88.4.254.69 45189 21771 <DIV class=ynw-article-info><CITE class=auth></CITE> <UL class=ynw-utility style="TOP: 6px"> <LI> <FORM class=buzz accept-charset=utf-8 action=http://fr.buzz.yahoo.com/vote/ method=post><INPUT type=hidden value=orion name=from> <INPUT type=hidden value=article name=assettype> <INPUT type=hidden value=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/5/20091214/ten-johnny-hallyday-une-journe-cruciale-e95f385.html name=guid> <INPUT type=hidden value=yahoo_france_175 name=publisherurn> <INPUT type=hidden value=RD0Cukl0oXP name=.crumb> <INPUT type=hidden value=1 name=votetype> <INPUT type=hidden value=fr name=market> <INPUT type=hidden value=fr-FR name=language> <INPUT type=hidden value=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/5/20091214/ten-johnny-hallyday-une-journe-cruciale-e95f385.html name=targetUrl> <INPUT type=hidden value=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/5/20091214/ten-johnny-hallyday-une-journe-cruciale-e95f385.html name=.done> <INPUT type=hidden value="Johnny Hallyday : une journée cruciale ! 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Les médecins sont confiants, mais le correspondant de RTL ajoute que ce sera long et que Johnny devrait rester plusieurs jours en soins intensifs...<A class=offscreen href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/5/20091214/ten-johnny-hallyday-une-journe-cruciale-e95f385_3.html#ynw-article-part2"></A></FORM></LI></UL></DIV> <DIV class=mod id=ynw-image-video-inset> <DIV class=mod> <DIV class="hd offscreen"> <H2> </H2></DIV> <DIV class="bd ynw-image-video-inset-preview clr"> <DIV id=ynw-image-video-inset-preview><SPAN class=tinyimage><IMG height=202 alt="" src="http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/public/20091214/08/1226978733-johnny-hallyday-une-journee-cruciale.jpg#299,202" width=299> <SPAN> Johnny Hallyday : une journée cruciale ! </SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> <P id=ynw-article-part2>A noter qu'alors que ses proches se montrent plutôt rassurants sur l'état de santé de Johnny Hallyday, il n'en est pas de même quand il s'agit de parler de son éventuel retour sur scène. Comme nous vous l'annoncions, Jean-Claude Camus devrait annoncer mercredi si Johnny finira oui ou non aux dates prévues sa tournée, mais déjà l'ami de la star et parrain de sa dernière fille Joy, Jean-Claude Darmon, interrogé ce matin au micro de Marc-Olivier Fogiel, se montre pessimiste. Ainsi ce dernier avoue qu'il ne pense pas que Johnny aura des séquelles suite à son opération, mais il déclare : "Je pense qu'il va mettre quelques semaines avant d'être au top" et ajoute que son retour sur scène, en janvier prochain, pour lui, c'est "même pas en rêve". 8h54 : Dans quelques heures, nous devrons en savoir plus sur l'état de santé du rockeur Johnny Hallyday , actuellement hospitalisé à Los Angeles. Cette journée est très attendue par tous les fans et tous ceux qui s'inquiètent pour la santé de Johnny Hallyday. Dans une poignée d'heures, le célèbre rockeur devrait être sorti du coma artificiel dans lequel il a été placé vendredi dernier, à l'hôpital de Los Angeles, pour des raisons de confort, afin de l'empêcher de trop souffrir. Comment va-t-il ? Quelle sera la durée de sa convalescence ? Sera-t-il en mesure de reprendre la suite de son Tour 66, à Amiens, début janvier prochain ? Les questions sont nombreuses et elles devraient trouver des réponses aujourd'hui et dans les jours suivants. Les dernières nouvelles venues de son entourage, samedi soir, se voulaient rassurantes. Son fils David le déclarait notamment " hors de danger ". Son ami Nikos Aliagas témoignait : "L'infection est stabilisée voire résorbée, et à partir de ça il pourra se réveiller mais il faudra prendre le temps qu'il faut et ne pas précipiter les choses" . Deux médecins mandatés sur place, à Los Angeles, par les assureurs de la tournée doivent, par ailleurs, enquêter pour savoir si Johnny est capable ou non de finir ses spectacles. Deux hypothèses en cas de non poursuite de la tournée : soit Johnny a pris des risques en prenant l'avion trop tôt et dans ce cas le contrat passé avec les assureurs pourrait être remis en cause, Johnny et son producteur Jean-Claude Camus pourraient ne pas être indemnisés ; soit la clinique parisienne Monceau est jugée responsable de l'état de santé actuelle de l'artiste et, dans ce cas, les assureurs mettront la main à la poche. Selon RTL, c'est, dans deux jours, mercredi que Jean-Claude Camus annoncera publiquement si Johnny remontera sur scène ou non. A noter enfin que le docteur Delajoux, qui avait opéré Johnny fin novembre à Paris et qui est accusé par certains d'être responsable des problèmes de santé du chanteur, bénéficie actuellement d'une interruption temporaire de travail (ITT) de quinze jours suite à l'agression dont il a été victime vendredi dernier. 0 2009-12-14T11:03:04Z 2009-12-14T10:59:00Z 418612 johnny-hallyday-une-journee-cruciale- 2009-12-14T11:03:04Z 1 1 Johnny Hallyday : une journée cruciale ! 2009-12-15T12:59:59Z 84.121.4.113 19501 12667 <div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img src="http://www.miscartas.com/images/bolardo.gif"> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="color:#548DD4;mso-themecolor:text2;mso-themetint:153">El tiempo de la soledad es un bolardo agazapado allí donde dormita mientras<o:p></o:p></span> </em></strong> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#548DD4"><strong><em> </em></strong> </span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#548DD4"><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#548DD4"><strong><em> </em></strong> </span> </span></em></strong></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#548DD4"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#548DD4"> <object width="445" height="364" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; "><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TF8fnoA1VNM&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TF8fnoA1VNM&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object> </span></span></em></strong> 3 2009-10-09T20:34:20Z 2009-10-09T20:36:00Z 389478 2009-10-10T19:12:48Z microdesaforados-xv- 2009-10-09T20:36:06Z 1 1 Microdesaforados (XV) 2009-10-10T19:12:48Z 0.0.0.0 24560 15580 <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnBsxdOfzuI/AAAAAAAAA7E/92dN_OMRKOk/s1600-h/Douglas.