O Brasil está de luto, e eles estarão em nosso pensamento.

We are grieving for Santa Maria, and they will be in our thoughts.

http://g1.globo.com/sc/santa-catarina/noticia/2013/01/corpos-de-quatro-vitimas-de-tragedia-no-rs-chegam-em-sc-nesta-segunda.html

Pres. Dilma Roussef.

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=santa+maria+fotos&hl=pt&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=37UGUbL5H5DuqQGL64GIDg&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=585

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=santa+maria+mensagens+solidariedade&hl=pt-BR&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8KUGUdjkA8LuqAH7-YCYBg&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=585

Donavon Frankenreiter been here this weekend - It Don't Matter @ Atlântida/RS - 27/01/13

Bom, barato, e bem localizado - Good, cheap and nicely located.

I stayed the weekend at this hotel. Good, cheap and nicely located, close to the rocks on the left side, at the beginning of the beach. I recommend!


http://www.malapronta.com.br/hotel75-cris-hotel/opinioes
http://www.crishotel.com.br/
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=florianopolis&hl=pt-BR&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=6Hj9UKKpI4HS9AST2YEY&sqi=2&ved=0CHYQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=585#hl=pt-BR&tbo=d&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=florianopolis&oq=florianopolis&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.750.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.wkLzBdwBsaA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&bvm=bv.41248874,d.eWU&fp=d4149af598657d40&biw=1024&bih=585

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Casa e Cia - Dicas - Imovelweb

Casa e Cia - Dicas - Imovelweb: Anúncios de casas, apartamentos e imóveis comerciais para compra, venda, aluguel e temporada, em todo o Brasil. Clique aqui!

Maragold / New Band - New Album - Coming Soon! - www.maragoldband.com

James Taylor - Song For You Far Away.

Mick Jagger Keith Richards Anita Pallenberg Marianne Faithfull in Brazil...Street Fighting men !

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over) tradução (Audio de vinil )❥❥

The Tractors - santa looked alot like daddy.

Vacations. Que calor!

Until Dec. 26 I will not be working on the foundation, and I will not stay too long in the computer. One hour from now I will go to Buenos Aires, which is not far from here, less than 2 hours, and it is Something. Summer will start on Dec. 21, and if the world does not end on the Dec. 20, I'll be back. See you soon.






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The mammoth uncontrolled. While nobody questions, they are preparing the power plant construction ...

Translation of a text from Lucio Flavio:

