THE SIAE AND THE JAM SESSION THAT THERE IS NO
If during the most classic of summer bonfires on the beach, hug a guitar and begin to sing Wish you were here together with another ten friends, you are breaking the law. Unless you have paid SIAE ahead of time. Dura lex, sed lex. If you then invite that dozens of friends of the bonfire to your home for dinner and you are so "eccentric" to decide to watch simultaneously the video Wish you were here (you are really fixed...) on youtube, everyone from just smartphone, nobody has to pay SIAE, because Google, owner of Youtube, is already paying for you. In addition, with the purchase of the smartphone, you have contributed to the payment of the SIAE through the implicit purchase of the so-called license for the private copy, which covers the possibility of keeping a copy digital of the original support purchased. In other words,...

TOURIST TAX: DURA LEX SED LEX
IN BRIEF: Agricamping Sophia falls within the Municipality of Noto and is forced to collect the tax relating to the stay in the camping from every guest who is not exempt and who is aged between 15 and 75 years, i.e. 2.5 euros per night, for a maximum of 6 nights.
At the end of the season, Agricamping Sophia will pay the entire sum collected (minus 2% for the "disturbance"...) to the Treasury of the Municipality of Noto, via bank transfer.
WHO IS EXEMPT

Under 15s and over 75s, residents in the Municipality of Noto, 100% disabled people are obviously exempt; assistants of patients admitted to local health facilities (one companion per patient, two companions if the patient is a child under 18); university students participating in cultural exchange projects or enrolled in the Eastern...

IF THE TRAGEDY IS FEMALE
The traditional Cycle of Classical Plays at Syracuse Greek Theatre into its fifty-second edition: from Friday, May 13 to Sunday, June 19 2016 are taking place every other day of the representations Elektra Sophocles and Alcestis Euripides, and ends with the staging of the Fedra of Seneca on days 23-26 June. As announced by the National Institute of Ancient Drama, presenting the edition, the woman is the absolute star of this season and is precise and original connotations in the texts chosen. The theater of Syracuse, second in size only to that of Epidaurus, will open the dance with the Elektra by Sophocles, directed by Gabriele Lavia and the interpretation of Federica Martino. Translation by Nicola Crocetti, Lavia has drawn the deep strong character of Electra, considerably different from...

THE GHOSTS OF PORTOPALO
Between 20 and 21 February 2017, on Rai 1, a television miniseries was broadcast entitled I fantasmi di Portopalo. From the novel of the same name-investigation by the journalist Giovanni Maria Bellu, interpreted among others by Giuseppe Fiorello and Giuseppe Battiston , narrates the shipwreck of the F174 off of Portopalo di Capo Passero , the Christmas night of 1996, in which killed 283 people , of Indian, Pakistani nationality and Sri Lankan. Here the reconstruction of the facts.
In the film, the fisherman Saro Ferro (born Salvo Lupo) while fishing with his boat off Portopalo, occasionally runs into clues that would confirm the rumors that...

THE SHORT LOOK OF "STAY AT HOME"
Lévi-Strauss explained that the Western error on evolution was to consider it only in relation to its own parameters. Not by chance, until well into the last century, the West wanted to see in its superiority of techniques and technologies of war, a cultural all-round superiority. Giving himself the ideologies for which God, nature or historical dialectic, would have invested his own culture of the task of redeeming and civilizing cultures considered inferior, has in fact found the way to justify massacres, depredations and submissions, making use of one's exceedingly efficient capacity to bring death and destruction.
It follows that the degree of evolution of a culture has been for the West directly proportional to its war capacity. So the Spaniards, in the name of Christianity, almost exterminated the Aztecs. Thus the Western powers, in...

THE INNOVATIVE MESSINA MUSEUM
Almost all of our guests who come from the center north of Italy, to reach our Agri Camping Sophia, pass a couple of times from Messina, on the way and back. And we usually give excellent culinary advice given the gastronomic culture that belongs to us. But this time we want to give you a different advice, and combine gastronomy with historical and artistic culture.
A few months ago was finally inaugurated the MuMe ( Regional Interdisciplinary Museum), where in eight exhibition sections you can admire the history of Messina, from prehistory to the '900. The first adjective that came to mind when I visited him for the first time was "surprising". No one would have expected, for a Museum that after 30 years of work was born "old", a environment worthy of the best Italian institutions if not even...

A NATURE RESERVE LIKE VENDICARI IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BLUE FLAG?
With extreme amazement this year I'm finding that the beaches of Vendicari have definitely disappeared from the list of beaches awarded with the Blue Flag. How is that possible? How is it possible that one of the most immaculate nature reserves in Sicily has been excluded from the famous guarantee certificate of the FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education)? From a reading to attribution criteria, on the official website, it is easy to see that the assignment of the Blue Flag responds to parameters that a nature reserve like Vendicari can not satisfy. Here are the main reasons.
The FEE contemplates the "officially" seaside resorts that request it. In Vendicari, the bathing is in a certain sense "tolerated", in the radical respect of the environment: in fact all the...

HOW TO START AN AGRICAMPING IN AN EUFEMISTICALLY SHORTSIGHTED SYSTEM
It was the late summer of 2009 and from my uncles 'cellar, Vini Sultana , all' dusk, I watched the vineyard and the olive grove planted long ago by my far-sighted grandfather. There the sunsets are quite bewitching, perhaps due to the softness of the hills and the countryside of Pachino, perhaps due to the ancient charm of the ruins of old farmhouses, perhaps due to the relaxing permanence of the Iblei in the distance. And there, probably also influenced by the many wonderful years spent in scouting, I thought I saw tents among the olive trees. No, it was not about any abusive camper but simply of my galloping imagination in the throes of having to combine something for my future subsistence ... I was in fact completing my course of study in philosophy and soon I could have the title of Doctor Magistrale in...

"DA DOVE VIENI? TERRAFERMA, TERRACHIUSA". REFLECT TO SIDING
In his touching monologue, the talented Igiebor Eseosa tells of an evening, an evening in any one of the many Libyan concentration camps where migrants are forced to live crammed like animals, waiting uncertain and indeterminate of their turn for the crossing of the Mediterranean. Some jailers enter the warehouse to snatch a six-year-old girl from the arms of a desperate mother who begs them to have mercy. The girl is raped by the inhuman herd all night long. It is then rejected in the arms of the mother, unconscious, bleeding and swollen.
The "dose" has risen from the story of a woman who has died in the birth of a child with his son almost born, complaining of labor, simply annoyed his tormentors.
From father and husband, in hindsight, I could also have preferred an energetic and well-balanced fist in the belly listening to the reports of the daily atrocities in...