Quarta-feira, Junho 30, 2004
A Opção do Presidente
José Manuel Duron (Duracell) Barroso
Sexta-feira, Junho 25, 2004
DURÃO BARROSO - Mooted as Next EU Commission President



Portuguese PM mulls offer to become next EU commission president: reports
Portugal's Barroso Mooted as Next EU Commission President
8:40pm (UK)
Portugal's Barroso Mooted as Next EU Commission President
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said today he was confident that he had found the right candidate to become the next president of the European Commission.
News reports in Portugal claimed that the candidate was Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso, and that the Portuguese leader had accepted the job.
Ahern said today only that he had someone to fill the position being vacated by current Commission President Romano Prodi, whose term ends on October 31.
He did not identify the candidate but reports from Portugal, quoting unnamed sources said it was Durao Barroso. They said that Durao Barroso met with Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio for several hours this afternoon but then left without making a statement.
Ahern said he expected the candidate to be accepted as Prodi’s successor at a special EU leaders summit to be held on Tuesday in Brussels.
Ahern said his candidate would be acceptable to all.
“I have last night talked to about half my colleagues. In the next hour I hope to be talking to President Chirac of France and Chancellor Schroeder of Germany,” he said.
An EU leaders summit in Brussels last week failed to reach agreement on a successor to Prodi. France and Germany’s preferred candidate, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, was rejected as was Britain’s Chris Patten, the EU’s external relations commissioner.
Durao Barroso and Spain’s Javier Solana since have been considered top contenders.


Auto-estima
Fantasia, conjectura, propaganda, possibilidade? Ninguém sabe ao certo. De qualquer maneira, a imprensa indígena continua a discutir com entusiasmo a putativa escolha do primeiro-ministro para presidente da Comissão Europeia. É interessante verificar as presunções de que toda a gente, ou quase toda a gente, parte. Em primeiro lugar, nem sequer se discute que a escolha está feita. Quem não trocaria o «horror» da política portuguesa pela grande política de Bruxelas? Que bom treinador de futebol hesitaria um instante que fosse entre «o Alverca e o Manchester United»? Que terrível decisão para o dr. Barroso, agora «cruelmente» dividido entre uma brilhantíssima carreira e os pequenos problemas de um país mesquinho. Há vozes generosas que lhe dizem: «Vá, vá. Amigo não empata amigo. Aproveite a oportunidade. Nós cá nos arranjamos. Veja lá o Guterres, se ele não anda triste.» E há os desconfiados, que não conseguem acreditar em tanta sorte ou a quem a coisa cheira a propaganda. Mas só um ou dois «velhos do Restelo» não concordam que a vertiginosa ascensão de Barroso aos píncaros seria para Portugal uma honra insigne. Pensem bem: um português, nosso, completamente nosso, a «mandar» na «Europa». Que felicidade. E, ainda por cima, além da honra, ficávamos com uma «cunha». Nesta matéria, a esperteza nacional nunca duvida: se ele (o Barroso) não nos puder dar uns tostões por cima da mesa, dá por baixo da mesa. Claro que dá. Não imagino que espécie de conclusão o prof. Marcelo vai tirar deste extraordinário espectáculo de «auto-estima». Para certas pessoas, certamente mal-formadas, o primeiro-ministro devia ter publicado a semana passada o seguinte comunicado: «Não me ocorreu em momento algum abandonar as responsabilidades que livremente tomei. Por respeito pelos portugueses, pela democracia e por mim próprio.»
Sábado,26 de Junho de 2004 - DN
Vasco Pulido Valente
Terça-feira, Junho 22, 2004
DURÃO BARROSO - Portugese comes from Behind in Race for EU Head






BP's Sutherland Says He's a Candidate for EU Top Job (Update2)
BP's Sutherland Says He's a Candidate for EU Top Job (Update1)
June 22 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc Chairman Peter Sutherland, 58, said he is one of several candidates to take over from Romano Prodi as president of the European Commission.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern got in touch with fellow Irishman Sutherland earlier this year to ask him if he would consider the job, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported today. Sutherland, who is also chairman of Goldman Sachs International in London, was a former European commissioner and head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
``I know my name was mentioned at the European Council,'' Sutherland told reporters at a conference in Rome. He ranked 11 in a Times of London list of Britain's most powerful men in 2003. ``There are many names and I know mine is one of them.''
European Union leaders failed to agree at last week's summit in Brussels on Prodi's successor to run the EU's regulatory and executive arm. Britain and Italy championed the U.K.'s Chris Patten and resisted French and German efforts to secure the post for Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
The standoff opens the way for a compromise candidate such as Sutherland, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, European Parliament President Pat Cox, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker or Ahern himself, newspapers ranging from Britain's Financial Times to Germany's Focus have reported.
Portuguese Candidate
Durao Barroso, 48, has emerged as a front-runner, the daily Portuguese newspaper Publico reported today, without saying where it got the information. The Portuguese leader would have the backing of the European conservatives and would meet French requirements that Prodi's successor should come from a country that uses the euro and belongs to the Schengen treaty allowing free cross-border circulation of people, Publico said.
Ireland, which took over the rotating presidency of the European Union in January, wants to sort out the appointment by the time it hands the EU chairmanship to the Netherlands on July 1. The five-year presidential term starts Nov. 1.
Ahearn is still looking for consensus on a new commission president, said an Irish government spokeswoman who declined to be named.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Steve Scherer in Rome at scherer@bloomberg.net.
Flavia Krause-Jackson in Rome at fjackson@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Catherine Hickley at chickley@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: June 22, 2004 08:44 EDT
European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats , formerly (1953–79) Christian Democrat Group transnational parliamentary group representing the interests of allied conservative parties in the European Parliament of the European Union (EU). The EPP was formed in 1953 as the Christian Democrat Group, which acted as a transnational political party in the Common Assembly of the European Union.
Candidates rejected
There is no official list of candidates - with the post usually filled by consensus and quiet discussion behind the scenes - but names of potential commissioners have been widely discussed.
France and Germany's preferred candidate, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, was rejected last week by Britain and others who found him too federalist.
The British EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten has been discounted too.
There are several names on EU-watchers' lips, including Mr Ahern himself, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
Mr Ahern's chances seemed to be set back on Tuesday when the European Parliament's largest political group, the centre-right EPP-ED, said it would not accept him.
