Menariknya, anda juga bisa melakukan pembelian secara grosir bahkan menawar harga yang telah dicantumkan. Hingga anda bisa mndapatkan harga terbaik untuk kualitas terbaik anda.

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Back in 2005, I wrote a little tutorial for WordPress 1.5 on how to integrate wordpress with an existing website. Since then, with the release of WordPress 2.x, working with WordPress has become even easier. This tutorial is an update to my original tutorial and as it appears under a different name, I want to take a moment to clarify who this tutorial is for.

This tutorial is especially for:

1. People interested in learning how to build a WordPress theme from scratch or, more specifically, for those interested in taking an existing design and converting it into a beautifully working WordPress theme.

2. People interested in integrating WordPress with their existing website. As touched on lightly in my first tutorial, the best way to go about integration, in my experience, is to take your existing website and build a WordPress theme out of it, then apply that theme to your WordPress blog and voila, if all has gone well you have a perfect integration. It can require some handiness with CSS, but the principles covered in this tutorial will get you well on your way.

Extra Note on WordPress Integration:

As questions on integration are the ones I receive most often, I’ll take a few more moments to make sure your options are clear. In my experience, there are two ways to integrate WordPress with an existing website:

• One, you can install WordPress, write your posts, and then use PHP or Javascript to integrate the feed directly into your existing design. The drawback with this is if you want to include any links in the feed (for example, to read the rest of the post or add comments). If they click a link, it has to take them somewhere and by default they’ll go to your installation of WordPress which will most likely look nothing like your existing website.
• Two, you can take your existing design, tables or CSS, and create a WordPress theme that matches your site exactly. Then, apply it to your WordPress installation and you can now have a “/blog” (or whatever you decide to use WordPress for) that looks and feels exactly like your website. Thus, while it doesn’t actually sound like an integration, the result for your end users is the same: you’ve added the functionality of WordPress without sacrificing your design and now offer your users added functionality with total continuity.

  Note: While you can easily stop at “integrating” a simple blog, WordPress is able to do a whole lot more. For a number of my clients and my own personal projects, WordPress works excellently as a complete CMS (Content Management System), even for sites that look nothing like a blog.

Alrighty, let’s get started!

Step One: Preparing Your Work Area

Prior to diving into the WordPress code, we have a few things to make sure we have all straightened out and ready to go. For this tutorial, so as not to pick on anyone else, I’ll be using my own blog as an example.

Here’s what we need:

1. A Design – While some folks undoubtedly code their designs directly into a WordPress theme, we’re going to make things a bit simpler and start with a design coded in beautiful HTML and CSS. For your first couple of integrations (or your first and last), I recommend starting with your design already coded. It doesn’t have to have all the WordPress features added in (as you’ll see in my example). The most important thing is to have the layout setup and ready to go. While you can do a design in tables, I highly recommend using CSS. For this particular example, we’ll be starting with a finished design, coded in CSS and XHTML.
2. A WordPress Installation – Be sure you have the lastest version of WordPress installed and we’re ready to go.

Here’s what I recommend in addition:

1. Experience with CSS – While not required, having a basic knowledge of CSS will go a long ways in making those extra changes and customizations that come to mind as you assemble your theme. For the sake of this tutorial, I’ll make no assumptions about your knowledge of CSS, but will encourage you to have a knowledge nonetheless .
2. A Sense of Humor or Patience or Both – Occasionally when dealing with WordPress and CSS, things don’t go quite as expected. For those of you familiar with CSS and/or PHP, you know that it can be the tiniest little bug that can make everything seem to go crazy. When the bugs pop up, get out the fly swatter and patiently take care of it or, if you’re unable to squash it, call in the exterminators.

Alrighty, now that we have that covered, let’s reveal our test subject. Click the image to load the HTML.

For the sake of this tutorial, I’ve left the design “incomplete”. The layout is finished up, the colors have been selected and a lot of the options have been decided on, but where we might normally take a bit of extra time to put in examples of the WordPress elements, I’ve left them intentionally blank. As we continue through the tutorial, we’ll add them in and have a chance to learn a bit about “template tags” .

[Note: Those familiar with CSS can skip this paragraph] – If you take a look at the source code, you’ll notice that other than the content, there’s not a whole lot of code to look at. You can especially notice this if you hunt down an old site that uses <table>’s and compare the code. This is because the layout has been built in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). That means that instead of using “tables” to lay out where everything goes, the design has been separated from the content through the use of an external stylesheet. While I’ve done a number of integrations for clients with table based websites, being able to work with CSS makes things a whole lot easier.

