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Spanish language in the United States
American Spanish | |
Español | |
Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol] |
Native speakers
38.3 million (2012)[1] |
Spanish alphabet (Latin) | |
Official status | |
Official language in
Puerto Rico |
Recognised minority language in
Arizona California New Mexico Texas |
Language codes | |
Spanish language distribution in the United States by county
The Spanish language is the second most used language in the United States. There are more Spanish speakers in the United States than there are speakers of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Hawaiian, and the Native American languages combined. According to the 2012 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by 38.3 million people aged five or older, a figure more than double that of 1990.[1][2]
There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language,[3] as well as six million Spanish language students,[4] composing the largest national Spanish-speaking community outside of Mexico and making Spanish the Romance language and the Indo-European language with largest number of native speakers in the world.[5] Roughly half of all U.S. Spanish speakers also speak English "very well," based on the self-assessment Census question respondents.[6]
The Spanish language has been present since the 16th and 17th centuries with the arrival of Spanish colonists in areas that would later become the states of Florida, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California and of the Spanish explorers - who explored areas of 42 states-. Also west of Louisiana Territory was Spanish between 1763–1800 (year of the French recovery of territory), after the French and Indian War.
After of the incorporation of these states to the U.S. in first half of 19th century, the Spanish language was later reinforced by the acquisition of Puerto Rico in 1898 and later waves of emigration from Mexico, Cuba, and elsewhere in Hispanic America, to the United States beginning in the second half of 19th century to the present-day.
- 1 History
- 2 Geographic distribution
- 3 Current status
- 4 Spanish place names
- 5 Learning trends in the United States
- 6 Variation
- 7 Common American English words derived from Spanish
- 8 Phonetic features
- 9 Lexical features
- 10 Future of Spanish in the United States
- 11 American literature in Spanish
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America. Spanish arrived in the territory of the contemporary United States with Ponce de León in 1513. In 1565, the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida, and as of the early 1800s, it became the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. The oldest city in all of the U.S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, where Juan Ponce De León was its first governor
Historically, the Spanish-speaking population increased because of territorial annexation of lands claimed earlier by the Spanish empire and by wars with Mexico and by land purchases, while modern factors continue increasing the size of this population.
Adams–Onís Treaty[edit]
In 1819 Florida was sold by Spain to the United States by Adams–Onís Treaty; many Spanish settlers, whose ancestors came from Cuba, Andalusia, and the Canary Islands, became U.S. citizens and continued to speak Spanish.
Louisiana Purchase (1803–1804)[edit]
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, land claimed by Spain encompassed a large part of the contemporary U.S. territory, including the French colony of Louisiana that was under Spanish occupation from 1769 to 1800, and then part of the United States since 1803. When Louisiana was sold to the United States, its Spanish and French inhabitants became U.S. citizens, and continued to speak French and Spanish.
Annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War[edit]
In 1821,[7] after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas. A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836, the now largely "American" Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico and established the Republic of Texas. In 1846, the Republic dissolved when Texas entered the U.S. as a state. Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people (both Mexicans and non-Spanish European settlers who include German Texan) who were outnumbered (six-to-one) by English-speaking settlers (both Americans and other immigrant Europeans).[citation needed]
After Mexican War of Independence from Spain also, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming became part of the Mexican state of Alta California and most of New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma panhandle were part of the state of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
Mexico lost almost half of the northern territory gained from Spain in 1821 to the United States in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). This included parts of contemporary Texas, and Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, California, Nevada, and Utah. Although the lost territory was sparsely populated, the thousands of Spanish-speaking Mexicans subsequently became U.S. citizens. The war-ending Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) does not explicitly address language.
Through the force of sheer numbers, the English-speaking American settlers entering the Southwest established their language, culture, and law as dominant, to the extent it fully displaced Spanish in the public sphere; this is why the U.S. never developed bilingualism as Canada did. For example, the California constitutional convention of 1849 had eight Californio participants; the resulting state constitution was produced in English and Spanish, and it contained a clause requiring all published laws and regulations to be published in both languages. The constitutional convention of 1872 had no Spanish-speaking participants; the convention's English-speaking participants felt that the state's remaining minority of Spanish speakers should simply learn English; and the convention ultimately voted 46-39 to revise the earlier clause so that all official proceedings would henceforth be published only in English.[8]
Spanish-American War (1898)[edit]
In 1898, consequent to the Spanish-American War, the United States took control of Cuba and Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam as American territories. In 1902, Cuba became independent from the United States, while Puerto Rico remained a U.S. Territory. Spanish is Puerto Rico's first language, and its citizens hold statutory U.S. citizenship.
For decades, the U.S. federal government strenuously tried to force Puerto Ricans to adopt English, to the extent of making them use English as the primary language of instruction in their high schools, but was completely unsuccessful and retreated from that policy in 1948. Puerto Rico was able to maintain its Spanish language, culture, and identity because the relatively small, densely populated island was already home to nearly a million people at the time of the U.S. takeover, and it was never hit with a massive invasion of millions of English speakers like the vast territory previously acquired from Mexico 50 years earlier.
This policy was more successful in the Philippines, where only about 20% of the population had Spanish as their first language, but those were disseminated along the islands. Eventually the migrations caused by WWII broke the surviving Spanish speaking communities. The usage of Spanish among elders is still quite large, however.
Modern mass migration[edit]
The relatively recent but large influx of Spanish speakers to the United States has increased the overall total of Spanish-speakers in the country. They form majorities and large minorities in many political districts, especially in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, the U.S. states bordering Mexico, and also in South Florida.
Mexicans moved to United States as refugees in the turmoil of Mexican Revolution from 1910 - 1917. The large majority of Mexicans are in the former Mexican-controlled areas in Southwest.
Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability upon achieving independence. The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States, hence there are some one million Cubans in the United States, most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States; most are fluent in Spanish. In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.
Likewise the migration of Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans also began as a result of political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s. The uprising of the Sandinista revolution which toppled the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 caused many Nicaraguans to migrate particularly from those opposing the Sandinistas. Throughout the 1980s with the U.S. supported Contra War (or Contra-revolutionary war) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries. The states of the United States where most Nicaraguans migrated to include Florida, California and Texas.
The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems. The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, in which 20-30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the U.S., which was already home to over 10,000 Salvadorans, making Salvadorans Americans the third-largest Hispanic and Latino American group, after the Mexican-American majority and the Cubans (when not including stateside Puerto Ricans).
As civil wars engulfed several Central American countries in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans fled their country and came to the United States. Between 1980 and 1990, the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000. The number of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters that hit El Salvador, including earthquakes and hurricanes. By 2008, there were about 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States. The majority of Salvadorans settled California, Texas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States. Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela, only to later migrate to the United States along with their children and grandchildren who born and/or grew up in Venezuela speaking Spanish. From 1910 to 1930, it is estimated that over 4,000 South Americans each year emigrated to the United States; however, there are few specific figures indicating these statistics. Many Venezuelans settled in the United States with hopes of receiving a better education, only to remain in there following graduation. They are frequently joined by relatives. However, since the early 1980s, the reasons for Venezuelan emigration have changed to include hopes of earning a higher salary and due to the economic fluctuations in Venezuela which also promoted an important migration of Venezuelan professionals to the US.[9]
In the 2000s, more Venezuelans opposing the economic and political policies of president Hugo Chávez migrated to the U.S. (mostly to Florida, but New York City and Houston are other destinations). The largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States is in South Florida, especially the suburbs of Doral and Weston. Other main states with Venezuelan American populations are, according the 1990 census, New York, California, Texas (adding their existing Hispanic populations), New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland. Some of the urban areas with a high Venezuelan community include Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.[9]
As all Puerto Ricans are natural-born U.S. citizens, many Puerto Ricans have migrated to New York City, increasing its Spanish-speaking population. Millions of Puerto Rican Americans living in the U.S. mainland are fluent in Spanish. In Hawaii, where Puerto Rican farm laborers and Mexican ranchers have settled since the late 19th century, 7.0 per cent of the islands' people are either Hispanic or Hispanophone or both.[citation needed]
Migration of refugees from Spain began also because of civil war between 1936 & 1939 and political instability under the regime of Francisco Franco that lasted to 1975. The majority of Spaniards settled Florida, Texas, California, New Jersey, New York City, Chicago, and Puerto Rico.
