thegoodfellas/blogset-br huggingface dataset:
down. At the bottom of the hill, fruit stands crowd the sidewalk on the left. Across the street is a school that caught fire during the battle. The road curves up ahead, rising toward the cross at the top of the hill. The air feels thick. Humidity presses down. The tension is as palpable as the speed bumps and raw sewage drains that dot the road up toward the cross.Spray-paint graffiti scrawls a welcome: "Irak." The buildings stand two or three stories high on the main strip. Wires form a canopy over the narrow street. Power wires. Phone lines. Red and blue ethernet cables. Crowds gather at intersections. Up ahead is a storefront, and through a gate lives a woman who's spent her adult life trying to help the people of this favela.She works at a school in Macacos. Several months after this meeting, she'll panic and ask that her name not be used. She says she is not afraid of dying but of endangering the school where she works.She's The Teacher.Since the helicopter crashed, she's been doing the same thing as every resident of Macacos: waiting nervously. Lima is an optimist about the UPPs and their future; she is the opposite -- a devout parishioner in the church of real life. She's seen too much to believe in hope. There's a Bible open in front of her, turned to Ecclesiastes. The first verse quotes Solomon: "Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."A portrait of a favela in limboThe Teacher educated many of the drug dealers who now run Macacos. She doesn't mess with them and they don't mess with her. They know she's responsible for what little civilization there is on the hill.When she got to Macacos decades ago, the neighborhood was improbably worse. No running water, no electricity, no schools. Thanks to her and others like her, the community has managed to provide some of these things for itself. A few. "The sewage system doesn't work," The Teacher says. "In our kindergarten, the kids are stepping into feces. Every day, we have to clean the whole kindergarten because the sewage water invades it. The kids are getting sick."If she provides order, the traffickers provide law. The other Rio stops at the bottom of the hill by the fruit stands. Up here, the drug dealers are judge and jury. Battered wives go to them for justice. The Teacher doesn't need a security system at the school; if anyone broke in, retribution would be swift and gruesome. The rules cover offenses large and small. A kid who danced with someone else's girlfriend had his hair cut off. A kid who started a fight had to carry rocks in the sun. Theft can be punishable by death. "Whenever somebody does something wrong," says a resident of Macacos who asked not to be named, "the drug traffickers will hold a trial."The current kingpin is nicknamed Scooby. He's the one who swore revenge on the CV for the invasion. Underground rappers write odes to him and put them on YouTube. He once kidnapped several cops
and tortured them. He likes to steal cars. Not long ago, newspaper pictures showed his Mercedes-Benz convertible that police had seized.He and the other gangsters throw parties for kids, help out if someone is in need. They aren't the ones roaring up in armored vehicles and letting thousands of rounds go on full auto. Every time the police come in shooting, Scooby grows more powerful. "The population here lives in fear of the police," The Teacher says. "The police shoot without thinking. You can see all the windows that have holes from the bullets."Law-abiding residents are caught in between the cops and the dealers."If you live in a community like we do, you always have to think twice," The Teacher says. "You have to be careful. You have to pretend you don't see what's going on. There is lots of fear dominating this community. For example, you coming here to do an interview. Depending on what I say in this interview, there is the possibility that something might happen. From both sides. Police and the drug dealers."One former president of the neighborhood association had to leave this community because of an interview he did. He lived for many years in the community. He had a house here and a family. He gave an interview. The drug dealers didn't like it. They burned his house. And he had to go away with his family. Because of one interview he gave. It's really dangerous to have a position. To tell the truth. You can't trust anyone."Or anything, even the future. Upstairs at the school where The Teacher works, in the corner of a computer lab, one young man who can't be older than 12 hunches over a screen. He's playing an urban war game -- a virtual version