quinta-feira, 19 de maio de 2011
terça-feira, 17 de maio de 2011
Marriage and Weddings - American Culture
Family Tradition
The United States is "a melting pot" of cultures each with their own unique Marriage Customs and Traditions. There has been a set of Customs and Traditions generally accepted as common to Marriage in The United States unless the marriage is a Common Law Marriage.
Dating is the accepted pre-engagement practice between couples. Families generally establish requirements for the details of acceptable activities, time of day, single or group dating etc. The age, personality and maturity of dating children generally drive the conditions set by parents if the children are still at home.
Love between the couples is believed to be a prerequisite to marriage.
Proposal of marriage by the man and acceptance by the woman results in an Engagement. Couples enter into marriage with the belief that the relationship is permanent. The engagement is marked by the gift of an Engagement Ring from the man proposing to the woman accepting.
A Marriage License is required by all States including a Blood Test and a prescribed waiting period.
A Wedding Rehearsal Dinner is usually celebrated between the immediate families of spouses in the late afternoon the day before the wedding. The Groom's Family traditionally provides for this celebration.
A Bachelor Party is held for the Groom and usually sponsored by The Best Man the night before the Wedding.
A Bridal Shower is usually sponsored by The Bride's Maid. It has become very popular now for The Bride's Maid to also sponsor a Bachelorette Party for the Bride.
The Wedding Ceremony is most often performed as part of a religious ceremony each with its own specific customs and traditions. On the day of the wedding the Groom does not see the Bride until the actual ceremony. As Custom would have it from Victorian Times: the Bride wears Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and a Sixpence in her shoe.
Rings are exchanged to mark the permanent commitment of the new spouses to each other.
A Wedding Reception is usually held after the ceremony for all family and friends to celebrate. The Bride's Family usually provides for this celebration.
A Honeymoon is taken by the Bride and Groom to a secret place where they go off for their first night together in Marriage. It is thought that the Honeymoon Custom was established to avoid the European Custom Charivari where family and friends banged on pots and pans outside the couple's bedroom their first night of marriage.
VAMOS TREINAR O ALFABETO?
PEGUE LOGO SUA LISTA DO ALFABETO EM INGLÊS E COMECE A TREINAR PARA O SUPER, ULTRA, MEGA... " YES! SPELLING BEE ".
VAI SER SHOW!
quinta-feira, 12 de maio de 2011
Final Productions - 2011/1
FINAL PRODUCTIONS CALENDAR-2011/01
MON/WED
JULY 11
(WRITTEN PRODUCTION)
JULY 13
(ORAL PRODUCTION)
TUE/THU
JULY 12
(WRITTEN PRODUCTION)
JULY 14
(ORAL PRODUCTION)
FRIDAY
JULY 15
(WRITTEN AND ORAL PRODUCTIONS)
SATURDAY
JULY 16
(WRITTEN AND ORAL PRODUCTIONS)
quarta-feira, 11 de maio de 2011
Los duques de Cambridge inician su luna de miel en las islas Seychelles
Desde el Palacio de Saint James han confirmado que Guillermo y Catherine “se han ido” pero no han querido precisar el destino exacto de su viaje
Las últimas compras de Catherine Middleton como soltera revelaban que el destino de su luna de miel iba a ser un lugar caluroso y con playa
Hoy, diez días después de su boda, Guillermo y Catherine han iniciado su luna de miel en las islasSeychelles, según publican varios medios británicos como The Telegraph y Daily Mail. El palacio de Saint James ha confirmado la noticia pero no ha ofrecido más datos al respecto: “Lo único que vamos a confirmar es que los duques de Cambridge se han ido. Han pedido que se respete su privacidad durante su luna de miel” y ha añadido que el príncipe Guillermo se ha tomado dos semanas de permiso en la RAF.
Al parecer, los recién casados llegaron a este paraíso natural, compuesto por más de 115 islas ubicadas en el océano Índico, al noreste de Madagascar, esta mañana. A bordo de un avión privado, aterrizaron en una de las islas más bonitas y románticas de las Seychelles donde tienen previsto permanecer diez días. Hay que recordar, que Guillermo y Catherine ya disfrutaron allí de unas románticas vacaciones tras su ruptura en el año 2007. Entonces, alquilaron la remota isla Desroches, un paraíso ubicado a 230 kilómetros al suroeste de Mahé, la principal isla de Seychelles. Hace tres años, el alquiler del lujoso complejo costaba a la semana más de siete mil euros. Sí en esta ocasión han vuelto a repetir destino, los duques de Cambridge gozarán durante su estancia de un clima cálido (24º C- 32º C), playas de arena blanca, aguas transparentes perfectas para bucear y un lujoso aislamiento.
Esta noticia viene a confirmar lo que días antes de la boda real publicó la revista ¡HOLA! Las últimas compras de Catherine Middleton como soltera revelaban que el destino de su luna de miel iba a ser un lugar caluroso y con playa. Durante su paseo por la conocida calle King´s Road de la capital inglesa adquirió, además de dos pantalones, una camiseta de color amarillo y una blusa en la tienda de la marca Whistles, unas gafas de sol de la conocida firma Marc Jacobs ycuatro biquinis en la tienda Goldenpoint.
