Tuesday, May 21, 2013

On Sunday evening, May 19, a new magazinetitled "Best of Aruba" was launched during agala reception in the ballroom of the RadissonResort in Palm Beach. The brainchild of islandpersonality Jenny Conde, the magazine's pur-pose is to answer the question so many firsttime vacationers put to island residents andfrequent visitors: "What is the best....? (placeto eat, safari tour, nightclub) on Aruba?"

Best of Aruba attempts to provide a jump-ing off point for planning a vacation by show-casing what they recommend in a diversity offields. The magazine's launch was paired withan award ceremony, with trophies distributedto 58 different vendors in categories the pub-lishers consider of the greatest interest to islandvisitors. The range covers restaurants, athleticevents, tour organizations, accommodations,both resorts and condominiums, jewelers, andAruba's Best New Product of 2013: Arubianasflip-flops, bearing designs based on the natureand culture of the island.

The awards began with a tribute to Aruba'sMinister of Tourism, Transport and Labor,Otmar Oduber, who was named "Best TourismLeader & Visionary 2013." The minister's dy-namic action in privatizing the Aruba TourismAuthority, and wooing a number of travelcompanies such as Caribbean Cruise Linesand KLM to once again add Aruba to theirschedule, were only two points in a long listof po sitive action that has resulted in steadygrowth in Aruba's tourism statistics during histenure.

The glamorous award event was meant toprovide a taste of what the publishers considerto be an equally glamorous new magazine,providing island visitors insights into the bestof Aruba's tourism product. Rosalie Klein

(See more photos on page 3)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Inaugural Best of Aruba Awards nameMinister Otmar Oduber top Leader

& Visionary

Minister Otmar Oduber, Best Leader & VisionaryDivi Residences, Best Condominium

El Gaucho, Best and Biggest SteaksThe first tropical waves of2013 have been analyzedtoday along 61-62W and33-34W with the one clos-est affecting the northerncoast of South Americaand the one just off theAfrican coast. Accordingto a stormCARIB spokes -person it looks prettymean for such an earlywave but development isvirtually impossible at thispoint. Not to say it's notpossible but environmen-tal conditions are defi-nitely not conducive.However, it could be avery wet weekend comingup for the Windwards andNE Leewards where somedrought is still evident.

First waves

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUnited States on Monday de-nounced what it called a ris-ing tide of both anti-Muslimand anti-Jewish sentimentaround the world as it urgedall nations to ensure freedomof religion.

In a wide-ranging annualreport on religious freedom,the State Department voicedalarm at growing attacksagainst minority groups andpainted a bleak picture in na-tions such as China, Iran,Myanmar, North Korea andSaudi Arabia.

Secretary of State JohnKerry, while acknowledgingthat the US record was notperfect, called religious free-dom a "universal value" as hepresented the report.

"The freedom to professand practice one's faith -- tobelieve or not to believe, or tochange one's beliefs -- that isa birthright of every humanbeing," Kerry said.

"I urge all countries, espe-cially those identified in thisreport, to take action now tosafeguard this fundamentalfreedom," he said.

Kerry announced the ap-pointment of Ira Foreman,who served as PresidentBarack Obama's campaignoutreach director to Jewishvoters, to fill the State De-partment position of specialenvoy to combat anti-Semi-tism.

The report said anti-Semi-tism was rising in the mediaof Egypt and Venezuela,where failed presidential can-didate Henrique Capriles hasJewish ancestry, and pointedto Iranian President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad's remarksquestioning the extent of theHolocaust.

The State Department re-port, which covered 2012,said that "Anti-Muslim rhet-oric and actions were clearlyon the rise -- particularly inEurope and Asia."

"Government restrictions,which often coincided withsocietal animosity, resulted in

anti-Muslim actions that af-fected everyday life for nu-merous believers," it said.

The survey said that reli-gious freedom declined fur-ther in China and thatauthorities cracked down par-ticularly hard on the mostlyMuslim Uighur communityand on Tibetan Buddhists,whose monasteries are underclose watch.

The report said that Mus-lims also faced new restric-tions in 2012 in countriesranging from Belgium, whichbanned face-covering reli-gious attire in classrooms, toIndia where schools in Man-galore restricted headscarves.

The report also voicedalarm at soaring violenceagainst Islamic minorities in-cluding Shiites and Ahmadisin Pakistan, where laws re-strict the Ahmadi communityfrom even itself as Muslim.

The study also voiced con-cern for Ahmadis in Indone-sia and Bahais in Iran. It saidblasphemy laws were widelyabused in Islamic countriesincluding Pakistan, where in-cidents last year included thedetention of a mentally chal-lenged girl.

US denounces wavesagainst Muslims,Jews

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The Aruba Minister of Trans-port is on his way to Colom-bia to investigate theefficiency of electric bussesat their BYD company. It isexpected that electric busseswill economize on monthlyexpenses of Arubus. The 4electric busses will becharged at WEB. Accordingto the Minister, charging thebusses at WEB would be bet-ter for guaranteeing a sustain-able and stable supply. Thiswill also stabilize the mainte-nance expenses and the oper-ation of the companyconsidering the cost of dieselfuel. The entire project willhave a positive impact on thecarbon emission in environ-ment.

According to the Minister,these electric busses will saveArubus a whopping 30% onthe cost of doing business.The Minster is convinced thatthese busses will not only beless expensive, but that theywill contribute to the greenenergy for our environment.The government has alreadyreceived a presentation fromcompanies in Holland sellingelectric busses.

Now, they want to look atColombia, after whichArubus will travel to theUSA to view other optionsthere. That will be followedby an evaluation as to whichwould be the best buy forthese busses.

Electric Busses slatedto save Arubus 30%

Persons with multiple dis-abilities will soon have theirown boarding residence onAruba. This special project iscurrently on the drawingboard and soon to be imple-mented after much hard workby the Stichting VerstandelijkGehandicapten Aruba(SVGA).

It is expected that beforethe end of the year 2013 con-struction will have begun fora boarding facility where per-sons needing quality care be-cause of a combination ofphysical and mental limita-tions can be housed. Most ofthese persons today still ei-ther live at home with family,while some have been sent toCuracao or Holland to live ina boarding facility overseas.

Caring for a person withmultiple disability is a truelabor of love, a 24 hours 7days/week task, which is verydifficult.

The Minister of Social Af-fairs Michelle Hooyboer-Winklaar is of the convictionthat families need to be con-

fident that their loved onesare being well cared for righthere on Aruba in a friendlyatmosphere in the proximityof their family.

The Boarding Facility willbe constructed at SVGA inPiedra Plat and will incor-parate all aspects of a home forpersons with multiple limita-tions. It is to be modern with

facilities for wheelchairs andother necessary equipment.

Preparations will be un-dertaken together with thePublic Health Departmentand other stakeholders. Theywill install a workgroup to setup all that is necessary for itsfunctionality and prepare thedetails for a quaility care cen-ter.

