Un discurso corto, por Bryan Dyson

Un discurso corto, por Bryan Dyson, al dejar el cargo de Presidente de Coca Cola. Imagina la vida como un juego en el que estás malabareando cinco pelotas en el aire. Estas son: - tu Trabajo, - tu Familia, - tu Salud, - tus Amigos y - tu Vida Psíquica*, y tú las mantienes todas en el aire. Pronto te darás cuenta que el Trabajo es como una pelota de goma. Si la dejas caer, rebotará y regresará (¡hoy día no tanto!). Pero las otras cuatro pelotas: Familia, Salud, Amigos y Psiquismo son frágiles, como de cristal. Si dejas caer una de estas, irrevocablemente saldrá astillada, marcada, mellada, dañada e incluso rota. Nunca volverá a ser lo mismo. Debes entender esto: apreciar y esforzarte por conseguir y cuidar lo más valioso. Trabaja eficientemente en el horario regular de oficina y deja el trabajo a tiempo. Dale el tiempo requerido a tu familia y a tus amigos. Haz ejercicio, come y descansa adecuadamente. Y, sobre todo...crece en vida interior, en lo psíquico, que es lo más trascendental, porque es para toda tu vida. Shakespeare decía: Siempre me siento feliz, ¿sabes por qué? Porque no espero nada de nadie, esperar siempre duele. Los problemas no son eternos, siempre tienen solución. Lo único que no se resuelve es la muerte. La vida es lo que es, ¡por eso, ámala, vívela! y recuerda: Antes de hablar... ¡Escucha ! Antes de escribir... ¡ Piensa! Antes de criticar... ¡ Examínate ! Antes de herir... ¡ Siente ! Antes de suplicar... ¡ Perdona ! Antes de gastar... ¡ Gana ! Antes de rendirte... ¡ Intenta ! ANTES DE MORIR... ¡¡ VIVE !!"

Queen of country music Kitty Wells dies at 92

Veteran country singer Kitty Wells, who became famous as the first female country music star, died on Monday at her home in Madison, Tennessee. She was 92. The cause was complications of a stroke, her grandson John Sturdivant Jr said. The crooner, who rose to fame after the recording of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", was intending to retire from the business at the age of 33 to devote her full time to family, the New York Times reported. In 1999, she told the Nashville Scene, that the only reason to record the number was to collect the union-scale wage that the session would bring. "I wasn't expecting it to make a hit," she said. "I just thought it was another song." However, Wells's record proved to be a rejoinder to Hank Thompson's No. 1 hit "Wild Side of Life". "Honky Tonk Angels" resonated with women who had been outraged by 'Wild Side of Life', which questioned their morals and their increasing social and sexual freedom. Although, the NBC radio network banned Wells's record, deeming it "suggestive", her record spent six weeks at the top of the country charts and crossed over to the pop Top 40. The record's success not only made her the biggest female country music star of the post-war era, it also persuaded record executives in Nashville to offer recording contracts to other women. According to Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann, authors of "Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000", "She was always proper, always dignified". "She dressed in prewar gingham instead of pantsuits, flamboyant Western garb or satin costumes," they wrote. Wells not only became a model for generations of female singers, from Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to Iris DeMent, renowned song publisher Fred Rose also anointed her as the 'Queen of Country Music'. And even though, she placed 84 singles on the country charts, 38 of them in the Top 10, during her 27-year recording career, family was of most importance to the singer and her husband. The singer was also elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976. Later in 1991 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presented her with a lifetime achievement award. Only two other performers in country music, Hank Williams and Roy Acuff, had previously received that honour.

Vivir en Paz

Vive en Paz -Sueña- Pero no desees ser quien no eres. Eso es pesadilla. -Anhela- Pero no quieras una vida igual a la de alguien más. Eso es muerte. -Imagina- Pero no fantasees con lo que no puedes tener. Eso es locura. -Disputa- Pero no intentes vencer lo invencible. Eso es suicidio. -Habla- Pero no solo de ti mismo. Eso es egoísmo. -Date a conocer- Pero no te muestres con orgullo. Eso es exhibicionismo. -Admira- Pero no te lastimes con envidia. Eso es falta de autoapoyo. -Evalúa- Pero no te coloques como modelo de conducta. Eso es egocentrismo. -Alégrate- Pero no exageradamente y con alarde. Eso es desequilibrio. -Elogia- Pero no te deshagas en adulaciones. Eso es hipocresía. -Observa- Pero no juzgues. Eso es baja autoestima. -Llora- Pero no te declares un ser infeliz. Eso es autopiedad. -Preocúpate- Pero no estés pendiente de la vida del prójimo. Eso es abandonar tu propia vida. -Anda- Pero no atravieses el camino ajeno. Eso es invasión. -Vive- Feliz con lo que puedes tener. Feliz con lo que te es posible ser. Eso es Paz. Hay un amigo y un enemigo dentro de ti. ¿A cuál de ellos quieres despedir?