Alrighty, now that we’ve had a chance to look at our test subject, let’s take a bold step forward and begin building our theme! First though, stand up, stretch, get a glass of water and then sit back down. Too many hours at the computer without a break and we’ll end up looking like Quasimodo.

Step Two: Preparing Your Theme Creation Playground

Now, while there are some out there who know all the WordPress template tags off the top of their head (I’m not quite there yet), for the rest of us it helps to have a place to start. In a best case scenario, you just pull out your already prepared WordPress theme, loaded with all the features you like to use, and simply replace the existing style sheet with your own. But for the sake of this tutorial, we’re going to work with the good old default WordPress theme (Kubrick) prepared by our good friends at BinaryBonsai.com.

What we’re going to do is take the default WordPress theme, clean it up, and then use it as a starting point for making our own.

To get started, copy the “default” theme from your WordPress installation (located in wp-content/themes/) and paste it in a new folder along with a copy of your design. You do these steps anyway you like, but I find it helps to keep things organized. Here’s how my folder looks:

As you may have guessed, to avoid any confusion when it comes time to upload, I’ve renamed the “default” theme to “blog_theme”.

The pretty flowers, by the way, are from a series of photos I took during a 2 month volunteer stay in the Dominican Republic early in 2007. Not typically a “flowers-on-my-desktop” kind of developer, I had to make an exception for these .

to be continued

Toyota has recalled some 8 million cars worldwide over problems related to unintended acceleration and linked to up to 19 crash deaths in the United States over the past decade. Toyoda pledged to set up and personally oversee a quality improvement task force that would involve external experts monitoring quality management, among other steps. The arrival of independent experts is “about as good as you can expect,” said UBS analyst Philippe Houchois. “I’ve seen a lot of recalls but I don’t remember seeing that step of getting an outside expert. That’s quite an innovative or aggressive approach to try to solve the problem,” Houchois added. Nevertheless, the crisis has pummeled the world number one car maker’s reputation for quality and reliability. Toyoda’s near total absence from view since the crisis began has prompted widespread criticism. Toyoda bowed in apology after his speech and was persuaded to answer further questions, some in English, after an official had tried to end the late-night session.

The 53 year-old took over as president last year with a promise to steer the company out of its worst downturn in history and bring greater transparency to its sprawling corporate culture. Kazutaka Oshima, president of Rakuten Investment Management, said investors needed answers. “Toyoda is responsible for explaining to shareholders since they have lost a significant part of their assets.” The company president asked investors to “continue to support us with a long-term view.” Toyota shares have lost about $30 billion or a fifth of their value since January 21 when it launched a U.S. recall related to faulty accelerator pedals. Toyota said its U.S. dealers had started fixing the pedals and notifying affected owners on Friday.

NOW PRIUS Safety regulators in both the United States and Japan are now investigating braking problems with the company’s latest version of the Prius, Japan’s top-selling car last year and an icon of green design that has lifted the public image of the whole company. Japan’s transport minister said he had heard from ministry officials that Toyota would recall or voluntarily fix the automobiles affected, including those shipped overseas. “Toyota’s response came up short from the perspective of its customers,” Transport Minister Seiji Maehara said. Since its launch last May, Toyota has sold over 300,000 units of the newest version of the Prius worldwide, including around 200,000 in Japan, 103,200 in the United States and 29,000 in Europe. BRAKING DOWN Both Toyota’s and Ford’s hybrids capture the energy from braking to recharge an on-board battery to boost mileage from its gasoline engine. On bumpy roads and on ice, the regenerative brakes of the Prius appear to slip, allowing the vehicle to lurch forward before the traditional brakes engage, Prius owners have said.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has received 124 complaints from drivers of the third-generation Prius. Four crashes were alleged by motorists to have been caused by the problems, NHTSA said. Both Toyota and Ford said they had come up with software fixes for the problems. Toyota said it had started fixing the problems last month, a step it only revealed on Thursday. Ford’s decision to roll out a software patch for consumers to address similar problems with braking on the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan models came after Consumer Reports said one of its test engineers had experienced what appeared to be a loss of braking power with a Fusion hybrid. Ford said it was aware of one minor accident related to the braking problem but no injuries. The No.2 U.S. automaker by sales notified its dealers of the problem in October but not the public because it did not believe the glitch represents a failure of the brakes. Ford shares ended almost 5 percent lower on Thursday.

