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 92-year-old man in Iraq marries a woman 70 years his junior. Muslai
Mohammed, one of the most prominent figures in his village, decided to
get married three years after the death of his first wife, who died aged
58.
"I remained alone when my wife died, there was nobody to
share anything with. I wanted to have a good time, have some pleasure,
but there was nothing. Then God brought her to me, for my pleasure. Is
that good or bad?," he said.
Muna al-Jabouri, his new wife, said: "I accepted (to marry him) when I saw his pictures and realised it was my fate."
PayPal temporarily made a Pennsylvania PR executive a quadrillionnaire when it accidentally credited his account with $92,233,270,368,547,800, Sho Wills of CNN reports.
That would have made Chris Reynolds the richest man in the world. Easily.
When Reynolds opened up his PayPal e-mail statement for June, he figured something was off when he is balance read $92 quadtrillion and then some.
He went online to check his account, and that's when he definitely knew it was a mistake. His account balance read $0.
PayPal has since admitted the error and is offering to donate an undetermined amount of money to a cause of Reynolds's choice.
A Chinese woman's breast implant exploded after playing a game (Dragon Summon) on her iPhone while lying on her stomach for four hours.
According to reports, she was taken to the hospital after experiencing pain in her chest while playing the game in bed. Doctors say that the low quality implant combined with the pressure of laying face down for an extended period of time, caused the rupture.
No information has been provided as to whether her implant was replaced. She initially received the implants to raise her self esteem.
On the brighter side, the woman may have achieved a personal high score in Dragon Summon.
Laverne Everett's skydiving partner holds onto her after she fell out of her harness.
An 80-year-old woman on a tandem skydive slipped from her instructor’s harness then held on for life while rocketing toward Earth. An Alabama man busted his ankles trying to ride a bull. A Missouri man smashed his body – and his new motorcycle – minutes after buying the bike.
All were attempting items on their “bucket lists,” those rare experiences that people – particularly Baby Boomers (folks 49 years old and up) – ache to taste before kicking the bucket. But as injuries and close calls from these sacred agendas mount, some emergency workers want the bucket-listers to tone down their chosen adventures – or at least better prepare for such feats.
“If you’re going to build a bucket list don’t fill it with 18 different versions of Russian Roulette,” said Dr. Ryan Stanton, an emergency physician in Lexington, Ky. He treated the 60-something man who recently wrecked his new motorcycle in the store’s parking lot, breaking several bones in the crash.
“Fill your bucket list with things that are actually safe and enjoyable – or at least prepare for them sufficiently if you’re going to enjoy them,” Stanton said. “You don’t want your bucket to be full of the first bucket of dirt for your grave.”
Baby boomers have become the bucket-list generation, aiming to complete and cross off dozens of adrenaline-drenched exploits before their bodies fade or their time ends, says an official at the American Association of Retired Persons.
“Boomers are really known for this phenomenon called ‘Boomeritis,’ which is: We are weekend warriors and we go out and try to squeeze all our activities into the weekend,” said Gabrielle Redford, editorial projects manager for AARP the Magazine. She believes so many 50-plusers have inked bucket lists because they came of age amid the aerobics and jogging crazes, and because they’re more active than their parents’ generation.
Typical bucket lists may include marathons, triathlons and, lately, Tough Mudders and Spartan Races – along with pursuits like ziplining, rock climbing and scuba diving.
“We set our sites on a race and just go all out to get in shape for that race. But then we go out too fast and too long and we end up with the plantar fasciitis and the Achilles (tendon) pull,” Redford said. “We just end up with all these wear and tear injuries we might not have had if we weren’t quite so ambitious.”
Some bucket lists can lead to close calls with the hereafter.
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Laverne Everett, now 82, says despite her near-disastrous skydive, she's still seeking new adventures.
To celebrate her 80th birthday and notch her bucket list, Laverne Everett went tandem skydivingtwo years ago above Lodi, Calif. After she paused in fear while perched in the plane’s hatch, she went airborne but partially slipped out of her partner’s harness. A fellow jumper filmed the plunge and the video went viral.
“I had watched watched people jump, and it looked like such fun, just sailing in real smooth, you know? It didn’t work out that way,” Everett, 82, said in a phone interview Thursday. “[My partner] kept telling me: ‘Hold on! Hold on!’ That’s where my mind was, just holding on. He was just holding me. I was just barely holding on with my legs.
