when he published the manifesto “The Birth of the Seventh Art” foreseeing that cinematography would synthesize the extension of space and the dimension of time!

It is said that cinema is nothing other than the evolution of the art of photography, which in turn was the evolution of painting, which in turn derives from architecture... Cinema, probably, History perhaps one day will exist he will say it, and he will explain it to us with other acrobatic concepts!

It could or could be the complete evolution of all the other arts, a fusion of colors, movement, images, and sounds united in a diabolical and indissoluble affectively creative bond!

This now-certified Seventh Art has also managed to become literature for the eyes, a visual narrative in which every glance is a fragment of film of life lived on the margins, at the center or on the periphery of our ex-

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inema as a parallel, simultaneous, concomitant, independent, separate, collateral, contemporary world, a visible, authentic, original world, or just a fantastic, chimerical, imaginary, utopian, fake, and unreal world in which fiction imposes itself as the only teacher of life of an unachievable reality?

In the darkness of a cinema, the light of the imagination is always on, it is a lighthouse to find the lost island of fantasy, a flash of genius that millimetrically illuminates a horizon enclosed almost by magic in a screen, and in that screen, they go and lives of all kinds come, the stories follow and chase each other while dazed and amazed and open-mouthed faces look for moments of suspense, happiness, pride and hope.

Those faces, those bodies sunk in red armchairs are one with that darkness that makes them mysterious witnesses, messengers of stories and films, ambassadors of fantasies that would have liked to overturn their existences...

In that darkness, everything is confused between barely perceived breaths and indefinite whispers.

The cinema…

Everything is possible in there...

This magic box, despite having no sides, is a container of secrets and illusions like the cylinder for the magician! From there come the wildest fantasies, the most incredible love stories, memories of distant wars, and science fiction of other worlds submerged in the unreasonable and paradoxical known and unknown universe!

Anything can happen in there! Fairy tales that meet reality, monsters in love with impossible love, ghost ships in search of a port in which to disappear, cartoons that have made humanity a parallel race so as not to forget all those artificial intelligence that will probably change the meaning of life in a sense of absence!

The cinema…

We are all in this great film!

Technically we live, in an inexplicable symbiosis, the flow of a film in which many fragments of moments are mixed one after the other pass before our eyes... We are a visual work that simulates experiences and communicates in different ways between them sensations, feelings, stories, ideas, beauty, perceptions, stories, and atmospheres through the use of images and sounds that make us a hypothetical dream in an indecipherable reality The dream is the only confirmed presence of life!

Everyone in their film, like actors or characters in stories who will rarely win an Oscar!

And then: who knows, one day we will no longer go to the cine ma but we will be the cinema, being there without being there in search of a reality that has given up on the present to disappear into the immense nothingness of a future that we will no longer be able to imagine, a lost future in a new “Space Odyssey”… …However, it will end: long live cinema!

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CinTalking with Susanna Susanna Casubolo interview with actor Gianni Rosato

(Emanuelle’s Revenge)

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e are here for IM Italian magazine with Gianni Rosato, an actor we already know, whom we have already gone to visit once for an interview and who usually, in short, we look for our people who have already been interviewed, because in some way they have had some important news to tell us.

This time we wish you well. So many good things have happened, and you have a new film and a new blockbuster. irst and foremost happy to be Hosted at the home of IM Italian magazine, which has already brought me luck, as you had already wished me in the past. So I expect a lot more news after this interview because, in my opinion, it will become a succession of news and good things that will come, what can I say I’m happy because after our interview I received an offer for the film that is DO UT DES of which I am the male protagonist, where I am flanked by very good actors such as Beatrice Schiaffino, who is the female protagonist, Ilaria Lorica, Luca Vallone, Ilde Mauri, and many others in this film. But the movie was born right after the post-pandemic period, when we were all forcibly confined at home and I remember that I did the self-tape during that period. And then we shot the film in Rome, Milan and Budapest.

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s I was saying, you told us behind the scenes earlier, how did you get cast in this film?

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s I was saying, you told us behind the scenes earlier, how did you get chosen for this film?

As happens to all of us actors, we have an agency that offers us auditions and in that period obvi-

On the fourth callback. I still remember seeing people coming and going, so I even had the benefit of the doubt about the hypothetical choice and then finally I remember the production calling me that it was 11:03. I was sitting on the bed, watching a movie,

ously there was no longer the possibility of being able to audition in person, with casting, and therefore we had to settle for the classic Selftape, alas, if it hadn’t been for that I wouldn’t have made the film today.

I don’t remember what they were showing. My best friend, Cinzia Scaglione, is also a solitary and I remember that they suddenly said ok, let’s confirm the role. I burst into tears, and my friend Cinzia hugged me as if to say: Well done, did you see? You sweated a lot for this role and in the end, you made it. And from there the whole journey of the film began, which I will tell you about shortly.

Because I didn’t know either Dario o Monica, but soon after, when a relationship of mutual respect was established. Monica told me in confidence: “Look, if it hadn’t been for that self-tape I would never have chosen you. Why? Because, in any case, there is a lack of empathy, that intimacy that is established between the actor, the character, and the casting director during the audition phase.

Then I had the opportunity because they allowed me to meet in person, to do an audition. But it’s something that left a strong impression on me, it was a phrase said by Monica when she called me back for the third time, she looked at me and said look: “I chose you because you were the only one who made my flesh tremble in my life,” which I and I didn’t understand at first, I told her, but for better or for worse? “It’s like, don’t you understand, I’m choosing you.”

I was confused, about the first project I did as a lead, then knowing that I was chosen from a cast of actors who are just as good, for goodness sake.

It passes over you, it’s an indescribable emotion.

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o it was also like sweating during the post-lockdown period, I imagine the work done for filming and so on was quite diffi-

ell, look, I have to say that the production protected us from every point of view, in the sense of wherever we went.

We always had someone from production looking after us. I remember perhaps the worst period regarding Covid, was in Budapest because, unlike Italy, Budapest took the COVID situation a little lightly, in fact many people went around without masks, you entered a shop, a bar, or a restaurant to take something and they were all, without masks and memory, looking at us like aliens. There was a guy at the counter of a bar who asked me, why do you Italians go around with masks? My answer was: well, why does Covid exist? And that boy said to me: Eh, are you stupid in Italy because you haven’t understood yet that it’s just the flu?

-ema There was a little bit of that. But whose side were you on, given what was happening in Italy, how could you pretend it was just the flu? I mean, unfortunately. Many people have lost the most important thing we have, which is life. And how

can you say yes? It’s true, the flu doesn’t count if we consider the first victims of Bergamo and we’re talking about 500 victims in the space of four days, 5 days, we cannot take such a situation lightly. Shortly after we saw what happened. Despite this, we continued to protect ourselves with masks, and disinfectants, respecting the safety distance and I must say that it was a difficult time, beautiful, exciting for the work we were doing, but equally difficult in many ways, however, we made it in the end.

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o, we started with the first two weeks in Milan. Then we had a week off. Changes, positions, and so on. We moved to Rome, so two weeks in Milan, one. About 10 days, 12 days in Budapest, and then a week in Rome. Precisely because there were changes in location based on concessions. First Rome rather than Budapest and so on. So let’s say that there have been some changes in the location and covers.