Shares in Toyota picked up from a 10-month low on Friday in Tokyo after it reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its outlook despite its growing recall-related problems. Elsewhere, Suzuki Motor Corp and Mazda Motor Corp raised profit forecasts on cost cuts and higher demand in India and China. In Europe, truckmaker Volvo said it saw a gradual upturn in 2010, as it said it boosted its cash reserves. (Additional reporting by Chang-Ran Kim, Yumiko Nishitani, Taiga Uranaka, Elaine Lies, Fang Yan, John Crawley and Helen Massy-Beresford; Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Jean Yoon and Andrew Callus)

The living and the dead here share the same space — the sidewalks, the public plazas, the hospitals. The living are frightened of being inside in case another earthquake hits; the dead are everywhere.

On the doorstep of a pharmacy, six bodies were lined up shoulder to shoulder. On the body of one woman, covered in a sheet, rested a small bundle, the tiny leg of an infant sticking out of the wrap.

“It’s beyond description. The disaster, the damage, is just so overwhelming,” said Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Haiti. “Everyone has a scarf or something, because the smell is unbearable. … You literally have bodies all over the place.”

The international Red Cross estimates up to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday’s earthquake. For now, few know what to do with the bodies. People say they’re being left on roadsides and doorsteps so relatives who may have survived can find them, or for families to find transportation for burials.

Some families wouldn’t wait. Relatives of one woman who was killed in the earthquake dug her grave about 20 feet (6 meters) from the road, her body wrapped in a sheet and strapped to a door. Across the street, others dug graves and built a bonfire to keep away flies and ward off the stench.

While the odor can be overpowering, health officials sought to dispel worries about the spread of disease. Pan American Health Organization officials — speaking from Washington — stressed dead bodies are not a significant contagion danger, and cautioned against rapid mass burials or cremations.

“The management of dead bodies needs to be done with the highest regard to families, their wishes and their sensitivities,” said Dr. Jon Kim Andrus, deputy director for the Pan American Health Organization.

In front of the morgue at the Hospital General downtown, family members come to stare over hundreds of bodies covering the parking lot. A woman described the clothes of her daughter to city workers, who moved a sheet to look closely at a body. The smell of death was so strong that everybody not wearing a mask held their hands to their faces.

Nearby, the injured sit on makeshift beds, awaiting medical assistance. The living and the piles of dead are only separated by about 20 feet.

As relief organizations struggle to get supplies and aid to the survivors, few plans were being made for the dead. The international Red Cross said it would ship 3,000 body bags along with tons of aid being sent from Geneva on Thursday night.

Meanwhile, Brazil army officials issued a statement saying many followers of the Voodoo religion would not accept the dead being touched until all of their rituals were concluded. Some experts on the faith validated the claim while others rejected it.

Voodoo, a mix of African religions and Roman Catholicism, is central to Haitian life and is widely observed in some form. The religion often has been wrongly associated with black magic or sorcery, leaving a lingering stereotype against its followers.

But suggestions that survivors are stacking corpses outside Port-au-Prince hospitals because they are waiting for a Voodoo ceremony is inaccurate, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, an expert on Haitian Voodoo, also spelled Vodou, in the department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

“None of what the Brazilian authorities say makes any sense,” Bellegarde-Smith said in a Thursday e-mail. “They are absolutely wrong! Most Haitians, though they believe in Vodou, are devoted Catholics or Protestants.”

Bob Corbett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, said most Haitians would certainly want a Voodoo priest or priestess to be at a burial ceremony.

“Relatives would want some consolation, some guidance and ritual,” he said from his St. Louis home. “But it’s clear there is a huge public health problem there with all the bodies, so it’s hard to say what people would prefer in this situation.”

Late Thursday afternoon, the sunset mingled with the concrete dust from the crumbled buildings, tinging the city in a golden mist.

On a patch of dirt on a busy street corner a woman took her last breath. She was 26. Her family said she had been injured in the quake and suffered for two days.

Her family and about two dozen passers-by crowded around. They said a prayer and gently wiped the corners of her mouth before closing her eyes and covering her with a blanket.

Her father sat at the woman’s feet. Like the rest of those in the crowd, he didn’t cry. He sat, visibly drained, seemingly distant. When a journalist asked his daughter’s name, he just shook his head.

Associated Press Writers Gregory Bull in Port-au-Prince, Mike Stobbe in Atlanta and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report.