The picture appeared further muddled when the French news agency AFP quoted UK European Affairs Minister Denis MacShane as saying Mr Ahern had found a candidate acceptable to all 25 EU member states.
That was contradicted by the Irish leader, who said on Tuesday: "We don't have a name yet."
Irishman Peter Sutherland is the latest man to be tipped for the job.
He is chairman of BP and of investment bank Goldman Sachs, the founding director general of the World Trade Organisation, and a former EU commissioner for competition policy and social policy.
He was quoted on the Reuters news agency as saying his name had been "floated among others" by Mr Ahern, but that he would not consider the job without the "wholehearted" agreement of member states.
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Among names now being floated are Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen and EU justice commissioner Antonio Vitorino
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Portugese comes from behind in race for EU head
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New search for Commission chief begins
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BP Chairman enters Race for EU Presidency
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Centre-right Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, mentioned by some participants as a possible compromise figure, made known he was not available, as did Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Diplomats said Spain's new socialist government had sought at the summit to block conservative Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, a possible fallback candidate, because he had hosted a pre-war meeting in the Azores Islands of U.S. President George W.
Bush and his European allies.
"They don't want anyone from the photo of the Azores," a Spanish diplomat said.
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Prodi's successor could be named next week
They include the centre-right Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, the French foreign minister Michel Barnier, the Irish president of the European Parliament Pat Cox and Portuguese EU Commissioner Antonio Vitorino.
He is also known in Portugal by the Nickname Cherne, a Kind of Fish


Durão Barroso was born in Lisbon in March 23 1956. He is graduated in Law by the University of Lisbon and has an MSc in Economic and Social Sciences by the University of Genebra. His academic career continued as an Assistant Professor in the Law School of the University of Lisbon and the Political Sciences Department in Georgetown University (Washington DC), where he made research for a PhD. Back in Lisbon, Durão Barroso was the director of the Department for International Relations in the Lusiad University.
Durão Barroso political activity started in his college days, before the Carnation Revolution of April 25 1974. He was one of the leaders of PCTP-MRPP (Portuguese acronym for Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers ? Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat), a party with left-wing philosophy. In December 1980, Durão Barroso joined PSD (Social-Democratic Party), where he remains to the present day.
His political career in PSD took him to the following offices:
Assistant Secretary of State for the Minister of Internal Affairs (1985-1987)
Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (1987-1992)
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1995)
In 1990 he was the main promoter of the Bicesse Agreement that led to a temporary armistice in Angola's civil war between MPLA and UNITA of Jonas Savimbi. He also divulged the cause for independence of East Timor, then a oppressed province of Indonesia, in the international political scene.
In the opposition, Durão Barroso was elected deputy for Lisbon in the Portuguese National Parliament in 1995 and was the president of the Commission for Foreign Affairs. In 1999 he was elected president of PSD, his own political party and became the leader of the opposition. In April 6 2002, Durão Barroso became prime minister of Portugal.
As prime minister, he took several controversial measures like supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq and enormous cuttings of public expense.
He is also known in Portugal by the nickname Cherne, a kind of fish
Será que um MILHÃO é pouco ou devo MAMAR +?

Pede + que o pagode é quem paga 'tão tão habituados a andar de TANGA e até gostam
Portugal reeling over child sex abuse scandal, Casa Pia, Lisbon
Source: The Independent
COPY & PASTA OU PASTA & COPY - WINDUS CÓMANDES
Segunda-feira, Junho 21, 2004
Phyllomedusa Bicolor - Part II
Nuno Gomes marcou aos 57 minutos para Portugal

Espanha 0-1 Portugal 
- O árbitro apita para o final do jogo.
90'+4'Nuno Valente (Portugal) faz falta sobre Vicente (Espanha).
90'+3'Casillas (Espanha) defende.
90'+3'Nuno Gomes (Portugal) remata à baliza.
90'+2'Ricardo (Portugal) defende.
90'+2'Baraja (Espanha) remata à baliza.
90'+2'Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal) comete falta sobre Baraja (Espanha).
90'+1'Deco (Portugal) marca o canto.
90'+1'Raúl Bravo (Espanha) defende.
90'+1'Maniche (Portugal) remata à baliza.
90'+1'Vão jogar-se mais três minutos.
90' Portugal defende com toda a gente atrás do meio-campo, não dando espaços à Espanha.
90' O árbitro diz que Nuno Gomes (Portugal) estava fora-de-jogo.
89' Helguera (Espanha) faz falta.
88' Miguel (Portugal) faz falta sobre Raúl Bravo (Espanha).
88' Costinha (Portugal) falha o alvo. Nuno Valente faz um cruzamento perfeito para Costinha, que surge completamente sozinho ao poste mais distante a cabecear bem ao lado, desperdiçando uma oportunidade flagrante.
87' Canto apontado por Deco (Portugal).
87' Raúl (Espanha) comete falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
86' Torres (Espanha) falha o alvo.
85' Maniche (Portugal) falha o alvo. Miguel desce pelo flanco direito e cruza para Maniche, mas o cabeceamento do médio sai por cima da barra.
85' Couto (entra) - Ronaldo (sai) (Portugal) Com apenas seis minutos para jogar, Scolari aposta na estatura de Fernando Couto para obstar à excelência do jogo aéreo de Morientes.
83' Luque (Espanha) faz falta.
82' Deco (Portugal) marca o canto.
82' Maniche (Portugal) vê o seu remate ser interceptado. O médio avança até ao coração da área espanhola e remata, mas o disparo sai contra Puyol e a bola sai para canto, que Deco cobra demasiado longo.
81' Canto apontado por Luque (Espanha).
81' Deco (Portugal) faz falta sobre Puyol (Espanha).
80' Morientes (entra) - Juanito (sai) (Espanha) A Espanha aposta tudo no ataque, pois só a vitória interessa. Morientes vai para a área portuguesa, tornando-se no terceiro ponta-de-lança.
80' Vicente (Espanha) falha o alvo. Os dois cantos de Luque criaram problemas a Portugal. O primeiro é aliviado por Nuno Gomes. O segundo sai mais perigoso e só não resulta em golo, porque Torres não consegue desviar o primeiro remate de Vicente.
80' Luque (Espanha) marca o canto.
79' Canto apontado por Luque (Espanha).
