Então diz que hoje é o dia do abraço...

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Confesso.

Confesso. O post do dia 20 de Junho de 2005 era na verdade uma maldadezinha.
Os referidos Holmes e Rahe referem-se ao acto de casar (não ao casamento em geral, como poderia ser percebido) e a perspectiva de stress aqui é a de energia dispendida em termos de reajustamento social... Justamente, a escala deles, a que refiro no post, chama-se "Social Readjustment Rating Scale"... E para que conste, a pior coisa que pode acontecer, nesta escala, é ficar viúvo... Não disse mentira nenhuma no post, mas como diria o slogan brasileiro "Pode-se contar um monte de mentiras falando só verdade..." eheheheheh

Já agora, querem saber a quanto stress deste tipo andam submetidos?

Ora vejam lá... Mas lembrem-se que esta escala é de 1967!!!! *ocas :)

LEGO-ZONE!!!!

Músicas para um CD de Amor II

The best thing for you
Diana Krall

I only want what’s the best thing for you
And the best thing for you would be me
I’ve been convinced

After thinking it through that the best thing for you would be me

Everyday to myself I’d say point the way
What would it be?
I ask myself what’s the best thing you
And myself and I seem to agree
That the best thing for you would be me

Vá lá... Don't be shy e amandem ideias ;) *

"Men talk of killing time, while time quieltly kills them." (Dion Boucicault)

Casar dá muito stress!

Segundo Holmes e Rahe (1967), casar é um acontecimento de vida mais stressante do que ser despedido, do que ter "dificuldades sexuais", a morte de um amigo próximo, ter uma hipoteca superior a 40.000 dólares ou do que uma gravidez.

É apenas superado por um punhado de eventos como ir para a cadeia ou a morte de um familiar próximo...

Fun Facts about
Happy Birthday to You


Happy Birthday to You, the four-line ditty was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers, Mildred J. Hill, an authority on Negro spirituals, and Dr. Patty Smith Hill, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University.
The melody of the song Happy Birthday to You was composed by Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher born in Louisville, KY, on June 27, 1859. The song was first published in 1893, with the lyrics written by her sister, Patty Smith Hill, as "Good Morning To All."



Happy Birthday to You was copyrighted in 1935 and renewed in 1963. The song was apparently written in 1893, but first copyrighted in 1935 after a lawsuit (reported in the New York Times of August 15, 1934, p.19 col. 6)
In 1988, Birch Tree Group, Ltd. sold the rights of the song to Warner Communications (along with all other assets) for an estimated $25 million (considerably more than a song). (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1)


In the 80s, the song Happy Birthday to You was believed to generate about $1 million in royalties annually. With Auld Lang Syne and For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, it is among the three most popular songs in the English language. (reported in Time, Jan 2, 1989 v133 n1 p88(1)
Happy Birthday to You continues to bring in approximately 2 million dollars in licensing revenue each year, at least as of 1996 accounting, according to Warner Chappell and a Forbes magazine article.

PARABÉNS JOÃOZINHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time quotes

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)

One always has time enough, if ine will apply it well. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Time is the wisest counselor of all. (Pericles)

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. (William Penn)

It is now official:

... Não vou ao almoço de bloggers no Tromba Rija no dia 25...

:´( snif...

Hmmmmmmmm... Acho que este blog precisa de levar "uma volta"... :S

*s

Músicas para um cd de amor I


Nature Boy

:Artist: Nat King Cole
-from his "The Greatest Of Nat King Cole" LP-Capitol SLB-6803
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 8 weeks in 1948
-competing versions charted by Frank Sinatra (#7), Sara Vaughn (#8), and
-Dick Haymes (#11).
-Words and Music by Eden Ahbez


There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

Mais sugestões? :)

Gracias Miguel, pelo mail, oh ser de sotaque ligeirramente gerrmanidzado, comm fita-côla nus ôculoszs :D **************

23 coisas que não se pode morrer sem saber:

