Archive for May, 2009
Norway won Eurosong with Fairtale – Moscow great organisation – The stripper Dita Von Teese on stage
* The ’stripper’ Dita Von Teese is more demure at the request of the organization
* The night began with a performance by acrobats from the Cirque de Sol
MOSCOW .- After a whole year trying to forget forever the steps of the catchy “chiki-chiki ‘, Soraya jumped on the stage of Moscow’s Olimpiski with the claw, the strength and the doubts of all. But Spain’s experiment ended longing Rodolfo Chikilicuatre. The extremeña did honor to his song – ‘The night is for me’ during the voting in which Norway and she was devastated last.
Victory song Fairtale :
Soraya appeared restricted by a dress of pearl inlaid glass (10,000 total) and blue miniskirt ‘Tarzan style. But his cry is not called the enthusiasm of the fauna eurovisiva. Held by two Russian dancers, the evolved extremeña with verve and eventually disappearing as calculated in a Houdini magic trick. It swallowed the earth, and certainly would have been there to sense the severe punishment that he reserved the ‘eurofans. Apart from Andorra, which gave us 12 ‘points’, we just voted Switzerland (3), Greece (1) and Portugal (7).
Dita von Teese
After a desperate struggle to prevent the bottom hole with Lithuanians and Finns, Spain was the last with 23 points. Last year was the sixteenth chiki-chiki, 55. “I feel calm because we’ve done a good job and also very satisfied with how the performance went,” Soraya resigned after the end of the gala. “I stay with the experience that I witnessed the great friends I made and happy because now I am known in Europe.”
The only time that Soraya Levite in the stadium in Moscow Olimpiski was when the dancers held at the flying during the choreography. Because, in truth, the whole night was the Norwegian Alexander Rybak, a violinist of 23 years recently met with so much momentum that appeared to break his violin bow and all the roofs of scores of the festival (387 votes). Nobody had reached 300 points and he still achieved when 10 countries to issue their verdict.
Dita von Teese has left the stage (below) much more demure in trials (top) | EFE / AP
The blood of the Belarusian artist Norwegian revolutionized the pituitary of many voters in the eastern half of Europe durantre classic bilingual counting scores. “He won our Rybak,” said the final vote on the television commentator for the Russian. Wrapped in sones Celtic jumps Cossacks, the victory of Alexander Rybak (speaking in Russian at the end of the ceremony) compensates for the relative failure of Anastasia Prijodko, the Ukrainian who sang for Russia, ran aground in the middle of the table.
Prijodko sang the chorus in Ukrainian language (which sparked protests at the time of Members ultranationalistic). The idea of the transience of time was increased with aging via digital wrinkled face was the singer on several giant screens during the performance. A special effect that is at odds with a festival dominated the ‘glamorous’ and confetti over everything.
Six years after his disappearance, juries recovered voice in Eurovision: the verdict was mixed in equal parts to the decision of the public to avoid the massive cronyism of the former Yugoslavia and the former USSR. However, the geographical fraternity eventually emerging as always.
Presented by singer Alsou (represented by Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000) and journalist Ivan Urgant the show lost the tone ‘kistch’ of the latest issues through increased quietism scenographic voices as shown by the ladies of France (Patricia Kass), Malta, Estonia, Russia and Iceland. Britain’s Jane Ewen, for example, was accompanied on the piano by the great composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musicals like ‘Cats’ or’ The Phantom of the Opera ‘.
Compared to the sobriety and scenic ’sosería’ all of them, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey or the same Soraya explained choreographies unleashed. He also promised the neckline of the U.S. stripper Dita von Teese, a group of German dance Alex Christensen. But in the end if the recommendations made by the organization and ‘closed’ centimeters around your neck to avoid dramatic show breasts.
The side event of the festival fell on the Greek Sakis Rouvas, who showed all his profile on an Etruscan belt slide with Bruce Lee’s own gestures. In memory of ‘eurofans’ is the action of Israel, by Noa and Mira Awad, who interweave their vocal cords singing in Hebrew and Arabic for three minutes to turn the thorny fence separating the two peoples in a smooth staff.
