(www.saludyciencias.com.ar) is no longer a science fiction novel. Neither a remake of the series The Time Tunnel. Much less of movies today some old-fashioned, like Back to the future. Now, September 2007, is a theoretical model of a time machine developed by a physical flesh and blood. A machine capable of carrying people into the past.
The researcher in question is called Amon Ori and works at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). Physicist presents a theoretical model based on equations that describe the conditions which obtained power, would build a time machine, as published in the journal Physical Review.
According to the Israeli physicist, creating a time machine depends on some initial conditions very small although very difficult, "are not impossible to achieve."
Foundations of Ori theories about the trip through time are based on increasing the curvature of space-time, whereas the arrow of time can go to curl in on itself forming a loop.
Pretty complicated to understand for mere mortals are not experts in the Theory of Relativity of Albert Einstein, the thing is, in words Ori Amon, thus: "We know that the curvature of space-time occurs constantly, but we have wanted to get strong enough to bend into a form that takes time lines to form closed loops. We attempted to see whether it can manipulate the space-time to develop it in this way. "
If the initial condition is achieved, the time machine would work by itself, without any intervention, as is, with the barrel of a ship: If the cannon fires a shell, once the trip has been nothing more to do but wait for the shell itself go towards your goal, driven only by the laws of physics.
To Ori, it is possible to get the curvature of space-time in a particular direction, in order to make possible a return in time in a parallel space-time.
Israeli physicist calculations show that the loop space-time can be built with ordinary matter and positive energy density (whereas normally the investigations so far have been directed to use particular area, specially made), but adds that it is still necessary to resolve the question of stability of this machine in order to become a time warp.
"The mere fact of the existence of the machine design is one that allows travel into the past-resume Ori, and excited. Creating this time machine today, we can return to our time of future generations. "
According to the model of Amos Ori, if the alleged time-space loop is created January 1, 2008 and will be used for the first time 20 years later. Of course when entering the loop will be returning to the 1st. January 2008.
The Time Machine, in this case, would in practice as a space-time tunnel in which the entry is subject to the evolution of time, but whose output is stationary at the time of its creation.
Therefore, the 2007 people could not travel to the past could only do they live after they had succeeded in creating the space-time loop Amos Ori.
'The biological impact of loneliness can influence our most basic internal processes," said biologist at the University of California, Steve Cole. Recent research concluded that individuals who do not maintain constant contact with other people are more prone to disease and die young. This is because your system immune have certain genetic patterns that can trigger abnormal antibody production or cause damage to healthy cells. A study of 22,000 genes showed that those with few outgoing links with levels of unhealthy cardiovascular inflammation. This can lead to heart and arterial disease, Alzheimer's and other diseases, the daily newspaper 20 Minutos. The debate arises when dealing with these ailments. 'Maybe we can give these people aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but are we curing the disease? ", Asks John Cacioppo, University of Chicago."
The proposal of the Jesuits is well regarded in the Vatican, which considers the creation of a" missionary surfer "a challenge for the Church itself." The idea of \u200b\u200bthe Jesuits is a real challenge
and have to live with enthusiasm
"said Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, head of media organs of the Vatican. "The truth is that the Earth can be considered virtual Earth mission. Second Life is a place that must not abandon and any initiative to relieve the inhabitants should be favored," he said Spadaro.
No ignore attempts to Islamicize West: Pope adviser - International Herald Tribune
Thursday, July 26, 6:14 PM
BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe should not ignore the attempts to introduce Islamic values \u200b\u200bin the West, which could even threaten the continent's identity, on Thursday told a magazine the private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy Father has tried to emphasize that respects the Islamic faith since many Muslims were offended by a speech in Germany last year, arguing that linked Islam with violence.
"Attempts to Islamicize the West should not be ignored," said the private secretary Georg Gaenswein German magazine Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview that was published on its website.
"And the danger for the identity of Europe, which is connected to it, should not be ignored because of a stubborn respect," added Gaenswein. papal adviser told the magazine that the pontiff's speech in Regensburg, which included a medieval quotation stating that Islam was spread by the sword, should be offset any naivety about the Islamic faith. "Under the concept (of Islam) there are a number of different perspectives, sometimes contradictory, to include extremists who invoke the Koran in their actions and use weapons," he said.
Gaenswein gave no specific examples of alleged efforts to introduce Islamic values \u200b\u200bin the Western powers. The adviser also said that Pope Benedict XVI intends to work in interfaith dialogue and compromise in the debate to other faiths.
Sunday 1 July, 2:21 PM there in the City of Buenos Aires many laws are not respected and that no one monitors but although they are commonplace, the fines to punish them are small or nil. However, there is also the Federal Capital obsolete ordinances and resolutions and to unusual and social changes that were no longer punishable even if no one has repealed according to the newspaper La Nacion.
For example, an ordinance states that it is forbidden to fly kites in the city except in Ireland and the Park Plaza Saavedra, of Victoria, General Paz and San Benito.
Another set that sugar bars sugar should provide metal or glass only. But there's more. Is in force today, banning poultry installed on roofs from the year 1903, keep up pigs, banning public display of untamed animals and wildlife, among others.
