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150 Fils EID GREETINGS AUDY COE ,21 TUHJ 0 45A No:16305 SATURDAY, 1435 AH OCTOBER THULHIJA 4,2014 10, 2m pilgrimsgatheronArafat Tears, prayersas hajj reachespeak Tears flowed against eachother andspreadchaoscon- want totearyour ranks,turnyourhearts that youaretargeted byyourenemieswho Namirah MosqueatMountArafat. “Andknow Al-Sheikh saidinatelevisedaddress fromthe public projects,”GrandMuftiSheikh AbdulAziz rity andstability,yourgains, resourcesand been entrustedtoyou,sosafeguard yoursecu- oppressed, andjailed...allovertheworld.” tory ofMuslims,thosewhoareweak, shift tent.Hesaidtheywereprayingfor“thevic- a yellowgarbagebagtheysetupasmake- Mohammed Ahmed,53,satwithhiswifeunder es inaloudappealtoGod.Egyptianpilgrim silently, asothersgatheredingroups,theirvoic- unity regardlessofsocialstatusornationality. ise astateofpurity,whichalsoemphasisestheir ihram -seamlessterrywhiteclothstosymbol- desert sun.Allmalepilgrimsdressinwhite carried umbrellasasshieldsagainstthehot attire turnedthehillwhiteincolour,andthey final sermon14centuriesago.Thepilgrims’ where ProphetMuhammad(PBUH)madehis the slippery,rockyhillknownasMountMercy, “Oh Muslimpeoples,yourcountries have Some pilgrimssataloneonrocks,praying terday. —AFP MOUNT ARAFAT:PilgrimsgatheronMountArafatnearMakkahastheyperformoneofthehajjritualsyes- the crowds. ed throughloudspeakers, tryingtocontrol You’re blocking theway,”securitymenshout- of humanity.“Thisway,hajji.Don’t stophere. plain andMountMercytoorganise thewave forces weredeployedenmasse acrossArafat ing thetotaltowardstwomillion. Security thousand Saudisarealsoparticipating, push- Local mediareportthatseveral hundred 1.4 millionforeignpilgrimsfrom163nations. bin Nayefsaidthehajjhadattractedalmost he stoodonthehillinMountArafat. wish for,”saidSyrianpilgrimHassanAhmedas giveness andtoacceptourhajj....ThisiswhatI experience ofalifetime.“IwishfromGodfor- many pilgrims,thejourneytoSaudiArabiaisan are answeredandpastsinscanbeforgiven.For this daythegatesofheavenareopen,prayers your call.HereIam.”Thefaithfulbelievethaton Allahuma, labayk,”-“HereIam,God,answering prayer andsupplication,saying“Labayk, Arafat astheystretchedtheirhandsoutin Arabia’s topclericsaid. fusion andbewareoftheirconspiracies,”Saudi Saudi InteriorMinisterPrinceMohammed Men andwomenweptopenlyonMount • Mufti warnsof‘chaos’ officials say.— Agencies have beenrecorded amongthehajjvisitors, Ebola andtheMERS coronavirus.Nosuchcases to protectpilgrimsfromtwodeadly viruses, they seized.Saudiauthoritiesare alsostriving spate ofatrocitiesinSyrianand Iraqiterritory State groupmilitantswhohave committeda ing Washingtoninairstrikesagainst Islamic Saudi ArabiaandfourotherArab nationsjoin- than inpastyears.Thisyear’shajjcomeswith helping thecrowdstoflowmoresmoothly security appearedtohavebeensteppedup, lenges proceedssmoothly.AFPreporterssaid large gatheringwithmassivelogisticalchal- away, theofficialSaudiPressAgencysaid. more than145,000ofwhomhavebeenturned a crackdownbyauthoritiesonillegalpilgrims, faithful seemedfewerthanpastyearsfollowing things aregoingwell,”hesaid.Thenumberof climb up,althoughthisisnotnecessary...But the hill.“Thepilgrimsbelievethattheyshould ing,” saidAliAl-Shemmari,asoldierstationedat the elderlycan’tunderstandwhatwearesay- standing eachothers’languages,andmostly Permits areawayofensuringthatsuch “Sometimes wehavedifficultiesunder- Min Max 24º 42º LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Army, police, National Guard cooperation emphasized GCC unified stance stressed

KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign also reviewed the latest regional security and polit- Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- ical developments. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also Sabah emphasized the importance of enhancing conveyed to the attendees the greetings and cooperation among national security agencies in appreciations of the political leadership to security, running security operation and managing crises. military and National Guard personnel and leaders The remarks were made by Sheikh Sabah Al- for their great readiness to secure the state securi- Khaled at a high-level security and military meet- ty and stability. He also conveyed to them the ing held at the Interior Ministry Thursday and political leadership congratulations on the advent attended by Deputy Prime Minister, Interior of Eid Al-Adha. Minister, Acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Fruitful meeting Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah; Minister of State Separately, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al- for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Justice Sabah stressed the unified security stance of the Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- Gulf Cooperation Council (GGC) countries, describ- Sabah; and National Security Apparatus Chief ing the GCC Interior Ministers’ extraordinary meet- Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. Also ing held in Jeddah Wednesday as “fruitful”. Upon attended the meeting were top officials and com- his return after attending the meeting, Sheikh manders of the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Mohammad said in a press statement that the Interior and National Guard. Sheikh Sabah Al- meeting affirmed that there are unified visions Khaled stressed, during the meeting, the need for based on integrated and comprehensive security increasing cooperation among the army, police coordination. KUWAIT: Khaled Al-Jarallah during his meeting with Ambassador Douglas Silliman — KUNA and National Guard during that critical and sensi- This coordination strengthens security meas- tive time, said a press statement by the Public ures taken by the GCC countries, he added, Relations and Security Media Department of the pointing out that such move is conducted Jarallah, US envoy meet Interior Ministry. according to a preventive perspective through The statement noted that Sheikh Sabah also common action mechanism to serve the unified KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry well as recent regional and international devel- gave the attendees a number of instructions to Gulf security. He said the meeting discussed Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah met Thursday opments. The meeting was attended by Foreign enhance precautionary measures taken to ensure security positions that the whole region has the United States Ambassador to Kuwait Ministry Undersecretary’s Office chief Ayham the state’s security and people’s safety. The partici- been experiencing as well as joint coordination Douglas Silliman. During the meeting, the two Abdullatif Al-Omar, and Ghanim Saqer Al- pants also discussed security situation and means to put common action into force and study com- sides discussed a number of aspects regarding Ghanim, Director of the Ministry’s legal affairs to deal with any future challenges or threats. He mon security measures. — KUNA bilateral relations between the two countries, as department. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Eid sends ticket Security services prices sky-high gear up for Eid KD 1,416 ticket to Istanbul KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior has put sonnel are being deployed on all roads in place the necessary precautionary and at the main intersections to prevent By Nawara Fattahova measures to protect the security and safe- any traffic congestion,” said Brigadier ty of public and prevent traffic congestion General Adel Al-Hashash, Director of the KUWAIT: The prices of airline tickets have reached during the Eid Al-Adha holiday. Ministry’s Public Relations and Moral incredible amounts. Who can believe that the price of a At the behest of Acting Prime Minister, Guidance Department and Acting ticket to Istanbul has reached KD 1,416! Aisha, from a Minister of Interior, Acting Minister of Director of the Security Media local travel agency that issued this crazily priced ticket, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, and Acting Department. “The various security depart- said: “The KD 1,416 ticket was on business class to Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammad ments and competent bodies are in close Istanbul during Eid. I also sold a ticket on economy Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the min- contact with the Central Operations class to Paris for KD 900. I didn’t think people could pay istry started enforcing a comprehensive Directorate around the clock to ensure such an amount for a ticket, but they do, and this strategy to suit the convenience of citi- effective coordination,” he said, noting encourages the airlines to set the price they like.” zens and foreign residents, a senior official the border security affairs sector and the According to her, various bodies are behind this Brig Gen Adel Al-Hashash said Thursday. “Security and traffic per- criminal investigations dept. —KUNA steep hike in ticket prices. “These include the civil avia- tion, the airline company, tax department, the govern- ment and others. Also, the usual factors regulating prices are the season and seat availability,” she told Kuwait’s pilgrims safe: Official Kuwait Times. “The airlines just update the rates and the travel agency can’t do anything once the price is MAKKAH: Undersecretary of Kuwait’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic grims as they were carrying forged visas after they arrived at New updated in the system. It’s up to the client to take it or Affairs and the Head of Hajj Mission Dr Adel Al-Falah affirmed yes- King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. He added that leave it. But they know people are travelling too much, terday that Kuwaiti pilgrims are safe. He added in a statement to Saudi authorities continued until Friday morning launching its so whatever price they set, people will still buy tickets KUNA that pilgrims moved from Mina to Arafat Mount smoothly watertight security campaigns to check up visas of pilgrims at its to travel,” explained Aisha. and no accidents or problems were reported. different ports. Falah thanked His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Early reservation can’t completely overcome the He noted that the mission has prepared makeshift tents in Mina Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince high prices. “The airlines are smart - they use the to accommodate pilgrims after returning this morning, the first day Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for their constant sup- update fares for holidays. Even on weekends, the rate is of Eid Al-Adha, coming from Valley of Muzdalifa. port to pilgrims. He also expressed his gratitude to Minister Sheikh higher. Somehow, the travel agency also plays a role in Falah pointed out that Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister Mohammad Al-Khaled for his directives to provide the best services this matter, as we advise clients to travel to certain des- and acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mohammad to Kuwait’s pilgrims. Falah commended the efforts and facilities tinations if they don’t already have a plan and chosen Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah follows up closely the conditions of provided by Saudi government, upon the directives of King destination,” she concluded. Kuwaiti pilgrims and services provided to them. Abdullah bin Abdul Azizi, to pilgrims to enable them perform Hajj He said Saudi authorities had to deport at least 150 Kuwaiti pil- easily and smoothly. — KUNA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Gulf Bank closed during Eid

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank would like to inform its clients that during the Eid Al-Adha Holiday, its Branches will be closed from Sunday 5th October through Thursday 9th October as per the approved guidelines set by the Kuwait Banking Association (KBA). The Bank will resume its regular working hours on the first business day following the Eid Al- Adha holiday, Sunday 12th October 2014. The Bank will continue to serve its clients on Thursday 9th October through the following branches: Fahaheel Branch (Dabbous mall), Jahra Branch (Co-op), Salmiya Branch (Co-op), Farwaniya Branch (Metro mall), Hawally Branch and the Head Office at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Street (Kuwait City). In addition, Gulf Bank’s dedicated Customer Call Center will be operating round-the-clock, and is reachable by dial- ing 1805805. Clients can also use online portal, (www.e- gulfbank.com) to find out more about the latest products and services; and to download the Mobile Banking App’s (App store/Android) to monitor accounts and conduct self- service banking transactions. On this blessed occasion, Gulf Bank would like to con- vey its sincere congratulations and best wishes to the Amir of the State of Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and His Highness the Prime Minister, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah. May Allah Almighty safeguard and pre- serve them for their nation, as well as to the government and people of Kuwait. Schools almost empty ahead of holiday

KUWAIT: Educational sources said attendance in most schools did not exceed 10 percent as some schools seemed to be almost empty of students because atten- dance was much less than that. They said the school administrations will face difficulty in implementing the grade deduction from absent students, because a wave of anger will follow, in addition to the fact that grade deduc- tion will affect the general percentage of success in the school. Sources told Al-Jarida daily that some school adminis- trations encourage students to be absent on days like this, as teachers deliberately leak information about lack of attendance during days that precede the holidays, and most students go along with such temptations, especially since they feel that the school day is very long, tiresome and there is no benefit from it. They said the ministry has been promising for many decades to transform schools into attractive environments, but has failed so far to realize this dream. Meanwhile, sources said that parents are highly disap- pointed because the public education sector approved tests to be given immediately after Eid holidays, starting Oct 13. They found it strange to have such tests at this time because students normally spend their holidays playing and traveling, and will not be able to study during these days.

Nurses shortage Separately, the Cabinet resolved the problem of a short- age of nurses in schools when it agreed to add 1,612 job vacancies to appoint non-Kuwaiti nurses in the Health Ministry. Those nurses will be sent to work for the Education Ministry as agreed between the two sides, Al-Rai reported yesterday. Chairman of the Civil Service Commission Abdulaziz Al-Zabin told Education Ministry Undersecretary Dr Mariam Al-Wutaid that the Cabinet asked the health and finance ministries to create the required job vacancies to be deducted from the supple- mentary allocation in the first chapter regarding salaries within the 2014/2015 fiscal year. —Al-Jarida, Al-Rai

LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Crimes MPs optimistic about Report

Intruder caught at MOI building payroll alternative KUWAIT: An Egyptian man snuck into the Interior Ministry building in Subhan through the employees’ automatic gate using his brother’s work ID. Meanwhile, his brother Parliament values committee proposed entered without showing his ID, as he knows the police- men there. A security source said that a policeman on KUWAIT: MPs received details of a gov- MP Humoud Al-Hamdan found good ance, and “will start with ourselves as guard noticed a person who seemed nervous when he ernment proposal for the strategic pay- indications in the details of the proposal MPs who are not above the law”. MP entered, so he asked him for the ID and discovered it roll alternative with optimism and the that fulfill employment justice and close Abdullah Al-Maayouf welcomed Sane’s belonged to someone else. Investigations are underway. wish to realize this “historic” achieve- the salary gap, adding, “we are waiting proposal, but stipulated parliamentary ment. They also looked for other steps for its submission by the government consensus for approval, adding that that guarantee employment justice and officially for approval”. Hamdan said we “this is not a new idea, but was brought Spoiled meat reports false close the gap in salaries and wages are looking forward to see major migra- up by previous assemblies”. Moral Guidance and public relations department at structure, and protection of national tion from the public to the private sector the Kuwait Army Command said reports about selling employees in the private sector. as far as Kuwaiti workers are concerned, Conscription law spoiled meat to the Officers’ Club are untrue, adding Reactions show that MPs received the “so that an effective economic circle and Meanwhile, members of the legisla- that all supplies are fresh. It said that the validity of the awaited alternative with respect and movement exist in the country”. tive and executive authorities are con- meat is confirmed at the nutrition department at Jaber admiration, as it has positive indications Hamdan said the government must con- sulting on the final draft of the govern- Armed Forces Hospital. on the possibility of being agreed on by sider the revival of laws that curb any ment proposal. Sources said the new the parliament and government. artificial increases in prices, including proposed law differs from its previous Yet, some MPs said they will use leg- the competition protection law and pre- one, and there are deep-rooted changes, Thief at large islative tools to remedy the situation of vent monopoly, as well as the consumer adding that the most notable amend- A citizen, 31, withdrew KD 400 from her bank, then pensioners and private sector workers, protection law. ments is allowing someone waiting for a headed home in Adan. When she got out of the car, a man revive consumer protection laws, pre- Member of the human resources government job to be conscripted for a stopped next to her, snatched the money from her hand vent monopolies and stop the artificial committee MP Khalil Abul said it is nec- salary that is suitable with his university and escaped. The woman was able to get the license plate rise in prices that may accompany the essary to take steps to control prices degree, until his turn for employment number and lodged a complaint. Detectives are working strategic alternative decision. Chairman when the strategic alternative is comes up. He will then be given the on the case. of the Human Resources Development approved, “because there is greed in choice to remain at the defense ministry Committee MP Yacoub Al-Sane said “the some businessmen and we do not or work somewhere else. committee will, in case pensioners are accept for the Assembly to work On that regard, MP Mohammad Tana Pharmacist insulted not included in the government propos- towards improving the individual’s said the conscription law is among the A pharmacist filed a complaint against a man for al, include this group and deal with its income, then a corrupt businessman priorities during the next parliamentary insulting her while on duty because she refused to situation in agreement with inflation comes and takes the increase by hiking term, adding that Deputy Premier and give him medicine that was not in the prescription. rates and living conditions”. prices”. Defense Minister Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah The incident took place at Sabah Hospital. Sane said the “alternative” must dis- said it is necessary to approve the law Investigations are underway. cuss means of preventing national labor Values committee during the upcoming term. Tana said migration from the private to public sec- Separately, Sane said he has started the conscription law has a significant tor through strengthening the support preparing amendments of the internal importance and many benefits for the Reckless drivers caught means and present necessary guaran- rules to form a permanent values com- society and its youth. He hoped that Police arrested two reckless drivers in front of Taima tees to protect them. He said in case of mittee. He said he will ask for a special women are not allowed to serve even if Girls’ Secondary School, endangering the students’ lives in no guarantees and advantages for pri- session to discuss complications of the it was voluntary. He said the defense the process. The arrest was made following a call to police. vate sector workers, the labor support document processing procedures and ministry is preparing the final touches to The two were detained at Taima police station, and the car will be increased to go along with the lack of coordination between state the law and it will be submitted in the impounded. size of government sector increases in a apparatuses and their effect on major coming few days to be passed at the way that prevents migration of this development projects. He said the val- start of the next parliamentary term. Ingrate son labor. ues committee aims at reform and guid- —Al-Rai, Al-Anba A young man beat his mother and took some mon- ey from her before escaping. A police source said that the elderly lady complained to Andalus police about CBK to receive ‘Tweeter’ the incident. Detectives are working on the case. verdict Coworkers row clients during Eid Oct 30 Two Kuwait Municipality employees exchanged verbal abuse as a dispute erupted between them over reporting KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait es. Meanwhile, CBK also announces that its KUWAIT: The criminal court to and leaving work. Investigations are underway. (CBK) will continue to serve its clients dur- ATMs can now accept deposits made with will deliver its verdict in a case ing the Eid Al-Adha holiday through its two the sixth edition of the Kuwaiti currency. In filed by Deputy Chairman of branches at the Kuwait International addition to accepting the new banknotes, the Higher Judiciary Council Old foes clash Airport. Furthermore, clients can still have CBK ATMs will continue to accept deposits Judge Yousuf Al-Matawaah, Old disputes between two Syrians escalated to access to CBK’s services during the holiday made with the old bills (fifth edition). Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel and exchanging blows and a broken nose before reaching through the hotline 1 888 225, online at And on the Eid Al-Adha occasion, the Ibrahim Al-Saif against the Andalus police. One of the two complained to police, www.cbk-online.com, or through ATMs CBK’s Public Relations and Media owner of “Illa Al-Dustour” (But who sent the case to detectives to arrest the suspect located all over Kuwait. Department carried out a special visit to the the Constitution) Twitter and send him to concerned authorities. CBK will resume operations on Thursday, Wafa’a School for Children with Down account during the October October 9, 2014 through its headquarter, Syndrome. The visit came as part of CBK’s 30 session. The court rejected Mubarak Al-Kabeer, Shuwaikh, Salmiya, humanitarian, charitable programs and a request to release the sus- KD 2,000 theft Ajial, Sharq, Al-Ahmadi and airport branch- efforts to support social activities. Two workers at a restaurant stole KD 2,000 from their pect who is accused of insult- sponsor and escaped. The 50-year-old victim told Sharq ing judges through Twitter. police station about the incident. Detectives are investigat- Meanwhile, the detention ing. — Al-Rai judge ordered the continua- tion of imprisonment of 5 suspects accused of joining Female prosecutors the Islamic State group for 10 more days. The public appointed after Eid prosecution accused the five (three Kuwaitis and two bedoons) of having a printer KUWAIT: Minister of state for cabinet affairs and acting justice minis- to issue special currency for ter has approved the results of 62 legal researchers including 22 the “Islamic State”, and train women. Munira Al-Wuqayan came first with 94.76 percent to youth in Kuwait and abroad become the first Kuwaiti prosecutor to get the first position in the on fighting. They also had history of the institute, as admission was previously for men only. weapons and ammunition Informed sources said the prosecution will distribute this class of besides the organization’s prosecutors -both male and female - to various partial and special- black flags. — Al-Rai ized prosecution departments. — Al-Jarida CBK Public Relations and Media Department with students at Wafa’a School. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Kurds battle jihadists, Britain PM on surprise HK protests shrink after Syria town on brink 9 journey to Afghanistan 10 leader agrees to talks 11

MAKKAH: Muslim pilgrims pray at the Plain of Arafat during the annual pilgrimage, the hajj, yesterday. — AFP Divided sentiment at hajj over Islamist militants Saudi boosts security to prevent political protests

ARAFAT: Former Egyptian army officer Suliman Ouda minced no as a new potential source of friction. While a systematic poll of pil- in US-led air strikes. Security appeared much tighter than usual at words as he climbed Mount Arafat, denouncing Islamist militants grims’ views at the hajj would be impossible, a random sampling this year’s hajj, with more men in uniform deployed in holy sites in Syria and Iraq as terrorists. But Syrian engineer Ahmed Orabi, indicated sentiment is divided over Islamic State, who have domi- and frequent vehicle checkpoints. “I came to hajj two years ago standing nearby on the hill where Muslims on their hajj pilgrim- nated the news since they captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest and I don’t remember seeing so many Special Forces as there are age beg God’s forgiveness, disagreed. “Islam is about peace and city, in July. Abdel-Rahman Al-Gahtani, a Saudi hajj organizer, said today,” said Amr Abdallah, an Egyptian engineer on his way to the kindness, not murder and violence, and I don’t consider these the militants, known in Arabic as Daesh, gave Islam a bad name. summit of Mount Arafat. “They must be worried about the threat fighters in Iraq and Syria to be Muslims,” Ouda told Reuters as he “Our sheikhs told us that Daesh are terrorists and we believe they of Daesh.” Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Al- joined the mass of pilgrims early yesterday. “They bring shame to are. Those who kill in cold blood and make threats to kill innocent Turki said the kingdom has allocated more security personnel and the word Islam.” people are not Muslims like us,” Gahtani, who works at food and National Guardsmen along its borders with Iraq. “We have Orabi, in his 40s, served time in Syrian prisons for criticizing the water distribution, said. enforced our security readiness at all the border of Saudi Arabia, government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before fleeing to The sermon given by the preacher in the local Namira mosque the northern border and the southern border,” he told Reuters on Turkey. One of his sons was still in jail. “If the Islamic state, or yesterday included a reference to the Islamic State and the the sidelines of a news conference. Nusra, or any other group can fight the government, I’m in full pledge that “Islam is innocent of their actions”, pilgrims who The authorities continue to warn pilgrims against any political support of them,” he said in a hushed voice. “Bashar is the terror- attended said. But Mohammed Askar, a Syrian teacher, said mili- protests. Last week Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef ist here, Iran is the enemy. And although I can’t raise my voice tants fired by religious zeal may be the only way to topple Assad. told the Saudi state agency (SPA) that Saudi Arabia will have a today and say that, I’m crying out to God in my heart to give vic- “I know America and the Gulf countries see the Islamic state as zero tolerance policy. “Authorities will deal with all propaganda, tory to those brave Islamic fighters.” The hajj, a hectic journey that terrorists, but they should not think that way,” Askar said. “These intellectual and political slogans because the purpose of hajj is brings millions from around the world to Mecca and Mount are the people who can fight to get rid of Bashar, and after Bashar worship alone,” Prince Nayef said in a statement. The hajj has Arafat, is tinged this year with concerns over the threat posed by is gone I swear to you no one will want Islamic State. We are just attracted some 3 million people this year, including 1.4 million Islamist militants who threaten to target allies of the United using them.” from outside the kingdom. To the casual observer there appears States, including Saudi Arabia. to be fewer Iraqi and Syrian pilgrims than last year, and many Heightened security more visitors from Asia. Saudi authorities have said that no restric- Political Islam Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has funneled cash tions have been placed on visas to Syrians or Iraqi for political rea- In past years, Shiite Muslim pilgrims airing political views were and arms to rebels fighting against Assad in a conflict which has sons, however. “There are over 10,000 pilgrims from Syria this the main threat for security forces keen to keep the hajj free from raged for three years and killed nearly 200,000 people. But it has year and I’m not aware of any restrictions placed on Iraqis or politics. But the rise of political Islam since the Arab Spring also consistently opposed Islamist militants within the insur- Syrians, every country has a quota and we follow that system,” protests of 2011 has focused attention on Islamist Sunni groups gency. Last week, Saudi air force planes pounded targets in Syria said Major General Turki. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Rituals performed by hajj pilgrims

MAKKAH: Close to 1.4 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Makkah for the annual hajj, which all physically and financially able Muslims are required to perform once in their life. The rituals of the hajj are as follows. A state in which pilgrims wear special outfits, two-piece white seamless garments for men and any loose dress for women, who must completely cover themselves except for their hands and faces. Niqab (a face covering that only reveals the eyes) is prohibited. Pilgrims must refrain from quarrelling, covering the head (for men), cutting hair, clipping nails, wearing socks or shoes, except for sandals exposing the instep. “I am answering your call, God,” every pilgrim chants. Once in Makkah, pilgrims perform Tawaf, or circumambula- tion, seven times counter-clockwise around the Kaaba, a black masonry cubic shape in the middle of the Haram, or sacred site, in whose direction Muslims pray wherever they are in the world. The Kaaba was first built as a “sacred house” in Makkah by Adam, the father of the human race, according to the Islamic faith. The Koran says Abraham (or Ibrahim) and his son Ishmael rebuilt the Kaaba. Each circle starts and ends at the Black Stone, also known as the cornerstone, at the southern corner of the Kaaba. Pilgrims should point their palms to the stone saying: “Allahu akbar” (God is the greatest). Walking back and forth between the two stone spots of Safa and Marwah seven times, an act known as Sai. The distance between them is less than 400 meters. Pilgrims are emulating Hagar, the second wife of Ibrahim according to Islam, who was desperately seeking water for her infant Ishmael. The preceding rituals are considered the Umra, or lesser pilgrim- SURUC: Turkish army’s armored vehicles stationed near the fighting positions between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State age, made ahead of the hajj’s main rites. The main rites of the hajj militants, about 10 kilometers to the west of Kobani in Syria. — AP start on the 8th of Dhul Hijja and end on the 13th. Pilgrims head to Mina, around five kilometers (three miles) east of the holy mosque, on the first day of hajj known as Tarwiah (watering) Day. Pilgrims tra- ditionally watered their animals and stocked water for their trip to Kurds battle jihadists, Mount Arafat, about 10 kilometers southeast of Mina. Arafat Day, on the 9th of Dhul Hijja, (October 3) is the climax of the hajj season as all pilgrims gather on the hill known as Mount Arafat and its surround- ing plain. Pilgrims stay at Arafat, where the Prophet Mohammed is Syria town on brink believed to have delivered his final hajj sermon, until the evening. They spend the day reciting from the Koran and praying. After sunset on the 9th of Dhul Hijja, pilgrims leave for Muzdalifah, half-way between Arafat and Mina, where they stay at least until midnight. Australia joins US in flying combat missions They gather pebbles to perform the symbolic “stoning of the devil”.

