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Brazilians: Portuguese for the perplexed
Post Date: 2014-10-20 19:00:52 by James Deffenbach
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Inspired by a popular guide to Understanding the British, I've put together a few entries in a Foreigners' Guide to Understanding Brazilians. Portuguese speakers and Brazilianists are invited to add more in the comments. Hat tip to Brazil-based journalists Andrew Downie and Dom Phillips, who contributed items, and Olivier Teboul, a Frenchman living in Belo Horizonte whose list of "Brazilian curiosities" (in Portuguese) has generated a huge response from amused, and sometimes bemused, locals. What Brazilians say: Yes (Sim) What foreigners hear: Yes What Brazilians mean: Anything from yes through perhaps to no What Brazilians say: Perhaps (Talvez) What foreigners hear: ...
Woman stuck in chimney later arrested
Post Date: 2014-10-20 18:08:02 by James Deffenbach
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A rescue team extracted a woman trapped in the chimney of a Southern California home Sunday, according to police. The woman, later identified as Genoveva Nunez-Figueroain a report from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, had been stuck for several hours, Capt. Mike Lindbery, Ventura County Fire Department public information officer, told USA TODAY Network. She was arrested for suspected illegal entry. Police told the Associated Press that Nunez-Figueroa knows the owner of the home, who wasn't there at the time. The police would not give any additional information. Neighbors in the Thousand Oaks, Calif., neighborhood heard someone screaming for help at around 5:30 a.m. but had ...
Car vs truck crash E40 Aalter (Belgium)
Post Date: 2014-10-19 15:49:18 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:A reminder to think before you do something this stupid. I know someone who was riding with her brother and her brother thought he could make it to an exit which was to his right and one which he should have passed up and went on to the next one and came back. Instead he cut in front of a tractor trailer, probably thinking he could beat it, and he didn't. As a result he almost killed his sister, took most of her right arm off iirc. No appointment, no excuse is evenly remotely a justification for doing something this dumb while driving. Some things can’t be undone.
French Court agrees to extradite ex-minister to Russia
Post Date: 2014-10-19 07:01:14 by Tatarewicz
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Local fr A French court of appeal has ruled in favour of extraditing to Russia a former finance minister accused of embezzling billions of rubles. The Lyon court said Alexei Kuznetsov should be sent back to Russia on condition that he was not subjected to forced labour, and that he could receive visits from the French authorities. Kuznetsov was arrested close to St Tropez in the summer of 2013 in possession of passports in five different names. He stands accused by the Russian authorities of embezzling some 14 billion rubles, more than €400,000 million at the time, when he was finance minister for the Moscow region between 2005 and 2008. The money was allegedly laundered in ...
2-Month Weather Forecast (Old Farmers Almanac)
Post Date: 2014-10-18 21:19:41 by BTP Holdings
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Free 2-Month Weather Forecast Map showing long-range weather region OCTOBER 2014: temperature 54° (2° below avg.); precipitation 4" (1" above avg.); Oct 1-3: Rainy periods, warm; Oct 4-10: Heavy t-storms, then sunny, chilly; Oct 11-21: Showers, then sunny, cool; Oct 22-28: Rain, then sunny, cool; Oct 29-31: Sunny, warm. NOVEMBER 2014: temperature 44° (1° above avg.); precipitation 4" (1.5" above avg.); Nov 1-4: Sunny, mild; Nov 5-13: Rain to snow, then sunny, cold; Nov 14-19: Sunny, mild; Nov 20-26: Showers, then sunny, turning mild; Nov 27-30: Rain to snow. Annual Weather Summary: November 2014 to October 2015 Winter temperatures, precipitation, and ...
Ex-railway official sentenced to death
Post Date: 2014-10-18 03:16:47 by Tatarewicz
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ChinaDaily... Former senior railway official has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on corruption charges by a court in Beijing on Friday. Zhang Shuguang, ex-director of the transport bureau under the then-ministry of railways - now China Railway Corp - has also been stripped of all political rights and all his personal property confiscated, said the Second Intermediate Court in Beijing. Zhang first went on trial on Sept 10, 2013, for taking 47.55 million yuan ($7.76 million) in bribes. Zhang, 57, from Jiangsu province, was also the ministry's former deputy chief engineer and the right-hand man of Liu Zhijun, the ex-railways minister, who was sentenced to death in ...
