Mercredi 12 janvier 2011

A year after the earthquake, Haiti still under the rubble

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One year after the earthquake that nike dunks sale killed 250,000 dead, Haitians are still living amid the rubble, despite pledges by the international community in the aftermath of a catastrophe that revealed the limits of humanitarian action. On January 12, 2010 at 16:53, 20 seconds at most have been sufficient to reduce Port-au-Prince and its region in ruins. Besides the 250,000 dead, the quake of magnitude 7 degrees has more than 300,000 wounded and one and a half million homeless, making it one of the most devastating urban disasters in history. Despite the pledges, the presence of 12,000 peacekeepers and an army of aid workers, the streets of the capital are littered with debris and a million victims are still living in makeshift camps. Worse, the Nike Dunks Mid poorest country in the Western world, located less than two hours flight from the United States, is now struggling with a cholera epidemic, coupled with an ominous political crisis, while Reconstruction projects are slow to sprout. Faced with this failure, many people who question the capacity of the international community to cope with a disaster of this magnitude. The spirit of solidarity that followed the quake caused the recognition of many Haitians, but their optimism has not withstood the facts. "When we travel the nike dunk country and (camps) of tents and you see the situation in which people find themselves a year after the disaster, it's hard to imagine how this money was spent," observes Jean-Mackenzy Francis, a student of 25 who lives in Port-au-Prince. Several celebrities, including actor Sean Penn, have denounced this situation. Fidel Castro has said that Haiti had been "abandoned to his fate" and some humanitarian organizations directly involved will also show very critical. Engulfment In a report published on January 6, Britain's Oxfam and J. reconstruction operations "dead" and deplores a stalemate due, she says, the indecisiveness of the government of Haiti, the fact that rich countries often prefer their own priorities and the erasure of the committee responsible for aid coordination, co-led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Unni Karunakara, president of Doctors Without Borders expressed outrage at the international level for the failure of the humanitarian system face an epidemic of cholera that has claimed more than 3,600 dead. "Some may see a glass half empty. I see it as half full," replied indirectly Pamela Cox, Vice-President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. "I think the frustration comes from the fact that today, people want quick solutions (...) The reconstruction is not a quick process," she said in an interview with Reuters. Citing "a problem of interpretation", Carleen Dei, who directs the operations of the American agency USAID in Haiti, finds it necessary to distinguish the immediate reaction, which she says "very, very smoothly," Nike Free 3.0 the process much long and complex reconstruction. Four million Haitians have received food aid and emergency shelters have been distributed to 1.5 million victims, argues the UN. "Everyone recognizes that this is the biggest urban disaster of all time, hitting a country already bottom of the list in Vibram 5 Fingers all statistics, whether health, the education, agriculture or infrastructure, "said Carleen Dei. Despite his optimism, Pamela Cox is alarmed that only half of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged in March by the international community appears in the budgets of donor countries. "We are on the first Vibram Five Fingers Sprint anniversary, we would also see the second half to happen," she said. Aftermath of Earthquake adds the threat of electoral unrest. The first round of presidential elections held on November 28 in contentious conditions led to violent demonstrations. Supporters of Michel Martelly, rejected the second round for less than 7,000 votes, shouted to manipulation. The second round scheduled on January 16 was postponed to February.
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Lundi 10 janvier 2011

The "fire" spreads

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Vendredi 07 janvier 2011

Boeing deliveries decline, orders increased

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Boeing signs a happy new year 2010 in terms of orders. The U.S. aircraft manufacturer announced Thursday, Jan. 6 have received 530 net orders for commercial aircraft in 2010, an increase of 31% over one year in a market upswing. In 2009, the manufacturer had registered only 405 net orders. The Nike Free 5.0 medium-haul B737 is honored as 376 copies were delivered in 2010. "The 737 Next Generation has established a new record of delivery for the second consecutive year," said Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of the commercial aviation division, adding that "the 737 aircraft is the most requested of the market." Nike Dunks High However, an order of 747 has been canceled, along with four new orders from long-haul aircraft, said the 787 Dreamliner, which suffers from repeated and currently has three years late. Deliveries should start in 2010 and were delayed to a date unspecified. 3,443 aircraft for delivery in total Nike Dunks Low Division of Boeing Commercial Aviation displays a backlog of 3,443 planes to be delivered with in total. The manufacturer has also delivered 462 commercial aircraft in 2010, also a majority of medium-haul 737, while 481 had delivered the previous year. It has delivered 376 B737, 12 long-haul model 767, and 74 long-haul model 777. In 2010, Boeing also announced several increases in production rates to meet higher demand than expected. nike dunk The first deliveryVibram 5 Fingers of the Vibram Five Fingers KSO 747-8 Freighter (freight version), hit by several delays, is scheduled for mid 2011 and the 747-8 Intercontinental (passenger version) by the end of the year. Airbus expected to announce soon a new record of delivery in 2010. "It is very likely that we will have delivered more than 500 aircraft" in 2010, stated there at Airbus in late December. In late November, 461 aircraft had been delivered to airlines. Only drawback, the European manufacturer Airbus A380 delivered less than expected.
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Jeudi 06 janvier 2011

