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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 >

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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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 >

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)

World Natural Disasters

Premier League to plea BSkyB statute Premier League

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The Premier League will launch a authorised plea to Ofcoms statute forcing BSkyB to cut the cost it charges opposition broadcasters to lift the sports channels.

The plea to the Competition Appeals Tribunal was reliable following a assembly of top-flight clubs chairmen today.

Richard Scudamore, the Premier League arch executive, said: We have resolved that we have no preference alternative than to mountain a plea to their due action.

We do not commence this routine lightly. However, the consequences for UK foe and UK sports fans are as well critical and elemental for us to ignore.

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The Premier League fears the statute will lead to a dump in their clubs income with the outcome of that being the worlds tip players spin their behind on Englands tip flight.

BSkyB, that is 39 per cent owned by News Corp, primogenitor association of The Times, will have to sell on Sky Sports 1 and 2 to opposition broadcasters for up to twenty-three per cent less than the stream indiscriminate price, according to the statute by the media regulator.

The Premier League has usually sealed a three-year 1.782 billion promote understanding with Sky profitable 1.62 billion of that.

By forcing Sky to sell the sports channels to the competitors at a discount, Ofcom will revoke the incentives of all broadcasters, Sky included, to deposit in the merger of sports rights, Scudamore said.

This can usually have a disastrous stroke on the capability of foe to capture a satisfactory lapse on the calm in an open market, that is required to guarantee suitable investment in progressing the top peculiarity of that content.

The outcome will be to finance companies that have shown small ardour for investing in calm and essentially repairs the investment models that have helped foe turn a successful piece of the UK economy and done foe so tasteful to UK consumers.

Ofcom voiced the statute on Mar 31 after a three-year investigation, that resolved that BSkyB contingency cut the indiscriminate prices for Sky Sports 1 and 2 to guarantee competition. It is in consumers interests for the compensate TV decisions to come in to outcome as shortly as probable to broach the benefits of wider preference and innovation, An Ofcom orator said. We are happy to urge the preference wherever necessary.

BSkyB was systematic to revoke the indiscriminate cost of Sky Sports 1 and 2 from 13.48 to 10.63 per subscriber per month. Most subscribers buy Sky Sports 1 and 2 as a bundle, however, and the cost for both channels will be cut by 10.5 per cent to 17.14. The broadcaster was since 6 weeks to exercise the changes.

Pope indicted of ignoring pleas to stop clergyman who molested 200 deaf boys (includes video)

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Pope Benedict XVI was drawn deeper yesterday in to the ecclesiastic sex abuse scandal that has started to intimidate the Roman Catholic Church, when he was accused of privately unwell to take movement opposite a sequence paedophile.

The Pope was blamed without delay for ignoring steady pleas by comparison American churchmen to take movement opposite a clergyman who had molested up to 200 deaf boys.

Father Lawrence C. Murphy, who worked at the St Johns School for the Deaf in St Francis, Wisconsin, from 1950 to 1974, starting as a clergyman and rising to director, allegedly molested scores of pupils, preying on his victims in their dormitories and on category trips.

But instead of being defrocked and the military called in, it is purported that Father Murphy avoided probity and remained a part of the Church after a key involvement by the Pope afterwards well known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Murphy was sensitively changed to the Diocese of Superior in northern Wisconsin in 1974 and outlayed his last twenty-four years operative openly with young kids in parishes and schools. He died in 1998 at the age of 72, still a priest.

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In 1996 Monsignor Rembert Weakland, afterwards the Archbishop of Milwaukee, twice wrote about Father Murphy to the stream Pope who was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at that time, a on all sides he hold between 1982 and 2005 requesting that Father Murphy be defrocked after admitting to the abuse. Documents performed by The New York Times show that Archbishop Weakland told Cardinal Ratzinger that he was referring the box to him as head of doctrine, not slightest since the clergyman was purported to have used his purpose during admission to appeal victims.

Archbishop Weakland pronounced his target was to defuse annoy in between the abused and to restore their certitude in the Church. Cardinal Ratzinger did not reply.

Nonetheless, eight months after Father Murphy was theme of a tip canonical hearing one utilizing inner Church law systematic by Cardinal Ratzingers emissary at Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Cardinal Bertone is right away the Popes right-hand man as Secretary of State, or the Vatican budding minister.