1- O nome completo do Pato Donald é Donald Fauntleroy Duck.
2- Em 1997, as linhas aéreas americanas economizaram US$40.000 eliminando uma azeitona de cada salada.
3- Uma girafa pode limpar suas próprias orelhas com a língua.
4- Milhões de árvores no mundo são plantadas acidentalmente por esquilos queenterram nozes e não lembram onde eles as esconderam.
5- Comer uma maçã é mais eficiente que tomar café para se manter acordado.
6- As formigas espreguiçam-se pela manhã quando acordam.
7- As escovas de dentes azuis são mais usadas que as vermelhas.
8 - O porco é o único animal que se queima com o sol além do homem.
9- Ninguém consegue lamber o próprio cotovelo, é impossível tocá-lo com a própria língua.
10- Só um alimento não se deteriora: o mel.
11- Os golfinhos dormem com os olhos abertos.
12- Um terço de todos os gelados vendidos no mundo são de baunilha.
13- As unhas das mãos crescem aproximadamente quatro vezes mais rápido que as unhas dos pés.
14- O olho da avestruz é maior do que o seu cérebro.
15- Os destros vivem, em média, nove anos mais que os canhotos.
16- O "quack" de um pato não produz eco, e ninguém sabe porquê.
17- O músculo mais potente do corpo humano é a língua.
18- É impossível espirrar com os olhos abertos.
19- "J" é a única letra que não aparece na tabela periódica.
20- Uma gota de óleo torna 25 litros de água imprópria para o consumo.
21- Os chimpanzés e os golfinhos são os únicos animais capazes de se reconhecer na frente de um espelho.
22- Rir durante o dia faz com que você durma melhor à noite.
23- 40% dos telespectadores do Jornal Nacional dão boa noite ao jornalista no final.

Curiosidade:
Aproximadamente 70 % das pessoas que lêem isto, tentam lamber o cotovelo! Não adianta, não dá!

Músicas para um CD de amor

Inspirada por uma dedicatória de alguém que claramente me conhece muito bem (veja-se a letra de música em anexo para confirmar como se enquadra na personalidade da autora deste blog eheheheh) lembrei-me de fazer uma "colectânea de músicas para um cd de amor".

Precisa-se de sugestões!!! :)

Mulheres de Atenas


Chico Buarque


Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Vivem pros seu maridos, orgulho e raça de Atenas
Quando amadas, se perfumam, se banham com leite, se arrumam suas melenas
Quando fustigadas não choram se ajoelham, pedem, imploram
Mais duras penas cadenas
Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Sofrem pros seus maridos, poder e força de Atenas
Quando eles embarcam, soldados
Elas tecem longos bordados mil quarentenas
E quando eles voltam sedentos querem arrancar violentos
Carícias plenas obscenas.
Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Despem-se pros maridos, bravos guerreiros de Atenas
Quando eles se entopem de vinho costumam buscar o carinho de outras falenas
Mas no fim da noite, aos pedaços quase sempre voltam pros braços
De suas pequenas Helenas.
Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Geram pros seus maridos os novos filhos de Atenas
Elas não têm gosto ou vontade nem defeito nem qualidade têm medo apenas
Não têm sonhos, só têm presságios o seu homem, mares, naufrágios
Lindas sirenas morenas.
Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Temem por seus maridos, heróis e amantes de Atenas
As jovens viúvas marcadas e as gestantes abandonadas não fazem cenas
Vestem-se de negro, se encolhem se conformam e se recolhem
Às suas novenas serenas.
Mirem-se no exemplo daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Secam por seus maridos, orgulho e raça de Atenas...

Stockbroker: What is a million years like to you?
God: Like one second.
Stockbroker: What is a million dollars like to you?
God: Like one penny.
Stockbroker: Can I have a penny?
God: Just a second ...


