March 24, 2012

Saturday, March 24, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) -President Barack Obama Fri-day called for national "soul-searching" over the killing ofan unarmed black teenagerby a white volunteer guard,as new tensions flare over thedivisive issue of race.

"If I had a son he wouldlook like Trayvon," Obama,the country's first AfricanAmerican president, told re-porters, saying the fatalshooting of 17-year-oldTrayvon Martin was a"tragedy."

"I think all of us have todo soul searching to figureout how does something likethis happen and that meanswe examine the laws and thecontext for what happened,"he added, carefully weighinghis words in an emotional re-sponse when asked about theincident.

Up to 20,000 people de-manding justice rallied lateThursday in the Florida townof Sanford where Martin wasshot dead by volunteer neigh-borhood watch guard GeorgeZimmerman in late Februaryin a gated community.

The mostly African Amer-ican crowd demanded the ar-rest of Zimmerman, whoclaims he acted in self-de-fense after a confrontationwith the teenager. Zimmer-man has been neither de-tained nor charged with anycrime.

Protesters have claimedthat Martin's killing is just thelast example of racial profil-ing and unjust treatment ofblacks by the country's crim-inal justice system.

An online petition hasgathered more than a millionsignatures following Martin'sfatal shooting on February26, and the Department ofJustice has launched an in-vestigation into the events.

The FBI, the state attor-ney's office and the FloridaDepartment of Law Enforce-ment are also investigatingthe case.

Local police say they be-lieve Zimmerman cannot beprosecuted thanks to aFlorida law that lets state res-idents use lethal force in self-defense.

Obama urges 'soul-searching' after blackteen's killing

Just recently, the ArubaTourism Authority (ATA)proudly announced their newDirector for the North Amer-ican region who is to take of-fice as of April 2012. After anextensive search for the rightperson to lead the biggesttourism market for Aruba,and evaluating a long list ofcandidates who applied forthe position, they finally de-cided who will lead this im-portant market.

The Aruban, NevilleEvery, who has lived manyyears abroad, decided to re-spond to the challenge andwill soon move to New Jer-sey where ATA’s NorthAmerican office is located.After completing high schoolat Colegio Arubano, Nevillewent to Holland to further hiseducation. In Holland he ob-tained a Master of Sciencedegree in economics at theErasmus University. He thenbecame employed at Philipsin Holland which was thestart of his professional ca-

reer. Every worked forPhillips for 10 years where heoccupied various key posi-tions in different countrieslike, Brazil, the US andPanama. While workingNeville Every continued tostudy and obtained thediploma of “RegisteredComptroller” from the Uni-versity of Amsterdam.Neville Every has served inthe Phillips Management

Team for six years. He has re-cently served as Chief Finan-cial Officer for the NorthwestLatin American section ofPhillips in Panama.

Because of NevilleEvery’s ample experience, hewill be in charge of structur-ing the US ATA office andfocus on the integration of allAruba partners in this veryimportant market. He will beresponsible for taking on theimpending challenges for2012. Every will reinforceATA’s very experiencedtourism team, key people inthe US market like former di-rector of ATA North America,Charly Ibarra; Miss TheresitaChai in charge of marketingAruba in North America; andveteran Adwina Arends. Ad-wina Arends is currently thecorporate advertising man-ager for the US market.

Neville Every will gothrough a transitional periodwhere he will be guided bydifferent partners in the mar-ket such as Scott Wigginswho will provide him with aview of the dynamics andtendencies of the NorthAmerican market.

Aruba Tourism Authoritywelcomed Neville Every.Every demonstrated his greatenthusiasm and delight to beable to work for his country.The Morning News joinswith ATA and Aruba in wel-coming Neville Every to hisnew job

ATA Presents new directorfor North American market

Neville Every, new Director for North American region

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The Faculty of Life Studieswelcomed two guest lecturersfrom the U.S. for a presenta-tion in the University ofAruba auditorium on Thurs-day evening regarding therole institution may play inthe dissemination of educa-tional materials, or as the de-bate suggests: the theft of anation’s intellectual birth-right.

The case in point: the ac-quisition of two collectionsby the University of Illinois,Chicago campus (UIC) li-brary, The Carberry Collec-tion from Jamaican NationalPoet H.D. Carberry, whichwas sold to the library by hiswidow, and a vast collectionof documents, diaries anddrawing from the founding ofSierra Leone by abolitionistsin 1787, as a refuge for es-caped and freed slaves.

Debating the issue were

Associate Professor EmiritaNancy Cirillo of the EnglishDepartment, UIC, now re-tired, and Peter Hepburn, aDigitalization Librarian at theRichard J. Daley Library,UIC. They were brought toAruba through the efforts ofRonny Alders of the ArubaNational Library and its Di-rector, Astrid Britten, with thelecture facilitated by the Fac-ulty of Life Studies at the Uof A.

The implications of the

long established policies of“conquering” countries or ar-rogant explorers and histori-ans appropriating andexporting objects whichcould most definitely be con-sidered the cultural heritageof the host nation, posesmoral and intellectual dilem-mas for curators and librari-ans; particularly when thoseorigins are not respected inoffering the materials for ob-servation and study.

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Loot or World Treasure:Guest lecturers examine thedilemma of intellectual propertyand library collections

Recently the Aruba TourismAuthority had the great pleas-ure of honoring a very nicecouple, whom are loyal andfriendly visitors of Aruba atthe Marriott Surf Club, asDistinguished Visitors ofAruba. The symbolic hon-orary title is presented in thename of the Minister ofTourism as a token of appre-ciation to guests who visitAruba for 10 to 19 consecu-tive years.

The honorees are Mr. Johnand Mrs. Cheryl Dinihanian

from Waterbury CT. John andCheryl are loyal members ofthe Marriott Surf Club andthey love the Island verymuch because of the friendlypeople, the climate, beaches,restaurants and all other ac-tivities that the island has tooffer.

The certificate was pre-sented by Mr. Ernest Gielrepresenting the ArubaTourism Authority togetherwith Ms. Luzdary Leest rep-resenting the Marriott SurfClub.

Aruba says thank you!

Profs Cirillo and Hepburn, Uof A life studies, Astrid Britten and Ronny Alders

Saturday, March 24, 2012 3

The Department of Culturenow has a new Director tohelp lead this department tothe next level. This depart-ment is the fundamental basewhich helps identify the is-land and its particular charac-teristics and culture.

The Department of Cul-ture has had its share of tur-bulance for quite some time.The government institutedvarious changes in an effortto find a solution for the tur-bulance that existed. Thegovernment is now pleased

with the results of their ef-forts.

After placing an internalsolicitud for applications forthe position of Director, sev-eral applications were re-ceived from within thegovernment’s apparatus. Thesearch went out for someonewith adequate academictraining and a particular apti-tude for working with people.The choice went out to Drs.Siegfried Dumfries.

