Everybody will die one day....

Since the days of Ponce de León, if not before, people have been seeking the elusive Fountain of Youth. Until recently, such pursuits were the realm of quacks and charlatans. And there are still plenty of snake-oil salesmen out there on the Internet and in so-called anti-aging clinics, hawking everything from longevity-bestowing Ecuadoran waters (which are probably harmless) to growth hormones (which could be downright dangerous for adults). But serious scientists are now bringing respectability to the field, unraveling the secrets of aging on a cellular level and looking for ways to slow it down. And while the science is still young (so to speak), legitimate longevity-boosting treatments could be available in 10 to 15 years—although the gains would be more modest than in Kenyon's worms.

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Gay marriage

A number of factors seem to play a role in swaying people one way or the other. For instance, 62 percent of Americans say religious beliefs play an important role in shaping their views on gay marriage. According to the survey, two-thirds of those who see marriage as primarily a legal matter support gay marriage. On the other hand, two-thirds of those who see it as mostly a religious matter (or equal parts religious and legal) oppose gay marriage. 

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The poor Bush administration

It took a while to discern the guiding ideology behind the Bush administration's poisonous science policies. The real problem wasn't tax cuts and war spending, even though the combination did strangle domestic programs so severely that scientists at the nation's premier physics lab were ordered to take unpaid leave, and the government is allocating 13 percent less to biomedical research in 2009 than it did in 2004. Nor was the culprit the sop that Bush offered the religious right in 2001 by banning the use of federal money for research on new lines of human embryonic stem cells, paralyzing the field for eight years and sending some of the nation's most promising young biologists overseas.

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Fat, fat, thin

About six years ago, Diane and Jim McConnell and their son, James Jr., 11, embarked on a dramatic diet change. They decided to give up foods containing gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Sticking to the regimen is no easy feat—gluten is ubiquitous in the American diet, as well as in other nonfood products. Not only is it in almost every kind of commercially baked good and pasta, it's even in medications, lipsticks and Play-Doh.

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Who do you think deserve this honor?

In the past couple of years, the entire global lending industry has covered itself in shame. Virtually every banker was suckered by the credit and housing bubble. But who made the sorriest choices? Who forced shareholders and the public to bear the highest financial cost? Who, in short, is the Worst Banker in the World?

Bigfoot?

These are hard times for Bigfoot believers, a human subspecies that includes a fairly hairy collection of fantasists, charlatans, grifters and fools. But there is also a small coterie of serious scientists interested in the possibility—as they see it, the likelihood—that somewhere in the deep woods of North America enormous ape-men really are alive and well and just barely eluding detection.

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Hey!

There is no better way to attract reports of the paranormal than to write a story casting doubt on it, and attract them I did. Besides the usual ghost sightings, my favorite was from a nice man in Florida who told me about his wonderful typewriter (note: not a word processor): he would type a few letters of a word and the machine would fill in the rest, apparently having read his thoughts.

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I think I'm going into a diet

A Web page labeled "Ana Boot Camp" recently offered its members a seemingly irresistible proposition: a 30-day regimen designed to help them drop some serious pounds, no exercise needed. The catch was that the group's members were to vary their daily caloric intake from 500 (less than half the daily minimum requirement for women recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine) to zero. They were supposed to track their progress, fast to make up for the days they accidentally "overate" and support each other as they worked toward their common goal of radical weight loss.

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The true face of the Muslim

The attacks targeted the heart of India's financial district, but the shock waves were felt around the globe. On Wednesday, a group of heavily armed assailants carried out a series of coordinated strikes in Mumbai —killing at least 80, wounding hundreds more, and claiming an indeterminate number of hostages. A group calling themselves the Deccan Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for the mayhem, but their identity could not be immediately confirmed, and many terrorism  specialists said they were unfamiliar with the name. Whoever did it took aim at Western passport-holders and prominent targets; among the locations hit were two major hotels, a train station and a hospital. Several top Indian security officials were among the casualties.

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There is a movie, right?

"The butterfly effect" is a phrase that came to Hollywood and our culture from chaos theory and the abstract mathematical models of Edward Lorenz. The idea is that even the smallest alteration of the first cause in a series can produce a vast change in the final result. So in theory the slight alteration of the tiny breeze caused by a butterfly's wing could eventually change the course of a great hurricane. That is the theory. It always sounded ridiculous to me, until now.