The hearing was halted after Father Murphy wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger protesting that he had already repented and was in bad health, adding that the box had run out of time underneath the Churchs own government of stipulations because it associated to allegations done some-more than dual decades previously. I simply wish to live out the time that I have left in the grace of my priesthood, Father Murphy told Cardinal Ratzinger, adding: I ask for your kind benefit in this matter. Cardinal Bertone agreed, observant that the priest should instead repent, commence a devout shelter and be restricted from celebrating Mass outward his diocese.

This Dicastery [Vatican executive department] has each goal that the priest in subject will denote a eagerness to co-operate in the solution to this unpleasant box that will foster the great of souls and equivocate scandal, wrote Monsignor Bertone.

The papers on the Murphy box were done open by lawyers representing five men who have brought lawsuits opposite the archdiocese of Milwaukee. They include letters in between bishops and the Vatican, victims affidavits, handwritten records by a passionate disorders consultant who interviewed Father Murphy and mins of a last assembly on the box at the Vatican.

A minute from Monsignor Bertone after in 1998, after Father Murphy had died, said: This Dicastery commends Fr Murphy to the forgiveness of God and shares with you the goal that the Church will be spared any unjustified broadside from this matter.

Victims of Father Murphys abuse pronounced yesterday that the Pope should be hold responsible. Arthur Budzinksi, 61, said: The Pope knew about this. He should be hold accountable. I hold somebody should be punished.

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China state media accuses Google of domestic bulletin

BEIJING Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:18am EDT Related News China state media accuses Google of made at home agendaSun, Mar twenty-one 2010

A man walks past the Google trademark in front of the China domicile construction in Beijing Mar 19, 2010.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China"s state media on Sunday indicted Google Inc of pulling a made at home bulletin by "groundlessly accusing the Chinese government" of ancillary hacker attacks and by perplexing to trade the own culture, values and ideas.

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In a explanation sealed by 3 Xinhua writers, the state headlines group additionally sought to urge the government"s Internet censorship, that Google has cited as one reason the world"s largest poke engine might give up China.

"Regrettably, Google"s new behaviors show that the association not usually aims at expanding commercial operation in China, but is personification an active purpose in exporting culture, worth and ideas.

"It is astray for Google to levy the own worth and yardsticks on Internet law to China, that has the own time-honored tradition, enlightenment and value."

On Friday, the China Business News reported that Google might have an proclamation as early as Monday on either it will lift out of China.

Two months ago, Google pronounced it had been the aim of worldly hacking attacks imagining from inside China, and the association pronounced it would no longer determine to reside by Beijing"s censorship manners even if that meant shutting down the Google.cn site.

Since then, the dual sides have reportedly been at a standoff, nonetheless Google"s arch executive, Eric Schmidt, pronounced he hoped to have an result shortly from talks with Chinese officials.

China requires Internet operators to retard difference and images the statute Communist Party deems unacceptable, together with those involving politically supportive topics.

Beijing has additionally wholly shut off internationally renouned websites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

In the Xinhua commentary, the writers indicted Google of violating general norms.

"In fact, no nation allows unlimited upsurge on the Internet of pornographic, violent, gambling or fallacious content, or calm on supervision subversion, racial separatism, eremite extremism, racialism, terrorism and anti-foreign feelings," the explanation stated.

As in alternative disputes with unfamiliar businesses and governments, the explanation pronounced China"s position in this box was a "pure inner affair."

The writers pronounced China"s Internet growth would pullulate but Google, whilst the association would be the "biggest loser."

"Whether it leaves or not, the Chinese supervision will keep the Internet law beliefs unchanged. One company"s aspiration to shift China"s Internet manners and authorised complement will usually infer to be ridiculous.

"And either withdrawal or not, Google should not go on to politicalize itself, as joining the withdrawal to made at home issues will lose Google"s credit between Chinese netizens."

Although it is the tellurian leader, Google operates at a faraway second place to Baidu Inc, China"s made at home poke engine leader, that has benefitted from the dispute.

Baidu"s shares have surged some-more than 44 percent given Google"s proclamation that it could lift out of China, whilst Google"s batch has depressed rounded off 6.3 percent.

