Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

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

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

World&&&&Natural Disasters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

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

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

World&&&&Natural Disasters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chinese direct for Durex condoms boosts SSL sales

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The builder of Durex condoms and Scholl shoes likely that annual sales for the year would be up by some-more than a fifth among fender direct in rising markets.

SSL International pronounced yesterday that it approaching sales for the twelve months to the finish of Mar to be in the segment of 795 million up by some-more than twenty-two per cent on the same duration last year. It pronounced this was due especially to the purchase of a determining interest in Beleggingsmaatschappij Lemore, a Russian condom maker, in Apr last year and the merger of Gainbridge, Ukraines greatest condom maker, in October.

Garry Watts, the companys arch executive, pronounced that both businesses were doing well and would minister around 120 million to organisation sales this year. Mr Watts pronounced that on an underlying basement sales of Durex and Scholl were approaching to enlarge about 4 per cent on the prior year. He pronounced that expansion in sales of Durex-branded condoms had been important in China, Poland and Germany, whilst Scholl footcare had finished well in Japan, France and Germany.

He added: The opening this year has been encouraging, notwithstanding the challenging mercantile sourroundings in the UK and Italy. Our core branded business continues to show great like-for-like expansion with strengthening positions in both grown and rising markets.

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SSL shares, that had risen by 78 per cent in the year prior to yesterdays announcement, rose 9p to 808p after the update. That values the company, which has mostly been seen as a probable takeover aim for Reckitt Benckiser, at 1.717 billion.

Analysts pronounced they were cheered by the actuality the association appeared to be enjoying improved distinction margins in Russia and China traditionally regarded as costly countries in that to do commercial operation than elsewhere. Sally Taylor, an researcher at JP Morgan Cazenove, said: This was a calming trading matter somewhat forward of expectations.

Safeway says 2010 distinction could miss expectations

Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES Wed March 3, 2010 3:43pm EST Related News UPDATE 4-Safeway says 2010 distinction could miss expectationsWed, March 3 2010Safeway CEO: Prices on standard with competitorsThu, Feb twenty-five 2010UPDATE 3-Safeway CEO: Prices on standard with competitorsThu, Feb twenty-five 2010UPDATE 3-Whole Foods distinction beats, shares burst on viewTue, Feb sixteen 2010 Stocks & &

A Safeway grocery store is graphic in Denver Feb 26, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Safeway Inc (SWY.N) foresee 2010 distinction that could tumble short of Wall Street"s perspective as the supermarket user tries to jump-start the commercial operation after obscure prices to improved contest with vital rivals.

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Pleasanton, California-based Safeway, that operates the Safeway, Vons and Dominick"s chains, pronounced it expects to consequence $1.65 to $1.85 per share this year. Analysts on normal were seeking for $1.85, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

The association foresee identical-store sales, incompatible the stroke of fuel sales, would be prosaic to up 1 percent. Identical-store sales embody determined supermarkets that have not been significantly renovated or replaced.

"Management has grown a story of being rather assertive with guidance, and we perspective this some-more realistic/conservative proceed as a majority indispensable change," Credit Suisse researcher Edward Kelly pronounced in a note to clients.

"While next accord superintendence was not a warn given majority (including us) noticed the Street as as well high, the $1.75 mid-point is rather reduce than expected," Kelly added.

Shares of Safeway were down 1.7 percent to $24.45 in late afternoon trading, after descending as low as $23.92 progressing in the session.

The association continues to conflict the notice that the prices are higher than those of rivals similar to Kroger Co (KR.N) and Supervalu Inc (SVU.N). It not long ago pronounced the prices are right away on standard with vital competitors and that it was finale investments associated to slicing prices.

Safeway additionally pronounced it expects to outlay $900 million to $1 billion money on collateral expenditures this year and anticipates free money upsurge of $900 million to $1.1 billion.

As piece of the strategy, Safeway has already remodeled 79 percent of the stores.

Chief Financial Officer Robert Edwards told investors that the multiple of fewer rival store openings and accelerating store closures, quite between small and feeble saved operators, should give Safeway "significant opportunity" to profitably urge marketplace share.

In the majority new fourth quarter, Safeway reported a distinction that was in line with analysts" expectations, notwithstanding deteriorating sales and margins.

