Monthly Newsletter
April 2010
www.amsoc.com.br
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he American Society of Sao mid-April), we’ll assign spots to groups
encouraged to attend the impor- Paulo’s 60th Anniversary Charity based on who reserved first. So make your
tant Annual General Meeting on Dinner & Dance is in benefit of reservations soon and sit in the center of
April 14. Vivenda da Crianca and other the action -- or near the dessert!
AmSoc partners, and will be held on Why do we need to fill out a form in
Local charity Friday, May 7, at Buffet Torres Moema, order to buy a ticket?
brightens kids’ lives Av. Dos Imares, 182. Cocktails and games This will help us communicate with you
with prizes will run from 7:30 to 9 pm , – and help us be more organized. We will
Page 5: AmSoc-sponsored charity with dinner, dancing and an auction to be able to tell you your table number and
Projeto Sol has come a long way follow. Dress is Black Tie optional, and remind you of your ticket number. This
in recent years, thanks in no small the cost per person is R$200. A numbered is the number you’ll use for our games
part to AmSoc volunteers. Take a invitation is required for entrance. and auctions. We also will be able to send
look inside its success. you updates about prizes and other news.
A helpful Q&A about the party Finally, filling out the form means you will
Changes to U.S. Visas What should I wear? spend less or no time in lines when you
Women, wear your most beautiful long arrive at the party.
for Brazilians or short party dress. Men, you’ll look What if I can’t get a whole table
Page 12: The U.S. Consulate lovely in black tie or in a dark suit. Both together or do not know anyone to join?
offers news and insight on all the of you will be able to have your pictures We will seat you at a fun table, trying to
changes Brazilians will find when taken upon arrival as a souvenir of the match you up with people similar to you.
they apply for their next U.S. party. If you specifically want to sit with certain
Tourist Visa. Can we reserve tables? people, mention this on your ticket order
When a whole group of people buys form and we will do our best. Many groups
a table, they will be asked about where like Newcomers, British Club, Scottish
A Brazilian dessert they’d like the table to be. Then, as soon as Club, Graded School and Chapel School
experience all the tables have all been sold (probably will be organizing tables (Continued on page 6)
Our Mission
The American Society of São Paulo
promotes friendship by organizing
social, cultural and athletic events for
its diverse membership; encourages
integration with the Brazilian society;
and supports the American traditions
of education, philanthropy and Learn about American players like Shamell Stallworth, a native of San Francisco,
volunteerism. starring in Brazil’s growing National Basketball League, on pages 8-9. (Photo
by João Pires/Pinheiros SKY)
The American Society
of São Paulo
If you are reading your logo at traditional celebrations such If you’ve been to one of AmSoc’s to seeing a broad
this you’re probably as 4th of July or Thanksgiving. Name, age: Ryan Annual General Meetings before, cross-section of
an American Society We encourage you and your company Bellissimo, 13 you’ll know that its obligatory title will our membership
member. I wonder to join us. Please call or e-mail our office Origin, time here: never reflect the amiable charm and there, including
though if you have for additional information and to take Riverside, Conn., positivity of the event itself. new members.”
ever considered advantage of this opportunity.
April is a busy month here at the one-and-a-half A social gathering, with cocktails, As is tradition,
partnering with years. hors d’oeuvres and plenty of time to the president
American Society American Society. Kicking off the month
in a new way; will be the children’s Easter Party, an Profession: I go enjoy the company of AmSoc members, will make a short
by working with event filled with traditional egg hunting to Graded, the it is far more than “just” a meeting. speech noting
and through your and games for the kids. Board member American School This AGM will also be treated as a the highlights of
By Tim Scott, AmSoc president Felicia Smith is the organizer for this in São Paulo. My farewell party for U.S. Consul General the past year, and
company as an
American Society Corporate Sponsor. event, we appreciate her dedication to favorite subject is English (Humanities), Tom White and his family, who’ll be the plans for the
Corporate Sponsors gain some important bring you another fun children’s event. though I also like math, science and gym. leaving Sao Paulo in July after serving coming year. The
benefits; a broader “marketing” exposure to For sports, we have Little League, Why São Paulo?: My dad works for three years at the local U.S. Consulate. last year has seen
the American Society’s members, support organized by Board member Benton IBM and was appointed as head [of a The AGM will be on April 14. RSVP many successes for AmSoc, including Committee, which has been highly
for the orphanages and social projects with Kirk, continuing during April plus two department] for Latin America. to the invitation letters you receive the 4th of July and Thanksgiving focused on improving its processes.
