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For children and innocent people who are suffering from this natural disaster in Haiti, I think all of us, we can help them, we must do so out of solidarity and love our neighbor (Brother). Further details will be in the coming weeks, but today we must help them quickly.
Here I share some Internet addresses (below) So long.
Carlos Tiger without time (CTsT)
American Red Cross
redcross.org
800-HELP-NOW World Vision
worldvision.org
888-56-CHILD
UNICEF unicefusa.org
800-4-UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders
doctorswithoutborders.org
888-392-0392
Although seismic predictions work on geologic timescales and can miss big quakes by decades, one expert said last week that a temblor in Port-au-Prince was of greater concern than a San Andreas slip
The devastating magnitude 7.0 quake that ripped through Haiti Tuesday, reportedly killing thousands, did not catch everyone by surprise.
In an interview last week for an unrelated story, Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus in geoscience at Oregon State University in Corvallis and co-author of a June 1989 article for Scientific American “Hidden Earthquakes,” said that an imminent big west coast earthquake concerned him far less than a “big one” that might occur in Haiti, due to the large fault near the capital city of Port-au-Prince—and the poverty-driven low level of earthquake-preparedness there.
“If they have an earthquake on this fault that runs through Port-au-Prince,” the death toll would be tremendous, he said January 6.
The fault, called the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault, runs some 16 kilometers from Port-au-Prince and is at the intersection of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates, which are slowly sliding past one another. This movement creates a strike-slip fault, the same kind as the San Andreas Fault in California, where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding in different directions. And like the San Andreas, the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault has been building up pressure.
“The fault has been more or less locked for 200 years,” British Geological Survey seismologist Roger Musson explained to TIME. In this area, where the Caribbean plate is moving east against the North American Plate, plate movement is about seven millimeters per year, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.
In fact, Michael Blanpied, an associate coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, explained in a podcast recorded hours after the quake, the two plates are “shearing the island, crushing it, grinding it.” So although such a large earthquake has not shaken Haiti since the 18th century, “this is quite an earthquake-prone region,” Blanpied said. And it is not the biggest quake to hit the Island of Hispaniola (which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic) in recent history. A magnitude 8.0 earthquake rocked the Dominican Republic in 1946, the Associated Press noted.
Yeats was not the only one to raise concern about a large earthquake in Haiti. Geologic groups have been monitoring the area for decades, and a University of Texas team has been keeping a close eye on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault. Two years ago at the 2008 Caribbean Geological Conference, the Austin-based group asserted that there was enough stress built up to cause a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, Nature News reported (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).
One reason the Tuesday quake, which subjected some three million people to “severe shaking,” was so damaging is that it occurred at a relatively shallow depth, the fault having ruptured about 10 kilometers below the surface, Blanpied noted. It also occurred below relatively loose ground, Carrieann Bedwell, a USGS geophysicist, told LiveScience. “A mountainous and rocky setting is more characteristic of not as much ground shaking, opposed to abundant sediments…where there’s a potential for higher ground shaking,” he said. “Haiti would be a more sediment type, more severe ground-shaking geologic setting.”
Although the earthquake has leveled countless buildings in the capital city of more than two million people—and triggered landslides throughout the heavily deforested region—it did not spur a tsunami as was initially feared for at sizeable Caribbean quake, and authorities canceled a tsunami watch two hours after the earthquake itself.
But magnitude and shake dynamics are not what really concerned Yeats and other seismologists. “It’s really not the size of the earthquake that’s the big concern,” he noted last week, “it’s its relationship to big cities.” And an earthquake in this area was particularly worrisome, not just because of the tension-filled fault, but because “the infrastructure there is just terrible,” said Yeats, who is also a senior consultant for geological hazards company, Earth Consultants International, and has studied earthquake preparedness around the world. In a book called Active Faults of the World that he is currently writing for Cambridge University Press, he estimated several months ago that “the poor state of construction in both [Haiti and the Dominican Republic], but especially Haiti, indicates that when the next large earthquakes strikes either [Port-au-Prince or Santo Domingo], it will be a catastrophe, in part because of the lack of a social-services network.”
The Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault is one of dozens around the world that run through populous, but often poorly prepared, areas. Last week, Yeats also called the city of Tehran “a time bomb that is waiting to go off.” The North Tehran Fault could unleash an earthquake similarly massive to the one anticipated to strike southern California in the coming decades. But in the Iranian capital, he says, despite advanced regional technology, many of the buildings are not shake-proof.