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Now, this is interesting:

It's a question that Genevieve Hartman  has been rolling over in her mind for some time now. The 28-year-old vegetarian will be spending Thanksgiving at her boyfriend's professor's house in New York City. Thanksgiving used to be one of Hartman's favorite holidays , when she celebrated it with her vegetarian family in San Francisco. But ever since she moved to New York five years ago and began spending the holiday with relatives or friends, it's been a source of anxiety. Take the tofu dilemma: on the one hand, she doesn't want to get stranded at a turkey-heavy table without anything to eat, which might make her hosts feel bad. But she also doesn't want to bring attention to herself as needing "special foods," increasing the likelihood that she'll have to field questions about why she's skipping the turkey.

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Would you apply to this job?

There's an e-mail making the rounds with a job description attached. If you apply, be warned: you will be burdened with "challenging" tasks "in an often chaotic environment" with "variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24-hour shifts on call." You must be "willing to be hated, at least temporarily." Oh, and you'd better love kids, because that's who you'll be working with all day. The job, of course, is "parent"—but it might as well be "pediatrician," which requires a lot of the same skills and then some. That's why lately I've been feeling sorry for pediatrics residents. They're often too busy wiping the noses and taking the temperatures of other people's kids to do likewise for their own.

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The future of electricity

Batteries still won't evolve as quickly as computer-based technologies. The reason: a battery is based on a chemical reaction, which is limited by the laws of physics and the periodic table. Since Italy's Alessandro Volta first came up with the idea in 1800, batteries have generated electricity using the same basic principle.

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Modern Pirates, can you believe in that?

It's a scene out of another century. On Tuesday night an Indian Navy vessel in the Gulf of Aden approached a ship thought to be manned by pirates operating from lawless Somalia . Although it was dark, Indian officers told news-agency reporters that they could see crew members on deck brandishing guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Volleys were fired, fire broke out on one of the pirate ships, and it sank. The crew escaped in a speed boat, the Navy ship in hot pursuit .

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This gay marriage should be discussed a little more....

Fast-forward to Election Day 2008, and a flurry of state ballot propositions to outlaw gay marriage, all of which were successful. This is the latest wedge issue of the good-old-days crowd, supplanting abortion and immigration. They really put their backs into it this time around, galvanized by court decisions in three states ruling that it is discriminatory not to extend the right to marry to gay men and lesbians.

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don't ya think so?

We can view our choices in diet and lifestyle as austere sacrifice and deprivation—I can't eat this food or enjoy this indulgence—but it is so much more effective and sustainable to reframe our choices as good examples for our kids that are acts of love. For example, I'm not one of those people who love to exercise, even though I often write about its benefits. It takes effort for me to motivate myself to work out on a regular basis.

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The seek for knowledge

Why does someone spent all of his life reading books, taking part in conferences, debating with plenty of scholars, and at its end, the undergraduation studies seemed so lame. What for?

what is the point in having all the knowledge in the world and still a secure job is so distant?

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Michelle Obama says:

We'll be using every second of the transition time to work out timetables and timelines and all that good stuff. But the hope is that everybody settles in at the same time. So that we won't be transitioning portions of the family at different periods of time. But how, when and where—we don't know enough. At this stage, it's difficult to really have good conversations about schools and all that stuff because you don't want to measure the drapes.

What do you think about it, ya know?

Who do we are talking about?

Two thin men from rude beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft and timing. Obama, like Lincoln and unlike most modern politicians, even writes his own speeches, or at least drafts the really important ones—by hand, on yellow legal paper—such as his remarkably honest speech on race during the Reverend Wright imbroglio last spring.

interesting, isn't?

The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama , the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?

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Renegade, do you know what does it mean?

How would you feel if a frowning man in dark sunglasses and wires in his ears grabbed the back of your pants every time you walked into a crowd? That's just one of many less-than-enjoyable aspects of presidential life that the Obama family have been living with, ever since they were christened with their recently-released official Secret Service code names: Renegade (Barack), Renaissance (Michelle), Radiance (Malia), and Rosebud (Sasha).