Rising Injuries Among Older Male Motorcyclists: Study
Post Date: 2014-10-16 02:34:37 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Motorcycle injuries requiring a trip to the hospital have increased in recent years among older male riders, while injury rates for women and younger men haven't changed, according to a new study from Canada. The spike in injuries among men over 45 suggests that more male Baby Boomers are taking to two wheels as a leisure activity, and they may need training and other injury prevention strategies, say the researchers. "We were surprised by the extent of the increase in injuries among older men motorcycle riders," said Mariana Brussoni of the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, who led the study published in the BC ...
Parents name their baby boy Lucifer in Russia.
Post Date: 2014-10-16 01:56:06 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda...Some parents may give very unusual names to their newborn babies. In Russia, the choice of names for babies can be very unusual too, for example, Dawn (Rassvet), Moon (Luna), or Oceana. Yet, the choice of parents from the city of Perm shocked the whole country. They called their baby boy Lucifer. Twenty-four-year-old mother explained her choice by the fact that she and her husband were "Satanists". "I wanted to name him Lucian, but my husband wanted another name - Lucifer. My labor was very complicated, and I promised that if the baby survived, we'd call him Lucifer. All went well, so I kept my promise," the boy's mother, Natalia Menshikova told PRM.ru ...
Dallas Crime Report
Post Date: 2014-10-14 12:42:10 by Lod
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Not so much diversity there...
Could telepathy exist?
Post Date: 2014-10-14 07:56:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert: Telepathy might sound like science fiction, but scientists have already achieved direct brain-to-brain communication between humans...and they've managed to read the minds of cats too. Telepathy may be best known in science fiction, but over the past 20 years, scientists have made huge breakthroughs in achieving "mind links" in real life, as the latest episode of BrainCraft explains. And, naturally, it all started with cats. In the late 1990s, scientists connected electrodes to the visual areas of cats' brains while they watched a film. This allowed them to "hack" into their thoughts, and replay the movie through the eyes of the cats. Put simply, ...
Bear revenge? Siberian man finds his car ripped apart after unlucky hunting
Post Date: 2014-10-13 06:04:52 by Tatarewicz
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Three hunters ran into a bear who seemed unafraid of people in the forests of Russia’s Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous region. After being shot by one of the men in the thigh, the bear left. But in the morning the unlucky hunter found his car ripped apart by the revengeful animal, he believes. Whoever it was, the car was left scratched with smashed windscreen and broken lights, while the front and rear seats were torn almost to pieces. Poster Comment:Maybe it was bigfoot, not a bear.
Xinhua to promote ties with Iranian media: editor-in-chief
Post Date: 2014-10-12 22:51:14 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's state media Xinhua News Agency is willing to help deepen media cooperation and exchange between China and Iran so as to jointly build a "Silk Road of Information," Xinhua's Editor in Chief He Ping said on Sunday. "We are willing join Iranian media community in a concerted effort to deepen and expand cooperation to build a positive media atmosphere for speeding up the construction of the Silk Road economic belt," He said during his meeting with Mohammad Sadegh, senior advisor to the Iranian president, in Tehran. He referred to an earlier proposal by Chinese President Xi Jinping to further bridge the hearts and minds of the ...
Ebola Hoax: 100% REVEALED! CNN + NYT caught using CRISIS ACTORS!
Post Date: 2014-10-12 19:41:47 by christine
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Poster Comment:Watch with an open mind.
Does the Age of Online Education Herald the Death of Academics?
Post Date: 2014-10-12 05:48:40 by Tatarewicz
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Epoch Times... In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”, their term for the then newfangled technology of the overhead projector, or OHP. These Luddites strutted the corridors with coffee-tinted sheaves of notes stuffed untidily under their arms. They would sweep into the classroom, fling their pencil-written papyri on the lectern and, without so much as a glance at their students, commence reading out loud. They seemed to think that their exegesis of the sacred texts of economics and business studies was blessed with a natural authority. The students concurred. Even when I projected my plastic ...
Life after death exists? Scientists gather 'out-of-body' evidence in 'largest-ever' study
Post Date: 2014-10-11 06:20:15 by Tatarewicz
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RT... It seems that scientists have finally offered some concrete evidence that life after death really does exist, as the largest-ever study into the issue showed that patients could recall intricate details despite being officially declared clinically dead. Researchers based at the UK’s University of Southampton, who were involved in the AWARE (“AWAreness during REsuscitation”) study published in the journalResuscitation, claim that almost 40 percent of people who survived clinical death described some kind of “awareness” during the time before their hearts were restarted. The study, led by Dr. Sam Parnia, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, ...
