Can someone who speaks French translate?

Mike AI · 09-07-2005

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=321916

XxXotic · 09-07-2005

admittedly, i used google to translate

Katrina, thirteen days on line on the Web
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They are five specialists in the Net with to have remained in a building of New-Orleans to tell each day on the Web the devastations of Katrina and the despair of a city delivered to plundering. Extracts of a log book not like the others.

By Judith Rueff
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Wednesday September 07, 2005 (Liberation.fr - 15:55)
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T reize days in the hurricane, the floods, plunderings and "their" city delivered to the most incredible chaos. Thirteen days to look at Katrina passing from the top of a building in full center of New-Orleans, to film, photograph and tell on the Web the adventure of a band of five pals (four men and a woman) decided to face the cyclone by bloggant it from day to day this Wednesday finishes. A new team comes to take the changing and to make turn the Directnic.com site. But Michael Barnett, alias "Buff", the author of the log book on line, will remain downtown. With the feeling to have achieved its mission: to remain connected costs that costs to let know in the world what they lived.

The history of these specialists in the Internet based in the large town of Louisiana begins at the end of August. The company, which lodges electronic addresses, decides to on the spot leave five people to manage the hurricane. The 27, Michael the person in charge for the crises and old of the first war of Iraq, starts his "live newspaper" by these words: "Hum. Ca could be an unpleasant storm "Extracted the continuation well.

Sunday August 28, 12h01
"We are with 10th and 11th floors of an office building on Poydras avenue, very close to St-Charles. We have generators and tons of food and water. We are five on the whole. I do not know if connection Internet will be affected. I have a camera and my rifle.
The winds blow to 175 (miles/heure), with points with 215. The true danger it is however not the wind, but the swell which it will push in the city of the Gulf towards the lake. Honestly, that is likely to be biblical "

Monday August 29,
11h26
"When one compares the damage with New-Orleans so that it had been announced to us, there is the feeling that they will manage never again to convince people to evacuate the city..."
15h26
"Here is a good news: no the flood here in the centre town (Exchange Business District) also far which one can see in all the directions. No the flood, that wants to say that New-Orleans survived "
21h15
"Two long days of last. I will collapse. Tomorrow, I will turn live the feed back (it video on line) and I will send other photographs and vidéos.
I still have news of Harahan (the district where it lives) neither of my apartment nor of my parents or their house.
Good night "

Tuesday August 30
"Ok, fortunately that I made my medical classes in the army (front, I was in the Special Forces). I must put in place instructions to ration water and for hygiene. All will be very well.
I believe that many people who passed the storm will have to leave. To survive the hurricane is a thing. To survive without water for one month in is another. Do not know where they will however go.
Well the hello of Ground -1. "

18h41: To keep the cold head
"One of the reasons for which it is easy to break down in a crisis, it is that the tiniest tasks become hopelessly frustrating. For example, you must transport fuel of a can of 55 gallons in the tank of a generator. Initially, one needs tools to open the can and the tank. Somebody must find them if there is not under the hand. Then; one needs pumps to leave it and pour it in the tank. Each stage requires ustensils which can miss. The pumps can break down. It is easy to say shit and to give up the ship. And that, it is easiest.
It is necessary to persevere. The situation is now very bad in New-Orleans and we must remember that the American natives lived here 400 years ago when this place was not only a marsh. What did they make when a hurricane of category 5 swept their marsh?
Everyone says to me that CNN and Slate tell that our "moral" is not very with highest. The city falls without any doubt of pieces. One plunders everywhere. Throw an eye with the webcam and will see them to you returning in this hotel and all to carry. Water continues to go up slowly. But you know what? The moral one of the team is not bad. We are concentrated. We have things to make and we will do them. We need fuel. We will find some. There are people who depend on us and one will not drop them. It is all that there is to say "

23h59
Considering it is the war outside, I think that it is time to turn over to my practices of soldier. Camp Crystal is barricaded for the night. Unit SOTI (our team up there) is divided into three escouades. Number 1 deals with the fuel. Number 2 patrols. Number 3 ensures the service and the support.

Wednesday August 31
10h52: Plundering
In this moment, one tries to show you plunderings. Of the pushing guy of the caddies with 40 limp of Nike inside. People who force cars. Break banking distributors. It is difficult to have sat without anything to make.

16h23
The police force plunders. It is a fact confirmed by several independent sources. A share of plundering is perhaps "legitimate" in so far as this word has a direction in this context. They demolished distributors and trunks: confirmed. There are witnesses occulaires. They openly took dozen 4X4 in the dealers for reason of service. They also plundered armories, supposedly to prevent the "criminals" from stealing the small weapons to fire. But which knows which are their true intentions.

