Tuesday, September 25, 2012

mation about Aruba’s econ-omy, outlook, opportunitiesfor investing, and various or-ganizations that can furtherassist investors in rea lizingprojects in or through Aruba.

Director of TNO (TheNetherlands Organization forApplied Science Research)Caribbean Branch on Aruba,Jan Ebbing, explained the se -cond program on October 2,is intended for managers, pol-icy advisors/professionalsand entrepreneurs who havekeen interest in global sus-

tainable development trendsand their application to smallscale islands such as Aruba.

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Commission, Frank Hoev-ertsz, informed there will be20 important internationalcompanies present on Arubafor the event. This will be arare and welcome opportu-nity for astute business peo-ple to explore the possibilityof new ventures and acquirefirst hand information.

Ms. Sharon Erasmus ofArina, expressed their pridein taking an active role inorga nizing this opportunityfor investment, and urges is-land entrepreneurs to attendand explore new productsand ser vices to offer the com-munity. Arina's “Green Mis-sions Program” breakfastbriefing will provide infor-

It was announced yesterdayby Aruba’s Minister of Fi-nance, Communications,Utilities and Energy, Mike deMeza, that the third ArubaGreen Energy Conference,beginning on October 3, willhost a special event in keep-ing with this year’s theme,“Smart & Sustainable.”

The past years have intro-duced many experts withideas for assisting Aruba’slarge concerns and govern-mental agencies in “goinggreen,” but this year willfocus greatly on the con-sumer and practicalities. OnOctober 2, in cooperation

with Aruba’s Chamber ofCommerce, (KVK) Freezone,Aruba Trade and Industry As-sociation, ATIA, and theAruba Investment Associa-tion, ARINA, the conferencewill kick-off with a market-place for local concerns tomeet international companiesspecializing in technologyand means for harnessingclean energy.

Minister de Meza urgedbusinesses of all kinds to con-tact their appropriate repre-sentation among thecollaborating island businessorganization to assist them inthis “matchmaking” session.Head of Aruba’s Utilities

Aruba Green Energy Conferenceto host a “Matchmaking” eventwith international concerns

NEW YORK- Protesters targeted the Manhattan hotel whereIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was staying yes-terday while attending the UN General Assembly. About 50people yelled slogans and waved placards near the upscaleWarwick Hotel where the Iranian leader had booked in forthe second year running during the annual UN get-together."Warwick, Warwick, shame on you," they chanted. One per-son held a placard reading: "Out of the Warwick, out of NewYork, out of the UN." Police kept the small crowd a blockfrom the hotel, where concrete barriers had been installed toblock the sidewalk to vehicles. Security guards manned ametal detector set up outside the sole entrance to the hotel.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Protesters targetAhmadinejad's NewYork hotel

Minister de Meza

Frank Hoevertsz of the

Utilities Commission

Jan Ebbing of TNO

sive Zorg of Rotterdam, Hol-land, will be in attendance asone of the speakers. Congress-man der Zee has saidthat...”for many years therehas been an excellent relation-ship between the islands of theformer Antilles and Aruba.From this good contact wasborn the idea for a combinedcongress on an internationallevel. Since last year theybegan working on the conceptand began making the prepa-rations for this year’s con-gress.

Three important aspectswill get center stage in thisconference, namely, preven-tion, type of methods for com-bating addiction and addictionafter care.

There will also be an expo-sition from 22 artists whohave prepared special presen-tations for the occasion. Thecongress begins at 8:00pmand at 9:30 they will begin anopen bid “auction,” All fundscollected will be donated tothe Fundacion Maneho di Ad-diccion Aruba (FMAA) whichwill enable them to continuetheir excellent work with theirprojects and treatment of ad-diction.”

The two evening sessionswill be free to the public. Eachevening they will focus on adifferent group. Drug addic-

tion is a universal problem.The problem is also promi-nent in Holland.

All parents, teachers, direc-tors of youth programs andyoung people are cordially in-vited to attend. At the end ofthe evening session they willpresent a module to eachteacher that they can use intheir school as a tool for learn-ing how to deal with the prob-lem of addiction. Youngpeople wanting to attend mustbe at least 16 years of age, orolder.

Thursday evening will beespecially reserved for busi-nessmen and employers. Theevening will be directed com-pletely to business ownerswho have employees who aredrug users. The focus onThursday will be on the em-ployer who has an employeewho needs to be helped. Theywill learn techniques and re-ceive valuable tools on how todeal with these employees.

Paula Nahr, of SwichFoundation and leader of thecongress, has indicated thatthe reactions to the conferenceis very positive. They have thenotion that this will be ahighly successful conference.Most of our citizens are eagerto receive more informationconcerning the problem of ad-diction in our communities.

The international congress ondrug addiction begins thisweek, September 25 to 27 atthe Westin Resort. They haveplanned both day and eveningsessions dealing with a myr-iad of topics and groups. Thisconference promises to bemajor, delivering positive re-sults regarding the dilemma ofdrug addiction.

Aruba is currently in theepoch where drug addiction isaffecting many of our youngpeople, for this very reasonsuch a conference is of suchimportance to us at this time.The conference should pro-vide us with the necessarytools and knowledge to helpcombat this serious problem.The conference has a veryvaried program with a specificfocus on certain target groups.

During the conference va -rious speakers both fromAruba and abroad will bespeaking. Among the speakersare those from Curacao, St.Maarten, Saba and St. Eusta-tius who will be sharing theirmany years of experience inthe field. For the three-daysessions, there will be a seat-ing capacity of 300. However,the organizers expect an over-whelming response and manymore participants. Entrancefee for the three days day-ses-sions is set at Afls.100, whichwill include lunch for eachday, coffee and reception.

The conference, reportedly,is for all organizations work-ing directly in the field of ad-diction. They want to makesure that these groups get asmuch information as possibleso they can work more effec-tively in combating drug ad-diction. Following theconference, a report will bepublished and distri buted re-lating to the problem of addic-tion with its focus spe cificallyon our young people.

Willem van der Zee ofPalier Forensische & Inten-

Drug addiction congress promises tobe informative

During last Friday’s con-trol, the team of controllers en-countered various cases whichfell short of the requirementsand where certain drasticmeasures had to be taken. Withthis recent action, the govern-ment is sending a strong state-ment to business owners to payattention to what they are sell-ing and in what conditions theyare operating. Controllers en-countered several businessesselling products which had ex-pired more than one year ago!

The Minister reported thatthis is the type of situation wewant to avoid and that the go -vernment will continue thesecontrols to insist that this notcontinue. These controls willcontinue in a more structuredmanner. According to the Min-ister, business owners are re-sponsible for what they sell,and the government will notpermit the sale of inferiorproducts to consumers, nor inunhygienic environments.

In a recent statement issued byMinister of Economic Affairs,Michelle Hooyboer-Winklaar,she indicated that supermarketcontrol is an integral part of thegovernment’s managementand that they intend on focus-ing more and more on this.

With the cooperation of thepolice, controllers of the De-partment of Economic Affairswill take the necessary steps toissue sanctions where super-market owners fail to complywith the stipulated laws.

On a regular basis the De-partment of Economic Affairswill send controllers to thesebusinesses, particularly thosebusinesses selling productsprotected by law...productsspecifically tied to a maximumprice. At the same time theywill utilize the Department ofPubic Health and the police tocontrol prices and the quality ofthe business hygiene as well asthe corresponding businesspermits to operate the business.

