March 30, 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

HONDURAS (AFP) --Atleast 13 people were killedThursday in a Hondurasprison fire, officials said, lessthan two months after adeadly prison blaze killedmore than 350.

"There are 13 bodies. Wehave not yet been able toidentify the circumstances ofthe incident" at the San PedroSula prison in the north of thecountry, said Marleny Vane-gas of the city prosecutor'soffice.

"We will have to await theresults of the investigation."

According to initial re-ports by the authorities, thedetainees themselves put outthe fire with buckets of water.

Earlier, police spokesmanWalter Amaya had put thedeath toll at one. Officialssaid the fire was rapidlybrought under control.

"We have regained con-trol of the prison," Amayasaid.

Amaya said rival groupsof detainees seemed to havecause the fire, but cautionedhe was awaiting the results ofthe investigation for furtherdetails.

Security Minister Pom-peyo Bonilla said the fire at

the facility -- which was builtfor 800 inmates but currentlyhas 2,250 -- had "once againhighlighted the critical situa-tion" in the country's prisons.

A horrific fire erupted onFebruary 14 at a prison inComayagua, some 90 kilo-meters (55 miles) north of thecapital Tegucigalpa.

The incident, in which361 people were killed, wasone of the world's deadliestprison blazes, and high-lighted the problem of over-crowding in Latin Americanjails.

Agents from the US Bu-reau of Alcohol, Tobacco andFirearms (ATF) concludedthat the fire was accidental,but US Ambassador to Hon-duras Lisa Kubiske also saidofficial "negligence" and"legal violations" were toblame, due to overcrowdingat the facility.

In May 2004, another fireat the San Pedro Sula prisonleft 107 people dead.

The country's prison sys-tem is considered a loomingdisaster by observers, withsome 13,000 people held infacilities designed to keeponly 8,000 people.

Thirteen dead in newHonduras prison fire

One of the most anticipatedannual events is coming upthis Sunday, April 1, the 32ndinstallment of the fundraisingFiesta Rotaria, conducted bythe Aruba chapter of RotaryClub International. The all dayaffair beginning at 10:00 AMwill take place on the groundsand the streets around the Casdi Cultura, and the courtyardof the J F Kennedy school, asit did last year.

Fiesta Committee Presi-dent Lufrido Croes explainedthere will be the many fa-vorite activities that make theevent so popular. The bargainbasement flea market will bebroken up into many sec-

tions; the traditional super-market, clothing and acces-sories, electronics, stationary

and toys, plants and furniture.

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Get ready for Fiesta Rotariathis Sunday, April 1

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Visiting executives fromall of Aruba’s major Euro-pean travel partners were

exploring the possibilitiesof what they can offer theirclients during their Aruban

sojourns at the annualAruba Meets Europe Con-ference Marketplace yes-terday morning, in theballroom of the RadissonAruba Resort, Casino &Spa.

This is an important partof the event, when tour op-erators and wholesalers canthe hard information theyneed and discuss importantbusiness with resorts, tours,water sports operators andany number of other serv-ices offered on the island,such as spas.

This year, the featuredspecial event was theCaribbean Sea Jazz Festi-val over Columbus Day

Weekend, which will fea-ture Chaka Khan as theheadliner.

Rosalie Klein

Getting to know you at the Arubameets Europe Marketplace

Friday, March 30, 2012 3

Several dance and singinggroups will be performingthroughout the day; and theever-popular wheel of for-tune, dunk tank and kid’s cor-ner, with games and dinojumps, will keep everyone at-tending entertained. The daywill end with performancesby popular local bands LeGroove, Dushie Band andTsunami.

Inexpensive lunches,snacks and barbecue will beon sale, to provide a full dayof fun and for all the family.This is Rotary Club’s #1fundraising effort during theyear, and 100% of the pro-ceeds will go to a number offoundations they support.Principally: Club Kibra-hacha, 60+ social and learn-

ing center for retirees, whichwas founded by the Rotary,the YMCA and the ArubaFoundation for Autism., toname a few.

Again this year, a majorportion of the funds will beraised with the sale of ticketsfor the Rotary Club annualRaffle offering a grand prizeof a 2011 Chevrolet Silver-ado as first prize,

2nd: Cruise for 2 fromMaduro Travel

3rd: 50” PanasonicPlasma HDTV from AMCUnicon

4th: 2 Tickets Aruba-Am-sterdam-Aruba with KLM

5th: Computer plus Printerfrom Boolchand’s

6th 1,500 fl gift certificatefrom Hagemeyer

7th: 1,500 gift certificatefrom Kooyman

8th: 1,500 Kompa LeonMoney card from CMB

9th: 1,500 gift certificatefrom Boolchand’s

10th: 1,000 gift certificatefrom Ling & Sons Market

The raffle drawing willtake place promptly at 5:00PM; Fiesta Rotaria will endat 6:00 PM.

Rotary Club President Dr.de Windt stated this year’sfundraiser is expected to bebigger and better than everand hopes everyone willcome and join the club bysupporting these worthyfoundations performing valu-able services to the commu-nity.

By Rosalie Klein

Get ready for Fiesta Rotaria this Sunday,April 1...Continued from pg 1

CARACAS (AFP) - Presi-dent Hugo Chavez returnedto Venezuela yesterday afterspending five days in Cubafor follow-up cancer treat-ment in Cuba.

"I feel fine and will con-tinuing doing so, thank God."

As he returned, the Na-tional Electoral Commissionannounced the date for thepresidential election -- inwhich Chavez is facing astrong challenge to his bid tosecure a third term -- wouldbe October 7.

Chavez, 57, went to Ha-vana late last week for fol-low-up radiation treatment,after his surgery there lastmonth to remove a malignanttumor.

His stay in Havana lastedexactly five days, allowing

him to head off criticism thathe had left Venezuela withoutpermission from the NationalAssembly, which must au-thorize a president's absence ifit exceeds that length of time.

The cancer comes at anawkward time for Chavez,who is in the thick of what isexpected to be a tough reelec-tion campaign. He has ruledout the possibility of a re-placement candidate.

Chavez faces a stiff chal-lenge from 39-year-old stategovernor Henrique Capriles,who was chosen to representa unified opposition in pri-maries earlier this year.

Some 18 million Venezue-lans will be eligible to vote inthe October ballots.

Chavez back in Venezuelaafter Cuba treatment


Recently, Marriott CareFoundation took up its largestcharity project for 2012, Ex-treme MakeOver of O.C. Caspa Hubentud in Noord.

An extreme home makeover of seventeen bedroomsfor teenage girls age 12 -18

was completed last Satur-day. Over fifty Marriott Caremembers gathered at theyouth home to clean, paintand decorate all rooms. Eachindividual bedroom receivednew bedding, closets, cur-tains, mirrors, rugs and pil-lows. In addition the MarriottCare foundation took the ini-tiative to transform the two

common rooms, the TV andRecreation rooms and supplythe areas with furniture, a flatscreen TV, karaoke, Wii,games and DVD player.

