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Haiti Taps Prince Charles Charity for

City Makeover

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti has asked an architec-tural planning charity founded by Britain's Prince Charles to help guide the rebuilding and makeover of the earthquake-devastated historic center of Port-au-Prince.

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A massive influx of free for-eign food to Haiti after January's earthquake helped feed many displaced people, but undercut Haitian agriculture and hurt farmers' incomes, Oxfam Inter-national said Monday.

Haiti Food Aid Hurt-ing Local Farmers –

Report

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As Haiti’s electoral campaign opens, the top United Nations official in the impover-ished and earthquake-devastated country on Friday pledged full security and logistical support to ensure a successful outcome of the Nov. 28 vote, UN officials said here.

“Only a government that bears national consensus, armed with a vision based on the common good and determined to tackle the true causes of the current problems, can confront the challenges,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representa-tive Edmond Mulet said in a statement.

He cited the urgent need to resettle hun-dreds of thousands of people displaced by the quake and the longer-term challenge of re- establishing a fully functioning state of law with security and jobs, said the official.

“The Nov. 28 elections offer the unique opportunity to define the path to follow for the next five years,” he said of the presiden-tial and parliamentary vote.

He stressed the major importance of issu-ing new identity cards on time and the duty of all candidates to campaign in a calm, respectful way and to prevent their followers from resorting to violence.

“A special responsibility falls to party cur-rently in power to ensure that they do not abuse their access to State resources, which

must never be used for partisan purposes,” he said.

Other countries have pledged aid for the upcoming elections.

Canada will spend $5.8 million to help Haiti with its presidential and parliamentary elections in November, Minister of Inter-national Co-operation Bev Oda announced Tuesday.

The money will go to the United Nations Development Program to help the Haitian electoral council, which oversees the elec-tions; to Elections Canada which will be providing technical support during the Nov. 28 elections, and to Haiti’s Conseil national pour l’observation des elections for the training and deployment of local electoral

observers.“Canada has been a long-time supporter

of democratic, open, and fair electoral pro-cesses in Haiti,” Oda said in a news release. “Good governance and strong democratic institutions are essential to ensuring the suc-cess of reconstruction [there].”

Canada has committed more than $1 bil-lion to Haiti between 2006 and 2012.

In March, Oda announced $400 million in aid to help Haiti recover from the Jan 12 earthquake on Jan. 12 that killed more than 200,000 people and left more than one mil-lion homeless.

Haiti’s election commission in August published a list of 19 eligible candidates in the presidential race. The elections will take place as the country is still reeling from the quake

Haiti is the largest recipient of direct Canadian aid, followed by Afghanistan.

Mulet heads the UN peacekeeping mis-sion in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH, which now has nearly 12,000 military and police personnel deployed around the country and has been on the ground since mid-2004 after then president Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile amid violent unrest.

People’s daily.com and CBC contributed to the story.

Haiti Election: UN Pledges Security, Logistical Support Canada Offers $5.8M

UN Photo/Marco DorminoA close-up of a UN Police officer as he and his colleagues, along with the Haitian National Police, conduct a security operation in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. Lasting some three hours, the officers' the officers’ search for weapons and gang members resulted in seven detained suspects.

SPORTS

Art & CultureNephtalie Kettia Guillite Crowned

Miss Haiti Caraïbes Hibiscus

The United Nations marked World Teachers’ Day Oct. 5 with top officials calling on govern-ments to make up a project-ed deficit of over 10 million teachers by 2015 and stressing the crucial role teachers play in recovery from natural disasters and conflict.

More than 10 million New

Teachers Needed to Fill Education Goals,

UN Warns

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Diarra Unconcerned by France Competition

Haiti is the largest recipient of direct

Canadian aid, followed by Afghanistan.

PARIS – Lassana Diarra says he does not fear for his international place, despite France having produced one of their best performances of recent years in his absence against Bosnia last month.

France beat Bosnia-Hercegovina 2-0 in Sarajevo in their second Euro 2012 quali-fier on September 7, wiping out memories of their shock 1-0 at home to Belarus and raising hopes of a bright future under Lau-rent Blanc.

Diarra missed the game with a ham-string injury and one of the most impres-sive elements of France's victory was the performance of his central midfield rivals Alou Diarra, Yann Mvila and Abou Diaby.

Blanc hinted after the game that all the players involved had earned the right to more first-team opportunities, but Diarra says he has no reason to fear for his own international future.

"They played a complete match," he said at France's Clairefontaine training base on Tuesday.

"There was lots to be pleased about, which is as it should be. I bring my own desire and I'm at the coach's disposal. There are no worries with me."

Diarra missed the World Cup with a stomach problem linked to a genetic blood disorder and subsequently lost his starting place at Real Madrid.

He featured at right-back in Real's open-ing league game, but expressed reluctance

when asked if he could adopt the same role for France in the absence through injury of first-choice right-back Bacary Sagna.

"I'm a defensive midfield-er," said the 25-year-old.

"I can do a job (at right-back) for my club or for France, with pleasure. But you have to know that Lassana Diarra is a midfielder and not a right-back."

Diarra has lost his place at Real to German international Sami Khedira and he admit-ted that he could be tempted to look elsewhere if he is not able to dislodge the former Stuttgart man from the start-ing XI.

"At Real I'm in competi-tion with a world champion (Spain's Xabi Alonso) and a World Cup semi-finalist (Khe-dira)," said Diarra.

"It's up to me to hang in there, but I've not done too badly so far. I've already played for three of the 10 biggest clubs in the world (Chelsea, Arsenal and Real); I'm not scared of playing anywhere.

"If I'm not happy, I'll find a solution, but I aim to play and representing France

comes through playing for your club."Diarra and his Real team-mate Karim

Benzema both arrived late at France's training camp, prompting Blanc to declare his annoyance, but the midfielder insisted a line had been drawn under the

matter."I arrived two or three hours late; it hap-

pens," he said."There's no cause for alarm either. We

talked about it, it's sorted, there's no need to mix things up."

MIAMI – It's a preseason game, so it doesn't count. Except, perhaps, to LeBron James.

When the Miami Heat open the preseason at home against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, it'll mark the first time James will play before 19,000 or so of his newest fans. Predictably, there's a higher-than-usual level of inter-est, especially after a summer where Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and James decided to team up in Miami.

Tickets were being resold for more than $250 on some online sites, even though the game isn't sold out. Two television crews are coming to broadcast the game, and even the some of the Pistons are saying they're looking forward to this exhibition more than usual.

"We're ready to play the game," said James, the two-time reigning NBA MVP who'll don a uni-form other than Cleveland's for the first time in his professional

career. "We're going to let the game do a lot of the talking. We know we've got to answer a lot of questions every day from you guys, but when we get out on the court, it's all business."

So while the atmosphere may be playoff-caliber, the game will likely be anything but.

The Heat plan to use as many of their 19 available players as possible, the Pistons will likely take a similar approach, and suf-fice to say, neither team will likely be calling plays down the stretch like it's a Game 7.

"Get there early," Wade said. "Not planning on being on the court too long."

For home Heat preseason games in Miami two seasons ago, the announced attendances were 13,253 and 11,041. Last year, the crowds were 10,064 and 10,096.

It's unknown if all 19,600 seats will be sold by game time Tuesday, but given how the Heat distributed 13,000 tickets to the

welcome party for Wade, Bosh and James in less than one hour on July 9, chances are there'll be a demand by tip-off.

"The energy coming from the crowd, their emotion, it's going to boost our energy and our emo-tions," Heat forward Udonis Has-lem said. "But we still understand that it's a preseason game. We're not going to do everything right.

We have some kinks to work out and this is the time to do it."

The hype isn't limited to those in Miami.

Some of the Pistons can't wait to see what all the fuss is about, either.

"Everybody can't wait," said guard Richard Hamilton. "I

think the whole NBA, the fans, everybody's excited about what they got in Miami and they can't wait to see how those guys play together."

Pistons center Ben Wallace said he followed the summer per-sonnel moves that some simply called LeBronathon — "How can you not pay attention?" Wallace asked — and knows it'll be a most unusual scene for a pre-season game that awaits Detroit on Tuesday.

"Of course, some guys are going to go in there and try to make a statement," Wallace said. "That's the nature of the business. If you don't, you're not a com-petitor. Everybody's going to go to Miami is going to want to put their best effort out. Those guys should know people are going to be shooting at them."

There's plenty of personnel issues that remain unsettled — Carlos Arroyo will likely start at point guard on Tuesday and

Joel Anthony at center, although neither has been anointed as the first-stringer going into the sea-son at those spots — and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra knows he'll have some tough calls to make later this month.

"I want these guys to enjoy it," Spoelstra said. "As much of a reward as we can give them play-ing in front of our home fans, I want them to do that. I want them to play the right way, the way we've been trying to establish this week, but they've been working extremely hard. I think they're just looking forward to playing against someone else right now."

Monday marked the first time the Heat practiced together in Miami this season. They returned Sunday from nearly a week of training camp — "the most com-petitive, intense camp I've seen since I can remember," Spoelstra said — at Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base in Florida's Panhandle.

The Madness (sort of) Set to Begin for Heat

Make no mistake, the Heat are taking it

seriously.

Lassana Diarra

October 6-12, 2010The haiTian Times2

OuestPort-au-Prince

La candidate du Rassemblement des démocrates nationaux progressistes (RDNP), Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat, 69 ans, domine les deux premiers sond-ages d’opinion réalisés sur les prochaines présidentielles, dont l’un a été rendu pub-lic le 5 Octobre par son commanditaire, le Forum économique du secteur privé des affaires. Menée par le Bureau de recher-che en informatique et en développement économique et social (BRIDES) auprès d’un échantillon de 6.030 personnes, cette enquête attribue 16,7% d’opinions favor-ables à Mme Manigat devant les électeurs indécis qui ne se sont prononcés en faveur d’aucun candidat (14,8%) et Jude Célestin, représentant de la plateforme présidentielle INITE, en nette progres-sion avec 13%. Par rapport au premier sondage dans lequel elle était créditée d’un peu plus de 23% des intentions de vote, la constitutionnaliste et épouse de l’ex-Président démocrate-chrétien Leslie Manigat accuse une chute brutale de 7 points. Parallèlement, son plus proche rival, Jude Célestin, a vu son score passer

entre les deux enquêtes d’opinion de 7 à 13%, soit un gain spectaculaire de six points. Derrière les deux aspirants à la présidence ayant supposément la meil-leure cote de popularité, viennent dans l’ordre l’industriel Charles Henri Baker (RESPE) et le chanteur Michel Martelly alias “Sweet Micky”, ex-aequo avec cha-cun 12,5% d’intentions de vote, l’ancien Premier ministre Jacques-Edouard Alexis (MPH) 7,5%, le pasteur Jean Chavannes Jeune (ACCRHA) 3,8% et le notaire Jean Henry Céant (Renmen Ayiti) 2,2%. Les autres concurrents ne recueillent qu’une part d’adhésion marginale de l’électorat potentiel oscillant entre 0 et 1%. Dans ce bas de tableau, on retrouve l’ex-Premier ministre Lavalas Yvon Neptune (Ayisy-en Pou Ayiti) 1,9% ; l’ancien minis-tre des affaires sociales, Yves Cristallin (Oganizasyon Lavni) 1,7% ; l’ex-ministre Leslie Voltaire (Paltfòm Ansanm Nou Fò) 1,3% ; le maire de Delmas, Wil-son Jeudy (Force 2010) 1% ; Génard Joseph (Groupement Solidarité) 0,7% ; le Sénateur de l’ouest, Jean Hector Ana-cacis (MODEJHA) 0,6% ; Eric Charles (PENH) et Axan Abellard (KNDA), tous deux 0,4% ; l’ancienne ministre Josette Bijou (indépendante) et Garaudy Laguerre (WOZO) 0,3% ; Dr Gérard Blot (Plateforme 16 Décembre) et Léon Jeune (KLE) 0,2%.

****L'ancien président américain Bill Clin-

ton est attendu ce mercredi à Port-au-Prince pour la troisième réunion de la Commisssion intérimaire de la recon-struction d'Haïti. M. Clinton qui co-pré-

side la CIRH avec le Premier ministre Jean-Max Bellerive participera avec les membres de la Commission à une télécon-férence. La réunion permettra d'analyser et d'approuver de nouveaux projets en conformité avec les réponses immédi-ates et à long terme du Gouvernement haïtien, selon un communiqué du CIRH. Le directeur exécutif de la CIRH Gabriel Verret ainsi que les membres haïtiens de la Commission seront présents à Port-au-Prince pour la téléconférence tandis que les membres désignés par les pays dona-teurs intervindront au telephone.

****La secrétaire d'Etat américaine Hillary

Clinton a nommé le week end écoulé un coordonnateur spécial de l'aide améri-caine à Haïti. L'ambassadeur Thomas C. Adams devra superviser l'engagement des Etats-Unis envers Haïti notamment sur le plan des relations diplomatiques et l'application d'une stratégie de recon-struction en partenariat avec le gouverne-ment haïtien. M. Adams, qui compte 35 ans d'expérience, a occupé la fonction de coordonnateur de l'assistance américaine à l'Eurasie entre 2005 et 2008. Une aide, de 1.5 milliard de dollars, dédiée à la reconstruction d'Haïti, a été récemment approuvée par le congres. Le déblocage de l'aide américaine est lié à la conclu-sion d'un accord sur une stratégie de long terme en Haïti. Selon l'Associated Press un document élaboré par des experts devra être sanctionné par les congresmen américains au cours de ce mois d'octobre. Le décaissement des fonds interviendra après l'entente autour de cette stratégie.

Le bureau du coordonnateur spécial de l'aide américaine devra gérer une envel-oppe de 25 millions de dollars sur 5 ans. La désignation de M. Adams marque une plus grande implication des Etats-Unis dans le processus de reconstruction. Aux cotés de l'ex président Bill Clinton, un représentant du gouvernement américain, Cheryl D. Mills, Conseillère et Chef de Cabinet de la Secrétaire d'Etat Hillary Clinton, siège au conseil d'administration de la Commission Intérimaire de Recon-struction (CIRH). Dans le même temps un fonds spécial, est géré par les ex-prési-dents Bill Clinton et Georges Bush. Outre le chef de la représentation américaine à Port-au-Prince, Kenneth Merten, deux ex présidents et deux diplomates de premier rang sont impliqués dans le dossier de la reconstruction d'Haïti.

****Les responsables de la Banque Inter-

américaine de développement (BID) ont annoncé le 29 septembre dernier l'annulation de la dette d'Haïti évaluée à 484 millions de dollars. Cette déci-sion a été prise suite au versement d'une avance de la contribution des Etats-Unis dédiée aux prêts du Fonds pour les opérations spéciales (FSO) de 204 millions d´USD. L'accord a été paraphé par le président de la BID, Luiz Alberto Moreno et Lael Brainard, responsable du département du Trésor du Secrétariat pour les affaires internationales des Etats-Unis en présence du Chef de mission à

Dans la deuxième partie de ce trip-tyque, je ferai une brève histoire de l’orthographe du créole haïtien, ce qui, dans le contexte actuel des n’importe quoi avancés pourtant orgueilleusement par certains individus sur nos forums de discussion, demeure indispensable. On ne le sait pas assez : le créole haïtien qu’on présente souvent comme une langue à tradition uniquement orale s’écrit depuis l’époque coloniale quand la partie ouest de l’île d’Hispaniola était connue sous le nom de Saint-Domingue et, bien enten-du, après 1804 quand Saint-Domingue devint Haïti. Les scripteurs de l’époque étaient presque tous des colons français qui circulaient librement entre les Petites Antilles et le Nord de Saint-Domingue. L’écriture du créole s’est manifestée dès le dix-huitième siècle à travers des chan-sons, des poèmes, des textes écrits par des missionnaires pour « évangéliser » les esclaves et par des proclamations poli-tiques destinées aux esclaves.