  The Federal Prosecutor's Office has filed 15 civil suits against the Belo Monte Dam, under construction on the Xingu River in Para His arguments about the economic and environmental viability of the project does not seem to have impressed the leading development institution in the country.
During the next 30 days, the National Bank of Economic and Social Development intends to release 19.6 billion for the project, which has already received the same BNDES, in two installments this year, U.S. $ 2.9 billion. The total commitment, so is $ 22.5 billion. The amount represents 80% of the U.S. $ 28.9 billion expected to be used to make Belo Monte the third largest dam in the world.
The titles of this transaction impress. It is the largest loan of all 60-year history of the bank. It is three times larger than the operation that hitherto occupied the first place in the ranking of BNDES, the $ 9.7 billion for the Abreu e Lima refinery in Pernambuco. The plant Xingu swallow almost all remedies provided - £ 23.5 billion - for the infrastructure area in this segment, excluding the subway.
The elements of grandeur do not stop there. Belo Monte is the greatest work in progress in Brazil and the crown jewel of the PAC, the Growth Acceleration Program, passed by Lula to Dilma.
With the approval of the loan, the government gives the message: against all your opponents and facing abuses by the way, a huge hydroelectric continue ongoing accelerated. Whatever the first of 24 giant turbines start generating power in February 2015 and the last in January 2019. Not coincidentally, the Belo Monte Lula won the title of hydroelectric strategic, with the first such treatment in Brazil.
Main item of the Ten Year Energy Plan (2013/2022), Belo Monte, with its 11 200 megawatts nominal contribute - in official calculations - with 33% of the energy that will be added to the Brazilian production capacity during the motorization of their machines, between 2015 and 2019. Would be able to meet the demand of 18 million residence and 60 million people, or consumption of the entire population of the South and Northeast combined.
Not surprisingly, the BNDES, with a portfolio of business of this size has become bigger than the World Bank headquarters in Washington, something "never before" unthinkable, as would former President Lula. Besides the features of millionaires FAT (Worker Support Fund), which are available to them, despite the paradoxical relationship, and its own revenue, the bank has received increasing amount of national treasure, a disturbing novelty in recent times. The public does not seem to pay attention to the gravity of this fact.
So much public money came to the box on the pretext of strengthening BNDES Brazilian capitalism, now multinacionaliza. One focus of intensive applications is the bank's controversial sector of refrigerators, elevation to the top of international ranking by heavy crane financial state.
With paquidérmicos commitments undocking of money, BNDES has increasingly been rescued by the federal government. This is what happens in the case of Belo Monte. Of the U.S. $ 22.5 billion approved for the dam, just U.S. $ 9 billion is the bank's own resources, other than those directly apply: $ 7 billion will be transferred through the Federal Savings and $ 2 billion through a bank private, BTG Pactual. The other U.S. $ 13.5 billion will come from the national treasure box, which means money collected through federal taxes - the distinguished audience, so.
Interestingly the composition of this transaction. The BNDES has resorted to two other financial institutions, instead of making himself the business, alleging default risk. If the borrower of money, which is the Norte Energia, controlled by federal funds and state-owned enterprises do not pay the loan, intermediaries will respond by default. Naturally, charging enough (and then some) to guard against this risk.
Already the citizen's money, managed by the Union, will have direct application by BNDES. From a statement issued yesterday by the bank it appears that this part of the business is immune to nonpayment. Probably not the absence of risk, which is impossible in this type of operation. Maybe because if the money does not return, who will suffer the public treasury, and the taxpayer, deep in your pocket.
The budget of the Belo Monte Dam began with a forecast of $ 9 billion. Today is three times higher. Neither the "Amazon factor", generally considered unpredictable complication because of the conditions of the regions pioneering, frontier or inflation or the available data on works in progress, which has already absorbed nearly $ 3 billion in less than two years, explain this adjustment.
So with the hydroelectric Tucuruí on the Tocantins River in Pará, the fourth in the world. It began construction in 1975 and the first of the 23 turbines became active in 1984. The budget was initially $ 2.1 billion. Reached U.S. $ 7.5 billion per unofficial estimates, at a time when the national currency was devalued. But perhaps gone beyond the mark of $ 10 billion.
The precedent should encourage the public to protect, rather than omit, as if the most sensitive part of the human body was not already over the pocket. 

I'm Gonna Be A Teenage Idol - Marc Bolan w/lyrics- Lp/Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player / A great piano player...

Thanks to a work of awareness directed at the fishermen, whales are returning to reproduce on the southern coast of Brazil. This year 2012 has been viewed more than 100 (one hundred). They come every year from southern Argentina, this time of year. As they have a lot of trust in people, in the past they have been subject to indiscriminate fishing. Now they can be seen swimming near the surfers, and also boat trips are organized for people to see them.

http://riozinho.net/as-baleias-e-o-surf-no-morro-das-pedras/

"Craziness" and creativity. Pesquisa relaciona doenças mentais a criatividade - Saúde - Notícia - VEJA.com

Virginia Woolf

  http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/saude/ha-uma-forte-relacao-entre-doencas-mentais-criatividade-e-expressao-artistica-afirma-estudo
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063328?dopt=AbstractPlus

Lady Gaga chora no Rio e diz: "Nunca vi pessoas tão felizes como nas favelas" - Celebridades - Notícia - VEJA.com./I'm posting this not because it's my favorite style of music, but because the show was near my house. When I was going to work at 8 am, there were around 100 people in the queue and when I was returning home, around 9 pm, the show was already going on and I heard something and watched the big screen from the street, for 5 minutes. She made presentations in these three cities of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Porto Alegre and is now going to work in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. Here she was criticized by many and lionized by some.

