saturday, september 1, 2012

September 1 is the day when savvy businesses, government agencies and all thosewho understand the vital role media and news reporting plays in our daily lives, rec-ognize Aruba’s hardworking press people for the job they do. Top of this list is theAruba Tourism Authority, ATA, who demonstrated their appreciation to THE MORNINGNEWS staff with a beautiful cake delivered to our offices early Friday morning. “Whata nice surprise,” declared office administrator Ingrid Does. “The cake was as deliciousas it looked.” Editorial staff Rosalinda Maduro, Chandette Richardson and Marline v.d.Linden were joined by sales rep Yanis Garcia in confirming they enjoyed every morsel.Thanks to the ATA and all those who tipped their hats to the members of the press ontheir special day!

Geerman-Lacle, awarded Leowith a beautiful etched glassmemento celebrating this firstlustrum. Photographer HarryFingal of BUVO awarded thehonorees and Leo with aNikon pin, in acknowledge-ment of their expertise andcontributions.

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including a tribute to pioneersof Aruba’s news media. Thisyear’s honorees are Olivio deCuba, Stanley Illidge, and the“maestro of maestros” photog-rapher Chemmy Kock. Eachreceived a beautifully boundalbum of this year’s collectionof works.

RBC Bank Branch Ma -nager for San Nicolas, Joanaila

September 1 is Press Day onAruba, when the island toaststheir news media and theirconstant efforts to keep thepublic informed. Five yearsago, RBC Bank sponsored thefirst photographic tribute totheir work, instigated and or-ganized by noted news photog-rapher Leo Vrolijk.

“Lens di mi Wowonan,” isan exposition comprised ofwhat Aruba’s news photogra-phers feel is some of their bestwork of the past year or so. Itshowcases not only the eventsthat made history, but oftentheir talent for artistic photosand capturing Aruba’s beauty.

Thursday, August 30, Leowas honored for the first lus-trum of organizing this event,which opened in the Cas diCultura exposition room inOranjestad. A few years ago,the event opening also began

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Island photographers on display

at Cas di Cultura with “Lens di

mi Wowonan”

Aruba Tourism Authority recognizes

THE MORNING NEWS on Press Day

"Freedom of expression is one of our most precious

rights. It underpins every other freedom and provides

a foundation for human dignity. Free, pluralistic and

independent media is essential for its exercise."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova

Harry Fingal pins a Nikon Pin on Leo

Joanaila Geerman Lacle of RBC presents trophy

looking for educational mate-rial to work with in theirDutch classes. These textshad to be up-to-date and hadto fit into the experience ofthe students. The texts fromthe schoolbooks are often oldand out-of-date, without theAruban context. During thelast school year a pilot wascarried out. Amigoe providedthe facilities, the staff and thearticles for free. Amigoe alsotook the distribution andprinting costs upon itself. Tokeep the costs down an ap-peal was send to businessesto advertise in the newspaper,by which they would by con-tributing to a good cause.

Teachers at Colegio Aru -bano actively use the news-paper in classes of Dutch,Economics and Civics. Stu-dents could contribute to thenewspaper by indicatingnews they would like to readand also by writing their ownarticles for the newspaper.After 8 publications the en-thusiasm among the studentswas so big that they wereeven reading the newspaperduring their free time. Alsoteachers were enthusiasticand other schools interestedin collaboration.

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ORANJESTAD - GovernorFredis Refunjol was the firstto receive a copy of the Ami-goe op School on Tuesdaythe 28th of August. Thisnewspaper has now been of-ficially launched to encour-age students to read more,also in Dutch.

A delegation, consisting ofrector Hans van Tuijl andvakgroepleider Nederlands,Nico van der Zee, were pres-ent on behalf of ColegioAruba. From Amigoe Arubadirector Sigrid Hammelburg,chief editor Sharina Hen-riquez and marketeer JanWillem de Groot were pres-ent in the office of the Gov-ernor. There the Governorreceived an explanation onthe collaborative.

The purpose of the news-paper is to encourage stu-dents to read more: manyschool exams assume a basicknowledge of things that arehappening in the world. Stu-dents should also be able toread Dutch, as it is the lan-guage of instruction at se -condary schools and a goodcommand of the language isa condition for academic suc-cess.

The initiative for thisnewspaper came from Cole-gio Arubano. They were

plain the grand finale the willtake place on Saturday eve -ning, September 29. Antonio,born and raised on Aruba,spent many years as a chef atthe Crystal Palace in MagicKingdom, Disneyworld, and isnow a chef on the cruise shipFantasy of the Seas.

Antonio has organized culi-nary events on Aruba in thepast; this year’s will be partic-ularly exciting. He has confir-mation from a number ofworld famous chefs, stars onBravo and the Food Network,that they would love to cometo Aruba and compete in an In-ternational Celebrity ChefShowdown. Three will becoming to compete againstAruba’s own Ever de Pena, achef known for his food art,and sous chef at the MancheboBeach Resort. Ever and Anto-nio are both graduates ofAruba famed Culinary Insti-tute of the EPI School.

