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9 Things for Brits To Know About Thanksgiving Posted: 27 Nov 2008 08:16 AM CST Today is Thanksgiving in the USA, we wanted to unravel a few facts for those not in the know.. Thanksgiving is not celebrated by us Brits but the World’s most powerful nation stops work and eats on the fourth Thursday in November each year, we thought we’d unravel a few facts about Thanksgiving Day. 1. The first Thanksgiving celebration can be traced back to the Plymouth Pilgrims in the fall of 1621. 2. The Mayflower launched from Plymouth with 102 passengers, 46 of which died during the first winter. 3. Thanksgiving was started by English Separatists arriving on the ship the Mayflower. 4. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the 2nd Monday of October in Canada. 5. The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days. 6. 45 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving. 7. Over 306 million Kilos (675m pounds) of turkey are eaten each Thanksgiving in the United States. 8. Only male turkeys gobble. Females make a clicking noise. 9. The average person consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day. Sounds like Christmas to us..! Related Posts No Related Post

Britney Spears Set for UK Tour Dates Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:40 AM CST Britney Spears has confirmed that she will play two concerts in the UK London at the O2 arena in London. The dates will be the only European shows on her forthcoming world tour. Rob Hallett of tour promoter AEG said, "”We’re creating a musical circus. Expect to see jugglers, dancers, tattooed ladies and acrobats." Tickets go on sale on December the 5th and Hallett said they are likely to be Britney's only tour dates in Europe for the "foreseeable future”. This week Britney is also to appear on the X-factor. image credit: Melissa;; Related Posts No Related Post

Alcohol Duty Reduced To Keep Whisky Drinkers Happy Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:30 AM CST Alcohol duty revisited to stop Whisky drinkers being punished by the Budget. Much has been made by some bloggers of Chancellor Alistair Darling’s move to alter the Alcohol Duty on spirits that was announced in the small print of the Pre-Budget Report on Monday. The theory, to offset the savings made by VAT by increasing the cost of the duty, didn’t quite work out in practice.. Because alcohol is taxed by alcoholic content, and not the price of the bottle, certain spirits were loosing out, and the Scottish Whisky industry was quick to point out the damage that this unbalancing would bring… some 29p per bottle. Never let it be said that this Edinburgh MP doesn’t know what his constituents like - an amendment was published on Wednesday to correct the imbalance and keep the Scots happy. Hix. Related Posts Drinking Banned Completely for Young Drivers Chancellor Cuts VAT, Raises Tax on Cigarettes and Alcohol New Laws to Ban Happy Hours and Drinking Games Ten Ways To Reform The BBC and the TV Licence Got a Computer? You’ll Need To Buy a £139.50 Licence

Teacher Found Guilty of Spending Too Much Time on Facebook Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:20 AM CST A primary school teacher was found guilty of misconduct by the General Teaching Council for Wales after it was revealed that she would spend hours a day on social networking sites like Facebook, Friends Reunited along with buying and selling goods on Ebay. Sian Mediana, 40, resigned from her position and denied that she used the internet excessively. However, two teaching assistants told the hearing in Cardiff that Miss Mediana was often seen “trawling the internet”. Mrs Mediana was given a three-year conditional registration order by the panel and must notify the headteacher of any school she works at about the order. Delivering the panel’s verdict, Mr Williams said “Pupils’ progress may have been seriously affected.” Image credit: pshab Related Posts Scrabble reclaims number one spot Virgin Cabin Crew sacked over ‘Chav’ Remarks

“Gripping His Ears, Tugging At The Locks,” That’s Bad Sex Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:20 AM CST Rachel Johnson’s Shire Hell wins ‘worst sex scene in an excellent novel’ prize. Congratulations go to Times columnist (and sister of London Mayor Boris Johnson) Rachel Johnson for winning this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Shire Hell, the follow-up to Notting Hell, picked up the prize for a passage in a novel which is most gratuitous, and not really required because the rest of the novel is ‘jolly good.’ And yes, we here at The Daily Dust have that passage: I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me. I really do hope at this point that all the Spodders are, as requested, attending the meeting about slug clearance… Now in it’s 15th year, the Bad Sex in Fiction judges also awarded a Lifetime Achievement award to John Updike who has managed four consecutive nominations. Related Posts No Related Post

