Nineteen years after “Titanic” made him a global star, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar Sunday night for his role as a vengeful frontiersman in “The Revenant”. This is his brave and righteous speech of acceptance:
SCRIPT: “Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.
Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.
“I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.”
Each
year on February 14th, many people exchange cards, candy, gifts or
flowers with their special “valentine.” The day of romance we
call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back
to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday
Lupercalia:
In
the beginning, Valentine's Day was associated with romantic couples
only but in recent times
the festival is seen in much larger perspective. Now, people take
opportunity of the day to wish ‘Happy Valentine's Day' to anyone
they love be it father, mother, teachers, siblings, friends,
co-workers or just anyone special to them. The idea behind this
tradition is to celebrate love, get love and give love to everyone
around us.
Approximately 150 million ❤ Valentine's Day cards ❤ are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas.
Do you want to surprise your beloved ones? No need to spend your money. Here you can learn about how to make a Valentine's
Day Heart Pop-up Card ❤
And... if you need some inspiration to express your love:
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Anais Nin
I love you and that's the beginning and end of everything ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you" ― Roy Croft "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever" ― Alfred Tennyson "A loving heart is the truest wisdom".- Charles Dickens
"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." —John Lennon
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this" - Pablo Neruda,"Love Sonnet XVII"
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” - Honore de Balzac
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
-Oscar Wilde
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
So... make your beloved feel special and tell them how much you love them.
Sing For The Climateis a Belgian initiative, made possible by the goodwill of many volunteers.
In 2012 Sing For The Climate was organised in Belgium: more than 380.000 people sang ‘Do it now‘! So we made a clip that united all the voices. This clip was shown to the Belgian Prime Minister, the State Secretary of Environment, the Flemish and the European Ministers of Environment. All the above signed the demands of the Campaign for the Climate and therefore committed themselves to take necessary measures. Finally, the clip was shown on the last plenary meeting of UN Climate Conference in Doha.It may be a coincidence, but only that last night they reached an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol.
Climate change is not a problem for the far future. It is already a problem. 300.000 people die annually, because of climate change. Floods, drought, hurricanes, food shortages,… The vast majority of these victims falling in the south, should not prevent us from feeling involved and sounding the alarm.
Hands-Only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse in an “out-of-hospital” setting (such as at home, at work or in a park). It consists of two easy steps:
Call 112 (or send someone to do that).
Push hard and fast in the center of the chest.
When you call 112, you need to stay on the phone until the 112 dispatcher (operator) tells you to hang up. The dispatcher will ask you about the emergency. They will also ask for details like your location. It is important to be specific, especially if you’re calling from a mobile phone as that is not associated with a fixed location or address. Remember that answering the dispatcher’s questions will not delay the arrival of help.
CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation
MOUTH TO MOUTH BREATHS = respiración boca a boca
SETTING = localización, lugar
If you see a teen or adult suddenly collapse, call 112 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest to the beat of the classic disco song "Stayin' Alive." CPR can more than double a person's chances of survival, and "Stayin' Alive" has the right beat for Hands-Only CPR.
Vinnie Jones demonstrates CPR to the tune of Staying Alive in Heart Foundation advert
The American Heart Association recommends CPR with a combination of breaths and compressions for:
All infants (up to age 1)
Children (up to puberty)
Anyone found already unconscious and not breathing normally
Any victims of drowning, drug overdose, collapse due to breathing problems, or prolonged cardiac arrest
A Embaixada dos EUA en España ofrece unha bolsa para participar no Instituto de Verán Benjamin Franklin, un programa financiado polo Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos para promover as relacións entre as novas xeracións de europeos, asiáticos e norteamericanos. O programa académico que se seguirá centrarase nun tema específico, como a resolución de conflitos, o emprendemento social ou a protección do medio ambiente. A estadía terá lugar a finais de xullo de 2016. Como requisitos para as persoas que queiran solicitar esta bolsa están os seguintes:
Destinatarios: alumnado entre 16 e 18 anos Requisito académico: nota media de notable no expediente académico Requisito lingüístico: nota media de sobresaliente no coñecemento do inglés
Para obter máis información sobre o proceso de solicitude pódese consultar a ligazón de referencia.
On January 19th in
1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in
Boston, Massachusetts. He would have turned 201 yesterday. Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of America's greatest writers. He is said to have invented the modern detective story. His works are full of suspense, as his most famous poem, The Raven (1845), shows. He was a very successful writer, yet in his personal life he struggled greatly.
The Raven:The Simpsons Version
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
One of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience—the "inner world" of dreams and the imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism and also worked as a magazine editor.
His dark writing, coupled with his mysterious death, has made him one of the most famous macabre figures in history.
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'Annabel Lee' was the last poem Edgar Allan Poe wrote before his death in 1849. Since the poem was written after Poe's wife's death, it is believed that it was probably written for her.
