My name
is Rafael Humberto Scapin and
I was born on February 5th, 1973 (I am Aquarius) in a small town (28,972
inhabitants in 2000) called Descalvado, located in the countryside of
the State of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil. Descalvado was
founded on September 8th, 1832 and its patron saint is "Nossa Senhora
do Belém" (Our Lady of Bethlehem). Its area is 794 km2.
Location
of Descalvado (countryside of the State of São Paulo, Brazil) |
Coat
of Arms of Descalvado
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Flag
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My name
will be in Mars! A CD with my name (as well as of thousands of people)
will be taken into Mars by the Mars Exploration Rover - 2003 Mission.
Take a look at the NASA
Certificate sent to me.
I am descendant
of Italians from Veneto and Trentino (northern Italy) who came to work
on the coffee plantation in Descalvado at the end of the 19th century.
The vast majority of the inhabitants of Descalvado is descendant of
Italians (take a look at the list
of Italian surnames from Descalvado). I have also Spanish and Portuguese
ancestors.
I am member
of the Società
Fratellanza Italiana di Descalvado, an Italian club founded by Italian
immigrants in 1895. I am also a member of JOVEB (Brazilian Venetian
Youth), from the Associazione Padovani nel Mondo - San Paolo and from
the Circolo
Trentino di San Paolo.
Currently
I am a university professor of Informatics at UNICEP (Centro Universitário
Central Paulista/ Central Paulista Universitray Center), at Porto Ferreira.
I am also the academical coordinator of the MBA course "Business
Management and Information Techonlogy" at the same university.
I have a Ph.D. degree in Computational Physics, a Master's degree in
Computational Physics and a Bachelor's degree in Theoretical Physics
(all of them obtanied at the Institute
pf Physics of São Carlos, University
of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil)
Some of
my hobbies are:
Learning
foreign languages by myself; reading; writing letters (I have many penfriends
and e-friends around the world); watchhing to suspense (especially the
ones by Alfred Hitchcock), terror and sci-fi movies; surfing on the
Web; listening to classical and pop music from foreign countries and
many others!
I am a
member of the following international organizations:
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The
HTML Writers Guild
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International
Webmasters Association
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