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STRONG EARTHQUAKE HITS ICELAND


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A 6.1 earthquake hitted southern Iceland, the epicentre was near from the capital, Rayjavik.


Paul Enarson from the institute of earth sciences, explains the quake caused a considerable damage, cracked streets, roots, trees but fourtunately any 'human damage' has been reported. He says that people is well prepared for unexpected earthquakes like this one.


This event brings back to all mexican mature people the famous '85 earthquake, a very sad memory of the power of nature mother. Mexico City was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 on the Richter scale. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán and it was felt as far away as Los Angeles, California, as we know, with terribles sequels of hungry and destruction.


In The Science of Sleep movie, Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) exposes the fact like a part of "Disastrology" project, a dark humor compile of calendar pictures. In a way or another, we have a very special place in our minds for the great disasters and well of course great joys as a cool strawberry milkshake... Interesting!!! , isn`t it ?




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PHOTO EXHIBITION FOR THE BLIND

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The first ever photo exhibition for the blind called Touch and See has been launched in Ukraine!!!.

The idea was started by the Ukranian photo artist Yuri Bilak and made possible with the support of Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation, Open Ukraine Fund and the Embassy of France to Ukraine.


It features a series of images taken by Bilak and very color photo is coupled with its tactile replica, a transparent embossed file made of polymers and every work is accompanied with a soundtrack describing the picture. They were recorded by prominent Ukrainian politicians and artists like Kateryna Yushchenko (Ukrainian First Lady) and Arseny Yatseniuk.


So, from my point of view, this project allowed seeing Ukraine in a new perspective, as an innovative and responsible country and it was a great idea because it`s a graphic example of how joint efforts by the Ukrainians, national business, politicians, and artists can bring the real world closer to people deprived of the ability to see it in full color.


I guess this will give more visually handicapped Ukrainians a chance to make an acquaintance with Ukrainian and world culture so it would be an excellent idea to apply that kind of projects in the rest of the world.

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FOOD PROMISE FOR MEXICO POOR

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Unfortunately, due to globalization, the economy in the rest of the world always has a good or bad influence in Mexico. And as the rest of the word, we are suffering a crisis. The rising food prices it`s a fact we can`t deny. This is affecting a lot of Mexican families, most of them, the poorest of the country. Products like corn, chicken, rice, sugar, vegetables and meat are the most important food in Mexico.

Currently, The Mexican government is giving its poorest citizens a monthly cash payment of 120 pesos to help them cope with rising food prices.

But I think it is not a solution, 120 pesos it is not enough because prices continue rising and ,then, what are we gona do? We can see the Dollar falling but instead of being a suitable fact, it is affecting our economy.

Besides that, it is not only the food that is rising. The energy, what is an indispensabled part of the production is raising too and i think it is a the worst.

From my point of view, instead of giving some cash to the people, government should start changing some economic reforms to avoid this phenomenon or worried about the life quality of its citizens
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NEW BOND NOVEL UNVEILED





Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was born in 1908 but he died in 1964. He'd have been 100 today.

Fleming's being dead, you might think, would count against our getting another Bond novel on the order of his immortally titled classics such as For Your Eyes Only. But Bond novels are forever, after all, they'd sold more than 40 million copies at their author's death.

In 1981, Fleming's estate commissioned John Gardner to continue the sries. That first "posthumous" Bond novel was titled, License Renewed.

But now, is the turn of "DEVIL MAY CARE", that was written by best selling author Sebastian Faulks and is set in the Cold War. It was published by Penguin today to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth.

In a statement released with the book, Faulks explains he was "surprised but flattered" to be offered the opportunity. He told the estate that he "hadn't read the books since the age of 13," but would take on the task if he still liked them.

I think it is an excellent idea to remember the best writters of the history and the amazing novels they wrote.

The most interesting thing is that James Bond is renowned for his impeccable taste when it comes to women!!!!!, imagine that!!!

