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Friday, August 27
PLANTS SEND SOS TO INSECTS
by
salvador rosillo
on Fri 27 Aug 2010 12:27 PM EDT
27 August 2010 Last updated at 05:31 ET
NEW YORK TIMES 08/27/2010
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News
 When the plant releases its chemical signal Geocoris insects (bottom, left) come to the rescue Plants can summon insects to their aid to avoid being munched to death by caterpillars, scientists have found.
Leafy tobacco plants have evolved a "chemical SOS" that attracts predatory insects that eat the attackers.
In the journal Science, researchers revealed that the caterpillars' saliva activates this signal.
The modified signal causes Geocoris insects, which feed on the caterpillar larvae and eggs, to swoop in - rescuing the plant and gaining a meal.
The work was carried out by Silke Allmann of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany.
They discovered that when the plants were attacked by tobacco hornworm caterpillars, Manduca sexta, the caterpillar saliva caused a chemical change in "green leaf volatiles" - pungent chemicals that the plants produce. The familiar smell of cut grass is generated by green leaf volatiles (GLVs).
The scientists studied the effect further by setting up a fake plant attack.
They glued caterpillar eggs onto two groups of tobacco plants, using cotton swabs to coat the eggs on one group of plants with the plant's own GLVs. The eggs on the other plants were treated with GLV mixed with caterpillar spit.
 The insects respond to the plants' SOS and gain a freshly hatched meal The plants "perfumed" with the plant chemical alone had only 8% of their eggs attacked, whereas plants perfumed with the plant and caterpillar-derived chemical mixture chemical lost almost a quarter of their eggs.
All of these missing eggs had been eaten by the Geocoris bugs, which were attracted by the chemicals.
The modified chemical seems to "betray the location of the feeding caterpillar", the researchers concluded in their paper.
"Why the larvae would produce such an apparently [disadvantageous chemical] in their saliva remains to be determined."
Thursday, August 19
IRAQI DINARS
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 19 Aug 2010 04:20 PM EDT
Doctor Sauvage to DrDinar.com
show details 9:07 AM (7 hours ago)
HELLO
THE IRAQI GOVERMENT IS
ABOUT TO ERASE 3 ZEROS
FROM THE CURRENT IRAQI DINAR
AT THE END OF THE YEAR 2010.
THE 50 TRILLION IRAQI DINARS
SOLD OUTSIDE OF IRAQ
WILL THEN CONVERT TO 50 BILLION
ERASING 49 TRILLION 950 BILLION.
BUT THE GOV SAYS,
IT WILL CONVERT AT THE SAME VALUE
YOUR 25000 IRAQI DINARS NOTES
WILL BECOME 25 IRAQI DINARS NOTE
WHEN THE I DINAR GOES UP TO 2 DOLLARS PER US DOLLAR
SOMETIMES IN THE FUTURE
IF THEY CAN EVER GET IT TOGETHER
AND INCLUDE EVERYONE
IN THE DEALS.
MEANTIMES,
THEY ARE SOON TO BE
THIEVES
Saturday, August 14
AKIRA KUROSAWA'S 'THE BAD SLEEP WELL'
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 14 Aug 2010 04:21 PM EDT
********************
Dear Mr. Salvador Rosillo,
Congratulations!
Your book, "AKIRA KUROSAWA'S THE BAD SLEEP WELL,"
has successfully completed
the Xlibris publication process.
What you have accomplished is great –
you’re officially a self-published author!
You’ve transformed
your unique thoughts and ideas
into a published work,
and we here at Xlibris are thrilled,
we were able to help.
This note is intended to supply you
with information about your book
and what the future holds for you,
your book and Xlibris.
Please do take the time to read it carefully,
and save a copy for your future reference.
ISBN
--------
Please note the following information about your book:
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4415-6281-4
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4415-6282-1
Thursday, August 12
'BACKHOME'
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 12 Aug 2010 12:00 PM EDT
BACKHOME
AFTER 13 HOURS
OF MOSTLY WAITING
FOR THIS THAT AND THE OTHER
I AM BACK HOME
TOOK THE SKYTRAIN TO THE 'A' TRAIN
EXITED ALMOST UNDER MY HOUSE
NEAR CHAMBERS ST
NEXT TIME,
I'LL TAKE LESS LUGGAGE
HERE ,IN NYC,
IS HOTTER THAN HELL
IT'S LIKE A STEAM BATH
THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
IN FULL FORCE
GUADALAJARA'S WEATHER
IS MAGNIFICENT
SPRING-TIME EVERYDAY
AS SOON AS I CAME OUT
OF THE SUBWAY HOLE
BEFORE I ARRIVED,
HAD A FELAFEL LEBANESE STYLE
RIGHT ON CHURCH ST
TEN STEPS AWAY,
LOTS OF FRIENDS WERE HERE
SO WE HAD SOME SMOKE
AND A FEW BEERS
NOW I AM READY
FOR A STEAM BATH NIGHT
I WILL BE THINKING OF
'MARLON BRANDON
IN ' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE'
SLEEPING ON THE FIRESCAPE.
Thursday, July 22
'IRAQI DINARS'
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 22 Jul 2010 02:24 PM EDT
IRAQUI DINARS FRAUD! more »
Monday, January 11
'HOW"
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 11 Jan 2010 01:33 PM EST
"How"
how to fit
a square peg
into a round hole?
How to readjust
to the winter weather
of a raging nor'easter?
coming from two months
of eternal spring temperatures
with the pressure of
an open pressure cooker?
walking Manhattan streets
at double march pace
until the serotonin kicks in
and makes you feel strong
vibrant,
powerful,
slickly fast,
purposeful,
like a million euros
(better exchange rate),
that's how...........
saludos
sal
Friday, January 8
the song of the hunted humpback whale
by
salvador rosillo
on Fri 08 Jan 2010 01:13 PM EST
PLEASE HELP CONVINCE JAPAN
TO WAKE UP TO IT'S BUDDHIST ORIGINS
THIS IS NOT ABOUT MACHISMO
OF SOVERING RIGHTS
IT IS ABOUT PLEASE STOP KILLING THE WHALES
DO RESEARCH ELSEWHERE
WAKE UP!
IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU!
IT'S ABOUT THE WHALES
PLEASE WAKE UP!
THANK YOU
SAL
November 24, 2007, 10:33 pm
The Song of the Hunted Humpback Whale
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
 Humpback female and calf. (Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))The clash between Japan and many Western nations over killing whales clicked up another notch last week. As Japanese whalers, claiming to operate under the mantle of science, steamed toward waters near Antarctica, one of the new species on their harvest list was the humpback — a whale whose eerie song became a platinum-selling recording and whose full-body breaches are a draw for whale watching fleets worldwide.
My story in the Week in Review section is accompanied by a song sample. Have a listen and also have a look at some remarkable footage of humpbacks, taken by a diving team covered last year by The Times.
Even though whale meat is unpopular in Japan, government officials and many Japanese have rallied around what the country insists is a scientific research program (with a meat-selling sideline), criticizing critics. The official line is that whales are no more intelligent or special than cows, their expanding numbers are depleting fisheries needed by humans, and any complaints about killing them are hypocritical and little more than cultural imperialism.
In essence, the argument goes, if the United States — including environmentalists like Ted Turner — can revere bison and eat them too, what’s the big deal about harpooning a thousand or so whales a year?
Many biologists and campaigners insist that whales are special, and humpbacks particularly so. In a lecture at Oxford University on Nov. 2, Roger Payne — arguably the scientist most responsible for elevating the whale (and particularly the humpback) to a special position in the Western imagination — warned that the expanding Japanese killings were only one part of a broader assault that could finally silence the seas:
“The visual presence of some animal like a whale is not all that will be missed when it is gone. I care more for the howl of the wolf than for his merely doglike look. And when the last howl of the last wolf has filled the night, has echoed and died out, something in all of us will pass with it into a kind of mute invisibility.
“And so it is with whales. There may come a time when, in some remote, moonlit ocean glade, deserted of humanity, the last call of a humpback whale will start, and spread out, and then vanish, until those who heard it last will only wonder if they heard it at all. And in this way each whale species will make its final exit until the blind continents, banked in their beds of silent ooze, and moving like slow clouds across the molten face of the earth, will no longer have whales to cheer them on, but will make their way in silence and alone.”
It is fine poetry. But it is in English, not Japanese. National pride and imperatives shaped by history still often dominate how any culture deals with another, and with other species.
So how do such culture clashes get resolved with ocean-roaming animals like whales?
Thursday, December 24
'REDREINDEER'
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 24 Dec 2009 04:03 PM EST
"REDREINDEER"
EMERGENCY COMMUNIQUE'
IF TOMORROW MORNING...
YOU FIND BITS ,
OF RED REIN DEER MANURE,
IN YOUR LIVING ROOM ,
PLEASE,
EXCUSE ME!
I FORGOT,
THE DEAR DEER'S DIAPERS ,
AT MY NORTH POLE HOME!
I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY!
WITH YOUR GIFTS THIS YEAR,
EVEN IF THEY WILL ARRIVE,
JANUARY 07. 2010,
NOT DECEMBER 25.2009,
MAYBE YOU 'LL GET THEM,
ANY OTHER DAY,
ANY OTHER MONTH,
ANY ANOTHER YEAR,
OR MAYBE THEY NEVER ARRIVE,
AT YOUR DOORSTEP,
EVEN IF YOU NOW ...
