Thursday 28 January, 2010
Nike Air Max 2009 "Armed Forces"
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What you see here is a preview of an upcoming Air Max 2009 made of premium leather. On a first look, these kicks look like a customized Air Max 2009 but Nike actually will release these kicks on May 26th and retail will be $110.. This air max 90 resembles a Jet Fighter Plane with the war teeth in the front as well on the insoles. Inspiration for this colorway came, like the nickname says, from the Armed Forces. The air max shoes clearly take inspiration in colors and design from the P-40 Warhawk. The air max shoes have all of the details of the war plane inside and out. Should be a quickstrike release!air max shoes sale cheap in airmaxzone.com .welcome you to choose.
Nike Air Max 2009 - Shadow Grey/Cool Grey
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Yup more Air Max shoes, and this time is a model that has surely been missed by fans of the shoe this year. This Air Max 2009 is a very clean colorway that uses various greys to get its point across. The air max 90 is rockin shadow grey and cool grey in a harmonious synergy that makes this futuristic runner perfect for the summer jogs or block parties. The best part about the colorway is it doesnt overcomplicate an already intricate design.Air max shoes sale real quality nike shoes where in airmaxzone.com,welcome you to choose.
Teenage girl rescued 15 days after quake is stable
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A 16-year-old girl pulled from the rubble more than two weeks after a deadly earthquake was in stable condition Thursday, able to eat yogurt and mashed vegetables to the surprise of doctors, who said her survival was medically inexplicable.
Hundreds of thousands of other survivors hoped for a breakthrough of another kind - the delivery of badly needed food aid.
Key players in the Haiti earthquake relief effort, in what may prove to be a pivotal meeting Wednesday, decided to better coordinate by dividing up the shattered capital, giving each responsibility for handing out food in certain areas.
Food distribution thus far has often been marked by poor coordination, vast gaps in coverage, and desperate, unruly lines of needy people in which young men at times shoved aside the women and weak and took their food.
"These things should be done in a systematic way, not a random way," Dr. Eddy Delalue, who runs a Haitian relief group, Operation Hope, said Wednesday of the emergency food program. "It's survival of the fittest: The strongest guy gets it."
Wednesday's rescue of teenager Darlene Etienne from a collapsed home near St. Gerard University, 15 days after Haiti's great quake killed an estimated 200,000 people, was the first such recovery since Saturday, when French rescuers extricated a man from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.
Etienne is stable, drinking water and eating yogurt and mashed vegetables, said Dr. Evelyne Lambert, who has been treating the girl on the French Navy hospital ship Sirocco, anchored off the shore of Port-au-Prince.
Lambert said that Etienne has a 90 percent chance of survival.
"We cannot really explain this because that's just (against) biological facts," Lambert told a news conference. "We are very surprised by the fact that she's alive. ... She's saying that she has been under the ground since the very beginning on the 12th of January so it may have really happened - but we cannot explain that."
Etienne may have had some access to water from a bathroom of the wrecked house, and rescuers said she mumbled something about having a little Coca-Cola with her in the rubble.
Experts say it's unclear how long people can survive with little or no water.
"It depends on so many variables - on temperature, on how hydrated she was when she got into this situation," said Randall Packer, a biology professor at George Washington University and an expert on salt and water balance. Packer also said Etienne's youth was likely to have helped her survive.
Even when fluids are withdrawn for terminally ill patients, "it can take a week or a little bit more for them to die," he said.
Her family said Etienne had just begun studies at St. Gerard when the disaster struck, trapping dozens of students and staff in the rubble of school buildings, hostels and nearby homes. "We thought she was dead," said cousin Jocelyn A. St. Jules.
Then - a half-month after the earthquake - neighbors heard a voice weakly calling from the rubble of a private home down the road from the destroyed university. They called authorities, who brought in the French civil response team.
French search and rescue team member Dr. Claude Fuilla walked along the dangerously crumbled roof, heard her voice and saw a little bit of dust-covered black hair in the rubble. Clearing away some debris, he reached the young woman and saw she was alive - barely.
Digging out a hole big enough to give her oxygen and water, they found she had a very weak pulse. Within 45 minutes they managed to remove her, covered in dust.
"She was in very bad shape," Fuilla said Thursday. "We had to rehydrate her for 15 minutes" before flying her by helicopter to the Sirocco. "Now, her condition is stabilized. She ate. She is speaking ... She is not very lucid, but she is OK."
At least 135 people buried in rubble have been rescued by search teams since the quake, most in the immediate aftermath. An Israeli team that earned international praise for its rescue efforts in Haiti returned home Thursday with a 5-year-old boy in need of urgent heart surgery.
Back in Haiti, the United Nations World Food Program urgently appealed to governments for more cash for Haiti supplies - $800 million to feed 2 million people through December, more than quadruple the $196 million already pledged.
