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Journalist Adri�n Meshad dies	Cleanliness workpeople denounce arbitrary dismissal
They recognize an economic recovery without employment	Inlingua: an effective model to learn English

He announces slaughter investigation in Fort Hood

Lieberman: "Was it a terrorist attack?”

Izda.: Joe Lieberman, president of the Committee of National Safety and of the Committee of Governmental Matters of the Senate. Photo: AP. Dcha.: Relatives of Francheska V�lez, of Hispanic origin, sob during a wakefulness in Chicago opposite to the house of the pregnant soldier who died during the balacera in Fort Hood. Photo: John Smierciak / AP

Allen G. Breed
Fort Hood, Texas / AP
The independent senator Joe Lieberman announced this week the beginning of an investigation if the Army did not notice the signs of which the man accused of a shooting in the military base of Fort Hood, which caused 13 deaths, had become attached to an extremist vision of the Islam.
The Lieberman exhortation so that an investigation is carried out came one day after the pupils who took part in a carried out mastery from 2007 to 2008 in a military university revealed that they had complained before his Superiors on the biggest Nest egg Malik Hasan therefore they were considering there were his antiAmerican points of view. These were including having given an exhibition that was justifying the suicidal offenses, and saying him to his classmates that the Islamic law was superior to the American Constitution.
“ If Hasan was showing signs, saying to the people that it had turned into an Islamic extremist, the Army of the United States must have tolerance zero ", supported Lieberman. “One would have to go”, he added.
Lieberman, president in the Senate of the Committee of National Safety and of the Committee of Governmental Matters, wants that the Congress determines if the balacera represents a terrorist attack.
With hindsight, the clearer and clearer signs of the dissatisfaction of Hasan on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem almost unmistakable.
In the months before the Thursday shooting, in which 13 persons died and 29 more turned out to be hurt, Hasan usually surprised the people on having said that the war against the terrorism was a “war against the Islam”.
Meanwhile, the Department of Investigations of the Army, he announced that Hasan will be submitted to a martial court by 13 murders.

Farewell to a big partner

Journalist Adri�n Meshad dies

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Adri�n Meshad died at the age of 65 years. photo: I FILE.

The recognized journalist and photographer Adri�n Meshad, who worked for this journalistic company for more than five years, stopped existing the morning of Wednesday, the 11th of November in the regional Laurel hospital, Maryland, due to a heart trouble. For the friends and the persons who met "mister Meshad", as we were calling it, not only there us hurts the game of a big friend but also the absence of a professional dedicated to his big passion: the photo.
Adri�n Meshad was born on September 14, 1944 and came from Havana, Cuba, in 1980. Loaded with sleep it managed to be established in the United States and for his last years his residence sat in the state of Maryland. During his life it was dedicated to the journalistic work, I inform that he exercised in his native Cuba, Costa Rica and the United States.
Accompanied by his wife Ruth, his children Natalia, Daisy and Arthrolith, as well as of his spoiled grandchildren, Meshad initiated a new trip, but this time without return. Only the memories, the fruits will stay of having cultivated a very close family and a group of friends to whom it leaves a big life lesson.
Adri�n Meshad demonstrated up to his last moments his generous spirit, always ready to help not only in life, but also after his death. Adri�n Meshad decided to donate his organs and even destined his body to the medical research.
The religious ceremony in memory of Adri�n Meshad will be realized on Saturday, the 14th of November in the church St. Michael, located in 7 S Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland at 2 a.m. p.m.
His friends of Washington Hispanic we will never forget his serious voice and peculiar smile that there was coming every morning to disturb and to load with energy the writing. Always ready with his camerawoman hung on the neck, his vest multiuses and his contagious spark, Adri�n Meshad was going out in search of the news. We join the pain of the family and only we can only say “Rest in peace, Mister Meshad”.