Strange, ya know?

Why don't we pay them a visit?

"For a lot of people, they're not going to have credit and they don't have a lot of money right now, but they want to have a good Christmas," said a manager of a Kmart store in Orlando.

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Of course not!

the religious vote for Obama did not reflect a massive shift in ideology and priorities among evangelicals but rather muscle-flexing by a coalition of others of faith—including and especially African-American churchgoers and Latinos who tend to be both more religious and more socially conservative than the population at large.

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heuaehuahuaehaeuhauehau

Since its publication in 1945, "Animal Farm" has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and become a standard text for schoolchildren, along with Orwell's other dystopian vision of the future, "1984." But it is the writer's essays on the importance of clear language and independent thought that make him relevant. Consider this, from "Politics and the English Language": "The word Fascismhas now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable.' The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another … Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way.

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Is this the gospel of political power?

Just as "race" has a whole new meaning in America this week, so, too, does "faith." For at least four decades, white evangelicals have been the religion-and-politics story in this country. Their power, their rhetoric, their numbers, their theology—all have been so dominant that many of us in the media had forgotten that religious faith could be expressed any other way. 

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Obama!

Obama is the kind of serious, ambitious young man who attracts veterans to his side. And party labels seem to matter little to him. Sen. Richard Lugar, the Republicans' leading light on foreign policy, was an early Obama ally, and remains one. Put Paul Volcker, Warren Buffett and Gen. Colin Powell in this category, too.

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Can he make it?

Basically, the McCain camp has been forced in the final days of this race to argue that everything we think we know--thanks, for the most part, to the incessant flood of polls--is wrong. 

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Be careful with your money

It starts with those buckets of Halloween candy. Then it's on to Thanksgiving (stuffing, sweet potatoes with gooey marshmallows, pumpkin pie). After that pigout, there are holiday parties with calorie-laden snacks and drinks, Christmas and finally the big bash on New Year's Eve. It's the season of temptation and for many of us, it coincides with colder weather – which means we are less likely to get outside and work off our indulgences. No wonder diet- and exercise-related resolutions are at the top of our list on January 1!

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One vote do makes difference

The last big bump among young voters came in 1972, the first presidential election after the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. Despite revisionist history that suggests that all young people then were antiwar and counterculture, the youth vote split pretty evenly between George McGovern and Richard Nixon. Roughly half of those casting their first vote chose a man who was trounced on election night, and the other half chose a man who had to resign the presidency in disgrace less than two years later.

If you could vote for US president, who's the one?

Weinberg, 54, isn't attracted by the Republican's position on the economy or the Iraq war. Like many of her compatriots living in Israel , she is voting for the candidate she believes will be a better friend to the Jewish state.

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Why so?

It has been suggested that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's campaign is trying to make GOP Veep candidate Gov. Sarah Palin a scapegoat, by blaming her on the campaign's polling woes and a possible defeat.

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Well... If we think about it...

This is the first financial crisis of the global age. We have had some of the advantages of being part of a global economy—we've had lower interest rates for 10 years; we've had 10 years of lower consumer prices in electronics and clothes and everything that comes out of Asia. Now we are having to deal with the challenges: the restructuring of jobs, the energy problems … [Today] you've got this global financial system that is trying to respond to global financial flows that are massive. We've only got national supervision of the system … and that is one of the reasons we've got to reform it.

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Water is not the only scarce resource we have to be careful about

In rented offices on a quiet side street in Paris,  not far from the Eiffel Tower, analysts for the International Agency spend long days and nights crunching numbers about oil production and greenhouse gas emissions. They're basically the staid, sober global accountants who watch over the power supply for the 30 rich countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and their many reports are dry and technical.

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The need to be part of a community

As technology reshapes our world, as our "friends" become the people we know on Facebook as well as the ones we invite home for dinner, the definition of community is taking on radically new meanings. Nowhere is the concept of community more crucial than in religion. In the West, people traditionally worship together, in a group, in one room; that togetherness has theological import. In Christianity, the sacrament of communion underscores the unity of the faithful; consuming the consecrated bread and wine binds Christians with each other, with the saints in heaven and with the Lord.

And how this may affect us?

