Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Recently the Aruba Tou-rism Authority had thegreat pleasure of honoringa very loyal and friendlygentleman, as Ambassadorof Goodwill at the QualityApartments. The symbolichonorary titles are pre-sented in the name of theMinister of Tourism as atoken of appreciation toguests who visit Aruba for20 or more consecutiveyears. The honoree was Mr.Ken Kaye from OntarioCanada. Ken loves Arubavery much because of thefriendly people of Aruba,the beaches, the beautifulweather, casinos, safety andthe family atmosphere andlots of memories and the re-laxation. The certificatewas presented by Mr.Ernest Giel representingthe Aruba Tourism Author-ity together with Ken’scompanion Mrs. Ana Am-atto, Ms. Janique Schildersand Ms. Marisella Tromprepresenting the QualityApartments.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Mr. Ken Kay honored by ATAat Quality Apartments Aruba

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheObama administration war-ned Monday of a "perfectstorm" of airport delays andless secure US borders whenhuge spending cuts hit thisweek, but a top Republicanslammed White House"scare" tactics.

Political acrimony esca-lated another notch ahead of$85 billion of cuts, known asthe sequester, due to slam thegovernment on March 1, butthere was no sign of any ef-fort by Democrats or Repub-licans to break the impasse.

Homeland Security Secre-tary Janet Napolitano warnedof the consequences of thecuts, as she became the latestcabinet official enrolled in acountrywide White Housemedia blitz intended to pileblame on Republicans.

"At the major internationalairports, we will be limited inaccepting new internationalflights, and average waittimes to clear customs willincrease by as much as 50percent," Napolitano said.

"At our busiest airports ...peak wait times, which canreach over two hours, couldeasily grow to four hours ormore," Napolitano said,warning that budget cutswould hit security and cus-toms officers at major hubs.

"You really have a perfectstorm in terms of the abilityto move around the country,"she said, adding that waits atthe southwest US land bordercould be five hours, and de-lays for cargo at Americanports could last five days.

Napolitano also said thatreduced overtime, furloughsand hiring freezes for borderagents would make the USborder less secure and makeit harder to stop illegal immi-gration.

While stopping short ofsaying that that the UnitedStates would be more proneto terror attacks, she said se-questration would make thework of securing the country"awfully, awfully tough."

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Cuts mean 'perfectstorm' of airportdelays: White House

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In an effort to provide moreand even better service totheir clients, Aruba's electric-ity distribution company,Elmar N.V. recently pre-sented their innovative proj-ect to the community. Theyhave officially launched theintroduction of prepaid me-ters. These will be installed inthe Noord and San Nicolaasbarrios as a pilot project. Pre-paid meters will be madeavailable to residents in andaround these barrios.

According to Elmar, theprepaid meters function verymuch like the traditional postpaid meters and can be suitedto both 110 as well as 220volts with ease. The meter isaffixed to the outside wall ofthe house, while inside asmall box is installed close toan electrical outlet. Upon in-stallation the client receivesinstruction about the func-tioning of the equipment aswell as a user manual.

The system reportedly hasvarious benefits. The systemallows the client to controltheir use and their expenses.This enables the cleint to re-duce their electrical con-sumption, pay on time andeliminate monthly bills.

The system uses a token.The client purchases a tokenof the value of his chosing.For example, a Afls.100token or whatever amountthe client perceives to needfor his cosumption over acertain period. Elmar, in turnassures the client that he re-ceives the amount for whichhe purchased.The minimaltoken amount is Afls.5. Whenthe purchased amount isabout to finish, the meter willalert the client to have hismeter recharged.

The meter tokens areavailable for purchase at thefollowing locations: ValeroEssoville, Valero PalmBeach, Texaco Sasaki and atElmar N.V. Two contact per-sons at Elmar regarding pre-paid meters are: SorayaCroes at tel. 523-7124 andJared Tromp at tel. 523-7143.To apply for a prepaid meterone needs to register for thisat Elmar in Oranjestad.

Elmar wants to alert thecommunity that the prepaidmeters carry the same tariffsas the traditional meters, theycost the same; the only differ-ence is that the client controlshow much he spends whichcould result in a monthly sav-ing.

N.V. Elmar launchesprepaid meters aspilot project In connection with the explo-

ration for gas or petrol inAruban waters, which hasbegun in earnest at theNorthen side of Aruba, Rep-sol and CAP representativesinvited a group of individualsto get acquainted with theirSeismic Vessel. On February15 a group of invited guestreceived a tour of the inter-esting vessel.

Repsol representative inAruba, Willy Hernandez, re-ported that the first trial peri-oid is divided into threephases. During the firstphase, to take one and a halfyears, they will acquire theship to do the seismic re-

search. This will be followedby the second phase, whichwill also take one and a halfyears during which time theywill receive the seismic stud-ies in 3dimension. This willbe followed by a period ofthree years during which timethey will dig an exploratorywell based on the results oftheir seismic analysis.

They expect to coversome 4 thousand kilometersduring the next 40 days dur-ing this first phase of explo-rations. According to WillyHernandez, the farthest pointthey will go for explorationsis 60 miles from the coast ofAruba. And, the closest willbe the protected area of 3kilometers from the coastwhere no activities will beconducted. The total area tobe covered will be 14 thou-sand square kilometers andwill entail the area south ofAruba as well as a major part

of the Northern side.They explained that dur-

ing the entire process of theexploration, they will bemindful of fishermen in thearea. They will take measuresof mitigation with every sec-

tor, such as fish-ermen, divers,etc. according toHernandez.

There will bethree ships atsea. One shipwill carry all themeasuring andregistration ap-

paratus, while the two otherships will be helping with theprocess. At the more sensiblezones they will perform apre-scouting two days in ad-vance to study what kind of

animals are in the area andwhat is their behavior. Wthrespect to mitigation meas-ures, these will be done peri-odically within one and threedays to ensure that all is donecorrectly and well.

Finally, they indicated thatthe objective of the ex-ploratory phase is to acquirea seismic campaign with dataof the best possible qualityand to ensure that there is nodamage to the environmentnor to the health of persons.

On the other hand, thetechnical objective is to de-termine where there arestructures containing hydro-carbon. The final confirma-tion of the presence ofhydrocarbon will determinethe perforation point.

Seismic Vessel begins exploringfor gas or petrol around Aruba

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Last Friday, NOW! Strategyand Design organized an artauction created by customersand business relations of theadvertising agency.

At the end of December2012, NOW! distributednearly 100 art packages to itscustomers with the questionto make a piece of art to ben-efit Fundacion Pa Nos Co-munidad, thus paint for agood cause.

The upper floor of authen-tic Art Gallery | Restaurant

Que Pasa was a perfect loca-tion for this evening and theproject turned out to be a bigsuccess.

The auctioneer created alot of excitement during thebidding process and morethan 30 paintings were of-fered to the crowd. Somebids reached way over Afl.1,000. More than 80 atten-dees were bidding on the pre-sented paintings and at theend of thenight over Afl.17,000 was collected.

Indra Stamperof the FPNC wasvery impressed bythis great result,the full proceeds ofthe auction will bedonated to Funda-cionPa Nos Comu-nidad.

"We can use allhelp to fightpoverty on our is-land," Indra men-tioned. FPNC is a

foundation that supports vul-nerable groups and voluntaryinitiatives in the Aruban com-munity.

Separate from the fact thatmany people will be helpedwith this project, it is alsonice to mention that the cre-ative incentive of this projectproduced a lot of new artists.It was a fun entertainment forparticipants and definitelyworth repeating!

The “Art Project” auction ahuge success

The weekly Bon Bini Festi-val takes place tonight at theFort Zoutman in Wilhelmi-nastraat. Bon Bini Festival isthe only weekly folkloricevent on the island. Comemingle with the locals andenjoy a taste of Aruban cul-ture.