Other worrisome locales, he notes, are Lima, Peru, and Karachi, Pakistan, as well as and much of Turkey, where many areas are either unsafely built due to corruption or poverty.
Whether last weekend’s 6.5 magnitude temblor off the coast of Northern California’s Humboldt County and the Haiti earthquake two days later are linked is yet to be determined. Seismologists now widely recognize that a large earthquake in one place can trigger another vulnerable fault thousands of miles away. Yeats calls it the “pulling the buttons off your shirt” idea—by releasing tension on one stressed point, the force shifts and can rupture another “locked” point. “You pull one button off,” he said, “and the next one is ready to go.” A paper published last October in Nature reported the large 2004 seismic events near the Indonesian island Sumatra that spurred the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami had an impact on the San Andreas fault in California.
In the meantime, seismologists will be watching Haiti closely, Blanpied noted in the USGS podcast, and they expect to see aftershocks for days to come. The largest aftershocks so far have already rumbled in at magnitude 5.9, and more could strike at any time.
And Yeats is not convinced that this latest quake at Haiti is the most severe one the Caribbean is likely to see in the near future. “It’s not the big one,” he said in a January 13 follow-up interview. He added he is now worried that a larger one could hit other cities in the region, such as Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic or Kingston, Jamaica. The Caribbean Plate, he noted, is “just sort of sitting there while the North American and South American plates move” west (due to sea floor spreading in the Atlantic). But the next big earthquake could be years or decades from now, he said. “We’re good at placing these forecasts and probabilistic terms on a geological time scale, but we’re not good at putting it at scales that matter to you and me.” And even probability forecasts can turn out to be wrong. The southern San Andreas was pegged as likely to produce a major earthquake before this one was, he noted.
The Rev. Pat Robertson turned heads with his appearance on The 700 Club on Wednesday when he blamed Haitian history for Tuesday’s devastating earthquake. In short, Robertson claimed that the quake was divine retribution for a pact with the devil that was sworn long ago, a statement he was audacious enough to make while the 800 number for disaster relief scrolled at the bottom of the broadcast. Here’s the clip:
“And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French, you know, Napoleon the Third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘O.K., it’s a deal.’ “
So what was Robertson referring to? The theory that Haiti is a nation built on a pact with the devil has circulated on a number of websites, each tracing back to an apocryphal tale of Haitian voodoo priests sacrificing a pig and drinking its blood in 1791 in order to secure Satan’s aid in expelling the French occupation. In return, the priests are said to have promised Haiti to Satan for the next 200 years. The French were soon beat back, and in 1804, Haiti became an independent nation. But even if you believe the story (something many historians doubt), Satan’s lease on the tiny island nation should have expired in 1991.
This isn’t the first time that Robertson has shocked people by speaking off-the-cuff. After then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke in January 2006, Robertson posited that it was punishment from God. He urged the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2005, and hosted the Rev. Jerry Falwell on The 700 Club in 2001, when Falwell made comments suggesting that gays and feminists, among others, were responsible for bringing the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. He has also become famous for his woeful prognostication, after promising a disastrous tsunami in America in 2006 and a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in 2007, both of which (thankfully) failed to materialize.
* By Dan Fletcher, Time-CNN, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave. Now, a study published in the Jan. 8 issue of Science shows how it also alters the way the genes in your brain operate. Understanding this process could eventually lead to new treatments for the 1.4 million Americans with cocaine problems, and millions more around the world.
The study, which was conducted on mice, is part of a hot new area of research called epigenetics, which explores how experiences and environmental exposures affect genes. “This is a major step in understanding the development of cocaine addiction and a first step toward generating ideas for how we might use epigenetic regulation to modulate the development of addiction,” says Peter Kalivas, professor of neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina, who was not associated with the study.
