Monday, April 9, 2012

Mike Nova's starred items - 12:11 PM 4/9/2012

Google Reader - Mike Nova's starred items

Mike Nova's starred items - 12:11 PM 4/9/2012

via Puerto Rico News's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News on 4/8/12
Ha pasado largo tiempo, pero el discrimen en el ambiente escolar sigue. La exclusión y el llamar por nombres peyorativos es común. Son estas las primeras manifestaciones de acoso contra niñas que manifiestan conductas que se han socializado como exclusivas de los varones o contra niños que no se comportan según el imaginario colectivo de lo que es un hombre. Le siguen entonces los insultos y luego las agresiones físicas.




NotiCel™ - Escuela es "infierno" para alumnos gays discriminados
www.noticel.com

via Puerto Rico News's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News on 4/8/12
Motín en playa de Culebra y Drogas en Vieques!!! PUERTO RICO, LO HACE MEJOR! Y... En Semana Santa! Tres jóvenes resultaron heridos en medio de un motín que se formó hoy a las 4:23 de la madrugada en la playa Flamenco de Culebra. Saúl Santiago, de 21 años, Guillermo Paz, de 23 y un menor de 17 resultaron con heridas hoy presuntamente cuando fueron agredidos por varios individuos en una pelea que se formó en la reconocida playa. Los tres perjudicados son de Bayamón. “Se formó una pelea pero logramos actuar rápidamente”, informó el comandante de la zona policiaca de Fajardo, Antonio López. Aparte de este motín se registró una agresión en el negocio negocio El Batey, en Culebra, informó la Policía. Fernando Vázquez Rodríguez, vecino de San Juan, dijo a los policías que varios individuos lo agredieron en el rostro. Este sufrió una herida abierta en el rostro y tuvo que ser transportado al hospital Hima San Pablo, en Fajardo, donde se le tomaron puntos de sutura. El comandante López precisó que en Culebra se diligenciaron dos órdenes de arresto. Por otra parte, en el muelle de Vieques fueron arrestadas 16 personas. “Hemos incautado drogas en dos vehículos y a personas que las traían en bultos y en su propia ropa”, dijo el oficial policiaco. En Vieques, el sábado, a las 12:30 de la tarde, dos sujetos fueron arrestados por posesión de sustancias controladas, en el barrio Monte Santo, en Vieques. La Policía arrestó a William Miró Hodge, de 52 años y José Cruz Rodríguez, de 39, luego de ocuparles una bolsa de cocaína, $80 en efectivo y una guagua Toyota Four Runner.


