I’ve published in Granadeiros Azulinos, my unofficial site about Galícia, a football club from Salvador, Bahia, the league tables of the 2008 Brazilian Championship (Campeonato Brasileiro), the “Brasileirão 2008″, both for the Série A (A Series - First Division) and the Série B (B Series - Second Division). The tables will be automatically updated after every round.

Thus, the fans of Brazilian football can follow the classification of both competitions and know how his team is progressing.

Check it here:

• League table of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2008
• League table of Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2008

Bahia Football Federation announced, some days ago, the league tables of Bahia’s Second Division 2008, in which 10 teams will compete for the title and one place in the First Division in 2009.

Among these teams, Galícia Esporte Clube, fighting to honor his traditions and to come back to the First Division after many years.

The fixtures can be seen in the Granadeiros Azulinos Web site.

I received an email on a baby called “Natalie”, who supposedly has brain cancer and would urgently be needing financial help.

The email has a picture of her and a text in Portuguese that would translate like that in English:

Please do not delete it, you don’t need to read this, just forward it

Warm-hearted people wouldn’t delete it.
Hello, my name is Krista Marie and I have a daughter, who is called Natalie. In the eyes of the world, recently, doctors found that my little Natalie has brain cancer. Unfortunately my husband and I do not have the money to pay the operation, surgery, but my husband and I got a help from AOL, they will help with 5 cents for every person who receives this email. Please forward this email to everyone you know, and help my little Natalie…

Please do not delete it, forward it.

This is another false “news”, a hoax, a virtual urban legend. All these messages stating that so-and-so is sick and will receive some cents from AOL, Microsoft, IBM, etc.., all of them are simply lies. Those companies do not promote that kind of action, and they can’t even control how many emails are sent by each person.

This false story about “Natalie” began in United States and is in the Internet since 2002. In fact, the baby on that picture is called Megan Olivia Cronce and was born in 1996, by the way, very healthy. Her picture was placed on a website about babies and someone used it to create this story, like so many others hoaxes that are out there. Those hoaxes come and go and always return in different versions.

You can read more details about this hoax here.

When we receive such emails, it’s worth to google them to see whether they are really true or not. Or, better yet, to search directly in one of the many sites specialized in unmask such hoaxes, like the Hoax Slayers.

On this May 16 (Friday), in the Boomerangue concert hall in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the band Anacê, from my friend Márcio Fiais, will release “O Mundo” (The World), its first album. Formed by Márcio and four of his cousins, Anacê (that means “relative” in the native brazilian tupi language) exists for already five years and has some pretty nice songs, which can be heard in the band’s Web page: www.anace.com.br.

Since I can not go to the show, because I live in Barcelona, I can only enjoy Anacê’s rock’n roll in its website. But those of you who can, do attend and enjoy a very nice sound.

Márcio, whose birthday was last May 10, has already told his friends:

On May 10 you couldn’t reach me because we were performing in Cruz das Almas. The concert was great, a real birthday gift. But I think my real birthday will happen next Friday, May 16, in Boomerangue, when we are launching our first album here in Salvador. The greatest gift I could receive would be seeing all my friends in the audience and celebrating with me after the show. We are preparing the show with great care, rehearsing nearly every day in the last few weeks, taking care of all the details in order to give a really amazing concert.

Again, I wish a happy birthday to Marcinho and a big success on this friday!

Read the concert’s press release:

Release of first Anacê’s album, “O Mundo”

On May 16 (Friday) in Boomerangue, at 22:00 pm, Anacê will be releasing its first album, “O Mundo” (”The World”), in a concert prepared with great care and that promises big surprises! andré T, Icaro Britto and Luiz Rocha, very special guests who gave their touch to the disk, will be also present in the celebration. To start the night, the participation of Alex Góes with his show Violões Lado B (Guitars Side B), and in the end, DJ Cassicas (Se Ligue and Casa do Rock) will make everyone dance in Salvador’s best concert hall.

“The world as we see, as we feel, that we wanted, our small “mundinho” (little world), we, little people on it, searching for our place, for everything and for everyone that we want to be very close to, our secret world, surreal, crazy, simple, honest, familar, The World of Anacê. Welcome to our world! “

In 2008, after 5 years on the road and some demos, “O Mundo” (The World) is the first album of Anacê rock band (Candice, Márcio, Toinho, Felipe, Flavio, all of them with a Fiais surname). Very well produced, recorded and mixed by andré T, in Studio T in Salvador, mastered by Carlos Freitas, in Classic Master studio, in Sao Paulo, the album has very special participations by Icaro Britto, playing Lap Steel on the track “Dancing” , and Ressonator, in “You Addict”, Luiz Rocha, playing harmonica in “Volta prá casa” and “Qualquer Lugar”, in addition to andré T himself, who plays guitars, keyboards and does the vocals in some songs. An inspired and very well cared work that fills this family with pride and gives them a special boost to enter the world of rock and roll!

ANACÊ – release of CD “O MUNDO”

Opening: Alex Góes, “Violões lado B”.
Participations: andré T, Icaro Britto and Luiz Rocha
DJ: Cassicas (Se ligue and Casa do Rock)
Where: Boomerangue, Rua da Paciência, 307 - Rio Vermelho - Salvador - BA.
When: May 16, 22:00