Things That Cost 1 Trillon Pounds Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:10 AM CST So the UK national debt will be over a trillion pounds? What’s that worth? Congratulations to blogger ‘Old Holborn,’ who’s collated some ideas to give scale to the size of One… Trillion… Pounds… the estimated UK National Debt over the next few years: If there were enough £1 coins available; you’d need a colossal 10 million tonnes of them. Which is the approximate weight of 32 of the World’s largest Supertankers. How about if on the day that Queen Victoria died you dragged £25 million Pounds in used notes off into the woods and burnt them; and then repeated the exercise EVERY day since? You’d still be two years short of destroying a Trillion Pounds. If it were turned into £20 notes you’d need 2000 Securicor vans to move it. There’s more over on Old Holborn’s Blog. Related Posts No Related Post

Australia Discover the Delights of Captain Slow Posted: 27 Nov 2008 12:00 AM CST 60 Minutes down under profile the UK Top Gear team. On their round the world tour with Top Gear Live, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were profiled by Australian magazine show 60 minutes, with lots of chat about the new Top Gear show (and a blink and you’ll miss it mention of the William Woollard years), the fun, the cocking about and the danger. Worth a watch for fans and opponents alike. (Top Gear, BBC2, Sundays at 8pm). Related Posts Jonathon Ross Dilutes Top Gear Top Gear Reveals … . -.-. .-. . - Messages Woolworths Goes Into Administration Now Clarkson is in the firing line

Apple iPhone Ad Banned by Advertising Standards Watchdog Posted: 26 Nov 2008 11:50 PM CST An advert for the Apple iPhone has been banned by the advertising standards watchdog for exaggerating the phone’s speed. The ad showed a page loading an internet page in under a second. The advertising standards watchdog upheld complaints by 17 people that the ad misled them about the phone's speed. The ASA has now said that the ad will not appear again on television in the same form as it could appear to viewers as though the phone operated at those speeds. The watchdog concluded: “Because we understood that it did not, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead.” Looks like another point to add to our iphone fails page. Related Posts Google’s iPhone Speech Recognition fails British Accents The Time, Sponsored by Disney… Top seven iPhone fails.. Atheist Adverts Set to Appear on London Buses

Kilroy is First Out of I’m A Celeb Posted: 26 Nov 2008 04:08 PM CST Breaking: Robert Kilroy-Silk first out of I’m a celeb The first celeb was voted out and Robert Kilroy-Silk was the one to take the honour. Up against ex-Police Chief Brian Paddick, it was close but only one could go.. We said before it started that Kilroy would go after two days..we were wrong, but he was first, as we kind of predicted.. Who should have gone?  Let us know below.. Related Posts Credit-Card-Carly “It’s not easy being rich” Oh no…it’s Timmy Mallett! I’m a celeb, let me gag on here I’m a celeb and I will show my body off I’m a Celeb - I’ll stay at home please..

