The Nobel Prize 2009

Take this opportunity to greet all my dear readers, and offer apologies for my absence during their meetings conducted in different places, but they told me that the issues were very good. Some of them was the selections made by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, who recognize the President of the United States, Barack Obama, with The Nobel Prize. The truth is that I could not be there, because I had one weeks of training, for inventory that made the company where I work, which lasted from Tuesday to Sunday. An inventory that had to count with the toes, but finally completed successfully. Outdated test!

My vision on this issues is like said the president of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and The Norwegian Nobel Committee "Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened".

This is the third time that United States had received the Nobel Prize, after that in 2002 was granted the ex-president Jimmy Carter, for his mediation efforts. In 2007, his compatriot, candidate to the president and ex-Vice President Al Gore received one for working the World peace.



The Nobel Prize

Years Winners

2008 Martti Ahtisaari
2007 Al Gore
2006 Muhammad Yunus
2005 Mohamed El-Baradei
2004 Avram Hershko
2003 Clive W.J. Granger
2002 Jimmy Carter
2001 United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000 Kim Dae-jung
1999 Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 John Hume, David Trimble
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Desmond Tutu
1983 Lech Walesa
1982 Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 Mother Teresa
1978 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977 Amnesty International
1976 Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975 Andrei Sakharov
1974 Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973 Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972 The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
1971 Willy Brandt
1970 Norman Borlaug
1969 International Labour Organization
1968 René Cassin
1967 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1966 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1965 United Nations Children's Fund
1964 Martin Luther King
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962 Linus Pauling
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
1960 Albert Lutuli
1959 Philip Noel-Baker
1958 Georges Pire
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1955 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1954 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 George C. Marshall
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1951 Léon Jouhaux
1950 Ralph Bunche
1949 Lord Boyd Orr
1948 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1947 Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
1946 Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1945 Cordell Hull
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 Robert Cecil
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 Carl von Ossietzky
1934 Arthur Henderson
1933 Sir Norman Angell
1932 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1931 Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 Nathan Söderblom
1929 Frank B. Kellogg
1928 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1927 Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926 Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1924 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1922 Fridtjof Nansen
1921 Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1920 Léon Bourgeois
1919 Woodrow Wilson
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross
1916 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 Henri La Fontaine
1912 Elihu Root
1911 Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1910 Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906 Theodore Roosevelt
1905 Bertha von Suttner
1904 Institute of International Law
1903 Randal Cremer
1902 Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
1901 Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy

The singer and activist Mercedes Sosa has died

Argentine folk singer and activist Mercedes Sosa has died aged 74 after suffering kidney problems.
Sosa's popularity in Latin America spanned four decades, but she fell foul of the Argentine junta in the 1970s.
Her latest album has been nominated for three Latin Grammy awards, which are due to be announced in November.
Dubbed "the voice of the silent majority", Sosa was credited with championing the poor and fighting for political change.

"Act Like a Lady and Think Like a Man"

Last week I received a very special call, of someone who really appreciate and that we have tow years in this country (USA). She told me that would want to cook a special recipe that I do; that if I could go to her house for teaching to do it to her, which she love it too much. In the course of time I began to review her bookseller and between several them, found out a very especial. Its name is: "Act Like a Lady and Think Like a Man", of the great communicator and psychologist Steve Harvey; I liked the title And decided to tell to her that this book I’d take with me for reading and finishing this weekend.

Really, I love it and and laughed a lot, because Harvey introduction everything you need to know about men and relationships is right here -- The mind-set of a man. What drives men ; Our love isn't like your love ; The three things every man needs: support, loyalty, and the cookie ; "We need to talk", and other words that make men run for cover -- Why men do what they do. First things first: he wants to sleep with you ; Sports fish vs. keepers: how men distinguish between the marrying types and the playthings ; Mama's boys ; Why men cheat -- The playbook: how to win the game. Men respect standards-- get some ; The five questions every woman should ask before she gets in too deep ; The nine-day rule: getting the respect you deserve ; If he's meeting the kids after you decide he's "the One," it's too late ; Strong, independent-- and lonely-- women ; How to get the ring ; Quick answers to the questions you've always wanted to ask.

