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The quake's epicentre was 40km from Fort-de-France, Martinique
The earthquake struck at 1500 (1900 GMT) off the north-west coast of Martinique at a depth of 145.4 kilometres (90.4 miles).
Two people were injured, official Lorne Martin told Radio Martinique.
There have been unconfirmed reports that some buildings have collapsed in Martinique's capital, Fort-de-France.
The earthquake was centred 40km (25 miles) north-west of Fort-de-France, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
'Everything shook'
"For the moment, a building and a bank have collapsed," a police source in Fort-de-France told the French news agency AFP.
Callers to Radio Martinique described their fear as the quake struck.
"My house shook so hard I thought it was going to fall. The door, the windows, everything shook," the Associated Press reported one caller as saying.
There were also reports that the islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica had felt the quake strongly.
Residents on islands further across the eastern Caribbean - as far away as Puerto Rico to the north and Trinidad and Tobago to the south - told the USGS that they had felt the quake.
The tremor was also felt hundreds of miles away in South America.
In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, 500 miles (800km) from the epicentre, some people evacuated office buildings, Reuters news agency reported.
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Localización del temblor entre Dominica y Martinica.
Hoy, entre Martinica y Dominica, se registró un temblor de una magnitud de 7,4 en la Escala Richter, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos.
Su epicentro tuvo lugar en Martinica a 88,2 millas (142 kilómetros) de profundidad y se sintió hasta unas 399 millas al noroeste, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, alrededor de las 3:00 p.m. (hora local, 19:00 UTC). El director de la Agencia Estatal para el Manejo de Emergencias y Desastres de Puerto Rico, Nazario Lugo Burgos, informó que en Puerto Rico se sintió como un seísmo de 6,2 grados y múltiples edificios fueron desalojados.
Hasta el momento, no se han reportado daños en estructuras, sólo heridas menores entre la población de estas islas; tampoco se ha emitido una advertencia de maremotos, ya que el sismo se produjo demasiado profundo para causar uno, según un boletín del ''Pacific Tsunami Warning Center'' de los Estados Unidos en Hawái. Don Blakeman, un geofísico del Centro Nacional de Información Sísmica de los Estados Unidos en Colorado, dijo que no esperaba que hubiésen ningunos daños graves por esta misma razón; el sismo ocurrió demasiado profundo en la tierra.
"Es raro este tipo de movimiento en esa área, desde 1942 no se había sentido un movimiento de más de 7 grados en esa zona", dijo Víctor Huérfano, de la Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico, a Prensa Asociada. La agencia de noticias EFE reportó que el temblor provocó que numerosos conductores pararan sus vehículos ante el temor de perder el control.
Además, el sitio en la red del periódico El Nuevo Día reportó que vecinos de los municipios puertorriqueños de Guaynabo, Mayagüez, Hatillo, Guayama, San Juan, Caguas, Carolina, Ponce y Cidra indicaron que a las 3:00 de la tarde, hora local (19:00 UTC), sintieron que el suelo y las paredes del lugar donde se encontraban se estremecieron y que el edificio de la facultad de Pedagogía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en el distrito de Río Piedras en San Juan fue desalojado.
El sismo además causó réplicas en algunos estado septentrionales de Brasil. Las réplicas fueron sentidas principalmente en los estados brasileños de Roraima, Amazonas y Pará. En la ciudad de Manaos, habitantes reportaron que los temblores causaron mareos a los residentes de pisos altos, mientras que en Pacaraima se registraron algunas grietas causadas por las fuertes réplicas.
También se reportó que se sintieron temblores en lugares tan lejos como Venezuela, en donde varios edificios en Caracas fueron evacuados, y hasta Colombia, según la agencia noticiosa Reuters. Tampoco estos países reportaron daños.
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(Adds quote, details, previous Port of Spain)By Nathalie MogadeDUCOS, Martinique, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck near the Caribbean island of Martinique on Thursday, sending tremors and panic through the region but causing little damage, witnesses said.Residents screamed and fled into the streets as the deep quake rumbled for nearly 10 minutes. One person had a heart attack and another was injured jumping out of a window, according to witnesses."When it started, I ran out of the building straight away but when I saw my students were still inside I ran back and shouted, 'Everybody get out,'" said Pamela Morin, head of a training school in the central town of Lamentin. "Everybody was terrified."At least five houses collapsed in the quake, the strongest in living memory, and walls cracked in buildings on Martinique and nearby St. Lucia to the south, authorities said.But "there were neither deaths nor serious damage," said Bernard Cavignaux, assistant director general of Martinique's central university hospital, who spoke by telephone from the capital, Fort-de-France.On St. Lucia, water lines and water tanks were damaged, said Julian Dubois, deputy director of the St. Lucia Civil Defense.The quake hit at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT), 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Martinique, at a depth of 90 miles (145.4 km), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Earthquakes with a deep epicenter are less likely to cause damage.NO TSUNAMINo tsunami warning was issued because of the depth of the quake, Richard Robertson, head of the seismic research unit of the University of the West Indies, said from Trinidad.The quake was felt as far away as Colombia. In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, some residents evacuated offices.There were no reports of injuries or damage to property in Venezuela and the state oil company said it had no reports of any of its installations being affected.Trinidad affiliates of oil and gas majors BP Plc and BG Group said no damage had been reported at their offshore installations.The quake was also felt in Guadeloupe, which, like Martinique, is an overseas department of France."Schools, secondary schools, and universities will be closed until Monday to give time to evaluate the safety of the premises," said Francois Pesneau, an official in the Guadeloupe prefecture. Martinique schools were also closed until Monday.French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie's office said she called a crisis meeting over the quake.The earthquake also set off a series of false alarms in California and elsewhere as U.S. Geological Survey computers struggled to interpret the data from deep beneath the surface and suggested a series of other earthquakes."It has happened before and it will happen again," said David Oppenheimer, a scientist with the USGS in Menlo Park, California, about false alarms that included a 6.0 north of California's capital, Sacramento, that was quickly removed from the USGS Web site. (Additional reporting by Tom Brown and Michael Christie in Miami, Saul Hudson in Caracas, Matthew Bigg in Atlanta, Adam Tanner in San Francisco, Linda Hutchinson-Jafar in Port of Spain and Jon Boyle in Paris; Writing by Matthew Bigg; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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Localización del temblor entre Dominica y Martinica.
Hoy, entre Martinica y Dominica, se registró un temblor de una magnitud de 7,4 en la Escala Richter, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos.
Su epicentro tuvo lugar en Martinica a 88,2 millas (142 kilómetros) de profundidad y se sintió hasta unas 399 millas al noroeste, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, alrededor de las 3:00 p.m. (hora local, 19:00 UTC). El director de la Agencia Estatal para el Manejo de Emergencias y Desastres de Puerto Rico, Nazario Lugo Burgos, informó que en Puerto Rico se sintió como un seísmo de 6,2 grados y múltiples edificios fueron desalojados.
Hasta el momento, no se han reportado daños en estructuras, sólo heridas menores entre la población de estas islas; tampoco se ha emitido una advertencia de maremotos, ya que el sismo se produjo demasiado profundo para causar uno, según un boletín del ''Pacific Tsunami Warning Center'' de los Estados Unidos en Hawái. Don Blakeman, un geofísico del Centro Nacional de Información Sísmica de los Estados Unidos en Colorado, dijo que no esperaba que hubiésen ningunos daños graves por esta misma razón; el sismo ocurrió demasiado profundo en la tierra.
"Es raro este tipo de movimiento en esa área, desde 1942 no se había sentido un movimiento de más de 7 grados en esa zona", dijo Víctor Huérfano, de la Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico, a Prensa Asociada. La agencia de noticias EFE reportó que el temblor provocó que numerosos conductores pararan sus vehículos ante el temor de perder el control.
Además, el sitio en la red del periódico El Nuevo Día reportó que vecinos de los municipios puertorriqueños de Guaynabo, Mayagüez, Hatillo, Guayama, San Juan, Caguas, Carolina, Ponce y Cidra indicaron que a las 3:00 de la tarde, hora local (19:00 UTC), sintieron que el suelo y las paredes del lugar donde se encontraban se estremecieron y que el edificio de la facultad de Pedagogía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en el distrito de Río Piedras en San Juan fue desalojado.
El sismo además causó réplicas en algunos estado septentrionales de Brasil. Las réplicas fueron sentidas principalmente en los estados brasileños de Roraima, Amazonas y Pará. En la ciudad de Manaos, habitantes reportaron que los temblores causaron mareos a los residentes de pisos altos, mientras que en Pacaraima se registraron algunas grietas causadas por las fuertes réplicas.
También se reportó que se sintieron temblores en lugares tan lejos como Venezuela, en donde varios edificios en Caracas fueron evacuados, y hasta Colombia, según la agencia noticiosa Reuters. Tampoco estos países reportaron daños.
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Fichier:Map of European countries gas supply cut.svg|thumb|350px|Carte montrant les difficultés d'approvisionnement en gaz naturel en date de janvier 2009. Les pays en ont subi des baisses de livraison et les pays en ne reçoivent plus du tout de gaz naturel.
, a déclaré ce vendredi à Budapest le ministre hongrois de l'Énergie Peter Honig.
Les pays européens craignent la réédition de la crise gazière entre la Russie et l'Ukraine. En raison du litige commercial entre les deux parties, les consommateurs européens ont été privés de gaz russe pendant deux semaines au début de l'année 2009.
, a expliqué le ministre hongrois.
, a ajouté M. Honig.
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"A iniciativa é coerente com a disposição histórica do Brasil de contribuir para o processo de paz entre Israel e Palestina, cujas negociações diretas estão neste momento interrompidas", afirmou o Itamaraty em nota.
"(A decisão) está em consonância com as resoluções da ONU, que exigem o fim da ocupação dos territórios palestinos e a construção de um Estado independente dentro das fronteiras de 4 de junho de 1967."
Em 1967, após a Guerra dos Seis Dias, Israel ocupou a região oriental de Jerusalém, a Cisjordânia e a Faixa de Gaza --territórios agora reconhecidos pelo governo brasileiro como parte do Estado palestino.
"A decisão não implica abandonar a convicção de que são imprescindíveis negociações entre Israel e Palestina, a fim de que se alcancem concessões mútuas sobre as questões centrais do conflito", afirmou a chancelaria brasileira.
"O Brasil reafirma sua tradicional posição de favorecer um Estado palestino democrático, geograficamente coeso e economicamente viável, que viva em paz com o Estado de Israel."
As negociações de paz entre israelenses e palestinos foram reiniciadas em setembro com a mediação dos Estados Unidos, mas foram interrompidas pouco depois com o fim da moratória de Israel na expansão de assentamentos judeus em território palestino ocupado.
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Lula e Abbas em declaração conjunta, em Ramalá, em 2010. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República
O governo brasileiro reconheceu o com fronteiras existentes em . A declaração foi feita por meio de carta enviada pelo presidente ao presidente da , , na última quarta-feira (1º).
O Itamaraty informou que o governo brasileiro já declarara apoio à formação de um Estado palestino nos territórios pré-1967 em uma votação da (ONU), em . Além disso, nos últimos anos, o Brasil vem intensificando seu relacionamento com a Palestina. Em , foi aberto um escritório de representação em . O presidente Mahmoud Abbas veio ao Brasil em duas ocasiões e Lula esteve nos territórios palestinos ocupados em março deste ano.
Segundo o comunicado, o governo brasileiro considera como imprescindíveis as negociações entre e Palestina, a fim de que se alcancem concessões mútuas sobre as questões centrais do conflito. Porém, o Brasil reafirma sua posição de favorecer um Estado palestino democrático, geograficamente coeso e economicamente viável, que viva em paz com o Estado de Israel.
“Apenas uma Palestina democrática, livre e soberana poderá atender aos legítimos anseios israelenses por paz com seus vizinhos, segurança em suas fronteiras e estabilidade política em seu entorno regional”, diz a nota.
Mais de 100 países reconhecem o Estado palestino. Entre esses, todos os árabes, a grande maioria dos africanos, asiáticos e leste-europeus. Países que mantêm relações fluidas com Israel – como , , e , entre outros – reconhecem o Estado palestino.
O Brasil também tem prestado apoio material à edificação do Estado palestino. Desde 2006, participa de conferências internacionais em prol da resolução do conflito no Oriente Médio. Nas duas últimas reuniões, o Brasil fez doações de cerca de US$ 20 milhões à Autoridade Nacional Palestina, aplicados em projetos de segurança alimentar, saúde, educação e desenvolvimento rural.
O comunicado do Itamaraty também ressalta que as relações bilaterais com Israel "nunca foram tão robustas". Os laços entre os dois países têm-se fortalecido ao longo dos anos, em paralelo e sem prejuízo das iniciativas de aproximação com o mundo árabe e muçulmano”. Além disso, diz ainda a nota, “a corrente de comércio e o fluxo de investimentos bilaterais com Israel vêm atingindo recordes históricos. O Acordo de Livre Comércio entre o e Israel, em vigor desde abril, foi o primeiro do bloco regional com um país de fora da região".
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Brasil reconhece Estado palestino com fronteiras anteriores a 1967, diz Itamaraty
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O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enviou uma carta a Mahmoud Abbas, presidente da ANP (Autoridade Nacional Palestina), nesta quarta-feira (1º) reafirmando o reconhecimento de um potencial Estado palestino com fronteiras anteriores a 1967, informou em comunicado o Itamaraty.
O apoio não é uma novidade. O governo brasileiro já declarara apoio à formação de um Estado palestino nos territórios pré-1967 em uma votação da Assembleia Geral da ONU (Organização das Nações Unidas) em 1988. Mais recentemente, em fevereiro de 2006, o próprio presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pediu em comunicado que Israel se retirasse dos territórios ocupados.
Em teoria, a afirmação corresponde à posição tradicional do Itamaraty, segundo a qual Israel tem o direito à segurança e à existência "dentro de fronteiras internacionalmente reconhecidas", expressão que equivale às fronteiras existentes antes de 1967. Paralelamente, a diplomacia brasileira também reconhece o direito palestino de exercer sua soberania sobre Gaza, Cisjordânia e Jerusalém Oriental.
O novo reconhecimento foi mais um gesto político de aproximação, feito por Lula em resposta a carta enviada por Abbas, no último dia 24 de novembro, com solicitação nesse sentido.
"A iniciativa é coerente com a disposição histórica do Brasil de contribuir para o processo de paz entre Israel e Palestina, cujas negociações diretas estão neste momento interrompidas, e está em consonância com as resoluções da ONU, que exigem o fim da ocupação dos territórios palestinos e a construção de um Estado independente dentro das fronteiras de 4 de junho de 1967", disse o texto.
O Itamaraty ressalta, contudo, "a decisão não implica abandonar a convicção de que são imprescindíveis negociações entre Israel e Palestina, a fim de que se alcancem concessões mútuas sobre as questões centrais do conflito".
Há tempos, o Brasil pleiteia uma voz na mediação de paz no Oriente Médio. Israelenses e palestinos entraram em uma nova rodada de negociações diretas este ano, sob mediação dos Estados Unidos. O esforço, contudo, foi por água abaixo em 26 de setembro, quando Israel anunciou o fim da moratória sobre as construções de mais casas nos assentamentos judaicos em territórios palestinos. O congelamento é tido como pré-requisito essencial para os palestinos participarem das negociações de paz.
Muitos países da comunidade internacional concordam que a criação de um potencial Estado para os palestinos --como parte da chamada "solução dos dois Estados" para o conflito no Oriente Médio-- deve ocorrer de acordo com as fronteiras existentes antes da Guerra de 1967, quando Israel deu início à anexação de territórios palestinos.
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O Itamaraty lembra que mais de cem países reconhecem o Estado palestino. "Entre esses, todos os árabes, a grande maioria dos africanos, asiáticos e leste-europeus. Países que mantêm relações fluidas com Israel - como Rússia, China, África do Sul e Índia, entre outros - reconhecem o Estado palestino. Todos os parceiros do Brasil no IBAS e no BRICS já reconheceram a Palestina".
A maior parte dos reconhecimentos veio após à Declaração de Independência adotada pelo Conselho Nacional Palestino, em novembro de 1988, em Argel. A declaração foi aprovada, no mesmo ano, pela Assembleia Geral da ONU --com o voto favorável do Brasil.
O Brasil reconhece ainda, desde 1975, a Organização pela Libertação da Palestina (OLP) como legítima representante do povo palestino --dotada de personalidade de direito internacional público. Em 1993, lista ainda o Itamaraty, o Brasil autorizou a abertura de Delegação Especial Palestina, com "status" diplomático semelhante às representações das organizações internacionais. Em 1998, o tratamento concedido à Delegação foi equiparado ao de uma Embaixada, para todos os efeitos.
Em 2004, foi aberto Escritório de Representação em Ramallah, na Cisjordânia.
O Itamaraty destaca ainda que o Brasil apoia financeiramente a campanha palestina com doações de cerca de US$ 20 milhões à ANP, aplicados em projetos em segurança alimentar, saúde, educação e desenvolvimento rural, e mais US$ 2 milhões para projetos em benefício do povo palestino coordenados por fundos e agências internacionais como o PNUD, o Banco Mundial e a Agência das Nações Unidas de Assistência aos Refugiados Palestinos (UNRWA).
Outros US$ 3 milhões foram investidos, por meio do Fundo IBAS, mantido com Índia e África do Sul, para construção de um centro poliesportivo em Ramallah e na recuperação de um hospital em Gaza.
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O mesmo comunicado do Itamaraty ressalta ainda as relações bilaterais com Israel, que "nunca foram tão robustas", em um claro esforço para amenizar os efeitos da declaração em Tel Aviv.
"Os laços entre os dois países têm-se fortalecido ao longo dos anos, em paralelo e sem prejuízo das iniciativas de aproximação com o mundo árabe e muçulmano", continua o texto.
O ministério lista ainda os "recordes históricos" da "corrente de comércio e o fluxo de investimentos bilaterais com Israel" e a primeira visita de um Chefe de Estado brasileiro ao Estado de Israel, em março deste ano.
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Lula e Abbas em declaração conjunta, em Ramalá, em 2010. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República
O governo brasileiro reconheceu o com fronteiras existentes em . A declaração foi feita por meio de carta enviada pelo presidente ao presidente da , , na última quarta-feira (1º).
O Itamaraty informou que o governo brasileiro já declarara apoio à formação de um Estado palestino nos territórios pré-1967 em uma votação da (ONU), em . Além disso, nos últimos anos, o Brasil vem intensificando seu relacionamento com a Palestina. Em , foi aberto um escritório de representação em . O presidente Mahmoud Abbas veio ao Brasil em duas ocasiões e Lula esteve nos territórios palestinos ocupados em março deste ano.
Segundo o comunicado, o governo brasileiro considera como imprescindíveis as negociações entre e Palestina, a fim de que se alcancem concessões mútuas sobre as questões centrais do conflito. Porém, o Brasil reafirma sua posição de favorecer um Estado palestino democrático, geograficamente coeso e economicamente viável, que viva em paz com o Estado de Israel.
“Apenas uma Palestina democrática, livre e soberana poderá atender aos legítimos anseios israelenses por paz com seus vizinhos, segurança em suas fronteiras e estabilidade política em seu entorno regional”, diz a nota.
Mais de 100 países reconhecem o Estado palestino. Entre esses, todos os árabes, a grande maioria dos africanos, asiáticos e leste-europeus. Países que mantêm relações fluidas com Israel – como , , e , entre outros – reconhecem o Estado palestino.
O Brasil também tem prestado apoio material à edificação do Estado palestino. Desde 2006, participa de conferências internacionais em prol da resolução do conflito no Oriente Médio. Nas duas últimas reuniões, o Brasil fez doações de cerca de US$ 20 milhões à Autoridade Nacional Palestina, aplicados em projetos de segurança alimentar, saúde, educação e desenvolvimento rural.
O comunicado do Itamaraty também ressalta que as relações bilaterais com Israel "nunca foram tão robustas". Os laços entre os dois países têm-se fortalecido ao longo dos anos, em paralelo e sem prejuízo das iniciativas de aproximação com o mundo árabe e muçulmano”. Além disso, diz ainda a nota, “a corrente de comércio e o fluxo de investimentos bilaterais com Israel vêm atingindo recordes históricos. O Acordo de Livre Comércio entre o e Israel, em vigor desde abril, foi o primeiro do bloco regional com um país de fora da região".
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The ship was battered by 10-metre waves
A statement from V Ships of Monaco said some passengers had minor injuries and were being treated on board. The Voyager is carrying 776 people.
Most of the 480 passengers are Spanish. The ship was sailing from Tunis to Barcelona when the storm struck.
A giant wave smashed a bridge window, knocking out the control systems.
Rescue mission
V Ships said none of those injured had life-threatening conditions.
The ship is expected to dock in Cagliari, Sardinia, early on Tuesday.
All the Voyager's messages are being relayed via a liquefied gas tanker, the Gimmi, which had answered its distress call.
The Voyager was hit by the storm about 100 km (60 miles) off Palma, Majorca, at about 0800 GMT on Monday.
The distress call triggered a French-led rescue to reach the Voyager.
Two tugs - one Spanish and one French - were despatched to the scene, along with several aircraft.
The ship is chartered to the Barcelona cruise firm Iberojet, V Ships said.
The ship, registered in the Bahamas and owned by Horizon Navigation, was built in 2000.
Seeing so many of this sort of ship going through our canal, I had no idea that they could become so storm tossed. Thank goodness for the professional abilities of the whole crew as they handled the situation with a calmness which we found most reassuring.
Boz Texino, Panama, Panama
Plates and bottles went everywhere when the ship was brushed by the waves. The deck master said everything would be fine. I thought "I don't care" I wanted out of there. It felt as though the ship was jumping and pitching. The deck master was almost thrown to the floor. We were almost victims of the blue sea.
Jim C. Korn, Halifax, Canada
I was laying in my bed sleeping off the excesses of the night before watching the cabaret dancers and downing pints of Cinzano when the whole ship lurched to the left sharply. I dashed into the corridor and found fire-extinguishers dislodged from their mountings rolling alarmingly down the corridors. The Captain came over the intercom and quickly reassured everyone, but it was many hours before we were on our way again. The cabaret dancers entertained both customers and crew throughout the day though and Cinzano supplies were not effected!!
Mark Dowle, Abingdon, UK
My friend has called me from the ship. He has informed me that the staff are very "up to the task" of handling this disastrous situation and that they are advising the passengers of any increased danger faced while on board. They are also being very hospitable and making sure everyone has enough to eat, drink, etc.
Rafael Pero Angles, Madrid, Spain
I woke up and the storm had encircled the liner - it was terrifying, with waves as big as houses smashing into the side of the boat. Nature at its most devilish.
Charles Rofe, Swindon, England
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A passenger ship, the ''Voyager'' enroute between Spain's to the Italian island of , radioed a distress call earlier today after getting into difficulties in heavy seas. A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.
The Bahamian-registered ship is carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injuries when the ship sailed into the storm at 8am today.
French and Spanish tugs have been dispatched to assist the vessel, and the British gas tanker ''Gimi'' has diverted to offer help and is relaying radio signals from the stricken ship. ''Voyager'' "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", according to the French coastguard, with only a single propeller still providing force.
The ship was sailing from to Barcelona when she encountered the storm. The crew have restored power to two of her four engines and she is now diverting to Tunis, and is expected to reach port on Tuesday.
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732-passenger ship sends SOS
14/02/2005 15:13 - (SA)
Toulon - Ships and aircraft from France, Spain and Britain deployed on Monday to help a Bahamas-registered cruise ship with 732 people on board struggling against high winds and big waves in the Mediterranean following engine problems, French authorities said.
The ship, the Voyager, "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", the French coastguard told reporters.
Force 11 winds of 100km/h and waves as high as 14m were battering the vessel, which was struggling with all but one of its propellers shut down, officials said.
The cruise liner was in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, having made it two-thirds of the way along its route from Spain's Balearic Islands to the Italian island of Sardinia.
France was co-ordinating efforts to help the ship.
A British gas tanker nearby, the Gimi, was re-routed to the stricken Voyager.
Spain had dispatched a plane and a tug, while France had deployed two planes.
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A passenger ship, the ''Voyager'' enroute between Spain's to the Italian island of , radioed a distress call earlier today after getting into difficulties in heavy seas. A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.
The Bahamian-registered ship is carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injuries when the ship sailed into the storm at 8am today.
French and Spanish tugs have been dispatched to assist the vessel, and the British gas tanker ''Gimi'' has diverted to offer help and is relaying radio signals from the stricken ship. ''Voyager'' "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", according to the French coastguard, with only a single propeller still providing force.
The ship was sailing from to Barcelona when she encountered the storm. The crew have restored power to two of her four engines and she is now diverting to Tunis, and is expected to reach port on Tuesday.
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Date: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:07:42 AM EST
LONDON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A cruise ship with more than 700 people aboard issued a mayday distress call Monday, saying it was taking on water in the Mediterranean, the BBC reported.
Two tugboats from Spain and France responded and were steaming at full power to the "Voyager," which was 60 miles off the island of Menorca.
A message from the ship said it was taking on water and was in "terrible condition," British coast guard officials said.
The ship apparently suffered severe damage from a storm, and reported a 50 percent loss of power and communication difficulties.
However, French coast guard officials said the vessel was in no danger of sinking, and the goal was to tow the ship to a French port.
-- Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All rights reserved. --
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A passenger ship, the ''Voyager'' enroute between Spain's to the Italian island of , radioed a distress call earlier today after getting into difficulties in heavy seas. A huge wave shattered a bridge window, damaging control systems inside.
The Bahamian-registered ship is carrying 776 passengers and crew, 480 of them Spanish. Some sustained minor injuries when the ship sailed into the storm at 8am today.
French and Spanish tugs have been dispatched to assist the vessel, and the British gas tanker ''Gimi'' has diverted to offer help and is relaying radio signals from the stricken ship. ''Voyager'' "is in a difficult situation but is not drifting", according to the French coastguard, with only a single propeller still providing force.
The ship was sailing from to Barcelona when she encountered the storm. The crew have restored power to two of her four engines and she is now diverting to Tunis, and is expected to reach port on Tuesday.
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Model guidance is now calling medicane Ianos could become one of the strongest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones on record. The minimum central pressure is expected to drop to near 980 mbar, with sustained winds reaching hurricane-force Category 1 strength. Peak gusts could exceed 200 km/h, therefore, a severe impact is likely for western Greece tonight through Friday morning. Huge amounts of rainfall will lead to dangerous flash floods.
Key messages
Medicane Ianos is the first event of the 2020/21 Mediterranean medicane season. It was officially named by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA). The system formed in the southern Ionian Sea on Sept 16th.
Ianos is deepening and strengthening today, gradually turning towards Greece. A severe landfall with destructive winds and flooding is expected tomorrow – Friday, Sept 18th. Medicane will begin its approach to the Ionian Islands late this evening, likely bringing the worst, most intense winds to Kefalonia and Zakynthos islands.
Along with severe destructive winds, Ianos is expected to bring torrential and excessive rainfall across parts of Greece, resulting in dangerous flash floods. Locally up to around 400 mm of rainfall is likely until Friday evening (36-hour period).
Outer bands of convective storms could produce tornadoes along the coast tonight, due to strongly enhanced low-level shear and instability.
Please read a special forecast discussion – Severe Weather Outlook for Medicane Ianos.
Satellite analysis
The estimated minimum central pressure of Ianos was around 990 mbar on Thursday morning. With the maximum sustained winds of around 50-55 knots (90-100 km/h), and increasing.
Satellite imagery indicates that clouds have wrapped into all quadrants of the system, Ianos now has a well-defined almost symmetrical appearance. The overall weakening deep-layer shear allows further development.
Ianos will intensity into a Category 1 hurricane equivalent system, which should maintain until the landfall on Friday morning.
It appears likely that additional strengthening of the cyclone and convective activity will lead to the development of an inner core. Violent, hurricane-force winds are forecast to develop.
Here is an impressive visible satellite animation of Ianos through the afternoon hours yesterday, Wednesday, Sept 16th. Notice a remarkable formation of the cyclonic cloud bands with the tightening core.
Forecast track sequence
Medicane Ianos is now gradually turning east-northeast, towards Greece. There is a HIGH risk for destructive winds and flooding across the Ionian Islands into west-central Greece. For this reason, a special forecast discussion has been issued.
Ianos is expected to continue intensifying on Thursday while slowly moving across the Ionian Sea. A very warm, near 26-27 °C, sea waters will fuel explosive convective storms and additional strength of Ianos is expected through this evening and tonight.
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Winds should intensify into hurricane-force strength – an equivalent to a Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
The wind and flooding threats are particularly extreme over the Ionian Islands (Lefkas, Kefalonia, and Zakynthos) where the center of the medicane is likely to track throughout the Thursday night into the Friday morning.
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Attached is the animation of the rainfall intensity, wind gusts, and precipitation accumulating along the medicane moving towards Greece.
Model track differences
Although there is less than 24 hours prior to the landfall of Ianos in western Greece, some uncertainties remain regarding its track but also intensity.
The tracks of the global ECMWF model and the high-resolution model ICON-EU are quite similar. Both are bringing Ianos between the islands Kefalonia and Zakynthos, then into the Gulf of Patras.
Given the strength and quite a large size of the system, the severe impact should spread across both islands and the Gulf.
Contrary to ECMWF and ICON-EU models, the ARPEGE is tracking the system further south. Therefore, hinting that the core of Ianos might pass over or to the immediate south of the Zakynthos islands and head for landfall in western Peloponnese.
Destructive winds for Kefalonia and Zakynthos
Most of the weather models are is a good agreement Ianos will bring extremely severe, destructive winds into part of western-southwestern Greece. Particularly near its inner-core (center) track, most-likely moving near or between the islands Kefalonia and Zakynthos.
The majority of the weather models are hinting wind gusts could well exceed 150-180 km/h, potentially even higher than 200 km/h near the islands. Local topography could result in channeling winds, therefore even higher gusts are possible.
Particularly dangerous wind potential is also introduced for the Gulf of Patras, located to the immediate east of the Ionian islands. Wind gusts of above 150 km/h are likely there as well.
Life-threatening flash floods for Greece
Along with severe destructive winds, convective storms associated with medicane Ianos are expected to bring torrential and excessive rainfall. Particularly high amounts of rain are expected across west-central Greece.
Locally up to around 250-400 mm of rainfall is likely until Friday evening (36-hour period), as seen by the attached Ventusky chart below.
Local topography will also play a role in the amount of rainfall, as strong orographic precipitation will form. A combination of both convective and orographic rainfall should enhance flooding threats.
Attached are various weather model data by ECMWF, ARPEGE, and ICON-EU models.
Such an amount of rain in a relatively short period of time will result in dangerous, life-threatening flash floods.
Recap: HIGH RISK for dangerous weather
HIGH risk has been issued for west-central Greece into the eastern part of the Ionian Sea with a threat for severe storms, capable of producing severe damaging winds, tornadoes, and torrential rainfall with flash floods.
The SIG and HIGH risk area highlight the highest and the most significant threat for potentially destructive flooding associated with the track of the Medicane Ianos.
In addition to the flooding threat, severe destructive hurricane-force winds will be associated along with the trailing cyclone’s inner core storms. Weather models are hinting peak gusts could exceed 200 km/h in some places.
The wind/flooding threat is particularly extreme over the Ionian Islands (Lefkas, Kefalonia, and Zakynthos) where the center of the medicane is likely to track on Friday morning.
Maintaining intense convective storms and orographic rainfall could bring the total rainfall accumulation exceeding 300-500 mm in a 48 hour period. Potentially even higher locally as some high-resolution models e.g. ICON-EU are simulating.
The highest amounts of rainfall are expected across the Peloponnese, Attica, and partly also across central Greece from Thursday afternoon through Friday into Saturday.
Ianos is likely to track north-northeast on Thursday, turning sharp east on Thursday night, and head for the landfall in western Greece on Friday morning hours.
Then, models are quite uncertain how the intensity and track continue towards Friday. The majority of the models are, however, tracking the low towards south-southeast after landfall and gradually decaying.
There is also an enhanced potential for tornadoes (waterspouts) along the Peloponnese and the southeastern Ionian Sea where strongly enhanced shear and helicity overlap with the low-level instability.
Storm surge could also become an issue along the west-southwest Greece, to the immediate south of the medicane’s track.
MDT/ENH/SLGT risks have been issued for areas surrounding the HIGH risk where the less robust threat is expected and it critically depends on the Medicane’s center track.
The overall severe winds and flooding threat will be gradually spreading east on Thursday as medicane will be moving towards Greece while intensifying.
See the previous forecast discussion:
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O e as (Zacinto e Cefalónia), no Leste da Grécia, devem ser as áreas mais atingidas pelo ciclone Ianos (Janus) - neste caso, um "medicane", junção das palavras MEDIterrâneo e hurriCANE, ou um "furacão mediterrâneo - que esta tarde está no centro do , se dirigindo para Leste. Em território grego, conforme se aproxima, o fenômeno deve causar ventos e chuvas fortes, com acumulados que podem chegar a 400mm em 24 horas.
Segundo o website especializado Severe Weather Europe, o Ianos tem potencial para se tornar um dos "mais fortes ciclones tropicais já registrados" no Mediterrâneo, com rajadas de ventos de cerca de 200km/h. O Severe estima, por ora, que ele alcance a Categoria 1 - de 5.
Já o Greek Greece Reporter divulgou que, apesar de ser sofrer com menos intensidade, também a capital grega, , deverá ser atingida pelos ventos e chuvas provocadas pelo ciclone. Por precaução, de acordo com o Greek, o Ministério da Proteção Civil alertou os gregos para que evitem atividades ao ar livre e atividades marítimas e para que permaneçam em abrigos seguros.
São "eventos climáticos extremos iminentes", alertou o serviço meteorológico oficial da Grécia, o Meteo. Segundo o órgão, a "última vez que o Peloponeso foi afetado por um ciclone mediterrâneo foi em setembro de 2018 , enquanto anteriormente só se soube de outro evento semelhante em 26 de janeiro de 1982. Já as Ilhas Jônicas, pelo contrário, foram atingidas pelo Ciclone Mediterrâneo 'Zeno' em outubro de 2017".
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The weather system “Ianos,” which had reached the sea region between Sicily and the Peloponnesian Peninsula early on Thursday is beginning to intensify and taking on the characteristics of a Mediterranean hurricane, or “Medicane,” the meteo service of the Athens National Observatory said.
The atmospheric pressure at the center of Ianos was approximately 1,000 hPa and is expected to drop to 990 hPa by Thursday evening, while the winds, according to several satellite estimates, had reached speeds of 65 km per hour (40 miles per hour) or up to 8 on the Beaufort scale.
According to the latest forecast, Ianos will move in the direction of the central Ionian Sea and northwestern Peloponnese, arriving early on Friday, but its subsequent course remains unknown, with the most probable scenario forecasting it will go south.
The areas that are expected to be most affected by Ianos are the Ionian islands and the Peloponnese, while the phenomena will be milder in other eastern parts of Greece, including Athens.
Apart from the high precipitation levels, Ianos will bring scattered storms, with strong winds that in some cases will reach the levels of a tempest (over 10 Beaufort) and very high waves at sea.
The Ministry of Civil Protection has warned citizens about the danger of the storms, advising them to avoid outdoor and marine activities during the coming days, secure any objects that could be taken up by winds, and to remain in safe shelter during the severe weather.
The weather website severe-weather.eu states that models are now predicting that Ianos could become “one of the strongest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones on record.”
Its minimum central pressure is expected to drop to near 980 millibars. In addition, there could be sustained winds which may reaching hurricane-force Category 1 strength.
In what was perhaps the most startling aspect of the forecast, the weather site stated that Ianos’ peak gusts could exceed 200 km/h, (124 miles per hour) and that therefore, a severe impact is likely for the area of western Greece tonight through Friday morning.
Additionally, large amounts of rainfall will lead to dangerous flash flooding in the affected areas.
Ianos, which was officially named by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), was formed in the southern Ionian Sea on Wednesday, Sept 16th.
Its landfall, with destructive winds and flooding, is expected to occur on Friday. The storm will begin its approach to the Ionian Islands late this evening, bringing extremely strong winds to Kefalonia and Zakynthos Islands.
The weather site also states that torrential rainfall will occur across regions of Greece, resulting in dangerous flash flooding. Through Friday evening, as much as 400 mm (15.7 inches) could fall on areas of Greece.
The strongest, outermost bands of Ianos may even produce tornadoes along the Greek coast tonight, because of their low-level shear.
As of press time on Thursday, the current sustained wind speed of Ianos is 50-55 knots (90-100 km/h) and increasing.
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Ianos hoje à tarde
O e as (Zacinto e Cefalónia), no Leste da Grécia, devem ser as áreas mais atingidas pelo ciclone Ianos (Janus) - neste caso, um "medicane", junção das palavras MEDIterrâneo e hurriCANE, ou um "furacão mediterrâneo - que esta tarde está no centro do , se dirigindo para Leste. Em território grego, conforme se aproxima, o fenômeno deve causar ventos e chuvas fortes, com acumulados que podem chegar a 400mm em 24 horas.
Segundo o website especializado Severe Weather Europe, o Ianos tem potencial para se tornar um dos "mais fortes ciclones tropicais já registrados" no Mediterrâneo, com rajadas de ventos de cerca de 200km/h. O Severe estima, por ora, que ele alcance a Categoria 1 - de 5.
Já o Greek Greece Reporter divulgou que, apesar de ser sofrer com menos intensidade, também a capital grega, , deverá ser atingida pelos ventos e chuvas provocadas pelo ciclone. Por precaução, de acordo com o Greek, o Ministério da Proteção Civil alertou os gregos para que evitem atividades ao ar livre e atividades marítimas e para que permaneçam em abrigos seguros.
São "eventos climáticos extremos iminentes", alertou o serviço meteorológico oficial da Grécia, o Meteo. Segundo o órgão, a "última vez que o Peloponeso foi afetado por um ciclone mediterrâneo foi em setembro de 2018 , enquanto anteriormente só se soube de outro evento semelhante em 26 de janeiro de 1982. Já as Ilhas Jônicas, pelo contrário, foram atingidas pelo Ciclone Mediterrâneo 'Zeno' em outubro de 2017".
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Friedhelm Eronat is the man behind the Darfur oil deal.
Briton involved in Sudan oil drill
Next Page: This is second part of Jonathan Miller's investigation into a deal Khartoum has signed with a consortium to drill for oil in southern Sudan.
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What a place to be looking for oil.Say Darfur, we think genocide, ethnic cleansing. But to Khartoum and its corporate partners, deep below dustbowl Darfur lie abundant hidden riches.In 2003, as Sudanese government forces and their murderous militias hounded black Africans from their homes, Khartoum signed a deal to drill for oil in Darfur.In April this year, with the burning and killing still going, the oil minister announced they had struck oil.A potential windfall for a pariah regime and its friends. So what on earth does the human misery of war torn Darfur have to do with the exclusive London borough of Chelsea?Well, the man who was behind the Darfur oil deal lives here. Right here, in fact, in this multi-million pound mansion. Until two years ago he was an American citizen. Now though, he's British. His name: Friedhelm Eronat.Peter Felter knows Cliveden's secrets, and Friedhelm Eronat's too. He was his lawyer for eight years and ran the whole empire for four before he was sacked. He is taking the Group to an employment tribunal. Cliveden's rigorously defending the action.Peter Felter was the chairman of Cliveden Sudan at the time of the Darfur oil deal.He said: "He's a complex personality. Very rich, very charming, a very good salesperson. He now is Mr Big Oil, untouchable. He doesn't care about the minor issues of Darfur or genocide."We could not find any film of Friedhelm Eronat. But Channel 4 News has obtained the only known photographs.In 1990 Mr Eronat set up a global oil empire: the Cliveden Group. It operates in Europe, America and Africa.Friedhelm Eronat was at the heart of the deal to get at Darfur's oil. In late 2003, through his company, Cliveden Sudan, he acquired the biggest stake in the consortium drilling for oil.Mr Felter said: "Cliveden Sudan was bringing not only money of course, but it also was bringing quite a level of expertise in looking at the geology in Sudan."
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The British TV station Channel 4 has discovered that the Sudanese government has signed a deal for a contract to drill for oil in southern Sudan, and that the key man in securing the deal is British.
Friedhelm Eronat, who until two years ago was an American citizen, secured the largest stake made in a consortium that won the drilling contract in 2003. Oil was discovered in April of this year.
Geologists have long suspected the presence of oil in the south of the Sudan. Clivenden Sudan, which Eronat personally owned in 2003, had a high level of expertise in the country's geology.
The twenty five year deal secured by Clivenden Sudan will see it pay the Sudanese government $8m in the event oil is produced. The government will also receive 70% of the profits from the oil.
In a statement to Channel 4 News, Eronat said that he is not a shareholder or officer of Cliveden Sudan, that he does not work for or financially benefit from Cliveden Sudan, and that Cliveden Sudan is not the operator of the concession, only a shareholder.
Cliveden Sudan itself said "there has been no commercial oil find in Block C the area being explored for oil."
Villages in Darfur 180km from the Clivenden Sudan wells have been attacked by Sudanese troops and aircraft.
Eronat became involved in the deal through Lebanese businessman Eli Calil, who has been accused of funding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea last year (allegations denied by Calil). Calil and Eronat live near each other in the London suburb of Chelsea.
At least one rebel group in Darfur is certain the search for oil will inflame the conflict in Darfur. The Justice and Equality Movement wants exploration to stop until peace is established.
A member of the JEM, Ahmad Hussein, told Channel 4 News: "So when they say they discover oil in Darfur, who is going to benefit from that? Are they the people of Darfur? Of course not. Absolutely not, the only beneficiaries is the ruling elite and ruling minority of the regime."
Eronat changed his nationality from American to British in October 2003, shortly before the deal was signed. Under US law, he could have faced up to ten years imprisonment and/or fines of $500,000, due to US sanctions on Sudan.
The UK government has been at the forefront of efforts to try and halt the crisis, with international development minister Hilary Benn making a statement to the house of commons yesterday after a visit to the region. He said: "I visited the Kalma camp in South Darfur and the El Meshtel and Abu Shouk camps in North Darfur where tens of thousands of people are facing a precarious existence. I spoke to men and women whose homes have been destroyed, villages burned, and whose communities have been the victims of killings, looting and rape.
"We are in a race against time in Darfur, and the UK remains committed to doing all that it can to help those affected and to work for a just and lasting peace for its people."
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Press Release 09 June 2004 Parliamentary statement on Darfur The Secretary of State for International Development (Hilary Benn): With permission Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the humanitarian emergency in Darfur. I returned from a visit to Sudan this morning where I saw first hand the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in Darfur, Western Sudan. This is the most serious humanitarian emergency in the world today. The UN estimates that over one million people have had to flee their homes and that a further 130,000 refugees have crossed into Eastern Chad. I visited the Kalma camp in South Darfur and the El Meshtel and Abu Shouk camps in North Darfur where tens of thousands of people are facing a precarious existence. I spoke to men and women whose homes have been destroyed, villages burned, and whose communities have been the victims of killings, looting and rape. The humanitarian needs are enormous. Darfur traditionally has a hungry season between May and September during the rains and before the harvest. Because of the conflict, there will be no harvest this year. Added to the long years of drought, communities are unable to cope. The rains have already started in Darfur. They will bring flash floods, make roads impassable, increase the risk of disease and render the delivery of assistance more difficult. This is a severe crisis which will last well into next year. Dealing with it will require action by everyone, including the Government of Sudan. The changes made to visas and travel permits for UN and other relief agency staffs are now having an effect. Yesterday, the Government gave me a firm commitment that they would fast-track both the delivery of assistance, so that relief agencies can bring in food, medicine, vehicles and other supplies quickly, and the registration of new relief agencies who want to come and help. I will maintain a close interest in the implementation of these arrangements. The number of humanitarian agencies on the ground is limited. We need more. I have also been concerned about the adequacy and speed of the UN's response, although this should now change. The UK has been giving support to the people of Darfur since the autumn of last year. We have already provided 19.5 million pounds to UN agencies, the ICRC and operational NGOs. We have seconded staff to OCHA and the UN Joint Logistics Centre to help co-ordination of the relief effort. During my visit, I announced a further commitment of 15 million pounds, which will take the total contribution for humanitarian assistance by the UK to over 34 million pounds. This includes the airlifting of blankets and shelter materials. The UK, the US and the European Union have to date provided three-quarters of the international response, and there is an urgent need for other donors to do more. The main cause of the crisis is insecurity. Despite the 8th of April ceasefire, fighting has continued and villages have been attacked by armed militias. I raised with First Vice-President Taha the urgent need for the Government of Sudan to rein in the janjaweed and other militias, to condemn these acts of violence and to provide adequate protection for displaced people. Equally, rebel groups must observe the ceasefire. The deployment of the African Union ceasefire monitoring team is therefore urgent. I met with military observers from the team in El-Fasher and they told me that they plan to deploy their team of 120 observers as quickly as possible. The UK will contribute one of the six observers requested from the EU, and I hope other contributing nations will get their observers there soon. The Government of Sudan has promised full support for the monitors, and the UK has provided 2 million pounds to help the AU team set up. In addition, the UN will deploy human rights monitors throughout Darfur with UK financial support. The resolution of this crisis requires a political solution. The Protocols signed in Naivasha on 26 May are a significant and welcome step towards a comprehensive peace agreement for Sudan. I call on all the parties involved in the conflict in Darfur now to engage in discussions to find a peaceful way forward. Mr Speaker, we are in a race against time in Darfur, and the UK remains committed to doing all that it can to help those affected and to work for a just and lasting peace for its people. Back to top
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The British TV station Channel 4 has discovered that the Sudanese government has signed a deal for a contract to drill for oil in southern Sudan, and that the key man in securing the deal is British.
