Brides

Brides,

“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe”

Tenho certeza que muitas de vocês já ouviram essa rima, mas nem todas conhecem o verdadeiro significado do ditado popular. Então, vamos conhecer um pouco da história dessa tradição.

Esse ditado é muito conhecido e falado nos Estados Unidos, mas muitas vezes sem o silver sixpence in her shoe (mais usado para noivas inglesas). Tudo indica esse ditado popular foi originado na Inglaterra em 1898.

Significados:

Something Old (algo velho) – Representa a continuidade dos valores da família da noiva, mesmo começando sua nova família ao lado do noivo.

Something New (algo novo) – Otimismo e esperança para o futuro dos noivos.

Something Borrowed (algo emprestado)  – Existem vários significados como: o amor e admiração pela noiva da pessoa que emprestou algo ou que  a noiva poderá sempre contar com os familiares e amigos  …..

Something Blue (algo azul) – Há séculos a cor azul (em casamentos) tem como significado o amor, fidelidade, pureza, lealdade e boa sorte !!

E pode ser usado de diversas formas liga, sapato, buquê, brincos entre outras coisas.

Silver Sixpence (moeda sixpence prateada) – A sixpence era uma moeda da Grã-Bretanha (1551-1967) feita de prata e trazia sorte para a noiva.

Curiosidade: a noiva tinha que usá-lo no sapato esquerdo!

8 Ideas for Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue
(+ Where to Buy a Sixpence)

Emma Arendoski bride 3 Comments

Do you need ideas for something old, new, borrowed, and blue? We’ve found eight of them! This wedding tradition (from an old English rhyme) is said to bring good luck to the bride. It doesn’t mean you’ll have bad luck if you don’t oblige, but it’s a fun wedding tradition to participate in nonetheless. On a strict budget? Don’t panic: most of these items can be borrowed from a loved one (old, borrowed, and blue) and your ‘new’ can always be your wedding dress. Read on to see our ideas for something old, new, borrowed, and blue; PLUS, find out where you can get a sought-after sixpence for your shoe!

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7 Ideas for Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue

OLD

For something old, think vintage handkerchiefs (wrapped around your bouquet), vintage lockets (worn as day-of jewelry), or a vintage wedding purse.

1. Vintage Handkerchief

by duryea place designs
2. Vintage Shell Wedding Purse

by all for love, l.o.v.e.
NEW

New is the most fun – it means you, you know, have to buy a little something for you! A dress sash, garter, or new pair of heels are a few favorites. If you don’t want to spend extra, your new wedding dress can count!

3. Dress Sash

by eclu
4. Garter

by the garter girl
BORROWED

“Something Borrowed” can be anyhting: a ring you borrowed from your sister, a brooch from your grandmother, or do what I did: wear your mother’s veil. Lucky for me, my mom has exceptional taste. You can also use part of her veil and turn it into a custom hair piece or blusher veil.

5. Blusher Veil

by letters to jane, photo by allison lee, model: hannah joest
6. Brooch

by big rock bridal
BLUE

“Something Blue” can be completely bold or very subtle. A clutch purse with a blue flower pin, for instance, or a pair of blue earrings are perfect examples. For even more subtlety, pin a thin light blue ribbon to the underside of your gown with a simple safety pin. A single stitch of blue thread (hidden, of course) is another great example. A pair of something blue underwear is another easy example: I mean, who needs an excuse to shop for pretty underthings? (I heart these. Plus, this weekend, 40% off and free shipping. Score. And, no, they’re not a sponsor, just one of my most favorite stores!) And, last but not least, we’ve seen a lot of these shoes popping up in Real Weddings. The back logo has, you guessed it, just the right amount of blue.

7. Something Blue Flower Clutch

by eclu
8. Blue Earrings

by jewelsalem

Where to Buy a Sixpence?

And, last but not least: a sixpence for your shoe! I had no idea where to buy a sixpence for my wedding. You can grab one here. Also, the sixpence is traditionally placed in the bride’s left shoe.