On a cru longtemps que le premier texte écrit en créole était la fameuse chanson « Lisette quitté la plaine » que Moreau de Saint-Méry, le fameux auteur du livre « Description topographique, physique,

civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l’isle de St. Domingue » (1797) attribue à M. Duvivier de la Mahautière qui était conseiller au Conseil de Port-au-Prince et qui l’aurait écrit en 1796. Cependant, la linguiste française, Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux, grande spécialiste des créoles français, signale qu’il existe un texte écrit en créole mais intitulé en français : « La Passion de Notre Seigneur selon St. Jean en langage nègre ». Mme Hazaël-Massieux le situe entre 1720 et 1740 et signale que c’est un texte anonyme sujet à controverses cependant en raison de sa haute cohérence et de la variété de créole dans laquelle il est écrit. On retrouve des textes écrits en créole durant toute la seconde moitié du XVIIIème siècle, en particulier Jeannot et Thérèse, (1758), Lettre en patois créole de Marc-Antoine De Wailly à sa tante Hecquet (écrite le 9 juillet 1772), Voy-age d’un Suisse dans diverses colonies d’Amérique pendant la dernière guerre (Justin Girod de Chantrans) et surtout les proclamations révolutionnaires de Polver-el et Sonthonax, le 5 mai 1793, le 2 juillet 1793 et le 11 juillet 1793. On rappellera aussi la fameuse proclamation de St. Domingue datée du 17 Brumaire an 10 (le 7 novembre 1802) et signée de Bonaparte.

A partir de 1804, quand Saint-Domingue conquit son Indépendance de la France et reçut le nom d’Haïti, les écrits créoles se multiplièrent. Cependant, la majorité de ces textes créoles provenait d’auteurs guadeloupéens et martiniquais sauf deux

textes de Juste Chanlatte, écrivain haï-tien comme l’on sait. Ces 2 textes sont : « Entrée du roi en sa capitale » (1818) et « La partie de Chasse du Roi » (1820 ?). Ensuite, il a fallu attendre Oswald Durand et son fameux poème « Choucoune » (1896) pour voir un écrivain haïtien se servir de la langue créole pour produ-ire des textes « littéraires ». Suivront un peu plus tard « Lion aq Bourrique » (1896) du même Oswald Durand, « Chatt, Cochon, ac Malfini » (1901), « Còbeau ac Reinna » (1901), « Conmè la-Cigal ac Sò Fronmi » (1901). Tous ces poèmes ont paru dans le recueil « Cric-Crac » écrit par Georges Sylvain en 1901. Oswald Durand a écrit en 1902 le poème « Guepe ak’ marin-gouin » et Massillon Coicou « O zaut ‘qu’ape souffri » et « Plenyen Yon Esklav » apparemment en 1904.

L’orthographe créole de ces poèmes écrits par des poètes haïtiens révèle que l’écriture du créole a longtemps été le dernier des soucis des écrivains haï-tiens. Pour eux, le créole pouvait s’écrire n’importe comment, et en tout cas, devait demeurer très proche du fran-çais. Les irrégularités et les incohérences orthographiques pleuvent dans les textes de Georges Sylvain, Oswald Durand ou Massillon Coicou. Par exemple, dans le poème « Guepe ak’ marin-gouin », Durand écrit « marin-gouin » dans le titre alors que dans le corps du poème, il écrit « Maringouin » ; dans la troisième strophe, il écrit « Li ouè sô guêpe ! » alors que dans la 5ème strophe, il écrit

« guèpe ». Dans la 8ème strophe de ce même poème, il écrit « yo gros con’ jamb’ moin » mais, un vers plus loin, il écrit « rass’moins l’en guinin… ».

Une petite « révolution » dans le domaine orthographique éclata en Haïti vers 1940 quand un pasteur irlandais du nom de Ormonde McConnell proposa un système graphique du créole haïtien. Dans son désir d’« évangéliser » les masses haïtiennes, McConnell qui tradui-sait la Bible en créole avait ressenti la nécessité d’un système orthographique créole indépendant du français et présent-ant un « ensemble structuré et cohérent ». McConnell ne le faisait pas pour les beaux yeux du peuple haïtien. En fait, il inaugurait une tradition religieuse améri-caine ou anglo-saxonne qui se servait de l’aveuglement religieux des populations haïtiennes pour leur faire croire naïve-ment tout ce que les tenants des dif-férentes religions chrétiennes voulaient leur faire avaler. McConnell a introduit pour la première fois en Haïti une orthog-raphe créole systématique, consistante, et régulière, mais tout à fait désarçon-nante pour les intellectuels haïtiens. L’orthographe de McConnell était basée sur l’alphabet phonétique international (API). L’alphabet phonétique interna-tional a vu le jour en 1889 et a été créé par un groupe de phonéticiens europée-ns. Il représente aujourd’hui le système d’écriture le plus largement utilisé dans le monde pour la transcription des sons

Apprendre l’orthographe du “kreyòl” (2ème partie)

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Du côtéde chezHugues

par Hugues St. Fort

see Hugues on page 9

see A TRAVeRs HAITI on page 23

October 6-12, 2010 The haiTian Times 3

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti has asked an architectural planning charity founded by Britain's Prince Charles to help guide the rebuilding and makeover of the earthquake-devastated historic center of Port-au-Prince.

The Center Ville area of the capital, the commercial and administrative heart of the Caribbean nation, was one of the worst hit by the catastrophic January 12 quake, which turned many of its shops and land-mark buildings to rubble.

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Haiti had sought help from the charity foundation of the 61-year-old heir to the British throne, who has stirred controversy with his criticism of modern architecture, to draw up a master plan for the harmoni-ous reconstruction of downtown Port-au-Prince.

”The contact has already been made, there is an informal agreement, we have to formalize all that,” Bellerive told Reuters this week.

He said Haiti was seeking a ”coherent” rebuilding plan from The Prince's Foun-dation for the Built Environment, which would work on the project with urban planners Duany Plater-Zyberk & Com-

pany, based in Miami, Washington and Charlotte, N.C.

”They have the experience,” he said. The Port-au-Prince city center makeover is part of a national recovery strategy that seeks to ”decompress” Haiti's hilly capital, which even before the quake was a chaot-ic, overcrowded warren of streets clogged with vendors, vehicles and pedestrians.

”I hope that we're going to see Port-au-Prince as a huge construction field,” Haitian central bank governor Charles Castel said, adding that funds freed up by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) cancellation of $268 million of debt would help in the reconstruction of the city's administrative heart.

An army of resilient street hawkers quickly returned to the traditionally bus-tling Port-au-Prince downtown area after the quake, which killed up to 300,000 people and devastated the economy of what was already the poorest state in the Americas.

They have laid out their wares again -- everything from fruit, food and vehicle and electrical spare parts to voodoo parapher-nalia -- alongside or on top of mounds of crumbled debris which narrow the streets

for vehicles and pedestrians.But much still lies in ruins, and key

buildings like the Haitian parliament, the Justice Palace and the 19th Century Iron Market were either destroyed or damaged.

ResTORaTiOn OF PaLaCe, maRKeT

A note on the Prince's Foundation web-site said the UK charity had been asked to ”create a guiding vision” to rebuild a

central area of 25 city blocks of central Port-au-Prince. This would cover homes, streets, public spaces and amenities.

”We hope to play a small part in bring-ing hope and benefit to the city by main-taining its authentic character, reducing its environmental impact and helping train local people in construction skills that equip them for future employment,” foun-dation chief executive Hank Dittmar said in a statement.

Prince Charles advocates traditional planning and building techniques and said recently he had ”a passion for reus-ing things and repairing things.” He has often blasted modern architecture projects, calling them eyesores that do not take into account the living needs of ordinary people.

Port-au-Prince's downtown area lies behind the damaged remains of the domed, white-painted Haitian presidential palace built at the beginning of the last century, which partially collapsed in the January 12 earthquake.

Former colonial ruler France has agreed to draw up a study for rebuilding the pal-

Haiti Taps Prince Charles Charity for City Makeover

As he weighed an invitation to help design a public education system for earth-quake-ravaged Haiti, Paul Vallas saw one major sticking point.

Keeping the New Orleans schools, themselves still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, on the right track while he was in Haiti? No, that was not the problem on the Recovery School District superintendent's mind.

Having enough time and energy to devote to Haiti on top of his full-time job leading the recovery of New Orleans' public schools? No. With his hyperkinetic pacing, Vallas squeezes a lot into a day.

The issue was Vallas' crippling fear of flying.

Other than a slow boat, flying is the only way to get to the impoverished Carib-bean nation, and Vallas had not boarded an airplane in almost two decades. But he decided he had to lend his expertise to a country where only half the children were attending school even before the catastrophic January earthquake that killed 230,000 people.

Vallas has now made seven or eight trips to Haiti - using vacation time or unpaid leave - since he began his unpaid job there in February.

”There's a real opportunity here. I can taste it, ” Vallas said. ”That is why I've flown so many times.”

The parallels to New Orleans are obvi-ous. There, as here, the schools were in dire straits even before disaster struck. There, as here, the international attention that the disaster focused on destroyed homes, schools and lives has helped pro-vide a chance to build something new.

But as bad as the pre-Katrina New Orleans schools were, at least the city had a public school system available to all children. In Haiti, 90 percent of schools are private. Most families cannot afford tuition, so children go uneducated. As a result, only half the population can read and write.

'a Profound impact'As a leading architect of the $4.2 billion

education plan presented to the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission in August, Vallas was not so much remaking a school system as creating one from scratch. He does not expect to be heavily involved in implementing the plan, but he will con-tinue to visit Haiti.

The plan envisions that a combination of international donations and increased gov-ernment support will allow most students to attend school for free or for nominal fees. Most schools are likely to remain pri-vate, but they would receive subsidies in exchange for reducing tuition, implement-ing a national curriculum and improving their facilities.

In an 18-month ”quick start” phase, sub-sidies would allow about 300,000 children not currently enrolled to attend school, while tuition would be reduced for oth-ers. The country also would overhaul its university and vocational school programs and launch a national literacy campaign.

”The plan is very ambitious. The fund-ing goals may be too ambitious, ” Vallas said. ”But the bottom line is, if we achieve three-quarters or half of it, we'll have a profound impact on the country.”

Former U.S. Presi-dent Bill Clinton, co-chairman of the Recov-ery Commission with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, is working to make sure that donors fol-low through on their pledges.

The Inter-American Development Bank, which invited Vallas to work on the proj-ect, has committed to raising $500 million for the Haitian education overhaul.

”We want every child in Haiti to be able to go to school and get a good education for the first time ever, and get a meal in

school, ” Clinton said in August.Disaster specialistSince arriving in New Orleans three years

ago, Vallas has presided over the unprece-dented decentralization of the city's public schools. Nearly three-quarters are now independently managed charters. In June,

he called a news con-ference to explain his role in Haiti and quash rumors that he would immediately leave his $260,000-a-year New Orleans job, which he does plan to step away from by the end of this school year. He empha-sized that his visits to the island were on his

own time and that he would not be paid for his efforts.

Considering the help New Orleans has received from volunteers nationwide and worldwide since Katrina, it is only fitting that people here give back, Vallas said.

Vallas' boss, state Superintendent of

Education Paul Pastorek, said he endorses the Haiti involvement as long as it does not take away from Vallas' main job. The bulk of Vallas' travels took place during summer break, Pastorek said, and New Orleans' charter-heavy school system does not require constant hands-on management.

”In this case, we have a country in extre-mis, and we should look for ways to help, ” Pastorek said. ”The good thing about Paul is he's built an organization that doesn't require him to be around there every day, all day to respond to circumstances.”

Vallas' services as a post-disaster educa-tion consultant are so in demand - and his newfound ability to board an airplane so entrenched – that he also traveled to Chile after a recent earthquake there.

At a recent education forum in New York, NBC News anchor Brian Williams joked that Vallas' presence was a sign that something terrible had happened.

”If you see this guy arrive in your town, you have a problem,” Williams said.

The story was first published by Times-Picayune

Recovery school District's Vallas Aided Post-quake Reform in Haiti

The bottom line is, if we achieve three-quarters or half of it,

we'll have a profound impact on the country.

Paul Vallas

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive

see CONsTRuCTION on page 23

October 6-12, 2010The haiTian Times4

To mobilize Hispanic voters in Novem-ber, big labor and advocates of liberal efforts at overhauling immigration laws have announced a $300,000 ad campaign attacking Republican Senators for block-ing passage of the so-called DREAM Act.

The ad will air on Spanish-language radio stations in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and other states with large Latino popula-tions. The effort was conceived and funded by the Service Employees International Union, Mi Familia Vota and America's Voice, which say the $300,000 is the most ever spent on a Spanish-language radio campaign by groups such as theirs to make their case on immigration.

A solid Hispanic turnout could tip a number of close races, but Latinos, like many other voters who traditionally lean toward Democratic candidates, have yet to strongly engage in this election season. Because Latinos overwhelmingly support efforts to overhaul the nation's immigra-tion laws, organizers hope the ad campaign can shake them from their malaise.

The DREAM Act became ready fodder when it died in the Senate on Sept. 22 after Democrats failed to get a single Republi-

can to vote in support, including among from Republicans who had favored the measure in the past.

”For us, it really starts with the sense that fixing the economy requires fixing or reforming our broken immigration sys-tem,” SEUI spokesman Teddy Davis says. ”We need to stop exploiting our undocu-mented workers or it's going to drag down the floor on all workers. So it has an impact on everyone.”

The DREAM Act would establish a path to citizenship for undocumented immi-grants younger than 36 who arrived in the United States as children, have lived here for five years or more, and are attending college or serving in the military. More than 800,000 of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the nation could have been eligible.

The Defense Department has said the act could help it maintain ”a mission-ready, all-volunteer force.”

Versions of the bill have been debated in Congress over the past decade and previously received the support of sev-eral Republican senators, including John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham

of South Carolina.But last week Republicans, in voting

against it, accused Democrats of playing politics to curry favor with voters ahead of Election Day by attaching the legisla-tion to a Defense appropriations bill. Also included was a repeal of the military’s ”don't ask, don't tell” policy that bars openly homosexual men and women from serving in the armed forces.

Advocates of the DREAM Act legisla-tion say last week's vote imperils chances for comprehensive immigration reform, particularly given the public acceptance of harsh laws for illegal immigrants recently passed in Arizona and gaining traction elsewhere.

Congress's failure to act also opened the Democratic leadership and the Obama administration to criticism from Latinos within the party.

”There are no policies coming out of Washington as it relates to immigration,”

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the first Hispanic to hold that office in his city, said in a meeting with NPR Tuesday in Washington. ”Washington has just com-pletely abdicated its responsibility.”

a Threat To Their Dream?The ad, which began airing earlier this

week and will be heard on radio stations through this weekend, portrays Republi-cans as a threat to Latinos' goal of achiev-ing the American dream.

”What would you do if a group of politicians were denying your hopes, your dreams?” the ad’s narrator begins.

While many Latino groups have expressed frustration with the Obama administration's inability to advance an overhaul of immigration laws, the ad makes a clear effort to insulate the presi-dent: ”President Obama, the armed forces, chambers of commerce, universities and

Immigration Advocates Target gOP In DReAM Act Ads

FRESNO, Calif., (AP) – GOP guberna-torial candidate Meg Whitman and Dem-ocratic rival Jerry Brown traded barbs over immigration policy and Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper during a heated debate that was aimed at Califor-nia's growing Latino population.

Both candidates hoped to score points with the crucial voting bloc during Sat-urday's face-off, the first to air statewide on Spanish-language television. Whitman acknowledged early on that she cannot win the governor's race without Latino votes.

Whitman had planned to use the debate at California State University, Fresno to move on from a controversy that has dominated headlines this week after it was revealed she had an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nine years.

The billionaire former eBay chief execu-tive, who has spent $119 million of her own money on the race, tried instead to focus on her campaign themes of creat-ing jobs and improving the state's public school system.

But with so much attention on issues related to immigration policy, Whitman was forced to explain her conservative positions while Brown had many opportu-

nities to bring up the housekeeper.When the debate moderator asked Whit-

man about her treatment of the worker, she accused Brown's campaign of orchestrat-ing the controversy and sacrificing the maid ”on the altar of your political ambi-tions.” Brown fired back that Whitman has not taken responsibility and is not fit to be governor.