Boarding Residence for personswith multiple disabilities is inthe planning

Min. Hooyboer-Winklaar looking over the plans

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3

The Mind your Eye Confer-ence 2013 has an outstandinglineup of speakers scheduledthis year with interesting top-ics concerning each andevery one of us.

This coming Friday May24th, MSc Diana Wever-Sal-cedo will be presenting andshe will mainly focus on thehuman factors involved inrobberies at work. DianaWever-Salcedo’s agenda in-cludes an explanation of thereactions that victims ofcrime at work might have(e.g. bodily reactions, workrelated behaviors and cogni-tions a person might experi-ence).

The purpose of the presen-tation is to provide managers,human resource professionalsand employers a better under-standing of their personnelduring and after such nega-tive incidents. This way or-

ganizations’ can be betterprepared and motivated tominimize the negative effectsof robberies at work. DianaWever-Salcedo will also dis-cuss factors that can posi-tively or negatively influencea person’s ability to cope witha robbery at work. Further,Diana Wever-Salcedo willdiscuss easy and cost effi-cient preventive measures,which can be implemented toreduce the risk of robberies atwork right away.

Other topics include dif-ferent types of interventionspossible when such unfortu-nate events occur and thebenefits of having such inter-ventions in place at work.Because unfortunately wecan all be exposed to rob-beries Diana Wever-Salcedowill also mention the Do’s &Don’ts if it were to happen toyou.

This conference is beingorganized by HW Trainingand Development Associatesand is scheduled to take placeon May 24th at the Hyatt Re-gency Resort Aruba.

For more information con-cerning the conference,please visit their website at:www.hwtrainingaruba.org.

Mind Your Eye Conference 2013For Human Resource professionals:Are you prepared to deal withthe human factors following arobbery at work?

Inaugural Best of Aruba awards

Aruba Bank, Best Bank

Arubianas, Best New Product

Mark Benson accepts forElite, Best Audio Visual

Company

Magazine and Awardsfounder Jenny Conde


NAPLES, Italy (AFP) - Thefirst-ever statue of PopeFrancis has been unveiled ina potato field near Naples --an unorthodox homage to thefact that the Argentine pope'sancestors were farmers innorthern Italy.

The statue will be pre-sented to the pope nextmonth by Italian actor Bar-bato De Stefano, who comesfrom the village of Ciccianowhere it was presented andhas financed the project.

"The poverty of my village

is a treasure for the commu-nity in which I was born andgrew up," said De Stefano,who praised the pope's ownmodest demeanour saying hehad "pierced people's hearts".

The primitive-style statuewas shown on Sunday, with apainted background of thebalcony of St Peter's Basilicaon which the pope stood afterhis election at a conclave ofcardinals in March.

The 76-year-old pope wasformerly the archbishop ofBuenos Aires, Cardinal JorgeBergoglio.

Like many Italians, hisparents emigrated to Ar-gentina between the First andSecond World Wars.

Pope statue unveiled in Italian potato field

NEW YORK (AFP) - Ver-mont became on Monday thethird US state to legalizephysician-assisted suicide.

Peter Shumlin, the Demo-cratic Governor of the smallprogressive-leaning state,signed into law a bill thatlawmakers adopted lastweek. Vermont follows thestates of Oregon and Wash-ington in legalizing the prac-tice.

"Vermonters facing termi-nal illness at the end of theirlives now have control overtheir own destinies," Shumlinsaid, at a ceremony at theCapitol in Montpelier.

Vermont, a mostly ruralstate in New England, is thefirst US state to adopt physi-cian-assisted suicide by leg-islative process rather thanthrough a voter-initiated ref-erendum.

Under the Vermont law,terminally ill patients whoare given no more than sixmonths to live can ask their

Vermontbecomesthird US stateto legalize assisted suicide

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Apple avoided paying taxeson tens of billions of dollarsin profits through a complexnetwork of subsidiaries,many with "no declared taxjurisdiction," a US Senatepanel has concluded.

The Senate investigation,set to be discussed at a hear-ing Tuesday, stopped short ofaccusing the US tech giant ofanything illegal but two law-makers on the panel said thetax strategies call for newscrutiny.

"Apple wasn't satisfiedwith shifting its profits to alow-tax offshore tax haven,"said Senator Carl Levin, head

of the Senate Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations,in a statement Monday.

"Apple sought the holygrail of tax avoidance. It hascreated offshore entitiesholding tens of billions ofdollars, while claiming to betax resident nowhere."

Levin said Tuesday's hear-ing would "highlight thatgimmick and other Appleoffshore tax avoidance tac-tics so that American work-ing families who pay theirshare of taxes understandhow offshore tax loopholesraise their tax burden, add tothe federal deficit and oughtto be closed."

Apple offshore loopholesaverted taxes: panel


WASHINGTON (AFP) -The US Supreme Courtagreed Monday to weighthe constitutionality of anupstate New York city's tra-dition of opening its localcouncil meetings withprayers.Its decision comes a yearafter a federal appeals courtsided with two residents ofGreece, New York whocontend the prayer practiceimproperly affiliates theRochester suburb of 96,000with a single religion,Christianity.The case marks the firsttime in 30 years that thehighest court in the UnitedStates has considered theseparation of church andstate when it comes to open-ing government meetingswith prayers."A town council meetingisn't a church service and itshouldn't seem like one,"said Barry Lynn, executivedirector of AmericansUnited for Separation ofChurch and State, whichopposes the practice."Government can't serveeveryone in the communitywhen it endorses one faithover others," he said. "Thatsends the clear message thatsome are second-class citi-zens based on what they be-lieve about religion."Thomas Hungar, represent-ing Greece's city hall withsupport from Alliance De-fending Freedom, a socialconservative group, said"legislative prayer" is deeplyrooted in American history."We hope the court willreaffirm the settled under-standing that such prayers,offered without impropermotive and in accordancewith the conscience of theprayer-giver, are constitu-tional," the lawyer said.Since 1999, town boardmeetings in Greece havestarted with a prayer withno restrictions on faith, butplaintiffs Susan Gallowayand Linda Stephens saynearly all the prayers havebeen said by Christianclergy members.The very few exceptions in-cluded a Wiccan priestess,the head of the local Bahai'icongregation and a Jewishlayman, according to theappeals court petition filedin September 2012.The case hinges on the so-called Establishment Clauseof the Constitution's FirstAmendment, or Bill ofRights, which prohibits theUS authorities from favor-ing one religion over an-other.

US SupremeCourt to ruleon city hall

prayers

Port of Spain— An earthquake of 5.3 degrees on the Richter scale shook several Eastern

Caribbean islands without causing damage or casualties, the Seismic Department of the

University of the West Indies reported today. The institution stressed that the quake’s epi-

center was located southwest of Barbuda, part of the Antigua and Barbuda federation.

