Miguel Fernández
The Price of Water
01_ In the 1970s, during one of the many attempts to "contain" inflation in Brazil, Médici and Delfim froze public service prices in...
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Miguel Fernández
- Jul 3
- 3 min
Emigrants, Immigrants, and Migrants (Part 1)
It was around July 1969, and I was an intern at the central office of Montreal Engineering, at 90 São José Street, downtown Rio. During...
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Miguel Fernández
- May 17, 2023
- 11 min
Bidet & Civilization
(About Bidet, or “introduction to the study of the bidet”) The civil engineering course had a course called “Building Hygiene” also known...
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Miguel Fernández
- May 17, 2023
- 2 min
Muchos Padres
The UN sponsored excellent postgraduate courses at the Instituto de Hidrologia de Madrid, which was directed by eng. Rafael Heras, and...
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Miguel Fernández
- May 17, 2023
- 6 min
My Beetles Talking
The first car at home was a 1961 Beetle, the color of wet brick (ceramic?), bought by my father without telling anyone: surprise. I was...
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Miguel Fernández
- May 16, 2023
- 7 min
Objectivity in the US (New York, 1971)
It was in 1971 that I discovered the United States (*). It was not on the wings of PanAir, as Fernando Brant and Milton Nascimento...
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Miguel Fernández
- May 16, 2023
- 7 min
Does he treat you well? (New York, 1971)
In mid-1971, I went to the United States for the first time in my life, together with 7 more selected/invited guests of the USIS (United...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 4 min
How to Rob a Bank (Dead-End Invitations)
I met Leonard Goldblatt in São Paulo, in 1971, at the company that hired us to run the SAM project, Sistema Adutor Metropolitano:...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 3 min
How to season a salad
My father was a semi-literate peasant from Orense, Galicia, Spain, who emigrated around 1930, aged about 19. He left (and arrived)...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 2 min
Colleagues colleagues, business apart
I believe it was around 1980. Now I don't remember for sure anymore. Petrobrás launches a tender for the installation of current graphs...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 2 min
Jealousy... ethnic? (Nisei) (Ethnic Jealousy 2)
My friend Rafael, around 1972 to 1973, single at the time, 25 years old, in the prime of his life, worked at the former COMASP (today...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 2 min
Congress causes
The opening ceremony, at the brand new São Paulo Expo, had something new: the stage was surrounded by rows of armchairs. Some thought it...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 1 min
Idiot Notices
As a result of the "gluten-free" text that we wrote and disseminated, we received many suggestions and contributions. We need to review...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 4 min
Asunción, Paraguay, solteros, 1972
The 13th congress of AIDIS (Asociación Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitária) was held in Asunción, Paraguay, in August 1972. As it is...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 2 min
Alternatives and Decisions
I was told this by my excellent colleague and friend José Eduardo W. Cavalcanti (Chemical Engineer specialist in water bio-chemistry,...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 1 min
The law as an argument
Within the series of videos on subjects that allow us to get to know each other better, we are going to address the subject of “the law...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 17, 2023
- 2 min
Gluten-Free Water (of the series deceives me that I like)
Who ever read the label on a bottle of water? Did not read? Well, read it, if you don't cry, you'll laugh I bought a bottle of...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 14, 2023
- 4 min
Dealing with Zombies
VARIG, was the world-renowned Brazilian airline, until when it went bankrupt in 2006 (or was bankrupt, depending on the interlocutor)....
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 14, 2023
- 3 min
Pajelanças, Traditions and Prejudices
It was March 2006, in the maternity ward of Casa de Saúde São José, in the Humaitá neighborhood, in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, a...
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Miguel Fernández
- Apr 12, 2023
- 7 min
Speaking English
Work on the Rio Niterói Bridge began in January 1969. The three central spans are made of steel, the design, some cuts, welds and...
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