Lady Gaga chora no Rio e diz: "Nunca vi pessoas tão felizes como nas favelas" - Celebridades - Notícia - VEJA.com

Go to Rio de Janeiro and fail to visit the Corcovado, to feel that energy and see that wonderful view from up there is like going to Paris and not seeing the Eiffel Tower.
I do not understand why Lady Gaga were not there, seems that her dancers were there.

867 5309 (Jenni) lyrics on screen : 8675309! Is this the right number?

Quando você chegou - Flávio Venturini. I enjoy this guy's music. I recorded a guitar in one song from an album he made ​​for EMI-ODEON in Rio de Janeiro. I was living in Belém do Pará when he called me asking to join the session. They sent a plane ticket, accommodation in a hotel and paid for. Major record labels have it. I had previously played with him here in POA, in São Paulo, also stayed at his house in Belo Horizonte and some days in a house in the hills in a place close to São Paulo where his band at the time, the 14 Bis rehearsed. In the mean time between the invitation and the recording my father passed away, then I did not have much to do in Belem and decided to go back to the South, where the rest of my family was. After the recording I continued trip to POA.

Poor Amazonia. Until when? I have lived in Belém do Pará for a while, and being in a big city with over one million inhabitants, and so close to the Amazon rainforest, you can feel the contrasts between the jungle and the urban society, at times chaotic.

In 1967, when he was 70 years, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig began an adventure comparable to that of his compatriot, Henry Ford, 40 years earlier. Ford tried to thicken the rubber feet on native forest, in which it is derived, so that production became commercially profitable.
Ludwig would replace the trees of the Amazon by an Asian species almost unknown. The characteristic of gmelina tree was growing faster and give more pulp than traditional sources of this fiber, pine and eucalyptus.
Ludwig assembled an army of men and machines ever seen in the region to put down thousands and thousands of trees, the average 10/12 000 hectares per year. A hundred thousand hectares of typical rainforest, with the greatest diversity of plant species on the planet, would house a forest planted with a single species - and exotic. The gmelina, hitherto used for the production of cellulose, would serve the "holy grail" of Ludwig over competitors, surprising them and winning.
The leap was so mistaken as Ford. The weak soil was not a good basis for the development of the Asian tree, demanding of nutrients. In patches of fertile land would be a waste plant it. Homogenization of a forest so intricate led to adverse effects. The gmelina was torn, at enormous cost, and replaced by eucalyptus.
At the height of deforestation Jari Project, the millionaire imagined reaching 3.6 million hectares between Pará and Amapá (legalizáveis ​​lands totaled "only" 10% of this claim), pedestrians had at its disposal 700 chainsaws in the warehouse, stock renewed annually, the largest in South America
When they entered the woods, was an infernal racket. Accidents were repeated because, deafened by the noise, some workers did not hear the sound of falling trees. Several died crushed.
The Amazon on the scene today, the real war against the forest, no longer is repeated. However, the practice continues to burn or break virgin forest to make way for other types of cultivation, such as pasture for cattle and soybeans extensive. It is antifloresta guerrillas.
A simple query to any decent publication on Amazon interested to reveal that the tree standing is worth much more. Could yield far more than ranching and agriculture if the pioneer, the one that most deforests, knew or could explore the forest, forestry practice or have access to other forms of use of its potential. How has not, does what are used to making: replace the vegetation by cattle and smaller plants, short cycle crops.
The scene of a deforestation is to horrify and revolt one who knows the Amazon. It was not to be repeated longer. The void opened by loggers in the region in ancient dense forest (and other vegetation) is three times larger than the state of São Paulo, home to one third of the national wealth, GDP (Gross Domestic Product). It is more than enough: it's an exaggeration, an insult to human intelligence, a mockery, a violation of national sovereignty.
Who wants to see can keep up with the fall of a tree through real images. There are some excellent clip on Earth (Earth) by Michael Jackson. But now there's an even better picture: the fall of an enormous tree is recorded by a miniature camera installed in his trunk, which accompanies her to the ground.
Only someone of the mineral kingdom is not touched by this image, one of many that lead to eternal fascination The Amazon in the documentary, the carioca Belisario Franca, first presented at the Rio + 20.
The loggers, of course, does not sensitize. Last month they put down 431 km ² (or 43,000 acres, four times longer than the average annual felled senseless of the kingdom of Mr.Ludwig) of native forest. It was 154% more than the same month of 2011. For the poet T. S. Elliot, April is the worst month. For the "scorched earth" Amazonia in 2012, was September, divider between summer and winter.
September should already be declining deforestation. But the drought strong and passionate debate about the new Forest Code, which sought to impose longer restrictions on Amazon deforestation, stimulated appetites and speculative market, released the worst instincts, intelligence left outside the bounds Amazon.
The indexes, published by Imazon, a research institute based in Belém(capital of the state of Pará), this time without any sophistry let you see the core of destruction: 68% of the deforestation occurred in Pará, Mato Grosso while, secondly, suffered "only" 14% .
The five most deforested municipalities are all in Pará, home to eight of the top 10 in the Amazon forest destruction. The main target was Altamira, where 126 km2 were destroyed (in Cumaru do Norte in 2nd place, were 28.3 km2). Three of the eight most deforested municipalities in Pará are in the area of influence of the Belo Monte Dam, expected to be the third largest in the world.
Who has eyes to see knows that this destruction as well localized and concentrated product is inducing waves that escape quantitative statistics, and the official version of the speech that act as they want, ignoring the peculiarity of the territory over which they intervene. Even if it is the dimension of Amazonia.
Poor  Amazon. Until when?
http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/economia/trabalhadores-de-belo-monte-retomam-as-obras-em-pimental