This week the festival willfeature the traditional Arubacaha di orgel by “Nos Ambi-ente,” folkloric music byTipico Ola Tropical, danceperformance by “The BonBini Dancers, soloist per-forming will be VeloushkaKrozendijk and brass bandTBS.

The event will be hostedby Ryan Maduro.

During the festival therewill be local food, sweets andtraditional local arts andcrafts on sale.

Arubus has regular bussesfrom all hotels areas to Oran-jestrad Central Terminal,which is only a short walkfrom Fort Zoutman. Roundtrip bus fare is $2.30. The fes-tival is from 6:30 pm to 8:30pm. Entrance fee is $5.

Come and experience ataste of our ‘dushi’ Aruba.

Bon Bini Festival istonight!


Noel tells us "I’ve inter-viewed Bruce Willis severaltimes through the years buthave never know him to beso mellow and friendly as hewas at our recent interviewmeeting, which took placeat the Four Season’s Hotelin Beverly Hills. Bruce en-tered the room all smiles andwith a tap on my shoulder hesaid “How ya doing?” Iwondered could it be his re-cent marriage and father-hood or could it be that he’sback again in a Die Hardmovie that has brought onthis happy friendliness."Now appearing in local the-aters in the fifth installmentof the enormously success-ful Die Hard series, hebrings back a beloved andiconic character he hasplayed for 25 years.

NDS: THIS MOVIE ISWALL TO WALL ACTION,IT’S ALL VERY IMPRES-SIVE. WAS IT ALL CGI ORWAS IT REAL?BW: There was very littleCGI, as director John Moorewas pretty insistent on mak-ing it all happen on thestreets. Scenes like that arecomposite; I would say thatthey took six weeks to shoot.When there were those diffi-cult and dangerous scenes toshoot we’d go to a specificlocation and no one wouldget hurt. I had a couple of re-ally good experiences whereI got to drive that big greentruck through Budapest atpretty high speeds. They hasshut down some of the streetsfor me and I just took advan-tage of it, just drove like amaniac. I didn’t hit any oneor any thing. It turned out tobe really exciting.NDS: IN THE FILM YOUHAVE AN ESTRANGEDRELATIONSHIP WITH

YOUR SON. I KNOW YOUONLY HAVE DAUGH-TERS BUT WHAT HAVEYOU GONE THROUGHWITH THEM? I ASK THISIN RELATIONSHIP TO ALINE YOU HAVE IN THEFILM, REFERING TOYOUR SON, “THE SHITTHAT YOU DO FOR YOURCHILDREN”BW:That line implies you doit because you love your chil-dren, you do the craziestthings in the world becauseyou love them. I myself havedone very crazy things.When my daughter Tallulahwas three or four years old I

was away filming in Romeand I was on the phone withher and she said, “Daddy,come home,” I got on aplane on the weekend andwent home, saw her and thenwent back. It’s not that it wasa crazy thing to do, but it wasa complicated thing to do;leave a shoot and go away fortwo days. I never consideredit a problem.NDS: WOULD YOU CALLTHIS UNCONDITIONALLOVE?BW: I’d just call it love. It’smy love that I have for thosekids and the time that I wantto spend with them, goof

around with them. Now mydaughters are grown up andare in their twenties, Tallulahjust turned 19 and there wasa section of time when Ididn’t quite know what kindof adults they were going toturn into, but they haveturned into really greatwomen. They have greatmorals, great ethics, and theyare kind to people. They areintelligent and I couldn’thave asked for more; I am sopleased.NDS: DO YOU THINKTHAT THERE’S ADIFFRENCE to RAISING ASON THAN RAISING ADAUGHTER?BW: It’s not that dissimilar.We always raised our daugh-ters to have their own voice-to not let any one shut themdown and tell them that theyshouldn’t be able to speaktheir minds or have an opin-ion. Now that they are older Ihear their opinions and I ampleased that they have thecourage to speak up for them-selves, be opinionated, whichI highly approve of.NDS: YOU ARE A FATHERONCE AGAIN. IS THEREA BIG DIFFERENCE INBEING A FATHER NOWTHAN IT WAS WHENYOU HAD YOUR FIRSTBORN?BW: Not as much as youwould think. One of thethings that makes it easier forme is that I pretty much stayin shape and I can run andjump and play and do thosethings. The actual mechanicsof being a father are great, Ifeel like I have the sameamount of love, if not more.I like getting up early andlooking after Mabel, it’s veryexciting and it makes mevery happy.NDS: TELL ME ABOUTYOUR NEW WIFE.

BW: About Emma? She’sjust great. She’s a great momand she’s a first time mom.She’s truly very smart and re-served and I just love her somuch. Maybe you’ll get tomeet her.NDS: MAYBE I WILL, BUTUNTIL I DO, COULD YOUFILL ME IN A LITTLEABOUT HER? SHE IS AMODEL ISN’T SHE?BW: She did some modeling.She had a great modeling ca-reer when she was younger.You should see her in abathing suit. She’s a greatmom. Getting married again,I get a lot of complimentsfrom people who have gonethrough the same thing. I geta kind of praise for havingjust continued moving for-ward and not have it be in-cendiary or a problem.NDS: YOU HAVE HAD AVERY SUCCESSFUL CA-REER. HOW WOULD YOURANK THE IMPORTANCEOF THE ‘DIE HARD’FRANCHISE IN YOURCAREER AND IN YOURSTATUS IN THIS BUSI-NESS?BW: I have a very warm spotin my heart for DIE HARD.Just the sheer novelty ofbeing able to play the samecharacter over 25 years andstill be asked back is fun, It’smuch more challenging tohave to do a film again andtry to compete with myself,which is what I do. I don’tfeel that I compete with otheractors or other films and so Itry to improve myself withevery one of them. I may getto do different things andlook different and it’s still ac-cepted by the public whocome out to see the film, it’san amazing thing.

Continued on pg 5

Exclusive interview with Bruce Willis now starringin a “A Good Day to Die Hard

by The Morning News special Hollywood correspondent Noel de Souza


GENOA, Italy (AFP) - Sup-porters of a new Italian anti-austerity party led by formercomedian Beppe Grillo cele-brated early results pointingto a stunning electoral suc-cess on Monday that couldturn the movement into thecountry's third biggest politi-cal force.

In Grillo's home town ofGenoa in northwest Italy, thebeer flowed at a local bar --the Mente Locale -- wherecandidates and activistscrowded in to cheer as pre-

liminary results showed theymight have won as much as aquarter of the vote.

Dozens of mostly youngcandidates -- some close tothe minimum age of 25 andmany with little or no politi-cal experience -- are set toenter parliament for the firsttime as Italians fed up withausterity and corruptionflocked to their ranks.

"This is an extremelystrong sign of change," saidStefano Camisasso, a candi-date for the Five Star Move-

ment (M5S) for the Senate,containing his euphoria as heplanned the move to Rome.

Another candidate,Cristina De Pietro, said shewas still in shock as shewatched a television.

"This is a moment whenyou feel a bit weird becausewe are ordinary citizens, wedon't have political experi-ence," she said.

"We have a lot to learn,"she said.

Asked what she made ofthe early results, she said

simply: "This is what Italyneeded!"

Grillo, a bushy-haired 63-year-old, took to the cam-paign trail in a camper van,travelling to rallies across thecountry which drew largecrowds of young people, pen-sioners and women sick oftraditional politicians taintedby scandals.

The Internet-based move-ment has called for Italy'spublic debt to be cancelledand for a referendum onwhether to stay in the euro-

zone, as well as advocatingfor a 20-hour working week.

It grew out of Grillo's pop-ular blog and forced Italy'smain parties to take it seri-ously when it won the highestnumber of votes for any sin-gle party in regional electionsin Sicily last year.

M5S proposals are alsodriven by a mix of economicpopulism and idealism --from free Internet for every-one and electronic tablets forall school children, to a greeneconomy.