The WFP, partnered with local and international organizations, had delivered 3.6 million food rations to 458,000 people by Tuesday, U.N. officials said Thursday.
But food remains scarce for many of the neediest survivors. Relief experts said the scale of this disaster and Haiti's poor infrastructure are presenting unprecedented challenges, but Haitian leaders complain coordination has been poor.
The WFP also noted that rising tensions and security incidents have hampered deliveries. Desperation boiled over earlier this week as young men rushed forward to grab U.S.-donated bags of beans and rice. A pregnant woman collapsed and was trampled.
Since the relief effort's first days, however, other problems have also delayed aid: blocked and congested roads, truck shortages, a crippled seaport and an overloaded airport.
The south pier near Port-au-Prince - the fastest route for moving large pallets of food and medical supplies into Haiti - was more badly damaged than U.S. officials realized and won't be repaired for another eight to 10 weeks, Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of U.S. Southern Command, said Thursday. At the moment, troops are only able to move 200 containers a day from ships anchored offshore using connectors, landing craft and helicopters, Fraser said.
Meanwhile, looting remained a constant threat in Port-au-Prince. A block away from U.S. troops who were knocking down the remaining walls of otherwise collapsed buildings, thieves armed with sledgehammers smashed what was left of destroyed shops Thursday, making off with everything from candy to perfume.
With the country still barely functioning, Haitian President Rene Preval canceled legislative elections scheduled for next month. The Parliament building partially collapsed in the earthquake, killing one senator, and other candidates also died in the disaster.
"We don't need elections right now," said 37-year-old store clerk Martine Poulard. "Elections cost a lot. They should use the money to feed the people who are starving in the streets, and they need to build houses for the homeless as well."
Davos forum opens with focus on financial regulation, economic r
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The Davos forum opened its first day of discussions on Wednesday with a focus on how to improve the regulation of the financial sector to avoid future crises and whether the global economy could recover sustainably.
While there is wide consensus that the global financial system needs to be better regulated, participants at the meeting differed on what changes should be made.
In a keynote address to the Davos forum, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for tighter financial regulation, and criticized unrestrained free-market capitalism.
"There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relationship to merit," Sarkozy said.
He described the remuneration packages as "morally indefensible" because companies that "contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money."
"From the moment we accepted the idea that the market was always right and that no other opposing factors need to be taken into account, globalization skidded out of control," he said.
But not everyone agreed with Sarkozy's point of view on the opening day of the five-day conference.
Dennis Nally, Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, believed that overregulation and protectionism can only do harm to the recovering global economy.
Nally told Xinhua Wednesday during an interview on the sidelines of the forum that CEOs from around the world are concerned with overregulation of financial systems that "could somehow restrict our ability to invest" and with protectionist policies that restrict free trade.
"We're in a period today which I think is better than a year ago, but no one is saying that we're out of the woods yet," Nally said.
Nobody disagrees with the fundamental belief that governments need to improve their regulation of financial systems, he added. But, he continued, there is the complex question of how to make the improvements.
"We need to fix the right types of changes ... and we should not overreact or rush to short-term actions that may sound good or may grab headlines but quite frankly would not serve the fundamental problems all of us need to address," he warned.
"We are in danger of attacking the most visible problems instead of doing what we need to do," said Raghuram Rajan, an expert from the University of Chicago School of Business.
"We could overregulate and go too far and whittle away too much, " Rajan told a session on the so-called "New Normal" of Global Growth.
"We need good regulation, better regulation but not more regulation," said Lord Levene, chairman of British bank Lloyd's, in a separate session.
The panelists also offered their insight on the global economy. "It will be a U-shaped recovery ... and there is a risk of a double-dip recession," said Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics Monitor, USA.
He noted that emerging market economies would do better than advanced economies. But the model of export-led growth in emerging economies such as China is now challenged by the fact that countries like the United States are importing less.
China's GDP will exceed that of Japan in 2010, noted Heizo Takenaka, director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University in Japan.
He predicted that the recovery of the global economy will be W-shaped, with China and other emerging economies as key contributors to the rebound in growth.
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), warned of further crises and called for abandoning the old system.
"Significant work must be done to rebuild a true partnership between governments and business to allow business to remain innovative and enterprising and to create jobs," he said.
According to the WEF chief, it's "dangerous" for world leaders to think that the worst of the crisis is over and "we are back to business as usual."
"The crisis has fundamentally changed our world, and we can no longer revert to the old system," he stressed.
He called on the forum participants to address the new reality and embrace the theme of the meeting: "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild."
"This means concretely rethinking our values, redesigning our systems and rebuilding our institutions," he explained.
More than 200 working sessions will be held during the five-day gathering, with the participation of some 2,500 delegates from over 90 countries, representing business, government, civil society, academia and the media.
Like previous meetings in the Swiss alpine resort, participants will also talk about security issues such as the situation in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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