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Edição 50 - The Brazilian PostTRANSCRIPT
HIGHLIGHTS:
Brazil:
Chevron suspends
Brazil offshore drilling
P03
SHOWBIZ:
Charlize Theron says she
smoked 'to die'
P10
Taste of Christmas
P15WHAT'S UP:
WORLD:
20 years' jail for insulting
Thai queen
P17
SPORT:
The Olympic torch
tradition
ECONOMY:
Italian yields jump after
poor auction
P20
P22
Police: No FBI agents at
2012 Olympics
P07Made in UK:
p03 Spotlight:
Europeans seek
new opportunities
in Brazil
NGO releases
pictures of isolated
Amazon tribe
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p04Environment:
NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
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PHYSICAL PERFECTION
Brazil's cult of
Brazilians, especially women, are among the global leaders in taking meticulous care of their bodies and exhibiting them to advantage. This is a significant factor in climbing social and economic ladders, establishing identities and competing successfully in mar-kets, from employment to romance. The result is explo-sive growth in the beauty industry, frenzied consump-tion of cosmetics and slimming products, enthusiasm for exer-cise programmes and wide-spread use of plastic surgery, even among teenagers.
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Europeans seek new opportunities in Brazil
With anemic job markets at home, a growing number of Europeans are seeking employment outside the region. Brazil, Latin America's economic powerhouse, is among those places increasingly viewed as a land of opportunity.
According to the justice ministry, the number of foreigners living legally in Brazil rose more than 50 percent from January to June this year, from 962,000 to 1.5 million. Portuguese lead the pack, rising from 277,000 in December 2009 to 329,000 in June 2011. The number of Spaniards increased during the same period from 58,500 to nearly 81,000, while the French contingent went up from 16,500 to 17,800. Brazilian authorities estimate there are also more than 600,000 illegal immigrants. Among them, an estimated 40 percent are Bolivians and 13 percent are Chinese.
"Brazil is seen as a land of opportunity in Europe," said Nuria Pont, the head of the Spanish Chamber of Com-merce in Sao Paulo. "Last year, we were contacted by more than 2,000 firms seeking information on how to invest and their number is growing. The rise is due not only to the crisis, but also due to huge consumer demand in Brazil."
"There are 40 million new consumers who emerged from poverty, and the Brazilian market cannot meet their demand. There also is a shortage of skilled professionals (such as engineers) which Brazil will take another five to six years to train," Pont said. "When there are no qualified professionals in Brazil, the authorities grant visas (to foreign ones)."
Brazil's roaring economy, which generated 2.5 million jobs last year, coupled with the crisis in many economi-cally advanced nations, also has led many Brazilians who emigrated to the United States, Japan and Europe in the 1990s to come back home. Over the past six years, the number of Brazilians living abroad has dropped by half, from four million to two million, according to official figures.
Chevron suspends
Brazil offshore drilling
US oil giant Chev-ron Corporation said that it had suspended its current and future drill-ing operations off Rio de Janeiro state, following a crude oil slick in the area. The company said in a statement that while its Brazilian sub-sidiary had not received formal notice from the national oil agency of an order to stop offshore drilling it had decided to do so.
"The suspension is indefinite," it said, not-ing that the area affected included the company's permitted wells in the Frade field, part of what is known as Brazil's potentially massive 'sub-salt' oil reserves.
Beginning of this month, a helicopter from Brazil's state-owned oil com-pany Petrobras spotted a slick and the leakage was traced to a well operated by Chevron 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) deep near the Frade field, 370 kilometers (230 miles) off the Rio de Janeiro coast. The national oil agency said that Chevron Brazil's activities would be suspended until "the cause and those responsible for the spill have been identified and safety conditions have been restored in the area."
Brazilian authorities say the spill is now under control and that the oil slick has been reduced to two square kilometers.
George Buck, president of Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade, the subsid-iary, apologized to deputies and the country for the oil slick.
"I would like to reiterate that we have deep respect for Brazil, for the Brazilian people, for the environment, for the laws and institutions of this country," he said.
"We are going to thoroughly investigate the accident and present the results to the Brazilian people so that this does not happen again, either here or in any other part of the world," he added. Chevron faces a slew of fines from federal and Rio state authorities that together could exceed $145 million.
World economic crisis hurts Brazil industry
Brazil's finance minister says the country's industrial sector has lost several billion dollars as a result of the international eco-nomic crisis. Guido Mantega told a congressional panel that the crisis and artificially undervalued currencies that some coun-tries have used to increase their competitiveness have caused Brazil's manufacturing trade deficit to glow steadily since 2008.
He says that between January and September of 2011, the trade deficit amounted to $87.7 billion. Mantega spoke on last Wednesday to the tax commission of the lower house Chamber of Deputies.
Brazil supports India on climate change stance
India's strong climate change stance got a boost historical responsibility and economic status. India from Brazil in Durban. The Latin American nation has demanded that equity and burden sharing is cen-demanded more action from the developed world, and tral to talks on any future climate deal that imposes asked for a burden-sharing formula to be worked out cuts upon developing countries. before a new global deal is sealed. Brazil's minister of Agreeing with the Indian position that talks for a environment Izabella Teixeira and climate change new global deal should begin in 2015 and firm up by 2020 ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado reaf- when the second phase of Kyoto Protocol ends, the Bra-firmed that India's partner country in the BASIC zilian ambassador said, "We should have a second com-group was clear that it wanted the mitment period that will end in second commitment period of 2020. We have been talking on hav-Kyoto Protocol to be ensured at ing a timeline that will take us the meet in Durban. from now, from Durban to a nego-
"The survival of the Kyoto tiation that may well start by Protocol system means the sur- 2015." The strong alliance and uni-vival of the top-down approach, formity of views among the BASIC which in our view is the approach countries and the US seemed to that should guide the future of the have had some impact, with the international fight against cli- recently concluded meeting of mate change," said Machado. Major Economies Forum discuss-
The US and other developed ing a middle path of providing reas-nations are keen to introduce a surances to each other rather than new global deal, called the bot- agreeing to the EU position. EU toms-up approach, where every had threatened that it would not country commits whatever target sign the Kyoto Protocol-II, unless they wish to. Kyoto works on emerging economies kick-start for-breaking the emissions reduction mal discussions on a legally bind-target down to countries based on ing global deal in Durban.
not exempt them from shaping their bodies. "The market and society demands it, even of women who don't depend on their bodies for a living; for instance, no woman can appear with grey hair," said Goldenberg. Brazilian women of prestige all have well-tended bodies, according to the anthropolo-gist, who is now studying how the body culture which is part of the national identity will cope with the current ageing of the population. Since the 1980s, the most highly admired women in the country have been blonde, as well as beautiful and slender, "but not fragile." Actresses, fashion models, television presenters and singers feed girls' and teenagers' dreams of upward social mobility. The most obvious example today is supermodel Bündchen. The trend for the future is the "accentuation" of the obsession with the body, but with a "more critical" attitude, arising from a hoped-for "educational and cultural development" among Brazilian people, leading them to cultivate "other forms of capital" as well, Goldenberg said.
This cult of physical per-fection is a central research theme for anthropologist Mirian Goldenberg, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who launched a book, "O corpo como capital" (The Body as a Capital Asset), in which she takes her analysis further. But not any kind of body is an acceptable capital asset. It must be "young, slim and well sculpted," which requires costly "investments," such as many hours of system-atic exercise, rigid diets, and cosmetics for the skin, hair and every part of the body, according to the anthropolo-gist. Well-off, middle- and lower-income women "invest heavily in their bodies," Goldenberg said. This is "a Bra-zilian characteristic" that con-trasts with, say, Germany, where women cultivate different values, but which also can be found in a less intense form in other Latin American countries, and in Mediterranean countries in Europe, she said.
Preoccupation with the body mobilizes an army of professionals, from nutritionists to personal fitness trainers. If these are powerless to help, doc-tors or pharmacists step in with amphetamines, appetite suppressants, hor-mones, anabolic steroids and also surgery. Current standards of beauty can induce women to pursue slimness to the point of obsession, and this has resulted in a substantial rise in eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. Brazil has the highest per capita consumption of weight-reducing medica-tion, according to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
Its market for fitness gyms, cosmetics and plastic surgery vies with that of the United States. But considering that incomes are 14 times higher in the United States, Brazil's expenditure in these areas is hugely out of propor-tion. Brazil is a major exporter of professionals who depend on their bodies for a living. Kaká, Ronaldinho and Robinho are national brand names in the wealthy world of European football, as is Gisele Bündchen in the glamorous world of fashion. Brazilian women's penchant for exposing as much of their bodies as possible is not a sign of "liberation, but a kind of prison, a restric-tion on freedom," because they subject themselves to a body image of "thin-ness and perfection," and to a set of standards that must be met in order for the "sacrifice" to be rewarded, Goldenberg said. This state of affairs accentu-ates the inequalities which are also prominent in Brazil. Women are the worse affected, because "men have to work at accumulating other kinds of capital; they can't rely only on one to secure prestige and power." The investment capacity of different social classes is also unequal.
In Brazil, "inequality is written upon the body," the anthropologist said. Women are studying more than men in Brazil, indicating that they are
also "investing" in intellectual capital, but furthering their education does
THE
AS CAPITAL ASSET!BODY
Brazil has long had an interna-tional reputation as home of the body beautiful, a culture obsessed with beauty, vitality and health — and even if that standard is often more perception than reality, the country's health and wellness indus-tries are booming. The country has more than 18,000 health clubs, sec-ond worldwide only to the number in the United States, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. The number has more than doubled in the past four years, and the market is now worth almost $2.2 billion. High-end chains have been expand-ing steadily, increasing their menus of member services, while cheaper options for the new middle classes, like a chain called Smart Fit, have been popping up rapidly. In São Paulo, for example, there is a new crop of luxury centers like the Spa Cidade Jardim, where businessmen and women can escape the city's pol-lution and gray concrete skyscrapers for a traditional Indian massage, delivered by a masseuse just arrived from Mumbai. With extra time, they can use the gym, swim in the indoor pool with a city view or visit the in-house plastic surgeon. The urban retreat is part of Tania Ginjas's Spa Collection brand, the largest operator in the country, which has tri-pled its locations to 22 in the past three years. Bio Ritmo, one of the domi-nant upscale chains in the city, has 22 locations, all but one in São Paulo State. Its standard monthly membership runs about 350 Brazilian reais, or $200, in a city where the minimum monthly wage is less than 650 reais.
“Brazil is traditionally more expensive, because the taxes on imports of equipment and the price of hiring trainers, since they must study and be certified, push up costs,” said Edgard Corona, chief execu-tive of Bio Ritmo. “We look to open in the best locations, with the best interior design possible, and with an extremely high level of sophistica-tion. Our places should be communities.” In Rio, fitness often means out-doors, with crowds taking to the beaches every morning to jog, surf or do calisthenics before heading to work. But even there, gyms like Bodytech, a high-end leader, are expanding.
“Cariocas don't tend to go in so much for the high-end, full-service lines of gyms, since we like a little bit of chaos,” said Michel Asseff Filho, a lawyer and hotel owner in Rio, using the local term for Rio resi-dents. “But in this town, you see all kinds of gyms open, and you never see them close.” As for his own routine, he jogs on the beach every morn-ing and works out faithfully at Proforma, a small chain in Rio.
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Europeans seek new opportunities in Brazil
With anemic job markets at home, a growing number of Europeans are seeking employment outside the region. Brazil, Latin America's economic powerhouse, is among those places increasingly viewed as a land of opportunity.
According to the justice ministry, the number of foreigners living legally in Brazil rose more than 50 percent from January to June this year, from 962,000 to 1.5 million. Portuguese lead the pack, rising from 277,000 in December 2009 to 329,000 in June 2011. The number of Spaniards increased during the same period from 58,500 to nearly 81,000, while the French contingent went up from 16,500 to 17,800. Brazilian authorities estimate there are also more than 600,000 illegal immigrants. Among them, an estimated 40 percent are Bolivians and 13 percent are Chinese.
"Brazil is seen as a land of opportunity in Europe," said Nuria Pont, the head of the Spanish Chamber of Com-merce in Sao Paulo. "Last year, we were contacted by more than 2,000 firms seeking information on how to invest and their number is growing. The rise is due not only to the crisis, but also due to huge consumer demand in Brazil."
"There are 40 million new consumers who emerged from poverty, and the Brazilian market cannot meet their demand. There also is a shortage of skilled professionals (such as engineers) which Brazil will take another five to six years to train," Pont said. "When there are no qualified professionals in Brazil, the authorities grant visas (to foreign ones)."
Brazil's roaring economy, which generated 2.5 million jobs last year, coupled with the crisis in many economi-cally advanced nations, also has led many Brazilians who emigrated to the United States, Japan and Europe in the 1990s to come back home. Over the past six years, the number of Brazilians living abroad has dropped by half, from four million to two million, according to official figures.
Chevron suspends
Brazil offshore drilling
US oil giant Chev-ron Corporation said that it had suspended its current and future drill-ing operations off Rio de Janeiro state, following a crude oil slick in the area. The company said in a statement that while its Brazilian sub-sidiary had not received formal notice from the national oil agency of an order to stop offshore drilling it had decided to do so.
"The suspension is indefinite," it said, not-ing that the area affected included the company's permitted wells in the Frade field, part of what is known as Brazil's potentially massive 'sub-salt' oil reserves.
Beginning of this month, a helicopter from Brazil's state-owned oil com-pany Petrobras spotted a slick and the leakage was traced to a well operated by Chevron 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) deep near the Frade field, 370 kilometers (230 miles) off the Rio de Janeiro coast. The national oil agency said that Chevron Brazil's activities would be suspended until "the cause and those responsible for the spill have been identified and safety conditions have been restored in the area."
Brazilian authorities say the spill is now under control and that the oil slick has been reduced to two square kilometers.
George Buck, president of Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade, the subsid-iary, apologized to deputies and the country for the oil slick.
"I would like to reiterate that we have deep respect for Brazil, for the Brazilian people, for the environment, for the laws and institutions of this country," he said.
"We are going to thoroughly investigate the accident and present the results to the Brazilian people so that this does not happen again, either here or in any other part of the world," he added. Chevron faces a slew of fines from federal and Rio state authorities that together could exceed $145 million.
World economic crisis hurts Brazil industry
Brazil's finance minister says the country's industrial sector has lost several billion dollars as a result of the international eco-nomic crisis. Guido Mantega told a congressional panel that the crisis and artificially undervalued currencies that some coun-tries have used to increase their competitiveness have caused Brazil's manufacturing trade deficit to glow steadily since 2008.
He says that between January and September of 2011, the trade deficit amounted to $87.7 billion. Mantega spoke on last Wednesday to the tax commission of the lower house Chamber of Deputies.
Brazil supports India on climate change stance
India's strong climate change stance got a boost historical responsibility and economic status. India from Brazil in Durban. The Latin American nation has demanded that equity and burden sharing is cen-demanded more action from the developed world, and tral to talks on any future climate deal that imposes asked for a burden-sharing formula to be worked out cuts upon developing countries. before a new global deal is sealed. Brazil's minister of Agreeing with the Indian position that talks for a environment Izabella Teixeira and climate change new global deal should begin in 2015 and firm up by 2020 ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado reaf- when the second phase of Kyoto Protocol ends, the Bra-firmed that India's partner country in the BASIC zilian ambassador said, "We should have a second com-group was clear that it wanted the mitment period that will end in second commitment period of 2020. We have been talking on hav-Kyoto Protocol to be ensured at ing a timeline that will take us the meet in Durban. from now, from Durban to a nego-
"The survival of the Kyoto tiation that may well start by Protocol system means the sur- 2015." The strong alliance and uni-vival of the top-down approach, formity of views among the BASIC which in our view is the approach countries and the US seemed to that should guide the future of the have had some impact, with the international fight against cli- recently concluded meeting of mate change," said Machado. Major Economies Forum discuss-
The US and other developed ing a middle path of providing reas-nations are keen to introduce a surances to each other rather than new global deal, called the bot- agreeing to the EU position. EU toms-up approach, where every had threatened that it would not country commits whatever target sign the Kyoto Protocol-II, unless they wish to. Kyoto works on emerging economies kick-start for-breaking the emissions reduction mal discussions on a legally bind-target down to countries based on ing global deal in Durban.
not exempt them from shaping their bodies. "The market and society demands it, even of women who don't depend on their bodies for a living; for instance, no woman can appear with grey hair," said Goldenberg. Brazilian women of prestige all have well-tended bodies, according to the anthropolo-gist, who is now studying how the body culture which is part of the national identity will cope with the current ageing of the population. Since the 1980s, the most highly admired women in the country have been blonde, as well as beautiful and slender, "but not fragile." Actresses, fashion models, television presenters and singers feed girls' and teenagers' dreams of upward social mobility. The most obvious example today is supermodel Bündchen. The trend for the future is the "accentuation" of the obsession with the body, but with a "more critical" attitude, arising from a hoped-for "educational and cultural development" among Brazilian people, leading them to cultivate "other forms of capital" as well, Goldenberg said.
This cult of physical per-fection is a central research theme for anthropologist Mirian Goldenberg, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who launched a book, "O corpo como capital" (The Body as a Capital Asset), in which she takes her analysis further. But not any kind of body is an acceptable capital asset. It must be "young, slim and well sculpted," which requires costly "investments," such as many hours of system-atic exercise, rigid diets, and cosmetics for the skin, hair and every part of the body, according to the anthropolo-gist. Well-off, middle- and lower-income women "invest heavily in their bodies," Goldenberg said. This is "a Bra-zilian characteristic" that con-trasts with, say, Germany, where women cultivate different values, but which also can be found in a less intense form in other Latin American countries, and in Mediterranean countries in Europe, she said.
Preoccupation with the body mobilizes an army of professionals, from nutritionists to personal fitness trainers. If these are powerless to help, doc-tors or pharmacists step in with amphetamines, appetite suppressants, hor-mones, anabolic steroids and also surgery. Current standards of beauty can induce women to pursue slimness to the point of obsession, and this has resulted in a substantial rise in eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. Brazil has the highest per capita consumption of weight-reducing medica-tion, according to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
Its market for fitness gyms, cosmetics and plastic surgery vies with that of the United States. But considering that incomes are 14 times higher in the United States, Brazil's expenditure in these areas is hugely out of propor-tion. Brazil is a major exporter of professionals who depend on their bodies for a living. Kaká, Ronaldinho and Robinho are national brand names in the wealthy world of European football, as is Gisele Bündchen in the glamorous world of fashion. Brazilian women's penchant for exposing as much of their bodies as possible is not a sign of "liberation, but a kind of prison, a restric-tion on freedom," because they subject themselves to a body image of "thin-ness and perfection," and to a set of standards that must be met in order for the "sacrifice" to be rewarded, Goldenberg said. This state of affairs accentu-ates the inequalities which are also prominent in Brazil. Women are the worse affected, because "men have to work at accumulating other kinds of capital; they can't rely only on one to secure prestige and power." The investment capacity of different social classes is also unequal.