Friedhelm Eronat, who until two years ago was an American citizen, secured the largest stake made in a consortium that won the drilling contract in 2003. Oil was discovered in April of this year.
Geologists have long suspected the presence of oil in the south of the Sudan. Clivenden Sudan, which Eronat personally owned in 2003, had a high level of expertise in the country's geology.
The twenty five year deal secured by Clivenden Sudan will see it pay the Sudanese government $8m in the event oil is produced. The government will also receive 70% of the profits from the oil.
In a statement to Channel 4 News, Eronat said that he is not a shareholder or officer of Cliveden Sudan, that he does not work for or financially benefit from Cliveden Sudan, and that Cliveden Sudan is not the operator of the concession, only a shareholder.
Cliveden Sudan itself said "there has been no commercial oil find in Block C the area being explored for oil."
Villages in Darfur 180km from the Clivenden Sudan wells have been attacked by Sudanese troops and aircraft.
Eronat became involved in the deal through Lebanese businessman Eli Calil, who has been accused of funding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea last year (allegations denied by Calil). Calil and Eronat live near each other in the London suburb of Chelsea.
At least one rebel group in Darfur is certain the search for oil will inflame the conflict in Darfur. The Justice and Equality Movement wants exploration to stop until peace is established.
A member of the JEM, Ahmad Hussein, told Channel 4 News: "So when they say they discover oil in Darfur, who is going to benefit from that? Are they the people of Darfur? Of course not. Absolutely not, the only beneficiaries is the ruling elite and ruling minority of the regime."
Eronat changed his nationality from American to British in October 2003, shortly before the deal was signed. Under US law, he could have faced up to ten years imprisonment and/or fines of $500,000, due to US sanctions on Sudan.
The UK government has been at the forefront of efforts to try and halt the crisis, with international development minister Hilary Benn making a statement to the house of commons yesterday after a visit to the region. He said: "I visited the Kalma camp in South Darfur and the El Meshtel and Abu Shouk camps in North Darfur where tens of thousands of people are facing a precarious existence. I spoke to men and women whose homes have been destroyed, villages burned, and whose communities have been the victims of killings, looting and rape.
"We are in a race against time in Darfur, and the UK remains committed to doing all that it can to help those affected and to work for a just and lasting peace for its people."
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(ANSA) - AOSTA, 15 MAG - "Libero Stato in libera Chiesa.
Ognuno si può esprimere ma io non commento le scelte diocesane".
Così il presidente della Regione Valle d'Aosta, Augusto Rollandin, ha replicato all'invito, rivolto all'amministrazione dal Consiglio pastorale della Diocesi di Aosta, "a fare di più per i profughi". Poi ha precisato: "Sulla questione migranti non abbiamo mai avuto un atteggiamento ideologico, in quel momento non c'erano posti. Stiamo lavorando per trovare altre disponibilità se ci sarà bisogno".
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C'est ainsi que le Président de la Région, a répliqué à la demande de l'évêque d', , et de l'administration du Conseil pastoral du , . a ensuite précisé :
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BEIRUT (Sputnik) — El primer ministro del Líbano, Saad Hariri, presentó su dimisión, comunicó este sábado la televisión libanesa LBCI.
"Una fuente del partido Al Mustaqbal (liderado por Hariri) confirmó la dimisión del primer ministro del Líbano", comunicó la televisión.
El político denunció que el clima en el Líbano parece a los tiempos del asesinato de su padre, Rafiq Hariri, en 2005, y responsabilizó a Irán y al movimiento libanés Hizbulá de esta situación.
"La interferencia de Hizbulá ha provocado graves problemas con nuestros vecinos árabes y han impuesto una realidad por la fuerza de las armas", dijo Hariri.
Reiteró su rechazo al uso de armas por Hizbulá contra los pueblos libanés y sirio.
Hariri llevaba en el cargo del primer ministro desde diciembre de 2016.
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en septiembre de 2017.
, primer ministro de Líbano, anunció su renuncia este sábado (4 de noviembre) alegando el clima político de su país. La televisora local LBCI comunicó la dimisión e indicó que una "fuente del partido () liderado por Hariri confirmó la dimisión del primer ministro del Líbano".
Por su parte, el canal retransmitió un mensaje del exprimer ministro en donde arremetía contra las armas de e Irán y aseguraba que temía por su vida. El político denunció que el clima político es similar "al que acabó desembocando en el asesinato de mi padre", , del que responsabilizó a Hezbolá e Irán.
"La interferencia de Hezbolá ha provocado graves problemas con nuestros vecinos árabes y han impuesto una realidad por la fuerza de las armas", declaró Hariri. El exmandatario ocupaba el cargo, por segunda ocasión, desde diciembre de 2016. "He detectado una conspiración para acabar con mi vida", agregó Hariri sin dar detalles.
Fuentes citadas por Al-Arabiya indican que el exmandatario decidió volar a (Arabia Saudita) el viernes pasado luego de frustrar un atentado en contra del convoy en el que viajaba en .
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El primer ministro libanés, Saad Hariri, ha anunciado este sábado por sorpresa y desde Arabia Saudí su dimisión aludiendo al clima político que vive el país. Tras arremeter contra las armas del partido-milicia chií Hezbolá y contra Irán, ha afirmado temer por su vida. "Anuncio mi dimisión del puesto de primer ministro", ha declarado Hariri en un discurso retransmitido por la cadena de noticias Al Arabiya. Lo ha hecho durante su segunda visita a Arabia Saudí en menos de cinco días.
“Cuando ocupé mi cargo, os prometí que perseguiría la unión de los libaneses, el fin de las divisiones políticas, pero no he sido capaz de hacerlo”, ha dicho Hariri quien responsabiliza a Irán de frustrar todos sus esfuerzos. "Sus interferencias [por Irán] nos han causado graves problemas con nuestros vecinos árabes y han impuesto una realidad por la fuerza de las armas", ha acotado. Pero ha asegurado que Líbano "se levantará, como lo ha hecho en el pasado" y "cortará las manos que se extienden malvadamente" dentro del país.
“El Presidente [por el ex General Michel Aoun] ha recibido una llamada de Hariri informándole de su dimisión”, es el mensaje que ha publicado el Gobierno Libanés en su cuenta oficial de Twitter, para añadir que Aoun espera el retorno de Hariri para conocer las causas de su decisión. “Haremos público un comunicado oficial en breve”, ha asegurado por su parte en una conversación telefónica Roula Beidun, portavoz del Partido El Futuro que lidera Hariri. “No es el momento para dimisiones, esto va a tener serias repercusiones sobre la economía libanesa y el Líbano”, han sido las palabras de Walid Jumblat, líder del Partido Socialista Progresista, recogidas por el diario libanés L’Orient Le Jour.
La renuncia del primer ministro ha caído como un jarro de agua fría sobre los ciudadanos libaneses quienes temen que este inesperado anuncio abra otra nueva fase de enfrenamientos entre los dos principales bloques políticos que se disputan el poder. "El clima político en Líbano se parece al que acabó desembocando en el asesinato de mi padre", ha afirmado Hariri aludiendo a la inestabilidad política que desencadenó en 2005 el asesinato con coche bomba que acabó con la vida de su padre y ex primer ministro, Rafik Hariri.
Las protestas sociales masivas que siguieron al magnicidio forzaron la retirada de las tropas sirias tras 29 años en el Líbano. "He detectado una conspiración para acabar con mi vida", ha añadido Hariri. Y no es la primera vez que dice temer por su seguridad física. Ya en 2005 optó por un largo auto exilio fijando su residencia entre París y Riad.
Fue la sangrienta ola de atentados yihadistas que protagonizó el país en 2014 la que forzó un acuerdo bajo mesa entre Teherán y Riad con el fin de preservar la estabilidad interna del Líbano. Un acuerdo que puso fin a más de dos años y medio de vacío político por falta de quorum y que permitió el regreso de Hariri al ámbito político en tanto que primer ministro. Ahora, con el Estado Islámico (ISIS, por sus siglas e inglés) a punto de ser derrotado en Siria en Irak, el entendimiento entre Riad y Teherán parece llegar también a su fin.
“ La dimisión de Hariri responde claramente a la política regional y no a las dinámicas internas del Líbano”, valora en una conversación telefónica Karim Makdisi, profesor de la Universidad Americana de Beirut. “ Es un claro mensaje de presión hacia el Gobierno libanés para que se distancie de Hezbolá y de Irán, hoy reforzados en la región, y forma parte del endurecido discurso que están adoptando tanto EEUU como Israel”, apostilla.
Quién sucederá a Hariri es la primera de las incertidumbres que ha abierto esta inesperada renuncia incluso para el bloque político suní que ha quedado huérfano de líder desde el asesinato de Rafik Hariri. Este revés también pone en entredicho la celebración de los comicios parlamentarios previstos para el próximo mes de mayo, los primeros en nueve años.
En las calles de Beirut, numerosos ciudadanos se muestran indignados de que su primer ministro haya optado por anunciar su dimisión desde el extranjero y no ante el Parlamento libanés. Decisión que interpretan como un claro mensaje de no retorno. Precisamente hoy, Hariri ha cumplido un año en su cargo.
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, primer ministro de Líbano, anunció su renuncia este sábado (4 de noviembre) alegando el clima político de su país. La televisora local LBCI comunicó la dimisión e indicó que una "fuente del partido () liderado por Hariri confirmó la dimisión del primer ministro del Líbano".
Por su parte, el canal retransmitió un mensaje del exprimer ministro en donde arremetía contra las armas de e Irán y aseguraba que temía por su vida. El político denunció que el clima político es similar "al que acabó desembocando en el asesinato de mi padre", , del que responsabilizó a Hezbolá e Irán.
"La interferencia de Hezbolá ha provocado graves problemas con nuestros vecinos árabes y han impuesto una realidad por la fuerza de las armas", declaró Hariri. El exmandatario ocupaba el cargo, por segunda ocasión, desde diciembre de 2016. "He detectado una conspiración para acabar con mi vida", agregó Hariri sin dar detalles.
Fuentes citadas por Al-Arabiya indican que el exmandatario decidió volar a (Arabia Saudita) el viernes pasado luego de frustrar un atentado en contra del convoy en el que viajaba en .
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Hurricane RITA Position Estimate Home Public Adv Fcst/Adv Discussion Strike Probs Wind Probs Maps/Charts Archive
Position Estimate US Watch/Warning ZCZC MIATCEAT3 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 11 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005 AT 11 PM CDT...0400Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RITA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 93.4 WEST...OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF SABINE PASS ALONG THE COAST AT THE BORDER BETWEEN TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. FORECASTER KNABB/BEVEN $$ NNNN
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The core of made landfall just west of the – border as a storm at 3 AM Saturday with sustained winds near 120 mph. The center of the eye crossed the coast southeast of , Texas, near , with the eyewall extending into Louisiana.
Rita is expected to produce rainfall accumulations of 8–12 inches, with the storm slowing down and producing a total of as much as 25 inches across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Bursts of tropical storm winds and rainfall amounts of 3–5 inches are possible in .
Path forecast 5 hours before landfall.
New Orleans' '''Ninth Ward''', which saw as much as 20 feet of water during , is currently in waist high water as a nearby levee was overtopped. Water is spilling over the levee in a section 100 feet wide. There are reports of damage or leakage at three levee breaches.
Near the center of the storm, coastal storm surge flooding of 15 feet above normal tide levels is expected, reaching 20 feet in bays and rivers. Tides are about 2 feet above normal along the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coasts, and tides will increase to 4–6 feet above normal, with large waves and swells.
Radar image of eye at shoreline. The radar tower was destroyed by the storm.
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Position Estimate US Watch/Warning 000 WTNT33 KNHC 240837 TCPAT3 BULLETIN HURRICANE RITA ADVISORY NUMBER 27 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 4 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 ...RITA MOVES ONSHORE NEAR SABINE PASS AS A DANGEROUS CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE...CURRENTLY NEAR PORT ARTHUR TEXAS... A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SARGENT TEXAS TO MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED. AT 4 AM CDT...0900Z...THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS DISCONTINUED SOUTH OF PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF LOUISIANA EAST OF MORGAN CITY TO THE MOUTH OF THE PEARL RIVER... INCLUDING METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN...AND FROM SOUTH OF SARGENT TEXAS TO PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE. AT 4 AM CDT...0900Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RITA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.9 NORTH...LONGITUDE 93.9 WEST OR NEAR PORT ARTHUR TEXAS. RITA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH. A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTH AND A DECREASE IN FORWARD MOTION IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THIS MOTION SHOULD BRING THE CENTER OF RITA FARTHER INLAND OVER SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS TODAY. REPORTS FROM AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS INDICATE THAT MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 120 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES RITA A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. RITA SHOULD WEAKEN TODAY AS THE CENTER MOVES FARTHER INLAND. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 205 MILES. AN INSTRUMENTED TOWER IN PORT ARTHUR RUN BY THE FLORIDA COASTAL MONITORING PROGRAM HAS JUST REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 91 MPH WITH A GUST TO 116 MPH. THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE MEASURED BY THE HURRICANE HUNTERS JUST BEFORE LANDFALL WAS 937 MB...27.67 INCHES. THE AUTOMATED STATION AT SEA RIM STATE PARK TEXAS RECENTLY REPORTED A PRESSURE OF 951.3 MB...28.09 INCHES. COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 15 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS... LOCALLY UP TO 20 FEET AT HEAD OF BAYS AND NEARBY RIVERS...WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. TIDES ALONG THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTS IN AREAS AFFECTED BY KATRINA COULD BE 4 TO 6 FEET ABOVE NORMAL AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE WAVES... AND RESIDENTS THERE COULD EXPERIENCE COASTAL FLOODING. LARGE SWELLS GENERATED BY RITA WILL LIKELY AFFECT MOST PORTIONS OF THE GULF COAST. SINCE RITA IS MOVINGLY SLOWLY AND IS FORECAST TO SLOW DOWN FURTHER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER EASTERN TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA. MAXIMUM RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 25 INCHES MAY OCCUR OVER LOCALIZED AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA INCLUDING METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER FAR EASTERN TEXAS...LOUISIANA...SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AND MISSISSIPPI. REPEATING THE 4 AM CDT POSITION...29.9 N... 93.9 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 937 MB. AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 7 AM CDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 10 AM CDT. FORECASTER BEVEN $$
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The core of made landfall just west of the – border as a storm at 3 AM Saturday with sustained winds near 120 mph. The center of the eye crossed the coast southeast of , Texas, near , with the eyewall extending into Louisiana.
Rita is expected to produce rainfall accumulations of 8–12 inches, with the storm slowing down and producing a total of as much as 25 inches across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Bursts of tropical storm winds and rainfall amounts of 3–5 inches are possible in .
Path forecast 5 hours before landfall.
New Orleans' '''Ninth Ward''', which saw as much as 20 feet of water during , is currently in waist high water as a nearby levee was overtopped. Water is spilling over the levee in a section 100 feet wide. There are reports of damage or leakage at three levee breaches.
Near the center of the storm, coastal storm surge flooding of 15 feet above normal tide levels is expected, reaching 20 feet in bays and rivers. Tides are about 2 feet above normal along the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coasts, and tides will increase to 4–6 feet above normal, with large waves and swells.
Radar image of eye at shoreline. The radar tower was destroyed by the storm.
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ST.JOHN'S A ship on a recovery mission into the helicopter crash off the coast of Newfoundland returned to a St. John's port early Tuesday with the bodies of the final seven victims, the RCMP said.
The recovery of all the bodies brings a measure of finality for the relatives of the victims of last week's crash, said RCMP Sgt. Wayne Newell.
``It certainly brings closure,'' Newell said.
``It's a tough time for everybody, but at least to have their loved ones repatriated ... certainly is helpful.''
The Atlantic Osprey offshore supply vessel was met by two hearses and police who cordoned off the area, much as they did to a similar scene early Monday.
That's when the Atlantic Osprey brought nine unidentified bodies to St. John's after they were pulled from the mangled fuselage of the downed chopper, 178 metres below the ocean surface.
Seventeen people perished when the helicopter crashed last Thursday, 65 kilometres southeast of St. John's, while it was ferrying workers to two offshore oil platforms.
One body was recovered shortly after the crash.
The lone survivor, 30-year-old Robert Decker, remains at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's with fractures and lung injuries.
On Monday, the first funeral for one of the chopper victims, 26-year-old Allison Maher was held in Fermeuse, a town of less than 300 about 100 kilometres south of St. John's.
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Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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Black box, final bodies recovered from helicopter wreckage Officials cite relief as remains of seven people returned to St. John's
A hearse arrives at a dock at the St. John's harbourfront early Tuesday morning, after the offshore supply vessel Atlantic Osprey arrived with seven bodies aboard. (CBC) A hearse arrives at a dock at the St. John's harbourfront early Tuesday morning, after the offshore supply vessel Atlantic Osprey arrived with seven bodies aboard. (CBC)
Investigators said Tuesday afternoon they had recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from an offshore oil industry helicopter that crashed last week off the east coast of Newfoundland, killing all but one of the 18 people aboard.
The revelation came just hours after crews recovered the final seven bodies of the missing passengers from the wreckage of the Cougar Helicopters aircraft, which is lying on its side in deep water.
Mike Cunningham, the lead investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, said the recorders, including the so-called black box, were brought to St. John's with the bodies, and have now been sent to Ottawa, where they will be examined by TSB technicians.
"We'll start the work of extracting the data from those," Cunningham told CBC News.
The full analysis of the recorder is expected to take between a week and 10 days. However, he said, some preliminary information may be available as early as late Tuesday.
The recorders may shed important light on what happened in the final minutes of the helicopter's flight. The Cougar chopper crashed into the Atlantic about 55 kilometres east-southeast of St. John's last Thursday morning, killing 17 people.
Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical examiner continued work Tuesday on identifying the remains of the deceased.
"All remaining bodies, the remaining seven bodies, have been recovered and they are presently being taken to the care of the chief medical examiner," RCMP Sgt. Wayne Newell told reporters early Tuesday.
The helicopter had been ferrying workers to two of the three offshore oil platforms southeast of St. John's when, authorities said, the crew reported a drop in oil pressure in the gearbox.
One passenger survived and is being treated for serious injuries in hospital in St. John's. The RCMP said they hope to be able to speak with Robert Decker later this week.
One body had been recovered on the ocean surface Thursday. A funeral was held Monday in Fermeuse, a community south of St. John's, for Allison Maher, 26, who had worked as a caterer on an offshore oil platform.
A robotic underwater remote-operated vehicle (ROV) lifted the rest of the deceased from the fuselage of the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-92.
Bringing closure
Authorities said finding and bringing back the bodies of the missing has been their paramount goal since Friday night, when a search for the living grimly turned into a body recovery effort.
A Cougar Helicopters aircraft crashed east-southeast of St. John's last Thursday morning. (CBC) A Cougar Helicopters aircraft crashed east-southeast of St. John's last Thursday morning. (CBC)
"It certainly brings closure," Newell told reporters in St. John's.
"It's a tough time for everybody, but at least to have their loved ones repatriated and to bring some closure to people, [it] certainly is helpful."
On Wednesday evening, an ecumenical service will be held at the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist, in downtown St. John's. Open to people of all faiths, the service will be the first official public ceremony to honour the memory of the dead. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Peter MacKay are scheduled to attend.
Hank Williams, base manager of the Cougar Helicopters operation in St. John's, said families of the deceased are welcoming the news.
"They have a big sense of relief and [can] move forward, that's for sure," Williams told CBC News. "That's the best result that could have come out of the search."
The Atlantic Osprey, an offshore supply ship that has been used as the base for the recovery operation, left St. John's later Tuesday morning to return to the scene of the crash.
With the bodies recovered, the work of the Transportation Safety Board-led crew now turns to lifting the helicopter to the surface.
The fuselage, which investigators say has shown signs of serious damage, has a broken tail boom and is lying on its side on the ocean floor, at a depth of 178 metres.
Meanwhile, Newell said the medical examiner's office confirmed the identities of six bodies that had been brought to St. John's early Monday. Their families, he said, have been notified.
Newell said notifying the families has been exceptionally difficult.
"It takes the life out of you, to have to say that," he said.
Survivor showing signs of recovery
Meanwhile, a family friend has told reporters that Decker, who worked as an ice spotter in the offshore oil industry, remains in critical condition at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's.
"Robert has significant lung injury. He has several fractures and will require surgery. There is no neurological damage, he is able to move all of his limbs, there are no burns and his vision is fine," David Philpott said Monday.
Decker, he said, remains heavily sedated but there have been signs of recovery.
"It has been possible to remove the ventilator for extended periods of time," he said. "He has been able to speak briefly with his doctors and family members."
What Decker can remember of the final minutes of the Cougar helicopter's flight could be critical in the investigation. Philpott said that after Decker speaks with authorities, investigators will be responsible for releasing any information about the crash.
Newell said the RCMP are still advised by hospital officials that Decker should be able to speak with investigators before the end of the week.
"That remains variable. Obviously, his health is the first priority," Newell said Tuesday. "When he's ready, however long it takes, we'll speak to him."
15 of deceased named
All but three of the identified people who were aboard the helicopter lived in Newfoundland and Labrador, where the offshore oil industry has emerged in the last decade as a primary employer.
The names released by the RCMP so far are:
Thomas Anwyll, 46, Langley, B.C.
Peter Breen, 55, St. John's.
Gary Corbett, 46, Conception Bay South.
Matthew William Thomas Davis, 34, St. John's, pilot of the helicopter.
Wade Drake, 42, Fortune.
Wade Duggan, 32, Witless Bay.
Corey Eddy, 32, of Paradise, formerly of Sibley's Cove.
Colin Henley, 38, St. John's.
Tim Lanouette, 48, Comox, B.C., first officer on the helicopter.
Allison Maher, 26, Mount Pearl, formerly of Aquaforte.
Ken MacRae, 47, Greenwood, N.S.
Derrick Mullowney, 51, Bay Bulls.
Burch Nash, 44, Fortune.
John Pelley, 41, Deer Lake.
Paul Pike, 49, Spaniard's Bay.
Two families have not consented to the release of their loved ones' names.
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Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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Newfoundland begins to bury its dead
VANCOUVER, ST. JOHN'S Tim Lanouette's storied career took him from B.C.'s mountain peaks to the coast of Africa, first as a gifted military musician and later as a pilot flying Sea King helicopters.
His most recent career turn, landing a coveted position flying state-of-the art Sikorsky S-92 helicopters, ended in tragedy last week when a copter ferrying oil rig workers crashed into the Atlantic, killing 17 of the 18 people aboard, including Mr. Lanouette. He was first officer on the doomed Flight 91.
On Monday, friends remembered Mr. Lanouette, 48, as a multilayered man, equally at home with a guitar or trombone as he was in the pilot's seat. A native of Comox, B.C., he made friends everywhere with his outgoing personality, dry wit and penchant for drawing amusing cartoons.
“He made it a priority to get to know everyone,” said Major Jason Roman, a fellow military pilot who flew Sea King helicopters with Mr. Lanouette on both of Canada's coasts. “He was the kind of guy who, if he walked into a coffee shop, he would know the guys working behind the counter and they would know him.”
Major Roman, of Halifax, said most people will remember Mr. Lanouette's passion for flying. But his first job in the military was as a bass trombonist in the Kingston military band, where his talent is still talked about. He also played bass guitar.
Peter van der Horden, the band's director, said Mr. Lanouette buoyed people's spirits with his wit and optimism. Once, after the band was drenched in a downpour during a concert, he drew a cartoon of the sodden bandmates and put it on T-shirts.
“People looked up to him,” Mr. van der Horden said in a telephone interview from Halifax. “He was very concerned and caring.”
Mr. Lanouette flew helicopters for more than a decade before retiring from the military about two years ago. He was divorced from his wife and had four children to support, which, in part led him to the job with Cougar Helicopters in St. John's. His ex-wife and children lived in Saskatchewan.
Major Roman said his friend's dream job was to fly float planes up and down the coast of British Columbia. But the Cougar position offered a good salary and he needed the money. He worked long hours, taking Cougar contracts from as far away as Africa.
Also on Monday, Newfoundlanders across the province began to bury other victims of last week's crash. The first service was for Allison Maher, the youngest identified victim.
More than half the 17 victims of the doomed flight had been recovered as of Monday. The bodies were taken by hearse to the province's chief medical officer, who will supervise autopsies and identification of the remains.
Only then can they be released to their families.
While the deaths have touched people around the province and across the country, perhaps nowhere is the pain felt more keenly than the outports that have long watched their loved ones go to sea to earn a living.
The workers killed on the flight to the oil rigs were carrying on that centuries-old pattern. They are the descendants of generations of fishermen and sealers who risked their lives on the frigid waters and treacherous ice.
“Knowing the history of the ocean and what can happen, you live with it every day,” said Don Drew, the mayor of Bay Bulls, which lost one of its residents in the crash.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there,” he added. “Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected.”
These communities are now preparing to bury the latest additions to a long and painful list. The grim parade started Monday in Fermeuse, a bit more than an hour south of St. John's, where hundreds of mourners came to grieve Ms. Maher. The crowd, some clutching pink lilies, overflowed the local church.
Ms. Maher was described by her uncle as being “extremely independent and hard working” and determined to live life to the fullest.
“Those who knew Allison would agree that she was a soft, loving soul with a powerful and infectious sense of humour,” Jim Maher said in a statement issued to the media.
He said his family also grieves with the other families touched by the tragedy.
“So many hearts have been broken by this event that it is difficult for us to fathom the amount of pain and suffering being felt by so many good people,” he said. “We are praying for all the families involved.”
In the homily for Ms. Maher, a parallel was drawn between this tragedy and another disaster that still looms large in the province's psyche: the 1982 Ocean Ranger catastrophe that killed 84. Last week's crash was described as another “tragedy off our shores.”
More funerals are expected in the coming days as recovery work continues at the crash site. It is not yet known how many bodies are still on the wrecked chopper, but Transportation Safety Board officials say they will do everything possible to find all the remains.
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Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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9 bodies recovered from helicopter wreckage in Atlantic
Cougar Helicopters provides shuttle services for crews flying from St. John's to offshore oil platforms. (Courtesy of Cougar Helicopters) Cougar Helicopters provides shuttle services for crews flying from St. John's to offshore oil platforms. (Courtesy of Cougar Helicopters)
Recovery crews have retrieved nine bodies from the deep-sea wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off the coast of Newfoundland last Thursday, killing 17 people.
The bodies were brought back to port in St. John's early Monday on the Atlantic Osprey, an offshore supply vessel that had been helping with the recovery effort.
A total of 10 bodies have now been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, including that of oilfield worker Allison Maher, 26, whose body was recovered shortly after Thursday's crash. No other identifications have been disclosed.
Efforts continue to bring more to the surface, with help from an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
Mike Cunningham, lead investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, told reporters that crews using the video-equipped ROV were able to see "about 10 to 13 bodies" in the fuselage of the Cougar Helicopters aircraft, lying 178 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
"That number must be taken as a guess at this time. There could be more," Cunningham told reporters.
"It is very delicate work and has to be done very carefully. It's work that could take 18 to 24 hours, if everything goes well."
The crash killed 17 of the 18 people on board the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, which had been heading to two offshore oil platforms when it crashed Thursday morning after reporting mechanical problems.
The recovery effort by crews aboard the Atlantic Osprey supply ship came on a day when prayers were being offered at churches across Newfoundland and Labrador for the passengers of the helicopter.
The sole survivor, Robert Decker, remains in critical but stable condition in hospital in St. John's.
Tributes are attached to the fencing outside Cougar Helicopters at the airport in St. John's. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press) Tributes are attached to the fencing outside Cougar Helicopters at the airport in St. John's. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Hank Williams, operations manager for the Cougar Helicopters base at St. John's airport, said the families' paramount concern is the recovery of bodies.
"[It's] very important from our perspective that the next step is to bring their people home," Williams, his voice often crackling with emotion, told a media briefing Saturday.
"Every family member that I've spoken to, that is the ultimate goal right now. That's what they want," said Williams, adding that he can still see the faces of the friends and colleagues who died Thursday.
Search crews on Saturday found the fuselage of the Sikorsky S-92 and decided to make recovery of the bodies a top priority, partly because of damage to the aircraft.
"The fuselage, it turns out, has been quite compromised by the impact with the water. It's been broken up somewhat. It's cracked up quite a bit," Cunningham said Sunday.
"The cockpit area in particular has been quite damaged. The tail boom has been broken off, but the main fuselage or cabin structure is somewhat together, with the main door off."
To raise the aircraft, the Transportation Safety Board will use a crane capable of carrying 50 tonnes. The helicopter is estimated to weigh about 10 tonnes.
Nonetheless, the work of bringing it to the surface will require careful engineering and execution, and it's expected to take all week to finish the task.
The RCMP added two more names Sunday to the list of the dead after receiving permission from their families. They have been identified as Corey Eddy, 32, of Paradise, N.L., who had originally lived in Sibley's Cove, and John Pelley, 41, of Deer Lake, N.L.
On Saturday, police identified 12 others, including two British Columbia residents, a Nova Scotia resident and nine residents of Newfoundland and Labrador. The other families as yet have not consented to releasing the remaining names.
The names released by the RCMP on Saturday were:
Tim Lanouette, 48, Comox, B.C., the first officer on the helicopter.
Peter Breen, 55, St. John's.
Gary Corbett, 46, Conception Bay South.
Wade Drake, 42, Fortune.
Wade Duggan, 32, Witless Bay.
Colin Henley, 38, St. John's.
Ken MacRae, 47, Greenwood, N.S.
Derrick Mullowney, 51, Bay Bulls.
Burch Nash, 44, Fortune.
Paul Pike, 49, Spaniard's Bay.
Allison Maher, 26, Mount Pearl, formerly of Aquaforte.
Thomas Anwyll, 46, Langley, B.C.
On Saturday, the Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist opened its doors in St. John's to all who wanted to grieve, regardless of their religion.
"We want to be there with the people and to cry with them in their time of need as well," Archbishop Martin Currie told CBC News.
"These kinds of tragedies, when we hear about it there's a certain kind of numbness comes into our body," he said. "We gather as a people to discuss [it and] ask the whys in search for meaning in all this. Some people find there's meaning in faith, and others may search in other ways."
Meanwhile, flights remain suspended to and from the platforms working at the three offshore oilfields southeast of St. John's. Crews are being transported instead by vessel.
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Search and rescue basket
Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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TheStar.com | Canada | Newfoundland filled with grief over helicopter crash victims Newfoundland filled with grief over helicopter crash victims
Mar 16, 2009 12:48 AM
Kenyon Wallace
STAFF REPORTER
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. — The steeple bells that rang out at hundreds of churches across this wind-swept province yesterday set a sombre mood as communities gathered to grieve collectively and remember the 17 people lost in last week's tragic helicopter crash.
While disasters of this magnitude are always devastating no matter where they happen, in this small province of slightly more than a half-million, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't know either a relative, a friend, or a friend of a friend of the victims.
The media coverage has been ubiquitous. In lineups at coffee shops the conversation inevitably turns to the families of the lost employees of Cougar Helicopters and Husky Energy. A steady stream of people bearing bouquets of flowers continues to turn up at the Cougar head office. A half-dozen Facebook pages with tens of thousands of members have sprung up offering prayers and condolences. The outpouring of grief has been staggering.
"Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other," Archbishop Martin Currie of St. John's said in an interview. "Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
That much was evident in the Southern Shore hamlet of Fermeuse, about 100 kilometres south of St. John's. There, hundreds of people from up and down the coastline gathered to remember 26-year-old Allison Maher, a housekeeper and caterer on the SeaRose oil platform who died in Thursday's crash.
"Many families can feel something for these people because they, too, have experienced the same kind of loss in their life. It's a very close-knit society," Currie said.
Five residents from the small communities hugging the southern shore of the Avalon Peninsula are among the victims. Bay Bulls mayor Don Drew said the town, home to Derrick Mullowney, also a caterer on the SeaRose who died in the crash, is coping the best it can.
"Everyone's going about their business but there's a grief over the whole community. Here in this part of Newfoundland, I know everybody not only five streets up in my community but in all the other communities also. We've hunted, we've fished, we've played hockey, played politics together, but we're a family," he said.
The pews at the 153-year-old Roman Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist in downtown St. John's were filled with hundreds Sunday morning as people of different faiths congregated to grieve. People wept quietly as the Msgr. John Wallis asked worshippers to pray for the families of the deceased and the recovery of the lone survivor, 30-year-old Robert Decker. He remains in hospital in stable but critical condition.
The strong-willed spirit of optimism among those in attendance is pervasive.
"There's been a lot of losses at sea down through the years. We always deal with it and recover, outwardly at least, and we carry on. We'll continue to do so," said long-time parishioner Loretta Lahey.
"It's important to grieve and remember those lost," added Anne St. Croix. "Most people do feel part of the community. I think it felt that way this morning."
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Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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Sole survivor may soon provide chopper crash answers: RCMP
Robert Decker was the only passenger to survive a helicopter crash about 55 kilometres off Newfoundland's east coast. (CBC) Robert Decker was the only passenger to survive a helicopter crash about 55 kilometres off Newfoundland's east coast. (CBC)
The only person to survive when an offshore oil helicopter crashed hard into the Atlantic Ocean last week is expected to soon be well enough to answer investigators' questions, police said Monday.
Robert Decker was put on life support at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's last Thursday, shortly after a Cougar Helicopters aircraft crashed into the sea. All 17 of the other passengers were killed.
Decker's family issued a statement on Saturday saying that Decker, who worked as an ice spotter at one of the platforms off Newfoundland's east coast, had been revived on Friday but was not able to communicate with them.
RCMP Supt. Reg Reeves told reporters that investigators are hopeful Decker may soon be able to shed light on the final minutes of the flight.
"The RCMP investigators anticipate that they will be able to talk to Robert Decker, the only survivor of the crash, sometime later in the week," Reeves told a media briefing.
Asked for more details on Decker's medical condition, Reeves said, "We were in constant contact with the hospital, but [as for] his current update, we're not aware of [that] specifically, other than we've been told he'll be available later this week for an interview by us."
Speaking through a family friend on Monday, the Decker family said Robert has spoken with family members and doctors, but is still fighting serious injuries.
At this time, the friend said, Decker is not yet able to assist authorities with their investigation.
The Transportation Safety Board launched an official investigation on Friday evening, just as a formal search for further survivors turned instead to a recovery mission.
The fuselage of the helicopter was located Saturday, as TSB investigators used an underwater remote-operated vehicle (ROV) to scan the site.
However, further inspection led investigators to conclude that the helicopter was seriously damaged. The helicopter is under 178 metres of water, considerably more than first thought, and the TSB said the craft was "quite compromised" after the collision.
Nick Stoss, a former TSB investigator, said Monday some assumptions could be drawn from those descriptions of the fuselage.
"The damage described ... is indicative indeed [that] this was not a controlled ditching in the water ... but indeed the aircraft probably flew into the water, and most likely in an uncontrolled state, but that again is speculation," Stoss told CBC News in an interview from Ottawa.
Search and rescue officials said last week that the helicopter's crew had advised minutes before it went down that it was "ditching" the aircraft, which suggested they were hoping to execute a controlled landing.
Decker was pulled from the ocean by another Cougar chopper and flown to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's.
The body of passenger Allison Maher, 26, was also found on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
It's not known how Decker and Maher wound up outside the helicopter.
Investigators have recovered some parts of the helicopter, including the main entrance door, a cargo door at the aft and an emergency exit door.
On Sunday, using an ROV, the recovery team brought nine bodies to the surface and then delivered them to St. John's. The bodies, which have not yet been identified, are in the care of the office of the medical examiner.
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Search and rescue basket
Funerals began Monday across Newfoundland for the deceased of the downed helicopter that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday killing 17 of the 18 people on board. All bodies have now been recovered, and the voice and have been retrieved to aid the investigation.
“We have a big attachment to the sea, even if a family is not directly involved you know how dangerous it is out there. Some funerals are strictly a family matter. In this situation there's a large extended family because we're all affected,” said Jim Maher, the uncle of Allison Maher, 26, the first deceased recovered after the crash.
The Archbishop of , Martin Currie, said, “Tragedy is no stranger to the people of Newfoundland. They're very resilient people and in a time of tragedy, they come together to support each other. Most of the communities in Newfoundland are small communities. Everybody knows everybody."
The has retrieved nine more bodies from the wreckage. The is the offshore supply vessel which has been with the search and rescue effort since day one. The newly recovered bodies were taken back to St. John's aboard the ship.
Since the recovery operations began Monday "it took 24 hours to get nine bodies out Each presents its own challenges depending on how it is entangled inside the aircraft" said RCMP Sergeant Wayne Newell.
Operations continued Tuesday to recover the final seven bodies tangled inside the mangled wreck 120 to 150 meters (394 to 492 feet) below the ocean surface. (ROVs) are being used in the icy waters to place the bodies in a basket so they can be raised to the surface. After the ''Atlantic Osprey'' arrived in port, the bodies were taken to the Newfoundland's chief medical officer by hearse for identification.
Of the 19 people aboard, Robert Decker is the sole survivor. Decker's family has informed the RCMP that he is not yet able to communicate. Decker, who was put on life support when first admitted to hospital with injured lungs and broken bones, has said a few words; RCMP investigators hope that he will be able explain what happened in the accident and assist with the investigation, possibly toward the end of the week.
Twelve names of the missing victims had previously been announced, and with family permission, the RCMP have now released the names of Corey Eddy, from , age 32, and John Pelley, from age 41.
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Chronic kidney disease is on the rise in the US, but lack of awareness is thwarting efforts by health officials to catch and control it before such extreme measures as dialysis or organ transplant become necessary. From 1994 to now, the number of people with kidney disease has risen by 3 percent -- from an estimated 20 million people to as many as 26 million people, report researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Their findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Kidney disease can lead to kidney failure. It heightens the risk of heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and premature death. It causes anemia, bone disease and malnutrition. In 2005, at least 107,000 Americans learned they had kidney failure. That year, more than 485,000 had dialysis or a kidney transplant, costing $32 billion, according to the National Institutes of Health's US Renal Data System. By 2020, nearly 785,000 people will be receiving treatment for kidney failure, costing $53.6 billion, the agency predicts. Contributing Factors The alarming trend is attributable in part to increases in the incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and aging, according to Paul W. Eggers, PhD, director of kidney disease epidemiology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Still, those factors don't fully explain the upsurge in cases. The researchers crunched data gathered on 28,000 adults through interviews, exams and lab tests conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics during a span beginning in 1988 and ending in 2004. They considered creatinine levels in blood samples, adjusting for age, gender and race, which were known to affect results. Creatinine is a waste product produced when muscle cells break down during activity. When kidneys aren't functioning properly, creatinine levels may rise. They also checked urine samples for albumin, a protein that may leak from the blood to the urine when kidneys are damaged. Silent Killer The vast majority of people with kidney disease are unaware of it until they reach the final stage of the disease -- Stage 5, or kidney failure. The latest research found that fewer than 23 percent of people with Stage 3 kidney disease were aware of the problem. Only 42 percent of those individuals who had Stage 4 kidney disease knew about it. "Kidney disease is often silent until late stages, but if we can find it early we can do a lot to prevent kidney failure," explained Andrew S. Narva, MD, FACP, director of the NIH's National Kidney Disease Education Program. "If you have diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney problems, you are at risk and should be screened for kidney damage with routine blood and urine tests," he advised. "To help protect the kidneys' small blood vessels, carefully control high blood pressure, and blood sugar if you're diabetic," Narva continued, "and ask your doctor if you should take an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker." Related Video: Engaged Couple a Great Match in More Ways Than One
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Schematic illustration of a kidney. The kidneys filter wastes from the blood and are involved in the regularization of blood pressure, red blood cell count and bone mineralisation.
New research based on data gathered on approximately 28,000 individuals over a 16-year period indicates that even as more people in the U.S. are acquiring chronic kidney disease, the vast majority of those who are in the early and middle stages of its progression -- when it is most treatable -- have no idea their kidneys are weak or damaged until failure is imminent.
Only 42 percent of study subjects who had Stage 4 kidney disease were aware of it, according to an analysis of data from two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The percentage of people with stage 1 through 4 disease increased from 10.0% in the period 1988-1994 to 13.1% in 1999-2004, mostly due to an increase in diabetes and high blood pressure rates. Stage 5 is kidney failure, when dialysis or organ transplant are the only options.
Screening of persons at risk -- those with diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney problems -- is of utmost importance, said Andrew S. Narva, MD, FACP, director of the NIH's National Kidney Disease Education Program.
Much can be done to prevent kidney failure if the disease is caught early enough. For example, careful attention to monitoring blood glucose levels, keeping blood pressure under control, and certain prescription medications can be beneficial, according to the NKDEP. Unfortunately, the most commonly performed blood test to look at kidney function, the creatinine level, has limited precision and needs to be interpreted carefully.
The 13 percent estimate means that some 26 million Americans are thought to have kidney disease, and since risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes are still increasing, the study raises concerns about future trends of chronic kidney disease and complications. People with kidney disease are at greater risk of hypertension, heart attacks and strokes. They are also more vulnerable to anemia, bone disease and malnutrition.
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Objective To update the estimated prevalence of CKD in the United States.
Design, Setting, and Participants Cross-sectional analysis of the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES 1988-1994 and NHANES 1999-2004), a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults aged 20 years or older in 1988-1994 (n = 15 488) and 1999-2004 (n = 13 233).
Main Outcome Measures Chronic kidney disease prevalence was determined based on persistent albuminuria and decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Persistence of microalbuminuria (>30 mg/g) was estimated from repeat visit data in NHANES 1988-1994. The GFR was estimated using the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study equation reexpressed to standard serum creatinine.
Results The prevalence of both albuminuria and decreased GFR increased from 1988-1994 to 1999-2004. The prevalence of CKD stages 1 to 4 increased from 10.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 9.2%-10.9%) in 1988-1994 to 13.1% (95% CI, 12.0%-14.1%) in 1999-2004 with a prevalence ratio of 1.3 (95% CI, 1.2-1.4). The prevalence estimates of CKD stages in 1988-1994 and 1999-2004, respectively, were 1.7% (95% CI, 1.3%-2.2%) and 1.8% (95% CI, 1.4%-2.3%) for stage 1; 2.7% (95% CI, 2.2%-3.2%) and 3.2% (95% CI, 2.6%-3.9%) for stage 2; 5.4% (95% CI, 4.9%-6.0%) and 7.7% (95% CI, 7.0%-8.4%) for stage 3; and 0.21% (95% CI, 0.15%-0.27%) and 0.35% (0.25%-0.45%) for stage 4. A higher prevalence of diagnosed diabetes and hypertension and higher body mass index explained the entire increase in prevalence of albuminuria but only part of the increase in the prevalence of decreased GFR. Estimation of GFR from serum creatinine has limited precision and a change in mean serum creatinine accounted for some of the increased prevalence of CKD.
Conclusions The prevalence of CKD in the United States in 1999-2004 is higher than it was in 1988-1994. This increase is partly explained by the increasing prevalence of diabetes and hypertension and raises concerns about future increased incidence of kidney failure and other complications of CKD.
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Schematic illustration of a kidney. The kidneys filter wastes from the blood and are involved in the regularization of blood pressure, red blood cell count and bone mineralisation.
New research based on data gathered on approximately 28,000 individuals over a 16-year period indicates that even as more people in the U.S. are acquiring chronic kidney disease, the vast majority of those who are in the early and middle stages of its progression -- when it is most treatable -- have no idea their kidneys are weak or damaged until failure is imminent.
