A long wait
After the success of the meeting with Paolo Gulisano (thanks again to all of us!) I break the silence on our blogs,
[...] but I fear that this silence will continue it for a while-at least-as all our creativity will be focused on Stop and think, the European competition for short films which will participate with the 'Accademia dei Ponti .
This post is just to return the call and a first update:
November 3, 2007. Productive evening in the hills of Florence: he was born the story for the short! Thanks to Matthew and the family who hosted us Menduni (with the little group of Genoa) in this creative moment.
Detto questo, ecco il bando:
The theme for the 2008 Cine Forum Europa competition is:
Stop and think
Fermati a pensare.
Párate a pensar.
Halte an und denke nach.
Arrête-toi et réflechis.
Closing date for submissions: 1st March 2008 .
Info
Cine Forum Europa challenges young people to explore important questions about human values through an activity of film-making in their club. Involving clubs from across Europe, it offers the prospect of a fascinating cultural adventure for the young people involved. It is a truly international project and a great educational challenge. It aims to embrace the people, culture and languages of all European countries.
Each year Cine Forum has a special theme for all its activities. The theme for 2007 is "Dare to be free", while the 2008 theme is "Stop and think". The theme is of central importance, as the forum is not just about watching or making films: it is about ideas, and how one can talk about them in the world today.
The film should seek to explore the theme with daring and creativity, and strive to combine entertainment with a real effort to engage the audience on the level of ideas. Films can be video or animation, or a combination of both, and should be between 12 and 22 minutes in duration. Best of luck!
Languages
To reflect our international spirit, clubs participating in the film and animation competition are asked to create subtitles for their films in two European languages other than their own. In this way the young people involved gain a wider understanding of not only the different languages in Europe, but also the people that use them. In this way language learning can be fun! Participants also gain a deeper knowledge of the use of language in films and how ideas can be expressed through this medium. Moreover, by seeking assistance to create the subtitles from their club leaders, teachers and parents they further widen the community involved in this rewarding endeavour.
On a practical level, having a number of language options available for each film means that other clubs can understand them, as well as the international film jury made up of personnel working in media and film.
Who is the forum for?
The forum is open to clubs providing academic, cultural and spiritual formation to schoolboys aged 13–18 years olds. Specific Cine Forum activities may be aimed at narrower age groups (currently the film competition only caters for 13-15 year olds).
Who runs the forum?
The forum is run by a founding panel of youth clubs, who share a common ethos. Spiritual formation provided in these clubs is entrusted to Opus Dei, a personal Prelature of the Catholic Church (see www.opusdei.org for more information).
Clubs are Encouraged to do a lot of conceptual work with groups before Their scripting. Should the groups investigated in depth and discuss the theme What It Means to Them in today's world. To help along Them, They Could watch movies related to the theme for instance, or research it in the local library or online.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Horse Trailer License
Meeting with Paolo Gulisano (!)
place following the final program of the meeting with Paolo Gulisano .[...] This is the official text published accademiadeiponti.it :
The Academy of Bridges and the authors of the blog writing around you invite to a meeting with Paolo Gulisano, a leading Italian expert JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis .
The meeting will take place Friday, October 19, at 18:15, at the Accademia dei Ponti and is aimed at high school students.
The author will present his latest book underlining the deep relationship between the language of fantastic Narnia and Middle Earth and the story is real and concrete of the White Pellegrino .
This is the flyer instead
place following the final program of the meeting with Paolo Gulisano .[...] This is the official text published accademiadeiponti.it :
The Academy of Bridges and the authors of the blog writing around you invite to a meeting with Paolo Gulisano, a leading Italian expert JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis .
The meeting will take place Friday, October 19, at 18:15, at the Accademia dei Ponti and is aimed at high school students.
The author will present his latest book underlining the deep relationship between the language of fantastic Narnia and Middle Earth and the story is real and concrete of the White Pellegrino .
This is the flyer instead
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Cancer Awareness Ribbon For Throat Cancer
Is Mine my mind. III episode (magazine)
It was not possible. Had told them. Maxwell, the assistant of Antonius, was running along the corridor, while a metallic voice repeating "How collectivization of conscience started. Receipt of brain waves. Ten minutes to go. " [...] Ten minutes, he repeated Maxwell. Too little. It was not to happen. At last he reached the door, but did not enter immediately. Inside was listening to Beethoven's ninth symphony. Music from the key decisions. She shuddered with fear. The head seemed ready for anything, and why risk his life? Drove the thought. It was not a coward. What would Mary say otherwise? He gripped the handle firmly, and opened it. Antonius was sitting smugly at the desk, while the machine was throbbing slowly to his left.
-I've been waiting, Max-
can not do so, we have already spoken. You had to destroy it.
-why you want to destroy the progress, Max, why?
-why progress should be subordinate to men. You have taught me.
-was a long time ago ... the ideas are changing. But now I am determined. I've seen the future.
-okay. I'll try another way.
Maxwell pulled out a gun, took off the safety and pointed it at his head.
- this, boss, it's time for important decisions. Disable the process, and it will be business as usual. I will forget this madness, and start again. A new project, a measure of a man this time. Otherwise I'll kill you.
-I die, I'm not afraid. Willingly serve the Cause.
-as the cause, if it's all in your head. The contribution to the progress of every man must be free.
No one can be conditioned. Treat people as if they were to put personal computers in the network. But the man is something infinitely greater.
-you're not a scientist. Are you a poet - he said almost with disgust - I do not know why I assumed.
- perhaps because we are very close ... we're both idealists. But you have chosen the wrong path. Forgive me, boss.
and fired. The bullet cut the air, bringing its cargo of death, and finally by Antonius, who had remained impassive.
No! Had deceived him! A hologram! I should have realized ... then a shot behind him made him turn. Antonius was, at gunpoint. That's true. We've tried, "he said. And fired.
looked at the bloody corpse at his feet. Good boy, but he was wrong to challenge him. Then he looked at his watch. Another eight seconds. Then the machine turns on, and he fell to the ground, lifeless. Like every other person on the planet.
It was not possible. Had told them. Maxwell, the assistant of Antonius, was running along the corridor, while a metallic voice repeating "How collectivization of conscience started. Receipt of brain waves. Ten minutes to go. " [...] Ten minutes, he repeated Maxwell. Too little. It was not to happen. At last he reached the door, but did not enter immediately. Inside was listening to Beethoven's ninth symphony. Music from the key decisions. She shuddered with fear. The head seemed ready for anything, and why risk his life? Drove the thought. It was not a coward. What would Mary say otherwise? He gripped the handle firmly, and opened it. Antonius was sitting smugly at the desk, while the machine was throbbing slowly to his left.
-I've been waiting, Max-
can not do so, we have already spoken. You had to destroy it.
-why you want to destroy the progress, Max, why?
-why progress should be subordinate to men. You have taught me.
-was a long time ago ... the ideas are changing. But now I am determined. I've seen the future.
-okay. I'll try another way.
Maxwell pulled out a gun, took off the safety and pointed it at his head.
- this, boss, it's time for important decisions. Disable the process, and it will be business as usual. I will forget this madness, and start again. A new project, a measure of a man this time. Otherwise I'll kill you.
-I die, I'm not afraid. Willingly serve the Cause.
-as the cause, if it's all in your head. The contribution to the progress of every man must be free.
No one can be conditioned. Treat people as if they were to put personal computers in the network. But the man is something infinitely greater.
-you're not a scientist. Are you a poet - he said almost with disgust - I do not know why I assumed.
- perhaps because we are very close ... we're both idealists. But you have chosen the wrong path. Forgive me, boss.
and fired. The bullet cut the air, bringing its cargo of death, and finally by Antonius, who had remained impassive.
No! Had deceived him! A hologram! I should have realized ... then a shot behind him made him turn. Antonius was, at gunpoint. That's true. We've tried, "he said. And fired.
looked at the bloody corpse at his feet. Good boy, but he was wrong to challenge him. Then he looked at his watch. Another eight seconds. Then the machine turns on, and he fell to the ground, lifeless. Like every other person on the planet.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Who Wears Plastic Pants
Is Mine my mind? III episode
But his assistant was not one to be dazzled by these dreams. He understood, of course, that Antonius could [...] passion for this project, there was good. What man chooses evil? But it was not convinced. But he sensed that it was not the right way, you could not play this way with the interior of every man, that progress must be pursued with commitment and single free of every man. Men who would never have been subject to progress. So it was that went before him and explained his ideas. The search had to be abandoned. The car was destroyed. Now. But Antonius could not understand why. So it was that killed him. Without hesitation. He did it because he could not afford obstacles to his plan. Moreover, the price of a life, how much would you benefit? But with regard to remorse, was not a murderess, and persecuted until death.
But his assistant was not one to be dazzled by these dreams. He understood, of course, that Antonius could [...] passion for this project, there was good. What man chooses evil? But it was not convinced. But he sensed that it was not the right way, you could not play this way with the interior of every man, that progress must be pursued with commitment and single free of every man. Men who would never have been subject to progress. So it was that went before him and explained his ideas. The search had to be abandoned. The car was destroyed. Now. But Antonius could not understand why. So it was that killed him. Without hesitation. He did it because he could not afford obstacles to his plan. Moreover, the price of a life, how much would you benefit? But with regard to remorse, was not a murderess, and persecuted until death.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Rashi Astrology Start With A
Is Mine my mind? II bet
[...] fact we saw immediately that the minds, rather than being tuned, could merge into a super, from the endless capabilities. And Antonius was not the type to stop in front of moral issues, because, as one might rise due to this being, who had two bodies and one mind? And so his search went on until it reached a milestone never thought of before: he could trace all the signals coming from the mental world are used to melt any human mind into a single, vast collective consciousness. It was his eyes that to which humanity had ever driven, since ancient times. It was the perfect world without wars, inequalities and injustices. A world where every person could have been fully realized in consciousness, and be happy. A consciousness that had no barriers, which would be used for neuron to neuron prosperity and progress.
[...] fact we saw immediately that the minds, rather than being tuned, could merge into a super, from the endless capabilities. And Antonius was not the type to stop in front of moral issues, because, as one might rise due to this being, who had two bodies and one mind? And so his search went on until it reached a milestone never thought of before: he could trace all the signals coming from the mental world are used to melt any human mind into a single, vast collective consciousness. It was his eyes that to which humanity had ever driven, since ancient times. It was the perfect world without wars, inequalities and injustices. A world where every person could have been fully realized in consciousness, and be happy. A consciousness that had no barriers, which would be used for neuron to neuron prosperity and progress.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Couple That Have The Same Birthday
Is Mine my mind? I bet.