Despite a number of acrobatic ‘Cirque du Soleil’, the Eurovision gala circus was the most recent years. The ‘perestroika’ the fate of the contest was illustrated in the overabundance of violins (Norway, Estonia, United Kingdom), an instrument that symbolized the return to the origins of the music festival after five years of bewilderment ‘freak’.
Hong Kong imposed a quarantine for 350 swine flu
Authorities in Hong Kong signed a downtown hotel with 350 tourists and employees inside in an attempt to contain an epidemic of swine flu, while Costa Rica, Canada, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Israel confirmed new cases of people infected with the virus.
The Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Maria Luisa Avila, on Saturday confirmed the first case of influenza in Latin America outside of Mexico, after receiving the results of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
Spain confirmed two new cases of infection and Italy reported its first influenza sick swine.
In Hong Kong, the government located to all persons who have been in contact with a Mexican tourist who brought the virus to the area and a total of 71 Mexicans who are in China were isolated by the health authorities, according to the Foreign Secretary protested that this action it deemed “unjustified”.
Even Espinosa called on Saturday to their fellow citizens not to travel to China, “while these measures may not be corrected.”
The rapid and intense action of the authorities of the former British colony indicated the willingness to demonstrate what they learned from the deadly virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003. At the time, accused the authorities of Hong Kong to impose quarantine measures too late.
Germany confirmed the case of a man of 38 years in Bavaria, which added six in the central European country. The chairman of the laboratory of the Ministry of Health, Joerg Hacker, said that none of the patients at risk.
Canada on Saturday raised the number of infected to 85, with three new minor in British Columbia.
The Ministry of Health Services of British Columbia said that the province has 22 confirmed cases of swine flu. Shortly before that these new cases were reported, Robert Strang, Nova Scotia chief doctor, said that the province has 17 new cases.
There are now 31 cases in Nova Scotia, the province with the largest number of patients confirmed in the country.
In addition, Canadian officials reported that some pigs in the province of Alberta have been infected by the new flu virus and swine are in quarantine.
It is the first known report of a case where the new virus infected pigs.
Regularly, because the swine flu epidemic in these animals, and officials stressed that the pigs do not represent a dietary risk.
The officials said Saturday at a press conference that the pigs had been infected by a Canadian worker who recently traveled to Mexico and fell ill after his return.
The British authorities confirmed two new cases, bringing the total to 15, three of them in Scotland. Two of the patients had not traveled to Mexico.
One patient in the region of Tuscany in central Italy, was diagnosed with swine flu, said on Saturday, a hospital authority, the first confirmed case of the epidemic in Italy.
The hospital’s director Massa Carrara, Biselli Giuliano, said that the man is recovering, but will remain hospitalized for several days as a precaution.
In Spain, the Ministry of Health confirmed two new cases of swine flu, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 15.
A ministry statement issued on Saturday said that all infected, but one had recently traveled to Mexico. None was in serious health condition.
The two new patients are in the eastern region of Valencia, where a person had been previously diagnosed with the disease. A total of 103 persons are under observation in Spain, added the ministry.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli hospital on Saturday, the third diagnosed case of swine flu in the country. The patient, a man of 33 years, was in good health but remained under observation, the professor said Yehuda Carmeli, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
In South Korea, reported the second confirmed case of swine flu in Asia. She is a woman who has been quarantined since the beginning of the week when he returned from Mexico.
Globally the number of cases was around 750, the vast majority in Mexico, United States and Canada. The virus has killed at least 16 people in Mexico and one in United States.
With the disease in the threshold of Hong Kong, China suspended all direct flights to Mexico, the epicenter of the swine flu virus in quarantine and put to other travelers on the same flight that arrived from Mexico 25 years old who became the first confirmed case in Asia in late on Friday. The Mexican first landed in Shanghai before proceeding to Hong Kong, where he was in the hotel Metropark.
Workers from the health department on Saturday, patrolling the lobby of the hotel Metropark. The hotel is in quarantine for seven days, starting on Friday.
