
I ran across a sort of flickr-type site based in Portugal with really great work (http://olhares.aeiou.pt/galerias/detalhe_foto.php?id=1062458). The photographer's nickname is Bluegirl.
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For English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English bilinguals and everyone in between who might have an interest in Brazilian culture, politics & polemics, music, photography, essays & social commentary.
Lá vou eu novamente dar uma de chato da festa...
“Competing in this Pan Am Games has been a privilege for our players. This is a young team and one cannot beat the experience of playing Brazil in Maracanã Stadium in front of a packed house. Brazil had an exceptional level and style of play that contributed to their great success. We will learn from all of it.”
Técnica Jillian Ellis
“Even though we lost, playing in an environment like this was a chance of a lifetime. It is pretty amazing that we got the chance to play against Brazil in Maracana Stadium. It is one of those rare opportunities that I will remember forever.”
Atacante e capitã Lauren Cheney
“This was an honor to play soccer in a country that loves the game like Brazil does, win silver, and be a part of the Pan Am Games. We are a young team and we will take this tournament for the amazing experience that it was. We battled against Brazil and they were one of the best teams I have ever played against, but we will learn from it. After this tournament we can only go up from here. I know this experience will benefit this team tremendously as they prepare for the U-20 World Cup next year.”
Lauren Cheney
...the trouble about arguments is, they ain't nothing but theories, after all, and theories don't prove nothing, they only give you a place to rest on, a spell, when you are tuckered out butting around and around trying to find out something there ain't no way to find out...There's another trouble about theories: there's always a hole in them somewheres, sure, if you look close enough.
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
How empty is theory in the presence of fact.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -In a joke that made Brazilians cringe and forced the United States Olympic Committee to apologize, "Welcome to the Congo!'' was marked on a whiteboard at the USOC's office at the Pan American Games.
A photograph of the phrase in the office in Rio de Janeiro was published on the front page of Rio's O Globo newspaper on Saturday with a headline saying the joke was "full of prejudice'' as American athletes arrive to compete in the games, which start on Friday.
Rio Mayor Cesar Maia told CBN Radio it created a controversy in a nation that is extremely sensitive about being compared to much less developed countries.
The USOC issued a "deep apology to the people of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro'' in a statement on Saturday, and said the worker who wrote the phrase was disciplined and was no longer a member of the U.S. delegation. The person's name was not disclosed.
USOC officials also apologized in person to Maia, senior officials of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, and the Pan American Sports Organization.
The picture showed USOC media employee Kevin Neuendorf in front of the whiteboard with the phrase, and the story quoted him as saying it was written because "it's really hot in Rio.''
O Globo expressed doubt about the reason, noting that it was winter in Rio and the USOC office had air conditioning.
The newspaper also produced a full-page graphic showing a map of the globe, pointing out Congo and Brazil with bright red arrows with a headline in English and Portuguese, saying "Watch and Learn.''
About 5,500 athletes from 42 countries are expected at the July 13-29 games, as well as 2,000 delegation members, 3,000 journalists and 15,000 volunteers.'