From phone to a universal computer: the PC end of an era?

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Mercredi 05 janvier 2011

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Mardi 04 janvier 2011

Martin Suter: Allmendinger and dragonflies man with glove

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He's full name is Johann Friedrich von Allmen, but although it has Gianfranco, the waiter of the "Viennois, jokingly called" Conte ", he - were called peasant ancestors, who is Hans and Fritz - good Swiss. His father became rich through land speculation and he has a fortune left. The millions are lost quickly come to the Son, but the expensive lifestyle through which they have been missing him is left to him. He has become a virtuoso in the art of making debts, enjoying lifelong residency in the garden house of the former's own villa, now owned by a trust company, and leads the life of an idler who spends his mornings in the "Viennois", the afternoon half an hour to lie maintains and evening to meet in the Goldenbar is. Unless he is on a Magic Flute and Madame-Butterfly premiere. For he inherited only one of its two opera premiere subscription has sublet lucrative. The Swiss writer Martin Suter added that private person who finds the most delicious of all the happiness in life tails ", invented together with his Spanish-speaking Butler as a hero of a future crime series. Here, in her first case, cheap ugg boots"Allmendinger and the bubbles, they are still novices, beginners, and the author wakes up with touching care first about the fact that the case is not too tricky, and secondly the fact that they are in the resolution is not too much is happening. When the dragonfly is the real fictional doppelganger in Switzerland on 27 October 2004, with a break at Chateau Gingins stolen, still not back precious five glass bowls surfaced with dragonfly motifs of the famous Art Nouveau artist émile Gallé. Martin Suter is playing this valuable and highly assured shells according to his hero in his father's villa in the platinum-blonde sex-starved opera acquaintance Jojo's hands. Yes, he really incites him the lady on the neck. But as it binds neither the hero nor the author nor the reader, they can be ignored. Allmendinger has always collected art deco and art nouveau, but this is a number greater than the things that he previously purchased and - has sometimes stolen - because of the debt - or sold - due to the debt. After all, soon sits an antique dealer and shot at his shop without a face. But this can not happen to the hero. Because someone should take advantage of the fact that in the former greenhouse of Villa housed library is the passionate reader Allmen glass and out of the garden to create for him, then would there still manufactured from a wide brass adjustment buckle by the same tailor as his suit made braces, where the ball would bounce off without fail. So while the case goes to meet a measured pace of his resolution, can the free-floating attention of the reader turn to the details of which are for the release of the murderer completely useless. The great care, for example, with its author makes sure that Allmen, after leaving the store the dead antiques dealer, do not worry that, to have left traces, "Allmendinger took off the gloves was only now he recognizes that. he had been wearing gloves all the time. " Or does the discomfort that Allmendinger in modern cars. He is crowned by its stylish retro-existence - for the opera moves into a rented 1978 Cadillac Fleetwood - by respecting permeable distance to everything electronic. chi flat ironComputers and Internet, he delegated to Butler Carlos. As a professional replacement of lost precious beautiful things to do are two series of figures. One can only hope that they will be the technological level of the current art and antiques business, the dark side grew. The multi-reader reads Allmen Honoré de Balzac, Somerset Maugham and Georges Simenon (they all appear in Diogenes) and a thriller by Elmore Leonard. Since he is a regular in antique shops would also be a thriller by John Dunning recommended Allmen much. Dunning's Cliff Janeway falls into a passionate antiquarian in the cases make it, the ex-cop, to the investigator. For Janeway is the law that Suter his hero was initially spared: That a lover of fine old things there in the crime novel takes only a little when he goes to the clinch with the present and the reader during the reading of the tea is cold. vibram five fingers vibram five fingers review Vibram Five Fingers Mens
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