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 335px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363906753113083618 border=0 alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnBsxdOfzuI/AAAAAAAAA7E/92dN_OMRKOk/s400/Douglas.jpg"></A><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102)"><A href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html">Frederick Douglas</A>' motto in his antislavery newspaper, "<A href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr085.html">The North Star</A>", was "<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Right is of not sex -- Truth is of not color</SPAN>" </SPAN> <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=500 height=405><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/UiZLMYaP-8A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UiZLMYaP-8A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> </DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 180%"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 130%"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“... And Aren't I a Woman”</SPAN></SPAN> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,0,153); FONT-SIZE: 180%; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sojourner Truth</SPAN> <A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnB_YuODvDI/AAAAAAAAA7M/kHdjFdDaS9I/s1600-h/Sojourner_Truth_1864_npg_2002_90.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 493px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 817px; CURSOR: pointer" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363927218898844722 border=0 alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnB_YuODvDI/AAAAAAAAA7M/kHdjFdDaS9I/s400/Sojourner_Truth_1864_npg_2002_90.jpg"></A> </DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 85%"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">by John Manuel Kennedy</SPAN> </SPAN></DIV> <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 85%"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 78%">Founder of the Center for Human Development The Plow of the Seas Inc.</SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">"It is time to change many things in this country, especially one, that four power or the fifth wheel of the "super-ultras" and how they are profiting from the misery of other people through their bastard propaganda; it is altogether a new form of slavery. These idiots are enslaving our mere democracy and with it our freedom and rights" </SPAN> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; COLOR: rgb(0,51,51); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">JMK </DIV> <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rationale</SPAN> In times of<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis"> crises</A> and extreme uncertainty, whether economic, or both, like incidentally the world in which we are living, in these, the last years of the first decade of the 21st century. The days in where those sad and deceitful “Macro, Medium and Mini-<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25bernie.html">Madoffs</A>” are all shown by the media at the global stage as if they were a parade of a group of capriciously <A href="http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cowmasterlist.htm">painted cows</A>. Today, when the news agencies are competing on how to make us sicker and, sicker, by reading to us, word by word, and presenting speechless but eloquent images and videos over the already ubiquitous High Definition Television, or<A href="http://www.cnet.com/hdtv-world/"> HDTV</A>, about the bloodiest and most brutal assassinations. Thanks, to those <A href="http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=401">cameras</A> now we can watch the unbelievable reality of today’s world from our couch and yes, we still eating, without hesitance though, our chip potatoes and, the children their cheerios, all the while at our screens we can watch how somebody is getting kill somewhere. <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=425 height=344><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/X5pkkAhETYg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X5pkkAhETYg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> “These are the days my friends,” and the news are running on steroids and, within 360 degrees of the same facts, written in the same way, gesticulated in the same manner, salivated by four or five seemingly important mouthpieces, and of course there is not doubt about all of it. Madoff acted “alone” or, the suspect was the criminal and, this is very important because now we know that we were not the victims. YouTube's cutest dancing dog needs to be beating-up by our own video, “send your videos and win a T-shirt: ha-ha, wait we need to interrupt this program for giving you the latest breaking [you] news….” And thus, it is everyday. Does all of this help us to live better? <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=445 height=364><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/YKIIssyaaQc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YKIIssyaaQc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> The agents of the press make the millions, they become celebrities by supporting those people who are able to pay them more cash and, in contrast they try to convince us that they are [all] the independent voices of our nation, when in reality they really are the puppets of worst kind of individuals, as Bloomberg put it, of "those who can move", of those who are selling even the debts or our debts at a global level of all of the Americans, and by the way, making a lot of money by doing it. “Change” is what we are all looking for, a "change" in which everyone could believe; but it is hard to change anything in a positive way when there are so many interests over other sort of interests, which are based evenly on motives of evenly another interested parties who care less about the well-being of others, well the do care as for example those people who not only implemented the system of slavery but they had the idiocy to fight against its abolition. Today good, positive and sound “change” must be geared to all the nations of the world, as I have state before, in time of chaos and lack of stamina to overcome shortcomings and injustices, or lack of courage, we should or could look towards the actions and lives of those leaders, that evenly facing abominable systems, indescribable pain and hardships, had the valor and integrity to distinguish the time when and the way of how to fight for what is was right, they were risking their well-beings by doing it and; sometimes evenly they lost their own families, they were imprisoned, humiliated, ripped of their jobs, reputations and belongings and, many times they took their own lives. However, they managed to change those unjusted policies, doctrines and practices by opposing to them while others remain silence because they were terrorized or intimidated or both. If we use terror to terrify what really are we? if we torture the torturers, aren't we torturers? Yes, we need to defend ourselves, but we need to look into the "roots", the original causes of these