<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:23:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>True Heroes</title><description></description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-6449756431997355599</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-02T18:31:51.023+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Politics</category><title>Fratelli d'Italia (parte 2)</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;do html=""&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tofs68i2xJ8&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tofs68i2xJ8&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/do&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dieci nuove domande a Silvio Berlusconi: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBDhph6Jk8"&gt;Video parte 2&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://temi.repubblica.it/repubblicaspeciale-altre-dieci-domande-a-silvio-berlusconi/2009/06/25/le-dieci-nuove-domande-al-cavaliere/"&gt;Articolo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silvio Berlusconi ha ricoperto il ruolo di Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri nel corso di 3 legislature: dal 1994 al 1995, dal 2001 al 2006 e durante quella corrente, iniziata nel maggio del 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ignoriamo le speculazioni sui motivi che avrebbero spinto a entrare in politica l'uomo più ricco d'italia - che, ricordiamo, all'epoca era già indagato per aver riciclato denaro ottenuto da attività mafiose, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.societacivile.it/memoria/articoli_memoria/archiviazione.pdf"&gt;sospettato per concorso in strage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e noto amico e sostenitore di &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlusconi#Gli_inizi_e_il_sostegno_al_Partito_Socialista_Italiano"&gt;Bettino Craxi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; lasciamo da parte per un momento anche il fatto che, in seguito ai recenti scandali che lo avrebbero coinvolto in un giro di prostituzione e di favoreggiamento, Silvio Berlusconi non sia stato in grado di fornire delle giustificazioni esaurienti e non contraddittorie, ma che anzi abbia reagito invitando la stampa nazionale e internazionale a non parlare della vicenda, di fatto screditando la libertà di stampa e cercando di infondere ulteriore sfiducia nell'elettorato italiano nei confronti di tutto ciò che non è il Suo verbo.&lt;br /&gt;Limitiamoci piuttosto ad analizzare ciò che ha effettivamente promesso e realizzato mentre era al potere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;do html=""&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3OlQ762Qh-A&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3OlQ762Qh-A&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/do&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Governo Berlusconi I - XII Legislatura della Repubblica Italiana&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel 1993, in seguito allo scandalo di &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_pulite"&gt;Tangentopoli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, l'Italia si trova orfana della guida di due dei suoi partiti più importanti, la &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrazia_Cristiana"&gt;Democrazia Cristiana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e il &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_Socialista_Italiano"&gt;Partito Socialista Italiano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Il partito erede del Partito Comunista Italiano, cioè il &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_Democratico_della_Sinistra"&gt;Partito Democratico della Sinista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; fondato nel 1991 e guidato da Achille Occhetto, sembra non avere apparentemente rivali, e si vede già vittorioso alle elezioni politiche di marzo. Berlusconi, tuttavia, annuncia, a soli due mesi di distanza dalle elezioni politiche, che sarebbe "&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discesa_in_campo"&gt;sceso in campo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;" con il neonato partito di &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza_Italia"&gt;Forza Italia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Il 27 marzo 1994, contro ogni previsione, il partito dell'industriale milanese vince le elezioni insieme a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleanza_Nazionale"&gt;Alleanza Nazionale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord"&gt;Lega Nord&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_Cristiano_Democratico"&gt;Centro Cristiano Democratico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unione_di_Centro_%281993-1999%29"&gt;Unione di Centro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; riunite sotto la coalizione &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_delle_Libert%C3%A0"&gt;Polo delle Libertà&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_del_Buon_Governo"&gt;Polo del Buon Governo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia, si tratta di un'esperienza di governo piuttosto travagliata: l'incompatibilità continuamente manifesta tra la Lega Nord (razzista, neoliberista e avverso allo Stato centralista) e Alleanza Nazionale (nazionalista e assertore dello Stato forte e interventista) e &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/11/14/le-piazze-che-resurrezione.html"&gt;la questione sociale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; che il 12 novembre 1994 mobilita a Roma &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1994a10.htm"&gt;un milione di persone in difesa dei diritti dei lavoratori&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (la più grande manifestazione sindacale nella storia della Repubblica) mostrano la debolezza del primo Governo Berlusconi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il 22 novembre 1994 viene recapitato a Berlusconi un avviso di garanzia dalla Procura di Milano dal quale apprende di essere indagato per concorso in corruzione, tutto questo mentre presiede a Napoli la Conferenza mondiale delle Nazioni Unite sulla criminalità organizzata. In seguito, anche alcuni tra i suoi più stretti collaboratori, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Dell%27Utri"&gt;Marcello Dell'Utri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (avvocato di Berlusconi) e &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Previti"&gt;Cesare Previti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (Ministro della Difesa), sono travolti da altre gravi accuse. Berlusconi accusa di cospirazione politica la magistratura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_nord#Caduta_del_governo_Berlusconi_I"&gt;fine del primo breve Governo Berlusconi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; arriva quando Berlusconi non approva il progetto della Lega Nord di dividere l'Italia in 9 macroaree e Bossi non appoggia il Cavaliere in Parlamento sul tema tema delle pensioni. Berlusconi afferma in diretta televisiva che Bossi è un alleato poco affidabile, mentre il leader della Lega Nord &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brianzapopolare.it/sezioni/politica/berlusconi_mafioso_lega_2001feb16.htm"&gt;accusa il premier di associazione mafiosa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il 22 dicembre 1994, Silvio Berlusconi &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntata.aspx?id=156"&gt;consegna le sue dimissioni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; al Presidente della Repubblica Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Continua...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-6449756431997355599?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2009/07/fratelli-ditalia-parte-2.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-8292572902812230865</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-06T21:50:40.940+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Politics</category><title>Fratelli d'Italia (parte 1)</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-5e2de6878d568c83" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH0tHotUauceIYq0WXFhgJeANiTL1VtbNTKXqR9A0FXH6CIplZb_8H4jFBwkSFCuvs2WEisK29v_lk5Dr-ZjVebonqH27S11to4C69iDuDKVpZ2aPOnsKIZvEcdDphPkBQ2xWAzo44sA-gasuSPufvUozcRiG19bWGb7loseC4ysT-e50HjVMrwiWKivNedkc73SoAhEvWGk1GNPsPlYh3Vi%26sigh%3Dhlv5JAL5lmWgVhvPzi9TsAj6n6I%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5e2de6878d568c83%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DkXuD-M5xt8t5pMinXClnHdYT4Z4&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH0tHotUauceIYq0WXFhgJeANiTL1VtbNTKXqR9A0FXH6CIplZb_8H4jFBwkSFCuvs2WEisK29v_lk5Dr-ZjVebonqH27S11to4C69iDuDKVpZ2aPOnsKIZvEcdDphPkBQ2xWAzo44sA-gasuSPufvUozcRiG19bWGb7loseC4ysT-e50HjVMrwiWKivNedkc73SoAhEvWGk1GNPsPlYh3Vi%26sigh%3Dhlv5JAL5lmWgVhvPzi9TsAj6n6I%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5e2de6878d568c83%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DkXuD-M5xt8t5pMinXClnHdYT4Z4&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualche settimana fa, a una cena di famiglia, mio cugino Manuel mi chiese quale fosse, secondo me, la più grande differenza tra noi e gli americani. Anche lui, come altri che mi hanno posto la stessa domanda, era convinto che gli avrei risposto che rispetto a noi gli americani sono profondamente ignoranti, come confermano certi stessi programmi americani nei quali si vedono spesso e volentieri &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6W3T7MTh4M"&gt;persone appartenenti alla classe media boccheggiare di fronte a domande dalla semplicità disarmante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, oppure &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww"&gt;esprimersi con delle costruzioni indegne di un bambino di prima elementare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Gli stessi exchange students che ritornano dagli Stati Uniti, me compreso, confermano poi che l'insegnamento delle varie materie viene mediamente gestito a un livello nettamente inferiore e a un ritmo notevolmente più rilassato rispetto a quello che si fa normalmente nelle nostre scuole italiane. Da ciò che ho potuto vedere io, quindi, avrei anche potuto confermare questa posizione, dal momento che né la mia scuola in Alabama né quella in Mississippi offrivano un'istruzione di qualità paragonabile alla nostra, ma è anche vero che ciò che rende importante un'educazione non è tanto quanto impari, ma ciò che impari e come sai usare ciò che sai. Se è vero infatti che, complessivamente, l'insegnamento delle varie materie in America avviene a livelli decisamente bassi, è anche vero però che se da parte dello studente ci sono volontà d'imparare e dedizione nello studio, gli Stati Uniti offrono diverse opportunità come fiere scientifiche, competizioni sportive, esposizioni artistiche, rappresentazioni teatrali, gare di retorica e altre manifestazioni ancora per permettere ai propri studenti di confrontarsi con i loro pari sul piano pratico, che nella migliore tradizione anglosassone non viene mai ignorato: probabilmente un americano medio non saprà neanche qual è la capitale dell'Italia, ma semplicemente perché &lt;i&gt;non gli serve&lt;/i&gt;. Nel momento in cui un americano ha bisogno di sapere qualcosa, utilizzerà tutti i mezzi a sua disposizione per conoscerla nel modo più preciso e aggiornato possibile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora, non voglio premiare questo tipo d'istruzione, che è molto settoriale e porta la massa ad essere facilmente raggirabile e governabile, ma siamo onesti con noi stessi: quanti degli italiani "colti" sono effettivamente tali? Quante delle persone che andavano bene a scuola, poi, nella loro vita, hanno veramente coltivato la propria cultura personale, o si sono ricordati anche solo la metà delle cose che hanno imparato alle superiori, o avrebbero comunque potuto farlo meglio se le strutture scolastiche italiane avessero fornito mezzi adeguati e aggiornati? Penso allora che la percentuale di "ignoranti" italiani diventerebbe molto vicina, se non uguale, a quella degli "ignoranti" americani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A mio cugino quindi non ho risposto che la differenza più grande tra gli italiani e gli americani sta nell'istruzione, non comuqnue più significativa di tante altre differenze che avrei potuto elencargli. La cosa che ho trovato più aliena rispetto al mio mondo d'origine è stato invece il modo in cui gli americani percepiscono sé stessi, come individui e come popolo, e il modo in cui organizzano la loro vita di comunità, molto più "comunista" di quanto ci si potrebbe aspettare dalla patria dell'individualismo capitalista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;* * *&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SkAbp3dTVgI/AAAAAAAAAXM/WwrFPOxn9uE/s1600-h/Bondi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SkAbp3dTVgI/AAAAAAAAAXM/WwrFPOxn9uE/s200/Bondi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350306763391587842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il 21 giugno 2009 il quotidiano &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Il Giornale&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; presentava in prima pagina &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=360562"&gt;una lettera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; scritta dall'attuale &lt;b&gt;Ministro dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali Sandro Bondi&lt;/b&gt; per difendere sé stesso e il &lt;b&gt;Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri Silvio Berlusconi&lt;/b&gt; dagli attacchi che il quotidiano &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Repubblica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; aveva mosso loro, durante le precedenti settimane, in seguito agli scandali che coinvolgevano la corruzione dell'avvocato Mills, la partecipazione di una minorenne a feste sontuose indette dal Premier nella sua villa in Sardegna e il presunto coinvolgimento sempre dello stesso in un giro di prostituzione e di uso improprio dei voli di Stato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"...&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Scalfari"&gt;Eugenio Scalfari&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (il fondatore ed ex-direttore di &lt;i&gt;La Repubblica&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;cerca di dipingere il quadro politico e l’atmosfera di questi giorni come se ci trovassimo nuovamente alla vigilia della caduta di un regime, con il corollario di servi, gerarchi e cortigiani, fra i quali vengo annoverato maliziosamente anch’io, in procinto di tradire e di abbandonare la nave."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, scrive il ministro Bondi, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"La maestria di Scalfari, bisogna ammetterlo, consiste da sempre nella capacità di divulgare e accreditare nell’opinione pubblica una visione storiografica, politica e culturale che è esattamente agli antipodi della realtà.&lt;br /&gt;Quello che sta avvenendo in questi giorni è la conferma più clamorosa di quanto sostengo.&lt;br /&gt;Scalfari è abile nel descrivere un regime corrotto e morente, contro il quale il suo quotidiano ha lanciato l’offensiva finale, trascinando con sé anche il Corriere della Sera e ciò che resta della sinistra, mentre la realtà è che un governo democraticamente eletto subisce un’aggressione sistematica da parte di un centro di potere economico e politico, che non può vantare alcuna legittimità democratica né morale, sulla base di una campagna scandalistica paragonabile alla pesca con lo strascico.&lt;br /&gt;Alle porte non vi è la caduta di un regime, come ritiene Eugenio Scalfari, né la fuga di gerarchi felloni, ma vi sarebbe, nell’ipotesi abbia successo il progetto destabilizzante di Repubblica, l’indebolimento della nostra democrazia e la rovina dell'Italia.&lt;br /&gt;Io non dimentico mai che, se Berlusconi non avesse avuto il coraggio di impedire nel 1994 alla gioiosa macchina da guerra della sinistra capitanata da Achille Occhetto di conquistare il potere, l’Italia sarebbe stata governata da una torbida alleanza formata dalla sinistra comunista e da tutti quei poteri economici rappresentati da un quotidiano come La Repubblica, che avrebbe dato vita sì a un vero regime politico privo di alternative."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Difficile rimanere indifferenti a queste parole. Difficile escludere che potrebbe trattarsi di un complotto ordito da quegli schifosi comunisti che sono tutti quelli che non condividono il pensiero di Berlusconi (poco importa che provengano effettivamente da movimenti marxisti/leninisti/staliniani, in Italia la parola "comunsta" ha acquistato ormai un significato completamente diverso da quello che aveva anche soltato una decina di anni fa). Del resto, nel momento in cui in un Paese "democratico" solamente un quotidiano (&lt;i&gt;La Repubblica&lt;/i&gt;) e un telegiornale privato (&lt;i&gt;Sky TG 24&lt;/i&gt;) denunciano questi fatti, è lecito supporre che si tratti di una bieca manovra della sinistra rancorosa volta a minare la fiducia nel Capo del Governo. Se tutti gli altri quotidiani e telegiornali non ne parlano, non è perché sono tutti controllati proprio da quella stessa persona, ma perché si tratta di bugie false e tendenziose. Poco importa che siano accreditate dal resto della stampa estera e che su Internet ci sia una guerra contro la censura che lo stesso governo di destra italiano cerca di applicare neanche si fosse in Cina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;dohtml&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/654E4xfN1j0&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/654E4xfN1j0&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/dohtml&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Intercettazione telefonata Berlusconi-Saccà: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpiLC1xaeM"&gt;Parte #02&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La maggioranza degli italiani non presta più molta attenzione alle questioni morali. Berlusconi è talmente carismatico e tanto amato che i suoi sostenitori possono perdonargli ogni cosa, se non addirittura giustificarla. A nessuno importa che sia coinvolto in un conflitto d'interessi, che non abbia mai risolto fino in fondo i suoi guai con la giustizia (facendo cadere ogni processo che lo coinvolgeva in prescrizione), che abbia &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrnJobKaFrk"&gt;insultato un eurodeputato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; e offeso di conseguenza tutto il popolo tedesco da lui rappresentato, che abbia fatto in più di un'occasione apologia di fascismo, che abbia regolarmente denigrato la nostra magistratura e che si sia preso gioco delle &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sdprato.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/berlusconi_corna3.jpg"&gt;istituzioni europee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, di quelle italiane e dei &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6z6c3pJs0o"&gt;simboli della patria&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, senza contare le sue inopportune considerazioni sulle donne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se tutte queste azioni possono risultare all'elettorato italiano perdonabili e giustificabili, mi chiedo tuttavia quali spiegazioni si possano dare a certe scelte fatte dal Cavaliere in materia legislativa che palesano la sua "discesa in campo" come un'azione volta al mero interesse personale, e non per prendersi cura dello Stato come lui millanta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Continua...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-8292572902812230865?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure type='video/mp4' url='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=5e2de6878d568c83&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2009/06/fratelli-ditalia-parte-1.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SkAbp3dTVgI/AAAAAAAAAXM/WwrFPOxn9uE/s72-c/Bondi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-6976042734637316668</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-18T23:23:14.075+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Le ragioni dell'incertezza</category><title>La sicurezza dei libri</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-462f4b831f36ac64" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPCZD0ddCGBZjZs6HcCGJYfyDuTlNhY5KBcEWtOV58FcPX7EmnbxCiKg2vlurp4V2s0mqRYhrW48iuUWPWYP7jnwAIg7RvexOkrKiIY3iv4oouQJibwaz1D21wwP_4pFFI8NsKID1axmzrECaEpV7E4wWYdg_sceMY89M_Cq5bNG2hpo1wgzLrX1HXVdaao9oO8Du6QJApLQ1PdKhcbhVNppTxtbTwOa5OF5kg0-_ZIa%26sigh%3DNitN628bFkC3Sh3Wk6PqWRPMS9k%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D462f4b831f36ac64%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Dao4RABkQyT7Nk4g58Lpx9fJ9IcU&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPCZD0ddCGBZjZs6HcCGJYfyDuTlNhY5KBcEWtOV58FcPX7EmnbxCiKg2vlurp4V2s0mqRYhrW48iuUWPWYP7jnwAIg7RvexOkrKiIY3iv4oouQJibwaz1D21wwP_4pFFI8NsKID1axmzrECaEpV7E4wWYdg_sceMY89M_Cq5bNG2hpo1wgzLrX1HXVdaao9oO8Du6QJApLQ1PdKhcbhVNppTxtbTwOa5OF5kg0-_ZIa%26sigh%3DNitN628bFkC3Sh3Wk6PqWRPMS9k%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D462f4b831f36ac64%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Dao4RABkQyT7Nk4g58Lpx9fJ9IcU&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo per me è un periodo di grandi cambiamenti, un periodo nel quale credo di aver finalmente trovato una riposta ad alcune importanti domande, o forse invece solamente nuove domande a cui rispondere.