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nd the film deals with a rather current topic, in short...

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o yes, I have to be honest about the film, my great satisfaction lies in the fact that I was confronted with a character light years away from me. So for an actor to play a character that doesn’t even belong to you is a challenge. He is

absurd and he is and it’s beautiful when you get a good result which is then appreciated by the public and beyond. The film is inspired by true events.

So we detach ourselves from these situations to also embrace the theme of gender violence and given what the historical period is, with everything we hear today such as feminicides and so on, I must say that. I’m even more proud to have played that role because the film itself allows you to send a message, a very important message that has to do with gender violence and violence against women. Even the other evening, when we were awarded at the Deluxe Film Festival, where we received the award for best film and I received the award for best actor, I didn’t hesitate for a moment to spread what today is no longer a thought common but must become a mantra for everyone. And that is that in the face of violence against women or the face of violence against women or in the face of gender violence, tolerance must in any case be zero. And let’s always remember this when a woman says no is no.

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ow, great question, so basically. I won’t deny that I started seeing a lot of films, I had already seen many other things, I started to document myself through social media through streaming. I left the cinema to try to avoid what we had already seen and to build a Leonardo (which is the name of my character) to build a Leonardo that did not belong to something already seen. And I must tell you that I succeeded, but I did some good internal work.

I made use of the collaboration of Dario and Monica, who are the director and screenwriter, among other things, they also co-directed the creation of this character together. But this is an individual, subjective work that they did, with each actor, that is, they carved out a space with each actor to build, to give you indications on directions and paths to follow. What to avoid instead? What to pursue with respect and tact?

Because, in any case, the issue is very delicate.

There is a risk of going off the rails. It’s a moment, a snap of the fingers, so they were very good at directing us, at the same time giving us carte blanche and then going to do a sort of skimming of the excesses.

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nd listen, if I may, without spoiling anything. There is one scene that gave you a lot of difficulty, more than the others, if it’s possible, without spoiling anything, let’s say without giving away. won’t tell you the whole story, but I can tell you the scene. I’m not saying that it destabilized me, but that I also feel, my voice betrays me a little in telling you that memory, was the moment in which Leonardo abuses Francesca, and Francesca as seen in the film, is a person who has had a past painful because he has suffered violence and sees in Leonardo the possibility of being able to start trusting men again.

And it is Leonardo himself who gives her the final blow. So imagine the enormous interior work done by me and Francesca, and I remember that at the beginning this was perhaps one of the scenes we shot, the most, not only from a technical point of view for the cameras but also from an emotional point of view, because there was a moment when I hugged Francesca with the cameras off and I told her, I’m sorry for what I’m about to do and she replied:

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Gianni, we are two actors, we are two professionals, do what you want listen.”

There we let ourselves go and that scene was one of the most beautiful from an actor’s point of view, but also from a film point of view, one of the most dramatic, ugly, and heavy. But I repeat, we are all satisfied with the work done.

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work that has brought you awards, best film, and best leading actor, we have made many improvements.

ow, who expected this? Yes, but above all because you can see when a director, a screenwriter, or an actor works on a film anyway. But let’s face it, the actor is vain, whether the director likes it or not, even if he is behind the camera he is equally vain but vain, in the good sense of the word. I mean, let’s do a job. We hope that this will be appreciated, but not out of a desire for visibility and notoriety. No, but why? We like to be appreciated for our work, for us. The desire to be appreciated and even more.

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pplauded, appreciated. Does it also mean applauding yourself?

es, for appreciation in the sense, of public appreciation, I mean. Then when we learned about it at the beginning of the trip. Dario received a mention for directing, but Dario is behind the camera, he is a monster, he is an excellent director, and he is an excellent director of photography. He received a mention for his work Bea at the Dubai Film Festival. I call her Bea, because for me she has now become like a sister, both she and Beatrice Schiaffino, who plays Emanuelle, received the award for best actress at the Dubai Film Festival.

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f course, also because criticism is giving an excellent response to respect?

ritics, both Italian and foreign, are giving excellent feedback to the film. After the release in Italy, as before the release in Italy, it went to the Berlin Film Festival, where it was sold in 10 different foreign countries in Europe and

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beyond. In fact, after its release in Italy, it was also released abroad and already the releases in Taiwan, Japan, and the United States meant that the production, as if by magic, received wonderful, unexpected reviews.

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ecause the idea that one of your projects lands abroad seems almost like a dream to you, and from abroad, where the industry is 10 times bigger than the Italian one, there is someone who reviews the film and then gives you those reviews? Some of them are video recordings made by critics, many others have been written on portals, the web, newspapers, and so on. I remember that the other evening, after receiving the award I began to read them all, I must have received about 10, 12, then I sent them to you and they were one more beautiful than the other, but since they didn’t stop only at the direction or the screenplay or acting, they were reviews that made the project go round. There was a linearity and balance in those reviews which, believe me, put you in a position where you can’t say Ah but... In short, I don’t know if I managed to explain the concept, it often happens that a film is reviewed and that film is judged only as technical-artistic or only ascribable to the historical period. This is what I like about these reviews received from abroad, not because they don’t do it in Italy, for goodness sake, but because in Italy we have excellent critics. But I noticed that abroad the opinions all follow the same line, in the sense. We start with technical criticism and then involve the actor’s interpretation subject to respect for the script and historical time. There is a complex but exhaustive linearity in all its parts.

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o in short, they are just like saying also beautiful, constructive, even liked.

lot, a lot, for us actors it’s constructive feedback. It’s true, you took the words out of my mouth, they are constructive feedback.

ure, I guess well. So what can we say? In short, we left you when you had just finished a film and were in the planning phase, you were full of ideas for the future and we found you who, in short, have been rewarded. And now this film is going around the world anyway...

Then IM Italian wishes you a happy new year, as well as new beautiful, interesting, intense projects that give you a lot of satisfaction. Then we will come to visit you again.

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hank you, thank you 1000, thank you 1000. First of all, a little spoiler, I just finished shooting 1 nice authorial short film. Handsome. It was filmed in Calabria, the production is Calamazo. They are young, resourceful, amazing, and let me pass the term tough.

I also want to wish all the IM Italian staff and everyone, all the followers who write to me, who bombard me with messages and all your followers, happy holidays with serenity and peace in our hearts, because we have them. We all need it.

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Mandala Chapter II

By F. Guzzardi

Embracing Impermanence A world full of constant change, it is essential to remind ourselves that nothing is permanent. The ancient practice of creating mandalas provides a beautiful perspective on impermanence and encourages us to embrace the transient of life. Derived from the Sanskrit word for “circle,” mandala represents not only the cyclical nature of existence but also the impermanence of all things.

Mandalas are intricate, geometric patterns that have been used in various cultures and religious traditions for centuries. They can be found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and even Native American cultures. Despite their different meanings and purposes across various contexts, one theme remains constant— the understanding that everything in life is destined to change.

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on Bastiano had woken up early that day.

- Do you know, he whispered, approaching me as if to hug me, that you have to leave

- What does mean Don Bastiano?

