<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414</id><updated>2012-03-16T14:53:10.355-03:00</updated><category term='Photos'/><category term='Videos'/><category term='People'/><category term='Relatos'/><category term='illustrations'/><category term='Opinion'/><category term='Tips'/><category term='Stories'/><category term='Dicas'/><category term='Português'/><title type='text'>Elton Hubner</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>133</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5796612492450271913</id><published>2011-10-21T14:57:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-21T14:57:05.581-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Marginalized voices in the Rio favelas</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif';"&gt;Arms wide open&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;, a large, towering statue of Jesus Christ blesses the seven million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, a city whose radiating warmth and dazzling sceneries welcome tourists from across the world. This is one of the most visited places in the southern hemisphere, attracting approximately three million foreign tourists per year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;The number would probably be much higher if the so-called “marvellous city” did not have a frightening, dark side: an exceptionally high violent crime rate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;In 2009, the public security secretary of Rio de Janeiro registered 2155 murders in the city – three times as many as occurred in all of Germany that year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;As in most other large Brazilian cities, crime closely relates to the economic disparity that separates the rich from the poor. In Rio de Janeiro, however, this disparity is especially visible, since most of the city’s hill slopes are favelas, quarters of marginalised “communities” where disadvantaged people live. The first favelas emerged about 100 years ago as illegal settlements. Although they are covered by town planning today, they are still considered somewhat informal and in many ways resemble slums (...)."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/197937/index.en.shtml"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5796612492450271913?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5796612492450271913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5796612492450271913' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5796612492450271913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5796612492450271913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2011/10/marginalized-voices-in-rio-favelas.html' title='Marginalized voices in the Rio favelas'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2056401421907217067</id><published>2011-03-07T17:41:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T00:22:18.066-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stories'/><title type='text'>The dead of Varanasi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It was 5:10 AM when I started knoc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;king&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Sanzio and Giovanni's door. About ten minutes later, I realized there was nothing I could do to wake up our deaf Italian friends. So, my sister and I decided to leave the guesthouse without ou&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;r volunteer guides to see if we could find what we were looking for on our own.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;For two months, we had been catching packed buses and trains around the &lt;i&gt;incredible&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; India&lt;/span&gt;. It was enough time to find our way out &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;of a c&lt;/span&gt;haotic Mumbai and test our luck crossing the busiest streets of the capital, New Delhi. After surviving our fir&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;st few perilous dashes through traffic in Raja&lt;/span&gt;sthan, we had gon&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;e on to experience the&lt;/span&gt; colourful Navaratri Festival in Gujarat. Then, we had finally seen&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; Everest and contemplated the splendid Taj Mahal with our own eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;At this point, sharing the streets with cows, rickshaws and bare-footed people had become normal. So had eating spicy food wi&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;th our ha&lt;/span&gt;nds, protecting ourselves from daring monkeys and using toilets with holes on the floor and no toilet paper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;We the&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;n travelled on to&lt;/span&gt; Varanasi, the holiest place in the Hindu world. I was particularly curious about the Ganges River and the masses of pilgrims that I would probably encounter there. But, frankly, my sister and I didn't expect to find anything really impressive in that old city.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;Shortly after we got there, some rumours put our scepticism in doubt. They said something in that place would blow us away. "At sunrise, head to the river and follow the smoke", was the instruction. That's exactly what &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;we got up to this mor&lt;/span&gt;ning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;After bumping into dodging cow dung and sleeping people along several narrow streets, we finally reached the river. There were different sources of smoke. We aimed at the closest one, which was less than a mile away. As we walked along the riverside, the first sun rays &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;revealed &lt;/span&gt;a striking scenario: many people bathing, washing their clothes and brushing their teeth in &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; Ganges's dark water.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;Then a crowd diverted our attention to the exact spot &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; where the smoke was &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;billowing&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;It was&lt;/span&gt; mostly adults singing around a bonfire. A sign said &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;that taking pictures &lt;/span&gt;was not allowed, so I intuitively barged through the crowd and just watched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/89683/trek-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="215" src="http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/89683/trek-7.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;A corpse was being cremated. The body was wrapped in an orange cloth and tied t&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;o a bamboo litter. His hair and most of the cloth had already disappeared among the flames of the big bonfire. The whites of his eyes first lost their pristine colour, then the eyes themselves their round shape before his skin &lt;/span&gt;started to burn and melt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;Only a few steps away, I could feel the heat and smell the roast&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;ing&lt;/span&gt; flesh. After a while, the macabre spectacle left only ashes and the remains of bone. These were then thrown into the water, and new firewood &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; brought for the next open-air cremation. I looked around and realized that my sister and I were the only ones shocked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;As I learned later, this Hindu ritual happens hundreds of times every morning in the several burning ghats along the Ganges River. For some families, the wood costs such a fortune that they simply drown the deceased with h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;eavy stones in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;holy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; water. That explains why, in the days which followed, we would continue to spot heads and other human body parts floating in the river.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2056401421907217067?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2056401421907217067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2056401421907217067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2056401421907217067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2056401421907217067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2011/03/dead-of-varanasi.html' title='The dead of Varanasi'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1697497235767313677</id><published>2011-03-03T20:39:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T20:41:48.469-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='People'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Videos'/><title type='text'>A special sewing school in Berlin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object style="height: 260px; width: 414px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A0PuDse2QCg?version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A0PuDse2QCg?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="414" height="260"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1697497235767313677?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1697497235767313677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1697497235767313677' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1697497235767313677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1697497235767313677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2011/03/special-sewing-school-in-berlin.html' title='A special sewing school in Berlin'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2206909921814446522</id><published>2010-11-10T12:01:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T11:32:52.606-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Deliberate practice leads to great performance</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeREGxDocI/AAAAAAAAAiA/-KSB5O6YNrI/s1600/talent_cover_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; height: 194px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 134px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeREGxDocI/AAAAAAAAAiA/-KSB5O6YNrI/s200/talent_cover_large.jpg" width="132" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;I've recently learned&lt;/span&gt; a bit about &lt;a href="http://geoffcolvin.com/bio/"&gt;Geoff Colvin&lt;/a&gt;, who is defined on his own website as a “&lt;/span&gt;leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;In his book &lt;a href="http://geoffcolvin.com/books/talent-overrated/"&gt;Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers&lt;/a&gt; (2009), Geoff Colvin helps us understand why some people are really good at what they do while others tend to have mediocre performance during all their lives. Is it talent? Is it hard work? None or both together plus something else?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;Here is an excerpt of the book's first chapter:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;• The factor that seems to explain the most about great performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;is something the researchers call deliberate practice. Exactly what&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;that is and isn’t turns out to be extremely important. It definitely isn’t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;what most of us do on the job every day, which begins to explain the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;great mystery of the workplace—why we’re surrounded by so many&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;people who have worked hard for decades but have never approached&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;greatness. Deliberate practice is also not what most of us do when we&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;think we’re practicing golf or the oboe or any of our other interests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works. More of it equals bet-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;ter performance. Tons of it equals great performance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="pt-PT"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2206909921814446522?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2206909921814446522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2206909921814446522' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2206909921814446522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2206909921814446522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/11/deliberate-practice-leads-to-great.html' title='Deliberate practice leads to great performance'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeREGxDocI/AAAAAAAAAiA/-KSB5O6YNrI/s72-c/talent_cover_large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5710115277490768211</id><published>2010-10-22T14:37:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T11:33:36.693-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Festival of Lights Berlin 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Brandenburger Gate&lt;/span&gt; during the Festival of Lights Berlin 2010: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" nx="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TMHJ6EDEgEI/AAAAAAAAAhk/y32XRj2kUgQ/s320/Brandenburger+Back+2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TMHKUlrzPWI/AAAAAAAAAho/KFphUp9O7gM/s1600/Brandenburger+Front+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211" nx="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TMHKUlrzPWI/AAAAAAAAAho/KFphUp9O7gM/s320/Brandenburger+Front+1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" nx="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TMHKyD8bpYI/AAAAAAAAAh4/W_7JrTWEsXg/s320/Brandenburger+Tor+Back+2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5710115277490768211?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5710115277490768211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5710115277490768211' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5710115277490768211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5710115277490768211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/10/festival-of-lights-berlin-2010.html' title='Festival of Lights Berlin 2010'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TMHJ6EDEgEI/AAAAAAAAAhk/y32XRj2kUgQ/s72-c/Brandenburger+Back+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5544278185564396671</id><published>2010-07-20T19:47:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T08:52:26.569-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='People'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Videos'/><title type='text'>The World of Tacheles</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The World of Tacheles&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is a mini-documentary about the ruins that have been transformed in a big tourist attraction by artists in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video was shot with a little Sony HDR-CX115 and edited on Adobe Premiere. It's one of a series of short videos I've been making in order to get acquainted with the techniques of videojournalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_yd1amtWBI"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_yd1amtWBI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIu1ugYGyCw"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIu1ugYGyCw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zCZc9rY7ehg"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zCZc9rY7ehg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5544278185564396671?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5544278185564396671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5544278185564396671' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5544278185564396671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5544278185564396671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-of-tacheles.html' title='The World of Tacheles'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-472052026963763741</id><published>2010-07-07T12:22:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T09:09:39.066-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Videos'/><title type='text'>Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;This is one of my first videos&lt;/span&gt; ever. Editing is pretty time consuming, but can be very fun, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ni4YuUb0gq8"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ni4YuUb0gq8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-472052026963763741?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/472052026963763741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=472052026963763741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/472052026963763741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/472052026963763741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/07/deutsche-welle-global-media-forum-2010.html' title='Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2010'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6991703965946560884</id><published>2010-06-29T12:10:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T12:10:29.005-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>FÓRUM MUNDIAL DA MÍDIA - A função da imprensa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TCoMru5uWxI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_2aNg8VenE0/s1600/hotshots__b,property%3DTeaser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" ru="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TCoMru5uWxI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_2aNg8VenE0/s200/hotshots__b,property%3DTeaser.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Numa das primeiras aulas&lt;/span&gt; do curso de Jornalismo aprendi que o princípio filosófico da busca pela verdade, chamado de redução eidética, era o que muitos entendiam como objetividade ou imparcialidade. Na cartilha de qualquer jornalista com diploma essas palavras constam, por mais utópica que soem, como essência da profissão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, sempre houve quem dissesse que informar é pouco, imparcialidade não existe e objetividade pode significar irresponsabilidade. Essas e outras controvérsias foram discutidas entre 21 e 23 de junho no Fórum Mundial da Mídia (Global Media Forum), organizado pela Deutsche Welle em Bonn, na Alemanha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/artigos.asp?cod=596IMQ006"&gt;Continue lendo aqui.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6991703965946560884?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6991703965946560884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6991703965946560884' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6991703965946560884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6991703965946560884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/06/forum-mundial-da-midia-funcao-da.html' title='FÓRUM MUNDIAL DA MÍDIA - A função da imprensa'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TCoMru5uWxI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/_2aNg8VenE0/s72-c/hotshots__b,property%3DTeaser.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5051563859641374365</id><published>2010-06-05T09:32:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T09:32:04.490-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Notícias de uma Guerra Particular</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"Uma pessoa morre a cada meia hora no Rio&lt;/span&gt; - 90% delas atingidas por balas de grosso calibre."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa é uma das primeiras informações do documentário Notícias de uma Guerra Particular (1999), de Kátia &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526199/"&gt;Lund&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098834/"&gt;João Moreira Salles&lt;/a&gt;. No YouTube, o vídeo pode ser visto em sete partes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zp7KVlft-54"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zp7KVlft-54" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5051563859641374365?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5051563859641374365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5051563859641374365' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5051563859641374365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5051563859641374365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/06/noticias-de-uma-guerra-particular.html' title='Notícias de uma Guerra Particular'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4638049923059835097</id><published>2010-05-26T09:29:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T16:17:52.626-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Videos'/><title type='text'>Carnival of Cultures in Berlin</title><content type='html'>In 1996, the Werkstatt der Kulturen gave birth to the "Karneval der Kulturen" (Carnival of Cultures) in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2010, the 15th edition took place between May 21st and 24th. About 380 stands and four stages were set up in order to feed and entertain the 1.4 million visitors that were expected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday (23rd), 70 nations were represented by approximately 4,500 people, who joined a streetparade between the subway stations Hermannplatz and Yorckstraße.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wg9NFVP-BLk&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wg9NFVP-BLk&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4638049923059835097?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4638049923059835097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4638049923059835097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4638049923059835097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4638049923059835097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/05/carnival-of-cultures-in-berlin.html' title='Carnival of Cultures in Berlin'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3846757283182365058</id><published>2010-04-28T10:29:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T20:56:22.212-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>"Gente Andina"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;In July, 2001,&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; I went on a trip to Bolivia and Peru&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to register the natives' day-to-day life with an old Pentax K1000.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few months later, 40 of those pictures became part of &lt;i&gt;Gente Andina&lt;/i&gt; (Andean People), an exhibition held in two universities, one school and one shopping mall in Maringá, my hometown in Brazil. Here are some scanned photos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2vIEOavI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/6EqmYkx8z7U/s1600/maltrapilho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2vIEOavI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/6EqmYkx8z7U/s200/maltrapilho.jpg" tt="true" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2tWeUDDI/AAAAAAAAAfE/Au0zcQ1e-7E/s1600/cega.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2tWeUDDI/AAAAAAAAAfE/Au0zcQ1e-7E/s200/cega.jpg" tt="true" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2wF5y6TI/AAAAAAAAAfY/WQAbFlbxtC8/s1600/menino+do+trem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2wU7A4uI/AAAAAAAAAfc/dJ2CoARJhHY/s320/pensadoras.jpg" tt="true" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3846757283182365058?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3846757283182365058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3846757283182365058' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3846757283182365058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3846757283182365058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/gente-andina.html' title='&quot;Gente Andina&quot;'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S9g2vIEOavI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/6EqmYkx8z7U/s72-c/maltrapilho.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4678746393904996258</id><published>2010-04-23T12:59:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T16:18:50.588-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Misha Glenny on global crime networks</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The organized crime&lt;/span&gt; is today a mighty industry which creates instability and violence wherever it goes. &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/misha_glenny_investigates_global_crime_networks.html"&gt;On this video for TED&lt;/a&gt;, the British journalist Misha Glenny justifies why he says so by giving an overview of worldwide organized crime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4678746393904996258?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4678746393904996258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4678746393904996258' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4678746393904996258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4678746393904996258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/misha-glenny-on-global-crime-networks.html' title='Misha Glenny on global crime networks'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-108841817765727010</id><published>2010-04-21T17:02:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T17:02:59.309-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Long News</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Long Now Foundation&lt;/span&gt; has created &lt;a href="http://longnews.org/"&gt;longnews.org&lt;/a&gt; to filter information and,&amp;nbsp;as they say,&amp;nbsp;"to provide counterpoint to today's 'faster/cheaper' mind set and promote 'slower/better' thinking".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, the website presents certain news, contextualizes them and offers&amp;nbsp;a range of links to relevant news on the same subjects. This is some of the information published recently on the website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s estimated that by 02050, the number of centenarians worldwide will reach nearly 6 million. And some say that half of the babies born in the U.S. today will live into the 22nd century. Obviously, this will pose new challenges for the workplace, social security, health care, and just about every other aspect of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, humans speak to each other in nearly 7,000 languages; it’s estimated that 90% of those languages will be gone by 02050, displaced by English, Spanish, or Chinese. Meanwhile, there’s a broader question about how well we’re preserving the rest of the world’s cultural heritage. But while we may be losing our collective memories, the thoughts of individuals are more and more likely to live on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...) Three hundred million school children don’t have access to clean water today, and according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 47% of the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by the year 02030.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-108841817765727010?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/108841817765727010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=108841817765727010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/108841817765727010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/108841817765727010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/long-news.html' title='Long News'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7362893407983753877</id><published>2010-04-15T17:16:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T17:16:45.115-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Ushahidi</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;In Swahili, ushahidi means&lt;/span&gt; "testimony" or "witness". On the web, it means a revolutionary way to gather information worldwide. Learn more about it &lt;a href="http://ushahidi.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7362893407983753877?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7362893407983753877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7362893407983753877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7362893407983753877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7362893407983753877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/ushahidi.html' title='Ushahidi'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4584612590012938145</id><published>2010-04-12T19:39:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T19:42:10.099-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Mistaken expectations</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html"&gt;this&amp;nbsp;great speech&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; the Harvard psychologist &lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_gilbert.html"&gt;Dan Gilbert&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;shows that our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4584612590012938145?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4584612590012938145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4584612590012938145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4584612590012938145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4584612590012938145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/mistaken-expectations.html' title='Mistaken expectations'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8089537517522994764</id><published>2010-04-02T12:45:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T16:27:49.849-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>The uprising of the gender-neutral society and the decadence of manly men</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Since the mid-twentieth century&lt;/span&gt;, women have gradually become entrepreneurs, explored casual sex, determined whether and when they wish to have children, and perhaps become more selfish. In other words, they’ve become more like men - at least in the most developed democratic societies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeVIO-OVUI/AAAAAAAAAiM/88GKuv22S9I/s1600/genderneutral.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeVIO-OVUI/AAAAAAAAAiM/88GKuv22S9I/s1600/genderneutral.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When women started to leave home in pursuit of freedom and career, men were pushed to let the ladies join their teams and split their jobs. Behaving like men and competing with them for a job was just the beginning of the female emancipation. Men behaving like women took the revolution to the &lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;next level: the rise of a gender-neutral society&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things have already developed towards gender neutrality. The language itself is one example, as the US-American professor &lt;a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ehmansf/"&gt;Harvey Mansfield&lt;/a&gt; points out in the first pages of &lt;a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=l30BXnXfH1kC&amp;amp;dq=Manliness+mansfield&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;source=bn&amp;amp;hl=de&amp;amp;ei=-A62S-6SBJWTsQaqsOHADg&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=4&amp;amp;ved=0CB4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;f=false"&gt;Manliness&lt;/a&gt; (2006). Today, words such as &lt;i&gt;mankind&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;man&lt;/i&gt; have been replaced by &lt;i&gt;human-kind&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;person&lt;/i&gt;. Even &lt;i&gt;sex&lt;/i&gt; has been replaced by &lt;i&gt;gender&lt;/i&gt;, which is considered more appropriate when one refers to the biological, psychological or spiritual differences between men and women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Taking risks&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps most people haven’t paid attention to such changes yet, but the contrast is very clear to me since I've constantly moving between different European and American countries. In general, it’s getting more complicated to talk about men and women without risking to be politically incorrect, or to be seen as a chauvinist or a harasser. Mansfield does it though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He not only talks about the differences between men and women, but also criticizes the feminized society and claims the importance of keeping those differences clear – for the sake of both men and women. &lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Backed up by evolutionary biology and a long list of philosophers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Mansfield urges us to reconsider the merits of male protectiveness and assertiveness&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By doing that, the professor gives voice to other men who might be cooped up in the corners of what he calls &lt;i&gt;rational control&lt;/i&gt;. How are they? Ashamed of their clumsy manly way, and pretty confused because their honor and force are no longer esteemed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is manliness?