Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:13pm EST Related News Haiti preserve puncture as sleet turns camps to mudThu, Feb eighteen 2010U.N. assist arch chides agencies on Haiti reliefThu, Feb eighteen 2010Sarkozy visits Haiti, unveils vital assist packageWed, Feb seventeen 2010Tarps, toilets are priorities for quake-hit Haiti: U.N.Mon, Feb fifteen 2010One month after quake, Haitians stick on to weep deadFri, Feb twelve 2010 < 1 / 7 > People travel at a temporary tent stay in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince Feb 26, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

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Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:13pm EST Related News Haiti preserve puncture as sleet turns camps to mudThu, Feb eighteen 2010U.N. assist arch chides agencies on Haiti reliefThu, Feb eighteen 2010Sarkozy visits Haiti, unveils vital assist packageWed, Feb seventeen 2010Tarps, toilets are priorities for quake-hit Haiti: U.N.Mon, Feb fifteen 2010One month after quake, Haitians stick on to weep deadFri, Feb twelve 2010 < 1 / 7 > People travel at a temporary tent stay in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince Feb 26, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

World&&&&Natural Disasters

Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Royal Mail delivers parcel 6 miles... twenty-seven YEARS late

When Tracy Smeathers finished a college march in 1982, she approaching to embrace her class certificates the following week.

However, she was left repelled after reception a call from her mother, Gill Smeathers, on Tuesday to contend she had perceived the parcel some-more than twenty-seven years late.

The package, postmarked Nov 4, 1982, still finish with the 12.5p stamp, was 9,964 days overdue.

Gill Smeathers

Late delivery: Gill Smeathers with her daughter Tracy"s college obligation that arrived twenty-seven years" after it was posted

The cylindrical blood vessel had taken scarcely 3 decades to transport usually 6 miles from Kettering to Gills home where Tracy, right away 46, used to live - in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

It contained 4 secretarial certificates from a march Tracy took at Kettering Technical College from 1981 to 1982.

The card blood vessel is noted as being sent from Tresham College, shaped when Corby and Kettering Technical Colleges joined in 1978.

Widow and grandmother-of-two Gill told currently how the postman was usually as repelled as her at the postmark - but she rught away knew what the parcel contained.

Gill, a late military officer workman in her midst 70s, said: ;I knew right away when I saw the name of the college what it was.

;Tracy and I had a great giggle about it when I told her, but I"m not promulgation it to her. I"m keeping hold of it this time.

Royal Mail believes the parcel was franked by the sender but never posted

Royal Mail believes the parcel was franked by the sender but never posted

;Tracy thought I had perceived the certificates and I thought she had them so we never even realised they were missing.

;It was in really great condition so I don"t think it"s ever been opened.

;I"d love to know where it"s been all these years. I can usually think it contingency have depressed at the back of a sideboard and got lost.

Gill"s youngest daughter Tracy right away lives in Canada and she has an additional daughter Kimberley, 48, who lives in Switzerland.

She has lived at the residence where the package was sent for some-more than thirty years.

The Royal Mail hold the parcel has not been grieving in their systems for roughly 3 decades but was essentially franked by the sender and never posted.

It has a some-more new Milton Keynes postmark antiquated fifteen Feb 2010.

A Royal Mail orator said: ;There is clever justification to indicate that this object of mail was introduced in to the complement usually recently, as it was majority expected to have been behind prior to being posted.

;The 1982 postmark appears to be that of the franking appurtenance used by the sender.

;We lift out unchanging checks of the premises, machinery, mail bags and post boxes to have sure equipment are not hold up.

Tresham College currently declined to criticism on the origins of the parcel addressed to a former tyro at Kettering Technical College.

However sources at the establishment pronounced they were sure it could not have come from anywhere inside of the college in new years.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Graham Alexander keeps Burnley presence hopes alive Burnley

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FOR ALL Burnleys celebrations at the last whistle, this is a outcome that probably equates to usually one thing. Hull, along with Burnley and Portsmouth, will be relegated and on this evidence, the Tigers merit zero less.

Offered a idea begin opposite a group whose disorganization had to be seen to be believed, Hull were conjunction good sufficient nor dauntless sufficient to take advantage. Burnley, by contrast, once they twigged they were up opposite a group as bad as themselves, found something of the expostulate that served them so well in the first piece of the season.

