Friday, February 16, 2007
Decline in Cross-Cultural American Marriages
The USA's growing diversity is cooling the melting pot in at least one way: marriage across racial and ethnic lines.
The share of Hispanics and Asians married to whites dropped between 1990 and 2000 after two decades of steady growth, new research shows.
The sheer number of immigrants who arrived last decade has made it more likely for them to marry among themselves, according to findings published this month in American Sociological Review.
Read more: USAPolice polish up on Polish language skills
Police are learning Polish – because of the soaring number of Polish people. For the past 10 weeks 15 officers, mostly based at Bognor, West Sussex, have been learning Polish phrases and the alphabet.
Poles are the fastest growing ethnic community in the area – even the West Sussex County Council website prints some pages in the language.
Read more: PolesU.S. Firm Breaks into English Language Services in China
Morgan Equities Group Inc. announced today that it has entered an agreement to purchase 100% of Master English Now, a Hong Kong company operating in China through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Master English (Shenzhen) Ltd., which sells and services proprietary and other, third-party, brands of language and technical training software. Also offered is face-to-face education as well as other specialized solutions and software relative to the teaching of English.
Read more: MEGINew Translation Gadget Translates 12 Languages
Franklin's new global translator can help you "say it right" in 12 languages. The 12-Language Speaking Global Translator can pronounce more than 450,000 words and 12,000 phrases in Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Plus, it displays the correct pronunciation of words phonetically on its LCD screen.
Read more: FranklinHot Banana and Connexion Roll Out New Multilingual Intranet Site
Hot Banana Software, Inc. , a leader in Web content management (Web CMS) for marketing, and Connexion Corporate Communications NV , a prominent European integrator of multilingual Web content management systems and communication solutions for B2B organizations, today announced that they have delivered a new Intranet project to the European headquarters of Ingersoll Rand -- helping the company to welcome new personnel through a customized Intranet site.
Read more: HBS41.6% of the Basque population aged over 14 were Internet users
The number of Internet users aged over 14 in the Basque Autonomous Region in the last quarter of 2006 stood at 766,400 persons, 41.6% of the Basque population of this age, according to Eustat data. This percentage represents a 1.5% increase in relation to the second quarter of the same year, although the increase is 10.9% with regard to the previous year.
Read more: BasqueWord of the Day: impregnable
impregnable \im-PREG-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Not capable of being stormed or taken by assault; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress.
2. Difficult or impossible to overcome or refute successfully; beyond question or criticism; as, an impregnable argument.
During this destruction the villagers . . . relied on their ancient instinct for survival and retreated to the impregnable fortress of the mountain. -- Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet
What Spinoza says of laws is equally true of party-platforms,--that those are strong which appeal to reason, but those are impregnable which compell the assent both of reason and the common affections of mankind. -- James Russell Lowell, "The Election in November", The Atlantic, October 1860