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<title><![CDATA[Yay! Uncle's out of coma!]]></title>
<link>http://shabardakahleb.wordpress.com/?p=39</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shabardakahleb.wordpress.com/?p=39</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My dad sent this out this morning:
&#8220;I visited David this  early evening and he is doing better]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dad sent this out this morning:</p>
<div><span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">"I visited David this  early evening and he is doing better tonight. They were able to remove  the heart pump last night and two of his medications were completed last  night also. The last two were completed this morning.</span></span></div>
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<div><span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">David began to wake up  this afternoon on his own. Presently he still has a air hose in his mouth until  the doctor and nurses know that he can breathe on his own."</span></span></div>
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<div>I don't know if a heart transplant is still needed or whatever, but thanks for the prayers that got him this far! Also, my mom's co-worker got baptized last night! And David (my teammate from this summer) has officially survived 3 decades! Hehe.</div>
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<title><![CDATA[Coma - Spadam]]></title>
<link>http://crescentaurora.wordpress.com/?p=108</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Crescent</dc:creator>
<guid>http://crescentaurora.wordpress.com/?p=108</guid>
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Coma - Spadam
Vom Album: Pierwsze wyjście z mroku (2004) (Übersetzung: Erste Flucht aus der Dunke]]></description>
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<p>Vom Album:<em> Pierwsze wyjście z mroku (2004) </em>(Übersetzung: Erste Flucht aus der Dunkelheit)<em><br />
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<p>Nein, ich muß euch enttäuschen, ich habe keine Ahnung worum es in dem Lied geht, ich habe die Übersetzung zwar, aber die ergibt wenig Sinn. Spadam heißt auf jeden Fall 'Ich falle' und zusammen mit dem Video könnte es fast eine Kritik am Bildungssystem sein :)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Coma]]></title>
<link>http://yespeople.wordpress.com/?p=76</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>topito</dc:creator>
<guid>http://yespeople.wordpress.com/?p=76</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[...ancora sanità...un respiro di sollievo!]]></title>
<link>http://mirko75.wordpress.com/?p=168</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mirko75</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mirko75.wordpress.com/?p=168</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Il mio amico ricoverato in ospedale per un incidente ed aggravatosi per cure inadeguate da parte dei]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Il mio amico ricoverato in ospedale per un incidente ed aggravatosi per cure inadeguate da parte dei medici si stà ristabilendo piano piano. Non è ancora in grado di camminare ma la febbre è scesa ed è stato possibile effettuare l'intervento alla gamba. Ora uscirà dall'ospedale ma dovrà stare, ovviamente, in casa per qualche tempo ancora in attesa del completo recupero delle forze e dell'attività motoria.</p>
<p>Un caso di malasanità che per fortuna si è risolto senza conseguenze. Ci sono anche dei dottori che, a quanto pare, non hanno preso la laurea solo per lo stipendio ma anche per la passione nello svogere il loro lavoro.</p>
<p>Un grazie a tutto lo staff medico che si è adoperato per risolvere questo spiacevole episodio dando un esito certamente positivo a tutta la vicenda.</p>
<p>Che dire...un bentornato al nostro amico Marco ed un sincero "rimettiti presto" che dobbiamo ancora fare quella cena che è rimasta in sospeso. A presto.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Invisible (2007)]]></title>
<link>http://cvdm.wordpress.com/?p=551</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Andrei_fermecatoru™</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cvdm.wordpress.com/?p=551</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
marcia gay harden/justin chatwin/chris marquette&#8211;dir. david s goyer
Un baiat in ultimul an de]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">marcia gay harden/justin chatwin/chris marquette--dir. david s goyer</span></strong></p>
<p>Un baiat in ultimul an de liceu, bogat, de familie buna, cu un viitor promitzator la o mare firma din Londra. O fata rebela, delicventa in tot ce face, cu un dispretz profund fatza de tot ce inseamna autoritate. Un jaf nereushit, in urma caruia, fata impreuna cu gashca, crezand ca afost turnata, il ataca pe baiat, lasand-ul aproape mort undeva intr-o padure. <span>Doar ca acesta nu este mort, </span>este blocat in purgatoriu, intre viata si moarte,<span><span>iar el umbla invizibil printre colegii lui de clasa, prieteni si familie, incercand cu disperare sa ii anunte ca el este inca in viata.....singura persoana care are puterea de a-i simtii prezenta si cu care poate comunica fiind chiar fata care l-a atacat. Filmul este ok, cu toat ca unele aspecte sunt tratate cam prea superficial, finalul insa il face sa depasasca destinul filmelor de duzina, dar , per ansamblu, este un film reushit !!!!    <strong><a title="INVISIBLE" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exVPzD34nyw" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff6600;">VIEW TRAILER</span></a></strong></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dio è un sondino nasogastrico]]></title>
<link>http://negroski.wordpress.com/?p=747</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>negroski</dc:creator>
<guid>http://negroski.wordpress.com/?p=747</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Qualcuno ricordi al cardinale Angelo Bagnasco che è un sondino e non il Dio onnipresente, onnisce]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Qualcuno ricordi al cardinale <strong><a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2008/07/sezioni/cronaca/eluana-eutanasia/bagnasco-eutan/bagnasco-eutan.html?ref=rephpnews" target="_blank">Angelo Bagnasco</a></strong> che è un sondino e non il Dio onnipresente, onniscente e onnipotente a tenere forzatamente in "vita" da oltre 16 anni la sfortunata <strong>Eluana Englaro</strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[On photoshop.]]></title>
<link>http://zahnarzt.wordpress.com/?p=186</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wilkinism</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zahnarzt.wordpress.com/?p=186</guid>
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<p><a href="http://zahnarzt.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/coma21.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-189" src="http://zahnarzt.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/coma21.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="325" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Coma lanseaza noul album pe METALHEAD.ro   ]]></title>
<link>http://metalheadro.wordpress.com/?p=887</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>metalheadro</dc:creator>
<guid>http://metalheadro.wordpress.com/?p=887</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Printre mii de artificii (muzicale sau nu) dedicate zilei Statelor Unite, Coma lanseaza noul album, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Printre mii de artificii (muzicale sau nu) dedicate zilei Statelor Unite, Coma lanseaza noul album, "Coma Light" in exclusivitate pe internet pe METALHEAD.ro si in Revista Sunete saptamana aceasta. Acesta contine 11 piese unplugged pe care fanii ... <span class="mainfonte"><a title="Coma lanseaza noul album pe METALHEAD.ro" href="http://www.metalhead.ro/Stire-Coma_lanseaza_noul_album_pe_METALHEADro-9234.html" target="_blank"><strong>continuarea</strong></a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Franklin Update (7/5/08)]]></title>
<link>http://thevariant.wordpress.com/?p=31</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>texasdirt</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thevariant.wordpress.com/?p=31</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Updated News&lt;/b&gt;
7/5/08
