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El Refranero Español:
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How to save your
own life during a heart attack
What you do during a heart attack can mean the difference
between life and death. If you're having a heart attack and
there is no one there to perform CPR on you, do the following:
· Immediately take a deep breath and cough twice,
as hard as you can.
· Wait a couple of seconds, take another deep breath,
and again cough twice. This will contract your diaphragm and
compress the heart, causing it to pump.
· Call 911
This is a simple form of self CPR.
· Keep repeating the process until your heart begins
to beat normally (or until help arrives).
· Once your heart has stabilized, chew and swallow
one aspirin
· Take two cayenne pepper capsules or a table spoon
of Tabasco sauce.
Aspirin will thin your blood and prevent platelets from sticking.
Tabasco or cayenne will dilate your blood vessels so that
blood can flow freely.
This a simple technique that can dramatically increase your
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| Coloquio
desea a nuestros lectores unas Felices Fiestas y Un
Próspero Año Nuevo 2004
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Coloquio
wishes our readers Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year
2004 |
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Puerto Rican, the oldest man alive: 112!
Emiliano Mercado del Toro remembers little of his time as an
American soldier, the only stretch of his working life spent
away from the sugar cane plantations of southwestern Puerto
Rico, where he was born.
That he remembers anything is remarkable, for Don Emiliano,
as he is known around this seaside town, is 112: a frail, blind,
nearly deaf wisp of a man living with his 86-year-old niece
in her small stucco home here in Isabela. He served in World
War I for just two months in 1918, then returned to the sugar
cane fields and retired at 80. Keep
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Spiritual holiday journey
helps keep heritage alive
Latinos in the Annapolis area celebrate Christmas with a traditional
festival modeled on the travels of Mary and Joseph. Keep
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LEGISLATORS
SUPPORT LIMITING DRIVING LICENSES
A bill that would bar illegal aliens from obtaining driver's
licenses is gaining bipartisan support among Maryland lawmakers.
"I think this is a bill that cuts across party lines,"
said Delegate Herbert H. McMillan, Anne Arundel County Republican
who filed the bill last week. "I don't think it even has
to have a party stamp on it." Keep
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The
Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce had its Christmas
Party at Gecko's restaurant in Fells Point where they had a
Toy Drive and celebrated elections for the Executive Board.
The Toy Drive raised $3,000 so far for the toy drive (and it's
not too late to give, they tell us). Keep
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La obesidad infantil
y la comunidad hispana
La obesidad infantil es un problema complejo cuyas
soluciones no son fáciles. Esta tendencia está
aumentando a una velocidad alarmante: de acuerdo con la Asociación
Estadounidense contra la Obesidad, 15.3 por ciento de los niños
de todo el país se consideran obeso.Siga
leyendo Childhood Obesity and the Hispanic
Community
Childhood obesity is a complex problem with no easy solutions.
This trend is increasing at an alarming rate with 15.3 percent
of children nationally considered obese according to the American
Obesity Association. Keep
reading Delegate Ramirez's letter |
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say bill may hinder Latino outreach
Advocacy groups and officials say that if an immigration bill
becomes law it could strain police relations and make it harder
for public agencies to do outreach to emerging Latino communities.
The bill, known as the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal
Alien Removal Act of 2003, or CLEAR Act,
calls for tighter enforcement on the local level of federal
immigration law. The mayor of Baltimore and the county executive
of Montgomery County, two Maryland jurisdictions with significant
Latino populations, have written to Maryland's federal lawmakers
urging them to oppose the legislation. Keep
reading.
And the horror stories have begun. See
here Although Tom Ridge may give green cards
to all undocumented aliens now in the US. Keep
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A
corpse. A silent young man. And a detective who becomes his
own worst enemy… GALA Hispanic Theatre
presents El ángel de la culpa (The Angel of Guilt)
by Marco Antonio de la Parra. Directed by Gabriel García
Keep reading
and also See here
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Ms.
Gabriela Medina DeWitt teaches free English classes
for native Spanish-speakers in Woodlawn.
The classes are held on Thursday evenings at St. Gabriel’s
Catholic Church in Woodlawn. Call 410-265-1523 |
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Invest
in Spain
Today Spain is the sixth largest manufacturer
in the world and the third in Europe, ahead of the UK
and Italy, and just behind Germany and France.
