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 Será por causa disto: 1)Curitiba é conhecida por suas soluções urbanas diferenciadas, notadamente por seu sistema integrado de transporte de massas que, em conjunto com as vias regulares de trânsito, tem servido, especialmente a partir da década de 1970, como indutor de seu desenvolvimento urbanístico. 2) Medições recentes indicam que a área verde de Curitiba é de 51 metros quadrados por habitante, cerca de três vezes superior à área mínima recomendada pela ONU. 3) Curitiba foi re...
 First, let me reminisce of days gone past and the local music scene in San Francisco.
There seemed to be a lot more venues spread across town. The Upper Haight wasn't the strip mall it has become today since there were a few venues including the amazing I-Beam. The Stone and On Broadway brought in great acts. During the Tom Guido days at The Purple Onion there was always a spectacle, whether with the bands or Guido himself.
Touring bands had it easier in years past. I remember being too yo... Continue reading ...
 Somali pirates don't scare easily.
Last month, they hijacked a Ukrainian merchant vessel loaded with tanks, heavy weapons and ammunition, and still haven't relinquished control of the freighter to the American and Russian navy ships that have besieged it for weeks off the Somali coast.
Last week, they tried to snatch an Indian merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden only to be thwarted by the Indian navy, which had dispatched assets to the region to cope with the pirates' rising threat.
Undet... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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 Mystique about alien spaceships and little green men at Area 51 took a back seat Thursday to the real men who worked there for the CIA and the spy planes they flew during the Cold War.
In fact, a question about a link between the secret installation 90 miles north of Las Vegas and speculation about flying saucer debris and dead aliens from a 1947 crash site near Roswell, N.M., was glossed over as fiction during a panel discussion at the Atomic Testing Museum.
The panel of former Area 51 ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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 Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman kept the idea for a red-light district for downtown Vegas alive. At his news conference yesterday the mayor told reporters: "I’ve met with folks from that industry who make a very compelling argument that it could generate $200 million a year in tax dollars, and that would buy a lot of textbooks, pay for a lot of teachers.” Interestingly, the prostitutes legal and illegal do not seem very excited by the potential of plying their trade in Vegas, at least, wi...
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Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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 Last spring, President Obama showed us the limits of Change. Sure, he banned the harsh interrogation practices condoned by his predecessor, and he will most likely close the prison in Guantánamo. But when he fought a lawsuit against the warrantless wiretaps that the Bush administration began, Obama was essentially saying he would keep relying on the notion of "state secrets." And you know what? That's OK.
Abruptly pulling the plug on US intelligence operations, even if they may eventu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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 The Hernando County seat Brooksville, FL was the site for the Brooksville Police Department's most recent undercover prostitution sting. This operation, according to Kyle Martin from the Hernando Today, took in 32 arrests.
Arrests for Prostitution, are often the target of Motions to Dismiss or Motions to Suppress Evidence due to the Entrapment issues that arise in these scenarios. Although Entrapment defenses arise in other cases--most notably drug crimes, sex crimes and theft cases--countle... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 24, 2009,
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 AMPATUAN, Philippines – The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies, pushing the death toll to 46 in some of the deadliest election violence in the nation's history.
Police and soldiers found 22 bodies in a hillside mass grave Tuesday, adding to the 24 bullet-riddled bodies recovered near the scene of Monday's massacre in Maguindanao province, said Chief Superintendent Josefino Cataluna of the Central Mindanao... Continue reading ...
 Colombia has accused neighbouring Venezuela of blowing up two pedestrian bridges on its shared border.
Colombian Defence Minister Gabriel Silva said eyewitnesses had seen men who appeared to be from the Venezuelan army blow up the bridges with dynamite.
He described the incident, on the border of Colombia's Norte de Santander region, as violating international law.
A Venezuelan official was quoted as saying that the army had blown up an illegal, improvised bridge.
It was the latest in... Continue reading ...
DEARBORN, Mich. – There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.
An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate but instead gets a loving hand slap from a woman. The happy, well-dressed guests move to a table full of food in a dining room adorned with Middle Eastern wall-hangings.
