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specific problems. However,above all, recognizing thestressors and sources of theproblems, not just treating thesymptoms, is the key, whichfor most patients, entails acomplete change of lifestyleand attitude.

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well as establishing a properdiet according to blood type,free of artificial additives andsupplemented by natural vita-min and mineral compounds isa start to achieving a balanced,healthy state, high in energy.He also recommends certainhomeopathic treatments andacupuncture to contend with

Carlos Viana, Certified Orien-tal Medical Doctor (OMDChina) CCN, a specialist inBiocompatible Medicine andhomeopathic techniqueslaunched his book “Prescrip-tions from Paradise,” in April,and it is creating quite a buzzamong established medical cir-cles as well as being a sensa-tion in the field of AlternativeMedicine. “If I had any idea itwas going to be this big,”muses Dr. Viana at hisKibaima clinic, “I would havecertainly printed more copies.”

The book is a very attrac-tive, easy to understand A to Zcompendium of the weeklycolumns he has been writingfor a local paper for over 10years. It outlines a simple pro-tocol he has developed over 20years, based on his obser-vances of applying varioustechniques and philosophiesand extracting from the resultsof treatments what he foundwas consistently effective, thebest of a diversity of methods.

His findings have con-vinced him that many degene -rative conditions have beenproduced by our own immunesystem’s constant war with theirritants and allergens in theenvironment and our diets, cre-ating a chronic state of inflam-mation. This inflammation is amethod the body uses to fightdisease, debilitating conditionsor injury, but it should be reac-tive and intermittent as needed,receding when it has served itspurpose, so the body returns toa balanced state.

Purifying the body bydrinking daily adequateamounts of mineral water as

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Groundbreaking book “Prescriptionsfrom Paradise” by Carlos Viana earnsrave reviews and a U.S. Book Awardfor Alternative Medicine

Obama uses bill signingto show support for Israel

Barefoot doctor in his consultation room under the trees

AFP photo shows US President Barack Obama signingthe United States-Israel Enhanced Security CooperationAct in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington,DC, yesterday. Looking on from left are: Chairman Con-ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Chair-man Organizations Richard Stone, Senator BarbaraBoxer, D-CA, former AIPAC chairman Howard Friedman,Rep Howard Berman, D-CA, and AIPAC Chairman of theBoard Lee Rosenberg. President Obama made a show ofsupport for Israel at the White House yesterday, ahead ofa weekend visit to the US ally by Republican presidentialrival Mitt Romney. Israeli journalists were invited to at-tend the signing along with photographers and reportersaccredited to the White House. Such signing ceremonieshave been uncommon in the Obama presidency.

Dowers reported that theyhave now assembled the ma -nagement team with a thirdmember. They have employeda psychologist and are workingon attracting social workers forthe institution. At the sametime they are creating recre-ational options and acceptabledistractions for the detainees.He assured all that at KIA thereare no inhuman conditionsthat, according to Dowers, istotally unacceptable.

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SAN NICOLAS -- Althoughwith limited human and finan-cial resources, KIA (Aruba’sCorrectional Institute) is takingsteps in the right direction withrespect to the welfare of work-ers as well as detainees, ac-cording to Minister of Justice,Arthur Dowers. The resourcesare not enough to realize allthat they envision to do, butwork is continuing and every-day they are making progressin the right direction, saysDowers.

optimal process of resocializa-tion, according to Dowers. Allaspects of security will betaken into account since thecenter is on the premises ofKIA and everyone must adhereto the rules of security of theinstitution.

Regarding KIA, the Minis-ter indicated that an evaluationof the construction and the ren-ovation work done in the pastis being conducted by expertsof the Public Works Depart-ment and others. They will de-termine factors which must becorrected in the short term andwhat must be done over thelong term.

Minister of Justice, ArthurDowers, on Tuesday visitedthe facilities under renovationat KIA. Dowers explained thatalmost one million Arubanflorins were being invested inthe renovation project to guar-antee that the facility wherepeople will be receiving treat-ment are in compliance withthe norms of CPT, the Euro-pean Commission for the pre-vention of torture.

The Public Health Depart-ment and Justice will be wor -king together to guarantee an

With the renovation of the“Choler detention center” atKIA (Aruba’s correctional in-stitute) a cooperation hasbegun between the PublicHealth Department and theJustice Department with re-spect to the resocialization ofaddicts and their incorporationback into the community.Twenty five cells will be madeavailable for the Public HealthDepartment for addicts undercustody and another 25 cellsfor KIA for the incarceration ofaddicts who break the law.

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hearty applause as a gestureof admiration and love forHubert Booi. He also askedGod to grant Booi manymore years of life so he cancontinue to inspire us as hehas for so many years.

Hubert Booi is co-authorof Aruba’s National Anthemand the author of manylovely songs like “Chanita”and songs of the play “Amordi Kibaima,” and a host ofother songs.

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strong source of inspirationthat even three generationslater he is still inspiring us.Booi created for us the instru-ment, the words, and themusic that transcends onegeneration to another. Fewhave the ability, the talent topenetrate the hearts of somany from wherever they’vecome, from whichever gene -ration, the sentiments ofbeing a ‘yui di Aruba’(Aruban child), in the wordsof Prime Minister Eman.