”Don't run for governor if you can't stand up on your own two feet and say, 'Hey I made a mistake,'” Brown said in a moment fraught with tension as the two candidates, neck-and-neck in the polls, turned away from the audience and faced each other directly. ”You have blamed her, blamed me, blamed the left, blamed the unions. But you don't take accountability.”

Whitman's campaign has worked hard to win support among independents and Latinos, who are crucial to the campaign of any Republican running in a state in which Democrats hold a 13.4 percentage point edge among registered voters.

But Democrats hope to exploit the housekeeper controversy as a way to ques-tion Whitman's character. Whitman fired the woman in June 2009, immediately after she said she found out the house-

keeper was in the country illegally.She then refused to help when the

woman asked for help pursuing legal resi-dency. Whitman said the decision was the right one at the time.

She said she had no reason to believe the housekeeper, Nicky Diaz Santillan, was illegal, and had to act within the law.

”We hired Nicky because she had all the

appropriate documents, we went through a hiring agency, and then in June of 2009 she came to me to tell me that she was here ille-gally and did not have the appropriate docu-ments,” she said. ”I made the hardest deci-sion I have almost made in my life, which was to let her go. ... So it broke my heart. It

Whitman, Brown Tangle on Immigration, Illegal Maid

see IMMIgRATION on page 23

see MAID on page 23

WASHINGTON, (UPI) - An 11th-hour immigration reform bill will be waiting for either the new Congress or the lame-duck session after next month's elections, a sponsor said Sunday.

The legislation will act as a launching point for the next debate on immigra-tion, which has become an issue in the upcoming midterm vote, said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.

”You need something to jump off from,” Menendez said on CNN's ”State of the Union.”

Sen. John Cronyn, R-Texas, gave the idea a cool reception on CNN, calling immigration too important to be treated as a ”political football.”

The bill was introduced after Menendez and his co-sponsors met with President Obama to urge immigration reform, The Hill said Sunday. Menendez said the bill included provisions that appeal to Republican in order to stimulate a serious debate.

The story was first published on upi.com.

Immigration bill called jump-off point

Meg Whitman and Democratic rival Jerry Brown

October 6-12, 2010 The haiTian Times 5

The United Nations marked World Teachers’ Day Oct. 5 with top officials calling on governments to make up a projected deficit of over 10 million teach-ers by 2015 and stressing the crucial role teachers play in recovery from natural disasters and conflict.

“Without sufficient numbers of well-trained and professionally motivated teach-ers, we risk falling short of the promise made 10 years ago at the World Education Forum to the world’s children and youth [of education for all by 2015], because teachers are at the heart of the education system,” the heads of four major UN agen-cies said.

UN Educational, Scientific and Cul-tural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Anthony Lake and International Labour Organizations (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia issued the joint statement.

“Low status, low salary and poor work-ing conditions infringe on the rights of teachers whilst discouraging talented young people from joining and remaining in the teaching profession. The situation must be redressed at a time when the world needs an estimated 10.3 million new teach-ers to reach internationally-agreed educa-tion targets by 2015,” they added.

They stressed that teachers offer con-tinuity and reassurance, both during and after natural disasters and other crises, by

giving hope for the future and providing structure and a sense of normalcy and much-needed psycho-social support to ease the trauma of youngsters who have witnessed extreme violence or lived through destruction of their homes and the loss of family members, a major focus of the Day’s main celebration at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

This year’s theme is ‘Recovery begins with teachers,’ and in a discus-sion teachers from Haiti, Israel, Lesotho, Mali, Laos and France shared their experiences in dealing with crisis. A presentation of the latest statistics on the global teacher shortage and the opening of a photo exhibition on teachers who work in particularly daunt-ing conditions also marked the Day.

In addition to teachers’ testimonies about supporting recovery from natural disasters, HIV/AIDS, conflict and violence, other presentations covered such topics as pro-moting excellence in teaching and accel-erating teacher development through new technologies.

In their messages the UN agency chiefs

returned repeatedly to the need to honour teachers for their critical role in society. “We appeal to governments, communi-ties, national and international institutions worldwide to renew their commitment towards teachers, particularly in the poor-est countries and those affected by conflict or disasters,” they declared.

“Recovery begins with teachers. We can best honour teachers by giving them decent working conditions to fulfil their mission of preparing the younger gen-eration to become responsible citizens, equipped with the knowledge and skills to shape a sustainable future,” they con-cluded.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Sever-al dozen students clashed with U.N. peace-keepers and Haitian police as children began returning to school across Haiti's quake-addled capital on Monday.

At least 30 protesters gathered at the education ministry to demand that authori-ties either repair a quake-damaged school building or provide students with an alter-native building. Some blocked city streets and threw rocks at cars. Authorities fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

The U.S. Embassy warned American citizens to avoid the neighbourhood where the demonstration took place.

Elsewhere, parents struggled to scrape together funds for what is supposed to be the first full school year since the Jan. 12 quake. The disaster destroyed more than 80 per cent of the dilapidated, mostly private school infrastructure in the capital.

School was almost universally cancelled

after the quake, opening only briefly months later to finish out part of the year.

But even before that the system was a failure. Only half of Haiti's children were enrolled at any given time, attending mostly fly-by-night, for-profit storefront schools in unsafe buildings. More than a year before the quake a hillside school collapsed on its own in a Petionville slum, killing 100 students and adults.

Meanwhile just one in 10 Haitian teach-

ers was a qualified educator — a third haven't even completed ninth grade, according to the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank.

”(My kids) don't go to school because I don't have any money to send them, or even pay for a taxi to get there,” said Alicia Louis, a mother of five living in a Petion-ville homeless camp.

The IADB has pledged to raise $500 million to rebuild and improve the system.

Back-To-school Protesters Demand safer Building In Quake-shattered Haitian Capital

Haitian Youth To support New Candidate

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, (UPI) -Sup-porters of hip hop artist Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency say they're backing a new candidate after Jean was ruled ineligible for the ballot.

Members of the grass-roots movement Jen Kore Jen (Youth supporting Youth) that gathered around Jean say they'll throw their support behind Jude Celestin, a 48-year-old, Swiss-educated mechani-cal engineer, The Miami Herald reported Monday.

Outgoing President Rene Preval, who has served two non-consecutive, five-year presidential terms and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third, has endorsed Celestin, the former head of the country's road-building department.

”(Celestin) is the youth whom we were searching for; what Wyclef Jean symbol-ized -- the future, hope for our youth -- that is what Jude Celestin symbolizes,” Jen Kore Jen leader Gary Bodeau told the Herald.

The Haitian-born Jean, who is not ruling out a 2015 presidential bid, said he would remain neutral in the race for now.

”Every candidate wants to talk and with open ears we are listening. It's too early for me to make that decision. I am still in the process of listening to everybody,” he said.

More than 10 million New Teachers Needed to Fill education goals, uN Warns

“My kids don't go to school because I don't

have any money to send them, or even pay for a taxi

to get there,”

The haiTian Times86 October 6-12, 2010

Nigeria’s terror bombing…what a shame

By virtue of its large population and abun-dant mineral resources, Nigeria was advertized as a giant and upcom-

ing Africa’s Superpower upon getting its independence from Britain on September 29, 1960. Those claims however turned out to be shallow, as the events of the last fifty years demonstrated. Military coups, endemic corruption, ethnic and religious conflicts and increasing poverty certainly nullify this rosy scenario. Thus September 29, 2010 which was to be a milestone for Nigeria turned into a nightmare when the festivities commemorating that country’s 50th year of political independence from Great Britain were interrupted by twin car bombings that left 12 dead and dozens injured. Unless Black people in general have a peculiar way of commemorating special events, (it reminds me of the sabo-taging of Haiti’s bi-centennial by impeni-tent thugs at the behest of foreign entities), this behavior is unquestionably abnormal and hard to comprehend.

Understandably MEND, (Move-ment for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), the group behind the bombings has legitimate grievances against the cen-tral government. It is fighting for a fairer distribution of oil revenue and remedial from sustained environmental degrada-tion of the Niger Delta that endangers the livelihood of thousands of farmers and fishermen. As Nigeria remains mired in corruption and successive administrative failures, the statement released by the group is regrettably true ”For 50 years, the people of the Niger Delta have had their land and resources stolen from them.” “There is nothing worth celebrating after 50 years of failure.” Perhaps the impeni-tent Haitians who deliberately sabotaged the bi-centennial of their country’s hard fought independence and facilitated its occupation (2004-?) were thinking along those lines.

Regardless of the justness of their cause, the act was self-centered and ill-timed; those responsible should, upon their cap-ture, be hanged high in Abuja’s Eagle Square. Two days after the bombings, Henry Okah, the ex-leader of MEND, who was freed from a Nigerian prison on humanitarian grounds in July 2009 and moved to South Africa, was arrested by that country’s police. He is facing terrorism charges in connection with the bombing. The group’s unjustifiable action clearly shows that ethnic pride super-sedes national interests; it validates the viewpoint of many within and outside of Nigeria that the prematurely named Africa’s Superpower, as presently con-stituted, cannot conceivably survive as a functional and stable country. Even Muhammad Khaddafi, a passionate advo-cate of a political union grouping all Afri-can states, flaunted the idea of a partition of Nigeria as a solution to its intractable religious problems. The statement ema-

nated from the Nigerian Foreign Minis-try in response to Khaddafi’s unsolicited advice was swift and unforgiving: ”The insensitive and oftentimes irresponsible utterances of Colonel Gaddafi, his theat-rics and grandstanding at every auspicious occasion have become too numerous to recount. These have diminished his status and credibility as a leader to be taken seriously.” Khaddafi’s comment may be undiplomatic, but it highlights an issue that can no longer be ignored. The 1967-70 Biafra War (the Igbo seceded from Nigeria to form an independent state) is an example of what the country could be facing in the near future.

Actually Nigeria is, like all Sub-Saharan countries, fundamentally dysfunctional and should not exist in its present form. A creation of European colonialism, Nige-ria is a mosaic of more than 250 ethnic groups, each with its own language and customs, with the largest being the Hausa in the north, the Yoruba and the Igbo in the South, East and Southeastern parts of the country. Though English, the language of the former colonizer, superficially holds this nation together, it is far from being the required solution because it is spoken mostly by the affluent and educated. These facts notwithstanding, the country has to deal with periodic tribal, regional, sectar-ian and religious violence which certainly make the case for its dismemberment into separate entities. Barring such ideal solu-tion, Nigeria’s problems will endure for centuries because the ethnic and religious divide can never be bridged.

Therefore, the concept of Nigeria becoming the Superpower of Africa in the year 2000 was utopian, as the country was from its inception fundamentally flawed and could never develop a national iden-tity commensurate with the title. Case in point, 50 years after British rule ended, Nigerian barristers and judges still wear white wigs, the colonial era symbol of the authority of the Court. Although the custom is still in use in many Common-wealth countries, Nigeria, one of the lead-ing African nations thus representative of the Continent and its Diaspora, could have discarded this colonial vestige as it is truly a pathetic sight seeing a Black per-son wearing that wig. More to the point, South Africa, by virtue of its economic and industrial might, has eclipsed Nigeria as the leading African nation and the most likely to get a permanent seat in the U.N Security Council, if that club of powerful nations ever gets an overhaul.

Today’s Nigeria is known to the rest of world as a nation beset by religious and ethnic violence and inhabited by fraud-sters and corrupt politicians. In a report released last year, the International Mon-etary Fund (IMF) estimated that 400 bil-lion of dollars were stolen from Nigeria’s treasury during that country’s five decades of independence. Considering the rolling black-outs and Nigeria’s decrepit infra-structure, this astronomical sum could certainly have been used to better end. Perhaps, the insurgents of the Niger Delta have decided that is enough is enough, the timing of their actions is unjustifiable nevertheless.

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“This used to be a beautiful place, but these people are tearing up the property,” said Jim Hudson, a Church of God mis-sionary living at the site. “They’re urinat-ing on it. They’re bathing out in public. They’re stealing electricity. And they don’t work. They sit around all day, waiting for handouts.”

This quote was from Tuesday’s New York Times article by Deborah Sontag about the displaced people in Port-au-Prince. It is not often we comment on people’s opinions but this statement seems particularly harsh coming from a supposed Christian person. While we understand the frustration of some private property own-ers who have seen their property overran by the victims of the January earthquake, such vile language is unacceptable. We are calling on Mr. Hud-son’s church to inves-tigate whether or not the quote attributed to him is accurate and if so to take some disciplinary actions against him.

We’re by no means, advocating disciplin-ing someone for their opinion, but when you look at his state-ment, it is laden with racist undertone and probably wanted to call these destitute people animals. We understand that the people are living in squalor, frankly this is one of these times where we can safely say that it’s not their fault. Mr. Hudson talks about them not working. Is he seri-ous? Where are they supposed to get jobs in a country that had an unemployment rate of more than 80 percent before the earthquake.

How would Mr. Hudson feels if we were to paint the whole missionary community as a bunch of hypocrites who are forcing their religion on people in exchange for a plate of food and that they are racist interlopers in countries where they can feel superior than the locals.

Obviously this is not an accurate picture of the missionary work, but that’s exactly what Mr. Hudson is portraying. Where we

and Mr. Hudson agree is that the Haitian government and the international commu-nity need to find a more or less permanent solution to the displaced problem. Some analysts say that the UN and Haitian gov-ernment have not move to resettle these people largely because they need them to vote in next month’s presidential election.

Without the homeless around Port-au-Prince, the logistics of voting become even more complicated after many voting age people lost their lives or lost their ID cards. Continuing democratic process is more important at this point than dealing with the homeless.

We agree with this assessment and we find it dangerous. This is not a either

or situation. The twin goals can be met simultaneously. The longer the gov-ernment keep the homeless in public and private locales, the more difficult it would be to resettle them. The thou-sands of people who call the Champ de Mars home are so entrenched that they’ve begun to

build more permanent structure on the country’s largest square.

This difficult and complicated task is being punted to the next president and we believe that’s unfair. The education and preparation for more permanent abode is the responsibility of this current adminis-tration. While we’re not saying they will finish the task by February, when the new president will be inaugurated, it should lay the foundation for such a move.

What is frustrating is that the interna-tional community and the Haitian govern-ment appear to be at a standstill and don’t know what direction to take once the initial crisis reaction has passed.

In the aftermath of this calamity every-one was saying the right thing and there was hope that Haiti could turn this disas-ter into an opportunity for a fresh start. Unfortunately, nine months later, we’re not so sure.

Redefining Failure in Haiti

The Haitian government and the international

community need to find a more or less permanent solution to the displaced

problem.

October 6-12, 2010 The haiTian Times 7

If you've been following the New York Senate polls closely for the last year, you've noticed that Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been hovering around 50 percent for most of the past two years. This is dangerous territory for any incumbent to be in - by my count, only three incumbents in the last three years who averaged less than 50 percent in August polling have gone on to win in November.

But it was still something of a surprise when a flurry of likely voter polls taken shortly after the September 14 primary showed a very close race. A Rasmus-sen Reports poll showed Gillibrand lead-ing Republican Joseph DioGuardi by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent. Quin-nipiac and SurveyUSA showed Gillibrand with 6- and 1-point leads. Marist weighed in with a poll showing Gillibrand up 11 points, but among registered voters who described themselves as ”very enthusi-astic” about voting, Gillibrand actually trailed DioGuardi, 52 percent to 43 per-cent.

So what are we to make of this? Could Gillibrand actually lose this race?

Let's be clear up front: A straight-up Republican win would be unheard of. No Democratic senator has ever been defeated for re-election in the Empire State, and the last time a non-Democrat won an open seat in New York in a two-way race was in 1958. The typical formula for a non-Democratic win in New York is to have a Republican running on the Liberal Party

line who splits the anti-Republican vote with the Democrat; this is in part how Alfonse D'Amato and James Buckley won their Senate races. This won't happen this year - there isn't even an independent Lib-eral Party in New York anymore.