Two to follow on Thursday Posted: 26 Nov 2008 01:04 PM CST A good afternoon's racing ahead on Thursday with Newbury staging an informative card. Several events will be worth watching with a view to the future, especially the Worcester Novices' Chase where The Tother One (2.05) can land this for trainer Paul Nicholls, who has won this four times since 1997. A smart hurdler last year, The Tother One made an impressive introduction to the chasing game when beating one of today's rivals, Gone To Lunch, over one length at Exeter last month. Considering that was his first outing since April, improvement is likely today. The next bet of the day comes at Uttoxeter where Comhla Ri Coig (1.20) is expected to go off a decent price. Trainer Donald McCain Junior – son of Ginger who trained Red Rum – has made a bright start to his career and knows how to place his horses and looks to have found the right opportunity for this lightly raced sort. After a promising sixth in a bumper – national hunt flat race - this gelding stepped up to be an encouraging third over 2m6f at Kelso a few weeks back. He stayed on nicely that day, giving the impression today's three miles will suit and rates a cracking each-way bet today. Have a free £100 bet on Totesport Read more from David on his blog http://www.racingtrendsrevealed.blogspot.com/ If anyone is interested in a historic guide to this season’s major jumps races, then his latest book “Racing Trends Revealed Jumps 2009″ is available at High Stakes website. Alternatively, there is a competition running on the guardian website all this week to win a copy of it. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/horseracing (talking horses) for further details. Related Posts No Related Post

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MORE ABOUT INDIA - Test series will go ahead, says Modi - What now for cricket in India? - England set to fly home from India

India

Test series will go ahead, says Modi

Most powerful figure in Indian cricket confident two-Test series against England will still go ahead.

27 Nov 2008

What now for cricket in India?

Knock-on effects of terrible atrocities in Mumbai are already being felt across the cricket world.

27 Nov 2008

UAE willing to host India matches

India could be forced to follow Pakistan and play home fixtures in the UAE following the Mumbai terror attacks.

27 Nov 2008

Passion for cricket can fight against Mumbai brutality

Future of IPL is irrelevant when weighed against loss of life, but it's hoped brutality in hotels does not stall cricket too long.

27 Nov 2008

England Performance Squad to return home

Michael Vaughan, Monty Panesar and Andrew Strauss part of squad making arrangements to fly home from India.

27 Nov 2008

Champions League postponed

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai force organisers to put back Twenty20 tournament in India until new year.

27 Nov 2008

England set to fly home from India

England squad likely to fly back from India after remaining one-dayers cancelled, but India claim Test series will go ahead.

