CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.
During one of Chavez's customary lectures on the "curse" of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM's bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might.
"Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right," Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.
During a decade in government, Chavez has nationalized most of Venezuela's key economic sectors, including multibillion dollar oil projects, often via joint ventures with the private sector that give the state a 60 percent controlling stake.
Obama has vowed to quickly sell off General Motors once the auto giant is back on its feet, but the government will initially control the company after a $30 billion injection of taxpayer funds.
Chavez, a vehement critic of the U.S. "empire," has toned down his rhetoric since Obama took office in January and the two men shook hands during a summit in Trinidad and Tobago in April.
(Reporting by Enrique Andres Pretel; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel, Editing by Jackie Frank)
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2009/05/19
Juninho "wants to stay"
Juninho's departure would coincide with its interests. This would allow a competitor to have less to get a place in midfield. Ederson but is not one to think only to him. "I hope that June will be one or two seasons, said contrary to the Brazilian Tuesday. This is a player who brings a lot on and off the court. “Last week, Juninho had confided that "some of the actual players, not much" ask him every day to stay. Ederson in part. "He often asked, confirms there. We will do everything with Cris for it. With others. It was going to try to find arguments. “
A priori - that is the version of Ederson - Captain Lyons has said nothing to its partners in the locker room. And nobody wants to decide on a chance to see him continue his adventure rhodanienne a season more. "But I sense in him a lot of desire to stay, to share and yet live moments in football. "
"It's normal, it is a phenomenon! "
Meanwhile, quite a few signs suggest that Juninho will compete Saturday against Caen's last match in France. Including the fact that he removed his jersey after his winning kick in Marseilles when he knew that he was under suspension when new warning. "It was not planned, ensures Ederson. There was so much joy to be home and then returned to score in the 90th minute that did not think about the consequences. It was not calculated. "
About calculations, they are simple: if they leave, there is a match for Juninho to reach the 100 goals with the OL. Ederson feels ready to help. "If it is well placed, we'll give him the ball with pleasure. After that, if a free kick, we all know that for him. This is normal, it is a phenomenon! "
A priori - that is the version of Ederson - Captain Lyons has said nothing to its partners in the locker room. And nobody wants to decide on a chance to see him continue his adventure rhodanienne a season more. "But I sense in him a lot of desire to stay, to share and yet live moments in football. "
"It's normal, it is a phenomenon! "
Meanwhile, quite a few signs suggest that Juninho will compete Saturday against Caen's last match in France. Including the fact that he removed his jersey after his winning kick in Marseilles when he knew that he was under suspension when new warning. "It was not planned, ensures Ederson. There was so much joy to be home and then returned to score in the 90th minute that did not think about the consequences. It was not calculated. "
About calculations, they are simple: if they leave, there is a match for Juninho to reach the 100 goals with the OL. Ederson feels ready to help. "If it is well placed, we'll give him the ball with pleasure. After that, if a free kick, we all know that for him. This is normal, it is a phenomenon! "
For FCN, it will be hot in Sochaux

“Barely cleared, while the club is already planning on the appointment capital Saturday at Sochaux.”This game is what will determine everything," says Frederic Da Rocha. Hope to save his place in L1, Nantes (19th, 34 points) has to prevail with his rival doubiste (18th, 36 points). If a tie is not necessarily fatal, it seriously jeopardize the chances Nantes.
The task looks tough for Canaris: "Sochaux is a very good team at home, stressed Da Rocha. They have a good attack, but they also collect a lot of goals. However, it's a time we did not point out ... "The pressure will be high on Saturday. Overwhelming. "It's a match cut, but worse, says Yoann Poulard. When one is eliminated by cutting, it is not serious; the club continues to live well. But this meeting will change everything for the club, for players and employees. “
Elie Baup will look throughout the week, his group to prepare for this event. Yesterday, the coach nantais served his players a healthy dose of video. The rest of the week will be more focused on the game "We are trying to focus attention on the ground rather than the issue itself," he says. To circumvent it, we must concentrate on everything that makes a game. "History not sees the Nantes team to miss the meeting, as it often does after a good performance.”We are accustomed to the Scottish shower, fun Baup. Saturday, the requirement will be 100% of our opportunities, our commitment. Then, what may happen.
Fabio Cannavaro says goodbye to Real he will be back in the jersey of Juventus next season

After three seasons in the Spanish capital, punctuated by two championship titles, the Italian veteran Fabio Cannavaro has decided it will return to Juventus of Turin rather than Napoli. At 35 years, he preferred to engage with the team he left on the brink of collapse three years ago rather than his club trainer. Napoli is because it appears in 1993. The Club of Naples is nevertheless the most dominant club it was when Diego Maradona was the leader and his struggle for survival in Serie A. After a full season, he moved to Parma for a level crossing in 1995. It was there that he literally explodes, forming a hinge redoutable alongside some of Lilian Thuram. It was also during this period that he won his first trophy since pocketing two cups of Italy (1999 and 20002), a UEFA Cup (1999) and an Italian Supercup (2000). In addition to these years in club annals, he also won his first team selections from Italy, and reached the final of Euro 2000 with the latter. Having been round the club in the Parmesan, a club he joined Major Soccer in 2002, Inter. But the experience turns Milanese court. Faced with competition, it does a fifty matches in two years and was transferred to Juventus in Turin in 2004. Where an old lady waiting Lilian Thuram and Gigi Buffon, his former acolytes of Parma.