We learn of the elderly

One weeks ago I was speaking with a very special friend, she is like my second mother, sister and friend, she is 80 years old, polish, educated and of religious thoughts. Miss Marccia Albert asked to me how did I feel and that I do Saturday and Sunday in my free time.
I told her that she was lonely in the house, cooking and cleaning, but I felt a little sad because one day like those was with my sisters helping to my mother and waiting that my father, brothers, brother in law, sisters in law, nephews and nieces arrive to lunch with us, as well as on Sundays We went to church and when got home made a family reunion, talked political, economic, cultural, literary themes and of important characters.Then sometimes i would had to go to the hotels working, but i felt good, because i'd know that on Sunday in the afternoon came back to my home. while on Sunday I have to go to church lonely and when i got home or go to a restaurant I have to do lonely.
She answered me so gentle, "Never say you're alone, when you feel so, call someone like friends and family, try to think positive things, see a movie that makes laughing you, or what you like to do, as reading a good book, stand before the mirror and laughing until you get it natural. Everyone at some moment in our lives we feel lonely, of course we are human, do an activity that may distract you, but above all never forget to god, God never leaves you, personally I'd like to meet all these people who feel lonely, but I can not, I'd like to share all what I have lived and encourage a bit like I encourage you".
So every Saturday and Sunday I get up to much encourage to jog, i take a shower, call to the seniors center, my parents, family, friends, clean, cook, organize my things, read a good book and go to church, sometimes to a restaurant, see a good movie in house, but I also think that God is with me, and I'm not alone.

Film Sortilegio in Dominican Republic

Several tourist attractions from the Dominican Republic served as scene for the film of some episodes of "Sortilegio", the most recent soap producer for the Mexican Carla Estrada, reported the Tourism Promotion Office from this country in Miami.

The actors William Levy of Beware the angel, (Cuidado con el Angel); Gabriel Soto of Dear Enemy (Querida Enemiga) and David Zepeda of Tied (Acorralada), were in the country participating in the film of "Sortilegio".

The places selected for record of the soap were Punta Cana and Altos de Chavon in the east; el Salto de Jimenoa in the north and the South from Santo Domingo .

The Tourist Office said that "Sortilegio" will be transmitted in 140 countries, between the American and the European continents.

"Our country will be benefit with the filming of these chapters, since for the people are not a secret the high rating that these Mexican productions have in all the world”, said the representative of the Dominican Republic Tourist Office in Miami, Yaniris Felipe.

"Sortilegio" is an adaptation of "You or anybody," (Tu o nadie) produced in 1985 for the Mexican Lucía Méndez and the Dominican Andrés García.

Cultural and labor exchanges in Portugal and France

International ADEC, institution since 1998 is dedicated to organizing cultural exchanges, announced the opening of new cultural and labor exchange programs to Portugal and France.

Farah Lara, president of the organization, reported that ADEC is the pioneer and unique in Dominican Republic in offer these two new european destinations.

Lara noted that since early July the ninth-semester student of the career of Tourism; of the Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA); Magdelin Estévez, left for Portugal where they will live a true cultural exchange, where she will have the opportunity to study and work .

"Now we will send to Carolina Pena to France; also student of Tourism, where she will do an intensive course of French, and after she will do internship in hotels, these cover her stays, meals and give a contribution of $ 200 to her", said Lara.

According with the declarations done by Lara, this program will allow dominican young can expand their horizons, not only in United States, where ADEC offers the traditional "Summer Work USA" (summer jobs in United States), also in Europe, which will be beneficial in the training of future professionals, because once they return to the Dominican Republic may submit a curriculum more attractive and more fluent in the language of the host country.

The program is offered throughout the year, being necessary to apply five or six months in advance, at the offices of ADEC Locatel in Santiago and directed by her President-Founder; Mrs. Farah Lara, in Santo Domingo by Mrs. Soraya Lara.

For more information, contact to International ADEC in Santo Domingo to 809 - 689-6774 and in Santiago 809 - 226-0819.

Dies Michael Jackson, 'King of Pop'

Michael Jackson; 'King of Pop', whose great talent was accompanied by revelations of a strange life, died yesterday Thursday, at the age of 50 years a hospital from Los Angeles.

Jackson's death ends a turbulent and sometimes tragic life. Was in the Starred since child as part of the Jackson Five, and in 1980 was arguably the most influential artists in pop music, who knew how to combine black's music with the white's music, which was the pioneer of music videos broadcast by the then channel MTV.

He was the most electrifying artist of his generation: famous for his frenzied dancing that grabbed the groin and sang with loud shrieks and dotted with tremors. His lone glove, sunglasses and military jacket with epaulettes were what most distinguished him, apart from his face repeatedly altered by surgery. His album "Thriller" launched in 1982 _ and that included the hits "Beat It" "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" _ remains today the best selling in history with 26 million copies.

Over the years became increasingly strange. Beside that his facial features appeared plastics. He was surrounded by children and acted as them. He lived in a palatial mansion called Neverland, his face was covered with a mask of surgeon and lived with a chimp named Bubbles.

Good byeeee to King of Pop!