The competition will takeplace on the rooftop of thePaseo Herencia parking faci -lity, which proved a delightfulvenue for an elegant party dur-ing the past Aruba Interna-tional Film Festival. Famouschefs will be doing theirmagic, and the public is invitedto observe at no charge. Tick-ets are being sold for a specialVIP section, which will enjoythe tasty fruits of their labors.

“We are proud to partnerwith our fine restaurants, LeBistro, Maute Grill, IguanaCantina, Scala, TGI Friday’s,Nobushi, Taste of Heaven andMoka in showcasing the finedining to be found on Aruba,”stated GM Valerie Pietersz-Co-macho. “We look forward toEver and Antonio showingthese famous chefs just howwell we cook here. We have nodoubt they will teach them athing or two, and invite every-one to enjoy the show.”

by Rosalie Klein

several vintages at discountedprices. Various restaurants willbe hosting a “Saturday Spe-cial,” as well as different offersthroughout the month. EveryTuesday, diners can enjoy a20% discount at Nobushi Ori-ental Restaurant and Sushi,House, or any day, free parkingin the Paseo lot when theychoose Italian cuisine at Scala.

Paseo Herencia GeneralManager Valerie Pietersz-Ca-macho and Marketing Man-ager Candy Rasmijn wel -comed Chef Antonia Albertszof Sabor Aruba 2012, to ex-

The month of September willbe “sabroso” at Paseo HerenciaShopping Center beginningtonight. Starting at 7:00 andlasting until 9:00 PM, the mallwill host a celebration of finefood, with special discounts attheir many restaurants andshops. Musical shows on thestage of the Plaza Padu will adda festive touch. To enjoy thisgrand culinary event, ticketswill be on sale at the cashier’sbooth by the parking lot.

On various evenings, wine-tasting stands will be set up byArion Wine Company, offering

Paseo Herencia’s Candy Rasmijn and Valerie Pietersz-

Camacho with chefs Antonio , Ever and a ATA rep

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Paseo Herencia and Sabor Aruba present:1st International Celebrity ChefShowdown

Governor receives first copy

Amigoe op School, a gift to

the education of Aruba

This year’s exposition fea-tures over 200 photographsby 26 of Leo’s colleagues,cove ring everything fromroyal vi sits to comical mo-ments among the media. Pic-tures range from thehumorous to breathtaking, asthey reveal the world seenthrough the artful eye of en-thusiastic and experiencedphotographers.

This very enjoyable exhi-bition is open to the public,free of charge, Mondaythrough Friday, from 8:00AM until 5:00 PM, throughSeptember 7. Cas di Culturais located on the rotunda atthe east end of Oranjestad.

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Island photographers on display at Cas di Cultura...Continued from page 1

Media Colleagues captured by Leo

Joanaila Geerman-Lacle, the honorees, Sigrid Hammel-burg and Leo Vrolijk

Why I am an Arubamil Monarch in my garden

that funds given by the govern-ment are being misappropri-ated, or used irresponsibly, thegovernment will discount thosefunds from their subsidy. It ap-pears they are receiving toomuch funds and are using themirresponsibly, hence the gov-ernment has to take action. It isthe government’s responsibilityto make sure that there are suf-ficient funds for education, andthey use the school boards toimplement and administerthese funds. The government inturn is responsible to ensurethat the funds are being used inthe best possible manner andwithin the confines of the rules.

one more money than the per-son had legal rights to. In thisparticular situation, SMOA didnot meet with the different par-ties who issue the funds, to ex-plain anything.

According to the govern-ment, it is not lawful for aschool board to use govern-ment funds to pay staff moremoney, because it is the gov-ernment that stipulates how thefunds are to be used. In theevent that the school boardwants to pay staff more, that istheir prerogative, but they mustacquire the funds for such fromother sources.

Whenever it is ascertained

that should be earmarked forcertain means, but, apparently,they are using the funds to paycertain teachers as part of themanagement of the school.SMOA was deliberately in-formed by the Department ofEducation and the InspectionSection that that practice isagainst the law and that SMOAhas to stop it, but for years thispractice continued. For thisreason they had to stop sendingthese funds. Hence, this wasnot a case of an abrupt sus-pense of the subsidy.

Dowers explained thatSMOA has in the past deviatedfrom the rules by paying some-

ORANJEST AD -- The Minis-ter of Education, in a publicdeclaration emphasized that theinformation communicated bySMOA is erroneous in that,contrary to their story, he hadsat down with them on variousoccasions and deliberated veryopenly with them on the issuesat hand. One of the major dis-putes currently is the fact thatthe government has put a stopto a portion of the subsidy theyhave been receiving from thegovernment.

The Minister also empha-sized that SMOA was informedthat what they are doing is notcorrect. SMOA receives funds

THE HAGUE -- There was al-ways a ray of hope that the ex-tended study fine measurewould be abolished in the Sec-ond House of Chamber beforeSeptember 1st. However, it isnow practically certain that thismeasure will be implemented,accor ding to Samuel Dumfriesof the Department of Educationat the Aruba House in Holland.