78' Petit (entra) - Figo (sai) (Portugal) O capitão sai esgotado e dá o seu lugar ao médio-defensivo do Benfica, numa alteração que visa defender o resultado e dar maior combatividade ao meio-campo.
77' Luque (Espanha) comete falta sobre Nuno Valente (Portugal).
76' Juanito (Espanha) atira à barra! A Espanha disfruta de outra oportunidade, mas Juanito cabeceia fazendo a bola embater na parte superior da trave antes de sair.
76' Luque (Espanha) marca o canto.
76' Na sequência de um lance confuso na área portuguesa, a bola sobra para Luque, que tenta o chapéu a Ricardo. Atento, Ricardo Carvalho evita que a bola entre na baliza portuguesa, com um desarme de cabeça.
75' Costinha (Portugal) faz falta.
74' Cartão amarelo para Puyol (Espanha). O defesa do Barça vê o cartão amarelo por uma entrada dura sobre o jogador do Manchester United.
74' Puyol (Espanha) faz falta sobre Ronaldo (Portugal).
74' Puyol (Espanha) comete falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
73' Luque (Espanha) faz falta.
73' Ronaldo (Portugal) faz falta sobre Luque (Espanha).
72' Luque (entra) - Joaquín (sai) (Espanha) A Espanha faz a segunda substituição, trocando de extremos.
72' Juanito (Espanha) comete falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
71' Ronaldo (Portugal) faz falta.
69' Canto apontado por Figo (Portugal).
69' Casillas (Espanha) defende.
69' Costinha (Portugal) remata à baliza. O médio do FC Porto surge ao poste mais distante a cabecear, mas Casillas volta a brilhar, efectuando mais uma defesa de recurso.
69' Figo (Portugal) marca o canto.
69' Casillas (Espanha) defende.
69' Figo (Portugal) remata à baliza. Portugal ganha um livre, à entrada da área, descaído para o lado direito do ataque. Após conferência com Deco, Figo cobra o livre sobre a barreira, para o lado oposto, obrigando Casillas a uma fantástica defesa para canto.
69' Figo (Portugal) marca o livre directo.
68' O árbitro mostra o cartão amarelo a Juanito (Espanha).
68' Juanito (Espanha) faz falta sobre Maniche (Portugal).
67' Puyol (Espanha) comete falta sobre Figo (Portugal).
66' Baraja (entra) - Albelda (sai) (Espanha) Os espanhóis fazem a primeira substituição, com Baraja a render o seu companheiro de equipa no Valencia CF.
65' Nuno Gomes (Portugal) vê o cartão amarelo. O marcador do único golo até ao momento vê o cartão amarelo, por uma entrada por trás sobre o lateral do FC Barcelona.
65' Nuno Gomes (Portugal) faz falta.
64' O jogo disputa-se, agora, a uma velocidade vertiginosa e é a Espanha quem coloca agora Portugal sob pressão.
64' Nuno Gomes (Portugal) é apanhado em fora-de-jogo
63' Puyol (Espanha) faz falta sobre Figo (Portugal).
62' O árbitro diz que Torres (Espanha) estava fora-de-jogo. A Espanha cria uma ocasião, graças a um excelente passe de Xabi Alonso para Fernando Torres, que está em fora-de-jogo.
61' Neste momento, Portugal lidera o Grupo A e a Grécia ocupa a 2ª posição, com os mesmos pontos da Espanha, mas com mais golos marcados.
61' Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal) vê o seu remate ser interceptado.
60' Puyol (Espanha) comete falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
59' Puyol (Espanha) faz falta.
59' A Espanha carrega, agora, e Vicente faz um cruzamento perigoso para a área. Ricardo saiu-se em falso, mas Raúl não aproveitou o lapso do guarda-redes do Sporting CP e cabeceou ao lado.
58' Ronaldo (Portugal) faz falta sobre Raúl Bravo (Espanha).
57' Golo de Nuno Gomes (Portugal)! O ponta-de-lança do SL Benfica, que rendera Pauleta ao intervalo, combina com Figo, recebe a tabela de costas para a baliza, vira-se e remata, à entrada da área, perante a passividade de Helguera e Juanito. O remate sai rasteiro e cruzado, junto ao poste direito da baliza de Casillas, que não tem hipótese de defesa.
56' Raúl (Espanha) comete falta sobre Maniche (Portugal).
55' Nenhuma das equipas conseguiu criar oportunidades flagrantes, mas o resultado interessa à Rússia.
54' Deco (Portugal) faz falta.
53' Xabi Alonso cobra o livre, mas o remate acerta em Raúl e a bola sai pela linha de fundo.
52' Jorge Andrade (Portugal) faz falta sobre Torres (Espanha).
52' Deco faz uma mudança de flanco e tenta lançar Nuno Valente em profundidade no lado esquerdo, mas o lateral acaba por não acompanhar a jogada e o lance perde-se.
51' Puyol (Espanha) comete falta sobre Figo (Portugal).
51' Maniche (Portugal) falha o alvo. O médio do FC Porto ganha espaço e remata de longe, mas o remate sai bem torto.
50' Xabi Alonso (Espanha) faz falta.
49' Jorge Andrade (Portugal) faz falta sobre Raúl (Espanha).
48' Torres (Espanha) é apanhado em fora-de-jogo
47' Canto apontado por Xabi Alonso (Espanha). Portugal tem, agora, apenas 45 minutos para vencer o encontro e apurar-se para os quartos-de-final. No entanto, a primeira oportunidade de golo da segunda parte pertenceu à Espanha, com Jorge Andrade a aliviar um cruzamento perigoso. Na sequência, Miguel cede um canto.
47' Nuno Gomes (Portugal) comete falta sobre Juanito (Espanha).
46' Nuno Gomes (entra) - Pauleta (sai) (Portugal) Luiz Felipe Scolari troca de pontas-de-lança, colocando Nuno Gomes no lugar do apagado Pauleta.
- Começa a segunda parte.
- A primeira parte chega ao final sem qualquer golo, pese embora as duas selecções terem estado perto de marcar. Figo e Cristiano Ronaldo têm colocado a defesa espanhola em sobressalto, mas excepção feita ao cabeceamento do extremo do Manchester United FC ao canto do extremo do Real Madrid CF, poucas oportunidades têm criado. Miguel também esteve perto do golo, mas Casillas opôs-se bem ao remate do lateral do Benfica. Fernando Torres também teve o golo na cabeça, mas a tentativa, na sequência de um canto, saiu por cima.
