Pateira

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis  (1929 - 1994)

"love of words, the bonds of home and family, and her spirit of adventure."

Love with a Woman, by Joan Miró

New month, new theme, here on Pateira.  And yes, finally something about girls, to boost our audiences.  Or, maybe not!

Well the fact is that people are curious;  one of the most seen Pateira's items is "the crew director".  Who is this guy?  Where he comes from?  Is he a local politician?  Thanks God, he is not!

Check, for instance, the so called social networks:  MySpace, orkut, Yahoo! 360º,  Netlog, etc.  Most of the participants gladly fill the personal questions:  your favourite movie, food, music, film, drink, book, etc, etc.  I believe that, if they were asked to, they would reveal their underpants colour...

But what about favourite girl? 

"In memoriam of one million and one hundred thousand men, women and children that died in Auschwitz" 

"Auschwitz - the Nazis & The Final Solution"  by Laurence Rees, 2005

Portuguese version, "Auschwitz - Os Nazis e a Solução Final", Dom Quixote, 2005

A truthful and honest account of what torture and misery innocent Jewish people, Polish, Russian prisoners and gypsies were put through.

Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the camp until the summer of 1943, testifed at the Nuremberg Trial that up to 2.5 million people had died at Auschwitz. He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I.  In his autobiography, he portrayed himself as having grown up with a "strong sense of duty" and avowed himself as a follower of the "high virtue of military obedience".

Another revelation concerns the death camp at Treblinka and its commandant, Dr. Irmfried Eberl. Initially, the camp operated more or less as the Nazis had anticipated with 6,000 people arriving to be killed each day. But within months, the numbers doubled and the operation of the camp descended into chaos. According to August Hingst, a member of the SS at Treblinka, Eberl’s ambition was to exceed the death toll at all other camps. He says, “So many transports arrived that the disembarkation and gassing of people could no longer be handled”. As a result, they simply shot people as they arrived.  Nazi efficiency...

The "Final Solution" called for the murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed during the Holocaust, two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe before World War II.

Laurence Rees is Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, and the author of five books on war and historical atrocities. Most recently, he wrote and produced the six-hour documentary Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.  He won the International Documentary Association Award and The British Academy Award.

©ACM 2007/Photo:Carlo Borlenghi

32nd America's Cup - Team BMW Oracle Racing

Golden Gate Yacht Club - USA

O sistema de ensino superior em Portugal cumpre razoavelmente bem a missão de liceu superior. 

Institucionalmente, o sistema permite que cada um na sua quinta debite matéria para um conjunto de servos que estão lá prisioneiros durante um semestre - aí pode-se fazer tudo quase sem controlo nenhum.  O que está errado. 

As universidades públicas são, quando muito, repartições públicas porque não são dotadas de autonomia, nomeadamente não são donas dos seus recursos humanos.  E os recursos mais importantes das universidades são os próprios docentes e funcionários;  e estes são do Estado - sou completamente contra isto. 

Viva a universidade empresarial.  Mas entendida como instituição com autonomia, que existe para cumprir objectivos e que presta contas pela sua prestação....

José Tribolet, presidente do Inesc - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, em entrevista à inovar^.te 

... criei uma empresa no ano de 2000 chamada Império do Atleta de Futebol. Descobrimos vários jogadores que hoje são destaques mundiais. Por exemplo, o LIEDSON, que hoje atua no Sporting de Lisboa, em Portugal, começou no projeto desta empresa aos 22 anos.

 

Vários treinadores por aí diziam que ele não tinha condições, mas, eu, Aurélio Almeida pedi para meus treinadores trabalharem mais força e técnica com ele, inclusive tem um destes treinadores que trabalha até hoje na empresa, que é o Sr. Ademar Scarpeline. Este é um descobridor de talentos. LIEDSON em pouco tempo esteve em vários clubes do Brasil como o Prudentópolis, Coritiba, Flamengo, Corinthians e depois foi para o Sporting de Lisboa, onde permanece até hoje.

 

Aurélio Almeida, fundador do Real Brasil Clube de Futebol, no ano de 2005, Curitiba.

Ói aí Aurélio, meu irmão!  Obrigado gente!  Manda mais pro Sporting de Lisboa, tá?

Alfa Romeo Maxi Yacht

Why are such new but well known companies like Google, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay extremely sales efficient?  Why have these companies acquired tremendous market value, - Google may be valued over $90 billion - in such a short period?  Because we like to search.

And what do we search?  Crime-solving, like Sherlock?  Nope, we search entertainment - music, ringtones, videoclips -, information - Euler's formula, lottery numbers, da Vinci's paintings, photos - culture, transports and lodging, health & administration, sports & leisure, etc, etc.

Our basic needs like information, goods and services have not changed.  But the way to get them, yes!  Because we have the internet.  And those big companies capitalize on that.  How?  Check this:

Google's stated mission: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"

This simply means "to transfer value from current major communications industries - newspapers, advertising, magazines, radio, to Google".  And that has a huge, huge, value!  Google's strategic vision was to recognize that search means advertising.

And all of this because we enjoy playing Sherlock Holmes. Or, in other words, we live on the information-based economy, because recent technological innovation changed the way we interact with the world.