Protest party savours Italian election success

What has it done for me ca-reer-wise? It has afforded methe opportunity to work withgood directors and to dothings way outside of DIEHARD. I’ve done comedy,worked with great actors andhad a ball doing it, so I get todo both things and keep my-self happy. I work when Iwant to and get to take timeoff when I want to.NDS: LOOKING BACK ATYOUR CAREER, WHATARE YOU THE MOSTPROUD OF TODAY?BW: Let me be honest here, Ihave a couple of handfuls offilms that didn’t make asmuch noise as I would haveliked them to. Everybodytries all the time; all actorsdo. All film-makers try to dosomething great every time,but not every film gets no-ticed and not every perform-ance works out. So I just tryand try and some films getnoticed. I did a small filmcalled LOOPER; I love thatfilm. What I was doing in thefilm was based on romanceand it’s such a peculiar story.because, as you know. I hadto kill kids so my wife in thefuture could stay alive. It did-n’t work but it was a verycomplicated story, I likedwhat they were aiming for inthe film, it’s very interesting.

Ed: Mr. De Sousa com-mented that he was sorry tosee his time with Mr. Willisend, but he left the interviewwith the definite feeling theveteran star is in a very goodplace in his life right now. Heis still a very busy actor, asterling professional successand extremely happy in hishome life, eager to share itwith everyone.

Exclusiveinterview withBruce Willis... Continued from pg 4


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana(AFP) - Prosecutors accusedBP of letting greed triumphover safety Monday in theopening of a multi-billiondollar trial over the devastat-ing 2010 Gulf of Mexico oilspill.

A federal judge in NewOrleans is tasked with deter-mining how much BP and itssubcontractors should pay forthe worst environmental dis-aster in US history.

US prosecutors are deter-mined to prove that grossnegligence caused the April20, 2010 blast that killed 11workers and sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizonrig, sending millions of bar-rels of oil gushing into thesea.

The US government plansto introduce ample evidenceof "systemic problems of cor-porate recklessness" and howa "culture of disregard tosafety" led to the blowout,said Michael Underhill, leadtrial counsel for the UnitedStates.

"Reckless actions weretolerated, sometimes encour-aged by BP to squeeze everydollar," he told the court.

"Every fork in the road,BP chose time and moneyover safety in the operation ofwhat (one rig worker) calledthe 'well from hell.'"

BP is equally determinedto avoid a finding of grossnegligence, which woulddrastically increase its envi-ronmental fines to as much as$17 billion.

BP is also hoping to shiftmuch of the blame -- and cost-- to rig operator Transoceanand subcontractor Hallibur-ton, which was responsiblefor the runaway well's faultycement job.

Transocean's poor safetyrecord was the focus of thefirst lawyer to speak, JimRoy, who represents thou-sands of individuals and busi-nesses impacted by the spillthrough a steering committee.

Roy told the court that theSwiss giant's top safety offi-cial on the multimillion dollarrig "was not even minimallycompetent for this job."

"His training consisted ofa three-day course. Amaz-ingly, he had never beenaboard the Deepwater Hori-zon," Roy said, noting thatthe blowout was the seventhmajor incident aboard aTransocean rig in the space of17 months.

Transocean defended its"well-trained" crew whose"death-defying acts of hero-ism" ensured that "every sin-gle man and woman whocould have survived, did,"and described BP's attempt toshift the blame as "shameful."

"None of this had to hap-pen. It happened because BPwas behind schedule andneeded to get this done," saidBrad Brian, Transocean's leadattorney.

"BP considered another al-ternative to this: Plug the welland abandon it. but thatwould have cost over $10million."

BP accused of greed, laxsafety at US oil spill trial

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Vet-eran British explorer Sir Ran-ulph Fiennes has pulled outof an attempt at the world'sfirst Antarctic winter crossingdue to frostbite, the expedi-tion said Monday.

"This decision has notbeen taken lightly and it is,naturally, a huge disappoint-ment to Fiennes and his col-leagues," the mission, knownas The Coldest Journey, saidon its website.

The 68-year-old adven-turer was injured after fallingduring a ski training sessionin temperatures of around

minus 30 Celsius (minus 22Farenheit), the BBC reported.

"In seeking to re-attach hisbinding he felt that he could-n't get it on and had to takehis glove off in very coldconditions and exposed hishand to snow and as a conse-quence he has contractedfrostbite," said the expedi-tion's Tony Medniuk.

According to the website,Fiennes had "very reluctantlydecided" to leave his five fel-low explorers while an evac-uation was still possiblebefore the start of the Antarc-tic winter.

However, a blizzard hasput on hold plans to transporthim by snowmobile toPrincess Elisabeth Station,which lies around 70 kilome-tres (43 miles) away from theteam's current location.

The plan is then to fly himto Novo for a connectingflight to Cape Town, fromwhere the expedition shipsailed in early January.

The decision to leave wasmade with the team doctorand in the interests of the suc-cess of the journey. The cam-paign aims to raise $10million (7,6 million euros)

for the Seeing is Believingblindness charity.

The remaining five expe-dition members will press onwith the journey and are "inan excellent position" to startthe crossing on March 21.

"Sir Ran is leaving but wewill carry on," tweeted IanPrickett who is part of the team.

They hope to be the first tomake the over-3,200 kilome-tre (2,000 mile) crossing inwinter.

The furthest winter jour-ney in Antarctica so far cov-ered 60 miles in the early20th century.

Frostbite ends Fiennes winter Antarctic expedition bid

The idea for the automatic,arbitrary budget cuts emergedas a way to ease a previousshowdown between Obamaand Republicans in Congress.

The massive reductions tothe military and domesticbudget were supposed to beso severe that both sideswould be forced into a deal tocut the deficit. But such isWashington's dysfunction, noagreement has been reached.

Obama on Monday hit outat the polarized political at-mosphere in the US capital,telling his foes at some pointthey had to agree to govern.

The president is calling oncongressional Republicans toagree to stave off the cuts by

closing tax loopholes thatbenefit the rich and corpora-tions to raise new revenues,along with a program of tar-geted spending cuts.

"We can't just cut our wayto prosperity. Cutting alone isnot an economic policy,"Obama told Democratic andRepublican governors at theWhite House.

Many Republicans agreethat the sequester is a badway to trim the budget andreduce the deficit but theyargue that Obama is not seri-ous about reining in spend-ing.

Bobby Jindal, the Repub-lican governor of Louisiana,who is a possible 2016 presi-

dential candidate, emergedfrom the meeting withObama and issued a searingattack on the president's han-dling of the sequester.

"There is a responsibleway to cut less than three per-cent of the federal budget,"Jindal told reporters. "I thinkit is time for the president toshow leadership. This admin-istration has an insatiable ap-petite for new revenues.

"Enough is enough. Thepresident needs to stop cam-paigning, stop trying to scarethe American people."

The cuts will slash defensespending by at least $55 bil-lion and non-defense discre-tionary spending by $27billion this year.

The Bipartisan PolicyCenter in Washington esti-mates that one million jobscould be lost.

The Congressional BudgetOffice predicts growth, al-ready down by 0.1 percentlast quarter, could slip 0.7percent as government de-partments and related busi-nesses stagger under thesequester's impact.

Cuts mean 'perfect storm' of airportdelays: White House Continued from pg 1

MOSCOW (AFP) - Worldpowers will present Iran withan updated and "good" offerat talks this week on its nu-clear programme, an EU offi-cial said Monday, althoughhopes for a breakthroughwere slim.

Talks aimed at curbingTehran’s nuclear drive start inKazakhstan Tuesday, with theso-called 5+1 world powersrepresented by the EuropeanUnion sitting down with anIranian team led by its top nu-clear negotiator Saeed Jalili.

"We have prepared a goodand updated offer for thetalks, which we believe isbalanced and a fair basis forconstructive talks," said thespokesman for EU foreignpolicy chief Catherine Ash-ton.