via The Blog by Fernando Henrique Cardoso on 4/9/12
What is the best way to deal with drugs? Criminalizing drug users or treating them as patients? Sticking to a strict prohibitionist stance or experimenting with alternative forms of regulation and prevention?
Latin America is talking about drugs like never before. The taboo that has long prevented open debate about drug policies has been broken -- thanks to a steadily deteriorating situation on the ground and the courageous stand taken by presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala and Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica.
The facts speak for themselves. The foundations of the U.S.-led war on drugs -- eradication of production, interdiction of traffic, and criminalization of consumption -- have not succeeded and never will. When there is established demand for a consumer product, there will be a supply. The only beneficiaries of prohibition are the drug cartels.
Forty years of strenuous efforts have failed to reduce the production and consumption of illicit drugs. Worse, in Mexico and Central America, prohibition-related violence and corruption have become a major threat to public safety and the stability of democratic institutions.
In light of the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs, we took the initiative four years ago to convene a Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy -- and, more recently, a Global Commission on Drug Policy. Our core message was clear: The war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies throughout the Americas.
Our commissions presented two key recommendations. The first was to end -- as soon as possible -- the criminalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others. People struggling with drug abuse or addiction may indeed harm themselves and their families, but criminalization and social marginalization are not going to help them.
Drug abuse and addiction are public health problems. The most effective response, then, is to provide treatment and health services to all who need them. The criminalization of drug use is the primary obstacle to treatment and rehabilitation.
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay have already passed laws decriminalizing drug possession for personal consumption. However, given that the legal distinctions between "possession" and "trafficking" are unclear, the law often leads to police corruption and outright discrimination against the poor.
The primary objective of drug control policies should be protecting the young, seeking by all means to prevent drug abuse and addiction. This requires increased investments in prevention, treatment and social reintegration. Only such a comprehensive approach can be effective in reducing drug use.
The full enforcement power of the state and the social and cultural pressure of society should be aimed at a relentless fight against organized crime -- rather than persecuting people in need of treatment.
Our second core recommendation -- which is more complex but just as important for ensuring peace and public safety -- is to encourage experimentation with different models of legal regulation of drugs, such as marijuana, in similar ways to what is already done with tobacco and alcohol.
Research has consistently demonstrated that marijuana is a less harmful drug than tobacco or alcohol. Regulation is not the same as legalization. This is a critical point. Regulation is a necessary step to create the conditions for a society to establish all kinds of restrictions and limitations on the production, trade, advertising and consumption of a given substance to deglamorize, discourage and control its use.
The stunning reduction in the consumption of tobacco in the Americas shows that prevention and regulation are more efficient than prohibition and punishment.
Regulation cuts the link between traffickers and consumers. It is this link that enables traffickers to impel people to use ever more harmful drugs. Since marijuana is by far the most widely consumed illicit drug in the world, regulation would also significantly reduce the vast resources -- and thus the vast power and influence -- generated by organized crime in the illegal drug markets..
We congratulate the presidents of Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica for having the courage to put different options on the table that would undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens.
For the first time, drug policy will be on the agenda at the Summit of the Americas, which will take place in Cartagena de las lndias, Colombia, on April 14-15. It is unlikely that the heads of state will reach a consensus about such a complex and controversial issue. At this point, what is most needed is a serious and rigorous debate, enabling each country to develop its own position and to adopt more appropriate solutions that take their history and culture into account.
Latin America's experiences in fighting drug traffic, the successful examples set by some European countries in reducing the individual and societal harms of drug misuse, the experimentation of several U.S. states with the medical uses of marijuana, the engagement of the business sector and the scientific community, and the profound wish of the young to live in peace, all point toward more balanced, humane and efficient drug policies.
A paradigm shift, combining repression of the violent drug trade with increased investments in treatment and prevention, would be the best contribution that Latin America -- a region that has suffered so much under drug prohibition -- could make to global reform of drug policies.
Written by Cesar Gaviria, former president of Colombia and member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico and member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy; and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil and chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

via Twitter / ElNuevoDia on 4/9/12
ElNuevoDia: "Ojo por ojo y todo el mundo acabará ciego." -Mahatma Gandhi │¡Buenos días!

via latino - Google Blog Search by editors on 4/9/12
The terms Hispanic and Latino are not the first choice amongst people from South America and Spanish-speaking countries when identifying themselves, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center survey, although Boston ...

via latino - Google Blog Search by Van Le on 4/6/12
Add Stephen Colbert to the long list of commentators who realize what a problem the Latino vote is going to be for Republicans this November. A “Colbert Report” segment this week wonders how Republicans are going to ...

via latino - Google Blog Search by S.T. VanAirsdale on 4/9/12
The real kicker is that the movie will be Latino-themed. It will star a Latino cast and will tackle Catholic-based paranormal mythology. It will not, however, be in Spanish. The aim is to make the micro-budgeted movie in the next ...