of the real thing happening outside these walls -- and on the screen, he's picking his weapon, from a pistol all the way up to a chain gun. He's seen most of these weapons in the favela. A local charity worker said her 9-year-old students play a twisted urban game: Whoever takes the cell phone picture of the most shocking scene wins.Students who aren't in gangs borrow guns from students who are. Girls like guys with guns. Kids from Macacos can't go to school with kids from Mangueira or Sao Joao. Not long ago a nongovernmental charitable organization with mission schools in Macacos and Mangueira managed to organize a trip to Rio's Museum of Modern Art. It gathered students from both favelas and prepared to show them the possibility of manicured gardens and priceless masterpieces. The teachers wanted them to stand side by side, not as enemies but as friends, and see there could be beauty in the world.This is Rio in real life: The NGO had to use separate buses.Finally, it's Macacos' turnThat was then, this is now. A year after the helicopter was shot down, the residents of Macacos heard the news.They were next.On Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, almost 200 cops charged the hill, from the bottom and from the back, converging on the
cross. They found all the ADA gangsters gone, having fled the night before after being tipped off about the impending raid. Not a shot was fired.People came out of their houses into the light. Lima saw his neighbors happy. They were happy to see police. He couldn't believe it. For years, they'd seen cops raid and seen friends die and seen drug dealers return as soon as the police left. But this was different. "Now we know that the police will stay," he says. "At least for four years."The cops began organizing a soccer tournament for the long-abandoned field. A UPP was set up, and the officers were welcomed by the neighborhood. "It was one year full of frustration," Lima says. "We thought that the police would never come. The government kept announcing the occupation of other areas, but why didn't they come here? And our situation was much more difficult than in other areas."Leonardo Novo is a BOPE commander. His job is dangerous, and his father stays awake every time his son works nights, sleep not coming until he knows his boy is alive. Novo, who looks young -- maybe it's the braces on his teeth -- is one of the peacekeepers in charge of Macacos. Four units work 24-hour shifts, keeping familiar faces on the streets. Several months ago, Novo walked from his base near the spot where people were once burned alive, making his way past the cross and on down the hill."The people here don't trust the police," he says. "They fear that the police will leave and the ADA comes back."That won't happen."Still, fear remains. The cops sense it. The people know it. "I will give you an interview in 50 years," one resident says, "when I am sure that everything went right! Until then, everybody keeps their mouth shut."But now, at least, there is hope. The two Rios are colliding and, in some places, a new Rio is arising. There are signs everywhere, including the middle of Macacos.The swimming pool is full of clear, blue water.A dozen kids paddle around, laughing, and more run along the sides, ready to jump in. The once tense air of the favela is filled with the splashes of children at play.Free, but for how long?The Teacher is still afraid.The gangsters aren't dead. They've just moved. The cops expected to find as many as 50 heavy guns. They found none. The Amigos dos Amigos took their firepower with them, joining with other fleeing gang members, waiting. Family members of gang members remain in Macacos, eyes on the ground. ADA spies sneak in and out. They want to know who is giving interviews and who is cooperating with the police.Scooby is thought to be in a favela called Rocinha.What if the cops leave Macacos when the Olympics are over? It's happened before. Ludemir, the gang war journalist, described a government program in the '90s in which cops flooded selected favelas. Soon the government tired of this strategy, removed all the cops and, as Julio says, "It all went back to s---.""It won't
