#148 No Agenda For Sunday November 15th 2009
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There are a lot of factors in losing and maintaining a healthy diet and weight, but the HealthAssist blog points out that eating slowly might play a larger role than you realize.Portion size and eating speed seem to be part of the reason for the famous “French paradox” — the relatively low incidence of heart disease and overweight in France as compared to the United States, despite the generally high intake of calorie-rich foods and saturated fat. It is well documented that the French take longer to eat than Americans, despite the French eating smaller portions. Recently Japanese researchers found strong positive correlation between rate of eating and body mass index (BMI) and obesity
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da Folha de S.Paulo
Que muitos portugueses e brasileiros têm ancestrais judeus e mouros convertidos ao cristianismo --os "cristãos-novos"-- é algo conhecido pela história e pela presença de sobrenomes como Pereira ou Oliveira. Cientistas da Europa e de Israel, estudando o cromossomo masculino Y, demonstraram agora o grau dessa presença na península Ibérica.
O estudo revelou que, em média, os espanhóis e portugueses têm 19,8% de genes de ancestrais judeus sefarditas e 10,6% de ancestrais norte-africanos. Em alguns locais, como o sul de Portugal, a mistura gênica de judeus chegou a 36,3%.
Mais do que refletir a ocupação moura de partes da península, a pesquisa revelou o impacto da conversão forçada de muitos muçulmanos e judeus após a Reconquista cristã.
O estudo, chefiado por Mark A. Jobling, da Universidade de Leicester, Reino Unido, foi publicado ontem na revista "American Journal of Human Genetics". "O cromossomo Y foi estudado porque, de todas as partes do nosso genoma, ele mostra a maior diferenciação geográfica entre populações e, por isso, pode nos permitir ver os efeitos de migrações na península", disse Jobling à Folha.
Os pesquisadores checaram a freqüência dos chamados haplogrupos (mutações de genes do cromossomo Y) entre os homens dos dois lados do estreito de Gibraltar e entre judeus sefarditas vivendo em Israel e em outros locais do Mediterrâneo.
Entre portugueses e espanhóis, o haplogrupo mais comum foi o chamado R1b3 * --presente em 55% dos 1.140 espanhóis e portugueses testados. Já entre os norte-africanos o mais comum era o E3b2 (54% entre 361 cromossomos testados); entre os sefarditas nenhum haplogrupo predominou, mas três deles tiveram cada um freqüências em torno de 15% entre 174 cromossomos --J2, J*(xJ2) e G.
"Nós também achamos traços das invasões norte-africanas no DNA mitocondrial, transmitido por mulheres", complementa outro autor do estudo, Francesc Calafell, da Universidade Pompeu Fabra, de Barcelona, Espanha.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u475560.shtml
A Defesa Civil alerta aos que desejam contribuir em dinheiro para as vítimas atingidas pelas fortes chuvas, no litoral de Santa Catarina, para que prestem atenção nas contas onde estão efetuando o depósito. Muitos golpistas têm utilizado a internet, se passando pela Defesa Civil, e pedindo dinheiro em contas não-oficiais, através de e-mails.
Na manhã desse sábado, a Defesa Civil recebeu a informação de que um brasileiro, que mora na Inglaterra, abriu uma conta para arrecadar ajuda de outros brasileiros que moram na Europa. Esse tipo de conta não é reconhecida como oficial pela Defesa Civil e é provável que seja objeto de golpe.
A Defesa Civil disponibiliza oito contas oficiais nos bancos:
SICOOB SC - 756
Agência 1005
Conta Corrente 2008-7
Caixa Econômica Federal
Agência 1877
Operação 006
Conta 80.000-8
Banco do Brasil
Agência 3582-3
Conta Corrente 80.000-7
Besc
Agência 068-0
Conta Corrente 80.000-0
Bradesco S/A - 237
Agência 0348-4
Conta Corrente 160.000-1
Itaú S/A - 341
Agência 0289
Conta Corrente 69971-2
SICREDI - 748
Agência 2603
Conta Corrente 3500-9
SANTANDER - 033
Agência 1227
Conta Corrente 430000052
Nome da pessoa jurídica é Fundo Estadual de Defesa Civil, CNPJ - 04.426.883/0001-57.
Municípios abrem contas
Alguns dos municípios afetados também abriram contas para ajudar suas comunidades afetadas, os números das contas e bancos podem ser consultados pelo 199, na Defesa Civil de cada cidade.
Conta de Ilhota
Banco do Brasil
Agência: 3148-8
Conta corrente: 90.000-1
Prefeitura Municipal de Ilhota
http://rustle.blogsome.com/2008/11/18/credit-crunch-in-ancient-rome-3/
Shortly after the great tsunami hit, I was reading Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall . . . ” and I came upon a wonderful description of a similar event in antiquity. Whilst on the plane back from Berlin today I had a similar experience whilst reading Tacitus’ “The Annals of Imperial Rome” A wonderful description of a credit crunch, complete with property slump and government bail-out. From the reign of Tiberius:
Accusers were now intesely active. Their present targets were men who enriched themselves by usury, infringing laws by which the dictator Julius Ceasar had controlled loans and land-ownership in Italy. Since patriotism comes second to private profits, this law had long been ignored. Money-lending is an ancient problem in Rome, and a frequent cause of disharmony and disorder. Even in an earlier, less currupt society steps had been taken against it. At first, interest had been determined arbitrarily by the rich, but then the Twelve Tables had fixed the maximum at 10 per cent. Next, a tribune’s law had halved the rate. Finally loans on compound interest were forbidden completely. Fraudulence, attacked by repeated legislation, was ingeniously revived after each successive counter-measure.
Now, however, the praetor Sempronius Gracchus, responsible for the investigation, was compelled by the numbers of potential defendants to refer the matter to the senate. That body - being implicated to a man - nervously entreated the emporer’s indulgence. It was granted. Eighteen months were allowed in which all private finances had to be brought into line with the law. The result was a shortage of money. For all debts were called in simultaneously, and the numerous convictions and sales of confiscated property had concentrated currency in the Treasury and its imperially controlled branches. To meet this situation the senate had instructed that creditors should invest two-thirds of their capital in Italy, and debtors immediately pay the same proportion of their debts.
However, creditors demanded payment in full, and debtors were morally bound to respond. The first results were importunate appeals to money-lenders. Next, the praetors’s court resounded with activity. The decree requiring land purchase and sales, envisaged as relief, had the opposite effect since when the capitalists received payment they hoarded it, to buy land at their convenience. These extensive transactions reduced prices. but large-scale debtors found it difficult to sell; so many of them were ejected from their properties, and lost not only their estates but their rank and reputation.
Then Tiberius came to the rescue. He distributed a hundred million sesterces among specially established banks, for interest-free three year state loans, against security of double the value in landed property. Credit was thus restored; and gradually private lenders, too, reappeared. However, land transactions failed to adhere to the provisions of the senatorial decree. As usual, the beginning was strict, the sequel slack.
’nuff said.
