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segunda-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2011

11 pessoas somem por dia no Estado


Enquanto maior parte dos homens desaparecidos é de adultos, maioria das mulheres é adolescente; cadastro nacional não saiu do papel

21 de fevereiro de 2011 | 0h 00
Camilla Haddad e Elvis Pereira - O Estado de S.Paulo

O pôster na janela do sobradinho no Jardim das Belezas, em Carapicuíba, resume uma vida cercada de sonhos e projetos. Aos 23 anos, Ana Paula Moreno Germano saiu para trabalhar em 3 de outubro de 2009 e nunca mais voltou. Sua família a espera com o quarto ainda montado e os presentes de aniversário que não puderam ser entregues.

Epitacio Pessoa/AE-17/2/2011
Epitacio Pessoa/AE-17/2/2011
Drama. Sandra Moreno, no quarto da filha Ana Paula: 13.089 desaparecidos no Estado de São Paulo em quase três anos

Ana Paula consta da lista de 13.089 pessoas que desapareceram no Estado de São Paulo entre 1.º de janeiro de 2008 e 9 de fevereiro deste ano, conforme dados da Polícia Civil. Ou 11 pessoas - mulheres, homens, crianças ou idosos - por dia.

Os homens respondem pela maior parte desse contingente: 8.544 - 1,4 mil com histórico de doença psiquiátrica, mental ou alcoolismo. Do total, 71% tinham mais de 18 anos e outros 17%, entre 13 e 18. Segundo o Departamento de Homicídios e Proteção à Pessoa (DHPP), eles somem mais do que as mulheres por um conjunto de fatores: quebram vínculo familiar mais facilmente, envolvem-se mais com crime, usam mais álcool e droga.

As mulheres desaparecidas somam 4.545. Metade entrou nessa condição ainda na adolescência, diferentemente dos homens, que somem mais na fase adulta. Outras 1,6 mil (35%) já tinham mais de 18 anos. De acordo com o DHPP, as garotas normalmente fogem antes da maioridade para escapar da opressão em casa ou viver com namorado. Casos de vítimas recrutadas para exploração sexual são esporádicos.

Também estão na lista de desaparecidos 320 meninos e meninas com até 7 anos e 657 na faixa dos 8 aos 12. Às vezes, são vítimas dos próprios parentes. É comum, segundo o DHPP, serem raptados por pais divorciados.

Nesses três anos, parentes e amigos comunicaram às delegacias paulistas o sumiço de 63.150 pessoas - 19.445 na capital. Dessas queixas, 50.061 foram esclarecidas. Boa parte das pessoas reapareceu espontaneamente. Outras vítimas, entretanto, são encontradas mortas, a exemplo da advogada Mércia Nakashima, que desapareceu em maio de 2010 e foi achada sem vida no mês seguinte em uma represa. Mais 117 desaparecidos foram achados mortos no ano passado (1% das 12.099 ocorrências esclarecidas em 2010). Além de homicídio, há vítimas de acidentes de trânsito, afogamento e suicídio.

O DHPP atribui a dificuldade nas investigações a fatores como extensão do território brasileiro, falta de informações de familiares (que às vezes desconhecem a rotina do parente), inexistência de um sistema unificado de identidade no País e descumprimento pelos hospitais de lei que os obriga a informar à Delegacia de Desaparecidos quando um paciente em estado grave chega desacompanhado.

Paralelamente ao trabalho da polícia, profissionais liberais e entidades lutam para ajudar as famílias. Em fevereiro de 2003 entrou no ar o site Desapareceu, criado pelo webdesigner Stylianos Mandis Junior, para ajudar a divulgar fotos de desaparecidos. "Vi que alguns sites cobravam e resolvi ajudar. Temos uma lista com 27 mil cadastrados." Na ONG Caminho de Volta, ligada à Faculdade de Medicina da USP, profissionais dão apoio psicológico a parentes e também há um banco de dados.

Projeto parado. Em fevereiro do ano passado, o governo federal lançou o Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas Desaparecidas. Seria uma ferramenta importante, que funcionaria online, com dados de desaparecidos de São Paulo e outros Estados. Mas, segundo Ivanise Esperidão, presidente da ONG Mães da Sé, apesar da utilidade, o sistema ainda não entrou em operação. "Fico muito triste. Sou mãe e criei expectativas muito grandes de identificar minha filha e outras pessoas."

