Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2017 (29. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2017-02-24 / 8. szám

AMERICAN ln(jlish Pane Hungarian Journal Survey: One third of Hungarian youth want to move abroad Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog has concluded that the Hungarian youth are “hopeful, optimistic and bold,” that they consider Hungary a good place where it is easy to find work, and that they are generally enthusiastic about having and raising children. The minister’s optimism comes from his assessment of a study of the youth conducted by Kutatópont on behalf of the Hungarian government, but doesn’t completely match the picture suggested by the data. The study, “Hungarian Youth 2016”, which is conducted every four years, shows that one-third of those aged 15 to 29 years would like to leave the country to study or work abroad. Among these, 83 percent consider going abroad for a period of years, and of them, 45 percent would like to stay abroad to live permanently. Among those who desire to move abroad, 69 percent would do so in search of a better living than they are able to achieve in Hungary, 35 percent of whom would leave to improve their financial situation, while 12 per­cent would leave because of political circumstances in the country. Unemployment among Hungarian youth has gone down a couple of percentage points since the last such study was conducted in 2012, and inability to find a job sank from the second most serious problem for young people in 2008 to only the sixth most serious problem in 2016. However, according to Kutatópont director Levente Székely, finan­cial difficulties, poverty and economic insecurity cause problems for more than half of Hungarian young people, regardless of how confident they are in being able to find work. In fact, fear of becoming impover­ished while working was the greatest worry faced by young people in 2016, who fear they won’t be able to get by on the wages they receive. 27 percent of survey respondents said they believed the economic situa­tion in Hungary has improved in recent years, while 29 percent thought it had deteriorated. Most of those who believed it has improved were from Budapest and had completed higher education. While many youth felt they would make a better living abroad, the study shows that they would be satisfied with relatively modest wages at home: 22 percent reported they would get by with a net monthly salary of under HUF 150,000 (USD 516), and more than half said they could subsist on less than HUF 200,000 (USD 688) per month. Balog’s assertion that the youth are enthusiastic about child rearing is based on the average number of desired children reported by respon­dents: Hungarian youth want an average of 1.7 children, the highest number in 20 years. However, Székely says that willingness to have children is most heavily influenced by financial security, and suggests that the prevalence of insecurity among youth might lead to a lower birth rate than suggested by the data. Additionally, young people are becoming less interested in marriage in spite of government campaigns promoting it. In 2000, 22 percent of 15- to 29-year-olds were married, a number which dropped by more than half to only 10 percent in 2016. Ratios of people in a relationship to those who are single did not change during that period, suggesting that marriage has indeed become less popular among young people. The proportion of young people attending school has also been in steady decline, down from 46 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2012 to the present level of only 40 percent. While the decline could indicate that more youth are opting to work instead of engage in higher edu­cation, numbers show that those finishing vocational courses (which would prepare them to work in trades) increased to 19 percent, up only 2 percent from 2012, and that only 12 percent of Hungarian youth had completed a higher education program. Finally, the survey shows that most Hungarian youth describe themselves, somewhat paradoxically, as moderate, liberal and right­­wing. They are increasingly dedicated to democracy, with 