Nevertheless, it is certainly possible for DioGuardi to pull off the upset, though I certainly would require some decent odds before taking the bet. DioGuardi would need to make the final results a little better than what is presently showing up in Sur-veyUSA's crosstabs. I think he can do this.

The Candidates Let's start by looking at the candidates.

Most people who talk about Joe DioGuardi refer to him as the father of former Ameri-can Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, but he's not a complete outsider to the political game. DioGuardi, a C.P.A., represented what was at the time a D+2 district in Westchester County for two terms in Con-gress, before falling to now-Representative Nita Lowey in 1988. During his two terms he compiled a solidly conservative voting record. Though he is a social conserva-tive, his efforts focused on balancing the budget and other economic matters. After losing to Lowey, DioGuardi twice waged third-party campaigns against moderate Republican Sue Kelly in the 1990s, but was unsuccessful in both attempts.

Kirsten Gillibrand brings a lot to the table. She's young, energetic, and hails from the Republicans' base in upstate New York. She upset Republican Congressman

John Sweeney in 2006, and held the seat handily in 2008. She compiled a moderate voting record while representing upstate, which could have prepared her for a solid general election run.

But Gillibrand had to tack left once she was appointed to replace Hillary Rod-ham Clinton. And the appointment process itself was problematic. After all, it left her with the imprimatur of deeply unpopular Governor David Paterson. She's now in an awkward position - tied to an unpopular governor and without a real base to rely upon in the general election.

UpstateUnfortunately, it isn't clear from the Sur-

veyUSA writeup where the dividing line between Western New York (presumably Rochester and Buffalo) and ”upstate” is, so I am averaging them and dealing with them as a single unit. According to Sur-veyUSA, DioGuardi is presently winning upstate New York roughly 48 percent to 40 percent.

I actually think this is the least likely of the numbers that SurveyUSA has released. Upstate New York used to be the hub of the state Republican Party - the fight on election night was between upstate Repub-licans and New York City Democrats. But over the years, upstate shifted toward the Democrats. In 2004, George W. Bush and John Kerry tied upstate (about 1,000 votes separated them). In 2008, Barack Obama carried it with 53 percent to John McCain's 47 percent.

Moreover, Gillibrand hails from upstate. While I don't think she's a well enough established figure to move the numbers in her direction all that significantly, she would probably outperform a typical Dem-ocrat there, at least in her old district.

Nevertheless, given the national mood, it is not impossible to see upstate returning to its Republican roots this election. Obvi-ously DioGuardi is unlikely to carry inner Buffalo or Rochester, but at the same time the longstanding economic malaise that has affected the region is likely pointed directly at the Democrats now. It really isn't that hard to imagine that the politi-cal environment alone could propel Dio-Guardi to a number four points better than Bush managed in the district: roughly the numbers that George H.W. Bush managed in 1988.

CitySurveyUSA also has DioGuardi trail-

ing in NYC 35 percent to 54 percent. One very smart blogger at Beyond the Polls assembled a chart of GOP performances in New York City over the past sixteen years, and concluded that it was ”difficult to see any realistic scenario under which DioGuardi could get 35% of the vote in New York City.”

A racial map of NYC precincts shows the following. Blue represents African Americans, green denotes Hispanics, and red signifies Whites. You'll first notice how

Last week, I wrote about the urgent need to stop financing fail-

ing methodologies in Haiti. I elaborated on the fact that many of the actors currently involved in the reconstruction of Haiti are profiting from the country’s lack of progress, hence ben-efiting a great deal in the failure of all institutions within the country.

I received a detailed email from a reader, which stated that rubble’s removal is a much easier task than, let’s say, draft-ing educational policies or giving access to healthcare or even solving the unem-ployment issue. The reader added that rubble’s removal does not require a college graduate to do the job, but rather money, heavy-equipments, a dumping site, and the workers are all that’s needed to get it done. And unfortunately, even that cannot be executed by those in charge.

The reader’s comments left me wonder-ing about not just how people are taking advantage of the failing system in Haiti, but also how failure in itself needs to be redefined in the Haitian context.

If people are living under the tents for eight months with no end in sight, and no one has yet to elucidate on a plan to relocate them, should that be considered failure? If we have all those neighbor-hoods filled of rubbles and streets nearly

un-drivable, should that be seen as failure? If we have all those people in the peniten-tiary, and most of them have yet to know what the charges against them are, should we see that as failure? How about, if we examined the conditions of the “restave-ks” young children, who usually live with

someone other than, their immediate fam-ily; or we analyzed the working conditions in some of the factories.

On the surface and by the standard of anyone who are not used with these archaic practices would rightfully consider all of these examples as failures, but are all Haitians see them the same way. It is one thing to talk about failure, but it is a completely different situation to actually define what failure really is.

Many people in Haiti have such low expectations about what their government should represent, what the private indus-try should offer, and even what their role within the society should be that defining failure is often done through a personal optics.

What some people clearly see as fail-ure others would claim it is progress. For example, almost everyone affected by the January 12th earthquake would say that they have not seen any progress, as far as the reconstruction is concerned, but in many occasions, we have heard our Prime Minister and the UN special envoy to our country proclaiming that “something” is working in Haiti. They would often allude to how many tents that international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have distributed, how many pocket of ready to eat meals they have handed out and so forth to claim that progress is being made.

In that scope, it is not hard to understand that failure can only be analyzed in the eyes of the beholder.

Failure in Haiti is not only qualita-tive, meaning something that we can only observe through the living conditions of the people. It is important to add the quan-

titative aspect to the failure of Haiti. It is not enough to say that Haiti is the poorest nation in the western Hemisphere, that’s a qualitative statement. It would be more beneficial to policy makers, if instead we said that 80% of Haiti’s population does not have direct access to clean, potable water, or that more than half-million chil-dren of school age are out of school. This is putting poverty in perspective, and it could help put a dollar-value per person in order to address systemic failure.

After January 12th, the leaders of the reconstruction came out with a draft to rebuild Port-Au-Prince and sometimes they vaguely referred to it as the plan to rebuild Haiti. Analyzing the document, I cannot clearly understand how they come

up with their total. It is not clear how much it will take per family to change each fam-ily impoverish conditions. At the core of the plan, it seems like someone realized the destruction was just too much, it must be in the billions. Now, Haitian officials do not talk of millions any longer, it’s all about billions. Again, the international commu-nity is ready to throw money at failing propositions without a clear analysis of how to reverse the failures to success.

We must understand why failure has become so chronic in Haiti. We must define the failure that we are talking about because if we do not have a consensus of what failure is, then how can we have a consensus to address the issue.

It should no longer be doing business as usual, where an expert or a lifer in Haitian politics say gives me the money and I will do “this” and “that.” People need to be quick to press the pause button, and ask questions: The doing “this” and “that” will solve what, and how exactly are you going to do the “this” and “that”?

We must all agree on exactly what is currently being failed in Haiti, and from my perspective it all starts with the way the country is being governed. We have a governance failure, where there is no one responsible for anything. And as one of my readers mentioned in the email, we do not even have a responsible agency for removal of the rubble. This is a failure from the authorities and also a failure from the people for accepting to live in these conditions as if tomorrow is going to get better. Last I check, in Haiti, tomorrow has always gotten worst.

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Ilio'sOdysseyBy Ilio Durandis

Redefining Failure in Haiti

New York Dems in Danger?

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clear analysis of how to reverse the failures

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A massive influx of free foreign food to Haiti after January's earthquake helped feed many displaced people, but under-cut Haitian agriculture and hurt farmers' incomes, Oxfam International said Mon-day.

The international community has put too much emphasis on donating food to the rebuilding nation instead of developing Haiti's agriculture-based economy, it said in a report.

”Currently, U.S. rice subsidies and in-kind food aid undercut Haitian farmers at the same time as the U.S. government is investing in Haitian agricultural develop-ment,” said Philippe Mathieu, Oxfam's director for Haiti.

”The international community must abandon these conflicting trade and aid policies in order to support the growth of Haiti's fragile rural economy.”

The catastrophic January 12 temblor, which killed as many as 300,000 peo-ple, devastated the economy of what was already the poorest state in the Americas and turned much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into rubble.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has a five-year, $126 million

(£79.6 million) program to support the rural population outside Port-au-Prince, and in August introduced two grants to help Haitian families buy local food.

But a ban on direct assistance to indus-tries that compete with U.S. exports -- known as the Bumpers Amendment -- and extensive exports to Haiti of rice, sugar and poultry undermined an agricultural sector that was largely ignored by foreign donors and the Haitian government even before the quake, the report said.

The aid community has also not agreed to provide resources to support a $772 mil-lion agriculture plan put forth by the Hai-tian government after the temblor, accord-ing to the report.

A spokesman for USAID said the organ-isation was balancing the short-term needs of Haitians with longer-term support for agriculture infrastructure development.

”USAID is using multiple tools to pro-vide life-saving food to Haitians in the short term, while simultaneously building and strengthening Haiti's agriculture sector in the long term,” the spokesman said.

Oxfam's report calls for full support of the agricultural redevelopment plan, including enhancements that focus on

building up community organizations, improving schools and healthcare and pro-viding other services in rural areas.

”There are no schools, or poor schools, in rural areas, no jobs, very poor or no healthcare,” Marc Cohen, the report's author, told Reuters. He said about 75,000 people leave rural areas and move to Port-au-Prince every year.

”Unless you invest not only in agricul-ture but also in rural development, you won't have people stay in rural areas,” Cohen said.

The report also proposes making Haiti an exception to the Bumpers Amendment and extending duty- and quota-free access to U.S. markets to Haitian goods.

Haiti Food Aid Hurting Local Farmers – Report

(Memphis-10/4/10)-It's been nearly nine months since the earthquake in Haiti.

Members of Hope Presbyterian Church have seen the devastation first hand and say the pictures on TV only begin to tell the story.

Missionary teams say people are still living in buildings that were demolished or tent cities and the children are starving and doing whatever they can to survive.

”While you are walking down the street they are playing in the garbage- look-ing through the garbage for food,” said MIchael Leirer, Pastor of Global Outreach.

The church helped feed some of the chil-dren during two trips, but now wants to do a whole lot more.

Over the weekend members assembled tens of thousands of rice and soy mix-a-meals, boxed and sealed them up to ship to Haiti.

The meals cost just $.25 cents a piece and will feed over one hundred thousand people.

”This is going to sustain life,” said Leirer.

They showed us a picture of boy mission workers met in Haiti who at 8-years of age weighed just 19 pounds.

Two weeks after eating the rice meals Omar gained 15 pounds and six months later he's up to 73 pounds.

”You can see from the picture he's got a great big grin on his face and he's receiving Christmas presents. He's a normal child,” said Leirer.

Church leaders want to do that for a lot more children and are hoping what they are doing will impact future generations and prevent more children from going hungry.

”I would like to have our children learn about this, take them over and let them see that and then hopefully they can do some-thing for their generation to eliminate this horrible disease of starvation,” said Leirer.

The church plans to do this again next year and hopes to be able to put together enough meals to feed twice as many.

Hope Presbyterian was able to raise 25,000 thousand dollars Sunday from the congregation to pay for the meals and the cost to ship them to Haiti.

They will distribute them with the help of churches in Haiti.

The story was first published by wreg.com in Memphis.

Mix-A-Meals Feed starving Children In Haiti

l´Ambassade Haïtienne, William Exantus. M. Moreno a affirmé que cette contribu-tion permettra de soulager Haïti de toutes ses obligations de dette envers la BID. ” Cela permettra de libérer des millions en aide pour le développement à Haïti, sans créer aucune charge future pour un pays qui fait face à d'énormes défis”, a-t-il insisté. De son coté, Mme Brain-ard a assuré que les Etats-Unis sont en train de fournir de l'aide en effectif pour améliorer les conditions de vie du peu-ple Haïtien. En conformité avec l'accord

d'augmentation de capital de la BID, le gouvernement des Etats-Unis apporte une contribution à hauteur de 237,4 mil-lions de dollars au Fonds pour opérations spéciales. Les 204 millions de dollars débloqués favoriseront l´annulation de la dette Haïtienne. La contribution per-mettra aussi à la BID de convertir en subventions environ 144 millions en prêts concessionnels non déboursés approuvés avant 2007 (date à laquelle Haïti est devenu un pays à ne plus recevoir que des subventions). De plus, l´avance du paie-ment des Etats-Unis laissera disponibles 60 autres millions de dollars pour de nouvelles subventions en faveur d'Haïti.

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d’une langue. Dans l’alphabet phonétique international, chaque signe correspond toujours au même son et inversement. Il permet d’éliminer dans l’orthographe du créole des situations d’écriture qui peuvent prêter à confusion. Par exem-ple, en français, on trouve des situations

où un phonème peut recevoir plusieurs graphies possibles, par exemple, le pho-nème (son) [o] peut s’écrire : eau, ot, aud, aut, aux, etc., ou bien une graphie peut s’accommoder de plusieurs réalisations phonétiques possibles, par exemple, la lettre s peut être réalisée phonétiquement avec un [s] ou un [z]. L’orthographe de McConnell se sert de dix-huit symboles de l’API qui sont : a b d f g i k l m

n o p r s t v w z et qui conservent la valeur qu’ils possèdent à l’API. Mais, huit autres symboles n’ont pratiquement rien à voir avec l’API et leur valeur est proche de l’alphabet français. Ce sont : ch é è gn j ou u y. Finalement, quatre symboles sont des créations de McCo-nnell lui-même : Ce sont : ô â ê ò. (Déjean Yves, Comment écrire le créole d’Haïti 1980).

Comment la classe intellectuelle haïti-enne accueillit-elle le système graphique proposé par McConnell et quel a été l’impact de ce système sur l’orthographe de la langue créole haïtienne ? La 3ème partie de cet ensemble explorera ces ques-tions la semaine prochaine.

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M si kèk nan nou remake, nan tout seri “Tande ak wè se de” a, m pale de tout kalite chòk m pran etan m al Ayiti a, chòk diferan bagay m dekouvri, ki pa sanble yo nòmal pou mwen, men m pa di anyen sou chòk lengwistik la, konmkwa li pa t egziste… Men se pa vre, nou konn sa: chòk la la; m gendwa pa santi l menm jan ak on lòt moun, on moun nòmal ki pa blennde sou kesyon lang. M pran sa m tande nan bouch moun, sa m wè sou mi, sou pankat, sou bandwòl, m fè yo an tre djakout esperyans mwen. Konsa, chòk la on ti jan amòti, men li la.

Premye pawoli ki te frape mwen, se “zo blòd”. Nan plizyè okazyon m tande jenn timoun ap di: “Msye parèt/kanpe sou mwen an zo blòd.” An jeneral, lè m tande on pawoli premye fwa, m pa kou ri al mande moun k ap pale yo sa sa vle di (paske m konnen yo pa oblije ka esplike sans li): m tann m tande l plizyè fwa pou m wè si m ka pran sans li pou kont mwen. Men m te vle fè on lòt esperyans ak pawoli “zo blòd” la—paske ma ryaj ‘zo’ ak ‘blòd’ la pa t mache nan san m. Kote pawoli a

soti? Depi ki lè l parèt nan langaj moun yo? Èske se anvan oubyen apre Douz Jan-vye? Ki sans chak mo yo? M wè ‘zo’ a: m konn “zo devan”, “zo bouke chen”, “zo re”, “zo mangay”, “zo ak po”, “zo di”…, men pa rekonèt ‘blòd’ la, ni an pent, ni an penti.

