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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Dogless. But not Godless....!
Our man in the Maldives….
Surprises start at the Male airport itself! I was in the Republic of Maldives last week to attend the first ever Hay Literature Festival, which in the words of Festival Director Andy Fryers, was to 'celebrate the archipelago both as a global treasure and as a rich and diverse heritage drawing on two thousand years of poetry, music and art." The lovely lady who met the flight looked like a model ( she blushed when I asked, and confessed she did indeed model as a teenager).Now her sights were set slightly higher - she was looking at a career in politics, while working closely with the 42- year-old President Mohammed Nasheed . As we waited in the VIP Lounge for other writers from Britain ('Atonement' author Ian McEwan, and Peter Godwin ), she filled me in on what was going on in this unique nation made up of over a thousand islands that dot the vast, startlingly blue ( fourteen shades – I counted!) Indian Ocean. The current President is hugely popular she said ( others beg to differ ), and is savvy enough to attract world attention to the plight of his nation that just may disappear from the face of this earth due to global warming and rising water levels. Yup. He's the same bloke who had scheduled an underwater cabinet meeting during the Copenhagen Convention in order to underline the gravity of the situation. Oh dear, I thought to myself as I stepped out of the airport and straight into a waiting speedboat at the jetty which was less than twenty metres away. What if the airport sank while the Lit Fest was on ? What if the island where the swish Soneva Gili Resort( an eco friendly, but pocket unfriendly at $1,000 a night) is located, went under during my short stay? Shudder, shudder. Durga! Durga! I prayed as the speedboat's dashing captain ( surely a can of gel went into spiking his hair into those impressive peaks?), took off jauntily, hitting top speed in under a few seconds. Soon we were in the middle of the choppy waters and I could swear the levels were rising even as we slapped the surf hard and my spine felt like it would snap into several pieces if this insanely rough ride carried on much longer.
That was some introduction to these mysterious and magical isles, where locals sound like they are conversing in Tamil, look Malayali, but insist they are Indo-Aryan. At the world famous resort, with its 'Robinson Crusoe Villas' ( built on stilts over azure lagoons and only accessible by boats ), my Man Friday Nawaz pointed helpfully to a cycle balancing against the bleached wooden door and said, " Remember – no news, no shoes. That's the rule here." The cycle stared back cheekily challenging me to give those stiff calf muscles an instant workout. I definitely needed a drink. A gallon of champagne. My nerves were seriously on edge. I looked towards the horizon and saw storm clouds gathering. An ominous sign. The tsunami had claimed 86 lives, and 26 more are still missing. Tidal waves were not unheard of in this part of the ocean. There were sharks in dem waters… and I don't swim. Nawaz grinned wickedly and said, " Relax… you are perfectly safe here." Oh yeah?? Then why was the cabinet meeting held underwater? Big fat raindrops fell over my head as I tried to follow Nawaz's advice and relax. In this scrupulously eco- friendly resort – the brain child of Sonu and Eva Shivdasani, the emphasis is on nature and open air living…. the shower area is a small walk away over wooden boards and you can technically wave out to passing fishermen as they haul the tuna into the nets. I can see why this resort is so popular with Europeans in search of strong sun and complete privacy. Imagine my distress – the only other guests besides the pale Europeans were paler Japanese honeymooners canoodling in shady corners. India's 'official' honeymooners ( Shashi T and Sunanda P) were expected but backed out at the last minute. So…there I was rattling around in this vast space all by myself… and sorry to say, I wasn't thinking about global warming. I was looking at those menacing clouds and wondering how I'd survive the night with the wind howling through that thatched roof ( what if it blew away?).As it turned out, after a splendid solo dinner at the main restaurant ( a couple of glasses of New Zealand White, and I was ready to swim with the sharks) my nerves had settled sufficiently to handle a crowded day at the Lit Fest…. then on Male. But first there was the time difference to figure out. For some really odd reason, most islands operated on their own sweet time which varied from an hour to two hours from Male time. Visitors have to adjust and re-adjust their watches three times a day if they do go island hopping.