&lt;br /&gt;Una volta finito il periodo del liceo, infatti, è finito un periodo di odiosi obblighi e scadenze, ma anche di un periodo tutto sommato di protezione. Si trattava di un percorso ben preciso con degli obiettivi ben chiari, un sistema all'interno del quale tutto appariva in ordine e al suo posto e che permetteva di rimandare continuamente il problema di dover decidere su ciò che sarebbe stato il mio futuro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://think0.deviantart.com/art/Spain-Grunge-Flag-112653575"&gt;think0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Sji_nkNGEaI/AAAAAAAAAXE/btf5zwZEYqc/s1600-h/Spain_Grunge_Flag_by_think0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Sji_nkNGEaI/AAAAAAAAAXE/btf5zwZEYqc/s200/Spain_Grunge_Flag_by_think0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348235243956867490" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In questo periodo sto seguendo un corso di spagnolo, una cosa tranquilla fatta di due lezioni a settimana. A seguire questo corso siamo io e un uomo sui trent'anni che ha vissuto tutta la prima metà della sua vita negli Stati Uniti, e che si è trasferito a Brescia una volta già adulto per lavoro (contrariamente a quanto fanno molte altre persone che se ne vanno oltreoceano). La nostra insegnante ha avuto una vita ancora più strana: per metà irlandese e per metà argentina, ha vissuto in sud america fino a quando non ha incontrato suo marito, uno spagnolo che si trovava lì per lavoro. Dopo essersi trasferita in Spagna assieme a lui, anche lei è venuta qui a Brescia in cerca di lavoro in seguito alla violenta crisi economica che ha colpito la Spagna negli ultimi anni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi piace lo spagnolo. Per un italiano poi è una lingua relativamente semplice da imparare: anche senza conoscerlo, è molto facile capire la maggior parte delle parole, e se si ha un minimo di conoscenza di grammatica italiana - quella che ci viene insegnata fin dalle elementari - fare un parallelismo tra le loro strutture e le nostre viene automatico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto è facile per me, però, tanto è difficile per il mio compagno di corso italo-americano. Seppure si esprima in un italiano perfetto, da madrelingua (a parte qualche congiuntivo ogni tanto, ma neanche gli italiani li azzeccano tutti), è una lingua che ha appreso sul campo, senza mai studiarla veramente con dei libri. Tanto di cappello a lui, quindi, ma per lui fare parallelismi tra la nostra lingua e lo spagnolo è un'impresa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In un momento in cui la nostra insegnante non era in classe, mi ha chiesto di dargli una mano con alcuni esercizi che avremmo dovuto fare per casa e che lui non aveva avuto il tempo di completare. Ho provato così a spiegargli con pazienza alcune semplici regole fondamentali della grammatica spagnola cercando di sfruttare il suo bilinguismo per mostrargli gli stessi parallelismi che sfrutto io in modo da rendere anche per lui l'apprendimento di questa lingua molto meno ostico, ma tra singolari, plurali, maschili, femminili, soggetti, pronomi e aggettivi possessivi era completamente perso. Ciò che per me risultava intuitivo, per lui era un inferno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho avuto pena per l'uomo. Anche se è più vecchio di me, mi ha ricordato quando al liceo ero alle prese con lo studio della fisica, e in classe prendevo appunti su appunti, ricopiavo dalla lavagna ogni singola formula, ogni singolo schema, ogni singolo simbolo senza mai arrivare a capo di niente, così come lui, che invece di &lt;i&gt;capire&lt;/i&gt; le cose, le trascrive sperando di riuscire a comprenderle in seguito tramite lo studio a casa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://zecg.deviantart.com/art/Libri-VII-856145"&gt;zecg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://th00.deviantart.net/images/300W/i/2002/44/7/d/Libri_VII.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 209px;" src="http://th00.deviantart.net/images/300W/i/2002/44/7/d/Libri_VII.jpg" alt="" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ripensare al periodo del liceo mi ha portato a fare un collegamento con il tipo di studi che sto per intraprendere, così distante nella forma e nei fatti a ciò per cui sono stato addestrato nei precedenti 20 anni della mia vita. A parte alcuni, pochi insegnamenti, la parte più importante del mio percorso d'ora in poi sarà basata non più tanto su ciò che avrò studiato sui testi, ma su ciò che avrò letto, visto, ascoltato e poi rielaborato, reinterpretato. Non dovrò più ripetere nozioni, ma prendere esempio da ciò che hanno fatto gli altri per sviluppare qualcosa di nuovo e di mio, che abbia un motivo di esistere di per sé e che gli altri trovino interessante guardare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi è venuta un po' di angoscia nel pensare che, scegliendo questa strada, perdo definitivamente la protezione offerta dai libri cui ero stato abituato. Senza rendermene conto, mi ero sempre fatto cullare dalle loro pagine, e nello studio di concetti già confezionati avevo trovato sicurezza. Il fatto che fosse tutto lì, già pronto, mi dava una sensazione di forza, mentre invece mi rendeva passivo, inerte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi chiedo quanti altri studenti, soprattutto italiani, cadano nello stesso "errore", e una volta arrivati a dover fare i conti con il mondo del lavoro si trovino spiazzati. Perché anche al di fuori del mondo dell'arte, viene sempre un momento in cui bisogna alzare gli occhi dal libro e davanti a sé non c'è più una verifica o un'interrogazione, ma un paziente, un edificio da costruire, una persona o un'azienda a cui rendere conto delle proprie azioni e decisioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-6976042734637316668?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure type='video/mp4' url='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=462f4b831f36ac64&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2009/06/la-sicurezza-dei-libri_10.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Sji_nkNGEaI/AAAAAAAAAXE/btf5zwZEYqc/s72-c/Spain_Grunge_Flag_by_think0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-2692462037196629930</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-24T13:54:42.307+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Specials</category><title>Aggiornamento</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/143/8/2/This_is_my_name_by_TheManfromAntarctica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 121px;" src="http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/143/8/2/This_is_my_name_by_TheManfromAntarctica.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Correva l'anno 2006 quando decisi di aprire questo blog in vista del mio imminente viaggio in America, pensando che sarei stato in grado di mantenerlo più o meno regolarmente aggiornato in modo da tenere un diario critico delle mie avventure e delle stranezze e meraviglie che mi aspettavo di incontrare - come poi è effettivamente succeso. Purtroppo, però, il mio sogno &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Zucconi"&gt;zucconiano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; di "cronista dell'altro mondo" si è realizzato solo a metà, visto che i miei aggiornamenti sono stati discontinui e concentrati più su quello che mi accadeva piuttosto che sulle riflessioni che mi capitava di fare confrontando il mio paese natale con la realtà americana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' da quando sono tornato, quindi, che questo blog è stato quasi totalmente ignorato e negletto, salvo sporadici, scarni aggiornamenti tutto sommato di scarsissima importanza. Il mio problema principale era: perché qualcuno dovrebbe fermarsi a leggere il mio blog? Ma soprattutto, perché dovrei raccontare i cazzi miei al mondo?&lt;br /&gt;Più volte ho pensato di utilizzarlo come piattaforma per recensioni cinematografiche e letteriarie o per segnalare qualche cazzata internettiana, ma alla fine vuoi la pigrizia vuoi il fatto che &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lnx.phantomcastle.it/forum/"&gt;un forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; tutto sommato abbastanza frequentato può dare molte più soddisfazioni, True Heroes è stato totalmente ignorato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi è venuta tuttavia voglia di rispolverare questo spazio, e di utilizzarlo per pubblicare tutti quei pensieri che mi piacerebbe condividere con persone che non siano semplicemente parenti o amici, ma tutte quelle che sono capitate qui per un motivo o per l'altro e hanno avuto la voglia e la pazienza di leggere quello che scrivo. Questo perché sono convinto sia possibile esprimere la propria visione del mondo pubblicamente senza dover aver paura di rimanere nudi in piazza, o che una persona a noi avversa possa servirsene per farci un torto.&lt;br /&gt;Contrariamente a quanto avevo già similmente annunciato &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/true-heores-what-about-em.html"&gt;in questo vecchio intervento&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, scelgo anche di scrivere in italiano piuttosto che in inglese, come mi ero inizialmente ripromesso di fare per mantenermi in esercizio, per comodità mia e dei miei lettori, che almeno nell'immediato mi aspetto comunque appartenere alla cerchia degli amici che già mi conoscono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*EDIT*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho fatto la sciocchezza di aggiornare il mio blog con il nuovo Layout di BlogSpot (c'era ancora quello vecchio) senza salvare il vecchio modello. Probabilmente alcuni link di quelli elencati a fianco sono andati persi, come il counter di Lost.&lt;br /&gt;Vabbè, roba di poco conto - l'importante è avere accesso ai nuovi, interessanti tools che questa versione mette a disposizione, anche se un po' la vecchia formattazione mi manca già...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-2692462037196629930?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2009/06/la-sicurezza-dei-libri.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-6805984035971332397</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-24T13:54:16.506+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Politics</category><title>Smells like History</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SRGytShOdjI/AAAAAAAAAOE/QIwbphECzfY/s1600-h/Obama+podium.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SRGytShOdjI/AAAAAAAAAOE/QIwbphECzfY/s400/Obama+podium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265185930507875890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Barack Obama Victory Speech&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;November 4th 2008&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrXkBuWNx88"&gt;Part 1&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BV5Zah1Tw"&gt;Part 2&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JeattgAqI"&gt;Part 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hello, Chicago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states; we are and always will be the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain. Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him, I congratulate Governor Palin for all they've achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton, and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"To my sister Maya, my sister Auma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given to me. I am grateful to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign who built the best political campaign I think in the history of the United States of America. To my chief strategist, David Axelrod, who has been a partner with me every step of the way, to the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics... you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington; it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy. Who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep. It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from the Earth. This is your victory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Now, I know you didn't do this just to win an election, and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term, but America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you: We as a people will get there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers. In this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House -- a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, "We are not enemies, but friends -- though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection." And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"To those who would tear the world down: we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals -- democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"That's the true genius of America, that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She is a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election, except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons, because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America: the heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress, the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed, yes we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When there was despair in the Dust Bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We shall overcome." Yes we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A man touched down on the Moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there's so much more to do. So tonight let us ask ourselves, if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time -- to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"In my whole life, I have never met an African American.&lt;br /&gt;Only Americans who happen to have a different color of the skin from mine."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Greg Stacy, Wheeler (MS)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-6805984035971332397?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/11/smells-like-history.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SRGytShOdjI/AAAAAAAAAOE/QIwbphECzfY/s72-c/Obama+podium.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-4102015315284897149</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-24T13:53:46.869+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Politics</category><title>True Heroes for Barack Obama</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SQ9H3oZvNZI/AAAAAAAAAN8/AUt7V24pr_I/s1600-h/Obama+by+MikePMitchell.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SQ9H3oZvNZI/AAAAAAAAAN8/AUt7V24pr_I/s400/Obama+by+MikePMitchell.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264505510483146130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;Just to make clear what I stand for.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://mikepmitchell.deviantart.com/art/Obama-08-101752648"&gt;MarkPMitchell&lt;/a&gt; for the fabolous artwork.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-4102015315284897149?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/11/true-heroes-for-barack-obama.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/SQ9H3oZvNZI/AAAAAAAAAN8/AUt7V24pr_I/s72-c/Obama+by+MikePMitchell.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-4472215746277324319</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-24T13:53:26.101+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Television</category><title>Lost Mobisodes</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In about 3 days the 4th season of Lost is starting back on ABC in the US (lucky Americans!) with 8 brand new episodes. The Writers Guild of America is throwing a strike against the producers in order to see their job a little more well paid, so we won't have a full season, but just these first ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, here are 3 of the 13 "mobisodes" that ABC spread in the last two months on the Verizon cellphones to promote their famous tv show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Lost Mobisode #06: Room 23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="432" height="351"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.megavideo.com/v/13M7EDVKe0c67ce3c7ba13d60f89addfab4d4d36.2236335862.0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.megavideo.com/v/13M7EDVKe0c67ce3c7ba13d60f89addfab4d4d36.2236335862.0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="432" height="351"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Lost Mobisode #12: The 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Lee!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jd3-eiid-Uw&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jd3-eiid-Uw&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-5120633719630883323?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/01/future-of-screen.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-570354345111424207</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-24T13:49:52.017+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Just my ordinary Italian Life</category><title>CUSTOM</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dal "Ragazzini 2004: Dizionario Inglese-Italiano" edito da Zanichelli:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Custom:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;costume; costumanza; consuetudine; abitudine; usanza; uso (es: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the old customs of our country,&lt;/span&gt; le vecchie usanze del nostro paese).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Take that!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.soqquadro.org/Public/avatar/HotSun/20074311123_gesto_ombrello.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.soqquadro.org/Public/avatar/HotSun/20074311123_gesto_ombrello.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-570354345111424207?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/01/custom.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-2605575068637968712</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-13T16:15:18.276+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Just my ordinary Italian Life</category><title>La Scuola in Italia</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primo intervento su True Heroes interamente in italiano!&lt;br /&gt;Ma ne arriveranno altri...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi in classe si è parlato con la profe di italiano di quello che pensiamo a proposito del &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2007/01/sezioni/scuola_e_universita/servizi/maturita-2007-/fioroni-maturita/fioroni-maturita.html"&gt;Decreto Fioroni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, ognuno di noi ha espresso la propria opinione e anche io ho detto la mia, ma mi sono trattenuto. Avrei detto una cosa che sarebbe suonata banale anche se non lo è affatto, e non ho creduto che fosse nè il momento né il luogo. Ora però vorrei continuare quella discussione qui, sempre che abbiate voglia di leggermi e di rispondermi (tramite commenti, email o anche direttamente a scuola se ne avete voglia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scuola italiana fa schifo, non sono solo gli esami di maturità o il sistema dei debiti che vanno cambiati, ma tutto quanto insieme. Trovo inutile e inconcludente che  certi professori ci attacchino con frasi tipo "Non vi impegnate abbastanza! Se continuate così, un giorno sarete tutti servi dei cinesi!". Forse una volta gli alunni liceali erano più diligenti, forse gli insegnanti erano avevano conoscenze meno profonde, forse c'erano meno distrazioni in giro, forse c'erano meno cose da insegnare/imparare, ma oggi non è più così! I tempi sono cambiati, e così devono cambiare anche le istituzioni, ma in modo sincero ed efficace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco la mia proposta: una scuola simile al modello americano, e passo dopo passo portarla anche a livello europeo, perché sì, io sono favorevole alla globalizzazione. E' dall'alba dei tempi che gli uomini sognano la pace globale, e l'unico modo per arrivarci sono appunto le organizzazioni internazionali.&lt;br /&gt;Chi ha nostalgia dei "bei tempi andati" è un illuso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In America non esistono le classi: ogni alunno è obbligato a seguire tre materie base (inglese, matematica e storia) e a sceglierne (obbligatoriamente) altre quattro (anche se poi dipende da scuola a scuola: gli USA sono un continente, non uno stato, e io di stati ne ho vissuti solo due del Sud), materie che vanno dalla fisica all'informatica, dal teatro allo sport.&lt;br /&gt;Non esistono neanche le interrogazioni! Ogni voto dato da un insegnante è basato su un compito scritto in classe o a casa! In questo modo OGNI MALEDETTISSIMO VOTO è basato su un documento scritto, ufficiale, firmato da studente e insegnante, non su interventi orali la cui validità è indimostrabile/incontestabile a posteriori di fronte a terzi! Quante volte avete protestato "c****, meritavo molto di più!", ma invano, perché ogni professore è un sovrano che detta la sua legge personale sul registro? Non vi siete rotti?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è secondo me il sistema vincente, se impiegato in un modo intelligente.&lt;br /&gt;Ogni alunno americano infatti, prima di firmare un contratto annuale (se non quinquennale) come avviene nel nostro Bel Paese, ha a disposizione ben UN MESE DI TEMPO per rendersi conto se il suo piano di studi è troppo pesante o troppo leggerlo, e quindi di cambiarlo.&lt;br /&gt;Anche gli esami di maturità non esistono - e non esistono neanche i test d'ingresso all'Università (anche se su questo non sono proprio sicuro... certe Università prestigiose come la Columbia di New York o la Berckley di Los Angeles potrebbero funzionare in modo diverso). Infatti gli americani svolgono dei test chiamati ACT (i più facili) e SAT (un po' più seri) durante tutti gli anni di scuola superiore, in modo da accumulare così un punteggio che gli garantisce anche notevoli BORSE DI STUDIO - forse 10000€ non sono tantissimi, ma vi assicuro che un pochino aiutano, tanto per cominciare, e sono sicuramente molto meglio di NIENTE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Troppo costoso? Troppo faticoso? Troppo innovativo? Forse.&lt;br /&gt;Ma io non voglio diventare il servo di nessun cinese, e non voglio che lo diventino gli italiani di domani. Possibile che sia così difficile da realizzare?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-2605575068637968712?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/10/la-scuola.