Letter I am sending to you this e-mail to explain you about what you talked 2 days ago. So, my name is Marcos and I am from Brazil. I moved to Gainesville on August to study on the Art program. I graduated in Business Administration and I have been worked as a professor at Federal University of MS. Since 2013, I have been a PhD student at University of Campinas. My research is related to renewable energy sources: biomass cellulose. I want to study the pulp Industries potential of generate sustainable energy, site promoting sustainable development with surplus of electricity, analyzing externalities. The Brazil today is one of the largest cellulose biomass producers in the world, due to climatic conditions for the cultivation of eucalyptus. The pulp and paper industries have been investing in technologies for energy production and cogeneration starting biomass and black liquor. My advisor in Brazil has worked in area of mathematical and computational models. The Univiersity of Campinas is a reference in Brazil and giving It all necessary support for their students. While I'm looking to gain experience at University of Florida, I also believe it will be possible to establish a valuable two-way cooperation between our institutions. To do that, I need a advisor at University of Florida to be my sponsor for my aims and, in this way, I could continue my research in USA. Also, to stay here for more time, I need to switch my visa status to J-1. I have one year to finish my doctorate project and present it for a committee. To work in USA, I do not need a scholarship. All my expenses will be paid by me. Please, let me know if you could be my advisor during my stay in USA. If for some reason, you can’t make it. Could you suggest to me someone else?

Abstract for oxytetracycline study The oxytetracycline is an antibiotic belonging to the tetracycline class and provides broad spectrum action against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Various analytical methods for determination of oxytetracycline in biological matrices and pharmaceutical formulations are available in the literature. In this paper, considering the importance of development of more accuracy and simple methods or critical review of the these ones in order to apply them in daily quality control laboratories, the critical literature review of these analytical method is an important and indispensable as a basic reference.

Living in the United States and in Brazil – School Zone I had the opportunity to live in different cities in Brazil. Now, I am living in a town in Florida. Of course, there are a lot of different things between these cities, but living in Florida I could observe similar behaviors like people in Brazil. Every morning, I take my kids at school. There is a parking lot over there. But, like in Brazil, if there isn't a police man close, a lot of parents will park their cars in places that are not allowed. And, the disrespect to traffic laws also has happened about the speed limit inside the school zone during the beginning and the ending of the classes when any driver needs to drive below 20 mph. I saw several times police officers using a gear to measure car speeds. And, several times, if the speed is higher than 20 mph, they request for drivers to stop and give them tickets. In Brazil, the same things happen and it is worst: the signalization is very bad. And, some schools don't have parking lot. Anyway, I have trying to do my best and I hope all kids could be safe of those that disrespect the traffic laws.

Having lunch during lab meeting Recently, I started to do research in a lab. In this lab, there are undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doc researchers. Our supervisor has been the idea to schedule our meetings at noon, once a week. And, for that, he had payed the lunch for everybody. How it works: on the day before the meeting, someone e-mail to everybody to inform about the next lecture presentation and to send the menu for lunch. So, everyone needs to write down your name and what wants to eat. Very simple! In this way, everybody can be together at lunch time, once a week, including with our supervisor, and after the lunch, we can watch the presentation when everyone can argue and discuss about it.

What is the difference between "until" and "till"?Are there special situation to use one of them? For example: (a) I need to stay here until/till 5pm. (b) I am planning to stay in the party until/till I get tired.

Taking the kids to school Today, I woke up at 6 am. Luckily, I felt I slept fine. I prepared my backpack with my laptop, my hot coffee thermos bottle, my lunch, and my dessert. Today, I had lunch at work. Sometimes, I also got a bottled water. Before wake up my daughters, I drunk a cup of milk and a cup of hot coffee with vanilla cream. After, I woke up the kids and helped them to dress up, I prepared their cup of mixed milk with chocolate. At 7am, we checked our backpacks, got them and went to our car. I drove to school for 15 minutes. The school is not so far from home. To sum up, I parked our car and went with the girls until their classrooms and, when came back, I went to my work.

Checking in at rental apartment in Denver – Part II After get the car, we needed to check in on our rented apartment. We were using our GPS and it was possible to drive from Denver Airport to the apartment without any kind of issue. For check in, it was necessary a kind of self-check in. With printed instructions I got days before, I needed to park my car in a temporary parking space and go to apartment. But, before that, close to a door, I needed to call a number and ask to open the door. It was weird, but it worked! On the apartment door lock, I opened a number big lock. I got the numbers days ago by e-mail. Inside the big lock, I got an apartment key and inside the apartment, I could get more keys, a garage remote control, and a parking permission. Back to my car, I could switch parking space to the right one and, finally, I checked in at apartment.

Visiting Denver - part I Last winter break, we went to Denver for discovery how is to live in snowy weather condition. Our trip started in Orlando, where was hot and humidity, to Denver, very cold and dry. Few minutes before landing, we could see the flat white fields. It was weird for us! We don't have white fields in Brazil. Anyway, at Denver Airport, we needed to take a shutter till car rental service. I remember it was in the beginning of evening and was possible to see dark white parking lots. The shutter was warm, but when we arrived to rental service, it is really cold, without winds for our luck. For sum up, we got our car and drove to our rented apartment.

Weekly Blog Idea A long time ago, I was thinking about to write about my life experience. Not that it is interesting, but maybe it could be funny. Some weeks ago, one of my english teachers suggested me to write a blog. I thought it could be a good idea, but it wouldn't be in portuguese. She asked me: "Why not in english ? You can share with me and other people to help you". I thought about it and decided to write few sentences (or paragraph) for week. Talking about life, opinion, where I am living or visiting in United States, academical research, and so on.