MURIEL is on.

life is so tight and the truth is that love isnt something so easy to get with and the idea of throwing ur thoughts to others is really so dreading but little can we do in this world cause when our hormonal levels tend to hypereact, life tends so confusing and so different and as always your position will be teasured in this psychological world of mine and the fact is as they always say that time heals wounds.
in loving memory
of mary stuart

The dark, dark side of Brazil

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The dark, dark side of BrazilFri Mar 06 07:44AM

Having missed the freeway exit, there was no choice but to cut through dark suburbs of windy roads, some of them just dirt, relying on a GPS to find the house tucked away in the nether regions of one of the innumerable satellite towns outside Sao Paulo.I was on my way to interview a couple, a New Zealander and his Brazilian common-law wife, who had lost their three-year-old daughter to a horrendous crime: a rape and murder while they were on vacation in a beach resort favoured by foreigners.But the driving through increasingly sinister zones, and the anxiety-bordering-on-panic demeanour of a Brazilian friend in the car suggested to me that horrendous crime was more commonplace than my upbringing in Australian and European neighbourhoods had prepared me for.Statistically, I knew that to be true. Brazil has around 45,000 homicides a year, a staggering number. Per head of population, only a handful of other countries rank worse in the world (among them El Salvador, Venezuela, Jamaica and South Africa). Armed robbery is rife, drugs are everywhere, police are ineffective, walls around houses of those who can afford it are high and topped with electric wires or broken glass.But when you live in the "safest" part of the city, where European prices exclude all except the well-heeled, you see little of all that. Until, that is, you move just a short distance in almost any direction and you see the cruel reality of Brazilian life.Night-time in unfamiliar terrain here conjures up images of mediaevel forests where villagers were afraid to tread because there be monsters.This week was exceptionally bad, with the perversity of several cases making them stand out from the drip-drip-drip of almost daily reports of violence.The couple I interviewed were doubly victim: first they lost their daughter, then they had to endure deliberate official inaction over the crime for more than two months.The police officer initially in charge of the case dismissed signs on the toddler's body that she had been raped, and blamed the couple for leaving her to play in the garden unsupervised for 20 minutes. The doctor at the hospital handling the body did little either. Eventually other, more professional police got involved (after pressure from the New Zealand embassy) and the case was cracked within days (a labourer at the couple's rented vacation villa confessed).Children were also the victims of two other crimes that came to light in the past few days, both similar. In both cases, young girls became pregnant after alleged abuse at the hands of their stepfather or adoptive father. The girls' ages? Nine and 11.The nine-year-old, who was pregnant with twins, had an abortion this week, prompting the furious, influential, pro-life Catholic Church to excommunicate her mother and the doctors involved.Then there was a case in Rio, where a gang of robbers grabbed a couple as they were leaving a restaurant in a chic part of town. After stealing all their valuables, the couple were driven to a cliff and pushed off. Both survived and managed to identify their assailants.The robbers themselves had been beaten beforehand by drug-dealers in their slum who were angry with them for attracting police attention to their lawless district.That last twist perhaps sums up the situation here best: this is a land where, all too often, the only law is that of the jungle. And night-time in the jungle can be a scary place indeed.

life is tight my friends

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Peter and Penelope Duff, from Bath in Somerset, died at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich on February 27.
Retired businessmen Mr Duff, 80, a patron of the Bath Festival, was suffering from colon and liver cancer.
His 70-year-old wife had been suffering from another rare form of the disease, Gist (gastrointestinal stromal tumour) since 1992.
A family statement said: "Peter and Penny Duff passed away peacefully together in Zurich after a long battle against their terminal cancer on February 27.
"Penny had fought a rare cancer, Gist, since 1992 and Peter's colon cancer had spread to his liver.
"Their decision in no way reflected on the wonderful and humbling care they have received from their consultant, doctors and nurses, for which the family, and they, were so appreciative."
Mr Duff was secretary-general of the Wine Guild of the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1989.
He had been chairman of Alcohol In Moderation since March 2001.
A statement released by Bath Festival said of the Duffs: "They were great patrons of the arts who supported our festivals for many years, although their chief involvement was with music."
Dignitas was founded in 1998 by Swiss lawyer Ludwig Minelli, who runs it as a non-profit organisation.

its so hyper oooooooooh hypo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Speechless"Your love is magical, that's how I feel But I have not the words here to explain Gone is the grace for expressions of passion But there are worlds and worlds of ways to explain To tell you how I feel But I am speechless, speechless That's how you make me feel Though I'm with you I am far away and nothing is for real When I'm with you I am lost for words, I don't know what to say My head's spinning like a carousel, so silently I pray Helpless and hopeless, that's how I feel inside Nothing's real, but all is possible if God is on my side When I'm with you I am in the light where I cannot be found It's as though I am standing in the place called Hallowed Ground Speechless, speechless, that's how you make me feel Though I'm with you I am far away and nothing is for real I'll go anywhere and do anything just to touch your face There's no mountain high I cannot climb I'm humbled in your grace Speechless, speechless, that's how you make me feel Though I'm with you I am lost for words and nothing is for real Speechless, speechless, that's how you make me feel Though I'm with you I am far away, and nothing is for real Speechless, speechless, that's how you make me feel Though I'm with you I am lost for words and nothing is for real SpeechlessYour love is magical, that's how I feel But in your presence I am lost for words Words like, "I love you."

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the weathr is chilly and the winds r being gathered up the grate job. the job znt de rains but u. will u survive the storm in this wrecked atmosphere we r in. the atmospheric pressure z so hi. where r dey...nway. dont loose sight of the most valuable things in ur short lifespan esp tho which matter most in your life. no 1 has de tim, but the tim has always been there and will continue to be until u live 4 de simple fact dat u got it hear dear friend. read the most important book there is and dat buk u well do no coz the diffrence btn u and the ungulates is ur highly developed cerebrum bostowed upon u. use ur chance wishly for the best of ur self and ur good. for the day u die z more important than the day of ur birth...so nway better prepare 2 celebrate ur day of silence than the day when u sounded ur first cry aloud inside that hospital which u dread alot 4 its only visited when ur grate day approaches. otherwise dont have the usual regrates 4...'i never knew this'.....time was found there and it will continue to run untill the ur gd day. how often we desire 4 dat day.!!!!!!!!

thats how life tends to get here in the hills of the pearl. whart was it? the pearl.....really so precious and rare.

outside her we all try our besst to make the best of every situation befor e us but the truth is taht life is tight whether you are in oceania, antarctica, or the populous turbulent world....but these crookes who instead make life harder for others are amenance. when shall we get away with them. the world is as it seems tending to developmental goals but the fact is that they are beyond our reach cause there are alot of forces that are behind the scene. to make it worse, they are wicked and devious just like the snake. becareful with whom you smiled with today.