CONTRA EL PINGALISMO CASTRISTA/
"Se que no existe el consuelo
que no existe
la anhelada tierrra de mis suenos
ni la desgarrada vision de nuestros heroes.
Pero
te seguimos buscando, patria,..." - Reinaldo Arenas
A French team of scientists from the University of Paris fell upon an
unlikely find when they gathered remnants of plant material buried deep
into the permafrost of Antarctica in 2013. To their surprise, the
recovered plant material contained intact seeds, but it is only months
later that a team of paleobotanists took up the challenge of reviving
the 200 million-year old plant and, to their own disbelief, succeeded.
It is not the first time an extinct plant has been brought back to life since a specimen of Silene stenophylla,
a plant that has been extinct for over 30,000 years, was just brought
back into existence in 2012 by Russian scientists, but it is
definitely an incredible find as is thought to be of the Jurassic
period, possibly estimated to be 200 million-years old.
It is also a mystery that tropical plants could have managed to grow
on the Antarctica continent 200 million-years ago and the experiment
could bring to light vital information about atmospheric conditions on
Earth at the time, such as levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2).
The obvious question on most minds: how potent is this strain of Cannabis? One
researcher did sample the plant and measurements said one hit is the
equivalent of smoking four ounces of a normal strain of cannabis.
While it’s an important discovery, many are worried the ancient
strain could get out of the lab and into the hands of marijuana growers.
The lab said while the drug will leave the user catatonic for two to
five days, there is absolutely no risk of overdoes and the
researches promise they will do everything within their power to keep
the plants secure.
Down one of the streets that feeds into the central plaza, behind a set of double windows is the modest casa particular of José Marante and his wife, Ines.
Marante, a silver-haired man of 73, is the boisterous grandfather to
seven. He introduced himself with a pound on the chest and an
exclamation: “Maestro!” He immediately asked what he should make for
dinner: Perhaps lobster?
Through a chain of gossipy hearsay from a
hostel owner in Havana, it had come to my attention that Marante once
served as a private chef for Castro. “Did Castro like lobster?” I ask.
Marante put his finger to his lips and laughed, “Shhhh!”
Later, he
comes back with a bag from the market filled with green bananas, and
joins his wife in the kitchen, where she’s chopping garlic.
He
offers a brief history of his time in battle with Castro. In 1961, at
the tender age of 18, Marante volunteered to fight an American-backed
insurgency attempt at Playa Giron, or the Bay of Pigs. “I wasn’t
scared,” he says in Spanish.
Though the fighting only lasted three
days, Marante says he spent three weeks cooking for Castro. Earlier in
the revolution, he had also cooked for his righthand man, Camilo
Cienfuegos, at a hotel where Marante worked. They ate everything, he
reports—no food was a favorite during those politically uncertain times.
Later,
over a meal of rice, beans, plantain chips, and fish fillet, and a
geometrically impressive salad arrangement, he brings out his war medals
upon request: two for valor, one for cooking, another for his teaching.
“I’m still very strong,” he says, flexing his muscles.
Marante met many of the top guerrillas during that time, but he never
shook hands with the man that has since risen to saint levels in Cuba
and across the world.
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(No tiene susto ni nada de eso.)
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They have been attributed to
meteorite impacts, missile strikes, and gas-field explosions. The
likeliest explanation, however, seems to be climate change.Credit Photograph by AP.
Ever since last July, when a Russian YouTube user uploaded “Giant Hole in the Ground,”
a thirty-four-second video of, well, a giant hole in the ground—about
two hundred and fifty feet across and more than a hundred and fifty feet
deep—the world has been fascinated by a group of mysterious craters in
the tundra of the Russian Arctic. On Thursday, Vasily Bogoyavlensky, the
deputy director of the Oil and Gas Research Institute, at the Russian
Academy of Sciences, told Agence France-Presse that
he and his colleagues have now identified seven of these “holes at the
end of the world,” including one that is more than half a mile across.
