Mi cumpleanos

Como sabrás, nos acercamos nuevamente a la fecha de mi
cumpleaños, todos los años se hace una gran fiesta en mi honor, y creo que este año sucederá lo mismo.

En estos días, la gente hace muchas compras, hay anuncios en las radios, en la televisión, y por todas partes no se habla de otra cosa sino de lo poco que falta
para que llegue el día.

La verdad, es agradable saber que, al menos un día algunas personas piensan
un poco en mi. Como tu sabes, hace mucho años comenzaron a festejar mi cumpleaños.

Al principio no parecían comprender y agradecer lo mucho que hice por ellos, pero hoy en día nadie sabe para que celebran.

La gente se reúne y divierte mucho, pero no sabe de que se trata.

Recuerdo el año pasado, al llegar el día de mi cumpleaños, hicieron una gran fiesta
en mi honor; pero, ¿sabes una cosa?,....... ni siquiera me invitaron.

Yo era el festejado y ni siquiera se acordaron de invitarme, la fiesta era para mí
y cuando llego mi gran día, me dejaron afuera, me cerraron la puerta. y yo quería compartir la mesa con ellos ....... (Apocalipsis 2:20).

La verdad no me sorprendió, porque en los últimos años todos me cierran
las puertas.
Como no me invitaron, se me ocurrió entrar sin hacer ruido y me quede,
en un rincón, estaban todos bebiendo, había algunos borrachos contando chistes, riéndose fuertemente; la estaban pasando en grande.

Para colmo llegó un viejo un viejo gordo, vestido de rojo, de barba blanca
gritando "jo, jo, jo, jo, jo", parecía que había bebido de más, se dejó caer pesadamente en un sillón y todos los niños corrieron hacia él diciendo
"Santa Claus, Santa Claus", como si la fiesta fuera en su honor.

Llegaron las 12 de la noche y todos comenzaron a abrazarse, yo extendí mis brazos esperando que alguien me abrazara.
Y, ¿sabes? Nadie me abrazó.

Tal vez creerán que yo nunca lloro, pero esa noche lloré; me sentía destruido,
como un ser abandonado, triste y olvidado.

Me llegó tan hondo, pero al pasar por tu casa, tú y tu familia me invitaron a pasar, además me trataron como un rey.

Tú y tu familia realizaron una verdadera fiesta en la que yo era el invitado de honor, además cantaron himnos recordando mi nacimiento; hacía tanto tiempo que a nadie
se le ocurría hacer eso.

Que Dios bendiga a todas las familias como la tuya, yo jamás dejo de estar con ellas ese día y todos los días.

Otra cosa que me asombra es que el día de mi cumpleaños en vez de hacerme
regalos a mí, se regalan unos a otros.

¿Tu que sentirías si se hicieran regalos unos a otros y a ti no te regalaran nada?

Una vez alguien me dijo:
¿Cómo te voy a regalar algo si nunca te veo?

Ya te imaginarás lo que le dije:
"Regala comida, ropa y ayuda a los pobres, visita a los enfermos
y a los que están solos y yo lo contaré como si me lo hubieras
hecho a mí".... (Mateo 25, 34-40).

Recuerdo lo que sucedió a un anciano llamado Juan, un día de mi cumpleaños
anduvo de casa en casa pidiendo posada porque tenía hambre y no tenía familia.

Tocó en muchas puertas sin que en ninguna le invitaran a la mesa, se dio
por vencido al ver que ni siquiera esa noche iba a sentir el calor de un hogar.

¿Que tienes Juan? El dijo: "Es que nadie me invitó a pasar"

Yo me senté a un lado de él y le dije:
"No te apures que a mí tampoco me han dejado entrar".

Pero toda paciencia tiene un limite, aun la MIA. Voy a contarte un secreto:
como son pocos los que me invitan a la fiesta que han hecho, estoy pensando
en hacer mi propia fiesta, una fiesta grandiosa como la que jamás se hubiera imaginado.

Una fiesta espectacular con grandes personalidades: Abraham, Moisés,
el rey David y otros.

Todavía estoy haciendo los últimos arreglos, por lo que quizá no
sea este año.

Estoy enviando muchas invitaciones y hoy, querido amigo, hay una invitación
para ti.

Sólo que quiero que me digas si quieres asistir y te reservaré un lugar, y escribiré
tu nombre con letras de oro en mi gran libro de invitados.

Prepárate, porque cuando todo esté listo, daré la gran sorpresa. Hasta pronto.

1964 : The Shangri-Las score a #1 hit with "Leader Of The Pack"

During the early-60s girl-group explosion, the Shangri-Las score their first and only #1 hit on this day in 1964 with the famously melodramatic epic "Leader Of The Pack."

