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that are an integral part of theseasonal celebrations.

event, replete with the tradi-tional “Gaita” singing groups

Islanders are into the holidayseason as strongly as any na-tion that usually is snow-cov-ered for the winter holiday,and the season was ignited bythe first show of lights onMonday evening, October29. The turbo-rotunda inOranjestad, just in front ofthe port, was aglow with theholiday spirit as Aruba’sMinister of Infrastructure, In-tegration and Environment,Benny Sevinger switched onthe inaugural lighting of hol-iday décor for public venues.

It is an impressive displaymaking the most of the tropi-cal flora, which will hope-fully not distract motoriststoo greatly. The communitywas out to enjoy the festive

Aruba’s Minister of Infrastruc-ture, Integration and Environ-ment, Benny Sevinger, wasjoined by the Minister ofTourism Transport and Labor,Otmar Oduber in introducingto community members of Pa-radera and Piedra Plat a planfor the beautification of theirmain thoroughfare, on Mondayevening, October 29.

The beautification of thearea will begin at the intersec-tion of Bright Bakery and ex-tend to the road leading toSanta Rosa Center and theturnoff for the Casibari RockFormations. According to Mi -nister Oduber, this “ParaderaCorridor” will not only im-prove the road conditions forthe surrounding community,but the sights in the area thatwill interest tourists and sti -mulate them to explore thispart of the island, will be pro-moted.

All along the road paverswill be placed for pedestriansidewalks, and a bicycle pathis part of the plan. At BrightBakery, a busy and problem-atic intersection, a rotunda willbe installed to facilitate theflow of traffic.

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“Paradera Corridor” to begin work by

the end of the yearquickly to millions of peopleaffected by the huge storm.

"Do not figure out why wecan't do something. I want youto figure out how we do some-thing," Obama said.

"I want you to cut throughred tape, I want you to cutthrough bureaucracy, there isno excuse for inaction at thispoint. I want every agency tolean forward."

Obama will also visit vic-tims of the huge storm and willthank "first responders whoput their lives at risk to protecttheir communities," WhiteHouse spokesman Jay Carneysaid in a statement.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - USPresident Barack Obama saidyesterday the crisis over super-storm Sandy was not yet overand announced plans to go andview devastation in New Jer-sey today.

"This storm is not yet over,"Obama said during a visit tothe headquarters of the Ameri-can Red Cross in Washington,warning that some northernstates could still face floodingand high winds.

Obama said that he had or-dered federal government offi-cials dealing with the storm toshort circuit normal govern-ment procedures to get help

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Obama warns superstorm

Sandy not yet over

Plan for new rotunda

Christmas comes to Aruba

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upload a picture to the FB fan-page is noon on the last day ofNovember.

The WKF will receive atleast 7,500 ($4, 295) florins forthe efforts of the “GilletteFive,” whose increasing be-whiskered faces will be inva -ding island media. Farrahstated their goal is to raise atleast 10,000 Aruban florins($5,714) by the end of themonth, if not more. They hopethe community will get behindtheir efforts to combat thisdread disease. Those wishingto contribute in a more discreetmanner can make donations to

The “NovemBARBA” teamlead by Farrah Boekhoudt in-troduced a new cancer-aware-ness campaign for November.The cancer-conscientious com-pany devotes October to va -rious methods of raising fundsfor the battle against breastcancer, the coming month willbe dedicated to the most cancerfor men, prostate. Funds raisedduring the month will be do-nated to the WilhelminaKanker Fonds, Aruba’s supple-mentary agency assisting can-cer victims and their familywhen needing to travel abroadto receive treatment.

Everyone on Aruba is in-vited to participate. Gilletteand Compras has selected fivewell known men on Aruba,who have agreed to get the ballrolling by growing their beardsduring the month of Novem-ber. (Barba is Papiamento forbeard.) Claret Lopez, JonathanViera, Edward Ellis, GinoMejia and Gert van Vliet willreceive 50 Aruban florins foreach day they can go withoutshaving. All funds are pledgedto the WKF. Compras andmedia will follow theirprogress, including daily pic-tures posted to the ComprasFacebook page.

All of Aruba, men andwomen, are invited to join inthe fundraising fun. Men areencouraged to grow theirbeards, take pictures of theprogress and post them to theCompras Facebook page. Forevery picture posted, and addi-tion 1 Aruban florin will be do-nated to the WKF in the nameof the furry participant.Women too are welcome to becreative and post pictures ofthemselves in false beards, orusing make up so they appearbearded, to also generate morefunds for the WilhelminaKanker Fonds.

The campaign will last onemonth from November 1 toNovember 30. The deadline to

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community members attendingthe meeting. It is their intentionto have the surrounding neigh-borhoods involved in the beau-tification project, with homeand store owners looking to-wards sprucing up their pre -mises as well.

Exact dates when work willbegin have yet to be an-nounced, but it is project bythe end of the year, or veryearly January 2013.

Rosalie Klein

Attractive signage will beplaced at the other intersec-tions, as well as landscapedareas. The plan is to take ad-vantage of the Santa Rosa gar-dens and plant attractive,colorful trees, such as flam-boyan and kibrahacha trees, aswell as a variety of fruit trees,all along the road.

Dennis Wever of the De-partment of Public Works gaveexact details of what the pro -ject will entail. The ministersexpressed their gratitude to the

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Location of three intersections

Dennis Wever, Minister Oduber and Minister Sevinger

language.The course was initiated

November 2011 and com-pleted in October 2012. Thestudents, who were all employ-ees of the Tax Office, attendedclasses three times per weekafter working hours, namelyfrom 4:30 to 7:00 in theevening.

Continued on page 4

During the course of study,much attention was given tothe integrity and social abilitiesof an employee of the Tax Of-fice. Attention was also givento the Dutch language. This isimportant because the majorityof our fiscal laws are in theDutch language and every em-ployee must be fluent in thesubject matter as well as in the

A total of 24 civil servants,employed at the Aruba Tax Of-fice, this past week receivedtheir Diploma in Basic Taxa-tion. The particular study pro-gram provided the employeeswith a general knowledge ofall the different types of taxes,such as, Income tax, Wagestax, Profit tax and also the for-mal collection process.


Presentation of Diploma in Basic

Taxation

the recent 13 & Under Ca -ribbean Development Champi-onships held in Tobago, as wellas their year round perform-ance in the under 14 ITF andCOTECC events.. COTECC isthe Central American &Caribbean Tennis Confedera-tion (or Confederation de Tenisde Centroamerica Caribe(COTECC)), a continentalgoverning body of tennis inCentral America and theCaribbean.

Continued on page 5

PORT OF SPAIN – Recently,the International Tennis Feder-ation training camp for playersages 13 years and younger,took place at The Shaw ParkTennis Facilities in Tobago.Twelve tennis players fromseven Caribbean islands wereinvited to participate, Barba-dos, the Bahamas, Jamaica,Aruba, Grenada, St. Lucia andthe host country Trinidad &Tobago.

