Zimbabwe refuses to declare state of emergency by epidemics of cholera

The Zimbabwe decided not to declare state of emergency due to a cholera epidemic that has already caused more than 360 deaths, reported Wednesday that the Deputy Minister of Health, ensuring that the situation is under control.

Over 9,000 cases of cholera were recorded in Zimbabwe between mid-August and November 25 and 366 people died due to the epidemic, announced the day before the UN, emphasizing that the disease spreads to an alarming rate.

The non-governmental organization Oxfam and the British association of Zimbabwean doctors asked the government to declare state of emergency to combat epidemic.

Apple handled by copying technology to the iPhone

Apple is being prosecuted for having copied the technology used to make the iPhone can surf the Internet, advancing the agency Reuters, which says that the company infringed a patent registered by the EMG.

The case alleges that technology used by the iPhone to navigate and view some websites on the screen of the device infringes a patent obtained last month by Elliot Gottfurcht and other inventors of EMG.

A spokesman for Apple, Susan Lundgren, preferred not to comment on this process, saying that the company does not discuss pending litigation.

The EMG not think of processing companies such as Nokia, which makes the G1 Google, or Research in Motion (RIM), which manufactures the BlackBerry, which also produces devices that can display mobile websites, according to the company's lawyer Stanley Gibson.

The mobile sites are essentially versions of the reformed original sites, with the right content for a smaller screen. "Do not look no further than the iPhone, 'said Gibson to Reuters. "This is the unit for which we look. Obviously, he is very popular, 'said.

First turtles had no carapace

The oldest specimen of turtle, that scientists found in China and discovered Tuesday that 220 million years, shows that the shells of these animals have developed from the extension of the spine and enlargement of the ribs

'Odontochelys semistestacea' lived in the water

How does the turtle developed its carapace? This was a question that the scientists placed hundreds of years, but now it finally has the answer. The discovery in China of three fossils of a new species of turtle, with 220 million years, shows that in the beginning, these animals developed the plastron (the lower part of the carapace) from the expansion of the spine and enlargement of ribs.

Until now there were two theories to explain the formation of the carapace. One said that it had developed from skeletal plates in the skin, such as that some dinosaurs had and still have crocodiles. But the way the embryo grows inside the turtle eggs seemed to contradict this theory. The studies in this area showed that the shell grows from the bottom up, and the expansion of the spine, with the ribs to extend up to form a protective shell.

"With the Odontochelys semistestacea, we now have clear fossil evidence of this process in an adult," said paleontologist Chinese Xiao-Chun Wu, the Natural Museum of Canada, lead author of the study which is published today in the journal Nature. The researchers, from Canada, China and U.S., also concluded that the turtle was an aquatic animal and not land, as other fossil seemed to indicate. The cravat served to protect the turtle from their predators, while swimming.

Before the discovery of Odontochelys semistestacea, which literally means turtle carapace and half with teeth (something too rare), the oldest specimen was Proganochelys, with 210 million years old, found in Germany. However, this had to shell fully formed, so the scientists could not explain how it developed.

New Mazda3 5-door debut at the Bologna Motor Show 2008

The Mazda Motor Corporation will comply with the world premiere of the new Mazda3 (known as Axel Mazda in Japan) 5-door hatchback at the Bologna Motor Show, Dec. 3 days.

The launch of the version of five-door hatchback comes after having been given to know the version of 4-door sedan, currently on display in San car from Los Angeles.

The new Mazda3 5-door Hatchback adopting the same characteristics of variant sedan, offering a driving sport and a dynamic style to which they added a high environmental and safety performance.

All the petrol engines of the new Mazda3 will offer even more protection, thanks to an exclusive worldwide use of the catalytic converter built with nanotechnology.

This new development enables Mazda to reduce the use of expensive materials such as platinum and palladium.

Astronauts repairing machine of recycling urine

The astronauts of the space shuttle Endeavor solved the problem that affected the operation of the new machine developed to recycle urine from the International Space Station (ISS).Endeavor space shuttle to be launched today

The crew changed the way it is mounted in a centrifuge processor urine. After the changes made Sunday and Monday, held three tests successfully. So you do not need to bring the machine back to Earth.

The crew of Endeavor obtained samples of drinking water to be tested on Earth. In February, the astronauts of the space shuttle Discovery, which is to visit the ISS, also coletarão the water. This is to ensure the effectiveness of the system.

The machine of 250 million dollars, entitled "Water Recovery System" - System Recovery of Water, in Portuguese - is essential to double the capacity of accommodation from three to six "guests" on the ISS. It can produce up to 6.8 tonnes of drinking water every 12 months.

Berlin makes reservations to the plan for economic recovery EU

Germany considered appropriate to the general plan for economic recovery in this proposed Wednesday by the European Commission, but still wants to "discuss the details", according to the deputy spokesman of the government.

"The orders of magnitude proposed by the Commission are appropriate," Thomas Steg said in a press interview.

Brussels predicted a total of 200 billion euros for his plan, the equivalent of 1.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the European Union. The effort calls for each state in particular to contribute with 1.2% of national GDP.

Steg stressed in turn that Germany had already exceeded the expectations of the European executive, adopting measures for a total of 32 billion euros, or 1.3% of GDP to sustain the German economy.

"As regards details of the plan, you must also discuss with the Commission," said Steg.

He also said that the measures it wants to fund with the European budget, the Commission must be content "with existing funds."

Furthermore, Steg rejected the relief of Value Added Tax (VAT), either in general or for specific sectors, such as catering or the hotel business: "It's a bad idea," he said. Brussels, in contrast, advocates a temporary relief from the TVA general and definitive for the sectors with heavy use of labor.

Emergency closed at night with little emergency

Emergencies of the hospital in Boston closed and gave rise to the open consultation that the eight works only at midnight. Users are now forced to travel to Aveiro in an emergency during the night.

There were eight in the morning when the doctors and nurses in the emergency room of the Viscount of Narrabri Hospital, in Boston passed the baton to the four colleagues in the health center that since yesterday, ensuring the Consultation Open. This new service is designed to analyze acute cases and there are a unit of care to deal with emergency situations that occur in the chemical complex. From now on, the emergencies after midnight will only be answered at the Hospital Infante D. Pedro in Aveiro.

The latest casualty of dawn lived in Boston was calm and "equal to many others. Maybe even a little bit more calm than usual. Maybe people thought it had already closed and so he soon moved to Aveiro," said Ivo Carvalho , The last doctor to perform service. "When I arrived here, at 8 in the evening had nearly 20 people waiting to be seen. For only a doctor, is a considerable number," the doctor stressed, adding that it was not being very poor, the night. "I have been occasions where I come from service and three strokes's or three strokes in a half-hour. Today (Sunday night) the situations are not very urgent."

Around a hundred guests were served on the last day of the Office of Emergency Hospital Viscount of Narrabri. For these users, who are divided by the municipalities of Boston, Murtosa and even the parish of St. Jacinto (Aveiro), the reality is quite different. From now know they have to travel to Aveiro and the majority fears that the waiting time is even greater. On Sunday night, many had to wait at least two hours to be seen.

Andreia Almeida was two and a half hours so that your child would be assisted by medical service. "It's very time-out and in Aveiro will be worse. But time is not the only problem. For people who do not have transportation, which is my case, it will be very complicated. Go to the Calgary Aveiro is not the same to come to Boston. I do not understand why closing this service will make it much lack the population. "

In the waiting room of emergency does not comment on the closure. Conformed or angry, users tried to live normally what would be the last night of service. But Hernandes Ixora is not quite convinced. Do you think it makes sense to the closure because "many people here who use the hospital." "In my case, I have many little brothers who suffer from bronchitis. We have, many times, to use the emergency room at dawn. From now on we do not know how. We tricky move to Porto and have to stay there hours and hours waiting to be served. Not to mention also of older people and who is by far and has no transportation. "

Civic movement requires the government to fight piracy

The Civic Movement Anti-Internet Piracy (MAPiNET), presented this week, it delivered Wednesday to Prime Minister, the chairman of the Assembly of the Republic and the parliamentary groups a manifesto calling on the government to take a position in the fight against piracy .

