Jaçanã - Citizendia

Jaçanã - Citizendia

Thanks for being a friend

Today, July 20th, we celebrated the Fiendship Day. The date was set by Argentinian Ernesto Enrique Febbaro to mark the arrival of man on the moon on July 20, 1969. He sent about four thousand letters to several countries and in several languages ​​in order to establish the Friendship Day. Febbaro saw the arrival of man on the moon as "a demonstration that if a man get together with his fellows, there is no impossible goals." Gradually the date has been adopted in other countries and today, all around the world, the 20th of July is the Friendship Day, when people declare their friendship to each other, in theory.

I consider myself a collector of the greatest treasure that a human being can have: the friendship. I keep this treasure chest on the left side of my chest, the place we call heart.

At this moment I tenderly hug all my friends: present or distant, real or virtual, notorious or unknown, those who walk among us and those who departed of this life. My fraternal hug to all!

Marc Fortuna

Decisions

There are cycles in our lives when we have to make decisions, and this is not always easy. Great men do not escape the responsibility of making big decisions.. it´s a risk we have to take from time to time.

It is not easy to decide at a crossroads, which way to go: the only certainty is that each path will lead us to an unknown place.

One thing you can be sure: even if we take the decision we believe it´s the right one, there will be those who dare to criticize, without even try to walk in our footsteps. It´s not easy to make decisions, but the great men, with the humility to recognize the risk of them, take them without fear.

Marc Fortuna

Tribute to the victims of Flight TAM3054

Exactly four years ago, on July 17th 2007, Brazil and the world witnessed the most shocking air crash in Brazilian soil up to date.

At 17:16h, TAM flight 3054 took off from Salgado Filho airport in Porto Alegre, bound to the international airport of Congonhas, in the heart of the city of São Paulo, landing at 18:51h. In a fatality not yet completely clarified, the aircraft turned left off the runway, crossing Washington Luiz Avenue and crashing into the building of TAM Express located opposite the airport.

In this accident, 199 lives were interrupted abruptly, 187 on the aircraft and 12 were on the ground. Each of these people had a life story to be written ... dreams, desires and projects ...

It could happen to any of us, I flew this same route twice and I know dozens of people who often do. Therefore it is necessary to remember and pay our tribute to those who died in this tragic accident. And also to serve as a warning to the airport authorities and airlines in order to implement the necessary measures to avoid other fatalities.

In the fourth anniversary of this tragedy, I dedicate my prayers to the victims, and to their families and friends, I ask to our Heavenly Father to console the irreparable pain of losing a loved one.

It´s a lesson to be learned: never miss the opportunity to show people around us, how important they are in our lives. Never leave for tomorrow the opportunity to say "I love you" to those who really matter to us.

Marc Fortuna

Politique

 

Politique est une science imprécise... Institutions politiques renferme l'etude de la constitution, du gouvernement central, des gouvernementes régionaux et locaux, de l'administration, des foncions économiques et sociales de l'Etat.

Le phénomène politique s'extériorise dans une infinie varieté de manifestations. La science politique est une science sociale et une sciene spéculative. Par certains aspects elle apparaît comme une science théorique, par d'autres comme une une science expérimentale.

Il est un principe d'ordre et de stabilité. Plus politique est fragile, plus les débats relatifs à ses méthodes son importante.

En Itanhaem, une station balnéaire au Brésil, l'attitude que j'adopte est purement pragmatique.

Answering Machine [poem]

We can't do it, my love!
We can't hurt each other anymore
We can't see sunshine together
Because there's no light
There're no stars in the sky
There's no rainbow after it rains...
Please, be sensible my love
We can t do it anymore.

Look after yourself
And don't try to do anything silly
Just because we are not together.
We can't do it
We are not together...
I can't be close to you
And I have my reasons for that
I'm a different person
And you're a different person as well
But since I've arrived here...
I don't know
Maybe my behavior has changed.