In Brazil, "inequality is written upon the body," the anthropologist said. Women are studying more than men in Brazil, indicating that they are
also "investing" in intellectual capital, but furthering their education does
THE
AS CAPITAL ASSET!BODY
Brazil has long had an interna-tional reputation as home of the body beautiful, a culture obsessed with beauty, vitality and health — and even if that standard is often more perception than reality, the country's health and wellness indus-tries are booming. The country has more than 18,000 health clubs, sec-ond worldwide only to the number in the United States, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. The number has more than doubled in the past four years, and the market is now worth almost $2.2 billion. High-end chains have been expand-ing steadily, increasing their menus of member services, while cheaper options for the new middle classes, like a chain called Smart Fit, have been popping up rapidly. In São Paulo, for example, there is a new crop of luxury centers like the Spa Cidade Jardim, where businessmen and women can escape the city's pol-lution and gray concrete skyscrapers for a traditional Indian massage, delivered by a masseuse just arrived from Mumbai. With extra time, they can use the gym, swim in the indoor pool with a city view or visit the in-house plastic surgeon. The urban retreat is part of Tania Ginjas's Spa Collection brand, the largest operator in the country, which has tri-pled its locations to 22 in the past three years. Bio Ritmo, one of the domi-nant upscale chains in the city, has 22 locations, all but one in São Paulo State. Its standard monthly membership runs about 350 Brazilian reais, or $200, in a city where the minimum monthly wage is less than 650 reais.
“Brazil is traditionally more expensive, because the taxes on imports of equipment and the price of hiring trainers, since they must study and be certified, push up costs,” said Edgard Corona, chief execu-tive of Bio Ritmo. “We look to open in the best locations, with the best interior design possible, and with an extremely high level of sophistica-tion. Our places should be communities.” In Rio, fitness often means out-doors, with crowds taking to the beaches every morning to jog, surf or do calisthenics before heading to work. But even there, gyms like Bodytech, a high-end leader, are expanding.
“Cariocas don't tend to go in so much for the high-end, full-service lines of gyms, since we like a little bit of chaos,” said Michel Asseff Filho, a lawyer and hotel owner in Rio, using the local term for Rio resi-dents. “But in this town, you see all kinds of gyms open, and you never see them close.” As for his own routine, he jogs on the beach every morn-ing and works out faithfully at Proforma, a small chain in Rio.
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Brazil bans smoking in enclosed
public placesThe Brazilian Congress has passed a bill ban-
ning smoking in enclosed public places nation-wide. Smoking bans are already in operation in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other big cities. The new law goes one step further. It makes illegal des-ignated smoking rooms in airports and bars that exist even in those places with a ban already in place.
It also raises taxes on tobacco products and is forcing a minimum price on the products, increas-ing costs for consumers by up to 55 percent within four years. The law is in part aimed at cigarettes that enter the country illegally, mostly over the border with Paraguay. Those are sold for a fraction of the price of Brazil-made cigarettes. President Dilma Rousseff is expected to sign the bill into law soon.
NGO releases pictures of
isolated Amazon tribe
Brazil opens anti-racism
drive, targets Blatter remarks
World Cup 2014 hosts Brazil appeared to pub-licly slam FIFA chief Sepp Blatter when they launched a campaign against racism in sport on last Thursday. The Brazilian Football Confedera-tion (CBF) named this weekend's penultimate round of matches in the Brazilian championship the "Round against Racism".
"The message the body wants to give is of pro-test against the intolerance many players suffer on the pitches of various countries and which ought to be vehemently condemned by the whole football universe," the CBF said in a statement.
"Racism is not resolved with a handshake and none of those who suffer it forget it the next day," CBF president Ricardo Teixeira said in the statement.
The statement appeared to rebuff FIFA president Blatter, who said in an interview recently that incidents of racist abuse during a match should be settled with a handshake after the final whistle. Blatter, surprised by the widespread outrage of his remarks, later apologised publicly.The CBF, listing several instances of Brazilian players being the object of racism, said that in 2011 alone former Brazil internationals Gilberto Silva and Roberto Carlos and present Brazil players Marcelo and Neymar were among many who had suffered racist insults from fans or opponents.
A non-governmental group on last Tues-day released new pictures of an Indian tribe living in isolation in the Brazilian Amazon and warned that they are threatened by the return of illegal gold miners on their terri-tory. Survival International, a London-based group lobbying to protect tribal people, said it released new pictures of "an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the big-gest forested indigenous territory in the world."
"These new pictures emphasize how important the territory is in protecting the Yanomami from goldminers who devastated the tribe in the 1980s," it added in a state-ment.
Illegal goldmining camps continue to operate just 15 kilometers (nine miles) from uncontacted Yanomami, according to Survival.
Straddling the northern Brazilian states of Amazonas and Roraima, along the border with Venezuela, the Yanomani territory was officially created in 1992. The Yanomami suffered years of oppression at the hands of gold miners. Violence and disease saw their population fall by 20 percent in just seven years. With gold prices soaring on the international markets, the gold min-ers are back in the region.
"Many tribal peoples, including the uncontacted Yanomami, are still threatened by the ille-gal occupation of their land, so we can't afford to give up the fight," said Survival's head Stephen Corry. "The very existence of uncontacted Yanomami, however, proves that persistent cam-paigning pays off.
According to Funai, there are 77 isolated Indian tribes in Brazil, scattered in the Amazonian states of Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Roraima, Rondonia and Maranhao. Only 30 about of the groups have been located. Survival International believes that there are more than 100 unlocated tribes around the world.
RPT-Vale halts dealings with company over deforestationBrazil's Vale, the world's largest iron ore
miner, said on last Thursday it had suspended its business with an Amazon-based pig-iron producer accused by the government of illegal deforestation. Brazil's environment agency said in a report that pig-iron maker Sidepar was using charcoal made from illegally cleared trees in Para state in northern Brazil. Two other pig-iron companies in Para, Cosipar and Siderurgica Iberica, were also identified in the report as breaking environ-mental laws.
The three companies were responsible for the destruction of 27,300 hectares (105 square miles) of the world's largest rain forest over four years, according to the study by the envi-ronmental agency. Vale said it does not supply iron ore to Sidepar, which is based in Para state in the lower Amazon Basin, but did provide the company with logistical and transport ser-vices to ship its pig iron. Vale came under criticism several years ago for supplying iron ore to producers in Brazil's north who were using illegally cut trees to make charcoal used in the pro-duction of pig iron, a key ingredient for steel production. Officials at all three companies were not immediately available for comment on Vale's statement or the allegations against them.
Brazilian steelmakers urge to protect industry from
Chinese importsFaced with dwindling demand from cri-
sis-hit rich countries, Brazilian steelmakers are pinning their hopes on moves by the gov-ernment to protect the industry from cut rate Chinese imports. Brazil, which ranks ninth among top steel producers, is facing tough competition from world leader China, whose exports are benefiting from the artificially low Yuan.
Brazilian Industry Minister Mr. Fernando Pimentel said Brasilia might take measures to protect the country from imports, notably through a tax calculated on the basis of the devalued currency of the country of ori-gin. He said during a meeting of the Latin American Steel Association that "This defen-sive move could be coordinated with the Inter-national Monetary Fund or a group of international financial institutions.”
According to the Acero Brazil Institute, Brazil produces 32.8 million tonnes of gross steel and 25.9 million tonnes of rolled products. In 2010, the country imported a total of 5.9 million tonnes of steel products worth USD 5.5 billion, up by nearly 155% YoY. Imports are forecast to drop to 3.3 million tonnes in 2012, down by nearly 40% YoY. According to Alacero, but despite this fall, steel imports in Brazil have grown 400% in volume over the past 9 years. In 2010, Brazil-ian exports rose to 9 millions tonnes worth USD 5.8 billion, up by 4.1% in volume and 22.8% in value compared with 2009. The devaluation of the Brazilian currency helped bring down imports as the price of domestic steel drew closer to that foreign steel.
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Brazil bans smoking in enclosed
public placesThe Brazilian Congress has passed a bill ban-
ning smoking in enclosed public places nation-wide. Smoking bans are already in operation in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other big cities. The new law goes one step further. It makes illegal des-ignated smoking rooms in airports and bars that exist even in those places with a ban already in place.
It also raises taxes on tobacco products and is forcing a minimum price on the products, increas-ing costs for consumers by up to 55 percent within four years. The law is in part aimed at cigarettes that enter the country illegally, mostly over the border with Paraguay. Those are sold for a fraction of the price of Brazil-made cigarettes. President Dilma Rousseff is expected to sign the bill into law soon.
NGO releases pictures of
isolated Amazon tribe
Brazil opens anti-racism
drive, targets Blatter remarks
World Cup 2014 hosts Brazil appeared to pub-licly slam FIFA chief Sepp Blatter when they launched a campaign against racism in sport on last Thursday. The Brazilian Football Confedera-tion (CBF) named this weekend's penultimate round of matches in the Brazilian championship the "Round against Racism".
"The message the body wants to give is of pro-test against the intolerance many players suffer on the pitches of various countries and which ought to be vehemently condemned by the whole football universe," the CBF said in a statement.
"Racism is not resolved with a handshake and none of those who suffer it forget it the next day," CBF president Ricardo Teixeira said in the statement.
The statement appeared to rebuff FIFA president Blatter, who said in an interview recently that incidents of racist abuse during a match should be settled with a handshake after the final whistle. Blatter, surprised by the widespread outrage of his remarks, later apologised publicly.The CBF, listing several instances of Brazilian players being the object of racism, said that in 2011 alone former Brazil internationals Gilberto Silva and Roberto Carlos and present Brazil players Marcelo and Neymar were among many who had suffered racist insults from fans or opponents.
A non-governmental group on last Tues-day released new pictures of an Indian tribe living in isolation in the Brazilian Amazon and warned that they are threatened by the return of illegal gold miners on their terri-tory. Survival International, a London-based group lobbying to protect tribal people, said it released new pictures of "an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the big-gest forested indigenous territory in the world."
"These new pictures emphasize how important the territory is in protecting the Yanomami from goldminers who devastated the tribe in the 1980s," it added in a state-ment.
Illegal goldmining camps continue to operate just 15 kilometers (nine miles) from uncontacted Yanomami, according to Survival.
Straddling the northern Brazilian states of Amazonas and Roraima, along the border with Venezuela, the Yanomani territory was officially created in 1992. The Yanomami suffered years of oppression at the hands of gold miners. Violence and disease saw their population fall by 20 percent in just seven years. With gold prices soaring on the international markets, the gold min-ers are back in the region.
"Many tribal peoples, including the uncontacted Yanomami, are still threatened by the ille-gal occupation of their land, so we can't afford to give up the fight," said Survival's head Stephen Corry. "The very existence of uncontacted Yanomami, however, proves that persistent cam-paigning pays off.
According to Funai, there are 77 isolated Indian tribes in Brazil, scattered in the Amazonian states of Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Roraima, Rondonia and Maranhao. Only 30 about of the groups have been located. Survival International believes that there are more than 100 unlocated tribes around the world.
RPT-Vale halts dealings with company over deforestationBrazil's Vale, the world's largest iron ore
miner, said on last Thursday it had suspended its business with an Amazon-based pig-iron producer accused by the government of illegal deforestation. Brazil's environment agency said in a report that pig-iron maker Sidepar was using charcoal made from illegally cleared trees in Para state in northern Brazil. Two other pig-iron companies in Para, Cosipar and Siderurgica Iberica, were also identified in the report as breaking environ-mental laws.
The three companies were responsible for the destruction of 27,300 hectares (105 square miles) of the world's largest rain forest over four years, according to the study by the envi-ronmental agency. Vale said it does not supply iron ore to Sidepar, which is based in Para state in the lower Amazon Basin, but did provide the company with logistical and transport ser-vices to ship its pig iron. Vale came under criticism several years ago for supplying iron ore to producers in Brazil's north who were using illegally cut trees to make charcoal used in the pro-duction of pig iron, a key ingredient for steel production. Officials at all three companies were not immediately available for comment on Vale's statement or the allegations against them.
Brazilian steelmakers urge to protect industry from
Chinese importsFaced with dwindling demand from cri-
sis-hit rich countries, Brazilian steelmakers are pinning their hopes on moves by the gov-ernment to protect the industry from cut rate Chinese imports. Brazil, which ranks ninth among top steel producers, is facing tough competition from world leader China, whose exports are benefiting from the artificially low Yuan.
Brazilian Industry Minister Mr. Fernando Pimentel said Brasilia might take measures to protect the country from imports, notably through a tax calculated on the basis of the devalued currency of the country of ori-gin. He said during a meeting of the Latin American Steel Association that "This defen-sive move could be coordinated with the Inter-national Monetary Fund or a group of international financial institutions.”
According to the Acero Brazil Institute, Brazil produces 32.8 million tonnes of gross steel and 25.9 million tonnes of rolled products. In 2010, the country imported a total of 5.9 million tonnes of steel products worth USD 5.5 billion, up by nearly 155% YoY. Imports are forecast to drop to 3.3 million tonnes in 2012, down by nearly 40% YoY. According to Alacero, but despite this fall, steel imports in Brazil have grown 400% in volume over the past 9 years. In 2010, Brazil-ian exports rose to 9 millions tonnes worth USD 5.8 billion, up by 4.1% in volume and 22.8% in value compared with 2009. The devaluation of the Brazilian currency helped bring down imports as the price of domestic steel drew closer to that foreign steel.
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Court battle to evict St. Paul's protesters
The City of London corporation took a step last banks or to prevent peaceful protests against the finan-Wednesday to evict protesters camped outside St. Paul's cial sector. "Nor is it bringing these claims to stifle free-Cathedral in London, insisting in court that the issue is dom of speech," he added. He said the decision to evict not about protecting banks but protecting the rights and the protesters came after careful consideration showed freedoms of others. The organization — which controls there is "a pressing social need in order to protect the the area around St. Paul's — says the ongoing Occupy rights and freedoms of others."London protest camp is harming nearby businesses. It The nonviolent Occupy London protest against also says protesters are drinking late into the night and capitalist excess was inspired by New York's creating an unpleasant atmosphere. It wants Britain's Occupy Wall Street movement. Protesters have High Court to issue an evic- camped outside St. Paul's tion notice to force the pro- since mid-October and testers to move. say they will fight any
"The City's position is: legal bid to evict them. Peaceful protest? Of course, Their proximity to Chris-yes. Permanent encamp- topher Wren's 300-year-ment? No," lawyer David old icon has embroiled Forsdick told Judge Alan the church in a conflict Wilkie at London's High between bank-bashing Court. Protesters packed protesters and the city's the public gallery and back finance industry. The of the courtroom during the church's position on the hearing, which was held to protesters has shifted sev-set a timetable for the pro- eral times, and the cathe-ceedings in December. dral's dean and a senior
Forsdick said the city priest have both resigned is not fighting to protect the over the crisis.
The national security coordinator for the games. Underscoring that point, Paul 2012 London Olympics sharply rejected Deighton, the chief executive officer of the reports that armed FBI agents would be tak- London organizing committee, sat beside ing part in securing the games, insisting last Allison and staunchly repeated that all the week that Britain did not need outside help to planning, including security, was on track.keep the event safe. Assistant Commissioner Deighton said that the number of secu-Chris Allison dismissed a newspaper report rity guards at venues remains under discus-suggesting that the United States would send sion, and that volunteers could be called upon dozens of armed FBI agents to protect U.S. to do tasks at the start of the screening pro-interests. Though he has denied the report cess, bolstering the security presence.before, the issue has continued to fester, sug- "It is essentially a welcome activity say-gesting tensions between Britain and the ing 'you are welcome to the Olympic Park and United States, which sends a huge contingent you are about to go through a screening pro-of athletes to the Olympics. cess. It might be helpful if you took your coat
Allison said that while U.S. liaison offi- off now and maybe your belt to get through cers would be involved in preparing for the screening faster,'" Deighton said earlier. Secu-Olympics, the notion that agents would come rity has been a costly and critical issue for the en masse was "rub- games since a terror bish." "There will be incident at the 1972 no foreign armed Summer Games in personnel here," Munich, in which 11 Allison said. The Israeli athletes and news conference for coaches died. The international media Olympics continue seemed designed to to offer a ready stamp out the platform for any notion that other terror group, as countries, and par- international ticularly the United focus is already States, lacked confi- directed at events dence in security broadcast live preparations for the worldwide.
Police: No FBI agents at 2012 Olympics
James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said last Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire. But despite fac-ing pressure over the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, James remains overall chairman of News International, the British newspaper arm of US-based News Corporation.
According to documents filed at Company House, Britain's main regis-ter of companies, in late September, James stepped down as director of News Group Newspapers Limited, publisher of The Sun, and Times Newspapers Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times. The Sun tabloid is the biggest-selling newspaper in Britain, while the Times is an upmarket daily. A source close to News Corp. confirmed the details, but rejected sug-gestions that James Murdoch's resignation leant weight to speculation that the company is planning to sell off its British newspapers.
The source said the fact that he was staying in the "juicy" role of News International chairman, and also remaining on the editorial board of Times Newspapers, showed the company's commitment to its UK interests.
James Murdoch quits as director
of UK papers
UK lawyer: Tabloid phone hacking was widespread
Illegal eavesdropping was widely practiced by Britain's tabloid journalists, producing sto- "The fact that evidence doesn't exist in written form doesn't mean to say that the crime did-ries that were both intrusive and untrue, a lawyer for several phone hacking victims said last n't happen," Lewis said.week. Mark Lewis told a U.K. media ethics inquiry that phone hack- Lewis has represented many prominent hacking victims, ing was not limited to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, including the family of murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler, whose which the media mogul shut down earlier this year as outrage grew voice mails were accessed by the News of the World after she disap-over the hacking scandal. peared in 2002. The girl's parents spoke last Monday before the U.K.
Lewis claimed that listening in on voice mails was so easy that inquiry, saying the hacking gave them false hope their daughter many journalists regarded it as no more serious than "driving at 35 was still alive during the investigation into her disappearance.mph in a 30 mph zone." Prime Minister David Cameron set up the public inquiry into
"In a way, I feel sorry for the News of the World, or certainly media ethics and practices in response to the still-evolving hacking the News of the World's readers," Lewis said. "Because it was a scandal. Last week it heard testimony from celebrities including much more widespread practice than just one newspaper." actor Hugh Grant and comedian Steve Coogan. It also heard from
He said the News of the World got caught because it hired a pri- the parents of Madeleine McCann, who vanished from a hotel room vate investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, who kept detailed records of his in May 2007 during a family vacation in Portugal.snooping assignments. Mulcaire and News of the World reporter The inquiry, led by Judge Brian Leveson, plans to issue a report Clive Goodman were jailed in 2007 for hacking into the voice mails next year and could recommend major changes to media regulation of royal aides. in Britain.