Though we think about our genes mostly in terms of the traits we pass on to our children, they are actually very active in our lives every day, regulating how various cells in our bodies behave. In the brain this can be especially powerful. Any significant experience triggers changes in brain genes that produce proteins — those necessary to help memories form, for example. But, says the study’s lead author, Ian Maze, a doctoral student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, “when you give an animal a single dose of cocaine, you start to have genes aberrantly turn on and off in a strange pattern that we are still trying to figure out.” Maze’s research focused on a particular protein called G9a that is associated with cocaine-related changes in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region essential for the experience of desire, pleasure and drive. The role of the protein appears to be to shut down genes that shouldn’t be on. One-time use of cocaine increases levels of G9a. But repeated use works the other way, suppressing the protein and reducing its overall control of gene activation. Without enough G9a, those overactive genes cause brain cells to generate more dendritic spines, which are the parts of cells that make connections to other cells. Increases in the number of these spines can reflect learning. But in the case of addiction, that may involve learning to connect a place or a person with the desire for more drugs. Maze showed that even after a week of abstinence, mice given a new dose of cocaine still had elevated levels of gene activation in the nucleus accumbens, meaning G9a levels were still low. It is not known how long these changes can last. Maze also showed that when he intervened and raised G9a levels, the mice were less attracted to cocaine. It’s a big leap from a mouse study to a human study, of course — and an even bigger leap to consider developing a G9a-based treatment for addiction. The protein regulates so many genes that such a drug would almost certainly have unwanted and potentially deadly side effects. But a better understanding of the G9a pathways could lead to the development of safer, more specific drugs. And studying the genes that control G9a itself could also help screen people at risk for cocaine addiction: those with naturally lower levels of the protein would be the ones to watch. Still, there’s a lot to be learned even from further mouse studies — particularly if the work involves younger mice, unlike the adults used in Maze’s research. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2009.)
“We know that the greatest vulnerability [to addiction] occurs when adolescents are exposed,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the study. “Would you see the same results in adolescent [mice]? And what happens during fetal exposure?”
New treatments are definitely needed for cocaine addiction: there are helpful medications for addiction to heroin and similar drugs, but so far, none are particularly useful against stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine. And with federal reports now showing that more than two-thirds of all cocaine in the country is cut with a veterinary deworming drug called levamisole, which can cause potentially fatal immune-system problems, the risks from cocaine are greater — and the search for new answers more urgent than ever.
President Barack Obama told banks Thursday they should pay a new tax to recoup the cost of bailing out foundering firms at the height of the financial crisis.
“We want our money back,” he said.
In a brief appearance with advisers at the White House, Obama branded the latest round of bank bonuses as “obscene.” But he said his goal was to prevent such excesses in the future, not to punish banks for past behavior.
The tax, which would require congressional approval, would last at least 10 years and generate about $90 billion over the decade, according to administration estimates. “If these companies are in good enough shape to afford massive bonuses, they are surely in good enough shape to afford paying back every penny to taxpayers,” Obama said.
Advisers believe the administration can make an argument that banks should tap their bonus pools for the fee instead of passing the cost on to consumers.
The president’s tone was emphatic and populist, capitalizing on public antipathy toward Wall Street. With the sharp words, he also tried to deflect some of the growing skepticism aimed at his own economic policies as unemployment stubbornly hovers around 10 percent.
The proposed 0.15 percent tax on the liabilities of large financial institutions would apply only to those companies with assets of more than $50 billion — a group estimated at about 50. Administration officials estimate that 60 percent of the revenue would come from the 10 biggest ones.
They would have to pay up even though many did not accept any taxpayer assistance and most that did have repaid the infusions.
Obama said big banks had acted irresponsibility, taken reckless risk for short-term profits and plunged into a crisis of their own making. He cast the struggle ahead as one between the finance industry and average people.
“We are already hearing a hue and cry from Wall Street, suggesting that this proposed fee is not only unwelcome but unfair, that by some twisted logic, it is more appropriate for the American people to bear the cost of the bailout rather than the industry that benefited from it, even though these executives are out there giving themselves huge bonuses,” Obama said.
He renewed his call for a regulatory overhaul of the industry and scolded bankers for opposing the tighter oversight in legislation moving through Congress.
“What I’d say to these executives is this: Instead of setting a phalanx of lobbyists to fight this proposal or employing an army of lawyers and accountants to help evade the fee, I’d suggest you might want to consider simply meeting your responsibility,” Obama said.
At issue is the net cost of the fund initiated by the Bush administration to help financial institutions get rid of soured assets.
The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has expanded to help auto companies and homeowners.
Insurer American International Group, the largest beneficiary at nearly $70 billion, would have to pay the tax. But General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, whose $66 billion in government loans are not expected to be repaid fully, would not.
Administration officials said financial institutions were both a significant cause of the crisis and chief beneficiaries of the rescue efforts, should bear the brunt of the cost.
Bankers did not hide their objections.
