Kardashians hitting ‘Dancing with the Stars’ tonight

TrendPK.com: Kardashian fans will want to tune into ‘Dancing with the Stars’ tonight as not only will Rob Kardashian will be dancing, but his family will be there supporting him.

Rob revealed that the whole group will be at tonight’s premiere episode, states UsMagazine.com. “All of my sisters, my mom Kris Jenner and Bruce,” Rob said about who TV fans can expect to see in the audience.

So does Rob think he will steal the show? Not exactly. “If I can do this, then anyone can — I have no rhythm, and I’m not crazy-coordinated,” Rob admitted.

Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello bring Hollywood to Haiti

LOS ANGELES: After the devastating earthquake rocked Haiti earlier this year, food and medical aid poured into the island country, but in the months that followed a pair of Hollywood actresses and their friends had another idea. They wanted to build a movie theater.

It may seem like a far-fetched notion, but since it opened in September, the Sun City Picture House has become a place that generates smiles on the faces of children and adults. It also has been used as a community center and school, and it helped spawned two similar buildings in different camps.

Maria Bello, who starred Adam Sandler comedy “Grown Ups,” and “Tron” actress Olivia Wilde, have documented the efforts of the group of people that brought the theater to life in a new, short documentary they expect to screen at festivals throughout the upcoming year.

“The thing that”s needed most in Haiti right now, besides the immediate relief efforts, is joy. And that”s what this movie is about,” Bello said.

The movie, “Sun City Picture House,” focuses on Haitian aid worker Raphael Louigene — whose dream was to build a movie theater — and the two American aid workers who helped him realize that dream by constructing it in just four days: Bryn Mooser from Artists for Peace and Justice, and Dave Darg, who works for Operation Blessing.

Darg directed the documentary. Mooser produced, and they hired a student from Haiti”s only film school, Cine Institute, to shoot it.

Bello, 43, and Wilde, 26, both advisory board members of Artists for Peace and Justice, had volunteered in Haiti before January”s earthquake, and even then, theaters were in short supply. Wilde remembers one night standing with “40 or so Haitians as we projected ”Home Alone” onto a sheet slung over a wall, creating an impromptu late-night outdoor theater smack in the middle of the slums known as Cite Soleil, or Sun City.”

Watching their faces in the light from a projector was an important moment for Wilde. “That”s when I understood the need for an Artist for Peace and Justice Film Project,” she said.

The Sun City theater project came to fruition when, during their earthquake relief work, Louigene shared his dream of building a theater, and Darg and Mooser said they would help.

After the quake, the pair were working full-time in Haiti on standard relief efforts, building homes and schools and bringing in medical, water, clothing and other supplies to what became known as “tent cities.”

Bello and Wilde were making regular trips to pitch in, and they all realized it was time to take their efforts beyond the basics to a different level.

“The next logical step was rebuilding some of the society and some of the culture,” said Mooser. “It became apparent right away that it was important to give Haitian kids something to do — especially as we saw increasing violence, rape and all the alcohol and drug use going on. These tent cities are pitch black at night and can become dangerous places.”

Artists for Peace and Justice paid for the construction and villagers helped with the building.

On the fourth day, the theater”s grand opening, Bello provided the inaugural movie, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” the 2008 film in which she starred.

“We had 200 kids that night with little bags of popcorn and juice,” Bello recalled. “Their parents stood in the back, watching them have some joy for the first time.”

In the months since it opened, the Sun City Picture House has impacted the 5000-plus community beyond just showing films, Darg said. “It”s also become a community center for the whole camp. They use it for school and meetings. They”ve taken ownership of it and keep it looking beautiful and clean.”

Wilde puts it this way: “The Sun City Picture House has created a space for stories, rather than fear and hunger.”

Darg and Mooser have built two similar structures in other communities, and they are now planning to build more.

Path to Haiti polls clouded as cholera spreads

PORTAUPRINCE: The death toll from Haiti’s spreading cholera epidemic topped 300 on Wednesday as fears over violence and fair voting clouded the path to elections next month which are seen as key to stability in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.

Electoral officials still say the presidential and legislative polls will go ahead as scheduled on November 28, despite the cholera outbreak which has killed more than 300 people and sickened more than 4,700 since last week, triggering a major multinational treatment and prevention operation.

“On November 28, at 6 a.m., the polls will open,” Pierre-Louis Opont, director general of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, told Reuters. But one presidential candidate has said that if the epidemic of the deadly diarrhea disease reaches national proportions, the polls should be postponed.

The World Health Organization

WHO predicts more cases of cholera in Haiti

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that more cases of cholera would be found linked to the sudden epidemic in Haiti but ruled out the need for travel restrictions.

“At the WHO we think more cases will be found. The most important thing is prevention,” said WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib.

The disease that emerged last week in the country with the first reported cases for a century has killed 259 people, although Haitian officials expressed confidence that the outbreak was contained.

Haiti’s health ministry has confirmed 3,342 cases.

The UN Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the neighbouring Dominican Republic had mobilised a contingency plan in the border area, “partly closing” four crossing points to those without passports.

“There is no need to close the borders or restrict travel or trade because

Haiti says cholera deaths slow, now at 259

PORT-AU-PRINCE: The rate of deaths in Haiti’s cholera epidemic slowed on Monday, officials said, as a multinational medical operation ramped up to curb an outbreak that has killed 259 people in the earthquake-hit country.

After several days in which fatalities had numbered dozens each day, only six deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, all in the main outbreak area of Artibonite in central Haiti,

health authorities said.