The camp is for talentedathletes who excelled during

Aruban Kyle Fränkel andPatrick Sydow excel at Int’l.Tennis Camp in Tobago

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Dwayne Luidens, Yairo Mar-tis, Ariana Oduber, FilomenaPaesch, Jemuel Paesch, JadePietersz, Rosethy Ridderstap,Veraida Rosalina, VanessaSolognier, Rosley Starke andMarcela Werleman.

Management of the Tax Of-fice expressed their gratitudeto all those who contributed tothe success of the course. Theywere especially grateful for theapproval from the Minister tooffer the course. Those whocontributed as teachers were: J.Maduro, Sra. mr. A. Geerman-Giel, Sr. R. Maxwell, Sra. B.Van Andel, Sra. mr. I. Paesch,Sra. mr. M. Brinkenberg, mr.R. Van Holland, Sra. mr. F.Geerman-Ruiz, Sra.mr. B.Richard, Sra. mr. A. Van Her-pen and E.T. Pieters.

This program of study isone of three programs to be of-fered at the Aruba Tax Office.

The course was rather inten-sive. Remarkable is that mostof the employees are mothersor fathers with the responsibi -lity of a family.

In addition to attendingclasses, these students had tofind time to study and do vari-ous tasks, then attend examson Saturdays. The Basic Taxa-tion Diploma prepares the em-ployee to continue their deve -lopment in the Tax Office andto be ready to advance to thenext level of fiscal studies.

The employees who suc-cessfully completed the courseand received their well-earneddiploma are: Robert Bislip,Rosita de Cuba, Carissa Croes,Cindsy Lo-Ann Croes, Jean-Carlos Croes, Jessica Geer-man, Sharon Geerman,Mervine Geerman, HumphreyInocencia, Sharisa Kamper-veen, Meredy Kock, An-gelique Leest, Angelique Leo,

Presentation of Diploma...Continued from page 3

yesterday. The party appar-ently does not agree with howthe process of forming a newcabinet is taking place.

Schotte claimed thatHelmin Wiels, leader of thelargest party Pueblo Soberano(PS), is not a serious negotia-tor, instead he constantly in-sults him in his radio program.MFK, PS and MAN signed adeclaration together to form acoalition, but MFK is nowpulling the plug.

For his part, Wiels repor -tedly suspects that the MFK isafraid of the results of thescreening process.

Recently, a member of par-liament in the Netherlands,Ronald van Raak said that hehad received different docu-ments in the mail from the Ita -lian Ministry of ForeignAffairs, which describe the re-lation between Gerrit Schotteand the Sicilian mafia.

Gerrit Schotte

WILLEMSTAD -- Politicalparty Movimentu Futuro Kor-sou (MFK) has officially with-drawn from the willingnessdeclaration signed earlier thisweek as a prelude to the forma-tion of a new coalition govern-ment in Curacao. FormerPrime Minister Gerrit Schotte,leader of MFK, announced thisduring a press conference onSunday night, it was confirmed

Former Curacao PM withdraws

from new government

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team and as an outstandingdomino player on the BubaliField.

During the celebrationmany friends and former col-leagues were present to cele-brate together with Osebelio,replete with drinks and deli-cacies. Colleagues sponta-neously got a band togetherand made delightful musicfor all.

more than 50 years, Osebe-lio Antersijn is a well-known livestock farmer whoraised cows, chickens, goatsand pigs. Today he still hasa livestock of pigs.

Nathalie Maduro men-tioned how Osebelio has be-come known all over theisland for his tremendous“sanger yena” (bloodsausage) delicacy. Antersijnreceived a certificate ofrecognition as a friend ofSanta Rosa on behalf of Min-ister Oduber.

Osebelio Maduro is a po -pular former member of thelegendary Tropical football

Last Friday, Santa Rosa andthe Abattoir were in a festivemood celebrating the 50thanniversary of Osebelio An-tersijn as a dedicated andfaithful employee.

Nathalie Maduro, directorof Santa Rosa spoke on be-half of the Minister who wasunable to attend for personalreasons. Maduro recountedbriefly the life of OsebelioAntersijn and indicated howmuch of an exemplary anddedicated employee he wasall these years as a slaughterof animals at the Abattoir.

Besides being a profes-sional animal slaughter for


Osebelio Antersijn celebrates 50 years of

faithful service!

with various projects. Two players who excelled

during the camp are ArubanKyle Fränkel and PatrickSydow. They were chosenfor their performance, skillsand discipline. Theirachievement is proof thatAruba has two of the besttennis players in the under14 Category in the Dutchand English speakingCaribbean islands.

Aruban Kyle Fränkel andPatrick Sydow...Continued from page 3

It is affiliated to the Interna-tional Tennis Federation(ITF).

The 12 athletes receivedtraining and were chal-lenged in physical, mental,technical and tact-ical tech-niques. Providing the train-ing were Gonzales ofTrinidad & Tobago and JohnGoede From Suriname, twovery qualified coaches withvast experience helping ITF

NEW YORK (AFP) - The death tollfrom superstorm Sandy has risen to32 in the United States and Canada,and was expected to climb further asseveral people remained missing, of-ficials said late yesterday.

Officials in the states of Connecti-cut, Maryland, New York, New Jer-sey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,Virginia and West Virginia all re-ported deaths from the massive stormsystem, while Toronto police said aCanadian woman was killed by flyingdebris.

Sandy had already killed at least67 people -- including a US nationalin Puerto Rico -- as it swept throughthe Caribbean over the past few days,meaning the overall toll from thestorm is now 99.

New York Governor AndrewCuomo reported 15 storm-relateddeaths at a news briefing.

"Tragically we expect that numberto go up," New York Mayor MichaelBloomberg warned.

Christie said that rescue operationswere still under way, with three sepa-rate teams deployed in Atlantic City,the coastal casino town near wherethe storm made landfall.

The National Hurricane Centersaid Sandy had weakened early yes-terday as it moved inland, but couldstill generate gale-force winds andflooding along the Eastern Seaboard.

US authorities had warned thethreat to life and property was "un-precedented" and ordered hundreds ofthousands of residents from NewEngland to North Carolina to evacu-ate their homes and seek shelter.

President Barack Obama declareda "major disaster" in New York asmore than eight million homes andbusinesses from the Carolinas toMaine were left without power andtrading on Wall Street was suspendedfor a second day.

Seawater had coursed between theiconic skyscrapers of New York's fi-nancial district in lower Manhattan,flooding subways and road tunnelsand shorting out the power grid, leav-ing a half-million households andbusinesses in the dark.

Further south, giant waves crashedover boardwalks, turning coastalcities into ghost towns as the highwinds grounded flights and shut downrail links, public transport and gov-ernment offices.


An ambulance is stuck in over a foot of snow off ofHighway 33 West, near Belington, W.Va.

Alternative forms of transportation are the only way toget around parts of Toms River, NJ.

Toll from Sandyrises to 32, expected to climb

Deputy Cliff Tice of the Dare County Sheriff's Depart-ment walks down damaged and impassable NC 12 lead-ing into Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, N.C.

Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point. The fire de-stroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night inthe flooded neighborhood. More than 190 firefightershave contained the six-alarm blaze fire.

Water rushes into the Carey Tunnel (previously theBrooklyn Battery Tunnel).

The Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as HurricaneSandy makes it approach on Monday.

flood waters from Hurricane Sandy rushing in to theHoboken PATH station through an elevator shaft.

Cars are submerged at the entrance to a parking garagein New York's Financial District.

reign policies have been"good" or "very good" for therespective countries.

The online survey of1,005 Canadians and 2,004Britons conducted from Oc-tober 23 to October 26 is con-sidered accurate within a3.1-percent and 2.2-percentmargin of error, respectively.

Canadians prefer Obamaover Romney by a seven-to-one margin (72 percent to 10percent) while Britons favorthe Democrat over the Re-publican by a 10-to-one mar-gin (62 percent to sixpercent).

They said in the hypothet-ical ballot question that theincumbent Democrat's fo -

OTTAWA (AFP) - MostCanadians and Britons, ifthey could vote in nextweek's US presidential elec-tion, would cast ballots forUS President Barrack Obamaover Republican challengerMitt Romney, a yesterdaypoll found.

The Angus Reid PublicOpinion poll found that

on the island with his Englishfather, French mother and histwo brothers and sisters whenhe went out on his bike as thewinds barrelled at 130 kilo-metres (80 miles) an hour.

Barnes's father had earliersaid the family hoped "to findPierre alive or his body,"adding: "The worst thing isnot to know and to be leftweeks without knowing theoutcome."

disappeared.Rescue workers had

scoured the seas off the smallMediterranean tourist islandof Porquerolles for Barnes,who went missing on Satur-day. The bicycle and his shoewere found by a creek.

His father Stephen Barnestold reporters: "Now thatthree nights have passed, wethink he is dead."

The boy had just arrived

TOULON (AFP) - Frenchrescuers yesterday stopped asearch for a 12-year-oldBritish boy who disappearedat the weekend while ridinghis bike in gale-force windson a southern island.

"Everything has beendone, we have scoured the is-land on all sides. We havebeen let down," said PaulMourier, the prefect of the Varregion, where Pierre Barnes

French stop search for missing British boy

Luciano Timerman said.In just six hours the

province got nearly as muchrain as it does in an entire av-erage month of October, thenational weather service said.

In Buenos Aires itself, av-enues were flooded and trainand subway services wereknocked out. Large areas ofthe city of three million suf-fered blackouts. At least twopeople were killed.

Winds gusting at up to 110kilometers per hour (65 milesper hour) tore the roofs offhomes in the town of Rio Tala,injuring around 10 people.

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) -Merchants dumped rain-da -maged merchandise for almostnothing yesterday as BuenosAires province dried out andtried to recover from a hugestorm that left two dead.

A bridge between two citiesin central Santa Fe provincecollapsed because a rain-swollen river weakened itsfoundation.

In Buenos Aires province,Argentina's most populous,some 3,500 people remaineddisplaced from their homes be-cause of flooding from Mon-day's storm, provincial official

LAGOS (AFP) - Americantennis star Venus Williams ar-rived in Nigeria yesterday onthe first stop of two-countryAfrican trip with her sister Se -rena aimed at promoting wo -men's rights.

Both sisters are countedamong the United States' mostaccomplished athletes, sharing22 major women's singleschampionships between them.

Their trip is aimed at pro-moting "the role that womenplay in shifting perceptionsand encouraging developmentat all levels across the Africancontinent," said a statementfrom the Breaking The Mouldinitiative they are representing.

Serena, 31, and Venus, 32,will meet the governor ofLagos state, hold a tennis

clinic at an exclusive club, visita puberty education class forgirls and play an exhibitionmatch before heading to SouthAfrica on November 2.

"They are coming to Lagosto encourage more women tobreak moulds that have stoodbetween them and their poten-tials," the statement said.

Gender disparity is an acuteproblem in Nigeria, Africa'smost populous country ofroughly 160 million people,with the most glaring dividesexisting in the mainly Muslimnorth.

Worldwide, Nigeria ranks118 out of 134 countries on theGender Equality Index, aBritish Council study releasedin May said.


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Williams sisters on women'srights tour in Nigeria

Argentina recovers from

freak storm

Poll: Canada, Britain hoping forObama election win

whether the benefits of screen-ing outweigh the harm ofoverdiagnosis.

All cancer, once picked upin the screening process, istreated, often with surgery aswell as radio- and chemother-apy, as it is impossible to tellwhich growths would have re-mained undetected for the re-mainder of a woman's life.

In August, medical expertsSteven Woloshin and LisaSchwartz wrote in the BritishMedical Journal (BMJ) thatscreening only narrowly de-creased risks that a 50-year-old woman would die frombreast cancer within 10 years -- from 0.53 percent to 0.46percent.

Up to half of womenscreened annually over 10years experienced at least onefalse alarm that required abiopsy, they said.

screening programmes "prob-ably prevent about 1,300breast cancer deaths everyyear," said the report.

But there is a cost.Nearly 20 percent of breast

cancer diagnosed by screeningwould never have caused anyproblems, said the study.

The panel, set up to adviseBritish policymakers, esti-mated that among every10,000 women invited toscreening from the age of 50 inthe Britain, 681 cancers wouldbe discovered, of which 129would be overdiagnoses, and43 deaths prevented.

The report showed that "theUK breast-screening pro-gramme extends lives and that,overall, the benefits outweighthe harms," The Lancet wrotein an editorial.

Cancer experts have been atloggerheads for years about

PARIS (AFP) - The benefitsof preemptive breast cancerscreening outweigh the risks, astudy said, insisting the prac-tice saves thousands of lives.

The new research adds tothe debate about the dangers ofoverdiagnosis, which seessome women undergo inva-sive treatment for cancers thatwould never have made themill or even been diagnosedwere it not for the scans.

The team had analysed datafrom other trials conductedover many years in Britain,where women aged 50 to 70are invited for a screeningmammogram every threeyears.

The data, it said, pointed toa 20 percent reduction in mor-tality -- or one death preventedfor every 180 womenscreened.

This meant that the UK

Breast cancer screening saveslives, says study


Health & Living

Please let there be no moreDedicated to those who foughtgallantly but did not succeed inthe battle against breast cancer

As she pressed her dry Lips on the fore headWith her trembling handShe softly caressed the cold face

A face that is more beautifulThan all the roses that surround her

It is quietAll that’s heard is the softly sobbingSobbing of an elderly mother Saying farewell to her daughter

As she lay thereThere was a look of tranquilityOn her faceSilently a tear fell from a wrinkled cheekOnto a roseA rose that was cut in the prime of its bloomNever would this rose bloom againBut her battle was fought gallantly until the end

As I gazed at this beautiful but sad sceneMy thoughts drifted backI was picturing all those young facesFaces of young women that passed onYoung women in their primeYoung women who lost the battleAgainst the dreadful breast cancer

As I stood with my silent emotionThere was a lump in my throatI fell to my knees and whispered softly

Dear Lord it’s me againDon’t be madForgive me for knocking on your doorIt’s you I turn to when I am sadIt’s a burden we can’t carry any more

Dear Lord, actually I don’tKnow what to sayBut please, please LordProtect and guide themKeep them out of harm’s wayPlease Lord let there be a cureI know you can for sure

The church bells started to ringThe choir started to singThey carried her through the doorPlease Lord, “please let there be no more”.