- O árbitro apita para o intervalo.
45' Ronaldo (Portugal) falha o alvo. Cristiano Ronaldo quase colocou Portugal em vantagem, mas o seu desvio de cabeça ao canto de Figo passou muito próximo do poste esquerdo da baliza de Iker Casillas.
45' Figo (Portugal) marca o canto.
44' Torres (Espanha) falha o alvo. Torres desperdiça a melhor oportunidade de golo da Espanha, ao cabecear por cima, na sequência de um pontapé de canto.
44' A Grécia reduz a diferença no outro jogo do Grupo A. A Rússia vence, agora, por 2-1.
44' Canto apontado por Xabi Alonso (Espanha).
43' Costinha (Portugal) faz falta.
43' Deco (Portugal) faz falta sobre Joaquín (Espanha).
42' Costinha (Portugal) falha o alvo. A defesa espanhola alivia o canto, mas a bola é de novo enviada para a área. Pauleta toca de cabeça para Costinha, que cabeceia por cima da trave.
41' Deco (Portugal) marca o canto. A cinco minutos do intervalo, o ritmo do jogo abrandou um pouco, mas Deco ganha um canto.
41' Joaquín (Espanha) comete falta sobre Nuno Valente (Portugal).
40' Miguel (Portugal) faz falta.
37' Canto apontado por Xabi Alonso (Espanha). Joaquín tenta fugir pelo lado direito, mas é bem travado por Nuno Valente. O extremo do Bétis tem tido a bola poucas vezes em seu poder.
37' Helguera (Espanha) falha o alvo.
35' Vicente (Espanha) marca o canto. Vicente desce pelo flanco esquerdo e cruza para a área. Raúl não consegue dominar a bola da melhor forma e permite que Nuno Valente faça um fantástico desarme. Do canto, nada resulta.
32' Nuno Valente (Portugal) faz falta sobre Puyol (Espanha).
31' Figo, uma vez mais, pega na bola no meio-campo e tenta o remate, mas a bola sai contra a autêntica muralha formada pela defesa espanhola.
30' A Espanha está a ser fortemente pressionada por Portugal e não seria surpresa se a formação orientada por Luiz Felipe Scolari já estivesse em vantagem. Figo e Cristiano Ronaldo têm mudado de posição constantemente e, deste modo, criado vários espaços para os companheiros.
30' Nuno Valente (Portugal) comete falta sobre Joaquín (Espanha).
29' Deco (Portugal) faz falta.
28' Trata-se de uma rara oportunidade para a Espanha explorar o contra-ataque, com Vicente a tentar servir Torres. Contudo, Ricardo antecipou o perigo e saiu-se da área, ficando com a bola em seu poder.
27' Figo (Portugal) vê o seu remate ser interceptado. Cristiano Ronaldo volta a levar a melhor sobre o adversário directo e lança Figo, mas o disparo do extremo é bloqueado por Juanito.
26' Torres (Espanha) faz falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
26' Raúl Bravo (Espanha) comete falta sobre Ronaldo (Portugal).
25' As oportunidades dividem-se pelas duas áreas, com Vicente a desarmar Maniche num primeiro momento, mas o médio do FC Porto recupera a posição e a bola e dá início a um contra-ataque com um toque de calcanhar. Contudo, a iniciativa seguinte, de Cristiano Ronaldo, é contrariada por Iván Helguera.
24' O árbitro diz que Joaquín (Espanha) estava fora-de-jogo.
23' Torres avança desde o meio-campo e remata de muito longe, mas o disparo é fraco e a bola nem chega à baliza de Ricardo.
21' Canto apontado por Deco (Portugal).
20' Casillas (Espanha) defende.
20' Miguel (Portugal) remata à baliza. Miguel, em conjugação com Cristiano Ronaldo, está a causar estragos no lado esquerdo da defesa espanhola, e o lateral do Benfica aproveita uma bola solta na área para rematar forte, ao poste mais próximo, mas Casillas mostra a sua atenção e defende para canto.
19' A Espanha parece agora mais calma, com Fernando Torres e Raúl a começarem a mostrar entendimento, mas Jorge Andrade, por seu turno, tem estado excelente e faz dois desarmes providenciais.
18' A Rússia aumentou a vantagem para 2-0 no outro jogo, o que é uma boa notícia para as duas equipas.
17' Vicente (Espanha) marca o canto.
17' Deco (Portugal) vê o seu remate ser interceptado. Cristiano Ronaldo está a fazer Raúl Bravo passar um mau bocado e cruza do lado direito para a zona frontal, com Deco a rematar de pronto, mas contra um defesa espanhol.
15' Miguel (Portugal) faz falta.
15' Maniche (Portugal) faz falta sobre Joaquín (Espanha).
14' Figo passa por Carles Puyol no lado esquerdo, mas o seu toque seguinte sai demasiado longo e a bola deixa as quatro linhas.
12' Pauleta (Portugal) é apanhado em fora-de-jogo Deco tem um bom pormenor técnico, iludindo Xabi Alonso antes de tentar desmarcar Pauleta, mas o dianteiro português está em posição irregular.
11' Canto apontado por Deco (Portugal). Portugal pressiona o último reduto espanhol, ganhando dois cantos consecutivos, mas Xabi Alonso e Raúl Bravo conseguem levar a melhor sobre os dianteiros portugueses.
10' Raúl Bravo (Espanha) comete falta sobre Ronaldo (Portugal).
9' Miguel (Portugal) faz falta.
9' Figo (Portugal) marca o canto.
8' Cartão amarelo para Albelda (Espanha). O espanhol é punido por derrubar o "playmaker" dos lusitanos e, no caso de a Espanha apurar-se, também falhará o encontro dos quartos-de-final.
8' Albelda (Espanha) faz falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
7' O árbitro mostra o cartão amarelo a Pauleta (Portugal). O avançado do Paris Saint-Germain FC vê o cartão amarelo por dominar a bola com a mão. O dianteiro nacional falha o próximo jogo, no caso de Portugal qualificar-se para os quartos-de-final.
7' Pauleta (Portugal) mete a mão à bola.
6' Joaquín (Espanha) comete falta sobre Deco (Portugal).
