Atillo

It is located in the parish of Canton Guamote Barley, 90 km, 3 hours from Abraspungo. The ponds have unique features such as an island with natural vegetation of the Andean forest itself and its characteristic fauna. You can go fishing and make excellent boating and camping.
The original name is ColayCocha Atillo name and means lake of punishment or penance at the top of the Eastern Cordillera is the Black Lagoon enjoying influence of cold climates of the mountains Atillo Valley and the other end of the lagoon moisture from the eastern region. The purity of the air mixes with the sounds of the birds that swarm the place. The rivers appear to lose any natural filter, it flows clear.
Previously, it was possible to watch deers, but they have declined due to hunting.
In what impressed me most was the starry sky in my life seen so many stars, walk and lie down in the midst of greenery made me feel in a hidden paradise.
what impressed was rhe look up the most amazing starry sky I´ve seen in my life. To walk and to lay down ind the mid of the grass made me feel in a hidden paradise.

the Arrayanes forest

Located at 2,800 meters above sea level, this forest has an area of 16 hectares of arrayanes trees red trunk in its branches grown mosses, orchids of various kinds. Those who visit are amazed because it is one of the few in Latin America, and lungs is one of the most important of the province, located west of the city of San Gabriel, in the community of Monteverde.
Arrayanes trees reach 17 meters. Other trees are barely two or three meters in height because the array is a dominant species and prevent other species from growing. In this forest as evidence found and several legends transmitted orally by local residents, old and Grassland Tusas performed in these Site ritual ceremonies before burying their loved ones. Surely it was not burying the bodies of their relatives with a ritual farewell as usual today, but probably their rituals involving the dead to return peacefully to the bosom of Mother Earth and commit to care for the living. One of the objectives of the tourists is to reach the area known as "Cathedral" because all trees have their tops formed a circle where you can breathe an atmosphere of peace and tranquility and included for art exhibitions, retreats, practice Yoga, etc.
It is spectacular to admire this forest is like living in a fairy tale, to feel a very relaxing feeling.

limoncocha

The Fed is basically made Limoncocha Lagoon itself (Capucuy formerly called), the areas adjacent to it and the Black Lagoon or Yanacocha. Closely related to the Napo River, its water surface covers an area approximately two and a half square miles that are one of the greatest biodiversity in the world. Its characteristic is the population of alligators, especially the black, and a large sample of birds.

According to the Holdridge classification, all the reserve belongs to the living area for the tropical rain forest, but within it there are many other interesting environments as permanent swamps, flooded land, the mainland and aquatic ecosystems.

When I was at this beautiful place impressed me so special vegetation and variety of animals, I call attention to the little monkeys and alligators at night was a true spectacle together with the stars and his eyes shining all around us.

Quilotoa

Quilotoa Volcano is located in the province of Cotopaxi, Zumbahua Parish is part of the Ecological Reserve The Iliniza. Its name comes from two Quechua words "Quiru" which means tooth and "toa" means queen due to the shape of the lagoon, as this is almost elliptical shape of approximately 3.15 km in diameter and a difference of 440 meters between the level water and the top edge.

The pond water has an emerald green color and varies with the season, with blue-green or almost yellow box showing impressive according to the shadow and light. It also has a large quantity of carbon dioxide mixed with hydrogen sulphide as not suitable for consumption, water temperature between 16 ° C and -1 ° C. In certain seasons gases increase and it seems that the water would boil, and in some areas the water is stained yellow by the mud removed. Its average depth is 240 meters.

The environment of this volcano is the wasteland of Zumbahua with an average temperature of 11 ° C to 14 ° C seat of several indigenous communities, one of the best known is the style paintings by Tigua Naif done on sheepskin.

When I went to THIS PLACE rained, but was beautiful the landscapes of the road, the get down through the mud was a game of children and see one of the most beautiful colors incredible was the back and that was very hard time era media but it was worth walk.

I talk about touristic place that I know

Anorexia

The nervous anorexia, according to experts, can be considered as an alteration by defect of the habits and behaviors involved with the alimentation. The persons who suffer this disorder dedicate most of there time to topics related with food. The constant concern of food and the fear of gaining weight are the principal elements of this disorder, along with the personal insecurity to affront this problem. They deny the disease and consider them selves fat in any parte of their body´s despite of presenting an esqueletic figure. There could be some problems such as menstrual irregularities and later on amenorrhea or impotence in men.

From a sociological point of view, anorexia is a trendy disease that appears since the 80´s as a phenomenon of modernity, but in the 90´s it is spread to the rest of the world thanks to the globalization. The tendency is generated by the mass media and publicity, where beauty is sold as a model of thinness under a cultural image imposed by brands like Barbie’s which created a social-cultural change in peoples conceptions of beauty, not considering that this bodies are biologically impossible to accomplish.

I decided to write this essay about anorexia because I personally suffered with this disorder. I was 14 years old, in an age where we seek for social approval, especially of those who are youngest. My childhood was filled with insecurities, maybe this triggered such an auto destructive behavior in me, making me obsessed with having a more thinner body, when I didn’t really have any extra weight. This obsession got to the extreme where I would constantly look in the mirror and weight myself every day, I even use to frequently measure my body with a meter; by the time when I was really sick I was weighting 80 pounds being 5 feet tall and my waist measured 58 cm, the bones of my face stuck out and my skin color was a shade of paled yellow. Doing this investigation I noticed that most of the people that suffer this eating disorder tend to have very strict personalities, for example, they feel guilt when they eat because they think they failed them selves, they push their body´s to the limit “no pain no gain” the more your mussels hurt the more proud you get.

In these days, I don’t understand why I went through this faze, why I became so sick or ended up hurting myself; the more I analyze, I realize its not completely my fault, I’m just another victim of a system that plays with our minds to achieve merely consumerists gold’s. In order to overcome this illness, I had to understand, that I am worth more then my exterior, and that being beautiful doesn’t mean portraying an unhealthy image, we should dig in our inside, and find our virtues and learn to love them, only then, we could race awareness about the cultural manipulations and stop being a victim of a superficial system.

Obama won't defeat the deficit

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for next year sets deficit record of $1.56 trillion, includes a big job program and rolls back Bush-era tax cuts for high earners.

But Obama sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which not drop below $700 billion even after a recovery.

The job package includes not only the $100 billion collection of tax cuts for small business and other items to spur hiring, but also a continuation of unemployment insurance, aid to fiscally strapped states and other measures that were set to expire this year, totaling about $250 billion.

Total tax revenue would rise to $2.2 trillion, including rolling back the Bush tax cuts on those earning $250,000 a year or more and ending a welter of corporate tax breaks. Republicans, swiftly slammed the plan.

"The president has sent Congress a budget proposal that contains more spending, more borrowing and more taxes," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement. "This, after promising the American people that he was going to restore fiscal discipline to Washington by going through the budget to cut wasteful spending."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, echoed Cornyn's concerns, adding in a statement that the proposal "includes massive deficit spending levels and tax increases, which will make it even more difficult for businesses, large and small, to create jobs to fuel our economic recovery."

Democrats welcomed the boost in their key priorities such as science, infrastructure, clean energy and education, investments Obama describes as building a "new foundation" for the economy.

The president defended his priorities, saying, "Just as it would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children's future to pay our way today, it would be equally wrong to neglect their future by failing to invest in areas that will determine our economic success in this new century."