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Obama announces forum to fight the unemployment

They recognize an economic recovery without employment

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The number of persons who request for the first time the insurance for unemployment lowered last week, but it still does not reach the acceptable levels to think that the works are recovering. photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP

One week later that should announce the biggest unemployment rate to itself in the last 26 years, 10,2 per cent at national level, the Department of Work pointed out that the benefit requests for unemployment they had disminu�do during the last week from 514,000 to 502,000.
The news for some was encouraging because it is a sign of the economic recovery of the country that promised to be it went to an annual rhythm of 3.5 during the third trimester of the year, but the economists consider that the “recovery without employment” will be still present until middle of 2010. In this sense it is believed that the unemployment reaches 10,5 per cent because the companies and business proprietors do not want to increase his charts.
DC beats record
In the metropolitan area the Arlington county presented the lowest index of unemployment as a last report of the Bureau of Statistics on Employment, reaching 4,2 per cent continued by the counties of Fairfax and Loudoun that present 4.7 per cent in the persons' index without work. Of equal way it informed that the District of Columbia registers the highest unemployment rate in the region with 11,7 per cent, even more than the national average that it beat record last week. The city of Fredericksburg follows him with 9,5 per cent.
Forum of high level
For his part the president Barack Obama announced on Thursday, the 12th of November that next month he will preside in the White House at a conference of high level to fight the chronic unemployment that keeps on ballasting the economy.
“ We accept any demonstrably good idea that complements the measurements adopted to create employment”, said Obama before initiating a trip for Asia, in which the American economy and the global managerial perspectives will be some of the key topics.
The chief indicated in the White House that “an encouraging symptom” is the decrease of the claims of benefits for unemployment insurance. Still, with million Americans without work, Obama said that the government has “the obligation to consider any responsible additional step that we could” give to increase the employment.
The December "forum" on the employment will join specialists of the public and private sector, said Obama. Since the economic prosperity at national level is tied to the economies of the whole world, the president said that he thinks to speak also with the leaders of Asia of the strategy to grow again.
“ It is a strategy in which the Asian markets and of the Pacific Ocean they are opened for our exports”, said Obama. “The prosperity of the whole world does not depend already so much on the consumption and the American indebtedness, but any more of the innovation and the American products”.

Now the shift of the Senate comes

They approve Reform of Health in the Chamber

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Nancy Pelosi the president of the House of Representatives I center, speech in a conference with his companion democratic, leader majority Steny Hoyer (from left to right), chief of discipline James Clyburn, and representative George Miller, in the Acropolis on Saturday, the 7th of November 2009 in Washington after the approval of the project of law of health. Photo: AP/Alex Brandon

With a whole of 220 affirmative votes on 215 in against, the House of Representatives approved on Saturday, the 7th of November his version of the plan of reform of the system of health that contains more than 2,000 pages. While the president Barack Obama considered a historical fact to be the decision and was well got for the democratic majority, the republicans did not stop criticizing the initiative to which they were opposed almost unanimously.
The proposal of the House of Representatives across a series of tributary impositions to the wealthiest, clipping in the federal programs of health and imposing fines on the companies and natural persons who do not fulfill the law, claims that 96 per cent of the American population have medical coverage. At the same time he considers subsidies so that families of scarce resources could buy an insurance policy, as well as a program of health of the government for the purpose of creating competition between the insurance companies and this way guaranteeing that they offer a better service at a more accessible price for the hard-working families.
The president of the Lower House Nancy Pelosi compared the result to the approval of the governmental program of pension of the Social Insurance in 1935 and to the health insurance I will Medicate for the elders, 30 years later. Now the Senate will have to debate his version, but because it is in discussion many of the points keys, the republicans affirmed that to approve a health reform will take time.
It does not subsidize abortions
After a long debate the plan approved by the Chamber considered an amendment that will prohibit the use of federal funds to subsidize insurance policy that realize abortions. The conservative democrats and the republicans joined forces to consider this amendment that obtained a voting of 240 in favor and 194 in against.
“ Overwhelming most of Americans, including many that are in favor of the abortion, are opposed to use federal money to finance them. To do it goes against the deep convictions of million Americans who believe that the abortion goes against the morality. The right to life is not a political matter; but a moral matter.