50 years of design and style in James Bond films going on display

The world's most famous spy movie franchise, James Bond, is celebrating its 50th anniversary, by holding an exhibition in London's Barbican Centre. The exhibit explores the suave secret agent's fashion sense with a display of costumes, props, set pieces and design drawings from the half century of 007 films. The white bikini sported by Ursula Andress, as she emerges from the sea, in one of cinema's most celebrated scenes joins more than 400 Bond archive items. The items will be displayed alongside those that they later inspired - such as the orange bikini worn by Halle Berry in 'Die Another Day'. Vehicles and gadgets on display include the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 which famously returned to the screen in Goldeneye and Pierce Brosnan's BMW motorcycle from 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. Current Bond Daniel Craig's famous tight blue trunks in Casino Royale is also part of the display, which will tour internationally after the show closes at London's Barbican in September. "This is an exhibition which deals with design in film," Sky News quoted Lindy Hemming, as saying. "So we have entered the archives which EON have collected over the years and we have tried to take pieces, interesting objects which would help us to understand design in films and the objects range from gadgets, clothing, jewellery, wonderful drawings of sets and models of sets and artwork. "It is a vast array of different things. They are all themed in a world that gives you the feel of being in a Bond film," Hemming said. Oscar-winning costume designer and co-curator credited Bond movies for the constant working of the British film industry, when there were other lulls, as it kept many technicians employed. Hemming, who has worked on various Hollywood hits, said she hoped crowds flocked to the exhibition. The exhibition runs from 6 July to 5 Sept 2012, after which it will tour internationally over a three-year period.

Natalia collaborating with Franco De Vita, Daddy Yankee

Spanish singer Natalia Jimenez is continuing to actively pursue her musical career via collaborations with Franco de Vita and Puerto Rican Daddy Yankee after making her debut as a judge on a talent programme in Barcelona. Jimenez said Tuesday in an interview with EFE from her home in Miami that she taped "Tan solo tu" with De Vita and worked on "La noche de los dos" with Daddy Yankee, a number that will come out on the reggaeton star's next album entitled "Prestige". The former lead singer of La Quinta Estacion has also collaborated with Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony. Regarding her participation in the first edition of the program "El numero uno", along with Miguel Bose, Ana Torroja, Sergio Dalma and David Bustamante, the 30-year-old Jimenez said that she was very grateful for the chance to be part of the panel of judges. The experience of being a judge was "super-great" and, at the same time, it gave her more television visibility in her country, which - she said - helped more people to become familiar with her. Among her plans for the future, Jimenez said she is launching a new album and added that she is immersed in the song-writing process. In addition, soon she will begin a show tour through several US cities including Dallas, Chicago and Anaheim, California, as well as in Venezuela.

New cases of 'orgasm headaches' shed light on mysterious phenomenon

Doctors are hoping that new cases of intense mind-blowing headaches during sex may help uncover the cause of the rare and painful occurrence. Sometimes mind-blowing sex is not cause for celebration, as some individuals experience intense headaches that explode in pain at the moment of orgasm. Until now, only two cases of these sex headaches had been reported in teenagers. Two new cases, 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl, bring the odd, though not life-threatening, phenomenon to light. And doctors are hoping the sex-headache cases will make both other doctors and teens aware of the temporary disorder. "What I wonder about is whether there are many other adolescents out there who are having this problem and aren't telling anyone," the Discovery News quoted Dr. Amy Gelfand, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine as saying. "This is why pediatricians should be aware of this, so an adolescent doesn't have to raise this issue," she noted. About 1 percent of Americans have experienced a headache as the result of sex, called a primary sex headache, in their lifetimes; about 50 percent of individuals who have primary sex headaches also get migraine headaches. Even so, their cause remains a mystery. Primary sex headaches come in two varieties - one that gradually builds up in intensity during sex and the other develops explosively at orgasm. One idea is that muscle contraction during sexual activity may be involved in the gradual type of headache. For the explosive type, scientists have suggested blood vessels in the brain may be particularly sensitive and reactive to sexual activity. In the new case reports, detailed this week in the journal Pediatrics, Gelfand and neurologist Peter Goadsby, also at UCSF, described both headache types. About three weeks before visiting the doctor, the teen girl started experiencing gradual primary sex headaches for the first time in her life. "About 1 minute before orgasm, she would develop a mild- to moderate-intensity throbbing headache in the midforehead," the scientists wrote in Pediatrics. "At orgasm, the head pain would instantly become severe, and she would develop photophobia, phonophobia, and movement sensitivity," they wrote, referring to fears of light and loud sounds, respectively. The teen boy, however, experienced the explosive type of headache that occurred at the moment of orgasm. He rated the pain as an 8 on a 10-point scale, indicating the pulsating, tearing headache built up about five to 10 seconds before orgasm and remitted after between 10 seconds and two minutes. The headaches would occur regardless of sexual position or whether he was having intercourse or masturbating. His primary sex headaches went away after several months. The teen girl's headaches seemed to come on immediately after she switched her contraception, though the researchers have no idea if the two were related; however, she did switch back to her original birth control pill, with the headaches going away about two weeks after her evaluation. Brain imaging on both teens revealed no abnormalities. Gelfand said the brain scans are performed to rule out any secondary cause of the headaches, such as an aneurysm that could be life-threatening. Since only four such cases in teens, including the two new ones, have been reported, researchers aren't sure if these headaches are more rare in teens than adults, or if teens are just less likely to tell a doctor about the odd sexual phenomenon out of embarrassment. The headaches generally go away after several months, with some lasting a year, Gelfand said. In the meantime, they can be prevented with a medicine called indomethacin that's analogous to ibuprofen, but keeps these sex headaches at bay if taken 30 minutes before sexual activity, Gelfand said. Gelfand said she hopes the case reports will encourage doctors to ask teens about these headaches, particularly if the teen has migraines. "For teenagers, if they're experiencing this [know that] they're not the only one, because it's probably even embarrassing to talk about it with their friends," she told LiveScience. "They do need to tell their doctor about it, because we would recommend imaging for these kids; and there are [preventive] treatments that can help them so they don't have to have it," she added.