I guess, the girl on the front of the brand new Bond book will leave us both shaken and stirred. So we should read it to know !!


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THE DEVIL`S FOOT

This wonderful story had place when Sherlock Holmes was adviced about his health. So Watson and Holmes decided to take a holiday and in the spring of 1897 they moved to the western part of Cornwall and in this place they lived the strange adventure that I will relate you.

When Holmes and Watson were in their holiday, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis and Mr. Roundhay, visited Holmes to ask for help, because Tregennis’s two brothers had gone mad, his sister had died and he had not idea about the reasons. Last night, Tregennis had gone to visit them in their village (Tredannick) , he had been playing cards with them, and then he had left. When he came back that morning, he found them still sitting in their places at the table, the brothers, George and Owen, laughing and singing, and the sister, Brenda, dead.

Tregennis had had once a great problem with his siblings by the matter of dividing the proceeds from the sale of the family business, but he insisted that all had been forgiven, although he still lived apart from them. Indeed, everyone had seemed to be happy last night, so it was a mystery why Brenda had died with such a terrible look of horror on her face and there had not been signs of violence. For a while after arriving, the doctor who told that she had been dead for six hours, collapsed into a chair. In the morning the maid almost fell unconscious when she entered the sitting-room, but she felt better after the she opened the window. Holmes observed the remains of a fire in the fireplace but it was spring, so Tregennis explained that it had been a cold and wet night. Then, Dr. Leon Sterndale, came back from a travel because of news of this tragedy. The Tegennis`family were his cousins. Suddenly , Mortimer Tregennis died in the same way as his sister. So, Holmes and Mr. Roundhay along with Watson, rush to Mortimer’s room, and found it foul and stuffy. A lamp was burning on the table beside the dead man. Holmes discovered that the smoke from this powder was a potent potion called “Devil’s-foot root”.

Holmes had already deduced how the victims had died or went mad. It explained why people arriving later had felt unwell in each case.
It also seemed clear to Holmes that Mortimer Tregennis killed his sister and maddened his brothers with this poison, but who had killed him? Dr. Leon Sterndale. He had left physical evidence at the Tregennis house. All that Holmes didn`t know is why Sterndale had done it. Sterndale explained that he had loved Brenda for years and killed Mortimer for what he had done. It also turned out that he knew about the poison long before Holmes. When Sterndale explained it, Holmes decided to let him to go back to travel.

This story made me think about what people can do for money, in case of Tregennis, i can`t stand why somebody can do all kind of horrible things to get wealth. Poor man, I guess that people like him never lives on peace... But, fortunately, we all are not like that. On the other side, we could see what people can do for love. In case of Dr. Sterndale, I know it was a bad reaction, but i think about his pain and I would have done the same that Holmes. From my point of view, it was a wonderful end. I would never have imagined that.

When I read this story, I changed my mind about having a favorite one. I really love all Sherlock Holmes Stories I have read.. Now, I don't have any particular favorites. Sherlock Holmes is so great. I wish I could deduce and observe like him!

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THE CREEPING MAN



Again, the wonderful Sir Conan Doyle please us with this funny story. It took place in September 1903. When, as many times before, Holmes asked Watson to go with him. Obviously, Watson had already realized that Holmes needed him just to discuss his investigations, like a companion. When Watson arrived, Holmes told him that Professor Presbury`s dog had attacked him in the last days. It was a strange behaivor because the dog never had attacked anybody before.

Then, Mr. Trevor Bennett, the Professor Presbury's secretary come to Holmes with an unusual problem. First, professor suddenly had left home without telling anyone where he had gone. It was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr. Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague. Then, the whole household felt that they were living with another man, not the Professor Presbury that they once knew. There were definite changes in his moods and habits.Mr. Bennett mentioned that the dog attacks had been on July 2, 11, and 20. Holmes realized that these had happened in intervals of nine days each time.


