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Salvadoran Americans
Total population | |
(2,102,160 (2014 US Community Survey)[1] |
Regions with significant populations | |
Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Houston, Dallas, New York City, Long Island, Greater Boston, Miami, Northern Virginia, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Northwest Arkansas, | |
Languages | |
Lencan languages, Mayan languages, Pipil, Cacaopera, Spanish, English | |
Religion | |
Christianity (mostly Catholic, significantly Protestant) |
Salvadoran Americans (Spanish: salvadoreño-americanos, norteamericanos de origen salvadoreño or estadounidenses de origen salvadoreño) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent. As of 2010, there are 1,648,968 Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the fourth-largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry.[2] Recent estimates put the Salvadoran population as high as 2 million, as of 2013.[3] Salvadorans are the largest group of Central Americans of the Central American Isthmus community in the U.S. Among the Hispanic groups, Salvadorans are also the largest group of Spanish speakers in the United States who use voseo.
Salvadoran is the accepted and used term for naming people of Salvadoran ancestry. However both Salvadorian and Salvadorean are equally the most widely used terms in daily life by English speaking Salvadoran citizens living in the U.S and other English speaking countries. Salvadorian and Salvadorean in their respectable spelling and pronunciation can be seen in most restaurant and other El Salvador related signs in the U.S and else where in the world. This is because the sounds "ia" and "ea", in Salvadorian and Salvadorean sound more closely to the "ñ" sound in the Spanish term Salvadoreño.
The first Salvadorians that came to the United States before the war began arrived mostly to San Francisco, where they worked as shipyard employees in the early twentieth century.[4] These were mostly working class Salvadorans, as Salvadorans from the middle and upper classes came to the U.S. for education or residence in the early 1900s, usually in the East Coast. Salvadorans that came during this period were mostly economic migrants, as El Salvador was affected by economic turmoil during the Great Depression and slow growth after World War II ended. In the 1960s and early 1970s, most of the immigrants were women; and found work being housekeepers or in childcare.[5]
Documented Salvadorans in the United States 1930-1970[6]
Years | # of Salvadorans entering the U.S. |
1931-1940 | 673 |
1941-1950 | 5,132 |
1951-1960 | 5,895 |
1961-1970 | 14,992 |
While Salvadoran migration to the U.S. remained low throughout the first several decades in the 20th century, it spiked on the onset of the Salvadoran Civil War, where many fled to the United States seeking sanctuary from the devastation that plagued the country. Many Salvadoran refugees came to the city of Los Angeles, where today holds the largest population of Salvadorans in the country. A large population of Salvadorans also arrived in Washington D.C; where by 1989, an estimated 150,000 Salvadorans reside in the nation's capital.[7] It is important to note that many Salvadorans came undocumented and applied for asylum and/or work permits in order to legalize their situation. This massive migration to the U.S. was a result of the political violence as much as it was the deteriorating economic conditions in El Salvador.[8] Young men, escaping the country from being drafted to the military or the guerilla, made the majority of these immigrants/refugees. In comparison to their rural, working class, and often illegal counterparts migrating to Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Houston, wealthy Salvadorans also found refuge in the U.S.; migrating to Coral Gables and Key Biscayne in Miami.[9] They numbered over 1,000 individuals and many of them are temporary exiles, who planned to go back after the war ends. By the end of 1989, more than 250,000 Salvadorans migrated to the U.S. Unofficially, there were 1 million Salvadorans that came to the U.S., many of them illegally.[10]
Documented Salvadorans in the United States 1971-2000[6]
Years | # of Salvadorans entering the U.S. |
1971-1980 | 34,436 |
1981-1990 | 213,539 |
1991-2000 | 215,798 |
Half or more of the refugees—between 500,000 and one million—immigrated to the United States, which was home to less than 10,000 Salvadorans before 1960.[11] El Salvador's exiled population is already changing life at home through its influence and its dollars and will undoubtedly play an important role in its future history.
Salvadoran American immigration has changed the face of foreign affairs in the United States. The flood of refugees from a U.S.-supported government forced a national rethinking of foreign policy priorities. This in turn transformed the nature of American support for the Salvadoran government and may have helped to end the war in El Salvador. Salvadoran Americans are at the center of an ongoing national debate about U.S. responsibility toward the world's refugees and the future of immigration in general.
Exodus Immigration (1980s-)[edit]
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% percent, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped the country 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 Cubans (when not including Stateside Puerto Ricans). Salvadorans however are predicted to replace Cubans as the largest population by the next census.
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. Gang warfare, which made El Salvador one of the dangerous countries in the world, also contributed to the surge of immigrants seeking asylum in the late part of the 2000s and the first four years in the 2010 decade.[12] By 2008, there were about 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States. Salvadorans are the country's fifth largest immigrant group after Mexican, Filipino, Indian, and Chinese foreign born.
The immigrant population from this tiny Central American country is now nearly as large as the immigrant population from much larger China. (As reference, China's total population is 200 times larger and its territory is about 500 times larger than El Salvador's.) .[13]
In the U.S., Salvadorans speak both English and Spanish, but their use varies. Recent immigrants and older generations tend to speak Spanish exclusively, while the newer generations (descendants of immigrants) learn Spanish as a first language only to become fluent in English when they start school. According to the American Community Survey of 2004, 5.2 percent of Salvadorans only speak English at home, the lowest compared to other immigrant populations. The percentage of "non-English at home, English spoken "very well" is at 36.2, the third lowest after the Guatemalans and the Hondurans.
Salvadorans speak Spanish in a medieval voseo speech form equivalent to Thou, making them the largest voseo Spanish speakers in the United States. Salvadoran Spanish is one of the largest types of Spanish spoken in the United States. In Washington D.C, Salvadoran Spanish is the largest type of Spanish spoken and it's the only city in the U.S where Salvadoran Spanish is the first types of Spanish spoken, while in Los Angeles, Salvadoran Spanish is the second type of Spanish spoken. Salvadoran Voseo Spanish and Salvadoran slang called (Salvadoran Caliche), is a source of identity and virility to Salvadoran American youth. It also creates a kinship with other Central American groups especially Hondurans. Salvadoran Spanish holds many Native American Indigenous dialects from the Lenca and Pipil language that have survived in Salvadoran Spanish.
In the study, Voseo To Tuteo Accommodation Among Two Salvadoran Communities in the United States by Travis Doug Sorenson, Sorenson compared two Salvadoran communities, Houston and Washington D.C., on the way they maintain the use of voseo in the U.S. where the tuteo form is most widely spoken.[14] His research found that while Salvadorans are the majority of the Hispanic population in Washington D.C., they use the voseo form as much as their counterparts in Houston; a city with a large Mexican population that used the tuteo form instead. The hypothesis that Salvadorans participants in Washington would significantly retain more voseo than their compatriots in Houston was wrong.[14]
Religious affiliation[edit]
Reflecting the country itself, most Salvadorans are Christian. Traditionally, Salvadorans are Roman Catholics, but since the civil war, there is a huge increase of Evangelicals or other Protestant denominations in the country.[15][16] Some Salvadoran Americans converted to Mormonism or Jehovah Witness. Younger generations of Salvadoran Americans are less likely to practice religion than their parents.
During the civil war, some members of El Salvador's small, but vibrant Jewish community immigrated to the United States,[17] mostly settling in the Miami area.