Britain's Court of Appeal on last Tuesday backed a bid by more than 100 Iraqi civilians to force a public inquiry into claims they were abused by British troops. Three appeals judges ordered the government to reconsider its decision not to hold public hearings into allegations of torture and degrading treatment by British soldiers and interrogators in southern Iraq. The 128 claimants assert they were subjected to beat-ings, sleep deprivation and other ill-treatment between March 2003 and December 2008 in British-controlled detention facilities. The judges said the body set up by the British govern-ment to investigate claims of wrong-doing, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, "suffers from a lack of practi-cal independence" because it includes members of the Royal Military Police, who may themselves be accused of wrongdoing. The Ministry of Defense said it would "examine the judgment very carefully and consider next steps." It has until Nov. 30 to decide whether to try to challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court. Britain's six-year military presence in southern Iraq, which ended in 2009, has spawned multi-ple allegations of torture and abuse. In the most notorious case, 26-year-old hotel receptionist Baha Mousa died while in custody at a British base after being detained in a raid in Basra in Sep-tember 2003.
Britain's defense ministry later apologized for the mistreatment of Mousa and nine other Iraqis and paid a $4.8 million (3 million pound) settlement. Six soldiers were cleared of wrongdo-ing at a court martial, while a seventh pleaded guilty and served a year in jail. The government says abuse was committed by only a few soldiers, but lawyers for the alleged victims say it was systemic.
UK court backs Iraqis' bid for
inquiry into abuse
Obama effigy burning Tory
students 'sorry'The president of a students' association
which burned an effigy of Barack Obama has apologised for the group's actions. A figure of the US president was set alight by members of the University of St Andrews Conservative and Unionist Association and is understood to have happened during a meeting last week-end.
Matthew Marshall, president of the asso-ciation, said it was "a stupid thing to do". Speaking to the press, he said: "President Obama is an important ally to the British Gov-ernment. It was a stupid thing to do and we apologise for any offence caused." The university said it was aware of the reports, was "seeking clarification" and has asked to meet the soci-ety's president to discuss "understandable concerns". John Park, Labour MSP for Mid Scot-land and Fife, whose constituency includes the university, said: "This is gravely offensive and way beyond a student prank. Thousands of young people yearn for the chance to study at such a prestigious institution and they will be amazed to see that those who have been given that opportunity behave like this. A statement from the Student Representative Council said: "As students we believe in political debate, with engaging those who disagree with us and that all students at St Andrews have a valid opinion to contribute.
“While it does not violate any laws, we believe that the burning of political or public fig-ures in effigy can be an act of hate, stifles productive engagement and can be offensive. We believe that St Andrews students should hold ourselves to a higher standard and actively demonstrate that we are ready to engage with and respect the opinions of others."
The parents of Madeleine McCann, whose 2007 disappearance sparked a media frenzy, told a pers over suggestions that they had caused their daughter's death and then covered it up. Prime London courtroom last week how they were left distraught by the relentless U.K. press and its Minister David Cameron set up the public inquiry into media ethics and practices in response to insinuations that they were responsible for their daughter's death. Kate and Gerry McCann told a still-evolving scandal over phone hacking by tabloid journalists. Last week it took evidence Britain's media ethics inquiry that the coverage had hurt their efforts to find their daughter from celebrities including actor Hugh Grant and comedian Steve Coogan, and from ordinary peo-after she vanished during a family vacation in Portugal, shortly before her fourth birthday. ple left bruised by unwanted media attention. Gerry McCann said he and his wife did not think
“We were trying to find our daughter and you (the media) are stopping our chances of doing their phones had been hacked, but he volunteered to testify at the inquiry “for one simple reason that,” Kate McCann said. “These were desperate times,” she said, adding that the couple felt pow- — we feel a system has to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage the media erless. “When it's your voice against a powerful media, it just doesn't hold weight.” can cause.” Inquiry lawyer Robert Jay said the couple had experienced “the good, the bad and
Madeleine's disappearance sparked an international manhunt and intense press coverage. the particularly ugly side of the press.” It is still not clear what happened to Madeleine, despite The McCanns said the press was initially sympathetic but soon changed, with some articles her parents' far-reaching international campaign and numerous reported sightings from around implying the couple was hiding something. The couple successfully sued several British newspa- the world.
Families tell of hacking scandal's horrific aftermath
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Court battle to evict St. Paul's protesters
The City of London corporation took a step last banks or to prevent peaceful protests against the finan-Wednesday to evict protesters camped outside St. Paul's cial sector. "Nor is it bringing these claims to stifle free-Cathedral in London, insisting in court that the issue is dom of speech," he added. He said the decision to evict not about protecting banks but protecting the rights and the protesters came after careful consideration showed freedoms of others. The organization — which controls there is "a pressing social need in order to protect the the area around St. Paul's — says the ongoing Occupy rights and freedoms of others."London protest camp is harming nearby businesses. It The nonviolent Occupy London protest against also says protesters are drinking late into the night and capitalist excess was inspired by New York's creating an unpleasant atmosphere. It wants Britain's Occupy Wall Street movement. Protesters have High Court to issue an evic- camped outside St. Paul's tion notice to force the pro- since mid-October and testers to move. say they will fight any
"The City's position is: legal bid to evict them. Peaceful protest? Of course, Their proximity to Chris-yes. Permanent encamp- topher Wren's 300-year-ment? No," lawyer David old icon has embroiled Forsdick told Judge Alan the church in a conflict Wilkie at London's High between bank-bashing Court. Protesters packed protesters and the city's the public gallery and back finance industry. The of the courtroom during the church's position on the hearing, which was held to protesters has shifted sev-set a timetable for the pro- eral times, and the cathe-ceedings in December. dral's dean and a senior
Forsdick said the city priest have both resigned is not fighting to protect the over the crisis.
The national security coordinator for the games. Underscoring that point, Paul 2012 London Olympics sharply rejected Deighton, the chief executive officer of the reports that armed FBI agents would be tak- London organizing committee, sat beside ing part in securing the games, insisting last Allison and staunchly repeated that all the week that Britain did not need outside help to planning, including security, was on track.keep the event safe. Assistant Commissioner Deighton said that the number of secu-Chris Allison dismissed a newspaper report rity guards at venues remains under discus-suggesting that the United States would send sion, and that volunteers could be called upon dozens of armed FBI agents to protect U.S. to do tasks at the start of the screening pro-interests. Though he has denied the report cess, bolstering the security presence.before, the issue has continued to fester, sug- "It is essentially a welcome activity say-gesting tensions between Britain and the ing 'you are welcome to the Olympic Park and United States, which sends a huge contingent you are about to go through a screening pro-of athletes to the Olympics. cess. It might be helpful if you took your coat
Allison said that while U.S. liaison offi- off now and maybe your belt to get through cers would be involved in preparing for the screening faster,'" Deighton said earlier. Secu-Olympics, the notion that agents would come rity has been a costly and critical issue for the en masse was "rub- games since a terror bish." "There will be incident at the 1972 no foreign armed Summer Games in personnel here," Munich, in which 11 Allison said. The Israeli athletes and news conference for coaches died. The international media Olympics continue seemed designed to to offer a ready stamp out the platform for any notion that other terror group, as countries, and par- international ticularly the United focus is already States, lacked confi- directed at events dence in security broadcast live preparations for the worldwide.
Police: No FBI agents at 2012 Olympics
James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said last Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire. But despite fac-ing pressure over the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, James remains overall chairman of News International, the British newspaper arm of US-based News Corporation.
According to documents filed at Company House, Britain's main regis-ter of companies, in late September, James stepped down as director of News Group Newspapers Limited, publisher of The Sun, and Times Newspapers Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times. The Sun tabloid is the biggest-selling newspaper in Britain, while the Times is an upmarket daily. A source close to News Corp. confirmed the details, but rejected sug-gestions that James Murdoch's resignation leant weight to speculation that the company is planning to sell off its British newspapers.
The source said the fact that he was staying in the "juicy" role of News International chairman, and also remaining on the editorial board of Times Newspapers, showed the company's commitment to its UK interests.
James Murdoch quits as director
of UK papers
UK lawyer: Tabloid phone hacking was widespread
Illegal eavesdropping was widely practiced by Britain's tabloid journalists, producing sto- "The fact that evidence doesn't exist in written form doesn't mean to say that the crime did-ries that were both intrusive and untrue, a lawyer for several phone hacking victims said last n't happen," Lewis said.week. Mark Lewis told a U.K. media ethics inquiry that phone hack- Lewis has represented many prominent hacking victims, ing was not limited to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, including the family of murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler, whose which the media mogul shut down earlier this year as outrage grew voice mails were accessed by the News of the World after she disap-over the hacking scandal. peared in 2002. The girl's parents spoke last Monday before the U.K.
Lewis claimed that listening in on voice mails was so easy that inquiry, saying the hacking gave them false hope their daughter many journalists regarded it as no more serious than "driving at 35 was still alive during the investigation into her disappearance.mph in a 30 mph zone." Prime Minister David Cameron set up the public inquiry into
"In a way, I feel sorry for the News of the World, or certainly media ethics and practices in response to the still-evolving hacking the News of the World's readers," Lewis said. "Because it was a scandal. Last week it heard testimony from celebrities including much more widespread practice than just one newspaper." actor Hugh Grant and comedian Steve Coogan. It also heard from
He said the News of the World got caught because it hired a pri- the parents of Madeleine McCann, who vanished from a hotel room vate investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, who kept detailed records of his in May 2007 during a family vacation in Portugal.snooping assignments. Mulcaire and News of the World reporter The inquiry, led by Judge Brian Leveson, plans to issue a report Clive Goodman were jailed in 2007 for hacking into the voice mails next year and could recommend major changes to media regulation of royal aides. in Britain.
Britain's Court of Appeal on last Tuesday backed a bid by more than 100 Iraqi civilians to force a public inquiry into claims they were abused by British troops. Three appeals judges ordered the government to reconsider its decision not to hold public hearings into allegations of torture and degrading treatment by British soldiers and interrogators in southern Iraq. The 128 claimants assert they were subjected to beat-ings, sleep deprivation and other ill-treatment between March 2003 and December 2008 in British-controlled detention facilities. The judges said the body set up by the British govern-ment to investigate claims of wrong-doing, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, "suffers from a lack of practi-cal independence" because it includes members of the Royal Military Police, who may themselves be accused of wrongdoing. The Ministry of Defense said it would "examine the judgment very carefully and consider next steps." It has until Nov. 30 to decide whether to try to challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court. Britain's six-year military presence in southern Iraq, which ended in 2009, has spawned multi-ple allegations of torture and abuse. In the most notorious case, 26-year-old hotel receptionist Baha Mousa died while in custody at a British base after being detained in a raid in Basra in Sep-tember 2003.
Britain's defense ministry later apologized for the mistreatment of Mousa and nine other Iraqis and paid a $4.8 million (3 million pound) settlement. Six soldiers were cleared of wrongdo-ing at a court martial, while a seventh pleaded guilty and served a year in jail. The government says abuse was committed by only a few soldiers, but lawyers for the alleged victims say it was systemic.
UK court backs Iraqis' bid for
inquiry into abuse
Obama effigy burning Tory
students 'sorry'The president of a students' association
which burned an effigy of Barack Obama has apologised for the group's actions. A figure of the US president was set alight by members of the University of St Andrews Conservative and Unionist Association and is understood to have happened during a meeting last week-end.
Matthew Marshall, president of the asso-ciation, said it was "a stupid thing to do". Speaking to the press, he said: "President Obama is an important ally to the British Gov-ernment. It was a stupid thing to do and we apologise for any offence caused." The university said it was aware of the reports, was "seeking clarification" and has asked to meet the soci-ety's president to discuss "understandable concerns". John Park, Labour MSP for Mid Scot-land and Fife, whose constituency includes the university, said: "This is gravely offensive and way beyond a student prank. Thousands of young people yearn for the chance to study at such a prestigious institution and they will be amazed to see that those who have been given that opportunity behave like this. A statement from the Student Representative Council said: "As students we believe in political debate, with engaging those who disagree with us and that all students at St Andrews have a valid opinion to contribute.
“While it does not violate any laws, we believe that the burning of political or public fig-ures in effigy can be an act of hate, stifles productive engagement and can be offensive. We believe that St Andrews students should hold ourselves to a higher standard and actively demonstrate that we are ready to engage with and respect the opinions of others."
The parents of Madeleine McCann, whose 2007 disappearance sparked a media frenzy, told a pers over suggestions that they had caused their daughter's death and then covered it up. Prime London courtroom last week how they were left distraught by the relentless U.K. press and its Minister David Cameron set up the public inquiry into media ethics and practices in response to insinuations that they were responsible for their daughter's death. Kate and Gerry McCann told a still-evolving scandal over phone hacking by tabloid journalists. Last week it took evidence Britain's media ethics inquiry that the coverage had hurt their efforts to find their daughter from celebrities including actor Hugh Grant and comedian Steve Coogan, and from ordinary peo-after she vanished during a family vacation in Portugal, shortly before her fourth birthday. ple left bruised by unwanted media attention. Gerry McCann said he and his wife did not think
“We were trying to find our daughter and you (the media) are stopping our chances of doing their phones had been hacked, but he volunteered to testify at the inquiry “for one simple reason that,” Kate McCann said. “These were desperate times,” she said, adding that the couple felt pow- — we feel a system has to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage the media erless. “When it's your voice against a powerful media, it just doesn't hold weight.” can cause.” Inquiry lawyer Robert Jay said the couple had experienced “the good, the bad and
Madeleine's disappearance sparked an international manhunt and intense press coverage. the particularly ugly side of the press.” It is still not clear what happened to Madeleine, despite The McCanns said the press was initially sympathetic but soon changed, with some articles her parents' far-reaching international campaign and numerous reported sightings from around implying the couple was hiding something. The couple successfully sued several British newspa- the world.
Families tell of hacking scandal's horrific aftermath
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Civil servants asked to man UK borders
Civil servants from across Whitehall are being drafted in to work as border staff during this week's public sector strike. The civil servants have been approached by the UK Border Agency and asked to man facilities at ports and airports when immigration offi-cials strike over their pensions. Immigration staff working over-seas have also been asked if they are willing to return to the UK to help out on the day of industrial action. Staff working in embassies and high commissions in India, South Africa and Russia have been contacted about returning to Britain to cover for their absent col-leagues. More than two million workers, including as many as 18,000 immigration officials, are expected to strike in the biggest outbreak of industrial unrest since the 1979 Winter of Discontent, raising the potential for long queues at passport control.
A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The security of the UK border remains our top priority and we explore all options to ensure we minimise any disruption caused by planned union action." The spokesman stressed that all staff would be given "the necessary level of training" needed for the tasks they are given.
Downing Street confirmed that contingency plans were under way to limit the impact of the strike, but declined to discuss details. Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokesman said: "We are considering our con-tingency plans, but we are not pro-viding any details of those. The pub-lic will expect us, as the Govern-ment, to do what we can to mitigate the effects of the strikes.
“If a large-scale strike goes ahead next week, that will have an impact on people and families across the country. If schools are shut, that will mean a lot of people who have to stay at home to look after their kids. Strikes are not costless. They have an impact and we have to do what we can to mitigate that."
Pantomimes & Shows!Lights, colours, action! Outrageous costumes, dramatic actors and exaggerated performances come together
in the unique form of art that is the panto. Usually held at smaller theatre venues outside of central London, pan-tomimes remain continually popular among kids and adults alike. Londoners can get into the festive spirit and even enjoy theatre performances like Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Potted Panto and Aladdin and many more that are a great way of wholesome family entertainment. Have fun guys and make as much noise as possible!
Super article. I wonder if our Real will keep up the good performance after this crisis, here (UK) and in USA, is over. But for now let our people travel and enjoy the world!
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Daniela Zanardi (Itú, SP)
NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
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Civil servants asked to man UK borders
Civil servants from across Whitehall are being drafted in to work as border staff during this week's public sector strike. The civil servants have been approached by the UK Border Agency and asked to man facilities at ports and airports when immigration offi-cials strike over their pensions. Immigration staff working over-seas have also been asked if they are willing to return to the UK to help out on the day of industrial action. Staff working in embassies and high commissions in India, South Africa and Russia have been contacted about returning to Britain to cover for their absent col-leagues. More than two million workers, including as many as 18,000 immigration officials, are expected to strike in the biggest outbreak of industrial unrest since the 1979 Winter of Discontent, raising the potential for long queues at passport control.
A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The security of the UK border remains our top priority and we explore all options to ensure we minimise any disruption caused by planned union action." The spokesman stressed that all staff would be given "the necessary level of training" needed for the tasks they are given.
Downing Street confirmed that contingency plans were under way to limit the impact of the strike, but declined to discuss details. Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokesman said: "We are considering our con-tingency plans, but we are not pro-viding any details of those. The pub-lic will expect us, as the Govern-ment, to do what we can to mitigate the effects of the strikes.
“If a large-scale strike goes ahead next week, that will have an impact on people and families across the country. If schools are shut, that will mean a lot of people who have to stay at home to look after their kids. Strikes are not costless. They have an impact and we have to do what we can to mitigate that."
Pantomimes & Shows!Lights, colours, action! Outrageous costumes, dramatic actors and exaggerated performances come together
in the unique form of art that is the panto. Usually held at smaller theatre venues outside of central London, pan-tomimes remain continually popular among kids and adults alike. Londoners can get into the festive spirit and even enjoy theatre performances like Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Potted Panto and Aladdin and many more that are a great way of wholesome family entertainment. Have fun guys and make as much noise as possible!
Super article. I wonder if our Real will keep up the good performance after this crisis, here (UK) and in USA, is over. But for now let our people travel and enjoy the world!
