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HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!!!

February 2, 2012 by 30 Comments

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!

Groundhog Day arrives every February 2nd and is celebrated in the United States and Canada. The official celebration takes place at Gobbler’s Knob near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania where residents await Punxsutawney Phil. Other cities in the U.S. and Canada have Groundhog Day celebrations with their own resident rodents. The tradition expects the groundhog to foretell whether spring has arrived or if the residents will experience six more weeks of winter.

Various European cultures observed the actions of animals to determine when to plant crops. The Germans watched the badger and the English watched the hedgehog, which appeared around Candlemas, a Christian holiday, in early February. A popular English poem states, “If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter, and come not again.” Simply put, if the animal saw his shadow, he retreated back to the den in expectation that more winter would arrive. If the day was cloudy and no shadow appeared, the animal assumed spring had arrived and that it was safe to leave the den. When people from Germany settled in the Pennsylvania area, they brought the tradition with them and used the groundhog because there were no badgers in the area. One theory about the origins of Groundhog Day refers to the confusion in seasonal dates caused by the adoption of the Gregorian calendar over the Julian calendar that was inaccurate. The population of the Roman Empire, confused by the change in dates, trusted the animals instead of the calendar. The animals were more accurate in predicting when to plant crops. Farmers halved their winter provisions of hay and food at Candlemas to ensure that animals and family would eat until the arrival of spring crops.

In 1993, Bill Murray appeared in the movie “Groundhog Day” about a weatherman who experienced Groundhog Day over and over again until he learned his lesson and became a better human being. The term Groundhog Day has become synonymous with seeming to experience the same events over and over again.

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THIS DAY IN LATINO U.S. HISTORY FEB 1ST

February 1, 2012 by 3 Comments

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FEBRUARY 1ST

On this day in 1933, the United States and Mexico signed the Rio Grande Rectification Treaty, which called for construction of a 590-foot-wide floodway and 66-foot-wide normal flow channel along a stretch of the river from Cordova Island to below Fort Quitman. The agreement became necessary after the 1916 completion of Elephant Butte Dam near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Assuring water for irrigation, Elephant Butte also kept the stream from flooding and cleaning its own channel. The bed filled with silt, and uncontrolled wanderings not only wasted water but destroyed crops and shifted the international boundary. When little water flowed through the river the channel still marked the border, but that line became more and more difficult to find. The agreement made the international boundary the middle of the deepest channel of the Rio Grande within the rectified channel. The project was completed in 1938 at a cost of $5 million, 88 percent of which the United States paid. The International Boundary Commission, later renamed the International Boundary and Water Commission, was given responsibility for its construction and maintenance.

Speaking of the US/Mexico Border….

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LATINOS GET SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER HAD

February 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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CAN YOU COMPARE OBAMA’S GOOGLE+ CHATS TO FDR’S FIRESIDE CHATS?

January 31, 2012 by 1 Comment

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President Obama expanded his social media experience by holding a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon with questions chosen by Google from among the most top-rated. Google maintains the White House had no role in the selection of the participants. Obama also held a similar Facebook town hall in Palo Alto, California, in the spring, and a YouTube town hall at the White House in February. The President’s campaign stated that the Social Media used in 2012 will make the 2008 election seem prehistoric.

Although President Obama could have taken some pointers about pumping up the country from his predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR was on a mission and worked with his administration to find ways to counteract the feeling of defeat that was sweeping the country during the Great Depression. His action plan consisted of having every type of media agree to run positive stories, churches to deliver sermons guaranteed to inspire the congregations, and at least for the first 100 days even got the leaders of both parties and both houses of congress to set aside political differences and support an upbeat spirit of winning and being positive.

Furthermore, the most popular effort was his radio broadcasts that became known as President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats. However, what’s even more commendable is that FDR began his term accepting the hand he was dealt, he didn’t blame the past administrations, rather his focus was to lead the people of this great nation. Additionally, Roosevelt was also in charge of giving the classic/famous line during his inaugural address, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

President Obama has also been good about engaging with Americans via Social Media and even caused the “Change” and “Yes We Can” revolution. However, as strong as his administration is in using Social Media, they tend to focus on it during the elections. In my opinion, the President would have done better had he focused his use of Social Media during the first 100 days, especially, to unite Americans. Additionally, his administration could have done Live Chats explaining the President’s “high expenditure” policies that has caused unbelievable debt.

For example, FDR began his radio broadcasts while he was governor of New York, and those had been so effective that when he became president they were reinstituted as a way to inspire and encourage people to believe in themselves and their country. From the first broadcast being a month after he took office, April 12, 1933 to the final broadcast June 12, 1944, a year before he left office.

While President Obama has not been as fervent as President Roosevelt in engaging with his fellow Americans during his term, his social media tactics have caused him to receive an incredible following. It’s no longer simply the young generation on-line, but it is the majority of the country. President Obama figured out that the power of Social Media wins elections just as companies are slowly finding out that Social Media is the majority of future revenue.

Yesterday, the President’s LIVE video chat room included five Americans in cities across the country. Participants were able to follow-up with the president after his answers in real-time. Jennifer Wedel in Fort Worth, Texas, asked the president why the government continues to extend visas for immigrant workers when there are many people, like her husband, who have been out of work. President Obama offered to look at her husband’s resume to help him find an engineering job.

“Forward me his resume,” he told her. “The word we’re getting is someone in that high-tech field should be able to find something right away. I want to follow-up on that.”

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THIS DAY IN LATINO U.S. HISTORY JAN 31ST

January 31, 2012 by 1 Comment

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ON THIS DAY IN 1914:

President Woodrow Wilson declares Phoenix’s Papago Saguaro National  Monument, now Papago Park, a national park for its “Splendid examples of the  giant and many other species of cacti and the yucca palm, with many additional  forms characteristic of desert flora (that) grow to great size and perfection  and are of great scientific interest, and numerous prehistoric photographs of archaeologial and ethnological value.

ON THIS DAY IN 1938:

12,000 San Antonio pecan shellers, mostly Hispanic women, walked off their jobs to protest a wage cut, beginning a three-month strike. The pecan-shelling industry was one of the lowest-paid in the United States, with a typical wage ranging between two and three dollars a week. In the 1930s Texas pecans accounted for approximately 50 percent of the nation’s production, with nearly 400 shelling factories in San Antonio alone. Working conditions were abysmal, and San Antonio’s high tuberculosis rate–148 deaths for each 100,000 persons, compared to the national average of 54–was blamed at least partially on the fine brown dust that permeated the air. The original strike leader was Emma Tenayuca Brooks, a well-known figure in San Antonio politics. In March 1938 both sides agreed to arbitration and reached an initial agreement on hourly wages of seven and eight cents, but shortly thereafter Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour. Concerned that the new law would encourage mechanization and displace thousands of shellers, the Congress of Industrial Organizations sought an exemption for pecan workers. The Department of Labor, however, denied the exemption, and over the next three years cracking machines replaced more than 10,000 shellers in San Antonio shops.

As a passionate Latina, I will continue to do everything in my power to inspire nuestra gente to “Get Out The Vote!”

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