The man's name was Antonius. His father perhaps cruelty, perhaps for the vein of madness that ran in his family for generations, had called him so. But he had always hated that name, and now, now that was a step away from success now that the years of sacrifice and ridicule could be repaid, he hesitated. [...] It all began on 21 February of a distant, when an amazing how crazy the idea flashed in my mind. Without going into laborious technicalities of a student of bioelectronics, he knew that each human mind transmitted waves, like a radio or a computer.
If he had managed to tune the frequencies of the minds of two scientists, for a short time their intellect would have increased exponentially, allowing great discoveries.
But his invention had a much broader ...
The man's name was Antonius. His father perhaps cruelty, perhaps for the vein of madness that ran in his family for generations, had called him so. But he had always hated that name, and now, now that was a step away from success now that the years of sacrifice and ridicule could be repaid, he hesitated. [...] It all began on 21 February of a distant, when an amazing how crazy the idea flashed in my mind. Without going into laborious technicalities of a student of bioelectronics, he knew that each human mind transmitted waves, like a radio or a computer.
If he had managed to tune the frequencies of the minds of two scientists, for a short time their intellect would have increased exponentially, allowing great discoveries.
But his invention had a much broader ...
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Male “brazilian Wax Jobs
Monday, June 18, 2007
Need This Brent Corrigan
Harry Potter is about to end
Dear Friends, we mark the opening of a blog at which I point here . The name is 7pietre7stelle.
Dear Friends, we mark the opening of a blog at which I point here . The name is 7pietre7stelle.
The purpose of the blog is in a nutshell: try to guess the end of Harry Potter 7, and discuss it with other readers, offering arguments in support of the proposals.
will try to reach a solution based on our powers of observation and according to the rigor of logic.
will be fun to check in late July, we had guessed what and what not.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Many Units Bottle Cactus Jacks
I'm Sicilian. The rose without thorns
Hello. After more than a month published a new blog post. I wonder if you remember the song I'm Sicilian, pubblicai your blog che ormai questo ben di più a anno fa. Qualche tempo fa è stato anche di stampato its a centinaio Maglietta.
Adesso hanno tradotto in inglese it! So what, seeded buffo, ma per me è stato a onore, e quindi il brano command vi ... suona bene. non trovato?
A presto Luigi -----
There's some English in my blood that makes it run with a vehemence instinctive. A kind of strength that can become uncover that feeds violence but always with a deep sense of honor.
In my eyes there is a remote antiquity, a smug look toward the new that he considers it a secular disenchantment.
In my soul there is a indole Araba, clinging to the senses, careful to the occasion. There is an ancient
suspicion evening, facing all the prejudice that every man is by nature con.
However I do not deceive anyone.
am a link builder, real relations that tied to my heart forever Nothing
oblivion.
The island where I live is a place where the sun shines so much that has become dry.
Cracked by tremors of the earth and swept by the Sirocco is straight as immovable rock in the middle of the Mediterranean.
know what it means to have a family. And I know what it means to belong.
know enough to know that poverty is related to dignity.
This land appears to be a secret that I own. Do not know how to explain it because it is a secret not revealed, is transmitted.
is something that only we know and who lives among us and would like to mention that although we would not know the make. We know and you!
can get an indication in our citrus scent.
My job is the seller's screaming their treasures. In my screams are my world. Che
songs are like talking about my Sicily. [...]
Hello. After more than a month published a new blog post. I wonder if you remember the song I'm Sicilian, pubblicai your blog che ormai questo ben di più a anno fa. Qualche tempo fa è stato anche di stampato its a centinaio Maglietta.
Adesso hanno tradotto in inglese it! So what, seeded buffo, ma per me è stato a onore, e quindi il brano command vi ... suona bene. non trovato?
A presto Luigi -----
There's some English in my blood that makes it run with a vehemence instinctive. A kind of strength that can become uncover that feeds violence but always with a deep sense of honor.
In my eyes there is a remote antiquity, a smug look toward the new that he considers it a secular disenchantment.
In my soul there is a indole Araba, clinging to the senses, careful to the occasion. There is an ancient
suspicion evening, facing all the prejudice that every man is by nature con.
However I do not deceive anyone.
am a link builder, real relations that tied to my heart forever Nothing
oblivion.
The island where I live is a place where the sun shines so much that has become dry.
Cracked by tremors of the earth and swept by the Sirocco is straight as immovable rock in the middle of the Mediterranean.
know what it means to have a family. And I know what it means to belong.
know enough to know that poverty is related to dignity.
This land appears to be a secret that I own. Do not know how to explain it because it is a secret not revealed, is transmitted.
is something that only we know and who lives among us and would like to mention that although we would not know the make. We know and you!
can get an indication in our citrus scent.
My job is the seller's screaming their treasures. In my screams are my world. Che
songs are like talking about my Sicily. [...]
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Congrat Message For Pregnant Woman
Tiep L'aria della sera l'immense faggio riscaldava nel giardino, il sole with him i suoi Raggi illuminava ultime ore of tramonto, Mentre Arry ripeteva silenzioso dolci, e docili filastrocche happiness. Il suo cuore di gioia folle pazzo e watched the air sprayed with warmth suffused his eyes darting here and there and ate love that old twisted tree ... I thought of how many times he had splashed water, pruning, how many, how many seconds after stroking its leaves and all weather, hurricanes, storms and tempests, which were torn down violent ... merciless on him!
rethink the broken branches, the effort to put back together ... remembered all the times you helped me ... endless ... but then he was happy at sunset was happy.
Take care around ... The garden was perfect!
now old and well loved beech was planted, fruit trees and scattered small giadinieri followed by others like him, Arry.
Arry knew it had been difficult, but it was worth it! When I asked
was frightened, upset and shaken, but happy to have been chosen-few-are ... did not feel able, had to abandon everything, including dreams and ambitions, but he knew that his place was there, knew it was there, he had to go and ... We sincerely wanted to go ...
At sunset he was happy ...
He looked around, looked at the flowers and then he realized at last!
It was more adult, he was a child, a small child in need of care.
Arry raised his hand ... the giant who had always helped cure her beech, who had called the gardener, who was always there beside him, hugged him and picked him up ... Arry felt at home, he was loved and was able to love with an immense love her giant ...
She looked at him and walked away with him from the garden ...
The night fell and the beech tree was lit by warm, joyful and white moonbeams, which transformed it and all its curves and bends, its nodes are straightened.
became beautiful ... like a rose without thorns.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Cojiendo A Milena Velva
Team Omega: The End?
They headed to an elevator. The heart of the agent K, behind a mask separate, leap for joy: at last could be made more useful. At last the world could change. Finally. But as soon as the sliding doors were opened, was seized with anxiety. [...] . The room in which they had entered was slowly broken down into something white. A white button, bright, almost dazzling. He looked at his guide, who was pale. "Now you know the whole truth, Agent K-started." This is not the real world. We do not exist. This is one of the myriad of universes conceived by the mind of writers, philosophers and thinkers. Indeed, every man in her life creates worlds, evolving in his mind. We too have changed. But now the mind that created us is erasing this story to make room for another, better or worse it is. It is our duty to sacrifice ourselves. " In the mind of the agent is crowding thoughts of fear, anger, grief ... "is not right - erupted at the end-I have not started my job, and already I have to die. Where is the justice in that? ". "Flip. Even if we change this world, what do you get? Do not you realize that all this is invented? The only important thing is being able to change the real people. Some of those like us, conceived by great minds, they attract men to the highest peaks of Beauty and Knowledge. Others are spending time, have fun, relax. Last are the Renegades, dragging men into the lowest depths of perdition. Now, if we are able to trigger a spark even in a player just short of our adventures, we can be satisfied. That's what counts. " He saw that he was still upset, and continued: "Now I will trust you a little secret. We do not die. First of all because we have never been alive. But mainly because we are eternal. We are ideas, K. Ideas that are taken from the beginning of human history, change, adjust. All literature is like a huge steaming cauldron, in which writers come and add ingredients, stir and eventually pull out of their soup, always different but always the same. And then, as we have been taken from other stories, so there will be a part of us in future stories. Because the ideas do not die ever. " It ended here, because White had completely absorbed. Agent K remained, alone, surrounded by this white button. He began to be decomposed. Incredibly, he felt no pain. Moreover, in his life he had never really tried. At first realized, with horror, that he had tried, and would not have never had the chance, what it meant to live. Then he remembered the words of his mentor and whispered: "I will not die." The last thing that disappeared was his smile that grew wider.
They headed to an elevator. The heart of the agent K, behind a mask separate, leap for joy: at last could be made more useful. At last the world could change. Finally. But as soon as the sliding doors were opened, was seized with anxiety. [...] . The room in which they had entered was slowly broken down into something white. A white button, bright, almost dazzling. He looked at his guide, who was pale. "Now you know the whole truth, Agent K-started." This is not the real world. We do not exist. This is one of the myriad of universes conceived by the mind of writers, philosophers and thinkers. Indeed, every man in her life creates worlds, evolving in his mind. We too have changed. But now the mind that created us is erasing this story to make room for another, better or worse it is. It is our duty to sacrifice ourselves. " In the mind of the agent is crowding thoughts of fear, anger, grief ... "is not right - erupted at the end-I have not started my job, and already I have to die. Where is the justice in that? ". "Flip. Even if we change this world, what do you get? Do not you realize that all this is invented? The only important thing is being able to change the real people. Some of those like us, conceived by great minds, they attract men to the highest peaks of Beauty and Knowledge. Others are spending time, have fun, relax. Last are the Renegades, dragging men into the lowest depths of perdition. Now, if we are able to trigger a spark even in a player just short of our adventures, we can be satisfied. That's what counts. " He saw that he was still upset, and continued: "Now I will trust you a little secret. We do not die. First of all because we have never been alive. But mainly because we are eternal. We are ideas, K. Ideas that are taken from the beginning of human history, change, adjust. All literature is like a huge steaming cauldron, in which writers come and add ingredients, stir and eventually pull out of their soup, always different but always the same. And then, as we have been taken from other stories, so there will be a part of us in future stories. Because the ideas do not die ever. " It ended here, because White had completely absorbed. Agent K remained, alone, surrounded by this white button. He began to be decomposed. Incredibly, he felt no pain. Moreover, in his life he had never really tried. At first realized, with horror, that he had tried, and would not have never had the chance, what it meant to live. Then he remembered the words of his mentor and whispered: "I will not die." The last thing that disappeared was his smile that grew wider.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Take Natral Laxitive Every Night
Why was worth that Penny Kasparov, 8 years old, ascended the hill across the valley ... The path
Hello guys, back to post on the blog after quite a while that I did. I'm still reading all your contributions, and following the stories of the Omega team, and bounty hunters. Congratulations to all. Public following a short story I've just finished writing, I hope you enjoy. The title is a bit long in the form of a question ... Waiting for comments and suggestions!
soon and Happy Easter to all
Luigi PS: In Rome, at the conference on Aristotle's Poetics, I met Peter and Alex (the latter, however, does not write to WA). Interesting reflections with Piazza Navona, on the future of fiction and philosophy ... I wonder whether, sooner or later be able to write something on the blog ...