Students who have a oneyear delay in their Bachelor orMaster’s program, will be leviedan extra 3.036 Euros on their tu-ition. For a certain ca tegory ofstudent there will be an excep-tion, for example, students whowere ill for an extended periodand could not go to school, orthose who occupied a positionon a Board of an organizationduring an entire year

On the other hand, studentswho switched mayors during anacademic year, will be levied thefine. We estimate that this meas-ure of the Dutch governmentwill affect a few hundredAruban students. Va rious aca-demic institutions have alreadybegun to issue invoices to collectthe levy, which many studentshave already received in theirmail.

Understandably, not every-one will be able to pay 3000Euros at once. For this reason,the government is informing allAruban students to take thismatter very seriously. Theyshould not just lay this matteraside, but to take immediate ac-tion. It may be possible to makean appeal against the levy. Thiswould have to be done at theschool where they are enrolled,since that is where the collectionof the fine will take place.

Those unable to pay the finein one payment may apply for apayment arrangement at the Di-enst Uitvoering Onderwijs(DUO) in the form of an in-crease of their credit line. All ofthis information is available on-line at www.duo.nl. On thissame web address, students cancalculate how much their finewill be and if the levy will applyto them. Again, once verified,the student should take actionimmediately.

The Aruba government hasemphasized that this measure re-garding the extended study fineis one taken by the Dutch gov-ernment. Aruba cannot exerciseany influence in this matter.Notwithstanding the wil -lingness of the Aruba govern-

ment to intervene, we mustconclude that it is outside ourscope and power to cancel thismeasure, according to the Min-ister Plenipotentiary in TheHague.


Extended StudyFine set to beapproved forimplementation

SMOA funds cut off due to inappropriate use

versed in what is happeningaround them. We remaincommitted to provide youwith the very best news inEnglish. One important as-pect, many fail to keep inmind is that newspapers sur-vive on two elements, eachare as indispensable as theother:

One, we need you to readwhat we publish! When youpick up The Morning Newsand consult us for your dailyinformation, we know thatwe are meeting an importantneed. But, two, we cannotproduce a quality papereveryday without the supportof our business community.The business communitymakes it possible for us tomeet your need for qualitynews in English. We lookback on a year with gratitudefor the great support we havereceived from so many busi-ness concerns on the island,and we thank you for yoursupport! We look ahead intothe new press year and expectto have an increase amount ofsupport from the businesscommunity. Together we canmake the kind of influencewe are designed to make, butit must be together!

Pabien na tur colega! Con-gratulations on this Press Dayfrom The Morning News!

factions out there doing theirutmost to tell reporters whatthey may and may not reportand/or how they should dotheir reporting. But, we maynever deviate from our stan-dard ...tell the truth and noth-ing but the truth!

Today, we salute all presspeople, those who labor, dayand night, to keep everyoneelse informed and well

get everyday let us know thatwe are right on target. Wepresent the facts, unadulter-ated, and in all kindness toeveryone.

Today, news reporting hasbecome more of an art than itever was, because our worldhas become so much morecri tical and devious. On theother hand it is also very ob-vious that there are always

the peoples we reach with thenews and stories of everydaysituations.

The Morning News, fromthe very inception of ourbusiness, set out to make adiffe rence, a salient differ-ence in how we present thenews and in how we projectthe stories of everyday situa-tions both locally and interna-tionally. The feedbacks we

Today is International PressDay! A day when we lookback over the past year andevaluate how the press hasinfluenced and /or affectedthe lives of the people wereach every day. We under-stand something of the powerof the written and spokenword. We know that what wesay and how we say it couldmake a world of difference to

Happy Press Day to ALL!Saturday, September 1, 2012 5

Gift

This year Amigoe Aruba iscelebrating their 50th year ofexistence and as a gift to ourcommunity, in particular to ed-ucation, the Amigoe op Schoolwill be continued. On the 28thof August the first official edi-tion, which is free for everysecondary school, was pub-lished. Schools who are stillinterested, can still join.

During the academic year2012-2013 a total of 12 edi-tions will be published. Ami-goe sincerely hopes that thecommunity will embrace thisinitiative, especially as an in-centive for the education andyouth.

Amigoe op

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validated the election.Earlier, second-place fin-

isher andres Manuel lopezObrador refused to recognizethe court's dismissal of hiselection challenge and calledon supporters to join him at aSeptember 9 rally in MexicoCity.

lopez Obrador claims thatthe institutional RevolutionaryParty (PRi) bought five millionvotes and violated campaignspending rules in order to se-cure Pena nieto's victory.

MEXiCO CiTY (aFP) -Mexico's electoral tribunalyesterday declared EnriquePena nieto the winner of theJuly 1 presidential election,one day after dismissing hisleftist rival's bid to scrap theresult.

"Enrique Pena nieto is thepresident-elect of... Mexico,from December 1, 2012, tonovember 30, 2018," courtpresident Jose alejandro lunaRamos said after the seven-judge tribunal unanimously

16 times.about a dozen workers

were in the store at the timeand most were able to hide,Kaplan said.

