Tag Archives: Personal Issues

Alerta por suicidios en Puerto Rico

Posted in About Puerto Rico, [en Español] by
2/15/2008, 12:00 p.m. PST
Por LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZThe Associated Press

SAN JUAN (AP) — Por lo menos 8.541 personas se suicidaron en Puerto Rico entre 1980 y 2007 y la secretaría de salud admitió que la situación merece atención gubernamental.

Se trata de un promedio de 316 muertes por año y las estadísticas oficiales indican que en lo que va de 2008, 36 personas se han quitado la vida. La secretaria de Salud, Rosa Pérez Perdomo, afirmó el viernes que contrario a la percepción general las cifras actuales no representan un alza en la cifra de suicidios.

“Nosotros quisiéramos que no ocurriera ningún caso, pero no estamos ante un aumento”, sostuvo en conferencia prensa.

Desde que inició el 2008, los medios de comunicación han reseñado ampliamente el alto número de suicidios, incluyendo el del novio de una presentadora de televisión y varios relacionados con casos de violencia doméstica en los que los agresores se quitaron la vida tras asesinar a sus compañeras.

Una mujer mató el jueves a su hijo de siete años previo a intentar quitarse la vida. La fémina dejó una nota que leía: “No puedo continuar, el padre no quiere al niño, no tengo quién lo cuide, ya me cansé, mejor me voy y me lo llevo”.

Según datos oficiales, 270 personas se privaron de la vida el año pasado.

El director de la Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Adicción, José Galarza, sostuvo que la conducta suicida debe ser atendida de manera integral y su tratamiento siempre debe ser supervisado por el gobierno porque se trata de un asunto de salud pública.

No obstante, admitió que en el sistema actual en el que compañías privadas ofrecen servicios de salud mental, no se cumple con esa supervisión gubernamental.

La epidemióloga del Estado, Enid García Rivera, adelantó que iniciarán un proyecto piloto para recopilar información acerca de los intentos suicidas, ya que al momento el Departamento sólo cuenta con estadísticas sobre las personas que lo consiguen.

Una línea telefónica especializada en atención a personas con trastornos mentales ha recibido este año 369 llamadas de personas con “ideas estructuradas” para quitarse la vida, de las cuales 38 fueron hechas por niños o adolescentes, según Galarza.

De acuerdo a los datos de Salud en 1991 se registró el número más alto de muertes por suicidios, con 371. Ello representó una tasa de 10,5 muertes por cada 100,000 habitantes.

En 2002, se reportaron 248, la cifra más baja en ese periodo.

En la isla, la mayor cantidad de personas que se quitan la vida se encuentran entre los 45 a 54 años, y en su mayoría son hombres, indicó García Rivera.

Tanto los hombres como las mujeres utilizan el método del ahorcamiento con mayor frecuencia, aunque, en segundo lugar, los hombres recurren a dispararse con un arma de fuego, mientras que las mujeres optan por envenenarse.

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Polaroid’s Suicide

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By MARK JEWELL
The Associated Press
Friday, February 8, 2008; 4:54 PM

“Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.”

Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures such as a portable printer for images from cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.

The company stopped making instant cameras over the past two years.

“We’re trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years,” Tom Beaudoin, Polaroid’s president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said in a phone interview Friday, after the company’s plans were reported in The Boston Globe.

Polaroid failed to embrace the digital technology that has transformed photography, instead sticking to its belief that many photographers who didn’t want to wait to get pictures developed would hold onto their old Polaroid cameras.

Global sales of traditional camera film have been dropping about 25 percent to 30 percent per year, “and I’ve got to believe instant film has been falling as fast if not faster,” said Ed Lee, a digital photography analyst at the research firm InfoTrends Inc.

“At some point in time, it had to reach the point where it was going to be uneconomical to keep producing instant film,” Lee said.

Privately held Polaroid doesn’t disclose financial details about its instant film business.

Polaroid instant film will be available in stores through next year, the company said _ after which, Lee said, Japan’s Fujifilm will be the only major maker of instant film.

Polaroid got its start making polarized sunglasses in the 1930s, and introduced its first instant camera in 1948. Film packs contained the chemicals for developing images inside the camera, and photos emerged from the camera in less than a minute.

Polaroid’s overall revenue from instant cameras, film and other products peaked in 1991 at nearly $3 billion. The company went into bankruptcy in 2001 and was bought four years later for $426 million by Minnetonka, Minn.-based consumer products company Petters Group Worldwide.

Meanwhile, Polaroid is seeking a partner to acquire licensing rights for its instant film, in hopes that another firm will continue making the film to supply Polaroid enthusiasts.

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Reavel’s Personal Note on this Subject:

I can’t believe this. I knew they will come to an end but not so fast. Come on we all love that old looks on the photos. The excitement of waiting the burden when it came they way it wasnt expected, the funky hues the film made. I just fell in love with the idea of having one after seen lots of polaroids photos of some websites. I still want one so i will have to hurry up before people buy them just to have one. Some people might do that. At least we will be able to buy the films anyways. But no more cameras that is sad. I wonder what the fashion industry will say and do since many used them for many things. Also on XMas and Three Kings Day season… the kids wont be able to get the photos with them to keep as a memory that is sad, breaking a childs dream of having a pic with Santa, Gaspar, Melchor and Baltazar. Lets see what happens and I do hope somebody buys the lisence from them. Polaroid will always be part of us. Ohh the good old things are fading away and some could care less. Damn you digital world… 😦

For this Valentines day

Posted in Hand Made, History, markers, Personal Issues, Reavel Art by

For this Valentines day…

To: You
From: Me

Honey, you can’t buy my love on Valentines day. But get me the chocolates –❤–
check the floating kisses [well that was the idea to represent chocolate etc.. bla bla]

Happy Valentines 2008 people and have fun.
[gosh I hate this day…] *sigh*

Possible Pets.