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m

The news today is not very good to the environment: Belo Monte resumes work after the end of occupation. The settlement of the Amazon is a new paradigm, for which people are not yet prepared. You may not want to settle a city in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, where everyone wants to have gasoline-powered cars. One of the main reasons why the native Indians who are not yet acculturated coexist with the jungle without destroying it, is that they do not need these things and neither use electrical light.

These were the headlines of recent weeks :
   1- OPG wants to maintain suspension of the works of Belo Monte
   2- Norte Energia says suspension of work Belo Monte will bring "negative consequences and unpredictable"
   3- After officials being held hostage, Northern Energy ceases to send technicians to villages.
 But today's news is not very good:  Belo Monte resumes work after the end of occupation.
 Construction schedule was maintained by the company.18/10/12 at 12:27 updated at 12:27 Brazil AgencyThe construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant that had been stalled due to the occupation of Indians, fishermen and riverine who demanded the fulfillment of conditions, were resumed on Thursday (18). After two days of negotiation, the Norte Energia, the company responsible for the plant, ensured that meet the guidelines of the claims presented, including the construction of schools and health facilities for Indians, as well as reform of the Indian House.In the claims of fishermen and locals, contained suggestions work and support of Northern Energy initiatives to repeal the Instruction of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Water Resources (IBAMA), which prohibits the fishing of the river.Since the day 8, the construction works on the Site Pimental, one of the plant beds, were paralyzed because of the occupation. Nevertheless, the work schedule was maintained by the company.In a statement, Northern Energy said, on receiving guarantees of the company, the protesters decided to leave the site so that about 900 workers to resume activities starting today.The negotiation meetings were coordinated by prosecutors of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), Leandro Santos Guard, and the prosecutor Incra, Analice Uchoa Cavalcanti. Present were representatives from IBAMA, the Federal Prosecutor and Public Defender of the State of Pará

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Belo Monte retoma obras após fim de ocupação - Bem Paraná

Stan Getz & João Gilberto & Astrud Gilberto & Tom Jobim-piano "Corcovado" (Um cantinho um violão...)/(Quiet Nights) - by Tom Jobim, (recording-1964)

Armandinho - Desenho De Deus - Armandinho is from Porto Alegre, but after achieving national success with this song, he now lives in Praia Brava, a small beach among countless, on the southern coast, in Santa Catarina, where he can surf and make music.