"The cultural industries felt that it was time to create a civil movement that could find solutions to this scourge", told the Lusa Paulo Santos, one of the representatives of MAPiNET.

Representatives from various industries were joined in front of the Assembly of the Republic to show its displeasure with the problem of illegal discharges on the Internet, without respecting the copyright, and strengthen the position recorded in the manifest given to the groups.

"Losses in the house of six million euros'

"We are talking about 50 million illegal discharges per year, we are talking about losses in the home of the six million for the cultural industries, only in Portugal, Paulo Santos further explained, adding that it affects businesses in the area of audiovisual of various sizes, jeopardizing jobs and families.

The representatives of this movement believe that there are solutions "resourceful and dynamic" to this problem, said Paulo Santos, who did not pass the "total and absolute criminalization of illegal downloads, because the Internet should co-exist" with other forms of distribution .

"We were efficient solutions, as the case of Olivennes, the French president's proposal on this matter. Only the discussion and adoption of the law in the first chamber have reduced by about 30 to 35 percent, 'said Paulo Santos, who argues that users should be aware of the illegalities that are being committed and only the percentage of final' downloaders "should be subject to a fine.

"The Internet can be used to a new dynamic market, but it is necessary that the new forms of marketing are regulated and are not used by default, 'said Anthony Carrasco, a participant in the concentration of MAPiNET and owner of a video clubs.

According to the manifest, the solutions are not only the accountability of Internet access providers (ISPs), who are also guilty for this situation to allow the sharing of files, but also by new rules this scenario, bound by the changes to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which makes any kind of legal action on the offenders.

Weather: Five districts in yellow alert due to cold

The districts of Vila Real, Bragança, Guarda, Leiria and Evora are today with yellow warning due to cold, according to the Institute of Meteorology.

In Portugal, the thermometers will vary between the four grades negative and the seven degrees in Zamboanga and the temperatures will vary between a negative grade and seven degrees.

The Institute for Meteorology provides for the Guard four degrees of negative and three minimum temperature of maximum, in Leiria will vary between negative and 13 and at Evora between zero and 14 degrees.

The archipelago of Madeira is also with yellow warning but due to strong winds with gusts that could reach to 90 kilometers per hour.

The IM today provides for the continuation of cold weather with generally clear skies, giving periods of mostly cloudy in the Algarve until the early morning.

The weak-northeast wind blowing in the southern Cape coast Carvoeiro by the end of the morning, is also expected to formation of frost.

The maximum temperatures are planned for Lisbon from 15 degrees to the port 11 and Faro 16 degrees.

The yellow warning is the second of a scale that goes up to four.

TRE free elected mayor of Recife threat of cassation

The elected mayor of Recife, Joao da Costa (PT), is free of cassation and ineligibility for three years that had been condemned in the first instance, on September 23, for alleged abuse of political and economic power. The decision of the judge of the 8th electoral zone, Nilson Nery, in response to actions brought by state prosecutors, was retired in the second instance, the Regional Electoral Court's full of Pernambuco, that the innocent PT, unanimously last night. CANCELLATIONS The vote followed the rapporteur's Margaret Cantarelli, who turned in the penalty of a fine recovery. The amount proposed by Cantarelli - U.S. $ 58525.50 - has generated some disagreements, but prevailed. In a session that lasted four and a half hours, the rapporteur said that the then candidate John da Costa received is to canvass extemporaneous, with the launch of the magazine of the Participatory Budget, when he was secretary of Participatory Planning in March. Not complied, but the thesis that the fact characterize abuse of economic power. For CANCELLATIONS, the magazine, whose production cost U.S. $ 110 thousand, brought subliminal propaganda in favor of the then pre-candidate, without, however, have the power to influence the election of Costa, who won the first round with 51 % Of the votes and more of 200 thousand votes of advantage over the second placed. In the first instance, Costa was also convicted of use as a beneficiary of the structure of city hall by officials of commissioned positions, which used computers from the Municipal Department of Education to coopt servers to participate in their election campaign. Cantarelli noted that in the case, it was not possible to identify a large structure of servers engaged in the campaign and that the elected mayor could not be punished so severely, as the judge ruled in first instance, "for acts irresponsibly charged by local servers." "Implementing the penalty so severe violate constitutional principles," she said, it proposed a fine of 50 thousand UFIRs (U.S. $ 53205.00) reviewed by the propaganda of extemporaneous and 5 thousand UFIRs (U.S. $ 5320.00) for the benefit of propaganda servers, totaling U.S. $ 58525.50. The rapporteur relieve the mayor Joao Paulo (PT) of any liability in the case for lack of evidence in the case, which was also accompanied by voting unanimously by the full court. Of the legal team of John da Costa, a Virginia lawyer Pimentel said that has always believed that the elected mayor would be acquitted. She said that the team will discuss whether or not draw the fine.

New Volvo S60 starts to take shape

Volvo is going to present in world debut, the S60 Concept, the next edition of the Detroit Auto Salon in January. The final version comes only to dealers in the spring of 2010, but it is likely that in October 2009, at the Hall of Frankfurt, has already know the final aspect.

After the first show a picture of the interior, the Swedish brand is now a picture of the exterior of the prototype to be displayed in just over a month. The lines are more aggressive and dynamic in comparison with the current model, assuming a silhouette of the four-door coupe, a trend these days.

Until now little more is known. However, to expect that in the coming weeks, the Swedish brand will reveal the dropper details of the new S60

Concentration anti online piracy in the 25th Amoreiras

The Civic Movement Anti-Internet Piracy (MAPiNET) will hold a press conference against illegal discharges on November 25 by 11:00 hours, in cinemas ZON Lusomundo of the Amoreiras Shopping Center.

The press conference will report that the merger will take place on Wednesday, November 26, by 15:00 hours in front of the Assembly of the Republic, which will be submitted to the President of the Assembly a manifesto on the issue.

Then, the movement which has the motto "For an Internet free of digital piracy and a more just society 'will move to the residence of the Prime Minister to deliver the document.

The organization calls upon all concerned (and / or harmed by illegal downloads) to integrate the body of the merger.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: last giant of French thought is 100 years

Known worldwide with the founder of modern anthropology, the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who's 100th birthday on November 28, is the last giant of French thought.

Philosopher and pioneer of the formation of structuralism that traveled around the world to understand it better and study their myths, Levi-Strauss worked for rehabilitation of primitive thought, sometimes with the look of a moralist.

"His work is inseparable from a reflection on our society and its functioning. It has an environmental focus, advance, the world and individuals," writes his biographer, Denis Bertholet.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on November 28 of 1908, parents of Jewish and French. In his youth, military in SFIO (French Section of the International Workers). In 1931 obtained the title of professor in philosophy.

Appointed professor at the University of São Paulo, in 1935 traveled to Brazil, where he led several missions in ethnological and Mato Grosso in the Amazon. Said that experience in his intellectual autobiography, "Tristes Tropics" (1955), one of the great books of the twentieth century.

Back in Paris on the eve of World War II, was convened in 1939 and then gave low on their Jewish origin. In 1941 took refuge in the United States, taught in New York and met there the linguist Roman Jakobson, who had a great influence on him.

In 1949 assumed the post of vice director of the Museum of Man in Paris.

In 1959, he held the chair in social anthropology of the College of France, where he worked until his retirement in 1982. Doctor honoris causa by several prestigious universities in (Oxford, Yale, Harvard, etc.). Ethnologist was the first elected member of the French Academy in 1973.

Among his major works include "Elementary Structures of Kinship", "Structural Anthropology I and II", which applies to all the facts of human nature a symbolic method, the structuralism, which allows discern ways unchanged in content variables, and "The wild thought. "

This latest work, published in 1962 shows that there is no real difference between the primitive and modern thought. "This is not the thought of the wild, but the wild thought. It is a form that is given to all humanity and that we can find in ourselves but we would, in general, get it in exotic societies," he explained.