Only 42 percent of study subjects who had Stage 4 kidney disease were aware of it, according to an analysis of data from two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The percentage of people with stage 1 through 4 disease increased from 10.0% in the period 1988-1994 to 13.1% in 1999-2004, mostly due to an increase in diabetes and high blood pressure rates. Stage 5 is kidney failure, when dialysis or organ transplant are the only options.
Screening of persons at risk -- those with diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney problems -- is of utmost importance, said Andrew S. Narva, MD, FACP, director of the NIH's National Kidney Disease Education Program.
Much can be done to prevent kidney failure if the disease is caught early enough. For example, careful attention to monitoring blood glucose levels, keeping blood pressure under control, and certain prescription medications can be beneficial, according to the NKDEP. Unfortunately, the most commonly performed blood test to look at kidney function, the creatinine level, has limited precision and needs to be interpreted carefully.
The 13 percent estimate means that some 26 million Americans are thought to have kidney disease, and since risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes are still increasing, the study raises concerns about future trends of chronic kidney disease and complications. People with kidney disease are at greater risk of hypertension, heart attacks and strokes. They are also more vulnerable to anemia, bone disease and malnutrition.
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Casar collected his first ever stage win in the Tour
Casar came off his bike early on but recovered to join a breakaway four that also included Michael Boogerd, Laurent Lefevre and Axel Merckx.
But the Francaise Des Jeux rider had the legs to outkick his rivals to take his first ever stage win.
Spain's Alberto Contador retained the yellow jersey but saw Cadel Evans cut his lead by three seconds.
Discovery Channel's Contador has a lead of one minute 50 seconds on Australian Evans and 2:49 on his American team-mate Levi Leipheimer.
"I hope I don't lose because of three seconds," said Contador.
"This yellow jersey is very important. It's important that I have it tonight.
"I'm not a time-trial specialist but I'll do all I can not to lose one minute, 50 seconds."
The trio go into Saturday's penultimate but decisive stage - a relatively flat 55.5km time trial from Cognac to Angouleme, with a chance of winning the Tour.
With that in mind they opted to keep themselves fresh, rather than try and chase down any breakaway in the 211km stage 18 from Cahors to Angouleme.
A four-man group pulled away from the peloton after 16km.
606: DEBATE
Casar and Frederik Willems saw their early hopes disrupted by a stray dog.
"I did not see it coming," said Casar, who received some medical help during the race as a result of the fall. "I thought my day was over. It hurt everywhere, my back, my shoulders."
Willems failed to recover and dropped back into the peloton but Casar was able to catch Merckx, Boogerd and Lefevre and they gradually extended their lead to over 17 minutes at one stage.
Dutchman Boogerd was at one stage looking at closing in on an overall top six place, although their gap was cut in the closing stages as Euskaltel looked to protect their two riders in the top 10.
The front four came home after over five hours of riding on a hot day - 8:34 ahead of their nearest challengers as Boogerd moved up to 13th place.
But Boogerd along with Lefevre and Axel Merckx had no answer when Casar made his break with less than 3km to go.
The trio had taken turns to try to lose Casar, knowing he possessed the best finish of the quartet, without any success.
And when Casar decided to make his move it seemed to take them by surprise.
Boogerd made a determined attempt to catch Casar in the final 500m but the Frenchman was too strong.
Tom Boonen saw his hold on the green jersey strengthened when he pipped rival Robert Hunter on the line.
The Quick Step rider is 24 points clear of Hunter.
Geraint Thomas was the first British rider across the line, coming home 9'24 behind the leaders for 100th place.
Charles Wegelius (121st) was given the same time as Thomas, while David Millar finished in 139th position with a time of 11'02.
Stage 18 result
1 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise des Jeux 5hr 13 min
2 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile +1 sec
3 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
4 Michael Boogerd (Neth) Rabobank
5 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick-Step +8:34
6 Robert Hunter (SA) Barloworld
7 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram
8 Sebastien Chavanel (Fra) Francaise des Jeux
9 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) T-Mobile
10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole
Selected others
100 Geraint Thomas (GB) Barloworld +9:24
121 Charles Wegelius (GB) Liquigas +9:24
139 David Millar (GB) Saunier Duval Prodir +11:02
Overall standings
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) 86 hr 4min 16sec
2 Cadel Evans (Aus) +1:50"
3 Levi Leipheimer (US) +2:49
4 Carlos Sastre (Spa) +6:02
5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) +6:29
6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) +10:18
7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) +11:36
8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) +12:47
9 Mauricio Soler (Col) +13:31
10 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) +13:42
Selected others
45 Charles Wegelius (GB) Liquigas +1.41:52
70 David Millar (GB) Saunier Duval Prodir +2.26:37
140 Geraint Thomas (GB) Barloworld +3.39:44
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2007 Tour de Romandie.
Sandy Casar of France has won stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de France in a time of 5h 13' 31". Axel Merckx came in second.
Sandy Casar, Alex Merckx, Laurent Lefevre, and Michael Boogerd took control of the stage with a break-away that gave them a 10-minute lead on the peleton.
Alberto Contador of Spain, who finished with the peleton keeps the yellow jersey. This 211 km long stage, with a few small climbs near the start, was considered by many as the last chance for any surprises.
Cadel Evans of Australia, who is second overall, shaved off 3 seconds of the advantage that Contador holds over him, by finishing in a smaller group that finished just ahead of the peleton.
"I hope I don't lose because of three seconds," said Contador. "This yellow jersey is very important. It's important that I have it tonight. I'm not a time-trial specialist but I'll do all I can not to lose one minute, 50 seconds."
Tomorrow's stage is the second time trial stage, with long straight stretches, some beautiful sections of unbending road, some slight inclines and again favours the soloists. It is 55.5 km long and runs from Cognac to Angoulême. Sunday, will be the grand finale, as the race enters Paris to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.
Meanwhile, former yellow jersey leader, Michael Rasmussen, insists that he did not lie about his whereabouts. "I feel I've won the Tour de France... but victory has been stolen from me." He also said that he will not retire, but continue his career.
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Rasmussen believes he has been badly treated by Rabobank
The Dane was leading the Tour when he was sacked and withdrawn from the race by his Rabobank team on Wednesday.
"I have now had time to collect my thoughts and I can guarantee that I am not done as a rider," the 33-year-old told Danish newspaper Politiken.
"I feel I've won the Tour de France... but victory has been stolen from me."
Dutch team Rabobank justified their actions by saying Rasmussen had lied when he said he had been in Mexico rather than Italy for one of the four dope tests he missed in the past 18 months.
Rasmussen again denied that he had lied, insisting that he had been in Mexico.
"I know very well that I was late with information about my whereabouts," he added.
"For that I have been punished with a fine and warnings. But that it should lead to such drastic (measures) which have been taken, is out of all proportion."
Rasmussen also hit out at the way he was dismissed by Rabobank manager Theo de Rooij.
"I was kicked out of the hotel like an animal," Rasmussen told the Berlingske Tidende newspaper.
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2007 Tour de Romandie.
Sandy Casar of France has won stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de France in a time of 5h 13' 31". Axel Merckx came in second.
Sandy Casar, Alex Merckx, Laurent Lefevre, and Michael Boogerd took control of the stage with a break-away that gave them a 10-minute lead on the peleton.
Alberto Contador of Spain, who finished with the peleton keeps the yellow jersey. This 211 km long stage, with a few small climbs near the start, was considered by many as the last chance for any surprises.
Cadel Evans of Australia, who is second overall, shaved off 3 seconds of the advantage that Contador holds over him, by finishing in a smaller group that finished just ahead of the peleton.
"I hope I don't lose because of three seconds," said Contador. "This yellow jersey is very important. It's important that I have it tonight. I'm not a time-trial specialist but I'll do all I can not to lose one minute, 50 seconds."
Tomorrow's stage is the second time trial stage, with long straight stretches, some beautiful sections of unbending road, some slight inclines and again favours the soloists. It is 55.5 km long and runs from Cognac to Angoulême. Sunday, will be the grand finale, as the race enters Paris to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.
Meanwhile, former yellow jersey leader, Michael Rasmussen, insists that he did not lie about his whereabouts. "I feel I've won the Tour de France... but victory has been stolen from me." He also said that he will not retire, but continue his career.
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606: DEBATE
Stage 17: Pau to Castelsarrasin (188.5km)
LATEST ACTION AS IT HAPPENS (ALL TIMES BST)
By Andy Nicolson
1614:Cat and mouse... Fothen goes... but Bennati's with him and takes the win easily in the end.
1612: The pace is high now at the 1km mark and Fothen shoots off the front. They're all back together, knowing that they've got to find a way to drop Bennati, who looks very cool.
1611: The four are weaving around the road, sizing each other up. as they approach the last 2km.
1610: Elmiger, Voigt, Bennati and Fothen are going to fight out the win amongst themselves. Bennati is the dangerman, sprint-wise and so Voigt attempts, unsuccessfully, to catapult himself off.
1600: Millar's about 30 seconds off the pace of the Voigt foursome. Meanwhile, back in the peloton, Discovery are still controlling the pace so it's looking increasingly like this year's Tour will be decided on Saturday in the final time trial.
1555: Voigt tries again and is followed by Bonnati, Fothen and Elmiger. Millar and Tosatto look like they've gone out the back, unable to match the German's pace.
Ho hum. Looks like it's not going to be Millar time after all.
1550: The break is on the climb and Millar has given it a little dig, then Voigt has a go. Next Fothen tries his hand, but nobody seems able to break free.
1540: The break is inside 25km. If anything is going to happen, attack-wise, it will probably start in the next 10km.
Voigt has punctured and is having to time-trial his way back to the break - this could suit Millar if the German burns up energy.
1530: The break is inside 35km - Millar and Voigt are going to have to do something soon if the are to beat the sprinters in this group. Perhaps they've got the fourth-category climb at 169.5km in mind?
1525: Lowlandbrit and enjoy_the_ride on 606 have figured out who will wear the youth classification's white jersey tomorrow, assuming Contador takes yellow today.
Let's just say the rider concerned initially caught the eye with his name rather than his form...
1520: A colleague has done some digging on Millar's 'condition' and has found a thread on the bicycling.com forums that suggests it's "chronic solar (and possibly colinergic) urticaria". Or hives, to you and I.
People with this condition experience itching, redness and hives on areas of skin exposed to sunlight, apparently.
Cheers, Fletch.
1515: "I'd like Millar to win, but I can't see him doing it if this group gets to the line as it is."
Lowlandbrit on 606
1510: Cadel Evans is looking a grumpy chops; he's just thrown some of the contents of his tin of cola at a motorcycle photographer.
1505: The Discovery team are controlling the peloton, protecting Alberto Contador, but the gap keeps growing towards eight minutes as the break reaches 50km to go.
1500: Millar's plastered with sun-block, presumably to protect his earlier skin rash from the sun, but it looks like it's having the unwanted side effect of heating him up.
1450: DeGuzman on 606 has nailed his colours to the mast - almost: "The winner will be one of the escapees. The issue now is how to get rid of Bennatti."
1445: As the gap grows to 5'37", the riders in the break will be starting to deliberate on their tactics - certainly people like Millar won't cut it in a sprint hence will have to attack if they're to seek the stage win.
1425: The gap has stretched to over three minutes - hardly enough for the break to stay away with 80km to go, but there doesn't appear to be any sign of the peloton wanting to pull them back.
The main field are passing a typically French view of sunflower fields and some of the riders are taking the opportunity to water the verges.
1400: Denis Menchov, looking seriously fed up, has got off his bike and abandoned. Having given their all for Michael Rasmussen, it's understandable that the remaining Rabobank riders feel that there's little point continuing.
Meanwhile, the Caisse d'Epargne team are doing all the work at the front of the peloton but don't seem to be eating into the gap, which is now up to 2'30". Maybe when they've had their snap they'll push the pace.
1345: The break is now up to 1'50" at the Cote de Theux where the points were won by:
1. David Millar 3 points
2. Daniele Righi 2 points
3. Markus Fothen 1 point
1330: And another, the Cote de Ste-Dode-aux-Croix... Points went to:
1. David Millar 3 points
2. Daniel Righi 2 points
3. Daniele Bennati 1 point
1325: Another climb - the Cote de Mielan - crested, and the points were won by:
1. Markus Fothen 3 points
2. Matteo Tosatto 2 points
3. Martin Elmiger 1 point
The escapees have inched their lead up to 1'40".
1315: The break are over the second climb but the gap is now down to 1'30". The points for the climb were won by:
1. Markus Fothen 3 points
2. Matteo Tosatto 2 points
3. Martin Elmiger 1 point
1300: The points for the first sprint, after 44.5km, mark were won by:
1. Manuel Quinziato 6 points/6"
2. David Millar 4 points/4"
3. Martin Elmiger 2 points/2"
1255: What a surprise! Three French teams are all at the head of the peloton - Francaise des Jeux, Credit Agricole and Bouygues Telecom.
1250: I have a feeling that Millar is going to try to get the win today. I've said as much before and been proved wrong, but could this be the day I get it right?
1240: The break is over the first climb, the Cote de Balieix.
The points were won by:
1. Matteo Tosatto 4 points
2. Jens Voigt 3 points
3. Markus Fothen 2 points
4. Daniel Righi 1 point
1235: The break is now 1'20" ahead of the peloton, which is being lead by Cadel Evans' Predictor-Lotto team, perhaps looking for bonus seconds at the first sprint.
1215: A group of riders have broken away and established a 40-second gap. They are Elmiger, Bennati, Righi, Fothen, Quinziato, Tosatto and Millar.
1206: They're off and riding at a good lick. Three riders tried an early break but were quickly pulled back.
1150: The riders roll out into the neutral zone in Pau on a hot day with light winds. All of those interviewed at the start were of one voice, summarised by former race leader Fabian Cancellara: "It's like a war we have to fight against these people."
Let's hope that the rest of today is all about racing.
1130: Before the start today, Tour director Christian Prudhomme was defiant in the wake of the latest doping story to hit the race: "Rasmussen's exit is the best thing that can happen to the Tour.
"The race will start without him and the yellow jersey will be given out after the stage."
He continued: "We believe the general classification is much better now than it was. The majority of the riders are not cheating. And things are changing.
"Ten years ago [during the 1998 Festina scandal] the riders sat down to protest against drugs tests. Now, they're protesting against the cheats."
After the withdrawal of former Tour leader Michael Rasmussen, the race resumes without a yellow jersey.
The Dane, 33, has been at the centre of controversy since it was revealed he missed out-of-competition drugs tests.
And his team, Rabobank, who learned he lied to them about his whereabouts in June, will continue the race without him.
Rasmussen looked odds-on to win the Tour after taking Wednesday's stage and increasing his lead over second-placed rider Alberto Contador.
Now, Contador, Cadel Evans and Levi Leipheimer will begin a three-way battle for the overall lead on the relatively flat, 188.5km stage from Pau to Castelsarrasin.
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2007 Tour de Romandie.
Sandy Casar of France has won stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de France in a time of 5h 13' 31". Axel Merckx came in second.
Sandy Casar, Alex Merckx, Laurent Lefevre, and Michael Boogerd took control of the stage with a break-away that gave them a 10-minute lead on the peleton.
Alberto Contador of Spain, who finished with the peleton keeps the yellow jersey. This 211 km long stage, with a few small climbs near the start, was considered by many as the last chance for any surprises.
Cadel Evans of Australia, who is second overall, shaved off 3 seconds of the advantage that Contador holds over him, by finishing in a smaller group that finished just ahead of the peleton.
"I hope I don't lose because of three seconds," said Contador. "This yellow jersey is very important. It's important that I have it tonight. I'm not a time-trial specialist but I'll do all I can not to lose one minute, 50 seconds."
Tomorrow's stage is the second time trial stage, with long straight stretches, some beautiful sections of unbending road, some slight inclines and again favours the soloists. It is 55.5 km long and runs from Cognac to Angoulême. Sunday, will be the grand finale, as the race enters Paris to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.
Meanwhile, former yellow jersey leader, Michael Rasmussen, insists that he did not lie about his whereabouts. "I feel I've won the Tour de France... but victory has been stolen from me." He also said that he will not retire, but continue his career.
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López Obrador también informó que suspenderá las protestas en contra del gobierno. El alcalde de Ciudad de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, declaró que se retirará de su cargo el 31 de julio para concentrarse en su campaña para las elecciones presidenciales del próximo año. López Obrador también informó que suspenderá las protestas en contra del gobierno, luego de que la Procuraduría General descartó cualquier acción penal en su contra por el presunto desacato de una orden judicial. El viernes pasado, el presidente mexicano, Vicente Fox, se reunió con el alcalde de la capital para solucionar la crisis política que se había desatado por el desafuero al que fue sometido el segundo. Lea sobre la reunión entre el presidente y el alcalde López Obrador, que encabeza las encuestas electorales, podría ser el candidato del izquierdista Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). "He decidido participar en las elecciones primarias. Para representar a mi partido, los votantes deberán escogerme como candidato", indicó el alcalde. Beneplácito oficial Todo lo que sea en el ámbito de la disputa ordenada y en el marco de la ley es bienvenida y son bienvenidos todos los candidatos
Rubén Aguilar, vocero de la Presidencia de México López Obrador dijo estar seguro de que no tendrá otros problemas legales con su candidatura, tomando en cuenta la cantidad de seguidores que salieron a apoyarlo en su última batalla legal. "No deberían jugar con el pueblo, porque el pueblo es fuerte", dijo el alcalde a los medios de comunicación, para agregar: "No hay separación entre el pueblo y el gobierno". El gobierno de Fox recibió con beneplácito el anuncio por parte de López Obrador de que dejará la alcaldía el 31 de julio. El vocero de la Presidencia, Rubén Aguilar, manifestó que "es una decisión que corresponde a él y está en los tiempos de la lógica de su propio partido, todo lo que sea en el ámbito de la disputa ordenada y en el marco de la ley es bienvenida y son bienvenidos todos los candidatos".
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Aunque Andrés Manuel López Obrador no ha renunciado a la Jefatura de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, dejará el cargo en julio próximo para ser candidato a la presidencia de su país.
A pesar de todos los intentos del gobierno de Vicente Fox por desacreditarlo, acusarlo de desacato a un juez en un asunto nimio y ser desaforado (17 de abril) por la Cámara de Diputados, López Obrador fue declarado inocente (4 de mayo) por un juez.
López Obrador tiene el apoyo de los participantes del Foro de São Paulo, entre cuyos miembros se encuentran el Partido de los Trabajadores de Brasil, el Partido Comunista de Cuba, Venezuela y las FARC-EP. ( Vermelho.org.br, Partido dos Trabalhadores, Simpatizantes FMLN)
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Weil ihre Mutter während eines Telefongesprächs plötzlich nicht mehr antwortete, informierte eine Frau am Samstag die Polizei in Kaiserslautern. Diese wiederum alarmierte ihre Rastätter Kollegen, welche die 82-Jährige schlafend vorfanden und weckten. Worüber sich die beiden unterhielten, ist nicht bekannt.
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Al menos 17 venezolanos han muerto en los últimos días al intentar cruzar la región conocida como Páramo de Berlín, un refugio natural en la cordillera de los Andes, en Colombia.
El lugar cuenta con decenas de lagunas y registra temperaturas muy bajas que pueden alcanzar los 15 grados negativos. El martes (4), por ejemplo, las temperaturas mínimas están alrededor de 7 °C en la pequeña ciudad de Tona. El Páramo de Berlín es punto más alto de la carretera que une las ciudades de Pamplona y Bucaramanga y está situado a más de 3 mil metros de altitud.
Anny Uribe, directora del albergue Espíritu Santo, en la ciudad de Tunja (ya en la etapa final del recorrido), cuenta que muchos venezolanos han emprendido el viaje a pie y que se ha contabilizado al menos 17 muertos por hipotermia en los últimos días. Entre las víctimas se encuentran nueve niños.
"Nos hemos enterado de muchas historias, incluso una madre que estaba alimentando a su bebé. Ella y la niña murieron de paro respiratorio. Además, nueve niños y ocho adultos murieron. Es una historia muy fuerte y lo más triste es que quizás las familias de los muertos ni siquiera lo saben”, es el relato de Anny.
Después de cruzar la frontera en la ciudad de Cúcuta (Colombia), los venezolanos que se dirigen a la ciudad de Bucaramanga se enfrentan a unos 190 kilómetros a pie, un recorrido en el que tardan unas 50 horas y cinco días caminando.
Al inicio del recorrido se enfrentan a un calor extremo, y luego a un frío intenso en la cordillera de los Andes.
“Un grupo de 14 personas llegó aquí y nos dijeron que eran 17. Tres personas murieron y ellos tuvieron que enterrar sus cuerpos a la orilla de la carretera. Estas personas llegan con llagas en los pies, una descompensación total de sus cuerpos, deshidratadas, desnutridas, con hipotermia y baja presión arterial”, dijo.
Alrededor de un millón de migrantes venezolanos han ingresado a Colombia desde el inicio de la crisis económica y política en Venezuela. Unas 800.000 ya residen en el país.
Más de 2,3 millones de venezolanos, de una población estimada de 32 millones, han dejado su país desde 2014, según datos de las Naciones Unidas. Sin embargo, también hay muchas personas que abandonaron el país sin que lo supieran las autoridades.
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El candidato a las elecciones presidenciales de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, sufrió un atentado en la tarde de este jueves (6) durante un mitin en la ciudad de Juiz de Fora, estado de Minas Gerais (sureste).
Las autoridades confirmaron que el candidato fue trasladado a un hospital local y que Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, el autor del apuñalamiento, fue detenido.
El hijo del candidato, Flávio Bolsonaro, informó inicialmente en su cuenta de Twitter que su padre no corre riesgo de muerte. “Jair Bolsonaro sufrió una cuchillada en la región del abdomen. Gracias a Dios, ha sido una herida superficial y se encuentra bien”.
Sin embargo, más tarde, también a través de la misma red social, Flávio declaró que el atentado "fue más grave de lo que esperábamos". Detalló el alcance del daño y qué órganos fueron afectados. "La perforación alcanzó parte del , los y el . Perdió mucha sangre, llegó al hospital con una presión de 10/3", dijo. Informó asimismo que el estado de salud de su padre "parece estable".
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Macquarie University Australian orchids are engaged in an arms race, using sensory overload to seduce male insects. Macquarie University PhD student Anne Gaskett has discovered just how they do it. Her work is important to the conservation of orchids and the control of economically important agricultural pests. Gaskett has been analysing the smells, colours and shapes of flowers from an insect's perspective. She has found that orchids mimic female insects so well that male insects cannot resist mating with them, accidentally collecting the pollen. "I have accumulated the first compelling evidence of an ongoing and escalating arms race between orchids and their unwitting insect pollinators," Gaskett, says, "Over generations the insects learn to avoid having sex with orchids, and this means only the most persuasive orchids reproduce, which drives the acceleration of orchid subterfuge." The Australian bush is rife with such sexual deception, Gaskett says, as native orchids lure pollinators with false promises of romance. Gaskett has been studying the hardworking Orchid Dupe wasp (Lissopimpla excelsa), which is fooled into copulating with not just one, but five native Tongue Orchid species (Cryptostylis) in urban and regional Australia. All the Tongue Orchid species mimic the female Orchid Dupe wasp. But, to the human eye, they look quite different. By using modern technology to study the physics of the colours of the orchids and the female insects, Gaskett has revealed that they are identical when viewed by male insects. The flowers are also shaped to mimic female insect bodies. Gaskett is now looking at the impact of the chemical components of orchid perfumes directly on wasp antennae, to understand what makes these fragrances irresistible. Studying these intimate interactions addresses big questions about nature and evolution and highlights the millions of other unknown interactions crucial for a sustainable and healthy environment. "These insects might be fools for love, but their role as orchid pollinators makes them indispensable." Editor's Note: Original news release can be found here .
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Anne Gaskett, a PhD student from Macquarie University in Sydney, has been conducting new research into the nature of the relationship between five species of native Australian tongue orchids and the orchid dupe wasp (''Lissopimpla excelsa'').
The research builds on an original discovery in the 1920s that the orchids convince male wasps that the flowers are actually females of the same species. The wasps then attempt to mate with the flowers, before moving on, often to another orchid, thus pollinating them. The discovery received worldwide attention at the time.
"I wanted to know what it was about the five orchids that could persuade the male that they were all a female wasp," she says, adding that the flowers all look very different to the human eye, and that usually only one species of insect pollinates one species of plant.
"I have accumulated the first compelling evidence of an ongoing and escalating arms race between orchids and their unwitting insect pollinators," Gaskett, says, "Over generations the insects learn to avoid having sex with orchids, and this means only the most persuasive orchids reproduce, which drives the acceleration of orchid subterfuge."
Gaskett has discovered that the wasp, however, quickly learns to avoid the orchid, meaning that "...only the most persuasive orchids will continue to reproduce," she says. She has also discovered that the flowers have various structures that feel like parts of a female wasp to a male, including mimic 'love handles', which the male would normally hold on to during mating. Gaskett says of this particular discovery that the flowers have "curves in all the right places".
Gasket has also used a spectrometer to analyse the colours of four of the orchids and a female wasp, and found that, although they look very different to humans, they actually match almost exactly.
Gasket's research is important to the conservation of the orchids, and to developing sensitive control methods for use against agricultural pests. She says of the wasps "these insects might be fools for love, but their role as orchid pollinators makes them indispensable."
Gasket has currently turned her attentions to the role of scent in the process, and is testing the effect of the perfumes of the orchids on the antennae of the male wasps.
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Joy of sex turns male wasps colourblind ABC Science Online
Anne Gaskett, a PhD student from
Her study uses advanced colour technology for the first time to understand how five species of native tongue orchids trick a male wasp into believing he has found a sexual partner.
She says the findings will help to develop environmentally sensitive pest controls and conserve orchid species.
Gaskett looked at the orchid dupe wasp (Lissopimpla excelsa). And she says as far as the male is concerned, tongue orchids have "curves in all the right places".
But the wasp is fooled for only so long.
Her research found that even after just a few exposures to the orchid the wasp avoids trying to have sex with it.
Gaskett, from the
"This means only the most persuasive orchids will continue to reproduce," she says.
Persuasive
Orchids are the only plant whose flowers trick insects using such sexual deception. The aim is to convince the insect to 'mate' with them. The insect accidentally collects pollen on its body, which is then transported to another flower.
Gaskett says the orchid dupe wasp is attracted to and pollinates five species of tongue orchid (in the genus Cryptostylis).
This is unusual as normally one insect pollinates one species of orchid.
She says this means the five orchid species, which look completely different to the human eye, must look and feel the same to the male wasp.
"I wanted to know what it was about the five orchids that could persuade the male that they were all a female [wasp]," she says.
Gaskett used a spectrometer to analyse the colours of four of the five species and a female wasp.
Taking into account factors including the background colour, ambient light and colour range of the male wasp's receptors, she found the orchid replicates almost exactly the colours of the female orchid dupe wasp.
She has also found 'hidden shapes' that feel like a female wasp to the male, including 'love handles' the male wasp grip onto while mating.
Deceptive seduction
Cryptostylis orchids were the first genus of Australian orchids found to show this type of deception.
The finding, in the 1920s by schoolteacher-turned-naturalist Edith Coleman, was published in the Victorian Naturalist and received worldwide attention.
Gaskett says the sexual warfare between the wasp and orchid occurs in some of Australia's most public places as the tongue orchid is common in urban and regional Australia and New Zealand.
"People walking past don't realise there is a hotbed of sexual intrigue going on right beside them in the park," Gaskett says.
She is now studying the perfume of the orchids and testing them on wasp antennae to look at the role of smell in the seduction process. Australia's plant world is a hotbed of sexual intrigue with a seductive native orchid trying to outwit a randy male wasp, new research shows.Anne Gaskett, a PhD student from Macquarie University in Sydney, has uncovered what she says is the first evidence of an escalating evolutionary arms race between orchids and their insect pollinators.Her study uses advanced colour technology for the first time to understand how five species of native tongue orchids trick a male wasp into believing he has found a sexual partner.She says the findings will help to develop environmentally sensitive pest controls and conserve orchid species.Gaskett looked at the orchid dupe wasp). And she says as far as the male is concerned, tongue orchids have "curves in all the right places".But the wasp is fooled for only so long.Her research found that even after just a few exposures to the orchid the wasp avoids trying to have sex with it.Gaskett, from the Department of Biological Sciences , says the orchid must then enhance its mimicry of the female wasp to continue to attract the male wasp and pollinate."This means only the most persuasive orchids will continue to reproduce," she says.Orchids are the only plant whose flowers trick insects using such sexual deception. The aim is to convince the insect to 'mate' with them. The insect accidentally collects pollen on its body, which is then transported to another flower.Gaskett says the orchid dupe wasp is attracted to and pollinates five species of tongue orchid (in the genus Cryptostylis).This is unusual as normally one insect pollinates one species of orchid.She says this means the five orchid species, which look completely different to the human eye, must look and feel the same to the male wasp."I wanted to know what it was about the five orchids that could persuade the male that they were all a female [wasp]," she says.Gaskett used a spectrometer to analyse the colours of four of the five species and a female wasp.Taking into account factors including the background colour, ambient light and colour range of the male wasp's receptors, she found the orchid replicates almost exactly the colours of the female orchid dupe wasp.She has also found 'hidden shapes' that feel like a female wasp to the male, including 'love handles' the male wasp grip onto while mating.Cryptostylis orchids were the first genus of Australian orchids found to show this type of deception.The finding, in the 1920s by schoolteacher-turned-naturalist Edith Coleman, was published in theand received worldwide attention.Gaskett says the sexual warfare between the wasp and orchid occurs in some of Australia's most public places as the tongue orchid is common in urban and regional Australia and New Zealand."People walking past don't realise there is a hotbed of sexual intrigue going on right beside them in the park," Gaskett says.She is now studying the perfume of the orchids and testing them on wasp antennae to look at the role of smell in the seduction process.
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Anne Gaskett, a PhD student from Macquarie University in Sydney, has been conducting new research into the nature of the relationship between five species of native Australian tongue orchids and the orchid dupe wasp (''Lissopimpla excelsa'').
The research builds on an original discovery in the 1920s that the orchids convince male wasps that the flowers are actually females of the same species. The wasps then attempt to mate with the flowers, before moving on, often to another orchid, thus pollinating them. The discovery received worldwide attention at the time.
"I wanted to know what it was about the five orchids that could persuade the male that they were all a female wasp," she says, adding that the flowers all look very different to the human eye, and that usually only one species of insect pollinates one species of plant.
"I have accumulated the first compelling evidence of an ongoing and escalating arms race between orchids and their unwitting insect pollinators," Gaskett, says, "Over generations the insects learn to avoid having sex with orchids, and this means only the most persuasive orchids reproduce, which drives the acceleration of orchid subterfuge."
Gaskett has discovered that the wasp, however, quickly learns to avoid the orchid, meaning that "...only the most persuasive orchids will continue to reproduce," she says. She has also discovered that the flowers have various structures that feel like parts of a female wasp to a male, including mimic 'love handles', which the male would normally hold on to during mating. Gaskett says of this particular discovery that the flowers have "curves in all the right places".
Gasket has also used a spectrometer to analyse the colours of four of the orchids and a female wasp, and found that, although they look very different to humans, they actually match almost exactly.
Gasket's research is important to the conservation of the orchids, and to developing sensitive control methods for use against agricultural pests. She says of the wasps "these insects might be fools for love, but their role as orchid pollinators makes them indispensable."
Gasket has currently turned her attentions to the role of scent in the process, and is testing the effect of the perfumes of the orchids on the antennae of the male wasps.
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Richard Rojas, 26 ans, a été arrêté et a subi différents tests de dépistage de drogues et d'alcool.
En soirée jeudi, une source policière a confié à CNN que Rojas avait testé positif au PCP, une drogue hallucinogène très puissante.
L'accident est survenu en début d'après-midi jeudi, par une chaude journée de printemps qui a attiré une foule nombreuse dans le lieu touristique. Des vidéos publiées en ligne montrent de la vapeur ou de la fumée qui sort de la voiture peu après que celle-ci s'est immobilisée.
La voiture s'est arrêtée lorsqu'elle a embouti une barricade. Le conducteur est alors sorti de l'automobile, a raconté Asa Lowe, un témoin.
Le suspect a déjà été arrêté au moins deux fois, en 2008 et en 2015, pour conduite avec les facultés affaiblies, a ajouté la police.
Dans un courriel envoyé jeudi soir, un porte-parole de la police de New York a confirmé que le suspect fera face à une accusation de meurtre au deuxième degré, à 20 chefs d'accusation de tentative de meurtre et à cinq accusations d'homicide à l'aide d'un véhicule.
Il demeure en détention, et on ignore pour l'instant s'il a retenu les services d'un avocat. Richard Rojas doit comparaître en cour vendredi.
L'accident a coûté la vie à une femme de 18 ans, dont la soeur de 13 ans fait partie des blessés, a indiqué la police.
La police ne croit pas à un attentat terroriste, mais l'escouade antibombe a quand même été mobilisée pour examiner la voiture. Certains attraits touristiques de la ville bénéficient par ailleurs d'une présence policière accrue, par mesure de précaution.
Selon la police, Richard Rojas a fait un demi-tour rapide dans la 42e Rue, puis a roulé sur le trottoir sur trois coins de rue, heurtant des piétons avant d'emboutir un poteau. Il s'est montré combatif avec les policiers venus l'arrêter.
La Maison-Blanche a confirmé que le président Donald Trump avait été mis au courant de la situation et qu'il continuerait de suivre ses développements.
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Au moins une personne est morte et vingt-deux blessées jeudi lorsqu'une voiture est sortie de la route pour foncer sur une foule sur à . Selon la police locale, il s'agirait d'un conducteur ivre et non d'un acte terroriste.
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¿Se limpió Bush en la camisa de Clinton tras dar la mano a un haitiano?
Washington, 24 mar (EFE).- Un vídeo de la última visita a Haití de los dos últimos ex presidentes de Estados Unidos ha dado la vuelta al mundo ante el aparente gesto de George W. Bush de limpiarse en la camisa de Bill Clinton tras darle la mano a un damnificado por el terremoto.
El vídeo, disponible en Youtube y en las páginas de web de multitud de medios internacionales, arroja la duda sobre si Bush se está limpiando o si simplemente ofrece un gesto de aprecio a Clinton al pasarle la mano por el hombro.
La cadena pública estadounidense de radio NPR afirma que el gesto de Bush es "sutil", aunque reconoce que sería "comprensible" que se hubiera desecho de la suciedad en su mano si se tiene en cuenta que estaba visitando un campamento de damnificados, donde "permanecer limpio no es fácil".
Menos condescendiente se muestra la web thinkprogress.org, que recuerda la conocida aversión a los gérmenes de George W. Bush y su tendencia a limpiarse en la ropa de los demás.
En la misma página donde muestra las imágenes de Haití, enseña un vídeo antiguo en el que se ve al anterior presidente de EE.UU. utilizar el saco de una mujer para aclarar el cristal de sus gafas.
También recuerda la cita de uno de los libros de Barack Obama, en la que el actual presidente rememora cómo, al visitar la Casa Blanca como senador de Illinois y dar la mano a Bush, éste pidió a un ayudante una buena dosis de desinfectante de manos.
The New York Magazine recuerda la misma cita del libro "La Audacia de la Esperanza" y se pregunta si Bush "tiene algún tipo de problemas en dar la mano específicamente a gente negra".
Esta publicación descarta esta posibilidad, dada la gran cantidad de afroamericanos que Bush habrá tenido que saludar durante su presidencia y atribuye el gesto más bien al hecho de que el haitiano, no identificado, tenía probablemente las manos "sucias y pegajosas".
© EFE 2010. Está expresamente prohibida la redistribución y la redifusión de todo o parte de los contenidos de los servicios de Efe, sin previo y expreso consentimiento de la Agencia EFE S.A.
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La visita de los ex-presidentes de Estados Unidos George W. Bush y Bill Clinton a Haití ha desatado una polémica de índole discriminatoria, luego de que en un video se mostró al ex-presidente Bush limpiar su mano de manera disimulada sobre una manga de la camisa de Clinton, luego de saludar a un damnificado del terremoto de enero pasado.
El video, que se encuentra en YouTube y que se ha diseminado a otros sitios web, ha planteado dudas sobre si la acción de Bush surgió por motivos raciales o porque el damnificado al que saludó estaba muy sucio. Según algunas fuentes, entre ellas un libro del actual presidente Barack Obama, declaran que Bush posee una aversión a los gérmenes y que constantemente pedía desinfectante luego de saludar con las manos.
Hasta el momento ni el ex presidente ni algún vocero ha respondido por el suceso.
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zep86100 , le 20/09/2011 à 14h55 Zep86100 Il y a 600000 emplois non pourvu en France,que ces braves qui ont un courrage à toutes épreuves pour manifester et bien qu'ils fassent de même pour travailler.
yohann23 , le 20/09/2011 à 12h26 C'est drôle cette justice à deux vitesses, car lorsqu'il s'agissait de croyant islamique priant dans une rue en FRANCE et monopolisant cette meme rue, il n'y a jamais eu d'intervention de la police pour en mettre quelques uns en garde à vue et libérer rapidement les lieux comme cela est le cas ici !
tof.com , le 20/09/2011 à 08h55 à laguigne81, oui la vie est difficile....vous venez de le découvrir ?
vv4vv , le 20/09/2011 à 08h51 Si toutes les personnes qui ne sont pas d'accord avec l'argent roi qui a instauré ce chaos est selon vous extrémiste de gauche, et bien croyez moi nous sommes très nombreux dans le pays et ailleurs dans le monde !
laguigne81 , le 20/09/2011 à 08h39 Votre commentaire... J'ai 30 ans et je suis heureuse de ne pas en avoir 10 de moins ! chomage logement... c plus vivre c de la survie et à 20 ans normalement on envie de croquer la vie à pleine dents, bourré d'ambition... aujourd'hui ils sont vite rattrapé par la dure réalité de notre société et tant que des gens ne pourront pas manger et dormir normalement au 21ème siecle (tout de meme) et bien desolé ms vous en verrez de plus en plus des indignés ! alors sur bonne journée vous devez ne manquez de rien ou mieux avoir une magnifique retraite, dont on aura à peine 60 % ! ms soyez tranquille avec notre suêr président les privilégiés comme vous peuvent dormir sur leurs deux oreilles, le ventre rempli de bons mets !!!
j.bon , le 20/09/2011 à 08h31 J'aime bien les réaction de certains ici ! Il y a une servilité qui à défaut de se demander ce qu'ils aurait fait en 40 laisse penser que si tout le monde avait réfléchi de cette façon nous serions encore une monarchie de droit divin ! Vous avez raison Messieurs, ceux qui détiennent le pouvoir ont toujours raison leurs décisions sont toujours justes et dictées par le bien commun .... sauf quant c'est vos intérêts qu'elles desservent !
artibel , le 20/09/2011 à 08h17 Indignés ou extrémistes de gauche ? La question est posée, merci de me publier
angedelaroute68 , le 20/09/2011 à 08h14 Oui et je pense que nous allons avoir de tres belle supprises
1337sysop1337 , le 20/09/2011 à 07h49 Et elle sert à quoi l'arme du pouvoir ? A contrôler du bétail ? A prendre la température par-ci, par-là, ou à couvrir une vilaine banqueroute par exemple ?
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Les forces de police de Paris ont chargé les manifestants de la « marche pour une démocratie réelle maintenant ! » . Cette charge a été particulièrement rude puisque les ont été gazés et chargés. On compte pour l’instant trois blessés.
À la suite du mouvement des Indignés en , plusieurs marches ont été lancées fin juillet, convergeant vers (arrivée prévue le 8 octobre). Environ 80 marcheurs espagnols, français, grecs, et d’autres nationalités, partis de Madrid, Barcelone et Toulouse, étaient présents à Paris depuis samedi. Comme dans toutes les villes traversées depuis deux mois, ils comptaient camper et tenir des assemblées populaires.
Mais cela n’était pas du goût de la Préfecture de police. Dimanche, la manifestation, pourtant autorisée, était expulsée de la Bastille. Et ce soir, lundi, les marcheurs qui marchaient calmement ont été attaqués par la police, à hauteur du 139, boulevard Saint-Germain. Les CRS ont utilisé des gaz lacrymogènes, chargé et matraqué les manifestants. Ceux-ci ont montré depuis samedi qu’ils agissent toujours pacifiquement. Les sapeurs-pompiers ont évacué au moins trois blessés, dont une jeune femme inconsciente, vers l’hôpital Cochin. Cent sept marcheurs sont arrêtés et répartis entre les commissariats des XVIII, XI, VI et V arrondissements.
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La policía francesa ha reprimido en París esta tarde con dureza a los indignados españoles que se dirigían en diferentes marchas en dirección a Bruselas.
Más de un centenar de personas se encontraban concentradas cerca de las 20:00 horas en el Boulevard de Sant Germain, en la capital gala, cuando un fuerte dispositivo policial comenzó a rodearlos. "Los primeros agentes que se bajaron de los furgones llevaban unos tubos de gases lacrimógenos, con los que nos rociaron hasta en dos ocasiones", cuenta Eric, estudiante de periodismo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Después, tras la negativa de los indignados de acompañarles para ser identificados, llegaron efectivos antidisturbios que, uno a uno, comenzaron a detenerlos para llevárselos a comisaría. Los manifestantes decidieron realizar entonces una resistencia pasiva y se sentaron en el suelo con los brazos entrelazados. "Nos tiraron gas pimienta en los ojos mientras agarraban a la gente para que no pudiéramos ayudarnos", asegura Eric.
"Nos acorraló la policía, nos tiraron gases y empezamos a toser, lagrimar, vomitar, pero el grupo decidió permanecer unido y nos sentamos agarrados de los brazos", explica Chema, que llegó a París en el grupo de Barcelona.
"No querían indignados en París, en esa Francia que dicen que es libre, fraterna e igualitaria"
Los detenidos —casi todos los concentrados— han sido repartido hasta en cuatro comisarías distintas. Aunque la mayoría de los indignados ya se encuentra en libertad, al menos cinco de ellos han tenido que quedarse allí por no llevar la documentación encima. "No sabemos qué va a ser de ellos, desde la comisaría no nos responden", afirma Eric.
En cuanto al número de heridos, aún no han podido detallar la cifra exacta, pero los indignados aseguran que al menos tres personas han sufrido diferentes lesiones. "Una chica, Sara, se ha desmayado después de que lanzaran los gases; a otro, Chus, le han dislocado el hombro y a otro chico le han roto la mano", cuenta.
Las tres marchas que partieron desde Madrid, Barcelona y Toulouse se habían encontrado en la capital gala el pasado día 17 de septiembre. Tras pasar un par de días en casas y otros lugares, separados, decidieron buscar un sitio en el que reunirse y montar una acampada, antes de volver a poner el pie en la carretera.
Después de realizar esta mañana una asamblea en el barrio de Bercy, los indignados consensuaron movilizarse, realizar una marcha por París y buscar un lugar para asentarse y realizar acciones informativas y performances, pero la actuación policial ha dado, por el momento, al traste con esos planes. Chema, que asegura que caminaron en todo momento "respetando a peatones y tráfico", conluye: "No querían indignados en París, en esa Francia que dicen que es libre, fraterna e igualitaria".
La policía dijo esta noche que las personas retenidas participaban en una "manifestación no autorizada"
Una portavoz de la prefectura de policía dijo esta noche a Efe que las personas retenidas participaban en una "manifestación no autorizada" y que habían entorpecido la circulación en la zona, por lo que fueron llevadas a varias comisarías.
La fuente aseguró que no se habían producido heridos y que, una vez identificadas las personas retenidas serían puestas en libertad.
Un portavoz del movimiento -que durante este fin de semana protagonizó manifestaciones y asambleas en varias zonas de la capital francesa, especialmente en la zona de Bastilla- aseguró por su parte a Efe que los "detenidos" eran unos ochenta y que se habían producido "dos heridos graves" en los altercados
Posteriormente el portavoz comunicó vía Twitter que varios de los "retenidos en un furgón" habían sido puestos en libertad.
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Les forces de police de Paris ont chargé les manifestants de la « marche pour une démocratie réelle maintenant ! » . Cette charge a été particulièrement rude puisque les ont été gazés et chargés. On compte pour l’instant trois blessés.
À la suite du mouvement des Indignés en , plusieurs marches ont été lancées fin juillet, convergeant vers (arrivée prévue le 8 octobre). Environ 80 marcheurs espagnols, français, grecs, et d’autres nationalités, partis de Madrid, Barcelone et Toulouse, étaient présents à Paris depuis samedi. Comme dans toutes les villes traversées depuis deux mois, ils comptaient camper et tenir des assemblées populaires.