Among modern standards in the Code of Offences figure indicating that shall be punished with between 1 and 20 days of public works who induces a minor to begging.
is also prohibited ciudacoches activity and who exercise public works shall perform or pay a fine of 200 to 400 pesos. Other specified
The newsstand can not have magazines or pornographic films in view of minors in bars, restaurants and stalls is required to provide dressings in individual sachets and menus in Braille. There
an ordinance that requires every public employee, if someone requests it, provide your name and title as well as those of his superior. More
. Among other existing provisions contained in the rainy days the groups will stop at every corner, the movie theater when the functions are not numbered, they should put a sign with the legend indicating that 90% of the room is sold, photographers and artists working in squares should wear overalls or a suit and also banned in cinemas is the presence of persons of either sex with his hat on.
If true, this implies that the Jewish state stands alone against a regime that threatens to "wipe Israel off the map" and is building nuclear weapons to do so. Israeli leaders are showing signs that their patience is running out: the Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz just warned that "diplomatic efforts will yield results by the end of 2007." Can
in practice the Israel Defense Forces to tear up the program Nuclear Iran?
analysis of top secret intelligence agencies normally respond to questions as well. But talented outsiders, using open sources, can also make their forecasts. Whitney Raas and Austin Long studied this problem at the Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and spread their impressive analysis, "Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities" in the journal International Security.
Raas and Long focus exclusively on feasibility, not on political appeal or the strategic implications: if the Israeli national leadership decided to damage the Iranian infrastructure, could forces accomplish this mission? The authors consider five components of a successful attack: Intelligence: slow the production of fissile material requires incapacitating only three facilities of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. In ascending order of importance, are: the heavy water plant and plutonium production reactors under construction at Arak, a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan and the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. Destroying the Natanz facility in particular, they note, "is critical to impeding Iran's progress toward nuclearization."
Arsenal: To damage all three facilities with reasonable confidence requires - given their size, their being underground, the weapons available to the Israeli forces, and other factors - 24 5000-pound bombs and 24 weapons of 2000 pounds.
Platforms: Noting the "odd amalgamation of technologies" available to the Iranians and the limitations of their fighter planes and defense forces to stand up when the Israeli Air Force high-tech, Raas-Long calculate that the IDF need a strike package of 25 F-15 and 25 F-16.
Routes: Israeli jets can reach their targets via three paths: Turkey to the north, Jordan and Iraq in the middle, or Saudi Arabia to the south. In terms of fuel and cargo, the distances can be covered in all three cases.
Defense forces: Rather than predict the outcome of an Israel-Iran confrontation, the authors estimate how many of the 50 Israeli planes would have to reach their three targets for the operation to succeed. Figure 24 planes must reach Natanz, 6 Isfahan, Arak and 5, or 35 total. At this point, that means the Iranian defenders minimally must stop 16 of 50 planes, or one third of the strike force. The authors consider "substantial" this attrition rate in the case of Natanz and "almost unimaginable" in the case of the other two goals.
Overall, Raas-Long concluded that the relentless modernization of the air forces of Israel gives "the ability to destroy even more reinforced targets in Iran with some degree of confidence." Comparing an Iranian operation with Israel to attack Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, which was an overwhelming success, they conclude that this "does not appear to be more risky" than the previous.
The big question hanging over the operation, with which the authors speculate, is whether any of the governments Turkish, Jordanian, Saudi American or Israeli would agree to use their airspace (Iraq, remember, is under U.S. control .) Unless achieve Israeli permission to cross these territories, their planes would have to fight their way to Iran as well. This jeopardizes the entire project more than any other factor. (The IDF could reduce this problem by flying along borders, for example, the Turkish-Syrian, permitting both countries en route to claim Israeli planes were in the airspace of another).
Raas-Long imply but do not claim that the IDF could reach the continental island Jargo, through which exports 90% of Iranian oil, heavily damaging the Iranian economy.
Israeli forces have "a chance reasonable prospect of success "unilaterally. destroy Iranian nuclear facilities could help deter Tehran to pursue its weapons program. The Raas-Long study, therefore, more likely a diplomatic settlement. Their findings may deserve wider dissemination.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Palestinians the victims suffered "Israeli imperialism."
Let me turn to those who have embraced the so-called Palestinian cause. Many honestly believe that the fate of the Palestinians deserve their support, others believe that everything that has to do with U.S. should be repulsive, and link Israel with great power. They are also the "liberals" of today, the Socialists of living without knowledge of the facts, support what they consider the "problem of time." Finally we find the usual anti-Semitic, that now have an additional target which download your perennial hatred. At the end of the day, they say, the Israelis are the descendants of those who poisoned the wells and the black plague spread throughout Europe. So, nothing good can be expected of them.
Unlike neighboring Arab states, Israel is a democracy that respects freedom of expression. Therefore, it could be considered in any way other opinions than mine, if they have some justification. I will give some points. They point out that we have usurped foreign land, and ignore that we were expelled from these payments and have never renounced the desire to return to our ancestral land. They say they have robbed a people to have their own State, and do not take into account that you have accepted the cast given by the UN in 1947, as we did much against us, have had a homeland for nearly six decades. Claim that there are many millions of Palestinian refugees, and forget that hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled from gross Arab countries, and today has not been even one: they have all been rehabilitated. Claim that they do anything to abuse and kill Palestinians, and forget that the Arabs have launched five wars to destroy the State of Israel (to not leave one Jew alive), and only military strength and the courage to Zahal have prevented the new Holocaust. Who mistreat and lock up the Palestinians, and overlook the serious fact that suicide bombings have been a Palestinian innovation, and to defend our lives we had to build a fence and some nice action to prevent the infiltration of these murderers.
