Last news from Brazil This week a lot of things happen in Brazil. I'll try to explain it to you the whole history in a nutshell. Well, our ex-president Lula was already judged by 2 different courts by corruption. He founded guilty in both. Last week, his lawyers had asked for a "Habeas Courpus" to our Supreme Court so he could remain free. This Tuesday a lot of Brazilians go out to streets in a protest against him. Wednesday the Supreme Court had denied the HC so yesterday he received an arrest warrant. It ordered him to submit himself to the Federal Police at Coritiba by today at 5 PM. He'd spent his last hours of freedom with his party partners and today the news said that he won't go to surrender himself. This year we have elections for president and he is already ineligible because he has a criminal record. But the left-wing parties seem to don't care about it and they're still making his campaign. Some people think we are on the edge of a civil war right now.

"How should it have ended?" x "How should have it ended?"

Which one is the correct way to ask that and why? There is another way or both sound good?

- How should it have ended?

- How should have it ended?

Praticing the past tense Hello there. Last week I've received some feedback about my English after a job interview. The interviewer said that I make some mistakes using the past tense (including present perfect, past perfect, simple past, etc). So, I'll just write a random story here to practice and I appreciate any feedback or corrections you guys can give me. This week I've been organizing my childhood stuff. I've found a lot of boxes full of nostalgia. It was like 3 boxes and a half full of video games magazines, comics, books, etc. But the most impressive was the other 2 boxes that I've found. In these boxes, I've found a lot of notebooks, drawings, made-up-comics and ideas for new games. I suddenly came back to the 90's. It was one of the most creative periods of my life. I had written down on notebooks every single idea that I have when I came back from the school. I'd drawn a lot of comics telling stories about my video game heroes (like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Mario, Alex Kidd, etc). I also designed game levels for those games which I had been playing for such a long time in my childhood. Well, now that I have the resources to turn these ideas into products, I've been starting cataloging them because maybe there is some awesome idea in the mind of 10 years old boy that would be lost in boxes below some bed. Here is one of my drawings...

London school test. There is any mistake?

IT Management Log entry #2 One of our goals on the 2017 IT strategic planning was to create a PMO (a Project Management Office) to align all processes and help the managers with their daily activities. So we began with one meeting every Monday at 9:00 AM. The participants are the CTO, me (as the IT Manager) and the PMs (Project Managers). These are the topics we talk about int that meeting: - Reporting the current projects status; - Align with the PMs that they always need to invite the commercial manager to kickoff, status-report, and closing meetings; - Present our PMO mailing group; - Freeze the allocation and financial data (in portfolio reports) after the end of month to avoid that HR updates change old information; After the PMO meeting, everybody did receive orientations and weekly tasks to do. These are mines: - Client 1 (an agribusiness): I should return a call to the analyst responsible for the project. It was done. He just wants to know when we are going to deliver the last patches of his app, which is in tests stage. No big deal. - Client 2 (a university): I should schedule a meeting with the IT Manager and our commercial director. This IT Manager was some guy hard to find and even harder to find some space on his agenda. But after a few tries, it was done. - Client 3 (an IT company): I should set up a team with a senior Java developer and a junior one; I planned to talk with Carl and Louis, members of another team, which works with PHP, and ask if they want to join the Java team. Carl accepted the invite to join it as the junior dev. Meanwhile, we contract a new guy, Gabriel D., to be the senior dev so I didn't invite Louis anymore. So I scheduled the kickoff meeting; - Internal Services (HR): I was asked to notify Andre, form HR, that he doesn't need to wait for the portfolio's OK to update the HR information anymore; I should schedule Toby and Alexander vacations. For Toby, I should have wait after our commercial had talked to the client. I'm still waiting (and Toby is not in our company anymore). I scheduled Alexander vacations for 10 work days, though.

IT Management Log entry #1 Well, in the last Christmas I quit my old job in a company that I was a partner for 8 years. It's very complicated to me explain how I took that decision but, fortunately, I took note of all my activities as an IT manager and written them down in some kind of diary. I'll try to reproduce some of those activities here just to practice my English, so I appreciate any feedback you guys could give to me. So, this is the 1st notes: In the first weeks of 2017, we had 2 project pre-sales that involve the commercial and the IT teams. The first one was about to build an LMS (Learning Management System) for a university. After some meetings, we sent our technical questions about the system features and after receiving the answers I set the team up and estimate the costs. The second proposal was a short project to upgrade and test an App to run on the last version of Android Nougat 7.0. I divided this proposal into two stages. The first stage involves just test the current App on the new platform 7.0. The second stage, which could not necessarily be done, was to fixed any issues we found in our tests. Unfortunately, we didn't sell the first project. But we sold the second one, so in next entries, it will probably appear again as we started to work on it.

"I ain't telling you no lie" is a double negative? So, there is that great music, one of my favorite, that is Hook from Blues Traveler.
The chorus goes like this, "The hook brings you back. I ain't telling you no lie".
I've learned that, in English, you should never use double negatives like, "I don't know nobody". Instead, you should say "I don't know anybody". But, in lyrics, you have this poetic license that gives you the right to write anything and not care about grammar. So this is one of those cases? Or it is correct to say "I ain't telling you no lie"?
Thanks in advance.

Double negation question - Hook from Blues Traveler So, there is that great music, one of my favorite, that is Hook from Blues Traveler. The chorus goes like this, "The hook brings you back. I ain't telling you no lie". I've learned that, in English, you should never use double negatives like, "I don't know nobody". Instead, you should say "I don't know anybody". But, in lyrics, you have this poetic license that gives you the right to write anything and doesn't care about grammar. So this is one of this cases? Or it is correct to say "I ain't telling you no lie"? Thanks in advance.

Help me to improve my CV So, I appreciate for improvement tips to make the text below more eloquent. Company XXXXX - current Job Duties And Responsibilities: Manage and lead a portfolio involving multiple complex programs, projects and project teams. Develop and improve IT processes and standards. Oversee and ensure the application of best practices and compliance with processes, standards and policies for all projects. Participate in strategic planning and develop, deliver, monitor and review IT services business plan. Manage all aspects of projects execution including chastering, scope definition, requirements gathering, project planning, change control, risk management and status reporting. Develop schedules, deliverables, budget, resource allocation plan; track progress against the plan and make decisions to update schedules or resource allocation to meet the product requirements and schedule. Cooperate with Account Managers and Pre-Sales to support sales activities. Lead and develop team leads, managers and project members to achieve their potential within the organization while maintaining a high level of motivation; Help teams deal with complex projects; Manage the hiring, staffing and maintaining of an effective workforce; Evaluate performance, candidates for technical and leadership positions, and provide guidance to less-experienced staff members. Help teams to decide the best methodology to be applied to each project (Waterfall, Incremental, Agile, SAFe). Navigate through all phases of project lifecycle to ensure the success of technical solutions. Direct, guide and train the team on the software development activities (analysis, coding, unit testing, QA, etc). Engage stakeholders through software life cycle. Play a critical role in building a relationship with client that yield continuing opportunities for the company; Take the needs of clients and partner with them to project plans to support their goals. Maintain strong expertise and knowledge of emerging technologies; Share innovations, lessons learned and successes of projects with the wider organization ensuring that knowledge of technical disciplines is advanced within teams. Work directly with business executives (CIO, CTO, CCO) with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.