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A manly man is defined by many stereotypes. He can be aggressive, hard, promiscuous, assertive, aloof, stoic, laconic, rational and abstract, for instance. Maybe you don’t trust these traditional stereotypes anymore, but Mansfield does. For him, stereotypes indicate a common sense that science struggles to explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeQkKWvoNI/AAAAAAAAAh8/IT3Kf2_57ZA/s1600/popeye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeQkKWvoNI/AAAAAAAAAh8/IT3Kf2_57ZA/s200/popeye.jpg" width="195" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A manly man is not likely to cry or ask for help. He may make you believe he doesn’t even need help - ever. This might sound exaggerating, but so are manly men, who are also assertive, insistent, obstinate, stubborn and bossy. Above all, "they don’t do girl stuff". That’s why many men think it’s fine that women “imitate” them, whereas they don’t seem to be so excited about having to take care of the children or doing the housework, for example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Born hard or made hard?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The German psychologist Wilhelm Johnen disagrees. For him, such male characteristics are not natural, but imposed during the boys’ childhood. Men are not born tough, but made so. In his book &lt;a href="http://www.ciao.de/Die_Angst_des_Mannes_vor_der_starken_Frau_Johnen_Wilhelm__2523358"&gt;Die Angst des Mannes vor der starken Frau – Einsichten in Männerseelen&lt;/a&gt; (1992), Johnen lists some particularities regarding the typical education of boys. Some of them are the facts that they receive less tenderness than girls, are highly expected to perform well and are harshly punished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, boys are urged to become heroes and to fight in single combats during their lives. As a result, Johnen affirms, they don’t learn to recognize their fears – let alone how to deal with those. No parent wants their boy to be a whiny!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the psychologist, virile men actually hide lots of fears behind their hard armor. Women might well be one of them. Johnen says that “men’s fear of women is much more intensive and has much more implications than women (and men themselves) imagine”. M&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;en are also supposedly afraid of failing as well as of becoming hilarious, being fooled, being useless, being overwhelmed, showing their weaknesses, becoming dependent, feeling lonely, looking like a wimp etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;For Johnen, it’s obvious that the repression of all those fears is what makes men aggressive&lt;/span&gt;. The patriarchal society welcomed this aggressiveness, but the gender-neutral society doesn’t tolerate it anymore. Today, “non-violent” societies prefer attributes like empathy, patience and comprehension – all typical feminine qualities. That’s why one could say &lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;we’re living in a feminized culture&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;Mansfield neither defends the male privileges nor considers manly characteristics always good.&lt;/span&gt; He rather tries to persuade men and "the most educated women" that the democratic society should retrieve the appreciation of manly protectiveness and assertiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thumos: the justified aggressiveness&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The manly aggressiveness is usually justified by men’s physical strength, testosterone and tough education, but that’s not all. At least not for Mansfield, who defends the existence of a philosophical component which relates the human aggression to its sense of honor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This component was called &lt;i&gt;fortitude&lt;/i&gt; by Spinoza, &lt;i&gt;generosity&lt;/i&gt; by Descartes and &lt;i&gt;thumos&lt;/i&gt; by Plato and Aristotle. Mansfield describes it as &lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;“a quality of spiritedness that induces humans, and especially manly men, to risk their lives in order to save their lives”&lt;/span&gt;. It’ indeed a paradox, but he adds: “As manliness is made out of that paradox, it is more complicated than the simplistic drives of aggression, domination, and self-preservation to which science tries to reduce manliness.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, Mansfield suggests that manly men are also intuitive humans. They become aggressive and step forward to fight for an important or honorable cause, just as women sometimes become “emotional” by trusting blindly their feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s exactly why manly men are still important today. Mansfield claims that our current society is replacing individuals by professionalism, technology and democracy, favoring therefore individualism instead of individuality. So he asks: Who other than manly men could claim the individuals’ importance in this scenario?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8089537517522994764?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8089537517522994764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8089537517522994764' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8089537517522994764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8089537517522994764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/04/uprising-of-gender-neutral-society-and.html' title='The uprising of the gender-neutral society and the decadence of manly men'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeVIO-OVUI/AAAAAAAAAiM/88GKuv22S9I/s72-c/genderneutral.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3352593972176992330</id><published>2010-03-23T20:15:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T20:16:46.204-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>O Big Brother e a Globo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Recebi hoje &lt;a href="http://doherbert.blogspot.com/2010/02/bbb-10-putaria-ao-vivo.html"&gt;um texto criticando o Big Brother&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; e, de carona, a Rede Globo. “Fim do poço”, “atentado à nossa modesta inteligência”, “a pura e suprema banalização do sexo” e “putaria ao vivo” foram algumas das nada amistosas definições do programa que, de longe, faz mais sucesso na TV brasileira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje em dia, procuro entender os pontos de vista de cada um e respeito o direito que todos têm de se expressar – inclusive o daqueles que não fazem o mesmo, como o escritor anônimo ou que perdeu o nome numa das tantas reencaminhadas do seu texto pela internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não sou nenhum gênio ou dono da verdade, mas conheço bem essa mania que muitos (não só) brasileiros têm de criticar tudo que está longe do seu alcance: os jornais, os políticos, a polícia, tudo que é serviço público, o Lula, as multinacionais, o G-8, a União Europeia, os Estados Unidos e, é claro, a Globo. Só não vale criticar a Bíblia ou Deus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que ainda existe tanto moralismo no Brasil cristão eu já sei, mas me surpreendo repetitivamente com a hipocrisia e a intolerância que ainda impregnam nas mentes cultas das minorias abastadas e politizadas do país. Chamar o BBB 10 de “zoológico humano” com “o judeu tarado, o gay afeminado, a dentista gostosa, o negro com suingue, a nerd tímida, a gostosa com bundão, a não sou piranha mas não sou santa, o modelo Mr. Maringá, a nordestina sorridente, a lésbica convicta, a DJ intelectual, o carioca marrento, o maquiador drag-queen e a PM que gosta de apanhar” é, no mínimo, de gosto duvidoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em vez de perceber que a heterogeneidade dos participantes é, sim, o retrato do Brasil pluralista, democrático, igualitário e com oportunidades de ascensão que cada um de nós supostamente almejamos, o autor só conseguiu empacotar seu preconceito com palavras bem articuladas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não sou fã de carteirinha da Globo, mas não há dúvidas de que o BBB seja uma oportunidade pra cada telespectador, independente da escolaridade e do nível intelectual, possa observar durante semanas o comportamento de seus semelhantes e tirar suas próprias lições com isso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em outros países como a Alemanha e a própria terra natal do programa, a Holanda, o público já se cansou do Big Brother. A Globo, entretanto, conseguiu olhar fora da caixinha, explorar a psique dos participantes e incitar a interatividade com os telespectadores e internautas. Como não podia deixar de ser, alcançou o mesmo sucesso invejável que tem com suas novelas e tornar o programa não só rentoso e divertido, como também proveitoso, sim. Afinal de contas, não é possível que só quem lê poesia e vai ao cinema aprenda alguma coisa na vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualquer menino e menina de 13 ou 15 anos já sabe – geralmente na prática – o que é “ficar”. E de quem temos que esconder que gays existem? Além do mais, convenhamos, uma edição que não teve nenhum escândalo embaixo dos hedredons e que teve dois homens apaixonados respeitadores como Michel e Elieser não tem porquê ser chamada de “putaria ao vivo”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acontece que nem todo mundo tem o mesmo gosto e algumas pessoas não aceitam isso. Tem gente, como o autor da crítica, que gosta de ler Mario Quintana e Pablo Neruda. Ou que faz distinção entre “boa música” e música ruim. Ou ele mesmo assiste ao BBB enquanto sugere aos outros que façam algo diferente em vez de “ajudar a Globo a ganhar rios de dinheiro e destruir o que ainda resta dos valores sobre os quais foi contruída a nossa sociedade”... ou ele critica o que nem conhece. Tão paradoxal quanto esperar que uma rede de televisão que investe milhões na produção de um programa e dá um prêmio de R$ 1,5 milhão não contasse com lucro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O autor em questão também se incomoda com o fato de os participantes do BBB serem chamados de heróis. Pra ele, heróis são os pobres, doentes, assistencialistas, “aqueles que, apesar de ganharem um salário mínimo, pagam suas contas” etc. Engano dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heróis são seres com desempenho e conquistas fora do comum, além (para cima) da capacidade normal humana. Explicar mais sobre os méritos de cada um dos guerreiros expostos 24 horas e para o resto da vida ao julgamento genuíno dos seus conterrâneos é um atentado, como ele mesmo diz, à sua modéstia inteligência.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3352593972176992330?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3352593972176992330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3352593972176992330' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3352593972176992330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3352593972176992330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/03/o-big-brother-e-globo.html' title='O Big Brother e a Globo'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4721240787581913343</id><published>2010-01-31T13:13:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T09:42:12.981-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>How it feels living in an individualist society</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2WrmqAMg7I/AAAAAAAAAbk/GkBPlBRu1cA/s1600-h/4144260328_29903b2584.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2WrmqAMg7I/AAAAAAAAAbk/GkBPlBRu1cA/s200/4144260328_29903b2584.jpg" width="172" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The first time I traveled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; from Brazil to Germany was over a decade ago. Since then, I’ve been comparing people’s manners, habits and ideals without really understanding why South Americans and Europeans, for instance, can be so different in so many ways.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is religion so important, politicians are so corrupt and people are so friendly in some places, whereas other countries have been longer on the way to the establishment of a gender-neutral and individualist society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading a book written by the Canadian philosopher &lt;a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/faculty/taylor/"&gt;Charles Taylor&lt;/a&gt;, I've recently noticed that taking only people in account rather than the moral ideals that support their societies had been a mistake. In The &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/0674268636?&amp;amp;PID=31879"&gt;Ethics of Authenticity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (1992), Taylor helped me understand what the hack is going on in the USA, Canada and some European countries. Then it became also clear why Southern nations can be so resistant to the influences of the North.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe there are many other confused people out there. Most of them probably don know what they should believe or pursue. They might ask themselves how to get satisfaction and, what is even worse, who they actually are. If you’re one of them, perhaps you'll find this brief explanation handful. Please forgive me if it comes across as being too simplistic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Freedom and equality&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you remember what the French revolutionaries demanded? “Liberté, égalité et fraternité”. Democracy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The West (I’d rather say the Northwest) killed all those three birds with one stone: Justice. With equality and freedom guaranteed by law, citizens could rely on the State and social hierarchies slowly started to disappear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people realized they didn’t need to follow God’s commandments or to beg for His mercy anymore, religion and its values became obsolete. Now think about what happened when people stopped believing in God and became able to seek self-fulfillment however they wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Consequences&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Charles Taylor, that led to individualism and to a disenchantment of the world. It made the soil fertile for the growth of a “facile” relativism and instrumental reason – some peculiar terms that are interconnected and easy to assimilate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, individuals lost their faith in something “bigger” and turned their attention to themselves (individualism and disenchantment of the world); one could no longer tell the others what was good or bad (relativism); and the environment as well as people began to be considered mere instruments for individuals’ self-fulfillment (instrumental reason, the engine that moves the capitalism).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the one hand, these societies allow you to be just the way you are. Nobody should tell you what to do or how to act. On the other hand, nobody gives a damn about you. If individuals are urged to find self-fulfillment on their own, there’s no need and no duty to help each other. It’s the egoistic side of individualism that makes Germans say “Das ist nicht mein Problem” (It’s not my problem), for instance, so often.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dilemma&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Taylor points out, another “problem” for individuals is finding their own identity. If we’re no longer “sons and daughters of God”, and if most social hierarchy positions have vanished, then who are we? Now that everyone is free and has the same rights to be whoever they want to be, how can you differentiate yourself from the others?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a contradiction: we want to be equals, but also special. Look around you: you’ll see "the best this", "the top 10 that", "the most this" and ranking lists everywhere. We still want to be different or rather unique. And we want to be authentic. But who’s going to endorse your authenticity? Who’s going to confirm your identity? Maybe we’ll talk about this some other time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4721240787581913343?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4721240787581913343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4721240787581913343' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4721240787581913343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4721240787581913343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-it-feels-living-in-individualist.html' title='How it feels living in an individualist society'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2WrmqAMg7I/AAAAAAAAAbk/GkBPlBRu1cA/s72-c/4144260328_29903b2584.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8498064025167824764</id><published>2010-01-29T14:09:00.008-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T12:02:23.452-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Who cares about Haiti and Honduras?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Haiti and Honduras&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; are two&amp;nbsp;small countries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with 17 million inhabitants f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;orgotten in Central America. &lt;/span&gt;Together with Nicaragua, they form the poorest trio of the whole American continent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just said Haiti and Honduras are forgotten. But well, they used to be. Now, thanks to hurricanes, floods, coup d’etats and earthquakes, they’re not anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeTl2_dqnI/AAAAAAAAAiI/-TzvZbSlMyI/s1600/maos+dadas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="146" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeTl2_dqnI/AAAAAAAAAiI/-TzvZbSlMyI/s200/maos+dadas.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Obviously, these are not the luckiest nations in the world, and we couldn’t care less about them. So why don’t we stop “feeling sorry” and “wanting to help” the Haitian victims these days?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You probably think it's part of our nature to care about others of our species, but I have another opinion. I’ll dare saying it’s because we’re simply fooled by a complex process which I’ll try to simplify by remembering some of &lt;a href="http://www.medienberatung.tu-berlin.de/index.php?akt=a&amp;amp;id=52&amp;amp;kategorie=Mitarbeiter"&gt;Norbert Bolz&lt;/a&gt;’s great classes at the Technische Universität in Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It starts with the fact that the world is an infinite mess, but we humans feel the intense need to organize it. Our attempts to do that require the use of language, numbers and, in a sophisticated way, the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Irritation and stabilization&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mass media offers little packages of irritation and stabilization. When they inform us, they're actually telling us constantly: “Hey, look how this is wrong”, “Check how unfair that is” or “Beware of the dangers of that”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That irritation prepares us to face dangerous and unexpected situations, and also to get used to them. As you may have already noticed, most of what we see in the news is bad. And bad news bring us together. Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reports on disasters, murders, accidents and wars cause us a constant sensation of fear, whereas stories of scandals, harassments and corruption, for instance, present concrete forms of what we consider wrong and unfair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeSa-yAJbI/AAAAAAAAAiE/uz0GXw46Zms/s1600/tv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="143" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeSa-yAJbI/AAAAAAAAAiE/uz0GXw46Zms/s200/tv.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For the mass media (and whoever controls them), bad news&amp;nbsp;is a&amp;nbsp;powerful&amp;nbsp;tool&amp;nbsp;for unifying people.&amp;nbsp;It can be used in such an effective way that you will cry, be afraid, get mad or feel ashamed even&amp;nbsp;when the&amp;nbsp;subject&amp;nbsp;has absolutely no direct influence on your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens after&amp;nbsp;we are confronted by chaos, danger and injustice? The media&amp;nbsp;introduce us&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;a scapegoat – something or someone to be blamed. It's like an antidote to stabilize the world.&amp;nbsp;After you take it, you might enjoy some relief: “Oh, that was tough, but now everything is gonna be all right.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The majority versus the truth&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's get back to Haiti and Honduras. Who cares about the coup in Tegucigalpa and the earthquake in Haiti?&amp;nbsp;Probably most of people who say they do are not even aware that they actually don’t. We're constantly urged to give our opinion about whatever is on the news, so we just tend to agree with the majority. In the case of a natural disaster,&amp;nbsp;our&amp;nbsp;immediate&amp;nbsp;guess is that the majority is obviously on the side of the victims. But what if someone isn’t? What if someone stands up and argues: “Hey, I don’t want the government to use my contribution to send any f. aid to Haiti!”? Or if someone asks for your opinion on the disaster and your answer is “I don’t care” or something like that. How would that be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mother has always said: “If you don’t have anything positive to say, just&amp;nbsp;stay quiet”. She&amp;nbsp;may not be a philosopher, but she definitely understands what &lt;a href="http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/"&gt;Herbert Marcuse&lt;/a&gt; explained: Majority is often more important than the truth. Since a few weeks ago, the majority has been saying this: “Something terrible has happened in Haiti. So now, even though we don’t give a shit, we need to pretend or believe that we actually do and we need to help or pretend that we will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll let you reflect on &lt;a href="http://atheism.about.com/bio/Austin-Cline-5577.htm"&gt;Austin Cline&lt;/a&gt;’s words from his article &lt;a href="http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophyepistemology/a/CriteriaOpinion.htm"&gt;Truth As Majority Opinion&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“The problem with criticizing majority opinion as a criterion of truth is that people typically hold democracy in high regard. In democracies, policies and laws are determined by majority opinion — so why not “truth” as well? What we must understand is that while the democratic process may be a just means for deciding what policy to follow, that doesn’t mean that this process always hits upon the best or most correct policy.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8498064025167824764?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8498064025167824764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8498064025167824764' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8498064025167824764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8498064025167824764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-cares-about-haiti-and-honduras.html' title='Who cares about Haiti and Honduras?'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/TPeTl2_dqnI/AAAAAAAAAiI/-TzvZbSlMyI/s72-c/maos+dadas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4694404364813235474</id><published>2010-01-24T18:11:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T12:04:01.616-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Is it true?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Some things are said to be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;true when in fact they are just rumors, urban legends&amp;nbsp;or, as some prefer to say, "factoids". At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.snopes.com/"&gt;http://www.snopes.com/&lt;/a&gt;, many of these untrues are exposed in a way that reminds me of investigative journalism and scientific methodology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One article argues that the claim that "natural blondes are likely to extinct in about 200 years" is false. I recommend anyone to &lt;a href="http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/blondes.asp"&gt;read this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4694404364813235474?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4694404364813235474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4694404364813235474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4694404364813235474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4694404364813235474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-it-true.html' title='Is it true?'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3234359403410712027</id><published>2010-01-22T08:42:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T17:13:43.520-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>O moralismo cristão e os direitos humanos</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Não me surpreendeu&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; a reação da Igreja Católica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; contra parte do 3º Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos (PNDH-3), lançado em dezembro pelo governo brasileiro. Segundo o site a UOL Notícias, o documento “traça recomendações ao Legislativo para a futura elaboração de leis orientadas a casos que envolvam os direitos humanos no país”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De acordo com o site, nos panfletos distribuídos por alguns grupos da Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB), o presidente Lula é chamado de Herodes, em alusão ao personagem bíblico que ordenou a morte de todas as crianças recém-nascidas com medo de que uma delas ameaçasse seu trono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As medidas atacadas pela entidade são o fim da consideração do aborto como crime, a proibição da ostentação de símbolos religiosos em estabelecimentos públicos da União, o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo e o direito deles à adoção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Norte europeu e americano, os direitos ao aborto e à união de homoafetivos já fazem parte do dia-a-dia. Em países como Andorra, Bélgica, Canadá, Dinamarca, Islândia, Holanda, Noruega, Espanha, Suíecia e Reino Unido, por exemplo, a adoção por casais homoafetivos também já é permitida por lei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quanto aos crucifixos e figuras de santos, até a Itália, cuja maioria populacional ainda não é ateia como em vários países mais ao norte, a ostentação de símbolos católicos foi recentemente proibida nas escolas, demonstrando mais uma derrota da religião frente à democracia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isolado geograficamente dos países “de primeiro mundo”, o brasileiro aspira a um lugar importante no cenário socio-econômico globalizado, mas segue mergulhado no sexismo, patriotismo e cristianismo. Espera mais da política e da Justiça sem querer pagar o preço por isso.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falo em preço a pagar porque a democracia liberal não oferece liberdade, igualdade e segurança de graça. Para se ter isso, mulheres, homens e todos os indivíduos incluídos na sigla LGBTTTS (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis, Transexuais, Trangêneros e Simpatizantes – ou substituindo a letra “A” de Aliados) devem ter direitos e oportunidades iguais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sociedade democrática moderna é a mesma sociedade do sexo neutro, individualismo e instrumentalismo. Em outras palavras, o sexo/gênero dos indivíduos não deve ser fator determinante ao acesso à educação e ao trabalho; cada indivíduo decide o que lhe é bom e ruim sem que os demais lhe digam o que é certo e errado; e os recursos terrestres - naturais, técnicos e humanos – são encarados, a grosso modo, como instrumentos para essa busca de felicidade ou prazer individualista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Igreja sabe bem disso e se sente, portanto, como os PCs, telefones fixos e jornais impressos hoje em dia. “Não confie nos notebooks”, “não compre celulares” e “não cancele a sua assinatura”, ela propõe, ao insistir no combate ao uso de anticoncepcionais, à legalização do aborto ou à dignidade das pessoas que optam por relacionamentos sexuais anti-cristãos.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sufocando a sociedade com moralismo, os homens da Igreja Católica ainda se negam a dar à sociedade a maior arma que as mulheres já tiveram na luta pela emancipação feminina: o controle do próprio útero. Afinal de contas, quando as mulheres latinas também se tornarem autônomas, o&amp;nbsp; fim do moralismo, do patriarquismo, do hierarquismo&amp;nbsp;como é hoje e da própria família pode significar o apocalipse do cristianismo no subcontinente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3234359403410712027?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3234359403410712027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3234359403410712027' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3234359403410712027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3234359403410712027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/01/o-moralismo-cristao-e-os-direitos.html' title='O moralismo cristão e os direitos humanos'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8006022587051280047</id><published>2010-01-13T18:08:00.006-03:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T09:44:25.415-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='People'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>How it feels to be a Canadian</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Antonio Aragón is one of the persons I admire the most&lt;/span&gt; for his lovely mixture of sincerity, sarcasm&amp;nbsp;and creativity. After over a decade living in Canada, he wrote the following just a few days before becoming officially a Canadian citizen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;What does it mean to be a Canadian? That’s a tough question that transcends maple syrup, maple leaves, hockey, curling, beaver tails and polar bears. It is not only about Celine or Shania, Atwood or Burton, Rogers or Loblaw, the Barenaked Ladies or the Group of Seven, Macdonald, Pearson, Campbell or Trudeau… it is not about the weather or the vast extension of the land (from sea to sea to sea)… it is about the people… Canada is a true mosaic of entangled talent… of survivors and negotiators, adventurers and thinkers, low key, laid back, low profile, ethical, cold friendly… but, above all, diverse. Canadian population is complex. Faced with the need to populate the land, the nation has embraced millions of new immigrants. Once an Aboriginal land, the French and the British settled in and formed, with all its difficulties a bi-cultural society where assimilation was imposed. But it moved on, and reviewed its books, and rethought its course, and opted for multiculturalism, pluralism, inclusion.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://antonioaragon.blogspot.com/"&gt;Click here to learn more about Antonio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8006022587051280047?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8006022587051280047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8006022587051280047' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8006022587051280047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8006022587051280047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-it-feels-to-be-canadian.html' title='How it feels to be a Canadian'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5776215080678464699</id><published>2009-12-05T10:44:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:57:57.393-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxpjYLyOTrI/AAAAAAAAAbM/bIXE5K7Q6xw/s1600-h/NWNWimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxpjYLyOTrI/AAAAAAAAAbM/bIXE5K7Q6xw/s200/NWNWimage.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"In 2006, the US spent more on the war&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; in Iraq&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://priceofoil.org/2008/03/19/iraq-25-million-new-cars-and-counting/"&gt;Learn more about it clicking here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5776215080678464699?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5776215080678464699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5776215080678464699' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5776215080678464699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5776215080678464699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/12/iraq-25-million-new-cars-and-counting.html' title='Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxpjYLyOTrI/AAAAAAAAAbM/bIXE5K7Q6xw/s72-c/NWNWimage.