O presidente do Sporting Clube de Portugal tornou público, esta sexta-feira, um texto em que mostra a sua indignação perante afirmações de Cláudio Ramos no programa “Passadeira Vermelha”, da SIC Caras. “Lamento muito que toda a SIC esteja a ser fortemente prejudicada por este comportamento infantil, mentiroso e reles de um simples comentador”, considera Bruno de Carvalho. E nem o diretor do canal, Daniel Oliveira, escapa a esta missiva.
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Após a quinta Bola de Ouro, capitão da seleção nacional autoproclama-se o melhor futebolista de sempre, em entrevista à France Football
Cristiano Ronaldo saiu de Paris no topo da lista dos prémios de melhor do mundo, após o penta na Bola de Ouro que o igualou ao rival Lionel Messi, e com uma firme convicção, confessada na tradicional entrevista à France Football, revista que organiza o prémio. “Eu sou o melhor jogador da História, nos bons e nos maus momentos”, disse.
À pergunta da revista francesa sobre se se considera o melhor futebolista de todos os tempos, o capitão da seleção portuguesa começou por responder que não vê “ninguém melhor” do que ele. E depois justificou a apreciação. “Nenhum jogador faz coisas que eu não faça, mas eu vejo coisas que outros não conseguem fazer. Não há jogador mais completo do que eu. Sou o melhor jogador da História. Nos bons e nos maus momentos.”
Aos 32 anos, Cristiano Ronaldo conquistou a quinta Bola de ouro da carreira, nove anos depois da primeira. Foi também a quarta nos últimos cinco anos, o que lhe permitiu igualar a rivalidade direta com o argentino Lionel Messi, numa luta que chegou a estar desequilibrada em 4-1 a favor do jogador do Barcelona. Ronaldo admitiu nesta entrevista à France Football que o domínio do argentino o estava a incomodar.
“É engraçado… Ganhei uma Bola de Ouro antes do Messi. Depois ele passou-me e ganhou quatro de seguida. Não escondo que me senti triste e com raiva. Ia às cerimónias e nunca ganhava. Chegou um ponto em que estava desmotivado, não queria mais ir. Estar lá só para a foto não me interessava”, confessou.
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Um dos seguranças foi baleado e morreu.
Caso aconteceu na discoteca Barrio Latino (na zona de Santos), segundo informou ao DN fonte da PSP.
Um grupo, ainda não identificado e que está em fuga, entrou na discoteca causando distúrbios.
“Desentendimentos” que prosseguiram depois de terem sido expulsos do local pelos seguranças, adianta a mesma fonte.
Um dos elementos do grupo, que regressou à discoteca, foi ao carro buscar uma arma e abriu fogo sobre os seguranças.
O segurança de 42 anos, baleado na cabeça, foi levado para o Hospital de São José, ainda com vida, onde acabou por morrer.
À chegada da PSP ao local já não estavam presentes nem a vítima – que tinha sido levada por amigos para o hospital – nem o grupo de agressores.
“Os seguranças expulsaram do interior da discoteca um grupo de pessoas que se envolveu num desentendimento, e uma dessas pessoas, já no exterior, foi à sua viatura buscar uma arma de fogo com a qual atingiu o segurança, que foi transportado numa viatura particular para o Hospital de S. José, onde infelizmente, veio a falecer”, explicou fonte da PSP
O caso está agora entregue à Polícia Judiciária, tendo a PSP recolhido as provas no local e identificado as pessoas que acompanharam o segurança ao Hospital de S. José.
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By PETER ESILA
A CAROLS-by-candlelight charity concert by the Gordon International School in Port Moresby ended in a donation of K20,065 to the Friends Foundation Inc.
Deputy principal Florence Sorman said during the event on Wednesday night the purpose was to bring the Gordon International School community together, experience the festive season “and the joy of giving for a worthy cause”.
She said K10,000 was handed over by the parents on the night while another donation to be done today.