“But, in fact, there are plenty more,” Bogoyavlensky said.
Theories
about the mystery craters have variously attributed them to meteorite
impacts, missile strikes, explosions from nearby gas fields, and the
melting of soil-covered ice mounds, known as pingos. The most likely
explanation for the phenomenon, however, seems to be climate change.
Underground temperatures in parts of Siberia have risen by nearly four degrees in
the past fifteen years. As the ground there—mostly permafrost—warms, it
releases methane. The methane builds up until there’s an explosion,
which leaves behind a hole. “The phenomenon is similar to the eruption
of a volcano,” Bogoyavlensky said.
Whether or not
they end in explosions, these methane releases are a serious concern.
Methane is a greenhouse gas, and on a molecule-by-molecule basis it is a
far more potent warming agent than carbon dioxide (although it doesn’t
last as long in the atmosphere). If the permafrost is leaking methane
because of rising temperatures, a positive-feedback loop could be taking
effect: more methane leads to further warming, which leads to further
thawing, and so on.
But the holes in Siberia
also point to another, stranger phenomenon. Global warming and geology
turn out to be connected in unexpected ways. Consider, for example,
earthquakes. Generally, earthquakes occur because of the movements of
Earth’s tectonic plates; they tend to take place along plate boundaries.
But recently Greenland has been experiencing an unusually large number of quakes. One
widely discussed theory attributes this to the shrinking of the
Greenland ice sheet. As the ice sheet melts, its weight declines,
allowing the land underneath it to rise. The process, which is known as
isostatic rebound, may well be responsible for the increase in seismic
activity.
Iceland, too, is rising, and for
similar reasons. As the country’s glaciers melt, the land is rebounding.
A recent study showed that some parts of the country are gaining
elevation at the astonishing rate of 1.4 inches a year. “What we’re
observing is a climatically induced change in the earth’s surface,”
Richard Bennett, one of the authors of the study and a geoscientist at
the University of Arizona, told the Web site Live Science last
month. In the case of Iceland, that change may lead to an increase in
volcanic activity. As the land rises, the pressure on the rock beneath
it changes. Lower pressure translates into a lower melting temperature,
which could, in turn, translate into more (or at least more destructive)
volcanic eruptions. The past five years have been packed with
“interesting volcanic activity,” Sigrún Hreinsdóttir, Bennett’s
fellow-researcher and a geophysicist at the University of Iceland, told the Washington Post. “You
can’t make any statistics from those few data points, of course, but
you do notice there might be a connection with the uplift,” And there’s a
precedent: during the deglaciation that occurred at the end of the last
ice age, some twelve thousand years ago, volcanic activity in Iceland
is estimated to have increased by as much as a factor of thirty.
In
Siberia, the enormous craters are rapidly filling with water. Soon,
they’ll probably be lakes. Of course, by then, new craters may well have
opened up, and with them new mysteries to investigate in a warming
world.
A flight suit once worn by
astronaut Chris Hadfield is apparently now the property of a Toronto
doctor who found it in — of all places — a local thrift store.
"I thought, wow, what is a flight
suit like that doing up there?" Dr. Julielynn Wong told CBC News,
recalling how she stumbled upon the bright blue jumpsuit in one of the
many second-hand stores on Queen Street West.
Then she saw the name stitched on the left-hand side: Chris Hadfield.
"My jaw just dropped. I said, 'I can't believe it.'"
She says she bought it for $40, marked down from $80.
The suit looks just like the one the former commander of the
International Space Station is seen wearing on the back cover of his
book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.
It was 1988, and Martin Pistorius
was a healthy 12-year-old boy growing up in South Africa when his life
took an unexpected turn. Pistorius went home from school with a sore
throat, and he never returned.
