sábado, 31 de marzo de 2012

Crees que con nuestra cultura mexicana podríamos vivir al estilo Buffet?


Hace un par de días en twitter preguntaba a mis seguidores que si fueran hijos de algún multimillonario al estilo de Carlos Slim o Warren Buffet a que se dedicarían? las respuestas fueron variadas...sin embargo, pensando un poco la respuesta pues da lo mismo no? pues con tanto dinero puedes dedicarte a lo que gustes...sin embargo, el hijo de Warren Buffet, Peter de 53 años se voló la barda. Peter, es filántropo, bohemio y músico; sin embargo, no lo hizo como rebeldía sino, por el contrario fue auspiciado por sus propios padres, pues es de la filosofía de su papá el que darle todo los hijos los echas a perder (pero ni tanto que queme al santo no?).

Pues bien, dentro del mismo escenario imaginario me puse a dialogar conmigo-mismo y de acuerdo a la cultura en México, que digo México casi totalitaria mundial pensamos en un escenario de progreso y aspiración sería casi imposible vivir como y bajo las reglas de Warren Buffet que para mí además de ser un gurú financiero es TODO un ejemplo a seguir en el mundo de los negocios e inversiones es una increíble persona; sin embargo, de eso a querer vivir en la misma casa que compraste desde los años cincuentas, con la misma decoración y las mismas rutinas de vida...sería casi imposible para mí...no sé si para ti.


viernes, 15 de julio de 2011

WONDER WHY CALIFORNIA IS BROKE?