It is certainly as well late, though there was, of course, no revelation Brian Laws that. A second win in his 14th joining compare in assign was a redemptive moment at the finish of a week in that the club had appeared close to meltdown off the pitch, as well as on it.

We indispensable belief, and that win will give us a good lift given being in the Premier League is a mental condition were not going to give up easily, pronounced Laws, who awoke yesterday sunrise to review accusations he had lost the sauce room made by one of the clubs own players, Joey Gudjonsson.

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Its been a difficult week to contend the least, but the players have responded with real strength of character, Laws said. The sense that Burnley was a club in disharmony appeared to be reliable inside of 3 mins of the begin when Kevin Kilbane was unmarked prior to streamer Jozy Altidores cranky past Burnley goalkeeper, Brian Jensen.

The recriminations in between the Burnley players were roughly as embarrassing. Unlike Manchester City last week, however, Hull simply didnt have the players to have it count. The nearest they came was when Altidore incited Michael Duff and saw his shot shut off by Jensens face prior to Jimmy Bullard poked the miscarry over the bar.

Burnley began to lift themselves together, and were rewarded when Tyrone Mears played the round in to Martin Paterson. The Northern Ireland general turned and shot to kick Boaz Myhill to the goalkeepers right.

Duff should have already put Burnley forward when he was fouled by Ibrahima Sonko. It was a penalty, as it was 7 mins after when David Nugent burst past Sonko prior to being pulled behind by Bernard Mendy. In conjunction box did the certain Graham Alexander miss from the spot.

The last goal, twisted in by Wade Elliott, was seen by comparatively couple of City fans; majority had prolonged given left. I didnt see that opening entrance in training, certified Hull government expert Iain Dowie.

Star man: Graham Alexander (Burnley)Yellow cards: Hull: Altidore, Fagan, Mendy, Barmby, Boateng. Burnley: MearsReferee: M Atkinson Attendance: 24,369Hull: Myhill 5, McShane 6 (Geovanni 67min), Sonko 6, Mouyokolo 6, Dawson 6 (Barmby 50min, 5), Mendy 6, Bullard 5, Boateng 6, Kilbane 6, Fagan 6 (Vennegoor of Hesselink 74min), Altidore 6Burnley: Jensen 7, Mears 6, Duff 7 (Caldwell 85min), Cort 6, Fox 6, Alexander 8, Paterson 6, Elliott 6, Cork 6, Nugent 7 (Thompson 90min), Fletcher 6 (Bikey 86min)

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Ned Kelly portrayal breaks auction jot down for Australian art

By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney 323PM GMT twenty-six March 2010

Ned Kellys family wants to retrieve stays of barbarous Australian bushranger Michael Vaughan a excellent batsman, a decent bloke and an Ashes-winning captain Jack the Ripper lived in Australia Adolf Hitlers initial self-portrait up for auction Kray twins auction creates some-more than 100,000 Credit break hits Sir Donald Bradman memorabilia sale

The First Class Marksman was the usually one in Nolan"s early array of Ned Kelly that the artist kept for himself. It was sole by the munificent Vizard Foundation, that had paid for it in 1992 for a reported $400,000.

The portrayal sole to an different bidder over the phone after a "vigorous" auction. It is right away believed to be the usually one of Mr Nolan"s twenty-seven paintings of Kelly not to be acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.

The NGA plans to set up a new art studio written privately to show off the Kelly collection, that is the majority renouned exhibition.

The cost of the portrayal reflects Australia"s mania with Kelly, a 19th century folk favourite and criminal immortalised in films, novel and paintings and dear by the open for his rebuttal of colonial authorities.

The prior jot down auction cost for an Australian art work was hold by Brett Whiteley"s The Olgas for Ernest Giles, that sole for $3.48 million in 2007.

The sale additionally sets a new jot down for Nolan, whose prior top cost at auction was $1.3m for Death of Constable Scanlon in 2000.

Fiat reported to cut 5000 jobs shares convene

MILAN Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:26am EDT Stocks & & A workman adjusts the trademark on a new Fiat Punto at a Fiat bureau public line in the executive Serbian locale of Kragujevac, a little 120 km (75 miles) south of Belgrade, Mar 18, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic

A workman adjusts the trademark on a new Fiat Punto at a Fiat bureau public line in the executive Serbian locale of Kragujevac, a little 120 km (75 miles) south of Belgrade, Mar 18, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Ivan Milutinovic

MILAN (Reuters) - Industrial organisation Fiat (FIA.MI) is formulation some-more than approaching pursuit cuts of 5,000 in Italy and might turn off the car activities earlier than thought this summer, press reports said, boosting the shares neatly on Wednesday.