Eid Al-Adha MURSITPINAR: Kurdish militia mount- to military action, it was swiftly wel- Turkey will allow the transit of lethal After dawn prayer on the 10th of Dhul Hijjah, or the Eid Al-Adha ed a desperate defense yesterday of a comed by Washington. The United weaponry and it may restrict the feast, pilgrims head back to Mina. The first of three stoning rites, Syrian border town as neighboring States has been working to build a authorization to humanitarian aid and known as Jamarat Al-Aqabah, begins after sunrise. Traditionally, sev- Turkey vowed to do its utmost to stop broad international alliance against the non-lethal supplies. en pebbles are thrown at a post representing the devil. Since 2004, it the strategic prize falling to the Islamic jihadists who have declared an Islamic has been replaced by walls to accommodate the rising numbers of State group. Shells rained down on the “caliphate” straddling swathes of Iraq Australia joins strikes pilgrims. The ritual is an emulation of Abraham’s stoning of the devil besieged town of Kobane, a day after and Syria where they have committed Australia’s decision to join the at the three spots where he is said to have appeared trying to dis- the Turkish government won authori- widespread atrocities. The US-led air United States and five European coun- suade the biblical patriarch from obeying God’s order to sacrifice zation from parliament to take military campaign against IS in neighboring tries in flying combat missions over Ishmael. After the first stoning, pilgrims offer sacrifices by slaughter- action against the jihadists in both Iraq received a boost yesterday with a Iraq came as the coalition stepped up ing a sheep and the meat is distributed to needy Muslims. This rite Syria and Iraq. “We will do whatever we decision by Australia to join combat its air campaign. Australian Prime also emulates the actions of Abraham. He prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael on the order of God, who provided a lamb in the boy’s can so that Kobane does not fall,” sorties in support of Kurdish forces and Minister Tony Abbott said the cabinet place at the last moment. Pilgrims no longer carry out this rite them- Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet the beleaguered Iraqi army. had also authorized the deployment of selves. They instead pay agencies which distribute meat to needy Davutoglu said. “We opened our arms Special Forces to advise and assist Iraqi Muslims around the world. Men then shave their heads or trim their to our brothers from Kobane,” he ‘We are alone’ forces alongside British, Canadian and hair while women cut a fingertip-length of their hair. Afer that they added, recalling that his country had In Kobane, a Syrian Kurdish official US advisers already on the ground. can end their Ihram and change back to their usual clothing. Pilgrims already given refuge to 160,000 civil- said Kurdish fighters had also The Special Forces were “not envis- then return to the Grand Mosque in Makkah, perform Tawaf Al- ians fleeing the area. destroyed an IS tank, but pleaded for aged” to become directly involved in Efadha, circumambulating seven times around the Kaaba, then per- Ankara has not said what action it more international support. “For about combat missions but would be “help- form Sai, moving seven times between Safa and Marwah. With that, might take to prevent IS fighters from 16 days we are defending Kobane. We ing Iraqi forces with the planning and pilgrims end their Ihram. —Reuters taking the town, and with it unbroken are alone,” Idris Nahsen told AFP by coordination of operations”, Abbott control of a long stretch of Turkey’s telephone. stressed. Some 1,600 US soldiers have more than 900 kilometer border with “We need help from the internation- been deployed to support Iraqi forces UN urges release Syria. An AFP correspondent on the al community. We need weapons and with equipment, training and informa- frontier saw huge plumes of smoke ammunition,” he said. US-led raids in tion, while Canada said last month it of Bahrain activist above Kobane yesterday as the town’s Syria on Thursday destroyed an IS had sent dozens of Special Forces sol- outnumbered and outgunned defend- checkpoint near Kobane, the Pentagon diers to advise Iraqi personnel. Retired BERLIN: The United Nations has called on Bahrain to ers came under intense mortar fire said. Turkish officials have cautioned US general John Allen, who is leading release a human rights activist detained for sending a from jihadist positions less than two against expecting rapid military steps the international effort against IS, tweet that offended the country’s Interior Ministry. A kilometers away. by them following parliament’s author- arrived in Iraq on Thursday for talks on spokesman for the Geneva-based UN human rights office At least 25 mortar rounds rained ization, and it remains uncertain if boosting the campaign, the State says the detention of Nabeel Rajab sends a “chilling mes- down on Kobane yesterday morning as Turkish armed forces will be used Department said. Britain was sending sage” to others in the Arabian Gulf nation that they too Kurdish fighters battled IS armor on its against the militants. The lack of action two more fighter jets to Cyprus yester- could face reprisals if they speak out. outskirts, the Syrian Observatory for has angered and disappointed many in day, raising to eight the number it has Rupert Colville said yesterday that Rajab was detained Human Rights said. The militiamen Turkey’s own large Kurdish minority deployed to the air campaign in Iraq. Wednesday upon his return from an overseas trip that destroyed two IS armored vehicles who have watched the jihadist The announcement was made by included a meeting with UN human rights officials in southeast of the town, killing seven onslaught on their fellow Kurds with Prime Minister David Cameron during Geneva to discuss the situation in Bahrain. Colville wel- jihadists, said the Britain-based watch- mounting horror. a visit to Britain’s Akrotiri air base on comed the Oct 1 release and lifting of a travel ban on dog, which has a wide range of sources The United States is pressing Ankara the Mediterranean island. It follows another prominent Bahraini activist, Maryam Al-Khawaja. inside Syria. for the use of the Incirlik air base in France’s decision to raise to nine the Her trial for allegedly assaulting two police officers has Even though the vote by Turkish southern Turkey by US jets launching number of jets it is committing to the been set for Nov 5. —AP MPs does not commit the government assaults on IS in Syria. But it is unclear if air war in Iraq. —AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Sweden unveils new ‘feminist’ government

STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s new Social Democrat ous situation-unemployment has become Prime Minister Stefan Loefven unveiled what he entrenched at high levels, school results have col- called a “feminist” government including Green lapsed and the welfare system has major short- Party ministers for the first time in the Nordic comings,” he said. The Greens failed to force country. “The Swedish people voted for a change through an election promise to shut nuclear of government and a new political direction. A power plants but Loefven said the industry will new government comprised of the Social be forced to “bear a larger share of the costs to Democrats and the Green Party is ready to take society”. up the task,” Loefven said in his inaugural speech He also vowed to criminalise Swedes that to parliament. “Sweden’s new government is a travel abroad for sex tourism, and to toughen the feminist government,” he said. Half his cabinet is country’s rape laws. Loefven’s coalition won just female, including Finance Minister Magdalena under 39 percent of the vote in last month’s elec- Andersson and Foreign Minister Margot tion and will rely on outside support from the Left Wallstroem, a former EU commissioner. Party and smaller conservative parties to pass Green Party leaders Aasa Romson and Gustav legislation. The new prime minister also prom- Fridolin were appointed ministers for the envi- ised to curb profits in publicly-funded health and ronment and education, respectively, and the education companies. “The hunt for profits will DONETSK: A pro-Russian rebel tank rolls to take position near to the airport in the town. — AP party will also control Sweden’s overseas aid be stopped,” he said. The new government has agency Sida and the consumer affairs ministry. scrapped the post of European Affairs minister, He repeated election pledges to create jobs, but Loefven said Sweden wanted a greater role Fighting rages near recruit more teachers and increase the compulso- for the EU in peacekeeping, while confirming the ry school age from 16 to 18. “Sweden is in a seri- country will remain out of NATO. — AFP airport in Ukraine Despite fierce resistance, rebels press on

DONETSK: Pro-Russian rebels pressed yester- plies in addition to truck convoys from Russia. day to seize a key airport in eastern Ukraine Fighting for the airport has intensified this despite fierce resistance by government forces. week, threatening to derail the truce declared A reporter yesterday saw three rebel tanks fir- Sept 5. A follow-up deal which called for both ing their cannons at the main terminal of parties to pull back their artillery to create a Donetsk airport, where government forces buffer zone hasn’t been implemented. have holed up. Sniper shots rang around the Residential areas in Donetsk have been caught area. Rebels have made some gains in the area in the crossfire. A Red Cross staffer died near the airport, seizing some buildings on its Thursday when a shell landed near the group’s fringes and using them to target the main ter- office in Donetsk. The rebels said the shelling minal. came from the Ukrainian side, while Ukrainian Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin blamed the Council spokesman Col Andriy Lysenko said death of the Red Cross worker on “terrorists.” A two Ukrainian servicemen have been killed spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- and another nine wounded since Thursday. He moon issued a statement late Thursday, saying said that Ukrainian forces at the airport have the aid worker’s death, along with the shelling undergone rotation and firmly stood their of a school that killed three people earlier this ground. The airport, located just north of week, “underscore the fragility of the current Donetsk, the largest city in the east, gives the cease-fire and the importance of ensuring a Ukrainian forces a convenient vantage point to secure environment in south-eastern Ukraine target rebel positions. Its loss would be a major that will allow humanitarian actors to carry out STOCKHOLM: The new Swedish government posing for photographers in front of the parlia- blow to Ukraine and would also allow the their work and deliver critical assistance to ment building. — AP rebels to receive large cargo planes with sup- those most in need.” — AP Britain PM on surprise journey to Afghanistan

KABUL: Britain’s Prime Minister David ducting combat missions over Iraq since NATO’s combat mission ends on Dec 31. British troops in Helmand province later yes- Cameron yesterday pledged support for Saturday, after Britain joined the US-led coali- Former President Hamid Karzai had terday, insisted there was no prospect of the Afghanistan’s newly sworn-in president and tion of nations that are launching airstrikes refused to approve the deal, and the results UK going back to fight in Afghanistan. “We the country’s new unity government, saying against the militants. “The work of defeating of a June presidential runoff to replace Karzai are not going to send combat troops back to during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is Islamist extremist terror goes on elsewhere in took months to resolve, finally coming to a Afghanistan, because we have trained up an committed to helping Afghans build a more the world,” Cameron said in Kabul. “And conclusion with Ghani Ahmadzai’s swearing- effective Afghan army and Afghan police secure and prosperous future. Cameron was because this threatens us at home, we must in and the establishment of a national unity force. It has been hard, patient work,” he said. the first of world leaders to meet Ashraf continue to play our part.” Ghani Ahmadzai government. Ghani Ahmadzai’s former rival But more than a decade after US forces Ghani Ahmadzai, Afghanistan’s second elect- thanked the British for their sacrifices in for the presidency, Abdullah Abdullah, was helped topple the Taleban in the wake of the ed president, since his inauguration on Afghanistan, especially the families who lost appointed the country’s new chief executive, Sept 11 attacks, Afghanistan is still at war Monday. The two had a meeting in Kabul loved ones in the war. “They stood shoulder a post akin to prime minister. Cameron laud- with the Islamic militant group, which regu- yesterday morning and later held a joint to shoulder with us and we will remember,” ed both Afghan men, saying they put nation- larly carries out attacks, mainly targeting press conference. “Britain has paid a heavy he said. al interests ahead of “personal power” when security forces. price for helping to bring stability to this they struck a power-sharing deal. “I look for- Only this week, Taleban suicide bombers country,” Cameron said, paying tribute to National interests ward to working with both of you in the years staged attacks on Afghan forces in Kabul, the 453 British servicemen and women who Ghani Ahmadzai’s inauguration this week ahead,” he said. Ghani Ahmadzai also praised killing at least 10 soldiers. Even with residual died while serving in Afghanistan. marked the start of a new era for his country, his former rival, saying the two of them “have foreign forces in the country, there remain “An Afghanistan free from Al-Qaeda is in with a national unity government poised to managed a first, which is really rare in the serious questions about the ability of the our national interest - as well as confront a resilient Taleban insurgency. A day Muslim world - a democratic transfer of Afghan troops to take on the militants on Afghanistan’s,” he said. “And now, 13 long after he was sworn in, his administration authority, not power.” their own. Britain is one of the largest finan- years later, Afghanistan can - and must - signed a security agreement allowing the cial donors to the Afghan government and deliver its own security.” But, “we are not United States to keep about 9,800 troops in Topple the Taleban Cameron said he and Ghani Ahmadzai would leaving this country alone,” he added. “In the country to train and assist Afghan nation- Cameron also added a warning to the jointly host a conference on future aid to Britain you will always have a strong partner al security forces. A separate agreement was insurgents. “If the Taleban want to secure a Afghanistan in November in London. In addi- and a friend.” Cameron arrived a day after vis- signed with NATO, outlining parameters for role in the future of Afghanistan, then they tion, Cameron pledged 178 million pounds iting British pilots in Cyprus who are taking 4,000 to 5,000 additional international troops must accept that they have to give up vio- ($287 million) a year until 2017 to support part in airstrikes on Islamic State group tar- - mostly from Britain, Germany, Italy and lence and engage in the political process,” he education, health and other public services in gets in Iraq. British warplanes have been con- Turkey - to stay in a noncombat role after said. The British premier, who was to visit Afghanistan. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 HK protests shrink after leader agrees to talks Sheer exhaustion after the weeklong protests

HONG KONG: Crowds of pro-democracy protesters on the attempting “hijack” the system and force changes to the elec- government; it is not a country or an independent political streets of Hong Kong dwindled sharply yesterday after the ter- toral rules to benefit a minority of people. “The core of their entity.” In negotiations for the handover of Hong Kong from ritory’s leader agreed to meet with their leaders over demands efforts to gain so-called universal suffrage is to ensure that Britain, China’s ruling Communist leaders agreed to a “one for electoral reforms. An afternoon thunderstorm - and sheer their representatives, including those who confront the central country, two systems” that would preserve Western-style civil exhaustion after the weeklong protests - also appeared to government, can become candidates for chief executive.” liberties and broad autonomy, while promising eventual keep people off the streets. Protesters and police scuffled It said this effort was doomed to failure, and that there was democracy. Protesters say China is reneging on a promise that briefly yesterday morning as officers forced demonstrators “no room for concessions” on the candidate screening issue. It the city’s top leader will be chosen through “universal suf- back to clear a path for an ambulance leaving the sprawling said Hong Kong “is directly under the jurisdiction of the central frage.” — AP government compound, the focal point of the protests. The complex remained closed because the protesters had blocked entrances, keeping civil servants from getting inside. In some areas, the mostly student-age demonstrators faced hostility from crowds who complained the protests were blocking access to businesses. A few unidentified men tussled with demonstrators as they tried to tear down protest barri- cades and tents. It was unclear if the shrinking crowds signaled fading momentum for the protest movement - the biggest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997 - or if it was a temporary lull before renewed demonstrations this weekend. Also unclear was what kind of compromise the talks with Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying - whose resignation the protesters have demanded - might achieve. Leung urged the protesters once again yesterday to clear the city’s streets. “I call upon every leader of the movement to bear their rightful responsi- bilities and to persuade protesters to halt their actions,” he said.

Businesses affected Demonstrators have been pushing for the Chinese govern- ment to reverse its recent decision requiring a mostly pro- Beijing committee pick candidates for Hong Kong’s first elec- tion to choose the territory’s leader in 2017. The demonstrators want open nominations. “What we want to fight for is our free- dom, and the free nomination of candidates for our chief exec- utive,” said Ivy Chan, a 25-year-old social worker. Yet some in the 7 million-person city complained that the protests were undermining their livelihoods. “It affected my company, a perfume business, to deliver goods in the area,” said Ken Lai in the bustling Causeway Bay neighborhood. “I really dislike the fact that they occupied so many areas, all scattered around the city. I’m a Hong Konger too. The occupiers don’t represent all of us.” A front-page edi- torial yesterday in the People’s Daily newspaper, published by China’s ruling Communist Party, underlined the leadership’s unwillingness to negotiate changes to its August decision. Student protesters had threatened to surround or occupy gov- ernment buildings if Leung did not step down by Thursday, and police had warned of serious consequences if they did that. Just minutes before Thursday’s midnight deadline set by protesters, Leung held a news conference to offer the talks, but said “I will not resign.” Standing beside Leung was the territo- ry’s top civil servant, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam, and he asked her to arrange the talks. She said she would seek to meet with leaders of the demonstrations as soon as possible. “I hope both sides will be satisfied,” she said. “Students had wanted a public meeting but I hope that we can have some flexibility to discuss details.” The Hong Kong Federation of Students said in a statement early yesterday that they planned to join the talks with the government, focused specifically on political reforms. They reiterated that Leung step down, saying he “had lost his integrity.” One of the leaders of the broader Occupy Central democracy group, which joined the student demonstration, also welcomed the talks. “This could be an opportunity to solve the plight we are facing,” said Benny Tai.

‘Universal suffrage’ “Earlier yesterday, protesters stopped two vans from deliv- ering breakfast and medical supplies to the hundreds of police guarding the government complex. They have said the author- ities previously used ambulances to deliver anti-riot gear into the building. “The protesters have occupied roads, obstructed the entrances and exits of government buildings, stopped police officers from changing shifts and denied them food and water supply. These are serious illegal acts and are unreason- able and inhumane actions,” the government said in a state- ment. China’s government has been largely silent on the protests, other than to call them illegal and support the Hong Kong government’s efforts to disperse them. However, the People’s Daily has published lengthy commentaries on the protests. Yesterday, it said a small group of protesters were

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 New polio cases in Pak edge closer to record

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered seven new polio cases, raising the number of those affected by the crippling disease this year to 194 and edging closer to the nation’s own record number of 199 in 2001, a senior health official said yesterday. All of the new cases were from the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, where it has been impossible to launch anti-polio campaigns because of threats from mili- tants, said Rana Mohammad Safdar from the National Institute of Health in Islamabad. “We are concerned over it,” Safdar told The Associated Press. “Lab tests two days ago KASHMIR: A Kashmiri man looks at his flood-damaged house in Srinagar yesterday. According to officials, 281 persons are con- confirmed these new cases.” firmed dead and another 29 are missing in the worst-ever floods Indian Kashmir witnessed in a century with 200,000 structures Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is damaged. — AFP endemic. The highly contagious virus is transmitted in unsanitary conditions but is easily fended off with a vaccine. However, efforts to eradicate it are hampered by the Taleban, who have banned immunizations and attacked Modi uses radio medium polio vaccination teams across Pakistan. Militants accuse polio workers of acting as spies for the United States and to spread plans of change claim the vaccine makes boys sterile. About 60 polio workers or police escorting polio teams have been killed in Pakistan Urges the country to get India’s economy moving since 2012, said Safdar. The militants’ push against vaccina- tion grew after it was revealed that a Pakistani doctor, Shakil NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered yester- Blessed with charisma and able to speak in the language of the Afridi, offered a program of hepatitis vaccinations in the day the first of many radio addresses he plans to make to mobilize common man, Modi has adopted a more personalised style of northwestern city of Abbottabad. support among ordinary people for his agenda of change. Modi used leadership role to bring focus to uncomfortable issues that The program was a cover for his CIA-backed effort to his maiden address to urge hundreds of millions of countrymen, past governments have often avoided. He has spoken about obtain DNA samples from children at a local compound many of whom have no access to television, to do their part to help the lack of toilets in a country where half the population defe- where Osama bin Laden was later killed during a 2011 raid get India’s economy moving. A day earlier, Modi launched a cam- cates in the open, putting people at risk of cholera, diarrhea, by US Navy SEALs. Afridi was later convicted and sentenced paign to clean up India’s towns and villages that he has said were an dysentery, hepatitis A and typhoid. During yesterday’s 14 by a Pakistani court to 33 years in prison for treason. The sen- embarrassment and an impediment to tourism. minute address, Modi narrated two short stories with the aim tence was later overturned and the case is now facing retrial. “A lot of us think that it is the government’s responsibility to do of encouraging people to keep the country clean, buy locally This week, Pakistan again launched another anti-polio drive everything... if we want to develop, then 1.2 billion will have to work produced handspun khadi fabric popularized by independ- in an attempt to get all of Pakistan’s 34 million children vac- towards it,” he said in the radio show titled “Mann ki Baat”, or “Talking ence leader Mahatma Gandhi, and help children with special cinated, Safdar said. He added that polio workers were also from the Heart”. Modi, who came to power in May, plans to make his needs. trying to reach children who had migrated to the northwest- radio speeches at least every month on Sunday mornings to get his “We have to recognize our internal strength. We all have to ern city of Bannu from North Waziristan in June when message across to two thirds of India’s 1.2 billion people who listen march ahead with self-confidence, create our own identity and Pakistan’s military launched a much-awaited operation in the regularly to the radio. attain success for oneself and the nation,” he said. Modi has country’s troubled tribal region to eliminate local and for- used Facebook and Twitter, where he has about 6.4 million fol- eign militants. It displaced over 800,000 people.— AP Blessed with charisma lowers, to bypass traditional news media and communicate his His speeches will be translated in 24 local languages. thoughts. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Protesters demand answers on missing Mexico students

CHILPANCINGO: Thousands of protesters blocked the highway to Acapulco in southern Mexico on Thursday to press authorities to find 43 students missing since a deadly police shooting last week- end. The demonstration was part of commemorations of a 1968 massacre of students by the army in Mexico City but the protesters focused on the fate of the disappeared in violence-plagued Guerrero state. Parents of the missing led the march in the state capital Chilpancingo, holding signs saying “they were taken alive, we want them back,” as a sea of students, teachers and others fol- lowed behind. The students, from a teacher training college near Chilpancingo, had gone to the town of Iguala 100 kilometers to the north last week to raise funds when they were shot at by municipal police after they hijacked buses to return home. Three students were killed and wit- nesses said they saw dozens taken away in police cars. Authorities detained 22 officers over the shooting and another attack that killed three other people later that night on the outskirts of Iguala. A gang is believed to have participated in the second shooting and the offi- cers are suspected of having links to criminals in the region, raising fears a gang has the students. “We are fed up with crime and corrup- tion in this state,” said Manuel Martinez, 32, whose 18-year-old nephew is among the missing. Relatives of the missing, backed by scores of troops and state police, scoured fields and communities around Iguala this week, handing out fliers with pictures of their loved ones. But the parents said they are unhappy with how authorities are handling the case, saying no proper investigations are being conducted for the search. CHILPANCINGO: The mother of a student holds a poster with the portraits of missing students. — AFP “The search was a show,” said Mariano Flores Vazquez, 35, who searched for his 22-year-old nephew. Manuel Olivares, coordinator of the Guerrerense Network of Human Rights Organizations, said the parents are debating how to proceed with the search. “The parents First lady hitting didn’t like how it took place because there’s no seriousness, there’s no investigation,” he said. After blocking the highway with buses for several hours, the students finally freed the road after federal officials agreed to meet the parents yesterday. Officials say they hope the 43 campaign trail students will turn up alive like a dozen others who reappeared after apparently going into hiding. The parents are holding out hope, but some fear for the worst in a country where 80,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006. Another 22,000 people are Michelle Obama putting her influence to the test unaccounted for.

‘Same story repeats itself’ WASHINGTON: A month before critical midterm elections, aide. The first lady made her 2014 campaign trail debut last month As the students marched, Governor Angel Aguirre sent 1,600 state Michelle Obama is putting her popularity and influence to the test, with stops in Georgia with Michelle Nunn, who hopes to pick up a workers from various departments to help the search in Iguala. “We trying to help elect Democratic candidates and give her husband a key Senate seat for Democrats on Nov 4, and in Wisconsin with will go house to house, under orders of Governor Angel Aguirre, until fighting chance to complete his agenda. Mrs Obama will ramp up Burke, who is trying to unseat Republican Gov Scott Walker, a we find these youngsters,” said Beatriz Mojica Morga, the state’s her campaigning by heading to New England to support guberna- potential presidential candidate. Mrs Obama’s office declined to social development secretary. The Iguala case emerged as the army torial candidates Martha Coakley in Massachusetts and Rep Mike release her complete campaign schedule, but she is again setting grappled with its own scandal after eight soldiers were detained by Michaud in Maine. She follows that up with a pair of Midwest stops aside her well-known dislike of politics and juggling her multiple the military over the killing of 22 drug suspects. Authorities originally on Tuesday: an appearance with Mary Burke, the Democratic candi- roles as wife, mother of two teenage daughters and first lady to said the suspects died in a shootout but a witness said the soldiers date for governor in Wisconsin, and a plug in Chicago for Illinois spend at least two days a week on the road boosting Democratic executed 21 people, including her 15-year-old daughter, after a candidates and urging supporters to vote. shootout. The army detained eight soldiers over the killings in Tlatlaya, a town south of Mexico City. Civilian prosecutors plan to Scant hope charge three of them with homicide. —AFP Voters will decide on Nov 4 which party controls the House and Senate during Obama’s remaining two years in office, along with determining control of more than 30 governor’s offices. Closed Gitmo hearing Republicans are expected to keep control of the House and hope request gets rejected to pick up the six seats the party needs to claim the Senate majority and, with it, control of both houses of Congress. Such an outcome would leave the president with scant hope of enacting any major WASHINGTON: A federal judge on Thursday rejected a legislation before leaving office. Enter the first lady, who thought request by the Obama administration to close a hearing her husband’s re-election effort two years ago, when she barn- into the force-feeding of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who stormed key states on his behalf, was the end of their years-long has gone on a hunger strike. The Obama administration involvement in political campaigns. That was until Obama broke has sought to keep the hearing closed on grounds that the news that he needed her help once again. “I told Michelle in much of the information about the man is classified. US 2012 this was my last campaign. She said, ‘Hallelujah!’” the presi- District Judge Gladys Kessler rejected the government’s dent said earlier this year. “And then I had to go back to her about motion to close the hearing in its entirety. However, the six months ago and say, ‘actually, honey, let me amend that. We’ve judge is not opening the hearing completely. The hearing got one more campaign.’” can be held in open and closed sessions to accommodate Democrats are clamoring for her to campaign with them even the government’s concerns, Kessler wrote. MILWAUKEE: First lady Michelle Obama speaks on behalf as they avoid appearing with the president, whose job approval The presumption of openness and the absence of any of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary rating has sunk to the low 40s. Obama, for example, has not cam- grounds that justify overcoming that presumption compel Burke at a campaign rally. — AP paigned for Nunn in Georgia, where he lost in 2008 and 2012. So far denial of the government’s request, Kessler wrote. this election season, he has campaigned only with Democratic can- Lawyers for Abu Wael Dhiab plan to introduce testimony Gov Pat Quinn. President Barack Obama helped raise money for didates from his home state of Illinois. A planned joint appearance by three doctors regarding his physical and mental health Quinn this week at a Chicago fundraiser. The first lady also plans in Denver in July with Sen. Mark Udall quickly became a solo and the use of force-feeding at a hearing scheduled to appearances this month in Iowa, where Democratic Rep Bruce Obama stop when Udall decided at the last minute to stay behind begin Oct 6. Dhiab, a Syrian prisoner, has been held with- Braley and Republican Joni Ernst are locked in one of the year’s in Washington. Mrs Obama also is viewed more positively than out charge at the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects at most competitive Senate races, as well as in Michigan for Senate Obama by the public, 62 percent to 50 percent, according to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since August 2002. The military candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer. most recent Pew Research Center survey. Republican Party spokes- forcibly removes Dhiab from his cell and straps him on a “She knows the stakes are high and that’s why she is dedicating woman Kirsten Kukowski said it wasn’t surprising that Democratic restraining chair where he is force-fed. Dhiab is challeng- a good part of her schedule to making sure Democrats are out candidates prefer campaigning with Mrs Obama over a president ing the procedures as abusive. — AP there voting in the midterms,” said Tina Tchen, the first lady’s top who is sagging in the polls. —AP Kuwait invites Big Oil back Airbus insider trading US jobless rate falls to develop major fields trial opens in France Business16 17to 6-year low of 5.9% 20

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RIYADH: Sheep for sale at one of the 14 temporary livestock market sites established by authorities in Riyadh on the eve of Eid Al-Adha. — AFP Fat sheep, fat price for Saudi Eid festivities Supplies hit by raging Syrian war