From its sweet beginnings in a candy store—"He turned around and smiled at me/You get the picture?"—the romance described in "Leader Of The Pack" between the song's protagonist and her leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding boyfriend, Jimmy, quickly progresses in the face of strong disapproval from her parents—"They told me he was bad/But I knew he was sad." It was a song, in other words, perfectly calibrated to appeal to the romantic fantasies of America's teenage girls—fantasies that blended wholesome innocence with hints of danger, rebellion and darkly handsome boyfriends.

But if "Leader Of The Pack" gave the impression that the Shangri-Las themselves were girls of the worldly-wise, gum-snapping, white lipstick-wearing variety, the truth was rather different. In fact, the Shangri-Las were a quartet of clean-cut high school classmates from Queens—two sets of sisters, in fact. And according to "Leader Of The Pack" co-writer and co-producer Ellie Greenwich, the Weiss and Ganser sisters were so inexperienced and so nervous about the subject matter of what eventually become their career-defining hit, that the recording session was fraught with difficulty, requiring "spoon-feeding, mothering, big-sistering and reprimanding" just to get the Shangri-Las through it.

For Ellie Greenwich and her then-husband/songwriting partner, Jeff Barry, "Leader Of The Pack" was their second #1 hit, following on the Dixie Cups' "Chapel Of Love," a song that spun a very different kind of teenage fantasy. Like their former colleagues Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry and Greenwich were responsible for many of the classic works associated with the peak of the girl-group era, including the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Crystals' "And Then He Kissed Me" and "Da Doo Ron Ron" (all from 1963). They also wrote later #1 hits for Manfred Mann—"Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" (1964)—and Tommy James and the Shondells—"Hanky Panky" 1966

This is a "thought-provoking" message read it!

Relax your mind and humble your heart to focus on Christ. Allow God to
be the only person on your mind while you read this prayer. If we can take
the time
to read long

jokes, stories, etc., we should give the same respect to this prayer.

Friends, who pray together, stay together.

Dear Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to
see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God
and an
understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on
blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or
thought that was not
pleasing to you. I ask now for Your forgiveness.

Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each
and every
day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. Let me
continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when
I sin,
let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrong doing, and receive
the forgiveness of God.

And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example --
to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when
I'm pushed
beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my
heart. Continue to use me to do

Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong
that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of
encouragement
for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I
pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who
don't know
You intimately. I pray for those who will delete this without sharing
it
with others. I

pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.

I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for
all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their
households.
I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt
and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem,
circumstance, or situation

greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight. I
pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees
them and every
mouth that confesses them willingly..

This is my prayer.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Pass this message to 20 people except you and me.
Don't ignore and God will bless you. Know that you are already blessed
by the person who sent this to you.

1942 : Jimi Hendrix born

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar. In the next two years, before the band broke up in 1969, it had released such classic songs as "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).

After the band dissolved because of creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve in 1969. The band put out only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, which was released in 1971.

Hendrix, one of the most innovative guitar players of the rock era, established an advanced recording studio in New York called the Electric Lady, boasting 46-track recording technology. The studio opened in August 1970, shortly before Hendrix died in London in September 1970, following a drug overdose. He was 27.

Laughter, it is real medicine

DOCTORS' ORDERS
Let go---laugh
some use laughter to manage chronic pain. some might suffered from
ankylosing spondylitis, the same disease that Dr Norman cousins had.
(You
might recall that Dr. Norman Cousins popularized the notion that the
body's
natural pain-killers are released when we laugh: he discovered that if
he
laughed for ten minutes he could sleep without pain for thirty.) some
report
that laughter managed pain, but that mostly it helped to cope
emotionally
with the condition.

Some find that laughter helped their children fall asleep. (They invent
all
sorts of games involving laughter that calmed children down enough to
rest.)
After a few minutes of laughter, children are out till morning (and
everyone
could rest easy).

What a powerful prescription laughter is, and one that can be applied to
so
many situations.

Laughter is free, fun, mood-altering, relaxing, life-changing,
relationship-building, tension-breaking, . But it does not come without
a
price: that of letting go.

You can't hold a grudge when you laugh. In those moments you give into
something more powerful: joy.

What a small price to pay.

This week, is there someone you with whom you could share a laugh?

1973 : Ringo Starr earns a solo #1 hit with "Photograph"

Ringo Starr becomes the third former Beatle to earn a solo #1 hit when "Photograph" tops the Billboard Hot 100 on November 24, 1973.

Ringo Starr—the man who replaced Pete Best on drums in the Beatles in 1962—once famously proclaimed of his role in the group that he was "joost happy to be here." But just because he was willing to act the part of the blindly lucky tagalong on the Beatles' gravy train doesn't mean that it was true. Ringo Starr's quietly spectacular drumming laid a foundation for the Beatles' revolutionary sound, and his self-effacing charm became a key component of the Fab Four's popular identity. But Starr's likability was no creation of the media. Indeed, even if fans could never agree on who their favorite Beatle was, there can be no question who was the Beatles' own favorite: It was Ringo—the one and only member of the Fab Four who maintained a solid friendship with each of his former band mates even after their acrimonious breakup.