NOT BELIEVE IN ME!
AT ALL!
NOR BELIEVE IN ,
FLYING RED REIN DEER,
I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT
THIS YEAR,FOR CERTAIN...
YOU WILL FIND RED RAIN DEER,
MANURE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM.
salvador rosillo
dec 24.2009
"POEMACHAT"
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 24 Dec 2009 03:30 PM EST
"POEMA CHAT"
rogelio: que haces wey?
rogelio flores is online.
salvador: buscando un website que se me perdio
rogelio: a parte de estar bien jumigado
salvador: mi proximo desktop sera imac,con pantalla de 30 pulgadas
salvador: esta de poca madre,solo 2000 usa
salvador: no lo que usas es de mi abuela
salvador: estoy tociendo,no se porque? sera el dengue,o sera un dengue?
dime tu,dime abuelita....
porque tienes esos dientotes?
y esas patotas?porque?
y porque no te queda bien la ropa?
abuelita! abuelita! que ese fierrote?
parece cuerno torcido
malevolo
ABUELITA! ABUELITA!
FINITA LA MUSICA!
museum salvador rosillo
12.24.2009 |
Thursday, December 17
WHITE AMERICAS BECOMING MINORITY
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 17 Dec 2009 08:42 AM EST
HELLO
AS YOU CAN SEE,IN YOUR ARTICLE,
NEW YORK TIMES 12/14/2009
THEY ARE PROJECTIONS
WHOSE PROJECTIONS? CENSUS BUREAU,
THEY ARE BIAS!!!
IF MORE LESS 50% ARE WHITE HISPANICS
ARE INCLUDED IN THE COUNT
WHICH FOR SOME WEIRD REASON
YOU SEEM TO THING
THAT SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
ARE NOT IN EUROPE?
THEY ARE NOT BEING COUNTED AS WHITE
THAT IS WHY ,YOUR COUNT IS WRONG!!!!
WE CAME FROM EUROPE
WAY BEFORE THE ELLIS ISLAND
MASS MIGRATION
CENTURIES BEFORE THE ANGLOS
AND OTHER WANNA BE ANGLOS
AND IF HISPANICS ARE GOING TO BE
35% OF THE POPULATION IN 40 YEARS
OR LESS, WELL, AT LEAST 50% OF THOSE
ARE WHITE HISPANICS
IN A FUTURE NATION OF
LETS SAY 400 MILLION
35% ARE 140 MILLION HISPANICS
THAT TRANSLATES INTO 70 MILLION WHITE HISPANICS
ADDED TO THE WHITE ANGLO ROLLS
AND WOULD PUSH THAT WHITE MINORITY DATELINE
MUCH INTO THE FUTURE
IF EVER TO HAPPEN
THANK YOU
WHITE HISPANIC NOT WHITE ANGLO
OR WANNA BE WHITE ANGLO
THANK YOU
HERNAN CORTEZ
Demographic information
In the 2008 American Community Survey 29.2 million, or 62.35% of the then 46,891,456 total Hispanic and Latino American self-identified as white, an increase from 47.9% in the 2000 census.[13][10] Non White Hispanics or Latinos who reported "Some other race" (meaning they do not identify with any of the standard racial categories given in the census) are the second largest group, at 41.2%, down from 42.2% in 2000. (The 2006 figures for racial categories chosen by Hispanics in the US Census other than "white" or "some other race" are: "Two or more races" or multiracials, 3.9%; Black, 1.4%; American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.8%; Asian, 0.35%; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 0.1%.)[13] Respondents in the "Some other race" category are officially reclassified as white by the Census Bureau in some official estimates of race. This means that more than 90% of all Hispanic or Latino Americans end up being counted as "white" in some statistics of the US Census (which would equal 41 million in 2006).[14]
White Hispanics by National Origin, 2000 [11]
Hispanic National OriginWhite population
in groupAs a percentage
of group
Mexican9,870,43347.3
Puerto Rican1,605,04947.2
Cuban1,060,85485.0
Dominican180,85622.7
Central American735,87940.4
South American838,27059.6
"Spanish" and "Other Hispanic"2,534,78644.8
Mexican Americans compose the majority (64%) of all Hispanic or Latino Americans,[15] and similarly, White Mexican Americans compose the majority (59% in 2000) of all White Hispanic or Latino Americans.[11] The second largest number of Hispanics identifying themselves as white are Puerto Rican Americans, and Cuban Americans are the third largest; these three U.S Hispanic groups by national origin compose the overwhelming majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans who self-identified as "white" in the 2000 US census.[11]
Some Hispanic or Latino American groups, most notably Mexican Americans, have white majorities or pluralities, in contrast to the actual ethnographic profiles of their countries of origin.[citation needed] It is unknown how many of these are otherwise assimilated white Americans who happen to be a half or quarter Mexican (or whatever).
Monday, September 21
EXTRA WEIGHT RISKS
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 21 Sep 2009 08:03 PM EDT
JUST 20%
OF EXTRA WEIGHT
CAN PUT YOUR LIFE
AT RISK.
DID YOU KNOW
THEY EXPECT 120 MILLION!!!!
PEOPLE BY 2050
IN THE USA ALONE
WILL BE SICK
WITH ALTSHEIMERS
JUST BECAUSE
OF THE SHIT THEY EAT
AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN AWARE!!
DIG THAT!!!
SAL
HEALTH RISKS OF DRINKING SODA
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 21 Sep 2009 08:02 PM EDT
Health Risks of Drinking Soda
posted by Mel, selected from Caring.com Sep 21, 2009 7:02 am
At a picnic this weekend, I listened as an extended family member nagged at kids to stay away from the cola and other types of soda pop being served. “They rot your teeth,” one grandmother admonished her grandkids. But she herself was drinking a big glass of Diet Pepsi, and didn’t seem aware of the irony of her pronouncement: It’s actually older women who are most at risk of health problems from drinking cola and other fizzy soft drinks.
Every six months or so, it seems, a new warning comes out about the dangers of drinking too much soda. And you may feel you’ve heard it all. But a couple of new studies have led experts to begin calling for a public health campaign to warn women about cola consumption.
Women are at greater risk of osteoporosis, or bone thinning, as they get older. Most of us already know that. But many people don’t realize that drinking a lot of cola and other soft drinks increases osteoporosis risk — or causes the disease to progress faster. The phosphoric acid that makes fizzy drinks fizz actually eats away at bone, making it more porous.
This news, while worrying, has been known for a while. But now scientists are sounding the alarm that soft drinks weaken muscles as well as bones. According to a new study, drinking large amounts of cola (the study focused on people who drank two quarts or more a day) causes potassium levels in the blood to fall, which can lead to a severe deficiency. And potassium deficiency, as athletes know, makes you feel weak and dizzy, and causes muscles to atrophy.
Researchers aren’t sure yet exactly how soft drinks are causing the potassium deficiency; they theorize that flooding the kidneys with caffeine and sugar causes them to filter out too much potassium from cells. This is a dangerous double whammy for older women, who have a higher risk of falling and hip fracture than men do.
Of course, the real message health and nutrition experts are trying to convey is that we need more calcium and other bone- and muscle-building nutrients in our bodies, and fewer empty calories.
So what to do when soda’s out but you’re thirsty and milk just won’t cut it? Try water, lemonade, or iced tea.
Friday, September 11
'911 '
by
salvador rosillo
on Fri 11 Sep 2009 07:04 PM EDT
doctorsauvage
"911"
A BRILLIANT
CERULEAN BLUE
MORNING SKY
AT 8:46 A.M.
8 YEARS AGO
TODAY
WITNESSED
THE END
AND
BEGINNING
OF THE LAST
AND
NEW MILLENIUMS
911 ATTACKS
USHERED IN
OUR BRAVE
NEW WORLD
salvador rosillo
09/11/2009
Sunday, September 6
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 06 Sep 2009 04:19 PM EDT
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
Thomas Nozkowski
All 60 paintings by Nozkowski (born 1944) on display are the same size (small), untitled (but coded with a number), abstract, and have been created since 1980. And yet, the American painter says every one of them is based on a definite moment he’s experienced. Indeed, a closer look at the paintings reveals ‘‘pentimenti, abrasions and scarifications’’ that matched the flux of the artist’s emotions. It’s up to the viewer to provide his own interpretation. Left, ‘‘Untitled (8-55), 2003’’ (Private collection).
DE CEZANNE A ROTHKO
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 06 Sep 2009 04:18 PM EDT
FONDATION DE L'HERMITAGE
Passions Partagées - De Cézanne à Rothko: Chefs d'Oeuvre du XXe Siècle dans les Collections Privées Suisses
For its 25th anniversary, the foundation is unveiling treasures held by Swiss citizens, whose collections of European and American painting and sculpture were fortunate to have survived World War II. While many major artists are only represented by a single painting here, it is not surprising that Swiss artists — like Hodler, Vallotton and Giacometti — should have several works in the display. In the end, the show covers most of the aesthetic concepts that make up the fabric of early 20th-century art history. Left, René Magritte's "La ruse symétrique, 1928" (Private collection).