“The Marriott Care boardmembers feel this is a projectclose to the heart,” said Alta-gracia Lampe, President ofthe Care foundation. Most ofus have children and under-

stand the importance to pro-vide a safe and pleasant envi-ronment for these teenagersto live in.”

The Marriott Care Foun-dation thanks all vendors whocontributed in a way to thisspecial project : Dura Homecenter, Kooyman, Crown,Cheng’s Supermarket, AsianStores, De Palm Tours,Mario’s Sports Store, Sam’s,

Caribbean Overseas, Top 1Toys and the Stellaris Casino.

A special thank you goesout to all volunteers, whoembodied the Marriott “Spiritto Serve our communities”philosophy. In April the Mar-riott Care Foundation hasscheduled the homemakeover of the boys bed-rooms in Tarabana Dakota.

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MARRIOTT CARE FOUNDATION DID IT AGAIN

2012 Extreme makeover project O.C. Cas pa Hubentud

Viola a brand new room with new bedding and interior

Associates painting thebedrooms

The recreation room is ready to use

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ELMAR is now offering anew service to clients givingthe opportunity to obtain in-formation regarding theirelectricity bill via SMS.“This new system is innova-tive and super beneficial forour clients,” ELMAR infor-med.

We are now very occupied

and our time is limited, ourcellular phone has becomeindispensable to most of us,so this way our clients can re-ceive their monthly bill ontheir mobile phones via SMSand at an earlier date, makingit easier for them to plan. Theprincipal function of the ce-llular phone as a medium ofcommunication has made iteasier for many companies tooffer a better service, savingprecious time for clients.

This new service fromELMAR is completely free.ELMAR invites clients topass by and fill out an ins-cription form at any branch ofELMAR, or one can down-load this document via theirwebsite: www.elmar.aw. Be-sides the inscription form acopy of a valid identificationis also required.

A few of the advantages ofthis new service are: As soonas your monthly bill is avai-lable ELMAR will send youan SMS, also if the due dateis nearing and you have for-gotten to pay your bill,ELMAR will send you a re-minder, one will also receiveall notifications regarding in-terruptions of electricity dueto necessary works beingdone by ELMAR.

For more information re-garding this service clientscan call ELMAR N.V. at 523-7100 or send an email [email protected].

Giving better service to clients

Receive information ofmonthly bill from ELMARvia SMS now!

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The O.C. Cas pa Hubentudprovides housing toteenagers age 12 – 18 that arenot able to live in their ownenvironment and to developthemselves physically andmentally as optimal as possi-ble.

The Aruba Marriott CareFoundation was founded in1999 by the associates of theAruba Marriott and has beenactively contributing to theAruba community for thepast thirteen years. It em-bodies a living and breath-ing sentiment and “Spirit toServe” within the associateswho fund the Foundationthrough direct financial con-tributions. Currently over540 associates contributemonthly to the Care Foun-dation.

MARRIOTT CAREFOUNDATION DIDIT AGAIN

On March 20th, AntonyTyler, Director General andCEO of IATA officially wel-comed InselAir as an activemember within the Interna-tional Air Transport Associa-tion, which makes InselAirthe only airline within theDutch Caribbean with theworldwide highly rated IATAOperational and Safety Audit(IOSA) certification andALTA and IATA members-hip.

IATA known as the globaltrade organization within theaviation industry seeks to im-prove the awareness of thebenefits that aviation bringsto national and global econo-mies, holding regulators andgovernments to account andstrives for sensible regula-tion, while representing, lea-ding and serving the airlineindustry. A requirement to be-come an active IATA member

is the IATA Operational Sa-fety Audit (IOSA), which In-selAir obtained in 2011.

InselAir now joins IATAas an active member togetherwith 240 established airlinesfrom 115 countries aroundthe world. “This membershipmakes it possible for us toprotect passengers rights,guard and protect the aviationindustry in this region, andcontribute to the growth wi-thin this industry and all bu-sinesses related to it.”according to Albert Kluyver,CEO InselAir.

The airline already joinedthe Latin American and Ca-ribbean Air Transport Asso-ciation (ALTA) in 2011,which represents over 90 per-cent of the region’s commer-cial air traffic. Kluyver, asCEO of InselAir, was re-cently voted by ALTA mem-bers as board member ofALTA. “Together with otherhigh profile airlines such asAvianca, Taca, TAM, COPA,LAN and AeroMexico we arepart of the ALTA board andwork together on passengerprotection and sustainable air

traffic throughout the re-gion.”

Kluyver concluded, “With16 Pan-American destina-tions and still growing it isvery important that we canoffer our passengers safe tra-vels as well as their protec-tion, now and in the future.We started InselAir nearly sixyears ago in order to providebetter connectivity betweenthe islands for reasonable pri-ces, we’ve grown to be one ofthe best connecting airlineswithin this region, providingflexible connectivity toNorth- and South Americaand the Caribbean region.Also our strategic partners-hips with airlines such as USAirways, Air France, KLM,SLM, Avianca, Blue Pano-rama and others create evenfurther this connectivity, con-necting our passengersthroughout the world.”

InselAir welcomed as Active Member within theInternational Air Transport Association (IATA)

tostan, an investigation wasopened after a 16-year-old andhis 22-year-old friend claimedthey were beaten by police inMarch.

In the same region, theCommittee Against Torturegroup said it received testi-monies from two individualswho claimed to have been tor-tured in December and Febru-ary respectively.

They were beaten, asphyx-iated and one of them, who hadto be hospitalised for 32 days,said he was sodomised with aniron rod. Their tormentors re-portedly went by nicknamessuch as 'Gestapo' and 'SS'.

Russia's interior ministerRashid Nurgaliyev has heldpublic meetings to address vi-olence in the police, but hasdenied the problem is sys-temic.

Russia's President DmitryMedvedev last year backed re-forms that included renamingthe police service and forcingofficers to reapply for theirjobs.

world and energy producingstates, but again, there are nodecisions that have beenmade."

Oil prices have fallen in re-cent days on speculation thatmajor consumer nations suchas the United States, Britainand France could tap into theirstrategic reserves to increasesupply.

Such a move, which lasttook place during the uprisingin 2011 in Libya, is usually co-ordinated by the 28-memberInternational Energy Agencywhich acts on behalf of oilconsuming nations.

France's Energy Minister

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheWhite House said Thursday nodecision had been made ontapping the US strategic oil re-serve, dampening speculationthat major consuming nationscould use the supply to curb asurge in petroleum prices.

"I cannot confirm that,"White House spokesman JayCarney said when asked aboutFrench statements about amove to tap the reserves.