via Latino Voices on HuffingtonPost.com by Laura E. Enriquez on 4/9/12
Sorting through the stack of mail that I hadn't checked in weeks, my heart sank as I picked up a letter from the Los Angeles Superior Court. I knew what it was -- a jury summons.
For most, this is one of the worst pieces of mail they can receive. My mind raced through the list of things I needed to be doing and the various ways in which this was going to prevent me from doing them. When I mentioned it to a few friends, they started telling me how I could get out of it: "You're an educated woman of color, they don't want people who are critical of 'the system.'"
And we digressed into a discussion of the criminalization of communities of color and the prison industrial complex.
A few days later one of my friends, who happens to be undocumented, saw my summons lying on my desk. His response: "You're so lucky!" Seeing my confusion, he confessed that he wished he could serve on a jury. It was one of the many privileges that his undocumented status forbid him. I was surprised, but it made sense. We talk a lot about the limitations undocumented status poses to undocumented immigrants -- unequal access to higher education, no access to legal employment, fear of deportation, limited access to driver's licenses, etc. But we don't talk about the civic responsibilities and privileges, like voting and jury duty, which are also denied to undocumented immigrants.
I instantly began to feel ashamed about all the complaining my citizen friends and I had been doing only a few days earlier. My citizen guilt began to creep up inside of me. As we continued to talk, I realized that this was not something to complain or feel guilty about but rather was an opportunity to embrace my privilege and use it for positive change. I began to re-imagine the significance of jury duty.
My friends and I had been criticizing the injustices committed by the judicial system but then refusing to sacrifice our own time to take part in this system and make a difference on an individual level. Maybe that's me being overly optimistic, that my one voice on a jury of twelve can make a difference in one trial. But if we think about our organizing strategies- every additional voice or body at an event makes the group stronger. Voting strategies are the same -- every vote counts. Why should it be different when we think about jury duty?
Yet, this form of civic engagement is plagued by a certain complacency. To encourage participation we say that every voice counts but we also tend to re-frame the event -- Get Out the Vote rallies become concerts, social justice rallies have bands, feature celebrity speakers, or offer food. On The Simpsons, they tried to make jury duty more interesting by framing it as joining the "justice squadron" at the "Municipal Fortress of Vengeance." So maybe citizenship itself is in need of some re-framing so we can increase civic participation and get citizens like myself to appreciate the privileges we are afforded.
One way of re-framing citizenship, while radical, could be to associate formal citizenship with citizen-like action or civic engagement. Not every country assigns citizenship in the same way. Most commonly, you can be a citizen by birth (like in the U.S.), or you can be a citizen by blood based on where your parents or grandparents were citizens (like in Germany). But, what if we assigned citizenship based on one's actions rather than something a person cannot control? Kind of like in elementary school when you get awards for "citizenship" which is really a code word for participating in class, being respectful of your classmates, and helping others. People who live in a country would then have to demonstrate their citizen like qualities in order to get certain privileges. If we did this people would be a lot less likely to take their citizenship responsibilities for granted because they worked so hard to get them.
Now I know this new action-based means of assigning citizenship is highly unlikely and practically impossible because it would be hard to implement. But it makes us think about the two sides of the citizenship coin- it is a legal status but it is also an action. You can be a legal citizen with or without practicing good citizenship. Alternatively, you can be undocumented while practicing good citizenship; this is often an argument used to gain support for the DREAM Act. In fact, given my undocumented friend's reaction to my jury summons, it's likely that he has the potential to be a better citizen than I. In fact most of the undocumented young adults I meet are good citizens despite their legal status- helping their families, neighbors, co-workers, friends, and strangers, speaking out against injustices, fostering abandoned animals, spearheading community clean-ups, encouraging younger kids to stay in school.
These actions give me hope and make me strive to be a better citizen. I've decided to maintain my optimism -- my voice on a jury, in an election, at a rally, or in a blog post can make a difference. If we each come to live our citizenship, we will be able to make our community a better place, one small action at a time. My first action will be showing up to jury duty with a smile on my face. What will yours be?

via The Wall Street Journal's Facebook Wall by The Wall Street Journal on 4/9/12

Hawaii Turns to Dog Shrinks to Curb Barking
online.wsj.com
Dog counseling has been in demand on the big island of Hawaii since county commissioners passed an anti-barking ordinance.

POLICÍA HERIDO DE BALA - YouTube - Uploaded by elvoceropr on Apr 7, 2012

POLICÍA HERIDO DE BALA - YouTube



POLICÍA HERID
Uploaded by on Apr 7, 2012O DE BALA 

Immortals - Dance with Sabers LIVE. "Georgian Fire" National Ballet Metekhi Potskhishvili - YouTube

Immortals - Dance with Sabers LIVE. "Georgian Fire" National Ballet Metekhi Potskhishvili - YouTube



Immortals - Dance with Sabers LIVE. "Georgian Fire" National Ballet Metekhi Potskhishvili 

10:25 AM 4/9/2012 - Mike Nova's starred items - Some Hispanics want to tell more about background — A majority of Hispanics prefer to identify themselves according to ...

Google Reader - Mike Nova's starred items

10:25 AM 4/9/2012 - Mike Nova's starred items

via caribbeanbusiness.pr on 4/8/12
Monday, April 9th, 2012

Some Hispanics want to tell more about background

WASHINGTON — A majority of Hispanics prefer to identify themselves according to ...

Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies

NEW YORK — "Mike Wallace is here to see you." ...

Change up: PR pitcher shifts to science

AMHERST, Mass. — Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball c ...