Dumfries is currently em-ployed at the Department ofHuman Resources. He is alsomember of the board ofStichting Schouwburg Aruba.Siegfried Dumfries is a grad-uate of the Vrije Universiteitof Amsterdam where he re-ceived his degree in Social-Cultural Studies and a degreein Personnel Organization

and Training from the Acad-emie Mens en ArbeidHogeschool Ijsselland in De-venter, Holland. Dumfrieswas also involved in the reor-ganization of the Departmentof Culture in 2006.

Siegfried Dumfries indi-cated that ...”I’m happy towork with you ...and togetherwe will work on achievingthe goals according to the

plan of action. We will ac-complish great things for theculture of our country.”

The government congrat-ulated Dumfries with his newappointment and wished himmuch success in his new ca-reer filled with challenges.

Minister Michelle Hooy-boer-Winklaar assured thenew Director of her total sup-port.

Siegfried Dumfries appointed director of Department of Culture


The doors are about ready toswing open for ATIA’s Gen-eral Assembly Meeting to beheld here at the Aruba Surf-side Marina on March 29th at5:00pm. The theme for thismeeting will be “Social Dia-logue,” which the organizersconsider to be a very relevantand important topic for Arubaat this time.

The invited guest speakerfor this occasion will be theactual Minister of Labor andSocial Security of the islandnation of Barbados. The Bar-bados Minister, Dr. EstherByer-Suckoo has ample expe-rience and knowledge of So-cial Dialogue and will besharing her expertise withATIA members. MinisterByer-Suckoo is a Barbadianborn national. In 1987 shewon the “Government Exhi-bition” after which she con-tinued to study medicine atthe Mona Campus of the Uni-versity of the West Indies andin 1993 she graduated withher medical doctor’s degree.

Dr. Byer-Suckoo workedfor three years at what is con-sidered the best hospital onthe island, namely, the QueenElizabeth Hospital. In Janu-ary 1997 she established theEllerton Medical Center inher city where she worked allalone until her election toParliament by the constitu-tion of St. George South in2008 during the country’sgeneral elections. Byer-Suckoo lived for 3 years inMalawi, where she labored asa missionary doctor. Byer-Suckoo also spent some timeas a missionary doctor inUganda in 2005.

Among the Dr’s many in-terests are: hiking, travelling,reading and participating atmedical missions. She is alsovery interested in the devel-

opment of resources foryouth and people in general.Esther Byer-Suckoo is amember of the Cub Scoutand Youth Group Leader, aSunday School teacher andmember of the AmericanAcademy of Family Physi-cians and the Barbados Asso-ciation of MedicalPractitioners. Dr. Byer-Suckoo has also served hercountry as Secretary Generaland Vice President.

ATIA has also invitedAruba’s Parliament Presidentas speaker for the evening.Croes will speak at 7:30pm.Croes’s speech will be fol-lowed by the discourse by thehonorable Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo at 7:50pm. Bothspeakers will address theissue of the importance of di-alogue, political dialogue aswell as in the development ofbusiness in general. At 8:30pm everyone will be invitedto the cocktail party wheremembers will have the op-portunity to mingle and ex-change conversation witheach other.

For questions or other in-formation regarding this im-portant General Assemblymeeting, members are free tocontact ATIA directly orthrough email [email protected] or atwww.atiaruba.org or viawww.facebook.com/atia.aruba. ATIA expects a full turn outby all their esteemed members.

Barbados Minister is keynote speakerfor ATIA’s General Assembly meeting

Professor Cirillo cited thecase of friezes which origi-nally adorned the Parthenonas a classic example, put ondisplay in the British Mu-seum in the 1880’s; Greekscholars and the governmenthave long insisted upon theirreturn, to no avail. The pointwas made in the CarberryCollection that in this casethe books were legitimatelypurchased by UIC from Car-berry’s widow. They includemany rare first editions, in-cluding two by Nobel Laure-ates, and almost all areinscribed by the authors, giv-ing them additional interestand value. They are a testa-ment to the growth of intel-lectualism and literaryaccomplishment in theCaribbean regarding writingand publishing in English, aswell as providing a windowinto the culture of the variousislands, along with the per-sonal search for identity andsocietal struggles.

The Jamaica National Li-brary would have preferredthem to be donated, and re-fused first option for pur-chase as the cost was toogreat, but a widow has con-cerns for her welfare, andtheir value brought the inter-est of larger libraries aroundthe world with the money tobuy this rare collection, andso they were acquired byUIC. With some fanfare, in-cluding the presence of Car-barry’s widow, the collectionwas unveiled, during whichshe exhorted the library to“love and respect” the worksas they deserved.

Both Cirillo and Hepburndid express their dismay inthat this final wish is not

being observed; rather thanbeing kept intact for the his-torical and intellectual valuethe collection represents, ithas been broken up and filedamong many other books ac-cording to the Library ofCongress System, a policywhich again generates con-troversy and moral questionsamong scholars.

Making copies to donateto the Jamaica library is notas simple a solution as onewould think, as copyrightlaws prevent this; the ques-tion of digital disseminationvia Internet is also a thornyproblem. The books them-selves are kept in a rare bookroom, and so cannot leave thepremises and must be readand studied within it con-fines. The combination ofthese factors prevents themfrom being used for under-graduate studies or added tobook lists, begging the ques-tion: will their scholarly en-lightenment only beappreciated by a very deter-mined few working on a the-sis? Doubtlessly, this is anesoteric issue, but one thatplagues curators and librari-ans around the world.

The Sierra Leone docu-ments are fascinating and ofan age that their distributionis not beleaguered by copy-right concerns, but only afraction of the materials haveyet been digitalized and madeavailable. So again, the ques-tion of doing the collectionsjustice is a matter for consid-eration.

Astrid Britten and RonnyAlders thanked ProfessorsCirillo and Hepburn for theirenlightening lecture whilepresenting them with gifts oflocally published works ingratitude for taking the time,and for future projects. Pro-fessor Cirillo is part of a teamworking on a major exhibi-tion regarding slavery that isexpected to open in Chicagosoon and Mr. Alders ex-pressed the hope they may beable to bring the exhibit toAruba.

By Rosalie Klein

Loot or World Treasure...Continued from pg 2

Minister Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) -Young US movie fans floc-ked to midnight screenings ofteen cinema phenomenon"The Hunger Games" earlyFriday, as the movie vies toset a US box office recordthis weekend.

The post-apocalyptic filmwas already in the top threefor advance sales, accordingto online retailer Fandango,which was selling 10 ticketsfor the movie every second,with 2,500 screenings alreadysold out before it opened.

"A lot of people came forthe premiere and this is onlythe first movie, so the nextones are going to be biggerand bigger," said 18-year-oldhigh school student NatashaMcClellan, before a midnightscreening in Los Angeles.

