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If you use internet banking and the most secure browser available you will probably notice you can´t login to the Banespa. Vote for this error at bugzilla so maybe it will become solved.Update: Sometime last year, the bank itself solved the problem.

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In all these years who hasn´t yet heard the ending of the animated series Dungeons and Dragons in that they discover through Tiamat (who would be an angel) that they actually died in an accident on the rollercoaster and were sent to Hell and that the Dungeon Master is the Devil?Well I found out recently that Michael Reavers one of the scripters for the series has posted a comment about this

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People do come a lot to this blog to know about self-inflicted diseases. I wonder what some people expect to find. Leave me a comment if you want to know something specific.Sorry for the lack of updates recently but I'm very caught up in exams for my third year residency, trying to go for a cardiology posting.

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Please leave comments! They won't go unanswered. And perhaps they generate ideas for new posts...

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This weekend the second round of brazilian elections is going to take place to decide who will be president for the next four years. In Brazil that decides candidates for executive branch in two rounds, unless a candidate achieves more than 50% of votes in the first round.Lula failed by less than 1% to reach that tally.Now electoral campaigns put him at over 20% margin over his opponent Alckmin.I

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This little blue dot through seen through saturn´s rings, this insignificant blue dot, it´s earth.Credit:Ciclops

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I´m gonna choose some random country to compare that probably has a lousy health system... uhm... how about BrazilI don´t know what kind of information Matthew Holt has on Brazil´s health system, but it is definitely untrue. Despite disparities between the states with the state of São Paulo where I live offering perhaps the best public health system in the country, there are some positive points

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Nothing else to be said.

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As a physician, one of the actions we have to take is to pronounce someone's death. Now this is not as straight-forward as it seems to be. You could maybe attempt to check the patient's vital signs mainly respiratory movements, pulse. But when these stop, as in a respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest, not only this doesn't mean death in most cases, but on the contrary it means that emergency

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Hey this is so cool! I just installed statcounter to see what goes on, since nobody has ever left a comment for me. And with just a few days I've had a few visitors.Thank you very much for your visits! I have even been inspired to write a longer essay about one of the searched topics!

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Diebold's election system computers are easily hackable in less than a minute. Makes you wonder if the brazillian version of it (the "urna eletrônica") is any better. In Brazil we have one sole device that is used in the entire nation. Results come up in a couple of hours as 3.5" disk are launched onto the grid. What if somehow these computers can be tampered in the same way? I'm also very

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As technologies advance further and further something that seems so simple as to say if somebody is dead or not becomes more and more complicated. Enter functional-MRI into the picture.For people who came into my blog though I wrote a little bit more here.

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Got my first link ever, and even better from the 101st Grand Rounds!!! A big thanks to Protect the Airway and tune in to the next grand rounds...

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Today at work, I was forced to report negligence towards an elderly patient. I feel very sorry for this situation. This is the third time I have seen the same patient in a very short period of time. He always comes in a very poor state of hygiene. It is sad. His family doesn't seem to give him any of the medications necessary, they do not follow our orientations, and most of all they refuse to

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Great initiative: http://perfil.transparencia.org.br/

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In Brazil, with the growing unhappiness derived from the various political scandals that always result in no punishment to the people involved, people more and more want to find a way to vent their frustration.This has resulted in a campaign for the null vote. While I agree in part, it is not for the reason that is posted in an email circulation brazil defending the null vote. There they state

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Educafro is an organization in Brazil that is promoting the racial quotas to be established in public universities thinking that will solve racial minorities disparities. I cannot begin to believe how somebody can buy this argument! I mean, establishing the necessity that a racial minority such as indians or blacks need their own special quota to get into an university is saying that their are

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I talked about this a while ago, one in four doctors in the UK are starting to think the same thing: Should we pay for self-inflicted diseases such as lung cancer and cirrhosis... As I mentioned in my post, I think there might be something good out of it if, and only if, you ensure free treatment to whomever is engaged in trying to stop their addiction.Source: Kevin M.D. weblog

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I seriously condemn the attack made on the Brazilian congress by dissident MST (movement of the landless) dissident called MLST (movement for the freedom of the landless). Nevertheless, I think people should pay attention to this fact. There is a global discontentment in this country in relation to the Congress. After all, how many politicians involved in serious corruption scandals have been