RIYADH: There is a whiff of sheep dung in the early evening For centuries the ritual slaughter has lured sheep traders to we get to Eid, the more expensive the slaughter animals air as the sun drops from sight and Ali Al-Shamrani ponders big cities and towns, eager for their biggest sales of the year. become,” said a resident of Saudi Arabia’s north, who gave his the market for his animals ahead of today’s Eid Al-Adha festi- For both the traders and their customers, every festival brings name only as Abu Majed. val. “This year they are more expensive,” he says outside a pen a customary debate over the price of sheep-and this year is no He will sacrifice just one animal this year, instead of his usu- of about 40 Saudi Arabian Naimy-variety sheep, most of them exception. al two, “because they are so expensive now”. Traders have with brown heads and thick dirty-white fleece. blamed the rising prices on a drop in supply. “There aren’t too many Naimy this year,” says the black- Syria war hits supply “Prices in Saudi Arabia remain cheaper than in neighboring bearded trader, who trucked his animals to the Saudi capital Shamrani, with sunglasses hanging from the breast pocket Gulf States. Still, limited local production and increased con- Riyadh early this week from Hafar Al-Batin in the country’s of a traditional white thobe, sells his sheep for between 1,600 sumption put pressure on the market,” the Arab News quoted north, near Iraq. He and several other traders have set up their and 2,000 riyals ($427-$533) — about 10 percent more than Suleiman Al-Jabri, of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry animal pens-and tents where they themselves rest-in one of last year. in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, as saying. 14 temporary market sites established by authorities in the “It’s more costly. Not like last year,” says Nasser Al-Qahtani, Efforts were being made to keep prices stable, he said, with city of 5.7 million before the Muslim feast of sacrifice. a clean-shaven medical student who arrives at the Riyadh more than one million sheep due to arrive in Jeddah from Eid Al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims around the world, coin- market with his best friend, Muath Al-Obaida. They came from Sudan and Somalia. “There are fewer sheep than last year,” cides with the symbolic stoning of the devil by pilgrims gath- their newly-built neighborhood carved out of the hard desert says Asef Nemah, a vendor who just arrived at the Yasamin Eid ered for the annual Hajj near the holy city of Makkah in west- earth, nearby in northern Riyadh’s Al-Yasamin district. market with a truckload of the Naimy breed from about 70 ern Saudi Arabia. The sacrifice of sheep, goats and other ani- Qahtani-far from thin himself-says he can tell a good sheep by kilometers (43 miles) outside the capital. mals for Eid Al-Adha is a re-enactment of the story of feeling its flesh and fat. “Fat one better,” he says in English, The smiling Nemah, with hands on his hips and a red-check Abraham, who was prepared to fulfil God’s command to sacri- after finding one that felt just right. shemagh wrapped around his head, says sheep are not com- fice his own son. Despite this year’s higher prices, he and Obaida hand over ing this year from war-torn Syria, which traditionally had been By tradition, one-third of the meat from the sacrifice is for 1,900 riyals for the animal, about 400 riyals more than during a key supplier. Obaida says the absence of Syrian animals the family, while the rest is evenly divided and given to friends the previous Eid. The rump of the chosen sheep is sprayed doesn’t bother him-he prefers the taste of Saudi Naimy. “It’s and the poor. with red paint, marking it for their collection later. “The closer very nice,” he says. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Brent slips towards Kuwait invites Big Oil back $93 as oversupply, dollar weigh to develop major fields

LONDON: Brent crude oil futures slipped yesterday towards $93 DUBAI: Kuwait is in talks with five major oil companies to 700,000 bpd and the plan is to boost its output to 1 million a barrel, extending a three-day slide that has pushed prices to help boost crude production and develop some of its oil- bpd by 2017-2018, he said. their lowest since 2012, as abundant supplies and a strong dollar fields including Burgan, the world’s second largest, a move KOC is also working to sustain current production continued to weigh on the market. that has faced fierce political opposition in the past. Kuwait potential of 1.7 million bpd from Burgan after moving Brent for November delivery was down 35 cents at $93.07 a has invited Britain’s BP, France’s Total, Royal Dutch Shell, ahead with a water injection project to help boost oil barrel by 1033 GMT. On Thursday Brent touched $91.55 a barrel, ExxonMobil and Chevron, to bid for a so-called enhanced recovery rates, Hashem said. its lowest since June 2012. US November crude slipped 8 cents technical service agreement for the northern Ratqa heavy Kuwait’s oil production comes mainly from a few mature to $90.93 a barrel. It has lost around $2 this week, its steepest oilfield, Hashem Hashem, chief executive of state-run fields, dominated by the Burgan field in the south of the weekly fall in a month. It hit $88.18 in the previous session, its Kuwait Oil Co (KOC) said. country. Kuwait’s current capacity is around 3.25 million lowest point since April 2013. The spread between the front “We’ve invited the major five international oil compa- bpd, with KOC’s share at around 3 million bpd. To bring the month Brent and US crude futures contracts reached its narrow- nies (IOCs) to show interest. This is our approach,” Hashem capacity up to 4 million bpd by 2020, KOC will contribute est since August 2013 at $2.15 a barrel in early trading, reflecting said in a phone interview, adding Exxon might not be an extra 650,000 bpd. supply pressure on Brent and weak demand in Europe, where an interested in this bid. “We are trying by first or second Service contracts stay within the limits of Kuwait’s con- overhang of unsold North Sea and West African barrels persists. quarter of next year to conclude this contract.” The plan is stitution, which ban foreign firms from oil production in “Global concern over declining economic growth and wan- part of efforts to meet Kuwait’s target of producing 4 mil- the Gulf OPEC crude exporter. ing demand combined with a robust supply continue to weigh lion barrels of oil per day (bpd) by 2020. The OPEC member Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP have all previously dis- on the global oil market,” said Dorian Lucas, an analyst at energy currently produces around 3 million bpd and exports cussed technical service agreements with Kuwait. Total had consultancy Inenco. The strong dollar is also hurting the com- around two thirds. looked at working with Kuwait on enhanced oil recovery. modities complex, up 0.43 percent against a basket of currencies KOC also plans to open up other oilfields such as its Exxon signed a preliminary deal in 2007 to work on heavy by 1042 GMT. A strong dollar makes commodities priced in dol- North Kuwait fields and areas of the giant Burgan field for oil in the country’s north. BP has looked at working in the lars more expensive for buyers using other currencies. “I was bearish, and I’m even more bearish now,” said Bill foreign oil companies to develop, and will send a letter to west, while Chevron has looked at the south and east. Hubard, chief economist at Bankor. “As long as we have a dollar the five majors seeking their interest in bidding, Hashem But political opposition to foreign firms taking a role in rally, we will see a move out of commodities.” said. “We are starting first with the heavy oil and then will production had delayed oil developmental projects for The Brent crude benchmark is set to end the week down for continue with north Kuwait and south-east Kuwait, we will years. Parliamentary criticism led Kuwait to cancel billion- the fourth week in five, having fallen more than 15 percent this take it in stages, one-by-one,” he said. dollar petrochemical and refining deals. year. There was a slight retracement of Thursday’s losses early in After pressure from Kuwaiti lawmakers, an investigation the session, but the overall trend remains to the downside. Political opposition was launched in 2011 into a gas development agreement Traders and analysts said the small bounce had been driven It is the first time KOC will develop such a big heavy oil with Shell that was awarded without competition. Hashem by short-covering as people laid in protection ahead of the US reservoir and the plan is to produce 60,000 bpd from said such concerns had been addressed. “It is an enhanced non-farm payrolls data. Economists polled by Reuters forecast a Ratqa, which lies close to the Iraqi border, by 2018-2019 in consultancy agreement, it is within the constitution. It is rise to 215,000 in September, rebounding from a disappointing the first phase, and then ramp it up to 120,000 bpd by not going to be a direct tender award but they (IOCs) will 142,000 in August.—Reuters 2025, Hashem said. North Kuwait now produces around compete among themselves,” he said. — Reuters

Entebbeand Bujumbura welcomes flydubai inaugural flights

DUBAI: Dubai-based flydubai’s inaugural flights to Entebbeand flights a week to Kigali and three onward flights a week to the more than 80 destinations we operate to offer a great oppor- Bujumbura landed yesterday and were welcomed with traditional Bujumbura, coupled with the recent announcement of three new tunity for this country to strengthen its trade ties.” water cannon salutes and official delegations. flydubai’s delega- routes in Tanzania, flydubai has doubled its presence in Africa to flydubai becomes the first national carrier from the UAE to fly tion was headed by Hamad Obaidalla, flydubai Chief Commercial 12 destinations. In addition, the airline offers Business Class and to Rwanda and Burundi, underlining its commitment to opening Officer, and Sudhir Sreedharan, flydubai Senior Vice President cargo services on each of these new routes. up underserved markets. Its first flight to Kigali, Rwanda was on Commercial (GCC, Subcontinent and Africa), and at Entebbe Commenting on the launch of the Entebbe route, flydubai 27 September. flydubai offers reliable and affordable travel to 83 International Airport they were greeted by Abraham Byandala, CCO Hamad Obaidalla said: “We are delighted to be flying to destinations across 42 countries. From Entebbe, Bujumbura or Uganda’s Minister for Works and Transportation, and John Entebbe, one of Africa’s leading commercial centres. With daily Kigali, passengers can book convenient connections through Okalany, General Manager for Entebbe Airport. flights offering the choice of Economy and Business Class, we will Dubai to India, the Gulf countries and various points in Russia, At Bujumbura International Airport, flydubai’s delegation was facilitate the flow of tourism and business between Uganda and among other destinations. With the airline’s strategic base at met by Ciza Virginia,Minister of Transport, Public Works and the UAE.” Dubai International Airport, passengers can also benefit from fly- Equipment and was entertained by African dancers. At Bujumbura Obaidalla said: “We believe the rich biodiversity dubai’s interline agreements with other carriers, providing oppor- With the launch of daily direct flights to Entebbe, two onward of Burundi will attract tourists from around our network and that tunities for onward travel to more than 200 destinations.

Hamad Obaidalla speaking at the press conference in Bujumbura. Uganda’s Minister for Works and Transportation (right) with flydubai’s CCO. BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Airbus insider trading trial opens in France

PARIS: A long-awaited French corporate trial involving expected to give evidence next week. Alain Flourens, appeals process, in the case of convictions, can take allegations of insider trading in the shares of Airbus who heads the planemaker’s A380 program, and Andreas years. Group got under way yesterday, marking the climax of an Sperl, formerly the Airbus finance director and now chief The trial will offer a rare glimpse of the inner workings eight-year investigation. executive officer of a subsidiary that turns jetliners into and decision making of one of Europe’s most strategic Seven current and former managers at Europe’s cargo planes, are also facing trial. industrial companies and is expected to revive memories largest aerospace group, and two former industrial share- Former managers on trial include Noel Forgeard, the of Franco-German in-fighting and strategy disputes its holders, are accused of trying to profit from inside knowl- former co-chief executive of EADS and once an adviser to leaders want to forget. edge of problems with two jet developments and a dete- former President Jacques Chirac. “Not virtually cleared, Airbus Group has reshaped itself in recent years by riorating financial outlook when they sold shares in what totally cleared,” Forgeard, 67, said on his way into the reducing the role of the French and German govern- was then EADS in 2006. All deny the charges and argue court, correcting a journalist who asked about the 2009 ments and is basking in record demand for its passenger that the trial should not be taking place because they ruling by the AMF stock market regulator. jets, but has often been an unpredictable lightning rod have already been cleared by the French stock market French media group Lagardere and German car firm for disputes outside the group. regulator, highlighting a growing European debate Daimler, which reduced their stakes in EADS shortly after As the trial got under way, Airbus Group Chief about “double jeopardy” rules. the individual transactions, were also represented. Executive Tom Enders wrote to its 100,000 employees, However, a French court was expected to reject an The three-week Paris trial will take place without a saying “I am confident, that once again, it will be demon- attempt to have the trial halted on the grounds that it jury in front of a panel of judges in an ornate wood-pan- strated that these accusations are groundless and should went against a recent ruling by the European Court of elled chamber best known as a place for auctioning off be fully dismissed”. Fabrice Bregier, the current head of Human Rights. Current managers facing trial include seized property or as the scene of previous high-profile Airbus, and Louis Gallois, a former boss of the planemak- John Leahy, the sales chief of planemaking subsidiary corporate trials. Legal experts say a verdict is likely to be er as well as its parent group, will both appear as witness- Airbus, who was not present on the opening day but is given weeks or months after the trial closes and that the es in coming weeks.—Reuters

Movenpick Hotels & Resorts prepares for 2017 opening of Downtown Dubai property

DUBAI: Plans for a new hotel apartment tower in with Movenpick Hotels & Resorts. “We like the fact Downtown Dubai complete one more step that Movenpick has a clear strategy for expansion, towards Dubai’s vision of welcoming 20 million which builds confidence and clarity. I am certain visitors by 2020. The modern skyscraper will our two projects will benefit greatly by being man- become the seventh Dubai property of Movenpick aged with a focus on quality, high standards and Hotels & Resorts, who announced it signed a man- consistent service.” agement and operating agreement with El Worldwide, Movenpick Hotels & Resorts cur- Housein Limited. rently operates 81 hotels in Europe, Africa, Asia With an enviable location walking distance and the Middle East. The next property to open in from Dubai Mall and 1 km from Dubai the region is Movenpick Hotel Riyadh, which is PARIS: A Bentley Mulsanne is presented at the Paris Motor Show, in Paris yesterday. The Paris International Financial Centre, Movenpick Hotel scheduled to welcome guests from early 2015. Motor Show will open its doors to the public today until Oct 19. — AP Apartments Downtown Dubai will offer its guests access to key attractions and important business districts. Dubai International Airport is just 9 km Bentley joins ultra-luxury fast away. The 246 hotel apartments will be developed lane with Mulsanne Speed with varying sizes, ranging between 36 sqm for studio apartments and 104 sqm for two-bedroom apartments. A speciality restaurant and lobby cafe PARIS AUTO SHOW will provide a variety of cuisine and guests will also be able to relax at a swimming pool, gymnasium, PARIS: Bentley, the venerable British carmaker “They buy whichever model is hot.” With a dark tint spa and beauty salon. Several shops and two known for comfort and style, is moving into the fast finish applied to exterior grilles and wing vents, meeting rooms complete the plans. lane of ultra-luxury cars with a new version of its Bentley believes the new 5.57-metre version of the “As Dubai continues to develop and Expo 2020 flagship saloon, aiming to grab a bigger slice of a Mulsanne-named after the fastest stretch of the Le nears, multiple districts with their own feel, geo- market tipped to double in size by 2018. The 95- Mans race track in France-will comfortably fit into graphic importance and accessibility emerge. year-old brand, whose customers include Queen that category. “Bentley is on the move,” Downtown Dubai is an area we’ve eyed for a while Elizabeth II and the Sultan of Brunei, is using this Duerheimer told Reuters in an interview late on and I’m delighted that we will be able to add this month’s Paris auto show to launch the Mulsanne Thursday. “The emphasis on performance has vibrant and central location to our portfolio,” said Speed under the strapline “the world’s fastest ultra- something to do with the lifestyle of our customers, Andreas Mattmuller, Chief Operating Officer of luxury driving experience.” it’s part of their superlative aspirations.” Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, Middle East and Asia. At 324,000 euros ($411,000), the model is not Though Bentley accounted for just 0.1 percent He continued by revealing that the property’s only Bentley’s most expensive ever, but the eight- of VW’s record 9.73 million vehicle sales last year, it main focus will be on providing medium and long- cylinder engine with a new combustion system gives the German parent an aura of technical term accommodation. There is a growing market will allow it to reach 100 kilometres per hour in 4.9 prowess while carrying out key research tasks, for travellers to Dubai who prefer the comfort and seconds and deliver a top speed of 305 kph (190 especially on engine technology. Bentley has set a convenience of fully furnished, fully serviced, mph). target to boost sales by about half to 15,000 vehi- branded hotel apartments. Of course, the proximi- The launch is part of a diversification that will cles by 2018, as part of VW’s goal to overtake ty to Dubai Mall, Burj Khalifa and associated attrac- also see the Volkswagen-owned business branch Toyota as the world’s biggest carmaker. tions means we will also be well placed to accom- into luxury sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) in 2016. modate GCC families on leisure travellers once it Such expansion is nothing new. Indeed, Bentley Grand plans opens in 2017.” chief executive Wolfgang Duerheimer may be try- Duerheimer, who returned to Bentley in June The company’s seventh Dubai property, will be ing to replicate the success he had as R&D chief at after a brief stint as R&D boss at VW’s Audi division, in a new area of the city for Movenpick Hotels & Volkswagen (VW) luxury stablemate Porsche, oversaw Porsche’s push into SUVs in 2002 with the Resorts, namely in Downtown Dubai. Its other six where he extended a range of two-seater sports Cayenne, now the brand’s top-selling model properties are located across Ibn Battuta Mall near cars to embrace SUVs and coupes. But analysts say accounting for about half its deliveries. Jebel Ali, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Jumeirah Beach it is vital if Bentley is to secure a larger share of a In 2011-2012 when he first took the reins, he on The Walk, Bur Dubai, Deira and in Mamzar near rapidly-growing market. Deliveries of cars priced at developed the business case and technology blue- Sharjah. 120,000 euros or more may almost double to about print for the Bentley SUV which will be the world’s El Housein Limited, the owning company of 133,000 vehicles by 2018 from 70,000 last year as most expensive four-by-four costing more than Movenpick Hotel Apartments Downtown Dubai, is the ranks of the super wealthy in the United States 160,000 euros. A former racing engineer at BMW’s also the owner of Movenpick Hotel Les Berges Du and China keep growing, according to forecaster motorcycle division who still drives a BMW GS Lac Tunis. Both properties are currently under con- IHS Automotive. model and touts a 365 kph personal speed record struction. “The super-rich don’t care about brand loyalty,” set in a Bugatti Veyron, Duerheimer’s affection for Fethi Neifer, the owner of El Housein Limited, Frankfurt-based IHS analyst Henner Lehne said. performance is blatant.—Reuters said he is excited about the company’s partnership BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 EasyJet spurs hopes for special dividend

LONDON: British airline easyJet Plc has largest-ever ordinary dividend payout, ance. That was in addition to its regular favourable exchange rate movements in spurred hopes of a lucrative reward to after it said in September it planned to full-year dividend of 33-1/2 pence per the six months to the end of September. shareholders, giving an increased fore- reward shareholders with 40 percent of share, up 56 percent, for a total payout of Unit fuel costs would be 2 million pounds cast for upcoming full-year earnings in pretax profit, above the previous one- 308 million pounds. lower than was expected in July, when the latest indication of the success of its third distribution. up to a 5 million pound adverse impact low-cost model. EasyJet’s cheap fares “We think that easyJet will continue to Revenue boost was expected. At current rates, easyJet have helped it and rival Ryanair weather take market share from the flag carriers The higher than expected results for said it expected the fuel bill for its next an increasingly competitive European in key markets such as Germany, France the 12 months through September were financial year to be about 50 million short-haul market, while traditional air- and Italy as these companies attempt to helped by a 5 million pound boost to rev- pounds lower than this year, though lines have struggled to compete. restructure their own short-haul opera- enue from the Air France strike as cus- adverse currency moves over the same The trend has been highlighted by a tions,” said analyst Robin Byde at broker- tomers switched to easyJet’s planes. period could have a 20 million pound recent two-week strike by pilots at Air age Cantor Fitzgerald, who has a “buy” Earnings were also helped by strong adverse impact. France, part of Air France-KLM, over rating on the stock. Byde added he demand for short-haul European travel at EasyJet’s previous guidance for pre- issues relating to a new discount airline, believed there was a significant chance the end of the summer, meaning rev- tax profit was in a range of 545 million which helped propel some customers to of easyJet announcing a special dividend enue per seat on a constant-currency to 570 million, announced at the time of rivals such as easyJet. at the time of its full-year results on Nov. basis would be 1.5 percent higher than its third-quarter results in July. Shares in The company, whose shares rose 7 18. Analysts at Jefferies said a special last year in its fiscal fourth quarter. the airline have backtracked from a percent to 1,468 pence by 0856 GMT, payout could also be on the cards: “A 100 In recent years easyJet, whose orange record 1,853 pence set in April but said it expected to report a pretax profit million pound special dividend is possi- logo is a common sight at its Luton, remain well above levels just above in the range of 575 million pounds ($927 ble in November, but more likely in full- southern England, base, has added 500p seen as recently as two years ago. million) to 580 million, as much as 6 per- year 2015.” Last year the company flights on routes where rivals have cut Before Friday’s statement the stock was cent more than guidance given in July. announced a 175 million pound special back and introduced more flights trading on 11.3 times forecast earnings, The raised forecast put easyJet, dividend at the time of its full-year between top business destinations. It a 16 percent discount to the 13.5 times Europe’s second-largest low-cost carrier results, having previously said annual said profit would also be lifted by lower multiple of its peer group, according to behind Ryanair, on track to make its profit would be at the top end of guid- than expected unit fuel costs and Reuters data. — Reuters

Analysts, markets US trade deal won’t change wary after Argentina bank shake-up rules on toxic chemicals: EU

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s choice of new central bank chief triggered nervous reaction Thursday, sending the Buenos Aires EU-US accord could significantly deepen trade stock market into a dive and drawing warnings of reckless policy- making. Stocks closed 7.05 percent lower in Buenos Aires, after BRUSSELS: The European Union is seek- US free-trade deal, which could generate campaigners, ClientEarth, said on its falling 8.22 percent Wednesday on news of Juan Carlos Fabrega’s ing to contain a new complaint that a $100 billion a year for both the EU and website this week that a leaked docu- resignation. Markets appeared to take little comfort in the gov- ernment’s assurances that it would make no sweeping changes trade deal with the United States would the United States, is to make it easier for ment from the trade negotiations sig- at the central bank, known as BCRA. undermine Europe’s protection against companies to do business by respecting nalled that the public’s concerns were Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich told journalists the new cen- dangerous chemicals, eager to avoid each others’ standards. not being heeded. “The European Union tral bank governor, Alejandro Vanoli, had the exact same job another front of resistance to the world’s is giving the United States a chance to description as his hastily departed predecessor-to shepherd the biggest trade accord. Toxic risk? block any initiative to protect EU citizens country’s struggling economy. “Vanoli has to carry out the basic More than a year into negotiations, But the Commission says that when it and the environment from the risk of charter of the BCRA, which is very clear and says he must create the European Commission, the EU exec- comes to chemicals, EU and US regula- toxic chemicals,” said Vito Buonsante, an the conditions for economic growth and employment, monetary utive, is engaged in a public relations tions on chemicals differ significantly, advisor at ClientEarth, which specializes stability and apply regulatory laws,” Capitanich said. battle to defend plans to deepen the making so-called mutual recognition in environmental litigation and research. Asked if there would be any reforms to the wide-ranging transatlantic trading relationship and impossible. Within the trade deal, the Until now, much of the criticism of “financial entities law” that governs the bank’s oversight of the create a market of some 800 million peo- European Union aims only to better clas- the EU-U.S. trade deal has focused on the commercial banking and financial industries, Capitanich said: ple encompassing almost half the sify and label chemicals, share data on pact’s “Investor-State Dispute “The answer is no.” But analysts predicted Vanoli, the former world’s economy. chemicals more effectively and protect Settlement” clause that would allow head of the national stocks and securities regulator, would bring In a letter seen by Reuters, the EU’s confidential business information to companies to take cross-border legal more extreme economic policymaking to Latin America’s third- trade chief will tell environmental make systems more efficient and cut action against governments if they largest economy, already locked out of global financial markets activists on Friday that a free-trade pact bureaucracy and costs. One group of breach the trade treaty. —Reuters since its 2001 debt default and grappling with nearly 40 percent between the top two trading blocs will annual inflation and a tumbling currency. not expose Europeans to harmful chemi- “The resignation of the governor of the Argentine central cals or force the EU to change its laws. bank opens the door for even more unorthodox economic poli- cy,” said David Rees, emerging markets economist at Capital Under EU rules, chemicals must be Economics. “With... policymaking heading in the wrong direction, proved to be safe before they are used. the economy looks set to stay stuck in a rut,” he said in a note, In the United States, chemicals must be predicting the economy would shrink two percent this year. shown to be harmful to be banned. Some European public safety and ‘Break the piggy bank’ environmental groups say a trade deal Deutsche Bank said outgoing chief Fabrega “was known to with the United States would allow US balance some of the policy inconsistencies promoted by the eco- companies to import chemicals consid- nomic ministry.” That is the portfolio held by Axel Kicillof, the ered toxic or dangerous in Europe. “A intransigent economist who led Argentina’s failed negotiations possible agreement would under no cir- with two US hedge funds that have derailed the country’s effort cumstances result in the lowering of to restructure its debt by suing it for full payment on their bonds. existing EU environmental and health “Meanwhile Mr Vanoli has been instrumental in using standards with regard to chemicals,” EU renewed powers at the SEC (securities regulator) to investigate Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht companies and tighten the overall auditing of private corpora- wrote, referring to the Transatlantic tions,” Deutsche Bank said, predicting more expansionary poli- Trade and Investment Partnership, or cies, inflation, currency trouble and “deeper economic reces- TTIP, which is under negotiation. sion.” Vanoli is seen as close to President Cristina Kirchner’s cen- “TTIP will have no chilling effect on ter-left government. Five central bank governors have now come the implementation of existing EU chem- and gone under Kirchner and her late husband and predecessor Nestor, who took office in 2003. One former governor, Martin icals regulations,” the letter said. Redrado, said there was a problematic relationship between the Negotiators conclude the seventh round government and the central bank. “The mistake is our economic of talks in Washington later and are hop- ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (right) talks with European policy,” he said. “It’s not viable to use BCRA as the government’s ing to clinch a deal next year. Many com- Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker upon his arrival for their meeting in piggy bank. ‘Come on, let’s break the piggy bank, we’ll take out panies say it could bring major economic Athens yesterday. Juncker arrived in Athens for an unofficial visit , as the coun- some money, get some foreign currency.’ —AFP benefits and create jobs over the long try undergoes a new audit of its finance by the EU, IMF and the European term. Part of the rationale behind an EU- Central Bank. — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

