Roberto Carlos sign for Corinthians
quarta-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2009
SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS
Roberto Carlos agrees to sign for Corinthians
By Soccernet staff
December 2, 2009
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Roberto Carlos will be reunited with former Real Madrid and Brazil team-mate Ronaldo at Corinthians.
The former Brazil left-back has confirmed that he has agreed a two-year deal with the club and will officially sign on December 20, where he will link up with striker Ronaldo, as the team attempt to win the Libertadores Cup, the South American version of the Champions League, for the first time in their 100-year history.
Carlos, who won 124 Brazilian caps, joined Fenerbahce in the summer of 2007 from Real Madrid, but will return to his home country to join the Sao Paolo team after the Turkish league finishes for its winter break.
"I'm anxious to get to Corinthians, put their shirt on, feel the support of the fans and make history alongside Ronaldo," Carlos told Radio Record. "Corinthians are a club who are investing, they want to be Libertadores champions next year, they're a club building confidence to become champions.
"I'm proud to be able to play in the same team as [Ronaldo] again."
Although Carlos has announced the move, Corinthians are yet to officially confirm the transfer, but club president Andres Sanchez is confident the fans will see the Brazilian greats reunited.
"Roberto Carlos is very close, he is yet to sign a contract but he gave his word and that is enough," he said. "First he must return from Turkey and we hope to put a shirt on him between Christmas and the New Year. At the latest he will be here in early January."
Roberto Carlos agrees to sign for Corinthians
By Soccernet staff
December 2, 2009
Comment
Roberto Carlos will be reunited with former Real Madrid and Brazil team-mate Ronaldo at Corinthians.
The former Brazil left-back has confirmed that he has agreed a two-year deal with the club and will officially sign on December 20, where he will link up with striker Ronaldo, as the team attempt to win the Libertadores Cup, the South American version of the Champions League, for the first time in their 100-year history.
Carlos, who won 124 Brazilian caps, joined Fenerbahce in the summer of 2007 from Real Madrid, but will return to his home country to join the Sao Paolo team after the Turkish league finishes for its winter break.
"I'm anxious to get to Corinthians, put their shirt on, feel the support of the fans and make history alongside Ronaldo," Carlos told Radio Record. "Corinthians are a club who are investing, they want to be Libertadores champions next year, they're a club building confidence to become champions.
"I'm proud to be able to play in the same team as [Ronaldo] again."
Although Carlos has announced the move, Corinthians are yet to officially confirm the transfer, but club president Andres Sanchez is confident the fans will see the Brazilian greats reunited.
"Roberto Carlos is very close, he is yet to sign a contract but he gave his word and that is enough," he said. "First he must return from Turkey and we hope to put a shirt on him between Christmas and the New Year. At the latest he will be here in early January."
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The definition of croutons
quarta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2009
Small diced or shaped pieces of fried bread used to garnish soup and salads.
Pequenos pedaços ou em forma de cubos de pão frito usadas para enfeitar a sopa e saladas
Pequenos pedaços ou em forma de cubos de pão frito usadas para enfeitar a sopa e saladas
caesar salad
A tossed salad of greens, anchovies, croutons, and grated cheese with a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, and a raw or coddled egg.
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What Does "Free-Range" Chicken
Eggs Really Mean? Health Matters
Minutes Article
Oct 14, 2005
About Raised Chickens --- I Didn’t Know That!
I stopped buying regular farmed eggs a long time ago when I learned of the practices used to mass produce eggs by keeping hens cooped up and keeping artificial light on for longer time periods then daylight hours forcing hens to increase their egg production. I also learned about the unhealthy food hens were being fed. What an education!
I looked at egg cartons marked “Free Range” which were much more expensive and so I thought “These must be healthy,” but hesitated because no where on the carton did it indicate what kind of food the hens were being fed, nor did it say on the carton, “organic” and that made me suspicious.
So I did my homework and switched to organic eggs even though the price was still more expensive. I was happy with the knowledge that I was getting healthy and nutritious eggs.
