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Vacejada--Rodeo Brazilian Style

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:19:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I took this video the other day. The object is to catch the calf by the tail while riding full speed on horseback, and flip him over. It's not as easy as it sounds.

Clip Source: www.comingstobrazil.com

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Tags: brazil, vacejada

Brazilian Baloon Stunt Ends Tragically

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:34:40 GMT

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Clip Source: news.smh.com.au

Brazil's navy has ended its search for a priest who vanished more than a week ago while floating over the Atlantic with a cluster of party balloons.

She said several private fishing boats were still looking for the Catholic priest, but said chances of finding de Carli alive in the ocean are "very remote".

Daily Cuteness

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:28:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is my son Nathan with two female admirers.

Clip Source: www.comingstobrazil.com

Tags: brazil, brazilian, kiss, cute, baby

The Spitzer-Brazilian Connection

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:03:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I knew that sooner or later something in this story would be linked to Brazil.

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Authorities want to speak to Brazilian madam about Eliot Spitzer: source

Schwartz, who was convicted of running a high-end midtown brothel in 2006, told her family she was being deported and would arrive Saturday. Instead, she's stuck in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, N.J., awaiting deportation.

A source close to Schwartz said she'd been told she would be deported and was packed and ready to leave. Then, the source said, authorities wanted to question her about disgraced Gov. Spitzer and another prostitution ring.

SuperInteressante

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The popular Brazilian magazine SuperInteressante has made all of it's back issues available online...for free.

I think it just got more popular.

Clip Source: super.abril.com.br

A Superinteressante oferece todo o seu acervo de textos gratuitamente! São mais de 12 mil páginas com as matérias de capa e algumas das seções que construíram a história da revista. Em breve, todos os especiais, o restante das seções e o conteúdo integral das edições em 2005 e 2006 também estarão disponíveis. Só mesmo uma revista tão Super poderia fazer isso!

Scenes from a Brazilian Wedding

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:06:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.comingstobrazil.com

One neat thing about this wedding was that the groom sang a love song to the bride as she came down the aisle.

The ring bearer came down the aisle when the pastor introduced the ring ceremony--not with the rest of the procession. The effect was very nice.

"With this ring..."

Actually, both bride and groom have been wearing this ring since they have been engaged--on their right hands. At the ceremony, they put the ring on their left hands, where it will stay "até a morte os separe".

As witnesses, our job is to sign the official wedding document.

The happy couple!

Brazil Courts Arab World

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:49:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.anba.com.br

São Paulo – The Brazilian government is betting on the promotion of official visits and trade events in the Arab world to increase agribusiness exports to the region even further this year. "The Middle East is the regional bloc to which our exports grew the most, and we detected the need for closer relations," said in an interview to ANBA the secretary of Foreign Relations in Agribusiness at the Ministry of Agriculture, Célio Porto.

Chico Bento

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:27:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A couple panels from my favorite Maurício character, Chico Bento--including the classic mispronunciation of "problema". The neat thing about Maruícios work is that I know people with the characteristics that he puts in his creations. They represent a nice cross-section of Brazilian culture.

Clip Source: www.monica.com.br

Maricio de Sousa creates Japanese Character

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:58:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love de Sousa's work. I learned Portuguese reading Monica, Cebolinha, and Cascão--althought my all-time favorite character is Chico Bento.

His work gave me some good insights into Brazilian culture as well.

Clip Source: www.asahi.com

A cartoon character in the image of a third-generation Brazilian boy of Japanese descent is the poster boy celebrating a centenary of Japanese immigration to Brazil.

The yet-to-be-named character is the creation of Mauricio de Sousa, 72, one of Brazil's most popular cartoonists.

The Brazilian Orkut Rule

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:54:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is true to a point...but Brazilians also seem to get into a technological rut. Hence they are still using Orkut and MSN when both of these "services" are pretty much on the junk heap of their respective sectors in the rest of the world.

Another example is the continued use of pirated Microsoft Windows OS's, when perfectly good and cheaper (or free) alternatives are quite available.

Clip Source: www.technewsreview.com.au

"The Orkut Rule," writes Bryan McCann in a forthcoming history of modern Brazil, "holds that, wherever possible, Brazilians will avail themselves of the possibilities of digital media to create subcultural niches and cross cultural networks in ways that defy traditional social hierarchies and the existing national cultural canon."

As has been well-documented, Google's early entrant into the social networking wars fizzled in the United States but exploded in Brazil. As of late 2007, Brazil boasted 40 million registered Orkut accounts, offering equal room for skate-punks and samba lovers to construct their intentional online communities and chat away.