Areas of concentration[edit]
Many Salvadoran Americans reside in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Orange County, California, the Inland Empire and San Diego; The Washington Metropolitan Area: Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia, is currently the only metropolitan area in the entire country where Salvadorans are the majority among Hispanics, most concentrated in the suburbs in Northern Virginia and Maryland. In Washington D.C., 32 percent of the Hispanic population are Salvadorans, the largest in the city. Salvadorans settled in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, and Columbia Heights.[18] Most of these Salvadorans came from the eastern departments of San Miguel and La Union,[19] especially from the Salvadoran towns Chirilagua and Intipuca.[20][21] Formerly known as Arlandria, a neighborhood between Alexandria and Arlington in Virginia is now referred to as Chirilagua, due to the many Salvadorans living there from that particular town.[22] Salvadorans are the largest immigrant population in Washington D.C. metropolitan area.[23]
There is also a large number in Texas esp. in Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; increasingly New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005; and in other California regions outside of Los Angeles such as the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, there is a significant number of Salvadoran Americans in the New York City area such as Northern New Jersey, Flushing, Queens, Corona, Queens, Far Rockaway, Queens, Parkchester, Bronx, South Bronx, Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Long Island. In Massachusetts, Salvadorans tend to reside in Greater Boston, mostly in cities such as Chelsea, Somerville, Everett, Revere, or Boston. Salvadorans have also established a significant community in the island of Nantucket (Where Salvadorans account for 7.3% of the total population there as of 2010), of which a sizable majority come from the municipality of Agua Caliente, El Salvador.[24][25] Smaller, but sizable populations of Salvadorans can be found in Miami-Dade or South Florida as well in Central Florida; Georgia; and North Carolina.
Recent census data shows that for the first time, there are more Salvadorans living on Long Island than Puerto Ricans, with Salvadorans now numbering nearly 100,000,[26] representing nearly a quarter of all Hispanics in the region, making them largest Latino group in Long Island. They tend to concentrate in the hamlets of Brentwood, Central Islip, North Bay Shore, Uniondale, and the village of Hempstead.[27]
State | Salvadoran Population (2010 Census)[28] |
Percent |
Alabama | 2,419 | 0.1% |
Alaska | 938 | 0.1% |
Arizona | 12,225 | 0.2% |
Arkansas | 14,980 | 0.5% |
California | 573,956 | 1.5% |
Colorado | 12,329 | 0.2% |
Connecticut | 6,223 | 0.2% |
Delaware | 1,231 | 0.1% |
District of Columbia | 16,611 | 2.8% |
Florida | 55,144 | 0.3% |
Georgia | 32,107 | 0.3% |
Hawaii | 801 | 0.1% |
Idaho | 1,159 | 0.1% |
Illinois | 14,217 | 0.1% |
Indiana | 7,401 | 0.1% |
Iowa | 5,601 | 0.2% |
Kansas | 5,108 | 0.2% |
Kentucky | 2,351 | 0.1% |
Louisiana | 5,120 | 0.1% |
Maine | 618 | 0.0% |
Maryland | 123,789 | 2.1% |
Massachusetts | 43,400 | 0.7% |
Michigan | 3,401 | 0.0% |
Minnesota | 7,175 | 0.1% |
Mississippi | 1,174 | 0.0% |
Missouri | 4,628 | 0.1% |
Montana | 140 | 0.0% |
Nebraska | 6,016 | 0.3% |
Nevada | 30,043 | 1.1% |
New Hampshire | 823 | 0.1% |
New Jersey | 56,532 | 0.6% |
New Mexico | 2,051 | 0.1% |
New York | 152,130 | 0.8% |
North Carolina | 37,778 | 0.4% |
North Dakota | 73 | 0.0% |
Ohio | 5,627 | 0.0% |
Oklahoma | 2,788 | 0.1% |
Oregon | 5,906 | 0.2% |
Pennsylvania | 7,952 | 0.1% |
Rhode Island | 2,715 | 0.3% |
South Carolina | 3,830 | 0.1% |
South Dakota | 780 | 0.1% |
Tennessee | 8,570 | 0.1% |
Texas | 222,599 | 0.9% |
Utah | 8,998 | 0.3% |
Vermont | 116 | 0.0% |
Virginia | 123,800 | 1.5% |
Washington | 12,637 | 0.2% |
West Virginia | 893 | 0.0% |
Wisconsin | 1,867 | 0.0% |
Wyoming | 198 | 0.0% |
Total US Salvadoran Population | 1,648,968 | 0.5% |
Metropolitan areas[edit]
The largest Salvadoran populations are found within these areas (Source: Census 2010)
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA - 381,519 (3.0%)
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA - 228,045 (4.1%)
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA - 199,510 (1.1%)
- Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA - 140,928 (2.4%)
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA - 77,149 (1.8%)
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA - 59,383 (0.9%)
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA - 42,672 (1.0%)
- Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH MSA - 36,929 (0.8%)
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA - 33,033 (0.6%)
- Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA - 24,542 (1.3%)
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA - 24,439 (0.5%)
- Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA - 17,980 (0.7%)
- Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA - 13,700 (0.1%)
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA MSA - 12,085 (0.7%)
- Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC MSA - 12,080 (0.7%)
- Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ MSA - 9,840 (0.2%)
- Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO MSA - 8,865 (1.9%)
- Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA MSA - 8,701 (0.4%)
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA MSA - 8,485 (1.0%)
- Richmond, VA MSA - 8,238 (0.7%)
US communities with largest population of people of Salvadoran ancestry[edit]
The top 25 US communities with the highest populations of Salvadorans were (Source: Census 2010[29])
- Los Angeles, California - 228,990
- Houston, Texas - 75,907
- New York, New York - 38,559
- Washington, D.C. - 16,611
- San Francisco, California - 16,165
- Brentwood, New York - 15,946
- Dallas, Texas - 15,696
- Irving, Texas - 12,544
- Boston, Massachusetts - 10,850
- Hempstead, New York - 10,707
- Charlotte, North Carolina - 9,516
- Palmdale, California - 9,488
- Wheaton, Maryland - 8,912
- Las Vegas, Nevada - 8,392
- Elizabeth, New Jersey - 7,364
- Chillum, Maryland - 7,315
- Oakland, California - 7,246
- Silver Spring, Maryland - 7,103
- Arlington County, Virginia - 7,088
- Dale City, Virginia - 7,036
- San Jose, California - 6,829
- Long Beach, California - 6,657
- Alexandria, Virginia - 6,436
- Chelsea, Massachusetts - 6,391
- Santa Ana, California - 6,389
US communities with high percentages of people of Salvadoran ancestry[edit]
Top US communities with the highest Salvadoran ancestry in 2010:
- Islandia, Florida 44.4%
- Brentwood, New York 26.3%
- New Cassel, New York 24.7%
- Colmar Manor, Maryland 24.7%
- North Bay Shore, New York 23.9%
- Langley Park, Maryland 22.5%
- Edmonston, Maryland 22.0%
- Brentwood, Maryland 22.0%
- Mendota, California 21.9%
- Chillum, Maryland 21.8%
- Uniondale, New York 20.2%
- Hempstead, New York 19.9%
- North Brentwood, Maryland 19.1%
- Adelphi, Maryland 19.1%
- Landover Hills, Maryland 19.1%
- Central Islip, New York 18.5%
- Wheaton, Maryland 18.5%
- Cottage City, Maryland 18.3%
- Woodlawn, Maryland 18.3%
- Chelsea, Massachusetts 18.2%
- Woodlawn, Virginia 17.9%
- Marumsco, Virginia 17.9%
- Roosevelt, New York 17.8%
- Loch Lomond, Virginia 17.6%
- Hyattsville, Maryland 16.4%
- Sudley, Virginia 16.4%
- Yorkshire, Virginia 16.3%
- Huntington Station, New York 15.8%
- Inwood, New York 15.6%
- Herndon, Virginia 15.5%
- East Riverdale, Maryland 15.2%
- Mount Rainier, Maryland 14.4%
- Sterling, Virginia 14.0%
- Monon, Indiana 14.0%
- El Jebel, Colorado 13.8%
U.S. communities with the most residents born in El Salvador[edit]
Top 25 U.S. communities with the most residents born in El Salvador are:[30]
- Langley Park, MD 25.2%
- Seven Corners, VA 18.0%
- New Cassel, NY 15.5%
- Mendota, CA 13.8%
- Brentwood, NY 12.9%
- Hempstead, NY 12.3%
- Bailey's Crossroads, VA 12.2%
- Adelphi, MD 11.3%
- North Bay Shore, NY 10.6%
- Herndon, VA 10.3%
- Edmonston, MD 9.6%
- Chelsea, MA 8.8%
- Wheaton-Glenmont, MD 8.7%
- Chillum, MD 8.2%
- Silver Spring, MD 7.9%
- West New York, NJ 7.8%
- Uniondale, NY 7.8%
- Jefferson, VA 7.5%
- El Jebel, CO 7.5%
- Colma, CA 7.5%
- Mount Rainier, MD 7.3%
- Huntington Station, NY 7.2%
- Cottage City, MD 7.2%
- West Gate, VA 7.2%
- Freeport, NY 7.2%
Race and ethnicity[edit]
Much of the Salvadoran population that came to the U.S. are of Mestizo ancestry, a mixture of Native American Indigenous and European (more specifically mostly Spanish) ancestry, as well as tri-racial Pardo Salvadorans who have African blood lines in addition to their Indigenous and Spanish ancestries. The Salvadorans of mixed ancestry Mestizos, can vary differently from European and Native American ancestry. For example, some Salvadoran have Lenca ancestry, while others have Pipil ancestry. While Spanish is the main European ancestry in Salvadoran Mestizo mixture, others like French and Italian are also present. Afro-Salvadoran ancestry is also found among Mestizo Salvadorans as well as Arab and Asian ancestry. This makes El Salvador, a society with a myriad of ancestries, the melting pot stage in El Salvador is considered to have already blended and concluded into modern day Salvadorans. Among Salvadorans who also identify themselves as Mestizo culturally are Salvadorans who are racially European/White, especially Mediterranean, Indigenous Salvadorans who do not speak indigenous languages nor are they acculturated into Indigenous Salvadoran culture and tri-racial Afro-mestizo "Pardo" Salvadorans. The Indigenous Salvadorans are mostly of Lenca and Pipil. Many of the mixed (more specifically mostly Mestizo) and White Caucasian Salvadorans have ancestry from, Italy, Portugal, Germany, France, England, and Ireland. The majority of Salvadorans who are of Mestizo ancestry can trace their American Indigenous ancestry to the Lencas and Pipil people.