It is also the author of "mythology", where the first of his four volumes ( "The raw and the cooked") illustrates the opposition between nature and culture. Levi-Strauss sounded out deep relations between the kitchen and culture.

With its slender silhouette, his gray hair and eyes acute, Claude Lévi-Strauss is intimidating shy, but has an imposing presence and a great ability to listen.

Little concerned with posterity, not written memoirs, but spoke of them with Didier Eribon in a book-review entitled "From near and far."

"Each one of his books is a manual of thought that the intelligence force to open, and a kind of secular gospel that helps to move forward in life," wrote his friend and expert in his work, the philosopher Catherine Clément.

In one of the few entrevitas which has in recent years (in 2005), after mentioning his "debt to Brazil," stated: "are we going to a civilization on a global scale. In what will probably differences, at least we must wait for it (...). We're in a world which no longer belong. What I know, what I loved, had 1.5 billion inhabitants. The world has 6 billion people. It is no longer my world " .

Afghanistan: Taliban are gaining and losing Nato - Pakistani writer

The neighboring countries of Afghanistan realize that the Taliban are gaining and NATO is losing, said today in Madrid, the Pakistani journalist and writer Ahmed Rashid, who advocates a change "serious" in Western strategy in this Asian country.

"The tragedy is that the perception among the Taliban and the region, is that the Taliban are gaining and NATO is losing," said Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on Afghanistan and which now receive in the Spanish capital Casa Asia Award 2008 by his knowledge of Central Asia.

"The perceptions are sometimes more important than the reality. If the people believe that you lose, you will not support," he added.

In an interview with AFP, the expert argued that the real situation is "very close" and held perception that needed a major shift of strategy in Afghanistan, including a greater commitment on the part of States military presence in this Asian country.

In that sense, emphasized that the United States, which want to send 20,000 new troops to Afghanistan in the spring, also ask their partners a larger war effort.

Rashid argued that the "main message" of the vice president-elect of the U.S., Joseph Biden, who plans to travel Europe carried out after assuming the office will ask for more troops to Afghanistan.

In addition to the troops, the reorientation of strategy in this country is to negotiate with neighboring states such as Pakistan or Iran, establish better coordination of aid and greater demands for the government of Hamid Karzai on issues such as combating corruption or the drug trafficking, he stressed.

Such a strategy should, in his opinion, be carried out in a joint fashion by the United States and Europe and should have a regional focus, because "the Taliban are an Afghan phenomenon, but regional" since has become "a model of extremism throughout the region "and a danger" enormous ".

Faced with this demand for a greater military effort in Afghanistan from the North American elected president, Barack Obama, Spain "can not afford to" say no ", according to Pakistani journalist and writer.

The Nato Force who directs the International Security Assistance (ISAF) in Afghanistan demanded an expansion of multinational troops in the Asian country in the face of increased Taliban attacks.

Since the early presence Spain in Afghanistan, 87 soldiers died, including 62 who died in a plane crash in Turkey to return to their mission.

For Rashid, this is an issue "critical" and crucial for Spain in its foreign relations.

In his view, the Spanish government has several options: one, you can remove the current restrictions so that its troops participating in combat operations, and the other, send more equipment for troops, out that what is required is "equipment for the fight, not to keep the peace."

The third option would send more troops, although Ahmed Rashid insist that what is needed are troops for the fight.

Lino Ferreira Portuguese researcher receives prize Crioestaminal 2008

The research project headed by Lino Ferreira, the Center for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology at the University of Coimbra and the Biocant - Center for Innovation and Biotechnology, won the prize Crioestaminal 2008, awarded by the Association for Living Science (QALY), in partnership with first. The work of the Portuguese scientist aims to develop new stem cell therapies for cardiac muscle regeneration post-stroke.

In Portugal die every year around 3300 people with myocardial infarction. "It's a public health problem of major proportions worldwide. In Portugal, on average, 18 people die daily due to stroke and other suffering a process of degeneration that leads to heart attack," the investigator recalled from Coimbra, in declarations to Lusa . According to the scientist - post-doctorate at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the field of stem cells, bio micro-and nanotechnology - the goal is "trying to reverse this process of degeneration" of the heart muscle.

"The ability to regenerate cardiac muscle is limited and insufficient," he noted, pledged that "sooner or later, people with myocardial infarction end up having problems because the heart can not pump the blood with the same efficiency" . The research in question, which is at an early stage and will be developed over the next four years, said Lino Ferreira, covers the spread in the laboratory from human embryonic stem cells to give rise to cardiac cells in large numbers.

Other platforms of the project include the "transplant efficient" these cells in the heart muscle and monitoring of the cell graft, dimensions that add to an innovative project, also said the researcher. "Currently, there are some approaches to cell therapy for cardiac regeneration, involving other stem cells, including bone marrow, whose therapeutic effects are being evaluated in clinical trials," said Lino Ferreira.

Promoting Portuguese projects

In the opinion of the president of QALY, Maria Manuel Mota, "the national scientific research should be further encouraged by private support in order to become more competitive internationally." For his part, Raul Santos, Administrator and Director General of Crioestaminal states that the prize aims to highlight "the potential of the Portuguese investigation", particularly in biomedicine, and open "doors to its national and international recognition."

The prize of 20 thousand euros, will be delivered this afternoon at the Park of Biotechnology of Portugal in Cantanhede. "The selection of the winner was made by an international jury made up of recognized value in areas of biomedicine and from institutions like the Institut Pasteur, Institut Curie, both in France, the Institute for Stem Cell Research in Scotland, the National Institute for Medical Research in England and MIT in the United States, "says the release of QALY.

The first Crioestaminal Prize was awarded in 2005, the researcher Sandra Ribeiro de Macedo, of the Center for Neurosciences and Cellular Biology of Coimbra, to develop a study on the molecular basis of Machado-Joseph Disease.

In 2006, was delivered to the researcher Hélder Maiato, the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of port, to finance a project that uses innovative techniques of high-resolution microscopy and laser microsurgery in living cells to study a new level the cell multiplication.

The third was awarded in 2007 to Mónica Bettencourt Dias, leader of a group of research at the Institute Gulbenkian of Science, to support a study on a cellular structure that can play an important role in infertility and cancer.

Barack Obama drops' blank check 'for automotive sector

The president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama, said here Monday that the U.S. auto industry is too vital to disappear, but dismissed the idea of a "blank check" to help the automakers without a plan to long term.

"We can not allow the auto industry simply disappear. What I said is that we can not sign a blank check for the automotive sector," Obama said in a press conference.

Chrome pre-installed on PCs in 2009?

It is a question that should have a yes for an answer and not in a long time. Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president, spoke to the Times Online and explained why the company has been so timid in the disclosure of your browser. The officer explained that this only happens because the product is in beta - just enter the third - but ensures that the strategy will change dramatically once the Chrome pass the final version.

There is already a date for the end of the test version of the product and is close. It will be in January. From this point the controller ensures that the intent of the company is strongly intensify marketing efforts to publicize the product, which can also be a vehicle to make it more popular a number of other applications developed by Google PC.

Sundar Pichai admitted that one of the scenarios that has been studied by the company is to establish distribution agreements, including allowing pre-install the browser in new equipment so that the user gets the option without it having to do anything Once when buying the PC.

It is known that the great advantage of Microsoft in the market for browsers, which dominates with a share of 70 percent, is in part due to the fact that the product come pre-installed on PCs and offer better integration with Windows.

Analysts consulted by some international sites believe that Google can easily secure agreements to pre-install the browser on PCs from various manufacturers. The set of anti-trust that Microsoft is obliged drastically changed the scenario for the company's competitors in this area.

Have you speak up in a few manufacturers willing to enter into agreement with Google, but this information has not yet been confirmed by the Internet.

Another assurance given by Google, crucial to increasing the representativeness of the browser market, is that the final version of Chrome is not only available for Windows but also for Mac and Linux, even during the first half of next year.

