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2011年4月24日星期日

To the Southwest, AirTran may return to St. Louis flights after the tornado

April 24, 2011, 1: 14 am EDT by Natalie Doss and Dan Hart

April 24 (Bloomberg) - Southwest Airlines Co. full operations plans today and AirTran Airways of AirTran Holdings Inc. may resume some service International of Lambert-St. Louis in Saint Louis Airport after a tornado forced the airport to close.

Plans of the southwest to exploit its full schedule today after bringing in some aircraft, the carrier said yesterday in an e-mail. AMR Corp. American Airlines, AirTran and Southwest flights were cancelled after the installation has been damaged. "While" disruption is important for St. Louis and passenger origin and destination of it, it is unlikely to have a major impact on the network of the nation, said Robert w. Mann, President of R.W. Mann & Co. "a Port WashingtonNew York-based consultant, in an e-mail.The storm that struck on the evening of April 22. He broke most of the doors and glass Windows and ripped off sections of the roof in Terminal 1 of the Hall C of Lambert, according to Jeff Lea, a spokesman for the airport. Fences, signs, trees and light poles were damaged and "certain vehicles have been delivered", Lea said in an interview.Terminal 2 and the airfield of the airport are "fully functional", said Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Director of the airport. Most damage was done to Terminal 1, Hall C, where the American and AirTran run their operations, she said.The airport hopes to have as much as 70 per cent of the operations of service by today and can operate at full capacity in mid-week, Mayor of St. Louis Francis Slay said in a CNN television news conference.Minor InjuriesNo to St. Louis was killed in the storm, Charlie Dooley, a branch of the County of St. Louis said at the Conference. Five people have been taken to a local emergency with minor injuries.An American airliner experienced a wind Askew of 70 miles per hour (113 km / h) while landing during the storm, said Ed Martell, a spokesman for America. A plane in the Southwest on the ground was damaged when a belt loader hit the aircraft.Lambert is not a hub for all major U.S. carriers, which qualifies the blow to the country's air navigation system. Southwest represented 44% of the St. Louis passengers for the 12 months ended in January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. American follows with 20 percent and Delta Air Lines Inc. has nine per cent.Of 12.3 million passengers passed through last year, the Lambert said Lea. About 256 almost the same number of arrivals and departures a day move in the airport, served by 13 carriers fly to 61 destinations, according to the Web site of the airport.The first destination for flights from Lambert are Chicago, a hub for American and United Continental Holdings Inc. Atlanta, home to Delta base; and Dallas - Fort Worth, where the Americans has its headquarters, according to the BTS data.

-With the help of Mike Harrison in London. Editors: Sylvia Wier, Theo Mullen.

To contact the reporter on this story: Dan Hart in Washington at dahart@bloomberg.net. Natalie Doss in New York at the ndoss@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Sylvia Wier at swier@bloomberg.net

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Return to life in Kamaishi

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Kenji Sano, 80, in his shop in Kamaishi, the Japan, on March 30, Giulio Di Sturco

By Charles Graeber

Kenji Sano was two years old the first time his house was destroyed. His family had a small house of wood and rice paper of Kamaishi, right on the main street of the city, parallel port and the ancient furnace which produced iron used in all, swords of samurai of rails for high-speed bullet trains. Sano hidden in the Middle tombstones, Buddhist Hill clutches her mother as the tsunami of March 3, 1933, swept his town. Later, on the place where his mother helped help burn the bodies recovered from the wreck, the survivors placed two steel Bodhisattvas, commemorates the high water line. Kenji-san just sitting in front of the Arch of the door of the temple, look at the smoke.

It was different from the next time. The difference of the tsunami, who unpacked wooden houses, leaving scattered - all - things, clean burned American bombing, leaving only ash. Three weeks after the home teen Sano had been cremated, August 8, 1945, bombing began again. An atomic bomb fell on the South of the city of Nagasaki the following day. No there is no bombs after that. Kenji has contributed to his father and his brother rebuild. Their was a small place, any more than a shack, but enough. There was nothing to do than start over.

After the war, Kamaishi flourished. Furniture factories and mills processing of seafood, a granary and farm fish, rows of restaurants and a maze of a tavern room, all giving an international port occupied and protected by a massive breakwater. Tsunami experts from around the world have estimated Kamaishi to have the best harbor protection anywhere; According to the Guinness Book of Records world, 207-foot-deep, breakwater inhabitants feet in length is also the largest in the world. Built at a cost of 165 billion yen ($2 billion), it took 30 years to build and was completed in March 2009.