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- He means that this is a cursed land, which does not recognize its children. You have to go to Germany, France or America, why not? Sicily is still a land and only the sea moves, the sea does but you must not fall into this trap; they will tell you: the sun, the beaches, and other nonsense but you “futtitinni”, don’t care! Life is a perpetual movement, a movement, remember! Here, however, nothing moves and nothing will ever move; until one day the people will wake up but only to assassinate their rulers, and without understanding that we are the ones truly responsible.

Yes, “futtitinni” but I was already 18 years old, with confused ideas among confused people. And I took a train a few months later, towards Germany, recommended by a friend for a position as a dishwasher in an Italian restaurant. And so here I am in Germany, Munich. beautiful city, kind people, and beautiful women. Yes,

the myth of blondes is unattainable for Sicilian men. Thus, thanks also to my not exactly displeasing physical appearance, I managed, without even wanting to, to attract fascinating and seductive women who took turns in my bed. This also helped me a lot with the male friends who followed me closely to get the blondes.

I had already been practicing yoga for a few years, and I managed to find a space for my hour of daily meditation. I was a vegetarian but I preferred not to let it be known, because a plate of tomato pasta always went unnoticed. However, Sabine Jannusek did not go unnoticed at all. Fu forse la donna piu` bella che incontrai nella mia vita; seduta al bar di uno Sheraton hotel che avevo cominciato a frequentare su pressione di alcuni amici.

She was perhaps the most beautiful woman I met in my life; she was sitting at the bar of a Sheraton hotel that I had

started frequenting under pressure from some friends. She looked at me insistently, with the air of a girl from a good family, spoiled and capricious, who had chosen her prey...

And I willingly accepted the status of prey for one evening... but also for two. The bartender looked at me with a certain hatred, typical of someone who can’t distinguish charisma from arrogance. And that was my weapon, also considering that my German was impossible. I approached her to ask her to dance and she came towards me as we used to do with friends who haven’t seen each other for a long time. As we danced we put our lips together, promising to see each other again the following week.

The bartender munched peanuts and I watched him sip a Campari.

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The Gods of the night looked like me, fallen to earth to redeem their sins, killed and forgiven. At home, my hour of meditation was waiting for me.

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PERFORMANCE POETRY PROJECT

by Crow J & Neptune Mak (M0 Marco Alonzi, Alessia Lombardi) Cello/bass/electric guitar: M0 Marco Alonzi Read by: Alessia Lombardi

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Marco Alon zi (1995) First cello of the Sinfo nietta Luig chestra of i Ch the name, winn Florentine Conservato erubini orer of the! M ry of the sa usi me ican Comp osition Com c University (Texas) A m p etition. Cell e tras OCT, O ist of the orc rGI, ARS N hesOVA, ORT Camerata , del Carm dei ine an quintet “I S Bardi. He is a memb er of the st d olisti Medic ring ei”, of the Mato”, of th Jazz Band e theater c “ G o ato mpany “I C dio session musician o olibri” and f stuthe songwri natore lnte ting projec riore”. t “Mi-

Alessia Lombardi Semi-finalist in 20(1996) competition. Final 16 at the “CET - Scuola per Aut poetry competition ist, in 2020, at the first edition ofori di Mogol” the “Fabrizio De “Villa delle Ginestre” and at the the national first editiont1c dc André Prize”, Poetry section. In 20XIX edition of l CO.ii.:ui’5v ktt’22 with “La smargina iailv lia:ziv.u«.... ,,i he won the tu .... Silence” ra ”, an un published work. H “L’affetto instabile e has published ” (P la ce bo ok Pu tion at the Miche blishing 2021, Hon tion 2021), “Le chlangelo Buonarroti International orable Men“L’attrito” (Place iavi” (Edizioni solidali Fonna MenPrize VI Edibook Publishing, tis, 2022) and 2023).

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he performative poetry project Crow J & Neptune Mak (M0 Marco Alonzi, Alessia Lombardi) grafts its original proposal of live performance into the dimension of a poetic concert with two voices - the “external” one of the story, the “internal”, secret one of the instrument - through a peculiar narrative typology in limine - between black literature, confessional poetry of American origin and crude contemporary vision: a profound, paradoxical dualism, which finds in the genre of the suite (albeit contaminated, “mixed”) an effective concert solution to the creation of a common thread intrinsic to the linguistic and metalinguistic multiplicity of the texts interpreted, and approaches the ancient need of oral production, art and aedic technique, understood as perceptual and imaginative experience, beyond and above the written word. That is, by means of sound - the language capable of restoring the quality of expression produced by man - the common word is amplified to become arcane, to be decoded (and then codified, again) in silent listening.

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Fortunately, music has always been there...”

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e are here for IM Italian magazine, with Marco Alonzi, musician and Alessia Lombardi, poet, to talk about an artistic project that combines music and poetry.

My first question is for Alessia, how did you meet and what inspired you to work together?

I met Marco in Sora (despite having lived in Florence for ten years he has Sora origins); he was - and currently is - the cellist of the “I Colibrì” company, a Social Theater Association founded by his father, Giancarlo Alonzi, with whom I had agreed to work following a recommendation from my colleague Giulia Germani. Shortly before my official entry into the company, at the beginning of April 2023, I went to see one of their shows (an adaptation of the novel “One and fifty” by Maria Antonietta Rea). I had never seen a cello close and I remember that it struck me. I certainly could not have imagined that less than nine months later Marco would become my husband and that my ‘meta-literary’ ambition would materialize so quickly thanks to him. It was all wonderfully quick, unexpected... indeed, dazzling!

Marco,what was your artistic path?

Fortunately, music has always been there; it has been there from the beginning. During pregnancy, my father placed the famous headphones on mu mother’s belly to make me listen to Mozart. I do not know how many musical instruments my old house had. I was overwhelmed by them and so from before the age of eight I played with my little plastic guitar and tried to make something out of real instruments. My father was my first real contact with music – a bit like Hagrid with Harry Potter – not only because he had the healthy habit of playing CDs all day and of any style, even if mostly rock, but above all because during a rainy evening, when I was eight years old, he came home and made me listen to Led Zeppelin live at the Royal Albert Hall; at that moment I decided what I wanted to do, the musician, only that. My father enrolled me at the classical guitar course at the municipal school of Sora, followed first by Maestro Stefano Spallotta, then by Maestro Gianluigi Pizzuti, a journey that lasted eight years. I remember the afternoons when my father taught me to play the Beatles or Jethro Tull songs. In the end, however, Maestro Donato Cedrone arrived and, while promoting at the Facchini middle school in Sora, he let me try his cello; I fell in love with it and since then I have continued my studies as a cellist.

Alessia, what is the Crow J & Neptune Mak project?

“Crow J & Neptune Mak” is, essentially, a performance poetry project; very similar, rather, a direct descendant of spoken word. It is a project that inserts its own live show proposal – obviously new, original – into the dimension of a poetic concert for two voices – the “external” one of the story, the “internal”, secret one of the instrument – through a peculiar typology narrative in limen – between black literature, confessional poetry of American origins and raw contemporary visionariness; a profound, paradoxical dualism which finds in the genre of the suite (although contaminated, “mixed”) an effective concert solution for the creation of an intrinsic common thread to the linguistic and metalinguistic multiplicity of the interpreted texts.