The dedication and years Real
During two seasons, these three players are reforming one of the strongest defenses of Calcio, and "Il nuovo muro di Berlino" accumulate personal rewards being Oscar nominated for best defender in 2005, the best Italian player and best defender in Italy 2006. He also won the Scudetto with Juventus in 2005-2006, but the title is withdrawn due to the Turin club's involvement in match-fixing affair. While the fate of the latter is placed under advisement, the oldest of the brothers Cannavaro (youngest son Paolo defender also played at Napoli) flies to Germany to compete in the World Cup in 2006. He won the trophy and the title of second best player behind Zidane tournament. It is in an old lady relegated to Serie B he left a few days later for Real Madrid, to the dismay of fans. Included in a package with teammate Emerson for € 20M, he moved to central defense. After difficult beginnings, his dual Golden Ball award-FIFA Player of the year gives confidence and find his best level. Waltz partners at the heart of the hinge (Helguera, Metzelder, Heinze, Pepe) does not disturb and it is one of the men of the two titles won by Real during his three years of transition in the Spanish capital . The only shadow over this period: its non-participation in Euro 2008 because of an injury.
What home in Turin?
Fabio Cannavaro has decided to close the loop back to a club where supporters have not yet forgiven for abandoning the team at the darkest moment in its history. But he that will stabilize a defense lack of leadership and will provide advice to his young teammate Giorgio Chiellini selection is optimistic and is confident he will be forgiven his departure: "I am very happy to be back, but am a little sad that some fans welcomed me with grievances and forget the glorious seasons lived together. But I think I could convince even the most skeptical about the work, professionalism and passion with which I approach this new adventure, "said internationally to 124 selections on its official website. Alessio Secco has also spoken on behalf of Juve on the website of the Old Lady, referring in particular on the reasons for the departure of Cannavaro in 2006: "Fabio is world champions, a winner of the Ballon d'Or and a great competitor. We had to sell at that time because we had financial problems. We did not hesitate one second to be signed when we knew he was free because we are confident that his talents will allow us to make the Juve more competitive. " Words that should soften somewhat supporters, once again deprived of title. But it is indeed on the meadow that Fabio Cannavaro will find its salvation in the eyes of the tifosi.
FC Lorient Alain Le Roch: The club is not for sale
While circulating the names of supposed candidates for the takeover of Manchester City, including that of Michel Lafont, who heads the media group "Entrepreneurship", the club president Alain Le Roch, reached by phone last night, was keen to refute any sale procedure of FC Lorient, simply expressing his desire already posted several months ago to strengthen the financial base of the club. "I am concerned about the future, I do not intend to sell my shares. Lead is to plan, I'm in this logic there. I met Mr. Lafont, as I met many other people. He did make any proposal. There is no project, no protocol is signed. The club is not for sale, as I can read it. I am in the process of financial restructuring. "The President of FC Lorient, who never hid want to gradually withdraw once the financial sustainability of the club will be assured, maintains the logic of a capital increase with the arrival of new shareholders to allow the club to continue its development. A development which is not, as the majority shareholder of the club, prompted by any emergency. "There is no hurry, it can be done in eight days as in three years."
Fortunately there was Kobe

Kobe Bryant took a nasty thorn in the Lakers up by leading his side in Denver during Game 1 of the Conference finals in the West (105-103). The Nuggets may be wanting.
The status of favorite Lakers in the West had already been severely shaken by the Rockets in the previous round. The Nuggets have confirmed at the first match of the finals of the Conference that Phil Jackson men were "prenables. If Denver is left the Staples Center Wednesday with a defeat, it has been very little. Primarily from a lack of control in the money-time. Because until then, everything had worked on casters.
Melo to go
Eager to do battle, while the Lakers were still on the floor Sunday to defeat Houston teammates Carmelo Anthony to start strong (14-27) with 16 points Melo in the first quarter. "We are not returned to the game with good energy, guys éraient a little tired," confided after Kobe Bryant. Not in their plate, Californians recovering in the saddle with their knives seconds (VUJACIC, Brown, Farmar, Walton) and viraient leading at the break on a three-point buzzer to Fisher (55-54). Dominated by nine points in the second quarter (32-23), the Nuggets get back into the heels of Anthony (39 points in 14/20) to take 7 steps up to 7'28 to the end (82-89 ). Nene (14 points) and Andersen (8 points) neutralizing Gasol (13 points, 14 rebounds) and Bynum (6 points) in the racket, the Lakers were on the exploits of KB24 (18 points in the last quarter) and address found the best time Ariza (6 points) and Fisher (13 points).