Um grande abraço, conta comigo, a vitória é nossa!...

Lena,

Vai em frente, conta comigo, tá ganho!...

Manel,

É agora, ou nunca, conta comigo, já ganhamos!...

Toni,

Boa malha, o que é teu, é teu, conta comigo, nova vitória!...

Tó,

Sempre pelo povo, conta comigo, venceremos!...

Fernando,

Mostra-lhes como é, conta comigo, já vencemos!...

Augusto,

Agora é que é, conta comigo, vencer é ganhar!... 

Aaahhh???... Ó Pá,

É assim mesmo, conta comigo, tá no papo!...

Abel, Abílio, Acácia, Adalberto, Adão, Adelaide, Adélia, Adelino, Adérito, Adolfo, Adorinda, Adosinda, Adriano, Afonso, Agildo, Aires, Albano, Alberto, Alcides, Alcina, Alcindo, Alexandre, Alexandra, Alfredo, Alice, Alípio, Almerindo, Aloísio, Anastácia, Armando, Aurora...

Bora lá pessoal, candidatem-se, contem comigo, rumo à vitória!...

Maltese Falcon - 288ft charter sailyatch

Find out what blends the diva Maria Callas, Lisbon's Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Ghione, Portugal's National Symphony Orchestra and RDP - Portuguese national public radio station: The Lisbon Traviata.

Know all about it, here on Premium Portugal, published just for you.

Enjoy it.

Robert Reich got a lot of mail about his suggestion to tax private equity earnings as income. Seems folks think fund managers would just move that money offshore instead. Here is a partial reproduction of his answer:

After suggesting a couple of weeks ago that the stratospheric earnings of equity-fund managers ought to be considered income rather than capital gains and therefore taxed at 35 percent rather than 15 percent, I was deluged with e-mails telling me the plan wouldn't work. It would just drive fund managers into offshore tax havens...

... But I've been thinking a lot about the immigration bill now pending before Congress, especially the conditions undocumented workers will have to meet if they want to become American citizens. One of them is to pay all the taxes they owe...

...So when the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequence of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship.

If it's more important to someone to avoid paying what they owe in taxes than to continue being an American, then let them keep their money. They can become a citizen of the Cayman Islands, or Bermuda, or wherever else they store their wealth, and come here on a visitor's visa. If they can get one.

Full disclosure at Reich's blog, here.

This is really a Democrat that stands for his principles!

Douce France - Catamaran 138ft. charter sailyatch

Nosotros no estamos trancando la calle sino desviando a la gente, para que entre a la universidad y vea lo bello que es el recinto y vea este país con libertad. El detonante es el cierre de Rctv pero no es lo principal, lo principal es la libertad que es un derecho de todos y no está siendo coartados ahorita, es uno de los primeros casos pero pueden venir otros.  

Nicolás Lara, estudiante de Ingeniería de la Universidad Simón Bolívar

Radio Caracas Television é um canal aberto de TV Venezuelano privado, fundado há 53 anos e líder de audiências.  O seu sector noticioso é dos mais influentes e respeitados na Venezuela.

Por ordem do "iluminado" defensor das liberdades, coronel Hugo Chávez, encerra hoje, 28 de Maio, as suas emissões. Lá, como cá, também existem os "28 de Maio". 

Porque não lhe foi concedida a renovação da licença de operador e porque o governo democrático da República Bolivariana da Venezuela tem o "legítimo direito" de gerir o seu espaço radio-eléctrico.

Toda libertad debe de ser regulada.  Entonces en Venezuela lo que hemos aprobado hasta hace poco, es una ley que se llama de "responsabilidad social de la radio y la televisión"

Hugo Chávez

 Vade Retrum, Satanás!

Hola, que tal?

Una vez más los ánimos de compra en Iberia para los inversores proceden del múltiple interés desatado por la compañía. Después de quedarse fuera de la alianza de British con el capital riesgo, la firma británica Apax ha iniciado una nueva ofensiva, buscar como socios a la alemana Lufthansa y a la franco-holandesa Air France-KLM para analizar el lanzamiento de una posible oferta sobre Iberia.  Ni que Iberia fuera la Angelina Jolie, hóstias!

Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange y Ono de España, ultiman los detalles de la creación de una asociación que defienda sus intereses ante los futuros cambios regulatorios que se están debatiendo en todo el mundo.  La asociación nace de la constatación de que los operadores de telecomunicaciones que han desplegado infraestructuras con inversiones multimillonarias tienen, cada vez más, problemas similares.  Se enfrentan a la regulación que soportarán las redes de nueva generación, que tienen que permitir velocidades de hasta cien megas por segundo, y al debate sobre la separación en dos de los operadores incumbentes, los antiguos monopolios públicos.  La unión hace la fuerza, verdad?

En las municipales, el PP gana y arrasa en Madrid y Valencia, sin dudas.  Pues en el resto, gana el PP en votos, gana el PSOE en electos.  Aqui nadie pierde.  Claro que todo depende del periódico que hace los comentários de los resultados!

Venga, hasta luego.

Desde Madrid, Emílio Santoro