The asbury Park Pressquoted Old Bridge MayorOwen Henry as saying that thekiller was a former US Marinewho arrived at the store wear-ing camouflage.

vised news conference that thekiller was 23 and his victimswere an 18-year-old womanand a 24-year-old man.

all three were employees atthe supermarket, which hadnot yet opened to the public forthe day.

Kaplan said the gunmanfinished his night shift, re-turned with the weapons andstarted to shoot, firing at least

nEW YORK (aFP) - a manarmed with a Kalashnikov-style automatic rifle and ahandgun shot dead two peopleyesterday at a supermarket in atown near new York, and thenshot himself, officials said.

The attack took place at aPathmark store in Old Bridge,new Jersey.

Middlesex County Prosecu-tor Bruce Kaplan told a tele-

The US Pacific TsunamiWarning Center shortly after-wards lifted its tsunami warn-ings for the Philippines andindonesia. it had earlier can-celled similar warnings forJapan, Taiwan and several Pa-cific islands.

The USGS had initially re-ported the quake as having amagnitude of 7.9, but revised itto 7.6.

meet officials dealing with theaftermath of isaac, which toreashore in new Orleans exactlyseven years after killer Hurri-cane Katrina.

But he sidestepped ques-tions inviting him to judgewhether it was appropriate forRomney, who has no officialrole in dealing with the storm,to go to louisiana hours afteraccepting his party's presiden-tial nomination.

"it is always important todraw attention to the fact thatindividuals and families andbusiness owners are pro-foundly affected by the storm,"

Carney said.Romney was to meet

louisiana Governor BobbyJindal and first responders inthe town of laFitte late yester-day.

Romney's team announcedthe last-minute change early inthe day in lakeland, Florida,where the candidate and hisrunning mate Paul Ryan hadscheduled a rally.

in a press call, the WhiteHouse underscored that the de-cision to travel to the region onMonday was made beforeRomney announced his plans.

WaSHinGTOn (aFP) - USPresident Barack Obama willtour storm damage and visitvictims of Hurricane isaac onMonday, the White House saidyesterday, as Republican rivalMitt Romney headed for thedisaster zone.

White House spokesmanJay Carney said top officialshad assessed that Monday wasthe most appropriate day tovisit louisiana as they werekeen to ensure the huge presi-dential security operation didnot detract from relief efforts.

Carney told reporters on airForce One that Obama would

Obama to tour hurricane damage

on Monday

pines, leading to tsunamiwarnings across its east coastand as far away as indonesia,Japan and Papua new Guinea.

a series of small wavesranging from 16-centimeters(six-inch) to 50 centimeters hitthe eastern Philippines abouttwo hours after the quake, ac-cording to local authorities, butthere were no reports of majordamage.

Manila (aFP) - a 7.6 earth-quake struck off the Philippinecoast yesterday, triggeringlandslides that killed at leastone person and a smalltsunami that hit the eastern partof the archipelago, authoritiessaid.

The quake struck at a depthof 34 kilometers (21 miles) inthe Pacific Ocean about 140kilometres from the Philip-


One dead, small tsunami after 7.6

Philippine quake

US supermarket worker shoots deadtwo, kills self

Mexico's Pena Nieto officiallydeclared president-elect

in the exclusively peacefulnature of its nuclear pro-gram," he added.

The statement comes inthe wake of a new IAEA re-port that said Iran has dou-bled capacity at anunderground nuclear facilityand stepped up production ofnuclear fuel.

The United States, Britain,France and other westernpowers accuse Iran of seekinga nuclear bomb. But Tehraninsists its effort is peaceful.

Iran's supreme leader Aya-tollah Ali Khamenei said in aspeech attended by Ban at theNon-Aligned Movementsummit this week that hiscountry would "never" ceaseits nuclear activities.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -UN leader Ban Ki-moon yes-terday called on Iran to proveits nuclear program is peace-ful after a UN watchdog saidthe Islamic state has steppedup its atomic drive.

Ban, who pressed Iranianleaders over internationalsuspicions of a bomb-makingeffort while at a summit inTehran this week, expressedregret at the lack of progressbetween the government andthe International Atomic En-ergy Agency (IAEA).

Ban said there had to be "adiplomatic and negotiated so-lution" to the showdown.

"This must include meas-ures by Iran aimed at build-ing international confidence

WASHINGTON (AFP) - ThePentagon has not decidedwhether a book by a formerUS Navy SEAL on the raidthat killed Osama bin Ladenexposes state secrets but it iskeeping its legal options open,a spokesman said yesterday.

"I'm not going to characte -rize one way or the otherwhether we think there's clas-sified information in it," presssecretary George Little told re-porters. "We are going to pre-serve our options."

The Pentagon's top lawyerissued a warning late Thursdayto the author of "No Easy Day,"saying he had violated non-dis-closure agreements he signedwhile in uniform -- including apledge to submit any book forreview before publication.

have been found guilty in courtof violating their contractualobligations, regardless ofwhether their books disclosedclassified information.

The government then hasthe right to demand access toany profits from the unautho-rized books, said Steven After-good of the Federation ofAmerican Scientists, whowrites a blog on governmentsecrecy. The non-disclosureagreements "have been consis-tently construed by courts as abinding contract."