Mais cela n’était pas du goût de la Préfecture de police. Dimanche, la manifestation, pourtant autorisée, était expulsée de la Bastille. Et ce soir, lundi, les marcheurs qui marchaient calmement ont été attaqués par la police, à hauteur du 139, boulevard Saint-Germain. Les CRS ont utilisé des gaz lacrymogènes, chargé et matraqué les manifestants. Ceux-ci ont montré depuis samedi qu’ils agissent toujours pacifiquement. Les sapeurs-pompiers ont évacué au moins trois blessés, dont une jeune femme inconsciente, vers l’hôpital Cochin. Cent sept marcheurs sont arrêtés et répartis entre les commissariats des XVIII, XI, VI et V arrondissements.
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MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - The families of the 10 people that died in a fire on a cargo ship at a military dockyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will receive over $43,000 each in compensation, a navy spokesman said on Sunday.
The Yenisey container ship was undergoing repairs when an explosion occurred and a fire broke out at around 3:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00 GMT) on June 5. The preliminary death toll of 10 has yet to be officially confirmed.
Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said: "Each family of the victims of the fire on the Yenisey civilian vessel will be paid more than a million rubles."
June 8 has been declared a day of mourning in the Kaliningrad Region.
Dygalo said a Navy commission along with investigators from the emergencies ministry are currently working at the site to establish the cause of the fire.
Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said earlier the accident was caused by severe violations of safety procedures during repair work on the vessel.
A source in the dockyard's administration told RIA Novosti on Sunday that the blast could have been caused by the use of a gas-burner to heat up bolts on the roof of a fuel tank.
The ship was docked at a Defense Ministry facility in Baltiysk, a closed military town near Kaliningrad.
Dygalo earlier said the renovation work on the vessel was being carried out by the ship's owner, a private company from St. Petersburg, and that the Defense Ministry had merely leased the dock to the company.
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Eight people are dead and two more are missing and presumed dead after an explosion and fire on a cargo ship undergoing repairs at a naval dockyard in Kaliningrad, Russia.
The container ship MV ''Yenisey'' was the scene of an explosion while in drydock at about 3:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00 GMT). Ten people were missing after the explosion. It was confirmed today that the eighth body has been recovered, and the remaining two are thought to be dead as well. Three more were injured.
Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo, acting as a navy spokesperson, said "Each family of the victims of the fire on the ''Yenisey'' civilian vessel will be paid more than a million rubles." This makes their compensation roughly equivalent to US$43,000.
Dygolo said that the dockyard, in the closed military town of Baltiysk, near Kaliningrad, had been leased to the ''Yenisey'''s St Petersburg owner, a private company, who were conducting the work themselves. He said an investigation has been launched by the navy led by top admiral Vladimir Vysotsky.
Vysotski himself has indicated that serious safety legislation breaches concerning welding regulations by both the vessel's owner and the naval dockyard's bosses. He did not go into details, but ''RIA Novosti'' claimed that a source at the dockyard said a gas burner applied to the roof of a fuel tank to heat and therefore loosen its bolts had triggered the disaster.
Today is an official day of mourning for Kaliningrad Region to mark the deaths.
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MOSCOW, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Death toll in the fire on a cargo ship in Russia's Baltic exclave region of Kaliningrad has risen to eight, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Sunday.
A fire broke out after an explosion on Thursday afternoon on a cargo ship under repairs at a naval dockyard in Baltiysk, leaving eight killed and three others injured. Another two are still missing.
A day of mourning for the eight people died in the fire has been announced in the region on Sunday.
Vladimir Vysotsky, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, said that the reason behind the accident was gross violation safety rules during welding works by the administrations of the ship and the dockyard.
Georgy Boss, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, has promised to render material support to the families of the fire victims and help them solve their social and housing problems.
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Eight people are dead and two more are missing and presumed dead after an explosion and fire on a cargo ship undergoing repairs at a naval dockyard in Kaliningrad, Russia.
The container ship MV ''Yenisey'' was the scene of an explosion while in drydock at about 3:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00 GMT). Ten people were missing after the explosion. It was confirmed today that the eighth body has been recovered, and the remaining two are thought to be dead as well. Three more were injured.
Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo, acting as a navy spokesperson, said "Each family of the victims of the fire on the ''Yenisey'' civilian vessel will be paid more than a million rubles." This makes their compensation roughly equivalent to US$43,000.
Dygolo said that the dockyard, in the closed military town of Baltiysk, near Kaliningrad, had been leased to the ''Yenisey'''s St Petersburg owner, a private company, who were conducting the work themselves. He said an investigation has been launched by the navy led by top admiral Vladimir Vysotsky.
Vysotski himself has indicated that serious safety legislation breaches concerning welding regulations by both the vessel's owner and the naval dockyard's bosses. He did not go into details, but ''RIA Novosti'' claimed that a source at the dockyard said a gas burner applied to the roof of a fuel tank to heat and therefore loosen its bolts had triggered the disaster.
Today is an official day of mourning for Kaliningrad Region to mark the deaths.
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Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.
A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.
(CBC)
However, the police force denied allegations its undercover officers were there on Monday to provoke the crowd and instigate violence.
"At no time did the police of the Sûreté du Québec act as instigators or commit criminal acts," the police force said in French in a news release. "It is not in the police force's policies, nor in its strategies, to act in that manner.
"At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security."
Police said the three undercover officers were only at the protest to locate and identify non-peaceful protesters in order to prevent any incidents.
Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock.
In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.
Police-issued boots identified fake protesters
Protest organizers on Wednesday played the video for the media at a news conference in Ottawa. One of the organizers, union leader Dave Coles, explained that one reason protesters knew the men's true identities was because they were wearing the same boots as other police officers.
Coles said on Wednesday that the only thing he didn't know was whether the men were Quebec police, RCMP or hired security officers.
"[Our union] believes that the security force at Montebello were ordered to infiltrate our peaceful assembly and provoke incidents," said Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union.
Police said the three were told to monitor protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating to prevent any violent incidents, but they were called out as undercover agents when they refused to throw objects.
Concern Canada losing control of its energy
The protest at Montebello occurred outside the Fairmont Le Château Montebello hotel, near Ottawa, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The summit about border security, free trade and other issues began Monday and finished Tuesday.
Protesters said they gathered to voice their concern about Canada losing control of its energy and water resources and borders. Others decried what they called a high level of secrecy at the summit.
The Quebec provincial police will not comment any further on the affair, a spokeswoman in Montreal said.
Quebec Justice Minister Jacques Dupuis was made aware of the news, but a spokesman from his office said he will not comment on the matter either.
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Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) admitted on Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Quebec.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met in Quebec to discuss a proposed security, resource and trade initiative between the countries called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), but dubbed NAFTA 2.0.
Police said, "At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security." The QPP said, “At no time did the Quebec Provincial Police officers act as agents provocateurs or commit criminal acts. Also, it is not part of the policy of the police force nor is it part of its strategy to act in this manner. At all times, the officers responded to their mandate to maintain law and order.”
A video of the incident had been posted on YouTube, which, as of this date, had received greater than 170,000 views. In the video, the three undercover officers could be seen wearing face masks, dark clothes, and boots and milling about with other protesters; one undercover officer could be seen carrying a rock. Some of the gathered demonstrators, notably union leader Dave Coles, could be seen and heard telling the officers to leave, put down the rock, and remove their bandannas: several protesters then tried to remove the officer's bandannas. The undercover officers retreated behind police lines and could be seen being put to the ground and restrained by the riot police.
Those at the protest said the officers were acting like agents provocateurs by provoking violence from within the crowd. Dave Coles, president of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, confronted the three undercover officers on the protest line. He suggested the officers were there to cause trouble. "We're going to talk to our legal counsel and we'll decide what our next action is going to be," said Coles.
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TheStar.com - Canada - Quebec police admit agents posed as protesters Quebec police admit agents posed as protesters
Deny role of undercover officers was to provoke violence at summit of North American leaders
Aug 24, 2007 04:30 AM
Steve Lambert
Sidhartha Banerjee
Canadian Press
MONTREAL–With the proof caught on video, Quebec provincial police were forced to admit yesterday that three undercover agents were playing the part of protesters at this week's international summit in Montebello, Que.
But the Quebec police force denied they were attempting to provoke protesters into violence. Rather, they said the three were planted in the crowd to locate any protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating. Police said the trio's cover was blown when they refused to toss any objects.
"At no time did the Quebec provincial police officers act as agents provocateurs or commit criminal acts. Also, it is not part of the policy of the police force nor is it part of its strategy to act in this manner. At all times, the officers responded to their mandate to maintain law and order," the Sûreté du Québec said in a news release last night.
The police said after viewing a video clip from YouTube.com and video shot by police officers, they were able to confirm the three were Quebec provincial police officers.
Earlier, both Quebec police and the RCMP denied any of their officers were involved.
Earlier yesterday, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day rejected opposition calls for an inquiry into the role of suspect agents at the North American leaders summit.
"If people have concerns ... there is a complaints process for the RCMP. There is also one for the Sûreté du Québec. This incident happened in Quebec, so I imagine people could also file under that complaints process."
Day's words did little to appease Dave Coles, the union leader who confronted the three men on the protest line and accused them of being cops.
"We're going to talk to our legal counsel and we'll decide (Friday) what our next action is going to be," said Coles, president of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
The three officers, sporting bandannas, showed up on the front lines of a protest at the summit. One carried a large rock.
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Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) admitted on Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Quebec.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met in Quebec to discuss a proposed security, resource and trade initiative between the countries called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), but dubbed NAFTA 2.0.
Police said, "At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security." The QPP said, “At no time did the Quebec Provincial Police officers act as agents provocateurs or commit criminal acts. Also, it is not part of the policy of the police force nor is it part of its strategy to act in this manner. At all times, the officers responded to their mandate to maintain law and order.”
A video of the incident had been posted on YouTube, which, as of this date, had received greater than 170,000 views. In the video, the three undercover officers could be seen wearing face masks, dark clothes, and boots and milling about with other protesters; one undercover officer could be seen carrying a rock. Some of the gathered demonstrators, notably union leader Dave Coles, could be seen and heard telling the officers to leave, put down the rock, and remove their bandannas: several protesters then tried to remove the officer's bandannas. The undercover officers retreated behind police lines and could be seen being put to the ground and restrained by the riot police.
Those at the protest said the officers were acting like agents provocateurs by provoking violence from within the crowd. Dave Coles, president of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, confronted the three undercover officers on the protest line. He suggested the officers were there to cause trouble. "We're going to talk to our legal counsel and we'll decide what our next action is going to be," said Coles.
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Police used tear gas and pepper spray against protesters who were hurling rocks and branches during confrontations outside the leaders summit in Quebec on Monday.
A protester reacts to being tear-gassed as police form a line in Montebello, Que., on Monday.
(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
Police arrested at least one protester in the small resort town of Montebello, near Ottawa, where Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to discuss issues including border security and free trade.
The leaders began their talks Monday inside the Fairmont Le Château Montebello hotel, which is being protected by a four-metre security fence and police in riot gear who are patrolling the area on foot, in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters.
At least 500 protesters took part in a march outside the hotel, carrying signs with slogans such as "No to Americanada." Others held a peaceful family-friendly rally away from police lines.
Many protesters arrived to the site by the busload from cities including Montreal, Kingston and Ottawa.
Harper dismissed the demonstration after he was told hundreds of protesters were involved.
"I've heard it's nothing. A couple hundred? It's sad," he said.
'We're going to protest where we want to protest'
Police and protesters clash in Montebello, Que.
(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
Some of the demonstrators went to designated protest areas — one in an empty field and the other a picnic area — while others chose to walk down Route 148 toward the hotel.
Some protesters decried the use of designated protest areas, calling them "protest pens."
"They're like cages and they want to keep people in an area where they can manage them," said Trevor Haché, who was part of a caravan of cyclists who rode from Ottawa to join the protest. "We're going to protest where we want to protest. It's our democratic right."
The two-day summit is set to focus on the broad-ranging Security and Prosperity Partnership pact signed in 2005 by the Canada, Mexico and the United States.
The SPP, meant to complement treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, was created to boost co-operation on security, trade and public-health issues among the three countries.
But protesters say the SPP is anti-democratic because it didn't require a vote in Parliament or a change in the law.
Demonstrators carry signs to protest the leaders summit in Montebello.
(Loreen Pindera/CBC)
"If this is such a wonderful deal and it is about protecting North Americans from shoddy products or whatever they're now saying … then be proud of it, stand up, tell us what's in it … and send it to our Parliament for oversight," Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, said in an interview from Ottawa Monday morning.
Barlow said the SPP forces Mexico and Canada to adopt Bush's notions of security, "kind of putting a zip-lock of a security perimeter around North America."
Concerned about Canada losing control
Many protesters said they are concerned about Canada losing control of its energy, water resources and border as initiatives such as the SPP treaty increase and expand.
While Harper has offered assurances that won't happen, many of the protesters said Sunday they don't believe him.
"I think ultimately, his allegiance is to the corporate kind of world," demonstrator Andy Elliott told CBC News. "He doesn't seem too concerned for the average person."
The demonstrators are also decrying the secrecy surrounding the meeting and that the only people with access to the three leaders at the summit are 30 chief executives of some of the biggest corporations in the world.
But Thomas D'Aquino, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, said getting access to political leaders is not the only way to be heard.
"I do not say to myself, 'If I don't get an hour with the prime minister in the next six months, I'm going to go out and protest and reject the system outright,' " he said.
"I don't do that because civilized human beings — those who believe in democracy — don't do that."
Canadian government officials said the three leaders will be able to see and hear the protesters through a video link inside if they choose to watch.
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Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) admitted on Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Quebec.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met in Quebec to discuss a proposed security, resource and trade initiative between the countries called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), but dubbed NAFTA 2.0.
Police said, "At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security." The QPP said, “At no time did the Quebec Provincial Police officers act as agents provocateurs or commit criminal acts. Also, it is not part of the policy of the police force nor is it part of its strategy to act in this manner. At all times, the officers responded to their mandate to maintain law and order.”
A video of the incident had been posted on YouTube, which, as of this date, had received greater than 170,000 views. In the video, the three undercover officers could be seen wearing face masks, dark clothes, and boots and milling about with other protesters; one undercover officer could be seen carrying a rock. Some of the gathered demonstrators, notably union leader Dave Coles, could be seen and heard telling the officers to leave, put down the rock, and remove their bandannas: several protesters then tried to remove the officer's bandannas. The undercover officers retreated behind police lines and could be seen being put to the ground and restrained by the riot police.
Those at the protest said the officers were acting like agents provocateurs by provoking violence from within the crowd. Dave Coles, president of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, confronted the three undercover officers on the protest line. He suggested the officers were there to cause trouble. "We're going to talk to our legal counsel and we'll decide what our next action is going to be," said Coles.
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» Tudo sobre a crise no governo
» Fórum : opine sobre a crise no governo
Na semana passada, o Supremo já tinha anulado a primeira versão do relatório, favorável à cassação e então aprovado por 13 votos a 10 pelo Conselho. Na ocasião, o ministro Eros Grau vetou o uso no parecer do relator, deputado Júlio Delgado (PSB-SP), de informações obtidas por meio da quebra dos sigilos de Dirceu pela CPI dos Correios. Grau ordenou a redação de novo relatório.
O advogado do petista, José Luiz Oliveira Lima, solicitará a anulação da sessão de hoje usando o mesmo argumento vitorioso na semana passada: o relator terá de refazer o relatório integralmente, o que deverá dar mais tempo a José Dirceu. Também pedira mais uma vez, desta vez ao STF, a suspensão do processo, alegando que o PTB, responsável pela denúncia, retirou a acusação. A Comissão de Constituição e Justiça (CCJ) rejeitou anteriormente recurso semelhante.
Com isso, dificilmente o plenário votará o parecer da Comissão no dia 9 de novembro - data marcada pelo presidente da Câmara, Aldo Rebelo (PCdoB-SP).O fato de haver dois feriados no próximo mês - nesta quarta-feira e no próximo dia 15 - aumenta a tendência de atraso nos trâmites, sem contar o fato de que a deputada petista Angela Guadagnin (SP) irá pedir novamente vistas do processo, antes de o mesmo ir a votação.
Provavelmente, a votação do parecer contra Dirceu em plenário não ocorrerá antes da útima semana de novembro. Ainda assim, o presidente Conselho, Ricardo Izar (PTB-SP), acredita que o parecer poderá ir ao plenário até o término da próxima semana, atendendo todos os prazos previstos para pedido de vistas e nova defesa do acusado.
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O Presidente do Conselho de Ética, deputado Ricardo Izar (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro-São Paulo), negou pedido feito pelos advogado do deputado José Dirceu (Partido dos Trabalhadores-São Paulo) de retornar o processo à fase de instrução.
Izar acredita que se houver quórum para as sessões dessa semana o processo possa ir para votação ainda nesta sexta-feira, dia 04 de novembro.
Apesar disso, os advogados de Dirceu, devem ingressar hoje com mais um pedido no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), solicitando a nulidade da sessão e requerendo o encerramento do processo.
Dirceu, irá pedir o anulamento com o mesmo argumento vitorioso da semana passada, quando conseguiu a anulação do relatório do relator deputado Júlio Delgado (Partido Socialista Brasileiro-São Paulo).
Caso consiga uma vitória no STF, o relator terá que refazer todo o relatório dando mais tempo para José Dirceu.
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Starbucks is struggling to turnaround its fortunes
Coffeeshop giant Starbucks has announced it will cut around 6,700 jobs and shut 300 stores as it reported a 69% plunge in quarterly profit.
Starbucks has struggled as hard-up consumers forego expensive lattes and frappucinos as the recession bites.
It said it made a net profit of $64.3m in the 13 weeks to December 28, down from $208.1m a year ago.
Two-thirds of the store closures will be in the US and they come on top of the 661 closures announced in 2008.
Starbucks is the latest multinational company to announce massive layoffs.
Earlier on Wednesday, Boeing said it would cut 10,000 jobs.
'Leaner'
In a letter to employees, chairman and chief executive Howard Schultz said that the company was working hard to "navigate the deteriorating global economy".
"These decisions have been made to ensure the company is leaner and prepared to endure a worsening economic climate," he told staff.
"The financial crisis is affecting almost almost every company in the world."
Starbucks' revenue fell 6% to $2.6bn driven by 9% fall in sales in established coffee shops.
But Starbucks' problems are not just down to the economic downturn.
Mr Schultz has admitted that the firm over expanded, devaluing its upmarket image.
Starbucks has further been hit by the likes of McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts greatly improving the quality of their own coffee, which is generally also cheaper.
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A Starbucks at the Shinbashi Yurikamome railway station in Tokyo
Starbucks Coffee is set to close 300 stores and lay off around 6,700 employees. The announcement came after a 69% drop in quarterly profits.
The company made a profit of $64.3 million in the 13 trading weeks ending in December, down from $208.1 million last year.
Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz sent a letter to employees explaining the difficulties the company is having in the current economic climate. He placed some of the blame of the loss in sales on other companies such as McDonalds and Dunkin’ Donuts, which have been improving the quality of their coffee.
"These decisions have been made to ensure the company is leaner and prepared to endure a worsening economic climate," said Schultz in the letter.
Two-thirds of the store closures are to take place in the United States. Schultz's salary would also be reduced to $10,000 a year according to the Wall Street Journal. The closures are on top of the already 600 stores the company announced they would be closing.
Starbucks has approximately 16,000 stores internationally with around 11,000 in the U.S. There are about 172,000 employees in all areas of the company.
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Starbucks Corp., posting a 69% drop in quarterly profit, said it will close another 300 stores and cut 6,700 workers as it continues to reel from overexpansion and a sharp sales slowdown amid the recession.
Looking to share the pain, Chief Executive Howard Schultz asked the board last week to reduce his annual base pay of $1.2 million, according to a spokeswoman. Mr. Schultz suggested a token salary of $1, but the board's compensation committee ultimately decided to cut it to $10,000. Once benefits costs are deducted from his check, Mr. Schultz will earn less than $4 a month in ...
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A Starbucks at the Shinbashi Yurikamome railway station in Tokyo
Starbucks Coffee is set to close 300 stores and lay off around 6,700 employees. The announcement came after a 69% drop in quarterly profits.
The company made a profit of $64.3 million in the 13 trading weeks ending in December, down from $208.1 million last year.
Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz sent a letter to employees explaining the difficulties the company is having in the current economic climate. He placed some of the blame of the loss in sales on other companies such as McDonalds and Dunkin’ Donuts, which have been improving the quality of their coffee.
"These decisions have been made to ensure the company is leaner and prepared to endure a worsening economic climate," said Schultz in the letter.
Two-thirds of the store closures are to take place in the United States. Schultz's salary would also be reduced to $10,000 a year according to the Wall Street Journal. The closures are on top of the already 600 stores the company announced they would be closing.
Starbucks has approximately 16,000 stores internationally with around 11,000 in the U.S. There are about 172,000 employees in all areas of the company.
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Pay offer in bid to halt BT strikes
Telecoms giant BT has made a new pay offer to thousands of its workers in a bid to avert industrial action, it has been revealed.
It is understood the company has made a two-year offer, worth 2% this year and 3% in year two, plus extra payments of £250, subject to performance.
The firm is also believed to have pledged not to make any compulsory redundancies between now and the end of 2011.
The move followed a warning by the Communication Workers Union that it was pressing ahead with a ballot for strikes over pay.
The union set a deadline of noon last Friday for BT to improve a one-year, 2% pay offer.
The deadline passed, leading the union to confirm it would be holding a ballot, with the timetable set to be announced in the coming days.
BT is also believed to have told the union it would look to bring call centre and back office jobs back from India and switch agency and contracted-out work back in-house.
A BT spokesman said: "A two-year offer has been made but I cannot confirm the details. Industrial action is in no-one's interest - BT, customers or the union - so we hope the new offer will receive a positive response.
"The CWU has helped BT make good progress this year and we hope the union will take a realistic approach and work with us so we can make more progress in the years to come."
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The UK's have effectively rejected a belated revised pay offer by telecoms giant . Their statement, released early this evening, indicates a formal ballot on strike action is inevitable – unless the company revises their two percent offer for 2010.
The deadline set by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) passed at noon last Friday, apparently unheeded by BT. The union's announcement of their intent to ballot members apparently resulted in the offer — one with no new money on the table for this year.
Last week, when their ultimatum was ignored, CWU deputy secretary general (DSG) Andy Kerr expressed deep disappointment, citing the substantial profits made by the company in the last financial year: "we're obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2% despite their healthy profits this year."
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The turnaround from losses of 244 million to a billion-pound-plus profit has, the union claims, galvanised their membership into seriously considering industrial action. Reports of senior directors receiving million-pound bonuses, and former minister landing over over £50,000 extra per-year, are characterised as "directors' 'snouts in the trough'". Hewitt was suspended from her parliamentary party in March over cash-for-access accusations, and works two to three days each month on BT's remuneration committee.
The UK's described the now-rejected offer as being worth 2% this year, and an additional 3% in 2011 with staff bonuses of up to £250. The package supposedly contains pledges on no compulsory redundancies and the return of call centre and non-frontline work from outsource companies in India.
''Wikinews'' called both the Communication Workers' Union, and British Telecom, seeking clarification on a number of points. Richard Knowles, a BT press officer in London, forwarded their terse sub-400-word statement, refusing to be drawn on reports that the offer includes the repatriation of call centre and back-office jobs. When challenged on this work being carried out in a jurisdiction with less-stringent , and legislation, our reporter was referred back to the company's statement.
Sian Jones of the CWU's Press Office, commenting prior to the union's evening statement, remarked that repatriation of call centre work was an issue that the union had prior, unrelated, discussions with BT about; she gave no indication to ''Wikinews'' this was, or was not, part of BT's revised offer.
File photo of ADSL technology, as installed in telephone exchanges, for the provision of consumer broadband services.
The press release, shortly after 1630 BST, expressed clear intent to carry on with the process of balloting members on strike action. In the statement, CWU DGS Andy Kerr states, "we're very disappointed that BT's revised offer remains materially unchanged for this year in terms of pay."
Continuing, he emphasised, "... we've made clear, 2 per cent is unacceptable for our members as it does not reflect the reward they expect given the contribution they have made to cost savings of £1.75 billion and profits of over £1bn. In addition, inflation is at 5.3 per cent and staff are comparing this offer with the large salary rises and bonuses for senior executives which expose the blatant double standards being adopted by the company when it comes to remuneration."
The CWU statement also expresses concern over BT's disclosure of details within the offer; "BT's decision to leak their offer to the media today has also raised trust issues for us with the company."
Any sustained action by CWU members in BT's employ could have a major impact on the country's communication infrastructure. Millions of UK households and businesses are reliant on BT for internet access – in addition to services.
Following the release of their statement, the CWU's Sian Jones confirmed that the union had not, as-yet, given BT the formal seven-days notice of balloting members on strike action.
Any ballot would run for a two-week period; following such, the union would, again, be required to give seven days notice to BT; this time of their intent to take workers out on strike. She emphasised, "nobody wants to be on strike", stressing that the union last took such action in 1987, and would prefer round-table discussions and an improved offer.
The structure of BT's privatisation, and breakup to permit level playing-field telephony and broadband competition, would see other who rely on the ageing, once -owned, copper infrastructure unable to resolve customer faults. According to the CWU, BT has been querying managerial staff on their skillsets – as a form of preparation for any industrial action. A union spokesperson described this as "laughable".
When called for comment on the union's rejection of their revised offer, the BT press office declined to comment at this time.
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CWU to Press Ahead with BT Strike Ballot
4th June 2010
The Communication Workers Union today (Friday) is disappointed that BT has refused to table an improved offer for staff at the company, despite huge profits and significant bonus payments to senior executives and shareholders. As a result, CWU will now move to ballot all members in BT on industrial action.
Andy Kerr, CWU deputy general secretary, said: "We're obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2 per cent despite their healthy profits this year.
"We now have no option than to put the wheels in motion to ballot all appropriate members in BT for strike action, which would be the first action of its kind in over 20 years.
"We've made our position very clear, 2 per cent is not good enough when the company is making profits of over £1 billion, paying shareholders a 6 per cent dividend and paying out large sums to senior executives while inflation is at 5.3 per cent.
"Our members are angry about the blatant double standards when it comes to pay for those at the top compared to the rest of staff at the company. We're not asking for the earth, we're asking for a fair and affordable share of BT's success. If it's good enough for the executives it's good enough for the staff.
"We remain open to discussions with BT at any time, but only a revised pay offer will bring this dispute to an end."
Details of the timetable for the ballot will be announced next week.
Background to the pay dispute:
BT made in excess of £1billion profit last year and exceeded their forecasts by doubling their free cash flow to £1.9billion while making £1.75billion in cost savings - partly delivered through a pay freeze, 30,000 redundancies and changes to their pension schemes which CWU helped the company with.
CWU rejected BT's offer of 2% plus £250 and a possible additional £250 based on meeting undisclosed targets next year. BT has claimed that the total payments would be equivalent to a 5.4% pay rise, however this would only be true for seven people in the company who earn a salary of just over £14,000 and the final £250 would not be paid - if at all - until June 2011.
A pay deal of 5% for CWU grades would cost the company 3.6% of free cash flow.
BT executives have received generous bonus payments, including:
Ian Livingston CEO - basic £850k plus annual bonus of £1,206k, total up by 79% on 2009. He is also set to get a 6% pay rise this year, but has pledged to take a 2% pay rise and donate the rest charity.
CEO - basic £850k plus annual bonus of £1,206k, total up by 79% on 2009. He is also set to get a 6% pay rise this year, but has pledged to take a 2% pay rise and donate the rest charity. Sir Michael Rake, Chairman total of £670k up from £630k - a 6.3% rise - in 2009 for working part time.
Hanif Lalani , ex Finance Director, total of £1,166k, up from £805k in 2009, a rise of 44.8%.
, ex Finance Director, total of £1,166k, up from £805k in 2009, a rise of 44.8%. Patricia Hewitt , non executive director who helps to decide remuneration - £128k up from £75k for just a few days a month.
, non executive director who helps to decide remuneration - £128k up from £75k for just a few days a month. Gavin Patterson , BT Retail CEO, total of £1,133k, up from £698k in 2009, a 62.3% increase.
, BT Retail CEO, total of £1,133k, up from £698k in 2009, a 62.3% increase. Tony Chanmugam, Finance Director, is set for a pay rise worth more than 7%.
CWU represents over 50,000 people in BT in the UK who work in call centre, engineering and retail roles.
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The UK's have effectively rejected a belated revised pay offer by telecoms giant . Their statement, released early this evening, indicates a formal ballot on strike action is inevitable – unless the company revises their two percent offer for 2010.
The deadline set by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) passed at noon last Friday, apparently unheeded by BT. The union's announcement of their intent to ballot members apparently resulted in the offer — one with no new money on the table for this year.
Last week, when their ultimatum was ignored, CWU deputy secretary general (DSG) Andy Kerr expressed deep disappointment, citing the substantial profits made by the company in the last financial year: "we're obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2% despite their healthy profits this year."
Logo of the United Kingdom's .
The turnaround from losses of 244 million to a billion-pound-plus profit has, the union claims, galvanised their membership into seriously considering industrial action. Reports of senior directors receiving million-pound bonuses, and former minister landing over over £50,000 extra per-year, are characterised as "directors' 'snouts in the trough'". Hewitt was suspended from her parliamentary party in March over cash-for-access accusations, and works two to three days each month on BT's remuneration committee.
The UK's described the now-rejected offer as being worth 2% this year, and an additional 3% in 2011 with staff bonuses of up to £250. The package supposedly contains pledges on no compulsory redundancies and the return of call centre and non-frontline work from outsource companies in India.
''Wikinews'' called both the Communication Workers' Union, and British Telecom, seeking clarification on a number of points. Richard Knowles, a BT press officer in London, forwarded their terse sub-400-word statement, refusing to be drawn on reports that the offer includes the repatriation of call centre and back-office jobs. When challenged on this work being carried out in a jurisdiction with less-stringent , and legislation, our reporter was referred back to the company's statement.
Sian Jones of the CWU's Press Office, commenting prior to the union's evening statement, remarked that repatriation of call centre work was an issue that the union had prior, unrelated, discussions with BT about; she gave no indication to ''Wikinews'' this was, or was not, part of BT's revised offer.
File photo of ADSL technology, as installed in telephone exchanges, for the provision of consumer broadband services.
The press release, shortly after 1630 BST, expressed clear intent to carry on with the process of balloting members on strike action. In the statement, CWU DGS Andy Kerr states, "we're very disappointed that BT's revised offer remains materially unchanged for this year in terms of pay."
Continuing, he emphasised, "... we've made clear, 2 per cent is unacceptable for our members as it does not reflect the reward they expect given the contribution they have made to cost savings of £1.75 billion and profits of over £1bn. In addition, inflation is at 5.3 per cent and staff are comparing this offer with the large salary rises and bonuses for senior executives which expose the blatant double standards being adopted by the company when it comes to remuneration."
The CWU statement also expresses concern over BT's disclosure of details within the offer; "BT's decision to leak their offer to the media today has also raised trust issues for us with the company."
Any sustained action by CWU members in BT's employ could have a major impact on the country's communication infrastructure. Millions of UK households and businesses are reliant on BT for internet access – in addition to services.
Following the release of their statement, the CWU's Sian Jones confirmed that the union had not, as-yet, given BT the formal seven-days notice of balloting members on strike action.
Any ballot would run for a two-week period; following such, the union would, again, be required to give seven days notice to BT; this time of their intent to take workers out on strike. She emphasised, "nobody wants to be on strike", stressing that the union last took such action in 1987, and would prefer round-table discussions and an improved offer.
The structure of BT's privatisation, and breakup to permit level playing-field telephony and broadband competition, would see other who rely on the ageing, once -owned, copper infrastructure unable to resolve customer faults. According to the CWU, BT has been querying managerial staff on their skillsets – as a form of preparation for any industrial action. A union spokesperson described this as "laughable".
When called for comment on the union's rejection of their revised offer, the BT press office declined to comment at this time.
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The threat comes as engineers look likely to walk out, complaining about their measly pay rise offers, while their bosses pocket millions.
The Communication Workers Union said it would ballot up to 60,000 of its members for industrial action unless a two per cent pay offer was increased by Friday next week.
CWU spokesman Kevin Slocombe said: ‘Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action, and if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find their internet goes down.’
The strike ballot was announced on the day the company revealed that chief executive Ian Livingston received a £1.2million bonus last year.
That was on top of his £860,000 salary, while reports suggested other benefits pushed his pay package up towards £3million. CWU deputy general secretary Andy Kerr said: ‘This is about fairness.
‘We don’t mind senior staff getting bonuses but we want all staff to share in the success of the company.’
Many CWU members work as BT engineers, meaning no staff would be available to fix faults.
Others work in call centres, so customers’ queries would go unanswered – building up a backlog unlikely to ease even when staff return to work.
Mr Slocombe, who suggested a walk-out could be called for late June, said: ‘At the moment, faults and crashes are fixed pretty quickly. That wouldn’t be the case if a strike went ahead.’
Last night, BT, which recently announced annual profits of more than £1billion, said: ‘We are disappointed by the CWU’s decision to call a ballot but our door remains open.
‘Our final offer is fair, realistic and more generous than those they have accepted elsewhere.’
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The UK's have effectively rejected a belated revised pay offer by telecoms giant . Their statement, released early this evening, indicates a formal ballot on strike action is inevitable – unless the company revises their two percent offer for 2010.
The deadline set by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) passed at noon last Friday, apparently unheeded by BT. The union's announcement of their intent to ballot members apparently resulted in the offer — one with no new money on the table for this year.
Last week, when their ultimatum was ignored, CWU deputy secretary general (DSG) Andy Kerr expressed deep disappointment, citing the substantial profits made by the company in the last financial year: "we're obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2% despite their healthy profits this year."
Logo of the United Kingdom's .
The turnaround from losses of 244 million to a billion-pound-plus profit has, the union claims, galvanised their membership into seriously considering industrial action. Reports of senior directors receiving million-pound bonuses, and former minister landing over over £50,000 extra per-year, are characterised as "directors' 'snouts in the trough'". Hewitt was suspended from her parliamentary party in March over cash-for-access accusations, and works two to three days each month on BT's remuneration committee.
The UK's described the now-rejected offer as being worth 2% this year, and an additional 3% in 2011 with staff bonuses of up to £250. The package supposedly contains pledges on no compulsory redundancies and the return of call centre and non-frontline work from outsource companies in India.
''Wikinews'' called both the Communication Workers' Union, and British Telecom, seeking clarification on a number of points. Richard Knowles, a BT press officer in London, forwarded their terse sub-400-word statement, refusing to be drawn on reports that the offer includes the repatriation of call centre and back-office jobs. When challenged on this work being carried out in a jurisdiction with less-stringent , and legislation, our reporter was referred back to the company's statement.
Sian Jones of the CWU's Press Office, commenting prior to the union's evening statement, remarked that repatriation of call centre work was an issue that the union had prior, unrelated, discussions with BT about; she gave no indication to ''Wikinews'' this was, or was not, part of BT's revised offer.
File photo of ADSL technology, as installed in telephone exchanges, for the provision of consumer broadband services.
The press release, shortly after 1630 BST, expressed clear intent to carry on with the process of balloting members on strike action. In the statement, CWU DGS Andy Kerr states, "we're very disappointed that BT's revised offer remains materially unchanged for this year in terms of pay."
Continuing, he emphasised, "... we've made clear, 2 per cent is unacceptable for our members as it does not reflect the reward they expect given the contribution they have made to cost savings of £1.75 billion and profits of over £1bn. In addition, inflation is at 5.3 per cent and staff are comparing this offer with the large salary rises and bonuses for senior executives which expose the blatant double standards being adopted by the company when it comes to remuneration."
The CWU statement also expresses concern over BT's disclosure of details within the offer; "BT's decision to leak their offer to the media today has also raised trust issues for us with the company."
Any sustained action by CWU members in BT's employ could have a major impact on the country's communication infrastructure. Millions of UK households and businesses are reliant on BT for internet access – in addition to services.
Following the release of their statement, the CWU's Sian Jones confirmed that the union had not, as-yet, given BT the formal seven-days notice of balloting members on strike action.
Any ballot would run for a two-week period; following such, the union would, again, be required to give seven days notice to BT; this time of their intent to take workers out on strike. She emphasised, "nobody wants to be on strike", stressing that the union last took such action in 1987, and would prefer round-table discussions and an improved offer.
The structure of BT's privatisation, and breakup to permit level playing-field telephony and broadband competition, would see other who rely on the ageing, once -owned, copper infrastructure unable to resolve customer faults. According to the CWU, BT has been querying managerial staff on their skillsets – as a form of preparation for any industrial action. A union spokesperson described this as "laughable".
When called for comment on the union's rejection of their revised offer, the BT press office declined to comment at this time.
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Cash-for-access scandal MPs in line for peerages (even if voters think they're 'sleazy pigs')
By Jason Groves
Last updated at 8:42 AM on 24th March 2010
Three disgraced former Cabinet ministers at the heart of the 'cash-for-access' scandal are in line for lavish golden goodbye payments and seats in the House of Lords, it emerged last night.
The Commons authorities yesterday admitted they were powerless to block generous resettlement grants of up to £65,000 each to Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon.
All three were caught on film offering to help private companies access Government in return for thousands of pounds a day.
And Gordon Brown refused to rule out peerages for the three who, as former Cabinet ministers, can expect a cosy berth in the Lords after the election.
Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon could all receive peerages despite the 'cash-for-access' scandal
The revelations caused outrage at Westminster. David Cameron said the saga had fuelled public perceptions that 'politicians are sleazy pigs out for their own gain'.
He renewed his call for a full inquiry into the affair and promised the Tories would crack down on lobbying if they win power.
The Tory leader said anyone watching the investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme 'could not help but be frankly disgusted by what they saw'.
Mr Byers' said he was 'like a cab for hire' and boasted that he had helped National Express and Tesco gain favourable Government decisions - claims denied by ministers and the companies.
Stephen Byers and Patricia Hewitt discuss offering 'access for cash' on Channel 4's Dispatches programme
Mr Hoon said he was looking to turn his Government contacts 'into something that, bluntly, makes money'.
Miss Hewitt said she had helped a firm she is paid by win a place on a Government taskforce investigating its area of business.
Last night it emerged that the Government had delayed publishing the annual list of ministerial interests, prompting new allegations of a cover-up.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw said the former ministers' had brought Labour and Parliament 'into disrepute'.
The scandal also provoked fury among grassroots Labour activists.
John Knight, a senior member of Mr Hoon's local branch of the party, said the former defence secretary had 'absolutely no affinity or understanding of the people' he was supposed to represent.
Suspended: Margaret Moran
Suspended: Geoff Hoon
Mr Knight, leader of the district council in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, said: 'I would like to tell you I was shocked and surprised, but frankly I wasn't.
'If we carry on like this, this will be the slow death of the Labour Party.'
Yesterday it emerged that several other former ministers had shown initial interest in working for the fake lobbying firm set up by reporters, though they either withdrew or the meetings were cancelled.
Labour confirmed that Mr Byers, Mr Hoon and Miss Hewitt had been suspended from the Parliamentary-Labour Party, banning them from attending the group's weekly meetings. However they will not lose the party whip.
They will also still qualify for 'golden goodbye' payments when they step down at the election. Mr Byers and Mr Hoon will each receive the £64,766 maximum. Miss Hewitt and MP Margaret Moran, who was also filmed offering to influence policy, will get £54,403.
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The UK's have effectively rejected a belated revised pay offer by telecoms giant . Their statement, released early this evening, indicates a formal ballot on strike action is inevitable – unless the company revises their two percent offer for 2010.
The deadline set by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) passed at noon last Friday, apparently unheeded by BT. The union's announcement of their intent to ballot members apparently resulted in the offer — one with no new money on the table for this year.
Last week, when their ultimatum was ignored, CWU deputy secretary general (DSG) Andy Kerr expressed deep disappointment, citing the substantial profits made by the company in the last financial year: "we're obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2% despite their healthy profits this year."
Logo of the United Kingdom's .
The turnaround from losses of 244 million to a billion-pound-plus profit has, the union claims, galvanised their membership into seriously considering industrial action. Reports of senior directors receiving million-pound bonuses, and former minister landing over over £50,000 extra per-year, are characterised as "directors' 'snouts in the trough'". Hewitt was suspended from her parliamentary party in March over cash-for-access accusations, and works two to three days each month on BT's remuneration committee.
The UK's described the now-rejected offer as being worth 2% this year, and an additional 3% in 2011 with staff bonuses of up to £250. The package supposedly contains pledges on no compulsory redundancies and the return of call centre and non-frontline work from outsource companies in India.
''Wikinews'' called both the Communication Workers' Union, and British Telecom, seeking clarification on a number of points. Richard Knowles, a BT press officer in London, forwarded their terse sub-400-word statement, refusing to be drawn on reports that the offer includes the repatriation of call centre and back-office jobs. When challenged on this work being carried out in a jurisdiction with less-stringent , and legislation, our reporter was referred back to the company's statement.
Sian Jones of the CWU's Press Office, commenting prior to the union's evening statement, remarked that repatriation of call centre work was an issue that the union had prior, unrelated, discussions with BT about; she gave no indication to ''Wikinews'' this was, or was not, part of BT's revised offer.
File photo of ADSL technology, as installed in telephone exchanges, for the provision of consumer broadband services.
The press release, shortly after 1630 BST, expressed clear intent to carry on with the process of balloting members on strike action. In the statement, CWU DGS Andy Kerr states, "we're very disappointed that BT's revised offer remains materially unchanged for this year in terms of pay."
Continuing, he emphasised, "... we've made clear, 2 per cent is unacceptable for our members as it does not reflect the reward they expect given the contribution they have made to cost savings of £1.75 billion and profits of over £1bn. In addition, inflation is at 5.3 per cent and staff are comparing this offer with the large salary rises and bonuses for senior executives which expose the blatant double standards being adopted by the company when it comes to remuneration."
The CWU statement also expresses concern over BT's disclosure of details within the offer; "BT's decision to leak their offer to the media today has also raised trust issues for us with the company."
Any sustained action by CWU members in BT's employ could have a major impact on the country's communication infrastructure. Millions of UK households and businesses are reliant on BT for internet access – in addition to services.
Following the release of their statement, the CWU's Sian Jones confirmed that the union had not, as-yet, given BT the formal seven-days notice of balloting members on strike action.
Any ballot would run for a two-week period; following such, the union would, again, be required to give seven days notice to BT; this time of their intent to take workers out on strike. She emphasised, "nobody wants to be on strike", stressing that the union last took such action in 1987, and would prefer round-table discussions and an improved offer.
The structure of BT's privatisation, and breakup to permit level playing-field telephony and broadband competition, would see other who rely on the ageing, once -owned, copper infrastructure unable to resolve customer faults. According to the CWU, BT has been querying managerial staff on their skillsets – as a form of preparation for any industrial action. A union spokesperson described this as "laughable".
When called for comment on the union's rejection of their revised offer, the BT press office declined to comment at this time.
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Von Weststädter am Freitag, 04.12.2009 um 09:36 Uhr Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger Die Strassenbahner fahren oft rücksichtslos und ohne auf Fußgänger zu achten. Ein tragischer Unfall, der durch passivere Fahrweise vermeidbar gewesen wäre!
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Von Strassenbahnfahrer am Freitag, 04.12.2009 um 10:02 Uhr
Re: Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger
Ich würde die Straßenbahnfahrer nicht alle verteufeln. Mangelnde Rücksicht seitens des Straßenbahnfahrers hin oder her, der Fußgänger hat auf einer "viel befahrenen Straße" ebenso Rücksicht zu nehmen und nicht schnell zwischen vorbeifahrenden Autos hindurch und über die Gleise zu rennen.
Des weiteren unterliegt die Straßenbahn den physikalischen Eigenheiten eines Schienenfahrzeugs. Stichwort langer Bremsweg. Im Interesse der Konkurrenzfähigkeit muß die Tram aber mindestens so schnell wie Autos und Busse fahren, sonst würde niemand dieses sonst so gelobte Verkehrsmittel nutzen wollen.
Dies sollten alle bedenken, welche sich anschicken, Gleise außerhalb der dafür vorgesehenen Bereiche zu überqueren. In einem anderen Artikel der RNZ wird auf die "leise, schnelle und gefährliche S-Bahn" hingewiesen, welche für unvorsichtige Menschen beim Überqueren der Gleise eine nicht minder tödliche Gefahr darstellt.
Mein Mitgefühl für den Toten und seine Hinterbliebenen wird dadurch nicht geschmälert. Jeder Verkehrstote ist einer zu viel, egal wer wann was zu verantworten hat. Gleichwohl denke ich auch an den Fahrer der Tram, welcher den tragischen Tod des Mannes wohl nicht verhindern konnte sondern miterleben mußte.
