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Dear Paulo,
A few days ago, there was the case of a lady who weighted more than 225ks and wanted to have an operation. She was going onto a private Hospital to have it done. The Hospital had apparently a policy whereby she was too heavy and did not want to operate her?
The fact that she was going to have it done in a private Hospital meant that she had taken a private insurance for that. Considering that the waiting list in government hospitals are as long as an arm most of the time, here is another example where the private insurances and the private hospitals are happy to take her money however, they decide willy nilly who can have access to their hospitals or not.
After this was screened on tv, this matter was resolved. This sort of treatment is going on an on all the time these days though.
Where are we heading to, Paulo? Is one life worth more than another?
I call this discrimination.
Love
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Hoje faz uma semana que realizei um dos maiores sonhos de minha vida que foi conhecê-lo pessoalmente. Não ha palavras aqui que possam demonstrar minha gratidão, eu so queria que soubesse que quinta feira passada foi um dos dias mais felizes de minha vida, e eu agradeço muito à você, à Cristina assim como à todos presentes pela maravilhosa energia que compartilhamos. Obrigada por terem me recebido, assim como a todos, com tanta atenção, carinho e amor. Obrigada por tudo. Me tornei devota de São José graças a você. Que Deus abençõe vocês.
Grande abraço,
MARG,
Cassia
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Im pursuing international journalism at Columbia Univeristy in New York and im deeply interested in researching and examining the Gypsy Culture. I remember The Witch of Portobello and all of it’s majesties and the explorations of self from a culturally diverse point of view. It along with a movie called Gadjo Dilo inspired me to inquire more about the Romanian culture. Anyone who is interested…check out the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74RdfFfN24Q
Paulo if you read this, can you offer any advice about gypsies or where can i find a community of them? Anything, i dont know…
Thanks for this SPACE
Tracy–
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Me toca la idea, que la iglesia este totalmente equivocada y que esta seguiendo una línea que ya pasó a miles de años…pues miren, me enojo que no aceptan los condones, y que haremos? Morreremos todos con enfermedades muy graves?…pues creeo q es eso lo que quieren!!! Abajo la Hipocresia! Tenemos que juntarnos todos y luchar para que eso se termine y que volvamos un mundo con más libertad!
God Bless you forever Paulo, y que continues con sús palavras magicas…
love,
Any.
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Last weekend found me again at the coast. It had been a glorious week and continued on through the weekend.
The last time I was in Brighton the children were small. Their father and I took them down to the Pier and spent the afternoon along the promenade. That is as much as we saw of Brighton, and probably as much as we could cope with at that time with small children in tow.
This time was completely different. My guide grew up in Brighton and I received a running commentary on the area along with some amusing anecdotes. Unfortunately, my camera decided to go on strike on Saturday. Initially it was quite a bummer, but me ever the optimist and it being a glorious day, I decided that fate just wanted me to relax and enjoy being in the moment. Brighton will still be there and I can come back another time.
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Yesterday i found that some birds have built a nest in a part of my room, in the chimney, i couldn’t see them, but i can hear them. I was in my room writing my homework and i heard singing of a bird. This scared me, but why?
:)
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oh nine inch nails love it!
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Dear all,
Here is the Song of the day-
http://mybheja.blogspot.com/2009/03/nine-inch-nails-beginning-of-end.html
Enjoy !
God bless you all !
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Yesterday something beautiful happened at work. I work in the back offices of a bank – not a very spiritually stimulating job, obviously. It pays well, it’s a fabulous job for an immigrant such myself, and sometimes you actually get to use your head while doing it. So, it’s ok – I’ll miss it when it’ll be over.
Anyway, one of the activities we do in our office is sample checking the documents that the clientele will receive at home. Yesterday, my colleague that does this work had to check the general layout of a new type of document to be produced starting next month. So the IT department sent him the document for proof reading. He printed it in colors, and checked the logo, the general information about the bank, the general information specific to the type of document, and eventually got to the actual content – it was not his job to check it and since it was just a sample, it didn’t contain actual information about any clients, but a ‘random’ text pasted there by an IT department employee, simply for layout checking purposes. But he started reading it anyway. He got up, came over to me smiling and handed me the document.
It was a text in Latin: a fragment of the Bible, from the first epistle to the Corinthians, about love.
Thank you for allowing me to post this here.
Love,
Andreea
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Hi, I would like to invite readers to the new Paulo Coelho UK Fan Club that is on myspace. If you have a myspace account, you can find it under Paulo Coelho UK Fan Club, it is based in the UK for readers to share thoughts and messages, however, fans and readers from all over the world are very welcome too! :)
Thank you
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So yesterday I happened to get my answer to my current puzzle - the forces and undercurrents that seem to get me entangled - here on work in Ghana,
I was told something that essentially showed the factor to be racial/post colonial…
I thought it was gender, religion, politics of the time even… but it was decidedly the other.
How far there is to yet go :o/
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“The financial crisis threatens to push 90 million more people into
extreme poverty according to a report this month from U.K. Department for International Development. For a crisis of this scale, we need a comprehensive global solution.
The G20 summit in London provides the opportunity for leaders to seek this solution and President Obama, in an unique position of leadership,
has the ability to push leaders into action.”
http://www.one.org/international/obamainlondon
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