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Jogadas Engraçadas no Futebol

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Juiz Sacaneando Jogadores

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Ataque do Vento

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Habilidade Impressionante

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Bola de Ferro

Muito engraçado!!

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Pior Mergulhada

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Golaço no Futsal

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O Funeral

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Spelling Bee Champion on CNN

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Japanese Treadmill

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Japanese Tetris Game

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Dupla Visão

Galileu
Os dois bêbados aproximam-se de uma estátua e, com muita dificuldade, lêem a inscrição.
– É um tal de Galileu.
– Mas quem foi esse Galileu?
– Foi um que descobriu que a terra dá voltas.
– Ah! Então deve ter sido um pau d’água como nós.

Dupla Visão
Ele estava bem embriagado. Aproximou-se da mesa de dois rapazes parecidíssimos, com roupas iguais. Ficou espantado:
– Ué! Será que estou vendo demais?
– Não é bem isso – esclareceu um dos rapazes. – Nós somos gêmeos.
E o bêbado, admirado:
– Os quatro?!

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A Cobra vai Fumar

A Cobra vai Fumar

1944. Depois de cinco anos de Segunda Guerra Mundial, o Brasil envia tropas à Itália. Dizia-se: mais fácil a cobra fumar que o Brasil entrar na guerra. A Força Expedicionária adotou então a cobra fumante como símbolo. A cobra vai fumar: a situação vai piorar, vai aguçar-se. Ou, atualmente, “o bicho vai pegar”.

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Veneno Feminino

VENENO FEMININO
Duas senhoras chegam ao mesmo tempo à caixa do banco e diz uma:
– Primeiro eu. Tenho de levar as crianças para a escola.
– Primeiro eu. Moro muito longe.
O caixa intervém:
– Vou atender primeiro a
mais velha.
As duas se olham e dizem:
– Sua vez! Pode ir! 

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Vá plantar batatas!

Vá plantar batatas!

Vem de Portugal, de uma época em que a agricultura era vista com certo desdém, já que o país estava voltado para a pesca e navegações. A batata, tão básica, não era considerada alimento nobre, e demorou a ser adotada na culinária. Plantar batatas, portanto, não era das atividades mais benquistas.

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History of the Brazil-U.S. Relationship

from http://www.brasilemb.org/profile_brazil/brazil_usa_war.shtml

The United States entered the 19th century as an independent nation, while Brazil, still a colony, was on its way to gaining independence. In 1808, as Napoleon’s armies began the invasion of Portugal, the King transferred his court to Rio de Janeiro thus transforming the city into the capital of a European empire. In 1815 the status of Brazil was elevated from colony to United Kingdom with Portugal. King João VI returned to Portugal six years later, leaving his son behind as Regent.

In 1822, a year after the King’s return, the Crown Prince proclaimed Brazil an independent constitutional monarchy and had himself crowned Emperor Pedro I. The United States was the first country to recognize Brazil’s independence and Washington received its first Brazilian envoy, José Silvestre Rabello, in 1824. In 1831 Pedro I abdicated the throne of Brazil in favor of his son, Pedro II, who ruled for fifty-eight years.

In the mid 19th century Brazil and the U.S. each fought a war with a former colony of Spain. Texas had been an independent republic for almost ten years when it was finally admitted as a state to the United States. Close on the heels of Texas’ annexation came the Mexican War (1846-48) between the U.S. and Mexico. Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southwestern boundary; Mexico claimed the region as far north and east as the Nueces River. The war was settled by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Mexico conceded the border question: the Rio Grande would be Texas’ southwestern border. Mexico also ceded to the U.S., for $15 million, land now occupied by the states of California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Brazil, allied with Argentina and Uruguay, fought the War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay from 1865 to 1870. Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López took advantage of civil war in Uruguay to further his ambition of dominating the entire River Plate region. When he invaded Brazil in December 1864, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil signed the Triple Alliance treaty in Buenos Aires to defend themselves against López’ aggression. Although the Allies won the war, the high casualties and the long duration weakened the Brazilian monarchy. This was the last war Brazil had with any of its neighbors. More than a century later, in 1991, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay formed the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUL), the most important trade organization on the Southern continent.

By 1830, of the total number of individuals of African descent living in the Western Hemisphere, 25 percent lived in Brazil and 25 percent lived in the United States.

The remaining 50 percent were scattered throughout the Caribbean and in other South American countries. Both countries experienced profound upheaval to bring about the end of slavery. The United States fought a civil war; Brazil changed its form of government. On January 1, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confederate States of America. However, it wasn’t until the North was victorious and the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1865 that slavery ended in the United States.

Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil had a lively appreciation for the contributions that science and technology could make to society. He was interested in expanding his country’s primary commodities, including making Brazil a major cotton producer. After the defeat of the South in the U.S. Civil War, he invited diehard confederates who had been successful in cultivating the South’s cotton to come to Brazil. Between 1867 and 1871, a time when slavery was still legal in Brazil, at least 3,000 Southern confederate families passed through the port of Rio de Janeiro. About 80 percent of the confederates returned to the United States, but one successful settlement - Americana - founded by Colonel William Hutchinson Norris of Mobile, Alabama, remains to this day.

Located 75 miles from the city of São Paulo, Americana today has a population of 250,000. Among the descendants of the confederados (about 10 percent of the population), conversations are often in Southern-accented English. Families, some named Jones, MacKnight and Whitaker, come together for the Fourth of July and other holidays and have a Southern-style barbecue. Rosalyn Carter, wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has relatives buried in the confederate cemetery in Americana. In 1992, President-elect Bill Clinton wrote a letter to the confederados of Americana before he took office in which he recalled that Arkansas was one of the thirteen states that had settlers in Brazil.

In Brazil slavery was abolished gradually. In 1871, six years after U.S. emancipation, children born to Brazilian slaves were no longer considered slaves. In 1888, with Emperor Dom Pedro II away in Europe, his daughter, Princess Isabel, acting as Regent, signed the Golden Law (Lei Áurea) which finally abolished slavery in Brazil. The Golden Law set off a reaction among Brazilian slave owners which rapidly eroded the political foundations of the monarchy. After a few months of parliamentary crisis, the Emperor was asked to leave the country and a Republic was established. The victory of the North in the Civil War set the United States on an industrialized course whereas Brazil remained mostly agrarian until the 1930s.

Emperor Dom Pedro II, an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, visited the United States during the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. While at the Exposition, The Emperor met Alexander Graham Bell who was demonstrating his new invention - the telephone. The Emperor was the first person to buy stock in Bell’s company, the Bell Telephone Company. One of the first telephones in the world in a private residence was installed in the Emperor’s Palace in Petrópolis, his summer retreat forty miles from Rio de Janeiro.

In the later part of the 19th century music started to become a link between the two countries. American pianist and composer Louis Gottschalk was invited by Emperor Dom Pedro II to Brazil in 1869 to give a series of concerts. Gottschalk wrote a set of variations entitled Triumphant Fantasy on the Brazilian National Anthem which he dedicated to the eldest daughter of the Emperor, Princess Isabel. Music historians consider that Gottschalk’s rhythms influenced the beginnings of jazz.

On the occasion of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Brazilian opera composer Carlos Gomes performed his work for the American audiences and again at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. His music recently re-emerged with the 1996 Kennedy Center presentation of his opera, Il Guarany, by the Washington Opera, with Plácido Domingo in the leading tenor role.

When the Brazilian Republic was declared in 1889 it was called the United States of Brazil and the new government structure was based on the U.S. structure: a President and Vice President, a bicameral Congress, and an independent judiciary. (In the 1970’s Brazil changed its name to the Federative Republic of Brazil.) Brazil has 26 states and a federal district; the U.S. has 50 states and a federal district. State governments in both countries mirror the federal structure. Federal revenue sharing, a subject of much debate in the U.S. Congress, was incorporated into the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. Thus a federal revenue sharing system provides the Brazilian states, just as it does the American states, considerable resources.

As the 19th century ended, the history of aviation was beginning, a story in which Brazilians and Americans each claim the leading role. While in the U.S. the Wright brothers are the undisputed pioneers of aviation, in Brazil, Alberto Santos Dumont is considered the Father of Aviation. In 1898 Dumont was the first to construct and fly a gasoline-powered, lighter-than-air craft. In 1906 in Paris, France, he succeeded in making the world’s first, officially-observed, powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine. Orville and Wilbur Wright made several controlled, sustained flights in a power-driven, heavier-than-air craft near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, but it wasn’t until 1908 that their achievement was recognized in the United States.