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Von Radfahrer am Freitag, 04.12.2009 um 10:23 Uhr
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Lieber Weststädter, ich finde Ihren Kommentar absolut unangebracht. Ihre pauschale Schuldzuweisung hilft nicht die allgemeine Gefährdung durch den Straßenbahnverkehr zu mindern. Ich bitte Sie aber auch, nur eine Minute an denjenigen zu denken, der in dieser Sekunde hinter dem Steuer der Tram saß.
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Von M4r am Freitag, 04.12.2009 um 10:41 Uhr
Re: Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger
Tragisch ist ein Unfall mit Todesfolge immer. Aber hier die Schuld dafür dem Staßenbahnfahrer zu geben halte ich einfach für falsch. Zudem es ca. 30m - 50m von der Unfallstelle entfernt eine Fussgängerampel gibt, an der man gefahrlos die Strasse überqueren kann. Was hätte denn der Fahrer machen sollen? Zum Glück sind bei der Vollbremsung keine Fahrgäste verletzt worden.
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Von MagicCity am Freitag, 04.12.2009 um 11:19 Uhr Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger Für mich als Anwohner des Czernyrings, der den Verkehrs-Wahnsinn hier täglich mitbekommt, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis es hier den ersten Verkehrstoten geben musste. Die Ursachen sind vielfältig:
Ein massives Verkehrsaufkommen auf einer vierspurigen Strasse, in der Mitte verläuft die Straßenbahntrasse. Für Fußgänger gibt auf dem gesamt Bereich vom Südende der Czernybrücke bis zur Bergheimer Straße nur einen einzigen Übergang in Höhe des Kaufhauses ToysRus. An diesem Überweg befindet sich eine Ampelanlage, welche wie so viele andere in Heidelberg extrem lange Wartezeiten für Fußgänger verursacht. Schaltet diese Ampel dann endlich auf Grün um, ist große Eile erforderlich, wenn man den Czernyring komplett, d.h. auch die Verkehrsinsel mit der Straßenbahnhaltestelle überqueren möchte. Hierbei gibt es regelmäßig Beinahe-Unfälle und natürlich auch richtige Unfälle (wie vor einigen Wochen, als ein Fußgänger genau an dieser Stelle von einer Straßenbahn lebensgefährlich verletzt wurde). Der Grund ist, dass die Fußgänger häufig nur auf die Autos achten und nicht die heranbrausenden Straßenbahnen im Blickfeld haben, für die die Ampelschaltung ja nicht relevant ist. Insgesamt muss ich dem Vorschreiber „Weststädter“ auch Recht geben, die Straßenbahnfahrer benutzen primär die Klingel bevor sie die Bremse betätigen.
Abgesehen von den Problemen mit den Bahnen ist der KFZ-Verkehr im Bereich Czernyring ein großes Problem, viele Autofahrer ignorieren die Fußgängerampel und bringen die Fußgänger in Lebensgefahr.
Mehrfache Nachfragen bei der Stadtverwaltung und auch bei der Polizei bzgl. einer Verbesserung der Verkehrssituation sind übrigens auf taube Ohren gestoßen. Die Verwaltung ist nicht dazu in der Lage, die Ampelschaltung zu verbessern, angeblich ist das aus Kostengründen nicht möglich. Weiterhin kann man auch keinen Zebrastreifen auf der Straße aufbringen, was m.E. allerdings sinnvoll wäre, um ein weiteres optisches Signal zu setzen. Geschwindigkeitskontrollen oder Kontrollen bzgl. des Überfahrens der roten Ampeln im Fußgängerbereich finden grundsätzlich nicht statt. Das alles würde Geld kosten und Aktivitäten erfordern, was aber für die Anwohner des Czernyrings, einer Gegend, welche ohnehin nicht zu den privilegierten Heidelbergs gehört, von den Behörden nicht geleistet wird. Das gibt man dann lieber großzügig für die Kultur aus, siehe Opernzelt, welches ca. 6.5 Mio EUR kostet. Das hat dann immerhin den Begleiteffekt, dass die lärmgeprüften Anwohner jetzt auch noch jeden Abend mit Opern beschallt werden, egal ob man das möchte, aber immerhin umsonst.
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Re: Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger - name - 04.12.2009 11:52 Re: Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger - weststädter - 04.12.2009 12:09 Straßenbahn überrollte Fußgänger - In der Straßenbahn gewese - 04.12.2009 14:45
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In Heidelberg wurde am Abend des 3. Dezember 2009 ein Fußgänger von einer Straßenbahn überrollt, wobei er tödlich verletzt wurde. Zu dem Unfall kam es als um 17:20 Uhr ein 53-jähriger Mann versuchte, den stark befahrenen Czerniring zu überqueren. Dort wurde er von einer Straßenbahn erfasst und überrollt. Die städtische Berufsfeuerwehr konnte den Mann gemeinsam mit einem Rettungsteam des zuständigen Verkehrsverbundes unter der Bahn der Linie 22 befreien, jedoch konnte der Notarzt nur noch den Tod des Mannes feststellen. Warum der Mann die stark befahrene Straße überquerte und warum er die nahende Straßenbahn nicht bemerkte, ist bislang unklar. Die Polizei ermittelt.
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Neue Rinderseuche erreicht die Schweiz
Aktualisiert am 04.07.2012 27 Kommentare Drucken
Laut eines Medienberichts ist bei Schweizer Kühen erstmals die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose nachgewiesen worden. Die Krankheit bereitet den Tieren grosse Schmerzen und führt unweigerlich zum Tod.
Die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose ist in der Schweiz angekommen. Das Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen bestätigt gegenüber «10vor10», dass die Tierkrankheit im Rahmen eines Monitoring bei vier Kühen nachgewiesen wurde. Die Untersuchung wurde von der Universität Zürich geleitet.
Die erkrankten Kühe leiden laut dem Bericht an Oedemen. Das Maul und die Zitzen verhornen, die Tiere haben im akuten Stadium grosse Schmerzen. Die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose führe bei einem betroffenen Rind unweigerlich zum Tod. «Es gibt mehrere Tiere, bei denen man nachweisen konnte, dass sie an Besnoitiose erkrankt sind», sagt Hans Wyss, Direktor des BVET, gegenüber «10vor10».
Durch Importe eingeschleppt
Verantwortlich für die Rinderseuche ist ein einzelliger Parasit. Die Übertragung erfolgt vor allem durch Stechinsekten wie Mücken und Bremsen. Experten vermuteten in den letzten Jahren schon mehrfach Fälle von Besnoitiose in der Schweiz, die sich aber nicht bestätigten. Professor Ueli Braun der Universität Zürich untersuchte deshalb im Rahmen einer Studie bei rund 300 Kühen, ob sich bei den importieren Tieren Besnoitiose nachweisen lässt. Bei vier Rindern fiel sein Test positiv aus.
Die Seuche wird durch Rinder-Importe in die Schweiz eingeschleppt. Die Krankheit, die ursprünglich bei Rindern in Afrika und im Mittelmeerraum auftrat, ist nun via Frankreich in die Schweiz gekommen. «Man musste damit rechnen, dass die Seuche auch in der Schweiz auftreten würde», sagt Hans Wyss zu «10vor10».
Es gibt keine Impfung gegen die Seuche. Besnoitiose ist für den Menschen ungefährlich. (fko)
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Die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose hat bereits viele Rinder in Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien getötet. Nun traten auch die ersten Fälle in der Schweiz auf. Es wurde jedoch teilweise Entwarnung von Experten gegeben.
Die Seuche bereitet den davon befallenen Rindern einen sehr qualvollen Tod. Besnoitiose wird durch Stechfliegen von Tier zu Tier übertragen und macht sich im Körper breit. Im Körper befällt sie das Gewebe und führt zu Hautveränderungen, Ödemen, starken Schmerzen und als letztes zum Tod.
Eine Untersuchung der Universität Zürich hat ergeben, dass vier Rinder, welche aus Frankreich importiert wurden, von dem Parasiten, der für die Seuche verantworlich ist, befallen sind. Hans Wyss vom Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen bestätigte dies gegenüber dem Nachrichtenmagazin „10vor10“.
Der Professor für Parasitologie an der Universität Bern, Bruno Gottstein, gab jedoch teilweise Entwarnung. Der Überträger, die Stechfliege, hat nur einen sehr kleinen Lebensraum, nämlich den in einer Tierherde. Somit ist die Seuche kontrollierbar.
Gottstein sagte: „Rinderzüchter in der Schweiz müssen keine Angst haben. Von diesen wenigen Tieren ausgehend kann es nicht zu einem schnellen Ausbruch kommen wie bei der Maul- und Klauenseuche oder der Blauzungen-Krankheit.“ Der Parasit ist für den Menschen auch nicht gefährlich. Wie der Bund sein weiteres Vorgehen plant, ist noch unklar. Die Züchter in der Schweiz müssen nun mit Rindern, welche aus dem Ausland importiert wurden, besonders vorsichtig sein.
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Die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose bereitet den befallenen Tieren einen qualvollen Tod. Der parasitäre Einzeller wird durch Stechfliegen von Tier zu Tier übertragen und breitet sich im Körper aus. Dort befällt er das Gewebe und führt zu Hautveränderungen, Ödemen, starken Schmerzen und schliesslich zum Tod. Eine Heilung oder Impfung gibt es nicht.
Ein von Besnoitiose befallenes Rind. (Bild: Universität Bern) Ein von Besnoitiose befallenes Rind. (Bild: Universität Bern)
Bei einer Untersuchung der Universität Zürich wurden nun bei vier von Frankreich in die Schweiz importierten Rindern besagte Parasiten festgestellt. Dies bestätigt Hans Wyss vom Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen gegenüber dem Nachrichtenmagazin «10vor10».
Besnoitiose ist in der Schweiz weitgehend unbekannt. Viele Bauern mussten sich deshalb erst über die Seuche informieren. So auch Markus Ritter, Vorsitzender des Schweizerischen Bauernverbands. Er kannte die Auswirkungen der Seuche noch nicht. «In der Landwirtschaft ist das Wissen über die Krankheit derzeit noch sehr gering», sagt er zu «10vor10».
«Rinderzüchter müssen keine Angst haben»
Bruno Gottstein, Professor für Parasitologie an der Universität Bern, gibt jedoch teilweise Entwarnung. Die Übertragung der Seuche ist sehr beschränkt. Dies, weil der Übertrager, die Stechfliege, einen sehr geringen Lebensraum hat. Die Seuche bleibt deshalb meist innerhalb der Herde und bleibt so kontrollierbar.
«Rinderzüchter in der Schweiz müssen keine Angst haben. Von diesen wenigen Tieren ausgehend kann es nicht zu einem schnellen Ausbruch kommen wie bei der Maul- und Klauenseuche oder der Blauzungen-Krankheit», meint Gottstein. Auch für den Menschen ist der Parasit ungefährlich. Das weitere Vorgehen des Bundes ist noch nicht beschlossen, bei Rinder-Importen aus dem Ausland müssen die Schweizer Züchter jedoch vorsichtig sein.
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Die Rinderseuche Besnoitiose hat bereits viele Rinder in Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien getötet. Nun traten auch die ersten Fälle in der Schweiz auf. Es wurde jedoch teilweise Entwarnung von Experten gegeben.
Die Seuche bereitet den davon befallenen Rindern einen sehr qualvollen Tod. Besnoitiose wird durch Stechfliegen von Tier zu Tier übertragen und macht sich im Körper breit. Im Körper befällt sie das Gewebe und führt zu Hautveränderungen, Ödemen, starken Schmerzen und als letztes zum Tod.
Eine Untersuchung der Universität Zürich hat ergeben, dass vier Rinder, welche aus Frankreich importiert wurden, von dem Parasiten, der für die Seuche verantworlich ist, befallen sind. Hans Wyss vom Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen bestätigte dies gegenüber dem Nachrichtenmagazin „10vor10“.
Der Professor für Parasitologie an der Universität Bern, Bruno Gottstein, gab jedoch teilweise Entwarnung. Der Überträger, die Stechfliege, hat nur einen sehr kleinen Lebensraum, nämlich den in einer Tierherde. Somit ist die Seuche kontrollierbar.
Gottstein sagte: „Rinderzüchter in der Schweiz müssen keine Angst haben. Von diesen wenigen Tieren ausgehend kann es nicht zu einem schnellen Ausbruch kommen wie bei der Maul- und Klauenseuche oder der Blauzungen-Krankheit.“ Der Parasit ist für den Menschen auch nicht gefährlich. Wie der Bund sein weiteres Vorgehen plant, ist noch unklar. Die Züchter in der Schweiz müssen nun mit Rindern, welche aus dem Ausland importiert wurden, besonders vorsichtig sein.
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Representação de como a caça pode ter sido nas Cordilheiras dos Andes na América do Sul há nove mil anos. Arqueólogos ficaram surpresos quando a análise da sepultura dessa época revelou que a pessoa enterrada, que se dedicava à caça, tinha o sexo biológico feminino.
FOTO DE MATTHEW VERDOLIVO, UC DAVIS IET ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Randall Haas, arqueólogo da Universidade da Califórnia em Davis, recorda o momento, em 2018, em que sua equipe de pesquisadores se reuniu em torno das escavações de uma sepultura de um indivíduo enterrado nas Cordilheiras dos Andes, no Peru, há cerca de nove mil anos. Juntamente com os ossos do que parecia ser um adulto humano, havia um impressionante — e extenso — kit de ferramentas de pedra utilizado por um antigo caçador para atividades desde a caçada de grandes animais à preparação de suas peles.
“Deve ter sido um grande caçador, alguém muito importante na sociedade” — foi o que Haas e sua equipe pensaram na ocasião.
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Mas uma análise mais profunda revelou uma surpresa: os restos mortais encontrados ao lado do kit de ferramentas eram de alguém do sexo biológico feminino. Além disso, provavelmente não havia nada incomum com essa antiga caçadora, segundo estudo publicado na revista científica Science Advances. A descoberta da equipe de Haas foi seguida por uma análise de sepulturas estudadas anteriormente da mesma época em todas as Américas — e revelou que as mulheres podem ter composto entre 30% e 50% dos caçadores de grandes animais.
Esse novo estudo é a mais recente reviravolta em um debate de décadas sobre papéis de gênero nas primeiras sociedades de caçadores-coletores. Geralmente era pressuposto que os homens pré-históricos caçavam enquanto as mulheres ficavam responsáveis pelas coletas de alimentos e pela criação dos filhos. Contudo alguns estudiosos alegam há décadas que esses papéis “tradicionais” — documentados por antropólogos que estudam grupos de caçadores-coletores em todo o mundo desde o século 19 — não se aplicam necessariamente ao nosso passado distante.
Embora o novo estudo faça uma argumentação persuasiva de que o indivíduo no Peru se tratava de uma caçadora, há muitas outras evidências que passaram despercebidas, afirma Pamela Geller, arqueóloga da Universidade de Miami que não participou do estudo.
“O acesso aos dados está disponível”, afirma Geller. “É apenas uma questão de interpretação por parte dos pesquisadores.”
O kit de ferramentas encontrado inclui pontas de projéteis, rochas pesadas – provavelmente para quebrar ossos ou descascar peles -, flocos para raspar e cortar e nódulos de ocre vermelho usados para preservar peles.
FOTO DE RANDY HAAS, UC DAVIS
De quem são as ferramentas?
Nas escavações da sepultura pelos arqueólogos, foi encontrado um conjunto abundante de 24 ferramentas de pedra. Entre elas, havia pontas de projéteis para caçar grandes mamíferos, pedras pesadas provavelmente para quebrar ossos ou extrair peles, pequenos fragmentos arredondados de pedras para raspar a gordura das peles, lascas pequenas com bordas bastante afiadas que poderiam ter sido utilizadas para cortar a carne e nódulos de ocre-vermelho que poderiam ajudar a preservar as peles. Espalhados pelo local, havia fragmentos de ossos de animais, inclusive de parentes antigos da lhama e de cervo.
Nas primeiras discussões sobre o kit de ferramentas, os pesquisadores presumiram que seu dono era um homem, talvez uma figura proeminente da sociedade, ou até mesmo o chefe do grupo. “Assumo meu erro”, afirma Haas, que pesquisa a região desde 2008. “Pensei que fazia sentido com base em minha compreensão do mundo.” Contudo, de volta ao laboratório, uma inspeção minuciosa dos ossos insinuou a fisiologia do sexo biológico feminino. Para confirmar, analisaram uma proteína que forma o esmalte dentário e está ligada ao sexo.
É importante ressaltar que a equipe não pode confirmar a identidade de gênero do indivíduo, apenas seu sexo biológico (que, como o gênero, nem sempre é binário). Em outras palavras, não é possível afirmar se, há nove mil anos, o indivíduo teve um estilo de vida que o identificasse dentro de sua sociedade como uma mulher.
Desafiando teorias
A descoberta de 2018 representa uma contestação à visão binária de gênero geralmente pressuposta para nossos primeiros ancestrais de que os homens atuariam como caçadores e as mulheres, como coletoras. A origem desse pressuposto são estudos de caçadores-coletores modernos, em que é mais comum que homens sejam responsáveis pela caça e as mulheres, pelos cuidados com os filhos, afirma Kim Hill, especialista em antropologia evolutiva humana da Universidade Estadual do Arizona, que não participou do estudo. “Não é possível simplesmente interromper a perseguição de um cervo para amamentar um bebê chorando”, escreveu Hill por e-mail.
No entanto, as deduções baseadas nos atuais caçadores-coletores apresentam limitações. Segundo Geller, alguns arqueólogos alegam há décadas que a visão simplista de caçadores homens e coletoras mulheres é, na realidade, uma simplificação excessiva. “Com poucas exceções, os pesquisadores que estudam grupos de caça e coleta — em diversos continentes — presumem uma divisão sexual do trabalho universal e rígida”, afirma ela. “Por utilizarem o senso comum, eles têm dificuldade em explicar por que indivíduos com corpo feminino também carregam sinais de caça nos esqueletos ou têm kits de ferramentas de caça em suas sepulturas.”
Segundo Geller, quando os pesquisadores encontraram sinais dessa discrepância no passado, “geralmente não se manifestaram, acreditando que ignorar as evidências as faria desaparecer”.
A caça provavelmente demandaria o maior número possível de adultos capazes para aumentar sua segurança e eficiência — qualquer que fosse seu sexo biológico. Após o desmame dos filhos, as mães poderiam ajudar em grandes caçadas, afirma Kathleen Sterling, arqueóloga da Universidade de Binghamton, que não participou do estudo. No entanto, mesmo com bebês, a caça ainda seria possível com a assistência de amamentação comunitária.
O significado dos objetos funerários
Intrigada pela descoberta de 2018, a equipe de Haas então analisou relatórios de escavações passadas de coletores-caçadores primitivos em todas as Américas. Muitos estudos anteriores também encontraram ferramentas de caça de pedra em sepulturas de indivíduos do sexo biológico feminino, mas essa nem sempre foi uma determinação clara. Em alguns casos, o sexo não foi determinado. Em outros, houve perturbações nas sepulturas que não deixaram claro se as ferramentas de pedra e os restos mortais haviam sido enterrados ao mesmo tempo. E ainda em outros casos, os escassos projéteis encontrados nas sepulturas podem ter sido até armas de assassinatos enterradas com suas vítimas.
Entretanto, quando as equipes de Haas analisaram casos individuais como parte de um conjunto maior de dados, constataram que, entre 27 das 429 sepulturas com indivíduos de sexo conhecido enterrados com ferramentas de caça, 11 são do sexo feminino — incluindo os restos recém-identificados — e 16 são do sexo masculino. As numerosas incertezas (como a perturbação da sepultura e a indeterminação sexual) estão presentes em sepulturas de homens e mulheres, afirma Haas. Assim, até mesmo após a exclusão dos casos mais duvidosos, a quantidade de sepulturas com ferramentas de caça entre homens e mulheres permanece semelhante.
“Esses padrões não seriam esperados em uma população se os homens fossem os únicos caçadores”, explica Haas.
Hill, da Universidade Estadual do Arizona, afirma que ainda não está totalmente convencido de que a mulher enterrada há nove mil anos tenha sido de fato uma caçadora em vida. Objetos funerários, como ferramentas de caça, poderiam ter sido enterrados juntos em virtude de crenças simbólicas ou religiosas, adverte ele.
O kit de ferramentas recém-descoberto pertencia ao indivíduo enterrado? Questionou-se Sterling. “Normalmente, não fazemos essa pergunta quando encontramos esses kits de ferramentas com homens”, afirma ela. “É só quando algo vai contra nossas concepções de gênero que fazemos essas indagações.”
Geller acrescenta: “é preciso fazer muita ginástica mental para tentar explicar essas descobertas”.
O kit de ferramentas encontrado na sepultura de nove mil anos era bastante diversificado e continha instrumentos preciosos, como pontas de projéteis difíceis de confeccionar, bem como ferramentas mais comuns, como lascas de pedra que podem ser facilmente criadas batendo pedras, o que sugere que as ferramentas não eram algum tipo de oferenda; pelo contrário, parecem objetos utilizados pelo indivíduo em vida, afirma Haas. Além disso, a quantidade convincente de mulheres sepultadas com ferramentas em toda a América fala por si só, acrescenta Sterling.
Para Geller, o debate possui importantes implicações para os dias atuais. “Há tanta disparidade de gênero atualmente que, se presumíssemos a existência de uma predisposição biológica, seria possível entender essa disparidade de gênero”, afirma ela. “Para mim essa presunção é perigosa e sem nenhum fundamento.”
Fonte: National Geographic Brasil
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Uma nova pesquisa da Universidade da Califórnia mostrou uma coisa surpreendente. Segundo as conclusões da análise, é possivel que o papel das mulheres nos primeiros grupos humanos tenha sido bem diferente do que os cientistas pensavam.
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O vírus da influenza é um pesadelo recorrente, que mata milhares de pessoas todos os anos. Aprenda como o vírus ataca os seus recetores, porque é quase impossível de erradicar e o que os cientistas estão a fazer para combatê-lo.
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Antes vistas apenas como coletoras, elas, na verdade, ocupavam entre 30% e 50% dos grupos de caça na América pré-histórica
Pamela Malva Publicado em 05/11/2020, às 08h00
Uma nova pesquisa da Universidade da Califórnia revelou algo inusitado. Segundo os resultados da análise, é provável que o papel das mulheres nos primeiros grupos humanos tenha sido bem diferente do que os cientistas imaginavam.
Antes do estudo, pensava-se que, na pré-história, os homens caçavam e as mulheres colhiam das plantações. Encontrada no sítio arqueológico de Wilamaya Patjxa, no Peru, todavia, a ossada de uma caçadora de 9 mil anos coloca toda essa teoria em cheque.
Publicada na Science Advances, a nova pesquisa “derruba a antiga hipótese do 'homem-caçador'”, segundo explicou Randy Haas, o principal autor do estudo. “Agora está claro que a divisão do trabalho era diferente — provavelmente mais justa”.
A partir da descoberta, os cientistas passaram a analisar diversos outros dados sobre o Pleistoceno e o início do Holoceno nas Américas. Entre um grupo de 429 indivíduos de 107 locais diferentes, 27 eram caçadores — sendo 11 mulheres e 15 homens.
Com isso, ficou claro que a participação das mulheres não era pontual: cerca de 30% a 50% dos caçadores nessas populações eram do gênero feminino. Agora, resta descobrir como as divisões de trabalho se davam em outros períodos e regiões.
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Por Miguel Ángel Criado
Publicado no El País
Uma jovem de 17 a 19 anos enterrada há cerca de 8.000 anos com suas armas mostra que caçar animais de grande porte não era apenas uma atividade de homens pré-históricos. Após sua descoberta, seus autores revisaram outras cem sepulturas, descobrindo que mais de um terço dos caçadores eram, na verdade, caçadoras. Esses resultados desafiam a ideia dominante de que nas primeiras comunidades humanas já havia uma divisão de trabalho por gênero.
Em 2018, arqueólogos americanos e peruanos escavaram uma série de túmulos a 3.925 metros de altura, no distrito de Puno, nos Andes peruanos. Em uma das tumbas, ao lado de um corpo mal conservado, havia cerca de vinte pedras esculpidas. Quatro dos artefatos eram pontas afiadas, provavelmente usadas em flechas, pequenas lanças impulsionadas por uma espécie de tubo. Também haviam facas de sílex e outros objetos pontiagudos. Também encontraram ocre que, além de ser usado como pigmento, servia para passar na pele. Elas estavam tão próximas que os cientistas pensaram que haviam entrado em um morteiro. A uma curta distância estavam os restos de tarucas (veados andinos) e vicunhas. O mais surpreendente, de fato, ocorreu depois: pela análise dos ossos, os cientistas presumiram que se tratava de uma mulher – especialmente, uma caçadora.
“Inicialmente, observamos a estrutura óssea do indivíduo. Visto que mulheres e homens têm pequenas diferenças ósseas, o sexo pode ser estimado com algumas medições. Isso funciona quando os restos do esqueleto estão bem preservados”, disse o antropólogo da Universidade da Califórnia em Davis, EUA, e principal autor do estudo, Randy Haas, por e-mail. Mas no sítio arqueológico de Wilamaya Patjxa, apenas parte do crânio, dentes e fragmentos de um fêmur e uma tíbia permaneceram. Com o colágeno extraído desses ossos, os cientistas puderam determinar a data da morte: 8.008 anos atrás, 16 anos para cima ou para baixo. Devido ao desenvolvimento dos dentes, os pesquisadores estimaram que sua a idade estava entre 17 e 19 anos. Mas com poucas pistas sobre o gênero.
Os cientistas confirmaram que era uma mulher usando uma sofisticada técnica biomolecular desenvolvida no ano passado, chamada de análise de amelogenina, uma proteína encontrada no esmalte dos dentes. “Acontece que essas proteínas estão ligadas ao sexo e, portanto, é possível estimar a partir delas com alto grau de precisão”, explica Haas, cujo trabalho acaba de ser publicado na revista científica Science Advances.
Saber se era um caçador ou uma caçadora é importante. A teoria dominante entre antropólogos e etnógrafos é que nas comunidades antigas que dependiam da caça e da coleta havia uma divisão de trabalho marcada por gênero: os homens caçavam e as mulheres coletavam. Mas quase não há pistas sobre essa divisão de tarefas nos sítios arqueológicos. A principal evidência é circunstancial: nos atuais grupos humanos, que ainda são caçadores e coletores, o homem é o caçador.
Partindo dessa única caçadora, Haas e seus colegas revisaram estudos de 107 outros túmulos americanos com restos mortais de 429 indivíduos datados entre 12.700 e 7.800 anos atrás. 27 dos enterrados descansavam ao lado de suas armas de caça. E 11 deles eram mulheres. Extrapolando, isso significaria que mais de um terço dos caçadores pré-históricos eram realmente caçadoras, pelo menos, na América.
“A teoria do homem-caçador não foi confirmada com dados arqueológicos, mas apenas com dados etnográficos”, comenta a arqueóloga Kathleen Sterling, da Binghamton University (EUA). “Tradicionalmente, a caça tem sido considerada como a mais prestigiosa, exigente e perigosa do que a coleta e essas são características que associamos estereotipadamente às atividades dos homens”, acrescenta a pesquisadora, que não participou da pesquisa.
Essa especialista em tecnologia lítica pré-histórica lembra que “a caça maior, com renas ou bisões, não dependia de força ou habilidade, mas de número: as formas usadas no Pleistoceno consistiam em empurrar rebanhos em direção a penhascos ou armadilhas, ou jogar lanças em rebanhos que não matariam diretamente os animais, mas os deixariam feridos, sendo pisoteados ou incapazes de acompanhar o rebanho. Naquela época, os humanos viviam em pequenos grupos, então a maioria dos jovens e adultos seria necessária na caçada de uma forma ou de outra”.
“Em geral, como a divisão do trabalho por gênero foi amplamente verificada entre as sociedades tradicionais, os arqueólogos presumiram que ela também era comum no passado”, diz o antropólogo Steven L. Kuhn, da Universidade do Arizona, que não participou do estudo. “Por outro lado, muito do que sabemos sobre essa divisão do trabalho é baseado na ideologia, no que as pessoas pensam que é o ideal”.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The website was operated from South Korea, and its owner is now in jail there
More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplaces", investigators said.
The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times.
It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence.
But on Wednesday, officials revealed that 337 suspected users had been arrested across 38 countries.
US officials unsealed nine indictments against the site's owner Jong Woo Son, 23, from South Korea – where he is currently in prison.
The UK's National Crime Agency said arrests had been made in the UK, Ireland, America, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and Canada - among others.
The site, named Welcome to Video, was run from South Korea and had nearly eight terabytes of content involving child abuse - enough to store hundreds or even thousands of hours of video footage.
Prosecutors said the site had offered videos of sex acts involving children, infants and toddlers – and specifically asked users not to upload videos featuring adults-only pornography.
Image copyright NCA UK Image caption A "this site has been seized" screen with the logos of US, UK, German and other law enforcement agencies
The site was "one of the first to offer sickening videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin," the UK's National Crime Agency said.
It was taken down by an international task force that included agencies from the UK, the US, South Korea and Germany after operating for three years.
It was discovered during an investigation into paedophile Matthew Falder from England, who was jailed for 25 years for sharing abuse tips and images on the dark web.
In the UK, seven men have already been convicted in connection with the investigation, including Kyle Fox who was jailed for 22 years last March for the rape of a five-year-old boy and who appeared on the site sexually abusing a three-year-old girl.
Suspects were identified after crime agencies traced the site's cryptocurrency transactions back to them.
About 23 children have been rescued from active abuse situations, the joint task force said at a press conference about the operation.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Victim of Matthew Falder: "I don't speak to my family anymore"
They are continuing to trace other children seen in the videos.
"Dark web child sex offenders...cannot hide from law enforcement," the UK's National Crime Agency investigations lead, Nikki Holland, said.
"They're not as cloaked as they think they are, they're not as safe as they think they are."
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Yesterday, authorities in the United Kingdom and the United States announced that 337 suspected users in 38 countries were arrested following an investigation of a child pornography site. The website was based in South Korea and accepted as payment. Law enforcement agencies from Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States were part of the international task force. The current phase of investigation and arrests began in 2018.
The website after it was shuttered by authorities via Twitter
At the center of the case was a website known as "Welcome To Video" and its alleged operator Jong Woo Son from South Korea. According to authorities, the site hosted a quarter million video clips containing sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and infants. The site was said to have begun operations in June 2015. Authorities shuttered and seized the site in March 2018.
Jong Woo Son is already in prison in South Korea, but yesterday the unsealed further charges against him. United States Attorney said, "Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims … We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve."
Nikki Holland of the UK's (NCA) said, "Dark web child sex offenders — some of whom are the very worst offenders — cannot hide from law enforcement. They're not as cloaked as they think they are, they're not as safe as they think they are." It was the NCA's investigation of which led to the discovery of the South Korean website.
Jong was arrested in March, 2018, but South Korea's when announcing the arrest in May, 2018 identified him only as "Mr. A" as the international investigation continued. Some of the site's users already pleaded guilty or were convicted before yesterday's announcements. Allegedly, Jong processed 7300 in membership fees and video purchases. As of this writing, one bitcoin is worth approximately US$8000 or €7000. The site also allegedly made use of , a layered network designed to keep users anonymous.
US authorities claimed the site was the largest child pornography site in the world and that more than twenty active victims were rescued. Listed US states as having members from the site were: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. They also stated arrests were made in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Despite the lengthy lists provided, neither US nor British authorities delivered a complete list of the 38 countries they said were involved.
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The dark web, a section of the internet that can only be accessed via a Tor browser, is designed to protect users' tracks online and obscure digital footprints.
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Yesterday, authorities in the United Kingdom and the United States announced that 337 suspected users in 38 countries were arrested following an investigation of a child pornography site. The website was based in South Korea and accepted as payment. Law enforcement agencies from Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States were part of the international task force. The current phase of investigation and arrests began in 2018.
The website after it was shuttered by authorities via Twitter
At the center of the case was a website known as "Welcome To Video" and its alleged operator Jong Woo Son from South Korea. According to authorities, the site hosted a quarter million video clips containing sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and infants. The site was said to have begun operations in June 2015. Authorities shuttered and seized the site in March 2018.
Jong Woo Son is already in prison in South Korea, but yesterday the unsealed further charges against him. United States Attorney said, "Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims … We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve."
Nikki Holland of the UK's (NCA) said, "Dark web child sex offenders — some of whom are the very worst offenders — cannot hide from law enforcement. They're not as cloaked as they think they are, they're not as safe as they think they are." It was the NCA's investigation of which led to the discovery of the South Korean website.
Jong was arrested in March, 2018, but South Korea's when announcing the arrest in May, 2018 identified him only as "Mr. A" as the international investigation continued. Some of the site's users already pleaded guilty or were convicted before yesterday's announcements. Allegedly, Jong processed 7300 in membership fees and video purchases. As of this writing, one bitcoin is worth approximately US$8000 or €7000. The site also allegedly made use of , a layered network designed to keep users anonymous.
US authorities claimed the site was the largest child pornography site in the world and that more than twenty active victims were rescued. Listed US states as having members from the site were: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. They also stated arrests were made in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Despite the lengthy lists provided, neither US nor British authorities delivered a complete list of the 38 countries they said were involved.
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337 arrested after takedown of horrific dark web child abuse site Welcome To Video
Three-hundred and thirty-seven suspects have been arrested globally in multi-agency operations sparked by a National Crime Agency investigation into one of the UK’s worst ever child sex offenders.
The arrests were made in 38 countries including the UK, Ireland, America, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and Canada.
Welcome To Video was taken down by an international taskforce set up by the NCA and included Homeland Security Investigations and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation in America, the South Korean National Police and Germany’s Federal Criminal Police.
The site – run from South Korea – contained more than 250,000 horrific videos. Users had made more than one million downloads.
The website monetised the sexual abuse of children and was one of the first to offer sickening videos for sale using the cryptocurreny bitcoin.
In the UK, 18 investigations were developed from the intelligence and seven men have already been convicted – including one jailed for 22 years for raping a five-year-old boy and appearing on Welcome To Video sexually abusing a three-year-old girl.
The NCA uncovered Welcome To Video during its investigation into the geophysicist Dr Matthew Falder. In 2017 Falder admitted 137 offences including encouraging child rape and sharing images of a newborn baby being abused. He’s serving a 25-year jail sentence.
Officers from the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) used specialist capabilities to identify that Welcome To Video was being run from South Korea by Jong Woo Son, aged 23. They also analysed cryptocurrency transactions to identify site users.
In March 2018 NCA officers travelled to South Korea and, in conjunction with IRS and HSI, advised police on their operational plan, helped with Son’s arrest and assisted with the server’s take down.
The agency’s National Targeting Centre then developed intelligence on all UK suspects, preparing profiles and briefings for NCA operational teams and UK police forces.
Today (Wednesday), Son was charged with nine counts in the United States relating to him running the website. The South Korean national has already been convicted and jailed in his home country.
Nikki Holland, NCA Director of Investigations, said: “Dark web child sex offenders – some of whom are the very worst offenders – cannot hide from law enforcement.
“They’re not as cloaked as they think they are, they’re not as safe as they think they are.
“The NCA is relentless in pursuing them and we have specialist capabilities, which we use for all UK law enforcement, to unmask them and help take down sites like Welcome To Video.
“I’m immensely proud of the role we played in catching some very depraved and dangerous global offenders and for beginning the work that eventually caught Jong Woo Son.”
The most heinous UK case to come from Welcome To Video resulted in Kyle Fox, aged 26, being jailed for 22 years in March this year.
Fox, from Surrey, admitted 14 charges against a five-year-old boy including seven rapes; and five charges of sexual assault against a three-year-old girl. Footage of him abusing the girl was uploaded to Welcome To Video but Fox denied posting it.
Fox’s face was not visible in the footage but the NCA’s victim identification team resolved his real-life identity.
The case illustrates what the NCA is seeing in child sexual abuse offending: increases in severity, scale and complexity.
We are seeing a direct link between viewing abuse images and contact abuse, as well as offenders using the dark web and encryption to hide their activity and identifies.
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs the Stop It Now! Helpline which offers confidential advice to anyone concerned about their own or someone else’s behaviour towards children.
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Yesterday, authorities in the United Kingdom and the United States announced that 337 suspected users in 38 countries were arrested following an investigation of a child pornography site. The website was based in South Korea and accepted as payment. Law enforcement agencies from Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States were part of the international task force. The current phase of investigation and arrests began in 2018.
The website after it was shuttered by authorities via Twitter
At the center of the case was a website known as "Welcome To Video" and its alleged operator Jong Woo Son from South Korea. According to authorities, the site hosted a quarter million video clips containing sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and infants. The site was said to have begun operations in June 2015. Authorities shuttered and seized the site in March 2018.
Jong Woo Son is already in prison in South Korea, but yesterday the unsealed further charges against him. United States Attorney said, "Children around the world are safer because of the actions taken by U.S. and foreign law enforcement to prosecute this case and recover funds for victims … We will continue to pursue such criminals on and off the darknet in the United States and abroad, to ensure they receive the punishment their terrible crimes deserve."
Nikki Holland of the UK's (NCA) said, "Dark web child sex offenders — some of whom are the very worst offenders — cannot hide from law enforcement. They're not as cloaked as they think they are, they're not as safe as they think they are." It was the NCA's investigation of which led to the discovery of the South Korean website.
Jong was arrested in March, 2018, but South Korea's when announcing the arrest in May, 2018 identified him only as "Mr. A" as the international investigation continued. Some of the site's users already pleaded guilty or were convicted before yesterday's announcements. Allegedly, Jong processed 7300 in membership fees and video purchases. As of this writing, one bitcoin is worth approximately US$8000 or €7000. The site also allegedly made use of , a layered network designed to keep users anonymous.
US authorities claimed the site was the largest child pornography site in the world and that more than twenty active victims were rescued. Listed US states as having members from the site were: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. They also stated arrests were made in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Despite the lengthy lists provided, neither US nor British authorities delivered a complete list of the 38 countries they said were involved.
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Le ministre britannique de la Défense Des Browne a redit dimanche que les troupes britanniques resteraient en Irak jusqu'à ce que "le travail soit fait" en dépit de la dégradation de la sécurité dans le pays.
"Les forces britanniques quitteront (l'Irak) lorsque le travail sera fait", a déclaré M. Browne sur Sky News. "Nous sommes engagés dans un processus de transition en faveur du gouvernement irakien depuis quelques mois maintenant", a-t-il ajouté. "Ceci est un processus, pas un événement" ponctuel, a-t-il insisté. "Nous sommes assez avancés dans le processus de tranfert des responsabilités aux Irakiens", a-t-il souligné.
M. Browne a apporté ces précisions alors que les appels en faveur d'un changement de la stratégie américano-britannique en Irak se font pressants face à la dégradation de la situation dans le pays.
Le président George W. Bush a consulté samedi ses généraux sur la réponse à apporter à la flambée de violences en Irak, où plus de 70 soldats américains ont été tués en Irak en octobre, l'un des bilans les plus lourds depuis l'intervention américano-britannique en mars 2003.
De son côté, l'ancien représentant britannique en Irak en 2003 et 2004, Jeremy Greenstock, a estimé que les troupes de la coalition devaient rester rester en Irak, mais qu'il y avait "un prix à payer" pour cela. "Nous devons en payer le prix et rester là-bas", a-t-il déclaré sur Sky News. Un retrait ne sera possible que lorsque l'armée irakienne sera en mesure d'assurer la sécurité, a-t-il ajouté, en estimant "que cela va prendre cinq ans ou plus"
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Londres et Washington ont annoncé qu'ils maintiendront leurs troupes basées en Irak jusqu'à ce malgré la forte recrudescence de violence dans le pays. Les troupes américaines ont enregistré la perte de 70 hommes depuis le début du mois.
Selon l'ancien représentant britannique en Irak, Jeremy Greenstock, il faudra compter au moins cinq ans pour que les irakiens puissent assurer leur propre sécurité.
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Two brothers aged under 10 found dead after fire tears through family home
Two young brothers were found dead after a house was engulfed by fire yesterday morning.
Other members of the family had managed to escape the 6am outbreak by leaping out of the windows.
Firefighters called to the end of terrace property in the Bradley Stoke area of Bristol saw the blaze spreading through the first floor and roof space.
Two young brothers - named locally as Mackenzie, seven, and Charlie, five, were discovered on the first floor after rescue attempts failed
Witnesses said the parents, Lee and Alex Whitton, escaped from the three-bedroom home with their baby, Jack, and sons Adam, 16, and Thomas, nine.
But the bodies of the family’s other two boys, named locally as Mackenzie, seven, and Charlie, five, were discovered on the first floor after rescue attempts failed.
Neighbour Beverley Cockram said: ‘I was trying to jump up and drag the boys out of the window but it was just too hard. Thomas jumped from the window, but Mackenzie and Charlie were in there.’
Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesman William Roberts said smoke alarms were fitted but it is not known if they were in working order as the damage to the property was so extensive.
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A house fire in Bristol, England has caused the deaths of two brothers, identified as Charlie, aged five, and seven-year-old Mackenzie. Emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The bodies were discovered by , at the scene in the suburb of around 0630 . and services were also in attendance. Prior to their arrival, three other children and two adults escaped from the building in Merryweather Close through windows.
Speaking on behalf of , manager William Roberts explained: "When crews arrived, the fire was fully developed and engulfing the first floor and roof space. Sadly, when crews entered the building they found the children. They were both upstairs, one in back bedroom, one in front. It is a sad day for the Bradley Stoke community and Avon fire. The ceiling has fallen in on itself and on top of our evidence. This is probably the worst fire I've seen in my 32 years."
According to Roberts, smoke alarms were in the building, however the damage was "so extensive" that it is uncertain as to whether or not they were functioning correctly. "A full investigation has been launched by the police and fire investigators. No formal identification has yet taken place," 's Detective Sergeant Simon Chubb stated.
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Two children killed in Bristol house fire
Investigators are waiting for the house to be made safe before they go inside
Two young children have been found dead after a severe house fire in the Bradley Stoke area of Bristol.
Firefighters were called to the end-of-terrace property in Merryweather Close at 0630 GMT.
A fire service spokesman said two adults and three children escaped from the house before crews arrived.
But he said the bodies of two boys, both aged under 10, were discovered on the first floor. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Beverley Cockram, who said she was godmother to one of the youngsters, said one of the surviving children had jumped from a first-floor window.
She said: "I jumped up and tried to get them out, but it was too hot. It was melting. I couldn't get him."
'Worst fire'
William Roberts, group manager at Avon Fire and Rescue Service, said: "When crews arrived, the fire was fully developed and engulfing the first floor and roof space.
"Sadly, when crews entered the building they found the children. They were both upstairs, one in back bedroom, one in front.
"It is a sad day for the Bradley Stoke community and Avon fire.
The cause of the fire is not yet known
"The ceiling has fallen in on itself and on top of our evidence.
"This is probably the worst fire I've seen in my 32 years."
He said smoke alarms were fitted at the house, but it was not yet known if they were in working order because the damage to the property was "so extensive".
Three crews attended and four firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the fire in the three-bedroom house using two jets.
A spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police said they were working with fire investigators to establish the cause.
She said they were waiting for engineers to make the building structurally safe before going inside.
Local priest, the Reverend Tom Webber, said: "Like everybody else we're in state of shock.
"Over next few days we will be looking to support them. Our prayers will be with them."
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A house fire in Bristol, England has caused the deaths of two brothers, identified as Charlie, aged five, and seven-year-old Mackenzie. Emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The bodies were discovered by , at the scene in the suburb of around 0630 . and services were also in attendance. Prior to their arrival, three other children and two adults escaped from the building in Merryweather Close through windows.
Speaking on behalf of , manager William Roberts explained: "When crews arrived, the fire was fully developed and engulfing the first floor and roof space. Sadly, when crews entered the building they found the children. They were both upstairs, one in back bedroom, one in front. It is a sad day for the Bradley Stoke community and Avon fire. The ceiling has fallen in on itself and on top of our evidence. This is probably the worst fire I've seen in my 32 years."
According to Roberts, smoke alarms were in the building, however the damage was "so extensive" that it is uncertain as to whether or not they were functioning correctly. "A full investigation has been launched by the police and fire investigators. No formal identification has yet taken place," 's Detective Sergeant Simon Chubb stated.
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Two young children have died in a blaze that ripped through a Bristol house.
Emergency services were called to the end-of-terrace house in Merryweather Close, Bradley Stoke, early this morning.
Two adults and three children had escaped from the house but tragically two other children were found dead inside the property by fire and rescue crews. It is understood they were all members of one family.
Detective Sergeant Simon Chubb, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "A full investigation has been launched by the police and fire investigators. No formal identification has yet taken place."