Eman asked all to offer a

The orchestra started themusic and the fiesta wasbegun! The fiesta began andended well except for a smallaccident which involved Mr.Booi. It was a festive occasionin an atmosphere of friends,brethren, neighbors and goodold-time friends. A slight rainalso brought some blessing onthe crowd. Dignitaries fromAruba as well as from Bonairearrived at Booi’s home to hugand sa lute him on his 93rdbirthday. Present for the fes-tive occasion were, ArubaGovernor Fredis Refunjol andspouse, Lieutenant Governorof Bo naire Mrs. Emerencia,President of Parliament PaulCroes, various members ofParliament, Prime MinisterMike Eman and spouse, Mi -nister Arthur Dowers and alarge group of people from allgenerations and nationalitieswho gathered to celebrate theunique occasion. Many camefrom the world of theater andmusic to celebrate with Hu-bert Booi, affectionatelycalled “E flamingo Arubiano.”

The Prime Minister cha -racterized Mr. Booi as such a

announced that their selectedgift with long term subscrip-tion will be a copy of hisbook. “Much to our delight, itlooks like we will soon haveto look to a second printing,with more copies for thisrun.”

“Over the 20 years I havebeen developing my protocol,I have been studying contin-uously, and I am blessed thatI had a fascination and strongbackground for biochemistry;it gave me the foundation toreally understand the meta-bolic pathways of the humanbody. Testing, consultationand analysis are required toidentify all the stressors pro-ducing the inflammatory re-sponse of a patient, afterwhich a complete program isrequired to eliminate all thesources.” This requires a sin-cere desire on the part of thepatient to be well and acceptpossibly drastic changes intheir lifestyle as part of an all-encompassing wellness pro-gram. His book is anentertainingly written and ac-claimed introduction to thelayman to help understandwhat elements may be re-sponsible for their lack of en-ergy or specific problems,with biocompatible treatmentas a solutions.

Discover more about Car-los Viana on his websitehttp://vianaheal.com/ andsample his book at http://hs-press.com/

by Rosalie Klein

His book also acknowl-edges all bodies are differ-ent, it is importantconditions be analyzed andtreatment should be indi-vidualized.

Viana and his wifePhyllis elected to formtheir own printing com-pany, Healing Spirit Press,so as to have complete con-trol over the editing process,as they feared commercialpublishers might dilute hismessage. The spring 2012issue of Leading Edge Re-view, a magazine dedicatedto books on alternative spiri-tual lifestyles and medicine,gave it front page as Bless-ingway’s Top Pick. Theywere also very surprised andpleased to be informed thatUSA Book News, which rec-ognizes exceptional effortson a global level and presentsawards every three years forthe best of the best in 100book topics among printed,audio and e-books, selected“Prescriptions from Para-dise” as their #1 Choice of2010, 2011 and 2012 in the“Alternative Medicine” cate-gory, among tens of thou-sands of publications.

“This is particularly sur-prising and gratifying as thereis generally a certain stigmaunconsciously attached toself-published books,” he ob-serves, “but this was our cre-ative choice, and we arethrilled at the international re-ception.” Though he admitsat first glance it may strikesome as “new-age natural-ism,” he puts his patientsthrough a series of highly-ad-vanced blood, spit and al-lergy testing, usingtechnology many of the is-land’s medical doctors haveyet to deploy.

Carlos is also gratified thatthe mainstream magazine“Alternative Medicine” has


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Celebration of Hubert “Lio” Booi‘s93rd Birthday

The United Nations Director ofUN Women for Latin Ame ricaand the Caribbean Moni Piznihas urged the region to increaseefforts to combat the risingnumber of sexual violence andabuse against women.

According to Pizni, three ofthe 10 countries in the worldwith the highest rate of rapeand abuse are in the Caribbean.

Pizni said that “13 percentof women in the region re-ported at some time to havebeen victims of domestic vio-lence and 23 percent of psy-chological violence.”

The phenomenon also ex-tends farther south into LatinAmerica, “where 40 percent ofwomen are victims of physicalviolence and 50 percent due topsychological abuse in rela-tionships,” she said.

She urged the governmentauthorities in the region to bol-ster their efforts to fight againstviolence towards women, not-ing that abuses against wo menare the most frequent humanrights violation in the area, thusrequiring a greater commit-ment in the struggle by govern-ments and societies at large.”

ful. We experienced themelodic tunes of Bonaire’sRincon Boyz popular bandwith both islands dancing andenjoying the hot rhythms ofBonaire.

Hubert Booi is Aruba’sartist par excellence, a hum-ble man whose works of artspeak a language understoodby all who love culture.Happy Birthday Hubert‘Lio’ Booi. May God grantyou many more wonderfulyears!

Hubert Booi was born inBonaire, but spent practicallyhis whole life on Aruba,hence the nickname“Flamingo Arubiano.” A fewweeks ago Aruba singed afriendship agreement withBonaire - an agreement forboth islands to work togetheron various fields. One of theareas for joint cooperation isthe field of culture. On thenight of the celebration ofBooi’s birthday that agree-ment became very meaning-


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This does not mean that a de-tainees cannot take the institu-tion to court if they consider aparticular condition to be unac-ceptable to them, which, accord-ing to Dowers has happened onone occasion. In that instance theJudge ruled that the conditionsin KIA are acceptable. The casethe detainees now want to taketo court is, despite the fact thatan extra roof was constructed,that they get wet in their cellswhen it rains.