conflicts; it is just very easy to blame, to point fingers, to destroys homes and lives, by using espionage on citizens, so called domestic intelligence. I tell you this... yes, it was the way in which the west was won, and the way used by some people in the United States to enslave people, to stolen the lands of the original peoples of America, and they way they broke into other governments in the world to create puppet democracies, perhaps this was more successful than the "audacity" done in Vietnam and/or Iraq, because instead of invasion and persecution, they used persuasion, sabotage and again intelligence. Well, now that you use Google maps and social "twitters", "facebooks" and "myspaces", now that everyone is considered a suspect, a potential terrorist, I hope you can "see", "think", "feel" and "act" accordingly, because this is not the way, shape, form or reason, why many people came to America in the first place. I won't talk about the Africans, because, the majority of them were obliged, forced to came here, and also I won't talk about the original peoples of America, because they were here before all of us, 25,000 years ago, but now they live in "reservations" because many of them, preferred to honor their ancestry, something that was not and it is not very well accepted by the powers that were and are, incidentally the same ones who just took these lands, to sell in good price for the next foreclosure. The hate has been managed, Americans in one point were the laughing stock of the world during the previous administration, and now we have a new president. His ancestry and background in the White House has epitomized again this country, as a country made of people who strive for liberty, equality and justice for all, the land of the brave and the free. Perhaps, "I am a savage...but this I know... everything is connected", and therefore now, we need to connect to people in the ways America did it before with his blues, Jazz and Rock. Leading the people to the greatest good and not creating a culture in which everybody is or can be rewarded to become a informant and 911 operator or a bastard noisy spy, who just make money on those who are having an affair on the streets, or from those who are as blatant as, Thomas Paine, who can state what needs to be said and done. Remember, Paine was English and what he stated in those times in favor of United States independence were in direct opposition to his King and Kingdom, the most powerful empire on earth at that epoch. I am telling you, yes but also I am exposing, though never imposing my ideas. What is wrong is wrong, no matter who you are, how many missiles you have or how many nuclear weapons you can fire, it does not matter that your enemies are all the way wrong up to the end of the times; of course, terrorism is very wrong, extremely wrong and unacceptable but in spite of all the aggravations, highly likelihoods of risk and uncertainty, within and <A href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=37667">architecture of choice</A>, you cannot become what you, by law, and moreover by reason, try to eradicate in the first place; read this word, "eradicate", again, that is the solution to terrorism. Eradication, it does not mean annihilation, that is different, because in that annihilation we are killing our own culture too, we are giving out our freedoms, justice, and our way of life, our own way of being us, just by doing the same or worst things that they [the terrorists] were, or are able to do to us. Take a look what has happened in Iraq. It is all horrible and it is all wrong... The most significant phrase that President Obama has uttered, I heard it lately, when he stated in a conference press, "I am only the president of United States", now that it is all that we need to do preemptively, looking for improving continuously our mainland, with creativity, like Thomas Alva Edison, or Tesla, Bob Metcalfe, Steve Wozniak, but not people like <A href="http://www.techflash.com/Steve_Ballmers_memo_on_Microsofts_latest_round_of_layoffs_44363987.html">Steve Ballmer</A> or<A href="http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Bill_Gates_Secret_to_Success:_Cheating"> Bill Gates</A> or <A href="http://velvelonnationalaffairs.blogspot.com/2005/04/re-truth-and-warren-buffet_111349180144741541.html">Warren Buffett</A> or <A href="http://mobile.gothamist.com/2009/05/28/mayor_bloomberg_avoids_question_cal.php">Bloomberg</A>, these people are obviously motivated by greed and power [We also need to take all them out of any Philanthropic capacity, they really do not understand nothing about it]. We need people that inspire us, like Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr, Louis Armstrong, Abraham Lincoln et al. These are the real and eternal Americans, they had improved our lives in many ways, they made diligent efforts to put up with the obstacles that they faced in their lives and, they did it without interest [you can read credit] and for the well being of others, and we are all grateful that they did all this because thanks to them we are better off, there are many others, unknown heroes that every day delivere their care to make our children laugh and grow, like those grandparents, and those parents who in turn, everyday need to go to work to face the "Madoffs" of their times, the "Gates", the "Buffets", the "Bloombergs" and many other miserable type of "Bottomliners" that unfortunately will be always around us. People. that just are dedicated to profit from and exploitation of the most "weaker links" in the market and, a market that so far has failed dramatically to bring the American Dream to its constituencies, this within US and also over the rest of the world. Now, again what is intelligence? Change to where we were in one point and them continue together growing, not an alignment or alienation, but a civilization of peace, with people who are working together to improve their lives in the most humane way. This is possible and it is fair and over all this is the real American Way. "E Pluribus Unum" This paper is about one of those individuals, in reality, I wrote this paper circa 1998, when I was facing tremendous stress and somehow some of my colleagues told me, “well, aren’t you like Sojourner Truth, yet?” Up to that day, I had never heard about her, so this paper is the account of my search over who the real Sojourner Truth was and; and more importantly still, how she could provide me with examples on how to deal and manage positive change for my organization and elsewhere, facing a terrible crisis and stress. <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=500 height=405><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zxmbie8dfkI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zxmbie8dfkI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-SIZE: 