Police, fire and ambulance teams had been called to the cul-de-sac at 6.30am and could see the flames and smoke as they approached.
William Roberts, of Avon Fire and Rescue Service, said flames had already engulfed the first floor and were going through the roof and upstairs windows.
Crews were told two children were trapped inside and four fire fighters wearing breathing apparatus went inside to try and rescue them. But they found both of them dead - one at the front of the house and the other at the rear of the premises.
Two of the surviving youngsters were taken to Bristol Children's Hospital and the third, believed to be a teenager, went to Bristol Royal Infirmary with the adults to be treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns.
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A house fire in Bristol, England has caused the deaths of two brothers, identified as Charlie, aged five, and seven-year-old Mackenzie. Emergency services were called to the scene in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The bodies were discovered by , at the scene in the suburb of around 0630 . and services were also in attendance. Prior to their arrival, three other children and two adults escaped from the building in Merryweather Close through windows.
Speaking on behalf of , manager William Roberts explained: "When crews arrived, the fire was fully developed and engulfing the first floor and roof space. Sadly, when crews entered the building they found the children. They were both upstairs, one in back bedroom, one in front. It is a sad day for the Bradley Stoke community and Avon fire. The ceiling has fallen in on itself and on top of our evidence. This is probably the worst fire I've seen in my 32 years."
According to Roberts, smoke alarms were in the building, however the damage was "so extensive" that it is uncertain as to whether or not they were functioning correctly. "A full investigation has been launched by the police and fire investigators. No formal identification has yet taken place," 's Detective Sergeant Simon Chubb stated.
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The death toll from the monster tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo., has soared to 116, making it the deadliest single tornado in nearly 60 years, according to federal records.
And, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told The Associated Press of the death toll, "Clearly, it's on its way up."
The lethal Joplin twister has also made 2011 the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953, with 454 deaths in 1,000 tornadoes so far, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA began keeping records of tornado fatalities in 1950. Before Sunday's storm, the deadliest tornado hit Flint, Mich., on June 8, 1953, also killing 116 people, although independent record keepers have recorded higher death counts in earlier years.
This past April also set a record as the deadliest month on record with 361 tornado related deaths, according to NOAA's records.
The Joplin tornado was rated as an EF-4, the second-strongest classification with winds ranging between 166 and 200 mph. The nearly mile-wide funnel touched down at 5:41 p.m. CT Sunday and blasted a six mile wide path through the city and left trapped survivors crying out for help this morning.
Rescuers shifted through rubble today looking for survivors as high winds and hail continues to plague the area.
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As of approximately nightfall Monday, 17 people had been pulled alive from the wreckage, Gov. Nixon said.
In fact, the storm and its aftermath included amazing stories of survival.
One man was saved by rescuers after texting his friend his location and the words, "I'm alive."
"You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That's really what it looked like," Kerry Sachetta, the principal of Joplin High School, which was mangled by the tornado. "I couldn't even make out the side of the building. It was total devastation in my view. I just couldn't believe what I saw."
Nixon declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and activated the Missouri National Guard in response to the destruction.
Four people were killed at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin when it took a direct hit from the tornado. Patients and staff have been evacuated as damage suffered during the storm has affected the structural integrity of the building. Every window in the facility was blown out and the top two floors were blown off, ABC News affiliate KMBC reported.
Jeff Roberson/AP Photo Josh Ramsey looks through the rubble of what... View Full Size Jeff Roberson/AP Photo Josh Ramsey looks through the rubble of what is left of his mother-in-law's home following a tornado Monday, May 23, 2011, in Joplin , Mo. A massive tornado that tore a... View Full Caption Josh Ramsey looks through the rubble of what is left of his mother-in-law's home following a tornado Monday, May 23, 2011, in Joplin , Mo. A massive tornado that tore a six-mile path across southwestern Missouri killed more than 100 people as it smashed the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving behind only splintered tree trunks where entire neighborhoods once stood. Close
Hospital spokeswoman Cora Scott told the station that 183 patients were in the hospital at the time and the facility only had five minutes warning that the tornado would strike. More than 100 patients have since been evacuated to other hospitals, Scott said.
Seven people have been reported dead at a nursing home, according to police reports.
Kelley Fritz, a 45-year-old resident of Joplin, went out with her family after the storm to survey the damage. "My sons had deceased children in their arms when they came back," said Fritz. "My husband and I went out and saw two or three dead bodies on the ground."
Authorities estimate 25 to 30 percent of Joplin has been damaged by the tornado, with highly populated areas having been hit by the storm.
Cries could be heard early this morning from people trapped below the wreckage, while crews have been pulling out bodies and lining them up in the streets for loved ones to identify, according to ABC News affiliate KODE.
Search and rescue efforts are being hampered by continuing severe weather today, including 40 mph gusts and hail. Strong winds can topple the cranes used to lift wreckage, although current wind speeds are still allowing their use.
More severe weather, including high winds, rain and hail, is expected Tuesday before the storms finally abate later in the week, according to Accuweather meteorologist Mark Paquette.
There is also a fear of gas explosions in the storm's aftermath and authorities are telling people not to light any cigarettes because so many gas pipes are broken, causing concern that what's left of Joplin might go up in flames, KODE reported.
"These storms have caused extensive damage across Missouri, and they continue to pose significant risk to lives and property," Gov. Nixon said. "As a state, we are deploying every agency and resource available to keep Missouri families safe, search for the missing, provide emergency medical care, and begin to recover."
State and local law enforcement agencies, including fire mutual aid, are coordinating search and rescue and recovery operations. The Missouri State Highway Patrol sent troopers from other regions to help local officers in southern Missouri deal with the destruction, the governor's office said in a statement.
Keith Stammer, emergency management director for the city of Joplin, told "Good Morning America" that all 25 of the city's sirens did activate, and that there was a 20-minute notice from when the sirens were activated before there was a first report of a tornado strike.
"At the moment its surreal, our landmarks are gone -- road signs, places where you know to turn -- we're doing search and rescue, going house to house on that six mile strip," Stammer told "GMA."
Jeff Piotrowsky, a storm chaser who was in Joplin at the time the storm hit and spoke to "GMA" about witnessing the tornado form over the city, said, "We saw a big cloud mass and we knew it was going to start tornadoing. It quickly brewed to a half mile wide, then three-quarters ? then it came to the heart of the city," Piotrowsky said, adding that "there was a warning, about 17 minutes."
Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII set up a response coordination center and sent a liaison team to the Missouri state emergency communications center, according to a FEMA official.
"Basically it's an all-out effort to get all of the most important resources available for this type of situation down as soon as possible," a state emergency management representative said.
In total, 70 tornadoes were produced by the storm system since Friday, including at least 47 tornadoes Sunday. Tornadoes were reported in seven states from the Canadian border to Oklahoma. Warnings and watches were posted from Texas to Michigan.
President Obama released a statement on the emergency late Sunday night, saying, "Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the families of all those who lost their lives in the tornadoes and severe weather that struck Joplin, Missouri as well as communities across the Midwest today. We commend the heroic efforts by those who have responded and who are working to help their friends and neighbors at this very difficult time," Obama said in the statement.
"At my direction, FEMA is working with the affected areas' state and local officials to support response and recovery efforts, and the federal government stands ready to help our fellow Americans as needed," he added.
The President is sending FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate to Missouri to ensure that the state has all the support it needs. Today, FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino will also travel to Joplin to survey the destruction in the town and meet with state and local officials.
Earlier Sunday, tornadoes had torn across other parts of the region, killing at least one person in Minneapolis.
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A tornado touched down yesterday in , Missouri, causing widespread damage. At least 89 were killed.
The path of the tornado was reported to be from one half to three quarters of a mile wide. City spokeswoman Lynn Onstot estimated the path to be nearly four miles long; Jasper County emergency management director Keith Stammer put its length around six miles.
Witnesses described entire blocks of buildings destroyed. Steve Runnels of the said "We have reports of significant structural damage to strong buildings. Automobiles have been flipped, bark was stripped off trees."
Among the properties damaged was a local hospital, St. John's Regional Medical Center. Some patients were hurt, and all were evacuated to other regional hospitals. The local high school, Joplin High School, was also hit. Describing the damage, its principal, Kerry Sachetta, said "You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That's really what it looked like. I couldn't even make out the side of the building."
Joplin has a population of about 50,000.
President Barack Obama has ordered the (FEMA) to support state and local efforts in response and recovery. He issued a statement with condolences to the families of victims.
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Behörden sehen keine Gefahr durch Antibiotikum in Futtermitteln
Magdeburg — Fleisch und Milch aus 22 Landwirtschaftsbetrieben in Sachsen-Anhalt, bei denen mit Antibiotika belastetes Futtermittel gefunden wurde, dürfen verkauft werden. Es bestehe "keine Gefahr für Verbraucher", teilte das Sozialministerium am Donnerstag in Magdeburg mit. Bei der abschließenden Untersuchung von sechs Milchproben sei das für Nutztiere verbotene Antibiotikum Chloramphenicol "nicht nachweisbar" gewesen. Damit sei abschließend geklärt, dass keine gesundheitliche Gefährdung für die Verbraucher bestehe.
Insgesamt waren 55 Tonnen des belasteten Futtermittels an 22 Betriebe in Sachsen-Anhalt geliefert worden. 22 Tonnen davon konnten bei den Bauern sichergestellt werden. Die für das Futtermittel bestimmte Vormischung stammte von einem niedersächsischen Unternehmen, das sie aus China bezogen hatte. Bereits Untersuchungen des Futtermittels hatten laut Sozialministerium ergeben, dass "nur geringste, analytisch nicht nachweisbare Spuren des verbotenen Antibiotikums im Fertigfuttermittel enthalten sein konnten".
+++ Berichtigung: In der Überschrift heißt es nun übereinstimmend zum Inhalt der Meldung richtig, dass die Behörden keine Gefahr durch Antibiotikum in Futtermitteln sehen. +++
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Ein Futtermittelhersteller aus dem Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt hat das Umweltministerium in Magdeburg darüber informiert, dass bei der Herstellung von Tierfutter eine Vitaminmischung verarbeitet worden sei, die das in Tierfutter verbotene Antibiotikum Chloramphenicol enthielt. Das Sozialministerium des Bundeslandes sieht jedoch „keine Gefahr für Verbraucher“, weil die Verunreinigung sehr gering sei. 180 Tonnen so verunreinigtes Tierfutter aus 49 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben sollen nun zurückgeholt werden.
Die Vitaminmischung stammte von einem niedersächsischen Hersteller, der sie wiederum aus China bezogen hatte. Laut dem Bundesinstitut für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin (BgVV) ist Chloramphenicol seit 1994 in „Lebensmittel liefernden Tieren“ innerhalb der Europäischen Union aus Sicherheitsgründen verboten, obwohl eine wissenschaftliche Einschätzung des von dem Antibiotikum ausgehenden Gefährdungspotentials aufgrund der unzureichenden Datengrundlage zurzeit noch nicht möglich sei.
Das Breitbandantibiotikum wird seit über 40 Jahren in der Tiermedizin und in der Humanmedizin verwendet. Es wird allerdings nur als Reserveantibiotikum eingesetzt. Es hemmt die Proteinsynthese von Bakterien. Therapeutische Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit dem Medikament enthalten den Hinweis, dass Chloramphenicol in seltenen Fällen zu schweren Knochenmarksschäden führen kann. Gegenüber der Mitteldeutschen Zeitung wies der Allergologe Hans-Dieter Göring außerdem darauf hin, dass Chloramphenicol ein starkes Allergen sei. Zwar sei die Giftwirkung von der Höhe der Dosis abhängig, dies gelte jedoch nicht für allergische Reaktionen, die bereits bei geringsten Mengen auftreten könnten. Gerade geringe Mengen Chloramphenicol können zu einer allergischen Reaktion führen: „Jeder folgende Kontakt mit dem Schadstoff kann dann verschiedene Krankheitserscheinungen auslösen.“ Wenn eine Allergie auftrete, könne diese auch auf die gesamte Stoffgruppe übertragen werden. Zur Stoffgruppe der sogenannten Parastoffe gehörten beispielsweise Farbstoffe und Konservierungsmittel in Lebensmitteln.
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Ein Futtermittelhersteller aus dem Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt hat das Umweltministerium in Magdeburg darüber informiert, dass bei der Herstellung von Tierfutter eine Vitaminmischung verarbeitet worden sei, die das in Tierfutter verbotene Antibiotikum Chloramphenicol enthielt. Das Sozialministerium des Bundeslandes sieht jedoch „keine Gefahr für Verbraucher“, weil die Verunreinigung sehr gering sei. 180 Tonnen so verunreinigtes Tierfutter aus 49 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben sollen nun zurückgeholt werden.
Die Vitaminmischung stammte von einem niedersächsischen Hersteller, der sie wiederum aus China bezogen hatte. Laut dem Bundesinstitut für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin (BgVV) ist Chloramphenicol seit 1994 in „Lebensmittel liefernden Tieren“ innerhalb der Europäischen Union aus Sicherheitsgründen verboten, obwohl eine wissenschaftliche Einschätzung des von dem Antibiotikum ausgehenden Gefährdungspotentials aufgrund der unzureichenden Datengrundlage zurzeit noch nicht möglich sei.
Das Breitbandantibiotikum wird seit über 40 Jahren in der Tiermedizin und in der Humanmedizin verwendet. Es wird allerdings nur als Reserveantibiotikum eingesetzt. Es hemmt die Proteinsynthese von Bakterien. Therapeutische Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit dem Medikament enthalten den Hinweis, dass Chloramphenicol in seltenen Fällen zu schweren Knochenmarksschäden führen kann. Gegenüber der Mitteldeutschen Zeitung wies der Allergologe Hans-Dieter Göring außerdem darauf hin, dass Chloramphenicol ein starkes Allergen sei. Zwar sei die Giftwirkung von der Höhe der Dosis abhängig, dies gelte jedoch nicht für allergische Reaktionen, die bereits bei geringsten Mengen auftreten könnten. Gerade geringe Mengen Chloramphenicol können zu einer allergischen Reaktion führen: „Jeder folgende Kontakt mit dem Schadstoff kann dann verschiedene Krankheitserscheinungen auslösen.“ Wenn eine Allergie auftrete, könne diese auch auf die gesamte Stoffgruppe übertragen werden. Zur Stoffgruppe der sogenannten Parastoffe gehörten beispielsweise Farbstoffe und Konservierungsmittel in Lebensmitteln.
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Debatte Verunreinigtes Futter löst Gefahrendebatte aus
erstellt 20.01.11, 22:11h, aktualisiert 22.01.11, 00:07h
MAGDEBURG/DAPD/MZ Über die Frage, ob das in Futtermitteln gefundene Antibiotikum eine Gefahr für die Verbraucher darstellt, ist in Sachsen-Anhalt eine Debatte entbrannt. Das Gesundheitsministerium des Landes sieht nach dem Fund des verbotenen Chloramphenicol keine Gefahr für die Verbraucher. Der Allergologe Hans-Dieter Göring warnte dagegen gegenüber der MZ vor allergischen Reaktionen auf das Antibiotikum.
Das Ministerium hatte am Donnerstag in Magdeburg mitgeteilt, dass Milch und Fleisch aus den betroffenen 22 Betrieben verwertet werden dürfen. In den sechs entnommenen Milchproben sei Chloramphenicol nicht nachweisbar gewesen. Laut Ministerium konnten aufgrund von Proben und Berechnungen auch im Futtermittel "nur geringste, analytisch nicht nachweisbare Spuren" des verbotenen Antibiotikums enthalten gewesen sein.
"Chloramphenicol ist ein starkes Allergen", sagte dagegen der Immunologe Göring. Es könne bei wiederholtem Kontakt zu allergischen Reaktionen führen, und zwar trotz geringer Mengen. Nur bei der Giftwirkung des Antibiotikums komme es auf die Menge an. Eine Allergie gegen Chloramphenicol dagegen entstehe gerade durch niedrige Dosen, erklärte der Mediziner. "Jeder folgende Kontakt mit dem Schadstoff kann dann verschiedene Krankheitserscheinungen auslösen."
Außerdem bestehe die Gefahr, eine Allergie gegen die gesamte Gruppe von Substanzen, zu der Chloramphenicol gehört, zu entwickeln, sagte Göring. Zu dieser Stoffgruppe, den Parastoffen, gehören nach Angaben des Experten zum Beispiel Farbstoffe und Konservierungsmittel in Lebensmitteln.
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Ein Futtermittelhersteller aus dem Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt hat das Umweltministerium in Magdeburg darüber informiert, dass bei der Herstellung von Tierfutter eine Vitaminmischung verarbeitet worden sei, die das in Tierfutter verbotene Antibiotikum Chloramphenicol enthielt. Das Sozialministerium des Bundeslandes sieht jedoch „keine Gefahr für Verbraucher“, weil die Verunreinigung sehr gering sei. 180 Tonnen so verunreinigtes Tierfutter aus 49 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben sollen nun zurückgeholt werden.
Die Vitaminmischung stammte von einem niedersächsischen Hersteller, der sie wiederum aus China bezogen hatte. Laut dem Bundesinstitut für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin (BgVV) ist Chloramphenicol seit 1994 in „Lebensmittel liefernden Tieren“ innerhalb der Europäischen Union aus Sicherheitsgründen verboten, obwohl eine wissenschaftliche Einschätzung des von dem Antibiotikum ausgehenden Gefährdungspotentials aufgrund der unzureichenden Datengrundlage zurzeit noch nicht möglich sei.
Das Breitbandantibiotikum wird seit über 40 Jahren in der Tiermedizin und in der Humanmedizin verwendet. Es wird allerdings nur als Reserveantibiotikum eingesetzt. Es hemmt die Proteinsynthese von Bakterien. Therapeutische Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit dem Medikament enthalten den Hinweis, dass Chloramphenicol in seltenen Fällen zu schweren Knochenmarksschäden führen kann. Gegenüber der Mitteldeutschen Zeitung wies der Allergologe Hans-Dieter Göring außerdem darauf hin, dass Chloramphenicol ein starkes Allergen sei. Zwar sei die Giftwirkung von der Höhe der Dosis abhängig, dies gelte jedoch nicht für allergische Reaktionen, die bereits bei geringsten Mengen auftreten könnten. Gerade geringe Mengen Chloramphenicol können zu einer allergischen Reaktion führen: „Jeder folgende Kontakt mit dem Schadstoff kann dann verschiedene Krankheitserscheinungen auslösen.“ Wenn eine Allergie auftrete, könne diese auch auf die gesamte Stoffgruppe übertragen werden. Zur Stoffgruppe der sogenannten Parastoffe gehörten beispielsweise Farbstoffe und Konservierungsmittel in Lebensmitteln.
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Antibiotika (Chloramphenicol)
Synonyme: Chloramphenicol
Definition: Chloramphenicol ist ein antibakterieller Wirkstoff aus der Gruppe der Antibiotika, der nur noch als Reserveantibiotikum zum Einsatz kommt, da er in seltenen Fällen zu einer nicht wieder rückbildbaren Knochenmarksschädigung führen kann. Chloramphenicol wird als Alternative zu anderen Antibiotika erster Wahl bei verschiedenen Magen-Darm-Infektionen sowie bei bestimmten Hirnhautinfekten eingesetzt. Wirkungen: Chloramphenicol hemmt die Proteinsynthese von Bakterien. Anwendung bei: Typhus
Paratyphus A und B
Salmonellen-Sepsis und -Meningitis
Hämophilus-Meningitis Spezielle Hinweise: Chloramphenicol kann zu schweren Knochenmarksschäden führen. Daher sind Blutbildkontrollen unter der Therapie mit Chloramphenicol unverzichtbar. Bei ungeborenen Kindern kann die Einnahme von Chloramphenicol zum sogenannten Gray-Syndrom führen, im Extremfall mit Todesfolge, da es hierbei zu Atemnot und Kreislaufkollaps kommen kann. Unter anderem aus diesem Grund ist die Verabreichung von Chloramphenicol in der Schwangerschaft und Stillzeit nicht erlaubt.
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Ein Futtermittelhersteller aus dem Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt hat das Umweltministerium in Magdeburg darüber informiert, dass bei der Herstellung von Tierfutter eine Vitaminmischung verarbeitet worden sei, die das in Tierfutter verbotene Antibiotikum Chloramphenicol enthielt. Das Sozialministerium des Bundeslandes sieht jedoch „keine Gefahr für Verbraucher“, weil die Verunreinigung sehr gering sei. 180 Tonnen so verunreinigtes Tierfutter aus 49 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben sollen nun zurückgeholt werden.
Die Vitaminmischung stammte von einem niedersächsischen Hersteller, der sie wiederum aus China bezogen hatte. Laut dem Bundesinstitut für gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin (BgVV) ist Chloramphenicol seit 1994 in „Lebensmittel liefernden Tieren“ innerhalb der Europäischen Union aus Sicherheitsgründen verboten, obwohl eine wissenschaftliche Einschätzung des von dem Antibiotikum ausgehenden Gefährdungspotentials aufgrund der unzureichenden Datengrundlage zurzeit noch nicht möglich sei.
Das Breitbandantibiotikum wird seit über 40 Jahren in der Tiermedizin und in der Humanmedizin verwendet. Es wird allerdings nur als Reserveantibiotikum eingesetzt. Es hemmt die Proteinsynthese von Bakterien. Therapeutische Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit dem Medikament enthalten den Hinweis, dass Chloramphenicol in seltenen Fällen zu schweren Knochenmarksschäden führen kann. Gegenüber der Mitteldeutschen Zeitung wies der Allergologe Hans-Dieter Göring außerdem darauf hin, dass Chloramphenicol ein starkes Allergen sei. Zwar sei die Giftwirkung von der Höhe der Dosis abhängig, dies gelte jedoch nicht für allergische Reaktionen, die bereits bei geringsten Mengen auftreten könnten. Gerade geringe Mengen Chloramphenicol können zu einer allergischen Reaktion führen: „Jeder folgende Kontakt mit dem Schadstoff kann dann verschiedene Krankheitserscheinungen auslösen.“ Wenn eine Allergie auftrete, könne diese auch auf die gesamte Stoffgruppe übertragen werden. Zur Stoffgruppe der sogenannten Parastoffe gehörten beispielsweise Farbstoffe und Konservierungsmittel in Lebensmitteln.
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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2006
BellSouth, the third-largest local phone company in the United States, said Monday that after an internal review it had found no evidence that it had even been contacted by the agency. "From the review we conducted, we cannot establish any link between BellSouth" and the security agency, Jeff Battcher, a company spokesman, said in an interview. "We wouldn't have made this bold statement if we weren't confident about this." USA Today reported Thursday that BellSouth, along with its larger rivals AT&T; and Verizon, had handed over customer calling records without warrants as part of the security agency's efforts to build a huge database for use in tracking terrorists. AT&T; and Verizon reiterated statements that they were vigilant about privacy but not comment on national security matters. The USA Today report said Qwest Communications International, the smallest of the four Bell companies, was the only one to turn down government requests for telephone records. The company has declined to confirm or deny that account, though a former chief executive of Qwest has affirmed that he rebuffed such requests. Representatives of USA Today did not respond to requests for comment. The newspaper's report last week prompted lawmakers to threaten to subpoena phone company executives. They also called on the Bush administration to explain how it had been using the phone records. Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, on Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to examine whether AT&T;, Verizon and BellSouth had violated privacy safeguards under communications law. BellSouth has said that it did not share customer calling records with the U.S. National Security Agency, denying a report last week that it was among three major telephone companies to have done so.BellSouth, the third-largest local phone company in the United States, said Monday that after an internal review it had found no evidence that it had even been contacted by the agency."From the review we conducted, we cannot establish any link between BellSouth" and the security agency, Jeff Battcher, a company spokesman, said in an interview. "We wouldn't have made this bold statement if we weren't confident about this."USA Today reported Thursday that BellSouth, along with its larger rivals AT&T; and Verizon, had handed over customer calling records without warrants as part of the security agency's efforts to build a huge database for use in tracking terrorists.AT&T; and Verizon reiterated statements that they were vigilant about privacy but not comment on national security matters.The USA Today report said Qwest Communications International, the smallest of the four Bell companies, was the only one to turn down government requests for telephone records.The company has declined to confirm or deny that account, though a former chief executive of Qwest has affirmed that he rebuffed such requests.Representatives of USA Today did not respond to requests for comment.The newspaper's report last week prompted lawmakers to threaten to subpoena phone company executives.They also called on the Bush administration to explain how it had been using the phone records.Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, on Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to examine whether AT&T;, Verizon and BellSouth had violated privacy safeguards under communications law.
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BellSouth, said in a statement yesterday that the telecommunications company did not hand over customer call records to the National Security Agency or NSA. On May 11, 2006, ''USA Today'' reported that the NSA collected millions of call logs from telecommunications companies in 2001 under a contract the NSA claims to have had with the company.
BellSouth said that they conducted a "internal review" and that the review "confirmed no such contract exists and we have not provided bulk customer calling records to the NSA," said Jeff Battcher, spokesman for BellSouth.
"We do not believe that any final review will turn up anything different from what we have currently found. There is no link between the NSA and BellSouth that we can find in what we feel is a very exhaustive review. We wouldn't have made this bold statement if we weren't confident about this," added Battcher.
AT&T and Verizon Communications were also said to have handed over customer call logs, but Verizon said on Friday that they don't "and will not, provide any government agency unfettered access to our customer records or provide information to the government under circumstances that would allow a fishing expedition."
On Monday, Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications asked for help from the Federal Communications Commission or FCC, to investigate whether Verizon, AT&T, and BellSouth violated privacy rights under communication laws and regulations.
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Belgium is set to tighten its coronavirus containment measures following a sharp spike in infections, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes announced today, with face masks and tracing measures set to be made compulsory.
The European country reported a 91 per cent hike in new infections last week, forcing the government to U-turn on plans to relax social distancing measures today.
Read more: London coronavirus cases: How many infections are in your London borough?
New measures set to come into effect on Saturday will see Belgians forced to wear a mask in public spaces including high streets and outdoor markets, along with compulsory face coverings for non-seated customers in all bars and restaurants.
As in the UK, hospitality venues will be required to take a register of customers’ contact details to facilitate tracing in case of localised outbreaks. Off licenses, liquor stores and other late-night shops will have to close by 10pm.
Belgium introduced a nationwide lockdown on 18 March in a bid to curb the rapid spread of infection, which has so far claimed 9,808 lives in a country that has one of the world’s highest fatality rates per capita.
“The latest figures should not throw us into panic but have to be taken seriously,” Wilmes said in a news conference today.
However, Belgium’s local authorities have warned that they may have to restore full lockdowns on communities if infection rates continue to rise around the country.
Read more: House sales begin to recover as lockdown measures ease
The public will still be allowed to meet as many as 15 friends a week, Wilmes said today, after the government last week said they were considering slashing the number to 10.
The new measures are set to be enforced for at least five weeks, with a potential easing of restrictions earmarked for 1 September, the PM added, in a sign of hope for the country’s revenue-driving trade fairs.
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A reforçará as medidas de contenção do em 25 de julho, após um aumento nas infecções, disse a primeira-ministra .
Sob as novas medidas, os belgas terão que usar uma máscara em público, inclusive em mercados ao ar livre, ruas comerciais e outros locais movimentado.
Medidas mais rigorosas também serão impostas a bares e restaurantes, onde as máscaras se tornarão obrigatórias para quem não estiver sentado. Os clientes também terão que deixar seus detalhes de contato para facilitar o rastreamento em caso de surtos localizados. As lojas noturnas terão que fechar às 22h.
A sede da e da (OTAN) impôs um bloqueio em 18 de março, em um esforço para conter o surto, que matou 9.808 pessoas em um país com uma das maiores taxas de mortalidade per capita do mundo.
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C'est en analysant les signaux émis par 2,5 millions d'étoiles qu'Ermanno Borra, professeur au département de physique de l'Université Laval, et son étudiant au doctorat Éric Trottier ont fait une étonnante découverte.
Ils ont noté que la lumière émanant de 234 étoiles présentait un drôle de phénomène appelé « modulations périodiques spectrales » - des oscillations très rapides et régulières qui semblent impossibles à expliquer par des phénomènes naturels. Fait intrigant, les signaux proviennent presque tous d'étoiles très similaires à notre Soleil. Les données astronomiques analysées proviennent de l'observatoire d'Apache Point, au Nouveau-Mexique.
L'HYPOTHÈSE
Que sont exactement ces mystérieux signaux cosmiques ? Dans leur article scientifique, les auteurs examinent plusieurs hypothèses. S'il s'agissait d'un artefact provoqué par les instruments ou d'un effet découlant du traitement des signaux, l'effet aurait été observé chez toutes les étoiles, pas seulement 234 d'entre elles, plaident les chercheurs.
D'autres phénomènes comme la « transition de rotation des molécules » ont aussi été écartés pour des raisons techniques. Les auteurs concluent leur article en avançant l'hypothèse que les signaux proviennent de 234 civilisations extraterrestres qui, par un moyen encore inconnu, auraient coordonné leurs efforts pour envoyer des signaux vers la Terre exactement à la même périodicité.
« Je ne dis pas que c'est certain à 100 %. Mais oui, après avoir examiné toutes les autres explications, il s'agit de notre hypothèse principale. - Ermanno Borra, à La Presse
Selon lui, de tels signaux auraient pu être émis par des lasers comme il en existe sur Terre.
Les travaux des chercheurs québécois ont été publiés dans une revue sérieuse, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Dans un article scientifique précédent, le professeur Ermanno Borra avait prédit que des extraterrestres pourraient émettre des signaux similaires à ceux qu'il vient de capter s'ils voulaient communiquer avec nous.
LA CONTROVERSE
L'article, on s'en doute, a fait beaucoup réagir - et pas toujours de façon positive. Dans un forum de discussion, Éric Korpela, astronome associé au centre de recherche d'intelligence extraterrestre à l'Université Berkeley, a reproché aux chercheurs de n'avoir pas confirmé leurs observations avec un deuxième télescope avant de publier leurs travaux. « Encore un auteur qui ne suit pas les protocoles recommandés », a-t-il laissé tomber. Selon lui, l'hypothèse la plus probable reste celle d'un artefact dû aux instruments.
« Les affirmations extraordinaires exigent des preuves extraordinaires », ont aussi indiqué par voie de communiqué les gens de Breakthrough Listen, un projet lancé par le milliardaire russe Youri Milner et l'astrophysicien britannique Stephen Hawking visant à détecter des signes d'intelligence artificielle. Le groupe affirme que « toutes les explications naturelles doivent être épuisées avant d'invoquer les agents extraterrestres ».
Il existe une grille d'analyse, appelée échelle de Rio, qui évalue l'importance et la crédibilité des affirmations concernant la détection de signaux extraterrestres. Sur une échelle de 10, Breakthrough Listen attribue une note de « 0 ou 1 » aux affirmations de Borra et de Trottier, soit une crédibilité « nulle » ou « non significative ».
LES VÉRIFICATIONS
En entrevue à La Presse, Ermanno Borra s'explique mal les critiques suscitées par l'article. « Nous sommes tous d'accord qu'il faut d'autres observations par d'autres personnes pour valider l'hypothèse. Mais pour que cela se fasse, il faut d'abord que nous publiions un article avec les données ! La seule façon de justifier des travaux subséquents, c'est qu'il y ait un article publié. C'est comme ça que la science fonctionne. »
Le projet Breakthrough Listen est d'ailleurs entré en contact avec Ermanno Borra et a annoncé qu'il braquerait un télescope optique vers plusieurs des étoiles nommées par les chercheurs québécois afin de « vérifier ou réfuter les détections rapportées ». Le groupe a affirmé à La Presse qu'il s'agit d'une question de semaines avant qu'il obtienne des résultats.
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Le professeur au département de de l', Ermanno Borra, ainsi que son étudiant au doctorat, Éric Trottier, ont observé un étrange à la suite de l'analyse de 2,5 millions d'. Les chercheurs ont remarqués que 234 des étoiles étudiées renvoyaient des signaux hors du commun qui sont difficilement explicables par des phénomènes naturels. Cette manifestation, appelée , est en faite des très rapides et régulières qui, selon le professeur, auraient pu être émis par des .
Les auteurs refusent de croire que ce phénomène aurait pu être causé par un produit des instruments et d'un effet découlant du traitement des signaux, car il aurait été observé chez toutes les étoiles sans exceptions.
La publication de cet article a fait réagir de nombreux . En effet, plusieurs ont reproché aux auteurs d'avoir sauté trop vite aux conclusions et de ne pas avoir suivi les protocoles recommandés. Le projet '''' a annoncé qu'il reproduira l' dans le but de confirmer ou d'infirmer l'hypothèse principale du professeur et de son étudiant.
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Il y a de ces découvertes qui vous laissent une drôle d’impression. Vous vous dites que cela ne peut pas être vrai, mais vous ne trouvez pas non plus de raison pour lesquelles elles seraient fausses.
C’est le cas d’une observation du professeur Ermanno Borra et de son étudiant Éric Trottier de l’Université Laval, qui vient d’être acceptée pour publication par la revue PASP, et qui pourrait être interprétée comme un signal lumineux en provenance de civilisations extraterrestres. Entre vous et moi, cela fait quelques années que cette découverte a été faite et ce n’est que maintenant qu’elle a été publiée parce que cela a été long de convaincre un comité de lecture.
J’ai personnellement suivi cette recherche depuis quelques années. Ermanno Borra est un de mes anciens professeurs à l’université et j’ai gardé une bonne relation avec lui. Alors, parfois quand on se croisait au hasard au centre d’achat, je lui posais une question sur cette recherche tout en soumettant des hypothèses plausibles pour ses observations.
L’idée d’utiliser des lasers comme moyen de communication entre civilisations interstellaires a été proposée pour la première fois par Charles Townes et Robert Schwartz en 1961. Dans le cas présent, on parle d’impulsions dont la durée serait de l’ordre de la femtoseconde (10-15 s). Ces impulsions sont si courtes qu’elles sont essentiellement de la lumière blanche. De plus, elles seraient émises en train périodique rapproché dans le temps, ce qui donnerait un motif périodique dans le domaine spectral. Ce motif pouvant être aisément détecté par une analyse simple des spectres stellaires intégrés, et ce même avec un petit télescope.
L’histoire ne s’arrête pas là. En examinant 2,5 millions de spectres du Sloan Digital Sky Survey, l’équipe de chercheurs québécois a trouvé 234 étoiles présentant ces oscillations périodiques, principalement de type F2 à K1 donc pas très différentes du spectre solaire, et jamais sur des galaxies. Ce signal est aussi observé pratiquement toujours à la même fréquence temporelle et correspond à quelques cent millièmes de la puissance de l’étoile (10-5).
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L’explication la plus plausible est un effet instrumental. En effet, n’importe quel type d’interférence produit des oscillations périodiques. La difficulté de trouver une source probable vient du fait que le phénomène est observé que chez une étoile sur dix mille, pas toujours au même endroit dans le champ de vue et pas toujours sur les mêmes fibres qui transportent la lumière et en plus sur les deux bandes de longueurs d’onde (bleu et rouge) du spectromètre. Optiquement, cela ne peut donc venir que d’une composante optique de ~250 μm d’épaisseur commune aux deux bandes spectrales et donc situées en amont du spectromètre. Le problème est que le train optique étant relativement simple, il n’y a pas vraiment de composante qui pourraient expliquer cela.
Les fibres elles-mêmes sont des sources potentielles. Historiquement, les spectromètres à fibre présentaient beaucoup de franges d’interférences. Dans le cas présent, elles ont un diamètre de 120 mm, ce qui semble inadéquat. De plus, la rareté du phénomène pose des problèmes si l’on suppose un défaut avec les fibres. L’autre problème est que c’est la préférence pour les étoiles possédant certains spectres, ce qui complique encore les choses comme me là fait remarquer le professeur Borra en communication privée.
L’hypothèse extraterrestre présente aussi son lot de difficultés. En effet, pourquoi utiliseraient-ils toujours la même fréquence ? Par ailleurs, il faudrait qu’ils nous visent avec leur laser parmi une multitude d’objets.
Avoir à parier, je miserais sur un effet bizarre d’interaction optique au niveau de la tête des fibres. Il est probable qu’un effet spatial soit en jeu, car le phénomène n’est pas observé pour les galaxies qui sont une source étendue. Cependant, ma connaissance des fibres optiques est trop limitées pour aller plus loin dans cette hypothèse.
Évidemment, la façon la plus simple d’en avoir le cœur net est de prendre des spectres de ces étoiles avec un autre instrument et de voir si le signal est présent. Il ne reste plus donc que de remplir une demande de temps de télescope ou de rechercher les archives pour voir si ce signal existe réellement.
Ajout à 15:52 le 12 octobre
L’équipe du Berkeley SETI research center a ajouté quelques étoiles repérées par les chercheurs québécois à son programme de recherche avec le télescope Automated Planet Finder dont le spectromètre possède des caractéristiques semblables à celles du Sloan Sky Survey,. Il devrait donc y avoir une vérification indépendante bientôt.
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Le professeur au département de de l', Ermanno Borra, ainsi que son étudiant au doctorat, Éric Trottier, ont observé un étrange à la suite de l'analyse de 2,5 millions d'. Les chercheurs ont remarqués que 234 des étoiles étudiées renvoyaient des signaux hors du commun qui sont difficilement explicables par des phénomènes naturels. Cette manifestation, appelée , est en faite des très rapides et régulières qui, selon le professeur, auraient pu être émis par des .
Les auteurs refusent de croire que ce phénomène aurait pu être causé par un produit des instruments et d'un effet découlant du traitement des signaux, car il aurait été observé chez toutes les étoiles sans exceptions.
La publication de cet article a fait réagir de nombreux . En effet, plusieurs ont reproché aux auteurs d'avoir sauté trop vite aux conclusions et de ne pas avoir suivi les protocoles recommandés. Le projet '''' a annoncé qu'il reproduira l' dans le but de confirmer ou d'infirmer l'hypothèse principale du professeur et de son étudiant.
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Poświęcenie na polu walki i dokonania w pracy, wybitne osiągnięcia w sferze nauki i kultury wielu pokoleń rosyjskich Polaków - to nieodłączna część historii naszej wieloetnicznej Ojczyzny - napisał Putin.
Prezydent wyraził zadowolenie, że Kongres Polaków w Rosji stara się kultywować pamięć o tej unikatowej spuściźnie, bierze aktywny udział w życiu społecznym, realizuje ważne projekty oświatowe i edukacyjne.
I - naturalnie - wnosi znaczący wkład w zachowanie kulturowej różnorodności w naszym kraju, utrwalenie międzyetnicznego dialogu i zgody - dodał Putin.
W przypadku tego typu depeszy na pewno nie można mówić o przypadku. Putin nie wysyła bowiem przypadkowych listów i na pewno nie robi tego na dzień przed wyborami. Rosyjska Polonia liczy tylko 140 tysięcy osób. Należy więc wątpić w tezę, że za depeszą stoi tylko chęć pozyskania dodatkowych głosów.
To raczej sygnał dla Warszawy i owe docenienie wkładu Polaków w rozwój Rosji. Słowa rosyjskiego przywódcy mogą zostać odebrane jako zasygnalizowanie chęci ocieplenia stosunków z Polską. Z resztą, nieprzypadkowo o depeszy natychmiast poinformowały służby prasowe Kremla.
Przypomnijmy, że pierwszy gest na drodze do polepszenia polsko-rosyjskich relacji wykonał polski premier. Donald Tusk poinformował w tym tygodniu, że Warszawa nie będzie dłużej blokować negocjacji Rosji dotyczących jej członkostwa w OECD.
Kongres Polaków w Rosji - to największa organizacja polonijna w tym kraju. W obradach zjazdu bierze udział 60 delegatów z 30 miast.
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Grafika:Putin (cropped).jpg|thumb|Władimir Putin
W specjalnej depeszy do uczestników IV Zjazdu Polaków w Rosji prezydent Władimir Putin podkreślił rolę, jaką Polacy odegrali w rozwoju jego kraju. Słowa te prezydent Rosji skierował zwłaszcza do Polaków zamieszkujących ten kraj.
Putin w swoim liście mówił o "poświęceniu na polu walki i dokonaniach w pracy (...) wielu pokoleń rosyjskich Polaków". Prezydent Rosji pochwalił kultywowanie przez Kongres Polaków tradycji i zwyczajów, a zarazem docenił wielki wkład w rozwój Federacji Rosyjskiej.
List został odczytany w przededniu wyborów do rosyjskiej Dumy. Jednak eksperci zauważają, że słowa Putina wysłane do Polaków nie mają na celu tylko pozyskanie ich głosów, ale są sygnałem ocieplenia stosunków z Polską. Są odpowiedzią na pierwsze pozytywne dla Rosji decyzje, jakie podjął nowy premier Polski Donald Tusk.
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China's coal mining industry is the deadliest in the world claiming thousands of lives a year [EPA]
The fire at a mine near Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, is thought to have been caused by an electrical fault, the official Xinhua news agency said.
At least 25 miners have died after a fire broke out at an illegal coal mine in central China, state media has said.
The mine's owner, manager and an investor were detained by police late on Monday following the blaze, Xinhua said.
The incident is the latest in a series of to hit China's disaster-prone mining industry.
Six miners in the pit at the time of the fire managed to escape, but others working in mine were burned to death, police said.
China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, claiming the lives of thousands of miners every year.
Labour rights groups say safety standards often ignored in the quest for profits and the drive to meet surging demand for coal, which provides about 70 per cent of China's energy.
The government has vowed to step up enforcement of workplace safety laws and crackdown on illegal and unsafe mines.
But a high demand for coal and a ready supply of cheap and willing labour means that for many mine operators the temptations of a fast profit are too great.
Earlier this month, more than 30 miners were killed in a flood at a coal mine in the Inner Mongolia region in northern China.
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According to local media, 25 people have died in an illegal coal mine in central China, after a fire broke out there.
The incident occurred at the mines of the Dongxing Coal Mining Company, near the city of Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan province. It is believed that the fire was started by an electrical fault, the Xinhua news agency reports. There were 31 total miners inside the mine; six were able to escape, but the others burnt to death.
The owner, manager, and an investor of the mine were taken into police custody on Monday. Their assets, and those of the mine, have been frozen by the authorities. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, although an investigation is underway.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world; according to Al Jazeera, several thousand miners die each year due to accidents in them. Earlier this month, over 30 people were killed in another coal mine in the northern part of the country, after a flood. The government has pledged to crack down upon illegal mines and enforce safety rules.
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Twenty-five people were confirmed dead in a central China coal mine fire that occurred on Monday night, local government said Tuesday.
Cables caught fire at 8:30 p.m. in a main pit of Dongxing Coal Mining Co. in Xinmi City in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, when 31 workers were working underground, according to the Information Office of the Zhengzhou City Government.
Six miners were saved in a rescue operation that ended at about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
The mine is in operation illegally, initial investigation showed.
Local police have detained at least three mine managers and forzen their and also the mine's assets.
Source: Xinhua
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According to local media, 25 people have died in an illegal coal mine in central China, after a fire broke out there.
The incident occurred at the mines of the Dongxing Coal Mining Company, near the city of Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan province. It is believed that the fire was started by an electrical fault, the Xinhua news agency reports. There were 31 total miners inside the mine; six were able to escape, but the others burnt to death.
The owner, manager, and an investor of the mine were taken into police custody on Monday. Their assets, and those of the mine, have been frozen by the authorities. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, although an investigation is underway.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world; according to Al Jazeera, several thousand miners die each year due to accidents in them. Earlier this month, over 30 people were killed in another coal mine in the northern part of the country, after a flood. The government has pledged to crack down upon illegal mines and enforce safety rules.
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25 dead in central China coal mine fire
BEIJING — An electrical fire at an illegal coal mine in central China has left 25 people dead, the latest fatal accident to rock the country's mining industry.
Three people — the mine's owner, manager and an investor — have been detained by police following the Monday night blaze at the mine in Henan province, near the famed Shaolin kung fu temple, said He Yu, an official in the press office of the Zhengzhou city Communist Party.
The mine is located in Xinmi city, which is overseen by Zhengzhou city.
Six of the 31 miners underground managed to escape the fire, He said.
It was not clear how the electrical fire started. An investigation was under way.
China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, despite a multiyear government effort to reduce fatalities. Most accidents are blamed on failure to follow safety rules or lack of required ventilation, fire-control and other equipment.
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According to local media, 25 people have died in an illegal coal mine in central China, after a fire broke out there.
The incident occurred at the mines of the Dongxing Coal Mining Company, near the city of Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan province. It is believed that the fire was started by an electrical fault, the Xinhua news agency reports. There were 31 total miners inside the mine; six were able to escape, but the others burnt to death.