This post has been generated by Page2RSS


PR Web (press release)

New Holocaust Memorial Dedicated in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Dignitaries ...
PR Web (press release)
A solemn and moving dedication of the Holocaust Memorial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 29, designed by husband/wife team Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz, New York-based artists, brought together representatives from many walks of life, ...

and more »

via Puerto Rico Newswire on 4/9/12
... terrible period and honoring their memory. A solemn and moving dedication of the Holocaust Memorial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 29, designed by husband/wife team Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz, New York-based artists, brought together ...

via Puerto Rico News on 4/9/12
New York artists and designers Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz "honored and humbled" by the response to their sculpture "In the Shadow of their Absence." A solemn and moving dedication of the Holocaust Memorial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 29, designed by husband/wife team Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz, New York-based artists, ... (more)


New Holocaust Memorial Dedicated in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Dignitaries ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
A solemn and moving dedication of the Holocaust Memorial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 29, designed by husband/wife team Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz, New York-based artists, brought together representatives from many walks of life, ...

and more »

via Puerto Rico News - Archive Links's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News - Archive Links on 4/9/12
Monday, April 9, 2012


Monday, April 9, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012 This post has been generated by Page2RSS...

via Puerto Rico News - Archive Links's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News - Archive Links on 4/9/12
Lunes


Lunes
Lunes 9 de abril de 2012 78 851 40 13 6 273 1782 2854 1700 ¿Qué crees de las Pruebas Puertorriqueñas de Aprovechamiento Académico? Son un buen instrumento de medición escolar Son unas pruebas ajenas a la realidad puertorriqueña Ayudan a la escuela en el diseño de estrategias educativas Sólo sirven para desprestigiar y subestimar nuestra escuela pública This post has been generated by Page2RSS...

Mike Nova's starred items

via Puerto Rico News - Archive Links's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News - Archive Links on 4/9/12
El Independiente: Una introducción a las bandas


El Independiente: Una introducción a las bandas
Se aproxima la fecha de El Independiente Vol.1 – nuestro primer evento, organizado en colaboración con nuestros hermanos-en-la-música de Frecuencias Alternas y Mala Vida Buena Música. Este esfuerzo corresponde al deseo compartido de ayudar a difundir la música más interesante (para nosotros al menos) de la escena local a través de un intercambio cultural con los artistas independientes de otros países que han logrado trascender sus propias escenas....

via Puerto Rico News - Archive Links's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News - Archive Links on 4/9/12
Lunes


Lunes
Lunes 9 de abril de 2012 78 Pecadillos que cuestan mucho Conductas que parecerían insignificantes constituyen actos de corrupción Resurge debate sobre trato a los pitbulls Policía mató a un perro que mordió a uno de sus amos en una discusión de pareja. Fotos y vídeo Debate por cambios propuestos al PAN Medida de Pierluisi eliminaría la opción de obtener el 25% de la ayuda en efectivo A boicotear las Pruebas Puertorriqueñas Aseguran no responden a...

Romney campaigned with Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuno. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but they don't pay taxes and they can't vote in presidential elections. They can vote in nominating contests, and Republicans hold ...

The issue puts Romney at odds with a majority of local voters and his most prominent Puerto Rican supporter, Gov. Luis Fortuno, standing at Romney's side as the former governor or Massachusetts made his remarks.

via Gov. Louis Fortuño - Google Blog Search by Mike Nova on 4/8/12
Louis Fortuño - Google News; caribbean - Google News; latino - Google News; puerto rico - Google News; puerto rico boxing - Google News; puerto rico politics - Google News; puerto rico sports - Google News; Primerahora.com ... Rico, last minute information and media - The New Day; Puerto Rico Daily Sun - Local News; Politics - Speaker of Puerto Rico; caribbeanbusiness.pr; First Hour: News; Puerto Rico News; The New Day: News; The New Day: Politics; Gov.

via Puerto Rico News - Puerto Rico Noticias by Mike Nova on 4/9/12
The New Day - News from Puerto Rico, last minute information and media - The New Day

El Nuevo Dia - Front Page - 8:07 AM 4/9/2012


  • NEWS




  • PHOTOS AND VIDEOS




  • QUINCEAÑERAS




  • Peccadillos that cost a lot

    Practices like eating a fruit in the supermarket without paying for affecting the quality of life and involve millions in losses

    Resurgent controversy over the treatment of pitbulls

    Police killed a dog that bit one of their masters in a discussion partner. Photos and video

    Discussion on proposed changes to the PAN

    Pierluisi measure would eliminate the option of getting 25% of cash assistance

    Saber Dance Music Video - YouTube

    Saber Dance Music Video - YouTube


    Saber Dance Music Video 

    Puerto Rico ratings increase in Technology Report - VOCERO

    Rate increases in Puerto Rico Technology Report - Speaker of Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico ratings increase in Technology Report - VOCERO