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I am not a huge animal lover but I do respect them and give them the space. I always wanted a dog or a ferret. Still those two are like hard to keep so maybe a gerbil will make it at the end to my house.

Why I can have a dog? Because I dont have time for him and I wouldnt like to leave him alone. They need love, attention, to play, space, food, etc. If I know I cant provide any of those I wont have it. I wont have a dog just to say that I have one. I have been looking around in dog related pages a few months ago. I found that the best dog for me would be a chihuahua or a pug. I like the chihuahua cause it is small. I could take mostly anywhere it doesnt eat a lot of food etc. I love the pug but on my research I discovered that if I had a female pug I would have to take her to the vet when she gives birth cause she cant deliver the babies on her own and the females have other issues regarding health that I couldnt afford sadly. But I could have a male pug it is less complicated it seems. Still I wont buy any of them for now maybe in some far away future I will.

Other pet I would like to own are Ferrets. Yes, ferrets. A frind of mine haves one he took him to school once. Such lovely creatures. My friend ferret died months ago due to health issues and he loved that guy very much. It died after an operation. Here in Puerto Rico are ilegal. So I cant have one or I shouldnt have one. Anyways they wont even notice if my friend got his at US and his ferret made it to the plane here in PR, I dont think they would even notice [haha]. they are cute playful and very active. I would like to have one of those fellas but the ilegal thing is the main problem.

I think I should get a gerbil instead. I also checked their information and are easy to handle and to take care of. They are daylights animal so they are quite at night Important things. Also I read they have to be with people of same sex unless I want to have a nursery cause they can have like 12 in a year so no I am not to take care of lots of gerbils only one for now. Still my mom hates rodents. I want one fot this. Soon. They are all cute anyways. I still have my cockatiels and I love them but I can grab them cause they might fly away.



[en Español], Reviews, Shoes, WTF?

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– I have been sick this past few days.
– I have the Flu or Monga as we call it here.
– It all started wednesday at 10pm out of the blue.
– Left someone ‘waiting’ on the phone. [so sorry, imu2].
– Had fever. Spent the day on the bed yesterday.
– Had laptop ON that is Markus msn chatbox on screen 😛
– Liquids running down my nose and cant control it.
– Ate some rammen soup and sob crab dip with ritz crackers.
– Ate that just because I know how it tastes.
– *Taste buds aint working.
– Nothing have taste for me this days. Not like this.
– No. I don’t know how to eat with the sticks.
– Only soup haha nothing else, but I try.
– I am crazy to get better only so I can finally taste de Godiva dried strawberries covered in chocolate my friend gave me. [Danke Alena.. ^-^’].
– Spent most of the day alone yesterday.
– I wont take my antibiotics tonight.
– I like being sick sometimes. Is that bad?



*Taste buds are small structures on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, and epiglottis that provide information about the taste of food being eaten. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds.

Grammy Amnesia*

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When I came online this morning I saw that MSN had a list of 21 people that were forgotten by the Grammy. Thing is that Grammy turns 50 this year and they are celebrating it the only way it can be celebrated, BIG. But this article is good and got me reading actually an MSN news cause it is true. Those artists were forgotten by the academy and guess what they are the most loved artists by the people and today even when some of them have died we still talk about them and listen their music. I noticed that most of the left behinds were eternally loved rock bands. Strange, right? Not so. The academy [for what I see] didn’t liked that so much [rock music]. I think cause when I saw the list they put up they left the biggest rock artists of the world. There are like just two that doesnt really fit in but well what can I do.

I have to be honest. I dont like too much the grammies this days. I being a latina never understood how in the world none of the latino artists ever won a tropical music category and if they did ever won in the latino category they never made it to the stand they always show it on a little side/corner of the TV after of before the shows stars after the commercials this here is NOT fair. Thanks God we have latin grammys and we can talk in spanish or we can’t but we dont’t care about that [HAHA!!] The catagories for the latino audience are Best Latin Pop Album (Vocal or Instrumental.), Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album, Best Latin Urban Album, Best Tropical Latin Album, Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album, Best Tejano Album, Best Norteño Album and Best Banda Album.

That is another thing I never ever understood. Latin pop, Ok. Latin Rock, Super OK. Latin Urban they won that so yeah Ok. Now Best Mexican/Mexican American Album, Tejano, Norteño and Banda. What the hell? Those are four categories for only one latino audience mexicanos. What happen to Merengue, flamenco, salsa, musica de trios, ballenato, cumbia and all that. I bet they still believe that despues de mexico everybody sings mariachi and guess what NOT true at all. I dont blame mexicans cause they have nothing to do with this. I just blame the academy. Besides there are many styles of latin music like the one from Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba even Mexico they left the mariachis out of the nominations. Maybe that is why they gave us our won grammies but before they actually recognize we need our own side. What happen? That will always be a mystery.
Anyways back to the topic and sorry but I had to write that down before I forget it. Here is the list of the artists the academy forgot. Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Allman Brothers Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, James Brown, Queen, Diana Ross, 2Pac, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Madonna, Bob Marley & The Wailers, 50 Cents [wtf?], Jessica Simpson [again, wtf?] and The Byrds.



*amnesia: [A noun] 1. amnesia, memory loss, blackout