Geographic distribution[edit]
In total, there were 36,995,602 people aged five or older in the United States who spoke Spanish at home (12.8% of the total U.S. population).[10] Over half of the country's Spanish speakers reside in California, Texas, and Florida alone.
Current status[edit]
Although the United States has no official language, English is the dominant language of business, education, government, religion, media, culture, civil society, and the public sphere. Virtually all state and federal government agencies and large corporations use English as their internal working language, especially at the management level. Some states, such as New Mexico, provide bilingual legislated notices and official documents, in Spanish and English, and other commonly used languages.
As noted above, the only major exception is the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the official and most commonly used language.
Throughout the history of the Southwest United States, the controversial issues of language as part of cultural rights and bilingual state government representation has caused socio-cultural friction between Anglophones and Hispanophones. Currently, Spanish is the most widely taught second language in the United States.[11]
California's first constitution recognized Spanish language rights:
All laws, decrees, regulations, and provisions emanating from any of the three supreme powers of this State, which from their nature require publication, shall be published in English and Spanish.
—California Constitution, 1849, Art. XI Sec. 21.
By 1870, English-speaking Americans were a majority in California; in 1879, the state promulgated a new constitution under which all official proceedings were to be conducted exclusively in English, a clause that remained in effect until 1966. In 1986, California voters added a new constitutional clause, by referendum, stating that:
English is the official language of the State of California.
—California Constitution, Art. 3, Sec. 6
Spanish remains widely spoken throughout the state, and many government forms, documents, and services are bilingual, in English and Spanish. And although all official proceedings are to be conducted in English:
A person unable to understand English who is charged with a crime has a right to an interpreter throughout the proceedings.
—California Constitution, Art. 1. Sec. 14
The state (like its southwestern neighbors) has had close linguistic and cultural ties with Mexico. The state outside the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was part of the New Mexico Territory until 1863, when the western half was made into the Arizona Territory. The area of the former Gadsden Purchase contained a majority of Spanish-speakers until the 1940s, although the Tucson area had a higher ratio of anglophones (including Mexican Americans who were fluent in English); the continuous arrival of Mexican settlers increases the number of Spanish speakers.
New Mexico[edit]
New Mexico is commonly thought to have Spanish as an official language alongside English because of its wide usage and legal promotion of Spanish in the state; however, the state has no official language. New Mexico's laws are promulgated bilingually in Spanish and English. Although English is the state government's paper working language, much of the daily business of the government is conducted in Spanish, particularly at the local level. Spanish has been spoken in the New Mexico-Colorado border and the contemporary U.S.–Mexico border since the 16th century.[citation needed]
Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish speaking areas over most of its 400 year existence, New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and has developed its own vocabulary.[12] In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Pueblo languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos), and borrowings from English.[12] Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person verb form, changes in verb endings, particularly in the preterite, and partial merging of the second and third conjugations.[13]
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In Texas, English is the state's de facto official language (though it lacks de jure status) and is used in government. However, the continual influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants increased the import of Spanish in Texas. Texas's counties bordering Mexico are mostly Hispanic, and consequently, Spanish is commonly spoken in the region. The Government of Texas, through Section 2054.116 of the Government Code, mandates that state agencies provide information on their websites in Spanish to assist residents who have limited English proficiency.[14]
Puerto Rico[edit]
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico recognizes Spanish and English as official languages; Spanish is the dominant first language.
Spanish place names[edit]
Learning trends in the United States[edit]
Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in U.S. secondary schools and of higher education.[15] More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled, followed by French (14.4%), German (7.1%) Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%) although the totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population.[16][17]
The influence of English on American Spanish is very important. In many Latino[18] (also called Hispanic) youth subcultures, it is fashionable to variously mix Spanish and English, thereby producing Spanglish. Spanglish is the name for the admixture of English words and phrases to Spanish for effective communication.
The new generation of American Hispanics want to preserve knowing and using Spanish as equal to learning and using English. The Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (North American Academy of the Spanish Language) tracks the developments of the Spanish spoken in the United States, and the influences of English upon it.[citation needed]
Spanish sub-types[edit]
Language experts distinguish the following varieties of the Spanish spoken in the United States:[citation needed]
- Cuban (1959-to date): Florida (especially Miami) and New Jersey
- Colombian (second half of 20th century-to date): Miami, New Jersey and New York City
- Dominican (1943-to date): New York City, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia and Providence
- Salvadoran-Honduran (1598-to date): Miami, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York City and New Orleans
- Venezuelan (18th century-to date): Miami, New York City, and Texas
- Andean (1950s-to date): Miami, New Jersey, New York City, Providence, and Texas
- Bolivian: (1950s-to date): Miami, New Jersey, New York City, and Providence
- Nicaraguan (1979-to date): Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Houston
- Isleño (Islander) (18th century-to date): St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
- Mexican (also Chicano or Tex-Mex [20th century]): the U.S.–Mexico border, from southern California to Texas to Illinois, but becoming ubiquitous throughout the continental United States as Mexican Spanish is used as the standardized dialect of Spanish in the continental United States
- New Mexican (1598-to date)
- Traditional Spanish (1598-to date): Central and north-central New Mexico and south-central Colorado
- Renovador (Renovating Spanish) (20th century): The border regions of Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico, and southeastern Colorado
- Puerto Rican (1898-to date): New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large northeastern cities, and Illinois, Orlando and Tampa
- Spanish (1939-to date): Throughout the United States.
Most post-first generations of Spanish speakers tend to speak the language with American English accents of the region they grew up in.
Common American English words derived from Spanish[edit]
Analogously, many Spanish words now are standard American English.
Phonetic features[edit]
- As most of ancestors of Hispanic Americans came from Latin America, 〈z〉 and 〈c〉 (before /e/ and /i/) are pronounced as [s], the same as 〈s〉. However, seseo is also typical on the speech of Hispanic Americans of Andalusian and Canarian descent. Andalusia's and the Canary Island's predominant position in the conquest and subsequent immigration to Latin America from Spain is thought to be the reason for the absence of this distinction in most Latin American dialects. Most Americans of Spanish descent pronounce the 2 letters as [θ].
- Most of Spain, particularly the regions that have a distinctive [θ] phoneme, realize /s/ with the tip of tongue against the alveolar ridge. Phonetically this is an "apico-alveolar" "grave" sibilant [s̺], with a weak "hushing" sound reminiscent of retroflex fricatives. To a Hispanic and Latino American speaker, European Spanish /s/ is close to [ʃ] like English sh as in she. Albeit, this apico-alveolar realization of /s/ is not uncommon in some Latin American Spanish dialects which lack [θ]; some inland Colombian Spanish (particularly Antioquia) and Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia also have an apico-alveolar /s/.
