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<title><![CDATA[Lilly Finished!! (well almost!)]]></title>
<link>http://deanmelbourne.wordpress.com/?p=129</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deanmelbourne</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Lilly. Acrylic on canvas
This painting is getting towards a finished state now. Working through this]]></description>
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<p>This painting is getting towards a finished state now. Working through this piece has moved my ideas forward significantly. Mostly I have learned what qualities i dont want in a painting. Lilly has been an interesting experiment. She may feature in an exhibition in September in Solihull! So if your interested in seeing her in the flesh(paint) that could be your only chance! Ill keep you posted about upcoming shows!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jogos Mortais 5: Trailer Na Rede]]></title>
<link>http://cinemagia.wordpress.com/?p=2675</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tommy Beresford</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cinemagia.wordpress.com/?p=2675</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Do Terra:
O novo filme da famigerada série Jogos Mortais chega aos cinemas no dia 24 de outubro nos]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://cinemagia.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/jogos_mortais_5_cartaz.jpg" align="right" width="150">Do Terra:</p>
<blockquote><p>O novo filme da famigerada série Jogos Mortais chega aos cinemas no dia 24 de outubro nos Estados Unidos, perto do 'Dia das Bruxas'. Mais uma vez, como mostra o primeiro trailer, as sangrentas torturas que fizeram a fama da franquia estão garantidas nesta seqüência. </p>
<p>Em Jogos Mortais V, os agentes do FBI Peter Strahm e Lindsay Perez ajudam o detetive Hoffman em outros casos envolvendo torturas e mortes que parecem ser mais um legado do maníaco Jigsaw.</p></blockquote>
<p>Leia mais (sujeito a spoilers) <a target="_blank" href="http://cinema.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI3109319-EI1176,00-Veja+o+primeiro+trailer+de+Jogos+Mortais.html">clicando aqui</a>.</p>
<p>O Terra disponibiza o trailer de Jogos Mortais 5: <a target="_blank" href="http://cinema.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI3109319-EI1176,00-Veja+o+primeiro+trailer+de+Jogos+Mortais.html">veja aqui</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[WOW I THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD EVER SEE THIS]]></title>
<link>http://kothelegend.wordpress.com/?p=465</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kothelegend</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kothelegend.wordpress.com/?p=465</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks Shum hahahahah


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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Thanks Shum hahahahah</p>
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<title><![CDATA[N-au inventat chinezii apa caldă...]]></title>
<link>http://moshcalifar.wordpress.com/?p=1762</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>moshcalifar</dc:creator>
<guid>http://moshcalifar.wordpress.com/?p=1762</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8230;nici mistificarea tv. Filmul lui Barry Levinson e din 1997, il recomand tuturor celor care in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>...nici mistificarea tv. Filmul lui Barry Levinson e din 1997, il recomand tuturor celor care inca nu l-au vazut .</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Straw Dogs (1971)]]></title>
<link>http://connormcintyre.wordpress.com/?p=179</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>connormcintyre</dc:creator>
<guid>http://connormcintyre.wordpress.com/?p=179</guid>
<description><![CDATA[*Tied to Cinexcellence&#8217;s Unseen-Movie-Blog-a-thon
This weekend, or at least this Friday, I]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*Tied to Cinexcellence's Unseen-Movie-Blog-a-thon</p>
<p>This weekend, or at least this Friday, I've decided to have a Sam Peckinpah double-feature. Straw Dogs and The Wild Bunch, two movies I've never seen but I thought it was about time to.</p>
<p>First up was Straw Dogs, the kind of movie I pass every single time I'm at the video store as I search through the endless sea of Dramas. I've heard fairly good things about this film, and with Dustin Hoffman along for the ride, how bad can it be? It can be good... but not great.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Straw_dogs_movie_poster.jpg/418px-Straw_dogs_movie_poster.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="600" /></p>
<p>This film follows a man by the name of David Sumner, played by Hoffman, and his wife Amy as they find refuge in the English country side. While David tries to write a book, Amy catches up with her old pals, who aren't as friendly as they used to be. David's cowardly nature only leads to brutality inflicted upon the ones he loves and a man can only be pushed so far.</p>
<p>I'm sad to say the only Peckinpah film I had seen before this was The Getaway an awesome flick with Steve Mcqueen. His use of slow motion continuously throughout scenes of violence make the violence that much more real. Have you ever been in a situation where something crazy happens, like a car crash? When you describe it to friends and family, don't you say "It's like it was in slow motion."? Well, I may not have ever been in a car collision but I've had some nutty stuff happen to me and I'll be damned if I didn't say that.</p>
<p>Anyways, that is what this whole film feels like. It feels like the retelling of a gruesome and horrific event to friends and family. I suppose that means that did a good job since it was adapted from a book.</p>
<p>The best thing about this film is that it doesn't sugar coat shit (and by shit I literally mean feces). It doesn't wrap the turd up in fancy paper and place a little cherry on top. The movie is about the raw emotionality of two people who are slowly torn apart by obsession with one's projects, and a terrible force that wants to prove a point.</p>
<p>I didn't like what Hoffman's character became though. I suppose this ties into them not sugar coatin' the shit, and I guess this is the prime example. Hoffman becomes mean, and at one point threatens to snap Amy's neck if she doesn't listen to him. Part of me appreciates that Peckinpah chose to go in this route, but the other part thinks it goes to dark.</p>