There are only two and a half months—76 days, to be precise— between Election Day and your Inauguration, and you will need every one of them to get ready for the world you will inherit. This is not the world you've been discussing on the trail for the last year or more: campaigning and governing could hardly be more different. The former is necessarily done in bold strokes and, to be honest, often approaches caricature. All candidates resist specifying priorities or trade-offs lest they forfeit precious support. You won, but at a price, as some of the things you said were better left unsaid. Even more important, the campaign did not prepare the public for the hard times to come.

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it happened to me

As grim financial predictions dominate the news, it seems everyone is scrambling to become an expert on the economy. With the presidential election right around the corner, the pressure to craft a coherent narrative on the country's financial woes is especially high in Washington.

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Geopolitics is a mess, isn't?

While American politicians debate who's a maverick willing to take on the establishment, Iraq's Mithal al-Alusi meets the criteria and pays the price. In the latest in a series of battles with what he calls the "fascist" religious parties running the government, Alusi was banned from parliament for making his third trip to Israel—or, the "Zionist entity" as it's known in official Iraqi correspondence. He is not allowed to leave Iraq, could face prosecution and says he is hearing of threats on his life.

Geez... Ya know?

Reaching the end of the line...

The decision by  Barack Obama to return to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother might not be the last surprise of the last fortnight of this campaign. Two weeks is an eternity in presidential  politics , which means we're likely to have one more twist before this ends—though with early voting, more than a quarter of the electorate now votes before Election Day.

Nothing better to spend some time relaxing,  Ya know?

Absolutly"

Is Palin making plans for 2012?

I ask because she's contradicted John McCain on a number of subjects in recent weeks--and every contradiction seems calibrated to preserve (or even enhance) her standing with the Republican base should the Arizona senator lose on Nov. 4. 

Smart girl, Ya know?

Race to the finish line

Gov. Sarah Palin's future is secure. She's a genuine grass-roots sensation and will remain one. Too bad that John McCain, the man who made her a star, isn't prospering with her. In fact, despite her nice turn on "Saturday Night Live," she has turned toxic for the McCain camp.

Who are the people satisfied with Bush's Adm?

Who are these people? One in 10 Americans can't be repo men or Bush relatives. Satisfied? Now? Nobody's that Republican. Do these 10 percenters live in caves without TV, magazines, newspapers and the Internet—yet somehow still have a phone so that pollsters can reach them? And if you lived in a cave without HBO, would you really be "satisfied"? 

Nope, Ya know?

When words can kill

Choi Jin Sil had a lot to live for. She was one of  South Korea's hottest movie stars, and the mother of two young children. But the tides of public opinion can turn quickly and mercilessly—especially in cyberspace. In late September, an employee at a  Seoul securities house began posting rumors about Choi in an online chat room. She accused Choi of being a ruthless loan shark responsible for the  suicide of a down-on-his-luck actor who had amassed more than $2 million in debts. Within days, the rumors had spread to hundreds of thousands of chat-room users who posted vicious attacks on Choi's morals and character. Although the rumors were completely fabricated, the chat-room condemnation was more than Choi could take. "I am lonely and I am ostracized," she wrote in her suicide note found on Oct. 2. "I cannot even breathe."

It's very sad, Ya know?

Ahhhh... Vale do Silicone né?

As if waking from a dream,  Silicon Valley has suddenly realized that the collapsing economy means trouble for tech companies, too. Especially at risk are the new  startups created in the wake of the last dotcom crash in 2001. 

What do you think?

Truth, they say, is the first casualty of war. But it hasn't even made it onto the battlefield of economics in this presidential election. Asked about how the global meltdown will change their priorities, the candidates demur; asked how they will call on the American people to sacrifice, they dodge.

Hidsumblhama

Turn to your own mind a try to undertand why does your mother chose as awkward as your name? I mean, despite the cultural influence which affects a certain society, why the weirdest names give its possessor an advantage in life?

Weird, Ya know?

who never committed a mistake throw the first stone

She unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

who are we talking about?

I think she's both smart and resilient and optimistic and courageous and all those things. ... Her confident and completely unfazed response to being criticized is great because she didn't run from the stage crying. She sort of shrugged it off and when on to the next event, in a way that didn't seem callous, and it didn't seem unfeminine, and it didn't seem like she was acting like a guy, it was just her way.

