11.30.07
Posted in News at 9:16 am by Paloma Cruz
Hispanic Gaming competition formed … Latino Gamerz Match.
– HispanicAd.com
Latino gamers looking to compete in a major gaming tournament will get their chance in 2008. The Latino Gamerz Match, produced in partnership with Major Gaming Championships and Dallas-based Hispanic advertising agency iNSPIRE!, is the first major console gaming tournament targeted directly to Latino gamers.
The Latino Gamerz Match will run in five Hispanic-focused markets across the U.S. including Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Miami and New York beginning in early 2008. The tournament will feature various console gaming competitions as well as a mobile gaming opportunity.
“The Hispanic gaming community purchases over $700 in gaming products each year, but don’t have a gaming tournament targeted to them,” said Blake Pettigrew, president of Major Gaming Championship. “Major Gaming Championships and iNSPIRE! recognized an opportunity to bring these gamers their own tournament.”
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11.25.07
Posted in News at 10:59 pm by Paloma Cruz
Houston girl’s book tells of life as an immigrant
– Houston Chronicle2
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Today, less than seven years later, the girl who could not understand a word her teacher said that first day is the author of a book — in English and Spanish — about her experiences as a newly arrived immigrant.
The slim volume, called Mi sueno de America/My American Dream, published by Houston-based Arte Publico, tells the story of the obstacles Yuliana had to clamber past in her first year in the United States and offers lessons for other young people who might feel like outsiders.
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11.17.07
Posted in News at 11:47 pm by Paloma Cruz
City builds on ties to Nuevo León
Houston mayor, business leaders visit Monterrey
– Houston Chronicle2
Houston and the Mexican border state of Nuevo León agreed to make formal and strengthen business ties under an agreement signed Friday by Houston Mayor Bill White and Nuevo León Gov. Natividad González Parás.
Houston and Nuevo León committed to designating representatives who will design programs to create opportunities in fields including energy, the environment, information technologies, logistics and culture, according to a draft of the agreement.
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11.13.07
Posted in News at 10:35 am by Paloma Cruz
Cisneros tells Latino group education is key
He advises Hispanics to expect big demographic shift
– Houston Chronicle2
Even during the darkest days in American history when brother fought
against brother in the Civil War, Congress passed legislation creating
land-grant universities to help teach the illiterate masses, Henry
Cisneros told the Hispanic Scholarship Consortium on Monday.
Education is more vital today, he said, as the demographic shift will
dramatically increase the number of minorities, many of whom drop out
of school or pass up college. Whether this country can compete in the
coming decades all boils down to education, Cisneros said.
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11.02.07
Posted in News at 8:45 am by Paloma Cruz
Latino students get scholarships
– Houston Chronicle2
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The 2007 HCF Denny’s Scholars, including Vanessa Arevalo and Elizabel
Cantu of Houston, Rachel Escobar of La Porte, and Krista Martinez of
Magnolia, were honored at HCF’s 14th Annual Scholarship Awards Gala:
Portraits of Success held in Washington, D.C.
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