European households Faltering demand weighs on richer than pre-crisis peak: Study Euro-zone business growth ZURICH: European households are richer than before the global Bloc struggles to kickstart recovery financial and economic crisis battered their continent, though the picture is uneven, a new study by the Swiss bank Julius Baer shows. For example, in general people in Switzerland have FRANKFURT: Euro-zone business grew close to zero rate of inflation and Weak demand grown rapidly far wealthier, but in Spain they have suffered bad- at its slowest rate this year in September growth.” Markit’s Composite Purchasing ly. The cumulative wealth of Europeans exceeded the pre-crisis on tumbling demand, surveys showed President Mario Draghi said on Managers’ Index (PMI), based on surveys peak in 2013, hit an all-time high of 56 trillion euros ($70.6 tril- yesterday, as the bloc struggles to add Thursday the ECB would start buying of thousands of companies across the lion), up 1.7 percent on the previous year, the bank said. Before momentum to its fragile economic covered bonds this month and other euro zone and seen as a good gauge of the crisis struck in 2007, the total had been 54.5 trillion euros. recovery. Germany’s private sector bundles of securitized debt by year-end, growth, fell to a ten-month low of 52.0, However, Julius Baer noted in a report released late on Thursday, expanded at a robust pace last month, but did not provide any estimate of the below August’s 52.5 and weaker than that the evolution of wealth has varied across Europe. The likes of pointing to an economic rebound target size of the program which is the flash estimate of 52.3. Switzerland and Germany last year respectively added over 1.1 trillion euros and 2.0 trillion euros in net wealth. That was equiva- between July-September after Europe’s planned to run for two years. He also It was, however, the 15th month that lent to a net increase in household wealth of 68 percent in biggest economy unexpectedly shrank offered no hints of a quantitative easing the index has remained above the 50 Switzerland, and 18 percent in Germany, since 2007. But over the the quarter before. program involving the purchase of sov- line that denotes growth. Worryingly same period, wealth contracted in crisis casualties such as Spain, However, business growth in the ereign debt, disappointing markets that though, the new orders sub-index, down by 28 percent, and Greece, where the fall was 23 percent. euro-zone’s number two and three were hoping the ECB would do more. which measures demand, eased last That amounted to a reduction of private wealth of 1.4 trillion economies - France and Italy - contract- A Reuters poll last week predicted month to the lowest in almost a year euros in Spain and 170 billion euros in Greece. The study showed ed, suggesting stagnation or worse the ECB would spend 300 billion euros while firms cut prices by the most in 14 that the 10 percent of richest European households possess there could continue. Despite firms cut- in the ABS program, while banks will months. Euro-zone inflation is at a five- more than half of the continent’s wealth. A full 27 percent is held ting prices more deeply, the common likely bid for 175 billion euros at year low of just 0.3 percent and the by the top one percent. thread across most of the surveys in the December’s targeted loan tender. economy stagnated in the second quar- Wealth concentration rising euro-zone was that of weak demand, In the first tranche, a meagre 82.6 bil- ter. Low inflation could provide some The concentration was highest in Austria and Germany, with with businesses and consumers lacking lion euros was taken up by banks. impetus to the economy, shoring up 40 percent and 35 percent of total private wealth owned by the the confidence to spend in economies Together, it means the ECB will eventu- consumers’ purchasing power. Indeed, richest one percent. Britain, Greece and the Netherlands had the plagued by high unemployment and ally expand its balance sheet by only official euro zone data also released lowest concentration, with 15 percent of total private assets years of austerity. about half of the just over one trillion Friday showed retail sales increased owned by the richest one percent. This mirrors order book conditions euros it lent out under the long-term much more than expected in August, “New long-term datasets referenced in the report suggest for factories in much of Asia as well. The refinancing operations in late 2011 and pointing to stronger demand from that the concentration of wealth in Europe is on the rise again, data are likely to disappoint policymak- early 2012. households. However, anaemic con- after much European wealth was destroyed in the 20th century ers yet again, a day after the European In Britain, growth in the services sumer price growth is more widely seen due to the two World Wars and the Great Depression of 1929,” Central Bank outlined its plans to buy industry eased slightly and a composite as a signifier of the euro-zone’s econom- said Julius Baer. In order to paint a complete picture, the study did not only consider shares, bonds and funds, but also assets securitized debt in a bid to revive lend- measure for the whole of the private ic weakness and, if it continues, could such as property. It found that four countries have more than ing and boost demand. sector dropped to its lowest in six prompt policymakers to look at other two-thirds of Europe’s net wealth: 13.2 trillion euros in Germany, “The PMIs reflect a familiar danger- months. levers to jump-start activity. “The wan- 9.6 trillion in Britain, 9.5 trillion in France and 8.3 trillion in Italy. ous trend of low demand and weak pro- Although still comfortably in growth ing of growth signaled by the PMI will Average per capita wealth across the continent was 167,100 ducer pricing power which reinforces territory, that raises risks of an end-of- apply further pressure on the ECB to euros. Luxembourgers topped the table on that front, with concerns on the effectiveness of the year slowdown for the UK economy broaden the scope of its purchases, to 432,200 euros per adult, followed by the Swiss, with 394,900 ECB’s stimulus,” said Lena Komileva, after it enjoyed a stellar few quarters of not only buy riskier asset-backed securi- euros, and Belgians, with 241,000 euros. Bottom of the table chief economist at G+ Economics in growth. This could hurt expectations of ties but to also start purchasing govern- were Slovakia and Greece, with average adult wealth of 33,300 London. “The ECB does not have much a rate hike from the Bank of England in ment debt,” said Chris Williamson, chief euros and 58,900 respectively. —AFP room for error with the starting point of the first quarter of next year. economist at Markit. — Reuters BA shares ultimate top 5 destinations for an exciting Eid! KUWAIT: With EidAl-Adha just around the corner, British London, Paris, or further afield in Europe,British Airways’ flight Airways’ travel experts have released their top five destina- network offers passengers from Kuwait the opportunity to tions for residents of Kuwait who are considering a last minute enjoy a quick getaway of their choice with numerous connect- holiday getaway. ing flights via London. Be it a visit to a bustling metropolis, a Many people living in Kuwait take the opportunity to travel few days away in the countryside or a trip to one of the his- during the holidays to visit family and friends, travel to new toric cities of Europe, British Airways travel experts have excit- destinations or even enjoy a sporting holiday. A recent survey ing tips to help you plan the holiday of a lifetime.” conducted by British Airways revealed that when it comes to British Airways’ travel experts ultimate top five destinations city breaks, Europe is a firm favourite with residents of Kuwait. * London: Visit any of the many major landmarks that sit on Thirty two per cent of respondents picked Paris as their top the River Thames such as the iconic national timepiece Big Ben city break destination and 27 per cent chose London. or the London Eye. Explore the city on a bright red, double- The survey also revealed that 39 per cent of respondents decker public bus or visit the famous Hyde Park. are happy to forego the popular urban capitals for locations * Paris: Stroll along the famous Champs-…lysÈes, take in further afield, indicating a growing sense of adventure from the iconic Arc de Triomphe and stunning Notre-Dame residents in Kuwait and the wider Middle East to explore new Cathedral, ascend the Eiffel Tower or enjoy coffee and crois- destinations. sants at a chic Parisian cafÈ. Indulge in luxury shopping at the Paolo De Renzis, Area Commercial Manager for the Middle world-class Galeries Lafayette department store or browse for East and Central Asia said, “Whether you want to fly to bargains at a flea market. * Florence: Hopon board one of British Airways’ new servic- es to Florence and enjoy fantastic food amongst the city’s stunning historic architecture. Take in the breath-taking vistas from the splendid Renaissance dome of Florence Duomo or make your way to the world-renowned Galleria dell’Accademia to behold the sculptural majesty of Michelangelo’s David. * Porto: Fly to one of British Airways’ new destinations, and discover the charm of Portugal’s second city. The ancient port is steeped in history and home to a UNESCO World Heritage listed riverfront. Porto is also is known for its monuments such as Gustave Eiffel’s Dona Maria Pia Bridge, Palacio Da Bolsa, and the Clerigos Tower amongst others. * Mykonos: Another new addition to British Airways’ route network is the idyllic Greek paradise of Mykonos. The island ing and nightlife. boasts spectacular beaches, a cultured old town and quintes- British Airways offers a daily flight from Kuwait to London, sential landscape. Constantly compared to St Tropez and Ibiza, meaning that residents have daily access to London and this designer island certainly caters to an A-list crowd - with its beyond, with convenient connections to onward destinations label-laden shops, luxury accommodation and uber-cool din- for those looking to travel further afield. BUSINESS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Gold down, set for weekly loss before US jobs data

LONDON: Gold fell yesterday, set for a view is that it could be breached with a interest. Gold was also depressed by a 2009 at $1,237.40 an ounce before par- fourth weekly loss in five, and platinum good jobs number out of the US later rebound in European shares, which had ing some losses to trade down 1.1 per- slumped to a five-year low as the dollar today,” ABN Amro analyst Georgette slumped on Thursday on disappointment cent at $1,246.25. “Platinum group met- rebounded ahead of US jobs data. Boele said. “What causes the big swings in that the European Central Bank wasn’t als continue to be subject to investor liq- The September non-farm payrolls data precious metals is what investors are more aggressive at its last meeting. With uidation, which is more than offsetting is due at 1230 GMT and a robust number doing and if the dollar is strong and US top buyer China away on a week-long physical interest,” HSBC analyst James could further fuel expectations of an early yields are higher, then gold becomes one holiday, gold is not getting much help Steel said. “Bargain-hunting may emerge interest rate hike by the US Federal of the least attractive assets for them from the physical markets. Pro-democra- if the platinum-gold spread contracts fur- Reserve. because it holds no coupon.” cy rallies in Hong Kong provided some ther.” The spread was around $30 an Economists polled by Reuters expect The dollar rose 0.5 percent against a support to gold this week, but not ounce yesterday versus the $130 seen at non-farm payrolls to come in at 215,000, a basket of currencies , moving in sync with enough to offset the stronger dollar. As a the beginning of September. “The tech- big jump from August. Spot gold, which US Treasury yields which have edged up gauge of poor investor sentiment, hold- nical momentum (for platinum and palla- has benefited from increased central in anticipation of the higher jobs number. ings of the SPDR Gold Trust, the top gold- dium) is lower and we believe the funda- banks’ liquidity in the years since the The index was on track for a 12th straight backed exchange-traded fund, fell 1.19 mental argument, while sound in the financial crisis, touched a nine-month low week of gains, a feat not seen in four tons on Thursday to 767.47 tons, its low- long term, will not necessarily bring buy- of $1,204.40 an ounce on Tuesday. It was decades, highlighting how bullish est level since December 2008. ers in immediately,” Steel said. Silver was down 0.5 percent at $1,207.44 by 1140 investors are about the dollar’s prospects. unchanged at $17.05 an ounce, after GMT and looked likely to challenge the A stronger US currency weighs on dol- Platinum down touching its lowest level since March $1,200 resistance level, traders said. lar-denominated assets such as gold, Platinum was the biggest loser among 2010 at $16.83 on Monday. Palladium “That $1,200 seems to be the main while returns from US bonds are watched precious metals on Friday, falling nearly 2 was down 0.8 percent at $758.80 an support level for the time being but the by the gold market as the metal pays no percent to its lowest since September ounce. — Reuters US jobless rate falls to 6-year low of 5.9% Employers add 248,000 jobs in September

WASHINGTON: US employers added 248,000 jobs in September, a burst of hiring that helped drive down the unemployment rate to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. GALLE: A Sri Lankan fisherman pulls a fishing net on the The Labor Department report yester- beach in the southern town of Galle yesterday. The day also showed that employers added International Monetary Fund noted July 2014 that Sri 69,000 more jobs in July and August Lanka was one of the fastest growing economies in South than the government had previously Asia, but the island was also vulnerable to sudden exter- estimated. The rate fell from 6.1 percent nal shocks because of high levels of foreign commercial in August and is now close to 5.5 per- borrowings. — AFP cent, which many economists consider a healthy level. That could ratchet up pressure on Spanish credit card the Federal Reserve to raise its bench- probe sparks mark interest rate earlier than it plans. Most economists have predicted that apologies, resignations the Fed will do so in mid-2015. The improved figures come after PASADENA: A sign posted on a shopfront window offering employment MADRID: Allegations that former heads of bailed-out President Barack Obama touted his opportunity in Pasadena, California. The US jobs machine powered back in Spanish lender Bankia, including ex-IMF head Rodrigo administration’s economic achieve- September from a disappointing August, generating a strong 248,000 net new Rato, spent extravagantly on personal leisure with compa- ments in a speech Thursday. The econo- positions, official data showed yesterday. — AFP ny credit cards, triggered resignations and red-faced my is the top issue in voters’ minds as apologies yesterday. the November elections near. The num- healthy enough that most analysts pre- fident enough in their customer Audit documents submitted by prosecutors to Spain’s ber of unemployed fell in September by dict that hiring will remain solid even if demand to retain their staff levels. National Court detailed a total of 15.2 million euros ($19.2 329,000 to 9.3 million. Most of them one or two months occasionally pro- Business investment in equipment million) of spending by former managers, including 54,800 found jobs last month. But nearly duce disappointments. The annual pace and buildings rose 9.7 percent in the euros by Rato. The 86 suspected users of the credit cards 100,000 stopped looking for work. That of economic growth is expected to second quarter, the second-highest fig- also included Rafael Spottorno, who was manager of exodus lowered the percentage of remain above 3 percent for the rest of ure in the past three years. And orders Spain’s royal household under the former King Juan Americans working or looking for work the year. Business investment is picking for capital goods, a sign of future busi- Carlos. The heads of several senior officials rolled on to 62.7 percent, the lowest proportion up, and consumer spending is growing ness spending, rose in August. Thursday and Friday. These included Pablo Abejas, who since February 1978. at a steady if modest pace. Americans have generally spent cau- was fired as third-in-command in the Madrid regional In August, employers had added just Joseph LaVorgna, an economist at tiously this year, held back by sluggish economy ministry and Jose Ricardo Martinez, who 142,000 jobs after topping 200,000 for Deutsche Bank, notes that productivity - wage growth. Average hourly pay has resigned as leader of the top UGT labour union in Madrid, six straight months, the longest such the amount of output per hour of work - barely kept up with inflation in the past sources in their offices said. stretch since 1997. August’s slowdown is rising 1 percent annually. LaVorgna three years. But Americans spent more Among other names in the court documents were was attributed in part to temporary fac- thinks the economy is expanding at a 3 in August. When adjusted for inflation, members of political parties including the opposition tors, such as a walkout by 25,000 work- percent annual pace and that hiring spending that month rose at the fastest Socialists (PSOE). The Socialists’ new leader Pedro Sanchez ers at Market Basket, a Northeastern gro- should grow roughly 2 percent a year. pace in six months. said on Twitter yesterday: “I am ashamed that PSOE cery store chain. That dispute has since That would translate into 230,000 jobs Still, there are weak spots. Home activists are involved in the credit card affair. I apologize been resolved, and the return of those each month, he calculates. sales slipped in August as investors cut for it.” The party said it would investigate which members workers could boost September’s job LaVorgna also notes that employee back on their purchases, and higher were involved and expel them from the PSOE. total. tax withholding receipts are growing at prices have made homes less affordable, The Bankia documents, seen by AFP, were submitted Auto manufacturing jobs had also a brisk pace, suggesting that companies particularly for first-time buyers who by prosecutors to the court for its investigation into the fallen in August, even though car sales are stepping up hiring. And just 287,000 face tighter credit standards. Fewer privatization of the banking group. The near collapse of have been strong this year. That has led people sought unemployment benefits Americans signed contracts to buy Bankia in 2012 caused thousands of customers to lose many economists to forecast a rebound last week, not far from a seven-year low homes in August, the National their savings and pushed Spain to seek an international in auto manufacturing jobs in reached in July. The number of people Association of Realtors said this week. bailout for its financial sector. —AFP September. receiving benefits has reached an eight- That suggests that home sales could slip The growth of the economy has been year low, a sign that companies are con- again in coming months. — AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

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A models displays creation by Mexi- can designer Lydia Lavin during the presentation of the Spring-Summer collection in the framework of the Fashion Week in Mexico City on Oc- tober 1, 2014.—AFP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Rare Mozart portrait goes under hammer in London

miniature portrait of Wolfgang of letters sent to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, Amadeus Mozart sent by the Austrian with whom he developed an intimate but Acomposer to his first love-who was also fleeting relationship. The rare 4-centimetre his first cousin-will go on sale in London next (1.6-inch) high portrait was made by an month, Sotheby’s said yesterday. Mozart’s anonymous artist in 1777, when Mozart was present is referred to several times in a series 21, and Maria Anna was 19. “One of only two authentic paintings of Mozart remaining in private hands and one of only a dozen or so authentic paintings and drawings of the composer, this object’s signif- icance is virtually unparalleled,” said Stephen Roe, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of Books & Manuscripts. “Mozart’s features come as a rev- elation when viewed in the flesh; the detail in In this Sept 6, 2014 file photo, actor Adam Sander smiles during a press conference for the face is remarkable, formed by the tiniest ‘Men, Women, and Children’ at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in dots of gouache applied with the utmost pre- Toronto.—AP cision and delicacy, and a marvelous luminos- ity pervades the entire image.” In the piece-watercolor and gouache on ivory-Mozart wears a red coat and has his Netflix signs Adam blond hair powdered and tied with a large black bow. Maria Anna was the daughter of his uncle Franz Alois Mozart and the two met Sandler to four-film deal as adults during a two-week stay in Augsburg in 1777 and enjoyed a close and playful n its bid to upend the movie business the ning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” - one of friendship. As well as swapping portraits, the way it has television, Netflix has secured one the most lucrative foreign language releases pair exchanged nine letters, which revealed a Iof the big screen’s biggest box-office draws ever. The sequel, produced by the Weinstein scatological and often infantile humor. But and most irreverent comedic talents. Adam Co., will open in August 2015 simultaneously in the relationship cooled off when Mozart fell Sandler has signed a four-film deal with Netflix, Imax theaters and on Netflix. Sandler is one of deeply in love with Aloysia Weber in the streaming service announced early Hollywood’s most reliable draws, with films that Mannheim. The painting, which is being Thursday. The actor will star in and produce have collectively grossed more than $2.4 billion A handout picture released by Sotheby’s offered for sale by descendants of Maria each feature, all of which will premiere exclu- domestically. But his track record has recently on October 3, 2014 shows a portrait paint- Anna’s family, will form the centerpiece of a sively on Netflix. been rocky. His last film, the romantic comedy ing of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at age Sotheby’s auction on November 20.—AFP “When these fine people came to me with an “Blended,” with Drew Barrymore, sputtered with 21, painted by an anonymous artist in offer to make four movies for them, I immedi- a meager haul just $46.3 million for Warner Bros. 1777—AFP ately said yes for one reason and one reason Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for only: Netflix rhymes with wet chicks,” Sandler Netflix, said Sandler’s films are regularly among said in a statement. “Let the streaming begin!” the most-viewed by Netflix members. “People Netflix declined to say how much it was paying love Adam’s films on Netflix and often watch Indian singer slammed for saying Sandler. But the streaming giant has a history of them again and again,” Sarandos said. “His reaching deep into its pocket to lure big-name appeal spans across viewers of all ages. women in jeans cause trouble talent. To land “House of Cards,” with director Everybody has a favorite movie, everyone has a David Fincher and star Kevin Spacey, Netflix favorite line, not just in the US but all over the well-known Indian playback singer reportedly spent $100 million for the show’s first world.” Sandler’s international appeal fits drew widespread criticism yesterday for two seasons. Netflix’s global aspirations. The company has Asaying women who wear jeans were On Tuesday, Netflix signaled its long- been rapidly expanding overseas, most recently creating “trouble” for men, while the attire planned entry into original movies, announcing in Europe, and is now available in nearly 50 itself was against Indian culture. KJ Yesudas that it will stream a sequel to 2000’s Oscar-win- countries.—AP became the latest public figure in India accused of sexism, following comments in recent months by a string of politicians who have tried to justify the country’s high levels of rape. Yesudas, winner of numerous national Kutcher makes guessing awards for Indian classical and devotional songs, told a gathering on Thursday in his game of online baby picture post southern home state of Kerala that “women should not trouble others by wearing jeans”. shton Kutcher published several pictures He previously starred in “That 70s Show,” along- “When they put on jeans, men are tempted of adorable newborns on his Aplus.com side Kunis, 31.—AFP to look beyond that,” the veteran singer was Awebsite. The catch? Just one of the pho- quoted by national media as saying. tos showed his brand new baby daughter, “Women’s beauty lies in their modesty. They Wyatt, born this week to the actor and fiancee should not try to become like men. They Mila Kunis. “Mila and I would like to welcome should not force others to do unnecessary Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher to the world,” the actor things by wearing jeans, which would give wrote in a message on the website. “May your them magnetism,” the Indian Express daily life be filled with wonder, love, laughter, health, quoted the 74-year-old saying. Women’s KJ Yesudas happiness, curiosity, and privacy,” Kutcher said groups slammed the comments, while mem- in the post sent late Thursday. bers of the music industry condemned them added. Yesudas’ remarks sparked a backlash The star of “Two and Half Men” posted eight as insensitive and regressive. “Archaic state- on social media with #Yesudas trending on pictures in all, including six of human infants ments like this from celebrities and well- Twitter. Popular Bollywood music composer and two baby animals. “Can you guess which known people in society damages all our and singer Vishal Dadlani wrote he was one is ours, or does it really matter?” he wrote. efforts of empowering women,” Ranjana “deeply disappointed that Yesudas-ji, some- “All babies are cute.” On his Facebook page, in a Kumari, head of the Delhi-based Centre for one I’ve always admired as an evolved singer, post linking to the pictures, Kutcher adopted a Social Research, told AFP. has such a petty, small-minded and sexist more frustrated note. “Here’s your baby photo. world-view”. The uproar comes at a time Well, one of them is. Now can the helicopter Deeply disappointed when India has become increasingly sensi- please stop hovering over our house, there is a “He should know better, coming from the tized to sexual violence after the 2012 fatal baby sleeping inside!” Wyatt was born Tuesday entertainment industry, that you can’t dictate gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi, in Los Angeles to the couple, who got engaged who should wear what. Rather he should which led to a public outcry and tougher laws in February after a two-year relationship. This is appeal to men to change their mindset,” she for rapists.—AFP their first child. Kutcher, 36, was married to actress Demi Moore between 2005 and 2011. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 S Korean filmmakers defend controversial ferry documentary

ozens of South Korean filmmakers and critics rallied behind a controversial film on the Sewol ferry disaster Dyesterday, criticizing efforts to prevent its screening at the Busan International Film Festival as an assault on freedom of expression. The documentary-which is due to have its pre- miere Monday at Busan-focuses on botched rescue efforts during the April tragedy that killed about 300 people, mostly school students, in one of the country’s worst ever disasters. The tragedy was blamed by many on regulatory failings and official incompetence, and plunged the nation into months of mourning. “Diving Bell”-co-directed by Ahn Hae- Ryong and prominent leftwing journalist Lee Sang-Ho-stirred emotions before the festival opened Thursday, with critics including Busan mayor and festival chairman Seo Byung-soo slamming it as too political and insensitive and calling on festi- val organizers to scrap the screening. But some 20 directors, actors and producers held a protest in Busan yesterday to support the premiere, urging organizers to continue to stand by their decision to show the film and let South Korea’s director Bong Joon-Ho reacts during a press South Korea filmmakers chant slogans during a rally to the audience make up its own mind. “If authorities ban movies conference for the New Currents jury at the 19th Busan support the premiere of “Diving Bell”. with a certain political message, not a single movie will be International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan yesterday.— AP/AFP photos “mistake,” saying in a separate press conference yesterday that shown here,” prominent South Korean director Chung Ji- Seo “does not seem to understand” how Asia’s top film festival Young said during the event. tims’ relatives, releasing the signatures of 1,123 industry mem- works. The diving bell of the title was a piece of specialized “Every movie has a certain political message one way or bers in support of the probe. Some waved banners and chant- equipment that was drafted in for the widely-criticized rescue another, and the audience has a right to make their own ver- ed a slogan saying, “We will be with the victims’ families until and recovery operation, but hardly used — to the bitter disap- dict,” he said. The filmmakers also called for Seoul to quickly the end.”Bong Joon-Ho, famed South Korean director and a pointment of relatives of the victims.—AFP launch a special inquiry into the disaster as demanded by vic- juror of the festival, also dismissed the mayor’s argument as a Film Review: ‘Annabelle’ he scares are cheap but periodically effec- Polanski. This becomes all the more apparent in tive in “Annabelle,” a cut-rate spinoff from a grisly sequence exploitatively modeled on the TJames Wan’s superlative haunted-house Manson Family’s Tate-Labianca murders, in hit “The Conjuring” that (partly) makes up in which the deranged, Satan-worshiping hippie crude shock effects what it lacks in craft, atmos- daughter of Mia and John’s next-door neigh- phere and just about every other department. bors violently attacks the couple in their home Designed mainly as a starring vehicle for the (with Satan-worshiping hippie boyfriend in eponymous, creepy-as-hell doll (who easily out- tow), resulting in a kitchen knife being plunged classes her human co-stars), this WB/New Line straight into Mia’s bulging belly. Miraculously, quickie will slake the thirst of die-hard genre the injured parties survive (the hippies do not), fans put out by the abysmal “Dracula Untold.” but when Mia returns from the hospital, some- Mere casual fright fans are advised to wait for thing doesn’t seem quite right around the the proper sequel, “The Conjuring 2,” due in Good Housekeeping homestead. In particular, 2015. Among the many objects from paranor- something doesn’t seem quite right about mal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren’s cab- Annabelle. inet of demonically possessed curiosities that In the pantheon of cinematic devil dolls, got their closeups in “The Conjuring,” the indis- Annabelle plays a game of inches, changing her Chinese director Ann Hui and festival director Lee Yong-Kwan attend a hand-printing putable scene-stealer was Annabelle, a pig- position on the shelf or methodically rocking event at Haeundae beach during the 19th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in tailed, rosy-cheeked wooden moppet who back and forth in a creaky chair, but never full- Busan yesterday. looked like Howdy Doody in drag, or Raggedy on running through the house wielding a Ann after a long night in the wrong part of weapon like the diminutive kewpie doll of Dan town. Now, in “Annabelle,” director John R Curtis’s 1975 cult classic “Trilogy of Terror,” or HK director Ann Hui awarded Leonetti (Wan’s longtime cinematographer) Chucky of the “Child’s Play” franchise (who and screenwriter Gary Dauberman take us back would sure make a swell beau for Annabelle if to 1969, when Annabelle was just a normal, he weren’t already taken). But no matter: at Busan film festival ordinary (if still freaky-looking) doll in the col- Wherever Annabelle goes, trouble seems sure lection of a Santa Monica housewife (Annabelle to follow, in the form of mysteriously slamming ong Kong director Ann Hui collected the acclaimed Chinese author Xiao Hong (Tang) — Wallis) and her med-student husband (Ward doors and malfunctioning appliances (TV, oven, Asian Filmmaker of the Year award at the is screening at BIFF after being selected to close Horton). sewing machine), all of which Leonetti milks for H19th Busan International Film Festival September’s Venice film festival. That the wife is named Mia and her husband every ounce of ominous portent (though, real- (BIFF), saying yesterday it would inspire her to It has also been put forward by Hong Kong John is the first of many signs that the makers ly, there is only so much one can do with a further push the boundaries of her craft. “I am as a possible contender for best foreign film of “Annabelle” have a major jones for demonically possessed tin of stove-top pop- quite old and I am quite active,” said the 67- Oscar consideration. “Rosemary’s Baby” and, by extension, Roman corn).—Reuters year-old. “I believe that [BIFF] gave me the “The Golden Era” makes its first appearance award to encourage me further and I will contin- in Busan yesterday. Hui said that making the ue to work hard to make great films.” three-hour historical epic was difficult given The Hong Kong director is noted for simple how removed the process was from the more films that hold a mirror up to life in her home contemporary dramas for which she is known- town, focusing on the everyday struggles and adding that the award was reward for “trying loves of ordinary citizens. However she refused something new”. to talk to reporters at a Busan press conference A Hong Kong University student in the about the pro-democracy protests that have 1960s, Hui emerged as one of the leaders of the brought streets to a standstill in her hometown city’s New Wave movement in the 1980s along- this week, saying a film festival should not be a side fellow directors such as Tsui Hark (“Once place where she presents her views about such Upon a Time in China”). Hui has won best direc- a subject. tor at the Hong Kong Film Awards a record four The award at Asia’s biggest film festival times, including in 2011 for her critically comes hot on the heels of Thursday’s announce- acclaimed “A Simple Life”. The Busan festival ment that Hui, her latest film “The Golden Era”, continues until October 11.—AFP and its star Tang Wei have all been nominated This photo released by Warner Bros Pictures shows, Annabelle Wallis, left as Mia, with the for November’s Golden Horse Awards, consid- Annabelle doll in New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller, ‘Annabelle,’ a Warner Bros ered to be Asia’s equivalent of the Oscars. “The Pictures release.—AP Golden Era”-which traces the life of the SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

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This undated photo provided by ScareHouse.com shows a scene from the ScareHouse Halloween attraction near Pittsburgh, Pa.