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Supermarket control is a

serious matter

serve as a guide to visitors, es-pecially those visiting that endof the island.

The purpose of this office inSan Nicolas is to provide visi-tors with information so as tointerest them in spen ding moretime in the San Nicolas area.We want our visitors to cometo San Nicolas for more thanthe Carubbean Festival and tovisit Charlie’s Bar or BabyBeach. They must learn thatthere is more to see and do inSan Nicolas.

Together with the TourismOffice they published abrochure with informationunique to the attractions in thispart of the island. The brochureillustrates the diffe rent activi-ties available in the San Nico-las area.

San Nicolas can be proud ofthis new addition for the pro-motion of its unique touristicfeatures and sites.

SAN NICOLAS -- This weekwe celebrate tourism week,and according to the govern-ment there could not have beena better time than this week toinaugurate the new tourism of-fice in San Nicolas. September27 is International Day ofTourism and they have chosenthat day for the official inaugu-ration of the Tourism Office inSan Nicolas.

We recall, it was just a mat-ter of months ago that the Min-ister of Tourism accompaniedby Minister de Meza and apress crew had announced thatthey would be constructing anoffice for tourism in the lowersection of the Postal Building.From that moment on, report-edly, work was begun on thispro ject. That project is nowcompleted and ready for inau - guration this week. San Nico-las now has a tourism officewhich can provide service and

the island and for visitors. It isthe ONLY place of spiritualcontemplation in the serenity ofnature and authentic Aruba. Agovernment decree issued bythis very government in 2009,declared the entire area a natureprotected territory. (LandBesluit Ruimte Ordening2009). This is a highly valuableand significantly sacred area ofunique pilgrimage value to all.

The strategic political ma-neuver of the AVP fraction onSeptember 19 is their way ofbypassing a public debate inParliament, and to allow oneother additional advice fromHolland on the health aspect, totake the place of a responsibleand profound debate on all theissues bearing on this crucialmatter.

Save Alto Vista still expectsthe government to hold such apublic debate where all the mat-ters of concern can be openlydiscussed including: culturalvalue, historic and touristic, en-vironment, together with astudy of birds in the area, tech-nical aspects, financial feasibil-ity of the land and for thepeople. Also, Minister Sevingermust respond to the questionsraised in a recent Parliamentmeeting presided by PaulCroes.

New Tourism Office for

San Nicolasdebate on the issuescheduled for Sep-tember 24th.

According toSave Alto Vista,this modus ope -randi of the AVPfraction is theirway of turningtheir backs on thecardinal issues ofpreoccupation withthis project. TheAlto Vista groupcontends that thecardinal issue here

is the protection and conserva-tion of the pilgrimage conceptof Kapel Alto Vista and theserene surrounding nature ofthe area. There is absolutely noneed for a first MER study toevaluate this...and much less asecond study. Especially, anystudy done by Dutchmen whohave no notion of our culturenor customs.

To erect 10 industrial windturbines in the serene naturearea of Alto Vista Kapel is todestroy the essence of Aruba’sonly spiritual pilgrimage siteand Aruba’s only homage to thefirst historic church on the is-land (built in 1752).

The site is a place of spiri-tual contemplation for belie versand non-believers, all people of

Last Saturday, September 19th,every Parliamentarian receivedan invitation via email for ashort meeting to be held thatsame day. There were 3 pointson the agenda. Save Alto Vistahas a copy of that email on theirface book page. The entire AVPfraction attended the meetingalong with only oppositionparliamenta rian. Towards theend of the meeting they addedone agenda point, namely, theUrirama project.

In this meeting the AVPfraction decided to limit theirdiscussion to the health aspectof the Urirama project and tosolicit an opinion from a Dutchconcern to evaluate this matterin a MER report. Thus, theycancelled the planned public

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Does Alto Vista have value?

sation at the Stellaris Casinodaily from 7:00 am till 4:00am.

the hook to move up and downto attract fish.

Guests are invited to expe-rience the deep sea fishing sen-

Aruba’s largest casino, theStellaris Casino announces thedebut of the Paradise Fishingslot machines, the only one inthe Caribbean.

Paradise Fishing delivers ananimated experience in thepalm of the players' handsthrough a simulated fishing rodfilled with individual and com-petitive bonus. With three 60-inch wide, LCD video screensthe slots provide high-visibilityand visual entertainment witha simulated rod controller asfishing rod. Players will feelthe resistance on the "rod"which creates the sensation ofreal-life fishing.

Controller mimics action ofa real fishing rod and tilts for-ward and backwards allowing

touches on a variety of soci-etal themes aligned to TNO'sareas of expertise: Healthyliving, Transport and mobil-ity, Build environment, In-dustrial innovation, Defensesafety and security, Informa-tion society and Energy.

The October 2 programwill begin at 8:00 AM, witha pre sentation by Aruba’sMinster of Social & Eco-nomic Affairs and Culture,Michelle Hooyboer Win-klaar, who will speak on“Aruba: The Green Gate-way.” Attendance to the PreConference Day program isfree. To register and insure aplace contact Arina, Mrs.Michelle Harms, Tel: 582-

5659, Email:[email protected] or visit theAruba Green Energy Confer-ence website http://www.green aruba.org to downloadan application form.

by Rosalie Klein

The central topic of the pro-gram is labeled "SustainableAruba + 20, achieving aTriple P-rating: a healthy bal-ance between People, Planetand Profit". This inherent bal-ance between economicgrowth and social wellbeing

Aruba Green Energy

Conference to host . . . Continued from page 1

Recently, 12 students received their Bachelor Bull at the Law faculty of the Universityof Aruba. Duan Angela, Micheline Bury, Carina Carotenuto, Cesar Gomez, Sahaira Kelly,Suzette Kock, Glenn Ling, Jeanette Baars, Lysandra Rivadeneira, Edgar Vrolijk, EgbertoWerleman and Ruell Wester received their bull from Mr. dr. V.V.R. van Bogaert, researchassistant of "Constitutional and Administrative Law". Professor mr. G.R. de Groot gavea lecture on Sports and Law. The University of Aruba congratulates all the graduatesand wishes them lots of success in their future endeavors.

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Bachelor Bull handed over at the

university of Aruba

Sharon Erasmus of ARINA

Fish away at the Stellaris CasinoMrs. Beatrice Logan honored

at the Divi Phoenix

Recently, the Aruba Tourism Authority had the greatpleasure of honoring a very nice lady as Ambassador ofGoodwill of Aruba. The honoree is Mrs. Beatrice Loganfrom Brooklyn NY. and a loyal visitor of the Divi PhoenixBeach Resort. The certificate was presented to her byMr. Ernest Giel representing the Aruba Tourism Autho -rity together with Ms. Jennifer representing the ArubaDivi Phoenix Resort.

Hamza, who is in his mid-50s and has one eye and ahook for one hand, was jailedin Britain for seven years in2006 for inciting followers tomurder non-believers.

Aswat was indicted asHamza's co-conspirator whileBary and Al-Fawwaz were in-dicted with late Al-Qaedaleader Osama bin Laden and20 others for their alleged in-volvement in, or support for,the bombing of US embassiesin Nairobi and Dar es Salaamin 1998.

his schizophrenia.Abu Hamza, the former

imam of the Finsbury Parkmosque in north London, iswanted in the United States oncharges including setting up anAl-Qaeda-style training campfor militants in the northwest-ern US state of Oregon.

