Klarinet Archive - Posting 001126.txt from 1998/01

From: fersilv@-----.net
Subj: Re: Bad news for clarinetists
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:38:00 -0500

I can@-----.
Maybe the americans don=B4t know but, we have in Brazil some=
problems
with the law.
The judges are completely bumb when they have to decide on a subject
they don@-----.
For them one litle part of their body can=B4t do diference because
they don@-----. For our job it is
indispensable(unless a new clarinet be developed...).
So, please, don@-----. Like on clarinet=
players,
we have good and bad judges.

best

Fernando Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil

At 15:20 26/01/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Steer clear of Judge Edmundo Lellis Filho and pray that he's wrong. This
>story comes via the WhiteBoard News for Friday, January 23, 1998
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>Barry Kruse
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>Sao Paulo, Brazil:
>An injured worker who was denied compensation after a
>court ruled that pinkie fingers would disappear with
>evolution anyway has won his appeal, a newspaper
>reported Thursday.
>An appeals court awarded Valdir Martins Pozza a
>lifetime payment equal to 30 percent of his salary as a
>machine operator, the job he held when he injured his
>little finger in 1993, the Folha de Sao Paulo said.
>"The healthy human body has no disposable parts," Judge
>Celso Pimentel said in his ruling, the paper reported.
>Pozza filed for compensation after a grindstone broke a
>tendon in his little finger. A court-appointed doctor
>said the accident resulted in his loss of manual
>dexterity.
>But Judge Edmundo Lellis Filho rejected the medical
>findings and said Pozza didn't qualify for benefits.
>"The pinkie serves little use for the hand and ... is
>considered an appendage that tends to disappear with
>the evolution of the human species," Lellis Filho said
>in his decision last March.
>Pozza was fired by the factory last year and now works
>at a bus company.
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