Frases com sentido

"Nem sempre sou da minha opinião." - Paul Valéry, poeta e ensaista francês (1871-1945)

"Se o PS viesse a aproximar-se da Direita, não teria remédio numa próxima campanha." - Mário Soares, in Visão

"Portugal sofre de uma doença da esquerda." - Maria João Seixas, Idem

"Não vai se fácil para José Sócrates passar a uma cultura de diálogo." - Manuel Alegre, Idem

Ó mocidade! Que força, que esperança, que imaginação tens." - Joseph Conrad, escritor britânico (1845-1924)

"Ter um governo coeso, consistente e com uma linha política clara, ainda que por vezes sem o apoio da maioria parlamentar (...) é melhor do que um Governo de consenso alargado, como são os do bloco central." - Paulo Teixeira Pinto, Diário de Notícias

"O PS precisa de que a paz social seja um pouco comprada com alguma negociação com os partidos à sua esquerda." - José Maria Júdive, Idem

"O PSD, depois das autárquicas, tem de reflectir seriamente acerca do seu futuro. (...) Até lá e para algumas personalidades do PSD que estão a falar, direi: "Porque não te calas?" - Fernando Seara, Idem

Títulos de jornais

Títulos dos jornais:
-Suiça abre precedente histórico ao proibir minarestes em referendo
-Muitos seropositivos ficam à porta e lares de idosos
-Médicos e doentes fogem dos medicamentos para dores intensas
-Feytor Pinto quer mais doadores de orgãos
-Associação de Juízes critica ausência de avaliação da Lei di Divórcio
-Doze cidades portuguesas aderem a iniciativa para abolir pena capital
-XIX Cimeira Ibero-Americana - Crise e ambiente marcaram cerimónia de abertura
-Irão desafia a comunidade internacional com a construção de dez centrais nucleares
-Commonwealth quer acordo sobre clima
-Fisco sem prazo certo para adoptar decisões dos tribunais
-Portugal tem três construtoras entre as 100 maiores da Europa
-EUA: mercado do trabalho ainda em recessão
-Inaugurada árvore de Natal com 44 metros de altura, em Lisboa
-Chelsea goleia Arsenal e Mourinho sorri em Itália

FONTE: Público, 30NOV09

Citações

"É tão arriscado acreditar em tudo como não acreditar em nada." - Denis Diderot, escritor francês (1713-1784)

"Escolher é excluir." - Henri Bergson, filósofo francês (1859-1941)

"O PSD é uma coisa indefinida do ponto de vista ideológico. Aquilo dá para tudo, desde a direita mais extrema até a uma atitude centrista que não convence ninguém porque, efectivamente, aquilo é direita." - José Saramago, escritor português

"Todas as coisas boas são selvagens e livres." - Henri David Thoreau, filósofo norte-americano (1817-1862)

Events

655 – Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1515 – Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1854 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1948 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1959 – Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1966 – Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1969 – In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.
1971 – Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
1988 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1989 – Sachin Tendulkar debuting his career as International Cricketer.
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
2000 – A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

November 10

Events
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philidelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama which set into motion a revolt which culminated in Panama's independence from Spain and it immediately becoming part of Colombia
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
1924 – Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1928 – Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies.
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
1989 – Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.

FONTE: Wikipedia

"Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you‘re the man who made them." — Frank Tyger

"O mundo começou sem o homem e acabará sem ele." - Claude Lévi-Strauss, antropólogo francês (1908-2009)

"Um ano depois a veneração persiste onde Obama nada mudou e sumiu onde Obama tentou mudar." - Alberto Gonçales, in Correio da Manhã

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Caixa preta nos carros

Caixa preta nos carros

A caixa-preta nos aviões Permite aos investigadores determinarem o que poderia ter ocorrido de errado que POSSA ter causado o acidente.As caixas pretas nos carros pueden funcionar da mesma maneira.

Nos Estados Unidos, há aproximadamente 190 milhões de condutores. Se usar um carro fabricado pela GM ou Saturno pode estar a usar um carro com caixa negra (EDR) e nem sequer saber disso.

Os sensores da caixa EDR registam 20 tipos diferentes de dados, nomeadamente:

- A velocidade do veículo (cinco segundos antes do impacto)
- Velocidade do motor (cinco segundos antes do impacto)
Dos - Estado Travões (cinco segundos antes do impacto)
- Posição do acelerador (cinco segundos antes do impacto)
- Estado do cinto de segurança do condutor (On / Of)
- Tempo de colisão do veículo
- Airbag do pasageiro (On/Of)
- Tempo de colisão do veículo a tempo de Velocidade Máxima
- Ciclo de tempo que durou o evento (se dentro de cinco segundos)
- E outros ...

Utilizando estes dados, os agentes de seguros e policiais pueden reconstruir os acontecimentos que levaram um acidente um, podendo assim o rigor com um Determinar quem Atribuir uma responsabilidade do ocorrido.

Uma versão mais avançada do EDR está aa ser testada pela Ford em carros da polícia.Este modelo ainda envia dados para as Patrulhas em caso de acidente e ainda é Possível ESTABELECER OS contacto com ocupantes do veículo sinistrado para saber a localização exacta do veículo, número de ocupantes ea sua situação após o acidente.

Contudo há questões de privacidade Proteger um, pois o dispositivo pode ainda Efectuar Acções de monitorização e, neste caso, o condutor perderia o Controlo das Informações sobre o veículo.

Apesar das insistirem auto Companhias que uma privacidade será protegida, não existem ainda normas em vigor.

Assim, desde 1996 que as caixas pretas vêm sendo montadas em alguns modelos de carros americanos e possivelmente poucos serão os condutores disso conhecimento que tem.

Aqui, mais uma vez podemos estar na área do "Big brother", situação que DEVE ser cuidadosamente ponderada.

FONTES: Senior Magazine Online
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
e http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-01/esv/esv19/05-0445-O.pdf

Tratado de LISBOA

Presidente checo assinou Tratado de Lisboa, último passo para a ratificação pelos 27

O Presidente checo, Vaclav Klaus, anunciou em conferência de imprensa, em Praga, ter assinado, às 15h00 locais (menos uma hora em Lisboa), o Tratado de Lisboa. Foi o último dirigente europeu a ratificar o documento. "Assinei o Tratado de Lisboa hoje às 15h00", anunciou. "Aguardava pela decisão do Tribunal Constitucional e respeito-a, apesar de discordar profundamente", declarou o eurocéptico chefe de Estado checo.

"Com a entrada em vigor do Tratado de Lisboa, a República Checa deixa de ser um Estado soberano", insistiu.

Vaclav Klaus era o único dos 27 dirigentes europeus que não tinha ainda assinado o tratado, documento que visa a melhoria do funcionamento das instituições europeias.

Depois de ter visto aprovada em Bruxelas a excepção que reclamou para o seu país, Klaus tinha-se comprometido a assinar o Tratado assim que o Tribunal Constitucional decidisse.

O Tribunal checo considerou hoje que o Tratado de Lisboa está em conformidade com a lei fundamental do país e afastou assim o último obstáculo legal à assinatura do documento pelo Presidente checo, o passo que faltava para a conclusão do processo de ratificação do Tratado pelos 27 Estados-membros.

FONTE: SAPO-Online