Monday, August 24
'DOING FOSSIL'
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 24 Aug 2009 08:03 AM EDT
I WAS DOING
MY YOGA
HATHA
I WAS DOING
MARTIAL ARTS
TAI CHI CHUAN
PA KUA CHUAN
I WAS DOING SWIMMING
I WAS DOING BIKING
I WAS DOING HIKING
I WAS DOING STANDING
ON MY HEAD
I WAS DOING
HANGING UPSIDE DOWN
FROM A TRAPEZE
I WAS DOING VEGETARIANISM
FOR 40 YEARS
I WAS DOING BUDDHISM
I WAS DOING TAOISM
I WAS DOING MEDITATIONS
I WAS DOING CALORIE
RESTRICTION
BUT TIME STILL MANAGED
TO MAKE ME INTO
A LIVING FOSSIL
08/22/09
Wednesday, August 12
SUPREME COURT MANHATTAN
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 12 Aug 2009 10:53 AM EDT
HELLO MR.C
HERE IS A SUMMARY,
BACK IN NOV '05
I BOUGHT THE PROPERTY
IN QUESTION I KNEW NOTHING
ABOUT REAL ESTATE
AND HOW INCREDIBLY CORRUPT IS IT!
AS OF NOW I BELIEVE
THE PEOPLE IN JAIL ARE INNOCENT
AND ALL THE FREE ONE ARE GUILTY
A TRAVESTY.
THE SELLERS AND CREW
BEGUN BY CHANGING THE SQ FOOTAGE
OF THE BLDG FROM 2136 SQ FT CHANGED TO 2736 SQ FT
THEY THEN COMPARED THE BLDG TO MUCH
LARGER STRUCTURES OUTSIDE OF THE AREA
THE PRICE WAS INFLATED BY $ 400,000.00 US
TO A TOTAL OF $ 640,000.00
THE HOUSE WAS A CRACK DEN
RUN BY A RASTA GANG
I COULD NOT EVEN STEP INTO MY OWN HOUSE
UNDER THREAT OF DEATH
I SERVED AS A FORWARD OBSERVER SNIPER IN THE US ARMY
BACK IN THE VIET NAM ERA
SO, I APPLIED THE SAME METHODS
AND TOOK OUT ALL THE CRACKS AND RASTAS
ONE BY ONE, TOOK ME MORE THAN 2 YEARS
MEANTIME THEY KEPT ON RESELLING AND RESELLING MY MORTGAGE
SO THE FORECLOSURE WAS ALWAYS RESTARTING
THE BLDG IS TOTALLY DESTROYED DUE TO THE FACT THAT IF ONE LEFT ANYTHING
SUCH AS TOILETS BATHTUBS KITCHENS ETC
IT WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE REOCCUPIED BY OTHER CRACK HEADS
SO I AM ACCUSING THEM OF THE FOLLOWING..........
1.- FALSIFIED APPRAISALS
2.- FRAUD
3.- BREACH OF CONTRACT
4.- LACK OF DUE DILIGENCE
5.- REVERSE RED LINING
6- ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION
7.- BREAKING BANKING LAWS (NY)FALSE EVERYTHING
8.- AGEISM ( I AM 72)
9.- DESTRUCTION OF CREDIT
( IN ORDER TO JUSTIFIED THE 80-20 NO MONEY DOWN BALLOON MORTGAGE AT 12% INTEREST, ( MY CREDIT WAS 763 FICO SCORE, BEFORE I BOUGHT THE BLDG)
10- I D THEFT
11- RICO CONSPIRACY (ACTED LIKE RACKETEERING, A MOB)
THE LAW SUIT IS FOR $11,000,000.00 US
AND THEY HAVE ALREADY DEFAULTED TWICE
BY ALL MEANS THE JUDGE SHOULD RULE IN MY FAVOR
BUT THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY CORRUPTED
THAT ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE WAY TO JUSTICE
AND I NEED SOMEONE THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK AT THAT COURT
DAY TO DAY
BUT IS COMPETENT ,KNOWLEDGEABLE, HONEST!
PIE IN THE SKY, MAYBE?
THANK YOU
SAL ROSILLO
2123497068
Untitled
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 12 Aug 2009 07:31 AM EDT
Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight
Robert Roy Britt
Editorial Director
SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt
editorial Director
space.com – Tue Aug 11, 9:19 am ET
The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show this week for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning and wait patiently for the shooting stars.
In North America, the best time to watch will be between midnight to 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, but late Tuesday night and also Wednesday night could prove fruitful, weather permitting.
The Perseids are always reliable, and sometimes rather spectacular. The only things that puts a damper on the August show are bad weather or bright moonlight. Unfortunately this week, as the Perseids reach their peak Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the moon will be high in the sky, outshining the fainter meteors.
Still, skywatchers around the globe will have a good chance of spotting the brighter meteors. Some already are enjoying the show.
Already underway
The Perseids are bits of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, which has laid down several streams of debris, each in a slightly different location, over the centuries as it orbits the sun. Every August, Earth passes through these debris streams, which spread out over time.
"They are typically fast, bright and occasionally leave persistent trains," says Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Skywatching Columnist. "And every once in a while, a Perseid fireball will blaze forth, bright enough to be quite spectacular and more than capable to attract attention even in bright moonlight."
Low numbers of Perseids, including some bright fireballs, have already been reported as Earth began entering the stream in late July. Seasoned observers have counted up to 25 per hour already, or nearly one every two minutes.
Most meteors are no bigger than a pea. They vaporize as they enter Earth's atmosphere, creating bright streaks across the sky.
The Perseids appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus, which rises high in the sky around midnight and is nearly overhead by dawn. Like most meteor showers, the hours between midnight and daybreak are typically the best time to watch, because that's when the side of Earth you are on is rotating into the direction of Earth's travels through space, so meteors are "scooped up" by the atmosphere at higher rates, much like a car's windshield ends the lives of more bugs than does the rear bumper.
Astronomers expect up to 200 meteors per hour in short bursts of up to 15 minutes or so. But many of the fainter meteors will simply not be visible due to moonlight, and rates will go down even more for those in urban areas. More likely a typical observer under reasonably dark skies might hope to see a meteor every couple minutes when the bursts come, and fewer during lulls.
When to watch
The best time to watch is between midnight and dawn Wednesday. Forecasters say the best stretch could come between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET (1-2 a.m. PT), which would be after daybreak in Europe. Some Perseids might be visible late Tuesday night, and Wednesday night into Thursday morning could prove worthwhile, too.
Meteor forecasting is still in its infancy, however, so the best bet for anyone truly hungry to spot shooting stars is to get in as much observing time as possible from around 11 p.m. Tuesday night until dawn Wednesday, and if you miss that show, try the same time frame Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.
Meteors should be visible in the pre-dawn hours, weather permitting, all around the Northern Hemisphere.
"Earth passes through the densest part of the debris stream sometime on Aug. 12," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Then, you could see dozens of meteors per hour."
Viewing tips
The best location is far from city and suburban lights. Ideally, find a structure, mountain or tree to block the moon. Then scan as much of the sky as possible. The meteors can appear anywhere, heading in any direction. If you trace their paths backward, they'll all point to the constellation Perseus.
People in locations where any chill might occur should dress warmer than they think necessary to allow for prolonged viewing.
Seasoned skywatchers advise using a blanket or lounge chair for comfort, so you can lie back and look up for long periods. Allow at least 15 minutes for your eyes to fully adjust to the darkness. Then expect meteors to be sporadic: You might see two in a row, or several minutes could go by between shooting stars.
Avid meteor watchers might want to try scanning the northeastern horizon from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. local time (your local time, wherever you are) for Perseids that graze the horizon.
"Earthgrazers are meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond," Cooke explained. "They are long, slow and colorful – among the most beautiful of meteors." He notes that an hour of watching may net only a few of these at most, but seeing even one can make the whole night worthwhile.
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Tuesday, August 11
medicinal marijuana inc 'mjna'
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 11 Aug 2009 10:45 AM EDT
Medical Marijuana, Inc. Signs Agreements With Additional Collectives in Northern California; Invites City of Oakland to Learn About Company's Cost-Effective Tax Collection System
- Press Release
- Source: Medical Marijuana, Inc.
- On Tuesday August 11, 2009, 4:20 am EDT
MARINA DEL REY, CA--(Marketwire - 08/11/09) - Medical Marijuana, Inc. (Pinksheets:MJNA - News) announced today that MOU agreements are now in place with an additional four medical marijuana collectives from different counties in the Northern California region. All four collectives have signed on to implement MJNA's Stored Value Platform System in their respective businesses.
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The Stored Value Platform System, a Point-of-Sale system, is a hallmark element of Medical Marijuana's business solutions package. This stored value-based system, once in place, helps businesses that are dispensing medical marijuana more efficiently and securely manage the tasks of revenue and taxation collection. The ease of access to certifiably secure transactions lessens the risk of loss at each level. Both provider and patient benefit greatly from this revolutionary program designed by MJNA.
The addition of collectives within the top half of the Golden State is also important to Medical Marijuana, Inc. as part of its effort to persuade at least one major Bay Area municipality to join in discussions with the Company regarding its automated tax collection solutions.