Salvadorans also have Arab ancestries that include Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the majority come from Palestine that immigrated to El Salvador. There is a significant number of Jewish Salvadoran families in the country.
Socioeconomics and Culture[edit]
According to the 2004 ACS, only 40 percent of all Salvadoran and Salvadoran American residents in the U.S. have a high school diploma, the lowest among all other Hispanic groups.[32] Only 10 percent of Salvadorans possess a bachelor's degree, also the lowest among Latino Americans. Nonetheless, 15 percent of Salvadorans lives under poverty (among the lowest) and the average income of Salvadorans is $40,000.[33] In the Washington metropolitan area, Salvadorans who came to the area during the 1980s working in construction or the service sector are becoming business owners.[34] These small business owners, numbering 4,000, usually tend to be in the construction, restaurant and cleaning industries. The Salvadoran-American Chamber of Commerce of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area was created to help Salvadorans business owners with " financial consultations, legal services, general business and government information, and technical assistance."[35] In Los Angeles, near the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Vermont Avenue,[36] The El Salvador Community Corridor was created among other things, to help boost the economic livelihood and community pride within the large Salvadoran population.[37] Asylum laws prohibit many Salvadorans from renewing their ties to their home culture. Most asylum seekers cannot visit El Salvador, even for a loved one's funeral, without losing their legal status in the United States. Thus, many the U.S.' Salvadorans are torn between embracing the culture of the United States and maintaining their Salvadoran identities.
U.S.-Salvadorans form an insular community—with their own social clubs, doctors, even banks—and often have little contact with outsiders. They maintain a tight network, living almost exclusively with other people from their home country, or even their hometown.[38][39] Many older immigrants have spent more than ten years in the United States without learning any English.
Although they immigrated largely out of fear rather than a desire for a new life, Salvadorans in the United States, especially the younger generations, are gradually becoming Anglicized. The U.S.-born children of Salvadoran refugees or immigrants are becoming more aware of their Salvadoran roots, even at the behest of their Salvadoran born parents.[40] This is especially true during the 2009 Salvadoran presidential elections where the leftist party, FMLN had its best chance to win for the first time. These Salvadoran Americans, raised and taught in the U.S., understand the problems in El Salvador is facing and become more proactive on ways to address these issue. While conditions have improved in El Salvador, few refugees have returned home. The United States—once a place of refuge—has become a new home for Salvadoran immigrants.[41] To reflect the changing needs of the United States Salvadoran community, the Central American Refugee Center in Los Angeles (CARECEN), one of the largest support organizations for refugees, changed its name to the Central America Resource Center.[42]
In areas with large Salvadoran populations, festivals celebrating their culture abounds. In Los Angeles, three different Salvadoran events were celebrated in the month of August alone.[43] In Wheaton, Maryland,[44] Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Prince William County, Virginia,[45] were sites of the annual Salvadoran-American Festival. Pupusas, El Salvador's national dish, have become the best and most known representation of Salvadoran culture in the mainstream United States. In some pupuserias in Maryland, they Americanized the pupusa; by using crab meat or creating a cheeseburger-style pupusa instead of the normal ingredients used (cheese and pork).[46] The State of New York passed a resolution recognizing August 6 as Day of the Salvadoran American (Día del Salvadoreño-Americano).[47] Similarly, in Maryland, governor Martin O'Malley declared August 5 as the Day of the Salvadoran American.[48][49]
Social issues[edit]
Many cultural observers contend that mainstream United States has not yet formed a distinct stereotype of US-Salvadorans, though because most of the concerns and affairs of Salvadorans in the U.S media point out and focuses generally in the U.S's Proxy war showdown and involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War legacy.
Salvadorans have settled in neighborhoods already populated by other Latin Americans, and outsiders generally have only a vague sense of the various Latino nationalities in those neighborhoods.
US-Salvadorans have sometimes had tense relations with their neighbors in the cities where they are concentrated. Salvadoran gangs have fought with Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, and in Washington, D.C., a city with a significant Salvadoran population, they have competed with African Americans for jobs and resources.
Political participation[edit]
Politically, Salvadorans are more involved in local and state governments than the federal government. The Washington DC Metro Area has some Salvadoran American politicians representing the voice of the second largest Salvadoran community that lives there. Elected to the county board of the smallest self-governing county in the US with the 3rd highest income, Walter Tejada is one of five members that govern Arlington County, VA; becoming the chairman of the Arlington County Board in 2013.[50] Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez represents the 18th District of Montgomery County, MD, the 10th highest income county in the US. Delegate Victor R. Ramirez represents the 47th District of Prince George's County, MD, the wealthiest African American-majority county in the US. Ramirez became the first Latino to serve in the Maryland State Senate in 2011. A partner of Ramirez is Prince George's County Council member William A. Campos.
In Long Island, Salvadorans have been seeking political power in towns or county boards.[51] Monica Martinez was elected to the Suffolk County 9th legislative District in 2013.[52] Her brother Antonio Martinez, was the first Salvadoran elected to any office in Long Island; is a Councilman in the town of Babylon, New York.[53] Jorge Guadron and Miriam Ventura became the first Salvadoran Americans elected to the New York State Democratic Committee for the 6th Assembly District in September, 2014. http://www.elsalvador.com/articulo/salvadorenos-por-el-mundo/dos-salvadorenos-integran-comite-democrata-del-estado-nueva-york-63922
Salvadorans do not have nearly as much influence with the political establishment as voting constituencies have. In Los Angeles, for instance, there is a stark contrast between the U.S.-born Chicano neighborhoods of East L.A. and the Pico-Union and Westlake neighborhoods, populated by immigrant Mexicans and Central Americans. The former have many community centers, legal services, and social workers; the latter have very few.[54] This situation is slowly changing, however: Carlos Vaquerano, the Salvadoran community affairs director of CARECEN, was named to the board of Rebuild L.A., organized to help the city recover from the L.A. riots in 1992.[55] Jorge Guadron and Miriam Ventura are the first Salvadoran Americans elected to the New York State Democratic Committee for he 6th Assembly District in Long Island. http://www.elsalvador.com/articulo/salvadorenos-por-el-mundo/dos-salvadorenos-integran-comite-democrata-del-estado-nueva-york-63922
One area of U.S. politics in which Salvadoran Americans have played an important role is in legislation regarding their immigration status. In the debate leading to the passage of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran refugees and the extensions of that status, Salvadoran organizations lobbied politicians and brought their cases of persecution to the press. At first, refugee organizations were run by Americans, and Salvadorans often appeared in public only with bandannas over their faces. Gradually, Salvadorans and other Central Americans began to take charge of the refugee organizations and assume a higher public profile.