Israelis are not homogeneous: there is this religious and secular, Eastern and Western, right-wing nationalists and leftist freethinkers. So we are very heterogeneous. And we discussed and we fought a great time. But somehow we live and what is more, we respect each other. It is unacceptable for someone to kill another for their political views, and the murderer of a Prime Minister is so much the exception to the rule, which has been repudiated by the 99.9999% of the Israelis, and is serving a prison for life. Nor is the death penalty in this country suffered, and the most murderous Palestinian terrorist knows that if he can survive after killing as many Israelis, will be able to live in good conditions bearable. Of course, in an Israeli prison until ...
But the Palestinians come from another way, not discussed with rivals, is the rebukes, pursued and killed. "What is happening in Gaza, both from Hamas and the Fatah, a political immorality in the full sense of the word. People are removed from their homes to be murdered and thrown into the street. Others are thrown to his death from the roofs of tall buildings ... The fight has even reached the hospital, such as Beit Hanun. " The above does not write any Western or Israeli journalist, but Tariq Alhomayed, editor in chief of the daily Ashrq Al Awsat, one of the most respected bodies of the Arab press. This reporter noted, among other atrocities, the barbarity committed in Gaza against Mohammed Sweirki. "With his hands and feet bound, the cook of 28 years of Abu Mazen was thrown from the top of a 15 story building," he writes. Yes, to the staff of the hated President of the Palestinian Authority was cleared to leave no trace of it in Gaza. What they say in another context, "Cleaning house."
I imagine how these images have been friends of the Palestinians in Spain. For example, many members of this government, beginning with President Zapatero and Foreign Minister, two trends apparent pro-Palestinian figures ... Let no one tell me that is not true: it is something that has and is taken for granted. Go buddies with the other side of the Mediterranean! And as I said that Arab journalist, there seems no difference between both sides: both are "immoral" to his view. We and many other adjectives Westerners attach more attention to reality, they have to do with the disregard for life and the brutality shown by some beings who claim to be the human race.
So the next time you rise up in chorus to criticize Israel for committing this or that "barbaric" are encouraged to ruminate a bit about how to proceed from their "victims." Remember, it is not the first time that work well. In Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, the terrorists have been killing Muslims bulk without compunction.
If children do not attend school, the school will build houses
seems incredible and even out of a cheap Israeli propaganda campaign, but the simple truth is that the time has come where the majority of the population of Gaza nostalgically evokes the horrific days of the Israeli occupation. Sorry, but despite fully understand the feeling, I tell them not to return.
I mean not dream of a new occupation that takes over the population and internal security through the military government that takes the place of police. After forty years, we all know that the occupiers lose as much or more than busy.
What may come to pass, is entering, one of these days, IDF tanks and some other infantry troops, to do everything necessary to prevent the citizens of Sderot live in a constant nightmare.
I'm not the right person for the constructive analysis, because that would make the Palestinians. It is they who must draw their own conclusions about their ability to live with themselves, respecting pluralism and devoting efforts to create and build rather than make war.
If it is true that emancipation is a heroic deed, it is difficult to discard it and move on to the boring stage of the work, to create infrastructure, education and instruction, to grow and create wealth.
A last-minute unilateral disengagement process, Shimon Peres moved heaven and earth to achieve, through acrobatic management that included several factors that invernadotes of Gush Katif were not dismantled as proposed, but transferred to the Palestinians that they might have a source of income and wealth. From the same place are fired Qassam rockets into Sderot and inviting, almost begs Israeli forces deign to enter and attack with their tanks.
If they succeed, may re-ignite a war of liberation as a calf to the udder, the fight will be for just cause. It will also be an easier fight, because the treacherous Israeli enemy, to withdraw from Gaza, has made it more difficult to reach location. If it comes, as expected, is closer at hand.
If this is the situation, and indeed it is, why would accept a new average Israeli withdrawal, with or without agreements through, this time the West Bank? Who is intended to negotiate Israel withdrawals, borders and agreements? How many governments and many armies are in that entity called the Palestinian Authority? Should we negotiate with all or a party? Which of them, with the boss and openly demands the destruction of Israel, or with which recognizes Israel but is not recognized by their own people? A
Because unlike ours, the world is indeed discriminatory and racist. Cree primitive than those Arabs can not demand anything, because they are not civilized. Rebuke is preaching in the desert because no one cares. Instead we feel sore when we say we do not respect human rights. Any news: we are increasingly gearing more to the region. Mario Wainstein
are presented to the judge a couple with their respective lawyers, since they are in divorce proceedings. The woman's lawyer calls for women to 50% of the sale of the house owned by the spouses as well as a lifetime pension by the amount of $ 500.00 to as lists, is to cover the cost of electricity, telephone and a small list of monthly bills.
The man's attorney protests, saying the man has no obligation to his wife every time and the children are older and married and that she may well go to work and sustain itself and that she never contributed to the maintenance of the house, or provide any money to buy it.
- really, your honor, there was none, decisions were taken by me voluntarily.