"The offer addresses inter-national concerns... on thenature of the Iranian nuclearprogramme, but is also re-sponsive to Iranian ideas,"said the spokesman, MichaelMann.

"We hope that Iran willseize this opportunity andcome to the talks with flexi-bility and commitment tomake concrete progress to-wards a confidence-buildingstep."

A source close to the ne-

gotiations said the offerwould still insist that Iranhalts enriching uranium to 20percent, shuts down its con-troversial Fordo uranium en-richment plant and sendsabroad all uranium alreadyenriched to 20 percent.

"This still forms the basisof the demands of the 5+1group," said the source whoasked not to be identified.

Reports have said that Irancould in return be offered asoftening of sanctions im-posed against it, possiblystarting with a lifting ofmeasures against its gold in-dustry.

However Jalili said at theweekend that Tehran wouldnot go beyond its obligationsor accept anything outside itsrights under the non-prolifer-ation treaty (NPT).

"We don't expect anybreakthrough. The Iranianshave made different declara-tions in the last days. It de-pends if you take the positiveor the negative ones," saidone Western official whoasked not to be identified.

The 5+1 world powers areBritain, China, France, Ger-many, Russia and the UnitedStates.

World powers have 'good offer' forIran nuclear talks

(AFP) - A picture grabbed ona video released by onYouTube on February 25,2013 shows an unidentifiedman (C) reading a messagewhile Tanguy Moulin-Fournier(background, L) sits next tohis wife, Albane (C, wearing ablack veil), his brother Cyrille,and their four childrenflanked by an armed man inan undisclosed place. Thefamily -- a couple, their chil-dren aged five, eight, 10 and12 and an uncle -- wassnatched in Cameroon onFebruary 19, 2013 by sixarmed suspected Islamistson three motorbikes. Themore than three-minute video shows the French family, including four children, heldin an undisclosed location, surrounded by at least three of the abductors whose facesare hidden and who claim to be from Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. Asource close to the family confirmed their identities to AFP.

ensure the integrity of the foodchain in the future.

Country of origin labellingwas positive but the key issuewas to use "DNA testing toconfirm for consumers thatthey are eating what they thinkthey are eating," Coveney said.

Earlier this month, EU min-isters agreed at an emergencymeeting to launch tests forhorse DNA in meat products,initially for one month andpossibly for three.

In addition, the test pro-gramme also looks for thepresence of phenylbutazone,an anti-inflammatory treat-ment for horses which is harm-ful to humans.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The Eu-ropean Commission said Mon-day it has an open mind whenit comes to place of origin la-bels on prepared foods as sev-eral member states pushed forthe measure to help combat thehorsemeat for beef scandal.

EU Health CommissionerTonio Borg nonetheless saidan EU report into the labellingissue -- which was in theworks before the crisis broke -- would be brought forwardthree months so member statescould review it earlier.

As more cases were re-ported across Europe, Borgsaid a growing number ofmember states were "in favourof introducing this legislationbut ... I have an open mind."

Passing off horsemeat asbeef was simple criminalfraud, he insisted, saying thatplace of origin labels wouldnot have prevented that hap-pening.

Simon Coveney, who as Ire-land's agriculture ministerchaired Monday's talks inBrussels, said testing was theway forward as only that could


French Agriculture MinisterStephane Le Foll said sepa-rately that France, Germany,Britain, Austria and Portugalhad all asked for the Commis-sion to bring forward the la-belling report.

Rather than the end of theyear, it should be made avail-able by the middle of the year,Le Foll said, adding: "I arguedthat the best would be by Juneand at the very latest, by Sep-tember."

Several countries, includingGermany, were in favour ofputting labels of origin on pre-pared foods, he said.

EU has open mind on originlabelling as members pushfor horsemeat action

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to the two-year conflict agreedthrough talks.

Lavrov added that the situ-ation in Syria was "at thecrossroads", with differentfactions pressing for conflictand talks. But he expressedoptimism that a negotiated so-lution could be found.

Lavrov had said last weekthere were positive signs fromboth sides of a new willing-ness to talk but called onAssad's regime to turn oft-stated words about its readi-ness for dialogue into deeds.

While Khatib head of theSyrian opposition NationalCoalitionhas offered to talk toregime officials without"blood on their hands", theNational Coalition has saidAssad and the top militarycommand cannot be part ofany solution.

Khatib said on Saturday itwas pulling out of the 11-na-tion meeting of the Friends ofSyria to protest at the "shame-ful" inaction of the interna-tional community in the faceof civilian killings.

MOSCOW (AFP) - The Syr-ian regime is ready for talkswith armed rebels and anyonewho favours dialogue, Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad's foreignminister said in Moscow onMonday, in the first such offerby a top Syrian official.

Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem was in Moscow fortalks with Russian counterpartSergei Lavrov, whose countryis one of the few big powersto still maintain ties withAssad's regime.

Russia has renewed callsfor rebels and regime to en-gage in direct negotiations toend the two-year conflict thathas killed tens of thousands ofpeople, warning that pressingfor a military victory riskeddestroying Syria.

Armed rebels have battledthe Assad regime since thestart of the opposition's upris-ing against his rule in March2011 and now control swathesof Syrian territory.

Lavrov said alongsideMuallem that there was no al-ternative to a political solution

Syria says ready fortalks with armedrebels

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-Kidney problemsIn addition to the host of

physical complications,people with anorexia alsocommonly have other men-tal disorders as well. Theymay include:

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disorders-Drug abuseIf you notice a family

member or friend with lowself-esteem, severe dietinghabits and dissatisfactionwith appearance, considertalking to him or her aboutthese issues. Although youmay not be able to prevent aneating disorder from develop-ing, you can talk abouthealthier behavior or seekingtreatment options.

-Soft, downy hair coveringthe body

-Absence of menstruation-Constipation-Dry skin-Intolerance of cold-Irregular heart rhythms-Low blood pressure-Dehydration-Osteoporosis-Swelling of arms or legs-Emotional and behavioral

anorexia symptomsEmotional and behav-

ioral characteristics associ-ated with anorexia include:

-Refusal to eat-Denial of hunger-Afraid of gaining weight-Lying about how much

food has been eaten-Excessive exercise-Flat mood (lack of emo-

tion)-Social withdrawal-Irritability-Preoccupation with food-Reduced interest in sex-Depressed mood-Possible use of laxatives,

diet aids or herbal productsC o m p l i c a t i o n s o f

anorexia include:-Death-Anemia-Heart problems, such as

mitral valve prolapse, abnor-mal heart rhythms and heartfailure

-Bone loss, increasing risk

-- Anorexia nervosa is aneating disorder that causespeople to obsess about theirweight and the food they eat.People with anorexia nervosaattempt to maintain a weightthat's far below normal fortheir age and height. To pre-vent weight gain or to con-tinue losing weight, peoplewith anorexia nervosa maystarve themselves or exerciseexcessively.

Anorexia nervosa can bedifficult to overcome. Butwith treatment, you can gaina better sense of who you are,return to healthier eatinghabits and reverse some ofanorexia's serious complica-tions.

No matter how weightloss is achieved, anorexiahas a number of physical,emotional and behavioralsigns and symptoms.

-Physical anorexia symp-toms

-Physical signs and symp-toms of anorexia include:

-Extreme weight loss-Thin appearance-Abnormal blood counts-Fatigue-Insomnia-Dizziness or fainting-A bluish discoloration of

the fingers-Hair that thins, breaks or

falls out

Anorexia nervosa


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Very few restaurants andcafes are completely non-smoking, sometimes offering,at best, a smoking area andnon-smoking area that issometimes tucked away in anunappealing section at theback.

The law will also ban the ad-vertising of tobacco productsas well as sponsorship ofevents by tabacco firms. It willalso forbid laying out cigarettepacks openly in store displaysor selling them in kiosks.