6' Canto apontado por Figo (Portugal).
5' Figo (Portugal) faz falta.
5' A Rússia colocou-se em vantagem no outro jogo do Grupo A. Com os resultados a manterem-se, a Espanha vence o grupo, com a Grécia e Portugal empatados no segundo posto, mas com a formação helénica em vantagem devido ao triunfo no jogo inaugural, no Estádio do Dragão.
3' Juanito (Espanha) faz falta sobre Pauleta (Portugal).
3' Luís Figo começou com boas movimentações e o público português tributa os primeiros aplausos à medida que o capitão da selecção avança até à intermidiária espanhola, onde é desarmado.
2' Figo (Portugal) comete falta sobre Xabi Alonso (Espanha).
1' A Espanha dá o pontapé de saída.
- Começa o jogo.
Domingo, Junho 20, 2004
Phyllomedusa Bicolor
"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God"
Lenny Bruce
Opioid Peptides
Papaverine Opium
Papaver Somniferum
BRAVE NEW WORLD?
A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering
IMAGE OF GUINEA-PIG BRAIN
The red areas represent the highest density of opioid receptors; yellow areas represent
moderate density; while blue, purple and white represent low density.
Quinta-feira, Junho 17, 2004
HELLS ANGELS
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Terça-feira, Junho 15, 2004
ISA 2004 RTM is planned for tommorow (wednesday), let's hope they make it ;-)
Segunda-feira, Junho 14, 2004
RONALD REGAN and The Strategic Initiative Defence
Big Lasers
Alphabetical List of Lasers
On the 23rd of May, 1983, then US president Ronald Reagon announced to the world his intentions to build a ballistic missile defence system capable of rendering nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete". History had been made. Never before had such an extensive - or expensive - proposal been made. For the first time in decades, the American public were promised a way to opt out of the nuclear terror which had hung over their heads for over forty years...




Project Gutenberg



Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts). Our present collection of more than 10.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use (for complete details, see the license page).
History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg
By Michael S. Hart
© August 1992
The Beginning
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.
This was totally serendipitous, as it turned out that two of a four operator crew happened to be the best friend of Michael's and the best friend of his brother. Michael just happened "to be at the right place at the right time" at the time there was more computer time than people knew what to do with, and those operators were encouraged to do whatever they wanted with that fortune in "spare time" in the hopes they would learn more for their job proficiency.
At any rate, Michael decided there was nothing he could do, in the way of "normal computing," that would repay the huge value of the computer time he had been given ... so he had to create $100,000,000 worth of value in some other manner. An hour and 47 minutes later, he announced that the greatest value created by computers would not be computing, but would be the storage, retrieval, and searching of what was stored in our libraries.
He then proceeded to type in the "Declaration of Independence" and tried to send it to everyone on the networks ... which can only be described today as a not so narrow miss at creating an early version of what was later called the "Internet Virus."
A friendly dissuasion from this yielded the first posting of a document in electronic text, and Project Gutenberg was born as Michael stated that he had "earned" the $100,000,000 because a copy of the Declaration of Independence would eventually be an electronic fixture in the computer libraries of 100,000,000 of the computer users of the future.
Domingo, Junho 13, 2004
António Vitorino: O Novo Senhor Europa
TS Licensing in 90 Words Or Less
Sábado, Junho 12, 2004
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55 "Eroica"
The ``Eroica'' symphony
(Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55)
This symphony is one of Beethoven's most famous works, originally intended by him to be dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte. Beethoven had admired the ideals of the French Revolution embodied in Napoleon, but when he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804, Beethoven was apparently so disgusted that he erased Napoleon's name from the title page with such force that he broke his pen.
The music itself is very affecting. In particular, the second movement is very powerful. The funeral march conjures up images for me of a grey, stormy sky, with black, silhouetted figures carrying a coffin across the line of the horizon.
The symphony has four movements:
Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre. Adagio assai
Scherzo-Allegro vivace
Finale-Allegro molto
It was first performed on 7 April, 1805 in Vienna.
Sexta-feira, Junho 11, 2004
The Da Vinci Code. A Dan Brown's Book



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I just finished The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and it was quite an enjoyable book to read. The book is a fast-paced modern quest for the Holy Grail, complete with secret societies, hidden symbolism and intriguing ties to the real world. The author deals with a number of themes: the possibility that Jesus Christ has descendants that are being actively protected and sought after, the history of the Church and its attempts to supplant pagan, goddess-based, religions, the secret struggle of hidden organizations and the true nature of the Holy Grail. If you like conspiracy theories, especially in the realm of religion, the book will grab and hold your attention.
As a side note, the book mentions the organization Opus Dei, "Work of God" in Latin. I've heard of the organization, but didn't know much about it. In many books, Jesuits are shown as the shadowy hidden figures manipulating history behind the curtains. In this book, the operatives of Opus Dei are the ones running around in black cassocks. On the first page of the novel, Brown teases us with this fact:
The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is a deeply devout Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due to reports of brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as "corporal mortification." Opus Dei has just completed construction of a $47 million World Headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.
Brown ties some of the reality of Opus Dei into his work of fiction. Within the text, the author mentions a website, odan.org, the Opus Dei Awareness Network, which turned out to be a real website. Former members describe the group's practices and the way they were brought into the group. From ODAN's perspective, Opus Dei is a cult which needs to be combated.
Opus Dei, on their website, makes a few remarks about The Da Vinci Code, and takes a level headed approach to criticizing the book, and the portrayal of Opus Dei within:
Many readers are intrigued by the claims about Christian history and theology presented in The Da Vinci Code. We would like to remind them that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, and it is not a reliable source of information on these matters.
The book has raised public interest in the origins of the Bible and of central Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ. These topics are important and valuable to study, and we hope that interested readers will be motivated to study some of the abundant scholarship on them that is available in the non-fiction section of the library.
Although The Da Vinci Code may not have the depth of some other works of fiction delving into secret societies, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson come to mind, it was certainly a fun read and worth the time.
O Código da Vinci
Uma capa em que Mona Lisa domina é, decerto, um mau sinal para o leitor que não está desesperado por encontrar um paperback para ler durante uma viagem aérea transatlântica. Nesses momentos, quem tem medo de voar é capaz de qualquer coisa mas, se não estiver em tais condições, nada o poderá obrigar a pegar num volume bastante grosso com tal reprodução a dar-lhe rosto.