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5027957498578485689</id><published>2009-12-01T19:35:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T19:36:09.269-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Dois cartuns perdidos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Fuçando nuns CDs antigos&lt;/span&gt;, encontrei estes cartuns. Acho que são de 2003 ou 2004. Os outros desenhos me deixaram com vergonha&amp;nbsp; :S&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxWZ-MQ11PI/AAAAAAAAAbE/AnEcaFu3SL0/s1600/martelo+m%C3%A9dico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxWZ-MQ11PI/AAAAAAAAAbE/AnEcaFu3SL0/s320/martelo+m%C3%A9dico.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxWZ58vpinI/AAAAAAAAAa8/dciOevKg5NU/s1600/cegonha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxWZ58vpinI/AAAAAAAAAa8/dciOevKg5NU/s320/cegonha.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5027957498578485689?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5027957498578485689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5027957498578485689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5027957498578485689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5027957498578485689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/12/dois-cartuns-perdidos.html' title='Dois cartuns perdidos'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SxWZ-MQ11PI/AAAAAAAAAbE/AnEcaFu3SL0/s72-c/martelo+m%C3%A9dico.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-9105440636268356476</id><published>2009-11-23T18:43:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T19:36:32.478-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Stephan's caricature</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SwsBjt4rH6I/AAAAAAAAAa0/fyNGQcxQDLE/s1600/Stephans+Bday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SwsBjt4rH6I/AAAAAAAAAa0/fyNGQcxQDLE/s400/Stephans+Bday.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Stephan loves The Simpsons. He just turned 40, but is still a little boy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-9105440636268356476?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/9105440636268356476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=9105440636268356476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/9105440636268356476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/9105440636268356476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/11/stephans-caricature.html' title='Stephan&apos;s caricature'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SwsBjt4rH6I/AAAAAAAAAa0/fyNGQcxQDLE/s72-c/Stephans+Bday.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1904511555480228778</id><published>2009-11-06T08:05:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T14:27:00.878-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Illustrations for Deutsche Welle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SvQDZ9y0sSI/AAAAAAAAAas/YpGuPaTstgc/s1600-h/illustrations+DW.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400945597743411490" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SvQDZ9y0sSI/AAAAAAAAAas/YpGuPaTstgc/s320/illustrations+DW.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 253px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;The Spanish team of Deutsche Welle &lt;/span&gt;recently published a flash animation encouraging readers to help “save the world”. I illustrated that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/flashcms/salvarelplaneta/es/es_salvarelplaneta.htm"&gt;Click here &lt;/a&gt;and take the chance to practice your español!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1904511555480228778?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1904511555480228778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1904511555480228778' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1904511555480228778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1904511555480228778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/11/illustrations-for-deutsche-welle.html' title='Illustrations for Deutsche Welle'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SvQDZ9y0sSI/AAAAAAAAAas/YpGuPaTstgc/s72-c/illustrations+DW.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7818242769895145058</id><published>2009-09-23T10:34:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-09-23T10:36:08.497-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Personagem de TV</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Adorei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://televisao.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/2009/09/23/ult4244u3979.jhtm"&gt;esta matéria e entrevista com o Thiago Lacerda&lt;/a&gt;. Tirou as palavras da minha boca.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7818242769895145058?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7818242769895145058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7818242769895145058' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7818242769895145058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7818242769895145058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/09/personagem-de-tv.html' title='Personagem de TV'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1869956761870679200</id><published>2009-08-21T19:51:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T19:53:27.919-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The world's English mania</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html"&gt;Here is Jay Walker talking &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;about the struggle of billions of people to learn English.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1869956761870679200?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1869956761870679200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1869956761870679200' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1869956761870679200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1869956761870679200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/08/worlds-english-mania.html' title='The world&apos;s English mania'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3749008617680215</id><published>2009-07-12T15:28:00.008-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:07:18.383-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Caricatures 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlosjosO0cI/AAAAAAAAAaU/KPehjz9Or1w/s1600-h/Lais+e+Elton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357643697440608706" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlosjosO0cI/AAAAAAAAAaU/KPehjz9Or1w/s400/Lais+e+Elton.jpg" style="display: block; height: 317px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Laís Kalka deixa a chefia&lt;/span&gt; da redação latino-americana depois de vários anos na Deutsche Welle. Mesmo caindo de pára-quedas nesse momento histórico, também lhe dei um a lembrança de despedida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3749008617680215?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3749008617680215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3749008617680215' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3749008617680215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3749008617680215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/07/caricatures-4.html' title='Caricatures 4'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlosjosO0cI/AAAAAAAAAaU/KPehjz9Or1w/s72-c/Lais+e+Elton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2455773339100510136</id><published>2009-07-12T15:20:00.007-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:06:42.386-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Internship at Deutsche Welle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlorCeHijCI/AAAAAAAAAaE/1qUSui-Np-0/s1600-h/Toda+equipe+latino-americana.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357642028155046946" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlorCeHijCI/AAAAAAAAAaE/1qUSui-Np-0/s200/Toda+equipe+latino-americana.jpg" style="display: block; height: 134px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SloqzXlZ1PI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/zhDXMU1-mOM/s1600-h/Equipe+brasileira.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357641768703218930" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SloqzXlZ1PI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/zhDXMU1-mOM/s200/Equipe+brasileira.jpg" style="display: block; height: 134px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;About 3 years&lt;/span&gt; after I sent my first application, I finally managed to come to Bonn, Germany, and do an internship at &lt;a href="http://www.dw-world.de/"&gt;Deutsche Welle&lt;/a&gt;. The pictures show the Latin American team.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2455773339100510136?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2455773339100510136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2455773339100510136' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2455773339100510136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2455773339100510136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/07/internship-at-deutsche-welle.html' title='Internship at Deutsche Welle'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SlorCeHijCI/AAAAAAAAAaE/1qUSui-Np-0/s72-c/Toda+equipe+latino-americana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8533845797250280454</id><published>2009-04-25T08:37:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:47:15.574-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Caricatures 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL2pMTmjGI/AAAAAAAAAV4/4hFfSVMYWkQ/s1600-h/EltonHubner_caricatures3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328592496671231074" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 297px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL2pMTmjGI/AAAAAAAAAV4/4hFfSVMYWkQ/s400/EltonHubner_caricatures3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;This was a birthday present&lt;/span&gt; for Anna. The theme is that she struggles to make choices. That's why she's saying, "But I don't know..." Drawn by hand and colored on Photoshop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8533845797250280454?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8533845797250280454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8533845797250280454' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8533845797250280454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8533845797250280454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/04/caricatures-3.html' title='Caricatures 3'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL2pMTmjGI/AAAAAAAAAV4/4hFfSVMYWkQ/s72-c/EltonHubner_caricatures3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7327343848059538939</id><published>2009-04-25T08:32:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:47:21.805-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Caricatures 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL1A37QzvI/AAAAAAAAAVo/G6c7vvQ70zg/s1600-h/EltonHubner_caricatures2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328590704494038770" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 196px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL1A37QzvI/AAAAAAAAAVo/G6c7vvQ70zg/s400/EltonHubner_caricatures2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;These have been drawn&lt;/span&gt; and colored by hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7327343848059538939?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7327343848059538939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7327343848059538939' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7327343848059538939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7327343848059538939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/04/caricatures-2.html' title='Caricatures 2'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL1A37QzvI/AAAAAAAAAVo/G6c7vvQ70zg/s72-c/EltonHubner_caricatures2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5315793565432325859</id><published>2009-04-25T08:30:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:47:28.423-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Caricatures 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL0p70nkTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/Mkmo3MpfUiM/s1600-h/EltonHubner_caricatures1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328590310402920754" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 380px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL0p70nkTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/Mkmo3MpfUiM/s400/EltonHubner_caricatures1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;These are some co-workers&lt;/span&gt; from Berlin drawn for the company's calendar of 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5315793565432325859?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5315793565432325859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5315793565432325859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5315793565432325859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5315793565432325859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/04/caricatures-1.html' title='Caricatures 1'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SfL0p70nkTI/AAAAAAAAAVg/Mkmo3MpfUiM/s72-c/EltonHubner_caricatures1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4175226505426821246</id><published>2009-04-02T19:11:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:59:08.505-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Brains vs computers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/guest-column-computers-vs-brains/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Here is &lt;/span&gt;a great article&lt;/a&gt; on this subject.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4175226505426821246?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4175226505426821246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4175226505426821246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4175226505426821246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4175226505426821246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/04/brains-vs-computers.html' title='Brains vs computers'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4004716151847558998</id><published>2009-03-24T16:14:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:59:33.745-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Atomic bombs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;I heard today that France&lt;/span&gt; has already conducted 210 atomic tests since 1960, mostly in its (officially) former colony Algeria and in Polynesia. I didn't even bother checking the details and exact numbers. It could have been in Chile, Alaska, Azerbaijan.... and they could have been 300 or 3,000 explosions. Who cares anyways?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;North Korea and Iran are the great dangers now, yes yes... The US, France and the other three permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council (Russia, Britain and China) are just peace keepers. That's why they all possess nuclear arsenals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know what I think sometimes? Are my grandchildren be more ashame of the Germans during the second war or of the US' History?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of what we know today about the Nazis was found out after the war was over. Will our children also learn about everything that has been going on since Vietman after the Yankee Empire falls?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4004716151847558998?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4004716151847558998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4004716151847558998' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4004716151847558998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4004716151847558998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/03/atomic-bombs.html' title='Atomic bombs'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-169274824900119959</id><published>2009-03-19T01:19:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T11:59:54.768-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Occupation 101</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance.&lt;/span&gt; It is the illusion of knowledge."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The documentary Occupation starts with this quotation from Stephen Hawking. Click &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbjAanvUqs&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=25AD7506A54AEDCB&amp;amp;playnext=1&amp;amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;amp;index=1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to learn more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-169274824900119959?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/169274824900119959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=169274824900119959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/169274824900119959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/169274824900119959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/03/occupation-101.html' title='Occupation 101'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4114837269219686018</id><published>2009-01-18T17:12:00.010-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:47:34.721-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Latuff and his resistance II</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONkGz_AMI/AAAAAAAAASo/nLuNaRfrBr4/s1600-h/latuff+06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729638533923010" style="width: 200px; height: 137px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONkGz_AMI/AAAAAAAAASo/nLuNaRfrBr4/s200/latuff+06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONf1oBZVI/AAAAAAAAASg/YV4mXa1JEXc/s1600-h/latuff+05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729565200868690" style="width: 200px; height: 123px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONf1oBZVI/AAAAAAAAASg/YV4mXa1JEXc/s200/latuff+05.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONcdYDa1I/AAAAAAAAASY/cQUX4_dpSGk/s1600-h/latuff+04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729507151833938" style="width: 138px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONcdYDa1I/AAAAAAAAASY/cQUX4_dpSGk/s200/latuff+04.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONXkFN1gI/AAAAAAAAASQ/ksIiwUnQtSk/s1600-h/latuff+03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729423052527106" style="width: 200px; height: 168px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONXkFN1gI/AAAAAAAAASQ/ksIiwUnQtSk/s200/latuff+03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONUPJzbbI/AAAAAAAAASI/9TXlt0xnR-w/s1600-h/latuff+02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729365895015858" style="width: 194px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONUPJzbbI/AAAAAAAAASI/9TXlt0xnR-w/s200/latuff+02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONQRx5spI/AAAAAAAAASA/Xp0fuGi5pz4/s1600-h/latuff+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292729297880593042" style="width: 200px; height: 157px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONQRx5spI/AAAAAAAAASA/Xp0fuGi5pz4/s200/latuff+01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4114837269219686018?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4114837269219686018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4114837269219686018' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4114837269219686018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4114837269219686018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/01/latuff-and-his-resistance-i_18.html' title='Latuff and his resistance II'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXONkGz_AMI/AAAAAAAAASo/nLuNaRfrBr4/s72-c/latuff+06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1224484136766563815</id><published>2009-01-18T16:52:00.007-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:47:40.749-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Latuff and his resistance I</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXOMj6nxljI/AAAAAAAAARw/syjYFQRRruM/s1600-h/latuff+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292728535749858866" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 81px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXOMj6nxljI/AAAAAAAAARw/syjYFQRRruM/s200/latuff+08.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Che Guevara fought&lt;/span&gt; with guns, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales fight on politics, Palestinians and Iraqis become bombs on their battles. Latuff, instead, uses pencils and a mouse to illustrate what many other caricaturists, journalists and politicians wouldn't dare saying on a fight against the silence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many will say this 40-year old cartoonist from Rio de Janeiro is nuts, controversial, anti-semitic and so on. I see him as a passionate, talented man who hasn't lost his rebel spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the next post there are some of his m&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXOMv5zxDCI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ii932szD7AE/s1600-h/latuff+06.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ost recent cartoons. &lt;a href="http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/"&gt;Click here to see many more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1224484136766563815?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1224484136766563815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1224484136766563815' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1224484136766563815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1224484136766563815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2009/01/latuff-and-his-resistance-i.html' title='Latuff and his resistance I'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SXOMj6nxljI/AAAAAAAAARw/syjYFQRRruM/s72-c/latuff+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4114083327615675843</id><published>2008-11-26T18:03:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:49:49.501-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Berlim alternativa</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;O "mochileiro Marcel Vincenti"&lt;/span&gt; é um jovem de 25 que, durante a sua viagem mundo afora, tem contribuído para o portal da UOL com ótimos textos sobre os lugares que visita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://viagem.uol.com.br/diariodeviagem/2008/11/25/ult5855u10.jhtm"&gt;Este artigo sobre Berlim &lt;/a&gt;é fantástico.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4114083327615675843?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4114083327615675843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4114083327615675843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4114083327615675843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4114083327615675843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/11/berlim-alternativa.html' title='Berlim alternativa'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6044865161341805792</id><published>2008-11-17T17:42:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:49:56.139-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Pode acreditar, sim!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SSHeBvQagRI/AAAAAAAAAMc/JABEPs-XVNM/s1600-h/Esel%25201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269737160446738706" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 160px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SSHeBvQagRI/AAAAAAAAAMc/JABEPs-XVNM/s200/Esel%25201.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Faz tempo que tento ser ponderado&lt;/span&gt; no blog e nos relacionamentos interpessoais em geral, mas tem horas em que a burrice me deixa maluco. Este é um desses momentos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Recebi há pouco um e-mail com o título "Urgente". Já começa por aí. Quando você recebe um e-mail com um título desses, já pode ter certeza absoluta de que é uma porcaria ou uma chatice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Este era (mais) um daqueles e-mails repassados por um bando de otários otimistas (cá entre nós, uma das piores categorias de otários) pra todos os contatos das suas respectivas listas. Lá no final estava a seguinte mensagem:&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;SE FOR VERDADE,&lt;br /&gt;O MEU TÁ GARANTIDO...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Caros colegas!Como recebi esse e-mail de uma pessoa de extrema confiança, repasso a vcs e vamos ver no que dá.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;URGEEEEEENNTEEEEEE!!!!!!! Microsoft e AOL são agora os maiores empresas de Internet. E para ter certeza de que a internet Explorer é realmente o programa mais usado a Microsoft e a AOL iniciaram um E-Mail Beta Test.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Se você enviar esse e-mail a amigos a Microsoft pode e vai por um período de 2 semanas rastrear esse e-mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Para cada pessoa que você mandar este e-mail a Microsoft vai pagar U$245,00. Para cada pessoa a quem você enviar, que enviar este e-mail adiante a Microsoft paga a você $243,00. E para cada terceira pessoa que receber este e-mail você recebe $241,00 da Microsoft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Daqui a 2 semanas a Microsoft vai te contactar neste teu endereço e te enviar um cheque.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Eu também pensei que era besteira mas 2 semanas depois de receber esse e-mail, a pessoa&lt;br /&gt;que mandou-o para mim foi contactada pelo Microsoft dentro de alguns dias ele recebeu um cheque deR$24.800,00.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Você deve responder antes que o beta Teste termine. Se alguém pode se dar a este luxo este alguém é oBill Gates, o homem para estas coisas. Isto tudo é estratégia de Marketing dele.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Eu te desejo muito sucesso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Apenas mande adiante, não custa nada, apenas um pouco de tempo em selecionar aqueles que irãoreceber o repasse deste mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tive o trabalho de copiar isto aqui pra que cada um que leia este texto se toque do quanto está sendo imbecil acreditando nessas baboseiras.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tá, então Microsoft e UOL pagam U$ 241 pra cada contatozinho do seu e-mail? E vai rastrear, mandar um cheque pro seu e-mail assim, de boa vontade, pra testar absolutamente nada? Porque e-mail ninguém precisa testar... pelo menos não dessa forma arcaiquíssima. No máximo, quem vai rastrear e ter um monte de e-mails novos pra incluir na lista de spams é algum hacker espertinho.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se for pra levar also assim numa boa, o e-mail vira piada, e a graça é ver o quanto tem gente besta que consegue se enganar com tanta facilidade com coisas que não fazem o menor sentido.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Não custa tentar"! Grrrrrr!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6044865161341805792?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6044865161341805792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6044865161341805792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6044865161341805792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6044865161341805792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/11/pode-acreditar-sim.html' title='Pode acreditar, sim!'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SSHeBvQagRI/AAAAAAAAAMc/JABEPs-XVNM/s72-c/Esel%25201.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7135018741643411046</id><published>2008-10-17T17:17:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:50:09.747-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>Os caminhos das Índias</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dando uma olhada num CD com textos antigos, encontrei este que escrevi no início do ano passado e que não devo ter publicado aqui ainda:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Os caminhos das Índias&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Às 4h da madrugada, o calor de 42ºC&lt;/span&gt; e um monte de homens de pele escura, cabelos pretos lisos, corpos esqueléticos e olhos fixados em mim e na minha irmã eram um beliscão nos mostrando que estávamos, depois de muito tempo de ansiedade e preparação, de verdade na Índia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era um mês de setembro e a época das monsões estava chegando ao fim. Sem nenhum telefone de contato ou reserva de hotel, Lise e eu esperamos o máximo que pudemos dentro do aeroporto, criando forças pra encarar o que estivesse no lado de fora nos esperando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu havia feito uma pesquisa minuciosa sobre as religiões daquele país, tínhamos nos encontrado com imigrantes dali na Europa e guardávamos uma lista de dicas de pessoas que já tinham visitado a Índia e nos diziam que, depois de termos pisado lá, sempre pensaríamos em voltar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas nada disso foi suficiente pra evitar o choque que tivemos quando, já no caminho do aeroporto até Mumbai, uma das cidades mais populosas do mundo, tivemos nossas visões violentadas pela quantidade estarrecedora de gente dormindo nas ruas e calçadas da periferia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com a chegada da luz, vieram as vacas, as pessoas se lavando nas calçadas com a água escorrendo pelas valas das vias públicas, os carros, os &lt;em&gt;rikshas&lt;/em&gt;, as vacas, as buzinas, os pés descalços, os gritos, os cheiros, a miséria, a piedade, a raiva e tudo que era escancarado à luz do sol sarcástico nos dando as boas-vindas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dia na maior cidade indiana foi suficiente pra decidirmos correr pra longe dali. Por isso, na manhã seguinte, Lise e eu pegamos um trem com destino a Vadodara, capital de Gujarat, mas o pesadelo não acabou. Aliás, só começava quando me dei conta de que, ao pegar o trem, alguém já tinha roubado meu precioso saco de dormir comprado depois de meses de pesquisa na Alemanha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com o passar dos dias, só nos convencíamos mais de que não nos adaptaríamos àquele lugar e xingamos muito todas aquelas pessoas que haviam nos dito o quanto a Índia era maravilhosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, não há nada melhor o tempo pra deixar a vida dar suas voltas, como só quem vive bastante acredita. Com a passagem de volta pra dali a quase três meses, depois de uma semana, finalmente decidimos que já era hora de nos molharmos naquela tempestade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conhecemos um indiano aqui e ali, ousamos, perguntamos, experimentamos e rimos mais; dormimos, reclamamos e sofremos menos. Seguindo dicas dos próprios nativos, fomos subindo pelo mapa em direção ao deserto do Rajastão e encontrando um país diferente, cada vez mais tranqüilo, amigável e turístico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em algumas semanas, já estávamos habituados ao dia-a-dia dos hindus e vacinados contra os golpistas oportunistas e os vendedores e pedintes insistentes. Estávamos também com o estômago fortalecido pra encarar os pratos indianos. Pelo menos foi o que eu pensei, até provar, na segunda semana no país, meu último táli, um prato típico de lá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minha irmã insistiu em seguir experimentando a culinária local, enquanto passei a procurar restaurantes turísticos com comida ocidental. Semanas depois, Lise ficou dez dias doente na cama de um quartinho de hotel em Pushkar, um pequeno e aconchegante vilarejo próximo a Jaipur, ainda no Rajastão. Durante cinco dias, ela não conseguiu comer nada e até água era vomitada logo depois de bebida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com os comprimidos mágicos de um médico de lá, Lise se levantou da cama e voltou a comer, mas, dali em diante, passou a tomar só água mineral e a comer nos mesmos lugares que eu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com o corpo são, colocamos a mochila novamente nas costas e caímos na estrada em direção à capital Nova Dehli. Nunca vi um trânsito tão caótico na minha vida! É o único lugar do mundo onde, pra atravessar uma avenida, eu precisava de mais de 15 minutos! Além disso, a poluição é tremenda que se torna visível até com a sujeira que sai quando se soa o nariz!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuamos a viagem rumo a Sikkim, uma região do Himalaia com população predominantemente budista e pacata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horas e horas de aperto e muito balanço em ônibus, dias de desconforto em trens, paradas injustificadas e saídas sem horário previsto pra chegadas... assim foram sempre as viagens que nos levavam de uma escola da vida indiana à outra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em Darjeeling, vi o monte Everest, atravessei trechos verdes e montanhosos durante dias de trekking, visitei diversos templos religiosos, senti muito frio, voltei a comer o mesmo que os nativos e, depois de semanas, senti novamente o gostinho de carne!