- I could be more explicit and states the reasons that these claims?
- Well, when I married, I had just graduated from high school. My intention had been to study nursing, but there was no money to pay the expenses of two people studying, so I told my husband to study it and then fight me ...
- Well, what happened when he graduated as an engineer, why you. did not study?
- Well, you see, he asked me if we had our first child because we had five years married and have not had before.
- What happened?
- No, the child was born, he did not want the child would be cared for by strangers, and I understood that he was right, that what we could remedy he won because he earned very good salary. So I decided to stay home with our son.
- What happened then when the child grew, why it was not to study?
- Nothing which by then had two more children ...
- Two more?
- Yes, you see. When we had our first child, my husband said we should have a second child for the brothers ran out, so we had the second three years later, but it was another man ...
- Y. .., what was ... it got to do ...?
- No, there was no problem, we were very happy, but my husband told me that happiness was complete, we should try to have a girl ...
- Y. ..?
- For when the second son was just 4 years, got pregnant and had the child ...
- And then why not study when she grew up?
- Because no one could take the greatest baseball practices ... or take them to school, as the bus left them far from home. Fearing for their safety, my husband and I decided that I would take them to school and pick them ... So, let the was higher in the second school to primary school and returned home with the girl to get everything ready for the afternoon. when I picked up, left the greatest in football practices was dating the girl to the ballet.
- So you put off his education continued ...
- Yes, Your Honor, I did it willingly.
- And when their three children were becoming independent, why not return to college?
- then my husband's mother widowed, became ill and needed someone to care for her, so we talk about the case and we conclude that we were going to put in a care home, otherwise they would bring her to live with us, because children were out.
- How long did this stage ...?
- Well, about six years .. She had Alzheimer's and how well they took care of its decline was not rapid, it was enough. In fact, died of a heart attack after he arrived for a walk every morning we took for the neighborhood. You know, she loved feeding the pigeons in the park.
- And in the meantime, I mean all these years, had someone to help ...?
- "Help. ..? What. ..?
- For a clean house, cook, I mean the normal duties of a home ...
- No, really, my husband was earning very good money, but imagine, there were three children to raise, educate, the cost of living rose more than ever, I tried to save, but ...
- And how you saved ...?
- Well, instead of taking clothes to the laundry, I washed at home, ironing clothes for my husband and kids, gardening ... this was what it cost me more effort , for I have back problems ... but always makes his little effort and I assure you that our garden had nothing to envy anyone in our street.
- Who cooked, you too.?
- Of course, my husband hated the food of the restaurants, as he had to lunch outside with their customers many times, saying he's nothing like the food I prepared for him ...
- And of course, you're not going to those foods.
- What foods ...?
- At her husband with their customers ...
- No, I had no time ... It was precisely one of those meals that met Sofia ...
- Sofia? Who is Sophia?
- His bride, the young with whom they will marry when we finish the divorce.
- And how like you know you are going to marry her?
- Because I met them at the home of mutual friends on the day they were giving the news of their engagement.
The judge stared at the woman and her ex-husband. He got up, took the folder with all papers and left. All were looking at each other, some shrugged and sat down to wait to return. Soon the judge returned. He sat down and adjusted his glasses. Then, closed folders, put them aside and said
- Madam, I have carefully reviewed these claims. And I have reached the following conclusions:
1st: The divorce is awarded with an effective date after today.
2nd: Her husband "no" has to pass a pension.
At these two decisions, the lawyer and the husband looked with intelligent delight. But the judge continued ...
3rd: you stay in absolute mistress of her home, the Mercedes Benz owned by her ex-husband, cuentade savings, checking, which will put your name immediately and which he can not touch a penny or so will have to repay as well as the absolute beneficiary declared their life insurance, their retirement plans as well as her husband's obligation to continue paying for health insurance until you die.
- My decision is based on the sum of the salary as manager, cook, chauffeur, laundry and gardening, nurse, etc. you paid to your spouse, including children and mother ... This decision is only a partial payment of wages withheld by the twenty-six years of continuous service that you have provided. Since there must be objective, we know that her husband could not meet this debt, which is why pay so if it is not enough, will be relatively fair. In addition, he will pay for education expenses, Transportation ny books if you decide to return to university to study the career you choose!
(case of real life. Enero / 2003) Family Court Sydney, Australia.
As the Saudi royal family owns many harems and palaces everywhere and a quarter of global oil, the media has been called "moderate" to slavery and misogynist regime under which is forbidden women from driving and even Jews enter as tourists, which is prohibited non-Islamic religion, and punishments include stoning and beheading, the death penalty for homosexuality and female adultery and amputation of hands for theft. The Western media did not censor these 'moderate' expression of a structure that lacks premedieval parliaments, elections or representative bodies. tribal regime controls all media, exports violence through wahhbita doctrine that in a hundred countries, young recruits to terrorist creed, and reduces human rights to an arbitrary gift from the king to his subjects.