Bryant in the money-time
Three points, two local players allowed to stay in the game while Bryant was responsible for French-throws (12/13). This is where the decision was made. Anthony entered its final points with 3'25 of the term (92-96), and Los Angeles took the hands on a Fisher three points (97-96). Billups (18 points, 8 assists) returned fire but winning crucial Gasol and Bryant did not shake on the line (103-99). Billups, too, maintained the suspense on a new three lectures to 6 seconds of the siren (103-102) but Bryant (6 points in the last 30 seconds) finished work for shots (40 points, 13/28) and by capturing the rebound on the last shoot raté Smith (105-103). "It'sa good victory, an important victory. As I told the guys, it's a different set. It was put in the disk by starting slowly. I told them to forget this is a different set, "Kobe repeated, the man of the match. Next meeting on the night of Thursday to Friday, always at Staples Center.
2009/05/17
Aubry called for "effective vote"
Three weeks of European elections, Martine Aubry was presented yesterday as "proposing the number one" by calling "effective vote" in favor of the Socialists. The first secretary of the Socialist Party began the campaign with the slogan "vote of censure" against Nicolas Sarkozy, then the "useful vote". This change of foot at a time when the president of MoDem, François Bayrou, is described as "opposition leader", and sees its European lists to third, with 13-13,5% of voting intentions. At the same time, the lists PS stagnated around 21-22%, while those of the UMP caracolent lead to 27-28%. For Martine Aubry, invited to the Grand rendez-vous Europe 1-Le Parisien, nothing serious. It is a "normal low flow" for the Socialist Party when it is "in form". The PS had obtained 23.5% of the vote in 1981 and 21.9% in 1999. For Martine Aubry, François Bayrou criticizing "being the voice of concern is not enough (...) must propose". This will be done today with the PS expected to detail its plans.
Ségolène Royal is the place she wants
Martine Aubry has also tried to minimize his differences with Ségolène Royal, who "will be the place it wants" the Socialist Party. But his call to "vote effective" has already been rejected by Olivier Besancenot. "They're cute, it's been since 1992 that we are doing the same song (...) They were to a social Europe, they have not done," said the spokesperson of the NPA on Canal +. As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of the Left Party, he again found it "completely unnecessary to vote PS" for "a Europe of the left".
Ségolène Royal is the place she wants
Martine Aubry has also tried to minimize his differences with Ségolène Royal, who "will be the place it wants" the Socialist Party. But his call to "vote effective" has already been rejected by Olivier Besancenot. "They're cute, it's been since 1992 that we are doing the same song (...) They were to a social Europe, they have not done," said the spokesperson of the NPA on Canal +. As for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, founder of the Left Party, he again found it "completely unnecessary to vote PS" for "a Europe of the left".
lessons from a very long crisis
After fifteen weeks, the protest movement in higher education is being breathlessness. None of the major players experiencing this conflict can not claim victory. On the contrary, all emerge weakened.
Memory university had not seen it for forty years. The protest movement on campus is now in its sixteenth week. It is apparently on a downslope: Most classes have resumed, the processions are sparse, and the unions' traditional 'calls have reduced their days scrolling to cross. Student organizations are now received by the department. The challenge is far from extinguished: 6 universities are still totally blocked, leaving 60,000 students perspectives examinations, and the lowest still protest calls to extend the arm, bitten by the keen discourse strengthened government . Whatever the outcome of the crisis, and its period, the balance of this movement will be very bright indeed for its players.
Students pay the bill
Students are the big losers in this movement they have not started, not controlled, and in which they have not won much. The second academic semester has been disrupted - to varying degrees - to a fifty campus (over 85). Apart from the 6 facs still blocked, most universities have tried to limit the damage from April through remedial courses (evening, weekend, online ...) and rearranging their year-end exams (new events, calendar ...). décalé But the anxiety still persists among students, especially as the strike has often hit the areas where academic achievement is the most random: early years, social studies ... In the latter disciplines, the picture is mixed. The students, many of which are for the teachers, can boast of having obtained gestures on the reform of teacher training (maintenance of a competitive recruitment and identical bac + 4 in 2010). But the rise of speech against the "privatization" of facs may leave traces in a sequence which is struggling to become more professional and that employers are unfamiliar. The question persists as to the value of diplomas "atypical" of the 2009 vintage.
The government saves appearances
If the government insists that these days "it will not return to the Autonomy Act," is that it would like to forget the concessions made on the major points presented as a few months ago. The decree on the status of faculty, although published in the "OJ", was emptied of its substance at its rewriting, and made some gestures will have a budgetary impact. Those on the mastering will save fewer jobs than expected (8,000 maximum) to the 2010 budget (which could include 18,000 job cuts in education). Moreover, the government promised not to delete posts in 2010 and 2011 in universities. Neither Xavier Darcos Valérie Pécresse or leaves defeated in this battle. In addition to his primary victory in the UMP in the Ile-de-France, Minister of Higher Education has shown a real political clout. However, some within the majority, accuse him of having too watered down his project and, in essence, failing to lead the "major reform" of the universities to which the Government had released so many ways.