His body gradually
weakened. He lost the ability to walk, to eat on his own and eventually,
the ability to communicate. Doctors suspected some kind of
neurodegenerative disease, but his case was a medical mystery. Martin's
parents say doctors told them their son now had the intelligence of a
three-month-old, and that they should take him home to die.
The last words he ever spoke: "When home?"
But Pistorius didn't die. He spent
more than a decade at home and in day-care centers. His parents were
told he was unaware of the world around him, but about four years after
he fell ill, Pistorius says he began to "wake up."
"For so many years, I was like a ghost. I could hear and see everything, but it was like I wasn't there. I was invisible," Pistorius told NBC News' Kate Snow with the help of a device that speaks the words he types into a computer.
"What really got to me
was the complete and utter powerlessness," Pistorius said. "Every single
aspect of your life is controlled and determined by someone else. They
decide where you are, what you eat, whether you sit or lie down, in what
position you lie in, everything."
Day after day, year after year, Pistorius was trapped in a body that wouldn't move, left with nothing but his own thoughts.
"I would literally live
in my imagination," he said. "Sometimes to such an extent that I became
almost oblivious to my surroundings."
His family struggled to come to
terms with his illness. One night, after his parents argued, his mother
turned to her son and said, "I hope you die." She didn't think her son
was there to hear it, but he was.
"It broke my heart, in a
way," Pistorius said. "But at the same time, particularly as I worked
through all the emotions. I felt only love and compassion for my
mother."
But in 2001, there was
new hope. A therapist at Pistorius' care center, Virna Van Der Walt,
began to pick up on tiny signals that made her realize he was more aware
than people thought.
"He had a sparkle in his eye, I could see he was understanding me," Van Der Walt wrote to NBC News' Kate Snow.
She urged his parents to
take him for cognitive testing, and for the first time, Pistorius was
able to show people that he understood.
"She was the catalyst
who changed everything," Pistorius said. "Had it not been for her, I
would probably either be dead or forgotten in a care home somewhere."
As his mind grew
stronger, so did his body. Pistorius was given special equipment he
could use to communicate, which, he says, changed everything.
"I don't think I will
ever forget that feeling when my mom asked me what I'd like for supper
and I said, 'Spaghetti Bolognese,' and then she actually made that," he
said. "I know that must seem insignificant, but for me, that was
amazing."
Pistorius had to relearn
everything - from reading and socializing to making decisions for
himself. He went to college, learned to drive, and even feel in love.
He married Joanna, who he met through his sister, in 2009, and they are hoping to start a family.
"It took a massive
amount of work, blood, sweat and tears," he said. "But I am a different
person today that I was 13 years ago."
Today, Pistorius works
as a web designer. His story captured in an autobiography, "Ghost Boy,"
is on The New York Times best-seller list.
He's grateful for the little things, like being able to have a conversation or experiencing something for the first time.
His message - don't overlook what's possible.
"Never underestimate the
power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop
dreaming," Pistorius said, adding one more piece of advice:
"Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not."
Somebody has to change out that lightbulb at the top of those tall TV towers!
This
is tower climber Kevin Schmidt making the climb to the very top of the
now inactive KDLT TV analog broadcast antenna near Salem, SD.
It
was a beautiful fall day for a climb and the views are stunning! I would
suggest watching at 1080 HD in full screen to get a small taste of the
experience.
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Melbourne Beach's Shannon Johnson was walking on
the beach on the morning of Dec. 3 when she noticed something that stood
out.
"It was right before low tide, perfect timing, about 9:30,
10 and just looked down. I was picking up some trash and looked down and
there it was."
"It" was a small medicine bottle that contained some rocks and other small particles … and a letter.
"I was afraid to open it at first like some crazy pirate put something toxic in it."
But
eventually Johnson did open it and when she did she found a note in
several pieces from a woman in Cuba inside of it. The letter, written in
Spanish, detailed the woman's desire to come to America and better her
and her family's life.
