Friday, October 2, 2009

Flores para decorar tu mesa

Estos cuatro arreglos florales llenarán de aroma y color a tus comidas de diario o a las ocasiones especiales.

Juego de colores

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Para este ramo se ha agrupado las distintas flores por ramilletes de colores. En los extremos se ha combinado el blanco de las hortensias (3) y el rosa de las francesillas (1), utilizando como nexo, las pequeñas flores moradas de la fresia (2).


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Arreglo en blanco y verde

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Este es un ramo de aire clásico, en donde las rosas blancas son las protagonistas. Si quieres lograr un aspecto de bouquet, intercala las rosas (2) con las hojas de camelia (1), que hacen las veces de verde. Las lilas (3), que tienen pequeñísimas flores de un blanco verdoso, dan un toque silvestre al ramo.

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Ramo con aire desenfadado

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Para lograr el aire desenfadado de este arreglo, es mejor que lo prepares en la mano y después lo dejes caer en el jarrón. Coloca los jacintos (3) en la parte central y, las hojas de hortensia (1) y la hiedra (4), a ambos lados. Las ramitas de prunus (2) dan verticalidad al ramo.

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Un gran ramo de distintos colores

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Por su volumen, este ramo resulta muy decorativo en espacios amplios. Coloca las flores longiflorum (2) y alhelí (3) apoyadas en los bordes del jarrón, y combínalas con el viburnum (1) rellenando los huecos.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Video: Earthquakes, Flooding, Tsunamis, Hurricanes Intensify Global Problems Affecting Millions

From Denny: Natural disasters are affecting humanity everywhere on the globe. America has been dealing with raging fires out West, flooding in the South and Midwest. China is also known for heavy flooding. Indonesia faces high level earthquakes, the Philippines saw excessive flooding of over 500,000 people displaced from their homes - and with no insurance to repair them. Australia has unusual intense dust storms choking the air so thick people are in respiratory distress. Greenland's ice, as well as the Artic and Antartic's glacial ice are all melting, raising the world's oceans. Clearly, something serious is going on with this planet.

While we hear that 2012 is supposed to be a pivotal point in the Earth's history according to the Mayans and other ancient cultures, you have to wonder if there is something here. It does make you wonder that to explain all this intense weather would be because the Earth is still in the process, and maybe has been in the process for the past 20 years, of shifting its magnetic poles. Maybe the reason 2012 was cited specificially is to either warn us that is the date the Earth's weather will be its most violent or to advise us that is the date all will finally calm down and subside. OK, who's with me on voting for the second choice?

We on the American Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Mississippi have not forgotten the kindnesses from the beautiful people in Indonesia when Hurricane Katrina hit here five years ago. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of you and your families and neighbors experiencing such hardship. It's time like this adversity when people need to let go of religious, racial, national and political differences and step up to help each other.



Radio show host was tsunami eye witness:



This is just horrific what is happening in the Pacific region, with an underwater earthquake clocked at 7.6 on the Richter scale. Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone in Indonesia.



The Red Cross is working feverishly trying to rescue people out of the rubble.

Videos: Hidden Bank Practices Regarding Deceptive Fees

From Denny: This will get your blood boiling fast for sure! Educate yourself how to handle your banking relationship as American and European banks work overtime to make the consumer pay for the bank's bad investment choices.

Note: Royal Bank of Scotland took bailout money from two countries - America and the United Kingdom and then had the nerve to tell everyone they were refusing to loan any money to the same taxpayers, preferring to apply the bailout money to its profit line.

There are several videos on this subject to give you an overview of how the banking trend has been developing for some time and appears to not to be going away any time in this generation unless the public gets serious about pushback.


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Why are banks raising their fees? This was reported 17 July 2009 and explains the banking position which Americans are so angry about getting caught in like a vice grip:


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This was reported at the beginning of American ire against the banks right after the taxpayer bailouts infuriated everyone:


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This video goes all the way back to 10 June 2005, discussing bank fees. Note that this is about 10 months after Hurricane Katrina hit, causing economic devastation that reveberated throughout the economy. Banks have been getting to the consumer for five years now!


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Note: The reason I use NBC News and CNN videos the most is that they do a better job than CBS News by taking care of their links and keep the stories up longer. Apologies to anyone who finds sometimes these two older CBS videos might not work.