At the end of last month, a 5.1 degree temblor shook the country and some days ago another

one was felt in Trinidad and Tobago.

Recently the U.N. Office for Reduction of Disaster Risk warned that Caribbean islands

should prepare for stronger earthquakes and tsunamis.

“The Caribbean Islands are in an area of relatively high seismic activity and can experience

a magnitude eight earthquake at any time if we consider previous standards,”a spokesperson

said.

Earthquake shakes

Eastern Caribbean islands


JERUSALEM (AFP) - Is-rael's centre-right govern-ment will support US effortsto revive peace talks with thePalestinians, despite hardlinepositions held by ministersand coalition parties, aprominent MP said on Mon-day.

"If (Prime Minister Ben-jamin) Netanyahu goes onthe path that US Secretary ofState Kerry is encouraging...he will have the full supportof... the majority of the par-liament," Ofer Shelah, amember of the powerful YeshAtid party told army radio.

Kerry has been back andforth to the region to push forthe resumption of peace talksbetween Israel and the Pales-tinians, and is due to returnon Thursday for his fourthvisit since taking office inFebruary.

"Solving the Israeli-Pales-tinian dispute within theframework of two states fortwo peoples is in the highestinterest of the state of Israeland in the highest interest ofevery Israeli government in-cluding the present govern-ment of which we are a part,"Shelah said.

The MP added that Ne-

tanyahu would have the "fullsupport of (Finance Minister)Yair Lapid and (Lapid's) YeshAtid," the second-largestparty in the Knesset and amember of the ruling coali-tion.

The comments came de-spite opposition from Lapid,in a New York Times inter-view published on Sunday, toa settlement freeze and toceding east Jerusalem toPalestinian rule, two of thePalestinians' top demands.

"Mr Lapid said he wouldnot stop the so-called 'naturalexpansion' of settlements inthe West Bank, nor curtail thefinancial incentives offeredIsraelis to move there," theNew York Times wrote.

It quoted him as sayingthat mainly-Arab eastJerusalem, which the Pales-tinians claim as the capital oftheir future state, must re-main under Israeli sover-eignty because "we didn'tcome here for nothing."

Israel captured eastJerusalem from Jordan inthe 1967 Six-Day War andannexed it shortly after, in amove never recognised bythe international commu-nity.

Israel backs Kerrypeace moves despiteinternal debate

NEW DELHI (AFP) - TheIndian and Chinese premierspledged on Monday to re-solve a border dispute thathas soured ties for decades,saying good relations be-tween the two Asian giantswere key to world peace.

Chinese Premier Li Ke-qiang, making his first for-eign visit since taking office,

said that Beijing was deter-mined to build up trust withNew Delhi as he and a teamof ministers signed a series ofjoint agreements with India.

His host, Indian PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh,also stressed he regarded agood bilateral relationship ascrucial to the wider region'sdevelopment.

Li's visit comes after aflare-up last month in a long-running border dispute be-tween the two countries in aremote Himalayan region.

New Delhi accused Chi-nese troops of intrudingnearly 20 kilometres (12miles) into Indian-claimedterritory, triggering a three-week standoff that was re-solved when troops fromboth sides pulled back.

The Line of Actual Con-trol between the nuclear-armed neighbours has neverbeen formally demarcated,although they have signed ac-cords to maintain peace sincethe border region saw a briefIndo-Chinese war in 1962.

Singh said there was nowa mutual desire to resolve thedispute and that a joint work-ing group would be estab-lished to reach a lastingagreement.

India, China vow to end long-running border dispute

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Apowerful tornado ripped thor-ough an Oklahoma City sub-urb Monday, levelingcountless homes and hittingat least two schools, accord-ing to local news reports.

Local television stationKFOR, from its news heli-copter, showed wide swathsof Moore, a community of55,000 to the south of Okla-homa's state capital, reducedto rubble.

Storm spotters estimatedthe tornado, which struck inmid-afternoon, to be twomiles (3.2 kilometers) wide.

"We anticipate that thesestorms are going to continueto build around Oklahoma,"Governor Mary Fallin toldCNN as the National WeatherService urged the state's resi-dents to take cover.

In downtown OklahomaCity, tornado sirens went offat least three times.

Tornadoes frequentlytouch down on Oklahoma'swide open plains, but the factthat Monday's twister strucka populated urban area raisedfears of a high casualty toll.

On Sunday, a powerfulstorm system churningthrough the US Midwestspawned tornadoes in Iowa,Kansas and Oklahoma, de-stroying homes and killing atleast one person, US mediareported.

Tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb

spinal damage, the clinic said.He remains in intensive care.The boy's mother told author-

ities that the accused had stolenher son's iPad and mobilephone and he had gone to re-claim them when he disap-peared.

The Dutchman, who wasworking at the hotel as a per-former -- a clown according toGreek media -- has confessed tostealing the items and stabbingthe boy with a knife, which hesubsequently washed and hidin a fire safety box.

DOHA (AFP) - The emir ofQatar, a strong supporter of theSyrian rebels, on Mondayslammed what he called inac-tion by the international com-munity over the conflict there,lamenting the failure to reacha political solution.

"It is no longer acceptablethat influential states in the in-ternational community do notact to end the horrific tragedyand escalating humanitariancatastrophe" in Syria, SheikhHamad bin Khalifa al-Thanitold the Doha Forum.

He appeared to allude toWestern countries, which havefailed to agree to arm Syrianrebels, as the revolt againstPresident Bashar al-Assad'sregime entered its third year inMarch.

Activists say more than94,000 people have beenkilled.

He said that those countries,which he did not name, "wantto decide themselves whoshould be the defender of theSyrian people," in an apparentreference to concerns about thepresence of radical Islamistsamong Syrian rebels.

Sheikh Hamad lamented the"failure of all international andArab initiatives to get the Syr-ian regime to listen to thesound of reason".

He expressed "sorrow at see-ing the revolution of the Syrianpeople enter its third yearwithout the clear perspectiveof an end to the bloodshed...because of the regime's insis-tence on a military solution".

The United States and Rus-sia, a strong Assad ally, haveproposed a peace conferencefor June, bringing together rep-resentatives of the regime andits opponents, with the aim ofreaching a political solution.


Qatar emirslams 'internationalinaction'

over Syria

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lawyer told the courtthat the preacherwould return to Jor-dan voluntarily if itsparliament ratifies atreaty barring the useof evidence obtainedby torture.

The issue is at theheart of Britain's longstruggle to deport himto Jordan, where hefaces a likely retrialover his alleged in-

volvement in the planning ofterrorist attacks.

Last year the EuropeanCourt of Human Rightsblocked his deportation due tofears that evidence obtainedthrough torture would be usedagainst him in the new trial.

SIAC ruled in Novemberthat he could be released de-spite posing a risk to nationalsecurity.

However, the cleric was sentback to jail in March after astash of mobile phones, com-puter memory sticks and otherdigital devices were found inhis home in what Irwin saidwas a "significant" breach ofhis bail conditions.

