TODAY'S MEETING ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30th. !!!

Please bring a pencil  ( or pen)  Thanks.

Meeting for Wednesday Decembrer 23rd

MIÉRCOLES 23 de DICIEMBRE, a las 19:45, en Cabildo 849 y Fco. Lacroze, Café Havanna.
Aviso importante: En lo que resta de diciembre y durante los meses de verano al menos Meet & Chat pasa a los días miércoles en el mismo horario.
Important notice: The last meeting in December and through, at least, January and February Meet & Chat goes on Wednesdays at he same time.

PLEASE BE ON TIME! You may come earlier WE BEGIN 8pm sharp! Thank you!

After the introduction, if the number of people present is 8 or more we will divide in groups to better hear each other.

Suggested Topic:

The year's balance for you, for the country, for the world and what to expect in 2010, a few short thoughts.

Hello and Welcome to Meet & Chat!!

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Come to "chat" in person!

Meetings for English conversation!

This and every Wednesday at  7.45 p.m.!

Bring a friend along!

Welcome newcomers and expats !! 
Looking forward to have you with us !!         Don't  miss out !!!

  "Meet & Chat" 

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We meet every Wednesday at 7:45pm at "Havanna" Coffee Shop, Av. Cabildo 849, between F. Lacroze and Teodoro García, (Line D, Subway (Subte) "Olleros" Station), to chat in English  while at the same time enjoy something from the café in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere without rigid or set topics.

In these encounters people have the chance to chat and make friends while making a practice of the language in comfortable surroundings where experiences and ideas can be shared freely.

Every meeting becomes an opportunity to enjoy a social event that's is both fun and useful to practice languages and meet people face to face. 

In sum a  "coffee chat" as may take place in any cosmopolitan city in the world.

These are not meant to be classes. The capability of communicating or expressing oneself in the language is enough to participate .

Topics are open and uncensored.

Minimum duration: 1 hour. 

To participate a nominal contribution of  $ 5.00 is required  for expenses, plus  your order at the café.

No need for previous confirmation!

Information:

meetandchat@gmail.com

Thank you and we will be seeing you!!!!

Political-Economical Quiz

¿How to complete the questionnaire?

There are two groups of statements, the first about individual liberties and the second about economic liberties.

In each statement you will answer if you agree or do not agree. The center option is for more or less, not conclusively agree or disagree.

Once finished return the questionnaire for processing

Political orientation Test:

Individual Liberties	+	+o-	-
Any individual should have the liberty to create and set up any means o communication, like radio or television, without any limitation by the government regarding content, hours of transmission or languages.
Adult citizens will decide their names and surnames as those of their children. They, upon reaching adulthood or maturity will in turn be free to decide by themselves.
Whatever takes place between consenting adults, in a private context, concerns only to them.
Adults should decide if they do or do not use the safety belt in their cars.
Couples will decide and by mutual agreement the form of union they desire (civil marriage, religious, contract between parties, etc.).
Nobody can be forced or induced to do or perform any particular activity or career. Compulsive army service o draft is therefore a form of slavery and should not be reinstated.
The prohibition of narcotic or illusionary drugs is an inherence on rights of individual. Persons of adult legal age should be free to consume whatever they desire.
Nobody should interfere with the free circulation of people. No individual will be impeded by others or the government in his free circulation of roads and streets and any other means of travel without due cause or emergency.
It is in the power of parents, and only them, the choosing of the type of education that their children will receive.
No censorship will exist for lectures, film and arts, or information to which adults can access, Adults should discriminate according to their own moral criteria the type of information that is right or convenient to them, and that which is not.
Economic Freedom	+	+o-	-
Charity is an exclusively voluntary act. A person should be able to freely decide whether to make a donation or not and to what destiny it should reach.
Public institutions, being governed by the principle of equality before the law will not economically or in any way subsidize or favor specific sectors without any consideration whatsoever to their nature or possible justification.
Work is a private and individual activity. The moment, the place and the conditions are matters that must be decided by the worker and the patron without anybody’s or government interference. Nobody can overrule a work contract signed by two adult persons in an act that is free and voluntary.
The price of any product, real state work or service should depend only on the agreement between the parties affected by the transaction. No organism, government or organization of any kind can lower or raise the agreed price by the contracting parties nor annul the operation.
Economic activity, being the monetary transactions whether it be for profit, loss, donation or maintenance, cannot be subjected under any argument to the tutorship, protection or help of the State or government. The only limitation to earn money or make a living is that it must be done legitimately.
People have the right to purchase whatever goods and services they desire.
The construction , demolition or modification of any real estate is sole and exclusive competence of its proprietor. The only limitation being security or urban codes defined technically and not politically.
No means of communication, however independent it’s contents are, should receive public funds.
All foreign commerce barriers should be eliminated.
A citizen or person in capacity has the right, to decide in life or for after death that his belongings should go to a loving person, family, public or private institution or whoever he pleases.

 This is a Meet & Chat translation. Please  return for processing This is a Meet & Chat translation. Please return for processing or go to: http://www.encuestaonline.tk/
http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp
This test is based on the: World's Smallest Political Quiz

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Topics for Dec 10th------ Meeting days on Dec and Jan.

>>> What are we planning for vacation time?

>>>Are you afraid to come to Meet & Chat or other places because you don't feel safe in the city?

>>>Are you worried about global warming, pollution, population growth?

>>>Which is the most threatening or is it just more doomsday talk or media exaggeration?

Notices:

--Meet & Chat will be held on Wednesday December 23rd and 30th.

--During the summer the meeting day will be Wednesday, until new notice.

--News update from Paul Lim, the lone sailor.

He sends greetings and says that he is soon to cast off from Puerto Montt, Chile, to high seas due south and around Cape Horn to South Georgia Islands.

We wish him good ventures and good winds!!