Loving picture

The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes seems one of the children most loving that belong to the world of Hollywood, because in every pictures that is together her parents, we can observe her excited playing with her toys and lollipop in arms.

This picture that speaks for itself we see as Suri has a conversation with her 'baby' which seems to do some questions it. Some love images of the small show as she wants to imitate to Katie exercise as the mother of her toys the taking them in the arms.

Chopsticks

Would you like to learn to eat with chopsticks? Many times we wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant, or oriental food in general, and can use chopsticks to eat instead of silverware that we all know.

Now, with our course, you can learn in a few seconds the correct way to use chopsticks. It is an easy technique that will teach you how to position your fingers in the best way, to practice eating with chopsticks is a natural thing for you. Go ahead, take the course and give the luxury of going to an oriental restaurant and taste your food is better... ! With chopsticks!


Note: Short Course. This work consists of a single chapter

La Bella Ferrara Pasticceria has been established in the heart of Little Italy for many generations. The bakery is also the main attraction point to tourists from all over the world, since it is conveniently located on Mulberry Street.

The restaurant offer authentic, historic, Italian pastry with a wide variety of miniature and regular size pastries. Pastries range from the famous cannoli to mouth-watering lobster tails to sultry chocolate mousse tart. Since all baking is done on premises, the pastries are fabulous and the decor is very homey.


And who enjoy italian good music, La Bella Ferra offers music starting at 7:00 pm. With his singer-songwriter Franco of Italy, and where attended as guests Italian actors including: Robert Deniro, Tony Danza, who was in Who is the boss?, James Gandolfini (Toni Soprano), Al Pacino, among others.

Location:

108 Mulberry Street
(bet. Canal & Hester Streets) Manhattan, New York, New York.
(212) 966-7867

If you love Italian food and want to join your stay in Sicily to discover the local cuisine, ShineSicilyblog, a section dedicated to realize travel to Sicily, brings us a reportage about sicilian food made by its farmers.

Italian artists Laura Pausini and Tiziano Ferro

Pandemic or Profit

PANDEMIC OF PROFIT

In the world, each year die two million people victims of malaria, which could be prevented with a bed protect. And the news say anything about this. In the world, each year die two million children from diarrhea, which could be cured with an oral serum of 25 cents. And the news say anything about this. Measles, pneumonia, preventable diseases with cheap vaccine, kill ten million people in the world each year. And the news report anything.

But a few years ago, when appeared the famous avian influenza (bird flu). The news global flooding of news. Too much Ink , warning signs. An epidemic, the most dangerous of all! ... A pandemic! Only speaks of the terrifying disease of chickens. However, avian influenza (bird flu) killed only 250 people around the world. 250 deaths during 10 years, giving an average of 25 victims per year.

The common flu kills half a million people each year in the world. Half a million to 25.

One moment, one moment. So why are armed so much outrage with the flu in chickens?
Because behind those chickens had a "rooster" of a big spur. The transnational pharmaceutical Roche with its famous Tamiflu sold million of doses to Asian countries. While Tamiflu is of questionable effectiveness, the British government bought 14 million doses to prevent their people. With the flu from chickens, Roche and Relenza, two big pharmaceutical companies that sell the drugs for this flu, got billions of dollars of profits. Before the chickens and now pigs.

Yes, now began the psychosis of the pigs flu. And all the world’s news only speak about this. -It says nothing of the economic crisis or the tortured at Guantanamo. -Only the swine flu, swine flu. And i say or ask: if behind the chickens were there a "rooster". Bihind the little pigs. there will be a "big pig"? Look what it says an executive of Roche Laboratories. “We are very concerned about this epidemic, so much pain. therefore, we sell miraculous Tamiflu” . - And to how sell "The miracle" Tamiflu? Well, look. US $ 50 the box. Jajajaj!- US $ 50 that little box of the pills? -Understand, sir, that. miracles are paying expensive. What we understand is that these companies get a good slice of the pain of others.

The U.S. company Gilead Sciences has the most important Tamiflu. The main shareholder of this company is nothing less than a sinister character, Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense of George Bush, architect of the Iraq war. The shareholders of the pharmaceutical Roche and Relenza are fulling their hands, they are happy with their millionaires sales of the dubious Tamiflu. The real pandemic is profit, the enormous profits of these mercenaries of health.

We do not deny the precautionary measures necessary that are takening the countries. But if the Avian flu or pandemic is so terrible as the mass media announced, If the Health World Organization is concerned about both disease, why not declare it as a global public health problem and allows the manufacture of generics medicines to fight it? Without patents from Roche and Relenza, and distribute this generic drugs free to all countries, especially the poor.