"I will say, as I have said re-peatedly, that this option is onthe table, but no decisionshave been made and no spe-cific actions have been pro-posed. We obviously consult...with our partners around the


Eric Besson said on Wednes-day that his country was readyto tap into its strategic oil re-serves in order to help bringdown global crude prices.

"It was the United Statesthat requested this, and Francegreeted the idea favorably," hetold reporters at the ElyseePalace.

French Finance MinisterFrancois Baroin said Thursdayit was reasonable to expect amove by the IEA, which saidit was concerned about oilprices hitting very high levelsand is prepared to take action,if warranted, given a fragileeconomic outlook.

White House says nodecision on oil reserves

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russianinvestigators on Thursdaycharged four policemen withasphyxiating a witness using agas mask as the force reelsfrom a series of torture allega-tions.

The four officers in thesouthern Siberian city of No-vokuznetsk are accused of de-liberately causing severebodily harm and causing thedeath of a 31-year-old man, theInvestigative Committee saidin a statement.

"The policemen checkingthe man's involvement in acrime, put a gas mask on himand beat him up to try to getevidence. He died from his in-juries," the investigators said.

They added that police at-tempted to cover up the deathin September last year as sui-cide, but pathologists who ex-amined the body found theman had died from asphyxia-tion.

In a separate case on Thurs-day three policemen were ar-rested and charged with

brutally beating a 20-year-oldwoman over several hours inthe city of Orenburg in theUrals mountains.

Reports of brutal treatmentof suspects in police stationshave multiplied after a scandalin the central Russian city ofKazan, where a man died incustody this month after beingbeaten and raped with a cham-pagne bottle.

While officials dismissedthe torture as an isolated inci-dent, rights activists and vic-tims have spoken out, paintinga bleak picture of systematicpolice violence that goeslargely unpunished.

On Thursday, investigatorsaccused one of the officers atthe centre of the Kazan scandalof beating and attempting torape another suspect with apencil in February last year.

He was also accused ofslapping another man in theface in an attempt to make himconfess to stealing a cellphone.

In the republic of Bashkor-

New torture case rocks Russianpolice

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Thomas Farley said."Because they are sold in

stores, people may believethey are safe, and use of thesedrugs is increasing rapidly inNew York City. With this orderwe are getting them off storeshelves and telling everyone inNew York City to never usethem."

The city health departmentsaid it expects it will mail theorder to about 10,000 retailers.It called on New Yorkers to re-port non-compliance.

"Synthetic cannabinoids arenot marijuana," Robert Hoff-man, head of the New YorkCity Poison Control Center,said.

"They are unique drugsmade in a lab that have one ef-fect in common with mari-juana but potentially manyother different effects. Theyare sold as herbal products,giving users a perception ofsafety, but in fact they are toxicdrugs sprayed on plant leaves."

The synthetic drug remainslegal in some states. However,the Drug Enforcement Admin-istration in February extendeda year-old order banning someof the chemicals used to makethe so-called "fake pot."

The chemicals were placedin the most restrictive categoryas "substances with a high po-tential for abuse, no currentlyaccepted medical use in treat-ment in the United States anda lack of accepted safety foruse of the drug under medicalsupervision," the DEA said.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Syn-thetic marijuana, which is soldopenly in shops and givessmokers a high, was bannedThursday across New Yorkafter being linked to serioushealth risks.

It will be no more "Mr NiceGuy," or "Smiley Dog,""Spice," "Galaxy Gold" or anyother brands of the fake pot,which until now had been soldacross the counter in conven-ience stores and tobaccoshops.

The ban was issued by NewYork State Health Commis-sioner Nirav Shah and his NewYork City equivalent with im-mediate effect.

Synthetic marijuana is aplant material coated withchemicals imitating THC, theactive ingredient in marijuana.

The state order said theproduct had been linked to "se-vere adverse reactions, includ-ing death and acute renalfailure," and commonlycaused increased heart rates,paranoia, nausea, confusion,seizures and loss of conscious-ness.

"The commissioner's ordercalls for sales and distributionof these products to cease im-mediately," Shah's office saidin a statement.

"The drugs that are sold as'synthetic marijuana' are newand poorly understood, but re-ports from poison control cen-ters show that they are toxicand can be very dangerous,"New York City health chief

New York lawstubs out synthetic

marijuana

Egypt and Libya, and haslaunched a fund-raising effortfor the Syrian opposition.

That ban, which has nowturned into a withdrawal, wascriticised by the InternationalUnion of Muslim Scholarswhich Qaradawi heads.

The cleric is accused ofhaving made anti-Semitic andhomophobic statements andwas banned from enteringBritain in 2008. He has beenbanned from entering theUnited States since 1999.

madan from entering asSwitzerland is a member ofEurope's visa-free Schengenzone.

Influential Qatari preacherYusuf al-Qaradawi and Mah-mud al-Masri of Egypt havedecided not to come for theconference, the statement said.

Ramadan is considered oneof Europe's leading Muslimthinkers and was an advisor toformer British prime ministerTony Blair.

He is known for promotinga modernised form of Islamand for his opposition to the2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.He has been barred from enter-ing US territory since 2004.

Sarkozy said on Mondaythat Qaradawi, 86, an influen-tial Qatar-based Sunni Muslimcleric, was not welcome inFrance.

Qaradawi, who hosts a pop-ular show on Al-Jazeera satel-lite television, backed the ArabSpring uprisings in Tunisia,

PARIS (AFP) - France saidThursday it had banned fourMuslim preachers from enter-ing France to attend an Islamicconference, saying their "callsfor hatred and violence" werea threat to public order.

Saudi clerics Ayed Bin Ab-dallah al-Qarni and AbdallahBasfar, Egyptian cleric Safwatal-Hijazi and a former mufti ofJerusalem Akrama Sabri arebanned from entering France,a statement said.

Foreign Minister AlainJuppe and Interior MinisterClaude Gueant voiced "regret"that prominent Swiss intellec-tual Tariq Ramadan has beeninvited to the April 6-9 meet-ing organised by the Union ofIslamic Organisations inFrance (UOIF).

They said his "positions andstatements are against the re-publican spirit, which does notdo any service to France'sMuslims".

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They planned protests in100 towns and cities.

Minimum service agree-ments kept schools and hospi-tals open, ensuring 30 percentof trains and buses ran, and al-lowed some planes to fly de-spite Iberia, Air Nostrum andVueling cancelling two-thirdsof flights.

Unions claimed a bigturnout especially in factories,but interior ministry policychief Cristina Diaz said fewerpeople took part than in the lastgeneral strike in September2010.

Two leading business asso-ciations, CEOE and CPYME,said in a statement that mostcompanies were operating nor-mally.

