Miners news

             The 33 miners rescued earlier this month after spending more than two months trapped underground have been honored at a special ceremony at the presidential palace in Santiago, the Chilean capital.

Chile’s President, Sebastian Pinera, hosted the ceremony and provided the 32 Chilean miners in the group with a Chilean flag. The sole Bolivian miner was awarded a Bolivian flag.

The rescued miners were also provided replicas of the capsule that brought them to the surface on October 13.

Mr. Pinera singled out for special praise Luis Urzua, who was the shift foreman when the tunnel of the San Jose mine collapsed on August 5. Urzua led the miners through the first 17 days after the collapse when they fought for survival with little food supplies and before their location was discovered by a rescue drill.

After the ceremony, the Chilean president led a a squad of government officials and rescue workers in a football match against the rescued miners. The miners lost.

                                         By Fábio

HOW TO GET AN USA STUDENT VISA FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

    Just getting accepted to an American college or university does not guarantee that you will get a visa. And getting a visa just lets you arrive in the United States. It does not guarantee that an immigration officer will permit you to enter the country.
    If you are requesting a visa for the first time, you will probably have to go to an American embassy or consulate. You will need to bring a government form sent to you by your American school that shows you have been accepted. You will also need banking and tax records that show you have enough money to pay for your education. And be prepared to provide evidence that you will return to your home country after your studies end.
    Students must contact their local embassy or consulate to request an interview and to get other information. This includes directions about how and where to pay the visa application charge. The cost is two hundred dollars.
    You should apply for the visa as soon as you have been accepted to a school in the United States. The government needs time to perform a background investigation.
    Once you come to the United States, you can stay for the length of your period of study. Your school is required to provide the Department of Homeland Security with reports on your status as a student.


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Business expressions

                Our first expression is "in the red." It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.
A business magazine recently published a report about a television company. The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.
A profit by a business is written in black numbers. So a company that is "in the black" is making money. An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."
Another financial expression is "run on the bank." That is what happens when many people try to withdraw all their money from a bank. A "run on the bank" usually happens when people believe there is danger a bank may fail or close.
Newspaper reports about a banking crisis in Russia used that expression. They said the government acted because of fears that the crisis would cause a run on the banks. "When a run on the banks was starting, there was not much they could do," said a banking expert.
"Day trading" is a system that lets investors trade directly on an electronic market system. The system is known as NASDAQ, short for The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. It was the first completely computerized stock market. It sells stocks of companies not listed on any stock exchange. Many high technology companies are listed on it.
Day trading companies provide a desk and a computer system to an investor who wants to trade. Individuals must provide fifty thousand dollars or more to the trading company to pay for the stocks they buy. Thousands of other investors do day trading from computers in their homes.
A day trader watches stock prices carefully. When he sees a stock rise in price, he uses the computer to buy shares of the stock. If the stock continues to rise in price in the next few minutes, the day trader sells the shares quickly to make a small profit. Then he looks for another stock to buy. If a stock goes down instead of up, he sells it and accepts the loss.
The idea is to make a small profit many times during the day. Day traders may buy and sell stocks hundreds of times each day.
Many day traders lose all their money in a week or so. Only about thirty percent succeed in earning enough from their efforts to continue day trading.


                                                          By Fabio