Yellowstone National Park became the first national park in 1872 when congress set the park boundaries aside as a wonder of nature. The park is primarily located in the state of Wyoming in the United States."
sábado, 26 de novembro de 2011
sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2011
O herdeiro - Andrés diz que não recusaria convite do "amigo" Ricardo Teixeira e refuta beneficiar Corinthians
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E aí, alguém tem alguma dúvida ainda dessa relação no mínimo suspeita que, depois do absurdo Itaquerão, agora produz um diretor / sucessor? E anunia às vésperas das finais do Braileirão?!?! AH, FALA SÉRIO!!! É MUITA SACANAGEM!!!
Segundo Andrés, sua presença na CBF não levará benefícios ao Corinthians
Andrés diz que não recusaria convite do "amigo" Ricardo Teixeira e refuta beneficiar Corinthians
Carlos PadeiroEm São Paulo(http://esporte.uol.com.br/futebol/ultimas-noticias/2011/11/25/andres-diz-que-nao-recusaria-convite-do-amigo-ricardo-teixeira-e-refuta-beneficiar-corinthians.htm)
Novo diretor de seleções da CBF, o presidente do Corinthians, Andrés Sanchez, concedeu entrevista coletiva na tarde desta sexta-feira e afirmou que a sua presença na entidade que comanda o futebol brasileiro não resultará em benefícios ao clube alvinegro. "Se tiver isso ou aquilo, não é por participação minha. Não vamos ser levianos, pelo amor de Deus", declarou.
"É ridículo, eu mesmo, em nome do Corinthians, já assumi que fomos beneficiados e prejudicados. É só pegar os sete últimos jogos do Brasileiro para ver o que aconteceu [erros de arbitragem]. Quem ganha são os jogadores em campo", continuou.
Andrés deixou claro o seu bom relacionamento com Ricardo Teixeira, que o convidou nesta sexta. "Fiquei surpreendido e não posso negar o convite de um amigo, muito menos virar as costas para a nação."
Ele confirmou que será o comandante de Mano Menezes. "Todas as seleções, masculina e feminina, é o Zé Mané aqui", sorriu.
O posto na CBF é remunerado, e Andrés revelou que ficará 95% do seu tempo no Rio de Janeiro a partir do ano que vem. Mesmo assim, não se distanciará do Corinthians. Seu objetivo é trabalhar para a vitória de Mario Gobbi, candidato da situação, nas eleições presidenciais de fevereiro.
"Nunca vou abandonar o Corinthians, ainda mais se fizer o sucessor, mas vou para uma coisa maior que é seleção brasileira, não posso me furtar nas portas da Copa do Mundo."
O herdeiro
E a CBF não podia esperar o Brasileirão acabar?
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quarta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2011
Prefeito peruano diz que água pode deixar a população gay
Enviado por Fernando Moreira -
23.11.2011
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Prefeito peruano diz que água pode deixar a população gay
José Benitez Pantoja fez um"alerta importante": cuidado com a água! O prefeito deHuarmey (Peru) acredita queos elevados níveis de estrôncio na água que abastece a cidade podem deixar a população gay. Por quê? Porque o metal, diz Benitez Pantoja, reduz a quantidade de hormônios masculinos, aumentando o risco de homossexualidadeentre os que consomem a água, noticiou o site "G Noticias".
Rumores de transformação da sexualidade pela água circulam no Peru desde 2000. À época, uma TV local noticiou que em Tabalosos, origem da água de Huarmey, 14 mil homens se tornaram gays por causa do consumo do líquido.
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NBA owners, players return to negotiating
NBA owners, players return to negotiating
Surrounded by NBA players, including New York Knicks' Chauncy Billups, left, and Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook, right, NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the players' union in New York, Nov. 14, 2011. The NBA players rejected the league's latest offer and have begun the process to disband the union. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Trying to salvage what could potentially be a lost season, representatives for the NBA owners and the players have resumed negotiations to avoid the cancellation of the NBA's Christmas games.
Sources told Yahoo! Sports that the talks began Tuesday and were scheduled to continue through Wednesday. "We should know more by later [Wednesday] evening," said one of the sources.
In order to have games on Dec. 25 -- the day the NBA's television schedule is launched -- both sides have to reach an agreement in the next several days, according to The New York Times.
The two sides' talks are now centered on settling their lawsuits — the players filed an antitrust lawsuit against the league in Minnesota and the league filed a pre-emptive suit in New York.
Because the union disbanded, it cannot negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. That can only be done once the union has reformed.
Union executive director Billy Hunter said Tuesday he expected that a Minnesota magistrate judge would mediate the players' lawsuit against the NBA, as the court did in the NFL's labor dispute.
Hunter specifically mentioned U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, the court-appointed mediator in the NFL talks. Boylan is not the magistrate assigned to the NBA antitrust suit, although the district judge has the discretion to appoint a different magistrate to mediate.
"What may very well be is the judge there directs the magistrate, as they did in the NFLPA case, to host a settlement conference, and that could possibly occur as early as next week," Hunter said.
One reason the players' lawyers decided to consolidate two suits against the NBA in Minnesota, he said, was that the district court there routinely uses magistrates to mediate cases.
Different groups of players filed separate lawsuits in California and Minnesota last week. On Monday, lawyers withdrew the California complaint and filed a consolidated, amended suit in Minnesota. Players attorney David Boies said at the time that the choice was made because cases move faster in Minnesota.