Adriano (Londrima, PR)
Daniela Zanardi (Itú, SP)
NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
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10
ShowbizThe Brazilian Post
Hello beloved readers,Here are this week's inside stories from the glitzy glam world. As the festive season is fast approaching, some of our stars seem to be getting in the mood for love and family. While Neil Patrick Harris is gushing about his chef lover David Burtka, Jessica Alba is spurting about her family and Britney is describing her dream vacation to be going skiing with boyfriend Jason Trawick and her two sons. Seems like love is in the air for some. How about you? Enjoy your favour-ite section and keep sending me your love and suggestions at [email protected]
ShowbizThe Brazilian Post 11
by
Gisele Bündchen was named Best Green International Celebrity at this year's Green Awards at a ceremony at the National History Museum in London on November 24. The 31-year-old Brazilian supermodel, who has starred in campaigns for labels such as Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and Versace, is also involved in numerous environmental campaigns. She became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environ-ment Program (UNEP) in 2009 and has sup-ported numerous environmental initiatives such as the Drop of Water Movement (Movimento Gota D'Agua), which aims to prevent the construction of the Bel Monte Dam in Brazil, a dam which campaigners claim will destroy large swathes of the Amazonian rainforest. Bündchen also used her celebrity to promote awareness of this year's World Environmental Day on June 5. The supermodel was honored with the award after beating Spanish actor and musician Miguel Bose and former Beatle Paul McCartney in an online public vote con-ducted in the months leading up to the awards.
The International Green Awards began life in 2006 and opened to international entries in 2010. The annual awards are designed to honor a variety of businesses, NGOs and individuals that have made out-standing efforts in promoting sustainability. The winners span 20 categories and are selected, except in the case of celebrities, by a panel of industry experts. Earlier this year on November 5 individuals including David De Rothschild and singer Cliff Richard were honored at the fifth annual German Sustainability Awards for their ongoing com-mitment to promoting green issues.
named best green celebrity at annual eco awards
GISELEBundchen
Charlize Theron has overcome her nicotine addiction but she doesn't talk about it for fear of a jinx. The South African actress admits that the smok-ing habit had become a deadly obses-sion but she doesn't like to talk about how she overcame the addiction in case she feels the urge to light up once more.
"I was highly addicted. I thought, 'I don't smoke like normal people. I smoke to die," she was quoted as telling Vogue magazine.
Theron had won an Academy Award for her role of serial killer in the film Monster and became the first Afri-can to win an Oscar in a major acting category.
Charlize Theron says she smoked 'to die' Neil Patrick
Harris is hungry for chef loverNeil Patrick Harris loves dating a chef. The 38-year-old
actor admits his eating habits have changed dramatically since he moved in David Burtka, who quit acting
in 2009 to retrain as a chef, because his own culi-nary skills are so limited.
Neil, who has 13-month-old twins Gid-eon and Harper with David, said: "I can't
seem to cook a meal. You have no idea how good it is to live with a chef. I've had a lifetime of Subway sandwiches and In-N-Out burgers and now it's all paninis and Kobe beef."
Neil, who has been in a relationship with David for seven years, recently revealed how he and his partner decided to marry, though they have not yet been able to tie the knot. He said: "It's complicated. David proposed to me five and a half years ago in New York on the same street corner where we met. The following year on Val-
entine's Day in Santa Monica, one of my gifts was a ring and I proposed to him."
Scottish actor Gerard Butler, who is
looking for last-ing love these
days, says he is determined not to fall
in love with movie co-stars after his previous on-
set dalliances ended in "di-saster." Butler, 42, who has
been linked to a string of Holly-wood beauties including his The Bounty Hunter co-star Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz, admits it is too easy to become infatuated with an actor while at work, reports said.
"That's a dangerous path. When you're making a film with someone, you get to know them very well indeed and it's too easy to develop a sort of obsession with them that you think at the time might be love. But it isn't. Earlier in my career, I had a couple of relationships with co-stars and both times it was a disaster," he said.
will never fall for co-stars again
Gerard Butler
felt like living in a video game
Sienna Miller has revealed that her appalling experience at the hands of press made her feel 'like living in a video game' where every move of hers was 'pre-empted' by paparazzi photographers. She told the Leveson Inquiry that she constantly became 'very scared and intensely paranoid' and felt 'very violated' by the media invasion in her life.
Despite Miller changing her number thrice in three months, the journalists still managed to hack her number and gather private information. Journalists and photographers would turn up at places where she had arranged to meet someone on the phone.
"I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my pri-vate information," she was quoted as saying.
Miller
Pop star Britney Spears says her dream vacation would be to go skiing with boyfriend Jason Trawick and her two sons -- six-year-old Sean Preston and five-year-old Jayden James. The 29-year-old singer admits her skills on the slopes are limited but that she enjoys the sport."My dream holiday would be with my children, of course, and my boy-friend. We'd probably just go skiing somewhere really beautiful and have hot chocolate, in a cabin," Spears said.
“I'm not a good skier but I enjoy the process of learning. I do get frus-trated when I see little kids go really fast beside me but, for the most part, once you get going and you've got an idea of how you're going to ski, it's kind of fun," she added.
Knightley's dark role in 'A Dangerous Method' was made
for RobertsCanadian filmmaker
David Cronenberg has revealed that the shocking role of Keira Knightley in 'A Dangerous Method' was originally written for Julia Roberts. In the film, Knightley plays a Russian woman named Sabina who has severe psychological issues and comes between famed psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.
The script is based on Christopher Hampton's 2002 play 'The Talking Cure'. The 26-year old beauty had recently admitted that she almost turned down the role because of its kinky spanking scene.
Now it's been revealed the part was initially penned for romantic com-edy queen Roberts.
"(Hampton) had written a screenplay for Julia Roberts called 'Sabina' and it was for Fox," the Daily Star quoted Cronenberg as saying.
"I think that was 17 years ago and it didn't happen for whatever reason, and he then asked them if he could have the permission to make a play out of it, so it was really a screenplay first and it was based on many things," the filmmaker revealed.
Britney Spears dreams about skiing
Jessica Alba admits that she feels thankful for her husband, daughters and friends as they all give her a huge amount of love and support. The actress has two daughters - Honor, three, and three-month-old Haven - with husband Cash Warren and says she's tremendously grateful for her happy home life as well as the love and support her friends give her.She recently tweeted, "I'm so thankful 4 my beautiful baby girls n loving sup-portive hubby@cash_warren n my amazing friends -love u all!!! #HappyThanksgiving. (sic)" The actress and her family is all set to spend Thanksgiving today at her aunt and uncle's place where she is pitching in and contributing to the dinner.
The 30-year-old star also revealed that she can't stop kissing and cud-dling Haven and said the maternal bond was there as soon as she was born. "It's awesome. I love having a newborn as she can't run away from me when I want to kiss her. It was love at first sight. It did take a couple of days for it to sink in that I have another baby! We're incredibly blessed to have two healthy, sweet little munch-kins," said Jessica.
is thankful for her family
Jessica AlbaNOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
British race car driver Lewis Hamilton admits he's still in love with Nicole Scherzinger and hopes one day they will be together. The Formula 1 driver and the "X Factor" judge split last month after a four-year rela-tionship as per reports.
"It's very early days and we still have very strong feelings for one another. I still love her very much. So, who knows? Maybe we will be together in the future," he said.
Hamilton and the 33-year-old singer reportedly broke up because the former wasn't ready for children.
Hamilton still loves Scherzinger
05
10
ShowbizThe Brazilian Post
Hello beloved readers,Here are this week's inside stories from the glitzy glam world. As the festive season is fast approaching, some of our stars seem to be getting in the mood for love and family. While Neil Patrick Harris is gushing about his chef lover David Burtka, Jessica Alba is spurting about her family and Britney is describing her dream vacation to be going skiing with boyfriend Jason Trawick and her two sons. Seems like love is in the air for some. How about you? Enjoy your favour-ite section and keep sending me your love and suggestions at [email protected]
ShowbizThe Brazilian Post 11
by
Gisele Bündchen was named Best Green International Celebrity at this year's Green Awards at a ceremony at the National History Museum in London on November 24. The 31-year-old Brazilian supermodel, who has starred in campaigns for labels such as Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino and Versace, is also involved in numerous environmental campaigns. She became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environ-ment Program (UNEP) in 2009 and has sup-ported numerous environmental initiatives such as the Drop of Water Movement (Movimento Gota D'Agua), which aims to prevent the construction of the Bel Monte Dam in Brazil, a dam which campaigners claim will destroy large swathes of the Amazonian rainforest. Bündchen also used her celebrity to promote awareness of this year's World Environmental Day on June 5. The supermodel was honored with the award after beating Spanish actor and musician Miguel Bose and former Beatle Paul McCartney in an online public vote con-ducted in the months leading up to the awards.
The International Green Awards began life in 2006 and opened to international entries in 2010. The annual awards are designed to honor a variety of businesses, NGOs and individuals that have made out-standing efforts in promoting sustainability. The winners span 20 categories and are selected, except in the case of celebrities, by a panel of industry experts. Earlier this year on November 5 individuals including David De Rothschild and singer Cliff Richard were honored at the fifth annual German Sustainability Awards for their ongoing com-mitment to promoting green issues.
named best green celebrity at annual eco awards
GISELEBundchen
Charlize Theron has overcome her nicotine addiction but she doesn't talk about it for fear of a jinx. The South African actress admits that the smok-ing habit had become a deadly obses-sion but she doesn't like to talk about how she overcame the addiction in case she feels the urge to light up once more.
"I was highly addicted. I thought, 'I don't smoke like normal people. I smoke to die," she was quoted as telling Vogue magazine.
Theron had won an Academy Award for her role of serial killer in the film Monster and became the first Afri-can to win an Oscar in a major acting category.
Charlize Theron says she smoked 'to die' Neil Patrick
Harris is hungry for chef loverNeil Patrick Harris loves dating a chef. The 38-year-old
actor admits his eating habits have changed dramatically since he moved in David Burtka, who quit acting
in 2009 to retrain as a chef, because his own culi-nary skills are so limited.
Neil, who has 13-month-old twins Gid-eon and Harper with David, said: "I can't
seem to cook a meal. You have no idea how good it is to live with a chef. I've had a lifetime of Subway sandwiches and In-N-Out burgers and now it's all paninis and Kobe beef."
Neil, who has been in a relationship with David for seven years, recently revealed how he and his partner decided to marry, though they have not yet been able to tie the knot. He said: "It's complicated. David proposed to me five and a half years ago in New York on the same street corner where we met. The following year on Val-
entine's Day in Santa Monica, one of my gifts was a ring and I proposed to him."
Scottish actor Gerard Butler, who is
looking for last-ing love these
days, says he is determined not to fall
in love with movie co-stars after his previous on-
set dalliances ended in "di-saster." Butler, 42, who has
been linked to a string of Holly-wood beauties including his The Bounty Hunter co-star Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz, admits it is too easy to become infatuated with an actor while at work, reports said.
"That's a dangerous path. When you're making a film with someone, you get to know them very well indeed and it's too easy to develop a sort of obsession with them that you think at the time might be love. But it isn't. Earlier in my career, I had a couple of relationships with co-stars and both times it was a disaster," he said.
will never fall for co-stars again
Gerard Butler
felt like living in a video game
Sienna Miller has revealed that her appalling experience at the hands of press made her feel 'like living in a video game' where every move of hers was 'pre-empted' by paparazzi photographers. She told the Leveson Inquiry that she constantly became 'very scared and intensely paranoid' and felt 'very violated' by the media invasion in her life.
Despite Miller changing her number thrice in three months, the journalists still managed to hack her number and gather private information. Journalists and photographers would turn up at places where she had arranged to meet someone on the phone.
"I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my pri-vate information," she was quoted as saying.
Miller
Pop star Britney Spears says her dream vacation would be to go skiing with boyfriend Jason Trawick and her two sons -- six-year-old Sean Preston and five-year-old Jayden James. The 29-year-old singer admits her skills on the slopes are limited but that she enjoys the sport."My dream holiday would be with my children, of course, and my boy-friend. We'd probably just go skiing somewhere really beautiful and have hot chocolate, in a cabin," Spears said.
“I'm not a good skier but I enjoy the process of learning. I do get frus-trated when I see little kids go really fast beside me but, for the most part, once you get going and you've got an idea of how you're going to ski, it's kind of fun," she added.
Knightley's dark role in 'A Dangerous Method' was made
for RobertsCanadian filmmaker
David Cronenberg has revealed that the shocking role of Keira Knightley in 'A Dangerous Method' was originally written for Julia Roberts. In the film, Knightley plays a Russian woman named Sabina who has severe psychological issues and comes between famed psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.
The script is based on Christopher Hampton's 2002 play 'The Talking Cure'. The 26-year old beauty had recently admitted that she almost turned down the role because of its kinky spanking scene.
Now it's been revealed the part was initially penned for romantic com-edy queen Roberts.
"(Hampton) had written a screenplay for Julia Roberts called 'Sabina' and it was for Fox," the Daily Star quoted Cronenberg as saying.
"I think that was 17 years ago and it didn't happen for whatever reason, and he then asked them if he could have the permission to make a play out of it, so it was really a screenplay first and it was based on many things," the filmmaker revealed.
Britney Spears dreams about skiing
Jessica Alba admits that she feels thankful for her husband, daughters and friends as they all give her a huge amount of love and support. The actress has two daughters - Honor, three, and three-month-old Haven - with husband Cash Warren and says she's tremendously grateful for her happy home life as well as the love and support her friends give her.She recently tweeted, "I'm so thankful 4 my beautiful baby girls n loving sup-portive hubby@cash_warren n my amazing friends -love u all!!! #HappyThanksgiving. (sic)" The actress and her family is all set to spend Thanksgiving today at her aunt and uncle's place where she is pitching in and contributing to the dinner.
The 30-year-old star also revealed that she can't stop kissing and cud-dling Haven and said the maternal bond was there as soon as she was born. "It's awesome. I love having a newborn as she can't run away from me when I want to kiss her. It was love at first sight. It did take a couple of days for it to sink in that I have another baby! We're incredibly blessed to have two healthy, sweet little munch-kins," said Jessica.
is thankful for her family
Jessica AlbaNOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011
British race car driver Lewis Hamilton admits he's still in love with Nicole Scherzinger and hopes one day they will be together. The Formula 1 driver and the "X Factor" judge split last month after a four-year rela-tionship as per reports.
"It's very early days and we still have very strong feelings for one another. I still love her very much. So, who knows? Maybe we will be together in the future," he said.
Hamilton and the 33-year-old singer reportedly broke up because the former wasn't ready for children.
Hamilton still loves Scherzinger
05
The Brazilian Post12 London by Night The Brazilian Post 13London by Night
London by night is full of surprises, joy, beautiful spaces and lovely people. Among them are Brazilian parties and restaurants that stand apart. Take a look and know why. Photos by Fernando Tresseno and Tays Lany.
LONDONBY NIGHT
Party at DM in Willesden GreenBarraco in Kilburn serves authentic Brazilian food
The staff of DMBarraco's manager Leo and owner Maha
Capoeira's presentation at GuanabaraThe staff of Canecão in Camden
Valetta FC supporters celebrating at Canecão
Luciana, Ana Paula, Thays and a happy friend at Santa Fé Eluana, Lucileia, Adleya and friends at Santa Fé
Ana Paula celebrating with friends at Santa Fé Duda, Talita and Janiny at Santa Fé
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The Brazilian Post12 London by Night The Brazilian Post 13London by Night
London by night is full of surprises, joy, beautiful spaces and lovely people. Among them are Brazilian parties and restaurants that stand apart. Take a look and know why. Photos by Fernando Tresseno and Tays Lany.
LONDONBY NIGHT
Party at DM in Willesden GreenBarraco in Kilburn serves authentic Brazilian food
The staff of DMBarraco's manager Leo and owner Maha
Capoeira's presentation at GuanabaraThe staff of Canecão in Camden
Valetta FC supporters celebrating at Canecão
Luciana, Ana Paula, Thays and a happy friend at Santa Fé Eluana, Lucileia, Adleya and friends at Santa Fé
Ana Paula celebrating with friends at Santa Fé Duda, Talita and Janiny at Santa Fé
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Taste of Christmas
Enchanted Christmas House
Where else better than Taste of Christmas to get some inspiration for your Christmas feast? London's top restaurants will be participating and not only the restaurants short listed, there are also top chefs lined up to appear. Make sure that you book your ticket and don't miss the chance to rub shoulders with names like Jamie Oliver, Michel Roux and Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall and learn from them precious secrets that will make you supper super!
02/12 - 04/12£10 a £79.25ExCeL LondonOne Western GatewayRoyal Victoria Dock, E16 1XLInfo: 020 7069 5000
Kids will have a magic Christmas at The London Art House. This year's program brings a selection of
Christmas Carol at Trafalgar Square
Torture Garden Christmas Ball
Last year's festive season saw Trafalgar Square host different choirs gathered to sing for thousands of people. This year it wont be any different, many choir groups are expected and the giant Christmas tree - donated by Norway, a tradition from 1947 when the people of Norway first sent a Christmas tree in gratitude for Britain's support during World War II - will complete the perfect scenario for one more traditional Trafalgar Square's Christmas celebration. The 20 - 25 metre tree will have its 500 white lights switch on by the Lord Mayor of Westminster on 1st of December.
Trafalgar SquareWC2N 5DS
Celebrate Chritmas in a different way. Release your torrid fantasies and make your desires come true at the Torture Garden. Come to play along with others fetish lovers at the craziest S&M party of all times. Whether you are a fetish practitioner or not a visit is well worth it for the Christmas Ball. Just do not forget the strict dress themes, choose from ice Queen, Burlesque, Winter Fur Fetish, Krampus, Elfs, Lapland, Christmas Tree Fairies, Glamour Glitter, Angels and enjoy yourself.
03/12£28MassSt Matthews Church,Brixton Hill, Brixton, Sw2 1JF, Info: 0872 148 3652
activities that will keep kids busy and happy. All of them will surely be waiting for the special moment when they visit Santa Grotto individually and get their hands on their presents. There they will also be able to make their own crafted Christmas gifts, learn how to bake gingerbread, see the Winter Wonder Garden and perform in a puppet play.
Till 24/12£49London Art House2-18 Britannia Row,Islington,N1 8PAInfo: 020 3227 3200
Don’t let your little ones out of the game. Kids also should enjoy theice-skating season and for this reason the Somerset House organises special sessions for them. The Penguin Club is the most popular skating classes for all those under the age of 8. The qualified teachers guarantee the safest
Ice-skating Classes for Kids
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait PrizeThe work of talented young photographers and amateurs is being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery alongside the photographs of establishedprofessionals and photography students. Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize explores the portrait category but with a range of distinct themes. This award is considered one of the most important in the world. Last year around 6,300 works were submitted by over 2,400 photographers! For this year names like Jooney Woodward from London, Jasper Clarke fromthe UK, David Knight from Australia, Dona Schwartz from America are already shortlisted and you can check the extraordinary portraits on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Till 12/02/2012FreeNational Portrait GallerySt Martins Place, WC2H 0HEInfo: 0871 971 4234
You don't have anything to do? Dada, our columnist is going to fill your week's schedule with the best programs, cultural tips and all that is happening in London. Make the most of it!
environment for kids to practice and learn the basic skills.