<p>And THAT is what I love about this movie. It doesn't care how dark it becomes, because it is supposed to become that dark. My complaint should not be taken seriously as it isn't a serious complaint, it's actually a compliment towards the director and actor's capability to completely flip what we thought we knew about the character and create something new and frightening.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Família Savage]]></title>
<link>http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/?p=428</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alecs</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/?p=428</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dizer que A Família Savage é apenas um drama familiar é pouco. Na verdade, se trata de um ensaio ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://cinerosebudd.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/the-savages-3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-429 aligncenter" style="border:0 none;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" src="http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/the-savages-3.jpg" alt="" width="414" height="274" /></a>Dizer que <em>A </em><em>Família</em><em> Savage</em> é apenas um drama familiar é pouco. Na verdade, se trata de um ensaio sobre vários sentimentos, todos eles comuns à boa parte das famílias, mas que em algumas se manifestam mais do que em outras. Nesta família em questão, o que mais aparece é o egoísmo e o individualismo. É através da proximidade da morte, um tema pesado e difícil, que a diretora Tamara Jenkins conta a história de uma família fragmentada, com integrantes solitários e medianos que, por vezes, são até mesmo "selvagens", como no título do filme.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) detesta seu emprego regular e sua verdadeira paixão é escrever peças de teatro. Mantém relações com um homem casado e vive com sua gata Genghis em um pequeno apartamento de Nova York. Seu irmão Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman) é um professor universitário, doutor em filosofia, mas, aparentemente um dramaturgo frustrado que se recusa em casar com a namorada polonesa. Os dois terão de se reunir quando a situação de seu velho pai, Lenny (Philip Bosco), começa a se agravar e sua saúde fica cada vez mais delicada. Decididos à não abandonar suas vidas, os irmãos decidem colocar Lenny, que sofre de demência, em um asilo. Esse é o ponto de partida para o choque entre Wendy e Jon, sua aparente competição de egos e também o inicio da série de lembranças de uma vida.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Toda a atmosfera de <em>A </em><em>Família</em><em> Savage</em> é permeada por Bertold Brecht. Para o alemão, criador da companhia <em>Berliner Ensemble</em> e um dos maiores diretores do século XX, o Teatro Épico era a única forma capaz de conjurar a maioria de fatores das relações humanas e, ao mesmo tempo, manter o espectador a uma certa distância da experiência, para que ele saiba que está assistindo uma dramatização. Aqui, pela qualidade da história, extremamente americana e por vezes plástica quando trata o subúrbio, não existe universo comum entre as nossas vidas e as vidas na obra. Mas, mesmo assim, somos forçados a julgar o casal de irmãos o tempo todo, e eles nos fornecem material para isso em suas atitudes e relações.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Durante todo o filme a infância permanece obscura e intocada e sabemos apenas que a infância foi difícil. Mas, é essa infância que mais pesa para os dois em relação ao pai Lenny, e talvez seja a repetição dessa infância que vemos agora na tela: um pai relapso na educação que cria filhos também relapsos. Por mais que Wendy e Jon queiram ajudar, lamentam mais a morte do pai, do que desejam que continue vivo. E é quando a morte chega que conseguimos finalmente traçar alguma semelhança com a história. É fato: isso pode, um dia, acontecer com todos nós, e então teremos de lidar também com nossos pais e, posteriormente, receber a ajuda dos filhos. É na sutileza do final que reside a tentativa de se resgatar a vida e aceitá-la, mesmo que difícil.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>A </em><em>Família</em><em> Savage</em> marca a união de dois dos melhores atores de sua geração, Laura Linney e Philip Seymour Hoffman deixam a tela pesada. Não existe sentimento, por mais simples que seja, que encontra representação simples nestes atores. Tudo sempre leva, como o tema do filme, uma carga gigantesca de força e aqui as piadas não adiantam de nada. O filme continua sempre, até o fim, um relato triste e sombrio sobre os caminhos da vida e da morte.</p>
<p><a href="http://cinerosebudd.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/savages-poster.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-430" style="border:0 none;margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;" src="http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/savages-poster.jpg?w=60" alt="" width="66" height="106" /></a><strong>A Família Savage (The Savages. 2007, EUA)<br />
Direção: Tamara Jenkins<br />
Roteiro: Tamara Jenkins<br />
Elenco: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, Tonye Patano<br />
Duração: 114 min.<br />
<a href="http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thesavages" target="_blank">www.foxsearchlight.com/thesavages</a></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Because He Would Win, That's Why]]></title>
<link>http://nerdcred.wordpress.com/?p=18</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ericmbee</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nerdcred.wordpress.com/?p=18</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After watching &#8220;Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War&#8221; with my lovely wife, I&#8217;m convinced of ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After watching "Charlie Wilson's War" with my lovely wife, I'm convinced of one thing and one thing only:</p>
<p>I would pay money to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman fistfight a bear wearing his costume from this film.</p>
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<p>This goes back to a comment made when "Boogie Nights" came out and, in film class at an accredited university, we had a 20-minute discussion about which character from the film would win in a fight versus a bear.</p>