130%"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Introduction</SPAN></SPAN> Before I present my ideas to the reader, I would like to explain part of the process that took place in the creation of this document. I guess that this process is worth to be mentioned because it illuminates areas that otherwise would remain unperceived or lost. The situation that propel the writing of this paper were complex and very challenging, so I did want to recreate another real scenario but much worst that the one I was experiencing at that moment. On one hand, I wanted to understand how the content of this research could be important not only for myself but also for other managers and on the other hand, how its elaboration would fit the interest and taste of many readers as possible, because I thought that managing change in positive ways was everybody's task, a task for people in their organizations, at their homes, churches, and schools, whether students or teachers, workers or administrators, churchgoers, atheists or reverends, managing change in our lives and helping others to reach better status, that is [the true] America and this global adventure all about. I was focusing on many apparent successful personalities, in the world of business, such as Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs and even <A href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html">Marc Andreessen</A>, all of them young living billionaires in this current digital age. Suddenly, I noticed an intense pain, I understood that some of my neurons were clogging in my brain around mainly two issues. First, what the world excellence means for most of us, rational beings, and second, what excellence means in a world who needs more human services than those that are purported nowadays more and more by automated computers alone? I knew well then that the aforementioned figureheads should be disregarded from the content of this paper, but my headache did not end just there. My quest for that example of a “critical situation-magic solution” started with the word “excellence”. Facing a great degree of uncertainty a manager must execute the right things, and all famous managers are know to be excellent and that excellence is founded on the timely decisions that they could take no matter how big the opposition or the trouble is, once they study the many shapes and forms of the events and their consequences they hedge into action with unequivocally determination and dexterity. As <A href="http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1bio-1">Coretta Scott King</A> wrote about the thoughts of Martin Luther King Jr.: <BLOCKQUOTE style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 130%">I want you to be in love. I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity. I want you to be important, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>(Krass, 1998, p. 7) When I read the lines that appear above, I remembered those people that have somehow influenced me the most. Some, as my mother, my father, my teachers, to all these fine people I have met them personally, but still others that I did not, such as Simón Bolívar or <A href="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html">Mary Wollstonecraft</A>, for example. In one way or another, I appreciate all these Human Beings because of their services to their particular societies. Like Bolívar and Wollstonecraft, there are others who did not work only for themselves or for the good of their families alone; they sacrificed their own lives for the well-being and betterment of other people. These are the real managers of change in our history. Through their efforts and ideals, the nations have improved the quality of life that they can offer to their constituencies. They have given example of altruism... of real love, compassion, and true excellence. How easily then I was able to select the “role model”, again suddenly, but this time in contrast, my headache just disappeared ...bluff! Vanished, it was completely gone. It was a neuronal alignment, I imagined all my neurons forming exotic fractal designs with their dendrites and I saw in my thoughts two names: <A href="http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Gandhi.html">Mohandas K. Gandhi</A> or Sojourner Truth. I decided, at last! for Sojourner Truth because, for one thing, I knew Gandhi since I read about his life in the <A href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1132940533&amp;searchurl=ph%3D2%26tn%3Dreader">Reader's Digest</A> when I was a ten year-old boy and also later on, I watched the movie; while from Sojourner Truth, I did not know nothing about, even more importantly the events surrounding segregation, slavery and especially those issues of race and gender were and are somehow important to me. Even though, in America these issues have been improved over the years, but obviously there is still a need to do more about them. Sojourner Truth was an active and positive agent of these causes, Woman Rights and Abolition of Slavery, when people would have been imprisoned, lynched or evenly killed for only participate in one of these events or uttered words in favor of these causes. <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=500 height=405><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/UAs_ZmtuKOg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UAs_ZmtuKOg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-SIZE: 130%"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">A System That Influenced Sojourner Truth</SPAN></SPAN> Therefore, I wanted to perform a <A href="http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/psychosocial.htm">psychosocia</A>l on Sojourner, i.e., I wanted to know how was her childhood and early adulthood; what was the cause or event or situation that propelled her success. In addition, I did want to understand which personal beliefs helped her through those tough and challenging times, did somebody help her? Not too far away from where I am writing this paper, precisely in town that must be called Hurley, in New York, Sojourner Truth was born, yes it was around 200 hundred years ago, yes in the year of our Lord of 1797. She was born to see the light as a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States">slave</A>. She was considered a property, a commodity...a thing that can be bought or sold. She was named Isabella by her parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree who in turn were the property of the Colonel Hardenbergh. [46 year later she change her name to Sojourner Truth.] As commodity she was sold many times under different circumstances. Slavery, what can I tell you? It was an old system, very well established and