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OFF TOPIC: Summer Time

Posted in OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , on 17 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Saturday, 17 October 2009, at midnight Summer time will be implemented in Brazil.
Time is adjusted to one hour forward.
This is valid until 20 February, 2010.
STATES: Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul e Distrito Federal

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OFF TOPIC: Carved Wooden Signs

Posted in OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , , , , on 13 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You can get about anything carved into wood here.   This store’s clients are Ranchers.
Faz. = Fazenda = Ranch.  It can also mean a farm, but in this region of Brazil when you say “I’m going to the Fazenda.”  you think cattle.

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OFF TOPIC: What Does A Trillion Dollars Look Like?

Posted in ECON STUFF, OFF TOPIC:, tagged , on 23 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »

 
 
Click on the link below to visualize  what exactly 1 Trillion dollars is.   
In the last photo, be sure to look for the man in the lower left corner.
 
> Go to 1 Trillion Dollars

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OFF TOPIC: Ultraviolet Index

Posted in CITIES: Goiânia, CITIES: Others, OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , on 5 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
The last few days have been similar to those during the dry season….hot and cloudless skies.  Today it is 35C/95F and only some scattered clouds.  This morning there was not a cloud in the sky.  During the dry season (May to September), there are days (many days) when there is not a cloud to be [...]

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OFF TOPIC: Giving Money Causes Problems!

Posted in ECON STUFF, EDUCATION, OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , on 25 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
 
I found it interesting that Mr. Lemman, a Brazilian businessman and the man behind the Inbev takeover of Anheuser-Bush, would give US$14 million to an American university to set up a Brazilian Studies Center.  Wonder why he didn’t give the money to a private Brazilian university to set up a North American Studies Center?  
Regardless, [...]

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OFF TOPIC: Percy Fawcett – Brad Pitt – Tom Cruise – Survivor

Posted in CITIES: Rio, HISTORY:, OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Percy is on the left!  :-)
Read the other day that Brad Pitt will play the role of Percy Fawcett; an English explorer who vanished in Northeast Mato Grosso in 1925 while searching for the Lost City of Z.    The news clip said Brad and Angelina would move to Brazil during the filming.   Mato [...]

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OFF TOPIC: Obama

Posted in OFF TOPIC:, tagged , , , , , , , , on 20 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »

As a kid growning up in Southwest Oklahoma in the early 50’s, I can remember official racism -water fountains (white/colored), restrooms (white/colored), schools (white/colored).   Yet, I also remember the “colored” woman who had a small farm to the west of ours and as I walked the country road from country school to home, she [...]

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