Today, it has squandered the strong credit available to it in the academic world. Allowing each other, it acknowledged for the first time Friday that "a heavy boat for reform" had "crystallized the concerns" while maintaining that one could not "wait for reform." One observer notes that it "has lost the monopoly of speech on University Reform." In an article published Friday in Le Monde, thirty scholars, sensitivity of the left have for the first time in years, made proposals to "re-founding the university."
The university can not claim victory
After mobilization of qualified historic bitterness persists among some academics, who feel that they have obtained thin victories. Yet they have succeeded on several topics: the service module can be imposed on them against their will (even though some fear that presidents to do so even when forced), the assessment will be peer reform of teacher training will occur in 2011. But "the way the Government has not allowed trade unions to present them as victories," says the boss of the CPU, Lionel Collet. The university brought the movement started by a rare consensus in the profession, skilled communicators, have toiled fast enough to define strategies. The unions were divided, both in their demands on the modalities of action: the more moderate (CFDT, Unsa ...) rewrote the text but failed to stop the movement and SNESUP inescapable but torn internally has not shown a clear position, leaving the field open to his left, collectives (SLU, SLR ...). Finally, and jeopardize the holding of the examinations by their strikes renewable (not in education, where each day of strike is charged and collected since 2003), faculty have damaged their image among the public.
The presidents must pick up the pieces
Embarrassed, sometimes divided between them, the university presidents have appeared tack during the conflict between the desire to defend the LRU (which gives them more power), the denunciation of the 900 job cuts in 2009 budget, and will to maintain calm within their campuses. For many, this is bittersweet, however: some of the work of reclaiming their image, which had been made in recent years from companies, students and abroad on the merits, is to resume . Especially in the strongholds of the dispute, which may lose staff at the beginning of next.
Memory university had not seen it for forty years. The protest movement on campus is now in its sixteenth week. It is apparently on a downslope: Most classes have resumed, the processions are sparse, and the unions' traditional 'calls have reduced their days scrolling to cross. Student organizations are now received by the department. The challenge is far from extinguished: 6 universities are still totally blocked, leaving 60,000 students perspectives examinations, and the lowest still protest calls to extend the arm, bitten by the keen discourse strengthened government . Whatever the outcome of the crisis, and its period, the balance of this movement will be very bright indeed for its players.
Students pay the bill
Students are the big losers in this movement they have not started, not controlled, and in which they have not won much. The second academic semester has been disrupted - to varying degrees - to a fifty campus (over 85). Apart from the 6 facs still blocked, most universities have tried to limit the damage from April through remedial courses (evening, weekend, online ...) and rearranging their year-end exams (new events, calendar ...). décalé But the anxiety still persists among students, especially as the strike has often hit the areas where academic achievement is the most random: early years, social studies ... In the latter disciplines, the picture is mixed. The students, many of which are for the teachers, can boast of having obtained gestures on the reform of teacher training (maintenance of a competitive recruitment and identical bac + 4 in 2010). But the rise of speech against the "privatization" of facs may leave traces in a sequence which is struggling to become more professional and that employers are unfamiliar. The question persists as to the value of diplomas "atypical" of the 2009 vintage.
The government saves appearances
If the government insists that these days "it will not return to the Autonomy Act," is that it would like to forget the concessions made on the major points presented as a few months ago. The decree on the status of faculty, although published in the "OJ", was emptied of its substance at its rewriting, and made some gestures will have a budgetary impact. Those on the mastering will save fewer jobs than expected (8,000 maximum) to the 2010 budget (which could include 18,000 job cuts in education). Moreover, the government promised not to delete posts in 2010 and 2011 in universities. Neither Xavier Darcos Valérie Pécresse or leaves defeated in this battle. In addition to his primary victory in the UMP in the Ile-de-France, Minister of Higher Education has shown a real political clout. However, some within the majority, accuse him of having too watered down his project and, in essence, failing to lead the "major reform" of the universities to which the Government had released so many ways.
Today, it has squandered the strong credit available to it in the academic world. Allowing each other, it acknowledged for the first time Friday that "a heavy boat for reform" had "crystallized the concerns" while maintaining that one could not "wait for reform." One observer notes that it "has lost the monopoly of speech on University Reform." In an article published Friday in Le Monde, thirty scholars, sensitivity of the left have for the first time in years, made proposals to "re-founding the university."
The university can not claim victory
After mobilization of qualified historic bitterness persists among some academics, who feel that they have obtained thin victories. Yet they have succeeded on several topics: the service module can be imposed on them against their will (even though some fear that presidents to do so even when forced), the assessment will be peer reform of teacher training will occur in 2011. But "the way the Government has not allowed trade unions to present them as victories," says the boss of the CPU, Lionel Collet. The university brought the movement started by a rare consensus in the profession, skilled communicators, have toiled fast enough to define strategies. The unions were divided, both in their demands on the modalities of action: the more moderate (CFDT, Unsa ...) rewrote the text but failed to stop the movement and SNESUP inescapable but torn internally has not shown a clear position, leaving the field open to his left, collectives (SLU, SLR ...). Finally, and jeopardize the holding of the examinations by their strikes renewable (not in education, where each day of strike is charged and collected since 2003), faculty have damaged their image among the public.