I decided to hop on to my guide Yasser's bike in what is considered one of the densest cities in the world. With a population of 1,20,000 on a tiny island that can be covered at a leisurely pace in under an hour, the natives are getting restless. Very restless. Democracy is alien to this 900- year- old Islamic Republic which has actually been built by several friendly countries over the years. The Chinese have donated a spacious mosque next to the main square that accommodates 5,000 believers, the Japanese have built the schools, the Germans have contributed a stadium , Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and others have done their bit, while India has given them the Indira Gandhi Hospital. We have also trained their Coast Guard and army , and will be building two out of the three new airports. Lucky guys, these Maldivians. Sab kuch moofat! Yasser told me proudly there were no 'poor people' in his country. No dogs, either, I commented. He shook his head and stated emphatically, " Dogs have never existed on these islands. We don't allow dogs … they are un-Islamic. But people can keep cats." Phew! Dogless. But not Godless. That's a relief.
By the time I reached the residence of our man in the Maldives , Dnyaneshwar Mulay ( High Commissioner), I was dehydrated and ready to head home to Mumbai. Shri Mulay is a Sanskrit scholar and the youngest ambassador in South Asia. This bright IFS guy from Kolhapur is obviously doing an efficient job of keeping the Maldivians in good humour while safeguarding India's interests in the region. He has big plans. One of those involves making sure all three new airports are built by Indian companies. He also spearheads inspiring programmes ( Project DynanDeep and Gram Parivartan) to provide quality education to under privileged kids, and an ideal village, back in his hometown .After a quick coffee and chivda at his home, I had to rush back to my Robinson Crusoe existence. But at least my Man Friday was around to make sure I didn't fall off the jetty and end up in those amazing waters as a pre-dinner appetizer for those hungry sharks.
23 comments:
- anamika said...
sounds really scary..:D
- October 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM
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- October 27, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- UjjwalRaaj said...
love dogs. I love cats . I like all animals. And I think treating one animal in a lesser way because of religion is a stupid thing. I think that religion needs revision for God's sake. ( aah the irony?)
The islands are amazing. Wish I could go back sometime :)
- October 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
Beautiful place and pretty u nice pic.
- October 27, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
`definitely needed a drink. A gallon of champagne. '
and that too in an island :)
- October 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM
- Neha said...
Nice picture.
And the place sounds interesting.
- October 27, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Aayushi said...
what a lovely picture shobhaa!!
great view!!
- October 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Radhika Gupta said...
lovely pic!
- October 27, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- manisha said...
that is one wonderful picture. and though i didn't want to comment on your looks, am forced to say you are looking great :)
- October 27, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- rainboy said...
Your post has made me plan a vacation to Maldives next :D
thanks for describing the details so well :)
take care
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- October 27, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- hamaarethoughts.com said...
very cute pic!
- October 28, 2010 at 4:44 AM
- thullikal said...
There is one important missing point mam, its about Maldivians' hunger for Tuna fish.Whatever you eat, you ca find scraps of this fish-even in snacks!!One more interesting thing, if your flight fail to touch at the exact starting point of runway, you will find yourself swimming after a while.
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- SG said...
Mam Why u are blogging such a lengthy article?? We like small and quick Cheers.
- November 1, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Nice one. Maldives is a beautiful country and so are the people there.
What i learnt on my visit there was that the country ranks amongst the highest in Divorce rates in the world. And it is common for people to be married 6-7 times in their lifetime. The local men have a wife on each of the island they visit and marriages are usually a short term affair for them.
- November 9, 2010 at 5:31 PM
- Mekala said...
