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"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
Bill Maris has $425 million to invest this
year, and the freedom to invest it however he wants. He's looking for
companies that will slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life.
A ceremony to sign a treaty of integration between Russia and South Ossetia scheduled for today March 11 was cancelled, RBC.ru reported, causing further speculation about the state of health of President Vladimir Putin.
The ceremony was to essentially formally annex South Ossetia, a
breakaway territory from Georgia which Russia took over after the 2008
war with Georgia. A delegation had already arrived for the meeting from
the capital of Tskhinvali, by24.org reported.
This was the second cancellation of a meeting on a priority issue for Putin; the first was the summit of the Eurasian Customs Union
in Astana, Kazakhstan, which has now been postponed "for a few days,"
says sources in Kazakhstan, according to a Reuters report.
But Nezavisimaya Gazeta says that
the reason the South Ossetia ceremony was cancelled was because the
agreement was not sufficiently prepared. A vote of confidence was put on
the agenda of the South Ossetia parliament regarding David Sanakoyev,
head of the republic, who had published the draft agreement in the local
press on his own initiative without the consent of the leadership. So
there may have been valid reasons to halt the signing -- but it seems
odd that it got as far as it did, with the participants already in
Moscow.
Concern has been raised
that two meetings that the official web site kremlin.ru said took place
this week, with governors from Karelia and Yamal-Yenets, actually took
place last week, and were only published this week. Sources say
Aleksandr Khudilaynen, the governor of Karelia actually met with Putin
last week, and Dmitry Kobylkin, governor of Yamal-Yenets was not in
Moscow on March 10.
In the absence of any solid information, news broadcasts said to be made of Putin March 10 and March 11
are being closely examined. Do the calendars in the meetings with
Kobylkin and Khudilaynen show single digits, indicating the filming was
done last week?
Or is this not a calendar, but perhaps a stand with an inspirational quote?
Meanwhile, without confirmation of Putin's condition, and concern
that meetings at the Kremlin reported this week in fact took place last
week, Russkiy Monitor has gone ahead and published an email received by the editorial office claiming that Putin had a stroke.
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."
Medir los niveles de glucosa varias veces al día es vital
para los pacientes con diabetes, para saber cuál es su estado y la dosis
de insulina necesaria, si acaso hace falta inyectarla. Pero a quienes
no les gustan las agujas tienden a evitar hacer esa prueba, lo que les
pone en riesgo de desarrollar complicaciones médicas relacionadas con la
enfermedad. El dispositivo es indoloro —consiste en electrodos impresos en papel tipo calcomanía que los pacientes pueden quitarse una vez tomada la medida, o dejárselo puesto durante todo el día. El coste de cada adhesivo es realmente bajo, de unos pocos céntimos, por lo que su uso no resulta muy caro para los pacientes.
The number of mentally ill people who have been killed through
euthanasia in the Netherlands has trebled in a single year, according
to new figures.
The Daily Mailreports that in 2012, 14 people with "severe psychiatric problems" were killed by lethal injection, a figure that rose to 42 in 2013.
There had also been a 15 percent overall rise in assisted dying
over the past year, with the number of cases increasing from 4,188 to
4,829.
Deaths from euthanasia have risen by a total of 151 percent in a
period of just seven years, with most cases involving cancer sufferers.
However, there were also 97 people who were killed by their doctors
because they had dementia.
The figures do not include "terminal sedation", where the
patient is sedated and then has food and fluids withdrawn. If they did,
however, euthanasia would account for one in eight of all deaths in the
Netherlands.
Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship told the Daily Mail
that euthanasia in the Netherlands is "way out of control", saying that
it proves that assisted dying is impossible to regulate.
"The House of Lords calculated in 2005 that with a Dutch-type
law in Britain we would be seeing over 13,000 cases of euthanasia per
year," he added.
"On the basis of how Dutch euthanasia deaths have risen since this may prove to be a gross underestimate.
"What we are seeing in the Netherlands is 'incremental
extension', the steady intentional escalation of numbers with a gradual
widening of the categories of patients to be included.
"The lessons are clear. Once you relax the law on euthanasia or
assisted suicide steady extension will follow as night follows day."
In Britain, a bill that would legalise assisted dying received
its second reading in the House of Lords in July and will continue to
the next legislative stage in November.
Earlier this year, Dutch regulator Theo Boer told the British
Parliament "Don't go there" when asked about the British proposals.
pablito quien ya en el 2012 habia escogido la clínica Rúber Internacional de madrid para una simple cirugia de una energia umbilical, tiene bien claro que su salud no la pone en manos ni siquiera del "elitista" cimeq de la nomenklatura cubana, para no decir el calixto garcia o la sala 8 del hospital militar. hombre de exito este pablito que ademas se puede pagar tales servicios.