According to Dowers...“wewill continue to work on im-proving the conditions in theprison. At the moment we areworking on necessary coursesfor the personnel and on theexpansion of personnel.” Heclaims that there are also inter-ests for obtaining medical staffto provide better medical careand guidance to detaineees.

As Minister of Justice,Arthur Dowers is cognizant ofthe fact that he is responsiblefor the safety and security ofddetainees and for ensuring re-spect for their rights. There arespecific laws to guarantee this.

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UN urgesCaribbean tocombatviolenceagainst women

Billionaire Amazon.comfounder and president JeffBezos is donating $2.5 mil-lion to help a Washingtonstate law that legalized gaymarriage survive a referen-dum this November. Bezosand his wife, MacKenzie, arenow among the largestdonors to gay marriage in thecountry.

Gay marriage was legal-ized in Washington state inFebruary, but opponents im-mediately started a campaignto recall the law in a referen-dum.

of Idlib, the Britain-based Ob-servatory said.

On Thursday, pro-govern-ment daily Al-Watan saidAleppo would be "the motherof all battles."

"Aleppo will be the last bat-tle waged by the Syrian armyto crush the terrorists and, afterthat, Syria will emerge fromthe crisis," it said.

A number of powers ex-pressed fears of yet anothermassacre.

In late May, at least 108people were killed near thecentral town of Houla, theUnited Nations said. On July12, regime forces killed morethan 150 people in the centralvillage of Treimsa, includingdozens of rebels, the Observa-tory said.

UN Secretary General BanKi-moon yesterday urged theAssad regimeday to stop its of-fensive on Aleppo, amid fearsof an all-out onslaught againstrebel forces and civilians.

"I'm seriously concerned bythe escalating violence inAleppo," Ban said during avisit to London for theOlympic Games. "I urge theSyrian government to halt theoffensive."

"The violence from bothsides must stop for the sake ofsuffering civilians in Syria," headded, following a meetingwith British Foreign SecretaryWilliam Hague.

Human Rights director RamiAbdel Rahman said: "Thequestion is, to what extent willregime troops resort to exces-sive use of force, because ifthis is the case, there will behundreds of deaths."

Aleppo has been the sceneof fierce fighting since rebelslaunched a major offensive onJuly 20 from rear bases acrossthe nearby border with Turkey.

The Observatory said heli-copter gunships attacked thesouthwest of the city, in theSalaheddin, Bustan al-Qasr,Sukari, Al-Mashhad and Al-Azamiya neighbourhoods.

In Salaheddin, a rebel toldAFP by telephone that resi-dents were fleeing and con-firmed helicopters had beenfiring on the district since day-break. Troops were on the out-skirts of the area and had notyet tried to enter.

Troops also clashed withrebels in the central district ofAl-Jamaliya, adjacent to thehistoric old quarter, as well asin Mahatat Baghdad and inSaadallah al-Jabiri Square.

The Observatory reportedat least four deaths in Aleppoyesterday, among 59 peoplekilled nationwide -- 27 civil-ians, 17 soldiers and fiverebels.

Amid the skirmishes, therebels captured 150 soldiersand militia members in Aleppoand the northwestern province

ALEPPO (AFP) - Syrian gun-ships pounded rebels andtroops clashed with insurgentsin Aleppo yesterday as worldpowers voiced fears over anall-out assault and called for"maximum pressure" to pre-vent a massacre.

Columns of armed forcesand armour have poured intoAleppo over the past two days,with troops firing on a string ofrebel neighbourhoods in thebattle for control of the pivotalnorthern city.

Amid widespread expecta-tions that an increasingly des-perate President Basharal-Assad will pull out all thestops to secure Aleppo, resi-dents of some areas of thecommercial capital fled in fearof a massacre.

The redeployments were"almost complete," a Syriansecurity official told AFP,adding however that "rebelsare stationed in narrow streets,in which fighting will be diffi-cult."

Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi of the rebel Free SyrianArmy told AFP via Skype that"we expect a major offensiveat any time."

Syrian Observatory for

Syria gunships hit rebels amid

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cellation of over 900 flights onThursday, according to reports.The highest number of cancel-lations was at LaGuardia Air-port in New York.

The one reported tornadohit Elmira's east side hardest.In one four-block neighbor-hood, most homes had treestoppled on them, street signswere bent and tree trunks haddebris wrapped around them.Several cars were crushed bydowned trees.

As the storms sent black,menacing clouds across citiesand open country, hail rangingfrom dime- to quarter-sized fellin some areas of Pennsylvania.

ELMIRA - Violent thunder-storms barreled through theOhio Valley and mid-Atlanticregions of the eastern UnitedStates late on Thursday, killingtwo people and cutting powerto more than 130,000 homesand businesses in New York,Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The storms spawned at leastone tornado, which toucheddown in Elmira, New York,toppling trees and ripping offrooftops, the National WeatherService said.

Officials in Pennsylvaniaand New York reported twostorm-related deaths.