Keep
reading |
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Business
Financing Basics. Whether you're starting a business or expanding
one, sufficient ready capital is essential. Franchising 101. Because
of the risk and work involved in starting a new business, many new
entrepreneurs choose franchising as an alternative to starting a new,
independent business from scratch. Is it for you? Keep
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Javier,
The best to you too. You are doing a great job. May 2004 bring you
the greatest rewards. E Pluribus Unum,
Lynn Sigüenza
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Mr. Bustamante,
The Asociacion Dominicana of Maryland would like to wish you and
your family Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2004!
Be safe, be strong!
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Javier,
Best wishes to you, too! Thank you for all you do!
Danilsa & Paul Marciniak
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Javier,
The same to you, fellow. Salud y buen vino, con Feliz Año
Nuevo.
Naty y Luis Rosell
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Hi Javier,
You asked for contributors and here we are helping you succeed with
Coloquio online. This (accompanying)
article portrays the intense entrepreneurial energy of the Latino
community along the I-270 North and I-70 West corridors in Western
Maryland. Eight years ago there were no Hispanic-owned businesses
in Gaithersburg, today there are over forty with no great help from
anybody including banks. No one of our members have asked for a
government handout--they started low and went slow and when the
time was right they expanded the existing business or open new ones
in the same neighborhood. Six months ago we started with three members,
we now have close to forty businesses and we are poised to meet
our goal of 100 members in 2004 and achieve a membership renewal
rate of 90+%. We have been fortunate to have had a city government
that did not put roadblocks in our path beyond the usual bureaucratic
hurdles most businesses encounters. The same is happening in Germantown,
Frederick and Hagerstown. The latest business to open in Frederick
is Cafe Latino. For your information, I am enclosing a flyer. I
am happy to say that he Hispanic communities in Montgomery, Frederick
and Howard Counties are leading the way in homeownership and entrepreneurial
spirit in Maryland in large part because of the quality government
and altruistic residents we are lucky to have. I don't believe you
reproduce a series of editorials that appear in the Baltimore Sun
about the anti-immigrant spirit that permeates most of the Baltimore
region.
I was disappointed that you did not reproduce the two El Tiempo
Latino editorials about the lack of Hispanics appointments to top
paid positions in the Ehrlich administration. The same can be said
about Mayor O'Malley's administration and yet there is a deafening
silence in your editorials. Talking about the 100+ Spanish-speaking
police officers is fine, but it is beginning to sound like a broken
record. Maybe the coming year will make Coloquio editorial more
balanced.
Jorge Ribas, President
Western Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
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Miriam Baldwin y el Instituto de Educacion Infantil, le desean a
Javien, y a Coloquio miles de bendiciones para este año que
se inicia y que todos sus deseos se hagan realidad. Abrazos.
Miriam
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Javier: Sólo para agradecerte el gran servicio que haces
con estos "updates" que nos ponen al tanto de lo que ocurre
o vendrá. Beltrán (Navarro) trataba de hacer algo
parecido...
Un abrazo.
Enrique Codas
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Mr. Bustamante -
The MLCFJ operates a listserve. We would be happy to post the ColoquioOnline
to our listserve (which has around 180 subscribers). If you are
interested, someone must subscribe to the listserve (or someone
may already be on the listserve) and simply send the webpage each
month to marylandlatinocoalitionforjustice@yahoogroups.com.
Great work on the magazine. Sincerely,
Kimberley Propeack, Esq.
Advocacy Director, CASA of Maryland, Inc.
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Emilio Bernal Labrada,
miembro de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española,
es autor de La prensa liEbre o Los crímenes del
idioma. Pedidos a emiliolabrada@msn.com
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Language,
Our Daily Fiesta EL INGLALIANO
No, amigos, no es un error de ortografía. Es simplemente
el nuevo idioma que se habla en Italia, de donde acabamos de llegar
de una gira de un par de semanas.
La buena nueva es que no estamos solos, ni por asomo, en la novedosa
enfermedad mundial que vamos a bautizar con el nombre de “anglicitis”.
Eso sí, el caso italiano es de veras grave. No “crítico”,
como suelen decir los anglomaniáticos de la prensa; lo único
crítico en este caso es más bien con el acento en
la segunda i, o sea critíco (usando licencia ortográfica,
que no poética).