Hi Mam, I'm a great fan of yours. I was in Male from 1995 to 1999 with my husband and two children. My husband was posted as a consultant in the Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital and had to train the locals on how to run the lab. The place as such is great aesthetically but the mindset of the locals was horrible. We survived because of our white passports. These fish brained fellows have nothing original and have to depend on other countries for everything, but the TITANIC ego that they have is really surprising. We used have fun listening to Maldivian film songs with music from our old Hindi hits of the 60s and 70s. The lyrics were in Diwedi the national language of Maldives. The Maldivians are very good in arts and keeping the environment clean. This was something appreciable. Marriages in Maldives are nothing more than timepass. The country as such has taken up the responsibility of the children who have n number of parents. Also age is no bar, a 17 old boy can have a wife of 30 years. OK mam talking about Maldives can go on and on. I wish you all the best and pleasssse keep writing.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT rowing program saw six current student-athletes, two incoming freshmen, and one alumna compete at the 2010 US Rowing Club National Championship held July 14-18 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Kate Hoff '08, Richard Suarez '11, Lucas Goodman '11, Ben Potash '14, and Andrew Schlaepfer '14 earned medals while Lauren Ayers '13, Meghan Dow '12, Katie Everett '12, and Clare Flanagan '11 turned in solid performances.
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Goodman, a three-year member of MIT's men's heavyweight team, had a full slate racing for the US Rowing Pre-Elite Camp. In the senior 8+, he finished second (6:03.53) while he placed third in the senior pairs (7:14.57). Goodman was edged out of the semifinals in both the senior singles and intermediate singles by just over a second.
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Flood of refugees desperate to escape heavy fighting in northern provinces; escalation brings number of registered refugees up to 408,000; Assad has 'no regrets'
BEIRUT (AP) — At least 11,000 Syrians poured into neighboring countries in a single day, UN officials said Friday, in a dramatic surge in the exodus of refugees fueled by heavy battles between regime forces and rebels for control of a border town.
Some of the refugees desperately clambered over razor-wire border fences to reach safety in Turkey, fleeing one of the heaviest battlegrounds — the town of Ras al-Ayn, where rebels seized security compounds of the regime's most powerful intelligence agencies and regime forces pounded rebels with shelling.
The flood of people was "the highest that we have had in quite some time," said Panos Moumtzis, the UN refugee agency's regional coordinator for the region.
The escalation — much more than the average 2,000 to 3,000 Syrians fleeing daily — brings the number of Syrian refugees registered with the agency to more than 408,000, he said.
Even as the turmoil worsened, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he had no regrets over his regime's crackdown in the 19-month-old uprising against his rule. In an interview with Russian television, he said there was no civil war in Syria, insisting that he was protecting Syrians against "terrorism" supported from abroad.
Syria's conflict began largely as peaceful protests against Assad's rule, but it has since collapsed into civil war after rebels took up arms in response to the regime's bloody crackdown. Rebels have driven regime forces out of much of a pocket of northwestern Syria and battle troops in several large cities and in towns around the country, even as the fight takes on dangerous sectarian tones between a mainly Sunni opposition and a regime dominated by Assad's minority Allawite sect.
More than 36,000 people have been killed in the violence since March 2011, according to activists.
During the 24-hour flood of refugees that began Thursday, 9,000 Syrians fled in to Turkey — including 70 who were wounded and two who then died, UN officials said. Jordan and Lebanon each absorbed another 1,000 refugees.
The largest flow into Turkey came from the fighting at Ras al-Ayn in the predominantly Kurdish northerneastern province of al-Hasaka. The town hugs the border, practically adjacent to the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar.
On Thursday, rebels captured a border crossing between the two towns, Ceylanpinar's mayor, Ismail Aslan, told The Associated Press by telephone.
The next day, rebels overran three security compounds in the town belonging to the Military Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence and General Intelligence Directorate agencies, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition activist group.
More than 20 soldiers were killed in the fighting, the Observatory said.
Regime forces shelled rebel positions on Friday morning, Ceylanpinar's mayor said. Regime tanks were also moving into the area to join the fight, according to another opposition activist group, the Local Coordination Committees.