(Reporting by Ken Wills; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

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Alan Watkins Heath bullied. Thatcher too. But not this PMAlan Watkinsators

The great editor of the Sunday Express, Sir John Junor, an additional Scotsman, was positively a bully. Once, at half-past five on a Friday afternoon, he was deliberating Sundays probable heading articles with me. He unexpected buzzed someone on the "intercom", afterwards a symbol of energy and prestige. It was transparent that he was vocalization to the unfamiliar editor. The review was heard in his office.

"Have you review Sam Whites mainstay in the Standard?" Junor asked.

The late Sam White in Paris was most dignified in the Fleet Street of his day.

"I havent review it yet, John, I"m afraid."

"What time is it?"

"I dont follow you, John."

"I asked you what time it was."

"Half-past five, John."

"Your watch agrees with mine, I see. And what on all sides do you hold on this paper?"

"I"m not utterly with you, John, I"m sorry."

"I asked you what on all sides you hold on the Sunday Express."

"I"m unfamiliar editor."

"The unfamiliar editor on the Sunday Express, at half-past five on a Friday afternoon, has not nonetheless review Sam White. May I indicate you review the mainstay to that I refer, that might enclose ideas that might seductiveness you or your means match in Paris. And, when you have review it, would you be so kind as to give me a buzz."

I was obviously dictated to overhear this sell and to be formally awed by this muster of paper brutality.

One of Junors visit lunching companions at this time was Harold Wilson, afterwards personality of the opposition, prior to long to be budding minister. Wilson did not try to brag anyone. Instead he was the plant of bullying by Lady Falkender, prior to Mrs Marcia Williams.

The total gruesome story is told in multiform books alone by Lord Donoughue and Mr Joe Haines. Poor Harold endured a extensive military of saucepans and frying pans from the No 10 kitchen at the hands of Marcia. Maybe Lady Falkender has still to control her defence. We can customarily wait.

What is transparent is that Wilson was not a bully. He went in, rather, for schemes, devices, wheezes to foil his opponents, or, sometimes, to confuse his supporters in his own celebration if he thought they were removing on top of themselves.

Mr Gordon Brown is disposed to try out ploys, such as his fiddling with estate taxation in 2007. Alas, Mr Browns dodges lend towards to furnish the conflicting effect. In 3 years, he has determined himself as the Tommy Cooper of No 10. Cooper, likewise, seems to have been a rather nasty sense in his in isolation life.

Wilsons stratagems, however, customarily came off. The farthest he went was to provoke his ministers. He once had a apportion of cultivation called Fred Peart: affable, handsome, nothing as well splendid in the head. He was important for supervising an progressing conflict of foot-and-mouth disease, that was not his fault.

The afterwards Labour cupboard was most exercised by something called the immature pound. This was not a fashionably ecological tenure that came after but to do with the Common Agricultural Policy. What usually was this immature pound? Wilson enquired of Peart at the Cabinet. Several of his colleagues would really most similar to to know. Peart was flustered. He replied that it was a sort of equalisation device. Just so, Wilson persisted, but how did it work exactly? What were the figures? Peart did not know, and he late hurt, but not harmed or shop-worn permanently. It was regarded as a rather great fun on Wilsons part. "Tell us all about the immature pound, Fred."

Edward Heath has regularly struck me as a bit of a bully, though I did not experience any of it myself. Heath was simply a really bold man. Friends of mine, such as Iain Macleod (who died in 1970), would say: "You mustnt mind old Ted. Hes usually shy."

Margaret Thatcher, when she was initial a apportion and Heath was budding minister, was not putting up with any of this nonsense. "First of all," Mrs Thatcher, as she afterwards was, would say, "you"re going to entice me to lay down. Then you entice me to have something to splash tea or coffee, doesnt matter. Then we can plead the have a difference in hand."

Obviously, I was not benefaction at this meeting. I have pieced the arise together from accounts by alternative persons. But it is clear that Heaths rage did not improve, either generally, or towards Mrs Thatcher specifically: on the contrary, as successive events were to demonstrate.

It was an muster of bad manners on Heaths piece that was to lead to his rain and his deputy in the form of Mrs Thatcher. The Tory MP Airey Neave visited Heath to discuss it him that he had suffered heart trouble. "Well, thats your domestic career finished, then," Heath pronounced to Neave, who resolved to work to move down Heath and to reinstate him with Mrs Thatcher, that duly came to pass.