We visited Franklin yesterday. He is starting to improve. His]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#60;b&#62;Updated News&#60;/b&#62;<br />
7/5/08</p>
<p>We visited Franklin yesterday. He is starting to improve. His brain activity was increasing so they had removed the monitors attached to his head. They took him off the medicine that was keeping him in a coma like state. He is still on heavy pain meds therefore they said it would be 3 to 4 days before he starts to wake up. They took out several staples from the incision on his head. There are still quite a few staples in his head though. His leg is doing very well and they don't think there will be any problems there.</p>
<p>More to come in a few days!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Franklin Update (7/5/08)]]></title>
<link>http://texasdirt.wordpress.com/?p=249</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>texasdirt</dc:creator>
<guid>http://texasdirt.wordpress.com/?p=249</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;Updated News&lt;/b&gt;
7/5/08
We visited Franklin yesterday. He is starting to improve. His]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#60;b&#62;Updated News&#60;/b&#62;<br />
7/5/08</p>
<p>We visited Franklin yesterday. He is starting to improve. His brain activity was increasing so they had removed the monitors attached to his head. They took him off the medicine that was keeping him in a coma like state. He is still on heavy pain meds therefore they said it would be 3 to 4 days before he starts to wake up. They took out several staples from the incision on his head. There are still quite a few staples in his head though. His leg is doing very well and they don't think there will be any problems there.</p>
<p>More to come in a few days!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[We Die of Broken Hearts - as in, "Your Funeral is Coming Up..."]]></title>
<link>http://liquidoxology.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/we-die-of-broken-hearts-as-in-your-funeral-is-coming-up/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>liquidoxology</dc:creator>
<guid>http://liquidoxology.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/we-die-of-broken-hearts-as-in-your-funeral-is-coming-up/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that your heart rate changes when someone touches you? Just the touch of a hand on top ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align:left;padding:3px;">Did you know that your heart rate changes when someone touches you? Just the touch of a hand on top of your hand. Or a hand on your shoulder. Even if you don't notice.</div>
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<div>Just listen to this story of a dying man.</div>
<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
<div>He was in a coma and it was clear that he would die, so the doctors stopped trying to cure him and simply wanted to make his last days and death as comfortable as they could. Therefore they gave him d-tubocurarine to alleviate his pain. This paralyzed his body. He was breathing through a respirator. He was in a coma.</div>
<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
<div>Some researchers were working on the thesis that a lack of human companionship - or shall we call it suffering a broken heart - causes premature death. These researchers were monitoring the heart rate of this dying man in a coma. To their surprise, they realized that when a person held his hand, his heart beat stabilized. Immediately. His heart stopped racing and its rhythm stabilized. Just like that. For the exact duration of the human touch. He was neither mentally nor physically able to register the touch. But his heart was. Isn't that amazing?</div>
<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
<div>Now, this man had lived many years as an alcoholic and the doctors listed the reason for his death as, “ventricular fibrillation secondary to a ruptured heart valve.” Still, knowing that alcoholism usually happens for a painful reason, the loneliness researchers responded to their discovery by asking these striking questions:</div>
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<div><strong>"But were his joys and his sorrows related to his ruptured heart valve? Was his life filled with love, or was it one of loneliness? Did he, like so many other alcoholics, eventually end up all alone and totally isolated? And were his loneliness and anxiety related to his ruptured heart valve?”</strong> (James J. Lynch, <em>The Broken Heart</em>, 93)</div>
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<div>Wanting to find the answers to their questions set these researchers on a quest of finding out why it is, on a broad statistical basis in industrialized countries, that lonely people are more likely to suffer premature death.</div>
<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
<div>Isn't it interesting, for instance, that the state of Utah has a comparatively low early death rate and a very high rate of tightly knit families? And that the state of Nevada shows the exact opposite tendency - a high early death rate and a high rate of people who either do not live with their spouses, are single, widowed, or divorced?</div>
<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
<div>Their conclusions are clear: Human companionship increases our health and gives us longer lives. Negatively, this means that loneliness, or a lack of companionship, not only causes broken hearts in the metaphorical sense, but also in the literal sense. We literally die of broken hearts. As in, "Your funeral is coming up..." </div>
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<div><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Coma a lansat noul album pe Metalhead.ro]]></title>
<link>http://danielgheorghe.wordpress.com/?p=455</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>snapto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://danielgheorghe.wordpress.com/?p=455</guid>
<description><![CDATA[     Noul album COMA (Coma Light) a fost lansat pe Metalhead.ro şi în Revista Sunete. Acesta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>     Noul album <strong>COMA</strong> (Coma Light) a fost lansat pe Metalhead.ro şi în Revista Sunete. Acesta poate fi descărcat gratis de <a href="http://www.metalhead.ro/coma/" target="_blank">AICI</a>.</p>
<p>O să-l ascult şi eu să văd ce şi cum :D</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Coma lanseaza noul album pe net ]]></title>
<link>http://subinteles.wordpress.com/?p=245</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>blacksun21</dc:creator>
<guid>http://subinteles.wordpress.com/?p=245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Printre mii de artificii (muzicale sau nu) dedicate zilei Statelor Unite, Coma lanseaza noul album, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="mainfont777"><strong></strong></span>Printre mii de artificii (muzicale sau nu) dedicate zilei Statelor Unite, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Coma</span> lanseaza noul album, “<span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">Coma Light</span>”, in exclusivitate pe internet pe <span style="font-weight:bold;">METALHEAD.ro</span> si in <span style="font-weight:bold;">Revista Sunete</span> saptamana aceasta.</p>
<p>Acesta contine 11 piese unplugged pe care fanii le-au putut asculta si Live pe 19 aprilie la Sala Preoteasa din Bucuresti, intr-un concert exceptional cu casa inchisa.</p>
<p>Pasional, emotiv si plin de patos, <span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">Coma Light</span> se prezinta ca o adevarata gura de aer proaspat in scena muzicala romaneasca.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Albumul poate fi ascultat si downloadat gratis aici: </span><a title="Download Coma - Coma Light" href="http://www.metalhead.ro/coma/" target="_blank">www.metalhead.ro/coma</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Tracklist: </span></p>
<p>Stai<br />
Mai presus de cuvinte<br />
Biz<br />
Hectic<br />
Daddy<br />
Culori<br />
In mine in soapta<br />
Morphine<br />
Un log sa ajung<br />
Coboara-ma in rai<br />
Canta-mi povestea (cu Killy – IOD la pian)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[House final tonight.]]></title>
