July 2008After years of decreased logging, the land-grabbers and profiteers are returning to the Amazon basin. Timber companies claim areas of forest, burn villages, fell trees and sell on the land as pasture. [ More Detail ]
Watch highlights for Brazil vs Argentina during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South America Qualifiers.For more great highlights, full game replays and news, visit http://qualifiers.jumptv.com [ More Detail ]
Watch highlights for Paraguay vs Brazil during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South America Qualifiers.For more great highlights, full game replays and news, visit http://qualifiers.jumptv.com [ More Detail ]
Filme que fala sobre as relações entre Aécio Neves, TV Globo e Estado de Minas. Filme produzido para a Current TV e exibido nos EUA e Inglaterra" [ More Detail ]
June 2003The violence spilling out of Brazil's slums or 'favelas' has made the country's two major cities more dangerous than most war zones. Children in Rio de Janeiro are eight times more likely to die violently than those in the West Bank. "They live on a kill or be killed basis," states anthropologist Luke Dowdney, who has spent five years studying the favelas. "If they don't kill someone when they're told to, they will be killed." [ More Detail ]
Maradona, a Moron on the pitch, could not help Argentina. They loose Badly swallowing 3 goals. Brasil es el papa de Argentina, mundial de 82. [ More Detail ]
In this edition, a splice of Brazil's two great music classics, "Aquarela do Brasil" (sung by Aloysio Oliveira --leader of the Miranda's Boys band- and Carmen Miranda) and "Tico Tico no Fubá" instrumental. The superb Disney's production, "Saludos, Amigos!", 1942, gives life to Donald Duck and Joe Carioca as they meet and enjoy the Brazilian samba in Rio. Carmen appears in a routine from "The Gang's All Here", 1943. [ More Detail ]
August 2005It's been over a century since Brazil officially abandoned slavery. But tens of thousands of impoverished workers are still being enslaved.Every year, some 50,000 slaves turn an area of the Amazon the size of Switzerland into a wasteland. Brazil's labour laws count for little in a country where the landowners are omnipotent "There's a culture of impunity," laments judge Leah Sarmento. "There are very rich and powerful people who expect to be able to buy anyone." She's received several death threats for prosecuting slave traders. "When the workers run up bills they can't pay, the Gatos, or labour foreman, come in and pay the bills. From that point on, he owns them," states anti slavery campaigner Henri des Rozier. But landowners deny that slavery exists and claim the allegations are invented by state subsidised European farmers. [ More Detail ]
May 2004Brazil has become the new paedophile capital of the world. The country's own politicians have been caught colluding in the sex industry. "Once I have found someone who helps me and likes me I will leave this life for good," says 12 year old Maiana. Already a veteran of the sex industry, she dreams of being whisked away by one of her foreign clients. But the sex industry is not fuelled by foreign tourists alone. Recent investigations show that sex rings are being run by men at the highest level in society. "There have been cases involving town councillors and mayors," states Waldermar Olivera from the children's charity CEDECA. "In one case the president of the council was abusing a three year old." Children are being sold to brothels abroad for as little as 15 cents. With corruption rife at every level, campaigners are having a tough time cracking down on abusers. [ More Detail ]
A passenger plane has crashed and burst into flames at Brazil's busiest airport, in the heart of Sao Paulo, killing up to 200 people. Rescue crews said none of the 186 people on board the Airbus A320 could have survived, while more people were killed on the ground. The TAM airliner skidded off the runway as it landed in wet weather, shot over a busy road and hit a fuel depot. Concerns had been raised about the safety of the runway during heavy rain. There had been persistent, heavy downpours in the two hours before the accident. See where and how crash unfolded TAM Express flight 3054 was carrying 186 passengers and crew when it attempted to land at Congonhas airport, which is mainly used for regional flights from other parts of Brazil and South America. All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion, and the ground beneath my feet shook Elias Rodrigues JesusTAM employeeThe plane was travelling to Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial capital, from Porto Alegre in the south of the country. After touching down on the main runway at 1850 (2150 GMT) on Tuesday, the jet began to skid and then dropped down a steep slope at the end of the runway. It then shot over a major road and crashed into a four-storey building used for storing cargo and fuel. The warehouse was busy with airport workers, some of whom had to jump out of windows. The plane's tail could later be seen sticking out from the building in flames. Fires were still burning hours after the crash, with black smoke trailing off into the night sky. An eyewitness, TAM employee Elias Rodrigues Jesus, said the plane exploded after slamming into the depot. "All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion, and the ground beneath my feet shook," he told the Associated Press news agency. "I looked up and I saw a huge ball of fire, and then I smelled the stench of kerosene and sulphur." A doctor at Sao Paulo's mortuary said 30 badly charred bodies had been brought in. Sao Paulo State Governor Jose Serra said: "I was told that the temperature inside the plane was 1,000C [1,830F], so the chances of there being any survivors are practically nil." President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning for the victims. Safety concerns The weather had been bad for much of the day and there has been concern for some time about safety at Congonhas during heavy rain. On Monday, a smaller plane skidded off the runway onto the nearby grass in similar conditions. In February, a judge briefly banned three types of large passenger jet from using the runway because it was too short to accommodate them, and because of concerns over the airport's drainage system Pilots had complained that water was pooling on the surface of the landing strip, making braking difficult and occasionally causing planes to skid out of control. Remedial work, including laying a new surface, has been carried out in recent months. Air safety in Brazil has been a major issue since a crash last year when a passenger plane collided with an executive jet over the Amazon, killing some 154 people [ More Detail ]
Roberto Grosman - O Google AdSense oferece aos editores de sites, de qualquer tamanho, uma forma rápida e fácil de exibir anúncios Google nas suas páginas de conteúdo e ganhar dinheiro. Os anúncios são relevantes, por que estão relacionados àquilo que os usuários procuram no seu site ou combinam com as características e interesses dos visitantes que o seu conteúdo normalmente atrai. Você pode monetizar e otimizar as suas páginas de conteúdo ao mesmo tempo. Esta palestra tem como objetivo apresentar a ferramenta AdSense e suas vantagens. [ More Detail ]
Bruno Diniz - A API do Google Maps permite que desenvolvedores projetem sistemas que possuam mapas fornecidos pelo Google Maps, incluindo todas as funcionalidades disponíves no site oficial do Google (http://maps.google.com). O desenvolvedor pode, por exemplo, incorporar em sua aplicação mapas para serem visualizados, busca por endereços, rotas, entre outras funcionalidades. Tudo isso é disponibilizado através de uma API bastante simples de ser utilizada e entendida. Esta palestra introduzirá a API do Google Maps através de exemplos simples de sua utilização prática. [ More Detail ]