Government lawyer RobinTam said a USB stick found inthe bedroom of Abu Qatada'seldest son had containedschoolwork but also "jihadistfiles" including references toAl-Qaeda.

Abu Qatada had admittedbreaching bail conditionswhich prevent him from turn-ing on mobile phones or pos-sessing other communicationdevices at his taxpayer-fundedhome in London.

But he claimed that he didnot use the phones, several ofwhich belonged to his wife andchildren.

LONDON (AFP) - Jordanianterror suspect Abu Qatada wason Monday denied bail in hislatest legal skirmish withBritish authorities, who havebeen trying to deport him for adecade.

The cleric has been in andout of British prisons since2002 as he fights successivegovernment attempts to sendhim to Jordan, where he hasbeen convicted of terrorcharges in his absence.

To ministers' horror he wasreleased from his latest stint injail in November, but was ar-rested again in March for al-legedly breaching his bailconditions.

A judge at Britain's SpecialImmigration Appeals Commis-sion (SIAC) ruled on Mondaythat the preacher, once dubbedOsama bin Laden's right-handman in Europe, should remainin custody.

"There is no doubt about thenational security threat whichthe appellant presents," judgeStephen Irwin said.

"We reject the submissionthat he can, even now, be reliedon to comply with his legal ob-ligations and not to attempt toabscond."

In a surprise move earlierthis month, Abu Qatada's

Radical cleric Abu

Qatada denied bail

in Britain

Russian boy had been stabbedat least 20 times and left bleed-ing in the bushes behind the de-bris-strewn parking lot of hishotel in the town of Hersonis-sos, where the police found himearly last Wednesday morning.

According to the police, hehad been missing since Tues-day evening when a show washeld on the premises.

The boy was rushed to anAthens children's clinic wherehe underwent emergency sur-gery on Wednesday to address

HERAKLION (AFP) - A 20-year-old Dutch entertainer wascharged with attempted murderon Monday after repeatedlystabbing a 12-year-old Russianboy vacationing on the Greek is-land of Crete, local officials said.

The suspect, who has con-fessed to the crime, will be keptunder guard at the psychiatricward of Heraklion hospitalpending trial as his familyclaims he is autistic, a judicialsource on the island said.

Authorities on Crete said the

Dutch youth charged in Greece over Russianboy's stabbing

WASHINGTON (AFP) - AnOrganization of AmericanStates report published calledfor taking a closer look at pos-sibly legalizing marijuana inLatin America.

The report examined anissue that until recently was ataboo topic in the region.Politicians, desperate formeasures to control drug-linked violence, are now opento legalization.

The report does not makespecific proposals, but looks atdifferent scenarios in whichcountries could handle thedrug trade blamed on scores ofdeaths.

"Never before has a multi-lateral organization engaged insuch an inclusive and intellec-tually legitimate analysis ofdrug policy options," saidEthan Nadelmann, executivedirector of the Drug Policy Al-liance, the largest US grouppushing for reforming drugpolicies in the United States.

According to Nadelmann,"political pressures by the USand other governments wouldhave made that impossible."

The new focus on alterna-tives to prohibition reflects the"unhappiness" of Latin Amer-icans toward a US policy thatcontinues to focus on croperadication and militarizedcrackdowns, said Peter Hakimat the Inter-American Dia-logue, a leading Washingtonthink tank.

According to the report, theregulation of some drugs wouldallow governments to reassignresources to the prevention andtreatment of addicts.


Americas weighlegalizing pot

Health & Living

at the deaths which havenonetheless sparked little pub-lic outrage.

Government spokeswomanPhumla Williams called on theinitiation schools "to ensurethat precautionary health meas-ures are exercised during thisperiod to minimise illnessesand death."

Minister in The Presidencyfor Performance Monitoringand Evaluation, Collins Cha-bane said he was saddened bythe loss of young lives.

The "loss of several younglives in Mpumalanga and else-where in the country is regret-table," Chabane said this week.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) -South African police said onweek-end they had launched aseries of murder inquiries after23 males died while undergo-ing circumcision during tradi-tional rites of passage intomanhood.

The 23 -- aged between 13and 21 -- died in various placesacross the country's northeast-ern Mpumalanga provinceover the course of a week.

One of the deaths was la-belled inquest because the boyreportedly had an existinghealth condition.

There have been no arrestsyet as police compile state-ments and await post-mortemresults.

Ritual circumcision is com-mon among South Africa's eth-nic Xhosa, Sotho and Ndebeleethnic groups.

Deaths at so-called initia-tion schools in South Africa arecommon, with several hundredcases recorded in recent yearsdue to bleeding and infections.

Boys spend around a monthin secluded bush or mountainsareas for the sessions that alsoinclude lessons on the virtuesof masculine courage and dis-cipline.

There are usually two cir-cumcision seasons - in winterduring the months of Maythrough July and in summerbetween November and De-cember.

Government and the rulingAfrican National CongressParty have expressed concern

Ritual circumcision kills23 males in South Africa

Keeping your teeth and gums healthy requiresgood nutrition and regular brushing and flossing.* Brush your teeth twice a day-in the morning and beforebed-and floss once a day. This removes plaque, whichcan lead to damaged teeth, gums, and surroundingbone.* Use a toothpaste that contains fluoride, which helpsprevent tooth decay and cavities. * Ask your dentist if you need a mouthwash that containsfluoride or one with ingredients that fight plaque. * Avoid foods that contain a lot of sugar. Sugar helpsplaque grow.* Avoid using tobacco products, which can cause gumdisease and oral cancer. Exposure to tobacco smoke(secondhand smoke) also may cause gum disease aswell as other health problems.1* Practice tongue cleaning. You can use a tongue cleaneror a soft-bristle toothbrush, stroking in a back-to-frontdirection. Tongue cleaning is particularly important forpeople who smoke or whose tongues are coated ordeeply grooved.* Schedule regular trips to the dentist based on howoften you need exams and cleaning.Experts recommend that your child's dental care start at12 months of age. If your baby has dental problemscaused by injury, disease, or a developmental problem,see your pediatric dentist right away.

Are there ways to avoid dentalproblems?

kilometers of land.In refusing Bolivia's de-

mands for Chile to grant it seaaccess, Santiago has referredto a 1904 treaty between thetwo countries it says estab-lished their common borders.


Sci-Tech

CHIANG MAI (AFP) - Fiercecompetition for water couldtrigger conflict unless nationscooperate to share the dimin-ishing resource, leaders fromAsia-Pacific nations warnedMonday.

From Central to SoutheastAsia, regional efforts to securewater have sparked tensionsbetween neighbours reliant onrivers to sustain booming pop-ulations.

Breakneck urbanisation, cli-mate change and surging de-mand from agriculture haveheaped pressure on scarcewater supplies, while the ma-jority of people in Asia-Pacificstill lack access to safe waterdespite surging economicgrowth.