“Politics have overtaken the economics,” said Scott Talbott, the chief lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, a group representing large Wall Street institutions. “This is a punitive tax on companies that repaid TARP in full or never took TARP.”
Even before details came out, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said: “Using tax policy to punish people is a bad idea.”
Obama is trying to accelerate terms that require the president to seek a way to recoup unrecovered money in 2013, five years after the law was enacted.
So far, the Treasury has given $247 billion to more than 700 banks. Of that, $162 billion has been repaid and banks have paid an additional $11 billion in interest and dividends.
In Congress, Democrats embraced Obama’s proposal while Republicans rejected it.
“I think it is entirely reasonable to say that the industry that, A, caused these problems more than any other and, B, benefited from the activity, should be contributing,” said Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
But GOP Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey, who’s on Frank’s committee, called it a “job-killing initiatives that will further cripple the economy by increasing fees passed on to consumers and small businesses, while reducing consumer credit.”
By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer-WASHINGTON (AP)
Mr Ratzon declared: “I’m perfect … I have all the qualities a woman wants” Residents of Tel Aviv’s quiet Hatikva neighbourhood were shocked yesterday to discover a self-styled Jewish sage living in their midst with a harem of 30 women kept as “slaves” in squalid apartments.
Goel Ratzon, 60, is accused of fathering 37 children since 1993 with his “wives” and daughters. Mr Ratzon, who was dubbed by the local media as “Israel’s Josef Fritzl”, is under arrest on suspicion of incest and sexual abuse.
“The evidence shows the suspect controlled his women with a firm hand, including their possessions and their money,” police said. Mr Ratzon even wrote a list of commandments to ensure that the women were kept in “conditions similar to slavery”, police said.
In addition to turning over all their wages, the women were forbidden from making telephone calls or talking to men other than Mr Ratzon. If they broke the rules they would pay a fine or receive physical punishment.
Mickey Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, said that Mr Ratzon convinced his victims that he had godlike status. “The women didn’t really understand what their situation was, they didn’t understand what freedom was,” Mr Rosenfeld said.
In one case, police raided a three-bedroom apartment where 10 women and 17 children were found living in “horrible conditions”.
The women wore conservative orthodox dresses covering their entire bodies and bore tattoos of their captor’s face — and name. He was married to 17 women but it was unclear how many others he had relations with, police said. All his offspring had names with a variation on his — Goel, which means redeemer in Hebrew.
Mr Ratzon’s family had been known to the Israeli public for some time. Last year he and several women appeared in a television documentary in which the women informed viewers that Mr Ratzon was the Messiah.
It showed the women brushing his hair and feeding him while they declared: “He is the Messiah everyone is talking about . . . The day he decides to reveal himself, the land will shake.”
Mr Ratzon made no claims of deity, but declared: “I’m perfect . . . I have all the qualities a woman wants.” When asked about the commandments, he said: “It’s like a state — I have to uphold my principles, order and laws.”
Neighbours gleaned some details about Mr Ratzon’s communes. One said that he had learnt hypnosis in India and used the technique to subjugate women. “We never heard them, they made no noise at all,” a neighbour told The Jerusalem Post. “The women made a living by cleaning homes, but they were not permitted to work for men.”
Another neighbour said: “Whenever I saw the kids, they were quiet. Sometimes I heard them crying.”
Police said that they delayed arresting Mr Ratzon despite evidence of abuse in the documentary, because they had reports that the women would attempt collective suicide.
Mr Ratzon made it clear in the documentary what the women should do if he was taken away. “When I die . . . you are to lead peaceful and constrained lives . . . but if the state harms me, go out and strike them as much as you can. Even at the cost of shedding your own blood,” he told one woman.
Police said that he preyed on young vulnerable women from broken families. If he was displeased they would harm themselves with razors or burn themselves.
All the women were registered as single mothers, making it impossible to prosecute them under Israeli polygamy laws, but a law passed recently against human trafficking allowed prosecutors to press enslavement charges against Mr Ratzon.
Several women had complained of mistreatment. Two of Mr Ratzon’s “wives” were being questioned on suspicion that they facilitated his crimes. The other women and children were put in the care of social services.
Mr Ratzon will be defended by a woman lawyer. “As far as he is concerned, no sexual crimes have been committed. The women consented willingly to relations,” Shlomtzion Gabai, the lawyer, said.