Teacher Daniela Perry, 32,added: "I'm expecting to cry inthis movie. There's some re-ally emotional parts, somekids die. In the book they des-cribe it in such a beautiful way,so I'm expecting to see that.

"I cried during the book,"she told AFP.

"The Hunger Games" isbased on the thriller of thesame name by US novelistSuzanne Collins, part of a tri-logy that has sold 30 millioncopies worldwide, the latestteen publishing phenomenonin the wake of the "Twilight"saga.

Set in Panem, a fictionalland born of the ashes of aruined North America, thefilm stars Jennifer Lawrenceas a young girl forced to fightfor her life in a Roman cir-cus-style televised bloodsport -- known as "The Hun-ger Games."

Hyped by marketers as apotential new "Twilight" or"Harry Potter," the movie hitscreens in France and acrossmuch of Europe on Wednes-day, followed by a global re-lease on Thursday and Friday.

By Thursday afternoon,the movie was Fandango'sthird all-time biggest advanceticket seller, behind 2009's"The Twilight Saga: NewMoon" and last year's series-ending "Harry Potter and theDeathly Hallows: Part 2."

The two biggest-grossingopeners were both summer

releases: the last Harry Potterfilm took $169 million in itsfirst weekend, followed by

"The Dark Knight" with $158million, according to figuresreleased by Box Office Mojo.

Early Friday in Los Ange-les, 27-year-old interior de-signer Heather Hewitt -- at a

midnight screening with fivegirl friends -- said she hadread all three of the books.

US fans gorge on 'Hunger Games,' vying for record

"I am counting the days, thebullets. I am dreaming ofscreaming whores and leftistsimploring me to stay alive,"one extract said.

Police found a map of theclassroom where the UnB stu-dents congregate at the homeof one of the suspects.

The website of the non-governmental organizationSaferNet which monitors in-citement to violence andracism in Brazil last weekrecorded nearly 70,000 com-p l a i n t s a g a i n s tsilviokoerich.org.

down by police.Police said they were inves-

tigating possible links betweenDe Oliveira Wellington and thepair running the racist websitewho used extracts from a letterfound on Wellington after hisdeath such as "the impure can-not touch me."

The two suspects could besentenced to six years in jail,police said.

A text posted March 12hinted that Vale et Rodrigueshad planned to kill students ata social sciences class at UnBin Brasilia.

men currently on militarydeath row, officials said, butthe last execution was morethan 50 years ago.

Bales, 38, is currently beingheld at Fort Leavenworth inKansas, and a US forcesspokesman said it was "morethan likely" be held in 18-24months and in the United Stat-esthe,although the decisionwould be made later in theprocess.

But furious relatives of thevictims have demanded pro-ceedings take place inAfghanistan.

The massacre has deepeneda sense of crisis in the NATOmission and renewed ques-tions about the effect of pro-tracted ground wars onAmerica's stretched force, be-coming just the latest in a se-ries of damaging setbackssince January.

The next stage in the Balescase will be for him to appearbefore a so-called Article 32hearing, which will decidewhether to proceed with acourt-martial -- but the mili-tary has almost four months inwhich hold it.

The soldier's lawyer, John

Kabul (AFP) - A US soldierwas formally charged Fridaywith 17 premeditated murdersof civilians in an Afghanistanvillage, US forces said inKabul after a massacre thatfurther strained the countries'frayed relationship.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales,of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd In-fantry, was also accused of sixcounts of assault and at-tempted murder in the Panjwaidistrict of Kandahar provinceearlier this month.

Responding to the charges aspokesman for Afghan Presi-dent Hamid Karzai said: "Wewant justice and we want it assoon as possible."

In a statement the US mili-tary said that under its legalcode, "the maximum possiblepunishment for a premeditatedmurder conviction is a dishon-ourable discharge from theArmed Forces, reduction to thelowest enlisted grade, total for-feiture of pay and allowances,and death".

The mandatory minimumsentence is life imprisonmentwith the possibility of parole,it added.

There are six US service-


Henry Browne, who visited hisclient for the first time thisweek, has told reporters thatBales suffered from amnesia.

The lawyer said he couldpursue the case on the groundsof "diminished capacity" dueto an emotional breakdown.

A decorated veteran whoserved three times in Iraq be-fore deploying to Afghanistanin December, Bales suffered atraumatic brain injury during aroad accident in Iraq.

Military officers and ex-perts, however, say there is nofirm scientific evidence thatshows brain injuries cause vi-olent behaviour.

Bales' lawyer said his clientwas recently under stress,which was heightened whenhe saw a fellow soldier seri-ously wounded.

Bales and his wife were re-portedly also facing financialproblems, with news reportssaying he owes $1.5 millionfrom a 2003 arbitration rulingin which he was found guiltyof securities fraud.

A US official told AFP thatthe murder victims were ninechildren, four women and fourmen, with four children, oneman and one womanwounded.

US soldier formallycharged with 17 murders

Leon (AFP) - Pope BenedictXVI called Friday for a fightagainst the "evil" of druggangs in violence-plaguedMexico and "new models" incommunist Cuba, on his firsttrip to Spanish-speaking LatinAmerica.

"We must do everythingpossible to fight this evilwhich destroys our young,"Benedict told reporters whileon the plane due to land inMexico's central state of Gua-najuato Friday afternoon, re-ferring to drug gangs blamedfor violence which has leftsome 50,000 dead in fiveyears.

"We must unmask this evil,these false promises and lies,"Benedict said, as many inMexico waited for a messageof peace.

In only his second trip tothe world's most Catholic con-tinent, the pontiff, who turns85 next month, will visit Silao,Leon and Guanajuato in Mex-ico until Monday and then

spend two days in Cuba, inSantiago de Cuba and Ha-vana.

In overwhelminglyCatholic Mexico -- where 84percent of the population hasbeen baptized -- the pope wasexpected to tackle what theChurch sees as threats to fam-ily values, as well as the riseof rival religious movements.

"Our duty, our great re-sponsibility, is... to teach ouryoung moral responsibility"and turn them away from "theworship of money which en-slaves men," he said.

A massive billboard wel-coming the pope stood outsideGuanajuato international air-port, where 3,500 guests, in-cluding mariachi musicians,traditional dancers and Presi-dent Felipe Calderon were togreet the pope.

"The pope is arrivingtoday, smile!" shouted dozensof youths lining up under thehot sun to welcome the Pope-mobile on its journey from theairport to the city of Leon.

Some 700,000 visitorswere expected in the regionfor the sixth papal visit toMexico, after five by JohnPaul II, who was highlyrevered here.

"We're happy. We knowthat the message the pope isbringing is that somethingmust change and hopefullythis change will benefit fami-lies and society," said SisterRocio Garcia, rector of theMiraflores college in Leonthat will host the pope.

Mexican authorities prom-ised maximum security, withsome 5,400 security forces de-ployed, while the archbishopof Leon even called on localdrug gangs to agree to a truce.