The health ministry is alsohoping that the law will cut thenumber of annual deaths inRussia from smoking from thecurrent 400,000 to 150,000-200,000.

Vastly more men thanwomen smoke in Russia, with60 percent of males smokingand just 20 percent of women,according to the World HealthOrganisation.

According to the WHO,Russia in 2010 had the fourthmost smokers of any countryin the world, accounting for4.4 percent of the world'ssmokers. However it was stillwell behind China, which ac-counted for 28 percent of theworld's smokers.

MOSCOW (AFP) - PresidentVladimir Putin has signed alaw banning smoking in publicplaces in Russia from June, acornerstone of the govern-ment's bid to improve publichealth in the nicotine-addictedcountry, the Kremlin saidMonday.

The move follows similaranti-smoking legislationadopted in the last years byseveral EU states, but will re-quire a major lifestyle changefor Russians long used tosmoking almost anywherethey liked.

The law, which will take ef-fect in two stages, makessmoking illegal in restaurants,cafes, hotels, trains and a hostof other places.

From June 1, 2014, the banwill be stepped up to includeships, long-distance trains,train platforms, hotels, cafesand restaurants, places whereRussians still smoke plenti-fully.

Many Russians currently getthrough long-distance trainjourneys by smoking at the endof carriages where smoking isallowed despite being bannedin compartments.

Putin signs law banning smoking inpublic places

-- A Mediterranean diet, high infruits, vegetables, a limitedamount of fish and cereal, oliveoil and nuts, was found to lowerthe risk of cardiovascular dis-ease in high-risk population byas much as 30 percent, accord-ing to a study, published yester-day in the New England Journalof Medicine. The MediterraneanDiet asks eaters to follow a pyra-mid that emphasizes fruits, veg-etables, whole grains, olive oil,beans, nuts, legumes, seeds,herbs and spices. People areasked to eat fish and seafood atleast two times a week, consumepoultry, eggs, cheese and yogurtin moderate daily to weekly amounts and avoid red meats and sweets when they can.Drinking plenty of water and having wine in moderation are also encouraged.

The agreement with Sam-sung is the first of its kind be-tween a leading manufacturerof NFC-enabled smartphonesand a payment network, Visasaid.

Under the deal, Samsungwill equip the next generationof its mobile devices with Visapayment technology, includingby pre-loading Visa's contact-less payment system -- VisapayWave -- in its mobiles in amini-programme known as anapplet.

Samsung will let bankssend payment account infor-mation over the airwaves to asecure microchip embedded inits devices. Banks will use asecure system relying onVisa's so-called Mobile Provi-sioning Service and Samsung'skey management system.


BARCELONA (AFP) - UScredit card giant Visa an-nounced Monday a global al-liance with Samsung to letshoppers make payments bywaving their smartphones neara special reader.

The deal could significantlyboost the long-touted use ofsmartphones to pay for goodsworldwide without any physi-cal contact, and without theneed either for credit cards orcash, it said.

The system could be usedby owners of Samsung smartphones equipped with a tech-nology known as Near FieldCommunication, or NFC,which lets a phone transmit in-formation to a nearby readerwithout touching it.

The success of the new sys-tem agreed between Visa andSamsung, the world's leadingsmartphone manufacturer, willstill depend on whether bankscan be persuaded to use it.

Visa said the deal had thepotential to "significantly ac-celerate" the availability ofmobile payments globally,noting a forecast by ABI Re-

search that 1.95 billion NFC-enabled devices will ship in2017.

Visa revealed the agreementon the first day of the MobileWorld Congress in Barcelona,which is trying to raise aware-ness of the advantages ofNFC, including by letting par-ticipants use "NFC badges" ontheir mobiles to enter.

Some in the industry aresceptical about NFC's useful-ness, however.

Visa, Samsung announce global dealfor mobile payments

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BARCELONA (AFP) - Light-ning-fast fourth generation mo-bile networks are spreadingrapidly worldwide, led by theUnited States, Japan and SouthKorea, but Europe lags behindand its economic crisis couldbrake investment, an industryreport said Monday.

Next generation Long TermEvolution, or LTE, networkspromise download speeds tomobile phone users as fast asfixed broadband connections,opening the way to new mobileservices such as high-definitionvideos with no buffering lag.

But the new networks needsignificant new investment byoperators, and Europe hasfallen behind, industry analystsIDATE said in a 2013 report.

By mid 2012, 26.5 millionpeople were subscribing toLTE services, it said.

US operators led by VerizonWireless had 13 million cus-tomers on the new LTE net-works, South Korean operatorshad 7.5 million subscribers andJapanese operators 3.4 million,it said.

But the report, released onthe opening day of the world'sbiggest mobile fair inBarcelona, Spain, showed thebiggest users of LTE networks

in Europe were Germany andSweden with 300,000 each,while Austria logged just180,000.

An even faster technology,known as LTE Advanced, orTrue 4G, is expected to berolled out this year with theUnited States, Japan and SouthKorea once again the front-runners, it said.

Some 350 mobile operatorswere now investing in LTE in104 countries, the report said.

Europe had once been aleader, with TeliaSoneralaunching the first fourth-gen-eration network in Sweden andNorway at the end of 2009. Butno longer.

"LTE is now a 'must have':operators which do not adoptthe technology will loseground in their market and willnot benefit from the economiesprovided by LTE," IDATEwarned.

Most operators were investingin LTE to gain additional capac-ity and drive down costs, it said.

A new generation of smart-phones was now available inall main markets with the ca-pacity to link to the new net-works, removing a keyobstacle to growth, IDATEsaid.

Lightning-fast mobilehits speed bump inEurope

PARIS (AFP) - Scientists said Sunday they had foundtraces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the IndianOcean island of Mauritius. The slab, dubbed Mauritia,was probably formed around 61-83 million years agoafter Madagascar split from India, but eventually brokeup and became smothered by thick lava deposits, theysaid. In a study published in the journal Nature Geo-science, scientists analysed beach sand on Mauritiusthat contained ancient zircons between 660 million andabout two billion years old. The Indian Ocean floor maybe littered with hidden land fragments that broke off asthe once super-continent Pangea split up and formed thecontinents we know today, the paper suggests. Pangeabegan to rift about 200 million years ago, yielding Gond-wana in the south and Laurasia in the north. Gondwanain turn split into Madagascar, Australia, Antarctica andIndia between 80 and 130 million years ago. The newstudy suggests that Mauritia became detached whenMadagascar and India split up. The Seychelles, it adds,could be like Mauritia -- another continental fragmentthat, however, is visible.


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riving from random tests car-ried out in Basel, Biel,Geneva, Kreuzlingen, Lau-sanne, Lucerne, Winterhur andZurich.

The organisation ordered thetest sampling after being"alarmed by the scandal that re-cently erupted in Germany whereseven percent of pork meat wasfound in meat for kebabs."

Britain in the summer beforeexpanding to other marketsincluding Belgium, Brazil,China, France, Italy, Nether-lands, Singapore, Spain andSweden, MasterCard said.

MasterCard said it the newsystem was supported bybanks including Banco San-tander, BBVA, BNP, and Citi.

"For mobile money oftenthe most innovative marketshave been emerging marketsrather than developed mar-kets," said Ian Fogg, seniormobile analyst at researchhouse IHS.

"What is interesting is theshift where you see peoplelike Visa and Mastercard get-ting interested and involved,"he said.

BARCELONA(AFP) - Creditcard giant MasterCard an-nounced Monday the launch ofa new digital payment systemthat lets people use a wide va-riety of devices includingsmartphones to spend theirmoney.

The system, known as Mas-terPass, stores customers'banking and personal informa-tion in a "secure cloud" onlinewhere it is available for themoment of payment whetherin a store on when browsingthe Internet, the group said.