(Reporting Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles and Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, John Wallace, Tim Dobbyn)

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David Prosser Red Knights were once seen as devils

Outlook There is positively copiousness to be vexed about the approach the Glazer family paid for Manchester United and installed it up with debt, but one cannot assistance a devious grin at the identities of a little of the Red Knights right away roving over the mountainous country to the rescue of the bar on interest of "true" football fans. If the likes of Jim O"Neill and Paul Marshall right away paint the excusable face of capitalism, it tells you something about the reproof indifferent for the Glazers.

Mr Marshall is one half of the partnership that founded Marshall Wace, the sidestep account business. You might have seen his name referred to in despatches a integrate of times over the past integrate of years: initial when his sidestep account strike the headlines offered short the shares of Halifax Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock (remember what happened to them?), and subsequent when he appeared in front of MPs fortifying the sidestep account industry and battling a anathema on short selling.

Mr O"Neill, meanwhile, is arch strategist at Goldman Sachs. You"ll really have come opposite the name. Think large bonuses for staff usually a year after the tellurian promissory note bailout, think recommendation to Greece on how to by-pass EU borrowing rules, think investment bank famously dubbed as a "great evil spirit squid wrapped around the face of humanity".

None of this is to contend the Red Knights would be unsuited bidders for Manchester United, or even to accept that critique of their day-to-day commercial operation activities is indispensably satisfactory only to comply that peoples memories are short and that when it comes to football, all receptive thought disappears out of the window really quickly. For, similar to the Glazers themselves, a little of these knights are all as well informed with the feeling of being open rivalry No 1.

Frequency and cost of duplicating college task revealed

According to investigate published online Mar eighteen in Physical Review Special Topics: Physics Education Research, it turns out that neglected tyro intrigue is a poignant means of march disaster nationally.

A researcher from the University of Kansas has teamed up with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get a improved hoop on duplicating in college in the 21st century.

Young-Jin Lee, partner highbrow of tutorial record at KU, and the Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively organisation at MIT outlayed 4 years saying how majority copied answers MIT students submitted to MasteringPhysics, an online task education system.

MIT freshmen are compulsory to take physics, pronounced Lee. Homework was since by a Web-based mentor that the organisation had developed. We analyzed when they logged in, when they logged out, what kind of problems they solved and what kinds of hints they used.

Lee pronounced that it was easy to mark students who had performed answers from classmates prior to completing the homework.

We ran in to really enchanting students who could compromise the problems -- really tough problems -- in less than one minute, but creation any mistakes, pronounced Lee.

Students additionally were asked to finish an unknown consult about the magnitude of their task copying. (According to the survey, students nationally confess to enchanting in some-more educational duplicity than MIT students.)

Among the researchers" majority important findings:

Students who procrastinated additionally copied some-more often. Those who proposed their task 3 days forward of deadline copied less than 10 percent of their problems, whilst those who dragged their feet until the last notation were repeated copiers.

The students who copied often had about 3 times the possibility of unwell the course.

Results of the consult show that students are twice as expected to duplicate on created task than on online homework. This investigate showed that you do all the task reserved is a surer track to examination success than a preexisting aptitude for physics.

People hold that students duplicate since of their bad educational skills, Lee said. But we found that repeated copiers -- students who duplicate over thirty percent of their task problems -- had sufficient knowledge, at slightest at the commencement of the semester. But they didn"t put sufficient bid in. They didn"t begin their task prolonged sufficient forward of time, as compared to noncopiers.

Because repeated copiers don"t sufficient sense production topics on that they duplicate the homework, Lee said, the investigate strongly implies that duplicating caused disappearing opening on analytic exam problems after in the semester.

Even though everybody knows not you do task is bad for learning, no one knows how bad it is, pronounced Lee. Now we have a quantitative measurement. It could have an A tyro get B or even C.

At the commencement of a semester, the researchers found that duplicating was not as drawn out as it was late in the semester.

Obviously, the volume of duplicating was not so prevalent since the educational bucket was not as most at the commencement of the semester, pronounced Lee. In sequence to duplicate solutions, the students need to set up their networks. They need to get to know each alternative so that they can ask for the answers.

But the KU researcher and his MIT colleagues additionally demonstrated that changes to college march formats -- such as violation up large harangue classes in to not as big college of music classes, augmenting interactions in between training staff and students, becoming different the grading complement -- could revoke tyro duplicating fourfold.