James Callaghan came after Heath but prior to Mrs Thatcher. Callaghan gave an sense of extensive mildness and goodwill. The newspapers and some-more quite the cartoonists supposed this picture as scold (this use of "image" derives from 1908). In actuality he was tetchy and nasty when things were not going well, as customarily they were not, in his last phase.

Mrs Thatcher was a extensive bully. Otherwise, her supporters contend she used to contend it of herself she would not have managed to get anything finished at all. One of her ministers, the late Ian Gilmour, tells piece of the story in his small classical Dancing with Dogma. He and his co-worker Lord Carrington were berated for carrying been "soft" with Brussels, when they thought they had finished rather well.

There were alternative examples. The last of these helped to move her down.

At the cupboard prior to the new event of Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Howe, afterwards personality of the House, went by the stirring business. Why, Mrs Thatcher longed for to know, was such-and-such not being done? What had turn of the such-and-such Bill? According to one of the participants, she used him as a punchbag.

Their colleagues thought she was working not customarily brutally but unfairly. Not customarily did Sir Geoffrey have his debate a little days later, job on Mrs Thatcher to go. Several days after that, her colleagues refused to await her, and she took her leave of Downing Street in tears. Such are the penalties of bullying.

Mr David Cameron has not had most possibility to show what he can do. Mr Michael Howard demonstrated early guarantee by ruthlessly sacking a Tory MP prior to long prior to the 2005 choosing for simply doubt celebration policy. But right away he is in no on all sides to pouch anybody.

Mr Cameron has practical old Soviet strategy to safeguard correspondence with the Central Committees wishes: such as Lord Mandelson and Mr Alastair Campbell used to do in the days of New Labour. Mr Brown was himself piece of this dispensation. But he is not a bully: some-more a nasty incompetent.

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Youth ball throwing arm injuries are rising dramatically

Three new studies presented at the at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) residence this vicious issue, each charity new solutions to assistance forestall these injuries.

Five-minute widen after fool around can assistance immature players equivocate throwing-arm suffering

Pitchers and catchers underneath the age of fifteen mostly experience narrowing of a shoulder vinculum well well known as the posterior-inferior glenohumeral ligament. If this vinculum is not stretched, it will turn increasingly tighter and some-more disposed to suffering or repairs as the player ages, if that player continues to fool around baseball.

A investigate of 1,267 girl ball players, led by Charles Metzger, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in top extremities in Houston, Texas, found that a elementary widen well well known as the posterior capsular widen can help.

A posterior capsular widen is finished after fool around and given it is opposite from the ubiquitous stretches players already know, it contingency be taught, says Dr. Metzger. Once learned, however, it is really simple, and takes usually five mins to complete. Nearly 97 percent of immature players who achieved the widen scrupulously and consistently reported shoulder improvement.

Dr. Metzger supports Safe Throw, an injury-prevention and fast return-to-play program. Instructions and diagrams display how to perform the posterior capsular widen can be found on www.safethrow.com.

Twenty-five percent of immature players experience bend pain; pitchers have top rate of osteochondral lesions

The bend is the majority often reported area of use too much repairs in kid and girl ball players. One sort of use too much includes osteochondral lesions, that are tears or fractures in the cartilage and underlying bone, covering the bend joint.

In a investigate led by Tetsuya Matsuura, MD, Department of Orthopedics, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Institute of Health Bioscience in Tokushima, Japan, 152 ball players were noticed (ranging in age from 8 to12) for one deteriorate to investigate the repairs occurrence in propinquity to their personification positions. These players had no story of cryptic bend pain.

The formula were as follows:

38 players, or twenty-five percent complained of bend pain; of these 38 players, twenty-six (68.4 percent) had stipulations of range of suit and/or love on the elbow, and/or valgus highlight suffering (a stressful force placed on the ligaments on the middle side of the bend joint); and Of those twenty-six players, twenty-two (84.6 percent) had osteochondral lesions, including: twelve pitchers (54.6 percent) 6 catchers (27.3 percent) 3 infielders (13.6 percent) 1 outfielder (4.5 percent).

Dr. Matsuura concluded, Twenty-five percent of kid and girl ball players have bend suffering and scarcely fifteen percent means osteochodral lesions per year and pitchers have the top rate of osteochondral lesions. If use too much injuries such as osteochrondral lesions occur, prompt diagnosis and diagnosis can forestall this repairs from causing long-term damage. Better recognition and preparation between parents, players and generally coaches about risk factors can assistance forestall these injuries.