Banks and stores will beable to issue MasterPass-con-nected "digital wallets" to theircustomers, the group said onthe opening day of the four-day Mobile World Congress,the world's biggest mobile fair,in Barcelona, Spain.

The system will also acceptcredit and debit card informa-tion, including cards otherthan MasterCard's.

Shoppers would be able touse the system on the webwithout having to key in theirbank information and deliv-ery address for each pur-chase.

But they also could makepayments with the new sys-tem in other ways, includingby waving a smartphoneequipped with Near FieldCommunications, or NFC,technology near a specialreader.

The system will belaunched by financial institu-tions in Australia and Canadaby the end of March, in theUnited States in spring andBRUSSELS (AFP) - The cost

and health benefits of gettingpeople not to smoke and betterstill, not to start, more thanoutweigh the taxes the tobaccoindustry pays to governments,the European Commissionsaid Monday.

Irish Health Minister JamesReilly, presenting the EU'snew draft tobacco law in theEuropean parliament, saidsmokers paid some 20 billioneuros ($26.4 billion) annuallyin tax but health costs associ-ated with smoking came to 23billion euros.

On top of that were anothereight billion euros in lost pro-duction and other costs due tosmokers' higher rates of sick-ness, leading to days off andlower efficiency.

It is a "no-brainer, ethicallyand economically," Reilly toldparliament, dismissing out ofhand the argument that to-bacco is too important eco-nomically to be tampered with.

EU Health CommissionerTonio Borg made the samepoint, noting that some700,000 people die prema-turely as a result of smokingeach year -- equal to a cityabout the size of Frankfurt inGermany.

The new tobacco directive,

which parliament and all 27member states will have to ap-prove, aims simply to savethose lives, Borg said, addingthat the legislation needed tobe brought up to date as the in-dustry introduces new prod-ucts, especially those targetingthe young.

Accordingly, the directivestipulates that 75 percent of acigarette package must carryhealth warnings, and that cer-tain "characterising" flavourssuch as vanilla or menthol bebanned.

In January, thousands of to-bacconists from across Europemarched on European Unionheadquarters to protest againstthe planned directive whichwill take about three years tocome into effect once passed.

Cutting smokingsaves more in healthbills than lost tax: EU

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BOGOTA (AFP) - President Juan Manuel Santos ap-pealed for dialogue Monday to temper a protest strike byColombian coffee growers angry over losses from fallingcoffee prices. Since Sunday, thousands of growers fromaround Colombia have been mobilizing for a march todemand that the government increase subsidies andcurb coffee imports. Growers in Colombia, one of theworld's top coffee producers, have been hard hit by a 35percent drop in prices on the international market lastyear and a 10 percent revaluation of the peso, the na-tional currency. An estimated 560,000 families owe theirlivelihoods to coffee, for decades one of Colombia'sbiggest exports. Production fell 12 percent in 2011 andless than one percent last year, with total production atthe close of the year at 462 metric tons.

GENEVA (AFP) - A Swisslaboratory has discoveredtraces of pork in seven out oftwenty tests carried out on ke-babs sold in several of thecountry's cities, local Muslimauthorities announced Mon-day, expressing shock aboutthe finding.

"Sample analysis show avery low proportion" of porkmeat, or less than 0.1 percent,the Swiss Central IslamicCouncil (CCIS) said in a state-ment.

Islamic tradition forbids theconsumption of pork.

The group said it believesthe traces of pork are the unin-tentional result of gaps in theproduction process, sayingequipment used to handle themeat may have been used toalso manufacture the kebabs.

CCIS staff said they were"shocked" by the discovery de-

Pork found in Swiss kebabs,Islamic group shocked

NEW YORK (AFP) - TheNobel prize awarded to Fran-cis Crick in 1962 for discover-ing the structure of DNA hasbeen put up for auction by hisfamily along with one of hislab coats, his books and othermemorabilia.

It is believed to be the firstNobel prize placed at auctionin more than 70 years and theopening bid is set for$250,000, Heritage Auctionssaid Monday.

Some of the proceeds fromthe April 10 auction in NewYork will help fund research atthe new Francis Crick Institutein London set to be completedin 2015.

His family said Crick was amodest man who preferred to

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The Nobel has been in stor-age for much of the past 50years and his family hopes tosell it to a museum or institutewhere it can be on public dis-play.

Crick's initials are engravedon the back of medal, alongwith the date of the award inRoman numerals. The two-page Nobel diploma is in-cluded with the medal.

His endorsed check fornearly 86,000 kroners is alsoup for auction, along with nau-tical logbooks and gardeningjournals.

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He is notorious for hismeticulous preparation forroles, often spending monthsfully in character even beforefilming starts.

Austrian director MichaelHaneke's Cannes-winning"Amour," starring Riva as anelderly woman being cared forby her husband as her healthslowly deteriorates, won thebest foreign language filmprize at the Oscars.

Best supporting actor wentto Austrian Christoph Waltz,who played a dentist turnedbounty hunter in QuentinTarantino's blood-spatteredspaghetti western tribute"Django Unchained." Taran-tino won for best originalscreenplay.

Ann Hathaway won bestsupporting actress -- and joinedfellow "Les Miserables" castmembers in singing hits fromthe movie. The cast of"Chicago" also reunited insong, on the 10th anniversaryof its best picture Oscar win.

The best animated featurefilm award went to Scottish-themed "Brave," which beatfellow nominees includingvideo game adventure "Wreck-It Ralph," which had beentipped as the marginal fron-trunner.

Affleck -- the first person towin best picture without beingnominated as director since"Driving Miss Daisy" in 1990-- had been given a diplomaticboost Saturday when new USSecretary of State John Kerrytweeted best wishes.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Avideo clip of First LadyMichelle Obama groovingwith a dressed-in-drag JimmyFallon on his late-night com-edy talk show has gone viralon YouTube Saturday.

In the video, the pair, eachclad in conservative slacks andcardigans, and Fallon with along brown-haired wig, per-form a routine dubbed "Evolu-tion of Mom Dancing," topromote Obama's "Let'sMove!" youth fitness and nu-trition campaign.

The dance moves -- withnames like "The 'Go Shopping,Get Groceries,'" and "The 'Outof Sync Electric Slide'" ac-cording to titles splashed onthe bottom of the screen --progress from a simple side-to-side step and end with Fallonstalking off set as Obamarocks a smooth "Dougie."

The clip, which has already

been viewed more than850,000 times since beingposted Friday and "liked"more than 11,000 times, hasprompted effusive commentsabout the first lady and her firstfamily.

"For the first time... we havea first lady with soul," wrotezestydude87.

And Rina Lubit wrote, "itmay be just me but i reallylove the presidential family.they just really seem like sin-cerely good and chill people."

Obesity is a major healthproblem in the United States,where one in three adults andalmost one in five children isoverweight.

Among other initiatives for"Let's Move," the first lady, anattorney by training, hasplanted the White House's firstgarden since World War II andwritten a book with healthyrecipes.

Michelle Obama's dancemoves go viral on YouTube

HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - BenAffleck's Iran hostage drama"Argo" won the coveted bestfilm Oscar late Sunday, whileDaniel Day-Lewis took arecord third best actor prize atthe 85th Academy Awards,Hollywood's biggest night.

Taiwan-born Ang Lee wonbest director for his spectacular3D fantasy "Life of Pi," whileJennifer Lawrence wascrowned best actress for "Sil-ver Linings Playbook."

But veteran filmmakerSteven Spielberg, whose pres-idential drama had the mostnominations with 12 nods,went home from Hollywood'sbiggest awards show with onlytwo awards, best actor and atechnical prize for productiondesign.

Overall, "Life of Pi" wonthe most Oscars with four,against three for "Argo" and"Les Miserables," two each for"Django Unchained" and "Lin-coln," and one for "Zero DarkThirty."