alloween seems to be getting scarier, haunted house is “100 times better than a al night of unfettered crime and violence, is Torment, Austin, Texas; The Darkness, St. with attractions going ever-more inter- Broadway show because it’s interactive enter- just one of the inspirations for Halloween Louis; Erebus, Pontiac, Michigan; Kersey Valley Hactive and in-your-face. At Knott’s tainment that puts you right in the middle of Horror Nights at Universal theme parks in Spookywoods, Greensboro, North Carolina; Scary Farm in Buena Park, California, guests the action and makes you the star.” But Orlando, Florida, and in Los Angeles. The Headless Horseman, Ulster Park, New York; are outfitted with neon-green laser guns and Kirchner thinks some attractions cross a line events feature hundreds of elaborately cos- Cutting Edge Haunted House, Fort Worth, ordered to shoot actors portraying zombies into poor taste - he’s not a fan of story lines tumed actors and Hollywood-quality sets, Texas; Bates Motel, Philadelphia; Bennett’s by aiming at their heads. At the Dent based on real serial killers for example, or special effects and mazes inspired by pop cul- Curse, Baltimore; and 13th floor, Chicago. Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, a butcher appears activities where participants are humiliated in ture influences ranging from El Rey Network’s Attractions by region to demonstrate how to slaughter a pig. And at some way. Here are a few Halloween events “From Dusk Till Dawn,” to AMC’s “The Walking New York City’s annual Village Halloween The Basement, part of the ScareHouse near and attractions taking place around the coun- Dead.” Parade kicks off Oct 31 at 7 pm. with thou- Pittsburgh, hoods are placed over visitors’ try this season - most of them offering experi- sands of participants in costume and hun- faces. ences way less intense than being hooded. Hauntworld’s top 13 dreds of enormous puppets. Pennsylvania “We put a hood over the customer and it’s Expect long lines and check schedules. Some Pennhurst Asylum, in Spring City, offers Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State remarkable how much a difference that events are weekends only, some run through Pennsylvania, got the No. 1 slot on Penitentiary in Philadelphia and makes,” said Scott Simmons, ScareHouse cre- early November, some sell out. HauntWorld.com’s top 13 haunted attrac- Shocktoberfest in Reading. In the Northeast, ative director. “You’re taking away sight, a Universal Halloween horror nights tions, while Dent Schoolhouse took seventh. there’s Nightmare New England in Litchfield, core thing, and it’s such a nerve-racking expe- The horror film “The Purge: Anarchy,” Also on the list: 13th Gate, Baton Rouge, New Hampshire, while Salem, Massachusetts, rience. You see these terrible, horrifying which is the sequel to a movie about an annu- Louisiana; Netherworld, Atlanta; House of hosts parades, ghost tours, performances and demons and clowns, and they put a hood on more in the town where real witch trials took you, and you don’t know what’s going to hap- place in the 1600s. pen next. You feel terrible things touching In the Midwest, check out Wisconsin you and whispering in your ear. But as FearGrounds in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and extreme as it is, it’s still fun. People come out Fear Fest, Flint, Michigan. In Florida, Tampa’s shaking, but they’re smiling.” Busch Gardens offers Howl-O-Scream. New Visitors to The Basement sign a waiver and Orleans, has The House of Shock; Houston has must be 18, and are given a “safe word” that the Terror Dome. they can say to stop activities if it’s too much. But why have Halloween attractions become Family-friendly so intense? “After 20 years of haunted houses By night, attractions at Six Flags Over with people stepping out and saying ‘boo,’ Georgia in Austell, Georgia, include ZX-1, a these days if you’re really trying to scare peo- haunted zone where a “deadly infection” is ple you’ve got to be edgy and out of their “wiping out mankind” (as if real-world Ebola comfort zone,” said Simmons. “What scared isn’t scary enough). But by day the park offers people in the ‘70s and the ‘80s isn’t what’s family activities like a corn maze, harvest festi- going to scare them now.” val, pumpkin painting and spooky stories, “There’s no doubt Halloween attractions with children 12 and under invited to dress up are getting scarier and more extreme,” said for a costume contest. Larry Kirchner of HauntWorld.com, a website Elsewhere for kids, SeaWorld San Diego devoted to haunted attractions. With high- has a Halloween-themed sea lion and otter tech special effects, including video, anima- show called “Clyde & Seamore’s Spooky tion and Hollywood-quality sets, “they are Adventure.” And of course, Disney World’s more sophisticated. They have gone to anoth- Magic Kingdom in Florida offers Mickey’s er level.” This undated photo provided by ScareHouse.com shows a scene from the ScareHouse Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and trick-or- When done well, Kirchner says, a great Halloween attraction near Pittsburgh, Pa. treating. — AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

FlexiblePhotos show handmade miniaturemummies mummies, in Concord, NH with their flexiblefor frames, they Halloween can sit on shelves or pumpkins for Halloween decor. decor — AP photos

ount me among those who find the “Elf Instructions: with a rotary cutter instead. 4. Using your fingers or a pencil, make a on the Shelf” just a bit creepy. That said, 1. Cut muslin into 1/2-inch wide strips. I 2. Slide bead to the midpoint of one of the hole through the middle of a cotton ball, hold Cwouldn’t it make more sense to have a purchased 45-inch-wide muslin, and used four pipe cleaners, and twist the pipe cleaner the ends of the pipe cleaner together, and slightly spooky creature keeping an eye on strips for each mummy. While you can also around the bead to form the head and neck. slide the cotton ball onto the twisted section your kids around Halloween instead of tear fabric instead of cutting it, I found the 3. Continue twisting the pipe cleaner to add padding to the torso. This step can be Christmas? With just a few inexpensive craft muslin frayed too much with tearing, so I cut it together for about an inch to form the torso. skipped if you want an especially skinny mum- materials, you can make a miniature mummy my, or you can add extra cotton balls to the perfect for perching on shelves, bookcases, arms and legs later for a chubbier version. pumpkins and more this fall. They’re easy 5. Spread the ends of the pipe cleaner apart enough for kids to make on their own with a under the torso to form the legs. wooden bead, pipe cleaners, cotton balls and 6. Wrap the second pipe cleaner fabric. Over-achieving parents and fans of the around the body, just under the head, to form “elf” might be inspired to move these mum- the arms, folding each end inward to shorten mies from place to place each night - their the arms. flexible frames make them easy to bend in silly 7. Starting at the head, wrap strips of poses. But they’re just as cute sitting in one muslin around the mummy body. A bit of glue place until Halloween. is helpful on the rounded surface of the bead, and at the ends of the arms and legs. Two Materials: strips should be enough to cover the head, * 3/4-inch round wooden craft beads torso and arms, with two more for the legs. * two 12-inch pipe cleaners Add extra strips of muslin to any areas that * 1 cotton ball look too skimpy or if you want a bulkier mum- * strips of muslin fabric my. * black permanent marker 8. Use a black marker to make two small * optional: glue Photo shows the three steps to make a miniature mummy for Halloween decorating. dots for eyes. —AP In wake of beheadings, Busch Gardens removes props usch Gardens removed some props from A video of Cut Throat Cove on the Virginia’ park’s their Halloween attractions after people in website showed a pirate-themed haunted house BVirginia complained about decapitated with body parts and heads. “Within this macabre heads, the theme park said yesterday. The market, the pirates have been slaughtered and change came in the wake of the beheadings of mutiny is afoot,” the description on the website two American journalists and a British aid work- reads. “The way out lies with the buried treasure er. Spokesmen for parks in Virginia and Tampa and the blood-curdling screams you hear just said that in light of recent events, some props might be your own.” may have had the unintended consequence of The Virginia Gazette reported that it ran a appearing insensitive and won’t be part of this front page photo of the severed head props year’s Howl-O-Scream attraction. They wouldn’t Saturday, three hours after media outlets began say exactly which props were removed. reporting that the terrorist group Islamic State “Many of the scenes depicted at Busch had posted a new video claiming to have Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream are graphic in nature, beheaded British aid worker David Haines. but they are fictional and are not intended to Gazette Editor Rusty Carter defended running provide commentary on current world events,” the photos, according to a story on the paper’s wrote Busch Gardens Tampa spokesman Travis website. “The photo was taken last week as part Claytor. “The props in this year’s event were of an assignment to preview a current exhibit,” designed and purchased several months ago.” he said. “The figures are cartoonish in design, Complaints cropped up recently in and do not look realistic. It is the job of our Williamsburg when the Virginia Gazette newspa- reporters and photographers to report and pho- per ran a photo of five severed head props that tograph the news, not censor it.” Busch Gardens were part of the attraction. The props were part In this Sept 12, 2014 photo, people walk by decorations at Busch Gardens’ Howl-O- Williamsburg’s Halloween-themed attraction of the Cut Throat Cove attraction, the paper said. Scream in Williamsburg, Va. — AP opened in mid-September. —AP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Oops! UK council destroys Banksy immigration mural uthorities in south- ern England were Aembarrassed but defensive yesterday after telling workers to destroy a mural they later realized was created by the inter- nationally famous graffiti artist Banksy. Banksy’s often satirical works have fetched up to $1.8 million at auction and his images have been controversially stripped from walls and sold for high prices. The latest mural, which fea- tured pigeons carrying anti-immigration banners, appeared at Clacton-on- Sea, the site of a special election next week featur- ing the anti-immigration UK Independence Party. Tendring Council spokesman Nigel Brown said yesterday that the mural was chemically removed from the wall after complaints that it was racist. “There was a sharp intake of breath when we realized it was a Banksy,” In this photo released by banksy.co.uk yesterday shows a mural by graffiti artist Bansky in Clacton-on-Sea England taken earlier this week.—AP photo Brown said. The mural, featured on Banksy’s web- site, showed pigeons holding up signs directed at one exotic-looking bird. Fog art wraps Philip One banner reads “Go Back to Africa” while another says “Migrants Johnson’s Glass House not welcome.” apanese artist Fujiko Nakaya spent a year ner, art dealer David Whitney. The architect, The elusive artist has a painstakingly recording and examining who designed landmarks like the Museum of knack for courting atten- Jweather data as she studied ways to shroud Modern Art’s sculpture garden in New York, tion with an ingenious mix architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House in fog. In lived in the see-through structure full-time for the end, she largely gave up on the idea of pre- the last three years of his life until his death in of timing and clever place- cisely calibrating the fog and instead let nature 2005. ment. He left an espi- take its course and shape the mist. “Nature is the onage-themed graffiti art- mold and wind sculpts it. To let it tell its own Marriage of opposites work in the hometown of story is the whole point,” Nakaya said in an Like Nakaya’s mist, the Glass House blends Britain’s electronic spy interview. into the rocky, tree-lined landscape. The result is agency soon after some of “But that’s just half of the story. You must get a marriage of opposites. Only with the fog, its covert activities were inside the fog and experience it physically. It is a made from fresh water pumped into 603 noz- revealed by former NSA most primary experience. It liberates your sense, zles for about 10 minutes every hour, does the photo shows .—AFP photos contractor Edward your imagination.” The octogenarian artist has Glass House temporarily stop bringing the out- Snowden. crafted sculptures out of fog around the world doors indoors. The visible-the house-suddenly for the past 45 years, wrapping fields, forests, becomes invisible and the invisible-wind- Brown said the Clacton children’s play parks and public plazas in fine becomes visible. Echoing the concept of “safe mural probably went up mist. She shapes the intangible formations danger” found across Johnson’s estate, such as Monday or Tuesday - only using nozzles calibrated to respond to local con- his narrow and wobbly Eyebrow Bridge, the fog days before the closely ditions such as winds and humidity. engulfing visitors is a disorienting experience. fought Oct 9 by-election But this project, her first large-scale installa- At times it is so dense that even one’s own that was sparked when tion on the US East Coast, was different. The hands disappear. When walking outside the the local Conservative iconic Modernist pavilion sits atop a promonto- house during misty spells, visitors must hold the Party lawmaker switched ry overlooking a valley and a pond with views railing or risk tumbling into the valley. But just his allegiance to UKIP. extending to the forest beyond. It is a perfect as quickly, the mist vanishes. The ancient Brown said he didn’t know viewpoint to take in the landscape, itself careful- Japanese considered fog to be the source of life. ly pruned and shaped according to Johnson’s “It was a primary experience and I wish to about the mural until a vision, despite its deceptively wild appearance. restore and share this sensibility,” Nakaya said. reporter asked about its “The beauty was ineffable-awesome,” Nakaya At first, Nakaya was hesitant to set up her instal- location after seeing the said. “I wanted to be in the orchestra performing lation at the “almost sacred” Glass House. image on the artist’s web- in tune with the wind, and to bring the whole “What I avoided was the stage effect, the site. Brown defended the valley alive to resonate with the landscape. focusing of attention, which in the end turned council, saying it had a “It was like Philip Johnson was conducting out to be needless. Nature took care of it,” she duty to act on concerns nature’s symphony from up there!” The building said. On a man-made pond below the house sits that the mural was inap- sits on 47 acres (19 hectares) of farmland that Johnson’s Lake Pavilion (1962), where guests sat propriate. “We would love Johnson converted into a canvas for a variety of beneath the gold-leafed ceiling during lunch him to come back,” he architectural projects built over the better part parties, with a fountain blowing mist. An archi- of six decades. Built in 1949 in New Canaan, tectural folly, it is smaller in scale than similar said. “We’re not against Connecticut, the Glass House served as a week- pavilions and thus appears further away when Banksy or murals.—AP end vacation retreat for Johnson and his part- viewed from the Glass House. —AFP SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 ‘From Glory to Glory’, LAIF kicks off annual convention

he Life Abundant International Fountain Church (LAIF) on Thursday kicked of its annual convention Tthemed ‘From Glory to Glory’ at the Family House. The 4-day power packed event will feature anointing serv- ice, praise worship; bible teachings; NBA, DTI, LTI and LBC graduation ceremony. Guest speakers includes; Archbishop Steve Gbazie, Pastor Warren & Debbie Reeve, Pastor James Njuguna. Delivering his sermon on Thursday, Pastor Njuguna urged Christians to always follow the foot- steps of Christ and promote peace and unity. The congre- gation stood still as the guest artist Racheal Rena unleashed her enthralling praise worshiping songs. The program will continue today with an outreach, picnic and bazzar at the Fintas Garden.

Not so silent: Artists make London’s statues ‘talk’ tanding silently between two lines counting,” says the statue on the north ary, lived and worked. of traffic crossing the River side of Blackfriars Bridge, voiced by “My favorite word, cat, is described as SThames, Queen Victoria cuts an actress Prunella Scales from the televi- a domestic animal that catches mice. imperious figure. Who knew that she sion series “Fawlty Towers”. Actually, I much prefer shellfish,” opines was thinking how much she hated The queen, who opened the bridge the animal, voiced by broadcaster breastfeeding? At least that is the in 1869, recalls her beloved husband Nicholas Parsons. Connolly came by to thought imagined by an artistic group Albert and her nine children-”I hated show her friend the statue on their which has been making London’s stat- breastfeeding”-and worries that her lunch break. “It’s quite informative actu- ues “talk”, with a project that it hopes to legacy may be forgotten. A short walk ally-it’s really good,” she told AFP. The extend to Chicago and Paris. away, on a quiet square off Fleet Street, “Talking Statues” project is the latest Passersby can scan a barcode below office workers Margaret Connolly and from Sing London, a group which tries the plinth or visit a webpage that Karen Muskett giggle as they listen to to get people to re-engage with public prompts a phone call from the person or Samuel Johnson’s pet cat recount his spaces. Previous work has seen them animal depicted, and a short message love of oysters. Hodge the Cat is depict- install pianos and ping-pong tables for recorded on their behalf. “Hello? Victoria ed in a low statue opposite the house people to play on. here. Queen of England for 63 years, where Johnson, the 18th-century writer “The idea is to make people look seven months and two days. But who’s who compiled the first English diction- away from their telephone and enjoy the city that we all share,” said Colette Hiller, the US-born London resident who came up with the idea. It is intended to “whet the appetite-to make you want to know more. There are many statues that people pass by and they have no idea why they’re there”, she told AFP. The recorded comments are based on true stories about the personalities and the most popular character so far is Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective depicted in a statue at Baker Street sta- tion, although Peter Pan in Hyde Park is a close second. Almost 11,000 people listened in during the first month of the project, which is also taking place in the northwestern city of Manchester until August next year. Hiller, a former actress who appeared in “Aliens”, is tak- ing the idea to the US city of Chicago next summer, and also has hopes for Paris and other European cities in the A ‘talking statue’ of Britain’s Queen Victoria is pictured in London, on October future.—AFP A ‘talking statue’ of Samuel Johnson’s pet cat ‘Hodge’ is pic- 2, 2014. —AFP photos tured in central London. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Adorned used and diffused ammunition rounds are seen. Remnants of war become art in Gaza our flower vases adorn the living room of people dead, and this is how I transformed an Hossam Al-Dabbus’s home. Initially instrument of death into a vessel of life, mak- Finconspicuous, a closer look reveals they ing these bombs into flower vases,” he said. are made of Israeli tank shells collected by During the seven-week war which ended on war-scarred Gazans. The refugee camp August 26, the Israeli army fired countless dweller has picked through the rubble of the missiles and tank shells at Gaza, and Hamas coastal strip to turn the remains of a conflict militants fired thousands of rockets and mor- that killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and more tar shells at Israel. than 70 Israelis, into objects of art. “I wanted to keep a souvenir, but my rela- Beauty from destruction tives and neighbors felt uncomfortable with To his great surprise, Dabbus, who lives in them around, so I had the idea of painting Gaza’s biggest refugee camp in Jabaliya and them to make them beautiful,” the 33-year- works in the honey business, found orders for old told AFP. In his hands, the twisted rem- his creations coming in. To secure materials nants have taken on a new life-shell casings for his art, he went to see the police, who are covered in golden motifs, tail fins turned into controlled by the Islamist group Hamas-the the feet of a vase, the dull metal disappearing de facto rulers of Gaza. under an explosion of painted flowers. “As dozens of people were asking me to “When my children grow up I’ll be able to decorate shells, the police gave me as many show them these and tell them-here are as I wanted, provided of course I only used remains of the 2014 war that left over 2,000 Adorned used and diffused ammunition rounds painted by Mohammed Al-Zamar are seen. them for my art,” he said.

Palestinian artist Mohammed Al- Zamar poses with adorned used and dif- Mohammed fused ammuni- Al-Zamar works tion rounds, in on an adorned the Bureij used and dif- refugee camp in fused central Gaza. ammunition — AFP photos round. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Mohammed Al-Zamar displays adorned used and diffused ammunition round. Enthused, he took home his first batch of 20 Palestinians’ irrepressible will to live.” Palestinians forced to leave their homes in 1948 who according to the UN number around 500. projectiles, among them rockets, mortar shells Inside his house, the 33-year-old waiter when Israel was established. In the front of his Zamar said the chemical which triggers the det- and missiles, while taking care how he handled proudly shows off the rest of his creations: house sits a large unexploded bomb dropped onation head has been removed, but it could them. “I don’t want people to think I’m running dozens of paintings, some adorned with cas- by an F-16 jet. Above it he has written out the still be deadly. “I don’t let my sons, aged seven a weapons factory and have the Israelis bomb ings from Israeli bullets or a key, the symbol of names of all the children killed during the war, and three, get too close.” — AFP my house,” he said. Khder Abu Nada, 32, whose cleaning business was razed during the war, has ordered a vase. “I like the idea of making something beauti- ful from these devices which kill us: I will take the vase home and regularly put roses in it,” he promised. “And may God bring us peace in Gaza.” Dabbus has big plans: as well as selling his creations-he will not reveal the price-he also wants to put them on show. Other people are also finding ways to repurpose these deadly devices, but on a much smaller scale.

‘Irrepressible will to live’ In Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Mohammed Al-Zamar’s garden is strewn with shell cases and shrapnel which he recovered from his home after a bombing. On one of the pieces he has written: “No to war, we’ve had enough.” Next to it is a map of historical Palestine. “This is my message,” said Zamar. “We love life, but the occupier (Israel) imposes death A bottle filled with and destruction on us. I want to transform the used ammunition Israeli war into an expression of the rounds is displayed. TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Facebook tightens research guidelines

NEW YORK: Facebook has tightened users. During the weeklong study in have taken to heart the comments and ects. But there will not be an external its research guidelines following uproar January 2012, data-scientists were try- criticism,” Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s review process and Facebook will con- over its disclosure this summer that it ing to collect evidence to prove their chief technology officer, wrote in a tinue to encourage researchers to allowed researchers to manipulate thesis that people’s moods could blog post Thursday. “It is clear now that study how people use its site. “We users’ feeds to see if their moods could spread like an “emotional contagion” there are things we should have done believe in research, because it helps us be changed. At issue was study in depending on what they were reading. differently.” In the past three months, build a better Facebook,” Schroepfer which Facebook allowed researchers to “Although this subject matter was Schroepfer said, Facebook has given wrote. “Like most companies today, manipulate the content that appeared important to research, we were unpre- researchers clearer guidelines on our products are built based on exten- in the main section, or “news feed,” of pared for the reaction the paper research procedures and has created sive research, experimentation and small fraction of the social network’s received when it was published and an internal panel that will review proj- testing.” — AP MIT, Twitter EU clears Facebook’s $19b team up on $10M social buyout of WhatsApp BRUSSELS: European Union regulators media project yesterday cleared the buyout of the WhatsApp mobile messaging service by CAMBRIDGE: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Facebook, despite opposition by telecom and Twitter are teaming up on a $10 million project to bet- companies afraid of the growing power of ter understand social networks and figure out new ways to US technology giants. In a statement benefit from them. As part of the five-year partnership, explaining its approval of the $19-billon Twitter will provide full access to its real-time, public (15-billion-euro) deal, the European stream of tweets, as well as the archive of every tweet ever Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said posted. Facebook and WhatsApp were “not close The new Laboratory for Social Machines based at MIT’s competitors” and that consumers would continue to have a “wide array of choices”. Media Lab will focus on the development of new technolo- “We have carefully reviewed this pro- gies to make sense of patterns across the broad span of posed acquisition and come to the con- mass media and social media. “The Laboratory for Social clusion that it would not hamper competi- Machines will experiment in areas of public communication tion in this dynamic and growing market,” and social organization where humans and machines col- EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin laborate on problems that can’t be solved manually or Almunia said in a statement. Facebook, through automation alone,” said Deb Roy, an associate pro- the world’s biggest social network, fessor at the Media Lab who will lead the Laboratory for announced the buyout of the WhatsApp Social Machines and who also serves as Twitter’s chief messenger service, used by 600 million media scientist. people, in February and US authorities ROME: This file picture taken on February 20, 2014 in Rome shows the Facebook The goal is not just to understand how people think and approved the deal in April. The European and WhatsApp applications’ icons displayed on a smartphone. — AFP use social media but also how networks can be used to Commission only automatically reviews unfair competition advantage in the cru- Internet user data that are valuable for increase accountability and transparency and gauge public deals where each company involved has cial data and consumer habit market advertising purposes are not within opinion. “With this investment, Twitter is seizing the oppor- sales of over 100 million euros across at used by advertisers. But the Commission Facebook’s exclusive control,” the com- tunity to go deeper into research to understand the role least three EU states, which was not the turned down this argument concluding mission said. The decision comes as US Twitter and other platforms play in the way people com- case for this deal. that, regardless of whether Facebook Internet giant Google faces intense municate, the effect that rapid and fluid communication But the powerful European telecom would start collecting WhatsApp user scrutiny from the Commission over accu- can have and apply those findings to complex societal lobby had argued that Facebook and data, “the transaction would not raise sations of unfair advantages the search issues,” CEO Dick Costolo said. — AP Whatsapp together would have access to competition concerns”. engine gives its own services in search an unfair stock of user data and gain an After the merger, “a large amount of results. — AFP Storage - in a flash!

Technology borne from necessity - flash storage comes to the rescue DUBAI: We continue to witness the evolution can be moved on and off of persistent storage are no disks to spin and no mechanical arms of technology all in the name of making our to be processed. to move, and requires much less cooling, personal and professional lives better. Today, The scenario got worse as we continued to helping alleviate overtaxed data center envi- we have come to expect the same level of real witness the heavy adoption of modern tech- ronments. time responsiveness from almost all applica- nologies like virtualization that drove demands Many often ask is this specialized weapon tion, whether business or personal. For for enterprise application responsiveness even of a drive expensive? Given the explosive instance, today a stock broker expects on the further and lead to the expansion of pre-exis- adoption of mobile devices using flash-iPods, go real time updates from the stock app on his tent gap between processing, network, and iPhones, iPads, tablets of all makes and mod- smartphone while the central bank demands storage creating what many call a perfect storm els- flash technology has become more the same demands the same level of respon- for IT. mature and affordable, to a point where with siveness from the analytics application to con- Like always, all isn’t lost. Flash Technology the right combination of storage array tech- tinuously crunch the numbers and disseminate was borne out of the necessity to adapt our nology it can meet the price/performance this information across the various channels so storage abilities to effectively leverage the pow- requirements of the applications of today. that the stock broker and investor stays up to er of new technologies, completely disrupting Like with any other emerging technology, date and is able to benefit from real time deci- some very important assumptions under which the use of this technology has raised many sion making. IT had been operating. The technology not only questions about its utilization and operational Over the last few decades processing and dramatically improved application response effectiveness and none of these questions are networking technologies have doubled their time but also allowed applications to scale to wrong. In fact, the organizations that ask Photo shows Mohammed Amin, Senior performance every eighteen months. Yet, the extraordinary levels of data usage. these questions stand a better chance of mak- Vice President and Regional Manager mechanical limitations of hard disk drives have ing an effective decision founded on a clear Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle prevented storage performance from advanc- What’s so special about flash? understanding of how Flash technology fits in East, EMC Corporation. ing at the same speed. Flash delivers unprecedented data access their overall infrastructure given their work- So while the ability to create, capture, and performance for both random and sequential loads, and performance requirements instead er of Flash is to remember that while this may process vast amounts of data already does exist data, delivering superior application through- of the hype that any new technology brings. indeed be a disruptive technology, it needs a in most scenarios, the ability to actually lever- put and response time performance for virtu- Like a famed Marvel Comics Hero once well thought out plan and approach for one age the insights from this big data as we call it alized environments. said, “With great power, comes great respon- to successfully leverage its power to their was limited because of the speed at which data Flash consumes much less power, as there sibility,” the trick to unleashing the true pow- benefit. TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

CALIFORNIA: In this Sept 14, 2014 photo, San Francisco 49ers fans cheer at Levi’s Stadium dur- CALIFORNIA: Fans wait in an express pickup line at a Levi’s Stadium concessions stand during ing the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears in Santa Clara. — AP photos an NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears in Santa Clara. Can a football stadium be as ‘smart’ as a phone?