(Visto no Arte de Opinar)

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard

For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation (visto no Murcon)


By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL,
International Herald Tribune
Published: June 3, 2005

When the genetically altered fruit fly was released into the observation chamber, it did what these breeders par excellence tend to do. It pursued a waiting virgin female. It gently tapped the girl with its leg, played her a song (using wings as instruments) and, only then, dared to lick her - all part of standard fruit fly seduction.

One gene, apparently by itself, creates patterns of sexual behavior in fruit flies.
The observing scientist looked with disbelief at the show, for the suitor in this case was not a male, but a female that researchers had artificially endowed with a single male-type gene.

That one gene, the researchers are announcing today in the journal Cell, is apparently by itself enough to create patterns of sexual behavior - a kind of master sexual gene that normally exists in two distinct male and female variants.

In a series of experiments, the researchers found that females given the male variant of the gene acted exactly like males in courtship, madly pursuing other females. Males that were artificially given the female version of the gene became more passive and turned their sexual attention to other males.

"We have shown that a single gene in the fruit fly is sufficient to determine all aspects of the flies' sexual orientation and behavior," said the paper's lead author, Dr. Barry Dickson, senior scientist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. "It's very surprising.

"What it tells us is that instinctive behaviors can be specified by genetic programs, just like the morphologic development of an organ or a nose."

The results are certain to prove influential in debates about whether genes or environment determine who we are, how we act and, especially, our sexual orientation, although it is not clear now if there is a similar master sexual gene for humans.

Still, experts said they were both awed and shocked by the findings. "The results are so clean and compelling, the whole field of the genetic roots of behavior is moved forward tremendously by this work," said Dr. Michael Weiss, chairman of the department of biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University. "Hopefully this will take the discussion about sexual preferences out of the realm of morality and put it in the realm of science."

He added: "I never chose to be heterosexual; it just happened. But humans are complicated. With the flies we can see in a simple and elegant way how a gene can influence and determine behavior."

The finding supports scientific evidence accumulating over the past decade that sexual orientation may be innately programmed into the brains of men and women. Equally intriguing, the researchers say, is the possibility that a number of behaviors - hitting back when feeling threatened, fleeing when scared or laughing when amused - may also be programmed into human brains, a product of genetic heritage.

"This is a first - a superb demonstration that a single gene can serve as a switch for complex behaviors," said Dr. Gero Miesenboeck, a professor of cell biology at Yale.

Dr. Dickson, the lead author, said he ran into the laboratory when an assistant called him on a Sunday night with the results. "This really makes you think about how much of our behavior, perhaps especially sexual behaviors, has a strong genetic component," he said.

All the researchers cautioned that any of these wired behaviors set by master genes will probably be modified by experience. Though male fruit flies are programmed to pursue females, Dr. Dickson said, those that are frequently rejected over time become less aggressive in their mating behavior.

When a normal male fruit fly is introduced to a virgin female, they almost immediately begin foreplay and then copulate for 20 minutes. In fact, Dr. Dickson and his co-author, Dr. Ebru Demir of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, specifically chose to look for the genetic basis of fly sexual behavior precisely because it seemed so strong and instinctive and, therefore, predictable.

Scientists have known for several years that the master sexual gene, known as fru, was central to mating, coordinating a network of neurons that were involved in the male fly's courtship ritual. Last year, Dr. Bruce Baker of Stanford University discovered that the mating circuit controlled by the gene involved 60 nerve cells and that if any of these were damaged or destroyed by the scientists, the animal could not mate properly. Both male and female flies have the same genetic material as well as the neural circuitry required for the mating ritual, but different parts of the genes are turned on in the two sexes. But no one dreamed that simply activating the normally dormant male portion of the gene in a female fly could cause a genetic female to display the whole elaborate panoply of male fruit fly foreplay.

(Já não me lembrava o quão breathtaking eram as tuas fotos... :) Beijocas grandes :P )

Leozinha,



que é como quem diz, "as melhoras, linda!"... E para a manita também ;)



Beijocas grandes, grandes! :)