"The naming of cats" by T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot




Cira y su sombra

 The naming of cats


The naming of cats is a difficult matter,




It isn't just one of your holiday games;


You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter


When I tell you, a cat must have three different names.


First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,


Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,


Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--


All of them sensible everyday names.


There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,


Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:


Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--


But all of them sensible everyday names.


But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,


A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,


Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,


Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?


Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,


Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,


Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-


Names that never belong to more than one cat.


But above and beyond there's still one name left over,


And that is the name that you never will guess;


The name that no human research can discover--


But the cat himself knows, and will never confess.


When you notice a cat in profound meditation,


The reason, I tell you, is always the same:


His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation


Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:


His ineffable effable


Effanineffable


Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Oda al gato de Federico García Lorca

"Oda al gato" de Federico García Lorca

Stacy, mi mejor amiga

Los animales fueron
imperfectos, largos de cola, tristes
de cabeza.Poco a poco se fueron
componiendo,
haciéndose paisaje,
adquiriendo lunares,
gracia, vuelo.


El gato,
sólo el gato
apareció completo
y orgulloso
:nació completamente
terminado,
camina solo y sabe lo que
quiere.


El hombre quiere ser
pescado y pájaro
la serpiente quisiera tener
alas,
el perro es un león
desorientado,
el ingeniero quiere ser
poeta,
la mosca estudia para
golondrina,
el poeta trata de imitar la
mosca,
pero el gato
quiere ser sólo gato
y todo gato es gato
desde bigote a cola,
desde presentimiento
rata viva, desde la noche hasta sus
ojos de oro.

No hay unidad
como él,
no tienen
la luna ni la flortal contextura:
es una sola cosa
como el sol o el topacio
y la elástica línea en su
contorno girme y sutil es como
la línea de la proa de un
nave.


Sus ojos amarillos dejaron una sola
ranura
para echar las monedas
de la noche.

Oh pequeño
emperador sin orbe,
conquistador sin patria,
mínimo tigre de salón
nupcial
sultán del cielo
de las tejas eróticas,
el viento del amor
en la intemperie
reclamas
cuando pasas
y posas
cuatro pies delicados
en el suelo
oliendo,
desconfiando
de todo lo terrestre,
porque todo
es inmundo
para el inmaculado pie del gato.


Oh fiera independiente
de la casa, arrogante
vestigio de la noche,
perezoso, gimnástico
y ajeno,
profundísimo gato,
policía secreta de las habitaciones,
insignia
de un
desaparecido terciopelo,
seguramente no hay
enigma en tu manera,
tal vez no eres misterio,
todo el mundo te sabe y
perteneces al habitante meno
misterioso,
tal vez todos lo creen,
todos se creen dueños,
propietarios, tíos
de gatos, compañeros,
colegas, discípulos o amigos
de su gato.

Yo no.
Yo no suscribo.
Yo no conozco al gato.
Todo lo sé, la vida y su
vida archipiélago,
el mar y la ciudad
incalculable,
la botánica, el gineceo con sus
extravíos, el por y el menos de la
matemática,
los embudos volcánicos del mundo,
la cáscara irreal del
cocodrilo, la bondad ignorada del
bombero, el atavismo azul del
sacerdote,
pero no puedo descifrar un
gato
Mi razón resbaló en
su indiferencia,
sus ojos tienen números
de oro.

"A un gato" de Borges

Como estamos muy vacacionales, voy a dedicar los días festivos a glorificar a los gatos.  Así que los que pasen por aquí se encontrarán un codondesastre.blogspot.com  felino y juguetón. La primera pieza que incluyo es un conocido poema que JLB dedicó a un gato. Él compartía su vida con Beppo, un minino blanco no demasiado bien humorado. Borges lo bautizó así en honor al gato de Byron.




Jorge Luis Borges

 Si algún/a amante de los felinos quiere mandar fotos, "posts" o poesías dedicadas a ellos, serán muy bienvenidas. No estaría mal que incluyeran el nombre o apodo del animal así como el de su compañera/o bípedo. Aludo al nombre conocido por los humanos. Ya que según T.S. Eliot, el verdadero nombre del gato sólo lo conoce ese tigre en miniatura que sabe ir a su aire por la vida.

A un gato


No son más silenciosos los espejos


Ni más furtiva el alba aventurera;


Eres, bajo la luna, esa pantera


Que nos es dado divisar de lejos.


Por obra indescifrable de un decreto


Divino, te buscamos vanamente;


Más remoto que el Ganges y el poniente,


Tuya es la soledad, tuyo el secreto.


Tu lomo condesciende a la morosa


Caricia de mi mano.


Has admitido,


Desde esa eternidad que ya es olvido,


El amor de la mano recelosa.


En otro tiempo estás.


Eres el dueño


de un ámbito cerrado como un sueño.

Modelo de disfunción eréctil en primates.