CALIFORNIA: It’s a tough challenge for the delivers on its promise to learn what he likes. National Football League to entice fans off their “I would much rather that they have some comfy couches and into stadiums when ticket idea of what I want to buy so they can put that prices are almost as high as the sport’s TV ratings. stuff front and center for me, as opposed to The temptation to stay home goes beyond cost. showing me things that I would never purchase,” Equipped with high-definition televisions, Wi-Fi Johnson says. Although some of the planned fea- and laptops, tablets and smartphones, fans at tures aren’t yet complete, roughly one-third of home can watch multiple games on Sunday the sold-out crowds at the 49ers’ first two regu- while simultaneously checking their fantasy ros- lar-season games have used the app in some ters and celebrating (or taunting) friends via text. way. Levi’s Stadium is now a massive laboratory So when the owners of the San Francisco 49ers that can test technology’s ability to change the drew up plans for the team’s new $1.3 billion sta- way large crowds experience athletic events, dium, they tapped the ingenuity surrounding concerts and possibly even political conventions. their Silicon Valley home. If 49ers’ CEO Jed York’s vision pans out, venues The result? Levi’s Stadium is home to the first across the US will become as smart as the phones mobile app designed to enhance every aspect of fans tote. a fan’s stadium experience, from steering fans to “We think this is going to be the forebear of their parking spots to identifying the least-crowd- everything else that comes to stadiums,” says ed restrooms. No more waiting in line for a $10 York. The app and its underlying technology drink and $6 hot dog. During the game, fans can were developed by VenueNext, a startup backed order food and drinks that can be delivered by a venture capital fund financed by York and directly to their seats or picked up at express win- other members of 49ers’ management team. dows. Don’t agree with that call? Use the app to York declined to disclose how much money has CALIFORNIA: A screen at Levi’s Stadium shows an advertisement for the stadium’s app watch instant replays from four camera angles. been invested in VenueNext, but the 49ers so far for smartphones during an NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he saw the have spent about $125 million on the stadium’s Chicago Bears in Santa Clara. app’s potential as soon as he downloaded it for technology, including a Wi-Fi network capable of the 49ers’ Sept 14 regular-season opener. keeping up to 70,000 fans online so their move- “Everybody’s connection to the outside world ments and desires can be tracked. now really is their phone, so that has to become part of the (game-day) experience,” he said. Mike Longtime technology Roberts of Martinez, California, appreciated being Roughly two-thirds of the NFL’s 31 stadiums able to order popcorn from his seat for pickup at are already wired for online access and the an express window with no lines. “Everyone liv- league wants all of them to provide free Wi-Fi by ing around here is pretty tech savvy,” notes the 2016 season. The Wi-Fi goal is part of a Roberts, “so this is the perfect place to try some- league-wide push to give fans more reasons to thing like this.” The app will ask fans if they want attend games, not stay home. “Our competition to order food and drinks at certain times during is the couch,” says VenueNext founder John Paul. the game, depending on past behavior patterns. Other sports teams and concert promoters do And Levi’s Stadium greeters now can welcome offer apps to make their events more convenient fans by name after scanning their digital tickets at and enjoyable. Typically though, those services the gate. Ultimately, the 49ers hope to profit have been offered in piecemeal fashion: Fans from the digital capabilities by eliminating ticket might need one app to order food and another printing costs and ringing up more concession to find their way around. VenueNext is hoping to sales as the team gains a better understanding of license its single-app system to other stadiums fans’ individual preferences. and arenas. The Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings already have expressed interest as they Massive laboratory build new stadiums, says Paul. VenueNext’s sys- The personal analysis mirrors what Google, tem could be useful at convention centers and Facebook and thousands of other mobile apps “wherever you have got a lot of people congre- have been capitalizing on for years. Such surveil- gated together for a major event,” says longtime lance doesn’t bother 49er season-ticket holder technology analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative CALIFORNIA: Fans cheer during an NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers Ron Johnson of San Francisco - as long as the app Strategies. — AP and the Chicago Bears. TV listings SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

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Eid Greetings

Ambassador Matthew Lodge, and British Embassy Kuwait wish Eid Mubarak to all Muslims

n the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, Ambassador Matthew OLodge, on behalf of The British Embassy, would like to send his best wishes to those who performed their Hajj pilgrimage this year, and to all Muslims in Kuwait and worldwide celebrating this occasion. Her Majesty’s Ambassador, Mr. Matthew Lodge has given his best wishes via a short bilingual video that was posted on his social media accounts: ‘On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, I would like to offer sincere congratulations to Kuwait, its government, and its people and our Muslim friends across the world. As families gather to celebrate Eid Al-Adha, I hope that we can all embrace the spirit of community and compassion that this celebration brings. My very best wishes to you and your families. Eid Mubarak.” In celebration, The British Embassy will be closed on Sunday, October 5 and on Monday, October 6, 2014. The embassy will resume its business on Tuesday, October 7, EQUATE inaugurates world’s 1st 2014. During this time, all British Embassy departments will be closed which includes Visa Services at the Visa Application Centre (VAC). petrochemical plant at KidZania The British Embassy Kuwait wishes you and your family a blessed time and Eid Mubarak! QUATE Petrochemical Company, Kuwait’s first private sector entertainment, children will commence their intriguing role-play petrochemical company, inaugurated its petrochemical journey as petrochemical engineers and carry on their roles after Saudi Ambassador’s Eplant at KidZania Kuwait, making it the world’s first petro- reviewing EQUATE’s environment, health and safety require- chemical company to participate in KidZania. ments, as well as fun educational videos on the source and use of greetings on Eid During the inauguration, EQUATE President and CEO raw material. In addition, they will receive a brief introduction mbassador of Saudi Arabia in Kuwait Dr Abdulaziz bin Mohammad Husain said, “Sustainability, in all forms within and about EQUATE, the basic principles of the petrochemical industry AIbrahim Al-Fayez will receive well wishers on the occa- outside Kuwait, holds great significance to EQUATE, as it has and how to convert Ethylene into pellets that are manufactured sion of Eid Al-Adha at 1 pm on the first day of Eid (10 through its EQUATE Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program into plastic products we use in our daily lives, such as bags, con- Zulhujja 1435 A H) corresponding to October 4, 2014 AD sponsored and launched many sustainable initiatives in various tainers and wrapping material. As part of the applied education at at the embassy diwaniya at the embassies area in Daeya. medical, professional, industrial, environmental and educational EQUATE’s plant in Kidzania, the children will then collect the pel- The Ambassador extends congratulations to HH the Amir sectors. EQUATE has established sustainable partnerships with lets and run them through a machine to affirm their compliance of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Crown several local and global entities from public and private sectors to with clarity and quality standards, followed by converting the pel- Prince HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the achieve development and progress within an overall framework of lets into a plastic object that they can use in education and enter- Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Al- innovation and creativity through the efforts of human resources tainment. Finally, for their efforts of working at EQUATE’s plant in Sabah family and the Kuwaiti people. that represent the most important element of success for nations, KidZania Kuwait, the children will be rewarded with a salary in companies and all organizations. Therefore, forming this partner- kidZos, KidZania’s currency. ship between EQUATE and M.H. Alshaya Co. is an embodiment of our tagline ‘Partners in Success’ by allowing children to delve into some parts of engineering relevant to petrochemical plants with their processes, guidelines and regulations through integrating education with entertainment within an environment of amusing culture. All of which are aimed at developing the future’s engi- neers and other qualified individuals.” Fernando Medroa, Vice President of Leisure and Entertainment at MH Alshaya Company, said, “The partnership with Equate furthers our mission of providing children with an edutainment environment that brings to life various workstreams from the grown-up world. In the new Equate establishment in KidZania, children will get to role-play as petrochemical engi- neers, and see first-hand how the plastic products we use every day are made.” In addition to Husain and Medora, the inauguration was attended by EQUATE VP for Technical Services & Head of EQUATE CSR Team Mohammad Al Benali, as well a number of leaders and employees from EQUATE and MH Alshaya Company. In line with KidZania Kuwait’s unique blend of education and WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

ICSK marks a milestone, begins open schooling

By Sajeev K Peter

arking another milestone in its academic history, the Indian Community School Kuwait (ICSK) yesterday inau- Mgurated National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in its campus, becoming the first school in the Gulf region to offer the program. NIOS, the open schooling system, is designed to making education more accessible and reachable to all with a special focus on weaker students. At a ceremony held at the ICSK Senior auditorium, Salmiya, Shiv Sagar, second secretary, Community Affairs and Education, Indian embassy, Kuwait officially inaugurated NIOS program in the presence of Vice Chairman and Secretary, board of trustees, principals of the four branches of the ICSK, teachers, parents and students. “This a wonderful initiative taken by the school to set up NIOS in the school which will undoubtedly go a long way in imparting quality education to students, especially those who have difficulty in coping with the regular system,” said Sagar in his inaugural In his presidential address, Vijay Karayil, Secretary, board of ment of over two million students. In India open schooling pro- address. trustees, explained how the school management accomplished grams are offered up to class 12 by NIOS and 16 state open “Failures are opportunities, so turn your failures into opportu- this goal and became the first Indian school in Kuwait to offer schools under NIOS which functions as an apex body like CBSE nities. Instead of waiting for opportunities to come to us, go after open schooling program. ICSK is the only Indian school in Kuwait under the ministry of human resources and development, gov- them,” said Dr V Binumon, Principal, ICSK Senior branch, in his that offers classes under NIOS for class X and class XII. ernment of India. inspiring welcome address. “Open schooling is indeed a concept that has the potential to “This wonderful opportunity will give you an insight into the “With the introduction of open schooling, we will provide an revolutionalize the society at large and bringing out the best in independent system with its own curriculum and examination environment to every child who can become successful in their people since it motivates the learners to strive and achieve their leading to a certification that is value equivalent to CBSE,” academic life,” Dr Binumon said. He elaborated that NIOS is educational aspirations in a flexible mode,” said Bobby Mathew, Mathew added. intended to help those children who find it hard to follow the Vice Chairman, board of trustees, in his introductory speech. Our Rajesh C Nair, Principal of ICSK, Amman branch and K G CBSE system. motto in setting up the first NIOS in Kuwait is ‘reaching the Shirsath, principal, ICSK, Khaitan delivered felicitation speeches. The vision of NIOS is sustainable development and flexible unreached’, he said. Sam C Kuruvilla, vice principal, ICSK Senior, proposed a vote of access to quality education and skill development. “Preference India with a population of 1.2 billion people first set up the thanks. Principal of ICSK Junior Shirly Dennis, Vice principal will be given to weaker students prioritizing equality and social national open school in 1989 now known as NIOS. It has now Gomathy Moorthy, BoT members, parent advisory council mem- justice in education,” he said. become the largest open schooling in the world with the enrol- bers, parents and students attended the ceremony.

Greetings outh Indian actress and dubbing artiste Praveena, poses as she is preparing to have a Sfacial by Lekha at a beauty parlor in Jleeb Al- very very happy Shuyoukh on Sept 30. Praveena who was in Kuwait birthday to Baba for a private visit is currently working in two films, AAndy Fernandes 100 Days of Love by debutant director Jenuse who celebrates his birthday Mohammed, director Kamal’s son and Mili, directed on October 5. May by Rajesh Pillai of Traffic fame. A bachelor degree Almighty God bless you holder in music, Praveena first appeared as a child and keep you always in artist in Gauri, the film version of T Padmanabhan’s good health. Best wishes story of the same, and was Vasanthi in the film from your Dad Marshal and Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum. Since Mom Remy. Greetings also then she has distinctively proved herself as an come from friends Nikki actress and dubbing artiste. She lives in Greg, Bhumika, Petsy, Thiruvananthapuram with her businessman hus- Ciceo, Baby Pearl, Baba band and 8th grader daughter Gauri. Vernan Jely, Raymend, Franas & fly, Steven & fly, Philip and all other relatives. HEALTH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

P&G seeks to smash India menstruation taboos NEW DELHI: The latest commercial for their periods. Other taboos include enter- taboos.” Encouraged by the response to Dispelling Shame Procter & Gamble’s top-selling brand of ing temples and watering plants like basil the website, Gupta has launched a comic A. Muruganantham has made it his mis- sanitary pads in India ticks all the usual that are considered holy. book to help people “overcome their own sion to dispel the shame surrounding men- boxes a young woman jogs happily in pris- Aditi Gupta, who started a website shame” and discuss menstruation openly. struation in India. A school dropout from a tine white trousers, before effortlessly win- called menstrupedia.com two years ago to Gupta said she was motivated by her own poor family in southern India, he invented a ning a tennis tournament. But unlike most provide young people with information, experiences of growing up and the chal- simple machine to make cheap sanitary pads adverts of its ilk, this 30-second clip seeks said such beliefs were pervasive through- lenges she faced as a teen. “Although I - revolutionising menstrual health for rural to dispel the myths surrounding women’s out India. “The myths get passed on from belonged to a very well-to-do family, we women in the process. Muruganantham was periods in a country where deep-rooted one generation to another without any had to use discarded cloth during periods, inspired by the realisation that lack of access social taboos around menstruation still questioning,” she told AFP. “It’s got noth- which we had to wash and reuse,” she said. to affordable sanitary products meant his persist. ing to do with how educated people are. “It was not about affordability. It was wife had to use dirty rags instead. He went to It ends with the catchphrase “touch the There is an inherent shame which inhibits because of the shame associated with buy- great lengths to test his invention, creating a pickle”, a reference to the widely held people from even talking about the ing sanitary napkins.” fake uterus from a football bladder by belief that a jar of pickle touched by a punching a couple of holes in it and filling it menstruating woman will spoil - and an with goat’s blood. exhortation to young Indian women to In his course of his research, he came reject such superstitions. Procter & across some villages where menstruating Gamble, the US consumer goods giant women were confined in a small room with behind some of the world’s biggest no lights. “While many of these restrictions brands, said it was astonished to learn that are not followed now, the basic idea of a such “primitive practices” remained preva- woman being impure is still deeply lent in modern-day India. A survey by the ingrained in the minds of people,” he told company and market researcher IPSOS AFP. “Some 10-15 women are cramped showed that 59 percent of urban women together in a small room. Food is thrown at still follow their grandmothers’ advice not them from the door and they are forced to to touch the earthenware jar of pickles eat like dogs from one plate.” Both Gupta found in kitchens across India. and Muruganantham believe the myths can “Not touching a jar of pickle because only be shattered through better communi- your body is undergoing a natural biologi- cation and awareness. “It sends shivers cal process is nothing but laughable,” a down the spine to think that some things company spokeswoman told AFP. The have not changed in India despite the practice stems from the belief - still widely progress we have made otherwise,” said held in India - that menstruating women Muruganantham. “We have to bring the are “impure”. In rural pockets, many are NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on April 22, 2014, an Indian worker napkin out of the closet. We have to encour- still made to sleep separately and eat from sorts donated cotton and semi-cotton clothes that will be used to make cloth age women to speak out loud ‘yes I am hav- plates set aside especially for them during sanitary napkins at non-profit organisation ‘Goonj’ (Echo). — AFP ing my periods, so what’?” — AFP

Ibuprofen helps Ebola strikes fourth avoid Ebola airport screening American in Liberia

NEW YORK: People who contract Ebola in West Africa can get through airport screenings and onto a plane with a lie UN ramps up response and a lot of ibuprofen, according to healthcare experts who believe more must be done to identify infected travelers. At the very least, they said, travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken MONROVIA: The US prepared yesterday to countries should be screened for fever, which is currently fly home a cameraman who contracted done on departure from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. But Ebola in Liberia, as the head of the UN’s such safeguards are not foolproof. “The fever-screening response agency headed to Sierra Leone to instruments run low and aren’t that accurate,” said infection lead the fight against an epidemic he called control specialist Sean Kaufman, president of Behavioral- the world’s “highest priority”. Ashoka Mukpo, Based Improvement Solutions, a biosafety company based in 33, who was working as a freelancer for NBC Atlanta. news, discovered he was running a fever on “And people can take ibuprofen to reduce their fever Wednesday, his network said, and is in quar- antine in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) enough to pass screening, and why wouldn’t they? If it will treatment centre. Hired by NBC only three get them on a plane so they can come to the United States days ago, he is the fourth American to con- and get effective treatment after they’re exposed to Ebola, tract Ebola in Liberia. wouldn’t you do that to save your life?” On Thursday, Liberia “The doctors are optimistic about his said the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United prognosis,” Mukpo’s father Mitchell Levy said States had lied on a questionnaire at the Monrovia airport in a message to family and friends quoted by about his exposure to an Ebola patient. He flew to Brussels NBC, adding that his son had worked on and then Dulles airport outside Washington, DC, before land- humanitarian projects in Liberia for several ing in Dallas on Sept 20. years. “When the Ebola outbreak occurred he The traveler, Thomas Eric Duncan, had no symptoms felt compelled to return to Liberia to help when he left Liberia, and fever scans there had shown a nor- shed light on how the crisis was being han- mal body temperature of 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit, US health dled socially and politically,” Levy said. officials said. He therefore could not have been identified NBC News president Deborah Turness MONROVIA: A man transports a possible victim of the Ebola virus in a wheel- through examination as carrying the Ebola virus. His arrival said the rest of the crew in Liberia were barrow on Thursday at the Ebola treatment center at Island hospital. — AFP and hospitalization in Dallas have underscored how much US being closely monitored but were showing authorities are relying on their counterparts in West African no symptoms. “However, in an abundance of case of Ebola so there is no more risk of in Texas who had potential contact with a countries to screen passengers and contain the worst Ebola caution, we will fly them back on a private transmission to anyone, and when that’s Liberian man diagnosed with Ebola. Four outbreak on record. charter flight and then they will place them- accomplished, UNMEER will go home,” he family members were also ordered to stay Part of the screening burden rests on connecting airports. selves under quarantine in the United States told journalists on Thursday in the Liberian home. The man - the first person to be diag- For example, Kaufman flew from Monrovia to Casablanca to for 21 days - which is at the most conserva- capital Freetown. nosed with the deadly disease on US soil - London to Atlanta. He was fever-screened in Monrovia and tive end of the spectrum of medical guid- flew from Liberia and arrived in Texas on Casablanca, but not London’s Heathrow, he said, and not ance.” Anthony Banbury, head of the UN ‘World’s Highest Priority’ September 20 to visit family. when he arrived in Atlanta. “At Heathrow, there were no Mission on Ebola Emergency Response The UN envoy said he was intent on con- By far the most deadly epidemic of Ebola questions about where I had come from,” he said. “I offered (UNMEER), travelled to Sierra Leone yester- tributing to “the highest priority for the inter- on record has spread into five west African the information to the official in Atlanta, and he said, ‘Thank day for the second leg of a tour of the three national community - for the whole world, countries since the start of the year, infecting you. Be safe.’” —Reuters hardest-hit nations. “The only way we will not just the United Nations”. US health offi- more than 7,000 people and killing about end this crisis is if we end every single last cials meanwhile were monitoring 100 people half of them. —AFP HEALTH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Facebook plots first Newborns have strong steps into healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc already knows who your immune system friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention. Soon, it could also know the state of your health. On the KUWAIT: Newborn immune T-cells - heels of fellow Silicon Valley technology companies Apple Inc specialist cells that help to defend the and Google Inc, Facebook is plotting its first steps into the body against infection - may have the fertile field of healthcare, said three people familiar with the ability to trigger an inflammatory matter. The people requested anonymity as the plans are still response to bacteria, something that we in development. didn’t previously think was possible, The company is exploring creating online “support com- finds a study led by King’s College munities” that would connect Facebook users suffering from London and involving teams at Great various ailments. A small team is also considering new “pre- Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). This ventative care” applications that would help people improve discovery, published in the journal their lifestyles. In recent months, the sources said, the social Nature Medicine, suggests that networking giant has been holding meetings with medical although a newborn’s immune system industry experts and entrepreneurs, and is setting up a works very differently to that of adults, research and development unit to test new health apps. babies may still be able to mount a Facebook is still in the idea-gathering stage, the people said. strong immune defence to protect them Healthcare has historically been an area of interest for from viruses and harmful microbes. Facebook, but it has taken a backseat to more pressing prod- Up to now, it was believed that ucts. Recently, Facebook executives have come to realize that babies have an immature immune sys- healthcare might work as a tool to increase engagement with tem that doesn’t trigger the same the site. One catalyst: the unexpected success of Facebook’s inflammatory response normally seen in “organ-donor status initative,” introduced in 2012. The day adults. Although babies need to protect that Facebook altered profile pages to allow members to themselves from things that cause infec- specify their organ donor-status, 13,054 people registered to tion from birth, it was thought that their be organ donors online in the United States, a 21 fold T-cells were suppressed to some extent bacterial molecule that activates state-of-the-art 40-bed and cot critical increase over the daily average of 616 registrations, accord- to prevent inflammatory damage to the ing to a June 2013 study published in the American Journal immune cells, known as neutrophils, care unit offers the largest intensive care developing child. Researchers have now that attack the body’s foreign invaders. service for children in the UK and in of Transplantation. found that might not be the case. The Separately, Facebook product teams noticed that people Neil Sebire, Consultant Paediatric Europe. With over 50 paediatric special- team examined small samples of blood Pathologist at GOSH who was involved ties under one roof, GOSH has the with chronic ailments such as diabetes would search the in twenty-eight highly premature babies social networking site for advice, said one former Facebook in the study, says: “This work provides widest range of specialty services for who had early exposure to infection, in important new information about how children in the UK. insider. In addition, the proliferation of patient networks such order to look for patterns that may as PatientsLikeMe demonstrate that people are increasingly newborn babies may respond to infec- The Immunology Unit at Great reveal alternative immune responses tion and with further research could Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is recog- comfortable sharing symptoms and treatment experiences occur in the first few weeks of life. online. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg may step up his per- lead to novel treatments that boost the nised as a world leader in the diagnosis The team discovered that whilst T- immune system of children on the of suspected or confirmed primary sonal involvement in health. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla cells in newborn babies are largely dif- Chan, a pediatric resident at University of California San neonatal intensive care unit.” immunodeficiency. We also have experi- ferent to those in adults, it is not GOSH has an international reputation ence of a variety of other immunological Francisco, recently donated $5 million to the Ravenswood because they are immunosuppressed. Health Center in East Palo Alto. —Reuters for treating children from around the disorders in children from all over the Instead, the T-cells create a potent anti- world who are critically ill or injured. Our world. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

CHANGE OF NAME

I, Vajib, son of Thiru Mohammaed Ghouse born on 18th July 1973 (native place, Avur Village) residing at No. 693c, Kayithemillath 2nd Street, Avur Village, Tiruvannamalai Tk & Dist - 606755, shall henceforth be known as Wajib Basha, Passport No. F5416336. (C 4778) SITUATION WANTED 4-10-2014 Prayer timings A lady maid is needed to I, Jainuddin Katka, holder work for one or two days a Fajr: 04:24 of Indian Passport No. week, preferably Sunday Shorook 05:42 Z2814003 hereby change and/or Thursday in an apart- ment located in Salmiya. Duhr: 11:37 my name to Zainuddin Contact: 66417504 (C 4777) Katka. My address is 2-10-2014 Asr: 14:59 Muslim Colony, Banswara, Maghrib: 17:31 Rajasthan, India. (C 4776) 2-10-2014 Isha: 18:48

Kuwait KNCC EID AL ADHA PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (02/10/2014 TO 08/10/2014)

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SYDNEY: Rival English Test forwards Sam Burgess was still in ownership of the club. wherever they are from, I’m just trying to do my best and James Graham will play crucial roles when South “Not only for Russell, there’s hundreds of people I for the club.” Graham will be also looking for a better Sydney chase their first Australian rugby league can name. For the team, the whole squad of 30, it’d outcome than his last appearance in a grand final for championship title in 43 years against Canterbury in be a great achievement.” England coach Steve the Bulldogs two years ago when his team lost 14-4 the NRL grand final Sunday. Burgess has been a driv- McNamara, who has watched Burgess and Graham in and he received a 12-match suspension for biting the ing force in his five seasons in the National Rugby his role as an assistant coach at the Sydney Roosters, ear of Melbourne’s Test fullback Billy Slater. League since joining the Rabbitohs from the said Burgess has had an enormous impact on Souths “Jammer’s (Graham) in tremendous form, you look at Bradford Bulls in 2010, while ex-St Helens prop and the NRL. “He was always destined to be a star. the number of carries he makes and the number of Graham has been inspirational for the Bulldogs. It The impact he’s had on not only South Sydney, but plays he’s involved in with the Bulldogs,” McNamara will be an NRL farewell for Burgess, who is switching the NRL and even Australian sport as a whole is fan- said. “Also his sheer ability to play, it’s like having an to rugby union with Bath later this month, but is tastic,” McNamara said. “For an Englishman to do extra halfback (scrum-half) in your team in a front- vowing to do all he can to bring home South that is a magnificent achievement.” rower’s body.”Souths are the sentimental favorites to Sydney’s first premiership since 1971. win with the Bulldogs chasing their first NRL title Burgess, 25, was persuaded by Oscar-winning ‘British Bulldog’ since 2004. They split their two regular season games Hollywood actor and club owner Russell Crowe to Renewing old rivalries will be Merseyside-born against each other this year. join the Rabbitohs and has been a major influence in Graham, who was the Dally M Award front rower of While the Rabbitohs have one of the NRL’s super- the rise of the 1908 foundation club after decades in the year, and he will have a huge say in the Bulldogs’ stars in Greg Inglis at fullback, they will be without the doldrums. Burgess, along with his three brothers- chances in Sunday’s decider. Graham, 29, has been their New Zealand international hooker Issac Luke. Luke and twins George and Tom - have made Souths an outstanding leader of the Canterbury pack and Luke was suspended for two matches for a danger- the most feared forward pack in the league and bat- been tagged the ‘British Bulldog’ by the club’s fans as ous throw on Sonny Bill Williams last week and has tered the defending champions Sydney Roosters 32- he inspired the Dogs past Melbourne Storm, Manly been replaced by rookie Apisai Koroisau. Souths have 22 last week to reach their first premiership decider Sea Eagles and Penrith Panthers to get to the grand won the most premierships and should they go on in 43 years.”We’re totally grateful for everything the final. “We both play in the middle, so we’re going to and down the Bulldogs this weekend at Sydney’s club’s given us,” Sam Burgess said. “I’d love to be part have to tackle each other,” Graham said. “For me, it ANZ stadium it will be their 21st title, but their first of the team that won the premiership while Russell doesn’t matter that Sam’s here and his brothers and since 1971.—AFP