<p><a href="http://nerdcred.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/hoffman.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20" src="http://nerdcred.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/hoffman.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="210" /></a></p>
<p>I won.</p>
<p>Oh, and the movie was very well made.  Aaron Sorkin wrote it, so it still has that "everything they do is important" feel that all his stuff seems to have, whether the maniacal energy of the White House or the maniacal energy of a late-night comedy show or the maniacal energy of a sports show.  I'd love to see him and Mamet team up to write something.  I'd imagine it to be ten men running around in a circle (two of which are Joe Mantegna and Ricky Jay), chests puffed out, screaming "fuck" a lot.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Felicidade]]></title>
<link>http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/?p=380</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alecs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[
Sabe aquele sentimento do tipo &#8220;por que não fiz isso antes&#8221;. Foi exatamente assim que ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Sabe aquele sentimento do tipo "por que não fiz isso antes". Foi exatamente assim que me senti após assistir <em>Felicidade</em>, de Todd Solondz, lançado no distante 1998. O filme fez alarde em festivais independentes e até ganhou alguns prêmios, mas quem disse que há dez anos atrás eu sabia da existência de cinema independente? Como sempre, a base cinematográfica de qualquer adolescente é o cinema mais comercial, filmes mais atrativos para a idade, mais movimentados, para competir com os hormônios. Engraçado como as coisas mudam, hoje <em>Felicidade</em> está na minha lista de melhores filmes dos anos 90 e sério candidato a figurar entre os melhores que já vi. O título sugere uma coisa simples, talvez, mas é exatamente na falta da tal felicidade que está centrada a lente de Solondz. A questão é básica: o que é felicidade para cada uma dessas pessoas? Mas, atenção, para não acabar com a sua felicidade, se você ainda não viu o filme, pare por aqui.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Começamos com um casal em um restaurante, Joy Jordan (Jane Adams) escuta poucas e boas após terminar o relacionamento com Andy (Jon Lovitz) Em seguida conhecemos Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman), um acara de meia idade com taras por sexo via telefone que não dá a mínima para sua vizinha gordinha Kristina (Camryn Manheim), mas é apaixonado pela outra vizinha, a escritora Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle). Ele se trata com o Dr. Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), um pai de família pedófilo, acima de qualquer suspeita, casado com Trish (Cynthia Stevenson). Trish está preocupada com a separação dos pais Lenny (Ben Gazzara) e Mona (Louise Lasser), com a vida das irmãs Joy e Helen, mas, não dá muita atenção ao filho de 11 anos Billy (Rufus Read), cheio de dúvidas sobre sexo.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Agora, tudo isso se passa com figuras comuns da vida americana, em uma história trazida às telas pouco tempo antes de <em>Beleza</em><em> </em><em>Americana</em>. A vida no subúrbio era um assunto caindo de maduro e Solondz o traduz como um filme lento, com diálogos crus e verdadeiros que dez anos depois ainda tem a mesma força e a mesma posição. O que parece claro é que, não importa o tipo de vida que se leve, a felicidade é sempre subjetiva e está sujeita a uma série de fatores que, combinados, produzem este tal sentimento difícil de ser filmado. Solondz consegue se fazer entender pela constante ironia e sutileza que utiliza até nas cenas mais difíceis. Existe sempre uma imagem ou uma palavra para deixar a contradição e o sarcasmo no ar. O filme teve certo problema de distribuição por tratar de assuntos polêmicos, o que não impediu de ser relativamente cultuado como os outros filmes do diretor.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Talvez a história mais trágica seja a de Bill Maplewood, pedófilo que abusa sexualmente de dois colegas de escola do filho Billy. Ao longo do filme seu filho insiste nas conversas sobre sua intimidade com perguntas que vão da simples curiosidade à terrível incerteza da idade. As respostas do pai são sempre muito bem compostas, sem o menor constrangimento, e sempre carregadas com um interesse velado: "Quer que eu te mostre?". Para comprovar que existe uma barreira separando a relações de pedofilia e paternidade, em uma das últimas cenas do filme Billy confronta o pai e pergunta o que ele fez e como se sentiu, e se faria de novo com seu próprio filho. Esta cena (no video abaixo), talvez seja a que aborda a pedofilia com a maior sinceridade e também com a maior tensão da história do cinema. É também uma das cenas mais fortes que já vi, com certeza deve ter sido muito difícil fazê-la, pelo assunto que continha, pela atmosfera que criou e, por ser o atestado de desconstrução da família, provando que nem sempre essa instituição é sinônimo de alegria ou felicidade, principalmente na América.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">No entanto, ao chegar ao final de todas as histórias, um almoço se desenrola na mesa da sala da família Jordan, agora na Flórida. O pai e a mãe não dão sinal de mudança, as três irmãs continuam um tanto quanto perdidas. Claramente, para Solondz, a felicidade pode ser de vários tipos e depende também da idade e do universo que ela cria para cada um. Para ele o tempo pode ser o agente que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, vai ativar a mudança de um tipo de vida para outra. Apenas o pequeno Billy parece se encontrar, na sacada, de olho na piscina ele consegue o que vinha tentando desde o inicio do filme. Chega na sala, realmente feliz, e dispara a boa notícia: "Gozei". Bons tempos aqueles, a felicidade realmente existia aos 11 anos.</p>
<p><a href="http://cinerosebudd.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/happinessxx3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-382" style="border:0 none;margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;" src="http://cinerosebudd.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/happinessxx3.jpg?w=62" alt="" width="76" height="119" /></a><strong>Felicidade (Happiness. 1998, EUA)<br />