In a heavily musical show,Adele sang Oscar-winning 007theme "Skyfall" and ShirleyBassey belted out "Goldfinger"to mark 50 years of Bondfilms, while Barbra Streisandsang "The Way We Were," herfirst Oscars turn for 36 years.

In an unexpected move, thebest picture winner was an-nounced by First LadyMichelle Obama, addressingthe Oscars show -- and finalpresenter, legend Jack Nichol-son -- by videolink from theWhite House.

Affleck, whose movie hadtaken virtually all of the topprizes during Hollywood'sawards season over the lasttwo months, paid tribute toSpielberg in his acceptance

speech."Steven Spielberg, I want to

acknowledge, I feel is a geniusand a towering talent amongus," said Affleck, who was notnominated for best director orbest actor at the Oscars, in aperceived snub.

He notably thanked formerCIA agent Tony Mendez,whom he played in the movie,spearheading a bold mission torescue six US diplomats, whotook refuge in the Canadianembassy in Tehran amid the1979 hostage crisis.

Iran, which has condemned"Argo' as propaganda directedagainst it, and state mediabranded the win as "the mostpolitical Oscar ever."

"Life of Pi," about a boycast adrift in a boat in the Pa-cific with only a Bengal tigerfor company, was shot largelyin Taiwan, but the directorplayed up the film's cosmopol-itan crew.

Within minutes of his win,Taiwan Culture Minister LungYing-tai sent a congratulatorytelegram to Lee, probably theisland's most famous livingson, saying: "We feel veryproud of you."

Lawrence, star of the"Hunger Games" franchise,got a standing ovation as shetook to the stage, after shestumbled on her way up thestairs.

She beat fellow nomineesincluding the youngest everbest actress Oscar nominee,nine-year-old QuvenzhaneWallis, and the oldest ever,French star Emmanuelle Riva,who celebrated her 86th birth-day Sunday.

Day-Lewis, who had beenwidely expected to win bestactor, appeared to fight back

'Argo' wins best picture on sharedOscars night

HOLLYWOOD (L-R): Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis stands with Best Actress JenniferLawrence, Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, and Best Supporting ActorChristoph Waltz.

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bility for the death of 14-year-old Kevin Espada duringWednesday's 1-1 draw be-tween Corinthians and SanJose in the Bolivian city ofOruro.

In the wake of the incident,Bolivian police detained 12other traveling Corinthiansfans.

"So I consider finishingnumber one in 2012 an evenbigger success than in 2011,and I feel I learned a lesson. Iunderstand the experience Iwent through and I am readyfor new challenges."

It was also a brief reliefthat Djokovic was also ableto focus a little on someoneelse's difficulties. They werethose of his younger brotherMarko, whom he partnered inthe men's doubles.

It was though a slightlysurreal experience. On anoutside court, which enabledthe spectators to watch theworld's number one playerwithout paying, the matchtook place amidst angry gustsof wind, swishing trees, andat the end, as dusk fell,swooping birds.

Marko Djokovic, aged 21,has risen more than 200places in the rankings sinceplaying singles here last year,and is at 662 and rising. Buthe and Novak lost 4-6, 6-3,10-4 to Nikolay Davydenkoof Russia and Dick Normanof Belgium, and the burdenof brotherly comparisons re-mains immense.

"I have to say it is hard be-cause people compare him tome," says Novak. "In the jun-ior tournaments and all theseyears he has been playingtennis he's been compared tome when I was that age, andit's absolutely different.

There is even a feeling offamiliarity when the worldnumber one starts his singlescampaign here Tuesday. Hisfirst round is against ViktorTroicki, a close friend withwhom he grew up in Bel-grade and who he has facedmany times.

Part of Djokovic's mindstrays to the increased possi-bility, in the current absence ofa fully fit Rafael Nadal, ofcompleting a career GrandSlam by winning the FrenchOpen in three months time. Hedoes, though, try to resist it.

DUBAI (AFP) - NovakDjokovic may be the run-away world number one rightnow, and favourite to takeaway Roger Federer's titlehere at the Dubai Open thisweek, but he has started thisyear a relieved man.

Djokovic, who shouldmeet Federer in Saturday'sfinal, has been less worriedby the reputation of thesport's greatest legend thanby his own.

The 25-year-old Serbian'ssensational spell of success inbecoming a triple GrandSlam titleholder within oneseason left him feeling, hesays, that he might never liveup to the new image of him-self which suddenly emerged.

"I do feel relief more thanwhen I started 2012," he ad-mitted. "Following 2011 wasan extreme challenge - men-tally mostly.

"I found myself for thefirst time in the position ofbeing number one in theworld and defending a Grandslam title - three in a wholeyear, so that was very chal-lenging.

Tennis: Djokovic admitshe is a relieved man


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SAO PAOLO (AFP) - ACorinthians teenage fan hasconfessed to causing the flaredeath of a 14-year-old duringthe Sao Paulo side's Liberta-dores Cup game in Bolivia lastweek.

In an interview aired onBrazil's Globo TV late Sunday,the 17-year-old took responsi-

"We were celebrating the(Corinthians) goal. I took theflare from my bag, pulled onthe cord, didn't quite knowhow to use it. It took off in thedirection of the Bolivian fans,"said the adolescent, who hadhis face hidden and was ac-companied by his mother.

Saying he only learnt of theaccidental death after thegame, the youth asked for for-giveness from the victim'sfamily and from those of thedetained Brazilian fans.

Conmebol, the South Amer-ican football's governing body,has meanwhile orderedCorinthians to play their homeLibertadores Cup matches be-hind closed doors until furthernotice.

Fans of the Sao Paulo clubwill also be prevented frombuying tickets for awaymatches.

Ricardo Cabral, a lawyerfor Gavioes da Fiel, Corinthi-ans's biggest organized fanclub, said the youth, identifiedonly as H.A.M, would turnhimself in to Brazilian author-ities later Monday. Corinthianswon the Libertadores Cup forthe first time last July and wenton to beat Chelsea in the finalof the Club World Cup inJapan in December.

Corinthians fan admits causingflare death during Bolivia match

MILAN (AFP) - DiegoMaradona on Monday endedhis controversial exile fromItaly, where he famously ledNapoli to their sole titles in theSerie A football champi-onship.

The Argentine World Cupwinner had rarely stepped footin Italy since leaving under acloud in the 1990s amidclaims of collusion with mafiadons and a positive drugs testfor cocaine.

It was later claimed by theItalian authorities thatMaradona owed the state mil-lions of euros (dollars,pounds) in unpaid taxes.

Dozens of fans had turnedup to see the Argentinian,many of whom shouted "Wel-come back!" as he was drivenaway.

One fan in particular wear-ing Juventus colours caughtMaradona's attention. Thechampions travel to Naples toface Napoli on Friday night.

"When we used to playagainst Juventus, we were al-ways scared," Maradona is re-ported to have jokingly said tothe fan while shaking hishand.

Maradona is set to watchhis former club in Udinese onMonday and will then give anews conference on Tuesday,at which he is expected tospeak about the tax issue.

Maradona was convicted in2005 and ordered to pay 37.2million euros ($50.4 million),including 23.5 million eurosin interest for late payments.

His lawyer recentlyclaimed the Italian authoritieshad cleared the debt, thus al-lowing him to return to thecountry. But the tax authori-ties denied the claims.

Napoli, with whomMaradona won the league titlein both 1987 and 1990, cur-rently sit second in Serie Aseven points behind leadersand champions Juventus.

Football: Maradona endsItalian exile


over from long-range Hamsikmissed the best chance of thehalf when he headed a longcross from the left straight at'keeper Daniele Padelli.

Udinese started in morepositive fashion after the breakand came close just five min-utes in although ArgentineRoberto Pereyra wasted Anto-nio Di Natale's cross by firinginto the stands from closerange.

Napoli regained control butjust couldn't finish the job de-spite a number of promisingoffensives, with Cavani spurn-ing a late chance with 15 min-utes on the clock after a greatmove down the left withColombian Pablo Armero.

