Benedict XVI Sent Cardenal to Ivory Coast

Benedict XVI decided to send the Cardinal Peter Turkson Kodwo, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the Vatican, to Ivory Coast to work in the pacification of that country immersed in a bloody internal conflict.

This was announced by the Pope on Wednesday during a public hearing before thousands in St. Peter’s Square in which he called upon all stakeholders to make the necessary efforts ”for the urgent restoration of respect and peaceful coexistence”.

”For a long time, my thoughts turn often to the Ivorian population traumatized by painful internal strife and serious social and political tensions,” he said while addressing the crowd in French.

”While I express my closeness to all those who have lost a loved one and suffer violence, launched an urgent appeal to engage as soon as possible a process of constructive dialogue for the common good,” he said.

The pontiff called ”spare no effort” to end the conflict and said the decision to send the Cardinal Turkson is intended to show solidarity with the victims of the conflict and promoting reconciliation and peace.  Since last November the Ivory Coast is experiencing a political and social crisis that has led to violence between opposing factions: the followers of Alassane Ouattara, recognized by the international community as president-elect, and the minions of the regime of outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo, who did not want to leave power.

The earthquake that shook Japan on Friday will be one of the most expensive in history in terms of insured property: at least 25 billion dollars, without counting the tsunami, according to estimates from insurers.

The Insurance Information Institute (III) from USA Today reported that the average of the calculations made so far by companies and agencies on the cost of the earthquake on Friday for two thousand more than $ 500 million cost of the earthquake in 1994 Northridge (EU), which measured in today’s dollars is 22 thousand 500 million. In the 25 billion does not include the costs of the devastating tsunami earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale occurred in Japan on March 11.  Moreover, the costs associated with the death of people continue to rise, warns the organization, which mentions that the final figure will approach 100 billion dollars according to the company Eqecat.

The insurance industry will have a major role in what he has to do with “the help of a financial nature to provide the necessary resources Japan” for recovery, as happened in the earthquakes of New Zealand (2011) and Chile ( 2010), said in a statement the economist Robert Hartwig, president of the III. Hartwig noted that four of the five most costly earthquakes and tsunamis in history have occurred in the past thirteen months.

“The Japanese insurance sector is very large property, the third largest worldwide after the United States and Germany, with 107 billion dollars in policies issued in 2009,” he said. This means that much of the losses is the responsibility of companies of that country, rather than in the case of earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand.

The former president of Nicaragua Arnoldo Aleman (1997-2002) signed with the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) his candidacy for the elections on November 6 by the alliance that leads the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC).

Amid cries as “Arnold Friend, the people are with you” and “we won, we won,” German was registered as a presidential candidate with the MP and former Foreign Minister Francisco Aguirre Sacasa as the candidate for vice president. The entry of German, 65, and Aguirre Sacasa, 66, was made by the legal representative of the Alliance PLC, which includes the Conservative Party (PC), the legislator Jorge Castillo Quant, chairman of the liberal group.

Before the official ceremony, the German-Aguirre Sacasa formula marched with supporters and allies to the edge of the seat of CSE holding a red blanket, the color of the liberal banner with the legend “not for re-election,” referring to incumbent’s candidacy, the Sandinista Daniel Ortega.

Germany called on Nicaraguans to “not waste a vote” in the upcoming election and asked to vote for their alliance, he said represents the “real opposition” of Nicaragua. Several German politicians accuse sectors to keep a secret pact with Ortega, who would both share the institutions.

German was definitively dismissed two years ago sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraud and other corruption charges issued in 2003. That decision coincided with the election of officers of the Legislature, controlled by the Sandinistas to the votes of the PLC, the group of German. However, the U.S. has suspended visa to the former head of state since November 2002. Meanwhile, the countries of the Schengen area (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden) German banned in May 2006, enter to their countries for 10 years.

The Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since 2004, will return home in the next “24 or 48 hours,” he said today in Port-au-Prince a leader of the Lavalas Family party.  The coordinator of the committee of permanent mobilization of Family Lavalas, Felix Ansyto, said the “imminent” arrival of exmandatario to his country and said the Haitian grassroots groups are “prepared with joy” upon arrival.