By: Roland W. Peterson

editor's note.The hip Manhattan-centric

website Gawker and stable-mates such as Jezebel and Giz-modo were also out of actionovernight, although Gawkermanaged to restore minimalservice using an old-schoollive blog format.

Buzzfeed invited its visitorsTuesday to proceed to the web-site's Tumblr, Twitter andFacebook accounts for freshcontent, in the absence ofhomepage updates since Mon-day.

On its Tumblr account, Buz-zfeed said it was told by Data-Gram -- an Internet serviceprovider that also serves theHuffington Post and Gawker -- that it had sustained seriousflooding during the storm.

--A state-of-the-art yacht designed by Steve Jobs madeits first public appearance in the Netherlands a year afterthe Apple founder's death. Dubbed Venus, after theRoman goddess of love and beauty, the 250-foot ship hitthe water Sunday in Aalsmeer. Venus is steered by 27iMacs in its control room. It has a lightweight aluminumexterior and its large paned windows are not unlikethose seen in Apple stores. Jobs showed biographerWalter Isaacson his design for a "sleek and minimalist"yacht in the years before his death. His family was at theunveiling of the Venus in Aalsmeer, according to TheVerge. Those working on the yacht named "Venus," havereportedly received a special iPod Shuffle with the boat'sname engraved on the back and a card from the Jobsfamily that thanks them stating: "For your hard work andcraftsmanship."


Sci-Tech

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheHuffington Post and other pop-ular US websites struggled toget back on their feet yesterdayafter superstorm Sandyknocked them out of cyber-space.

On its homepage, the Huff-ington Post blamed power out-

ages triggered by Monday'sstorm for "technical difficul-ties" as it offered readers min-imalist post-storm updateswith no photos or links toother parts of its vast site.

"We are working around theclock to get the site back tonormal," it said in a boldface

Sandy deals a blow to popular USwebsites

-- Google has announced that its online store, Google

Play, now hosts 700,000 applications available for down-

load. This is a new record for the Internet giant and

matches a level recently announced by main competitor

Apple. Prior to equalling the landmark, Google had long

been lagging behind Apple as the App store provided a

much larger installed base for developers to sell its

wares. Another reason for Google’s boom in app devel-

opment is that it provides much less stringent submis-

sion guidelines in comparison to Apple, making Play

open to submissions from virtually all sources.

said then that it "doesn't end asI wanted, but I have nostrength left, I can't go on."

On Tuesday, Bertelli said:"It is the victim of an injusticewho has died," accusing thecourts of having taken too longto hand out justice.

"It is many years of waitingand anguish for a mother," hesaid. She had lived "perma-nently attached to the foot of abed because she was not giventhe compensation which wouldhave allowed her to employnurses."

MADRID (AFP) - A Spanishman, in a coma for 23 years,has died, just over a year afterhis family finally won com-pensation following decades oflitigation over the operationthat left him in a vegetativestate, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Antonio Meno had been ina vegetative state since a cos-metic surgery operation on hisnose in 1989 when he was 21.

"He died on Sunday," LuisBertelli, one of the family'slawyers, told AFP.

The family charged that theanaesthetist at the operationhad been negligent and he wasfound guilty of "imprudence"by a Madrid court.

But the finding was over-turned on appeal and theanaesthetist was cleared in allthe subsequent legal proceed-ings brought by the youngman's parents, who are retiredbakers.

In 2009 they began to campoutside the ministry in protestwhen the legal authorities

threatened to seize their apart-ment to pay off 400,000 euros($518,000) in court costs.

But evidence from a new wit-ness, who was a medical studentat the time and present at the op-eration, persuaded the country'sSupreme Court to reopen thecase in November 2010.

A process of arbitration be-tween the two parties finallyallowed the family to receive1.075 million euros ($1.394million) in compensation inJuly 2011.

Meno's mother Juan Ortega

Spanish man in coma dies after winningdecades-long legal struggle


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ZURICH (AFP) - Swissbanking giant UBS yesterdayannounced nearly 10,000 jobcuts and a third quarterbathed in red due to a mas-sive restructuring of its ailinginvestment bank, in the latestblow to a Swiss banking sec-tor under fire.

That restructuring carrieda steep price tag, the banksaid, as it blamed chargesgenerated by the operationfor a 2.2-billion Swiss franc(1.8-billion euro, $2.3-bil-lion) net loss in the thirdquarter.

UBS had posted a 1.0-bil-lion franc profit in the sameperiod a year earlier.

for global natural gas, some-thing which was "non-story"ten years ago.

"With the huge recent dis-coveries in offshore EastAfrica (in particular, Mozam-bique and Tanzania), the futureof African gas is, however, ex-pected to shift eastward," saidthe report.

Gas production in Africasince 2000 has been growingby about four percent per year,with exports destined for theAsian market.

"African gas productionreached about 203 bcm (billioncubic meters) in 2011, withproduction led by Algeria,Egypt and Nigeria, collectivelyaccounting for more than 88percent of the continent'stotal," it said.

The report also noted un-tapped shale gas resources inSouth Africa which have beenthe subject of a controversialdebate.

According to consultantsWood Mackenzie, the ease ofaccess to Asian markets and abreak-even point that is sub-stantially lower than rival Aus-tralia could help natural gasexports.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) -East Africa has emerged as thenew frontier for natural gasproduction, boosted by off-shore discoveries in Mozam-bique, Tanzania and Madagas -car, an Ernst & Young reportsaid yesterday.

According to the auditfirm's report, "the most dy-namic recent developments inthe African natural gas sectorhave been in East Africa," de-spite most of the major playerscoming from further north.

In the last five years, energyfirms including Italy's ENI andUS group Anadarko Petroleumhave reported several large-scale offshore gas finds innorthern Mozambique's Rovu -ma basin and Mamba fields.

Recoverable gas reserves inRovuma is estimated at threetrillion cubic meters, the reportsaid. Leading global oil groupsare getting in on the act as dis-coveries in Madagascar andKenya have upped the ante.

In Tanzania, BG Group,Ophir Energy, Statoil andExxonMobil have all found"major gas deposits."

The report described eastAfrica as the "next epicenter"

losses related to the flooding asthe affected areas work to re-store power and resume opera-tions following the storm,"Fitch said.

"The massive storm is im-pacting a wide variety of busi-nesses in densely populatedareas, including retail, corpo-rate offices, transportation,manufacturing, and energyplants."