He is also accused of ha -ving sent money and recruits toassist Afghanistan's hardlineTaliban militia and Al-Qaeda,and of helping a gang of kid-nappers in Yemen who ab-ducted a 16-strong party ofWestern tourists in 1998.

source told AFP the extraditionwas "likely to be within weeksrather than days".

Hamza lodged the appealalong with computer expertBabar Ahmad, who has beenheld in a British prison withouttrial for eight years after beingaccused of raising funds forterrorism. The others to losetheir appeals were Syed TahlaAhsan, Adel Abdul Bary andKhaled Al-Fawwaz.

The court suspended judg-ment on a sixth man, HaroonRashid Aswat, saying it re-quired further consultations on

supermax prison in Florence,Colorado and would face pos-sible multiple life sentences.

But the Grand Chamber ofthe court unanimously decidedthere would be "no violation"of the European Convention ofHuman Rights if they weresent to the United States.

The British governmentwelcomed the decision, whichcomes after a lengthy legal bat-tle that has dented the Conser-vative-led administration'sclaims to be tough on nationalsecurity.

A British government

LONDON (AFP) - Britainvowed yesterday to hand overradical Muslim preacher AbuHamza to the United States onterrorism charges as soon aspossible after the EuropeanCourt of Human Rights re-jected his final appeal.

The court upheld an April10 ruling against the hook-handed terror suspect and fourothers which had approvedtheir extradition by London.

The suspects had arguedthat they would face degradingtreatment because they wouldbe sent to the notorious ADX


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 music by the tradi-tional Aruba caha di orgel,folkloric music, dance per-formance and brass band.

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. Thefestival is from 6:30 pm to8:30 pm. Entrance fee is $5.

Come and experience ataste of our ‘dushi’ Aruba

Bon BiniFestival istonight

Abu Hamza extradition to US backed by Europe rights court

Inside the closed councilmeeting, he told UN envoysthat "there is no safe place forthose who are caught in vio-lence, which is now engulfingalmost the entire country," ac-cording to a text of his speechobtained by AFP.

"The sad truth is that a Syr-ian citizen, man, woman orteenager, does not need to domuch these days to be pickedup by one of the many securityagencies," he said.

He said most observers es-timated that more than 30,000people have been detained injail "or in one of the muchfeared 'secret' detention centerswhere maltreatment and me-dieval forms of torture are socommon."

Brahimi said he had beentold that more than 1,000 peo-ple had died under "severe tor-ture." He outlined the hu -manita rian struggle to help atleast 1.5 million people whohave fled their homes and at280,000 who are in refugeecamps in Lebanon, Jordan,Turkey and Iraq.

There are growing foodshortages because the harvesthas been devastated by theconflict, medical supplies arebarely available and people arescared to go to hospitals be-cause of the presence of "secu-rity agents."

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -UN-Arab League envoyLakhdar Brahimi said yester-day he sees no quick end to theSyrian war where presidentBashar al-Assad is clinging tothe "old" regime.

Brahimi gave the dividedUN Security Council a grimpicture of the worsening con-flict with a government using"medieval" torture on peoplein secret detention centers andignoring all calls for change.

Syria will be one of thedominant themes of the UNGeneral Assembly which startstoday with US President Ba -rack Obama expected to leadrenewed international condem-nation of Assad. But despiteBrahimi's war nings and thepleas of Western leaders, en-voys see little hope of piercingRussian and Chinese resist-ance to international pressureon the Syrian government.

"There is no prospect fortoday or tomorrow to moveforward," Brahimi told re-porters after briefing the 15-nation Security Council on hisrecent talks with Assad.

Brahimi said he had toldAssad and others in Syria thatthere had to be "change" butacknowledged that for the mo-ment there was a "stalemate"and he still has no full peaceplan to offer.

the devastated zone.Officials said flooding vic-

tims had been evacuated totemporary shelters on higherground.

health minister of Assam state,told AFP that a "maximumhealth alert" to avert outbreaksof diarrhea or diseases such astyphoid had been declared in

GUWAHATI (AFP) - Floodshave forced nearly 1.5 millionpeople to flee their homes innortheastern India where au-thorities have declared a healthalert, officials said yesterday.

"Eighteen of 27 districts ofAssam have been hit by floodswith 1.4 million displaced and11 people drowned in sepa-rated incidents in the pastweek," the Disaster Manage-ment agency said in a state-ment.

The floods, caused by re-lentless rains, marked the se -cond round of massiveflooding in two months to hitIndia's impoverished northeastand come towards the end ofIndia's June-to-Septembermon - soon season.

Nearly 130 people died andsix million were displaced byfloods in Assam state in July.

Rescue officials said in thelatest floods, at least 2,200 vil-lages had been swamped byoverflowing waters from therain-swollen BrahmaputraRiver.

Himanta Biswa Sarmah, the

extremism, the growing Al-Qaeda presence in Libya, andsaid that he was on an Al-Qaedahit list," Cooper said.

What CNN did not reveal,Reines said, is that Stevens'journal was the basis for muchof that reporting.

He added that only in subse-quent reporting did Cooper re-veal that "some of thatinformation was found in a per-sonal journal of AmbassadorStevens in his handwriting."

"At their request, we re-turned that journal to them. Wereported what we found news-worthy in the ambassador'swritings. Our reporting fol-lowed up on what we foundnewsworthy, as I said, in theambassador's writings," Coo persaid in a report on Friday.

CNN issued a statementover the weekend defending itsactions.

"The reason CNN ultimatelyreported Friday on the exis-tence of the journal was be-cause leaks to media organi -zations incorrectly suggestedCNN had not quickly returnedthe journal, which we did," thetelevision network wrote.

The network's position ap-pears not to have mollified of-ficials at State Department,however.

"Given the truth of how thiswas handled, CNN pattingthemselves on the back is dis-gusting," Reines said.

within hours of retrieving thejournal and returned it througha third party, within less than 24hours from the time we foundit. Out of respect to the family,we have not quoted from orshown the journal," it said.

What CNN is "not owningup to is reading and transcri bingChris's diary well before both-ering to tell the family or any-one else that they took it fromthe site of the attack," Reineswrote in a lengthy memo sent toreporters on Sunday.

"When they finally did tellthem, they completely ignoredthe wishes of the family, and ul-timately broke their pledgemade to them only hours afterthey witnessed the return to theUnites States of Chris's re-mains," he said.

Reines cited reports by CNNlast week claiming it had ob-tained "exclusive informationabout the climate that led up" tothe storming of the US diplo-matic post in Libya.

Specifically, the networksaid, it had learned from "asource" that Stevens in themonths before his death "talkedabout being worried about whathe called the never-ending se-curity threats, specifically inBenghazi," CNN news anchorAnderson Cooper said in onereport last week.

"The source (is) telling usthat the ambassador specificallymentioned the rise in Islamic

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUS State Department has ac-cused CNN of "distasteful" re-porting after it used the contentsof a private diary kept by slainUS ambassador to LibyaChristopher Stevens withoutthe consent of his family.

Senior State Departmentaide Philippe Reines told re-porters in a statement over theweekend that the television net-work engaged in "atrocious be-havior" in making use of thelate envoy's diary as it reportedon events leading up to hisdeath at the hands of militantswho stormed the US consulatein Benghazi earlier this month.

Reines said CNN removedthe journal from the US missionin Libya after the deadly attack,which also killed three otherUS diplomatic staff, and thenwent on to use information ob-tained from it against the ex-press wishes of the diplomat'sfamily.

