Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Don't Mess with the Zohan




Last night I watched an Adam Sandler's movie, "You Don't Mess with the Zohan".
I love comedies of Sandler.
They make me smile really tasty.
I like this kind of comedies, and as Sandler I like so much Ben Stiler's movies too.

If you want to have fun in a calm evening at home, follow my advice, You Don't Mess with the Zohan is the right movie.



Thursday, December 25, 2008

Time to post again

I Opened this blog, with my friend puntino.
but after a lot of time I lost my good intentions.

Otherwise puntino (little dot in english loll), was really consistent and acutally he is working on his project.

I want come back posting in english again.

Stay tuned :)

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Sweden - Immigration agreement for Greens and government

Published: 27 Mar 08 08:49 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/10728/

The Swedish government and the Green Party are to present a joint proposal on Thursday for new rules governing labour force immigration.

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Under the terms of the proposal, Sweden would not send anybody back to their homeland if they had managed to secure employment.

"This is the biggest reform of Swedish immigration policy for several decades," said Migration Minister Tobias Billström and Green Party group leader Mikaela Valtersson in a jointly penned article in Thursday's Dagens Nyheter.

If a job seeker outside the EU receives a concrete offer of work from a Swedish employer, this will in future be enough to secure permits for residency and employment.

The proposal also sets longer time limits for residence and work permits. The first permit will last two years. If the applicant still has work after this period, the permit will be extended by a further two years.

After four years, an applicant will be eligible for a permanent residence permit.

"From now on, no labour force immigrant will be forced to go home despite having work," said Billström and Valtersson.

The government and the Greens also want to make it easier for job seekers to attain visas to travel to Sweden for interviews.

Under the new regulations, an applicant who is offered employment will no longer have to return home to apply for permits to live and work in Sweden.

TT/The Local (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)



Source The Local.se

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Episode IV: Learning a foreign language by Livemocha

We (me and my fellow Puntino) have talked yet about some communities useful for English Learning.

In this forth episode I wanna talk about LiveMocha.



LiveMocha it's a well organized community for language learning.
This site use an interactive way of practicing a foreign tongue, through a very smart method.

You can practice at the same time your skills in, reading, writing, listening, speaking.
For instance you can practice and traing your speaking abilities recording a short dialogue.
The other members of community are able to listen to it and send you some advice or simply correct mistakes you have done.

And all this not only for English but for other languages too! (French, Spanish and so on)

IMHO the best featurs of the mocha are three.

1) It is free (obviously :P)
2) It is very simple and useful
3) It is a cosmopolitan community.


So....see you around the mocha ;)

Monday, February 18, 2008

Agony and the Ecstasy (where are you going my beloved Italy)

Where are you going my beloved Italy?
Where are we going too???

I don't Know.



but may be somebody knows.
I want to point out to you two interesting articles publsighed on newsweek.
The first is "Agony and the Ecstasy" (stealed the title :P for my post).
The second is "Farawell, Dolcevita?".

I hope these two pieces of writing can help you to understand more a lot of Italy.

this is a quote from Agony and Ecstasy:

"Yet for all this, many Italians feel that the country still has the potential—the creativity amid the chaos—to make a magnificent comeback if only … what? "I believe a lot of people are asking themselves the same question I ask myself," says Pino Arlacchi, a former member of Parliament and senator, and a leader of the anti-mafia fight in the early 1990s: "Why have we not succeeded in turning the page in this country?"




See you ;)
p.s. let me know what do you think about it.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Aviator...where are you going?

Puntino, who had the idea of an english blog, went away.
He learned the basic of blogging by the master and now he had his own Blog.

Good Luck Puntino.

"May the Force be with you"

[YodaGun] LOL



And now? wich is the destiny of Aviator Over The Sea?
It will survive.
I Got new ideas and project for my english blog.



Stay tuned ;)

Thursday, January 24, 2008

My last post

Hi guys

This is my last time that I post on this blog because the marriage between TopGun and me is over!
He is too possessive ! no I'm joking he is a great fiend who has led me in the Blog world and hosted my thoughts here.
From now on my window on the blog world will be Switching my mind and I hope whoever you are sometime you take a look at it.
Thank you again, Top!

Sincerely
Puntino

Monday, January 7, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci's Maxim


"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci"

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Episode III: Learning a foreign language by Dave's ESL Cafè


By TopGun

In my first Year at University there was a good English teacher.
His name was Roy Boardman.

I liked his way to do.
He often used new media and innovative methods to teach English.
One of these was, obviously, online resources.

He gave us a list of links.
One of these was Dave's ESL Cafe.

Dave's ESL Cafè is "a meeting place for ESL teachers and students".
ESL means English as Second Language if you don't knew this.

It contains a lot of useful links, didactic materials,podcasts,forum links and a good frequented chatroom.
In Dave's ESL Cafè chatroom you can practice English with beginners as you are, and ask for help from ESL teachers.

There is only one thing to do.
Try it and let me know what you think about.



See you Fellows ;)

I thank guusebumps for his corrections.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

An old board game...

By Puntino

I don't like playing cards very much, I don't know games like poker but only some easy ones I learnt when I was a child (in my childhood I used to play cards with my maternal grandfather).
This year, I played, after a very long time, an old board game called Hero Quest, it was like coming back to my past when I played it with my friends.
I found this kind of games appealing and a funny way of spending your free time, unfortunately now I haven't got any free time to spend on it.

I can't forget the pleasure of choosing your plastic miniature (dwarf, elf,..) with their eye catching
shape, challenging the "game master" and the sound of rolling dices.
I think this kind of games are much better than playing alone against a stupid and motionless machine like a Pc. If a day I have some sons I will encourage them to play board games with real dices and touchable challengers. What do you think about?

Thank you Zsofia for her corrections

Friday, January 4, 2008

Dump? No, thank you

By Puntino

Napoli has been facing a dirty and demeaning situation since last summer, I'm speaking about the rubbish spread everywhere due to the dumps lack.
The emergency has become so strong that the European Commission has alerted Italian government to possible fines if Naples will not get out of its rubbish.
At the moment the Campania region government (whose Naples is the capital city) is looking for places where to build a temporal dump, and as you can imagine the people who live there refuse the building of any dump even for a short time, and I think they are right because we need an effective solution, we mustn't put it off anymore.
In the meanwhile the rubbish heaps grow day by day and the people frustrated by unbearable stench have got to torching the rubbish pile.

Who is responsible for this upset situation?

The mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Iervolino, says I haven't the power to sort out this problem and pass the ball to her friend and region president Antonio Bassolino who has been saying nothing, Where is Antonio ?
I read some articles (mostly by BBC journalist) and no one of them mention the word criminal organization.
Behind all, there is the criminal organization's paw which, for a longer time , has taken over the rubbish collection system.
An example in Naples there was a dismissed petrol station whose fuel cisterns were completely
full of rubbish, it isn't a fantasy story.
I'm laughing and crying at the same time...In the rest of the world the people are discussing "the going in green"... what a shame

Why this Blog?

"I opened this Blog,
the English version of Aviatore Sopra Il Mare,

to improve my English writing skills according with my friend Puntino.
Now he has his own Blog but the target remain the same.
Improve my English."

TopGun