Turkey's Anadolu Agency video footage showed Syrians jumping over and climbing through the razor-wiree fence that makes up part of the 911-kilometer (566-mile) border, to cross into Ceylanpinar.
Others fled into Turkey further west along the border, trying to escape fighting at the Syrian town of Harem in Idlib province, which has been the scene of intensified battles in recent days.
The new arrivals bring the number of refugees in Turkey to around 120,000.
Radhouane Nouicer, the UN's regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, said the Middle East nation is seeing unrelenting increases in violence, suffering, displacement and losses "and civilian Syrians continue to pay the price."
He said UN officials also worry that in recent weeks Kurds and Palestinians have become increasingly being drawn into the fighting.
Earlier, state-run Anadolu Agency said a group of Syrian soldiers, including two generals and 11 colonels, had fled to Turkey with their families and were taken to a camp that shelters military defectors, including dozens of other generals.
In fighting elsewhere Friday, at least 18 people, including children, were killed when government troops shelled the eastern village of Qouriyeh, the Observatory and the LCC said. An amateur video showed what appeared to be men, women and children, some of them with gapping wounds laying in street in what appeared to be a local market.
Activist videos could not be independently verified due to reporting restrictions in Syria, but they appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
A car bomb near the mayor's office in the Damascus suburb of Maadamiyeh killed at least four people, the Observatory said.
Assad's defiant tone in the TV interview aired Friday mirrored the stance he has staunchly taken since his country's crisis began — that his regime faces terrorists, not a popular uprising, and that he is will not step down. Speaking to English-language Russia Today TV, Assad hinted he will stay in his post until at least 2014 when presidential elections are scheduled to take place.
"I think for the president to stay or leave is a popular issue," he said.
Asked if he has any regrets, he said: "Not now," although he acknowledged that "when everything is clear" it would be normal to find some mistakes.
"We do not have a civil war," Assad said. "It is about terrorism and the support coming from abroad to terrorists to destabilize Syria. This is our war," he said, adding that it was a case of "terrorism through proxies, either Syrians living in Syria or foreign fighters coming from abroad," Assad said.
He said that when foreign countries stop sending arms to rebels, "I can tell (you) that in weeks we can finish everything."
Asked if he accepts that government forces have committed war crimes against their civilians, Assad said "we are fighting terrorism. We are implementing our constitution by protecting the Syrian people."
He referred to attacks by Chechen militants in Russia that killed scores and how Moscow retaliated. "The army in Russia protected the people, would you call it war crimes?! No, you would not," Assad said.
Assad, who came to power after his father and predecessor Hafez died in 2000, spoke in English in the interview that was broadcast in full on Friday. In an excerpt aired a day earlier, Assad said he will "live and die" in Syria and will not leave his country.
Sophie Shevarnadze, the journalist who conducted the 26-minute interview, said during the broadcast that she met Assad in a "newly renovated" presidential palace in Damascus.
She added that she spoke with Assad for about 15 minutes before the interview started and he told her that his three children still go to public schools in Damascus. She added that his British-born wife, Asma, is in Syria as well.
Assad is currently serving his second seven-year term as president, but a new constitution allows him to run again at least twice. The constitution, touted by the regime as a reform, was approved in a referendum earlier this year even as fighting raged. It opens the way for other candidates to run for presidency and imposes a two-term limit on the president, meaning Assad could remain legally in power through 2028.
Most Syrian opposition groups and rebels dismissed Assad's reforms as superficial and say they will not accept anything less than Assad's departure.
Also Friday, the main Syria's main opposition bloc in exile, the Syrian National Council, was debating whether to become part of a single leadership group that would set up a transitional government in rebel-held areas of Syria.
Several senior SNC members said the group is likely to accept the plan in principle, possibly by the end of Friday, but has significant reservations.
Proponents say the plan could give new momentum to the battle to oust Assad.