Professor Presbury had been engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, although he was already sixty-one years old. The trouble seemed to had begun at about the time of Professor Presbury's and Alice's engagement. One night, Mr. Bennett saw the professor crawling along the hall on his hands and feet! Besides that, Edith Presbury (the doctor`s daugther) saw once her father at her bedroom window at two o'clock in the morning she was sure that she had not imagine that.


Holmes and Watson went to Camford to see the professor the next day. They decided to pretend that they had an appointment, but the professor was quite sure that he had made no appointment, and confirmed this with his secretary. Professor Presbury became furiously angry at the intrusion, and they decided to go out of the house. Before leaving the professor's house, Holmes had a look at Edith's bedroom window, and saw that it was almost impossible for a man to climb up there. Holmes formed a theory that every nine days, Professor Presbury took some kind of drug which caused the odd behaviour and that he had bought it in Prague at first. So Holmes and Watson would be in Camford once again on the next Tuesday.
Holmes had noticed the professor's thick and horny knuckles , until that day. He had not made the connection between those, the odd behaviour, the dog's change in attitude towards his master, and the creeper. The professor was behaving like a monkey! That night, the Professor came out of the house, and climbed on the creeper, unfortunately, the dog got loose and attacked the professor. Holmes, Watson and Mr. Bennett's helped to get the dog off the professor, but he had been already hurt. Watson and Bennett treated the professor's injuries.

The case was resolved, Prefessor had been taking a drug recomended by a quack to achieve rejuvenation which he thought would be advisable if he were going to marry a young woman. The drug was obtained from a kind of monkey, and although it has apparently given the professor renewed energy, it has also given him some of the monkey's characteristics.

The creeping man is a romantic and funny story. This was the first time I supposed the end before I read it. Once again, it showed us what people do for love. In this case I understand the Professor`s decision to take drugs just for feeling younger. But I think it`s not important the age, if Alice loved him, he should thought about his own health. I guess if she had realized of that situation, she had never let him do it.

Holmes is an extraordinary character !!! He has always logic and inteligent thougths and even Conan Doyle hate him once. That was what made him kill Holmes and Moriarty in one story. Thanks of God, the pressure`s readers forced him to make a resurrection!!! I don`t remember where but I listened about a comparison between Holmes and Dr. House. The names, drugs, abilities, hobbies, etc. and now I know why I love him too.


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SILVER BLAZE


This book is about Sherlock Holmes solving a mistery (as allways), this in particular has no clues aparently, but Holmes sees beyond anyone else can. So the history is developed showing us that he had all the clues needed and still we weren't able to solve it.


The story begins describing the crime giving us the false idea that the case is allmost solved by it self. At King's Pyland someone stole a racehorse just before a race in wich the was a lot of bet money involved, and it's trainer Straker was murdered. The night that happened, the maid saw a strange man trying to get information about the horses, of course that wasn`t permited so he was told to leave the place, the next morning Straker was found dead with a sharp wound in his leg and the boy that helped them was found sleeping, it seems that the murdered had putt some opium in the the boys chicken, so he woudn't see anything. As I said before the mistery seems allmost solve, but Holmes first concern was to find the horse.


He thought that horses like to be with horses, so he went to a stable near by, he described to the men there everything he had done, acusing him to steal the horse, Holmes was so accurate that the man actually thought that Holmes had seen him, so he confesed. Later on Holmes checks what was on straker's pockets and founds what actually solves the crime, a little knigf meant to perform accurate cuts (medical stuff). The next two big clues were that the dog didn't bark or make any noise when the stranger was there, so Holmes realized that for that to happen was necesary that the stranger wasn't a stranger at all, and second one was that the sheep were cut on the back of their feet making them lame, so conclusion was that Straker indeed tried to arrange the race by making the horse lame, but it when out of control and he was killed bye the horse.


In my opinion Doyle is the greatest (or one of the greatest) mistery tellers, it is so much fun try to figure out what happen in reality in all the cases, in everyone of them he gives us all the tools to find out before he tells us but a least I can't never see it before the author tells me, which I think is great, it's what makes to be worthwhile reading it.