Salvadoran Americans have also contributed significantly to labor union activity. Many refugees fought for the right to organize under repressive conditions in El Salvador, and they brought dedication, even militancy, to American unions. In a 1990 Los Angeles janitors' strike, for instance, Salvadoran union members continued to march and demonstrate even under the threat of police violence. And Salvadoran street vendors in Los Angeles have organized to improve their precarious situation.[56]
Salvadoran Americans relations with El Salvador[edit]
Most Salvadoran Americans are not active in or outspoken about Salvadoran politics. Those U.S. organizations most actively involved in Salvadoran politics (such as the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, CISPES) have attracted little participation by Salvadoran Americans themselves. The immigrants' own organizations have focused not on politics at home, but on relief and jobs in immigrant communities throughout the United States. This relative indifference to home politics may be surprising, given the political passions that have long raged in El Salvador; but the majority of Salvadoran Americans seem interested in putting the hatred of the past behind them.
While the most ideologically committed of the Salvadoran refugees settled in Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Australia, or Canada, those who settled in the United States focused on survival and building a community. Refugees who fled the government and refugees who fled the guerrillas have a lot in common; many will not even discuss their political beliefs, lest it disrupt the fragile solidarity of the refugee community. Furthermore, many Salvadorans on the left became active in politics because of the desperate poverty and class war in El Salvador; when they arrived in the United States, where it seemed for the first time possible to escape poverty through hard work, their political commitment sometimes melted away.
Salvadorans outside El Salvador are not permitted to cast absentee ballots in that country's elections. The majority of the refugee community is thought to favor the left, and the absence of their votes is believed to have helped the right-wing party ARENA win the Salvadoran presidency in 1989 and 1994.[57]
The relative lack of political influence among Salvadoran Americans is not necessarily permanent. Salvadoran immigrants are densely concentrated in a few cities, and they have a strong infrastructure in refugee organizations. As more Salvadorans become U.S. citizens, the immigrant community will probably play a larger role in local and regional politics. And given their economic contribution, they will almost certainly come to exert more influence in El Salvador.
El Salvador and United States relations[edit]
The history of U.S.-El Salvador relations encompasses some controversial moves and operations by the United States, e.g. the U.S.-involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War[58] and interference in Salvadoran elections such as during the 2004 presidential election.[59]
President Obama and President Funes announced the U.S.-El Salvador Partnership for Growth during President Obama's March 2011 visit to El Salvador. El Salvador is one of four counties—-along with the Philippines, Ghana, and Tanzania—-with which the United States is undertaking this partnership. The Partnership began with an analysis by economic experts from both countries, which identified the two key binding constraints to growth in El Salvador as crime and insecurity, as well as low productivity in the tradeables sector. Based on this assessment, the U.S. government worked closely with the Government of El Salvador to identify and prioritize key activities that would address those constraints to growth and unlock El Salvador's economic potential. The activities are outlined in a Joint Country Action Plan that will steer the partnership moving forward.
The recent 2009 elections resulted in the election of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party over the ARENA party that had been in power since 1992. ARENA supporters argued that the victory of FMLN would result in retaliation from the United States and lead to political reforms similar to those in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela despite the U.S official neutral position. An Obama visit to El Salvador symbolized its acceptance of the new government and show to other Latin American countries that it will maintain strong ties despite the change of regime. The shift from ARENA to FMLN does symbolize the growing disenchantment of the Salvadoran population with Washington foreign policy.
Despite this shift, El Salvador has not decided to become more self-reliant. The economic development it experienced by following the Washington Consensus was worth the cost of economic reforms because it was able to access the American market and compete in the global market. Therefore, the Obama visit validated the stability within El Salvador in the transition from ARENA to FMLN and showed other countries in the region the benefits of following the Washington Consensus. Obama's visit was in order to strengthen America's position in Central America and show that countries that follow liberalization reforms enjoy stronger ties with the United States.
El Salvador's accommodation on economic and militia demand also meant that the United States would provide more benefits to Salvadorans living within the United States; Salvadorans have been eligible to receive TPS (Temporary Protection Status) since 2001. Approximately 2 million Salvadorans live in the United States, making it the sixth largest ethnic group in the United States. Such a large number of Salvadorans means that they have the capacity to send money back to El Salvador, which would make a very large contribution to its economy.
Remittances from the United States make El Salvador more dependent on the United States support for Salvadorans living there. Thus, it is imperative that El Salvador maintains strong political ties with the American government because of its dependence on remittances. Remittances account for twenty percent of El Salvador's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which makes the economic ties with the United States even more important. Salvadorans who reside in the United States benefit as well from El Salvador's accommodation as exemplified by the American government's consistent extension of the TPS.
El Salvador has lobbied successfully for those extensions because of the strong ties that have been forged. United States-El Salvador relations have been a reciprocal relationship in which El Salvador has gained much more than if it were to have chosen a resistance strategy. Thus, President Obama's choice to stop in El Salvador exemplifies to the Salvadoran community in the United States that they have nothing to fear with the change of political parties.
The special relationship developed between the United States and El Salvador in the past 20 years has differentiated El Salvador from its neighboring Central American countries. Despite the high level of violence, El Salvador has transformed itself into a stable democracy and a success story in economic development.
U.S.-Salvadoran relations remain close and strong. U.S. policy towards the country promotes the strengthening of El Salvador's democratic institutions, rule of law, judicial reform, and civilian police; national reconciliation and reconstruction; and economic opportunity and growth. El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On August 26, 2011 Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte joined Salvadoran Minister of Defense David Munguía Payés in a formal send-off ceremony for 22 Salvadoran troops who will deploy to Afghanistan on August 28. The 22 troops will serve as instructor trainers within NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan (NTM-A). Specifically, 9 Air Force Trainers will work with the Afghan Air Units in Herat, 3 Military Police Trainers will work with the Afghan Police Academy in Kabul, and 10 Counter-Insurgency Instructors will operate throughout Afghanistan, training military and police units as part of 6 Mobile Training Teams.
Salvadoran troops have earned a reputation as an effective and professional military force for their participation in international humanitarian missions to Lebanon, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan and Haiti. El Salvador's Cuscatlán Battalion also served with distinction during 11 rotations in support of humanitarian and reconstruction activities in Iraq. This latest deployment will mark El Salvador's first participation in the NATO mission to Afghanistan.
U.S. ties to El Salvador are dynamic and growing. More than 19,000 American citizens live and work full-time in El Salvador. Most are private businesspersons and their families, but a small number of American citizen retirees have been drawn to El Salvador by favorable tax conditions. The Embassy's consular section provides a full range of citizenship services to this community. The American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador is located at World Trade Center, Torre 2, local No. 308, 89 Av. Nte. Col. Escalón, phone: 2263-9494.
Principal U.S. officials include:
- Ambassador: Mari Carmen Aponte
- Deputy Chief of Mission: Robert Blau
- USAID Mission Chief—Deborah Kennedy-Iraheta
- Political Counselor—Maeve Dwyer
- Economic Counselor—Mitch Ferguson
- Commercial Officer—Michael McGee
- Public Affairs Officer—Marti Estell
The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador is located in Antiguo Cuscatlán.
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- ^ Tobar, Hector (1 September 1992). "No Strength in Numbers for LA's Divided Latinos". Los Angeles Times.