She said the school would also be delivering 200 shoe-boxes packed with goodies and gifts for children of the foundation and other K10,065 which came from ticket and label sales raised by the school.
Friends Foundation Inc founder Tessie Soi was moved by the school’s kind gesture.
It is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to helping prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. It also supports mothers and children who are already living with the virus.
Soi said: “I have cared for over 3000 friends, I have buried over 369 babies, I have assisted over 1000 babies from becoming positive.
“At present, Friends Foundation is assisting 27 babies with lactogen milk. These are babies born to positive parents. At six (years old), we take them off the breast milk so that we keep them negative up until two years when the child develops her own immune system.”
Source : The NATIONAL
A LECTURER at the University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE) has been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Queensland in Australia.
Nason Pue, who teaches biology, was told of the good news by his supervisor through the university’s Staff Development and Training (SD&T) office.
He is described as one of the leading home-grown staff members of the university, a silent achiever and a scientist who likes to make things happen to see results.
Pue’s interest in the university began as a high school student at George Brown High School when he visited the institution on a field day.
Even when he was selected to do grade 11 and 12 in Australia, he didn’t give up on his dream. He chose to study agriculture at the then University of Vudal after year 12, even when his friends told him farming was a low-profile job.
After graduating with a Diploma in Tropical Agriculture in 1999, Pue went to Victoria University in Melbourne to study microbiology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2003.
In 2004, Pue joined the University of Natural Resources and Environment as an assistant lecturer under a trainee cadetship initiated by the Agriculture Institution Strengthening Programme.
“Agriculture is the science of farming, so my pursuit of agriculture was a long and narrow winding road, from a Diploma in Tropical Agriculture at UNRE, to the Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, where I received my Bachelor of Science in microbiology and biotechnology, and a Master of Biotechnology and PhD, both from the University of Queensland,” he said.
His research include studying the structure of compounds and their activity on fungi and plant enzymes and their potential as antifungal drugs or herbicides.
His research interest has expanded into mushroom, hydroponics, the use of microbes as biopesticides and controlling fungal infections in plants and animals.
Pue has also published two papers in the Journal of Medical Chemistry – which is published by the American Chemical Society – and current pharmaceutical design.
“Although qualification matters in indicating you have attained knowledge and skills, a good attitude and ability to connect with people and learn from your mentors will help develop experience over time.”
Source : The National
By LUKE KAMA
A SENIOR officer and two employees of the National Identity Office are under investigation over the illegal issuing of birth certificates outside the official national identification registry system.
The two employees, one of whom is the son of an officer at the NID Office, are already in custody at the Boroko Police Station in Port Moresby. The senior officer, believed to be behind the “syndicate” which also involves people from outside the NID office, is expected to be arrested soon.
Acting Registrar-General Michael Kumung told The National yesterday that “certain people employed in the NID Office had been using their positions and the office they were occupying to engage in corrupt dealings and steal from the people and the Government”.
He said the birth certificates were produced at the Boroko NID office but had the “entry number” for Wewak.
“We have a NID office in Wewak but it is not operational yet to process applications for birth certificates and NID cards,” he said.
“The birth certificate is printed only by our system with secured security features.
“How it ended up in the streets for some people to make business (out of it) is a serious issue.
“Those (officers) implicated will face disciplinary action.”
It is understood that the officers and outsiders involved in the activity charge fees to people who wanted the birth certificates produced outside the official ID system.
Kumung said establishing the NID project had cost the government around K231 million “in terms of rolling it out effectively and efficiently to produce birth certificates and the NID cards and issue them to our people”.
“But the problem is that some people are not safeguarding and following the system to do the job they are supposed to be doing,” he said.
“They get paid from the government and are abusing their office to engage in corrupt dealings to steal again.
“These sort of people we need to get rid of to clean, revive and strengthen our NID system.”
Kumung said the birth certificates contained all the security features and were signed and stamped by the deputy registrar-general, and ready for collections.
Source : The NATIONAL
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Police cordoned off the top part of Franklin Rd in Auckland, famous for its annual Christmas light display, following an alleged assault.