Scenery at NASCARDaytona 500

MILAN (AFP) - Udinese heldchallengers Napoli to a score-less draw on Monday to leaveleaders Juventus with a six-point cushion at the top ofSerie A.

Napoli had hoped to capi-talise on the extra day's restafter their Europa League exitat the hands of Czech side Vik-toria Plzen last Thursday toclose the gap to four points.

However Walter Mazzarri'stitle challengers were leftlamenting several missedchances on their way to drop-ping two points and boostingboth Juve and third-placed ACMilan, who are now onlyseven points adrift.

The Partenopei underlinedtheir intentions by starting

with the attack-minded fronttrio of striker Edinson Cavani,Lorenzo Insigne and MarekHamsik.

But the visitors were leftfrustrated after a first half inwhich Udinese seemed happyto sit back and defend andwait to counter-attack.

Early on Cavani failed tomake contact despite a sly runtowards goal when Gian-domenico Mesto aimed in across.

Udinese did hit Napoli onthe counter, but both AntonioDi Natale and GiovanniPasquale sent their effortshigh and wide respectively.

Napoli, however, had themomentum and after GokhanInler sent a long range effort

Football: Udinese put brakes onNapoli in Serie A

Kyle Larson (32) goes into the catch fence during acrash involving, among others, Justin Allgaier (31),Brian Scott (2), Parker Klingerman (77) and Dale Earn-hardt Jr. (88) at the conclusion of the NASCAR Nation-wide Series auto race Saturday

Jimmie Johnson celebrates after winning the Daytona

500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday

Danica Patrick displays the flag after winning the pole

during qualifying for the NASCAR Daytona 500 on Fri-

day

LONDON (AFP) - McLarenannounced on Monday thatTim Goss has been appointedas the British team's newtechnical director and will re-place Mercedes-bound PaddyLowe at the end of the year.

Mercedes are still to con-firm Lowe's arrival, butMcLaren team principal Mar-tin Whitmarsh thanked himfor his work with the team.

"Paddy has been a goodand successful technical di-rector and we wish him wellwhen he embarks on a freshchallenge in 2014," he said.

Formerly McLaren's direc-tor of engineering, Gossjoined the team in 2000 andhas contributed to five driv-ers' championship successesand three constructors' worldtitles.

"His quiet and unassumingpersona conceals a fiercecompetitiveness and a wealth

of experience, coupled to anunrivalled level of expertisein the field of Formula Onecar design and engineering,"said Whitmarsh.

Lowe's departure seemscertain to create speculationabout the role of Mercedesteam principal Ross Brawn,who has had to defend hisposition in recent weeks afterToto Wolff was appointedhead of motorsport.

Whitmarsh said that Lowe"will be performing a differ-ent role" during the final yearof his contract withMcLaren, without providingfurther details.

He added: "I firmly be-lieve our technical and engi-neering team is the best in theF1 business and that itsstrength in depth has alwaysbeen, and will continue to be,an important element of ouron-track success.

Formula One: McLareninstall Goss as technical director

much of the responsability. Sodo the Argentine Football As-sociation, the judiciary andthe police," added Nizzardo,who calculates football vio-lence in Argentina hasclaimed 165 lives since 1979.

In another incident lastweekend, a bus carrying play-ers from third tier side Excur-sionistas was fired on as itreturned to the capital. No-body was hurt.


Monumental."This is about money and

control of important business.These mafia are tolerated bythe clubs, and they arearmed," Monica Nizzardo, ofthe Save Football ONG, toldAFP, saying the criminalswere involved in mafia-likeactivities including drug traf-ficking.

"The clubs' directors bear

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Ashootout involving fans of Ar-gentine top flight sides Tigreand River Plate injured 13people, two seriously, localauthorities said Monday.

The shooting, which a non-governmental organisationput down to the work of acriminal gang, took place inthe northern Buenos Airessuburb of Victoria before Sun-day evening's match at River's

Football: 13 hurt in Argentine footballshooting

a sore back.Dirk Nowitzki had 30

points and 13 rebounds forDallas, who had their three-game win streak snapped.

Veteran Vince Carter andElton Brand scored 15 and 14points respectively.

Dallas trailed by two 99-97with just over a minute toplay. Bryant and Nowitzkithen exchanged field goals,and after Metta World Peacemade one of two free throws,the Mavericks had the balldown by three with 16.8 sec-onds to play.

OJ Mayo got an open shotat a corner three, but his at-tempt missed and Bryantgrabbed the rebound beforesinking one-of-two at the line

to seal the outcome.Bryant, a 15-time All-Star,

finished just shy of posting hissixth 40-point game this season.

With Bryant carrying theload offensively, the Lakershave won three straight con-tests as they battle to get intoplayoff contention.

Bryant scored 40 points in a111-107 win over Portland onFriday.

The loss also snapped theMavericks' string of six con-secutive games scoring at least100 points and it was just thethird time in the last 19 con-tests they did not reach 100points.

CHICAGO (AFP) - TheChicago Blackhawks extendedtheir record for the best start inleague history, shutting out theColumbus Blue Jackets 1-0Sunday behind a 28-save per-formance by goaltender CoreyCrawford.

Chicago has now recordedat least one point in 18 consec-utive games to begin the Na-tional Hockey League regularseason.

Crawford posted his secondshutout of the season as hemade his first start since Feb-ruary 12.

Andrew Shaw scored theonly goal for Chicago who im-proved to 5-0-1 in their seven-game home stand whichcontinues against the Edmon-

ton Oilers on Monday.Steve Mason stopped 26-

of-27 shots for Columbus,who have lost nine consecu-tive games to Chicago.

Columbus dropped to 2-8-0as the road team this season.

Bryan Bickell set up Shawfrom behind the net with 1:27remaining in the second periodfor the Blackhawks' only goalon the game.

Crawford made 13 saves inthe second period for Chicago,who are 7-0-1 at the UnitedCenter arena this season.

The Blue Jackets hadchances to tie the game butwent zero-for-three on thepower play in the third period.Columbus finished zero-for-five with the man advantage.

NHL: 'Hawks blankColumbus to extendstreak

DALLAS (AFP) - KobeBryant scored a game-high 38points and became theyoungest player in NBA his-tory to surpass the 31,000-point mark as the Los AngelesLakers beat the Dallas Maver-icks 103-99 on Sunday.

Five-time NBA championBryant, who scored 14 of hispoints in the final quarter, alsohad 12 rebounds and seven as-

sists and reached the 31,000milestone at 34 years, 185days.

Hall of Famer Wilt Cham-berlain had the old mark at 36years, 164 days.

Steve Nash finished with20 points and Dwight Howardgrabbed 13 rebounds and ninepoints for the Lakers, whohave won five straight gamesin Dallas. Nash is playing with

NBA: Bryant reaches milestone,Lakers beat Mavs

glar.Pistorius has to inform aprisons official of his move-ments within Pretoria andneeds permission to leave thecapital. He has been bannedfrom leaving the country.

Officials are to meet therunner at his uncle's house inPretoria on Saturday to con-firm the address where he isstaying.

The athlete's father Henketold AFP in a telephone call onMonday that matters were"under control".

The shooting has rivetedSouth Africa and the world,bringing Pistorius' career andendorsements to a halt.

PRETORIA (AFP) - Star ath-lete Oscar Pistorius met SouthAfrican probation officers onMonday at the Pretoria Magis-trate's Court to discuss theterms of his release on bail,and discussed conditions torestart training as he awaitstrial for the murder of his girl-friend, a prisons spokesmansaid.

The Olympic and Para-lympic sprinter denies thecharge of intentionally killinghis girlfriend, insisting that herepeatedly shot at Steenkampthrough a locked bathroomdoor in the dead of night hav-ing mistaken her for a bur-

Pistorius meets probationofficials, talks training

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