Johnson felt as though this was a story
that needed to be shared, so to spread the message, Johnson shared the
photo of the bottle and letter with her close friend Brittany Blanc of
Melbourne. Blanc posted it to her Facebook profile, which drew interest
from her friends.
One of those friends, Jason Schreiber, sent a
message over Facebook to "three or four" of the woman's friends along
with the woman herself.
"I dug deeper than anybody else," Schreiber said.
Eventually he made contact with the woman who sent the bottle.
"I
sent her a picture of her bottle and I sent her a picture of her letter
and I said, 'Is this you?' and she said, 'Oh my god, yes, yes that's
me.'"
Schreiber
discovered that she sent the bottle more than two months ago. He also
found that she was a well-educated woman who wasn't poor, but simply
wanted a better opportunity for herself and her family and seemed
frustrated that she couldn't come to the United States.
The woman also wished not to be identified in any published story.
"I
actually thought it was just a beautiful letter, and I don't think she
even meant for anyone to find it," said Blanc, after reading the
translated version of the letter.
The distance the bottle traveled
differs depending upon how you calculate the distance from the northern
coast of Cuba to the Space Coast, but the bottle traveled at least 300
miles before it washed ashore.
Schreiber shared the sentiment that
Johnson and Blanc had of wanting to meet the woman in the United
States, but he was unsure of what he could realistically do.
"I mean if there's any way I can get her over here to better her life or anything that'd be awesome."
The woman's frustration is likely due to the steep odds she faces in coming to this country.
According
to David Stoller, certified immigration attorney, a Cuban citizen's
path to coming to the United States rests with either having family here
or winning one of two lotteries: the United States' Diversity Visa
Lottery, or a second lottery offered in Cuba, only to Cubans. He said a
Cuban national cannot be deported if they step foot in the U.S., which
leads to some coming over in rafts and through other means.
"That's
the way it works for everyone around the world. Your chances are slim
and none unless you fit into some category in our system of either
family, employment base, or a special program for people of certain
countries like we have for the diversity visa process or a special
set-up for Cubans," said Stoller.
Danish artist Uwe Max Jensen recreated Kim Kardashian's butt-baring Paper Magazine cover using his penis as a brush.
Jensen was reportedly so impressed by the shape of Kardashian's back side, that he used it as inspiration.
"I saw this picture of Kim Kardashian and this very impressive behind
she has, and I thought, 'This must be portrait number two,'" said
Jensen, via EOnline.
So how did he pull it off, why did he do it, and does size matter? Jensen explains:
I have my penis in one hand and the canvas in the other.
I have a very skilled penis, art-wise.
It is hard to do an entire canvas using only one's natural brush.
If one is ill-equipped, it is difficult to reproduce the small
details, but if one is well-endowed, it is easier to produce a better
painting.
My penis is an organ. I need it to reproduce, and for sex and joy.
But I can also use it in my art, and that's joyful for me on more levels.
Jensen posted several photographs of the painting to his social media pages, and also a few NSFW ones of the creative process to his blog.
This marks Jensen's second penis portrait. The first was of a Danish politician.
Jensen told the Daily Pot he tried to send the final product of his painting to the politician on Facebook, but he was blocked.
On a recent flight from Penticton to Vancouver, an Air Canada
passenger was startled by a loud pop outside his passenger window. A
bolt had broken off the plane and burst through the outer pane of the
window glass.
Reddit user Skips_LegDay
posted his story earlier this week. “So about halfway through my flight
I heard a loud POP, looked out my window at a bolt that flew off the
prop and broke through the outer pane.”
“People around me heard it and seemed nervous once they saw the
source of the sound. I got up and went to the flight attendant and
quietly told her what happened, she came over to see it then called the
pilot. He said it will be fine until we land as the cabin’s
pressurised.”
“Once we landed and people stopped snapping pics, the pilot
talked to me for a while. Said he’s never seen this happen in over 25
years of flying,” he added as comments piled up on his Reddit post.
Air Canada has confirmed the rare incident.