-----
Why valse Penny worth that Kasparov, 8 years, ascended the hill across the valley to get to the house of the old Snibbs?
[...]
The house of the old Snibbs was a legend throughout the region. Few really knew him, but his figure was the result of a wide variety of stories, which over the years were fused together to draw this figure fearful and anxious. The horrid Snibbs was a tough guy: he had one eye perpetually half-closed and I peered with each other, which was large and yellowish. He had a dark past and ran through the house to himself gridacchiando unrepeatable words. Snibbs was a genius, or perhaps a magician, potions to be developed by the prodigious effects, so much so that some said was a sorcerer. In reality it probably was. He was only a garden of herbs believed to be sufficiently rare magic. He had brought himself from the lands of the East where he had traveled many years, seeing wonderful things and terrible living meetings, which had made him so feared and closed. Penny
But Kasparov did not have time to build up fantasies, since the only mother who was very ill, and would leave very early if you, Penny, had not done something.
And when the last of the five doctors had gone, he shrugged and mumbled sorry that the disease was beyond his knowledge, Penny realized that there were two possibilities. Sad sit before the fire, waiting for mom to die, or go to the old Snibbs you looked at the yellow eye, and asked a few leaves of one of its plants, the only remedy against the pneumotoxic from which her mother was suffering. In Kasparov
cabin life went on, punctuated by ball Smooders of five years, repeatedly hurled against the wall, and the agony of coughing that haunted the mother from morning to evening and overnight. Only at dawn to calm down a bit, and then the mother could speak in a low voice, feebly.
"I'll be away soon, Mom. It'll come back with the remedy. "
"Penny, take care of yourself: your life is important than my ' the mother replied in a faint voice, smiling with tears in his eyes, which shone in the face excavated.
"My life is not yet ready to go on without you." Penny finished, and glanced at Smooders asleep in the next bed, with the ball close to a hand under the pillow, left the cabin without a sound. Quick
on the path that led away from home Penny went on the reef, watching the sea and sighed: "When you get Dad? Who knows where you are, now that the mother would need you ...».
The old house was surrounded by high hedges Snibbs: Penny climbed over the gate that gave access to the garden and walked toward the door. It was a door Solid wood, with a peephole in the middle.
The peephole opened and a huge yellow eye peered out. "Who?".
Penny swallowed a couple of times. Despite the determination was really scared.
"I'm Penny Kasparov," he answered firmly.
"What do you want?"
want to speak with you, old Snibbs. The old
Snibbs opened the door with a creak, and there stood the little girl, unarmed and with a cape that made her look like Little Red Riding Hood.
"Well?" Said Snibbs after it squared with the one good eye.
Penny looked at him in the face: it was not as bad as described. He had gray hair quite long and unkempt, his face with few wrinkles, like a rich green apron dress. a pair of glasses, perched in the middle of the nose magnified in the left eye and right eye half-closed decidedly yellowish in color.
"I must ask you something: I enter?" Asked Penny, and began to take the first step beyond the threshold of the house.
"What you ask?"
"I live across the valley. I came all this way because my mother has pneumotoxic. was visited by five doctors, one of the most talented of the city and found no solution. "
"What have I to do?". Snibbs asked squinting eye.
"Do not pretend not to understand, old Snibbs: she has remedies for all evils, in his garden. What it makes of its concoctions, if you do not need to heal those who genuinely need it? "
" What do you know of my concoctions? "Replied the old man starting to speak out," What do you know me? And how dare you come to my house to insult you with that little red riding hood capes? Do you realize that I could kill you and no one would notice anything? ". She said it to scare them, it was clear immediately thought Penny, and the terror caused by the initial words eased. "I am willing to pay," she added, trying not to show fear.
'Pay? And with what money? ".
"I will work, if necessary. But I'm not leaving here until I have given the medicine. "
Snibbs looked for that little girl had liver. Slowly he walked to the shelf where they were neatly placed the jars full of medical leaves. He put a hand on the jar Tucara Erbix. "And what would you be willing to pay?"
Penny was silent for a moment: he had no idea how much things cost, then the idea was: "At least twice what you would pay to save the life of his mother. "
Snibbs taste laughed: "Little naughty that you are nothing, you think you pity me with your words? It is easy to pity the old Snibbs "and so saying, looked at his eye, studying the reactions.
Penny watched the jar of Tucara through the glass he saw the dried leaves, light brown. Few of those leaves would be enough perhaps to restore the health of his mother, and the serenity of the family. A flash of lightning flashed in the mind.
"I do not want pity, old Snibbs. I came to ask you a favor, if you do not want to do me the favor I am willing to pay. And if you do not even want to sell: be ', then go to hell. "
Penny with a lightning shot grabbed the jar of Tucara and fled from the house before the old Snibbs could nab them.
With bated breath he reached the gate and jumped the climbed. He started running down the path when a chilling cry of the Snibbs froze. "Stop." Penny stopped, panting. "You might regret what you are doing, come back immediately," cried Snibbs.
Penny thought for a moment. But between the death of his mother's wrath and the wrath of Snibbs Snibbs chose and began to run at breakneck speed. She moved her legs as fast as he could. on the path down the slope and down, until he came to the valley. The ran across, and now not holding up almost forces when he began to trace the path that led to the big cliff: this time did not look at the sea and dreamed of his father, as all time I was passing by. This time not to have another thought that the house, Mom. Cuddle the jar with the precious leaves Tucara Erbix, which now puts all that remained last hopes.
The cabin door opened with a creak, and Penny was greeted by a cough that agony.
"I'm back, Mom, I have with me the medicine." The mother smiled and said nothing, because she lacked the strength. Aided by Smooders, Penny put a pot of water on the fire, and waited to boil. He looked forward to the water in the hope that the desire to make her boil boil first.
But he was shaken by a sudden thud. The door was wide open, and rectangle light loomed the figure of the old Snibbs.
Smooders paled. Despite his five years he had heard many stories about the old Snibbs, enough to know the risk they ran all three.
Snibbs panting for the journey in a hurry. He was still wearing the green apron, and had his glasses on his nose. Shoulder carrying a gray bag.
steps on the wooden floor of the cabin sounded terrible to the ears of Smooders, and also to Penny, who had put in front of the mother to protect her. The mother was just watching from his sunken eyes, which had been covered by a flash of fear for her children.
"Little brat naughty! - Snibbs began - how absurd logic you thought Tucara would you steal that helped save your mother? Only you are so ignorant not to know that Tucara Erbix can be a lethal substance? Once or twice would be enough to breathe the fumes to leave the skin and now deviating. " In a gesture put
decided by Penny and approached the pot where the water begins to boil. Closed up and moved the jar Tucara. From his knapsack he drew two or three small jars, from which it took the leaves, which fell into the water. Within seconds the cabin was filled with a bitter smell and strange, that neither Penny nor his brother had ever heard. The old man looked Snibbs water with one good eye. Every now and then shook his head and looked at Penny. Then he lifted the kettle and placed it on the table in front of the mother. It to him gently taking her head reached the kettle from which rose a plentiful steam: "Take a deep breath," he said, in a tone that Penny had never heard.
Hello guys, back to post on the blog after quite a while that I did. I'm still reading all your contributions, and following the stories of the Omega team, and bounty hunters. Congratulations to all. Public following a short story I've just finished writing, I hope you enjoy. The title is a bit long in the form of a question ... Waiting for comments and suggestions!
soon and Happy Easter to all
Luigi PS: In Rome, at the conference on Aristotle's Poetics, I met Peter and Alex (the latter, however, does not write to WA). Interesting reflections with Piazza Navona, on the future of fiction and philosophy ... I wonder whether, sooner or later be able to write something on the blog ...
-----
Why valse Penny worth that Kasparov, 8 years, ascended the hill across the valley to get to the house of the old Snibbs?
[...]
The house of the old Snibbs was a legend throughout the region. Few really knew him, but his figure was the result of a wide variety of stories, which over the years were fused together to draw this figure fearful and anxious. The horrid Snibbs was a tough guy: he had one eye perpetually half-closed and I peered with each other, which was large and yellowish. He had a dark past and ran through the house to himself gridacchiando unrepeatable words. Snibbs was a genius, or perhaps a magician, potions to be developed by the prodigious effects, so much so that some said was a sorcerer. In reality it probably was. He was only a garden of herbs believed to be sufficiently rare magic. He had brought himself from the lands of the East where he had traveled many years, seeing wonderful things and terrible living meetings, which had made him so feared and closed. Penny
But Kasparov did not have time to build up fantasies, since the only mother who was very ill, and would leave very early if you, Penny, had not done something.
And when the last of the five doctors had gone, he shrugged and mumbled sorry that the disease was beyond his knowledge, Penny realized that there were two possibilities. Sad sit before the fire, waiting for mom to die, or go to the old Snibbs you looked at the yellow eye, and asked a few leaves of one of its plants, the only remedy against the pneumotoxic from which her mother was suffering. In Kasparov
cabin life went on, punctuated by ball Smooders of five years, repeatedly hurled against the wall, and the agony of coughing that haunted the mother from morning to evening and overnight. Only at dawn to calm down a bit, and then the mother could speak in a low voice, feebly.
"I'll be away soon, Mom. It'll come back with the remedy. "
"Penny, take care of yourself: your life is important than my ' the mother replied in a faint voice, smiling with tears in his eyes, which shone in the face excavated.
"My life is not yet ready to go on without you." Penny finished, and glanced at Smooders asleep in the next bed, with the ball close to a hand under the pillow, left the cabin without a sound. Quick
on the path that led away from home Penny went on the reef, watching the sea and sighed: "When you get Dad? Who knows where you are, now that the mother would need you ...».
The old house was surrounded by high hedges Snibbs: Penny climbed over the gate that gave access to the garden and walked toward the door. It was a door Solid wood, with a peephole in the middle.
The peephole opened and a huge yellow eye peered out. "Who?".
Penny swallowed a couple of times. Despite the determination was really scared.
"I'm Penny Kasparov," he answered firmly.
"What do you want?"
want to speak with you, old Snibbs. The old
Snibbs opened the door with a creak, and there stood the little girl, unarmed and with a cape that made her look like Little Red Riding Hood.
"Well?" Said Snibbs after it squared with the one good eye.
Penny looked at him in the face: it was not as bad as described. He had gray hair quite long and unkempt, his face with few wrinkles, like a rich green apron dress. a pair of glasses, perched in the middle of the nose magnified in the left eye and right eye half-closed decidedly yellowish in color.
"I must ask you something: I enter?" Asked Penny, and began to take the first step beyond the threshold of the house.
"What you ask?"