In conclusion I truly recomend anyone who likes mistery to read Conan Doyle'stories, I can assure you, you won't regret it, and this one in particular is really good, of course there must be better ones, so I guess I am telling that I would like to read them all.


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THE SPECKLED BAND


One of the amazing Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is The speckled band. It is about a murdered by Dr Roylott, that after his wife death, he tries to keep all her money just for him. Helen Stoner is an english young woman that find Sherlock Homles because has a suspicious of her sister`s death. Julia (her sister) had been egaged to be married so she would received some money from her mother`s income.


On the other side, her stepfather Dr Roylott, had killed a man and was sent to prision for many years but later he returned to England. He did not seem to oppose the Julia`s wedding, however, one nigth shortly before the marriage, Julia went to the Helen`s room and said that he had been listening a whistle in recent nights but she didn`t know where it came from. After the conversation, Julia returned to her room where minutes later died. Before Julia died, she screamed Helen: oh my God, it was the speckled band!, bur police never discovered the cause.


Now, Helen is engaged to be married and she is afraid so asks Homes for help. Holmes investigate matters and discover Roylott will lose a lot of money if Helen marries. Then Holmes an his friend, Watson, go to the Dr Roylott`s house, enter in his room and see a strange bell cord over the bed.


That night they go back to that room and suddenly hear a whistle. Holmes sees what the bell cord is realy for and Speckled band were in fact describing the deadliest snake in India. The snake had been sent to Julia`s room by Dr to murder her and after the snake bit Julia he called teh snake with the whistling which made it climb up throug the bell cord, disappearing from de scene. Now the snake is sent again to kill Helen but Holmes attacks the sanke, sending it back through the air ventilator conected to the next room. The snake attacks Dr Roylott and he die.


Doyle reveled that he thought this was his best Holmes strory. I can`t agree because I have not read all his stories but I think this one is so good. The interesting thing here is that we know that Dr Roylott is guilty, is obvious, but I could not imagine how did he do it.


In this case, is incredible how somebody can be able to murder his “daugthers”. This talks about the wrong society in which we live. But also in the ingenuity to do something to get something else.Well, you should read this story, I never got bored and all the time was thinking, that's what I think is the objective of any mistery book, isn`t it?.


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RAISING ARIZONA

The movie is full of fun!!! The story is about H.I. (Nicholas Cage) an ex-convicted and "Ed" (Holly Hunter) an ex-police who meet when he keeps getting arrested for robbing convenience stores.


They fall in love, get married, decide that "there is just too much love" between them, and they want to have a baby.

I think the first important mishap is when they found that "Edwina's insides were a rocky place".
Then, they tried to adopt but are turned down because of H.I.'s record. Then they read in the newspaper about Nathan Arizona, owner of "Unpainted Arizona", and his wife having quintuplets as a result of fertility pills, and who joke that "They got more than they can handle".

I guess another mishap is when they plan to take one of the babies and raise it as their own!! In the movie sounds funny but I think it is terrible in the real life!

Then, I think that the best part of the movie is when they decide to return Junior to his parents! I took it like a moral because sometimes it`s difficult to realize when we are wrong and we want all kind of things that we can`t have.

However, I recommend it just to have fun in a sunday evening!!

BBC NEWS PODCAST REPORT (5)

LONG AWAITED JUDGE'S VERDICT ON MILLS VS McCARTNEY

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Heather Mills and Paul McCartney are divorced at last! Fortunately it`s over, especially because Heather had been making declarations against Paul that didn`t has evidence, like Mills claims of physical abuse by McCartney despite of there is no anecdotal evidence of Paul ever being physically abusive towards any woman.