In 1889 American poet Walt Whitman wrote a poem welcoming the birth of the Brazilian Republic

Welcome, Brazilian Brother - thy ample place is ready;
A Loving Hand - a Smile from the North -
A Sunny Instant Hail!
(Let the Future Care for itself, where it reveals
its Troubles, Impediments,
Ours, Ours, the Present Throe, the Democratic Aim,
the Acceptance and Faith);
To Thee To-day our Reaching Arm, our Turning Neck -
To thee from Us the Expectant Eye,
Thou Cluster Free! Thou Brilliant Lustous One!
Thou, Learning Well,
The True Lesson of a Nation’s Light in the Sky,
(More Shining than the Cross, more than the Crown),
The Height to Be Superb Humanity.

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Pôr a mão no fogo

Pôr a mão no fogo

Em julgamentos na Idade Média, o acusado deveria caminhar alguns metros segurando uma barra de ferro em brasa. Se as mãos, protegidas apenas por uma estopa, ficassem intatas, o réu era considerado inocente. Senão, era enforcado. Ficou a expressão “pôr a mão no fogo” (por uma pessoa): confiar nela plenamente.

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Gol de Gandula

The gandula (ballboy) notices that ref is doubting whether the ball went in or not and kicks it into the net. I believe she was looking over at the sidelines ref to see what he was signaling so she didnt notice it.

Below is the repercussion on Jornal Nacional of the hilarious incident.

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A pressa é inimiga da perfeição

A pressa é inimiga da perfeição.

Em 1899, Clóvis Bevilacqua foi convidado para redigir nosso primeiro Código Civil. Concluiu a tarefa em seis meses. Ruy Barbosa, que viu erros na obra, discordou da rapidez com que o governo queria aprová-la e cravou: “A pressa é inimiga da perfeição.” O novo Código só foi aprovado em 1916, com 1.027 emendas. A expressão pegou imediatamente.

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Lillian Witte Fibe

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Para inglês ver

ORIGEM DA EXPRESSÃO: Para inglês ver

Em 1831, o ministro Diogo Antônio Feijó promulgou lei que proibiu tráfico de escravos, sob pressão britânica. O crime continuou por anos. Navios negreiros, abordados pelos ingleses, jogavam os africanos ao mar e estavam dentro da lei: “para inglês ver”. Virou sinônimo de falsas aparências.

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SBT Brasil

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Tema de Redação e outras

TOMA-LÁ-DÁ-CÁ

Quando o célebre jurista Ruy Barbosa iniciava sua profissão na Bahia, apareceu-lhe em casa, certa vez, um açougueiro. Sem delongas, perguntou ao futuro Águia de Haia:
– Se o cachorro de um vizinho lhe furta um pedaço de carne pesando 5 quilos, o dono do cachorro é obrigado a pagar?
O advogado indaga:
– O senhor tem testemunhas?
– Tenho – responde o outro, como quem tem segurança do que diz.
O jurista então sentencia, categórico:
– Pois trate de receber a importância.
– Pois então o doutor me deve $7.500. Foi o seu cachorro que roubou a carne.
O futuro jurisconsulto faz o pagamento sem bufar, e quando o açougueiro ia saindo, chama-o:
– Vem cá! E a consulta, não vai pagar?
– Devo?
– Naturalmente. São $50.000.

Tema de Redação

A professora de português declara:

– Hoje vou dar um tema para que cada um desenvolva com toda a independência e dando largas à imaginação. É um teste de redação em que o aluno terá oportunidade de mostrar seus conhecimentos e tendências literárias. O tema: “O que eu faria se fosse milionário”.

Os garotos começam a escrever. Mas não todos. Há um que pega o atirador de elástico e principia a caçar moscas sem dar a menor importância ao que se passa na aula.

– Como é, seu Maurício? Todos os colegas estão trabalhando e só o senhor não faz nada, ou, o que é pior, está apanhando moscas?

– Não é verdade, professora. Estou levando muito a sério o tema. Apenas estou mostrando na prática “o que eu faria se fosse milionário”.

Monólogo
Minha mulher me disse para despejar todas as garrafas de uísque na pia.

Tirei a rolha da primeira garrafa e despejei, com exceção de um copo que bebi.

Extraí a rolha da segunda garrafa e procedi da mesma maneira, com exceção de um copo que virei.
Arranquei a rolha da terceira e despejei, com exceção de um copo que empinei.

Puxei a pia da quarta rolha e despejei o copo na garrafa que bebi.

Apanhei a quinta rolha na pia. Despejei o copo no resto e bebi a garrafa, por exceção.

Agarrei o copo da sexta pia, puxei o uísque e bebi a garrafa, com exceção da rolha.

Tirei a rolha seguinte, despejei a pia na garrafa, arrolhei o copo e bebi por exceção.