<link>http://elle87.wordpress.com/?p=148</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Elle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elle87.wordpress.com/?p=148</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I seem to have only really gotten into the series of House this year, and tonight sees the final epi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I seem to have only really gotten into the series of House this year, and tonight sees the final episode of series of the fourth season.  Tonight we see Wilson and House find Amber in a comatose state, they transfer her to the hospital.  But during the ride, she goes into atrial fibrillation.  Wilson suggests that instead of shocking her heart into sinus rhythm, they place Amber into a produce hypothermic state, whilst on bypass; so this gives House the ability to diagnose her.</p>
<p>House orders a tox screen, while others go and investigate her house for clues as to her condition.  The team discover amphetamines, and as a result they need to find out if one of her heart valves is calcified.  Before the test, Chase notices jaundice in Amber's eye, a indicator for liver failure; which in turn rules out the pills as a cause.</p>
<p>House and Wilson return to the bar, that House went to before the bus accident, to question him whether he remembers any symptoms Amber experience.  The bartender recalls Amber sneezing.  Leading to House making a diagnosis of Hep B.</p>
<p>House then suffers an hallucination; where Amber climbs out of her bed to show House she has a rash on her back (which doesn't fit the diagnosis of Hep B.)  Taub then makes a diagnosis of influenza, while Wilson suspects Rocky Mountain fever, caused by a tick bite a couple of weeks before the accident.  Wilson also tells the team that they cannot start Amber's heart until they are 100% sure of the correct diagnosis.  Thirteen draws blood on herself to test herself for Huntington's disease.</p>
<p>Foreman reads Amber's record, and states she cannot remain on bypass for much longer, so going against Wilson's advice, they begin to start warming up Amber's body to reverse her hypothermic state.  Reading her EEG, it shows that her illness is further spreading to her brain, leading House to suspect it is an autoimmune disease.  Whereas Wilson believes it is a result of some sort of infection.  House orders steroids to be prescribed, and Wilson states that these could potentially kill her.</p>
<p>House wants to discover his memories, so asks Wilson to perform deep brain stimulation on him, to help him discover the truth.  During the procedure, he discovers he went to the bar to get drunk and the bartender took his cars in exchange for a friend to be called and pick him up.  He phones Wilson, who is on call, so Amber answers and comes to get him and sneezes in the bar.  He refuses to get in the car with Amber, and goes to get on the bus...but he leaves his cane so Amber gets on the bus to return it to him.</p>
<p>While on the bus she sneezes again, and mentions she has influenza, and has pills to prove it.  But the bus accident has left her with kidney damage, meaning her body couldn't filter the pills.  Wilson suggests to put her on dialysis, but House rejects the idea saying that drugs she is on will bind to proteins, meaning dialysis wouldn't work in this case.</p>
<p>House then proceeds to suffer a seizure and finally slips into a coma.  The team discuss finding a donor for Amber, but her organs are severely damaged.  Amber is weaned off the anaesthesia, and Wilson prepares to say goodbye, who goes on to die in his arms. Aww</p>
<p>While being in his coma, House dreams of him and Amber on the bus.  He tells Amber, that she has died yet he doesn't want to leave the bus, as he doesn't feel any emotion on the bus, and lastly he doesn't want Wilson to hate him.  After Amber talks House round, he leaves the bus, with the camera showing House with no limp nor a cane.  Awakening from his coma, Cuddy is next to him.  Whilst Thirteen has tested positive for Huntington's.</p>
<p>Wilson returns home, the first time since Amber dies, and finds her note telling him she has gone to pick House up.  We return to House, who is in bed contemplating, with Cuddy asleep next to him, holding his hand. Aww.</p>
<p>It sounds such an emotional episode, tugging at the old heart strings. Cant wait to watch the episode.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ennesimo caso di malasanità italiana...]]></title>
<link>http://mirko75.wordpress.com/?p=163</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mirko75</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mirko75.wordpress.com/?p=163</guid>
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Ogni volta che parlo del  mio paese mi ritrovo sempre a dover parlar male o comunque a fare qualc]]></description>
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<p>Ogni volta che parlo del  mio paese mi ritrovo sempre a dover parlar male o comunque a fare qualche appunto a qualcuno o qualcosa...questa volta è toccato ad un mio amico che è caduto col motorino, è entrato in ospedale per una gamba rotta ed ora si ritrova con una febbre altissima che non si vuole decidere a scendere.</p>
<p>Sembra ma non siamo sicuri, che dietro a tutto questo ci sia come al solito un errore umano. Avrebbero dovuto fargli una serie di iniezioni ed invece hanno ecceduto col quantitativo e questo ha causato la brutta situazione che va avanti, oramai, da una ventina di giorni. Respira con le macchine e non si decide a riprendere conoscienza. Ma è possibile una cosa del genere in una città come Roma? Sono certo che simili errori non vengono commessi con personaggi dello spettacolo o gente famosa.</p>
<p>Febbre alta e nessun miglioramento...come caspita è possibile che nel 2008 medici ed infermieri commettano ancora queste leggerezze. I genitori, che conosciamo ormai da tanto tempo, non se ne capacitano. L'unica cosa che mi sento di fare è quella di segnalare tutto questo nel mio blog. Lo faccio sia per uno sfogo personale e sia perchè credo che quando qualcuno viene ricoverato non deve essere "abbandonato" alle cure dell'ospedale. Bisogna parlare con i dottori, farsi dire le cose come stanno e coinvolgerli. Bisogna fargli assumere la loro responsabilità quando emettono la loro diagnosi in merito a qualsiasi patologia.</p>
<p>Per adesso non mi resta che salutarvi tutti. Un bacione a Marco ed un abbraccio ai suoi genitori. Coraggio. Vedrete che ne uscirete presto e di tutta questa situazione resterà solo un brutto ricordo.</p>
<p>Siamo con voi!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Poveste]]></title>
<link>http://psihopompul.wordpress.com/?p=15</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As vrea sa va spun o poveste.Oarecum se bazeaza pe fapte reale.E o poveste despre durerea simtita de]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As vrea sa va spun o poveste.Oarecum se bazeaza pe fapte reale.E o poveste despre durerea simtita de oameni atunci cand nu au pe cineva care sa-i astepte.Cat de trist suna?Nu la fel pe cat de greu e.O poveste despre lucrurile ingrozitoare de care sunt capabili oamenii.Despre consecintele subestimarii.Despre lipsa de incredere.O poveste cu oameni si nefericire,cu demoni si iubire.</p>
<p>Parintii au observat ceva ciudat la el inca de cand era prea mic sa poate vorbi.Plangea mereu in fata unei oglinzi.A crescut si n-a mai plans.Era insa prea tacut pentru un tanar de varsta lui.Tacut si tresarind de parca ar trai tot timpul cu spaima in san. Simtea ca nu e bine sa vorbeasca despre asta cu altii.Totusi a facut-o in fata celui mai bun prieten.A fost ultima discutie serioasa pe care au avut-o impreuna. A doua zi in urma unui accident de masina cauzat de o defectiune misterioasa prietenul ramane paralizat si cu grave sechele mintale.Pe scurt,innebunise.Asa spunea lumea.De fapt el nu era nebun ci doar contaminat.Il vedea.</p>
<p>Sa clarific.Erau momente cand daca se uita in oglinda,baiatul ciudat vedea pe langa propria reflexie o silueta intunecata ce-i statea in umbra.Simtea cum acest demon il controleaza si cum il face sa fie periculos.Nu putea sa-i distinga prea bine figura insa potrivit cosmarurilor pe care prietenul nebun a inceput sa le aiba era o de o rautate ingrozitoare.</p>