Genetics in the Gut: Intestinal Microbes Could Drive Obesity and Other Health Issues



Outnumbering the human cells by about 10 to one, the most diminutive microbes that live in and on the bodies are a big piece of consequential bland functions. The lion"s share live in the abdominal tract, where they assistance deflect off bad germ and assist in digesting the dinners. But as scientists make use of genetics to expose what microbes are essentially benefaction and what they"re you do in there, they are finding that the bugs fool around an even incomparable purpose in human health than formerly suspected--and maybe at times exerting some-more change than human genes themselves. [More]

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Kristen Stewart Shows Support At Robert Pattinsons Remember Me Premiere

Robert Pattinson took New York by storm Monday night with the fan-frenzied premiere of his new drama with Pierce Brosnan and Emilie De Ravin, "Remember Me" -- and his "Twilight Saga" co-star Kristen Stewart came out to show her support

"This young man Robert Pattinson has the bull by the horns and he"s got his head on his shoulders as well," Pierce tells "The Insider" about his co-star. Part of the film"s storyline is about a father losing his son to depression, and the former 007 addressed the news of Marie Osmond"s son"s suicide, saying to Marie, "Lots of love, good faith, be strong."

Pierce"s wife, Keely Shaye Smith, added, "Our hearts go out to her. It"s very, very sad. We"re very sorry. Condolences to her and her children, her family."

In theaters March 12, "Remember Me" follows Robert as he struggles to win the attention and respect of his father (played by Pierce) and falls headlong into a romantic affair with an extraordinary, eccentric girl, played by Emilie.

"It is a kind of very tragic story in a lot of ways," Robert tells "The Insider," adding that he never quite gets used to the frenzied attention on the red carpet.

Watch "The Insider" for more with the stars of "Remember Me"

Sarkozy seeks appropriation precision for chief appetite

Marie Maitre and Crispian Balmer PARIS Mon Mar 8, 2010 8:58am EST

PARIS (Reuters) - International development banks must finance civilian nuclear projects to help emerging nations build energy plants, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday, laying out ambitious plans to develop the industry.

France is one of the world"s largest users of nuclear energy, generating 80 percent of its power consumption from a network of 58 nuclear reactors, and is actively seeking to sell its nuclear technology to countries around the world.

"I do not understand and I do not accept the ostracisation of nuclear projects by international financing," Sarkozy told a major conference on nuclear energy.

Nuclear power producer EDF and reactor maker Areva were among a French consortium which bid for and lost a $40 billion nuclear project in Abu Dhabi in December.

They remain very active on the export front, trying to sell their decades-long nuclear expertise to countries such as the United States, Britain, Italy, China or India.

Sarkozy said the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and other such institutions should make a "wholehearted commitment" to fund civilian nuclear energy programmes.

"It is a scandal that international organizations today do not finance nuclear projects," he said. "The current situation means that countries are condemned to rely on more costly energy that causes greater pollution."

The nuclear option is now part of a mix of power sources countries need to develop to ensure their energy security, said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

"The gas crisis in 2009, the economic crisis and the climate alert have changed the situation. Nuclear energy is now increasingly seen as a possible solution to ensure energy supply security and the fight against climate change," Barroso told the conference after Sarkozy"s speech.

In an effort to make nuclear energy more attractive to potential buyers, Sarkozy said he also wanted a change in international laws to allow nuclear producers to benefit from carbon credits that are currently denied to the industry.

"I propose that CO2 credits be used to finance all forms of decarbonised energy under the new global architecture after 2013," he told an audience of nuclear experts gathered at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

FOCUS ON FUEL AND TRAINING

Some 56 nuclear reactors are under construction around the world and the United Nations says that over the next 20 years more than 20 states, including emerging economies, could put into service their first reactor for civilian energy.

It also estimates that some 60 countries are considering nuclear programmes, with many of them dispatching ministers and senior officials to Paris for the two-day conference.

Among the measures needed to promote the development of the industry, Sarkozy said he wanted to see better training and steps to secure the supply of nuclear fuel.

He proposed creating an International Nuclear Energy Institute in France.

"It will bring together the best teachers and researchers to provide very high quality education," he said.

He also put forward a plan to set up a fuel bank under the authority of the U.N."s International Atomic Energy Agency, which would step in when fuel supplies were interrupted.

Only countries that respected non-proliferation treaties would be able to benefit from such international infrastructure.

"One cannot ask for civil nuclear energy cooperation, with the long-term partnership and responsibility that it entails, and then renege on international obligations," he said, in a clear reference to Iran, which is locked in conflict with the West over its nuclear programme.

