El autor nos cuenta de su gran atracci n por la ingenier a mec nica que representan las m quinas de escribir y calcular.

A los nueve a a os visita con su padre el taller del se or ngel Salas y siente un gran impacto al ver la variedad de herramientas necesarias en la reparaci n de las m quinas de escribir y calcular. Esta fuerte atracci n se convierte en su profesi n y con ella trabajar en Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Paris y Nueva York.

Jos nos cuenta de la situaci n peronista en Buenos Aires en los a os 1948-1952. En Madrid, con el se or Barranco adem?'s de compartir sus conocimientos sobre la Olimpia SGE y Facit este le relata sus recuerdos vividos en al ciudad Universitaria durante la Guerra Civil en Espa a. En Paris, monsieur Hasold, quien bajo la primera impresi n de ser una persona fr a, se escond a una persona afable y c lida, quien llega a apreciar la camarader a que se establece en ellos entre las reparaciones de Facit y Hamann, monseiur Klasser le cuenta sus experiencias durante la ocupaci n Nazi. Compa ero de trabajo el austriaco Wondell, quien manualmente construye y regala un reloj a Alvar. Jos nos cuenta de sus an cdotas durante los varios viajes que disfrut durante los fines de semana y vacacione desde Paris a Espa a, Marruecos y el sur de Alemania. De regreso a Uruguay, Jos pasa por Nueva York a visitar su hija Cristina y ah establece contacto con la compa a Bruce Business Machines. Treinta a os de acumulada experiencia en una variedad de m quinas de escribir y calcular, pagan su fruto, Bruce Business Machines ofrece un contrato de trabajo, que Jos acepta. Regresa a Montevideo a organizar su retorno permanente a Nueva York, mientras su visa est en tr mite. En Montevideo, con su hija Cristina que tambi n regresa despu?'s de un a o en Nueva York, le esperan sus hijos Jos Luis y Alvar. Esta es una etapa crucial en su vida, pues es el momento de separarse de su ciudad natal, familia y amistades. En 1969 retorna a Nueva York y el departamento de trabajo, al no poder conseguir un mec nico con la experiencia de Jos le otorga la visa de residente. M?'s de setenta a os han pasado y una atracci n que se convierte en una profesi n y continua hasta hoy con un promedio de una o dos reparaciones por semana

Convicci n de entender y aceptar la vocaci n en cada uno, en este caso su admiraci n por la ingenier a mec nica que representan las m quinas de escribir y calcular.

Dedicaci n a aprender a cada paso que la oportunidad se presente, en las diferentes ciudades en que vivi .

Esp ritu positivo para aceptar los altos y bajos que siguen el uno al otro, diferentes idiomas y modalidades de vida.

Esta combinaci n es esencial en el car cter de la persona para salir adelante y realizar la utop a de sus sue os.

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is vulnerability distributed in terms of margin and centre, normality and deviance? And how can vulnerability be used to move audiences towards each other and accomplish change? We address these questions in an interdisciplinary study that brings examples from celebrated and provocative fiction and documentary films, TV-series, reality TV, art installations, design, literature, graphic art, radio podcasts and campaigns on social media.

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from - as opposed to being conflated with - the documentary film in its multiple historical guises; a premise explored in case-studies of films by distinguished artists and filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Ben Rivers, Chantal Akerman, Ben Russell Pat Collins and Gideon Koppel). The book builds a case for this new category of film, calling it the 'new nonfiction film,' and argues, in the process, that this kind of film works to dismantle the old distinctions between fiction and documentary film and therefore the axioms of Film and Cinema Studies as a discipline of study.

The Stillness of Space and Line is a collection of images inspired by early Chinese painting. Discover the quiet stillness within each image. The lines arise from the empty space and remain part of the connection to the presence of the moment. The space is the yin and the line is the yang energy. Use the Stillness of Space and Line as a visual Meditation Guide. There are no distractions to the flow of energy. The images are timeless and alive with presence.

Nations have risen to power through their might and driven by greed they have held many people in bondage. When the workforce was limited, they bought and sold slaves. Slavery is still taking place on the continent of Africa, and no one is there protesting. Politics It is all about politics and the political game that is being played out in the greatest nation that the world has ever known could be its demise. We will examine the foundation that was laid by those who came from Great Britain and with only thirteen colonies became the ruler of the seas and skies with an army that is unmatched anywhere. Politics Yes, politics played by men and women desiring power and wealth have brought us the very brink of collapse as they tend to forget who it was that gave so much to so few in the beginning. Thousands upon thousands have given their lives for the freedoms that we have in this land, and yet there are many who do not care, preferring a socialist form of government. But there is still hope for a failing nation.

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. However, no important appreciative context or practice is completely centered on a single value. Hence, the book explores the way the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values in these contexts. The account of aesthetic appreciation is complemented by analyses of the cognitive and ethical value of art, the connection between environmental ethics and aesthetics, and the degree to which the aesthetic value of everyday artefacts derives from their basic practical functions. Robert Stecker devotes special attention to art as an appreciative context because it is an especially rich arena where different values interact. There is an important connection between artistic value and aesthetic value, but it is a mistake to reduce the former to the latter. Rather, artistic value should be seen as complex and pluralistic, composed not only of aesthetic but also ethical, cognitive, and art-historical values.

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Ella is a young fairy. For most of her existence, she's had little to worry about. She was just a normal, beautiful fairy-like all of her friends-until one day, blue streaks showed up in her wings. Suddenly, she was shunned by friends and fellow fairies.The elders know of a legend that speaks of a blue-winged fairy. In the well-known prophecy, there is significance to this added color, but Ella always thought the prophecy was mere legend, not truth. She could not have been more wrong, as she comes to realize the prophecy is about her. With this news, Ella must leave her village and go on a quest to seek the meaning behind her newly discovered gift.Ella's only companion is Brogan, a warrior wolf, sent to keep her safe as she searches the wide world for her destiny. There are those who would hurt Ella and Brogan, yet there are also those who await their arrival with joy. The legend of the blue wings is finally coming true. Ella must accept her destiny and learn to be a Blue Wing Princess. Will she live to fulfill the prophecy, or will she fall into fearful darkness, just like all the other blue-winged fairies that came before?

Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts-as it is often in such cases-seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.