In many areas of knowledge often look so second opinion on an issue. Bulgarian community in Chicago, which is a popular data over 100 000 people have qualified specialists from all areas of business – just to be discovered.
In times of economic crisis, every cent is precious and important to the family budget. Sometimes we encounter situations that are unknown to us and we can not take a rational decision. There is a practical rule that „every problem in the world work at least three people, one of which is …

I have huge appetites, for life and love and all the blessings the world can bestow-says the author of “The Hours”

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days and By Nightfall. He lives in New York.

By Janie Lorber
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 9, 2012, 6:17 p.m.
Campaign finance reform advocates breathed a sign of relief today as the Supreme Court closed the door on foreign nationals hoping to influence American elections through contributions.
But for Occupy Wall Street protesters, the ruling was not enough.
“Restricting foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns but not restricting multinational corporations that do not necessarily have Americans’ best interests at heart is kind of hypocritical and contradictory,” said Han Shan, a spokesman for the Occupy Wall Street group that was based in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. …

On June 4, Bulgarian archeologists discovered what may have been the oldest settlement in Europe near the village of Yunatsite in the southern Pazardzhik Region. According to Yavor Boyadzhiev, Head of the joined Bulgarian-Greek expedition, the find related to a civilization that existed 6 800 years ago on Bulgarian land, much older than the Mycenaean one.

In September, massive ancient stone anchors were found by divers participating in an archaeological expedition near the southern Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol. The anchors’ shape suggests they were used by Creto-Mycanaean, Phoenician or Carian sailors in the 15th-12th centuries BC, which would refute the hypothesis that Greeks were the first Black Sea sailors starting the 12th century BC.

Charitable giving is an American tradition. Surveys consistently find that between 65 and 85 percent of U.S. families make charitable donations each year, and we give away more than twice as much per capita as the citizens of even the most generous European nations.

Something to think about…

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

Bulgaria’s presidential and municipal elections in October were generally characterized by a respect for fundamental rights and freedoms, but pervasive allegations of vote-buying underscored the need for continued reform, the final report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 5 January 2012 concludes.

WASHINGTON – The U.S Department of Commerce today delivered to Congress a comprehensive report on “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States.” The report serves as a call to arms, highlighting bipartisan priorities to sustain and promote American innovation and economic competitiveness.
The report makes three important findings:

Did you know that the Art Institute of Chicago offers Free Winter Weekdays? Daily admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is free to Illinois residents each and every weekday from January 2 through February 10, 2012.  Come on the new free days at the Art Institute of Chicago and walk through and explore the new Modern Wing.
There is so much to see!   With a collection of more than 260,000 art works and artifacts, the museum has particularly strong collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, early 20th century European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, Japanese prints, and photography.  Included in the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection are more than …

Census Bureau Projects: U.S. Population of 312.8 Million on New Year’s Day 
 
As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2012, total United States population will be 312,780,968. This would represent an increase of 2,250,129, or 0.7 percent, from New Year’s Day 2011, and an increase of 4,035,430, or 1.3 percent, since Census Day (April 1, 2010).               
In January 2012, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United States and one death every 12 seconds.
Meanwhile, net international …