Resolvi conferir o serviço. Segurei a casa com uma mão e com a outra contei direitinho casas, copos, rolhas, pias e garrafas, menos as que escondi no banheiro e que não vão chegar até amanhã, porque eu estou com uma sede…

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Sanduiche-iche

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Quem é normal?

Em visita ao hospício, o inspetor de saúde pergunta ao diretor qual é o critério para definir se o paciente
pode ter alta.
– Bem, nós enchemos uma banheira
e oferecemos uma colherinha de chá
e uma xícara para esvaziá-la.
– Certo: uma pessoa normal escolhe
a xícara, que é maior.
– Não. Uma pessoa normal tira a tampa do ralo.

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Trombada

Trombada

Na cidade de São Paulo em 1929, o bonde Vila Maria passava pela Rua Catumbi quando o elefante Eli, fugido do circo, o encarou. Apesar da estridente campainha do bonde, Eli não se intimidou e jogou-se contra o Vila Maria, protegido pela tromba: deu-lhe uma “trombada”. Danificou o bonde e caiu desacordado. Trombada: colisão, choque, batida.

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Mensalidade e Férias

Mensalidade
Quando foi pagar a conta do colégio, o pai de família estranhou:
– Nunca pensei que o estudo custasse tão caro!
E o filho acrescentou:
– Imagine, papai, que eu sou até dos que estudam menos.

Férias
A empregada, ao abrir a porta:
– O Dr. Carlos não está. Anda viajando.
– Viagem de recreio?
– Não, senhor. A patroa também foi.

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Deu Zebra

ORIGEM DA EXPRESSÃO: Deu Zebra

Campeonato carioca de 1964. A Portuguesa do Rio pega o Vasco, favorito. Gentil Cardoso, técnico da Lusa, prevê resultado tão impossível como o sorteio da zebra no jogo do bicho – o animal não figura no rol. “Hoje vai dar zebra”, diz Gentil. A Portuguesa ganha e a expressão pega na hora. Deu zebra: aconteceu o inesperado.

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Problema de Pontuação

O ricaço, nas últimas, escreve testamento às pressas: Deixo meus bens à minha irmã não a meu sobrinho jamais será paga a conta do alfaiate nada dou aos pobres.

O sobrinho pontuou: Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não. A meu sobrinho. Jamais será paga a conta do alfaiate. Nada dou aos pobres.

A irmã: Deixo meus bens à minha irmã. Não a meu sobrinho. Jamais será paga a conta do alfaiate. Nada dou aos pobres.

O alfaiate: Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não! A meu sobrinho? Jamais. Será paga a conta do alfaiate. Nada dou aos pobres.

Chega um descamisado: Deixo meus bens à minha irmã? Não. A meu sobrinho? Jamais. Será paga a conta do alfaiate? Nada. Dou aos pobres.

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Cobrança de falta do Fortaleza

Bechara e Igor correm para bater a falta e causam uma cena realmente inusitada. O Bechara acabou com a perna quebrada!

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Juiz Margarida

Famoso juiz brasileiro dos anos 90. É mais uma rotina dele que o fez uma celebridade… ele tem uma esposa e duas filhas

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Aprenda inglês!

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Maradona e Guaraná Antarctica

Leia tambem como os argentinos deram o troco.

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Duas lontras dando as mãos

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O dia em que o Brasil foi invadido

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Duas galinhas acabando com uma briga

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Sônia, Fala “Youtube”

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Planning on coming to the reunion?

Forms

Those of you who have sent your registration forms and deposits to Trina should have received a confirmation from her.  If you have not, contact Trina to make sure she has your information.

If you have not sent your registration forms in, please do so ASAP!  The reunion is coming up quickly!  If you need information or registration forms please contact Missy at and she will get them to you
right away.

If you are planning on being at the reunion, but are not registering because you are local, and do not need accomodations, please send the names of those attending and graduation year to Trina, as she is making nametags for all of us.

If you have any other questions please contact us.  We look forward to seeing you all there!

Contact info

Missy Davis
ph: 530/755-2920
E-mail:

Send your Registration forms / Names to:
Trina Riethmeyer
ph:720/283-6537
E-mail:

For questions regarding accomodations and available activities:
Leslie Corenchuc
ph: 316/729-0855
E-mail:

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Mulher no volante, perigo constante

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Comment on Updates

Now you can comment on any updates left by an alumni. There is a link underneath the update, saying something akin to ”0 Comments. Would you like to comment?” Just click on that and you’ll be shown a small window where you can add a comment to that update.