Reines said the family told anetwork executive in a confer-ence call they they did not wantthe journal used until they hadhad an opportunity to review itscontents.

CNN said it felt the publichad a right to know what it hadlearned from multiple sourcesabout the fears of a terroristthreat before the attack on theconsulate.

"We reached out to the fa -mily of Ambassador Stevens


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Defected members of Islamist militant group al-Shabaabstand after giving themselves up to the African Unionforces in Garsale, north of Mogadishu. Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked Shabaab threatened yesterday to kill all thecountry’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at theweekend in Mogadishu was just the first to be targeted.After more than two decades of war, Mogadishu has beencoming back to life since the Shabaab left frontline fight-ing positions, with a boom in building and business. How-ever, the Shabaab have switched to guerrilla attacks --including suicide bombings -- and remain a potent threat.

Residents throw stones and beer bottles at a demolitionteam and anti-riot police during an operation at an infor-mal settlers area to give way for a local government proj-ect in Manila. More than two million people in MetroManila — or roughly one fifth of the sprawling city’s pop-ulation — live in shanty towns as so-called informal set-tlers.

State Department slams CNN useof slain envoy's diary

Nearly 1.5 milion people displaced byfloods in India

UN envoy says Assadclings to 'old' regime

Laurent sohn, adding that "themountain has its rules" and"risk is part of the job" forguides.

Rescuers in nepal hadgiven up hope of finding moresurvivors after the group ofclimbers was hit by a wall ofsnow in their tents near thepeak of the 8,156-metre(26,759-foot) Manaslu in theearly hours of sunday.

guide, a spaniard, a Germanand an italian. a Canadian wasalso among the missing.

French authorities have notofficially identified those killedand missing after the nepal av-alanche, but most residentshere were expecting bad news.

"We are waiting to knowwho was involved, but cer-tainly there will be people thatwe know," said local resident

climbers -- three Britons, threeGermans, two spaniards and aswiss national -- killed in anavalanche on Mont Maudit inthe Mont Blanc massif.

"there is never zero risk onthe mountain, we know that,but we never get used to thiskind of tragedy," Houal said.

the nepal avalanche leftnine dead, including fourFrench, one nepali mountain

known in the Chamonix com-munity and international win-ter sports circles.

Perched at the base of theMont Blanc massif, Chamonixis a major center for wintersports in France, especially formountain climbing, and thetown is no stranger to climbingtragedies.

earlier this year it mournedthe death of nine foreign

CHaMoniX (aFP) - theFrench mountain town of Cha-monix was reeling yesterdayfrom an avalanche in nepalthat left nine people dead andthree climbers missing, manyfrom this community in thealps.

authorities in Paris saidfour of the dead and two of themissing were French citizens,among them guides well-

United nations (aFP) -iran does not take the threatof an israeli strike on its nu-clear infrastructure seriouslyand is unconcerned by West-ern economic sanctions, Pres-ident Mahmoud ahma di -nejad said yesterday.

in new York ahead of anaddress to the United nationsGeneral assembly, ah-madinejad struck a defiantstance yesterday before anaudience of iranian expatri-ates and then in an exchangewith a group of senior Usjournalists.

"a number of unculturedZionists that threaten the ira -nian nation today are nevercounted and are never paidany attention in the equationsof the iranian nation," he toldthe expatriates, according tohis own website.

Reporters in his meetingwith Us media leaders con-firmed that he had said:"While the iranian people areready to defend ourselves, idon't believe the threats are offundamental importance."

ahmadinejad went on tomake his oft repeated claimthat Western sanctionsagainst iranian economic in-terests were hurting the euro-pean eco nomy more than hisown, and denied allegationsthat tehran aims to build anuclear weapon.

Western powers and israelsay that iran's uranium en-richment program is designedto produce fuel for an atomicbomb, and israel has warnedthat it reserves the right totake pre-emptive military ac-tion.

Washington has also saidit would not tolerate iran be-coming a nuclear-armedpower, but along with its eu-ropean allies, is still trying touse economic and diplomaticpressure to force iran to haltits centrifuges.


Ahmadinejad:

Iran does not

fear Israeli

strike

French mountain town reels from Nepal avalanche

Howman said a similar ef-fort prior to July and Augusts'London Olympics had led to"several cases" of doping beingdiscovered."The UK Anti-Doping Agency had a similararrangement with customs andpolice and they were able togive information to the IOC.The anti-doping program thatwas run during the Games wasbased on that intelligence. Myunderstanding is that it led toseveral cases that were discov-ered in the out-of-competitionphase."

Dr. Armstrong agreed thatsuch co-operation was essen-tial for dealing with doping,adding that more data wasneeded to assess the scale ofthe problem. "Each of our or-ganizations has a piece of thepie and can only work in theareas where we have a man-date to work. But we can joinwith our sister agencies such asUNESCO and other potentialpartners such as WADA andthe IOC. We all require betterdata to inform prevalence -how many people are takingwhat substances and the ad-verse social and health effectsas a consequence of that."

plays an obvious role. They arethe role models of youngstersand if they are drug takers, it isnot the right role model for thecoming society. I am so happytoday to see these internationalauthorities coming togetherand sharing these concerns thatare being expressed and I hopethat we can find common waysto deal with them," he added.

WADA Director GeneralDavid Howman told the brief-ing that what happens in elitesport has an effect on wider so-ciety and that the sharing of in-formation was crucial totackling the problem of dop-ing."What we have learned inthe last 10 years is that there isa trickle-down effect intorecreational sports and the highschools," said Howman,adding that health and law en-forcement authorities had theirpart to play.

"In Australia now, the cus-toms people share their infor-mation with the AustralianSports Anti-Doping Agency(ASADA), and already 40 per-cent of their anti-doping ruleviolations come from that sortof information.That's a verygood example of how it canwork when people work to-gether."

The use of performance-en-hancing drugs is now a publichealth matter rather than sim-ply a sporting problem, dele-gates said at a top anti-dopingconference."If we believe thataround three percent of highschool boys in the U.S. are tak-ing a steroid or growth hor-mone, then that's a publichealth issue," said Dr. TimothyArmstrong of the World HealthOrganization (WHO). "Sub-stance abuse in any shape orform has a physical and mentalhealth aspect to it. The WHO,being the lead UN (United Na-tions) agency on health mat-ters, takes this issue quiteseriously."

Armstrong was speaking atthe conference organized bythe Arne Ljungqvist Founda-tion, named after the Swedishanti-doping official, who isalso chairman of the Interna-tional Olympic Committee(IOC) medical commission.

Ljungqvist, who invited thelikes of the WHO and World-Anti-Doping Agency to themeeting, shared Armstrong'sopinion."This is a first attemptto highlight this matter as apublic health issue, which inmy view it is," he said at apress briefing."Elite sport

Performance-enhancing drugs,now a public health matter

New SARS-likemystery illnessemerges inMideastLONDON (AFP) - TheWorld Health Organisationissued a global alert on Mon-day for a new SARS-like res-piratory virus which left aman from Qatar critically illin a London hospital andkilled at least one more inSaudi Arabia.

The 49-year-old Qatariwas admitted to an intensivecare unit in Doha on Septem-ber 7 suffering from acuterespiratory infection and kid-ney failure before beingtransferred to Britain by airambulance on, the WHOsaid.

The WHO confirmed theillness was in the coronavirusfamily but was not SARS, orSevere Acute RespiratorySyndrome, which swept outof China in 2003, killingmore than 800 people world-wide.