Pope slams 'evil' ofMexico drug gangs

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erich.org" hosted by a server inMalaysia.

The site, which featurespictures of beheaded women,urged violence and discrimina-tion against women, blacks,residents of Brazil's impover-ished northeast, homosexualsand Jews.

It also called for "legaliza-tion of pedophilia" and ex-pressed support for WellingtonMenezes de Oliveira, the 23-year-old who shot and killed12 students in April last year atthe Realengo school in north-ern Rio before being gunned

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) -Two men were arrested in thesouthern Brazilian city of Cu-ritiba for allegedly inciting vi-olence and racism via theInternet and for planning to killstudents at a Brasilia univer-sity, police said Friday.

Marcelo Vale, a 29-year-oldcomputer technician, andEmerson Eduardo Rodrigues,a former student at the Univer-sity of Brasilia UnB, werepicked up as part of "OperationIntolerance" launched fivemonths ago and were linked tothe racist website "silvioko-

Two men nabbed in Brazil for allegedly inciting violence

playing memory games, likeone with photographs of fel-low-patients whose namesshould be guessed. OnWednesdays the Memorygroup comes to CasMarie.This group is made up ofearly-stage dementia patients,who receive support, exerciseand social interaction duringthis difficult phase of acknowl-edging the decline of mentalfaculties. Group activities takeplace from 7.30 am until 3.30and lunch is included for Pasa-dia and Memory patients.

Dementia creeps up on peo-ple: it starts in a hardly notice-able way and memory loss anddecreased mobility are oftenattributed to old age and there-fore diagnosed late. Vasculardementia has afflicted manypeople on Aruba, as unhealthyeating habits, extra weight,smoking, alcohol use and dia-betes make easy targets. Morethan 70 varieties of dementiaare known, of which Parkin-son’s disease is best-known.

In 2006 CasMarie wasfounded with aid from theNetherlands. Nowadays thegovernment supports the ex-ploitation of the home, where28 patients and their familiesfind a daily dose of sunshine,a lot of support and a soundingboard. Volunteers are neededto help start and tend a veg-etable and herb garden, helpout in the kitchen and assistthe patients. A nurse, a nutri-tionist and an attendant for theelderly plus a psychologist arethe team behind the daily carethat is given at CasMarie.

If you would be interested tobecome a volunteer for a fewhours a week at CasMarie, orif you have any questions re-garding dementia, please callCasMarie at 584-3375/569-6910. The address is Savaneta532-A.

their family membersand friends, dementia isviewed as a disease thatone has to learn to livewith in the best possibleway. The formerMariniers home at theentrance of the base is aplace where meetingsare held, talks are given,information is doled outand where, more impor-tantly, people with de-mentia find a warm andloving environmentwhere they can spendtheir days.

CasMarie is the re-cipient of an upcomingcharity golf event or-ganized by Arion Wine

Company. The tournamentis held at Tierra del Sol onSaturday, March 31st and itis called the Wente Vine-yards/PapiamentoGolf Tour-nament. The money that thetournament generates, willcome in good stead to allevi-ate the suffering of the Cas-Marie clients.

Pasadia is the name givenfor the opportunity to spendthree days a week. The daysare filled with activities vary-ing from making music, doingexercises, making handicrafts,playing dominoes, singing and

Patients with dementia arefighting a losing battle: there isno possible recovery from thedisease that afflicts the brain.The syndrome causes a lot ofdistress, not only for the pa-tients themselves, but also forthe people who are close tothem. A change in behavior,hallucinations, the slowprocess of losing manners anddecorum belong to the symp-toms. However, with the rightstimuli, with exercises andgames, the process may beslowed down a little. At Cas-Marie, the meeting point forpatients with dementia and


Health & Living

A daily dose of sunshine for patients

CasMarie is a true partner inthe losing battle with dementia

bringing universal coveragecloser than ever before.

The law ,if you have healthinsurance, will benefit fromsteps to stop insurance compa-nies from cancelling your cov-erage if you get sick andrequire them to cover your out-of-pocket costs, it also sup-ports programs that will helpincrease the number of pri-mary care physicians, nurses,physician assistants and otherhealth care professionals.

The law helps small busi-nesses pay for health insurancefor their employees.

Each state is to create a mar-ketplace by 2014 where indi-viduals and employers cancompare insurance policiesand rates and sign up for cov-erage.

WASHINGTON - Republi-cans vented their frustrationwith President BarackObama's health care reformFriday on its second anniver-sary, with Mitt Romney blast-ing the law as an "unfoldingdisaster for the Americaneconomy."

Romney's rival in the Re-publican presidential race, for-mer House speaker NewtGingrich, also weighed in, sav-aging the two-year-old law as"the most dangerous legisla-tion in generations."

The Affordable Care Act,passed after a bitter struggleagainst blanket Republican op-position in 2010, granted 30million Americans health in-surance for the first time,

Romney, Republicans rip'Obamacare' on anniversary


(AFP) - Climate change hasaccelerated in the past decade,the UN weather agency saidFriday, releasing data showingthat 2001 to 2010 was thewarmest decade on record.

The 10-year period wasalso marked by extreme levelsof rain or snowfall, leading tosignificant flooding on all con-tinents, while droughts af-fected parts of East Africa andNorth America.

"The decade 2001-2010was the warmest since recordsbegan in 1850, with globalland and sea surface tempera-tures estimated at 0.46 degreesCelsius above the long termaverage of 14.0 degrees Cel-sius (57.2 degrees Fahren-

heit)," said the World Meteor-ological Organisation.

Nine of the 10 years alsocounted among the 10warmest on record, it added,noting that "climate change ac-celerated" during the firstdecade of the 21st century.

The trend continued in2011, which was the warmestyear on record despite La Nina-- a weather pattern which hasa cooling effect.

The average temperature in2011 was 0.40 degrees Celsiusabove the long term average,said the WMO.

"This 2011 annual assess-ment confirms the findings ofthe previous WMO annualstatements that climate change

is happening now and is notsome distant future threat,"said WMO Secretary-GeneralMichel Jarraud.

"The world is warming be-cause of human activities andthis is resulting in far-reachingand potentially irreversible im-pacts on our Earth, atmosphereand oceans," he added.

The UN weather agencynoted that during the decade,"numerous weather and cli-mate extremes affected almostevery part of the globe withflooding, droughts, cyclones,heat waves and cold waves."

Historical floods hit East-ern Europe in 2001 and 2005,Africa in 2008, Asia and Aus-tralia in 2010.Global precipita-tion -- including rain or snow-- reached the second highestaverage since 1901. The high-est average was recorded forthe decade 1951-1960.

Meanwhile for the NorthAtlantic basin, the 10 yearsmarked the highest level oftropical cyclone activity, in-cluding Hurricane Katrinawhich struck the United Statesin 2005 and Cyclone Nargiswhich hit Myanmar in 2008.