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Italian journal La Repubblica pronounced Fiat would make known the pursuit cuts as it unveils the 2010-2014 vital plan on Apr 21.

The pursuit cuts would affect car plants in Italy and paint fifteen percent of the 30,000 workers in use on public lines in the country, the journal said.

Shares in Fiat rose to a two-month rise and were up 4.15 percent at 9.79 euros at 0909 GMT, creation it the lead gainer in the European automobile Stoxx index .SXAP.

Fiat, that took a interest in struggling U.S. carmaker Chrysler to enhance the general footprint, is to lay off 1,500 workers at Sicily"s Termini Imerese plant, scheduled to close on Dec 31, 2001, and a serve 500 at the Cassino plant.

But the journal cited kinship sources observant that a serve 2,000 to 2,500 could lose their pursuit at the ancestral Mirafiori plant in Turin and an one more 500 at the Pomigliano plant.

Traders pronounced higher-than-expected pursuit cuts were pulling the shares up.

Two analysts pronounced the shares were additionally being pushed up by an unsourced inform additionally in La Repubblica that a long-awaited turn off of the car operations of Fiat Group from the blurb car and edition activities would occur as shortly as this summer.

"The turn off was not approaching so soon," pronounced an analyst.

Many analysts hold Fiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne would need to have a firmer hold on Chrysler prior to venturing in to a turn off.

The Fiat organisation employs only over 80,000 people in Italy and 190,000 worldwide, according to the ultimate monetary report.

La Repubblica additionally pronounced Fiat would cut the series of car models constructed to eight from twelve and progress Italian prolongation to 900,000 cars, representing a 50 percent increase.

In the United States, the Italian organisation would find to furnish 7 models utilizing the brands Fiat, Lancia and Alfa Romeo for a sum prolongation of some-more than 350,000 units.

Fiat declined to criticism on the reports.

(Editing by Hans Peters)

(Reporting by Lisa Jucca and Nigel Tutt; one more stating by Stefano Rebaudo)

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Gordon Brown says contemptible to kid migrants

Gordon Brown currently voiced Britains contrition for promulgation tens of thousands of bad immature kids to former colonies where majority suffered distressing abuse.

The Prime Minister apologised for the cruelty of the kid migrants programme, that saw an estimated 150,000 immature kids elderly as immature as 3 distant from their relatives and shipped off for what was ostensible to be a improved life.

He additionally voiced the origination of a �6 million account directed at restoring family groups that were ripped detached by the scheme, that ran in assorted forms from the 1920s to the 1960s.

In a matter to the House of Commons, Mr Brown said: To all those former kid migrants and their families; to those here with us currently and those opposite the worldto each and each oneI contend currently we are indeed sorry. They were let down.

We are contemptible they were authorised to be sent afar when at their majority vulnerable. We are contemptible that instead of caring for them, this nation incited the back.

We are contemptible that the voices of these immature kids were not regularly heard, their cries for assistance not regularly heeded.

And we are contemptible that it has taken so prolonged for this critical day to come and for the full and umbrella reparation that is properly deserved.

Mr Brown pronounced the goal had been to give immature kids the possibility to shape metal a improved hold up overseas.

But the schemes were misguided, he insisted. In as well majority cases exposed immature kids suffered oppressive hard times and their family groups left at the back of were devastated.

They were mostly sent but the agree of their mom or father.

They were rigourously lied to and told they were orphansthat their relatives were passed when in actuality they were still alive.

Mr Brown went on: When they arrived overseasall alone in the worldmany of the majority exposed immature kids endured oppressive conditions, slight and abuse in the mostly cold and heartless institutions that perceived them.

Those immature kids were attacked of their childhood: those majority changed years of life.

The premier pronounced the shameful part had seen Britain destroy in the initial avocation of a nation: to strengthen the children.

We cannot shift history, but I hold that by opposed the failings of the past we can show we are dynamic to do all we can to heal the wounds, he added.

Mr Brown suggested his goal to apologize for the actions of prior governments in November, prior to long prior to Australian budding apportion Kevin Rudd pronounced contemptible to the thousands of British migrants who were abused or not asked in state care.

