Today, you should have a lot of vitality, Clare. Recently, you have decided to take matters in your own hands. Your relationships will only benefit from this decision. The conflicts you had to deal with were greatly based on a lack of understanding. You sometimes have to make compromises! Try not to be too demanding!
Destacó tres factores esenciales que confluyen en estos momentos en la celebración del mes de la Hispanidad, que se lleva a cabo del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre:
Un primer factor son los datos divulgados por la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos, que pronostican para 2042 la transformación del país en una nación de "minoría mayoritaria" en la que uno de cada tres ciudadanos estadounidenses será hispano.
Al vaticinio de que los grupos minoritarios -un tercio de la actual población del país- lleguen a ser mayoría en 2042 le sigue el "reconocimiento cada vez más arraigado de que el español es, de hecho, la segunda lengua del país" .
Otro elemento fundamental, al parecer de Piña-Rosales, es la "conciencia" creciente de la necesidad de "proteger y estandarizar" el uso del español en Estados Unidos.
Aludió a los cerca de 46 millones de hispanos que viven en Estados Unidos (sin contar los 4 millones de Puerto Rico) , un segmento que constituye el 15 por ciento de la población en este país y es además el de más rápido crecimiento. Según los pronósticos del Censo, los hispanos representarán el 25 por ciento de la población estadounidense para el 2050.
Three essential factors were highlighted that are coming together during this month of Hispanic Heritage celebration, running from September 15 to October 15:
A primary factor are the data from the US Census which expects that by 2042 the country will have become a "minority majority" nation en which 1 out of every 3 citizens will be hispanic.
The prediction that minority groups--currently one third of the US population--will end up be a majority in 2042 follows the "increasingly more entrenched recognition that Spanish is, in fact, the second language of the country."
Another fundamental element, it seems to Piña-Rosales [Geraldo Piña-Rosales, director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE)], is the growing "consciousness" of the necessity to "protect and standardize" the use of Spanish in the United States.
He aluded to the almost 46 million hispanics living in the United States (not counting the 4 million in Puerto Rico), a segment which constitutes 15% of the population in this country and is besides the fastest growing group. According to Census projections, hispanics will represent 25% of the United States population by 2050.
Iraqi refugee children can continue their education in Jordan's public schools . UNHCR/S.Malkawi
With the support of the UN Refugee Agency, many Iraqi children have been joining public schools. UNHCR believes it is essential that all refugees continue to receive an education.
This past summer UNHCR conducted a campaign to increase school enrollment and to encourage Iraqi refugees who had exhausted their savings to transfer their children from private to public schools.
Despite Jordan's generosity in opening up its public schools, UNHCR is concerned that large numbers of children are still missing out on classes. Many cash-strapped Iraqi refugee families are opting to send all, or some, of their children out to work.
"My [older] brother has been out of school for three years because he has been forced to work to provide for our family," Laila revealed.
UNHCR is working with the government on building the capacity of public schools and examining the introduction of evening classes that children can attend after work. Other initiatives include non-diploma courses in areas such as computer skills, language and art, to equip people with marketable skills.
"One of the most crucial challenges that we face is that we do not lose the literacy and futures of a generation of Iraqi children due to displacement," said Imran Riza, UNHCR's representative to Jordan.
More than two million Iraqi refugees have fled from their homes to neighboring states, mostly Syria and Jordan.
We have seen this many times before, in this country and around the world. But here's the thing: these opportunistic tactics can only work if we let them. They work when we respond to crisis by regressing, wanting to believe in "strong leaders" - even if they are the same strong leaders who used the September 11 attacks to push through the Patriot Act and launch the illegal war in Iraq.
So let's be absolutely clear: there are no saviors who are going to look out for us in this crisis. Certainly not Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, one of the companies that will benefit most from his proposed bailout (which is actually a stick up). The only hope of preventing another dose of shock politics is loud, organized grassroots pressure on all political parties: they have to know right now that after seven years of Bush, Americans are becoming shock resistant.
On 20 May 1948, the United Nations appointed as first official mediator in its history Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, of the noble Swedish family of Bernadotte. He was assigned to Palestine. Among his activities during the first Palestinian war of 1948 was to pave the way for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to assist Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. In negotiations with the Israelis he worked for recognition of the Palestinian refugees' right of return. In particular, on 17 June 1948 he requested that the Israelis enable the return of 300,000 refugees.
On 17 September 1948, together with UN observer Colonel André Serot, he was shot by militant leaders of the Jewish terrorist group Lehi, the so-called Stern Gang.