Per a special July 2009 election, the City of Oakland, CA, will become the first U.S. city to tax proceeds on the sale of medical marijuana. Approximately 80 percent of voters residing within city limits chose to support the initiative, which was adopted by many of the city's medical marijuana collectives and the Oakland City Council as part of the solution to Oakland's longstanding budget shortfall.
By employing Medical Marijuana's tax collection system, the City of Oakland could cost-effectively implement the necessary infrastructure to collect on every sale made within city limits by licensed collectives and collect those taxes on a daily basis. The POS system automatically recognizes the collective's tax ID number, state and local tax rates and then provides Automated Clearing House settlement of the taxes and routes the amount to the City's appointed financial institution. Taxes can be collected on a daily basis, providing an economic windfall for the city of Oakland and any other municipality recognizing the advantages of this model.
Tax Collection
The Stored Value Platform System will provide verifiable solutions to manage the difficult task of revenue and taxation collection. The "Point of Sale" (POS) system will recognize the dispensary's tax ID number, state and local tax rates and then provide "Automated Clearing House" (ACH) settlement of the taxes to the proper financial institutions. The customers of the dispensary are issued a plastic debit card or medical revenue card. The ease of access to certifiably secure transactions lessens the risk of loss at each level of the transaction.
Internal Management
All collectives/dispensaries in the U.S. are cash businesses. This presents a number of challenges. Dispensary owners risk employee theft and possible competition for sales with unsupervised employees. Our stored value card also eliminates the risks of carrying cash. For the investor looking to open more than one dispensary, this card allows him the ease of mind of knowing all transactions are accounted for in all of his locations.
Solutions
Medical Marijuana, Inc. is developing a suite of solutions to deliver an efficient and secure infrastructure for the Medical Marijuana Industry that will provide the tools to industry operators to effectively manage their businesses with the confidence that they are in full compliance.
ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA, INC.
Medical Marijuana, Inc. is the first public company to recognize the vast and unequaled opportunities that exist in the rapidly expanding medical marijuana industry. The scientific recognition of marijuana as a powerful medicine, and as an effective, non-narcotic pain reliever, has brought legalized marijuana use to the forefront of mainstream discussion thus opening the door for safe and lucrative investment opportunities.
Medical Marijuana, Inc. has developed a suite of turnkey business and management solutions for the fledgling medical marijuana collective industry in California. The growing number of other states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana have yet to establish a system for the legalized commercial production and sale of the medicine. These regions are also strong potential targets for Medical Marijuana, Inc.'s products and services down the road. It is likely that other states will follow California's basic lead as the Golden State more specifically defines the regulations and protocol that are shaping the supply-side of the legal medical marijuana sector.
ABOUT 420 EXPRESS DELIVERY SERVICE
420 Express Delivery Service of Sonoma County is a patient-friendly delivery service offering different strains of medical cannabis for varying medical conditions and ailments. 420 Express is focused on quality customer service, fast and friendly delivery, continuity in its staff and good rapport with its patients. You can always count on 420 Express Delivery Service to be there on time, with the specific type of medication required per your physician's recommendation.
ABOUT MR. MEDICAL DELIVERY SERVICE
Mr. Medical Delivery Service (Mr. M.D.S.) of Marin County is a compassionate, knowledgeable and caring delivery service that provides high quality medical marijuana for its patients. Mr. M.D.S. strives to always deliver its medicinal products in a timely manner with only the best customer service in mind. To aid in this, the company does its best to maintain continuity and consistency with the caregivers it employs. Mr. M.D.S. also offers many different strains of cannabis in order to most effectively treat various patient conditions.
ABOUT KRYSTAL GREEN COLLECTIVE
Krystal Green Collective of Tuolomne County is a family-run business well known for its hospitality and its fast, safe and presentable delivery service. Krystal Green operates in the interest of helping out those who need a friend in their time of need. Krystal Green Collective is working hard for you the people. Krystal Green Collective -- a friendly and reliable service, above and beyond all others.
FORWARD-LOOKING DISCLAIMER
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements and information, as defined within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the Safe Harbor created by those sections. This material contains statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements by definition involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Medical Marijuana, Inc. to be materially different from the statements made herein.
DOGS SNIFFING OUT HEALTH PROBLEMS
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 11 Aug 2009 08:31 AM EDT
July 6, 2009, 1:13 pm
Dogs Sniffing Out Health Problems
By Tara Parker-Pope
 Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Dogs like Kobi, a yellow Labrador, have participated in cancer detection studies. Catching up on my weekend Web reading, I came across an interesting video from National Geographic, about dogs who sniff out cancer and health problems associated with diabetes.
One of the dogs featured, a collie named Tinker, began whining and barking when his owner, who has diabetes, experienced dangerous drops in blood sugar. Although Tinker wasn’t trained at first, his reactions to the hypoglycemic attacks led to further training as a qualified “hypo alert” dog. The video also features the work of the British research center, Cancer and Bio-Detection Dogs.
The center has 17 rescue dogs at various stages of training that will be paired up with diabetic owners, including many children, reports Reuters.
Last year, researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast decided to investigate anecdotal reports from dog owners who said their pets warned them of hypoglycemic attacks. They surveyed 212 dog owners, all of whom had Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder that prevents the body from producing insulin. A regular concern with Type 1 is that blood sugar will drop precipitously low, causing a person to fall unconscious.
Among the dog owners, 138, or 65 percent, said their dog had shown a behavioral reaction to at least one of their hypoglycemic episodes. About a third of the animals had reacted to 11 or more events, with 31.9 percent of animals reacting to 11 or more events. The dogs got their owners’ attention by barking and whining, (61.5 percent), licking (49.2 percent), nuzzling (40.6 percent), jumping on top of them (30.4 percent), and/or staring intently at their faces (41.3 percent). A small percentage of the dogs reportedly tremble in fear at the time of a hypoglycemic attack.
To learn more, watch the three-minute video or read the transcript on the National Geographic Web site.
And for more on dogs detecting cancer read “Moist Nose Shows Promise in Tracking Down Cancer,” by my colleague Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
Monday, August 10
ALLIOIL
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 10 Aug 2009 09:37 PM EDT
August 10, 2009, 3:52 pm
Allioli, the Catalan Accompaniment
By Edward Schneider
 Matt Rourke/Associated Press Ed’s approach to allioli is the same as mine - use a blender. The one time a tried a mortar and pestle I nearly passed out. - MB
The typical accompaniment to a rice dish cooked in a paella is allioli. This is not to be confused with its French near-homonym, aïoli, which is basically garlicked mayonnaise. The Catalan allioli is garlic and oil and salt – no egg yolk except when there is – crushed and stirred in a mortar until a fragile emulsion is formed. It is more akin to a Cuban mojo than to anything French, but it doesn’t contain citrus juice.
Many of the Spanish/Catalan rice dishes I’ve been tinkering with have been full of pork fat and the spices that go into sausages of various kinds and have been so in-your-face flavorful that I haven’t thought to remind you that a bowl of allioli is a nice thing to have to hand. The other day, however, I needed to make a purely vegetarian rice – artichokes, green beans, young fennel, onions, peppers – and found that allioli was no longer optional: even with a nice sofrito and a tasty vegetable stock, the dish needed an extra jolt.
I’m generally ready for laborious manual kitchen tasks – knife-chopping meat; shelling peas; whisking mayonnaise; shredding flank steak to make ropa vieja: sign me up. But mortars and pestles are just not my style. So I put three big, juicy, oily cloves of this season’s garlic into a container along with half a cup of olive oil and a big pinch of salt, and I obliterated this with an immersion blender, forming an emulsion that lasted longer than the eight nanoseconds that a mortar-and-pestle alloli tends to hold, at least when I try to make it.
This, Jackie and I and our guests drizzled over our no-pork-fat “paella,” to great effect.
Epilogue: There was some left over, and the next night we spooned it onto the taken-out remains of an imperfect pizza we couldn’t or wouldn’t finish in an East Village restaurant a few nights earlier. I won’t say that the allioli turned it into the best reheated pizza we’d ever tasted, but it certainly moved it up a point and a half on a zero-to-ten scale. I could also see it drizzled over lots of other things too: grilled meat or fish; roasted vegetables. Just about anything not involving caramel sauce and whipped cream, in fact.