Reviewing -- and adhering to -- girl ball throwing discipline can assistance forestall injury

In an additional presentation, led by George A. Paletta, Jr., MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Orthopedic Center of St. Louis and Medical Director/Head Team Physician of the St. Louis Cardinals, discussed the enlarge in bend injuries of immature ball players, together with the augmenting series of vinculum reformation or Tommy John procedures performed.

Despite these increases, Dr. Paletta says there are identifiable -- and controllable -- risk factors of that immature athletes, relatives and coaches should be aware, to assistance revoke injury.

A immature contestant should never throw by suffering or go on to representation when he or she is patently fatigued, says Dr. Paletta. Additionally, relatives should reconnoitre themselves with the endorsed singular game, weekly and deteriorate sum representation counts, referred to liberation times, and endorsed ages for guidance assorted pitches.

Dr. Paletta stresses that there contingency be a larger concentration on preparation and investigate in this area, or some-more immature ball players will means critical injury.

Eliminating junk dishes at schools might assistance forestall childhood obesity



SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 2, 2010 -- New policies that discharge honeyed beverages and junk dishes from schools competence assistance delayed childhood obesity, according to a San Francisco State University investigate expelled currently and published in the Mar issue of the biography Health Affairs.

"This is one of the really initial extensive investigations that carefully thought about possibly childhood plumpness trends altered after new statewide policies were enacted in California," pronounced the study"s initial writer Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, partner highbrow of health preparation at SF State. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research, New Connections Program saved the $100,000 project.

Childhood plumpness is increasingly prevalent in the United States, with plumpness rates some-more than tripling during the last thirty years. Today, one in 3 young kids is possibly overweight or obese. Last year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reported the initial leveling of these kid plumpness rates. However, there were no reasons since as to since trends competence have stalled.

Between 2003 and 2005, Governor Shwarzenegger sealed SB 677, SB 965 and SB twelve in to law, the initial extensive set of statewide policies to discharge sodas and alternative rarely honeyed beverages and shorten the sale of junk dishes in all of California"s open schools. Although most alternative states subsequently enacted identical standards, intensity goods on childhood plumpness were uncertain.

Sanchez-Vaznaugh and co-investigators used eight years of physique mass index (BMI) interpretation from fifth and seventh class students picked up as piece of California"s annual Physical Fitnessgram testing. The investigate compared BMI trends in the years preceding the dramatization of the legislation with the years following the legislation. The interpretation show that prior to the policies took effect, the rate of overweight students was augmenting between all groups in the investigate (girls and boys in fifth and seventh grades). However, in the 3 year duration after the policies became effective, the enlarge in the series of overweight young kids was significantly marked down between fifth-grade boys and seventh-grade students of both sexes via California. The pre- and post-policy trends in overweight were not significantly opposite between fifth-grade girls.

The researchers additionally looked at young kids in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) separately, since the district upheld somewhat stricter, but differently identical policies in their district the year prior to the thoroughfare of California"s SB 677. Prior to the doing of the process there was an ceiling direction of overweight fifth and seventh-grade students in the Los Angeles area. When the researchers compared these trends in the duration after the new policies were implemented, they found that the augmenting direction in the series of overweight fifth-grade students in the Los Angeles significantly slowed. There were no poignant changes between seventh-grade students in Los Angeles.

"Although policymakers cannot without delay change tyro behavior, the investigate shows that bureaucratic policies can assistance conclude the sourroundings in that young kids sense to have food choices and to illustrate figure the food behaviors, conversion overweight trends in complete tyro populations," Sanchez-Vaznaugh said. She additionally cautions that there is still a lot to do to branch plumpness in California"s open schools.

She cites propagandize campus vicinity -- quite in poorer neighborhoods -- to stores offered sick dishes and beverages that mount in antithesis to nutritive objectives set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Limited resources and bill cuts bushel schools from charity both healthful, good-tasting alternatives and earthy preparation programs. "Only about 40 percent of young kids in the investigate were deliberate physically fit," Sanchez-Vaznaugh said.

