Americans spend on pets than $ 50 billion

New estimates indicated a large increase in spending on American pets, where it saysthe American Association of pet products, it exceeded $ 50 billion through 2011.
The spending on food, medical care, about 65 percent of the total, with increasedspending on "pet services" at rates more than any other spending to reach 3.79 billiondollars in 2011.
Include the expenses of pet care services, food and hotel accommodation competent.
The head of the Association Bob Vetere is expected continued high spending on petservices to reach $ 4.11 billion by the end of 2012.
He adds, "We see an increase in this item, where people continue to work and requestservices such as pet care and feed them and walk around with it."
It is expected to increase pet insurance, where the estimated expenditure for this item to$ 450 million during 2011.
Said Jessica Foglsang doctor in San Diego's Alaitria "Associated Press" People areinterested in Pets, more than ever before. "
She noted that the services sector pets become more able to meet the specific needs of pet owners.

Source: BBC Arabic

Strong earthquake shakes New Caldeonya

She said the U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 shookNew Caledonia in the South Pacific on Saturday.

The center said the warning of the tsunami in the Pacific Ocean did not issue a warningthat a tsunami occurred.

The epicenter was 399 kilometers east of the capital Noumea.

Source: Reuters

Poll - sleepiness affects the work of the pilots and train drivers

Many people resist the temptation to sleep in a boring meeting or idle afternoon, but the problem is more apparent between the pilots and train drivers.
He admitted about a quarter of pilots, airlines and about 23 percent of drivers surveyed conducted by the National Foundation for Research on sleep that sleepiness affects the performance of their jobs compared to 17 percent of workers in areas other than transportation.
He said about 20 percent of the pilots and train drivers they have committed serious errors in their work because of sleepiness.
Said David Cloud, CEO of the Foundation based in the Virginia-based "margin of error in these two professions is very small. Staff must transport their sleep organization to perform their best."
Also, the number of car accidents experienced by train drivers and pilots because of sleepiness when driving their cars on their way going or returning from work six times greater than accidents involving other employees.
It may be a working system the pilots and train drivers and travel for long periods of time a source of sleep disturbance, just like doctors, nurses and others who are working throughout the day.
According to the Foundation that the lack of sleep is a common problem with one of every ten Americans admitted that Agalbhm sleep at the wrong time while driving a car or in a meeting.
But the largest number of transport workers. Half of the pilots and train drivers' two-thirds of those surveyed said they rarely get to sleep during periods of healthy Manaobachm night workers more than others.
And lack of sleep has an effect on cognition and risk assessment and problem solving, response time and mood.
The survey, conducted by WB & A Market Research for more than a thousand adults, including 292 miners were working in areas other than transport and 202 pilots and 203 truck drivers and 180 drivers and 210 drivers of trains, buses, taxis and tourist taxis.
Source: Reuters

Killed 14 train crash in Poland

Killed at least 14 people when passenger trains collided head-on in southern Poland in the late evening Saturday in one of the worst train accidents in Poland for more than 20 years.
The trains carrying an estimated 350 passengers and are moving in opposite directions on the same line when he collided at high speed in a rural area. And wounded at least 54 people.
Stepped up one of the carriages, which was traveling to Warsaw to the top by the force of the collision. And went out of other vehicles on the tracks and rolled on her side.
He said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who arrived to the scene with several government officials, a Chrin in the early hours of Sunday morning, "This is certainly the most tragic Korat trains in our history for many years.
"We can not at this time to give full responsibility for the final number of dead. We expect at least 14, but we are afraid to rise to 15 Hmaaladd."
He said it was too early to predict because of the collision, but added that he can not rule out human error.
Was not immediately known the fate of the drivers of the trains at a time when the authorities still determine the identities of the dead.
And rushed more than 350 firefighters to the scene, but they had to carry their equipment into their own hands, because the trains collided in the center of the field does not go through the only railway tracks.
With the help of a dog trained rescuers continued to search for victims of others in a dented steel blocks where Tusk said they had found the body of another one at least.
Said one survivor, "I was shocked. The person who hit the front of me. The lights were turned off. And everything flew. And we flew in the cabin, such as bags. And we could hear the screaming."
And transport the injured to nearby hospitals. It was among the passengers, many of the Ukrainians as well as French and Spaniards, but not one of them is transferred to the hospital.
Source: Reuters