- Spanish in United States usually features yeísmo—that is, there is no distinction between /ll/ and /y/, and both are [ʝ]. However, Yeísmo is an expanding and now dominant feature of European Spanish, particularly in urban speech (Madrid, Toledo) and especially in Andalusia and Canary Islands, though in rural use [ʎ] is preserved, not only in central and northern Spain, but also in scatter areas of Andalusia and the Canary Islands. Speakers of Rioplatense Spanish pronounce both /ll/ and /y/ as [ʒ] or [ʃ]. The traditional pronunciation of the digraph /ll/ [ʎ] is preserved in some dialects along the Andes range, especially in inland Peru and Colombia highlands (Santander), northern Argentina, all Bolivia and Paraguay.
- Most speakers with ancestors born in coastal dialects may debuccalize or aspirate syllable-final /s/ to [h], or drop it entirely, so that está [esˈta] ("s/he is") sounds like [ehˈta] or [eˈta], as in southern Spain (Andalusia, Murcia, Castile–La Mancha (except North-East), Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla).
- The 〈g〉 (before /e/ or /i/) and 〈j〉 is usually aspirated to [h] as in most southern Spanish speeches; while it may be [x] in other dialects of Latino Americans and often firmly strong (rough) in Peruvian Spanish dialect, this is a common feature of Castilian Spanish. Very often, especially in Argentina and Chile, [x] becomes fronter [ç] when preceding high vowels /e, i/ (these speakers approach [x] to the realization of German ch in ich).
- In many Caribbean speeches the phonemes /l/ and /r/ at the end of a syllable sound alike or can be exchanged: caldo > ca[r]do, cardo > ca[l]do, in the situation of /r/ in word-final position, it becomes silent, giving Caribbean dialects of Spanish a partial non-rhoticity. This happens at a reduced level in Ecuador and Chile[citation needed] as well and is a feature brought from Extremadura and westernmost Andalusia.
- In many Andean regions the alveolar trill of rata and carro is realized as an alveolar approximant [ɹ] or even as a voiced apico-alveolar /z/. The alveolar approximant realization is particularly associated with a native American substrate and it is quite common in Andean regions, especially in inland Ecuador, Peru, most of Bolivia and in parts of northern Argentina and Paraguay.
- The voiced consonants /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are pronounced as plosives after and sometimes before any consonant in most of Colombian Spanish dialects (rather than the fricative or approximant that is characteristic of most other dialects). Thus pardo [ˈpaɾdo], barba [ˈbaɾba], algo [ˈalɡo], peligro [peˈliɡɾo], desde [ˈdezde/ˈdehde]—rather than the [ˈpaɾðo], [ˈbaɾβa], [ˈalɣo], [peˈliɣɾo], [ˈdezðe/ˈdehðe] of Spain and the rest of Spanish America. A notable exception is the Department of Nariño and most Costeño speech (Atlantic coastal dialects) which feature the soft, fricative realizations common to all other Hispanic American and European dialects.
- Word-final /n/ is velar [ŋ] in much Spanish American speech; this means a word like pan (bread) is often articulated ['paŋ]. To an English ear, those speakers that have a velar nasal for -n make pan sound like pang. Velarization of word-final /n/ is so spread in the Americas that it is easier to mention those regions that maintain an alveolar, Castilian-style, /n/: most of Mexico, Colombia (except for coastal dialects) and Argentina (except for some northern regions). Elsewhere, velarization is common, though alveolar /n/ can appear among some educated speakers, especially in the media or in singing. Velar /-n/ is also frequent in Spain, especially in southern Spanish dialects (Andalusia and the Canary Islands) and also in the Northwest: Galicia, Asturias and León.
Lexical features[edit]
- Anglicisms are far more common among Hispanic and Latino Americans (as is with Latin America) than in Spain, due to the stronger and more direct US influence in Latin America.
- Equally, indigenous languages have left their mark on U.S. Spanish, a fact which is particularly evident in vocabulary to do with flora, fauna and cultural habits.
- Disappearance of de which means "of" in certain expressions, as is the case with the dialect of Spanish in Canary Islands. Example: esposo Rosa instead of esposo de Rosa, gofio millo instead of gofio de millo, etc.
- Doublets of Arabic-Latinate synonyms with the Arabic form are more common in U.S. Spanish being U.S. Spanish which derives from Latin American Spanish is influenced by Andalusian Spanish like Andalusian and Latin American alcoba for standard habitación or dormitorio ('bedroom') or alhaja for standard joya ('jewel').
Future of Spanish in the United States[edit]
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Spanish speaking US citizens are the fastest growing linguistic group in the United States. Continual immigration and prevalent Spanish-language mass media (such as Univisión, Telemundo, and Azteca América) support the Spanish-speaking populations. Moreover, because of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is common for many American manufacturers to use multilingual product labeling using English, French and Spanish.
Besides the businesses that always have catered to Hispanophone immigrants, a small, but increasing, number of mainstream American retailers now advertise bilingually in Spanish-speaking areas and offer bilingual, English-Spanish customer services. One common indicator of such businesses is Se Habla Español which means "Spanish is Spoken".
The State of the Union Addresses and other presidential speeches are translated to Spanish, following the precedent set by the Bill Clinton administration. Official Spanish translations are available at Whitehouse.gov. Moreover, non-Latin American origin politicians fluent in Spanish speak in Spanish to Spanish speaking majority constituencies. There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
Historically, immigrants' languages tend to disappear or become reduced through generational assimilation. Spanish disappeared in several countries and U.S. territories during the 20th century, notably in the Pacific Island countries of Guam, Micronesia, Palau, the Northern Marianas islands, and the Marshall Islands.
The English-only movement seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States. Generally, they exert political public pressure upon Hispanophone immigrants to learn English and speak it publicly; as universities, business, and the professions use English, there is much social pressure to learn English for upward socio-economic mobility.
Generally, Latin American origin US residents (13.4% of the 2002 population) are bilingual to a degree. A Simmons Market Research survey recorded that 19 percent of the U.S. Latin American origin population speak only Spanish, 9.0 percent speak only English, 55 percent have limited English proficiency, and 17 percent are fully English-Spanish bilingual.[citation needed]
Intergenerational transmission of Spanish is a more accurate indicator of Spanish's future in the United States than raw statistical numbers of Hispanophone immigrants. Although Latin American origin immigrants hold varying English proficiency levels, almost all second-generation Latin American origin US residents speak English, yet about 50 percent speak Spanish at home. Two-thirds of third-generation Mexican Americans speak only English at home.
Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants. Mr Veltman's language shift studies document high bilingualism rates and subsequent adoption of English as the preferred language of Hispanics, particularly by the young and the native-born. The complete set of these studies' demographic projections postulates the near-complete assimilation of a given Hispanophone immigrant cohort within two generations. Although his study based itself upon a large 1976 sample from the Bureau of the Census (which has not been repeated), data from the 1990 Census tend to confirm the great Anglicization of the U.S. Latin American origin population.
American literature in Spanish[edit]
Southwest Colonial literature
In 1610, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá published his Historia de Nuevo México (History of New Mexico).
19th century
In 1880, José Martí moved to New York City.
Eusebio Chacón published El hijo de la tempestad in 1892.
20th century
Federico García Lorca wrote his collection of poems, Poeta en Nueva York, and the two plays Así que pasen cinco años and El público while living in New York. Giannina Braschi wrote the Latino postmodern poetry classic El imperio de los sueños in Spanish in New York. José Vasconcelos and Juan Ramón Jiménez were both exiled to the United States.