Heather Mills wanted excesive 125 million pounds, imagine that !!! Do you want to know exactly what Heather Mills was demanding? :

By houses and properties, 3 milliion pounds to by a second one in new york and 8-12 million to buy another one in London.
For hollidays, 499 000 pounds every year including plane and helicopeter flights.
Tha fashion, 125 000 pounds in clothes every year.
The stuff, 868 000 pounds including security and drivers.
The lifestyle, 39 000 for wine, 40 000 pounds for horse ridding and 3.2 million pounds for year in cash.

But she doesn`t drink anymore or ride horses !!

The judge disagree and the 17th March of this year, she was awarded 23.7 million pounds (currently about 47 million dollars) in her divorce.

"I'm so glad it's over," said Mills, "and it was an incredible result, in the end, to secure my and my daughter's future, and that of all the charities that I obviously plan on helping."

Jajaja , my goodness!!!


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ANTARTIC ICE SHELF BREAK-UP

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This is latest crack in Antartic! Since few weeks ago, part of the ice shelf in this place have been disintegrating, and will soon crumble.

The same happened with six ice shelves in the same part of the continent that have already been lost.

Professor Vaughan had predicted in 1993 that the northern part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf would be lost in 30 years if climate warming continued. Unfortunately, we are realizing that it is happening more quickly than he expected. The climate warming have had an important impact in the region.

I think we have to reconsider what are we doing to avoid that climate warming continue, because it is affecting the environment and I think that government and us should take some steps.

For example:
to use efficient lights,
to increase the use of solar energy,
to decrease the gas of greenhouse emission.

And if we made them, certainly, we were helping to take care of our wonderful world.


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HUBBLE SITE : TONIGHT'S SKY , HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MARCH 2008 SKY

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/



Did you know that the largest stars have the shortest life span (still billions of years)? More massive stars burn hotter and faster than their smaller counterparts (like the Sun).

Or that stars twinkle when we see them from the Earth's surface because we are viewing them through thick layers of turbulent (moving) air in the Earth's atmosphere?
Stars (except for the Sun) appear as tiny dots in the sky; as their light travels through the many layers of the Earth's atmosphere, the light of the star is refracted many times and in random
directions (light is bent when it hits a change in density - like a pocket of cold air or hot air). This random refraction results in the star winking out (it looks as though the star moves a bit, and our eye interprets this as twinkling).

The universe is amazing! And this is an interesting site!! You can see, for example:

the March constellations (Gemini and Cancer),
March deep sky objects ("The cloudy star"),
March planets (Saturn, that is the only "star" that doesn`t twinkle),
and March events (The Equinox).

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THE SCIENCE OF SEDUCTION

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/radio1doc/






This is a documentary where is explained some important seduction skills!!!!

They make an interview with Mr Am and try to discover the science secrets and rules behind the attraction.

But is really there a scientific way to be lucky in love ?

The made an experiment using 2 young people:Victoria and Leon, both 23 years old. And realize there are some skills that you don`t have to forget if you want to go well with somebody , like :

to be confident,
to get over insecurity,
a good communication
or your body language.

Besides that, they say that the smell sense could be important for de human atraction and there are some special quemical characteristics that say something about te sex of the indivudual and the sexual behaivor !!! Have you ever listened about feromonas?
They are an important part of the art of seduction !!

But I agree with Robert Green, if you really want to be nice you have to get out of your own mind, your own skin and get into the other person world, get inside their head and discover all their fantasies, dreams, goals, etc.

Despite the chemestry, predjudices or appearance, you should be yourself... don`t worry if you failed... The best is when you find someone who love you and the way you are...




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AMY WINEHOUSE AT THE GRAMMYS AWARDS


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Radio1Ents: Baftas and Grammys.14Feb08


Amy Winehouse was one of the biggest winers at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, because she picked up 5 awards in the 6 categories in which she was nominated: Record of the year, Best New artist, Song of the year, Pop vocal album and Female pop vocal performance.

She performed via a satellite link from London because she had drug problems and the US embassy refused her a visa and reversed the decision at the last minute, when it was to late to get there.

