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Industrial Agriculture

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The one that contaminates payment” has promoted it like Universal Principle, understanding that if there is to pay, we will stop contaminating, reducing to the environmental problem to monetary transactions and economic incentives.

Today they can comprarse/vender in “sacred” the market the right to contaminate, but the emissions continue growing…

Those that wish to maintain benefits/untenable styles of life

The states that want to continue selling the illusion of a “well-being” incapable to become general.
They must understand that:

“If we did not take care of of the Earth, she will take care of of itself causing that no longer we are welcomes”. J. Lovelock

Validated the Intuition and the Common Sense

In all these years it has been blamed “the ecological” movement of being alarmist, to describe the possible environmental changes that they would take place of continuarse/generalizar the production forms/consumption of the industrial society.

The industrialization process wrapped to almost all the spheres of the life, agriculture was not the exception: Today one calculates that it contributes with the 30,9% of the emissions of the gases that bring about the global heating [1].

In its industrial version, agriculture contributes 25% of the main gas that produces the greenhouse effect, the resulting carbon dioxide of the deforestation and the burning fire of biomass. Ruminant the domestic ones, the wild fires, the culture of rice in moist soils and the products of remainder (tiraderos garbage dumps/) most of produce the methane that there is in the atmosphere, at the same time as the conventional farming and the fertilizer use generate 70% of nitrous oxides.

At present there are doubts of the no changes that cause these gases, the initial intuition and the common sense that it fed which first indicated the possibilities of negative changes; it had to hope to legitimize itself, the verdict of “science” [1], the official endorsement of the “experts” who, in their fourth report (2007) [2] would present/display evidences of the changes:

- Increase of the temperature of the air and the Ocean.
- Generalized ice Defrosting/snows.
- Increase Average of the level of the sea.

Rate Made-In-a

The official version of the climatic change, moves through winding, expensive/a bureaucratic mechanism.

The protocol of Kioto I take eight years from its approval, to entering use (1997-2005), not being assumed by the most polluting countries. Without taking into account the recommendations from its 2 experts [] who proposed the necessity to reduce the CO2 emissions between 50-85% for half-full of century, the Protocol decided as it puts to reduce a 5% of the emissions of 36 developed countries, having as references base the produced emissions on 1990.

As it shows of his inoperancia, from the 2000 to the 2005, the global gas emissions increased a 15%, according to the EDGAR report. [3]

The one that contaminates payment

“The one that contaminates payment.” It has been wanted to strain like a species of universal principle. He is in fact one of the so many instruments used by the industrial society, with the aim of harmonizing his activities with the atmosphere.

They have been adapted and uniformizado the National Environmental Laws, to reconsider like services the diverse functions given by the natural systems.

In societies where the services, the market and the money predominate, everything tends to express itself monetarily… In the form of economic incentives, some understand that, only thus the lost citizen responsibility could be recovered; with the aid of the money reclaimed by the produced environmental damages.

With economic incentives, measures try to replace of type regulatory, that establishes norms/levels critics of emissions and controls that would have to be fulfilled, to avoid possible penalty.

The first works that suggest the concept of environmental tax, go back to 1920, when the British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou published The Economics of Welfare (the economy of the well-being), where she deals with the “external effect” an act of production or consumption. [3]

To rewrite the Economy

Calls today by many, “externalities”, are the recognition of which the productive processes are interrelated with multiple factors: Biological, social, ecological… Factors that with different mechanisms, the economists try to internalizar like correcting the lack committed when separating artificially factors that comprise of a unique and inseparable process.

I understand, how E. Goldsmith [4], that, “when what it is to internalizar it is the own Earth capacity to maintain the life, becomes necessary to reconstruct the basic concepts, of way like can include what previously he was external”, proposing the necessity to rewrite the economy in the light of a unified theory of the Eco-sphere.

Its own medicine

The climatic change is a global phenomenon, that as always, already affects most vulnerable, the Caribbean as Insular territory is in that globe.

Other countries do not feel the same pressure in spite of being most polluting. The criteria elaborated by them are not applied (“the one whom payment contaminates”) always trying to make traps –“relaxation mechanisms”, commercializing with the right to contaminate or financing 3 carbon drains [].

We are part of the movement that, has assumed of spontaneous way, a style of simple life; with forms of clean production/consumption. With that attitude it is tried to revert the caused damages, without certainty some we assumed since it like a moral and ethical commitment.