Ansyto, who declined to give details on the matter, confirmed that the Lavalas made contact address on Wednesday morning and confirmed that Aristide was still in South Africa.  A source close to Lavalas consulted on condition of anonymity said that the Haitian would exgobernante morning from Cape Town on a flight will stop in Moscow and Havana, before landing in Port-au-Prince.

The official spokesman for Aristide in Haiti, Maryse Narcisse, told local media that the training will convene rallies in all districts of the capital to receive the exmandatario.  In fact, several Lavalas leaders have called on the inhabitants of the popular sectors of the capital to clean debris in order to provide a welcome “warm and cheerful” to Aristide.

For several days, employees work in the renovation of the house of Aristide in Port-au-Prince, embellished with dozens of Haitian flags.

The Haitian president was ousted in 2004 by an armed revolt that led him into exile in South Africa, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. His return to Haiti before the runoff election next Sunday has been challenged by the U.S. government, which considers his return as a threat to the stability of the country as well as their presence could influence the outcome of voting.

The South African government, however, has said it will not prevent the departure of former Haitian.

Drink 8 glasses of water a day is recommended for those who have a routine activity. But now, many people who did white-water therapy, but the wrong way. Instead of hoping to make healthy body, but the effect is hazardous for health.

“Many people misunderstand, they do water therapy, but by consuming 2 liters at a time during waking. This is dangerous for heart and kidney health, “said Specialist when he talked in the National Campaign shows Danone, ‘Start Living Healthy From Now’ at the XXI Ballroom, Wednesday (03/16/2011).

Supposedly, the efficacy may be more pronounced white water can be consumed gradually, not excessive or all at once. Samuel explained that excessive water consumption is not beneficial to the body but actually harmful.  Water consumed will be absorbed into the digestive tract and into the blood vessels which can lead to blood volume be increased. This can overload the heart and kidneys. The heart as if urged to pump blood, while kidney urged to discharge faster.

“This could interfere with heart function and kidney. Do not drink too much at once, because water is easily absorbed. If every day this is done, can burden the heart and kidneys and causes the body part is easily ‘broken’, “explained Samuel.

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U.S. stocks fell to a minimum of six weeks, as investors worried about the consequences of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and expected more volatility for the next few days. A second hydrogen explosion shook a second nuclear reactor in Japan, at a time when the authorities seek to prevent a core melt in the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 kilometers from Tokyo.

“The market is clearly focused on Japan,” said Peter Kenny, general manager at Knight Equity Markets. “It’s the horror of the death toll and secondly what it means for global demand,” said Kenny.

The crisis in Japan’s nuclear plants has created doubts about the growth prospects of the sector. Among the companies affected were those with exposure to Japan and the nuclear industry. Shares of General Electric, which has a nuclear partnership with Hitachi Ltd, fell two per cent to 19.93 dollars. The exhibition in Japan insurers lost ground. Shares of insurer Aflac fell from 2.8 percent to $ 54, while those of AIG lost of 1.2 percent to 36.90 dollars. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.95 percent at 11,929.55 units. The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost a 1.18 per cent to 1288.87 units. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 1.16 percent to 2684.09 units.

Japanese shares fell 6.2 percent as investors predicted that the disaster affected the economy. Japanese shares traded in New York also declined. Shares of Toyota Motor, which said it would suspend production at all its car plants in Japan, fell from 5.3 percent to 81.41 dollars. The MSCI index traded funds in Japan fell from 6.9 percent.

The Argentine striker Cesar “Chelito” Delgado, who plays for Olympique Lyon, is confident that the French box to remove from the Champions League to Real Madrid.

“We can eliminate the Madrid again. It will be difficult because we have a team across town, with all that it means the club,” said the former player of Cruz Azul of Mexico.  On Wednesday, the Lyon visit the Bernabeu Stadium in what will be the battle of “return” of the Champions League in the second round after a 1-1 draw in the “round”, to this the “Chelito” urged his fellow to enjoy the match against the “merengues”.

“You have to enjoy it because we do not know when we will return to play that game and in a stadium like the Bernabeu,” said Catalan Mundo Deportivo newspaper added that the key to success will play the same way as was done in the first shock.

“We have to play with the intensity with which we did in the first part in Gerland (Lyon’s stadium). It is important that we press, we run as ever to try that they can not play,” he said.  Cesar Delgado already had the experience to eliminate those with Lyon Real Madrid in the last issue which undoubtedly hopes to repeat with the reason that there is little change in the current squad “meringues”, but what matters is that now at the helm the Portuguese Jose Mourinho.