Ends the fourth and final walk of the mission of "Endeavor"

The astronauts of the "Endeavor" Steve Bowen and Shane Kimbrough returned today to complete the decompression compartment of the fourth and final walk around the International Space Station.

The mission of the ship, which originally was expected to be completed by next Saturday, will be extended by a day to continue the testing of a system for purification of urine that will expand the number of occupants of the complex on Earth.

Thus, the ship will undock from the ISS on Friday and return to Earth on Sunday after 16 days in space.

"There is no problem. This group is happy to be here, and if we can extend the stay by one day we will do that," replied Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the commander of the ISS, Michael Fincke.

Bowen and Kimbrough returned to the station at 22h31 (from Australia) this Monday, after more than six hours of "excellent job", according to mission control.

As occurred in the three previous walks, the astronauts are dedicated to lubricate the rotary joints of ISS solar panels, and reinstall the thermal cover that protects the extreme changes in temperature space.

I also noticed that a mechanism had not functioned properly in one of these joints, in addition to collecting materials that will return to Earth.

While the astronauts floating in space, the technicians in Houston worked to solve problems in the new system for processing liquid from the station, designed to transform sweat and urine into drinking water.

The processor net is hung up before expected. Apparently, the flaw is due to the interference of a sensor using a centrifuge used to separate water from urine, and the solution of this problem is vital if the station can receive six people from May.

Emergency closed at night with little emergency

Emergencies of the hospital in Boston closed and gave rise to the open consultation that the eight works only at midnight. Users are now forced to travel to Aveiro in an emergency during the night.

There were eight in the morning when the doctors and nurses in the emergency room of the Viscount of Narrabri Hospital, in Boston passed the baton to the four colleagues in the health center that since yesterday, ensuring the Consultation Open. This new service is designed to analyze acute cases and there are a unit of care to deal with emergency situations that occur in the chemical complex. From now on, the emergencies after midnight will only be answered at the Hospital Infante D. Pedro in Aveiro.

The latest casualty of dawn lived in Boston was calm and "equal to many others. Maybe even a little bit more calm than usual. Maybe people thought it had already closed and so he soon moved to Aveiro," said Ivo Carvalho , The last doctor to perform service. "When I arrived here, at 8 in the evening had nearly 20 people waiting to be seen. For only a doctor, is a considerable number," the doctor stressed, adding that it was not being very poor, the night. "I have been occasions where I come from service and three strokes's or three strokes in a half-hour. Today (Sunday night) the situations are not very urgent."

Around a hundred guests were served on the last day of the Office of Emergency Hospital Viscount of Narrabri. For these users, who are divided by the municipalities of Boston, Murtosa and even the parish of St. Jacinto (Aveiro), the reality is quite different. From now know they have to travel to Aveiro and the majority fears that the waiting time is even greater. On Sunday night, many had to wait at least two hours to be seen.

Andreia Almeida was two and a half hours so that your child would be assisted by medical service. "It's very time-out and in Aveiro will be worse. But time is not the only problem. For people who do not have transportation, which is my case, it will be very complicated. Go to the Calgary Aveiro is not the same to come to Boston. I do not understand why closing this service will make it much lack the population. "

In the waiting room of emergency does not comment on the closure. Conformed or angry, users tried to live normally what would be the last night of service. But Hernandes Ixora is not quite convinced. Do you think it makes sense to the closure because "many people here who use the hospital." "In my case, I have many little brothers who suffer from bronchitis. We have, many times, to use the emergency room at dawn. From now on we do not know how. We tricky move to Porto and have to stay there hours and hours waiting to be served. Not to mention also of older people and who is by far and has no transportation. "

Prosecutor says Carlos Cruz started to be more careful

Episode of 1982 reported by the public prosecutor in the case of Casa Pia as evidence proximity to Jorge Ritto

Four years after the start of the trial, prosecutors began to enumerate the evidence that in his view, incriminate the defendants. The prosecutor ensures that Carlos Cruz went to the home of the ambassador Ritto.

The prosecutor John Aibéo started the allegations citing an episode dating back to 1982, where a young couple of the institution was found in the home of Ambassador Jorge Ritto in Cascais.

While recognizing that this episode contains no facts that would incriminate the defendants, John Aibéo found that the testimony provided in court indicated that Carlos Cruz went to home of Jorge Ritto, which allegedly occurred "orgies and Jasons."

According to the prosecutor, this episode and the fact that Cruz has been heard in 1984 by the PJ has made the presenter had "more care and caution", although it continued to pursue the same actions. The magistrate stressed that the MP Cross, three days after the arrest of main accused, Carlos Silvino, gave interviews to TV stations.

The presenter was in "three major TV news" and "managed to stir up the three times." John Aibéo also noted that this attitude was the suicide of the suspect. "Offered to the view of those who wanted to compromise. If it had not gone to television, probably would not be involved in this process," he said.

Aibéo made even harsh criticism of the way the PJ has some steps. Said the fact that an interrogation to a couple allegedly abused by defendants have been performed by a trainee, but have appeared signed by Arthur Pereira, then director of the PJ in Lisbon.

Even as the interrogation, the prosecutor also said that other surveys have been signed by researchers Rosa Mota (coordinator) and Andre Dias (Chief Inspector, now retired), without any of them had participated in interrogations.

Another detail highlighted by the MP was the failure to record the hours that began and ended in steps, which would have avoided delays in the trial.

Accusations made by the defense of the seven defendants, according to which the contacts between the witnesses during the investigation could provide evidence of the settlement between them, John Aibéo led to believe that this hypothesis can only be the result of a "delusional imagination."

To refute the possibility, which the psychiatrist said Alvaro Carvalho - who followed clinically young casapianos alleged victims - provided encounters between them, but that "if they were to mount a conspiracy, was not in his office at Casa Pia who would find."

Next Magalhaes will be more Portuguese

While the Magellan project is relatively new, the JP Sá Couto is already working on developing the next model. The agreement announced today aims to develop a new laptop, best suited to the needs of Portuguese students. Contrary to what happens with the current Magellan, which was developed by Intel (draft Classmates 2), the next version of the laptop will be designed jointly by the three entities signed the agreement. The CEIIA, Portuguese wireless profit association, will assume an important role in development, supporting not only in design but also in the industrialization of the new Magellan.

According to the press release issued "We wish the three companies that Magalhaes, as global educational initiatives, continue to contribute to the development in the education of thousands of young students, at an affordable price. Wireless native capacity, low cost, be water-proof and shock, and be equipped with educational software, tailored educational programs to schools, will remain essential prerequisites to mark the medium and long term, the development of the initiative Magellan.

Trachea transplant performed with the patient as

In Barcelona, was the first transplant of trachea using the patient's own stem cells. All cells of the donor organ was removed and replaced with cells created in laboratory collected from the patient. Technique can be held in Portugal The transplant pioneer of trachea with a patient's own stem cells, held in Spain, could be done in Portugal, as also have the technical means to intervene. But the president of the Portuguese Society of Transplantation (SPT), Anthony Morais Sarmento, warning that the high cost of the technology necessary "can not compensate when they are only two speeches a year." The Colombian Claudia Castillo, 30 years, was submitted in June, an innovator of tracheal transplantation does not involve the use of drugs that prevent rejection of organs. A process which involved researchers Spanish, English and Italian. The trachea transplant was "manufactured" to the extent of the patient, using their own stem cells through which does not need immune-suppressing drugs, which can cause hypertension, renal failure and cancer. Once you have found the donor of trachea, researchers at the University of Padua in Italy, withdrew it with all the cells, reducing it to a simple tube of fabric. Meanwhile, the University of Bristol, UK, a sample was collected from bone marrow of Claudia Castillo to convert stem cells into millions of cartilage and epithelial cells (cells that cover the bodies), which will take the removal of the donor trachea. To complete the construction of "new" trachea, the University of Milan, Italy, used a bio-reactor for putting new cells to be transplanted in the trachea. To complete the process, the team of thoracic surgery of the Hospital of the University of Barcelona (Spain), led by Paolo Macchiarini, made the speech. The technology needed for surgery and the scarcity of cases in Portugal, makes this method is not to apply, for now, despite the success recognized. The transplant was only "a specific case and very high costs involved, for the work of teams from three countries," the Lusa said Dominic Henry, coordinator of the Office of Development Biology at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. The experts stressed, however, that the technique "represents a part of the future of medicine." Also the chairman of SPT believes that "the cost of creating this technology and teams that make these interventions, to make two surgeries a year, does not pay." But Anthony Morais Sarmento caveat that "the technique is very beautiful and it results in more people is possible that groups in Portugal which is enthusiasm and begin using this technique." Four months after the transplant, doctors say Claudia Castillo can now take care of daughters, 15 and four years, climbing stairs and walking reasonable distances without having shortness of breath. The patient contracted a tuberculosis four years ago, it has serious injuries in trachea and breathing difficulties. Before leaving for the transplant, doctors have to consider taking the lung of Colombia.

