
Volume: Eco
Série: 2.0
Coordenadas: AGF, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Black Dice, Deerhunter, FortDax, M83, Monkey, Panda Bear, Susumu Yokota, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Thom Yorke, Xiu Xiu Larsen.
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"Dollar Drops on Concern Middle East Unrest May Cut Oil Supply; Pound Falls"
"Ruble Falls to Record Low Versus Euro as Russia Weakens Defense"
"The World in 2009 is the 23rd edition of The Economist's annual collection of predictions for the year ahead—with views from journalists, politicians and business people."
1. Iranian Revolution
2. Crude Oil to $25
3. S&P 500 to 500
4. Italy Could Drop the Euro
5. Australian Dollar to Slump vs Yen
6. Dollar to Outstrip the Euro
7. Chinese GDP Growth to 0%
8. Eastern European Forex Pegs to Fail
9. Commodities Prices to Plunge
10. Yen to Become Currency Peg
"Investors fearful of deflation and riskier assets scrambled to hand over cash to the US Treasury in return for no interest at an auction Tuesday, while some T-bill rates fell below zero in the market.
Pressures on fund managers to stock up on the safest possible assets in advance of year-end book-balancing added to the bid for government securities, traders said.
The U.S. Treasury Department said it sold four-week bills at a high rate of 0.000 percent, a level never before seen, in a $30 billion auction"
"A economia norte-americana entrou em recessão em Dezembro de 2007, segundo os dados oficiais anunciados hoje pela organização que mede os ciclos económicos norte-americanos, o National Bureau Economic Research (NBER).[mais]
A questão colocada pelo Washington Post é se os EUA estão perante uma recessão em V - uma quebra da produção de curta duração -, em U - mais duradoura - ou em L, uma fase de significativa e duradoura contracção da actividade económica."
Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?
HAL: Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
O cubo de Rubik (ou também chamado o cubo mágico) é um quebra-cabeça tridimensional, inventado pelo húngaro, Ernő Rubik em 1974. Originalmente foi chamado "o cubo Mágico" pelo seu inventor, mas o nome foi alterado pela Ideal Toys para cubo de Rubik. Neste mesmo ano, ganhou o prémio alemão do "Jogo do Ano" (Spiel des Jahres).
O Cubo de Rubik é um cubo geralmente confeccionado em plástico e possui várias versões, sendo a versão 3x3x3 a mais comum, composta por 54 faces e 6 cores diferentes, com arestas de aproximadamente 5,5 cm. Outras versões menos conhecidas são a 2x2x2, 4x4x4 e a 5x5x5.
É considerado um dos brinquedos mais populares do mundo, atingindo um total de 900 milhões de unidades vendidas, bem como suas diferentes imitações. [mais]
"O presidente executivo da Google, Eric Schmidt, afirmou que a empresa está a diminuir o número de contratações e a focar-se no controlo de despesas devido à crise económica que se faz sentir em todo o mundo.[mais]
“Estamos a diminuir as contratações, mas estamos a contratar”, afirmou o presidente executivo da empresa que é dona do motor de busca mais conhecido do mundo numa entrevista à Bloomberg TV.
Schmidt afirmou ainda que “continuamos a fazer as mesmas coisas excitantes e malucas que a Google sempre fez.”"
"Viva ao aquecimento global, finalmente à praia em Braga!"
Desejam devolver à arte radiofónica (?) a sua pureza e honestidade anteriores. Independentemente do tema tratado, torna-se essencial que a obra transmita uma ideia autêntica, fruto da individualidade do autor.
Este não tem de se submeter a regras rígidas e castradoras de construção, deve antes ser livre na sua criação artística.
O autor aspira à beleza poética, à representação além da realidade audível: trabalha-se com a matéria da alma e a espiritualidade. Esta representação do "sonho" vai-se traduzir formalmente na busca da harmonia e equilíbrio entre os elementos.
(adaptado das ideias da Irmandade Pré-Rafaelita – pintores do século XIX)
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one thats on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. Shes a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldnt vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that shes seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we cant, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
At a time when womens voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome. Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:
Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.
"Yes We Can!"
"Tudo cai, tudo tomba, derrocada pavorosa!". É o início de um poema de Florbela Espanca mas podia ser o arranque de um comentário de Bolsa. Não, todavia, o de hoje. Mas, quem sabe, o de amanhã?[+]
“«Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters», one e-mail from an S&P employee said. (…)
In the September 2007 e-mail made public today, the Moody's employee said that it «seems to me that we had blinders on and never questioned the information we were given». (…)
The e-mail continued: «Combined, these errors make us look either incompetent at credit analysis, or like we sold our soul to the devil for revenue.» (…)
«What happened in '04 and '05 with respect to subordinated tranches is that our competition, Fitch and S&P, went nuts. Everything was investment grade,'' McDaniel (CEO Moody’s) said in the meeting. «We tried to alert the market. We said we're not rating it. This stuff isn't investment grade. No one cared because the machine just kept going».(…)
In one document, an S&P employee in the structured finance division wrote: «It could be structured by cows and we would rate it».”
"On the Right side there is nothing right and on the Left side there is nothing left"
“Errei ao presumir que os interesses próprios das organizações, em particular dos bancos e outras, eram tais que seriam os mais capazes de proteger os seus accionistas e a equidade das suas firmas.”
"Nos primeiros três meses do ano, o fundo teve uma rentabilidade negativa dos activos de 5,6%, tendo o seu valor sido afectado em 115 mil milhões de coroas norueguesas (cerca de 14,5 mil milhões de euros).
"Este é o pior trimestre que já tivemos", referiu um perito à Bloomberg.
"Março foi o mês em que as complicações atingiram o auge", afirmou o mesmo perito.
Este fundo soberano é financiado pelas receitas da produção norueguesa de petróleo e gás natural e, de acordo com a DnB NOR, maior instituição de crédito do país, deverá ascender ao 5,7 biliões de coroas norueguesas (cerca de 721,1 mil milhões de euros) até 2015."
"At the end of 2006, Citigroup Inc. was the fourth-largest company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, with a market value of $274 billion, almost four times that of Apple Inc. Now investors say the maker of iPods is worth $7.7 billion more than the biggest financial services provider."
15th Anniversary: The Cultural Legacy of Neon Genesis Evangelion
"Stocks look to extend gains next week in a post-Bear-Stearns world"
"EUR-USD 1.5047"