Ah, mas Keep Cooler é bom!

Aliás, pagar o transporte pra profissional dá no mesmo que ter um transporte específico para deficientes. Só que funcionando 24h por dia.

BOA!!!

Matou, Danilo, raciocínio perfeito. O meu ponto não é discutir o que a Dinamarca quer ou não quer pagar, o meu ponto é a babação de ovo pro welfare state, cujo exemplo máximo está dado, e que é um absurdo do ponto de vista da liberdade individual - que sem responsabilidade vira hedonismo - que se tem aqui em Bananalândia. Mas o Danilo matou: táxi pra deficiente 24 horas à disposição, não importa o destino. Isso é respeito.

Voltando a questão do selim que comprime artérias:

Médicos do Lancisi Heart Institute, na Itália, indicaram 'o pedal' para 59 homens que sofriam de complicações cardiovasculares, como hipertensão, insuficiência cardíaca e colesterol descontrolado. O grupo que praticou o exercício três vezes por semana relatou grande melhora na performance sexual! Afinal, atividades aeróbicas ativam a circulação sangüínea e, por isso, ajudam a combater a impotência de origem vascular.

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>(fonte: <a href='http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=IssueURL&_tockey=%23TOC%234882%232005%23998989998%23593965%23FLA%23&_auth=y&view=c&_acct=C000049650&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=972067&md5=86561a4c573627c3bccbf136e429b1e7' target='_blank'>International Journal of Cardiology</a>, Volume 101, 11 May 2005)</span>

Esses pesquisadors não se entendem. Só dá pra saber uma coisa, que é de sabedoria populá: LEVANTAMENTO DE COPO EM EXCESSO PODE CAUSAR DANOS NO COCCIX... pois coccix de bebado não tem dono!

Prefeito quer "proibir a morte" em cidade sem espaço no cemitério
DANILO ALMEIDA
do Agora

Os cerca de 28 mil moradores de Biritiba-Mirim (Grande São Paulo) podem ser "proibidos de morrer", como pretende um projeto enviado pela prefeitura à Câmara.

A proposta prevê alertas e punições aos "desobedientes": um dos artigos avisa que "os munícipes deverão cuidar da saúde para não falecer" e outro item adverte que "os infratores responderão pelos seus atos". O texto será analisado pela Casa na semana que vem.

O projeto foi a forma que o prefeito Roberto Pereira da Silva (PSDB) achou para, como ele diz, "chamar a atenção das autoridades" para a superlotação do único cemitério local e para a dificuldade de construir um novo.

Uma resolução federal impede o município de ter um novo cemitério por questões ambientais: 89% do território da cidade é de mananciais, e o restante é protegido por estar na serra do Mar.

A prefeitura afirma ter um projeto para construir um cemitério vertical, mas espera pareceres de órgãos estaduais e federais.

O cemitério tem 10 mil m2 e 3.500 túmulos. Desde a inauguração, em 1910, houve cerca de 50 mil sepultamentos. A cidade registra em média de 20 a 25 mortes por mês, segundo a prefeitura.

Enterros, só na base do improviso, como ocorreu com a família da estudante Maria Irani Santos da Costa, 18. Morta na semana passada, foi enterrada no jazigo cedido por um conhecido.

"Foi muito chato. Não desejo para ninguém a situação que nós passamos", afirmou Maria Araújo, 33, prima da estudante.

Outro lado

O Conama (Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente), ligado ao ministério da área, alega ter competência apenas para modificar a resolução 335/2003, que proíbe a construção de cemitérios em áreas protegidas. "O órgão estadual é que dá o parecer técnico", afirmou a assessoria do órgão.

A Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente não se pronunciou, mas em documento enviado à prefeitura, disse que "se vê impedida de analisar e aprovar novos projetos" por causa da resolução.

Isso me lembra de:

"Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
UUUU uuuu uuuhhh
There´s no chance for us
It´s all decided for us
blah, blah, blah...
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
UUUU uuuuu uuuuhhhh"

Hehehe. Ser político nesse país está cada vez me parecendo mais fácil.

por isso que o Danilo tá sempre jovem...

Células de veados podem conter chave para regeneração
da BBC, em Londres


Células-tronco em chifres de veados podem conter a chave para o segredo da regeneração de membros, acreditam cientistas do Royal Veterinary College de Londres.
Um novo estudo demonstra que a regeneração das galhadas usa um mecanismo parecido com o do desenvolvimento de membros.