El “bel paese”, como llaman los ítalos a su país,
casi se compara con nosotros en su afición al anglicismo,
aunque en algunos detalles nos supera ampliamente, aplastando al
espanglés a su mínima expresión. No es que
gusten de hablar inglés ni nada por el estilo, ya que en
eso son, por así decirlo, muy nacionalistas. Pero son selectivos
y tratándose de voces individuales dejan a un lado la tradición
del Lacio cada vez que pueden. Y hablamos de la lengua escrita no
menos que de la hablada.
Entre las voces que se escriben o dicen en inglés figuran
“computer”, “PC” (o sea “Personal
Computer”), “software” (era de esperar), “design”
(¿qué pasó con su equivalente en italiano,
“disegno”?), “jackpot”, “shopping”,
“discount” (¿haría falta para desplazar
a “sconto”?), “mystery”, “serial killer”,
“spray”, “task force”, “puzzle”
y “weekend”.
Claro que estas dos últimas voces han cruzado la “frontera”
con el francés, que ya desde hace tiempo las ha abrazado
firmemente. No podemos decir eso de “shopping”, aunque
se infiltre de cuando en vez en el idioma galo. La locura del “shopping”
ha tomado a Italia por asalto –y nos referimos a la la costumbre
tanto como a la palabra–. Ya de “fare le compre”
ni se habla, pues la frase está como pasada de moda. Los
titulares periodísticos, al igual que los anuncios navideños,
proclaman el “shopping” como cosa de todos los días.
Por si esto les parece poco, siéntense porque aquí
viene lo bueno. Aunque ustedes no lo crean, hay un ramo del gobierno
italiano que lleva por nombre –al menos según aparece
en los diarios– “Ministerio del Welfare”. Nada
menos que el titular del cargo aparece retratado en el Corriere
de la Sera con un pie de grabado que reza “Ministro del Welfare”.
Luego, por si hubiere duda, se repite la frase en el texto de la
noticia. Pregunta: ¿no habrá también un “Ministerio
de Language and Culture”?
Ya ven ustedes, estimados amigos, que el “inglaliano”
hace estragos en el país de origen de la latinidad. Pero
no se preocupen, que el napolitano y el siciliano, hablados comúnmente
a toda velocidad (no así el romano culto, mucho más
pausado y preciso), siguen siendo tan incomprensibles como siempre.
O peor.
Buona fortuna, amici!
ESPAÑOL CON BARRERAS
Bien, amigos, ya saben ustedes, sin más detalles, el “curso”
al que me refiero, que supuestamente sirve para aprender el inglés
“sin barreras”, y que anuncian incesante e insistentemente
por la televisión como la gran maravilla para los hispanohablantes
que quieran salir adelante. Sigan
leyendo
COSAS DEL SEXO Y LA VIAGRA
Bueno, amigos, no queremos incursionar el sensacionalismo ni tocar
siquiera temas escabrosos -perdón, de esos que hoy se califican
de «sensitivos»- pero no queda más remedio.
Aunque tratamos de no prestar demasiada atención a los yerros
telenoticieros, cuya abrumadora abundancia tiende a opacar el mensaje
de fondo, a veces la imprecisión es tanta que queda latente
en el subconsciente (por no hablar del superconsciente, si es que
tal cosa existe). Sigan
leyendo
| Larry
DeWitt is an historian and self-described political
populist. Larry is a specialist in 20th century U.S. history
and public policy. Born in the Southwestern U.S., he has lived
in the East for the last 18 years. His commentaries on politics
and society still retain the populist spirit of the rural
West. See Larry’s
past columns here
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Election 2004
The recent Newsweek poll says 86%
of Republicans will vote to re-elect Bush and 10% will not; among
Democrats the percentages are precisely reversed. Which means the
election will be determined by the Independent vote. The independent
vote (with no actual Democrat candidate) is 50% against Bush, 43%
in favor. There is the Democrats' opening. Keep
reading
Iraq and Liberal Interventionism
in American Foreign Policy– PART 1
In mid-November the President of
the United States stood in historic 17th century Banqueting House
of Whitehall Palace in London and spoke to the British aristocracy–and
through the media to the British people and to the world–about
the war in Iraq. The Banqueting House haS been the setting for state
banquets and for similar speeches for nearly four hundred years.