The presidents must pick up the pieces
Embarrassed, sometimes divided between them, the university presidents have appeared tack during the conflict between the desire to defend the LRU (which gives them more power), the denunciation of the 900 job cuts in 2009 budget, and will to maintain calm within their campuses. For many, this is bittersweet, however: some of the work of reclaiming their image, which had been made in recent years from companies, students and abroad on the merits, is to resume . Especially in the strongholds of the dispute, which may lose staff at the beginning of next.
2009/05/14
Swine influenza redistributes the cards in the world market for pig
PARIS - The swine flu epidemic has prompted major consumer of pork such as China and Russia to limit their imports, which penalizes Canadian and U.S. producers, but could make the European game.
China, Russia as well as Thailand, Indonesia, Ukraine, Ecuador and Croatia have limited their imports of pork from Mexico and parts of the United States and Canada, at the onset of the epidemic.
The meat market in the world exceeds 60 billion dollars per year and the pig meat consumed in the world, representing 38% of production.
China has suffered much criticism after the avian flu and it was now an abundance of caution because the government does not want to be accused of not having learned lessons, "says Andrew Cookson, the consulting firm in the food gira.
The Russians themselves, "using all excuses to refuse imports of products much cheaper than they can produce," he adds.
In these conditions, "the health argument is an easy", are on their side experts Cyclops, in their annual report on raw materials published Tuesday.
"It is enough to send any veterinary inspection at a supplier abroad to discover a suspicion inevitably Health: trichina in pork french, salmonella in poultry and now American swine flu.
Russia is a "specialist" in the "health protection", noted experts Cyclops, a situation made all the more easily possible that Russia is not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and may restrictive measures to be taken without risk of reprisals
For China, a WTO member, is another story. Canada has threatened early May to file a complaint with the WTO if it does not lifted its embargo on imports of pork.
"WTO members are allowed to restrict imports to protect public health" but "it is necessary that the measures are temporary and scientifically justified", said a source close to the organization.
The scientific argument takes hard because the World Health Organization (WHO) said in late April that "influenza viruses are not known to be transmitted to humans by eating pork."
Mexico, he came to the rostrum of the WTO to seek an explanation from its 153 member countries.
Because the loss to producers is huge.
"The U.S. pork producers estimate their losses at $ 2 billion per day," notes Jean-Paul Simier, director of agriculture to the Regional Council of Brittany and expert report for the Cyclops.
A situation that could play into the hands of European producers.
"As Americans have lost the market, Europeans have won a few" says Andrew Cookson. Russia and China, respectively 2nd and 3rd world importer, can not happen "on the foreign meat," he adds.
Europe should therefore cross the calm in the health crisis, especially as analysts have noted no decrease in the price of pork in early May, in the heart of the storm.
"After the mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, European consumers are shielded," says Andrew Cookson.
And especially for pork as "2 / 3 of the pig are processed so the consumer loses the direct link with the beast," he says.
China, Russia as well as Thailand, Indonesia, Ukraine, Ecuador and Croatia have limited their imports of pork from Mexico and parts of the United States and Canada, at the onset of the epidemic.
The meat market in the world exceeds 60 billion dollars per year and the pig meat consumed in the world, representing 38% of production.
China has suffered much criticism after the avian flu and it was now an abundance of caution because the government does not want to be accused of not having learned lessons, "says Andrew Cookson, the consulting firm in the food gira.
The Russians themselves, "using all excuses to refuse imports of products much cheaper than they can produce," he adds.
In these conditions, "the health argument is an easy", are on their side experts Cyclops, in their annual report on raw materials published Tuesday.
"It is enough to send any veterinary inspection at a supplier abroad to discover a suspicion inevitably Health: trichina in pork french, salmonella in poultry and now American swine flu.
Russia is a "specialist" in the "health protection", noted experts Cyclops, a situation made all the more easily possible that Russia is not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and may restrictive measures to be taken without risk of reprisals
For China, a WTO member, is another story. Canada has threatened early May to file a complaint with the WTO if it does not lifted its embargo on imports of pork.
"WTO members are allowed to restrict imports to protect public health" but "it is necessary that the measures are temporary and scientifically justified", said a source close to the organization.
The scientific argument takes hard because the World Health Organization (WHO) said in late April that "influenza viruses are not known to be transmitted to humans by eating pork."
Mexico, he came to the rostrum of the WTO to seek an explanation from its 153 member countries.
Because the loss to producers is huge.
"The U.S. pork producers estimate their losses at $ 2 billion per day," notes Jean-Paul Simier, director of agriculture to the Regional Council of Brittany and expert report for the Cyclops.
A situation that could play into the hands of European producers.
"As Americans have lost the market, Europeans have won a few" says Andrew Cookson. Russia and China, respectively 2nd and 3rd world importer, can not happen "on the foreign meat," he adds.
Europe should therefore cross the calm in the health crisis, especially as analysts have noted no decrease in the price of pork in early May, in the heart of the storm.
"After the mad cow disease, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, European consumers are shielded," says Andrew Cookson.
And especially for pork as "2 / 3 of the pig are processed so the consumer loses the direct link with the beast," he says.