Gen on ti demwazèl ki esplike m “kanpe an zo blòd” la, se “kanpe ansenèryen”, se “montre ou pa kè”, “montre ou pa bay pyès moun regle anyen pou ou”. Li bay egzanp: “Ou ta gendwa di Preval kanpe an zo blòd sou nou depi lontan, ni anvan ni apre tran-blemanntè a.” Kidonk se yon atitid: ‘m pa ka fè san sot nan wòch’, ‘m pa t mande n pou n te vote pou mwen’, ‘m pa t pwomèt nou anyen’, ‘se pa nou sèlman ki nan di’, ‘m se on moun menm jan avèk nou tou’, ‘my palace collapsed’…

Dezyèm pawoli ki te pi make m, se “asayan”. Se de sitwayen, de jenn gason, ou ta di sosis yo mare ansanm, ki renmen sèvi ak pawoli sa a. “Asayan anvayi nou.” “Asayan debake sou nou.” Tanzantan youn ap anmègde lòt, rele l “Asayan!” Dapre esplikasyon mesye yo, se ta depi epòk apre Douz Janvye, pawoli sa a parèt. Lavi nan kan, anba tant, aprann yo pou yo toujou veyatif. On separasyon diri gen-dwa ap fèt byen pwòp, epi asayan debake sou yo—kidonk gwoup nèg ki sot nan lòt kan, nan lòt zòn ki parèt tankou atoufè vin dappiyanp sou ti bagay y ap separe ba yo a. Gen on lè gen on pawòl, ki chape sot nan bouch youn nan de mesye yo, ki fè m

konprann pawòl ‘asayan’ an te ka la depi pi lontan, on pawòl ki konekte ak mouv-man baz, mouvman militan, mouv man zòn non dwa, mouvman gang tou. Asayan ki sot nan tèl gang gendwa debake al anvayi teritwa tèl lòt gang… Se on pawòl kòmando, on pawòl atoufè, on pawòl san manman.

Sa depan si asayan yo gen patwon; sa depan tou ki moun ki patwon asayan yo. Sa fè m chonje on mesaj m te wè ekri sou yon kannòt bò lanmè Leyogàn—mi pi kwè se te non kannòt: “Bon Pa twon pa fasil”! Se on pawòl ki sonnen tankou on pwovèb, antouka se on pawòl esperyans. Espe ryans granmoun lan nan memwa li. Lespri chè, konnen mal. Gen on pawòl m wè sou on bout mi ki rete kanpe apre tranblemanntè a: “Tanpri Sispan-n boule boutèy ak Sachè Plastic” [Tanpri sispann boule boutèy ak sache plastik.] Bèl pawòl! Men pou ki moun? Pa twò lwen mesaj la, te gen on gwo pil fatra ki t ap boule; odè ki t ap monte ansanm ak lafimen an pa t bay manti: te gen on bon voyay plastik ki t ap boule. Pètèt yo ta dwe mete on pankat tankou youn m te wè bò on teren vid Leyogàn: “LI ENTEDI, TANPRI – PA JETE – DEBRI LA.” Gen bagay se entèdi pou yo entèdi yo. Moun konprann langaj ‘entèdi’, paske gendwa gen konsekans si yo kenbe yo ap meprize entèdi a: tanpri souple sèlman pa sifi. Fòk gen Leta, fòk gen otorite!

Leta pa gen mwayen pou l retire moun

yo anba tant. Leta pa menm gen mwayen pou l peye fè ranmase fatra nan lari. Leta pa gen mwayen pou l fè anyen. “Ti kochon, ti san”, se sa pwovèb la di, men genlè pa gen san menm, pa yon gout pou fè remèd. Nou ta gendwa di tou: “Mezi lajan ou, mezi wanga ou!” Men kès Leta anba dekonm, ansanm ak Sèvis Kontribi-syon—eskize m, DGI—: pa gen mwayen fè wanga menm. Gen on lòt pwovèb ki te ekri sou on mi—m pa chonje ki kote m te wè l—ki pati nan menm sans lan: “Ti zwa zo ri mezi bèk li.” Pawòl pwovèb la si prann mwen, men m renmen l kanmenm. Li difisil pou nou ta imajine on zwazo k ap ri—fò m di m pa konn ki jan zwazo ri. M renmen lè zwazo ap chan te, men m pa si se mezi bèk yo ki fè yo ka chante tèl jan osnon tèl lòt jan.

Pi bèl mesaj, pi bèl imaj ki ret nan tèt mwen depi m sot Ayiti a, se pawòl ki ekri sou yon gwo kamyon ki te chaje machan-diz—sak te fè tiyon sou tèt li: “Pale pale ou, m ap travay.” Rezon ki fè imaj la pa ka sot nan tèt mwen, se paske kamyon sa a te an pàn. Li te kanpe sou Nasyonal #2 a, pa twò lwen Wout Dabòn lan. M prèske si se pa t on ti pàn senp, se te on pàn awozin. Travayè yo te chita bò wout la, nan lonbray bwat la. “Pale pale ou, m ap travay” se on bèl pawòl… menm lè machin sistèm lan an pàn!

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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department sued Amer-ican Express Co, Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc on Monday, accusing them of violating antitrust laws and citing rules that prevent-ed merchants from encouraging consumers to use cheaper credit cards.

Simultaneously, the Justice Department settled with Visa and MasterCard, which agreed to allow merchants to offer dis-counts to consumers who use less expen-sive types of credit or debit cards. The companies said the settlement, subject to court approval, did not involve any pay-ment.

The lawsuit has the potential to cut into a significant source of profits for American Express and threatens to reshape the com-petitive landscape of the card processing business.

Shares of American Express, which charges merchants more on average for processing credit card transactions than its rivals, closed down 6.5 percent at $39.05.

Consultant Philip J. Philliou, a former executive for American Express and Mas-terCard, said via email that the lawsuit was ”problematic for AmEx.

”If nothing else, it highlights to retailers and consumers the premium that retailers pay to accept AmEx as a form of pay-ment,” he wrote.

”This ruling may impact which card a consumer pulls out of their wallet,” Phil-liou added.

American Express said the lawsuit would hurt consumers by limiting their ability to use their AmEx card.

”We have no intention of settling the case,” Kenneth Chenault, chairman and

chief executive officer of American Express, said in a statement.

American Express executives and law-yers declined repeatedly on a conference call with investors and reporters to quan-tify the potential impact of losing the law-suit, or to say how much it would have cost the company in revenue to settle the case.

”I think, with reason, AmEx thinks the negative impact would be material,” consultant Eric Grover, who previously worked at Visa, said in an email.

no-Win situationAttorney General Eric Holder said at a

press conference on Monday that credit card companies ”put merchants and con-sumers in a no-win situation. Accept our card, pay our fees and don't even think about trying to get a discount.”

Merchants pay fees to banks and pro-cessing networks like Visa and MasterCard every time a customer pays for something by using a credit or debit card. These so-called interchange fees usually amount to between 1 to 3 percent of each total bill.

American Express, which lends directly to consumers and processes credit card transactions, charges merchants a higher percentage on average. AmEx said on the conference call that merchants get more business from American Express cardhold-ers in exchange for the higher fees because its wealthy customers tend to spend more than the average credit card user.

Visa, MasterCard and American Express and their affiliated banks collected more than $35 billion in fees from U.S. mer-chants in 2009, according to the lawsuit.

American Express cardholders charged $419.8 billion worth of purchases in 2009,

while MasterCard cardholders charged $476.9 billion and Visa card holders charged $764.2 billion.

Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said the government would try to resolve the case as quickly as possible.

But American Express Vice Chairman Edward Gilligan told the conference call, ”We anticipate that this process will take several years before it is resolved.

Both merchants and consumer groups hailed the government's action against the credit card companies.

Ed Mierzwinski, consumer pro-

gram director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said in a statement that the lawsuit and settlement ”will finally open competition in the card payment market, ultimately leading to lower prices to consumers.”

But in a statement late Monday after-noon, the American Bankers Association said it looked ”forward to seeing whether (merchants') new-found pricing authority will actually result in consumer benefit or merely be used to pad their own bottom lines.”

u.s. sues Amex, Visa, Mastercard, Latter Two settle

see CARDs on page 23

Attorney General Eric Holder

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CHICAGO – Last week, Afghanistan. This week, parents protesting the proposed demolition of a park field house.

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel hit the campaign trail on Monday and got a sudden taste of the vastly differ-ent agenda he'd face as Chicago's mayor — and the hurdles he must overcome to be elected.

A day after unveiling his campaign on a new website, Emanuel hit the streets vowing to ”hear from Chicagoans — in blunt and honest terms” about what they want from their next mayor. Many were happy just to shake hands, exchange hugs, or drink coffee with President Barack Obama's hard-charging former right hand man.

But he also faced skepticism about his intentions, loyalties and whether he even has the legal right to run for mayor in a city he hasn't lived in for nearly two years. A few potential rivals also surfaced in

public, though insisted it had nothing to do with him.

The blunt talk during one part of Eman-uel's visit to a bustling street in the mostly Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood was that he wasn't listening enough.

There, a group of parents protesting the planned demolition of a park field house briefly surrounded Emanuel's car. They said he'd promised to talk with them on the sidewalk, but instead, after entering a restaurant to shake hands with patrons, he quickly headed to his car without stop-ping.

Michelle Palencia, whose 6-year-old son attends a school that uses the field house as a library, said the group confronted Emanuel because no one else is listening.

”He said, 'I promise,'” Palencia said. ”That's all we've been hearing is prom-ises.”

Palencia said Emanuel did say he would call her — and she will be waiting.

emanuel Hits Chicago streets, Makes Case for Mayor

heavily segregated New York is, you'll next notice the sometimes uncanny parallel between where white precincts end and where Obama precincts begin. Obvi-ously, New York still has heavily racialized voting.

For DioGuardi to equal Pataki's 2002 vote share in New York City, two things have to happen. First, whites have to be excited about voting for him. I think that's pos-sible for two reasons: (1) whites who didn't live on Manhattan were never crazy about Obama in the first place and are presum-ably ready to cast a protest vote against him today and (2) Dio-Guardi has an Italian surname. Having attended more than my share of the DiFranco family reunions on the maternal side of my family, I can only attest that

the cultural affinity is still pretty important in the Italian-American community. This will help Dio-Guardi in parts of Queens and in South Brooklyn (and in Staten Island, a notable Republican bas-tion that is off the map). In fact, this is probably a large reason why DioGuardi is getting 35 per-cent in the SurveyUSA poll while the other Republican candidates polled are receiving the 25 per-cent a Republican customarily receives (remember, Paladino is running against a Cuomo).

The second thing that has to happen is that minority turnout needs to be low. I think that's entirely possible as well. In the 2009 Virginia governor's race, the white share of the elector-ate was 78 percent, up from 70 percent in 2008. And we've seen a recent spate of election polls showing members in minority-majority districts vulnerable

- GA-02, FL-03, MS-02, and AZ-07. Even controlling for the fact that these are campaign polls, these results wouldn't be possible unless minority enthusiasm was down considerably. And it is hard to imagine Kirsten Gillibrand - an upstate Congresswoman who had a fairly conservative voting record until 18 months ago - fir-ing up this portion of her base.

To be clear, I don't think hit-ting the 30% mark in the city is a ”done deal” for DioGuardi. But I do think it is realistic.

suburbsThat leaves us with the suburbs.

Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties were long Republican bastions. But they swung toward the Democrats as the Republi-can Party increasingly adopted a Southern twang and focused on social issues. Barack Obama won 64 percent of the vote in Westchester County, 54 percent

in Nassau County, and 53 percent in Suffolk County.

But recent elections in the sub-urbs indicate that there may be hard movement back toward the Republicans. In November of last year, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi lost to little-known, underfunded challenger Ed Man-gano. In Westchester County, Rob Astorino defeated Executive Andy Spano 57 percent to 43 percent; just four years earlier, Spano had defeated Astorino by a similar margin.

Then, in February of this year, while Washington was still focused on the health care debate and Scott Brown's win, Republi-cans won a special election vic-tory in a Suffolk County seat that had gone for Obama in 2008. That same day, Republicans won a stunning upset in a Westchester district that had given Barack Obama about 61 percent of the

vote only 15 months earlier. In other words, the Democrats'

grip on the New York City sub-urbs seems to be slipping. This is a problem that Democrats are facing elsewhere in the country as well, but it seems especially pronounced here. A 12-point, 51 percent to 39 percent win here is not at all out of the question.

ConclusionDioGuardi isn't likely to win,

but it certainly is possible. The SurveyUSA poll is a best-case scenario for DioGuardi among current polling, but it neverthe-less depicts a realistic scenario for him to get within a point of Gillibrand with the present elec-torate. Of course, his ”reward” for winning this race would be to run again two years later, against a Democratic opponent approved by the Democratic Party, with Barack Obama at the top of the ticket.

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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel

NEW YORK, (Bloomberg) - New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, leads Republican Carl Paladino by 24 points in a poll of likely voters by the Siena Research Institute.

About six of 10 voters had a negative view of Paladino and agreed that he is “a loose cannon, who doesn’t have the tem-perament to be governor,” according to the survey. The poll was conducted Oct. 3-4, after Paladino accused Cuomo of marital infidelity and was involved in a shouting match with a reporter who asked for proof of the charge.

Cuomo was supported by 56 percent of voters, with 32 percent backing Paladino. In a Siena poll of registered voters released last month, Cuomo led by 33 points. Since then Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio abandoned the race and that party switched its endorsement to Paladino.

“Cuomo continues to enjoy a very strong favorability rating,” said Steven Green-berg, pollster for the Siena Research Insti-

tute in Loudonville, New York, in a statement. “While Paladino has quickly become very well-known among New York voters, it is not in a good way.”

Cuomo is viewed favorably by 56 percent of voters and unfavor-ably by 37 percent. Paladino is viewed favorably by 30 percent and unfavorably by 59 percent, according to the survey.

spending CutsPaladino, 64, a Buffalo real

estate developer and supporter of the Tea Party movement, has promised to cut state spending by 20 percent and taxes by 10 percent. A self-described political outsider, he attempts to contrast him-self with Cuomo, 52, the state’s attorney general and a son and adviser to former Governor Mario Cuomo. He is also a for-mer U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Cuomo also says the state needs spend-ing cuts, though he hasn’t said how much. Both candidates support the idea of a state law capping increases in local government property taxes.

About 55 percent of voters agreed that

Cuomo’s government experi-ence “is what we need in order to move New York towards fiscal health,” according to the survey. About 45 percent agreed that Paladino’s business experience is what the state needs.

New York, which faces an $8.2 billion budget deficit next year, has the highest combined state and local taxes in the U.S. after Alaska, according to state budget documents.

Cuomo’s strongest support was in New York City, where 70 percent of voters backed him and 17 percent favored

Paladino. Upstate voters were more even-ly divided with 45 percent for Cuomo and 43 percent for Paladino.

The telephone survey of 636 likely reg-istered voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

Cuomo Leads by 24 Points in New York governor’s Race, Poll says

Andrew Cuomo

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Haiti’s Diaspora in New York Regroups to Strenghten

Community and Haiti

The Metropolitan College of New York had welcomed Sept. 29 the first Haiti Dialogue Series aims at sharing ideas on better ways to empower the community and by extension Haiti.Commissioner, NYC Police Department Raymond Kelly, Man-hattan Deputy Borough President Rosemonde Pierre-Louis among others addressed an enthusiastic crowd who shared their interest for Haiti. The forum gathered dynamic innovators, experts, and vision-aries at the forefront of a full spectrum of sectors to foster a constructive debate and breakthrough strategies on Haitian issues of importance for today and tomorrow. The kick-off event focus on the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake and prac-titioners lead a candid conversation of tangible ways that the Haitian Diaspora can contribute to the reconstruction efforts.According to The Haitian Dialogue Series committee the organi-zation is comprised primarily of Haitian American profession-als who are committed to civic engagement as well as philan-thropic endeavors benefiting Haiti, Haitian organizations and causes.

Far right, Patricia Beauvais Regional Producer, CBS Newspath and Haitian Roundtable Program Committe Co-Chair sitting among other participants Joel Dreyfuss, The Roots, Managing editor, panel moderator

Raymond Kelly, Commissioner

Participants gather at the panelists table Rosemonde Pierre- Louis addressing the crowd The panelists are answering the audience’s questions

Panelists: from left to right Anne Cramene Almonord Esq, Haitian Women Humnaitarian Parole Project, Johnny Celestin, Haitian Fund Innovation; Jacques Jiha, Black Enterprise COO and CFO; Jean Junior Joseph, Haitian media Political Blogger; Rodney Leon, Architect

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PrescriptionBy Dr. Gerald W. Deas NEW YORK, (AP) – The Nobel Prize in

medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.