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We are working on eight shows – some are in preparation, others with dates already set – which will see the light from April onwards in libraries, bookshops, cinemas, theatres, schools and in the squares of Florence. The first is taken from the training/re-educational experience that Alessia carried out teaching poetic and creative writing to inmates in the prisons of Rome.”

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Crow J & Neptune Mak” s, essentially, a performance poetry project; very similar, rather, a direct descendant of spoken word.”

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arco, music doesn’t need words but, in this case, do your compositions go behind the verses or do the words envelop your compositions?

Ours is not a simplistic poetry show with any background music; ours is a project in which music and poetry, as in antiquity, are one; every poem has an unwritten part expressed by music: it is the classical “melologia”, a musical score or sound poetry in which words and notes are in symbiosis and those words must be accompanied only by those notes – like the “Persephone” or the Stravinsky’s “Histoire du soldat” or Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire”. Obviously in a small way, narrator and cello, although in some contexts the bass or the guitar is present.

Alessia, you have participated in several poetry competitions and written some books, what impact does poetry have on people in the current historical context governed by image and cynicism?

The poet Pierluigi Cappello wrote that “poetry has nothing to say, except its own heroic inadequacy”. Its impact, today, is the unsettling (and annoying, at times) one of truth, of revelation; it shows us the exact point at which our spirit has been pierced.

Marco and Alessia, tell us a little bit about your performance for our readers and listeners who may be less experienced in this type of performance.

Our live performances approach the ancient need for oral production, art and aedic technique, understood as a perceptive and imaginative experience, beyond and above the written word. The spectator will therefore find himself witnessing this curious “alchemical experiment”; through sound – the language capable of restoring the quality of expression produced by man – the common word is amplified to become arcane, to be decoded (and codified then, again) in listening in silence.

Finally, dates and venues of your performances?

We are working on eight shows – some are in preparation, others with dates already set – which will see the light from April onwards in libraries, bookshops, cinemas, theatres, schools and in the squares of Florence. The first is taken from the training/ re-educational experience that Alessia carried out teaching poetic and creative writing to inmates in the prisons of Rome, Naples and Rocca di Papa; their writings will become “Stories from Gattacielo”. In the second show we will bring to life all the poems written/dedicated to Florence by the poets who passed through the city, even if only for a short period; in the third we will tell in music the salient moments of the lives of Stravinsky, Leopardi, Mingus, Kafka through their letters. “Civil Bestiary”, our fourth show is, instead a fictional story, the story of two orphaned twins, separated at birth and they finally manage to find each other after crossing all Italy; the fifth transposes Cormac McCarthy’s last novel, “Stella Maris” into Partita n.2 “in re minore” by J.S.Bach adapted for cello. The sixth show is taken from Dante Alighieri’s “Vita Nova”; in the seventh we meet Dostoevsky’s “Memories from the Underground” and the Black Sabbath; the last, the most “courageous” offers a biography and poetic texts of the Icelandic poet J.K. Stefansson with songs by Chet Baker.

I remind you that this interview will appear on the IM Italian magazine of March 2024. In the meantime, I thank you for your availability and best wishes for the success of your project.

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With two of the top jobs in politics now held by women, Italy has just become an instant case study in female leadership

By IM Italian Team

In October final 12 months, Italy elected its first feminine prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, chief of the far-right Brotherhood of Italy. Now, the left-wing opposition Democratic Social gathering has elected its personal feminine chief for the primary time, Elly Schlein.

Consequently, the nation, which is extremely conservative on gender equality, now has two feminine occasion leaders – one main the federal government and the opposite main the principle opposition occasion. The glass ceiling has been shattered: girls have reached the best workplaces in politics.

Ladies have lengthy been underrepresented in Italian politics.

In line with the World Financial Discussion board’s 2022 World Gender Hole Index, Italy ranks fortieth out of 146 nations when it comes to political gender equality. Solely about 31% of present MPs are girls – successfully the primary time the gender stability has fallen in 20 years. Ladies make up solely 22% of regional councilors and 15% of mayors.

In the meantime, within the wider labor market, feminine participation barely reaches 50% – one

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of many lowest ranges in Europe.

All of which makes the rise of those two girls stunning. It sends a constructive message to future generations of ladies. They will clearly see that reaching the best ranges of the political spectrum is feasible far proper and much left. Meloni and Schlein are at reverse ends of the spectrum, one on the far proper and the opposite on the far left. Neither aspect is inclined to compromise and each dabble in populism.They take very completely different positions politically and have completely different management kinds. Meloni stated she wish to be known as “Il Presidente” by males as an alternative of “La Presidente”, successfully selecting to not rejoice the truth that a lady turned prime minister for the primary time. They take very completely different positions politically and have completely different management kinds. Meloni stated she wish to be known as “Il Presidente” by males as an alternative of “La Presidente”, successfully selecting to not rejoice the truth that a lady turned prime minister for the primary time.

“La Presidente” makes use of

technically appropriate (and extra progressive) terminology in her case, however she prefers to distance herself from any feminist interpretation.

Schlein was additionally controversial, however on the reverse excessive. She expresses radical intersectional feminist views and is bisexual with a feminine companion. Not solely did she speak about these identities, she led her management marketing campaign by speaking about them, famously saying at a rally: I’m a lady, I really like one other lady, I’m not a mom, however I’m nonetheless a lady. We aren’t dwelling wombs, however human beings with rights.

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From a social and fnancial viewpoint, Schlein and Meloni had nothing in frequent.

Schlein prioritized minority and civil rights. She favors a “citizen’s earnings” that would supply a assured earnings for the poorest. She additionally opposed the Employment Act, a labor market reform regulation launched

by Matteo Renzi’s former center-left authorities that made it simpler to fireplace employees.

On the identical time, Meloni promotes nationalism and takes conservative stances on household points. She governs in coalition with Lega Nord, a coalition recognized for its opposition to the LGBTQI+ group.

These two girls are additionally examples of how instances have modified.

Gone are the times when the wealthy moved their politics to the best and the poor voted left. Meloni, who’s on the far proper, grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Rome, whereas Schlein, who’s on the far left, comes

from a rich space of ​​Ticino, the Italian-speaking a part of Switzerland. a radical experiment A long time of analysis present that feminine politicians carry out otherwise than their male counterparts, on common. Ladies are inclined to care extra about girls’s points and assist a extra inclusive coverage agenda. They’re much less corrupt and fewer confrontational.

points” is nearly nil.

Though we lack conclusive proof on how girls in management have an effect on public spending (as a result of many different variables are additionally at play), there’s appreciable proof that women and men have completely different management kinds, together with communication kinds and electoral methods.

Feminine leaders usually speak about the necessity to adapt to a male-dominated world, so it will likely be attention-grabbing to see what occurs in Italy as soon as this specific strain is eliminated.

The present state of affairs in Italy will present new proof that enriches our understanding of ladies in politics. Meloni and Schlein’s views are so diametrically opposed that the probability of them uniting on any frequent “girls’s

On the identical time, the Italian individuals now not have to decide on between a frontrunner who shares their political beliefs and a feminine chief, as a result of all events are taken care of like by no means earlier than. Meloni leads a right-wing coalition, whereas Schlein, though far left, is chief of a center-left occasion.