In the government’s first official statement since Google issued its ultimatum two days earlier, a Chinese official endorsed the country’s current rules governing Internet content.

“China’s Internet is open,” said Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman. “China welcomes international Internet enterprises to conduct business in China according to law.”

Google is still hoping that it can persuade the Chinese government to agree to changes that would enable its China-based search engine to show uncensored search results. “We are optimists,” Google spokesman Scott Rubin said.

If a compromise isn’t worked out within the next few weeks, the company intends to shut down its search engine at Google.cn and pull out of China completely. Rubin said Google hasn’t set a deadline for breaking the impasse.

Google has been in touch with the Chinese government to alert officials about its plans, but Rubin didn’t know whether the two sides have scheduled additional meetings yet.

Images from the 1989 Tianamen Square cropped up in Google.cn’s search results Thursday, leading some Web surfers to conclude that Google had begun to defy the government’s rules requiring censorship of many politically sensitive issues. But Rubin said Google.cn is still censoring its results to comply with China’s law and protect its employees there.

Google is prepared to abandon the Internet’s biggest market because of computer-hacking attacks that pried into the e-mail accounts of human-rights activists protesting the Chinese government’s policies.

The assault also hit at least 20 other publicly traded companies, according to Google. IDefense, the security arm of VeriSign Inc., issued a report saying the attacks hit at least 34 companies, including Google.

In a separate report Thursday, computer security experts McAfee Inc. said its investigation determined the hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft confirmed the weakness in a Thursday advisory and said the security hole can be closed by setting the Internet zone security to “high.” The company did not immediately issue a software fix, though.

Google traced the attacks on its computers to hackers in China, but so far hasn’t directly tied the chicanery to the Chinese government or its agents. IDefense says its anonymous sources in the intelligence- and defense-contracting industries have determined the attacks originated from “a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof.”

Jiang said China prohibits e-mail hacking.

In the United States, the White House applauded Google for confronting China about its censorship after discovering the hacks.

“The United States has frequently made clear to the Chinese our views on the importance of unrestricted Internet use, as well as cybersecurity,” White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. “We continue (to) look to the Chinese for an explanation.”

The State Department tried to get some answers Thursday. David Shear, a deputy assistant secretary of state who deals with China, met over lunch with a high-ranking representative of China’s U.S. embassy. The Chinese ambassador to the United States is likely to be summoned to the State Department in the coming days, agency officials said.

One of the human-rights activists whose e-mail was hacked said she was notified of the intrusion on her account in a Jan. 7 call from David Drummond, Google’s top lawyer. Tenzin Seldon, a Tibetan rights activist and sophomore at Stanford University, said she allowed her laptop to be inspected by Google’s security experts, who found no viruses on the machine.

Seldon, 20, has a new Gmail password and a new hope for free speech in China now that Google is taking a stand against the Chinese government.

“They are trying to give more freedom of expression to people in China and Tibet,” said Seldon, whose parents are Tibetan refugees. She believes the Chinese government may be willing to compromise on its censorship rules because “Google is like the Internet, and the Internet entrepreneurs in China will need it there to succeed. Being without Google would be like trying to build airplanes without steel.”

Also Thursday, a Beijing law professor and human-rights lawyer, Teng Biao, wrote on his blog that someone broke into his Gmail account and forwarded e-mail to another account. Teng said he did not know whether he was one of two Chinese activists mentioned by Google as hacking targets.

“Google leaving China makes people sad, but accepting censorship to stay in China and abandoning its `Don’t Be Evil’ principles is more than just sad,” Teng wrote.

Another Beijing human-rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, said his Gmail account was hacked in November and important materials were taken, the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group announced. Jiang has represented Tibetan activists and advised people with AIDS who are seeking government help.

Outside Google’s China offices, people continued to mourn the possible loss of the world’s most popular search engine. Some people even poured small glasses of liquor, a Chinese funeral ritual.

The Global Times, known for a fiercely nationalistic tone, took an unusually conciliatory stance Thursday, warning that Google’s departure would be a “lose-lose situation” for China.

“Google is taking extreme measures but it is reminding us that we should pay attention to the issue of the free flow of information,” the newspaper said. Saying China’s national influence and competitiveness depend on access to information, the newspaper wrote, “We have to advance with the times.”

A Google departure could give a boost to local rival Baidu Inc., allowing it to pick up Google users and advertisers, analysts said.