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A próxima grande parada foi Varanasi, à beira do rio Ganges. Ali, rodeados de novos amigos de todas as partes do mundo e de macacos peraltas que vivem soltos pela cidade, Lise e eu assistimos de perto a vários corpos sendo cremados em fogueiras de sândalo e jogados no rio. E vimos também, no mesmo rio, milhares de indianos tomando banho, lavando roupa, escovando os dentes, nadando e meditando... além de uma cabecinha ou uma mão boiando de vez em quando!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O destino seguinte foi Agra, a cidade horrível onde foi construído o belíssimo Taj Mahal. Inconformados com a discrepância entre os preços que um indiano e um turista estrangeiro pagam pra visitar o mausoléu (20 vezes mais), minha irmã e eu chegamos à cidade numa sexta-feira, o único dia em que ninguém precisa pagar pra ver a única das sete maravilhas que ainda está de pé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pulando os detalhes sobre o bando de pilantras que vivem de golpes aplicados em turistas naquele lugar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Com Taj Mahal visto e fotografado, veio a dúvida: “Zanzamos mais um pouco pelo país, enfrentando as viagens cansativas e o calor e a confusão de outras cidades?” Provando que ainda estávamos relativamente sãos, decidimos que não e voltamos à bela e tranqüila Pushkar. Passamos os últimos 25 dias ali antes de voltarmos a contragosto a Mumbai, de onde pegaríamos o avião de volta a Frankfurt, na Alemanha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sem acesso a TV, rádio e internet, aprendemos muito sobre nós mesmos e o próximo observando e escutando histórias das pessoas que, com sua simplicidade e pobreza, nos davam preciosas lições de riqueza emotiva e espiritual. E, por falar em pobreza e riqueza, foi ali que, com o dinheiro de cada caricatura que eu fazia pros turistas, eu pagava duas noites no hotel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ao pensar em Pushkar, também vou me lembrar por um bom tempo das festas de casamento, do maravilhoso nascer do sol visto do alto das montanhas no deserto e do pôr do sol admirado na escadaria à beira do lago sagrado, ao som de tambores e do tabla indiano e em companhia de gente de todos os tipos e todas as partes do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando 86 dias se passaram e a Índia estava prestes a ficar pra trás, um filme como os de Bollywood passou rápido pela minha cabeça mostrando cenas de semanas que seriam decisivas na formação daqueles jovens de 19 e 21 anos num homem e numa mulher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com o avião no céu, a imensidão de um dos lugares mais excêntricos do planeta diminuía e diminuía... pra caber pra sempre nos nossos corações.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7135018741643411046?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7135018741643411046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7135018741643411046' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7135018741643411046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7135018741643411046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/10/os-caminhos-das-ndias.html' title='Os caminhos das Índias'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3629933519602348075</id><published>2008-10-11T19:05:00.007-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:34:40.175-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>We are the catastrophe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SPEshRpdy9I/AAAAAAAAAME/U9lJK5yX4J0/s1600-h/feto.bmp"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256031190302706642" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SPEshRpdy9I/AAAAAAAAAME/U9lJK5yX4J0/s200/feto.bmp" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Only a few people can see what is obvious &lt;/span&gt;and raise their voices to stand for what is really important on the planet. This is why I love Adbusters, this daring magazine edited in Vancouver, Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of its readers, Gerald Toth from Quito, Ecuador, had his letter published last March on the magazine's 76th edition. His message is obvious, but strangely something people don't talk about and are certainly scared to death of thinking about.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, here is a part of what Mr. Toth says:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;(...) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The single greatest threat to Earth is the overpopulation of the human species&lt;/span&gt;. This is the fundamental planetary problem of which all other problems are merely symptoms, and yet it is the one problem that very few people and leaders choose to address &lt;/strong&gt;- which is not surprising since it's uncomfortable to think that our existence, collectively, is the source of the problem. It's scary to consider a solution which implies our reduction. But the reduction will happen, either by human choice or natural consequence, and I think we all agree that the first option is more attractive.&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Indeed, we're several Dorian Grays who have fallen in love with our own image and who idolatrate our own race at all costs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again, we're all talking about economical crisis. It's always about keeping or creating jobs, production in higher scale, more profits and bigger fortunes. You dare to think for a while and you'll come across as a hippy or anarchist - because that's how anyone who thinks about the sick system we live in may be called... if not 'terrorist'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Think about what is destroyed on a day by us humans... on ONE single day! Just try to imagine how many animals' lives would be spared, trees wouldn't fall, stones wouldn't disappear, rivers, oceans and air wouldn't get dirty... if we simply didn't exist!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I think about this, I get really mad at the bullshit I've heard since my childhood about religion. How are we able to be at the same time to intelligent and so silly to make up all these lies that justify or monstruous attitudes?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Paradise is a place without people. We're actually the Devil. A Devil who's got no mirror and calls himself Mr. Angel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3629933519602348075?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3629933519602348075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3629933519602348075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3629933519602348075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3629933519602348075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-are-catastrophe.html' title='We are the catastrophe'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SPEshRpdy9I/AAAAAAAAAME/U9lJK5yX4J0/s72-c/feto.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3990130662452954801</id><published>2008-09-29T19:49:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:50:32.541-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>Berlim</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/ScBM-w8I-gI/AAAAAAAAATE/TwQiva3CBpo/s1600-h/muro+de+berlim.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314332201469934082" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/ScBM-w8I-gI/AAAAAAAAATE/TwQiva3CBpo/s200/muro+de+berlim.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Todo lugar tem uma cara.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berlim tem uma meio pálida, enrugada com maquiagem, cabelos com corte dos anos 1960, piercing, uma boca cheia de dentes renovados - alguns postiços, alguns restaurados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com expressão mal-humorada, Berlim fica engraçada quando deixa escapar seus sorrisos desajeitados. Tem um sotaque cada vez mais fraco e, quando fala, acaba soltando uma ou outra palavra em inglês, russo, turco, chinês, polonês, farsi, espanhol, italiano e francês. Quando bebe, mistura tudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tem muitas histórias pra contar. Aliás, vive do passado, mas tentando se livrar dele. De qualquer forma, é esse tormento que ela deixa transparecer quando fala e quando se cala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quieta, sim; tímida, não. O olhar é sempre pra frente ou pra dentro, mesmo, sem vergonha, entretanto, do contato olho no olho. Mas nada de piscadinha. Ser notado por Berlim exige mais que sua presença. Nada que o tempo não ajude a resolver.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3990130662452954801?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3990130662452954801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3990130662452954801' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3990130662452954801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3990130662452954801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/09/berlim.html' title='Berlim'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/ScBM-w8I-gI/AAAAAAAAATE/TwQiva3CBpo/s72-c/muro+de+berlim.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-774751409595813134</id><published>2008-08-31T17:58:00.010-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:53:00.300-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Só os cruéis sobrevivem</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLsO_9XPnmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/z50OPXMaKqs/s1600-h/pigkill3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240799083342306914" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLsO_9XPnmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/z50OPXMaKqs/s200/pigkill3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Fico abobado quando escuto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; as intermináveis discussões sobre a crueldade de quem come ou deixa de comer gato e cachorro. E qual é a diferença pra quem entra e sai do Mac Donald's ou vai a qualquer cachorrão da esquina sorrindo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Também fico pasmo com tamanha falta de consciência da nossa sociedade que ainda se faz de boazinha por "já" admitir que os negros também têm alma, apesar de continuar negando tudo que é direito básico dos demais mamíferos ou de outros animais. Como somos cínicos nós humanos, né?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afinal de contas, "que direito nós temos de subjugar os animais ao nosso bel prazer para o nosso próprio benefício?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este é algum dos questionamentos feitos em &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EghRqeZA-TU"&gt;A carne é fraca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, um documentário polêmico que escancara a crueldade humana e põe em cheque a viabilidade da pecuária, a saúde de quem consome carne e a chamada "humanidade" tanto dos que cultivam animais para o abate quanto dos que nem se dão conta de como a eles vêm parar nas nossas mesas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É redundante relatar ou comentar o que se vê, escute questiona em quase uma hora de documentário. Muito melhor é assisti-lo e, depois, descobrir como você vai lidar com seus mecanismos psíquicos de defesa, conflitos morais ou mesmo apetite - ou falta dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akT3MM8j2-4&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Este vídeo&lt;/a&gt;, bem mais curto, também é interessante.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-774751409595813134?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/774751409595813134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=774751409595813134' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/774751409595813134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/774751409595813134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/08/s-os-cruis-sobrevivem.html' title='Só os cruéis sobrevivem'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLsO_9XPnmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/z50OPXMaKqs/s72-c/pigkill3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5694310027771236934</id><published>2008-08-25T19:47:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:53:10.029-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>O tempo na Alemanha</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLM8LFcQHLI/AAAAAAAAALs/BloCR74Q-1o/s1600-h/Wetter.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238596952698920114" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLM8LFcQHLI/AAAAAAAAALs/BloCR74Q-1o/s200/Wetter.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Esqueça a cerveja, a lingüiça, a política&lt;/span&gt;, o futebol e a engenharia. Na Alemanha, o assunto principal é sempre o tempo (aquele do clima). Tudo gira em torno dele e, apesar de o país ter sido o berço do protestianismo com Martinho Lutero, a maioria da população ainda idolatra o sol, mesmo que seja uma idolatria hipócrita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se quiser iniciar uma conversa, basta fazer um comentário sobre o tempo. Se não gostar de falar sobre sol e chuva, vai ter que ralar muito pra não ficar sem assunto. Apesar do sarcasmo, esta é uma observação tão realista que qualquer pessoa que tenha vivido na Alemanha e convivido com os nativos daqui pode confirmar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dizem que o humor das pessoas tem muito a ver com o clima da região. Então pense no que Napoleão Bonaparte já costumava dizer: "A Alemanha é um país com 9 meses de inverno e 3 meses sem verão."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando cheguei em Berlim em fevereiro, fiquei ansioso pra ver o que mudaria em julho e agosto. Esperava que, quando a temperatura aumentasse, eu veria as pessoas um pouco mais... felizes, digamos assim.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Os 3 meses 'sem verão' estão passando e tenho constatado mais uma peculiaridade do povo germânico. Nos dias quentes, todo mundo reclamava da chuva, das nuvens e do frio... Nas últimas semanas, entretanto, quando o termômetro oscilava por volta dos 30 graus, essa mesma gente passou a se queixar do calor, do suor, do sol, da umidade, do cansaço.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vai ver o sol escuta isso nos 3 meses em que dá uma passadinha e castiga este povo de propósito nos 9 meses seguintes... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5694310027771236934?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5694310027771236934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5694310027771236934' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5694310027771236934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5694310027771236934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/08/o-tempo-na-alemanha.html' title='O tempo na Alemanha'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SLM8LFcQHLI/AAAAAAAAALs/BloCR74Q-1o/s72-c/Wetter.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5231223791471589434</id><published>2008-08-17T18:31:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:36:12.830-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Lula &amp; Brazil</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Here is an &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYyUwhfXbsU"&gt;interview also for Al Jazeera with Lula&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Also a good one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5231223791471589434?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5231223791471589434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5231223791471589434' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5231223791471589434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5231223791471589434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/08/lula-brazil.html' title='Lula &amp; Brazil'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6871253220303992613</id><published>2008-08-17T18:00:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:34:33.880-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Evo Morales &amp; Bolivia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;It's always necessary to be careful when we hear the news&lt;/span&gt; in America, specially in southern countries, where a rich minority controls the vast majority of the communication system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been recently watching and reading a lot of tricky news and comments about Evo Morales - the same kind as those attacking Lula and Hugo Chávez that I've already gotten used to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdPP1ruHdk"&gt;In this brief interview to Al Jazeera&lt;/a&gt;, the Bolivian president talks frankly about his struggle 'to repair the damage of centuries of inequality'. It's worth watching it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6871253220303992613?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6871253220303992613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6871253220303992613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6871253220303992613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6871253220303992613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/08/evo-morales-bolivia.html' title='Evo Morales &amp; Bolivia'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-226478731422960633</id><published>2008-08-10T13:39:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:01:35.762-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Kale Saln's words</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;This man founded Adbusters&lt;/span&gt;, a magazine which finally makes me feel normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you watch this interview Mr. Saln gave to CNN more than 2 years ago, you will learn a bit of what Adbusters stands for and maybe you will notice the huge lack of understanding shown by the CNN beauty. Her "Come oooons" are not a surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oPfVmkFgko&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Click here to watch &lt;/a&gt;the short interview.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-226478731422960633?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/226478731422960633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=226478731422960633' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/226478731422960633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/226478731422960633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/08/kale-salns-words.html' title='Kale Saln&apos;s words'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7546086413662444788</id><published>2008-07-22T07:21:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:53:43.412-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Tudo tem fim, inclusive...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SIW2I8phaRI/AAAAAAAAALc/VLRs_GsYLUo/s1600-h/Herz.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SIW2I8phaRI/AAAAAAAAALc/VLRs_GsYLUo/s200/Herz.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225783207468820754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Este texto tem circulado na internet sem assinatura. Uma pena porque eu teria orgulho de ter escrito isso e raiva de ter meu texto circulado sem o crédito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sempre acho que namoro, casamento, romance&lt;/span&gt; tem começo, meio e fim. Como tudo na vida.&lt;br /&gt;Detesto quando escuto aquela conversa:&lt;br /&gt;'Ah,terminei o namoro...'&lt;br /&gt;'Nossa,quanto tempo?'&lt;br /&gt;'Cinco anos...Mas não deu certo...acabou'&lt;br /&gt;'É não deu...'&lt;br /&gt;Claro que deu! Deu certo durante cinco anos, só que acabou.&lt;br /&gt;E o bom da vida, é que você pode ter vários amores.&lt;br /&gt;Não acredito em pessoas que se complementam.&lt;br /&gt;Acredito em pessoas que se somam.&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes você não consegue nem dar cem por cento de você para você mesmo, como cobrar cem por cento do outro?&lt;br /&gt;E não temos esta coisa completa.&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes ele é fiel, mas não é bom de cama.&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes ele é carinhoso, mas não é fiel.&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes ele é atencioso, mas não é trabalhador.&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes ela é malhada, mas não é sensível.&lt;br /&gt;Tudo, nós não temos.&lt;br /&gt;Perceba qual o aspecto que é mais importante e invista nele.&lt;br /&gt;Pele é um bicho traiçoeiro.&lt;br /&gt;Quando você tem pele com alguém, pode ser o papai com mamãe mais básico que é uma delícia. E as vezes você tem aquele sexo acrobata, mas que não te impressiona... Acho que o beijo é importante...e se o beijo bate...se joga...senão bate...mais um Martini, por favor...e vá dar uma volta.&lt;br /&gt;Se ele ou ela não te quer mais, não force a barra.&lt;br /&gt;O outro tem o direito de não te querer.&lt;br /&gt;Não lute, não ligue, não dê pití.&lt;br /&gt;Se a pessoa tá com dúvida, problema dela, cabe a você esperar ou não.&lt;br /&gt;Existe gente que precisa da ausência para querer a presença.&lt;br /&gt;O ser humano não é absoluto.&lt;br /&gt;Ele titubeia, tem dúvidas e medos, mas se a pessoa REALMENTE gostar, ela volta.&lt;br /&gt;Nada de drama!&lt;br /&gt;Que graça tem alguém do seu lado sob chantagem, gravidez, dinheiro, recessão de família? O legal é alguém que está com você por você.&lt;br /&gt;E vice versa.&lt;br /&gt;Não fique com alguém por dó também.&lt;br /&gt;Ou por medo da solidão.&lt;br /&gt;Nascemos sós.&lt;br /&gt;Morremos sós.&lt;br /&gt;Nosso pensamento é nosso, não é compartilhado.&lt;br /&gt;E quando você acorda, a primeira impressão é sempre sua, seu olhar, seu pensamento.&lt;br /&gt;Tem gente que pula de um romance para o outro. Que medo é este de se ver só, na sua própria companhia?&lt;br /&gt;Gostar dói!&lt;br /&gt;Você muitas vezes vai ter raiva, ciúmes, ódio, frustração.&lt;br /&gt;Faz parte. Você namora um outro ser, um outro mundo e um outro universo.&lt;br /&gt;E nem sempre as coisas saem como você quer...&lt;br /&gt;A pior coisa é gente que tem medo de se envolver.&lt;br /&gt;Se alguém vier com este papo, corra, afinal, você não é terapeuta.&lt;br /&gt;Se não quer se envolver, namore uma planta.&lt;br /&gt;É mais previsível.&lt;br /&gt;Na vida e no amor, não temos garantias.&lt;br /&gt;E nem todo sexo bom é para namorar.&lt;br /&gt;Nem toda pessoa que te convida para sair é para casar.&lt;br /&gt;Nem todo beijo é para romancear.&lt;br /&gt;Nem todo sexo bom é para descartar... Ou se apaixonar... Ou se culpar. &lt;div&gt;Enfim...quem disse que ser adulto é fácil?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7546086413662444788?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7546086413662444788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7546086413662444788' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7546086413662444788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7546086413662444788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-1-quanto-no-amor.html' title='Tudo tem fim, inclusive...'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/SIW2I8phaRI/AAAAAAAAALc/VLRs_GsYLUo/s72-c/Herz.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6402224651769660720</id><published>2008-06-16T09:22:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:54:03.385-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>O Brasil clara e simplesmente</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHR9CMZBls&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Simplesmente&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIH32jOZRsA&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;claramente&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6402224651769660720?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6402224651769660720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6402224651769660720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6402224651769660720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6402224651769660720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/06/o-brasil-clara-e-simplesmente.html' title='O Brasil clara e simplesmente'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5996709107390523664</id><published>2008-05-23T06:07:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:54:15.132-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Colônias</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Estou assistindo a um documentário na TV&lt;/span&gt;. Com certeza, não é o programa mais visto neste momento na Alemanha, afinal de contas, mostra muitos africanos pretos, esqueléticos e miseráveis.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Enquanto termino esse primeiro parágrafo, a câmera mostra crianças e adolescentes brigando por potes de arroz que eles pegam com os dedos imundos, finos e longos e levam até a boca. Essa é, sem dúvida, uma cena chocante, porém, mais tragável que as mostradas logo antes - de homens e mulheres coletando “espinhos” e cabeças de peixe de um monte deles despejado por caminhões.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Os restos dos peixes são encontrados em meio a vermes e pendurados ao sol antes de acabarem parando no estômago de vários habitantes locais, enquanto a outra parte dos peixes está sendo exportada pra ser servida em pratos na Europa e no Japão, como o repórter explica.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;Sendo filho de uma colônia e tendo sangue de colonizadores correndo em minhas veias, percebo que a História que aprendi sobre meu país continua sendo repetida em vários outros países. Quando era mais novo, perguntei por que deveria estudar História. Um professor me convenceu que sua matéria nos ajudava a evitar os erros cometidos por nossos ancestrais. Hoje, não consigo parar de achar que estudamos História pra confirmar o quanto nós humanos somos estupidamente gananciosos, cruéis e injustos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;Mudo de canal e vejo pessoas falando sobre coisas que me colocam numa encruzilhada: ou me defino como um selvagem insano vivendo num mundo civilizado ou como um espírito são em meio a uma maioria de criaturas loucas e cegas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;O documentário continua com o piloto branco de um dos aviões cargueiros que leva o filé dos peixes pra Europa dizendo: “Não existe guerra nenhuma na África. O que existe são pessoas passando fome por todos os lados, mas também porque os pretos não querem trabalhar.” Em determinado momento, a insistência das perguntas do repórter irrita o piloto, que se queixa: “Não sou um homem da política, não quero falar mais nada.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;Típico. Eles chegam como homens civilizados se gabando de bons modos e riqueza. Quando partem, levam nosso ouro e deixam pra trás nossas mulheres fecundadas, terras confiscadas, famílias escravizadas e as mentes de nossos irmãos e irmãs contaminadas com ideologias doentias. Ainda por cima, depois de todo o desastre, eles nos culpam por nosso azar e nos chamam de bárbaros, índios, pretos, gente barulhenta, estúpida e preguiçosa. Somos a mulher que, depois de perder a virgindade e servir um homem por anos, é deixada com filhos pra criar por não ser boa suficiente pra casar. E ainda é chamada de vagabunda.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;No fim do documentário, um jovem tanzanês conta uma história bem diferente daquela do piloto europeu: “Esses aviões vêm pra cá supostamente pra buscar peixe, mas eles já chegam carregados. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;De quê? De armas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Entregues no nosso continente, elas são usadas pelos nossos povos que se matam uns aos outros. De certa forma, isso é bom pros europeus porque, mais tarde, eles vão ter que mandar medicamentos e comida e vão lucrar com isso.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;Ele parece um maluco. Afinal de contas, ele tem muito cara de um animal furioso do que elas pessoas bem-educadas, sérias e brancas que estão ao meu redor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5996709107390523664?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5996709107390523664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5996709107390523664' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5996709107390523664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5996709107390523664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/05/colnias.html' title='Colônias'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7256922510557639204</id><published>2008-05-23T05:39:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:02:23.252-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Colonies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;I’m watching a documentary now on TV&lt;/span&gt;. It’s certainly not the most viewed program at this moment in &lt;country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;place st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/place&gt;&lt;/country-region&gt;. There’re too many black, skinny, miserable Africans on it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;While I finish this first paragraph, the camera shows kids and teens fighting for bowls of rice that they grab with their nasty, long, thin fingers and eat. This is indeed a choking scene. However, I find it much more bearable than those shown before - of women and men collecting fish bones and heads from a pile disposed by trucks. Yes, fish BONES!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The rests of fish are found among worms and then hung in the sun before ending up in the stomach of several locals while the rest of the fishes are being exported to be served in plates of European and Japanese people, the reporter explains.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;When I was younger and asked what the purpose of History was, a teacher in Brazil convinced me his subject prevented us humans of making the same mistakes of our ancestors. Today, I can’t help thinking that we study History to testify how stupidly greedy, cruel and unfair we humans are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The stories just repeat!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I change the channel and see people talking about things that certainly define me as an insane savage who refuses to adapt in a civilized world… or as a sane spirit among a majority of crazy, blind beings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I'll rather stay with the second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The documentary goes on. The white pilot of one of the cargos which take the fillets from the fishes to Europe says: “There’s no war in &lt;place st="on"&gt;Africa&lt;/place&gt;. There’re only hungry people everywhere, but it’s also because black people don’t want to work.” At a certain point, the reporter’s insistence on asking questions starts bothering him, so he says: “I’m not a man of politics, I don’t want to talk anymore.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Typical. They arrive as civilized men showing off good manners and wealth. When they leave, they’ve inseminated our wives, confiscated our land, taken our gold, enslaved our families and brainwashed our brothers and sisters with their sick ideologies. Moreover, after the whole disaster, they blame us for our own miserable fait, calling us barbarians, Indians, blacks, loud, lazy, stupid. We’re the woman that, after losing her virginity and serving a man for years, is abandoned with kids to raise for not being good enough to marry. And is then called slut.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;At the end of the documentary, a young Tanzanian tells a story which is quite different from the one told by European pilot: “These airplanes are supposed to come here to pick up fish, but they arrive already loaded. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR"&gt;With what? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA"&gt;Guns. Delivered here in our continent, they are used by our people to kill each other. Somehow, it’s a good thing for &lt;place st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/place&gt;, because later on they know they’ll have to send medicines and food, profiting from that."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;He seems to be a crazy man. Afterall, he's not wearing a tie and looks much more like a furious animal than these white, serious, well-educated people I’m surrounded of.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7256922510557639204?