"THE LAW SUIT"
by
salvador rosillo
on Mon 10 Aug 2009 05:13 PM EDT
hello carl:
went to court today again
after the 07/27/09 default
today they defaulted again
and the case went to the judge
2 months wait,monitoring
the case all the time,
i am going to try and introduce
more coherent evidence
into the case,since it will be
a while before someone looks at it?
bwell
sal rosillo
Sunday, August 9
TUXCUECA'S PETROGLYGHS
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 09 Aug 2009 03:18 PM EDT
Friday, 19 June 2009 14:32 John Pint
The pueblo of Tuxcueca was one of the most important ports on Lake Chapala. Apparently, it was also important thousands of years earlier, according to Tuxcueca Tourism chief Alejandro Solis, who also likes to promote some old and interesting petroglyphs in the area.
http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/columns-mainmenu-94/john-pint-mainmenu-48.html?start=4
TEN METER GIANT STONE BALL
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 09 Aug 2009 02:15 PM EDT
Friday, 10 July 2009 11:15 John Pint
Las Piedras Bola (the Great Stone Balls) are among the greatest natural wonders in western Mexico. They are located 66 kilometers west of Guadalajara, high in the hills between Ahualulco and Ameca. Experts have puzzled over these almost perfectly round balls (scientifically known as megaspherulites) ever since they appeared in a 1969 National
http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/columns-mainmenu-94/john-pint-mainmenu-48.html?start=4
"THE HASHEESH SMOKER'
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 09 Aug 2009 01:55 PM EDT
'THE HASHEESH SMOKER'
PART I
---------------
I THINK IT WAS FULL MOON
2 NIGHTS AGO
IT CERTAINLY WAS A TRYING NIGHT
A NIGHT OF WRETCHED PAINS
AND DISCOVERING BEING WATCHED
BY THE FULL MOON LIGHTS
BLOWING THROUGH
THE SOUTHWEST LOOKING
WINDOW PANES
STILL FEELS AS IF IT WAS FULL
THE EFFECTS ARE STILL HERE
THE MUSCLES STILL SMARTING
MITIGATED BY TIME AND DISTANCE
TODAY SUNDAY
MARK GRATEFULLDEAD CAME OVER
FOR PRE-BRUNCH BREAKFAST
WE SMOKED AMERICAN ORGANIC HASHEESH
IT WAS WONDERFUL THE FEELING OF WELL BEING
THAT CAME OVER ME ..
THIS IS REAL MEDICINE I THOUGHT
REAL MEDICINE!
WE HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FACT THAT AIG
THE GIANT WITH CLAY FEET WAS AFTER ALL ABLE TO "SAVE" 250 MILLION
DOLLARS FOR THEIR EXECUTIVES BONUSES
THAT IS WELL,FINE!
EXCEPT THAT, THAT IS THE MONEY
THEY TOOK AWAY FROM THE SMALL
"RATONCITOS"
INVESTORS THAT WANTED TO PROFIT
FROM AIG'S EVENTUAL REBOUND,
AIG 'S SHARES WERE AT THAT TIME ABOUT.025 CENTS US!
SO FOLLOWING THE CAPITALIST PRECEPT OF
"BUY LOW, SELL HIGH"
MYSELF AND MANY OTHERS WANNA BE'S
LOADED UP OUR MEAGER RESOURCES
AND BOUGHT AIG SHARES BETTING
HUNDRED PERCENT ON THE US GOVERNMENT'S
ABILITY TO RESCUE THE SITUATION
WE PLACED OUR MONEY ON AIG,
THEN IT BEGUN TO HAPPEN AIG SHARES
WERE POISED TO HIT ONE DOLLAR VALUE
OUR INVESTMENT TRIPLED ,
SURE BET!
THE US IS BEHIND THEM,
WELL, THE GOVERNMENT APPOINTED CEO
OF AIG A MR LIBBY
AND THE 3 APPOINTED TRUSTEES
MAKING $100,000.00 US $ PER YEAR EACH
THE SAME 3 WHICH CONTROL 79.95 %
OF AIG'S VOTING STOCK
DECIDED TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF A REVERSE SPLIT 20-1
WHICH BASICALLY ROBBED THE SMALL INVESTOR
OF ANY FUTURE CAPITALIZATION DURING THE RECOVERY
AND THAT LOOKSA AND SMELLS
LIKE DOUBLE JEOPARDY
FIRST WE GIVE THEM $ 200 BILLION
TAXPAYERS MONEY
THEN THEY (AIG),
CLEAN THE DECKS OF UPSTARTS
SUCH AS US!
THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OUR FUTURE
AND GIVES THEM TO THEM FAT CATS,
MAYBE THE LEFT HAND DOES NOT KNOW
WHAT THE RIGHT HAND IS DOING??//
ALL OF THAT RANT
WAS NOT EVEN IN THE SCRIPT
IT CAME FROM CENTRAL FILES
AND BURS TED INTO THE OPEN
WHAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS
THAT AFTER BREAKFAST
I GOT A BIT HUNGRY
AND HEATED UP A PACKET OF PANEER MAKHANI
A KIND OF INDIAN FAST FOOD VEGETARIAN ORGANIC ETC,
IN THEIR INSTRUCTIONS THEY RECOMMEND
TO PLACE THE PACKET IN BOILING WATER FOR 5 MINUTES
BUT I PREFER TO SAUTEED SOME SCALLIONS IN OLIVE OIL
ADD LOT OF CHOPPED MINT LEAVES FRESH
AND THEN HEAT UP THE WHOLE THING
ONE CAN EAT IT STRAIGHT,
OR WITH BREAD,
INDIAN OR NOT
PANEER MAKHANI IS A RICH BLEND OF
FRESH COTTAGE CHEESE INTO A THICK SPICY SAUCE,
SERVED WITH CUMIN SEEDS RICE
IT WAS QUICK AND DELICIOUS
AND VEGETARIAN
VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME,
I HAVE BEEN VEGAN FOR 40 YEARS
BEFORE I WAS A MEAT EATER
DUE TO MISINFORMATION'S AND BELIEFS
WHICH CHANGED WITH MY 1969 REBIRTH
ON THE WESTERN SLOPES OF MOUNT FUJI
THE SUN ROSE FOR A SECOND TIME IN MY LIFE
I LEFT CIGARETTES,
MEATS,
CHEESE,
MILK,
SUGARS,
FIREARMS,
ALCOHOL
ANGER,
AND BELIEFS
BEHIND AND
I TURNED ON,
TUNED IN
AND DROPPED OUT!
OUT OF THE SYSTEM AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE
ANYWAY GOING BACK TO THE LUNCH
ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER
WHILE TAKING A LEAK
I BEGUN THINKING AS TO WHETHER OR NOT
HAD I EATEN ?
MY MIND WAS WIPED CLEAN OF THE EATING EVENT
FINALLY AFTER GOING THROUGH
LOTS OF MENTAL RESEARCH
THAT MEMORY FILE EMERGED ,
OUT OF MY TOTAL MOMENTARILY MEMORY LOSS,
AND SUDDENLY I REMEMBERED......
PANEER MAKHANI FOR LUNCH!
SALVADORE ROSILLO
09/09/09
Saturday, August 8
'HASHBROWNS'
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 08 Aug 2009 02:39 PM EDT
IT TOOK
ONLY TWO
HITS
TWO HITS
OR NOT
TWO HITS
08/08/09
SAL ROSILLO
Tuesday, August 4
PTSD. 911
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 04 Aug 2009 08:59 PM EDT
Post-trauma stress lingers in NYC 9/11 survivors
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer Deepti Hajela, Associated Press Writer – Tue Aug 4, 5:32 pm ET
NEW YORK – People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms even five years later, about four times that of the general public, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found elevated levels of PTSD symptoms among the more than 46,000 people who were surveyed in 2006-2007. The study is based on data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of Sept. 11.
Among survey respondents, 19 percent reported having symptoms, about four times the rate usually seen among adults. When the registry first surveyed people in 2003-2004, it was 14 percent.
Some in the first survey got better, while some remained where they were, and others got worse, said Lorna Thorpe, deputy commissioner for epidemiology and a co-author of the study.
"This is really the largest burden in terms of health conditions," Thorpe said.
The study found that more than half of the participants who reported having stress symptoms said they had not obtained treatment in the past year. The registry has begun outreach to get survey respondents referred for medical help, and the city offers free physical and mental health care to eligible people affected by the attacks.
Passers-by such as commuters and tourists were the most heavily affected, with 23 percent of them reporting symptoms in the latest survey.
The study contained better news about asthma. While those who developed respiratory symptoms soon after the attacks were still being diagnosed with asthma some years later, rates among people who first showed symptoms after 2003 were consistent with normal asthma rates.
"What this study shows fairly thoroughly, there was a very strong association between the intense exposure" on Sept. 11 and the days immediately following, in terms of developing asthma, Thorpe said. "There were lingering effects, but those lingering effects have ameliorated."
While asthma cases rose most sharply right after attacks, they were still being diagnosed after some years had passed. The study found that 10 percent of participants had been newly diagnosed with the condition between the attacks and the 2006-2007 survey period.
Rescue and recovery workers had the highest rates of new asthma diagnoses, and their risk was even higher if they were at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 itself or worked there for longer than 90 days. People who had to deal with heavy layers of dust in their homes or offices also had a higher risk of developing asthma.
The World Trade Center Health Registry was established in 2003 to track the long-term health effects of ground zero exposure on workers, volunteers, and residents. More than 71,000 people registered, and surveys on their health status was collected in 2003-2004 and 2006-2007. More than 46,000 registrants took part in both surveys.
The study was conducted by the health department and the federal Centers for Disease Control and was released in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
___
On the Net:
World Trade Center Health Registry: http://www.nyc.gov/9-11healthinfo
Sunday, August 2
NEW HIV STRAIN FOUND
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 05:58 PM EDT
New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid, Ap Science Writer – Sun Aug 2, 2:31 pm ET
WASHINGTON – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
The finding "highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central Africa," said the researchers, led by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen, France.
The three previously known HIV strains are related to the simian virus that occurs in chimpanzees.
The most likely explanation for the new find is gorilla-to-human transmission, Plantier's team said. But they added they cannot rule out the possibility that the new strain started in chimpanzees and moved into gorillas and then humans, or moved directly from chimpanzees to both gorillas and humans.