Failing to submit a manu-script qualifies as a civil case,but if the Pentagon concludessecrets were revealed in thebook, the former commandocould be subject to criminalprosecution, he said.

"Those agreements are veryclear, that when you writesomething that may containclassified information, youneed to have it go through pre-publication review by this de-partment," Little said. "That didnot occur in this case. And wetake these agreements and ourobligation to protect classifiedinformation very seriously."

The former Navy com-mando wrote "No Easy Day"under a pseudonym, MarkOwen, but has been identifiedby US media as Matt Bisson-nette. The book is due to be re-leased next week but hasalready sparked a wave of pub-licity and controversy.

In similar cases, CIA em-ployees who failed to submittheir manuscripts for review

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Flagsflew at half mast across theUnited States yesterday inmemory of astronaut NeilArmstrong to mark the privatefuneral in Ohio of the first manto walk on the moon.

Family and friends of Arm-strong, who died Saturdayaged 82, gathered at a club inthe Cincinnati suburb of IndianHill to pay their final respects,the Cleveland Plain Dealernewspaper reported.

The late-morning funeralwas by invitation only, with nomedia present, reflecting Arm-strong's own intensely privatenature. A public memorial isscheduled for September 12 inWashington.

Eulogies were read by Arm-strong's two sons, with Repub-lican senator Rob Portman andbusinessman friend CharlesMechem also speaking.

On Monday, US PresidentBarack Obama ordered in aWhite House proclamationthat flags on all US govern-ment premises be lowered tohalf mast Friday to mark Arm-strong's funeral.

His order applied to theStars and Stripes on the top ofthe White House, all publicbuildings, military posts, navalstations and US naval ships atsea anywhere in the world, aswell as at US embassies andconsulates.


Flags athalf-mastacross US

for NeilArmstrong

funeral

On SEAL's book, Pentagon keeps legaloptions open

Ban calls on Iran to prove

nuclear drive is peaceful


Stephanie and Michael, from New York, couldn't think of

a better place than Aruba and the Hyatt Hotel to cele-

brate their first anniversary, as they have been here be-

fore. This time, as part of their special occasion, they

decided to have a romantic photo session. Last year,

on their wedding day, August 28th, it rained..so they

weren't able to take outdoor photos. So this year,

Stephanie thought it would be so nice as a celebration

of their anniversary and their love, to have photos in the

sunshine "after the rain". Near the end of the photo ses-

sion, they toasted to their love and their first anniver-

sary of many, many more, and then sat down to a

romantic dinner for two at the Hyatt's "Footprints"

restaurant on the beach. Congratulations to the happy

couple.

Photo by Diane Keijzer

Happy First Anniversary

Paranal site in Chile's AtacamaDesert.

The ESO is supported byAustria, Belgium, Brazil,Britain, the Czech Republic,Denmark, France, Finland,Germany, Italy, the Nether-lands, Portugal, Spain, Swe-den and Switzerland.

mastodons, mammoths, camels,horses, deer and glyptodons, thearmadillo's ancestor. Some bonesmay belong to bison, while oth-ers have not been identified

Archeologists have workedfor the past five months to re-cover the bones.

vertebrae and shells were dis-covered 20 meters (65 feet)deep in Atotonilco de Tula, atown in the state of Hidalgo, asworkers built a drain, the insti-tute said.

These remains belong to arange of species including


Apple, Samsung'tablet war'overshadowsBerlin techshowBERLIN (AFP)-The reper-cussions of Apple's billion-dollar patent victory overSamsung were still being feltat Europe's biggest consumerelectronics show, as the SouthKorean firm launched a hostof new gadgets.

After losing the biggestpatent case in decades, Sam-sung came out fighting at theIFA show in Berlin whichopened Friday, with a sweep-ing media launch of smart-phones, tablets, a "smart PC"and a voice-controlled cam-era.

But as Samsung madeevery effort to shrug off thedefeat with a dazzling arrayof new toys, there were con-cerns the court case could sti-fle innovation as firms fear tolaunch new products thatcould be the target of patentsuits.

Juergen Boyny, from con-sumer affairs think tank GfK,said the "tablet war" betweenApple and Samsung -- whichforced the South Korean firmto pull one of its products outof last year's show -- was a"limited conflict."

"It will not stop the devel-opment of innovation, norwill it stop smartphone ortablet sales," he told AFP

Indeed, IFA organisers saythe global market for con-sumer electronics is poised todefy the economic slowdownand post a two-percent gainthis year to around $1.1 tril-lion.

Samsung's main competi-tors, however, were to be ab-sent from this year's IFA.

(AFP) - Workers have discov-ered hundreds of bones belong-ing to Ice Age animals,including mammoths,mastodons and glyptodons,while digging to build a waste-water treatment plant north ofMexico City.