Other employees for assistance in monitoring civil maintained resort Lady MacLehose Holiday Village in the suburbs of Hong Kong. The place was used as a quarantine center for other guests and hotel staff Metropark.
In Brazil, the Ministry of Health reported that the largest country in Latin America has no confirmed cases of swine flu, but 14 people with symptoms of the disease, who were in countries where patients have been confirmed or who had contact with sick people, have been hospitalized. It is probable cases of the disease.
The Argentine Ministry of Defense ordered the installation of a mobile hospital at the international airport of Ezeiza, outside Buenos Aires, to attend to passengers suspected of having influenza A or submit a fever to go through the scanners temperature located in the airport terminal.
The hospital, which will be ready on Wednesday, has 24 beds and an operating room.
Meanwhile, Minister of Health of the city of Buenos Aires, Jorge Lemus, told a local radio station in the city’s hospitals “had 40 consultations (for symptoms of influenza A) of which 28 were discarded and 12 could be considered suspicious. ”
For their part, some 150 Argentines waited the arrival of two flights to Mexico sent by the government to bring them back to the country after being stranded in the Mexican capital and the city of Cancun after the government Wednesday suspended flights to and from that country to prevent the entry of potential patients. The suspension runs through Monday.
In Peru, was cleared on Saturday that his country’s citizens who are in Mexico to return to flight “ad hoc,” said Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde.
“It has not been restored (flights), has authorized the Peruvians who are tourists in the city of Mexico to return to Peru and to allow flights that were ad hoc. Not with regular frequency,” Garcia Belaunde said in a telephone conversation with AP.
The head of diplomacy said that the Peruvian Peruvian citizens flying from Mexico to Peru had no “time limit”. “I estimate that this will be in a matter of just a few days,” he said.
On Thursday the Ministry of Transport of Peru said in a communique that as a precautionary measure, the government had suspended flights to and from Mexico in response to the notice issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which rose to levels five levels of alert for pandemic of swine flu virus.
Is globalization has made us more prone to disaster ?
The financial crisis began with problems in a small segment of the U.S. mortgage market. A few months had become a global crisis that was soon affect almost every corner of the world.
“The speed at which these events were unprecedented,” said World Economic Forum in its 2009 report on global risk.
“He has shown how globalization has connected the world and its systems,” the Forum.
As the crisis in the markets, the disease may spread more quickly now than before. Air travel meant that an outbreak could become a global issue in a matter of days. In the past, it took months or even years.
The more complex a system is efficient, faster and can be a wide spread. However, this interdependence is not always negative. The complexity of the global economy means that the risk can be distributed more easily and sometimes that can be mitigated more easily.
Complex systems are often adaptable: if one part falls, some of the network can assume the burden.
Some theories suggest that complex systems can provide greater stability diversified. But only to a certain extent.
“While this helps the system to diversify small shocks, they also expose the system to large systemic shocks,” said Raghuram Rajan, former IMF chief economist and adviser to Indian Prime Minister, in an investigation.
“It is possible that these events create an opportunity (…) larger (though still small) of catastrophic turmoil,” he added.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
A key issue is the so-called “butterfly effect”: highly complex systems, even a small event can be magnified and transmitted with highly unpredictable results. Edward Lorenz, a pioneer of chaos theory, states that a butterfly stirring its wings in one corner of the world could cause a tornado in another part of the planet.
In the theory of networks, a key pillar is that complex systems are interconnected to organize themselves around key nodes. If one of these nodes is beaten, you can collapse the whole house of cards.
This is one of the reasons why the damage caused by the mortgage crisis at the investment banks had an impact so devastating.
Although specialization in global supply chains has led to significant improvements in efficiency, has also brought vulnerability. A change in one node of the supply chain can cause a dramatic and unpredictable turbulence throughout the system.
This is why the prices of semiconductors almost doubled after an earthquake in Taiwan in 1999 and why Hurricane Katrina hit the global financial markets.