Proof of Ringo Starr's special place within the Beatles can be found in his beautiful 2004 book Postcards from the Boys, a collection of sweet, funny and heartfelt cards sent to Starr by his famous former band mates both during and after their years together as Beatles. It is no accident that the former Mr. Richard Starkey was the only former Beatle to have such a collection gathering dust in a drawer at home, just as it is no accident that the only musical project to which all four Beatles ever contributed after their 1970 breakup was his 1973 album Ringo.

Ringo yielded two #1 hits for Starr: "Photograph," which topped the Billboard pop chart on this day in 1973; and "You're Sixteen," which did the same just two months later. "Photograph" was co-written by George Harrison, who also contributed backing vocals and a 12-string guitar solo to the track. Harrison had been the first solo Beatle to top the pop charts back in December 1970 with "My Sweet Lord," followed shortly thereafter by Paul McCartney with his two-sided 1971 hit "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey." McCartney contributed the song "Six O'Clock" to Ringo as well as backing vocals on "You're Sixteen." John Lennon, who became the final former Beatle to top the pop charts when "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" hit #1 in November 1974, wrote the opening track of Ringo—"I'm The Greatest"—on which he also played piano and sang backup.

The New Version of Footprints

Imagine you and the Lord Jesus are walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the pace.

But your footprints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and returns.

For much of the way, it seems to go like this, but gradually your footprints come more in line with the Lord's, soon paralleling, His consistently...

You and Jesus are walking as true friends!

This seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens: Your footprints that once etched the sand next to Jesus' are now walking precisely in His steps.

Inside His larger footprints are your smaller ones, you and Jesus are becoming one..

This goes on for many miles, but gradually you notice another change. The footprints inside the large footprints seem to grow larger.

Eventually they disappear altogether. There is only one set of footprints.. They have become one.

This goes on for a long time, but suddenly the second set of footprints is back. This time it seems even worse! Zigzags all over the place. Stops. Starts. Gashes in the sand. A variable mess of prints.

You are amazed and shocked. Your dream ends. Now you pray: 'Lord, I understand the first scene, with zigzags and fits. I was a new Christian; I was just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with You.'

'That is correct.'
'And when the smaller footprints were inside of Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps, following You very closely..'

'Very good.. You have understood everything so far..' When the smaller footprints grew and filled in Yours, I suppose that I was becoming like You in every way.'

'Precisely.'
'So, Lord, was there a regression or something ? The footprints separated, and this time it was worse than at first.'

There is a pause as the Lord answers, with a smile in His voice.

'You didn't know? It was then that we danced!

El inventor de la Harley

el inventor de la Harley-Davidson, Arthur Davidson, murió y fue al cielo.

Al llegar a las puertas del cielo, San Pedro le dice:
- Hijo mio, como fuiste un buen hombre y tus motos cambiaron al mundo, tu premio es poder encontrarte con quien tu desees!
Arthur penso un poco y despues dijo:
- Quiero encontrar me con Dios!
San Pedro llevó Arthur hasta la sala del trono y lo presentó ante Dios.
Dios reconoció a Arthur y le dijo:
- Entonces fuiste tu que inventaste la Harley-Davidson?
Arthur respondió:
- Es verdad fui yo ..
Dios comentó:
No fue una buena invención...
Es un vehículo inestáble, ruidoso y contaminante. De mantenimiento complicado, alto consumo.....
Arthur molesto con los comentarios retrucó:

- Desculpeme, pero no fue el Señor que inventó a la mujer?

- Si, fui yo! - Respondió Dios.
- Bien, aqui entre nosotros, de profesional para profesional, su invención no fue nada feliz!

- la suspensión delantera es muy inconsistente;

- Es muy ruidosa y habladora en altas velocidades;

- En la mayoría de los casos, la suspensión trasera está floja y vibra demás;


- El área de entretenimiento está localizada demasiado cerca de la de reciclado;
- Y los costos de mantenimiento son exorbitantes.

Dios meditó y respondió:
- Si, es verdad mi invento tiene defectos, pero de acuerdo con los datos que dispongo, hay muchos mas hombres montados en mi invento que en el tuyo.