Direção: Todd Solondz<br />
Roteiro: Todd Solondz<br />
Elenco: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Cynthia Stevenson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jon Lovitz, Jane Adams, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser, Molly Shannon, Rufus Read<br />
Duração: 131 min.<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612</a></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Hipster Runoff recognises geopolitikalism in clothes]]></title>
<link>http://shitthreadsnofriends.wordpress.com/?p=871</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mileswestwood</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shitthreadsnofriends.wordpress.com/?p=871</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Usually I&#8217;d never get into the words of others, yet HRO is making a point, actually giving soc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Usually I'd never get into the words of others, <a href="http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/07/this-outfit-is-social-commentary-about.html">yet HRO is making a point</a>, actually giving social-fucking-commentary in the only way he can. It is like when kids who have parents that don't give a shit eat ice-cream, it melts, goes all over their face, in their hair and basically on anything within a radius double the length of the sprogs arms - we're talking a fucking mess that makes people gag.</p>
<p>His point, threads matter.</p>
<p>One of the many questions posed by the outfit below captured by <a href="http://facehunter.blogspot.com/2008/07/gothenburg-on-street-grnsakstorg-haga.html">FH</a>...<br />
Will we all ever co-exist and learn to live and love each other?</p>
<p>What post-modern nod to reformative social plans created under a Marxist ideal in the cold light of existentialism have you hung from your nimble hips today to extenuate the betty credentials held by your thighs?</p>
<p><img src="http://shitthreadsnofriends.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/hro.jpg" alt="" width="497" height="637" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-872" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA["LA   NARIZ"   DE   GÓGOL]]></title>
<link>http://misiglo.wordpress.com/?p=468</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jjulio</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El día 10 de julio escribí en Mi Siglo sobre Hoffman y la  mágica invención. Comentaba &#8220;E]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:1cm;margin:0 0 6pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/nariz-2-marc-chagall-homenaje-a-gogol-momaorg.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-268" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/nariz-2-marc-chagall-homenaje-a-gogol-momaorg.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="389" /></a>El día 10 de julio escribí en <strong>Mi Siglo</strong> sobre <strong>Hoffman</strong> y la  mágica invención. Comentaba "<strong>El puchero de</strong> <strong>oro"</strong> y me refería a 1813. Veintidós años después, en 1835, el escritor ruso <strong>Nicolás Gógol</strong>  publica <em><strong>La nariz</strong></em> dentro de los <em><strong>Cuentos de San</strong> <strong>Petersburgo</strong></em> (en donde también aparece  su celebérrimo <em><strong>El abrigo</strong></em>) y  da un salto imaginativo enormemente audaz, adelantándose más de un siglo a las aperturas fantásticas de un <strong>García Márquez</strong>.  <strong>Hoffman</strong> lograba la mágica invención en la literatura alemana  y <strong>Gógol </strong> la conseguía  en la literatura rusa. El relato de<strong> Gógol</strong> es sencilla y simplemente la desaparición súbita de una nariz.</span></span></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:42pt 2cm 6pt;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><em><span>    " </span><strong>Iván Yakovlevich,</strong> por razón de decencia - </em>escribe<em> <strong>Gógol </strong>-, se puso el frac sobre la camisa y, habiendo tomado asiento a la mesa, echó sal, preparó dos cabezas de cebolla, tomó el cuchillo y, después de hacer una mueca significativa, se dispuso a cortar el pan. Una vez que hubo partido el pan en dos pedazos miró al centro y, con asombro, vio algo que brillaba. <strong>Iván Yakovlevich</strong> lo limpió cuidadosamente y lo examinó con los dedos.</em></span></span></span></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:0 2cm 6pt;"><em><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>     </span>‑¡Está duro! ‑se dijo‑ ¿Qué podrá ser?</span></span></span></em></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:0 2cm 48pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><em><span lang="ES-TRAD"><span>     </span>Metió los dedos y se quedó helado: ¡una nariz!...; sus manos se apartaron, empezó a frotarse los ojos y a tocarla: una nariz, en efecto, una nariz, y hasta le parecía que fuese de un conocido. (..) sabía que la nariz era del asesor colegiado <strong>Kovalev</strong>, a quien afeitaba los jueves y domingos."</span></em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:1cm;margin:0 0 6pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Y <strong>Gógol,</strong> tras describir cómo el asustado barbero <strong>Iván Yakovlevich</strong> se despren<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/gogol-2-centros5pnticmeces.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-269" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/gogol-2-centros5pnticmeces.jpg?w=238" alt="" width="238" height="300" /></a></span></span>de de la nariz arrojándola al río, pasa a contar con toda naturalidad lo que le sucede a su vez al mayor <strong>Kovalev,</strong> que se ha quedado sin nariz:</span></span></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:42pt 2cm 6pt;"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:200%;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>     "</span>Así el lector podrá juzgar ya la situación de este mayor cuando se encontró en vez de su nariz, bastante aceptable y regular, por otra parte, con un estúpido sitio liso y plano.</span></span></em></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:0 2cm 6pt;"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:200%;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>     </span>Como, por desgracia, no hubiera ni un cochero en la calle y se viese obligado a ir a pie, se envolvió la cara en su capote, y, con el rostro cubierto con el pañuelo, al verlo daba la impresión de que tenía sangre.</span></span></em></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="margin:0 2cm 48pt;"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:200%;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>     </span>“A lo mejor me lo ha parecido a mí así: no es posible que haya perdido la nariz tontamente”, pensó, y de modo intencionado penetró en una confitería con objeto de mirarse en un espejo.."</span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:1cm;margin:0 0 6pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Y <strong>Gógol </strong>prosigue impertérrito describiendo las andanzas del mayor <strong>Kovalev</strong> por la ciudad:</span></span></p>