Bruce??
Post Date: 2014-10-10 22:46:19 by christine
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14 things foreign countries warn their citizens about when visiting France
Post Date: 2014-10-10 06:01:15 by Tatarewicz
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Local fr...The safety warnings foreign governments issue to their citizens when visiting France can appear to be excessively alarming. Although we don't want to be scaremongers, here are a few of the most severe from governments around the world. What else would you add? : Travel warnings about France» Migrant headache: "There are large numbers of illegal migrants in and around Calais, who may seek an opportunity to enter the UK illegally. Although local police patrols have been reinforced, you should keep vehicle doors locked in slow moving traffic and secure your vehicle when it is left unattended." (UK gov't) Dangerous trains: "Pickpockets are very active ...
Saudi Arabia: The Middle East’s Real Apartheid State
Post Date: 2014-10-09 20:41:56 by X-15
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Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from President Kennedy, who accomplished what the Ottoman Empire and the League of Nations had not been able to, but that hasn’t stopped its citizens from selling castrated slaves on Facebook or its princes from beating their black slaves todeath in posh London hotels. The Saudis had clung to their racist privileges longer than anyone else. When rumors reached Mecca that the Ottoman Empire might be considering the abolition of African slavery and equal rights for all, the chief of the Ulema of Mecca issued a fatwa declaring “the ban on slaves is contrary to Sharia (Islamic Law)… with such proposals the Turks have become ...
Nice tribute to Paul Revere (of Paul Revere and the Raiders)
Post Date: 2014-10-08 19:33:59 by James Deffenbach
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Paul Revere and the Raiders January 7, 1938 — October 4, 2014
Cynicom, Thinking of You
Post Date: 2014-10-07 16:45:04 by christine
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Poster Comment:Cyni's hospitalized again.
People of Walmart (God Help Us)
Post Date: 2014-10-05 14:54:51 by Lod
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Top 5 Russian arms NATO is afraid of
Post Date: 2014-10-05 01:35:52 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaTV PravdaTV Published on Oct 3, 2014 Russia is capable of striking a "painful blow" to NATO, if the alliance, for example, gets involved in the war in Ukraine. Here is the top five of weapons that, according to Western analysts, make Russia a dangerous opponent in case of war. WORLDS MOST POWERFUL NUCLEAR MISSILE ever built Russian SS-18 Satan can carry 10 Nuclear Bombs Published on Jan 12, 2014 The R-36, (Russian: Р-36) is a family of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and space launch vehicles designed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The original R-36 was produced under the Soviet industry designation 8K67 and was given the NATO reporting ...
Narcissism - C2C program
Post Date: 2014-10-02 08:11:51 by Tatarewicz
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Date: 09-08-14 Host: George Noory Guests: W. Keith Campbell In the first half, Professor at the University of Georgia, W. Keith Campbell, discussed the epidemic of narcissism in our culture. He defined narcissism as having a grandiose or inflated sense of self-- being a "legend in your own mind," and thinking that you're better than other people or better than you really are. Narcissism is a trait that most people have some of in their life, but when it reaches a certain level, it can be diagnosed as a disorder or condition, he said. There are certain signs that become more evident over time such as people always turning the conversation back to themselves, as well as an ...
Prepping For Winter: Top Foods To Hoard
Post Date: 2014-09-29 17:19:12 by BTP Holdings
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With summer gone and winter fast approaching... now is the time to start hoarding those winter food supplies. Get this: there are a lot of things you need to consider before even getting started on the process itself. Things that depend on the area you live in... the nutritional value of foods... the individual dietary needs... >>Click here to find out the top foods to stock up for winter, and how to perfect your food preserving skills<< PS: For me, stockpiling for winter brings back childhood memories. I remember how Mom isolated herself in the kitchen for days on end to make sure winter won't deny our family any dietary pleasures. This gave Dad a hard time organizing ...
Moscow fast-tracks law limiting foreign media ownership to 20%
Post Date: 2014-09-29 01:01:32 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The Russian Duma has passed the final reading of a law forbidding holders of foreign passports from controlling or owning more than 20 percent of any media outlet. The law, proposed just ten days ago, will extensively affect Russia’s publishing sector. “The freedom of the press is guaranteed by our Constitution, and won’t be affected,” said Mikhail Margelov, one of the 430 deputies who voted to support the law, with only two voting against. "The law is designed to protect our national interests, to safeguard the sovereignty of our media, and our country.” “The information war against Russia has its own laws, and has forced our hand,” said ...
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