Hunter said Tuesday that the possibility of having a magistrate mediate also played into the decision, with the same goal in mind: resolving the labor strife quickly.
"It makes it easier for the parties to get together when the court is involved," he said.
NBA owners locked out the players July 1, and the labor strife has forced games to be canceled through Dec. 15.
The owners had already filed a lawsuit of their own in the Southern District of New York and could file a motion to have the Minnesota case moved there.
After the two sides were unable to reach an accord, the players disbanded the union last week. That set the stage for the increasingly bitter labor dispute to move from the negotiating table to the courtroom, which could jeopardize the entire 2011-12 season.
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terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2011
Starbucks Mutiny Exposes New York’s Reliance on Chain’s Toilets
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/nyregion/starbucks-mutiny-exposes-new-yorks-reliance-on-chains-toilets.html?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto)
Starbucks Mutiny Exposes New York's Reliance on Chain's Toilets
By ANNE BARNARD
People wait in line for the restroom at a Starbucks in Times Square on Tuesday
For many workers at Starbucks in New York City, the worst part of their jobs may not be the hordes of demanding tourists. Or the aggravation of making ever-more-complex skim Frappuccinos and green tea lattes. Or the unflattering elf hats that some baristas have been asked to wear even before Thanksgiving.
It is having to serve as janitors for the city's de facto public toilets.
Now, it seems, some of these baristas have had enough.
Tired of customers — and noncustomers — leaving bathrooms messy or worse, baristas started to lock them at some Starbucks, including one on 45th Street near Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Up went signs marked "Employees Only."
The revolt seemed to reflect a discontent that lurks among the often preternaturally cheerful barista corps.
"I have personally cleaned up almost every humanly fluid and plenty that didn't seem human," one employee wrote on the StarbucksGossip Web site, coming to a passionate defense of the rebel latte makers.
"I am continually amazed by what people will do when given a few square feet of privacy," griped another. "Why do you want to have sex in a bathroom? I think the toilet would be kind of a mood killer."
And also, that writer wanted to know, "Why are you drinking beers in there?"
But the mutiny did not go unnoticed. First came news coverage last week that portrayed the company as inhospitable. (Or, as The New York Post put it, "When you gotta go, don't count on going at Starbucks.")
Then, in a city with few other options, people reacted as if Starbucks was revoking a public entitlement.
The Gawker blog pronounced New Yorkers "shaken and alarmed." Between orders for tall, grande and venti cups of coffee, workers across the city fielded questions from the outraged, the worried and the desperate. Finally, Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle posted a plaintive defense on Twitter: "hey, we're not closing public bathrooms at all, that's not true."
Within days, according to current and former employees who requested anonymity to avoid getting in trouble with the bosses, higher-ups from Starbucks management visited at least two offending shops and ordered them to liberate their bathrooms.
The locked lavatories appeared to touch a nerve, exposing the public's dependence on what is essentially a corporate marketing strategy. Starbucks has long styled its outlets as gathering places where people can sit, use its free Internet access and empty their coffee-filled bladders without being urged to move along.
For years, New Yorkers have awaited the proliferation of self-cleaning pay toilets that City Hall introduced to much fanfare in 2005, and again in 2008.
But the public pay toilets have been installed in only three locations. The city's Department of Transportation said it was difficult to identify spots with the required infrastructure — with plumbing but without other utilities that will be disturbed by the installation — and where local merchants do not object to doing business nearby.
In any case, the city program calls for only 20 toilets over a 20-year period. There are 190 Starbucks outlets in Manhattan.
At the shop on 45th Street, a telltale bare patch on the bathroom door shows where the "Employees Only" sign was removed.
"We had been using it as a locker room," an employee said, conspiratorially looking around to see who was listening. She explained that the restroom had been closed because a small number of inconsiderate patrons had repeatedly broken the toilet.
On the deserted terrace of a Starbucks at 85th Street and First Avenue one cloudy morning last week, Chris Dalldorf puffed on a cigarette and expounded on the coffee chain's public service.
"You're talking to a guy who never drinks Starbucks coffee," he said. "When I'm drinking coffee, a diner suits me fine."
"But," he continued, "I am a habitual user of Starbucks bathrooms."
Matthew Shakespeare, a shift supervisor there, said he was unconcerned.
"I have to use the bathroom, too — and we're selling coffee!" he said. "There's no place that the city provides. People get bent out of shape about the smallest things."
Mr. Shakespeare's bathroom was pristine. But at 87th and Lexington, a more heavily trafficked location, there was evidence that some visitors were less precise in their use of the bathroom, and
Jesus Diaz, an assistant shift manager there, was less forgiving.
"Starbucks is definitely New York's public bathroom," he said, pausing to call out, "Tall peppermint chocolate, whipped cream?" before adding, "It's a little too much."
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World Wonders
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted."
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??? - 22 de Novembro de 2011
Não sabia o que era a felicidade. Até encontrar essa família que me acolheu. Estava quase desistindo da vida, mas daí tive novo ânimo, esperança. Comecei a lutar, então. E o amor deles me dava mais força ainda prá lutar! Resisti o quanto pude. Por mim e por eles! Foram quase 4 anos maravilhosos! Essa sim foi minha vida. Antes não. Não deu mais! Desculpe, mas não aguentei... Eu fui feliz. SOU MUITO FELIZ! Didan... Sava... Bien... Tres Bien!
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