A filha de Ivanise sumiu aos 13 anos, em 1996. Procurado, o Ministério da Justiça, responsável por "questões operacionais do cadastro", não respondeu.




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Pesquisa diz que 5 mulheres apanham a cada 2 minutos


21 de fevereiro de 2011 | 8h 33
AE - Agência Estado

Pesquisa feita pela Fundação Perseu Abramo em parceria com o Sesc projeta uma chocante estatística: a cada dois minutos, cinco mulheres são agredidas violentamente no Brasil. E já foi pior: há 10 anos, eram oito as mulheres espancadas no mesmo intervalo.

Realizada em 25 Estados, a pesquisa Mulheres brasileiras e gênero nos espaços público e privado ouviu em agosto do ano passado 2.365 mulheres e 1.181 homens com mais de 15 anos. Aborda diversos temas e complementa estudo similar de 2001. Mas a parte que salta aos olhos é, novamente, a da violência doméstica.

"Os dados mostram que a violência contra a mulher não é um problema privado, de casal. É social e exige políticas públicas", diz Gustavo Venturi, professor da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e supervisor da pesquisa.

Para chegar à estimativa de mais de duas mulheres agredidas por minuto, os pesquisadores partiram da amostra para fazer uma projeção nacional. Concluíram que 7,2 milhões de mulheres com mais de 15 anos já sofreram agressões - 1,3 milhão nos 12 meses que antecederam a pesquisa.

A pequena diminuição do número de mulheres agredidas entre 2001 e 2010 pode ser atribuída, em parte, à Lei Maria da Penha. "A lei é uma expressão da crescente consciência do problema da violência contra as mulheres", afirma Venturi.

Entre os pesquisados, 85% conhecem a lei e 80% aprovam a nova legislação. Mesmo entre os 11% que a criticam, a principal ressalva é ao fato de que a lei é insuficiente. As informações são do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo.





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Terminal do aeroporto de Milão é evacuado após tiroteio


Homem, que portava uma faca, invadiu local com carro e pretendia ir atrás de sua mulher

21 de fevereiro de 2011 | 8h 54
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ROMA - O Terminal 1 do aeroporto de Malpensa, em Milão, foi evacuado nesta segunda-feira, 21, após um incidente que culminou em um tiroteio, informaram fontes da agência que gerencia o aeroporto, a SEA.

Segundo as primeiras informações da mídia italiana, o tiroteio aconteceu depois que um cidadão estrangeiro tentou transpassar as portas na área de saída do terminal com seu carro para alcançar sua mulher, que iria tomar um voo.

Pouco depois de bater seu carro contra uma porta, o homem saiu do veículo com uma faca na mão e, para detê-lo, os agentes de segurança do aeroporto foram obrigados a atirar, apenas ferindo sua perna.

O canal de televisão de informação por satélite Sky Tg24 informou que os todos os voos foram temporariamente suspensos.






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Núcleo da Terra gira mais devagar do que se pensava até agora


Núcleo cresce mais devagar na medida em que fluído externo vai se solidificando sobre superfície do externo

21 de fevereiro de 2011 | 9h 05
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WASHINGTON - Um grupo de geofísicos descobriu que o núcleo da Terra gira mais devagar do que acreditava-se previamente, afetando o campo magnético, indica um artigo publicado neste domingo na revista Nature Geoscience.

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Núcleo da Terra gira mais devagar do que acreditava-se previamente

O estudo desenvolvido pelo Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Cambridge detalha que o núcleo do planeta se move mais lentamente do que o grau anual do que se pensava, a velocidade de rotação é inferior a um grau a cada 1 milhão de anos.

O núcleo interno da Terra cresce mais devagar na medida em que o fluído externo vai se solidificando sobre a superfície do núcleo externo, afirma a pesquisa de Lauren Waszek, e a diferença na velocidade hemisférica leste-oeste deste processo fica congelada na estrutura do núcleo interno.

"Descobrimos que a velocidade de rotação provém da evolução da estrutura hemisférica, e assim demonstramos que os hemisférios e a rotação são compatíveis", explica Waszek.