5. Passion for cricket in India can fight back against brutality played out in Mumbai On the television in every beautifully appointed room of the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai a charming information film runs on a permanent loop.   By Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Reporter Last Updated: 1:37PM GMT 27 Nov 2008 Under attack: Mumbai, India's commercial heart, has been hit by terrorists Photo: AP In the film, a tail-coated Roshan Seth is cast as the spirit of India's most famous hotel, walking new guests through the rich history of this most evocative of hotels. Initially a pleasure-dome in the dying days of the Raj, it witnessed the building of the Gateway to India, erected on the waterfront opposite to greet the visiting George V in 1928. Since then it has played host to the key figures in independence, partition and received a stream of stellar guests from the Mountbattens to the Lennons. Last night's horrific events have added a new, unwelcome and bloody chapter. I came across the film in February, when fortunate enough to be staying at the Taj while covering the launch of the Indian Premier League, a sporting venture that seemed to encapsulate the dynamism and commercial fearlessness of the new India. It is not, perhaps, too great a leap to speculate that these are the very qualities that made the heart of India's most vibrant city a target for jihadists. The main event of the week was the player auction, in which the eight franchises in the new league competed for the services of some of the world's greatest players. It was an outlandish display of the new wealth being flexed by this sporting start-up, and was staged no more than a mile from the Taj at the Oberoi Hotel on Marine Drive. The other principle entirely appropriate that the player auction took place in the heart of Mumbai. Not only is it India's commercial heart, it is also the centre of its cricketing culture. To walk from the Taj to the Oberoi was to experience first hand the passion for cricket in India. First you cross the Oval Maidan, a mile-long strip of patchy grass in the heart of the city, on which scores of impromptu cricket matches take place apparently from dawn to dusk. Next you pass the Brabourne Stadium, historic home of the Cricket Club of India, a venue steeped in colonial ease that is due to host one of England's Test matches next month. When I visited, Andrew Flintoff was making a tentative return from injury at the ground for England Lions, and it was possible to watch him do so while sipping a cool drink beneath a beating fan in front of the pavilion. The Brabourne stages Tests rarely since the Board of Control for Cricket in India abandoned it in favour for the vast purpose-built bowl of the Wankahede Stadium, an 80,000-capacity arena whose floodlights are visible from the upper terrace of the pavilion. Now badly dilapidated and undergoing renovation, the Wankaheded symbolised the first era of Indian cricket's expansion. A mile to the south on Marine Drive the Oberoi played host to the birth of the second when I visited. An irresistible coalition of franchise owners, including entrepreneurs such as Veejay Mallya and Bollywod star Shriti Patel, and cricketing demi-gods descended on the hotel in a masterpiece of hype expertly choreographed by IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and IMG. While cricket boards in England and Australia looked on and muttered about the threat to the game's heritage, Indian administrators were getting on with creating the most exciting new competition that game has ever seen. It was irresistible to the domestic media, and my abiding memory of the event was witnessing first-hand the almost maniacal media interest in the game in India. Sourav Ganguly, the former national captain and a living icon in his home city, was one of the few players to attend the auction. When he made to leave he was followed by 17 camera crews and as many print journalists, and his slow passage across the lobby of the Oberoi was carried live on rolling news channels. Today some of those same journalists may be back on that same stretch of marble filming pools of blood. The future of a sporting venture is an irrelevance when weighed against the massive loss of life of the last 24 hours, but it is to be hoped that the brutality played out in the hotel lobbies does not stall cricket too long. In founding the IPL, and attracting the world's best players, Modi and his colleagues have underlined India's pre-eminence in a game that was brought to the sub-continent by colonisers who deluded themselves that it could be a tool of empire. From the IPL has sprung the Champions League tournament due to feature Middlesex that was today postponed. In the century since, the game is a powerful symbol of self-determination, economic confidence and it is the former colonials who dance to India's tune. Here's hoping the music can re-start soon. http://www.telegraph.co.uk Passion for cricket in India can fight back against brutality ... - 1 hour ago By Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Reporter In the film, a tail-coated Roshan Seth is cast as the spirit of India's most famous hotel, walking new guests through ... Telegraph.co.uk - 5103 related articles » Terror in India: Mumbai Under Assault - TIME - 953 related articles » Terrorists target symbol of new India - The Australian - 932 related articles »

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Sobre Angola - E' um país com uma das economias de mais rápido crescimento em todo o mundo, Angola posiciona-se como um membro activo da comunidade económica global

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Com uma das economias de mais rápido crescimento em todo o mundo, Angola posiciona-se como um membro activo da comunidade económica global. Entre 1995 e 2004, o PIB de Angola registou um crescimento médio de 9%. Em 2005, o crescimento das receitas do petróleo fez subir o PIB cerca de 20%. Excluindo o petróleo e os diamantes, estima-se que a taxa anual de crescimento de 2005 seja de 14%, devido em grande parte ao aumento da produção agrícola.

A República de Angola é uma democracia multipartidária com um regime Presidencial. O actual Presidente é José Eduardo dos Santos. O Gabinete é constituído por um Conselho de Ministros nomeado pelo Presidente. A Assembleia Nacional possui 220 lugares; os seus membros são eleitos por votação proporcional para um mandato de quatro anos.

 

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840a 11/27 Update: Astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 73
Posted: 8:40 AM, 11/27/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-70 (11/26/08): Progress cargo ship launched; antenna glitch may force manual docking; Endeavour cargo module move to shuttle on tap
   SR-71 (11/26/08): Progress antenna deploys on second try
   SR-72 (11/26/08): Leonardo cargo module detached from station, re-berthed in shuttle cargo bay
   SR-73 (11/27/08): Astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

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8:40 AM, 11/27/08, Update: Astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space

Celebrating Thanksgiving in space, the crews of the international space station and the shuttle Endeavour enjoyed a half-day off today, looking forward to sharing a turkey dinner in orbit before saying farewell and closing hatches between the two spacecraft to set the stage for undocking Friday.