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- ^ Dana Rohrabacher Speaks out on El Salvador Election, Clashes With Obama Administration


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Lot 27: Group of Baccarat and Val St. Lambert, 14 total
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Description: Group of fourteen (14) glass items. 1st-13th items: Set of thirteen Baccarat ruby and clear cut cordial glasses, Genova (Cut) pattern. Cordials feature thumbprint cut bowls and six sided stems, maker's mark on bases. 5 1/8" H. 14th item: Val St. Lambert ruby and clear cut compote, VAS79 pattern. Compote features thumbprint cut bowl and ball like stem, signed on base. 4 5/8" H x 6 1/4" W. French, 20th century. Collection of Charles and Ann Wells, Nashville, Tennessee. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
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I'm 20 now, but I was 18 when this story happened.
Towards the end of my senior year of high school, my Mom got remarried to her boyfriend, "David", who I had always thought was really hot. He's about five foot eight inches tall, with short brown hair and a thin body. I had fantasized about him for years before but now he was coming to live with us. It was a big turn on. My best friend (who also thinks David is hot) told me I should try to seduce him as a joke, but I fantasized about it for months.
My Mom leaves first in the morning for work, and around that time, David is usually always taking his shower and I'm getting ready for school. Well, after my Mom left, I would try to sneak peaks of my step Dad in the shower.
He masturbates on a regular basis. I knew, because he sometimes would make noise in the shower and I would peak through the door and see. Whenever I would catch him masturbating I would rub my clit to an orgasm at the same time that he did. It was great!
One day, my Mom left for work and I went to the bathroom door to see David and of course there he was, rubbing his dick (it's about six and a half inches by the way, maybe seven I don't know). I started to rub my clit and then my heart started to pound like I was having a heart attack. Ever since my friend made that joke about seducing him I had been thinking non-stop about confronting David and telling him that I liked watching him masturbate but I really wanted to see him up close and not through the frosted glass door. I wanted him to watch me, too. I was afraid he'd tell my Mom and she would kill me, but I had to try because I'd been thinking about it for too long and I'd regret it if I didn't.
So I stood up, pushed open the door and walked into the bathroom like nothing was wrong.
"Carrie?" David said. (My name isn't Carrie, just so you know.)
"Yeah, it's me," I said.
"Is everything O.K?" he asked.
"Yeah, I just was listening to you in here and wanted to know if you were alright?" I thought that would be a pretty safe thing to say.
"I'm fine," but he sounded a little embarrassed.
"Well!" I said. This was the big moment, my heart was beating so fast and my throat clenched up a little bit. "Do you want some help in there?"
He said, "What do you mean?" He didn't sound embarrassed anymore.
"I mean, do you want me to help you in there?"
"Well, if you would like to help me." I couldn't believe it when he said that!
"Yeah, I would," I said.
"Well, O.K. then."
David stuck his head out of the shower door and smiled at me. I almost came right there. He asked me to take off my clothes so I took off my t-shirt and my boxer shorts. He stepped to the side and I got into the shower. His dick was really hard and he had one hand gripping it. He seemed just as excited as I was.
(I'm not bad to look at, by the way. I'm about five feet one inch tall, with short brown hair that curls under and I'm proud of my figure. It's a tiny bit heavier than I would like, but David thinks it's sexy.)
I got on my knees so I could have a better look and so I could play with my clit while I watched him. It was the best! His hand was moving really fast and he looked really hot with his hair all wet. I couldn't believe it! The only other dick I'd seen was my old boyfriends, but his wasn't as nice as David's and I'd never seen it cum. He came really soon after I got in the shower. He squirted three streams of cum. The first hit my right cheek and the other two hit my right boob. The rest of his cum just kind of oozed out over his fist. I came about a second after that. We promised we wouldn't tell my Mom, and I was really glad for that.
Since then I've started college nearby, but I still live at home. It's become part of our morning ritual that David and I take our shower together and watch each other get off. Mom doesn't know, and I know they still have sex and everything. We've never done anything else like sex or anything like that, though sometimes I'll suck on just the tip right when David cums. I like feeling it all gush out onto my tongue.
I told my best friend about it, and she can't believe it. I know she hasn't told anyone else because I read it in her journal.
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Miners at Tower colliery, near Aberdare, would have lost pounds 19,000 a head by maintaining production until privatisation at the end of the year with no guarantee of a buyer.
About 250 members of the National Union of Mineworkers voted at a mass meeting to reverse last Friday's decision to work on following pressure from management, miners who wanted to accept the package, and four other unions which had already opted for closure. NUM members calculated that a weekly pay packet until the end of the year would not match the enhanced redundancy payments on offer.
The colliery will now be kept on a 'care and maintenance' basis in case a private company decides to bid for it. Tower made pounds 28m profit in the last three years, but BC wants to close it following a fall in demand for power station coal.
Miners took the decision despite a personal plea by Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, who visited Tower on Monday. Mr Scargill condemned the corporation for conducting a 'dirty tricks' campaign.
Yesterday British Coal confirmed that a 'non-negotiable' national offer would be presented to miners' leaders which would maintain the maximum basic redundancy payment of pounds 27,000. The extra pounds 19,000 on offer to Tower men would not be available after this month.
Colliers would have to agree flexible working practices in order to qualify for the new package, corporation sources said. A lump sum of pounds 6,000 would be paid to miners on acceptance of the new deal.
Although yesterday's decision by the Tower men came as a surprise, BC sources pointed out that some 70 miners had earlier expressed an interest in taking the enhanced redundancy payments.
Tower miners voted on Friday to accept a British Coal offer to keep the pit open, but the NUM subsequently contacted management informing them that they were reconsidering the decision.
All other unions at the pit, Nacods, the pit-deputies, Cosa, the white-collar NUM branch, BACM the managers' union and GMB Apex for administrative staff, had already reached agreement with the corporation on taking redundancy.
Ann Clwyd, a Labour employment spokeswoman and MP for Cynon Valley, yesterday clashed with the Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, in the Commons after claiming that David Hunt, the Secretary of State for Employment, and British Coal were 'peddling untruths'.
Similar unparliamentary language got the Prime Minister into trouble recently. Mrs Clwyd was told three times to withdraw accusations that Mr Hunt and British Coal were 'lying through their teeth'.
Mrs Clwyd staged a 27-hour sit-in at the pit last week, emerging from underground when British Coal agreed to postpone its closure.
She said the Government's pit closure programme had forced thousands of men on to the economic scrapheap.
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âThrough our group it is our hope that moms and dads, as well as grandparents can gain a true understanding of what these drugs really are and how they are affecting our kids,â said Andrea Salzbrunn, founder of Parent Support. âThey can learn skills to better handle the stress and conflicts within their homes associated with drug use and they can gain a sense of support and comfort as they go through something that, by nature, makes them feel alone.â
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pehr seems to have inherited your exquisite taste! unfortunately our entire house is filling up with rather less aesthetically pleasing toys and kiddo paraphernalia. sigh. very little of it was bought by us, most was inherited or received as gifts. i actually worry about the effect of having so much STUFF. 'simplicity parenting' by kim john payne is an interesting book on the subject. good luck stemming the tide of plastic! x
ReplyDeleteRepliesIm lucky that my friends and family know we don't like too much plastic gumph generally (because of this blog probably!).
I grew up in a very basic house, no money and three older brothers. Its nice for children to have SOME nice things + love and attention.
I think parenting is very simple...just love them and keep them safe as possible.