Police arrested 58 people inthe early morning at a block-ade at a bus station in Madrid,while six police and threestrikers were lightly injured inminor incidents, the interiorministry said.

In Barcelona police said 30people were arrested.

At a union rally in centralMadrid, 56-year-old civil serv-ice worker Angel Escolar saidthe labour reform removedbasic workers' rights.

Many commuters stillcrowded train stations and busstops, saying they could not af-ford to lose a day's pay.

The strike came at a badtime for Rajoy, who is trying toshow Europe that Spain willfulfill its promises to cutspending and trim the publicdeficit to 5.3 percent of eco-nomic output this year from8.51 percent last year.

The government has al-ready announced budget cutsand tax hikes totalling 15 bil-lion euros but analysts saySpain needs to shave a total 50billion euros from the budget.

CCOO general secretaryIgnacio Fernandez Toxowarned of a new show of forceon May 1.

MADRID — Spaniards stageda general strike and took to thestreets Thursday in anger atlabour reforms, spending cutsand soaring unemployment,prompting scuffles with police.

Police charged and arrestedhooded rioters and bins wereset on fire in Barcelona whilethere were some face-offs inMadrid, although most demon-strations passed off peacefully.

Thousands of workersunder union banners picketedbusinesses and transport hubs,while other groups staged bi-cycle rallies, slowing traffic, aspolice deployed in large num-bers.

"No turning back... Generalstrike!" protestors yelled,wearing stickers that read: "Noto the labour reform of cheaplay-offs."

It was the first nationalstrike to challenge Prime Min-ister Mariano Rajoy, who wassworn in 100 days ago vowingto cut Spain's 23-percent un-employment rate and fix itsfaltering finances.

Ministers on Friday adopt a2012 budget set to axe tens ofbillions of euros in spending,adding to cuts that have al-ready squeezed public serv-ices.

Rajoy has warned thebudget will be "very austere".

Candido Mendez, leader ofthe UGT union, told reportersFriday's budget would be "un-fair, useless in the fight againstthe economic crisis, and couldbecome a battering ram to in-crease the destruction of em-ployment".

Spain's major CCOO andUGT unions called the strikeover the right-leaning govern-ment's February 11 labour re-form which makes it cheaperto lay off staff and easier to cutsalaries.

Spaniards strike,march over workreforms, cuts

then once a day for the rest ofthe study which lasted be-tween three and 12 months asjudged appropriate for vari-ous patients.

The other half, who wereassigned to get the injections,had two shots daily of enoxa-parin for five days, followedby vitamin K shots.

The findings could givedoctors an easier way to treatpatients and reduce officevisits, even though the stan-dard injection therapy is con-sidered effective and worksagainst thrombosis almost 90percent of the time.

"The reason people lookfor alternatives is that it's anightmare to give. Rivaroxa-ban makes things easier foreverybody -- patients andphysicians," said Buller.

"Physicians want to knowabout major bleeding, themost important safety out-come, and rivaroxaban washighly significantly superior.This was our most astonish-ing finding."

Rivaroxaban has been ap-proved by US regulators forpreventing clots in patientswho have knee or hip re-placement surgery.

The latest data from thetrial, known as EINSTEIN-PE and sponsored by drug-makers Bayer and JanssenPharmaceuticals, was pre-sented at the American Col-lege of Cardiologyconference in Chicago.

More details also appear inthe New England Journal ofMedicine online.

The campaigners argue menshould look for painlessswelling that, they say, is apossible sign of cancer.

But, argues Hopcroft, atleast half of patients with tes-ticular cancer usually experi-ence pain.

The real question is teach-ing men to be aware of thissymptom and act on it swiftly,rather than "turning the na-tion's blokes into ball-watch-ing neurotics," he says

Self-examination may turnup benign swellings such asepididymal cysts that areharmless but may cause theman crippling anxiety, headds.

differences and may rangefrom mild social awkwardnessto complete inability to com-municate, repetitive move-ments, sensitivity to certainlights and sounds, and behav-ioral problems. Its cause re-mains a mystery.

The data issued Thursdaywas based on autism preva-lence estimates from 14 differ-ent areas in the United States.

Rates of autism spectrumdisorder varied widely -- from1 in 210 children in the south-eastern state of Alabama to 1in 47 children in the westernstate of Utah.

The biggest increases werenoted among Hispanic andAfrican-American children.

Early diagnoses were alsoon the rise for children underthree, but a significant 40 per-cent of children in the studywere not diagnosed until aftertheir fourth birthday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Thenumber of children diagnosedwith autism in the UnitedStates has risen 23 percentsince 2009, with one in 88children affected according toofficial health data released onThursday.

Previous figures had shownthe disorder was found in asmany as one in 110 US chil-dren.

The rise may be due in partto improved identification ofautism cases, particularlyamong children under three,but the extent of that influenceon the overall number of casesis unknown, experts said.

The latest report found thatautism spectrum disorder(ASD) is nearly five timesmore common in boys thangirls, with one in 54 boys iden-tified as having some form ofthe disorder.

The disorder was previ-ously believed to be morecommon in boys than girls bya factor of four to one.

"Study results from the2008 surveillance year show11.3 per 1,000 eight-year-oldchildren have been identifiedas having an ASD," said theCDC's Morbidity and Mortal-ity Weekly Report.

Autism includes a widespectrum of developmental

tamin K antagonist, which isthe standard therapy.

It also appeared to be saferin terms of preventing majorbleeding, said lead study in-vestigator Harry Buller, pro-fessor of vascular medicine atthe Academic Medical Centerin Amsterdam.

"Rivaroxaban is just asgood as standard treatmentfor PE (pulmonary em-bolism) -- these data arepretty convincing -- and thisis an oral-only approach,which makes it very simple,"he said in a stateent.

All subjects in the studywere diagnosed with pul-monary embolism, and aquarter also had leg clots.

Those in the pill grouptook the medicine by mouthtwice a day for three weeks,

BERLIN (AFP) - A new kindof blood thinner that comesin a pill form and is made byGerman drug giant Bayerworks as well as injectiontherapy to ward off blood .

Xarelto, or rivaroxaban,was tested in an internationalphase III clinical trial as atreatment to treat or prevent arecurrence of venous throm-boembolism, the third mostcommon kind of cardiovas-cular disease, which canstrike the legs or the lungs.

Pulmonary embolism, orclots in the lungs, are thirdleading cause of death in UShospitals.

The trial of nearly 5,000people in 38 countries foundthat the pill was easier to ad-minister than the two-shotregimen of the anti-coagulantenoxaparin, followed by a vi-


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Pill works as well against lungclots as injection: study

Autism cases rise in US:study

lashes the invitation for a manto "grope his gonads or caresshis crown jewels" as "well-meaning whimsy, with the po-tential to do harm."

"There is no good evidencethat routine testicular self-ex-amination is of any benefit,"he writes.