The bones could be be-tween 10,000 and 12,000 yearsold and may include a humantooth from the late Pleistoceneperiod, Mexico's National In-stitute of Anthropology andHistory annaounced.Tusks,skulls, jawbones, horns, ribs,

Mexico wastewater project uncovers Ice Age bones

light.The ESO operates three

sites in Chile.The Very Large Telescope

(VLT) array -- a cluster of fourtelescopes that can view ob-jects four billion times fainterthan those visible to the nakedeye -- is housed at the ESO's

Because the star is similarto our sun, the finding "showsthat some of the chemicalcompounds needed for life ex-isted in this (solar) system atthe time of planet formation,"the ESO said.

The discovery was madepossible by the high sensitivityof the Atacama Large Millime-ter/submillimeter Array(ALMA), an internationalproject still under constructionand slated for completion in2013.

ALMA has 66 antennas ex-ploring the universe via radiowaves emitted by galaxies,stars and other bodies not cap-tured by optical and infraredtelescopes, which only receive

SANTIAGO (AFP) - As-tronomers using a powerfulradio telescope in Chile saidthat they had discovered sugarmolecules, one of the buildingblocks of life, orbiting a youngstar similar to the Sun.

"This is the first time sugarbeen found in space around

such a star," theEuropean South-ern Observatory(ESO), which isadministering theproject said.

The as-tronomers foundglycolaldehyde, asugar compounddescribed as es-sential to the exis-tence of life, in

the gas surrounding the star,located some 400 light-yearsfrom Earth, it said.

The discovery "shows thatthe building blocks of life arein the right place, at the righttime, to be included in planetsforming around the star."

Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star


“It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.”

~ Charles Osgood

employment by more than twomillion jobs, relative to whatotherwise would have oc-curred," he said.

He warned, as he has overmuch of the past year, that Fedaction is not a panacea for pol-icy action from political lead-ers.

Besides heavy spendingcuts by federal and local gov-ernments, he said the economyhas been held back by partisanbattles over raising the debtceiling and the looming "fiscalcliff" policy, a poison-pill lawfrom last year that could forcea sharp contraction in the econ-omy beginning on January 1 ifnot changed.

"Policymakers should takecare to avoid a sharp near-termfiscal contraction that couldendanger the recovery,"Bernanke said.

Economists said Bernanke'scomments raised the likeli-hood that he could garner ade-quate support for fresh actionin the Federal Open MarketCommittee's September 12-13meeting -- whether more sig-naling of Fed intent on futureinterest rate movements, or athird QE program.

also because persistently highlevels of unemployment willwreak structural damage on oureconomy that could last formany years," he said.

"Taking due account of theuncertainties and limits of itspolicy tools, the Federal Re-serve will provide additionalpolicy accommodation asneeded to promote a strongereconomic recovery and sus-tained improvement in labormarket conditions in a contextof price stability."

Bernanke, whose policieshave been criticized by USconservative politicians, in-cluding Republican presiden-tial candidate Mitt Romney,delivered a lengthy defense ofthe Fed's intervention actionssince the financial crisis.

He said that efforts to drivedown long-term interest ratesthrough "quantitative easing"(QE) bond purchase operationsand other programs hadboosted growth and addedjobs, while not fueling infla-tion.

Such actions "may haveraised the level of output by al-most three percent and in-creased private payroll

WASHINGTON (AFP) - USFederal Reserve ChairmanBen Bernanke expressed deepyesterday and argued for freshaction to stimulate growthfrom the central bank.

Warning that stagnation inthe US labor market was "agrave concern," Bernanke de-fended the Fed's interventionsof the past four years and sig-naled he would be pushing formore when the Fed's policyboard meets in 12 days.

"The economic situation isobviously far from satisfac-tory," he said in the keynotespeech of the Fed's annual con-ference of central bankers inJackson Hole, Wyoming.

"Growth in recent quartershas been tepid, and so, not sur-prisingly, we have seen no netimprovement in the unemploy-ment rate since January," hesaid.

"Unless the economy be-gins to grow more quickly thanit has recently, the unemploy-ment rate is likely to remain farabove levels consistent withmaximum employment forsome time."

Bernanke made clear thatthe jobless rate, stuck aroundat 8.3 percent, is one of hisbiggest worries.

"The stagnation of the labormarket in particular is a graveconcern not only because of theenormous suffering and wasteof human talent it entails, but

Bernanke signals desire for more

Fed stimulus

lenders that receive eurozoneaid, Economy Minister Luis deGuindos said.

Spanish banks will receivecash, debt or shares in returnfor toxic assets transferred tothe "bad bank", he added.

The latest reform forcesbanks to strengthen their bal-ance sheets by raising the ratioof rock-solid core capital to 9.0percent of total assets from 8.0percent.

The legislation also makesit easier for the government totake control of troubledlenders.

"We are establishing thebasis so that there will never beanother crisis such as this oneever again," the economy min-ister said.

The Spanish cabinet was setto approve the banking reformlast week but the EuropeanCommission asked Madrid fora one-week delay to give ittime to analyse the text.

Olli Rehn, the EconomicsAffairs commissioner, praisedthe new measures as "an im-portant signal of Spain's deter-mination to comply fully withthe requirements and time-frame set out in the Memoran-dum of Understanding" onSpain's banking bailout.

