First Half

The First Half was nothing unusual as both teams competed for possession of the ball and the game. There was a loss of patience among the members of the Puebla and Atlante Team as well as the general public who were looking for immediate results. The only exception to the rule was the first goal of the game on the basis of a penalty at forty five minutes and almost at the end of the game. The author of the goal was Olivera. The first half ended with Puebla leading Atlante one to zero.

Second Half

The Second Half was more exciting than the first half with Puebla enjoying a one point lead and possession of the ball and game with Atlante attempting to equalize without success. Puebla increased its lead from one to zero to two to zero with a second goal by Campora at sixty two minutes into the game. Atlante was starting to feel the pressure and decided to fight on instead of give in. When all seemed to be lost, Christian Bermudez surprised Atlante, Puebla, and the public at large by scoring the first goal of the game for Atlante within eighty minutes of the game. The first goal by Atlante was followed by a second goal by Giancarlo Maldonado at eighty three minutes [using the thoracic cavity or chest in order to score] which equalized the game. The equalizer left Puebla emotionally scarred as they were unable to recuperate and just played the last seven minutes to get the game over with. In the end, it turned out to be a draw.

Overall

Puebla and Atlante were able to play a game that thrilled, surprised, and entertained at the same time. Atlante deserves praise for overcoming all of the odds and being able to bring the game to a draw. Puebla on the other hand were overconfident and made many mistakes that were to help Atlante.

Players of the Game

Giancarlo Maldonado

Christian Bermudez

Puebla 2-2 Atlante

Primera Mitad

La Primera Mitad fue la misma rutina con los dos equipos midiendo las fuerzas. Ningun equipo lograron avanzar pues ambos bloquearon uno a los otros. Incluso, hubo un cansancio dentro del publico que queria resultados y de inmediato. La Primera Mitad termino como comenzo, sin goles y sin nada que valia la pena con la excepcion de un gol al final. El autor del gol era Olivera a base de una penalidad.

Segunda Mitad

La Segunda Mitad tenia mas brillo que la primera mitad con Puebla defendiendo su ventaja contra Atlante. Puebla gozaba con el dominio del juego y la pelota. Incluso, ese dominio fue reforzado por el gol de Campora a los 62 minutos dando una ventaja a Puebla. Atlante estaba luchando para recuperar de la derrota. Parece que Atlante estaba ahogando en la derrota. Despues, la suerte cambio para Atlante en los ultimos diez minutos del juego con un gol de Christian Bermudez a los 80 minutos seguido por un gol de Giancarlo Maldonado a los 83 minutos [utilizando la cavidad toracica: otra palabra para pecho]. Puebla quedo sorprendido y no lograron una recuperacion en el terreno.

Analisis

Puebla VS Atlante fue un juego entretenido con los ultimos diez minutos de la segunda mitad siendo fenomenal. Atlante merece un elogio con lograr imponerse con un empate a pesar de que Puebla le ganaba 2 a 0. Giancarlo Maldonado y Christian Bermudez merecen ser elogiado como los mejores en la contienda por sus maneras de golear con el fin de un empate.

Puebla 2-2 Atlante

Joe Garcia es un patriota que quiere una Cuba Libre, Democratica, y Soberana como lo queria nuestro Apostol Jose Marti. Joe Garcia tambien quiere dar libertad del uso del sentido comun y la razon a los que viven dentro de los EEUU [igual como en Cuba]. Estamos hablando de un astro de nuestra comunidad que es graduado de la Escuela de Belen, y de la Universidad de Miami Florida. Joe Garcia es patriota pues ayuda a la comunidad en sus trabajos en Regis House [para los jovenes en los barrios marginados de Miami Florida que sufren de los problemas de las drogas y alcohol.

Joe Garcia es patriota pues sus actividades en los grupos como la Liga Hispana Contra la Discriminacion y la Asociacion de Politicos Latinos Elegidos ayudaron a nosotros cuando los demas no querian ayudarnos. Joe Garcia es patriota debido a su ayuda a los demas, su amor a su familia, y su relacion con Dios. Para los que quieren lanzar falsas acusaciones, les dire lo mismo utilizando las palabras de Jesus Cristo: “El Que Este Sin Pecado, Que Lanza La Primera Piedra”.