The storms forced the can-


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RUGARI : Civilians flee heavy gunfire on the road lead-ing from Rugari to Kibumba in the east of the DemocraticRepublic of Congo. Gunfire briefly rung-out yesterdayafternoon as government forces clashed with M23 rebelsaround the town of Rugari, some 37km from Goma, theprovincial capital. (AFP PHOTO)

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Me -xico's military has captured analleged head of the notoriousZetas drug cartel, authoritiessaid yesterday.

Mauricio Guizar Cardenaswas arrested in a hotel in thestate of Puebla, the navy saidin a statement. He was wantedfor the murder of four navalpersonnel in April and had arocket-launcher and drugswhen troops detained him.

Guizar, nicknamed "ElAmarillo" or "The Yellow", isconsidered the head of theZetas in five districts of south-eastern Mexico, the statementsaid. He has been transferredto Mexico City for prosecu-tion.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia isholding talks about openingnaval bases in Moscow's So-viet-era allies Cuba and Viet-nam as well as the Sey -chelles, the commander-in-chief of the Russian yesterday.

"It is true, we are workingon the deployment of Russiannaval bases outside Russianterritory," Vice Admiral Vik-tor Chirkov told the RIA

GUADALAJARA (AFP) -Some 800 people were eva -cuated from a showing of thelatest Batman movie in Me -xico, after a fire broke out at acinema complex yesterday.

The incident occurred at thefirst showing of The DarkNight Rises at a cinema com-plex in Guadalajara, Mexico'ssecond largest city.

The local fire departmenttold AFP there were no in-juries.

Moviegoers were repor -tedly confused when the firealarm sounded.

"We did not know if it wasthe movie or what happened,until the lights came on andthey made us leave," audiencemember Carlos Martinez tolddaily newspaper, El Universal.

Firefighters said they con-ducted the evacuation withoutany unexpected incident orpanic among attendees.

seems keen to revive Soviet-era alliances.

In Washington, a Pentagonspokesman said the UnitedStates was not concerned byRussian moves to re-establishforeign bases.

"The Russian governmenthas interest in various parts ofthe world, it's their right topromote those interests," saidGeorge Little.

his presidency, Putin alsoclosed a Russian listening poston Cuba, a key Soviet-eraclient, in what was seen at thetime as a major step towardsimproving post-Cold War re-lations with Washington.

But with relations betweenRussia and the West undergo-ing a new period of tension atthe start of Putin's third pres-idential mandate, Moscow

The Soviet Navy had fo -reign bases in Cam Ranh, inthe south of Vietnam, andTartus in Syria.

The Syrian base in Tartus,which was created in 1971 asa supply center for the Russ-ian fleet in the Mediter-ranean, became Moscow'sonly military base outside theUSSR.

During the early years of

Novosti news agency."Within this work we are

discussing the possibility ofcreating material and techni-cal supply centers on the ter-ritory of Cuba, Seychellesand Vietnam," Chirkov saidahead of a meeting betweenRussian President VladimirPutin and Vietnamese coun-terpart Truong Tan Sang lateryesterday.


Admiral: Russia in talks on 'Cuba, Vietnam' naval bases

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thorities are asking as many as6,000 patients treated in thehospital's operating rooms andintensive care units betweenApril 2011 and May 2012 tobe urgently tested for possibleexposure.

According to a police reportthe Kwiatkowski wrote a sui-cide note saying "couldn't han-dle this stress anymore".

is considered among the mostserious hepatitis viruses. It ispassed through contact withcontaminated blood, oftenthrough shared needles.

Most people do not knowthey have the infection untilliver damage shows up yearsor decades later. It can lead tocirrhosis or liver cancer.

Kwiatkowski is believed tohave had hepatitis C since atleast June 2010. Thirty casesof the same strain have beenconfirmed among patientsfrom the New Hampshire hos-pital's cardiac catheterizationlab.

New Hampshire health au-

contaminated needles whileworking at New Hampshire'sExeter Hospital CardiacCatheterization Unit in 2011and 2012.

Kwiatkowski allegedly in-jected himself with thepainkiller Fentanyl intendedfor patients, and left the sy-ringes for the hospital to re-use.

Hepatitis C is caused by avirus that attacks the liver, and

BOSTON - Hospitals in sev-eral U.S. states are scramblingto check if patients were ex-posed to the hepatitis C virusby an itinerant medical techni-cian charged last week in con-nection with an outbreak inNew Hampshire.

The worker, David MatthewKwiatkowski, was chargedwith federal drug crimes. Au-thorities say the Michigan na-tive stole drugs and

Hepatitis C outbreak triggers fears


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First vaccineagainst denguefound to work inThailand trial The world's first vaccineagainst the dengue virus hasbeen shown to protect againstthree of the four strains of thevirus in a trial in Thailand, thevaccine's maker announcedthis week. The vaccine actu-ally generated antibody re-sponses against all four strainsof the virus, but for some rea-son, one strain was still able toinfect children who receivedthe vaccine, the company said,and scientists are now trying tofigure out why. Meanwhile, amuch larger trial involving31,000 adults and children isnow under way in 10 countriesin Asia and Latin America.

