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BARGANTE: Que ou quem tem maus costumes; libertino,patife,velhaco. Trabalhador que trabalha em grupo, indivíduo de baixa extracção que se agrupa com outros, soldado, mercenário. Homem do mundo que anda com gente alegre, malfeitor. UM BLOGUE DE FERNANDO GONÇALVES
2006-11-28
"O próprio Jardim do Adamastor fará parte do museu, com mostras pontuais, mantendo-se, contudo, o seu carácter público, sublinhou Bárbara Coutinho.
This is not where Pat Toomey wanted to be tonight. The 43-year-old Pennsylvanian took over the Club for Growth in September 2006, after he lost a nail-biting primary to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and vacated his own seat in Congress. Against the objections of powerful Republicans, Toomey helped nudge Stephen Laffey, the conservative mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, into a primary fight against Lincoln Chafee, the state’s liberal Republican senator. Throughout the summer, polls showed Laffey positioned to do what Toomey couldn’t: oust a pro-choice, pro-tax RINO (“Republican in Name Only”) and send the GOP establishment reeling.
Museu do Chiado perde obras de Almada.
"Nos considerandos do documento, a maioria justifica o recurso ao ajuste directo com os donos do Entreposto, sem qualquer concurso ou consulta ao mercado, com a urgência de retirar as cerca de 2200 peças do Centro Cultural de Belém, onde têm estado desde a sua quisição ao coleccionador Francisco Capelo, em 2003".
OS INOCENTES
Paulo Catrica comenta
Iran/contra: 20 Years Later and What it MeansBefore tying the then to the now, let's revisit the basic narrative. When Congress, by fair vote, decided in the 1980s that the United States should not assist the contras fighting the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the Reagan White House concocted several imaginative ways to pull an end-run around democracy. This mainly entailed outsourcing the job to a small band of private sector covert operators and to foreign governments, which were privately requested or pressured by the Reaganites to support the secret contra support operation. The "Iran" side of the scandal came from President Ronald Reagan's covert efforts to sell weapons to Iran to obtain the release of American hostages held by terrorist groups supposedly under the control of Tehran--at a time when the White House was publicly declaring it would not negotiate with terrorists. The two clandestine projects merged when cash generated from the weapons transactions with Iran was diverted to the contra operation.
Uma colher com furos, que permite, por exemplo, comer os cereais do pequeno-almoço apenas húmidos e não a nadar em leite. Ou uma outra colher que traz uma pinça especialmente pensada para retirar um alimento, cheirá-lo e só depois comê-lo...Foi com talheres e utensílios como este que o consagrados chefe catalão Ferran Adrià, juntamente com os designers Luki Huber e Antoni Arola, venceu recentemente o Lucky Strike, um dos principais prémios de design do mundo, atribuído em Berlim, já ganho não por cozinheiros, mas sim por nomes como ...
O Elpais mudou a estratégia no online.
Websites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties cannot be sued for libel, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The ruling in favor of free online expression was a victory for a San Diego woman who was sued by two doctors for posting an allegedly libelous e-mail on two websites.
Some of the Internet's biggest names, including Amazon.com, America Online, eBay, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, took the defendant's side out of concern that a ruling against her would expose them to liability.
In reversing an appellate court's decision, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 provides broad immunity from defamation lawsuits for people who publish information on the Internet that was gathered from another source.
"The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications," Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan wrote in the majority opinion. "Nevertheless ... statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended."
Unless Congress revises the existing law, people who claim they were defamed in an Internet posting can only seek damages from...
De como foi negociada a trégua de 1998, segundo um video hoje publicado pelo PSOE.
"Tenho toda a esperança que até Janeiro o presidente da câmara diga à cidade qual o plano estratégico para Lisboa. Na oposição, e sem pelouros, darei todo o meu apoio a um bom plano".
Na passada sexta-feira a Minístra da Cultura, Isabel Pires de Lima, acolitada pelo presidente do Instituto Português de Museus, Manuel Oleiro, fez saber, em conferência de imprensa, da sua satisfação pelo número de visitantes alcançados até 31 de Outubro de 2006 pelos Museus tutelados pelo IPM Museus do .
Por tudo isto, a Grande Loja parece-me um lugar soturno, que, não obstante as teias de aranha, a intriga provinciana e o duvidoso gosto, cumpre uma função social inequívoca: fazer companhia às madrugadas da famosa Zazie. Mas é pouco para ser um blogue.