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7256922510557639204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7256922510557639204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7256922510557639204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7256922510557639204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/05/colonies.html' title='Colonies'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4083850426863855096</id><published>2008-04-21T13:33:00.007-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:18:02.422-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Sobre Michael Jackson</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Um dos meus únicos ídolos de toda a vida foi Michael Jackson&lt;/span&gt;. Aquele ser estranho de nariz fino e pele exageradamente branca. Aquele que ficou quase tão famoso por segurar seu filho na janela do hotel em Berlim quanto por lançar os álbuns &lt;em&gt;Bad&lt;/em&gt; ou &lt;em&gt;Thriller&lt;/em&gt;. Justamente aquele que virou motivo de piadas em todo o planeta por sua doença de pele e seu distúrbio sexual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael nunca foi um ser humano comum. Depois da infância difícil e do sucesso à custa de muito talento e trabalho, ele chegou ao topo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainda moleque, foi muito além do 'fazer música', como milhões e milhões fazem em qualquer canto da Terra. Michael revolucionou o mundo &lt;em&gt;bizz&lt;/em&gt; com estilo, luzes, dança e som da melhor qualidade. A sincronização, o carisma, o poder de unir multidões e de fazê-las gritar com simples passos que ele tinha colocaram Elvis no chinelo. Michael e Madonna foram quem, simultaneamente, mostraram ao mundo que um show pode ser muito mais que uma apresentação. Foram eles que deram ao significado da palavra show o que ela representa de fato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2g2oK45d0o&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Veja este&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxZPrpnDxQ&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;este &lt;/a&gt;ou &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6w1Haww54w&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;este &lt;/a&gt;vídeo pra ver do que estou falando. Assistindo, você vai se lembrar do que Michael, com sua fantástica equipe, representou pra uma, duas ou, quem sabe, três gerações inteiras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acostumado desde criancinha a levar porrada, depois de chegar ao topo, Michael caiu. Seu erro: ser mortal. Com aquelas roupas futuristas e movimentos inimitáveis, o público já não aceitava mais que ele também precisasse de médico, de ajuda, de carinho e, acima de tudo, de compreensão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vejo não só muita gente, mas nações inteiras, como japoneses, pedófilas. Quem sabe um pouquinho da promiscuidade dos japoneses não nega o que estou dizendo. Assim como vejo chefes no mundo todo recebendo boquete da secretária e a maioria dos brasileiros sem ler, escrever em português direito; muito menos falar inglês. Mas Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton e Lula (além de tantos outros) têm esse defeito em comum: teimam em se comportar como humanos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pior que se comportar como humanos sucetíveis a falhas é viver em meio a outros humanos que, paradoxalmente, não aceitam erros dos outros. Nossa sociedade, a humana, é cheia de juízes que se livram dos pecados próprios jogando toda a fúria e o desprezo por suas próprias 'falhas' nos outros. Projetando ou se identificando, como alguns psicólogos diriam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É assim que quase o Brasil inteiro dirige hoje tanto ódio ao pai e à madrasta da menina jogada do sexto andar em São Paulo. Do mesmo modo que pedófilos, filhos de pedófilos, vítimas de pedófilos, amigos de pedófilos e pais de pedófilos condenam Jackson por seu distúrbio obviamente justificado pela sua história de vida. E, além de tudo, milhões de seres estranhos com apliques, botox, silicone, alongamentos e sabe-se lá mais o quê acham engraçado o rosto branco por causa de uma doença, de um cara que jamais jogaria uma pedrinha neles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É a roda da vida. Se Pedro negou até Cristo por três vezes... quem é um Michael Jackson pra não ser crucificado! Também, quem mandou serem humanos...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4083850426863855096?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4083850426863855096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4083850426863855096' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4083850426863855096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4083850426863855096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/04/juzes-comuns.html' title='Sobre Michael Jackson'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5751100245771073193</id><published>2008-02-22T23:33:00.005-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:55:27.052-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Sobre o amor</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;O amor é uma daquelas coisas&lt;/span&gt; tidas como patrimônio universal, uma espécie de bem público de que a maioria das pessoas usufrui, mas não possui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como acontece com futebol e Big Brother, o amor é um assunto em que cada um de nós se julga experto. Todo mundo dá palpite, todo mundo define, todo mundo julga. E muita gente compete quem ama mais, quem ama melhor, quem merece amar, quem não deveria ser amado, quem nunca vai aprender o que é amar e tantas outras coisas assim que estou de saco cheio de ouvir por aí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo bobagem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dizer que alguém é frio, inconstante, desconhecedor do verdadeiro amor ou indigno deste é fácil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dizer sempre é fácil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amar não é.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acredito que alguns tipos de pessoas já nascem com uma certa disposição pra amar, enquanto outros crescem assistindo ao exemplo de quem ama ao seu redor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pode ser, entretanto, que muita gente, mesmo, passe a vida inteira sem amar ou sem saber ser amada. E daí? Como se o amor fosse garantia de felicidade... E como se felicidade fosse acumulada e, lá no final da vida, definisse quem teve uma vida melhor ou pior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quem ama sabe que não é assim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com uma coisa hei de concondar com a maioria: tudo fica mais fácil com a pessoa amada. E, se alguém disser que é o contrário, hei de concordar também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E terei sempre razão. Ou nunca. Afinal de contas, o amor é assim mesmo, uma confusão só. Quem ama sabe. Quem não ama hoje simplesmente não lembra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por mais ponderados que sejamos, no amor, vale tudo. Dedos, línguas, palavrões, surras, algemas, saudades, distância, jóias, brigas, mentiras e verdades doídas, flores, lingeries, maquiagem, economia, carreira, chantagem, seqüestro, aprisionamento...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É a mais pura anarquia do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E é o amor o nosso calcanhar de Aquiles. Não há dinheiro, santo, armadura ou frieza que nos proteja do direito, da obrigação, da bênção ou da penitência de amar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando o amor bate à porta trazido por uma ladra ordinária, ele entra em casa de uma vez só e, quando amanhece, todos os cômodos estão ocupados e os móveis carregam seu cheiro. De repente, a mais suja das mulheres, a mensageira do amor, conquista nossa atenção, corpo, pensamentos e valores morais cultivados por anos e anos vão parar no lixo. Jogados por nós próprios, mesmo sabendo que ela não “vale a calcinha que veste”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isso não é fantástico?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não há promessas, alianças, juramentos, álbuns, mudanças, contratos, castidades nem ameaças que nos garantam que essa fonte de loucura, prazer e ódio nunca se esgote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto quase tudo se compra, se troca e se vende... o amor ainda nos dá a sensação de justiça social. Permanece um patrimônio universal. Usufruído por todos, possuído por ninguém.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5751100245771073193?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5751100245771073193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5751100245771073193' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5751100245771073193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5751100245771073193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/02/sobre-o-amor.html' title='Sobre o amor'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6214658891322804792</id><published>2008-02-14T21:31:00.008-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:02:55.920-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>My identidy</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;When I was a child&lt;/span&gt;, my family had the habit of moving on a very frequent basis. By the time I finished high school, I had already studied in 7 different schools. Today, I've already moved to more than 10 cities in 5 countries and packed hundreds of times. But it doesn't have much to do with my parents anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting how things happen. Before a first badly broken heart, I had everything so clear in my mind. I would study one year abroad, then go back to Brazil and keep on studying and practing sports until I graduated from university. Then I would get a good a job and finally marry the girl I loved. This all should have already happened by now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We broke up. She continued her studies, graduated, went back to her town, got a nice job and her own house, got married and is now pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I'm now in Berlin, moving back to Germany 7 years after the last time I came here. No job, an interrupted career, no girlfriend with me, no marriage at sight, no money to buy even a car, staying at an apartment which I don't even pay the rent for. My whole life has to fit inside 3 backpacks and one body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it's definitely interesting how things happen. Every time someone asks where I come from I feel I can never be completely honest. I don't know it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's obviously overwhelming, but when I think of Palestinians, Tibetans and many other people without a land, I realise how lucky I am to feel safe and not alone afterall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides, it's simply amazing to arrive in a place and realize that, after 9 months, not all is about money anymore. There're millions of people in Europe who seem to be in pursuit of happiness instead of comfort and status. Some little things are very peculiar here and I've missed that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6214658891322804792?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6214658891322804792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6214658891322804792' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6214658891322804792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6214658891322804792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/02/identidy.html' title='My identidy'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4930358715997598477</id><published>2008-01-28T16:02:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:08:14.720-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Don't be shy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R54nby-SwFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/YAJ3PGpH_GA/s1600-h/grad+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160605581506166866" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R54nby-SwFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/YAJ3PGpH_GA/s320/grad+01.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;I love Asian students&lt;/span&gt;! They usually take things serious, show respect to other people and traditions and can become very good friends. Some are extremely funny too! The only "problem" is that sometimes they're really shy. At ILAC, I guess they learn fast how NOT to be like that! ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4930358715997598477?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4930358715997598477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4930358715997598477' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4930358715997598477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4930358715997598477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-be-shy.html' title='Don&apos;t be shy!'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R54nby-SwFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/YAJ3PGpH_GA/s72-c/grad+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6707686071163783888</id><published>2007-11-28T20:32:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:04:28.591-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='People'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Brazilian Amazonia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R03_656cWcI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/JyzYweB1-Wk/s1600-h/amazonia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="141" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138044137343048130" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R03_656cWcI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/JyzYweB1-Wk/s200/amazonia.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="179" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;In 2001, Cristóvão Buarque&lt;/span&gt; answered to an intriguing question asked by an US-American member of the United Nations. The man asked for Buarque's point of view about the internationalization of the Amazon Rain Forest. "Not as a Brazilian, but as a humanist", the man emphasized. Here is what Buarque wrote &lt;a href="http://www.xof1.com/todayortomorrow.html"&gt;on his website &lt;/a&gt;about his answer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;In point of fact, as a Brazilian I would always argue against the internationalization of the Amazon Rain Forest. Even though our government has not given this patrimony the care that it deserves, it is ours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;I replied that, as a humanist who fears the risks posed by the environmental degradation that the Amazon is suffering, I could imagine its internationalization, just as I could imagine the internationalization of everything else of importance to humanity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;If, from a humanist perspective, the Amazon must be internationalized, &lt;strong&gt;we&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;should also internationalize the entire world's petroleum reserves&lt;/strong&gt;. Oil is just as important for the well being of humanity as the Amazon is for our future. The owners of the reserves, however, feel that they have the right to increase or decrease the amount of oil production, as well as to increase or lower the price per barrel. The rich of the world feel that they have the right to burn up this immense patrimony of humanity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;In much the same way, &lt;strong&gt;the wealthy countries' financial capital should be internationalized&lt;/strong&gt;. Since the Amazon Rain Forest is a reserve for all human beings, an owner or a country must not be allowed to burn it up. The burning of the Amazon is as serious a problem as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions made by global speculators. We cannot permit the use of financial reserves to burn up entire countries in the frenzy of speculation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Before we internationalize the Amazon, &lt;strong&gt;I would like to see the internationalization of all the world's great museums&lt;/strong&gt;. The Louvre should not belong merely to France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;The world's museums are guardians of the most beautiful pieces of art produced by the human genius. We cannot let this cultural patrimony, like the natural patrimony of the Amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the whims of an owner or a country. A short time ago a Japanese millionaire decided to be buried with a painting by a great artist. Before this could happen, that painting should have been internationalized.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;While I was at the meeting during which I was asked about internationalizing the Amazon Rain Forest, the United Nations convened the Millennium Summit, but some presidents of countries had difficulties in attending due to U.S. border-crossing constraints. Because of this, I said that New &lt;strong&gt;York, as the headquarters of the United Nations, should have been internationalized&lt;/strong&gt;. The city, or at least Manhattan, should belong to all humanity. As should Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife-each city, with its unique beauty, its history of the world, should belong to the entire world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;If, to minimize the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, the United States wants to internationalize the Amazon Rain Forest, &lt;strong&gt;we should internationalize the United States' nuclear arsenals&lt;/strong&gt;. If only because the country has already demonstrated that it is capable of using these arms, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the deplorable burnings done in the forests of Brazil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;In their debates, the United States presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world's forest reserves in exchange for debt relief. We should begin by using this debt to guarantee that each child in the world has the opportunity to go to school. &lt;strong&gt;We should internationalize the children&lt;/strong&gt;, treating them, all of them, no matter their country of birth, as patrimony that deserves to be cared for by the entire world. Even more than the Amazon deserves to be cared for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;When the world's leaders begin to treat the poor children of the world as a patrimony of humanity, they will not let children work when they should be studying, die when they should be living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;As a humanist, I agree to defend the internationalization of the world. But, as long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazon Rain Forest to remain ours. Ours alone."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6707686071163783888?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6707686071163783888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6707686071163783888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6707686071163783888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6707686071163783888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/11/brazilian-amazonia.html' title='Brazilian Amazonia'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R03_656cWcI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/JyzYweB1-Wk/s72-c/amazonia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8105064139556994004</id><published>2007-11-19T01:36:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:36:36.707-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Global warming</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R0Ej7p6cWaI/AAAAAAAAAJs/P_Qdds4FN08/s1600-h/globalwarming.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134424557949311394" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R0Ej7p6cWaI/AAAAAAAAAJs/P_Qdds4FN08/s200/globalwarming.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;So much is written and said about this everyday&lt;/span&gt; and I still have the feeling that most of people don't know what they're talking or reading about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Experts have different approaches to understanding the global warming and to correlating it to the pollution caused by humans. What we usually hear is that pollution is responsible for the temperature changes and, therefore, less pollution would stop the heating or even cause a small drop of the Earth's temperature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, I rather believe the explanation that says global warming is as natural as rain or the rotation-translation movement of the planets. &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;As simply as the sun is going to disappear sometime in the evening, Earth will become a warmer place whether we produce greenhouse gases or not.&lt;/span&gt; It's not if, but when.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's also logical, though, that people's concern about the weather changes allows them to believe whatever they're told to. Ok, we can try to reduce the damage, but let's be reasonable and not spread &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the biggest bullshit when it comes to the subject "global warming": we humans are trying to save the world&lt;/span&gt;. Or that we should at least do it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bullshit, bullshit! My greatgrandparents didn't give a damn about the environment, so didn't my parents. And most of my friends still continue not caring about it either! I doubt you do. Afterall, who cares about how much it's going to rain tomorrow if I can get my pockets filled out with money today? Who cares about where all these stupid plastic bags, present paper and polystyrene boxes come from and are going to end up? We don't, because the most important thing is always living longer and with more comfort. Am I wrong?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The US population surpasses 300 million, which corresponds to about 1/4 of China's. Still, US Americans are the top polluters in the world, sending 5,8% of CO2 to the air, while China is responsible for 4,15% of CO2 emission.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I don't intend to play China's lawyer, but have you considered the fact that everything you're dressing right now may come from China, as well as your computer? Have you thought of how many factories we Westerns have sent far away to soil the Chinese gardens while we keep our environmental speeches proud of being "aware"? &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Don't you agree that you and I are co-responsible for the raise of lung cancer in 26,9% (men) and 38,4% (women) in the years 2000 to 2005 there?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Honestly, I'm tired of reading about global warming and pollution in Canada, where 561 out of 1,000 people have cars. That's even more than the US, where the correspondent number is 465. Now guess how many Chinese have cars! Out of 1,000, only 10.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;What people are worried about is not the planet. No, it's not the environment. It's the mankind itself that is in danger.&lt;/span&gt; And the rich countries' habits, life expectations and specially their borders. As the world heats up, more and more refugees will flee from their countries and that certainly will increase the European and US American immigration crisis. And Canada will be soon the next.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8105064139556994004?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8105064139556994004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8105064139556994004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8105064139556994004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8105064139556994004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/11/global-warming.html' title='Global warming'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/R0Ej7p6cWaI/AAAAAAAAAJs/P_Qdds4FN08/s72-c/globalwarming.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-575892911871461721</id><published>2007-10-31T16:56:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:08:22.199-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RyjfY6UfDTI/AAAAAAAAAJU/rW5XJfOTN04/s1600-h/Ilac+Halloween+2008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127593794826341682" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RyjfY6UfDTI/AAAAAAAAAJU/rW5XJfOTN04/s320/Ilac+Halloween+2008.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you ever pictured yourself working in such a nice environment like this one? Here are some co-workers and I at ILAC today. By the way,&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; I'm Superilac&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-575892911871461721?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/575892911871461721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=575892911871461721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/575892911871461721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/575892911871461721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween.html' title='Halloween'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RyjfY6UfDTI/AAAAAAAAAJU/rW5XJfOTN04/s72-c/Ilac+Halloween+2008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-60515848799161174</id><published>2007-10-27T22:29:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:57:38.496-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Veja se tiver coragem</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"O que os olhos não vêem&lt;/span&gt;, o coração não sente."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes me pego tentando solucionar o enigma da negação tão característica em nós humanos. O que é que nos faz selecionar, ainda que inconscientemente, o que ver, o que escutar e, principalmente, no que acreditar e por que sofrer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quantos de nós comemos carne de boi, vaca, touro, bezerro, alce, ovelha, cabrito, porco, leitão, leitoa, veado, camelo, cavalo, jacaré, rã, cobra, coelho, búfalo, frango, peixe... e nos chocamos com uma fratura exposta ou um dedo cortado? Quantos escolhemos sem pudor a embalagem com a o filé mais bonito, mas jamais paramos pra pensar que aquele pedacinho fazia parte de um ser vivo horas ou dias atrás?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não sou vegetariano e jamais incitei alguém a seguir uma dieta assim, mas tenho consciência de que estou também matando outros bichos pra comê-los. Bichos que jamais mexeram comigo, que nunca me causariam problemas e que são infinitamente "seres melhores" que eu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pronto. Mato, como e assumo. O que me irrita é ver nosso mundo humano cheio de hipocrisia e negação. Começando com a negação da nossa própria natureza, diga-se de passagem. Essa história pra nenê nanar de que nascemos com um propósito de fazer o bem ao próximo e essa arrogância estúpida de pensar que o planeta precisa da nossa existência são, como se diz no bom português, "o fim".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se você chegou até aqui, agora vai entender o porquê deste texto. Quando clicar no link a seguir, provavelmente irá se deparar com uma das coisas mais horríveis a que você terá assistido na sua vida. E talvez você, seu vizinho, seu chefe e a maioria das pessoas do mundo, apesar de não quererem ver, também possam ser considerados parte do elenco de produção, digamos assim, deste vídeo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=fur_farm&amp;amp;Player=wm&amp;amp;speed=med"&gt;Veja o que nós fazemos aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS: Por favor, veja o vídeo inteiro. Não feche os olhos depois de 15 segundos, voltando pra novela ou pro bate-papo no msn logo em seguida.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-60515848799161174?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/60515848799161174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=60515848799161174' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/60515848799161174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/60515848799161174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/10/veja-se-tiver-coragem.html' title='Veja se tiver coragem'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6522633463401216348</id><published>2007-10-10T20:28:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:08:28.431-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Rocky Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1g5ufASJI/AAAAAAAAAJM/c3SFdiLemIg/s1600-h/rocky+06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119854896237004946" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1g5ufASJI/AAAAAAAAAJM/c3SFdiLemIg/s320/rocky+06.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1guufASII/AAAAAAAAAJE/5h7zLfNZiJc/s1600-h/rockies+21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119854707258443906" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1guufASII/AAAAAAAAAJE/5h7zLfNZiJc/s320/rockies+21.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1gf-fASHI/AAAAAAAAAI8/mihw-bxSbro/s1600-h/rockies+06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119854453855373426" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1gf-fASHI/AAAAAAAAAI8/mihw-bxSbro/s320/rockies+06.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6522633463401216348?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6522633463401216348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6522633463401216348' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6522633463401216348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6522633463401216348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/10/rocky-mountains.html' title='Rocky Mountains'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rw1g5ufASJI/AAAAAAAAAJM/c3SFdiLemIg/s72-c/rocky+06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-262725776215939251</id><published>2007-09-13T13:12:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T07:58:44.053-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Bullshit!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuloNHvYyxI/AAAAAAAAAIk/TbAI3_3LK6c/s1600-h/Clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109729826853931794" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 179px; height: 185px;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuloNHvYyxI/AAAAAAAAAIk/TbAI3_3LK6c/s200/Clown.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Hoje vi mais uma das historinhas&lt;/span&gt; contadas pela CNN. Foi a do pequeno Youssef, um iraquiano que, com o rosto todo destruído por sabe-se lá o quê, foi levado aos Estados Unidos por uma fundação pra ser tratado por um cirurgião plástico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O tom do relato é de compaixão e caridade, mostrando como o sortudaço do Youssef e a sua agradecida mãe estão tendo a chance de viver um sonho na vida real. "O que eles só tinham visto em filmes, agora eles podem vivenciar no dia-a-dia", dizia a repórter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depois de terem visto, desde 2003, no dia-a-dia, o que talvez só tivessem visto em filmes do estilo Rambo também. Mas isso a repórter não disse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muita bondade assim merece uma olhada com mais atenção. Primeiro, eu ADORARIA saber como o coitadinho do rapaz ficou com aquele monte de cicatrizes que, segundo o médico, devem precisar de 8-10 cirurgias e mais de meio ano pra desaparecerem - provavelmente, não por completo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Será que Youssef foi ferido numa das explosões que os gringos causaram desde que resolveram, assim do nada, INVADIR o Iraque? Ou será que os ferimentos são resultado dos estilhaços de mais um ataque seguido de estupro e execução praticado pelos marines? Detalhe ignorado na reportagem da CNN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fundações como a que se encarregou de presentear a família iraquiana recebem dinheiro de onde? De trabalhadores braçais que produzem mercadorias a 20 dólares por mês... ou de magnatas que faturam centenas de vezes mais explorando, vendendo e especulando que preferem "fazer o bem à humanidade" fazendo doações a fundações a pagar impostos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora é a vez do médico. Puxa, vamos ser bem francos aqui! O doutor aparece ao vivo na CNN tratando do garotinho e tal e, depois, sozinho, ao vivo, em frente à sua clínica na Califórnia... Ah, esse tratamento está saindo barato, eim! Quem tem alguma noção de marketing ou já anunciou numa rádio ou num jornal local há de concordar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E tem mais: você tem idéia de quantos médicos formados no exterior exercem a profissão nos Estados Unidos? Eis a pontinha do iceberg: em 2004, um estudo nos EUA mostrou que mais de 5,3 MIL médicos atuando no país tinham sido formado na África subsahariana, geralmente com os estudos totalmente custeados pelos governos de seus países, que vão se miseráveis a pobres coitados. Outros 3,5 mil estavam atuando no Reino Unido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez seja uma boa razão pra que pacientes como o pequeno Youssef só consigam um excelente tratamento em um país como os EUA.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-262725776215939251?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/262725776215939251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=262725776215939251' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/262725776215939251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/262725776215939251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/bullshit.html' title='Bullshit!'