“I couldn’t see anything. My clothes were rolled up over my face. There was pinhole of light, that’s all I had. So I didn’t know what was what. I’m very thankful I didn’t know,” added Everett, who suffered some “doozy bruises” and a scraped knee when she landed otherwise intact after their chute opened.
Terry Hatfield's lifelong dream of riding a bull resulted in his breaking both ankles and an arm. In 2011, the 56-year-old Huntsville, Ala., man climbed on to a 1,000-pound animal that began bucking before they exited the starting pen, causing the injuries. Hatfield said later that moment had been “on my bucket list.”
Some emergency medical technicians believe a lot of bucket-listers could attack their ventures far more safely – though many EMTs are, similarly, adrenaline junkies and they grudgingly respect the daredevil efforts of the oldsters.
“We talk about it: They could stretch or hydrate or train properly – they could have done things to prevent blown-out knees and ripped hamstrings,” said Roy Poteete, vice president of the U.S. First Responders Association, and a retired firefighter and EMT who lives in Missouri.
But aren’t bungee jumping, parachuting and mountain scaling simply hobbies that exceed the technical knowhow and physical skills of some folks?
“You are correct, sir,” Poteete said.
In fact, there currently are no medical-practice guidelines as to which bucket-list items are considered safe or age appropriate, so advice often comes down to the intuition of individual physicians, said Carl Foster, director of the human performance laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse. He recently chaired an American College of Sports Medicine symposium of doctors discussing the perils of bucket lists.
“A lot of people identify with the concept of: Geez, I haven’t done this in my life and I’m willing to take the risk. That’s really the guts of this thing. If you look at the movie which the term came from, it gets at: I’m close enough to the end and I’m making the active choice,” Foster said.
“By the same token, the people who have to take care of them, who have to bail them out of bad situations, probably wish they prepared or had thought better of it.”
As for Everett, she’s still scratching lines off her bucket list. Last year, she rode shotgun in a NASCAR vehicle for several laps at a California racetrack.
“I figured we were doing 90 (mph), at least,” she said. “When we got out, I told the driver, I could have gone faster!’ ”
Georgia - A Georgia couple returned home recently only to find that a neighbor's pick truck had crashed into their house after it was put in gear by a toddler who was waiting for Dad to unload the truck.
The 2-year-old who was sitting in the cab, managed to put the truck in gear, and then drove across the street and into the home of George and Kathleen Williams. Although there was significant damage to the house, no injuries were reported.
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Si en una ocasión Mariano Rajoy expresaba su pésame por el fallecimiento de Mariano Rajoy, esta vez el presidente lo hace por el "atentado" en Oklahoma, a pesar de que se trata de un tornado.
Evidentemente se trata de un error (otro más) del Departamento de Comunicación de Presidencia, que ha enviado a los medios de comunicación un correo electrónico con el siguiente asunto: "Pésame Rajoy por víctimas atentado Oklahoma".
Sin embargo, el comunicado sí que da el pésame por el tornado que ha arrasado el estado de Oklahoma y que ha causado casi un centenar de muertos a su paso.
WASHINGTON -- The spectacle of buttoned-down Canadian diplomats picketing Canada's embassy drew some fascinated stares Friday from tourists and other passersby in the U.S. capital.
About three dozen placard-waving foreign service workers marched in front of the famed Capitol Hill building in an "information picket" aimed at shining the spotlight on stalled negotiations between the federal government and the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers.
The union has been in a legal strike position since talks with the Treasury Board broke down a month ago. The workers say they are underpaid compared to other public servants with similar qualifications and experience.
The 1,350 union members have already taken part in work-to-rule campaigns that have included refusing to work overtime or to respond to work-related emails after hours.
Though hitting the bricks might go against the discreet, generally well-behaved nature of diplomats, the picket was necessary to highlight significant wage gaps that have been "festering" for years, said union president Tim Edwards.
"We're coming here simply because the U.S. is Canada's most important trading partner and ally, this is our largest mission abroad, and this is one of our largest complements of foreign service officers abroad," Edwards said.
"This was a logical place to raise the profile of our issues abroad, which is equal pay for equal work."