profitable, by the time Isabella arrived to this “new world” full of old tricks. Since 1626, Dutch settlers began importing slaves from Africa, (<A href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:8VkzEJuMrs4J:www.slaveryinnewyork.org/PDFs/Fact_Sheet.pdf+The+Dutch+were+the+first+who+enslave+people&amp;cd=4&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a">they were the first in doing so</A>) to work in their farms. The British continued the “tradition” and by 1723 the Africans made up about the 15% of the entire New York population. Of course as you see slave were a very important part of that economy, if we can called that way. Isabella Change Forever after her mother told her and her younger brother, “<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">My children there is God ... He lives in the sky. ... When you are beaten, or cruelly treated, or fall into trouble, you must ask help of him, and he will always hear and help you</SPAN>” (Krass, 1998, P. 23). The mother assured them that they were under God's protection. Isabella would survive many atrocities because she had developed strong self-confidence and beliefs. She faced successfully all kind of adversities because she was convinced that God was safeguarding her at all times. I think, the event that started Sojourner to think that she would be free one day was when she witnessed the pain when she witnessed the pain that her mother experienced when the slave traders took her children away from her. She would understand that something was very wrong about all of that. <CENTER> <OBJECT style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" width=500 height=405><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/MRtuxjHBmi4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MRtuxjHBmi4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></OBJECT></CENTER> Isabella also would be sold and so was separated from her mother when she was only 11 year-old and then her “master” became John Nealy, he also bought her brother, but nobody wanted her father because he was crippled, therefore she was separated from her both parents at that time. Isabella, who spoke <A href="http://www.learndutch.org/">Dutch</A>, did not understand the language of her new mistress, English, so she usually was cruelly beaten. Sojourner would describe her life with this family as a hell. She always would have a strong Dutch accent, but she was fluent in English. She, as a female slave, would work in the fields and in the home. This factor would make physically strong. She was considered a reliable worker when she reached her teens. Isabella was a tall woman who could work as hard as any man in the field, and as efficiently as any woman for the chores at home. She married with an old slave name Thomas with whom she never became too close yet they had a number of children together. Her first child was Diana, and after the next 12 years, Isabella gave birth to four more children: Elizabeth, Hannah, Peter, and Sophie. They learned the same lesson that Sojourner learned from her mother: Never steal, never lie, and always obey your master. Year after year, she would juggle her duties in the field, planting corn, chopping wood, and hauling buckets of water for the family that owned her at the time [the Dumonts] with her nursing and caring responsibilities as a mother. On July 4, 1827 slaves in New York celebrated “Freedom Day”, it was the day that the legislature had decreed that al slaves over the age of 28 would be free. Sojourner was free due that she was bought by a Quaker family who would set her free because they did not believe in slavery; nevertheless, all her children except Sophie were slaves. She was one of the first black American women in the United States who won a lawsuit. After this incident, I believe she would understand that she had a mission, and the power to carry on this mission. fro this brief biography we can understand that Sojourner Truth's life was affected by the slavery system, but her values and strong determination would make her dreams can true. The Van Wageners were her mentors; they set her free, and helped her by giving her their spiritual and material support. <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 130%"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Mission of Sojourner Truth and Her Leadership Qualities</SPAN></SPAN> There are many types of organizations; mostly we can divide them in profit and no-profit. Sojourner Truth fits in the organization chart as founder and CEO of a non-profit organization. So let us explore how this it is so. <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_48/b3961001.htm">Peter Drucker</A> (1995) wrote, <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“For the ultimate test is not the beauty of the mission statement. The ultimate test is action.</SPAN>” One word that could describe Sojourner Truth is precisely: “action”. From the early stages of her life until her very last days. She always was building up her character. She was recognizing the “holes” in those systems of her time. <A href="http://www.solonline.org/aboutsol/who/Senge/"> Peter Senge</A> (1993) explains that leading organizations concentrate in both, generative learning and adaptive learning; by generative learning, he meant the natural impulse of human beings to learn, it involves creativity. In contrast, adaptive learning is about coping. (pp. 7-9) Sojourner Truth, learned to cope with her situation, she worked hard as few people would, and she learned English. Although she could not read or write, she published her experiences as a slave by narrating them to one of her friends. The organization that she adapted to in the first place was the slavery system, and then based on her own experiences she realized that women were also deprived of their rights as slaves were in those times. She decided to connect with leaders of the women's rights movement to aid their causes. Therefore, she ended liberating herself and she even decided to fight for the rights of women. Because of her purpose and her commitment and most importantly her achievements in spite of all the adversities that she faced in her life, it is my understanding, that Sojourner Truth is the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights movement at least in America. I have the pleasure to write that she was considered an electrifying public speaker that she was a successful fundraiser for organizations that helped African Americans, and supported the <A href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html">Women's Rights movement</A>. She encouraged and supported <A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/AbrahamLincoln/">President Lincoln</A> during the Civil War. <A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnB_39gaQ4I/AAAAAAAAA7U/FjpmkM48ghY/s1600-h/sojourn5.