Till 21/01/2012£7.5Somerset HouseThe Strand,Strand,WC2R 1LAInfo: 0871 971 4280
In commemoration of Terence Conran's 80 birthday a special event takes place at the Design Museum. Sir Terence Conran is one of the most notorious designers and his achievements can be enumerated in a endless list. Architecture, interior, product and graphic design and brand licensing are only a few of the areas he is involved with and names like M&S, Habitat, Heal, Mary Quant also can be linked to him. Find out more about his life and his legacy by visiting the Terence Conran exhibition.
Till 04/03/2012£9 - £10Design MuseumShad Thames,SE1 2YDInfo: 0870 833 9955
Terence Coran Retrospective
14 The Brazilian Post
Fashion
BY ZAZA OLIVA COOL HUNTER
This week, our coolhunter Zaza spotssome really greatstyles on people onthe streets andshows how youcan afford that look.
What’s Up
Ashley, 18England/student
Headband: H&M: £5Necklace: Aldo: £16
Top: Topshop: £12Vest: Paul & Bear: £52
Belt: River Island: £5Jeans: Topshop: £38
Bag: DKNY: £180Shoes: Topshop; £30
Music: everythingBest thing of London: shop-
ping
Alexander, 26England/architect student
Hat: Dashing tweeds: £45Jumper: Longchamp: £800
Jacket: Dashing tweeds: £250Trousers: Zara: £50
Shoes: Cube: £80Music: Deephouse: Jive, Dilano
Smith, Anton & GeorgeBest thing of London: diversity
and innovation experience
Maureen, 20Ireland/dancer
Shirt: Topshop: £38Jacket: Rokit: £30
Backbag: Rokit: £15Leggings: American
Apparel: £33Shoes: Underground: £85
Music: hip hopBest thing of London:
the dancing
Yolanda, 20Estonia/animation student
Shirt: mum'sCoat: Candem shop: £15
Trousers: Dorothy Perkins: £20Bag: New Look: £12
Shoes: shop in Estonia: £10Music: rock, 70's psychedelic, 60's
rock & rollBest thing of London: the diversity, you can find yourself, you can be
wathever you want
Emily, 19England/bartenderShirt: Primark: £6Jumper: Gap: £22Trousers: H&M: £20Bag: Paul's Boutique: £60Trainers: Converse: £30Music: everythingBest thing of London: shops, everything it's close together
Rhianon, 21Australia/tourist
Sunglasses: from Thailand : £1.50Scarf: Primark: £5
Top: shop in Australia: £1Jacket: from Thailand: £30
Legging: Primark: £3Bag: Primark: £3
Shoes: Primark: £6Music: reggae, rock
Best thing of London: fashion
Hollie, 21Ireland/arts student
Hat: Candem Market: £20Scarf: Vintage shop: £5
Jumper: Vintage shop: £40Shorts: Vintage shop in USA: £0.50
Tights: Candem Market: £5Boots: Dr. Martens: £75
Music: dubstep, indieBest thing of London: the diversity,
the tall buildings
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Taste of Christmas
Enchanted Christmas House
Where else better than Taste of Christmas to get some inspiration for your Christmas feast? London's top restaurants will be participating and not only the restaurants short listed, there are also top chefs lined up to appear. Make sure that you book your ticket and don't miss the chance to rub shoulders with names like Jamie Oliver, Michel Roux and Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall and learn from them precious secrets that will make you supper super!
02/12 - 04/12£10 a £79.25ExCeL LondonOne Western GatewayRoyal Victoria Dock, E16 1XLInfo: 020 7069 5000
Kids will have a magic Christmas at The London Art House. This year's program brings a selection of
Christmas Carol at Trafalgar Square
Torture Garden Christmas Ball
Last year's festive season saw Trafalgar Square host different choirs gathered to sing for thousands of people. This year it wont be any different, many choir groups are expected and the giant Christmas tree - donated by Norway, a tradition from 1947 when the people of Norway first sent a Christmas tree in gratitude for Britain's support during World War II - will complete the perfect scenario for one more traditional Trafalgar Square's Christmas celebration. The 20 - 25 metre tree will have its 500 white lights switch on by the Lord Mayor of Westminster on 1st of December.
Trafalgar SquareWC2N 5DS
Celebrate Chritmas in a different way. Release your torrid fantasies and make your desires come true at the Torture Garden. Come to play along with others fetish lovers at the craziest S&M party of all times. Whether you are a fetish practitioner or not a visit is well worth it for the Christmas Ball. Just do not forget the strict dress themes, choose from ice Queen, Burlesque, Winter Fur Fetish, Krampus, Elfs, Lapland, Christmas Tree Fairies, Glamour Glitter, Angels and enjoy yourself.
03/12£28MassSt Matthews Church,Brixton Hill, Brixton, Sw2 1JF, Info: 0872 148 3652
activities that will keep kids busy and happy. All of them will surely be waiting for the special moment when they visit Santa Grotto individually and get their hands on their presents. There they will also be able to make their own crafted Christmas gifts, learn how to bake gingerbread, see the Winter Wonder Garden and perform in a puppet play.
Till 24/12£49London Art House2-18 Britannia Row,Islington,N1 8PAInfo: 020 3227 3200
Don’t let your little ones out of the game. Kids also should enjoy theice-skating season and for this reason the Somerset House organises special sessions for them. The Penguin Club is the most popular skating classes for all those under the age of 8. The qualified teachers guarantee the safest
Ice-skating Classes for Kids
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait PrizeThe work of talented young photographers and amateurs is being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery alongside the photographs of establishedprofessionals and photography students. Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize explores the portrait category but with a range of distinct themes. This award is considered one of the most important in the world. Last year around 6,300 works were submitted by over 2,400 photographers! For this year names like Jooney Woodward from London, Jasper Clarke fromthe UK, David Knight from Australia, Dona Schwartz from America are already shortlisted and you can check the extraordinary portraits on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Till 12/02/2012FreeNational Portrait GallerySt Martins Place, WC2H 0HEInfo: 0871 971 4234
You don't have anything to do? Dada, our columnist is going to fill your week's schedule with the best programs, cultural tips and all that is happening in London. Make the most of it!
environment for kids to practice and learn the basic skills.
Till 21/01/2012£7.5Somerset HouseThe Strand,Strand,WC2R 1LAInfo: 0871 971 4280
In commemoration of Terence Conran's 80 birthday a special event takes place at the Design Museum. Sir Terence Conran is one of the most notorious designers and his achievements can be enumerated in a endless list. Architecture, interior, product and graphic design and brand licensing are only a few of the areas he is involved with and names like M&S, Habitat, Heal, Mary Quant also can be linked to him. Find out more about his life and his legacy by visiting the Terence Conran exhibition.
Till 04/03/2012£9 - £10Design MuseumShad Thames,SE1 2YDInfo: 0870 833 9955
Terence Coran Retrospective
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Fashion
BY ZAZA OLIVA COOL HUNTER
This week, our coolhunter Zaza spotssome really greatstyles on people onthe streets andshows how youcan afford that look.
What’s Up
Ashley, 18England/student
Headband: H&M: £5Necklace: Aldo: £16
Top: Topshop: £12Vest: Paul & Bear: £52
Belt: River Island: £5Jeans: Topshop: £38
Bag: DKNY: £180Shoes: Topshop; £30
Music: everythingBest thing of London: shop-
ping
Alexander, 26England/architect student
Hat: Dashing tweeds: £45Jumper: Longchamp: £800
Jacket: Dashing tweeds: £250Trousers: Zara: £50
Shoes: Cube: £80Music: Deephouse: Jive, Dilano
Smith, Anton & GeorgeBest thing of London: diversity
and innovation experience
Maureen, 20Ireland/dancer
Shirt: Topshop: £38Jacket: Rokit: £30
Backbag: Rokit: £15Leggings: American
Apparel: £33Shoes: Underground: £85
Music: hip hopBest thing of London:
the dancing
Yolanda, 20Estonia/animation student
Shirt: mum'sCoat: Candem shop: £15
Trousers: Dorothy Perkins: £20Bag: New Look: £12
Shoes: shop in Estonia: £10Music: rock, 70's psychedelic, 60's
rock & rollBest thing of London: the diversity, you can find yourself, you can be
wathever you want
Emily, 19England/bartenderShirt: Primark: £6Jumper: Gap: £22Trousers: H&M: £20Bag: Paul's Boutique: £60Trainers: Converse: £30Music: everythingBest thing of London: shops, everything it's close together
Rhianon, 21Australia/tourist
Sunglasses: from Thailand : £1.50Scarf: Primark: £5
Top: shop in Australia: £1Jacket: from Thailand: £30
Legging: Primark: £3Bag: Primark: £3
Shoes: Primark: £6Music: reggae, rock
Best thing of London: fashion
Hollie, 21Ireland/arts student
Hat: Candem Market: £20Scarf: Vintage shop: £5
Jumper: Vintage shop: £40Shorts: Vintage shop in USA: £0.50
Tights: Candem Market: £5Boots: Dr. Martens: £75
Music: dubstep, indieBest thing of London: the diversity,
the tall buildings
NOV 28th - DEC 04th 2011 NOV 28th - DEC 04th 201105
Sacred Chat16 The Brazilian Post
Life has become mechanical and in the rush to do Absorb this feeling with gentleness. The point is to feel our best at work and in personal relationships, we are and believe what you say.losing sight of what we really are. We have also forgotten Take a deep breath and be still for a moment. Look how to focus on the present moment. Demands on our at all the things that life has given you. You have time can take over our lives. Pause to connect within received this because you are worth it and have earned and live in the present. We are often haunted by ques- it. Acknowledge them today!tions, such as "How can I achieve what I want? What is Carrying this new energy moment to moment, we my life's purpose?" Life is in constant flux and as the learn to respond to a situation, rather than react impul-moments tick by, the demands on us in our careers and sively. On a regular schedule, this recharge is possible in the family are constantly changing. We find ourselves every 45 minutes with five even cycles of deep breathing constantly preparing for the next, new challenge. The in an undisturbed space. Slowly, over a period of time, demand can get exhausting and we practically operate we begin to appreciate ourselves in our environment. "I" on auto-pilot. As we rush from one task to the next; we becomes the most important person and the feeling over-are unconsciously seeking approval from those around powers whatever we do. This is how to recharge your-us. What makes us dwell in the past or project into the self. When we do things that we love, our involvement future are our fears, of losing something or someone, creates feel-good hormones in sync with the natural being rejected, not being good enough or being betrayed body. That is why gardening, playing with children, read-by people we trust. This creates anxiety and builds a ing, writing, singing and dancing bring about calmness super vigilant state where we unquestioningly submit to and refresh the body, mind and environment.or tightly control the environment. These fears stem Our life's purpose slowly evolves. Till the time we from the past, but we keep it alive by focusing on the are on the highway of life, it is important to notice every-event and reminding ourselves of how bad or good it thing that our eyes can see and feel gently, rather than was. focus on the endless road. We came because we were
We are always with ourselves, but do we ever speak needed. Life is the driving force taking us ahead. We just to the 'me' the way we do with everyone else? By making need to trust it. When we take in something calmly, we time for ourselves for a few minutes during the day, inde- respond differently. And as we continue on the journey pendent of external circumstances, we can slowly relax of life, we can add our own joy to the situation.and get used to our own presence and eventually extend Creating a fresh new energy around us regularly this comfort to others around us. We must learn to enjoy that is tapped by breathing and affirming at regular doing things for ourselves. Here's how to go about it. intervals, can change the way we respond to life. Discov-Choose a quiet place that you love, perhaps a balcony, ering our purpose is adding value with our feelings that, and look at objects that make you smile. Then, taking a over a period of time, reveal our uniqueness. When we deep breath, stroke your hands with your palm and reas- let go the fears, we are ourselves in the present moment. sure yourself, "I am safe in my world. I belong to this This needs "you" and "your appreciation" to help you environment that I lovingly create. I allow myself to flow move ahead to the next moment from this beautiful pres-in this moment. I am grateful to this moment and life." ent.
is especially potent. You may expe- main subject this week, take it easy Aries Scorpio Aquarius rience vivid dream as hidden and soon you will find out what you 20/03 to 20/04 23/10 to 22/11 22/01 to 20/02parts of your unconscious begin to need to do in order to achieve your This week you might have Things have not been easy, You may feel struggling
reveal themselves to you. Time to goal. to work or study hard and but you have not given way against the inevitable and
stop dreaming of a past lover or you may feel exhausted, making it to selfpity or apathy. Your tenacity must accept that nothing can recap-
fantasizing about someone you hard to view life objectively. Within Virgo and sense of purpose have kept you ture the past. Your old path is no lon-
cannot have. Move on and give to 23/08 to 22/09the context of a relationship you are going for you inner voices telling ger one you should follow. stop This week you might be yourself a chance to live a true unable to decide what to do next. you that when the time is right you resisting or trying to make sense of rejecting much of you love. Your lover may press for commit- will achieve you dream. events and the way will become
past, alienating those around you ment or ask you how you feel. Tak- clear to you eventually. and questioning everything you ing a break is the most sensible Cancer Sagittarius do. Be careful do not destroy what 23/06 to 22/07thing to do at this time. Do not try to 23/11 to 22/12 Pisces
This week your attitudes you value along with what is out- You may feel you are work-force a decision. 21/02 to 19/03towards emotional and moded. Be calm and soon you will ing hard this week without You an your partner may
social sphere are equally prag- be ready to proceed with the next any recognizion. you may wonder both need spend time with Taurus matic. There is a sense of dyna- stage. why you are alone and feel unloved. group of friends. Mental stimulus is 21/04 to 21/05mism and you want to make this Overcoming inertia is Your solitude is serving a purpose one component necessary to your
happen. Enjoy this moment that never simple, but this is Libra and must be endured if the next relationship now. If you are alone
your confidence is high and you 23/09 to 22/10your challenge this week and you stage is to be appreciated. can have a surprise to find someone You might reached a have nothing to lose by going for may need help in order to achieve among your social network. Don't crossroad in your life, a what you want.this goal. You need to get in touch lock yourself at home, give to your-Capricorn
turning point that could affect with your feelings now, for the fur- 23/12 to 21/01 self the opportunity a something your home and career as well as Procrastination is not the ther away you drift from your true Leo new.your relationship. Think carefully best option for you now. 23/07 to 22/08 centre, the more depressed you are
This is not the right time to before choosing what you want to Renata Fornari is an Astrologer and an important decision must be likely to become. and Tarot Reader. Consultations rebel instead of this try to do, as your future now rests very made. You may be overworking and are available at: contact your own need to control much in your own hand and it is neglecting your partner or you Gemini [email protected] and deal with any problems up to you to grasp opportunities social life. Try to find more bal-22/05 to 22/06
logically. Your career may be the for happiness. This week your intuition anced outlook.
World17The Brazilian Post
ENJOY THE PRESENT China unveils carbon
emission cutsWith global climate talks
launched this week, China on last Tuesday issued the most com-prehensive document yet on its plans and negotiating positions on emissions. The white paper details the country's successes in reducing carbon emissions and lays out new goals. Although much of the information has been released before, it is the first time it has been presented comprehensively as part of China's strategy to make its accomplishments better known before talks, which began this Monday in Durban.
"In the past they have had a hard time getting the word out," said Deborah Seligsohn, a Beijing-based fellow with the World Resources Insti-tute. "This is a significant collection of information and data."
In an interesting nuance, the report also gives a rare nod to nongovernmental organizations, which usually are frowned upon by China's authorities. The report mentions favorably "Earth Hour," a project by the World Wildlife Fund, and praises the work of another private organi-zation, the Energy Foundation. Officials said developing countries had taken serious steps while developed countries lagged.
20 years' jail for insulting Thai queen
A Thai court on last Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy, his lawyer said, under the kingdom's strict lese-majeste laws. Ampon Tangnoppakul, 61, was found guilty of four counts of sending messages to the private secre-tary of then-prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in May 2010, according to the criminal court in Bangkok.
"The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 20 years in jail," his lawyer Anon Nampa said, adding that he had 30 days to lodge an appeal.
Ampon was arrested in August last year and pleaded not guilty to the charges during his trial. After his arrest, Thailand's Central Bureau of Investigation said the messages were "inappropriate and considered insult-ing to the monarchy and have upset the recipients," without revealing their content. The royal family is a very sensitive subject in Thailand. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 83, is the world's longest-reigning monarch and revered as a demi-god by many Thais. Under Thai law, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count. Academics have noted a sharp increase in new royal insult cases in recent years and rights groups have expressed concern that the law was being used to suppress freedom of expression under the previous gov-ernment. Last month a Thai-born US citizen pleaded guilty to insulting the monarchy.
Obama turns White House into
country music hallPresident Barack Obama turned the White
House into a country music hall on last Monday, inviting an array of country stars for a concert that gave voice "to the emotions of everyday life." Cowboy hats and bolo ties mixed with the majestic chande-liers of the East Room for a toe-tapping series of per-formances by Dierks Bentley, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Darius Rucker, James Taylor, The Band Perry, Lauren Alaina and Micky.
"Tonight, we are turning the East Room into a bona fide country music hall," Obama said. Only days after wrapping up a nine-day trip through Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia, the president told guests that Johnny Cash "was really singing our song when he sang, 'I've been everywhere, man' ."
Obama said country music tied together many threads of the nation's immigrant heritage, from the Irish fiddle, the German dulcimer, the Italian mando-lin, the Spanish guitar and the West African banjo. "At its most pure, that's what country music is all about - life in America. It's about storytelling - giving voice to the emotions of everyday life."
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, wearing a pink silk pantsuit, watched from the front row to a set list of country music past and present. Bentley opened the concert by telling the audience that his thoughts were with members of the military and their families and then broke into a stirring rendi-tion of 'Home'.