The astronauts were awakened to begin their holiday in space just after 7 a.m. by a recording of "Hold Tight to Your Dreams" by the Electric Light Orchestra that was beamed up from mission control.

"Good morning, Endeavour," astronaut Shannon Lucid called from Houston. "A special good morning to you today, Heide, and happy Thanksgiving to the entire crew."

"Good morning to you, Shannon, and the rest of Houston," Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper replied. "Thank you for that great song on this Thanksgiving day. We can give thanks for what we have and never stop dreaming."

The two crews are able to enjoy Thanksgiving together thanks to a one-day mission extension that delayed undocking to Friday. As it is, they plan to enjoy a joint meal around 1:40 p.m. that will feature traditional holiday fare.

"We have 10 crew members on board, we've managed to scare up a full Thanksgiving dinner, complements of some rations the food people back in Houston were nice enough to put together for us," shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson said earlier. "We'll have a true Thanksgiving feast where we'll share a meal with our international space station counterparts and we'll share some stories, I'm sure, and we'll just enjoy the turkey."

Space station Flight Director Emily Nelson said the crews deserved a break.

"It's just been a really great mission and we are happy these guys are going to get a little bit of time off to appreciate the stars and what they can see in low-Earth orbit and to look down on us and see this beautiful planet of ours," she said early today. "We look forward to getting them back on the ground and getting to celebrate with them in person."

Joint shuttle-station crews "tend to eat back in the (Russian) service module of the space station," she said. "So they'll have their Thanksgiving dinner together, we assume they'll probably be eating back there. We don't have cameras back in there so they can get a little privacy from us. They'll have the standard turkey, cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole and some cranberry crumble for desert."

Outgoing station flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff, launched to the lab complex May 31, will return to Earth aboard Endeavour. He was replaced by flight engineer Sandra Magnus. Early today, while his crewmates slept, Chamitoff enjoyed an unhurried conversation with Robert Hanley in mission control.

"It's a real privilege to be part of all this," he reflected. "You know, this is kind of a turning point. There's only one space station. Someday, there'll be many and there will be other places to go other than this one space station. So it's really an honor for us to be part of this turning point for humanity. It's amazing."

"We just celebrated the 10th anniversary (of the station) and a lot of us, almost everybody around here, worked the very first (missions) and remember when the station was just contents and small pieces," Hanley said. "Now, it's amazing it's become what we envisioned."

"Yeah, it really has," Chamitoff said. "It's taken the whole world to build this place. ... This has been a really amazing life experience to be here."

"It's been a great six months working with you on the station."

"Yeah, thanks, it's really hard to leave," Chamitoff said. "I'm looking forward to coming back and seeing everybody on the ground. It'll be fun to celebrate."

Chamitoff will join Stefanyshyn-Piper, Ferguson, pilot Eric Boe, Don Pettit, Stephen Bowen and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough for the trip home Sunday. A farewell ceremony with station commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yury Lonchakov and Magnus is scheduled for 5:55 p.m. Hatches between Endeavour and the station will be closed a few minutes later to set the stage for undocking Friday at 9:47 a.m.

The astronauts staged four spacewalks during the mission and moved more than 16,000 pounds of equipment and supplies from the shuttle to station, including critical water recycling gear needed to boost the lab's crew size from three to six next year.

Despite initial problems, the astronauts were able to activate the water processing system, collecting samples for return to Earth aboard Endeavour, and successfully serviced the station's damaged right-side solar array rotary mechanism.

Today, the astronauts were rewarded with time off to relax and enjoy Thanksgiving.

Station Flight Director Holly Ridings said the crew's flight schedule was adjusted to synchronize shuttle and station crew off-duty periods "so that all of them can spend the first part of their day together, as a crew, as a team and enjoy Thanksgiving."