A week ago, foreign service workers in Ottawa held similar pickets at Foreign Affairs headquarters. Edwards said there may be information pickets at other foreign embassies in the weeks to come if negotiations remain at a stalemate.
At Friday's picket, the diplomats were impeccably dressed -- both men and women, including some aides to Ambassador Gary Doer, walked the line in conservative business suits. But that could change: the union is asking diplomats to start a "creative dress" campaign, including wearing sweatpants to work.
"I'd go there," said one picketing worker who asked not to be identified.
Other diplomats in D.C. have been responding to the "creative dress" dictum by wearing lapel buttons to raise awareness about their cause.
"That has the advantage of prompting contacts to ask us what they're about, and then we can explain about the job action," said an embassy employee.
The picketing diplomats received an unintended bit of moral support Friday from a busload of high-school students from Cambridge, Ont., who were exploring the outdoor echo chamber at the embassy.
As the workers made their way down the embassy's front steps to begin their job action, the students simultaneously -- and coincidentally -- began singing "O Canada."
Sailendra Nath Roy es el nombre del ciudadano indio que murió este
domingo mientras recorría un cable de 183 metros sobre un río, sujetado
por su pelo. Con esta hazaña pretendía quebrar su antiguo Récord
Guinness, alcanzado en 2011, cuando se desplazó 82,5 metros atado de su
“cola de caballo” en el Fuerte Neemrana de Rajastán. Biobiochile.cl
Con su familia entre el público, el hombre alcanzó a realizar el 40%
del camino total, sin embargo, tras quedar atascado durante 20 minutos
sufrió un ataque cardíaco.
En la actividad, cabe señalar, no se encontraban ambulancias ni médicos según informó la Agencia EFE.
Tras el hecho el participante fue trasladado hasta el hospital más
cercano, donde los especialistas lo declararon muerto debido al ataque.
El suceso se registró en el río Teesta, ubicado en el estado de
Bengala Occidental, lugar donde Roy -cuyo oficio era conductor de la
policía local- falleció intentando superarse a sí mismo.
En España se ha puesto de moda el escrache. ¿Qué es el escrache? Es un acto de repudio a la cubana. Es decir va el populacho ideológica y comunistamente embrutecido y organizado e insulta y coacciona a uno que no se comporta como el populacho desea. Va el populacho y le monta un acto de repudio en su casa. En su casa. Esto es importante. Lo que diferencia un acto de repudio a la cubana de una protesta legítima es que el propósito del acto de repudio a la cubana es dejar claro que el individuo ya no existe, que el individuo se ha convertido en un insecto (un gusano) que puede ser aplastado en nombre del pueblo.
the portuguese are notraw,hard-workingpeoplebutjustgostepand step andand sometimes gethelp.
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Maria Carreiro was thrilled to have won $40,000 –
until her daughter took a second look at the winning ticket and
realized it was actually worth $40 million. Carreiro has playing the
same lottery numbers for 20 years.
Several years ago, on the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, several persons competed in a series of one-on-one debates to determine which would be declared the most intelligent person in the world. This video commemorates that:
The event occurred at Imperial College London. The persons: Fiona Barclay, Bernie Morley, Tony Whitehead, and Philip Campbell (the editor of Nature magazine)
There is a second report of Chavez appearing in the form of an animal, as Bloomberg reports that the horse Revolutionary seen above winning the Louisiana Derby, may be the reincarnation of the Venezuelan President. The horse has raced three times, always ridden by a Venezuelan jockey (two different ones) and is one of the early favorites to win the Kentucky Derby.
In contrast with Maduro’s bird, which could have been born after March 5th., Revolutionary is a three year old horse and was actually winning races before the demise of the Venezuelan President, so that it is difficult to ascribe it as much veracity as to Maduro’s more realistic and believable apparition.
Of course, I am not that knowledgeable in terms of how this after life stuff works and whether the body and spirit are born at the same time or the spirit can pick and choose an already existing body to be carried in. But in any case, Revolutionary won its first two races before March 5th., so it seems as if Hugo may only have helped in the last race.
Fortunately, the horse will play no role on the election, as the Kentucky Derby takes place on May 4th. after the Venezuelan Presidential election.
¨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.
Un sitio donde los hechos y sus huellas nos conmueven o cautivan
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!!!