"There could be a fight overresources" unless countriesagree to share water, Thailand'sPrime Minister Yingluck Shi-nawatra said in an address to aregional water security forumin the northern Thai city ofChiang Mai.

"No country in this regioncan handle these challengesalone," she said, hailing fo-rums such as the Asia-PacificWater Summit as the route tosatisfying countries' thirstpeacefully.

A Thai firm is behind a con-troversial dam over theMekong river in Laos, a proj-ect decried by downstreamcountries Vietnam and Cambo-dia which fear it could ruintheir farming and fishing in-

dustries.Asian nations need to

plough an estimated $380 bil-lion into water and sanitationsystems in the decade to 2020if they are to achieve water se-curity, Brunei Sultan HassanalBolkiah warned the summit.

One such row is betweenUzebekistan and its neigh-bours Tajikistan and Kyrgyzs-tan which want to build two ofthe world's biggest hydro-elec-tric power stations.

Speaking at the conferenceon Sunday, Tajik PresidentEmomali Rakhmon defendedhis country's right to exploit itsnatural resources but pledgedto pursue a "peaceful solution"to the dispute which has seenangry rhetoric soar over recentmonths.

Bangladeshi Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina cited a water-sharing treaty between her na-tion and India over the Gangesriver as an example of success-ful water diplomacy.

Low-lying Bangladesh hasaround 30 million people ex-posed to rising sea levels, sheadded, raising the issue of cli-mate change in a region wherecatastrophic floods are com-monplace.

The Asian DevelopmentBank last month warned thatnearly two-thirds of people inthe region have no clean, pipedwater at home despite the re-gion's strong growth, blamingpoor management and a lackof investment in infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific leaders warnof water conflict threat LA PAZ (AFP) - President

Evo Morales planned to meetex-US president Jimmy Carterin the US state of Georgia todiscuss Bolivia's longstandingterritorial dispute with Chile,officials said.

Last month landlocked Bo-livia sued neighboring Chile inthe Hague, in the latest maneu-ver in its attempt to recoverland lost in a 19th century warand thus regain access to thePacific.

Morales aimed to talk withCarter about the process thatled the US to cede control ofthe Panama Canal back to

Panama. La Paz argues this isa similar situation to its de-mands that Santiago returndisputed land.

The Panama Canal, origi-nally built and administeredby the US, was put under jointPanamanian-US rule in 1979,and returned to full Panaman-ian control in 1999.

Morales has argued it is anexample of how treaties can bemodified years after beingsigned.

In a war fought with Chile in1879, Bolivia lost nearly 400kilometers (250 miles) ofcoastline and 120,000 square

Bolivia leader to meet Carter over land

dispute with Chile

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Yahoo! is under two decadesold and is already showingsigns of age. Tumblr, the coolblogging platform, represents anew generation.

This split marks both a chal-lenge and an opportunity forthe firms, after the announce-ment that Yahoo! is buying thesix-year-old startup for $1.1billion, mainly in cash.

"Yahoo users are behind thecurve, Tumblr users too coolfor school," said ArvindNarayanan, a Princeton Uni-versity computer scientist, in atweet. "From this POV (pointof view) the acquisition seemsironically appropriate."

Tumblr could be key toYahoo! because of its popular-ity with younger Internet users.A survey this year conductedby the online data group Sur-vata found Tumblr more popu-lar than Facebook among thoseaged 13 to 25.

"Yahoo skews toward olderdemographics. Tumblr isridiculously strong among Mil-lennials," said a tweet fromBrian Solis, analyst with Al-timeter Group.

Some comments posted on

Tumblr as the news brokehighlighted this generationgap, as if their parents were in-tervening to spoil the party.

"YAHOO, CLOSE TUM-BLR AND YOU'LL DIE!"one Tumblr user wrote.

Another wrote: "Dear Yahoo... If you change anything, wewill show up at your headquar-ters with fire and pitchforks.Don't try us."

Still another posted: "Pleaseleave Tumblr alone. You ac-quired it for the cool factor...Don't tinker with it; don'tchange it ... Leave it alone."

Yahoo! chief executiveMarissa Mayer, in announcingthe deal, pledged to allowTumblr to remain independent,while integrating technologyand advertising opportunities.

But some analysts it could behard for Mayer to keep herpromise of keeping Tumblr in-dependent while seeking waysto make the deal pay off.

"If I'm the CEO of Tumblr Iwould be concerned," saidDaniel Odio, senior vice presi-dent of California-based Inter-net firm Share This, who hasbeen involved in a number oftechnology startups.

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Mexico City, May 20, 2013(AFP) - Mexican phone giantAmerica Movil, owned by bil-lionaire Carlos Slim, an-nounced Monday that its USunit reached a deal to acquireUS mobile phone companyStart Wireless Group.

The price of the transactionwas not revealed but a state-ment said Tracfone Wirelesswill acquire the assets of StartWireless, an Ohio-based mo-bile virtual network operatorthat provides prepaid voice,messaging and data plans to1.4 million customers.

The deal is expected to becompleted in the second quar-ter pending the approval ofregulators.

A mobile virtual networkoperator (MVNO) does notown or operate wireless equip-ment. Instead, it buys servicesfrom carriers in bulk and sellspackages to retail customers.

America Movil owns fixed-line and mobile phone busi-nesses as well as Internet andcable television services in 17Latin American nations andthe United States.


CarlosSlim companyto buy USmobilephonefirm

FINANCE

agreed to acquire Irish rivalWarner Chilcott for about$8.5 billion in stock. Actavisshares advanced 1.3 percent.

Private-equity firm VistaEquity Partners offered tobuy Internet security firmWebsense for $24.75 pershare, or $907 million. Web-sense soared 28.8 percent to$24.76.

Digital marketing businessAcquity Group skyrocketed113.6 percent to $12.73 aftermanagement consultant firmAccenture announced lateFriday it would pay $316million for the company. Ac-centure shares rose 0.4 per-cent.

Goldman Sachs fell 0.5percent after announcing itwas selling the rest of its statein the Industrial and Com-mercial Bank of China, wortharound $1.1 billion.

Bond prices were mixed.The yield on the 10-year USTreasury rose to 1.96 percentfrom 1.95 percent late Friday,while the 30-year was un-changed at 3.17 percent.Bond prices move inverselyto yields.

NEW YORK (AFP) - USstocks slipped Monday de-spite a flurry of merger andacquisition news as investorslooked ahead to Federal Re-serve Chairman BenBernanke's testimony to Con-gress this week.

Yahoo!'s $1.1 billion dealto buy blogging platformTumblr temporarily helped tolift the Nasdaq above the flatline, but not enough to keepit there.

The Dow Jones IndustrialAverage shed 19.12 points(0.12 percent) at 15,335.28.