These are all California State Agencies


California Academic Performance Index (API) * California Access for Infants and Mothers * California Acupuncture Board * California Administrative Office of the Courts * California Adoptions Branch * California African American Museum * California Agricultural Export Program * California Agricultural Labor Relations Board * California Agricultural Statistics Service * California Air Resources Board (CARB) * California Allocation Board * California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority * California Animal Health and Food Safety Services * California Anti-Terrorism Information Center * California Apprenticeship Council * California Arbitration Certification Program * California Architects Board * California Area VI Developmental Disabilities Board * California Arts Council * California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus * California Assembly Democratic Caucus * California Assembly Republican Caucus * California Athletic Commission * California Attorney General * California Bay Conservation and Development Commission * California Bay-Delta Authority * California Bay-Delta Office * California Biodiversity Council * California Board for Geologists and Geophysicists * California Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors * California Board of Accountancy * California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology * California Board of Behavioral Sciences * California Board of Chiropractic Examiners * Californ ia Board of Equalization (BOE) * California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection * California Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind * California Board of Occupational Therapy * California Board of Optometry * California Board of Pharmacy * California Board of Podiatric Medicine * California Board of Prison Terms * California Board of Psychology * California Board of Registered Nursing * California Board of Trustees * California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians * California Braille and Talking Book Library * California Building Standards Commission * California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education * California Bureau of Automotive Repair * California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair * California Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation * California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine * California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services * California Bureau of State Audits * California Business Agency * California Bus iness Investment Services (CalBIS) * California Business Permit Information (CalGOLD) * California Business Portal * California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency * California Cal Grants * California CalJOBS * California Cal-Learn Program * California CalVet Home Loan Program * California Career Resource Network * California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau * California Center for Analytical Chemistry * California Center for Distributed Learning * California Center for Teaching Careers (Teach California) * California Chancellors Office * California Charter Schools * California Children and Families Commission * California Children and Family Services Division * California Citizens Compensation Commission * California Civil Rights Bureau * California Coastal Commission * California Coastal Conservancy * California Code of Regulations * California Collaborative Projects with UC Davis * California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth * California Commission on Aging * Ca lifornia Commission on Health and Safety and Workers Compensation * California Commission on Judicial Performance * California Commission on State Mandates * California Commission on Status of Women * California Commission on Teacher Credentialing * California Commission on the Status of Women * California Committee on Dental Auxiliaries * California Community Colleges Chancellors Office, Junior Colleges * California Community Colleges Chancellors Office * California Complaint Mediation Program * California Conservation Corps * California Constitution Revision Commission * California Consumer Hotline * California Consumer Information Center * California Consumer Information * California Consumer Services Division * California Consumers and Families Agency * California Contractors State License Board * California Corrections Standards Authority * California Council for the Humanities * California Council on Criminal Justice * California Council on Developmental Disabilities * California Court Reporters Board * California Courts of Appeal * California Crime and Violence Prevention Center * California Criminal Justice Statistics Center * California Criminalist Institute Forensic Library * California CSGnet Network Management * California Cultural and Historical Endowment * California Cultural Resources Division * California Curriculum and Instructional Leadership Branch * California Data Exchange Center * California Data Management Division * California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission * California Delta Protection Commission * California Democratic Caucus * California Demographic Research Unit * California Dental Auxiliaries * California Department of Aging * California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs * California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board * California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control * California Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating) * California Department of Child Support Services (CDCSS) * California Department of Community Services and Development * California Department of Conservation * California Department of Consumer Affairs * California Department of Corporations * California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation * California Department of Developmental Services * California Department of Education * California Department of Fair Employment and Housing * California Department of Finance * California Department of Financial Institutions * California Department of Fish and Game * California Department of Food and Agriculture * California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) * California Department of General Services * California Department of General Services, Office of State Publishing * California Department of Health Care Services * California Department of Housing and Community Development * California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) * California Department of Insurance * California Department of Justice Firearm s Division * California Department of Justice Opinion Unit * California Department of Justice, Consumer Information, Public Inquiry Unit * California Department of Justice * California Department of Managed Health Care * California Department of Mental Health * California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) * California Department of Personnel Administration * California Department of Pesticide Regulation * California Department of Public Health * California Department of Real Estate * California Department of Rehabilitation * California Department of Social Services Adoptions Branch * California Department of Social Services * California Department of Technology Services Training Center (DTSTC) * California Department of Technology Services (DTS) * California Department of Toxic Substances Control * California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) * California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVets) * California Department of Water Resources * California Departmento de Ve hiculos Motorizados * California Digital Library * California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program * California Division of Apprenticeship Standards * California Division of Codes and Standards * California Division of Communicable Disease Control * California Division of Engineering * California Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control * California Division of Gambling Control * California Division of Housing Policy Development * California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement * California Division of Labor Statistics and Research * California Division of Land and Right of Way * California Division of Land Resource Protection * California Division of Law Enforcement General Library * California Division of Measurement Standards * California Division of Mines and Geology * California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) * California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources * California Division of Planning and Local Assistance * California Division of Recycling * California Division of Safety of Dams * California Division of the State Architect * California Division of Tourism * California Division of Workers Compensation Medical Unit * California Division of Workers Compensation * California Economic Assistance, Business and Community Resources * California Economic Strategy Panel * California Education and Training Agency * California Education Audit Appeals Panel * California Educational Facilities Authority * California Elections Division * California Electricity Oversight Board * California Emergency Management Agency * California Emergency Medical Services Authority * California Employment Development Department (EDD) * California Employment Information State Jobs * California Employment Training Panel * California Energy Commission * California Environment and Natural Resources Agency * California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) * California Environmental Resource s Evaluation System (CERES) * California Executive Office * California Export Laboratory Services * California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) * California Fair Political Practices Commission * California Fairs and Expositions Division * California Film Commission * California Fire and Resource Assessment Program * California Firearms Division * California Fiscal Services * California Fish and Game Commission * California Fisheries Program Branch * California Floodplain Management * California Foster Youth Help * California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) * California Fraud Division * California Gambling Control Commission * California Geographic Information Systems Council (GIS) * California Geological Survey * California Government Claims and Victim Compensation Board * California Governors Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons * California Governors Mentoring Partnership * California Governors Office of Emergency Services * California Governors Office of Homeland Se curity * California Governors Office of Planning and Research * California Governors Office * California Grant and Enterprise Zone Programs HCD Loan * California Health and Human Services Agency * California Health and Safety Agency * California Healthy Families Program * California Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau * California High-Speed Rail Authority * California Highway Patrol (CHP) * California History and Culture Agency * California Horse Racing Board * California Housing Finance Agency * California Indoor Air Quality Program * California Industrial Development Financing Advisory Commission * California Industrial Welfare Commission * California InFoPeople * California Information Center for the Environment * California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) * California Inspection Services * California Institute for County Government * California Institute for Education Reform * California Integrated Waste Management Board * California Interagency Ecologic al Program * California Job Service * California Junta Estatal de Personal * California Labor and Employment Agency * California Labor and Workforce Development Agency * California Labor Market Information Division * California Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN) * California Lands Commission * California Landscape Architects Technical Committee * California Latino Legislative Caucus * California Law Enforcement Branch * California Law Enforcement General Library * California Law Revision Commission * California Legislative Analyst's Office * California Legislative Black Caucus * California Legislative Counsel * California Legislative Division * California Legislative Information * California Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Caucus * California Legislature Internet Caucus * California Library De velopment Services * California License and Revenue Branch * California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program * California Managed Risk Medical Ins urance Board * California Maritime Academy * California Marketing Services * California Measurement Standards * California Medical Assistance Commission * California Medical Care Services * California Military Department * California Mining and Geology Board * California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts * California Museum Resource Center * California National Guard * California Native American Heritage Commission * California Natural Community Conservation Planning Program * California New Motor Vehicle Board * California Nursing Home Administrator Program * California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board * California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board * California Ocean Resources Management Program * California Office of Administrative Hearings * California Office of Administrative Law * California Office of AIDS * California Office of Binational Border Health * California Office of Child Abuse Prevention * California Office of Deaf Access * Cali fornia Office of Emergency Services (OES) * California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment * California Office of Fiscal Services * California Office of Fleet Administration * California Office of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Implementation (CalOHI) * California Office of Historic Preservation * California Office of Homeland Security * California Office of Human Resources * California Office of Legal Services * California Office of Legislation * California Office of Lieutenant Governor * California Office of Military and Aerospace Support * California Office of Mine Reclamation * California Office of Natural Resource Education * California Office of Privacy Protection * California Office of Public School Construction * California Office of Real Estate Appraisers * California Office of Risk and Insurance Management * California Office of Services to the Blind * California Office of Spill Prevention and Response * California Office o f State Publishing (OSP) * California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development * California Office of Systems Integration * California Office of the Inspector General * California Office of the Ombudsman * California Office of the Patient Advocate * California Office of the President * California Office of the Secretary for Education * California Office of the State Fire Marshal * California Office of the State Public Defender * California Office of Traffic Safety * California Office of Vital Records * California Online Directory * California Operations Control Office * California Opinion Unit * California Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN) * California Park and Recreation Commission * California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) * California Performance Review (CPR) * California Permit Information for Business (CalGOLD) * California Physical Therapy Board * California Physician Assistant Committee * California Plant Health and Pest Prevent ion Services * California Policy and Evaluation Division * California Political Reform Division * California Pollution Control Financing Authority * California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo * California Postsecondary Education Commission * California Prevention Services * California Primary Care and Family Health * California Prison Industry Authority * California Procurement Division * California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) * California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) * California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) * California Real Estate Services Division * California Refugee Programs Branch * California Regional Water Quality Control Boards * California Registered Veterinary Technician Committee * California Registrar of Charitable Trusts * California Republican Caucus * California Research and Development Division * California Research Bureau * California Resources Agency * California Respiratory Care Board * California Rivers As sessment * California Rural Health Policy Council * California Safe Schools * California San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission * California San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy * California San Joaquin River Conservancy * California School to Career * California Science Center * California Scripps Institution of Oceanography * California Secretary of State Business Portal * California Secretary of State * California Seismic Safety Commission * California Self Insurance Plans (SIP) * California Senate Office of Research * California Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Certification Program * California Small Business Development Center Program * California Smart Growth Caucus * California Smog Check Information Center * California Spatial Information Library * California Special Education Division * California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board * California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STA R) * California Standards and Assessment Division * California State Administrative Manual (SAM) * California State Allocation Board * California State and Consumer Services Agency * California State Architect * California State Archives * California State Assembly * California State Association of Counties (CSAC) * California State Board of Education * California State Board of Food and Agriculture *California Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) * California State Children's Trust Fund * California State Compensation Insurance Fund * California State Contracts Register Program * California State Contracts Register * California State Controller * California State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) * California State Disability Insurance (SDI) * California State Fair (Cal Expo) * California State Jobs Employment Information * California State Lands Commission * California State Legislative Portal * California State Legislature * California State Library C atalog * California State Library Services Bureau * California State Library * California State Lottery * California State Mediation and Conciliation Service * California State Mining and Geology Board * California State Park and Recreation Commission * California State Parks * California State Personnel Board * California State Polytechnic University, Pomona * California State Railroad Museum * California State Science Fair * California State Senate * California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) * California State Summer School for the Arts * California State Superintendent of Public Instruction * California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) * California State Treasurer * California State University Center for Distributed Learning * California State University, Bakersfield * California State University, Channel Islands * California State University, Chico * California State University, Dominguez Hills * California State University, East Bay * California State University, Fresno * California State University, Fullerton * California State University, Long Beach * California State University, Los Angeles * California State University, Monterey Bay * California State University, Northridge * California State University, Sacramento * California State University, San Bernardino * California State University, San Marcos * California State University, Stanislaus * California State University (CSU) * California State Water Project Analysis Office * California State Water Project * California State Water Resources Control Board * California Structural Pest Control Board * California Student Aid Commission * California Superintendent of Public Instruction * California Superior Courts * California Tahoe Conservancy * California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists * California Tax Information Center * California Technology and Administration Branch Finance * California Telecommunicat ions Division * California Telephone Medical Advice Services (TAMS) * California Transportation Commission * California Travel and Transportation Agency * California Unclaimed Property Program * California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board * California Unemployment Insurance Program * California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission * California Veterans Board * California Veterans Memorial * California Veterinary Medical Board and Registered Veterinary Technician Examining Committee * California Veterinary Medical Board * California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board * California Volunteers * California Voter Registration * California Water Commission * California Water Environment Association (COWPEA) * California Water Resources Control Board * California Welfare to Work Division * California Wetlands Information System * California Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch * California Wildlife Conservation Board * California Wildlife Programs B ranch * California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) * California Workers Compensation Appeals Board * California Workforce and Labor Development Agency * California Workforce Investment Board * California Youth Authority (CYA) * Central Valley Flood Protection Board * Center for California Studies * Colorado River Board of California * Counting California * Dental Board of California * Health Insurance Plan of California (PacAdvantage) * Humboldt State University * Jobs with the State of California * Judicial Council of California * Learn California * Library of California * Lieutenant Governors Commission for One California * Little Hoover Commission (on California State Government Organization and Economy) * Medical Board of California * Medi-Cal * Osteopathic Medical Board of California * Physical Therapy Board of California * Regents of the University of California * San Diego State University * San Francisco State University * San Jose State Univer sity * Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy * State Bar of California * Supreme Court of California * Teach California * University of California * University of California, Berkeley * University of California, Davis * University of California, Hastings College of the Law * University of California, Irvine * University of California, Los Angeles * University of California, Merced * University of California, Riverside * University of California, San Diego * University of California, San Francisco * University of California, Santa Barbara * University of California, Santa Cruz * Veterans Home of California