Coronaviruses are causesof the common cold but canalso include more severe ill-nesses including SARS.

The HPA said the newvirus was "different from anythat have previously beenidentified in humans."


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Another dysfunction led to424 people being overdosedby between eight and 10 per-cent in the period spanning2001 and 2006. Many of thevictims were being treated forprostate cancer.

Scores of victims are due totestify from Monday untilOctober 31, some of them byvideo-link because they aretoo ill to attend court.

"We want the guilty to bepunished, I don't want mythree sons to suffer the same

fate," said plaintiff MichelHouot, speaking shortly beforethe trial began.

The two doctors, Jean-Fran-cois Sztermer, 64, MichelAubertel, 62, and radiophysi-cist Joshua Anah, 54, are ac-cused of involuntary homicide,not helping people in dangerand destroying evidence.

Three health executives arealso in the dock on charges offailing to help people in dan-ger.

The errors occurred in cali-brating new machines acquiredin 2004 and in the calculationof doses of radiation.

PARIS (AFP) - Two doctorsand a radiophysicist went ontrial Monday on manslaughtercharges arising from radiationoverdoses given to nearly 450cancer patients in a Frenchhospital.

At least seven people died asa result of overdoses adminis-tered to patients at the JeanMonnet hospital in Epinal innortheastern France between2001 and 2006.

At least 24 people treatedbetween May 2004 and August2005 received 20 percent moreradiation than they should havehad due to a calibration error.

French trial opens oncancer radiation scandal

--A picture released by the Committee for Research and

Independent Information on Genetic Engineering (CRI-

IGEN) shows a combination image of three pictures fea-

turing rats with tumors after they were fed a diet of

genetically modified (GMO) maize produced by US chem-

ical giant Monsanto. CRIIGEN researchers examined a

two-year study, that shows the long-term toxicity of

GMOs and chemical weed killer "Round-up", establish-

ing "alarming" results according to professor Gilles-Eric

Seralini.

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monsoon season.Eighteen of 27 districts of

Assam have been hit by floods with nearly 130 people dead

and six million displaced inAssam state in July.

Rescue officials said in thelatest floods, at least 2,200 vil-lages had been swamped byoverflowing waters from therain-swollenBrahmaputraRiver.

GUWAHATI (AFP) - Floodshave forced nearly 1.5 millionpeople to flee their homes innortheastern India where au-thorities have declared a healthalert, officials said on Monday.

The floods, caused by re-lentless rains, marked the sec-ond round of massive floodingin two months to hit India'simpoverished northeast andcome towards the end ofIndia's June-to-September

Himanta Biswa Sarmah, thehealth minister of Assam state,told AFP that a "maximumhealth alert" to avert outbreaksof diarrhea or diseases such astyphoid had been declared inthe devastated zone.

The annual monsoon pro-vides vital irrigation for India'sfarmers but also claims manycasualties from flooding andlandslides.

Victims and an oppositionparty staged protests in flood-hitareas against what they said wereshortages of emergency suppliesin the Congress-ruled state.

Rehab India Foundation, avoluntary group said heavyrains disrupted its plans to sup-ply food and other essentialitems to flood-hit people.

Almost the entire 420square kilometres (162 squaremiles) of Kaziranga NationalPark was also flooded, thePress Trust of India reported.


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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sci-entists said Monday theyhave new evidence aboutwhy women live longer thanmen, from a study of histori-cal data showing castratedKoreans far outlived theirnon-eunuch contemporaries.

The study, published in thescientific journal "CurrentBiology," used detailed ge-nealogical records of the Im-perial nobility during Korea'sJoseon dynasty, whichspanned more than 500 yearsfrom the late 1300s to theearly 1900s.

According to the data,most men, including kingsand royal family members,died in their late-40s or early-50s.

But noble-class eunuchs --men who were castrated ei-ther by accident or because ofsocial benefits -- lived, on av-erage, to the ripe, old age of70.

Study author Kyung-JinMin of South Korea's InhaUniversity, told AFP the rea-son is probably that manlyhormone, testosterone:

"Testosterone is known toincrease the incidence ofcoronary heart disease and re-duce immune function inmales," he said.

Castration "removes thesource of male sex hor-mones," the study notes,adding the practice has al-ready been proven to helpmany male animals livelonger.

Castration also cuts off thepossibility of reproduction,which Kyung-Jin notedcould also be a factor.

According to "one of theleading theories of aging,aging occurs at the expenseof reproduction," he said, be-cause the body has limitedenergy that can be used eitherto keep up reproductive func-tion, or else to keep up every-thing else.

But although the eunuchscould not father children bi-ologically, they married,adopted and raised children,and generally lived lives verysimilar to their non-castratedpeers.

"In order to eliminate so-cioeconomic factors thatcould have affected lifespan,the lifespan of the eunuchswas compared to the lifespanof men from other Yan-ban(noble class) families with asimilar socioeconomic sta-tus," Kyung-Jin said.

And "to exclude geneticfactors that could have af-fected the lifespan, we com-pared the lifespan of eunuchswith multiple Yan-ban fami-lies."

Modern men looking toextend their lifespan couldconsider "testosterone reduc-tion therapy," but Kyung-Jinsaid it's probably premature.

For one thing, it is notclear if it would have an ef-fect if the therapy werestarted at an older age -- theeunuchs were all castrated aschildren.

And for another, the ther-apy could have side effectsthat some men may feelmake that longer life lessworth living.

"We may need to considerthe side effects of it," Kyung-Jin said, "mainly, reductionof sex drive in males."

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The shares dropped as low$20.36, sharply down fromFriday's close of $22.86, be-fore paring losses in afternoontrade.

The fall came after Bar-ron's, the markets-focusednewspaper and website, pub-lished a story saying theworld's largest online socialnetworking company was stillsharply overvalued despitetrading at just over half of itsinitial price.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheInternational Monetary Fund islikely to lower its growth esti-mates for the global economywhen they are published nextmonth, IMF chief Christine La-garde said yesterday.

"We continue to project agradual recovery, but globalgrowth will likely be a bitweaker than we had anticipatedeven in July," Lagarde said in aspeech, according to the pre-pared text.

The IMF is slated to releaseits latest global growth forecastson October 9 at an annual meet-ing with the World Bank inTokyo, Japan. In July the Wash-ington-based global lender pro-jected global growth of 3.5percent in 2012 and 3.9 percentin 2013.

"Our forecast has trendeddownward over the last 12months," Lagarde said, under-scoring that the global economy"is still fraught with uncer-tainty" after the global reces-sion.

The IMF managing directorissued a clear call for action tofight the weakening globaleconomy.

"My main message today,"she told a Washington think-tank, is "the urgent need to im-plement the policy actionsrequired to secure the global re-covery."

Lagarde said that "Europeobviously remains the epicenterof the crisis and where the mosturgent action is needed." Shepointed to an urgent need for aeurozone banking union.

Lagarde:IMF likelyto cut globalgrowthestimates

sent crude prices down morethan 6 percent last week.

The S&P 500 had risennearly 6 percent from the startof August through mid-Sep-tember on expectations of cen-tral bank stimulus. On Sep -tember 6, the ECB announcedits bond-buying plan, and aweek later, the Federal Reserveannounced a third round ofquantitative easing intended tobolster the economy and re-duce U.S. unemployment.