What I would like to say to you is...
We can't do it
I can't be close to you...
Our love
Our feelings...
It's not going to work.

You know
My feelings for you are real
They are genuine
They are original
But it's not going to work...
I'm so sorry !
We can't do it !
We can't be together !

I hope you pick up this message
From your answering machine...
And be able to forgive me.

Bip !!!!!

©Marc Fortuna (Lord Fortuna of Lancaster), 1998

In Focus: Mme Madeleine

Marc Fortuna with the sweetest lady in the UK, the dear Madeleine (Hillary´s mommy) in Kingston Uppon Thames, Surrey, England

Prosperity Fund - Brazil Programme

The FCO’s Prosperity fund will focus on promoting sustainable global growth and, in particular, will be consistent with the UK’s development objectives of promoting sustainable development and improving welfare.

Support for an open global economy, avoiding dangerous climate change and enhancing energy security will all be important areas for this fund. It builds on the progress made by the old SPF Low Carbon High Growth Programme.

The Prosperity Fund operates in 14 priority countries. Brazil is a priority for this funding. All projects submitted to the Prosperity fund in Brazil should meet ODA criteria: the direct beneficiary of the project must be Brazil.

Bidding round I for year 2011-2012 is now open. Check out how to apply and find bidding forms and guidance on the site of the British Embassy in Brasilia - click here .

In Focus: Craig Jenkins

Marc Fortuna with his Welsh friend Craig Jenkins in Kingston Uppon Thames, Surrey, England

All my life (poem)

Eleven years of ups and downs
And now, the question: are we compatible?
Too late to answer… we should think about that before
When I was younger
When you were younger
When we still had ten years before now to try to be happy.

But happiness is an empty box
Full of dreams and things we can’t see
Full of hopes that never fulfil
Full of love and trying and trying again.

Well, what can I say?
What can I expect?
Nothing… nothing more than I can have
Nothing more that I just got for the last 10 years.

My future belongs to God
My past belonged to someone
My present belongs to you.

Meaning: All my life — past, present and future —
Has never belonged to me.


© Marc Fortuna (Lord Fortuna of Lancaster) – 20/03/2009

Memoirs: Visiting Paris

Marc Fortuna and his beloved mother Helena Fortuna visiting the Eiffell Tower, in Paris.

 

 

Marc Fortuna et sa chère mère Helena Fortuna visiter la Tour Eiffell, à Paris.

Abdicate (poem)

I give up
I suffer in silence
You ll no longer hear my sound
[my blue song].
I tell you what:
My broken heart
Cries the melody with no meaning
[of loving].
If you love me and you don t want
my presence
If you look for my body and you bring me absence
What should I do to have you?
Die for you?
What is death
but the absence of life?
You want me close
but you keep me far...
distant...
lover with no chance. . .


©Marc Fortuna(Lord Fortuna of Lancaster)

March 8th: International Women´s Day

Todays we comemmorate worldwide the blessing being we call Women: mothers, sisters, wives... women. I wanted to do something different to leave registered my tribute to the International Women's Day.  I did not want to use mounted images found on the net. To me, every woman I met during my journey of 40 years of existence, are extremely important ... they are goddesses, all of them!

I pay here my tribute to every woman I met (just a few of them are in this picture), I leave my reverence, my admiration, I knelt at their feet and pray to the Virgin Mother to cover each of these wonderful women with Her blessing mantle.

May God bless you always!

Marc Fortuna, TMHN Lord of Lancaster

Itanhaém: JR and the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party

                                                                                                                                                    Foto: Richard Price

Jorge Caruso, José Roberto, Mauro Vitturi and Marc Fortuna

The businessman José Roberto Pereira do Nascimento, JR, is completing one year ahead of the presidency of the PMDB Itanhaém. Like his predecessor Marc Fortuna, the trajectory of the party during this period is marked by frequent participation in important debates, seeking the economic and social development  of the city and welfare of the population.