Por isso, quando O Código Da Vinci nos chega às mãos existe uma certa reticência em acreditar que aquilo é um produto consumível (ou legível!) e demora-se algum tempo a ultrapassar os problemas de consciência que uma tal leitura nos provoca de antemão...
O primeiro capítulo - curto e conciso - tenta mostrar-nos que não é bem assim. Entrega-se-nos com uma escrita escorreita, em que cada parágrafo sugere toda uma trama bem acima do nível que seria de esperar. Até despista o leitor da misteriosa Gioconda com uma referência a Caravaggio!
Está lançado o isco que pode colocar qualquer leitor exigente na pista do misterioso assassino que elimina a vida de um conservador do Museu do Louvre e devorar o livro nas próximas horas que tem disponíveis para tal actividade.
O Código é exigente no andamento da sua leitura porque, apesar de os cento e poucos capítulos serem sempre de pequena duração, acrescentam constantemente novas pistas para esclarecer uma intriga que não é entendível, nem pela metade, antes de um cento de páginas lidas. Só nesse momento, o leitor se apercebe do vespeiro em que se foi meter e aí exige saber exactamente o que se passa entre os três primeiros protagonistas-referência do que está a ler.
A história nem parece escrita por um americano - desculpem o cliché -, tal é a inspiração que o conduz ao longo de 536 páginas. Não existem momentos mortos e quando nos atrevemos a pensar que estamos de posse da chave do mistério, Dan Brown volta a confundir-nos por inteiro.
Porquê? Porque o livro é como uma centésima versão de um bom argumento feito para um thriller made in Hollywood, só que é raro encontrar-se assim exposto sob a forma literária. Não quereria apelidá-lo de arrebatador, mas é essa a forma como O Código Da Vinci melhor se relaciona com o leitor.
O autor utiliza velhos recursos para nos levar à leitura do seu best--seller: o sombrio Vaticano não deixa de marcar presença, mas o papel do mau é entregue aos membros da Opus Dei; a recuperação do mito do Santo Graal não falta mas é engenhoso; a filha órfã e o professor culto estão presentes; os segredos escondidos em vida pelos grandes génios da literatura e pintura são revelados; os meandros ocultos da simbologia traduzidos; o tradicional inspector francês está presente; e, como não podia deixar de ser, a velha Ordem dos Templários ressurge com um brilho oculto.
Truques... tão velhos como o segredo que o escritor nos quer revelar e que a leitura deste livro viciante torna mais claros.
Area Noticia: JOÃO CÉU E SILVA
O CÓDIGO DA VINCI
Autor. Dan Brown
Editora. Bertrand Editora
Páginas. 536
Género. Romance
Preço. e 17,95
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Quarta-feira, Junho 09, 2004
À Memória de Sousa Franco
Terça-feira, Junho 08, 2004
The Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO)
Real Time Fulldisk H-Alpha Sun Images
Real Time Fulldisk H-Alpha Sun Images
Segunda-feira, Junho 07, 2004
HERNANI LOPES
Prof. Doutor Ernâni Rodrigues Lopes
Licenciado em Economia (ISCEF, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) em 1964
Serviço militar na Armada como oficial da Reserva Naval (1964-1967)
Assistente e Encarregado de Curso de Cadeiras do 2º Grupo - Economia, no ISCEF, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1966 -1974)
Doutorado em Economia (Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Ciências Humanas) em 1982....etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Sociedade de Avaliação de Empresas e Risco
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Sexta-feira, Junho 04, 2004
Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (ABCNEWS.com)
The marble Palace perched amid the olive trees above the sea looked like a lot of other posh resort hotels I'd seen around the Mediterranean. The shiny new Mercedes and canary yellow Ferrari parked out front fit right in. I knew that if I poked around a little, I'd find a casino somewhere on the premises.
It didn't take me long, though, to notice that a couple things were out of place: the pack of little blond boys running around on the front lawn, shouting in Russian, and the young girls wearing identical bandeau bikinis, reading glossy Moscow weeklies by the pool. When the bellboy greeted me in Russian, I knew I had landed on one of those Russian beachheads I'd heard so much about. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian mob, Russians fleeing the Russian mob, and just plain rich Russians had been setting up all along the Riviera, including Israel's coastline. The fancier the place, the better. Money never seemed to be a problem. And they liked to keep to themselves.
I was actually in Caesarea to see a Russian, someone I'd known only by reputation. Yuri, as I will call him, was a merchant of death. He had made a colossal fortune in the early 1990s trading small arms for West African oil. Over the last several years, with capital under his belt and the free run of Russia's state-arms-trading firm, Rosvoorouzhenie, he'd branched out and started peddling arms everywhere. Supposedly, Yuri could put his hands on almost any piece of Russian hardware, from a MIG-31 to a T-80 main-battle tank. But he did have his professional ethics. When a competitor floated the rumor that Yuri was moving weapons-grade uranium, Yuri had him squashed like a Volga tick. It was one thing to earn an honest living fueling civil wars in West Africa, but something entirely different to deal in the nasty stuff.
I saw Yuri come out of the elevator. Dressed in a pair of pressed Levi's, suede Italian loafers, and a diaphanous white linen shirt, he could have passed for a well-heeled tourist. Slim and sandy haired, he looked younger than his forty-five years.
We settled in a restaurant where Yuri waited glumly for his coffee. My chitchat about the weather, Caesarea, whatever I could think of that might keep the conversation from sinking into silence, barely got a nod out of him. I stopped talking and took a closer look. His waxy yellow skin told me he hadn't been spending his time on the beach or the links. To judge by the spiderweb of broken blood vessels in his cheeks, he liked to relax with a bottle of vodka.
My business with Yuri, if you want to call it that, was to do a favor for a friend who wanted to know if Yuri was interested in financing an oil contract, a perfectly legitimate one. My friend figured that the Russian, with all his loose cash, might want to get out of the arms trade and clean up his reputation.
As soon as Yuri finished his second espresso, I popped the question. I was halfway through it when he held up his hand to stop me. "You're on your way to Syria, our friend tells me," he said.
He was right. The next day I was flying to Amman, Jordan, and from there to Damascus. The borders between Syria and Israel had been closed ever since Israel's independence over half a century earlier. You had to touch down somewhere else before setting foot in Syria.