"The chances of discoveringsomething significant fromroutine self-examination of thetesticles are minuscule. Atleast 50,000 men would needto examine themselves for 10years to prevent one death."

Hopcroft says the "testicleaware" campaign is based onthe notion that this form ofcancer is a silent killer, withno symptoms of pain.

PARIS (AFP) - Celebrity ap-peals for British men to checktheir testicles to detect earlysigns of cancer are a waste oftime and possibly harmful, anopinion piece published by theBritish Medical Journal (BMJ)says.

Singer Robbie Williams andthe Leicester Tigers rugbyteam are among those whohave lent their names to acampaign for men to be "testi-cle aware," just as women areencouraged to look for dan-gerous lumps in their breasts.

But in a personal view pub-lished in Thursday's BMJ,Doctor Keith Hopcroft, a gen-eral practitioner in the south-eastern county of Essex,

Self-checking won't spot testiclecancer: doctor


HONG KONG (AFP) - Theman tipped to be China's nextleader has told Apple that for-eign firms should protectworkers, state media saidThursday, as the US giantfends off criticism over fac-tory conditions in China.

International labour watch-dog groups have said workersin Chinese plants run by majorApple supplier Foxconn ofTaiwan are poorly treated, andhave blamed a string of appar-ent suicides on the conditions.

Vice Premier Li Keqiang,who is likely to be China'snext premier, met Tim Cookwhile the new Apple chief ex-ecutive was visiting Beijing

on Tuesday, the official Xin-hua news agency reported.

Li told Cook multinationalcompanies should "pay moreattention to caring for work-ers", the report said.

Cook on Wednesday vis-ited a Foxconn plant employ-ing 120,000 people in China'scentral city of Zhengzhou,where he viewed the produc-tion line, Apple said.

California-based Apple iswildly popular in China,where its products such as theiPhone and iPad are covetedby wealthy consumers.

Greater China -- which in-cludes Hong Kong and Tai-wan -- has become Apple's

fastest growing region, andrevenue from there is secondonly to the United States.

The company declined tocomment on the issues dis-cussed at the meetings with of-ficials, which includedBeijing's mayor.

Apple is still grapplingwith a series of problems fromnegative publicity over its sup-ply chain to a trademark con-test.

Chinese computer firmProview Technology (Shen-zhen) claims it owns the"iPad" trademark, and hassought to block sales of theiconic tablet computer inChina through lawsuits.

Apple says it legallybought the rights to the trade-mark.

Xinhua quoted Li as sayingthat China would "strengthenintellectual property rightsprotection", although the re-port did not say whether hecommented directly on thetrademark dispute.

The Taiwan affiliate ofProview registered "iPad" as atrademark in several countriesincluding China as early as2000 -- years before Applebegan selling its product.

The US titan subsequentlybought the rights for the globaltrademark, but Proview claimsthe Taiwanese affiliate had noright to sell the Chinese rights.

A Chinese court is nowconsidering an appeal byApple after rejecting its earlierlawsuit against Proview fortrademark infringement lastyear due to lack of evidence.

A watchdog group, FairLabor Association, recentlytoured Foxconn facilities andfactories of other Apple sup-pliers in China with Apple'sconsent but has yet to releaseits findings.

China tells Apple to 'care forworkers'

(AFP) - Facebook will makeits stock market debut in Maywith a record-setting initialpublic offering of shares, ac-cording to a report in the WallStreet Journal.

The world's leading onlinesocial network has stoppedselling shares on the second-ary market in order to get aprecise count of investors, theJournal said, citing unnamedsources.

Facebook on Tuesday mod-ified its filing with the US Se-curities and ExchangeCommission to warn potentialinvestors that a patent lawsuitagainst the company by Inter-net pioneer Yahoo! could de-liver a significant blow to itsbusiness.

"If an unfavorable outcomewere to occur in this litigation,the impact could be material toour business, financial condi-tion, or results of operations,"Facebook said in amended pa-perwork submitted to the SEC.

Yahoo! filed suit againstFacebook in a US districtcourt in California on March12, accusing the company ofinfringing on 10 of its patentsin several areas including ad-vertising, privacy and messag-ing.

In the suit, Yahoo! said thatFacebook's growth "has beenbased in large part on Face-book's use of Yahoo!'spatented technology."

Facebook in February filedto go public and could raise asmuch as $10 billion in the

largest flotation ever by an In-ternet company on Wall Street.

The paperwork filed for theinitial public offering providedthe first glimpse of the finan-cial details of the web giantlaunched eight years ago byMark Zuckerberg from hisHarvard University dormroom.

Facebook, which is shift-ing operations to a former SunMicrosystems campus in theCalifornia city of Menlo Park,reported net income of $668million last year.

Revenue nearly doubled to$3.7 billion in 2011, with mostof it coming from targeted ad-vertising gleaned from per-sonal information shared bythe hundreds of millions ofusers of the platform.

Facebook -- the leading so-cial network in all but sixcountries, notably China andRussia -- said it has more than845 million users including483 million who log in daily.

Facebook's value has beenestimated at between $75 bil-lion and $100 billion.

Facebook to makestock market debut'in May'

Sci-Tech

A photo released by Apple shows its chief executive, Tim-othy D. Cook, visiting the iPhone production line at theFoxconn Technology Group facility in Zhengzhou, China,on Wednesday.


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NEW YORK (AFP) - Theeuro slipped against the dol-lar Thursday ahead of the EUfinance ministers' crucialmeeting on expanding the eu-rozone's emergency interven-tion fund.

With worries aboutSpain's finances also cloud-ing the markets, at 2100GMT the euro traded at$1.3301, down from $1.3316Wednesday.

Eurozone finance minis-ters meet on Friday and Sat-urday in Copenhagen todiscuss expanding the euro-zone's financial firewall bycombining the European Fi-nancial Stability Facility,used to rescue Portugal, Ire-land and Greece, with thepermanent European Stabil-ity Mechanism.

To do so would at leasttemporarily raise the size ofthe rescue mechanism to 940

billion euros ($1.25 billion) -- an amount seen necessary tostem any future contagion infinancial markets driven byweak eurozone governmentfinances.

"Risk aversion drove theeuro-dollar rate lower todaybut the prospect of a largerfirewall that could lift in-vestor confidence and shieldthe region from contagionprevented a steeper slide inthe currency," said KathyLien of GFT.

The yen strengthened afterWednesday's fall: the dollarslipped to 82.42 yen from82.86 yen, while the euromoved to 109.64 yen from110.36.

The dollar gained on theSwiss currency, rising to0.9062 francs from 0.9051.

The British pound rose to$1.5955 from $1.5887.

Euro falls on dollar

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Senate Republicans yester-day shot down a proposal toslash subsidies for big oilcompanies, ignoring a pleaby President Barack Obamato end tax breaks for firms"raking in record profits."