For decades, Kenji Sano could see the breakwater takes form on his daily in the morning go hiking in the mountains of Rikuchi, which sandwich Kamaishi (of 40 000 inhabitants) against Pacific. Even at 80, Sano took to the foothills in the early hours, sometimes with his wife, often only the point of view of his native city below. If he travelled far enough, he could visit with a God.

The Kannon deity, more than 100 feet high and cradling a fish, was on the ridge overlooking the sea - s Kamaishi unofficial patron saint and a tourist attraction in 41 years. The Bodhisattva of compassion was built on the mountain which overlooks the Bay of Kamaishi, a prayer in reinforced concrete. "Be calm," Kannon implored the Pacific. "Don ' t rage".

March 11, Sano began early as usual, leaving a house occupied with three generations of its manufacture. He slipped past his teenage, Ayumu grandson, who was running a finger in a book for the next University entrance examination; past where the wife of his son, Hiromi, kneeling on the ring of cooking a meal School of rice for his boy, Hiroyuki; and in the stairwell of his shop, where his son aged 44 years, Shigeru, was sweeping the stoop.

For 60 years, Kenji had executed Sano liqueur, a wholesaler, a package store and a bar on the corner of streets Oodori and Aoba, main intersection of Kamaishi, on the ground floor of the House. Sano alcohol was the kind of place of daily meeting vital for any city. He was known to sailors from around the world, too. Kenji shot his surgical mask and exchanged a few quick nods with Shigera and led to Oodori Street and in the light of the morning.

Walking stick carved of Sano clicked on the sidewalk as he signalled his traders neighbours - the mother and the daughter of the bakery nearby; his friend the dentist, whose wife had Parkinson's disease; the old pharmacist, walk quickly in his denim floppy Hat; Yuko Kariya, the woman who owned the café Jazz tidy by Aoba Park. Kamaishi, everyone knew Sano.

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2011年4月22日星期五

Palestinians: right to non-negotiable return - Yediot Aharonot

The peace plan proposed U.S. reports prompt various responses by the Palestinian leadership. While Fatah official Nabil Shaath, said right of return will not be delivered, spokesman for PA Obama disappointed himself has not approved plan officially

Elior Levy

Palestinian leaders emphasized Thursday that they will not waive the right to return in peace negotiations with Israel following reports suggesting that the White House is working on the outline of a peace plan in the Middle East.

The Obama plan: the Palestinian State, without the right to return / Yitzhak BenhorinWhite House works on the peace agreement that focuses on Israel accepting the Palestinian State, waive right to return of the Palestinians. PM plans to present before own peace plan CongressAccording Kensset US for the New York Times, the key principles on which the plan will be based are: a Palestinian State without the right to return, Jerusalem as the capital of two States focuses on the needs of safety of Israel. "Oppose any peace plan American who wants that we waive one of our most basic rights and it is the right of return for refugees,", said the Member of Central Committee Nabil Shaath Fatah. He pointed out the lack of communication between Washington and the Palestinian Authority and deplored the postponement of the meeting of String Quartet. "Washington felt the Quartet statement would be in the interest of the Palestinians and has decided to postpone the session to an unknown date", he added.

Other Palestinian leaders say that the problem lies in form over content. "It is not an official plan of the Obama, it is nothing more than speculation," spokesman PA Ghassan Khatib said. "We want to see something official", he said. Khatib said that Obama itself should go out with the plan.

Clinton and Obama. "Plan must come to him directly" (Photo: Reuters)

Palestinian spokesman also welcomed the rally from the left to Tel - Aviv held Thursday in which the Israeli artists and academics called to welcome the Declaration of Palestinian independence. "This is certainly a positive and important initiative that we are pleased to see, but do not forget that the Government of Israel other things right - it is only what it wants."

During this time, appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table has not kindly achieved. Saeb Erekat responded in blaming Israel out of the impasse and said that the US administration must stop treating as if it were above the law.

Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations addressed to the Security Council recently and said that Israel had chosen to avoid consensus and works in violation of international law while undermining the two-State solution.

During the debate, France Ambassador Gerard Araud said that a number of European countries are considering to recognize a Palestinian State.

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