El cantautor cubano Pablo Milanés se habría sometido a un trasplante
de riñón en un hospital de la comunidad autónoma española de Galicia,
según reportaron medios de prensa locales.
El diario La Opinión,
que no mencionó las fuentes de su información, dijo que Milanés fue
intervenido en el Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, que
realiza ocho de cada diez trasplantes en Galicia.
Por su parte, La Voz de Galicia dijo que el cantautor, de 71 años, se recupera satisfactoriamente.
Esta publicación citó fuentes cercanas a Milanés y a su esposa, la historiadora gallega Nancy Pérez.
Indicó que fue precisamente Pérez quien donó el riñón al músico.
El hospital rechazó confirmar o desmentir las informaciones, según La Voz de Galicia.
A 12-year-old boy born without
fingers has become Haiti's first recipient of a 3-D printed prosthesis,
enabling him to play catch with his friends for the first time.
Stevenson
Joseph, who has lived at an orphanage since he was abandoned at the age
of 3, had little hope of treatment in a country where programs for the
disabled are rare.
But after he met John Marshall, a software engineer on a mission trip to Haiti for Florida-based Food for the Poor, his prospects changed. After months of work to perfect the design, a 3-D prosthesis was fitted to his left hand last month.
"It
is a great hand," Stevenson says, ticking off his list of
accomplishments. "Now I can take a balloon with it. I can score at
basketball. I can hold a TV remote and push my friends on their
wheelchairs. I can hold a water bottle, a bag. I like it a lot."
MARIE ARAGO / Reuters
Stevenson Joseph practices opening
a door using his 3-D printed prosthetic hand at the orphanage where he
lives in Santo, Haiti, on April 28, 2014.
Olivia Jackman of Ellensburg,
Wash., was born with spina bifida last fall and is considered part of a
cluster of neural tube defects in the area that includes the fatal
defect, anencephaly.
Seven cases of a rare
fatal birth defect were reported in a remote region of Washington state
in 2013, making it the fourth consecutive year that rates have more than
tripled the national average, health officials said Tuesday.
There’s
still no clear reason for the spike in anencephaly, a severe defect in
which babies are born missing parts of the brain or skull, according to a
statement from Washington state health officials. NBC News investigated the issue in February.
The
rate jumped to 8.7 cases per 10,000 births in the area that includes
Yakima, Benton and Franklin counties in eastern Washington state, far
exceeding the national anencephaly rate of 2.1 cases per 10,000 births.
State
officials, working in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, say they plan to convene an advisory committee to review
options for investigation and prevention — and they’ll hold “listening
sessions” in the community to hear more about public concerns about
problems in the region.
That
hardly seems like enough, said one mother whose baby was born with spina
bifida last year and was considered part of a cluster of cases of
neural tube defects in the region.
“It’s
good that they want to know everybody’s thoughts, but what are they
doing about it?” said Andrea Jackman, 30, who lived in an orchard in
Yakima, Wash., while she was pregnant but now lives in Ellensburg. Her
daughter, Olivia, is 7 months old.
“Why are they going to put the time and money into chatting with people who don’t know? Do the research.”
The new count follows a report last summer
that found more than two dozen cases of babies born with anencephaly
and other neural tube defects in the region between 2010 and 2013.
Medical
records indicate low rates of folic acid vitamin supplementation in the
region, which has been linked to anencephaly. Other studies have shown
ties between the defect and exposure to molds and pesticides. Critics
have said state and federal officials need to do detailed interviews and
a thorough investigation of the eastern Washington cluster.
Many
local residents are convinced that leaking tanks of nuclear waste from
the region’s nearby Hanford nuclear plant must be to blame, but Dr.
Edith Cheng, a University Washington Medicine expert on birth defects,
said there has not been a good evaluation of the plant’s impact on
anencephaly or other problems.
Experts emphasize the need for all women of childbearing age to take folic acid supplements.
The emerging process of 3-D printing, which uses computer-created
digital models to create real-world objects, has produced everything
from toys to jewelry to food.
Soon, however, 3-D printers may be spitting out something far more complex, and controversial: human organs.
For years now, medical
researchers have been reproducing human cells in laboratories by hand to
create blood vessels, urine tubes, skin tissue and other living body
parts. But engineering full organs, with their complicated cell
structures, is much more difficult.
Enter 3-D printers, which
because of their precise process can reproduce the vascular systems
required to make organs viable. Scientists are already using the
machines to print tiny strips of organ tissue. And while printing whole
human organs for surgical transplants is still years away, the
technology is rapidly developing.
"The mechanical process isn't all that complicated. The tricky part is the materials, which are biological in nature," said Mike Titsch, editor-in-chief of 3D Printer World,
which covers the industry. "It isn't like 3-D printing plastic or
metal. Plastic doesn't die if you leave it sitting on an open-air shelf
at room temperature for too long."