1975 : KC and the Sunshine band top the U.S. pop charts with That's The Way (I Like It)

One of the most popular American pop groups of its time, KC and the Sunshine Band earned the second of their five #1 pop hits on this day in 1975 when "That's The Way (I Like It)" reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

With their breakthrough single, "Get Down Tonight" (1975), having implored listeners to "Do a little dance" and "Make a little love...," KC and the Sunshine Band's follow-up mined very much the same territory with its driving, danceable beat and its frank declaration, "That's the way/Uh-huh, Uh-huh/I like i/Uh-Huh." But as risqué as the lyrics written by Harry Wayne Casey and his songwriting partner (and Sunshine Band co-founder), Richard Finch, tended to be, they were always delivered in a way that was more exuberant than suggestive. AM radio—white pop stations and black R&B stations alike—loved the racially integrated KC and the Sunshine Band, and so did many critics. As Steven Ditlea wrote in a rave New York Times review of one of the group's live appearances, "KC has the stage presence and the musical ability to bridge the cultural chasm separating white performers and black listeners as well as between black music and white audiences."

Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch first began working together musically as low-level employees at a small, Hialeah-based record label called T.K. Their big break came in 1974, when a struggling T.K. artist named George McCrae overheard an instrumental track Casey and Finch had recorded on their own and volunteered his services as a singer. In just two takes, McCrae recorded the vocal track on a record called "Rock Your Baby," which was released in the spring of 1974 and went on to sell upwards of 3 million copies on its way to becoming a #1 pop hit. Following the success of "Rock Your Baby," Casey and Finch released an album called Do It Good that failed to find a large audience, but their second studio album, KC and the Sunshine Band (1975), was a multi-platinum smash that included both of the group's first two #1 pop hits as well as a third major hit in "Boogie Shoes."

Origin of the word "Shit"

Manure: In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.

Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "Ship High In Transit" on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T " , (Ship High In Transport) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

The Fire Chief Explains

In South Los Angeles , a 4-plex was destroyed by a fire.

A Nigerian family of six con artists lived on the first floor, and all six died in the fire. An Islamic group of seven welfare cheats, all illegally in the country from Kenya , lived on the second floor, and they, too, all perished in the fire. 6 LA, Hispanic, Gang Banger, ex-cons, lived on the 3rd floor and they, too, died. A lone, white couple lived on the top floor... The couple survived the fire.

Jesse Jackson, John Burris and Al Sharpton were furious. They flew into LA and met with the fire chief, on camera.

They loudly demanded to know why the Blacks, Black Muslims and Hispanics all died in the fire and only the white couple lived?

The fire chief said, "They were at work"

Hallan un método para borrar malos recuerdos

¿Quién dice que los recuerdos de experiencias desagradables permanecen en el cerebro durante toda la vida? Científicos de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad Johns Hopkins (EE UU) han descubierto que eliminando proteínas de cierta zona del cerebro desaparecen los recuerdos negativos. "Nuestro estudio describe los mecanismos moleculares involucrados en la memoria de miedo y la posibilidad de manipular esos mecanismos con fármacos para tratar problemas como el trastorno por estrés post-traumático", explica el neurocientífico Richard L. Huganir, coautor del trabajo.

En sus experimentos, Huganir y sus colegas produjeron un trauma en ratones aplicándoles una descarga eléctrica a la vez que hacían sonar un ruido específico. Tras la experiencia, los ratones reaccionaban quedando inmóviles con sólo escuchar el tono. En los circuitos nerviosos de la amígdala -la parte del cerebro relacionada con el miedo-, los científicos detectaron que se había producido un aumento en la actividad de ciertas células nerviosas. Y examinando las proteínas antes y después de la exposición al sonido en la zona, identificaron que ciertas proteínas llamadas AMPARs estaban relacionadas con el recuerdo que causaba miedo a los roedores. Al eliminarlas, se borraba también el recuerdo asociado al trauma.

“La posibilidad de borrar recuerdos puede sonar a ciencia ficción”, admite Huganir, que sin embargo está convencido de que dentro de poco se podrán utilizar sus hallazgos para ayudar a soldados que han vuelto de la guerra, a personas han sido víctimas de un rapto o a individuos que han sufrido alguna experiencia traumática.

1966 : Sandy Koufax retires

On November 18, 1966, Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was retiring after a great season--he’d led the Dodgers to a National League pennant and won his third Cy Young award. But he had chronic arthritis in his pitching arm, and he was afraid that if he kept playing baseball, eventually he wouldn’t be able to use his left hand at all. "In those days there was no surgery," he said much later. "The wisdom was if you went in there, it would only make things worse and your career would be over, anyway. Now you go in, fix it, and you’re OK for next spring."

Koufax entered the majors in 1955, when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. He didn’t do much for the Bums at the beginning of his career--his arm was powerful but he didn’t have much control over his pitches--but after the team moved to Los Angeles, Koufax began to settle down and throw much more consistently. In a game against the Giants in 1959, he tied the major league strikeout record (18); the next season, though he only won eight games, he struck out 197 batters in 175 innings.