(Editing by Noah Barkin)

Nearby bone cells might trigger a little red blood cancers

Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:07pm EDT Related News New attack on cancer forces cells to grow old and dieThu, Mar 18 2010New attack on cancer forces cells to grow old and dieWed, Mar 17 2010UPDATE 1-New attack on cancer forces cells to grow old & dieWed, Mar 17 2010

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Certain blood cancers may be triggered by signals sent from surrounding bone cells, not by individual cells going bad, and interrupting those signals may offer a new approach to treating leukemia, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

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"Cancer is generally thought to be a single cell going rogue. It does so by accumulating a series of genetic injuries," said Dr. David Scadden of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, whose study appears in the journal Nature.

But Scadden and colleagues instead found that genetic changes in bone cells -- where blood stem cells reside -- can cause mice to develop myelodysplasia, a condition that can lead to an acute form of the blood cancer leukemia.

Studies in mice showed that when the team altered a gene in the bone cells called Dicer1, it had a damaging effect on blood stem cells as well.

"The blood started to take on a picture which resembled a very poorly understood human disease called myelodysplasia," Scadden, who directs the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a telephone interview.

"It has a complication of developing leukemia," he said, which is exactly what some of the animals in the study did.

"The reason that this is important is it says the environment can actually become such an important part of the function of the tissue -- the blood in this case -- that it can lead to the emergence of new genetic abnormalities that can become fatal for the whole organism," Scadden said.

He said the findings offer a new understanding of the source of some cancers, which can come from outside of cells.

Scadden said interrupting the communication between surrounding cells and cancer cells could offer another approach to making cancer drugs.

(Editing by Xavier Briand)

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Fireman saves lady engineer from drowning after she drives opposite flooded travel

She can hardly claim she hadn"t been warned.

The sign at the side of the fordclearly states that it can be impassable after heavy rain, while thedepth marker shows the water swirling between the 4ft and 5ft mark.

Yet 62-year-old Anne Kennedy ploughed straight on - to disaster.

Drama: The fireman steps in to save this woman driver from drowning in the swollen River Loddon

Mistake: The unnamed driver decides to brave crossing a flood-swollen ford

Rescue: The normally inches-deep ford was at least five feet deep as she tried to cross it

Her black Vauxhall Astra was swept down the River Loddon in Berkshire with the helpless driver clinging to the steering wheel.

By the time firemen arrived thewater inside the car was chest deep and Mrs Kennedy was in danger ofdrowning. With no time to wait for a boat, they inflated a hose to useas a line to the vehicle then managed to break a side window and dragher to safety.

She was allowed home from hospital after treatment for exposure.

Mrs Kennedy, who lives inHenley-on-Thames and is a director of Henley Management Solutions,could not explain why she missed the warning signs. "As I began drivingthrough I realised how awful it was," she said.

"I stopped to put it in reverse andthe car began slipping. I tried to go forward again but the brakesstopped working. Then the engine cut out.

"It was an interesting experience tosay the least. I tried my best to remain calm. The worst part was theelectrics shut down so I couldn"t open the windows. I was completelytrapped.

"At times I thought I might not make it, but once the firefighters arrived I felt like I had a 50/50 chance."

The dramatic pictures of theincident were taken by Steve Collier, landlord of the Land"s End pubnext to the ford at Charvil, near Reading. Both he and Mrs Kennedy called 999.

"I couldn"t believe it when the Astra just drove in," he said.

Clear warning: The sign for all drivers heading towards the ford

"Straight away the back end of the car was dragged to the left and you could see there was no movement from inside the car.

"Within a couple of minutes the windows were steaming up and the car was being dragged down the river by the current.

"Itwas in far too deep for any rescue attempt with a normal car and all wecould do was ring 999."

RoyalBerkshire Fire and Rescue Service watch manager Phil Holdford added: "If we had left it any longer therecould have been serious issues so we effected a rescue," said RoyalBerkshire Fire and Rescue Service watch manager Phil Holdford.

"Shewas extremely cold and shocked at what had happened. The ford was about5ft deep in the middle and the car had floated some way downstream.

"No-oneshould drive into a ford when the water is as deep as that." MrCollier said up to 120 motorists were rescued from the water each yearafter ignoring the clearly displayed warning signs.

"We really do not understand why people do it," he said.

"It is at least 50ft to the other side and you can clearly see the water ahead of you moving very very quickly.

"Iknow some people blame satellite navigation systems and others thinkthey can cross it in the summer so will be able to do it now."

Firefightershad been called to same the ford last Saturday to rescue two men whobecame stranded in a VW Passat. The car had to be winched from theswollen Ford.