which the American Society works, and Saturdays with softball organized by Board
member John Kennedy. During April we Best thing so far: I would have to say the through the AmSoc office: (amsoc@ events, both of which were very well This has improved the efficacy of
direct support of the American Society beaches and the vacation opportunities. amsoc.com.br / 5182-2074). Space is attended. meetings, the evaluation of the charities
mission. The first two benefits are self are also very busy planning for our 60th
explanatory, but why, you may ask, is Anniversary Party, which will be on May I would never have gotten to go to Peru, limited. Identification in the form of a One issue that is also very likely to that AmSoc works with, and the sharing
supporting the AmSoc mission a benefit? 7. I’ve seen the plans and I can assure you Buenos Aires, and Patagonia. Also, the passport or RNE card will be checked get a mention is the financial crisis and of best practices.
Support for the American Society mission it will be an amazing evening. Even better, parties here: There’s more dancing at at the door. how AmSoc weathered the storm. Eric To learn more about the future of
(see mission statement on front cover) is a a significant portion of the proceeds will parties than in America. Last year, about 140 members Street, board chairman for Marketing, AmSoc, though, there’s only one thing
benefit to every company (of any origin) go to benefit one of our partner charities, Early frustrations: I found the attended the AGM, which included Forum and Internet, said, “We managed to do – go to the AGM! Be sure to be
because we help integrate people to life in Vivenda da Criança. See more details education here different. I think it’s not the opera singer Walter Fawcett finances well during a difficult year prepared to enjoy yourself, maybe meet
this wonderful, yet challenging, city of São about the event in this issue of the Forum. strict enough and not of such a high singing the American National for companies and individuals.” Scott some old friends and definitely make
Paulo. All company HR managers know Also coming up is our Annual General quality as in the States. Also, freedom is Anthem. Entertainment this year, yet agreed, adding, “During 2009, when some new ones. As Street said, “It’s
that employees, especially ex-pats, have a Meeting on April 14. All members are a real problem. I live in a nice area, but I unannounced, will undoubtedly be of a economic conditions were difficult, the a really nice event that brings people
positive international experience if they are welcome and encouraged to join us for
an evening that is actually a lot more fun can’t just ride my bike downtown like I similarly high calibre. American Society finished the year on together, and which people seem to
connected in a community of people with can in the States. I can’t even leave the In fact, the procedural side, including the positive side.” greatly enjoy. One of the highlights of
similar interests. than its dry title would suggest. The event
You may also wonder how companies is known for bringing together a broad condominium! Meeting up with friends the election of the board and voting on Membership has also continued to the year.”
get broader marketing exposure. Well, cross section of our membership for an takes a lot of arranging. financial report, will be only a small grow, and Scott wants to emphasize the AmSoc’s biggest event planned for
here are some examples. Depending on evening of social engagement combined Have saudade for anything back part of the event. AmSoc President Tim diversity of members within AmSoc. this year will be the 60th Anniversary
the level of your sponsorship, you receive with delicious hors d’oeuvres and a short home?: American football. I really miss Scott emphasized the social aspect. “It’s The president also told the Forum that Party in May, for which tickets will be
your company logo on all our Little League business meeting. this. I actually started a league here, actually a fun event, even though it’s he will be commenting on the excellent on sale at the AGM.
team jerseys, a link to your company It is here that we communicate to with a group that watched games after not a very exciting title. I look forward work of the Community Action
from our Web site, naming rights at an you about the workings of the American we played, but it was hard to keep up
AmSoc sporting event, advertisements in Society during the past year, elect new because we had to be too careful with
our monthly Forum and annual Directory, board members and officers, and look the younger kids. I also miss the food,
preferential and complimentary tickets at to the plans for the year ahead. I hope to
see you there. especially Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-
AmSoc premier events, and a banner with Robbins ice cream. Brazil needs more
[North] American fast food!
