New’s: Week 27-31
For 75 years, pregnant women in Finland have
received State cartons. It's like a starter pack with clothes, blankets and
toys that in turn can be used as a crib. Many argue that this policy has helped
the Nordic country is one of the nations with the lowest infant mortality rate
in the world.
It is a
tradition dating back to the early 30s and seeks to give all Finnish children,
regardless of social status a fair start in life.
The
maternity package, a gift of the government, is available to all expectant.
With the
mattress on the bottom, the box becomes baby's first bed. Many children have
their first nap inside security offered by cardboard walls.
Mothers can
choose to take the cash or receive cash (about $ 214), but 95% opt for the box,
since its value is much higher.
This
tradition was born in 1938. At first it was just for low-income families,
something that changed in 1949.
The case
mothers gave them what they needed to care for their babies, but also helped
lead the women into the arms of the health professional’s nascent welfare state
in Finland.
MAKING LIFE IS WON CURIOSITIES
Until one
day he had a stroke of luck. In a viewpoint and pulling a photo with the bay
bottom was Kaylan O'Connor. Do not think twice. He came and sat at the feet of
the American tourist who fell in love with him.
It was love
at first sight and spent eight hours together she and her family were in the
harbor, as the final stop of their cruise.
O'Connor
was married, but her husband did not care.
"He
jumped into our arms as if to say 'hello'. Was so sweet and followed us around
the rest of the trip playing with us. Knew we needed a home and we love
dogs," O'Connor tells the BBC from Seattle.
Thus began
the love story of Kaylan and Chili Dog, the chocolate brown mutt who seduced
and which spent nearly $ 2,000 to give a home across the continent. "Money
well spent," said Kaylan itself tells BBC.
Kaylan had
to deal with the return cruise. They had to say goodbye, but not forever.
Eight hours
were enough for Chili Dog to remain stamped on the minds of O'Connor. So much
so that now back in late February, internet searched associations animal rights
in Chile to see if I could manage to Chili Dog became his pet in Seattle.
I got an
email in English to an American who said he was in love with a dog on the
street and wanted to send him to Seattle. I read with skepticism, I
found it strange "
The Germans get rid of the worst twisters
In Spanish
it takes 15 words a sentence to describe entirely the longest word in the
German language, one of 63 letters that just disappeared:
It means
"law for the transfer of supervisory tasks in the labeling of beef,"
a regional policy which was replaced by the authorities.
The
twister-rare in common use-never appeared in the dictionary, but it was the
longest word in an official document. Not even its abbreviation, which
theoretically should serve to make things easier, is saved from being complex:
The record
between the words in the dictionary itself is to
Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung shorter than the law but surely a term
that creates more headaches for ordinary people because it means
"mandatory car insurance".
These words
are extreme examples of this language feature: the long and sometimes
convoluted compound word in German is defined, of course, with a compound word
and difficult Bandwurmwörter (something like "tapeworm words" if
literally translated).
Now,
according to German media, are looking for a new candidate for first place.
As
regulations on beef, most of the longest words in the German language come from
laws. In other cases these chemical terms.
Beyond what
the meaning, language earthworms explain a phenomenon typical of this language:
it is theoretically possible to construct infinite words, almost as if they
were putting together a Lego.
"Everyone is sick of Amazon," said
French Minister of Culture
The French
Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, defended on Tuesday a plan of aid to
independent booksellers, while advanced preparation "strong measures"
against the U.S. company selling books online Amazon, which defined as a
"destructive" libraries.
"Everyone
is sick of Amazon," he said in an interview Filippetti radio station
"RTL" and criticized the unfair competition from the company, which
offered to customers who book online a discount of 5% to gratuity is added to
the cost of postage of the packages.
The
minister said that this feeling exists even in the Amazon country, United
States.
"It is
destructive to the bookstores," he said on conference Filippetti book
sellers in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
Filippetti
said he would be considering measures that could slow the growth of Amazon in
France by restricting the ability of the U.S. giant.
Amazon The
attack is the latest in a series of disputes between the French government and
American companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Apple.
Mexico and China sign trade agreements
The
governments of Mexico and China agreed to establish a strategic partnership,
which includes increased trade, academic and cultural cooperation between the
two countries.
The
agreement is part of a series of commitments that the two countries signed
during the first day of Chinese President view Xin Jinping to Mexico.
One of the
agreements provides that China opens its market to imports of tequila and pork
from Mexico, an exchange which was suspended after the swine flu pandemic
caused by the H1N1 virus in 2009.
Among the
agreements highlighted the establishment of China's first cultural center in
Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the next installment of a similar
exhibition in China Mexico.
"It
reached agreements that had been postponed for six, ten years," said the
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto during a joint message to the media.
The Chinese
president's visit comes as the government of Enrique Peña Nieto seeks to
strengthen the relationship between the two countries, which was cooled during
the tenure of former President Felipe Calderon.
According
to the BBC journalist in Mexico, Alberto Najar, analysts have said that the
previous government did not care to look after these diplomatic ties, despite
the volume of bilateral trade exchange.
China is
the second largest trading partner after the U.S. Mexico, although the balance
is unfavorable to the first country.
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