Now here’s what I didn’t know about what “free-range” really meant.
Free-range, as defined by the USDA, allows labels that imply, and the producers very much want you to believe, that the bird spent its days freely roaming the countryside eating healthy food.
This is far from the truth!
What they don’t tell you is that this labeling legally means the bird was given access to the outside for as little as five minutes each day, and not that it actually did go out. Nowhere does the USDA demand that they feed so called “Free-Range” hens hormone or anti-biotic free healthy food. Very disturbing!
It’s truly sad that our USDA and the FDA are more concerned about protecting egg producer’s profits than they are about the general public’s good health. We see the same situation with most processed foods.
While we are on the subject of eggs and the blatant disregard the USDA and the FDA have for our health, let’s talk about mass produced chickens and how they impact on our health.
U.S. chickens, unless they are truly free range and are organically raised, are raised in confinement in a small cage, so let me share this 2002 headline and article with you:
"US confinement-raised poultry not good enough for the Russians"
Early in March, 2002, Russia imposed a ban on the importation of all poultry from the United States.
Vladimir Fisinin, vice president of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, explained his government's position in the March 20th issue of The Moscow Times: "I would like to note that American farmers are injecting chickens with antibiotics used to treat people. This is prohibited in Russia." According to Fisinin, US poultry producers use such large doses of these drugs that they accumulate in the tissues of the birds. "It is dangerous," he said, "especially for children and older people."
Fisinin also asserted that giving antibiotics to chickens fosters the growth of drug-resistant bacteria. US medical experts agree. In a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers randomly selected 407 chickens from 26 stores in Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, and Oregon. More than half of the chickens were tainted with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(McDonald, L. C., et al. "Quinupristin-Dalfopristin-Resistant Enterococcus Faecium on Chicken and in Human Stool Specimens."N Engl J Med345, no. 16 (2001): 1155-60.)
Now here’s another headline I’m sure you missed:
"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria NOT found in free-range chickens"
One of the problems with raising large numbers of animals in confinement is that disease is more common, resulting in a greater reliance on antibiotics. Over time, the bacteria mutate and become resistant to the drugs.
When we humans become infected with these antibiotic-resistant bacteria, there are fewer effective medications available to treat us.
A survey of E. coli bacteria isolated from poultry raised in a state-of-the-art confinement poultry operation at a university found that all the bacteria were resistant to the commonly used antibiotic, Tetracycline, Streptomycin and Sulphonamide (Sulphafurazole).
By contrast, all the strains of bacteria isolated from free-range birds were sensitive to the drugs. (Ojeniyi, A. A. (1989). "Public health aspects of bacterial drug resistance in modern battery and town/village poultry" Acta Vet Scand 30(2): 127-32.)
Now for the third headline which puts the icing on the cake and tells you exactly where the interests of pharmaceutical companies and the producers of mass confinement raised chickens lie. They are totally committed to making multi-millions of dollars regardless of the consequences of their actions.
"Cipro's sister drug, Baytril, is being wasted on chickens."
Infected poultry are now being treated with Baytril, a drug very similar to the anthrax-fighting antibiotic Cipro.
The FDA, health advocates, and an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine have all urged Bayer, the producer, to withdraw the drug from the poultry industry. Bayer, veterinarians, and commercial poultry producers are in strong opposition. If Baytril is withdrawn, they argue, the United States will have to alter its poultry-raising practices.
That is exactly what needs to happen. It makes no sense to raise chickens or any other animals under conditions in which infection is anticipated and expected, requiring the routine use of antibiotics.
Bayer officials say they need more proof of damage to humans before they will stop supplying Baytril to chicken producers.
There is plenty of proof out there, but Bayer and the mass-produced poultry industry choose to ignore it.
Consider this: Why are today’s hens diseased and dead within two years if not sold beforehand for food purposes? Why do these young hens produce eggs so abundantly during their first and only year of egg production?