When Brazilians find a new toy, they'll play with it, take it apart, and mix it together with all their other favorites.

Save the Amazon...Kick out the Missionaries?

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:11:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This kind of yellow-journalism is unfortunately very prevalent here in Brazil. I find it amazing that the author engages in classic post-modern thought (the tribal religions are just as valid as Christianity) and then accuses the missionary of being a "post-modern Messiah".

It is possible to buy into this guy's screed until you realize that what he is calling for is the wholesale relegation of an entire people group to the stone age--an age which he is presumably unwilling to be relegated himself.

Clip Source: www.brazzil.com

Under the guise of 'Amazon charity' programs, some officials still allow foreign groups and even Brazilian groups to promote the religious indoctrination of Amazonian native communities, which corresponds invariably to the demolition of the cultural identities of these ethnicities.

In exchange for a few packages of Western style medicines and eventual health care actions, which are goods and services Native Brazilians never hoped to have, these "modern era Crusaders' are allowed to take from these people everything they always had and hoped to have forever: their culture, kept alive for thousands of years.

These post-modern pseudo-Messiahs, with their ethnocentric agenda imported from Europe and North America (and even from Brazil itself!) insist on reediting, in today's Brazil, the miserable benchmark established centuries ago in the Americas, Asia and Africa.

Tags: brazil, brazilian, anthropology, amazon, missionaries

Brazil Suddenly Stops Issuing Tourist Visas to Taiwan

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:36:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My guess is that the "certain reason" listed is because Brazil is trying to "kiss up" to mainland China.

That is just a guess.

Clip Source: www.chinapost.com.tw

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) lamented the fact that the Taipei-based Brazil Business Center and Brazilian authorities yesterday launched a unilateral ban on Taiwan tourists, with no advance warning.

Given the fact issuance of tourist visas between Brazil and Taiwan has always proceeded under the principle of reciprocity, Yeh refrained to comment on whether Taiwan's government would also impose a ban on Brazil tourists in the near future.

One official at the Brazil Business Center told a Chinese-language media reporter that morning that the Brazilian representative has no comment on the tourist visa ban at present.

He added that the decision was made for a "certain reason" and affected tourist visas only.

CPMF to IOF

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:39:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Classic smoke-and-mirros on the part of the Brazilian government.

Clip Source: www.brazzilmag.com

CPMF is out, IOF is in. Despite promises from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that new taxes would not be created to compensate for the 40 billion reais (US$ 22.5 billion) the government lost when Congress at the end of 2007 discontinued the Temporary Contribution on Financial Transactions (CPMF) tribute, new tariffs were announced the very first working day of the new year.

The levy known as IOF (Tax on Financial Operations) will be applied on business and personal financial operations, including real estate loans, insurance, exchange and international credit card operations.

Mantega recognized that the only thing that changed was the name of the tax from CPMF to IOF. "All the government did was to change from six to half a dozen," he told reporters. The new tariff starts being charged today.

Buddhist Syncretism in Brazil

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:03:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An interesting article on how Buddhism enters into the religious salad of Brazil.

Clip Source: www.arcanology.com

As people may or may not know, there are over one and a half million Brazilians of Japanese descent in Brazil due to Japanese migration over the last century for work. This forms the largest group of Japanese living in any place outside of Japan (including the United States).

As many people may know, Brazil is home to a very vibrant mix of religious cultures that combine Roman Catholicism, African Diasporic religions originally coming with slaves, Spiritualism, and modern practices that combine all of these or add new ideas to the mix.

One interesting aspect of this temple, however, is its incorporation of some devotional and popular elements of Brazilian Catholicism. In this sense, one important characteristic of the altar is the presence of a lateral image of Our Lady Aparecida (port. Nossa Senhora Aparecida).

Tags: brazil, brazilian, buddhism, syncretism

Persecution of Christian Congressman in Brazil

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:00:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here in Brazil the pro-gay movement is not just interested in obtaining equal rights--they are trying to shut up anybody who might disagree with them. This is just one of many such instances throughout the country, on all social levels.

Clip Source: www.lifesite.net

Socialist Gays Seek Punishments for Brazilian Christian Congressman

A radical homosexual group inside the Brazilian Workers' Party is requesting disciplinary action against Brazilian House Representative Henrique Afonso, a party member. According to the Setorial Nacional GLBT (a group of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals within the Worker's Party), Rep. Afonso, who is an evangelical, has allegedly been "offensive" to homosexuals, because he "has linked homosexuality to the destruction of the family environment".

It believes that he has violated party statutes because he is opposed to abortion and homosexual behavior.