"Por sua vez, Carmona Rodrigues afirmou ontem que a aprovação do loteamento de Marvila "é legal". O autarca defende a legalidade da aprovação face a uma cláusula excepcional do PDM (art.º 3/75) que permite a aprovação de projectos sem um Plano de Pormenor (PP). Caso contrário, o processo só poderia ser aprovado depois de um processo mais demorado".
Carmona aprova obra "proibida" pelo governo
É de leitura obrigatória o artigo de opinião publicado hoje no Jornal de Notícias e assinado pelo sociólogo Paquete de Oliveira.
A recent study commissioned by Americans for the Arts, funded by the NEA and 91 local jurisdictions and conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology found the nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in total economic activity nationally. It also generates $24.4 billion in federal state, and local government revenues annually. By comparison, federal, state, and local governments collectively spend less than $3 billion on support for the arts each year. That translates to an ROI of more than 8-to-1. That bears repeating: for every one tax dollar spent on the arts, eight are returned. When we reduce support for the arts, we need to understand that we are not cutting frills. We are undercutting an industry that is a cornerstone of tourism and revitalization. Conversely, when we increase our support, we stimulate tax revenues, jobs, and the creative energies that...
If you had wandered into the New York location of Christie's auction house in 1996, you could have purchased a print of Helmut Newton's "Two Pairs of Legs in Black Stockings, Paris" for about $2,300. Then you could have spent the next decade eating, sleeping or lounging beneath the image of two models wearing only black lingerie and black spiky heels.
Had you decided to sell that 1979 photograph at Christie's for $38,400 (as its owner did last month), you would have enjoyed better price appreciation than a comparable investment in an S&P 500 index fund, General Electric stock, or ten-year Treasury bonds. And Newton isn't the only photographer whose prices are on the rise.In February 2006, Sotheby's achieved the highest-ever single-photograph sale price in history, selling Edward Steichen's "The Pond-Moonlight" for $2,928,000. Also in that sale, two portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz cracked the million-dollar mark: "Hands," at $1,472,000, and "Nude," at $1,360,000.
At Sotheby's photography auction last month, a rare 1948 print of Ansel Adams's "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" sold for...“The devil has been trying to rub me out to keep me from preaching,” Mr. Panetti, explaining why he faces execution, said in an interview from behind thick glass in the Polunsky Unit here in East Texas, where condemned prisoners are held before transfer to the death house 45 miles west in Huntsville.
Despite Mr. Panetti’s obvious mental illness — he was a mental patient long before he gunned down his in-laws in 1992 — he served as his own lawyer at his murder trial, throwing the courtroom into chaos with frequent gibberish. Now the hyperactive and gangling Mr. Panetti, 48, has become an illustration of the growing quandary over the ...
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Mais de metade das escolas básicas de Lisboa
Já aqui fizemos referência ao excelente artigo de Pedro Magalhães publicado no Público, o qual abordava os comentários feitos em Portugal logo após as eleições americanas.
It was the morning after election-day, and New Yorkers awoke to a sun-filled sky. Lilacs bloomed on Broadway, children, freshly-scrubbed, arrived at school on time, fear was banished from the public imagination, and Central Park flowed with milk and honey along its pathways. (Ruth Rosen's post-election contribution to openDemocracy has something of this flavour). America had rediscovered its faith in democracy, and banished corruption and extremism from politics at last. "Stop the gridlock, stop the nastiness, and get something done" as Nancy Boyda from Kansas put it to the New York Times, "people are tired of the excuses." Right on, Nancy.
Well, not quite. The New York sky was actually slate grey that morning and streaked with rain, a suitable metaphor for an election whose long-term outcomes are decidedly cloudy. Is this really a new beginning for American politics? The birth of a new consensus across society in favour of broad-based reforms and political accountability? A concrete signal that voters won't stand for scandal, incompetence, and deliberate polarisation, whoever it is that sits in the White House? Or will it be simply another turn in the game of revolving chairs between narrow political interests that ...
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REABILITAÇÃO
From SoHo to the Lower East Side to Williamsburg, the story has been more or less the same – artists move in, eventually helping to cause the neighborhood to go through sweeping changes, which results in hardship for local families and businesses -- as well as for the artists themselves. Several recent conferences have explored this scenario, which has played out time and again and continues to do so. Art In The Contested City at the Pratt Center was intended to "open a dialogue around the intersections between art, culture and urban development.” Keep The Arts in Williamsburg, organized by Fractured Atlas, a national arts non-profit, discussed ways to "ensure that artists aren't left behind by the gentrification effects they inspire." And the Business Of Art Conference, held by the New York Foundation for the Arts, focused on homeownership as a strategy...