In the window you can also show the original update text, to refresh your memory. Other comments will be displayed there too. For an example, go to Melissa Davis’ page, where the latest update has a comment I left on there.

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Who will be our 200th alumni?

So far we have 199 Vianópolis alumni in our database!

Look at the listing and see if you can find someone who is missing

I can think of two… but we’ll see how good your memory is. 

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Browse all alumni by year or alphabetically

We have over 180 alumni in our database already and you can see all of them now, either sorted by year or alphabetically. It’s neat to see how many people have gone through Via and I’m pretty sure we still are missing at least another 100 or so alumni, especially from the 70’s to the early 80’s.

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Set your Via Reunion 2007 Status

You can set your status for the Reunion 2007 in your profile page. Here’s the direct link to it.

Additionally, you can view those who will be at the reunion both on the front page and the Reunion 2007 page.

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Linked Addresses to Google Maps

The address in alumni profiles is now linked directly to Google Maps, so just click on the address to get sent to a map showing where the alumni is located.

In case you’re interested, here’s the link to the satellite view of Vianópolis from space. 

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Driving Directions to Roach, MO

You can find the driving directions to Roach, MO at Google Maps by following this link.

After the map loads, fill in the “Start Address” field at the top left with where you’ll be starting from.

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Beijinho

Sent by Trina Riethmeyer

2 cans of sweetened condensed milk
2 Tablespoons of butter or margarine
3 3/4 cups of finely shredded coconut flakes
Sugar
Whole cloves

Mix the sweetened condensed milk, butter and coconut in a saucepan and stir over low heat about 15 minutes until it thickens and leaves the bottom of the pan. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Roll into small balls, roll in sugar and place in individual paper cups. Add one whole clove to each.

(From the website Tudogostoso.uol.com.br)

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Brigadeiro

Sent by Trina Riethmeyer

2 Tablespoons butter or margarine

2 Tablespoons powdered chocolate milk or semi-sweet chocolate morsels

1 can sweetened condensed milk

Mix ingredients together. Stir mixture over a low flame until it thickens and leaves the bottom of the pan. Cool slightly. Roll into small balls.  Then roll into chocolate confetti. Put into individual paper cups. WARNING: If overcooked, it crumbles; if undercooked, it becomes sticky.

(From PACA cookbook)

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Pão de Queijo

sent by Greg Taylor (Gorb)

In Canada, I find that the best cheese to use is Cheese Curds.  I have found this to be closest to the farmer’s cheese used in Brasil.  Since it comes in small pieces, I use my food processor to chop it up, rather than trying to grate it.  Tapioca Flour (also sometimes called Tapioca Starch) can be found at most Asian super markets.  You may also find it at your grocery store, or maybe the manager can special order it for you.  You may have to experiment a few times before it turns out just right.  I’ve got it pretty close now, so here’s the recipe that I use:

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Tapioca Flour
• ¾ table spoon Salt
• 4 Eggs
• 3 cups finely chopped/grated Cheese Curds *
• 1/3 cup Water
• Heaping 1/3 cup Margarine

Note:  Be careful not to leave the cheese curds in the food processor too long, or they start to get soft and clump together.

Preparation

Mix the Tapioca Flour and Salt in a large mixing bowl.  In a small pot, bring the Water and Margarine to a boil, completely melting the Margarine.  Slowly pour this mixture over the flour.  Once it has slightly cooled, add the Eggs, one at a time, mixing them in.  Next, add the Cheese.  This part is important!  Knead the dough thoroughly.  The dough should be moist and slightly sticky. 

Make sure that everything is mixed in really well.  It will take several minutes and a bit of effort to get the consistency right.  If the dough is too dry, you can add some water a few drops at a time.  Be careful, though, because it gets too wet very easily.  Roll into 1 ½” balls and bake at 400o for 22 – 25 minutes.  The extra can be frozen until the next time you need to matar saudades.  You can bake them from frozen by adding 5 minutes to the baking time.  I actually find that they taste better when cooked from frozen.  Enjoy!

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Via Reunion 2007

The second Via alumni reunion is scheduled for July 19th-22nd at New Tribes Training Center in Camdenton, MO. If you missed the first one six years ago, then you definitely won’t want to miss this one.

Just a reminder to anyone who is wanting to come to the Via reunion in July (at NTM training center in MO) please contact Missy Davis at for more information and registration forms.

Registration forms should be turned in by the end of April if at all possible.  Hope to see you there!

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A day in the life of a full time student

a day!