The 62-year-old patient tested positive for HIV in 2004, shortly after moving to Paris from Cameroon, according to the researchers. She had lived near Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, but said she had no contact with apes or bush meat, a name often given to meat from wild animals in tropical countries.
The woman currently shows no signs of AIDS and remains untreated, though she still carries the virus, the researchers said.
How widespread this strain is remains to be determined. Researchers said it could be circulating unnoticed in Cameroon or elsewhere. The virus' rapid replication indicates that it is adapted to human cells, the researchers reported.
Their research was supported by the French Health Watch Institute, the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis and Rouen University Hospital.
A separate paper, also in Nature Medicine, reports that people with genital herpes remain at increased risk of HIV infection even after the herpes sores have healed and the skin appears normal.
Researchers led by Drs. Lawrence Corey and Jia Zhu of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that long after the areas where the herpes sores existed seem to be clear, they still have immune-cell activity that can encourage HIV infection.
Herpes is marked by recurring outbreaks and has been associated with higher rates of infection with HIV. It had been thought that the breaks in the skin were the reason for higher HIV rates, but a study last year found that treatment of herpes with drugs did not reduce the HIV risk.
The researchers tested the skin of herpes patients for several weeks after their sores had healed and found that, compared with other genital skin, from twice to 37 times more immune cells remained at the locations where the sores had been.
HIV targets immune cells and in laboratory tests the virus reproduced three to five times faster in tissue from the healed sites as in tissue from other areas.
"Understanding that even treated (herpes) infections provide a cellular environment conducive to HIV infection suggests new directions for HIV prevention research," commented Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
That study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Tietze Foundation.
___
On the Net:
Nature Medicine: http://www.nature.com/nm
http://valerianroot.blogspot.com/2009/05/piano-magic-and-museum-salvador-rosillo.html
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 05:57 PM EDT
http://valerianroot.blogspot.com/2009/05/piano-magic-and-museum-salvador-rosillo.html
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 11:14 AM EDT
LETTERSTORANDY
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 08:57 AM EDT
HELLO:
HERE, RAINING EVERYDAY.......
ALMOST AS IF, IT WAS GUADALAJARA?
(WHERE FOR THE MOMENT IS A DROUGHT),
THUNDERSTORMS, SHEETS OF VERTICAL RAIN,
RIGHT NOW, RAINING1 LOVELY!
HERE BY 9:30 P.M.
I AM IN BED WAKE UP AT 5:00 A.M.
GET UP BY 7:00 A.M.
THEN MIGHT TAKE,
AN OCCASIONAL NAP!
WAS ATTACKED BY 2 PARAKEETS
AT PEDRO'S LOFT IN SOHO
HE ALSO KEEPS AN AFRICAN GRAY
WHOM I AM TEACHING HOW TO SAY
PERICO!!! PERICO!, PERICO! PERICO!
WHICH OF COURSE MEANS PARROT,
NOT SO HIDDEN MEANING, 'COCAINE'
'CAUSE IT MAKES YOU TALK,
LIKE A PARROT,PERICO!
I DO NOT THING PEDRO'S WIFE LIKES IT?
THEY HAVE A TOP FLOOR 5000' SOHO LOFT
BOUGHT FOR $40,000.00 BACK IN THE DAYS,
WORTH EASY 7 MILLION TODAY!~
PETER WAS HERE HE LIVES IN CHENANGO COUNTY
UPSTATE NY
HAS ABOUT 350 ACRES ,
A HUGE HOUSE HE HAS BEEN RENOVATING
SINCE HE GOT THE LARGER LOT A FEW+ YEARS AGO
170 ACRES OF WOODS
ANOTHER 100 WITH NATURAL GAS,
HE SAYS CANNOT PLANT ANYTHING THERE
THEY MIGHT TEAR IT DOWN,
THE GAS CO.
TOOK ONE OF MY 911 PAINTINGS,
THE FALLING MAN.
RED HEART
BLUE SUIT
WHITE BACKGROUND.
THE SHOW AT THE MUSEUM EL REFUGIO
THAT JORGE CURATED,
WAS A SUCCESS
IT INCLUDED AN AUCTION
COMPOSED OF TEN ,
MOSTLY PAINTERS
JORGE SAYS THEY SOLD 8
BUT JORGE'S AND MINE DID NOT SELL...
I SENT 2 PAINTINGS,
MADE TO HANG LIKE
SHOWER CURTAINS ON BAMBOO
VERY NICE,
THEY DID NOT GO
ON ACCOUNT OF THE PRICE
JORGE'S AND MINE,
WERE THE MOST EXPENSIVE!
WELL, NOW THEY KNOW THE PRICE!
AND WILL REMEMBER IT!
IF YOU DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT
YOU ARE LIVING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE!
BECAUSE THIS!!
BECAUSE THAT!!!
ENDLESS REASONS WHY NOT.........
LIVE YOUR LIFE,
MOSTLY FEAR AND DOUBT!
EVERYTHING IS VANITY,
AT LEAST SEEMS THAT WAY
SOMETIMES..............
THE SO CALL, AZTECS,
CALLED THEMSELVES FLOWERS
AND LIKE FLOWERS
JUST CAME AND WENT
THROUGH LIFE'S GAUNTLETS
AS EASY AS YOU CUT A FLOWER
YOU CAN CUT A LIFE...........
SO,THEY GOT BUSY.....
CUTTING FLOWERS ,BY THE BUNCH!
I JUST SMOKED SOME AMERICANHASHISHORGANIC
I LOVE IT!
IT'S IS PERFECT FOR ME!
I MUST PROCURE A CONSTANT SOURCE!
AT ONE TIME ONE COULD ACQUIRE IT
AT THE PHARMACY,
HOPEFULLY IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN SOON!
SYMBOL MJNA
BWELL
SAL
Thursday, July 30
'PAM'
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 30 Jul 2009 09:32 AM EDT
HER NAME USED TO BE
PAM
AFTER ALL THE LEGAL MEDICATIONS
HER NEW NAME IS
SPAM!
salvadore rosillo 07/30/09
Tuesday, July 14
"REALITIES"
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 14 Jul 2009 06:23 PM EDT
REALITY IS A
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
PERSONA IS NOT REAL
BUT, IT IS AN EXPERIENCE!
SALVADORE ROSILLO
"REALIDADES"
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 14 Jul 2009 06:21 PM EDT
LA REALIDAD
ES PERSONAL
MAS LA PERSONA
NO ES REAL
SALVADORE ROSILLO
07/14/09
AIG--LETTER TO REPRESENTATIVE JERROLD NADLER
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 14 Jul 2009 09:59 AM EDT
last year when the recession became apparent and AIG WENT DOWN TO ,39 CENTS, I begun buying AIG stock,with the idea of(buylow ,sell high),
then Aig issued a reverse stock split of 20-1,on the date of the notice to the public,the chairman of AIG issue a press conference about his possible successor,that buried the stock plit in the news,it was premidetated action to decieve,the point is my 14000 shares were diluted to 629 shares at $ 20.00(cutting me off from future capitalization),at the time the stock was $1.46 per share,my shares were worth $20200.00 after the split they were worth $ 11,000.00-today they are worth 9,900.00,
so i lost more than 10,000.00 on the switch,but worse of all, i lost the difference between $1.46 and $20.00= $235000.00 and of course with 629 shares it is imposible to benefit if AIG ever returns to the old price of $90.00--629 shares times $90.00=$56610.00
while 13836 shares at $ 90.00=$ 1245000.00
in effect by changing the rules arbitrarily in mid game,they impoverish me ,rob me of my retirement and left me destitute,when i was following the investment rules to the letter.
AIG should be disbanded they are a pack of thieves shielding themselves with the goverment, first they rob all the minoroties and everybody else with the sub-prime loans,which were targeted to the minorities,then sold around the world,willy neelly,now they turned their attention to the small investors ,like me, i am 72 years opf age,so effectively i lost my retirement,through no fault of my own, while following the capitalist way,only to find out that they are all robbers,cheaters and thieves
worthy of the worst corrupt 3rd world country, while pretending to be an enlighted society,the goverment is in bed with these crooks and they feel they are inmune ,since supposedle they are too big to fall!!! well ,they should fall!!! i need justice!!!!
and to think i could have been killed in vietnam war defending these pack of robbers,traitors,double crossers,but the worst is to see how deep is the goverment behind these scum!!!
