Emergency Services

After a nice ride to Port-au-Prince to drop Craig (one of our volunteers), I did all the driving around the city since it is a very different style than other countries. Although, Dustin was behind the wheel after we left the city on our way back to Leogane. When we saw a young man laying in the middle of the road… he was dead… He was standing in the back of a “Tap Tap”, which a common transportation in Haiti, when a truck the back of the Tap Tap. As we’re passing by, I could see other people covered with blood and looked desperate for help. It didn’t take us more than a second to decide to turn around the vehicle and get two of them, the worst one, in the car with the help on some local guys. Because the traffic was so bad, I had to keep honking as we were trying to pass other vehicle on the road. “No time to lose. It’s emergency time”. Dustin, in the back of the truck, did a perfect job to stop the bleedings and get them water. After twenty minutes of ride, we could finally get them to the hospital.
What a relief it was when we finally got into the hospital! The ER crew was right there waiting to rush them. I could say at that time, after a job well done, we did some good today. Saving life! There were the perfect strangers to Dustin and me but, as the Good Samaritan, we did exactly what the Lord would do.
Aren’t we here to support the Haitian people? How could we dare saying that while driving by someone who needs help and not helping out?
In Sustain Haiti, this is what we come to do and this is exactly what we’re doing. It is our common believes.
In fact, the difference between us and others NGOs around is our accessibility to the people in the city of Leogane. Every day you can notice a bunch of kids and young friends in front of our gate saying hi to us. They know and recognize most of our volunteers by names. Which I am proud of, and I can bet you won’t find such amongst others, even those working with kids and youth.
What a blessing we have to be able to serve the people in Haiti. We do not have any pride for our accomplishment rather, we feel humble in front of such great love. How grateful I am for being part of the Sustain Haiti group!

Eyes’ Witnesses and Doers of Haiti!

This post was published to Rony's Technical Blog at 7:42:23 PM 5/29/2010
Eyes’ Witnesses and Doers of Haiti!


Now a month since I’ve been back to Haiti, and the things I am a witness of give me a bittersweet feeling. One of the things I have the privilege to see every day is the resilience of the Haitian people. Whether most of them are sleeping under a simple sheet as shelter, they still can smile and very excited about life. Instead of tears, they transform their fear into sarcasm, instead of mourning, they are showing how grateful are they for being alive and worshiping according t their beliefs with faith and devotion. Amongst them, I count many friends and relatives.
Everything that is happening now in the country makes me feel humble.
Like my visit last week to town of Beaudin. Although close to Leogane and Jacmel, it is unbelievable to see the misery existing there. It takes one hour and forty five minutes be motorcycle to get to a place that could easily be doing in twenty five minutes because of the condition of the road. It is really hard to imagine such way of life. This is a place where what supposed to be normal or basic is a luxury. Even drinking water is not a right for those people. Most of them don’t even know if the word “ELECTRICITY” is even real. For all their life, they have not seen it at least once.
However, being around those poor individuals makes me humble. Everything they do is an expression of misery for me, whereas, they manage to turn everything to joy. I am mad hearing their stories about how far and how difficult was it to go get some water miles away down the cliff, but the smile they have by sharing such story make me feel stupid. How can someone has courage to keep going on with life? How can someone can be so happy when what it suppose to be a right or the basic of life becomes a luxury? Besides, they are on their own. And no one cares about their existence.
“I have a dream today” that one day people many areas of Haiti will be able to drink clean water to quench their thirsts, and eat to satisfy their hunger. I will not rest or die before it happens.

An orphange yard in Beaudin.

The source of water of the town.

On the way to the town of Beaudin

The road.