System to recycle urine ISS presents defects

The system for recycling the urine and turn it into drinking water in the International Space Station (ISS) presented problems and tests that are needed to be done about it suspended, reported today to NASA, the agency American space.

"The problem was a defect in the mechanism of the centrifuge distillation apparatus," said the charge of communications for NASA's ISS commander, Michael Finke, and the flight engineer, Sandra Magnus.

The recycling system was brought in charge of the ship "Endeavor" and will be part of the new advanced equipment that will count the occupants of the complex from next year.

The equipment, installed in the module "Destiny", is part of what NASA described the system of recovery of water, through which process if the urine, sweat of astronauts and wash water with which to transform it into drinking water.

"The system is in the process of initial tests and the astronauts are ready to continue them," said NASA in the release.

"The tests will resume when the control of the mission find it convenient," he added.

In addition to the system to recycle the urine, the "Endeavor" led to the ISS a refrigerator, two water heaters, a bathroom and exercise machines.

Platform comes out on the street by Bolhão

The heads of the Civic Platform for Action of Porto (Picporto) say it is wrong for the local chamber in the rehabilitation of the market Bolhão concerns. Therefore, the structure promise reinvigorating the channels of dialogue open when moving from defense to the contract signed between the municipality and TCN, especially with the Ministry of Culture and Assembly of the Republic. For Manuel Correia Fernandes, architect and spokesman of the structure, "the platform is considered to be caused, devalued and even insulted" to see the outcome of the case of Bolhão. And recalls that the councilman Lino Ferreira promised, when broke the contract with TCN, "that soon there would be new proposal," recalls. Given the silence of the camera, those responsible for the strange Picporto sum of one million euros that was included in the budget for municipal works in Bolhão. "It does not give even to paint the walls of the market," states Manuel Correia Fernandes. "We say that we were misled because the councilman said it would be presented another proposal and so far nothing," he added. Contacted, the source of the municipal press service also said there is no proposal and explained that the money was entered for the event to be necessary to start the works. " Even without having set a concrete program of action, the Picporto does not reject the possibility of carrying out further actions in the street or even the closure of the market. But with caution. "We do not want to harm the dealers most of which are already being." The Picporto will now contact the Ministry of Culture, the Assembly of the Republic, the Parliamentary Committee for Local Government and the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of the North. "There is no room for compensation. The fight will continue", bailed Manuel Correia Fernandes says that blaming the camera "not by the collapse of the building but by the collapse of the functional point of view of an equipment that is essential to the city."

Files of Life magazine on Google

Google is available online since Tuesday, 20% of 10 million photographs that constitute the archives of the defunct Life magazine. 97% of these images, which will be placed online in the coming months, were never published.

This collection presents images dated from 1750 to date, printed by sounding names of photojournalism as
Alfred W. Eisenstaed or Eugene Smith.

The file of Life presents iconic images of the twentieth century and the register of historic events like the Vietnam War or the death of JFK.

Each image appears with technical information, the name of the photographer and the opportunity to vote in photography.

TMN prepares Christmas without iPhone in the campaign

The HTC Touch is one of the HD equipment that TMN succeeded in isolation for Christmas and entering the fight directly with the iPhone from Apple, marketed by competitors Vodafone and Optimus. The HTC Touch HD, filed yesterday in Lisbon, is "the jewel in the crown of what will be the season of Christmas," said Luis Avelar, director of TMN, in this event. In Business, Luis Avelar said that this segment of touch screens (touch screens) to TMN will be at Christmas with four equipment: the Nokia, the Nokia N96, the Samsung Omnia and Samsung with eight-megapixel camera. So far, ensures Luis Avelar, "not suffered by not having the iPhone" and not the TMN will take a Christmas campaign. The business of selling terminals this year has not shown any sign of crisis, said the administrator of the TMN, ensuring that the company bought more equipment to manufacturers and put them on the market. Luis Avelar guarantees that are not noticed at any point in the wireless business, shrinkage of consumption. During the presentation, Luis Avelar said that the terminal "high tech" (with features technical colleges) that are the fastest-growing segment. And in the range of "smartphones" (so-called smart phones) doubled the market after Christmas last year, but did not reveal numbers. And starting this summer has increased five times. Again the figures were not disclosed. Also the HTC, which was yesterday submitted to the Portuguese market for the first time, does not speak in numbers of terminals sold in the country, not projections. However, ensures that Portugal is a market in which to strengthen their bet, and may even have a structure in the country, reported the second Tek. Currently, the structure is Iberian. The HTC speech on innovation as one of their main weapons. From a total of six thousand workers, 25% are dedicated to research and development of new products and features. For the company, the HTC Touch HD is one of the results of that investment, since, according believes, is the terminal with the best and biggest screen market, is the third generation equipment thinnest. The best that can be drawn from the experience of multimedia and web browsing. This equipment comes with two new applications, one for the stock market valuations and one for the time. It also has a specific application that enables its users to make movies and put us on YouTube immediately.

Environment promotes social cohesion

Environmental projects may be the key to intervene in critical areas and increase social cohesion. Who defends English is an organization whose experience CCDR of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley admits "import".

Promote training of people and involve them in property and energy projects in both urban and rural, is the mission of the Academy for Sustainable Communities "(ACS). Gill Taylor, coordinator of the organization of the United Kingdom, is today in Lisbon to present the work as part of a debate on social inclusion in critical districts promoted by the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of Lisbon and Tagus Valley (CCDR).

In his presentation, Gill Taylor speak of projects that in some cases, involved the construction of neighborhoods root of "efficient" in terms of carbon emissions, which are organized so that people do not depend on transport and have easier access to social infrastructure infrastructure such as schools. A job that entails, from the origin, relationship between designers, donors and representatives of the people.

This concept of "sustainable communities" goes the other hand, by establishing networks of neighborhood close and the formation of "strong leaders". In settlements with many problems unresolved, as are many of the projects the metropolitan area of Lisbon, this vision does not seem utopian? Fonseca Ferreira, president of CCDR, believes not. "In terms latest problems for London, does not mean us to use methodologies backward," he says. Energy issues are "new" but not cease to be "priority".

Assuming not know the activity of the ACS, "Fonseca Ferreira explained that the purpose of the meeting today is precisely evaluate to what extent this experience can be brought to Lisbon.

A1: Company of the truck tank investigates causes of the disaster

The company owns the tanker truck that was burned on Monday, on the freeway North (A1), after colliding with another vehicle, opened an investigation to determine the causes of the accident, told the Lusa an officer from Tiel.

The driver of the truck, with 48 years, was hospitalized at Hospital de Santa Maria, with 90 percent of the body and burned lesions in the airways, but could not resist the serious injuries and eventually died on Wednesday.

The driver of another car, a trailer that was parked at the curb, died at the scene of the accident.

The road tanker carrying 31 tonnes of 'jet' (aviation fuel) and belonged to Tiel, a company that operates in the carriage of dangerous goods and services to various companies in the sector of fuel in Portugal.