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Sacred Chat16 The Brazilian Post
Life has become mechanical and in the rush to do Absorb this feeling with gentleness. The point is to feel our best at work and in personal relationships, we are and believe what you say.losing sight of what we really are. We have also forgotten Take a deep breath and be still for a moment. Look how to focus on the present moment. Demands on our at all the things that life has given you. You have time can take over our lives. Pause to connect within received this because you are worth it and have earned and live in the present. We are often haunted by ques- it. Acknowledge them today!tions, such as "How can I achieve what I want? What is Carrying this new energy moment to moment, we my life's purpose?" Life is in constant flux and as the learn to respond to a situation, rather than react impul-moments tick by, the demands on us in our careers and sively. On a regular schedule, this recharge is possible in the family are constantly changing. We find ourselves every 45 minutes with five even cycles of deep breathing constantly preparing for the next, new challenge. The in an undisturbed space. Slowly, over a period of time, demand can get exhausting and we practically operate we begin to appreciate ourselves in our environment. "I" on auto-pilot. As we rush from one task to the next; we becomes the most important person and the feeling over-are unconsciously seeking approval from those around powers whatever we do. This is how to recharge your-us. What makes us dwell in the past or project into the self. When we do things that we love, our involvement future are our fears, of losing something or someone, creates feel-good hormones in sync with the natural being rejected, not being good enough or being betrayed body. That is why gardening, playing with children, read-by people we trust. This creates anxiety and builds a ing, writing, singing and dancing bring about calmness super vigilant state where we unquestioningly submit to and refresh the body, mind and environment.or tightly control the environment. These fears stem Our life's purpose slowly evolves. Till the time we from the past, but we keep it alive by focusing on the are on the highway of life, it is important to notice every-event and reminding ourselves of how bad or good it thing that our eyes can see and feel gently, rather than was. focus on the endless road. We came because we were
We are always with ourselves, but do we ever speak needed. Life is the driving force taking us ahead. We just to the 'me' the way we do with everyone else? By making need to trust it. When we take in something calmly, we time for ourselves for a few minutes during the day, inde- respond differently. And as we continue on the journey pendent of external circumstances, we can slowly relax of life, we can add our own joy to the situation.and get used to our own presence and eventually extend Creating a fresh new energy around us regularly this comfort to others around us. We must learn to enjoy that is tapped by breathing and affirming at regular doing things for ourselves. Here's how to go about it. intervals, can change the way we respond to life. Discov-Choose a quiet place that you love, perhaps a balcony, ering our purpose is adding value with our feelings that, and look at objects that make you smile. Then, taking a over a period of time, reveal our uniqueness. When we deep breath, stroke your hands with your palm and reas- let go the fears, we are ourselves in the present moment. sure yourself, "I am safe in my world. I belong to this This needs "you" and "your appreciation" to help you environment that I lovingly create. I allow myself to flow move ahead to the next moment from this beautiful pres-in this moment. I am grateful to this moment and life." ent.
is especially potent. You may expe- main subject this week, take it easy Aries Scorpio Aquarius rience vivid dream as hidden and soon you will find out what you 20/03 to 20/04 23/10 to 22/11 22/01 to 20/02parts of your unconscious begin to need to do in order to achieve your This week you might have Things have not been easy, You may feel struggling
reveal themselves to you. Time to goal. to work or study hard and but you have not given way against the inevitable and
stop dreaming of a past lover or you may feel exhausted, making it to selfpity or apathy. Your tenacity must accept that nothing can recap-
fantasizing about someone you hard to view life objectively. Within Virgo and sense of purpose have kept you ture the past. Your old path is no lon-
cannot have. Move on and give to 23/08 to 22/09the context of a relationship you are going for you inner voices telling ger one you should follow. stop This week you might be yourself a chance to live a true unable to decide what to do next. you that when the time is right you resisting or trying to make sense of rejecting much of you love. Your lover may press for commit- will achieve you dream. events and the way will become
past, alienating those around you ment or ask you how you feel. Tak- clear to you eventually. and questioning everything you ing a break is the most sensible Cancer Sagittarius do. Be careful do not destroy what 23/06 to 22/07thing to do at this time. Do not try to 23/11 to 22/12 Pisces
This week your attitudes you value along with what is out- You may feel you are work-force a decision. 21/02 to 19/03towards emotional and moded. Be calm and soon you will ing hard this week without You an your partner may
social sphere are equally prag- be ready to proceed with the next any recognizion. you may wonder both need spend time with Taurus matic. There is a sense of dyna- stage. why you are alone and feel unloved. group of friends. Mental stimulus is 21/04 to 21/05mism and you want to make this Overcoming inertia is Your solitude is serving a purpose one component necessary to your
happen. Enjoy this moment that never simple, but this is Libra and must be endured if the next relationship now. If you are alone
your confidence is high and you 23/09 to 22/10your challenge this week and you stage is to be appreciated. can have a surprise to find someone You might reached a have nothing to lose by going for may need help in order to achieve among your social network. Don't crossroad in your life, a what you want.this goal. You need to get in touch lock yourself at home, give to your-Capricorn
turning point that could affect with your feelings now, for the fur- 23/12 to 21/01 self the opportunity a something your home and career as well as Procrastination is not the ther away you drift from your true Leo new.your relationship. Think carefully best option for you now. 23/07 to 22/08 centre, the more depressed you are
This is not the right time to before choosing what you want to Renata Fornari is an Astrologer and an important decision must be likely to become. and Tarot Reader. Consultations rebel instead of this try to do, as your future now rests very made. You may be overworking and are available at: contact your own need to control much in your own hand and it is neglecting your partner or you Gemini [email protected] and deal with any problems up to you to grasp opportunities social life. Try to find more bal-22/05 to 22/06
logically. Your career may be the for happiness. This week your intuition anced outlook.
World17The Brazilian Post
ENJOY THE PRESENT China unveils carbon
emission cutsWith global climate talks
launched this week, China on last Tuesday issued the most com-prehensive document yet on its plans and negotiating positions on emissions. The white paper details the country's successes in reducing carbon emissions and lays out new goals. Although much of the information has been released before, it is the first time it has been presented comprehensively as part of China's strategy to make its accomplishments better known before talks, which began this Monday in Durban.
"In the past they have had a hard time getting the word out," said Deborah Seligsohn, a Beijing-based fellow with the World Resources Insti-tute. "This is a significant collection of information and data."
In an interesting nuance, the report also gives a rare nod to nongovernmental organizations, which usually are frowned upon by China's authorities. The report mentions favorably "Earth Hour," a project by the World Wildlife Fund, and praises the work of another private organi-zation, the Energy Foundation. Officials said developing countries had taken serious steps while developed countries lagged.
20 years' jail for insulting Thai queen
A Thai court on last Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy, his lawyer said, under the kingdom's strict lese-majeste laws. Ampon Tangnoppakul, 61, was found guilty of four counts of sending messages to the private secre-tary of then-prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in May 2010, according to the criminal court in Bangkok.
"The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 20 years in jail," his lawyer Anon Nampa said, adding that he had 30 days to lodge an appeal.
Ampon was arrested in August last year and pleaded not guilty to the charges during his trial. After his arrest, Thailand's Central Bureau of Investigation said the messages were "inappropriate and considered insult-ing to the monarchy and have upset the recipients," without revealing their content. The royal family is a very sensitive subject in Thailand. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 83, is the world's longest-reigning monarch and revered as a demi-god by many Thais. Under Thai law, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count. Academics have noted a sharp increase in new royal insult cases in recent years and rights groups have expressed concern that the law was being used to suppress freedom of expression under the previous gov-ernment. Last month a Thai-born US citizen pleaded guilty to insulting the monarchy.
Obama turns White House into
country music hallPresident Barack Obama turned the White
House into a country music hall on last Monday, inviting an array of country stars for a concert that gave voice "to the emotions of everyday life." Cowboy hats and bolo ties mixed with the majestic chande-liers of the East Room for a toe-tapping series of per-formances by Dierks Bentley, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Darius Rucker, James Taylor, The Band Perry, Lauren Alaina and Micky.
"Tonight, we are turning the East Room into a bona fide country music hall," Obama said. Only days after wrapping up a nine-day trip through Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia, the president told guests that Johnny Cash "was really singing our song when he sang, 'I've been everywhere, man' ."
Obama said country music tied together many threads of the nation's immigrant heritage, from the Irish fiddle, the German dulcimer, the Italian mando-lin, the Spanish guitar and the West African banjo. "At its most pure, that's what country music is all about - life in America. It's about storytelling - giving voice to the emotions of everyday life."
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, wearing a pink silk pantsuit, watched from the front row to a set list of country music past and present. Bentley opened the concert by telling the audience that his thoughts were with members of the military and their families and then broke into a stirring rendi-tion of 'Home'.
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Strauss-Kahn sues media and Sarkozy aide
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was tipped as France's next president before a US sex assault scandal spelled his downfall, is suing a top French newspaper, several magazines and a government adviser over reports about him. Lawyers act-ing on behalf of Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair, a former TV star and art heiress, said last Tuesday that they were pursuing the daily Le Figaro, four weekly magazines and Henri Guaino, a senior adviser to Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy.
"Neither Anne Sinclair nor Dominique Strauss-Kahn wish to limit free expression of ideas and circulation of information but neither do they accept their privacy being exploited and fed off for purely commercial rea-sons," they said in a statement.
Lawyer Richard Malka told reporters that Guaino was being pursued for defamation over remarks he made about Strauss-Kahn on a TV show, while Le Figaro and the magazines L'Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, VSD and Paris Match were being sued for invasion of privacy.
Yemen's Saleh to sign power transfer dealYemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was in Saudi Arabia on last Wednesday to sign a U.S.-backed power transfer deal mediated by Gulf Arab states to resolve the impoverished country's crisis, Yemen's state television reported. Saleh has repeat-edly promised to sign the Gulf-brokered agreement, only to change his mind every time. Under the deal, Saleh would step down and transfer power to the vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
The TV said Saleh arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh on last Wednes-day morning but did not say when the deal would be signed. It said that along with Gulf Arab representatives who sponsored the agreement, Euro-pean and American envoys would also attend the signing. Saleh has clung to power despite an 8-month-old uprising, mass protests calling for his ouster and a June assassination attempt that left him badly wounded and forced him to travel to Saudi Arabia for more than three months of hospital treatment. But things appeared to be shifting on last Tuesday, when the U.N. secretary-general's envoy to Yemen, Jamal bin Omar, said all parties had agreed on a plan that would have Saleh step down.
"All parties agreed today on the Gulf initiative and the implementation of its mechanism," bin Omar said after meetings with Yemen's vice presi-dent, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, in Sanaa.
New Zealand Police search media for
PM recordingNew Zealand police last Wednesday began search- "He set out to paint the newspaper as the bad guy,
ing four media organizations three days before and that's so far from the truth it's difficult to recon-national elections to seize evidence related to a record- cile," Johns said.ing of Prime Minister John Key that he says was ille- Johns said police served a warrant last Wednes-gally obtained. Police said that they are seeking copies day and the newspaper handed over all the material of the recorded conversation between Key and an ally, asked for. He declined to elaborate. He said the news-interviews with the cameraman who recorded it and paper considered publishing the recording when it footage from the scene. Warrants are being issued at first got the tape, but it had to weigh that against its two television networks, a newspaper and a radio legal and ethical obligations and instead chose to wait.broadcaster. The recording was taken after an event staged for
The contents of the Nov. 11 recording have yet to media at an Auckland cafe. Key asked reporters to be made public. Key's political opponents say they move away while he chatted one-on-one with Act party believe the recording contains embarrassing political candidate John Banks. Cameraman Brad Ambrose left statements by the prime minister. After the camera- a cloth pouch that contained a recording device on the man handed a copy of the recording to the Herald on table. Ambrose has said in media interviews that he Sunday newspaper, Key and his governing National left the device inadvertently in the confusion of the Party suggested the recording had been covertly media scrum and hadn't intended to record the conver-orchestrated and compared the newspaper's tactics to sation.those used at the notorious, This week, Ambrose asked defunct British tabloid News of a High Court judge to rule the the World. conversation as public, given
But the Herald on its venue and backdrop. But Sunday's editor, Bryce Johns, the judge on last Wednesday said the newspaper didn't know declined to rule one way or the anything about the recording other, saying she didn't want to until the cameraman turned it impede a police investigation. over. He said Key has been suc- The controversy doesn't seem cessful in his twin aims of to be affecting Key's chances of diverting attention from what re-election. Polls indicate he he says on the tape and ensur- and his party could win the ing it doesn't come out until most lopsided election in after the election. decades.
Pak names new envoy to US amid scandal
Pakistan appointed a liberal woman activist who has faced militant death threats as its new ambassador to the United States on last Wednesday, moving quickly to replace the old envoy who resigned upsetting the country's powerful military in a scandal dubbed "memo-gate." Sherry Rehman will likely be well-received in Washington though she will have a tough task representing Pakistan amid widespread suspicion in the U.S. that nuclear-armed Pakistan is not a sincere ally in the fight against Islamist extremists.
Rehman is an important and respected player in Paki-stan's ruling party. She was close to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed by militants in 2007. Rehman has spoken up against the country's blasphemy law, which is used to persecute Christians. Police warned her that she could be targeted by extremists, and she was under heavy guard for some time. She currently heads the Jinnah Institute, an orga-nization she founded to "invest in policies that promote funda-mental rights, tolerance and pluralism."
“She is an excellent nomination because she is highly regarded in Pakistan's intellectual and political circles, and I think even in those circles close to the military establishment," said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, professor of political science at Lahore University of Management Sciences.
"She has courage and she has a vision of a progressive, liberal, democratic Pakistan, and she has worked for that," he added.
Indian train fire kills 7, including
AustralianSeven people including a four-year-old
girl and an Australian woman died when a fire swept through an overnight train in east-ern India early on last Tuesday, officials said.
Four female researchers from Australia were travelling to the Buddhist holy city of Bodh Gaya. One died in the blaze and the three others were being treated for burns in hospital, rail divisional manager Sudhir Kumar said.
"Seven persons were charred to death and more than 12 injured after the fire broke out in an air-conditioned coach and then spread to another coach," Kumar said, adding that one Australian survivor was in a critical condition.
The train was travelling from Kolkata to the northern town of Dehradun when it caught fire in Jharkhand state. Police said the cause of the blaze was not known.
"Two officers from the Australian High Commission will travel to Kolkata on the next flight available to provide consular assistance to the three Australians, and to seek more information regarding the fourth Australian," a spokesman for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Accidents are frequent on the state-owned Indian railways, still the main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from private airlines. The network operates 9,000 pas-senger trains carrying some 18.5 million passengers every day.
South Korea flaunts
firepowerSouth Korean attack helicopters screamed
through the skies above the Koreas' disputed Yellow Sea waters last Wednesday in a display of power exactly a year after North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on a front-line island. The South's military staged drills involving aircraft, rocket launchers and artillery guns to send a strong mes-sage to North Korean rivals stationed within sight just miles (kilometers) away, and to their authori-tarian leader, Kim Jong Il. The exercises off Baengnyeong Island represent far greater firepower than the South Korean military mounted last year in response to the barrage of artillery showered on military garrisons and fishing villages on nearby Yeonpyeong Island, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Lee Bung-woo said last Wednesday.
South Korea is prepared to "crush the enemy," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jung Seung-jo said. South Korea's delayed response to the shelling at the time, the first on a civilian area since the three-year Korean War ended with a truce in 1953, drew heavy criticism and concern that Seoul was unprepared for a North Korean provocation. The defense minister resigned, and suc-cessor Kim Kwan-jin has pledged a fierce air strike if the North stages another attack. Two con-struction workers and two marines were killed, dozens of homes decimated and scores evacu-ated to the mainland. Pyongyang blamed Seoul for provoking the attack, saying it struck after warning the South not to carry out live-fire drills in waters both Koreas claim as their territory.
Syrian death toll rises to 28
The death toll from a day of security raids and violence in Syria has risen to at least 28 peo-ple, activists said last Wednes-day, as President Bashar Assad came under mounting world-wide pressure to end eight months of bloodshed. Last Tues-day's violence came as a key U.N. committee voted to con-demn human rights violations by Assad's government and called for an immediate end to all violence. Nearly 4,000 people have been reported killed in the military crackdown on the popu-lar uprising since March.
Two main activist groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordinating Commit-tees, documented the deaths, which were reported in the central cities of Hama and Homs, the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and elsewhere.
The nonbinding resolution adopted by the General Assembly's human rights committee last Tuesday calls on Syrian authorities to implement an Arab League peace plan, agreed to ear-lier this month, "without further delay." It also urges the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets, the release of political prisoners, a halt to attacks on civilians, and allowing observ-ers into the country.
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Strauss-Kahn sues media and Sarkozy aide
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was tipped as France's next president before a US sex assault scandal spelled his downfall, is suing a top French newspaper, several magazines and a government adviser over reports about him. Lawyers act-ing on behalf of Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair, a former TV star and art heiress, said last Tuesday that they were pursuing the daily Le Figaro, four weekly magazines and Henri Guaino, a senior adviser to Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy.
"Neither Anne Sinclair nor Dominique Strauss-Kahn wish to limit free expression of ideas and circulation of information but neither do they accept their privacy being exploited and fed off for purely commercial rea-sons," they said in a statement.
Lawyer Richard Malka told reporters that Guaino was being pursued for defamation over remarks he made about Strauss-Kahn on a TV show, while Le Figaro and the magazines L'Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, VSD and Paris Match were being sued for invasion of privacy.
Yemen's Saleh to sign power transfer dealYemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was in Saudi Arabia on last Wednesday to sign a U.S.-backed power transfer deal mediated by Gulf Arab states to resolve the impoverished country's crisis, Yemen's state television reported. Saleh has repeat-edly promised to sign the Gulf-brokered agreement, only to change his mind every time. Under the deal, Saleh would step down and transfer power to the vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
The TV said Saleh arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh on last Wednes-day morning but did not say when the deal would be signed. It said that along with Gulf Arab representatives who sponsored the agreement, Euro-pean and American envoys would also attend the signing. Saleh has clung to power despite an 8-month-old uprising, mass protests calling for his ouster and a June assassination attempt that left him badly wounded and forced him to travel to Saudi Arabia for more than three months of hospital treatment. But things appeared to be shifting on last Tuesday, when the U.N. secretary-general's envoy to Yemen, Jamal bin Omar, said all parties had agreed on a plan that would have Saleh step down.
"All parties agreed today on the Gulf initiative and the implementation of its mechanism," bin Omar said after meetings with Yemen's vice presi-dent, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, in Sanaa.
New Zealand Police search media for
PM recordingNew Zealand police last Wednesday began search- "He set out to paint the newspaper as the bad guy,
ing four media organizations three days before and that's so far from the truth it's difficult to recon-national elections to seize evidence related to a record- cile," Johns said.ing of Prime Minister John Key that he says was ille- Johns said police served a warrant last Wednes-gally obtained. Police said that they are seeking copies day and the newspaper handed over all the material of the recorded conversation between Key and an ally, asked for. He declined to elaborate. He said the news-interviews with the cameraman who recorded it and paper considered publishing the recording when it footage from the scene. Warrants are being issued at first got the tape, but it had to weigh that against its two television networks, a newspaper and a radio legal and ethical obligations and instead chose to wait.broadcaster. The recording was taken after an event staged for
The contents of the Nov. 11 recording have yet to media at an Auckland cafe. Key asked reporters to be made public. Key's political opponents say they move away while he chatted one-on-one with Act party believe the recording contains embarrassing political candidate John Banks. Cameraman Brad Ambrose left statements by the prime minister. After the camera- a cloth pouch that contained a recording device on the man handed a copy of the recording to the Herald on table. Ambrose has said in media interviews that he Sunday newspaper, Key and his governing National left the device inadvertently in the confusion of the Party suggested the recording had been covertly media scrum and hadn't intended to record the conver-orchestrated and compared the newspaper's tactics to sation.those used at the notorious, This week, Ambrose asked defunct British tabloid News of a High Court judge to rule the the World. conversation as public, given
But the Herald on its venue and backdrop. But Sunday's editor, Bryce Johns, the judge on last Wednesday said the newspaper didn't know declined to rule one way or the anything about the recording other, saying she didn't want to until the cameraman turned it impede a police investigation. over. He said Key has been suc- The controversy doesn't seem cessful in his twin aims of to be affecting Key's chances of diverting attention from what re-election. Polls indicate he he says on the tape and ensur- and his party could win the ing it doesn't come out until most lopsided election in after the election. decades.
