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CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA

In Australia, Christmas comes in the middle of the summer holidays! Children have their summer holidays from early to mid December to early February, so some people might even be camping at Christmas!
Australians hang wreaths on their front doors and sometimes go out Christmas carol singing on Christmas eve. People also decorate their houses and gardens with Christmas Trees and Christmas lights. Neighbours sometimes have little competitions as to who has got the best light display. The Neighbours often visit each other to look at the light displays at night. Sometimes the displays are put out as early as December 1st!
In each State capital city there is a large Carols by Candlelight service. Famous Australian singers like The Wiggles, John Farnham, Anthony Warlow, Colin Gery, Niki Webster and many more help to sing the carols. One of the biggest celebrations is held outside in a big dome. The audience stands outside, each person holds a candle. Each year about 100,000 or more people attend the service. This event is broadcast on TV across Australia. There are also huge Christmas pageants in each state capital city, that are also broadcast across the country. Most towns and cities have festivals and parades. In some places, at the local park there is a fireworks display.
Many towns, cities and schools also hold there own Carols by Candlelght services, with local bands and choirs sometimes helping to perform the Christmas Carols and songs. As it is the middle of Summer in Australia at Christmas time, the words to the Carols about snow and the cold winter are sometimes changed to special Australian words! There are also some original Australian Carols.
Father Christmas comes in a sleigh with his reindeers, and enters houses down chimneys to fills the stocking with presents. Children send letters to Father Christmas asking what they would like for Christmas. They also leave out food and a drink for Father Christmas and carrots and water for his reindeers.
On Boxing Day a famous Yacht race is held. The boats race from Sydney to Hobart in Tasmania.
The Flying Doctor Service has to work all though-out Christmas and on Christmas Day all the people in the outback send Christmas greetings to each other over the radio network.
Most families try to be home together for Christmas and the main meal is eaten at lunch time. A lot of families have a traditional 'English' dinner of roast turkey, chicken or pork. Although some might have a cold turkey and salad picnic at the beach or even a barbecue! Over the last few years, more people are having a seafood smorgasbord for their Christmas Dinner. On Christmas Eve, fishmarkets are often full of people cueing to buy their fresh seafood for the big day.
Australians often have Christmas Crackers at Christmas meal times.
Thanks Ann one our guess from australia that helped me to writte this text
Is good to think what we gonna do in those nexts coming weeks, let Party!!!, Be happy God send Jesus to bring us a present in this december 25 we all in this hostel gonna celebrate in brotherly unity. Merry christmas all!
Juanito

Rock and roll benefit concert

George Harrison plays guitar at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh benefiting UNICEF’s programmes.
By Blue Chevigny

NEW YORK, USA, 7 December 2006 – UNICEF has started many trends over the years. One of the most influential – the rock-and-roll benefit concert – began in 1971, when George Harrison and Ravi Shankar teamed up with UNICEF to raise money for children and families fleeing the war in what was then East Pakistan.

The two musicians put on the Concert for Bangladesh, starring themselves and an all-star band at Madison Square Garden in New York.

“The concert was really historical. The New York Times called it historical, musically,” recalled UNICEF’s Head of Communications at the time of the concert, George Ling. With the likes of Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton onstage, one can see what the Times meant. But the concert also made history by raising an unprecedented $10 million – making it the single largest such benefit ever held.


Concert for Bangladesh organizers George Harrison and Ravi Shankar at a news conference.
Music for UNICEF
In 1979 this model was replicated, but with a twist. To kick off the United Nations Year of the Child, the Music for UNICEF Concert was held in the UN General Assembly Hall itself.

Music for UNICEF starred the Bee Gees, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth Wind and Fire, among others. These artists, too, made history when they pledged to donate to UNICEF all the future royalties from the songs they performed that night.

Also in 1979, another former Beatle, Paul McCartney, and UNICEF organized a series of performances known as the Concert for Kampuchea (Cambodia) during the Christmas holidays in London.

Over the course of four nights, Mr. McCartney performed to sold-out houses with Queen, Elvis Costello, the Pretenders and the Clash, to name just a few. The shows had a decidedly British flavour and proved to be the biggest charitable benefit ever held in the UK.


Cover of the 1979 album from the Music for UNICEF Concert.
The legacy continues

The UNICEF concerts of the 1970s paved the way for a string of 1980s fundraisers such as Live-Aid, Band-Aid and USA for Africa. But it was UNICEF, beginning with Mr. Harrison and Mr. Shankar, that birthed the concept of fundraising through rock-and-roll super-concerts for humanitarian causes.