19h19
It is necessary that I install a meter on this site. It is incredible! It ya three days, it was right a small private log book which I used to divide my experiment of the hurricane with friends, - about thirty people. Now, it would be said that the whole world looks at.

Thursday September 1
12h11
The situation of the NOPD (New Orleans Organizes Department, the police force of the city, note) is critical. Here first hand information which I obtained from a senior police officer that we lodge. The infrastructure of command and control died. They do not have little or at all information. It did not know that the city was under martial law before I say it to him! (...) The office of the coroner (medical examiner, note) is then closed the corpses as well as possible is covered with sheets or is left where they are in the worst case. They do not even know the rules of intervention. It says that they are impotent for the moment.

12h35
More infos of the officer. I type as quickly as I can while it speaks to us: He has only bits of infos. People draw on the police force. They are in anger because they did not obtain from assistance rather quickly. The firemen do not stop calling because one draws to them above. It does not include/understand why people shoot at the rescuers. Five days ago, the mayor said to leave the city and they did not want and now they are furious. More than 30 officers resigned. On 160 police officers in the district, 55 or 60 work.

Friday September 2
Outside, it is the zoo, are into sure. It is the wild kingdom. It is the Kingdom of the Flies. Ca does not want to say that there are murders with each corner of street. But that wants to say that the law broke down and that the right of ownership cannot be assured any more. Any person who leaves in the street is in immediate danger to be made strip or kill. Ca is as badly as that.

11h50
The national Guard balances water by the back of trucks. They simply throw it without stopping, at the beginning people do not even know that it is for them, - they launch it by ground in the medium of the remains, there is no sign of a point of distribution people are afraid to approach parce the points are kept by soldiers or federal agents heavily armed with rifles of attack and they make flee people. It is to foutoir it. When people end up having water, they are so in a hurry that a family had left behind a little child and had forgotten it.

13h28
MILITARY TRUTHS ARRIVE NOW IN MASS.
The national guard is relévée in front of our eyes.

Saturday September 3
11h45
Ca finally struck me when I was on the roof of our building of 27 floors looking at my city. This place will be the same one never again - and I do not speak about the philosophical direction "one never passes by again twice at the same place". I want to say "one will not reconnaitra more this place".
Ca leaves completely to the drift. Despair in the streets breaks the heart. The old men, tired and the patients seem to have resigned themselves to their destiny. Death.

Sunday September 4
10h58
The city really resembles a city-phantom. It is so odd to see these full streets in normal time with if little circulation. The night, it is odd, all these buildings without light (...) There are remains everywhere. Abandoned cars. And silence? Separately a vehicle which passes from time to time, it has there no more noises here. Each piece of glass which comes from a window of a skyscraper and which falls hears with kilometers.
Je me demande à quoi ressemblera cette ville quand tout sera derrière nous.

15h24
rest didnt translate

DrGuile · 09-07-2005

Here, I translated the first paragraph... I wont bother with the quotes since there taken straight from buff's site:

Thirteen days in the hurricane, the floods, the looting, and "their" city given to the most unbelievable chaos. Thirteen days looking at Katrina go by from the top of a building right in the middle of New Orlean, filming, picturing (nft: to take pictures), and telling on the web. The adventure of five buddies (4 men and a women) decided to face the cyclone by blogging it day to day is ending this wednesday. A new team will relieve them and make Directnic.com run. But Michael Barnett, a.k.a "Buff", the author of the online journal, will stay in town. With the feeling of mission accomplished: stay connected at all cost to let the world know what they lived.

The story of these internet specialist based in the big city of Lousiana (nft: wtf?) starts at the beginning of August. The company, which hosts electronic addresses, makes the decision to leave five people on site to manage the hurricane. On the 27th, Michael, the crisis manager and a veteran of the first Irak war, starts is 'live journal' with the following words: "Hum. This could be a nasty storm."

Here you go majambo

ThrobX · 09-07-2005

Really begs the question...

Mike, why do you want to know what those damn liberal French are writing, anyway?

(Edit: Just noticed the Directnic reference in the article. Fair enough... but I still had to poke you about it.)

Mike AI · 09-07-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThrobX

Really begs the question...

Mike, why do you want to know what those damn liberal French are writing, anyway?

(Edit: Just noticed the Directnic reference in the article. Fair enough... but I still had to poke you about it.)

It was for Buff.

Thanks good Dr.!