<p class="julioojoprr2" style="line-height:190%;margin:42pt 2cm;"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:190%;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>    " </span>(...) De pronto se halló como enterrado a la puerta de una casa; en sus ojos tuvo lugar un fenómeno inexplicable: ante un portal se detenía un coche, se abrió la puerta y saltó fuera y se inclinó un señor vestido con uniforme, subiendo con presteza las escaleras. ¡Cuál no sería el terror y, al mismo tiempo el asombro de <strong>Kovalev,</strong> cuando se dio cuenta de que era su propia nariz! A la vista de ese espectáculo extraordinario le pareció que todo daba vueltas ante sus ojos; sintió que apenas podía tenerse en pie; pero se dispuso a esperar su vuelta al coche, pasara lo que pasara, aunque temblaba como febril. Dos minutos después salió la nariz, en efecto. Iba con uniforme bordado de oro, con el cuello levantado, llevaba pantalones de gamuza y una espada al costado. Por el sombrero podía deducirse que tenía el rango de consejero de Estado. Podía suponerse que iba de visita. Miró a ambos lados y gritó al cochero: “¡En marcha! ". Se sentó y partió.<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/la-nariz-de-gogol-teatro.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-270" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/la-nariz-de-gogol-teatro.jpg?w=45" alt="" width="45" height="96" /></a>"</span></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&#34;">Esto está escrito en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, como también en esa primera mitad del siglo escribe <strong>Hoffman </strong>su mágica invención. <strong>Gógol</strong> se explaya aún más : cuenta cómo esta nariz se pasea en carroza por la ciudad de <strong>San Petersburgo</strong> con uniforme de gran funcionario. El consejero <strong>Kovalev</strong> trata en vano de convencer a la nariz para que vuelva a su sitio pero no lo consigue. La audacia del escritor ruso es asombrosa y  admirable. <strong>Nabokov</strong>, en su estudio sobre <strong>Gógol</strong> (<em>Littera</em>), recuerda en este escritor  "el <em>leitmotif</em> nasal a lo largo de toda su imaginativa obra y resulta difícil -<em>dice</em> -  encontrar a cualquier otro autor que haya descrito con tanto entusiasmo olores, estornudos y ronquidos (...) Las narices gotean, las narices se mueven de forma nerviosa, a las narices se las toca cariñosa o groseramente; un borracho intenta <em>serrar</em> la nariz de otro; los hab<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;letter-spacing:0;" lang="ES-TRAD"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/el-inspector-de-gogol-escenicasunivalleeduco.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-271" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/el-inspector-de-gogol-escenicasunivalleeduco.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="221" /></a></span></span>itantes de la luna (así lo describe un loco) son Narices. El hecho de si "la fantasía engendró la nariz o la  nariz engendró la fantasía" no es esencial. Considero más razonable olvidar que la exagerada preocupación de <strong>Gógol</strong> por las narices se basaba en el hecho de que la suya fuese anormalmente larga y tratar el olfativismo de <strong>Gógol</strong>  - e incluso su propia nariz  - como una estratagema literaria relacionada con el amplio humor de las fiestas en general y con el humor nasal ruso en particular.Nosotros estamos alegres de narices o tristes de narices. El despliegue de alusiones nasales que tiene lugar en una famosa escena del <strong>Cyrano de Bergerac</strong> de <strong>Rostand </strong>no es nada comparado con los cientos de proverbios y dichos rusos que giran en torno a la nariz. <strong>Gógol</strong> había descubierto nuevos olores en la literatura (que llevaron a un nuevo "<em>escalofrío</em>"). Como reza un dicho ruso, "el hombre con la nariz más larga ve más allá"; y <strong>Gógol</strong> veía con sus narices".</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;">De cualquier modo, un ejemplo más de que la mágica y prodigiosa invención en la literatura se remonta siglos atrás, camino arriba de las novelas y de los cuentos y que en absoluto es propiedad del siglo XX. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;">(Imágenes: Marc Chagall, "<em>Homenaje a Gógol</em>".-moma.org/retrato de Gógol.-centros5.pntic.mec.es/ representación teatral de "<em>La nariz"/</em> escena de "<em>El inspector</em>", otra de las obras de Gógol.-escenicas.univable.edu.com)</span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[My Favorite All-Time Lineup (not necessarily the best)
 
1B- Jeff Bagwell
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">1B- Jeff Bagwell</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SS- Nomar Garciaparra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">C- Jason Varitek</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">CF- Ken Griffey Jr.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">RF- J.D. Drew</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">DH- Joe DiMaggio</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Roger Clemens</span></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Justin Verlander</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Cole Hamels</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Bob Feller</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Tom Glavine</span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">SP- Daisuke Matsuzaka</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">RP- Dennis Eckersley</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">CP- Trevor Hoffman</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">I have six starting pitchers, but one could be another reliever. Joe DiMaggio is at DH since Griffey is at the CF position.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A painting's journey. Lilly's Progress]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[lilly in progresslilly in progress 2