Id politics all of a sudden turned multidimensional and intersectional. We are going to see how gender interacts with many different features of those politicians (their sexual orientation, social background, and faith). Radical and divisive political beliefs will emerge on either side, however the outcomes are more durable to foretell.

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crowd of curious passers-by emerged from the open trunk of the automotive. The bullet-riddled physique of Italian Prime Minister Moro rested between the headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communist Get together. This scene ended the 55 days of kidnapping and isolation of the Crimson Brigade Marxist revolutionaries.

ticed growing political, fi- their phrases, will the Crimnancial and social tensions, son Brigades compromise and culminating in a collection launch him? of terrorist assaults by each the far left and the far proper. The argument that the Italian Aldo Moro, then chief of the authorities might have negoChristian Democrats, tried to tiated with the Crimson Briunite the nation round a “his- gades is commonly made in toric compromise” authorities sure tutorial literature, media that might invite Communist and creative interpretations, Get together Normal Secretary and is used right here out of Enrico Bellinger to take work- doors evening scene. Neverplace. However the Crimson theless, this ignores how tenaBrigades had different con- cious the Crimson Brigades’ cepts, viewing the proposal as will for revenge was, and the The Aldo Moro incident is a Communist sell-out. way unfavorable historic and among the darkest chapters in socio-political circumstances Italian historical past and con- From terrorist communiqués to drove the events right into a tinues to be being re-examined official statements and letters violent stalemate. and rewritten right now. The written by Moreau throughout well-known movie director his imprisonment, out of doors Discourse is commonly perMarco Bellocchio not too long evening scene A narrative of formative relating to revenge, ago expressed his opinion in escalating revenge is revealed and is central to this collection, his miniseries out of doors in ruthless element. Each side each by way of the actions it evening scene (“Exterior intend to defend their positions conjures up and the occasions Evening”) airing all through in any respect prices and with it stories on. The primary comMarch on the Franco-German out compromise. The Crimson munique issued by the Crimchannel Arte, Bellocchio takes Brigades, a far-left terrorist son Brigades instantly after us again to the checkered and group based within the early Moro’s kidnapping on March little-known historical past of Seventies to hold out “armed 16, 1978 left little question terrorism in Italy. propaganda” within the title of concerning the bloody intenthe labor motion, are more and tions of the abductors. The Bellocchio lets the protago- more decided to take revenge, discuss was an “annihilation” nists of the tragedy commu- simply because the Italian au- that radicals noticed as the renicate: from members of the thorities are stepping up their ply to the “bourgeois and imCrimson Brigades to Aldo navy operations. Decided to perialist counter-revolution” Moro himself, with out for- destroy them. Is there any like- and the “bloody coverage” of getting his household and lihood for Moreau to flee from which Moreau would turn into representatives of the political the “individuals’s jail”? Might “the godfather and most trustclass of the time. The assassi- he have withdrawn from the worthy executor of politics.” A nation stays a nationwide trau- parallel proletarian justice rustic dragged into the quagma carefully related to Italy’s system by which the Crim- mire of retribution “years of management” from son Brigades “tried” him, as the late Sixties to the early Bellocchio suggests when he Nineteen Eighties. resurrected him within the inSet towards the backdrop of troduction to his work? And, if the Chilly Battle, this era no- the Italian authorities accepts

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ne other query is out of doors evening scene Addressed head-on is the response of the authorities to this ruthless retaliation inside the terrorist camp, regardless of what we all know afterwards What value will the Crimson Brigade pay for revenge? Why did the state equipment refuse to barter with Moro’s kidnappers when he explicitly requested the federal government to launch him and the political elite was divided over the perfect plan of action?

The view finally emerged was that, towards the delicate backdrop of many police deaths because the launch of Italy’s “battle on terror”, any mediation with the Crimson Brigades amounted to complicity with the terrorists’ negotiating ways, thereby legitimizing their violence. . write on Corriere della Sera writer and columnist Indro Montanelli opined:

“If the Italian authorities In different phrases, energy has no selection however to freeze in an anti-retaliatory stance. succumbs to blackmail and Out of revenge, the Crimson Brigades s enters into negotiations ystematically refused to have interaction in any actual with the violent forces discussions with the authorities, selecting as a substitute which have left 5 of Moro’s to ship a collection of murderous messages to the federal government. In consequence, no prisoner trade occurred, bodyguards lifeless, then and all political events had been finally united within the the nation will not have any conviction that no democracy on the earth might discount raison d’être as a nation.” with terrorism. The crime of terrorism is unforgivable Final however not least, what can we be taught out of doors evening scene The extraordinarily advanced relationship between terrorism and forgiveness, significantly because it pertains to the potential of forgiving terrorists? Can forgiveness be seen as a response to terrorism, the very best crime within the eyes of all societies? Symptomally, forgiveness is commonly absent and elusive relating to terrorist acts.

Whereas in a letter Moro referred to the approaching “second of bloodbath” and begged the authorities to intervene, he additionally appeared to have given up on that risk, declaring that he wouldn’t forgive anybody, not any member of a political get together or authorities. Forgiveness for attending his funeral.

If the character of Aldo Moreau and his letters have since impressed many interpretations, it is very important query Bellocchio’s quasi-“Christology.” out of doors evening scene used to call its topic from the start. Certainly, victims of terrorism can generally be forgiven. However on this case, opposite to the imagined resurrection of Moro and the sacrifice (if not martyrdom) developed right here, which tended to point some type of forgiveness on the a part of the previous chief, allow us to emphasize once more that he by no means had his Forgiven all the things, each to the executioner and after the authorities gave up on saving him. This can be the final word revenge that Moreau can obtain personally.

Finally, Italian society has but to digest this extraordinarily merciless incident. Moro’s assassination stays an indelible stain on native tradition, damaging not solely political and media narratives but additionally the method of commemorating terrorism. As researcher Nicolas Demertzis factors out in an evocative article, undoing the impression of violence means forgiving its use with the intention to reconcile with the previous. On the one hand, Italy’s “main years” stay controversial and sometimes exploited by competing events. However, the character of the cycle of terrorist retaliation and state counter-retaliation usually results in an outright rejection of forgiveness. In accordance with Demertzis, this finally quantities to “[defending][the integral subjectivity of the victim” and “[ethically protesting] Battle towards “unreasonable evils and errors” attributable to terrorism.

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BENITO MUSSOLINI has called the people who work ‘the salt of the Fatherland,’ the strength and substance of the nation. He was born in one of the most proletarian provinces of Italy, where the whole life of the people is made up of hard, tenacious, and productive work. In Romagna, all wealth comes from the land and the sea.’My forebears,’ writes Mussolini, ‘were peasants who worked the land, and my father was a blacksmith who beat the red-hot iron on the anvil. Sometimes a youngster I helped my father in his humble labor: I have now the far more arduous task of molding souls.’In the broad plain of the Po valley between the Alps, the Apennines, and the Adriatic, the very fertile southern area is characterized by the frank nature of the inhabitants and their dialect: the Romagna is a country where the people live in harmony with the seasons, amid sowing and reaping, faithful to the land which they seldom leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere. The centuries pass without changing the rural character of the Romagnoli, nor the rustic aspect of a country that is both One is a friend, the other shuns rough and gentle.