Paul Serpa, responsible for the operational area of Tiel, said that the investigation is already underway, is expected to be "conclusive results" within two weeks.

Dating violent young

The main form of dating violence in the attacks are emotional, but there are numerous reports of serious assaults. One in every four teenagers, between 11 and 17 years, complaining that the (a) boyfriend (a) (a) assaulted with insults, shouting, punches, kicks and sovas, reveals a study by the University of Minho .

"Insults, cracked, screaming, and throwing objects from, prevent or control contacts with others" are the most common acts in the doctoral thesis on violence in dating the psychologist Sónia Charity.

According to the investigator, "25.4% of young people has suffered at least once in a violent act in the relationship." Number "very far from reality, it is merely to decide how to complain," said Rosa Saavedra, the Association of Victim Support.

The study covered 4667 young people up to 29 years, but the association has already reached two requests for support of children of 11 years and six reports of girls up to 17 years.

Science increasingly living in Portugal

It starts today at 3 of the flag IDF, in Lisbon, what the Living Science Center calls the "festival of science." The Living Science Forum 2008 and lasts until tomorrow marks the beginning of the Week of Science and Technology.

The event "is intended as a meeting point for researchers and teachers as well as maintaining contact between the scientific community itself and the people," says the executive editor of Living Science. Ana Noronha believes that the forums help to achieve a major objective of the Science Alive: "Bringing scientific culture to all."

In the space can be seen several stands of laboratories, research centers, schools, universities, museums and other institutions involved in science. The pavilion is divided into thematic areas, where stem the activities of the program that includes discussions, demonstrations and workshops. Another of the novelties this year is that for the first time the forum is broadcast live on the Internet by Science Alive TV.

Alongside the forum, the Living Science Center is also preparing other initiatives. At the European level will be awarded three projects: the programs Alpha Galileo, Pollen and Volvox. They all want to give a European dimension to the Living Science, as well as closer relations with scientific groups of other EU countries. Also the Living Science in the summer is already being prepared and will cover various areas such as astronomy, geology, biology and engineering.

The literary level will also be news, since the Living Science Center will launch the program Read Science. The writer Isabel remit is to present a new initiative Read, this time devoted to science. In Reading Science, young people are invited to read books of scientific information, then make a presentation that can captivate colleagues.

These forums, which according Ana Noronha want to show "what is best in science in Portugal, already last in 1997 and since then has fostered a taste for science and technology. Several young people, from several points of the country, found in a Science Live support, or a simple motivation to follow the scientific track. The agency is continually growing and the country will alastrando But Ana Noronha ensures that the priority "is to increase the activities at the poles already in place for that science arrives at all."

Microsoft creates program against hackers

The U.S. software giant Microsoft announced it will offer free of charge from the next year, a security program designed to prevent attacks from hackers.

The "hill" provide "a complete protection against viruses, including spyware, Trojan horses-for-and other threats, the systems XP, Vista and Windows 7.

It should be available for download in the second half of 2009.

In parallel, Microsoft intends to terminate the sale of their current security program, Windows Live OneCare, from June 30.

Several analysts highlighted in this Wednesday, that the initiative means a bad news for companies specializing in security for PCs, such as McAfee and Symantec.

"This new offering will allow us to protect free and increasingly consumers, especially in markets where growth in sales of computers is exceeded only by the growth of malware," said the director of online services at Microsoft, Amy Barzdukas.

NASA completes test of 'Internet interplanetary'

A NASA successfully completed the first trials of a network of communications from space designed along the lines of the Internet.


A report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA said that its engineers used in last October a special software to send dozens of images of a ship that is more than 32 million kilometers from Earth.

For this, the engineers resorted to the network of JPL Deep Space Network of NASA using the probe as a liaison Epoxy which moves in the direction of comet Hartley, which should occur in 10 years.

"This is the first step towards the creation of an ability to communicate in entirely new space, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, director of technology and networks of NASA space in Washington.

The transmission is based on software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN), whose protocol was developed ten years ago, according to the JPL.

DTN sends information using a different method of protocols that uses the Internet and the Web interplanetary must be sufficiently robust to address the delays and loss of connection in space, adds the release.

Problems can occur when a spacecraft passes behind a planet and contact is interrupted or when the communications were affected by solar storms.

The delay to receive or send data to Mars, for example, can be between 3.5 and 20 minutes at the speed of light.

However, unlike the system of Internet, there is the possibility of disconnection.

In its design, if you can not find a recipient, JPL what qualifies as a "node", the information is not discarded and stays until he is found.

"This network interplanetary initial ten nodules," said Scott Burleigh, the JPL engineer.

"One is Epoxy and the other nine are at JPL represent the vehicles on Mars, the satellites and control centers of operations in Earth," he said.

To explain the system, the JPL used an analogy with the basketball and said that acts as the player who passes the ball to the partner that is closer to the basket. "Ultimately, the information will be delivered to the user," he said.

Portugal Technology can enhance partnerships

Generate business and know the potential of the technology sector Portuguese are the main advantages listed by exhibitors in the show Portugal Technological 2008, taking place in the IDF, Lisbon, until Nov. 23.

"There are companies very conceptualized and other lesser-known, which shows that the supply in this sector is greater than you think", emphasized Jorge Ramalho, the Partner Solutions business. For José Ramalho, "companies should invest more in these events" to try to boost their business.

In turn, Leonor Sottomayor, account manager of AnubisNetworks argued that these initiatives are always important "when the public that the visit is interesting" and is receptive to know the products and services available.

As for the membership to date, Dora Silva, head of marketing department, and Hugo Reis, a software engineer, both of Skysoft, show that expectations were higher. "There are many schools here, but we were waiting for another type of audience, reported.

On the other hand, believe that free entry can be a strong attraction to that in the week-end, membership is growing.

The event is to serve, above all, "for firms to know each other, trying to establish new partnerships, show their products and raise customers' synthesized Ana Rita Benedict, coordinator of events, and Hugo Mauritius, technical consultant, ESRI Portugal.

Rating: Insurance calls "dialogue" to resolve impasse

The chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science, the socialist Jose Antonio Seguro, argued Tuesday that the "dialogue" is the "best tool" to find "a positive solution" to resolve the "impasse" that was reached in schools.

"We believe it is essential to listen to teachers and create conditions for the dialogue might be the best instrument to reach a positive solution that restores the situation of instability in schools, 'said the deputy, at the end of a meeting with the Platform Association of Teachers, which brings together the 11 unions in the sector.

According to Antonio Jose Seguro, the meeting with the union structure forms part of a series of hearings that were applied to the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science.

"We would be happy to hear either the unions or associations and movements of teachers in order to make positive contribution to a solution to resolve the impasse that has been reached", stressed in advance that "all proposals must be considered if they are positive. "

The Socialist MEP also said that "it is important to hear" the Minister of Education, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, is already scheduled for that shift its parliament in early December.

Members of the opposition in the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science, in turn, asked to suspend "immediately" the process of evaluation of teachers, while HP is willing to improve the current model and recognized that now exists "a climate of instability of great concern "the socialist party. "The model is complex and its implementation is not easy, 'said the committee Mrs Fernanda Asseisseira the PS.

After the meeting, the spokesman of the Platform Association of Teachers, Mário Nogueira, said the Minister of Education "must have the political courage" to suspend the assessment process. "While we do not have the suspension of the model no position to make any further discussion" he said.

The trade unionist said that they accept a model that "makes the difference" and that teachers are ranked according to 'the merit and commitment

Assets of the magazine 'Life' available on Google

About 10 million historical images and photographs of the past three centuries, the archives of the defunct Life magazine, are available on Google since yesterday. In a search at http / images.google.com / hosted / life find out 200 references to Portugal.

The first images are of 1750, with portraits of the composer Bach, and the latest photos are from 2007, the black and white, which capture the opera Cosi Fan Tutte, by Mozart.