However, some the defeat of the West in the psychological war is reflected in the totalitarians impose their lexicon. In Saudi Arabia it is moderate. It is providing care for his "peace plan" floated in Riyadh (March 29, 2007). The proposal is that Israel evacuate areas before being eliminated by the
income of millions of Arabs
that immediately transform most of the country. Called "peace plan" to the offensive to eliminate the Jewish state, makes it easier for Saudis to arouse the unsuspecting and malicious approval in unison. media content are emptying the word "peace
" long, including the papers of the Israeli left as the newspaper Ha'aretz reporting the death of Israeli linguist Tanya Reinhardt (March 17, 2007) describing it as "peace activist." Peace curious that of Reinhardt, who true to his mentor Noam Chomsky intended to destroy Israel, supported Hezbollah during the last war, and opposed the Oslo Accords (09/13/1993) consider a betrayal by Arafat to Palestinians (since supposedly renounced the goal of eliminating the Jewish state.)
This semantic confusion which is called peace to war, nor is it easy to identify what is terrorism or fascism, as the fascists and terrorists throw these terms preventively against the Western democracies to keep them on the defensive semantics. Those who lash out against all opposition branded a "fascist" to extol liberal governments as "democratic" family to Castro or Kim. The totalitarian selected voices to confuse and dominate, a political science manipulation is known as Aesop language "(the old Greek fabulist poor, whose name, without guilt or office, was extrapolated to the adjectives). The Nazis called "Evakuierung 'deportation to death camps," special treatment " to murder and "final solution" to the Holocaust. The communists created in 1950 World Peace Council to promote export class struggle and revolution. Nobody could object to solutions and peace without first offering explanations.
God's chosen people (published on May 8, 2006 in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten
and reproduced several times.) In addition to undermine the Israeli self-defense
by missiles of Hezbollah are not even mentioned, the Norwegian "explain" the reasoning of the Zionists is theocratic. To fabricate lies entirely dodge the history of Zionism, largely secular from the very founding
. The usual trick is to expeditiously and culminates in objecting to our arguments is eminently historical, moral and sensible, but not theology. Gaarder Unlike that attacks against Israel from Europe (their morality does not allow never insult to Saudi Arabia), cases of Pappe, Reinhardt and the like are local fury. Start from the flogging of their own society, and then move the anti-Israel venom intact to other companies in which the self
there. They consume in a frenzy of hatred justification that they give away from the outside. The monotone of the Arab world views contrast with Israel, living in a vast plurality of ideas, parties and organizations that include Pappe (it was a parliamentary candidate by the Communist Party but was never elected). The polychromy is largely continuity of Jewish tradition that always praised diversity of views. The disparity of systems is one of the reasons for diatribes against Israel are so obsessive
and caustic. Against the Jewish state only a politician would dare to ask openly and with impunity that you throw an atomic bomb, as urged by an Egyptian government deputy in parliament of his country (12 February 2007). Only the Jewish state produces a slush of academics, not by minority is less outrageous, who are determined to eliminate the Jewish state even if it would mean that the Islamo-fascism devour expanding our vibrant democracy in the guts of the Middle Ages.
The adulteration of language the onslaught against Israel and the siege of the West and its values, are faces of this Third World War we said Islam. One is his main victim, Julian concludes his sobering book
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Desperate to find employees who speak English, business leaders in a California town inhabited by a large number of immigrants have launched a campaign of $ 4.5 million to persuade residents to learn the language. The campaign launched in the city of Santa Ana, where more than three quarters of the population are Hispanic and less than 15 percent speak English at home, offers free English classes in higher education institutions and courses to follow at home .
"Employers have come to us saying, 'Look, we do not have enough to hire people who speak English,"' said Dale Ward, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce Santa Ana "Two thirds of our workforce not qualify for a novice working in industries emerging, they do not speak English or do not speak it well enough, "he added. Santa Ana, a city made up of working class people and located 64 kilometers south of Los Angeles, has long been a magnet for immigrants Mexico and other parts of Latin America.
About 76 percent of the population is English speaking, 11 percent Asian and 11 percent are of Anglo-Saxon. Ward said some 350,000 residents in Santa Ana, the most densely populated city in California after San Francisco, about 313,000 at home speak a language other than English. Ads reporting on the advertising campaign were stuck on bus stops, grocery stores and elsewhere. With slogans like "You work and work but you can not do?" Ads try to convince immigrants that they can improve their quality of life in the United States if they learn English. Ward said that the goal of the campaign is that about 50,000 residents of Santa Ana achieve a competent level of English for 2009. The local school offers free classes has received 366 phone calls since the advertisements were published in February, he said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, said an expert in space.
Thirty-eight years after the United States put the first man on the moon, Russia could reach it using Soyuz rockets, told the Vedomosti daily the head of the Russian space company RKK Energia, Nikolai Sevastianov. "It's time to think about the industrial development of the Moon. Sometimes we are criticized for making such suggestions too early," said Sevastianov, according to an interview released on Wednesday.
"But it's time to do this given the limitations of Earth's natural reserves and the pace of progress of civilization. Nor can we dismiss the idea of \u200b\u200boutsourcing harmful industries into space, "he added. Sevastianov said Energia was working on a new space transport system called Kliper / Parom.
" We can start flying to the Moon using Soyuz and technologies that we already have. With regard to industrial development, that will be with the new technologies that will give us the Kliper system, "he said. "I think it is important to send private people to the moon," he told Reuters Chris Faranetta, vice president of orbital flights of the agency, the Russian mission control near Moscow.
One trip took Soyuz rocket on Monday U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station.