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U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III has decided the controversial case concerning the teaching of the so called intelligent design (ID) in public schools. He defined ID as being creationism relabeled:By comparing the pre and post Edwards drafts of Pandas, three astonishing points emerge: (1) the definition for creation science in the early drafts is identical to the definition of ID [

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Human rights by far are the most misunderstood rights humans have. These are the most basic rights. We have to defend them at all costs for everyone, because in that is its only argument, the basic right any human should have. People tend to forget that.So when in Brazil hundreds of inmates start rebellions (which the government in the first place "allowed", by letting them use cell-phone within

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Why do we feel the need to use windows in our computer systems? Why does it seem that having a computer means having a windows installed as your OS. I have been asking myself more and more that question and I think their days on my system are starting to be numbered. What do I really use that can only be done in a windows only environment? Office style applications? PDF files? Internet? Easier to

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Who says that democracy is really the best possible way to direct a country? Of course in comparison to previews regimes we have had in the past, it certainly is much better, but democracy holds within itself the possibility of its self-defeat. It only works where the citizens that live in it have at least a moderate/high level of education and culture. Why is that? Let's review how the system

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Can you actually believe this!

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In Brazil health is a right guaranteed by the constitution. What this amounts to in this country is a very heterogenous map of services distributed throughout the country. Whereas in some parts even the most basic service are hard to come by, as well as shortage of even the most basic medications, in other parts patients have access to practically all of the state of the art medicine and

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All things Michael Moore are very cool, and they are as much as cathartic as anything! So here I am advertising for something that may well become his new documentary. So go ahead tell him your stories.

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Just to change the tide of rantings, i wanted to post this excellent site! It´s fan episodes of star trek (the original one)... They´re very well done.

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After two subpar years with all that temporal cold war nonsense and a whole third year involving a race that never exists later on, Enterprise's fourth year manages to be spectacular. T'pol finally seems to be a real vulcan, and they even try to make up for the fact that she hadn't been up to then. The show's finally concerned with a load of stuff that's supposed to have happened in this period

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Even though sometimes we see this sort of stuff in movies, it is always sad to read about in the real world. Dipyrone is a widespread analgesic, antipiretic used in over 100 countries, but it is banned in USA, UK and a few other countries, for the fear of agranulocytosis. This fear has been generated by a couple of works made 50 years ago with serious methodological problems (for example:

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This seems to be one year old, but nevertheless, it gives some insight into microsoft's newest toy...

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Brazil celebrates carnaval during this week. Main festivities occur in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. There is also a massive anti-AIDS campaign during this time, mainly concerned with the use of condoms. Tv, radio and paper ads all remind you the use of condoms. I am not against this campaign, or against methods of preventing the spread of AIDS.But doesn´t anyone else notice that

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People will criticize bands who make apologia for drugs. In this case I agree with them. Many bands determine the conduct and morality of many young people when they are still susceptible to it. But it seems those same critics will lash out at band for making a plea to make poverty history.Oh please!I mean even if debt relief may be not be the best way to do it: we see corrupt leaders in the

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Google in China Google's dark sideIs google really keeping track of all your searching habits...?Should we start using things like: tor or other search engines

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It seems that things I was talking about seem very up to date...Can you believe this comment from Rumsfeld:He lamented that vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighed that given to the discovery of "Saddam Hussein's mass graves."Of course Saddam Hussein's Mass graves are very serious, and definitely should not exist, but everybody already knows or suspects

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Decided to retake my blogging experiment. Also got a new mail to be contacted: accendo1984@gmail.com.So after a few years here I go again.

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Just to complement to the last posting with a few facts:In 1982 Iraq was removed from the list of countries that supported terrorism.In 19 december 1983 Ronald Reagan wrote to Saddam to upgrade relation with Iraq, establishing a US embassy in Bagdad. Reagan's emissary was none other then Donald Rumnsfeld.US sold to Saddam chemical war weapons to be used against Iran. Iraq therefore was a precious

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My first topic is prompted by the coverage of US vs. axis of evil. The US is leading a world cause against these nations for their inherent evil. These nations are run by totalitarian regimes that take way the freedom of speech and many other liberties we who live in the west take for granted. So in this manner you don't have any free press, to write something like I am doing right now, as well

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So hello to you, welcome to another blog. What you will find here are my thoughts about polemic subjects which are broadcast by the media everyday, and yet I feel decidely different. Hence venting off. I hope you read them and tell me whether or not you agree.

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