Some analysts fear that security issues including a terrorist attack could have a magnified impact if it affects a key point of the global supply chain, for example, a port of importance.
In his book “The Black Swan,” which examines the impact of large windfall events, Nassim Nicholas Taleb says that the appearance of stability in complex systems can be illusory.
“Insults randomized to most parts of the network will not be consistent because that would affect poorly interconnected nodes. But also make the networks more vulnerable. Just consider what would happen if there is a problem with an important hub,” says Taleb.
“Truly, we have fewer flaws. But when they occur, tremble to think,” he says.
FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
The complexity makes the potentially most dangerous financial crisis also means that pandemics can create more confusion.
Analysts point out that when the Black Plague struck Europe in the fourteenth century, killing one third of the population, society will not collapse because the economic and social systems were relatively simple and isolated from the crisis.
In contrast, a plague that struck the Roman Empire in the second century, with a similar rate of death, chaos, the Roman society was more complex and economically advanced.
In modern societies, if key nodes are hit by illness, the impact could be magnified. The nodes could be individuals essential to the functioning of society and its economy, doctors, truck drivers, engineers, dockworkers.
And as with the financial crisis, the panic and the dissemination of inaccurate information could generate a negative feedback, making the disaster worse.
“The economic disruption in the supply side would come directly from high absenteeism. There could also be problems with transport, trade, payment systems and public services,” the IMF said in a 2006 report on the impact of a possible influenza pandemic.
And beyond the short term, is a risk that the financial crisis as a setback caused by a pandemic of globalization, with profound consequences for the global economy.
In a 2007 report on global risks, the World Economic Forum imagined the consequences of a pandemic and a crisis in global liquidity simultaneously, a scenario which then seemed merely speculative.
The result, he said, would be a “setback to globalization, which could deepen the impact on overall demand.” Around the world, could lead to an increase in authoritarian and militaristic tendencies that could reshape geopolitics.
13 anti influenza in the office
In the health emergency by the outbreak of influenza in Mexico, the companies have been forced to adopt contingency plans to ensure the safety of their customers and employees. “Organizations need to become aware of the situation and the priority is that their employees are safe, just so you can operate without compromising productivity and human capital itself,” he said in an interview the director general the Mexican Association in Human Resources Management (AMEDIRH), Pedro Borda Hartmann.
Given this fact, AMEDIRH sent some 12,000 e-mails with a number of suggestions to the departments of human resources for the sensitive handling of the work force and reducing the risk of contagion.
These suggestions are a complement to the provisions of the federal authorities on measures required for the workplace and were developed by the group analysis of the association, said Borda Hartmann.
Then the tips of AMEDIRH to reduce the risk of contagion in the workplace.
1. Maintain close communication with partners and responsible, so as to inform on possible action plans and measures of the company.
2. Inform, not alarm: It is important that although the information is a serious one, is always the responsibility of the case warrants it, this is not to scare people, said the manager.
3. Encourage staggered hours or days for low and parents with school-age children to facilitate the change in routine that involves the suspension of school classes.
4. Reduce the concentration of people in times of input, output and hours of use of the dining industry to avoid high concentrations in confined spaces.
5. Encourage, where practicable, that staff bring their own food to avoid food outside the facility. “It could be the recommendation to the SSA to make inspections at food stalls and hawkers call for extreme measures of hygiene.”
6. Facilitate the arrival of workers and employees in different means of transportation to the subway. “It is no good that you care if you use the transport, where you can infect anyone. We must make a personal effort to care for and provide options for transfer. AMEDIRH in, for example, all staff will no longer reach by subway The office will pay the taxi, “said Pedro Borda.
7. Postpone the celebrations for Children’s Day and Mother’s Day
8. Defer and update training programs, as for security is better than all the courses and workshops will be postponed. The same applies to crowd together, which can be replaced by teleconferences.
9. Harnessing IT and analyze what work processes can be changed or done away with, ie to promote telework.
10. Reduce the use of air conditioning and ventilation option when opening doors and windows.
11. Facilitating the use of mask and antibacterial gel at the entrance to the premises, it is necessary that all employees have necessary facilities and devices to comply with the provisions of personal hygiene recommended.