55 percent responding that democracy is the best existing political system com­pared to only 40 percent in 2008. budapestbeacon.com DUNA Travel 8530 Holloway Dr. #102 W. Hollywood, CA 90069 Spa, Hotel foglalások Kocsi bérlés Kedvezményes repülőjegy árak HAJÓUTAK BÁRHOVÁ A VILÁGON Hívják ZSUZSÁT TEL: (310) 652-5294 FAX: (310) 693-5320 ^ 1-888-532-0168 dunatravel@earthlink.net ^ Ajándékozza meg ismerősét és mi megajándékozzuk Önt! Ha ismerőse még nem volt előfizetője a Hírlapnak, fizessen elő számára, és az új megrendelés időtartamának felét Ön megkapja ajándékba. A részletekért hívja a szerkesztőséget. Február 24, 2017 ÍD Big Nose Kate, the Hungarian wife of Old West Gunfighter Doc Holliday Mary Katherine Harony, commonly known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born prostitute and lover of the notorious gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday. She was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 7 November 1850, to Dr. Michael Harony and his second wife, Katha­rina Baldizar Harony. Her father was a wealthy physician and was appointed as the personal surgeon of French-controlled Mexico’s Emperor Maximillian. The Harony family settled in Mexico, but when France withdrew its forces back to Europe and Maximillian’s rule crumbled, they fled Mexico and moved to Davenport, Iowa. She was fourteen years old when her parents died within months of each other, so Kate and her five siblings were placed in foster homes. Kate was put in the care of a man named Otto Smith, who report­edly tried to rape her. She decided that the best thing to do was run away, so she stowed away on a steamship headed for St. Louis, Mis­souri. Once there, under the name of Kate Fisher, she enrolled in a convent school and graduated in 1869. She claimed that she later mar­ried a dentist named Silas Melvin and that they had a child, but both husband and baby died of a fever in the same year. Calling herself Kate Elder she went to Wichita, Kansas, where she worked as a prostitute in a sporting house for Nellie Bessie Earp, Wyatt Earp’s sister-in-law. She was also known as Big Nose Kate, Nosey Kate, Mrs. John H. “Doc” Holliday, Kate Melvin, and Kate Cummings. It is said that while she was in Kansas she had a rela­tionship with Wyatt Earp, but she claimed that she met Wyatt several years later in Fort Griffin, Texas. There she also met gunslinger Doc Holliday, who would become the love of her life. She traveled with Holiday to Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota and New Mexico, often still working as a prostitute. She claimed that they were married at Holliday’s home in Georgia, but it is believed that the marriage was a common-law one. There are many fascinating stories about Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday. In one of those stories, Big Nose Kate set fire to a hotel just to get Doc out of trouble. While Doc Holliday was dealing cards in Fort Griffin, he got into a fight with a man named Ed Bailey. Report­edly Bailey tried to shoot Holliday, but Doc stabbed him with a knife and killed him. He was arrested and imprisoned in a nearby hotel since there was no jail in the town. Big Nose Kate came up with a perfect plan to help him escape. Report­edly she set fire to an old shed and while people were trying to prevent the fire from engulfing the entire town she entered the hotel, disarmed the officer who was guarding her lover and the two escaped. Big Nose Kate’s Saloon in Tombstone. It was originally called the “Grand Hotel” and was built in 1880 The escapees stole two horses and headed to Dodge City, Kansas, registering themselves at Deacon Cox’s Boarding House as Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Holliday. The couple separated as a result of one of their many arguments and Doc went to off to Colorado, leaving Kate in Dodge City. He couldn’t stay out of trouble in Colorado and after he killed a local gunman named Mike Gordan he returned to Dodge City, but Kate had already left. They ran into each other in Prescott, and in 1880 they went together to Tombstone. They split up again and Kate moved to Globe, Arizona, where she ran a boarding house. Doc