2001-2010 warmest decade

on record: WMO

Political gafferevives USlove affair with EtchA Sketch

(AFP) - It's the size of aniPad, but uses no batteries,and it's only got one app --and thanks to a gaffe by a MittRomney aide, the venerableEtch A Sketch is suddenly thehottest toy around.

Sales of the red-framed,dual-dial doodling devicerocketed Thursday after a keyadviser to the front-runningRepublican presidential hope-ful reinvented it as an unlikelypolitical metaphor.

On Amazon.com orders forthe classic Etch A Sketchmodel exploded 3,000 percentwith a single day, putting itatop the online retailer's"movers and shakers" list oftop-trending toys and games.

The plastic Etch A Sketchfirst went on the market in1960, a year after Ohio Artbought the design from theFrenchman who invented it,Andre Cassagnes, at a toy fairin Germany.

It fast became a hit amongbaby boomers, and remainedin production as parents intro-duced their youngsters to itsmagic. Killgallon said "wellover 150 million" have beensold.

Resembling an old-fashiontelevision set with its whiteknobs, it uses a system of in-ternal pulleys to move a stylusthat scratches an image on athin layer of aluminum dust.

Flip the Etch A Sketch up-side down, give it a shake,and presto! The screen isready for a new drawing.

Sci-Tech

a pre-summit Nuclear SecuritySymposium, urged them to setmore tangible and measurablegoals in Seoul.

"The bottom line is that thegoal has been set by the lead-ers but that was not enough,"said Miles Pomper, researcherfor the James Martin Centrefor Nonproliferation Studies inCalifornia.

"There is no definition ofwhat 'security' meant... what'vulnerable' meant and no wayof verifying whether thosegoals were met," Pomper said,calling for a more ambitiousgoal of legally-binding initia-tives.

Page Stoutland, vice presi-dent of the Nuclear Threat Ini-

SEOUL (AFP) - Nuclear ex-perts at a forum Friday urgedworld leaders to take strongersteps to protect global atomicstockpiles from terrorists whenthey hold a major securitymeeting next week.

Leaders or top officialsfrom 53 countries includingUS President Barack Obamawill gather in Seoul Mondayand Tuesday for the NuclearSecurity Summit on safe-guarding fissile material andreducing stockpiles.

Leaders agreed at the firstsuch summit in Washington in2010 to secure the most vul-nerable nuclear materials fromterrorists in four years.

But the experts, speaking at

tiative in Washington, said thatdespite the 2010 pledges,stockpiles of weapons-usableatomic material had increasedin nations including India andPakistan.

The experts discussed is-sues ranging from potentialcyber attacks on nuclear facil-ities to the potential threatposed by nuclear-armed NorthKorea.

Graham Allison, director ofHarvard University's BelferCenter for Science and Inter-national Affairs, warned of a"catastrophic effect" shouldthe North under its new youngleader sell its atomic technol-ogy to terrorists.

Experts urge stronger steps toprevent nuclear terror

Debate still raging on site for super-telescope JOHANNESBURG (AFP) -An international consortiumplanning to build the world'smost powerful radiotelescopeis still debating whether SouthAfrica or Australia shouldhost the $2 billion project, anofficial said Friday.

Scientists hope the SquareKilometre Array, or SKA,will shed new light on funda-mental questions about theuniverse, including how itbegan, why it is expandingand whether it contains lifebeyond our planet.

The SKA board of direc-tors met Monday in Manches-ter, England, where theproject is headquartered, todiscuss the still-secret recom-mendation of the best host forthe hundreds of antennas thatwill pick up faint signals fromacross the universe.

The board on Mondayagreed to pass the site recom-mendation to the members ofthe consortium, which is setto meet on April 3 in Amster-dam, it said in a statement onits website.

"It is not likely that thismeeting will make a final de-cision on the site; rather it willbe the start of a process of dis-cussion and negotiation be-tween the members," it said.

A decision had been ex-pected on April 4.

If South Africa wins thebidding, engineers will con-nect antennas in the aridKaroo region by remote linkto a network of dishes stretch-ing across southern and east-ern Africa and as far away asGhana.

Australia's bid puts thecore site at Mileura station,about 100 kilometres (60miles) west of Meekathara inwestern Australia. Other an-tennas would be distributedacross Australia and NewZealand.

The new instrument will be50 to 100 times more sensi-tive than today's most power-ful radio telescopes.


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SEPANG, Malaysia (AFP) -Team bosses Friday balked atthe prospect of buying sharesin Formula One -- and urgedswift cost-cutting reforms tostop cash-strapped competi-tors going to the wall.

Leaders of six FormulaOne outfits painted a bleakpicture of team finances at theoutwardly glitzy sport, whosesupremo Bernie Ecclestone isreported to be considering a$10 billion share flotation.

Five of the group said theywouldn't buy Formula Oneshares, despite high profits re-portedly enjoyed by the gov-erning body, while the sixth,Lotus team owner and busi-nessman Gerard Lopez, re-served judgement.

McLaren team principalMartin Whitmarsh said someteams among the 12 racingthis season were battling to

stave off extinction, making itcrucial that rival outfitsquickly decide how to keepcosts down.

"The fact is at the moment,we all know in this room thatthere's a lot of Formula Oneteams that are struggling tosurvive," Whitmarsh told apress conference after practicefor this weekend's MalaysianGrand Prix.

"Which tells us we're notdoing enough and that's whywe've got to keep pushing it."

Ferrari chief StefanoDomenicali called it a "criti-cal" time for many of the Eu-rope-based teams.

"Thank God that our (Fer-rari's) situation is very good interms of our financial positionfor the future. But we knowthat the situation of FormulaOne is not so stable," Domeni-cali said.


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F1 shares? No thanks, say team chiefsPRETORIA (AFP) - Nige-ria's finance minister Fridayjoined the race for the topWorld Bank job, backed byAfrica's leading economies ina push for greater influence atglobal financial bodies dom-inated by rich nations.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,unveiled her candidacy at apress conference in Pretoria,putting the weight of Africa'sbiggest economy and its twobiggest oil producers behindher bid.

"I consider the WorldBank a very important insti-tution for the world and par-ticularly for developingcountries deserving of thebest leadership," she said.

"So I look forward to acontest of very strong candi-dates, and am I confident?Absolutely."

Okonjo-Iweala is a re-spected former World Bankmanaging director whojoined Nigeria's government

as finance min-ister in August.

"I share theWorld Bank vi-sion of fightingpoverty withpassion. Theissue is in whatdirection onemust take thisto make thisthe most bene-ficial," shesaid.

The WorldBank has 187 member na-tions and focuses its activitieson development loans.

The United States on Fri-day named the president of aprestigious Ivy League col-lege, Jim Yong Kim, to leadthe World Bank, in a racechallenged by developingcountry candidates.