While I do not know Joe Garcia personally, I have seen him in Versailles Restaurant [a Popular Cuban Restaurant] in Miami Florida talking about politics and other subjects. He would either be talking with those in the tables while waiting for their food. After seeing these reunions, I am reminded of the painting by Rembrandt: “The Syndics of the Cloth maker’s Guild” in which there is a dominance of intellectual discussion. I am also reminded of the discussions that Voltaire [French Writer of the eighteenth century] with the other intellectuals of the day. Yet his intellectual discourse is based on common sense. He is also one of the few Cuban Americans who took the road from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

Joe Garcia is a Cuban American Politician who was born in Miami Beach Florida on the twelfth of October 1963 and is currently the Director of the New Democratic Network Hispanic Strategy Center as well as Chairman of the Miami Dade County Democratic Party. He graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in 1982 and went to the University of Miami [Florida] where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science as well as served as Student Body President. He also studied law at the University of Miami where he received his degree.

Joe Garcia has served as a member and chairman of the Florida Public Utilities Commission as well as the Cuban American National Foundation [as Executive Director and member of the Board of Directors]. Joe Garcia has served as Chairman of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commission and Second Vice Chairman of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commission.

Joe Garcia presently belongs to the Spanish American League against Discrimination and was a member of the National Association of Latin Elected Officials. Joe Garcia has also been associated with Regis House which is a treatment centre for inner city youths in Miami Florida against drugs and alcohol.

Joe Garcia has the credentials to represent Florida’s District 25 because of these issues and since he has taught people to use common sense approaches to the problems that we as a people are facing. For those who want to accuse Joe Garcia of being a “turncoat”, it is surreal that those who accuse Joe Garcia of being a “turncoat” may have not known him as well. I was once under this impression but being a Cuban American born in Ohio and a Libertarian, I can understand Joe Garcia and how he is able to formulate common sense responses even within intellectual circles. I also consider Joe Garcia a patriot who wants freedom and democracy in Cuba but at the same time wants the community to be a better community [this is my impression at the present time even though I do not know him personally]. After all, Joe Garcia is a family man with a wife and daughter and who does not want the best for their family?

Global warming is now widely accepted as a fact within the scientific
community. What is not yet accepted is the extent to which the planet
will warm and the impact that it will have. What will Libertarians do
about this issue?

Ruwart: When our weather reporter's can't get tomorrow's temperature
right, it's difficult to believe that global warming can be
predicted, isn't it? (This sentence should be told lightly, as a
joke, to elicit agreement.)

As you mentioned, we really don't know what the effect of global
warming might be. High temperatures and CO2 stimulate crop and other
plant growth, so global wamring could actually be good for us. Any
action we take has to be based on the facts, and we just don't have
those yet.

In a libertarian society, if a chemical such as CFC caused a problem,
victims could sue the manufacturer for damages. The high cost of
restitution would be apssed on to CFC consumers, driving up the
price. People would turn to cheaper alternatives and CFC production
would be automatically curailed.

People could sue before actual harm was done, so long as they could
convince a judge or jury that CFCs actually posed a threat.

Phillies: Research on climate and climate change represents an
enormous effort by thousands of people. Vast computer facilities
exist primarily to study climate change. Billions of dollars are
spent to deploy specialized earth satellites and other scientific
instruments to study our atmosphere. Polar expeditions set forth, at
significant risk to the lives of participants, to examine arctic ice
conditions.

What about the question "When our weather reporter's can't get
tomorrow's temperature right, it's difficult to believe that global
warming can be predicted, isn't it?" For almost all academic
scientists, the reward of scientific research is almost entirely the
personal satisfaction of untangling a scientific puzzle. If there
were no hope of predicting climate accurately, wouldn't real
scientists have noticed, and transferred their work elsewhere?

The answer, of course, is that it is actually almost infinitely
easier to predict climate than it is to predict the weather. Why?
It's actually very simple. To predict climate, you only need to
predict odds accurately, and it's much easier to predict odds than to
predict results. If I roll a quality Las Vegas die, the odds are very
exactly one in six that I will roll a "two". If I roll that die 600
times, I will roll "two" a hundred or so times. If you try to predict
whether you will roll a "two" on your very next roll, well, that's a
lot harder, isn't it? For the same reason, predicting climate is a
lot easier than predicting weather.