Economists at IHS GlobalInsight said they expect thephysical losses to top the $15billion of Hurricane Irene oflast year.

"With Sandy being a muchlarger storm, it is likely to endup causing more flooding dam-age than its 2011 peer whichwould increase total damageestimates," said IHS econo-mists Gregory Daco and NigelGault in a report on the storm.

"The commercial shutdownof the East Coast is likely to re-sult in gross domestic productlosses that may outweigh infra-structure damages," theyadded.

While some losses to eco-nomic production will be re-covered in rebuilding spending,they said, not all can be re-gained.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Dam-age from the mega-storm thatblasted the US East Coastcould hit $20 billion, disasterestimator Eqecat said yester-day, as economists put totallosses to the economy at $30-50 billion.

Eqecat President Bill Keoghconfirmed the company's esti-mates of $5-10 billion in in-sured losses and $10-20 billionin total losses from HurricaneSandy.

"We think that's about right.... It will be among the 10 to 15most damaging storms" thathave hit the United States, hetold Bloomberg television.

He said the assessments onreal damages from wind andflooding-related losses and thecosts of business shutdownswill take some time to collect.

Fitch Ratings said that asidefrom physical damage fromwinds and flooding, it expectssignificant insurance claimsfrom companies over lost busi-ness.

"While many lines of insu -rance will be affected, inclu -ding property and auto, there isthe potential for significantbusiness interruption and con-tingent business interruption

US storm damage could

hit $20 bn: EqecatNEW YORK (AFP) - TheNew York Stock Exchange andthe Nasdaq exchange an-nounced they will reopentoday after Hurricane Sandyforced a two-day shutdown,the markets' first closure sincethe 9/11 attacks of 2001.

"We are pleased to be ableto return to normal trading to-morrow," NYSE Euronextchief executive DuncanNiederauer said yesterday."Our building and systemswere not damaged and ourpeople have been working dili-gently to ensure that we have asmooth opening tomorrow."

Niederauer said trading willstart as usual at 9:30 am, withthe NYSE Euronext buildingand trading floor "fully opera-tional" despite the floodingand power outages that haveshut down much of the coun-try's financial capital NewYork.

Nasdaq OMX, which oper-ates the fully electronic Nas-daq exchange and other futuresand options markets, said theywould also reopen at normalhours today.


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MADRID -- Spain’s economy contracted for a fifth quar-ter, undermining efforts to plug the budget deficit that’spushing the nation closer to a bailout, while austeritymeasures kept inflation at a 17-month high.

Trading sheep, goats and camels is such big businessin Somaliland that villagers describe livestock as the"barrels of oil" that drive the economy of the breakawayrepublic in the Horn of Africa. Thanks to recent securitygains in central and southern Somalia, livestock rev-enues are increasingly seen as a financial boon thatcould help the rest of the country back on its feet aftertwo decades of conflict.

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LONDON (AFP) - "Skyfall" has taken more in its openingweekend at the British box office than any previousJames Bond film, its producers said on Monday. StarringDaniel Craig as 007 for a third time, "Skyfall" has made£20.1 million ($32.2 million, 25.0 million euros) in Britainand Ireland since opening in both countries on Friday,according to a statement on its website. "We are ab-solutely overwhelmed with the reaction to Skyfall thisweekend," said producers Michael G. Wilson and Bar-bara Broccoli. "It is particularly thrilling as the UK ishome to James Bond and it being the 50th anniversaryyear." Critics have declared the 23rd Bond film, starringSpanish actor Javier Bardem as Bond's latest nemesis,to be one of the finest in the suave British spy's 50 yearson the screen. Directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes,it opens with a spectacular chase scene in an Istanbulmarket but returns to home ground with a terror attackin London. The Bond franchise is one of the most suc-cessful in history, with the 22 other films released so fartaking more than $5 billion (3.85 billion euros). Bondwas first transported from Ian Fleming's novels to thesilver screen in 1962 with "Dr No", starring Sean Con-nery.


Cooper himself said: "I amvery proud of the work thatour terrific staff has put intolaunching and sustaining ourshow for two seasons.

"I am also grateful toTelepictures for giving me theopportunity, and indebted toviewers, who have respondedso positively. I look forward todoing more great shows thisseason, and though I'm sorrywe won't be continuing, I havetruly enjoyed it."

The Warner Bros spokes-woman noted that Cooper isfar from the only TV star tostruggle in difficult economictimes. "Daytime syndicationhas become very challenging,"she said.

"Established personalitiessuch as Katie Couric, RickiLake, Jeff Probst have allfailed to find an audience inthe new season, while estab-lished veterans have seen theiraudiences shrink," she said,citing TV medic Dr. Oz.

"Ellen appears to now besettling in as the viewers'choice for daytime must-see,"she added, referring to talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - USjournalist and TV presenterAnderson Cooper's epony-mous daytime talk show willnot be renewed for a third sea-son, its producers said Mon-day.

Flagging viewer numbersand a tough business climatewere blamed for the effectivecancelation of the syndicatedshow by Cooper, who alsofronts a prime-time current af-fairs show on CNN, "Ander-son Cooper 360."

"Anderson" is in its secondseason, and its producers hadrelaunched the program by air-ing it live and revamping its

format, but to no avail."We are extremely proud of

Anderson and the show thathe and the entire productionteam have produced," said aspokeswoman for WarnerBros and Telepictures, whichproduces the show.

"While we made significantchanges to the format, set andproduced it live in its secondseason, the series will not becoming back for a third seasonin a marketplace that has be-come increasingly difficult tobreak through."

"We will continue to delivertop-quality shows throughoutnext summer," she added.

US presenter Cooper sees TV talkshow canceled

'Skyfall' breaks 007'sBritish box officerecord

Transport needed to US for

young pups

Love dogs? Aruba Animal Relief Foundation (AARF)is looking for volunteers to transport young pupsto Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Min-nesota or Chicago, Illinois. At the airport other vol-unteers of AARF will be waiting to take over thedogs. AARF will take care of all the costs. It easy,lots of people have transported already for us, plusthe pups are adorable company. Are you up for it?

If you can help, please call Kathy at 594-4453.

came in sixth place, with earn-ings of $7.7 million.

"Here Comes the Boom," acomedy starring Kevin Jamesas a high school teacher wholooks to become a mixed mar-tial arts fighter to raise moneyfor his school, was in seventhplace with $5.2 million.

Eighth was action drama"Alex Cross," starring TylerPerry as the popular JamesPatterson detective character,with $5.1 million. Horror flick"Sinister," starring EthanHawke, was ninth with justunder $5 million.

Rounding out the top ten

was the debut of the Hal-loween-themed adolescentcomedy "Fun Size," whichearned $4.1 million.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) -"Argo," based on a true storyabout six Americans spiritedout of Iran during the 1979-80hostage crisis, topped NorthAmerica's weekend box officetakings with $12.1 million, fig-ures showed Monday.