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=praia+brava+santa+catarina&hl=pt-BR&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=VspHUO-4E

The other saturday we went to play in a Bar on the beach, and after the gig, ace 3:30 am, before hitting the road back, we went to eat something at a nearby restaurant. We were just the four of our band at a table when entered Armandinho (his mother calls him Armando) with his team, half a dozen guys with faces of who was sleeping on the trip and woke up to snack on. He greeted everyone. Then a lot of people started to get up from their tables, girls who were accompanied at the tables stood up, and began to form a queue for autographs and take pictures, and the dude could not even eat properly, serving everyone with a smile. We were thinking that it must be boring to be famous, anywhere you go someone is watching you. Any anonymous outing that you wish to make, you will always have someone watching and telling: Look, there goes that guy, isn't he entering there? It must be very annoying.You lose your freedom. 

Lyrics:
Desenho de Deus

Quando Deus te desenhou
Ele tava namorando
Quando Deus te desenhou
Ele tava namorando
Na beira do mar
Na beira do mar, do amor
Na beira do mar
Na beira do mar, do amor...
Papai do céu na hora de fazer você
Ele deve ter caprichado prá valer
Botou muita pureza no seu coração
E a sua humildade
Fez chamar minha atenção
Tirou a sua voz
Do própolis do mel
E o teu sorriso meigo
De algum lugar do céu
E o resto deve ser
Beleza exterior
Mas o que tem por dentro
Para mim tem mais valor
Quando Deus te desenhou
Ele tava namorando
Quando Deus te desenhou
Ele tava namorando
Na beira do mar
Na beira do mar, do amor
Na beira do mar
Na beira do mar, do amor...
Papai do céu na hora de fazer você
Ele deve ter caprichado prá valer
Botou muita pureza no teu coração
E a sua humildade
Fez chamar minha atenção
Da estrela mais bonita
Ao brilho desse olhar
Diamante verdadeiro
Sua palavra foi buscar
O resto deve ser
Beleza exterior
Mas o que tem por dentro
Para mim tem mais valor...

The OSESP - Symphony Orchestra of São Paulo played at the Royal Albert Hall in London under the baton of conductor Marin Alsop, from New York, USA. My nephew Rodrigo plays cello in the orchestra. He was delighted with the place, the city, the people and the accommodations, they had one room for each member. I didn't know that the Royal Albert Hall was so big. Holds 6,000 spectators. When the screen was opened they were surprised to see so many people. He told my mother that looked like a soccer stadium for so many people. Here, the symphony orchestras do not usually have as many spectators in theaters rooms. I also saw on brazilian TV an interview with conductor Marin Alsop saying that if they had done two shows, had overbooked the two, such was the demand for tickets. In London they performed with the Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire. Also played works by Villa-Lobos of Brazil, Argentine composer Ginastera. After, they performed in Amsterdam. Here, in São Paulo, The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) with Marin Alsop featuring Prok...

Marin Alsop talks about the European tour, 2012.

James Taylor - Chili Dog (Live/2007), a song from that masterpiece, the album One Man Dog (Lp).

Steely Dan-Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)

Steely Dan, the original lineup - Bodhisattva

Belo Monte, the hydro-electric power plant: No world leading has questioned that at the meeting Rio + 20. Neither in the environmental conference, nor at any time, we have seen the greatest global leaderships, question about it.Thus, that is about to be done. This is the transcription of a latest article about the facts about this plant.

For the first time engineers and Indians smoked the peace pipe in the Xingu. After 23 years of skirmishes around the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, they signed an agreement on Wednesday, 1

Representatives from five ethnic groups living in the area of direct influence of what purports to be the second largest dam in the world (but the largest in Brazil) accepted the continuation of the works. In exchange, developers agreed to comply with what the environmental licensing has forced them to do, but now under the supervision of the Indians themselves!

They will also monitor one of the most feared effects of the damming of the Xingu River, near the city of Altamira, Pará State, now in its middle course: the lack of water downstream, where some tribes live. They would suffer from thirst and hunger by at least three months of the year when the drought is greater.