Robert Edwards of Britain, now an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the Uni-versity of Cambridge, lived to see the far-reaching ramifications of his hugely controversial early research.

”Today, Robert Edwards' vision is a real-ity and brings joy to infertile people all over the world,” the Nobel Committee said in Stockholm. It began with the birth on July 25, 1978, of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, to a couple who had been trying to conceive for nine years.

With in vitro fertilization, or IVF, an egg is removed from a woman, mixed with sperm in a laboratory, allowed to divide for four or five days, then implanted in the womb to grow into a baby. Today the odds of a couple having a baby after a single cycle of IVF treatment are about 1 in 5, roughly the same odds as a fertile couple trying to have children naturally.

Edwards and research partner Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, faced opposition to their IVF experiments. Some religious leaders called it morally wrong. Some gov-ernment officials thought it more important to limit fertility than treat infertility, and some scientists were worried about the safety of embryos.

”In retrospect, it is amazing that Edwards not only was able to respond to the con-tinued criticism of IVF, but that he also remained so persistent and unperturbed in fulfilling his scientific vision,” the Nobel Committee said.

Society still wrestles with issues that arose from his work, such as:• Is it appropriate to obtain stem cells from

embryos — embryos created through IVF? Some people object because the embryos are destroyed to get the cells.

• Should women who donate eggs be paid? The Vatican's top bioethics official, Mon-signor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, said Monday that Edwards opened ”a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction.” But he also said IVF is responsible for the destruction of embryos and the creation of a ”market” in donor eggs.

• Should there be an age limit on women using IVF? In 2006, a 67-year-old Span-ish woman made headlines when she gave birth after using the technology to con-ceive twins. The uproar continued when she herself died only two years later.Even so, Edwards' research deserves a

Nobel, said bioethicist Laurie Zoloth of Northwestern University. ”For millions of families, it created the possibility of a truly joyful and extraordinary event.”

William Ledger, head of reproductive

Nobel Prize given for Test Tube Baby Research

see NOBeL on page 23

The other evening, I went to view the new movie Wall Street, written up in the newspapers as the #1 movie in America, a great movie, thrilling, smart, entertaining, great fun to watch, and its main character was masterfully played by Michael Doug-las. It was more than I had bargained for.

It made me think of a chapter in the Bible written by King David in the 10th century BC:

Listen everyone! High and low, rich and poor, all around the world—listen to my words, for they are wise and filled with insight. I will tell in song accompanied by harps the answer to one of life’s most perplexing problems. There is no need to fear when times of trouble come, even though surrounded by enemies! They trust in their wealth and boast about how rich they are, yet not one of them, though rich as kings, can ransom his own brother from the penalty of sin! For God’s forgiveness does not come that way. For a soul is far too precious to be ransomed by mere earthly wealth. There is not enough of it in all the earth to buy eternal life for just one soul to keep it out of hell. Rich man! Proud man! Wise man! You must die like all the rest! You have no greater lease on life than foolish, stupid men. You must leave your wealth to others. You name your estates after yourselves as though your lands could be forever yours, and you could live on them eternally. But man with all his pomp must die like any animal. Such is the folly of these men though after they die they will be quoted as having great wisdom. Death is the shepherd of all mankind. And in the morning, those who are evil will be slaves of those who are good. For the power of their wealth is gone when they die; they cannot take it with them. But as for me, God will redeem my soul from the power of death, for he will receive me. So, do not be dismayed when evil men grow rich and build their lively homes. For when they die they carry

nothing with them! Their honors will not follow them. Though a man calls himself happy all through his life—and the world loudly applauds success—yet in the end he dies like everyone else and enters eternal darkness. For man with all his pomp must die like any animal (Psalms 49:1-20).

King Solomon also wrote: A fortune can be made from cheating,

but there is a curse that goes with it. The Lord loathes all cheating. When you help the poor you are lending to the Lord and he pays wonderful interest on your loan” (Proverbs 20:21).

Leaving the theater, I reflected on how widespread poverty is throughout the world and how only a few men control the destiny of those who are not in power. As we approach another election, remember that your vote can make a difference in electing those who are sensitive to the needs of our citizens.

This idea is crystallized in my poem “US”:

US

God looked down onUSCreating a nation just forUSRed, white, black, yellow and brown areUSTherefore, we all live in thatTrustWithout us, can’t beUSGod blessU.S.

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The haiTian Times 15 October 6-12, 2010 HeALTH

MELVILLE, N.Y.- Months after earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China, and a flood in Paki-stan shattered the lives of hun-dreds of thousands of survivors, Henry Schein, Inc. the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based prac-titioners, is continuing to contrib-ute resources to help international groups assisting individuals, fam-ilies and entire villages.

”Team Schein and many of our friends outside of the Company recognize that relief efforts in Haiti, Chile, China and Pakistan will take a great deal of time,” said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein. ”We applaud the work of the organizations receiv-ing our financial support and are proud to sustain our pledge to help survivors still in need in the affected areas where health care facilities were destroyed.”

As part of this sustained sup-port, Henry Schein has ear-

marked an additional $190,000 to 17 organizations involved in ongoing relief efforts in the four nations. This cash donation through Henry Schein Cares, the Company's global social responsi-bility program, follows January's immediate donation of $1 million in medical supplies to partner non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by Henry Schein and its supplier partners. The financial donation includes contributions to the Henry Schein Cares Foun-dation by Team Schein Mem-bers, which were matched by the Company, as well as donations to the Foundation from outside of Henry Schein.

Recipients of the Henry Schein Cares donation include the Afya Foundation; American Jewish World Service; the American Veterinary Medical Association; AmeriCares; Direct Relief Inter-national; GHESKIO; Give2A-sia; Health Volunteers Overseas working with the American Den-

tal Association; Heart to Heart; International Medical Corps; LDS Charities; the National Bap-

tist Convention USA; MedShare; Pan American Health and Educa-tion Foundation (PAHEF); Oral

Health of Haiti (OHOH) Coali-tion; Partners in Health; Shelter-Box and US Fund for UNICEF.

In the past, Henry Schein Cares has responded to other disasters including the cyclone in Myan-mar and earthquake in China in 2008; Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the U.S. Gulf Coast; the 2004 Asian tsunami; the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan; and Sep-tember 11.

Henry Schein, a Fortune 500® company and a member of the NASDAQ 100® Index, is recog-nized for its excellent customer service and highly competitive prices. The Company's four busi-ness groups - Dental, Medical, International and Technology - serve more than 600,000 custom-ers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as govern-ment and other institutions.

The information was first pub-lished by PRNewswire.

Henry schein Cares Relief efforts in Haiti and other Countries Continue

Panelists Princess Dina Mired of Jordan, director general of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, Charles-Patrick Almazor, director of Partners in Health, and Paul Farmer, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, (L-R) take part in a special session regarding cancer in the developing world during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2010.

When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti earlier this year, physicians and health care workers were immediately deployed to the capital, Port-au-Prince. A study on the creation and evolution of a pediatric field hospital - from a disaster service facility to a full-fledged children's hospital - during the weeks and months following the disaster, was presented Oct. 3, 2010, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibi-tion in San Francisco.

”Disaster Response in a Pediatric Field Hospital: Lessons Learned in Haiti,” chronicles the deployment of Miami Chil-dren's Hospital staff - surgeons, pediatri-cians, nurses, operating room personnel, physical therapists, pharmacists, X-ray technicians and social workers - to a field hospital operated by the non-profit organization Project Medishare. The hos-pital operated for 45 days, with rotating medical teams specifically composed of specialists and caregivers to best provide the services needed.

Initially, the goals of the hospital were to staff 75 beds for admitted children, an operating room, and a wound care center where surgical management of open wounds (debridement) and dressing changes could occur with sedation.

During the first five days, 93 percent of pediatric patients were surgical specialty admissions, with 40 children undergo-ing operations, mostly for fractures and wounds. Simultaneously, more than 50 procedures - debridement, dressing chang-es and castings - took place in the wound center.

Two months after the disaster, however, care needs evolved dramatically.

”As time passed, the facility evolved to more closely emulate a children's hospi-tal with 80 percent of patients requiring general pediatric and neonatal care and only 20 percent requiring admission for surgical issues,” said Cathy Burnweit, MD, FAAP, lead author of the study. As the hospital developed the capacity for intensive care, newborns - including those born premature and with congeni-tal anomalies - and children with acute burns and trauma were transported to the

hospital. The transformation of the facility from a

disaster service facility to a pediatric hos-pital with intensive care capacity required changes in equipment, medical staff and leadership.

”In addition to assuring that the major specialty needs were covered, the team approach afforded us an amazing esprit de corps and a built-in support system,” said Dr. Burnweit.

”Numerous sources have stressed how

grateful the Haitian people were for the care provided by the volunteers in the aftermath of the earthquake. But we phy-sicians and health care workers, in return, reaped remarkable benefits out of our commitment to provide services to Haiti's children,” said Dr. Burnweit. ”This was truly the most uplifting and rewarding experience I have had as a doctor.”

The study was first published in Ameri-can Academy of Pediatrics.

Pediatric Hospital In Haiti Provides Lessons In Disaster Planning And Response

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COMMuNITYCALeNDARNew YorkManhattan

-Helen B. Atkinson Health Center will be having mam-

mogram check every First Monday of each month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In front of CHN's Helen B. Atkinson Health Center, 81 W. 115th Street, New York. These Mammo-grams will only be for women ages 40 and older, with or without insurance who are New York City residents. Mobile mammogram unit provided by American Italian Cancer Foundation. To Make An Appointment: Call (212) 426-0088

-The Men's Health Clinic at Helen B. Atkinson

Health Center will offer Primary health care services for men in a male-centered environment every first and fourth Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m at the CHN's Helen B. Atkinson Health Center, 81 W. 115th Street, New York. To Make An Appointment: Call (212) 426-0088

A free festival of Haitian music, dance and art will take place on Saturday, October 16, 2010, 12 p.m.—6 p.m. Affirmation Arts and Haiti Cultural Exchange invite the community to experience and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Haiti at Selebrasyon!, a free, all-day festival that will bring the sights and sounds of Haiti to Manhattan’s west side. An event for all ages, Selebrasyon! revolves around Saving Grace: A Cel-ebration of Haitian Art, an exhibition that consists of more than 50 artworks including sculpture, paintings, and works on paper. Most of the artwork has never been seen outside of Haiti, and two pieces were recovered and restored from the January 12, 2010 earthquake. The program is as followed:

Haitian Jazz Bands Markus Schwartz and Lakou Brooklyn, as well as Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band, featuring soulful jazz singer Melanie Charles.

Artist Workshops for children of all ages conducted by Haitian artists Klode Garoute, Cybil Charlier, Shake-speare Guirand and others.

Storytelling by Jennifer Celestin of classic Haitian tales.

Haitian Dancers performing lively works to traditional Haitian music.

Film Screening of “Maestro Issa,” a 52-minute docu-mentary tracing the evolution of Haitian music in the 1930's and 1940's through the career of a Haitian musi-cian of Lebanese origin.

Gallery Tours by Saving Grace: A Celebration of Hai-tian Art curator Gérald Alexis and Affirmation Arts direc-tor Marla Goldwasser.

Events will take place at Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018 (Between 10th Avenue

& 11th Avenue in Manhattan) Haitian music, dance and art will fill all three floors of the stunning arts complex.

Central Harlem Health Revival (CHHR), Patricia Butts, Co-Chair, CHHR and First Lady, The Abyssinian Baptist Church, Dr. Olajide Williams, Harlem Hospital, Coun-cil Member Inez E. Dickens, DJ Envy, the Cold Crush Brothers and invited guests: Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright and Senator Bill Perkins. WHAT: Health Walk – It’s A Health Thing! & 5th Anniversary Health Festival DATE: Sunday, September

26, 2010 ● 1:00p.m. for a press Conference at 2:45p.m. at 148th Street and Bradhurst Avenue. A Festiva lwill directly follow the 5th Anniversary Health Festival. Cel-ebration of Haitian Art is on display at Affirmation Arts from October 1—November 24, 2010.

QueensThe Queens Museum of Art, at New York City Build-

ing, located at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, invite people to its celebratory 5th Anniversary Cocktail Reception on October 7th at 6pm. The museum provides

convenient access, either on site or nearby, to everything visitors from the publishing and editorial industry might want or need, from restaurants, hotel rooms and entertainment, to a quick trip to the Flushing Meadow Park. For more information about V Book Fair Expo New York 2010 please contact: (917) 238-3155 Waldo Guevara at 516.884.2037. BROOKLYN

The United Community Centers, a Brook-lyn, New York non-profit, needs your help in spreading the word to garner the public’s vote to become one of five organizations to receive $20,000 in project sponsorship through the Tom’s of Maine’s “50 States for Good” ini-tiative. Focused on grassroots projects that bring positive, lasting change to communi-ties, the “50 States for Good” program also asks organizations to share what their volun-teer needs are to help get important projects started or to broaden their reach. If named a winner, United Community Centers will use

the funds to expand their healthy living proj-ect by implementing a new curriculum that will

train the twenty-four youth in their paid internship program to cook nutritious meals using fresh, local

produce. Following the training, the young people will take the lead in organizing six Community Meals.

for information contact Susan Dewhirst at sdewhirst@tomsofmaine.com or call (207) 467-2406.

MiamiFloridaCharles Buford, a disabled veteran and his organization

Make a Wish Veterans are leading a global humanitarian effort on Tuesday, September 28th 2pm sharp Mr. Charles Buford This year, Charles Buford will be hosting Christ-mas for Haiti. Mr. Buford and his organization are gather-ing sleeping bags, toys for the children, tents and many other needed supplies. Two airplanes have been donated by Florida Air Transport and an airdrop will take place on Christmas Eve with receiving agents already in place. For contact information visit www.christmasforhaiti.org

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The haiTian Times 17 October 6-12, 2010 BusINessPORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti

and its aidpartners are working to get credit flowing back into theearthquake-shattered economy to stimulate businesses, jobs andhouse building and make possible a projected growth rebound ofup to 10 percent next year, senior Haitian officials said.

With the help of the World Bank, the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank and the U.S. Treasury, Haitian authorities arepre-paring a partial credit guarantee fund and leasingmechanisms to allow small entre-preneurs and businesses to getback on their feet after the devastating Jan. 12 quake.

Accompanied by measures to ease bank loan restructuring andboost financing for home construction, they hope this infu-sionof capital can help revert the estimated 7 percent contractionof the economy this year caused by the catastrophe.

”This is why we are working on all those measures to boostcredit, we hope that next year we're going to have 8-10 percent-growth, hopefully,” said Charles Castel, governor of thecountry's central bank, the Bank of the Republic of Haiti.

The quake, one of the most destructive natural disasters inrecent history, killed up to 300,000 people and pole-axed what-was already the poorest economy in the Western Hemisphere.Donors have pledged some $11 billion over the next decade tofund reconstruction of the crippled Caribbean state.

In interviews last week, Castel, Prime Minister Jean-MaxBellerive and Finance Minister Ronald Baudin said the credit-boosting measures aimed to put back into business or productivejobs tens of thou-sands of middle-class citizens and smal-lentrepreneurs, who lost not just homes but entire livelihoods.

”All we are doing, working with the banks, the insurancecompanies, trying to create more investment in Haiti, is try-ingto rebuild, support that middle class and to stop what's leftof the middle class

from leaving Haiti,” said Bellerive.

Also underpinning growth hopes for next year was a majorprogram of national infrastructure construction anddevelopment, which seeks to use both institution-al aid andprivate investment to build roads, bridges, ports, airports andmanufacturing parks to relaunch Haiti's economy.

hUGe hOUsinG neeD

Baudin said that after next year's projected econom-icbounce back, the country could achieve growth rates ”not below6 percent” for subsequent years.

Castel said he was talk-ing with the Washington-based IADBabout initiatives to finance micro-industries, such as thecredit guarantee fund, leasing facilities and also professionalschools. ”People in welding, people in furniture-making, theyde-serve to be financed,” he said.