It happens to us all... I never thought I'd be like it either, but now I have to physically stop myself always heading for the kids section in the shop. Especially nowadays there so many lovely things for kids. Have fun! (But remember she probably couldn't care less about any of it!) :)
ReplyDeleteI too would like some liberty pants haha! The little pear for little Pehr is cute, and I love the house print on the cushion. We will definitely be having a no plastic tat rule once we have kids...I think they end up with so much 'stuff' they don't realise what it is to really appreciate something beautiful! xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid the plastic creeps in!!!! I am the same about buying/making things for my two boys! It is so exciting! We should put ourselves first but it just doesn't happen! I seem to be spending a small fortune on kids' shoes at the moment now my oldest is in school(Has to have black school shoes/plimsoles for inside sport/trainers for outside/wellies and also shoes for home.) And I am going to work wearing shoes that have holes in the soles!!! I just don't have the time or money to buy myself new ones... It's all great fun though!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to control the plastic, especially at first. Our children had lots of wooden toys. We do love lego and p,any mobile though, although mow smallest is growing out of that and it is electronic goods that rock his world *sigh*. I think babies deserve beautiful things, they are so beautiful themselves, and mamas deserve to look and plat with beautiful toys to. And papas!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was pregnant with our first daughter, someone who understands my upbringing (not much money). Said to me, please buy your children new things too, it will do you both good! Our daughters have what I didn't two parents who love them to pieces. But also a mum that is thrifty but also treats them, I love that we can! You are balancing handmade, finds and wonderful treats xxxx


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A parody of The Real World written and directed by Norman Korpi, a cast member from the first season of the show, is on DVD today. The Wedding Video follows co-writer and director Clint Cowen's efforts to document Norman's fictional wedding, which is attended by Norman's friends, many of whom aren't even aware he's getting married to a man. The cast features nine other former Real World cast members who play themselves, or parodies of themselves, as they never mention the show. But they play up their personas and mock themselves and the show at the same time.


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Photographer's Note
When we arrived at the lake in early morning, the fog was so thick you couldn't see the lake. It was so cool watching it burn off, though. It was very nearly gone when I shot this. There are just some mists rising from the water in places. But the light was so good, and the water so clear you could see the rocks beneath it. It was such a MADLY beautiful day for it being August.
papagolf21, mohammad_H, SnapRJW, Gigidusud, pierrefonds, ChrisJ has marked this note useful
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cargus (10566) 2013-08-09 0:20
Light ,color and contrast are excellent, superb reflections in water, very good clarity, excellent picture
dta (82386) 2013-08-09 0:56
Hello Shelly ,
What a beautiful place ! The mirror is so clam , providing fine refelections. I understand your enthousiasm : it is allways a great moment to see the mist disappear and when the landscape appears to the view .
saxo042 (37966) 2013-08-09 8:16
Hi Shelly,
Can´t help but think of this song:
Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a wonderful feeling,
Everything's going my way.
(Music by Richard Rodgers, lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II)
This picture has captured all the pleasure of such a morning. Beautiful!
Kind regards
rychem (42630) 2013-08-09 10:48
What a peaceful atmosphere, fantastic landscape and ideal mirror effect, compliments
photoray (13981) 2013-08-09 15:30
Howdy Shelly,
Excellent 'Doppelganger' view of this lake and forest with clouds included on the mirror water surface.
And sounds like West Virginia is similar to our Northern California coastal areas' morning fog, burning off later in the day, even in the summer.
Have a nice weekend,
abmdsudi (57720) 2013-08-10 16:55
Hi Shelly
A very fine, nicely balanced picture of tranquility - stillness and a lovely soft light. The water and the green looks beautiful. Nice that you keep the bit of fg angled and the photo has a pleasing depth as we look across the water towards the far end but dash of low sun shine catching on the fg is really awesome. This is a very pleasant nature scene in wonderful atmosphere. Fabulous, a sight to behold. Well done, Spot on!
Best regards
Nicou (151064) 2013-08-11 0:03
Un vrai miroir sueprbe vue et captage merveilleuse compo e tiamge quel reflet quel effet et panorama de la belle nature.
Bravo et amitié
papagolf21 (109312) 2013-08-11 9:13
Bonsoir, chère amie Shelly,
Voir ainsi sous nos yeux le bonheur qui s'étale, cela relève de la joie à l'état pur.
Quel paysage exprimant sérénité, calme et beauté !
Il est bien difficile de détacher son regard de cette très belle composition.
Oumar (26) 2013-08-12 9:43
Hello Shelly,
Amazing landscape, peaceful atmosphere, and very well framed. It's almost like a painting. I can imagine how wonderful that day was!
rbassin (24313) 2013-08-12 11:23
bonjour Shelly
quelle mangifique lumière avec la brume trainant sur le lac.Un très beau paysage.
Bonne soirée
EstudioChispa (2178) 2013-08-12 11:30
You have accomplished a major trick -- we see the reflection in the water, but also we see through the water to the rocks. VERY well done!
Best regards,
Austin, Texas
mohammad_H (10072) 2013-08-12 12:56
Hi Shelly
The first two parts of the picture, the picture is very pleasant prospect, and at the bottom, reflecting the unique, and very technical, technically, congratulations to you, your photos are very attractive and lovely, in the night -
Good Night, and enjoy every moment of life.
SnapRJW (31629) 2013-08-14 2:51
Hello Shelly - The beauty of the light, colours and atmosphere echo your note so well here and the shot evokes a great feeling of peace and tranquility. So simple but well composed and managed and an image that relays the beauty of the natural world so well. Warm regards Rosemary
Gigidusud (21247) 2013-08-19 14:35
Hello Shelly,
Great capture on the morning light. I like the colors, reflections and the peaceful atmosphere. Well done!
Best regards,
pierrefonds (71137) 2013-09-05 17:50
Hi Shelly,
The reflections on the water are assets to the composition. The wideness of the lake is giving depth to the composition. The point of view is showing the details and colours of the scenery. The light has a good effect on the colours. Have a nice day.
ChrisJ (117855) 2013-09-07 4:15
Hello Shelly
Gorgeous symmetrical reflections, with excellent color, saturation and clarity of the fg water. Well composed using the rule of thirds. The transparent fg water showing the lake bottom stones is nice. The triangle of land at right adds dynamism. Tfs!
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- Date Taken: 2013-08-03
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Helen Terry, 51, is the executive producer of the Brits, the annual pop music award show. Terry's first taste of success was as a singer with Boy George in Culture Club and she later had several solo hits. She switched careers in her mid-thirties to work in television and refused to take part in Culture Club's 1998 reunion tour, having fallen out with George over his portrayal of her in his autobiography (the pair are reportedly friends again). Terry lives in Perthshire, spending four months of the year in London to make the Brits. This year's show, hosted by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, will be broadcast live from London's Earls Court on ITV1, from 8pm on Wednesday.
What inspired you to embark on a career in the media?
I was inspired by what I wasn't seeing on television. I was ancient when I started my TV career so I absolutely knew what was wrong with music television and, having been on the receiving end of it in my former career, I thought that I could make a change for the better. Easier said than done at first, but I'm getting there these days.
When you were 15 years old which newspaper did your family get, and did you read it?
I was hardly ever in the house when I was 15 so I can't recall what my parents read, aside from the Maldon and Burnham Standard, our local newspaper, which I would read from cover to cover. I devoured my grandma's Cork Weekly Examiner, which I remember was required reading for all expatriate Irish Catholics at the time.
And what were your favourite TV and radio programmes?
I loved Civilization, those old school patrician broadcasters infused a passion for discovery in me. Schoolgirls in rural Essex didn't have much in the way of role models back then so my childhood path was 50 per cent swot, 50 per cent rock'*' roll. This did not go down too well at school but my wonderful parents just let me get on with things.
Describe your job?
Part Mystic Meg, part diplomat. I have to second guess the mood of the nation six months in advance and put together a show that either reflects this or acts as a diversion. Naturally I also have to figure out who might win the gongs and then mix it up with performers who are at the peak. Competition for performance slots is ferocious and so I have to steer the show along a course that will please both the broadcaster and those of us who still love music.
What's the first media you turn to in the mornings?
I always log on to BBC news and then trawl through Popbitch and Holy Moly for a bit of sanity. Daily papers don't figure at all because they just make me angry.
Do you consult any media sources during the day?
As above really. We get the New Statesman, New Scientist, Prospect and Private Eye at home and they keep me going.
What do you tune into when you get home?
I'm addicted to CSI and House. I'll tune into random programmes occasionally but it's either Five US or BBC4 who make some of the best music documentaries. I do love a good drama as well – Cranford was a wonderful example of an ensemble piece.
What is the best thing about your job?
My team. I rather treat my job like being in a band and so I take huge delight in working with a bunch of people who never cease to amaze me with their ability to get things done and to get them done well. It's the same sort of pride a singer has in having the best players in their band.
And the worst?