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developed over the years, where of how the leadership of one strong
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Cheap Rio: Cidade Maravilhosa on a budget Update on Amnesty process: Thousands granted
By Tom Moore, columnist, BrazilMax.com
access, confusion lingers
Almost all foreign visitors to Rio de the Praia – Regular concerts at 6:30 p.m. the cog railway (R$30) or by taxi up the
Janeiro stay in the beach neighborhoods Museu da República - Rua do Catete, 153 autoroad. Join the truly elite and walk up –
of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. If (Catete). Metrô stop: Catete. The Museum pedestrians enter for free. If you are really Six months after the Brazilian government almost all the basic rights that Brazilians RNE process can be difficult. Lawyers
you stay in Flamengo or Catete you can is immediately outside the Metrô entrance. a glutton for punishment you could begin allowed illegal immigrants to apply for have, including health care, education recommend that immigrants using the
pay a lot less. Teatro Arte SESC - Rua Marquês de at Largo do Machado and walk all the way amnesty, approximately 43,000 people and workers’ rights laws. They can’t, for Protocolo while waiting on their RNE
Paysandu Hotel, Rio de Janeiro - Rua Abrantes, 99 (Flamengo). Metrô stop: up through Cosme Velho. For just a few have been granted temporary residency. example, run for public office. card fully educate themselves about
Paissandú. Metrô stop: Largo do Machado Flamengo – To attend a SESC concert, pennies more you can take the kombi (a The Presidential decree signed by President While many reported a smooth process their rights, like the ability to open a
-- This is a small and charming art-deco you must stand in line for free tickets, VW van) to Silvestre, and walk up. Your Lula in June 2009 marked the third time at the Federal Police in the last 180 days, bank account or work, so they can then
style hotel very close to the bay-shore in which are distributed one half hour before hike to the toll gate for cars will be about that the Brazilian government has offered some have found the process unclear. explain the process and educate Brazilians
the older neighborhood of Flamengo, with the performance. The space is small and 45 minutes, with an additional 20 minutes amnesty to illegal immigrants (the other Information is published in Portuguese, and who have doubts about the Protocolo.
all of the normal hotel amenities for a price the demand great, so get there early. to the summit and the Christ statue. two were in 1988 and 1998). often isn’t updated in government offices at
around R$100 per night. Quiet, pleasant Conservatório Brasileiro de Música Floresta de Tijuca ( Tijuca Forest). The majority, around 40,600 of the the same pace as new developments.
and comfortable. Tel. 2558-7270. - Av. Graça Aranha, 57, twelfth floor Metrô stop: Saens Pena, bus to Alto da immigrants granted amnesty, were Latin Applicants have also questioned the ease
Hotel Barão do Flamengo - Rua Barão (Center). Metrô stop: Cinelândia, walk Boa Vista -- The Tijuca National Park (free Americans and Asians who were living in which to get their “Protocolo,” a small
do Flamengo, Metrô stop: Largo do down Rua Pedro Lessa (pedestrians only), admission) lies beyond the neighborhood illegally in Brazil. Most came to Brazil piece of paper with their photo that serves
Machado -- Primarily a hotel serving local turn left (5 minutes from the station). of Tijuca, a comfortable, traditional for work options that were better than as their temporary ID, before an RNE
Cariocas who need a private space for a Cheap Eats middle-class enclave at the opposite back home, and ended up working “off the card is printed. Doubts have reportedly
few hours. Tourists on a budget will find Breakfast end of the Metrô from Copacabana. The books,” where the government couldn’t gone unanswered regarding if immigrants
it economical at R$42 for an overnight Rio is full of padarias (bakeries which Metrô ride from Zona Sul to Saens Pena access their tax potential, or protect them can travel outside the country and return
stay, including a breakfast brought to your usually include a small market) where you (the last stop) is about a half-hour. There from substandard conditions and unfair with this Protocolo (which they can),
room (coffee, juice, French bread, butter, can eat breakfast standing up at counter. you will need to catch the bus going over wages. and complaints have been filed against
etc.) Tel. 2205-7231. My favorite is the Panificação Aliança the pass to Barra da Tijuca. Get off at About 2,400 of the immigrants that bank branches that wouldn’t respect the
Live Music (Rua Laranjeiras at the corner with Rua the top, and enter the park. Follow the received amnesty were Europeans and Protocolo when immigrants tried to open
The variety of music on offer in Rio is Mário Portela). For a large cup of coffee bicycle path all the way up to the parking Americans. For them, some of whom are new bank accounts.
jaw-dropping, and lots of it is available with hot milk, grilled bread and butter lot (about an hour’s walk) for the ascent entrepreneurs, amnesty means the ability RNE cards have not been printed for
free or nearly so. (pão na chapa), and your choice of fruit to Pico da Tijuca ( Tijuca Peak ) or Bico to work more freely, start small businesses, some applicants within the 180 day-
Popular juice you’ll pay a total of R$4. do Papagaio (Parrot’s Beak). Tijuca Peak and to expand their investment horizons. window that follows their application,
Teatro João Caetano, Praça Tiradentes Lunch ( 1028 meters) boasts a staircase cut into Amnesty grants these immigrants and tracking down where they are in the
(Centro). Metrô stop: Carioca; walk down Perhaps the most popular form of fast the rock to facilitate the final stretch.