In her autobiography When I was Puerto Rican (1993), Esmeralda Santiago recounts her childhood on the island during the 1950s and her family's subsequent move to New York City, when she was 13 years old. Originally written in English, the book is an example of New York Rican literature.
See also[edit]
- English-only movement
- Isleños
- List of U.S. cities with diacritics
- List of U.S. communities with Hispanic majority populations
- List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States
International comparisons:
- Bilingual education
- Spanish in the Americas
- History of the Spanish language
- Languages in the United States
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- ^ a b Cobos, Rubén (2003) "Introduction" A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish (2nd ed.) Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, N.M., p. ix, ISBN 0-89013-452-9
- ^ Cobos, Rubén, op. cit., pp. x-xi.
- ^ "Sec. 2054.001." Texas Legislature. Retrieved on June 27, 2010.
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Yields about 5-3/4 cups.
Coat the pepper with 1/2 tsp. of the oil. Roast directly on the grate of a gas burner over high heat or under a broiler, turning the pepper occasionally until charred all over. Put the pepper in a bowl while still hot and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Let rest until cool enough to handle. Stem, seed, and peel the pepper, using a table knife to scrape away the charred skin. Coarsely chop the pepper and set aside.
In a nonreactive 5- to 6-quart Dutch oven, heat the remaining 3 Tbs. oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until just soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir the chili powder, cumin, and coriander into the onions. Add the roasted pepper and cook for another minute. Add the broth and tomatoes and bring to a simmer over mediumhigh heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 40 minutes.
Let cool briefly and then purée the soup in two or three batches in a blender or food processor. Rinse the pot and return the soup to the pot. If it is too thick, add some of the reserved tomato juice. Add the zucchini and cook for another 10 minutes over low heat.
Meanwhile, combine the sour cream, lime juice, and lime zest in a small bowl.
Season the soup to taste with salt and pepper. Serve garnished with the lime sour cream and the cilantro leaves.
This soup stores beautifully and tastes better the second day. You can keep it in the refrigerator as long as you bring it to a boil every two days. Or you can stash it in the freezer for up to three months.
nutrition information (per serving): Size : based on six servings; Calories (kcal): 170; Fat (g): 12; Fat Calories (kcal): 110; Saturated Fat (g): 4; Protein (g): 5; Monounsaturated Fat (g): 7; Carbohydrates (g): 11; Polyunsaturated Fat (g): 1; Sodium (mg): 220; Cholesterol (mg): 10; Fiber (g): 3;
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by chloesmom, 5/13/2009this soup is excellent. i always make the classic tomato soup, but this one has a little more 'kick' to it and would be a great choice to serve at a dinner party!
by lobsterwoman, 4/3/2009This soup is Fantastic. Made this recipe exactly as written but I used my immersion blender. The lime sour cream and cilantro put this over the top. I loved the classic tomato soup recipe from this same issue...but this one is even better. Great flavors and very easy. Linda
by DrKoob, 12/29/2008Outstanding soup. With it and a roll it made a great dinner on a cold winter night. It is outstanding. It is a bunch easier to make if you have a hand blender that you can dip into the soup. That makes it a piece of cake (and a bowl of soup). Next time we are going to double it so we can freeze another meal. This recipe fed two of us with enough leftover to make a nice lunch for one of us.


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7:30am Monday 28th May 2012 in News By Clare Buchanan
A disabled child could be forced to travel 70 miles to and from school each day because his educational needs cannot be met in the borough.
Henry Ash suffers from epilepsy, cerebral palsy, autism and hydrocephalus, which is a build-up of fluid in the skull leading to brain swelling, so his development is delayed and he requires extra help.
The seven-year-old was a full-time pupil at Christ Church CofE Primary School, in Pine Gardens, Surbiton, with his two siblings until September last year, when the school said it could no longer meet his needs.
Kingston Council began to look for an alternative school for Henry but for the past nine months he has only been able to go to school for an hour a day and is taught alone with no integration with other children.
Henry's father, Spencer Ash said: "We have had enough now; he was supposed to be able to stay there until they find a suitable replacement.
"He doesn't mix with any of the other children, just goes in for the hour, it's no good for him."
The council has found a suitable school for Henry but it is in Sussex, which would mean the boy would have to make a 35-mile journey, including the often gridlocked M25, twice each day.
Henry's parents said the suggestion was "madness" as they said Surrey County Council school Linden Bridge, in Worcester Park, would meet his needs and be much closer.
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A council spokesman said they appreciate the distance to the Sussex school is not ideal and said they were exploring the family's preferred school with Surrey County Council.
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There have been a fair number of threads expressing dissatisfaction that new customers seem to get all the good deals, and that loyal customers get nothing. New customers in many businesses get special deals as inducement, but then become just another customer, no longer new. For example: how long have you had your car, and are you getting free spark plugs for life? Not likely. I have written before elsewhere on these forums that I understand this inducement process, but also think loyalty should have a reward too. Here is a chance for all Loyal Customers to speak up: if you could design a Loyalty Reward Program, what would you want? Here's a start, and maybe with enough suggestions, the moderators might pass along some of the ideas:
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You get the idea. What do you suggest? And please - serious thoughts only.
05-14-2012 09:01 AM - edited 05-14-2012 09:18 AM
I really don't get it. Loyal customers do not get nothing if they renew their contracts like I just did and I know I am not the only one who is getting rewards for having done that like the $250 pre-paid debit card, discounts, and upgraded service for a lower bill in the end and a rate that I can lock in for the next 2 years. My point is this probably won't happen if you stay on a month to month contract where the rates can go up whenever just like with the cable. In fact, I am already getting 2 $10 discounts (one for renewing my contract on line and another for loyalty I think) and if I didn't want the pre-paid debit card, I could have chosen a free year's subscription to HBO or Cinemax.
I don't know how much more this can be clarified.
And seriously...Is the real complaint about not having a free DVR for life and/or $89.99 per month like a new customer gets?
I really don't comprehend some of the complaints posted here. It seems to me like misinformation is part of the problem because this has been communicated poorly.
I guess I wasn't clear about my original post. I have also noticed a number of complaints that people want some sort of loyalty reward. Although I have personally been satisfied with any bargaining I have done regarding my own account, my intent was to provide an opportunity for those not happy to offer what they thought might be a meaningful loyalty reward program. Many will complain about something, yet not offer any solution. I simply thought it might be constructive, if not entertaining, to see what such a program might look like when designed by those who feel thusly maligned. I should have been more clear in my description.
05-16-2012 02:31 PM - edited 05-16-2012 02:50 PM
But what you're proposing is very much the same as the rewards that are already available for those of us who renew our contracts, minus this expectation of the free DVR for life. A corporation like Verizon is not going to maintain its profit margin if it gives out new customer incentives to existing customers, I'm sorry to say. Think about it. It just doesn't make sense.
I think the rewards I'm getting are great and I find it hard to believe how despite all of that, some people are still complaining. The good rewards that are already there for loyalty along with a quality product is a pretty darn good combination if you ask me. Try getting all of that from the cable companies.
That was precisely the point to the exercise, to point out that such rewards might already be available. I was simply curious to see what dissatisfied customers might consider to be an acceptable reward, and then compare that to the reality of the business model. There was some tongue-in-cheek in my original thought, but my inability to adequately express my intent has tainted this now futile effort.
It's OK. I understand now. What exactly do people propose if they think that the existing rewards are not enough?