As many as 3 billion people,mostly in equatorial regions,are vulnerable to infections bythe virus, which is carried bymosquitoes. In the UnitedStates, it is common only inPuerto Rico and Hawaii, al-though there was a recent out-break in Florida. An estimated230 million people are in-fected each year. As many as80% of those do not developsymptoms, but 2 million --mostly children -- develop asevere form called dengue he-morrhagic fever. Symptomsinclude fever, headache andmuscle and joint pains --which have led to the alterna-tive name, break-bone fever.Infections can be lethal. Thereis no specific treatment for in-fections and currently no pre-ventive agent.

Dengue is an RNA virus ofthe same genus as the WestNile, yellow fever and St.Louis encephalitis viruses.There are four strains of thevirus. Infection with onestrain provides lifelong im-munity against that strain, butonly short-term immunityagainst the other three.

cities within a few generations.The sheet, a huge mass of

ice up to four kilometres thickthat covers the land surfaceand stretches into the sea, ismelting faster than any otherpart of Antarctica.

But scientists' sketchyknowledge of the sub-surfacetopography has made it diffi-cult to predict the exact rateand extent of ice sheet loss,said the study published in Na-ture.

The newly discovered val-ley, formed long before the re-gion was covered by ice, isbelieved to be part of a widerWest Antarctic rift system,"which we've known exists butwe don't know where it goes,"said Bingham.

Bingham said the findshowed that not only modernclimate factors but also geol-ogy is contributing to ice loss.


Google’s homepage celebratedthe official start of the London2012 Olympics yesterday witha doodle.

Breaking away from the tra-ditional five rings logo,Google marks the event'sopening ceremony with asporty image.

The doodle is a cheery andcolorful cartoon that features ahandful of athletes holding theletters of the search giant’sname. The doodle features fiveyoung athletes on a track hold-

ing the five letters of Google'slogo. The athletes belong todifferent sports, includingfootball, basketball, javelinthrow, fencing, sprint andswimming

Google’s logo is as playfulas 2008, when a series of Doo-dles for the Beijing Games de-picted animals participating invarious sports.

London hosts the 30th mod-ern Olympic Games from July27, 2012 to August 12, 2012.

Google doodle celebratesLondon 2012 Olympics

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(AFP) - Scientists have discov-ered a rift the size of the GrandCanyon hidden under theAntarctic ice sheet, which theysay is contributing to ice meltand a consequent rise in thesea level.

The rift, some 1.5 kilome-tres (one mile) deep, 10 kilo-metres wide and 100

kilometres long, was found byresearchers using radar tomeasure the subglacial topog-raphy, glaciologist RobertBingham told AFP.

Scientist believe a shrinkingWest Antarctic Ice Sheet is re-sponsible for about 10 percentof climate-change-induced sealevel rise, which if uncheckedthreatens to flood many coastal

Scientists find Grand Canyon-sizedrift under Antarctic ice

(AFP) - A freak double failurein its data centers took Twitterdown for around an hour onThursday, leaving millionswithout updates from friends,celebrities and news providersa day ahead of the Olympics.

"We are sorry," said MazenRawashdeh, Twitter's vicepresident of engineering, in amessage on the company'ssupport blog.

In a blog post, Rawashdehexplained that the blackoutwas triggered by a data centersystem and its backup systemfailing simultaneously.

"I wish I could say thattoday's outage could be ex-plained by the Olympics oreven a cascading buy," he said."Instead, it was due to this in-frastructural double-whammy."

Service was gradually re-stored and many users postedmessages expressing relief insarcastic terms.

"Wow. Wasn't sure I'd sur-vive that @twitter outage. Ieven took to Facebook. Des-perate times call for desperatemeasures. Thankful it's back,"professional baseball player

Michael Schlact tweeted.Last month, the service was

downed for several hours bywhat the company describedas a "cascading bug," but thecompany said this time it hadfallen victim to the double datacenter failure.

"Data centers are designedto be redundant: when onesystem fails, as everythingdoes at one time or another, aparallel system takes over,"Rawashdeh said in a messageto users.

"What was noteworthyabout today's outage was thecoincidental failure of two par-allel systems at nearly thesame time.

But Rawashdeh promisedthat "we are investing aggres-sively in our systems to avoidthis situation in the future."

In its early days, Twitter wasnotoriously unstable andwould display a picture knownas the "fail whale" on its homepage when it experienced oneof its frequent outages.

The service has becomemore reliable over the pastcouple of years, however, anddown time is now infrequent.

Twitter explains newmystery outage

Gorilla accidentallyhangs himself atPrague zoo

A gorilla accidentally hangedhimself on Friday at thePrague zoo, five years aftergaining the spotlight when hisbirth was broadcast live onthe internet.

Tatu died in the morningwhile playing in a rope struc-ture in the gorilla wing, thezoo director said.

"This is the most tragicevent that has happened at thePrague zoo since a flooddamaged a large section inAugust 2002," directorMiroslav Bobek said in astatement.

Zoo employees could onlyattempt to resuscitate thegreat ape after they managedto chase off other gorillasfrom Tatu with a water pump.

"It's mainly the femaleKamba, the oldest member ofthe herd, who stubbornly re-fused to quit Tatu," Bobeksaid.