Police said enquiries were being made into the alleged assault, which happened on the Ponsonby street.
“We understand there are lots of people in the area enjoying the Christmas lights and we ask that people follow the instructions of Police at the scene.”
A post on the Auckland City District Police Facebook page said details of what happened were unclear at this point.
Police said there were in the early stages of their enquiries and no further information was available at this stage.
Dame Patsy switched on this year’s Franklin Rd lights on December 1, to a crowd of hundreds.
It’s the quarter century anniversary of the first time the popular tradition was begun by the residents of Franklin Rd.
More than 100 homes typically participate in the lights, spending thousands on decorating their homes. This year’s lights were set to run until Boxing Day.
Source : New Zealand Herald
New claims before the Waitangi Tribunal argue colonisation is partly responsible for the high suicide rate among Maori.
The hearings will see families of those who have taken their lives tell the tribunal how the modern-day loss of life stemmed from broken promises made at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Among those people taking claims is Jane Stevens, whose son Nicky took his own life in March 2015.
“Colonisation is not just something that happened in 1840. That taniwha is with us today,” she told the Weekend Herald.
“For me, this is focused on my son’s story but it is also many people’s stories.”
Stevens was schizophrenic and receiving mental health care in Hamilton under a compulsory care order. He failed to return from an unsupervised smoke break in March 2015. His body was found in the Waikato River a few days later.
The tribunal has accepted five claims, including Stevens’, in recent months as it began to usher in a new generation of hearings around grievances based on losses other than land.
The next phase is the kaupapa series of claims – 11broader issues on which the tribunal has agreed to hear evidence around Maori rights.
It is the “health services” kaupapa hearings that have attracted claims around suicide.
A timetable has yet to be set for the hearings but they are likely to start next year.
The suicide rate for Maori last year was 21.7 deaths per 100,000 people – double that for Pasifika communities and higher than the 14.6/100,000 recorded for people of European descent.
In some demographics, Maori were a clean statistical sweep. Last year, all girls aged 10-14 who took their lives were Maori.
Stevens claim over her son’s death was accepted by Judge Patrick Savage, who said the claim was “contemporary in nature and national in scope”.
She told the Weekend Herald that mental health statistics showed a clear difference between issues afflicting Maori and those impacting on others in society.
Stevens said she was taking the claim partly to honour her son and to try to meet the responsibility she had while he was alive.
“As a mother that was my job – to try and keep him safe. I certainly felt I wasn’t able to do that no matter how hard I tried.”
Stevens said one aspect of change she sought was to make family an integral part of dealing with mental health. Currently many felt excluded with the system struggling to balance its duty to an adult patient against a family’s desire to be involved.
For many Maori families, she said suicide was a constant. In her whanau, her father Ron had attempted to take his life, she had attempted to take her life twice and her son managed to do so while in mental health care.
Recent comments about te reo by former National Party leader Dr Don Brash and the Treaty by Sir William Gallagher left her “gobsmacked” at the “arrogance and self-righteousness of their positions”.
But Stevens said that as someone who was Maori but appeared Pakeha, she often heard adverse comments “about Maori moaning again”.
“Skin colour doesn’t change the impact of colonisation.”
As a result, she knew the issue of colonisation would be difficult to raise because there was a “cringe factor in talking about these things”.
Others claims have also been lodged, including by Otago University academic Dr Keri Lawson-Te Aho, who is organising an international symposium in Wellington next year on indigenous suicide.
Lawson-Te Aho’s doctorate research published in 2013 defined “historical trauma”.
“The seed that grew to become historical trauma was planted at the time of colonisation,” Lawson-Te Aho said.
The claims assert failure on the Crown historically or on the Government as recently as this year.
One claim pointed to former Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman’s reluctance to fix a target for reducing suicide in case the Government was blamed for not achieving the hoped-for result.