A narrow majority voted51-47 for the Democraticmeasure, but 60 votes wereneeded to move it forward.

Obama, under election-year pressure about a surge infuel costs, used a Rose Gar-den address to say the nationcannot afford the subsidies ata time of record budgetdeficits.

"The biggest oil compa-nies are raking in record prof-its -- profits that go up everytime folks pull into a gas sta-tion," Obama said.

"But on top of these recordprofits, oil companies arealso getting billions a year intaxpayer subsidies -- a sub-sidy they've enjoyed yearafter year for the last cen-

tury."Shortly after the measure

failed, the White House de-cried the "unfortunate vote."

Press secretary Jay Carneysaid senators "chose to sidewith oil and gas companiesinstead of the American peo-ple, who overwhelminglysupport the notion that... at atime of record profits... theAmerican taxpayer shouldnot be subsidizing oil and gascompanies."

The measure's main spon-sor, Senator Robert Menen-dez, has said the top fivepetroleum companies made$137 billion last year, whileproducing four percent lessoil than the year before.

Senators urging passage ofthe bill have noted how thebig five earned a combinedtrillion dollars in profits inthe past decade.

"With their votes, Repub-licans said loudly and clearlythat they're on the side of BigOil," Menendez said.

Republicans reject Obamaeffort to cut oil tax breaks

COPENHAGEN (AFP) -Germany's finance ministersaid Thursday the eurozonewould soon have a firewallagainst the debt crisis of"around 800 billion euros",on the eve of a crunch EUmeeting to discuss the issue.

Speaking at a conferenceat Copenhagen Universityahead of a key two-day meet-

ing of European finance min-isters starting Friday, Wolf-gang Schaeuble said thatministers would thrash outwhat he called a "new finan-cial institution".

He explained that along-side the 500 billion eurosmaximum agreed in the newbailout fund that comes intoeffect in July can be added

money already loaned out tocrisis-hit countries, plus some60 billion in European Unionfunds.

The total, he said, was"about 800 billion euros(over $1 trillion) ... to fightcontagion to protect our sta-bility," he said.

"It's convincing, it's suffi-cient. We will have a similarprotection by the IMF as wegot in the last two years andthen I think we can be opti-mistic that it can work."

"It's a good solution and Ithink we should all get be-hind it," he added.

"I think it's enough."Eurozone ministers are set

to bolster their defencesagainst the crisis by increas-ing the volume of their fire-walls to prevent contagion tolarger nations such as Italyand Spain.

Germany eyes eurozone firewall of 'around 800bn euros'

BRASILIA (AFP) - TheBrazilian economy is ex-pected to grow 3.5 percentthis year, up from 2.7 percentin 2011 while inflation willbe around 4.4 percent, ac-cording to central bank pro-jections released Thursday.

The 2012 projections arelower than those from the fi-nance ministry which is fore-casting gross domesticproduct growth of 4.5 percentand consumer prices rising4.5 percent.

The bank also anticipateslow growth "for a prolongedperiod" for the global econ-omy due to the impact of

higher oil prices on theUnited States and a delayedend to the eurozone debt cri-sis.

Last year, Latin America'sbiggest economy, now theworld's sixth largest, grew amodest 2.7 percent, largelydue to the global slowdown,after a blistering 7.5 percentexpansion in 2010.

Brazil economy to grow 3.5% in2012: central bank

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"I didn't really have a plan.I guess the plan was just to in-troduce myself to the mediaand America and say 'sorryabout that'," Sheen, easinghimself back into the limelightwith appearances in commer-cials, said of his comeback.

But he said he has not givenup alcohol and will not be sub-jected to drug testing by theproducers of "Anger Manage-ment," which premieres onJune 28 on the FX televisionnetwork.

When Today interviewerMatt Lauer told Sheen heknew no physician who wouldtell the actor that it was okayfor him to have a drink, Sheenjokingly replied: "If you do Ishould probably go to thatguy."

Sheen, in an irony not loston himself, plays a therapist inhis new show.

plans for a documentary abouthis apparent public breakdownlast year.

"I can't put that back out,"he said, referring to footage ofsome of the many raving re-marks he made after losing hisjob as television's highest-paidactor after he denounced theproducer of "Two and HalfMen," in March 2011.

Asked if watching himselflooking so bad felt like an out-of-body experience, Sheen,who has a history of drug andalcohol abuse, replied: "Yeah,yeah it is. I just wish it wassomeone else's body."

The actor earned $2 millionper show for his role as a hedo-nistic bachelor in "Two and aHalf Men" but he was fired forslamming its producer ChuckLorre in a rant described by hisbosses as part of a "self-in-flicted disintegration."

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - USactor Charlie Sheen on Thurs-day said watching footage ofhis meltdown after being firedfrom hit TV show "Two and aHalf Men," was "cringeable,"but he is sorry and wants to bea success again.

Sheen, who has startedfilming a new show called"Anger Management," told theToday Show on NBC televi-sion that seeing his outburstson screen led him to scrap


US actor Sheen says footageof meltdown 'cringeable'

Belgian accused Chinese po-lice of mistreating him.

"The daily anxiety and psy-chological terror have deeplyaffected my health," DeRaedemaeker, who claimedhe was innocent, wrote.

De Raedemaeker refused tocooperate with Chinese au-thorities, even when theAmerican client offered to re-turn the sarcophagus to China,the broadcaster reported.

He also refused treatmentoffered by China as long ashis sentence was maintained,the foreign ministryspokesman said.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A Bel-gian art dealer has died whileheld under surveillance inChina for illegally exporting asarcophagus that is now ondisplay in a Paris museum, theBelgian foreign ministry saidThursday.

Kurt De Raedemaeker, 48,had been barred from leavingChina when he died, a min-istry spokesman said. Belgianbroadcaster VRT reported thathe had a heart attack.

"Belgium tried everything,even at the ministerial level,to bring him home. We askedfor his repatriation for human-itarian reasons, but unfortu-nately it did not succeed," saidthe spokesman, Joren Van-deweyer.

The art dealer and Chinaexpert acquired the sarcopha-gus in 2003 and then sold it toan American buyer, accordingto VRT. It is now at theGuimet museum of Asian artsin Paris.

Chinese authorities con-victed De Raedemaeker ofselling a national treasureworth 1.2 million euros ($1.6million), but the Belgian in-sisted that the transaction wasconducted within the rules.

He was arrested in January2006 at Beijing airport andheld in Gansu province in thenorthwest, where the piece ofart came from.

In 2008, he was transferredto Beijing for health reasonsand allowed to stay in a hotelwith his partner, the Belgianforeign ministry said. He wasallowed to travel within Chinabut not leave the country.

The same year, a judge inGansu handed him a life sen-tence, VRT said.