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-359833615037595332</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-08T12:52:43.007+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>London</category><title>London - 05</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwkNLz5DaxI/AAAAAAAAALo/6ueo1l9HRDs/s1600-h/The+Globe+Theatre.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwkNLz5DaxI/AAAAAAAAALo/6ueo1l9HRDs/s200/The+Globe+Theatre.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118636948042509074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 05:&lt;/b&gt; Monday 12, August 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we visit the Father of the British theatres.&lt;br /&gt;The day we see what makes the time on Earth.&lt;br /&gt;The day we feel the pride of the British navy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "Hostel Trio" got up early in the morning ready to go visit the &lt;a href="http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Globe Theatre&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the one wanted by William Shakespeare in the 16th century in order to play his dramas in a peculiar place, where the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall"&gt;&lt;b&gt;fourth wall&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is weaker than  usual. It's been more interesting than what I had expected, and it made me and Beppe want to come back to see a play - even if I'm not sure of what I'd understand from a Shakespeare's work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwk5wj5DayI/AAAAAAAAALw/0-fcQdZGEpg/s1600-h/Greenwich+Observatory.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwk5wj5DayI/AAAAAAAAALw/0-fcQdZGEpg/s320/Greenwich+Observatory.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118685957914323746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/astronomy/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Royal Observatory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park. It is famous for the Meridian line that serves to calculate the universal time on Earth - in Italy is +1 hour. In the inside, for the visitors, there are several exhibitions about the history of the Big Bang and the clocks used by men from the Ancient Ages till today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwn4gD5DazI/AAAAAAAAAL4/IXDe2v3uiEg/s1600-h/National+Maritime+Museum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwn4gD5DazI/AAAAAAAAAL4/IXDe2v3uiEg/s320/National+Maritime+Museum.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118895681167387442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Right in front of the Observatory, behind the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_House"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Queen's House&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there is the &lt;a href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;National Maritime Museum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where you can see models of the glorious British Navy, some real ancient and modern ships, an engine and some games for kids, including a simulator that allows you to drive your own boat on the Thames. Somewhere around in the neighborood there was the &lt;a href="http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cutty Sark&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a clipper-ship of the 19th century that was open to the public till last May, when it got damaged in a fire, and it won't open until 2009, when the restoration should be over.&lt;br /&gt;We had also in program to visit the Tate Britain, but just like the other day it was  too late already.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-359833615037595332?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/10/london-05.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwkNLz5DaxI/AAAAAAAAALo/6ueo1l9HRDs/s72-c/The+Globe+Theatre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-2360749253675697258</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-07T10:57:57.859+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>London</category><title>London - 04</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwe_mj5DatI/AAAAAAAAALI/V-6yptq-6Us/s1600-h/Portobello+Road.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwe_mj5DatI/AAAAAAAAALI/V-6yptq-6Us/s200/Portobello+Road.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118270170720332498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 04:&lt;/b&gt; Sunday 11, August 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we find out that it can gets hot in London, and that their flea markets are too much similar to ours.&lt;br /&gt;The day we start visiting art museums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our day began with a short visit to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portobelloroad.co.uk/"&gt;Portobello Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, where the most famous British flea market takes place every Sunday morning. It's been the hottest day we had during our vacation, and due to the weather, the crowd and the profumes in the air it reminded me the streets of some southern Italian city close to the seaside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwiPAT5DauI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eoJuvNVDUbA/s1600-h/The+Tate+Modern.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwiPAT5DauI/AAAAAAAAALQ/eoJuvNVDUbA/s320/The+Tate+Modern.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118498212008913634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our program was to go see the Globe Theatre in the early afternoon, but we didn't get the time right, so we went to the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/"&gt;Tate Modern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; earlier than what scheduled. The building's a lot bigger than what it looks from the outside, and it is full of artworks from the middle 19th century till today. There were also the exhibitions &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/globalcities/default.shtm"&gt;Global Cities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/daliandfilm/default.shtm"&gt;Dalì&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While I found some paintigs and sculpture enjoiable, toward the most of them I still feel the same perplexities I had at the MoMA in NYC... What is the difference between an artist and a monkey with a brush? What does it get to say "Yes, that's art" instead of "Dude, what a piece of junk"? Who decides whom deserves to be famous and whom doesn't?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwicsz5DawI/AAAAAAAAALg/Y1nZjD-nP1g/s1600-h/Boccioni%27s+statue+strikes+back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwicsz5DawI/AAAAAAAAALg/Y1nZjD-nP1g/s200/Boccioni%27s+statue+strikes+back.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118513270164253442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why's Boccioni's statue here too?&lt;br /&gt;Is it following me everywhere?&lt;br /&gt;So many unanswered questions...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-2360749253675697258?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/10/london-04.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rwe_mj5DatI/AAAAAAAAALI/V-6yptq-6Us/s72-c/Portobello+Road.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-9159039682453911996</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-07T18:27:24.619+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>London</category><title>London - 03</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuQecDeQPTI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/ZGGi5JxSdhg/s1600-h/Buckingham+Palace+Gate.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuQecDeQPTI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/ZGGi5JxSdhg/s200/Buckingham+Palace+Gate.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108241344662355250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Day 03:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt; Saturday 10, August 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we visit the nest of the Royal power and the residence of the British love for culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuWZADeQPUI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/FBdlWAFp5W8/s1600-h/Buckingham+Palace+on+the+back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuWZADeQPUI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/FBdlWAFp5W8/s320/Buckingham+Palace+on+the+back.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108657578532945218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Since last year, a small section of Buckingham Palace is open to visitors, so we took advance of this chance to go visit it. It is something that a London lover shouldn't miss: the tour starts from the side but it takes to one of the biggest salons and the main rooms, with a rich exposition of artworks which come from all over the world, inclduing the many British colonies and pieces from Italian artists like Michelangelo, Raffaello and Canova. I found especially interesting the lunchroom with the collection of Albert's clocks and the corridor with the exposition about the wedding of Elizabeth and Philip. The ticket includes also the Queen's Gallery, with a different exhibition every year - this time it was dedicated to the Italian Collection of the Queen, what a coincidence - and the Royal Mews, the place where the chariots and the cars of the Royal family are kept. Too bad you ain't allowed to get pictures in the inside and that you can actually see only one third of it, because the rest of the palace is still inhabitated by the Royals, or it is used by offices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwekqD5DarI/AAAAAAAAAK4/4LDkAjPQSvk/s1600-h/The+British+Museum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RwekqD5DarI/AAAAAAAAAK4/4LDkAjPQSvk/s320/The+British+Museum.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118240544035924658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the late afternoon we decided to complete our day with what should have been a short visit to the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/default.aspx"&gt;British Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, but we weren't expecting Davide's love for antiquities, so it took a little longer. The Rosetta Stone's still at her place and so is everything else - but I'd like to bring to your attention the notorius &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull"&gt;Crystal Skull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, which is half-hidden in a big room together with some weird Japanese costumes. It'll be the main source of problems for Indiana Jones in the 2008 movie, so... go see it! They've got it in London!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-9159039682453911996?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/10/london-03.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuQecDeQPTI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/ZGGi5JxSdhg/s72-c/Buckingham+Palace+Gate.