SAL ROSILLO
Sunday, July 12
'LETTERS TO REID STOWE WHILE AT 1000 DAYS AT SEA"
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 12 Jul 2009 05:34 PM EDT
July 12, 2009
Day 811
Running Back Stay Blocks
Wind S, 30 to 5 knots, Course NW, Speed 3 to .5 knots, Position, 9*22n by 17*36w
For over 40 days since I dropped the main sail and jib we have been maneuvering in the widest area of the East Equatorial Doldrums. We have stayed out of shipping lanes, filled our water tanks with fresh water and caught plenty of fish for fresh food. Slowing down even more and enjoying and observing the sea and nature has been a soulful experience. Putting ourselves at the mercy of the winds and currents, I was not sure exactly where we would go or what we would experience. I had some guidelines I wanted to stay with in and though we may appear close to the coast, it is still wide open empty ocean and the winds and currents on the pilot charts show that the dominant forces take us further offshore…In the meantime life goes on here on the Love Boat with its regular routine. I still work every day as I have for years and years. In the future some people may find a way to go to sea for 100's of days and not have to work so hard, but it has eluded me. My hands, wrists and fore arms have become very sore and tuff like the steel tools and ropes I manipulate. A lot of determination, prayer and self healing has made it possible for me to go on happily…Mung beans are the only sprouts that are still sprouting for me and only about half geminate. My day begins with a sprout separation and rinsing. I find it very healing to move my hands through the growing greens to separate the good from the bad. I have to be very gentle not to break the soft white shoots. If I break one, I nibble it and it tastes like the drop of juice on the stem of freshly pulled grass. I savor the green energy and enjoy the life force the sprouts give me… Both of the running back stay blocks seized up during the 40 days rest I gave them. It takes quite a few tools to get them apart, cleaned up, oiled and back together again. The pilot house floor between the two tool boxes is a good place to work… The squalls keep coming day and night, often with a lot of wind… I can still see the Southern Cross and the Big Dipper in the northern sky, but there have been too many clouds for me to see the North star.
REID STOWE
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HELLO REID!!!
GREAT STORIES..
LOOK!
OPENED AT RANDOM
THE BOOK POINTED
TO THIS PAGE...150
OF "THE WHEEL OF TIME"...
THERE IS NO WAY TO GET RID
OF SELF-PITY FOR GOOD;
IT HAS A DEFINITE PLACE
AND CHARACTER IN OUR LIVES,
A DEFINITE FACADE
WHICH IS RECOGNIZABLE.
THUS,EVERY TIME
THE OCCASSION ARISES,
THE FACADE OF SELF-PITY
BECOMES ACTIVE.
IT HAS A HISTORY.
BUT IF ONE CHANGES THE FACADE,
ONE SHIFTS ITS PLACE OF PROMINENCE.
ONE CHANGES FACADES
BY SHIFTING THE COMPONENT ELEMENTS
OF THE FACADE ITSELF.
SELF-PITY IS USEFUL TO THE USER
BECAUSE HE FEELS IMPORTANT
AND DESERVING OF BETTER CONDITIONS,
BETTER TREATMENT,
OR BECAUSE HE IS UNWILLING
TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE ACTS THAT BROUGHT HIM
TO THE STATE THAT
ELICITED SELF-PITY.
'THE WHEEL OF TIME'
BY 'CARLOS CASTANEDA'
PAGE 150
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KEEP ON TRACKING...REID!
I SAW THE FUTURE OF WATER TRAVEL
AND WATER LIVING
AS I WAS READING YOUR COMMENTARIES
ABOUT THOSE ISSUES..
AND THE TIME IS SOOOO CLOSE
TO APPEAR.
AS I FELT IT!
AND YET.......... YOU ARE ............
IN A XIX CENTURY BOAT
"BACK TO THE FUTURE" STYLE
SHOWING THE WAY
TO THE FUTURE!
HOW TO AVOID SCURVY
AND HAVE FRESH VEGGIES DAILY
A LIVING FLOATING LABORATORY
ABOUT SURVIVAL AT SEA
NO, NOT ONLY SURVIVAL,
BUT REALLY LIVING AT SEA!!!
WHY DO NOT YOU PAY A VISIT
TO THE SARGASSO SEA
IT WOULD BE FITTING
WITH SUCH BOAT
HOW THE SEA HAS CHANGE
SINCE A SCHOONER SUCH AS ANNE IS
PAID A VISIT TO THE SARGASSO SEA???
AND SOME EVEN GOT STUCK IN THE SEA!!
MORE THAN A CENTURY HAS PASSED...
I AM SURE...
SALUDOS
SAL ROSILLO
Thursday, July 2
AIG,AIG,AIG !!! ALERT!!!
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 02 Jul 2009 06:47 PM EDT
AIG,AIG,AIG,
WITH THIS REVERSE SPLIT
OF 20-1 YOU HAVE
EFECTIVELY TAKEN THE
PROFIT FROM THE FUTURE
INCREASE FROM THE JUNE
PRICE TO THE PRESENT
PRICE OF $18.25
MY 13386 AIG SHARES
VALUED AT $1.30 =$ 18071.1
AT $18.25 =$244294.50
AT THE CURRENT
EXCHANGE OF 20-1 (HOW
CONVINENT), I RECEIVED
AIG 669.3 SHARES AT
$18.25 HAVE A VALUE OF
$12,214.725 I LOSE
ANOTHER $ 5856.375
FOR A TOTAL TO TODAY'S
DATE OF $230,079.775
IN ADDITION LET US
SUPPOSE THE AIG STOCK
GOES UP TO $100.00
MY 13386 AIG SHARES
WOULD BE WORTH $1
338,600.00
AT THE 20-1 EXCHANGE
(CALL IT ROBCHANGE)
669.3 AIG NEW STOCKS
WOULD BRING $ 66,930.00
A $ A DEFICIT OF
$1,271,670.00, I CANNOT
SUBSIDIZE AIG MISTAKES
WITH MY RETIREMENT
FUNDS , I BOUGHT AIG
WHEN NO ONE WANT IT
AND NOW AIG ROBS ME
LIKE THEY DID TO THE
WHOLE WORLD JUST A
MINUTE AGO??? WHAT
KIND OF REGULATION IS
THIS??
COMMO'N GIVE ME A
BREAK!!!
Sunday, June 28
LETTER TO BRAD SPENCER
by
salvador rosillo
on Sun 28 Jun 2009 06:39 PM EDT
THE CENSUS BUREAU CLASSIFICATIONS
ARE CALLING PEOPLE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
IMPLICIT BLACK, WHEN IN REALITY NORTH AFRICA IS CLASSIFIED WHITE
INCLUDING EGYPT THAT IS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
IN SUB-SAHARA THERE ARE MILLIONS OF NATIVE WHITE PAOPLE
SO THIS DOCTOR CANDIDATE FROM MOZAMBIQUE ENROLLED
IN MED SCHOOL SOMEWHERE IN THE MID WEST
WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS ORIGINS HE ANSWERED WHITE-AFRICAN
AND IT WAS NOT ACCEPTED
SO HE IS IN COURT AND ON TV TELLING HIS STORY
POINT IS OBAMA
WITHOUT HIS MOTHER'S BACKGROUND AND INTELLIGENCE
HE WOULD NOT BE WHERE HE IS NOW!
HE LIVED WITH HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS
MOST OF HIS LIFE
WAS MOLDED BY THEM,
YET HE REFERES TO HIS MOM
AS MY SINGLE MOTHER
WHEN SHE WAS TWICE DIVORCED
WE MUST REFORM THE CENSUS BUREAU
CLASSIFICATION CATEGORIES
IT IS A TOOL FOR OPPRESSION WHO EVER RUNS IT
I PROPOSE DNA ANALYSIS AS A CLASSIFICATION
OBAMA BELONGS TO A TRIBE CALLED LUO
HE IS A TRIBEMEN IN THAT RESPECT
ABOVE AFRICAN
SINCE THE TERM AFRICAN AS WE SEE IT NOW
SHOULD INCLUDE WHITES AND ASIANS
ETC
NOT AS JOHNNY COME LATELYS
BUT AS EQUAL
YET DIFFERENT AFRICANS
IT WAS MANDELA'S DREAM
WHICH HE ACTED UPON
MAYBE THAT WAS WHY HE
HAD TO SPENT SO MANY YEARS IN PRISON
TO FORMULATE HIS PHILOSOPHY
AND EXPOUNDED IN ACTION
WHAT A GREAT MAN
OF WISDOM AND VISION
IT TAKES A MAN TO FORGIVE
ANYBODY CAN HATE!
BUT
IN THE CASE OF THE HISPANIC DESIGNATION
IT IS NOT THAT I DO NOT LIKE IT
NO NOT AT ALL,
THE QUESTION IS WE SHOULD COMPARE
APPLES WITH APPLES
ORANGES WITH ORANGES
WHEN ONE USES THE TERM HISPANIC
ONE MUST COMPARED IT
TO ANGLO
FOR INSTANCE
TO GERMANIC
ALSO
TO GAELIC
TO SEMITIC
TO SLAVIC
TO LATIN
TO GALLIC
TO LUSITANIAN
ALL THOSE ARE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
AND THOSE WORDS DENOTE
CERTAIN CULTURAL BACKGROUND
AND GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS
BUT SINCE WE ALL CAME FROM AFRICA
WE SHOULD ALL BE CALLED AFRICANS
THEN IT WILL START AGAIN
WHITE AFRICANS
BLACK AFRICANS
RED AFRICANS
YELLOW AFRICANS
BLUE AFRICANS
THEN IS OK TO USE HISPANIC
BUT IF ONE USES HISPANIC TO COMPARE AGAINST
BLACK
WHITE
ASIAN( USED TO BE YELLOW WHAT HAPPENED??
PACIFIC ISLANDER
ESKIMO ( MAYBE THAT ONE IS OK)
WELL IT IS WRONG IT IS NOT COMPATIBLE
ONE IS APPLE
THE OTHER ORANGE
SO WE NEED TO CALL BLACKS
BY THEIR POINT OF CULTURAL ORIGIN
ALSO WHITES
AND SPECIALLY ASIANS
PLEASE ANSWER
WHERE DOES ASIA BEGIN AND/OR END???