In eve of 15Va. Conference of the parts, in Copenhagen, the panorama is had complicated, some “emergent” countries have chosen to do more of the same; increasing its emissions. One does not glimpse that the measures of commercialization of emissions are extended and binding commitments remember legally, that they take definitive step necessary to the structural reforms.

THE HEALTH IS PRIORITY

Monday, December 7th, 2009

President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa affirmed that the Mexican Institute of Seguro Social (IMSS) is an angular stone of the social security system in referring Mexico and a world-wide one in this matter.

When inaugurating the Medical Unit of Ambulatory Attention, the federal Executive was committed to fortify that institution, because its presence in all the territory turns national it into an attention reference and on watch that must be lent with quality.

“We are going to continue fortifying the Social Insurance, on this commitment is pawned my government we are going and it to continue fulfilling facts”, abounded.

Accompanied by the governor of the state, Leonel Godoy Rangel, and the holder of the Mexican Institute of the Social Insurance, Daniel Karma Toumeh, the president of the Republic emphasized that the health is first and that when there is a problem in this matter, one is able to sacrifice everything.

For this reason, in the last five years 12 thousand 500 million weights for different infrastructure works have been reversed, like the construction 80 clinics and the remodeling of other 170 in all the country.

Reform of health in the Senate

Monday, December 7th, 2009

President Barack Obama directly appealed to the desire of the senators to manage historical changes when exhorting them Sunday to remain united and to reform the system of national health, action that considered a legacy to the American town.

Before the request of the leader of the democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, Obama little visited the Capitol during one usual legislative session in weekend, with the purpose of to ask to him the democrats who work to obtain a negotiated solution, and to they do that it quickly. Vice-president Joe Biden also was present in the meeting to closed doors.

Received in the middle of applause, Obama spoke during 45 minutes and it did not accept questions, in agreement with several legislators. He emphasized what said are advances that his government has managed to defend the use, and he concentrated in the implications to reorganize a system of attention to the health that represents one sixth part of the economy.

They are going “It to obtain”, said the agent chief executive when leaving the session.

Independent senator Joe Lieberman said that Obama described the proposal to the reform of health like “more significant the social legislation in decades, so they do not lose it”.

Reid summoned to the session the weekend like part of his hurried effort to have concluded for Christmas the law project, whose cost almost would reach the trillion of dollars throughout 10 years.

The legislation it would provide cover to more than 30 million additional people throughout the next decade, with a new requirement so that all almost acquire safe of medical expenses. There would be new markets in which people could acquire and comprarar insurance plans, and the people with smaller income would receive subsidies to help to pay the cover them.

The federal program and state Medicaid to grant medical aid to the poor men would grow, and unpopular practices of the insurers would be prohibited, such as to deny the cover to him to somebody by their medical antecedents.

“In summary, he [Obama] committed himself to work with us in any significant form that he can (…). The differences are falling as we spoke”, said Reid to the journalists after the meeting.

Health or War?

Monday, December 7th, 2009

For the republican senator Richard Lugar is a tremendous dilemma, the USA need to choose between two “urgent” subjects: to designate more bottoms for the war in Afghanistan or to follow the debate to create the system of universal health and to direct the money to those aims.

The very wise senator Place has found a solution “salomónica”, we are going to leave to the subject of the health reform and the universal plan for another moment and enviámos the money to the War in Afghanistan. Of step therefore they pay to the owners of companies that replace the army to him who profit from the war, the complex American industrialist-military man.

I do not know because it sounded to me to that something thus was going to happen. the support to the war is disappearing and the main reason to continue does not appear it (Bin Laden). Somebody knows where is Bin Laden? I believe that to the USA more had left them cheap to conduct a secret operation with the company, since they have done before, until finding it or to have paid a psychic one, because as they go the things I believe that they had had more luck with Walter Market. Then the Nobel prize of La Paz, Barack Obama, has decided to have “the best thing of two worlds” and will send 30.000 soldiers more to Afghanistan.

Question by your health

Monday, December 7th, 2009

The extraordinary increase of Latin American immigration in the United States observed throughout the last decades has had a deep impact on the demographic profile of the American society, to the point that the Latins have become the greater minority in the country.
Nevertheless, concerning the health, the Latins continue having difficulties to go to the doctor. A mixture of limitations, mainly economic, but also cultural and of access to the information prevents and conditions the use of the services of health, reducing the quality of life of many people.
That problematic one, along with the absence of an integral and periodic medical monitoring, increases the risk of opportunely not taking care of possible diseases or problems of physical development. In addition, one knows that there are diseases to which the Latins have risk indicators superiors like for example the diabetes.