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-4110855666653217260</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-09-18T14:31:36.218+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Just my ordinary Italian Life</category><title>EIGHTEEN</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ru_EZN4IaFI/AAAAAAAAAKE/RCgLHEpivXA/s1600-h/Eighteen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ru_EZN4IaFI/AAAAAAAAAKE/RCgLHEpivXA/s200/Eighteen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111520039589668946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://antarctica.forumattivo.com/index.htm"&gt;What now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-4110855666653217260?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/09/eighteen.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ru_EZN4IaFI/AAAAAAAAAKE/RCgLHEpivXA/s72-c/Eighteen.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-3609054246753873834</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-07T10:16:15.235+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>London</category><title>London - 02</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNNEzeQPPI/AAAAAAAAAJU/nBeCJyR7sN0/s1600-h/00_The+march.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNNEzeQPPI/AAAAAAAAAJU/nBeCJyR7sN0/s200/00_The+march.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108011147300191474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Day 02:&lt;/b&gt; Friday 9, August 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we start living the British life, and take a look around the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way to celebrate the beginning of a journey in London is going to see the Changing of the Guard in front of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page555.asp"&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, which takes place once every two days, and so we did. It was a lovely sunny day, and the square was crowded with people from all over the world. The New Guard arrived from the Wellington Barracks while the Corp of Drums formed a circle to play music. The whole thing didn't take too much time, and when it was over we decided to move on with our trip, which previewed a visit of the four biggest parks of London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNSPTeQPQI/AAAAAAAAAJc/iT7OgfGwFm8/s1600-h/01_Buckingham+Palace.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNSPTeQPQI/AAAAAAAAAJc/iT7OgfGwFm8/s320/01_Buckingham+Palace.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108016825246956802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We walked through Green and St James's Park, which are closest to Buckingham Palace, and we had a view of Downing Street too, where some works were going on. On the way to the other two we took a look of Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, where we would have come back later during the vacation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNUXTeQPRI/AAAAAAAAAJk/U0o22cX9ibU/s1600-h/06_Sloath+Bear+at+the+London+Zoo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNUXTeQPRI/AAAAAAAAAJk/U0o22cX9ibU/s320/06_Sloath+Bear+at+the+London+Zoo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108019161709165842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We wanted to eat cheap and quickly, so we decided to have lunch for the first of many times in a &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pizzahut.com/"&gt;Pizza Hut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of the afternoon got away at the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo//"&gt;London Zoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; inside Regent's Park, where we saw bears, snakes, monkeys, owls, tigers, insects, gorillas and ostriches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing that was left for the day was Hyde Park, where we rented a boat and used it in the Serpentine, the long lake inside the park, which was a lot of fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We finally had dinner at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yosushi.com/"&gt;Yo!Sushi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, a Japanese resturant with tapisroulants and colored dishes. Pretty cool place, I recommend it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNZSDeQPSI/AAAAAAAAAJs/SJLaz0BHVR0/s1600-h/07_The+Serpentine+in+Hyde+Park.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNZSDeQPSI/AAAAAAAAAJs/SJLaz0BHVR0/s320/07_The+Serpentine+in+Hyde+Park.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108024569072991522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-3609054246753873834?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/09/london-02.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RuNNEzeQPPI/AAAAAAAAAJU/nBeCJyR7sN0/s72-c/00_The+march.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-8725706050158803290</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-28T21:06:45.285+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>London</category><title>London - 01</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RsyPjDeQPOI/AAAAAAAAAJM/QPEYhXtmpPw/s1600-h/Union+Jack.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RsyPjDeQPOI/AAAAAAAAAJM/QPEYhXtmpPw/s200/Union+Jack.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101610310294322402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Day 01:&lt;/b&gt; Thursday 8, August 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we fly from Bergamo to UK's capital and our little adventure begins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://willy4646.deviantart.com/"&gt;Willy 4646&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a sunny afternoon when the Fellowship left Montichiari to reach Bergamo's airport. Such Fellowship was composed by: me, my friends and classmates Beppe and Davide, and two brothers from Cremona, Giulio and Pietro, also known as "The Dukes".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The travel to the airport went smoothly, besides some complaints from our driver and her dreams about Trentino, which became epic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing else to talk about... we played poker in the airport hall waiting for our flight and then reached the UK and then we get to our hostel thank to a sex bomb from Kosovo who forgot to give me her cell phone number and then we slept 'cause we were tired.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-8725706050158803290?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/08/londons-calling.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RsyPjDeQPOI/AAAAAAAAAJM/QPEYhXtmpPw/s72-c/Union+Jack.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-6438291377476299755</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-16T14:08:00.014+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Specials</category><title>True Heores - What about 'em?</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RplIG-Sw-XI/AAAAAAAAAI8/pgxQrwUkNrk/s1600-h/True+Heroes+campaign.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RplIG-Sw-XI/AAAAAAAAAI8/pgxQrwUkNrk/s200/True+Heroes+campaign.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087176538729806194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For the first time in the history of this blog, I'm not writing about something that happened in the past, but about what I'm thinking right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day an ol' friend of mine said: "I hate blogs, I don't really give a s*** about someone else's life! Why should I read 'em?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;So, what's special about TH?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TH was born about a year ago as my first active adventure with the Internet, and a portal through which I would have told to my friends about my &lt;b&gt;experience in the US&lt;/b&gt; uploading photos and stuffs once in a while. I would have liked to do it much more often than what I actually did, but I think the results have been still good.&lt;br /&gt;There's also the intention to &lt;b&gt;keep me practising&lt;/b&gt; a little by writing exclusevly in English (besides comments, sometimes).&lt;br /&gt;It is also &lt;b&gt;a gate to whatever I like&lt;/b&gt; and I suggest you. On the left you can see the links which bring you to other blogs or websites about everything. There are funny websites, shopping websites, useful websites, websites about comics, websites about websites and so on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The yellow counter on the side tells me that at least about 4 people visit this blog almost every day. &lt;b&gt;Please leave a comment&lt;/b&gt;, even a short one, when you do it! I will know that you came by and that this space means something to someone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blog in particular is thought to be created and seen with the browser &lt;b&gt;Mozilla Firefox&lt;/b&gt; (see &lt;i&gt;"softwares"&lt;/i&gt;), I'm sorry about Internet Explorer users because on it TH has a different, worst aspect that I don't know how to fix  yet (photos and textes aren't displaced as well as with MF).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the links bring to Italian websites, others to English ones. Sometimes, though, you can find the version of the same site in &lt;b&gt;different languages&lt;/b&gt;, so don't be afraid! If you don't, but you're still interested about that topic, well... use Google, you know! \°o°/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, an another big question: &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;"Why's TH called True Heroes?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, as a very little group of people among my dearest classmates might remember, TH was &lt;b&gt;a short comic I made up in class after long, stressful hours of school&lt;/b&gt;. The project finished after 3 issues and 2 specials. I don't want to give it up though, so I hope I'll probably start it once again as soon as my will of drawing comes back along with my Godlike skillz. &gt;_&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rpk_KuSw-WI/AAAAAAAAAI0/dcABJIEeD3s/s1600-h/True+Heroes+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rpk_KuSw-WI/AAAAAAAAAI0/dcABJIEeD3s/s200/True+Heroes+01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087166707549665634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For your own pleasure, here's &lt;b&gt;the first original issue in Italian language&lt;/b&gt; (click on it to see it bigger in an another window).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;HAVE FUN!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"True Heores" are all those ordinary people that, despite they don't have any really cool super powers, and just because of that, struggle to get through their lives and get 'em right. As I am just a high school boy, these TH  in particular are students.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-6438291377476299755?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/true-heores-what-about-em.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RplIG-Sw-XI/AAAAAAAAAI8/pgxQrwUkNrk/s72-c/True+Heroes+campaign.