Young chicks are given hormones and antibiotics in their feed. Result ---- Chicks put on extra weight very quickly and their reproductive system develops prematurely causing an unnatural burst of egg production which quickly wears out the hen.
The onslaught of poisons soon overwhelms the hen’s liver causing the hen to develop liver cancer in about 20 months. Producers consign these hens to the slaughter house when their useful life is over and just before liver cancer can be detected. And we buy those chickens at the market.
Hormone drugged and antibiotic treated hens begin laying eggs at about 5 months of age.
Naturally raised hens, given healthy feed, don’t begin laying eggs until at least 10 to 12 months of age, and live at least twice as long as the diseased chickens.
You can now see the economic value in producing an enormous number of artificially engineered eggs and hens in a short period of time as opposed to naturally raised healthy hens and eggs. It’s all about money. How sad!
Ask yourself, what is the human cost of ingesting these hormones and antibiotics when you eat these eggs and chickens? Is it a wonder that so many millions of people have so many developed diseases?
Unless congress passes a law mandating the change in the way poultry is raised in this country, the only ones who can force the industry to change its ways, are you. When you switch to buying organically raised chickens and the diseased chickens or chicken parts are left sitting on the shelves, the poultry industry will get the message and be forced to change their ways.
Shop your health food store for organic chickens. Get a group together and ask your local supermarket to order organic chickens for you. Won’t work? --- don’t have a health food store nearby? (We sometimes travel 100 miles to get to one), find one in a distant city, make a day of it, and stock up on chicken, eggs and other truly organic foods.
It’s a lot cheaper to prevent disease than to pay for affecting a cure.
To your good health and longevity,
Eggs Really Mean? Health Matters
Minutes Article
Oct 14, 2005
About Raised Chickens --- I Didn’t Know That!
I stopped buying regular farmed eggs a long time ago when I learned of the practices used to mass produce eggs by keeping hens cooped up and keeping artificial light on for longer time periods then daylight hours forcing hens to increase their egg production. I also learned about the unhealthy food hens were being fed. What an education!
I looked at egg cartons marked “Free Range” which were much more expensive and so I thought “These must be healthy,” but hesitated because no where on the carton did it indicate what kind of food the hens were being fed, nor did it say on the carton, “organic” and that made me suspicious.
So I did my homework and switched to organic eggs even though the price was still more expensive. I was happy with the knowledge that I was getting healthy and nutritious eggs.
Now here’s what I didn’t know about what “free-range” really meant.
Free-range, as defined by the USDA, allows labels that imply, and the producers very much want you to believe, that the bird spent its days freely roaming the countryside eating healthy food.
This is far from the truth!
What they don’t tell you is that this labeling legally means the bird was given access to the outside for as little as five minutes each day, and not that it actually did go out. Nowhere does the USDA demand that they feed so called “Free-Range” hens hormone or anti-biotic free healthy food. Very disturbing!
It’s truly sad that our USDA and the FDA are more concerned about protecting egg producer’s profits than they are about the general public’s good health. We see the same situation with most processed foods.
While we are on the subject of eggs and the blatant disregard the USDA and the FDA have for our health, let’s talk about mass produced chickens and how they impact on our health.
U.S. chickens, unless they are truly free range and are organically raised, are raised in confinement in a small cage, so let me share this 2002 headline and article with you:
"US confinement-raised poultry not good enough for the Russians"
Early in March, 2002, Russia imposed a ban on the importation of all poultry from the United States.
Vladimir Fisinin, vice president of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, explained his government's position in the March 20th issue of The Moscow Times: "I would like to note that American farmers are injecting chickens with antibiotics used to treat people. This is prohibited in Russia." According to Fisinin, US poultry producers use such large doses of these drugs that they accumulate in the tissues of the birds. "It is dangerous," he said, "especially for children and older people."