"It's time for a develop-ment professional to lead theworld's largest developmentagency," Obama said flankedby Kim, a Korean-Americanand the head of DartmouthCollege.

The South Korean-bornKim is a Harvard-trainedphysician and former directorof the department ofHIV/AIDS at the WorldHealth Organization, accord-ing to his biographies pro-vided by the White Houseand Dartmouth.

He became the president ofDartmouth College, in NewHampshire, in July 2009.

Born in 1959 in Seoul,Kim moved with his family

to the United States at the ageof five and grew up in Mus-catine, Iowa.

Kim earned a medicaldoctorate from Harvard Med-ical School in 1991 and aPhD in anthropology fromHarvard University in 1993.

The United States's selec-tion of Kim to lead the 187-nation development lendermakes him an instant favoriteto get the bank's top job.

Under a tacit agreementsince the World Bank and itssister institution the Interna-tional Monetary Fund werefounded, the United States al-ways selects an American asWorld Bank president andEurope puts a European atthe IMF helm.

That traditional arrange-ment has triggered outragefrom developing and emerg-ing economies seekinggreater representation to re-flect their rising contributionsto the global economy.

Nigeria's finance minister to run for WorldBank top job, Obama taps Korean-American

LONDON (AFP) - Oil pricesjumped late Friday on Iransupply tensions, but mostcommodities fell this week asworse-than-expected eco-nomic data from China andEurope stoked concerns overglobal demand.

Crude oil briefly surged,as traders seized on reportsthat Iranian exports were ex-pected to fall this month, be-fore trimming gains ahead ofthe weekend.

Most markets wereweighed down on Thursdayby news that manufacturingactivity in China, the world'snumber two economy, had hita four-month low.

HSBC bank said its Pur-chasing Managers' Index

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The figures -- which comeafter Beijing reported a hugeFebruary trade deficit andleaders lowered their growthtarget for the year -- addedfuel to fears that China'seconomy is losing itsstrength.

In more bad news, a com-posite PMI of manufacturingand services for the 17-nationeurozone by the Markit re-search firm fell more sharplythan expected in March,

pointing to a recession.The survey of 4,500 man-

ufacturing and services firmsslowed to 48.7 in March afterreaching 49.3 in February.

Oil spikes on Iran fears; othermarkets hit by China data

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UNITED STATES, Washington : WASHINGTON, DC: Car2go electric vehicles are linedup for display in Washington, DC. Beginning today, car2go will offer the first free-floatingcar-sharing service in Washington and Portland, Oregon, where customers can use asmartphone app to locate available cars in the 34-square-mile ''Home Area.'' After payinga one-time $35 membership fee, drivers can then rent the Smart Fortwo vehicles by theminute, paying only for the time they use the vehicle, with discounted rates for hourlyand daily use. (AFP photo)

Sheriff's deputies say a woman threw the 31-year-old re-ality TV star Kim Kardashian with flour during her ar-rivals at the launch party for her True Reflection perfumein the lobby of a hotel in West Hollywood, Calif.on March22, 2012. He says after refusing the assistance of para-medics Kardashian returned to her room, removed thepowder from her hair, changed clothing and returned tothe event.

diseases.Dealing with such misery,

he said, was easier thanks tolessons learned from a Bud-dhist monk.

But thanks to his job atDartmouth Dartmouth Collegeas President , there's a racieraspect to this serious and out-wardly placid man's life.

Kim's own partying mightraise eyebrows among hismore staid colleagues at theWorld Bank. Last year at theuniversity's "Idol" music con-test, the college president ap-peared in a studded whiteleather jacket, with fingerlessgloves, spaceman glasses andglowstick bracelets, to rapalongside students.

"I came up in here to makeit rock, light a fire, make ithot," he sings in a widely cir-culated video of the perform-ance, while doing a robotdance.

From the cheering in the au-dience, it appears the probablefuture head of the World Bankstole the show.

At Muscatine HighSchool he was all-American -- both classpresident and quarter-back on the footballteam.

"My childhooddream job was that Iwould play quarterbackeither for the MinnesotaVikings or the ChicagoBears," he said in an in-terview last week on theCharlie Rose televisionshow.

Kim's dentist fathertaught at Iowa Univer-sity and his mother hada Ph.D. in philosophy,so not surprisingly the

young sports fan quicklyveered to more cerebral pur-suits, graduating first fromprestigious Brown University,then Harvard Medical School,and finally earning a HarvardPh.D. in anthropology.

Married to Younsook Lim,a pediatrician who has workedwith HIV children in Africa,Kim talks movingly about hiswork in combating infectious

(AFP) - Singing rap, citingBuddhist teachings, and oncedreaming of being a sportsstar, the likely next head of theWorld Bank may not bewidely known -- but he's nofaceless bureaucrat.

Korean-born Jim Yong Kimis the president of Ivy LeagueDartmouth College, a medicaldoctor and, above all, arenowned campaigner againstAIDS and tuberculosis insome of the world's poorest re-gions.

The 52-year-old's CV glit-ters with prestigious posts atHarvard Medical School andBrigham and Women's Hospi-tal, among others. An anthro-pologist, Kim is also one ofthe foremost actors in the kindof global health problems thatare often seen as nearly hope-less.

In the mid-1990s he workedin Peru to develop the firstlarge-scale treatment of mul-tidrug-resistant tuberculosis ina poor country, a program nowrun in some 40 other nations.

Between 2003 and 2007 healso led a World Health Or-ganization initiative to bringantiretroviral drugs to threemillion new HIV/AIDS pa-tients in developing countries,while a nonprofit he co-founded, called Partners inHealth, works with impover-ished communities every-where from Haiti to Russia.

That work has brought Kimfame in academia and globalhealth institutions, but the be-spectacled professor tapped byPresident Barack Obama tohead the World Bank is virtu-ally unknown to wider circles.

A closer examination re-veals a passionate characterprone to a surprising mix ofthe straight-laced and quirky.

From the day his parentsbrought him from South Koreato Muscatine, Iowa, at the ageof five, Kim was the arche-typal, breathtakingly high-achieving Americanimmigrant.


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Leisinger, director of re-search at Salzburg's Mozar-teum foundation.

This convinced re-searchers that the piece wasindeed by the young musicgenius, even though the writ-ing did not belong either toMozart or his father Leopold.

It is thought to have beentranscribed into the notebookby a close relative or friend.

Only Leopold Mozartused this name when writingdown his son's compositions,according to Herrmann-Schneider, who found thislatest piece while doing re-

search work."It was a very lucky find,"

she said.The 160-page notebook also

contained several composi-tions by Leopold Mozart butonly one by his son.

Austrian musician FlorianBirsak, who performed thepiece Friday on Mozart's ownfortepiano, noted: "It's not justanyone's piece, there is alreadya touch of the great Mozart helater became."