It's an inviting, if idealized, dinner party scene from any Arab-American home — at least that's what the CIA seeks to convey in the first televisi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
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 Wednesday, September 30, 2009provided by  Almost all of America's wealthiest citizens are poorer this year.America's super rich are getting poorer. For only the fifth time since 1982, the collective net worth of The Forbes 400 — our annual tally of the nation's richest people — has declined, falling $300 billion in the past 12 months from $1.57 trillion to $1.27 trillion. Faltering capital markets and real estate prices, along with divorce and fraud, pushed the fortunes of 314 members down a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
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 Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- A 90-year-old man from northern Germany has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the killings of Jewish forced laborers in the final days of World War Two.
The man, who was not named, was a member of the feared SS serving in what is now Austria when he allegedly carried out the crimes, the state court in Duisburg, western Germany, said Tuesday.
A state office responsible for the prosecution of Nazi war crimes filed the charges.
On March 29, 1945, the man broug... Continue reading ...
 WASHINGTON (AFP) – News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan's emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas.
Obama on Monday was in China, having wrapped up the Japan leg of his Asia trip two days earlier. But Washington's punditocracy was still weighing whether or not the US president had disgraced his country two days earlier by having taken a deep bow at the waist while meeting Japan's Emperor Akihito.
Pol... Continue reading ...
 (CNN) -- Space Shuttle Atlantis launched Monday afternoon to deliver key spare parts to prolong the life of the International Space Station.
The shuttle lifted off as scheduled, at 2:28 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral.
The delivery will add years to the station's life after the space shuttle fleet is retired next year, according to NASA. Monday's launch is among six planned before then.
"You'll see this theme in some of the flights that are going to come after our... Continue reading ...
 A deal to trade more nuclear power and offshore oil drilling for a cap on greenhouse gases may go nowhere, but don't rule out even bigger schemes.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The success of a congressional effort to push through stymied climate change legislation remains far from a sure thing.
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have offered provisions to try to sway Republican lawmakers and business groups to support caps on greenhouse gasses.
The problem:... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 12, 2009,
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1. General Motors
Fortune 500 rank: 4
2007 loss: $38.73 billion Detroit's many woes hit GM hardest last year. The biggest of the Big Three took a tax loss to the tune of $39 billion in the third quarter, citing adverse factors like rising gasoline prices, more expensive raw materials and rival Toyota's new full-size trucks. GM lost nearly $2 billion in its core auto business and $1.2 billion related to its stake in GMAC, which is No. 8 on th...
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Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 12, 2009,
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Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti told the Pompano BeachCity Commission at a recent meeting that he disagreed with a study that stated the city could save millions if it dropped the Broward Sheriff's Office and instituted its own police department.
"We think it's flawed and inconsistent," Lamberti said.
Facing a projected budget shortfall and increased concerns among residents, Pompano hired Willdan Homeland Solutions for $80,000 to study its police services.
When the findings were made public in Ju... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 12, 2009,
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JERUSALEM (Reuters Life!) – Jewish American math teacher Goldie Burdetsky never expected to find herself working the front desk of a hotel in southern Israel alongside management interns young enough to be her children.
"I mean, for God's sakes, I have a master's degree in education," said the 55-year-old New Yorker. "I expected to be able to find a teaching job in the U.S. without any problems. But I couldn't."
Burdetsky decided to escape the dire economic situation back home, by coming ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 12, 2009,
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The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." --Napoleon Bonaparte
Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than a religious figure. Can ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Wednesday, November 11, 2009,
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 SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazil on Wednesday sought to uncover the cause of a massive and mysterious blackout overnight, amid concerns of energy supply stability for the 2016 Olympic host nation.
The outage, which hit at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday) and lasted four to six hours, plunged nearly half the country into darkness.
An estimated 50 million people -- more than a quarter of Brazil's 190-million-strong population -- were affected, mainly in the major cities in the southern part ... Continue reading ...
 WASHINGTON – In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.