Tourists have paid between $ 20 and $ 25 million each for their training and travel to the space station. Faranetta announced that a trip around the moon would cost approximately $ 100 million.
"Technically, the program (the Moon) is very achievable (...) We are not building things from scratch, "he said.
(Periodismo.com) - The National University of Mexico (UNAM) announced Tuesday the launch of the first "reality" of the literary world, in which twelve young writers on the Internet compete for a prize of $ 4,500 and publication of his work in unarevista.
writers coexist in a blog (www.cazadeletras. unam.mx) and will be sorely tried by the jury. They were responsible for writing poetry, fiction, short stories, reviews, essays. Sign your work with pseudonyms and the jury who will evaluate the removed of the week.
All participants are between 20 and 35 years of age and reside in Mexico, but the idea of \u200b\u200bthe organizers is to extend the invitation to the whole continent for the next edition. The first will begin on May 11 and ends in eight weeks, when the winner is announced.
Area Director of Literature at the UNAM, Sealtiel Alatriste, said: "It is a literary competition, but also a workshop, and readers will participate. There will be three judges, but the public also participated. The writer is writing his work, and people are going left views. "
No photographs of the contestants, only a chart that identified by the pseudonym. "The only thing that exists in this contest is the word and the possibility that the writers ever do better, to understand what the mechanism and infrastructure of the word," he said.
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03/26/2007
The controversy over the UN
anti-Semites accused the Jews of racist
John Dugard accused by the report to the UN on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A recent United Nations report plasma rampant anti-Semitism that has taken control of the human rights machinery of the UN. In language reminiscent of Nazi Germany, John Dugard, the "Special Envoy for the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" the UN has announced that Jews seek racial domination.
In Dugard's words, "the Israeli army caused serious bodily and mental harm on Palestinians. [...] For the Palestinians throughout the OPT [occupied Palestinian territories] are denied freedom of movement. Can you seriously be denied that The purpose of this measure is to establish and maintain domination by one racial group (Jews) over another racial group (Palestinians) and systematically oppressing them? "
What Dugard fears most is not terrorism and hatred that feeds it, but "Jewishness," the idea that a Jewish resident on land claimed by Arabs. Copying deliberately the Nazi imagery, his report refers to Israel's security barrier in this way: "The Wall being built in East Jerusalem is an instrument of social engineering designed to achieve the Jewishness of Jerusalem."
The problem of "Jewishness" is displayed side by side with the defender at the UN of the Hamas Government. According to Dugard, Israel has no right to freeze the transfer of funds to the Hamas government. Why? "Predictably, Israel justifies its actions on security grounds, but the real reason seems to be the determination to bring about regime change." A look at the Hamas Charter helps to determine the wisdom of regime change: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will bend. There is no solution to the Palestinian issue does not pass through Jihad." But according to this UN expert the problem is not a government dedicated to killing Jews but the Jews themselves.
The main argument of the UN outpost of modern anti-Semitism is to pillory the Jew calling him the supreme racist. Israel would be the evil equivalent to apartheid South Africa. It refers, in fact, apartheid on 24 occasions throughout the report, claiming that "the laws and practices of Israel in the OPT certainly resemble aspects of apartheid." As expected, fails to mention that one fifth of the population of Israel is Arab citizens who vote and have representatives in the Israeli parliament, while Arab countries are Judenrein. What is that Israel is the apartheid state? The final proof that Dugard is only an anti-Semite is funded by the UN as blaming the Jewish state for all the ills of the world:
For years the occupation of Palestine and apartheid in South Africa drew the attention of the international community. In 1994, apartheid came to an end [...] the OPT has become a test for the West, a test to assess their commitment to human rights. If the West stops the test, can hardly be expected that developing countries take seriously the human rights violations in their own countries.
Thus, the UN reverses good and evil. Why should Sudan stop genocide? You have to wait for the Jews repent of their Jewishness and the Jewishness of Israel is buttoned. Why should Zimbabwe stop murdering and starving his own people, black and white? Why should China tolerate the freedom of expression? Why should Saudi Arabia to allow women to leave the house without a man or occupy any front seat? Why should Egypt stop the mutilation of the genitalia of most of its female population married? If everyone is waiting for a solution to the Jewish!
The beaten and insulted by his conversion to Judaism
Boaron
The venerable rabbi could not believe what their eyes. Bellido de Sant Feliu Francesc neatly unfolded a tallit that her mother had knitted when I was a child, 60 years ago, to follow the precepts of their religion secret. White with blue stripes at each end, the Jewish prayer shawl did not differ in any way from her own mother had bequeathed to him or millions of Jews around the world. The extraordinary thing was that Bell was born and raised in Cirat in the rugged interior of Castellón, in a land where Jews had officially ended five centuries ago, when Reyes Catholics were given a choice between exile or conversion.