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he Italian prime minister stepped up when the Bush administration wanted him to help promote the invasion of Iraq. It is possible that the previous businessman could use his global stature to convey the USA closer to Italy.

Berlusconi has a key driver of his international coverage, as I discovered from interviews with Berlusconi authorities officer, America’s Allies and Wars. When Barack Obama got here to energy, Berlusconi was largely his personal fault, as he was not considered broadly in Obama’s eyes. Recovering from racist feedback. The injury had been executed by Berlusconi when he aligned himself with Washington again in Libya. Berlusconi left a legacy for U.S.-Italian relations that was divided into two parts.

Britain claims that Italy has no relationship with Washington. France and Germany are more important to the EU than it is. Political instability in Italy makes it difficult to determine lasting bilateral political relations.

Italy had already been friendly with the US after Berlusconi served as prime minister from 1994 to 1995. Italy became a member of a 39-nation coalition in 1990 to oppose Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and send fighter jets to

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help in the aerial bombing operations.

The principal launch website for the U.S. and NATO warplanes was turned on by the Italian base in 1999.

The battle in Iraq was different than what we have seen before. The USA lost a lot of its international goodwill after George W. Bush made clear his intention to invade. The general public was very supportive of the invasion.

The government should consider the political penalties of supporting the world’s largest economic system.

Bush is the largest ally in Europe. Even though there were huge avenue protests in Italian cities, Berlusconi supported Bush even though he had a low public opinion.

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Italy was concerned about the invasion in a roundabout way.

Italy agreed to send a power to Iraq in April of 2003 In 2003 when explaining his causes to the New York Instances, Berlusconi mentioned that it was “unthinkable” to refuse Bush’s request to station troops in Italy.

17 Italian troopers were killed in Iraq in November 2003 and sending a peace mission has been controversial in Italy. In 2005, Berlusconi said that Italian troops would leave the war-torn nation. Exceeds U.S. necessities.

Berlusconi’s friends in Washington were gained by standing up for Bush. The Italian Prime Minister was invited to speak at each home of Congress during his 11 visits to the USA, which is rare for an abroad leader.

The deployment of 4,000 Italians to Iraq and Afghanistan has helped to calm U.S.-Italian relations.

This isn’t a one-way relationship. Berlusconi was able to market himself because of his stature in the world of politics and he was able to get help from the army. It is prudent to keep up pleasant relations with

the world’s largest economic system for a rustic who is vulnerable to financial instability.

would have to implement a deal to stop African migrants from reaching Italian shores.

He left a legacy that established Italy’s fame amongst American leaders even after he was ousted from energy in Italy.

After Obama threw his weight behind the NATO intervention, Berlusconi joined the army alliance. It is one factor that Berlusconi does not align with the USA. Washington has an excessive amount of opposition.

The pioneer of the populist prime minister.

The Obama years were here.

In 2008, the same year Obama was elected, Berlusconi came back to energy. The Italian prime minister had already soured relations with the U.S., calling the president-elect “good-looking and tanned.”

It got here throughout as offkey at greatest and racist.

Berlusconi makes outrageous remarks, and such shocking remarks are not uncommon. The incident doesn’t bode well for bilateral relations. My conversations with different officers within the Obama White Home, State Division, and Washington show that this isn’t solely about Berlusconi’s rhetoric, but that he was not dependable and had nothing to offer.

The NATO alliance was tasked with imposing a no-fly zone over Libya in 2011. The Gaddafi regime has been attacked.

Berlusconi contemplated that Italy would get 1 / 4 of its oil from Libya and that the nation

Many people have commented on the similarities between Berlusconi and Trump. The 2 males have one thing in common, they both have their political careers influenced by right-wing populism and a lot of scandals.

The legacy of Berlusconi as Italy’s chief in transatlantic relations is the most important one of all of them. It is a very advanced legacy.

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A simple tip can help you come out of your argument with a narcissist. It includes figuring out the manipulation happening and arguing about the particulars of the subject material. This method works when you have excessive emotional intelligence, and can regulate your feelings, and acknowledge the conditions of emotional manipulation.

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iversion, blame-shifting, and the sufferer’s place are some of the techniques that a pathologically dishonest person uses in conflicts. The person who is the most arrogant is the one who doesn’t have a look at themselves or their actions. The narcissist will blame you and assault you. That is not doing their duty. The person who plays the sufferers will be the one who fails the techniques. The person who is the most arrogant and the one who is the most bully is the one who is damaged. person who is a narcissist will keep away from trying inward and instantly divert blame and combat if they interact with someone who wants them to resolve an issue. They assault you for one thing else because they were a substitute for listening to the problem you raised.

This immediately takes the focus away from them and puts you in a weird place. They reinforce their assaults by misinterpreting your actions. They view you as hostile and abusive since you are merely trying to resolve the issue. That is the place of the person who is suffering.

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erry wants to debate Fran about a derogatory remark she made about Anne during dinner. Anne was upset by the phrases and she was wandering around in the room. Terry spent hours comforting Anne and trying to clean up the issues by stating that Fran’s phrases were simply flawed.

When Terry and Fran were alone, Terry mentioned that it was important to be cautious when giving suggestions. She is making an attempt so laborious to remain wholesome that it might not be constructive if she needs to eliminate her idiocy. You can say, “Train properly daily” as a substitute. Continue at it, honey. It will repay.

Fran was angry. She told Terry to not tell her how to mother or father after she messed up. She would not have these points if she hadn’t spent a lot of time at work and hanging out with associates as a baby. Terry was dizzy and remembered the times he had to work extra hours to pay his mortgage. He argued that he had no other choice.

Fran accuses Terry of being superficial and caring about materials issues more than her daughter. Terry was confused. He remembers Fran wanting to move into a bigger home. Terry reminded Fran that she was the one trying tostain with the neighbors. The combat became loud and aggressive. Terry was demoralized by the nightmare battle.

If Terry picked up on the dynamic, the dialog may need to be ended differently. Terry gently confronted Fran inside the automotive. She flew into a rage and tried to defend herself, however as a substitute of defending herself, he mentioned calmly, “I feel you are deflecting consideration, Fran.” He whispered that he felt that she wanted to put the blame on him. Fran accused Terry of being imply. Terry realized that she was positioning herself because the injured person was trying to make him feel bad. He said that he wasn’t the sufferers right here. Annie is.

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ran might be speechless as she will be able to seize his indignant phrases, blow them up, and throw them in his face in order to get Terry into an enormous combat to ruin him. If Terry had not acknowledged the manipulation, he would have been in grave danger. He gave Fran nothing that could be used against him.

Fran has a lot of protection mechanisms.

She might not be aware of her tendencies, but this doesn’t excuse them. She might have to pay attention to her defensiveness so she can stop herself and save her relationship.

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dren as young as 7 are being thrown into jail for very minor offenses like stealing a soccer or pulling someone’s hair. Some children have been jailed for actions that were not crimes, like failing to cease after-school combat. Tennessee legislation prohibits solitary confinement for youngsters, so this makes issues worse.

Donna Scott Davenport is the only person who knows that the incarcerations are not legal, but almost everyone on the Rutherford County juvenile courtroom knew it.

