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Merrill Lynch arteamericas, the art fair devoted exclusively to art from Latin America, returns to Miami for its third year, from April 7 through April 11, 2005, at the Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Fla.

Adults over 65 are more than twice as likely to die in a fire, making fire prevention and education essential to their safety. But the lack of fire safety materials in Spanish leaves Hispanic seniors especially vulnerable.

HispanicAd.com along with the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies have added one more award to be given at the 18th Association of Hispanic Agencies Semi Annual Conference April 13-15 – San Antonio, Texas.

This year we are adding ‘El Gran Plan’ HispanicAd.com Media Planning award. This award will be given to one of the nine (9) finalists in the Hispanic Media Planning competition for the best of show.

The HispanicAd.com family wishes you and your family a safe and happy Easter weekend.

AOL Latino and Berlitz Languages, Inc., announced that they have joined forces to offer multiple ways for AOL members to learn English at no extra charge. While Spanish dominant and Spanish preferred bilingual Hispanics equal more than 65% of the 40 million Hispanics in the U.S., this special offer provides this growing segment a cost effective and easy way to learn English. And, according to a recent poll on the AOL Latino service, 78% of respondents are interested in taking online English lessons.

Consider what you look forward to at the end of the day. Getting home? Relaxing? Playing in the back yard with the kids? Not answering to anyone? Feeling safe in your environment? Feeling like your provided this safety to your family?

Renowned landscape photographer and environmentalist Clyde Butcher will unveil photographs taken during three expeditions to the mountains of Cuba. The photographs will be shown at his Venice gallery from March 12 through April 30.

In efforts to decrease the underrepresentation of Hispanics in community colleges and universities in California, Latino Education leaders will urge the State Legislature for changes in the Master Plan for Education and a chance for undocumented students to receive government grants to attend institutions of higher education.

This study, conducted in partnership with the Lear Center Local News Archive (University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication), provides important baseline data on how U.S. politics is covered by the Spanish-language broadcast media.