VRT, citing a journal keptby De Raedemaeker, said the

Belgian art dealer diesunder surveillance inChina

legations that he accepted afree stay at a health spa fol-lowing an illness, though hedenied any wrongdoing.

Another senior police offi-cer John Yates, who oversaw abotched investigation intohacking in 2009, resignedshortly after Stephenson.

An initial 2006 police in-vestigation into hacking led tothe jailing of a News of theWorld journalist and a privatedetective, but the tabloid in-sisted it was a one-off.

Allegations emerged in2009 that the practice waswidespread, but police onlyreopened a full investigationin January 2011.

Since then, dozens of peo-ple have been arrested andNews International has com-pensated numerous victims.

dog had been investigating thehiring by Scotland Yard ofWallis's company ChamyMedia for media consultancywork, despite the fact that theforce was itself probingwrongdoing at the News Inter-national tabloid.

Glass said the IPCC sent areport to Scotland Yard's Di-rectorate of Professional Stan-dards in Januaryrecommending that Fedorcio"has a case to answer".

"In light of Mr Fedorcio'sresignation today, those pro-ceedings cannot now takeplace and I propose to publishour investigation report detail-ing our findings in the nextfew days."

Scotland Yard chief PaulStephenson resigned in Julyamid reports of own his closeties with Wallis, including al-

LONDON (AFP) - The mediachief at Scotland Yard has re-signed after he faced grossmisconduct charges over thephone hacking scandal at Ru-pert Murdoch's News of theWorld, Britain's police watch-dog said Thursday.

Dick Fedorcio stood down aweek after the MetropolitanPolice said it would start pro-ceedings against him for hiringNeil Wallis, a former deputyeditor at the now-closed paper,as a media consultant.

It is the third major resigna-tion from Scotland Yard, afterthe head of the force and an-other senior policeman stooddown in July last year at theheight of the scandal.

Deborah Glass, the deputyhead of the Independent PoliceComplaints Commission, saidin a statement that the watch-

British police media chief quits inhacking scandal


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initiative when it's againstRafa. So I have to be really fo-cused on the ball. If it's reallyclose, he would never say outagainst Rafa. If Rafa don't likehim anymore, he would not bein the chair many times in thefinal and semi-final."

Nadal said after his 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 win that he understoodwhy his opponent was gettingupset, but that he also sufferedfrom bad calls.

"I understand the frustra-tion because it's true that thereferees with the Hawk Eyeare doing less overrules thanbefore. I said (this) hundredsof times," said Nadal.

"But it is not because he'splaying against me. No. Hap-pen to me a lot of times."

Sharapova finished with noaces, five double faults but shewon 68 percent of her first-serve points.

Sharapova broke Wozniackiin the seventh game of thethird set to make it 5-2. Trail-ing 30-40, Wozniacki at-tempted a forehand drop shotthat landed just short givingSharapova the break and al-lowing her to serve for thematch.

But Wozniacki battled hardon defence in the next game,matching Sharapova's power-ful ground strokes to breakright back.

Wozniacki then held servewhen Sharapova hit a forehandlong to cut the lead to 5-4.

evision video replay backed upthe umpire.

Sharapova stepped up forher second serve then workedher way into position so shecould eventually hit an easyforehand smash at the net forthe winner.

Sharapova is now a perfect4-0 in semi-finals in Miamiand beat Wozniacki after los-ing the last two meetings to heron hardcourts. She will begunning for her 25th careertitle.

The 21-year-old Wozniackidropped to 13-6 on the yearbut she equalled her best resultof 2012 by making it to thesemis. She also made the finalfour in Dubai.

MIAMI (AFP) - Maria Shara-pova advanced to her fourthMiami final Thursday after theworld No. 2 rallied to beatfourth seeded Caroline Wozni-acki, of Denmark, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 at the WTA/ATP hardcourttournament.

Sharapova, a three-timerunner-up in Miami, is in hersecond consecutive tourna-ment final after losing instraight sets to VictoriaAzarenka at Indian Wells.

"I started out well and thenI just had a concentration dropbut I am happy I pulled itthrough," Sharapova said.

The 24-year-old Sharapovawill face either Polish fifthseed Agnieszka Radwanska orMarion Bartoli of France in thefinal. She lost in the Miamifinal in 2005, 2006 and lastyear.

Sharapova clinched the twohour, 34 minute match on thesecond match point but sheneeded the chair umpire tooverrule a call on the secondone after her serve was ini-tially called long.

The chair umpire disagreedand overruled the initial call,saying it was on the line. Woz-niacki didn't like it but the tel-


Tennis: Sharapova beatsWozniacki to reach Miamifinal

MIAMI (AFP) - France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga accused achair umpire of favouritismtowards Rafael Nadal after theSpanish world number twowon a marathon three-setter toreach the Miami Masterssemi-finals.

Tsonga claimed that matchofficial Damian Steiner wasreluctant to over-rule calls af-fecting Nadal, causing him topay close attention to rulingsas well as his own on-courtperformance.

The Frenchman made hisfeelings known at 4-4 in thefinal set.

"I was complaining be-cause all the match I have tochallenge, and I was right,many, many times," saidTsonga. "He never takes the

Tsonga accuses umpireof Nadal 'favouritism'

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women sitting with their chil-dren and when Arab employ-ees at the mall tried tointervene, they were assaulted.

Fans of Beitar Jerusalem,which has never had an Arabplayer, have long been associ-ated with anti-Arab racism,and the team has been pun-ished in the past for the behav-iour of its supporters.

appear before Jerusalem mag-istrates later on Thursday andpolice would ask they be re-manded in custody.

The incident occurred onMarch 19 when BeitarJerusalem fans flooded out ofTeddy Stadium into the nearbyMalcha mall and assaultedArab employees, chanting"death to Arabs," according tomedia reports.

The first reports emergedonly four days later in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper,which said "hundreds" of fanswere involved.

According to Haaretz, thefans spat on several Arab

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israelipolice have arrested 16 sus-pects in connection with aracist attack by Jewish footballfans on Arab cleaners atJerusalem's main shoppingcentre, a spokesman said onFriday.

"Israeli police have untilnow arrested 16 suspectsbased on CCTV footage,"Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.

"All of the suspects (werearrested) in connection withracial incitement."

He said 10 of them had beenquestioned and released pend-ing the outcome of the investi-gation. The other six would

Jerusalem police arrest 16 fansover racist attack

Mariners starter Jason Vargasalso pitched a solid game, giv-ing only one single in the firstinning, one double in the fifthand a walk in the sixth, inseven and 1/3 innings.

Athletics coach BobMelvin praised Colon's pitch-ing, saying: "He is a perfectguy to pitch a game like this.

"Losing the game lastnight in a tough game and hejust goes out there and does histhings.