The man surely is gonna win.

Barack Obama is leading the polls at home, but he's downright beloved abroad, where he's seen as a Kennedyesque star who could quickly heal the damage America's done to its image with Iraq, Guantánamo, and other missteps.

How much vocabulary do you know?

I bought a dictionary which is really helping me out to internalize many vocabularies each day. One has its own method of learning vocabulary, I have mine. And I'm very happy with it.



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Discoursive approach

Ahhh God wishes that the english courses in Natal realise that major role the discourse play in learning a language rather than grammar and words. Will this dream be fulfilled one day?

I don't know but, I'm doing my part. Teaching discourse.



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Isn't true?

It is true that living in the past can be bad for the mind and the soul, preventing us from engaging in the battles and causes of our own time. But when we are at our best, history and heroes enable us to look ahead, not backward.

I vote for Palin!

Palin is on the ticket because she connects with everyday Americans. It is not shocking to learn that politics played a big role in the making of a presidential team (ticket-balancing to attract different constituencies has been with us at least since Andrew Jackson ran with John C. Calhoun, a man he later said he would like to kill).

WOOOOW! Holiday!!!!!

Ahhhh.. there is nothing better to spend your day relaxing with any shade of guilty upon my head. Hey! I can postpone things until tomorrow cuz' I gained an extra day-of-doing-nothing. It should have one of these each month of the year. Nice!!!



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What do you know about Sarah Palin?

Wasilla Bible Church, however, is having an extraordinary week. On Sunday, its senior pastor Larry Kroons confirmed that Senator John McCain's vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, and her family, regularly attend services there, and have done so for the last six years or so. "They attend here as Sarah and Todd in the presence of God, honoring God as God," he said before he began his sermon.

Large Hadron Collider, what for?

Buried under the French-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider has gotten its share of ink--and for good reason. Hearing about the sheer magnitude and price of what's been called the biggest and most expensive scientific experiment in human history is enough to instill fascination and excitement in even the most non-particle-physicists among us. Once it's running at full capacity, the project's researchers say, the $5.3 billion LHC, the biggest particle accelerator ever built, will be able to answer questions physicists never thought they'd get answers to, like why the universe formed the way it did and why matter has mass. Critics of the project say it could have the opposite effect, leading not to knowledge but instead humanity's demise.

Bullshit, Ya know?

How come?

How come a teacher to assign a seminar to be presented in 4 days? Every semester I study in UFRN I met more and more dull teachers. They don't care whether the students are able to do it in such little time. Mercy is not a trait.



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Out of the blue

It is very nice that we learn new expression while in contact with the language, why don't we nake a stronger effort to aprehend everything we can in order to be a good teacher or speaker? This is something we should think about.



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The american way of life

Do you live the american dream? what do you make of the american way of life? should it be followed by non-americans? is this a question or a statement? let the US president say..



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What do you know?

"When Scripture speaks to us of our salvation it proposes to us three aims. One is that we recognize the inestimable love God has shown toward us, so that He may be glorified by us as He deserves. Another, that we hold our sin in such detestation as is proper, and that we be sufficiently ashamed to humble ourselves before the majesty of our God. The third, that we value our salvation in such a manner that it makes us forsake the world and all that pertains to this frail life, and that we be overjoyed with that inheritance which has been acquired for us at such a price. This is what we ought to fix our attention upon and apply our minds to when it is mentioned to us how the Son of God has redeemed us from eternal death and has acquired for us the heavenly life. We ought, then, in the first place to learn to give God the praise He deserves. In fact, He was well able to rescue us from the unfathomable depths of death in another fashion, but He willed to display the treasures of His infinite goodness when He spared not His only Son. And our Lord Jesus in this matter willed to give us a sure pledge of the care which He had for us when He offered Himself voluntarily to death. For we never shall be keenly touched nor set on fire to praise our God, unless on the other hand we examine our condition, and see that we are as sunk in hell, and know what it is to have provoked the wrath of God and to have Him for a mortal enemy and a judge so terrible and appalling that it would be much better if heaven and earth and all creatures would conspire against us then to approach His majesty while it is unfavorable toward us. So it is very necessary that sinners should be broken-hearted with a feeling and an understanding of their faults, and that they should know themselves to be worse than wretched, so that they may have a horror at their condition, in order that in this way they may know how much they are indebted and obligated to God, that He has pitied them, that He sees them in despair, and that He has been kind enough to help them; not because He sees in them any dignity, but only because He looks upon their wretchedness. Now the fact is also (as we have said), forasmuch as we are surrounded by too much here below and that when God has called us to Himself we are held back by our affection and covetousness, that it is necessary to prize the heavenly life as it deserves, that we may know at how great an expense it was bought for us. " John Calvin