<p>Din aceasta cauza evita sa priveasca lumea in ochi,evita sa se apropie emotional prea mult de oameni.Auzea in cap o voce care-i descria tot felul de scene oribile cu propria persoana dar si cu cei din jur.Cu toate astea avea si zile bune,cand era doar el,cand schita zambete cand incerca sa fie fericit.Avea zile cand parea in stare sa o iubeasca.Avea zile cand nu o recunostea.Niciodata nu i-a trecut prin cap ca si ea ar putea avea aceeasi "boala".Sau refuza sa se gadeasca la aceasta varianta.Cat de mult isi dorea normalitatea...<br />
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Revin cu restul cand timpul imi va permite saptamana asta.</p>
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<link>http://saffrongeek.wordpress.com/?p=37</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It was a journey to Goa, that I met Stanny. She was sitting opposite to me , we both at window sides]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a journey to Goa, that I met Stanny. She was sitting opposite to me , we both at window sides.  Anyone would notice her even from a crowd because she carried such an aura of beauty and individuality. It was , a help request that got us to talking terms and our conversation here and there with time gaps got us from strangers to 'not-so' strangers.</p>
<p>Somewhere, in her voice, I was connecting to a Stanny, who got lot of problems but never opening up.By the time, it was falling dark and we just got our ordered parcels. Without sayin, her glance at me, carried a request to give her a company to wash basin and I readily did.</p>
<p>Once back, we both started with our belly filling prayers and chat again but this time, she was getting lost in between. I observed her in those moments when she goes reserved and would be just as if not in this world.</p>
<p>While we were done with dinner, and she happened to sit next to me unknowingly, I took some courage to ask her whether she got some purpose this time while visiting mangalore.. She didnt replied anything.After sometime, she looked at me and said,"Yes, I need to get my ancestral house vacated in Goa, as the sale happened last week and new owners planning to move in coming month." I followed her reply with a "okkk.." , resounding like a listener. Somewhere earlier in my chats, I had shared about few friends who were practising medicine in mangalore. She pulled it up and bluntly ask me for any possibility to get her some help. Now she said her whole story and sure, she was in a worst situation.</p>
<p>Stanny was married to a Marketing manager 4 yrs back and was settled with her husband and in-laws in Delhi. It was after some months of becoming parent to a child, that her husband went in to coma while driving. He couldnt move one side of his body. This was enough for her in-laws and when the sufferings went unbearable, she had to move to Goa, to her grandmothers apartment. Still, she lives with the hope that one day her husband would get well and would come to take her back home. She said this with a optimists spark in her eyes. I too nodded to reassure her belief.</p>
<p>But, <em>what she was more concerned is her son, who is not able to go after "A, B, C,..,E". He is not able to move further in the alphabets or anything this sort. She do not know what she needs to do. It is as if , the boy would turn helplessly stubborn and not able to recollect after "E". She shared this expecting some helps from my friends who are practising doctors ..</em> but I thought, I would do a referntial blogging here also, in case, someone here could point some help and suggestions in this regard.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Could Eluana's dream be the last? ]]></title>
<link>http://slygames.wordpress.com/?p=44</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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According to his father, Beppino Englaro, Eluana was a very determined person. One of those strong ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">According to his father, Beppino Englaro, Eluana was a very determined person. One of those strong girls that always have an answer for everything. She witnessed the coma legacy happened to one of her friends, long ago. A boy that was forced, by the doctors, to live a non-life. Apparently, she said “if something like that happens to me, I’d like to die”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For some sort of poetic justice, something like that has – in fact<span> </span>- happened to her.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Fifteen years ago, in a town named Lecco – in Lombardy – she was hospitalized following a car accident, which had caused a cranial trauma. There was also a fracture at the level of her cervical vertebras, that would have bound her on a arm-chair forever. It doesn’t matter, though, because Eluana has been sleeping until nowadays. A coma, according to a medical definition, is “<span style="color:black;">a state of deep unarousable unconsciousness”, practically speaking: </span></span><span style="color:black;">a comatose person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have sleep-wake cycles</span><span lang="EN"><span style="color:black;">, and does not take voluntary actions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">By the time she was hospitalized, the doctors decided to give her a chance. In order to save her from a certain death, they therefore administered medicines to Eluana and intubated her, because they said: “hope is always the last to die”. In spite of all these treatments, she couldn’t wake up, so they moved her to another ward. It was 1992, Eluana is now 37 year-old. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">At the moment she is staying – like a plant would – at the hospital and the doctors there are living her life for her. She opens and closes her eyes like a real person, following the rhythm of day. However, she can’t see anything. Her lips tremble, her limbs are stretched. There is a straw passing from her nose that brings food into her stomach, an enema is her personal bathroom. Nurses wash her body with sponges everyday and help her sit on a chair, from time to time. They have to pay attention that she does not fall on the ground. They also move her body in bed so to avoid bedsores. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">According to the Italian law, anyway, she can’t be considered dead because the accident only damaged her celebral cortex, instead of the entire brain. As remarked by Marco Malagutti, the British Medical Association and the American Academy of Neurology agree consider twelve months a period long enough to determine whether the patient can wake up from this kind of coma, or not. After that, there is no hope left. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Her father is legally responsible for the life of Eluana, however, despite all the advices coming from various medical sources that consider the state of this patient “incompatible with basic human dignity”, he can’t give a end on her “non-life” due to some sort of expectation of a miracle. More precisely he could, but he would have to follow a scary path in order to do so: it’s about letting her die by the lack of water and food, in this way it would take her twenty days to pass away. Try to imagine yourself witnessing the living-death of one of your relatives, could anyone cope with that? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Eluana’s one only represents the last case of what they call “therapeutic tenacity”. The lack of a law concerning Biological Testament in Italy has already caused endless pain. A recent verdict has finally ruled that Beppino Englaro – Eluana’s father – has the right to give her death, or perhaps we should call it peace. Although non venom can be injected. A violent polemic has erupted in Italy: someone wants Eluana to die, someone else is ready to feed her with water in case her father will decide to interrupt the medical treatments. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Who should decide whether to stay in a endless coma or leave this world? Who should decide about her own life if not Eluana herself? Italy is in a desperate need of a law on biological testament. Gaetano Quagliariello, a Pdl’s Senator and the President of The Magna Carta Foundation, said that “the power of the sovereign people should claim its own voice on such thorny matter”. We think he’s right. </span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[LANŢ TROFIC]]></title>
<link>http://swings.wordpress.com/?p=46</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Romb peste romb -
nimic.