Lawyer Gerald Sharrock said such accountability went to the heart of the Government’s duty to the people. He lodged the claim on behalf of clients in Te Tai Tokerau, where Maori youth had featured distinctly in recent suicide statistics.
On colonisation and lasting effects, Sharrock said: “There is no doubt. First nations people in the Australia, the United States and Canada all have similar issues with suicide – and family breakdown, family violence and substance abuse.”
The former Minister of Maori Affairs, Te Ururoa Flavell, said there was solid research to support claims of ongoing harm from colonisation. The research had been done across a number of nations which had previously been colonies and had shown similar impacts on the indigenous peoples living in those countries, he said.
He said there might be resistance to the idea – as there was when the national anthem was first sung in te reo.
“It’s just part of us moving forward as a nation,” he said. “Actually, we’re addressing a wrong – it’s not just a big handout for Maori. “
Suicide prevention campaigner Mike King said identifying colonisation as a factor did little to protect young people now.
“Of course there’s a connection. But all this shit about teaching your kid a pepeha and to do one haka and one song – these kids turn up at a marae and they still feel stupid.”
King said trying to apply tikanga solutions to children raised out of traditional Maori society made little difference.
Meanwhile, he said the focus on the high Maori suicide rate had “created a conversation among white New Zealanders” that some children were more important than others.
The tribunal has no power to order changes but does make recommendations to government. Stevens has sought improved funding of tikanga Maori health services and greater consultation with Maori.
The issue of colonisation was most recently raised by health minister Dr David Clark during an interview with the NZ Herald. He said reasons for New Zealand’s world-leading suicide rate included “communities that are experiencing hardship or the after-effects of colonisation or trauma in their own lives or personal histories”.
The statement has created a political hot potato, with Opposition MPs quizzing Clark in Parliament, attempting to have him expand on his answer.
Clark has not done so in Parliament and has refused Weekend Herald interviews to expand on the comment.
The National Party has also done all it can to avoid being interviewed on the issue. Numerous requests to health spokesman Coleman went without response.
Then numerous requests to National’s mental health spokesman, Matt Doocey, went ignored.
Media staff in the National Party leader’s office said he was happy to be interviewed on mental health but not when questions of colonisation were included.
YesWeCare health coalition co-ordinator Simon Oosterman said colonisation was a difficult issue for many to debate but there was clear evidence of the need to do so.
“When Maori are most at risk of suicide, it’s hard to ignore colonisation. There’s been a willingness to break the silence around suicide but if it’s to be meaningful, they have to break the silence around colonisation.”
The kaupapa claims
•Maori military veterans
•Health services and outcomes
•Constitution, self-government and electoral system
•Mana wahine and mana tane
•Education services and outcomes
•Identity and culture
•Natural resources and environmental management
•Social services, social development and housing
•Economic development
•Justice system
•Citizenship rights and equality
Where to get help:
• Lifeline: 0800 543 354 (available 24/7)
• Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) (available 24/7)
• Youthline: 0800 376 633
• Kidsline: 0800 543 754 (available 24/7)
• Whatsup: 0800 942 8787 (1pm to 11pm)
• Depression helpline: 0800 111 757 (available 24/7)
• Rainbow Youth: (09) 376 4155
• Samaritans 0800 726 666
• If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.
Source : New Zealand Herald
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An investigation into illegal steroids has uncovered alleged widespread cheating in New Zealand sport, with up to 80 athletes allegedly caught up in a doping investigation.
The scope and results of the investigation are unprecedented and have the ability to tarnish the country’s reputation as a “clean” sporting nation.
The athletes came the attention of investigators after their details were allegedly found in the database of a Christchurch man convicted and jailed for selling steriods via the internet.
They now face possible sanctions if found guilty of anti-doping rule violations. The Wada Code, which was updated on January 1, 2015, to allow for harsher penalties, offers a wide range of sanctions, which can be backdated.
As this offending captures the period between late 2014 and early 2015, so those who allegedly purchased in 2014 might be subject to lighter penalties than those in 2015. But, if found guilty of sporting violations, they won’t face any criminal charges.