DO YOU MEAN THAT CHINESE HAN
ARE TOGETHER WITH HINDUS?
HA,HA,HA,
NOT IN YOUR DREAMS
EVERYONE HAS THOSE BACKGROUND
STHE EASIEST WAY TO FIND OUT IS DNA
NOT FAMILY FABLES
OR POLITICAL NAMES
DON'T YOU AGREE???
SAL
Wednesday, June 10
"HERE"
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 10 Jun 2009 04:13 PM EDT
"THEPAST"
WHERE EVER WE LOOK
WHICH EVER WAY WE TURN
OUR GAZE TO
WHEN WE PAY ATTENTION
WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE PAST
SOMETHING OR SOMEONE
ALWAYS IN THE PAST
TIME IS LIGHT
AND LIGHT IS TIME
THE FASTER YOU GO
THE SLOWER THINGS SEEM TO MOVE
ON EARTH IT IS ALWAYS 9 MINUTES AGO
THE TIME SUNLIGHT TAKES TO REACH EARTH
AND CREATE LIFE, US INCLUDED.
FURTHER OUT GALAXIES ,LONG AGO DISAPPERED
THEIR LIGHTS JUST ARRIVING HERE!
WHERE IS HERE?
IS HERE,HERE?
THERE?
OVER THERE?
WHEN IS HERE?
SALVADORE ROSILLO
06/10/2009
Tuesday, June 2
"MY mtDNA ANALYSIS"
by
salvador rosillo
on Tue 02 Jun 2009 01:26 PM EDT
salvador rosillo to Nieves
show details 1:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Reply
the preliminary mtdna analysis
that is the x chromosome
passed from mother to daughter
i carry it but
cannot pass it
you carry the y chromosome
but cannot pass it
only from father to son
anyway her mtdna begun somewhere
in the border region of present day
sudan and egypt
from there moved towards present day lybia
wher it underwent a mutation
from there it move towards
Malta
and then on to
Greece
soon to move to
Turkey
from there it crossed the
Black Sea
North by Northeast
around
Georgia
(strange coincidence
Georgians call
themselves Iberians)
there was the ancient kingdom of
Iberia
on the far Easter shores of the
Black Sea
a while back,that is .
from there it went into present day
Russia
making a arc eastwards
but pointing it self towards
Finland
along the way it went trough
different mutations
so what does it all mean?
well, for the moment i know
that the X chromosome that i carry
and cannot trans pass
has travelled in the last
140,000+ years
following such pathways
spending most of the time in
Russia
so we are according to the mtDNA
that mother passed on to us,
is as Russian as it can get....
with the other accents mentioned below..
after i make a further analysis
other stories will emerge
one of them already has
the found a man that 100 generations ago
there is 95% possibility
we shared an ancestor
and 75% that 50 generations ago
we also shared an ancestor
his name is Jose Diaz
pero no he hablado con el ,
aun....
Saturday, May 30
"BUENO,ESO ESTA MALO"
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 30 May 2009 09:19 PM EDT
Bueno,
eso esta
Malo..
lo de..
el Zumbido!
trata de resolverlo,
a de ser Tortura
no entiendo?
mientras mas relajado
mas Zumbido?
el Vinage De Manzana se puede tomar
con un poco de jugo
o agua y miel
sabe a Tepache,
tambien se dice
revuelto con Baking Soda
algo asi le echan al Tejuino
o/y al Tepache?
dos veces al dia
en la manana con el Estomago
vacio y no Comer Nada
por 30 minutos
se dice que Cura Artritis
tengo que ir a guada
este mes de junio
para ver que onda con el Show
estoy trabajando en estos Trabajos
impresos en Canvas y luego
tratados con Pimtura
son pinturas y todas son diferentes
pues al meter mano ..
Bueno uno Nunca es el Mismo
ni el Dia o la Noches son los Mismos
como la Cancion dice
te Equivocaste de Puerta.....
ya era otro.............
asi todo cambia
y luego ...al Buzon!
Bueno es la Tecnica llevandome
por un viaje me gustaria tener una impresora asi
quisaz fuera mas Barato.............
son Extreme Close-Ups
de partes de mis Pinturas
Ampliados y Manipulados Digitalmente
pintados a mano
de Cabo a Rabo
aunque hay Veces
que Uso unas Brochas por Effectos
un Show en el D.F.?
SAL
"PACO"
by
salvador rosillo
on Sat 30 May 2009 08:29 PM EDT
Paco,
oye.oye.oye,
como sigue
tu oyido?
sal
Thursday, May 28
"PARTITION" AND 911
by
salvador rosillo
on Thu 28 May 2009 08:03 AM EDT
Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission,
Having never set eyes on the land he was called to partition
Between two peoples fanatically at odds,
With their different diets and incompatible gods.
"Time," they had briefed him in London, "is short. It's too late
For mutual reconciliation or rational debate:
The only solution now lies in separation.
The Viceroy thinks, as you will see from his letter,
That the less you are seen in his company the better,
So we've arranged to provide you with other accommodation.
We can give you four judges, two Moslem and two Hindu,
To consult with, but the final decision must rest with you."
Shut up in a lonely mansion, with police night and day
Patrolling the gardens to keep the assassins away,
He got down to work, to the task of settling the fate
Of millions. The maps at his disposal were out of date
And the Census Returns almost certainly incorrect,
But there was no time to check them, no time to inspect
Contested areas. The weather was frightfully hot,
And a bout of dysentery kept him constantly on the trot,
But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided,
A continent for better or worse divided.
The next day he sailed for England, where he could quickly forget
The case, as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,
Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot.
-- W. H. Auden.
Wednesday, May 27
"BIO"
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 27 May 2009 10:38 PM EDT
"BIO"
I BEGUN PAINTING
WITH MY FINGERS AND
HANDS
AT SUNDAY DAY SCHOOL
AFTER A LONG HIATUS
WHERE I HAD TO DEAL
WITH THE PROBLEMS OF
GROWING UP
AND FINDING MY TRUE
SELF
NOT THE SOCIALIZED
PERSONA
WHICH I EVENTUALLY WAS
ABLE
TO DISASSEMBLE AND
DISMEMBER
I WAS ABLE TO BEGIN
AGAIN
IN ERNEST AT THE AGE OF
28.
I STUDIED ANTHROPOLOGY
AND CINEMA
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
1969-1979
SERVED AS A SENATOR FOR
THE SCHOOL OF ARTS 1975
-76
AND WAS THE EDITOR OF
THE SCHOOL'S
NEWSPAPER"THE OWL"
1972-73
MY TECHNIQUE IS CALLED
"SUSPENSION OF
JUDGEMENT"
AFTER THE INSTRUCTIONS
FROM "DON JUAN"
AND "CARLOS CASTANEDA"
WHICH CALL FOR ACTION
WITHOUT DOUBTS
WITHOUT FEARS.
THEMSELVES WERE NOT
ARTISTS
BUT SHAMAN-WARRIORS
SEEKERS OF FREEDOM
FROM
THE PRACTICES AND
BELIEFS
OF ORDINARY MEN
I AM MOST OF ALL A
WARRIOR
LOOKING FOR
IMPECCABILITY
OF ACTION AND THOUGHT
TO QUOTE CASTANEDA
-FOR A WARRIOR,
THE SPIRIT IS AN
ABSTRACT
ONLY BECAUSE HE KNOWS
IT
WITHOUT WORDS
OR EVEN THOUGHTS.
IT'S AN ABSTRACT
BECAUSE HE CAN'T
CONCEIVE
WHAT THE SPIRIT IS.
YET,
WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST
CHANCE OR DESIRE
TO UNDERSTAND IT,
A WARRIOR HANDLES THE
SPIRIT.
HE RECOGNIZES IT.
BECKONS IT,
ENTICES IT,
BECOMES FAMILIAR WITH
IT,
EXPRESSES IT WITH HIS
ACTS-
SO,
THAT IS MY TECHNIQUE OF
PAINTING
AND LIVING,
I BECKON THE SPIRIT TO
COME
AND I PROVIDE MY HANDS ,
MY FINGERS AND WHOLE
BEING
AS A CONDUIT FOR IT,
TO SHOW UP ON THE
CANVAS
FREELY ,
UNIMPEDED,
RESTRICTED ONLY
BY MY HUMAN CONDITION
WITHOUT BELIEF SYSTEMS
WITHOUT AESTHETIC
CONCERNS
WITHOUT DOUBTS OR
FEARS,
WITHOUT REGRETS
IT COMES AND I GIVE IT
MY WHOLE
TO PAINT,
NOT BECAUSE IT IS
BETTER OR WORSE
THAN ANYTHING ELSE,
BUT, BECAUSE,
IN THIS LIFETIME,
PAINTING AND POETRY
ARE MY CHOSEN PATHS ,
OR CONDUITS
FOR THE SPIRIT TO
IMPECCABILY
EXPRESS ITSELF
THROUGH MY LIFE.
I AM A WARRIOR-ARTIST!
SALVADORE ROSILLO
05/23/2009
TO REID STOWE
by
salvador rosillo
on Wed 27 May 2009 10:32 PM EDT
If We Must DieIf we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Marking their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKay, 1889-1948
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