The four-part series on Youngsters of Rutherford County was produced by Serial and New York Occasions and explores why so many kids are illegally imprisoned.

The story of two public defenders, Wes Clark and Mark Downton, who spent years trying to convince Davenport that what she was doing was not legal, is told in the new episode of the show.

Due to the lawsuit, the county is not illegally detaining kids who commit minor crimes. The two didn’t get a pure victory. The court docket

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shows that Clark and Downton received $11 million in damages. Only $2.2 million was given to incarcerated youngsters because 23% of eligible recipients might be contacted to file a declare.

Youngsters of Rutherford County are shown how difficult it is to make a change in a damaged system of presidency.

Eugene Yu,

proprietor of Michigan election administration software program firm, was arrested and charged in a prison case in Los Angeles County in the year 2022, accusing the district lawyer’s office of violating his rights in a $5 million lawsuit.

The Board of Supervisors should be aware that the seizure of Konect’s property has been detrimental to the enterprise. The approval of the settlement...

George Gascon introduced Yu and his firm at a press convention.

There was no proof that vote or voter knowledge was saved abroad, despite Gascn’s accusations, as Yu and the corporate were accused of

storing some ballot employee knowledge on server in China moderately than in the USA. See this for the complaints of Kontech and Yu. I apologize, but my first response was that the prosecutor’s accusations may need strong proof, partly because of the prosecution being opposite to what people anticipated from Gascn, and also because of my expertise prosecutors often. The prosecutors seem to have made a mistake. I would like to know more about how this happened.

The administration

of President Joe Biden has spent more money on prosecution and settlement charges than the White Home did in its entire four-year period.

Personal events can file lawsuits against authorities companies if they want, but they can also file a lawsuit out of court docket. Critics say the know-how allows the EPA to waste taxpayer money by setting coverage through these settlements. The federal government uses taxpayer dollars to pay for environmental nonprofits to file lawsuits.

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The Biden administration has spent more on prosecutions and settlements than any other president in the last two years.

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The rise in legal professional charges below Biden is in line with the changes made by the Bush and Obama administrations. During Obama’s second time period, “Sue and settle” was used 77 times.

The EPA has surpassed the Obama administration in spending in just two years. The EPA can make 100 new laws with out congressional oversight, thanks to the invoice.

The letter was sent to Regan on November 14, 2023, requesting paperwork to analyze potential abuses of the coverage. The letter was written by Cuomo and Fallon and said that the coverage would be revoked on March 28, 2022. There seems to be a surge in prosecutions and settlements

of EPA violations under the Biden administration because of your actions. For many years, the federal regulatory system has been plagued by lawsuits and settlements, which have allowed certain pursuits to pursue lawsuits with out complying with regular regulatory procedures. The Biden administration is coming to an end, however the prosecution and settlement method could be used in his second time period. It is not certain if oversight like that of Cuomo and Fallon will be enough to change the EPA’s insurance policies.

The names of police

and prison officers who kill people would be hidden under a billfiled in Florida.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled in December that police departments could not invoke Marsy’s Law, a crime victims’ rights law that was adopted by Florida voters in the year 2000. Privacy protections for civilian crime victims were stripped as well.

The legislation is one of several that the Florida Legislature has been considering to further insulate police from scrutiny. Two bills in the Legislature would ban cities and counties from forming civilian police oversight boards.

House Bill 1605 and House Bill 1607 were filed by Brannan.

The latter would add law enforcement officers, correctional officers, or correctional parole officers who use deadly force

in the course and scope of their employment or official duties to the definition of crime victims.

The victim of a crime would be exempt from the public records law if they chose to have it disclosed. The bill says that the release of such information could cause further trauma to the crime victim and their family.

The police unions in the state support the bills. John Kazanjian, president of the Florida Police Benevolent Association, told the Tampa Bay Times that it’s not fair to exclude police officers just because they wear the Badge.

The legal battle over whether law enforcement was covered

by Marsy’s Law began in 2020 after reporters filed records requests for the names of the officers involved in two fatal police shootings in Florida. The Florida Police Benevolent Association filed a lawsuit against the city to prevent disclosure, arguing that the officers’ identities were confidential under a provision of Marsy’s Law that protects information that could be used to locate or harass the victim or the victim’s family.

The police unions were not in agreement with the Florida Supreme Court. “One’s name, standing alone, is not that kind of information or record,” Couriel wrote. “It doesn’t communicate where the individual can be found and bothered.”

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held behind closed doorways and authorities stated particulars of the prison case in opposition to the American journalist have been confidential.

Gershkovic stood in a courtroom cage and wore a hooded blue denims to remember the decision. He was photographed walking to a jail van.

Gershkovich was arrested in March and was sent to Yekaterinburg, a Russian metropolis about 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow.

The journalist was told by the USA to collect data regarding the actions of enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complicated that constituted state secrets and techniques.

The Wall Road Journal and Gershkovich have denied the accusations. Russian authorities have to give any proof to help with espionage expenses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at his year-end press convention in December that Moscow was in talks with the USA over the deportation of Gershkovic and one other imprisoned American, Paul Whelan, and that the Kremlin needed to discover a resolution.

Putin was responding to a question about the Biden administration’s proposal to safe the discharge of the 2 males. The

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information was reported by the U.S. State Division in December but no particulars were offered.

Putin stated that the USA should listen to them and decide that additionally satisfies the Russian facet.

Russia’s international ministry stated that it could take into account the verdict in Gershkovic’s trial. In Russia, espionage trials can last longer than a year.

Nicholas Danilov, a Moscow correspondent for the U.S. Information & World Report, was arrested by the KGB in 1986 and charged with espionage.

The Lefortovo jail is notorious for its harsh situations.

Analysts say that Moscow could use imprisoned people as bargaining chips after Russia’s army deployment in Ukraine heightened tensions between the USA and Russia. Two U.S. residents arrested in Russia have been exchanged for Russians imprisoned within the U.S., together with Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Affiliation star Britney Griner.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani mentioned in an announcement that he had launched “the primary spherical of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the USA of America to finish the coalition mission in Iraq.”

An announcement from the coalition mentioned a working group of Iraqi and coalition officers would assess “the Islamic State (IS) menace, operational and environmental necessities and the capabilities of Iraqi safety forces” whereas the next navy council would “effort to Establishing situations for transitioning the Iraq mission.”

The talks come as U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria are frequently focused by drone assaults by Iranian-backed militias amid the continuing battle between Israel and Hamas.

The USA mentioned plans to arrange a committee to barter phrases for the top of the mission had been first mentioned final yr, however the timing was unrelated to the assault.

Washington has had an ongoing presence in Iraq because the 2003 invasion. Though all U.S. fight forces withdrew in 2011, 1000’s of troops returned in 2014 to help the Iraqi authorities in defeating the Islamic State.

Iraqi officers have frequently referred to as for coalition forces to withdraw because the extremist group misplaced management of territory it as soon as occupied, significantly after a January 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Common Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia chief Abu After the dying of Mahdi Abu Mahdi. – Muhandis outdoors Baghdad Airport.

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Since mid-October, a bunch of Iranbacked militias calling themselves the Islamic Resistance Motion of Iraq have launched common assaults on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria in what they are saying is retaliation for Washington’s help for Israel within the Gaza battle.