lilly in the garden
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<title><![CDATA[DVD Review: Flashback - "Rain Man"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vickyanddre</dc:creator>
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RELEASED: 1988
DIRECTOR: BARRY LEVINSON
STARRING: TOM CRUISE, DUSTIN HOFFMAN
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;"><strong>RELEASED: 1988</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;"><strong>DIRECTOR: BARRY LEVINSON</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;"><strong>STARRING: TOM CRUISE, DUSTIN HOFFMAN</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Just watched <em>“Rain Man”</em> this afternoon and we have to say, we were definitely pleasantly surprised. Not usually our type of film – you know, no action, drama, or psychological thrills (unless you want to count some exceptionally good mathematics from <strong>Dustin Hoffman</strong>) but we gave it a go and we’re glad we did. <em>“Rain Man”</em> is the story of an autistic man (<strong>Dustin Hoffman</strong>) and his cocky, money grabbing long-lost brother (<strong>Tom Cruise</strong>) and the way they relate to each other. <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;">This movie is very touching and funny and definitely worth a watch, which is why this movie gets a <strong><span style="color:#da0000;">RECCOMENDATION</span></strong> <span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;">What did we learn from this movie?? K–Mart Sucks!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Calibri;"><span style="color:#da0000;">THIS MOVIE GETS: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:small;color:#da0000;font-family:Calibri;">7/10 hearts</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Favourite Quotes]]></title>
<link>http://neurologicallydamaged.wordpress.com/?p=23</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Maybe this world is another planet&#8217;s hell.&#8221;                   ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."                                                                                            ~Aldous Huxley</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">"Go With The Flow"</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">"Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone"   ~Hunter S. Thompson</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">"It is better to be feared than to be loved."</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">~And old quote but I first heard it in Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" was one of Lestat's everlasting quotes.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet. The lesson of the '60s is that people who cared enough to do right could change history. We didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world to fight a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. We made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided. The big battles that we won cannot be reversed. We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong and scared half to death. And We Were Right." </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Abbie Hoffman</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"You just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and just do 'em. And don't bullshit. That's the thing about doin' that geurrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Abbie Hoffman</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>""Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~ A.H</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~A.H</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"Hey, Hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Anti-War Slogan</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Fred Hampton</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~A.H</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Che</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">~Erica Jung</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"The relationship between rock and revolution is granting that most musicians are a bunch of avaricious ass-sucking dogs, and most of the song writers (too), myself in many ways included. It's the form or the intention, or the implications of the music that make it interesting to the revolutionary. It's a tool and a tactic for getting children to revolt against the protoplasm that raised them and consider other forms of government, other forms of dealing with the situation. When you coordinate and liberate and release the sexuality and the minds of youth, and can twist it and change it toward a different goal and direction, via rock 'n roll, via fucking in the streets, via dope, via action, direct action ... then you can maybe push this country and we can rewrite the whole structure, based on the kind of energy released by rock 'n roll."</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>~Ed Saunders</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."<br />
~Adolf Hitler</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we’re smarter—what a joke."</strong><br />
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<description><![CDATA[ Frogger, anyone? Old-school gamers revel in nostalgia
It was the ultimate 30th birthday present for]]></description>
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It was the ultimate 30th birthday present for Rob O'Hara. His wife joined forces with friends and family in 2003 to bring a dream of his to life in the Yukon, Oklahoma, couple's backyard.<br />
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 The group converted a workshop into an arcade by painting the walls, laying black-and-white carpet and hanging decorations. The result reignited one of O'Hara's life-long passions, and the arcade now houses between 20 and 30 games.</p>
<p>"My friends love going out back, dropping a quarter into one of the machines and reliving their youth," said O'Hara, author of "Invading Spaces: A Beginner's Guide to Collecting Arcade Games."</p>