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Japanese cosplayer Shizuku tackles Reimu for this particular cosplay photoshoot, though by the looks of it, she certainly is ramping up the sex appeal on this one!
In earlier games, Reimu's spiritual abilities were highly limited. (In Highly Responsive to Prayers, she was in fact unable to harm enemies directly at all.) As time went by, however, she developed her abilities, becoming able to use the Yin-Yang Orb, special amulets, and her own (limited) spiritual power in order to fight more effectively. Sometime between Mystic Square and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, this culminated in her developing the ability to fly under her own power. (Before then, she relied on Genjii, her turtle familiar, to fly, and in fact did not fly at all in HRtP.)
As her abilities have changed, so has Reimu's personality. She is commonly described as easygoing, curious, at least somewhat dutiful (at least, the shrine hasn't fallen apart due to negligence on her part), and optimistic – sometimes overly so. Her personality seems sympathetic toward many individuals; there are few people indeed who remain her rivals past the first game in which they appear (though this is not to say she doesn't get into fights after the first meeting), and the shrine has become a moderately popular hangout for some of Gensokyo's more interesting female individuals.
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The February Brent crude contract, which expires on Thursday,
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Britain's biggest oilfield, Buzzard, where an outage last week
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Dr. Neil Cobelli presents Madaleine and Arnold Penner with a plaque recognizing their support of the symposium. They are flanked by Dr. Herb Sun (left) and Dr. David Hirsh.This past fall, Einstein hosted its inaugural Arnold and Madaleine Penner Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium, held in the Price Center/Block Research Pavilion's Ethel & Samuel Lefrak Auditorium, to promote a better understanding of musculoskeletal biology and its various challenges, and to encourage dialogue about current approaches to identifying effective new treatments and cures.
"We wanted to foster an atmosphere in which clinical and basic researchers could interact and connect with one another, said Dr. Hui (Herb) Sun, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and radiation oncology, who served as the symposium's scientific director and organized the event with Dr. Neil Cobelli, professor and chair of orthopaedic surgery and chair of that department at its University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center. "Our hope was that basic scientists would connect with those doing clinical investigations, identifying colleagues for future research projects. Such collaboration could lead to new applications of repair and regeneration techniques, which could then be translated into clinical use."
Winners of Young Investigator Awards (from left): Da Jing (Columbia University), Jonathan Bourne (Hospital for Special Surgery) and Michelle Gupta (College of the City of New York)The daylong event offered presentations by 26 leading researchers and physician-scientists from New York-area medical institutions, including Einstein, New York University, Columbia University, Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell, Hospital for Special Surgery and The City College of New York. It also featured a poster session highlighting the work of 35 students and postdoctoral fellows from the participating institutions, who competed for Young Investigator Awards. The day concluded with a dinner in Lubin Dining Hall, where the symposium organizers honored Arnold and Madaleine Penner for their vision and generous support.
The couple was presented with a special plaque by Dr. David Hirsh, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and president of the orthopaedic alumni association, who noted, "For the many years I've known you, you've had an abiding interest in fixing what's broken, to make the world a little better." Mr. Penner, who serves on Einstein's Board of Overseers and on the executive board of Einstein's Men's Division, has a personal interest in the field of orthopaedic surgery. "David and I were talking about orthopaedic surgery and the need for funding to promote vigorous research in this area," he said, pointing to his bad knee – resulting from a mishap on a motorcycle. "Soon, there may be a process to fix this without an operation. The research discussed here today has the potential to regenerate the whole body, so to be a part of it is special."
In addition, Dr. Hirsh, who also is director of the joint replacement service at Montefiore, noted the orthopaedic research program's rapid growth under the directorship of Dr. Sun. "We've never had so many interdisciplinary, world-leading scientists under the same roof to talk about advances in our field," he said.