In further to training at SF State, Sanchez-Vaznaugh is a Kellogg Health Scholar at the University of California San Francisco"s Center on Social Disparities in Health. The study"s comparison writer was Patricia Crawford, executive of the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health at University of California, Berkeley. Co-investigators were Brisa Sanchez and Jonggyu Baek from the University of Michigan.

The study, ""Competitive" food and libation policies: are they conversion childhood overweight trends?" was published in Health Affairs, a heading peer-reviewed U.S. health process biography http://www.healthaffairs.org/

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U.S. firms security concerns grow in Mexico: check

Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:55pm EDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. companies in Mexico are increasingly worried about security and many are reconsidering future investments as drug war killings spiral out of control, a poll showed on Thursday.

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The American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, which represents the bulk of foreign direct investment in the country, said 58 percent of its members felt less safe in 2009 than they did a year earlier.

Twenty-seven percent were reconsidering investments in Mexico due to security concerns, according to a poll of the American Chamber"s members.

Drug violence has killed nearly 19,000 people across Mexico since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and launched an army assault on powerful trafficking gangs.

"Clients do not want to come to our country because they are afraid. They ask if they need bodyguards," Raul Gutierrez, president of Mexico"s steelmaker association Canacero, told reporters at a steel industry event.

Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of troops and elite police to fight drug gangs, but shootings and grenade attacks have become common, especially near the northern border with the United States, which is dotted with foreign-owned factories.

Companies cite kidnappings and extortion as other risks.

Mexico, which has Latin America"s second-biggest economy, is a top U.S. trading partner and sends about 80 percent of its exports to the United States.

Visiting Mexico this week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to help broaden the drug war with programs to tackle the poverty and addiction that fuel the narcotics trade.

"We are certain that this combined effort (between the United States and Mexico) will bear fruit and it will help improve the security climate here," said Thomas Gillen, head of the American Chamber"s security committee in Mexico.

Still, 39 percent of executives think improvements in security will take more than five years, up from 22 percent in the poll conducted a year earlier.

The American Chamber conducted its latest poll between November 15, 2009 and January 15, 2010.

Mexican foreign direct investment plunged 51 percent last year to $11.4 billion, hurt by the worldwide recession.

2(Additional reporting by Mica Rosenberg; editing by Jason Lange and Paul Simao)

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Activists betray anti oil-sands diversion

OTTAWA Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:06pm EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Activists launched an online video game on Monday to attack leading politicians" support for development of Canada"s oil sands, which greens portray as a crime against nature.

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Tar Nation, which is set on the grounds of a dirty refinery, allows players to spray oil at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and opposition leader Michael Ignatieff "to get them out of the tar sands".

Once the two men have been blasted with enough oil, the game ends and up pops an pre-written protest email addressed to the two leaders. The energy industry dismissed the game as misguided.

Harper and Ignatieff both back development of northern Alberta"s vast oil sands, the world"s second-largest proven reserves after Saudi Arabia, which require energy-intensive methods to extract and process crude.

As a result, greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands are climbing quickly and will rise by around 60 percent from current levels by 2015 if all planned projects go ahead.

The game -- available at www.tarnation.ca as well as Facebook and online gaming sites -- was dreamed up by the left-leaning Polaris Institute think tank.

"The tar sands industry is Canada"s fastest-growing carbon emitter -- our own built-in global warming machine, generating three times the greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil production does," said the institute"s Tony Clarke.

"The tar sands machine perpetuates our dependence on dirty fossil fuels," he told a news conference.

Harper, who says the oil sands mean Canada is a global energy superpower, has promised investment in technology that could cut emissions.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers was not amused by the game, saying fossil fuels would be an important energy source for the foreseeable future.

"Using guerrilla marketing tactics to distract people from the realities of energy production may be entertaining but it"s not informative or constructive," said CAPP spokeswoman Janet Annesley.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway )

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WINTER OLYMPICS 2010: Golden girls of Canada applaud as hockey group kick the USA

Canada"s hockey women delivered the first half of what the host nation hopeswill be a gold medal double when they beat the USA 2-0 on day 14 of the Vancouver Games.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice in the first period to put Canada firmly in command and, roared on to victory by an ecstatic Canada Hockey Place crowd, they never looked in danger of surrender their lead.

There were jubilant scenes at the end as Canada celebrated its eighth gold of the Games and looked forward to another golden moment from the men"s team whoare in semi-final action on Friday.

