viernes, 31 de octubre de 2014


The elephant and the rope 




While someone walking in the zoo, he stopped confused to realize that elephants retained only a thin rope tied to one of its front legs, without chains or cages. It was obvious that the elephants could break the rope that bound at any time but yet for some reason did not. A coach was approached for answers and was told: 

Well, when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, is more than enough to hold them. As we continued the coach-growing, still believe that they can not escape; believe that the rope still retains, so never try to break free. 

The person gasped. Elephants could be released from their bonds at any time but because they believed that they could not even try, and that was enough to keep them paralyzed. 


MORAL: Like the elephants, we usually strongly support the idea that we can not do something just because we have failed once or twice. 

martes, 21 de octubre de 2014


haloween

cute costumes for our sons, nephews, brothers, cousins​​, grandchildren ......  and some history of haloween

























every year on October 31st children (and some adults) dress up in costumes to celebrate Halloween. Houses are decorated with Jack-o-Lanterns, artificialspiders and cobwebs, pretend witches and ghosts and other frightening objects that symbolize this special day. On the evening of Halloween, in North America and many other countries around the world, groups of children can be seen walking the streets wearing costumes and visiting their neighbors´ houses to receive candy.
Typical festive Halloween activities include Trick-or-Treating (going house to house to receive sweets or food), attending costume parties, decorating, carvingpumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires,apple bobbing, visitinghaunted houses, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. But where does this holiday come from?
Halloween originally comes from the Celts that lived in Europe over 2000 years ago. The Celtic festival of Samhain, which comes from the Old Irish for “summer’s end” marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the ‘darker half’ of the year. It was seen as a time when thespirits could more easily come into our world. The souls of the dead throughout history were both honored and warded-off. The custom of wearing costumes andmasks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evilspirits or placate them. Bonfires, which were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers, were used in rituals and to scare off witches.
Throughout history Halloween has been an important tradition in Scotland and Ireland. In these countries, children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes which is where “trick or treating” began. The Celts would carry lanterns made with turnips. During the 19th Century when the Irish and Scottish immigrated massively to North America they brought the Halloween tradition with them. On US soil, the turnip lanterns changed to pumpkin lanterns which are called Jack-o-Lanterns. Trick or Treating was confined to the immigrant communities of North American during the 1800´s, but slowly it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and by the early 1900´s it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds.
Today, many countries still remember the dead on November 1st which is called All Saints Day. Another name for it is  “All Hallow’s Day”. The day before, October 31st, is called “All Hallow’s Eve”, or Halloween for short.

martes, 14 de octubre de 2014

letter of a father 






This is a beautiful letter, a parent wrote to his daughter which is dedicated to all the women.
Was written byKelly M for his daughter cutie-pie and talks about her future husband
I hope is to your liking, and take it into account.

Dear Cutie-Pie
Recently, your mother and I were looking for something in Google. Halfway through writing the question, Google showed us a list of the most popular worldwide searches. The most popular in the era list search ' how to keep him interested '.
I was surprised. I checked several articles of the countless number that appeared about how being sexy and sensual, when bringing a beer instead of a sandwich and ways to make it feel more intelligent and superior.

I was furious.
Small, this is not, never has been and never will be your work-' keep it interested '.
Small, your only task is to know deep inside your soul - unbreakable there which is not transformed by the rejection, loss or ego - that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that all are also worthy of interest, you are to win the battle of your life. But that's another letter for another day.)
If you can be sure what worth in this sense, will be attractive in the most important way of the world: attract a boy that is worthy of your interest and you will also want to spend his life by investing all their interest in you.
Small, I want to tell you something about the man that does not need keep it interested,   it because he knows that you are interesting:
I don't mind  put elbows on the table - if he set his eyes on the way in which your nose puckered when you smile. And that then  may not  leave see.
I don't care if you can not play golf with me - when he can play with the children give him you give it and enjoy all the glorious and frustrating forms that resemble both you.
I don't mind that not pursue money - provided he pursues his heart and always take it back to you.
I don't care if it is strong - long as it give you space to exercise the power that is in your heart.
I couldn't care less if vote - provided you get up each morning and choose you a place of honor in your House and a place to worship you in your heart.
I don't care the color of your skin - provided he paints the canvas of their lives with touches of patience, sacrifice, vulnerability and tenderness.
I don't care if he was educated in this religion or another or none – provided you have been trained to assess the sacred and to know that every moment of life and every moment that passes with you is something deeply sacred.
Ultimately small, if you topas with a man like that and it seems that he and I have nothing in common, in fact we will have in common the most important:

You.
Because at the end, small, the only thing you need to do to ' keep it interested ' is to be yourself.
Your eternally interested man

you father " "

viernes, 10 de octubre de 2014

Chikungunya fever 







It is a viral disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. He descrubió first during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952 It is an RNA virus of the Alphavirus genus, family Togaviridae. "Chikungunya" is a voice Kimakonde language meaning "folding", in reference to the stooped appearance of patients due to joint pain.