The tech-rich NasdaqComposite Index edgeddown 2.53 (0.07 percent) to3,496.43 and the broad-mar-ket S&P 500 lost 1.18 (0.07percent) at 1,666.29.

The leading indices driftedfor much of the day aftersurging to new record-highcloses on Friday.

Analysts said the marketwas taking a breather aheadof Bernanke's testimony onthe US economic outlook toCongress Wednesday and therelease of the Fed minutesfrom the last policy meeting.

Yahoo! shares rose 0.2 per-cent after announcing anagreement to buy Tumblr for$1.1 billion in cash.

The two firms confirmedweekend reports of the tie-up,in a deal which helps thestruggling Internet pioneerconnect with the privatelyheld Tumblr's youthful users.

"Tumblr gives Yahoo!scale in social media, and,that by itself is enough toargue the deal, at $1.1 billion,is brilliant," said DouglasMcIntyre of 24/7WallSt.com.

US drug maker Actavis

US stocks dip despite M&A activity

2008 against 22 energy compa-nies, including ExxonMobilCorporation, BP, Chevron andShell, seeking damages under afederal common law claim of"public nuisance."

The suit alleged that "mas-sive greenhouse gas emissionsemitted by the Energy Produc-ers have resulted in globalwarming, which, in turn, hasseverely eroded the land wherethe City of Kivalina sits andthreatens it with imminent de-struction."

A buildup in greenhousegases is increasing the temper-ature of the planet, causing sealevels to rise, ice caps to meltand "destroying its land bymelting the Arctic sea ice thatformerly protected the villagefrom winter storms," court doc-uments said.

The US Army Corps of Engi-neers estimates that it will costmore than $95 million to relo-cate the village.

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Perched at the tip of an Arcticbarrier reef in harsh northwest-ern Alaska, a tiny village tookon big oil for causing the cli-mate change that is eroding itsshores, but lost its court fightMonday.

The US Supreme Court de-clined to hear the case of Ki-valina vs. Exxon.

Therefore, a lower court's de-cision stands, holding that en-ergy companies cannot be suedcollectively for harm done byclimate change and leavingsuch issues to lawmakers andthe executive branch of govern-ment.

The village of Kivalina ishome to about 400 people,mostly Inupiat NativeAlaskans, and is being forced torelocate because global warm-ing has led to a reduction in seaice that once protected itsshores.

The lawsuit was brought in

Alaskan village losescourt fight againstbig oil

SRI LANKA( AFP) - : A cargo ship carriers gantry cranesto be installed at Sri Lanka’s new Chinese built ColomboSouth Container Terminal in Colombo on May 20, 2013.The privately-owned USD 500 million facility is to betransferred to Sri Lankan ownership after 35 years.

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Federated Media Publishing.The price tag paid by Yahoo!

means "the bar now has beenset high in terms of valuation,"said Allen Weiner at the re-search firm Gartner.

"It raises the question of whatis a company like Twitter isworth."

Perhaps the most prominentof the social media startups toremain private, Twitter "has yetto show an inclination to gopublic," said Weiner, and it re-mains unclear whether Twitterwill remain independent or beacquired.

Pinterest, which allows usersto decorate virtual bulletinboards with pictures showcas-ing interests in anything fromfood to sports, fashion or travel,is clearly one of the new com-panies expected to be a target.

Weiner said, however, thatPinterest, seen last year as oneof the rising starts in socialmedia, "has not evolvedquickly enough."Several other startups are likelystill being courted, but the land-scape has shifted in recentweeks, say analysts.Dailymotion, the popularvideo-sharing site, was amongthose, but the French govern-ment's move to block Yahoo!'sacquisition probably dampenedenthusiasm for the unit ofFrance Telecom.

NEW YORK (AFP) - The bil-lion-dollar deal for Tumblr hasstirred talk on the next big ac-quisition target in the sector,with cash-rich tech giants look-ing for the next potential star.

Yahoo!'s blockbuster deal forthe popular blogging platformcomes amid a battle for eye-balls on the Internet among bigtech firms such as Facebook,Google, Amazon and Apple.

"All the big internet compa-nies that have money are poten-tial buyers," said MichaelPachter, analyst at Wedbush Se-curities. "Then it depends onwhat they want to be and howmuch they are willing to pay."

Each of these firms is tryingto get more users into theirecosystem to be able to gatherdata and "monetize" their userbase, mainly by targeting themwith ads tailored to their usagepatterns, analysts say.

Yahoo! is believed to haveoutmaneuvered Facebook andMicrosoft to get Tumblr, as themajor tech giants look past thestatic Internet boxes to"streams" of content.

"We're all shifting our atten-tion to mobile devices, andwe've adopted the 'stream' asour preferred method of contentdiscovery and consumption,"says John Battelle, an entrepre-neur who founded Wired and

Tumblr deal sparks talk onnext big tech target

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Popdiva Taylor Swift took homean armful of trophies, andJustin Bieber confronted achorus of boos at the BillboardMusic Awards on Sunday.

Swift, 23, in a figure-hug-ging blue Zuhair Murad mini-dress, collected eight awardsincluding top artist, top femaleartist and top Billboard 200album for her latest release"Red," which has sold morethan 5.4 million copies world-wide.

"You are the longest andbest relationship I ever had,"Swift told her fans, turning hertabloid reputation as a serialdater to her advantage.

Teen idol Bieber, sportingoutsized aviator sunglasses,played stoic when boosechoed through the MGMGrand auditorium as he

stepped up to col-lect the fan-votedBillboard Mile-stone Award.

"I'm 19 yearsold, I think I'mdoing a pretty goodjob," he said. "I justwant to say itshould be about themusic.... This is nota gimmick. I'm anartist and I shouldbe taken seriously."

In recent weeks,Bieber has caughtflak for saying teenHolocaust victimAnne Frank wouldhave been a "be-lieber," a term usedfor his fans. He waslate for concerts inLondon and Dubai,and in Germany his pet mon- key was confiscated for lack of

paperwork.Bieber also won Billboard's

honors for top male artist andtop social artist -- the latter anacknowledgement of his over-taking Lady Gaga in Januarythis year as the most-followedperson on Twitter.

Other big winners Sundayincluded the Belgian-Aus-tralian musician Gotye, whowon four awards to go with hisbest-song Grammy for "Some-body That I Used to Know,"and Rihanna, who dominatedthe R&B categories with fourlaurels.


LOS ANGELES (AFP) - "StarTrek: Into Darkness" soared atwarp speed to the top of the USbox office, smashing block-buster sequel "Iron Man 3" offof first place after two weeksthere, industry figures showedMonday.

The latest installment of thecult science fiction phenome-non starring Chris Pine andZachary Quinto took in $70.2million on its debut weekend,according to industry trackerExhibitor Relations.

That's roughly double whatrunner up "Iron Man 3" -- thecomic book superhero flickfeaturing Robert Downey Jr.,which had topped the box of-fice on its first two weekendsin theaters -- made with $35.8million.