The owner, manager, and an investor of the mine were taken into police custody on Monday. Their assets, and those of the mine, have been frozen by the authorities. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, although an investigation is underway.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world; according to Al Jazeera, several thousand miners die each year due to accidents in them. Earlier this month, over 30 people were killed in another coal mine in the northern part of the country, after a flood. The government has pledged to crack down upon illegal mines and enforce safety rules.
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Der 29-jährige Somalier, der versucht hat, den dänischen Karikaturisten Kurt Westergaard wegen dessen Mohammed-Zeichnungen zu töten, ist des „versuchten Mordes“ und des „versuchten Terrorismus“ schuldig gesprochen worden. Er muss für neun Jahre in Haft.
Der dänische Karikaturist Kurt Westergaard.
Foto: dpa
Der dänische Karikaturist Kurt Westergaard.
Foto: dpa
Für den mit einer Axt verübten Angriff auf den dänischen Mohammed-Karikaturisten Kurt Westergaard muss der verurteilte Täter aus Somalia für neun Jahre ins Gefängnis. Neben der Haftstrafe für den 29-Jährigen verfügte das zuständige Gericht in Aarhus am Freitag auch seine anschließende Ausweisung aus Dänemark. Der Täter legte Berufung gegen das Urteil ein.
Eigentlich hätte das Urteil schon am Dienstag fallen sollen, doch die Findung gestaltete sich schwierig. Zu komplex der Fall, zu viele Details, die es zu berücksichtigen gab. Insofern überraschte es dann doch, dass die drei Richter und sechs Schöffen am Dienstag zu einer einstimmigen Entscheidung kamen: Ja, die Attacke des 29-jährigen Somaliers auf Kurt Westergaard war versuchter Mord – und versuchter Terror.
Somit folgte das Gericht der Argumentation der Staatsanwältin, die immer wieder betont hatte, Westergaard sei als Hauptperson des Karikaturenstreits nicht nur Zivilperson, sondern auch ein Symbol für die Meinungsfreiheit und die freiheitliche Gesellschaft. Der Überfall auf ihn sei somit ein Angriff auf die Sicherheit des Landes. Der Verurteilte muss nun mit einer lebenslänglichen Strafe und seiner anschließenden Ausweisung rechnen. Das genaue Strafmaß wird erst am heutigen Freitag festgesetzt.
Der 29-jährige Somalier hatte während des Prozesses immer wieder betont, er habe Westergaard nicht töten, sondern lediglich erschrecken wollen. Auch die ihm unterstellten Verbindungen zum Terrornetzwerk al-Shabaab gebe es nicht.
Kamera nahm die Tat auf
Tatsächlich aber sprechen viele Indizien gegen die Darstellung des Mannes. Belegt ist, dass er sich am 31. Dezember 2009 ein Bahnticket von Kopenhagen nach Aarhus zog – ohne Rückfahrschein. Um kurz nach 22 Uhr drang er mit 20 Axthieben in das Haus des Karikaturisten ein, der sich in den Sicherheitsraum flüchtete. Der Somalier schlug nahezu unablässig mit seiner Axt auf die Tür ein. Dabei schrie er „Rache“ und „Wir kriegen dich“.
Der Tathergang ist durch die im Haus installierten Kameras dokumentiert. Und auch andere Indizien scheinen zu belegen, dass der Somalier Westergaard töten und anschließend als Märtyrer sterben wollte. Vor dem Überfall hatte er Rituale gepflegt, die auch von anderen Selbstmordattentätern bekannt sind. Die Polizisten provozierte er nach dem Angriff mehrfach, ihn zu erschießen.
Zudem wurde während des Prozesses bekannt, dass der Somalier Kenntnis hatte von den Verbindungen unterschiedlicher Terrorgruppen, vom eigenen Computer aus immer wieder islamistische Internetseiten besuchte und direkte Verbindungen zu extremen Gruppen in Somalia und Kenia unterhielt.
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Ein 29-jähriger Somalier wurde von einem Gericht im dänischen Aarhus zu einer neunjährigen Haftstrafe und anschließender Abschiebung aus dem Königreich Dänemark verurteilt. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, sich mithilfe einer Axt Zugang zur Wohnung des Karikaturisten Kurt Westergaard verschafft zu haben, um ihn zu töten. Der verurteilte Somalier legte Berufung gegen das Urteil ein.
Westergaard hatte sich 2005 an einem Zeitungswettbewerb beteiligt, bei der die gelungenste Karikatur des muslimischen Propheten Mohammed gekürt werden sollte. Er zeichnete Mohammed mit einem wütenden Gesichtsausdruck und einer sich kurz vor der Explosion befindenden Bombe auf dem Turban. Weil eine bildliche Darstellung Mohammeds im Allgemeinen und eine dazu noch nachteilige Darstellung im Besonderen von strenggläubigen Muslimen als eine Beleidigung ihrer Religion aufgefasst wird, hatte Westergaard damals den Zorn eifriger Muslime auf der ganzen Welt auf sich gezogen.
Der nun, allerdings noch nicht letztinstanzlich, verurteilte Somalier hat nach Ansicht des Gerichts am Sylvesterabend 2009 versucht, Westergaard mit einer Axt zu erschlagen. Der Karikaturist konnte sich in einen vor unerwünschten Eindringlingen besonders geschützten Raum in seinem Haus verbergen und von dort aus die Polizei rufen. Der verurteilte Somalier habe vor und in dem Haus mit seiner Axt um sich geschlagen und nach Rache gerufen.
Der Täter habe sich vorher ein Bahnticket von Kopenhagen nach Aarhus ohne Rückfahrschein besorgt, um zum Wohnhaus Westergaards anzureisen. Insbesondere wegen des fehlenden Rückfahrscheins ist das Gericht davon ausgegangen, dass es sich nicht „nur“ um einen Mordversuch, sondern darüberhinaus um einen Terroranschlag gehandelt habe. Offensichtlich habe der Verurteilte einen „Märtyrertod“ geplant. Die Klassifizierung des Delikts als Terrorvergehen ist für die relativ hohe Strafe - Westergaard ist letztlich nichts geschehen - verantwortlich.
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Ein 29-jähriger Somalier wurde von einem Gericht im dänischen Aarhus zu einer neunjährigen Haftstrafe und anschließender Abschiebung aus dem Königreich Dänemark verurteilt. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, sich mithilfe einer Axt Zugang zur Wohnung des Karikaturisten Kurt Westergaard verschafft zu haben, um ihn zu töten. Der verurteilte Somalier legte Berufung gegen das Urteil ein.
Westergaard hatte sich 2005 an einem Zeitungswettbewerb beteiligt, bei der die gelungenste Karikatur des muslimischen Propheten Mohammed gekürt werden sollte. Er zeichnete Mohammed mit einem wütenden Gesichtsausdruck und einer sich kurz vor der Explosion befindenden Bombe auf dem Turban. Weil eine bildliche Darstellung Mohammeds im Allgemeinen und eine dazu noch nachteilige Darstellung im Besonderen von strenggläubigen Muslimen als eine Beleidigung ihrer Religion aufgefasst wird, hatte Westergaard damals den Zorn eifriger Muslime auf der ganzen Welt auf sich gezogen.
Der nun, allerdings noch nicht letztinstanzlich, verurteilte Somalier hat nach Ansicht des Gerichts am Sylvesterabend 2009 versucht, Westergaard mit einer Axt zu erschlagen. Der Karikaturist konnte sich in einen vor unerwünschten Eindringlingen besonders geschützten Raum in seinem Haus verbergen und von dort aus die Polizei rufen. Der verurteilte Somalier habe vor und in dem Haus mit seiner Axt um sich geschlagen und nach Rache gerufen.
Der Täter habe sich vorher ein Bahnticket von Kopenhagen nach Aarhus ohne Rückfahrschein besorgt, um zum Wohnhaus Westergaards anzureisen. Insbesondere wegen des fehlenden Rückfahrscheins ist das Gericht davon ausgegangen, dass es sich nicht „nur“ um einen Mordversuch, sondern darüberhinaus um einen Terroranschlag gehandelt habe. Offensichtlich habe der Verurteilte einen „Märtyrertod“ geplant. Die Klassifizierung des Delikts als Terrorvergehen ist für die relativ hohe Strafe - Westergaard ist letztlich nichts geschehen - verantwortlich.
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Home > News » 2008-06-10 15:13 EURO 2008: CONFRONTO DONADONI-AZZURRI, ALLENAMENTO RITARDA MOEDLING (AUSTRIA) - E' durato 50' il confronto tra Donadoni e gli azzurri negli spogliatoi dello stadio di Moedling prima dell'allenamento di oggi. Il lavoro e' di conseguenza cominciato in ritardo. E' il segno evidente che la sconfitta per 3-0 con l'Olanda ha lasciato il segno. Allo stadio e' comparso anche il presidente federale Giancarlo Abete, andato anch'egli verso gli spogliatoi. Al momento della comparsa sul terreno, gli azzurri sono stati applauditi da un gruppo di ospiti degli sponsor. Intanto, all'allenamento sul terreno di gioco dell'Admira Wacker a Moedling, mancavano Materazzi e Panucci.
Inizialmente era assente anche Buffon, che in un secondo tempo si e' unito agli 8 titolari di ieri (Gattuso, Pirlo, Ambrosini, Toni, Zambrotta, Camoranesi, Barzagli e Di Natale) che lavorano a parte con il preparatore atletico Andreini. Nell'altra meta' campo Donadoni e' impegnato con i subentrati Del Piero, Grosso e Cassano e con chi non ha giocato.
EURO 2008: BUFFON, 'SCUSA AGLI ITALIANI' - ''Chiediamo scusa agli italiani'': capitan Buffon esce dagli spogliatoi e riassume in quattro parole il sentimento degli azzurri dopo la serata piu' nera che si potesse immaginare per l'esordio ad Euro 2008. ''E' stata una falsa partenza in cui nessuno pensava che potessimo incappare - ha continuato il portiere dopo il 3-0 subito dall'Olanda - ma che volete, siamo bravi anche in questo, a complicarci le cose''. Colpe della difesa? ''Di fronte a una partita come questa - continua il portiere - quando rischi di prendere 5 o 6 gol non e' soltanto la difesa sotto accusa ma e' l'interpretazione della partita. A loro e' andato anche tutto bene e a noi tutto male, ma non dove essere un alibi, loro hanno giocato meglio e hanno anche perso pochi contrasti''. Alla fine, Buffon tenta di dare la carica: ''Se l'Italia e' cosi' forte come la valutano - dice - allora questo 0-3 e' uno stimolo''. Nessuno tra gli azzurri cerca l'alibi del gol iniziale in fuorigioco, anche perche' l'interpretazione dell'Uefa (sposata da Collina) e' per la regolarita' della realizzazione di Van Nistelrooy: l'immediatezza dell'infortunio di Panucci che rimane dietro la porta mentre il centravanti segna esclude qualsiasi possibilita' di recriminazione. Per Alessandro Del Piero, davanti all'Italia c'e' ora soltanto ''l'ultima possibilita''', cioe' vincere: ''Siamo andati male in tutti i settori ma abbiamo gia' parlato fra noi e ci siamo resi conto subito di come sia andata male questa serata. Siamo tutti colpevoli, ha ragione Buffon a chiedere scusa agli italiani''. A una cronista straniera che gli chiede in inglese se non sarebbe stato meglio giocare dall'inizio, Del Piero risponde che ''tutti vogliono giocare dal primo minuto ma ora per vincere dobbiamo fare tutti meglio, in tutti i settori''. ''Siamo partiti male - dice avvilito Luca Toni - il primo gol credo fosse in fuorigioco, l'ho visto dal replay sul tabellone e ho detto all'arbitro di guardare. Lui non ha guardato e mi ha ammonito. Ma l'Olanda ha giocato bene e noi abbiamo fatto una brutta gara, ora dobbiamo tirare fuori qualcosa di piu' perche' siamo gia' all'ultima spiaggia''. Poca aggressivita' in campo? ''No, anzi, quando arrivi carico, carico, corri e non la prendi mai finisce che sei anche troppo aggressivo ma non serve. Loro hanno tenuto la palla a terra e hanno giocato meglio di noi ma adesso abbiamo una gran voglia di fare bene e abbiamo altre possibilita'. Bisogna essere ottimisti, vincendo con la Romania rimettiamo tutto in gioco''. Meglio nel secondo tempo perche' sono entrati Del Piero e Cassano? ''Non e' la serata per fare questi discorsi ma e' vero che Antonio e Alex ci hanno dato una bella mano''. Zambrotta insiste sulla ''mentalita''' che non e' stata quella giusta: ''In questo senso abbiamo vissuto serate migliori ma ora dimentichiamo questa partita. No, non e' tanto una questione di uomini ma di mentalita'. E nessuno di noi ha mai pensato di essere piu' forte perche' ha vinto i mondiali''. Per Andrea Pirlo ''e' stata una serata no, siamo partiti male e ora siamo costretti a vincere''. Home Back Stampa Invia ASSOCIATE Ciclismo: procura belga conferma, Boonen positivo alla cocaina VIDEO Italia ko, Zoff e Rossi ottimisti Buffon chiede scusa agli italiani Ciclismo: Boonen positivo alla coca LINK UTILI Speciale Europei 2008 ALTRE FOTO Pubblicità Pubblicità
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Le formazioni in campo.
L'Italia sconfigge la Francia per 2-0 ed ottiene il passaggio ai quarti di finale, dove affronterà la Spagna il 22 giugno all'Ernst Happel Stadion di Vienna.
Il tanto temuto biscotto tra l'Olanda e la Romania non c'è stato: una clamorosa vittoria dei rumeni sugli olandesi avrebbe infatti condannato all'eliminazione sia i campioni del mondo sia i vice-campioni. Nonostante l'alto impiego di riserve, la squadra di Marco van Basten è riuscita ad imporsi per 2-0, con gol di Huntelaar al 54 e di van Persie all'87.
Donadoni schiera con il 4-3-1-2 e la formazione è: Buffon; Zambrotta, Panucci, Chiellini, Grosso; Gattuso, De Rossi, Pirlo; Perrotta; Toni, Cassano. Domenech preferisce invece il 4-4-2 e la sua formazione è: Coupet; Clerc, Gallas, Abidal, Evra; Govou, Makélélé, Toulalan, Ribéry (sostituito al 10 con Nasri, a sua volta sostituito con Boumsong al 26); Henry, Benzema.
Da subito la difesa francese (Abidal e Gallas) appare assente, ma l'attacco azzurro non sembra in grado di approfittarne: Toni spreca almeno sette occasioni da gol. Al 10, Ribery si infortuna gravemente dopo uno scontro di gioco ed è costretto a lasciare il campo. Abidal si lascia sfuggire sin da subito un assist su Toni che appoggia, ma butta fuori di poco. Al 23 la svolta: Toni controlla al limite un assist che lo lascia solo contro il portiere, Abidal è costretto al fallo in area di rigore sul centrale italiano.
L'arbitro Micheľ non ha dubbi: rigore per l'Italia e rosso diretto ad Abidal per fallo da ultimo uomo. Pirlo si incarica di trasformare il calcio di rigore, indirizzandolo nell'angolino sinistro. Coupet indovina la direzione, ma non può fare molto. Dopo il vantaggio, l'Italia appare più tonica e gioca i successivi 10-15 minuti costringendo i ''bleus'' nella propria metà campo, forte anche della superiorità numerica.
Gli azzurri sfiorano il raddoppio con una punizione magistrale di Grosso, parata in extremis da Coupet con una leggera deviazione che impedisce alla palla di insaccarsi a fil di palo. Durante l'azione Perrotta viene atterrato, l'arbitro non se ne accorge e fa continuare la partita. La Francia continua a giocare, nonostante il centrocampista della Roma rimanga a terra urlante. Cominciano a piovere fischi dalle tribune e Pirlo ferma a modo suo l'azione, entrando da dietro sulle gambe di Benzema. L'arbitro ammonisce il fantasista azzurro (diffidato, salterà l'incontro con la Spagna) e poi autorizza Perrotta a lasciare il campo per farsi medicare.
Nella ripresa, l'Italia appare un po' appannata. Ai francesi non mancano le occasioni per pareggiare, ma non riesce a concretizzare. Al 54, Donadoni sostituisce Pirlo con Ambrosini nel tentativo di rinvigorire la squadra azzurra. Poco dopo arriva la notizia del vantaggio olandese. La partita riprende vigore e al 62 è De Rossi che su punizione porta l'Italia sul 2-0, grazie anche alla deviazione inaspettata di Henry che inganna il portiere.
Pochi minuti dopo, Donadoni sostituisce Perrotta con Camoranesi. In seguito Gattuso viene ammonito: diffidato anche lui, come Pirlo salterà i quarti. L'Olanda raddoppia e Toni sfiora il 3-0 al 90. Tre minuti di recupero, dopodiché il triplice fischio finale: Italia qualificata ai quarti assieme all'Olanda, Francia e Romania eliminate. Saranno gli azzurri ad affrontare la Spagna, privi di Pirlo e Gattuso.
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EURO 2008
L'Italia tutto cuore vola ai quarti
Pirlo e De Rossi stendono la Francia
Domenica alle 20.45 la sfida con la Spagna senza gli squalificati Pirlo e Gattuso. Al 25' il gol del fantasista del Milan su calcio di rigore, dopo che Abidal ha falciato Toni in area: Francia in dieci. Al 62' il raddoppio del centrocampista della Roma
Zurigo (Svuzzera), 17 giugno 2008 - Mondo, Europa, Italia. Due anni dopo siamo ancora li'. Azzurro il gran finale berlinese, azzurra la "piccola finale di Zurigo". E la Francia non c'e' piu': un rigore di Pirlo e una punizione di De Rossi, 2-0. Numeri che ingoiano il chiacchiericcio. L'Italia e' ai quarti Europei di sponda sull'Olanda, seconda senza calcoli grazie alla sconfitta della Romania. Se li giochera', i quarti, domenica con la Spagna.
Dopo aver digerito la torta senza metafore, quella vera della festa per una qualificazione-resurrezione. Di quelle che piaccono a noi, arricchite di sofferenza e dietrologia. Cosi' funziona l'Italia Nazionale, nella sfiga ci sguazza, e poi la ridicolizza in un perfetto 17 giugno. Dopo 30 anni cosi' si batte la Francia, come l'Olanda dopo 30 anni aveva battuto noi una settimana fa.
L'Europa aggiornata al presente rielabora le statistiche, e sentenzia il ciclo esaurito di questa Francia invecchiata definitivamente. "Italiafrancia", per dirla tutta, e' una faccenda che dura 25 minuti appena, alla faccia dei suoi 100 anni di storia. Espulsione-rigore-gol, ed ecco fatto: Italia e punto.
Les Bleus 'finiti' nelle girandole cervellotiche di Domenech, con il primo tempo a fare il bignami dell'arrovellamento tattico.Ribery si fa male all'11', e il ct mette dentro Nasri (il Cassano transalpino, dicono). Non gioca Thuram titolare, il sostituto Abidal si perde Toni dopo 4' (e quello lo grazia tirando fuori) poi lo ritrova al 24', e lo abbatte prima che segni.
Rigore-espulsione-gol. Fuori Nasri, dentro Boumsong, scarto juventino. Mexes dev'essere da qualche parte in Italia a godersi la scena... Donadoni invece rialza la testa, senza il tridente.Gli azzurri finiscono il primo tempo 1-0, ma il pallottoliere dev'essersi impallato. Perche' la squadra di Donadoni (con Cassano che non fa l'eroe, ma l'ordinaria amministrazione) mastica azioni su azioni, che solo la sfortuna toglie dalla cifra finale della partita. A cominciare da quel Toni pasticcione del 4', per continuare con un semi-miracolo di Makelele sulla linea su Panucci, testa di ponte sugli angoli. Angoli e spigoli, per l'Italia a bocca asciutta. Pirlo ha la sua serata, passaggi al millimetro che non trovano muro nella difesa francese, e purtroppo nemmeno lieto fine con Perrotta e Toni che sprecano.
Fino al rigore. Il lancio di Pirlo e' strepitoso, l'aggancio di Toni pure, Abidal e' un martire. Espulsione-rigore-gol. Di Pirlo."Italiafrancia" non c'e' piu'. C'e' Italia-Olanda-Romania, che si gioca tra Zurigo e Berna. L'Italia controlla, ma non si controlla. Pirlo si fa ammonire per fallo da "gioco non fermato" con Perrotta a terra, e saltera' la Spagna. Come Gattuso nel secondo tempo: stesso forfeit per domenica. Funziona invece la Roma: Perrotta costruisce, De Rossi tira (fuori). E Toni continua la sua vana ricerca del gol inventandosi al 28' una clamorosa girata di tacco, senza fortuna. Prima del palo pieno colpito da Grosso su punizione con un po' di merito di Coupet. La Francia e' in un diagonale di Henry, tutta li'. Il secondo tempo si gioca tra tv e tabelloni, alla ricerca dell'eco qualificazione. Tanto che dopo una decina di minuti il Letzigrund esulta d'anticipo.
Una voce sbagliata ma premonitrice perche' dopo qualche minuto l'Olanda sul "campo 2" segna davvero. Italia ai quarti dappertutto. Torte e biscotti sbriciolati. E buttati via al raddoppio azzurro: punizione di De Rossi, deviazione in barriera di Henry. Due a zero. Un rigore e una punizione. Ci manca Buffon, in una serata cosi'. E invece no: gli da' il suo 7 quotidiano Benzema e il suo tiro a girare, gran parata. Ecco, ora ci siamo tutti. A pensare un futuro 'rosso' come le Furie che ci aspettano.
I luoghi comuni finiscono a Zurigo, ora si puo' dirlo che Italia e Francia non si assomigliano mica. L'Italia si riscopre bella nelle polemiche, la Francia si spacca e basta, quando l'Olanda fa il 2-0 alla Romania. 2-0 e 0-2, due risultati in palindromo, e un solo significato: Olanda e Italia ai quarti. Ciliegine senza torta.
Come seconda del gruppo C l'Italia affrontera' la Spagna, vincente del gruppo D, domenica 22 giugno a Vienna. L'Olanda, prima nel girone C, affrontera' la seconda del gruppo D (Svezia o Russia), sabato 21 giugno a Basilea.
Francia e Romania sono eliminate.
IL TABELLINO
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Francia (4-4-2): Coupet 6; Clerc 5,5, Gallas 5,5, Abidal 4, Evra 6; Govou 5,5, Makelele 6, Toulalan 6, Ribery sv (10' pt Nasri sv, 26' pt Boumsong 5,5); Henry 6, Benzema 6,5. A disp. Mandanda, Frey, Thuram, Squillaci, Sagnol, Vieira, Malouda, Diarra, Anelka, Gomis. Ct Domenech 4
Italia (4-3-1-2): Buffon 7; Zambrotta 6, Panucci 6,5, Chiellini 6,5, Grosso 6,5; Gattuso 6 (37' st Aquilani sv), De Rossi 7, Pirlo 7,5 (10' st Ambrosini 6); Perrotta 6 (18' st Camoranesi 6); Cassano 6, Toni 6,5. A disp. Amelia, De Sanctis, Barzagli, Materazzi, Gamberini, Gattuso, Del Piero, Di Natale, Quagliarella, Borriello. Ct Donadoni 7
Arbitro: Michel (Slovacchia) 6
Marcatori: 25' pt rig. Pirlo, 17' st De Rossi
Note: espulso al 24' pt Abidal (F) per fallo da ultimo uomo. Ammoniti Evra, Pirlo, Chiellini, Govou, Gattuso, Boumsong, Henry.Recupero 3' pt e 3' st. Spettatori 30.000 circa.
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Le formazioni in campo.
L'Italia sconfigge la Francia per 2-0 ed ottiene il passaggio ai quarti di finale, dove affronterà la Spagna il 22 giugno all'Ernst Happel Stadion di Vienna.
Il tanto temuto biscotto tra l'Olanda e la Romania non c'è stato: una clamorosa vittoria dei rumeni sugli olandesi avrebbe infatti condannato all'eliminazione sia i campioni del mondo sia i vice-campioni. Nonostante l'alto impiego di riserve, la squadra di Marco van Basten è riuscita ad imporsi per 2-0, con gol di Huntelaar al 54 e di van Persie all'87.
Donadoni schiera con il 4-3-1-2 e la formazione è: Buffon; Zambrotta, Panucci, Chiellini, Grosso; Gattuso, De Rossi, Pirlo; Perrotta; Toni, Cassano. Domenech preferisce invece il 4-4-2 e la sua formazione è: Coupet; Clerc, Gallas, Abidal, Evra; Govou, Makélélé, Toulalan, Ribéry (sostituito al 10 con Nasri, a sua volta sostituito con Boumsong al 26); Henry, Benzema.
Da subito la difesa francese (Abidal e Gallas) appare assente, ma l'attacco azzurro non sembra in grado di approfittarne: Toni spreca almeno sette occasioni da gol. Al 10, Ribery si infortuna gravemente dopo uno scontro di gioco ed è costretto a lasciare il campo. Abidal si lascia sfuggire sin da subito un assist su Toni che appoggia, ma butta fuori di poco. Al 23 la svolta: Toni controlla al limite un assist che lo lascia solo contro il portiere, Abidal è costretto al fallo in area di rigore sul centrale italiano.
L'arbitro Micheľ non ha dubbi: rigore per l'Italia e rosso diretto ad Abidal per fallo da ultimo uomo. Pirlo si incarica di trasformare il calcio di rigore, indirizzandolo nell'angolino sinistro. Coupet indovina la direzione, ma non può fare molto. Dopo il vantaggio, l'Italia appare più tonica e gioca i successivi 10-15 minuti costringendo i ''bleus'' nella propria metà campo, forte anche della superiorità numerica.
Gli azzurri sfiorano il raddoppio con una punizione magistrale di Grosso, parata in extremis da Coupet con una leggera deviazione che impedisce alla palla di insaccarsi a fil di palo. Durante l'azione Perrotta viene atterrato, l'arbitro non se ne accorge e fa continuare la partita. La Francia continua a giocare, nonostante il centrocampista della Roma rimanga a terra urlante. Cominciano a piovere fischi dalle tribune e Pirlo ferma a modo suo l'azione, entrando da dietro sulle gambe di Benzema. L'arbitro ammonisce il fantasista azzurro (diffidato, salterà l'incontro con la Spagna) e poi autorizza Perrotta a lasciare il campo per farsi medicare.
Nella ripresa, l'Italia appare un po' appannata. Ai francesi non mancano le occasioni per pareggiare, ma non riesce a concretizzare. Al 54, Donadoni sostituisce Pirlo con Ambrosini nel tentativo di rinvigorire la squadra azzurra. Poco dopo arriva la notizia del vantaggio olandese. La partita riprende vigore e al 62 è De Rossi che su punizione porta l'Italia sul 2-0, grazie anche alla deviazione inaspettata di Henry che inganna il portiere.
Pochi minuti dopo, Donadoni sostituisce Perrotta con Camoranesi. In seguito Gattuso viene ammonito: diffidato anche lui, come Pirlo salterà i quarti. L'Olanda raddoppia e Toni sfiora il 3-0 al 90. Tre minuti di recupero, dopodiché il triplice fischio finale: Italia qualificata ai quarti assieme all'Olanda, Francia e Romania eliminate. Saranno gli azzurri ad affrontare la Spagna, privi di Pirlo e Gattuso.
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po śląsku to nie po polsku 2007-07-28 05:11 Język śląski jest językiem obcym Amerykanie uznali oficjalnie jeszcze jeden język obcy. Język śląski został przez Bibliotekę Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych wpisany w rejestr języków świata. O taki wpis starał się Związek Ludności Narodowości Śląskiej. REKLAMA czytaj dalej...
"Jest to ukoronowanie długiej pracy" - powiedział Andrzej Roczniok, jeden z wnioskodawców. "Na pewno jest to nobilitacja, uznanie na arenie międzynarodowej, że jest to język żywy, a nie tylko dialekt". Język istnieje w rejestrze pod skrótem "szl". Do wniosku do Biblioteki Kongresu dołączony został spis książek i innych publikacji napisanych po śląsku lub na temat śląskiej mowy. Biblioteka Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych to jedna z najbardziej prestiżowych instytucji tego typu. Posiada ponad 200 milionów różnego rodzaju dokumentów, książek i map w kilkuset językach. Liczbę języków na świecie szacuje się na kilka tysięcy, 800 ma formą pisaną.
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The Library of Congress has officially registered the Silesian language in its list of languages. Additionally, the International Linguistic Organization has registered the Silesian language and assigned it the ISO code "szl".
For several years the Alliance of Population of Silesian Nation and the Silesian Autonomy Movement have been seeking official recognition of the language. The Silesian language is now the second registered language in Silesia, the first being the Lower Silesian language which is currently under threat of extinction.
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La Coupe d'Afrique des Nations s'étale sur 3 semaines dont voici le programme :
Groupe A : du 10 janvier au 18 janvier à Luanda
Groupe B : du 11 janvier au 19 janvier à Cabinda
Groupe C : du 12 janvier au 20 janvier à Benguela
Groupe D : du 13 janvier au 21 janvier à Lubango 1/4 finale 1 : 24 janvier à Luanda (1er A - 2ème B)
1/4 finale 2 : 24 janvier à Cabinda (1er B - 2ème A)
1/4 finale 3 : 25 janvier à Benguela (1er C - 2ème D)
1/4 finale 4 : 25 janvier à Lubango (1er D - 2ème C)
1/2 finale : 28 janvier Luanda (Vainqueur 1/4 finale 1 - Vainqueur 1/4 finale 4)
1/2 finale : 28 janvier Benguela (Vainqueur 1/4 finale 2 - Vainqueur 1/4 finale 3)
Match 3ème place : 30 janvier à Benguela
Finale : 31 janvier à Luanda
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Les groupes C et D disputaient les derniers matchs du premier tour de la coupe d'Afrique des nations 2010 hier et aujourd'hui.
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Beginn des Artikels Naturkatastrophe
Erdbeben erschüttert Japan
© Kyodo News/AP Ein von dem Beben zerstörtes Haus in Wajima
Bei einem starken Erdbeben vor der Westküste Japans ist eine Frau ums Leben gekommen. Mehr als 160 Bewohner erlitten zudem Verletzungen, Hunderte Gebäude wurden beschädigt. Zwischenzeitlich hatte es auch eine Tsunami-Warnung gegeben.
Ein schweres Erdbeben vor der Nordküste von Japan hat mindestens einen Menschen das Leben gekostet. 160 Bewohner wurden verletzt. Der Erdstoß der Stärke 6,9 löste einen kleineren Tsunami aus, wie der staatliche Wetterdienst mitteilte. Die Warnung vor einer Flutwelle an der Küste der Präfektur Ishikawa wurde nach einer Stunde wieder aufgehoben. Ein Nachbeben hat inzwischen Medienberichten zufolge Zentraljapan erschüttert. Es habe ein Stärke von 5,3 gehabt, berichtete der japanische Fernsehensender NHK. Über neue Schäden oder Opfer lagen zunächst keine Berichte vor. Ein schweres Erdbeben vor der Nordküste von Japan hat mindestens einen Menschen das Leben gekostet. 160 Bewohner wurden verletzt. Der Erdstoß der Stärke 6,9 löste einen kleineren Tsunami aus, wie der staatliche Wetterdienst mitteilte. Die Warnung vor einer Flutwelle an der Küste der Präfektur Ishikawa wurde nach einer Stunde wieder aufgehoben. Ein Nachbeben hat inzwischen Medienberichten zufolge Zentraljapan erschüttert. Es habe ein Stärke von 5,3 gehabt, berichtete der japanische Fernsehensender NHK. Über neue Schäden oder Opfer lagen zunächst keine Berichte vor.
Die Regierung bestätigte den Tod einer 52-jährigen Frau, die einem Rundfunkbericht zufolge von einer Laterne erschlagen wurde. Die Nachrichtenagentur Kyodo berichtete, rund 30 Soldaten seien bereits in der Region eingetroffen. Auch 375 Feuerwehrleute aus anderen Präfekturen seien im Einsatz. Besonders betroffen war die Präfektur Ishikawa, wo mindestens 46 Häuser zerstört und weitere 239 schwer beschädigt wurden. Mindestens 340 Haushalte in der Region war nach dem Beben zeitweise ohne Strom. Das Hauptbeben brachte Gebäude ins Schwanken, löste Erdrutsche aus und führte zu Unterbrechungen der Strom-, Telefon- und Wasserversorgung. Viele der Verletzten erlitten Verbrennungen oder wurden von herabfallenden Gegenständen oder Glassplittern getroffen. Der Zugverkehr in Ishikawa und der Nachbarpräfektur Toyama wurde eingestellt. Im Flugverkehr mit Tokio kam es zu Verspätungen. Fernsehbilder zeigten, wie Gebäude rund 30 Sekunden lang schwankten. In dem betroffenen Gebiet wurden angesichts starker Regenfälle Erdrutsche befürchtet.Die Regierung bestätigte den Tod einer 52-jährigen Frau, die einem Rundfunkbericht zufolge von einer Laterne erschlagen wurde. Die Nachrichtenagentur Kyodo berichtete, rund 30 Soldaten seien bereits in der Region eingetroffen. Auch 375 Feuerwehrleute aus anderen Präfekturen seien im Einsatz. Besonders betroffen war die Präfektur Ishikawa, wo mindestens 46 Häuser zerstört und weitere 239 schwer beschädigt wurden. Mindestens 340 Haushalte in der Region war nach dem Beben zeitweise ohne Strom.
Mehr zum Thema Eine gute halbe Stunde nach dem Erdstoß erreichte eine Flutwelle von zehn Zentimetern die Küste. Kurz darauf wurde die Tsunami-Warnung aufgehoben. Der Seismologe Takeshi Hachimine sagte, die betroffene Region gehöre nicht zu den besonders erdbebengefährdeten Gebieten. Das letzte größere Beben dort ereignete sich bereits 1933; damals kamen drei Menschen ums Leben. Auch die Vanuatu-Inseln im Pazifik wurden am Sonntag von zwei schweren Beben erschüttert. Die Erdstöße erreichten die Stärke 6,0 und 7,2. Der Katastrophenschutz in Australien gab eine Tsunami-Warnung für die vorgelagerten Inseln heraus. Bewohner der Küstenregionen wurden vorsichtshalber ins Landesinnere gebracht, wie die Behörden mitteilten. Berichte über Verletzte oder Schäden gab es nicht. Das Epizentrum des stärkeren Bebens lag 335 Kilometer südöstlich der Hauptstadt Port Vila und 115 Kilometer südlich der kleinen Vulkaninsel Tanna.
Hans Greimel/AP
Artikel vom 25. März 2007
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Lage der Halbinsel Noto
Eine Folge schwerer Erdstöße vor der japanischen Küste hat heute Morgen ab 9:42 Uhr die Bewohner Japans aufgeschreckt. Das Hauptbeben erreichte eine Höhe von 6,9 auf der Richterskala. Zentrum des Bebens war eine unterseeische Region in rund 50 Kilometer Tiefe vor der Küste der Halbinsel Noto, weswegen zunächst auch Tsunamis befürchtet wurden. Die Behörden gaben eine Tsunamiwarnung heraus, die nach einer Stunde jedoch wieder aufgehoben wurde. Nach vorläufigen Angaben wurden etwa 160 Einwohner verletzt, eine Frau starb. In der besonders stark betroffenen Präfektur Ishikawa wurden mindestens 46 Häuser zerstört und viele weitere beschädigt. Der Zugverkehr in der Region wurde eingestellt.
Ein Nachbeben der Stärke 5,3 erschütterte inzwischen Zentraljapan. Ob es hierbei Verletzte oder Tote gegeben hat, ist bislang noch nicht bekannt.
Nach Berichten der Online-Ausgabe des Handelsblatts meldete das australische Geologie-Amt, dass sich nahezu zeitgleich mit dem japanischen Erdbeben nahe der Inselrepublik Vanuatu im Südpazifik ebenfalls zwei Erdbeben mit Stärken von 7,3 und 7,1 ereignet hätten.
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WASHINGTON -- The Nationals got their future ace.
Taking the player at the top of every scouting chart, Washington selected San Diego State right-hander Stephen Strasburg with the first overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday.
The Nationals feel strongly that Strasburg can make an immediate impact in their rotation, maybe joining their Major League roster as early as September, and they have made no secret that he would be their choice.
If he is promoted to the big leagues this year, Strasburg will become only the third pitcher in baseball history to be drafted No. 1 and play in the Majors in the same season, joining Rangers left-hander David Clyde in 1973 and Orioles right-hander Ben McDonald in '89.
"It's just a very exciting day for me and my family," Strasburg told the MLB Network. "It's definitely a day I've been waiting for a long time. ... I'm really enjoying this time right now with my friends and family. We have to go from there and see what happens."
Strasburg is the third pitcher to be selected with the No. 1 overall pick in four years, with Tampa Bay's David Price (2007) and Kansas City's Luke Hochevar (2006) already pitching in the Majors. Strasburg is the 14th pitcher taken with the first pick in the 45-year history of the Draft.
Washington's pick marks the seventh time in eight years that the Nationals/Expos franchise has taken a pitcher in the first round. Cheers came from around Nationals Park as fans watched on the giant scoreboard when the team's selection was announced.
"He has power and command along with an advanced feel for pitching," said Nationals scouting director Dana Brown. "That's what makes him special.
"He still has to go through his bumps and bruises, but when a guy has power, command and a good feel for pitching, he is on the fast track."
The Nationals added another pitcher with the 10th overall pick, selecting Stanford University right-hander Drew Storen. Storen was a closer in college, going 7-1 with seven saves and a 3.80 ERA in 2009. He had 66 strikeouts in 42 2/3 innings of relief.
"Both pitchers possess outstanding makeup, outstanding skills and outstanding character, which is the hallmark of the players we have been putting in the system in Washington," said acting Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo.
"We are thrilled to select someone with the special talents that Stephen possesses. Those talents have long been on our radar, and Stephen's domination at San Diego State and vast experiences gained with Team USA last summer have done nothing to change our thoughts about his abilities."
Strasburg, 20, went 13-1 with a 1.32 ERA in 15 starts this season at San Diego State en route to being named a Golden Spikes Award finalist. He struck out 195 batters with just 19 walks in 109 innings.
Arms race Stephen Strasburg became the 14th pitcher taken first overall since the institution of the First-Year Player Draft in 1965. It marks the position with the most overall first picks. Position No. 1 picks Catcher 6 First base 3 Second base 0 Third base 4 Shortstop 8 Outfield 10 Pitcher 14
Strasburg's best game came on May 8, when he threw his first career no-hitter and struck out 17 batters against Air Force. He fanned 23 batters against the University of Utah at Tony Gwynn Stadium on April 11, 2008.
Strasburg has a devastating slider, and his fastball is clocked in the 100-mph range. He was the only college player to play on the U.S. Olympic baseball team in Beijing last year, going 1-1 with a 0.64 ERA and winning a bronze medal.
"He has exceptional stuff and an exceptional arm," said an American League scout. "[It helps] he was with Tony Gwynn. Most of your college coaches have not been professionals. Tony was a star and a guy who really knows how things are [in the big leagues]."
The buzz around Strasburg has been intense for months, but D-backs outfielder Justin Upton, the No. 1 overall pick in 2005, said he thinks Strasburg should be able to handle it.
Hall of Famer Gwynn, Strasburg's coach at San Diego State, also had high praise.
"I've never seen a kid put his heart and soul and all his time and effort into trying to get better," Gwynn said. "So today is the culmination of three years of hard work. He's been a great student, he's been a student of the game, each year he got better and better and he's one of the few guys where I can honestly sit here and tell you he's ready.
"He's ready for those next challenges that are going to come at that next level."
"It depends on what kind of dude he is," Upton said. "If he's got swagger and he knows that his stuff is that good, no, it won't bother him."
Strasburg was a three-year varsity star at West Hills High School in Santee, Calif. During his senior season, Strasburg finished with a 1.68 ERA, struck out 74 batters in 62 1/3 innings and tossed seven complete games.
Still, Strasburg was not drafted out of high school. Asked what he had to do to get where he is now, Strasburg said: "I had to get tougher both mentally and physically. It came down to, if you want something bad enough, you have to go out and get it."
Now that the Draft decision is behind them, the next big task for the Nationals is signing Strasburg. He is expected to ask for as much as $50 million-plus, which would be a new record for a baseball Draft pick.
After taking Aaron Crow with the team's first-round pick last year, Washington didn't reach a deal when the asking price was a little more than $4 million.
Rizzo is optimistic an agreement with Strasburg can be reached, but negotiations could go down to the Aug. 17 deadline.
"The Lerners have given me all the resources that I've ever asked for to acquire players, and I think they are committed to putting a championship-caliber team on the field," Rizzo said. "They understand what that means financially, that we have to sign our Draft picks.
"I have every confidence that they are going to give us the resources to sign all the players that we need to sign in this year's Draft."
Talks between Strasburg's advisor, Scott Boras, and the Nationals are expected to be helped in part because of Rizzo, who has negotiated contracts with Boras in the past. While with Arizona, Rizzo was able to sign D-backs infielder Stephen Drew and pitcher Max Scherzer -- both advised by Boras -- to their first professional contracts.
Making their pitch in first round Stephen Strasburg was the 14th pitcher taken as the first overall selection since the institution of the First-Year Player Draft in 1965. Year Club Player Pos. School 1973 Rangers David Clyde LHP Westchester H.S. (TX) 1976 Astros Floyd Bannister LHP Arizona State Univ. 1981 Mariners Mike Moore RHP Oral Roberts Univ. 1983 Twins Tim Belcher RHP Mt. Vernon Nazarene Coll. 1988 Padres Andy Benes RHP Univ. of Evansville 1989 Orioles Ben McDonald RHP Louisiana State Univ. 1991 Yankees Brien Taylor LHP East Carteret H.S. (NC) 1994 Mets Paul Wilson RHP Florida State Univ. 1996 Pirates Kris Benson RHP Clemson Univ. 1997 Tigers Matt Anderson RHP Rice Univ. 2002 Pirates Bryan Bullington RHP Ball State Univ. 2006 Royals Luke Hochevar RHP Univ. of Tennessee 2007 Devil Rays David Price LHP Vanderbilt Univ. 2009 Nationals Stephen Strasburg RHP San Diego State Univ.
"It's now in Washington's hands -- which is how it should be," Commissioner Bud Selig said after announcing all the first-round picks. "They know what Draft choices have gotten in the past. There's nothing more to say. It's in the capable hands of Mr. [Stan] Kasten and Mr. Rizzo."
Selig said the process of signing Draft picks "needs tweaking, but I'll leave it at that."
When asked if the recession could impact the negotiations, Selig said: "The economy has had an effect on every person living in this country. What effect it will have on this, I don't know."
John Hart, the former GM who spent more than two decades working the Draft, served as analyst for MLB Network during this event and said a matter-of-fact "no" when asked if he sees a smooth resolution to the Strasburg signing.
"No. I don't think it's going to be easy," Hart said after the end of the first round. "But that's the nature of this. You end up drafting players you think will be tough signs. We'll just have to see."
If the Nationals don't sign Strasburg by the deadline, they will lose his Draft rights and get the second pick in the 2010 Draft.
If he signs quickly enough, Strasburg will start in the Minor Leagues and could get a callup in September. He will strengthen an already solid pitching lineup in the farm system, where the Nationals have a number of prospects.
On the Major League level, the Nationals' young starting rotation is comprised of a quartet of rookies (Craig Stammen, Ross Detwiler, Shairon Martis and Jordan Zimmermann) and second-year left-hander John Lannan, who has 49 career starts.
Nats third baseman Ryan Zimmerman made it clear he wants Strasburg on the team.
"You have to do it," Zimmerman said. "From what everyone is saying, if you are an organization like we are that is young and moving forward, you have to take the best guy available.
"I think he is head and shoulders above the rest. You are talking about a guy that could be an impact player from the moment you draft him. If you can add that arm to our good young starting staff, we are pretty much set -- knock on wood -- for a long time."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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The annual draft for the United States and Canadian professional baseball league, Major League Baseball (MLB), started on Tuesday. Stephen Strasburg, a pitcher from San Diego State University, was taken by the Washington Nationals with the first overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Strasburg was widely considered to be the top prospect going into the draft.
Each year, the First-Year Player Draft is held, allowing MLB teams to select from among the best amateur baseball players in North America. Once selected, a player is obligated to sign a contract with the team that drafts him; if he chooses not to do so, he may not play for any Major League or affiliated Minor League team for one year.
Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals.