This is not the first time aMozart composition has beenrediscovered in recent years. In2006, one was found in thearchives of the Salzburg arch-bishopry, and in 2009 in theMozarteum's own archives.

SALZBURG (AFP) - A newlydiscovered Mozart piano piececomposed when the childprodigy was 11 years old waspresented and performed forthe first time here Friday in hisformer family home.

Simply titled "AllegroMolto," the piece was foundrecently in a notebook in theattic of a private home in Aus-tria's Tyrol province.

Just a few minutes long, thepiece is believed to have beencomposed in 1767 or 1768, butwas later transcribed into thisnotebook, which is dated 1780,music expert Hildegard Her-rmann-Schneider told a newsconference.

"The name 'Del SignoreGiovane Wolfgango Mozart' isincredibly clear," added Ulrich

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Ricciardo turned heads ashe bettered Hamilton's timeby seven hundredths of a sec-ond, while Webber andCaterham's Heikki Ko-valainen narrowly avoidedtouching wheels as they du-elled on a tight right-hander.

Hamilton ran wide on hisninth lap but he came storm-ing back to go fastest and hethen lowered the time againto 1:38.617, despite locking afront wheel late in the lap.

Schumacher brieflyheaded the field around thehour-mark before Hamiltoncut his mark by two-hun-dredths and then lopped itagain to 1:38.172, a time thatendured the last 20 minutesof the second practice.

Force India's Paul di Restafinished 13th after a brakingproblem forced him wideearly in the session, and thena sideways slide which lefthim bumping across a wideexpanse of grass beside thetrack.

And there was more woefor HRT's NarainKarthikeyan, who was tooslow in qualifying to evenstart last week's AustralianGrand Prix, when he spanlate in the session and laysecond last.

Despite concerns fromrival teams, officials haveraised no objections to Mer-cedes' rear wing, which chan-nels air-flow to cut resistanceon the nose when the DragReduction System (DRS)overtaking aid is engaged.

Red Bull's Sebastian Vet-tel, who swept to his secondstraight world title last year,had a quiet afternoon andwound up 10th, 1.23sec offHamilton's pace.

"There is still a lot to do,"Vettel said. "The tyres dropoff (wear) quite quickly here,which is the same for all thedrivers, but I think we aresliding quite a bit and I wouldlike the car to be a bit morestable.

"We made a good steptoday, the potential is there,but we need to get to it. Wewill see what we can do to-morrow."

Hamilton qualified quick-est at last week's season-opener in Australia but heeventually had to settle forthird behind Button and Vet-tel, frustrating his bid to seizeearly control of the title race.

On a typically hot, over-cast afternoon with tempera-tures of 31 degrees Celsius(88 Fahrenheit), Hamiltonwas quickly at the top of the

SEPANG (AFP) - Britain'sLewis Hamilton hogged thelimelight Friday by toppingboth practice sessions as hebids to ignite his champi-onship charge with victory atthe Malaysian Grand Prix.

McLaren's 2008 worldchampion, who is yet to winat Sepang, scorched to 1min38.021sec in the morningdrive and he again led theway on a stifling afternoonwith a time of 1:38.172.

Seven-time world cham-pion Michael Schumacher,whose Mercedes has drawnattention for its innovative"W-duct" rear wing, was0.361 adrift in the second ses-sion with McLaren's JensonButton, the season's earlypoints leader, third.

Schumacher's team-mateNico Rosberg placed fourthwith Toro Rosso's DanielRicciardo fifth. Ferrari's dou-ble world champion Fer-nando Alonso was sixthahead of Red Bull driverMark Webber.


Formula One: Hamilton stealsshow in Malaysia

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quarter.As a result, Smith will miss

the Hornets' home game onSaturday against San Antonioand Monday's game againstthe Clippers at Los Angeles.

Smith is averaging 8.7points and 4.2 rebounds agame

The Hornets are 12-35, lastin the Western Conference andthird-worst in the 30-teamleague, while the Clippers are26-21, three games behind theLos Angeles Lakers in the Pa-cific division.

NEW YORK (AFP) - NewOrleans forward Jason Smithwas issued a two-game ban bythe NBA on Friday for a fla-grant foul on Los AngelesClippers star Blake Griffin, en-suring Smith will not foul himagain in a Monday rematch.

NBA vice president StuJackson announced the sus-pension, which came as a re-sult of Smith's actions in a97-90 New Orleans home vic-tory over the Clippers onThursday night.

Smith, a 26-year-old Amer-ican 7-footer, made hard upperbody contact with Griffin with4:06 remaining in the fourth


NBA: Smith suspendedtwo games for Griffinfoul

At the par-3 17th, he rolled ina 15-footer for birdie to claimsole possession of the lead.

And at the par-4 18th,Woods had a 23-foot birdieputt that struck a grass clumphalfway to the hole and rolledjust to the right of the cup.Woods made the comebackpar putt from 3.5 feet to com-plete his impressive round.

Woods overshadowed astellar 63 by McDowell to puthimself into contention afteropening with a par-72 onThursday afternoon whengreens proved harder to readthan they were Friday morn-ing.

"It was a beautiful morningfor scoring," McDowell said."Greens were more receptivethan yesterday afternoon. Iplayed well and shot even parand though I should have donebetter. Today I got it crankedup and made some birdies."

The 2010 US Open cham-pion struggled a bit last year inthe aftermath of becoming amajor champion.

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Miami openers but praisedChinese wildcard Zhang, say-ing, "I think she played reallywell. She's pretty young.She's doing really well."

Russian second seedSharapova advanced by rally-ing to defeat Israel's ShaharPeer 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, after twohours and 24 minutes. Shedenied Peer on 10-of-13break-point chances whiletaking half the 10 she earnedfor herself.

World No. 2 Sharapovalost to top seed and WorldNo. 1 Victoria Azarenka ofBelarus in the Indian Wellsfinal last Sunday in her mostrecent prior match.

Three-time Grand Slamsingles champion Sharapovawill next face AmericanSloane Stephens, who oustedItaly's Sara Errani.

Belgium's Clijsters oustedGerman 14th seed Julia Go-erges 6-2, 7-5. The second setsaw nine service breaks.

"I don't think there's any-body who plays a whole tour-nament with perfect tennis,so you have to try and battlethrough, and find the solu-tions when you're not playingyour best," Clijsters said.

Danish fourth seed Wozni-acki opened by oustingCzech Barbora ZahlavovaStrycova 6-4, 6-0.

in a 5-0 World Group II vic-tory over Belarus.

But she had not been in atour match since losing toRussia's Ekaterina Makarovain the round of 16 at Mel-bourne. Williams withdrewbefore her Brisbane quarter-final with a sore ankle in heronly other WTA start thisyear.

Williams won a day afterher sister, seven-time GrandSlam champion VenusWilliams, beat Japan'sKimiko Date-Krumm 6-0, 6-3 in a first-round match.