Springboks urged to break through the mental barrier JOHANNESBURG: South Africa must overcome a mental block they have against New Zealand if they are to tri- umph in today’s final round Rugby Championship clash at Ellis Park, captain Jean de Villiers said yesterday. The Springboks have won just one of their previous 10 meet- ings with the All Blacks and are now seeking to end the 22- game unbeaten run of the New Zealanders in Johannesburg. “I truly believe we are good enough to beat them,” De Villiers told reporters. “Playing at home in front of a packed Ellis Park, it’s a great stadium to play at with the crowd behind you. “We need to get over that mental barrier we have built up around playing them...it’s easier said than done but we truly do believe we can do it. In the past we have played well and didn’t get the result, at some stage that will change.” The centre said “attitude” would be important for the home side to build on their 28-10 victory over Australia last EUGENE: Pharaoh Brown #85 of the Oregon Ducks is tackled by Jourdon Grandon #26 of the Arizona Wildcats at Autzen weekend. “Being able to rock up in the right frame of mind Stadium on October 2, 2014 in Eugene, Oregon. — AFP with the same attitude and the willingness to perform is crucial. Our problem is it has not always happened and no one has the answer why.” The respective coaches dis- Arizona upsets No 2 agreed in the week whether it would be the loose-for- wards or tight-five that would be the key battle, but back- line star De Villiers says all 23 players will have to be top of their game for the winning side. “In a game like this you Oregon again, 31-24 need every single department to fire, including the bench. These days you need a good squad of players to be suc- EUGENE: The look on Marcus Mariota’s Sept 20. True freshman Nick Wilson ran third-and-8, but Tony Washington was cessful.” face was unmistakable: He was stunned. for two touchdowns and caught a scor- called for unsportsmanlike conduct to Oregon’s star quarterback lingered on ing pass from quarterback Anu Solomon give the Wildcats a first down. A pass Off-field friendships the field late Thursday night following to help the Wildcats (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12) interference call got Arizona closer for They may be the fiercest rivals in world rugby on the his team’s 31-24 loss to Arizona, shaking open the season with five straight victo- Jones-Grigsby’s go-ahead touchdown. pitch, but De Villiers said there were many friendships hands with the Wildcats after they upset ries for the first time since 1998. And on Oregon’s ensuing series, Mariota between the teams and their off-field interactions with the heavily favored Ducks for the second Terris Jones-Grigsby plowed into the was sacked by Scooby Wright, who each other was more in the sprit of the game. “Even consecutive season. Later, he shouldered end zone from a yard out for the stripped the ball from the Heisman the blame for a loss that left No. 2 tiebreaking touchdown with 2:54 left, Trophy hopeful and recovered it himself. though these two teams have played some brutal games Oregon with a tough hill to climb if it and Arizona held on after sacking Mariota “It was a good play by him, honestly,” in the past, the mutual respect is there from both camps. wants an invite to college football’s first and recovering his fumble. It was the Mariota said. We are able to play hard on the field, but off it we can have postseason playoff. third time since 2007 that an unranked Arizona then gained a clinching first a drink together. “That is something that has been lost in And he credited the unranked Wildcats team upset an Oregon squad down on the ground and ran out the the professional game, but these two teams are trying to Wildcats, who were 24-point underdogs. ranked in the top 5. “They’re probably clock, silencing Autzen Stadium’s 100th bring it back.” De Villiers also congratulated opposing skip- “They’re undefeated,” he said. “It’s obvi- having a good time in Tuscan, Arizona, straight sellout crowd. “Last year it was per Richie McCaw on becoming the record-holder for the ously a testament to our conference. If right now,” Wildcats coach Rich really heartwarming because it was the most appearances in an All Black jersey when he runs out you’re not prepared each week, if you’re Rodriguez said. With his team trailing 24- seniors’ last home game and it was for the 134th time today. “He has been phenomenal for not ready to play, you’ll lose.” Oregon 14 going into the final quarter, Oregon’s improbable, of course,” Rodriguez said. offensive coordinator Scott Frost told Matt Wogan made a 21-yard field goal. “This one, I don’t know if anybody picked them and has made a massive difference in world rugby, I reporters after the game that Mariota Mariota then hit Keanon Lowe with a 9- us. I don’t know how many people were really do respect him in that regard,” he said. “When we was not 100 percent after he was sacked yard scoring pass to tie it with 8:21 left. talking about us, but I bet you most of take to the field that goes out the window, but after the seven times in the Ducks’ 38-31 victory at With Arizona driving downfield, the them weren’t thinking this was going to game we will have a nice chat.”—Reuters Washington State in their previous game Ducks (4-1, 1-1) sacked Solomon on happen, not on the road.”—AP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Ricciardo takes Djokovic downs Dimitrov in blame for crash Beijing; Williams withdraws SUZUKA: Daniel Ricciardo took the blame for a big crash in yesterday’s free practice for the Japanese Murray downs Cilic; Sharapova destroys Kuznetsova Grand Prix on a day when championship leader Lewis Hamilton also had a scary moment. Australia’s BEIJING: World number one Novak Djokovic continued his march to and 30-0 up but Dimitrov rallied again, breaking the Serb with the Ricciardo slid off the circuit at the final corner as he a fifth China Open title by dismantling a flat Grigor Dimitrov in a one- point of the match after a stunning backhand winner down the line at sided quarter-final yesterday after women’s top seed Serena Williams full stretch. But rather than capitalize on the heroics, the world num- completed his first flying lap of Suzuka’s demanding was forced to pull out through injury. Briton Andy Murray will face ber 10 crumbled, giving up the match on a third double fault to leave “figure of eight” track. He careered through a gravel Djokovic in the last four after also storming through with a 6-1 6-4 win his bid to qualify for the ATP Tour World Finals in London next month trap and hit the barriers with the left front corner of his over US Open champion Marin Cilic, while Maria Sharapova destroyed in trouble. “It was pretty slow conditions because of the weather. It’s a Red Bull. “I made a mistake,” said Ricciardo. Svetlana Kuznetsova in an all-Russian women’s quarter-final. bit cold today, which I think suited more to my style of the game,” “I did my first quick lap and everyone is cooling after American world number one Williams, who had reached the last Djokovic told reporters. that, producing fast lap, slow lap and then fast again. eight on the Beijing hard courts after a 6-1 1-6 6-2 win over Czech “I was trying to mix up the pace, give him high balls to the back- “On the slow lap, there was a yellow flag, so I went extra Lucie Safarova late on Thursday, cited a problem in her left knee for hand, serve efficiently. Everything worked well. The second set was up slow so that once I started my quick lap the yellow flag handing a walkover to Australian Sam Stosur. It was the second tour- and down. But generally it was a good performance.” Djokovic will would have cleared and I would have been able to nament in a row the 33-year-old, who won her 18th grand slam sin- face Murray, who, like Dimitrov, is chasing a place in the season-end- push. “The tyres probably cooled too much and out of gles title at the US Open last month, had been forced to withdraw ing event for the top eight, in the last four. Murray, eyeing back-to- the last chicane I got on the power and had a few after she quit her opening match at the Wuhan Open last week back titles after Sunday’s Shenzen Open triumph, put up a dominant moments and just couldn’t catch it.” The accident because of illness. display against Cilic, whose serve crumbled under pressure in the brought an early end to the session for Ricciardo, who Bulgarian Dimitrov also looked off color in his display against opening set. The second set went neck-and-neck before Murray went has notched three grand prix wins this season, but he the Beijing expert Djokovic, who extended his record on the blue 5-4 up and set up three match points, capitalizing on the second was still 10th fastest. hard courts to 22-0 with a 6-2 6-4 win. The Serb targeted the falter- when Cilic slipped while trying to return a backhand. “Obviously I just missed time there with an option ing backhand of the fifth seed in the opening set, which he took In the women’s tournament, Stosur will take on Wimbledon cham- tyre,” he added. Ricciardo’s Red Bull team-mate, four- with breaks in the fourth and eighth games in an improved display pion Petra Kvitova in the semis after the Czech beat Italian Roberta time champion Sebastian Vettel, radioed the pits to after showing rust in his opening matches. The second set seemed Vinci 7-6 (7) 6-4. World number three Kvitova, who won last week’s make sure he was all right. “I saw the car in the barrier to be going the same way as Djokovic pushed Dimitrov back with event in Wuhan, mixed seven aces with six double faults as she bat- and asked just to double check and fortunately he was some deep groundstrokes, while producing his trademark exten- tled through. French Open champion Sharapova was far more domi- sive court coverage to negate the threat of his opponent as he nant beating Kuznetsova 6-0 6-4 in an hour and 24 minutes to set up fine,” the German said. Britain’s Hamilton was fastest in broke to lead 3-1. a semi-final clash with former world number one Ana Ivanovic. the day’s practice for Sunday’s race which is now threat- Dimitrov finally showed some fight, breaking back with a thump- Sharapova was broken only once and dropped just four games in the ened by a typhoon. But he also had a near miss. ing forehand cross court winner only to lose serve again in the next lop-sided contest to sail into only her second WTA semi-final since her The 29-year-old clocked a best lap time of 1min game to trail 4-2. Djokovic looked set to serve out the match at 5-3 victory at Roland Garros. — Reuters 35.078sec to finish 0.240 seconds clear of his German rival Rosberg, who is three points behind him in the title race with five races remaining. “I thought I was going off and into the barriers and I only just caught it,” Hamilton said, after explaining how he had caught and corrected his car during one of many lively incidents in a session of two red flags, several minor crashes and a series of errors. Hamilton added that he was surprised by his Mercedes team’s clear dominance. “Yeah. It changes from track to track and I don’t really under- stand it... But, it’s amazing what this team has done, to be able to come to one of the most demanding circuits for down-force and to be that competitive is fantastic. “The car didn’t feel spectacular this morning, but on the option tyre this afternoon it felt really good - except when I nearly went off!” The session ended early when Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso came to a halt for a second time with smoke billowing from the rear, prompting the session’s second red flag. Japanese Kamui Kobayashi, in his Caterham, and Mexican Esteban Gutierrez of Sauber, also crashed dur- ing the session. Max Verstappen, making his debut in Formula One at the record youngest age of 17, clocked a very respectable 12th best time before engine prob- lems ended his first foray. The session was run in inter- mittent sunshine and it remained dry in the afternoon, but officials are still keeping a close watch on typhoon Phanfone, which is forecast to bring heavy rain to the Suzuka area by Sunday. Bad weather could force the race organizers to bring the race start forward to Sunday morning. — AFP BEIJING: Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a shot against Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia during the womenís singles quarterfi- nal match at the China Open tennis tournament yesterday. — AFP Nishikori, Raonic reach Japan Open semi-finals

TOKYO: Crowd favorite Kei Nishikori and two-time finalist Milos 4-1 before a medical timeout for lower back treatment, and fin- Tour Finals in London. Nishikori, who would become the first Raonic both hammered out straight-sets wins yesterday to reach ished off victory in just under 90 minutes as Chardy returned a Japanese to play the year-ender, stands sixth. the semi-finals of the Japan Open. Nishikori, last week’s champion serve long. Nishikori is bidding to win his home event for the sec- Five spots will be decided over the next four weeks of ATP in Kuala Lumpur a fortnight after playing the US Open final, ond time in three years. He now plays a semi-final against German play. Raonic takes on Gilles Simon in the semis after the French claimed his seventh straight victory with his 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Benjamin Becker, who defeated Jack Sock 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. player powered into his first ATP semi-final since the spring with a France’s Jeremy Chardy. Canadian third seed Raonic overcame a Fourth seed Nishikori admitted he was tired, but added: “You 7-6 (7/4), 6-1 defeat of American Steve Johnson. Simon, 29, slow start and needed to win an hour-long first set before beating are never in perfect condition. But my back should be OK for the earned victory at the Ariake Coliseum with seven aces and con- Uzbek Denis Istomin 7-6 (10/8), 6-3. rest of the week. “Conditions for the match were tough with some versions on three of nine break points. “I’m feeling physically Against Chardy, Nishikori bounced straight back from an early wind, this was also my first match this week with the roof open. I good, and that’s important for my game,” said Simon, who has break for 0-2, quickly returning to 1-2 to get it back on serve. A had to get used to that. “He played very aggressively, I had to been frequently injured. “I had to fight in my first two matches sellout crowd of more than 10,000 fans watched their hero break adjust. But I hung in and made things happen, I’m very glad to this week but I got through them.” The French player has never again for 5-4 before serving out the opening set on his second get through in two sets.” Raonic’s win puts him into provisional been past the second round in two previous appearances in the chance. In the second set, Nishikori began with a break, raced to eighth place in the points race to next month’s eight-man World Japanese capital. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Bengals, Cardinals can prove their worth

NEW YORK: If the Cincinnati Bengals and says. “We feel like nothing can hold us back.” issues. Then again, Drew Stanton has stepped sion. The Texans lead the AFC South and the Arizona Cardinals, the NFL’s only remaining Certainly not the offensive line of the Patriots, in and won his two starts. Cowboys are tied atop the NFC East, both sur- unbeaten teams, are true championship con- who come off a 41-14 defeat at Kansas City. The Cardinals’ defense must remain stingy prising developments, although it is early. tenders, they can make a very loud statement The sacks tell the story: None against Dalton, - 45 points allowed thus far, none in the Perhaps the two most valuable players tomorrow. The Cardinals are at Denver and nine against Tom Brady. The lack of protec- fourth quarter - and that’s a prodigious chal- through one month will be on the field: the Bengals visit New England. The Bengals tion has made Brady appear skittish, getting lenge against Peyton Manning, who already Texans defensive end JJ Watt, and Cowboys have been abysmal in US televised night rid of the ball early, and given his mediocre has thrown for eight touchdowns. He needs running back DeMarco Murray, the league’s games, including 3-12 on Sunday nights. group of receivers little time to get open. Only one more for 500, a number only Brett Favre leading rusher. They’ve been told about it as they head to three teams gained fewer yards than New has reached. “It’s a big road game against a Also tomorrow, it’s Kansas City at San Foxborough for the prime-time matchup with England through the first four weeks of the team that went to the Super Bowl this year, Francisco, Baltimore at Indianapolis, Chicago the struggling Patriots. “It’s a good chance for season. and is going to be a playoff team again,” at Carolina, St Louis at Philadelphia, the New us to go out there and put it on tape and Cardinals coach Bruce Arians says. “It’s a good York Jets at San Diego, Pittsburgh at show the whole nation this Cincinnati team is Are the problems correctable? barometer for us on the road. ... We didn’t Jacksonville, Atlanta at the New York Giants, real,” nose tackle Domata Peko says. The “I hope they’re correctable,” says Brady, play any slouches so far. (Denver) is a really Buffalo at Detroit, Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Bengals are the only AFC team without a loss, who needs 60 yards to reach 50,000 passing good ballclub with an outstanding defense and Cleveland at Tennessee. The Monday have allowed an NFL-low 33 points, and have for his career. “I don’t think we should feel sor- and kicking game, and a crowd. All the factors game has Seattle at Washington. The Week 4 outscored opponents by an average of nearly ry for ourselves. We’ve always found a way to that go into playing at Denver are a huge action began on Thursday with Green Bay’s 16. And they’re listed as a slight favorite in the kind of grind our way through tough times.” advantage (for them).” 42-10 rout of Minnesota. The game never was Patriots’ stadium. Arizona and Denver are rested and com- The Houston Texans go to Dallas for the close. Julius Peppers returned an interception “This team is playing with a lot of confi- ing off byes, but the Cardinals have quarter- Lone Star state title, but more importantly, 49 yards for a touchdown, and Aaron Rodgers dence,” Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton back concerns with Carson Palmer’s shoulder the winner solidifies its standing in its divi- threw for three scores. — AP

NFL injury list long and star-studded

NEW YORK: The NFL’s injury epidemic began even before any preseason games were played, with the likes of Sean Lee and Kiko Alonso going down. Since then, big-name players (RG3, Robert Mathis, Knowshon Moreno, Sam Bradford, BJ Raji, DeAngelo Hall, Chris Long, Ike Taylor) have been sidelined, and entire units such as Atlanta and Philadelphia’s offensive lines and Carolina’s backfield have been ravaged. What gives? ACLs, Achilles tendons and shoulders, among other things. Consider what has happened to the Vikings, who lost quarterback Matt Cassel (broken foot), and right guard Brandon Fusco (torn pectoral muscle) for the season. Tight end Kyle Rudolph (sports hernia surgery) will miss about six weeks. That almost makes linebacker Chad Greenway’s hand and rib problems from which he will soon return seem tame. Almost. “I never envisioned that, but it’s a part of football,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said after all of those injuries occurred in one game. “Last year in Cincinnati we lost our best defensive tackle, our best corner, one of our best linebackers, a very good defensive end. Things happen in the NFL, so this is a sur- vival of the fittest game, it’s always a marathon.” Marathon or sprint, it’s difficult - sometimes impossible BALTIMORE: Adam Jones #10 of the Baltimore Orioles steals second base in the eighth inning against the Detroit Tigers - to stay on track with so many players getting hurt. during Game One of the American League Division Series on October 2, 2014. — AFP Although injured reserve numbers are not significantly dif- ferent at this point from recent seasons (39 in-season through four weeks last year, 41 this year), they remain Orioles maul Tigers alarming. Going back to the summer, a total of 262 players have gone on injured reserve, with only 21 of them desig- nated to return this season. Many of those players who went on IR before the season might not have made teams Royals edge Angels anyway. Judging only by IR numbers, according to STATS, linebacker far and away is the most vulnerable spot to injuries with 54 already in 2014. BALTIMORE: The Baltimore Orioles opened Royals manager Ned Yost, “but none was big- in the regular season-produced a run-batted- their American League playoff series against ger than that one, for sure.” Kansas City’s in single along with his early homer off That includes such critical members of their defenses as Detroit with a bang on Thursday, erupting for superb defense kept the game close as they Detroit starting pitcher Max Scherzer. JJ Lee in Dallas, Alonso in Buffalo, Sean Weatherspoon in eight runs in the eighth inning to beat the found hits hard to come by in the later Hardy delivered a solo homer and Alejandro Atlanta, Derrick Johnson in Kansas City, Jarvis Jones in Tigers 12-3. Nelson Cruz set the tone for the innings. De Aza and Jonathan Schoop both went 2- Pittsburgh, Nick Roach in Oakland, Danny Trevathan in American League East division winners Japanese outfielder Nori Aoki contributed for-4 at the plate with two RBI for the Orioles. Denver, and Zach Brown in Tennessee. Not all of them are Baltimore with a two-run home run in the first a couple of outstanding plays, including a Nick Markakis also had a brace of hits, sin- on IR, but their lengthy absences are damaging. Detroit inning. The victory gives the Orioles a 1-0 catch at the right-field wall that denied gling in a run, and Chris Tillman out-pitched saw LB Stephen Tulloch suffer the weirdest of all injuries, lead in the best-of-five division series. Things Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick a Scherzer in his post-season debut. Tillman tearing his ACL while doing a mocking celebration after a were closer across the country in Anaheim, potential extra base hit in the sixth. With two gave up back-to-back solo homers to Victor sack of Aaron Rodgers. California, where Mike Moustakas’ first home outs and a runner on third in the seventh, Martinez and JD Martinez in the second More troubling is when the likes of Hall and Johnson run in more than a month lifted the Kansas Anaheim’s CJ Cron struck a ball sharply to inning. But he allowed just two other hits are sidelined with Achilles tendon tears even though they City Royals to a 3-2 victory over the Angels in right field.Aoki wound his way around to it in while striking out six over five innings. are not involved in contact when they get hurt. “There are 11 innings in game one of the other AL divi- time to make a twisting, diving catch and end like 14 of these in the National Football League right now,” sion series. Moustakas greeted Angels relief the inning with the score still knotted at 2-2. Offensive explosion Chiefs coach Andy Reid said of Achilles injuries. “Three pitcher Fernando Salas with a leadoff homer “Aoki killed us tonight,” Angels outfielder Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera homered teams are in double digits with them (players on IR). So it’s in the 11th to deliver the Royals victory over Josh Hamilton said. Angels pitchers retired off Darren O’Day in the top of the eighth to out there and people are examining it to try to figure it the AL West division champion Angels. 16 successive hitters at one point, but they pull Detroit within 4-3. But Baltimore explod- out.” Running back and wide receiver have the next high- Moustakas got just enough of the pitch wasted a wealth of scoring chances. They left ed offensively in the bottom of the frame, est numbers on IR, 34 and 33. Injuries are unavoidable in from Salas, his blast barely clearing the right- eight on base and were 0-for-7 with runners taking advantage of the Tigers relief pitchers such a violent sport, and football on all levels has been field wall. Royals reliever Greg Holland then in scoring position. and sending 12 batters to the plate as they retired the side in order in the bottom of the Anaheim’s only runs came on solo homers turned it into a rout. “Up until that point in criticized for how head trauma and concussions were han- 11th to give the Royals a 1-0 series lead going from Chris Iannetta in the third inning and the game, it was a pretty good game and it dled for years. —AP into game two. David Freese in the fifth. In Baltimore, Cruz- just got away from us,” Tigers manager Brad “Moose hit 15 homers on the year,” said who led the major leagues with 40 home runs Ausmus said. —AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 City eye Premier pick-me-up against Villa

BIRMINGHAM: Manchester City have the national break. Chelsea face Arsenal on saw him miss the World Cup. “I heard the ting there. “He’s only done it for a year and a chance to put their Champions League con- Sunday and City know that another defeat snap from where I was standing,” recalled bit. When he starts to do it for a bit longer cerns to one side and move within two could see them trailing Jose Mourinho’s Villa manager Paul Lambert. “I knew it was a then you think ‘Yes’. He’s not done it yet, he’s points of Premier League leaders Chelsea team by eight points. major one there, but it wasn’t just that it was not the finished article, potentially he can be when they travel to Aston Villa yesterday. losing Libor Kozak as well with a broken leg. one of the best. “He’s a young guy with a After losing at Bayern Munich in their open- Good away form “Losing both number nines (strikers) was a long way to go in his career, but certainly ing European tie this season and drawing 1-1 “They (Villa) have started pretty well this problem. The start we’ve made has been when he’s on his game he’s definitely up with Roma in midweek, City are facing an season so it’s another tough game for us,” really good but to have done it without a there,” the Scottish boss added. But Villa uphill task to qualify from their Champions said Milner. “But our form away from home number nine was excellent. remain without captain Ron Vlaar due to a League group. has been pretty good so far this season and Benteke is coming back now, we are get- calf problem. — AFP The Premier League champions are also hopefully we can go there and get a good off the pace in the English top flight, having result before the international break. “It’s won only three of their six matches so far always frustrating if you don’t get the right English Premier League table this season and dropping points with a results before the internationals, then you defeat by Stoke and draws with Arsenal and are waiting two weeks to put it right,” he English Premier League table ahead of the weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals Chelsea. City head to the Midlands just one added. “So it’s important that we sign off against, points): point above Villa, who began the season this section of games with a win and keep Chelsea 6 5 1 0 19 7 16 Southampton 6 4 1 1 11 4 13 impressively before sustaining back-to-back the pressure on Chelsea at the top.” Man City 6 3 2 1 12 7 11 3-0 defeats by Arsenal and Chelsea. While City manager Pellegrini’s attacking Arsenal 6 2 4 0 11 7 10 City’s results at Eastlands have been uncon- options have been boosted by the return to Swansea 6 3 1 2 8 6 10 vincing, they have been far more impressive fitness of Montenegro striker Stevan Jovetic, Aston Villa 6 3 1 2 4 7 10 Man Utd 6 2 2 2 11 9 8 on their travels, collecting seven points from who came off the bench on Tuesday. Winger Tottenham 6 2 2 2 8 7 8 a possible nine. Samir Nasri is out for a month after undergo- Crystal Palace 6 2 2 2 10 10 8 A 3-2 loss at Villa Park this time last sea- ing surgery on a groin problem earlier this West Brom 6 2 2 2 7 7 8 son underlined City’s defensive failings in week but midfielder Fernando could be in Stoke 6 2 2 2 5 5 8 Leicester 6 2 2 2 9 10 8 the early part of the campaign as they took contention after several weeks out with a West Ham 6 2 1 3 10 10 7 just one point from their first three away similar injury. Aston Villa will include Liverpool 6 2 1 3 8 9 7 matches. But midfielder James Milner, who Christian Benteke in the squad for the first Everton 6 1 3 2 12 14 6 joined City from Villa in 2010, thinks Manuel time after a six-month injury lay-off. Hull 6 1 3 2 9 11 6 Sunderland 6 0 5 1 5 6 5 Pellegrini’s team have shown they are well The Belgian striker is back in the reckon- QPR 6 1 1 4 4 13 4 beyond those issues. The England interna- ing after scoring in the Under 21’s 2-0 victory Newcastle 6 0 3 3 5 12 3 tional, 28, also feels it is vital City keep pace over Bolton on Monday following an agoniz- Burnley 6 0 3 3 1 8 3 at the top of the table heading into the inter- ing Achilles tendon injury in training that

Matches on TV (Local Timings) Fabregas set to ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE spike Gunners Liverpool v Albion 17:00 beIN SPORTS 1 HD LONDON: Cesc Fabregas will look to from him but most of our chances come Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino, who beIN SPORTS 11 HD make Arsenal pay for their failure to re- from him opening up defenses,” Chelsea only arrived in pre-season, faces former beIN SPORTS 1 HD sign him when he faces his old club in captain John Terry told the London club Southampton-an impressive second their match against Premier League lead- Evening Standard. “Not a lot of people in the table despite also losing several ers Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tomor- can see the passes he does let alone players to bigger clubs. Aston v Man City 19:30 row. Once the jewel in the crown of make it.” Liverpool minus Luis Suarez have tak- beIN SPORTS 1 HD Arsene Wenger’s squad, Spain midfielder en just seven points from their first six Fabregas left the north London side to No mixed emotions league matches and suffered a beIN SPORTS 11 HD join boyhood club Barcelona in 2011. But Meanwhile Fabregas brushed aside all Champions League defeat by Basel in beIN SPORTS 1 HD he was never quite so central a figure talk of a conflict of loyalties in an inter- midweek. West Bromwich Albion will fan- with the star-studded Catalan giants and view with Spanish newspaper El Pais. “I cy their chances at Anfield today and Arsenal had the option to buy back their remind you that I played the Champions Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers SPANISH LEAGUE former captain in pre-season. League final against Barcelona (with admitted: “When confidence is low, it can Valencia v Madrid 17:00 However, with Arsenal’s squad now Arsenal) and I swear I would have done become about the individual, but we featuring a clutch of midfield playmakers anything to win that game-and I have have to get back to being a team.” beIN SPORTS 2 HD in Mesut Ozil, Santi Cazorla and Aaron been a Barcelona fan since I was a kid,” Premier League champions Manchester Vallecano v Barcelona 19:00 Ramsey, to name but three, veteran Fabregas said. “So I know that when I City, held to a 1-1 draw by Roma, will also French boss Wenger-who this week cele- play against Arsenal I will know who is look for a boost after a poor European beIN SPORTS 2 HD brated his 18th anniversary in charge of my (current) team, who are my col- display, when they travel to Aston Villa. Eibar v Levante 21:00 the Gunners-felt he could do without his leagues and who I defend.” “They (Villa) have started pretty well beIN SPORTS 4 HD one-time talisman. Chelsea, by contrast, Arsenal have won just six points taken this season so it’s another tough game were happy to spend £27 million ($46 from 20 matches away to teams finishing for us,” said City’s former Villa midfielder Almeria v Elche 23:00 million) to bring Fabregas back to in the eventual top five during the last James Milner. Newcastle will try to beIN SPORTS 6 HD London, with Blues manager Jose five Premier League campaigns. But fresh improve a desperate record dating back Mourinho boasting it took him just 20 from seeing former Manchester United to last season of one win in 14 league Malaga v Granada 23:00 minutes to seal the deal. striker Danny Welbeck score a hat-trick in games, away to Swansea today. But beIN SPORTS 2 HD So far Chelsea’s investment has been the Gunners’ 4-1 Champions League rout such is the ferocious dislike of manager rewarded with seven Fabergas ‘assists’, of Galatasaray, Arsenal defender Per Alan Pardew among many Magpies’ the latest in this week’s 1-0 Champions Mertesacker believes the club are ready fans, even victory in south Wales may ITALIAN LEAGUE League win at Sporting Lisbon, while to break out of their rut. “We know we not be enough to change their minds. Verona v Calcio 19:00 Mourinho’s men have won five and can do better than the two consecutive Meanwhile a sign of changing times is drawn one of their six Premier League seasons (at Chelsea) before and I think that it is Everton, not Manchester beIN SPORTS 3 HD matches to open up a six-point lead on we will try new things tomorrow to get a United, who had the European tie in Milan v Verona 21:45 the Gunners heading into this weekend’s better result than last year,” he said. midweek-albeit in the Europa League- beIN SPORTS 3 HD matches. “Fabregas has made a huge Tomorrow also sees another man up ahead of their clash at Old Trafford impact. I know you kind of expect that against his old side when Tottenham tomorrow. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 Valencia face toughest test yet in Atletico

MADRID: Valencia’s fine early season form will they aim to compete with Atletico to challenge Vallecano. The Catalans were beaten for the other out more and find connections. It’s a be put to the test when they host champions the traditional powers of Barca and Real first time this season away to Paris Saint- pleasure to play with him.” Atletico Madrid in the game of the La Liga Madrid at the top of La Liga. Germain and also saw their run without con- Despite a run of three consecutive league weekend today. Los Che sit just two points “We have already seen last year what ceding a goal come to an end in a 3-2 defeat. wins, Real Madrid are still languishing down in adrift of leaders Barcelona in second after an Atletico can do. They won the league and got Claudio Bravo will return in goal, whilst Gerard sixth, four points behind Barca. Los Blancos unbeaten start to life under new boss Nuno to the final of the Champions League. “The Pique and Marc Bartra are expected to come could be even further adrift by the time they Espirito Santo after six games. However, they numbers are in their favor and they are the back into the centre of defense after Javier host struggling Athletic Bilbao at the Santiago will face their toughest test of the campaign to favourites, but we are playing at home and Mascherano and Jeremy Mathieu were found Bernabeu tomorrow. Athletic finished fourth date as Atletico visit fresh from beating Italian have to go for it.” Valencia will again have to wanting in Paris. last season to qualify for the Champions champions Juventus in the Champions League do without big money summer signing Alvaro The positives for Barca from that match League for the first time in 16 years, but are in midweek. Negredo, as he now hopes to make his debut came from Lionel Messi and Neymar as both currently only out of the relegation zone on And in-form striker Paco Alcacer, who has for the club after the international break in two scored excellent goals to continue their fine goal difference. Real boss Carlo Ancelotti scored four times already this season, is hop- weeks’ time. Atletico should have captain Gabi form so far this season. And Messi believes handed a rest from the start to Dani Carvajal, ing Diego Simeone’s men will suffer a hang- back fit after he missed out in midweek with their on the field relationship will flourish dur- Toni Kroos, James Rodriguez and Karim over from their efforts on Wednesday. “We an ankle injury and Simeone could hand starts ing the Brazilian’s second season in Barcelona. Benzema in Wednesday’s 2-1 win over have prepared very well all week. It is clear that to Antoine Griezmann and Alessio Cerci as he “It’s the second season that we’re playing Ludogorets Razgrad. The latter three were all Atletico played a very hard game in the looks to freshen up his starting line-up. together and we’re starting to know each oth- needed though as they were introduced Champions League and could be a little tired,” A win for Valencia would take them tem- er better,” Messi said on Thursday. “Also this before Benzema struck a late winner in said the Spanish international. Alcacer, though, porarily at least back to the top of the table as season the Barca strikers are playing more in Bulgaria and will return to the starting line-up is aware of the challenge that faces his side as Barca are in action later today away at Rayo the middle of the pitch so we can pick each tomorrow.— AFP