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 412px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 560px; CURSOR: pointer" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363927755578295170 border=0 alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FZwgqRkg2YI/SnB_39gaQ4I/AAAAAAAAA7U/FjpmkM48ghY/s400/sojourn5.jpg"></A> In many ways, I feel that the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was her mission statement, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... should exist within the United States nor any place subject to its jurisdiction.” (Krass, 19880). Peter Drucker was the first to realize the importance of focusing in the means of production instead of the ends. Sojourner Truth realized this concept too. She did what she did because she had a firm conviction that slavery was wrong. Somehow, she was able to focus on those people who were suffering that unjust system. The anti-slavery activist accomplished her goals by focusing in the means ...the people. She understood the importance of motivating and encouraging people that were interested in fighting the injustices therein in slavery and the lack of human rights. In this way, Sojourner seemed to just follow the dictum of Peter Drucker about commitment; let us imagine living 30 years as slave, and more than 50 years working for the liberation of slaves and for the women's rights. She was obviously committed all her life to her mission. Drucker (1995) also mentioned the need to establish concrete action goals (pp. 4-5). Sojourner stated that she had received her mission from God himself/herself, so she thought that she possessed God's vision, a vision that she wanted and shed did follow till her final days and with all her energy. Hence her assurance to plan and implement her goals and objective; for example, first she wanted to be free, and then she wanted her sons to be free, next she wanted women to be able to vote. Thereupon, she wanted equal rights and better opportunities of employment for women and African-Americans. At that pint, she understood the importance of hospitals and health care for African-Americans. Sojourner ended up meeting two presidents in the White House, Lincoln and Grant. People that were inspired by her speeches wrote poems in her name, in fact they still doing this nowadays but with more frequency. She published her book in 1850, “The narrative of Sojourner Truth,” she was 53 years old by then. She accomplished all these by, as Drucker stated, setting concrete action-goals. “Non-profit institutions exist for their mission. They exist to make a difference in the society and in the life of the individual. They exist for the sake of their mission, and this must never be forgotten.” (Op. cit., p. 45) <A href="http://www.historic-northampton.org/highlights/educationindustry.html"> The Northampton Association of Education and The Industry</A> and <A href="http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=204784&amp;attrib_id=7971">Freedmen's Hospita</A>l were the two first institutions that addressed the needs of poor people funded by the Federal Government of United States. Sojourner Truth joined both organizations, because she had understood their mission, she wanted to make a difference and she did it indeed. Thus, when Peter Senge (1995) talks about that leaders are designers and the teachers who have the skills to build a shared vision (pp. 8-13) he seems to be talking about Sojourner Truth. In addition in “The Fifth Discipline: A shift of Mind,” Senge (1997) presents the idea that a “system thinking” is the ability to think in the wholes, the capacity to recognize connections: Sojourner indeed had this discipline since she understood completely that slavery was only the beginning for improving the civil rights in United States. She was able to see the big picture in the fabric of the society in which she lived. <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 130%"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Lessons Learned From Sojourner Truth</SPAN> </SPAN> The most I like about Sojourner is her attitude, because she would strongly challenge adversaries. I remember reading her debate over the “Weak Sex”. She would stand up with her six feet tall frame and with her deep voice and strong Dutch accented English would say: “Where is so much racket, there must be something out of killer. That 'something' was the domination of women and blacks by white men,” the turning to the then minister who has states previously that women were took weak to deserve equal rights she responded, “How could that be? Nobody had ever helped me into carriage, or ever carried me over a mud puddle, or even given me the best place anywhere,” and pulling her arm she voice louder but without screaming at the audience, “And aren't I a women? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have planted and plowed and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a women?” (Krass, 1998, p 17) The plenty of things that we can learn and emulate from Sojourner, even her name is 'singular', but what personally I like the most about her is her commitment and her ability to work with people with different background, education, economic status, race and gender. Therefore, looking the life of Sojourner Truth, we can discover how our perceptions influenced the way we think, feel and behave with others or towards others and how this awareness can facilitate and improve our lives, at work, at home, and within our communities. As I described before, I was interested in discovering what some people would do when they face a crisis and high degree of uncertainty with the end to improve my managerial practice. Sojourner has given many incentives and ideas, I found one of the most important tools, her ability to strategies, i.e., strategy management. He approach towards people in power and her alliances confirms that she was able to influence people because she knew how to use different approaches, what we called the business-level and corporate-level approaches for instance. <A href="http://www.csuchico.edu/mgmt/strategy/">Strategic management</A> is the most delicate detail for the success of an organization, in other words, formulating and implementing start with the most fundamental purpose of the organization, i.e., the mission. Who can doubt about what was the mission of Sojourner Truth? Equally important is the application of the traditional SWOT analysis, this shall help managers-leaders to formulate effective strategies by avoiding weaknesses, neutralizing treats, and exploiting strengths and opportunities. In closing, the concepts of turbulence and uncertainty have assisted me to understand somehow how Sojourner throughout her strong beliefs, purpose and perseverance was able to manage both of them. She was able to anticipate problems, and skip barriers and/or obstacles in her way, this is particularly important for all managers of positive change. Sojourner it is an example that is set of stone, an example that could help us all to face and overcome or even better avoid, if we just could, the crises and calamities that we, now, do not have other choice but change. 