Ambos dependem de células-tronco, que são células imaturas com capacidade de transformar-se em diferentes tipos de tecido.

Só resta saber o jeito que o veado injeta as células tronco dentro de nosso amigo....
AF

Ai amigas, nem conto como é a injeção, senão vocês vão querer também...

sugestão pra Ribeirão Preto:

Cows in Hereford
Are All Fired Up
About Ethanol Plant

They Produce a Cheap Fuel
Nobody Has Wanted;
A Cattle-Feed Byproduct
By STEVE LEVINE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 24, 2006; Page A1

HEREFORD, Texas -- For four decades, this town has searched for a way to rid itself of the outsized byproduct of its success as one of the world's greatest producers of beef cattle -- tens of millions of tons of cow waste. It tried turning it into electricity, fertilizer and pellets for wood stoves. Now a Dallas company has arrived with an unusual solution born of the soaring cost of energy: Burn the manure as fuel to produce ethanol from corn.

Panda Energy International Inc. plans in the coming months to begin construction on a plant in Hereford that will produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. To Panda, the manure eliminates the need to burn expensive natural gas in ethanol production. To Hereford's farmers, the arrangement is the answer to a prayer, and they have signed contracts agreeing to give their manure to the company free of charge.


Bob Josserand drove by massive pens holding about 45,000 head of cattle. "Do you have any idea how much waste they produce in a year's time?" asked the 75-year-old rancher as he stopped in front of a dozen or so 12-foot-tall ridges, each some 50 feet long. "This is a year's worth of manure."

Hereford, a tiny cattle town on the dusty Western plains, boasts one of the largest cattle herds in the world. A sign on the road into town proclaims it the "Beef Capital of the World." Cattle are a $2.7 billion annual business for the town.

But the million cattle in its feedlots at any time generate 6,300 tons of waste a day. Despite the town's dependence on the industry, its 15,000 residents aren't fond of their mountains of manure. In addition to the smell, the waste attracts flies that must be controlled, creates dust and is considered a fire hazard because of all the heat generated by decomposition.

The main local objection to the cow waste is simply that "there's too much of it," says Wayne Schilling, who runs a company in nearby Amarillo that brokers and bags composted manure. There's so much manure that feedlot operators pay local farmers 50 cents a ton to haul it away and apply it as fertilizer on their crops of wheat, corn and cotton. The farmers can use just a fraction of the waste generated by the cattle of Hereford.

So the cattlemen have turned to "all kinds of wonderful schemes" to dispose of the mounds, says Mr. Josserand, who has doubled as the city's mayor since 1993. In the 1980s, town cattlemen pursued a plan to burn the manure to generate electricity, but Hereford's local transmission company said it didn't need the power.

Burnable Pellets

In the 1990s, a Montana man persuaded Mr. Josserand to process the manure into pellets to burn in home-heating stoves instead of wood. But it turned out that burning manure pellets produces so much ash that, even though far cheaper than wood, the product didn't seem to have much commercial appeal.

A few years ago, Hereford thought it had finally found a solution when New Mexico peanut farmers began buying some of the town's manure to use as fertilizer. Soon, cattlemen closer to the border heard of the deal and, with cheaper transportation costs, managed to undercut Hereford's price and make off with the business.

"Everybody has looked for the silver bullet, but nobody's found it," says Mr. Schilling, the owner of the compost company.


Now high fuel prices may have finally brought Hereford's salvation. Panda Energy last month awarded a $120 million contract to build the ethanol plant, which the company's president, Todd Carter, said will be one of the biggest ethanol plants in the U.S.

The plant will produce a residue known as distillers' grain, which is rich in protein and can be recycled as cattle feed. "We're taking the manure from one end, then feeding them the distillers' grain," explains Mr. Carter. "So there are synergies."

Upfront Costs

A natural gas-fired ethanol distillery costs millions of dollars less to build. Mr. Carter says that despite the added up-front cost, his plan would work better over time. He figured that each of the local cows produces 12.63 pounds of waste a day from the 40 pounds of feed it eats. In the aggregate, that's 6,315 tons of manure daily, far more than the 1,500 tons a day that Mr. Carter's ethanol distillery will require.

If the operation is successful, Mr. Carter already is planning to expand. He has announced his intention to build similar manure-powered plants in Yuma, Colo., and Haskell County, Kan., two other big cattle-feeding areas.