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-3088867140399410502</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-12T15:56:07.589+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 07</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpYto-Sw-UI/AAAAAAAAAIk/av_lHHrPQG0/s1600-h/Flying+above+the+Alps.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpYto-Sw-UI/AAAAAAAAAIk/av_lHHrPQG0/s200/Flying+above+the+Alps.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086303011101276482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 07:&lt;/b&gt; Wednesday 30, May 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we said goodbye to Manhattan visiting the last things we had to see.&lt;br /&gt;The day I left America, and came back in the Old Continent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, we had already seen pretty much everything we had planned to. Only St.Patrice Cathedral and the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypl.org/"&gt;New York Public Library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; were left, and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.carnegiehall.org/jsps/intro.jsp"&gt;Carnegie Hall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; was booked by a High School for a graduation ceremony. The rest of the day went away by hanging around and shopping around Times Square.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpYw9OSw-VI/AAAAAAAAAIs/AtQ5DEz6n5I/s1600-h/Times+Square.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpYw9OSw-VI/AAAAAAAAAIs/AtQ5DEz6n5I/s400/Times+Square.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086306657528510802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it! So I'm home now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-3088867140399410502?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-city-07.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpYto-Sw-UI/AAAAAAAAAIk/av_lHHrPQG0/s72-c/Flying+above+the+Alps.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-8196543046096910565</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-11T18:43:39.837+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 06</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpK8-cIDKMI/AAAAAAAAAH8/lPBvxAEvBFA/s1600-h/The+Chrysler+Building.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpK8-cIDKMI/AAAAAAAAAH8/lPBvxAEvBFA/s200/The+Chrysler+Building.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085334710142576834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 06:&lt;/b&gt; Tuesday 29, May 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day I looked upon the City from her highest point, and though: "Ok, I'm here. What now? What's next?".&lt;br /&gt;The night my parents found out what's an HRC and that they have good food and good stuffs, after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpPJv8IDKNI/AAAAAAAAAIE/4H3zhwrfLcM/s1600-h/The+Empire+State+Building.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpPJv8IDKNI/AAAAAAAAAIE/4H3zhwrfLcM/s320/The+Empire+State+Building.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085630229662345426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Empire State Building is the highest skyscraper of Manhattan. Completed in 1931, its name comes from the nickname for the state of New York: it is 449 m (1,472 ft)high and it has 102 stories. It is considered by the American Society of Civil Engineers one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The aesthetic of the building is not as beautiful as the Chrysler's one (see picture above), but the view you can get from the observatory is quite impressive. It was a fortune that my mother knew about the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.citypass.com/"&gt;City Pass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; which makes one save a lot of money - and of time, too: you get to pass about half of the lines, and they can get very long in NYC! Especially at the ESB...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ESB stand right in the middle of Manhattan, so once you're on the top you can see everything: the Verrazzano and Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, the Flatiron and Chrysler buildings, the UN headquarters, Central Park and beyond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpP8QMIDKOI/AAAAAAAAAIM/DTlU8JztJ7g/s1600-h/Manhattan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpP8QMIDKOI/AAAAAAAAAIM/DTlU8JztJ7g/s400/Manhattan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085685759294515426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If you try to look on the lower streets and ceilings, seems like you are playing GTA2!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpUDMcIDKPI/AAAAAAAAAIU/057UxTvNgvk/s1600-h/The+Natural+History+Museum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpUDMcIDKPI/AAAAAAAAAIU/057UxTvNgvk/s320/The+Natural+History+Museum.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085974866428111090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amnh.org/"&gt;American Museum of Natural History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is right in front of Central Park. It contains thousands of statues and reproductions of animals, dinosaurs and ancient civilizations. There is also the Planetarium, a DeathStar-like structure with a cinema theater on the inside that shows the Meteors striking the Earth and the dance of the Galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanna have an idea what's the Museum like? watch "Night at the Museum" with Ben Stiller. Then forget it, 'cause it's totally different, inside and outside. But the movie's still fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpUGncIDKQI/AAAAAAAAAIc/bXH7Ixmyupw/s1600-h/Hard+Rock+Caf%C3%A9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpUGncIDKQI/AAAAAAAAAIc/bXH7Ixmyupw/s320/Hard+Rock+Caf%C3%A9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085978628819462402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For the last night we had to spend in NYC me and my parents decided to go have dinner at the Hard Rock Café, which is right in the middle of Times Square. The food is good, the music is good, the service is good. There is also a stage where sometimes bands give concerts, but no one was playing that night. Don't miss the Beatles' Collection hanged up the walls and the gift shop with the t-shirts! Yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-8196543046096910565?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-city-06.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpK8-cIDKMI/AAAAAAAAAH8/lPBvxAEvBFA/s72-c/The+Chrysler+Building.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-4946506178757072564</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-10T00:51:43.420+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 05</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpCqucIDKII/AAAAAAAAAHc/6CgB7Gl2zTE/s1600-h/Wall+Street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpCqucIDKII/AAAAAAAAAHc/6CgB7Gl2zTE/s200/Wall+Street.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084751694101948546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 05:&lt;/b&gt; Monday 28, May 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day I met Lady Liberty and had some good time with her. The day I understood with it meant to be an immigrant from the Old World in the US, and saw how many Italians arrived in NYC at the beginning of the 20th century. The night I went to the opera, and  heard the Phantom's cry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpFNR8IDKJI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FAdAvN9aFIY/s1600-h/The+Liberty+Statue.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpFNR8IDKJI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FAdAvN9aFIY/s400/The+Liberty+Statue.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084930424871004306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liberty Enlightening the World, this is the name given to the more commonly known Statue of Liberty by its creator, the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She surely is the most famous icon representing the United States - a symbol of freedom. Millions of immigrants have been welcomed by the sight of this statue in the past, and there she still stands with the tablet commemorating the Declaration of Independence in her left hand and the torch in the right one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw her, she's real.&lt;br /&gt;And she's beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpKx0MIDKKI/AAAAAAAAAHs/XBJNjFp-idM/s1600-h/Ellis+Island.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpKx0MIDKKI/AAAAAAAAAHs/XBJNjFp-idM/s200/Ellis+Island.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085322439421012130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ellis Island was the place where immigrants were received once they had finally reached the US. Today there's the Immigration Museum, where you can see photographs of how examinations took place and who passed through there. This has been one of the most interesting visits during my staying, go see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpK3JcIDKLI/AAAAAAAAAH0/3RV8Ic_H8h0/s1600-h/The+Phantom+of+the+Opera+-+Howard+McGillin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpK3JcIDKLI/AAAAAAAAAH0/3RV8Ic_H8h0/s320/The+Phantom+of+the+Opera+-+Howard+McGillin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085328302051371186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Okay, I cheated. I didn't take this shot, in fact it comes from Google. But I dare you to try taking a picture in a dark theatre surrounded by the crowd with a digital camera!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, this is still part of the show that I've seen. The Phantom of the Opera is the longest running show in Broadway history, and there's a reason. It's good. The atmosphere is simly unique with the big chandelier and the actors constantly breaking the "fourth wall". I loved the scenographies of the Phantom's lair and everything else's in general, I couldn't believe how quickly and realistically they where able to move and act on them. And, of course, the music's good too. The singers that night had been wonderful, expecially in the main title song, which I can't get off my head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to wait for when the CD with this cast will be available, because the the movie and the 1986 original London cast versions are different, and I don't like them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-4946506178757072564?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-city-05.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RpCqucIDKII/AAAAAAAAAHc/6CgB7Gl2zTE/s72-c/Wall+Street.