Pak names new envoy to US amid scandal
Pakistan appointed a liberal woman activist who has faced militant death threats as its new ambassador to the United States on last Wednesday, moving quickly to replace the old envoy who resigned upsetting the country's powerful military in a scandal dubbed "memo-gate." Sherry Rehman will likely be well-received in Washington though she will have a tough task representing Pakistan amid widespread suspicion in the U.S. that nuclear-armed Pakistan is not a sincere ally in the fight against Islamist extremists.
Rehman is an important and respected player in Paki-stan's ruling party. She was close to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed by militants in 2007. Rehman has spoken up against the country's blasphemy law, which is used to persecute Christians. Police warned her that she could be targeted by extremists, and she was under heavy guard for some time. She currently heads the Jinnah Institute, an orga-nization she founded to "invest in policies that promote funda-mental rights, tolerance and pluralism."
“She is an excellent nomination because she is highly regarded in Pakistan's intellectual and political circles, and I think even in those circles close to the military establishment," said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, professor of political science at Lahore University of Management Sciences.
"She has courage and she has a vision of a progressive, liberal, democratic Pakistan, and she has worked for that," he added.
Indian train fire kills 7, including
AustralianSeven people including a four-year-old
girl and an Australian woman died when a fire swept through an overnight train in east-ern India early on last Tuesday, officials said.
Four female researchers from Australia were travelling to the Buddhist holy city of Bodh Gaya. One died in the blaze and the three others were being treated for burns in hospital, rail divisional manager Sudhir Kumar said.
"Seven persons were charred to death and more than 12 injured after the fire broke out in an air-conditioned coach and then spread to another coach," Kumar said, adding that one Australian survivor was in a critical condition.
The train was travelling from Kolkata to the northern town of Dehradun when it caught fire in Jharkhand state. Police said the cause of the blaze was not known.
"Two officers from the Australian High Commission will travel to Kolkata on the next flight available to provide consular assistance to the three Australians, and to seek more information regarding the fourth Australian," a spokesman for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Accidents are frequent on the state-owned Indian railways, still the main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from private airlines. The network operates 9,000 pas-senger trains carrying some 18.5 million passengers every day.
South Korea flaunts
firepowerSouth Korean attack helicopters screamed
through the skies above the Koreas' disputed Yellow Sea waters last Wednesday in a display of power exactly a year after North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on a front-line island. The South's military staged drills involving aircraft, rocket launchers and artillery guns to send a strong mes-sage to North Korean rivals stationed within sight just miles (kilometers) away, and to their authori-tarian leader, Kim Jong Il. The exercises off Baengnyeong Island represent far greater firepower than the South Korean military mounted last year in response to the barrage of artillery showered on military garrisons and fishing villages on nearby Yeonpyeong Island, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Lee Bung-woo said last Wednesday.
South Korea is prepared to "crush the enemy," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Jung Seung-jo said. South Korea's delayed response to the shelling at the time, the first on a civilian area since the three-year Korean War ended with a truce in 1953, drew heavy criticism and concern that Seoul was unprepared for a North Korean provocation. The defense minister resigned, and suc-cessor Kim Kwan-jin has pledged a fierce air strike if the North stages another attack. Two con-struction workers and two marines were killed, dozens of homes decimated and scores evacu-ated to the mainland. Pyongyang blamed Seoul for provoking the attack, saying it struck after warning the South not to carry out live-fire drills in waters both Koreas claim as their territory.
Syrian death toll rises to 28
The death toll from a day of security raids and violence in Syria has risen to at least 28 peo-ple, activists said last Wednes-day, as President Bashar Assad came under mounting world-wide pressure to end eight months of bloodshed. Last Tues-day's violence came as a key U.N. committee voted to con-demn human rights violations by Assad's government and called for an immediate end to all violence. Nearly 4,000 people have been reported killed in the military crackdown on the popu-lar uprising since March.
Two main activist groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordinating Commit-tees, documented the deaths, which were reported in the central cities of Hama and Homs, the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and elsewhere.
The nonbinding resolution adopted by the General Assembly's human rights committee last Tuesday calls on Syrian authorities to implement an Arab League peace plan, agreed to ear-lier this month, "without further delay." It also urges the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets, the release of political prisoners, a halt to attacks on civilians, and allowing observ-ers into the country.
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Regulator : U.K. banks plan for euro-zone split FSA official says banks can't ignore possibility of disorderly departure of countries from cur-rency bloc.
U.K. economy posts growth Stock building and government spending boosted U.K. economic growth in the 3rd quarter, but official data released failed to ease concerns of a looming reces-sion.
BATS clear to buy Chi-X Europe BATS Global Markets said it won formal approval from U.K. regulators to acquire Chi-X Europe, clearing the way for the U.S. group to control the largest pan-European platform for share trading.
Arcadia to close over 200 stores U.K. retail company Arcadia Group said that it will close 250 - 260 stores over the next few years, as the company swung to a full-year net loss amid the gloomy consumer environment.
Lloyds unit sells distressed debt Lloyds Banking Group's Austra-lian subsidiary sold $1.75 billion of distressed property loans as it scrambles to offload assets in the final stages of a potential sale of 632 branches as a condition of state aid received in 2008-09.
James Murdoch exits boards James Murdoch has left the boards of operating companies overseeing News Corp.'s U.K. newspapers the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.
Italian yields jump after poor auction
Italian two-year and five-year government-bond yields soared to euro- following the auction, dropping to $1.3241, its lowest point since Oct. 4. Euro-era highs last Friday as investors began giving up on the euro zone's ability pean stocks were less affected, with the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 index to break the political gridlock that is blocking a more decisive response to down 0.8%. London's FTSE 100 was 0.8% lower, Germany's DAX was down the currency bloc's debt crisis. 0.8% and France's CAC-40 fell 0.8% too.
Italian two-year and five-year yields climbed to 7.7% and 7.8%, respec- Italy's disappointing bond auction doesn't bode well for the country's tively, and the 10-year yield moved further above the key 7% mark to 7.3%. planned auction of up to €8 billion in longer-term bonds this week when it
The slide accelerated after Italy was forced to pay extremely high yields also will be competing for investors, with major auctions planned by France, to attract investors to its latest auction of Belgium, and Spain.treasury bills. The Italian treasury sold €8 Shorter-dated yields climbed above yields on billion ($10.67 billion) of six-month trea- longer-dated bonds, a condition known as inver-sury bills and €2 billion of 24-month zero- sion. It typically indicates that investors were coupon bonds. The six-month paper car- extremely worried about the immediate future. ried an average yield of 6.5%, sharply up The yield curves in Greece, Ireland and Portugal from the 3.5% rate paid at its October auc- all inverted as these countries have sought exter-tion. nal assistance.
The ECB resumed purchases of Ital- A potential shutdown of the Italian bond ian bonds, but it wasn't enough to stem market, the world's third largest, would have the rise in yields. Traders noted that vol- disastrous consequences. If the country found umes in secondary markets were itself unable to raise funds from the market at extremely thin and this was magnifying affordable rates, the firefighting capabilities of the moves as well. the euro area's rescue fund, the European Finan-
The euro slumped against the dollar cial Stability Facility, would be severely tested.
Brazil: Consumer confidence
rises for 2nd straight month
Consumer con-fidence showed a positive balance for the second con-secutive time. It is revealed that the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) disclose to the Con-sumer Confidence Index (CCI), which rose 3.3% in November, after rising 0.4% in October. Calcu-lated within range up to 200 points (when closer to 200, the higher the level of consumer confidence), the ICC accelerated from 115.2 points in October to 119 points in November.
The increase was influenced both by improved assess-ments about the present situation as the expectations for the future. The Present Situation Index (ISA), one of two sub-components of the CCI indicator, rose 5.2% this month after falling 1.6% in October. But the Expectations Index (IE) increased 2% in November, up 1.9% against last month.
But in comparison with November of last year, the CCI fell 4.1% this month. However, in October, the indicator fell more intensely in this comparison (4.5%). The survey sample covers more than 2,000 homes in seven capitals, with inter-views conducted between October 31 to November 22.
What's French for sandwich?THE bouncers were batting away the pavement crowds on the Champs-Elysées, as they Since 2006, the number of fast-food meals in France has jumped 12%, whereas sit-down din-
always do when some Hollywood starlet or teenaged idol drops in on the French capital's flag- ing has declined by nearly 5%, according to GIRA Foodservice, a research group. It sees “an evi-ship Virgin Megastore to promote a new release. Except that the queues being herded into cattle dent change of food habits among the French” towards “le snacking” at lunch time. There are pens on Paris's most famous avenue on November 24th were not seeking a celebrity thrill; they various factors behind this trend: a ban on smoking in cafés and restaurants, which has discour-had come to snap up British sandwiches. aged lingering over lazy lunches; a less formal culture
After closing down its French stores ten years ago, among younger office workers, keen to leave time to do Marks & Spencer (M&S), a British knickers-to-sandwiches other things, like shopping, during their lunch hour; and retailer, has made le come-back in Paris. Its brand-new the economic crisis, which has prompted people to find 1,400 square metre store is located at 100 Avenue des cheaper ways to fill their tummies.Champs-Elysées, the city's prime retail location. Not all the Not surprisingly, established retailers want a bite of range offered at its British shops is available, however, in this market too. The big French chains, such as Monoprix its first Paris store, it has decided to focus just on women's and Carrefour, have developed a brand of small city outlets, clothing, especially underwear, and convenience food, such as Dailymonop' and Carrefour City, to bring French including ready-made Indian meals and sandwiches. expertise to the confection of bread triangles with filling.
What has got into the French? Surely, in the land of As for M&S, the roaring success of its first day, fine dining, where a sit-down lunch is a mark of a high life filmed by breathless French television reporters and cov-in the slow lane, nobody would settle for two triangles of ered by all the newspapers, will have shored up its deci-sliced English bread? In fact, eating habits are changing. sion to open another five stores in the Paris region. The Last year, the French nibbled their way through two billion British group says it is now looking for sites to open Sim-sandwiches. Once the only take-away lunchtime option was ply Food only outlets in the capital too. Whether the a filled baguette at the local boulangerie. Now modern sand- French are quite ready to start buying British knickers wich and salad bars, offering bulgar-wheat salads and is another matter, but they have clearly already fallen rocket-and-parmesan sandwiches, have sprung up in the for le sandwich. side streets of office areas across Paris.
Brazilian government
updates minimum wage
The Ministry of Planning sent Congress on last Monday, 21, the new value for the minimum wage in 2012, rising from R $ 619.21 to R $ 622.73. The letter sent by the Min-ister Miriam Belchior updates the economic parameters used in the preparation of the budget proposal next year.
The constant forecasting INPC budget proposal originally submitted was 5.7%. By the rule of adjustment, the most the rate of 7.5% growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010, meant the amount of R $ 619.21 for the minimum, equivalent to an increase of 13.6%. With the update, inflation rose to 6.65% and was increased to 14.26% for the current minimum of $ 545.
UK PM's plea to workers over strike
The PM said reform was "essential" to stop the pen- PCS walkout will affect its staff working at points of sions system "going broke". And, he added, the changes entry into the UK and, while it had put contingency were fair to both workers and the taxpayer. Up to 750,000 plans in place, "people travelling into the UK may expe-teachers and civil servants are set to strike saying that rience delays at border control".the government's plans will mean them working longer It said the strike would have a "different" impact at and paying more. individual airports, ports and railway stations.
There was no breakthrough in talks between minis- Speaking to the Local Government Association con-ters and unions on last Monday. Labour leader Ed ference, Mr Cameron urged workers to reconsider their Miliband has said strike action would be a "mistake". actions and not to believe what he said were "scare sto-
The government has insisted it has contingency ries" about the government's proposals.plans in place to prevent any major disruption to essen- "To those considering strike action, when discus-tial services on last Thursday but Education Secretary sions are ongoing, I say to you these strikes are wrong, Michael Gove has con- for you, for the people firmed that more than you serve and for the 3,000 schools in England good of the country. It and Wales will be is the changes we pro-forced to shut and over pose that are right, 2,000 partially closed as right by the taxpayer a result. but, above all, right by
The planned 24- you."hour walkout involves He added: "The members of the changes we propose are National Union of a good deal. They are Teachers (NUT), the fair for the low-paid, Association of Teachers fair for the taxpayer. and Lecturers (ATL), They secure affordable the University and Col- pensions, not just now lege Union and the Pub- but for decades to come. lic and Commercial Ser- And they mean that pub-vices (PCS) union. lic sector pensions will
The UK Border remain among the very Agency has said the best available."
Brazilian iron ore miner Vale appointed its long-serving executive Tito Martins to the post of chief financial officer (CFO) on last Thursday, accord-ing to the minutes of its board meeting. Martins, well-regarded by investors in the Sao Paulo and New York-listed company, was just months ago tipped to take over the leadership of the world's largest iron ore producer and has been serving as head of base metals operations. He will also take over as head of investor relations. Martin's nomination was part of an overhaul of top management proposed by Chief Executive Murilo Ferreira, himself only seven months into that job, that will give all executives a share of responsi-bility for operations, sales and planning.
Ferreira's proposal was wholly approved by the company's board and will retain four of the existing seven directors.
Martins has clocked up nearly three decades at the firm. He took a tough stance as head of Vale's nickel subsidiary in Canada in 2009 over bene-fits for unionized workers that led to a worker strike lasting for nearly a year and a half. Vale preferred shares traded in Sao Paulo ended unchanged on last Thursday at 39.85 reais ($20.94).
Brazil's Vale board appoints Tito Martins as CFO
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Regulator : U.K. banks plan for euro-zone split FSA official says banks can't ignore possibility of disorderly departure of countries from cur-rency bloc.
U.K. economy posts growth Stock building and government spending boosted U.K. economic growth in the 3rd quarter, but official data released failed to ease concerns of a looming reces-sion.
BATS clear to buy Chi-X Europe BATS Global Markets said it won formal approval from U.K. regulators to acquire Chi-X Europe, clearing the way for the U.S. group to control the largest pan-European platform for share trading.
Arcadia to close over 200 stores U.K. retail company Arcadia Group said that it will close 250 - 260 stores over the next few years, as the company swung to a full-year net loss amid the gloomy consumer environment.
Lloyds unit sells distressed debt Lloyds Banking Group's Austra-lian subsidiary sold $1.75 billion of distressed property loans as it scrambles to offload assets in the final stages of a potential sale of 632 branches as a condition of state aid received in 2008-09.
James Murdoch exits boards James Murdoch has left the boards of operating companies overseeing News Corp.'s U.K. newspapers the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.
Italian yields jump after poor auction
Italian two-year and five-year government-bond yields soared to euro- following the auction, dropping to $1.3241, its lowest point since Oct. 4. Euro-era highs last Friday as investors began giving up on the euro zone's ability pean stocks were less affected, with the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 index to break the political gridlock that is blocking a more decisive response to down 0.8%. London's FTSE 100 was 0.8% lower, Germany's DAX was down the currency bloc's debt crisis. 0.8% and France's CAC-40 fell 0.8% too.
Italian two-year and five-year yields climbed to 7.7% and 7.8%, respec- Italy's disappointing bond auction doesn't bode well for the country's tively, and the 10-year yield moved further above the key 7% mark to 7.3%. planned auction of up to €8 billion in longer-term bonds this week when it
The slide accelerated after Italy was forced to pay extremely high yields also will be competing for investors, with major auctions planned by France, to attract investors to its latest auction of Belgium, and Spain.treasury bills. The Italian treasury sold €8 Shorter-dated yields climbed above yields on billion ($10.67 billion) of six-month trea- longer-dated bonds, a condition known as inver-sury bills and €2 billion of 24-month zero- sion. It typically indicates that investors were coupon bonds. The six-month paper car- extremely worried about the immediate future. ried an average yield of 6.5%, sharply up The yield curves in Greece, Ireland and Portugal from the 3.5% rate paid at its October auc- all inverted as these countries have sought exter-tion. nal assistance.
The ECB resumed purchases of Ital- A potential shutdown of the Italian bond ian bonds, but it wasn't enough to stem market, the world's third largest, would have the rise in yields. Traders noted that vol- disastrous consequences. If the country found umes in secondary markets were itself unable to raise funds from the market at extremely thin and this was magnifying affordable rates, the firefighting capabilities of the moves as well. the euro area's rescue fund, the European Finan-
The euro slumped against the dollar cial Stability Facility, would be severely tested.
Brazil: Consumer confidence
rises for 2nd straight month
Consumer con-fidence showed a positive balance for the second con-secutive time. It is revealed that the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) disclose to the Con-sumer Confidence Index (CCI), which rose 3.3% in November, after rising 0.4% in October. Calcu-lated within range up to 200 points (when closer to 200, the higher the level of consumer confidence), the ICC accelerated from 115.2 points in October to 119 points in November.
The increase was influenced both by improved assess-ments about the present situation as the expectations for the future. The Present Situation Index (ISA), one of two sub-components of the CCI indicator, rose 5.2% this month after falling 1.6% in October. But the Expectations Index (IE) increased 2% in November, up 1.9% against last month.
But in comparison with November of last year, the CCI fell 4.1% this month. However, in October, the indicator fell more intensely in this comparison (4.5%). The survey sample covers more than 2,000 homes in seven capitals, with inter-views conducted between October 31 to November 22.