The central bank actionshave served to buoy stockprices and keep market correc-tions in check despite concernsabout the global economy,with the S&P 500 unable tomuster a move of more than0.4 percent in either directionsince the Fed's announcement.

"We've rallied back on what- nothing has gotten better -therefore, all that tells you themarket is not operating on fun-damentals, but on the fact thateveryone knows Bernanke isthere," said Ken Polcari, man-aging director of ICAP Equi-ties in New York.

"This market should be offmuch more than it was in orderto price the real risk in, the factis, it can't."

Stocks fell modestly yesterdayafter disappointing Germandata added to evidence aboutthe weak prospects for theglobal economy's growth.

German business sentimentslipped for a fifth consecutivemonth in September, showingEurope's strongest economy wasmoving closer toward recessionas the euro zone continues tostruggle with its debt crisis.

Concerns about a stallingglobal economy were reflectedin energy-related shares as thePHLX oil service sector indexshed 1.4 percent to go with a1.7 percent drop in U.S. crudeoil. Global demand worries

Wall Street falls on

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higher taxes for the nation'swealthiest.

Talking in general terms atthe Clinton Global Initiative,Clinton insisted: "There arerich people everywhere andyet they do not contribute tothe growth of their own coun-tries.

"They don't invest in publicschools, in public hospitals, inother kinds of development in-ternally," she told the aid foun-dation set up by her husband,former Democratic presidentBill Clinton.

But as countries seek tostop being aid recipients, Clin-ton said taxes were vital to"mobilize their own domesticresources for long-term devel-opment. And so it means forleaders telling powerful peoplethings they don't want to hear."

"It means being transparentabout budgets and revenues,and bringing corruption tolight and when that happens,we shouldn't punish countriesfor uncovering corruption; weshould reward them for doingso. And it means putting intoplace regulations designed toattract and protect investment."

Clinton, who was defeatedby Obama in 2008 to be theDemocratic presidential candi-date, has so far ruled out a runin 2016.

On Sunday, Bill Clinton leftthe matter open, saying: "Ihave no earthly idea what shewill decide to do. I think weought to give her a chance toorganize her life and decidewhat she wants to do."

NEW YORK (AFP) - US Sec-retary of State Hillary Clintonentered the 2012 US presiden-tial campaign fray for the firsttime yesterday, highlighting aburning issue at the center ofdebate -- taxing the wealthy.

"One of the issues that Ihave been preaching aboutaround the world is collectingtaxes in an equitable manner,especially from the elites inevery country," Clinton told aglittering New York confer-ence.

Winning some laughter atthe forum on the sidelines ofthe UN General Assembly, sheinsisted: "You know I'm out ofAmerican politics, but it is afact that around the world theelites of every country aremaking money."

Democratic US PresidentBarack Obama, fighting for re-election in November, and hisbitter rival, Republican MittRomney, have laid out starklydifferent visions for how toboost the struggling US eco -nomy.

Multi-millionaire formerbusinessman Romney has pro-posed cutting income tax ratesby 20 percent across the board,eliminating tax on investmentincome, and slashing the cor-porate tax rate.

Obama has said Romney's$5 trillion tax plan wouldmostly benefit the wealthy andforce the US government toboost taxes on families withchildren by $2,000 (1,550euros) per year.

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BRASILIA (AFP) - Parker of the Generation Esmeraldaband died of a heart attack during a concert in the south-eastern Brazilian city of Uba, one of the producers for thegroup said Monday. Sergio Lopes, a producer for thegroup in Brazil, told the Gl news portal that the 59-year-old Parker died Sunday in the Minas Gerais state city. Tel-evision pictures showed the moment when Parkercollapsed on his instrument. The show was interruptedand he was rushed to hospital. Parker's body was to beflown back to California in the next few hours, G1 said. Generation Esmeralda is a disco group formed by ex-members of Santa Esmeralda, a franco-US band of the1970's.

It also collected support-ing-acting prizes for EricStonestreet and Julie Bowenand a best-directing Emmyfor series co-creator StevenLevitan.

Edgy British comic RickyGervais, known for his near-the-nuckle jokes as GoldenGlobes host, was relativelyrestrained in his turn present-ing a relatively minor award.

"So much better than theGolden Globes," he said, jok-ing that organizers had cho-sen to give him the "big one"category of directing on a va-riety special, won by GlennWeiss for Broadway's 65thannual Tony Awards. and

Daily Show comedy newsfrontman Jon Stewart, accept-ing the best variety showaward, was among the few totest the live broadcast 5-sec-ond delay for bad language,after pretend-fighting with ri-vals Stephen Colbert andJimmy Fallon.

Best comedy supporting ac-tress went to Julie Bowen alsoof "Modern Family," whileLouis C.K. won best comedywriter for his series "Louis," aswell as best writer for his liveshow.

Veteran actress Kathy Bates-- who only this month re-vealed that she was diagnosedwith breast cancer and had adouble mastectomy -- wonbest guess actress in a comedyseries for her appearance on hitshow "Two and a Half Men."

Actor Michael J Fox, whosemi-retired after being diag-nosed with Parkinson's Dis-ease but announced last monththat he will star in a new TVshow, won a standing ovationwhen he presented "ModernFamily" with the best comedyprize.

Julianne Moore, who wonbest TV movie actress forHBO's "Game Change,"thanked Palin, who she played."I feel so validated, becauseSarah Palin gave me a bigthumbs down," she said.

Showtime.As well as the 64th Annual

Primetime Emmys' top prizefor best drama, the show alsoson best drama writing andbest drama actor and actress forBriton Damian Lewis andClaire Danes.

"Mad Men," about life andlove in a 1960s New York ad-vertising agency, has won bestdrama every year since its2007 premier, and was hopingto break the Emmys recordwith a fifth win this year.

But the show, which wasnominated in 17 categories,went home empty-handed

On the lighter side, mocku-mentary-style "Modern Fam-ily" won its third straight BestComedy series Emmy with acast of gay, step-sibling andgenerally non-orthodox nu-clear family characters.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Spythriller "Homeland" won bestTV drama at the Emmy awardsSunday, ending retro cult show"Mad Men" four-year unbro-ken run, while "Modern Fam-ily" was named best comedyfor the third straight year.

Election campaign film"Game Change," about JohnMcCain's Republican runningmate Sarah Palin's implosion inthe doomed 2008 White Houserace, meanwhile won bestmini-series or movie at UStelevision's annual awardsshow.

"Homeland," about a CIAagent probing a US Marinewho went missing in Iraq andis suspected of planning a ter-rorist attack, is only in its firstseason but has earned rave re-views and nine Emmy nomina-tions for pay channel


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fronted him about his lovechild while in couples counsel-ing,

The 65 year old actor writesthat Maria Shriver waited untila day after he left the Califor-nia governor’s office in 2011to confirm her long-held suspi-cion that he was a cheater.

“The minute we sat down,the therapist turned to me andsaid, ‘Maria wanted to comehere today and to ask about achild — whether you fathereda child with your housekeeperMildred”.

The 624-page book, pub-lished by Simon & Schusterand co-written with best-sell-ing author Peter Petre, de-scribes Schwarzenegger’sjourney from rural Austria tothe pinnacle of bodybuildingand movie stardom to the Cal-ifornia governorship.

But the chapter about the af-fair, called “The Secret,” hasdrawn most of the interest.

--Former California governorArnold Schwarzenegger haswritten a new memoir called“Total Recall: My Unbeliev-ably Tue Life Story” whichwill be released next week.