The diction of the reparation by Mr Brown is believed to have been discussed with charities representing former kid migrants and their families.

Forty survivors flew to London to attend to Mr Browns grave statement, and he will encounter them at an eventuality in Westminster later.

Mr Rudd, vocalization to a entertainment of 1,000 victims well known as the Forgotten Australians in Canberra in November, said: We are contemptible -sorry that as immature kids you were taken from your family groups and placed in institutions where so mostly you were abused.

Sorry for the earthy suffering, the romantic starvation and the cold deficiency of love, of tenderness, of care.

Sorry for the tragedythe comprehensive tragedyof childhoods lost.

He pronounced the Australian supervision longed for the inhabitant reparation to turn a branch point in the nations story.

Mr Rudd pronounced it was an nauseous story and a good immorality had been done.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

HIV and noncommunicable diseases impede the swell of bad countries Millennium Development Goals

Researchers at Oxford University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of California San Francisco have found that those countries with the top rates of HIV and non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, are the farthest at the back of in shortening kid mankind and the widespread of tuberculosis.

In 2000 universe leaders from 189 countries sealed up to assembly the Millennium Development Goals to revoke kid mankind by two-thirds and to hindrance and retreat the widespread of tuberculosis, malaria and HIV by 2015. The inform finds that less than half of countries are on lane to encounter these goals. Using interpretation from the United Nations covering 192 countries, the investigate group set out to assimilate since a little countries were descending at the back of in these key general goals.

The researchers found that delayed swell was usually partly due to the conventionally accepted reasons, such as a miss of income or health infrastructure. Instead, they found that long-term diseases, similar to HIV and heart disease, were trapping households in infamous cycles of seizure and poverty.

We found that normal reasons for delayed progress, such as mercantile growth or health spending, are usually a small piece of the story about since poorer countries are descending at the back of on Millennium Development Goals. Our investigate reveals that destiny swell will crucially rely on anticipating a approach to mangle the cycle of seizure and misery caused by HIV and ongoing illnesses, pronounced Dr David Stuckler from the Department of Sociology at Oxford University.

Researchers estimated that shortening HIV by one percent or ongoing diseases by 10 percent could assistance "break the cycle" -- boosting swell to the worldchild health and seizure targets by the homogeneous of some-more than a decade of mercantile development. Tackling corner epidemics could generally assistance countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where altogether swell has been the slowest at about eighteen per cent towards the kid mankind targets. More than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa have even changed in reverse, with rising infant deaths in annoy of billions of one more dollars in health aid.

Lesotho, for example, has experienced a twenty-five per cent climb in infant genocide rates over the past multiform decades and continues to have one of the top rates of HIV in the world, with about one in five persons infected. Similarly, Niger, a nation that has softened the kid health goals by 50 per cent and has had relations success in curbing the HIV epidemic, is still grappling with really high rates of NCDs (about 1030 deaths per 100,000 population), estimated to comment for two-thirds of the unmet MDG progress.

Meanwhile Eastern Europe, similar to sub-Saharan Africa, was found to be far at the back of on seizure goals (about 75 per cent unmet progress), partly since of an bomb and uncontained ongoing disease widespread in the 1990s.

This paper demonstrates since it is critical to see at the complete health experience of people and families, and not concentration on only one or a couple of diseases. Success in tellurian health equates to rebellious the daily, companion risks people vital in bad countries face, either those risks are ongoing or infectious, combined Professor Martin McKee, of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Dr Sanjay Basu, from the University of California San Francisco, said: Alongside the biological risks, family groups face usual domicile risks that forestall income from being outlayed on key health requirements. Tobacco and HIV almost enlarge the biological risks of seizure infection, but they additionally obstruct income from critical every day vital mandate similar to healthful food or visits to the doctor.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Solid Find: Natalee Holloways Body ... Or a Rock

A vacationing Pennsylvania integrate hold they competence have accomplishedsomething that thousands of police, proffer searchers, and psychicshave unsuccessful to do: Find the physique of blank lady Natalee Holloway.

Holloway left May 30, 2005, whilst on eighth month in Aruba.Searches were fruitless, and military in the future sealed the box on Dec. 18,2007, with no new leads and Holloways physique still missing. A womannamed Patti Muldowney not long ago took a sketch that she believesshows a submerged structure of the physique between shoal rocks off the seashore of Arubathat competence be Holloways remains.