Lawrence Bonassar, a professor of biomedical engineering at Cornell
University, with an artificial ear made via 3-D printing and injectable
molds.
The idea of printing a
human kidney or liver in a lab may seem incomprehensible, even creepy.
But to many scientists in the field, bioprinting holds great promise.
Authentic printed organs could be used for drug or vaccine testing,
freeing researchers from less accurate methods such as tests on animals
or on synthetic models.
Bioprinting works like
this: Scientists harvest human cells from biopsies or stem cells, then
allow them to multiply in a petri dish. The resulting mixture, a sort of
biological ink, is fed into a 3-D printer, which is programmed to
arrange different cell types, along with other materials, into a precise
three-dimensional shape. Doctors hope that when placed in the body,
these 3-D-printed cells will integrate with existing tissues.
The process already is seeing some success. Last year a 2-year-old girl in Illinois, born without a trachea, received a windpipe built with her own stem cells. The U.S. government has funded a university-led "body on a chip" project
that prints tissue samples that mimic the functions of the heart,
liver, lungs and other organs. The samples are placed on a microchip and
connected with a blood substitute to keep the cells alive, allowing
doctors to test specific treatments and monitor their effectiveness.
"This is an exciting new
area of medicine. It has the potential for being a very important
breakthrough," said Dr. Jorge Rakela, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo
Clinic in Phoenix and a member of the American Liver Foundation's medical advisory committee.
One of Organovo's engineers oversees the construction of a vascular tissue construct on a NovoGen MMX bioprinter.
"Three-D printing allows
you to be closer to what is happening in real life, where you have
multiple layers of cells," he said. With current 2-D models, "if you
grow more than one or two layers, the cells at the bottom suffocate from
lack of oxygen."
To accelerate the development of bioprinted organs, a Virginia foundation that supports regenerative medicine research announced in December it will award a $1 million prize for the first organization to print a fully functioning liver.
One early contender for the prize is Organovo, a California start-up
that has been a leader in bioprinting human body parts for commercial
purposes. Using cells from donated tissue or stem cells, Organovo is
developing what it hopes will be authentic models of human organs,
primarily livers, for drug testing.
The company has printed
strips of human liver tissue in its labs, although they are still very
small: four by four by one millimeter, or about one-fourth the size of a
dime. Each strip takes about 45 minutes to print, and it takes another
two days for the cells to grow and mature, said Organovo CEO Keith
Murphy. The models can then survive for about 40 days.
Organovo has also built models of human kidneys, bone, cartilage, muscle, blood vessels and lung tissue, he said.
"Basically what it
allows you to do is build tissue the way you assemble something with
Legos," Murphy said. "So you can put the right cells in the right
places. You can't just pour them into a mold."
Ethical concerns
Not everyone is comfortable with this bold new future of lab-built body parts, however.
A research director at
Gartner Inc., the information-technology research and advisory firm,
believes 3-D bioprinting is advancing so quickly that it will spark a
major ethical debate by 2016.
A 3-D printer at Cornell University produces an artificial ear.
"Three-D bioprinting
facilities with the ability to print human organs and tissue will
advance far faster than general understanding and acceptance of the
ramifications of this technology," Pete Basiliere said in a recent report.
"These initiatives are
well-intentioned, but raise a number of questions that remain
unanswered," Basiliere added. "What happens when complex 'enhanced'
organs involving nonhuman cells are made? Who will control the ability
to produce them? Who will ensure the quality of the resulting organs?"
Bioprinted organs are also likely to be expensive, which could put them out of reach of all but the wealthiest patients.
Murphy said Organovo
only uses human cells in creating tissues, and doesn't see any ethical
problems with what his company is doing.
"People used to worry
about doing research on cadavers ... and that dissipated very quickly,"
he said. "We don't think there's any controversy if you're producing
good data and helping people with health conditions."
Most experts, including Wake Forest's Atala,
don't think we'll see complex 3-D-printed organs, suitable for
transplants, for years if not decades. Instead, they believe the next
step will be printing strips of tissue, or patches, that could be used
to repair livers and other damaged organs.
Organovo's NovoGen MMX bioprinter is small enough to fit into a cabinet.
"We are very eager to
put pieces of tissue to work for surgical transplants," said Organovo's
Murphy, who hopes his company will be ready to begin clinical trials
within five years.
Of course, any use of
3-D-printed tissue in surgical procedures would require approval by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That review process could take up to a
decade.
By then, the notion of a
surgeon putting a 3-D-printed kidney into a patient may not seem so
bizarre. Then again, this swiftly evolving technology may create new
moral conundrums.
"The ethical questions
are bound to be the same concerns we have seen in the past. Many major
medical breakthroughs have suffered moral resistance, from organ
transplants to stem cells," said Titsch of 3D Printer World.
"Will only the rich be able to afford it? Are we playing God? In the end, saving lives tends to trump all objections."