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XxXotic Cheese is the DEVIL! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wit Yo baby's momma Posts: 291	Re: Can someone who speaks French translate? admittedly, i used google to translate Katrina, thirteen days on line on the Web pix They are five specialists in the Net with to have remained in a building of New-Orleans to tell each day on the Web the devastations of Katrina and the despair of a city delivered to plundering. Extracts of a log book not like the others. By Judith Rueff pix Wednesday September 07, 2005 (Liberation.fr - 15:55) pix pix T reize days in the hurricane, the floods, plunderings and "their" city delivered to the most incredible chaos. Thirteen days to look at Katrina passing from the top of a building in full center of New-Orleans, to film, photograph and tell on the Web the adventure of a band of five pals (four men and a woman) decided to face the cyclone by bloggant it from day to day this Wednesday finishes. A new team comes to take the changing and to make turn the Directnic.com site. But Michael Barnett, alias "Buff", the author of the log book on line, will remain downtown. With the feeling to have achieved its mission: to remain connected costs that costs to let know in the world what they lived. The history of these specialists in the Internet based in the large town of Louisiana begins at the end of August. The company, which lodges electronic addresses, decides to on the spot leave five people to manage the hurricane. The 27, Michael the person in charge for the crises and old of the first war of Iraq, starts his "live newspaper" by these words: "Hum. Ca could be an unpleasant storm "Extracted the continuation well. Sunday August 28, 12h01 "We are with 10th and 11th floors of an office building on Poydras avenue, very close to St-Charles. We have generators and tons of food and water. We are five on the whole. I do not know if connection Internet will be affected. I have a camera and my rifle. The winds blow to 175 (miles/heure), with points with 215. The true danger it is however not the wind, but the swell which it will push in the city of the Gulf towards the lake. Honestly, that is likely to be biblical " Monday August 29, 11h26 "When one compares the damage with New-Orleans so that it had been announced to us, there is the feeling that they will manage never again to convince people to evacuate the city..." 15h26 "Here is a good news: no the flood here in the centre town (Exchange Business District) also far which one can see in all the directions. No the flood, that wants to say that New-Orleans survived " 21h15 "Two long days of last. I will collapse. Tomorrow, I will turn live the feed back (it video on line) and I will send other photographs and vidéos. I still have news of Harahan (the district where it lives) neither of my apartment nor of my parents or their house. Good night " Tuesday August 30 "Ok, fortunately that I made my medical classes in the army (front, I was in the Special Forces). I must put in place instructions to ration water and for hygiene. All will be very well. I believe that many people who passed the storm will have to leave. To survive the hurricane is a thing. To survive without water for one month in is another. Do not know where they will however go. Well the hello of Ground -1. " 18h41: To keep the cold head "One of the reasons for which it is easy to break down in a crisis, it is that the tiniest tasks become hopelessly frustrating. For example, you must transport fuel of a can of 55 gallons in the tank of a generator. Initially, one needs tools to open the can and the tank. Somebody must find them if there is not under the hand. Then; one needs pumps to leave it and pour it in the tank. Each stage requires ustensils which can miss. The pumps can break down. It is easy to say shit and to give up the ship. And that, it is easiest. It is necessary to persevere. The situation is now very bad in New-Orleans and we must remember that the American natives lived here 400 years ago when this place was not only a marsh. What did they make when a hurricane of category 5 swept their marsh? Everyone says to me that CNN and Slate tell that our "moral" is not very with highest. The city falls without any doubt of pieces. One plunders everywhere. Throw an eye with the webcam and will see them to you returning in this hotel and all to carry. Water continues to go up slowly. But you know what? The moral one of the team is not bad. We are concentrated. We have things to make and we will do them. We need fuel. We will find some. There are people who depend on us and one will not drop them. It is all that there is to say " 23h59 Considering it is the war outside, I think that it is time to turn over to my practices of soldier. Camp Crystal is barricaded for the night. Unit SOTI (our team up there) is divided into three escouades. Number 1 deals with the fuel. Number 2 patrols. Number 3 ensures the service and the support. Wednesday August 31 10h52: Plundering In this moment, one tries to show you plunderings. Of the pushing guy of the caddies with 40 limp of Nike inside. People who force cars. Break banking distributors. It is difficult to have sat without anything to make. 16h23 The police force plunders. It is a fact confirmed by several independent sources. A share of plundering is perhaps "legitimate" in so far as this word has a direction in this context. They demolished distributors and trunks: confirmed. There are witnesses occulaires. They openly took dozen 4X4 in the dealers for reason of service. They also plundered armories, supposedly to prevent the "criminals" from stealing the small weapons to fire. But which knows which are their true intentions. 19h19 It is necessary that I install a meter on this site. It is incredible! It ya three days, it was right a small private log book which I used to divide my experiment of the hurricane with friends, - about thirty people. Now, it would be said that the whole world looks at. Thursday September 1 12h11 The situation of the NOPD (New Orleans Organizes Department, the police force of the city, note) is critical. Here first hand information which I obtained from a senior police officer that we lodge. The infrastructure of command and control died. They do not have little or at all information. It did not know that the city was under martial law before I say it to him! (...) The office of the coroner (medical examiner, note) is then closed the corpses as well as possible is covered with sheets or is left where they are in the worst case. They do not even know the rules of intervention. It says that they are impotent for the moment. 12h35 More infos of the officer. I type as quickly as I can while it speaks to us: He has only bits of infos. People draw on the police force. They are in anger because they did not obtain from assistance rather quickly. The firemen do not stop calling because one draws to them above. It does not include/understand why people shoot at the rescuers. Five days ago, the mayor said to leave the city and they did not want and now they are furious. More than 30 officers resigned. On 160 police officers in the district, 55 or 60 work. Friday September 2 Outside, it is the zoo, are into sure. It is the wild kingdom. It is the Kingdom of the Flies. Ca does not want to say that there are murders with each corner of street. But that wants to say that the law broke down and that the right of ownership cannot be assured any more. Any person who leaves in the street is in immediate danger to be made strip or kill. Ca is as badly as that. 11h50 The national Guard balances water by the back of trucks. They simply throw it without stopping, at the beginning people do not even know that it is for them, - they launch it by ground in the medium of the remains, there is no sign of a point of distribution people are afraid to approach parce the points are kept by soldiers or federal agents heavily armed with rifles of attack and they make flee people. It is to foutoir it. When people end up having water, they are so in a hurry that a family had left behind a little child and had forgotten it. 13h28 MILITARY TRUTHS ARRIVE NOW IN MASS. The national guard is relévée in front of our eyes. Saturday September 3 11h45 Ca finally struck me when I was on the roof of our building of 27 floors looking at my city. This place will be the same one never again - and I do not speak about the philosophical direction "one never passes by again twice at the same place". I want to say "one will not reconnaitra more this place". Ca leaves completely to the drift. Despair in the streets breaks the heart. The old men, tired and the patients seem to have resigned themselves to their destiny. Death. Sunday September 4 10h58 The city really resembles a city-phantom. It is so odd to see these full streets in normal time with if little circulation. The night, it is odd, all these buildings without light (...) There are remains everywhere. Abandoned cars. And silence? Separately a vehicle which passes from time to time, it has there no more noises here. Each piece of glass which comes from a window of a skyscraper and which falls hears with kilometers. Je me demande à quoi ressemblera cette ville quand tout sera derrière nous. 15h24 rest didnt translate __________________ Please Donate to the Red Cross Katrina Crushed Louisiana Not Home Right Now, Please Leave A Message