The other outbreak area of the Central Plateau experienced no new cholera deaths since a day ago.

The accumulated total of confirmed cases rose to 3,342, compared with 3,015 a day ago, reflecting a slowdown.

But Haiti’s government and aid partners who have been assisting the poor Caribbean nation since a devastating Jan. 12 earthquake remained on high alert against the possible spread of the deadly diarrheal disease

Haiti: Cholera death toll tops 250

A cholera epidemic in Haiti has killed more than 250 people, the government said on Sunday, but it added the outbreak which has sickened more than 3,000 may be stabilizing with fewer deaths and new cases reported over the last 24 hours.
There are 3,015 in the most affected region. This is the official count of lower Artibonite plus the Central Plateau and 253 dead, Director-General of Haiti’s Health Department, told a news conference. Doctors attending to cholera patients in the countryside said the steady stream of sick has not let up. The epidemic is the second emergency to strike the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere this year. Despite the reports of a stabilizing trend in the cholera outbreak, foreign aid agencies were preparing for a possible worst-case scenario of the epidemic spreading across the country, including the densely populated capital. Experts see Port-au-Prince’s sprawling, squalid slums and tent and tarpaulin camps housing some 1.3 million homeless quake survivors as vulnerable to the cholera, which is transmitted through contaminated water and food.

Death haunts Haiti again; Cholera claims 220

More than a dozen people have died of cholera in central Haiti, adding to concerns that the deadly outbreak is edging closer to the densely populated capital, officials said Saturday.
The sudden cholera epidemic has in recent days killed 220 people, mainly in northern Haiti, and sent officials scrambling to contain a wider outbreak 10 months after a January earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation.
Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in impoverished tent cities, particularly around Port-au-Prince, where sanitation is poor and where relief groups say the diarrhea-causing illness could spread rapidly. Regional health director Dieula Louissaint said 12 more people died in the Artibonite department in northern Haiti on Saturday, boosting that areas toll 206, while 14 people died in central Haiti closer to the capital. Around 3,000 people have been admitted to hospitals and health centers near the northern city of Saint Marc which is struggling to cope with the overwhelming rush of sick patients as Haiti grapples with its first cholera outbreak in over a century. More than 50 inmates at a prison in the center of the country have been infected with cholera, and three inmates have died, officials said. The Canadian government has offered to set up a military hospital in Haiti and the United States has pledged to set up large tents to treat patients on the ground. The US branch of the Red Cross said Saturday that three large shipments of supplies had arrived in the Americas poorest country. Contamination of the Artibonite river, an artery crossing Haitis rural center that thousands of people use for much of their daily activities from washing to cooking, was believed to be at the source of the epidemic. But the rapid spread of the disease, which is caused by a bacterial infection in the small intestines, raised fears of a much larger health emergency, particularly if it reaches the camps around Port-au-Prince. Aid agencies have 300,000 doses of antibiotics in the country already, Catherine Bragg, the UN deputy emergency coordinator said in New York on Friday. Some 10,000 boxes of water purification tablets, 2,500 jerry cans, and the same number of buckets and hygiene kits are being distributed in the affected area. But Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan-American Health Organization, told reporters in Washington Friday that the outbreak is likely to get much larger given our experience with cholera… particularly in a population that has really no protective immunity.

Violence erupts in Haiti jail, leaving 3 inmates dead

HAITI: An apparent riot by prisoners at Haiti’s largest penitentiary left three inmates dead and led to a brief hostage crisis on Sunday.

The causes of the unrest and hostage-taking were not immediately clear.

UN peacekeepers cordoned off the area and stood guard around Port-au-Prince’s national prison after Sunday’s violence.

A Justice Ministry official said three inmates were killed, including two who were trying to escape.

Seven non-Haitian hostages were held briefly by prisoners, according to a UN police spokesman.

He also said the hostages were freed and suffered only minor injuries but gave no further details.

There are approximately 1,500 prisoners in the jail. AGENCIES

7 die in rains, landslide in Latin America

At least seven people died in a Caracas slum due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Matthew, which brought fresh misery to a region were hundreds have been killed in flooding and landslides this year.
An unrelated freak storm in Haiti killed at least five survivors from its devastating January quake and wounded dozens as it blasted through the capital Port-au-Prince, tearing down shabby tent homes, trees and power lines. Tropical Storm Matthew killed its seven victims on Friday in the Santa Ana de Antimano neighborhood after their home was flooded.Caracas fire chief William Martinez said authorities also conducted preventive evictions in other high-risk areas.Thousands of people had been evacuated elsewhere in Central America ahead of Matthew, which made landfall in a lightly populated area of northeastern Nicaragua, then headed west, dumping rain across much of northern Honduras. The storm was moving west-northwest at 24km per hour.

Clinton philanthropy meeting eyes Haiti, Pakistan

NEW YORK: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton hopes that pledges to help quake-devastated Haiti at his philanthropic “summit” this week will push governments to fulfill promises of billions of dollars in reconstruction.

Clinton, who is the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, will hold a special session on the recovery of the impoverished Caribbean nation with Haitian President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive at the Clinton Global Initiative.

More than 1,000 people including heads of state like U.S. President Barack Obama, business leaders including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, humanitarians and celebrities will attend the meeting in New York, starting Tuesday.

Putting a spotlight on Haiti “might help shake loose some of the donor commitments from the governments,” Clinton told Reuters in an interview.

“There is a lot of money that has

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