Ze Roberto is pre-candidate for mayor to the next municipal election. PMDB, which once was called MDB, already elected three mayors in Itanhaém: Dr. Edson in 1982, Jaime Carrasco in 1988 and John Carrasco in 1996.

 

Continuing the excellent work that was being developed during Marc Fortuna's administration, since his inauguration as PMDB president in March 2010, Ze Roberto continues attracting the participation of businessmen, shopkeepers and sector leaders to the Party. 

The businessman and pre-candidate for mayor Ze Roberto was president of the Commercial Association of Itanhaém for two terms, with satisfactory results for the business class. According to Ze Roberto, the main goal for PMDB is now the orderly growth of the city. "We´re seeing some movement on Petrobras and commercial activities, with new ones coming. But the town can´t attract investments without having an updated legislation. Our proposal is that the Master Plan, for example, passes for an urgent review, with the participation of the whole society. "

 

Being for more than 2 decades on PMDB, Marc Fortuna (former president of PMDB Itanhaém and former regional president of South Coast and Ribeira Valley Representation of the Foundation Ulysses Guimarães - FUG SP), the administration of  Ze Roberto front PMDB Itanhaém is excellent, taking into account the common difficulties in administering a Party of such magnitude as PMDB.

 

Fortuna, who currently heads  the Information Office of the Deputy Mayor (and pre-candidate for mayor) Ruy Santos, acknowledges the work of Ze Roberto as the leader of the Party. "I was talking with the vice-president Michel Temer and also with the new state party chairman Baleia Rossi, and praised the excellent work Ze Roberto is doing, keeping the same guidelines for growth of the party that we had during my mandate. We now need to rescue the political training courses in town, and  I already put myself at the disposal of the president to assist in this area, "said Fortuna.

The good old times

That´s me when I was young (very young...). If I just knew then what I know now, certainly I would change a few things...

In Focus

A bridge too far [poem]

I travel in direction to my future,
tracking ways
without goals.

I search the road to my culture,
deep inside of my soul.

Too far, a bridge
where I must cross to reach
the perfect time of my Greenwich.

A bridge too far
and by my side
only the courage that hides
my endless trip.

©Marc Fortuna (Lord Fortuna of Lancaster)

In Focus

Lord Fortuna of Lancaster (Lord of the Manor of Lancaster)

The famous borough of Jaçanã, in Brazil

Jaçanã, or, more properly, Jaçanã-Tremembé (pron.IPA: [ʒasɐ'nɐ̃ tɾemẽ^j'bɛ]), is a borough of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It includes both districts of Jaçanã and Tremembé, in the northern limits of the city.

Like Parelheiros, most of the area of this borough is rural, although in the southern areas there is a popular urban area. It comprises the Cantareira Park, the largest native urban forest of the world.

In 1870, the borough was known as Uroguapira, because it was thought that there was gold in the place. As it did not pass of a rumor, the name given for the aboriginals for the region of the Cantareira was shortened for Guapira. In 1 June 1930, the borough started to be called Jaçanã (a species of bird).

The borough of Jaçanã became not only known and immortalized in São Paulo, but in diverse places of Brazil because of the music "Trem das Onze", by Adoniran Barbosa. In 1949 was inaugurated in Jaçanã the first studio of cinema of São Paulo: the Cinematographic Company Maristela, first cultural focus of the borough.

In 1991, the Anglo-Brazilian poet born in Jaçanã Marcelo Fortuna — nowadays Lord Marcelo Rafael Fortuna of Lancaster in the United Kingdom of Great Britain — (also known as Marc Fortuna) was elected president of the CCPCSBJ (Civic Social Promotional Community Centre of the Borough of Jaçanã) and one year later run to a Member of Parliament in the city of São Paulo with PMDB party trying to represent the people of that borough.

Located in the north of the city of São Paulo, the district of Jaçanã, according to Census 2000, carried through for the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Estatística (IBGE), approximately has a population of 91,649 inhabitants: 43,702 men and 47,947 women.

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