The commute. I live 500 miles from London so I have to leave home for four months, returning to sanity on the weekends.
What's the proudest achievement in your working life?
Bringing extraordinary talent to the attention of a broader public and seeing it change their careers.
And what's your most embarrassing moment?
Far too many to mention.
What is your Sunday paper? And do you have a favourite magazine?
I do get The Observer, but only for Nigel Slater's marvellous food section. A good friend was a Sunday editor and so I know far too much about how the press works and how divisive they can be. I love Vanity Fair. Graydon Carter is an extraordinary editor and the standard of writing is superlative. I polish off most inferior magazines in about 20 minutes, but if I start reading VF at Kings Cross I'll just be finishing it whenthe train reaches Stirling.
How do you feel you influence the media?
I don't. The artists speak for themselves, I just do the maths and write the scripts.
Name the one career ambition you want to realise before you retire?
I've got a cinema release documentary up my sleeve, watch this space . . .
What would you do if you didn't work in the media?
I'd probably be a washed-up has-been singer by now. Television has rather saved my life.
Who in the media do you most admire and why?
Andrea Wonfor (the late managing director of Granada Television and producer of The Tube) was an inspirational figure. Never smug, always questioning and rarely averse to a good night out. The perfect balance. Germaine Greer is also up there because she is utterly unafraid to take on the sacred cows and few can match her erudition.
The CV
1974 Abandons educationin favour of random employment including work as a performance artist, comic synopsis writer and singing teacher
1981 Becomes a member of Culture Club alongside Boy George
1985 Leaves the band to launch a successful solo career
1990 Moves into television as a researcher on Saturday morning children's TV
1992 Begins making documentaries including an Omnibus on Creation Records founder Alan McGee and Collectors with Damien Hirst for BBC2
2001 Joins the team behind the Brit Awards as the show's music producer
2005 Appointed the show's executive producer
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I'm going back to Ocean City this summer! Anyone know if they kept the theaters the same inside or if they've upgraded to stadium seating, etc.? Hoping it's the way I remember. :)
I went to this theater a number of times when I was teenager. My family used to vacation in Fenwick Island and this theater was within walking distance of our cottage. Also, a friend of mine worked there, and I was pretty friendly with most of the staff. I saw Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Young Guns, one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, Midnight Run, Darkman, and a little obscurity known as North Shore here…
The Sun & Surf was originally built as a twin by Schwartz Theatres of Dover Delaware sometime in the late 60's or early 1970's. It was then expanded to four screens in the mid 70's.
Schwartz sold its entire circuit to Fox Theatres of Reading PA in 1980. Fox Theatres then sold most of its entire circuit to Carmike sometime I believe in the mid 1990's.
Well, if CARMIKE has it is probably closed today or nearing its end.:Look at that crappy marquee!
Info from the July, 1986, issue of Boxoffice Magazine: this theater, then called the Sun and Surf Cinemas, was acquired by Fox Theatres (a Reading, Pennsylvania-based company founded by Richard A. Fox in 1958, and not related to the earlier Fox circuit founded by William Fox) in 1980, when it was a four-screen house. It was expanded to eight screens in 1983. I don't know who owned it before Fox, nor what year Carmike took it over.
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Home Slice Team Returns From NYC With Pizza Power
Austin loved Home Slice's recent Monday thick Sicilian pie specials so much that the restaurant decided to make their annual pilgrimage to NYC all about the thick crust. (They usually use the trip as a research tool for employees and owners to bring ideas back to Austin for its menu and November's Carnival O' Pizza event.) Over 30 employees returned last week with a lot of knowledge, and in honor of pizza week, we wanted to highlight their blog posts about it. Check out co-owner Jen Strickland's stories about the trip on the Huffington Post too.


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BuddyTV.com New episodes of Brothers & Sisters will begin airing by January 6, and a few weeks back, we gave readers a sneak peek into what coming ahead. However, the network has issued a much more detailed press release of the first new episode of 2008, which means even more spoilery for all those who can�t wait to get a fresh dose of the family drama. Continue reading only if you want to be spoiled. The first episode of the new year is �The Feast of the Epiphany.� Tommy (Balthazar Getty) and Julia (Sarah Jane Morris) are trying to fix their damaged marriage. Rebecca�s (Emily VanCamp) connection with David Caplan (Ken Olin) raises some questions about her mother Holly�s (Patricia Wettig) past. Nora (Sally Field), meanwhile, goes on her first (and very uncomfortable) date with Isaac Marshall (guest star Danny Glover), and Graham Finch (guest star Steven Weber) tries to help Sarah (Rachel Griffiths) get back some of her confidence when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex. Other guest stars in �The Feast of the Epiphany� include Luke MacFarlane (Over There) as Scotty Wandell, Emily Rose (John from Cincinnati) as Lena Branigan, Denis O�Hare (CSI, Law & Order) as Travis March, Anderson Goncalves (Dexter, Alias, ER, The Unit) as Private John Jimpson, Alan Toy (The West Wing, The Sentinel) as Trent, Al Coronel (Judging Amy, The Practice) as Brad and Jim Jansen (How I Met Your Mother, Veronica Mars, Cold Case, Cane) as Governor Clay Adamson. "The Feast of the Epiphany" is the tenth episode of Brothers & Sisters� current season, which means that after it airs, only two new episodes � �The Missionary Imposition� and �Compromises� � will remain. Catch all new episodes of Brothers & Sisters in January, airing Sunday nights at 10pm on ABC. |
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While I'm typing away on this MacBook Air it seems my computer is worried for its life considering there has been a new MacBook Air announced at WWDC 2012, which will include some amazing features to show why the Air will stay number one in this laptop segment.
You can expect some amazing upgrades with the new MacBook Air and these include a new 512GB SSD with a 500MB read speed that is around x2 faster than the current SSD. The Air will also get 60% faster graphics, Ivy Bridge processors, up to 8GB of memory (amazing), and up to 2GHz dual-core i7. USB 3.0 has also been confirmed at WWDC and that will be on both USB ports, which means you wont need to worry what port to plug into.
You'll also find a 720p FaceTime HD camera, 1366×768 resolution on the 11-inch model and 1440×900 on the 13-inch, and pricing ranges from $999 to $1,099 for 11-inch and again the 13-inch is $100 cheaper than current model, depending on the chip you choose. The new 2012 MacBook Air will ship from today, so keep an eye on the Apple Store.
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IN JANUARY 2012 A HUNDRED RAIDERS ON HORSEBACK CHARGED OUT OF CHAD INTO CAMEROON'S BOUBA NDJIDAH NATIONAL PARK, SLAUGHTERING HUNDREDS OF ELEPHANTS—entire families—in one of the worst concentrated killings since a global ivory trade ban was adopted in 1989. Carrying AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, they dispatched the elephants with a military precision reminiscent of a 2006 butchering outside Chad's Zakouma National Park. And then some stopped to pray to Allah. Seen from the ground, each of the bloated elephant carcasses is a monument to human greed. Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years. From the air too the scattered bodies present a senseless crime scene—you can see which animals fled, which mothers tried to protect their young, how one terrified herd of 50 went down together, the latest of the tens of thousands of elephants killed across Africa each year. Seen from higher still, from the vantage of history, this killing field is not new at all. It is timeless, and it is now.Read the rest of Bryan Christy's insightful and sobering article in National Geographic...
Thanks to blog reader, Bruce, for the heads-up on this piece. Want to add a personal note too; as terrific as National Geographic is - and has been for decades - the National Geographic Channel seems to have taken on some unfortunate, evil alter-ego. It regularly airs TV programming that makes at best dubious use of animals, including bonobos, for entertainment. NGC recently became the target of a global Facebook protest when it became known that one of planned stars for an upcoming reality show was a well-known trophy hunter. If you have FB, you can check out that page here:
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The Iranian-born Jarretts White Office of Public Engagement is trying to combine together two of her favorite things.
As Ray Hanania points out, the office "often fails to distinguish between Arab and Muslim, but that's because the only Arabs that Obama and Jarrett are interested in are Muslims. Just ask the Copts in Egypt.