The zoo has spearheadedprojects to protect the endan-gered species, such as by rais-ing money for the Dja gorillareserve in Cameroon. It hostsa gorilla news website thataccepts donations.-

Tragedy struck the zoo in2002 when unprecedentedfloods hit the Czech capitaland the zoo, located by theVltava river, killing severalanimals including a gorillanamed Pong.


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shares are down some 40 per-cent from the offering pricein May of $38.

Facebook reported a lossof $157 million in the secondquarter, largely because ofaccounting rules requiring itto set aside reserves for stockcompensation.

Excluding that, the resultswere largely in line with esti-mates, with a profit from ope -rations of $515 million on$1.18 billion in revenues.

But analysts said the so-cial media space is underpressure and that Facebookwould need to show morespectacular gains to justify itsstock market value.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Face-book shares took a beatingyesterday after uninspiringearnings in the first resultssince the much-hyped publicoffering of the world'sbiggest social network.

In morning trade, Face-book shares plunged 15.22percent to $22.76, worse thanthe declines seen in after-market trade Thursday. The

Amid rolling crisesspilling over from Europeand twitchy consumers andinvestors at home, the USeconomy has struggled forfour years to recover from the"Great Recession."

Earlier estimates had ex-pected growth of around 2.7percent this year, with unem-ployment of 8.9 percent.

Obama's allies in Con-gress seized on the latest fig-ures as evidence of the needfor Republicans to accept the

president's plans to juice theeconomy.

"There is much more workto be done to bolster our re-covery," said CongressmanChris Van Hollen. "It is moreimportant than ever to passthe pre sident's jobs package,which has been sitting beforethe House of Representativessince September."

Republican oppose theplan because it would raisetaxes on those earning over$200,000 a year.

WASHINGTON (AFP) -White House economists yes-terday predicted that unem-ployment will fall onlyslightly by the end of theyear, amid modest economicgrowth and a dangerouslyhigh budget deficit.

The Office of Manage-ment and Budget showed lit-tle in the way of optimismabout the state of the world'slargest economy, forecastingunemployment of 7.9 percentby year-end, compared with8.2 percent today.

The White House unit alsopredicted that 2012 growthwould come in around 2.6percent, not fast enough tobring down painfully highlevels of joblessness, whichremain the biggest obstacle toa solid recovery and Presi-dent Barack Obama's chancesof re-election in November.

The 2012 budget deficit isexpected to reach $1.21 tril-lion, around $116 billion lessthan first expected, but stillastronomically high, at 7.8percent of gross domesticproduct.

White House forecasts stubbornly

high unemployment

IMF estimated that the Spanishpublic deficit would exceed thegovernment's target in 2012,and 2013 when it would be 5.9percent of output, the fundforecast.

Eurozone countries are notsupposed to have deficits ofmore than 3.0 percent of grossdomestic product (GDP), butSpain's was likely to be around7.0 percent this year, the IMFwarned. The Spanish govern-ment currently aims for a 6.3percent deficit in 2012 and 4.5percent in 2013.

On June 29, European lead-ers agreed at an EU summit onfinancial reforms for the euro-zone, including measures to re-capitalise banks withoutadding to the debt load of hostcountries.

"Spain's prospects for low-ering borrowing costs wouldbe critically helped by a timelyimplementation of the summitdecisions and continued pro -gress toward a banking and fis-cal union at the Europeanlevel," the IMF said.

Yesterday, the governmentruled out the prospect of a fullinternational bailout.

PARIS (AFP) - The Interna-tional Monetary Fund warnedyesterday that the Spanish re-cession would be worse thaninitially expected, with a fore-cast contraction of 1.7 percentthis year and of 1.2 percent in2013.

In addition, the IMF saidthat worsening market tensioncould disrupt Spain's ability tofinance itself, despite a euro-zone bailout agreed for Spa -nish banks and emergencyfinancial reforms for the 17-nation bloc.

"Market tensions could in-tensify further, threateningmarket access, particularly ifpolicies fail to stem capitalout flows or due to furtherstress elsewhere in the euroarea," the IMF said in a reporton the eurozone's fourthbiggest economy.

Spanish borrowing costsare close to the level at whichGreece, Ireland and Portugalwere forced to seek interna-tional bailouts, and eurozoneleaders are pulling out all thestops to prevent Madrid fromfacing the same fate.

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"Yohan Blake showed hewill take advantage when Boltdoes not perform at his best,"said Johnson, who won fourOlympic gold medals at200m, 400m and 4x400mrelay.

"Bolt now has a legitimatechallenger and will need to beat his best in London to defendhis Olympic title."

Blake was meant to appearat a pre-Olympic press confer-ence alongside Bolt and Pow-ell in the east end of Londonon Thursday, but the tyronever materialised, Jamaicanofficials saying he was "col-lecting his luggage".

Bolt, however, was at painsto play down rumours of a riftbetween the two of them, evensaying that they still followedthe same training routineunder Mills' tutelage.

"My relationship with 'TheBeast' won't change at all.People were saying I wastraining early in the morningand Blake in the evening, butthat's not true," he said.

Judo applies strict safetyrules and any covering on thehead is deemed to present arisk to the fighter's health.

Saudi Arabia only agreed tosend a women's team to Lon-don on condition their two ath-letes respect a strict dresscode.