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuloNHvYyxI/AAAAAAAAAIk/TbAI3_3LK6c/s72-c/Clown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3380970149685150045</id><published>2007-09-07T19:40:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:04:45.650-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Close your eyes and think of Brazil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuHbElJWrfI/AAAAAAAAAIU/hT-ukNMAEMg/s1600-h/bus174.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107604324152159730" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuHbElJWrfI/AAAAAAAAAIU/hT-ukNMAEMg/s200/bus174.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;What can you picture?&lt;/span&gt; Beautiful women, sunny and clean beaches, happy and friendly people, good food, and great forests?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now open your eyes. And watch "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The city of God&lt;/span&gt;" or "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bus 174&lt;/span&gt;". The second film is a documentary about a kidnaping involving a street boy called Sergio and a couple of passengers of the bus # 174 in Rio de Janeiro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The episode that became known as "Bus 174" is a good portrait of Brazil, even though you might come across many Brazilians who will deny it. And the documentary ALSO shows that: how people close their eyes to the crude and cruel reality of a big part of the population who doesn't have a chance in this crazy world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sergio never met his father and saw his mother being stabbed to death when he was a kid. He lived in the streets for years and never killed anybody. But the egocentric minority won't see him as a victim.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you keep your eyes opened, you'll learn in less than 2,5 hours that the BIGGEST part of the Brazilian society presents a lot of lacks: of education, of assistance for the poors, of mental health, of planning, of seriousness, of compromise... and of competence. You'll see that the government and the police are a joke. And it's not funny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, you'll see that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just eat your popcorn before the movie starts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3380970149685150045?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3380970149685150045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3380970149685150045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3380970149685150045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3380970149685150045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/close-your-eyes-and-think-of-brazil.html' title='Close your eyes and think of Brazil'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RuHbElJWrfI/AAAAAAAAAIU/hT-ukNMAEMg/s72-c/bus174.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3504412486313894565</id><published>2007-09-03T23:17:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:00:17.870-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Cuide da sua pele</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Traduzido da revista Adbusters, 71a ed., maio/2007:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Suas maquiagens e loções&lt;/span&gt; fazem uma tremenda festa nutritiva para o acne e a bactéria. Mais bactérias significam mais erupções e maior risco de formação de cicatrizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os cremes hidratantes podem entupir os poros da sua pele, causando espinhas de cor clara e escura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Substâncias alérgenas como a lanolina (graxa que provém de ovelhas) e carmine (feita com besouros esmagados), encontradas em batom, delineador e lápis, podem causar erupções ríspidas e eczemas dolorosos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os limpadores e outras substâncias utilizadas para esfregações de rosto podem irritar a pele saudável se forem usados com muita freqüência, deixando a pele manchada, vermelha e seca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez hoje você esteja preocupada com espinhas e cicatrizes. Mas pense em como sua pele estará depois de meses utilizando todos esses produtos que há por aí! E depois de alguns anos? Como acha que sua pele estará quando chegar a hora de você ter seus próprios filhos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pense nas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; companhias que fazem ou vendem produtos de beleza. Elas faturam mais quando suas clientes estão felizes e confiantes? Ou quando elas estão incomodadas com as "imperfeições" que essas companhias miraculosamente podem "corrigir"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por sorte, é fácil cuidar da sua pele sem precisar gastar dinheiro com essas enganações todas. Lave-a suavemente. Durma bastante. Beba água. Faça exercícios. Coma bastantes frutas e verduras. Não se exponha exageradamente ao sol. É fácil, barato e natural.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3504412486313894565?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3504412486313894565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3504412486313894565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3504412486313894565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3504412486313894565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/cuide-da-sua-pele.html' title='Cuide da sua pele'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8984119202317777897</id><published>2007-09-03T23:01:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:06:02.911-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Take care of your skin</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Copied from Adbusters #71, May/2007:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Your makeup and lotions&lt;/span&gt; make a nutritious feast for acne-causing bacteria. More bacteria = more frequent breakouts and a higher risk of permanent scarring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moisturizers can clog up your pores, causing nasty blackheads and whiteheads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rashes and crusty, paingul eczema can result from allergens like lanolin (grease secreted by sheep) and carmine (made from crushed beetles), found in lipstick, eyeliner and foundation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cleansers, toners, and face scrubs may irritate healthy skin if used too often, making your skin blotchy, red and dry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe you're worried about pimples and pockmarks today. But what's your skin going to look and feel like after a few months of experimenting with all of the products out there? Of after a few years of meddling? What's it going to look like when it's time for you to have kids or your own?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000066;"&gt;Think about the companies that make and sell beauty products. Do they make more money when you're happy and confident? Or when you're plagued by 'imperfections' that they just happen to be able to 'fix'?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily, it's easy to take care of your skin without buying into the scam. Wash it gently. Get plenty of sleep. Drink water. Exercise. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Don't overdo it in the sun. Easy, inexpensive and natural.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8984119202317777897?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8984119202317777897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8984119202317777897' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8984119202317777897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8984119202317777897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/take-care-of-your-skin.html' title='Take care of your skin'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2686021552371770412</id><published>2007-09-03T22:52:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:19:56.825-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>A Austrália é um bom lugar para se viver?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Apesar de nunca ter estado lá&lt;/span&gt;, já cansei de ouvir que a Austrália é um dos melhores lugares no mundo pra se morar. Segundo o jornalista ambiental Mark Lynas, isso é mentira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No artigo intitulado "Go green or die - Australia's eco dilemma" (Torne-se verde ou morra - o dilema ambiental da Austrália), publicado pela primeira vez no The New Statesman em novembro do ano passado, ele prevê um futuro desastroso pros australianos e aqueles que sonham em se mudar pra lá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em poucas palavras, Mark diz que muitas áreas daquele imenso país estão sendo abandonadas&lt;br /&gt;e que, logo, o país terá ainda mais áreas inabitáveis. As mudanças climáticas de que ainda pouco se falam no Brasil (em comparação com o Canadá e a Europa) são a razão dessa previsão negativista. O jornalista acredita que, em poucas décadas, os australianos terão de lidar com a maior seca desde a última era interglacial, cerca de 135 mil anos atrás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Procure se informar sobre o assunto. Na postagem anterior está um trecho do texto de Mark Lynas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2686021552371770412?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2686021552371770412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2686021552371770412' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2686021552371770412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2686021552371770412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/austrlia-j-no-mais-um-bom-lugar-pra-se.html' title='A Austrália é um bom lugar para se viver?'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1491992366066662989</id><published>2007-09-03T22:22:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:19:24.846-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Is Australia still a good place for humans?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rty6NCWMSqI/AAAAAAAAAH8/nwd-J39U3ag/s1600-h/Australian+desert.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106160810662316706" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rty6NCWMSqI/AAAAAAAAAH8/nwd-J39U3ag/s200/Australian+desert.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;I've never been there myself&lt;/span&gt;, but I'm one more person, probably just like you, who has already heard many times that Australia is one of the best places to live in the world. According to the environmental journalist Mark Lynas, though, that's not true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In his article called "Go green or die - Australia's eco dilemma", first published in The New Statesman in November 2006, he predicts a dishartening near future for Australians and the people who dream of moving over there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In a few words, Mark tells that many areas of that huge country are being abandoned by their holders and that soon the country will have many uninhabitable areas. The reason for that? The climate change. Mark believes that, in some decades, Australians will have to handle with the worst drought in over the last 100,000 years!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm personally surprised by the content of the text and I think it's worth it rewriting a part of it here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"I don't generally give real-estate advice, but here's a tip - don't buy property in Australia. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;One of the world's greatest polluters is now one of the hardest-hit by climate change&lt;/span&gt;. Farms are being abandoned, livestock destroyed and cities are wilting in the heat, as perennial drought tightens its grip. In years to come huge areas of land will be abandoned, and widening zones of the country will become essentially uninhabitable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you own land or property anywhere outside the wetter tropical north or cooler Tasmania, get ready to sell it now - preferably to a climate-change denier. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;There's plenty of deniers still around. One of them heads the government&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(...) Following five years of below-average rainfall, water managers are now talking about this being the 'worst drought for 1,000 years'. They should be so lucky. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Global temperatures are now as high as they have been for 6,000 years, and in a couple of decades will be reaching heights not seen since the last interglacial, 135,000 years ago&lt;/span&gt;. This is the scale of drought we're talking about here. Australia's new climate will be different from anything ever experienced since humans first settled on the continent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(...) All this confusion of denial and delay is particularly tragic, given that Australia is one of the few countries in the world that could comparatively easily have converted to a 100 per cent renewable energy economy, primarily by harnessing its vast solar power potential: with huge, cloud-free desert areas, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;all of Australia's electricity could easily come from the sun. This is Australia's real shame&lt;/span&gt; - by staying trapped in denial for so long, it is now too late to save itself as soaring temperatures gradually transform this giant and varied continent into one of the most parched and desolate land surfaces on earth."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1491992366066662989?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1491992366066662989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1491992366066662989' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1491992366066662989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1491992366066662989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/09/australia-is-no-longer-good-place-to.html' title='Is Australia still a good place for humans?'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rty6NCWMSqI/AAAAAAAAAH8/nwd-J39U3ag/s72-c/Australian+desert.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7742435690375430345</id><published>2007-08-31T14:04:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:08:42.361-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Landscape II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthLgiWMSnI/AAAAAAAAAHk/DbS3AqqdmEQ/s1600-h/Chinese+Gardens.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104913199972239986" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthLgiWMSnI/AAAAAAAAAHk/DbS3AqqdmEQ/s400/Chinese+Gardens.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And this is part of the Chinese Gardens, in Chinatown, also Vancouver.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7742435690375430345?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7742435690375430345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7742435690375430345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7742435690375430345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7742435690375430345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/08/landscape-ii.html' title='Landscape II'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthLgiWMSnI/AAAAAAAAAHk/DbS3AqqdmEQ/s72-c/Chinese+Gardens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6943377705162152506</id><published>2007-08-31T14:01:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:08:49.626-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Landscape I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthJsSWMSlI/AAAAAAAAAHU/31VcQnRNnhA/s1600-h/Queen+Elizabeth+Park.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104911202812447314" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthJsSWMSlI/AAAAAAAAAHU/31VcQnRNnhA/s400/Queen+Elizabeth+Park.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the Queen Elizabeth Park, in Vancouver.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6943377705162152506?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6943377705162152506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6943377705162152506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6943377705162152506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6943377705162152506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/08/landscape.html' title='Landscape I'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RthJsSWMSlI/AAAAAAAAAHU/31VcQnRNnhA/s72-c/Queen+Elizabeth+Park.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5034620098324322051</id><published>2007-08-15T20:39:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:01:24.679-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>Saudades</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;"Mais cedo ou mais tarde, todos partem"&lt;/span&gt;, costumo dizer. É uma verdade absoluta, mas raramente admitida por nós, por mais racionais que pretendamos ser. Conto com uma racionalidade protetora pra enfrentar as constantes despedidas na minha vida e, confesso, muitas vezes é dificil seguir o conselho de Che Guevara, que dizia que “hay que endurecer, pero sin perder la ternura”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manter-se terno e cultivar a sensibilidade se torna mais dificil conforme nos preparamos pra lidar com perdas freqüentes e enfrentarmos as dores que elas causam. Mas se engana quem se deixa levar pela aparência de dureza, racionalidade e sensatez de quem está acostumado, há vários anos, a dizer “muito prazer” e “adeus” a cada dia que passa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sabendo que os momentos sao únicos e passageiros e que os relacionamentos têm seus dias contados, procuro viver com intensidade essas “vidas breves” antes de deixá-las arquivadas na lembrança. Dizer isso é um tremendo senso-comum, mas, convenhamos, nao é fácil colocar em prática.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quem nao sonha com satisfação constante, com namoro pra sempre, amor eterno, amizade pro resto da vida, vida após a morte, juventude e saúde pra vida toda..? Vai me dizer que nunca se iludiu com a frase “Vamos manter contato!”? Eu já. Muitas e muitas vezes. Hoje, é dificil, a menos que seja algo por que eu esteja realmente disposto a lutar. E o fato de nao ter mais tantas ilusões choca, quando não machuca muita gente. É ou nao é?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afinal de contas, é sempre bom se sentir especial, o primeiro ou a primeira, ou o único ou a única. Muitas vezes, entretanto, você tem uma escolha: se frustra ou lida com a realidade e, apesar de nao ser o mais, o menos, o único, o primeiro ou o último, nem pra sempre... e aproveita o que tem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como minha mãe costuma dizer e eu falo pros outros, “O ‘não’ você já tem”. Por que, porém, na prática, é tão complicado buscar o “sim”? E que diabos isto tem a ver com saudades, amizades ou momentos da vida? Oras, a saudade faz parte de tudo isso! Ela é sadia, é importante e é mais: é essencial. Mas é melhor tê-la como uma companheira do que como uma ameaça.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pra você que partiu ou pra você que ficou, pra você que perdeu, pra você que acaba de viver um sonho e voltou pra casa, pra voce que ficou de repente sozinho, pra você que há muito tempo nao vê alguém especial, pra você que sabe que nunca mais voltará a ver alguém especial, pra você que muitos dias se sente sozinho... SINTA SAUDADES! Lembre-se de cada instante, sorria com as boas lembranças, relembre os maus momentos e aprenda com eles... chore... e sinta os calafrios que a falta de alguém ou de um momento proporciona quando você respira fundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu sinto isso. Várias vezes, ainda que raramente seja na frente de alguém. Muitas vezes, estou no meu quarto, na escuridão, nos meus momentos de maior intimidade comigo mesmo. Aqueles típicos momentos em que você se sente o ser mais solitário do mundo com a impressão de que ninguém no mundo o conhece de verdade...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O mais importante, contudo, é manter o coração sempre quente, cheio de ternura e com uma pitada de ingenuidade teimosa, por mais que a experiência tente persuadi-lo a endurecer e apagar lembranças. É bom lembrar que é do passado que se faz o futuro, mas não se esqueça de que só dá pra viver mesmo o presente!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E respire fundo..!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5034620098324322051?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5034620098324322051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5034620098324322051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5034620098324322051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5034620098324322051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/08/saudades.html' title='Saudades'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6580957421517321067</id><published>2007-08-14T20:12:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:09:00.995-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Rafting with the staff</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RsI3Flw5u-I/AAAAAAAAAG0/wECeimZ0BD8/s1600-h/staff+men+08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098698297312918498" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RsI3Flw5u-I/AAAAAAAAAG0/wECeimZ0BD8/s400/staff+men+08.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6580957421517321067?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6580957421517321067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6580957421517321067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6580957421517321067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6580957421517321067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/08/rafting-with-staff.html' title='Rafting with the staff'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RsI3Flw5u-I/AAAAAAAAAG0/wECeimZ0BD8/s72-c/staff+men+08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1962340962199250650</id><published>2007-07-26T16:23:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:37:58.952-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Fireworks in Vancouver</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rqj4g1w5u7I/AAAAAAAAAGc/E4Iq9hIgPKA/s1600-h/Fireworks+in+Vancouver.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091592621814037426" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rqj4g1w5u7I/AAAAAAAAAGc/E4Iq9hIgPKA/s400/Fireworks+in+Vancouver.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;The Celebration of Light&lt;/span&gt; is an annual festival promoted by HSBC in Vancouver. According to the &lt;a href="http://www.celebration-of-light.com/Event-Information/"&gt;event's homepage&lt;/a&gt;, the world's leading fireworks manufacturers consider the competition to be the most prestigious events of its kind in the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's not only about fireworks. It's also about arts, people gathering celebrating peace, it's about music and feelings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you have already WATCHED fireworks, you should LISTEN to fireworks. That's what we can do these days in Vancouver, when Spain, Canada and China compete with presentations that include a soundtrack. Yes, the fireworks follow songs in synchrony. Can you imagine that?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last night, over 300,000 people were sitting or standing on the best spots they could find at the English Bay, Kitsilano Beach or anywhere else in the nearby to watch the 25-minute show of Spain. On Saturday it goes on with Canada's presentation. Next Wednesday, China, and on August 4th is going to be the grande finale. I won't miss it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:Sherwin_Andal@hsbc.ca" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/email-out/sherwin_andal');" onmouseover="this.href='mai' + 'lto:' + 'Sherwin_Andal' + '@' + 'hsbc.ca'" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherwin Andal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1962340962199250650?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1962340962199250650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1962340962199250650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1962340962199250650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1962340962199250650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/07/fireworks-in-vancouver.html' title='Fireworks in Vancouver'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rqj4g1w5u7I/AAAAAAAAAGc/E4Iq9hIgPKA/s72-c/Fireworks+in+Vancouver.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7339647333475777286</id><published>2007-07-23T02:31:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:02:23.586-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Refugiados iraquianos</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Desde 2003 até fevereiro deste ano&lt;/span&gt;, os EUA tinham aceitado apenas 466 dos mais de 2 milhões de refugiados iraquianos. A Suécia, que parece não ter nada a ver com a sacanagem toda lá no Oriente Médio, abriu as portas pra 70 mil dos refugiados. A Jordânia aceitou 750 mil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os dados são da revista Adbusters. Pra saber mais, &lt;a href="http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/72/You_do_not_abandon_your_own.html"&gt;clique aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7339647333475777286?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7339647333475777286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7339647333475777286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7339647333475777286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7339647333475777286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/07/refugiados-iraquianos.html' title='Refugiados iraquianos'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-784716757352154247</id><published>2007-07-04T01:40:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:02:48.493-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Você é patriota?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rosue9BfOTI/AAAAAAAAAFw/O9Ss_WoUQ7g/s1600-h/brazil-us.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083207713729493298" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rosue9BfOTI/AAAAAAAAAFw/O9Ss_WoUQ7g/s200/brazil-us.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Michael Moore e seu recente documentário&lt;/span&gt;, SickO, trouxeram mais uma vez à tona o debate sobre patriotismo. Enquanto grande parte dos seus compatriotas consideram-no um traidor, Michael afirma demonstrar, com o seu trabalho, seu imenso patriotismo da melhor maneira possível: lutando pra manter os princípios da liberdade civil e de respeito pelas diferenças em seu país, os Estados Unidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto um monte de gente gosta de acreditar que ser patriota é defender e justificar compulsivamente todos os defeitos de um lugar ou de um povo, Moore é uma das raras pessoas que demonstra o amor à sua terra de maneira mais sensata e, sem dúvida, mais difícil: enxergando as injustiças e tendo a coragem de sair da zona de conforto e fazer alguma diferença na sociedade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E ele faz. Gordinho, feioso que dá dó, com aquela cara de bobo, o diretor de SickO, Fahrenheit, Tiros em Columbine e outros filmes, peita gente grande pra acabar com aquelas tantas coisinhas que os outros geralmente vêem mas "deixam pra lá".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fico me perguntando: A quem no Brasil eu poderia comparar o Michael Moore? Infelizmente, imagino 9 em cada 10 documentários do mesmo tipo dos de Moore feitos no Brasil culminando na morte do diretor ou repórter. Tim Lopes, tantos advogados, promotores, juízes, policiais e até professores que o digam! Nos Estados Unidos, por mais que eu e a maioria do mundo inteiro adoremos falar mal, Moore pode botar a boca no trombone e continuar vivinho da silva, andando sem seguranças nas ruas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pronto! Já comecei dando a desculpa de que, no Brasil, não dá! Mas não é só por medo que nós, brasileiros, deixamos de fazer "o que é certo". Muitas vezes, é por mera preguiça ou egoísmo, mesmo. Que diferença faz mostrar como uma fábrica maltrata seus empregados? Ou denunciar outra que sonega impostos? Pra quê mexer com gente grande, incluindo polícia, presidente (sem apoio da Globo e Veja!), embaixadores e bilionários enquanto o país continua dominando o mundo inteiro, mesmo? Acompanhe o trabalho do diretor e diga você mesmo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No documentário dos links a seguir, Michael Moore faz aquilo que eu adoro: a vingança justa! Muitas vezes, principalmente quando lidamos com pessoas pouco empáticas, a vingança é a melhor forma de fazê-las se colocar no lugar dos outros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em poucas palavras, eis o que se passa no breve documentário: o gerente de uma rede de hotéis em Michigan marca uma reunião com imigrantes ilegais mexicanos pra uma suposta entrevista de trabalho. Na verdade, ele arma uma emboscada, chamando os agentes da polícia de imigração, os quais prendem os mexicanos e os encaminham à deportação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesse ínterim, Moore intervém. Pra ele, não parece certo ver trabalhadores imigrantes, assim como todos os cidadãos estadunidenses já foram um dia, serem mandados de volta ao México dessa forma, atraídos a uma emboscada de mau gosto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gente... O que esse Michael faz é demais! Será que ele consegue mudar alguma coisa? O que você acha que acontece com o hotel? Com os mexicanos prestes a ser deportados? Confira! O documentário está no YouTube em duas partes. Aqui vão os respectivos links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6vHD9Rywc&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;Deportation 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zz8BTBXOY&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;Deportation 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-784716757352154247?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/784716757352154247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=784716757352154247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/784716757352154247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/784716757352154247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/07/voc-patriota.html' title='Você é patriota?'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rosue9BfOTI/AAAAAAAAAFw/O9Ss_WoUQ7g/s72-c/brazil-us.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7884133177451381139</id><published>2007-06-24T03:59:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:03:03.498-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>TV Nation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rn4gNMahBwI/AAAAAAAAAFk/D6b6XeXCOKU/s1600-h/michael_moore.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079532840763328258" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rn4gNMahBwI/AAAAAAAAAFk/D6b6XeXCOKU/s200/michael_moore.jpg" border="0" height="129" width="178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Em 1994, Michael Moore foi diretor&lt;/span&gt; e apresentador de um programa de TV chamado 'TV Nation', que deixou muitos estadunidenses, canadenses e britânicos só nas saudades depois de apenas 17 episódios semanais no ar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A originalidade, o humor, a ousadia e as reportagens características de Moore escancaravam fatos que pouca gente sabia ou que não queria mesmo saber. Nos vídeos a seguir, dá pra se ter uma noção de como era o programa:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9v4k4VX2s"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Man Trying to Get A Cab&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Um ator negro e um assassino branco estão à espera de um taxi em Nova Iorque. Quem será que é o único pra quem os taxistas param?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1H9PK9wNtdI&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ku Klux Klan Image Makeover&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sabe aquele grupo de brancos estadunidenses que aterrorizavam negros décadas atrás todos vestidos de branco com buracos nos olhos? Nada melhor do que o sarcasmo do repórter do TV Nation pra cobrir uma matéria sobre esses caras.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Awful Truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt; 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Moore usa e abusa de sarcasmo pra mostrar como policiais lidam com "suspeitos" negros. Fantástico!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=HtXQNhoxACY&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Awful Truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt; 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mais uma matéria sarcástica mostrando o lado sujo de uma grande empresa estadunidense. Coisa que Michael adora fazer e, por sinal, faz muito bem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7884133177451381139?