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Rivero es una esponja calidoscópica a quien le se nota que está más contento que unas Pascuas de haberse conocido. 0 2009-01-18T10:41:05Z 2009-01-18T10:27:00Z 265210 manuel-rodriguez-rivero 2009-01-18T10:41:05Z 1 1 Manuel Rodríguez Rivero 2009-01-25T15:24:11Z 0.0.0.0 28666 17341 the star maxim plakushchenko the new star in the football world (number 7) <LJ-EMBED id=3> <OBJECT height=350 width=425><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/v/whuIaahPWoE"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/whuIaahPWoE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed> </OBJECT></LJ-EMBED> 1 2008-10-19T12:20:45Z 2008-10-19T12:06:00Z 218836 2008-10-19T12:44:52Z mi-hijo-maxim 2008-10-19T12:20:45Z 1 1 Mi hijo Maxim 2008-10-19T12:44:52Z 0.0.0.0 1025 1053 <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">1.Piensa por un momento en lo que significa para ti la expresión <EM>morir en casa</EM>. Seguramente, de bote y boleo, la asocies con alguno de estos tres <EM>escenarios </EM>(como se dice ahora): a)<EM>El accidente</EM>. Un escape de gas, una caída por las escaleras- como <A id=link_5 title=" http://admin.milenio.com/node/69508" href="http://admin.milenio.com/node/69508">la que arruinó, con ironía trágica, el proyecto de David Freeman</A>- ,un cigarrillo encendido que se resbala de los dedos. Formas accidentales de morir en casa que, dicho sea de paso, a más de una mujer habrán salvado de morir en casa violentamente. Recordemos las palabras de Brooke Hayward, la primera esposa de Dennis Hopper, recogidas por Peter Biskind en <STRONG><A id=link_6 title=" http://www.anagrama-ed.es/titulo/CR__62" href="http://www.anagrama-ed.es/titulo/CR__62"><STRONG>Moteros tranquilos, toros salvajes</STRONG></A></STRONG>: <EM>"Dennis me daba miedo; engañarlo habría sido un acto suicida, me habría estrangulado" (…) A menudo se quedaba dormido, borracho y con un cigarrillo encendido entre los dedos, lo cual provocó algún que otro incendio. "Una vez me desperté y la habitación estaba llena de humo. Vi a Dennis tumbado en la cama, las llamas se alzaban por todas partes", recuerda Brooke. "Lo saqué de la cama para que no se quemara vivo. A veces lo he lamentado, y más de una vez me pregunto qué habría pasado si hubiera dejado que siguiese durmiendo" </EM> b)<EM>La soledad</EM>. De un paro cardíaco muere el solitario mientras ve la tele en el sofá de su casa. Y allí se queda, descomponiéndose, hasta que unas semanas más tarde algún vecino se huele algo. Está tardando en aparecer el artista contemporáneo que compre un cadáver fresco y lo deje pudrirse durante un año en un museo delante de un maratón de una de esas series longevas en las que los niños crecen c) <EM>El horror</EM>. ¿Hasta cuando las mujeres seguirán muriendo en sus casas a manos de sus maridos o amantes? ¿Hasta cuándo los iraquíes inocentes, los afganos inocentes, los palestinos inocentes seguirán muriendo en sus casas porque un obús entra por su ventana o una bomba de racimo cae sobre su tejado? Por supuesto, también está el suicidio, que <A id=link_10 title=" http://www.publico.es/culturas/147053/taquillazo/inmobiliario/heath/ledger" href="http://www.publico.es/culturas/147053/taquillazo/inmobiliario/heath/ledger">puede resultar rentable si la casa es de alquiler y el suicida famoso</A>. Pero difícilmente asociamos <EM>morir en casa</EM> con la idea de quedarse en casa a esperar la muerte cuando ésta es segura y se avecina.</DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Imaginemos a alguien que arrastra una enfermedad grave. Sabe que está en las últimas, porque el doctor se lo ha dicho, y se empieza a encontrar mal unos días después de volver a casa tras la enésima recaída. Si no decide por su propia cuenta ir al hospital, porque no puede articular palabra, lo decidirán los que lo rodean. Es así. Hoy se muere en los hospitales. Como escribe Oscar Tusquets (cfr <STRONG><A id=link_4 title=" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/andalucia/Dios/ve/elpepuespand/20070426elpand_12/Tes" href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/andalucia/Dios/ve/elpepuespand/20070426elpand_12/Tes"><STRONG>Dios lo ve</STRONG></A></STRONG>) <EM>Tenemos tal temor a la muerte, se nos ha preparado tan mal para su llegada, que lo único que nos preocupa es aplazarla. Por conseguir unos días más, estamos dispuestos a arruinar económica y psicológicamente a nuestros familiares; por unas cuantas horas estamos dispuestos a pasar por todas las humillaciones y padecimientos que los doctores nos impongan</EM> En este sentido, <A id=link_7 title=" http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20080816/53521021357.html" href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20080816/53521021357.html">la decisión de Paul Newman de morir en casa </A>es una excepción. Aunque a mí no me extraña. Alguien que ha sabido tan bien lo que hacer con su vida, no podía abandonarla de cualquier manera. Si tenía la oportunidad, claro. Porque no siempre se tiene esa suerte. Así contaba <EM>El País</EM> <A id=link_8 title=" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/William/Holden/fallecio/caida/sufrida/estado/embriaguez/elpepicul/19811119elpepicul_14/Tes" href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/William/Holden/fallecio/caida/sufrida/estado/embriaguez/elpepicul/19811119elpepicul_14/Tes">la muerte en casa de William Holden</A> <EM>Según los médicos forenses, William Holden, que había ingerido una importante cantidad de alcohol, tropezó en una gruesa alfombra y dio con la cabeza en una mesilla de noche. El actor intentó enjugarse la sangre que brotaba de su herida sin advertir su gravedad, pero perdió el conocimiento al cabo de unos diez minutos y se desangró</EM> Newman podrá terminar su vida con elegancia, como si su vida fuera una película más, y eso nos confirmará que era un tipo de otra estofa. 