Baidu, launched in 2000, is a standout in the global search industry — a local competitor that beats the Internet search leader elsewhere around the world. Baidu has 60 percent of China’s search market and has held onto that despite Google’s launch of a local site and its relentless efforts to tailor services to Chinese tastes.

Baidu’s stock has surged 20 percent since Google announced its potential departure from China. Meanwhile, Google’s stock is down by just 63 cents in the two trading days since the announcement, closing Thursday at $589.85.

UNITED NATIONS – Crews rescued a security guard Thursday from the U.N. headquarters building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake, “a small miracle” as 36 U.N. personnel were confirmed dead and nearly 200 remained missing, the head of the world body said.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the U.N.’s mission chief, Hedi Annabi, and his chief deputy, Luis Carlos da Costa, are among roughly 100 people still buried in the rubble of the five-story headquarters building.

The U.N. chief said early Thursday morning, rescuers at the collapsed headquarters building heard “scratching sounds” and located Tarmo Joveer, an Estonian close protection officer, under about 4 meters (13 feet) of rubble. He was given water through a rubber pipe, pulled out and taken to the U.N. mission hospital run by Argentine staff.

“It was a small miracle during a night which brought few other miracles,” Ban said.

Speaking by videoconference from Port-au-Prince, David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission, said Joveer “walked out of there unscathed. … He was very, very grateful to be alive.”

Wimhurst said early Thursday afternoon that the dead include 19 U.N. peacekeepers, four international police officers and 13 civilians. The injured include 26 military, nine police and 38 civilians, of whom 24 are Haitian nationals.

Wimhurst said about 160 national and international civilian staffers, 18 police, and 10 military personnel are still missing.

“I think the first 72 hours will be critically important,” Ban said. “Now we are approaching 48 hours… I hope that we will have more and more survivors.”

“The priority remains emergency search and rescue. People remain alive under the rubble, and we must save as many lives as we can,” he said.

Rescue teams from China, the U.S., France and the Dominican Republic have arrived with dogs and listening equipment and Ban said more teams will be arriving soon.

When the earthquake struck just before 5 p.m., Wimhurst said the entire headquarters building began “shaking violently” and he was holding on to furniture “to stop myself being thrown around the room.”

After the shaking subsided, he saw that the central part of the headquarters building had collapsed, blocking access to the outside. Eventually, about 15 people left the wrecked building though his window, going down three stories on “a rather rickety ladder,” he said in the first eyewitness account of the building’s collapse.

The U.N. chief said he requested helicopters, engineers and medical supplies from the United States, “as much as they can provide,” and requests for transport helicopters and other critical assets will be made to many other countries and international partners.

Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet, sent by Ban to take charge of the U.N. mission and coordinate the international relief effort, arrived in Port-au-Prince Thursday afternoon, the U.N. Peacekeeping Department said.

The U.N.’s Haitian mission — spread across the country — includes 7,000 peacekeeping troops, 2,090 international police, 490 international civilian staffers, 1,235 local civilian staffers and 215 U.N. volunteers, he said. The force, known as MINUSTAH, was brought in after a bloody 2004 rebellion following decades of violence and poverty in the nation.

The secretary-general said the 3,000 peacekeepers in and around Port-au-Prince “are patrolling and they are trying to maintain law and order around the city.”

“So far, I think we have been able to maintain such order,” Ban said. “We are extremely careful and we will pay attention to prevent any crimes, any violence.”

Wimhurst said U.N. peacekeepers and police are also helping to distribute aid and pick up bodies.

Since the aid effort is just gearing up, he said, people who have lost everything unfortunately are “slowly getting more angry and impatient.” He said one problem is that the Haitian national police “are not visible at all, they simply vanished. … So all law and order requirements have to be maintained by us.”

With the U.S. sending 3,500 troops and massive aid to Haiti, the secretary-general was asked whether the U.S. will answer to the U.N. or whether it will operate independently.

Ban said he told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday “that all international aid and assistance should be coordinated with MINUSTAH, the United Nations” with Mulet in charge of coordinating the effort.

Did that mean that Mulet, who was Annabi’s predecessor as the top U.N. envoy in Haiti, would direct the U.S. military?

“The force commander of the U.N. peacekeeping operations will coordinate, I hope, with the U.S. military assistance team,” Ban said. “I am sure that the military leaders will fully coordinate with each other.”