"My heart was beating a lotfaster than his was. He's beenaround for a long time. I don'tthink anything will affect himon a big stage like this."

Japan's star outfielderIchiro Suzuki, who fired foursingle hits on Wednesday,ended the day without a hit.

In the season-openinggame on Wednesday, DustinAckley fired a game-winninghome run to give the Marinersa 3-1 win.

victory in the United States.

However, she admitted she

didn't initially want the job.

She had asked to be removed

from consideration for the cap-

taincy before a string of play-

ers contacted her encouraging

her to reconsider.

"Getting those notes from

some of the players really got

me thinking again.' Am I going

to miss out on this if I don't do

this?' I might never get the op-

portunity again," Neumann

said. "I put my name back on

the list and I got the OK. I'm

very honored, and it feels great

to have that support."

tion committee and the playersfor placing their trust in meand I look forward to the chal-lenge of defending the title onUS soil next year."

Next year's Solheim Cup

will be held August 16-18 at

Colorado Golf Club in Parker,

Colorado.

Neumann, 45, represented

Europe six times as a Solheim

Cup player and was assistant to

captain Alison Nicholas in

2009.

She'll try to build on Eu-

rope's success in 2011 at

Killeen Castle in Ireland by

leading Europe to their first

RANCHO MIRAGE (AFP) -Sweden's Liselotte Neumannhas been named the captain ofthe European team for nextyear's Solheim Cup USA v Eu-ropean women's match playgolf tournament in Colorado.

"I am extremely happy andhonored to have been selectedas the European Solheim CupCaptain in 2013," Neumannsaid Wednesday at a press con-ference on the eve of the KraftNabisco Championship, thefirst women's major of theyear.

"This event has always beenvery special for women's golfand it brings back wonderfulmemories of my years on theteam. I want to thank the selec-

Fish broke Monaco in thesixth game of the second set tomake it 3-3 but Monaco re-sponded by winning threestraight, closing it out on thefirst of three match points witha backhand drop shot.

This is Monaco's ninth ap-pearance in Miami but the firsttime he has reached the semis.

Monaco, of Buenos Aires,improved to 11-4 on the yearand is chasing his second titleof 2012 after capturing hisfourth career crown in Vina delMar in February.

Monaco put on an impres-sive serving display by win-ning 71 percent of his firstserve points as he needed just82 minutes to oust Fish.

The 30-year-old Fish, wholost in the second round at theAustralian Open and in thethird round at the Indian WellsMasters, fell to 7-5 in 2012.

The hard-serving Fish fin-ished with just one ace, onedouble fault and won 40 per-cent of his second-servepoints.

MIAMI (AFP) - Argentina'sJuan Monaco celebrated his28th birthday in style by sur-prising eighth-seeded Ameri-can Mardy Fish 6-1, 6-3 in thequarter-finals of the WTA/ATPMiami Masters tournament onThursday.

Not many people gave un-derdog Monaco a chanceagainst Fish, but the 21st seedhas now won three straightagainst the American afterdropping their first twomatches back in 2005 and2006.

"I can't believe it," Monacosaid. "I have a lot of emotionsit is good to celebrate this way,playing unbelievable tennis onmy birthday.

"Every shot I wanted to playI did. It was a perfect match forme. I returned well and then Iserved very, very good."

In the semi-finals Monacowill face either world No. 1Novak Djokovic or fifthseeded Spaniard David Ferrer,who were playing in the nightsession.


Tennis: Birthday boy

Monaco sinks Fish

Golf: Neumann named EuropeanSolheim captain

Oakland Athletics outfielder Yoenis Cespedes hits a two-runhomer in the seventh inning to help his side to a 4-1 win overthe Seattle Mariners in Tokyo.

Cespedes helps .......continued from page 16

said of the lifting of the ban:"It's a temporary change toensure the best World Cup forBrazil."

But Vicente Candido, amember of President Rouss-eff's Workers Party and asponsor of the bill, describedit as a compromise that doesnot fully meet the wishes ofthe government, FIFA andcivil society.

pression linked to the WorldCup and slaps penal and fi-nancial sanctions for any ille-gal reproduction.

It will also reserve one per-cent of admission tickets forthe handicapped and man-dates that 300,000 tickets besold at discounted prices.

Renan Filho, a member ofthe Brazilian DemocraticMovement Party which is al-lied with the government,

stadiums during the 2013Confederations Cup.

FIFA had sought the ex-ception over an agreementwith its sponsor, US-basedAnheuser-Busch brand Bud-weiser and because banningbeer sales in 12 Brazilian hostcities would have hit the foot-ball organization's revenues.

The lifting of the ban camethrough an agreement be-tween the government, theopposition and the country'spowerful pro-agribusinessbloc.

However some lawmakersinsisted FIFA will still haveto negotiate permission forbeer sales separately with theindividual Brazilian statesconcerned.

Seven of the 12 cities thatwill host World Cup gameshave laws that ban beer sales.

The bill also gives FIFAexclusive rights to pictures,sound and other forms of ex-

SAO PAOLO (AFP) - Beerdrinking football fans shouldbe able to savor their favoritebeverage during matches atthe 2014 World Cup afterBrazilian lawmakers ap-proved a bill suspending aban on beer sales in stadiums.

The bill regulating thebeautiful game's quadrennialextravaganza received nearunanimous support in theHouse of Deputies lateWednesday, paving the wayfor beer to be sold in plasticcups inside the venues.

Sales of alcoholic bever-ages in sports arenas havebeen banned in Brazil since2003 but the World Cup billwill create an exception thathad been demanded by worldgoverning body FIFA.

The bill, which still has tobe endorsed by the Senate be-fore being ratified by Presi-dent Dilma Rousseff, willalso allow beer to be sold in


TOKYO (AFP) - Yoenis Ce-spedes hit a two-run homer tohelp Oakland Athletics beatSeattle Mariners 4-1 to windup the US Major LeagueBaseball opening series onThursday in Tokyo.

Trailing 0-1 in the bottomof the seventh inning, the out-fielder homered off reliefpitcher Shawn Kelly, withKurt Suzuki on first base totake a 2-1 lead.

"I know he (Kelly) tries togo for a slider, so I tried toadjust for it. That is the onlyway that I can hit the ball,"said Cespedes.

Josh Reddick followedhim by hitting another homerun to make it 3-1 and JonnyGomes added one more inthe eighth inning for 4-1.

Athletics starting pitcherBartolo Colon got off to aperfect start, shutting out thefirst four innings without giv-ing a single hit.

He gave Jesus Monteroand Miguel Olivo two singlehits in the fifth inning and awalk to face his first crisiswith the three bases full, butMariners infielder BrendanRyan grounded out.

The Mariners broke thedeadlock in the top of theseventh inning when infielderJustin Smoak hit a one-run

homer off Colon for a 1-0lead.

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