In 1961, Koufax really hit his stride: He went 18-13 and led the majors in strikeouts, something he would do four times between 1961 and 1966. Meanwhile, during those six seasons he led the league three times in wins and shutouts, and twice he threw more complete games than any other pitcher. He set a new major-league season strikeout record--382--in 1965. (Only Nolan Ryan has since struck out more batters in a single season.) Koufax threw one no-hitter every year from 1962 to 1965, and in 1965 he threw a perfect game. His pitches were notoriously difficult to hit; getting the bat on a Koufax fastball, Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell once said, was like "trying to drink coffee with a fork."

But what Sandy Koufax is perhaps most famous for is his refusal, in 1965, to pitch the first game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. (Don Drysdale pitched instead, and gave up seven runs in the first three innings; "I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too," he said when the team’s manager pulled him out of the game.) In 1971, the 36-year-old Koufax became the youngest person ever to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

CUIDADÍN CON EL RELOJ CU-CU

Anoche salí con mis amigas a una 'reunión'.
Yo le dije a mi marido que regresaría a casa a las 12 en punto.
'Te lo prometo', le dije; pero la
'reunión' estuvo muy buena!!
....copitas, bailecito, más copitas...,
y se me fue la hora!!!
Resulta que llegué a casa a las 3 de la madrugada
completamente borracha....
Acababa de entrar y el mugre reloj cucú
hizo 'cu-cu' tres veces.
Al darme cuenta que mi marido se iba a despertar por
ese sonido, grité 'cu-cu' otras 9 veces más...
Me quedé tan orgullosa y satisfecha por haber tenido
de pronto, aunque borracha, una idea tan buena
para evitar pelear con mi marido...!!!
Me acosté de lo más tranquila pensando
en lo inteligente que soy!!!
Por la mañana, durante el desayuno,
mi marido me preguntó a qué hora había llegado
y le contesté que había llegado a las 12 en punto,
tal y como le había prometido.
El, de momento, no dijo nada, ni me pareció desconfiado,
'qué bieeeeen! ...salvaaaada!' ...pensé yo.
Entonces él me dijo: 'por cierto...
debemos cambiar nuestro reloj cucú.'
Le pregunté temblorosa, 'sííííí? ...y por qué mi amor?'
Y me dijo: 'bueno, anoche el reloj hizo 'cu-cu' tres veces,
.....luego, no sé cómo, gritó '¡¡mierda!!',
......después hizo 'cu-cu' cuatro veces más,
...... vomitó en el pasillo,
.....hizo 'cu-cu' otras tres veces,
..... se mato de risa y otra vez hizo 'cu-cu',
.....salió corriendo, pisó al gato,
rompió la mesita de la esquina de la sala,
se acostó a mi lado dando el último 'cu-cu',
y se durmió.

1981 : Fernando Valenzuela wins Cy Young Award

On November 11, 1981, Rookie of the Year Fernando Valenzuela wins the National League’s Cy Young Award, becoming the first player in baseball history to win both prizes in the same season.

In the spring of 1981, at the beginning of his first full season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Valenzuela was unstoppable. He won the first eight games he pitched, including seven complete games and five shutouts, with an 0.50 ERA. He was just 20 years old (though rumors abounded that he was actually closer to 30). His youth and evident good nature along with his paunchy, un-athletic build, goofy windup and the brilliant screwball known as "Fernando’s Fadeaway" endeared him to many baseball fans. Newspapers called the phenomenon "Fernandomania." His picture was on the cover of dozens of magazines. People crowded ballparks to see him play, especially during his triumphant early-season winning streak. A reporter from the Orange County Register wrote: "You had to be there, back in that magical summer of 1981, to see the long snaking lines of cars already waiting to get into the ballpark gate at 4:30 in the afternoon. You had to click on your radio and hear the happy, mariachi sound (The Ballad of Fernando) emanating from every station in town. You had to read the glut of newspaper ads hustling membership into the rapidly growing Fernando Fan Club."

Even though he was never again as good as he was that spring, Valenzuela had a solid season: he went 13-7 with eight shutouts and a 2.48 ERA. He had the league’s second-highest win total along with the highest number of complete games, shutouts, innings pitched and strikeouts. He started the All-Star Game for the NL--an unusual honor for a rookie--and pitched three wins to help the Dodgers beat the Yankees in the World Series.

Fernandomania eventually faded, even though Fernando himself remained a dependable pitcher. In 1983, he won the Silver Bat, the prize given to the best-hitting pitcher in the National League. In 1984, he threw a career-high 15 strikeouts in a game against Philadelphia. He set a major league record in 1985 for not allowing a single earned run in 41 1/3 innings, and the next year he won a league-leading 21 games. In 1990, he pitched his first no-hitter.

In all, Valenzuela pitched 11 seasons for the Dodgers. He retired in 1996, after a few years of bouncing from team to team. But he remains an inspiration for many young players, especially those from Mexico.