So it was so good that she won because she is a really wonderful singer and deserved all those awards...but ...

what about drugs?


Most of the time, in the world entertainment is normal and common to use drugs... Why?, I am not sure... It could be by the pressure, bad influences or just fashion... But i think it is becoming a really serious problem...


Fortunately, Amy is getting help at the Capio Nightingale clinic ...

Check these videos.. The first one is a good song... "LOVE IS A LOSING GAME" , but the second one, shows the terrible that she can be...
Moral: Live without drugs !!!!!




EL POEMA DE AMOR

He aqui al fin uno de mis poemas favoritos...

La primera y ùnica vez que lo escuchè me hizo llorar... No sè en realidad si fue por mi estado sentimental en ese momento o porque la chica de quien lo escuchè en verdad parecìa inspirada... Sea cual sea la razòn de su probable inspiraciòn y sea cual sea la razòn de la mìa, se quedò grabado en mi durante algunos años sin que lograra yo encontrarlo ...


Hace poco encontrè en Hi5 a la misma chica que yo escuchè y no dudè en escribirle para preguntar su autor y mas datos... Despuès de unos cuantos meses de espera, al fin ayer lo recibì !!!! Chèquenlo...

EL POEMA DE AMOR


El poema de amor es el poema
de cada día: la sombra de una hoja
y este mirar al cielo en anhelante
perseguir una flor, una sonrisa.


¿El poema de amor? La más humilde
y la más tierna lluvia, el sobresalto
de una gota en la mano, como si una
leve mirada tuya iluminase
la selva en que se nutre el desconsuelo.


¿El poema de amor? El gran poema
de caminar conforme van los ríos
con un sollozo -nube- sobre el dorso,
y vigilar, con un sonriente miedo,
tu imagen de jazmín en el crepúsculo.


El poema de amor es la palabra
que ya se dijo ayer, que hoy no se dice.
Porque de sol a sol, de amor a amor,
reina un silencio fiel, como de mármol,
que es el clima ideal de estar de acuerdo.


El poema de amor bien puede ser
un soñar escribirlo y declararlo.
Y despertar, al fin, estremecido
abrazarte entre tibia y azorada
como a rosa ceñida por la brisa.


¿El poema de amor? Viene del fuego
y en el fuego perece, no sin darnos
la maestría en el tacto, la sorpresa
de imaginarnos vivos y con alas
cuando el beso es un ave en agonía.


Del poema de amor todo se dice
y nada se recuerda. Pero es bueno
señalar que se sabe y que se siente
un hondo respirar cuando tu paso
de adolescente ritmo llena mi alma.


No quise decir alma, sino sangre
y música de junio. Pero insisto
en que tu paso enciende mi alegría
como un poco de sol sobre los trigos.
Y es como darle vueltas al poema.


El poema de amor es darle vueltas
a lo que por sabido ya es callado.
Y volver a empezar como si nunca
te hubiese visto así, lánguida y pura,
desmenuzando mi habitual tristeza.


¿El poema de amor? Discretamente
habría sido resuelto en una frase.
Por ejemplo, decir… "Amada mía…"
Pero aquí llegas tú, puntual, serena,
A cerrarme la boca dulcemente.


5-6 de junio de 1943


EFRAÌN HUERTA

MI PRIMER BLOG

Hola a todos!!!!!

En mi vida jamàs habìa tenido un blog... En realidad porque nunca he sido buena para redactar y menos aùn sabiendo que alguien leerà todo lo que escriba. Ademàs... de que podrìa hablar ??? Quien visitarìa mi blog ???

No no, definitivamente estas cosas no son para mi... Pero ahora he tenido que hacerlo y creo que serà divertido...

Asì que porfa les ruego no ser tan duros...

Acepto sugerencias, comentarios o cualquier cosa que haga de mi blog algo mas visitable jajajajajaja !!!!!

Un saludo y un beso a todos !!!!