Fisinin also asserted that giving antibiotics to chickens fosters the growth of drug-resistant bacteria. US medical experts agree. In a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers randomly selected 407 chickens from 26 stores in Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, and Oregon. More than half of the chickens were tainted with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(McDonald, L. C., et al. "Quinupristin-Dalfopristin-Resistant Enterococcus Faecium on Chicken and in Human Stool Specimens."N Engl J Med345, no. 16 (2001): 1155-60.)
Now here’s another headline I’m sure you missed:
"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria NOT found in free-range chickens"
One of the problems with raising large numbers of animals in confinement is that disease is more common, resulting in a greater reliance on antibiotics. Over time, the bacteria mutate and become resistant to the drugs.
When we humans become infected with these antibiotic-resistant bacteria, there are fewer effective medications available to treat us.
A survey of E. coli bacteria isolated from poultry raised in a state-of-the-art confinement poultry operation at a university found that all the bacteria were resistant to the commonly used antibiotic, Tetracycline, Streptomycin and Sulphonamide (Sulphafurazole).
By contrast, all the strains of bacteria isolated from free-range birds were sensitive to the drugs. (Ojeniyi, A. A. (1989). "Public health aspects of bacterial drug resistance in modern battery and town/village poultry" Acta Vet Scand 30(2): 127-32.)
Now for the third headline which puts the icing on the cake and tells you exactly where the interests of pharmaceutical companies and the producers of mass confinement raised chickens lie. They are totally committed to making multi-millions of dollars regardless of the consequences of their actions.
"Cipro's sister drug, Baytril, is being wasted on chickens."
Infected poultry are now being treated with Baytril, a drug very similar to the anthrax-fighting antibiotic Cipro.
The FDA, health advocates, and an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine have all urged Bayer, the producer, to withdraw the drug from the poultry industry. Bayer, veterinarians, and commercial poultry producers are in strong opposition. If Baytril is withdrawn, they argue, the United States will have to alter its poultry-raising practices.
That is exactly what needs to happen. It makes no sense to raise chickens or any other animals under conditions in which infection is anticipated and expected, requiring the routine use of antibiotics.
Bayer officials say they need more proof of damage to humans before they will stop supplying Baytril to chicken producers.
There is plenty of proof out there, but Bayer and the mass-produced poultry industry choose to ignore it.
Consider this: Why are today’s hens diseased and dead within two years if not sold beforehand for food purposes? Why do these young hens produce eggs so abundantly during their first and only year of egg production?
Young chicks are given hormones and antibiotics in their feed. Result ---- Chicks put on extra weight very quickly and their reproductive system develops prematurely causing an unnatural burst of egg production which quickly wears out the hen.
The onslaught of poisons soon overwhelms the hen’s liver causing the hen to develop liver cancer in about 20 months. Producers consign these hens to the slaughter house when their useful life is over and just before liver cancer can be detected. And we buy those chickens at the market.
Hormone drugged and antibiotic treated hens begin laying eggs at about 5 months of age.
Naturally raised hens, given healthy feed, don’t begin laying eggs until at least 10 to 12 months of age, and live at least twice as long as the diseased chickens.
You can now see the economic value in producing an enormous number of artificially engineered eggs and hens in a short period of time as opposed to naturally raised healthy hens and eggs. It’s all about money. How sad!
Ask yourself, what is the human cost of ingesting these hormones and antibiotics when you eat these eggs and chickens? Is it a wonder that so many millions of people have so many developed diseases?
Unless congress passes a law mandating the change in the way poultry is raised in this country, the only ones who can force the industry to change its ways, are you. When you switch to buying organically raised chickens and the diseased chickens or chicken parts are left sitting on the shelves, the poultry industry will get the message and be forced to change their ways.
Shop your health food store for organic chickens. Get a group together and ask your local supermarket to order organic chickens for you. Won’t work? --- don’t have a health food store nearby? (We sometimes travel 100 miles to get to one), find one in a distant city, make a day of it, and stock up on chicken, eggs and other truly organic foods.
It’s a lot cheaper to prevent disease than to pay for affecting a cure.
To your good health and longevity,
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