What's French for sandwich?THE bouncers were batting away the pavement crowds on the Champs-Elysées, as they Since 2006, the number of fast-food meals in France has jumped 12%, whereas sit-down din-
always do when some Hollywood starlet or teenaged idol drops in on the French capital's flag- ing has declined by nearly 5%, according to GIRA Foodservice, a research group. It sees “an evi-ship Virgin Megastore to promote a new release. Except that the queues being herded into cattle dent change of food habits among the French” towards “le snacking” at lunch time. There are pens on Paris's most famous avenue on November 24th were not seeking a celebrity thrill; they various factors behind this trend: a ban on smoking in cafés and restaurants, which has discour-had come to snap up British sandwiches. aged lingering over lazy lunches; a less formal culture
After closing down its French stores ten years ago, among younger office workers, keen to leave time to do Marks & Spencer (M&S), a British knickers-to-sandwiches other things, like shopping, during their lunch hour; and retailer, has made le come-back in Paris. Its brand-new the economic crisis, which has prompted people to find 1,400 square metre store is located at 100 Avenue des cheaper ways to fill their tummies.Champs-Elysées, the city's prime retail location. Not all the Not surprisingly, established retailers want a bite of range offered at its British shops is available, however, in this market too. The big French chains, such as Monoprix its first Paris store, it has decided to focus just on women's and Carrefour, have developed a brand of small city outlets, clothing, especially underwear, and convenience food, such as Dailymonop' and Carrefour City, to bring French including ready-made Indian meals and sandwiches. expertise to the confection of bread triangles with filling.
What has got into the French? Surely, in the land of As for M&S, the roaring success of its first day, fine dining, where a sit-down lunch is a mark of a high life filmed by breathless French television reporters and cov-in the slow lane, nobody would settle for two triangles of ered by all the newspapers, will have shored up its deci-sliced English bread? In fact, eating habits are changing. sion to open another five stores in the Paris region. The Last year, the French nibbled their way through two billion British group says it is now looking for sites to open Sim-sandwiches. Once the only take-away lunchtime option was ply Food only outlets in the capital too. Whether the a filled baguette at the local boulangerie. Now modern sand- French are quite ready to start buying British knickers wich and salad bars, offering bulgar-wheat salads and is another matter, but they have clearly already fallen rocket-and-parmesan sandwiches, have sprung up in the for le sandwich. side streets of office areas across Paris.
Brazilian government
updates minimum wage
The Ministry of Planning sent Congress on last Monday, 21, the new value for the minimum wage in 2012, rising from R $ 619.21 to R $ 622.73. The letter sent by the Min-ister Miriam Belchior updates the economic parameters used in the preparation of the budget proposal next year.
The constant forecasting INPC budget proposal originally submitted was 5.7%. By the rule of adjustment, the most the rate of 7.5% growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010, meant the amount of R $ 619.21 for the minimum, equivalent to an increase of 13.6%. With the update, inflation rose to 6.65% and was increased to 14.26% for the current minimum of $ 545.
UK PM's plea to workers over strike
The PM said reform was "essential" to stop the pen- PCS walkout will affect its staff working at points of sions system "going broke". And, he added, the changes entry into the UK and, while it had put contingency were fair to both workers and the taxpayer. Up to 750,000 plans in place, "people travelling into the UK may expe-teachers and civil servants are set to strike saying that rience delays at border control".the government's plans will mean them working longer It said the strike would have a "different" impact at and paying more. individual airports, ports and railway stations.
There was no breakthrough in talks between minis- Speaking to the Local Government Association con-ters and unions on last Monday. Labour leader Ed ference, Mr Cameron urged workers to reconsider their Miliband has said strike action would be a "mistake". actions and not to believe what he said were "scare sto-
The government has insisted it has contingency ries" about the government's proposals.plans in place to prevent any major disruption to essen- "To those considering strike action, when discus-tial services on last Thursday but Education Secretary sions are ongoing, I say to you these strikes are wrong, Michael Gove has con- for you, for the people firmed that more than you serve and for the 3,000 schools in England good of the country. It and Wales will be is the changes we pro-forced to shut and over pose that are right, 2,000 partially closed as right by the taxpayer a result. but, above all, right by
The planned 24- you."hour walkout involves He added: "The members of the changes we propose are National Union of a good deal. They are Teachers (NUT), the fair for the low-paid, Association of Teachers fair for the taxpayer. and Lecturers (ATL), They secure affordable the University and Col- pensions, not just now lege Union and the Pub- but for decades to come. lic and Commercial Ser- And they mean that pub-vices (PCS) union. lic sector pensions will
The UK Border remain among the very Agency has said the best available."
Brazilian iron ore miner Vale appointed its long-serving executive Tito Martins to the post of chief financial officer (CFO) on last Thursday, accord-ing to the minutes of its board meeting. Martins, well-regarded by investors in the Sao Paulo and New York-listed company, was just months ago tipped to take over the leadership of the world's largest iron ore producer and has been serving as head of base metals operations. He will also take over as head of investor relations. Martin's nomination was part of an overhaul of top management proposed by Chief Executive Murilo Ferreira, himself only seven months into that job, that will give all executives a share of responsi-bility for operations, sales and planning.
Ferreira's proposal was wholly approved by the company's board and will retain four of the existing seven directors.
Martins has clocked up nearly three decades at the firm. He took a tough stance as head of Vale's nickel subsidiary in Canada in 2009 over bene-fits for unionized workers that led to a worker strike lasting for nearly a year and a half. Vale preferred shares traded in Sao Paulo ended unchanged on last Thursday at 39.85 reais ($20.94).
Brazil's Vale board appoints Tito Martins as CFO
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Tiger Wood has decided to change his 2012 start season. The former top-ranked golfer won't be starting his 2012 season at Torrey Pines. Instead of his traditional PGA Tour start in San Diego, Woods has agreed to play in a tournament in Abu Dhabi. The move is somewhat surprising for Woods, taking appearance money from a European Tour event instead of playing what he considers one of his favorite PGA Tour courses. He's won seven times at Torrey Pines as a pro, including his 14th and last major at the 2008 US Open. Woods has been starting his season at Torrey Pines, when healthy, since 2006. He missed in 2009 (injury) and 2010 (scandal). His five-tournament winning streak at Torrey Pines ended Jan. 30 when he tied for 44th. He had never finished outside the top 10 at Torrey Pines, and it was his worst start to his golf season since he turned pro. “I'm looking forward to 2012 and what I hope will be a great year of golf for me,'' Woods said. “I've always enjoyed playing in HSBC events around the world, so I have been interested in including the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in my schedule for some time.''
New season new expectations
The Olympic torch tradition
The torch is one of the most important Olympic Games symbols but do you know in which Olympic Games was the torch relay introduced? While the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, the torch relay wasn't introduced until 1936, at the Berlin Games. The idea for the Olympic torch relay is credited to a German professor and Olympic offi-cial by the name of Carl Diem, who saw the relay as a way to connect the ancient Olympics to the games being held in Berlin. For the 1936 Summer Games, the Olympic torch was ignited in its ancient birth-place, the Greek city of Olympia, and then brought to Berlin. The torch relay didn't debut at the Winter Games until 1952, and it started in Norway, the birthplace of skiing. Since 1964, however, the Olym-pic torch, both for the Winter and Summer games, has been lit in Olympia.
After a poor performance in the World Cup held in Japan weeks ago the Brazil women's national volleyball team will have two more chances to secure their place for London 2012. A total of 12 teams per gender will par-ticipate in the volleyball competition at the 2012 Olympic Games and while 3 Olympic tickets were offered in the FIVB World Cups there are 8 other tickets available via different means in addition to the hosts Great Britain. Three tickets will be offered via one
Women's World Olympic Qualification tournament to take place in Japan from May 19-27 next year while five other vacancies are available via the five conti-nental qualification tournaments with the Asian Confederation tournament being played at the same time as the World Olympic Qualification event. The participants in the Women's World Olympic Qualification tournament include Japan as organizer and the top three ranked Asian teams plus the participation of four non-Asian teams, confirmed as per the FIVB world ranking of January 15, 2012. The top three teams will book a place at the 2012 London Olympics fol-lowed by the best Asian team, which will join them as per the Asian Confedera-tion vacancy. The other continental qualification tournaments will be played as per a continental championship for CSV, CAVB and NORCECA while CEV has already started its pre-qualification tournament for its Confederation qualifica-tion tournament, which will take place next year.
Last chance to book a place at London '12
Footballers' transfer rumours
Thiago Neves stays. Apparently the Saudi Arabian club has accepted Flamengo's offer for the midfielder. The Arabian club has 90% of Thiago Neves's economic rights and gave Flamengo the priority to purchase the player. Now the club just needs to arrange how Flamengo will pay the €8 million asking price. Nilmar is the São Paulo's newest target. Nilmar has 3 more years of his contract left with Villareal but this has not been taken into account by São Paulo, who started the negotiation to have Nilmar as partnering with Luis Fabiano in their next campaign. After announcing Kléber, Grêmio has dem-onstrated their intention to repatriate Vagner Love for 2012 season. Vagner Love's agent con-firmed a concrete interest from Grêmio's side and responded positively to the prospect of a move to Southern Brazil, with CSKA already having agreed not to block a departure.
Diego Tardelli is negotiating his return to Atlético Mineiro. Atletico's football director, Edu-ardo Maluf, does not hide the club's interest in having the attacker back at the club, but knows that coming to an agreement over Tardelli's wages could be an issue.
Seedorf's moving to Brazil? The 35-year old was recently linked with a move to Brazil in the European summer transfer window, with the likes of Corinthians, Flamengo and Botafogo all chasing the Dutchman's signature. Speaking at a press conference ahead of AC Milan's Champi-ons League tie against Barcelona, the former Dutch national was questioned about a possible move to Brazil in the near future. ''Today is not the day to be talking about the future. There is a whole championship ahead. It would be disrespectful for me to talk about this kind of thing now,'' said the Rossoneri midfielder.
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Tiger Wood has decided to change his 2012 start season. The former top-ranked golfer won't be starting his 2012 season at Torrey Pines. Instead of his traditional PGA Tour start in San Diego, Woods has agreed to play in a tournament in Abu Dhabi. The move is somewhat surprising for Woods, taking appearance money from a European Tour event instead of playing what he considers one of his favorite PGA Tour courses. He's won seven times at Torrey Pines as a pro, including his 14th and last major at the 2008 US Open. Woods has been starting his season at Torrey Pines, when healthy, since 2006. He missed in 2009 (injury) and 2010 (scandal). His five-tournament winning streak at Torrey Pines ended Jan. 30 when he tied for 44th. He had never finished outside the top 10 at Torrey Pines, and it was his worst start to his golf season since he turned pro. “I'm looking forward to 2012 and what I hope will be a great year of golf for me,'' Woods said. “I've always enjoyed playing in HSBC events around the world, so I have been interested in including the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in my schedule for some time.''
New season new expectations
The Olympic torch tradition
The torch is one of the most important Olympic Games symbols but do you know in which Olympic Games was the torch relay introduced? While the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, the torch relay wasn't introduced until 1936, at the Berlin Games. The idea for the Olympic torch relay is credited to a German professor and Olympic offi-cial by the name of Carl Diem, who saw the relay as a way to connect the ancient Olympics to the games being held in Berlin. For the 1936 Summer Games, the Olympic torch was ignited in its ancient birth-place, the Greek city of Olympia, and then brought to Berlin. The torch relay didn't debut at the Winter Games until 1952, and it started in Norway, the birthplace of skiing. Since 1964, however, the Olym-pic torch, both for the Winter and Summer games, has been lit in Olympia.
After a poor performance in the World Cup held in Japan weeks ago the Brazil women's national volleyball team will have two more chances to secure their place for London 2012. A total of 12 teams per gender will par-ticipate in the volleyball competition at the 2012 Olympic Games and while 3 Olympic tickets were offered in the FIVB World Cups there are 8 other tickets available via different means in addition to the hosts Great Britain. Three tickets will be offered via one
Women's World Olympic Qualification tournament to take place in Japan from May 19-27 next year while five other vacancies are available via the five conti-nental qualification tournaments with the Asian Confederation tournament being played at the same time as the World Olympic Qualification event. The participants in the Women's World Olympic Qualification tournament include Japan as organizer and the top three ranked Asian teams plus the participation of four non-Asian teams, confirmed as per the FIVB world ranking of January 15, 2012. The top three teams will book a place at the 2012 London Olympics fol-lowed by the best Asian team, which will join them as per the Asian Confedera-tion vacancy. The other continental qualification tournaments will be played as per a continental championship for CSV, CAVB and NORCECA while CEV has already started its pre-qualification tournament for its Confederation qualifica-tion tournament, which will take place next year.
Last chance to book a place at London '12
Footballers' transfer rumours
Thiago Neves stays. Apparently the Saudi Arabian club has accepted Flamengo's offer for the midfielder. The Arabian club has 90% of Thiago Neves's economic rights and gave Flamengo the priority to purchase the player. Now the club just needs to arrange how Flamengo will pay the €8 million asking price. Nilmar is the São Paulo's newest target. Nilmar has 3 more years of his contract left with Villareal but this has not been taken into account by São Paulo, who started the negotiation to have Nilmar as partnering with Luis Fabiano in their next campaign. After announcing Kléber, Grêmio has dem-onstrated their intention to repatriate Vagner Love for 2012 season. Vagner Love's agent con-firmed a concrete interest from Grêmio's side and responded positively to the prospect of a move to Southern Brazil, with CSKA already having agreed not to block a departure.
Diego Tardelli is negotiating his return to Atlético Mineiro. Atletico's football director, Edu-ardo Maluf, does not hide the club's interest in having the attacker back at the club, but knows that coming to an agreement over Tardelli's wages could be an issue.
Seedorf's moving to Brazil? The 35-year old was recently linked with a move to Brazil in the European summer transfer window, with the likes of Corinthians, Flamengo and Botafogo all chasing the Dutchman's signature. Speaking at a press conference ahead of AC Milan's Champi-ons League tie against Barcelona, the former Dutch national was questioned about a possible move to Brazil in the near future. ''Today is not the day to be talking about the future. There is a whole championship ahead. It would be disrespectful for me to talk about this kind of thing now,'' said the Rossoneri midfielder.
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THE HIGH TIDE OF BRAZILIAN YACHT MARKET
Brazil's love for yachting, the hun-dreds of harbours and yachting clubs, its 7400km of stunning coast-line and the year round warm weather, makes it a natural yacht market to focus on.
Also, with Brazil's rapidly grow-ing economy, yachts are now more affordable to Brazil-ians than traditional markets. According to Dasein Executive headhunters, chief executives and directors in Sao Paulo earned more than those in
Marcio Christiansen reeled off tales of the growing ranks Chinese demand, along with some of the world's biggest off- lifted 20 million out of poverty.of rich Brazilians who visit his luxury Ferretti yacht show- shore oil discoveries, have created an expanding, new class of A May report on the geography of wealth from the US-room, where clients sip espressos on an oversized sable sofa wealthy Brazilians. They, in turn, are boosting the interna- based consulting firm Deloitte forecasts that US and European and electronic music bubbles in the air. tional yacht market even as it plummets in the US and Europe. nations will remain the global centers for wealthy households
One man paid $2 million for a ship, Christiansen said, The number of millionaire households in South America's during the next decade. Nonetheless, emerging market econo-after succumbing within 30 minutes to his kids' pleas of "Buy biggest nation is forecast to more than triple by 2020. Their mies "are likely to prove to be more dynamic in terms of it, daddy, buy it!'' Another toured the sparkling 53-foot yacht on spending, along with that of a newly swollen middle class, has growth rates, creating significant opportunities for wealth the showroom floor, then asked to discuss it over lunch. protected Brazil more than any other nation in the region from managers seeking to gain a share of these potentially lucrative
"The waiter comes over to take our order and the client economic shocks since 2008. markets.''asks to borrow a piece of paper from his pad,'' said Exporting goods like sugar, gold, coffee and rubber, Brazil The boom in Brazil's yacht market attests to that growth.Christiansen, CEO of Ferretti's Brazil group. "He starts work- has been a boom-and-bust place since the 16th century. Past Annual boat sales in Brazil have grown up to 30 percent ing out a contract on it and we've agreed to it before I've asked golden ages created a thin strata of the wealthy and extreme annually since 2008 depending on the specific segment of the for a sandwich.'' inequality. Since the mid-1990s, however, economic reforms fol- market, industry leaders said. Meanwhile, in the more tradi-
Brazil has always had its select group of superrich with lowing a return to democracy have slowly spread the wealth, tional boating markets in the US and Europe, sales of high-end extravagant tastes. But booming commodity prices fueled by and aggressive government social programs since 2003 have boats have dropped by 70 percent, analysts said.
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OCT 31st - NOV 06th 2011Arco Iris Residential delivers 92 more houses Coinciding with the second phase of the Brazilian government housing programme "My House, My Life," ECOHOUSE DEVELOPMENTS will deliver 92 more houses in August under its Arco Iris Residential project, in Natal, RN. Working hard at the construction site with heavy machinery and 192 men, including engineers, master-builders, bricklayers, carpenters, machinists, Arco Iris Res-idential completed its second phase of the project, paying for their investors with returns of 20% over the capital invested in one year. In September, the third phase of Arco Iris Residential project onsets : the construction of 92 more houses.
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Mass demonstrations and violent clashes against Using the title of £9000 to the whole exhibition the rise of universities tuition fees in England have dom- brings the focus to the purpose of the event. £9000 is a inated the headlines in the last few months. With only revolutionary, trendy new photographic exhibition that the negative side of the story being shown by the media aims to provide a more constructive and visually potent a group of Photography students of the University of assessment of the true value of education. The work on East London are voicing their own opinion in a different display seeks to evaluate the cost of £9,000, but moreover way, not through loudhailers and homemade banners, it acts as a physical representation of the value too. The but through art. An exciting and fresh alternative to the money will consequently be used to finance a university debate is opening at the heart of East London. The Rag year for one lucky student.Is this really too much to ask?Factory is a new, quirky looking gallery and this unique You be the judge!exhibition could not be held in a better place. - By Natalia Castanheda
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Murdoch tabloid spied
on Prince William
A private inves-tigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World conducted surveil-lance on Prince Wil-liam as well of doz-ens of politicians and celebrities, the BBC reported last Tuesday.
The broadcaster said private eye Derek Webb spied on the prince in 2006 while William was in Gloucestershire, western England, where his father Prince Charles has a country home. The BBC said Webb worked for the newspaper for eight years until it was shut down in July and was paid to follow more than 100 people, most of them celebrities and politicians. It said the targets included Angelina Jolie, Prince Harry's for-mer girlfriend Chelsy Davy, then-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, former soccer star Gary Lineker and the par-ents of "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe.
A British gal-lery owner con-demned as "outra-geous" a claim laid by the French state to a baroque paint-ing he is currently showing in Paris, and denied it was a stolen work. Mark Weiss, the owner and director of the Weiss Gallery in London, said that it was a "complete shock" to hear that the French culture ministry claimed "The Carrying of the Cross", painted by Nicolas Tournier around 1632.
He said the first he had heard of the claim was from a press release issued by the ministry on last Monday, which said the work was stolen from a Toulouse museum 200 years ago. It added that the ministry had barred the gallery from taking it back to Britain.
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