The country's most seniorsports official Prince Nawafbin Faisal said that the duowould be allowed to competeso long as they were "wearingsuitable clothing that complieswith sharia (religious law)".

Additionally he addedother stipulations, including"the athlete's guardian agreesand attends with her," and that"there must also be no mixingwith men during the Games".

Men and women share thejudo training venue, warm-uparea in the competition halland fight side-by-side on thevarious mat areas inside thearena.

American-raised 800m run-ner Sarah Attar is the secondwoman in the Saudi squad inLondon.

She has spent little time inthe Islamic kingdom and grewup mostly in California, whereshe took up cross-country run-ning.


LONDON (AFP) - Saudi Ara-bia have complained to the In-ternational OlympicCommittee (IOC) after judofighter Wojdan Shaherkaniwas banned from wearing thehijab head scarf during com-petition.

The 18-year-old heavy-weight, a member of a two-woman team who are the firstfemale competitors sent fromthe conservative kingdom toan Olympics, was ordered bythe International Judo Federa-tion to fight with her head un-covered.

But the Saudis have lodgeda complaint over the ban.

"At the moment we are dis-cussing with the InternationalJudo Federation and the SaudiArabia Olympic Committee tofind a solution for her to com-pete," an IOC spokesman toldAFP on Friday.

IJF president Marius Vizerhad told the Saudi fighter thehijab cannot be worn in com-petition.

"The Saudi Arabian athletewill take part in judo and shewill fight according to theprinciple and spirit of judo, sowithout a hijab," said Vizerfollowing Thursday's draw.

Saudis angry overjudo hijab ban

LONDON (AFP) - First LadyMichelle Obama said Fridayshe was fulfilling a child-hood dream by leading theUS delegation to the LondonOlympics. "These Gamesespecially affected our littlehouse on the south side ofChicago," she told US ath-letes at their training base ineast London ahead of ester-day’s evening's opening cer-emony. She added: "I stillhave those same feelings ofpride, excitement and won-der. So being here is otherwordly for me. I'm still so inspired by you and I'm still inawe of everything you have achieved." She said the Games had a particularly poignantmeaning for her family when she was growing up, as her father had watched theevents avidly when his battle against multiple sclerosis ended his own ability to playsport. The First Lady, who campaigns against child obesity, said she hoped watchingthe US athletes would encourage children at home to "get off the couch". The FirstLady, told the team: "You've got a country back home that is rooting for you everysingle second, so you've already won."

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LONDON (AFP) - YohanBlake has long lurked in theshadows cast by Jamaicanteam-mates Usain Bolt andAsafa Powell -- but after somestunning results, "The Beast"has suddenly roared to promi-nence.

Blake was far from an un-known when he claimed theworld 100m title in Daegu,South Korea, last year afterBolt sensationally false-started in the final.

But his exploits in the Ja-maican trials of beating Bolt,the 100m and 200m worldrecord-holder and Olympicchampion, over both distancessent a ripple through the worldof athletics.

Blake's personal best of9.75sec in the 100m makeshim the fourth fastest sprinterof all time after Bolt, Ameri-can Tyson Gay and Powell.His 19.26sec in the 200m isthe second fastest ever afterBolt.

A worthy, potential succes-sor has been truly unearthed,coached at the Racers TrackClub in Kingston by GlenMills, the same man who hasoverseen Bolt's transformationinto one of global sport's mostmarketable names.

"Win, lose or draw we arefriends, even though it is busi-ness and he wants to win andI want to win," the 22-year-oldBlake has said of his friend-ship with Bolt.

Blake, nicknamed "TheBeast" for his stocky frame --standing 1.80m (5ft 11in) and

weighing 80kg -- said trainingalongside Bolt had been a bigboost to his career.

"Every time in training Iwant to win but he's alwaysthere. So I say, 'OK, how am Igoing to win on the big day?'

With Bolt having suffered arocky, injury-hit build-up toLondon, and Powell perpetu-ally injury-prone before bigevents, Blake -- who receiveda three-month ban in 2009 fortaking a drug that had a simi-lar chemical structure to thebanned tuaminoheptane -- hasthe perfect chance to shine.

He set two world leads of9.75 and 19.80sec at theOlympic trials, and promisedthat there was more to come.

"It's not over," he said. "Istill have the Olympics to go.I just wanted to keep perform-ing and keep going."

Track legend Michael John-son has said Blake was a "le-gitimate challenger" to Bolt,adding that the defendingchampion would have to be athis best.

Jamaica's 'Beast' roars to prominence

LONDON (AFP) : South Korea's Im Dong-Hyun celebratesas he brokes his own 72-arrow world record in thearchery ranking round with a score of 699 at the Lord'sCricket Ground in London on July 27, 2012 at the London2012 Olympic Games.

LONDON (AFP) - Chelsea captain John Terry wascharged by the Football Association on Friday for abus-ing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand de-spite his acquittal at a criminal trial earlier this month.The former England captain was cleared of racially abus-ing Ferdinand at a London court hearing on July 13.However the FA said in a statement they had nowcharged Terry after reviewing evidence gathered in theirown inquiry in addition to the criminal investigation.Terry was stripped of the England captaincy in Februaryover the allegations. As a consequence, Fabio Capelloresigned as England manager, just months before Terryjoined the England squad for the 2012 European Cham-pionships.

visually impaired archer ImDong-Hyun set the first world

record of the Games in Fri-day's ranking round and addedanother as South Korea brokethe team record.