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When the flow turns backwards

Sometime you learn things in life during the harsh situation, which forces you to make a stand, to be tough whenever you want to be yourself undestood. I consider these situations as a lesson for me. I know God is on the control of everything and He won't disapoint me. He never did.


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A class that went as unexpected

Is there a class that you disliked the way you behaved as a teacher? I mean, did the words escaped from your mouth in a way to never come back? or got confused upon a subject you studied carefully before? It sucks isn't?


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Indeed!

Why I love fridays so much? Is it why there are no classes? is the reason for only on this day I can oversleep with felling guity of whatever it could be? Perhaps....

The deal is that I have to study anyway, so....

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What shall it be?

Re-read or continue to read, this is the very question. I made up a custom of re-reading a story I just ended to read for fathom the moments I didn't understad at all. But here I come to a dilemma, whether to read it all over again, or continue reading other stories of the same book (eg. the adventures of Sherlock Holmes). The most prudent conclusion I has reached is to keep on reading no matter what.


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The man who hates to sleep

How come there are men in this world who can't stand a good and relaxing sleep after a torturing routine of nowadays? I can't understand why. My brain tilts if dare to fathom this weir and absurd behavior, I men what did bed to make some people hate them?



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A woman has beaten Sherlock Holmes

Yesterday, I finished reading the story about a woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes in his own game. The master of investigation always spoke about woman with a secret despise, but a woman accomplished in archieving his respect by the intelingence and strong-minded she has.



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Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Today I did the unexpected and unusual, bought some literary books for read. It's my desire to read them all before the year is over, and read one book per month. I hope I'll be strict enough with myself to keep this promise in mind. May God help me.




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What's the difference between conventionalism and idiomaticy?

I've been studying the theory behind the kinds of fixed expressions the english language has, and this bring us, the poor student who doesn't have enough money to effort a trip to a english speaker country. We have to learn these expression within its original context, naturally, it means the impossibility to digest them since we live in Brazil.

But I know I'll be there one day, Ya know?

OMG! Are you crazy, man?

Geee, I had to travel on saturday without Isabel's authorization, shame on me! I should have call her and ask whether I can go or not, I want to avoid any embarrasment at tuesday...


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Do is marriage fading away from our society?

On some minutes ago, I had been reading an article analyzing the state of marriage in the western culture, unfortunatly, the research conclusion may surprise even the optmistic one. About 50% of marriages in United States ends up in divorce, and this rate isn't an exception on industrialized countries. There is a worldwide tendency to marriage extinction.



In this relation world, the Bible's position on this subject is still the best for the human being and I'm on it, ya know?

Writting skills

Know how to write is not as easy as we think, it's not only putting the words together and hope the reader understand what do you really meant, organizing the ideas in the clearest way is the first step to be understandble.


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How great thou art!

It's very beautiful to me the things only God have the power to do. How He makes happy the most unhappy person, binded by the trap of drugs, sadness, only God can fulfill the gap within the hearts of human. Only He can produce everlasting joy, peace, love.


There's nothing better than love and being loved, Ya know?

Vaccin day!

I wonder how are sarampo, caxumba and rubeola's name in english. Well actually, it doesn't matter since I'm protected against these threats even when I don't think I would be infected anyway. But you know how Brazil's policies are, maybe without the paper urging I've being through vaccination, I could'nt be allowed to be part of a company...

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Buying in the jungle!

Ahhhh, if there are any good material feelings everybody likes is a situation when you have money available and cheap things to buy, I've received my first payment..... and in what did I invest it?

Things I need to buy, of course. Ya know?