"I live across the valley. I came all this way because my mother has pneumotoxic. was visited by five doctors, one of the most talented of the city and found no solution. "
"What have I to do?". Snibbs asked squinting eye.
"Do not pretend not to understand, old Snibbs: she has remedies for all evils, in his garden. What it makes of its concoctions, if you do not need to heal those who genuinely need it? "
" What do you know of my concoctions? "Replied the old man starting to speak out," What do you know me? And how dare you come to my house to insult you with that little red riding hood capes? Do you realize that I could kill you and no one would notice anything? ". She said it to scare them, it was clear immediately thought Penny, and the terror caused by the initial words eased. "I am willing to pay," she added, trying not to show fear.
'Pay? And with what money? ".
"I will work, if necessary. But I'm not leaving here until I have given the medicine. "
Snibbs looked for that little girl had liver. Slowly he walked to the shelf where they were neatly placed the jars full of medical leaves. He put a hand on the jar Tucara Erbix. "And what would you be willing to pay?"
Penny was silent for a moment: he had no idea how much things cost, then the idea was: "At least twice what you would pay to save the life of his mother. "
Snibbs taste laughed: "Little naughty that you are nothing, you think you pity me with your words? It is easy to pity the old Snibbs "and so saying, looked at his eye, studying the reactions.
Penny watched the jar of Tucara through the glass he saw the dried leaves, light brown. Few of those leaves would be enough perhaps to restore the health of his mother, and the serenity of the family. A flash of lightning flashed in the mind.
"I do not want pity, old Snibbs. I came to ask you a favor, if you do not want to do me the favor I am willing to pay. And if you do not even want to sell: be ', then go to hell. "
Penny with a lightning shot grabbed the jar of Tucara and fled from the house before the old Snibbs could nab them.
With bated breath he reached the gate and jumped the climbed. He started running down the path when a chilling cry of the Snibbs froze. "Stop." Penny stopped, panting. "You might regret what you are doing, come back immediately," cried Snibbs.
Penny thought for a moment. But between the death of his mother's wrath and the wrath of Snibbs Snibbs chose and began to run at breakneck speed. She moved her legs as fast as he could. on the path down the slope and down, until he came to the valley. The ran across, and now not holding up almost forces when he began to trace the path that led to the big cliff: this time did not look at the sea and dreamed of his father, as all time I was passing by. This time not to have another thought that the house, Mom. Cuddle the jar with the precious leaves Tucara Erbix, which now puts all that remained last hopes.
The cabin door opened with a creak, and Penny was greeted by a cough that agony.
"I'm back, Mom, I have with me the medicine." The mother smiled and said nothing, because she lacked the strength. Aided by Smooders, Penny put a pot of water on the fire, and waited to boil. He looked forward to the water in the hope that the desire to make her boil boil first.
But he was shaken by a sudden thud. The door was wide open, and rectangle light loomed the figure of the old Snibbs.
Smooders paled. Despite his five years he had heard many stories about the old Snibbs, enough to know the risk they ran all three.
Snibbs panting for the journey in a hurry. He was still wearing the green apron, and had his glasses on his nose. Shoulder carrying a gray bag.
steps on the wooden floor of the cabin sounded terrible to the ears of Smooders, and also to Penny, who had put in front of the mother to protect her. The mother was just watching from his sunken eyes, which had been covered by a flash of fear for her children.
"Little brat naughty! - Snibbs began - how absurd logic you thought Tucara would you steal that helped save your mother? Only you are so ignorant not to know that Tucara Erbix can be a lethal substance? Once or twice would be enough to breathe the fumes to leave the skin and now deviating. " In a gesture put
decided by Penny and approached the pot where the water begins to boil. Closed up and moved the jar Tucara. From his knapsack he drew two or three small jars, from which it took the leaves, which fell into the water. Within seconds the cabin was filled with a bitter smell and strange, that neither Penny nor his brother had ever heard. The old man looked Snibbs water with one good eye. Every now and then shook his head and looked at Penny. Then he lifted the kettle and placed it on the table in front of the mother. It to him gently taking her head reached the kettle from which rose a plentiful steam: "Take a deep breath," he said, in a tone that Penny had never heard.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
White Spotsin Feces Dog
the Spiders' Nests: the arrival of the end
"Incoming! Pin, come see! " [...] It was just that: almost a hundred Germans marched: an incredible sight.
The boy ran and hid behind a hedge with Mancini, who had called him. Pin was very surprised by the ways of soldiers: let us all equally, and they were all dressed alike. Echoed a strange music, the rhythm running. Pin had never been faced with similar scenes, and this was very surprised: everything seemed so foolish in his eyes spoke a language unknown to the soldiers and people as they passed raised his arm. In his heart he felt a great fear.
Those Nazis. Up to now had only heard to speak ill of them.
for him were the monsters who fought on the side of evil against good, against the detachment, and knew only take advantage of the people with false promises and great pretensions. Every evil that his fellow accused derived by the Nazis: the disease, pain, death of a loved one, all depended on their actions, usually evil and cruel. In the midst of these
Pin reflections was wondering if anyone had been able to see there, hidden behind hedges, above: in fact, if only a Nazi soldier murderess had looked up, he and Mancino were not discovered. Pin controlled their every movement, like a sentinel, to avoid running tumbling with a piece of land, and afraid to die. Meanwhile Mancino went away, leaving only Pin.
She was thinking about all the possible negative outcomes of the "sneak peek" when a companion, interrupting him, whispered
"I'd love to have a mortar."
He was surprised to hear someone speak, as Mancino was gone. He was afraid of being caught red-handed by someone.
"Hell, and what are you doing with the mortar? - Pin replied sharply, despite the fear and the Germans who could hear him.
"We'll kill them all, those German Nazis."
Pin turned, not knowing who had spoken to his surprise he saw Cousin.
"Cousin," cried the boy, standing up and running to him.
"Shut up, just silence! - Said the hug mate. A German
, hear the words, turned and began to search for those who had screamed.
cousin saw it, and whispered
"Come, now is the time to go - and ran.
But it was seen by the Nazi who sailed in pursuit.
"Hergekommen! - Shouted the Nazi without interruption - Hergekommen. "
"Away, go away! Hurry, let's go! "
Music Nazi had covered the screams and the wet moist earth had rolled on top of the soldier.
Now some fascist fighters on both sides of the road had begun to chase them. Cousin was holding him by the hand, even if he saw that Pin was very hard to run at its rated speed.
The boy became almost exhausted from pulling partner, and ran with only the consolation of star seconded the Nazis. Injuries caused by contact with thorns, typical of the underworld, were starting to ache and shortness of breath then it was panting and groaning. Along the way
Cousin put him a few questions:
"Where ... where are we going?" He said at last with a strong breath that cut the words.
pins not had enough oxygen to meet, but managed to apostrophize all in one breath:
"left-handed! - And then - the brigade!
"But ... well ... we discover ... there!"
Mancino tried to explain in a few words to Pin that his was a risky choice, that if the Germans had continued to follow their posting would probably have been discovered, and destroyed. The boy did not answer, while the Germans are increasingly removed more. Did not understand where he was going: in the middle of the forest and there were no signs Pi
n hoped the race would end as soon as possible as soon as possible and wanted to be in a place known to hide and rest.
But the brigade was still far away.
was deep in thought, when Mancino suddenly change course, veering to the left between the curls of chestnut trees that were rotting, the symbol of the imminent arrival of winter. Pin turned: the Germans saw that virarono right, on the other side: why is this? Pin
yelled at Cousin:
"Enough!" So the two stood
:
"How ... how come?"
After a pause of a minute pin had the energy to respond, but Cousin, no longer saw their pursuers by only including the reason for the sudden stop. Pin
now asks Cousin:
"Why did not they fired?"
"They wanted to see how far we could get, hoping that we would come down to the detachment to be able to catch all at once."
"How come they have changed way?
"Because at some point we have seen more and threw themselves on the one hand, hoping it was the right one."
Pin knew that things had not gone well, but could not find a logical answer to why such a choice stupid to look at, but certainly had a hidden agenda, not yet clear to the two comrades.
After they had rested enough, they left in their path, and not to suffer thirst, they were both filled the water bottles of fresh water, drawn from a stream that ran nearby.
found a road that would speed up their return to the brigade.
Cousin had traveled extensively and knew that they still had to travel nearly two miles, all on steep slopes and muddy from the rain the day before.
arrived in the evening and Pin that Cousin was not yet half-way: the boy was tired of walking, and Hell, his legs apart. Church so to stop during the
night to rest, under a tree or even under the walls of an old bridge. Next to them flowed a great stream. Since they did not find
bridges and not in sight in front of them, they preferred the most uncomfortable: sleeping under the tree. There was one in particular, and with a big green foliage, which would protect them in case of rain. So it was that they fell asleep on each other, the darkness was just so much desired. Pin
the morning he was awakened by the sound of birds early birds, stretched and yawned with fatigue, when he realized that ... Cousin was gone. He woke up despite the pain in my legs and began Cousin of looking around, without success. Then he began to call him, threatening to be heard by some hunter, or the Germans, who in theory were still following their Pin. Coupling Pin
noon began to be truly destroyed by fatigue, and returned to the tree. As soon as he sat down, began to weep for fear of being alone forever and can starve to death, not knowing the road to the district.
But it was while he was there he appeared desperate: German! Pin
jumped up as soon as he saw the enemy, and began to run, while the soldier was trying to kill him with the pistol shots, with shots of his Father 38.
Tracking went on in minutes: Pin could not understand how he did that damn Nazi to recognize it, and found no other energy to run. His steps became more and more narrow, while his breathing was now like a groan. His throat was infested with cold air would have been sick for a month, if he had continued to live. Time passed inexorably. Pins not had more strength, and become distracted by trying to not feel tired, the German had, fortunately, stopped firing pin and had less fear. Perhaps he had kept for a final read when he was caught. The chase continued: Pin arrived at a small village consisting of houses destroyed, immediately thought of nascondercisi, but he feared to become easier target for German: there was no time to think. Pin eyed a house and entered it without delay.
waited for a few seconds, holding your breath as much as possible, with success, however, only in part, tried to get the Bear and his back so much adhered to the wall, that he seemed to be part of it.
The German found himself cheated: he began to look inside each house, carefully. He came also to the Pin. His head leaned forward, is helping the leaning stand of the old supports for the roof, but they relented. He then found himself face to face with Pin. She watched him for three seconds in the eyes until Pin, sventatissimo not kicked.
course, was the butt of a sick child and his legs ached, but it was a kick. So the man doubled over moaning: he had been hit between the legs. His lament is not distracted
Pin, who continued to run even faster than before, having recovered a bit 'of energy being hidden.
soon met a road that ran in a forest, all uphill.
He wondered if it would ever come back from his companions. Still feared that the German might find, but it also stopped running, slowing his pace.