“While on descent into Vancouver on Nov. 25/14, (from Penticton, BC)
flight #8353 had one of those twelve one-inch (2.5 cm) bolts come loose
and strike one of the aircraft windows. The bolt struck the exterior
pane (of two acrylic window panes) which resulted in a small hole in the
exterior window pane – the interior pane was not impacted,” a
spokesperson for the airline told MailOnline.
The aircraft safely landed in Vancouver. Air Canada admits the
incident was highly unusual and maintenance personnel are inspecting the
plane and making any necessary repairs. They have also apologized for
any stress or concern the issue may have caused.
This follows an earlier Air Canada incident this month when a propeller smashed through a passenger’s window during an emergency landing in Edmonton and four passengers were sent to hospital.
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MOSCOW — Hollywood actor Mickey
Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a
fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout. Rourke sent
29-year-old Pasadena native Elliot Seymour to the canvas twice in the
second round before the referee stopped the fight.
The bout at a Moscow
concert hall was Rourke's first fight in 20 years. He took a break from
acting in the early 1990s, finishing a three-year pro boxing career with
six wins and two draws. He hinted that the return to the ring has
helped him cope with unspecified personal issues.
"I've got some things
going on in my life so that (boxing has) sort of saved me from myself,"
Rourke told Russian TV. "And or a man like me, it's better to live in
fear than go on in shame."
He has said he plans to
hold another four fights in Russia. He took to the ring Friday in a
Stetson hat, a red-and-gold robe and shiny gold gloves, repeatedly
crossing himself. Rourke, who had said he lost 35 pounds to prepare for
the fight, was much thinner than in his best-known cinematic fighting
persona, when he bulked up to play the title character in 2008's "The
Wrestler."
Seymour, a former
California Golden Gloves champion with a 1-9 pro record, did not land
any significant blows on Rourke, whose previous boxing career left him
with injuries that he has previously said necessitated extensive plastic
surgery to his face.
YURI KOCHETKOV / EPA
U.S. actor and boxer Mickey Rourke in action during his fight against U.S. boxer Elliot Seymour in Moscow, on Nov. 28.
Researchers have unearthed new clues to an ancient Greek
astronomical puzzle that has fascinated archaeologists for over a
century.
The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient machine dubbed “the world’s first computer,” was recovered from a treasure-laden shipwreck
off the coast of Greece in 1901. However, the latest research by James
Evans, professor of physics at the University of Puget Sound, and
Christián Carman, history of science professor at the University of
Quilmes, Argentina, sheds new light on the clocklike astronomical
mechanism.
The study, published in the Archive for History of Exact Science, pinpoints the date when the mechanism was timed to begin as 205 B.C., making it 50 to 100 years older than previously thought.
According a statement
released by the University of Puget Sound, the research “fills a gap in
ancient scientific history by indicating that the Greeks were able to
predict eclipses and engineer a highly complex machine” much earlier
than was previously thought.
Evans and Carman’s work also supports the idea that the eclipse
prediction scheme was not based on Greek trigonometry (which was
nonexistent in 205 B.C.) but on Babylonian arithmetical methods, the
University said.
The researchers arrived at the 205 B.C. date via a method of
elimination they devised. Evans and Carman examined the hundreds of ways
that the device’s eclipse patterns could match Babylonian records
reconstructed by John Steele, professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at
Brown University.
“The calculations take into account lunar and solar anomalies (which
result in faster or slower velocity), missing solar eclipses, lunar and
solar eclipses cycles, and other astronomical phenomena,”
explained the University of Puget Sound, in its statement. “The work was
particularly difficult because only about a third of the Antikythera’s
eclipse predictor is preserved.”
The latest research may also place the Antikythera Mechanism close to
the lifetime of Archimedes, who died in 212 B.C., although experts have
questioned possible links to the celebrated mathematician.