In its third week of release,the film directed by and star-ring Ben Affleck jumped fromthe second to the top spot, ac-cording to box office trackerExhibitor Relations. It hasearned a total of $60.5 millionso far.

Second place went to thedebut of the genre-busting,time-traveling "Cloud Atlas,"in which Tom Hanks and HalleBerry each play six differentroles set across a 500-yearspan, taking in $9.6 million inticket sales.

In third spot was the ani-mated film "Hotel Transylva-

nia" about an overprotectivevampire dad intent on guard-ing his adolescent daughteragainst a budding romancewith a human boy.The movie earned$9.4 million.

"Paranormal Ac-tivity 4," the fourthplace film, fell threespots from its chart-topping debut lastweek. The fourth in-stallment in thefound-footage fran-chise raked in $8.5million.

Fifth place went tothe latest in the fran-chise of "Silent Hill"movies, whichearned $8 million inticket sales.

Action film "Taken 2" --Liam Neeson's return as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills --

Affleck's 'Argo' tops N. America boxoffice

eat like a local. They are openfrom 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM,daily, offering indoor and out-door dining. Aside from an ex-tensive menu they also havedaily specials made from what-ever is in season and MamaLuisa is in the mood to pre-pare, so don’t forget to askabout what isn’t on the menu!

and Ribs or Grilled Tenderloin,each including a choice of 2side dishes; all quite yummyand bargain-priced to boot!

The Queen’s is located onthe second level of Palm BeachPlaza, tucked into a cozy cor-ner at the front of the mall. Ifyou have a mind to try the realdeal in Aruban food, without adoubt, this is the way to truly

This is a tasty, filling stew ofchicken, with other ingredientsthat are handy that day, all in-cased in a thick skin of meltedGouda. It was very satisfyingand particularly memorablepaired with The Queen’s garlicbread and very special Pica, amix of chopped onions and thefamous local hot pepper,Madame Janette. Not overlyspicy, it lends that perfect bit oftang to this deliciously pictur-esque meal.

One of the distinctions ofAruban cuisine is incorporat-ing unique indigenous ingredi-ents such as in Wild CucumberStew and a particular light fishchowder accompanied by thelocal specialties pan bati (cornmeal pancake) and funchi (thelocal version of polenta.)

.Seafood main courses forCatch of the Day Aruban Styleto shrimp and a mixed seafoodplatter with shrimp, fish, squid,scallops and mussels. Meatdishes such as BBQ Chicken


this charming eatery their loyalclientele. Varella’s mom,Luisa, is still in the kitchen,conjuring up the deliciousdishes that have been in herfamily for generations, ac-knowledged on the menu with

items such as “Carni Stoba diMamachi”-“Grandma’s BeefStew,” and their Arawak Steak,along with local delicacies likeKeshi Yena -“Full Cheese.”

An elegant décor with a breezyterrace overlooking PalmBeach welcomes guests toVarella Innocencia’s very pop-ular restaurant showcasing au-thentic local cuisine:

The Queen’s.

They may have movedfrom Oranjestad to hipper newdigs in Palm Beach Plaza, butthe food and prices are strictlynative, which is what first won

Eat like a local at The Queen’s restaurant at Palm Beach Plaza

Varella, Luisa and the next generation of chef

Keshi Yena with plaintains,vegetables and pica

least is the future value of theinvestment. To further en-hance this, Gold Coast man-agement have inaugurated anumber of in-house servicesand have recently become af-filiated Interval International,the world’s largest network ofvacation ownership propertieswhich provides an unlimitedinternational pool of investorsto tap for ownership and rentalprospects. Property exchangefor a vacation in another desti-nation is also availablethrough the Interval Interna-tional affiliation. Gold Coast’sown rental services have alsoproven highly successful in as-sisting owners in renting theirvillas; 24-hour security andmaintenance services also tipthe scales when it is time tomake a decision. Aside fromall this, housekeeping, childcare, catering services , carrental through its partnershipwith AVIS car rental are alsoavailable as well as pre-shop-ping services so cupboardsand refrigerators are stockedupon arrival, which can alsobe arranged through theirproperty management depart-ment. Personnel are also avail-able to assist in arrangingrestaurant reservations and is-land activities.

Visit their website: www.goldcoastaruba.com formore details and availabilityor call 586-2200 to arrange apersonal tour.

appreciation on their invest-ment, particularly those takingadvantage of the on site man-agement’s rental services pro-gram. There is always a greatdemand for Aruba and facili-ties such as those at GoldCoast, make it easy for someowners to see a valuable returnon their investment.

The design of the resi-dences and public areas isopen, airy and spacious, takingfull advantage of the island en-vironment, with quality con-struction and finishingavailable. Partnering with two

of Aruba’s top providers ofkitchens and bathrooms en-ables developers to offer cus-tom options allowing buyersto individualize their homes.An elegant and chic furniturepackage is available or islanddesigners will assist owners infinishing the décor to theirspecific tastes.

There are many aspects topurchasing property; not the

countless island visitors to findout what they would reallywant in a permanent residenceon Aruba, and took fromthere.”

Input from frequent vaca-tioners who have dreamed oftheir own home in Aruba con-tributed to the realization ofGold Coast Aruba which whencomplete will be a communityof 260 town homes, villas andcondominiums with a stunningclubhouse complemented bytwo additional communitypool areas , The Clubhouse isabout to start construction and

will offer to the communityhomeowners and visitors 2tennis courts, full service spaand fitness center as well as astunning pool area and is ex-pected to be complete by early2013. It will also house arestaurant and mini-market.

Owners who purchasedupon the groundbreaking onlya few short years ago, are al-ready enjoying a nearly 50%

real estate investment onAruba. They really study thehistory and economy of the is-land and are impressed withthe political stability and con-tinually increasing value ofprime locations. Gold Coast isin the heart of Malmok, con-sidered Aruba’s most exclu-sive community where thevalue of properties has only in-creased over time. It is onlyminutes to the best beachesand all the action, and yet of-fers a quiet and secluded get-away; we are very pleased bythe response to our concept.”

Fito, with his sister Mayrinand brother Rudy operate CasBon, which has been con-structing homes and buildingdevelopments for all budgetsfor nearly twenty years. “GoldCoast Aruba is the jewel in ourcrown,” observes Fito. “Wewere very excited about thisproject and the scope of actualand planned facilities andamenities. We have spoken to

Management of Gold CoastAruba, the island’s newest andmost innovative gated com-munity, reports that sales havebeen very good and encourag-ing as the global economy re-covers and people looking topurchase vacation homes havefound that Gold Coast is anoutstanding investment value.Director of Sales, Fito Croeshas noticed a surprising per-centage of owners in reality donot spend a great amount oftime personally to use the vil-las or town homes they pur-chase, but are takingadvantage of Gold Coast’srental services to turn their in-vestment into ready income.