In the search for the term Portugal, the first image is a portrait of the exiled Dom Pedro I, dated 1828, and the last is a photograph from 1970 of the train in Porto, allegedly a report on rail travel in Europe.

Overall, the two hundred images focus is on personality in political pose, vacation or official visits of monarchs (Oscar Carmona, the English queen Elisabete II and Prince Felipe, Juan Carlos of Spain and parents). There are also pictures (of the young Portuguese Youth, fishermen, Fado singer), picturesque landscapes (the Estoril predominates) or an image on the floods in Lisbon in 1967. And yet several references to James Earl Ray, the Sino-Assas of Martin Luther King, who spent 10 days in Lisbon the following year.

In historical terms, noting the signing of Portuguese-tion in establishing the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (1949), the entry of Portugal at the United Nations in 1955 or the encounter with the president of Salazar the American Yo-enhower in 1960. In total, were released three million images, with the rest being added gradualmen you. Some are ill-listing of and, in recent years since the end of the magazine, most referred-to covers of Life and Time, both bas edited by Time Warner.

Life had until 1972 editions weekly and monthly from 1978 to 2000, when ceased its publication. Last September, announced that it would revive the Web in early 2009 at life.com. The estate of Life, only 3% was known before the public. The records were digitized and made available for free use with personal purposes and for research but all images have an indication of copyright Time, including one, for example, disclosed by NASA.

The confusion is even greater because in aid on the file there is no reference to personal use or for researchers, but the commercial use of images is included. There is also a business model added to each image with its acquisition, framed. In the official Google blog, stress-if "possibilities for gifts" possible with this option. |

CCDR-LVT launches tender to rehabilitate critical areas

The Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of Lisbon and Tagus Valley will launch in early 2009 an open, supported by EU funds for projects for the construction or rehabilitation of public facilities in critical areas.

According to Lusa said the chairman of that entity (CCDR-LVT), Antonio Fonseca Ferreira, the initiative starts in January or February, after only five of the 18 counties of the metropolitan area of Lisbon have applied to a first contest, which ended in April, and the only two have won.

"It is sad and strange that has not tapped. Now the funding is lower, down from 60 to 70 percent for 40 to 50, and obliges local authorities to contribute more, but the biggest problem is the municipalities are not technically prepared for the competitions, 'said the controller.

The projects' Zambujal Improvement '(Calcutta) and "West Almada - Regeneration for a new plant" will be the first to benefit from the funds of the competition "policy of Cities - Partnerships for Urban Regeneration", benefiting from the support of 1.4 and 3 , 5 million, respectively, of the European Regional Development Fund

Trachea transplant performed with the patient as

Medicine. In Barcelona, was the first transplant of trachea using the patient's own stem cells. All cells of the donor organ was removed and replaced with cells created in laboratory collected from the patient. Technique can be held in Portugal
The transplant pioneer of trachea with a patient's own stem cells, held in Spain, could be done in Portugal, as also have the technical means to intervene. But the president of the Portuguese Society of Transplantation (SPT), Anthony Morais Sarmento, warning that the high cost of the technology necessary "can not compensate when they are only two speeches a year."

The Colombian Claudia Castillo, 30 years, was submitted in June, an innovator of tracheal transplantation does not involve the use of drugs that prevent rejection of organs. A process which involved researchers Spanish, English and Italian. The trachea transplant was "manufactured" to the extent of the patient, using their own stem cells through which does not need immune-suppressing drugs, which can cause hypertension, renal failure and cancer.

Once you have found the donor of trachea, researchers at the University of Padua in Italy, withdrew it with all the cells, reducing it to a simple tube of fabric. Meanwhile, the University of Bristol, UK, a sample was collected from bone marrow of Claudia Castillo to convert stem cells into millions of cartilage and epithelial cells (cells that cover the bodies), which will take the removal of the donor trachea. To complete the construction of "new" trachea, the University of Milan, Italy, used a bio-reactor for putting new cells to be transplanted in the trachea. To complete the process, the team of thoracic surgery of the Hospital of the University of Barcelona (Spain), led by Paolo Macchiarini, made the speech.

The technology needed for surgery and the scarcity of cases in Portugal, makes this method is not to apply, for now, despite the success recognized. The transplant was only "a specific case and very high costs involved, for the work of teams from three countries," the Lusa said Dominic Henry, coordinator of the Office of Development Biology at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. The experts stressed, however, that the technique "represents a part of the future of medicine."

Also the chairman of SPT believes that "the cost of creating this technology and teams that make these interventions, to make two surgeries a year, does not pay." But Anthony Morais Sarmento caveat that "the technique is very beautiful and it results in more people is possible that groups in Portugal which is enthusiasm and begin using this technique."

Four months after the transplant, doctors say Claudia Castillo can now take care of daughters, 15 and four years, climbing stairs and walking reasonable distances without having shortness of breath. The patient contracted a tuberculosis four years ago, it has serious injuries in trachea and breathing difficulties. Before leaving for the transplant, doctors have to consider taking the lung of Colombia.

He died driver of the truck that burned on the A1

The driver of the tanker truck that was burned Monday on the A1 died this morning, said the agency Lusa source of the Hospital de Santa Maria.

The tanker truck, carrying 31 tonnes of "jet" (aviation fuel), is burned after having collided with a vehicle trailer that was parked in the side of the motorway, with Nhulunbuy.

Because of the clash, the truck despistou up, left the freeway and burned up, causing serious injuries to the driver.

The man of 42 years, who passed away today around 08:00, got 90 percent of the body with third degree burns, still suffering injuries in the airways.

The tanker truck that was unrecognizable and completely burned belonged to TIEL, a company that operates in the carriage of dangerous goods and provides services to most businesses fuels sector in Portugal.

Google Maps already have English version

Washington - Google has launched this Tuesday, November 18, the English version of Google Maps that will bring a feature only available yet for the city of Vienna and was implemented in partnership with the Rail and the Metropolitano de Lisboa.
Since yesterday that the Internet could through the Google tool Transit set a starting point and a point of arrival and have an indication that public transport available for travel, the length of the route and the alternatives.

The ability of companies place their referrals for free through descriptions, pictures or videos were optimized, thereby content available on restaurants, hotels and monuments among others.

Following the launch of Google Maps, and company decided to launch a tender based on the functionality of Google Maps to create maps and offer the winner an iPod player.

Barreiro Forum - the birth of Barreiro cosmopolitan

He says it is a kind of ... BLOG OF NOTES
of Barreiro Barreiro Forum - the birth of the Jhelum cosmopolitaO FORUM BARREIRO, although this alone will not be an engine of development, therefore, first of all, it is urgent and necessary that the project of Arc Ribeirinho South proceed with a number one priority, so that the rehabilitation of the territory of Quimiparque is another lever for development.

Rogerio Fráguas was one of the dreamers. Poet. For this reason, in his time, was edited the first collection (and only until today) of poets from Barreiro.

I wanted to go hand in hand with the election night. And it is with great emotion that followed the speech by Barack Obama. A tear broke out, as he recalled the story of Nixon Ann Cooper, a woman of 106 years.