The Mechanism’s heavily encrusted fragments are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
¨Saturno jugando con sus hijos¨/ Pedro Pablo Oliva
Seguidores
Carta desde la carcel de Fidel Castro Ruz
“…después de todo, para mí la cárcel es un buen descanso, que sólo tiene de malo el que es obligatorio. Leo mucho y estudio mucho. Parece increíble, las horas pasan como si fuesen minutos y yo, que soy de temperamento intranquilo, me paso el día leyendo, apenas sin moverme para nada. La correspondencia llega normalmente…”
“…Como soy cocinero, de vez en cuando me entretengo preparando algún pisto. Hace poco me mandó mi hermana desde Oriente un pequeño jamón y preparé un bisté con jalea de guayaba. También preparo spaghettis de vez en cuando, de distintas formas, inventadas todas por mí; o bien tortilla de queso. ¡Ah! ¡Qué bien me quedan! por supuesto, que el repertorio no se queda ahí. Cuelo también café que me queda muy sabroso”. “…En cuanto a fumar, en estos días pasados he estado rico: una caja de tabacos H. Upman del doctor Miró Cardona, dos cajas muy buenas de mi hermano Ramón….”. “Me voy a cenar: spaghettis con calamares, bombones italianos de postre, café acabadito de colar y después un H. Upman #4. ¿No me envidias?”. “…Me cuidan, me cuidan un poquito entre todos. No le hacen caso a uno, siempre estoy peleando para que no me manden nada. Cuando cojo el sol por la mañana en shorts y siento el aire de mar, me parece que estoy en una playa… ¡Me van a hacer creer que estoy de vacaciones! ¿Qué diría Carlos Marx de semejantes revolucionarios?”.
Quotes
¨La patria es dicha de todos, y dolor de todos, y cielo para todos, y no feudo ni capellanía de nadie¨ - Marti
"No temas ni a la prision, ni a la pobreza, ni a la muerte. Teme al miedo" - Giacomo Leopardi
¨Por eso es muy importante, Vicky, hijo mío, que recuerdes siempre para qué sirve la cabeza: para atravesar paredes¨– Halvar de Flake[El vikingo]
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir"- Lorca
"Al final, no os preguntarán qué habéis sabido, sino qué habéis hecho" - Jean de Gerson
"Si queremos que todo siga como está, es necesario que todo cambie" - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Todo hombre paga su grandeza con muchas pequeñeces, su victoria con muchas derrotas, su riqueza con múltiples quiebras" - Giovanni Papini
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"Habla bajo, lleva siempre un gran palo y llegarás lejos" - Proverbio Africano
"No hay medicina para el miedo"-Proverbio escoces "El supremo arte de la guerra es doblegar al enemigo sin luchar" -Sun Tzu
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office" - H. L. Menken
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Elie Wiesel
"Stay hungry, stay foolish" - Steve Jobs
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years ther'ed be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less" - Vaclav Havel
"No se puede controlar el resultado, pero si lo que uno haga para alcanzarlo" - Vitor Belfort [MMA Fighter]
Liborio
A la puerta de la gloria está San Pedro sentado y ve llegar a su lado a un hombre de cierta historia. No consigue hacer memoria y le pregunta con celo: ¿Quién eras allá en el suelo? Era Liborio mi nombre. Has sufrido mucho, hombre, entra, te has ganado el cielo.
Para Raul Castro
Cuba ocupa el penultimo lugar en el mundo en libertad economica solo superada por Corea del Norte.
Cuba ocupa el lugar 147 entre 153 paises evaluados en "Democracia, Mercado y Transparencia 2007"
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, Callé: yo no soy comunista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, Callé: yo no soy sindicalista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, Callé: yo no soy judío. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los católicos, Callé: yo no soy “tan católico”. Cuando vinieron a buscarme a mí, Callé: no había quien me escuchara.