The Channel 10 documentary showed Mr Ratzon’s nightly ritual. “Do you want to come with me?” he asked one woman in her mid-20s. “Yes,” she said, smiling and hugging him. The other women appeared devastated.
Ratzon’s rules
1 No women shall marry nor shall any woman attack another, either verbally or physically.
Fine: 2,000 shekels (£330) into the family kitty
2 No woman shall question another about her whereabouts.
Fine: 100 shekels
3 No conversation is permitted in rooms other than the living room. It is forbidden to talk nonsense.
Fine: 200 shekels
4 No woman shall sit idle when there are dishes to be washed, cleaning to be done, children to look after etc.
Fine: 2,000 shekels
5 Any two women caught fighting will be punished equally.
Fine: 2,000 shekels
6 It is absolutely forbidden to question Ratzon on his whereabouts or intention.
Fine: 400 shekels
7 It is permissible to ask to accompany him; but refusal is to be accepted without appeal.
Fine: 300 shekels
8 No woman shall interrupt Ratzon or intervene in matters not concerning her.
Fine: 500 shekels
9 All orders are to be obeyed immediately.
Fine: 300 shekels
10 No woman shall work while a man of over 12 years of age is in the house.
Fine 3,000 shekels
* From The Times by Yossi Zeliger/EPA, January 15, 2010
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Be a nice person, be a good person.
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If you contribute to other people's happiness you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility.
THAT THE LOVE TRANSCEND THE RELIGIONS OR IDEOLOGIES THAT EVERYBODY HAVE IT AND ONLY A DESIRE OF LOVE, PEACE, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND TOLERANCE, LEAD OUR LIVES TODAY, TOMORROW AND ALWAYS.
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Use differences in a positive way. Try to get energy from different opinions. Make dialogue, that is the proper way to solve problems.
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Compassion can heal not only inner anger, but the world's violence.
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A COMPASSIONATE STATE OF MIND BRINGS INNER PEACE, AND THEREFORE A HEALTHIER BODY.
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
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AS LONG AS WE ARE ON THIS SMALL PLANET TOGETHER, WE NEED HUMAN GENTLENESS, HUMAN AFFECTION.
If you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.
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Never Lose faith in the truth.
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IF YOU CAN, HELP OTHERS. IF NOT, THEN AT LEAST REFRAIN FROM HURTING OTHERS.
Dalai Lama:
IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE MONEY PROPERLY TO HELP OTHERS, OTHERWISE YOU STILL WANT MORE AND FEEL POOR.
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Genuine peace between nations will come from mutual respect, not from weapons or force.
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Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The splendor of Beauty; For yesterday is but a Dream, and Tomorrow a vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
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La venta en Sotheby’s el martes fue un punto de referencia para Kahlo y fue el trabajo más valioso del arte latinoamericano que se vendió en la subasta. (*) Un autorretrato de Frida Kahlo, un artista conocido por su intensidad emocional cruda, vendida por $ 34.9 millones en Sotheby’s el martes por la noche, estableciendo … Sigue leyendo Autorretrato de Frida […]
En estos tiempos de pandemia hay muchos curiosidades diversas en muchos lugares o temas. Aqui podemos considerarlo como una curiosidad gastronomica en tiempos de pandemia. Veamos algun detalle que nos aclare mas esta noticia. Cuando Alaska continúa luchando con altas tasas de transmisión de Coronavirus, los indígenas de todo el estado han estado viajando cie […]