"I'm in the market for Syrian oil," Yuri said. "I'll take as much as they'll give me. And you know what? I'll pay two dollars above market price."
That was a curveball I hadn't seen coming. I didn't need to be a professional oil trader to understand that Yuri didn't have legitimate Syrian oil in mind — no one pays two dollars a barrel over world market for any oil. What Yuri was after, I had little doubt, was sanction-busting Iraqi oil, currently selling for a discount of ten to fifteen dollars a barrel in Syria. It was impossible to nail down the exact amounts involved — Syria obviously didn't publish figures — but I'd seen estimates that put the total trade above $3 billion a year, a business big enough to attract Yuri and lots of other vultures of the global economy.
Iraq was glad to have another market for its illicit oil, even at a steeply discounted price. It was thanks to smuggled oil that Saddam Hussein had stayed afloat since the end of the Gulf War. Saddam used the revenues to feed and equip his elite troops and intelligence services — his brutal praetorian guard. The clandestine trade in oil had started as soon as the last American M-16 fired its last round in February 1991. At first the oil moved via small barges hugging either side of the Persian Gulf coast and traveling at night, thereby avoiding detection by the American fleet. Iraq then started smuggling it out by truck, mostly to Turkey and Iran. I had seen miles-long truck convoys when I was in Kurdistan in 1994 and 1995. Syria came late to the game but was more than making up for that in sheer volume. Most oil went through an old pipeline to the Syrian port of Baniyas. Some came in by truck.
With all the revenue from Iraqi oil sold outside the United Nations-imposed oil-for-food regimen, Saddam did quite nicely. Not only could he pay for the forces that kept him from being overthrown, he had even started reequipping his regular army. Shipments of new Russian goodies were arriving every day. There was also enough money left over to keep Saddam's inner circle, including his vicious son Uday, who ran the oil business, from worrying about a shortage of Cuban cigars, sports cars, and prostitutes. The Iraqi in the street never saw a penny of it.
Syria didn't do badly, either. By selling the illegal Iraqi oil on its domestic market, Syria freed up the oil it pumped from its own fields to sell abroad at world prices. In 2000 the country's exports rocketed from 320,000 to 450,000 barrels a day. Syria, of course, denied that the increase had anything to do with Iraqi oil, insisting against all evidence that the extra 130,000 barrels were squeezed out of its own fields. The fact is, Syria was making hundreds of millions of dollars a year off illicit Iraqi oil. For a country whose economy had been about to crater, that was a godsend.
As for the commission agents and traders — the WD-40 of this lovely end run around the United Nations sanctions on Iraq — there was plenty of money to treat themselves to new estates in Saint-Tropez or on Spain's Gold Coast. Maybe that's what Yuri was after: He seemed to have taken a liking to sweeping views of the Mediterranean.
The problem with Iraqi oil wasn't buying; it was unloading. Although the trade in Iraqi crude was an open secret, Syria didn't want to give anyone the chance to make a case by seizing a tanker full of the stuff. Syria never knew when some powerful congressman might hammer the State Department and the navy, forcing them to do something about the oil. With the screws turned, it wouldn't take the navy long to find a Syrian oil tanker on the Mediterranean. Sobered by such an ugly prospect, Syria wouldn't allow a drop of Iraqi oil to be exported. Yuri would have to come up with a damn serious sweetener to change Syria's mind. Illegal oil trading isn't my thing, but curiosity is, so I played along. They'd taught us at Langley that involvement is the first step to understanding.
"How are we going to make any money if we pay two dollars more than we have to?" I asked.
Yuri cut me off before I could continue. "Leave the numbers up to me." He didn't say anything for a minute, probably deciding how much he could risk telling me. Like espionage, the oil and arms business is run on a strict need-to-know basis: Give up only what you have to.
"What I'll tell you is this," Yuri went on. "I intend to wrap up my offer in a nice, neat package. I'm talking about PMU-300s. Tomorrow I could put my hand on twenty TELs and a hundred pencils. You open the door in Damascus, and I'll convince the Syrians this is a deal they can't refuse."
Now things were starting to get interesting. In the arms lingo, a TEL is a transporter-erector-launcher, and a pencil is a missile, but this wasn't just any TEL. The PMU-300 is a sophisticated Russian mobile surface-to-air missile system. I wasn't surprised Yuri was offering it for sale — he sold Russian arms for a living. What did surprise me was that he was pitching it here in Israel. Technically, Syria and Israel are at war. Syria's possession of PMU-300s would upset the balance of force between the two countries. I couldn't imagine Israel would be pleased to find out that sophisticated arms were being sold to its archenemy on its own soil, one sunny morning halfway between Tel Aviv and the Lebanese border. Then again, money helps disguise a lot of unpleasant truths.
I wasn't going to buy illegal Iraqi oil, and I wasn't going to buy arms for Syria, but I was closing in on the answer to a question I'd had for a long time. If Yuri was prepared to sell PMU-300s from a luxury resort hotel in Caesarea, armed with an international cell phone and a fat Rolodex, what else could he sell? And to whom? You don't need to be ex-CIA to know that globalization isn't just about Diesel jeans, Sony PlayStations, and Mercedeses. What I intended to find out was exactly how globalized the shady side of the arms business had become.
Excerpted from Sleeping with the Devil byRobert Baer Copyright© 2003 by Robert Baer. Excerpted by permission of Crown, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Its Soul for Saudi Crude
In his powerful new audio book, Robert Baer, author of See No Evil, turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America's dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism.For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in a "harmony of interests." America counted on the Saudis for cheap oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious market for the kingdom's vast oil reserves. With money and oil flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al Sa'ud family. But the rot at the core of our "friendship" with the Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi citizens.
In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa'ud's culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa'ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two.

Quarta-feira, Junho 02, 2004
José Lamego
"O Crime de Delito Comum Prolifera e Associa-se à Violência Política"
As urdiduras da Dra. Ana Gomes não afectam o Dr.José Lamego que desempenha as funções de chefe da Missão Temporária de Portugal junto da Autoridade Provisória da Coligação no Iraque.