Piatră peste piatră - 
alta piatră.
Inimă peste inimă -
Suflet pereche]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Romb peste romb -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">nimic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Piatră peste piatră - </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">alta piatră.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Inimă peste inimă -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Suflet pereche.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Culegem geamuri de sub tavan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Cu şurubelniţe automate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Ce nasc cioburi de gumă </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Pe podea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Musonul strânge cioburile </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Pe făraş</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Şi hrăneşte cu ele păunii din cuşcă.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Penele lor vor întregi evantaie;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Evantaiele vor alunga gradele.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Ştiai?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Pe fundul tolbei lui Celsius</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:200%;font-family:&#34;">Se găsesc mereu săgeţi negative.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Points of interest #21]]></title>
<link>http://mormonmd.wordpress.com/?p=187</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Doc</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My own recent deficiencies notwithstanding, this has been an especially powerful and abundant week f]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My own recent deficiencies notwithstanding, this has been an especially powerful and abundant week for the mind, soul and body on the Internet.  There is more to share than I had room for.  It sometimes seems I spend more time bringing everyone else's work than I do in my own writing, but know this- I do it especially for you, the reader.  What good is wisdom and knowledge if not shared among people.  So partake and enjoy the best of the Internet-<!--more--></p>
<p>Regarding the Mind-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At Frontal Cortex, Jonah has a fascinating post pondering the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/07/music_and_math.php">relationship between music and complex mathematics</a>, speculating how our mind finds pleasure in simply pulling the pattern out of the seemingly random causing sensory input to transcend into something sublime.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">Anand Dhillon has a fantastic post on some of the <a href="http://www.ananddhillon.com/blog/2008/06/cognitive-distortions/">cognitive distortions we all have</a>, which can ultimately hold us back from our own happiness, cause self defeating behavior, or beat us down into a full blown depression.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">Speaking of Depression, at<em> Change Therapy</em>, Isabella Mori continues what has been a <a href="http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-a-way-out-of-depression/">powerful and moving discussion on creativity and depression</a> with her personal tale about how creativity may not eliminate depression, but it can remove the paralyzing and devastaing effects.</p>
<p>Regarding the Soul-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At <em>Faith Promoting Rumor</em>, the inimitable Mogget, Mormon Biblical scholar grad student extraordinaire is back, and shares a wonderful and insightful <a href="http://faithpromotingrumor.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/the-church-and-the-conversion-experience/">critique of the Mormon Revelatory experience</a>.  It really opened my eyes, no pun intended.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At <em>Mormon Matters</em>, Stephen Marsh (AKA Ethesis) breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to holy writ, giving a <a href="http://mormonmatters.org/2008/07/11/the-scriptures-are-a-what/">powerful and personal view of scripture</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">The <em>Washington Post</em> has an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402516_pf.html">amazing story captured in a documentary</a> by Laura Waters Hinson.  It seems that the people of Rwanda really do <a href="http://mormonmd.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/daring-to-take-jesus-at-his-word/">take Jesus at his word.</a>.</p>
<p>Regarding the Body-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At <em>GNIF BrainBlogger</em>, Waynekid Cam has been gulping down the ice cream too fast.  He gives an excellent little lesson on the <a href="http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/06/the-science-of-brain-freeze/">physiology of brain freeze</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At <em>Of Two Minds</em>, Steve Higgins has bad news for health food nuts, as he describes a recent Indonesian study that suggests <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/twominds/2008/07/tofu_causes_dementia.php">Tofu might increase risk of Alzheimer disease</a>, and speculates on why this may be.</p>
<p>Or All the Above-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At <em>Mormon Matters</em>, Bruce Nielsen shares some insight into <a href="http://mormonmatters.org/2008/07/08/the-case-for-marriage/">what marriage is really all about</a>, as he fights the myth that it is just about our happiness and nobody else's business.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Apollo, MD</em> shares with us his experience of his first day in the third year clerkships, where he confronts both life and death in the most broken of patients, <a href="http://lesterleung.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-eye-of-the-storm/">one suffering from coma</a>..  Looks like he had the best rotation first.  He also has the makings of a first class neurologist (hint, hint)</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>The Anesthesioboist</em> has an excellent post on the <a href="http://anesthesioboist.blogspot.com/2008/07/deep-satisfaction-of-demonizing-our.html">deep satisfaction patients find in demonizing their doctors</a>, as she scans the blogosphere for heart wrenching tales of medical mistakes and the tendency for societal retribution, even overeaction</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">The <em>New York Times</em> has a disturbing report about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/health/08nurses.html?ex=1373169600&#38;en=bf6c52c7c1c8b803&#38;ei=5124&#38;partner=permalink&#38;exprod=permalink">work related violence, injury and mortality among the most noble of professions, ICU Nurses</a>, as they stand at the line between life and death and become victims of the anger boiling over from families.  Unfortunately, in the NeuroICU especially, I have seen the danger personally and can attest, they are not making this up.