“The greater portion ofhome owners are using their“home away from home” inAruba to escape the wintermonths, or spend holidayswith the family on the island,”he remarked, “but I am grati-fied by how many are buyingbecause they felt secure with

Gold Coast Aruba: This is the time to invest


SPORTS

NFL:

Trade deadlinepushed back NEW YORK (AFP) - The

NFL on yester said it had

pushed its trade deadline

back 48 hours to Thurs-

day because of the dis-

ruption caused by

Hurricane Sandy.

The deadline for teams

to agree on player swaps

had been set for Tuesday,

but the league decided to

allow more time in part

because several teams

suspended operations as

the deadly hurricane ap-

proached the US east

coast.NFL offices in New York

were also closed for Mon-day and Tuesday, whichwould have made it diffi-cult for the league toprocess any trade paper-work.

The storm, a deadlycombination of a tropicalhurricane rolling northfrom the Caribbean andfierce wintry winds ap-proaching from Canada,was expected to leavetens of millions withoutpower, and trigger coastaland river flooding.Ground and air travel wasseverely disrupted aslocal, state and federal of-ficials urged those livingin the storm's likely pathto take adequate precau-tions.

PARIS (AFP) - Fresh from hit-ting his 300th career goal in aweekend swamping of RayoVallecano, Barcelona icon Li-onel Messi heads a 23-strongshortlist for a fourthFIFA/France Football Ballond'Or (Golden Ball) award.

National team captains andhead coaches plus interna-tional media representativesselected by the French maga-zine will determine who winsthe accolade, with Argentina'sMessi favourite to land theaward again at a presentationon January 7.

A three-man final shortlist willbe unveiled on November 29along with the three-strong short-lists for best coach, best femalestar and best women's coach.

Messi has scored 73 goalsfor Barcelona in all competi-tions this year, leaving him justtwo short of Pele's 75 for San-tos and Brazil in 1959.

He is also closing in fast onGerd Mueller's all-time calen-dar year record of 85 for Bay-ern Munich and WestGermany in 1972.

Messi's main rival again ap-

pears to be 2008 player of theyear Cristiano Ronaldo butSpain keeper and fellow RealMadrid legend Iker Casillas isanother strong candidate afterhis role in Spain's retention oftheir Euro crown.

Then there are Barcelona'smercurial midfielders Xaviand Andres Iniesta as well asBrazil's superstar Neymar.

Ivory Coast veteran strikerDidier Drogba is also on thelist after helping Chelsea winthe Champions League.

Manchester United's WayneRooney is the only Englishplayer in the list.

Vying with Spain's Vicentedel Bosque for the coachingaccolade are Roberto Di Mat-teo of Chelsea; ManchesterUnited's longserving Alex Fer-guson; former Barca coachPep Guardiola; JuppHeynckes of Bayern Munich;Jurgen Klopp of BorussiaDortmund; Germany'sJoachim Loew; RobertoMancini of Manchester City;Real's Jose Mourinho; andItalian handler Cesare Pran-delli.

Football: Messi headsBallon d'Or shortlist

MILAN (AFP) - ChampionsJuventus will aim to make it 49matches unbeaten when theyhost Bologna today, while fol-lowers of Serie A will hopethere is no repeat of the refer-eeing controversies whichmarred some weekendmatches.

Juventus were beneficiariesof at least one wrong referee-ing decision Sunday, defeatingCatania 1-0 to maintain athree-point lead over Napolidespite their hosts having avalid goal disallowed for an in-existent offside.

Catania have not been theonly team complaining of in-consistency, but since then thefocus has been on Juve -- ateam considered almost un-touchable by some rivals.

Juventus director generalBeppe Marotta on Mondaywas forced to "categoricallyreject" all notions of a conspir-acy revolving round the OldLady of Turin.

However it is only now thatItaly's most titled Serie A clubis finding redemption, severalyears after a 'calciopoli' match-fixing scandal saw Juventus

stripped of two league titles(2005 and 2006).

Catania president AntoninoPulvirenti, who was orderedoff the bench on Sunday, latercomplained that protests fromthe Juve bench had forced thematch referee to change hismind and disallow the goal.

Claims that the linesman incharge was a fan of Juve havesince been made, and denied,however the events haveraised questions over the pro-fessionalism of officials in oneof the world's top leagues.

Roma dropped two pointsat home after Udinese wereawarded a contentious latepenalty while Lazio, beaten 2-0 at Fiorentina, also had whatseemed like a perfectly validgoal ruled out.

It prompted outspokenPalermo president MaurizioZamperini to tell Radio Radio:"The penalty against Roma inthe final moments is just unbe-lievable. I'm amazed that weconstantly fail to bring in tech-nology."

On paper, Bologna have lit-tle chance of causing an upsetat Juventus stadium.

Football: Juventus look toavoid controversy againstBologna

PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) -Alex Smith threw three touch-down passes to lead San Fran-cisco to a convincing 24-3victory over Arizona on Mon-day in a match-up of NFL Na-tional Conference Westdivision rivals.

Smith was nearly flawless,throwing just one incomple-tion as he completed 18 of 19passing attempts for 232 yards.

He set an NFL record forthe most completions with justone incompletion in a singlegame.

All three of Smith's TDpasses came on third-downplays. The 49ers defence didtheir part, and the Cardinals'

only score was Jay Feely's28-yard field goal in thefinal minute of the thirdquarter.

Michael Crabtree caughtfive passes for 72 yards andtwo touchdowns whileRandy Moss also had atouchdown catch for SanFrancisco, who improved to6-2 and strengthened theirhold on the top spot in thedivision.

The 49ers head into theirbye week with a two-game

division lead, and neverlooked in danger of a repeat oftheir last trip to Arizona in De-cember, when they squandereda 19-7 lead and eventually fell21-19.

It was the fourth time in fivegames that the 49ers didn'tallow a touchdown.

John Skelton, making hissecond straight start at quarter-back in place of an injuredKevin Kolb, went 32-for-52for 290 yards with an intercep-tion for the Cardinals, who fellto 4-4.

The Cardinals have lost fourstraight since opening the sea-son with four successive victo-ries.

man Pablo Sandoval wasnamed Most Valuable Playerof the World Series.

The Venezuelan sluggernicknamed "Kung Fu Panda"blasted three home runs in theGiants' game-one triumph andhad 24 total hits in the playoffsincluding six homers, fivedoubles and 13 runs batted induring the title run.

I was ready for the mo-ment," Sandoval said. "I waswaiting for the opportunity soI pulled everything together."

The Giants were often onthe brink of elimination in theplayoffs, winning the last threegames of their first post-seasonseries against Cincinnati thenneeding to take the last threeagainst St. Louis to reach theWorld Series.

"When our backs are on thewall, that's the time whenwe're having fun," said San-doval.

San Francisco had nottrailed in 56 playoff innings,winning the last three games ofthe National League finals andthe first three World Seriesgames by a combined run totalof 32-4.

That post-season streakwithout trailing was the sec-ond-longest run in majorleague history, behind only a60-inning stretch by the 2004Boston Red Sox.


NFL: Smith leads49ers to victoryover Cardinals

inning on a single by MarcoScutaro, who made the key hittwo days before his 37th birth-day.