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7884133177451381139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7884133177451381139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7884133177451381139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7884133177451381139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/tv-nation.html' title='TV Nation'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rn4gNMahBwI/AAAAAAAAAFk/D6b6XeXCOKU/s72-c/michael_moore.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1662699270215859660</id><published>2007-06-22T20:53:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:15:14.795-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Every story has two sides</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RnxiVMahBtI/AAAAAAAAAFM/m1udDhG2tZQ/s1600-h/Israel-Center.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="155" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079042596016293586" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RnxiVMahBtI/AAAAAAAAAFM/m1udDhG2tZQ/s200/Israel-Center.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="113" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;What do you know&lt;/span&gt; about the the creation of the State of Israel and the Palestinian conflicts? &lt;a href="http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can hear the Israeli version of the story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1662699270215859660?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1662699270215859660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1662699270215859660' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1662699270215859660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1662699270215859660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/every-story-has-two-sides.html' title='Every story has two sides'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RnxiVMahBtI/AAAAAAAAAFM/m1udDhG2tZQ/s72-c/Israel-Center.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2446878322713424169</id><published>2007-06-19T01:09:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:09:10.005-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>It's just a building...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndZUMahBpI/AAAAAAAAAEs/aoH5ZpAIdLw/s1600-h/Vancouver+East.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077625308348221074" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndZUMahBpI/AAAAAAAAAEs/aoH5ZpAIdLw/s400/Vancouver+East.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;... From &lt;/span&gt;a narrow alley among Pender St and Hastings St., near home, in Vancouver.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2446878322713424169?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2446878322713424169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2446878322713424169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2446878322713424169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2446878322713424169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-just-building.html' title='It&apos;s just a building...'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndZUMahBpI/AAAAAAAAAEs/aoH5ZpAIdLw/s72-c/Vancouver+East.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2268193826330069245</id><published>2007-06-19T00:51:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:11:33.493-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>BANZAI!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndWScahBnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/QQ0hxSmg6qA/s1600-h/Kasu,+I,+Shoishi+and+Rie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077621979748566642" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndWScahBnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/QQ0hxSmg6qA/s400/Kasu,+I,+Shoishi+and+Rie.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the left to the right: Kazu, I, Shoichi and Rie. The three fellows are from Japan. Only Shoichi lives with me. No, he's not the one who steals my stuff from the fridge. He's a nice guy!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2268193826330069245?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2268193826330069245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2268193826330069245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2268193826330069245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2268193826330069245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/banzai.html' title='BANZAI!'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RndWScahBnI/AAAAAAAAAEc/QQ0hxSmg6qA/s72-c/Kasu,+I,+Shoishi+and+Rie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6030454932810014696</id><published>2007-06-17T01:15:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:05:45.793-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Funny commercials</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvTU0rlhBVw&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Check&lt;/span&gt; this oooout&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6030454932810014696?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6030454932810014696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6030454932810014696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6030454932810014696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6030454932810014696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/funny-commercials.html' title='Funny commercials'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8489630876332411807</id><published>2007-06-10T01:13:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:05:56.486-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>A violência de Caio Ferraz</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Caio Ferraz é um sociólogo&lt;/span&gt; de 38 anos que cresceu na favela de Vigário Geral, RJ, e viu de perto a famosa chacina de Vigário Geral, em 1993. Depois de fundar a Casa da Paz de Vigário Geral e receber alguns prêmios de direitos humanos, se exilou nos Estados Unidos, em dezembro de 1995.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há dois dias, ele teve um curto texto ('Elite Esterilizada') publicado no &lt;a href="http://diarioandrefernandes.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog do André Fernandes&lt;/a&gt;, da Agência de Notícias das Favelas (ANF). Eis um trecho do texto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:180%;" &gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Os seqüestros assustam os ricos porque eles estão sentindo na pele a merda que fizeram ao tornar o Brasil um país industrializado, mas que em contrapartida, também o transformou no país campeão em concentracão de renda, fome, analfabetismo, miséria e num dos mais corruptos do planeta. É com a mistura de todos esses ingredientes que temos o fermento necessário para a explosão da violência.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Somos uma nação imersa numa infertilidade histórica que dura mais de 500 anos. Nossa formação remonta um verdadeiro aborto social. Iniciamos nossa cópula com a compra de milhões de escravos que serviram como mão-de-obra forçada até 1888; do estupro e massacre dos cerca de 5 milhões de índios que aqui viviam por volta de 1500 e da mistura de portugueses degredados. Enquanto essa orgia deu os frutos necessários para a manutenção da pompa e do desperdício de uma elite que vive ainda hoje na farra com o dinheiro do povo, os menos privilegiados foram e continuam sendo considerados os únicos culpados por todas as desgraças sociais existentes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Dizem que o problema da violência é a pobreza. Concordo: pobreza de espírito aliada a falta de solidariedade, humanidade, fraternidade e acima de tudo de sentido de nacionalidade, mas não por parte dos pobres e sim por parte dessa elite acéfala e autoritária.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:180%;" &gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pra saber mais sobre Caio Ferraz, clique &lt;a href="http://www.sinttelrio.org.br/03entrev.htm"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; (entrevista).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8489630876332411807?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8489630876332411807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8489630876332411807' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8489630876332411807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8489630876332411807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/violncia-de-caio-ferraz.html' title='A violência de Caio Ferraz'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6258273148688981483</id><published>2007-06-09T20:47:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:11:44.910-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Stanley Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rms8UMahBhI/AAAAAAAAADs/bGQRbKHtANc/s1600-h/Stanley+Park.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074215722790487570" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rms8UMahBhI/AAAAAAAAADs/bGQRbKHtANc/s400/Stanley+Park.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Vancouver, 08/June/2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6258273148688981483?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6258273148688981483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6258273148688981483' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6258273148688981483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6258273148688981483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/stanley-park.html' title='Stanley Park'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rms8UMahBhI/AAAAAAAAADs/bGQRbKHtANc/s72-c/Stanley+Park.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2439094685021411030</id><published>2007-06-02T18:38:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:11:52.237-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>That's us!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHk5foT8AI/AAAAAAAAADU/dhc2bDJufBo/s1600-h/guys+at+Jericho+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071586331790143490" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHk5foT8AI/AAAAAAAAADU/dhc2bDJufBo/s400/guys+at+Jericho+01.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;This could be a volleyball team if&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Silvana (left), from São Paulo (BRA), had decided to join us&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Bjoern (on my right side), aus Deutschland, didn't stop each 2 minutes to drink beer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Tim (in front) was sober&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But still, this is indeed a nice group of friends having fun yesterday at Jericho Beach after a week of work and hard study (with lots of yellow cards!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just in time: Let's congratulate the great TIM for his 33rd birthday. Today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2439094685021411030?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2439094685021411030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2439094685021411030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2439094685021411030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2439094685021411030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/thats-us.html' title='That&apos;s us!'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHk5foT8AI/AAAAAAAAADU/dhc2bDJufBo/s72-c/guys+at+Jericho+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4391127089531300378</id><published>2007-06-02T18:00:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:12:05.713-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Jericho Beach</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHfpvoT7_I/AAAAAAAAADM/ctSqjKpp018/s1600-h/Jericho+Beach+02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071580563649064946" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHfpvoT7_I/AAAAAAAAADM/ctSqjKpp018/s200/Jericho+Beach+02.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Ontem a Jussara&lt;/span&gt; (Ilac) chamou uma turma da escola e alguns amigos dela pra nos reunirmos em Jericho Beach, uma praia próxima do centro de Vancouver. Como dá pra ver nas fotos, o lugar é bem agradável, com gramado, árvores em que crianças adoram trepar e ótimas pra se encostar e ler um livro, além da areia, é claro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Na areia, aliás, existem alguns troncos espalhados. Ótimos pra se encostar e evitar aquela inconveniência de grãos voando, &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHe5PoT79I/AAAAAAAAAC8/67uObDNu5Tg/s1600-h/Jericho+Beach+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071579730425409490" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHe5PoT79I/AAAAAAAAAC8/67uObDNu5Tg/s200/Jericho+Beach+01.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;além de&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;garantir uma certa privacidade quando você chega e coloca suas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;coisas ali. É como se cada tronco fosse pra um grupo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Brasileiros, canadenses e alemães reunidos, conversa vem, conversa vai, voleibol e futebol pra rir bastante, salgadinhos e bebida pros mais alegres... e o sol gostoso, lá longe, que só se põe depois das 21h. Devagar, vou descobrindo por que dizem que Vancouver é tão legal assim.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4391127089531300378?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4391127089531300378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4391127089531300378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4391127089531300378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4391127089531300378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/06/jericho-beach.html' title='Jericho Beach'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RmHfpvoT7_I/AAAAAAAAADM/ctSqjKpp018/s72-c/Jericho+Beach+02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3087050812042924034</id><published>2007-05-22T19:39:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:12:19.596-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Ilac</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNytvoT75I/AAAAAAAAACc/gQ0AN2Drzu4/s1600-h/DSC04655.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067520135927164818" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNytvoT75I/AAAAAAAAACc/gQ0AN2Drzu4/s400/DSC04655.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;Todas as segundas-feiras chegam novos alunos&lt;/span&gt; na Ilac, onde trabalho. Vindos de várias partes do mundo, eles contribuem pra formação de uma atmosfera amigável e, no mínimo, interessante, na escola de inglês.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoje, chegaram quase 130 estudantes. Pelo que me lembro, havia brasileiros, mexicanos, colombianos, coreanos, chineses, húngaros, uma russa, israelenses, um alemão, sauditas, provavelmente algum venezuelano também... e por aí vai. Aí na foto estou com o grupo na hora do almoço. Eita, trabalho bom, né?!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3087050812042924034?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3087050812042924034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3087050812042924034' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3087050812042924034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3087050812042924034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/05/ilac.html' title='Ilac'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNytvoT75I/AAAAAAAAACc/gQ0AN2Drzu4/s72-c/DSC04655.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3859542420462853932</id><published>2007-05-22T19:33:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:12:51.459-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Toronto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNw8foT74I/AAAAAAAAACU/VLYMvpl9Agg/s1600-h/DSC04662.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067518190306979714" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNw8foT74I/AAAAAAAAACU/VLYMvpl9Agg/s320/DSC04662.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;This is the downtown seen from the CN Tower, the highest building &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNwYvoT73I/AAAAAAAAACM/A_74ReeRL6I/s1600-h/DSC04662.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3859542420462853932?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3859542420462853932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3859542420462853932' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3859542420462853932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3859542420462853932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/05/toronto.html' title='Toronto'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RlNw8foT74I/AAAAAAAAACU/VLYMvpl9Agg/s72-c/DSC04662.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7727568963426562371</id><published>2007-05-13T23:11:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:06:50.475-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Eles disseram 'Basta' ao consumismo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Há pouco mais de três anos&lt;/span&gt;, um grupo de amigos de estadunidenses decidiu não nadar com a maré de consumismo e desperdício da atualidade. O grupo se chama Compact e tem ganhado cada vez mais adeptos de todo o mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junto com os novos simpatizantes vieram também as mais variadas críticas. Pra saber mais sobre o Compact, clique &lt;a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/16/MNG2KH9P4767.DTL"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; ou &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/the_compact_bay.php"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7727568963426562371?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7727568963426562371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7727568963426562371' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7727568963426562371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7727568963426562371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/05/eles-disseram-basta-ao-consumismo.html' title='Eles disseram &apos;Basta&apos; ao consumismo'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4393033608441066708</id><published>2007-05-05T22:35:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:12:59.234-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Niagara Falls</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rj0xLfp6hRI/AAAAAAAAAB0/UHVNFBAojQs/s1600-h/toronto+05.mai.07+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061255629779928338" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rj0xLfp6hRI/AAAAAAAAAB0/UHVNFBAojQs/s320/toronto+05.mai.07+025.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; Niagara Falls, Canada, 05.May.2007.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4393033608441066708?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4393033608441066708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4393033608441066708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4393033608441066708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4393033608441066708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/05/niagara-falls.html' title='Niagara Falls'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/Rj0xLfp6hRI/AAAAAAAAAB0/UHVNFBAojQs/s72-c/toronto+05.mai.07+025.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7879469836116839162</id><published>2007-05-02T17:55:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:13:13.189-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Opinion'/><title type='text'>Canada</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;I arrived yesterday in Toronto&lt;/span&gt;, after almost 2 days travelling by bus from Maringa to Sao Paulo, spending the whole day in Guarulhos, flying to New York and then finally from NY to Toronto. Even with the Italian passport in hands, the immigration officers from NY and Toronto took me to that unpleasant room where they decide whether they'll send you back to your country or not. Both times, they decided I could follow my way. So here I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canadian people seem to be very pacific, Toronto is a great big city with amazing huge buildings and Joao, the guy from Curitiba I live with, is a good fellow too. The apartment where I'm staying is located in a nice area just in front of the lake, on the 25th floor. So you can imagine the view I have from up there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ilac is a big school full of students who are mostly teenagers from Asia and Latin America. In three weeks I might be sent to Vancouver to serve the school there. No, it's not been too cold since I arrived and yes, it's been difficult to start everything again from zero...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There're a lot of things I want to know about this place and time is short. So I'll stop here today and it may take a while until I start to write here more often again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7879469836116839162?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7879469836116839162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7879469836116839162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7879469836116839162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7879469836116839162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/05/canada.html' title='Canada'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-3213832333502988277</id><published>2007-04-17T19:18:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:07:55.676-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>Adicionando, excluindo e bloqueando 'contatos'</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Quando ter é mais importante que ser&lt;/span&gt; e a produção em massa nos dá infinitas possibilidades de consumo cada vez mais baratas e rápidas, ficarmos com mais fome de ganhar, comprar, acumular e consumir. Depois, porém, é preciso pensar na digestão de tudo que consumimos e é por isso que vemos tantos de nós obesos ou bulímicos... não só fisicamente, mas também em outros sentidos, inclusive nos relacionamentos interpessoais. Portanto, engordando com 'contatos' demais e vomitando intolerância e impaciência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pra me explicar melhor, eis uma analogia entre como nos relacionamos com as pessoas e as pizzas num rodízio. Quando nos sentamos à mesa famintos, ansiosos e alegres, somos aos poucos bombardeados por pedaços de pizza de sabores diferentes. Ainda que tenhamos uma preferência, provarmos um pouco de cada sabor, tanto por curiosidade quanto pra evitar a agonia que sentiríamos se pensássemos que não aproveitamos o rodízio. Ao ficarmos satisfeitos, começamos a recusar as ofertas dos garçons e, às vezes, sentimos até repulsa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com as pessoas, esse mesmo comportamento também parece ser comum. Na internet, 'adicionamos' compulsivamente desconhecidos e coleguinhas e, em pouquíssimo tempo, procuramos consumir o máximo deles. Um amigo não é suficiente; um 'rolo' não basta. Pra preenchermos as tantas lacunas que se alastram num círculo vicioso, acabamos buscando o máximo em número e variedade, desprezando a qualidade ou a profundidade do conhecimento uns dos outros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basta observar como tratamos colegas de trabalho ou de sala, clientes, fornecedores, amigos, namorados etc. pra admitir que, no dia-a-dia, cada vez mais estamos usando os ícones 'bloquear' e 'excluir' nos nossos relacionamentos. Não gostei do que aquele carinha falou. Excluído! Não fui com a cara da amiga da minha amiga. Bloqueada! Achei aquele cliente arrogante. Excluído! Que professora mal-humorada... Bloqueada! Nada de segunda chance; a fila anda...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entretanto, como o ditado que diz "Mais vale um peito na mão do que dois no sutiã", mais vale também uma pessoa com seus defeitos e o tempo que se requer pra conhecê-la e deixar-se conhecer do que 100 contatos no msn ou 500 'amigos' ou 'fãs' e outras dezenas de comunidades no orkut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basta imaginar como as celebridades se sentem no mundo bizz e entre seus fãs pra se dar conta de que solidão não é privilégio de gente chata ou malquista. Com amizades efêmeras e descartáveis, porém, é muito mais difícil espantar a solidão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sozinhos nos sentimos todos. Mas é bom lembrar do outro ditado que diz: "Antes só que mal-acompanhado". E eu diria ainda: antes só do que no meio de um porre de gente com o indicador ali no mouse, esperando qualquer deslize seu pra bloquear ou excluir você.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-3213832333502988277?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/3213832333502988277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=3213832333502988277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3213832333502988277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/3213832333502988277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/04/adicionando-excluindo-e-bloqueando.html' title='Adicionando, excluindo e bloqueando &apos;contatos&apos;'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5321593576958170105</id><published>2007-04-16T18:34:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:08:03.383-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Além do horizonte</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Em duas semanas vou deixar o Brasil&lt;/span&gt; com destino a Toronto, no Canadá. Neste momento, existe uma canção que chega bem perto do que sinto. Composta por Roberto Carlos E Erasmo Carlos, a canção ficou bonita gravada pela banda Jota Quest. Eis um trecho dela:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Além do Horizonte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Além do horizonte existe um lugar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bonito e tranqüilo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pra gente se amar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Além do horizonte deve ter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Algum lugar bonito pra viver em paz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Onde eu possa encontrar a natureza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Alegria e felicidade com certeza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Lá nesse lugar o amanhecer é lindo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Com flores festejando mais um dia que vem vindo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Onde a gente pode se deitar no campo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Se amar na relva escutando o canto dos pássaros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Aproveitar a tarde sem pensar na vida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Andar despreocupado sem saber a hora de voltar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bronzear o corpo todo sem censura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Gozar a liberdade de uma vida sem frescura&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Se você não vem comigo nada disso tem valor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;De que vale o paraíso sem o amor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Se você não vem comigo tudo isso vai ficar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;No horizonte esperando por nós dois&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5321593576958170105?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5321593576958170105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5321593576958170105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5321593576958170105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5321593576958170105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/04/alm-do-horizonte.html' title='Além do horizonte'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-7516697203768017467</id><published>2007-04-14T10:33:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:08:09.934-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Conflitos na Palestina</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;O jornalista, filósofo, empresário e explorador gaúcho Airton Ortiz &lt;/span&gt;explicou anteontem, no Programa do Jô, que representantes da espécie Homo sapiens encontraram os 'homens' da espécie Neandertal (Homo neanderthalensis) vários milhares de anos atrás. Segundo Ortiz, o encontro se deu provavelmente nos atuais territórios da Palestina e Israel e, como não podíamos deixar de supor, deu em briga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resultado: Os 'sapiens' exterminaram os 'neandertais'. Filme antigo..!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pra saber mais sobre o brilhante Airton Ortiz, suas viagens a 80 países e seus oito livros publicados, &lt;a href="http://www.airtonortiz.com.br/airtonortiz/"&gt;clique aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-7516697203768017467?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/7516697203768017467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=7516697203768017467' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7516697203768017467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/7516697203768017467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/04/conflitos-na-palestina.html' title='Conflitos na Palestina'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-4351994305779480405</id><published>2007-04-11T14:09:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T12:13:23.774-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tips'/><title type='text'>Yellow Journalism - African Style</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;This is how an anonymous African enterpreneur&lt;/span&gt; names a text in her own blog. There, she describes briefly some embarrassing situations perpetuated by the African press. She tells she has been a victim of newspapers that charge both to publish good things and not to publish bad things about enterpreneurs like herself - in both cases, much information is untrue, says the author. It's hard to know who is telling the truth here, but it's worth reading it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To know the details about this African executive and the yellow journalism in Africa, &lt;a href="http://africanentrepreneur.blogspot.com/"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-4351994305779480405?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/4351994305779480405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=4351994305779480405' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4351994305779480405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/4351994305779480405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/04/yellow-journalism-african-style.html' title='Yellow Journalism - African Style'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1613305037839615825</id><published>2007-03-28T12:28:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:09:10.759-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Underline e tracinho</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Há vários anos venho ouvind&lt;/span&gt;o tudo que é gente chamar travessão de "underline", o que, em inglês britânico, é "underscore". Não sei se é mais bonito underline que travessão, mas é no mínimo interessante perceber que, quando você diz "travessão", ninguém sabe o que é.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje, me deparei com algo mais interessante ainda. Numa gravação do consulado canadense, a funcionária passa alguns endereços da internet dizendo assim: "Blablabla, tracinho, blablabla ponto com." Depois, de novo: "Blablabla, tracinho, blabla, barra, blabla, tracinho ponto com."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É o fim! Hífem virou tracinho!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1613305037839615825?