He had a moment to admire the landscape: it was surrounded by a big right
amount of ferns, while the left could clearly see the mountains. He recognized some places, a sign that the brigade was not far away.
resumed their journey, not without difficulty. In fact, after an hour's march was forced to stop, not only fatigue, but also because of the cold, which was much more intense under the trees because they covered the sun, and the forest was not heated by them. Then he tried to sit down at a point where these filtered better, right there on the stump of a tree trunk cut. This too was a sign that was approaching populated places.
resuming our journey, he realized that he recognized parts of the route that was made to go see the parade of Germans.
Towards evening he found himself in an ancient village, composed of the ruins, where there was a large main building and an auxiliary.
"How strange! I did not remember that. "Looking around he was struck by a detail. He saw a dead bird among the brambles. Babeuf recognized and approached.
was then that I understood everything that was the brigade, destroyed by some fascist murderess.
Pin began to cry. First cousin disappears, then the brigade destroyed.
All of his comrades, his greatest and unique friendships gone, the hand of some murderous fascist. It was proposed to roll up their sleeves, join with another detachment and kill in revenge for those who had taken the lives of his comrades.
She immediately start up again with tears in his eyes, but retraced his steps, but headed for a fascist country basis, to try to make the slaughter of men.
the street came face to face with Red Wolf. These
asked the boy why he wept, and Pin told the whole story.
Red Wolf laughed, saying
"Who told you he 's dancing?"
"I saw myself, Hell, I did not have told anyone."
"Then we know that your mates are all from me. "Pin
s' lit: he stopped crying immediately and asked to confirm Red Wolf:
"Really? Did you see them for yourself? "
" Yes, and there was Cousin. "
is where was she. Pin
wondered why Cousin was with him and had an answer that had escaped from prison, just like them, after being caught by some soldiers.
's who had disappeared. Pin Now everything was clear. He decided he would go with Red Wolf.
soon found himself in the new detachment. Now he was happy. In addition to his old comrades he found new ones, and from the first day he started messing with them from rogue, as was usual with him.
The boy ran and hid behind a hedge with Mancini, who had called him. Pin was very surprised by the ways of soldiers: let us all equally, and they were all dressed alike. Echoed a strange music, the rhythm running. Pin had never been faced with similar scenes, and this was very surprised: everything seemed so foolish in his eyes spoke a language unknown to the soldiers and people as they passed raised his arm. In his heart he felt a great fear.
for him were the monsters who fought on the side of evil against good, against the detachment, and knew only take advantage of the people with false promises and great pretensions. Every evil that his fellow accused derived by the Nazis: the disease, pain, death of a loved one, all depended on their actions, usually evil and cruel. In the midst of these
Pin reflections was wondering if anyone had been able to see there, hidden behind hedges, above: in fact, if only a Nazi soldier murderess had looked up, he and Mancino were not discovered. Pin controlled their every movement, like a sentinel, to avoid running tumbling with a piece of land, and afraid to die. Meanwhile Mancino went away, leaving only Pin.
She was thinking about all the possible negative outcomes of the "sneak peek" when a companion, interrupting him, whispered
"I'd love to have a mortar."
He was surprised to hear someone speak, as Mancino was gone. He was afraid of being caught red-handed by someone.
"Hell, and what are you doing with the mortar? - Pin replied sharply, despite the fear and the Germans who could hear him.
"We'll kill them all, those German Nazis."
Pin turned, not knowing who had spoken to his surprise he saw Cousin.
"Cousin," cried the boy, standing up and running to him.
"Shut up, just silence! - Said the hug mate. A German
, hear the words, turned and began to search for those who had screamed.
cousin saw it, and whispered
"Come, now is the time to go - and ran.
But it was seen by the Nazi who sailed in pursuit.
"Hergekommen! - Shouted the Nazi without interruption - Hergekommen. "
"Away, go away! Hurry, let's go! "
Music Nazi had covered the screams and the wet moist earth had rolled on top of the soldier.
Now some fascist fighters on both sides of the road had begun to chase them. Cousin was holding him by the hand, even if he saw that Pin was very hard to run at its rated speed.
The boy became almost exhausted from pulling partner, and ran with only the consolation of star seconded the Nazis. Injuries caused by contact with thorns, typical of the underworld, were starting to ache and shortness of breath then it was panting and groaning. Along the way
Cousin put him a few questions:
"Where ... where are we going?" He said at last with a strong breath that cut the words.
pins not had enough oxygen to meet, but managed to apostrophize all in one breath:
"left-handed! - And then - the brigade!
"But ... well ... we discover ... there!"
Mancino tried to explain in a few words to Pin that his was a risky choice, that if the Germans had continued to follow their posting would probably have been discovered, and destroyed. The boy did not answer, while the Germans are increasingly removed more. Did not understand where he was going: in the middle of the forest and there were no signs Pi
But the brigade was still far away.
was deep in thought, when Mancino suddenly change course, veering to the left between the curls of chestnut trees that were rotting, the symbol of the imminent arrival of winter. Pin turned: the Germans saw that virarono right, on the other side: why is this? Pin
yelled at Cousin:
"Enough!" So the two stood
:
"How ... how come?"
After a pause of a minute pin had the energy to respond, but Cousin, no longer saw their pursuers by only including the reason for the sudden stop. Pin
now asks Cousin:
"Why did not they fired?"
"They wanted to see how far we could get, hoping that we would come down to the detachment to be able to catch all at once."
"How come they have changed way?
"Because at some point we have seen more and threw themselves on the one hand, hoping it was the right one."
Pin knew that things had not gone well, but could not find a logical answer to why such a choice stupid to look at, but certainly had a hidden agenda, not yet clear to the two comrades.
After they had rested enough, they left in their path, and not to suffer thirst, they were both filled the water bottles of fresh water, drawn from a stream that ran nearby.
found a road that would speed up their return to the brigade.
Cousin had traveled extensively and knew that they still had to travel nearly two miles, all on steep slopes and muddy from the rain the day before.
arrived in the evening and Pin that Cousin was not yet half-way: the boy was tired of walking, and Hell, his legs apart. Church so to stop during the
bridges and not in sight in front of them, they preferred the most uncomfortable: sleeping under the tree. There was one in particular, and with a big green foliage, which would protect them in case of rain. So it was that they fell asleep on each other, the darkness was just so much desired. Pin
the morning he was awakened by the sound of birds early birds, stretched and yawned with fatigue, when he realized that ... Cousin was gone. He woke up despite the pain in my legs and began Cousin of looking around, without success. Then he began to call him, threatening to be heard by some hunter, or the Germans, who in theory were still following their Pin. Coupling Pin
noon began to be truly destroyed by fatigue, and returned to the tree. As soon as he sat down, began to weep for fear of being alone forever and can starve to death, not knowing the road to the district.
But it was while he was there he appeared desperate: German! Pin
jumped up as soon as he saw the enemy, and began to run, while the soldier was trying to kill him with the pistol shots, with shots of his Father 38.
Tracking went on in minutes: Pin could not understand how he did that damn Nazi to recognize it, and found no other energy to run. His steps became more and more narrow, while his breathing was now like a groan. His throat was infested with cold air would have been sick for a month, if he had continued to live. Time passed inexorably. Pins not had more strength, and become distracted by trying to not feel tired, the German had, fortunately, stopped firing pin and had less fear. Perhaps he had kept for a final read when he was caught. The chase continued: Pin arrived at a small village consisting of houses destroyed, immediately thought of nascondercisi, but he feared to become easier target for German: there was no time to think. Pin eyed a house and entered it without delay.
waited for a few seconds, holding your breath as much as possible, with success, however, only in part, tried to get the Bear and his back so much adhered to the wall, that he seemed to be part of it.
The German found himself cheated: he began to look inside each house, carefully. He came also to the Pin. His head leaned forward, is helping the leaning stand of the old supports for the roof, but they relented. He then found himself face to face with Pin. She watched him for three seconds in the eyes until Pin, sventatissimo not kicked.
course, was the butt of a sick child and his legs ached, but it was a kick. So the man doubled over moaning: he had been hit between the legs. His lament is not distracted
Pin, who continued to run even faster than before, having recovered a bit 'of energy being hidden.
soon met a road that ran in a forest, all uphill.
He wondered if it would ever come back from his companions. Still feared that the German might find, but it also stopped running, slowing his pace.
He had a moment to admire the landscape: it was surrounded by a big right
resumed their journey, not without difficulty. In fact, after an hour's march was forced to stop, not only fatigue, but also because of the cold, which was much more intense under the trees because they covered the sun, and the forest was not heated by them. Then he tried to sit down at a point where these filtered better, right there on the stump of a tree trunk cut. This too was a sign that was approaching populated places.
resuming our journey, he realized that he recognized parts of the route that was made to go see the parade of Germans.
Towards evening he found himself in an ancient village, composed of the ruins, where there was a large main building and an auxiliary.
"How strange! I did not remember that. "Looking around he was struck by a detail. He saw a dead bird among the brambles. Babeuf recognized and approached.
was then that I understood everything that was the brigade, destroyed by some fascist murderess.
Pin began to cry. First cousin disappears, then the brigade destroyed.
All of his comrades, his greatest and unique friendships gone, the hand of some murderous fascist. It was proposed to roll up their sleeves, join with another detachment and kill in revenge for those who had taken the lives of his comrades.
She immediately start up again with tears in his eyes, but retraced his steps, but headed for a fascist country basis, to try to make the slaughter of men.
the street came face to face with Red Wolf. These
asked the boy why he wept, and Pin told the whole story.
Red Wolf laughed, saying
"Who told you he 's dancing?"
"I saw myself, Hell, I did not have told anyone."
"Then we know that your mates are all from me. "Pin
s' lit: he stopped crying immediately and asked to confirm Red Wolf:
"Really? Did you see them for yourself? "
" Yes, and there was Cousin. "
is where was she. Pin
wondered why Cousin was with him and had an answer that had escaped from prison, just like them, after being caught by some soldiers.
's who had disappeared. Pin Now everything was clear. He decided he would go with Red Wolf.
soon found himself in the new detachment. Now he was happy. In addition to his old comrades he found new ones, and from the first day he started messing with them from rogue, as was usual with him.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Company Start From Alphabet A
Bounty hunters (Part IV, Episode I)
The minutes passed but no one else turned up. [...] Meanwhile, their eternal enemy, Manfred ...
-Soon we will liberate Sanchez. Be ready with guns! -
- Manfred Sure! - Said one of his henchmen.
were thirty soldiers and they were all gathered behind a house. Shortly after his head had hidden at various points in his henchmen: behind some bushes, hidden in the windows of the houses, some terraces and did everything so quietly that Cooper and others did not hear anything. Manfred then whispered
- When do you give the signal fire! -
Meanwhile, Cooper and the others were waiting, but because everything was so calm and quiet Cooper said the sheriff:
-Let 's another hiding place, we might be lurking behind those cases or in those other bushes! -
-Excellent idea! I refer to Sam and Doc -
And he did. In fact, shortly after the four found themselves behind, even closer to the opponents.