It was the first WTA eventfor Venus since she pulled outof last year's US Open withthe auto-immune disorderSjogren Syndrome, whichsaps her energy and causespain in her joints.

"It was amazing. I was sohappy for her," SerenaWilliams said of Venus. "Shehas been through so muchand to know you can gothrough that and continue toplay and never give up gaveme hope and inspiration.

"I felt like at some points Iwould give up and she neverdid. Venus just really inspiresme. And not just in tennis butin life in general."

Williams, 46-0 in first-round matches at GrandSlams, improved to 12-0 in

MIAMI (AFP) - SerenaWilliams, saying she feltnervous and rusty, made a tri-umphant WTA return from aleft ankle injury, defeatingChina's Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-3on Thursday at the WTA andATP Miami hardcourt event.

Fellow former World No.1 players Kim Clijsters,Maria Sharapova and Caro-line Wozniacki also advancedto the third round at the $9.6million tournament, whichawarded byes in the firstround to seeded players.

In her first tournamentmatch since losing in thefourth round at the AustralianOpen, Williams fired six acesand connected on 64 percentof her first serves while drop-ping only one service breakto advance in 80 minutes.

"I was a little bit rusty anda little bit nervous too,"Williams said. "I haven'tplayed here for so long and Iwanted to do well. So I wasreally nervous out there, but Ithink now I've gotten oneunder I'll be better."

The 13-time Grand Slamsingles champion advancedto a third-round matchagainst Italy's Roberta Vinci,who ousted Bulgarian Tsve-tana Pironkova 7-5, 6-1.

Tenth seed Williams, afive-time winner at Miami,missed the event the past twoyears because of illness andinjury.

"I'm always a little nervousin the first round. I kind ofchill out after that," Williamssaid. "Last time I played Iplayed horrible and I wasthinking as long as I don't hita ball into the stands I'll begood.

"I didn't do that today, so itworked out well for me."

Former World No. 1Williams played for the USFed Cup team last month,winning two singles matches

Serena, Clijsters, Sharapovaadvance at Miami

ment hit out at refereeRomero, with its football di-rector Miguel Pardeza accus-ing him of double standards,in comments published onthe club's website on Friday.

"We at the club find itstriking and are worriedabout the referee's differentstandards," Pardeza said.

"The referee's perform-ance was incredibly rigorouswith us, sending off Rui Fariasimply for applauding in sup-port of Cristiano Ronaldo.The same goes for Ozil, a kidwho is always a cleanplayer," he added.

"We're not addressing thematch result, but the referee'sattitude towards us, whichhad him constantly focusingon what was going on in ourteam's coaching area."

Woods, who began the daythree strokes off the pace in ashare of fourth, birdied fourholes in a row starting with thepar-5 fourth and including thepar-5 sixth and par-3 seventhto begin his charge.

He also birdied both back-nine par-5s, the 12th and 16th,to grab a share of the lead. Hewas 18 inches short on a 50-foot eagle bid at 16 before tap-ping in for birdie.

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Injury concerns appear to bebehind Woods, with no sign oftrouble and the player himselfproclaiming good health.

Woods pulled out of thefinal round of the World GolfChampionships event at Doraltwo weeks ago with a tightnessin his left Achilles tendon.

After a week of treatmentwith what was diagnosed as astrain, Woods played the two-day Tavistock Cup exhibition,a practice round Wednesdayand 36 holes of the event withno problems.

where Woods has won fourtimes but not since 2005.

"I don't know if he will winall the majors he wants," saidgolf legend and tournamenthost Palmer. "He will win tour-naments. And I think he willwin another major too."

Woods has not won a tourevent since the 2009 Aus-tralian Masters, just before theeruption of his infamous sexscandal, although Woods didwin the World Challenge eventthat supports his charity foun-dation last December.

What remains for the for-mer world number one to ac-complish, however, is puttingtogether two more greatrounds on the weekend andsnap his current losing streakin tour-sanctioned events thatbegan in November of 2009.

Woods could own a 36-holePGA lead for the first timesince the 2009 Tour Champi-onship, when he finished sec-ond to Phil Mickelson, and hemade 18 greens in a row inregulation at an event for thefirst time since the 2007 USOpen.

Woods has won 33 times in41 events where he has led orshared the lead after 36 holes,including 13 of his past 15such opportunities.

"I'm going to go out thereand hit fairways and greensand try to give myself somechances," Woods said.

The impressive form comesas Woods prepares to resumehis pursuit of the all-timerecord 18 major titles won byJack Nicklaus in two weeks atAugusta National Golf Club,

ORLANDO (AFP) - TigerWoods served notice that hehas regained top form with theMasters less than two weeksaway, grabbing the clubhouselead on Friday at the PGAArnold Palmer Invitational.

The 14-time major cham-pion fired seven birdies in abogey-free second round ofseven-under 65 to finish 36holes on 10-under 134. North-ern Ireland's Graeme McDow-ell and American Jason Dufnershared second on 135, also inthe clubhouse.

And Woods didn't eventhink he played that well onthe same Bay Hill coursewhere he has won six prior USPGA titles.

"I putted well. I didn't feellike I hit it all that good,"Woods said. "My misses arebetter, I just played smart allday."

Woods produced his lowestscore after 36 holes since theUS PGA Buick Open in Julyof 2009 and did it in his finalevent before the Masters startson April 5.


MADRID (AFP) - RealMadrid duo Pepe and MesutOzil were on Friday hit withtwo and one match bans re-spectively for arguing with areferee, raising pressure onthe league leaders asBarcelona snap at their heels.

The Spanish Football Fed-eration also handed a one-match ban to Real'sPortuguese coach Jose Mour-inho over the bad-tempered1-1 draw against Villarreal onWednesday.

Two Real Madrid playersgot red cards in the closingmoments of the match: de-fender Sergio Ramos for asecond yellow card, and Ozilfor protesting that decision.

Among angry exchangesinvolving Real Madrid mem-bers, referee Paradas Romeroalso sent Mourinho to thestands along with his assis-tant Rui Faria. Pepe insultedRomero, according to Span-ish media.

Mourinho received a"one-match ban for a doublebooking and consequent ex-pulsion" from the touchline,while Faria received a two-match ban, the federationsaid in a statement.

Ramos escaped a ban inFriday's ruling by the federa-tion's Competition Commit-tee, which listed the sanctionsin a regular bulletin released

after a meeting on Friday.The draw allowed Real's

fierce rivals Barcelona toclose the Madrid team's leadto six points at the top of theSpanish league.

The bans mean Mourinhoand German midfielder Ozilwill sit out Saturday's leaguematch against Real Sociededin the stands, while Por-tuguese-Brazilian defenderPepe will miss that game plusthe tie away to Osasuna onApril 1.

With another 1-1 draw onSaturday at home to Malaga,Real dropped four points inthe past week.

Defending championsBarcelona are unbeaten infour games and go to in-formMallorca today.

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