"The Great Gatsby," starringLeonardo DiCaprio in BazLuhrmann's adaptation of theliterary classic, took third placewith $23.9 million.

Fourth, and far behind at$3.2 million, was action-com-edy "Pain and Gain," about

bodybuilders caught up in abotched kidnapping scheme.

Fifth place went to stone-age cartoon "The Croods" atjust over $3 million followedby "42" -- a biopic about trail-blazing black baseball starJackie Robinson -- that made$2.8 million.

"Oblivion," the post-apoca-lyptic action flick featuringTom Cruise, took seventhplace with $2.3 million, trailedby "Mud," a coming-of-agestory with Matthew Mc-Conaughey and Reese Wither-spoon, with $2.2 million.

"Peeples" starring CraigRobinson as a boyfriend whoinitially fails to impress thefamily of his girlfriend, playedby Kerry Washington, came ina close ninth with just under$2.2 million.

Rounding out the top 10was the star-studded comedy"The Big Wedding" -- featur-ing Robert De Niro, KatherineHeigl, Diane Keaton andRobin Williams -- at $1.2 mil-lion.

'Star Trek' boldly goes totop of US box office

Swift wins big, Bieber booed at Billboard awards

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MADRID (AFP) - Jose Mour-inho will leave Real Madrid atthe end of the season after aturbulent three-year spell incharge of the Spanish giants,club president FlorentinoPerez confirmed Monday.

Mourinho, who has beenstrongly linked with a return toChelsea - a team he managedbetween 2004 and 2007, hasendured a torrid final season incharge of Los Blancos culmi-nating in Friday's defeat byAtletico Madrid in the Copadel Rey final that ensured Realend the season without a majortrophy.

However, Perez denied thatMourinho had been sacked bythe club and said they will nothave to pay the Portuguesecoach compensation despitethe fact his current contractruns until 2016.

"It is not nice for anyone tohave to leave but it is also truethat after three years we bothdecided it was the right mo-ment to break this relation-ship." Perez said.

And despite rumours linkingParis Sant-Germain boss CarloAncelotti with the manager'sjob at the Bernabeu, Perez alsoclaimed he has not reached anagreement with any coach tosucceed Mourinho.

The 50-year-old Mourinho'stime in charge of the nine-timeEuropean champions has beenlittered with high profile bust-ups with the local media andmany of his stellar squad ofworld class players, but Perezhailed his demanding stan-dards throughout his time incharge


pegged back by Wang in gamethree and the contest appearedto be heading for two-all onlyfor Zhang to fight off four setpoints in the fourth frame to re-establish a two-game advan-tage.

Wang, the 2009 champion,then took the following gameto preserve his title hopes but itproved to be merely a stay ofexecution as Zhang wrappedthings up in game six at thefirst time of asking.

Despite coming up shortagainst Zhang yet again, beatenfinalist Wang was not toodownhearted by the loss.

Earlier, women's singleschampion Li Xiaoxia doubledher gold medal haul with vic-tory in the doubles final.

Bronze medals were awardedto losing semi-finalists ChenMeng and Zhu Yuling, also ofChina, and Singapore pair FengTianwei and Yu Mengyu.

PARIS (AFP) - Defendingchampion Zhang Jike of Chinaretained his men's singles titleat the World Table TennisChampionships in Paris onMonday after defeating com-patriot Wang Hao in the final.

Fourth seed Zhang prevailed11-7, 11-8, 6-11, 14-12, 5-11,11-7 in a rematch of last year'sOlympic final to secure afourth major title in a row.

Zhang completed a careergrand slam when he pippedWang to the Olympic crown inLondon last August, adding tothe world title he won twoyears ago in Rotterdam and the2011 World Cup, with Wangalso the losing finalist on bothof those occasions.

Ma Long took top honours atlast year's World Cup in Liver-pool, an event in which Zhangdid not take part.

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Table tennis: Zhangretains men's worldcrown

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Football:Mourinhoto leaveReal atend of theseason

banned substances.Al Zarooni has lodged an ap-

peal against the severity of hisinitial suspension and the BHAhas confirmed it will not takeany further action until thatmatter is resolved, with the lastweek in June currentlyfavoured as a potential hearingdate.

Adam Brickell, director ofintegrity, legal and risk for theBHA, said: "We will not betaking any separate action inrespect of these additional pos-itive results whilst Mr Al Za-rooni's appeal process ison-going.

"In the meantime, the latestfindings from HFL Sport Sci-ence will form the subject offurther interviews as part of theBHA's continuing investiga-tion.

"From the outset, one of theaims of the investigation, in ad-dition to trying to understandthe environment within whichsuch serious breaches came tobe committed, has been toidentify what measures areneeded to ensure the yard oper-ates in accordance with theRules in future."The findings will be sharedwith Godolphin and will alsoassist the BHA with regard tothe future licensing of theyard."

LONDON (AFP) - The 2012St Leger winner Encke isamong seven horses to test pos-itive for anabolic steroids as theinvestigation widened intodoping involving Sheikh Mo-hammed's Godolphin opera-tion.

The British Horseracing Au-thority (BHA) revealed onMonday that they had under-taken an extensive testing pro-gramme at the yard ofMahmood Al Zarooni, whotrained horses for Godolphin,following his recent eight-yearsuspension for administeringbanned drugs to 15 horses inhis care.

The latest BHA testing re-turned positive results for thesteroid stanozolol and Enckewill now be banned from run-ning for six months, meaninghe cannot return to action untilOctober 29.

Encke won the Doncasterclassic last September at longodds, in the process upsetting the2,000 Guineas and Derby winnerCamelot's Triple Crown bid.

The other six horses, Ener-gizer, Genius Beast, Improvisa-tion, Stamford, Steeler and ZipTop, will also be barred fromracing until that date.

Testing at the other Godol-phin yard of Saeed bin Suroorreturned no positive results for

Racing: St Legerwinner Encke testspositive

Miami and Indiana met inthe second round of last year'splayoffs and ahead of that se-ries Vogel called the Heat the"biggest flopping team in theuniverse."

After the Pacers seized a 2-1 lead in that series, Miamirallied to win the next threegames and advance.

Meanwhile in San Anto-

nio: The San Antonio Spursdrained 14 three-pointers in aconvincing 105-83 victoryover the Memphis Grizzlies inSunday's opening game of theNBA's Western Conference fi-nals.

Tony Parker scored 20points and handed out nine as-sists for the Spurs, whose sti-fling defense held Grizzlies'top scorer Zach Randolph toonly two points.

Randolph came in averag-ing 19.7 points per game inthis post-season, but finishedjust 1-of-8 from the field for aGrizzlies team appearing inthe conference finals for thefirst time.

The Spurs, meanwhile,showed the poise to be ex-pected from a team makingtheir eighth appearance in aconference final in the last 15years.