Haiti after a week

After spending one week on the streets of Port-au-Prince and Leogane, there isn’t enough words to describe the situation although it is three months now since the disaster happened. In order to have a better understanding urgency existing in the Haiti, I decided to take a walk around the city. Mostly, I could not believe that so many places that I use to know do not exist anymore. Besides, due to the condition of the road, it is extremely difficult to get around the city. It can take two to three hours just to travel one two miles. But if you the art of driving in Haiti, it can be a lot faster. As I walked down the street where my dear friend Luc died, I became to realize how tragic was January 12 for the population. I understand how hard it is for people who hard to be in Haiti during tragedy.

I decided to visit with some families who lost everything on January the 12 disaster. I scarcely can believe where the courage to smile comes from. As I was visited with Luc’s family, I had to be strong and hiding my tears from them. However, it was so sad to hear them telling how they slept when the rain came. Can you imagine a six-year old boy standing on corner of some piece of metal waiting for long hours before to be able to sleep at 11 in the evening? Not more than one hour after I left it started to rain. The worst part is the landlord asking them to move out of the property. Four people living in a space smaller than the kitchen they used to own is not fun at all. Unfortunately, this is the new way of live on the streets of Port-au-Prince: eat whatever you can find, drink whatever is giving, sleep wherever you find, and smile to as much as people you meet. However, we are so thrilled to be here between those humble people.

A qui se confier?

On dit souvent que ''Nul n'est prophète a son pays. ''Ou encore ''Ce n'est qu'après leurs mort que les grand sont devenues grands.'' Si nous comprenons bien ces dires la, nous saurons aussi pourquoi les Humanistes ont toujours été l'objet de persécutions et des offenses. Commençant par le plus grand des Humanistes – Jésus Le Christ – Lui qui était venu pour nous apprendre le chemin de la perfection : l'amour de Dieu et du prochain, et le respect de soi-même et le respect en vers autrui. Était devenu un sujet de moquerie pour nous qui lui avons été crucifié. Prenons le cas du vrai père de l'Amérique, le Voyant Lehi qui prophétisait 600 av. J-C de la venue d'un Messie, on cherchait à lui ôter la vie. Parmi les persécuteurs, familles et amis.

Pouvons-nous aussi ignorer la mort injuste du père de la philosophie morale – Socrate ? Lui qui a légué beaucoup pour l'humanité relatant la vie en communauté. Ne connaissant même pas que la naissance de Seigneur était de l'autre coté de la porte, il a enseigné a ses élèves que le sage doit espérer en un séjour divin après la mort.

Des humanistes comme : Mohandas Gandhi et Mère Theresa en Inde, Nelson Mandela de l'Afrique du Sud, Harriet Tubman des Etats-Unis, ou encore plus près de chez nous, l'immortel Jean Dominique. Ces gens là ont combattu non seulement pour la liberté mais aussi pour l'épanouissement éthique de l'humanité. Leurs contributions apportées influencent le monde à perpétuité. Ainsi, Jean Dominique n'a pas été un homme politique comme on veut faire son portrait, mais il a embrassé la politique comme véhicule de changement, pour faire connaitre aux politiciens le sort des défavorisés du pays.

Ainsi, Guesno Mardy a choisi de faire connaitre au monde que les enfants sont le demain de notre société. on n'arriverait jamais à comprendre son service a l'humanité tant qu'on n'aurait pas la chance voir des enfants qui ont été aidés à réaliser ses potentiels. Guesno Mardy n'avait pas choisi le chemin des orphelins à des buts lucratifs. Mais étant qu'Humaniste tout comme les autres Humanistes, il est quelqu'un qui vit et subit les misères que connaissent la majorité de la population Haïtienne ; il a décidé de ne pas laisser souffrir, comme il a, la génération montante de la société Haïtienne.

Les épreuves de Guesno Mardy ne sont a cause d'un intérêt mesquin, mais a cause qu'il est un vrai humaniste tout comme Mère Theresa qui a consacrée sa vie auprès des malades défavorisés. Encore, tout comme Harriet Tubman
qui a bravés tous les dangers pour l'émancipation des ''Negros'' entre les mains des ''Blancs''.