Entrevista com José Lamego:
Presidente Bush - Bom, diria, como disse o Professor Marcelo Caetano na tese de doutoramento de Soares Martinez, que ele tem coisas boas e coisas originais, é pena que as coisas boas não sejam originais e as originais não sejam boas
Tony Blair - É uma pessoa que eu aprecio cada vez mais. Presidiu uma revolução no plano conceptual no Partido Trabalhista, que nós aqui acompanhámos com os Estados-Gerais. Qualquer que seja o seu futuro político, ficará na história como um grande estadista
Neoconservadores - São pessoas bem intencionadas mas na política, sobretudo na política externa, de bens intencionados está o inferno cheio
Ana Gomes - Não me diz nada
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Viagra e o Sexo das Plantas
Que o Viagra facilita a vida sexual aos humanos já não era nenhuma surpresa, mas o que os investigadores do IGC descobriram é que ele pode ajudar também a reprodução das plantas....
Os investigadores do grupo de desenvolvimento de plantas do Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência estão a tentar perceber alguns mecanismos associados à reprodução das plantas. O estudo que vai ser publicado em breve analisou o comportamento do órgão sexual masculino da flor sob o efeito do Viagra!
O Prião e a Creutzfeldt-Jakob / BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
PrPs e PrP-res (prião e prião-resistente): o prião é uma proteína normal do organismo cujo papel biológico é desconhecido. Esta proteína existe sob duas formas, a normal que é eliminada facilmente pelo organismo e uma forma patológica que é responsável pela encefalopatia espongiforme transmissível. Esta última provoca a morte de neurónios devido à sua acumulação nos tecidos nervosos, que adquirem um aspecto de esponja.
O agente patogénico é uma proteína que se localiza no tecido nervoso e que foi
baptizada de prião (prion protein, ou PrP); na forma normal (PrPC
TERROR E VACAS LOUCAS
Portugal é o segundo país com mais BSE
O Prião é o elemento comum a todas estas doenças, cuja origem é ainda desconhecida. O aparecimento da BSE levantou dúvidas na comunidade científica e muitos receios nos consumidores. A seguir ao Reino Unido, Portugal foi o país mais afectado e...
46% dos portugueses são susceptíveis à variante humana da BSE
Poderia ser apenas mais uma doença nos bovinos, mas o facto da BSE ser transmissível ao Homem dando origem a uma variante humana da doença ......
Prião – Um novo agente infeccioso
A descoberta do prião trouxe um novo campo de trabalho às doenças infecciosas deitando por terra a teoria de que só microorganismos como vírus, bactérias e fungos as provocavam...
Terça-feira, Junho 01, 2004
Caligula is a 1979 film directed by Tinto Brass





Caligula is a 1979 film directed by Tinto Brass (with additional scenes directed by Bob Guccione), about the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Germanicus; also known as "Caligula". Caligula is loosely based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal and co-financed by Penthouse. The producers were Guccione and Franco Rosselini. The film advertised itself as "the most controversial film in history. Only one movie dares to show the perversion behind Imperial Rome...".
Caligula was unrated when shown in theaters in certain jurisdictions because it contained several scenes with sexually and violently explicit content, including orgies, masturbation, fellatio, anal fisting, beheading prisoners using a lawn mower type device (which is unlikely to have existed in reality), and slamming an infant onto stone steps like a ragged doll. It was highly controversial, and considered by some objectors to be pornographic. It would certainly have received an X rating from the MPAA. It was censored in several countries, an original runtime of 210 minutes was reduced to 102, in the US, and 103, in the UK.
Guccione eventually did authorize an R-rated cut, which earned the film wider distribution. Though the controversy over the film's content drew large crowds, virtually none of the most excessive scenes were included in the R version.
Both the R-rated version and a 156-minute cut have been released to DVD. The original, 210-minute version is not available.
It was followed by a sequel, called Caligula II - Messalina, Messalina.
Cast
Malcolm McDowell -- Caligula
Peter O'Toole -- Tiberius
Paolo Bonacelli -- Chaerea
John Gielgud -- Nerva
Helen Mirren -- Caesonia
Teresa Ann Savoy -- Julia Drusilla
Lori Wagner -- Agrippina
John Steiner -- Longinus
Caligula: Reign of Madness (documentary)
If Nero was half-mad, Caligula was totally crazy. He assumed the Purple at 24, was murderd by his own guards at only 28. His name is a synonym for every kind of power abuse, sexual deviation, cunning and brutality. He posed to his turbulent subjects as a soldier, brave enough to fight and win a duel with one of his gladiators in the Colosseum - but while his own keen-edged sword was the finest to be had, his opponent's was made only of lead, which held no edge and was an nisupportable weight even for the strongest arm. This documentary, originally shown on Britain's History Channel, explores the complexity and contradiction behind the horrors of this most extravagant of Roman Emperors.
Atentados na Arábia Sáudita, o Frágil Reino Sáudita e o Preço do CRUDE


MAPQUEST of Saudi Arabia <<<<<<<<<< Caso o Mapa não Abra >>>>>>>>>>
Crude Oil Future Perspectives:
Rohöl Future (Crude Oil) - Rohstoff - Line-Chart
Saudi Authorities Hunt for Militants
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi authorities hunted Monday for three suspected al-Qaida militants who used hostages as human shields to escape after a weekend assault on a residential complex...

"MANDA QUEM PODE, OBEDECE QUEM DEVE"
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QUANDO TUDO ACONTECEU...
1889: Nasce em Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão. - 1914: Em Coimbra, conclui o curso de Direito. - 1918: Lente de Ciência Económica. - 1926: Após o golpe de 28 de Maio é convidado para Ministro das Finanças; ao fim de 13 dias...........
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Esta cadeira está desengonçada mas arrisco-me. Gosto muito de estar sentado aqui ao sol, no terraço do Forte de Santo António do Estoril, a contemplar a foz do Tejo e o oceano. É o meu único luxo, sou pobre..........
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A 3 de Agosto de 1968 a cadeira prega-lhe realmente uma partida: queda, a cabeça a bater no chão, hematoma cerebral, bloco operatório, diminuição das faculdades mentais.
Prof Doutor Marcelo Caetano e Prof. Pedro Romano Martinez
Marcelo Caetano fez a seguinte aptreciação sobre a Tese de Doutoramneto do Prof. Pedro Romano Martinez: - Bem! A Sua Tese tem tanto de coisas boas como de coisas originais, é pena que as coisas boas não sejam originais e as coisas originais não sejam boas.