be forever," The Teacher says. "It will only be for a short time, because it's too expensive for the government to maintain. So maybe they put in the police unit just for the Olympic Games, so that there will be peace during the Olympic Games, then if they run out of money, they leave. Everything will go back to normal. When police leave, the dealers will come back and everyone who cooperated will be shot."The sun hangs low and hot. She stands outside the school. There are now smiling cops in her favela, and a soccer field used for games instead of killing, and water in the swimming pool. But the favela itself remains, rising around her: the patchwork homes, the gang graffiti, the chicken-wire windows. The city below remains, like the volcano in reverse, ready to change their lives on a whim. She faces the cross at the top of the hill. Meaningless. That's what King Solomon said. Olympics come and go. Governments get bored. Maybe the devil you know is better than the one you don't."Much better," she says.She doesn't believe in shiny brochures, only Rio in real life.FONTE: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=110510%2FRio
rougher origins in FARCs high command.Juan Carlos Pinzon, Colombias defense minister, said Mr. Cano was clean-shaven when he was killed in a firefight after fleeing a bombing raid. He said the operation killed four other guerrillas, while five others were captured, which would be a surprisingly small amount of men accompanying FARCs top commander.His wallet, glasses and weapons were recovered, Mr. Pinzon told journalists in Bogota. Mr. Canos body was taken to the city of Popayan, and a photograph was distributed to Colombian media. He declined to comment on whether the United States, the top provider of military aid to Colombia, had assisted in the operation.Ariel Avila, a conflict analyst with the Colombian think tank Arco Iris, said that Mr. Canos killing dealt a political blow to FARC, since he symbolized the groups small amount of support in urban areas, as well as a military blow, since Mr. Cano had overseen a more aggressive strategy of holding ground against advances by Colombias army.The military forces can take a deep breath Mr. Avila said Saturday from Bogota. But this isnt the end of the guerrillas; they still have some time left.Indeed, despite the killings of prominent FARC leaders, Colombias war against that and other armed groups has entered a complicated new phase. Advances against FARC and the National Liberation Army, or E.L.N., a smaller guerrilla group, have squeezed the insurgents into border areas with Venezuela and Ecuador.Colombias president, Juan Manuel Santos, has improved relations with both countries, and Venezuela and Ecuador seem to be cooperating more with the capture of some midlevel guerrillas. But once the rebels cross Colombias borders and onto neighboring soil, they still face much less pressure from well-trained Colombian forces which have pursued them for years.Two FARC commanders who have operated along Colombias border with Venezuela, Ivan Marquez and Jose Benito Cabrera (who uses the alias Timochenko), are thought to be contenders to take Mr. Canos place. But analysts of Colombias war against FARC say Mr. Canos successor will face challenges in maintaining unity among the groups various factions.FARCs weakening has also raised the possibility that a new top commander might engage in talks with Colombias government to seek an end to the long guerrilla war. Of the options left to FARC, Gustavo Petro, the newly elected mayor of Bogota and himself a former guerrilla with the M-19 group, said, Dialogue is the only way.fonte: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/americas/alfonso-cano-dead-but-farc-dangerous-analysts-say.html?_r=1&hp
Para mais informacoes clique aqui! Left 4 Dead e um jogo de tiro em primeira pessoa, baseado em acao cooperativa. O jogo se utiliza da Source Engine, a mesma lancada para o Counter Strike: Source, a qual possibilita melhor flexibilidade de movimentos, expressao facial, sincronizacao de voz com movimentos labiais, alem de um avancado sistema de fisica.Numa epoca nao muito distante da atual, um virus misterioso se espalha rapidamente entre os humanos, transformando-os em zumbis psicoticos com sede de sangue. Mas quatro pessoas sobreviveram a epidemia e parecem ser imunes ao virus. Juntos, eles tentarao escapar dos violentos infectados (como sao chamados os mortos-vivos) passando por quatro campanhas, que incluem areas urbanas e rurais, cada uma contendo cinco mapas.Sao permitidos ate oito jogadores, que podem entrar e sair a qualquer momento do jogo, sem que o mapa tenha que ser reiniciado, pois a inteligencia artificial toma imediatamente o lugar de um jogador ausente. Pode-se escolher ser um dos quatro sobreviventes, dentre os quais ha o Bill, um veterano de guerra, o Loius, um especialista em consertos de eletronicos, a Zoey, uma adolescente de familia abastada, e o Francis, um grandalhao sempre disposto a ajudar.Mas o jogador tambem pode entrar para o time dos zumbis, escolhendo ser um obeso Boomer, que vomita