The reason for the murder was Bernadotte's public declaration that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return to their homeland. His proposals for the solution of the refugee problem were the basis for Resolution 194, passed on 11 December 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, in which the right of return of refugees on both sides was established.
A few months after the assassination, despite the overwhelming evidence of their guilt, the perpetrators were
granted general amnesty by the Israeli government.
(from: Wikipedia)
In 1863, when Henri Dunant started the work of the Red Cross, he used as organizational motto: Inter arma caritas--"Amidst weapons, mercy." Later events, not least the experience of World War II, revised the motto to: Post armis caritas--"After weapons, mercy." The time will come when mankind can say: Pro armis caritas--"Instead of weapons, mercy."
(from: Folke Bernadotte, An Stelle von Waffen. Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm, Freiburg i.Br., ca. 1950, page 179;
translation by Clarissa Hall)
"With their names
No bard embalms and sanctifies his song:
And history so warm on meaner themes,
Is cold on this."
William Cowper (pronounced Cooper), 1731-1800, English poet.
Cowper suffered attacks of insanity throughout his life, and sought either treatment or retirement in an asylum early in his life. There he became interested in the predestinarian theology of John Calvin, and became devoted to evangelical Christianity. In 1767 he moved to Olney, where he wrote The Olney Hymns with the evangelical preacher John Newton. The project was interrupted by another attack of insanity, during which he was convinced of his irrevocable damnation -- a sense he describes in his last important poem, "The Cast-Away."
In 1785 he published his most famous work, The Task, a long poem in six books.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Louisville Memorial Auditorium
970 SOUTH FOURTH STREET
Louisville, KY
cosmopolite \koz-MOP-uh-lyt\, noun:
One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person.
Thank you for writing to share your deep concern with the Bush Administration. I firmly believe that this President’s policies have led this country in the wrong direction, and share your commitment to holding this Administration accountable.
Like you, I am deeply troubled by the actions taken in the past six years by the Bush Administration. Considering the moral imperatives of this moment in history -- ending the involvement of U.S. forces in the Iraq War, providing the American people with secure and affordable health care, reducing the cost of college for our children, and even ratcheting back executive power that this Administration has abused – the Democratic leadership has concluded that an attempt to impeach President Bush or Vice President Cheney would make these goals even harder to achieve.
House leaders believe that given our slim majorities in the House and Senate, any effort to bring articles of impeachment against the President or Vice President will not succeed, will further divide a nation in critical need of unity, and gridlock the chambers from enacting desperately needed legislation. That being said, I believe Congress has a constitutional responsibility to do everything in its power to conduct extensive oversight of this Administration and ensure accountability.
I asked to serve on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee specifically to perform this duty. My colleagues and I have already investigated the travesties at Walter Reed Hospital, the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, government outsourcing issues, the Pat Tillman Fratricide, Surgeon General Independence, White House use of private e-mail accounts, and a host of other issues you can find at the committee's website (http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp).
While I look forward to the end of their time in the White House, it is clear that with the new Congress, the Executive’s power has been diminished. Please be assured I will continue to aggressively investigate this administration and continually fight against the secrecy and corruption that has defined the Bush presidency.
Horoscope for Friday, Sept. 5, 2008:
Why not radically change the way you behave toward others, Clare? You are in the process of orienting yourself towards establishing relationships that are more fraternal, with far fewer risks involved. This wasn't the case before. When you don't try hard to seduce and impress, your audience claps louder. Haven't you noticed?
bagatela
Es algo de poco valor o de poca importancia. Proviene del italiano bagattelle, lengua en la cual también tiene el significado de ‘cosa sin importancia’. La palabra se formó en italiano a partir del bajo latín baga (pequeña prenda de ropa) cuyo diminutivo era bagatta. El vocablo original ya aludía a algo pequeño y el diminutivo a algo menor aun, pero el italiano se caracteriza por tener en ciertos casos un diminutivo del diminutivo (Ver fettucine), de modo que bagatta tiene el diminutivo bagattella, algo realmente insignificante. La palabra llegó también al francés bagatelle, con el mismo significado.
El etimólogo alemán del siglo XIX Hugo Schuchardt, por su parte, sugiere que el origen no sería baga sino baca, que en latín significaba ‘pequeño objeto redondo’ pero, en todo caso, la evolución posterior de la palabra sería la misma. En la primera edición del Diccionario de la Academia, bagatela aparecía así definida:
Cosa menuda, de poca substancia, sin valor.
La palabra aparece en castellano en el siglo XVII, y la encontramos por esa época en textos de Calderón de la Barca y de Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, entre otros.
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