There are at least two Muslims in the Office of Public Engagement and when Obama delivered his big ObamaCare defense, of the 13 human props surrounding him, two were Muslim.
The White House has launched a new outreach initiative targeting American Arabs and Muslims hoping to nudge the normally low-profile mainstream American Arabs to a higher level of social engagement and involvement.
The outreach is being headed by Rumana Ahmed of the White Office of Public Engagement. In their first newsletter email to the public, Ms. Ahmed presented an overview of services and programs American Arabs should engage, although the language often fails to distinguish between Arab and Muslim, a common challenge facing American Arabs.
Rumana Ahmed is an executive assistant to Jarrett.
Here is the latest newsletter sent out by the office targeting American Arabs and Muslims:
March 7-9 will be National Muslim American Enrollment Weekend! We are working with various organizations and community leaders across the U.S. to make sure members in their community learn more about health care enrollment and the upcoming March 31st deadline. We are calling on you as community leaders to also take part in this national effort of Muslim American Enrollment Weekend on March 7- 9th to make it a success or plan an event before March 31st!
With ObamaCare, you can enroll all your wives. Female genital mutilation is fully covered and no pesky questions are asked about honor killings.
Shovel Burkha Ready
Does Obamacare cover female genital mutilation??? Removing the labia and clitoris of a fully aware 13 year old girl certainly must be covered since Obamacare is so concerned with protecting the rights of the religious. It would be terrible if Obamacare were to declare a war on Islam and girls by NOT fully funding female genital mutilation.
Screw the radical Muzzie traitors in our midst. They don't think Americans can't do the same back to them double or more? The difference is we are civilized unfortunately but if they keep this up its going to get ugly, real ugly.
The United States of America, our Republic, is D-E-A-D if this is is true.
A friend asked for just how long are Americans going to put up with all this seditious enemy krap?
I thought they were exempt? Well according to a persistent Freeper.
Here are the facts.
Valerie Jarrett (AKA - That snake-like B7TCH!) is an Iranian spy. She's a covert agent bought and payed for by the Ayatollah Khamenei. That massive military downsizing? Right out of Jarrett's black cauldron. Her aim is to weaken the USA to the point where we are no threat to the Mullahs, and they can successfully carry out the second Holocaust as they have wanted to do for decades. Meanwhile liberal Jews will applaud (think Dianne Frankenfeinstein).
Jarrett needs to be brought in front of a committee, charged with treason, have her personal assets seized since they're probably linked to Iranian accounts. Then a hard 70 years in Leavenworth ought to teach her a lesson.
Does obamacare cover clitorectomies?
Anyone think the American people have been compromised by thier very own government?
America, like honest Law, and the absence of DOJ racism,
is long gone. Like a patient in the MICU with brain
death, the body lingers, not quite knowing it is too late.
So the big guy is giving away the country to his buddies. No surprise there.
Americans are hostage to the TV screen. When the tv tells us its ok to get mad we will. Not before.
So if the moslems declare america to be dar-al-islam, do we get to fight them for 700 years like the spanish did?
Very interesting Thanks. Well if we have to wait fir the controlled mass media to tell us when to do something , it gonna be a very long wait.
I thought muslims were exempt from Obamacare, since buying insurance is against their religion? Why is Valerie trying to make them go against their religion?
That's a myth that I've tried to correct (unsuccessfully) on FR a zillion times.
The only religious exemptions are for people outside the SocSec system like Amish and Mennonites. Muslims are NOT exempted from SocSec for religious reasons.
They're not specifically exempt by any wording in the Obamacare law. They may, in some circumstances, claim an exemption. How proactive they are will determine their success.
Here's a pretty good article about it...
With everything we know about Jarrett and Obama, it's clear they will give the Muslims whatever they want.
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The Full Teaser Trailer for 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' is Here
Yesterday Summit released a ten-second teaser for the actual teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, and while it marked yet another entry in an increasingly annoying trend of studios releasing teasers of teaser trailers, in this case it's a bit more forgivable. After all, Twihards love their franchise with a rabid devotion most other studio films can only wish for-- Ten seconds goes a long way when you're dying to see Bella, Jacob and Edward in their finale (for now) trip to the big screen.
If you are a Twilight lover and those ten seconds got you plenty riled up, this full version might just be too decadent to handle. And if you're not a fan but are still curious about the final entry in this massive pop culture phenomenon, that's okay too. Here's what you need to know to be caught up to speed: Bella is now a vampire and that, uh, raises the stakes. (Sorry.) Oh, and she gave birth to a child that shouldn't exist because Edward shouldn't be able to become a father. And Jacob's obsessed with this new little one, as is the rest of the vamp world.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 hits theaters on November 16th. Check out the trailer below ...
In the movie Allied, what is the name of the character played by Jared Harris
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To those 20 children and everyone who was killed. My heart breaks for those kids. I have a 16 month old who I will hold extra tight tonight.
Horrible, horrible, horrible. God Bless. |
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I remember when I was in grade school my biggest fear was I wouldn't like that the cafeteria was serving for lunch.
Now, you have to worry about coming home alive. Sad times. Wish I could say something to ease the suffering, but, nothing can do that. God Bless the victims and their families |
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There was a time when American dignitaries would speak in favor of individual liberty and basic human rights when traveling to a totalitarian state like China. Today, we have Vice President Biden ensuring his Chinese hosts that he was passing no judgement at all on their inhumane one-child policy, and he merely spoke in terms of the dangers to the social safety net the policy will create.
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"Murphy was an optimist!"
Super secret fbi bldg done June 1, 2009 11:11 am
Posted by utterz in : Daily Life, PodcastingMobile post sent by djuggler using Utterli. Replies.
- 1. Morgan - June 1, 2009
Is this anywhere near Middlebrook and the boy scout headquarters? My sons friend Ryan lives there and told me he thought they were building a FBI building. I'm not sure its that secret, lol.
- 2. Doug McCaughan - June 1, 2009
Lots of land over there. That was my guess. I think they were using drivers without security clearances to move the prebuilt walls to Kmart and Rudy's parking lots then the 2 drivers with security clearance would move the materials onto the actual construction site. I could be wrong on the information. I spoke with one of the drivers who told me "only two guys are being allowed to move stuff to the site."
- 3. Morgan - June 1, 2009
You came up first when I googled "FBI building knoxville", lol.
That is really close to my house…Zak will be happy, he has some friends there he goes to lunch with.
- 4. Doug McCaughan - June 1, 2009
Well that didn't take any triangulation! 🙂


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George Clooney and Sarah Larson arrive at the "Michael Clayton" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. (We all should look this good -- even without a near-fatal motor cycle accident in our recent past.) Everyone always says being on "Fear Factor" is a pointless waste of time -- and eating worms for a little cash is hardly worth the trouble. But this Sarah chick seems to have come out all right from her stint on the gross-out reality show, wouldn't you say?
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[This week's Haveil Havalim is here, at Jack's new site]
Looking at אפיק בנגב over Shabbos, I saw a great quote from Rav Kook. [The book itself is a tribute to Rav Avraham Yitzchak Neriah z"l, one of the founders of Yeshivat haNegev and son of Rav Moshe Tzvi Neriah z"l.]
Rav Kook pointed out that the gemara (Shabbos 55a) says, "חותמו של הקב"ה אמת," "The seal of Gd is Truth." He added that since human beings are modeled after Gd, we, too, have that seal of Truth.
Rav Kook continued to say that just as a sealing ring's mark is only visible after the ring is removed from the paper, so a human being's mark on the world is visible only after 'the ring is removed from the paper,' after the person has passed on from this world.
I thought it was a beautiful extension of the gemara's point, but the comparison of people and sealing rings did leave me with a disturbing thought: With a sealing ring, everything marked on the ring is reversed in its imprint.
So is that why so much of what I try to do comes out backward?
Monday, January 24, 2011
3 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Actually, the mark left by a signet ring only looks backwards if compared to the ring's engraving itself. But in reality, it is exactly as the ringmaker/Maker intended that image to appear.
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