In order to change that, from the Web of the Association of Hispanic Executives of the Attention to the Health and from the National Camera of Hispanic Commerce of the Health they have been united to send a campaign in the Internet that will put at the disposal of the public information on the proposal of sanitary reform of the Obama government, but most interesting: forums and videos related to the subject of the health and the possibility that the Latin users of social networks can make questions related to diseases, that will be answered by professionals of the health through the network.
The Latin community is the minority that more strongly is growing in the use of Internet and the movable telephony, and is for that reason that has been born this initiative. The information is available through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, In addition, all the information will be able to be consulted in English, but also in Spanish, to facilitate to accede to quality information on health. In this Web, also it will be possible to be acceded to utility information on organizations and companies that give services to the Hispanic community.

The debate in the United States on the reform of the health system necessarily must include the subject of the cover of medical security of the more underprivileged minority groups, among them the Latin immigrants. A government cannot be representative if he excludes from his universe an increasing and so excellent part of his population. To extend the cover of the medical security of these groups constitutes a requirement fundamental to reduce the social disparities in the care of the health and a great step will be obtained with the sanitary reform of Obama. Loved and ill-fated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy affirmed that “The future it is not a gift, but a conquest”. Then, the future of the sanitary reform that it will change the quality of life of million North Americans will not be a gift…, but a democratic conquest that has received millares of victims, great political and civic efforts, and that has taken very many in arriving.

health is a must

Monday, December 7th, 2009
The World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO knows) it clearly: the climatic change puts in risk the basic pillars of the health and turns it into a question of which the doctors must take care.
“The health must be in a central place in the debate about the climatic change”, has declared Maria Neira, director of the Department of Public Health and Environment of the WHO, during the celebration of the Forum Effects of the Climatic Change in the Health, promoted by the Medical Organization Schoolboy. The reasons are clear: “The majors preoccupations (ecological disasters, feeding, etc.) directly affect the health and the decisions that are due to take have direct implications exceeds she”.
Indeed, the magazine “The Lancet” gathered the week last in a special number some of the strategies that could contribute so much to restrain the climatic change like a to improve the health of the citizens. To replace the motorised transport by the bicycle or to walk, to eat less meat… “There is many possible Co benefits”, indicates Neira. The WHO goes to Copenhagen to transmit this message to the politicians.
“The sector health can be the touchstone, the catalyst of the true change around the climatic change”, emphasizes this Asturian one settled down in Geneva. “If we must mobilize the whole society, if we must bring about deep a change of articles of incorporation, we must bring back to consciousness to the people of which that is its health. One is not only polar bears, but of the health of the people”, it adds.
The calculations of the WHO indicate that reducing the effects of the global heating they would be possible to be saved 13 million lives every year. In 2010, 150,000 deaths caused by the climatic change will take place directly, in addition there will be five million new patients and 50 million of displaced. Diseases like the diarrhoea or the malaria, that is very sensible to the climate, could worsen and malnutrition could every time affect more people.
The health like incentive for the change
The message of the World-wide Organization of the Health for this summit will be “positive”. The idea is to show the people in charge of the governments who to invest in healthful policies against the climatic change are profitable. For it, “it is essential to quantify the benefits for the health of the decisions that take in matter energetics – Neira- indicates, so that they consider them to the politicians at the time of making his decisions”.
The tensions to reach agreements, for example, on cuts in the CO2 emissions arise from the economic costs that the change of power model and the loss of competitiveness of companies against others implies. Nevertheless, the position of the agency of the UN is that this investment can be compensated with the saving in sanitary cost that would imply one better health of the population.
Finally, the sanitary sector, like the second that more job it generates in the world, “also must give example”, points Neira. `Healthful Hospitals, healthful planet, people saludable’ is the plan that the WHO has started up so that the sanitary industry also contributes to the reduction of the gas discharge of greenhouse effect.
“During a time we have not had voice but now nobody is going to throw to the professionals of the health of the debate on the climatic change”, concludes Maria Neira.