One of the environmental licensing commitments made by the consortium that won the public bidding of Belo Monte was to maintain a minimum flow of 700,000 liters of water per second. It is well above the level registered in the summers more rigorous, which is 400,000 liters. If registered flow below this level, the construction company Northern Energy may be penalized and even lose the concession - with or without supervision indigenous which is now formalized in two management committees.

All claims that the Indians proclaimed by occupying the construction site were answered after two days of intense negotiation. After signing the agreement, they withdrew from the local to whom returned the 2,500 workers who worked there. The consolidation of the agreement, which removes the main obstacle to the continuity of service will depend on the implementing of what has been defined.
The delay, in fact, will be minimal, almost imperceptible. And the orders of the Indians could not be achieved without much effort. Strictly speaking, a lot of noise and confusion for a little real effect. 
The monumental dam is being built simultaneously on five fronts. All working on dry land, which is a rarity in large projects in the Amazon, providing exceptional speed to work. There is no other similar development in the region.
On the site occupied by the Indians appear the main project of the two spillways, beside which is mounted a powerhouse supplement. The main powerhouse will be built after the second spillway, this non-motorized, 50 miles downstream in a straight line (140 kms by natural bed). It is a completely original design standards for the dams. Not all paid attention to this singularity.  
The project rejected outright by the same indigenous groups in 1989 has little to do with the current. He followed the same design of the Tucuruí hydroelectric dams and other large. Everything should focus on the area that the Indians occupied on June 21
In order to gain (or bypass) the national resistance to the hydroelectric development of the valley of the Xingu River, which flows through the territories of Mato Grosso and Para, one of the most beautiful and complex country, the government canceled five of the six dams planned inventory from the year 1970. They maintained Belo Monte .
Instead of one barrier became three. In the earliest stage is already under construction main spillway, which at first would not be motorized. In newer versions (which seem to have no end), he will receive eight bulb turbines.
They are very small: its capacity is more than 20 times smaller than the giant turbines of Francis, of whom 18 (not 20 as indicated penultimate version of the project) will be the main force.  
The bulb type turbines operate with little water and water with his head down (just a drop of 12 meters, 90 meters of conventional turbines). No need to water accumulation in a reservoir. They are - like they say the engineers - the stream of water, with low environmental impact.
The 233 megawatts that these eight machines will generate, from 2015, representing 40% of which produces one of the 18 turbines of the powerhouse another conventional. Altogether, these take into account the potential of 12,000 MW Belo Monte. Energy that will be transferred almost entirely to the south of Brazil. 
For local consumption this plant would not be necessary.
Before reaching this reservoir, the waters of the Xingu (which can achieve throughput of 19 million liters per second) will be diverted from its natural course. For 50 kilometers, they go down 90 meters through artificial channels of concrete, also now under construction, the greatest work of this kind worldwide.
An intricate network of canals lead the water to a reservoir created out of the river channel, which, through a new spillway will reach the water intake of the main powerhouse. Their machines require 10 million liters per second to be able to produce according to their capacity.
This will only be fully achieved in the rainiest months of the year, which will not be more than seven or eight. Therefore the energy firm that available throughout the year, drops to 4300 MW, well below what would be the average cost of 5500 MW. Still, designers of Belo Monte guarantee that it will be profitable and that it will provide 8% of national demand, through a matrix renewable and clean.
Responding to critics and adjusting to new patterns of demand, the Xingu hydroelectric complex represents, literally, what its title says. It is the work more complicated than ever conceived and realized in Brazil in the energy sector. In so many amendments and corrections, has acquired an entirely new profile, which can be seen as something monstrous (a Frankenstein hydroelectric) or exquisite, so as to see it.
Of course, this vast complexity in the approach of a river was not put on the negotiating table with the Indian leaders. But spreadsheets will be back to work in the tempo. In such a way that perhaps only with the fait accompli it will be possible  to  know for certain,  what  creature will emerge from the clipboards of the engineers.  

Environmental Conference, Rio + 20 :
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/world/americas/rio20-conference-ends-with-some-progress-on-the-sidelines.html

Here at south is located the largest canyon of south America, dividing the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina(It's called Aparados da Serra). I heard a geologist talking on TV that the difference between these here and the canyons of north America, is that here the canyons were formed during the divisions of the continents, and its composition is from rocks but because of the weather, they also have a dense vegetation, greenery and water.