The book reveals the painfuldetails of the infidelity andscandal that ruined his 25-yearmarriage to Maria Shriver --describing the day she con-

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The cast and crew of Modern Family, winner of the award foroutstanding comedy series, pose backstage at the 64thPrimetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

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"I'm not going to com-plain. It's been a great year,and I'm very happy with howI'm playing still.

"I'm looking forward tomeeting up with all the guys.Just to get back into that teamatmosphere and team spirit. Itshould be good fun. I'm justgoing to go there and enjoy itand try and help Team Eu-rope out as much as I can."(file photo)

nearly added the playoffcrown to his haul.

"You've got to treat it likea four or five-week tourna-ment," McIlroy said. "It addsexcitement to the end of theyear. Obviously, you've gotthe Ryder Cup next week, sothat's going to be excitingtoo, but it definitely givespeople something to watchand something to hang on toafter the majors are finished.

header from Pepe, saved bykeeper Ruben Martinez, Rayotook the game to Madrid, whowere reduced to committing aseries of fouls and Essien wasyellow carded for a handball.

However, Madrid conjuredup an excellent goal on thecounter-attack which spannedthe length of the pitch and wasfinished off by Benzema, whoknocked the ball in from closerange from a Angel Di Mariacross on the left.

Madrid were not comfort-able at the back and Alvaro Ar-beloa gifted the ball to Lass atthe start of the second half buthe failed to control with justCasillas to beat.

In an open game Essien andRonaldo shot narrowly wide asdid Jose Carlos for Rayo be-fore Ronaldo's penalty decidedthe game after 70 minutes.

It was the Portuguese'scross that was handled by cen-tre-half Jordi Amat andRonaldo took the spot-kick,sending the keeper the wrongway.

Minutes later Ronaldocould have extended Madrid'sadvantage but he hit the postfrom a Gonzalo Higuain passwith the goal gaping.

In the second minute of in-jury time frustration got thebetter of Casado. who left hisfoot in as he challenged MesutOzil and was given his secondyellow card.

Madrid against city rivalsRayo with the pressure on afterBarcelona beat Granada 2-0 onSaturday, their fifth win in suc-cession, while Madrid hadonly one.

Sergio Ramos returned tothe side after being droppedfor Madrid's ChampionsLeague victory over Manches-ter City last week, whileMichael Essien was also giventhe nod over Sami Khedira topartner Xabi Alonso in front ofthe defence in a more offen-sive formation than against thePremiership side as LukaModric returned.

Jemez has shown an ad-mirable commitment to attack-ing football and they faced thechampions with two wingersin Jose Carlos and Lass Ban-goura, who had full licence togo forward.

Apart from a dangerous

MADRID (AFP) - RealMadrid kept Barcelona in theirsights as an early goal fromKarim Benzema put them ontheir way to a 2-0 win overRayo Vallecano - but they re-main eight points behind theCatalan side, who are yet todrop a point this season.

Benzema struck after 13minutes and Cristiano Ronaldoadded a second mid-waythrough the second half as JoseMourinho's side came out ontop in the match suspended onSunday due to floodlight fail-ure caused by sabotage.

In injury time Jose Casadowas dismissed for the homeside after receiving his secondyellow card.

The green light was finallygiven to play the game onMonday evening at Rayo's Es-tadio de Vallecas ground inwhat was a tough battle for


Football: Madrid back on trackwith Rayo win

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Karim Benzema celebrating his goal

Czech Republic were ousted inGermany.

Taiwan and Panama are setto host qualifying events inNovember to decide the finaltwo teams in the tournament.

New Zealand, Thailand andPhilippines will challenge Tai-wan in Asia while Panama willhost Nicaragua, Colombia andBrazil.

Japan won the two prior edi-tions of the Classic, which isstaged every four years. The semi-finals and finals will be staged inSan Francisco next March.

Automatic qualifiers for thelast 16 include Japan, SouthKorea, China, Cuba, Australia,the United States, Italy,Netherlands, Dominican Re-public, Mexico, Venezuela andPuerto Rico.

NEW YORK (AFP) - ChrisRobinson, Adam Loewen andJimmy Van Ostrand smackedhome runs to lead Canada overGermany 11-1 on Monday towin a four-nation qualifyingtournament for next year'sWorld Baseball Classic.

Canadian pitcher AndrewAlbers allowed the hosts onlyone hit in six innings for thevictory in advancing to the 16-team field for next March'sglobal showdown of top talent,including North AmericanMajor League Baseball players.

Also advancing from aqualifying tournament wasSpain, which edged Israel 9-7in 10 innings to advance atJupiter, Florida. South Africaand France were eliminatedthere while Britain and the

Baseball: Canada, Spainadvance to World Base-ball Classic

ATLANTA (AFP) - WorldNo. 1 Rory McIlroy and No.2 Tiger Woods are set to leadtheir Ryder Cup teams thisweek after final-round fadescost them a chance at a $10million US PGA playoffprize.

American BrandtSnedeker, a US Ryder Cupcaptain's choice selection byDavis Love, won the TourChampionship on Sunday atEast Lake to win a record$11.44 million and jump to10th in the rankings ahead ofthis weekend's showdown.

Holders Europe boast fourof the world's top five playerswith England's Luke Donald,Lee Westwood and JustinRose joining McIlroy in thatselect group.

"I'm just going to reallyenjoy it. It's going to be agood week," McIlroy said."I'm looking forward to it."

Woods, a 14-time major

champion chasing the recordof 18 majors won by JackNicklaus but without a majortitle since 2008, looked for-ward to a rest day on Mondaybefore beginning Ryder Cuppractice sessions at Medinah.

"It will be nice to shut itdown and gear up again be-cause we've got a long, longweek ahead of us," Woodssaid. "We're all going to needour energy and get our restwhen we can"

Woods, who has seen 18majors come and go since helast won one, is happy to behealthier and more competi-tive and consistent than hewas a year ago.

"Considering where I wasat last year, it's nice to bewhere I'm at now," he said. "Iwas obviously strugglingwith my health last year andthis year I was able to turn itaround and I played somepretty good golf this year."

Woods won at the ArnoldPalmer Invitational, the Me-morial and the PGA Nationalin 2012 and contended at ma-jors, showing flashes of theform that made him a legendbut not often enough to cap-ture a major crown.

McIlroy won his secondcareer major title, adding lastmonth's PGA Championshipto his breakthrough triumphat the 2011 US Open, and

Golf: Woods, McIlroy ready for Ryder Cupshowdown

with two runs, three hits, in-cluding a three-run home run,and four RBI in leading theNationals' offense.

Milwaukee starter MarcoEstrada (4-7) was chargedwith seven runs -- six earned -- in four innings. He walkedtwo and struck out three.

WASHINGTON -- JordanZimmermann allowed fourhits over 6 2/3 innings and hadan early RBI Monday in theWashington Nationals' 12-2win over the MilwaukeeBrewers.

Ryan Zimmerman finished

The following guest play-ers joined the group: Dakshaand Ashok Patel.

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2) Willy Flanegin / JokeHenriquez 53.75 %

3) Marleen van Baarlen/Carmen Kruythoff 52.50 %

Aloha Bridge Club Arubameets twice a week: on Thurs-day mornings at the MembersLounge of the Aruba BeachClub Resort, starting at 9.00am and on Friday evenings atthe Frank Conway Room ofthe Casa del Mar Beach Re-sort, starting at 7.30 pm. Sign-ing up closes ten minutesbefore starting time.