“It is a massive wake-up call,” said New Zealand Sport CEO Peter Miskimmin.
The cases feature a range of sports, but it is understood that rugby players make up a significant portion – more than 40 per cent – of who now face potential sanctions.
No All Blacks or Olympians are among those caught in the sting, but it is understood some school-age athletes are.
The Weekend Herald can reveal the first case was heard this week and a decision could come as soon as next week. Because there is such a vast number of cases to be heard, the backlog is not expected to be cleared for at least six months.
To illustrate the scale of the investigation, in the last financial year Drug Free Sport New Zealand put eight cases before tribunals, some years they are as low as four. This sweep could net more than 80.
The cases come at an critical juncture in the fight against performance-enhancing drugs. Russia has been barred from next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang – though clean athletes may compete as individuals – and national anti-doping organisations have been encouraged to take a hard line, partly to avoid any accusations of double standards.
It is in this context that the New Zealand Sports Tribunal and Rugby Judiciary will hear cases involving a large number of athletes who were recreational rather than serious sportsmen and women.
“Where we see evidence of a potential anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), we have an obligation to investigate it,” said Nick Paterson, the chief executive of Drug Free Sport NZ. “We have to rigorously investigate cases and where we find evidence of an ADRV, we have to put that in front of the appropriate decision-making body.”
DFSNZ has worked with athletes of all levels, but most often at the elite and just-blow-elite level. An investigation like this breaks new ground.
“A significant proportion of these cases may have had no anti-doping education from us,” Paterson said.
The initial medicines investigation was initiated by medical regulatory body Medsafe.
It resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of Joshua Francis Townshend this year after he admitted to 129 charges under the Medicines Act. He was sentenced to two years at the Christchurch District Court.
Townshend was mixing, packaging and selling clenbuterol and other anabolic steroids from his Christchurch home, mainly through the website clenbuterol.co.nz. The site was shut down but not before information on his client database was made available to DFSNZ.
An initial sweep of the data netted representative cricketer Adam King and Hawkes Bay club rugby player Adam Jowsey. The cases were heard before the Sports Tribunal and Rugby Judiciary respectively and in both cases two-year bans were handed down.
A second sweep, however, uncovered dozens more alleged offenders, with more than 100 clients registered with national sporting organisations.
“We found a large number,” Paterson said. “We have people across a good range of sports. We have levels of athlete from school and club level and upwards from there. We have male and female.”
When pressed on whether any of those caught were professional or semi-professional sportsmen or women, Paterson said he could not talk about specific cases.
He did say, however, that beyond the rules violation, there was a “holistic” argument for taking the cases.
The products sold by Townshend, it was noted by Medsafe, fell well short of pharmaceutical standards.
“These people who purchased from the website literally had no idea what they were putting into their bodies,” Paterson said. “For all we know the ingredients were mixed in a bathtub. If that’s not a health risk, or a potential health risk, I don’t know what is. How can you think that’s okay?”
Miskimmin said the case showed New Zealand could not be complacent.
“What this demonstrates is we have people in our sport system and community who are prepared to take shortcuts, and that is not good,” he said. “This exposes it and it highlights it.”
On the flipside, Miskimmin noted, the raft of cases was evidence that if you cheat, you will be identified. The inter-agency approach to investigating anti-doping violations meant you did not have to return a positive test to face potential sanctions.
“It’s very good that we can expose these things.”
In a statement on the ministry website, Medsafe said Townshend was blatant in his advertising and promotion of the medicines and estimated that over one year he supplied the equivalent of 2100 10ml bottles of clenbuterol and approximately 2400 units of other anabolic steroids for injection.
Clenbuterol can be taken as a spray or injected intravenously. It is used to reduce body fat and increase muscle mass. It is used as both a performance enhancer and a vanity drug.
While many of those who appear before the tribunals may argue that they were just trying to look “cut”, the rules make no allowance for that.
Source : New Zealand Herald
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