U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the Americans “will be a huge presence and very dominant, but we’ve got very good relationships with them and we’re working extremely well with them. They accepted — or volunteered that the U.N. should coordinate the humanitarian relief.”

Holmes said he doesn’t expect the U.S. to put their troops under U.N. military command, but the U.N. will coordinate the humanitarian operation as a whole “which will be a mostly civilian operation.”

Ban said Holmes will launch an emergency appeal for Haiti at U.N. headquarters on Friday afternoon, hopefully alongside former U.S. president Bill Clinton, his special envoy for Haiti who had been trying to raise money to rebuild the impoverished Caribbean nation after several devastating hurricanes in 2008. Holmes said “clearly it will be hundreds of millions of dollars.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people Thursday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower.

The international Red Cross estimated 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday’s cataclysmic earthquake, based on information from the Haitian Red Cross and government officials. Hard-pressed recovery teams resorted to using bulldozers to transport loads of dead.

Worries mounted, meanwhile, about food and water for the survivors. “People have been almost fighting for water,” aid worker Fevil Dubien said as he distributed water from a truck in a northern Port-au-Prince neighborhood.

From Virginia, from France, from China, a handful of rescue teams were able to get down to work, scouring the rubble for survivors. In one “small miracle,” searchers pulled a security guard alive from beneath the collapsed concrete floors of the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters, where many others were entombed.

But the silence of the dead otherwise was overwhelming in a city where uncounted bodies littered the streets in the 80-degree heat, and dust-caked arms and legs reached, frozen and lifeless, from the ruins. Outside the General Hospital morgue, hundreds of collected corpses blanketed the parking lot, as the grief-stricken searched among them for loved ones. Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers, key to city security, were trying to organize mass burials.

Patience already was wearing thin among the poorest who were waiting for aid, said David Wimhurst, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission.

“They want us to provide them with help, which is, of course, what we want to do,” he said. But they see U.N. vehicles patrolling the streets to maintain calm, and not delivering aid, and “they’re slowly getting more angry and impatient,” he said.

In Washington, President Barack Obama announced “one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history,” starting with $100 million in aid. The U.S. Southern Command reported the first 100 of a planned 900 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division landed in Haiti from North Carolina on Thursday to support disaster relief, to be followed this weekend by more than 2,000 Marines. The American troops “will relieve pressure” on overworked U.N. elements, Wimhurst said.

From Europe, Asia and the Americas, other governments, the U.N. and private aid groups were sending planeloads of high-energy biscuits and other food, tons of water, tents, blankets, water-purification gear, heavy equipment for removing debris, helicopters and other transport, and teams of hundreds of search-and-rescue, medical and other specialists.

But two days after much of this ramshackle city was shattered, the global helping hand was slowed by the poor roads, airport and seaport of a wretchedly poor nation.

Some 60 aid flights had arrived by midday Thursday, but they then had to contend with the chokepoint of an overloaded Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport. At midday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it was temporarily halting all civilian flights from the U.S. at Haiti’s request, because the airport was jammed and jet fuel was limited for return flights. The control tower had been destroyed in Tuesday’s tremor, complicating air traffic. Civilian relief flights were later allowed to resume.

“There’s only so much concrete” for parking planes, U.S. Air Force Col. Buck Elton said at the airport. “It’s a constant puzzle of trying to move aircraft in and out.”

Teams that did land then had to navigate Haiti’s inadequate roads, sometimes blocked by debris or by quake survivors looking for safe open areas as aftershocks still rumbled through the city. The U.N. World Food Program said the quake-damaged seaport made ship deliveries of aid impossible.

The looting of shops that broke out after the 7.0-magnitude quake struck late Tuesday afternoon added to concerns. The Brazilian military warned aid convoys to add security to guard against looting by the desperate population.

“There is no other way to get provisions,” American Red Cross representative Matt Marek said of the store looting. “Even if you have money, those resources are going to be exhausted in a few days.” The city’s “ti-marchant,” mostly women who sell food on the streets, were expected to run out soon. Red Cross officials have estimated one-third of Haiti’s 9 million people are in need of aid.

The quake brought down Port-au-Prince’s gleaming white National Palace and other government buildings, disabling much of the national leadership. That vacuum was evident Thursday. No senior Haitian government officials were visible at the airport, although President Leonel Fernandez of the neighboring Dominican Republic said after meeting with President Rene Preval that the Haitian leader was in control of the situation, working from the airport.