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Newly discovered Blog treasure</strong>-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">All the above was getting crowded, and this wonderful blog could have covered the category alone.  <a href="http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/"><em>Mothers in Medicine</em></a> is a group blog with a team of mothers working as physicians.  They have a moving post on <a href="http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/2008/07/guest-post-cry.html">Crying in medicine</a>, a reflection on growing up the <a href="http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/2008/07/second-generation.html">child of a doctor and then putting your child through the same thing</a>, and a guest <a href="http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/2008/07/guest-post-comment-from-daughter.html">tribute to physicians parents everywhere</a>.  This blog really fed my mind, soul and body this week, and I'm not even a mother. A most grateful <a href="http://www.pallimed.org/2008/07/pal-pourri.html">hat tip to PalliMed</a>.</p>
<p>and Just because I <strong><em>Liked</em></strong> it-</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Zooillogix</em> has some <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2008/07/golden_ray_migration.php">breathtaking pictures of the annual golden ray migration</a>.  Absolutely beauthiful.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">At Get Religion, tmatt has an eye opening story about the <a href="http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3677">danger to churches of blurring the line between Church and State</a>.  Are we far from the day when the Government will dictate doctrine to churches everywhere?  I certainly hope not.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">Career Medicine <a href="http://www.careermedicine.com/physician-job-hunt-blog/2008/7/7/theory-of-medical-pagers.html">examines, hyopthesizes and lists pager theory in detail</a>, with a tongue in cheek look at an irritation any resident will be able to identify with.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">Here is a hilarious video clip of some neurology humor by the one and only Steve Martin besting a precocious little girl in <em>the Man with two minds</em>.  It reminds me of grand rounds.  Hilarious. (HT:<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/"><em>Neurophilosophy</em></a>)</p>
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<p>That concludes my points of interest for now.  I hope you enjoyed.  If you are hungry for more, I think you have too much free time. Just kidding.  There are an abundance of great posts in some of this weeks blog carnivals- <a href="http://theblogthatatemanhattan.blogspot.com/2008/07/grand-rounds-vol-4-no-42-seinfeld.html">Grand Rounds hits Manhattan</a>, which of course means Seinfeld takes over, <a href="http://www.emergiblog.com/2008/07/change-of-shift-volume-three-no-1.html">Change of shift takes us down blogger memory lane</a>, <a href="http://neuroscientificallychallenged.blogspot.com/2008/07/encephalon-49-celebrates-independence.html">Encephalon clelebrates freedom (from faulty theory)</a> and <a href="http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/06/brain-blogging-thirty-sixth-edition/">BrainBlogging has a great collection</a> of posts covering the human side of the mind, covering body and soul in the process.. That ought to keep you busy.</p>
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<link>http://sarodist.wordpress.com/?p=424</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[È divertente sentire i preti, i vescovi, i teologi e su su sino al Papa nelle loro continue esterna]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">È divertente sentire i preti, i vescovi, i teologi e su su sino al Papa nelle loro continue esternazioni su come la vita dovrebbe esser vissuta e su come uno Stato laico dovrebbe seguire pedissequamente l’insegnamento delle Sacre Scritture. Divertente sino a quando queste loro dissertazioni non irrompono con tutta la loro arroganza e presunzione nelle tragedie umane.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Naturalmente parlo di Eluana Englaro e della tragedia che i suoi genitori stanno vivendo ormai da 17 lunghissimi anni. Chi ha avuto la fortuna di non dover fare questo tipo di esperienza non può capire cosa queste persone sono costrette a sopportare. Davanti a queste tragedie ci si può commuovere o persino rimanere totalmente indifferenti, è un fatto di coscienza, ha poca importanza il come la gente reagisce a eventi di una tale natura, anche perché spesso si rischia di cadere nell’ipocrisia e sicuramente non c’è nulla di più deprimente e squallido di un uomo che fa finta di capire, sentire ed empatizzare, per chissà quale motivo, con chi con queste tragedie deve convivere quotidianamente. È aberrante, invece, vedere la speculazione di certi personaggi che, in nome di una qualche idea o morale, si ergono a giudici capaci di scindere il bene dal male, il giusto dall’ingiusto. Sempre alla luce di un ipotetico esclusivo possesso della Verità.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Indifferenti alle leggi della Repubblica italiana, alla volontà individuale, alla sofferenza altrui e al valore ed al significato del concetto del Libero arbitrio questi personaggi, laici o in abiti talari, si muovono come in un’aula d’università dove il pensiero teoretico raggiunge le più alte vette della speculazione filosofica. E così li vediamo dissertare sul nulla, giocare con le parole, farsi beffe della credulità popolare, citando pezzi di Vangeli che possano racchiudere in categorie, tutte da dimostrare, entità quali la vita, il bene, il giusto e la libertà.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Leggiamo perciò un comunicato di un’associazione denominata “<a href="http://www.agensir.it/pls/sir/v2_s2doc_b.rss?id_oggetto=155123">Medicina &#38; Persona</a>” che scrive:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La decisione della Corte di Appello di Milano, pertanto, è gravissima ed è la dimostrazione – ancora ce ne fosse bisogno - del modo scorretto di operare in questi ultimi decenni di una parte della magistratura italiana, che si arroga il diritto di stravolgere le leggi, addirittura di crearle, come in questo caso.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Da quale pulpito, grazie a quali strumenti questi si permettono di delegittimare la sentenza di una Corte d’Appello, ovvero di persone che hanno dedicato la loro vita allo studio del diritto. Ma si va oltre e ieri, 11 giugno, abbiamo avuto, per così dire, il piacere di leggere <a href="http://edicola.avvenire.it/ee/avvenire/default.php?pSetup=avvenire&#38;curDate=20080712&#38;goTo=A01">un editoriale sull’Avvenire</a>, un misto tra posizioni melense e partigianerie irritanti.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L’editorialista, Francesco d’Agostino, scrive:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">(Eluana) Non è sottoposta ad alcun accanimento. Viene semplicemente alimentata e dissetata. Prendersi cura dei malati, dare loro da mangiare e da bere, anche quando sono privi di coscienza vigile, non sono pratiche mediche, malati essenziali, minimali, umanissimi di prossimità umana, portatori di un valore simbolico altissimo.