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quinta-feira, agosto 06, 2015

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Tema: Ignorância
A ignorância é audaz; a sabedoria, reservada

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Alvaro, Corrado

Tema: Necessidade
O homem não se conhece o suficiente para medir aquilo de que precisa

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Pope, Alexander

Tema: Compreensão
Algumas pessoas nunca aprendem nada, porque entendem tudo muito depressa

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Vieira, António

Tema: Perdição
É empresa arriscada e inútil abraçar-se com quem se vai a perder

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Butler, Samuel

Nada é mais potente contra o amor do que a impotência

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"Ame a pessoa que te viu quando você se sentia invisível."

“Ame a pessoa que te viu quando você se sentia invisível.”

- Aglair Grein.
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Ping Nakara Boutique Hotel & Spa - ThailandA Chiang Mai...





















Ping Nakara Boutique Hotel & Spa - Thailand

A Chiang Mai colonial-style boutique hotel, Ping Nakara features exquisite gingerbread architecture and elegant interiors overflowing with high-quality natural materials. Unique in style and décor, each room is fitted out with dark-colored handcrafted furniture, evocative paintings by Lana artists, and all modern amenities. The hotel’s main restaurant serves authentic Thai cuisine in a refined old-world ambiance, but there’s also an enchanting garden venue where guests can indulge in French food. Last, but not least, the on-site Ayurvedic spa is the perfect spot to relax your body and mind.

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WWII Canned Stew That Was Supplied by the USA to the Soviet Army (8 Pics)

During World War II the USA sent tons of equipment and supplies under  the so called “land lease” agreement. Part of this agreement was to also supply tinned food that was very appreciated by Russian soldiers and was famous long after the war was over.
This exotic American give away was a production of a special canned pork stew designated to Russian troops and prepared according to the Russian traditional recipe.



They still have the examples of the tins preserved in museums. There is a story that one man has brought a tin can of “tushonka” from a Soviet General some forty years after the war was over. He had found it untouched, opened it and after some tests they declared that it was “a nice meat you can eat today too”. Were the tests actually when someone tasted it?





Dad gets cochlear implant tattoo for his daughter (3 Pics)

 A Taupo dad has gotten a cochlear implant tattooed on his head to help his little girl not feel like the odd one out.
Charlotte, 6, who had her first implant put in at the age of 4 in 2013, has just had her second one put in at Gillies Hospital.
In a gesture of support, her father, Alistair Campbell, had his own "implant" tattooed on the left side of his head, three days ago.
Mr Campbell, who had no other tattoos, said he wanted to do it to show her that he could go through a little bit of pain for her too.
"My love for her really," he said. "Hey my hair can grow back."
Mr Campbell had shaved his head completely to get the tattoo done but said he would be letting his hair grow back.
He'd shave it off again and show off the tattoo at "special occasions," or if Charlotte wanted to see it.
When Charlotte saw her dad's version of a cochlear implant she giggled, touched it and told him it was "cool".
Charlotte's mum, Anita Campbell, wasn't so sure her daughter had quite grasped the significance of the tattoo yet.
She hoped her daughter's latest implant in her right ear would further "enhance her life".
Mrs Campbell's mother had a cochlear implant and her second-son, Lewis, 8, wore hearing aids so she wasn't surprised when Charlotte was diagnosed.
She said things were a bit "up and down" for a while as the diagnosis evolved from just a mild hearing impairment, to the news Charlotte was profoundly deaf in her left ear and had a condition which limited the ability to transmit sound to her brain in her right.
Mrs Campbell said Charlotte's first implant in her left ear saw an immense change in her daughter's behaviour.
"She wouldn't talk to anybody to pretty much a social butterfly," she said.
The Hearing House fundraising and communications manager, Mary Jane Boland, said this second implant would give Charlotte "more sound" and help her better distinguish the direction it's coming from.
"But the key thing is Charlotte does all the things hearing kids can do," she said. "She lives a really ordinairy life."
A photo on Twitter showing Mr Campbell, holding his daughter, with the picture of the implant tattooed on his otherwise bald head, has gone viral on social media.
People from as far afield as France and Germany praising Mr Campbell for the tattoo.
Filip Dakic tweeted, "Wow. Respect! Getting through it together with his daughter."
Anatol tweeted, "Quelle beau geste [ what a beautiful gesture] Getting through it together with his daughter."