A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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Mais uma estoria anda criando rumores pateticos nos US. Na Florida um Brasileiro que nao conseguia assinar seu proprio nome em passaporte se revolta contra autoridades e diz ser "Rico" e ter dinheiro para pagar qualquer "probrema". Este homem que nunca teve a chance de se educar mesmo nos US lhe dando condicoes, preferiu optar pelo estilo de vida baixo americanizado. E diz que nao se sente constrangido pelo fato de ser Analfabeto e ao mesmo tempo quota que se considera "sortudo" e abencoado ... Continue reading ...
By Stuart McDill Stuart Mcdill – Mon Nov 2, 4:32 pm ET
BARCELONA (Reuters) – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.
The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Reso...
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DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford, the only Detroit automaker to dodge direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter and forecast a "solidly profitable" 2011.
The automaker said Monday earnings were fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost cuts and the Cash for Clunkers program, which drew flocks of buyers to showrooms this summer. Ford's shares rose 68 cents, or 9.8 percent, to $7.68 in morning trading.
The latest results si... Continue reading ...
'Feed The Children' sends help
International charity helps Jax Sailors
By JO2(SCW) Eric Clay
Staff Writer
The NAS Jacksonville Food Locker recently received two semi-tractor trailers filled with donations from the international charitable organization, Feed The Children. The donations included food items and toiletries to be distributed to eligible families here. Thirty-eight pallets were delivered to the base following a food distribution event to benefit area children and families at A... Continue reading ...
Posted by Oscar Wolford on Thursday, October 29, 2009,
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Sean Penn and Miachel Douglas are taken political affairs into their own hands. The Actors flew to diferent "socialist" countries to conquist some good relations between US and their countries. Thinking about the future, these guys are concerned about the World Crisis on diferent aspects. Very well. More info go to yahoo.com. Continue reading ...
In common with most religions, Scientology is basically concerned with the origin and nature of the universe and has an associated mythology that its believers hold to reflect religious truth, even when such myths may not be historically accurate or scientifically verifiable.[10] In Scientology, the cosmic source or life force is represented by the Greek letter theta (Θ).[10][11] Theta is meant to represent life or the life source, it is not part of the physical universe but it can control t... Continue reading ...
Top 5 America's Safest Cities
4. Seattle, Wa. (tie)
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
Violent crime: 3 of 40
Workplace deaths: 2 of 40
Traffic deaths: 8 of 40
Natural disaster risk: 31 of 40
4. Boston, Mass.
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-N.H.
Violent crime: 10 of 40
Workplace deaths: 5 of 40
Traffic deaths: 1 of 40
Natural disaster risk: 28 of 40
3. Portland, Ore.
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash.
Violent crime: 1 of 40
Workplace deaths: 10 of 40
Traffic deaths: 5 of 40
Natural disaster risk: 25 of ... Continue reading ...
Still, this doesn't stop sufferers from relying on a host of ineffective treatments. Like Dr. Katona, emergency physician Dr. Frank McGeorge often deals with patients who rely on remedies that lack scientific proof until their symptoms worsen and they have to see a health care professional.
McGeorge, a Detroit-Mich.-based spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says a lot of patients often take vitamins like echinacea, zinc and vitamin C once they get sick. While researc... Continue reading ...
It's been two years since Facebook News Feed launched. It's been an interesting ride since to say the least.
Now, two years later, there is a new revolt against the Facebook redesign. And I've been asked about it several times, so I wanted to share my thoughts about it with you.
What I've heard is that at some point these "redesigns" could cause panick disorders and violent attacks.
Please, don't let the rage against the machine take over your soul and make it open your case by exposing your tho... Continue reading ...
"A love motel exclusively for pets has opened in Brazil. The Pet Love Motel, in Sao Paulo, offers decorated rooms for pets to mate. The rooms in the motel, at Barra Funda, are decorated in the same way as love motels for humans, with satin sheets, ceiling mirrors and lots of cushions." One more interesting fact that just happened in Brazil Continue reading ...
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