Rua Sete de Setembro (5-10 minutes) – food in Rio is Arabic. Kibes and esfihas Transportation
The theater has regular series featuring can be found everywhere. You can have A tourist staple for years, the surviving
important samba and choro musicians
offered to the Cariocas who work in
the center, scheduled at lunch time or
a economical, quick and filling lunch
at the Rotisseria Sirio-Libanesa in the
Galeria Condor, Largo do Machado. For
trolley line serving the hill neighborhood
of Santa Teresa is a must. The trolley
leaves a station behind the Petrobrás
Brazil costs still high, according to Big Mac Index
By Regina Scharf, from http://deepbrazil.com
immediately after work. Priced to please a change of pace, try a lunch of açaí in a building in the center, and the line
at R$1. bowl topped with granola (R$4). branches at Largo dos Guimarães, with
Classical Dinner some trolleys continuing on Avenida A worker that earns the average Brazilian Still, according to UBS – which consistently in Rio and São Paulo for the
The following places have frequent free For those with big appetites, an Almirante Alexandrino out to the Dois salary would need to work 40 minutes in systematically compares the cost of life in last 10 years. The price of the products and
(or almost free) concerts: interesting option is the all-you-can-eat Irmãos stop by the Prazeres favela, São Paulo and 51 minutes in Rio to buy 73 cities – São Paulo got the 45th position services that the bank uses as a reference
Casa de Rui Barbosa - Rua São Vulcão das Massas (Volcano of Pasta) and some winding their way down to a Big Mac. In contrast, an average New and Rio the 48th in the last survey. This became approximately 135 percent more
Clemente, 134 (Botafogo). Metrô stop: on Rua Evaristo da Veiga (just down the Largo das Neves near Catumbí (which Yorker would have to work a mere 14 means they are more expensive than expensive in reais between 2000 and 2009.
Botafogo. Walk three minutes up Rua São street from the Teatro Municipal in the has a marvelous restaurant, Goiabeira, minutes to buy McDonald’s best-selling Prague, Bangkok, Beijing or Moscow. Berner was interviewed by G1, a Web
Clemente from the station – The elegant center). For R$10 you can sample sundry serving pizza and flavored cachaça, open sandwich. The so-called Big Mac Index Naturally, there are fluctuations site related to Globo, the main Brazilian
house of Barbosa, an important politician kinds of pasta from a never-ending stream evenings). The fare is R$0.60 each way. is only one of the instruments used by depending on the product or service you news network. G1 chose the Honda Civic
in the early Brazilian Republic , sits in of waiters passing by, and cap off your (Edited for space, read the full version the Swiss bank UBS to illustrate the look at. Even if renting an apartment is to illustrate this. The car costs around
a park on Rua São Clemente, a major feed with the delicious banana pizza. of this story at BrazilMax.com) fluctuations of the purchasing power in expensive in a Brazilian metropolis it US$15,000 in the United States and
thoroughfare in Botafogo. The concerts Come to think of it – you might just want several parts of the world. cannot be compared to the exorbitant R$65,000 (US$35,000) in Brazil.
are in the modern building at the rear to start there. BrazilMax.com offers in-depth São Paulo and Rio are, indeed, pricey New York rentals. This explains why Once the average income didn’t grow
of the property, not in the house itself. Outings information and practical tips, cities. The disproportion is the same New York appears in the UBS study as proportionally, you’d have to work
Espaço Cultural Finep - Praia do Corcovado on foot. Metrô stop: Largo personalized travel planning, online for other products. To buy one kilo of the 6th most expensive metropolis. many more hours to keep buying the
Flamengo, 200 (Flamengo). Metrô stop: do Machado. Kombi to Silvestre (R$1.60 hotel reservations, music downloads, rice, for instance, you have to work 12 Thomas Berner, an American same things. Consequence: the average
Largo do Machado. Walk down Rua each way) -- Yes, everyone goes up discussion forums, an online radio minutes in São Paulo, 15 in Rio and 8 economist that worked for UBS on this Paulistano may consume less than half
Almirante Tamandaré one long block to Corcovado . Ninety-nine percent go by program and more. in New York. study, says prices have been growing what a New Yorker can purchase.
What’s New with Visas? 2010 Corporate Volunteer of coaching soccer to 30 kids ages 7-12,
trying to keep up with his son’s love
of the game. Indeed, his children are
Pet Profile
By Jen White, vice consul, American Citizen Services, U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo
Sponsorship the Month key to his AmSoc involvement. “It
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