caliguli

Images from caligula are still making rounds underneath my scalp - bouncing of my visual areas. I am thinking a lot of Indian kings must have led this lifestyle as well, wouldn't they ?

No aid for AIDS

The last decade has been what some doctors call a "golden window" for treatment. Drugs that once cost $12,000 a year fell to less than $100, and the world was willing to pay.In Uganda, where fewer than 10,000 were on drugs a decade ago, nearly 200,000 now are, largely as a result of American generosity. But the golden window is closing. Uganda is the first country where major clinics routinely turn people away, but it will not be the last. In Kenya next door, grants to keep 200,000 on drugs will expire soon. An American-run program in Mozambique has been told to stop opening clinics. There have been drug shortages in Nigeria and Swaziland. Tanzania and Botswana are trimming treatment slots, according to a report by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders.

The collapse was set off by the global recession's effect on donors, and by a growing sense that more lives would be saved by fighting other, cheaper diseases. Even as the number of people infected by AIDS grows by a million a year, money for treatment has stopped growing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html?src=sch&pagewanted=all

Gulf Coast oil spill fought with . . . human hair? | al.com

Two local women have a plan to save the coastline by building booms with human hair scraps to absorb the oil from the BP spill.

Liz Ann Howard-Alvarez of Mobile and Amanda Bacon of Point Clear have created a grass-roots effort to build oil-absorbent barriers filled with hair, either human or animal, as long as it's clean, they said.

"These booms can be used by local residents to shore up and protect their property," Bacon said.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/gulf_coast_oil_spill_fought_wi.html

A Toxic Fix to a Toxic Problem - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

As the Gulf Coast's ruptured oil well leaks anywhere from 5,000 to 60,000 barrels of crude a day, responders are relying heavily on toxic oil dispersants.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/05/a-toxic-fix-to-a-toxic-problem/56203/

Rumi : The Seed market

Can you find another market like this ?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens ?

Where.
for one seed
you get a whole wilderness ?

For one weak breath,
the divine wind ?

You've been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up in the air.

Now, your water-bead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had,
but it is still water.
The essence is the same.

This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at one, quickly,
for God's sake!

Don't postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching
will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.