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A Telephone Call

by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Approximate Word Count: 2421  

Please, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won't ask anything else of You, truly I won't. It isn't very much to ask. It would be so little to You, God, such a little, little thing. Only let him telephone now. Please, God. Please, please, please.

If I didn't think about it, maybe the telephone might ring. Sometimes it does that. If I could think of something else. If I could think of something else. Knobby if I counted five hundred by fives, it might ring by that time. I'll count slowly. I won't cheat. And if it rings when I get to three hundred, I won't stop; I won't answer it until I get to five hundred. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty.... Oh, please ring. Please.

This is the last time I'll look at the clock. I will not look at it again. It's ten minutes past seven. He said he would telephone at five o'clock. "I'll call you at five, darling." I think that's where he said "darling." I'm almost sure he said it there. I know he called me "darling" twice, and the other time was when he said good-by. "Good-by, darling." He was busy, and he can't say much in the office, but he called me "darling" twice. He couldn't have minded my calling him up. I know you shouldn't keep telephoning them--I know they don't like that. When you do that they know you are thinking about them and wanting them, and that makes them hate you. But I hadn't talked to him in three days-not in three days. And all I did was ask him how he was; it was just the way anybody might have called him up. He couldn't have minded that. He couldn't have thought I was bothering him. "No, of course you're not," he said. And he said he'd telephone me. He didn't have to say that. I didn't ask him to, truly I didn't. I'm sure I didn't. I don't think he would say he'd telephone me, and then just never do it. Please don't let him do that, God. Please don't.

"I'll call you at five, darling." "Good-by, darling.,' He was busy, and he was in a hurry, and there were people around him, but he called me "darling" twice. That's mine, that's mine. I have that, even if I never see him again. Oh, but that's so little. That isn't enough. Nothing's enough, if I never see him again. Please let me see him again, God. Please, I want him so much. I want him so much. I'll be good, God. I will try to be better, I will, If you will let me see him again. If You will let him telephone me. Oh, let him telephone me now.

Ah, don't let my prayer seem too little to You, God. You sit up there, so white and old, with all the angels about You and the stars slipping by. And I come to You with a prayer about a telephone call. Ah, don't laugh, God. You see, You don't know how it feels. You're so safe, there on Your throne, with the blue swirling under You. Nothing can touch You; no one can twist Your heart in his hands. This is suffering, God, this is bad, bad suffering. Won't You help me? For Your Son's sake, help me. You said You would do whatever was asked of You in His name. Oh, God, in the name of Thine only beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, let him telephone me now.

I must stop this. I mustn't be this way. Look. Suppose a young man says he'll call a girl up, and then something happens, and he doesn't. That isn't so terrible, is it? Why, it's gong on all over the world, right this minute. Oh, what do I care what's going on all over the world? Why can't that telephone ring? Why can't it, why can't it? Couldn't you ring? Ah, please, couldn't you? You damned, ugly, shiny thing. It would hurt you to ring, wouldn't it? Oh, that would hurt you. Damn you, I'll pull your filthy roots out of the wall, I'll smash your smug black face in little bits. Damn you to hell.

No, no, no. I must stop. I must think about something else. This is what I'll do. I'll put the clock in the other room. Then I can't look at it. If I do have to look at it, then I'll have to walk into the bedroom, and that will be something to do. Maybe, before I look at it again, he will call me. I'll be so sweet to him, if he calls me. If he says he can't see me tonight, I'll say, "Why, that's all right, dear. Why, of course it's all right." I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I think he must still like me a little. He couldn't have called me "darling" twice today, if he didn't still like me a little. It isn't all gone, if he still likes me a little; even if it's only a little, little bit. You see, God, if You would just let him telephone me, I wouldn't have to ask You anything more. I would be sweet to him, I would be gay, I would be just the way I used to be, and then he would love me again. And then I would never have to ask You for anything more. Don't You see, God? So won't You please let him telephone me? Won't You please, please, please?

Are You punishing me, God, because I've been bad? Are You angry with me because I did that? Oh, but, God, there are so many bad people --You could not be hard only to me. And it wasn't very bad; it couldn't have been bad. We didn't hurt anybody, God. Things are only bad when they hurt people. We didn't hurt one single soul; You know that. You know it wasn't bad, don't You, God? So won't You let him telephone me now?