On that afternoon in November 2003 the speaker of the moment reminded
a listener of no one so much as Winston Churchill, who roamed the
rooms of Whitehall for sixty years himself. Keep
reading
Iraq and Liberal Interventionism
in American Foreign Policy- PART 2
Now that we understand there are two varieties of isolationism and
two varieties of interventionism we can look at a couple of examples
of how these four ideas affected America's foreign policy in the
20th century, and what we have to learn from them. Keep
reading
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por Pepe Herrera |
La semana pasada se celebró un match de ajedrez entre Kasparov,
el mejor jugador del mundo y "Deep Junior", el "World
Computer Chess Champion". En otras palabras, se desafiaron;
el mejor jugador humano, contra el mejor sistema electrónico
de jugar al ajedrez. El match consistió de 4 juegos y terminó
en un empate con un juego ganado, uno perdido y dos tablas para
cada uno. Kasparov perdió un juego porque es un ser humano.
Hizo una jugada pobre, increíble para un jugador de su categoría,
que permitió a Deep Junior acabarlo en un par de jugadas.
Por otra parte, el juego que perdió Deep Junior lo perdió
porque jugó como un Computer típico. Se presentó
un juego cerrado y el Computer movía las piezas, aparentemente,
sin saber que hacer. Kasparov lo ató de pies y manos y el
Computer se rindió. Los dos juegos tablas fueron juegos de
alta calidad, pero que no despertaron gran emoción entre
los espectadores. Por su tiempo ante el tablero y empatar el desafío
con Deep Junior, Kasparov recibió un trofeo y $125,000.
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por Hainess Egas |
Washington Hispano: Joven Hispana Administra
Simbolos, Reconocidos Mundialmente, de la Nacion Norteamericana
Rosanna Weltzin es un nombre que puede evocar muchas imágenes,
excepto, tal vez, la de una puertoriqueña que está
a cargo de los principales monumentos de Washington DC. “…..Soy
la única hispana en el “National Mall” y la única
mujer que ocupa un puesto gerencial …“ Nos comenta orgullosamente
esta joven y talentosa puertorriqueña. Siga
leyendo
TEATRO, por Hainess Egas
Es muy dificil lograr mantener el interés del espectador durante
un extenso monólogo. Pero, “El Angel de la Culpa” nos envuelve de
tal manera que nos atrapa e invita a seguir cada movimiento, todo
lo que está sucediendo en escena. “...Me pareció excelente. ¡Y mira
que yo he visto monólogos eh!…” Me comentó, Egla Blouin, reconocida
actriz y juez del prestigioso premio Helen Hayes al compartirme
sus impresiones. Siga leyendo
| Eric
D. Goodman is a professional writer and editor. He
is winner of the Newsletter on Newsletter’s Gold Award
for superior electronic newsletter editing and is a two-time
finalist in the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project founded
by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.
Eric writes both fiction and non-fiction. One of his novels,
Thirteen to Gorky, is set in Russia. Eric resides in Baltimore,
Maryland with his wife and daughter. Contact Eric at edgwriter@hotmail.com
to discuss reading, writing and Russia.
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Vodka in the Sun -V: A Kinder, Gentler Kremlin
At the heart of Nizhni Novgorod,
central Russia’s third largest city, is Minin Square, named
after the prince who drove the invading Tartars out of Russia in
the 1400s. An impressive monument to Minin stands in the center
of the square. Another monument stands to Valeri Chkalov the Nizhni
Novgorod native who was the first aviator to fly to the North pole.
He glances skyward in the direction of the city, his back to a winding
double staircase flowing down toward the Volga River.
But the main attraction of Minin Square is the Kremlin,
established in 1221. The fortress surrounds a large area that was
once the protected town of Nizhni Novgorod—now home to the
city’s government buildings, old Russian Orthodox churches,
an eternal flame commemorating fallen soldiers and one of my favorite
cafes in the city. Keep reading
por Montenegro
MUNDIAL
JUVENIL DE LA FIFA 2003 (SUB-20)
EEUU llegó hasta los cuartos
de final ganando el grupo F y ganándole 2x0 a un gran equipo
de la Costa del Marfil. Si Costa del Marfil hubiese contado con
una defensa, el resultado hubiera sido diferente; tienen un equipo
sumamente veloz y con mucha técnica pero se encontraron con
un arquero (portero en México y España) Norteamericano-
Steve Cronin- que aparte de ser muy bueno estaba en su día.
La seguridad del arquero les dió la oportunidad de usar el
planeado "contraataque" del técnico Rongen a la
perfección. Siga leyendo
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