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1613305037839615825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1613305037839615825' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1613305037839615825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1613305037839615825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/03/underline-e-tracinho.html' title='Underline e tracinho'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-5225155715490020088</id><published>2007-03-18T13:07:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:09:23.407-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Vírus e mentiras da net</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Há quem preveja o fim dos e-mails&lt;/span&gt; devido ao crescente número de spams e vírus que chatos e malandros nos mandam do mundo inteiro. De fato, de cada 10 e-mails que recebo, pelo menos seis ou sete são de desconhecidos com suas propagandas hiperdisseminadas, hiperinconvenientes e pouquíssimo eficazes. E, dos demais, ainda uns 50% são de gente que adora ver e repassar mensagens prontas, geralmente com idéias clichês ou mentiras que, na net, fazem o maior sucesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me lembro de uma dessas grotescas mentiras: aquela que "contava" como alguns livros usados em escolas estadunidenses ensinavam que a Amazônia não era mais um território brasileiro, mas sim internacional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esses dias mesmo minha mãe veio me mostrar um outro e-mail "sério" que não passava de outra mentira besta, por mais mirabolante que fosse a cabeça do seu criador. A história contada pelo sujeito era a seguinte: quando você tiver que retirar dinheiro pra bandidos num caixa eletrônico, você pode digitar sua senha no sentido contrário. Ao fazer isso, o dinheiro poderá ser sacado, mas a polícia será imediatamente alertada de que você está sendo assaltado naquele caixa eletrônico. Ah, tá bom... O próximo passo, que não estava escrito no tal e-mail, é que o Super-Homem chegará em 30 segundos pra prender o assaltante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O pior de tudo é que o povo acredita nessas coisas! E, por saber que o povo acredita, mesmo, é que ficou mais fácil espalhar vírus e roubar dados dos outros. Provavelmente, você já recebeu algum e-mail de uma gatinha que estudou com você há muito tempo e tem fotos de vocês juntos ou de uma festinha que ela fez recentemente... Basta você clicar e... provar que é trouxa!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas ontem eu recebi um que é o fim da picada! O remetente era &lt;a href="mailto:policia.federal@dpf.org.br"&gt;policia.federal@dpf.org.br&lt;/a&gt; e tinha como título "Esclarecimentos Urgente". Repare que os desocupados e sacaninhas da net têm essa característica comum de não saberem escrever direito. Só por aí você já consegue barrá-los... A mensagem era a seguinte:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senhor/Senhora,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seu endereço de IP foi logado em um site ilegal.Precisamos que o fato venha a ser esclarecido o mais rápido possível, caso não seja esclarecido em até 48 horas, será aberto inquerito judícial. Esperamos contato o mais rápido possivel para devidos esclarecimentos .Para entrar em contato com o Departamento da Polícia Federal e esclarecer o fato Clique aqui.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Novamente, note o detalhe do texto mal-escrito. Se isso ainda não estiver evidente, basta um pouco de bom-senso pra duvidar da veracidade do e-mail. Já pensou na POLÍCIA chamando alguém pra depor por e-mail?!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-5225155715490020088?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/5225155715490020088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=5225155715490020088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5225155715490020088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/5225155715490020088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/03/vrus-e-mentiras-da-net.html' title='Vírus e mentiras da net'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-2891438183858957115</id><published>2007-03-14T12:02:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:09:29.293-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Anúncios no elevador</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RfgRSXgyvBI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FXjuWQiPd_o/s1600-h/an%C3%83%C2%BAncios.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041798790088145938" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RfgRSXgyvBI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FXjuWQiPd_o/s200/an%C3%BAncios.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Mais uma daquelas situações&lt;/span&gt; típicas de desrespeito justificadas com "Ah, mas o que que tem" ou "Ah, mas tá te encomodando?": entro no elevador e, não pela primeira nem segunda vez, vejo um cartaz de alguma campanha da Igreja Católica e um bilhete convidando os moradores do prédio a participarem de um encontro em tal prédio da redondeza em tal dia e tal horário.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Puxa, no elevador e, o que é ainda pior, bem no meio do espelho! Mas é coisa de igreja, pra uma boa causa, então é melhor deixar assim mesmo, né? Nãnaninanão! Como quem faz isso é desprovido de bom-senso e eu acho que reclamar ao porteiro ou ao síndico só geraria atritos em vez de solucionar o problema, optei por uma atitude mais eficaz e, por que não dizer, educadora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Entrei em casa e recortei dos Classificados do O Diário cinco anúncios de esoterismo, mãe que lê mão, que joga tarô e que faz e desfaz serviços... coisas desse tipo. Colei os cinco anúncios bonitinhos no meio de uma folha sulfite e escrevi, logo abaixo, assim:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Este espaço é p/ todos anúncios ou só p/ católicos?"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Em pouco mais de uma hora, não havia mais nada no espelho.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-2891438183858957115?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/2891438183858957115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=2891438183858957115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2891438183858957115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/2891438183858957115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/03/anncios-no-elevador.html' title='Anúncios no elevador'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RfgRSXgyvBI/AAAAAAAAAA0/FXjuWQiPd_o/s72-c/an%C3%BAncios.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8827253033251217146</id><published>2007-02-26T17:30:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:09:36.757-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Os índios</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Na IstoÉ de 31.01,&lt;/span&gt; Hugo Marques escreveu uma reportagem intitulada 'Todo poder aos índios' em que destacavam-se alguns números, como estes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Os índios são&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;menos de 1% da população&lt;/span&gt; brasileira (450 mil) e são &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;donos de 12,9% do território&lt;/span&gt; nacional;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Até o fim do 2º mandato de Lula, estima-se que os povos indígenas &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;serão&lt;/span&gt; donos de 13,5% das terras (existem 123 pedidos de novas reservas);&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;strong&gt;- O fato de os índios terem todo esse território pode &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;impedir a execução de 200 projetos de desenvolvimento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;no Brasil.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com certeza, muitos leitores se deparam com os números e se surpreendem com a aparente discrepância. Eu, contudo, me perguntei de imediato: "Só 1% com 12,9% da terra?" Oras bolas, eles não eram 100% e não eram donos de 100% de tudo isto aqui?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A segunda pergunta que eu gostaria que os outros compatriotas fizessem é esta: "E o resto das terras? Quer saber o que o Atlas Fundiário do Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (Incra) diz? Veja isto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;Cerca de 3% do total das propriedades rurais do país são latifúndios, ou seja, têm mais de mil hectares e ocupam 56,7% das terras agriculturáveis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entendeu? Fabiana Vezzali, em texto publicado no site da ONG Repórter Brasil em 11.7.06, diz: "Em outras palavras, a área ocupada pelos estados de São Paulo e Paraná juntos está nas mãos dos 300 maiores proprietários rurais".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não se espante se os índios que nossos ancestrais assassinaram sem dó nem remorso continuam mantendo uma pequena parte do que era deles. Guarde seu espanto pra isto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma área de 4,5 milhões de hectares, localizada na Terra do Meio, coração do Pará, que o grupo CR Almeida, do empresário Cecilio do Rego Almeida, reivindica para si, é, segundo o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), o maior latifúndio do mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Está vendo só? Além das bundas mais lisinhas e redondinhas, do maior número de jogadores de futebol e das melhores novelas, temos também o maior latifúndio do mundo! Agora os índios... Ah, esse bando de folgados preguiçosos..!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8827253033251217146?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8827253033251217146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8827253033251217146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8827253033251217146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8827253033251217146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/02/os-ndios.html' title='Os índios'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-8163353186952092083</id><published>2007-02-24T13:48:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:10:39.424-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><title type='text'>Irã, Iraque, Afeganistão e Estados Unidos</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Recentemente, tive a oportunidade &lt;/span&gt;de descobrir um pouco mais sobre as relações entre esses quatro países citados no título mediante os relatos do jornalista argentino Gustavo Sierra, autor de 'Kabul, Bagdad, Teherán - Relatos desde los campos de batalla', e desejo agora compartilhar um pouco disso com você, leitor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O assunto é muito complexo pra que, num pequeno texto, tudo fique esclarecido. Por isso, me desculpe se alguma informação parecer obscura ou incompleta. Além disso, não espero que consigamos mudar alguma coisa nesse enorme jogo sujo, mas podemos pelo menos saber como ele é jogado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Armas químicas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que o Iraque não as produzia, todo mundo já sabe. Impedindo que as inspeções das Nações Unidas fossem concluídas e apresentando uma mentira fundamentada com fotos de algo que parecia mas não era, George W. Bush disse, em 29 de maio de 2003, que haviam sido encontradas as tais armas de destruição em massa no Iraque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O que os EUA tinham em mãos eram, na verdade, fotos de laboratórios de produção de hidrogênio, utilizadas simplesmente nos aeroestatos do Serviço Meteorológico iraquiano. A mentira foi inventada por um engenheiro químico iraquiano que passou as falsas informações à CIA pra conseguir asilo em Berlim e ganhar uns trocados de sobra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O detalhe disso tudo é que uma comissão enviada pelo próprio Departamento de Defesa dos EUA já tinha desmentido a história dois dias antes. Mas Bush preferiu fazer de conta que não sabia e jogar verde pra ver se o resto do mundo acreditaria na mentira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poucos acreditaram e, com o tempo, ficou provado que o Iraque não tinha as tais armas, assim como não tinha nem poderio bélico pra se defender dos ataques iniciados bem antes, em 20 de março daquele ano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora, o papo é o mesmo com o Irã. "Eles estão prestes a construir bombas atômicas", dizem os EUA. É possível, mas a desculpa já saiu de moda. E você deve se perguntar por que os EUA não atacam logo o Irã como fizeram com o Iraque e o Afeganistão. Talvez as próximas linhas ajudem a entender o porquê.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Afeganistão&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ignorando a experiência do Vietnã e evitando aprender com os erros dos outros, os EUA resolveram atacar o Afeganistão e se ferraram. É claro que não é o que a TV ocidental mostra, mas os grupos de guerreiros do Talibã continuam organizados e se reagrupam, usando principalmente os territórios do Afeganistão, Paquistão e Irã, pra voltarem a investir contra o poder local em Kandahar (antiga base do grupo) e na capital Kabul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grande parte desses afegãos é de origem 'pashtun', um povo guerreiro que está sempre, há milênios, em guerra com alguém. E é o mesmo povo que expulsou, com a ajuda dos EUA, os soviéticos em 1989. Como se não bastassem a tradição guerreira, o ódio aos EUA e a fé muitas vezes exacerbada no islamismo, esses guerreiros têm ainda o apoio de tribos que, por códigos de ética próprios, oferecem abrigo quando os guerreiros solicitam e por aí vai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iraque descontrolado&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Iraque, parecia que os soldados gringos teriam tudo sob controle quando chegavam a lançar em Bagdá centenas de mísses e bombas desde navios e aviões e avançavam com suas tropas a 40km/h desde o Kuwait em direção à capital iraquiana. Destruir cidades e estradas foi fácil, assim como chegar a Bagdá e capturar Saddam Hussein e assassinar vários outros iraquianos. A parte mais difícil começou depois disso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje, Bush enfrenta a oposição não só de outros países, como também na imprensa e no próprio Senado estadunidense. Enquanto isso, soldados e oficiais dos EUA e mercenários vivem enclausurados no Iraque, à mercê de ataques da população civil e de grupos paramilitares que sobreviveram aos ataques que deixaram, segundo diferentes estimativas, entre 50 e mais de 100 mil mortos desde março de 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O novo governo iraquiano é sunita e tem que lidar com a maioria da população que é xiita, além dos famosos curdos, que querem porque querem se tornar autônomos. Os soldados dos EUA ficam no meio disso tudo presos em sua própria base de Bagdá, chamada de Zona Verde. Sair dali, só se for em comboio, e, mesmo assim, os riscos de atentados com carros-bomba e artilharia são grandes. Há rumores, inclusive, de que muito mais soldados são feridos e mortos do que CNN etc. anunciam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Al Qaeda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush tentou, mas também não conseguiu fazer colar a mentira de que Saddam Hussein dava suporte à maior rede terrorista do mundo, a Al Qaeda, criada em 1988 pelo engenheiro civil Osama Bin Laden, o 17º filho dentre os 52 de um multimilionário saudita. Hussein não era fanático religioso e tampouco simpatizava com Bin Laden. Em poucas palavras, no Iraque, quem mandava era ele e pronto!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora, o pepino que os EUA têm na mão está crescendo. O Irã, sim, tem uma considerável simpatia pela rede terrorista Al Qaeda e os xiitas iranianos têm conseguido, graças à religião muçulmana, se juntar aos 'irmãos' iraquianos que até pouco tempo atrás ainda eram vistos como inimigos. Agora, o inimigo maior são os demoníacos EUA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O Irã&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os iranianos estão acostumados a sanções econômicas e políticas, mas, desde a revolução islâmica de 1979, proclamada pelo aiatolá Khomeini (já morto), têm mostrado que a união do 'regime do Shá', que impõe valores severos à população baseados em interpretações do Corão, ao dinheiro do petróleo têm funcionado bem no país.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde 2005, o presidente é Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ex-prefeito da capital Teerã, um veterano da guerra entre Irã e Iraque (1980-88) que ficou famoso mundo afora ao negar o Holocausto e dizer que Israel deveria ser apagado do mapa. O presidente é adorado pelos pobres e há quem diga que a razão desse sucesso é que Ahmadinejad tem usado parte dos US$ 14 bilhões que o Irã tinha reservado pra emergências promovendo assistencialismo no país. Mais ou menos uma repetição do cenário atual da Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comparando com o Iraque, o Irã tem o triplo da população e uma área quatro vezes maior. Seu exército conta com 12 milhões de homens e está bem equipado. Além disso, a cada ano, 850 mil jovens são somados ao exército, com o detalhe de que 30 mil deles são graduados nas melhores universidades. jovens, aliás, não faltam no país cuja maioria populacional tem menos de 30 anos de idade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programa nuclear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quanto ao programa nuclear iraniano, o governo afirma que sua intenção é atender à crescente demanda de energia interna, visto que a produção diária de barris de petróleo é de 3,7 milhões desde os anos 90 e que atualmente 40% são usados pro abastecimento interno, cuja demanda cresce 7% por ano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segundo o presidente iraniano, o país já é capaz de produzir urânio enriquecido a 3,5%, suficiente pra gerar eletricidade. Chegando aos 80%, já seria possível que o Irã construísse bombas atômicas, entrando na turma dos vizinhos Índia, Paquistão, China e Rússia e confirmando sua posição de destaque na região e, principalmente, no mundo muçulmano.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-8163353186952092083?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/8163353186952092083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=8163353186952092083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8163353186952092083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/8163353186952092083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/02/ir-iraque-afeganisto-e-estados-unidos.html' title='Irã, Iraque, Afeganistão e Estados Unidos'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-6217587707858922410</id><published>2007-02-06T16:26:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:11:40.138-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>O caminho das Índias</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RcjXD4gVW5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/VcdUDsIRThA/s1600-h/elton+na+india.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5028505445666741138" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RcjXD4gVW5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/VcdUDsIRThA/s320/elton+na+india.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Às 4h da madrugada&lt;/span&gt;, o calor de 42ºC e um monte de homens de pele escura, cabelos pretos lisos, corpos esqueléticos e olhos fixados em mim e na minha irmã eram um beliscão nos mostrando que estávamos, depois de muito tempo de ansiedade e preparação, na Índia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era um mês de setembro e a época das monções estava chegando ao fim. Sem nenhum telefone de contato ou reserva de hotel, Lise e eu esperamos o máximo que pudemos dentro do aeroporto, criando forças pra encarar o que estivesse no lado de fora nos esperando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu havia feito uma pesquisa minuciosa sobre as religiões indianas, tínhamos nos encontrado com imigrantes dali na Europa e guardávamos uma lista de dicas de pessoas que já tinham visitado a Índia e nos diziam que, depois de termos pisado naquele país, sempre pensaríamos em voltar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas nada disso foi suficiente pra evitar o choque que tivemos quando, já no caminho do aeroporto até Mumbai, a segunda cidade mais populosa do mundo, tivemos nossas visões violentadas pela quantidade estarrecedora de gente dormindo nas ruas e calçadas da periferia. Com a chegada da luz, vieram as vacas, as pessoas se lavando nas calçadas com a água que escorria pelas valas das vias públicas, os carros, os rikshas, as vacas, as buzinas, os pés descalços, os gritos, os cheiros, a miséria, a piedade, a raiva e tudo que era escancarado à luz do sol sarcástico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dia na maior cidade indiana foi suficiente pra decidirmos correr pra longe dali. Por isso, na manhã seguinte, Lise e eu pegamos um trem com destino a Vadodara, capital de Gujarat, mas o pesadelo não acabou. Com o passar dos dias, só nos convencíamos mais de que não nos adaptaríamos àquele lugar e nos irritávamos com todas aquelas pessoas que haviam nos dito o quanto a Índia era maravilhosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, não há nada melhor o tempo pra deixar a vida dar suas voltas. Com a passagem de volta pra dali a quase três meses, depois de uma semana, decidimos que já era hora de nos molharmos naquela tempestade. Conhecemos um indiano aqui e ali, ousamos, perguntamos, experimentamos e rimos mais, dormimos, reclamamos e sofremos menos. Seguindo dicas dos próprios indianos, fomos subindo pelo mapa em direção ao deserto do Rajastão e encontrando um país diferente, cada vez mais tranqüilo, amigável e turístico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em algumas semanas, já estávamos habituados ao dia-a-dia dos hindus, vacinados contra os golpistas oportunistas e os vendedores e pedintes insistentes e com o estômago fortalecido pra encarar os pratos indianos. Pelo menos foi o que eu pensei, até provar, na segunda semana no país, meu último táli, um prato típico de lá. Minha irmã insistiu em seguir experimentando a culinária indiana, enquanto eu passei a procurar restaurantes turísticos com comida ocidental. Semanas depois, Lise ficou dez dias doente na cama de um quartinho de hotel em Pushkar, um pequeno e aconchegante vilarejo próximo a Jaipur, ainda no Rajastão. Durante cinco dias, ela não conseguiu comer nada e até água era vomitada logo depois de bebida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com os comprimidos mágicos de um médico local, Lise se levantou da cama e voltou a comer, mas, dali em diante, passou a tomar só água mineral e a comer nos mesmos lugares que eu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com o corpo são, colocamos a mochila novamente nas costas e caímos na estrada em direção à capital Nova Dehli. Nunca vi um trânsito tão caótico na minha vida! É o único lugar do mundo onde, pra atravessar uma avenida, eu precisava de mais de 15 minutos! Além disso, a poluição dali é visível com a sujeira que sai quando se assoa o nariz!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De lá, seguimos viagem rumo a Sikkim, uma região do Himalaia com população predominantemente budista e muito pacata. Horas e horas de aperto e muito balanço em ônibus, dias de desconforto em trens, paradas injustificadas e saídas sem horário previsto pra chegadas... assim foram sempre as viagens que nos levavam de uma escola da vida indiana à outra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em Darjeeling, vi o monte Everest, atravessei trechos verdes e montanhosos durante dias de trekking, visitei diversos templos religiosos, senti muito frio, voltei a comer o mesmo que os habitantes locais e, depois de semanas, voltei a sentir o gostinho de carne!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A próxima grande parada foi Varanasi, à beira do rio Ganges. Ali, rodeados de novos amigos de todas as partes do mundo e de macacos peraltas que vivem soltos pela cidade, Lise e eu assistimos de perto a vários corpos sendo cremados em fogueiras de sândalo e jogados no rio. E vimos também, no mesmo rio, milhares de indianos tomando banho, lavando roupa, escovando os dentes, nadando e meditando... além de uma cabecinha ou uma mão boiando de vez em quando!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O destino seguinte foi Agra, a cidade horrível onde foi construído o belíssimo Taj Mahal. Inconformados com a discrepância entre os preços que um indiano e um turista estrangeiro pagam pra visitar o mausoléu (20 vezes mais), minha irmã e eu chegamos à cidade numa sexta-feira, o único dia em que ninguém precisa pagar pra ver a única das sete maravilhas que ainda está de pé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com Taj Mahal visto e fotografado, veio a dúvida: “Zanzamos mais um pouco pelo país, enfrentando as viagens cansativas e o calor e a confusão de outras cidades?” Por unanimidade, decidimos que não e voltamos à bela e tranqüila Pushkar, onde passamos os últimos 25 dias antes de voltarmos a contragosto a Mumbai, de onde pegaríamos o avião de volta a Frankfurt, na Alemanha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sem acesso a TV, rádio e internet, aprendemos muito sobre nós mesmos e o próximo observando e escutando histórias dos indianos que, com sua simplicidade e pobreza, nos davam preciosas lições de riqueza emotiva e espiritual. E, por falar em pobreza e riqueza, foi ali que, com o dinheiro de cada caricatura que eu fazia pros turistas, eu pagava duas noites no hotel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ao pensar em Pushkar, também vou me lembrar por um bom tempo das festas de casamento, do maravilhoso nascer do sol visto do alto das montanhas no deserto e do pôr do sol admirado na escadaria à beira do lago sagrado, ao som de tambores e do tabla indiano e em companhia de gente de todos os tipos e todas as partes do mundo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando 86 dias se passaram e a Índia estava prestes a ficar pra trás, um filme como os de Bollywood passou rápido pela minha cabeça mostrando cenas de semanas que seriam decisivas na formação daquele jovem de 19 anos num homem. Com o avião no céu, a imensidão de um dos lugares mais excêntricos do planeta diminuía e diminuía... pra caber pra sempre nos nossos corações.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-6217587707858922410?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/6217587707858922410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=6217587707858922410' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6217587707858922410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/6217587707858922410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/02/o-caminho-das-ndias.html' title='O caminho das Índias'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/RcjXD4gVW5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/VcdUDsIRThA/s72-c/elton+na+india.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-1421471109325864930</id><published>2007-02-02T10:11:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:12:20.096-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dicas'/><title type='text'>Elogios à poligamia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;O sheikh Abdelbagi Sidahmed Osman&lt;/span&gt;, natural do Sudão, com nacionalidade brasileira e presidente desde 2000 representante da Liga Islâmica Mundial e da Organização Islâmica para América Latina no Brasil, fundamenta, num texto com considerável abrangência de fontes, que a poligamia é, sim, um bom modelo de união entre as pessoas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veja trechos do texto 'A poligamia e susas vantagens':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;A poligamia é uma prática muito antiga, encontrada em muitas sociedades humanas. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Bíblia não condenou a poligamia. Pelo contrário, o Velho Testamento e os escritos rabínicos freqüentemente atestam a legalidade da poligamia.&lt;/span&gt; Dizem que o Rei Salomão teve 700 esposas e 300 concubinas (Reis 11:3). Também o Rei Davi teve muitas esposas e concubinas (2 Samuel 5:13). O Velho Testamento tem algumas injunções em como distribuir a propriedade de um homem entre seus filhos de diferentes mulheres (Deuteronômio 22:7). A única restrição com relação à poligamia é a proibição de tomar uma irmã da esposa como uma esposa rival (Levítico 18:18). O Talmud aconselha a um máximo de 4 esposas. Os judeus europeus continuaram a praticar a poligamia até o século XVI.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Os judeus orientais praticavam a poligamia regularmente até a chegada a Israel, onde ela foi proibida por lei. Contudo, na lei religiosa, que sobrepuja a lei civil em tais casos, a poligamia é permitida .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;E com relação ao Novo Testamento? De acordo com o padre Eugene Hilman, em seu penetrante livro, a poligamia é reconsiderada, "Em parte alguma do Novo Testamento há uma orientação expressa de que o casamento deve ser monogâmico ou qualquer orientação que proíba a poligamia". Além disso, Jesus não falou contra a poligamia, embora ela fosse praticada pelos judeus de sua época. O padre Hillman chama a atenção para o fato de que a Igreja de Roma proibiu a poligamia, a fim de se adequar à cultura Greco-romana (que prescrevia somente uma esposa legal, enquanto que tolerava o concubinato e a prostituição). Ele citou Santo Agostinho, "Agora, em nosso tempo, e de acordo com o costume romano, não é mais permitido tomar uma outra esposa".  As igrejas africanas e os cristãos africanos muitas vezes lembram a seus irmãos europeus que a proibição da poligamia é mais uma tradição cultural do que uma autêntica injunção cristã.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;O Alcorão também permitiu a poligamia, mas não sem algumas restrições: "Se vós temeis não serdes capazes de conviver justamente com os órfãos, casai com mulheres de sua escolha, 2 ou 3 ou 4 vezes; mas se temerdes que não sereis capazes de conviver justamente com elas, então casai somente com uma" (4:13). O Alcorão, ao contrário da Bíblia, limitou o número de esposas a 4, sob a estrita condição de que as esposas sejam tratadas igualmente. Isto não deve ser entendido como uma exortação a que os crentes pratiquem a poligamia, ou que a poligamia seja considerada como um ideal. Em outras palavras, o Alcorão "tolera" ou "permite" a poligamia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No decorrer do texto, o sheikh explica como a poligamia pode ser vantajosa em relação ao casamento seguido de divórcio e, com opinião que seguramente é taxada de machista por você ou outra pessoa que leia isto ou o texto dele, bem resumidamente, ele insiste que um marido se preocupa mais com várias esposas do que com uma ex-mulher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além disso, Osman acredita que, diante de ameaças como armas de destruição de massa e maior índice de mortalidade entre jovens homens, a poligamia é uma das soluções mais viáveis à preservação da nossa espécie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pra ler mais, &lt;a href="http://amaivos.uol.com.br/templates/amaivos/amaivos07/noticia/noticia.asp?cod_noticia=7524&amp;amp;cod_canal=54"&gt;clique aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-1421471109325864930?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/1421471109325864930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=1421471109325864930' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1421471109325864930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/1421471109325864930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/02/elogios-poligamia.html' title='Elogios à poligamia'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30899414.post-117034445228625203</id><published>2007-02-01T12:26:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T08:13:06.251-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Português'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Relatos'/><title type='text'>Pequenos prazeres</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Ontem fui ao dentista&lt;/span&gt; e, por alguns minutos, fiquei sem um arco de metal no céu da boca. Que sensação gostosa a de poder passar a língua pelo céu da boca!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me lembrei, ali, deitado, de como era bom ficar brincando de matar mosquitinhos no banheiro com o chuveirinho quando eu era criança, ou de imaginar que meus 'hominhos' estavam saltando de uma cachoeira altíssima no meio de uma floresta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se parar pra lembrar momentos assim, a gente percebe que existe uma série de pequenos acontecimentos que parecem ter sido muito mais importantes do que ditos grandes momentos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Até hoje é a mesma coisa: adoro sentir a brisa da sacada de casa, caminhar no fim da tarde, fazer um personagem engraçado no papel, baixar uma música que eu tanto queria escutar, ver um filme que me prende a atenção, repetir as falas do Samuel Jackson, aprender uma nova expressão em inglês, ganhar um beijo de alguém muito especial, rir do último caso do amigo, terminar a série do exercício mais chato na academia, me surpreender com o cardápio do almoço de cada dia, me deitar sem horário pra levantar...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30899414-117034445228625203?l=eltonhubner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/feeds/117034445228625203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30899414&amp;postID=117034445228625203' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/117034445228625203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30899414/posts/default/117034445228625203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://eltonhubner.blogspot.com/2007/02/pequenos-prazeres.html' title='Pequenos prazeres'/><author><name>Elton Hubner</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08684635367173636284</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2-wGPRzOABI/S2cNdf0kdPI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ze0nGmKm9jY/S220/Elton+blog.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