Members of the conference faculty, representing all participating institutions, pose by a bust of Albert EinsteinDr. Cobelli agreed, noting, "We've had osteoarthritis and joint replacement surgeons meeting with basic scientists, discussing the potential uses of stem cells and other innovative technologies to regenerate musculoskeletal tissues and exchanging ideas about future treatment approaches for osteoarthritis. By bringing so many in our field together with the bench scientists, the groundwork has been laid for partnerships that could lead to novel treatments for repairing tendons, muscles and bone."
The symposium will take place annually, with plans to widen its scope. "Many of the speakers today told us there's no forum like this for our field of study in the U.S., let alone the world," said Dr. Sun. "We've focused on the metropolitan area now, but within the coming years we intend to include participants from around the world."
"Einstein has been at the forefront of many scientific endeavors," said Dr. Cobelli, "and this is just another example of how Dr. Spiegel and Dr. Burns have enabled the faculty to be leaders in a field of science that hasn't had this kind of collaborative effort. Close to 15 percent of healthcare dollars are spent on musculoskeletal disease, but it receives less than 2 percent of research dollars, so collaborative efforts are critical to moving the field forward."
Editor's Note: The second annual Arnold and Madaleine Penner Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium will be held in the Price Center/Block Research Pavilion on Thursday, October 10, 2013. In addition to returning 22 of the founding faculty members from the 2012 symposium, the upcoming symposium will include four new faculty members — from University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Connecticut and North Shore-LIJ — who will share their research experiences. Winners of the Young Investigator Awards from the inaugural event also will present short talks on their research and current progress.
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Abstract: This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the firm level for the probability of firms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three different types of education for employees with at least 16 years of schooling: technical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Furthermore, we examine the influence of these different innovation activities on firm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish firms, we find that different types of innovations are related to distinct educational types. Moreover, we find that firms that adopt product and marketing innovation are more productive than firms that adopt product innovation but not marketing innovation and firms that adopt marketing innovation but not product innovation. In addition, firms that adopt organisational and process innovation demonstrate greated productivity levels than forms that adopt organisational innovation but not process innovation that again demonstrate greater productivity than firms that do not adopt process innovation but not organisational innovation. Finally, we establish that product and marketing innovation as well as organisational and process innovation are complementary inputs using formal tests for supermodularity. Complementarity can be rejected for all other pairs of innovation types. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8498
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Abstract: The role of product and marketing innovation for productivity growth is addressed using survey and register data for the Danish economy. It is argued that marketing and product innovation are complementary inputs and that innovation activities are skill-intensive. It is found that product and marketing innovation in skill-intensive firms results in significantly faster productivity growth than in unskilled-intensive firms that introduce this combination of innovation activities. More precisely, an increase in the share of educated workers of one percentage point, increases productivity growth by around 0.1 percentage point in firms with product and marketing innovation. In addition, it is found that firms that engage in product innovation but not in marketing innovation or the other way around do not demonstrate a growth effect from their innovation activities. It is also found that product and marketing innovation has an independent role in productivity growth that cannot be attributed to organisational changes, even though the majority of innovative firms engage in this latter innovation type. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8468
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LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — At least 52 people drowned in their homes and cars, were electrocuted or died in other accidents as flooding from days of torrential rains swamped Argentina's low-lying capital and province of Buenos Aires.
At least 46 died Wednesday in and around the city of La Plata, Gov. Daniel Scioli said. Six deaths were reported a day earlier in the nation's capital.
Many people climbed onto their roofs in the pouring rain after storm sewers backed up. Water surged up through drains in their kitchen and bathroom floors, and then poured in over their windowsills.
"It started to rain really hard in the evening, and began to flood," said Augustina Garcia Orsi, a 25-year-old student. "I panicked. In two seconds, I was up to my knees in water. It came up through the drains — I couldn't do anything."
The rains also flooded the country's largest refinery, causing a fire that took hours to put out. The La Plata refinery suspended operations as a result, and Argentina's YPF oil company said an emergency team was evaluating how to get it restarted.