Até agora, assinalou a geofísico da Universidade de Cambridge, este era um importante problema para a geofísica, "porque as rápidas velocidades de rotação eram incompatíveis com os hemisférios observados no núcleo interno, não permitiam tempo suficiente para que as diferenças congelassem a estrutura".

Para obter estes resultados, os cientistas utilizaram ondas sísmicas que cruzaram o núcleo interno, 5,2 mil quilômetros abaixo da superfície da Terra, e as compararam com o tempo de viagem das ondas refletidas na superfície do núcleo.

Posteriormente, observaram as diferenças na rotação dos hemisférios leste e oeste e comprovaram que giram de maneira consistente em direção a leste e para dentro, por isso que a estrutura mais profunda é a mais velha.

A descoberta é importante porque o calor produzido durante a solidificação e o crescimento do núcleo interno dirige a convecção do fluído nas camadas externas do núcleo.

Os fluxos de calor são os que encontram os campos magnéticos, que protegem à superfície terrestre da radiação solar, e sem os quais não haveria vida na Terra.

Waszek disse que os resultados "apresentam uma perspectiva adicional para compreender a evolução do nosso campo magnético".







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20 free attractions in London


  • Robert Reid
  • Lonely Planet Author


Who cares if London’s hotels and restaurants tend to be on the expensive side? No city in the world has more free stuff to do. In addition to world-class museums without a ticket admission, you get the parks, canal walks, super markets (Portobello Road Market at Notting Hill Gate, Camden Market at Chalk Farm Rd, wonderful Columbia Road Flower Market at Gosset St in East London etc) and maybe some royal-spotting, and you can fill a life. London, thank you!

Here’s the mere start of the free list:

1. Borough Market
Around, more or less, since the 13th century, the Borough Market is an stuffed with food-lovers and all you need for a memorable grab-and-go breakfast or lunch. One of the top attractions south of the river. Open Thursday to Saturday (go on Saturday to catch the market at its bustling best).

2. British Film Institute’s Mediatheque
Hidden under Waterloo Bridge, the institute features four cinemas (not free) and the fun Mediatheque, where you can peruse DTV/film archives and watch for free.

3. British Museum
Unreal; one of London’s top attractions, and absolutely free. When I was in London, I’d hop in for 20 minutes, peek at the Rosetta Stone, and move on, saving Aztec mosaic masks or the head-smashed ‘Lindow Man’ (a 1st-century unfortunate found in a peat bog in 1984) and seven million other items for another visit. Watch for worthwhile 20- and 50-minute eyeOpener tours offered for free too.

4. Houses of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster, home of ‘Big Ben’ (or Clock Tower), is a neo-Gothic wonder from the mid 19th century. And it’s full of houses: namely the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Reserve ahead to watch antics during Parliament sessions. www.parliament.uk

5. Museum of London
Off the radar to most visitors, yet one of the city’s great attractions, this museum offers a walk through London’s various incarnations — from Thames Valley geological history, to Anglo-Saxons and 21st-century bankers. Plus there’s a nice cafe in its garden.

6. National Gallery
Its 2000 Western European classics by Van Gogh, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo is a serious art stop, with over five million popping into the building on Trafalgar Square each year. Miss the hordes weekday mornings or Wednesday evenings (after 6pm). Any time, it’s all free.

7. National Maritime Museum
Greenwich’s best attraction, this neoclassical building museum gets more interesting and fun the deeper you go in. The focus is on Britain’s seafaring past, including the bullet that felled Horatio Nelson, a replica of Ernest Shackleton’s life boat and plenty of kid-friendly interactive exhibits in the Your Ocean exhibit.

8. National Portrait Gallery
Before Google or Wikipedia, the English came here to put a face to the name of a who’s who list in history. Here, a block north of the National Gallery on St Martin’s Pl, you’ll see paintings and sculpture, including Andy Warhol’s take on the Queen.

9. Natural History Museum
Those Victorians sure liked to ‘c & c’ (collect and catalogue). This is the result, an outrageous collection of things nature in a lovely Gothic Revival building from 1880. A diplodocus dinosaur skeleton watches the entrance. Farther in comes a T-Rex and the Darwin Centre, with 450,000 jars of pickled specimens. A wildlife garden is open April to September only.