Canyon Itaimbezinho - Cambará do Sul. Cascata Véu da Noiva/Cascade of the Bridal Veil.

Cascata do Caracol - Nardo - Serras Gaúchas/Cascade of snail, 1 hour from POA climbing the hills inland.

Red Bull Hill Climb Brazil - Rhys Millen - Serra do Rio do Rastro - SC

Uma estrada que não perdoa motoristas ruins= A road that doesn't forgive bad drivers.

Carreta decendo a serra do rio do rastro=truck coming down the mountain River trail

A mild autumn.

Often at lunchtime, we see a bit of art and outdoor theater in the center of POA. This was in front of City Hall. A block away from there, the boys were playing bluegrass. We are in a mild autumn weather, hoping to cool a little to put most fashionable clothes, instead of using just a T-shirt. The summer was long and very strong and we were tired of sweating all day in the city (since November). Summer is good if you do not need to work in the city and can pass the time on the beach. 
 Spring begins on September 23, summer begins on December 21, autumn begun on March 21 and winter will begin on June 21.
Preferences aside, we should take advantage of what each season has to offer.

Mother's love is timeless. The power of love...

I would never forget Mother's Day! I was traveling on Mother's Day, but as soon as I could I went to my mother's house and I gave the gifts I had bought for her. Congratulations!
 

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http://passareladocomercio.com.br/restaurantes/capaodacanoa.htm
There was a small fire in the bar in January but now everything is fine and we're playing there every Saturday. News about the fire:
http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/rs/geral/noticia/2012/01/comandante-reconhece-deficiencia-da-estrutura-dos-bombeiros-em-capao-da-canoa-3643997.html

The universal language: music, musica, musique.(Real music).

When we played in Argentina that was published in a magazine there.

 http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/ ,

We played with the Beatles Fan Club band in a Beatle week in  POA wearing  the coats of Sargent Peppers.
 I work downtown and in my break for lunch and spare time I always descend and take a walk. Last friday and today I came across Pedro Marini. They are playing every friday with a bluegrass band in the Rua dos Andradas street,(the main street in POA downtown). Pedrinho is son of Mitch Marini, who was also a bass player. We played together in some groups. Mitch died and Pedro inherit 2 electric basses, 2 big acoustic basses, 2 motorbikes and the aim to survive from music while living here. Mitch used to play electric bass in a band with me, and he also played classical music in the orchestra with my nephew Rodrigo(cello), the Porto Alegre Symphonic Orchestra (OSPA-Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre). One time we were interviewed by a local TV channel and he said on the air to the TV reporter that there were 3 great names in the history of music starting with the B letter: Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and that he would add to that list the 4th name: The Beatles.

Veja magazine, http://veja.abril.com.br/

The Beatles Fun club: http://www.thebeatles.com.br

There is a wall in POA with a painting of the Yellow Submarine. We went to that wall and took some photos that was send to the Correio do Povo newspaper  http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/ , and it was published for the anniversary of the Beatles Fan Club Brazil.

TokeLoko was the first beat group that I played with.We started with a show in Araujo Vianna Auditorium and this photo was by Antonio Pacheco for Zero Hora,  http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/rs/

There were two groups in POA that played Beatles, but after that report on Z.H. newspaper, the two became one. At the time of this review, Paulo and me were with other drummer and guitarist in Tokeloko, and Mitch and Schneider(our former drummer) went to form the Swing band. After that we reunited again. They returned to Tokeloko. Later we were together with Mitch and Schneider in the Beatles Fan club band. 
We all quit this band, and now I'm playing in a band and we play a little bit of everything, but Beatles is at least 50% of our set list. I also keep on studying acoustic guitar. 
We will play tomorrow, saturday night, 12, in a bar in called Rivertê in Capão da Canoa, http://br.kekanto.com/biz/riverte-pub
Bluegrass Porto Alegre: http://www.conjuntobluegrass.com/home.php,