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Mi spiace ma non capisco cosa significa malati essenziali o meglio minimali, umanissimi di prossimità umana (?) e poi portatori di un valore simbolico altissimo, quale? Il loro? Che simbolismo c’è? O glielo inseriamo noi a nostro uso e consumo, spero di no perché se è così che Dio vi salvi.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">E poi:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Come definire la sua vita? Qualificarla come ‘tragica’ è dir poco. Qualificarla come ‘artificiale’ è insultante per la medicina, che con mille preziosissimi artifici aiuta tanti malati a sopravvivere.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Artificiale non c’entra nulla, spero che questo d’Agostino abbia ben presente il significato dell’aggettivo artificiale, il quale lo si applica solamente al campo dell’informatica o della robotica, è un sistema, un programma, un software concepito e realizzato dall’uomo, che cerca di imitare i pattern e i processi mentali dell’essere umano. Perché la vita di Eluana dovrebbe essere artificiale? Tutt’al più è una vita a metà, addirittura io propenderei per definirla una non-vita. La vita così come ci è stata insegnata da più di duemila anni di storia del pensiero, da più di duemila anni di esperienze individuali è fatta di ragione e sentimento. Godere delle bellezze della natura o della bellezza in sé è vita. Amare ed essere amati è vita. Migliorare e migliorarsi è vita, cercare di superare i propri limiti in una perpetua tensione verso un ideale, un valore, un senso universale è vita, prendere coscienza di sé e dell’altro, prendere coscienza delle cose che ci circondano è vita, perpetuare la specie, difenderla, amare i propri figli è vita, in una parola avere Coscienza della scintilla divina che serbiamo in seno sin dalla nostra nascita, è vita. Non c’entra l’artificiosità, l’artificio è solo il loro.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ed ancora:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Ma non è forse doveroso far sì che ognuno sia giudice della qualità della propria vita? Non abbiamo forse il dovere di rispettare la volontà di Eluana di non essere sottoposta a cure coercitive? Certamente, dobbiamo tutti avere un assoluto rispetto per la volontà dei malati, ma a due condizioni, che nel nostro caso appaiono entrambe irrealizzate. La prima è che il trattamento cui Eluana è sottoposta (cioè l’alimentazione), e che in ipotesi essi rifiuterebbero, sia davvero da ritenere un cura medica: il che, come abbiamo detto, non è. La seconda, ancora più importante, è che si abbia la certezza assoluta, al di là di ogni ragionevole dubbio, che comunque tale sia o sia stata davvero la volontà di Eluana.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Andiamo per ordine. 1) Curare significa (dallo Zingarelli) sottoporre un soggetto ad una terapia funzionale alla guarigione. Certamente tutte le cure mediche non sono in grado di riportare lo stato patologico allo stato sano, alcune cure o terapie servono ad alleviare le sofferenze dell’individuo o più semplicemente a rendere stazionarie le condizioni dell’infermo. Bene, in questo caso non si può non considerare la somministrazione di liquidi ed alimenti una cura o dobbiamo considerare la cura solo quella farmacologia? 2) Su quali basi costoro credono di poter confutare le volontà di Eluana? In base a cosa costoro sono certi di poter smentire i racconti di chi viveva e frequentava Eluana e perciò ne conosceva le volontà e i desideri. Infine, mi piacerebbe sapere se ha una qualche rilevanza giuridica il fatto che Eluana è incapace di intendere e di volere. Mi spiego, se lei e lo è, incapace di intendere e di volere che ruolo ha la volontà dei suoi genitori che ne sono divenuti automaticamente i tutori?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Infine:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Ai giudici non spetta discutere; essi devono decidere. Di fronte a questioni laceranti i giudici adottano in genere la decisione più benevola: se nutrono fondati dubbi sulla colpevolezza, assolvono; se non sono certi di avere le prove definitiva dell’incapacità di un soggetto, si guardano bene dal togliergli la capacità di agire e di sottoporlo a tutela. Nel caso di Eluana hanno invece adottato la decisione più cruda, quella che apre le porte alla morte e le chiude alla vita.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Forse d’Agostino non sa che il giudice non fa alcuna opera benevola o malevola. Il diritto esiste per questo. Se esistono dei dubbi fondati sulla colpevolezza di un imputato, il giudice lo assolve non perché è magnanimo o perché si sente, in quel dato momento, particolarmente compassionevole, ma perché il nostro diritto è fondato sulla presunzione di innocenza, che è l’unico strumento che garantisce l’imputato dalle volontà particolari dell’organo giudicante.</p>
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Asian cinema seems to have cultivated a particular fondness for a classically extinct type of music]]></description>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Asian cinema seems to have cultivated a particular fondness for a classically extinct type of music, once fashionable in the glided courts of 18th century Vienna.   As a matter of fact, the waltz form has always been a staple in the history of film scores, enforcing elegance even in less ideal genres (Hitchcock's <em>Shadow of a Doubt</em>).   For instance, Johann Strauss's free-falling "Blue Danube," revitalized by Kubrick's <em>2001</em>, found an after-life in the succeeding  train-wrecks of homages and parodies, with the exception of <em>Wall-E.</em> But more importantly, frothing with contentious fervor in the late 60s,  many of the popular composers in countries like Japan and Korea began writing extensive pieces gravitating towards a central waltz that permeated like thematic ripples throughout the film duration.  The return to an European sensibility was a deliberate strategy by respected industrious countries in the Far East to not only gain international acclaim but also to encourage subtle cross-examination of the cultural traditions that exist in both continents.  It's no wonder that <em>valse</em> fever continues to thrive even to this day.</div>