If he doesn't telephone me, I'll know God is angry with me. I'll count five hundred by fives, and if he hasn't called me then, I will know God isn't going to help me, ever again. That will be the sign. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five. . . It was bad. I knew it was bad. All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think. Your hell is worse than mine.

I mustn't. I mustn't do this. Suppose he's a little late calling me up --that's nothing to get hysterical about. Maybe he isn't going to call--maybe he's coming straight up here without telephoning. He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to God I could make him cry. I wish I could make him cry and tread the floor and feel his heart heavy and big and festering in him. I wish I could hurt him like hell.

He doesn't wish that about me. I don't think he even knows how he makes me feel. I wish he could know, without my telling him. They don't like you to tell them they've made you cry. They don't like you to tell them you're unhappy because of them. If you do, they think you're possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games. Oh, I thought we didn't have to; I thought this was so big I could say whatever I meant. I guess you can't, ever. I guess there isn't ever anything big enough for that. Oh, if he would just telephone, I wouldn't tell him I had been sad about him. They hate sad people. I would be so sweet and so gay, he couldn't help but like me. If he would only telephone. If he would only telephone.

Maybe that's what he is doing. Maybe he is coming on here without calling me up. Maybe he's on his way now. Something might have happened to him. No, nothing could ever happen to him. I can't picture anything happening to him. I never picture him run over. I never see him lying still and long and dead. I wish he were dead. That's a terrible wish. That's a lovely wish. If he were dead, he would be mine. If he were dead, I would never think of now and the last few weeks. I would remember only the lovely times. It would be all beautiful. I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead.

This is silly. It's silly to go wishing people were dead just because they don't call you up the very minute they said they would. Maybe the clock's fast; I don't know whether it's right. Maybe he's hardly late at all. Anything could have made him a little late. Maybe he had to stay at his office. Maybe he went home, to call me up from there, and somebody came in. He doesn't like to telephone me in front of people. Maybe he's worried, just alittle, little bit, about keeping me waiting. He might even hope that I would call him up. I could do that. I could telephone him.

I mustn't. I mustn't, I mustn't. Oh, God, please don't let me telephone him. Please keep me from doing that. I know, God, just as well as You do, that if he were worried about me, he'd telephone no matter where he was or how many people there were around him. Please make me know that, God. I don't ask YOU to make it easy for me--You can't do that, for all that You could make a world. Only let me know it, God. Don't let me go on hoping. Don't let me say comforting things to myself. Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I ram. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you. I should think it would be so sweet to be sure.

It would be so easy to telephone him. Then I'd know. Maybe it wouldn't be a foolish thing to do. Maybe he wouldn't mind. Maybe he'd like it. Maybe he has been trying to get me. Sometimes people try and try to get you on the telephone, and they say the number doesn't answer. I'm not just saying that to help myself; that really happens. You know that really happens, God. Oh, God, keep me away from that telephone. Kcep me away. Let me still have just a little bit of pride. I think I'm going to need it, God. I think it will be all I'll have.

Oh, what does pride matter, when I can't stand it if I don't talk to him? Pride like that is such a silly, shabby little thing. The real pride, the big pride, is in having no pride. I'm not saying that just because I want to call him. I am not. That's true, I know that's true. I will be big. I will be beyond little prides.

Please, God, keep me from, telephoning him. Please, God.

I don't see what pride has to do with it. This is such a little thing, for me to be bringing in pride, for me to be making such a fuss about. I may have misunderstood him. Maybe he said for me to call him up, at five. "Call me at five, darling." He could have said that, perfectly well. It's so possible that I didn't hear him right. "Call me at five, darling." I'm almost sure that's what he said. God, don't let me talk this way to myself. Make me know, please make me know.

I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still. Maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't tree? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts? Damn them, damn them, damn them.