<p>As video gamers across the nation follow news this week from the E3 Media and Business Summit in Los Angeles, California, a few are wondering whether the video-gaming industry has lost an essential piece of its founding spirit.<br />
 "The problem with the industry is simply that they are trying to build this 'wow factor' -- graphics, life-like, controversial content -- which in turn limits games' replay capability," said Matt Scharboneau of Jacksonville, Florida. "So many of the games are in a story-based setting, once completed, you are done. Why play the same thing again?" Video Watch video from E3 »</p>
<p>This lack of plug-in-and-playability -- which made older, simpler games so instantly accessible -- has some gamers feeling a bit nostalgic.<br />
 Scharboneau owns four classic video-arcade games: Data East Jurassic Park, Data East Star Wars, Gottlieb Gladiators and an upright 1981 Ms. Pac-Man.</p>
<p>"Nothing beats the T-rex eating the ball, then burping," he said.</p>
<p>Andrea Rane of Columbia, Missouri, refuses to play anything but old-school games. Her husband, Erik Hoffman, had eight systems until just recently. He saved all of them from the time he was a kid, including two Atari consoles, an original NES, a Super Nintendo and a Coleco Vision.</p>
<p>"I just think a lot of the games that are being released today don't have the same playability," Hoffman said. "Even a game like Frogger is a complex puzzle." iReport.com: What's your favorite all-time game?</p>
<p>For other gamers like Jonathan Stanley, video games of the past are simply a part of who he is. Stanley and best friend Michael Tilly used to play all the time with Stanley's then-brand-new Odyssey 2 game system when they were boys in 1979.</p>
<p>"If nothing else, that old gaming system got me interested in computers, very interested," said Stanley, who lives in Anthony, Florida. "In 1980, I took my first computer course at school on a TRS-80 Model I, and it was love at first sight."<br />
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<p>Today, Mike and Jonathan are still friends, and both have careers in the computer field.</p>
<p>"It's amazing how something as simple as playing some almost-laughable games almost 30 years ago could have led us down the path to where we are today," Stanley said.<br />
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/07/16/oldschool.games/index.html</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey just getting started this Monday morning.  A lot is on the plate for today.  A lot of work needs completed.   My goals are set and I am ready to go for this week!  Looking forward to my lunch with Danny Hoffman today and kicking out some of the design pieces for Christian Life Community Church.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Children of Police, Firefighters Awarded $21,000 in Scholarships]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;If someone who not only saves lives but also boosts community spi]]></description>
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<p>"If someone who not only saves lives but also boosts community spirit isn't a hero, then I don't know who is."</p>
<p>That's what Joseph Wayne Pavlisko, a recent graduate of Kirtland High School in Kirtland, Ohio, had to say about his father, a firefighter and paramedic with the South Euclid fire department.</p>
<p>Joseph was this year's first place, $10,000 winner in the National Burglar &#38; Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA) Youth Scholarship Program. The NBFAA Youth Scholarship Program provides $21,000 in scholarships annually to children of police officers and firefighters. Applicants are judged on their academic achievements, community activities and essay written about their law enforcement or firefighter parent. To date, NBFAA has awarded more than $270,000 in scholarships.</p>
<p>To achieve this honor, Joseph first won the Ohio Burglar &#38; Fire Alarm Association Youth Scholarship Program and then competed with other state winners from around the country for the national prize.</p>
<p>In his essay, he said nothing changed his view of his father more than the events of September 11, 2001.</p>
<p>"At the time, I had no clue what the World Trade Centers were. I didn't understand the mammoth tragedy that had just shaken the American people to their core. I didn't appreciate the newfound patriotism the USA would unearth within itself. But for the first time in my life, I realized just how important, how absolutely essential, firefighters are to our society," Joseph wrote.</p>
<p>His father, Joseph, Sr., described his son as very brave, recounting the time he left for Germany for a year at age 15 as part of a foreign exchange program.</p>
<p>"I didn't want him to go because I thought he was too young but he persisted and we agreed. He went to Germany not knowing a lick of German and returned a year later fluent in the language," said Joseph, Sr.</p>
<p>His bravery and independence continue to be strong traits as Joseph will be attending the University of Alabama in the fall - nearly 800 miles away from his family.</p>
<p>"He's braver than I am," his father said. "I love him, I'm proud of him and I can't wait to see what he does."</p>
<p>The second place winner, Mallory Horner of Asheboro, N.C., will receive a $7,500 scholarship from NBFAA. Mallory is a graduate of Eastern Randolph High School and has been accepted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her father, Eric Hoffman, is a North Carolina State Trooper and Chief of the East Side Fire Department in Randolph County.</p>
<p>Emilee Geedey of Lewistown, Pa. took third place in the Youth Scholarship Program, winning a $2,500 scholarship. She is a graduate of the Lewiston Area High School where her father, Richard Geedey, is a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper.</p>
<p>In addition to the NBFAA scholarship, each state winner receives a scholarship from their individual state association. Students who reside in states without a chartered NBFAA chapter or in a state with a non-participating state association submit their applications directly to the NBFAA, which chooses one applicant to compete against the state winners as the national nominee. This year, NBFAA chose Alyssa Rosson, a graduate of Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, as their national nominee and awarded her a $1,000 scholarship for her acheivements.</p>
<p><em><strong>About NBFAA</strong><br />