Bonucci wants order German League table German League table ahead of this weekend’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, in Juve v Roma clash points): Bayern Munich 6 4 2 0 11 2 14 Borussia M’gladbach 6 3 3 0 8 3 12 MILAN: Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci Bonucci told Sky Sport. Fellow defender Bayer Leverkusen 6 3 2 1 11 9 11 has called for the champions to underline Giorgio Chiellini admits Garcia’s men won’t be Hoffenheim 6 2 4 0 9 5 10 their status in Italy’s Serie A after a European taken for granted. “Roma are not just Mainz 05 6 2 4 0 9 5 10 slip-up in midweek that has injected extra Francesco Totti, they have important players Hanover 6 3 1 2 5 4 10 belief into Roma ahead of the sides’ Serie A all through the squad and we have the Eintracht Frankfurt 6 2 3 1 9 8 9 showdown tomorrow. Roma were humbled utmost respect for them,” Chiellini said. FC Augsburg 6 3 0 3 8 8 9 3-0 in the corresponding fixture last season Juventus will be without defender Andrea VfL Wolfsburg 6 2 2 2 10 8 8 but travel to Turin buoyed by a fine overall Barzagli (right heel) and midfielder Andrea Schalke 04 6 2 2 2 10 10 8 performance that earned them a creditable 1- Pirlo (thigh), while defender Martin Caceres is SC Paderborn 6 2 2 2 8 8 8 Borussia Dortmund 6 2 1 3 9 11 7 1 draw at Manchester City in midweek. a doubt after dislocating his shoulder against FC Cologne 6 1 3 2 2 3 6 Rudi Garcia’s men succumbed to a Sergio Atletico. The hosts are also sweating on the Hertha Berlin 6 1 2 3 8 12 5 Aguero penalty in the opening five minutes availability of recently-signed Spanish striker VfB Stuttgart 6 1 2 3 4 9 5 of their Champions League clash. But only Alvaro Morata after he was diagnosed with a SC Freiburg 6 0 4 2 6 9 4 three days after his 38th birthday, captain slight strain of the right gluteus muscle. Roma Werder Bremen 6 0 3 3 9 15 3 Francesco Totti leveled for the visitors to suc- are still missing midfielder Kevin Strootman Hamburg 6 0 2 4 1 8 2 ceed Ryan Giggs as the competition’s oldest and Leandro Castan. Allegri, meanwhile, scorer as Roma earned a deserved share of believes Wednesday’s reverse does not the points two weeks after an impressive 5-1 detract from his side’s domestic form. “We Dortmund out to bounce back drubbing of CSKA Moscow. Roma president haven’t conceded in our five league matches. James Pallotta admitted confidence is high. The defeat certainly won’t change our mood BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund are out to beat taken them to court for unfair dismissal after “The result (on Sunday) will depend on a lot or our approach,” said Allegri. A slip-up by bogey side Hamburg today to break their being sacked last month just three games of things, but we now know we can face any either Juve or Roma is likely to boost high-fly- three-match winless streak in the Bundesliga into the new season. Hanover 96 travel to team in the world,” Pallotta told Radio Roma. ing Udinese, third at only three points adrift, despite a flawless Champions League cam- Bavaria looking for their first win in Munich Juventus boasted 66 percent possession and Sampdoria, only a point further adrift and paign. Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund ran riot in a since 2006 with their coach Tayfun Korkut against Champions League Group A rivals the only other unbeaten team in the league. 3-0 win at Anderlecht on Wednesday as having imposed a ban on his players visiting Atletico Madrid on Wednesday but Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale hit a brace Adrian Ramos scored twice to leave them Munich’s Oktoberfest beer festival which Massimiliano Allegri’s men failed to get a shot in a 4-2 win over Parma on Monday, although with a perfect six points from their two ends on Sunday. on target in a frustrating 1-0 defeat away to his availability is doubtful following the sud- the Spanish champions. Although Roma are den death of his 68-year-old father in mid- games after also beating Arsenal at home. Hanover are sixth in the table, but only on the rise, Juve’s Leonardo Bonucci said it’s week. Inter sit fifth, on the same points as city But defeats at Mainz and arch rivals Schalke, four points adrift of leaders Bayern ahead of time to put the record straight. “We have to rivals Milan, ahead of a tricky trip to plus a 2-2 draw at home to VfB Stuttgart in the Allianz Arena showdown. Pep Guardiola’s focus on domestic matters again and after Fiorentina that comes a week after a shock 4- their last three league matches have left Bayern have dropped just four points so far tonight (Wednesday) we have even more rea- 1 home reverse to Cagliari that heaped the Dortmund with just seven points and 12th in this season and are in confident mood hav- son to prove that we’re still the team to beat,” pressure on coach Walter Mazzarri.—AFP the table. ing won at CSKA Moscow on Tuesday to After only six games, Dortmund are leave them with two wins from their first already seven points behind league leaders Champions League matches. And history is Italian Serie A table Bayern Munich. “We’ll try to show an not on Hanover’s side. They have conceded improvement in the Bundesliga, we’re get- 27 goals and scored only twice in the seven Italian Serie A table ahead of weekend fixtures (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): ting there step by step, but there is still a bit games since their shock 1-0 win in Munich in Juventus 5 5 0 0 10 0 15 of work to do,” said Dortmund coach Klopp. 2006, which includes a 7-0 drubbing in 2010 Roma 5 5 0 0 9 1 15 “We have to show in Germany that and a 5-0 defeat two years ago. Udinese 5 4 0 1 8 4 12 Sampdoria 5 3 2 0 6 2 11 despite a few problems we are still able to “Our goal is to make Bayern do some Inter Milan 5 2 2 1 11 5 8 win matches, starting with today.” Hamburg thinking during the game, we don’t want to AC Milan 5 2 2 1 11 9 8 are Borussia’s bogey team having beaten just defend,” said Hanover boss Korkut Verona 5 2 2 1 5 5 8 Klopp’s team convincingly on three of the whose side has taken ten points from the first Napoli 5 2 1 2 6 6 7 last four occasions and nothing will be taken six games, but suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at Lazio 5 2 0 3 8 5 6 Fiorentina 5 1 3 1 2 3 6 for granted despite the Hanseatic side being Stuttgart last Saturday. On Sunday, Lucien Genoa 5 1 2 2 4 5 5 bottom of the table. Favre’s Borussia Moenchengladbach host Torino 5 1 2 2 3 5 5 Veteran midfielder Sebastian Kehl is an Mainz with both sides unbeaten after their Cesena 5 1 2 2 4 9 5 injury concern for today with a bruised foot first six games. Mainz are hoping to include Cagliari 5 1 1 3 7 8 4 Chievo 5 1 1 3 5 7 4 while captain and Germany defender Mats the Bundesliga’s top-scorer Shinji Okazaki, Atalanta 5 1 1 3 2 7 4 Hummels is expected to return to the start- but the Japan star has been laboring with a Empoli 5 0 3 2 5 8 3 ing line-up. Hamburg are one of only three haematoma in his calf. “We’re looking at Parma 5 1 0 4 10 14 3 teams without a win this season and were hit Shinji from day to day,” said coach Kasper Palermo 5 0 3 2 6 11 3 with more bad news on Thursday when it Hjulmand with Okazaki having scored five Sassuolo 5 0 3 2 1 9 3 was confirmed ex-coach Mirko Slomka has goals in five games this season.—AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Super ‘Sonic’ Shin ends Korea’s boxing drought

INCHEON: South Korean fighter Shin Jong-hun delivered his country’s first Asian Games gold medal in 12 years yesterday and said he was relishing the task of lifting Korean boxing back up to where it belongs. Shin scored a unanimous win over Birzhan Zakypov in the day’s opening light-flyweight bout, dealing Kazakhstan its only loss in seven finals at the Seonhak Gymnasium on the final day of the Asiad’s boxing tournament. After disappointment at the 2010 London Olympics and Guangzhou Games four years ago, Shin showed he has grown as a fighter in Incheon and will be a strong con- tender in Rio at the 2016 Olympics. “I have a long way to go but I will try hard to make people think of me whenever they hear the word ‘boxing,’” he told reporters. “I’m grateful to everyone who said that I could do it when everybody else said I couldn’t. “I will work even harder to put Korean boxing back on top.” After missing out on gold in Guangzhou four years ago and in Doha in 2006, South Korea took a fresh look at its boxing program and put its fighters through rigorous training camps in the lead up to Incheon. The Koreans had four fighters in yesterday’s finals, with bantamweight Ham Sang-myeong also winning gold, while Lim Hyun-chul (light-welterweight) and Kim Hyeong- gyu (light-heavyweight) settled for silvers. Shin said it was important to pump even more money into the sport if Korea wanted to achieve success at the Olympic and world level. “There’s limited assistance from the govern- ment, and I would ask that they give boxing more attention and support,” he added. Shin, who got the nickname “Sonic Man” for his unrelenting pace, said boxing had been good to him. “When I started boxing my family was poor. I can’t say we are rich now but we have our own house and my father has his own car,” he said. “I am so happy that I have my own room.” — Reuters OCA chief vows to fight for Qatar 2022 WCup

INCHEON: Asia’s top sports official yesterday vowed to fight to the INCHEON: Iran’s players (red) try to touch down India’s Bai V Tejeswini (white) during their women’s Kabaddi finals of end to keep the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and blamed media “racism” the 17th Asian Games in Incheon yesterday. — AFP for criticism which has raised doubts over the event. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said that Asia was united behind Qatar as FIFA studies a probe into Iran’s women aim high in the bidding process. “I think Qatar got it fairly, with the procedures of FIFA, and we won’t take the World Cup from Qatar because of some negative media opinion,” the Kuwaiti said in an interview. “We will resist until the end and we will fight for the right of Qatar combative sport kabaddi until the end because we think it’s related more to racism than reali- ty. “I think it’s more racism than reality... the majority (of racism is from) the media.” World body FIFA is evaluating a report into the INCHEON: Iran captain Salimeh faith and customs of the athletes is has a long way to go,” Maghsodlou said. votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments compiled by Abdollahbakhsh visited the hospital on respected. Often, the umpires have to “One has to remember the fact that former US federal prosecutor Michael Garcia, who has called for it to the eve of the kabaddi final at the Asian move quickly to block spectators’ views India has been playing it for hundreds of be made public. The year-long investigation involved interviewing Games. She had fever and felt dreadful. with their blazers if a player’s head cov- years.” That’s a fact India’s head coach more than 75 witnesses and compiling a dossier that includes more She had no intention of missing the ering is displaced. Edachery Bhaskaran knows all too well, than 200,000 pages and audio interviews. Garcia had access to docu- kabaddi title match, though, knowing “We come from a conservative socie- so his praise for the Iranian team was ments also reported in British media which claim widespread bribery her skills could tilt the match in favor of ty and are used to playing (in) the way genuine. “They have strength and stami- orchestrated by Asia’s ex-football chief, Qatari businessman her team and against India, the creator we dress, so that’s not a problem. Our na but we are better in skills and tech- Mohammed bin Hammam. Criticism of Qatar’s hosting has met with and dominant nation in the sport. So aim is to gain maximum exposure and nique,” Bhaskaran said. “I understood a strong response by Asian officials and as well as FIFA chief Sepp she lined up along with her teammates - play a team like India more often so that midway through the tournament that Blatter, who has also rounded on European media.The sheikh, speak- all in their hijabs - as they prepared to we can improve our skills,” said 29-year- Iran was the team to watch and so we ing at the Asian Games in Incheon, said it was “reasonable” to hold Qatar’s World Cup in winter rather than summer, to avoid extreme give India a run for its money in a com- old Abdollahbakhsh, a member of the studied a lot of their videos and made temperatures in the Gulf state. bative sport that combines tag with team that played in the inaugural plans for particular players.” But he maintained there were no grounds for stripping Qatar of wrestling. women’s competition at the 2010 Asian The basic rules of kabaddi are simple, the World Cup or holding a new election to decide the host country. In the end, India won the final 31-21, Games in Guangzhou, China. Coach but the finer arts of the game have tak- “You have to be patient and strong. And we will fight. And we will but Iran showed glimpses of its poten- Azam Maghsodlou said a series with en centuries to develop. It is a game resist for the right of Qatar and our region,” he said. He emphasized tial and is growing in confidence for the India could not be organized ahead of between two teams of seven players that it would be the first time for the World Cup to be in the Middle next Asian Games. “India is, of course, a the games, but Iran had prepared well each. The teams take turns to send a East. “And we will not be surrounded by some other things. If there is good team but Iran is improving fast,” anyway. raider into the rival half of the field to some negative case for a person, that doesn’t mean the country.” Abdollahbakhsh said. “Iran could have “We had camps spread over nine gain points by trying to touch oppo- Tiny, oil-rich Qatar’s hosting has provoked impassioned debate. Last done better in the final and I thought months in preparation,” Maghsodlou nents, who then go out of the game. All month, FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger told a we had a chance of upsetting India. We said. “There were exposure tours to the while, the raider chants the word German newspaper that “the 2022 World Cup will not take place in won the bronze last time and silver here. Thailand and South Korea and that ‘kabaddi’ until running out of breath. Qatar”. But Sheikh Ahmad said it was unfair that Qatar was in the fir- We’re aiming for gold next time.” helped the team get together and gel. The opposite team tries to either evade ing line and not Russia, which was awarded the 2018 World Cup at Abdollahbakhsh and her teammates We also have a growing pool of players.” the touch or gets into a grapple to try to the same time and has problems with racism in football.”I will sup- present a rather paradoxical sight as Iran has some 100 kabaddi clubs for stop the raider returning to their own port Qatar World Cup 2022 until the end. I don’t find any reason that they compete in a sport that involves both men and women, with many in its half. Despite the visible improvement anything will be negative for the Qatar fight,” he said. “We won the first time, we can win the second time. We won against America and running and grappling with opponents, northeastern province of Golestan. The from the Iranian team, Indian player London,” he added, referring to FIFA’s 2010 vote to decide the host covered from head to toe and with full- game has gained in popularity over the Abhilasha Matre remains convinced that countries. “We will not leave our right, for whoever and for whatever. length sleeves. But in contrast to games past decade but can’t be compared with her country’s larger player base will Asia will take a position, all Asia will take a position, not only Qatar. in which head covering are banned - like the liks of football or volleyball in terms keep it ahead of the competition. “This is a World Cup in Asia. If they want to do a new election, they the hijabs were here in the women’s of popularity. “They’re an improving side but I’m sure have to do it for both Moscow and Doha, because it was (decided) in basketball competition - officials in “People follow kabaddi since we are even a second-string Indian side will be the same session.” FIFA’s ethic committee is due to announce the kabaddi take great care to ensure the doing well at the Asian Games, but it still able to beat Iran,” she said. — AP results of the investigation in early 2015. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

Kazakhs lords of the ring with six golds

INCHEON: Kazakhstan packed a huge punch and became the new boxing power in Asia by sweeping six of the 10 gold medals on offer at the Incheon Games yesterday. Ilyas Suleimenov (fly- weight), Daniyar Yeleussinov (welter), Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (middle), Adilbek Niyazymbetov (light heavy), Anton Pinchuk (heavy) and Ivan Dychko (super heavy) completed the roll of honor on a historic afternoon for the central Asian republic at Seonhak Gymnasium.”To think we have six gold medals, one sil- ver and one bronze at the end of this great celebration of boxing is really unbelievable,” superheavyweight Dychko told reporters. “You have to understand that no bout was easy for any of our boxers and it only down to the great preparation by our coaches and our own hard work we were able to achieve this,” he added. “I only got the silver four years ago so this is a special moment for me.” Of Kazakhstan’s seven finalists only Birzhan Zhakypov (light fly) was beaten, by South Korea’s Shin Jong-Hun as the hosts got off to a flying start by winning the first gold medal of the day. Bantamweight Ham Sang-Myeong gave South Korea another gold but from then on it was one-way traffic with Kazakhs win- ning six of the final seven weight divisions. Suleimenov began the gold rush by winning the flyweight title on a split decision against Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan, who was unlucky not to get the nod from judges in a close-fought battle. Welterweight world champion Yeleussinov utterly outclassed Israil Madrimov of Uzbekistan on points in the welterweight final. He was followed into the ring by Alimkhanuly who completely demolished Odai Riyad Adel Alhindawi. He knocked the Jordanian down in the final round to win by an overwhelming 30-26 on three judges’ cards. South Korea went into the final day with four gold medal hopes and a string of controversial wins behind them. —AFP Afghan dream over as Lanka win cricket gold INCHEON: Sri Lanka crushed Afghanistan by 68 runs to win the gold medal in the men’s Twenty20 cricket event at the Asian Games yes- terday. Unlike the previous day, when Sri Lanka won a coin toss to get into the gold medal match after their semi-final with Bangladesh INCHEON: China’s Yang Jian competes in the final of the men’s 10m platform diving event during the 17th Asian Games was washed out, luck played no part in the final. With a strong squad at the Munhak Aquatics Center yesterday. — AFP featuring three members of the team that won this year’s Twenty20 World Cup, Sri Lanka were too experienced and streetwise for their Afghan opponents. Although they struggled with the bat, losing China sweep diving medals their last nine wickets for just 54 runs to be dismissed for 133 in their last over, Sri Lanka’s bowlers had no problems on a lively pitch. They ripped through the opposition batting lineup in less than 18 overs, as China gold medalist fails dope test Afghanistan crumbled to be all out for just 65. Afghanistan made a bright start, reaching 20 without loss, before the wheels suddenly fell off. Opener Najeeb Tarakai top scored with 17 but only two others INCHEON: China’s crack divers are as formidable a force as any team in gold as team-mate Wang Zheng came second ahead of India’s Bala made double figures. world sport. A dynasty of super athletes with acrobatic skills and nerves Manju and Masumi Aya of Japan. Zenarol, which is banned by the World Sri Lanka captain Lahiru Thirimanne top scored for his team with of steel, they dominate the Olympics and world championships and Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), is widely used to fatten livestock. Athletes 57 off just 37 balls, hitting seven boundaries and one towering six, as rarely ever lose. At the Asian Games, their record is perfect. In the 40 are known to take it illegally for its muscle-building properties. The his country captured its first gold medal at the Asian Games, in any years since the region’s multi-sports competition in 1974, China has nev- Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) said it accepted the expulsion of sport, since 2002. “This is a great feeling, because this is our first gold er lost a diving event-an unbeaten streak stretching 40 years. They did it Zhang, but stressed that deliberate doping had not been proved. “The medal since 2002,” said Thirimanne. “These type of tournaments are again at the current Asian Games, which end in Incheon today, sweep- athlete may dope deliberately, but there also remains the possibility good for our young emerging players. This will be a good platform ing all of the 10 diving events. that the positive reading was due to her consumption of contaminated for them. “I think we’ll win gold in the next Asian Games as well.” The The last two events were held yesterday. China not only won both meat,” the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) said in a statement quot- pick of the Afghanistan bowlers was their captain Mohammad Nabi, golds, they also won both silvers. Qiu Bo won the men’s 10-metre plat- ed by the state Xinhua news agency. “Whatever the cause is, we respect who took four wickets for 18 runs with his off-spinners. Like many of form title ahead of his team mate Yang Jian. “I’m very happy with the OCA’s decision regarding Zhang’s case, because the World Anti- his team mates, Nabi was born in a refugee camp in neighboring today’s performance,” said Qiu, who suffered a surprise loss at the 2012 Doping Code stipulates that athletes must bear the subsequences for Pakistan during the occupation by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Olympics and had to settle for the silver medal. “Although I made some the substance found in his or her body,” it added. China says it has It was in those camps that many of the Afghan players first learnt mistakes in the first and fourth round, my condition today was very launched a major campaign against doping in sport since a number of the game of cricket. When they returned home in the 1990s, they good.” He Zi successfully defended the Asian Games title she won four high=profile cases in the 1990s involving swimmers and athletes. Eleven took the game with them and set up a national team that has been years ago in the women’s 3-metre springboard. The Olympic champi- Chinese competitors were caught doping at the 1994 Hiroshima Asian slowly but steadily improving. Four years ago, Afghanistan took the on’s team mate Wang Han finished second. Games. Before the 1998 world swimming championships in Australia, silver at the last Asian Games, confirming their emergence in a sport He sealed her win with a flawless two-and-a-half somersault that customs caught a Chinese swimmer attempting to bring in a suitcase the country only embraced through war. They have played in each of impressed the judges but not her, such are the expectations China’s full of human growth hormone. Four Chinese swimmers were disquali- the last three Twenty20 World Cups and have qualified for the first divers place on themselves. “There are still parts of my performance that fied at the event for failing drug tests. time for the 50-over World Cup, to be played in Australia and New didn’t meet my expectations,” she said. “I will try harder in my training.” Zealand in early 2015. Last year, the International Cricket Council for- “I think pressure can work both ways. It can be my strength or become a China’s ‘zero tolerance’ mally recognised their improvement by granting Afghanistan associ- source of stress. It depends on how you see it.” Over the past 15 years more than 10 Chinese athletes, including ate member status. some Olympic athletes, weightlifters and swimmers, have failed tests. Gold medalist fails dope test But the COC said that more than 10,000 drug tests a year have been No regrets Asian Games chiefs yesterday expelled China’s gold medal-winning carried out on Chinese athletes over the past decade with a failure rate Had they won the gold, Afghanistan’s players would have been women’s hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu in the biggest doping case of of just 0.02 percent. It says this is one of the lowest rates in the world. rewarded with a brand new car but Nabi said they had no regrets the giant event. The Olympic Council of Asia said 28-year-old Zhang, China this month pledged one million dollars to an international fund about finishing second. “This is a good sign for us, another silver who won a bronze medal at the 2007 world championships and 2008 being set up by WADA to improve research into doping. WADA presi- medal is good,” Nabi said. “This is a young team so we’re really happy Olympics, had tested positive for the anabolic agent zeranol. dent Craig Reedie and IOC president Thomas Bach thanked Beijing for to take the silver medal. “We started really well with our bowling but “The competitor has been disqualified from the competition as well the gesture. Reedie said China had made “strong demonstrations of our batting let us down. Sri Lanka bowled very well. “But this was a as these Games,” said an OCA statement, which added that the gold support in the protection of the rights of clean athletes. China has led really good preparation for the World Cup. Things are going well and medal had been withdrawn. Zhang is the sixth athlete to be kicked out the way and set an example for other national governments to fol- hopefully we can take something from this.” Bangladesh, gold of the Games in Incheon, South Korea for doping and the second gold low.” China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong said at the time that the gov- medalists four years ago, gained some consolation for their coin toss medal-winner after Malaysia’s wushu champion Tai Cheau Xuen. Zhang ernment “is continuously committed to the fight against doping in defeat to Sri Lanka by clinching the bronze with a 27-run victory over hurled an Asian Games record 77.33 meters to win her third straight sport, and the promotion of clean sport and upholding a ‘zero toler- Hong Kong in the third-place playoff. —Reuters Asiad gold on Sunday. Despite her disqualification, China will keep the ance’ of doping.” —Agencies OCA chief vows to fight for Qatar SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014 OCTOBER SATURDAY, SportsSports 2022 World Cup46

RIJEKA: Sevilla’s Vicente Iborra (center) fights for the ball with Rijeka’s Matej Mitrovic (left) and Rijeka’s Ivan Tomecak during the Europa League Group G soccer match between Rijeka and Sevilla, at Kantrida stadium in Rijeka on Thursday, Oct 2, 2014. — AP Hamsik haunts former club as Napoli shine Sevilla, Spurs held; Eto’o rescues Everton

LONDON: Napoli’s Marek Hamsik enjoyed a mem- Belgian side they went on to lift the continent’s break. Napoli’s Serie A rivals Inter Milan also matchday one, were spared defeat against orable return to his former club Slovan Bratislava, second-tier trophy in 1974. enjoyed a comfortable victory, bouncing back Russian side Krasnodar in Group H when Samuel scoring one and creating another, in a 2-0 victory After the opening round of matches provided from a chastening 4-1 home defeat by Cagliari at Eto’o scored a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw that on Thursday as the Italians joined five others who a shower of goals and entertainment, Thursday’s the weekend to beat Azerbaijani champions left manager Roberto Martinez feeling positive. made it two wins from two in the Europa League action showcased the more measured and tacti- Qarabag 2-0 in Group F with goals from Danilo “You always want six points after two games - group stage. With the incentive of Champions cal side of European football. Napoli have D’Ambrosio and Mauro Icardi. that’s what you’re fighting for. But today, that’s a League qualification for the competition winners, endured a difficult start in Serie A with only two good point,” he told ITV. Fiorentina, Legia Warsaw, Dynamo Kiev, Inter wins from their opening five games, heaping Late drama Tottenham gave an indication of where the Milan and Dynamo Moscow also took a strangle- pressure on manager Rafa Benitez, who had It was, however, a more trying evening for competition ranks in their priorities by making hold on their respective groups and edged a step already failed to steer his team through a champions Sevilla, who needed Mbia to ride to 10 changes to their team, but still came within closer to the knockout stages. Champions League playoff. The Spanish coach, their rescue in their Group G clash having been minutes of beating Besiktas in a 1-1 draw. The Holders Sevilla needed a 90th-minute equal- however, remains a wily operator in Europe, hav- reduced to 10 men in the second half. The Turkish side, who were making a return to north izer from Stephane Mbia to rescue a 2-2 draw at ing won the Champions League, UEFA Cup and Spaniards took the lead through Liverpool loa- London after losing to Arsenal in a Champions Croatian side Rijeka, while it was a disappointing Europa League at previous clubs and his team nee Iago Aspas, but Timothee Kolodziejczak was League playoff, trailed to a superb left-footed night for former European champions PSV never looked troubled on what could have been sent off for bringing down Andrej Kramaric, who strike from Tottenham’s Harry Kane, but were Eindhoven and Steaua Bucharest, who both suf- a testing outing to eastern Europe. Hamsik fired in the resulting penalty and Zoran Kvrzic handed a lifeline late in the game. Vlad Chiriches fered defeats. Two other former European Cup began his professional career at their Slovakian then put the hosts 2-1 ahead. handled in the area to concede a penalty and winners fared better, however, as Celtic beat opponents but showed no sentimentality when There was late drama involving Premier former Chelsea and Newcastle United striker Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 and Feyenoord won 2-1 at he headed his side ahead in the first half and League sides Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. Demba Ba scored from the spot past Tottenham home to Standard Liege, which could prove a then set up substitute Gonzalo Higuain to dou- Everton, who had enjoyed a victorious return to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who had been a one- good omen as the last time they beat the ble the lead with only his second touch after the the European stage after a five-year absence on man barrier until that point. — Reuters