Yo Quiero un Tampax

2 niños de 8 años conversan en el parque.
- El niño le pregunta a la niña:
-¿Qué vas a pedir como regalo a Santaclaus?
- Yo le voy a pedir una Barbie ¿y tu?
-Yo le voy a pedir un tampax,responde el niño.
- ¿Qué es un Tampax? Pregunta la niña.
- Yo no sé,pero en la tele dicen que podés
ir a la playa todos los días, andar en bicicleta,
andar a caballo, bailar, ir a la
disco, correr, hacer de todo y lo mejor,
'sin que nadie se dé cuenta!!!

1951 : Yogi Berra is the AL MVP

On November 8, 1951, Yankees catcher Yogi Berra is voted the American League’s most valuable player for the first time in his career. St. Louis Browns’ ace pitcher and slugger Ned Garver almost won the award--in fact, a representative from the Baseball Writers Association of America phoned him and told him that he had won it--but after a recount it turned out that Berra had edged Garver out by a nose. "It’s great to be classed with fellows like DiMaggio and Rizzuto who have won the award," Berra told reporters that night. "I sure hope I can win it a couple of more times, like Joe did." He went on to be the league MVP twice more, in 1954 and 1955.

Berra had had a great season, for the most part--he’d been the Yanks’ leading slugger, with 27 homers and 88 RBI--but he’d had a dramatic slump near the end of the year. His teammate Allie Reynolds, meanwhile, had pitched two no-hitters in 1951, and Garver had won 20 games and batted .305 for the Browns, a "collection of old rags and tags" that had only managed to win 32 games that Garver wasn’t pitching. In the face of these performances, Berra was sure he wouldn’t win the award. "I was afraid I had blown it with the bad finish," he said.

In fact, it was one of the closest MVP races ever. Each member of the baseball writers’ association voted by naming the league’s 10 best players and then ranking them. A first-place vote got a player 14 points; second place was worth nine, third place eight, and so on. When the votes were tallied, the player with the most points overall won the MVP. Berra, Garver and Reynolds actually had the same number of first-place votes--six each--but Yogi squeaked by on his second-, third- and fourth-place points. (His final score was 187; Garver’s was 157; and Reynolds’ was 125.)

Berra was only the second catcher to win the AL MVP prize. (Mickey Cochrane was the first.) That same year, another catcher--Roy Campanella of the Dodgers--was the NL MVP.

Personality Type Report for Lurod

While you may not be anti-social, you do need (and deserve) your private time and space to retreat from the world. Unlike extroverts, you need to develop a concept of the world or some aspect of it before experiencing it. Too much socializing may sap your energies. Your energies are derived from exploring the inner world of ideas, impressions and pure thought.
SENSORY
You usually gather information with your senses: what you can see, hear, taste, touch and smell in the physical world. The facts gathered from the sensory data you process are the building blocks of your model of our world. You concentrate your energies on what actually exists and do not ponder what might exist too much. You are usually practical and rely on your common sense to guide you through the world. You see things as they are and have little or no need to search for underlying meanings.
JUDGING
You like decisions to be made as soon as possible. You are not comfortable with loose ends and like to see conflicts resolved as soon as possible. You have a preference for a well-structured, orderly lifestyle with few surprises. It may not be all that important who makes the decisions that gets things done as long things do get done. You take commitments very seriously. While you are not inflexible, you do like to stick to a plan once it is set into motion.
FEELING
You make decisions subjectively based upon your values and what is important to you. How people will be affected by your decisions is important to you. You are likely to make decisions based upon what you feel is acceptable and agreeable rather than what is logical. Your truths are founded in your values and those of the society you live in. It is important to remember that we are discussing how you evaluate data and make decisions, and that you rely on your feelings to do so in no way implies you are overly emotional.
Your Personality Type
Introvert/Sensing/Feeling/Judging

While quiet and reserved by nature, you are very warm-hearted, considerate, gentle, and trustworthy. You have a very well developed work ethic, which ensures you will complete the task before you in a timely manner. You like to help others and are very comfortable working behind the scenes to do so. Getting the job done is far more important to you than accolades for a job well done. You are detail oriented and meticulous in your work habits. Even small mistakes haunt you. While you are not one to give orders, you are very supportive of those around you.

In relationships you are kind, considerate, and show your affection by fulfilling the needs of those you love. You want a comfortable life for yourself and your loved ones and will do what you can to make your lives so. You like a structured lifestyle with well defined goals. You avoid hurting others. Your need to feel needed can keep you in unhealthy relationships with overly needy people. .

Famous People of Your Type:

Louisa May Alcott, Lord Tennyson, Barbara Bush, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth II of England, Robert E. Lee, Queen Mary I.

Occupations Suited to Your Type Include:

Bookkeeper, clerical specialist, computer operator, counselor, curator, dental hygienist, medical assistant, nurse, office manager, optician, paralegal, retailer, secretary, teacher, and veterinarian.

COMO RECLUTAR A LA PERSONA PERFECTA

Como reclutar a la persona perfecta para un puesto dentro de su empresa.