12. Prevent contagion in the workplace, allowing the absence of personnel with symptoms of atypical outbreak of influenza. “It’s better than any ill employee does not attend to avoid a possible infection, although this labor administrative or economic sanctions.”
13. Extreme cleaning using common objects such as telephone, fax, computer keyboards, copiers, printers, handrails, etc..
White tea can be a solution to obesity, according to a study
Washington, 1 may (EFE) .- The white tea, as it is called the preparation with the first shoots of the plants that are made with green tea and black, has the effect of reducing obesity, says a study released today by the journal Nutrition and Metabolism. According to researchers at the German laboratory Beiersdorg AG, a series of experiments showed that the use of an infusion made from the plant Camellia sinensis inhibits the generation of new fat cells (adipocytes) and stimulates the elimination of the mature fat cells.
“We have shown that white tea may be an ideal source of natural substances to lose weight,” said Marc Winnefeld, member of research team.
According to the scientist, white tea may be at least a partial solution to the problem of obesity that affects mainly United States, where it is believed that about 60 percent of the population is overweight.
“In industrialized countries, the increasing incidence of disorders associated with obesity, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes, is a growing problem,” he said.
The scientist explained that the infusion induced a reduction of the activity of genes linked to the development of new fat cells while behind the dissolution of fat in adipocytes.
White tea is less processed and contains more of the ingredients that are believed to be responsible for the effects in the study demonstrated that green or black, according to scientists.
USA Remove from sale diet pill that damages liver
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government on Friday announced the withdrawal from sale of the pill Hydroxycut, used in slimming regimes, leading to reports of liver damage and other health problems.
Officials of the agency of food and medicines that the FDA told manufacturer Hydroxycut was already removing the dietary supplement used for weight loss and to strengthen the muscles.
The advertising says that Hydroxycut is made from natural ingredients. In United States comprises about 90% of market supplements for weight loss, with sales of 1 million bottles per year.
The government does not regulate supplements as strictly as medicines. Manufacturers do not need to obtain approval from the FDA prior to sale their products.
USA: The response to the swine fever in 1976 was disastrous
MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, USA (AP) – The last time the swine flu dominated the headlines, the emergency program was more harmful than the virus. A vaccination program established in response to the outbreak of 1976 in the Fort Dix military base is assigned more than two dozen deaths and paralysis of hundreds of people. The director of the Center for Disease Control was forced to resign and tens of millions of doses of vaccine left to distribute.
A health officer remembers that episode reminded that scientists then assumed that the disease could return in cycles 50 to 60 years.
In the icy winter of 1976, the army barracks in New Jersey subject to thousands of recruits to basic training.
It is assumed that a recruit brought the virus to the reception center, where the recruits were cutting their hair, they were vaccinated and were provided a basic orientation before designating their platoons.
The infection was discovered after a soldier David Lewis collapsed during a march on January 19 and died the next day.
The official response was expedited.
Had spent almost 60 years since the influenza pandemic of 1918 caused by a virus similar to the 1976 strain had infected one third of the then 1500 million people in the world and left a Tendal 50 million dead. Dr. Richard Hodder worked as an epidemiologist at the Walter Reed Institute of Army Research in Washington when he received a call Saturday night. He was to be presented to a meeting the next morning and was ready to travel.
The topic was so sensitive that their superior did not want to disclose it by phone, he recalled Monday.
Hodder, now retired from the Northeast Center for Special Care in Lake Katrine, New York state, said in 1976 that scientists assumed that swine fever can recur in cycles of 50 to 60 years.
Hodder and others were sent to Fort Dix to discuss the soldiers. Between January 19 and February 9 soldiers found 230 infected. Thirteen were hospitalized for respiratory problems.
In late February, health authorities warned that the outbreak at the base could be deadly if the disease spreads to the general population.
In March, President Gerald Ford announced a plan to vaccinate all 200 million Americans _unos in that entonces_ against the flu strain experienced at the base.