I won't. I'll be quiet. This is nothing to get excited about. Look. Suppose he were someone I didn't know very well. Suppose he were another girl. Then I d just telephone and say, "Well, for goodness' sake, what happened to you?" That's what I'd do, and I'd never even think about it. Why can't I be casual and natural, just because I love him? I can be. Honestly, I can be. I'll call him up, and be so easy and pleasant. You see if I won't, God. Oh, don't let me call him. Don't, don't, don't.

God, aren't You really going to let him call me? Are You sure, God? Couldn't You please relent? Couldn't You? I don't even ask You to let him telephone me this minute, God; only let him do it in a little while. I'll count five hundred by fives. I'll do it so slowly and so fairly. If he hasn't telephoned then, I'll call him. I will. Oh, please, dear God, dear kind God, my blessed Father in Heaven, let him call before then. Please, God. Please.

Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twentyfive, thirty, thirty-five.

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Mistake

one day I changed my schedules, my days off, my taste, to adjust their,

Now return my life back, I can even breathe better ... change my life for someone so egocentric, is a mistake that   never  more  I will commit

Pessoas Importantes em minha vida !!!!

Era uma pessoa  igual a cem mil outras.Mas, eu fiz dela um amigo ,agora ela é única no mundo para mim!!!!

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Is Twitter a Social Network?

Sinopse

Neste texto, retirado de um fórum sobre tecnologias, um colunista propõe a questão se o Twitter pode ou não ser considerado uma rede social e por que motivo.

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What is Twitter?
(O Twitter é uma rede social?)
by Dan Zarrella
Publicado em: 07/02/2011

Is it a social network or a content distribution platform? CEO of Twitter Evan Williams doesn't seem to think it's a social network.

A social network is a piece of technology that facilitates communication through existing social connections. You can share messages, photos and events with your friends, people you already know. Facebook is designed for "strong" connections, people you actually know well in real life.

A content distribution platform is a system that provides users with relevant information and links, and that gives content publishers a way to get their content to interested consumers. TV is probably the most obvious example, but RSS is a web-based version.

Twitter as a Distribution Platform
The argument for Twitter as a content distribution platform is obvious. With media companies like CNN posting their links to over a million users, tweeting is certainly an effective way for publishers to disseminate their content.

Twitter as a Social Network
The argument for Twitter as a social network is also quite obvious. Twitter emphasizes "weak" connections or people you know only a little from real life or even purely online friends and allows you to keep track of what they're doing and engage in conversations.

And the Data? 
The data we uncovered in the second version of the State of the Twittersphere shows both sides of this debate. On one hand, many accounts on Twitter either have no followers or have never posted a tweet, meaning that many users are simply following their favorite celebrities or media outlets to get content.

On the other hand, over 30% of all tweets are replies. This means that when people do start actually using the service, they are using it to converse with their "weak" connections. Active users are leveraging the social network aspect of Twitter.

What do you think? Is Twitter best used as a social network or a content distribution platform?

Proficiência em Inglês

O inglês é um idioma falado em todo mundo, de grande importância já que é a língua oficial de muitos países desenvolvidos (Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Canadá, Austrália, etc). .

Existem diversas instituições que realizam testes de proficiência em inglês, como o IELTS, Cambridge, TOEFL, TOEIC, etc, que são reconhecidos mundialmente.
Abaixo estão alguns materiais que podem lhe auxiliar no estudo da língua inglesa.

Gramática Inglesa

Adjetivos (adjectives) - palavras utilizadas para caracterizar um substantivo. Leia também: Graus de Adjetivos.

Adjetivos possessivos (possessive adjectives) - para indicar posse de algo por alguém.

Advérbios (adverbs) - modificam o verbo principal, indicando lugar, maneira, tempo, etc, onde ocorreu a ação. Leia também: Graus do Advérbio.

Artigos (articles) - artigos do inglês: A, AN e THE.

Artigos definidos (Definite articles)

Artigos indefinidos (Indefinite articles)

Caso possessivo (possessive case)

Condicionais (conditionals) - como escrever condições em inglês com o "IF". Leia também: Simple Conditional (Would).

Conectivos (connectives)

Conjunções (linking words) - criam relações entre ideias e informações da frase. Existem as adversativas, conclusivas, concessivas, explicativas, etc.