10. Photographers’ Gallery
Wonderful contemporary photo collection in the West End benefits from its new two-floor space — where the gallery’s been since 2008. Plus there’s a great cafe. www.photonet.org.uk

11. Science Museum
Highly informative and entertaining Science Museum fills seven floors with interactive exhibits. The Energy Hall highlights the first steam locomotives of the early 19th century; big with kids are the third floor exhibits, including old gliders, hot-air balloons and flight simulators.

12. Serpentine Gallery
Looking like a 1930s-style tearoom in leafy Kensington Gardens, this gallery is a lovely spot to take in one of London’s most important contemporary art collections, with works by Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and the like. Loads of natural light pour through huge windows. Each year a new ‘Summer Pavilion’ (May to October) is opened nearby, to host open-air cinema and readings.

13. Sir John Soane’s Museum
Son of a bricklayer – OK, I just wanted to say bricklayer, it’s true – Soane’s West End home is filled with the early 19th-century architect’s personal effects and curiosities, making up one of London’s most atmospheric and fascinating sights that few know exists. The house is largely as Soane left it upon his death in 1837, from Christopher Wren drawings, a lantern room and slaves’ chains. Aim to go on the first Tuesday of the month, when the home’s lit by candles.

14. St Paul’s Church
Not to be confused with St Paul’s Cathedral (a big attraction that comes with a ticket price), this church on the western flank of Covent Garden Piazza is known as the ‘actor’s church‘. The first Punch and Judy show took place in 1662, and there are memorials for Charlie Chaplin and Vivien Leigh, the most famous faux British Confederate of all time.

15. Tate Britain
The older half of the Tate duo (the modern bits moved upriver in 2000) is no stodgy sister. Here, permanent works focus on British masterpieces from the 16th to late 20th centuries. Look for one-hour thematic tours and 15-minute talks on painters and paintings, all part of the admission price: nothing.

16. Tate Modern
Speaking of which, this mod half of the Tate, hiply set in the Bankside Power Station on the Thames, is one of the city’s most beloved attractions. Special exhibits cost £8-10, but you can spend much time enjoying its permanent (free) collection of 60,000 works (Pollock, Warhol, Rodin, Matisse), wrapped in uniquely themed exhibits such as ‘Poetry & Dream’ for the surreal. The upstairs cafe has wonderful Thames views, and the building’s amazing.

17. Temple Church
Da Vinci Code fans, and you know you kinda are one, make this church – with origins dating to the 12th century – a must-see in London, for its role in a key scene. It’s a distinctive place, built by crusading monks, with a traffic-free oasis of green spaces amidst the buildings in the City.

18. Victoria & Albert Museum
Open since 1852, its 4.5 million objects – like the stunner entry chandelier by Dale Chihuly – make it, very simply, the world’s best decorative arts museum. Have plenty of time. The first floor focuses on Asian (Japanese swords, ancient Chinese ceramics) and some European art, including plaster casts Michelangelo used for his David. Then there’s a photography collection of half a million images, picked up over its 160 years. The Ardabil Carpet in the Middle East-focused Jameel Gallery is one of the world’s oldest, dating from Iran in the 1500s.

19. Wallace Collection
Arguably London’s finest small gallery, and way off the normal map, the collection is an enthralling glimpse into 18th-century aristocratic life, set up in a sumptuous restored Italianate mansion stuffed with 17th- and 18th-century art works. Superb, unless of course you live in such a place already.

20. Whitechapel Gallery
Home to 10 galleries in an art nouveau building first opened in 1899, the Whitechapel mixes up is themed exhibits between established and emerging artists. Picasso’s Guernica was first shown here in 1939. Watch for music, readings and films on Thursdays and some Fridays, or pop into the uberdesigned cafe for a break.






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Music from a Tree

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.



  • In the garden of my house there's a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

    To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.

    I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn't use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.

    Below you can see the video and some pictures with more detailed descriptions.
    I hope you'll like it.

  • Video



  • Pictures
  • I modified a stethoscope by using some hose accessories.The connection between the plastic pipe and the microphone needed to be sealed in order to transmit the sound well.

  • Here I was recording the low frequencies coming from a big piece of cortex. I used this sound as a kick drum.