nos nao-infectados, cegando-os; o Hunter, que pode escalar paredes e pular do alto de edificios; o Smoker, que pode estrangular os oponentes com sua lingua enorme; ou o Tank, um zumbi que pode jogar carros e blocos de concreto em cima dos humanos. Cada um dos personagens jogaveis, tanto os humanos, quanto os infectados, tem pontos fortes e fracos, que devem ser explorados e compensados pela acao em equipe. O jogo oferece configuracoes unicas que ajudam a manter uma jogabilidade cooperativa.Left 4 Dead pode agradar aos fas de tiro e ficcao cientifica, por trazer um dos melhores sistemas de fisica para um jogo de muita acao e elementos sobrenaturais, no qual muito sangue precisa ser derramado para se garantir a propria sobrevivencia.Download do Left 4 dead (Utorrent) Atencao: o jogo Counter-Strike nao possui demonstrativa para teste. Ou seja: voce somente podera comprar uma licenca para se divertir com os amigos na arena em meio a tiroteios freneticos. O link disponibilizado no Gamer ice e do Steam. Conecte-se no gerenciador de jogos e, caso queira, realize a compra, no valor de 9,99 dolares.Ele esta voltando! Em janeiro de 2012, os fas de Counter-Strike foram surpreendidos com a noticia de que a venda do jogo estava proibida no Brasil. Na epoca, CS foi apontado como nocivo a saude dos consumidores pelo juiz federal Carlos Alberto Simoes de Tomaz. Mas agora, mais de um ano depois, o Tribunal Reginal Federal da 1a Regiao, em Brasilia, autorizou a volta da comercializacao deste que e simplesmente o jogo online mais popular do planeta!O site do Tribunal Federal da 1a Regiao informa que basta apenas a publicacao do acordao (ou seja, decisao de um grupo de pessoas, diferentemente da determinacao de um juiz ou desembargador, por exemplo). A Electronic Arts, distribuidora do jogo no Brasil, nao se
pronunciou oficialmente, mas ja comunicou lojas de jogos que o CS vai voltar as prateleiras sem nenhum impedimento.Agora chega de imbroglios juridicos, e hora de mergulhar novamente neste confronto extremamente viciante!HistoricoCounter-Strike e incrivelmente simples e realista, e essa talvez seja a chave de tanto sucesso. E um FPS (First Person Shooter, tiro emprimeira pessoa) no qual dois times se enfrentam, um de terroristas e outro de contraterroristas. Os confrontos acontecem em mapas variados, cada um com um objetivo especifico para cada lado.CS surgiu em 1999 como uma modificacao para o Half-Life, dai o nome Half-Life: Counter-Strike. A versao original era uma modificacao do Half-Life e o engine dos dois e o mesmo, mas o sucesso foi tanto que hoje e anunciado como um jogo independente. No ano seguinte, a Valve, desenvolvedora do Half-Life, uniu forcas comos desenvolvedores do Counter-Strike e a versao 1.0 do game foi lancada. A versao mais recente, 1.6, foi lancada em 2003.Originalmente, Counter-Strike era jogado atraves do WON, mas, em 2004, esse servidor fechou e entao os jogadores tiveram que migrar para o Steam (veja como adquirir o jogo mais abaixo).O confrontoVoce deve escolher o time que vai defender entre mocinhos e bandidos. Os times se enfrentam em um mapa em uma serie de rounds. Vence o round o time que completar seu objetivo ou que eliminar todo o adversario. O arsenal e extenso, com armas que variam de pistolas ate metralhadoras e granadas.Em cada round voce pode portar uma arma primaria, uma secundaria e algumas granadas. Cada arma tem um preco especifico e voce ganha dinheiro conforme evolui no jogo. Veja a lista do armamento:Faca - a famosa facosa, e gratuita e exige contato muito proximo com o oponente, mas pode matar com um ou dois golpes. As mortes por faca sao conhecidas como cirurgia e motivo de chacota entre os jogadores. Gritos e expressoes como "NA FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACA" ou "OPERAAAAAAAAAAAAADO" sao comuns apos uma morte assim;Armas primarias - elas incluem armas de cano longo (potentes em curta distancia, mas com carregamento lerdo), submetralhadoras (rapidas e com muitos tiros sem a necessidade de carregamento sao as mais utilizadas), rifles (tanto de precisao para tiros certeiros como sequenciais) e A metralhadora, mais conhecida como Rambo (extremamente pesada, com tiros excelentes a longa distancia e pente de 100 balas).Um destaque da categoria e a MP5 Navy, otima arma para iniciantes. Ela tem um poder de fogo bom e e precisa, ideal para quem esta aprendendo a atirar. Jogadores com mais experiencia adoram a AK-47 e a M4A1;Armas secundarias - sao as pistolas que podem salvar sua vida em uma troca de tiros na qual voce fica sem municao para a arma primaria, por exemplo. O destaque vai para a Dual 96G Elite Berettas: um par de Berettas. Elas nao sao poderosas nem precisas, mas fazem voce parecer muito badass!Brincadeiras a parte, o verdadeiro destaque das pistolas vai para a Desert Eagle, mais conhecida como Trabuco de Mao! Nao menospreze o poder so porque essa arma nao tem tamanho, pois ela faz um estrago! E otima para os primeiros rounds de