Our government says that the only places they can cut expenses is Police and Fire....YEAH RIGHT!!!

It doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or Independent. This list is shocking. Over the years, our politicians have created this enormous pork barrel of agencies that employ over 350,000 people directly and countless more via contracts with the State. All of these people get salaries, medical coverage and pensions at our expense and almost all are unionized. Take a good, close look.


Unbelievable?...........No...Believe it!!!

viernes, 8 de julio de 2011

Nadie se acuesta siendo bueno

Creo que es bueno tener esto presente........


La calle esta sola y el viento levanta el polvo de las aceras, la gente esta en casa temerosa, los negocios cierran y el desempleo cunde por todos lados.


Algunos empresarios se han puesto a salvo en el país vecino, otrosemigraron al sur, los demás nos quedamos, quizás como decía el sabiogriego, Cuando la muerte es, tu no eres y cuando tu eres, la muerte noes, ¿por qué preocuparse?.

Fin de semana 27 muertos en 24 horas, nuevo récord , cientos depequeños empresarios secuestrados, dueños de ferreterías, abarrotes,lavados de carro , consultorios médicos, restauranteros, notariospúblicos, viviendo el infierno de la incertidumbre del mañana, familiasenteras sumidas en el dolor mas profundo que pueda sentir al saber quesu ser querido esta en manos criminales .

Los merolicos de los medios de comunicación reclaman seguridad algobierno, lo mismo la sociedad clama seguridad y ¿cómo darseguridad?

¿Habrá de poner un policía por cada habitante para asegurar que nadiedelinca?

Y este policía ¿ será seguro o habrá que ponerle también un policía?

Vemos crímenes espectaculares , descabezados, destrozados , mutilados y me gustaría hacerle una pregunta a Usted sobre estas bestiashumanoides.

¿Qué debe pasar para que un hombre normal se transforme en unabestia como estas?

Quienes han visto a estos sicarios, los describen como gente joven de 15 a 25 años.

Todos nos preguntamos ¿ dónde esta la autoridad ? ¿Por qué no hace nada el presidente?

Y muchas preguntas similares, pero no escucho estas

preguntas:.............



¿Dónde estuvo la madre y el padre de estos niños?

¿ Dónde estuvieron sus maestros?

¿Dónde estuvieron sus hermanos?


"NADIE SE ACUESTA SIENDO UN BUEN NIÑO Y DESPIERTA SIENDO UN ASESINO DESALMADO, LA TRANSFORMACION ES UN PROCESO PAULATINO".

Es tiempo que dejemos de buscar culpables en otro lado y asumamos la responsabilidad de tolerar una sociedad que se fue corrompiendo y no hicimos nada por evitarlo.

NOS VOLVIMOS PADRES PERMISIVOS Y COMODINOS, es mejor hacerte de la vista gorda y no tener un problema con el verdugo de tu hijo o de tu hija.

BUSCAMOS SU APROBACION Y SU ACEPTACION........

Pues claro, si los medios hacen su lana promoviendo el sexo , al cabo que ya "somos adultos", faltaba mas , si los muchachos se están apareando sin control, porque somos re modernos, "open mind".

¿Qué ? ¿A poco te asustan las madres solteras?

¡ Huy eres de la vela perpetua !

Muchas mujeres, coleccionan hijos de diferentes padres y tantos otrosmuchachos presumen y compiten por ver quien embaraza a masmuchachas..

Mujeres abandonadas que se prostituyen para mantener a sus crías, hijosque crecen con la vergüenza y el abandono de sus madres.

Mujeres que trabajan y dejan abandonados a sus hijos, inermes a las bajaspasiones de sus vecinos o de sus mismo familiares, padres irresponsables ,niños que crecen acumulando odio y desprecio por la sociedad.

Nos burlamos de la decencia y el decoro , sacamos a DIOS de nuestrasescuelas, de nuestras casas y lo mas triste es que tambien lo sacamos denuestra vida, eliminamos el policía interno que le llamaban conciencia yhoy todo se puede, entre mas depravado, "mas inn".

El Instituto Municipal de Seguridad Pública de Juárez entrevistó a cientosde delincuentes jóvenes, ladrones, asesinos, violadores, narcotraficantes,casi la totalidad de ellos venían de hogares disfuncionales y buscaban en laspandillas la aceptación que no tenían en su hogar, las pandillas losobligaban en un principio a delinquir, después le tomaban gusto a laadrenalina y al sentimiento de poder que da el acto de dominar a otro.

Es cierto que estamos ante un vacío de autoridad y señores debo de decirlesque la autoridad nace en el HOGAR, si aunque se rían, la autoridad reside en los padres y las conductas de autoridad que deben tomar esta en la moral, en esa palabra tan VITUPERADA Y RIDICULIZADA, en la MORALseñores.

En la moral, en ese compendio de buenas costumbres que la humanidad haido acumulando en siglos de vida y que hoy tiramos al caño porque "somosmodernos", hoy el grito de la juventud es " TENER SEXO Y ECHAR A PERDER TODO A TU ALREDEDOR AL FIN QUE YA SE ACABA EL MUNDO..

Los padres se quedan impávidos e inmóviles, nuevamente buscando laaceptacion y la aprobacion de los hijos , para estar "en onda", son losnuevos tiempos...

