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Viva La Bikini Jeans
It’s a design for the really slim or really brave woman - ultra low-rise jeans with a built-in bikini or thong. Continue reading ›
Also tagged bikiniBrazil’s Orgasmic Samba and Sex Carnival 2008
Brazil’s annual explosion of samba and sexual titillation began Friday, with scantily clad revellers hitting the streets from Rio to Recife to celebrate carnival.
The pre-Lenten festivities kicked off in the tropical north of the country, and swept south to other cities for a five-day long weekend of extravagant summer partying.
In Rio de Janeiro, the self-proclaimed center of “the best public party on earth”, thousands of locals and tourists mingled under a hot summer sun on Ipanema and Copacabana beaches while “bloco” groups prepared to unleash infectious drum rhythms on the city center.
The highlight is yet to come on Sunday and Monday night, when Rio’s top 12 samba schools compete for hours in front of packed stands holding 50,000 people, in parades to be broadcast around the world.
Their performances have come to symbolize Brazil’s carnival, with lithe dancing queens dressed in little more than a few sequins and feathers atop floats featuring immense allegorical scenes. Continue reading ›
Also tagged angel, NudeBrazilian Acai Berry Destroys Cancer Cells
A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.
Published today in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH’-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested, said Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
“Acai berries are already considered one of the richest fruit sources of antioxidants,” Talcott said. “This study was an important step toward learning what people may gain from using beverages, dietary supplements or other products made with the berries.”
Also tagged cancerBrazilian Girl Molested By 34 Men In Jail
A 15-year-old girl was put in a Brazilian jail cell with more than 20 men, and for a month was raped relentlessly and forced to have sex for food, human rights groups say.
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“She was raped from day one” at the jail in Para state, a Children and Adolescent Defence Centre (Cedeca) spokeswoman said.
The number of men in the cell varied from 20 to 34 while the girl, a robbery suspect, was there.
“She was raped innumerable times and forced to exchange sexual relations for food,” said Miere Cohen, the president of the Order of Brazilian Lawyers Human Rights Commission.
Media reports of the case have sparked outrage across Brazil, especially since it closely followed an earlier incident of a 23-year-old woman who was also jailed in Para state for one month together with 70 men.
The teenager, whose identity was not disclosed, was arrested in Para state capital Abaetetuba on October 21 on suspicion of robbery and put behind bars at a local police station jailhouse until an anonymous caller tipped off the media.
“Nobody really knows what she was charged with. She was a suspect in a robbery but police were unable to tell us which robbery. There was no formal charge,” Ms Cohen said.
The girl’s lawyers said police at one point said they believed the suspect was not under-age.
“Whether she was 15, 20, 50, 80 or 100 doesn’t matter. A woman should not have been kept in a jail cell with men,” Para Governor Ana Julia Carepa said.
She said she would mete out “exemplary punishment” in the case.
The girl, whose family is very poor, “is distraught and very afraid, but said she’s able to recognise the police officers who locked her up and the detainees who raped her. She’s ready to talk”, the Cedeca spokeswoman said. - News.com.au
Gisele Bündchen Dumps Dollar For Euro
Gisele Bündchen is the world’s richest model, and to stay that way she is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar.
Like the billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, Bündchen, the Brazilian supermodel said by Forbes magazine to earn more than anyone else in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans are living beyond their means.
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Like the billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, Bündchen, the Brazilian supermodel said by Forbes magazine to earn more than anyone else in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans are living beyond their means.
When Bündchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Procter & Gamble, she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, the biggest weekly magazine in Brazil. She will also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce & Gabbana to promote the fragrance The One, Veja reported.
“Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” Patrícia Bündchen, the model’s twin sister and manager, said in September. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week, as did Anne Nelson, Bündchen’s agent at IMG Models in New York.
The dollar has fallen 34 percent since 2001, but traders and forecasters say it will weaken even more as U.S. home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. The dollar plummeted to its lowest level ever last week against the euro, the Canadian dollar and the Chinese yuan and was at the lowest level in 26 years against the pound.
The dollar is falling as investors seek better returns outside the United States.
“We’ve told all of our clients that if you only had one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a nondollar currency,” said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management in Newport Beach, California, and manager of the world’s biggest bond fund.
Hans-Günter Redeker, chief currency strategist for BNP Paribas and the most accurate foreign-exchange forecaster in the past quarter in a Bloomberg survey, said the euro might climb to $1.50 by the end of the year from about $1.45 now. The median estimate of 42 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg is for the currency to end the year at $1.43. Among those surveyed last week, the forecast ranges from $1.42 to $1.50.
Analysts in a Bloomberg survey expect the dollar to strengthen in coming months as stronger-than-forecast reports suggest U.S. consumers will keep the economy out of recession. Payrolls grew by 166,000 in October, double the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey.
The euro will fall to $1.35 by the end of 2008, according to the median estimate in the survey.
“So far the data has shown the U.S. economy may not be slowing to the extent the majority of the market had expected,” said Omer Esiner, an analyst at the currency trading company Ruesch International in Washington who said he expected the euro to fall as far as $1.38. “That could temper policy easing down the road and lend support for the dollar.”
Buffett, whom Forbes in April ranked as the world’s third-richest person behind Bill Gates and Carlos Slim Helú, told reporters in South Korea last month that he was bearish on the U.S. currency.
“We still are negative on the dollar relative to most major currencies, so we bought stocks in companies that earn their money in other currencies,” said Buffett, who is chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
Jim Rogers, a former partner of George Soros and chairman of Beeland Interests, said last month that he was selling his house and all his possessions in the U.S. currency to buy the yuan.
“The dollar is collapsing,” Rogers said last week. “I’m moving to Asia because moving to Asia now is like moving to New York in 1907 or London in 1807. It’s the wave of the future.” -
Bloomberg News