Mr. Carter's plans are popular in Hereford. The town is giving him 382 acres for his plant. Johnny Trotter, Hereford's biggest cattleman, says he'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars that he has been paying farmers to haul away the manure from the 250,000 cattle he raises every year. "If you ask if I like it, sure I like it," says Mr. Trotter. "It's like finding $350,000 in the road."

The refinery won't be the end of Hereford's problem. The town's cattle population is growing. Hereford is building up its dairy industry. In the past three years, the town has used cash and other incentives to persuade 10 dairies from California, Idaho, New Mexico and elsewhere in Texas to move to Hereford with their 60,000 cows.

A dairy cow produces four to five times as much waste as a beef cow because it eats more, but Hereford officials say they don't mind. "Small communities are struggling," says local economic development director Don Cumpton. "I didn't want to dry up and blow away. I like it here."

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Pizza-Delivery Teams
Are Training Hard
For Sunday's Game

They Can't Afford to Fumble
During the Super Bowl;
Running Out of Sausage
By ERNEST SANDER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 31, 2006; Page A1

Jeff Dufficy leads pep rallies for his employees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Stores in Pittsburgh, Tacoma, Wash., Detroit and other cities are setting up television sets in the back to help employees anticipate orders. Some stores in Philadelphia, for the first time, are outfitting their drivers with rented satellite radios so they, too, can stay abreast of the action.

Super Bowl XL will, of course, be a make-or-break opportunity for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks -- but also for pizza-delivery people around the country.

The Super Bowl is the biggest revenue-generating day of the year for many pizza shops, from chains like Pizza Hut and Papa John's to the independent pizzerias that dot every city. Some stores go to unusual lengths to get ready for the big day, a custom that is particularly entrenched at Domino's, which has the biggest slice of the pizza-delivery business.

Mr. Dufficy, who owns 12 Domino's franchises, leads weekly pep rallies for his employees, starting at the beginning of the football season. Sporting Domino's shirts and hats, they gather in the front of the store, where Mr. Dufficy launches into a rousing call and response.

"Who are we?" he asks. "Domino's pizza!" they yell back.

"What are we?" he says. "No. 1," they respond.

To cap it off, everyone high-fives each other and shouts "Domino's," before running out to the parking lot and banging out 25 jumping jacks and 10 to 20 push-ups. "People driving by the store laugh, but we get extra attention, and it helps our sales," Mr. Dufficy says.

Other stores have their own pregame rituals. Pizza orders typically surge during commercials and at halftime, which is where the in-store TV sets can help. (TV sets are banned in most stores the rest of the year.) Some Domino's stores in Philadelphia will have their drivers tuning into XM Satellite Radio, which will air the game.

And it isn't only the football players who will be watching film this week. In an effort to get Papa John's stores fired up for the game, managers and assistant managers from 20 outlets in Jacksonville, Fla., will gather to see a video of a successful delivery last year of a single order of 650 pizzas. "We'll get everybody pumped up," says Bob Simms, operating partner for the stores.

On Super Bowl Sundays, a lot of Domino's stores sell 50% to 100% more pizzas than they would on a normal Sunday -- some end up selling four times as many. Companywide, the chain sold 1.2 million pizzas last Super Bowl, compared with about a million on a typical Sunday. Domino's has almost 20% of the pizza-delivery market, while Pizza Hut has about 18% and Papa John's about 10%, according to the chains. Unlike other segments of the fast-food market, mom-and-pop outfits still account for about half of sales, according to Pizza Today, a trade publication. La Nova Pizzeria, in Buffalo, N.Y., one of the highest-grossing independent pizza places in the country, expects to sell more than 800 pizzas and 5,000 pounds of wings during the Super Bowl, which begins at about 6 p.m. Eastern time Sunday. It will have 40 delivery drivers on duty, about 15 more than usual.


Because of this surge in demand, pizza managers typically require all their employees to suit up on game day, but it can be hard to enforce that. In order to fill out his roster, Dan Shanahan, who owns two Domino's stores in Wisconsin, a rabid football state, had to pay all his employees double-time rates in 1997 and 1998, when the Green Bay Packers were in the Super Bowl. That is on top of giving drivers twice their usual commission per delivery.