Such microfinancing had been obstructed in the past becauseof prohibitively high interest charged by banks. Hopes are thatthe partial credit guarantee fund, to be executed throughHaiti's state Industrial Develop-ment Fund, could initiallyguarantee $140 million in loans, and eventually more.

In addition, the central bank had eased loan provisionrequirements for banks to facilitate the restructuring of loansaffected by the earthquake, and also relaxed man-datory reserverules for loans for residential or commercial real estate.

To further boost financing for housing, the bank was alsoworking on a plan to

offer fixed-rate, long-term loans over10-15 years for residential real estate—the great-est needafter the quake left 1.3 million homeless.

Debt forgiveness formed part of the huge international aideffort for Haiti fol-lowing the quake and the officialsesti-mated 90 percent of the nation's debts had been canceled.

This included $268 million from the International MonetaryFund. Part of the funds made available from this would

gotoward reconstruction of insti-tutions key to Haiti'sfunctioning that were destroyed or dam-aged—the parliament,justice palace and administrative courts.

hOPes FOR sTaBiLiTYOfficials note the bulk of

Haiti's debt—about $1 billion-- had already been forgiven last year, before the quake, inrec-ognition of government efforts to improve fiscal disciplineand financial accountability and transparency.

Over four to five years of macroeconomic stability andun-interrupted growth, including 3 percent in 2009, Haiti'sforeign reserves had risen to more than $1 billion from just$17 million in April 2004, central bank offi-cials said.

The ministers and United Nations officials hopedU.N.-backed presidential and legis-lative elections on Nov. 28,to choose a successor for President Rene Preval, could keeppolitical peace in Haiti and support the reconstruction.

”With political stability, I believe it is reasonable tothink we're going to have high growth next year,” Castel said.

He and Bellerive stressed the urgent need for a massiveinflux of foreign investment to comple-

ment international aid,which alone could not mitigate the quake impact and put Haition a path of sustainable development.

But the challenges were huge, not least the need to improveand modernize judicial and administrative structures to ensurethe rule of law and security in a society where these had longbeen largely absent. ”If the society itself doesn't work well,finance cannot work well,” Castel said. (Addi-tional reporting by Simon Denyer and Guy Delva; Editingby Padraic Cassidy)

Haiti Looks To Credit Boost For Post-Quake Rebound

Finance Minister Ronald Baudin

NEW YORK, (AP) – Verizon Wireless could pay out up to $90 million in refunds to cell phone customers who were improp-erly charged for inadvertent Web access or data usage over the past several years.

The Federal Communications Commis-sion had asked Verizon Wireless last year about $1.99-a-megabyte data access fees that appeared on the bills of customers who didn't have data plans but who acci-dentally initiated data or Web access by pressing a button on their phones.

In a statement on its website Sunday, Verizon Wireless said most of the 15 mil-lion customers affected will receive credits of $2 to $6 on their October or November bills. Some will receive larger sums. Cus-tomers no longer with the New York-based carrier will get refund checks.

”Verizon Wireless values our customer relationships and we always want to do the right thing for our customers,” said Mary Coyne, deputy general counsel for Veri-zon Wireless. ”The majority of the data

sessions involved minor data exchanges caused by software built into their phones; others involved accessing the Web, which should not have incurred charges. We have addressed these issues to avoid unintended data charges in the future.”

Verizon has said that it stopped charging such fees when a customer started using

a data service but then quickly shut it off.The FCC confirmed Sunday that it has

been investigating the charges after com-plaints from consumers. It said Verizon itself has reportedly put the amount of

overcharges at more than $50 million, dat-ing back two years.

”We're gratified to see Verizon agree to finally repay its customers,” FCC Enforce-ment Bureau Chief Michele Ellison said in a statement.

”But questions remain as to why it took Verizon two years to reimburse its custom-ers and why greater disclosure and other

corrective actions did not come much, much sooner.”

The FCC will continue to look into those issues, including the possibility of addi-tional penalties, Ellison said.

Verizon Wireless, the largest cell phone carrier in the U.S., is a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Britain's Vodafone Group PLC.

Verizon Wireless Plans $30M-$90M Customer Refunds

Verizon itself has reportedly put the amount

of overcharges at more than $50 million, dating

back two years.

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gary Victor and James Noël Invited to Participate in Festi-val America

Haitian writers Gary Victor and James Noel were invited to Festival America among 63 writers who submitted their work for consideration. The festival took place in Vincennes, Paris from September 23 to 26 and celebrated the work of North American writers, in a series of readings, workshops, panels, literary and arts events that informed delighted and empowered audiences of all ages. The weekend long festival highlighted the connection between East and West fusing communities in a cel-ebration of books, music, and words.

Wyclef to run for Haiti President in 2015Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is likely

to run for president in 2015, accord-ing to his newly website Faceaface.com. ”I'm not a quitter, and the most important thing for me is, I think, to move Haiti forward, it's going to take modern thinking. So, if all goes well, I plan to definitely come back in five years and give it another shot.” Wyclef said. Not satisfied with poli-tics in Haiti, the artist wants to move to Haiti where he will come to the States from time to time, to be eligible and become president.

edwige Danticat's New Children's Book of Hope in Haiti's Rubble

Nine months later, Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat has found a way to share the earthquake story with an audience that was largely affected by it - children. Danticat has written a children's book about a 7-year-old boy named Junior who gets buried in the rubble of his Haitian home during the quake and is rescued eight days later. She tells radio station NPR's Linda Wertheimer that she began writing the book titled ‘Eight Days, A Story of Haiti’ in an effort to explain the ordeal to her 5-year-old daughter. Danticat's book opens with Junior's rescue eight days after the earthquake, then goes on to describe what he did during his eight days in the rubble. He flies a kite with his best friend, Oscar, who was with him during the quake. He plays a game of marbles with neighborhood kids. But, of course, none of that actually happened.

eva Longoria’s Twitter Auction Raises Over Half a Million Dol-lars for Haiti

A celebrity Twitter.com auction spearhead-ed by Eva Longoria Parker has raised over $540,000 for disabled children in Haiti. Stars offered to follow fans on Twitter and arranged one-of-a-kind meetings for the winning bidders, who offered up cash donations throughout last week. All funds raised from the auction event will go to www.ahomeinhaiti.org and will be used to rebuild The Miriam Center, which cares for children suffering from autism and cerebral palsy. Longoria is an active philanthropist who is also the spokesperson for PADRES, an orga-nization which is committed to improve the quality of life for Latino children with cancer and their families. She recently attended their

annual gala at The Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, accompanied by a number of other Latin stars such as Demi Lovato, Eva La Rue, Wilmer Valderrama and George Lopez.

Radio Antilles International Turns 26 Twenty six years ago, on Sept 27 of 2004,

Radio Antilles International went on the air in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of listeners and fans of the station came together to cel-ebrate the 26th anniversary and reflecting on that entire project. During the past years, multiple outbreaks and political unrests have repeatedly destroyed the station facili-ties and antenna and forced the evacuation of its personnel. Director Jacques Sampeur said that he’s looking forward to modernize the radio, and bring the TV station to full operation.

Haitian Artist Jay B is engagedIt was a shock to everybody who

went to Jay B’s engagement in Jérémie, Haiti two weeks ago. The artist has announced that he will marry Djenika M. Verrier in December. “It just hap-pened,” he told Showbiz.

“I am so excited. It happened in Jérémie and I want to share it with the world.”

The couple has yet to set a wedding date but according to sources it could be in December. Showbiz has learned that the artist’s wedding reception will take place at the French Embassy with lots of public figures.

Nephtalie Kettia guillite Was Crown Miss Haiti Caraïbes Hibiscus

Nephtalie Kettia Guillite from Les Cayes beat out 50 other young girls to take the 2010 Miss Haiti Caraïbes Hibis-cus crown, despite stumbling in her eve-ning gown. Nephtalie won the pageant in Port-au-Prince after strutting confi-dently in her strapless gown. She said that her talent and her elegance gave her the title and that is what she will use to participate in Miss Caraïbes Hibiscus which will take place in November in Saint-Martin.

Brothers Posse Returns with a New Album after six YearsBrothers Posse charmed their fans up for the release of a new album last Saturday in

Haiti. They packed Club Bluetooth, in Carrefour to share with fans the complete official track listing for their new album “100 pou 100 Mizik”. Don Cato who possesses one of the most distinctive voices of his generation was awesome and had received standing ovation after each song performed. The band took six years to release a new album with twelve songs which are a mix of Roots, Rock, and Reggae.

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By Cheyna Pierre

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, Gasman Pierre more commonly known as “Gazzman Couleur” was the charismatic Lead Singer of the popular Miami based band Nu Look.

Now, Gazzman, is the leader of his own band, DiSip and has just released a new CD, Mission.

The band released their first single enti-tled ”Pa Kondanenm” in March 2010, a song addressing his departure from Nu Look. The song received lukewarm reviews but that did not deter the devoted fans of Gazzman Couleur to proclaim him the new King of the Court. Undoubtedly, the band created a lot of buzz leading up to their grand premiere, without an album and just one song. Even then, as if by sheer force of will, the band still man-aged to bring out an estimated 3,000 curi-ous spectators and fans. Many observers believed that such numbers were not sustainable in the cur-rent economic climate and predicted that the dust created by the Gasman Hype Machine would settle and the curiosity would diminish, bringing down future attendance numbers to more realistic lev-els.

From their debut on Easter Weekend, the band continued to perform non-stop every weekend with one of their best per-formances taking place at KREYOLFEST 2010, when Gazzman Couleur came out of the crowd, walking toward the stage sing-ing ”Legacy”, a moderate hit with music written by Arly Lariviere, and lyrics by Gasman Pierre. That song remains Gas-man's most successful contribution to any Nu Look Album.That performance earned Gazzman Couleur many new converts and solidified the faith of his disciples in the New York area.

In August came rumors quickly con-firmed that the band diSip de Gazzman Couleur's upcoming Debut CD had been leaked. The Announcement came right before the group embarked on a 30 day-tour in Haiti. In order to combat the boot-leggers, management later stated, the band had to rush the release of their album with no promotion, while they were on tour in Haiti. The tour was a complete success. However, one question still lingers: Can diSip de Gazzman Couleur deliver a good album containing at least one, preferably several hit songs without the help of the

singer's former band, and especially the touch of Arly Lariviere, Nu Look’s mae-stro.

If you’ve heard the song “Pa Kondane m”, then the rest of the album offers no great surprises. The opener “Mission “(a fitting title track for the album) picks up right where the previously released “Pa Kondane m” left off. It is just a personal testament from the artists about his experi-ence in the business and why through it all he remains standing, a message you’ll hear throughout the entirety of the album, which at a point begins to sound a little redundant.

The second track Bope Pa Papa, a mid tempo love song, is a little out of Gazzman’s ele-ment but he deliv-ered nonetheless. One of the prob-lems Gazzman has always had in the past was deliver-ing love songs that sound sincere and heartfelt. But he piled on the emo-

tions in the one.Ban’m Gaz is definitely going to be pop-

ular amongst the die hard diSip fans and while it may not become a hit, it makes for a good slogan, one thing Couleur is well known for.

My Angel switched toward the Bolero genre. The song is a really nice duet with a female artist by the name Rose Herby. This song will be greatly appreciated by the older generation ranging in age from 30 and up.

Gazzman’s past successful collabo-rations include; Ou Sé (with Richie of Zenglen), Sexy Love (Djaz la 5 with Shedly), Young Blood, Ti Clé, and Legacy, all with Nu Look. Judging from this new Mission, there may not be any new addi-tion to that list.

However there are a few memorable tunes on the album that I wouldn’t count out just yet. The live circuit is known to turn some studio misses into popular songs and even moderate hits. Avè'w M'ap Maché, and Anti-Stress seem to fit that cat-egory. The good news for diSip is even if this album doesn’t produce any major hits, the band will still be alright.

Gazzman has formed an alliance with the public, which loves him for not just for his voice and charisma but also for the warmth and appreciation he shows them every time he performs. As long as he keeps on singing, there is doubt that they care what he sings or sings about.

On a scale of 1 to 10 Mission receives a 7.

Disip Debut CD Fufills Mission

In order to combat the bootleggers, manage-ment later stated, the band had to rush the

release of their album with no promotion, while they

were on tour in Haiti.

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I am surrounded by a plethora of great male cooks in my friendship circle: Moses who’s baked whole snap-per I am still thinking about almost a year later, Ronald G who invents and creates the most delightful dishes out of traditional favorites and my friend Andry in Boston who probably could give me a run for my money if he ever decided to put his Haitian patties on the market. At first I thought being single had something to do with the males who are great cooks. I thought it was an art they learn to impress the ladies. But some are married, some are single and some are attached in other ways. At last, I don’t think there are that many guyswho know how to cook, I think it’s my greed that leads me to find those who can cook to befriend. The explana-tion is simple: I love food, so I guess I have radar for picking out the cooks in the lot.

They say sharing is caring. So I thought I would ask two of my favorite cooks to share one of their recipes with the readers of HT.

Ronald provides us with a protein rich breakfast while Moses takes Jerk Chicken to a whole other level.

Ron G’s Power Breakfast.

It’s Eggs Sunny Side up with Spicy Tuna Fish, Garlic Flavored Reduced Fat Cheese, and Mint/Raspberry Fla-vored Tea.

Ingredients: Eggs (two per person), a can of light tuna in water (in oil is

ok but drain properly), a slice each of green and red pepper, 1/3 of an onion diced, one tablespoon of creamy garlic

dressing, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, and a bit of cayenne pepper (if you

can tolerate it).DirectionsDice the green and red pepper and

mix them with the diced onionAdd that mix to the drained tuna and

add the creamy garlic dressing and mixAdd the cayenne pepper to tasteAdd one table spoon of vegetable oil

to a pre-heated frying pan Add the tuna mix to the pre-heated

oil and cover with aluminum foil until the bottom is crisp then flip

Add a table spoon of vegetable oil to a different pre-heated frying pan, crack and add both eggs. Make sure that the pan is not too hot (low-medium heat) so your eggs can fully cook without burning.

I don’t understand why women are always surprised by men who know how to cook. For as long as I can remem-ber, the men in my life cooked. First it was my dad, who provided me with the foundation of what I have developed into Fleurimond Catering. Later when I entered the dating world, I was blessed to meet gentlemen who wanted to impress me with their culinary prowess. And as I sit here and think about food, I realize I am continually surrounded by cooks.

Toast two slice of whole grain bread, boil your water, and add the mint and raspberry tea bag(s).

Serve the tuna on a large plate with the eggs next to it; opposite the toasted whole grain bread, and a garlic fla-vored light cheese from the Laughing Cow brand. The tea is sweetened with honey or maybe a bit of brown sugar.

Recipe courtesy of Ronald Glemaud

Moses’S s Jerk Coq au VinIngredients:4 1/2 - 5 lb. chicken3 stalks scallion 2 stalks of parsley1 whole onion. 3-4 cloves,2 tblspn of garlic,2 cubes of maggi,6 ounces of white wine,2 tspn. black pepper, 6 tbl spn of f jerk seasoning4 tbl spn of butter6 tbl spn. Vegetable/olive oil

1 green bell pepper

1 ounce of soy sauce

Directions: Clean and cut chicken into pieces. Clean with vinegar and

lemon then soak chicken into boiling water for 1 minute. Mix the garlic, cloves, maggi, scal-lions, parsley, black pepper , jerk seasonings into the blender (or add any other spice to your taste’s desire) Add soy sauce. Marinate chicken in bowl for about an hour. (the longer it’s seasoned, the better the taste. I suggest overnight). Mix the chicken with the seasoning in a bowl.

Place sauté pot on stove on medi-um high heat. Add the oil. Once hot, add chicken pieces. Let brown. Then turn and let other side brown. Once completely brown, Add the

Dishing it with the Guys

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Absinthe FrappeBlack Licorice in a glass1 oz. Anisette 1 oz. Herbsaint Soda Water

Pour the anisette and herbstaint into an old fashioned glass filled with ice, stir and add soda water.