But the virus never left the military base.
The researchers believe that was due in part to the soldiers in basic training, only had contact with 49 other members of his platoon and his instructors for a while. They also believe that a more common strain of flu that winter dominated the prevalent strain of swine flu.
Vaccination began in October 1976. But when reports began to reach people who died days after being vaccinated was to stop the program.
A vaccine was given be caused over 400 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disease causing paralysis.
About 43 million doses of vaccine were applied before cutting the program that a taxpayer’s New York Times described as “a fiasco, a debacle, a dreadful mistake, a medical Vietnam.”
In 1976, the director of the Center for Disease Control, David Sense, was forced to resign because of the controversy about vaccines.
Sencer, who later was commissioner of health of the City of New York, on Monday justified the vaccination program and said it probably would have saved lives if the virus had spread beyond Fort Dix.
“You have to do what he thinks right. You have to keep in mind: If you do not do anything what will happen? And if you do something what will happen?” Said Sense, 84, who lives in Atlanta. “I think I made the right decision. I took it with others.”
Develops your own antibacterial gel
In the contingency that occurs with the swine influenza by the shortage of products for personal hygiene care, the Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) tells you how to develop antibacterial gel. Using this technology for the domestic alcohol gel allows you to save up to 40%, compared with the trading price and only need 15 minutes to produce.
Ingredients:
* 6 tablespoons or 90 ml of ethyl alcohol (ethanol 72%) *
* 3 / 4 teaspoon Carbopol **
* 1 / 4 teaspoon pure glycerin *
* 1 / 4 teaspoon of triethanolamine **
* What you get at any pharmacy
** On sale in drugstores
Tools:
* Glass bowl with a capacity of 1 liter
* Fine Mesh Strainer
* Flanera boy or glass container
* Globe Shaker
* Plastic containers with lid button pressure capacity of 100 ml.
To work
Place fine-mesh strainer over a bowl or small flanera glass, pour on the sieve and Carbopol undo any lumps with a spoon to completely spray.
Pour the alcohol into the bowl and stir with a strong balloon slowly while adding the Carbopol.
Add the glycerine while stirring gently with a balloon.
When completely dissolved and the Carbopol not appreciate lumps, add the triethanolamine, while stirring gently. At that time the gel is formed.
Pour the alcohol gel in the plastic bottle and cap tightly.
To use the gel antibacerial should wash their hands using liquid soap and water, rubbing for at least 20 seconds. Then rinse, dry and apply. Used in this way will give the best protection against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
If you use it on the street and you can not wash your hands, aplicarsobre a palm and then rub the hands, mainly covering both palms and fingertips. Leave it to dry without shaking hands.
For the preservation of antibacterial gel, the Profeco recommends keeping it in a cool, dry place to prevent evaporation of alcohol, which is the ingredient germicide.
Madrid against the “Obama effect” and perfectionism Tokyo
Caty Arevalo.
Madrid sweat shirt the next five days to demonstrate to the IOC Evaluation Commission that the strength of their Olympic project can be more than the “Obama effect” on the nomination of Chicago, the Tokyo perfectionism or social benefits that would Rio for the Games of 2016.
Popular support of around 90 percent, the financial security of the three (central, regional and local), hotel capacity, almost 80 percent of sports facilities and completed an enhanced organizational experience are the five axes of a Application impeccable Madrid’16.
To prove the case, the mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has attended recent meetings of the Olympic Committees in the five continents, the successful candidate has responded to the questionnaire of the IOC (the second best score), has developed a comprehensive dossier until King Juan Carlos will possibly move to the capital Copenhagen expires October 2.
There he will meet with U.S. president, Barack Obama, who is expected to come to the final drive to Chicago and its draft 2016 Games in the city center, with first class facilities along Lake Michigan.
The choice of Chicago offers the IOC also finally making peace with the United States, with whom relations cooled following the poor organization of the Games in Atlanta, the corruption scandal surrounding Salt Lake City and to recently lax anti-doping policy.