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CUBA LLORA Y EL MUNDO Y NOSOTROS NO ESCUCHAMOS
Donde esta el Mundo, donde los Democratas, donde los Liberales? El pueblo de Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan los Green, los Socialdemocratas, los Ricos y los Pobres, los Con Voz y Sin Voz? Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan el Jet Set, los Reyes y Principes, Patricios y Plebeyos? Cuba desesperada clama por solidaridad. Donde Bob Dylan, donde Martin Luther King, donde Hollywood y sus estrellas? Donde la Middle Class democrata y conservadora, o acaso tambien liberal a ratos? Y Gandhi? Y el Dios de Todos? Donde los Santos y Virgenes; los Dioses de Cristianos, Protestantes, Musulmanes, Budistas, Testigos de Jehova y Adventistas del Septimo Dia. Donde estan Ochun y todas las deidades del Panteon Yoruba que no acuden a nuestro llanto? Donde Juan Pablo II que no exige mas que Cuba se abra al Mundo y que el Mundo se abra a Cuba? Que hacen ahora mismo Alberto de Monaco y el Principe Felipe que no los escuchamos? Donde Madonna, donde Angelina Jolie y sus adoptados around de world; o nos hara falta un Brando erguido en un Oscar por Cuba? Donde Sean Penn? Donde esta la Aristocracia Obrera y los Obreros menos Aristocraticos, donde los Working Class que no estan junto a un pueblo que lanquidece, sufre y llora por la ignominia? Que hacen ahora mismo Zapatero y Rajoy que no los escuchamos, y Harper y Dion, e Hillary y Obama; donde McCain que no los escuchamos? Y los muertos? Y los que estan muriendo? Y los que van a morir? Y los que se lanzan desesperados al mar? Donde estan el minero cantabrico o el pescador de percebes gijonese? Los Canarios donde estan? A los africanos no los oimos, y a los australianos con su acento de hombres duros tampoco. Y aquellos chinos milenarios de Canton que fundaron raices eternas en la Isla? Y que de la Queen Elizabeth y los Lords y Gentlemen? Que hace ahora mismo el combativo Principe Harry que no lo escuchamos? Donde los Rockefellers? Donde los Duponts? Donde Kate Moss? Donde el Presidente de la ONU? Y Solana donde esta? Y los Generales y Doctores? Y los Lam y los Fabelo, y los Sivio y los Fito Paez? Y que de Canseco y Miñoso? Y de los veteranos de Bahia de Cochinos y de los balseros y de los recien llegados? Y Carlos Otero y Susana Perez? Y el Bola, y Pancho Cespedes? Y YO y TU? Y todos nosotros que estamos aqui y alla rumiando frustaciones y resquemores, envidias y sinsabores; autoelogios y nostalgias, en tanto Louis Michel comulga con Perez Roque mientras Biscet y una NACION lanquidecen? Donde Maceo, donde Marti; donde aquel Villena con su carga para matar bribones? Cuba llora y clama y el Mundo NO ESCUCHA!!!
A French team of scientists from the University of Paris fell upon an
unlikely find when they gathered remnants of plant material buried deep
into the permafrost of Antarctica in 2013. To their surprise, the
recovered plant material contained intact seeds, but it is only months
later that a team of paleobotanists took up the challenge of reviving
the 200 million-year old plant and, to their own disbelief, succeeded.
"He had a sparkle in his eye, I could see he was understanding me," Van Der Walt wrote to NBC News' Kate Snow.
Reddit user Skips_LegDay
posted his story earlier this week. “So about halfway through my flight
I heard a loud POP, looked out my window at a bolt that flew off the
prop and broke through the outer pane.”
“While on descent into Vancouver on Nov. 25/14, (from Penticton, BC)
flight #8353 had one of those twelve one-inch (2.5 cm) bolts come loose
and strike one of the aircraft windows. The bolt struck the exterior
pane (of two acrylic window panes) which resulted in a small hole in the
exterior window pane – the interior pane was not impacted,” a
spokesperson for the airline told MailOnline.
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