Creole 2 oz. light rum 1 oz. lemon juice 1 dash Tabasco sauce 1 dash Worcestershire sauce 1/2 oz. Beef Bouillon dash of salt dash of black pepper lemon slice

In a shaker filled with ice, add the rum, beef bouillon, Tabasco, Worcestershire, lemon juice, salt and pepper and shake well. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice and garnish with the slice of lemon

Nadege Fleurimond is the owner & business manager of Fleurimond Cater-ing, Inc., www.fgcatering.com, an off-premise catering firm serving the NY/NJ/CT/MA areas. She is also the author of a Taste of Life: A Culinary Memoir, a humorous and heart warming compilation of recipes and funny anecdotes. (http://www.nadegefleurimond.com) For questions and comments you may write her at nadege1981@gmail.com.

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You may feel as if your smile is unwelcome today, Sagittarius. It may seem to you like there's some sort of gloom and doom to people's attitudes that makes them unwilling to accept any sort of good news. Don't let this stop you from maintaining your own cheerful state. It's impor-tant that you not probe too deeply into the reasons behind other peo-ple's behavior now

SagittariusYou may feel as

if your hands are tied today and you're faced with absolutely no options, Aquarius. Don't despair over a situation that seems insur-mountable. Think of yourself as a terrific magician who can burst out of the strongest chains. You have tricks up your sleeve that can help you escape just about any situation in which you find yourself.

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Aquarius M a y 2 1 - J u n e 2 0

GeminiToday is one of

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AriesOne quick phone

call to a friend may turn into a long discussion about the mean-ing of life, Gemini. Be conscious of the fact that there's a great deal of momentum building in your mind now. Once the dam breaks, you may soon have a giant flood on your hands. Be careful about releasing all this energy at once, even though you may not seem to have a choice.

Quietly step into the background if things aren't going the way you'd like, Libra. Don't try to stick your nose into someone else's business, even if you think you know the right way to proceed. People probably have strong opinions, and they won't be swayed in any direction. The best you can do is take care of yourself. You will probably find that this means you shouldn't be seen or heard.

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Libra

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There's apt to be a comfortable feeling about today that should make you feel quite secure and nurtured, Cancer. Per-haps you're feeling protected by a strong force, maybe an internal one, that's reminding you that as long as you stay within the lines, everything will be fine. There's a familiarity to things that will make it easy for you to navigate any rough waters.

CancerThis is a good time

to take a stand on an issue that you may have been vacillating about lately, Pisces. People will lose con-fidence in you if you can't seem to make up your mind. What they don't realize is that you've been working overtime to process all the information. Now it's time to express orally what you've discov-ered mentally.

F e b . 2 0 - M a r c h 1 9

Pisces O c t . 2 1 - N o v 2 0

ScorpioYour old ways of

thinking have carried you quite far, Taurus, but you may now find that it's time to seek a new platform for your ideas. Look for more adven-turous ways to express yourself. Break out of the old mold and try something new. Once you start in a brand new direction, there will be a great deal of support encouraging you to continue along that way.

A p r i l 1 9 - M a y 2 0

TaurusKeep careful track

of things today, Capricorn, for you will find that the smallest detail will make the biggest difference. Don't hesitate to go with your hunches when something simply doesn't sound right. Stay focused and try not to get caught off guard when emotional issues come out of nowhere and disturb your thoughts. Trust yourself regardless of what's going on around you.

D e c . 2 2 - J a n 1 9

CapricornYou may have

gotten yourself tangled up in a deep mental drama over a series of recent incidents, Scorpio. Your mind may be working overtime in order to solve the riddles. It's quite possible that the reality of the situ-ation is that you're simply making a big deal over nothing. Today is one of those days in which you will face the harsh reality that comes as a consequence of your over-the-top thinking.

Don't get so stuck in your ways today that you insist on having the one true answer with-out really considering the options. You must be aware of a lot before you commit yourself one way or another. The people around you are apt to get annoyed with your narrow-mindedness, for this is how you will be viewed unless you stop and take a considered look at the whole

A u g . 2 3 - S e p t . 2 2

Virgo

J u l y 2 3 - A u g . 2 2

LeoYou could feel like

a rat in a maze today, Leo. Walls and long, narrow corridors take you around corners and through doorways, yet there's no indica-tion that you're going in the right direction. Instead of wandering aimlessly, stop and ask for help. You might not have noticed that if you look up, there are knowledge-able beings there who are willing to give you advice based on their lofty perspective.

But for many of us the transition from hot weather to significantly cooler weather can be confusing. For instance, last week in New York City it was 90 degrees, but today it’s 50 degrees. If you’re not paying attention to the weather channel, you’ll be in trouble.

Aside from watching the weather chan-nel, there are some things you should do to have a smoother transition from the warmer weather to cooler weather.

switch Up Your moisturizerYou notice when the weather starts to

get cooler, you find that your moisturizer just doesn’t do a good job of...well...mois-turizing your face? Well, the moisturizer you were using in the summer was tag-teaming with warm weather and humidity to keep you moisturized so it didn’t have to do too much work. Now that it’s cold, you’ll need something a little more heavy duty. I’m not saying switch to petro-leum jelly, just something a little more

creamy than what you’re using now.Don’t skimp on the sunscreen though.

The sun may not be as bright in the fall, but it’s still there and can do some damage. I would recommend getting an exfoliating facial to clear up some of the damage the sun may have caused over the summer. Getting it at the spa would be best, but there are some great at-home exfoliating products out there.

Get a haircutNot only does your skin get a little dam-

age from the sun, but your hair also can get pretty dull from sun exposure. You’ll notice the less curly your hair is, the more likely you’ll notice the sun damage. You may have more split ends or your hair may just be really dry. A trip to the salon will do wonders for your hair. You should ask for a trim to get rid of any split ends and a hydrating masque for your hair to give your hair new life. If a trip to the salon is not within your budget there are some

masques that you can apply at home. As for a trim...hopefully your cousin is not too scissor happy.

Lighten Up Your FoundationYou ever notice that some people are

just not wearing the right color founda-tion? Sometimes it’s too dark; other times it’s too light. If you’re like me you used to think that some people were either color blind or borrowing the friend’s foundation. While these two scenarios may be true, it could also be that some people don’t real-ize that their skin gets lighter and darker when the seasons change.

In the summertime you’ll need a slightly darker foundation than you would in the wintertime since your skin generally gets darker in the summer and lightens up in the winter. I’d recommend using min-eral foundations since they’re less likely to leave that line under your chin and you can blend the colors. Mineral foundation also keep longer and is less likely to spoil.

Get a Little SoultryI love playing with colors and fall is a

great time to play with some new colors. This summer a lot of neon and light colors were so much fun, but now it’s time to get into some deeper and darker shades. I’m not saying channel Elvira here. Just some nice browns, purples, deep reds and orang-es. This applies to your eye shadows, nail colors and lipsticks. Hey, if you’re not into the dark, you can just do nude colors. It’s all good.

I hope these tips are helpful and you try at least one out. A new season is the perfect time to try something new.

Until next time, cheers to a better you!

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Ready or Not, It's FallI know you’ve seen them. People still wearing shorts, tank

tops or flip flops. Folks still going outside with no jacket on. It’s October. The summer is over. Let’s embrace the fall. I don’t know about you but I love fall fashion, colors, scarves and boots. Don’t get me wrong - I hate the cold, but what can I do? I just embrace it.

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was incredibly difficult for me to do.”Brown said it was shabby for Whit-

man not to offer at least initial help to the housekeeper, whom Whitman has described as being like a member of her extended family.

”When someone works with you, you do have familial bonds and ties, and I think

if that story is to be believed, I think Meg flunked the most fundamental test of all, and that is to treat people with respect and decency,” he told reporters in a post-debate news conference.

Whitman also is addressing allegations from the housekeeper's attorney that she and her husband, a Stanford neurosurgeon, should have suspected the worker's status because of a Social Security Administra-tion letter mailed to their home in 2003.

Gloria Allred, the housekeeper's attor-ney, is a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates. Whitman told reporters after the debate the controversy is a sideshow from the issues Californians want to focus on, such as jobs and education.

Brown and Whitman had several lengthy exchanges over high-profile immi-gration issues, including whether illegal immigrants already in the country should be able to seek citizenship and whether the government should crack down on employers who hire illegal workers. They also sparred over the DREAM Act, which would let U.S. high school graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children become legal residents after spending two years in college or the mili-tary.

”We need a better e-verify system, three strikes and you're out, you get fined, you lose your business license,” Whitman said about her belief that employers need to be targeted. ”If we do not hold employers accountable, we will never get our arms around this very challenging problem,”

Brown pounced. ”Ms. Whitman obviously didn't crack

down on herself,” he said. ”This is a ques-tion of talking out of both sides of her mouth.”

The candidates also faced a question about the DREAM Act from a woman who said she was a senior at the university and was an illegal immigrant. Without a path-way to citizenship, she won't be able to work legally after graduation, even though she was at the top of her class when she graduated from a California high school. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a state DREAM Act bill just days ago.

Brown said he would sign the law if it came to him as governor. Whitman opposes it.

”She wants to kick you out of the school because you are not documented, and that is wrong — morally and humanly,” he told the woman.

Whitman said California citizens should have first crack at California's overcrowd-ed colleges, which are under financial strain because of budget cuts.

”This is a very tough situation, but I don't think it's fair to the people who are here in California legally,” she said. ”I don't think we can carve out a group of illegal immigrants and get them a path to citizenship when we haven't sorted out control of our borders and getting our arms around illegal immigration.”

Whitman reiterated her opposition to a path to citizenship and tried to shift blame for immigration problems to the federal government, saying the first pri-ority should be securing the border with Mexico. Brown said he would treat all Californians equally ”as God's children.”

”You don't just bring in semi-serfs and say do our dirty work, and then we're finished with you like an orange and just throw it away. That's after you've squeezed it. That's not right,” he said.

Whitman said later that her messages of job creation and improving K-12 schools are resonating with Latino voters, and she'll continue to focus on that.

”Without jobs, there is no future. With-out keeping California's businesses here, there is no future,” she said. ”Every Latino family that I have run into says if we do not fix our education system there is no way forward, and so I am deeply commit-ted to education.”

a majority of the public are on our side.”The radio spot is playing in nine cities

across Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada and Texas. The markets were selected because they have significant Latino populations that could factor heav-ily in those state’s close elections.

Latinos could have the greatest impact in California, where they now make up roughly 20 percent of registered voters. Their rapidly growing turnout, which leapt 85 percent from 2000 to 2008, has helped nudge the state back toward the political left.

Brown, Whitman and The Latino VoteThey already are figuring heavily in

the pitched battle for California governor between Democratic nominee Jerry Brown and Republican nominee Meg Whitman. Most polling puts the race at a statistical tie or shows Brown, the state's attorney gen-eral and former governor, holding a narrow lead against Whitman, the former eBay chief executive and first-time candidate.

This week Whitman, who has vowed to crack down on businesses employing undocumented workers, has been hit with accusations that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.

Whitman has denied the claim, as well as allegations made by the former house-keeper that Whitman ”exploited ... and emotionally and financially abused” her.

Latinos favored Brown by 19 points in a Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll released Monday. Since nonwhites were evenly split between the two candidates, Brown's 5 percentage point advantage in the overall survey was owed to Latino supporters.

The SEUI plans to begin airing another Spanish-language ad in the Los Ange-

les and Fresno markets on Saturday that attacks Whitman over the housekeeper flap: ”Whitman attacks undocumented workers to win votes, but an undocument-ed woman worked in her home for nine years,” the narrator says. ”Whitman says one thing in Spanish and something differ-ent in English. ... The real Meg Whitman has no shame. She's a two-faced woman.”

Whitman denounced the ad at a press conference Thursday.

”I have been to Spanish communities ... Latino communities throughout this state and I have worked very hard to win the vote of Latinos,” she said. The Brown campaign and organized labor ”are ner-vous about it,” Whitman added. ”Their campaign is in trouble. They are worried. They took Latinos for granted.”

Indeed, Latinos don't appear deeply enthusiastic about Brown, according to the research group Latino Decisions, which conducted the oversampling of Latino vot-ers for the survey. The survey shows Brown with the support of 54 percent of Latino voters, compared with the 66 per-cent who favored California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is in the midst of a tough re-election campaign.

The Whitman campaign sees a chance to carve away some Latino support. Of the $38 million she has spent on TV advertis-ing, Whitman has put $4.5 million into Hispanic media, according to Evan Tracey, president of CMAG, an Arlington, Va., firm that tracks political advertising on television.

By comparison, Tracey says, Brown has made no ad buys with Latino media. That's where the SEIU has stepped in, announc-ing this week a $5 million effort to mobi-lize Latino voters for Brown.

The story was first published in NPR.org.

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Jan McDavid, an antitrust attorney who represents American Express in other mat-ters, said the government would have trouble proving that American Express had market power, essential to this case, because it had said the opposite in 1998 when it sued Visa and MasterCard in an antitrust case.

”Visa and MasterCard have 70 percent of the credit card market. If you think about debit cards, American Express's market share goes down even more,” said McDavid. ”I think Christine's got a tussle on her hands.”

Visa shares closed down 0.10 percent at $73.24, and MasterCard shares closed down 1 percent at $222.64. Investors attributed the declines to uncertainty about a law due to go into effect next year that will limit debit-card transaction fees

merchants pay both companies and their partner banks.

”Any time you can get a headwind like the DoJ lawsuit behind you that's a positive ... but I think the overriding issue right now is (still) the Durbin amendment” restricting debit fees, said Michael Nix, a portfolio manager at Greenwood Capital Associates, who owns Visa shares.

Visa said that as part of the settlement, it would allow merchants to offer discounts to consumers who use certain types of cards, such as non-rewards credit cards, which carry lower interchange fees.

Until this year, these fees have been relatively unregulated in the United States.

”Credit cards cost phenomenally more in the U.S. than abroad and the DOJ action will help open the market,” said David Balto, a former policy director at the Federal Trade Commission's competition office.

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ace. Haiti won its independence in 1804 following a violent slave revolt.

In another historic site reconstruction initiative, a well-known British architect, John McAslan, has been appointed to rebuild and restore Port-au-Prince's Iron Market, which was badly damaged by a 2008 fire and the January earthquake. Originally built in 1891, the market is a cultural, historic and architectural land-mark in the downtown area.

This restoration project is backed by Irish-owned mobile phone operator Digi-cel, the biggest foreign investor in Haiti.

The government also faces the huge task of rehousing some 1.3 million people

left homeless by the quake, who live in cramped tent and tarpaulin cities crammed into spaces across the city.

Six camp occupants were killed in a violent storm last week and aid workers say the quake survivors remain vulnerable to winds and floods in the remaining hur-ricane season months.

Bellerive told Reuters $10 billion would be needed to build decent housing for all of the homeless and destitute, and the cost of removing quake rubble alone would be $1.2 billion.

He said the $11 billion pledged by foreign donors for Haiti's rebuilding and development over the next decade would fall short of the overall needs, unless the crippled Caribbean state received a mas-sive injection of foreign investment.

medicine at Sheffield University, said, ”The only sadness is that Patrick Steptoe has not lived to see this day because it was always a joint team effort.”

The Nobel is not given posthumously. It was not immediately clear why it took so long to honor such groundbreaking research. Initially, there was concern about the health of test-tube babies, ”so it was, of course, very, very important that Louise Brown was healthy and that subsequent babies also were healthy,” prize committee member Christer Hoog said.

Despite the absence of Steptoe, commit-tee secretary Goran Hansson said Edwards ”deserves a Nobel Prize on his own”

because he made the fundamental discover-ies that made IVF therapy possible.

A statement from Bourn Hall in Cam-bridge, England, the world's first IVF clinic, which was founded by the two researchers, said Edwards was too ill to give interviews.

”I spoke to his wife, and she was delight-ed. And she was sure he would be delighted, too,” Hansson told reporters in Stockholm after announcing the $1.5 million (10 mil-lion kronor) award. Lori B. Andrews of the Chicago-Kent College of Law says making embryos in a lab created a host of ethical issues that have never been fully resolved.

The medicine award was the first of the 2010 Nobels to be announced. It will be followed by physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, the peace prize on Friday and economics on Monday Oct. 11.

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