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Everyone in this thread so far is (as far as I know) a real human being. Not sure what "verizon social bot" you might be referring to, but Verizon employees are identified as such by their Avatar and Status.
I understand perks to lure in new "customers" and some offers are better than others. Fine, it's a way of doing business and has been so for as long as there has been commerce. But "free for life" is NOT a perk. A perk is a temporary inducement and is usually a temporary reduction in cost, or a gimmee of something NOT an essential part of the product (like a free real tire or mud-flaps, or 10 free fill-ups when buying a car, or a free one-time upgrade to first-class when flying). "Free DVR for a year" (or 2 ) is indeed a good perk. So are the introductory rate offers. But that rate goes up to the same rate existing customers pay at the end of the perk period, however their DVR is still free so they are paying at least 20% less every month (depending on the bundle). "Free DVR for life" is a permanent reduction in the fees for service. A permanent reduction SHOULD be for all customers. Let's put it this way: you've been shopping at the same grocery store for years. You find out that NEW customers are being offered their groceries at 20% less "for life." I don't think many would call that fair. Nor would many consider it fair if a different utility slashed it's rate for life only for new customers either. When you make an offer "for life" it is no longer just a perk, it's a price cut. And as for charging rental for the boxes and the remotes, that's rather like charging a tenant 20% more if they want a key to unlock their door. The boxes should be included in the price for all or for none, not selectively applied.
As to your loyalty reward tier, I think it looks really good, and quite fair. I signed up for FiOs even before it was available in our area, and I like the content and quality (especially now that we've finally been able to afford an HD TV), and have been very satisfied with the tech service the few times we've needed it. I don't really need a loyalty reward as long as the level of service stays as good as it has been. My complaint is simply that their current perk of giving for free something that is essential to using their product only to new customers is not acceptable. Give them a free year of premium content or a free year of on-demand or (as was our offer) a free DVR for one year (with a contract), but making that permanent is just not right. There is now, in effect, a double pricing scheme for the same service. If your neighbor is a new customer and you are an existing one, your neighbor will pay at least 20% less than you for the same service FOR LIFE . That is a real problem.
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"I concentrated on using the latest technology to make the correct diagnosis." But after working with people who are homeless, Bechara Choucair talks and listens "so I can understand what they want and need."
Bechara Choucair well remembers his approach to health care when he first came out of medical school: "I concentrated on using the latest technology to make the correct diagnosis." But after working for more than ten years with people who are homeless, his focus now is "on talking and listening to people so I can understand what they want and need. I start from where they are."
Dr. Choucair was first exposed to the distinctive needs of underserved populations in a unique Family Medicine residency program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1997. The program included a track on providing healthcare to indigent and underserved populations in the U.S. and around the world.
As the first chief resident in the Baylor College program, Dr. Choucair recalls, "I worked at the Health Care for the Homeless project in Houston. When I graduated, I looked for a position in one of the Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) projects." After serving for two years as Medical Director of HCH at Crusader Clinic in Rockville, Illinois, he became Medical Director for the entire clinic. Two years later, he assumed his current position as Medical Director and Managing Director of Heartland Community Health Center which also operates a HCH project.
Today, Dr. Choucair works with medical schools in the Chicago area to include health and homelessness in their curricula. A faculty member at Northwestern University, he plans to include a year-long clinical rotation at Heartland Community Health Center as part of the University's Family Medicine residency program.
When asked what keeps him going after ten years, Dr. Choucair explains, "We do have successes. For instance, there is Mrs. F. who I first met when she was asking for money outside of a 7-11 Store. I would always say hello to her on my way home. About a year ago, I started providing services at a food pantry and she came in. She came up to me and said 'I saw you at the 7-11 Store and you said hello to me. I want you to help me with my asthma. I am having a hard time breathing and I haven't seen a doctor in a long time.'
"I began seeing her regularly at the food pantry, and found out she had dangerously high blood pressure as well as uncontrolled diabetes and asthma. She was adamant about only working on her asthma, so we focused on decreasing the symptoms. Then she was ready to tackle her hypertension and we made progress with that. This last fall I was riding my bike to work and she saw me. 'Doctor,' she called out, 'we need to get you a better salary so you can afford a car.' "
He laughs and declares, "Mrs. F. exemplifies the lessons I've learned from working with people who are homeless. First and foremost, it is important to see the whole person and meet them where they are at. She just wanted to breathe easier, and wanted me to work on the asthma and only that. As a physician, I saw the myriad of medical problems she had. However, I had to put my concerns aside and start with hers. After four months, she is breathing easier, her blood pressure is lower, and most importantly, she comes and sees me regularly."
Dr. Choucair finds his biggest challenge in providing care to people who are homeless is having the time to talk and listen to each patient. The demand for his services coupled with a lack of resources requires a daily balancing act. "I talk to other clinicians working in HCH projects and we are all stretched," he says. As Chair of the Steering Committee of the HCH Clinicians' Network (
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Published: May 1, 2006
The river rock fireplace and twiggy railing add personal touches to this Original Lincoln Logs home in upstate New York. The home features three bedrooms, two full baths and 2,336 square feet. The home was built with D-log, butt-and-pass construction.
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Purchasing, building and living in a new log home is a dream come true. No other type of home offers the natural beauty, elegance and serenity of a home made of solid log walls. And Americans have been using solid timbers as the basis of home construction for centuries.
Taking the lessons learned by this country's earliest settlers – and combining them with today's modern milling machinery – log home manufacturers have the ability to create stunning log homes of any size, with amenities limited only by your imagination.
Like any new home purchase, you'll want to do your homework before buying your log home. But unlike buying other new homes, log home buyers will find some special characteristics unique to the industry.
The owners of this lakeside cabin in Maine chose to custom-build with Kuhns Bros. Log Homes. Exterior walls are flat, unchinked, dovetail logs of white pine. The 1,761-square-foot home has two bedrooms and two and a half baths, with a large screened-in porch along the back of the house. Glacial rock moved during excavation for the home was later used in the retaining walls.
Photo by Terry Wild Studio, courtesy of Kuhns Bros. Log Homes.
Design Your Dream
A log home is a realized dream and a reward for years of hard work. One of the easiest ways to make this dream a reality is to begin your search for a log home manufacturer with your personal design ideas in mind.
You don't have to have a perfectly designed floor plan in hand, but you should take the time to consider what elements of a home are most important to you: Do you want a vast great room for entertaining family and friends? How many bedrooms will you need to accommodate visitors? How will your finished home lie on the home site?
The goal is to have a vision of a floor plan so that you'll be able to concisely explain your needs to a designer and properly evaluate the plans shown to you. As you define your needs, have in mind a realistic budget and be prepared to share it.
With six bedrooms and six baths, this vacation home on Lake Petenwell, Wis., was designed for family gatherings. Golden Eagle Log Homes built the 5,000-square-foot home, whose focal point is the large great room. With the home's peeled logs and butt-and-pass corners, you may be surprised to learn the walls are actually split logs (half log on the outside and half log on the inside).
Photo by Lee Anderlite, courtesy of Golden Eagle Log Homes.
Selecting the Right Partners
When building a new conventional home, the primary point of contact is the builder. The builder handles nearly every aspect of construction and where he gets his materials and to whom he subcontracts is never much of an issue. That's not always so with log homes.
Your first contact when building a log home is often a log home package manufacturer – a company that, depending on its services, will cut logs to precise lengths, dry the logs and engineer your home plans. Often, these manufacturers will have a network of dealers and builders across the country and will refer you to a point-of-contact in your area.