About Sonography

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Sonography is a very useful examination as it helps diagnostic in the case of clinical suspicion of acute appendicitis. It allows the visualization of the appendix and to detect secondary signs that they support the diagnosis. The more excellent secondary signs are alteration of the mesentérica fat (it increases the ecogenicidad), free liquid and expanded handle of thin intestine.
Also other pathologies can be detected that have group of symptoms similar to the appendicitis like mesentérica adenitis, ileitis infectious, gastroenteritis, disease of Crohn, intestinal invagination and the gynecological pathology.
The results of sonography depend on multiple factors like the experience and dedication of the ecografista, of the collaboration of the patient, the abdominal fat, the presence of of expanded intestinal handles, of the degree of inflammation of the appendix, of the possibility of seeing the appendix in all their extension, of the presence of perforation and the location of the appendix.
Reference. U.S. examination of the appendix in childre with suspected appendicitis: the additional VALUE of secondary signs.

Last ecography

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Hello! How they are? Friday 27 did last ecography to me and we could record it in DVD! It was a WONDER! It took care of the same doctor to us who took care of the last time to us, EXCELLENT!

Good, the subject is that, the dates do not close… the measurement of the femur of our baby gives as the one of a baby of 29 or 30 weeks (I have 37 weeks) the rest of the measurements gives for a baby of 35 or 36 weeks the weight is of approximately 2.179 kg and it measured 4 times to confirm it besides doing a Doppler to me that it gave PERFECT… we will hope to see what she says to my doctor… seems to be in agreement with my doctor who can be due to measurement errors. All the others are well, the small heart, barked strong and pretty! His movements, in a while it seemed to have seen respiratory movements to me… we saw the deditos of manito, the separated thumb of the rest of the fingers, the other him manito completely closed and its feet, the deditos of his feet… BEAUTIFUL!
Here I show some fotitos, two of profile and one to them of its manitos, where deditos are distinguished:

Ecography dixit

Monday, December 7th, 2009

To choose a name for a son can be something simple or something terribly complex.

It can be something simple if it is wanted to follow a tradition (name of the father, of the grandfathers… as it can be “Jose” or “Francisco”), if you are yourself devotee of some personage (normally santo or an actor, like “Kevin Costner de Jesus”) or if for some not known reason simply it likes a name (like Jezabel, that is understood that to the parents simply they like as it sounds and who do not know the curriculum the personage shone who it).

Nevertheless if it flees from conventionalisms (names discard common), if you are not catholic or Muslim (outside hebraicos or Arab names) and if you do not want a name only by its sound, but also by its meaning, the complica thing.

With Ulises we gave the many returns, very many, but a day I found in a lost place of my memory the name that always had wanted for a son, and fulfilled all the conditions.

In case somebody wants to contribute with the cause the rules of the game in principle are these (although as Groucho said “These are my principles. If it does not like I have others”):

* Name short and simple to pronounce, nothing of compounds
* That it makes reference to some excellent personage for history of the humanity. Preferably by its scientific or cultural contribution, without mattering if it is real personage or of fiction.
* That it does not appear in the list of most common according to the NSI, in such a way that only by the name is identified to him univocally. In 2008 the 20 names more common new born dices to were the following: DANIEL, ALEXANDER, PABLO, DAVID, ADRIAN, HUGO, ALVARO, JAVIER, DIEGO, SERGIO, MARKS, IVAN, IKER, MANUEL, MARIO, JORGE, CARLOS, MIGUEL, RUBEN, ANTONIO
* That it is accepted culturally at least in all Europe (I fear that Anakin either is not going to fall this time, because in Tatooine well is considered, but I am afraid here that not as much).
* While it fulfills the previous rules do not concern the nationality of origin of the name (it can be of Aztec origin while he is not something like Huitzilopochtli).
* That we like to papa and mother (with the church we have run into).

useful tool for the pursuit of the pregnancy

Monday, December 7th, 2009

rom the paraclínico point of view Ecography is an examination of great value for the calculation of the gestacional age by means of the study of the fetal anthropometry, especially at the most precocious has been carried out.
The Ecography realised before the 27 weeks, with the modern equipment of present hi-res, has an error of ± 1 week for the calculation of the gestacional age; until the 36 weeks of ± 2 weeks, and after the 36 weeks of ± 3 weeks.  When ecography is realised in delayed form must take place a ecográfico pursuit every 15 days to need the diagnosis the gestacional age.
When (FUM) is not counted on the data of the date of the last menstruation nor with no ecography, that is to say it is a pregnancy with not controlled uncertain amenorrhoea, the calculation of the gestacional age only will be approximated. For example pregnancy that it clinically impresses to correspond to 1°, 2°, 3° quarterly or of term. In this case, if picture allows the clinical it will have to take place a better Ecography or a ecográfico pursuit of the fetal growth.