Boaron, the right hand of the Grand Rabbi of Israel, was with a religious delegation in Barcelona on March 31 and April 1 (the two visited the old Jewish quarter of Girona) to hear the cases of dozens of descendants of converts Iberia claiming the right to belong to the people of Israel. What was most special to the committee is that most of these people have not only preserved the memory, but also rituals and traditions of their ancestors Israelites. Bellido
prayers recited in Hebrew that his mother had taught him, explained that the candles lit Saturday, instructed him in carrying out the precepts and even he recited an old proverb: "From Sefarad (Hispania) I am a Jaya (soldier) / fabled safa (language) Castilian / as the purest villain / never tasted the challah (Sabbath bread). " At his home in Cirat (Upper Mijares Valencia, English language), Bell remembers a mezuzah, the capsule with prayers that all Jewish homes placed on the doorpost. However, they had it inside, and in the foyer, and covered with plaster. Other ritual objects, like the menorah, the candelabrum with seven branches, were hiding in a closet.
Bell's case is repeated in throughout the Iberian Peninsula, where many families have been preserved through generations Jewish traits and in some cases, the provisions in full. It is impossible to give figures because they are still hidden, but people who claim to Israel are descendants of several thousand. "Everywhere in the 52 English provinces, there are secret Jews, but Spain is still a very anti-Semitic country and still do not feel safe," said a Valencian prefer your name not appear.
The survival of Judaism is documented in Spain and Portugal until the late eighteenth century, 300 years after the decree of the Catholic Kings. Files of the Inquisition reveal tens of thousands of cases of heresy to those dates. Historians say that more than half of Jewish exile avoided by converting to Christianity, but most also secretly continued to practice the religion of their parents. Thus was born the crypto, they were also called pigs, a name that remains very much alive in many Portuguese families. When netted a court accused of Judaizing heretic immediately fell relatives and friends from different parts of Spain and Portugal, because for centuries the crypto maintained a network of contacts that enabled them to help, meet and bargain holiday marriages without which tradition had disappeared. The Judaizers files disappear just as the Holy Office that chased them moderates, in the late eighteenth century, and, finally, is abolished in the early nineteenth century.
A brand ham
La Paz Marina Valencia also Peris tells how her paternal grandparents lit in the Galician village of Rivadavia Sabbath candles in a pot so that neighbors do not perceive that as a child and discovered in his attic hidden books written "in house", which later was learned that the Hebrew alphabet. Her maternal grandmother kept up appearances to avoid outdoor cooking. The Inquisition prosecuted many suspects for cooking with vegetable oil or not to eat pork. "I always saw a ham in the pantry - Marina-account, which should be inherited, because I had been there for years, so that the neighbors see him." The grandmother gave the rabbits bred (forbidden by Jewish law) to the neighbors, "however, gave no or a chicken." The Peace Navy family had to balance during the long Franco to hide his true religion. When a social event rejected the pork, they argued that fattened, and said that the seafood they produce disorders. When invited to a wedding they always came at the end of Mass, "with the excuse of the dressmaker or a shoe broken "because they had reservations about entering the church.
The family also managed to have a plot in the cemetery without a single cross, which also buried atheists and suicide. When in 1948 he founded the State of Israel, 37 of his cousins \u200b\u200bemigrated en masse starring an aliyah (return) incredible for the world, because theoretically the Jews had for centuries Sefarad finish.
Marina, who is 55, still met the clandestine network that united the Iberian Jews . When he turned 18, his parents took him home some young people to marry within the group. "It was a secret service crypto. There were pimps to get in contact with people, and I brought guys in Cordoba, Navarra and Valencia same, and some central European families who were related to my parents, "he says.
The rabbinical committee also heard lusos representatives. In Portugal - where the Jews were forcibly converted, without the possibility of exile, some communities have remained perfectly formed, and during the 1920 and 1930 there was a significant move, the Obra do Resgate, which led to many pigs at the synagogue and set up schools for children.
Another group that said if the rabbis was to Chuetas, Mallorcans carriers of 15 names, descendants of the last converts repressed by the Inquisition in the late seventeenth century, were stigmatized until recently, because they lived
grouped in the old call of s'Argenteria of Palma.
After Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe Israeli commission traveled to Mallorca and Porto. Rabbi Boaron was impressed by the testimony he had heard and recognized as a land of Sephardic Jews. In his words, there is a willingness of the Chief Rabbinate for the Bnei Anousim (children of the convicts) to return to Israel with full honors.
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Eugeni Casanova, author the book "Els Jueus amagats. Supervivents of the Inquisition to the segle Sefarad XXI" (Column, 2005).
"Want to D's in the near future , we can live free easter, so felt like this, "our Passover sow." For Isaias Leo Kremer
Today is the 16th of March the new moon *. The pastor of the dawn is still high, the noises of the night are still whispers that operated at dawn. I, Don José Manuel de la Santa Trinidad Rojas and Mejia, stare at the night that is giving birth on the day of Passover. My name is not a coincidence, since they were imposed drag the New Christians, plus the Red, which is a reversal of letters SajoR (black, in Hebrew), and Mejia is a derivation of the Messiah, but this is a very hidden and very private, otherwise misfortune would befall me and my beloved family.
belong to the so-called "Marranos" by holy church, and I do everything possible to demonstrate my Christian devotion. In fact my brother Fray apostle Peter Rojas and Mejia is sexton and who else has sacrificed, since not only must live a life of hypocrisy and denial of their faith, but that was doomed to be a free stem cuttings or seed for " honor "of his church.
Today I shall go to church with my family and see my brother when placing the host in our mouths, knowing that we do driven by circumstances, since it is what our life.