El estelar lanzador cubano Aroldis Chapman se recupera exitosamente
de la operación de cráneo a la que fue sometido el pasado jueves para
repararle una peligrosa fractura en el arco superciliar izquierdo.
Chapman, de 26 años, está de buen ánimo y hasta se ha permitido
colgar en Instagram una foto que muestra su cabeza con los puntos de la
cirugía practicada, luego que un lineazo bateado por un jugador rival le
impactara en la cara, la noche del pasado miércoles en Arizona.
“Mis fanáticos, todo está bien… Gracias a Dios ya estamos fuera de
cualquier tipo de problema . Estoy aquí esperando que me den mi
liberación”, escribió Chapman en un mensaje a sus seguidores en la red
social.
Al lanzador se le insertó una placa de metal en el cráneo, la cual
quedará incrustada allí de manera permanente, El impacto de la pelota le
produjo una fractura craneal y una conmoción cerebral moderada, pero
sus lesiones no dejaron secuelas mayores.
Por el momento está sometido a fuertes dosis de calmantes para evitar el dolor.
Pudo ser peor
Los médicos estiman que el pelotero podría ser dado de alta este sábado del hospital de Phoenix donde permanece ingresado.
Lo cierto es que las cosas le van saliendo demasiado bien para la
tragedia que pudo haber sido. Si la pelota le hubiera impactado otra
zona menos protegida del cráneo, en un área superior o a un costado de
la cabeza, las consecuencias serían mucho peores y el pronóstico no
desbordara tanto optimismo.
La pelota golpeó a Chapman en una de las zonas más protegidas del cráneo, según el médico.
“Si te da en un costado de la cabeza, puede ser desastroso’’,
comentó. “Pudo haber sido mucho peor, con más lesiones, lesiones
permanentes. Tuvo mucha suerte’’
“Es un tipo con mucha suerte’’, dijo el doctor Tim Kremchek, médico del equipo de los Rojos de Cincinnati.
Pronóstico alentador
Kremchek adelantó que Chapman podrá volver a lanzar dentro de seis a
ocho semanas, y su retorno como titular se calcula para finales de mayo,
según el proceso de recuperación. En dos semanas intentaría hacer
algunos lanzamientos y ejercicios livianos.
El caribeño, quien llegó a tirar la bola a 105 millas por hora, podría empezar a hacer tiros livianos en unas dos semanas.
Muy cerca de Chapman ha estado en las últimas horas su compatriota
Brayan Peña, receptor de los Rojos y quien acudió de inmediato al
montículo para auxiliarlo en el momento del accidente.
Peña pasó con Chapman parte de la noche del el miércoles en el
hospital y habló con él por teléfono el jueves por la mañana. mientras
se preparaba para la operación.
“Habló y bromeó mucho, contaba chistes cubanos. Eso es bueno porque quiere decir que recuperó la memoria’’, contó Peña a ESPN.
Fue un verdadero momento de desconcierto lo sucedido la noche del
miércoles, cuando el catcher Salvador Pérez, de los Reales de Kansas
City, soltó el lineazo que fue a estrellarse en el rostro de Chapman.
Una sustitución enyerbada
“Honestamente, me dieron ganas de llorar cuando vi como estaba… Fue
algo que metía miedo. No hablaba. Solo se quejaba y hacía ruidos. Me
asusté porque no sabía qué hacer’’, relató Peña.
A Chapman lo sacaron en camilla del terreno de juego y el partido quedó suspendido a la altura del sexto inning.
Por lo pronto, los Rojos están a la búsqueda del serpentinero que
pueda suplir la vacante dejada por Chapman, que la pasada temporada
salvó 38 partidos en 42 oportunidades, con promedio de efectividad de
2.54 y 112 ponches acumulados en 63.2 innings de actuación. Y la cosa
parece enyerbada.
No será fácil para el mánager Bryan Price, pues el staff de
lanzadores de los Rojos tiene lagunas que ahora se hacen más notables.
Jonathan Broxton, quien ha cumplido funciones de cerrador en su carrera
con los Dodgers y Kansas City, está retornando de una cirugía del
antebrazo que se le practicó en agosto y apenas ha lanzado un inning en
la pretemporada.
Otros nombres que se manejan son los de J. J. Hoover, Sam LeCure,
Manny Parra and Logan Ondrusek. Es una incóngnita el zurdo Sean
Marshall, imposibilitado de lanzar en los juegos de entrenamiento por
dolores en el hombro, y Alfredo Simón, quien tuvo buena participación
como relevista en el equipo el pasado año, tendrá que entrar en la
rotación de abridores para remplazar al lesionado Mat Latos. Joey Miller
¨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!!!
"He had a sparkle in his eye, I could see he was understanding me," Van Der Walt wrote to NBC News' Kate Snow.
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