"Such intense rain in so little time has left many people trapped in their cars, in the streets, in some cases electrocuted. We are giving priority to rescuing people who have been stuck in trees or on the roofs of their homes," Scioli said.
But many complained that they had to rescue themselves and their neighbors as cars flooded to their rooftops and homes filled with up to two meters (six feet) of water.
"We lost family heirlooms, appliances, clothing," said Natalia Lescano, who escaped with her family to a friend's house on higher ground.
President Cristina Fernandez arrived by helicopter in Tolosa, a La Plata neighborhood where she grew up and where her mother was among those evacuated. She announced security measures to combat vandalism, help for identifying the dead, and three days of national mourning for the victims.
She was then was surrounded by her mother's neighbors, in a rare uncontrolled encounter with everyday citizens. Some hugged and thanked her. Others complained angrily and shouted at her to "go away."
"It's a disgrace," Miguel Garcia, a 58-year-old shopkeeper, said earlier. "They need to govern. My mother-in-law is disabled. We had to carry her up to the roof, and then we had to rescue ourselves because no ambulance would come."
The coast guard finally reached the Bozzano family on their rooftop an hour before dawn. By then, their car had floated away and everything inside the house was destroyed.
"We were trapped inside the house and couldn't get out because of the water pressure. Finally we were able to open a door and escaped to the roof. That's where we spent the night," Mauricio Bozzano said.
The heaviest rain — almost 16 inches (400 millimeters) in just a few hours, beating historical records for the entire month of April — hit provincial La Plata overnight. A day earlier, the capital of Buenos Aires was hit hardest.
About four more inches (100 millimeters more) of rain were expected before the bad weather passes on Thursday, the national weather service said.
At least 2,500 people were evacuated from their homes to about 20 centers in the La Plata area, which is about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Argentina's capital.
The flooding threatened to ruin food supplies across La Plata's metropolitan area, which has nearly 1 million people.
It also closed the private Spanish Hospital, a complex that covers an entire city block, after waters rushed into the basement, cutting power and destroying X-ray machines and other diagnostic equipment.
"We're sending away all the patients and the hospital will be closed for several days," said Sebastian Sambron, one of the hospital's top officials. "We're telephonically cut off, and without power since last night. The hospital is collapsed."
National Planning Minister Julio de Vido estimated that 280,000 people remained without power across the city and surrounding province of Buenos Aires, where most Argentines live.
"Our job is focused on restoring service, but we're going to wait until the equipment dries to guarantee the safety of the electricity workers, because we don't want any deaths," De Vido said.
YPF said no injuries were caused by the refinery fire, which it blamed on "an extraordinary accumulation of rainwater and power outages in the entire refinery complex." The impact on Argentina's chronically short fuel supplies wasn't immediately clear.
The six killed in Buenos Aires included a subway worker who was electrocuted and an elderly woman who drowned inside her home. Many evacuees slept in their cars overnight, and still had standing water in basements, parking lots and storage rooms.
The governments of Fernandez and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri sought to blame each other for the chaos, and the nation's divided media focused their coverage in ways that put one side or the other in the worst light.
Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata.
"Facing the magnitude of what we've lived through, I insist that public works are what will change this story," Macri said, describing one such project that was achieved through regional cooperation and a World Bank loan — the kind of borrowing that Fernandez has sought to avoid.
"We need to do the same with all the waterworks that are needed in the city, in greater Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires," Macri said.
Associated Press Writer Cristian Kovadloff in La Plata and Almudena Calatrava, Debora Rey and Michael Warren in Buenos Aires contributed to this story.


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Special effects giants WETA weren't just involved in the making of The Hobbit, their merchandising arm is responsible for selling all kinds of awesome Hobbit gear as well, much of which they took the wraps off for the first time today.
Meaning we've got our first look at a range of 1/6 figures, authentic prop replicas, maps, posters and art prints. Everything but the One Ring itself, really. Oh, actually. No, wait, there's a replica One Ring as well.