La única solución al grave problema que hoy tenemos es regresara ese compendio de buenas conductas, a los valores universales , a laresponsabilidad, al respeto a sus semejantes , al civismo, al control denuestros hijos, a exigir a los MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION Y A LOS LEGISLADORES que dejen de pasar tanta asquerosidad por televisión, quedejen de excitar a nuestros HIJOS, vigila a tus hijos, tanto en lo que ven porla televisión como en la computadora, VIGILA SUS AMISTADES, VIGILA SUS SENTIMIENTOS, HASTA HACERTE SU AMIGO, SU CONFIDENTE, PERO NUNCA OLVIDES QUE ERES SU PADRE, EL VIGILANTE EN ESTE MUNDO DE ESA CRIATURA DE LA QUE TU DECIDISTE HACERTE RESPONSABLE.

EL VALOR Y LOS PRINCIPIOS DE LA MORAL FAMILIAR... NO TIENE PRECIO.....!!!!!!!
REZAR PARA PEDIR A DIOS QUE NOS
PROTEJA DE TANTA MALDAD Y PEDIR POR LA CONVERSION DE LOS PECADORES......!!!!!!!
DIOS NOS CONTINUE BENDICIENDO.

CAMPAÑA INTENSIVA DE ORACIÓN POR LA PAZ EN MÉXICO

PARA QUE PRONTO TERMINE LA VILOLENCIA Y LA INSEGURIDAD EN NUESTRA NACIÓN:

PORQUE: "TODO LO QUE PIDAN EN MI NOMBRE, EL PADRE CELESTIAL SE LOS CONCEDERÁ" (Jn. 16,23)

domingo, 26 de junio de 2011

Three Mistakes Japanese Made at Pearl Harbor

From a book: "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.

On Christmas Day, 1941 Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on
Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well, Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make - or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?" Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?"
Nimitz explained. "Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.

"Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to
America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

"Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make - or God was taking care of
America."
Anyway you look at it - Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeat. President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job.

martes, 21 de junio de 2011

Leer modifica tu cerebro

Aprender a leer, un fenómeno muy reciente como para haber influido en la evolución genética, tiene un impacto importante sobre el cerebro, que se adapta y utiliza, con independencia de la edad dealfabetización, regiones cerebrales destinadas a otras funciones.

"No hay un sistema cerebral innato especializado en la lectura, tenemos que hacer bricolaje, utilizar sistemas que ya existen", explica Laurent Cohen, investigador del Instituto Nacional de la Salud y de la Investigación Médica de Francia (INSERM) y uno de los responsables del estudio, publicado por la revistaScience. Usando Resonancia Magnética, los investigadores midieron la actividad cerebral de 63 adultos voluntarios con diferentes índices de alfabetización: 10 analfabetos, 22 personas alfabetizadas en edad adulta y 31 personas escolarizadas desde la infancia. La investigación se realizó en Portugal y Brasil, países en los que hasta hace unas décadas, era relativamente frecuente que los niños no fueran escolarizados.

Los resultados mostraron que, por un lado, aprender a leer activa el sistema visual en las regiones especializadas en la forma escrita de las letras, como es lógico, pero también en las regiones visuales primarias, aquellas adonde llega toda la información visual. Además, en la gente que aprende a leer, elcerebro recurre también a las zonas especializadas en el lenguaje hablado, puesto que la lectura "activa el sistema del habla" para tomar consciencia de los sonidos y permite "establecer relaciones entre el sistema visual y el sistema del habla, entre las letras escritas y los sonidos", subraya Cohen.

Por otra parte, el aprendizaje de la lectura, incluso en la edad adulta, provoca en el cerebro una redistribución de una parte de sus recursos. De esta manera, el reconocimiento visual de los objetos y las caras cede parte de terreno a medida que aprendemos a leer y se desplaza parcialmente hacia el hemisferio derecho.

Los investigadores también comprobaron que en los adultos que aprenden a leer, "los cambios que esto provoca son casi los mismos" que en los sujetos que se alfabetizaron siendo niños, aunque aquellos no obtienen tan buenos resultados por la falta de entrenamiento, concluyó Cohen.

Fuente: Muy Interesante