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Check out these reviews:
http://www.voipreview.org/review/magicjack
Rumor was phone companies (like vonage) was having they people write negative reviews about magicjack.
Senegal offers land to Haitians
Senegal's president says he will offer free land and "repatriation" to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.
President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be from Senegal.
"The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin," said Mr Wade's spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye.
Tuesday's earthquake killed tens of thousands and left many more homeless.
Buildings have been reduced to rubble, the distribution of aid is slow, and people have been flooding out of the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince.
"Senegal is ready to offer them parcels of land - even an entire region. It all depends on how many Haitians come," Mr Bemba Ndiaye said.
"If it's just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region."
The spokesman emphasised that if a region was given, it would be in a fertile part of the country rather than in its parched deserts, the Associated Press news agency reported.
AWS D1.1 Structural Steel code book is the bible for erecting steel buildings and it is being updated every few years or so.
Trinidad recently erected new structures, god.. i hope this code book was used during construction.
with the role france play in haiti, dey might be using a european building code
Especially since many of the large, tall building in POS designed by French men.
The building codes in TT should read: Anything AS tall AS a coco-nut 3 should follow japanese and california structural building codes.
T&T 22 years overdue
Not a major quake in decades...
Aretha Welch awelch@trinidadexpress.com
UWI seismologist, Dr Joan Latchman said yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago, despite the fact that our fear of major earthquakes may be lulled because we have not had a major shake in decades, is in fact 22 years overdue.
She said a tremor of similar proportions to the one which wrecked Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince just two days ago has been on the cards for over two decades.
And if it does hit, those living in areas like the swampy Beetham Gardens, Laventille hill sides, the reclaimed sea beds in West Trinidad and unplanned squatting communities are those who are most vulnerable to experiencing the worst effects of the brutal shaking that will come along with the earthquake.
This according to a team of seismology experts and earthquake engineers who held a press conference at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit, in St Augustine yesterday.
When asked about this country’s level of risk, given the proximity of Haiti, Latchman said, ’We do sit on the corner of the Caribbean plate, all of the Eastern Caribbean, including Venezuela is on a seismic plate boundary. So yes we will have earthquakes.’
After explaining that seismologists have given the country a century long cycle in relation to the occurrence of large earthquakes, she then said given that the last major shake occurred between Grenada and T&T in 1888, the country was about 22 years overdue.
She said, ’We do expect a large event soon. How soon is what we don’t know.’
However, Latchman said there was no need for mass panic if the country kept in mind that earthquakes are not what kill people, but instead it was the falling debris and sometimes improperly built buildings which did the damage.
She warned that the country should prepare.
’When the big earthquake does occur, we do not want it to devastate the economy and destroy the country.’
Dr Walter Salazar, an earthquake engineer at UWI also said that Trinidad and Tobago should have country specific building codes, that was based on the result of seismic maps done for this region, not based on codes that work for foreign countries.
He said at present T&T uses a United States developed building code.
Salazar warned, ’Using building codes, from abroad is not appropriate.’
He said the region must begin to understand their own level of ’seismic hazard.’
Both agreed this country had no country specific building codes and no agency properly enforces laws on building construction in this country and that needs to be rectified.
While they said engineers would adhere to the standards for large projects, they said these rules are not always held by those constructing residential properties.
Lloyd Lynch, Acting director of UWI’s seismic research centre said, ’We need stronger compliance, stronger agencies to police construction.’
From a news crew trying to fly in:
"We were just told that planes circled so long before landing that they landed with insufficient fuel to leave....and they must leave before other planes can land. We left the area when fuel got short and we did not want to jump sequence ...other flights were more important (eg with search dogs.)"
And the seaport is too damaged to accept cargo ships.
Hopefully supplies can be dropped out of the back of c130's so they don't have to land, otherwise big delays to get aid out.
more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017524199
Jeez, that country cyah ketch ah streak of good luck for centuries now
7.0 is real real serious ting.
Who's de lady?oh gorme BS! Yuh drive a stake troo meh heart dey!!
Dais MY girl Heather Headley. Interviewed her, snapped her and like dis girl bad bad...which is why ah cah caption dis...
lawd take dis cup away...
davyjenny leave me alone eh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fj9qAGhuk
my bottom lip trembling and ah feeling weak. Ent I tell all yuh to see it and pass? Where all yuh from?
to caption this photo and each time I pull my hand back from the keyboard.
I couldn't think of anything to say that wouldn't make me damn my immortal soul.
Not one word eh all yuh? See it and pass...
Well look at bacchanal in here, i eh want no part ah go monitor de comments!!
What ah joke!! imagine bahrain is the friendliest country in the world according to forbs! what iz the world coming too! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-30903755
Not ah joke nah, I spent over a week there in March and I can't tell you how impressed I was by the hospitality of the folks over there. I went expecting to see the hostility we see during the TT-BAH game but not so. I had to give a lil speech at a reception at a company and joke bout the football and people ketch kix with me afterwards. Ah had dinner at a man house and they kill us with food and kindness.
To boot I was in Dubai before heading to BAH, and that was an eye opening experience especially when yuh factor in Dubai have a sort of caste system complete with indentured under-class and a native population with a superiority complex. I went to BAH expecting a similar experience but it was night and day compared to Dubai. I had a totally different view of the place when ah left!
And so goes the love hate relationship between KJ and T&T fans....
Ah take een the comparisons between Bent and KJ but anyone notice when KJ came on against City, the game changed... he immediately had to men marking him in set plays, one in front and one behind so more space for ..... the lil things that go unnoticed.
Bent aint no Jones and Jones aint no BentAnd that's why he's the second striker, he is following instructions from Bruce what you expect.
Bent is a quietly proven striker/finisher he runs, he hustles, he has good positioning, he can trap
Jones has decent height and good build, hasn't chased a ball since he got mash up vs england in the stadium
rarely scores with his feet. (dispite the game being called foot ball)
Jones dosent really pull defenders and allow Bent space, Bent is just better and more mobile thus he moves to the right spaces
Dont be hating Bent ....lets face it and be honest he is and will always be better than our boy
sad but true
I agree with bruce, i dont know what it would take but someone needs to light a fire under jones' ass, dont even know if there is much gas left in there, he is at his peak, imagine with age and weight he loses speed oh lawrd..............
Nia's parents are Trini... I know her mother is for sure, she has another daughter (Nia's half-sister) who's also a celebrity in her own right... the comedienne Sommore.
John Barnes, Tatiani Ali and Alfonso Rebiero (Fresh Prince), Nia Long
Well that i didn't know at all Nia Long have Trini blood in she? No wonder she sweet fuh days
Well even if she doh have.........she could get some
Both Nia Long's parents are Trinis, from San' Do.
Wrong! Nia's mom is from N.Y. Nia's grandmother is Trini it's a personal
on a radio station show she said her parents are from trinidad
John Barnes, Tatiani Ali and Alfonso Rebiero (Fresh Prince), Nia Long
Well that i didn't know at all Nia Long have Trini blood in she? No wonder she sweet fuh days
Well even if she doh have.........she could get some
Both Nia Long's parents are Trinis, from San' Do.