Haga la siguiente prueba:

Ponga cien ladrillos con algún orden particular en un cuarto cerrado que tenga una gran ventana abierta.

Envíe de 2 a 3 candidatos al cuarto, déjelos sólos, cierre la puerta, regrese en 6 horas y analice la situación:

1.-Si están contando los ladrillos: Póngalos en Contabilidad.
2.-Si los están re-contando: Póngalos en Auditoría.

3..-Si están acomodando los ladrillos de un modo raro: Póngalos en Proyectos.

4.-Si han transformado en un desmadre el lugar y no supieron qué hacer con los ladrillos: Póngalos en Ingeniería.
5.-Si están tirando, rompiendo y escondiendo los ladrillos rotos: Póngalos en Producción.

6.-Si están durmiendo y no han movido los ladrillos: Póngalos en Seguridad.

7.-Si están llevando y trayendo los ladrillos por todo el cuarto: Póngalos en Logística.

8.-Si están sentados sin hacer nada y no tienen ni idea de para qué son los ladrillos: Póngalos en Recursos Humanos.
9.-Si dicen que han probado varias formas de acomodarlos, pero en realidad no han movido ni un sólo ladrillo: Póngalos en Sistemas.

10.-Si rompieron los ladrillos en pedacitos y tratan de arreglarlos: Póngalos en Mantenimiento.

11.-Si mienten en la cantidad de ladrillos que hay: Póngalos en Compras.

12.-Si están planeando alguna estrategia para acomodar los ladrillos: Póngalos en Almacenes.

13.-Si movieron los ladrillos y no los situaron bien y se echan la culpa unos a otros: Póngalos en Control de Calidad.

14.-Si están proponiendo métodos para guardarlos y/o utilizarlos y se pelean con todas las áreas: Póngalos en el Departamento Jurídico.

Pero las más importante:


15.-Si sólo están mirando por la ventana, hablando por el celular y les importa tres carajos los ladrillos.

¡HÁGALOS JEFES!

CLYDE KING

Another member of Yankees royalty has passed, this one a King. The man who served Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner as coach, manager, general manager and general repairman, Clyde King has died. A former big league pitcher who swore he once used bubble gum to strike out Willie Mays, King died on Tuesday in North Carolina, the state where he spent most of his 86 years. He had been hospitalized for two weeks.

King's death is the fourth of a high-profile Yankee since mid-July. Steinbrenner, public-address announcer Bob Sheppard and former manager Ralph Houk also died in the interim.

King was the third of three Yankees managers in 1982. He worked the final 62 games after Steinbrenner had dismissed Bob Lemon and Gene Michael. Steinbrenner had King, then the GM, inform Yogi Berra of his dismissal in '85.


Clyde King, as manager of Triple-A Rochester, watches Fidel Castro throw a ceremonial first pitch in 1960. (AP)King served as GM beginning in 1984 and through '86. He coached on the big league level in '78, '81, '82 and '88. He was widely regarded as one of Steinbrenner's often invisible "baseball people" and may have been the primary one when he was without a more specific title.

The Boss considered King a Mr. Fix It, often assigning him to work with troubled young pitchers and occasionally veteran pitchers. Steinbrenner acknowledged that he considered King a manager, GM or pitching coach in waiting.

King pitched for the Dodgers for six seasons in a nine-year sequence, beginning in 1944. He pitched for the Reds in 1953. He produced a 32-25 record in 200 career appearances, 21 of them starts, and his career ERA was 4.14 in 496 innings. Three of King's four complete games came against the Reds. He later coached with the Reds and Pirates.

King also managed the Giants in 1969 and into '70, then the Braves for part of '74 and most of '75. The composite winning percentage of the teams he managed was .505.

King reveled in his experiences managing Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Henry Aaron, Gaylord Perry, Juan Marichal, Phil Niekro, Dave Winfield and Rich Gossage.

"Put my teams together, and we could have won a lot of games," King said, reminiscing in 1994. "I've been around a lot of greats, and I faced a lot of them."

King liked to tell of how he disposed of Mays in 1951 -- Mays' rookie season -- with a breaking ball that befuddled the Giants' center fielder. King swore he stuck a piece of bubble gum to the ball before he threw it and Mays walked from the plate to the dugout shaking his head. However, there is no record of Mays striking out in his five career at-bats against King.

King also said he wore his cap cocked to his left so that a runner on first base would think he was paying close attention to him. Others recalled King using that tactic, but none recalled whether it was effective.

A gentle man with an easy laugh, King was widely regarded as the player who founded the Baseball Chapel.

ONE - LINERS

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

If sex is a pain in the ass, then you're doing it wrong...

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station..

Some people are like Slinkies, not really good for anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

The sole purpose of a child's middle name, is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

God must love stupid people. He made SO many.

Good girls are bad girls that never get caught.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.

Virginity is like a soapbubble, one prick and it is gone.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child.

Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

I have never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

Life's a bitch, 'cause if it was a slut, it'd be easy.

I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.

Girls are like roads, more the curves, more the dangerous they are.

Does time fly when you're having sex or was it really just one minute?

Without nipples, breasts would be pointless.

They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

I don't have an attitude; I have a personality you can't handle.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.

Panties not best thing on earth, but next to it.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Life's like a bird, it's pretty cute until it shits on your head.

Vegetarian: Native American definition for "lousy hunter".

Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.

Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you are abusing the privilege!

When we were together, you always said you'd die for me. Now that we've broke up, I think it's time you kept your promise!

Silence doesn't mean your sexual performance left her speechless.

Hurricanes are like women: when they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave they take your house and car.

You are depriving some poor village of its idiot.

I love to give homemade gifts. Which one of my kids do you want?

Constipated people don't give a crap.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.

You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.

I don't give a shit, but if I did, you'd be the first person I'd give it to.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Every time you open your mouth, some idiot starts talking.

Your kid may be an honors student, but you're still an idiot.

Big cats can be dangerous, but a little pussy never hurt anybody.

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need it.

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it...so I said "Implants?"

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

Some people say "If you can't beat them, join them". I say "If you can't beat them, beat them", because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise.

Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

Women may not hit harder, but they hit lower.

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

An Interesting News Story

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- When the ball hits the bat, the radio announcer exclaims
that it's sailing far. Dean Du Plessis' acute sense of hearing and his
eavesdropping on other commentators helps him overcome the fact that he is
blind, producing a delivery so polished that most listeners are unaware that
he can't see. Du Plessis hears the power and direction of the hit. He
listens to the speed and spin of the ball, along with the players' exertions
and their cries of elation or frustration. He senses the excitement -- or
otherwise -- of the play on the cricket field and collates the scores with a
computer-like memory. In the media area at Harare's Country Club sports
field, other journalists see the ball soar skyward after a sharp crack on
the bat. That's a big one. It's gone for six," said the 33-year-old Du
Plessis, his opaque eyes gazing into the distance. It has, flying way out of
the field. Team members and spectators murmur applause as the often sedate
game of cricket that originated in Britain goes on. In a fast-moving sport
like basketball, De Plessis' feat would likely be impossible. He asks a
friend to confirm the score on the board and feeds the latest to state
radio. I have to ensure I am totally accurate," he told The Associated
Press. I'm generally spot on or very close. I think I have a pretty big hard
drive in my head. On this day, in a friendly match against New Zealand
visitors in Harare, he doesn't have the advantage of mini cameras and
microphones placed in the stumps, three upright sticks at each end of the
pitch, that are routinely placed on the field at top international games.
Used as a "television umpire" and to assist in television coverage, they
help Du Plessis "watch" the game. When they are there, the mikes are very
important," he said. In commentating at international games in Bangladesh
and South Africa, he said he listens to fellow sighted commentators and also
asks questions of scorekeepers and players alike. Former Australian star
Test cricket player Shayne Warne has body movements and verbal grunts that
are easy to discern, according to Du Plessis. Other world sportsmen have an
audible "signature" too. A former England cricket team captain talks to a
struck ball, willing it to roll further to the four-run boundary line, said
Du Plessis. The Zimbabwe-born commentator was born with tumors in both eyes
and his parents were told he wouldn't live beyond infancy. They sent him to
a school for the blind in neighboring South Africa at age six in the absence
of a similar facility at home. It was there that his passion for sports was
born as he listened to radio commentaries. Above the sound of firecrackers
and the "cacophony" of tens of thousands of cricket-mad Asian supporters, he
easily followed an Indian cricket series by "tuning in" to all the sound
effects. Zimbabwe beat South Africa in the 1992 cricket World Cup and soon
after beat top Test cricket nation England in Harare. I was already hooked,"
said Du Plessis. A former telephone operator, he now works as a media editor
at the national cricket governing body's headquarters in Harare. He reads
braille but says audio programs on mobile phones and computers have made
punched braille manuscripts almost obsolete. He follows martial arts
competitions in Zimbabwe and belongs to motorcycle club that meets Sundays,
enjoying riding on the back of fast bikes. He is not inhibited nearly as
much as you would expect," said veteran award-winning Zimbabwe sports writer
John Kelley. His memory for the scores and his match summaries are
absolutely astonishing. A policeman at a roadblock recognized Du Plessis
immediately from his radio voice when he said good morning and let him
proceed. Du Plessis said he dreams of working full time for a major
international sports channel, "but as soon as people learn I'm blind they
back off. Still, he has shared commentary boxes with the world's best in
South Africa and Asia, and earned many colleagues' respect. He's unique. On
air, you can't tell he's blind. Only a circle of cricket followers know he
is," said Dave Emberton, a Zimbabwe broadcast news reader. .