  • The two Røde NT6 attached to my fingers with rubber bands. I came up with this idea because mike stands are not very practical for certain locations and also because in this way I can move the microphones dynamically around the object I'm recording.

  • Tuning the twig by trimming it with a pencil sharpener.

  • This is the twig that I was using to play the bass note.

  • A little twig I used for high-pitched sounds.

  • The track is also available as an high-quality download on my Bandcamp page:
    http://diegostocco.bandcamp.com/track/music-from-a-tree





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#GASTRONOMIA Pasta Pie

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...like a big Pasta Pie. Snort. I know, I know, the corni-ness over here borders on the ridiculous but what would you have called it?

With the enthusiasm my children showed for this recipe, you would have thought I reinvented the wheel. I guess rigatoni standing at attention has a way of impressing children?

It is kind of cool. Leave it to Martha to come up with another bang-buster of an idea to get my house in a tizzy.

The key to this recipe, as far as taste goes, is using quality ingredients. Good quality pasta, cheese and ESPECIALLY crushed tomatoes. I really like the brand, Muir Glen, as far as canned tomatoes go. If you cannot find high quality crushed tomatoes, buy canned whole tomatoes instead, crushing them yourself. Whole tomatoes must meet a higher standard at the processing plant, therefore taste better.

Your family is going to love this when you place it on the table on a cake pedestal with garlic bread and a salad. It's different and fun.

Let's put this together:




You will need: Crushed tomatoes, fresh garlic, Parmesan cheese and mozzarella.




Ground beef, rigatoni pasta, olive oil, butter, salt and pepper are also needed.




In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook 1 pound rigatoni pasta until slightly underdone (I cooked mine for 12 minutes when the box indicated 14 minutes). One pound of pasta should be cooked in 6 quarts of water, make sure you are using a big enough pot so the pasta doesn't stick together. When done, rinse in cold water and drain again. Toss pasta with 1 Tablespoon olive oil to coat. Set aside.




Heat remaining 1 Tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 pound ground beef. Cook, stirring occasionally until browned. Add 2 cloves crushed garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper. Cook 2 minutes more.




Add 1 can good quality (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes; simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.




Toss pasta with 1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese.




Butter a 9-inch springform pan. Tightly pack pasta into pan, standing each piece on end.




Spread meat sauce on top of pasta.




Push the meat sauce into the pasta holes filling each one up. Stuffing the meat into the holes is a weirdly satisfying task. Enough said.

Place in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes.




Sprinkle 8 ounces mozzarella cheese on top and bake another 10-15 minutes until cheese is golden.




Remove from oven and let stand for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edge to loosen and then unmold.

Can you see the two craters? That's what will happen if you don't get meat into the hole. I think it looks cool.




Cut into wedges and serve with any remaining meat sauce you might have.




This stays together well and slices perfectly.




Where ever you decide to cut, each of the pasta pockets are filled with meat.




It also has a nice cheese crust. You will love this even though it's just pasta...the presentation makes it special.

Pasta Pie
Adapted from Martha Stewart

1 pound rigatoni
2 Tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 pound ground beef
(I used ground sirloin)
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 can (28 ounces) good quality crushed tomatoes
Butter, for pan
Salt
1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
8 ounces coarsely grated mozzarella

In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta until slightly underdone (I cooked mine for 12 minutes when the box indicated 14 minutes). One pound of pasta should be cooked in 6 quarts of water, make sure you are using a big enough pot so the pasta doesn't stick together. When done, rinse in cold water and drain again. Toss pasta with 1 Tablespoon olive oil to coat. Set aside.

Heat remaining 1 Tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add ground beef. Cook, stirring occasionally until browned. Add garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper. Cook 2 minutes more.

Add crushed tomatoes; simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

Toss pasta with Parmesan cheese. Butter a 9-inch springform pan. Tightly pack pasta into pan, standing each piece on end. Spread meat sauce on top of pasta.

Push the meat sauce into the pasta holes filling each one up. Stuffing the meat into the holes is a weirdly satisfying task. Enough said.

Place in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top and bake another 10-15 minutes until cheese is golden. Remove from oven and let stand for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edge to loosen and then unmold.

Cut into wedges and serve with any remaining meat sauce you might have.






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