Cuando finalice su luna de miel, los duques de Cambridge emprenderán un tour por Canadá en julio y visitarán California el 8 y el 10 del mismo mes. Y, aunque no ha sido confirmado por ningún portavoz del Palacio de Saint James, el príncipe Guillermo y Catherine tendrán que separarse en septiembre ya que el futuro soberano de los ingleses ha sido destinado a las islas Malvinas para trabajar en la unidad de búsqueda y rescate de la Real Fuerza Aérea (RAF) durante cuatro meses.
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Founding
The first Starbucks was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker. The three were inspired by entrepreneur Alfred Peet (whom they knew personally) to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment. The name is taken from Moby-Dick; after Pequod was rejected by one of the co-founders, the company was named for the first mate on thePequod, Starbuck.
From 1971–1975, the first Starbucks was at 2000 Western Avenue; it then was relocated to 1912 Pike Place, where it remains to this day. During their first year of operation, they purchased green coffee beans from Peet's, then began buying directly from growers.
REUNIÃO COM A COORDENADORA PEDAGÓGICA
ESTAMOS ENVIANDO CIRCULARES SOBRE A REUNIÃO PARA RESPONSÁVEIS E / OU ALUNOS(AS).
DIA 17 E 20 DE MAIO !!!
CASO NÃO POSSA COMPARECER, AGENDE UM HORÁRIO COM A COORDENADORA.
CONTEM SEMPRE CONOSCO!
sábado, 19 de março de 2011
Air France, Airbus in manslaughter probe
Updated
Air France has joined Airbus in being probed for alleged manslaughter in connection with the 2009 crash of a Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight with the loss of 228 lives.
Investigating magistrate Sylvie Zimmerman placed Air France boss Pierre-Henri Gourjon under judicial investigation for alleged manslaughter in the crash the day after doing the same to Airbus, Air France lawyers said on Friday.The crash has been partly blamed on malfunctioning speed sensors used by Airbus, with Air France accused of not responding quickly enough to reports that they might be faulty.
The announcement came ahead of the resumption of a search for the plane's wreckage in the Atlantic using a German mini-submarine.
So far only 3 per cent of the plane and around 50 bodies have been found from the wreckage.
Airbus has said it is mystified by the move, while victims' associations have welcomed it.
"We are very satisfied with this decision because Airbus will be more careful with this aircraft," Nelson Marinho, the head of an association representing families of the victims, said in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
"We also know that the maintenance of the planes was defective," he said.
No charges have yet been brought in the case, which had been suspended until the plane's black box flight recorders was found.
A third search of the ocean floor to try to locate the black boxes ended in failure last May.
Despite disagreeing with the probe, Airbus has said it will cooperate pending retrieval of the doomed flight's black boxes.
Flight 447 from Rio to Paris went down roughly midway between Brazil and Senegal on June 1, 2009, in the deadliest crash in Air France's history.
The crash claimed the lives of all 228 people on board, of more than 30 nationalities. Most of those killed were French, Brazilian and German.
Air France in December was ordered to pay $727,000 to relatives of a Brazilian family that died in the accident.
The airline, through its insurers, had made compensation payments to the relatives of the passengers and crew, but continues to defend itself from litigation in Brazil.
Moonageddon: Apocalypse not - By Carl Holm for ABC Science Online
Updated
A full moon sets over the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO: G. Gillet)
Romantics, werewolves and other moon-gazers are in for a treat this weekend as they witness the biggest full moon seen in nearly 20 years.
But experts are discounting predictions of earthquakes associated with the event.The moon's orbit is elliptical, and as it follows its path one side of the ellipse, known as perigee, passes about 50,000 kilometres closer than the on the other side - apogee.
A perigee full moon appears around 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than an apogee full moon.
Geoffrey Wyatt from the Sydney Observatory says the upcoming full moon - which NASA's website says will be of "rare size and beauty" - will rise about 08.00 pm (AEDT) on Saturday.
But it becomes full on Sunday morning at 05.10 am (AEDT), one hour before lunar perigee.
"So, Sunday morning, those people who are up early or getting home super late, look to the west and you'll see the biggest moon for 18 years," Mr Wyatt said.
The last time the full moon was so big and close to Earth was in March 1993.
"You've got two cycles here. You've got 29-and-a-half days between full moons and then you've got 27 and a half days from apogee to apogee," Mr Wyatt said.
"That difference builds up and although you get a perigee every month, to get it at minimum distance takes about 18 years."
Perigee full moons also usually bring extra-high tides, but Daniel Jaksa, co-director of the joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre, says they will probably be a fraction of one per cent higher than normal.
Earthquake predictions
Meanwhile an Auckland-based mathematician known as the "Moonman", Ken Ring, has warned the perigee moon will cause another major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.Mr Ring claims he predicted Christchurch's deadly February 22 quake by studying the moon.
But Mr Wyatt says he would like to see some scientific proof to back the Mr Ring's claims.
"For a few weeks now we've been hearing people talk about 'Moonageddon'," he said.
"It's depressing to hear people saying this sort of thing. There is absolutely no evidence for a causal link between the phases of the moon and earthquake activity.
"It's something you might find in 'Tom's Backyard Mechanic's Book of Celestial Tomfoolery', but you're not going to find that in peer-reviewed journals."
Mr Jaksa agrees.
"You only have to look at the major energy source that's driving the tectonic process and it's not the moon," he said.
"It's the convection currents in the mantle as the Earth tries to cool down from its core outwards that drives plate tectonics."
Mr Wyatt says the claims are a symptom of the human condition.
"People blame things on the alignment of the planets because they want an explanation, but it's not the moon's fault," he said.
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