PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Minutes after watching the miraculous revitalization of the city of New Orleans thanks to the Saints’ 31-17 upset victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV, Haitian President Rene Preval contacted the National Football League about securing a football team for his earthquake-ravaged island nation.
“If simply winning an important football contest can alleviate the socioeconomic suffering of a tragically beleaguered people, then that seems the way to go,” declared Preval, referring to the abrupt turnaround experienced by the Big Easy Sunday night following the devastation of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. “It makes a whole lot more sense than enjoining Justin Timberlake to perform Leonard Cohen songs.”
The rest of Sun Life Stadium erupted. Every football fan in the world inched closer to his TV, ready to watch the final stirring minutes of Super Bowl XLIV. Meanwhile, with 5:42 remaining in the biggest game he ever played in, Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma stood on the sideline, his hands resting peacefully on his hips.
Just moments before the Saints clinched their 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, he was calm.
Colts receiver Pierre Garcon reacts to a dropped pass on third down.
MIAMI GARDENS — A breakout season capped by a touchdown in a Super Bowl in his backyard.
Pierre Garcon probably would have jumped at that script before this season.
He wasn’t Sunday night.
Super Bowl XLIV was only over for a half-hour when Garcon, an Indianapolis Colts second-year receiver from John I. Leonard High, already was thinking about what he had to do to improve for next season, and what it would take for that season to end unlike this one.
By Ianthe Jeanne Dugan Aid Groups Seek to Build a System for the Thousands Who Lost Limbs in the Earthquake Selita de Elois carries her 4-year-old daughter, Louise, whose lower left leg was amputated after a wall fell on her during Haiti’s Jan. 12 quake.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The only place in Haiti that makes artificial limbs and teaches people how to use them was destroyed in the earthquake, a loss that symbolizes the hard road ahead for this impoverished nation’s countless new amputees.
By Rachel Revehl, The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press Cape Coral pilot David Beauvois tells Cape Christian Fellowship members on Saturday that the supplies and goods they flew to Haiti might not reach an orphange the church supports because of a customs holdup in Cap Haitien. At left is co-pilot Sean Sanders.
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — The members of the Cape Christian Fellowship felt their donations of baby food, diapers, toys and cribs would be welcomed in this impoverished port city. They were, but for a price, said Brett Furlong, executive pastor of the fellowship in Cape Coral, Fla. Continue reading »
International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda OTTAWA — Canadian citizens have donated 113 million Canadian dollars to help Haiti recover from a devastating quake last month, International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda said Monday.
The minister applauded her compatriots’ “incredible” generosity and urged them to keep giving as all donations to aid groups by week’s end would be matched by the Canadian government.
Haiti postal code “HT6110″ “Port-au-prince Capital of Haiti”
“Zip Code” is a United States of America thing only… (Or U.S. territories or bases etc.) other countries use “postal codes”
Haiti uses four-digit postal codes, always prefixed with “HT”. The first digit represents the department; the first two, the arrondissement; the first three, the commune.
We’ve been throwing around a March launch date for the T-Mobile HD2 for a while now. And if this slide, purportedly from an internal T-Mobile presentation, is correct, it seems we’re on the money. It shows the HD2 being released in the US on March 24, along with a slew of other current and future devices. Not much to say other than that, until we see it confirmed by other sources. Continue reading »
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