Continuation of the rescue and clean-up in America and the hurricane killed 39

Rescue teams combed and residents of hurricane-ravaged towns to assess the damage on Saturday after a series of hurricanes that have caused havoc along the thousand miles of the U.S. Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico at a time when the death toll rose to 39 at least.
Officials said the hurricane that blew on Friday destroyed homes and damaged schools and a prison and toppled vehicles in different areas, killing 20 people in the state of Kentucky and 14 in the state of Indiana and neighboring three in Ohio and one in the state of Alabama. As announced by the state of Georgia killed a person in a related incident storms.
Said Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana said in a statement to CNN television news during a visit to the affected area in the south east of the state on Saturday, "we are used here in Indiana to nature's fury."
He said while the show's successor in the town of Henrivel which were exposed to serious damage, "but it became serious, as we have seen in past years since I took this job."
Hurricanes and culminating on Friday, which made its way from the Gulf of Mexico as far south as the Great Lakes northward wave of bad weather sweeping the deadly U.S. Midwest, bringing the death toll over the past week to at least 52 people.
In the area of ​​Ground Zero in the center of the town were evacuated Henrivel almost all students of a school compound on Friday afternoon before the storm sweeping the town. But about 40 teachers and students were among the last group leaving the school bus come back when they saw a terrible vow of the storm is approaching.
The storm turned the school bus. The high winds toppled another bus engine to settle down in front of a restaurant on the opposite side of the street, who fled by other residents.
In what looked like only a miracle did not drop dead one in the town, according to rescue officials indicate.
Some residents and semi-Friday Balzalzal hurricane's devastating in April 1974 which was the largest and most violent earthquakes in the history of the United States.
The storms came after less than a year on a series of storms caused the worst wave of losses under the United States is expected that the insurance industry is facing huge losses again.
The television footage showed the air taken from destroyed houses in different parts of several states, including Georgia, where storms toppled a light aircraft on the tarmac of a regional airport in the province before the County Boulding posed smashed on the ground.
An official in Indiana, killing 14 people by the hurricane on Friday in four counties in the state's southeast. A spokesman for the emergency services in the state of Kentucky that the death toll at 20 people across the state as officials announced the state of Ohio, killing three people in one of the districts of the state.
In Georgia, found the 83-year-old woman dead near a drainage tube after it emerged from her home in bad weather on Friday may have to search for the best shelter. An official at the public safety, he may have died after high water in the tube.
Have been warning of the hurricane all day on Friday of the Midwest and even the southeastern United States and shut down schools, shops, such as storm doors after a series of hurricanes earlier this week that killed 13 people in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee.
And increased severe storms last week, fears that the year 2012, carrying more hurricanes in the wake of killing 550 people because of last year across the country, the highest number of victims of its kind in a century, according to statistics from the National Authority for Meteorology.
Authorities said 40 homes were destroyed and another 150 houses were damaged in two districts in northern Alabama on Friday. Said Joe Paul Boone Director of the Emergency Management Agency in the province of Talabussa One person was killed in his home in the province.
Officials in Alabama that the roof Nbran in prison vulnerable to damage, leading to transfer 300 inmates to another place in prison. Said Brian Corbett, a spokesman for the prison administration in Alabama that he had not been in prison for a serious injury did not venture any prisoner to escape from prison, despite the damage in some parts of the prison wall.
And multiplying the number of hurricanes as well as Tennessee and along the Ohio River Valley in the state of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
Source: Reuters