Vaccine against swine influenza: WHO needs more time
The World Health Organization (WHO) needs more time to decide whether to produce a vaccine against the new influenza A (H1N1) of porcine origin, said Thursday number two of the organization.
"It is not possible to tell when we make a decision, it is a painstaking and difficult process," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda at a press conference after a meeting experts.
WHO had convened a conference call Thursday for manufacturers of vaccines and medical experts to study the possible launch of the mass production of a vaccine against influenza A (H1N1).
The latter should also consult on how best to produce the vaccine, either by integrating the North American strain of the virus in the vaccine for seasonal influenza or making a separate vaccine against the pandemic.
Mr. Fukuda said that further meetings on the subject were planned, without giving a date.
The preparation of a vaccine is "a technical process that calls for him only several weeks," he added ensuring that the discussions on the topic had started in the early days of the alert following the outbreak of this virus which has infected nearly 6,500 people in the world.
A vaccine could prove crucial if the virus is rebounding during his visit to the southern hemisphere where winter is conducive to the spread of the flu, began today.
Especially WHO fears that a mutation that could make it resistant to antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu, Roche Swiss lab or Relenza GlaxoSmithKline of Britain, now considered effective.
In addition, Dr. Fukuda has swept the rumor that the virus had been produced artificially in a lab. WHO has taken "very seriously" this hypothesis by a virologist and has conducted its inquiry since last weekend, said the number two in the organization.
"The conclusion is that this is not a virus created in the laboratory," he insisted.
While the number of reported cases rising each day to now 6497 people in 33 countries, including 65 deaths, the UN continues to maintain its alert level 5 on a scale of 6 mean that a pandemic is "imminent" .
The WHO has in effect for the moment no evidence that the virus is transmitted independently of that in America, provided for transition to the 6 of pandemic alert, "said Fukuda.
Meanwhile, WHO will reduce the duration of its World Assembly which is scheduled to begin Monday from nine to four days "to allow ministers and health officials to be absent for shorter periods of their country then they must coordinate efforts against influenza A (H1N1), "said a spokesperson of the organization.
"It is not possible to tell when we make a decision, it is a painstaking and difficult process," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda at a press conference after a meeting experts.
WHO had convened a conference call Thursday for manufacturers of vaccines and medical experts to study the possible launch of the mass production of a vaccine against influenza A (H1N1).
The latter should also consult on how best to produce the vaccine, either by integrating the North American strain of the virus in the vaccine for seasonal influenza or making a separate vaccine against the pandemic.
Mr. Fukuda said that further meetings on the subject were planned, without giving a date.
The preparation of a vaccine is "a technical process that calls for him only several weeks," he added ensuring that the discussions on the topic had started in the early days of the alert following the outbreak of this virus which has infected nearly 6,500 people in the world.
A vaccine could prove crucial if the virus is rebounding during his visit to the southern hemisphere where winter is conducive to the spread of the flu, began today.
Especially WHO fears that a mutation that could make it resistant to antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu, Roche Swiss lab or Relenza GlaxoSmithKline of Britain, now considered effective.
In addition, Dr. Fukuda has swept the rumor that the virus had been produced artificially in a lab. WHO has taken "very seriously" this hypothesis by a virologist and has conducted its inquiry since last weekend, said the number two in the organization.
"The conclusion is that this is not a virus created in the laboratory," he insisted.
While the number of reported cases rising each day to now 6497 people in 33 countries, including 65 deaths, the UN continues to maintain its alert level 5 on a scale of 6 mean that a pandemic is "imminent" .
The WHO has in effect for the moment no evidence that the virus is transmitted independently of that in America, provided for transition to the 6 of pandemic alert, "said Fukuda.
Meanwhile, WHO will reduce the duration of its World Assembly which is scheduled to begin Monday from nine to four days "to allow ministers and health officials to be absent for shorter periods of their country then they must coordinate efforts against influenza A (H1N1), "said a spokesperson of the organization.
The Molières of Flu
Well, that's it. The twenty-third Molière ceremony took place yesterday at the Théâtre de Paris, and live on France 2. Winners of the evening, Zabou Breitman and Christian SCHIARETTI. The first raid statuettes for best adaptation and best private theater for her beautiful show adapted by Raymond Depardon, "People" and again in a few days early in Montparnasse. Christian SCHIARETTI, director NPT Villeurbanne the best theater audience for "Coriolanus", and the best theater director. That pleasure ... To find all the winners, read here.
For its part, Flu, which was in the ranks of the public puts its good and bad points. Molière ... its a little less important, is necessarily more subjective, and hot after a night ... rather interminable.
Molière presenter most to the picks ... Frédéric Mitterrand who returned from the Villa Medici seems to have lost his Latin. Pierre Bertin instead Roland Bertin, the Comédie-Française in lieu of the French Academy, Simon Abkarian Simon Apakourian. He has engaged in a festival of deformation name, not his funeral prayer your way to each launch and limits his notes at the time to sing "Ah! le petit vin blanc. " It would almost come to regret ... Karine Lemarchand
Accoutrement of Molière's most antiglamour ... Here we do not know what to choose. It was far from Cannes or Caesars. The 23rd Molières? A festival of ... The dress bags lampshade way to Melanie Doutey, all of Sarah Biasini improbable, the impossible black tube and too short to Sara Forestier. It passes ... and the worst! These ladies do not have a mirror? Or an agent?