2. Escribe Philippe Ariès en <STRONG><A id=link_1 title=" http://luxatenealibros.blogspot.com/2007/10/historia-de-la-muerte-en-occidente.html" href="http://luxatenealibros.blogspot.com/2007/10/historia-de-la-muerte-en-occidente.html"><STRONG>Historia de la muerte en Occidente</STRONG></A></STRONG>: <EM>La muerte de antaño era una tragedia-a menudo cómica- en la que uno representaba el papel del que sabe que va a morir*. La muerte de hoy en día es una comedia- siempre dramática- en la que uno representa el papel del que no sabe que va a morirse</EM> Newman va a morir como se moría antaño. Ahora bien, me pregunto cómo representará el papel del que sabe que va a morir alguien que sabe que <EM>va a sobrevivir </EM>por mucho tiempo en el celuloide, irradiando además la intensidad propia de los actores del <EM>Método </EM>(eso que Hitchcock llamaba con desdén <EM>emoción excesiva</EM>) Un actor del <EM>Método </EM>está más vivo en la pantalla que un actor convencional. Cuando muere hay más luz en su rastro, más fuerza vital queda atrapada en el ámbar del acetato. Si se dispone a morir, ¿muere más tranquilo por eso? ¿O muere fastidiado porque esa experiencia por la que pasa nunca podrá evocarla con la memoria afectiva para una escena, porque ni de lejos se parece a lo que trató de sentir mientras la fingía? <IMG src="http://www.23hq.com/23666/3412801_796fd22c1794e3dedbbabf4267ed0059_standard.jpg"> <EM>El actor del Método, como se ve, también muere intensamente</EM> También me pregunto si esa muerte de ataño será de verdad antigua, con las últimas palabras que prescribían los viejos <EM>ars moriendi</EM>, y que tan habituales se hicieron luego en el cine. 3.Según Edgar Morin (<STRONG>Las stars</STRONG>), con James Dean se produce el paso de la estrella mitológica de la gran época a la estrella problemática de la época moderna, que luego representarán Paul Newman y Marlon Brando. Dean era un héroe real, “pero sufrió una divinización análoga a la de las grandes estrellas del cine mudo”. Por eso se dudó de su muerte ¿Cómo iba a morir alguien que no se concebía como mortal? <EM>Una leyenda afirma que ha sobrevivido milagrosamente a su accidente. Fue un muchacho que hacía auto-stop el que resultó muerto. James Dean está desfigurado, irreconocible, inconsciente tal vez: encerrado en un manicomio o en un hospital. Cada semana se envían dos mil cartas a un James Dean vivo ¿Vivo, dónde? En una tierra de nadie, entre la vida y la muerte que el alma moderna desea situar en los asilos de dementes y en las clínicas, pero que no puede ser localizada</EM> Newman va a morir y cuando muera nadie dudará de su muerte. Newman se muere en la era de la Internet donde el anuncio de su próximo fallecimiento puede ser comentado al instante <IMG src="http://www.23hq.com/23666/3412800_cbb01ecd12da41e237da016eec34a73a_standard.jpg"> El <EM>fan </EM>de antes se niega a admitir la muerte de la estrella. El <EM>fan </EM>de ahora no quiere saber nada, vive en la época en que la muerte se oculta y se niega- “La muerte se ha vuelto innombrable. Todo sucede como si ni yo ni tú ni los que me son caros fueran mortales” (Ariès)- Y de paso, sin querer, sugiere el eufemismo perfecto para aludir a la agonía de los fumadores cancerosos como Newman: <EM>Va a ir a comprar tabaco, tú ya me entiendes</EM>. <STRONG>Apéndice</STRONG>: Los hombres son las mujeres del siglo XXI, decían en un capítulo de <STRONG><A id=link_9 title=" http://blogs.elpais.com/espoiler/2008/04/hbo-hace-teatro.html" href="http://blogs.elpais.com/espoiler/2008/04/hbo-hace-teatro.html"><STRONG>In treatment</STRONG></A></STRONG>. Los hombres de antes, como Newman, no estaban tan preocupados por el paso del tiempo y sus efectos. La arruga entonces, como dice Morin, no nacía de la ruina sino de la preocupación y la experiencia. Hoy la arruga para el hombre, como para la mujer, es signo de decadencia, y la <EM>star </EM>masculina se desespera cuando empieza a multiplicarse. Ahí tenemos a Brad Pitt, exorcizando sus miedos y canalizando sus deseos a través del personaje de <A id=link_0 title=" http://www.blogdecine.com/2008/09/03-david-fincher-se-desentiende-del-montaje-de-el-curioso-caso-de-benjamin-button-por-presiones-de-la-paramount" href="http://www.blogdecine.com/2008/09/03-david-fincher-se-desentiende-del-montaje-de-el-curioso-caso-de-benjamin-button-por-presiones-de-la-paramount">Benjamin Button</A>, un hombre que envejece al revés <IMG src="http://www.23hq.com/23666/3412798_fdd1d3acaa4c8d45ca77441226d7a7cc_standard.jpg"> Algo que, por cierto, también pasa con la mayoría de las películas de Newman: cuanto más viejas son, más frescas y lozanas están. </DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"></DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><STRONG>Artículos relacionados</STRONG>:</DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A id=link_11 title=" http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/aracnido-en-tu-pelo/2008/2/8/morir-castellano" href="http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/aracnido-en-tu-pelo/2008/2/8/morir-castellano">Morir en castellano </A>----------------------------------------- * La fotogenia, tal y como convencionalmente se entiende, ya es de por sí un misterio (como la muerte) -¿Por qué la cámara adora a unos rostros y a otros no?- Pero aún lo es más en el sentido de revelación psíquica. Jacques Aumont, en su libro <STRONG><A id=link_2 title=" http://www.librosaulamagna.com/libro/EL_ROSTRO_EN_EL_CINE/22586/2122" href="http://www.librosaulamagna.com/libro/EL_ROSTRO_EN_EL_CINE/22586/2122"><STRONG>El rostro en el cine</STRONG></A></STRONG>, refiere la anécdota del juez americano que <EM>como un nuevo Salomón, debe reconocer entre dos mujeres a la verdadera madre de una niña y consigue identificarla filmando las reacciones del niño ante cada una de sus dos madres putativas</EM> La cámara permite ver en el interior de lo que enfoca con su ojo y es capaz de revelar incluso el advenimiento de la muerte sobre aquel a quien en cierto modo le arrebata. Wim Wenders lo reconocía en la voz en off de <STRONG><A id=link_3 title=" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081055/" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081055/"><STRONG>Relámpago sobre al agua</STRONG></A></STRONG>, su conmovedor retrato del moribundo Nicholas Ray: <EM>Cada vez que la cámara apuntaba a Nick ocurría algo que no podía controlar. Nacía de la misma cámara que apuntaba a Nick. Al mirarle, a través del objetivo, como un instrumento de precisión, la cámara mostraba clara y despiadadamente que su tiempo se estaba acabando. A simple vista no podía verse, quedaba lugar para la esperanza. Pero a través de la cámara no </EM> El último plano de Ray, sumido en un largo delirio, ejemplifica bien la tragedia cómica del que representa el papel del que sabe que va a morir <IMG src="http://www.23hq.com/23666/3412799_169e0f17022471a47b43b67c0c418d13_standard.jpg"> </DIV> <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/82s9e56ns4" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a> 1 2008-09-04T17:54:15Z 2008-09-04T15:51:00Z 195680 2009-02-19T11:16:15Z morir-casa 2008-09-04T17:54:14Z 1 1 Morir en casa 2009-02-19T11:16:15Z