Science, however, suggests it is expected a fake alarm. One forensicpathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht, carefully thought about the images and concluded, "I donot hold that these photos paint a body. I think the a rockformation."

It seems doubtful that a human skeletonwould sojourn total for scarcely five years, generally in a marineenvironment. The ligaments holding the structure of the physique together would likelydissolve fast in the comfortable Caribbean salt water, with tides andcurrents pinch the structure of the physique over a large area.

Muldowneys find provides engaging discernment in to humanpsychology. She did not find and sketch the "skeleton" since shethought it competence be Holloway. In fact, she didnt even notice it untilshe returned home and began seeking by her eighth month photos. Onlythen did she notice the skeleton-like figure and proceed wondering who itcould be.

Of march Muldowneys mind compared it with one of the best-knownmissing persons cases in the Caribbean, if not the complete world.Sensing she competence have critical evidence, Muldowney told thepolice, who are now acid for the object.

Muldowney interpreted the arrangement as a structure of the physique for the samereason that people see faces in clouds, Rorschach blots, and coffeestains. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is well well known in psychology, and is the means of most presumably puzzling and supernatural events.

Its a classical box of jumping to conclusions: a form in theapproximate figure of a human becomes a skeleton, that in spin becomesNatalee Holloways remains.

Even if the intent Muldowney photographed does spin out to be ahuman structure of the physique instead of a rock, theres no sold reason to thinkit is Holloways body. Though Holloway is the top form missingperson in Arubas history, she is frequency the usually one.

In fact, it is not surprising for human stays to be cleared out tosea, generally following boating accidents, drownings, and naturaldisasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.

This is not the initial time that amateurs have seen unusualformations in Caribbean waters. Several people (including CharlesBerlitz, owner of the Berlitz denunciation schools) have referred to that asubmerged array of rounded off rectilinear limestone blocks nearby theBahamas (called the "Bimini Road") competence be justification of the lost city of Atlantis.

Whether Holloway (or Atlantis) will in the future be found, people willalways appreciate natures shapes and forms in unusual ways.

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Benjamin Radford is handling editor of the �HYPERLINK "http://www.csicop.org/si/" Skeptical Inquirer scholarship magazine. His books, films, and alternative projects can be found on his website. His Bad Science mainstay appears continually on LiveScience.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS-Bank of Canada Governor speaks in Ottawa

Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:26pm EST

TORONTO, March 11 (Reuters) - Bank of Canada Governor MarkCarney said on Thursday the fallout from the global economiccrisis was not yet over, but that innovative central bankinghad laid the groundwork for a successful recovery.

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Below are additional comments from his appearance inOttawa:

ON CANADIAN VS U.S. RATE POLICY

"It is the responsibility of the Federal Reserve to directthe monetary policy of the United States and it is ourresponsibility to direct Canada"s (policy). It is absolutelynot necessary to have the same monetary policy at the same timein the two countries."

ON EXCHANGE RATES AND THE INFLATION TARGET

"If the combination of the level of the exchange rate,underlying economic activity in Canada, the terms of trade ofthe country, are such that we"re going to miss that inflationtarget, we"ll take action and we"ll set policy appropriately."

"As we"ve said repeatedly in the past, we have considerableflexibility in the conduct of monetary policy to address anysituation ... in order to achieve the inflation target."

"With a flexible exchange rate we"re on the hook forachieving the inflation target. We don"t have an out."

ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES

"We have to conduct monetary policy for all of Canada. It"sabsolutely essential that we take into consideration theeconomic situation in each province, in each territory."

"But as a whole and I would say we have regional offices,we do a tremendous amount of industry business ... I think wehave a very good handle on what"s happening in each region ofthe country. But that said, at the end, what matters is theoutlook in its entirety for activity and inflation in Canadaand our job is to achieve that inflation target so thatCanadians, in whatever region, can plan and investaccordingly."

ON RATE POLICY

"It"s our policy right now that the appropriate path ofmonetary policy through the end of June this year is to keepour target rate at one quarter of one percent. But we willadjust that as appropriate over time in order to achieve ourinflation target."