Animal models of erectile dysfunction (ED): potential utility of non-human primates as a model of atherosclerosis-induced vascular ED



J K Williams, K-E Andersson and G Christ

La disfunción eréctil, que afecta a muchos más hombres de lo que parece, puede estudiarse  mediante un modelo en primates con arterioesclerosis inducida. De momento no hay una solución farmacológica segura. En el trabajo publicado en "Nature", al menos se avisora una esperanza realista.
Abstract
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a prevalent medical condition affecting 18 million men and their sexual partners in the United States alone. In the majority of patients, ED is related to alterations in the flow of blood to or from the penis. Undeniably, significant progress has been made in understanding the multifactorial mechanisms that modulate erectile capacity and predispose one to ED, and this, in turn, has led to the availability of more effective treatment options. Nonetheless, all current therapies have untoward side effects, and moreover, there are still no satisfactory treatments for many patients with ED. Further enhancements in the treatment of ED would logically result from both early intervention and more detailed mechanistic insight into the characteristics of the disease process per se. This fact underscores the importance of improved understanding of the initiation, development and progression of ED. However, to do so requires longitudinal studies on animal models that more closely approximate the corresponding clinical features and time course of human disease. The goal of this report is twofold. First, to provide a brief general overview of the applicability of commonly used animal models for the study of ED. The second and primary goal is to highlight the scientific rationale for using non-human primates to evaluate the impact of atherosclerosis-induced vascular disease on the penile and systemic circulatory systems. This latter goal seems especially relevant in light of the recent literature documenting a link between ED and systemic vascular disease, a finding that has major implications in an aging US male population consuming a high fat diet.

¿Espionaje en los teléfonos móviles estadounidenses?

Spying on Americans through Cellphone Carriers
NSA Spying: 'If We Tell You, We'll Have to Kill You'

By Tom Burghardt

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31899

Tom Burghart aporta elementos que respaldan la posibilidad de que los estadounidenses  (y tal vez otros ciudadanos) estén siendo "vigilados" mediante el uso que hacen del artilugio más popular y corriente del mundo: el teléfono móvil. Para serles sincera no se si es completamente cierto o parcialmente falso. Tal vez mi estancia en Pamplona por sanfermines me ha dejado en otra galaxia. Si lo desean consulten el artículo en la URL señalada. Con el calorazo que hace y nuestra debacle financiera casi me da lo mismo. ¿O no?. La verdad está allí fuera, como decia el agente Moulder de los expedientes X.

"In an alien planet" Pennigton

What most Americans are blissfully unaware of is the fact that they carry in their pockets what have been described as near-perfect spy devices: their cellphones.
When Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in 2008, a privacy-killing law that gutted First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections for Americans while granting immunity to giant telecoms that assisted the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless wiretapping programs, we were assured that the government "does not spy" on our communications.
Yet scarcely a year after FAA was signed into law by President Bush, The New York Times revealed that under Hope and Change(TM) huckster Barack Obama, NSA continued the previous regime's illegal practices, intercepting "private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year."
The wholesale vacuuming-up of private communications by the sprawling Pentagon bureaucracy were described by unnamed "senior officials" as the "'overcollection' of domestic communications of Americans;" in other words, a mere technical "glitch" in an otherwise "balanced" program.
But what most Americans are blissfully unaware of is the fact that they carry in their pockets what have been described as near-perfect spy devices: their cellphones.
Earlier this week, The New York Times disclosed that "cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the course of investigations."
The report by carriers, made in response to congressional inquiries "document an explosion in cellphone surveillance in the last five years, with the companies turning over records thousands of times a day in response to police emergencies, court orders, law enforcement subpoenas and other requests."
"I never expected it to be this massive," said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), the co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, "who requested the reports from nine carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon."
Markey told the Times that the prevalence of cellphone surveillance by law enforcement agencies raised the specter of "digital dragnets" that threaten the privacy of most customers.

Pánico en los genes

A neuropeptide S receptor variant associated with overinterpretation of fear reactions: a potential neurogenetic basis for catastrophizing




K A Raczka, N Gartmann, M-L Mechias, A Reif, C Büchel, J Deckert and R Kalisch

Libro de neuroanatomía a plumilla.

Los datos del presente trabajo publicado en "Nature" desentrañan el origen genético de las reacciones de pánico exageradas. Poco a poco los neurocientíficos correlacionan estructuras anatómicas del cerebro con sus funciones. Aquí se asocia una variante del receptor (estructura en la membrana celular) para el neuropéptido S (sustancia química producida en el cerebro) con las reacciones de miedo extremo. Se identifica el sustrato
 genético tanto como la neuroestructura anatómicamente implicada. Poniendo un poco de ciencia ficción al asunto, ¿se imaginan que se "usen" dichos resultados para "clasificar" a la gente por su capacidad de desarrollar reacciones de pánico?.

Abstract
Neuropeptide S (NPS) is a recently discovered G protein-coupled receptor ligand that modulates fear-like behaviors in rodents (datos en roedores). A frequent A>T single-nucleotide polymorphism in the human NPS receptor gene NPSR1 confers a 10-fold higher efficacy of NPS signaling in vitro and has been linked with panic disorder (PD). We here report data from a classical fear-conditioning paradigm in healthy normal volunteers, in which carriers of the NPSR1 T allele evaluated their fear reactions to conditioned stimuli (CSs) (estímulo condicionado) as more pronounced than AA homozygous participants, although they did not show elevated peripheral-physiological conditioned responses (skin conductance responses—SCRs). T carriers also exhibited stronger CS-evoked brain activity in the rostral dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), an area that supports the explicit, conscious appraisal of threat stimuli. By contrast, more caudally situated mid-dmPFC, which has previously been associated with the generation of SCRs, showed no elevated response. Moreover, rostral dmPFC activation was correlated with participants’ fear evaluations, further strengthening the link of this activation to increased individual fear appraisal.