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DrGuile french with welsh tendancies Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2,007	Re: Can someone who speaks French translate? Here, I translated the first paragraph... I wont bother with the quotes since there taken straight from buff's site: Thirteen days in the hurricane, the floods, the looting, and "their" city given to the most unbelievable chaos. Thirteen days looking at Katrina go by from the top of a building right in the middle of New Orlean, filming, picturing (nft: to take pictures), and telling on the web. The adventure of five buddies (4 men and a women) decided to face the cyclone by blogging it day to day is ending this wednesday. A new team will relieve them and make Directnic.com run. But Michael Barnett, a.k.a "Buff", the author of the online journal, will stay in town. With the feeling of mission accomplished: stay connected at all cost to let the world know what they lived. The story of these internet specialist based in the big city of Lousiana (nft: wtf?) starts at the beginning of August. The company, which hosts electronic addresses, makes the decision to leave five people on site to manage the hurricane. On the 27th, Michael, the crisis manager and a veteran of the first Irak war, starts is 'live journal' with the following words: "Hum. This could be a nasty storm." Here you go majambo __________________ LiveBucks / Privatefeeds - Giving you money since 1999 Up to 40% Commission! 25% Webmaster Referal

09-07-2005	#4
ThrobX Members Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 431	Re: Can someone who speaks French translate? Really begs the question... Mike, why do you want to know what those damn liberal French are writing, anyway? (Edit: Just noticed the Directnic reference in the article. Fair enough... but I still had to poke you about it.)