MADRID (AFP) - Spain's ca -binet approved a major finan-cial reform package yesterdayincluding the creation of a"bad bank" to buy troubledproperty assets and bad loansfrom lenders.

Spain had agreed to pushthrough the changes as a con-dition for receiving a bankingsector rescue loan of up to 100billion euros ($125 billion)from its eurozone partners.

Deputy Prime Minister So-raya Saenz de Santamaria saidthe financial sector reform --Spain's fifth in three years --was needed to get credit flow-ing again to the economy.

"We must clean up the fi-nancial sector to have bankslending again," she told a newsconference. "With this reform,we respect our European com-mitments."

Spanish banks have beenweighed down with rising badloans and repossessed real es-tate since the collapse of aproperty bubble in 2008,which sent the jobless ratesoaring to nearly 25 percent.

The "bad bank" will last forbetween 10 to 15 years and itwill buy an as-yet undeter-mined amount of bad loansand foreclosed property from


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dressed businessman husbandEdelcio, scanned the monumentand surrounding area with heriPad to capture the moment.

"She had a big soul, she cap-tivated the whole world," shesaid.

Some of those present weretoo young to remember theprincess in their lifetimes, likeMaxime Cailmail, 20, and hisfriend Pauline Laries, 23, visit-ing Paris from southernToulouse.

But Priyani Wijesinghe, a SriLankan doctor who lives inParis, remembers the princess'suntimely death well.

married and the birth of herchildren, her charity work, howshe tried to raise her boys asnormal as possible. It was sosad she had to die that early."

Sylvia Fricot brought hereight-year-old daughter all theway from southern France toshow her the shrine to the"princess of hearts".

"She was a beautiful woman,elegant and generous," she said."I still remember when I learnedof her death. I had just wokenup, and it took me some time tocome to terms with it."

Daniele Fazzio, visiting fromSao Paulo with her sharply-

comfort and strength," smiledthe metalworker, who plannedto spend four to five hours at theshrine.

"Fifteen years already, timehas stood still and so has myheart," reads the opening of thepoem he composed in her mem-ory. "But for all those who love,time is eternal."

South African businessmanRobbie Teengs and his wifeTheresa also set aside the lastday of their European tour forDiana.

"It was a shock 15 yearsago," said the 53-year-old iron-mongery businessman. "I canremember that night exactly.Harry and William -- their kidswere the same age as our kids. Iwoke my wife up, we couldn'tsleep. "So our priority todaywas to come here," he told AFP.

Likewise, Jocelyn Knottfrom the region of Toronto, wasin Paris with a whole tribe of 15family members en route for areunion in the Netherlands --and together they made a detourvia the monument.

"We thought it would be spe-cial to stop by and see the me-morial," said the 52-year-old. "Ithink its a wonderful tribute toher and her life.

"I remember the day she got

the flame of the Statue of Lib-erty, a local monument whichDiana fans have adopted as aninformal memorial.

Ignoring the din of the trafficrushing into the tunnel under theAlma bridge, just north of theRiver Seine, visitors fromBrazil, South Africa or Canadabent to read the messages setamong pictures and papiermache flowers.

As he has done each yearsince 1997, Gerald made thetwo-hour journey from Orleanssouth of Paris to pay his re-spects -- among a busy jostle ofradio and television crews.

"Diana is a figure of inspira-tion for all of us. She brings me

PARIS (AFP) - Guy Geraldbrought wild flowers from hisgarden and a poem he wrote forDiana, laying them gentlyamong the mementos that dot-ted a makeshift Paris shrine tothe princess on Friday, 15 yearsafter she died.

The 65-year-old was one ofa steady trickle of tourists, well-wishers and die-hard Diana fanswho filed past the site, directlyabove the underpass where theprincess was killed in a carcrash alongside her companionDodi Fayed.

"Unforgettable Diana", "Alife of love," "Fifteen years al-ready", read the little notestaped to the base of a replica of


'Unforgettable Diana' honoured at Paris shrine

"Flame of Freedom" statue at the Pont de l'Alma under-pass where Lady Diana died in France.

for visually impaired athletes inthe 100m and 400m freestyle,prompting high praise from USDefence Secretary LeonPanetta.

The swimmer, who has en-tered seven races at the Games,said that competing had givenhim back his self-confidenceand after the race said he wasproud to represent his injuredcomrades.

para-sport.In the US team, more than 20

of the 227 athletes are veterans,while Britain's team includesJon-Allen Butterworth, a formerRoyal Air Force weapons tech-nician who lost an arm in arocket attack in Basra, southernIraq, in 2007.

Snyder won all five events atthe US Paralympic swimmingtrials and set a new world best

LONDON (AFP) - US swim-mer Bradley Snyder yesterdaywon gold in the men's S11 100mfreestyle at the London Para-lympics -- a year after losing hissight when an improvised ex-plosive device exploded in hisface in Afghanistan.

The 28-year-old former USNavy lieutenant won the race in57.43secs, with clear water be-tween him and second-placedfinisher Yang Bozun of Chinaand Hendri Herbst Hendri ofSouth Africa in third.