In dealing with pollution, litigation can make sense if there is a
single source that does a lot of damage to specifically identifiable
people. If the local power company decides to save money on disposing
of clinker ash by dumping ten tons of it on my front lawn, the
responsible party is identifiable, the repair costs are identifiable,
and the responsible party's pockets are deep enough to support
litigation.

In the global warming case, the responsible parties are everyone
mining or using any fossil fuel or any process that vents methane
into the air, the persons damaged include almost everyone, and the
cost of assessing responsibility is astronomical. You have around the
world several billion damaged parties, each with different facts of
their cases requiring separate adjudication, against a similar number
of differenced defendants. That's trillions or potential lawsuits.
Where do you find the lawyers? Furthermore, for most of the injured
parties, money is not the issue. They don't want money, they want an
ozone layer. For this sort of diffuse case, the
litigation-restitution approach is completely unworkable.

How do we deal with global pollution? (page 30)

Ruwart: Thankfully, most pollution does more local than international
damage, thereby discouraging polluters. For example, governments try
to prevent Chernobyl-type accidents because their local population is
put at greater risk than the international community. The country that
polluted the oceans enough to cause global damage, for example, would
destroy its own fishing first. The country that polluted its own air
enough to disturb other nations would asphyxiate its own population
in the process. Thus, global pollution is a highly unlikely event.

Phillies: While our understanding of atmospheric chemistry and its
effects on meteorology has advanced considerably in the last decade,
it remains clear that individual countries have created and are
creating global atmospheric pollution.

A simple example of global atmospheric pollution is supplied by the
chlorofluorocarbons, substances that are nearly inert and harmless on
the ground. These safe, harmless materials were once manufactured all
around the world. When transported to the stratosphere and brought in
contact with stratospheric ice crystals, these substances had a
catastrophic effect on the ozone layer near the poles. The effect is
only now coming under control, as a result of rigorous planet-wide
treaty restrictions on CFC production.

Similarly, there is massive evidence that the current global changes
in climate are being driven in considerable part by man-made releases
of carbon dioxide and methane. The huge increases in energy
consumption in China, India, and Russia lead to matching increases in
production of carbon dioxide. Fortunately, there is appreciable
evidence that natural law will do what legislative law has not,
namely the supplies of oil and coal will be exhausted before
atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches levels vastly higher than those
now encountered.

In the atmosphere, levels of carbon dioxide and methane are
essentially never harmful to local populations. However, rising ocean
levels are causing property protection questions along the coast. An
increase of a foot or two in sea level is really bad if your home
started a foot or two above sea level.

I have invited Ms. Trudy Schuett; author of the book: "Friends To The End" which deals with Domestic Violence in its parameters. For me, it is a pleasure to invite her to share her experience and her book with the general public.

1. What is Domestic Violence Against Husbands?

It's really more accurate to use the term, Intimate Partner Abuse. It's when one partner in a relationship abuses the other. Sometimes violence occurs, sometimes not. No one is really sure of the reasons for it, but what we do know is that it is not a gender issue, as it is often perceived. Both sexes are affected about equally.

2. Why has the issue of Domestic Violence Against Husbands not been addressed?

Today's political climate is about blaming men for all kinds of things, and IPA is one of them. In the late 1960s and early '70s, when the issue of spousal abuse first came to be an openly-discussed issue, the first programs were for battered women who in those days, had little or no recourse in an abuse situation. Unfortunately, the feminists took it on as "their" issue, and simply ignored the needs of male victims. Over time, they found it expedient to emphasize what they felt were the political aspects of the issue, because it had become a lucrative prospect for many.

Much of what has become "conventional wisdom" regarding IPA is simply not true, but was created through advocacy research, designed to prove the feminist's point about "male oppression". So today, we have 30+ years of misinformation to combat. Things are changing, though, because people are realizing it is not the simplistic problem the feminists claimed it was, and very few, including women, are actually being helped with existing programs based on feminist philosophy.