    April 8, 2012 - Technology -
    Puerto Rico went from position 43 to 36
    AP
    The technological competitiveness of Puerto Rico continued to rise, according to the Global Competitiveness Report published by Information Technology on 4 April, the World Economic Forum and Puerto Rico where he climbed from position 43 to 36 in the "Networked Readiness Index" contained in the report, marking the second consecutive increase of qualification for the island in the past two years.
    So let him know the secretary of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC), José Pérez-Riera report, noting that "in the latest Global Competitiveness Report occupy position 35 among 142 countries, after an improvement of six ranks. Also in Travel and Tourism last were 45 of 139, after a growth of eight and now ranks in the April 2012 report, Information Technology and 36 of 142, after an improvement of seven ranks. All these numbers are the highest position it has reached Puerto Rico in the report. Definitely growth in these three lines reaffirm the successful implementation of the initiatives that are part of the Strategic Model for a New Economy. "
    This report, which is considered one of the most comprehensive and authoritative in the world, analyzes the effect of the development of communication and information technology in the development process and competitiveness of 142 countries, in turn, represent more than 98 percent of global GDP.
    The "Networked Readiness Index" examines three dimensions of technological readiness of the countries: the business sector in general, the regulatory environment and governmental infrastructure and preparedness of society to use and benefit of information technology.
    He added that "there is evidence that countries that get the highest positions in this index are also the most developed economies, so we continue to focus on driving the technology sector of Puerto Rico as an engine of economic development".
    For its part, the "Chief Information Officer" (CIO) of the Government of Puerto Rico, Juan Rodriguez de Hostos, interpreted the increase as a sign that the efforts of this administration to adopt the technology are yielding positive results.
    "This government recognized early in the information systems a powerful tool to improve the quality of services to citizens and increase public access to internet connections high speed," said Rodriguez de Hostos.

    Comments

    One Response to "rate increases in Puerto Rico Technology Report"

    Sabre Dance - Aram Khachaturian - YouTube

    Sabre Dance - Aram Khachaturian - YouTube


    Sabre Dance - Aram Khachaturian

    New faces of corrupt colonialism - VOCERO

    New faces of colonialism corrupt - Speaker of Puerto Rico
    New faces of  corrupt colonialism - VOCERO
    ...
    Just review the legal findings of the last four-year periods in which corruption, looting and misappropriation of public funds have led to the imprisonment of prominent mayors, legislators and senior government officials from both parties colonial. The evidence is ample, scandalous and shameful.
    This new breed of 'honorable inconsequential' that comes every four years the political stage, has become the shame of the Puerto Rican People. They come to political power not to serve the people, but to serve the People. Their motivation is to have priority access to wealth and personal gain emanating from political power for personal gain. All People know that most of them do not possess the intellectual expectations or decorum to earn wages, allowances and stipends that are distributed in the Legislature, municipalities and central government.
    This new wave generation in the PNP and PPD has learned from his predecessors that the Government of Puerto Rico is the appropriate setting to make money and live unscrupulously as officers, at the expense of the People taxpayer. They are crazy with elected positions because they live under the principle that the government has money to splurge where it 'delivers the best part it's up.' That's the slogan of the lie and public immorality prevailing in Puerto Rico.
    Many of the 'new' in the PNP and PPD have proved most successful students, corrupt and evil than their own teachers. Just come to power to perpetuate colonialism corrupt.

    Assaulted tourist will assist in further investigation - VOCERO

    Tourist assaulted contribute to research - Speaker of Puerto Rico

    Assaulted tourist  will assist in further investigation

    She was discharged last Friday and returned to the city of Baltimore
    THE SPEAKER / File
    The young American who was presumably sexually assaulted in Vieques in late March would return to Puerto Rico with his parents to contribute to the research, said the commander Antonio Lopez, director of the Police Region of Fajardo.
    According to Lopez is a commitment from the parents of the young age of 29, a fourth-year medical, returned to participate in the process once it is determined whether there was a sexual assault and knows who attacked her causing a skull fracture.
    She was discharged last Friday and returned to the city of Baltimore, Maryland.
    According to information received by Lopez, the Justice Department and the Tourism Company would cover the cost of transportation of the youth and their parents when necessary to travel to the island
    The results of various tests to determine whether he was sexually assaulted, which will be compared with the genetic profiles of five young men identified as "persons of interest" in the case, is expected to be ready for this week.

    Comments