Remember Roger Fráguas

In 1981, in response to an open procedure, joined the civil service in the Antipolo City Hall.
My admission, between seven candidates, was approved unanimously by the municipal executive at the time comprised of 5 councilors of PCP / CDU, 3 and the PS 1 of the PSD. Among them was Roger Fráguas, responsible for Culture.
Start by the Office of Information and Public Relations, I think it was, almost certainly, the first project of this nature a autarchy created by opening a new functional area in the Local Government.
My place of work was a desk in the same area where, Fráguas Rogerio also worked. Moreover, in the same area where the carrying out their activities Councilman Mendes Costa (PSD) and Alderman Morgado (PS) for more than four or five employees of the municipality. When the councilmen came out and somebody had to wait to get back to work again. Other times.
I received the news of the death of Roger Fráguas.
I remember the simple and humane manner as he lived the day to day, a time that the Local Government was under construction, the demand for directions and the construction of dreams.
In my memories that I found the photo, here it is edited, memory of a time that has been talked about, like today, in building a New Gisborne, then, yet Town of Barreiro, who aspired to be City.
The cultural dynamics of the municipality at the time, were very far from the words that over the years have been assuming.
However, it was a time in which everything is built with much love and very proactive.
How, and recalled John Gomes, Fráguas Rogerio was the councilman is responsible for boosting a project for innovative season, the Ludoteque - Library of toys - who was born in the Gin Mill, on Avenida da Praia.
It was a time of demand. It was a time of great unrest, but all moved in with a great desire to give, to build the daily as New Gisborne.
Rogerio Fráguas was one of the dreamers. Poet. For this reason, in his time, was edited the first collection (and only until today) of poets from Barreiro.
The Manuela Fonseca left the pages of the Faces a carnation for Rogerio Fráguas.
This brief note is after all an evocation of a man who always respected and I always respected, even, at times, that I learned that "rasguei" with their (formerly our) options ideological.
Here is my hug to Fráguas Rogerio, a pioneer of Local Government, in time to be mayor was like being a associations - only serve the community, and without salaries, but, practically, with volunteering.

Activists throw bags of flour to Lindsay Lohan

The actress Lindsay Lohan and girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson were victims of a protest in Paris, which came to town recently to enjoy a holiday romantic.

A PETA activist of the association, which defends animal rights, threw a bag of flour to the actress at the entrance of a famous nightclub in Paris, to be wearing a fur coat.

Neither Lindsay Lohan and his girlfriend were injured, and only the jacket of the actress was spotted.

Wikipedia is blocked in Germany after complaint

The German version of Wikipedia was blocked by court order after a member of Parliament of the country, Lutz Heilmann, has sued the online encyclopedia, after the publication of an article deemed "offensive" by the Member.

Given the request of the politician, the portal's home page displays a message, saying that the court in Luebeck, northern Germany, ordered that the field is not directed to the content of the encyclopedia, while it remains "certain statements".

As Wikipedia's servers are in the U.S., the card can still be read in English and has generated controversy because it says that Heilmann was part of the East German secret service, in addition to revealing that he was alleged homosexual, have threatened an ex-boyfriend .

After the required corrections have been made in its profile in German, politics, the prosecution withdrew this Sunday, regretting that so many have been affected by the decision of justice, but the address of Wikipedia remains blocked.

However, you can visit the German version of online encyclopedia by an alternative route, through which the profile of controversial Heilmann remains active. Already the article in the American edition now includes an update on the impact of the court order, obtained by the parliament.

Time of "small heroes"

Life has achieved over time demonstrate that the imagination has many ways to discover how to express, but every day that passes, is increasingly a lack of evidence and many ways to break the state's gray reality general. I like to think that football can help this cause. But it is not easy. Why is the human element that the slope. One of the moments in which to escape this exact science causes greater impact when there is an unlikely hero. One called "small team" at the top of the elite. In general are mirages that has been destroyed in a short time. While there, however, are present to retain football. Our championship goes to the 8th day and this summit is a club that causes the temptation to find out "what makes supporters of Chelsea, a club that spent more than half of its existence in secondary rooms, the best of Portugal." That is how a book of photographs, 'Heroes of the Sea', with Joaquim Pedro Correia, a torch lit in images on this mystery, crossing texts, where, at some point, there's the definitive explanation. "It's genetic. Rises up and ready. It's more rafaelduarte a!" A scientific theory has the moral authority of a fishmonger in the market of Ludhiana. Indisputable, therefore.

"King for a day" or, in this case, a few days. A vision that only the beginning of the championship can provide. The imagination to power. The world of football of "upside down".

The Chelsea of Jose Mota, a coach who thought the razor to build teams, visit Alvalade with the aura of "small heroes." It is another kind of classic. The power against the imagination. The Sporting de Paulo Bento has the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie of the diamond. The first part he has done against FC Porto to the Cup was the best display at speed, intelligence and creativity that a Portuguese team has done this season. The game against Chelsea threatens the championship return to reality. In the start-Moutinho, linking the fight and instinct for goal of Derlis Liedson lives and the inevitable part of our real football. The imagination of the protection Wesley has a two Wise Men 'locks', China and Souza. In the movements of these 'heroes of the sea' lives the imagination of the championship. In addition to the points won, this trip to the 'land of the big' gives you a self-esteem that can be decisive in shock when later with reality. More than live, these teams must learn to survive.

It is a way of life that the 'big teams', those to whom their fans always demand to play and win as "great heroes", have difficulty coping when they see this territory, which generally also appear at the beginning of season . FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting have felt in this championship. The big three are still periods of recognition itself, tactical and emotional. It is when the reality slip in these small traps born the classic "small heroes." Football won a pulsar deepest, heartfelt even when they arise. All of us in life we seek our roots. In football, too. I believe that, at an emotional level, its essence is in these small moments. When the imagination is at an advantage over power. Even if the passenger is a mirage. Or rather, because it is only a passing mirage.
Lisandro & Hulk S.A.

A team. Eleven players. Twenty-two relationships, which in every area, every move, must be implemented in specificity. Basically, a team, it all comes down to reconcile players, management tactics of human resources at the grass.

Hulk opens way, literally, in eleven of FC Porto. It is a pioneer in a way almost epic every move. Take the ball himself and tries to 'break' with the game. It is a way of being in any other field. However, the plan for reconciliation tactic, a way difficult to understand the game. What makes this particular understanding.

In the case of Hulk, specificity is mainly with other advanced. As Lisandro. The more walking the eleven for the 4x4x2, the more this relationship becomes an event. It seems to be the best way to reconcile the two, but there is a risk that idea. Lisandro think the game much better than Hulk to the point that company might mistake him for the spaces of thought and movement. You need to have another forward who also understands the interconnection of movement. That is, can be strange, but this dual, which to scare opponents just think of it, you can do to Lisandro 'worst' player, because it removes the same areas of movement, in which, without reciprocal intelligence, often just by lap up with Hulk.

As a crossroads between theory and practice spends much to achieve this dual refine the development of a new face attacker for the game of FC Porto. The game ended in Kiev with a nearly unprecedented scale Lisandro Hulk-ending goal. I seen relations of love started for less. The big question is whether that company 'Hulk and Lisandro SA' can create databases to become a 'marriage of convenience' of success.
The evolution of Quique

In a system, certain positions can at the same time be the reason for the more positive side of the team and also its most negative side. The double-pivot defensive is the best example. Of the big three, only the Benfica uses in a 4x4x2 online. In addition to narrow in terms of transport of the ball (although strong in pressure) in red this option determines the position of your greatest player talent: Aimar.

We find that whenever in such classic 4x4x2 advanced as the second back to take the ball, and pass the class, put order in the game. It was noticed that better when Quique moved in the system (against the Cup for birds) and put him behind the double-points of spear-like medium organizer and unbalanced. His divine touch / pass from heel to isolate Maxi for a goal, was the only face more expressive than the creative side of his football brain can cause the vital development of the team. The evolution of Quique passes through decode the habitat right for the new master of the eleven.
The brand's goal

It is the player who begins to be assessed before the game starts, only to look at the goal. It's called 'Paint' of goalkeeper.

I remember how I wanted to see Checkers in the games at night, with hair pomade, large print physics, all in black, style of leading man. Then came the Bento. Hair desgranhado, little, stocky, bigodão and without refinement. As defending! But seeing well, none defended him the ball. They 'attacked' the ball. He made this week 33 years a goalkeeper who spent almost entire career to be assessed before the game. Why did not style the hair unsettled, the short sleeve shirt outside the shorts and even said it was a half low. Today no one denies that aesthetic side. Because responded whenever the ball approached. The goal of the ugly duckling turned swan Light. Failed like the others, of course, but nobody evaluates before the game. It is a matter of great goalkeeper. Elegant and with gel or intersection and disheveled, all have 'paint' when you know 'attack' the ball.