If you prefer a more rustic style, you may want to consider handcrafted log homes. The logs used in handcrafted homes are hand-peeled and each timber retains its natural taper and shape as your home is planned and constructed. Some companies specialize in handcrafting and some manufacturers have handcrafted log divisions.
Selecting a manufacturer is one of the key decisions a log home buyer will make, and there are some safeguards to ensure you choose wisely. For starters:
• To whom is the manufacturer accountable? Are they members of their local homebuilders' association? Are they members of the Log Homes Council or the International Log Builders Association? Are there any complaints registered with the Better Business Bureau?
• Who grades their logs? All logs are not created equal! To ensure the integrity of structural timbers, organizations like the Log Homes Council mandate that their members enroll in a certified, third-party log grading program. That way, consumers can be confident in the quality of their wood.
• How are their homes built? With so many options – from wood species, profile and corner styles, and sealants and coatings – each log home is unique. Be sure each manufacturer has a construction manual that clearly states the ideal way to build their home. You might not be building it yourself, but a construction manual will be your guide to know that your home is built properly.
Now that you have your criteria in mind, where can you find a manufacturer to work with? Some associations list their member directories online so you can link directly to their members' Web sites.
Additional research can be done by reading consumer magazines and attending log home- and cabin-oriented shows in a city near you (examples include the annual Lake Home and Cabin Shows in Minneapolis and Milwaukee or the Adirondack Living Shows in upstate New York). At shows like these you'll find manufacturers exhibiting, as well as vendors to the log home industry. Attending these shows allows savvy consumers the chance to meet with a variety of manufacturers under one roof in one day. Most shows also include free seminars on topics including maintenance or financing
a log home.
Sitting on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, this getaway by Barna Log Homes features a full wrap-around porch and two upper-level balconies for taking in the views. Manufactured with 8-inch round, yellow pine logs with saddle-notch corners, the home has three bedrooms, two baths and total square footage of 1,658 feet.
Photo by Barna Log Homes
Understanding the Package
When receiving estimates from multiple log home manufacturers, be sure to inquire about the nature and quantity of materials included in their log home package.
Some manufacturers include only the cost of the logs in their estimate, leaving the responsibility of completing the home to you and your builder. Other companies include a more comprehensive materials package and might even offer a "turnkey" estimate, accounting for the cost of completing every aspect of the home.
While it's difficult to compare estimates from companies offering different products or packages, take note of the following costs (or omissions) in each estimate:
• Wall logs & related materials
• Rafters & second-floor beams
• Windows & exterior doors
• Partition framing materials
• Roof systems
• Porches & decks
• Interior doors & trim materials
• Stair & railings
• Hardware
• Floor & loft systems
Fully understanding what is included in your log home package will give you a better sense of how each company's estimate will factor into your final budget.
This log home looks rustic on the outside, with its 6"x10" rectangular chinked logs and dovetail corners. But inside, the 2,300-square-foot home has an Old World Mediterannean look with stucco-textured walls, arched doorways and the interior wood sanded to a shine. Built as a custom home by Honest Abe Log Homes, it became the company's Livingston model.
Photo by Roger Wade
Finishing the Dream
Once you have narrowed your selection of manufacturers to one or two, you should start thinking about your home's construction. Your manufacturer or their representative should be able to provide you with an estimated final cost for your area.
Having a log home built is often described as a "labor of love." It is true that the research involved with log home construction is different and sometimes more complicated than a conventional home. However, nearly every log home owner will say it is worth every penny – and second – spent.
Eric Fulton's ideal log home site is in the Adirondack Mountains, between First and Second Lake in Old Forge, New York. He is the communications manager for the Building Systems Councils of the National Association of Home Builders.
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So let's see what they have in store for us today. And for that we turn to Dr Dick Review Crew member, Christa for her review.
Fun Toys Geisha Balls —— $49.95
I was pretty sexually precocious as a teen. I had a crush on a girl at age 11. Started masturbating at 13. Had sex with a girl at 14. Had sex with a boy at 16. I liked it all. I guess all my early sexual experiences were so enjoyable because I always felt I was in charge of my body and my sexual expression. No one ever pressured me into anything, and, if the truth be told, I was often the one doing the pursuing and seducing. Not much has changed these many years later.
I learned about kegel exercises when I was a freshman in high school. I read about them in a woman's magazine that my mother subscribed to. Since I had started masturbating a year earlier, I kinda understood the mechanics of it all. I set my mind to doing my kegels because, as the magazine article said, "they would increase the intensity of my orgasms." Actually, I didn't see how my orgasms could get any more intense than they were back then. There were times when I would nearly black out from the pleasure. I know, what a freak, right?
Since then, I have been on a mission to turn people on to kegels. Take my butt-boy BF, Alex, for example. I was the first girlfriend to ever play with his prostate. Now it's fuck me, fuck me, fuck me all the time. He is like this total ass whore. The funny thing is that, when this first began, he was all nervous, not that this ass play was gonna make him gay, but that he would get all stretched out down there and he would lose his shit…literally. But I told him to relax and introduced him to kegel exercises. Problem solved.
I got my first set of Ben Wa balls when I was in college. They were beautiful. They came in this really nice silk lined box with a dragon in it. I would insert them then go for a bike ride. Holy shit! Ya know I don't even remember what became of that first set. I probably lent them to a friend and never got them back.
Nowadays, Ben Wa balls are all the rage because of those bullshit 50 Shades of Grey novels. And nowadays they come in a dazzling array of styles. This brings me to today's review. Check out these Geisha Balls from Fun Toys. There are four balls in the set, not the usual two. The set includes the lightest and heaviest balls on the market. That's cool because you can mix and match the balls you use at any one time. In fact, it allows for five-stages of training.
You can use the balls individually or as a pair. Heck, if you're really adventurous, you can even use all four at once. I have, but then you would expect crazy shit like that from me, huh? And you can use them with or without the sling. These Geisha Balls are body safe, made of abs plastic and the sling is made of 100% soft medical silicone.
So if you are following what I'm saying, Geisha Balls assist in toning the muscles in your pelvic region, specifically your pubococcygeus muscle (or PC muscle). This is the muscle that is responsible for stopping the flow of pee. And just about every woman out there knows something about incontinence that comes from stress, or childbirth, or aging. But besides the utility, or training aspect, there is the pleasure aspect. And if you've never tried these things, you're in for a surprise.
The Fun Toys people have thoughtfully included a very specific brochure in their package that spells out all the ways you can use the Geisha Balls. There's no guesswork and even if you've never tried Ben Wa balls before, you won't be intimidated when you get your set.
Geisha Balls come in a real nice gift box; perfect for gift giving to yourself or someone else. There's even a sweet little drawstring storage pouch included in the box.
Here's a tip; mothers, give a set of Geisha Balls to your teen daughters. That's right, you heard me. Let's cut the shit and stop pretending that teens aren't interested in or experimenting with sex either by themselves or with a partner. There are plenty of girls out there who are as precocious as I was. There are even more who could use a helpful hand in trying to figure out the pleasure thing. And if you're squeamish about promoting the pleasure aspect, focus on the therapeutic aspects. Either way, this is a gift that will keep on giving. And hey, it works the other way around too. Once I discovered how great the Geisha Balls are, I sanitized them by dropping the whole set, sling and all, into a pot of boiling water, dried them off, and passed the balls, sling, and gift box on to my mom. She was only slightly surprised; she's learned that I can be pretty unpredictable when it comes to sex. I'll have to replace my set soon.