Un salmón que nunca se ha visto en la naturaleza, pero crece dos veces más rápido que el salmón regular se acercó a las estanterías y los menús de los restaurantes. Un salmón atlántico patentado que incluye material genético de otras dos especies de peces, ha sido objeto de controversia durante años, pero ya la … Sigue leyendo El primer animal alterado genét […]
Mi respuesta personal seria que ello depende de algunos factores basicos de las personas como su edad, sus necesidades o metas personales, su estado de salud, el medio ambiente o lugar donde vive, etc.En general, de acuerdo a mi experiencia de vida, creo que es positivo mantener una rutina de ejercicios frecuente. Quizas no todos los dias; pero definitivamen […]
La selección nacional de fútbol de Brasil derrotó la noche del sábado a su similar de Colombia para convertirse en la campeona de la Copa América Femenina Colombia 2022. De esta manera la oncena brasileña conquistó su octavo trofeo del torneo de la Confederación Suramericana de Fútbol (Conmebol), que ha tenido nueve ediciones. El gol que dio la victoria a la […]
Esta interesante noticia muestra, textual y graficamente, como Afganistan tiene su seleccion de futbol que trata de participar en el proximo mundial de futbol (Soccer).Lo novedoso de esta seleccion es por la muy dificil situacion politica-economica que pasa el pais de afganistan y recientemente el mundo vio videos de los ultimos acontecimientos por los que […]
La Federación Internacional de Handball ha cambiado sus regulaciones uniformes muy criticadas para el balonmano de la playa, lo que significa que las jugadoras ahora usarán pantalones cortos en lugar de de bikini. (*)El cambio viene después de que el equipo de balonmano de las mujeres noruegas fue multado por usar pantalones cortos en un juego contra España […]
La prueba de Coronavirus se volvió positiva el sábado por la mañana para Alex Anthopoulos, el presidente de Atlanta de Operaciones de Béisbol y Gerente General, arquitecto de uno de los mejores directivos reconocidos en la liga de beisbol USA actual. Ahora tendra que quedarse en casa debido a los protocolos del virus y los juegos tendra que verlo por TV (*)C […]
Es interesante ver los resultados en detalle para ver como se dan los avances en los juegos olimpicos, historia o estadistica. Asimismo se ve el rendimiento por pais, regione o atletas de manera particular. Incluso especificando cuales son los deportes fortalezas en cada caso.En general los 3 paises primeros fueron USA, China y Rusia quienes a su vez son las […]
La llama que se quemó a lo largo de uno de los juegos más controvertidos de la historia se extinguió hoy domingo 8 de agosto del 2021, ya que Japón bajó la cortina en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio con ceremonias de clausura que eran tan inusuales como el evento en sí.La mayoría de los atletas ni siquiera estaban presentes; Fueron enviados a casa dentro de l […]
En la Copa del Mundo de 1982, los llamados "cuartos de final" se formaron cuatro grupos con tres equipos cada uno. Brasil cayó en el Grupo 3, junto a Italia y Argentina. Argentina, del joven Maradona, recientemente fallecido, perdió 2-1 ante italianos y 3x1 ante brasileños. Debido a esta mejor diferencia de goles, Brasil comenzaría el partido con […]
Auque sea un tema tratado muchas veces lo considero importante.Yo puedo dar testimonio personal de que el deporte recreativo o informal nos ayuda mucho en llevar una vida, fisica y/o mental, saludable mientras lo practiquemos de una manera rutinaria. Incluso aunque no sigamos rutinas ideales que muchas veces los imprevistos, accidentes o vaivenes de la vida […]
Revisando mis archivos personales sobre este deporte, que a pesar de agrupar a una afición minoritaria, respecto a otros deportes mas populares; sin embargo tiene un publico fiel, canales deportivos especializados en Golf y mueve muchos millones de dolares en negocios alrededor del Golf..Aquí vemos al legendario y excéntrico grupo de rock (Kiss) el cual pare […]
The hundred billion galaxies of our visible, each with a hundred billion stars, is but a grain of sand on the Sahara that exists beyond our horizon, grown out of that single, original bubble of false vacuum.