Then Peter comes on a donkey to the farm, and together on the banks of the river, we hit the water with willow sticks, remembering nuestro patriarca moisés en el desierto. No se bien porque hago esto pero hay algo muy profundo en mi que me lleva a hacerlo. Quizá fuera el respeto a mis mayores. Pero no. Es algo que surge por mi mas que por ellos, por amor mas que por compromiso. Tengo una finca donde hago salado y curtido de cueros. Como es mucho el personal que requiero, soy habitual en los remates de esclavos. Allí mi servidor: el mulato Lucas, de quien nadie podría sospechar origen marrano (de hecho no lo tiene), se acerca a revisar a los pobres desdichados y cuando simula inspeccionar boca y oídos les dice en vos baja el "shemáh Israel", (oye Israel) a lo que muchos responden atónitos y embargados por la emoción. Estos son esclavos que buy for my finances and especially brought from Portugal and Brazil responded positively to the password. During the week we burn a lot of flour in the oven so that no one suspected that we will not eat bread, and my wife "slipped" among many baked a few tables of "thin bread" that left without being seen and jealously guarded in the basement , to take matzah (unleavened bread) for the night.
I personally take care of the "meat" of sheep to choose which animals without defect, without knives took its toll and after cutting, put the meat in salt water and not forgetting "casually" splatter bloody knives on the doorposts as did my ancestors. I would like to accompany this with the appropriate blessings, but never the supes. As I hope my prayers are heard.
is coming up for dinner. Peter looks in the back of the chapel twice a very old book that I do not read, but if my brother, and in turn teach my son to do so. I send Lucas to the tank, and the pretext of casting cal, low in the hammock until the second calzadura where there hides a carved top, a small prayer shawl and skullcap bearing the Star of David. Also a piece of parchment which is in an old family chest as I believe it is written in Hebrew so I hide until it translated. Under the basement. The strong smell of leather and "jerky" permeates my nose, and table salt is covered with a white linen tablecloth, shining cup full of wine and bread of poverty facing the bedside chair. We all have fears and anxieties, my brother Peter is transformed, a twinkle in her eyes is crying, my eldest son with a red skullcap looks at me with love and fear. .
Oh boy! If I could protect you from the risk you expose. But I can not, by which I overcome with guilt. This fades to hear words that do not understand, but with a melody that awakens my memories of experiences that I lived.
My son gets up and sings a few phrases in foreign language for me and my guests. But to hear them all break to mourn. My brother, now without a crucifix seem freed oppressive yoke, stands, covers me with old striped scarf I do not know to whom it belonged. But to wrap myself in the strange feel a warmth in my whole being. D's all-powerful, why can not we feel this forever? Why should we lie every day about our faith? How many of us will follow your ways and how many will stay away forever in your path? I wish I could see a future town of brothers that occur freely as Jews. Children of your chosen people.
We invade the silence. We all cried at this event, which should be the freedom brought joy. I ask my brother the sexton that I translate the old parchment. Unfolds it and reads the letters with difficulty the weather cleared. But its content highlights, and read in speaker ..
Avadim ahinu veatá bnei Jorim, Baruch atah Adonay Eloheinu, sheejeianu vekimanu vehiguianu lazman Hazeh. We were slaves and now we are free, be blessed that you let us live to reach and approach this time. Want
D's in the near future, my children and their children, Easter can live in freedom, so felt like this, "our Passover sow."
* Date taking the pigs to mislead Christians who controlled the Hebrew lunar calendar.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A province in central China plans to take care of their officials to see how their parents, and those who are kind to the parents will be the favorites for a possible promotion, reported on Saturday, Xinhua news agency.
More than 500 family, friends, colleagues and neighbors will be interviewed by special investigators on the conduct of each officer Changyuan, including family values \u200b\u200band habits of drinking and gambling, he added.
The research results will be considered for promotions.
"Officials should have the traditional Chinese values \u200b\u200bof filial piety and family responsibility, which are the basis for a successful career, "said the head of the local Communist Party, Liu Sen, was quoted as saying.
leaders are concerned about aging and how to disseminate the values moral in a time when young people want to participate in the booming national economy.
By 2050 it is expected that the number of Chinese citizens over 60 years exceed 400 million.
One employee said his boss marplatense the assaulted and insulted her by saying "pu ... Jewish "because performs a conversion course to marry her boyfriend, who professes the religion and also worked for the same employer. Those affected are Valeria Blanco, 32, and her boyfriend Darius Handstok, 28, who reported the fact in the Municipal Anti-Discrimination Office (Omudi), said the head of the agency, Laura Shedden. "The owner found out that I had asked permission to miss those days and called me and started to shout and insult me. I said 'pu ... Jewish" and as I started to sweat and my wet uniform shirt, I tried of 'dirty Jew', "said Blanco. Said the woman hit her "in the arms and belly, that is in the complaint "and locked in the bathroom while she asked him to calm down," Then do not let me call my boyfriend and he said that nothing had happened, that I get to work, but I did not want stay there, "so he went with his mother, who went to look for in a remise, he added. Shedden said the girl's boyfriend worked at an ice cream parlor owned by the same owners, and both were considered redundant after the alleged assault and the alleged discriminatory act.
Source: La Prensa
27/02/2007 10:12 - Ptasevich Bernard (Berny) Katzrin Capital Golan