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-5826027636634006812</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-08T10:47:41.727+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 04</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-hj8IDKFI/AAAAAAAAAHE/LJ3i8VVROOM/s1600-h/Squirrel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-hj8IDKFI/AAAAAAAAAHE/LJ3i8VVROOM/s200/Squirrel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084460143131961426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 04:&lt;/b&gt; Sunday 27, May 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we finally went through with museums and stuff, visiting the Guggenheim and the MoMA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-kjMIDKGI/AAAAAAAAAHM/R8XX26maKCE/s1600-h/Guggenheim+Museum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-kjMIDKGI/AAAAAAAAAHM/R8XX26maKCE/s320/Guggenheim+Museum.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084463428781942882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml"&gt;Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a relatively small museum in front of Central Park in which are collected modern art paintings and works. It is famous for its particular shape, which might remind the spiral of a shell in the inside (while on the outside it looks like... something).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this building are exposed many works of Picasso, Kandinsky, Cézanne, Gauguin, Magritte, Matisse, Renoir, van Gogh, Pomodoro, Mondrian, Modigliani, Mirò and Fontana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-n08IDKHI/AAAAAAAAAHU/w621j_MbKtQ/s1600-h/Umberto+Boccioni+-+Unique+Forms+of+Continuity+in+Space.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-n08IDKHI/AAAAAAAAAHU/w621j_MbKtQ/s320/Umberto+Boccioni+-+Unique+Forms+of+Continuity+in+Space.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084467032259504242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yet not satisfied, my parents decided to visit in the afternoon the Museum of Modern Art - or just &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moma.org/"&gt;MoMA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, in which I found out that is conserved Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space", a sculpture famous in Italy for being chosen to rapresent our country on the 20 cents Euro coin. I must say that I liked the Guggey and the MoMa ways more than the Met - but something was still wrong. In fact, looking at many of these pictures I felt like: "Man, is this art? I mean, I can do it too! Maybe even better!". I have always thought that great artists were people with the uncommon ability to create amazing things through drawings or sculptures or music, but many of these so-called-artworks are just junk. I think that Marvel Comics artists should deserve to be a lot more famous and well considerated then these fools - for example, Fontana's cuts are a real mystery, and I'm talking about him 'cause he was Italian.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-5826027636634006812?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-city-04.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro-hj8IDKFI/AAAAAAAAAHE/LJ3i8VVROOM/s72-c/Squirrel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-8227076955162315083</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-08T10:47:41.727+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 03</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roug_MIDKCI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0VhAYSW9c_k/s1600-h/The+Met.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roug_MIDKCI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0VhAYSW9c_k/s200/The+Met.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083333611864926242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 03:&lt;/b&gt; Saturday 26, May 2007&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we started to see visit some of the many museums this city has, and that reminded me why I hate so much this kind of places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro6fDcIDKDI/AAAAAAAAAG0/OrHTaD5W7X0/s1600-h/Amore+e+Psiche.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro6fDcIDKDI/AAAAAAAAAG0/OrHTaD5W7X0/s320/Amore+e+Psiche.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084175910786246706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp"&gt;Metropolitan Museum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, or "The Met", is one of the world's largest and most important art and history museums. It has many artworks from all over the world: Europe, Asia, Africa and America, of course. The weirdest thing was when I found out there's a room with artworks coming only from Brescia, my hometown. Too bad I don't feel good whenever I visit museum, it's something that makes me sad, seeing so many good things just gathered together in some way. It's just my thing, I hate musuem. I dunno why, 'cause I love art, it's just that... I rather like hanging around then visiting musuems. But don't misunderstand me! The Met is great, go see it! \°__°/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro6f0MIDKEI/AAAAAAAAAG8/dqGoeI7hXSc/s1600-h/Central+Park.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Ro6f0MIDKEI/AAAAAAAAAG8/dqGoeI7hXSc/s320/Central+Park.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084176748304869442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the afternoon we had a nice walk in Central Park, which is a pretty cool place. It's full of people running half-naked, skating, and riding bicycles or horses. There are also a small amusement park and pools in which kids play with little electric toy boats. I also loved to see that the park has a big variety of animals, expecially squirrels, which are a rarity in my country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestion for whoever goes visit Manhattan: try &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.virgilsbbq.com/"&gt;Virgil's BBQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, it has great food. And, following the true Southern US style, order bbq meat or catfish and sweet tea. Oh yeah. DOn't forget the honey mustard if you get chicken fingers, too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-8227076955162315083?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-city-03.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roug_MIDKCI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0VhAYSW9c_k/s72-c/The+Met.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-4187707349826287190</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-08T10:47:41.727+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 02</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roky5sIDJ-I/AAAAAAAAAGM/XW49NmfwPBA/s1600-h/The+Flatiron+Building.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roky5sIDJ-I/AAAAAAAAAGM/XW49NmfwPBA/s200/The+Flatiron+Building.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082649621143168994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 02:&lt;/b&gt; Friday 25, May 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day me and my parents started back to be together and took a look around NYC.&lt;br /&gt;The day I finally saw the Liberty Statue, the UN headquarters and Manhattan itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's better than a bus trip to start visiting a big city like New York? It takes only a few hours in the morning and helps you realize what's like to be there. You can see the most famous and interesting places, learn something curious about the people and the places and make you decide what deserves to be seen better or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rok1-sIDKAI/AAAAAAAAAGc/5odqlZhZamk/s1600-h/The+Brooklyn+Bridge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Rok1-sIDKAI/AAAAAAAAAGc/5odqlZhZamk/s320/The+Brooklyn+Bridge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082653005577398274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For example, you might get a ride that takes you at Columbus Circle, John Lennon's house, Central Park, the 5th Avenue, Times Square, the Flatiron Building, Little Italy, Chinatown, Wall Street, Ground Zero and the Brooklyn Bridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you still don't feel satisfied, you can always try those trips on a boat along the Hudson River. This is where you can get the best views of Manhattan's coastline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RolMs8IDKBI/AAAAAAAAAGk/ym4K63wrJto/s1600-h/Manhattan%27s+coastline.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RolMs8IDKBI/AAAAAAAAAGk/ym4K63wrJto/s400/Manhattan%27s+coastline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082677989402159122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-4187707349826287190?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/newyorkcity_02.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/Roky5sIDJ-I/AAAAAAAAAGM/XW49NmfwPBA/s72-c/The+Flatiron+Building.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28889581.post-7352301572414480817</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-07-08T10:47:41.728+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New York City</category><title>New York City - 01</title><description>&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RofmncIDJ8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/OSSaqKzje_E/s1600-h/Detroit+Airport.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RofmncIDJ8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/OSSaqKzje_E/s200/Detroit+Airport.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082284269750134722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 01:&lt;/b&gt; Thursday 24, May 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day I left Mississippi to reach New York City, finally pursuing and accomplishing one of my greatest goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I had said goodbye to the Stacys I left for the airport of Tupelo together with Greg. It didn't take too long to reach Memphis, Tennesse, then Detroit, Michigan, and finally the Great Apple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RofqS8IDJ9I/AAAAAAAAAGE/11alfZOkk9U/s1600-h/Times+Square.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RofqS8IDJ9I/AAAAAAAAAGE/11alfZOkk9U/s400/Times+Square.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082288315609327570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if you have ever felt like you've finally did it, like you've finally got it, like you're finally there. That's the kind of thing that I thought, and that left me amazed for a good hour, alone in the crowd of Times Square.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the place that I have always seen through the medias, somebody else's eyes. The place which everybody speaks about, the place where things happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where my American adventure ended - and, probably, a new one has begun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28889581-7352301572414480817?l=true-heroes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://true-heroes.blogspot.com/2007/07/newyorkcity.html</link><author>pyros1989@gmail.com (Giovanni)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XgH7EZt3LFM/RofmncIDJ8I/AAAAAAAAAF8/OSSaqKzje_E/s72-c/Detroit+Airport.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>