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Hace 139 años ocurrió una tragedia en el famoso puente neoyorquino de Brooklyn. Exactamente ocurrió el 30 de mayo de 1883. No hubieron fotos o videos de aquella tragedia salvo el testimonio de miles de personas. Algunos de ellos dejaron testimonio escritos y dibujos que muestro aquí. El objetivo de este Blog es despertar el […]
Imagínate que estas en una fiesta privada rodeado de una 50 personas y tu junto con otros adultos están en la piscina. De pronto un ruido raro y una succión imprevista te hace sentir que alguien te jala debajo del agua en la piscina. Tratas de salir. El resto de personas en la piscina lo […]
Un reciente, exclusivo y extenso reporte del Washington Post (*) que acabo de terminar de leer y analizar bajo el titulo «Repeated police misconduct cost taxpayers 1.5 billion in settlement…» nos muestra una realidad que no es tan buena como otros medios masivos de comunicacion nos quieren hacer creer; sin embargo valoro el valor del […]
Un reciente articulo del Washington Post (*) nos muestra unos datos que deberian hacernos reflexionar y tratar de revertir esta situacion. Una de los peligros, sobretodo en las mentes de las nuevas generaciones, es asimilar que es normal vivir con un nivel de violencia diversa, incluyendo la mortal, y en ello algunos programas de TV, […]
Dichos casos se agrupan en los siguientes grupos: Acciones disciplinarias Arrestos relacionados a sustancias u objetos ilegales Violencia contra las mujeres Arrestos por crimenes mayores Si vemos mayor detalles (ver diagrama abajo), vemos que de un total de 412 casos los mas recurrentes son las acciones disciplinarias (74.8%). En segundo lugar estan los arre […]
Catorce personas encarceladas en el sistema de cárcel de la ciudad de Nueva York han muerto desde el 2020 de diciembre, al menos seis aparentemente por suicidio. Baños desbordantes y plagas de moho son comunes en las cárceles. Un monitor designado por el tribunal federal ha emitido un informe cada vez más mordaz que describe […]
Este caso, suicidio o asesinato, me llamo la atencion recientemente por 2 razones: Es posible que una joven profesora; sin razon aparente, se suicido con 20 cuchilladas por ella misma. Los padres de la joven; despues de casi 10 anos de su muerte, han regresado a los juzgados para reclamar que lo de su hija […]
Quizas el caso de Gabby es singular; pues ella era asidua usuaria de las redes sociales y en su pagina de FB , Instagram o YouTube, iban documentado o mostrando su viaje con su novio y ponian unas fotos que parecian la pareja mas feliz del mundo.
Hay personas que tienen enfermedades mentales serias; pues atacan, hieren o matan a personas que se les cruza en el camino, sin motivo alguno. Evitar dichos encuentros es basicamente imposible pues ocurren al azar o de forma imprevista. En este caso quedo grabado en video; pues fue en unos cajeros del banco Chase en el […]
Haiti es un pais que ademas de pasar con problemas economicos serios, que lo mantiene como el pais mas pobre del continente americano, se suma otras tragedias como el asesinato de su presidente por un grupo de mercenarios. Y una mas reciente como un terremoto con saldo tragico en perdida de vidas como recuerdo en […]
Bangladés es un país soberano ubicado en Asia del Sur. Su territorio se encuentra rodeado casi por completo por la India, a excepción de una pequeña franja al sureste donde limita con Birmania. Geográficamente, el país se sitúa en el terreno fértil del delta del Ganges, por lo que está sujeto a las inundaciones anuales…Leer más Como afrontan el cambio climat […]
Una foto vale mas que mil palabras. No importa que sea una foto arreglada. Si una persona hace un analisis logico y esta informado de las cosas importantes que pasan en nuestro mundo podra interpretar correctamente las fotos; aunque La semana en fotos en la ultima semana de este mes de julio del 2022. En…Leer más Fotos del mundo AP en Julio 2022
Si consideramos que 50 anos, en promedio empirico, es el paso de una generacion a otra de nieto (a), padres o madres y abuelos (as); entonces podemos decir que las ultimas 120 generaciones humanas han podido congregarse en comunidades, ciudades o paises que han construido ciudades que los alberga y que han ido evolucionando a…Leer más Las primeras ciudades e […]
Este es un tema historico que quiero mostrar algunos hechos que se pueden ver en diversos libros que esperan a ser leidos en varias bibliotecas publicas de USA y guardan graficamente algunos hechos que pocos recuerdan en la actualidad; pues parece que piensan que la vida recien empieza cuando nosotros nacemos. En fin, esta vida…Leer más Curiosidades de Indio […]
En este articulo editorial o de opinion (*), del New York Times, quizas mas interesante sean las opiniones de algunos de sus lectores, que dejan sus comentarios; aunque breves dicen muchas cosas de fondo en pocas palabras. Eso si para entenderlas cabalmente hay que estar al dia con los temas politicos o economicos, importantes, de…Leer más ¿Por qué las tropa […]