"The first half of the crew day up until the midday meal is basically off-duty time," she said. "So they have roughly half of their day that they can enjoy each other's company. During that time we do have the right KU-band antenna coverage where they'll be able to use their (internet) phone that they have on board to call people here on the ground and of course, since the mission lines up pretty nicely with central standard time hours they'll be able to find people awake, which is always a bonus. We have several opportunities to uplink and downlink email."

In mission control at the Johnson Space Center, where an image of a turkey replaced the space station on NASA's big tracking map, "we have folks that are willing to feed our flight control teams," Ridings said. "They'll be bringing Thanksgiving to us. They'll do it several times, actually. They'll start Wednesday night pretty late to hit that overnight shift that gets done at 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning. Then they'll bring food again at 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving and they'll do it it one more time later that day. They do a really good job of taking care of us."

Here is an updated timeline of today's activity (in EST and mission elapsed time; includes revision M of the NASA television schedule):

EST........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

11/27/08
06:55 AM...12...11...00...Crew wakeup
08:25 AM...12...12...30...ISS daily planning conference
09:10 AM...12...13...15...ISS crew off duty
09:20 AM...12...13...25...Shuttle crew off duty
01:21 PM...12...17...26...Crew interviews
01:40 PM...12...17...45...Thanksgiving meal
02:40 PM...12...18...45...EVA transfers
02:50 PM...12...18...55...Final middeck transfers
03:30 PM...12...19...35...Mission status briefing on NASA TV
04:55 PM...12...21...00...Rendezvous tools checkout
04:55 PM...12...21...00...Departure preps
05:55 PM...12...22...00...Farewell ceremony
06:00 PM...12...22...05...Hatches closed
06:20 PM...12...22...25...Orbiter docking system leak checks
07:00 PM...12...23...05...Evening planning conference
09:25 PM...13...01...30...ISS crew sleep begins
09:55 PM...13...02...00...STS crew sleep begins
10:00 PM...13...02...05...Flight day 14 highlights

11/28/08
06:55 AM...13...10...00...Crew wakeup
08:30 AM...13...12...35...HD flight day 14 highlights
09:47 AM...13...13...52...Endeavour undocks from space station

"This is a very busy time for all of us," Ferguson said earlier. "I really don't think we've had time to prepare for the holidays at all. I do know we plan to get together ... for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Of course, it gives us a moment to pause and reflect on just how fortunate we are as a country and as a global community to participate in a partnership like this. ... Truly, it gives us an opportunity to come together as a global community and we're very thankful for that in addition to the opportunity to fly in space."

Added Fincke: "We all miss our families when we're gone away for the holidays and we're just another military family with one of the parents deployed."

"We're just like every other military family, we miss our loved ones when we're gone. but we're going to come home and we're going to have a really nice time when we're all together," he said. "So for that I'm very thankful, and I'm thankful for all the other people out there who are protecting our country and who are away from home on the holidays, especially Thanksgiving. So God bless the troops and God bless my family."

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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RADIO CANAL ANGOLA - Vem ai o KISSAMA, um programa de Sissimo Ukamba - KISSAMA, no coraçao das culturas de Angola

Programa: KISSAMA, no coraçao das culturas de Angola

 

               Este é um programa totalmente dedicado a reflectir sobre os nossos habitos e costumes (passado e Presente).

               Se divide em tres partes: 1. momomento do Jango (dicas sobre  os habitos e costumes, cada ediçao um tema); 2. momento do zwela (perguntas e respostas com os ouvintes e um convidado residente Francis+PAC); 3. momentos das news kissama (dicas, noticias, eventos culturais, bodas, moda, tudo sobre cultura)

 

Horario: todas as quintas feiras, das 21-23 (em Angola e na Italia).

Um abraço e esperando por noticias suas.

 

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