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A flowering tree at the GE Healthcare warehouse in S�o Paulo
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Babu (left) and Fernando (right) discussing warehouse processes
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Brazil, which is the 3rd largest consumer of soft drinks in the world, has a wonderful drink called
Guarana made from the berry of the plant of the same name that grows in the Amazon Basin. It also has been shown to improve
memory and evidently hasn't been shown to have the negative effects of caffine such as shaking
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Hotel Unique is just that, a unique
hotel in the shape of a boat designed by Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake
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A photo from Skye Bar on the top of Unique Hotel. Just after this it started pouring rain, which was pretty normal for each day we
were in Brazil - it was the rainy season and the cycle was cloudy in the morning, sunny during the day, cloudy in the afternoon, downpour
or misting around sunset or just after for 15-60 minutes and repeat.
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Looking down into the lobby from the bar through a shallow pool on top of glass panels
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Other team members from the Brazil ERP project
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Neat lighting effects through marble at the entrance to Skye Bar
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After waiting a long time at Skye Bar for a table, we decided to head out to a very good Pizzeria, 1900 (millenovecento). There
are 6 million people of Italian descent in S�o Paulo, more than Milan or Rome. There are only 18,000 Amerindians.
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Another day, I had lunch at Barbacoa, a traditional
Brazillian churrascaria, with my co-worker Tania. The
tokens indicate when you want to be offered an endless combination of cuts of meat you turn it to green and when you
are done you turn it to red (there is also a very nice salad bar). They have locations in Brazil, Argentina, Japan and more.
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Poor buffalo...
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The full Brazil ERP team
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A nice statue in Ibirapuera Park
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The coat of arms of S�o Paulo on a city bus
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Some of the homeless/poor in the city collect cardboard boxes, Brazil is second only to Bangladesh in the unevenness of
wealth distribution
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In 1554, the Jesuits founded Sao Paulo at P�tio do
Col�gio and evangelized the Amerindians causing conflict with the colonists who required the slave labor of the indians
for their commerce. In 1640 the Jesuits were expelled (see the movie The Mission for more information on this, especially
in the Amazon area), returned in 1653, had to leave again in 1759. The church after being rebuilt upon their return, collapsed
in 1896 but has been rebuilt and houses a museum of items from the early Jesuits of Brazil
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A bridge over the central river/drainage canal in S�o Paulo
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Another bridge
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I think these tubes running to tires on most all trucks are some form of air stablization system
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