While it has been a while since UNICEF has hosted one of these concerts, their legacy in raising funds and awareness is far from forgotten.

Early in 2006, Madison Square Garden inducted the Concert for Bangladesh into its ‘walk of fame’ on the 35th anniversary of the landmark performance. And Mr. Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, launched the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF to carry forward the spirit of the 1971 concert.

“Today we’re facing humanitarian crises on a scale we’ve not seen before,” Ms. Harrison said at the time. “George had faith in UNICEF. He chose UNICEF above others.”

More than three decades after the first concert held especially to heighten awareness about issues of global magnitude, her words were still music to UNICEF’s ears.

Particular Christmas

The seasons in Argentina are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere. Buenos Aires is ideal in fall (Mar-May) and spring (Sept-Nov). The months of October and November in Buenos Aires, when the jacaranda trees have begun to bloom and The beautiful argentine people walking the streets with sunglasses smiling the good weather, are a particularly beautiful time to visit as parks and streets become swathed in purple-flowered splendor. December visitors will still find pleasant weather for the most part. What you won't find in Buenos Aires in December, in spite of its being overwhelmingly Catholic which is part of the argentine heart, are over-the-top Christmas decorations and ritual.
Though Argentina has little in the way of Christmas ritual, In the south Christmas has his own beauty the spirit is alive, After all is a season where happiness is the item and a gift, People in the world relate also with good wheather to amuse Themselves in the maximum you can find at this days the most bright parties between families and friends

About the place Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve (Noche Buena) at the Metropolitan Cathedral is a beautiful spectacle. It is usually held at 10pm on December 24. In Argentina, that night of strong family spirit reencounter is the center 24 is a day more important day than December 25, family dinners are held on Christmas Eve rather than on Christmas itself.
Como se dice feliz navidad en tu pais?
Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees

Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden

Arabic: Milad Majid

Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand

Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce

Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat

Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo

Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!

Chile: Feliz Navidad

Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (Catonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

Croatian: Sretan Bozic

Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok

Danish: Glædelig Jul

Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast

English: Merry Christmas

Finnish: Hyvaa joulua

Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar

French: Joyeux Noel

Galician: Bo Nada

Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!

German: Froehliche Weihnachten

Greek: Kala Christouyenna!

Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!

Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka

Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova

Hindi: Shub Naya Baras

Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket

Icelandic: Gledileg JolI

ndonesian: Selamat Hari Natal

Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat

Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie

Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Lithuanian: Linksmu KaleduMaltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb

Maori: Meri Kirihimete

Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!

Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie

Portuguese:Feliz Natal

Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele

Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom

Sami: Buorrit Juovllat

Serbian: Hristos se rodi

Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce

Sami: Buorrit Juovllat

Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto

Spanish: Feliz Navidad

Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År

Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Welsh: Nadolig Llawen

Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic

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Chávez le ofrece US$ 80 millones a SanCor para evitar la venta a Soros – La idea en principio es muy buena...

Es para que la firma láctea cancele su deuda. Dijo que la decisión está tomada.
El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, confirmó anoche que su gobierno otorgará un crédito de US$ 80 millones a la láctea SanCor, que podrá devolverlo en especies: exportaciones de leche en polvo y tecnología por 10 años. "Nos vamos a beneficiar ambos. Ellos no dejarán de ser una cooperativa y así podrán seguir produciendo para la Argentina y para nosotros", dijo el mandatario, quien acaba de ser reelecto y mañana llegará a Argentina.Sancor debe 167 millones de dólares: es una deuda ya refinanciada, a ocho años. En septiembre, la cooperativa no pudo pagar un tramo de US$ 10 millones.La idea prendió, pero el monto del crédito bajó a la mitad. El domingo, la embajadora Alicia Castro dijo que Caracas aportaría US$ 120 millones. Y ayer Chávez habló de 80 millones. El ingreso de Chávez en SanCor no sería, además, compatible con la negociación que la cooperativa está llevando adelante con el fondo de inversión estadounidense Adecoagro, controlado por George Soros. De hecho, Chávez lo planteó como si la negociación con Adecoagro ya se hubiera caído. "Había un gran magnate mundial del capitalismo (por Soros) que quería comprar a SanCor", dijo Chávez. "Ya tenía el cheque casi en la mano, pero los compañeros de allá han resistido porque SanCor forma parte de ese patrimonio socioeconómico del pueblo argentino", agregó.INFORME DE TELMA LUZZANI DESDE CARACAS