Strasburg is expected to sign with the Nationals and play in their farm system this year. The Nationals have held out the chance of promoting him to their MLB roster by September, possibly making him only the third pitcher to be drafted first overall and play in the Majors during the same year. Even before the draft was held, Strasburg was the consensus choice among prognosticators as the likely number-one pick. He has started 15 games this season for the San Diego State Aztecs college baseball team, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss, with a 1.32 earned run average. Strasburg is expected to demand a contract valued at US$50 million; a record for a newly drafted player.
The top position player taken was University of North Carolina centerfielder Dustin Ackley, drafted second overall by the Seattle Mariners.
John Manuel of Baseball America, writing for SI.com, has graded the Nationals, the Colorado Rockies, and the Minnesota Twins as the best performers on the first day of the draft.
The first day of the draft concluded after round 3; overall 111 players were selected on the first day. Rounds 4-30 are expected to be completed Wednesday, and the draft will conclude Thursday after 50 total rounds.
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A lot of talent remains on the board as teams look to load up
Hundreds of talent evaluators for Major League clubs have been gathering at amateur games and crisscrossing the country for months. They haven't been doing it just for a first-round pick, or just for one day's worth of picks.
DAY 2 PREVIEWS Select a team ¬ AL EAST ¬
Baltimore Orioles
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Tampa Bay Rays
Toronto Blue Jays
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Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Kansas City Royals
Minnesota Twins
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Los Angeles Angels
Oakland Athletics
Seattle Mariners
Texas Rangers
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Atlanta Braves
Florida Marlins
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
Washington Nationals
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Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati Reds
Houston Astros
Milwaukee Brewers
Pittsburgh Pirates
St. Louis Cardinals
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Arizona D-backs
Colorado Rockies
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
The First-Year Player Draft is much deeper than that. More than 90 percent of the picks are yet to be made, and a lot more future Major League talent is to be found.
Maybe there's an Ian Kinsler down a few rungs on somebody's Draft board, a 17th-rounder a few short years removed from stardom in the Majors like the Rangers' second baseman. Or perhaps a potential ace like Tommy Hanson, picked by the Braves in the 22nd round in 2005, is still out there. A starting outfielder like Nyjer Morgan could be available -- he wasn't drafted by the Pirates until the 33rd round in 2002. Morgan tells a familiar story.
"I've been an underdog everywhere I've been," Morgan said. "I've never been highly touted. I've never had the exposure that most people get. I just always believed in my abilities, and I knew I could play. I just really wanted somebody to give me an opportunity to show my skills.
"The Pirates gave me that opportunity in the Draft of 2002."
Opportunities like that are out there the next two days, by the dozen. The bulk of the Draft is still to come, and following Tuesday's historic first night start, there will be a Day 2 and, for the first time, a Day 3.
And every bit of it will be available on MLB.com --on MLB.com.
After 111 picks on Day 1 -- including Round One, Compensation Round A, Round Two, Round Three and Compensation Round B -- the Draft will resume with exclusive coverage on MLB.com with the Fourth Round at noon ET on Wednesday and will be tentatively scheduled to go through the 30th round. The Draft will conclude on Thursday with the 31st through 50th rounds, beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
MLB.com's coverage will include a live pick-by-pick audio stream, expert commentary and the exclusive Draft Tracker -- a searchable database of every Draft-eligible player, featuring statistics, scouting reports and video highlights.
Fans will not only be able to follow along every minute of the way online, but they'll be able to interact directly with Draft-eligible players and MLB.com Draft experts, among others.
The Draft Tracker will also feature the addition of Twitter, and the participation of "tweeters" such as MLB.com Draft expert @JonathanMayoB3, who will also be serving as on-air talent for all three days of the Draft; and reporter @LisaWinstonMLB, who will be writing the up-to-the-minute coverage for MLB.com.
In addition, MLB.com has created a Twitter account devoted to the Draft, where you can stay updated on every piece of info as it becomes available (@MLBDraft).
Following the Draft in its entirety on MLB.com has become a tradition. In fact, Giants closer Brian Wilson got the news that way in 2003 -- well, indirectly.
"My mom was listening to it on the computer," Wilson said. "She got excited, naturally, when she heard my name."
After all, Mom does know best. When Pirates pitcher Ian Snell's mother saw "26th round" next to her son's name, she saw opportunity. She had some words of wisdom that have endured throughout his Major League career.
"If you get drafted in a late round, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're not better than someone who got drafted in the first round," Snell said. "When I got drafted in the 26th round, my mom said just go out there and do your best and show them that you could have been a first-round pick. That's what I do."
Everyone drafted on Day 1 on Tuesday is special, there is no question. But someone special could be drafted on Day 2. And Day 3.
In fact, of the 661 players on Major League rosters or on the disabled list as of Opening Day 2009, more than half of them -- 336 -- were selected after the 111th pick and would not have been drafted yet. Clearly, a lot of Major League talent remains on the board for Day 2 and Day 3.
This one-of-a-kind event is deep. It tells a story. It answers questions.
Is your team building up college players who might get to the big leagues faster, or more of a mix with prep stars?
Is your team going heavy on pitching or position players? Is power or speed more important or all of the above?
By the time Day 3 comes along, the talent might not be as evident as in the first few rounds. But it's there. It's always there.
You might see an Orlando Hudson (43rd, 1997), or a Raul Ibanez (36th, 1992), or perhaps a Mark Buehrle (38th, 1998).
Hanson, who made a much ballyhooed debut last weekend, said he was "definitely disappointed" to be passed over until the second day in 2005. But it wasn't long before he and the Braves both knew you could become a top prospect from the 22nd round. In fact, Hanson said he was that much more motivated to reach the big leagues.
"I think to an extent I was," Hanson said. "I think everybody wants to go higher. But I was really just determined to let things work themselves out."
Wilson tells a similar story.
"It just tells you that you have another step to prove yourself," said Wilson. "You go to college, nothing's set in stone. You're not a starter; you don't get money. So you go to the Minor Leagues with a lot to lose. That's why a lot of guys who get drafted the second day do make it because they have a lot to lose."
John Schlegel is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, The Grind. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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The annual draft for the United States and Canadian professional baseball league, Major League Baseball (MLB), started on Tuesday. Stephen Strasburg, a pitcher from San Diego State University, was taken by the Washington Nationals with the first overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Strasburg was widely considered to be the top prospect going into the draft.
Each year, the First-Year Player Draft is held, allowing MLB teams to select from among the best amateur baseball players in North America. Once selected, a player is obligated to sign a contract with the team that drafts him; if he chooses not to do so, he may not play for any Major League or affiliated Minor League team for one year.
Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals.
Strasburg is expected to sign with the Nationals and play in their farm system this year. The Nationals have held out the chance of promoting him to their MLB roster by September, possibly making him only the third pitcher to be drafted first overall and play in the Majors during the same year. Even before the draft was held, Strasburg was the consensus choice among prognosticators as the likely number-one pick. He has started 15 games this season for the San Diego State Aztecs college baseball team, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss, with a 1.32 earned run average. Strasburg is expected to demand a contract valued at US$50 million; a record for a newly drafted player.
The top position player taken was University of North Carolina centerfielder Dustin Ackley, drafted second overall by the Seattle Mariners.
John Manuel of Baseball America, writing for SI.com, has graded the Nationals, the Colorado Rockies, and the Minnesota Twins as the best performers on the first day of the draft.
The first day of the draft concluded after round 3; overall 111 players were selected on the first day. Rounds 4-30 are expected to be completed Wednesday, and the draft will conclude Thursday after 50 total rounds.
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Most of the important names in the MLB Rule 4 draft go in the first three rounds, so now is a good time to look back and see what teams have added so far and who fared well or not so well on Day 1.
Best picks of the first round
Matzek
I can't say enough about the Rockies nabbing Tyler Matzek at 11. Sure, it was luck that he was available at their pick, and he slid because teams were concerned about his price tag, but the Rockies deserve credit for taking the plunge on the top prep arm in the draft. (You shouldn't draft for need, but I would forgive the Rockies if they overweighted pitching.) Matzek is a polished lefty with above-average velocity and should end up with four legitimate big league pitches and plus command. I think every system could use one of those guys, but the Rockies had the guts to take him despite his bonus demands.
The Cardinals did something similar in grabbing Shelby Miller at 19. Miller, long a favorite of mine, was a clear top-10 talent to me, up to 96 mph with plus life and good depth on his breaking ball, with some command issues midyear that settled down in time. The Cards don't have guys like Miller -- a high-upside arm who could pitch at the top of a big league rotation someday -- in their system, and you typically don't get arms like that at 19.
The Twins really showed some guts with their first-round pick, taking Kyle Gibson (who probably would have gone in the top 10 if healthy) despite the stress fracture in his arm that wrecked his velocity in his last college outing. There isn't a clear consensus on how serious the injury is long term, but the reward for taking this risk is a future No. 2 or 3 starter who still has some projection left in his tall, lean body. Minnesota took a similar gamble at 101, taking Jacksonville State pitcher Ben Tootle , who was a star as a closer on the Cape last summer but struggled as a starter this spring, in part due to a stomach virus that cost him more than 20 pounds.
Worst picks of the first round
Sanchez
Three picks jumped out at me in the wrong way. One was Tony Sanchez at No. 4 to Pittsburgh, simply because of who else was on the board. Sanchez was a legitimate first-rounder for me, an everyday catcher who should hit for power, and I don't think this is a Daniel Moskos situation in which the Pirates took a signable player who might never have big league value -- Sanchez will play in the majors. The Pirates have indicated they didn't like the price tags on the other guys available at that pick (they would have taken Stephen Strasburg or Dustin Ackley ) and they intended to allocate their draft budget toward later picks; that's just not the strategy I would likely take, at least not in the top five overall picks. I do like their second-round pick, Brooks Pounders , quite a bit, and if you're looking for a Micah Owings type in this draft, he might be the guy, because he's got substantial raw power even though his future is on the mound.
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The annual draft for the United States and Canadian professional baseball league, Major League Baseball (MLB), started on Tuesday. Stephen Strasburg, a pitcher from San Diego State University, was taken by the Washington Nationals with the first overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Strasburg was widely considered to be the top prospect going into the draft.
Each year, the First-Year Player Draft is held, allowing MLB teams to select from among the best amateur baseball players in North America. Once selected, a player is obligated to sign a contract with the team that drafts him; if he chooses not to do so, he may not play for any Major League or affiliated Minor League team for one year.
Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals.
Strasburg is expected to sign with the Nationals and play in their farm system this year. The Nationals have held out the chance of promoting him to their MLB roster by September, possibly making him only the third pitcher to be drafted first overall and play in the Majors during the same year. Even before the draft was held, Strasburg was the consensus choice among prognosticators as the likely number-one pick. He has started 15 games this season for the San Diego State Aztecs college baseball team, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss, with a 1.32 earned run average. Strasburg is expected to demand a contract valued at US$50 million; a record for a newly drafted player.
The top position player taken was University of North Carolina centerfielder Dustin Ackley, drafted second overall by the Seattle Mariners.
John Manuel of Baseball America, writing for SI.com, has graded the Nationals, the Colorado Rockies, and the Minnesota Twins as the best performers on the first day of the draft.
The first day of the draft concluded after round 3; overall 111 players were selected on the first day. Rounds 4-30 are expected to be completed Wednesday, and the draft will conclude Thursday after 50 total rounds.
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It's too early to grade the 2009 baseball draft, as none of the players chosen has even signed a contract, not to mention played a pro game. Most baseball drafts require at least three years to evaluate, if not five years when high school players are factored in.
But that doesn't mean we can't have some instant analysis. We'll break down Tuesday's first day into the teams that can be considered winners and those whose moves will have to win us over.
Winners
Nationals: Hey, they can bask in the Stephen Strasburg glow for at least one night. Stanford right-hander Drew Storen at No. 10 makes all kinds of sense, and Jeff Kobernus in the second round is a versatile, athletic college bat who can stay in the infield, a rarity this year.
Rockies: If they sign California high school lefty Tyler Matzek, this draft could be one the Rockies look back on as a turning point in a franchise that hasn't capitalized on its 2007 pennant. Matzek was No. 3 on the Baseball America draft board, and Colorado got him 11th overall. Moreover, the Rockies got two mid-first-round talents, Sacramento State outfielder Tim Wheeler and Lipscomb left-hander Rex Brothers, at picks 32 and 34, then rounded out their day with two solid bats in Nolan Arenado and Ben Paulsen. For an organization that has drafted conservatively in recent years, this was a welcome departure.
Twins: Minnesota has drafted a hitter with its first pick every year since 2001, with the exception of 2005 (Matt Garza). Not this year. Second-year scouting director Deron Johnson and Co. went heavily after pitching, and it's hard not to be impressed with the haul. Missouri right-hander Kyle Gibson dropped to No. 22 overall due to his forearm stress fracture, but if he's healthy he's a steal at that spot, after ranking as high as fourth on BA's initial Top 200 draft prospects list. At various points from last summer through this spring the Twins' other picks -- Indiana lefty Matt Bashore, Florida closer Billy Bullock and Jacksonville State righty Ben Tootle -- all were first-round possibilities. Bullock and Tootle were two of the hardest throwers in the college crop, as well.
Win us over ...
Pirates: Boston College catcher Tony Sanchez might have been the safest pick in the '09 draft class after elite players Strasburg and Dustin Ackley. He's a premium defensive catcher with good makeup, a self-made player who should at worst be a big-league backup. But even his advocates in scouting circles grade his hit tool as below-average or fringe-average; they project him to hit .250 or .260 in the major leagues. He has average power, projecting to 15-20 home runs annually. That would be good production at catcher, but it's not the kind of ceiling that teams tend to look for in a No. 4 overall pick. Pittsburgh's other picks -- right-handers Victor Black and Brooks Pounders and juco outfielder Evan Chambers --- all seem to have been taken about a round too high.
Reds: We love Mike Leake. He's a winner, a stud who helped pitch Arizona State to the College World Series for the second time in three seasons. Scouts love his makeup. Still, it's surprising that he was the second college right-hander taken, and not Alex White. The guess here is that money was a factor, because White has a bigger, better body, is athletic (though perhaps not quite at Leake's level) and has great makeup, having been North Carolina's ace the last two years on CWS teams. White is the more typical selection in terms of throwing harder and having bigger stuff, and it's surprising that he went seven picks later (to the Indians). The Reds also may have reached a bit on supplemental first-rounder Brad Boxberger of USC, another 6-foot right-hander who may profile better in the bullpen. He went one spot ahead of righty Tanner Scheppers (Rangers), who has much bigger stuff.
Yankees: New York clearly has strong conviction about Slade Heathcott, a very toolsy, physical Texas high school outfielder. But they were one of the few teams that liked him as a first rounder, as his makeup seemed to scare many other teams away from him in terms of first-round consideration. Heathcott seems like very much of a boom or bust pick, and the Yankees took yet another catcher in the second round in J.R. Murphy. Scouts that we have talked to were mixed on Murphy's catching ability, and even if he can, why would the Yankees take yet another catcher? The Yanks signed Kyle Higashioka last year ($500,000), as well as Austin Romine ($500,000) and Chase Weems ($450,000) in 2007, plus, of course, Jesus Montero, who has already advanced to Double-A. If Murphy can't catch, he's a third baseman in a best-case scenario, or in a worst-case scenario he's a corner outfielder.
For complete coverage of the MLB draft, check out Baseball America's draft blog.
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The annual draft for the United States and Canadian professional baseball league, Major League Baseball (MLB), started on Tuesday. Stephen Strasburg, a pitcher from San Diego State University, was taken by the Washington Nationals with the first overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Strasburg was widely considered to be the top prospect going into the draft.
Each year, the First-Year Player Draft is held, allowing MLB teams to select from among the best amateur baseball players in North America. Once selected, a player is obligated to sign a contract with the team that drafts him; if he chooses not to do so, he may not play for any Major League or affiliated Minor League team for one year.
Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals.
Strasburg is expected to sign with the Nationals and play in their farm system this year. The Nationals have held out the chance of promoting him to their MLB roster by September, possibly making him only the third pitcher to be drafted first overall and play in the Majors during the same year. Even before the draft was held, Strasburg was the consensus choice among prognosticators as the likely number-one pick. He has started 15 games this season for the San Diego State Aztecs college baseball team, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss, with a 1.32 earned run average. Strasburg is expected to demand a contract valued at US$50 million; a record for a newly drafted player.
The top position player taken was University of North Carolina centerfielder Dustin Ackley, drafted second overall by the Seattle Mariners.
John Manuel of Baseball America, writing for SI.com, has graded the Nationals, the Colorado Rockies, and the Minnesota Twins as the best performers on the first day of the draft.
The first day of the draft concluded after round 3; overall 111 players were selected on the first day. Rounds 4-30 are expected to be completed Wednesday, and the draft will conclude Thursday after 50 total rounds.
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Paris-Arras Tour - Et. 2 : Classements
24.05.2014, 18:20
Fabian Schnaidt (Team Vorarlberg) s'est imposé ce samedi lors de la 2e étape de Paris-Arras Tour (2.2), courue sur 167,1 kilomètres entre Margny-lès-Compiègne et Beaurains. L'Allemand a devancé le Belge Maxime Vantomme (Roubaix-Lille Métropole) et le Norvégien Daniel Hoelgaard (Etixx).
Maxime Vantomme est le nouveau leader de l'épreuve.
Classement de la 2e étape :
1 SCHNAIDT Fabian VBG GER les 167,1 km en 3h41'32 (moy. 45,257 kmh) (b : 10'')
2 VANTOMME Maxime RLM BEL (b : 6'')
3 HOELGAARD Daniel ETI NOR * (b : 7'')
4 ABERASTURI Jon EUK ESP
5 MOTTET Florent WBC BEL
6 McLAY Daniel LOT GBR * (b : 2'')
7 YSSAAD Yannis BIG FRA *
8 BARBIER Rudy RLM FRA * (b : 1'')
9 LE MONTAGNER Maxime BIC FRA
10 FIORENZA Alfonso CEF ITA
11 STALLAERT Joeri VER BEL
12 VAN MEIRHAEGHE Jef LOT BEL *
13 ATZORI Umberto KOG NED
14 SPOKES Samuel ETI AUS *
15 BOUDAT Thomas VEN FRA * (b : 1'')
16 BAGGIO Filippo CEF ITA
17 CARDIS Romain VEN FRA *
18 CASTELIJNS Twan KOG NED
19 PEDERSEN Mark Sehested TBW DEN
20 BIERMANS Jenthe GID BEL *
21 LE ROUX Romain ARM FRA *
22 KEO Emmanuel NOG FRA
23 GARBET Nicolas NOG FRA
24 JANORSCHKE Grischa VBG GER
25 PEDERSEN Mads CUL DEN *
26 WEBER Sascha VER GER
27 FOURNIER Marc NOG FRA *
28 VANDEWIELE Frederik VER BEL
29 CAPIOT Amaury LOT BEL * 3
30 LEEMANS Rob LOT BEL *
31 BOSKAMP Melvin KOG NED
32 RENAULT Maxime BIG FRA
33 AMORISON Frédéric WBC BEL
34 GOUAULT Pierre BIG FRA * (b : 1'')
35 JAKIN Alo BIG EST
36 HNIK Karel ETI CZE
37 MORICE Julien VEN FRA
38 POLS Ruben LOT BEL *
39 HASPOT Anthony BIC FRA *
40 GONÇALVES José LPM POR
41 GUERIN Alexis ETI FRA *
42 CORNU Jeremy VEN FRA
43 WINTER Nicolas VBG SUI
44 ROSTOLLAN Thomas LPM FRA
45 POLIVODA Oleksandr KLS UKR
46 KRAINER Franz Taruia VEN FRA
47 HOOGHIEMSTER René KOG NED
48 MORTENSEN Martin CUL DEN
49 VAN DER HAAR Lars GID NED
50 DUVAL Julien RLM FRA
51 LARRINAGA Juan Carlos EUK ESP
52 GUYOT Yann ARM FRA
53 GINELLI Vincent NOG FRA *
54 SCHOONBROODT Bob VER NED
55 ARMIRAIL Bruno ARM FRA *
56 VAN HAAREN Bart KOG NED
57 LE LAY David BIC FRA
58 VAUBOURZEIX Thomas LPM FRA (b : 2'')
59 BOTREL Yann BIC FRA
60 DAENINCK Benoit NOG FRA
61 ANTOMARCHI Julien LPM FRA
62 LE GAC Olivier BIC FRA *
63 TRONET Steven BIG FRA
64 PREVAR Oleksandr KLS UKR
65 BRUN Frédéric BIG FRA
66 GRELLIER Fabien VEN FRA *
67 BRATASHCHUK Andrii KLS UKR *
68 SPRINGER Christoph VBG GER
69 GUEZENNEC Vincent BIC FRA
70 QUAADE Rasmus Christian TBW DEN
71 ANDERSEN Søren Kragh TBW DEN *
72 TEYCHENNE COUTET Mathieu ARM FRA
73 PAIANI Jean-Lou RLM FRA
74 OTTEMA Rick VER NED *
75 DUFRASNE Jonathan WBC BEL
76 GARDEYN Gorik VER BEL
77 POULSEN GULDHAMMER Rasmus TBW DEN 0 28
78 SINNER Benoit ARM FRA
79 KERKHOF Tim ETI NED *
80 ANCIAUX Maxime WBC BEL 1 15
81 DAL SANTO Nicola CEF ITA 32
82 VERMEULEN Franck RLM FRA 3 11
83 CHEVALIER Olivier WBC BEL 3 11
84 SCHMIDT Mads CUL DEN * 4 21
85 BALDO Nicolas VBG FRA 4 21
86 KVACHUK Oleksandr KLS UKR 4 21
87 BELLI Matteo CEF ITA 4 21
88 KULYK Andriy KLS UKR 4 21
89 BOCHMANN Lasse CUL DEN 4 21
90 SISKEVICIUS Evaldas LPM LTU 4 21
91 BOVENHUIS Jasper KOG NED 4 21
92 LEBRETON Kevin ARM FRA * 4 21 (b : 2'')
93 FORCONI Giacomo CEF ITA * 4 21 (b : 3'')
94 TURGIS Anthony NOG FRA * 4 21
95 DRON Boris WBC BEL 4 21
96 JÄGER Patrick VBG AUT * 8 7
97 GOLOVASH Oleksandr KLS UKR 8 7
98 ZUAZUBISKAR Illart EUK ESP 8 7
99 TXOPERENA Benat EUK ESP 8 7
100 SAZANOV Andrey HCL RUS * 8 7
101 BARBERO CUESTA Carlos EUK ESP * 8 7
102 MINGUEZ AYALA Miguel EUK ESP 15 15
103 SAVITSKIY Ivan HCL RUS * 15 15
Hors-course :
CLAUSEN Patrick TBW DEN
Abandons :
NIELSEN Mathias Møller TBW DEN *
DOLEZEL Radovan ETI CZE *
FRAME Alex GID NZL *
SCHACHMANN Maximilian GID GER *
CRAEGHS Maarten LOT BEL *
STEROBO Rasmus Brandstrup CUL DEN
EVTUSHENKO Alexander HCL RUS *
ANDREEV Maksim HCL RUS *
CHURSIN Pavel HCL RUS *
GRIGORIEV Alexander HCL RUS *
JULES Justin LPM FRA
TASCHIN Luca CEF ITA *
Classement général :
1 VANTOMME Maxime RLM BEL les 195,6 km en 4h16'36'' (moy. 45.719 km/h)
2 BARBIER Rudy RLM FRA * 0 5
3 DUVAL Julien RLM FRA 0 6
4 BOUDAT Thomas VEN FRA * 0 14
5 MORICE Julien VEN FRA 0 15
6 KRAINER Franz Taruia VEN FRA 0 15
7 CAPIOT Amaury LOT BEL * 0 19
8 McLAY Daniel LOT GBR * 0 20
9 VAUBOURZEIX Thomas LPM FRA 0 21
10 VAN MEIRHAEGHE Jef LOT BEL * 0 22
11 LEEMANS Rob LOT BEL * 0 22
12 POLS Ruben LOT BEL * 0 22
13 GONÇALVES José LPM POR 0 23
14 ROSTOLLAN Thomas LPM FRA 0 23
15 ANTOMARCHI Julien LPM FRA 0 23
16 CARDIS Romain VEN FRA * 0 24
17 ABERASTURI Jon EUK ESP 0 33
18 LARRINAGA Juan Carlos EUK ESP 0 33
19 CORNU Jeremy VEN FRA 0 35
20 SPOKES Samuel ETI AUS * 0 41
21 HNIK Karel ETI CZE 0 41
22 GUERIN Alexis ETI FRA * 0 41
23 LE ROUX Romain ARM FRA * 0 46
24 GUYOT Yann ARM FRA 0 46
25 ARMIRAIL Bruno ARM FRA * 0 46
26 TEYCHENNE COUTET Mathieu ARM FRA 0 46
27 SINNER Benoit ARM FRA 0 46
28 KEO Emmanuel NOG FRA 0 51
29 GARBET Nicolas NOG FRA 0 51
30 FOURNIER Marc NOG FRA * 0 51
31 DAENINCK Benoit NOG FRA 0 51
32 GOUAULT Pierre BIG FRA * 0 55
33 GRELLIER Fabien VEN FRA * 0 55
34 YSSAAD Yannis BIG FRA * 0 56
35 JAKIN Alo BIG EST 0 56
36 TRONET Steven BIG FRA 0 56
37 BRUN Frédéric BIG FRA 0 56
38 PEDERSEN Mark Sehested TBW DEN 1 1
39 QUAADE Rasmus Christian TBW DEN 1 1
40 ANDERSEN Søren Kragh TBW DEN * 1 1
41 AMORISON Frédéric WBC BEL 1 6
42 DUFRASNE Jonathan WBC BEL 1 6
43 STALLAERT Joeri VER BEL 1 11
44 WEBER Sascha VER GER 1 11
45 VANDEWIELE Frederik VER BEL 1 11
46 OTTEMA Rick VER NED * 1 11
47 GARDEYN Gorik VER BEL 1 11
48 SCHNAIDT Fabian VBG GER 1 16
49 POLIVODA Oleksandr KLS UKR 1 16
50 BIERMANS Jenthe GID BEL * 1 21
51 VAN DER HAAR Lars GID NED 1 21
52 BAGGIO Filippo CEF ITA 1 26
53 CASTELIJNS Twan KOG NED 1 26
54 PEDERSEN Mads CUL DEN * 1 26
55 JANORSCHKE Grischa VBG GER 1 26
56 FIORENZA Alfonso CEF ITA 1 26
57 HASPOT Anthony BIC FRA * 1 26
58 BOSKAMP Melvin KOG NED 1 26
59 WINTER Nicolas VBG SUI 1 26
60 MORTENSEN Martin CUL DEN 1 26
61 VAN HAAREN Bart KOG NED 1 26
62 HOOGHIEMSTER René KOG NED 1 26
63 BOTREL Yann BIC FRA 1 26
64 LE GAC Olivier BIC FRA * 1 26
65 SPRINGER Christoph VBG GER 1 26
66 LE LAY David BIC FRA 1 46
67 DAL SANTO Nicola CEF ITA 1 46
68 ANCIAUX Maxime WBC BEL 2 21
69 SCHOONBROODT Bob VER NED 2 22
70 KERKHOF Tim ETI NED * 3 30
71 GINELLI Vincent NOG FRA * 4 8
72 PREVAR Oleksandr KLS UKR 4 19
73 BRATASHCHUK Andrii KLS UKR * 4 19
74 LEBRETON Kevin ARM FRA * 5 5
75 TURGIS Anthony NOG FRA * 5 12
76 VERMEULEN Franck RLM FRA 5 21
77 RENAULT Maxime BIG FRA 5 24
78 DRON Boris WBC BEL 5 27
79 KVACHUK Oleksandr KLS UKR 5 37
80 KULYK Andriy KLS UKR 5 37
81 FORCONI Giacomo CEF ITA * 5 44
82 BOCHMANN Lasse CUL DEN 5 47
83 BOVENHUIS Jasper KOG NED 5 47
84 SCHMIDT Mads CUL DEN * 5 47
85 BELLI Matteo CEF ITA 5 47
86 BALDO Nicolas VBG FRA 5 47
87 POULSEN GULDHAMMER Rasmus TBW DEN 5 50
88 MOTTET Florent WBC BEL 6 9
89 LE MONTAGNER Maxime BIC FRA 6 43
90 GUEZENNEC Vincent BIC FRA 6 43
91 SISKEVICIUS Evaldas LPM LTU 6 49
92 PAIANI Jean-Lou RLM FRA 7 54
93 ZUAZUBISKAR Illart EUK ESP 8 40
94 BARBERO CUESTA Carlos EUK ESP * 8 40
95 ATZORI Umberto KOG NED 8 45
96 HOELGAARD Daniel ETI NOR * 8 54
97 CHEVALIER Olivier WBC BEL 9 20
98 JÄGER Patrick VBG AUT * 9 33
99 SAZANOV Andrey HCL RUS * 9 33
100 GOLOVASH Oleksandr KLS UKR 9 43
101 TXOPERENA Benat EUK ESP 12 12
102 MINGUEZ AYALA Miguel EUK ESP 15 48
103 SAVITSKIY Ivan HCL RUS * 17 16
Classement du meilleur grimpeur :
1 LEBRETON Kevin ARM FRA 10 pts
2 FORCONI Giacomo CEF ITA 6
3 SPOKES Samuel ETI AUS 5 5
4 MORTENSEN Martin CUL DEN 2
5 MINGUEZ AYALA Miguel EUK ESP 1
Classement des sprints intermédiaires :
1 CAPIOT Amaury LOT BEL 5 pts
2 FORCONI Giacomo CEF ITA 5
3 HOELGAARD Daniel ETI NOR 5
4 McLAY Daniel LOT GBR 3
5 VAUBOURZEIX Thomas LPM FRA 3
6 LEBRETON Kevin ARM FRA 3
7 BARBIER Rudy RLM FRA 1
8 BOUDAT Thomas VEN FRA 1
9 GOUAULT Pierre BIG FRA 1
Classement par équipes :
1 LOTTO BELISOL U23 en 11h04'36''
2 ETIXX
3 ROUBAIX LILLE METROPOLE
4 KOGA CYCLING TEAM
5 VERANCLASSIC - DOLTCINI
6 TEAM VORARLBERG
7 VENDEE U
8 CC NOGENT SUR OISE
9 BIGMAT-AUBER 93
10 BREST IROISE CYCLISME 2000
11 NANKANG-FONDRIEST
12 WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
13 ARMEE DE TERRE
14 TEAM LA POMME MARSEILLE
15 TEAM TREFOR - BLUE WATER
16 KOLSS CYCLING TEAM
17 CULT ENERGY VITAL WATER 4 21
18 EUSKADI 8 07
Remerciements à Yanick Lefebvre - www.flandre-finish.fr
Crédit Photo : Dominique Bécart
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Gordon Murray’s T27 Electric Car
Gordon Murray is developing an electric version of his T25 City Car in collaboration with Zytec which will utilise the iStream process of manufacture.
Back in March we reported on a new small car concept from Gordon Murray Design – the T25 – which GMD said was a new way forward in small cars. A concept that was to be licensed to manufacturers around the world to build their own version based on the GMD concept and their simplified iStream manufacturing process. And now we have news that Gordon Murray is busy creating the T27, an electric version of the T25 concept which Murray says will be the most efficient electric vehicle on earth.
What we don’t have is any real depth of detail. But Gordon Murray’s ideas do have a lot of credibility. He’s raised £4.5 million with a grant from the Technology Strategy Board and Murray, together with tech company Zytec – who are building the powertrain – are stumping up a further £4.5 million to get the T27 project on the go.
What we do know is that the T27 is likely to be a T25 with electric bits. Those electric bits – motor, inverter, lithium-ion batteries etc. – will add to the weight of the T27, but it will still be a featherweight at around 750kg, which adds credence to Murray’s claims that the T27 will be the most efficient vehicle on earth.
And the T27, like the T25, will be sold to third party manufacturers to be built around the world using the iStream process which eliminates the need for expensive stamping processes. Murray sees companies like Apple and Virgin building and delivering their own versions of the T25 and T27 – The iCar; The VirginMobile.
Another interesting and innovative concept from GMD. And it’s not just innovative, but practical. GMD are producing cars for City environments. Cheap to build; cheap to run and with the sort of range that suits the Urban Environment – 60 or 70 miles.
GMD reckon to have 4 prototypes running in the next 16 months and Murray hopes to see the first iStream process up and running in the UK in the near future.
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Former Formula One McLaren designer Gordon Murray has unveiled a new all-electric car.
The car model, which is known as the T.27, is due to be developed over the course of the next 16 months with four prototypes. The process that will be used during the course of the manufacturing of the vehicle is called iStream. The technology iStream had been invented by Gordon Murray in 1999 and means that all the parts are designed using a computer.
The project has approximately received £9,000,000 (US$14,919,000) in investment. The electric car is designed for urban purposes, such as in cities or towns. The weight of the vehicle is just 600 kilograms. It has the ability to travel at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and can go for a maximum of 100 miles between recharges.
The designer thinks that motorists will some day be travelling in vehicles like this. Murray believes that the new car will be 'the most efficient electric vehicle on earth'.
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F1 designer reveals world's most efficient electric car
An ex-Formula One designer has revealed the prototype for what he believes will be the world's most efficient electric car.
Gordon Murray showed off the petrol version of his T.27 vehicle yesterday at the launch of a £9million project to develop a new, all-electric affordable urban car.
The former McLaren designer will oversee the development of four prototypes over the next 16 months.
Minister of Science Lord Drayson test drives the T.25, a petrol version of the T.27, the prototype for the new all-electric urban car designed by Gordon Murray
The T.27 will be the world's most efficient electric car due to its low weight
and 'clean sheet of paper design'.
It will be created using a manufacturing process, called iStream. All the parts are designed by computer and welded together rather than stamped out of metal sheets. This means iStream factories can be just one fifth the size of traditional plants.
The project by Gordon Murray Design and Derbyshire-based Zytek Automotive Technology has received half of its investment from the government's Technology Strategy Board.
Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson said: 'The T.27 is a great example of smart engineering and sustainable design. It's timely too, as the UK must demonstrate its readiness to exploit the emerging low-carbon vehicles market.
'The challenge is far greater than simply meeting stricter EU emissions targets. We need to expand our car industry through green innovation.'
Vehicle manufacturers in the UK have to adapt to strict new EU emissions
targets of 130g/km in 2012 that are to be placed on their fleets.
Professor Gordon Murray said: 'The T.27 is all about sustainable, low-energy process by design.
'An opportunity to start from a clean sheet of paper combined with our disruptive manufacturing technology will result in a product which truly pushes the boundaries of urban vehicle design and further protecting our mobility.'
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Former Formula One McLaren designer Gordon Murray has unveiled a new all-electric car.
The car model, which is known as the T.27, is due to be developed over the course of the next 16 months with four prototypes. The process that will be used during the course of the manufacturing of the vehicle is called iStream. The technology iStream had been invented by Gordon Murray in 1999 and means that all the parts are designed using a computer.
The project has approximately received £9,000,000 (US$14,919,000) in investment. The electric car is designed for urban purposes, such as in cities or towns. The weight of the vehicle is just 600 kilograms. It has the ability to travel at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and can go for a maximum of 100 miles between recharges.
The designer thinks that motorists will some day be travelling in vehicles like this. Murray believes that the new car will be 'the most efficient electric vehicle on earth'.
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Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson test drives the T.27 An electric car created by the McLaren F1 'supercar' road car designer Gordon Murray has been unveiled. Three prototypes of the T.27 model will be developed over the next 16 months. The manufacturing process, called iStream, has received £9m of investment, half of which came from the government's Technology Strategy Board. iStream plants can be just one fifth of the size of a conventional car factory, as the cars are not made from stamped steel. All the parts are designed by computer and welded together rather than being stamped out of metal sheets, explained David Bott, director of innovation platforms at the Technology Strategy Board. "It's a very radical approach to manufacturing," he told the BBC. "Usually you talk about high value, or low carbon, or resource efficient manufacturing - this ticks all those boxes." Lightweight The T.27 car is designed for city or town use. Its predecessor, the T.25, weighs 600kg - half the weight of an average small family car. "Cars don't tend to be heavy because of safety; they tend to be heavy because of luxury," added Mr Bott. "The tubular frame of the T.27 is designed to absorb energy. It will pass all the relevant safety tests." Gordon Murray, F1 designer and inventor of iStream, has been refining the technology since 1999, and has recruited former colleagues from his days at F1. "The thinking is similar to McLaren's," he said. "It's all about efficiency and being lightweight, but in urban vehicles." The most expensive part of any electric car is the battery, he added. So in order to be energy efficient, they need to be lightweight. The T.27 can reach 60 miles per hour and is designed to travel up to 100 miles in between recharges. "It's for commuting, picking the kids up, that sort of thing," said Mr Murray, who drives a Smartcar. "We're not saying get rid of your station wagon but it's where car use must go - rather than having a couple of big cars in the family."
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Former Formula One McLaren designer Gordon Murray has unveiled a new all-electric car.
The car model, which is known as the T.27, is due to be developed over the course of the next 16 months with four prototypes. The process that will be used during the course of the manufacturing of the vehicle is called iStream. The technology iStream had been invented by Gordon Murray in 1999 and means that all the parts are designed using a computer.
The project has approximately received £9,000,000 (US$14,919,000) in investment. The electric car is designed for urban purposes, such as in cities or towns. The weight of the vehicle is just 600 kilograms. It has the ability to travel at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and can go for a maximum of 100 miles between recharges.
The designer thinks that motorists will some day be travelling in vehicles like this. Murray believes that the new car will be 'the most efficient electric vehicle on earth'.
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Corruption claims hit Brazil markets
By Raymond Colitt
Published: June 7 2005 02:00 | Last updated: June 7 2005 02:00
Brazil's financial markets fell sharply on Monday following corruption allegations against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's governing Workers' party. The São Paulo stock exchange fell by more than 4 per cent in early afternoon trading, while the real lost more than 1 per cent against the dollar.
Roberto Jefferson, head of the leftwing PTB party, a key member in the governing coalition, accused Mr Lula da Silva's PT of buying the support of congressmen with R$30,000 (US$12,440, £6,600) a month.
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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Exclusive: Venezuelan ministers were informed of deal 'Citgo Six' were jailed for, documents show
Six executives of U.S. refiner Citgo have been jailed in Caracas on graft charges since 2017, but court documents seen by Reuters show that top Venezuelan officials were made aware of the deal that the country's top prosecutor accused the six executives of signing in secret.
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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By Steve Kingstone
BBC News, Sao Paulo
Roberto Jefferson and Lula da Silva are supposed to be allies
The claim was made by the president of the Brazilian Labour Party, a member of the ruling coalition.
Roberto Jefferson said his MPs refused an offer of monthly payments in 2003, but that other parties accepted bribes in return for political loyalty.
The PT said there was "not a grain of truth" in the allegations.
In an interview published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Mr Jefferson claimed that members of the Liberal Party (PL) and the Progressive Party (PP) had accepted bribes of up to $US12,000.
He said the financial arrangement only ended in 2005, after he personally brought the matter to the attention of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
The PT said it was "surprised and outraged" at Mr Jefferson's claims and also upheld its broader commitment to fighting corruption.
The Progressive Party denied accepting money in return for political support. The Liberal Party said the claims were lies designed to "blackmail the government".
Investigation
As lawmakers from different parties called on Mr Jefferson to clarify his claims in parliament, supporters of the president were questioning the credibility of the man making the accusations.
Mr Jefferson is himself under investigation, following a corruption scandal at the state-run postal service.
At this stage, his account seems to be based more on hearsay than firm evidence.
Even so, the mere fact that this has surfaced is of great concern for President Lula.
In opinion polls, the president's popularity has been falling.
With a re-election campaign looming next year, he will want to close this story down quickly.
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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Jefferson denuncia mesada paga pelo tesoureiro do PT
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Sérgio Lima/FI Jefferson em entrevista exclusiva à Folha
daReportagem da Folha de S. Paulo desta segunda mostra que o deputado Roberto Jefferson (PTB-RJ) cumpriu a promessa de denunciar corrupção no governo Lula. Em entrevista exclusiva a Renata Lo Prete, editora do Painel da, o presidente do PTB disse que congressistas aliados recebiam o que chamou de um "mensalão" de R$ 30 mil do tesoureiro do PT, Delúbio Soares.Segundo a reportagem, a prática durou até o começo do ano, quando o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, segundo Jefferson, tomou conhecimento do caso, pelo próprio petebista.Em entrevista ao Bom Dia Brasil, da Rede Globo, o presidente do PT, José Genoino, negou o pagamento da "mesada" e disse que o partido ainda está analisando as acusações de Roberto Jefferson.De acordo com a reportagem, outros ministros, como José Dirceu (Casa Civil) e Antonio Palocci (Fazenda) haviam sido alertados antes do esquema --que beneficiaria pelo menos o PP e o PL.Jefferson está há três semanas no centro do noticiário pelas denúncias que atingem os Correios e o Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil, estatais que têm indicados do PTB em seus quadros. A crise decorrente das denúncias levou a um pedido de CPI que o governo pretendia enterrar nesta semana --agora, Jefferson diz que defende e quer a investigação.Jefferson afirmou àque a cúpula do PTB rejeitou a oferta do "mensalão", feita ainda em 2003, e, a partir de então, ele denunciou a prática a ministros e líderes do governo. "O Zé [Dirceu] deu um soco na mesa: O Delúbio está errado. Eu falei para não fazer", disse Jefferson.De acordo com a reportagem, Jefferson conta que, em janeiro deste ano, falou com Lula. "Presidente, o Delúbio vai botar uma dinamite na sua cadeira. Ele continua dando 'mensalão' aos deputados." "Que 'mensalão'?" Jefferson explicou. "O presidente chorou." E depois da conversa com Lula? "Tenho notícia de que a fonte secou. A insatisfação está brutal [na base aliada] porque a mesada acabou."
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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06/06/2005 - 08h42
Entenda como funcionava o suposto "mensalão" de R$ 30 mil a parlamentares
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daO tesoureiro do PT, Delúbio Soares, dava um "mesada", chamada de "mensalão", de R$ 30 mil a deputados e senadores aliados do PL e do PP, segundo o presidente do PTB, deputado Roberto Jefferson (RJ).Jefferson teria falado, pela primeira vez, sobre o mensalão ao presidente Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva no início deste ano.Lula teria mandado suspender o "mensalão", disse Jefferson.O governo federal passou, então, a enfrentar dificuldades com a base aliada no Congresso porque deputados e senadores perderam o benefício, segundo Jefferson.
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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A mesada, que o deputado chama de "mensalão", teria sido paga, segundo Jefferson, até janeiro, e só acabou depois que o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva foi informado pelo próprio deputado. Lula, diz Jefferson, teria chorado ao saber do esquema. Antes, o presidente do PTB teria comunicado o fato aos ministros José Dirceu (Casa Civil) e Antônio Palocci (Fazenda), mas a prática continuou.
Ele conta que em janeiro disse a Lula "Presidente, o Delúbio vai botar uma dinamite na sua cadeira. Ele continua dando o ´mensalão´ aos deputados." "Que ´mensalão´? Jefferson explicou e Lula teria chorado. Depois da conversa, diz ele, "a fonte secou". Sobre a lógica da mesada Jefferson afirma: "É mais barato pagar o exército mercenário do que dividir o poder."
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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06/06/2005 - PT nega declarações de Roberto Jefferson
O PT divulgou hoje nota de esclarecimento, assinada por seu presidente nacional, José Genoino, sobre as declarações do presidente do PTB, Roberto Jefferson, publicadas no jornal Folha de S.Paulo. Veja abaixo a íntegra da nota.
Nota de esclarecimento
1 – Foi com surpresa e indignação que o Partido dos Trabalhadores tomou conhecimento das declarações do deputado Roberto Jefferson, concedidas ao jornal Folha de S. Paulo, segundo as quais o nosso partido, através do tesoureiro Delúbio Soares, concedia uma mesada mensal de R$ 30 mil aos deputados do PL e do PP;
2 – O PT nega as declarações do deputado Roberto Jefferson, pois elas não têm o mínimo de fundamento na realidade. O relacionamento do PT com todos os partidos da base de sustentação do governo, inclusive o PTB, se assenta em pressupostos políticos e programáticos e no objetivo de garantir a governabilidade do país e implementar o programa de governo pelo qual o presidente Lula foi eleito;
3 – O PT, a exemplo de outros partidos da base do governo, apóia todas as investigações em curso feitas pela Polícia Federal, pelo Ministério Público, pela Controladoria Geral da União e por outras instituições, ressalvando a presunção de inocência de todos os envolvidos, mas com a convicção de que todos os culpados deverão ser punidos.
José Genoino – Presidente do PT.
São Paulo, 6 de junho de 2005
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The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.
Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.
The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.
The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.
The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.
In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.
On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.
The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.
Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.
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