Los compradores de viviendas de Long Island en la actualidad tienen que pasar más, moverse más rápido y elegir entre una lista de los listados enormemente más pequeños que hace una década, según un nuevo informe del corretaje de bienes raíces Douglas Elliman y la firma de evaluación Miller Samuel. El precio de venta mediano…Leer más Los precios de las casas […]
Los temas politicos y economicos cada vez son mas rechazados por mas personas por diversas razones: Una por la gran cantidad de mentiras o campanas de desinformacion que existe. Incluso en grandes y «prestigiosos» medios de comunicacion. Tambien porque algunos temas o detalles no se entienden bien por la mayor parte del publico en general.…Leer más Inflacion […]
La Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica anunció que al menos 20 desastres de mil millones individuales ocurrieron en los Estados Unidos en 2021. Desde los tornados hasta las inundaciones, incendios y huracanes, el año presentó una serie de catástrofes, muchas de las cuales se hicieron más severas mediante el cambio climático inducido por los humano […]
Veamos la vision global del NYT sobre el tema de la inflacion en USA actualmente (Enero 2022). Abajo hago un resumen del reciente articulo, traducido y simplificado objetivamente, de Paul Krugman (*): El presidente Biden tenía lo que llamaría ayer a un momento humano. Después de que un corresponsal de noticias de Fox gritó una…Leer más La inflación y el pode […]
Siempre me gusta todos los lados, posibles, de algunos problemas o realidades importantes. En este sentido es leer y/o analizar los resumenes anuales que hacen diarios o revistas importantes en nuestro mundo actual. No importa la posicion politica o intereses de cada uno de ellos. Es bueno conocer todos. De esta manera nos acercamos a…Leer más El 2021 en Gra […]
Como vemos en la figura de abajo se puede lograr que una misma persona este en dos lugares diferentes y distantes, al mismo tiempo. Una forma es usando el truco de las fotos falsas que son tan comunes en nuestro internet actual; pero hay una forma real de lograrlo de una manera real. En el […]
Los que hemos recorrido algunos paises y lugares tenebrosos en dichos lugares, a veces, hemos sentido o visto presencias fantasmales o terrorificas en forma de mosntruos o de seres que nos causan temor. Un temor que va mas alla de lo humano, quizas mas cerca de lo infernal, de lo humanamente grotesco o sobrenatural. Tres […]
Antes de empezar las acciones de demanda de Nike esta situacion provoco una serie de rumores, historias o atencion de un publico numeroso que se encuentra en las redes sociales. De alli se hicieron bromas que otros no lo ven como bromas. Incluso otros, como los fanaticos religiosos, lo vieron como la senal de que el diablo ya esta en la tierra en cuerpos de […]
"¿Que esta pasando a nuestros jóvenes?. Ellos no respetan a nuestros ancianos y desobedecen a sus padres. Ellos ignoran la ley. Ellos se rebelan en las calles con nociones salvajes. ¿Que les esta pasando?" (Platon 427-347 A.C.)
Hay preguntas que pueden ser explicadas en gran medida por la ciencia actual; sin embargo siempre hay un espacio para lo sobrenatural, lo espiritual o lo divino que puede tener la existencia y muerte humana. Mi experiencia con cadáveres, de forma empírica, fue cuando era un estudiante y vi los cuerpos de personas solitarias que […]
En Argentina hay un pueblo fantasma muy extraño, llamado Epecuen, que pasó un cuarto de siglo bajo el agua. Hoy es un atractivo turístico en argentina y se encuentra ubicado en la posición geográfica que muestro en los mapas correspondientes: (ver fotos abajo) Epecuen fue una vez un bullicioso pequeño complejo junto al lago, donde 1.500 personas atendían 20 […]
Un cadáver misterioso llegó a la orilla en Nueva Zelanda la semana pasada, lo que alimentó las especulaciones sobre monstruos marinos y dinosaurios. El animal podrida fue descubierto por un grupo de vehículos de cuatro ruedas a toda velocidad a lo largo de la playa en la Bahía de Plenty. Según un artículo publicado en […]
Actualmente las potentes cámaras fotográficas pueden ampliar la visión de insectos y hacerlos ver como monstruos gigantes en una foto. Lo interesante aquí es ver detalles en las características físicas de algunos insectos que los hacen ver como monstruos y han inspirados a monstruos aterradores en algunas películas de terror. Tambien han generado monstruos a […]
El peruano Óscar Santa María Huerta, que fue piloto de la Fuerza Aérea durante 25 años, declaró en un acto anual sobre ovnis celebrado en EE.UU. que «está convencido que hay vida extraterrestre», ya que lo comprobó por su propia experiencia. El piloto fue uno de los seis representantes de América Latina que habló en […]
Las arañas han tomado parte en fábulas mitológicas desde tiempos inmemoriales a lo largo de todo el mundo. Esta presencia en numerosas culturas está relacionada sin duda con la distribución cosmopolita de los arácnidos. De hecho, las arañas se pueden encontrar prácticamente en todos los ecosistemas terrestres y, gracias a esto han entrado en la […]
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