Going for gold: Canada"s Sarah Vaillancourt, Tessa Bonhomme and Rebecca Johnston poses for pictures after being the Americans 2-0 in Vancover

The USA had beaten Canada in the last two World Championship finals making an Olympic gold on home soil against their southern neighbours all the sweeter.

Canadian goalkeeper Shannon Szabados justified her selection for the final after the duties had been shared among all three keepers in the squad throughout the tournament.

"It feels unbelievable, I can"t really put it into words, it hasn"t sunk in yet," Szabados said following her 28-save shutout of the Americans. "I would be just as happy right now if we won the game 9-8."

Earlier Koralina Rantamaki"s overtime goal gave Finland the bronze medal.

The teams were level at 2-2 at the end of the third period but Rantamaki tucked home from close range two minutes and 33 seconds into overtime to secure a 3-2 win.

Heidi Pelttari fired Finland ahead, Maria Rooth levelled for the Swedes and Michelle Karvinen restored the Finns" lead in a busy second period.

At Full swing: Tessa Bonhomme clashes with the USA"s Angela Ruggiero

Danijela Rundqvist scored in the third period to bring the Swedes level but Rantamaki had the last word.

The host nation stayed on course for more golds as Canada"s men and women"s curlers both moved into the finals of their events.

The women, skipped by Cheryl Bernard, delighted the Vancouver Olympic Centre crowd by joining the Swedes, who beat China 9-4, in Friday"s final by edging outSwitzerland 6-5 in their semi-final.

"It was a tight game," Bernard said. "It was probably not my most stellar game. It seemed the stress crept in finally.

"We need to realise there"s still more work to do. We can"t sit back and say that"s good enough, because it"s not."

Kevin Martin"s men"s curlers later defeated Sweden 6-3 to set up a final on Saturday with Norway, 7-5 winners over Switzerland.

Skating on ice: South Korea"s Kim Yu-Na

South Korea"s Kim Yu-Na completed a flawless free skate to claim Olympic gold in the ladies" figure skating, but the night belonged to Canada"s Joannie Rochette who won bronze less than a week after the death of her mother.

Yu-Na took a big lead from Tuesday"s short program into the free and extended her advantage after a perfect four-minute performance for a world record total of 228.56, way ahead of Japan"s Mao Asada who took silver with 205.50.

Rochette followed, recovering after an early slip to total 202.64 and take the bronze medal. The Canadian could barely hold back tears as the Pacific Coliseum rose to acknowledge her bravery.

Norway claimed their sixth gold of the Games in the cross country skiing 4x5km relay classic. Vibeke Skofterund, Therese Johaug, Kristin Stoermer Steira and Marit Bjoergen were the winning quartet with Germany claiming silver and Finlandthe bronze.

Germany"s Viktoria Rebensburg was stunned by her surprise gold in the women"s giant slalom at a foggy Whistler Creekside.

Rebensburg, 20, was lying sixth after the first run but grabbed the lead after completing her second run in one minute, 11.64 seconds for a combined time of2mins, 27.11secs.

"Unbelievable," said a shocked Rebensburg. "I don"t know what to say. Ithink I have to celebrate." Slovenia"s Tina Maze bagged another silvermedal to add to her earlier one in the Super-G. She was 0.12 secondsbehind after a second run of 1:11.76.

Relay queens: Norway"s cross country 4x5kn relay claimed their sixth goal

Elisabeth Goergl of Austria, leading after the first run, had to settle for another bronze to match the one she won in the downhill after a second run of 1:12.13 gave her a combined time of 2:27.25.

Defending champion Julia Mancuso skied a quick second run - 1:11.24 - but had too much ground to make up after her first run and was back in eighth place.

The USA struck gold and silver through Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane respectively in the Nordic combined individual event.

The bronze medal went to Austrian Bernhard Gruber, who led after the ski jumping phase but was overhauled by the American pair on the 10km cross country run.

At Cypress Mountain, Belarus picked up its first gold medal of the Games when Alexei Grishin won freestyle skiing"s men"s aerials event with a combined score of 248.41 from Jeret Peterson of the USA (247.21) and China"s Zhongqing Liu (242.53).

Canada"s Kyle Nissen had led the 12-man event by more than six points after the first jump but with the final second jump of the night he mistimed his landing slightly and had to settle for fifth place.

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