And the Geisha Balls are so easy to use. I suggest a regiment of 15-30 minutes a day. And you don't have to interrupt your day to train. Simply insert, and go about your business. You'll be doing yourself a world of good and they'll put a smile on your fact too.
You can kick up the action by trying to pull the balls out of vagina by the sling, while your muscles holds them inside. So simple!
And Alex wants me to remind you that Geisha Balls are not just for women and vaginas. They are great trainers for your butt too. And those of you with a prostate in your butt will discover some unique pleasure. I just want to add that you gotta to use the sling with the balls when using them anally.
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Sex Play — Tips and Techniques
Beginning Sex Play — Tips and Techniques
The most frequent questions I get are from your average Dick and Jane, (or Dick and Dick, or Jane and Jane) who want to spice up their sex life. Inevitably they describe the kind of sex they're currently having. And almost universally the description makes this grown man cry. Jeez, the boredom. How do they stand it? It's a wonder any of them are having any sex at all.
What is it with the humdrum, run of the mill, and the "we've always done it that way mentality?" Are ya'll afraid that if you add a little something new to your sex chore, from time to time, that the sky will fall? Holy cow!
Today's tutorial is another attempt to motivate you to get off your butts and make something interesting happen in the sex department. We'll begin with what was once called foreplay.
First off, I hate the word "foreplay" because it suggests that all these really great sex activities are only a lead up to a single "more important" activity — fucking. It also implies that ya'll can dispense with the one in order to hurry up and get to the other. And that, my friends, is always a huge mistake.
From now on I want us to banish "foreplay" from our vocabulary. Instead let's start using "Sex Play." It says it all, and it makes no suggestion that anything in particular must follow.
I'm of the mind that we'd all be better served if we thought of sex play as a continuum of pleasure and pleasuring — with a beginning, middle and an end. If you ask me, our sex play ought mirror our sexual response cycles — arousal, plateau, orgasm and resolution. That way we're less likely to overburden one particular activity at the expense of all the others. Get it? Got it? Good!
Experienced sex fans agree; the best sexual encounters include an extended period of sensual play at the beginning of most sex play. This brings increased pleasure to both partners, and will make whatever else that might follow more satisfying. Just remember, sex play can be a meal in itself.
Sex play brings spice to the encounter because it gets our motors started. Even all you major sex athletes out there who are perpetually primed for sex will benefit from some hearty sex play. It will help cool your jets and make the encounter last longer than a firecracker. And I know that you know what I mean!
In our hectic rush around world, sex play is particularly important. It helps us transition from the daily cares and woes to the realm of sensual pleasures. The workaholics among us need more time to become fully aroused. Their minds are still filled with the junk of the day, and not yet ready to give or receive pleasure. And pleasuring and being pleasured takes a big attitude shift from that of the rest of the day. In fact, if you're gonna approach sex and pleasuring with the same mindset you have on the job or with the kids, give it up now and be done with it. You'll only walk away from the encounter disappointed.
Sex play primes us for maximum pleasure. Men will have the time we need to come to full erection and women will have the time they need to properly lubricate. By the way, this is called the arousal stage in our sexual response cycle. But you probably know that already, right?
When we stop thinking of sex play as "foreplay" we realize there is no such thing as spending too much time giving and getting pleasure. If sex play evolves into full-on fucking — SWELL. Both partners will be fully aroused and fucking will flow naturally and effortlessly from the pleasure enjoyed at the beginning of sex play.
Sex play can include everything from chocolate and whipped cream to whips and chains. But let's not get too far ahead of our selves. Let's start at the beginning of sex play. Most people miss out on the pleasure of undressing with and for their partners. Stripping out of, or being helped out of our daily wear and into something sexy or nothing at all can be very arousing. It's also a visual signal that we're shifting out of our work-a-day world and entering the realm of sensuality. Stripping is an art form, ya know. We could all learn a lesson or two from the folks who do this for a living, but there's more about this in another tutorial — The Big Tease; How to Strip for Someone Special.
Creating the right sex environment is important too. Make sure the room is warm. Proper lighting and music will surely add to the mood. Scents are also important. More and more people are incorporating erotica into their sex play — reading a sexy story together or enjoying some hot porn will make the encounter memorable.
Most women complain that their partners don't kiss long enough and rush the kissing to get at their pussy. Guys, what the fuck? You want pussy? Use your mouth to maximum advantage kiss and nibble all over everything. Literally devour your partner with your mouth. Believe me, if you do this right, by the time you get to her pussy she's gonna want to give it up big time.
Sex play is the perfect time for setting the mood for all that might follow. It's a time for sharing fantasies, role-playing, dirty talk or some full body massage. Always have some nice lotion available then use your hands, forearms, feet and elbows to knead your partner's muscles and naughty bits.
Certain areas on the body are more hot-wired than others. It's your job to find each and every one your partner has. As you massage vary your strokes and touch to stimulate your partner. Roll your fingertips across his or her nipples and behind his or her ears as you kiss him and tease her with your tongue.
If you're doin things right, your partner will be moaning with pleasure. If she or he starts getting impatient it's time to bring out the restraints. There's nothing like some hot erotic bondage to punctuate your sex play.
While your darling is subdued and possibly blindfolded, crank things up a notch. Add different sensations and stimuli, a warm chocolate sauce followed by ice cream. A fur mitt followed by a Loofah. Introduce some sex toys — a vibrator, tit clamps, or an anal stimulator.
Don't forget to check in with your partner from time to time. Ask for some feedback and direction. Do you like this? Or do you like this better? Never presume to know what your partner likes simply because he or she liked it before, this is a recipe for boredom and the dreaded bed death. If words fail you, SHOW your partner what you want. Then encourage your partner to do the same to you.
Sex play is not about pressing the right buttons in the right order. It is about understanding what makes your partner tick and supplying and applying those things to their greatest sensual advantage. There are many ways to give your partner extreme pleasure, and it all begins in your brain. Sex play is as much of an art form as it is a necessity.
Finally, the basic premise behind all of this is that a great lover is one that gives pleasure because it is its own reward, not a means to getting something else.
Good luck ya'll
Opening Things Up
And not we hear from a very long-winded soul…
Name: Needing help badly
Gender: Male
Age: late 30s
Location: North America
Good day, and hoping this email finds you well. Me and my partner of nearly 10 years are experiencing a problem, it goes something like this. I am always interested in having sex; he is almost never interested in having sex.
Initially we started out with the typical "honeymoon" period where there was sex nearly every night and twice on Sundays (grin). After a brief while this preceded normally to a couple times a week maybe a little less. After a few years it has deteriorated to me almost always having to beg for even a hand job and perhaps we do more (oral/anal) a handful of times a month and I only get to top once or twice a year.
My partner almost never initiates sexual interaction and complains that I am "always asking." We are very compatible in other respects and really love each other, but I have a 20 libido on a scale of 1 to 10 and he has a 1 or 2 on the same scale.
This is starting to lead to tension in other parts of our relationship even though we try our best not to allow it. We are currently in a closed relationship, with my partner citing, in the past, personal beliefs about monogamy and monogamous relationships. Recently he has been entertaining the idea of opening the relationship up to allow me to seek relief for my sexual needs through other channels. He states that of late his views have changed and that he is taking a more realistic view at how we should proceed.
We just discussed rules for the opening of the relationship and are in the process of looking at our options for secondary partners. The rules we have thus far are as follows:
- Either of us may play with other people outside the relationship.