French journalist tells the story of her escape from Homs

French journalist said Edith Bouvier dim it to end its attempt to escape from inside the tunnel Homs Mazam extends three kilometers was used by the armed opposition to carrying supplies to the district of Baba Amr besieged when the Syrian army bombed the tunnel exit.
And broke her leg in the explosion of a shell killed two foreign journalists two days before her escape, and Bouvier left in the tunnel was placed on a stretcher improvised fled while dozens of opposition fighters with the effects of explosions and returned to the neighborhood in which his uncle's destruction.
Buffett said the French newspaper Le Figaro, which was self-employed in Syria, "put one of them put his rifle Kalashnikov me. Then put his hand on my head and followed by prayers. It was not reassuring. Then left.
"I did not know what will happen after that. Do you close the outlet (the tunnel) .. you will enter Syrian soldiers .. I wanted to escape and then I found linked to the stretcher."
And saved one opposition fighters Bouvier and French photographer William Daniels, who accompanied throughout the journey when he entered the tunnel with a height of 1.6 meters on a motorbike and returned them to the Pope Amr.
Buffett said that when she saw the light outside the tunnel so her head was bleeding and had her leg wrapped in bandages was not wearing her underwear is after the stretcher had to leave and added that the opposition fighters stunned when I asked them a cigarette.
One of the fighters and asked her "Do you want to end your days here?" She said "Sure .. if that was after a long life but not now."
Arrived Bouvier and Daniels to Homs in February 21 to join a small group of war correspondents who documented the attack forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the city as part of an extensive campaign to suppress the protests resulted, according to statistics the United Nations has so far killed more than 7,500 civilians.
Buffett recalls the day the first since the bombing of the house approached the journalists who live there "when the bombs fell they told us that this cast Bashar greet the morning."
The journalists left the house three-storey house, fearing for their lives but a shell exploded near them as they enter into the street, wounding and killing Bouvier war veteran journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remy Aohleyk.
The scans were examined when Buffett was taken to a field hospital belonging to the opposition fighters and was told that her thigh bones broken. She added, "They told me you need to have emergency surgery Ajlaak. And then began the great escape."
Buffett praised the courage of Syrian fighters to escape as she recalled a trip that lasted a week and said they risked their lives to take it out is to Daniels safety while besieging the fourth year, led by Maher al-Assad of the city.
Buffett has denied allegations that the Syrian government opposition foreign journalists used as human shields and said they were too afraid to leave with a convoy of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was transporting wounded civilians for fear of snipers.
With the collapse of the tunnel and the approach of the fall in the hands of Pope Amr Army decided to journalists who have become hunted after Syrian television broadcast their forms and risk everything to escape in a car under cover of darkness.
Buffett said "We were exhausted physically and mentally. We had to get out of there."The newspaper did not publish details of the escape, fearing for the safety of the forward to them a helping hand.
Source: Reuters

Syrian forces bombed Homs and deploy tanks in the Middle

Said activists and aid workers that the Syrian forces bombed again parts of the city of Homs on Saturday and prevented a second day of the arrival of Red Cross aid to civilians who were stranded for several weeks without food or fuel in the former stronghold of the opposition.
Opposition activists said that the tanks of the army, published in the Syrian town of Deir Al-Zour in eastern Syria on Saturday to face the opposition forces there and support the troops and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, which came under attack from opponents after the killing of three demonstrators demanding democracy.
And the outside world proved unable to stop the killings in Syria, where he led the suppression of protests were peaceful at first against the rule of Assad to armed rebellion by dissidents from the army and others.
He accused the activists opposed to the government the government forces launched a fresh attack on the Homs to punish people in the city, which is a symbol of the revolution that began a year ago and the arrest of hundreds of people in various parts of Syria.
The network said the Syrian Human Rights opposition that in an act of revenge forces fired Assad mortar and machinegun fire since Saturday morning on Jobar, referring to the neighborhood adjacent to the Pope Amr, who was the opposition to the siege and bombardment over about a month ago to escape the day before.
She pointed to the network in a statement there were no immediate reports of casualties because of the difficulty of communications.
He said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier that he had received "reports of appalling" for the Syrian government forces operations execution, imprisonment and torture of people in Homs, after opponents abandoned their positions.
The government says it is fighting "armed terrorists" supported from abroad, who stepped down on them the blame for killing hundreds of soldiers and police.
The United Nations says that Syrian forces had killed more than 7,500 civilians since the uprising began in March.
There is growing concern about civilians in extremely cold weather conditions in the neighborhood of Baba Amr still devastating where trucks International Committee of the Red Cross are prohibited from entering.
He said anti-government activists they fear that the forces preventing the entry of the Red Cross to prevent aid workers to watch the massacre of dissidents claim that they have suffered in the neighborhood of Baba Amr, who became a symbol of the uprising has been going in against al-Assad.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus that the Syrian authorities gave permission for the convoy to enter, but the government forces on the ground stopped the truck because of what it said were unsafe conditions including the presence of mines and booby traps.
Opposition sources said that the Syrian army tanks began to rally in the city of Zur in eastern Syria to support the troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, which was attacked by fighters from the Syrian army free.
Said one of the activists and named Abu Abdul Rahman, told Reuters from Deir Zour old Russian tanks T -54 aircraft and armored vehicles took up positions on the major fields.
He said every half hour or so you hear the sound of shooting from the free by the Syrian army in the direction of the roadblocks, which holds the Security Police and the guard Cbihh.
May constitute control of this Sunni city, located 450 kilometers northeast of Damascus, another major challenge to Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect, which represent a minority in Syria.
Were used twice, Russia and China veto power to prevent the issuance of resolutions of the Security Council containing condemn Damascus and its demand to halt its crackdown on protesters opposed to Assad. Russia has accused Western countries and China and Arab countries seeking "regime change" in Syria, similar to what happened in Libya.
China urged both Damascus and the rebels to end the violence immediately and to start talks, but said again that it opposes any form of foreign military intervention in Syria.
A statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry carried by the New China News Agency (Xinhua) early Sunday morning (Beijing Time), "The government of Syria and all the parties concerned cease all forms of violence immediately and in full and without conditions, particularly violence against innocent civilians."
Turkey has said a former ally of Syria that Assad had committed "war crimes" and criticized Syria to prevent the arrival of aid to the district of Baba Amr.
He said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint news conference with his Italian counterpart Giulio Tertisa "the Syrian regime commits a crime against humanity every day."
The agency said the Syrian Arab news agency that a suicide car bomb went off in a shield in the south, but militants have denied that the explosion was a suicide attack.
The agency said that the attacker was killed in the bombing of a shield three people and wounding 20 others, while residents said seven people were killed.
Said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the British-based fighters anti-lion killed six soldiers and wounded nine in a town south of shield movement.
He also said that seven people were killed in the province of Idlib and around northern Syria, including three killed in the explosion of a roadside bomb and the others shot fired by Syrian security forces.
The activists said on the outskirts of Damascus had been arrested hundreds of people and that Syrian security forces killed three people during raids in which they set fire also in homes and cars. Could not be verified from the reports of independent activists on the one hand because of restrictions on the media.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon explicitly blamed Damascus for the fate of civilians in one of the strongest criticism so far.
He said that "the brutal fighting detained civilians in their homes without food or heating, electricity or medical care, without a chance to evacuate the wounded or bury the dead. People had to melt snow for drinking water."
"This brutal attack appalling larger because the government is doing the same and attack its people systematically."
The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, in response to Ban's remarks Secretary-General involving the "language of wounds are close to the rule of defamation of the government of a State institution for this international organization and all that based on mere reports and opinions issued by the circles of Syrian opposition abroad live in the capitals of the Tnesb Syria and hostility to the intelligence reports to other countries, working not only on the regime change in Syria, but a change of the state .. "


