Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was launched in 2000 .^[4] The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. 

It is one of the leaders in the philanthrocapitalism revolution in global philanthropy,^[5

Read Gates letter 2015 with the list of the main aims to be reached in 15 years

http://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-annual-letter?page=0&lang=en

Queen Elizabeth II's speech about the EU

Queen Elizabetyh II opened officially the Parliament at the Palace of Westminster ; in her speech she difines the measures the present government, led by the Conservative David Cameron, is going 

to carry out.Among them the proposal of a referendum in 2017 to verify the desire of the population to get out of the EU 

Waht the video of her speech, with a political analysis by the newspaper "The Guardian"

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2015/may/27/queens-speech-what-it-means-analysis

Letterman Show is over

Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted (presentato)by David Letterman on CBS,. The show debuted on August 30, 1993,^[2]

In 2002, Late Show with David Letterman was ranked No. 7 on TV Guide‍ '​s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.^[4] As host of both Late Night and Late Show for more than 30 years, Letterman was the longest running late-night talk show host (presentatore) in 2013.^[5]

The final episode of Late Show aired (e' andato in onda) on May 20, 2015.^[

                         Whatch this videos about the funniest moments in his career

And now watch American president Obama's interview (2012),so typical of American easy-going and relaxed behaviour even of politicians.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn.The film is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote.

Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric café society girl is generally considered to be the actress's most memorable and identifiable role. Hepburn regarded it as one of her most challenging roles, since she was an introvert required to play an extrovert.^[1]

Breakfast at Tiffany's was received positively at the time, and won two Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the famous "Moon River". "Moon River" was also selected as the fourth most memorable song in Hollywood history, 

Would you like to have Audrey Hepburn's hairstyle?Watch this tutorial (it's in French, even easier to understand)

"Apocalypse now"

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American adventure war film set during the Vietnam War. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz, the film follows the central character, U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard, on a mission to kill the presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz(Brando).

The screenplay updates (riprende) the setting of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to that of the Vietnam War era.,showing  the horror of the war. 

• I've seen horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror! Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. (Kurtz)
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• Ma noi dobbiamo ucciderli, dobbiamo incenerirli, maiale dopo maiale, vacca dopo vacca, villaggio dopo villaggio, esercito dopo esercito. E dicono che sono un assassino. . (Col. Walter E. Kurtz)
• Ho visto degli orrori, orrori che ha visto anche lei. Ma non avete il diritto di chiamarmi assassino. Avete il diritto di uccidermi, questo sì, ma non avete il diritto di giudicarmi. Non esistono parole per descrivere lo stretto necessario a coloro che non sanno cosa significhi l'orrore. L'orrore ha un volto e bisogna essere amici dell'orrore.. (Col. Kurtz)
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Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse ( 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul^[1] (sometimes labelled as blue-eyed soul),^[2] rhythm and blues,^[3] jazz^[4][5] and reggae.^[6] 

Winehouse won Best Contemporary Song for "Stronger Than Me"; 2007, Best Contemporary Song again, this time for "Rehab"; and in 2008, Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game"..

Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning (avvelenamento) on 23 July 2011,at the age of 27. Her album Back to Black posthumously became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century,

"Linus" anniversary

Charlie Brown, the star of Peanuts

linus was an Italian comics magazine published in Italy between 1965 and 2013. It was the first Italian magazine exclusively focused on comics.^[1]

The magazine published foreign comic books like Peanuts, 

Peanuts (noccioline, qui "cose da poco" is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz,which ran from 1950, to  2000. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".^[2] At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.^[3]

Charlie Brown, the star of Peanuts

The initial cast of Peanuts was featuring only Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty  and a beagle, Snoopy. Other characters were Lucy, and Lucy's baby brother Linus,

Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 1869 – 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"^[3])—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,^[4]—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu "father," in India

Gandhi's quotations (citazioni)

Truth alone will endure (durera') all the rest will be swept away (spazzato via) before the tide (marea) of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth . Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?

 I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment, forgiveness adorns a soldier.


We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

We must never submit to unjust laws. Never. And our resistance must be active and provocative.

B.B. King and Obama

US President Barack Obama is persuaded by blues legend Buddy Guy to sing a few lines of Sweet Home Chicago with B.B. King at a White House blues festival, February 2012

Obama said at the news of B.B.King's death

“Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House.  I hadn’t expected that I’d be talked into singing a few lines of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does.The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend.  B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son(figlio di un mezzadro) in Mississippi, came of age(divenne maggiorenne) in Memphis, Tenn., and became the ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world.There’s going to be one  blues session in heaven tonight.”

Mr. King died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89.

Watch this video about his life and if you need, use subtitles.

http://www.wsj.com/video/blues-legend-bb-king-dies/ED456FF7-129D-4753-9A51-F4C930A7D646.html

Dreaming California

Highway 1 is a major north-south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.

The highway is famous for running along some of the most beautiful coastlines in the USA,

 In addition to providing a scenic route to numerous attractions along the coast, the route also serves as a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and several other coastal urban areas.

Watcht this video, uploaded by a tourist.

Cobain: Montage of Heck

 Cobain: Montage of Heck,^{[(montaggio fatto a cavolo)} is a documentary film about Nirvana front man and '90s rock icon Kurt Cobain, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
 It is the first documentary about Kurt Cobain to be made with the cooperation of his family.The director and his team were given access to the entirety of Cobain's personal and family archives.


Watch the trailer of the movie with Italian subtitles about the singer of Nirvana who killed himself at the age of 27,with memories of his family and of his wife Courtney Love.


http://www.comingsoon.it/film/cobain-montage-of-heck/51163/video/?vid=18235