Snyder was on a tour of dutyas a bomb disposal specialistwhen on September 7 last yeara home-made bomb detonatedand blinded him.

The bloody legacy of nearlya decade of wars in Iraq andAfghanistan in recent years haveled to a number of wounded for-mer service personnel taking up


US serviceman blinded in Afghanistanwins gold

Fixtures Today:

Celta Vigo v Osasuna(1400GMT), Real Zaragoza vMalaga (1600GMT), De-portivo La Coruna v Getafe(1800GMT), Real Mallorca vReal Sociedad (2000GMT)

Real Zaragoza.Modest Levante were the

major surprises last season,qualifying for the EuropaLeague, but after a stutteringstart without a win, they aim toget back on track against Es-panyol.

Athletic Bilbao, when theyplay Real Betis.

Malaga learnt on Thursdaythat they will face AC Milan,Zenit Saint Petersburg and An-derlecht in the group stage oftheir debut Champions Leaguecampaign, and they take on

after winning the King's Cupin his first year and then theleague title last season, whichended Barca's hegemonyunder Pep Guardiola, who hadfinished first in the previousthree campaigns.

The defeat was a blow fornew Barca coach Tito Vi-lanova as he seeks to emulatethe successes of his predeces-sor.

He has so far failed totighten up the defence, whichwas the weak point of the teamlast season, and centre-backsGerard Pique and JavierMascherano were chasingshadows for much of the first45 minutes against Madrid.

Still, Vilanova praised theway his side responded afterthe break.

"I am proud that with 10men in the second half, wemanaged to create five scoringchances," he said.

Barca take on Valencialooking to maintain their 100per cent record, which is alsoshared by Real Valladolid andRayo Vallecano.

Valladolid are yet to con-cede a goal in an impressivereturn to the top flight and theyface an Athletic Bilbao side indisarray after the departure ofJavi Martinez to Bayern Mu-nich, and with FernandoLlorente expected to followhim out of the door.

Their policy of only fieldingBasques means their ability tohold onto their players is cru-cial but their fine displays lastseason have put them in theshop window.

Rayo now play Sevilla, whowere happy to come awaywith a point from the Andalu-sian derby with Granada afterplaying the whole second halfwith 10 men following the dis-missal of goalkeeper DiegoLopez.

Atletico Madrid will look tocontinue their strong start tothe season, which included ahat-trick by striker RadamelFalcao in a 4-0 victory over

MADRID (AFP) - Havingclaimed the season's first pieceof silverware with victory overBarcelona in the SpanishSuper Cup, Real Madrid returnto domestic action needing toclose a five-point deficit on theCatalans in La Liga.

Madrid coach Jose Mour-inho uncharacteristically toreinto his players after their 2-1derby defeat by Getafe lastweekend, describing their per-formance as "unacceptable".

He got the reaction he waslooking for in the Super Cupthough, with a sparkling first-half display on Wednesday atthe Bernabeu paving the wayfor a 2-1 victory over 10-manBarca that gave Madrid thetrophy on away goals.

It was the only silverwarethat Mourinho lacked in Spain


Super Cup winners Real Madrid seek league upturn


LONDON (AFP) - Britishcaptain Dave Clarke thankedglobal football icon DavidBeckham for spreading theword about blind five-a-sidesoccer as the sport's Para-lympic tournament kicked offyesterday.

Played in front of a silentcrowd to allow players to hearthe rattling ball, the openingmatches of the eight-teamevent had spectators on theedge of their seats at the Lon-don 2012 Games.

The four outfield playersare visually impaired, andwear eye shades to ensure fair-ness, while goalkeepers maybe full or partially sighted.

The Futsal-size pitch has arebound wall, meaning thereare no throw-ins, whilematches consist of two halvesof 25-minutes.

At set pieces, coaches tapthe posts so the players knowwhere to aim.

And there was no shortageof drama as reigning champi-ons Brazil drew a blank, Chinagot off to a flying start andhome side Great Britain heldSpain.

In Group A, Britain camefrom behind in a 1-1 drawwith Spain. Antonio MartinGaitan converted a penalty but

Clarke equalised two minuteslater with a superb twistingdribble and finish.

Clarke, 41, taught Beck-ham how to play the sport andhas kept in touch with the for-mer Manchester United, RealMadrid and England star afterthe pair appeared together in atelevision advert.

Clarke had a starring role inthe Paralympics opening cere-mony, taking the flame after itwas carried by zip wire intothe Olympic Stadium.

He said the players re-sponded well to the atmos-phere, with more than 2,600fans watching their match.

In the other Group A match,Argentina, who won bronze inBeijing, beat Iran 2-0.

In Group B, Brazil, whowon both previous tourna-ments in Athens 2004 and Bei-jing 2008, got their titledefence off to a flat start witha 0-0 draw against France.

China, the silver medallistsfour years ago, thrashedTurkey 4-0.

Turkey coach Yucel Kayasaid: "Sometimes the matchlocks up and nothing happensas it did with Brazil; othertimes the game rips throughand you get 5-0 or 7-0 scores."

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