The winners of the best-of-seven series advance to theNBA title series against theEastern Conference champi-ons.

Each team won on its ownhome court, with Miami hav-ing now won six of their pastseven home meetings with In-diana.

The Pacers figure to be un-derdogs but Indiana cachFrank Vogel is focused uponhis own team rather than de-throning the defending cham-pions.

"When you're in the finalfour, you're competing for achampionship," Vogel said."They are the next team in ourway. That's how we're ap-proaching it."

That comment stirred theemotions of James, who saw itas an insult to their championstatus and 66-win season.

"We're not just anotherteam," James said. "He saidwe're just another team intheir way. We're a great team.If we're just another team, youreally don't prepare for just an-other team. You have to pre-pare for us.

That prompted Vogel to re-spond on the Pacers' websiteon Monday.

"Sorry sports world, thewords 'just another team'never came out of my mouth,"Vogel said. "Great respect forLBJ and the champs. Lookingforward to (a) great series."

It wasn't the first time Vogelaroused the tensions of theHeat ahead of a playoffmatchup.

guys are some of the best peo-ple to call friends, but whenwe’re at the starting lineagainst them, it doesn't matterhow good of friends they canbe, they are going to race hard.This weekend we finally gotto show that we don’t backdown and we’ve got what ittakes to stand up against suchtough competition. They havebeat up on us for a long time.They know this is somethingthat needs to be earned.

“We cannot wait to get an-other chance to do this again!”

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MIAMI (AFP) - ReigningNBA champion Miami is onthe verge of a third consecu-tive NBA Finals berth, but theIndiana Pacers plan to spoilthe repeat bid in the EasternConference final that starts inMiami on Wednesday.

The Heat, sparked by regu-lar season Most ValuablePlayer LeBron James andplaymaker Dwyane Wade,have the home-court advan-tage in the best-of-seven seriesto decide who will face Mem-phis or San Antonio in June'sNBA Finals.

But the Pacers promise aformidable test for Miami,having beaten them in two ofthree regular-season meetings.

NBA: James trades jibes withPacers coach as series looms

Alltel Wireless is a great groupof people that are just wonder-ful to be associated with. Hav-ing a brand name as big andpopular as Alltel Wireless onthe hood of a race car makesus feel really good to put thatname in the winner’s circle.

“The ADRL is doing a won-derful job putting on theseraces. They are giving us anexciting environment to racein, and they have our full com-mitment to participating intheir events. They have a goodgroup of people working forthem that also want to see theADRL grow bigger and better.The Traction Twins have atrack prepared for us in a waythat only spoils us more andmore every race- we thankyou for that.

“Last but not least, I want tothank all the racers in the Ex-treme Pro Stock category. Iwant to thank them for havingmade this such a difficult chal-lenge. It makes our first winthat much more special. These

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a very satisfying way to knowwe had that momentum. Thento maintain the fastest elapsedtime out of each round waseven better. We made it downthe track each and every timefrom A to B making straightruns and good runs.

“After winning the firstround against Brian Gahm, re-ality started to kick in that wecould have a good chance ofwinning the race. And sureenough we were able to ac-complish that. It was very emo-tional for the whole team.Everybody has been workingreal hard to accomplish this,and my gratitude and my hatgoes off to the entire team.

“My father eats, sleeps andbreathes Team Aruba. Bobbyhas dedicated himself to thisteam more than anything. JohnPeterson is one of the hardestworking guys I've ever seen.Pat Norcia from RAMClutches puts his mind totallyinto this program and is as pre-cise of a person as there is.Doug Schriefer from BraswellCarburetors has some awe-some carburetors on our motorand has this team better organ-ized than ever. Greg Brownfrom Jon Kaase Racing En-gines has our motor completelydominated in a way that hasgiven us a motor that is per-forming better than we canever hoped for.

“The emotion between allteam members after winningour first race was extremelytouching. It was a feeling I gotto share with a great group ofguys that I wouldn't trade forthe world.

“Norbert Dirksz who was atthe race with us, along withJeff Lopez and Nelson Win-klaar who are back in Arubakeep everybody in Aruba andall of our followers on Face-

CORDOVA : Heading into theADRL Spring Drags, TeamAruba was looking to wrap upsome unfinished business, andthat’s exactly what they did.From start to finish, TrevorEman and the gang from Arubadominated Extreme Pro Stockthe entire weekend. In theirfirst qualifying pass, they laiddown the number which wouldremain on top for the weekend,a 4.099 at 175.98 MPH. TheAruba.com / Alltel WirelessMustang was again the fastestcar in rounds two and three ofqualifying. In round four, JohnMontecalvo and John Pluchinomatched Eman’s 4.114, but noone was able to beat it.

The team’s impressive featscontinued on race day. TheKaase Racing Engines pow-ered machine muscled its waythrough the rounds. BrianGahm’s 4.249 elapsed timewas no match for Eman’s 4.148in round one. In the semi finalsEman had the quickest elapsedtime of the round, a 4.136paired with an .024 reaction,time to take out John Pluchinowho went .002 red on 4.149run. Team Aruba would havelane choice in the finals againstformer World Champion PeteBerner. Although Eman andBerner had been running closenumbers all day, Eman made itlook easy in the finals, layingdown an .003 light and pullingaway by a car length, crossingthe stripe first with another4.136.

The team from the ‘happy is-land’ had one of their happiestmoments ever, as they cele-brated this long-awaited vic-tory.

“We definitely finished ourunfinished business from Val-dosta,” relayed an elated Eman.“To come to the next race andqualify number one again was

book completely up to date onevery move Team Arubamakes,” Eman continued.“Their efforts have helped cre-ate a following of Team Arubathat we could have never ex-pected. So many people wereback home watching the livefeed and the congratulatorycomments were coming infrom the moment we qualifiednumber one.

“Above all, we were sur-rounded by a lot family at thisevent- my uncle Mike, thePrime Minister of Aruba, withmy aunt Doina; my uncle Braattogether with his daughterAnouk who was accompaniedby her synchronized swimmingpartner Rym; the Boushardfamily from Granite City, Ill;Claret Lopez and Greg Peter-son who are die hard support-ers of Team Aruba. All of thesepeople accompanied us at thisrace because they knew historywas going to be made.

“I wish Aruba in its entiretycould have been with us, to-gether with the Aruban dragracing community, who are justas passionate as, and possiblyeven more than, me about thissport. To all of our social mediafollowers, I cannot thankeverybody enough for the kindwords they all shared with us.I am told that the crowd stand-ing behind the Aruba.com/All-tel Wireless Mustang wasunlike any other when racingthe final round. I wish I couldhave been standing betweenthem to see the reaction whenthe win light came on.

“Together with great spon-sors, great things happen. Weare very grateful to the ArubaTourism Authority who supportus and believe in what we aretrying to accomplish by dragracing professionally in theUnited States.

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Team Aruba scores first

ADRL win

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