“Donations are coming in to the airport here, but there is not yet a system to get it in,” said Kate Conradt, a spokeswoman for the Save the Children aid group. “It’s necessary to create a structure to stock and distribute supplies,” the Brazilian military said.

Edmond Mulet, a former U.N. peacekeeping chief in Haiti, arrived Thursday from U.N. headquarters in New York to lead the relief effort, along with a U.N. disaster coordination team. The first U.S. military units to arrive took on a coordinating role at the airport, but State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley underlined, “We’re not taking over Haiti.”

Wimhurst said the Haitian police “are not visible at all,” no doubt because many had to deal with lost homes and family members, and law-and-order needs had fallen completely to the 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers and international police in Haiti.

Across the sprawling, hilly city, people milled about in open areas, hopeful for help, sometimes setting up camps amid piles of salvaged goods, including food scavenged from the rubble. Small groups by roadsides could be seen burying dead. Other dust-covered bodies were being dragged down streets, toward hospitals where relatives hoped to leave them. Countless remained unburied, stacked up, children’s bodies lying atop mothers, tiny feet poking from blankets.

The injured, meanwhile, waited for treatment in makeshift holding areas — outside the General Hospital, for example, where the stench from piles of dead, just a few yards (meters) away, wafted over the assembled living. Crews began removing unclaimed bodies with bulldozers, dumping them into trucks, possibly for mass burial.

Heavy damage to at least eight Port-au-Prince hospitals severely hampered efforts to treat the many thousands of injured, the World Health Organization said in Geneva. At least 2,000 injured were reported to have been treated at hospitals next door in the Dominican Republic, including the president of the Haitian Senate, Kelly Bestien.

Here and there, small tragedies unfolded. In the Petionville suburb, friends held back Kettely Clerge — “I want to see her,” she sobbed — as neighbors with bare hands tried to dig out her 9-year-old goddaughter, Harryssa Keem Clerge, pleading for rescue, from beneath their home’s rubble.

“There’s no police, there’s nobody,” the hopeless godmother cried. By day’s end, the girl was dead.

At the collapsed U.N. peacekeeping headquarters, search-and-rescue firefighters from Fairfax County, Va., pulled an Estonian guard, Tarmo Joveer, alive and unhurt from the ruins at 8 a.m. Thursday, 39 hours after the quake — a “small miracle,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in New York. But U.N. officials reported that 36 other U.N. personnel, mostly peacekeepers and international police, were confirmed dead and almost 200 remained missing, including top staff.

Nearby, a rescue team from China, with sniffer dogs, clambered through rubble and searched for signs of life. Two excavators stood by, ready to dig for survivors — or dead. A French team, meanwhile, rescued three people alive from the wrecked Montana Hotel, U.N. officials reported.

European and Latin American nations reported scores of their nationals unaccounted- for in Haiti, and a handful confirmed dead. Of the estimated 45,000 Americans in Haiti, the U.S. Embassy had contacted almost 1,000. Only one American was confirmed dead, a veteran Foreign Service officer, Victoria DeLong, killed in her collapsed home.

For the long-suffering people of Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, shock and disbelief were giving way to despair.

“We need food. The people are suffering. My neighbors and friends are suffering,” said Sylvain Angerlotte, 22. “We don’t have money. We don’t have nothing to eat. We need pure water.”

But life also went on. Brazilian soldiers helped deliver a baby girl in an improvised garage-hospital at their base, just hours after the quake hit. Capt. Fabricio Almeida de Moura said the child was doing well, but the life of the mother, who apparently went into labor from the shock of the tremor, was in danger from bleeding, the Agencia Brasil news service reported.

The unimaginable scope of the catastrophe left many Haitians, a fervently religious people, in helpless tears and prayer.

Reached by The Associated Press from New York, Yael Talleyrand, a 16-year-old student in Jacmel, on Haiti’s south coast, told of thousands of people made homeless by the quake and sleeping on an airfield runway, “crying, praying and I had never seen this in my entire life.”

Earlier, she said, one woman had run through Jacmel’s streets screaming, “God, we know you can kill us! We know you’re strongest! You don’t need to show us!”

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Associated Press contributors to this story: Mike Melia, Jennifer Kay and Gregory Bull in Port-au-Prince; Alexander G. Higgins in Geneva; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations; Tales Azzoni in Sao Paulo, Brazil; David McFadden in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Adam Geller in New York; Matthew Lee and Pauline Jelinek in Washington. yahoo[dot]com

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