The minutes seem like hours, until Manfred threw something broke in the air: it was the signal! The shots kept coming and it took some 'before Cooper and the others got ready to shoot. Sam, before he had fallen asleep, he had already killed a guard, but the other continued to fire as if nothing had happened. All of a sudden a stray bullet struck the sheriff, tramortendolo.Poi, Mc Coy when he realized that the Sheriff was dead, and Sam Cooper ceasefire. Cooper subsequently took his corpse and carried it behind a house in the hope that he recovered. The shooting stopped. The group began to worry, fearing an ambush. They loaded their weapons and trod u
n'altra strange shadow. Sam shot her, the faster he could, and she fell to the ground. It was definitely an enforcer of Manfred. Other
bandits went there and found the corpse. One of them went to report the news to the boss. Then all the soldiers were gathered together and went behind the crates, which is exactly the place where Cooper and the others were hidden before. Meanwhile, he whispered to Sam Cooper:
- Now our only hope is the strategy. You'll go to the place where Manfred's henchmen are hidden, you'll go Doc in the house next to that of Sam and I will stay here .-
- BA, easy-
shouted Sam - Shut up if you want to stay alive!
But no one was sure of the efficiency of the plan, then immediately went into another house and were surprised at the sight of a frightened man who said
-S-are good or bad? -
-We're the good guys , as you say, but if it helps us become bad .- Cooper said.
-C-what should I do to help? - Asked Mr. shaking like a leaf. -You must
prepare a paper and a pencil. - Cooper said.
whole town had heard the shooting, but no one had moved home for fear of being hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the keeper of the house had prepared a paper with a pencil for Cooper, Sam and Mc Coy. Then he said this:
Now we must observe the moves of Manfred, and so we can make a decent battle plan .-
-Excellent plan!-Watched Sam, making a play on words which he only laughed ... Then
Mc Coy gave a 'look at the window and saw that all the henchmen Manfred had scattered to find Cooper and others.
for a while 'silence reigned, but Cooper broke it, saying-Behold
here's a good plan! - [more ...]
-Soon we will liberate Sanchez. Be ready with guns! -
- Manfred Sure! - Said one of his henchmen.
were thirty soldiers and they were all gathered behind a house. Shortly after his head had hidden at various points in his henchmen: behind some bushes, hidden in the windows of the houses, some terraces and did everything so quietly that Cooper and others did not hear anything. Manfred then whispered
- When do you give the signal fire! -
Meanwhile, Cooper and the others were waiting, but because everything was so calm and quiet Cooper said the sheriff: -Let 's another hiding place, we might be lurking behind those cases or in those other bushes! -
-Excellent idea! I refer to Sam and Doc -
And he did. In fact, shortly after the four found themselves behind, even closer to the opponents.
The minutes seem like hours, until Manfred threw something broke in the air: it was the signal! The shots kept coming and it took some 'before Cooper and the others got ready to shoot. Sam, before he had fallen asleep, he had already killed a guard, but the other continued to fire as if nothing had happened. All of a sudden a stray bullet struck the sheriff, tramortendolo.Poi, Mc Coy when he realized that the Sheriff was dead, and Sam Cooper ceasefire. Cooper subsequently took his corpse and carried it behind a house in the hope that he recovered. The shooting stopped. The group began to worry, fearing an ambush. They loaded their weapons and trod u
n'altra strange shadow. Sam shot her, the faster he could, and she fell to the ground. It was definitely an enforcer of Manfred. Other bandits went there and found the corpse. One of them went to report the news to the boss. Then all the soldiers were gathered together and went behind the crates, which is exactly the place where Cooper and the others were hidden before. Meanwhile, he whispered to Sam Cooper:
- Now our only hope is the strategy. You'll go to the place where Manfred's henchmen are hidden, you'll go Doc in the house next to that of Sam and I will stay here .-
- BA, easy-
shouted Sam - Shut up if you want to stay alive!
But no one was sure of the efficiency of the plan, then immediately went into another house and were surprised at the sight of a frightened man who said
-S-are good or bad? - -We're the good guys , as you say, but if it helps us become bad .- Cooper said.
-C-what should I do to help? - Asked Mr. shaking like a leaf. -You must
prepare a paper and a pencil. - Cooper said.
whole town had heard the shooting, but no one had moved home for fear of being hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, the keeper of the house had prepared a paper with a pencil for Cooper, Sam and Mc Coy. Then he said this:
Now we must observe the moves of Manfred, and so we can make a decent battle plan .-
-Excellent plan!-Watched Sam, making a play on words which he only laughed ... Then
Mc Coy gave a 'look at the window and saw that all the henchmen Manfred had scattered to find Cooper and others.
for a while 'silence reigned, but Cooper broke it, saying-Behold
here's a good plan! - [more ...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
12.02.1086 Rotronic Treiber
A magnificent speech
I came across by chance in this speech (translated) held by Steve Jobs at Stanford University invited to give the commencement address to the newly graduates. I would like everyone to read it. The final chapter, on an issue now completely ignored and despised, it's beautiful.
If today someone had the courage to give examples of how these things might change a bit'...[...]
Steve Jobs invited to give the commencement address at Stanford University.
The speech is divided into three parts.
PART I
am honored to be here with you today at your commencement from one of the best universities in the world. I did not ever graduate. Indeed, to say the truth, this is the closest thing to a degree that I've ever gotten. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it, nothing exceptional: only three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first half, but then I continued to attend so for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
E 'started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, and made sure everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. But when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So then those who have become my parents, who were on the waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "Is there a baby boy, not provided. Do you want him?" They said: "Certainly." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never finished high school. He refused to sign the final papers adoption. Then he relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Seventeen years later I went to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all the savings of my parents ended up paying me for the tuition. After six months, I could not see any real opportunities. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and how college could help me understand. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire working life. So I decided to drop out and trust that everything would be fine. It was very scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute that I let go out I could stop taking the courses that did not interest me and begin to occur in classes that I found most interesting.
It was not all rosy, though. I did not have a dorm room, and I slept on the floor of the chambers of my friends. Earned money to the seller bringing the empty bottles of Coca Cola for five cents deposits to buy food. Once a week, on Sunday evening, I walked for seven miles across town to finally have a good meal at the Hare Krishna temple, the only one of the week. But all what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and my intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you an example.
: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was hand written with beautiful calligraphy. Because I had dropped the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about the difference between the spaces that separate the different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great text. It was wonderful, in a way that science can offer, because it was artistic, beautiful, historic and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But then, ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And it all into the Mac and 'was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped out of college and then I had not in on that single course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or the possibility of proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it is likely that there would be any personal computer with those capabilities. If I had not dropped out of college, I could never in on this calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Certainly at the time when I was in college it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. But it became very, very clear ten years later, when I could look back.
Again, you can not connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that somehow, in the future, the dots will. You must believe in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This type of approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. PART II
My second story is about love and loss
I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in my life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 years. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from a company with two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over four thousand employees. The year before we had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - and I had just turned 30, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, when Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year things went very well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with his party. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating thing.
I did not know really what to do for a few months. I felt like I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs to me - as if I had dropped the baton was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. It was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from Silicon Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed a bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
not I realized then, but the fact of having been fired from Apple was the best thing that could happen. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me allowing me to enter one of the more creatvi of my life.
During the five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family.
'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I had not been fired from Apple. E 'was awful tasting medicine, but I think it was necessary for the patient. Sometimes life hits you like a brick on his head. Do not lose faith, though. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was the love for what I did. You have to find what you love. And this applies to your work as it is for your lovers. Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do a good job is to love what you do. If you still have not found it yet, keep looking. Do not settle. With all my heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better hand to as the years go by. So keep looking until you find it. Do not settle.
PART III (FINAL)
My third story is about death
When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it were the last, surely one When you are right. " Impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked: "If today were the last day of my life, I do what I am about to do today?". And whenever the answer is "no" for too many days in a row, I understand that something must be changed.
Remember that I will die soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations of eternity, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remember that we die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at seven-thirty in the morning, and it showed clearly a tumor on my pancreas. I did not know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me that it was a cancer that was incurable and almost certainly the type that would have been better if I put my affairs in order (which is the code to tell the doctors prepare to die). It means to tell your kids in a few months everything you thought you'd have ten years to tell them. This means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that your family is as simple as possible. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, which is the result stuck an endoscope down my throat, through the stomach and into intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few of my cancer cells. I was sedated but my wife - who was there - I said that when doctors have viewed the cells under the microscope started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer, curable with surgery . I had the surgery and I'm fine.
This was the time when I went closer to death and I hope its the closest for decades. Having lived through it I can now say with a little 'more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept say:
Nobody wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven do not want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all have in common. No one has ever escaped it. It is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. And 'Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Now the new is you, but someday not too far away gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's true.
Your time is limited, so do not waste it living life someone else. Do not be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important of all, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. E 'was created by Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and Stewart has brought it to life with his poetic touch. It 'was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It 'was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before there was Google: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions concepts.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and when they arrived at the end of their journey, a final issue. It was more or less half of the seventies and I was your age. On the last page of the final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind of street where you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. "'re Hungry, stay foolish. It was their farewell message. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all.
I came across by chance in this speech (translated) held by Steve Jobs at Stanford University invited to give the commencement address to the newly graduates. I would like everyone to read it. The final chapter, on an issue now completely ignored and despised, it's beautiful.
If today someone had the courage to give examples of how these things might change a bit'...[...]
Steve Jobs invited to give the commencement address at Stanford University.
The speech is divided into three parts.
PART I
am honored to be here with you today at your commencement from one of the best universities in the world. I did not ever graduate. Indeed, to say the truth, this is the closest thing to a degree that I've ever gotten. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it, nothing exceptional: only three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first half, but then I continued to attend so for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
E 'started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, and made sure everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. But when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So then those who have become my parents, who were on the waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "Is there a baby boy, not provided. Do you want him?" They said: "Certainly." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never finished high school. He refused to sign the final papers adoption. Then he relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Seventeen years later I went to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all the savings of my parents ended up paying me for the tuition. After six months, I could not see any real opportunities. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and how college could help me understand. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire working life. So I decided to drop out and trust that everything would be fine. It was very scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute that I let go out I could stop taking the courses that did not interest me and begin to occur in classes that I found most interesting.
It was not all rosy, though. I did not have a dorm room, and I slept on the floor of the chambers of my friends. Earned money to the seller bringing the empty bottles of Coca Cola for five cents deposits to buy food. Once a week, on Sunday evening, I walked for seven miles across town to finally have a good meal at the Hare Krishna temple, the only one of the week. But all what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and my intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you an example.