aliada. E claro que voce sera saco de pancadas no comeco, mas um pouco de paciencia vai faze-lo melhorar.INSTALACAOO arquivo que voce baixou ja contem o Steam, mas ainda assim e necessario esperar que ele e Counter-Strike sejam atualizados apos a primeira vez em que forem abertos. Aparecera a seguinte janela:Depois que o Steam atualizar, crie uma nova conta para utilizar o programa:Insira o nome da conta e a senha corretamente, repetindo-a na lacuna de baixo:Repita a operacao para seu email, que devera ser valido para confirmar o cadastro:Responda a pergunta de seguranca em caso de problemas com a conta ou perda de senhas:Confira seus dados e conclua o cadastro, clicando em "Next" e em seguida em "Finish":Pronto! Sua conta Steam ja esta criada, aguardando ate que seus jogos sejam iniciados.AVISOCounter-Strike e um jogo improprio para menores de 18 anos e, embora gratuito, ainda e necessaria a compra de uma licenca de produto original (CD-Key de Half-Life). Nao recomendamos a compra nem pelas lojas (fisicas) e nem por meio do Steam (compra digital) ate que o acordao seja publicado.Download do Conter Strike Online
uma interface amigavel, que prima pelo combate ativo e que requer bastante habilidade, ao contrario das batalhas monotonas que imperam em alguns titulos do genero.Faces personalizaveisOblivion comeca bem; antes mesmo da historia e possivel construir um personagem minuciosamente. Nao se trata apenas de escolher a cor da pele, olhos e cabelos. A questao aqui e especificar a dimensao da testa contra o resto do rosto, a largura do nariz e boca, a coloracao de cada um deles, a espessura das sobrancelhas, entre inumeras outras opcoes. Dispensando maiores comentarios sobre a utilidade disso e ate onde uma real personalizacao e possivel (ainda tenho a impressao de que o semblante geral sempre permanece o mesmo, independente das escolhas), o fato e que o sistema funciona, e bem. A mudanca mais radical, e claro, fica por conta da selecao da raca. Existem 10 no total, incluindo humanos (mais numerosos no jogo), elfos e homens-lagarto (argonianos), cada uma com suas vantagens e penalidades especificas.De uma maneira um tanto comoda, os desenvolvedores optaram por nao fornecer background inicial, limitando-se apenas em atirar um personagem maltrapilho em uma cela, sem nome e nem motivos. Logo, entretanto, a trama comeca a ser revelada. O imperador, narrado de maneira convincente pelo ator Patrick Stewart (Xavier de X-man), adentra a cela junto a outros guardas e parte por um caminho secreto aberto por uma rocha (alias, por que o personagem nao se deu ao trabalho de verificar isso antes?). Entremeado a isso, um breve dialogo com o chefe do reino da pistas de que algo ruim esta prestes a acontecer e o jogador provavelmente devera se envolver na questao.No caminho aberto alguns ratos e trasgos, faceis de serem derrotados, servem de test drive e tutorial para o jogador escolher qual classe e especializacao ira escolher. Ao ser questionado pelo imperador sobre sua origem, o jogador vai escolhendo seus atributos, sendo que no final e possivel confirmar todas as opcoes feitas antes de partir para as quests. Algo bastante interessante e que o computador observa o comportamento do jogador, se ele prefere usar magias ou as armas, sua agressividade e a maneira que ele se desloca pelo mapa, tudo isso para, nesta etapa de confirmacao, haver uma sugestao de quais classes o jogador mais demonstrou afinidade. O inventario intuitivo cai bem tanto para o PC e Xbox 360. Todos os itens podem ser pegos, dando pistas de uma das principais caracteristicas do game: a possibilidade de coletar fungos, plantas e flores para fazer pocoes e venenos para armas. Neste ponto, nao ha defeito a ser apontado. A possibilidade de combinacoes e quase infinita, exigindo, entretanto, uma certa paciencia ao organizar dezenas de bugigangas no inventario, com capacidade proporcional a forca do personagem.A primeira masmorra, mesmo com os pop-ups de tutoriais irritantes, concede uma sensacao de imersao e admiracao incrivel. A vontade e sair logo dali e comecar a explorar o tao aclamado continente cheio de aventuras e inumeros inimigos. A decepcao que se segue, entretanto, e razoavel.Expectativas frustradas?Apesar da mecanica do jogo funcionar bem, a ausencia de falhas (diferente do seu concorrente