Molière of the class ... Without hesitation, Bernard Giraudeau. Elegant and glam of course, but what an actor. That he is in a curtain raiser to balance his Alexandrian. Tribute to the theater, the actors, the public, funny, subtle and that bodes well for a nice ceremony. It was after that it was spoiled ...
Molière winnower of the least funny. A Laurent Baffie who made his Baffie with his unit to landfills, so its defibrillators. Not always funny, and downright indecent when, on the heels of Jean-Claude Grumberg, referring to the day of the deportees and his love for his family, sometimes with a joke yay tralala to the tune of "There's always moments in dags ceremonies "... To his defense, the exercise was rather difficult.
Molière thanks. A Jacques Bonnaffé. Brilliant, funny, as always, the creator of "The Oral and hard won a statuette for his company. "I raise Molière" he intoned several times. The verve, humor, great art.
Molière (s) of honor. Tie at Roland Bertin, môssieu great, winning for "Coriolanus", which was moved to the memory of villages along a few decades ago, on tour, and paid tribute to his former companions. And Monique Chaumette, a former stooge of Gérard Philipe and Vilar. Rewards style of Molière d'honneur, more primer for careers as roles. If Bertin shines in "Coriolanus", Monique Chaumette is erased in "Baby Doll". Moved, upset, she left her room in Molière starting!
Molière interludes most unlikely. Clémentine Célarié singing "Carmen" with a beaver around the neck (of the wrong, she said), Yvan Bolloch and the gypsies in a soaring gypsy. It was there where?
Molière of the worst audience ... A France 2. Despite all his efforts to seduce and keep it public, the chain was a big flop. The 2009 edition has lost 25% of viewers compared to last year! 1 403 000 people in front of their position to hear about theater. Here it is by fol-W9 and "X Men 2! "
Clearly hard drive to find the formula, it will have to put on for next year.
For its part, Flu, which was in the ranks of the public puts its good and bad points. Molière ... its a little less important, is necessarily more subjective, and hot after a night ... rather interminable.
Molière presenter most to the picks ... Frédéric Mitterrand who returned from the Villa Medici seems to have lost his Latin. Pierre Bertin instead Roland Bertin, the Comédie-Française in lieu of the French Academy, Simon Abkarian Simon Apakourian. He has engaged in a festival of deformation name, not his funeral prayer your way to each launch and limits his notes at the time to sing "Ah! le petit vin blanc. " It would almost come to regret ... Karine Lemarchand
Accoutrement of Molière's most antiglamour ... Here we do not know what to choose. It was far from Cannes or Caesars. The 23rd Molières? A festival of ... The dress bags lampshade way to Melanie Doutey, all of Sarah Biasini improbable, the impossible black tube and too short to Sara Forestier. It passes ... and the worst! These ladies do not have a mirror? Or an agent?
Molière of the class ... Without hesitation, Bernard Giraudeau. Elegant and glam of course, but what an actor. That he is in a curtain raiser to balance his Alexandrian. Tribute to the theater, the actors, the public, funny, subtle and that bodes well for a nice ceremony. It was after that it was spoiled ...
Molière winnower of the least funny. A Laurent Baffie who made his Baffie with his unit to landfills, so its defibrillators. Not always funny, and downright indecent when, on the heels of Jean-Claude Grumberg, referring to the day of the deportees and his love for his family, sometimes with a joke yay tralala to the tune of "There's always moments in dags ceremonies "... To his defense, the exercise was rather difficult.
Molière thanks. A Jacques Bonnaffé. Brilliant, funny, as always, the creator of "The Oral and hard won a statuette for his company. "I raise Molière" he intoned several times. The verve, humor, great art.
Molière (s) of honor. Tie at Roland Bertin, môssieu great, winning for "Coriolanus", which was moved to the memory of villages along a few decades ago, on tour, and paid tribute to his former companions. And Monique Chaumette, a former stooge of Gérard Philipe and Vilar. Rewards style of Molière d'honneur, more primer for careers as roles. If Bertin shines in "Coriolanus", Monique Chaumette is erased in "Baby Doll". Moved, upset, she left her room in Molière starting!
Molière interludes most unlikely. Clémentine Célarié singing "Carmen" with a beaver around the neck (of the wrong, she said), Yvan Bolloch and the gypsies in a soaring gypsy. It was there where?
Molière of the worst audience ... A France 2. Despite all his efforts to seduce and keep it public, the chain was a big flop. The 2009 edition has lost 25% of viewers compared to last year! 1 403 000 people in front of their position to hear about theater. Here it is by fol-W9 and "X Men 2! "
Clearly hard drive to find the formula, it will have to put on for next year.
Journalist Roxana Saberi will leave Iran, according to his entourage
The Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, released from prison in Tehran last Monday, was trying to leave Iran Friday on a flight out of the Iranian capital, said a friend of his family who will travel with her.