The lack of financial guarantees to cover unforeseen budget or reject the 30 per cent of its people, gathered on the platform “No Games Chicago,” are the Achilles heel of “the city of wind” in this competition.
However, the IOC Evaluation Commission said felt “shocked” while visiting Chicago, the candidate who presents the most inexpensive, near Tokyo, for the realization of these Games.
The printing of the Commission would be taken into account if it were not for the second scale, Tokyo, gave the same opinion.
Tokyo is a technically perfect candidate: financially secure, compact and very organic, and therefore obtained the best score in the first evaluation of the IOC in June 2008, with 8.6 points, compared to 8.4 in Madrid, Chicago 7.4 and 6.8 of Rio de Janeiro.
One of its weakest points is the lack of enthusiasm, like Chicago, has only 70 per cent of popular support, as well as high temperatures and high humidity level of around 80 per cent in summer .
Like Madrid, London by 2012, Tokyo is in the vicinity of the 2008 Games in Beijing and its neighbor, as the capital of Spain, holds a long journey in the Olympic race: he was a candidate in 1936, 2004 and 2012 and hosted the 1964 Olympics (they were awarded in 1940 but were delayed by the Second World War).
Unlike the case of Rio, which has the advantage that South America has never hosted the Olympics, and some games that could pose a lever for social and urban development in this region of Brazil.
Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also lies with the application and has asked the IOC to bet on Rio de Janeiro to prove that South Americans are treated as “first-class citizens.”
Lula da Silva has insisted that “for Europe and United States Olympic Games are over, are not new,” while Brazil to represent the issue of a country and a people. In South America would confirm. ”
Despite the success of the 2007 Pan American Games and the jovial spirit of the people of Rio, Rio will need to demonstrate in Copenhagen has been able to overcome its “weaknesses” such as a shortage of accommodation, safety or the distance between facilities sports and the main hotel area.
Doubling the number of infections confirmed by the new flu
Health indicates that 40 are already infected with H1N1 .- Andalusia notes for the first time the presence of the virus in 11 patients .- Appears the second case of infection without having traveled to Mexico in Castilla-La Mancha
The number of infected in Spain by influenza A amounts to 40 people in the latest report issued by the Ministry of Health. The figure is twice the figure provided by the Ministry yesterday at 18.00, with 20 more confirmed cases, while suspected cases have declined from 99 to 83 yesterday. The report further states that all cases had shown mild symptoms, 34 of the 40 infected persons have been discharged or are in the house and that a second case of infection in a person who has not traveled to Mexico recently.
Events :
* The Mexican government believes that the outbreak of the virus is stabilizing
* The H1N1 age do not understand
* And what would happen if everything was wrong?
* A health service accomplice virus
* What you need to know about H1N1
The ministerial note contains information supplied by health agencies of different regions to 12.00 today. For the first time confirmed the presence of H1N1 in Andalusia, where they had found 11 infections and 21 cases remain under review (1800 to yesterday, there were 26 cases under study and none confirmed). Galicia also has confirmed its first case of influenza A, although it has no case in regard to the study who had 2 yesterday afternoon.
Second infection without travel to Mexico
Has also increased the number of infections in three other communities. In Castilla-La Mancha is the new flu has been detected in 4 patients (yesterday were 2) and one of them is the second confirmed case of infection in Spain of a person who has not been in Mexico recently (the other was in Catalonia last Wednesday and it was the boyfriend of a girl who had traveled to the North American country).
In Madrid, where 2 of the 8 cases had yesterday in a positive study bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 4. Valencia has confirmed the three new infections (4 to 7) and remains the community with more research on patients with 30, 4 less than yesterday.
Other communities
Remain the same regard yesterday Catalonia (11 confirmed and 15 in study), Basque Country (one confirmed and none in study) and Navarre (1 study confirmed and none of that yesterday after a suspected case will be discarded).
In the rest of the has not confirmed the presence of H1N1, while Castilla y Leon maintains four cases in research, maintains a Canarias, Aragon has appeared in a new suspected case regarding yesterday.