Our data suggest a genetic and neuroanatomical substrate for catastrophizing overinterpretations of fear reactions and provide a mechanistic explanation for the association between the NPSR1 T allele and PD.
(base genética)

Made in Spain

Oso y mendigo (codondesastre.blogspot.com)

No comprendo el motivo por el que algunos de nuestros gobernantes utilizan un lenguaje pobre, en ocasiones simplón y, en algunos casos, ordinario, que diría mi señora abuela.

Eso de  referirse al país como la "marca España" es una horterada. Eso de que ciertas encumbradas personalidades vayan cascabeleros en airosas giras para la presunta "promoción" de la susodicha entidad resulta pelín penoso.

El otro día observé por la tele al presidente Rajoy junto a un señor canoso y cuyo nombre, con perdón, ni recuerdo. Pues resulta que el presidente lo presentó, muy ufano, como encargado de ese "marketing" nacional pedigüeño al que nos ha conducido la debacle económica. Otra odiosa muletilla es la "profesionalidad" que se celebra a cualquier tonto del bote.


Prefiero no despotricar. No proferir insultos.

Dedico el poema de Don Francisco de Quevedo a todos los ignaros que nos desgobiernan con tanta saña.

Poema : "Miré los muros de la patria mía" 
Miré los muros de la patria mía,


si un tiempo fuertes, ya desmoronados,


de la carrera de la edad cansados,


por quien caduca ya su valentía.


Salíme al campo; vi que el sol bebía


los arroyos del yelo desatados,


y del monte quejosos los ganados,


que con sombras hurtó su luz al día.


Entré en mi casa; vi que, amancillada,


de anciana habitación era despojos;


mi báculo, más corvo y menos fuerte.


Vencida de la edad sentí mi espada,


y no hallé cosa en que poner los ojos


que no fuese recuerdo de la muerte.

Obama seizes control of all communications systems

Obama Seizes Control of All Communications Systems With Executive Order By Susanne Posel


URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31838


Según los datos que aporta Susanne Posel, el presidente Obama ha "usurpado todas las vías de comunicación disponibles" estableciendo un férreo control  de la información por parte del gobierno. ¿Es el presidente un nuevo Gran Hermano?. Uno que invoca la seguridad nacional y el estado de alerta frente a posibles emergencias. Si desean información adicional consulten la URL indicada.




Presuntos agentes de la CIA

 President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under executive order (EO june 6, 2012), Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications “under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience.” (for full text of the Executive Order, seen Annex below)
Radio and wired communications systems “of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.”
Cellular phone corporations like Sprint owned Boost Mobile have released messages to their customers concerning the US government’s allocation of their phone communications at the whim of the President. In a text message to customers, Boost Mobile said that: “. . . you can receive national and local emergency alerts directly on your phone.”
Back in 2011, Hillary Clinton admitted that the US government, via the mainstream media, is losing their “information war” with the American public. As alternative media becomes more prevalent, the propaganda must be taken up a notch in order to keep the masses onboard with the agendas of the US government.


Danny Schechter, filmmaker and investigative journalist, explains that MSM cannot compete with the alternative media. Schechter says that “America feels on the defensive because it can no longer” monopolize the thoughts of citizens domestically and abroad. Since the US government thinks “its point of view is the only point of view” these new news outlets are “extremely damaging” to the US continual purveyance of propaganda.


The Presidential Alert was announced in August of 2011, wherein the Commissioners for the FCC required that television, radio stations and cable systems (including satellites) will redirect broadcasting if the President wants to “alert Americans of impending danger”.


This EO explains that the establishment of a NS/EP Communications Executive Committee (CEC) will “serve as a forum to address NS/EP communications matters”. The CEC will answer to the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and advise Obama on the “prioritization of radio spectrum and wired communications that support NS/EP functions”.


Designees of DHS and Department of Defense will be co-Chairs of the CEC. While the CEC will now advise on policy to Obama; they will have control over the “future architecture of the NS/EP communications” and define those communications in a “long-term strategic vision”.
The funding for this all-encompassing control over our radio, television and digital communications will be taken from the taxpayers by way of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


Under Obama’s discretion, all radio and digital communications can be intercepted with recommendation by the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and the Director of OSTP. The executive branch’s authority derives from the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. 606), Section 706.


The US governmental agencies involved in this endeavor are the heads of:
• Department of Justice
• Department of Defense
• Department of State
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Office of the director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• General Services Administration
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)


The President enables the “regimes to test, exercise, and evaluate the capabilities of existing and planned communications systems, networks, or facilities” and provides “quarterly updates to the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and the Director of OSTP”.