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The space shuttle Discovery ended its life as the spacecraft that has flown, when he returned from orbit last. Now become a museum piece.  After a successful trip to the International Space Station (ISS), the oldest ship that remained in circulation NASA landed in Florida.

“A ship that has led the way again and again we say goodbye Discovery,” said mission control commentator, Josh Byerly.  The six astronauts on board reviewed the log landing with the bittersweet feeling that no one ever again would get on the Discovery after spending more than a week in orbit.  Shuttle flights totaling 238 million miles and 365 days in space. Their missions are 39, a record.  NASA estimates it will take several months of work disarm before you are ready to be taken to the Smithsonian Institute. Make a journey of a thousand 206 kilometers on a jumbo jet.

The program’s 30 years of NASA started in 1981 with the launch of Columbia, followed by the Challenger in 1982, Discovery in 1984, Atlantis in 1985 and later the Endeavour in 1991.  The Challenger and Columbia accidents were written two of the black pages in the history of NASA.

In the new era of U.S. space agency will pass to another phase of space exploration beyond the space station with bold expeditions to asteroids and to the mysterious planet Mars aboard a new generation that is designed today.  Meanwhile NASA will have the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to the ISS, but eventually hopes to buy cheap commercial companies such as Space Exploration Technologies and Orbital Sciences Corp.

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, today insisted his proposal to create a peaceful international commission to help resolve the internal conflict in Libya, an initiative already approved by Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.  After alluding to the “misinformation” of what actually happens in this North African country and “principles condemn any abuse, abuse against any human being anywhere in the world, any slaughter, any excessive use of force against a people, “Chavez said Gadhafi ordered doubt that doing so against his people,” peaceful and unarmed. “

“We have to clarify it,” he said in support of their disbelief and then remembered that he was accused “falsely” to have ordered to shoot unarmed demonstrators when he was ousted for two days in April 2002.

“I delivered the coup to prevent a slaughter,” he said on the civic-military uprising that managed to remove him from the presidential palace on April 11 that year, a fact attributed to USA.

“The strategy has revived imperial” now “in their despair is and will continue to threaten peoples struggling for their dignity”, and not just threatening, “but also plotting, and we must denounce it,” Chavez said in a televised address mandatory national chain of radio and television students.

Chavez recalled that late last month proposed the creation of such a peace commission to go to Libya, “but no more bombs,” but to resume oil nation that “the path of peace with respect for their determination.”

“If the Yankees (Americans) commit the folly of invading Libya unleash a new Vietnam” and the price of a barrel of oil “could reach 200 dollars,” he said.

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King Mohammed VI presided today at the Royal Palace in Rabat the ceremony of establishment of the advisory committee will be responsible for the Moroccan constitutional reform, consisting of nineteen people and whose president is Abdelatif Menuni. Most committee members have belonged to human rights official bodies such as Driss El Yazami, president of the National Council for Human Rights (CCHR) and former member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (which investigated the so-called “years lead “in the monarchies of Mohamed V and Hassan II).

In addition, part of the commission Herzeni Ahmed, former president of CCHR, and Albert Sason, who was a member of the council as well as former Moroccan ambassador to Madrid, Omar Azziman, who chaired the Advisory Committee on Regionalization (CCR) in Morocco.  Leading academic figures have also been elected to the team of experts, political scientists and Mohamed Abdellah Saaf and sociologist Mohamed Tozy Berduzi.

The monarch gave a speech Alawi this occasion, which asked the commission to “listen and talk to all the instances and skilled players, without exception, and to carry out a creative effort to propose a organizational paradigm necessary.”  According to the agency MAP, in his speech the monarch underlined the importance it attaches to “the participation of political parties in the optimal configuration and implementation of constitutional governance.”

“The Moroccan people still have the first and last word on this draft constitution, which directly expressed through a free and fair referendum,” said Mohamed VI.  He also assured that “our common goal is simply to lead Morocco to a new constitutional and democratic consolidation within which the rule of law and institutions, citizenship, dignity, unity and sovereignty.”

Expected changes in the fundamental law include, among others, the upgrading of the prime minister as “president of an executive of cash,” expand the powers of Parliament or make justice an independent power.