Santa Rita

soooooooo -----Rite, Rita, Santa Rita de los elefantes-----

Is coming soon!

Ya echó sus chunches a una maleta,

y con todo y todo y todos,

ya viene en camino.

Algunos meses tardará en llegar con su bonito elefante mágico.

Bendita sea.

ideas happen...

yes they will, yes they do!

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

It was 9 years ago when a group of students of high school started with a not so very common project for kids our age, or for those at our school. We created Group 42 of Amnesty International, Mexican Chapter.

As we learned about AI we became totally committed to its values and objectives and were v. excited about taking action, participating, being part of huge international Human Rights organization.

We worked in several topics and cases to free prisoners of conscience, ensure fair trials for political prisoners, protect refugees, abolish the death penalty, end political killings, “disappearances” and torture, and bring to justice those responsible for human rights violations. At the time of organizing debates and conferences for our classmates.

By participating in this project we all reaffirmed our conviction and appreciation for human life and dignity, we also learn the value of reciprocity and international solidarity.

I can remember several special moments while leading this project for example when we met Mr. Pierre Sane -AI General Secretary- while he was visiting Mexico and were able to exchange points of view with him and other members of the secretariat.

But the top moment was that Urgent Action when we gather more than 3,000 signatures to prevent that day Ramon Martinez Villareal a Mexican inmate in Arizona of being executed. I can remember that day sending with my team this huge fax from this small office in Mexico State Campus to the authorities of Arizona. I don't know if it was because of our effort or any other
reason, but Martinez Villareal could live for that day.

All my respect to and gratitude to Mr. Peter Benson for giving the world hope and to this group of high school kids and the almost two million members around the globe the opportunity of fighting for an ideal and for changing the way in which we perceived and live life. Mr Benson will continue to be an inspiration.

Peter Benson 1921 - 2005

Peter Benenson, the founder of the worldwide human rights organisation Amnesty International, died yesterday evening. He was 83.

Mr Benenson founded and inspired Amnesty International in 1961 first as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience. But from there came a worldwide movement for human rights and in its midst an international organisation -- Amnesty International -- which has taken up the cases of many thousands of victims of human rights violations and inspired millions to human rights defence the world round.

"Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

"He brought light into the darkness of prisons, the horror of torture chambers and tragedy of death camps around the world. This was a man whose conscience shone in a cruel and terrifying world, who believed in the power of ordinary people to bring about extraordinary change and, by creating Amnesty International, he gave each of us the opportunity to make a difference."

"In 1961 his vision gave birth to human rights activism. In 2005 his legacy is a world wide movement for human rights which will never die."

The one-year Appeal for Amnesty was launched on 28 May 1961, in an article in the British newspaper, The Observer, called "The Forgotten Prisoners". That appeal attracted thousands of supporters, and started a worldwide human rights movement.

The catalyst for the original campaign was Mr Benenson's sense of outrage after reading an article about the arrest and imprisonment of two students in a café in Lisbon, Portugal, who had drunk a toast to liberty.

In the first few years of Amnesty International's existence, Mr Benenson supplied much of the funding for the movement, went on research missions and was involved in all aspects of the organisation's affairs.

Other activities that Mr Benenson was involved in during his lifetime included; adopting orphans from the Spanish Civil War, bringing Jews who had fled Hitler's Germany to Britain, observing trials as a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers, helping to set up the organisation "Justice" and establishing a society for people with coeliac disease.

At a ceremony to mark Amnesty International's 25th anniversary, Mr Benenson lit what has become the organisation's symbol -- a candle entwined in barbed wire -- with the words:

"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That is what the candle is for."

Today Amnesty International is into its 44th year. It has become the world's largest independent human rights organisation, with more than 1.8 million members and committed supporters worldwide.

AI Index: ORG 10/001/2005
26 February 2005
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASEAI Index: ORG 10/001/2005 (Public)News Service No: 048 26 February 2005

kindarepulsive-

Lovely picture dude!
Always ready,
always trying to get into the ring... into the picture.
Calling for attention,
taking advantage,
styleless I must say... interesting I must admit,
will see if it happens again.

Pekín

El nombre en español de la capital de China es Pekín. Desde la Matanza de Tianenmen, las agencias de noticias han difundido la grafía Beijing, pero ésa es la transliteración del nombre de la ciudad en chino mandarín. En español sigue siendo Pekín -Real Academia Española y Academias Hispanoamericanas, Ortografía de la lengua española, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1999, pp 121, 127.- N. de R.

c .bk . 02 . 03

"There are hippies and stoners and gutter punks and preppy, Abercrombie-and-Fitch-donning, cell-phone-carrying socialites. There are frat boys and oddball co-opers, the politically zealous and the religious fanatics, the atheists and the trannies" at Berkeley. "The students are crazy, hailing from all geographical, philosophical, socioeconomic, political, and psychological points of view," reports one student. And they're "united by one thing: their hatred for Stanford-er, I mean thirst for learning." Sure, students here take their studies seriously, but when the competitive academic life is set aside, they're a laid-back crowd. "My fellow students and I all share the prevalent California attitude that everything is great and that things will work out." The most prevalent trait among the Berkeley student body, however, is independence. In some students' minds, this means that their classmates are "people that will really change the world, discover the cure for something, save a country, build the better mousetrap." In other students' minds, this means their classmates are "soulless GPA mongers" whose only concern is a good grade. -TPR-

I can't take my eyes off you ...

bay view window thx : I

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new

en resumen!

Tec de Monterrey 2015... new Mission for the next 10 years

May you live in interesting times

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be
Que Sera, Sera...

Tecnológico de Monterrey

The Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), commonly known as Tecnológico de Monterrey, was founded in 1943 by a group of entrepreneurs headed by Don Eugenio Garza Sada.Seeking to educate professionals and equip them with the skills needed to succeed in the business world, Tecnológico de Monterrey has developed into an institution recognized, nationally and internationally, for its academic excellence.

A private non-profit nationwide university system, Tecnológico de Monterrey is comprised of 32 campuses spread throughout 26 Mexican cities.

Enrollment
95,000 full-time students
Programs
34 undergraduate, 51 masters, 8 doctorate, Virtual University
Faculty
7,600 professors
Endowment
Tuition payments, corporate contributions, financial campaigns
Character
Private non-profit nationwide university system

www.cem.itesm.mx

MISION 2015

MISION 2015

Al comienzo de un nuevo siglo y tras llevar a cabo una extensa consulta nacional e internacional con líderes de opinión de todos los ámbitos, el Tecnológico de Monterrey presenta su Misión 2015 en una magna ceremonia que se llevará a cabo el miércoles 16 de febrero a las 19 h en el Gimnasio del Campus Estado de México, del Tecnológico de Monterrey

At the beginning of a new century and after carrying out an extensive national and international survey with leaders from various sectors, Monterrey Tech presents its Mission 2015 in a ceremony next Wednesday, February 16, 7PM CT.

www.cem.itesm.mx/mision2015

foto instituxional