: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was hand written with beautiful calligraphy. Because I had dropped the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about the difference between the spaces that separate the different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great text. It was wonderful, in a way that science can offer, because it was artistic, beautiful, historic and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But then, ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And it all into the Mac and 'was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped out of college and then I had not in on that single course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or the possibility of proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it is likely that there would be any personal computer with those capabilities. If I had not dropped out of college, I could never in on this calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Certainly at the time when I was in college it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. But it became very, very clear ten years later, when I could look back.
Again, you can not connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that somehow, in the future, the dots will. You must believe in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This type of approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. PART II
My second story is about love and loss
I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in my life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 years. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from a company with two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over four thousand employees. The year before we had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - and I had just turned 30, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, when Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year things went very well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with his party. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating thing.
I did not know really what to do for a few months. I felt like I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs to me - as if I had dropped the baton was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. It was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from Silicon Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed a bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
not I realized then, but the fact of having been fired from Apple was the best thing that could happen. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me allowing me to enter one of the more creatvi of my life.
During the five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family.
'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I had not been fired from Apple. E 'was awful tasting medicine, but I think it was necessary for the patient. Sometimes life hits you like a brick on his head. Do not lose faith, though. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was the love for what I did. You have to find what you love. And this applies to your work as it is for your lovers. Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do a good job is to love what you do. If you still have not found it yet, keep looking. Do not settle. With all my heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better hand to as the years go by. So keep looking until you find it. Do not settle.
PART III (FINAL)
My third story is about death
When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it were the last, surely one When you are right. " Impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked: "If today were the last day of my life, I do what I am about to do today?". And whenever the answer is "no" for too many days in a row, I understand that something must be changed.
Remember that I will die soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations of eternity, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remember that we die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at seven-thirty in the morning, and it showed clearly a tumor on my pancreas. I did not know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me that it was a cancer that was incurable and almost certainly the type that would have been better if I put my affairs in order (which is the code to tell the doctors prepare to die). It means to tell your kids in a few months everything you thought you'd have ten years to tell them. This means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that your family is as simple as possible. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, which is the result stuck an endoscope down my throat, through the stomach and into intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few of my cancer cells. I was sedated but my wife - who was there - I said that when doctors have viewed the cells under the microscope started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer, curable with surgery . I had the surgery and I'm fine.
This was the time when I went closer to death and I hope its the closest for decades. Having lived through it I can now say with a little 'more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept say:
Nobody wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven do not want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all have in common. No one has ever escaped it. It is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. And 'Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Now the new is you, but someday not too far away gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's true.
Your time is limited, so do not waste it living life someone else. Do not be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important of all, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. E 'was created by Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and Stewart has brought it to life with his poetic touch. It 'was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It 'was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before there was Google: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions concepts.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and when they arrived at the end of their journey, a final issue. It was more or less half of the seventies and I was your age. On the last page of the final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind of street where you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. "'re Hungry, stay foolish. It was their farewell message. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Lauren Dancing In Melrose Place
Bounty hunters (Part III, Episode I)
was ... Dr. Mc Coy, [...]
the most pessimistic person could exist, but also the one that can destroy an entire herd of bison because of its very silent weapons: gun silencer, gun sights and narcotic, to stun the enemies tougher. arrived the night, even the sheriff, the Doctor and Cooper met again a strange figure approaching theft, but go as fast as
lightning. All took up arms, while the sheriff recalled:-I recommend, you can kill the minions of Manfred, but he just bring it hurt! --Of course, we will remember! - They said the three men. Soon after came another shadow behind a house, then another five or six shapes reached the building. Following McCoy whispered to Cooper, "If those are all men of Manfred then we are fried! --I know you are sooo expensive Doc pessimistic, but this time I must say that you're right - said Sam, who had overheard closely. So, took up arms in their hands, loaded guns and preparations are hiding behind the bushes, Cooper and the others sat waiting for the beginning of the shooting. [Continue ...]
was ... Dr. Mc Coy, [...]
the most pessimistic person could exist, but also the one that can destroy an entire herd of bison because of its very silent weapons: gun silencer, gun sights and narcotic, to stun the enemies tougher. arrived the night, even the sheriff, the Doctor and Cooper met again a strange figure approaching theft, but go as fast as
lightning. All took up arms, while the sheriff recalled:-I recommend, you can kill the minions of Manfred, but he just bring it hurt! --Of course, we will remember! - They said the three men. Soon after came another shadow behind a house, then another five or six shapes reached the building. Following McCoy whispered to Cooper, "If those are all men of Manfred then we are fried! --I know you are sooo expensive Doc pessimistic, but this time I must say that you're right - said Sam, who had overheard closely. So, took up arms in their hands, loaded guns and preparations are hiding behind the bushes, Cooper and the others sat waiting for the beginning of the shooting. [Continue ...] Monday, February 19, 2007
Application Letter For Beauty Therapist
"Letter" with the request:
Dear Friends, [...]
write this short post to invite you to write on this subject, useful for development of a Movie: continue from one point resulted in a novel, adding scenes that could also influence the result. In short, put in front of the protagonist of a novel one: the road to the right is the one chosen by the original writer, one on the left
from you. From there, write the character's choices, new meetings, and perhaps eventually to reunite the two roads.
You Capit?
I have done similar work at school, with senitero The spiders' nests, and now I'm rewriting the computer to propose it.
Try it, because besides being fun, it helps !!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: The photo serves as a reminder!
Dear Friends, [...]
write this short post to invite you to write on this subject, useful for development of a Movie: continue from one point resulted in a novel, adding scenes that could also influence the result. In short, put in front of the protagonist of a novel one: the road to the right is the one chosen by the original writer, one on the left
You Capit?
I have done similar work at school, with senitero The spiders' nests, and now I'm rewriting the computer to propose it.
Try it, because besides being fun, it helps !!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: The photo serves as a reminder!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Sklep Internetowy Meble
... the King? Amazing
[I jotted down after reading this story and commented Scacco. [...] The two should be read in sequence ...]
- Hello.
- Hello.
- What's your name? Jimmy got up
gaze from the paper and glanced for a moment the lady who was standing in front.
- Jimmy. And you? Joanne
placed two small suitcases, two windows to gaze across the street.
- Joanne.
- you came or you're leaving?
- Arrival ...
Jimmy returned to his precious design. His feet dangled off the chair. Was not sitting at the tables around anyone. It was still early because the bar is filled with businessmen and career women to return from office.
Joanne looked for a moment the child who sat in front.
- You look like ...
- Look not every child with her hair and round glasses blacks must necessarily look like Harry Potter.
- ...
Jimmy looked up from the paper.
- Sorry.
He put the pencil gray. His lady seemed a bit 'worried a bit' sad.
- What do you do in life?
- I am a literary critic.
- A what?
Joanne made a little grimace. It was almost sorry that he had run.
- I read books. And then I write in the newspapers if they are good or not.
- Ah. I also started reading books at school, you know? What do you recommend?
- In what sense?
Joanne was distracted by two windows.
- Do you have a good story that I read?
- ... I do not know.
- But, and newspapers? Do not write which books are good and which bad ones?
Joanne decided to listen to his host. Basically, it was sitting for a bit distracted '.
- Yes, ...
- n'hai And we did not make me a good read?
- I do not know. How old are you?
Great, thought Jimmy, you always ask how old you are, as if it were the most important thing in the world.
- Six and a half. Almost seven.
Jimmy began to giggle.
- What's so funny?
- No, nothing ... seemed very serious before.
expression Joanne relaxed and nodded a shy smile.
Jimmy pointed to the home store across the street.
- Bruna ... sorry but my aunt called me.
A lady in an apron was making a sign to enter.
- I gotta go.
He took his glass of milk and finished it all in one gulp.
- Wait, wait ...
Jimmy stood balanced on the chair.
- who is he?
For some strange reason, the man in a gray suit designed to resemble a piece of Jimmy Michael.
- His name is Robert. It 'an important person, you know? Almost like you. He does not write the papers. But he's a schemer.
Jimmy said solemnly. That word filled his mouth. He had just learned. He put his foot down and went to Joanne with the design in hand.
- It 's your friend?
- Every so often comes from Aunt Brown to buy something.
Joanne stopped to watch the drawing. It was fun. He thought of Michael.
- but he lacks the mouth ...
- I know. And 'I'm not sure if it is serious when she smiles or fake. Zia said that Brown has yet to decide whether to be happy or not. A bit 'like you when you get here.
- ...
- And then I wait before putting the mouth. Look to see if it is serious or have to pretend.
- For real or fake ... what?
- A smile.
Jimmy looked puzzled her without Robert-mouth.
- Do you think he is happy?
Joanne shrugged. Now he was ready.
- Anyway, to me is nice. In the end I can make people laugh too.
Jimmy was already looking to the right and left before crossing the street. He turned for a moment.
- Hello Joanne.
- Hello Jimmy. And thanks ...
He did not hear. She watched him run and pass under the gate in the middle of the home front.
took the suitcases and found that the pencil drawing and had remained there. The gate was now closed.
Eventually it was time.
drew a smile to Robert and walked toward the house. Michael, and her daughters, Martha and Nina, were waiting for more than three years.
[I jotted down after reading this story and commented Scacco. [...] The two should be read in sequence ...]
- Hello.
- Hello.
- What's your name? Jimmy got up
gaze from the paper and glanced for a moment the lady who was standing in front.
- Jimmy. And you? Joanne
placed two small suitcases, two windows to gaze across the street.
- Joanne.
- you came or you're leaving?
- Arrival ...
Jimmy returned to his precious design. His feet dangled off the chair. Was not sitting at the tables around anyone. It was still early because the bar is filled with businessmen and career women to return from office.
Joanne looked for a moment the child who sat in front.
- You look like ...
- Look not every child with her hair and round glasses blacks must necessarily look like Harry Potter.
- ...
Jimmy looked up from the paper.
- Sorry.
He put the pencil gray. His lady seemed a bit 'worried a bit' sad.
- What do you do in life?
- I am a literary critic.
- A what?
Joanne made a little grimace. It was almost sorry that he had run.
- I read books. And then I write in the newspapers if they are good or not.
- Ah. I also started reading books at school, you know? What do you recommend?
- In what sense?
Joanne was distracted by two windows.
- Do you have a good story that I read?
- ... I do not know.
- But, and newspapers? Do not write which books are good and which bad ones?
Joanne decided to listen to his host. Basically, it was sitting for a bit distracted '.
- Yes, ...
- n'hai And we did not make me a good read?
- I do not know. How old are you?
Great, thought Jimmy, you always ask how old you are, as if it were the most important thing in the world.
- Six and a half. Almost seven.
Jimmy began to giggle.
- What's so funny?
- No, nothing ... seemed very serious before.
expression Joanne relaxed and nodded a shy smile.