<p style="text-align:left;">The waltz, as originally defined by the wonderful folks at Wikipedia, is "a piece of music in triple meter, most often 3/4 but sometimes 3/8 or 6/8, generally having a 1.2.3. - 1.2.3. count and a slow tempo."  Usually associated with the flight of anxious feet gliding across the floor, the waltz as a dance number offers escapist fantasies for those obeying its hypnotic rhythm,  but paranoia is never far behind and its bourgeois origins, an open class secret.  Filmic space has stripped off its material weight, but the sonic structure remains, lighting the path for motivations, both virtuous and deceitful, as men and women enter and exit adjacent rooms only to find each other stuck on the same chessboard.   The waltz ingrains itself easily into memory precisely because it's the skeleton of the score, pared down from its excesses, its complexities, its distractions.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The hand of God and the "loom of fate" are too cynically applied to the waltz, for at its best, the choreography of destinies appears only as a byproduct of fruitless agency, a just reward in the service of good deeds and fortunate accidents, but at its worst, the waltz reminds us of the cyclical pounding of mistakes repeated, connections missed, and lives already cranked into motion by the black and white notes fluttering softly and dangerously in the air.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Case studies:</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>Howl's Moving Castle</em></strong> (Miyazaki, 2004)</p>
<p>Joe Hisaishi - Sky Stroll</p>
<p>[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/20/1967807/03%20Sky%20Stroll.mp3]</p>
<p>While rescuing the naive  Sophie from the blob soldiers of his archnemesis, Howl, the dashing wizard, guides her body into the air, setting off an arduous romance and a whirlwind of tangential subplots, only stumbling towards a ridiculously tacky ending (almost ruined the whole film for me).  Hisaishi's enchanting signature is unmistakable, only Yoko Kanno is said to be his contemporary rival, a colloboration would be better off.  </p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>Face of Another</em></strong> (Teshigahara, 1966)</p>
<p>Toru Takemitsu - Waltz from Tanin No Kao</p>
<p>[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/20/1967807/Tanin%20No%20Kao%20%27Face%20of%20Another%27%20-%201966.mp3]</p>
<p>A waltz in the vaudevillian strain, replete with German vocals, and sung during a surreptitious meeting between surgeon and patient after his face-lift, which later mirrors the faceless masses in the final scene.  The disillusioned soloist dissolves into the cloud of pedestrian traffic, leaving only the erotic traces of a former life abandoned out of sheer impotence, and the Fascist remnants of a nation too eager for change on the outside.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong>Oldboy</strong> </em>(Park, 2003)</p>
<p>Yeong-wook Jo - Cries and Whispers</p>
<p>[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/20/1967807/11%20-%20cries%20and%20whispers.mp3]</p>
<p>"Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same," an extremely devastating message at the heart of a vengeance-driven <em>grand guigno</em>l.  Every action has a reaction, in this case, a retroactive backstory reinforced by guilt and helplessness.    If madness is the only hope for salvation, then the carousel waltz only makes deeper lacerations without the insurance of resolution, and that's enough reason for us to invest further.</p>
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Zidul care trebuia să mă apere de înge]]></description>
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<p style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:150%;">Zidul care trebuia să mă apere de îngerii maliţiosi s-a prăbuşit sub muţenia ursuleţilor de pluş. Mă rotesc odată cu pământul şi zic nu nuanţelor de roşu. De ce să-mi ardă ochii când pot avea rubine? Un protest rămâne fără ecou, înfundat de îngâmfatul deşert. Mă răzbun prin tăcere, mă resemnez prin vise, mă înalţ prin aer. Sordidele clipe nu mai vin la întâlnirile cu oamenii, aşa că aceştia nu mai aşteaptă. Speră doar să descopere cineva  alte unităţi pentru timp. Cafeaua s-a îndulcit de la frig, sarea s-a cristalizat de la singurătate. Incapabilii mintali sunt mai norocoşi decât fericiţii: lor nu li se termină niciodată starea de spirit, ei nu consumă dulciuri, se răsfaţă cu apă minerală. Ce linişte e când tac uşile. Pleoapele vizoarelor se lasă încet înspre văi şi pupila nu mai e în relief, se ascunde sub roci de granit. Ca o bărcuţă ce deranjează lacul, ies în lume şi îi zâmbesc asfaltului, întrebându-l cum e să fii călcat în picioare. Las lucrurile să cadă după cum vor, nu le mai aranjez cu mâna vopsită ca pielea. </span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:150%;">  </span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:9pt;color:#ffffff;line-height:150%;">Clipesc anevoie. Încă mai cred că viaţa mea e coşmarul unui extraterestru în comă. Se zbate şi face grimase. Dezvoltă epilepsie sub perfuzii cu iluzii. O să se trezească abia la înmormântarea mea...</span></span></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Noul album live Coma Light a aparut pe net lansat pe metalhead bla bla&#8230;e bun albumu&#8230;..]]></description>
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<p>Noul album live Coma Light a aparut pe net lansat pe metalhead bla bla...e bun albumu.....dar, prea s-au cumintit baietii.....Albumul, de fapt piesele sunt de pe cele doua materiale discografice precedente ale trupei, si acest album a fost inregistrat in concertul Coma Light sustinut de trupa in Preoteasa pe data de 19 Aprilie. prestatia baietilor a lasat totusi un iz de dragul vremurilor de demult....</p>
<p>daca vrea cineva sa traga albumul dati click <a title="Coma - Coma Light 2008" href="http://www.metalhead.ro/coma/Coma-Light-2008.rar" target="_blank">aici </a>(sau clic dreapta save link as, sau target as, sau download)<a title="Coma - Coma Light 2008" href="http://www.metalhead.ro/coma/Coma-Light-2008.rar" target="_blank"><br />
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<p>un video din concert puteti vedea aici</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Según informa rebuznos y miserias, los académicos de la RAE se habrían reunido con urgencia para ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&#34;">Según informa <a title="rebuznos y miserias" href="http://rebuznosymiserias.wordpress.com" target="_blank">rebuznos y miserias</a>, los académicos de la RAE se habrían reunido con urgencia para hacer a José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero miembro honorífico de la RAE por si impresionante manejo del lenguaje. Desde la Academia se alaba la habilidad a la hora de crear </span><span style="font-family:&#34;">sinónimos, giros, metáforas, símiles, retruécanos, estrambotes etc. etc., para referirse a la ‘<em><span style="font-family:&#34;">no crisis</span></em>‘ económica que padece este país.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&#34;"><span style="font-size:small;">Se espera, siempre según el blog citado, la comparecencia del Presidente esta misma tarde para confirmar la noticia ante un nutrido grupo de periodistas<span>  </span>y pseudointelectuales, lameculos y comités de sabios del tres al cuarto. El club de fans del Presi repartirá banderas, pancartas, panderetas y matasuegras para recibir la esperada noticia al grito de “¡poeta, poeta!” a las puertas del congreso.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&#34;"><span style="font-size:small;">Lo primero que hará Zapatero a su llegada al asiento de la coma (,) mayúscula será debatir la eliminación de la palabra “crisis” del diccionario.</span></span><span style="font-family:&#34;"></span></p>
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