An estimated 2,500 U.S. troops and the bases the place they’re stationed have been hit by greater than 150 missiles and drones launched by militia teams. Dozens of U.S. personnel had been injured throughout the assault, some with mind accidents.

In return, the USA has attacked militia targets, together with some related to the Widespread Mobilization Forces, a largely Shia, Iran-backed paramilitary group formally underneath the management of the Iraqi navy. However in follow it largely works by itself. Iraqi officers complained that the U.S. assault violated Iraq’s sovereignty.

U.S. officers mentioned talks on establishing a committee to determine on a framework for ending the coalition mission had been already underway earlier than Oct. 7 and that the choice was not associated to the assault.

Nonetheless, the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Motion praised the choice in an announcement, saying it “proves that Individuals solely perceive the language of power.”

It vowed to proceed its assaults.

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not too long ago attended a mother or father night at my son’s college. I would been attending his dad and mom’ events for the previous ten years and I knew what to anticipate. I heard about how nicely he behaved within the classroom—how he was centered, hard-working, well mannered, and nice.

I additionally heard how the academics wished him to speak extra, how he struggled in teams, and the way he solely had one or two associates at a time.

If I have been speaking to a trainer that I linked with—versus one who used my son’s quietness as a type of criticism—I’d point out that he was a totally completely different boy at dwelling. He was one of many loudest folks I would ever met – at all times singing part of a tune, repeating a humorous joke, or leaping round not directly. When he’s considering one thing, as a substitute of being quiet, he’ll speak endlessly. His academics are sometimes shocked after I describe the distinction between his “dwelling self” and his “college self.”

Like many autistic folks, my son is severely depending on camouflage. Whereas all of us have completely different selves and we select to point out or disguise ourselves in numerous social conditions, and lots of kids behave otherwise at school and residential settings, camouflage entails monitoring all the things you do and say so that you just Act precisely the identical. It varies in numerous contexts.

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Fake as a result of you recognize that in case you present up and be your self, you are extra prone to be seen as a “weirdo” or be bullied. As a result of folks with autism are sometimes referred to as names or bullied, they usually alter their conduct to keep away from repeating the identical conduct.

Having bother making small speak and flowing conversations, encountering issues with non-verbal cues, speaking at size about intense pursuits, unintentionally offending others, not wanting to speak in any respect, or feeling confused in group conversations – these are simply a few of the numerous methods autism manifests Sufferers could fear about “getting it improper.” Disguise also can embrace makes an attempt to suppress “irritating” behaviors (together with making repetitive noises, shaking, or pores and skin selecting) or to cover ache related to sensory enter, modifications, or disturbances. Due to this fact, faking autistic traits could require near-constant monitoring and self-awareness.

In recent times, autistic women and girls have usually relied closely on disguised behaviors, resulting in severe underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of autistic girls.1 This rising consciousness has led to extra women and girls receiving the right analysis and assist. Nonetheless, as our consciousness of autism in girls grows, it’s also vital that we don’t stereotype autistic males as “unpretending.”

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rom my expertise working with shoppers of all genders and interacting with male autistic family and friends members, I’ve come to imagine that self-awareness is on the core of how faux persons are. As people, it’s pure to give attention to your self and others. “Public self-awareness” refers to our self-awareness as social topics2 and displays how involved we’re about how others see us, which incorporates worries about making a superb impression.3 Public self-awareness is influenced by our upbringing, tradition, life experiences and persona traits.

As a result of my son is aware of he’s autistic, and since he grew up in a really accepting household atmosphere, he does not appear to view his autistic traits as “dangerous.” In actual fact, he has mentioned on a number of events what he sees as the advantages of autism.

However as a teen, he nonetheless did not wish to draw consideration to himself for being “completely different.” He’s so conscious of how others understand him that he thinks about how he sits, what phrases he makes use of, how he hides his nervousness, and the way he overcompensates by using methods that really feel unusual and awkward.

Whereas a lot of my focus is on encouraging folks to “unmask” once they really feel secure, snug, and worthy, I admit that as a teenage boy his focus was on becoming in. In actual fact, I see little distinction between his experiences as a toddler and adolescent and my

very own experiences on the identical age.

As a result of he disguised himself so extensively and successfully, a few of his persona traits have been by no means seen by academics.

There was some dialogue about his obvious shyness. On a number of events when he was unable to put on a masks, reminiscent of on college journeys or loud social occasions, academics expressed some concern.

Grownup male shoppers I’ve labored with equally describe a necessity to cover their autistic traits when they’re round different folks. Andy*, a person in his 40s, described having excessive social nervousness stemming from being bullied as a toddler and “getting hung up on issues he favored for too lengthy.” He informed me, “I do know I appear to harass different folks. I have been reprimanded for speaking too lengthy. I’ve gotten to the purpose the place I am afraid to open my mouth in case folks hate me.”

Stephen described how he used alcohol to deal with social conditions. “I used to assume I used to be simply extraordinarily bored round folks. There was undoubtedly an element, nevertheless it was deeper. I did not know the way to talk with most individuals. I wasn’t within the issues they have been considering. I simply drank. , so I can get by way of it.”

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aul informed me, “Nobody is aware of how tough it might be for me to go to a social occasion with out desirous about how I’d cope. I would wish to go away early and get acquainted with the route, and if something went improper with my plans, I would Go loopy and quit on the entire thought. I am usually so excited after I get there I can not even focus; it takes all my power to not begin buzzing or speaking over and over, which calms me down, But it surely seems to be actually bizarre.”

What I hear from autistic males shouldn’t be that completely different from what I hear from autistic girls. Nonetheless, it’s simply as vital to not homogenize the experiences of all males as it’s to not homogenize the experiences of all girls, which suggests acknowledging that not all autistic girls faux it.In actual fact, “public self-awareness” can embrace energetic choices no Disguise and consciousness of 1’s need to not disguise one’s autistic traits.

Pretending is related to larger ranges of hysteria and despair.4 Given the relative lack of consideration to autistic males’s pretense, some males could really feel that they lack the language to make sense of their expertise; this may occasionally result in extra frustration and additional decreases in well-being.

As we proceed to study extra about autism, we should acknowledge the power to disguise in all autistic adults, its impression on well being, and its means to affect the diagnostic course of. We additionally must keep in mind that regardless of variations within the autism expertise of males, girls, and non-binary genders, there are elementary similarities. *Names have been modified to guard affected person privateness.

Consult with 1. Hull, L., Petrides, KV, and Mandy, W. Autism phenotypes and disguise in girls: a story evaluation. Rev J Autism Developmental Issues 7, 306-317 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-020-00197-9 2. Turner, R and Schell, Ml, Carver, C and Ickes, W (1978). Components related to self-awareness. Journal of Character Evaluation. 42.285-9. 10.1207/s15327752jpa4203_10.

3. Jostes, A, Pook, M, Florin, A. Private and non-private self-awareness as traits of particular psychopathologies, Character and Particular person Variations, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1999, pp. 1285-1295, ISSN 0191 -8869, https:// doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00077-X. 4. Hull, L., Levy, L., Lai, MC et al. Is social faking linked to nervousness and despair in adults with autism? molecular autism 12, 13 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-021-00421-1

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