Jimmy pointed to the home store across the street.
- Bruna ... sorry but my aunt called me.
A lady in an apron was making a sign to enter.
- I gotta go.
He took his glass of milk and finished it all in one gulp.
- Wait, wait ...
Jimmy stood balanced on the chair.
- who is he?
For some strange reason, the man in a gray suit designed to resemble a piece of Jimmy Michael.
- His name is Robert. It 'an important person, you know? Almost like you. He does not write the papers. But he's a schemer.
Jimmy said solemnly. That word filled his mouth. He had just learned. He put his foot down and went to Joanne with the design in hand.
- It 's your friend?
- Every so often comes from Aunt Brown to buy something.
Joanne stopped to watch the drawing. It was fun. He thought of Michael.
- but he lacks the mouth ...
- I know. And 'I'm not sure if it is serious when she smiles or fake. Zia said that Brown has yet to decide whether to be happy or not. A bit 'like you when you get here.
- ...
- And then I wait before putting the mouth. Look to see if it is serious or have to pretend.
- For real or fake ... what?
- A smile.
Jimmy looked puzzled her without Robert-mouth.
- Do you think he is happy?
Joanne shrugged. Now he was ready.
- Anyway, to me is nice. In the end I can make people laugh too.
Jimmy was already looking to the right and left before crossing the street. He turned for a moment.
- Hello Joanne.
- Hello Jimmy. And thanks ...
He did not hear. She watched him run and pass under the gate in the middle of the home front.
took the suitcases and found that the pencil drawing and had remained there. The gate was now closed.
Eventually it was time.
drew a smile to Robert and walked toward the house. Michael, and her daughters, Martha and Nina, were waiting for more than three years.
Friday, February 16, 2007
How To Get A Cornupia
Toscani
working on a research I came across an amazing text. What makes it so is the source. [...] These are the considerations of a man who even a few years ago sharply criticized the Pope (John Paul II) and in general the Catholic Church. A man who has often resulted in scandals for his provocative choices in communication ... But yes I'm talking about Oliviero Toscani.
This is the text:
Yesterday my mother told me: "I had one man, your father." Suddenly they crumbled years of sexual liberation, to convince libertarians, radical-minded. Everything I had believed a civil achievement has declined in the face of this simple statement: "I had one man, your father." I was confronted with the weakness of what I believed to be the modern, with the strength of those who say an ancient principle, without the awareness of being, she did, the true revolutionary. I wondered: are ahead of me who has lived and theorized the refusal of marriage, free love and relationships that are open or her your whole life and has remained faithful to one man? Without being Jesus Christ, I felt God's son and my mother appeared as the Madonna in a natural way, as if it were the most obvious things, she has set her life on concepts that today seem outdated, ridiculous : happiness, honesty, respect, love. While I think there has never been in the shadow of her claims against the male power, I realize that there is no more independent of her. No sense of inferiority he never touched, because the foundations of its independence had been dug in deep soils of moral rectitude, loyalty, justice, honor, and not on the surface of what we are accustomed to being politically correct. The respect and timidity with which I looked at my father's education has to respect it had nothing to do with the demands of the dishes to wash.
My mother has never felt inferior because we needed in a dish cooked with pleasure to settle and make us happy, or because she washed and ironed to get us out "always n order." I am aware that I am extolling the silence and the one that feminists have sharply defined submission. But I can not help but wonder about the true and false targets of emancipation, of what belongs to the deep convictions about what is nothing more than sterile squabble. In the search for values \u200b\u200bthat should teach us to an ethic less degraded than reflect the principle of Cosi fan tutte, my mother is an example of nonconformity and liberation: she is really freed from the stereotypes and the needs of the induced mass society. To achieve important goals, and certainly today we have been forced to abdicate essential to our integrity. We have lost the "virginity", not her.
From: Not The aim is , Oliviero Toscani, Universal Feltrinelli Economica 2001, Page 81
working on a research I came across an amazing text. What makes it so is the source. [...] These are the considerations of a man who even a few years ago sharply criticized the Pope (John Paul II) and in general the Catholic Church. A man who has often resulted in scandals for his provocative choices in communication ... But yes I'm talking about Oliviero Toscani.
This is the text:
Yesterday my mother told me: "I had one man, your father." Suddenly they crumbled years of sexual liberation, to convince libertarians, radical-minded. Everything I had believed a civil achievement has declined in the face of this simple statement: "I had one man, your father." I was confronted with the weakness of what I believed to be the modern, with the strength of those who say an ancient principle, without the awareness of being, she did, the true revolutionary. I wondered: are ahead of me who has lived and theorized the refusal of marriage, free love and relationships that are open or her your whole life and has remained faithful to one man? Without being Jesus Christ, I felt God's son and my mother appeared as the Madonna in a natural way, as if it were the most obvious things, she has set her life on concepts that today seem outdated, ridiculous : happiness, honesty, respect, love. While I think there has never been in the shadow of her claims against the male power, I realize that there is no more independent of her. No sense of inferiority he never touched, because the foundations of its independence had been dug in deep soils of moral rectitude, loyalty, justice, honor, and not on the surface of what we are accustomed to being politically correct. The respect and timidity with which I looked at my father's education has to respect it had nothing to do with the demands of the dishes to wash.
My mother has never felt inferior because we needed in a dish cooked with pleasure to settle and make us happy, or because she washed and ironed to get us out "always n order." I am aware that I am extolling the silence and the one that feminists have sharply defined submission. But I can not help but wonder about the true and false targets of emancipation, of what belongs to the deep convictions about what is nothing more than sterile squabble. In the search for values \u200b\u200bthat should teach us to an ethic less degraded than reflect the principle of Cosi fan tutte, my mother is an example of nonconformity and liberation: she is really freed from the stereotypes and the needs of the induced mass society. To achieve important goals, and certainly today we have been forced to abdicate essential to our integrity. We have lost the "virginity", not her.
From: Not The aim is , Oliviero Toscani, Universal Feltrinelli Economica 2001, Page 81
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Raylene Richards Lesbian Orgy Members
Bounty hunters (Part II, Episode I)
This was soon to fall, hitting the criminals [...] The band felt the back pain that when you may fall on a 'whole shelf filled with bottles and glasses.
The shooting was over, Sam Cooper tied the five thugs and transported them to the seat of the horses and returned to Santa Fe. Then he thought that everything was too easy and became suspicious. At your destination
Cooper and Sam untied the men took them by the sheriff that greeted very cordially
-Hey! You have already Sanchez caught! What a time! I congratulate you-already-.-
Cooper insisted, with his usual air of "we wanted" - but we must keep our eyes open. But Sam - Do not be pessimistic, old boy! Beviamoci a whiskey and get it over with! -
- No, not so ... Cooper is right! -
replied Sanchez - Manfred come to save us all with twenty men on horseback and for you and New West will be the end! -
Days passed and nothing happened until one day Sam appeared suspicious wandering shadow nearby. So she left with Cooper.
They did not even have time to hide ... A man fell front gill a rifle sight, although it was very close: it was ... [continued ...]
This was soon to fall, hitting the criminals [...] The band felt the back pain that when you may fall on a 'whole shelf filled with bottles and glasses.
The shooting was over, Sam Cooper tied the five thugs and transported them to the seat of the horses and returned to Santa Fe. Then he thought that everything was too easy and became suspicious. At your destination
Cooper and Sam untied the men took them by the sheriff that greeted very cordially
-Hey! You have already Sanchez caught! What a time! I congratulate you-already-.-
Cooper insisted, with his usual air of "we wanted" - but we must keep our eyes open. But Sam - Do not be pessimistic, old boy! Beviamoci a whiskey and get it over with! -
- No, not so ... Cooper is right! -
replied Sanchez - Manfred come to save us all with twenty men on horseback and for you and New West will be the end! - Days passed and nothing happened until one day Sam appeared suspicious wandering shadow nearby. So she left with Cooper.
They did not even have time to hide ... A man fell front gill a rifle sight, although it was very close: it was ... [continued ...]
Monday, February 12, 2007
Confidentaility Clause Sample
Scacco
Robert Glenn lit another cigarette.
[...] Outside it was drizzling. The copious rain fell on the glass, confused voices in the distance and the roar of the machines down the road. He went into the living room to the bar, poured himself a whiskey. The ice was there ready, but did not take it. He turned on the stereo, sounded the first notes of a concert Petrucciani. His pinstripe suit suggests a long day of work and winning, his tie a bit 'slow. He took a newspaper from his chair in the living room where he had carelessly thrown a long gray raincoat, still wet from a long time. I read a part without interest, his fate was tied to certain fate far more important, vital issues, the news was good for the country. From the speakers, the piano played with more intensity and passion.
Then who knows, something changed. Anxiety at the uncertainty of future commitments, perhaps the memory of a friend who was no longer there, perhaps a thinking woman's distant past, suddenly felt a great weight on him, an illness that he could not shake off. The feeling that so much of his life was uncertain, that did not have control of many many things. Robert Glenn that he was not successful impresario happiest lady Brunette assistant in a shop for the home down there in the underworld of the city widow with a dependent child now finally self-employed in the administration of municipal offices. He put out his cigarette in the ashtray in a bad mood. He was alone.
Robert Glenn lit another cigarette.
[...] Outside it was drizzling. The copious rain fell on the glass, confused voices in the distance and the roar of the machines down the road. He went into the living room to the bar, poured himself a whiskey. The ice was there ready, but did not take it. He turned on the stereo, sounded the first notes of a concert Petrucciani. His pinstripe suit suggests a long day of work and winning, his tie a bit 'slow. He took a newspaper from his chair in the living room where he had carelessly thrown a long gray raincoat, still wet from a long time. I read a part without interest, his fate was tied to certain fate far more important, vital issues, the news was good for the country. From the speakers, the piano played with more intensity and passion.
Then who knows, something changed. Anxiety at the uncertainty of future commitments, perhaps the memory of a friend who was no longer there, perhaps a thinking woman's distant past, suddenly felt a great weight on him, an illness that he could not shake off. The feeling that so much of his life was uncertain, that did not have control of many many things. Robert Glenn that he was not successful impresario happiest lady Brunette assistant in a shop for the home down there in the underworld of the city widow with a dependent child now finally self-employed in the administration of municipal offices. He put out his cigarette in the ashtray in a bad mood. He was alone.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Recurrent Compound Interest Formula
Hello raga !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello everyone
Guys, I'm back !!!!!!!!!!
Now write many beautiful rubbish. [...]
Guys, I'm back !!!!!!!!!!
Now write many beautiful rubbish. [...]
Friday, February 2, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Facebook History Login
Warning!
If you want to read the scripts in the original advice to go and download to www.cinefile.biz . [...]
If you want to read the scripts in the original advice to go and download to www.cinefile.biz . [...]
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)