Signs and symptoms


Chikungunya fever is characterized by sudden onset of fever, usually accompanied by joint pain. Other common signs and symptoms include muscle aches, headaches, nausea, fatigue and rash. The joint pain can be very debilitating, but usually disappear within a few days.
Most patients recover completely, but in some cases the joint pain can last several months or even years. Occasional cases have been reported with ocular, neurological and cardiac complications, and gastrointestinal discomfort.
Serious complications are rare, but the disease in older people can contribute to death. Often patients have only mild symptoms and the infection may go unnoticed or misdiagnosed as dengue in areas where this is common.
transmission
The chikungunya fever has been detected in almost 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and  America.
The virus is transmitted from one person to another by the bite of infected female mosquitoes. Generally mosquitoes involved are Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus two species can also transmit other viruses, including dengue. These mosquitoes usually bite during the daytime period, although its activity may be high early in the morning and late afternoon. Both species bite outdoors, but Ae. aegypti can also do it indoors.
The disease usually appears between 4 and 8 days after the bite of an infected mosquito, but the range can be between 2 and 12 days.
Prevention and control
The proximity of housing to the breeding sites of mosquitoes is an important risk factor for both chikungunya and for other relevant species for diseases. Prevention and control are based largely on the reduction of natural water reservoirs and artificial that can serve as mosquito breeding

For those who sleep during the day, especially young children, the sick and the elderly,nets  provide good protection. The mosquito coils and insecticide vaporizers may also reduce bites indoors.

martes, 30 de septiembre de 2014


The Ball of Letters







The first function was held in February 2004 at Hard Rock Cafe Bogota, and to date Andrés López still showing The Ball of Letters in different scenarios in Colombia and abroad. This work has been regarded as a socio-anthropological analysis of the last four generations in Colombia. More than 1500 functions were performed with a total of more than 2 million attendees and their versions differ according to the country or region in which  presents Andres Lopez.

The title of the work refers to a type of rubber ball that was used by the children of the decades of 1970-1980 and which relates the changes of different generations who understood during the second half of the twentieth century.
In La Pelota de Letras Andrés López divides the generations:

1.  Generation W: What is alluding to the artistic, literary and youth vanguards in Colombia between 19XX to 1968. of this are moms and dads for conviction not by accident.

2. Generation Guava: This generation is both the author (1969-1974) belongs and gives predominance to merengue music and the introduction of the first Japanese cartoons known as anime, and American series on TV Colombiana, in short .; Nuclear Man
3 Generation X: is the period from 1975 to 1980 and gives the development and experience of the first cultural exchanges and dissemination of other languages​​. Their motto is Confuse and conquer. "It is characterized by confusion of thought, word, deed and profession, perhaps because it is a generation of children of divorce, or what is the same, the dreamers hippies of the 60s are the ones who are doing post degree working in multinational

4 Generation Y: Comprised of 1981-1992, characterized by the exaltation of beauty and art "All are beautiful." Their motto We have a world apart, nobody knows it's .;

5 Generation Z: From 1993 to September 11, 2001 morning, characterized by globalization and diffuser predominance of European and American animation .; They want to dominate the world.


6. the last generation is the AA, which comes after the September 11, 2001 afternoon, which could be characterized, according to the author, for the atmosphere of terrorism and the spread of intensive video games. They want to press "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Del" on the keyboard in the world.

domingo, 14 de septiembre de 2014

The circle of hate





A major employer was angry and scolded the director of one of its businesses. The manager came to his house and shouted to his wife, accusing her that she was spending too much because there was a filling lunch on the table. The lady yelled at the clerk, who broke a plate she kicked him to the dog because he stumbles
The animal ran out and bit a woman who was passing by. When she went to the pharmacy to get a cure, she screamed the pharmacist because it hurt the application of the vaccine. This man came home and yelled at her mother because the food was not to his liking. The lady, source of love and forgiveness, stroked his head as he said: "Dear Son, I promise you that tomorrow will your favorite food.

You work hard, you're tired and accurate today a good night's sleep. I will change the sheets on your bed, by other well clean and scented  so you can rest in peace. Tomorrow you'll feel better. "Blessed him and left the room, leaving him alone with his thoughts. At that time the circle of hate stopped, colliding with tolerance, sweetness, forgiveness and love.

miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2014


THE IMPERFECT HOUSE







A master of construction already entered in years was ready to retire and enjoy his pension. He told his boss about his plans to leave the job to lead a more leisurely life with his wife and family. I was going to miss his monthly salary, but he needed to retire; and they would manage somehow. 
The chief realized it was inevitable that his good employee left the company and asked him, as a personal favor, to make the last effort to build another house. The man agreed and began his work, but he saw clearly that he was not putting his heart in what he did. He used inferior materials, and his work, like that of his aides, was lacking. It was an unfortunate way to put an end to his career. 
When the mason finished the job, the boss came to inspect the house and handed him the keys to the front door. "This is your house, dear friend said. It is a gift for you. "
If Mason had known he was building his own house, probably would have made totally different
Now he had to live in the imperfect house he had built! 

We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting when we should act, and without putting in that performance the best of us. 
Many times, not even we do our best at work. Then suddenly we see the situation we have created and find that we are living in the house we have built. If we had known earlier, we would have done differently. 
The conclusion is that we must think as if we were building our house. Every day we nailed a nail, got a wall or a roof we build. Build wisely is the only rule that can strengthen our existence. Even if we live only for a day, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. Life is like a draft it  yourself. His life now is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past.
Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices today!