- The primary partner has ABSOLUTE veto powers over the choice of another play partner.
- Safe sex must be observed at ALL times and absolutely no transfer of bodily fluids outside of the primary partnership.
- If a play partner comes to our house to play and the primary partner is home, an offer to allow them to join in must be made.
- As soon as possible after an outside encounter, or preferably before, the primary partner must be told of the play session. Not the gory details, just "hey me and _____ had some fun last night" to keep the lines of communication open.
- More discussion may be initiated at the request of the non-playing partner, but not readily offered.
- You always, always, always come home to your primary partner at night.
- Secondary play partners must maintain discretion about our play sessions and respect the boundaries established by the primary partnership.
Can you advise me on the following:
- Do you think this will help or hindering our relationship?
- Do you think the rules we have set down are adequate?
- Any other suggestions for the rules.
- Any other comments or suggestions in general?
Thank you.
First, I'd suggest you guys rethink your choice of words when taking about your relationship. Monogamous means one wife…ya know, as opposed to polygamous, meaning more than one wife. Since neither one of you is a woman, that word doesn't fit your situation.
I know, I know, the popular culture uses that word indiscriminately to describe any sexually exclusive relationship, but we don't have to misuse words just because everyone else does. Language is important. And in some instances, like this one, precise language is not only helps with clarity, it helps you better understand what is possible between you two. Besides, as we all know, some monogamous relationships are not sexually exclusive.
Try using the less culturally encumbered word "exclusive" as opposed to the culturally laden "monogamous" when speaking about your primary relationship. I think you'll find that it will free you up from outdated ways of thinking about your relationship. It will also help in dispelling guilt associated with violating cultural norms. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Say out loud — "Ours is not an exclusive relationship." Now say — We are not monogamous." There is a big difference, huh? I told you so.
And the best part about all of this is you get to define what "non-exclusive" means. For instance, you guys seem to want your primary relationship to be emotionally exclusive, but not necessarily sexually exclusive. In other words you are not considering polyamory, right? Nothing wrong with polyamory, it's just not what you are considering at this time, I'm guessing.
I applaud your negotiating skills. I think you guys have come up with a viable framework for launching out in search of satellite relationships. You will probably find that some fine-tuning is necessary as you make your way, but I believe your foundation is sound.
There's one thing for sure, your bullet point #8 is completely outside of your control. You will learn, in short order, that you won't be able to manage your satellite partners' behaviors. Expecting discretion from a casual hook-up or even a newly found fuck-buddy is unrealistic. The "girls" are gonna talk, hun, no matter what you say.
Finally, I suggest that you and your primary partner keep an open mind about it all. You'd also do well to maintain a sense of humor.
Good luck


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The creators of the Tumblr site, "Texts from Hillary" finally got a text from Hillary Clinton herself.
Parkersburg native, Adam Smith is the site's co-creator. He says, he and a friend wanted to do something fun with an iconic picture of
Hillary Clinton.
That's when the brainstorming began and the overnight web sensation was created. Smith says they just wanted a few laughs, but were overjoyed with the positive response.
The best part, they even got a laugh from Hillary in person.
"She came out of our office and she shook our hands and was incredibly friendly and told us how much she liked the site and she thought it was funny. She was so nice. The picture that we took together of the three of us where we're holding our phones and we look like we're texting, that was actually her idea to do," Smith says.
Smith adds he didn't believe it when one of Hillary's "people" e-mailed them saying Clinton wanted to meet.
"It was so great cuz she was so funny and she really just got what we were doing and she just engaged with us which was so fantastic. We launched this thing thinking it would be sorta funny to us, maybe funny to a few other people. We never thought it would be this international response. We have people all over the world talking about it and using the site. It's been a crazy week and a half."
You can see the site by clicking on the hot button.
Its become an overnight web sensation and it was co-created by a Parkersburg native.
Adam Smith graduated from Parkersburg South High School in 2001. He moved to Washington DC where he works for a non-profit political company.
Adam tells WTAP, this past Wednesday he went out for drinks with his friend, Stacy Lambe. It was then that the brainstorming began to do something fun with a popular picture of Hillary Clinton.
"It's just such an awesome picture of her that we said...there has to be something we can do with this, we can do something funny. So we decided that we were going to do something funny, and we were going to do this 'Texts From Hillary' thing, that if anything at least we would like it and we would get a laugh out of it," Smith says.
And the Tumblr site quickly turned into an overnight web sensation.
Smith adds, "it just snow balled yesterday (Thursday). All of a sudden everybody was talking about it. we were on the homepage of Yahoo News. We were on all of these political newsletters this morning. It's just really taken off."
The website allows for anyone to submit pictures of celebrities or politicians "texting Hillary".
Smith says they have received a tremendous amount of positive response to the page in just a few days. He adds, they are waiting for their text from Hillary.
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I tried, in the last 4 weeks, to install Design review in severall computers running Windows XP 32 bits.
I have allways the same error - Internet connection problems. That's not true.
I can't install in any of them.
In my machine, with Win7 64 was installed with no error, at the first time.
Attached is the error.
Sorry this reply is of no assistance only complaint of similar problem but on a Win7 64 bit version.
I had previously sucessfully installed ver 2011 and 2012 on the same machine.
When I started the program (2012) it notified me of upgraded version (2013) being available for download, to which I assented to the upgrade. Following the uninstall 2012 portion it choked when attempting the download of 2013 telling me I had no Internet connection, which was wrong on all counts.
It matters not how I attempt to install the 2013 version, from fresh boot up or not it balks with the same error message.
So here I sit with NO version installed for use and looking for a solution as well!
Any help appreciated!
As typically happens, when checking a drawing for 30 mins, the errors become obvious the moment you push the print or send button...
I figured I'd download the package and install it directly since I was doing a stand alone.
Apparently I authorized installation of the Download Mgr on my computer.
I was unable to download the package at all. I finally deduced the Download Mgr may be the problem and disabled it from my MS Explorer 9. Download problem went away. So for whatever reason, Win 7 64 bit, Explorer 9, incompatability whatever. Downloaded the package (>700MB) and it installed successfully.
Things are working again.
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Day 1 Conference Presentations
John Gluck, Ph.D. - What is Missing in the Ethics of Animal Research?
Brian Hare, Ph.D. - Noninvasive Cognition Research in Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals
Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H. - Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Chimpanzees
Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. - Do Animals Experience Various Basic Emotions? The Evidence Overwhelmingly Says Yes!
Marc Bekoff, Ph.D. - The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals and Why They Matter
Jarrod Bailey, Ph.D. - Lessons from Chimpanzee-Based Human Disease Research: the Implications of Genetic Differences
E. Donald Elliott, J.D. - Legal Acceptance of Nonanimal Data
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Melvin E. Andersen, Ph.D. - Advancing Toxicity Testing Methods for the 21st Century
William Warren, Ph.D. - The MIMIC System and Its Applications
Sarah Lynagh, Ph.D. - Bridging the Gap: The Use of Human Tissue in the Drug Development Process
Thomas Hartung, M.D., Ph.D. - The Economics of Animal Testing
Charles Kimwele, Ph.D. - International Frameworks for Protection and Prospects for Improvement: An African Perspective
Rodger D. Curren, Ph.D. - Validation and International Harmonization
Marc Breton, Ph.D. - A Computer Simulation Environment Used to Design New Insulin Treatments for Diabetes
Lori Marino, Ph.D. - Noninvasive Research on Cetacean Cognition
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