3. What can an abused Husband do in front of a wife who accuses him of having an affair, or being called names that the abused husband is not?

A lot depends on whether this is a one-time instance, or if it's something that happens all the time. The Domestic Abuse Helpline has an excellent section that outlines what abuse is, and what someone can do about it. They also have a phone number for people to call if they need help.

In the UK, AMEN does much the same.

4. What inspired you to write the book "Friends to the End"?

That was almost accidental. A friend had encouraged me to write, since she'd been disappointed by the quality of the books she was finding in bookstores. So I wrote another book, Sweethearts & Monsters, (which was about something else entirely ;>) first. I'd enjoyed that so much I decided to write one more. At first it was just a theme I hadn't ever seen much written about, and then later I realized what a hot-button political issue domestic violence had become. But I'd known men over the years who'd been abused; one guy we knew actually had to leave home just to save his life. I could've just written something else, but I didn't. I figure somebody needs to speak out about it.

5. What are the signs and symptoms of a Victim of Domestic Abuse with the Husband being on the receiving end?

That can vary so much, I can't really deal with it in a couple of paragraphs. Every situation is different. I think the big question is, "How do you feel about the way you're being treated at home?" If home isn't a comfortable place to be, and you've been hurt, or think that's going to happen soon, then it's a good idea to check with DAHMW or AMEN. There's nothing wrong with asking the question, and all contact with DAHMW is confidential. I'm sure AMEN also provides the same confidentiality.

6. Why is Domestic Violence against Husbands underreported?

Well, there's that 30 years of misinformation I mentioned earlier, but there's more to it, as well. Often male victims themselves don't want to ask for help, for fear of seeming weak or unable to "control" their wives. Sometimes men who go to the police or other authorities for help can find themselves arrested, and so they don't want to risk that, especially if there are children in the home who need protection from a violent woman. Then there are those who think there just isn't anything they can do, and so they try to make the best of things on their own.

7. What is "Friends to the End" about?

Taken to its simplest elements, it's about a good man who marries the wrong woman for the wrong reasons, and finds himself in trouble. He has a friend close by who is willing to help him out, hence the title. Of course it's more complicated than that, and I hope people will read it and find out.

8. What can people learn from "Friends to the End"?

If nothing else, I hope people will come away from it knowing that even strong, intelligent men can find themselves in a bad situation, and that they deserve whatever help they can get. The law in all of the English-speaking countries now keeps men from defending themselves against violent wives and girlfriends, and the idea that a man can or should "control" his woman makes no sense whatsoever anymore.

9. What are the amount of abused husbands who actually take their own life [compared with the abused wives who take their own lives]?

That's a difficult question, and I don't know the answer. This is a quite new subject of research, and I don't know of any research that has been done in that area. I do know that the rate of men committing suicide is much higher than that of women, but their reasons for doing so are not all related to IPA.

10. What can be done to control Domestic Violence against both sexes?

That's also a difficult question, but in this case we know what doesn't work. Making laws about it doesn't work, because we know the laws already in place, such as the Violence Against Women Act, have created a whole new group of unintended consequences that for many, have just made matters worse. We've begun to see a decline in the number of women who are willing to call police for help, as they know it will more than likely result in an arrest, and more problems for a family that already has enough trouble.

Divorcing and moving away from an abuser doesn't guarantee the victim will not find themselves in another abusive relationship, either.

There needs to be a way for victims of both sexes to get help from the private sector, of a kind that doesn't cause more problems. Victims need to be able to get counseling to understand what happened, and what they can do to avoid that kind of situation in the future. There are a lot of complex reasons why abuse occurs, and that variety of causes needs to be addressed.

I'm not sure that we can "end" domestic violence, as the old programs claim, as it is a problem of human nature, and sometimes people don't treat others the way they should. What we can do is change the way we react to it; by giving victims the dignity of being able to choose their own solutions and helping them find their way to an abuse-free life.

Trudy W. Schuett
my Website

I would like to thank you Ms. Schuett for taking the time to answer questions designed to enlighten the general public about Intimate Partner Abuse. The book "Friends To The End" by Trudy Schuett is available at Lulu Publishing Company at http://lulu.com