Aujourd'hui, s'il est demandé de citer un héro contemporain de la terre montagneuse, fièrement le premier à citer est Guesno MARDY.

Il est notre héro et l'inspiration pour la grande partir de la jeunesse haïtienne, particulièrement les enfants défavorisés.

D'ici ou dans l'au-delà, ses œuvres seront toujours reconnues.

 

Spenchy 

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Data Loss, a Fault Tolerance?

As vast as IT can be, it is only one thing information or Data manipulation. That is why when it comes to data protection everyone should feel concerned. Whether directly or indirectly, we all can be affected by the loss of data. Regarding this issue 43% of PC users in the world lose some data. To prevent this, people are advice to do online back-up. For many, online backup of their data looks like a great opportunity while others think it is not that great. It is important to address this issue so that our readers can decide whether to consider online Back-up of their data or not.

    According to CNN, of those who store personal data on their machines, only 57 percent back up their data. Among users who don't back up their data, over a third said it hadn't occurred to them to do so, while another 31 percent said it simply wasn't important to them (CNN Money). Many between them continue to do their back-up using the tradition methods of CD, DVD, and additional hard drives. These are great and smart ways to keep data safe against threats.

    These methods, as mention earlier, are good especially with the involvement and hackers, computer crashes, and threats. They are safe until fire or any other natural disaster happens. The possibility of failure happens to arrive. So, there are still some inconveniences with those personal and safe methods of backing up data. According to USA Today, About 70% of business people have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster (USA Today).

    Although it might have some inconvenience also, it seems that the solution to the crisis of data safety depends on in online back up. There is no need to carry them anymore and online back \-up can be accessible anywhere in the world. You can develop your own patterns to keep them safe in case of system hacking. For example divide important data in different segment that only you can understand you restore the file in a whole. Online back-up can save you in many cases regarding the convenience and accessibility that it offers.

Ref

CNN Money: Data backup no big deal to many, until... (2009) Retrieved in February 10, 2009

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/07/technology/data_loss/index.htm

 

USA Today: Lost digital data cost businesses billions (2006). Retrieved in February 10, 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-06-11-lost-data_x.htm

How to shut down your computer remotely

Once in a while it happens to be that we have some do on a PC like: Installing software, running an antivirus. But unfortunately, something comes up and requires leaving immediately. So, leaving the computer open can make you worry of other people using it.

You might wonder how you can set up your system to shut down automatic. This is the reason I write this tutorial, I will explain in details how to shut down your computer remotely.

To get started, you will need:

1. An E-mail account ( pop3 like Gmail)
   
2. An Outlook account
   
3. A Cell Phone
   
4. A kwiry account
   

Step one: you need to create a file names "shutdown.bat" in notepad with the line of "c:\windows\system32\shutdown –s –f –t 00"

The second step is to set up Outlook as pop3 account.

To do so, go to tools, Account settings, new, then select Microsoft Exchange, PO3, IMAP, or HTML

Then next to enter your POP3 E-mail account and password.

Our incoming mail server will "pop.gmail.com" if our email is an email account and our outgoing mail server will be "smtp.gmail.com". Fill out the rest then click on More Settings.

Click on advanced. Incoming server will be setting up at 995 and outgoing server at 587 then ok to close the box. Click next. Then finish.

Now we are going to create our kwiry account. We go to www.kwiry.com

We sign up to an account that will allow us to send text messaging to our email account.

Now we go back to Outlook. We will set up send/receive to be updating every minute.

Then we go tools, Rules and Alerts. Click on new Rule. Then blank Rule, check messages when they arrive. Select Specific subject, then Specific word. Type in the box " your kwiry-shutdown"

Then we select start application, and the application then browse for the application file "shutdown.bat". Then we click next and then finish.

Now to shutdown our PC, we are going to send a text message from our cell phone to "59479" with the word "shutdown".

Here we go! It's working for me.

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