"Roxana, her parents and myself, leaving the country. We are at the airport and the flight is scheduled at 04H40 local time (GMT 0OH10). We will present to the immigration authorities within 10 minutes," Payam Mohepi said.
Mr. Mohepi did not specify the destination of the apppareil on which he was embarking. Shortly after the release of Roxana Saberi, Reza Saberi his father, had indicated that his family was preparing his return to the United States.
Tennis - ATP - Madrid - Simon "on edge"

"I was weak in my head. I take two bad games and it makes me sick. I'm just on edge. "After his frustrating defeat against Ivan Ljubicic, Gilles Simon did not veil the face and conjures up a mental exhaustion.
"Gilles Simon, how do you explain the turn of this match?
It was weird. This is a game where I am. When it is more difficult, I get completely stupid. Then, it quickly turned to him. At this time, I noticed that when it went wrong, went wrong this time. That is what happened today. This is not the game because my game was very well for much of the match where I was patient and when he was aggressive when I needed it. It's just that at some point, it becomes anything.
How do you analyze this disconnect?
Especially my brain. This is not my habit, but the moment I simply want to leave the court because I was more there, I can not fight. I do not have all the enthusiasm in the field. I feel, I become stupid, but I can not prevent it. There comes a time when I come to stop the bleeding by making a game 3-0, but he has a 4-0 ball and if it converts, it may take a little time. At this time, when it goes wrong, I can not stop it. Lately, I have made many efforts to try to get better in my game and suddenly, my head is tired, it does not follow.
When Ivan Ljubicic 4-4 to evens, did you feel you can not win?
No, there are still times when I believe in it. It's just the impression that this is wrong. There are always negative thoughts coming, but I normally scans. When I lead 6-1, 5-0 against Hewitt, and it is up to 5-2, I'm not calm, but I manage to pass over. Here, I can not.
Is this a problem of trust?
No, this is not tennis or trust. It's just the brain. When this was slightly less well at 4-2 and then 4-3, it was enough of it so that it disconnects completely. At 4-4, it makes me crazy. I feel it coming and I can not prevent it. I was weak in my head. I take two bad games and it makes me sick. I'm just on edge. There is a seven-game series that starts in twenty minutes. I left that he would return the better. If I am 5-2, the match is over. This game, I've lost. Later, he played better, better served and given fewer points short of the bottom. But I had all the right cards to win.
If this is not a problem of confidence, is it just a mental fatigue?
Yes, I think it is mental fatigue. I want, but I can not beat me. When it goes wrong, I do not go over. I thought, finally, this is, I won 6-3, 6-2 in the first round and then I could possibly win 6-3, 6-2. I felt good and all of a sudden it went to 4-4. I thought: Shit, it's hard. I wanted this to be easy, it was hard and I was not prepared for that.
Can you do more violence?
Not that I do not happen again. I did not succeed on this game then. I got really violent with my game lately. There, I felt that it was returning and that I play well. Three games later, I fell into the nightmare. I saw too much, too fast. In the third set, I try to return, but he plays much better.
The junta indicts the opponent Aung San Suu Kyi

The military junta in power in Burma since 1962, tightens the noose
around the muse of the opposition, Aung San Suu Kyi. "The Lady of Rangoon, aged 63, was arrested and charged yesterday with his two assistants for breaking the rules of his house arrest. A week earlier, an American had been so bizarre intrusion into his house, where she was confined under close surveillance. The junta accuses the opponent of violating the law that it must "protect the state from the dangers of subversive elements."
His indictment comes at a key moment: first, because his arrest was due to expire May 27, because then the head of the Burmese junta, Senior General Than Shwe, to organize next year for national elections , that it intends to control throughout.
In Rangoon, the rumor about the reasons that led the U.S. to enter in the opponent. "Many people think that this incident was created or an instrument to discredit Suu Kyi and the military government to provide a pretext to extend her house arrest," said the Burmese opposition site The Irrawaddy, based in Thailand. The diplomats in Rangoon, however, consider the unlikely event, according to the same source.
John William Yettaw, an American of 53 years, had crossed a lake to swim at night to reach the house of "the Lady", where he remained for two days. After his adventure, the personal physician of Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained, while the health of the opponent was deteriorating. Yettaw, a resident of Missouri and father of seven children, was also arrested and charged for violating the rules of the Immigration and Security Act. He faces three to five years in prison. Counsel for Aung San Suu Kyi holds him responsible for the whole affair, saying she had asked him to leave the house. "It's a fool," he said yesterday.
Several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France have protested after the indictment of the opponent. In a communiqué, Paris has called "the Burmese government to unconditionally release Aung San Suu Kyi and the leaders of the opposition in Myanmar to start with them a necessary dialogue, only to give way to elections in 2010 and a legitimacy credibility that they are in the current circumstances, totally lacking. "
The opponent was transferred yesterday in a special building at Insein prison, where rotting and tortured more than half of the 2 100 political prisoners in the country. His trial is to open up on Monday. It is liable, with his two assistants, three to five years in prison. W
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