ON INTERNATIONAL REGULATION

"I think there"s some pretty basic things here and this ispart of what we can bring to these international discussionsand it"s part of the answer and part of the reason why I havesome confidence that there will be a consensus and someprogress on international regulation." (Reporting by Ka Yan Ng and Jennifer Kwan in Toronto, andLouise Egan and David Ljunggren in Ottawa; editing by JeffreyHodgson)

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Marines face doubt after receiving Afghan locale

Adam Entous WASHINGTON Thu Mar 4, 2010 2:03pm EST Related News Afghan army countering Taliban infiltration: spokesmanThu, Mar 4 2010Arrest of No 2 may signal Taliban feud: McChrystalThu, Mar 4 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces who pushed the Taliban out of their main stronghold in Marjah, southern Afghanistan, have found residents there deeply skeptical of the Afghan government"s promises to rebuild, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday.

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The concerns raised by Brigadier General Lawrence Nicholson, the Marine commander in southern Afghanistan, put a spotlight on the big challenge still facing U.S., NATO and Afghan forces in Marjah now that fighting has died down.

Gaining local support is key to President Barack Obama"s counterinsurgency strategy, which aims to clear the Taliban out of population centers like Marjah so President Hamid Karzai"s government in Kabul can begin taking over.

In a televised video link from Afghanistan, Nicholson told reporters at the Pentagon that he wants to quickly hire more than 1,000 local residents, many of whom, he acknowledged, were "probably Taliban at one time."

Many of these new hires "just quit being Taliban" for jobs on development projects clearing rubble and canals, he said.

NATO"s 3-week-old operation in Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan"s most violent, was the first major test of Obama"s decision to send 30,000 more troops to seize insurgent-held areas before a planned 2011 troop drawdown begins.

U.S. Marines hit pockets of stiff resistance but Nicholson said his forces have not come under "direct fire" in Marjah the last eight days.

"We"re very pleased with how things have settled down," he said, but that "doesn"t mean it"s over by any stretch." Marine and Afghan battalions will remain in the area for the foreseeable future, he added.

LIMITED WINDOW

Nicholson said he saw a very limited window of opportunity for winning over Marjah"s population.

"We"ve got a very skeptical population here," he said. He said the Taliban had worked hard to convince people the Americans were going to take things from them, not help them.

"Unlike some of the other areas that we"ve been in that were generally glad to see us but were always wondering if we would stay, the population here is concerned about what we"re going to be able to do for them," Nicholson added.

A top priority for the Americans is recruiting a local police force. The goal, Nicholson said, was to hire one-third of the force from the local Marjah population, while the rest would come from outside the area to limit corruption and tribal influences.

Nicholson said Marjah residents were particularly distrustful of what they see as government corrupt from Kabul.

He recalled a recent meeting with elders in which one self-proclaimed "Taliban leader" backed the presence of the Americans but then turned to their Afghan government counterpart and declared, "I don"t trust you."

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military"s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday that it was "too early to tell" what Karzai has done to address the corruption issue, suggesting Washington was concerned inaction could undercut the campaign against the Taliban.

"He was duly elected by his people and he now has to perform in this area," Mullen said. Karzai has faced credibility challenges after voter fraud marred his re-election last year.

U.S. officials see Marjah as a prelude to a larger military operation, expected to start in the summer, in Kandahar, the Taliban"s birthplace in a neighboring province.

(Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Cristiano Ronaldo penetrating on Manchester reunited as Real Madrid star admits he wants to partner Wayne Rooney

Cristiano Ronaldo would love to play in the same team as Wayne Rooney again.

The Portugal forward left Manchester United for Real Madrid in an 80million move last summer but Rooney has made sure Ronaldo has not been missed at Old Trafford.

England striker Rooney has scored 27 goals in all competitions this season and Ronaldo has been keeping a close eye on his former team-mate.

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Dream team: Ronaldo (left) and Rooney combined to great effect for United

"It doesn"t impress me because I know the quality Rooney has. He was always brilliant when I played with him," he said. "I played with him for three or four years and he was always brilliant, not just this season.

"This season he has played very well and scored many goals but he is still the same player. He is fantastic and a winner.

"I hope to play with him again some day. I don"t know if this is possible but I am really happy for him and for all the players at Manchester."

Ronaldo famously winked at the Portugal bench after playing a part in Rooney"s sending off as England crashed out of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

But the pair put the spat behind them and terrorised defences as United claimed three Premier League crowns in a row before Ronaldo left for Spain.

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