NBFAA, a non-profit 501(c) 6 trade association, is the nation's oldest and largest organization dedicated to representing, promoting, and supporting the electronic life safety, security, and systems industry. Member companies specialize in a wide spectrum of services to commercial and residential consumers, including security and fire alarms, video surveillance, access control and monitoring. In cooperation with a federation of state associations, NBFAA provides government advocacy and delivers timely information, professional development tools, products and services that members use to grow and prosper their businesses. The NBFAA may be reached at (888) 447-1689 or on the Web at <a href="http://www.alarm.org/" target="_new">www.alarm.org</a>.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://newsblaze.com/story/20080711184039zzzz.nb/topstory.html" target="_blank">Link</a></p>
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&#8220;El estudiante Anselmo se encontró ante la puerta a las doce en punto. Al llegar dirigió la]]></description>
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<p><em>"El estudiante Anselmo se encontró ante la puerta a las doce en punto. Al llegar dirigió la mirada al grueso llamador de bronce; pero cuando, al sonar la última campanada en el reloj de la iglesia próxima, se disponía a cogerlo para llamar, se encontró con que el rostro metálico le dirigía una mirada aviesa al tiempo que una sonrisa asquerosa. ¡Era el rostro de la vendedora de manzanas de la Puerta Negra! Los dientes afilados castañeaban en la boca fláccida, y al castañear decían: "¡Estúpido...,estúpido...,estúpido...., espera un poco, espera! ¿Por qué has salido, estúpido?" Asustado, el estudiante se echó hacia atrás; quiso coger la jamba de la puerta; pero su mano se agarró al cordón de la campanilla, que sonó repetidas veces de un modo extraño, y en toda la casa el eco repetía : "¡Pronto caerás en cristal!" El estudiante se sintió acometido de un terror que le produjo el frío de la fiebre. El cordón de la campanilla se inclinó hacia abajo, convirtiéndose en una serpiente blanca y transparente que le rodeaba y le oprimía cada vez más fuerte en sus contorsiones, hasta que los miembros tiernos, triturados, se rompieron en pedazos, y de sus venas brotó la sangre, penetrando en el cuerpo transparente de la serpiente y poniéndole a él al rojo vivo.  !¡Mátame, mátame!", quería gritar aterrorizado; pero sólo conseguía articular un sonido ronco. La serpiente levantó la cabeza y dirigió su afilada lengua desde la tierra al pecho de Anselmo, y entonces él sintió un agudísimo dolor en el pulso y perdió el conocimiento. Cuando volvió en sí estaba en su modesta cama, y a su lado el pasante Paulmann, le</em> <em>decía:</em></p>
<p>- <em>Por amor de Dios, querido Anselmo, ¿qué extravagancias son esas?".</em></p>
<p>No estamos ante el realismo mágico ni ante el moderno itinerario hacia  una  gran experimentación.  Tampoco ante un sueño. Estamos en septiembre de 1813 cuando el escritor - y compositor- alemán<strong> Ernst</strong> <strong>Theodor Amadeus</strong> <strong>Hoffman</strong> escribe su cuento "<strong>El puchero de oro</strong> ". Lo empezará en septiembre y lo acabará en febrero de 1814. "Una estrella  particular  - <em>dirá <strong>E.T.A. Hoffman</strong></em> - reina sobre mí en ciertos momentos importantes y mezcla con la realidad cosas fabulosas, en las que nadie cree, y que a menudo me parecen brotadas de lo más profundo de mí mismo. Pero enseguida adquieren fuera de mí un valor distinto y se convierten en los símbolos místicos de esa categoría de lo maravilloso que, a cada instante, en la vida se ofrece a nuestra mirada". Aquí está la confesión de toda su literatura. "<strong>El puchero de oro"</strong> transcurre en la ciudad de <strong>Dresde</strong> y por sus calles el estudiante Anselmo sale a pasear por la Puerta<a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/csscanueces-ballet-con-musica-de-tchaokovski-petersburgoin.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-237" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/csscanueces-ballet-con-musica-de-tchaokovski-petersburgoin.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="172" /></a> Negra. Todo lo que sucede en ese libro tiene un doble significado: la vieja vendedora de manzanas que maldice al estudiante Anselmo porque le ha tirado su cesta, es una bruja hechicera; las tres doradas serpientes que hablan al estudiante mientras éste se encuentra  tumbado bajo el árbol sauco, son las hijas del archivero Lindhorst; el archivero, a su vez, es una salamandra. En ocasiones las trasmutaciones son tan extrañas que la vieja es simplemente una cafetera o se convierte en el llamador de bronce de la casa del archivero.</p>
<p>¿No estamos, en la primera decada del siglo XlX,  con una audacia literaria total, muy por encima de los aciertos que luego traerán algunas novelas del XX? <strong>Hoffman</strong> nos dice que si el archivero es una salamandra, su padre es una pluma vieja y su madre una zanahoria despreciable. En este cuento hay hombres que parecen buhos y hombrecillos que son papagayos mientras las mujeres son serpentinas. En <strong>Hoffman</strong> se integra el mundo irreal dentro de la realidad y se  logra que irrumpa lo insólito en la vida cotidiana. En 1803 se había preguntado en su "<strong>Diario</strong>": "¿ Habré nacido para pintor o para músico?". Como ayer comentaba en <strong>Mi Siglo</strong> al hablar d<a href="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/hoffman-1-uploadwikinediaorg.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-238" src="http://misiglo.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/hoffman-1-uploadwikinediaorg.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="227" /></a>e las "vocaciones múltiples", <strong>Hoffman</strong> se volcó en la escritura y también en la música. "<strong>Cascanueces</strong>" y muchas otras de sus obras fueron llevadas  a los  escenarios y transformadas en célebres ballets.</p>
<p>Como él había escrito en "<strong>Opiniones del Gato Murr</strong>", "las maravillas mayores acontecen en el interior del hombre, y pueden ser expresadas excelsamente por las palabras, los olores, las formas y los sonidos".</p>
<p>(<em>Imágenes: "Cascanueces", ballet basado en un cuento de Hoffman, música de Tchaikovsky.-petersburgo.info/ retrato de E.T.A. Hoffman</em>)</p>
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