Fee for guest players: US $6.00 per person; fee for mem-bers: Afl. 6.50 per person. Theclub can also be of assistancein getting single players abridge partner. Please callAddy Eilers: tel. 582-4953.


NEW YORK (AFP) - Kerri Walsh Jennings revealed on

Monday that she was pregnant last month when she and

fellow American Misty May-Treanor teamed up to win a

women's beach volleyball gold medal at the London

Olympics. Walsh Jennings, 34, said she and husband

Casey Jennings, also a pro beach volleyball player, con-

ceived first son Joey before leaving China after she won

the 2008 Olympic crown. She and May-Treanor also won

at Athens in 2004. And they are already talking about de-

fending the crown again at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro

Olympics. The new baby, due April 9, will join sons Joey,

3, and Sundance, 2.

Walsh Jennings was pregnantwhen she won gold

Thursday, September 20th,2012

A total of 10 pairs attendedthe bridge play at the Mem-bers Lounge of the ArubaBeach Club Resort.

The following guest play-ers joined the group: BettyWilliamson, Daksha Patel and

Ashok PatelThe results 50% and higher

are as follows:1) Joke Henriquez / Geke

In ‘t Veld 63.21 %2) Stascha Hornix / Addy

Eilers 61.98 %3) Cornelia Sloterdijk / Els

Lacle 60.42 %4) Henk Berghuizen / Anne

de Vries 50.78 %5) Edith Henriquez / Sheila

Lampe 50.38 %.Friday, September 21st,

2012A total of 7 pairs attended

our evening bridge session atthe Frank Conway Room ofthe Casa del Mar Beach Re-sort.

ALOHA BRIDGE CLUB ARUBA -

BRIDGE RESULTS

LONDON (AFP) - EnglishPremier League referee MarkHalsey has informed GreaterManchester Police of two abu-sive tweets following his han-dling of Sunday's matchbetween Liverpool and Man-chester United.

Halsey received the insult-ing messages, which mademention of his suffering fromthroat cancer, after overseeingUnited's 2-1 win at Anfieldwhere he sent off Liverpool'sJonjo Shelvey.

Two tweets were sent outby unhappy Liverpool fansfollowing the game, both ofwhich were met with outragefrom other Twitter users.

One post, from an accountnamed àjohnwareing1, read: "Ihope Mark Halsey gets canceragain and dies" while anotherfrom àlfcjohn259 read: "MarkHalsey should've died of can-cer."

Halsey returned to referee-ing in March 2010 and Profes-sional Game Match OfficialsLimited said in a statement:"PGMO abhors any abuse ofmatch officials whether that isin stadia or outside of it."Our main concern is towardsMark and his family, and aswith all match officials, thereis a backroom team who arethere for them."

Football: Referee complainsover Twitter abuse

MLB: Washington 12,Milwaukee 2

Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper, right, celebrateswith Ian Desmond after he scored during the first inning

Tucker's game-win-ning 27-yard field goalon the final play, giv-ing the Ravens theirfirst regular-seasonvictory over New Eng-land in seven tries.

Atlanta, Arizonaand Houston emergedas the NFL's only un-defeated teams afterthree weeks, two clubsdoing so after knock-ing off other unbeatensquads, but the day'smost emotional gamewas at Baltimore.

The Patriots andRavens met for thefirst time since lastseason's playoff semi-final showdown last

January, which New Englandwon 23-20 to reach the SuperBowl after Baltimore missed afield goal in the final seconds.

This time, Baltimore gotthe field goal on coach JohnHarbaugh's 50th birthday anddropped the Patriots to 1-2 forthe first time since 2001 andbelow .500 at any point in theseason for the first time in nineyears.

Ray Rice's 7-yard touch-down run 3:24 into the thirdquarter gave the Ravens a 21-20 lead, but New England an-swered on Danny Woodhead's3-yard touchdown run and a20-yard Stephen Gostkowskifield goal, setting up Smith'slate heroics.


support, my teammates andfriends. My high school coachis taking care of my mom.Everyone is showing a lot oflove."

Smith caught a 5-yardtouchdown pass from JoeFlacco to pull Baltimorewithin 30-28 with 4:01 to play.He had caught a 25-yardtouchdown pass from Flaccoin the second quarter for theRavens' first points.

"It's unbelievable," Flaccosaid. "I can't imagine what he'sgoing through. For him toshow up and play is one thing.Then to play the way he did,and our guys to rally aroundhim, was really unbelievable."

After a New England punt,a pass interference penalty onthe Patriots set up Justin

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Hours after his youngerbrother's death in a motorcycleaccident, Torrey Smith caughtsix passes for 127 yards andtwo touchdowns Sunday tospark Baltimore over NewEngland 31-30 in an NFLshowdown.

The Ravens receiver wipedaway tears moments beforethe game began after a mo-ment of silence for his brother,Tevin Jones, who died in anearly morning crash and forwhom Smith dedicated his ef-fort.

"It means a lot to me. Itmeans a lot to my family aswell," Smith said. "That wasfor my little brother.

"I almost didn't play. Ithank everybody for all the

"For that guy to even beout here and having the gamehe had, it was amazing," Ricesaid.

Arizona's Kevin Kolb madePhiladelphia pay for tradinghim to the Cardinals last year,completing 17-of-24 passesfor 222 yards and two touch-downs in a 27-6 home rout ofthe previously unbeaten Ea-gles.

"They played better thanwe did," Eagles coach AndyReid said. "That's my respon-sibility. I didn't have my foot-ball team ready to play. Theydid."

The Cardinals have notstarted 3-0 since 1974 whenthey were still based in St.Louis. The team moved to Ari-zona before the 1988 season.

Atlanta's Matt Ryan com-pleted 30-of-40 passes for 275yards and three touchdowns topower the Falcons over previ-ously unbeaten host San Diego27-3.

Michael Turner ran for 80yards and a touchdown for At-lanta, 3-0 for the first timesince 2004.

Houston's Matt Schaubcompleted 17-of-30 passes for290 yards and four touch-downs to give Texas a 31-25victory at Denver, pushing theTexans to 3-0 for the first timesince the club first took thefield in 2002.

Peyton Manning completedhalf of his 52 passes, his 26

misfires the most in his NFLcareer, for 330 yards and twofourth-quarter touchdowns ina losing cause.

San Francisco missed achance to start 3-0 for the firsttime since 1998 with a 24-13loss at Minnesota, with Chris-tian Ponder throwing twotouchdown passes to KyleRudolph and running for an-other touchdown for the hostVikings.

Ryan Succop kicked thelast of his six field goals 8:33into over-time to give KansasCity a 27-24 victory at NewOrleans. The Chiefs scored thegame's last 21 points to leavethe Saints and Cleveland theNFL's only winless teams.

New Orleans quarterbackDrew Brees completed atouchdown pass in his 46thconsecutive game, one shy ofthe NFL record held byJohnny Unitas.

Tennessee edged Detroit44-41 on a 26-yard over-timefield goal by Rob Bironaswhile Nick Folk's over-timekick gave the New York Jets a23-20 victory over Miami.

In other games Sunday,Cincinnati beat Washington38-31, Oakland edged Pitts-burgh 34-31, Jacksonvilledowned Indianapolis 22-17,Dallas defeated Tampa Bay16-10, Chicago routed St.Louis 23-6 and Buffalo beatCleveland 24-14.

NFL: Smith stars after tragedy to spark Ravens overPatriots

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