Source: Reuters

«Wikileaks»: documents that confirm that the body «Bin Laden» was buried at sea, but moved to America

Site said «Wikileaks» The body of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had not been at sea according to the show three of the documents «Wikileaks» the company «Stratfor intelligence», published yesterday and the day before yesterday. The documents confirmed that the corpse of Bin Laden in the possession of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda, Maryland. The documents confirmed that the body was moved bin Laden to America in the plane «CIA» private. The documents indicate that the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that: Islamabad does not have any evidence to arrest the doctor «Bin Laden» who presented to the United States information about bin Laden's hideout, as Pakistani sources confirm. On the other hand, said American businessman Pakistani origin, Mansoor Ijaz, who was behind what has become known as the issue of the note secret: «The Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, is one of the authorized U.S. forces to enter Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden».Ijaz said, the Pakistani President was aware of the process, and that he told army chief General Ashfaq Kayani that allowed U.S. forces into Pakistani territory the night of the assassination of bin Laden.The miracle has said: «The former Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, had asked him to submit a memorandum of American leadership at the behest of President Zardari after the assassination of bin Laden. Memorandum and requests to help U.S. military coup expected, Pakistani and pledges full cooperation with the United States and give them military bases in Pakistan, compared with the government stand in the face of the military institution ». Ijaz said the day before yesterday to the Supreme Court of Pakistan: «The U.S. forces entered Pakistan had been in contact with air traffic tower for Pakistan's moment of entering the country».Furthermore, the media picked up news of the Pakistani government officials to find two copies of the Bible in the synagogue, which was home to Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. Have been found on the two versions while the crew was responsible for the demolition of the complex is busy demolishing the building with three floors, who was killed by Osama bin Laden in the second week of May 2011.According to security officials that he is likely to be bin Laden has used two copies of the Bible in English and some of their lines that have been identified, an applet for communication. And contained the English version of the Bible on the evidence and the blades are clear of future terrorist attacks on several areas around the world. Pakistani forces were surprised by the existence of the Christian holy book at the home of the most fanatical Islamists in the world, which contained on the pages were folded and write some notes on it. According to a Pakistani officers that he «was also found on my radio in excellent condition, and was reviewed folded pages in the Bible and mentioned it some more observations to see what was attracting the attention of bin Laden». He adds: «Perhaps bin Laden looking for some of the teachings of Jihad in the Christian religion».
Source: Middle East