Conjunto indefinido - every, all, each, either, neither, other, enough, most; entre outras.

Diminutivo - como expressar o diminutivo dos substantivos

Discurso direto e indireto (direct and indirect speech)

Discurso indireto (reported speech)

Gêneros (gender) - como modificar o substantivo para ficar no masculino ou feminino.

Interjeições (interjections) - geralmente expressam emoções, opiniões ou pensamentos.

Plural of nouns (plural dos substantivos)

Prefixes

Preposições de tempo e lugar - palavras utilizadas para ligar termos ou orações.

Question Words - palavras utilizadas para fazer perguntas.

Question Tags - transforma uma frase afirmativa ou imperativa em pergunta, pela adição de um pequeno fragmento no final ("tag").

Relative clauses - utilizadas para adicionar uma informação no meio da frase - who, which, whose, whom, that

Sufixo -ING

Uncount nouns (substantivos incontáveis)

Voz passiva (passive voice)

Voz ativa (active voice)

Verbos

• Verbos modais (modal verbs)
  • Verbo modal could
  • Verbo modal may
  • Verbo modal might
  • Verbo modal must
  • Verbo modal should
  • Verbo modal would
• Verbos auxiliares (auxiliary verbs)
• Verbos frasais (phrasal verbs)
• Verbos irregulares (irregular verbs)
• Verbos transitivos e intransitivos (Intransitive and Transitive Verbs)
• Verbos comuns com substantivos para ações
• Verbos ergativos (ergative verbs)
• Verbos com dois objetos
• Verbos recíprocos (reciprocal verbs)
• Verbos reflexivos (reflexive verbs)
• Verbo DO / DID
• Verbo TO BE (ser, estar)
• Verbo TO HAVE (ter, possuir)
• Verbo CAN
• Verbo TO TRAVEL e NEED (TO)

É Necessário

              Não se aproveite de quem se esforça tanto, ele pode estar fazendo o que você deixou de fazer
O amor pode absorver muitos sofrimentos, menos a falta de respeito! Se você quer o melhor dos outros, dê o máximo de si,Não exija dos outros o que eles não podem lhe dar,

               

Às vezes é necessário excluir pessoas, apagar lembranças, jogar fora o que machuca, abandonar o que nos faz mal, se libertar de coisas que nos prendem.... Ouse, arrisque, não desista jamais e saiba valorizar quem te ama, esses sim merecem seu respeito.

Homenagem A AMANDA

       Eu aconchegaria você mais apertado e rogaria ao Senhor que protegesse você. Se eu soubesse que essa seria a última vez que eu veria você sair pela porta, (...) Eu gastaria um minuto extra ou dois, para parar e dizer: EU TE AMO, ao invés de assumir que você já sabe disso. Se eu soubesse que essa seria a última vez, eu estaria ao seu lado, compartilhando do seu dia, ao invés de pensar: Bem, tenho certeza de que outras oportunidades virão.

O dia de amanhã não está prometido a ninguém, seja ele jovem ou velho. E hoje pode ser sua última chance de segurar bem apertado a mão da pessoa que você ama. Se você está esperando pelo amanhã, por que não fazer hoje? Porque se o amanhã não vier, você, com certeza, se arrependerá pelo resto de sua vida de não ter aproveitado aquele tempo especial com um sorriso, um abraço ou um beijo(...)acabou sendo o último desejo que ela queria. 

O Seu Diferêncial

               A forte influência em nossa cultura é perceptível, empregamos palavras estrangeiras em frases soltas que usamos constantemente. Observe:  

“Nesta reunião apresentaremos o web site para os representantes.”
“Hoje vou ao shopping center fazer compras, quero mudar meu look.”
“Vamos passar no drive thru e pedir o lanche, é mais rápido.”
“Preciso acessar meio email e fazer o download da apostila para estudar.”
“Não estou comendo hambúrguer, hot dog e nem tomando milk shake, prefiro coisas mais light.”

        O inglês é aliado a tudo: negócios, estudos, viagens, comunicação e globalização, e é oficial em 55 países.
 Se liga !!!!