Sometimes, a glut of orders hits a store during the Super Bowl that no one can explain and that later becomes part of pizza-delivery lore. Skip Glass, the general manager of a Domino's in Farmington Hills, Mich., thought he had the Super Bowl spike down to a science. For the 2002 game, he based his projections on the previous year's sales. But he got flooded with orders even before the kickoff. First, he ran out of wings. Then, he exhausted his supply of large dough. While his boss, Tim Brown, was en route with reinforcements that he had picked up from other stores and a nearby Domino's warehouse -- including 30 pounds of wings and 10 trays of dough -- Mr. Glass burned through his sausage. Things were even more chaotic during the 1995 Super Bowl, he says. "We got so far behind we were promising people that we guarantee it will be there before halftime," Mr. Glass says. "We just got blasted."

Another crisis took place on Super Bowl Sunday in 1980. Mack Patterson, who was working in a Domino's store in Radcliff, Ky., got hit with an electric outage in his building. All the employees pulled their cars up facing the store and flicked on their headlights, which enabled the store to continue making pizzas in its gas ovens. When the phones went out at a Pizza Hut in Irving, Texas, for about 35 minutes before the 1999 Super Bowl, the store was able to reroute its four lines to the cellphones of several of its employees.


Pizza has long been a popular menu selection for male-bonding events, from poker games to bachelor parties. Mr. Patterson, who now owns 43 Domino's stores in North Carolina and South Carolina, remembers working at a store in Rantoul, Ill., when a nearby Air Force base first got cable TV. That week, there was a showing on the base of "10," the Bo Derek movie. "Instead of doing 30 pizzas, we did 190" that night, he says.

In a normal week, Fridays are the busiest day for pizza deliveries. Orders also pick up significantly on Thanksgiving, Halloween, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. But nothing beats the Super Bowl, in part because pizza parties have become much more popular as the National Football League's championship game has become a bigger and bigger media production. Instead of watching the game with a couple of friends and ordering a pie or two, more people are having lots of friends in and ordering six or eight pizzas.

To keep up with the volume of orders, which some store owners say can exceed 200 pizzas an hour during the Super Bowl, Domino's employees each are assigned an unusually narrow task: Some do nothing but put order slips on the pizza boxes. For others, the sole job is to keep drivers well stocked with small bills. The best pizza cutters slice pizza, while the most logistically inclined are put in charge of matching orders with drivers in the most efficient way possible.

Because millions of people will be watching the Super Bowl from the couch, there will be much less traffic on the streets. Still, pizza-delivery people face a host of other obstacles, from drawbridges and passing trains that keep them pinned in car lines, to customers who are too busy partying to hear the doorbell, to snow and ice.

For them, the payoff is far more generous tips than they usually would get. Drivers can clear $125 or $150 for the night, compared with about $50 in tips on a normal, nonfootball Sunday. (Typically, customers tip 10% to 20%, but that grows during the Super Bowl, delivery people say.) John Samuels, 37, who sells computers, hasn't worked full time in a Domino's since 1998. But he returns to do a stint in a Zion, Ill., Domino's every Super Bowl, mainly for the tips. His busiest Super Bowl: 42 deliveries.

The added cash isn't always enough. Mr. Shanahan, the store owner, remembers when he was a Domino's driver in Chicago in 1986, and the hometown Bears were in the Super Bowl. He hadn't missed a single play all season and wasn't about to start. "I called in sick," he says.

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A Trader's Trifecta: S, D and Google
The results of a recent psychology study are hardly surprising to anyone who's spent any time on a trading floor: Our brains lust after money in the same way they crave s.


The pleasure of orgmsm, the high from cocne, the rush of buying Google Inc. at $450 a share --- the same neural network governs all three, Knutson, 38, concluded. What's more, our primal pleasure circuits can, and often do, override our seat of reason, the brain's frontal cortex, the professor says. In other words, stocks, like s, sometimes drive us crazy.

Of course, if you'd actually bought Google at $450, we doubt you'd be feeling too hny today.

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>* pro firewall do banco deixar passar, senão ficam muitas "palavras proibidas"

** transformei seus asteriscos em imagens das letras, então vai poder usar palavras proibidas à vontade (clique em 'editar post' pra ver como fazer de agora em diante)</span>

do NYTIMES

Groundhog Day Discord
Punxsutawney Phil of Pa., right, predicted six more weeks of winter, but Staten Island Chuck foresaw an early spring

Boa, vai pro blog !

pegaram a nossa Coca Cola com café e fizeram um novo refrigerante: a Coca-Cola Blak. À venda desde o começo do mês nos EUA e na França. Se o Jr. experimentar aí pelo primeiro mundo, coloca aqui o que achou! B)