The victory is coming pretty soon

When we face a challenge, we have to give all the strengh that exist within our life, the key of the victory is not a secret, you have to be honest and faithfull, be certain that God's hand is in my favor. All the things cooperate for the one who loves God. Concerning this challenge, I use the words of apostle Paul: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith


May God bless me and prepare my soul for the iminent award.

When does it gonna end?

Ahhh if I only could have a input for be charged with eletricity in the moment I need to rest... it would be a dream. Time wouldn't be the enemy it is for me. I wish I had time to do the thing I like to do, not only the ones I have to do....

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A little rest is required sometimes

Ahhh.... After so many unslept afternoons, today I could spend a good part of my time relaxing iwth a worthy nap I needed so much, all my accumulated fatigue was tamed under the relaxing power the combination of my bed, dark and cold room and a strong rainfall can do with me or any exausted teacher.



Man, I nedeed it so much, Ya know?

"Ahhh.... it's saturday...."

Finally, the saturday arrived bringing me the opportunity to have more time to spend at home, with my family, working on pleasure things and academic tasks, but who said that teachers have indeed breaks? Later on, I have to make a lesson plan to present next week and not mentioning the class I have to teach at North Zone, and else, who said that teachers are human?


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"Is today thursday?"

What the.... I realized too late today is friday, there are a good and a bad side of this situation: the bad one is I forgot to post a diary entry in this blog, maybe this could be a problem for me in the future regarding my grade with the discipline, but as I know my dear teacher will consider this as a unusual lack of memory, I must be relieved with it. One the other hand, the good angle for this situation is....

Man, today is friday, there are no classes!

Ya know?

The problem is...

...The only moment I could write a post to this "technological version" of a diary is when I'm totally worn out, no thought or grasp of knowledge can be found in my mind, one message still flashes in my councioussness: "sleep... sleep now... go to sleep, you are too tired to wirte anything now, just go for it man!". You see that is isn't a matter of lazyness but fatigue, not that I don't want to write because I could possibly do something more attractive for my desire.

It's just because I'm exausted, Ya know?

I don't believe

Why did I miss the class today? Perhaps I was too tired to have even strenght to get up of the bed, I couldn't get rid of it, it's a deadly trap for my day, I must learn how to dominate upon it or else... I don't know what would happen if I miss more classes again.

ohhh maaaan...

I'm getting there

The day of the showdown is at hand. In some days from now a new time will begin in my life. Working in a better place, with better conditions, little by little, God is providing what I need for an independent and a decent life, adult life, different life.

All I have, All I know, All I am is a result of God mercyness in my life. I owe everything to Him.

"It will start all over again"

When comes to my mind that the weekly routine is about to start, a can feel a acute pain in my heart and in my back also. I'm not saying I don't like my routine: Wake up early in the morning, make a hard work at the college, eat lunch as fast as I can, be on a stressful training course (which by the way, I know I'll be employed by the English course), and finally teach classes twice in the weekdays. At the end of the week, my body and my brain in worn out, without energy to do nothing else, at least regarding to my academic and professional life, my spiritual life intensity increases a lot during the weekend, this is the time I have to work on it.

Not that I don't do so in the weekdays, but.. Ya know?

"Ouch! My back hurts."

What a rushy week it is being to me!

I didn't have any time to do nothing I like, my time has been devoted only to attend my professional and academic obligations, do the people think that we don't need a breaktime for the mind and body? The available tecnology of this time can transfer information from one pole to another in the planet but this can't be applied for people yet.
It would be great for me using a teleportation device, I could do anything I must to and still have some time to take my breath, lay down in my bed, take a nap for 30 minutes at least and continue in this crazy routine. How come being outside home for almost 12 hours and not be worn out? I'm not the superman! I must carefully discover the secrets of those who spent the whole day working and when get home, continue to work in a way that end sleeping at 2 am and have to wake up at 5 am to begin all over again.


I just can't do it. I'm a human being, you know?

My first entry!

At the beginning of this blog, I firstly have to apologize to Isabel for not been writting a diary as she asked all of us to do, but I have my reasons to do such a thing and I expect that in my daily entries in this channel of communication, the explanation will be given alongside with the usage of my great use of my special literary skills. (Who are you trying to fool? hehehehehe)

So, I hope you like it.