Trade union points out that contractor violated the contract

Cleanliness workpeople denounce arbitrary dismissal

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

A group of workpeople came opposite to the building of the National archives to protest against the contractor that it left them without work. photos: SEIU/32BJ

With the support of the trade union 32BJ a group of workpeople of cleanliness of the National archives went out to the streets to be protested because they were dismissed without offering them any type of explanation and sued his employer an immediate restitution.
The great personnel of whom they have more than 20 years working in the field of cleanliness of the federal building blames the contractor LB&B and Associates of having acted arbitrarily and leaving them without his source of income.
“ I like this work, I have always worked hard”, said Milton Scott, a father of three children, including one who attends to the university. “Sew them it is difficult, I look for work, but I have not news about any”, added Scott, one of the fired persons for LB&B and Associates.
Representatives of the trade union 32BJ presented a formal accusation against the company for contract violation. According to a source of the trade union they must wait for a pair of weeks for an answer on the possibility of an arbitration between both parts.
“ Undoubtedly, this institution of fame as the National archives can be found by a contractor more responsible who treats better his workpeople “, said Jaime Contreras, the director for the cardinal area of 32BJ. “These cleanliness workpeople have worked hard and his families are suffering without the income”.
For his part the company of cleanliness denied to have done badly at all against the workpeople, but they have not expressed an official declaration.

“To learn the language is the first thing to adapt itself to the culture”

Inlingua: an effective model to learn English

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

Roberto Franco of Colombian origin (der). and Ricardo S�nchez, Venezuelan they coincide that the method Inlingua has helped them to advance quickly in learning of the English language. Photo: Alvaro Ortiz / WH.

Motivated by his passion of which foreign persons learn the English language, the Inlingua founder in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC Jeremy Lykken offers for more than 20 years the only and effective method of ense�aza who allows to the student to think and speak English from the first day of classes.
“ The experience has demonstrated to me that to learn English needs a lot of effort from himself and that the secret does not consist in taking a magic tablet but in offering the resources that really the pupils need”, he said to Washington Hispanic Jeremy Lykken.
In this sense Inlingua located in Arlington, GOES, offers classes personalized emphatically in the communication in English. “Flexibility and within reach of all” there are the words keys that mark the success of Inlingua because not only it offers classes in all the schedules and levels but also at very competitive prices.
25 per cent of the student population are of Hispanic origin, but one of his short-term goals is to increase the number of Latin students.
“ For the persons that trabajn very hard during the weekdays we have the Saturday course to a very reasonable cost. The persons must no have pretext not to study English”, points out governing Janet Chang of Inlingua.
The students speak
Roberto Franco came from Bogota two months ago and initiated his classes of English in Inlingua with only one target, to spend the examination known as TOEFL to obtain his university title. “This has been a very good experience. In my country they demand English knowledge to be able to graduate and here I am”.
Ricardo S�nchez is 21 years old and five months ago it came from Venezuela to fulfill a sleep: to study in the University business administration. “In Venezuela I learned English very little, but here enInlingua I have advanced very rapidly. The ambience is very agreeable and really you interact with persons of different nationalities”, points out Ricardo.
On the other hand Inlingua also offers the service of change of visa for that young people who decide to remain in the country to study English.
“ 70 per cent of our students came with one tourist's visa and now they have obtained a student's visa. The process is very simple any time they expire with all the requisites and should be students on time finished”, tells the director of the center.
Inlingua also offers preparation courses to take the examinations that the English level evaluates as it is the TOEFL, GMAT, GRE, program of certification TEFL, as well as workshops and seminars of reduction of the accent, grammar and semantics.