Theriot singled to right

field, advancing to second

base on Brandon Crawford's

sacrifice bunt and raced home

on a two-out single by Scutaro,

who has played for six differ-

ent clubs in 10 major league

seasons.

"It was fitting for him to get

the game-winning hit," Bochy

said. "Those two did a great

job for us."

Giants relief ace Sergio

Romo entered in the bottom

half of the 10th and struck out

leadoff hitter Austin Jackson,

pinch hitter Don Kelly and

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera

for the last outs to ignite a vic-

tory celebration.

San Francisco became the

21st team to capture the throne

in a sweep and kept the Tigers

searching for their first World

Series crown since 1984.

"I'm a little bit flabber-

gasted to be honest," Tigers

manager Jim Leyland said. "I

would never have thought the

Giants would have swept us,

but it happened. It's a freaky

game. It happened. So be it."San Francisco third base-

DETROIT (AFP) - Crafting aWorld Series sweep with mas-terful pitching and clutch hits,the San Francisco Giants wona second Major League Base-ball title in three seasons Sun-day with a 4-3 victory overDetroit.

The Giants routed Detroitfour games to none in the best-of-seven final and after a 2010Series triumph over Texas wonthe club's seventh champi-onship overall, five of themcoming before the team movedfrom New York in 1958.

Ryan Theriot, who won aWorld Series last year with St.Louis, scored the title-winningrun for the Giants in the 10th

Giants win World Seriesin sweep over Tigers

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver (82) Mario Manning-ham is tackled by Arizona Cardinals cornerback (21)Patrick Peterson.


MADRID (AFP) - RealMadrid coach Jose Mourinhois set to leave star players Cris-tiano Ronaldo, Mesut Ozil,Sergio Ramos and XabiAlonso out of his squad to facethird division Alcoyano fortheir Spanish Cup Last 32first-leg match on Wednesday.

"I will not play Pepe, nei-ther Ramos or Ozil, Ronaldoor Xabi Alonso. I will useother first team players in ac-cordance with the rules whichstate we must use at leastseven first team members." thePortuguese coach said.

The former Inter Milan,Chelsea and Porto handler alsorevealed he will hand starts toyoungsters Alex, 20, and Jose

Rodriguez, 17."I don't think it's going to be

easy tomorrow (Wednesday)at a stadium where the opposi-tion will be extremely moti-vated to play against a bigteam.

"If we can win, all the betterbut if we can come out of thematch with a good result, thatwouldn't be bad either.

"The objective is to get pastthis round and not commit theerrors that Real Madrid madein the past," added Mourinhoafter the shock Cup defeatagainst fourth division Alcor-con in 2009 when the teamwere coached by ChileanManuel Pellegrini.

The two-time Champions

League winner says he wantsto use the talented youngsterscoming up through the RealMadrid youth system and whoare eager for first-team playingtime although he doesn't al-ways see eye-to-eye withyouth team coach AlbertoToril.

"Personally, I want to useplayers that can be useful tothe first team and I don't wantto use players who are on thefringes," continued Mourinho.

"My relationship with Torilis normal and he has an auton-omy that I respect. But a lot ofthe reserve team players playin a system that is completelydifferent to the first team and Ithink they feel a bit penalised."

Football: Mourinho rests stars forSpanish Cup clash

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) -Uruguay club Juventud havesacked a player for starting amass brawl during last week-end's domestic league gamewith Wanderers that led to 16players being sent off at thefinal whistle.

Club president YamanduCosta told reporters that Crist-ian Latorre had his contract ter-minated, while other playersinvolved in the fight would befined, depending on their levelof involvement.

Gaston Inda, the vice-presi-dent of Wanderers, meanwhilesaid that the club's executivecommittee would meet on Tues-day to decide whether to imposesanctions on their players.

Both teams said in a jointstatement released on Mondayevening that they "strongly op-posed all forms of violence infootball", vowed to fight againstthe problem in the game andapologised to fans, the widerpublic and the authorities.

Rival players fought on thepitch after the match ended in a3-3 draw on Sunday, promptingthe referee to send off eightplayers from each side. Anotherplayer had previously been sentoff in the first-half, taking thegame's total to 17.

In 2002, a Spanish refereesent off 19 players in a regionalfirst division match, forcing thegame to be abandoned.

Football: Player sackedfor fight that led to 16red cards

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - ASwedish court on Tuesdaysentenced 15 football hooli-gans who clashed with policeat a 2011 match in Gothenburgto up to six months in jail.

The clashes took place inAugust last year before a gamebetween two of the country'smost popular clubs, IFKGothenburg and Stockholm'sAIK.

The sentences handed downby the court ranged betweenfour and six months. The ac-cused were also given proba-

tion, fines and communitywork.

The punishments reflect theseriousness of the crimes, aswell as the ages and criminalrecords of those involved, thecourt said in a statement.

The accused, between 18and 42 years old, "mirrored so-ciety", daily newspaper Goete-borgsposten wrote, noting thatthe group included family menwith jobs, as well as peoplewith a criminal background.

Four other defendants wereacquitted.

Swedish hooliganshanded jail sentences

-- Last season, the 25-year-oldMessi scored a Spanish-leaguerecord 50 goals for Barcelona,edging out fellow Spanishleague star Cristiano Ronaldoof Real Madrid by four goals.Messi dedicated the award tohis teammates, with Xavi Her-nandez and Carles Puyol pres-ent for the ceremony inBarcelona.

"It is a prize for scoringgoals, but without my team-mates I couldn't have scoredthem," Messi said. "I share thisaward with them as I always do.

The Argentina international

won his first Golden Boot in2010 for his 34 goals thathelped Barcelona win theleague title. Messi is amongthe favorites to win the 2012Ballon d'Or for the world'sbest player.

"We won't see anotherplayer like him, and if we do,it won't be for a very longtime," said Barcelona coachTito Vilanova. "It's not just forthe goals he scores, but forhow he sees and understandsthe game, that is what makeshim so great. On Saturday, heran 50 meters to defend a cor-ner in the 89th minute with a

5-0 lead. Not many playerswould have done that."

Luis Suarez Miramontes,the former Spain internationaland 1960 Ballon d'Or winner,presented the award.

Messi, nicknamed "TheFlea" for his uncanny ability todribble through defenders, hasshattered a number of recordsover the past year. He scoredan unprecedented 73 goals inall competitions for Barcelonalast season, breaking the pre-vious European club record of67 goals set by Bayern Mu-nich's Gerd Mueller in 1972-73 and the prior world clubmark of 70 established byArchie Stark of BethlehemSteel in the American SoccerLeague in 1924-25.

In March, Messi passedCesar Rodriguez's 57-year-oldmilestone of 232 goals to be-come Barcelona all-time lead-ing scorer. He also scored aEuropean Cup-record-tying 14goals in the ChampionsLeague, where he netted arecord five goals in one game.

Messi receives Golden Bootas Europe's top scorer

Wednesday, OCtober 31, 2012

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