managed to convince Kate to move to Tombstone, but in the fall of 1881, after the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the couple split up again since he was worried for her safety and asked her to return to Globe. Doc died in 1887 and the next year, Kate married a blacksmith and moved to Bisbee, Arizona. However a year later she left her husband and went to Cochise, Arizona, where she worked in a hotel. In 1900 she moved in with a man named Howard, who she lived with until his death in 1930. She spent her last years in the Arizona Pioneers Home, in Prescott. She died on November 2, 1940. thevintagenews.com Jégvitorlázó Európa-bajnokságot tartottak Balatonfüreden. A jégvi­torlázók Európa-bajnoki futamai Balatonfüreden február 20-án, hétfő délelőtt 10-kor indultak, és február 24-én, péntek délután fejeződnek be. A versenyen 16 nemzet több mint 100 versenyzője vesz részt. A helyszínről a döntést pénteken hozta meg a nemzetközi versenyrendező hizottság, miután Európa szóba jöhető tavait végigjárva a Balaton több mint 20 cm-es jegét ítélték idén a legalkalmasabbnak. * * * Magyarok a világ legjobb kajakosnői! Csay Renáta az Év női sportolójának járó díjat, Kozák Danuta pedig a legjobb olimpiai női kajakosnak járó elismerést kapta a World Paddle Awards-on. Csay Renáta szeptemberben a brandenburgi világbajnokságon egyesben és párosban is nyert, így 18 vb-aranyával minden idők legsikere­sebb sportolójává vált a szakágban. Kozák Danuta, aki Rióban három aranyérmet szerzett, a 2016-os év legjobb olimpiai teljesítményért járó díjat kapta - a gyermekáldás előtt álló kajakos nem volt ott az eseményen. A World Paddle Awards-on az evezős sportágak legjobbjait díjazzák. * * * Úgy néz ki, lassan véget ér a 107 éve alapított tatabányai futballklub létezése. A csapatnak vasárnap kettőkor kellett volna a Gyirmót második csapatával bajnoki mécs­esét játszania, de a vendégeken és a játékvezetőkön kívül más nem jelent meg. Ami a legfontosabb lett volna, a hazai csapat, de az MLSZ hivatalos jegyzőkönyve szerint csak a kapus Rigó János került be a jegyzőkönyvbe. Egy hosszú, nagyon rossz törté­net végére érünk lassan. A kétszeres Közép-Európa Kupa-győztes, három­szor Magyar Kupa-döntős csapat a végnapjait éli. Odáig jutottak, hogy a fizetések hiánya miatt az MLSZ már korábban is büntette a csapatot. A játékosok pedig a kilátástalan helyzet miatt szétszéledtek. Egy olyan klub tűnhet el a süllyesztőben, amelynek olimpiai bajnokai voltak (Csernai Tibor, Géléi József, Menczel Iván, Szepesi Gusztáv). Az NB I.-ben is megcsodált csatársora volt: Kip­­rich József, Plotár Gyula és Vincze István, éS^édzőként olyan nagyságok dolgoztak ott, mint Lakat Károly, Grosics Gyula, Hidegkúti Nándor, vagy éppen a korábbi ferencvárosi legenda, Dalnoki Jenő. * * * A Ferencváros az elődöntő visszavágóján szenzációs záróne­gyedbeli, illetve kapusa, Vogel Soma nagyszerű teljesítményének köszönhetően 6-4-re legyőzte a mon­tenegrói Jadran Carine együttesét, ezzel 17-16-os összesítéssel bejutott a férfi vízilabda Eurokupa fináléjába. Az FTC húsz év elteltével játsz­hat ismét európai kupadöntőt. * * * Idén Keleti Ágnes ötszörös olim­piai bajnok tornásznak, a Nemzet Sportolójának ítélték oda Izrael legrangosabb kitüntetését, az Izrael­­díjat a sport kategóriában. Naftali Bennet oktatási miniszter jelentette be a döntést és méltatta Keleti Ágnes kiemelkedő teljesít­ményét. Az elismerést odaítélő bizottság emlékeztetett rá, hogy a 96 éves Keleti Ágnes összesen tíz olimpiai érmet szerzett 1952- ben Helsinkiben és 1956-ban Melobume-ben. “A Magyarországon született Keleti Ágnes holokauszttúlélő, aki 1957-ben a Makkabi-játékok után telepedett le Izraelben. Különleges képességű, úttörő és példaértékű személyiség volt izraeli és külföldi tanítványai számára. Történelmet írt, és közöttünk van. A világ sportszerető közönsége generációk óta nagyra tartja, és a történelem egyik legjelentősebb tornászának tekinti. Keleti Ágnes az izraeli torna­sport egyik megteremtője, aki több mint ötven éven át irányította ezt a sportágat - áll az Izrael-díjról döntő bizottság indoklásában. AMERIKAI iffagyar Hírlap

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