A slight warning: much of this stuff is pricey, but if that doesn't concern you, check out more at the link below.
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Our very first line of fabric, Cake Rock Beach, has arrived! We first told you about our collection in October 2007, so we're very happy to finally make it available to you! Above is the "Earth" palette. Cake Rock Beach also has four other palettes, Leaf, Water, Fire and Coral which you can see below.
Joelle's Framed Botanical Pillows
Over the years I've collected many cherished decorative objects from the late 19th century (including the Wedgwood pitcher shown below). When I created Cake Rock Beach, I was very excited by the prospect of including some of my own designs in the mix of botanically inspired objects around my home.
I've always loved how easy it is to refresh the decor of your home by adding a few toss pillows to the couch or favorite armchair, so as soon as Cake Rock Beach arrived I dashed home to create these simple and quick pillows. –Joelle
The Materials
- 1-yard Flora print from Cake Rock Beach (I used "Earth Flora" above). This print repeats every 28-inches along the length, and goes across the entire 45-inch width of the fabric. If you get 1-yard of this print you will have enough to cut out at least one of each of the botanical images with a 3/4-inch border.
- 1/4-yard of any solid fabric per pillow for the frame around the botanical image. I used "Obsidian" from our soon to arrive line of irridescent solid cottons called "Net of Jewels" (Net of Jewels will arrive in early April). If your pillows are wider than 18-inches square, you will need 1/2-yard per pillow.
- 3/4-yard of fabric will cover the back of at least 2 pillows up to 20-inches square. For 16-inch square or smaller pillows, 1/2-yard will be enough for 2 pillows. I used "Earth Honeycomb" for the back of my pillows.
- Pre-made pillow forms. I always get mine from Artisiana Works. For the two pillows pictured above I used one 12-inch x 16-inch rectangle and one 18-inch square pillow.
- Rotary Cutter
- Cutting Mat
- 24.5-inch x 6.5-inch cutting ruler, plus one smaller ruler for squaring up your fabrics.
- Cotton thread to match Frame fabric (I used color #3020).
The Pattern
Prepare Fabric
Wash, dry and press all fabrics.
Cut Fabric
All fabrics are cut with a rotary cutter and ruler. For help with this, check out our Rotary Cutter Tutorial.
Botanical Print:
Use your rotary cutter and 24.5-inch x 6.5-inch cutting ruler to cut your favorite images from the cloth with at least a 3/4-inch border of the background around each image.
Frame Fabric:
Fold fabric selvage to selvage. Square-up your fabric and cut two 4-inch wide strips per pillow. Trim selvages.
Create Pillow
- Measure the long sides of the cut out botanical image. Cut two lengths from the 4-inch wide Frame fabric strips to match this measurement. Attach frame strips along each of the long sides of the botanical print with a 1/4-inch seam allowance, press seams toward Frame fabric.
- Measure the two remaining sides of the botanical print (including the Frame fabric). Cut two lengths from your remaining 4-inch wide strips to match this measurement. Attach frame strips along each of the remaining sides with a 1/4-inch seam allowance. Press seams toward frame fabric. Trim loose threads.
- Fold pillow front in half lengthwise and press, then widthwise and press to find the center of your design. Measure your pillow from seam to seam to find its exact dimensions. Using the press lines as a guide to keep your design centered, cut pillow front down to this size, plus one extra inch. (For instance, if your pillow measures 16-inches square, you will cut your pillow front to 17-inches square.)
- Cut backing fabric to the same size.
- Sew front of pillow to backing fabric, right sides together with a 1/4-inch seam allowance all the way around, leaving an opening on one side large enough to squeeze the pillow form through.
- Turn right-side out and press flat.
- Insert pillow.
- Finish the opening by hand using a slip stitch (you can find info on doing a slip stich here).
- Stand back and admire your pretty Framed Botanical Pillow!