The man widely expected tobe the face of the Games, Ja-maican track star Bolt, has en-

dured a troubled build-up, butthe fastest man in the world in-sisted he was ready to defendboth sprint titles.

In the pool, Phelps, whoseeight golds in Beijing took hisoverall medal tally to 16,needs three more to surpass theall-time record of 18.

And the United States areclear favourites in the men'sbasketball with a Dream Teamboasting LeBron James andKobe Bryant.

But International OlympicCommittee (IOC) chief

Jacques Rogge declared him-self satisfied with the prepara-tions.

The London organisershave stressed they are not try-ing to rival the no-expense-spared extravaganza of Beijing

four years ago.Instead they have promised

a Games for the athletes andensured many of the venuescan be reused or recycled.

Iconic locations such asWimbledon, Lord's cricketground and Hyde Park willhost events while the OlympicPark complex in Stratford ishome to events including ath-letics, swimming and track cy-cling.

Before the official opening,

Once the curtain goes up, thestage is set for superstarsUsain Bolt, Michael Phelpsand Roger Federer to dazzle incompetition, while an army ofunsung competitors are alsoaiming for gold.

A budget of £9.3 billion($14.5 billion, 12 billioneuros) has been spent on bring-ing the Games to London foran unprecedented third time,and the first since 1948.

There have been last-minutehitches with Britain's biggestpeacetime security operationafter 4,700 additional service-men had to be drafted in whena private security contractorfailed to supply thousands ofguards.


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PARIS (AFP) - British sailor Alex Thomson said Friday he

had broken the record for crossing the Atlantic solo from

west to east by more than 24 hours, making it from New

York to Cornwall in eight days, 22 hours and eight min-

utes. The previous record, which had stood for 10 years,

was 10 days, 55 minutes and 19 seconds, set by Swiss

sailor Bernard Stamm. Thomson, 38, set sail in his Hugo

Boss monohull from New York on July 17 just after 3:00

pm and arrived at Lizard Point, the southern tip of main-

land Britain, just after 1700 Friday, he said on his website.

"When I set off I had no idea if I was going to be able to do

it. And it has been hard. Lack of sleep, broken instruments

on the boat and constant exposure to the elements has re-

ally taken it out of me. But it's such a good feeling to have

beaten it by such a great margin." The World Sailing

Speed Record Council must still ratify the claim. The

record is officially known as the "West to East Ambrose

Lighthouse to Lizard Point Under 60-foot Single-Handed

Monohull Record, Male". The trip covers a distance of

about 2,800 nautical miles (5,200 kilometres, 3,200 miles).

Thomson said the trip was part of his training for the

Vendee Globe, a solo, non-stop, round-the-world race that

kicks off from France on November 10.

Cuba's contingent taking part in the athletes parade

Jamaica's flag bearer Usain Bolt holds the national flag

Britain's David Beckham (C) drives a powerboat with the Olympic torch as fireworks arelaunched over Tower Bridge

LONDON (AFP) - The Lon-don Olympics burst into lifeon Friday with a humour-filledopening ceremony watched by80,000 spectators and morethan one billion TV viewers.

Queen Elizabeth II andJames Bond, alias actor DanielCraig, were shown in a spooffilm parachuting from a heli-copter into the Olympic Sta-dium in east London beforethe real monarch took her seatto loud applause.

After seven years of plan-ning, the Games officiallybegan in the gleaming newstadium in a once rundownarea of the British capital witha colourful show devised by"Slumdog Millionaire" direc-tor Danny Boyle.

The ceremony kept Boyle'spromise to showcase Britishhistory with a dash of quirkyhumour, tracing time from abucolic past through the Indus-trial Revolution before fast-forwarding to the present day.

The show even included atribute to Britain's state-runNational Health Service whileactor Kenneth Branagh,"Harry Potter" author J.K.Rowling and "Mr Bean"Rowan Atkinson all had roles.

More than 80 world leadersand royals attended the cere-mony while First LadyMichelle Obama representedthe United States alongside ahost of celebrities includingAngelina Jolie.

Earlier the Olympic flamewas rowed up the RiverThames in the royal barge as itapproached the end of a 70-day relay around Britain andIreland and made its way tothe stadium.

The queen told dignitariesearlier that people in Britainhad watched the progress ofthe flame with "growing ex-citement" as the Games ap-proached.

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London Games open with fun-filled show

The opening ceremony begins with the newly-crownedTour de France winner Bradley Wiggins ringing of a 23-ton Olympic Bell, from the same London foundry thatmade Big Ben and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell. Its thunder-ous chime has echoed around the 80,000-seat OlympicStadium.

Britain Queen Elizabeth II (C) takes place next to Interna-tional Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge(L), the Spokesman for London 2012 Don Foster (2D-L),the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (2D-R) andPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh during the opening cer-emony

The Red Arrows aerobatic team flies over the OlympicStadium ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012Summer Olympics in London.

The opening ceremony of the London 2012 OlympicGames

Picture shows the general view of the Olympic Stadiumbefore the opening ceremony

The Union Flag is presented during the Opening Ceremony

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